Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image Collection
Source Creator:
Cusack, John, 17th cent.
Source Title:
Ireland’s comfort [manuscript], 1629?
Source Created or Published:
1629?
Physical Description:
fol. 174v || 175r
Source Call Number:
G.a.10
Digital Image File Name:
62708
Digital Image Type:
FSL collection
Hamnet Bib ID:
233136
Hamnet Holdings ID:
288963
HAMNET CATALOG RECORD:
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Creator (Hamnet):
Cusack, John, 17th cent.
Title (Hamnet):
Ireland's comfort [manuscript], 1629?
Physical Description (Hamnet):
1 v. : coat of arms.
Notes (Hamnet):
[2], 1-43, 43-45, 47-79, 79, 79-84, 83-159, 158-176 leaves. Pages appear to be consecutive.
Notes (Hamnet):
Containing a true and exact discovery of Ireland's colonial government, intended as a kind of supplement to Sir John Davie's A discovery of the state of Ireland, and an enterprise of reformation. The author was a supporter of the royal prerogative and speaks of himself in his dedication to Charles I as the great nephew of Sir Thomas Cusacke, sometime Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and of the injustice he has suffered in trying to recover his (Sir Thomas') inheritance "from her bastard intruders on record by an erroneous judgment of the Exchequer; and of his father's goods and chattels by his chancery suit of seven years from the heir and executrix of their wicked embezzler ... to the value of £4000" (leaf 6). Cusack refers to his imprisonment of almost 12 years under a false judgment of Woodstreet Compter London at the suit of this intruder and the instigation of Coke, then Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench (leaf 7). He mentions his presentation to the king at the last session of Parliament of his book entitled "The kingdoms cry" composed against Coke "for his conviction of high treason in 6 several points of his said discourse against Your Majesty's immediate act of royal prerogative" hoping that it might be by his Majesty's direction published even though it was not as complete a work as he intended to make it (leaf 9).
Notes (Hamnet):
See State papers Ireland, Eliz.-Geo. III, vol. 243, no. 417 and 424 for petitions of John Cusacke.
Provenance (Hamnet):
Willes MS, Newbold Comyn, Lemington, Warks.
Provenance (Hamnet):
Formerly Folger MS Add 73.
Subject (Hamnet):
Coke, Edward, Sir, 1552-1634 -- Manuscripts.
Subject (Hamnet):
Ireland -- History -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800 -- Manuscripts.
Subject (Hamnet):
Coats of arms -- England -- 17th century -- Manuscripts.
Subject (Hamnet):
Manuscripts -- Ireland -- 17th century.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, dedicatee.
Associated Name (Hamnet):
Willes library, former owner.
Call Number (Hamnet):
G.a.10

Ireland’s comfort [manuscript], 1629?