By Christopher Maginn
William Cecil, eire, and the Tudor State explores the advanced dating which existed among England and eire within the Tudor interval, utilizing the lengthy organization of William Cecil (1520-1598) with eire as a car for old enquiry. That Cecil, Queen Elizabeth's such a lot depended on consultant and an important determine in England after the queen herself, constantly dedicated his realization and massive energies to the dominion of eire is a seldom-explored element of his existence and his position within the Tudor age. but amid his dealing with of a wide collection of issues when it comes to England and Wales, the dominion of Scotland, continental Europe, and past, William Cecil's innovations on a regular basis became to the dominion of eire. He for my part compiled genealogies of Ireland's Irish and English households and poured over dozens of nationwide and local maps of eire. Cecil served as chancellor of Ireland's first college and, most significantly for the historian, penned, acquired, and studied hundreds of thousands of papers on topics in relation to eire and the crown's political, fiscal, social, and non secular rules there. Cecil may have understood all of this widely as 'Ireland matters', a topic which he got here to understand in larger intensity and element than a person on the courtroom of Queen Elizabeth I.
Maginn's prolonged research of Cecil's lengthy dating with eire is helping to make feel of Anglo-Irish interplay in Tudor occasions, and exhibits that this dating was once characterised through greater than the fundamental binary good points of conquest and resistance. At one other point, he demonstrates that the second one 1/2 the 16th century witnessed the political, social, and cultural integration of eire into the multinational Tudor country, and that it was once William Cecil who, greater than the other determine, consciously labored to accomplish that integration.
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This part of the lordship was virtually untouched by medieval English settlement and was largely devoid of urban centres or shire ground. Here, Irish society functioned with little regard for the Tudor state of which it was, according to English thinking, a part. Indeed, by 1520 a major war was brewing between the most powerful Irish clans in the Irish north-west: the O’Neills and O’Donnells. The O’Neills, whose power emanated from their lordship of Tyrone in central Ulster, were much the most dominant force in the region.
According to the 1515 report on the lordship, these ‘captains’ 42 S. G. Ellis, ‘Nationalist historiography and the English and Gaelic worlds in the late Middle Ages’, IHS 25 (1986), 1–18 (esp. 5). 43 Nicholls, Gaelic and Gaelicised Ireland, 209. 44 Maginn, ‘English marcher lineages’, 125. 45 Maginn, ‘Gaelic Ireland’s English frontiers’, 1–17. 46 Presentment of the jury of the commons of Waterford, 12 October 1537, TNA, SP 60/5/32. 47 Ormond deeds, iv. 336. 48 English officials had for long deemed the Irishry a ‘land of war’, legislating against it and contrasting it with the inner areas of the English Pale inhabited by the king’s loyal subjects, the so-called ‘land of peace’, or ‘maghery’.
Conspicuous by their absence at this display of English wealth, power, and nobility were the principals of the Howard family. Led by Thomas, the old duke of Norfolk, the Howards were one of England’s foremost noble families. Norfolk was left behind in England and entrusted with the defence of the kingdom. The duke’s son and heir Thomas, earl of Surrey, meanwhile, was in Ireland, where he had already begun his service to Henry VIII. The appointment of Surrey as lord lieutenant of Ireland in March 1520 marked a departure from the established Tudor method of governing the lordship.
