Pacata Hibernia

Pacata Hibernia

Pacata Hibernia : Ireland appeased and reduced, or, An historie of the late vvarres of Ireland, especially within the province of Mounster, under the government of Sir George Carew, Knight, then Lord President of that province, and afterwards Lord Carevv of Clopton, and Earle of Totnes, &c. : VVherein the siedge of Kinsale, the defeat of the Earle of Tyrone, and his armie; the expulsion and sending home of Don Iuan de Aguila, the Spanish generall, with his forces; and many other remarkeable passages of that time are related : illustrated with seventeene severall mappes, for the better understanding of the storie.

Stafford, Thomas, active 1633.

London : Printed by A[ugustine]. M[atthewes]. 1633. And part of the impression made over, to be vented for the benefit of the children of Iohn Mynshew, deceased, [1633].

1633

[12], 391, [1] p., [20] leaves of plates (13 folded) : maps, portraits, plans ; (fol.)

Dedication signed: Tho: Stafford.
Sometimes attributed to George Carew, Earl of Totnes.
Engraved frontispiece portrait of George Carew, Earl of Totnes, is signed "Voerst fec:"
With an additional title page, engraved, with portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, letterpress verse signed "G.W." and imprint, "Printed for Robert Milbourne. 1633"
Printer's name from STC.
Includes index.
A reissue, with cancel title page, of the edition with imprint: London, printed by Aug: Mathevves for Robert Milbourne.Armorial bookplates: John Roland Abbey, MDCCCCXXXIII [1933]; [Rev. R.C. Fenwyke] with motto, A Fenwyke! A Fenwyke.

Purchased on the Schulich-Woolf fund.

Matthewes, Augustine, printer.
Milbourne, Robert, -1642 or 1643, bookseller.
Voerst, Robert van, 1597-1636, engraver.
Totnes, George Carew, Earl of, 1555-1629, attributed name.
Abbey, J. R. (John Roland), 1896-1969. former owner.

English

Folio Dated 1633 .S734