Excerpt from An Irish Commonwealth
AN English attorney-general in Ireland, Sir John Davies writing in the reign of James I. Said There is no nation under the sun that love equal and indifferent justice better than the Irish, or will rest better satisfied with the execution thereof, although it be against themselves. Sir John Allen, English Master of the Rolls in Ireland, wrote to the Lord Deputy Sir Anthony St. Leger, in 1537, that he had been of this opinion ere now, that the Irish were more conformable togood order than diverse of the King’s subjects, and kept their troths better. A still earlier writer, in the days of Henry VII., had reported The laws and statutes made by the Irish on their bills they keep ‘firm and staple, without breaking them for any favour or reward.
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