Note 429 — Chapter LIII

Fynes Moryson’s Itinerary, part iii. book iv. chap. ii.; Spenser’s State of Ireland; Derrick’s Image of Ireland, where the description of the more uncivilised natives closely resembles those of Moryson and Spenser. Articles with Tyrone, June 17, 1590, in Carew. A paper dated 1599 by Carew (No. 319) proposes that every soldier should have an Irish mantle, ‘which costeth but 5s., to be his bed in the night and a great comfort to him in sickness and health; for being never so wet, it will with a little shaking and wringing be presently dry.’ Among the properties for a play on the state of Ireland by John Heywood, performed before Edward VI. were ‘three yards of grey kersey for an Irishman’s coat with great and long plyghts, four yards of orange-coloured frisado at 4s. a yard, &c.’—Kempe’s Loseley MSS.