 | Richard Bagwell - Ireland - 1909
...Devonshire to draw a true and perfect map of the north parts of Ulster, when he came into Tyrconnel, the inhabitants took off his head, because they would not have their country discovered.' ' The Commissioners depended on a survey in which the The area amount of land available was enormously... | |
 | Michael Neill - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 464 pages
...its prescience; for, as Sir John Davies informed the Earl of Salisbury, "one Barkeley [ie, Bartlett] being appointed by the late Earl of Devonshire to...because they would not have their country discovered." 24 We might remember Caliban: "Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, / Or cut his wezand with... | |
 | George Hill - Ireland - 2004 - 276 pages
...snatched from the general work as much time as enabled him to write to Salisbury. The contents ofthis letter are so interesting as to make us regret that...unwittingly, on an extremely dangerous task. We are Donegal, which may have been wholly, or in part, the told that ' ' the deficiencies and misrepresentations... | |
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Our geographers do not forget what entertainment the Irish of Tyrconnell gave to a map-maker about the end of the late rebellion; for, one Barkeley being appointed by the late Earl of Devonshire to draw a true and perfect map of the north part of Ulster... 