“I dare affirm that for the space of five years last past there have not been found so many malefactors worthy of death in all the six circuits of this realm as in one circuit of six shires, namely the western circuit, in England.”

Comparative observation on the relative orderliness of Ireland after recent pacification · Essay, A Discovery of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely Subdued

• Ireland
• Justice
• Order

“A barbarous country is not so easily conquered as a civil.”

Observation on the relative difficulty of reducing ordered versus disordered societies · Essay, A Discovery of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely Subdued

• Civilization
• Conquest
• Ireland