Sir John Davies — a remark

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“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

Sir John Davies

About Sir John Davies

Sir John Davies

16 April 1569–8 December 1626

Sir John Davies, born on 16 April 1569 and dying on 8 December 1626, was one of the most unusually gifted figures of the late Elizabethan and early Stuart world: a poet of intellectual elegance, a lawyer of formidable technical ability, a parliamentarian, an administrator of colonial Ireland, and a man whose life…

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