The estates, empires, & principallities of the world Represented by ye description of countries, maners of inhabitants, riches of prouinces, forces, gouernment, religion; and the princes that haue gouerned in euery estate. With the begin[n]ing of all militarie and religious orders. Translated out of French by Edw: Grimstone, sargeant at armes.

About this Item

Title: The estates, empires, & principallities of the world Represented by ye description of countries, maners of inhabitants, riches of prouinces, forces, gouernment, religion; and the princes that haue gouerned in euery estate. With the begin[n]ing of all militarie and religious orders. Translated out of French by Edw: Grimstone, sargeant at armes.
Author: Avity, Pierre d', sieur de Montmartin, 1573-1635.
Publication: London :: Printed by Adam: Islip; for Mathewe: Lownes; and Iohn: Bill,; 1615.
Rights/Permissions: To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
Subject terms: World history -- Early works to 1800.; Geography -- Early works to 1800.; Orders of knighthood and chivalry -- Early works to 1800.; Monasticism and religious orders -- Early works to 1800.; Europe -- Early works to 1800.
Link to this Item: http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A23464.0001.001
Cite this Item: "The estates, empires, & principallities of the world Represented by ye description of countries, maners of inhabitants, riches of prouinces, forces, gouernment, religion; and the princes that haue gouerned in euery estate. With the begin[n]ing of all militarie and religious orders. Translated out of French by Edw: Grimstone, sargeant at armes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A23464.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2025.

Pages

¶ The second Countie.

THe second countie in this prouince is Limericke, and it containes all the land from the mountaine neere the red Shard ioyning to the countie of Corke, to the Shenin, aswell aboue Limericke as beneath, in a manner as farre as Carigfoile, and from the [ E] ••ountaine of Slewlougher which diuides it from Kerrey, to the farthest part of Mac Bri∣••••••gonoughes countrie. It hath for bounds vpon the North-East, Tipperary; to the West, Sle••••ougher; to the South the countie of Corke; and the riuer of Shenin to the North-We••••.

* 1.1The c••••efe townes of this countie are these, the towne of Limericke, and the towne of Kilmalloc••••••

* 1.2The castles o•• this countie are those of Blinity, Rakell, Carigonell Carignilishe, Adar••, Crome, Newcastle, Loughiray, Asketin, Shenet, Roberts towne, Castle Doiell, or Canell. [ F]

* 1.3The lords and gentlemen of chiefest note in this countie are these, the Bishop of Li∣••••••icke, the lord Burcke of Castle-Conell, Burckes, Laceys, Stretches, Geraldines, Purcells, Su••••les, Welshes, Obrines, Riens, Arthures, Fauts, Shees, Foxes, Whites, Iordens, Flamings, and some others.

Notes

* 1.1

Towne••

Back to content
* 1.2

Castles.

Back to content
* 1.3

Lords and Gentlemen.

Back to content