The works of Francis Bacon, lord chancellor of England.

192 LETTERS RELATING TO IRELAND.
appoint a select number of counsellors there, vince to another; whereupon it is supposed, that
which might deal in the improvement of his reve- many that are planted in house and lands, will
nue, being a thing not fit to pass through too rather lose their entertainment than remove; and
many hands, and that the said selected number thereby new men may have their pay, and yet
should have days of sitting by themselves, at the old be mingled in the country for the strength
which the rest of the council should not be pre- thereof.
sent; which being once settled, then other prin- In this proposition two things may be feared;
cipal business of state may be handled at those the one, discontent of those that shall be put off;
sittings, and so the rest begin to be disused, and the other, that the companies shall be stuffed
vet retain their countenance without murmur or with 6"Tirones," instead of "V eterani." I wish
disgrace. therefore that this proposition be well debated ere
The third proposition, as it is wound up, it be admitted. Thus having performed that
seemeth to be pretty, if it can keep promise; which duty binds me to do, I commend you to
for it is this, that a means may be found to rein- God's best preservation.
force his majesty's army there by 500 or 1000 Your most devoted and bounden servant,
men; and that without any penny increase of FR. BACON.
charge. And the means should be, that there Gorhambury, July 5, 1616.*
should be a commandment of a local removing,
and transferring some companies from one pro- Stephens's Second Collection, p. 5,