Tuesday, January 12, 2010

The Ards, 1574

“this North part is the quietest place of Ireland… the Ardes is the place which her Majesty must begin withal to plant and store, and that will be the bawne and nursery to subdue all the North”

(Thomas Wilsford to Queen Elizabeth I’s chief advisor, Lord Burghley, circa 1574)

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