for our servants, and we were overcharged in _beere_.' The way thence to Newry was most difficult for a stranger to find out.

'Therein he wandered, and, being lost, fell among the Irish _touns_.' The Irish houses were the poorest cabins he had seen, erected in the middle of fields and grounds which they farmed and rented.

'This,' he added, 'is a wild country, not inhabited, planted, nor enclosed.' He gave an Irishman 'a groat' to bring him into the way, yet he led him, like a villein, directly out of the way, and so left him in the lurch.
Leaving Belfast, this Englishman said: 'Near hereunto, Mr.Arthur Hill, son and heir of Sir Moyses Hill, hath a brave plantation, which he holds by lease, and which has still forty years to come.
The plantation, it is said, doth yield him 1,000 l.

per annum.
Many Lancashire and Cheshire men are here planted.

They sit upon a rack-rent, and pay 5 s.