ey were to receive in return for their
labour. His next inducement is the immense sale (and profit) they might
expect by growing corn; and he concludes by relieving their fears as to
any objections which the inhabitants of this country might make to being
dispossessed from their homes and lands, or any resistance they might
offer. He considers it immaterial, "for the country of Lecale [which had
been taken in a similar manner from Savage] was some time kept by
Brereton with a hundred horses, and Lieutenant Burrows kept _Castle
Rean_ [Castlereagh], and went daily one quarter of a mile to fetch his
water, against five hundred Irish that lay again him."

Smith concludes with "an offer and order" for those who wished to join
in the enterprise. Each footman to have a pike,[433] or halberd, or
caliver, and a convenient livery cloak, of red colour or carnation, with
black facings. Each horseman to have a staffe[434] and a case of
dagges,[435] and his livery[436] to be of the colour aforesaid.

Strype wrote a life of Sir Thomas Smith, Bart., Oxford, 1620. He
mentions this attempt at colonizing Ulster, having this good design
therein: "that those half-barbarous people might be taught some
civility." He speaks of "the hopeful gentleman," Sir Thomas Smith's son
and concludes with stating how the expedition terminated: "But when
matters went on thus fairly, Mr. Smith was intercepted and slain by a
wild Irishman."

Before his assassination Smith had written an account of his proceedings
to his father, in which he says that "envy had hindered him more than
the enemy," and that he had been ill-handled by some of his own
soldiers, ten of whom he had punished. He also expresses some fear of
the native Irish, whom he had tried to drive out of their lands, as he
says they sometimes "lay wait to intrap and murther the maister
himself."

I have given details of this attempted plantation in Ulster, because it
illustrates the subject; and each plantation which will be recorded
afterwards, was carried out on the same plan. The object of the
Englishman was to obtain a home and a fortune; to do this he was obliged
to drive, the natives out of their homes, and to deprive them of their
wealth, whether greater or less. The object of the Irishman was to keep
out the intruder; and, if he could not be kept out, to get rid of him by
fair means or foul.

It is probable that the attempt of Smith was intended by Government
principally as an experime