Pacata Hibernia. Ireland Appeased and Reduced: or, an Historie of the late Warres of Ireland. Especially within the province of Mounster, under the government of Sir George Carew, Knight, then Lord President of that province, and afterwards Lord Carevv of Clopton, and Earle of Totnes, &c. Wherein the siedge of Kinsale, the defeat of the Earle of Tyrone, and his armie; the expulsion and sending home of Don Iuan de Aguila, the Spanish generall, with his forces; and many other remarkeable passages of that time are related. Illustrated with seventeene severall mappes, for the better understanding of the storie. London: Printed by Aug: Mathevves for Robert Milbourne, at the signe of the Grey-hound in Pauls Church-yard, 1633. First Edition. Folio. Pp [14], 391, [1] p., [19] plates (16 folded), maps. Frontispiece portrait of George Carew. Lacks the portrait of Elizabeth 1 (replaced with loose insert of a portrait from the 1810 edition). Bound in full mid-17th century calf with blind tooling on board edges and spine, tooled title label. Repair to front joint. [Note: A full Conservation Note describing the work carried out by the Delmas Conservation Bindery – Marsh’e Library- is pasted to rear endpaper. John Speed’s Map of Munster added later and is a second impression].

Sir Thomas Stafford’s renowned contemporary account of the later stages of the Nine Years’ War (1593-1603), particularly covering events such as the Siege of Kinsale, the defeat of Hugh O’Neill (Earl of Tyrone), and the expulsion of Spanish forces from Ireland.

The book details the military campaigns in the province of Munster under the command of Sir George Carew. While Sir Thomas Stafford is credited as the author, he is believed to have compiled it from the writings and extensive manuscript collection of his patron and purported natural father, Sir George Carew.

Pacata Hibernia is considered a classic among Anglo-Irish historical works and remains a vital primary source for scholars studying the period. Later reprints include a notable Dublin edition in 1810, and a modern edition edited by Standish O’Grady in 1896, both published in two volumes.