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fl. 1522; presum. Irish and Protestant, a writer on the plantation, he
recommended heavy populations of settlers in Ireland.
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Notes
W. B. Stanford, Ireland and the Classical Tradition,
1984, p.203 and n. 228. ‘In 1552, Edward Walshe of Waterford addressed
his Conjectures on the state of Ireland to the Duke of Northumberland
in the hope of influencing the English colonial policy to favour dense
rather than sparse plantation, ‘the waye taken by the polliticke
romaynes’ (with reference to agrarian law of Caius Gracchus in 123
b.c. Bibl., D. B. Quinn, ‘Edward Walshe’s Conjectures Concerning
Ireland’, Irish Historical Studies, 5 (1947), 303-22.
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