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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scolairebocht" data-source="post: 144715" data-attributes="member: 8">[ATTACH=full]8186[/ATTACH]Historical BackgroundA little history might be necessary here. Nearly all the great towns and cities of Europe in the Middle Ages, say the 1300s and 1400s at least, had guilds therein. These were kind of trade associations and unions of the various crafts and manufactures that were going on in the towns, like iron working, or glove making, etc etc. Also they often had ex officio seats on the corporation or body that ran the town, and hence frequently the mayor of the town would be from one of these guilds. The interesting thing is that as you get into modern times, they are all gone, with one interesting exception. This actually still happens in the City of London, an approximately square mile inside that metropolis which is still separately administered by a Corporation, with a Lord Mayor, run by the successors of these guilds, known now as livery companies.Fast forward to 1609 and the idea that James 1st has of creating a plantation out of the confiscated lands of the Irish chiefs who fled Ulster in 1607. Of course he was looking for influential money men who might take up this challenge and so approached these companies in London to see would they like to get involved. They in turn commissioned a number of people to scout out the possibilities here, including Sir Thomas Phillips, a soldier who boasted that he had penetrated the fastnesses of O’Neill in Ulster during the Nine Years War with only 200 troops. At any rate the report was favourable, the plan went ahead and Phillips was named as the governor of the part of Ulster given to the companies, County Derry, or, because of this association obviously, sometimes known as Londonderry. However these allies soon fell out. As time went on Phillips got very frustrated that these London Companies were not keeping their side of the bargain, were more interested in a fast buck than building the plantation of his dreams. As a former soldier he was also haunted by the precedent of the Munster Plantation, which was seemingly a success until violently overthrown by the Irish in the 1600/01 period, because the planters were no match for the native Irish in raw numbers at least. So the State Papers of the time are full of these complaints from Phillips, leading to investigations and sometimes the temporary confiscation of the Londoners assets in Ireland.Provenance of this important Manuscript referencePhillips died in 1636 and made a provision in his will that his papers were to be preserved and maybe copied out:Then in 1836 a volume comes into the possession of Thomas Larcom of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, and is a collection of papers of Philips’s in connection with the Plantation in Derry, presumably that which was copied down into the one book in furtherance of the above instructions in the will. The Ordnance Survey always intended to write an historical ‘memoir’ of all the counties in Ireland, to go alongwith their new maps, but in the long run they found it too vast an undertaking. However their first experiment was Derry, and in the resulting book, published in only the next year of 1837, mention is made of this ‘Phillips Manuscript’ e.g.:Since the O.S. must have planned the Derry book from at least the previous year, its easy to see why Larcom was anxious to obtain it. Then this Manuscript volume, after Independence and because it relates to a Northern County, was given to the Department of Agriculture of Northern Ireland who gave it to the newly formed Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, where it is now T510, and who then published it in 1928.</blockquote>

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