ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to uncover details of Hanmer’s career and his place in the world of the Elizabethan colonists. Hanmer’s experience in Ireland extended over a period of violent transition in the history of early modern Ireland, which started with the Ulster rebellion, degenerated in the “distinct and total” Nine Years War. Not all ministers in Ireland preached for the garrison, neither did they all remain in Ireland through the war.53 For those who remained, however, service in the army could provide protection and an additional source for maintenance. The manuscript collection, in its palaeographic and material nature reveals the dynamics of Hanmer’s scholarship and helps us shed some light on the connections between two generations of scholarly circles in Ireland. In Chronicle of Ireland Hanmer indeed observed the similarity between the Irish and Welsh languages, even though his account was largely based on secondary sources: first of all according unto the first command, the Celticke tongue was of force.
