Edward Bagshawe of Finglas

That is the English consortium paid the government a fixed amount of money for the right to collect the customs duties and to keep the profits.

The previous agreement was due to come to an end in 1629, so Sir Edward, who was the comptroller of the customs in Dublin, went to England in March 1629 to confer with the executors of the Duke of Buckingham's estate to see if the arrangement was to be renewed.

[3] In September of that year Sir Edward was reappointed and made joint comptroller of the customs in Dublin with Philip Perceval.

[4] According to his own account, he tried to reform as customer a state of things in which everyone did as seemed right in their own eyes, and found that the more honest and faithful he became the less he was trusted, until finally he was so misjudged as to be committed to Dublin Castle.

He emerged from there with less zeal and more discretion to become in Strafford's Parliament of 1634-5 member for the borough of Banagher, and under the Commonwealth, a commissioner of the revenue.