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ARMS OF THE BISHOPS OF KILLALOE

AND

SEAL OF THE DEAN AND CHAPTER.

\This See bears Pearl, a Cross Sapphire, between fo7ir
Trefoils, Emerald, one in each Quarter, on a Chief of the Second,
a Key erected, bow dowmuards, Topaz^

It is valued in the King's Book by an extent retjirned Anno.
28 Eliz. at 20 1. Sterl. (Harris Ware.)

AUTOGRAPHS OF BISHOPS OF KILLALOE, &c.

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THE

DIOCESE OF KILLALOE

EROM THE REFORMATION

CLOSE OE THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

Witl m Ipenbb-.

REYEREND PHILIP DWYER, A.B.,

VICAR OF DRUMCLIFFE AND CANON OF DYSERT, IN THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE.

' IP THE LORD HIMSELF HAD NOT BEEN ON OUR SIDE WHEN MEN JIOSE
UP AGAINST US."— Psalm CXXIY.

DUBLIN :

HODGES, FOSTEE, AND FIGGIS,

PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

1878.

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A WORD TO THE READER.

It may be allowable to mention that the following pages were
written amidst the manifold cares and labours incidental to a
parish minister. Also, that the writer knew of no diocesan his-
tory from which to borrow hints or summon help as to the
manner in which such a work were best designed and carried
out. And accordingly it may perhaps be looked upon with a
little indulgence, as being the first attempt hazarded to pene-
trate the unexplored recesses of diocesan life in the Reformed
Church of Ireland, and to make accessible the full dis-
closures. The writer would again thank the good friends who
have furnished so many private documents of value, and remarks
that he has used the authorities relied on rather in the way of
exact citation than of loose reference — preferring accuracy of
detail to smoothness of narration. The general reader must
considerately bear in mind that matter has been largely intro-
duced for the sake of those connected with the diocese by famil}^
ties; and it is hoped that such will possess themselves of a
volume which contains a relation of the heroism and constancy
of their forefathers. Though the work is narrative rather than
controversial, an interesting episode of the latter kind will be
found in a note on page 81, in Appendix VIII. The Appendix
on Confiscations (Y.) is cut short, owing to the great space it
would have occupied if given in full. The illustrations have
considerably increased the expenses of publication. The delay
in completing the work was unavoidable.

Philip Dwyer.

BiNDON Street, Ennis, March 23, 1878.

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CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY.

In the Diocese of Killaloe have survived not a few rich and
varied specimens of venerable ecclesiastical structures;, from
which, even without the aid of public records and local tra-
ditions, a pretty fair knowledge may be gained of the time
and manner in which Christianity was promulgated and spread
within the present diocesan borders. The same remark applies
especially to the Dioceses of Kilfenora and Inniscattery, and
even in some degree to that of Roscrea. Thus, for instance,
the earliest form of ecclesiastical structure is the Beehive Blouse.
And (to use the words of Mr. "Wakeman in his useful Hand-
book, p. 59) "A fine and hitherto unnoticed example occurs
upon the rock called Bishop's Island, near Kilkee, upon the
coast of Clare. It measures in circumference 115 feet. The
exterior face of the wall, at four different heights, recedes to
the depth of about one foot, a peculiarity not found in any
other structure of the kind, and which was probably introduced
with the view of lessening the weight of the dome-shaped roof.
Adjoining this is an example of the second class of ecclesiastical
structure, the Oratory, the erection of which is attributed to
Senan, w^ho lived in the sixth century, and whose chief settle-
ment was at Scattery Island." So far of the remains of the
^^ Island of the Starving Bishop," as it is called. But of
oratories there are other specimens. Passing by the oratory
at Nouhaval, called by the natives Davoran's Tomb, and the
remains of two others at Carran Church, on the road between
Lemaneigh Castle and New Quay, we may find additional

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specimens of these remarkable structures on little islands and
in lonely corners, as well as in more frequented localities— all
standing as lasting memorials of the individual energy and
heroic devotedness which animated the standard-bearers of the
Cross in the prosecution of their great work. The form of this
class of structure is peculiar. It is a stone house of diminutive
size, constructed of cemented masonry of a superior class. The
side walls are usually prolonged beyond the gables at the ends.
The doorway is in the west, of massive blocks and sloping
jambs. Some have an over-croft or upper chamber, doubtless
to relieve the weight and be a sleeping-place for the hermit ;
and the roof is of stone. Some are built of rectangular slabs
in overlaid courses. In others the interior is spanned by a
barrel-vault. WhercA^er the masons may have come from, or
whether Oriental models or traditions may have been before
their minds, the earlier forms of oratories recall the Cloghauns
of the Isles of Aran — a kind of building of stones laid one upon
another, which are brought to a roof without any manner of
mortar to cement them, some of which cabins will hold '^' forty
men on the floor, so ancient that nobody knows how long ago
any of them were made ; scarcity of wood and store of fit stones,
as that, perad venture, found out the first mvention. So far
Mr. Brash in his ^^ Ecclesiastical Architecture," p. 7, &c., also
the Author of ^^ H lar, or West Oonnaught," p. 6, Ed.
Hardiman.

And it further would appear from the greater number of these
structures on the Clare mainland, within easy reach of Aran
Islands, that there can be little doubt of some bold " fellow-
workers " in the Christian husbandry having laid the first
foundations of piety and sowed the small grain of mustard
seed diligently " among the infidels from Corcomroe." And
thus the Isles of Aran became to the adjacent West of Ireland
what the great missionary settlement on the Island of lona
under St. Columba became at first to the Eastern mainland
of Scotland,! and afterwards to a wider circle of ecclesiastical
illumination. But, however all this may be decided, two mis-
sionaries or hennits, Elannan and MoUua, have their names

* In the interior of one of these clohauns is laid by Mr. Burton the
scene of " The Aran Fisherman's Drowned Child."

f See note at end of chapter.

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identified with the two oratories which stand to this day, the
one on Friar's Island and the other on the Clare side of the
Eiver Shannon, w^here Lough Derg had contracted into rapids,
and the "Clare's ford" supplied a constant stream of pas-
sengers between Eastern and Western Thomond — some bent on
business, some on pleasure, the more part, doubtless, on occasions
engaged in cattle-lifting, which had a strange blended relish of
both. But here they were sure to encounter those who would
draw them, as well as they knew how, from sordid cares to
Christian hopes and holy duties. MoUua's oratory, on Friar's
Island, is somew^hat damaged, yet its main features are easily
discernible. But though his oratory is dilapidated, yet his
name is associated with that of the diocese, Killaloe being
pronounced by the learned to have come from Kil-omullua, or
Kil-da-bia, " the Church of my Lua." On the other hand,
Flannan's oratory, or rather the addition to it, after a narrow
escape from complete destruction, is now in a state of security,
having been carefully repaired in the year 1852 through the
judicious energy of Rev. W. Edwards, A.M., at that time
Economist and Curate of Killaloe.* But if the diocese is
called after Lua, or Mollua, the cathedral is called after
Flannan, — these two worthies thus fairly dividing the honours
of ecclesiastical renown, the one at the crown and centre, the
other over the widely-extended circumference of the diocese.
The cathedral stands to the south of the supplemental portion
of the oratory of St. Flannan, and with its great spreading
shadows cast by the slanting sun of early eve obscures its humble
predecessor. As to the exact time in which the cathedral w^as
first built and under what circumstances rebuilt and repaired,
and subjected to any further changes in its formation, full in-
formation will be found in Appendix.

Of the ecclesiastical buildings intermediate between the Bee-
hive structure, with the pointed oratory on the one hand, and
the cathedral and abbey on the other, only a brief notice is
allowable in this Introduction. According as the hermit
adventurer gathered converts around him, and "a flock" grew
large enough to require extended accommodation for joint
worship, an attempt was made to erect a building of a span to
require the covering of a roof, and this often in close proximity
* See Appendix II., suh fn.
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with the original oratory. So it is at Carran, so at Sladoo — a
lonely place amid a wilderness of rocks in the parish of Carran
in Burren Barony. The walls here are built with very small
stones, the gables are rounded at the corners, the roof seems to
have been arched like a bridge. There is a bench of stones all
round the inside of the walls, evidently used for seating the
congregation. The old simple stone-altar or slab still stands.
Adjacent is what is called a Druids' altar, with a grave at the
west end for the reception of the ashes of the dead in common.
Near hand are two wells, called holy ; also two cahirs, or stone
forts, the stones not displaced, nor the floor disturbed. Probably
this was an original settlement of Pagan immigrants, who have
thus left behind the sur^dving traces of their dreary system and
of the better hopes they afterwards entertained, and it is for
the professional antiquarians to decide upon, or rather, perhaps,
to wrangle over the position.

Other structures of this class exist, as ^^ Temple-Cronan," a
small church, nearly as old as Christianity in Ireland, and that
equally ancient and well-preserved structure facing the Isles of
Aran and standing by the Atlantic coast on the townland of
Crumlin. But many specimens are extant of the class in
advance of this, such as Oughtamama, Nouhaval, Disert, and
Holy Island — all in Clare and Galway. The great feature of this
class is their having a chancel divided off by a bold centre arch.
But for further particulars reference is directed to Dr. Petrie's
profound architectural speculations and to Lord Dunravan's
exquisitely beautiful volumes of photographic illustrations.

And thus it was, that as individual converts were gathered
into congregations, so also congregations in turn came to
require the bond of diocesan unity and that combined action of
many pastors and parishes under one Episcopal head of
which the cathedral became the crown and centre. Al-
thouo-h, indeed, in Ireland particularly, the ecclesiastical pro-
gress often ended in, if it had not originated from, the
abbey and the monastery, as exponents of a system of com-
plicated centralization; or, to use the words of the learned
writer of " Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland " (Introduction, p.

'' At home the Church was struggling against a lawless and
savage Paganism, in the midst of which neither life nor pro-

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perty was secure, and against a state of society in which a
Christian life was impossible, except in a community exclusively
Christian. Hence the monastic character impressed upon Irish
Christianity from its first introduction into the island. A coeno-
bite association (not always rigidly confined to one sex) seemed
the natural and almost the only means of obtaining for their
inmates all the rites of the Church — those which could be
ad ministered by priests and those of which the proper minister
was a bishop only. Hence the monastic bishop of the Scottish
houses. The abbot or superior may have been a presbyter only
or a layman, or, as in the case of St. Bridget and her dependent
abbesses, even a woman. But a bishop was always connected
with the Society, although without diocese or jurisdiction, and
bound, Uke other inmates of the monastery, to render an
absolute obedience to his monastic superior."

And to the same effect Dr. E-eeves, in his learned edition of
Adamnann's life of St. Columba, Additional Notes, p. 364 : —
*' The officers and servants of the community were at first but
few ; however, as the system became developed, the duties
became defined, and agents in the various departments multi-
plied. Those which are recorded were — the abbot, prior, bishop,
scribe, anchorite, butler, baker, cook, smith, attendant, mes-
senger ; to whom was added in after times the President of the
Culdees." Again, he remarks : — '^ Those who desired to follow
a more ascetic life than that which the Society afforded to its
ordinary members withdrew to a solitary place in the neighbour-
hood of the monastery, where they enjoyed undisturbed
meditation, without breaking the fraternal bond ; the abode of
such was called, from the Latin, desertum,^ The}^ agreed in
their preference for the Presbyterate, their observance of
the old-fashioned Easter, the anterior Eastern tonsure,
and seclusion from female society.'' It is a remark-
able fact that many of the monastic churches, which
grew in after times to be bishops' sees, were formed by
presbyters. The great promoters of the conventual system
sought no higher order than such as would enable them, con-
sistently with the vows of humility, to administer the Sacra-
ments and conduct the ordinary devotions of their fraternities.
The abbatial office gave them all the jurisdiction of the Episco-
* E.g.y Djsert and Kill-dysert.

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pate without its responsibilities^ and little more was left to the
bishop than the essence of his office — the transmission of holy-
orders, with the personal reverence that was due to the holder
of so important a commission.'^ And to the like effect may be
noted the remark of Archbishop Usher in his Discourse on
Eeligion of Irish, chap. vi. :— ^^ Of the regulars there was a great
number in Ireland, because here almost all the prelates were
wont to be chosen into the clergy out of the monasteries. For
our monasteries in ancient time were the seminaries of the
ministry ; being, as it were, so many colleges of learned
divines, whereunto the people usually resorted for instruction,
and from whence the Church was wont continually to be
supplied with able ministers.'' Thus, then, while it will be
allowed that much is due in the dark ages to the monastery and
abbey, and many may have been the ways in which they
proved beneficial, yet, on the other hand, the injurious effects
impressed by these institutions both upon the parochial and
diocesan systems were many, and great and of long duration.
While the richer offerings, the fairest lands, and (after the
institution of tithes in Ireland) the greater tithes fell to the
share of the abbey and the monastery, the work of the parish
was entrusted to the ^' vicarius," or substitute priest — and a
very pitiful substitute indeed he was. With his slender store
of learning and miserable way of living, he soon lost all
influence for good upon the wild chieftain, and sank into worth-
less companionship with the cowkeeper and the kerne. And
the Reformation, instead of curing, perpetuated these sore
evils ; nay, even intensified them. The benefices formerly
appropriate to monastic institutions now became impropriate in
lay patrons — (see Browne, Eccl. Law, p. 22) — and conse-
quently no clerical ministrations of any kind were available in
consideration of the greater tithes ; also this deficiency of
clerical labour took place chiefly in and around the place where
the monastery or abbey stood, which in many cases had grown
into an important town or city. And thus the parishes most
needing rich endowments and numerous labourers were
involved in the opposite conditions. And it is well known
how the Crown seized upon the lands and tithes— not regard-
ing (as Bishop Jeremy Taylor put it) '' the good, but the
goods of the Church" — and passed them away in every direction

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with a reckless profusion among hungry courtiers and manifold
claimants. Indeed the spirit of ecclesiastical spoliation had
become so rife that the Roman Catholic lords and gentlemen
of Ireland could not be led to restore anything even in the
days of Philip and Mary. And afterwards, when the Conven-
tion sat at Kilkenny, Carte teUs how the Provincial of Augus-
tins was hissed out of the house by the lay impropriators and
gentlemen, and that he threatened to wipe off the dust from his
feet and those of his friars, and to bend his course beyond the
seas, if the possessions of his Order were not restored. (Carte i.
367. Ann. 1642.)

Nor was this all. Not only had the parochial and diocesan
systems been each reduced to a low condition, but one of them,
the diocesan, was made to swallow up a great portion of the
other. Attention is directed particularly to the system of
bishops in bishoprics that were slenderly endowed, or rather
indeed abundantly robbed, supplementing an utterly inadequate
income by holding livings in commendam under the Act of 25
Henry VIII. , c. 21. Examples of this are, alas, forthcoming
in the ensuing narrative. And then, again, the sad detail
requires notice of the ahenations, retentions, depressed settings
and unscrupulous farmings out of the lands and tithes still left
behind to the Church, as practised only too often by ecclesiastics
of high degree. As if to point with most glaiing illustration
the moral not only that a man's but even a Church's foes
shall be they of their own household, a class of bishops came
upon the stage of affairs of whom the following is related as
their most eminent and memorable achievement : —

'^ The bishoprics were dilapidated by fee-farms and long leases
at small rents. These had been granted by the Popish bishops,
who resolved to carry with them as much as they could, and
partly by their Protestant successors, who might fear another
turn, and were, having their example, disposed enough to make
use of the same arts. By such means on the one side and on
the other, many bishopricks were made extremely small, some
reduced to £100 per annum, and some to £50, as Waterford and
Kilfenoragh, &c. ; some to five marks, as Kilmacduagh, and
particularly Cloyne, the Bishop of which was called ^ Epis-
copus quinque markarum,' or the Five Marks Bishop ;
Aghadoe was £1 6s. 8d., Ardfert £60; Limerick had about

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five parts out of six made away by fee-farms or eiicroached upon
by undertakers. The like was done in Cashel^ Emly, Water-
ford, Lismore, and Killaloe,^* (Bramhall's Works, vol. i., Ap-
pendix xviii. Lib. Anglo-Cat. Theol.)

And to this must be added the systematic neglect of the
Crown ^^Fermor/' or lessee, to fulfil the conditions required
by his contract in reference to repairs of chancels, not to men-
tion other terms of his contract unfulfilled, nor to expatiate on
his systematic invasions of ecclesiastical rights, commenced in
barefaced fraud, carried forward by perjury, and upheld by
violence and intimidation. All these hostile forces acting upon
the Church from without and from within, further impoverished
what had been freely plundered, in so much that, of the Church
of the Reformation period and of the Diocese of Killaloe, not
less than others, the old saying seems to hold good — " Nil
habuit Codrus et tamen infelix hoc perdidit omne."

Of all this, abundant evidence will be adduced in the follow-
ing pages.

As to the original /c»r7?2 and size of the Diocese of Killaloe —
per se — it may have been influenced, as in other cases, by the
civil boundaries. '' The principality of Thomond, generally
called the county of the Dalcassians, comprised the entire of the
present county of Clare, the parishes of Inniscaltra and Clon-
rush, in the county of Galway, the entire of Ely O'Carroll, the
baronies of Ikerrin, Upper and Lower Ormond, and somewhat
more than the western half of the barony of Clanwilliam, in
the county of Tipperary. The baronies of Owneybeg, Coo-
naght, and Clanwilliam, and the eastern halves of the baronies of
Smallco'y and Coshlea, in the county of Limerick. Having
thus defined, according to the best historical evidences, the
extent and boundaries of Thomond; the county Clare, in
Regno. Elizabeth, was properly called Thomond, or North
Munster.'' So far the learned writer of the '' Ordinance
Survey of Clare." (Antiquities in R. I. A. 14, c. i. page 9.)
On this it is only to be observed that the boundaries continue
the same, with the exception of the line bordering on the
county of Limerick, to the south of which only one parish, that
of Stradbally Union, still belongs to the Diocese of Killaloe,
the rest having been most probably separated and attached to
Limerick on the forfeitures which ensued after the Desmond

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or some other rebellion^ in which some of the Mac O'Briens of
Coonagh and of North Limerick had implicated themselves
deeply.

The Diocese of Roscrea, lying to the north-east, was added
to that of Eillaloe late in the 12th century. Traces of the
ecclesiastical structures connected with the head-quarters at
Eoscrea remain to this day, &nd present features of no slight
success attained in the cultivation of the graceful and beautiful
in architecture. The diocese seems to have originated in a
great ecclesiastical seminary, and was of but limited extent,
not going beyond the little Brosna Eiver on the north, and
restrained by a mountain range on the east, by the Shannon
on the west, and on the south by the great plain of Ormond.
In fact, this diocese seems to have been exactly the same as the
territory of the O'Karvils or O'CarroUs, with that of the
O'Kennedys added on. A curious light is recently shed upon
these times and upon the relation of Killaloe to Roscrea
Diocese, from the learned researches of Mr. Sweetman.
(Calendar of Documents, Ireland, a.d. 1171 — 1251. No. 2,760.)

*' Donatus, Bishop of Eallaloe, writes to the King thanking
him for commanding the justiciary of Ireland to cause an inqui-
sition to be taken as to what lands the Bishop's church had been
deprived of, transmits the inquisition, and prays the King
to persevere in his good purpose of exalting the Bishop's
church.

" Inquisition (issued) as to whether the lands of Roscrea ought
to belong to the Bishoprick of KiUaloe, by whom they were
alienated, and what they were really worth — taken at Roscrea
on Wednesday next after the feast of SS. Peter and Paul, a.r.

29, before , a jury, who say that in time past Murchercath

MacBren ravaged the lands of Herman and Hely-0'Karrill,
and levelled five castles there, whereupon the King's force and
Council in Ireland assembled at Roscrea to expel M. MacBren.
The lands were at that time in the hand of Cornelius O'Heny,
then Bishop of Killaloe, as of right belonging to his bishoprick.
The King's Council commenced fortifying a castle on the Yill
of Roscrea, by erecting a moat and wooden tower. Meanwhile
Henry, Archbishop of Dublin, from England, Justiciary of
Ireland, repaired by King's directions to the Vill. Hearing this,
Bishop Cornelius came thither and prohibited a castle or any

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fortification from being constructed in his ecclesiastical posses-
sions, and said that if they proceeded further therein he would
excommunicate the justiciar3rand the whole army. Thereupon
the justiciary and the army prayed Bishop Cornelius on behalf
of the King and for the common good that they might be
allowed to fortify the moat and the wooden tower until the
termination of war, undertaking in the King's name that the
Bishop should then have the YiU and its appurtenances or the
just value thereof. The Bishop thereupon granted permission
accordingly. In this manner the lands of Eoscrea were
alienated. These lands are annually worth 35 marks of silver,
and the Custodee of Eoscrea receives the marches as his fee.''

Another diocese was added to Killaloe, in the south-western
extremity, namely, that of Inniscattery. The bishoprick of
Limerick and Inniscattery were, according to Ware, united
about the end of the twelfth century, but, according to Usher,
the possessions were divided between Limerick, Killaloe, and
Ardfert. Saint Patrick is liberally credited with the foundation
of this see, also with a prophecy of Senanus. But people were
as much over-inclined towards the sham supernatural in old
times as they are now averse from the true. The founder was
Senanus, a native. And he owes more for being generally
known by the Irish public of this century to the graceful lyric
of the poet Moore —

Oh ! haste and leave this sacred isle —
than to the doggrel Latin of the Hagiographer Colgan. It is
curious to note the traditionary or legendary impressions con-
nected with Inniscattery. They chiefly run on two points —
first, how to turn out the Piach, or serpent, which had got
possession of the isle, and, secondl}^, how to prevent the woman
from gaining possession. ^^^For, legends hint,"

That had the maid
Till morning's light delayed,
And given the Saint one rosy smile,
She ne'er had left his lonely isle.

For more on this and other localities the Topography of
parishes in the Appendix must be consulted.

Kilfenora, a diocese situated on the north-west of the county
of Clare and of rather small extent, was added to Killaloe in the

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middle of last century. " There are no accounts to be depended
upon concerning the time of the foundation of the see of
Fenabore." Dr. Todd specially mentions it as one of those
dioceses in which the district which owed allegiance to the
chieftain, and was inhabited by his followers, became the proper
field of labour to his bishops and clergy ; and this was the first
approach made to a diocesan or territorial jurisdiction in the
Church of Ireland. Thus the bishopric of Cillmhic-Duach
(now Kilmacduagh) is the ancient territory inhabited by the
clan of the Ui-Fiachrach. The diocese of Kill Finnabrach
(now Kilfenora) was the tribe-land of the Corca-Modmaidh, or
Corcomroe. The founding of this diocese is usually attributed
to St. Fachnan, of whom nothing certain is known. It is said
that his brother founded a religious house at Ross. There is a
yery old monumental slab in the Cathedral of St. Fachnan, at the
south corner under the east window, which is accepted by local
tradition to have been erected in honour of this saint. • His
costume is remarkable, being e\idently the tunicle or dalmatic.
His tonsure seems fro?Hal, as that of the Greek Church. The
manner in which he holds (not a book, as erroneously asserted,
but) the chalice is primitive and catholic (see further in Eeeves'
Adamnan, p. 350 ; Palmer's English Eitual, Appendix, Vest-
ments, II. 309 ; and the Eitual Commissioners' Eeport, p. 383).
As bearing on elevation, the following is laid down in the latter
reference : — " The elevation of the blessed Sacrament was not
incorporated formally into the law of the Western Church
before the beginning of the thirteenth century. The account
given by Cardinal Bona is clear and concise (Eerum Liturgica-
rum, lib. 2, ch. 3, sec. 2). Archbishop Peccham, consecrated
1278, appears to have first introduced into England this
custom.' ' On the passing of the Church Temporalities Act
in 1833, Clonfert and Kilmacduagh dioceses were added to
the union of .Killaloe and Kilfenora.

It may not be superfluous to notice the area and acreage, the
situation, shape, and natural advantages of the territory com-
prised within the present limits of the united diocese. The
area of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert, and Kilmacduagh, is of
very considerable extent, including the entire county of Clare,
except some parishes near Limerick cit}^ belonging to Limerick
diocese, and is found also in parts of Tippcrary, King's Countv,

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Limerick^ and Gralway^ and covering the vast space of 1,707,851
acres, or taken separately —

In Killaloe .... 1,038,125
„ Kilfenora .... 135,746
„ Clonfert .... 894,320
„ Kilmacduagh , . 139,660

In respect of shape the united diocese of Killaloe and Kil-
fenora alone extends in length for over 100 miles from the
Sleive Bloom Mountains in the north-east along the borders of
the Queen's County to Loop's Head on the south-western
extremity at the mouth of the Shannon. Its breadth varies
from about thirty-two miles at its widest part, which is from
Castle Connell to Blackhead, down to nine miles at the nar-
rowest, near Parsonstown (see Beaufort's and the Royal Com-
missioners' maps). For such matters as its situation and
natural advantages, the student of social science and economical
progress in the West of Ireland is referred to the writings of
Arthur Young, Dutton, Wakefield, Sir Eobt. Kane, and to the
Reports of the Fishery and Devon Commissioners. But natural
advantages, whether of situation or of soil, have been little
availed of. Things remain — or rather relapse into — such state
as they were found in three hundred years ago, the pastoral
largely predominating in the West. Killaloe Cathedral and
the Episcopal seat, although not exactly in the centre of the
united diocese, are generally accessible by railway communica-
tion from the three chief diocesan angles lying on the northern,
eastern, and western extremities of the diocese — viz., Ballinasloe,
Nenagh, and Ennis. Indeed, lines connecting these towns form
a triangle containing the main central portion of the united
diocese. What falls outside is easily and about equally reached
from these three points.

The history of the temporalities of this united diocese within
the period under review is mixed up in a considerable degree
with the fortunes of the houses of Thomond, Clanrickarde, and

Oliver Grace.

The distribution and valuation of the bishopric, rectories,
vicarages, and dignities as given in the King's Books stand
as follows, none being found for Killaloe prior to King
Charles I., although Bishop Rider alludes to parishes taxed
in the King's Book. The particulars are to be found in

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*^ Valor Beneficiornin Ecc. in Hibernia/' Dublin, 1743, Ex
sbaw, p. 21, and in this instance have been tested carefully by
comparison with the original in the Eecord Office. It may be
also observed that most of the valuations in other dioceses were
made in prior reigns ; but doubtless fit Commissioners could
hardly be found to execute such a trust in Tipperary or Clare
at an earlier period with anything like completeness. Besides,
the Commissioner named was a County Clare man, Mr. Dela-
hoyde ; and, above all, the livings were so poor and mean as
not to bear taxation. "Rectories not exceeding 6/., and
vicarages not exceeding 6/. 13^. 4c/., being both exempted
from taxation for firstfruits."

From the " Valor Beneficiorum '^ in Record Office : —
*' Taxatio et extenta dignitatum et beneficiorum spiritual
infra diocesen pra^dict, noviter fact per Rowlandum Delahoyde,
militem et alios Commission arios virtute Commiss. Dni nostri
Regis Caroli iis directae et returnatse in hoc scaccarium termino
Sancto Michael, anno Reg. diet. Dom^^ Regis Caroli quinto.'^

DIGECESIS LAONENSIS.

Sterling.

1. Episcopatus, 'i6 £20

2. Decanatus 5

3. Precentoriatus 1

4. Cancellariatus 6

5. Thesauriatus 2

6. Archi Diaconatus ... 3

7. Pra^b. de Clonydagad

(yasta) 0 10

8. Prasb. de Tomgreney. 6 0

9. „ Eath-blanage . 1 6

10. „ Ennis Catliie . 4. 0

11. LoghCajne 3 0

12. Pra3b. et E. de Dysert 2 0

13. „ deTullo 3 0

14. „ dc Clondagad. 0 10
(Seems given above already.)

15. Rect. dc Ogasbin ... 3 0

„ de Tradcrry ... 6

16. „ de Kilmaferboy 3

17. „ de Dromclyffe,
als Ogormuck 5

18. Eect. delvillinaboy... 1

19. „ de Rath 1

20. „ de Kilkeedy ... 1

21. „ deObloyde 5

(Quaere O'Mullod, but perhaps here

called and spelled more closely
after Blod, son of Cass.)

22. Eect. de Eoscrey

23. „ de Birra

2-1. „ de Moydi'iney .

25. „ de Moysse (now
called Monsea)

26. Yic. de Clonmsh

28. „ delnishecalti-agh

29. „ de Castle Connell

30. „ de Quyn

31. „ de Clonee

32. „ de Durey

33. „ de KilmuiTy als

Dufl'keyne . . .

3-1. „ de Tomfynlagha.

35. „ de Kilmalyra ...

36. „ dc Kilcomery ...

37. „ de Clonloghan . . .

38. „ de Bonratty

39. „ de Clonadagad...
•10. „ de Kilf edan

41. „ de Killahn

42 . „ de KilmuiTy

43. „ de Kilamory

44. „ de Kilfieragh ...

45. „ de Moaiiagh ...

46. „ deKilbannyhoyne

47. „ de Killardagh ...

48. „ deKillyferby ...

Sterling.

£7 0

6 0

5 0

6 13

0 6

2 0

0 10

0 13

0 6

0 10

0 5

0 13

0 5

1 8

0 10

0 6

0 10

0 6

1 0

0 10

0 13

0 10

0 13

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49.
50.

51.

52.
53.
54.
55.
56.
57.
58.
59.
60.
61.
62.
63.
64.
65.
66.
67,
68.
69.
70.

71.

72.

73.

74.

75.
76.
77,

2
0
0
0

1
1
1

0 13

-XT' J T Sterling.

Vic. deKilmakadowen£0 10 0
„ de Dromcliff, als

O'Cormock ... 0 13 4
Eect. de Killanoi^a
(sic) et Yic. ejus-

dem

Yic. de Rath-blanage
„ de Killeneboy . . .

„ de Kilkidye

„ de Killeneawgh .

„ de Mojsey

„ de Kneagh

„ de Kilbarrayne...
„ de Ard Cromey
„ de Ballyngarry . ^

,, de Uskean 1 0

„ de Bm^resakeyn . 1 0

„ de Fynough 0 10

„ de Moydriney ... 3 0

„ de OghiU 0 10

„ de Burgessbogga 0 6

„ de Roscrey 2 0

„ de Burrechin ... 0 6
„ de Dowcorrchin . 0 5
Rec. et Yic. de Fin-

.glassye 0 10

Yic. de Templeno-

horry

Rec. et Yic. de Kil

.comyn 0 10 0

Yic. de Soyanrone ... 0 13 4
Rec. et Yic. de Kil-

murry

Yic. de Etagh 0 13 4

„ de Birra 3 0 0

Rec. et Yic. de Kel-

terlana 1 0 0

0 13 4

_ Sterlirjoj.

78. Rec. et Yic. de Ky-

,^ nity £2 0 0

79. Yic. de Rossma-

crowe 0 10 0

80. Rect. de Olonfert

Mollore 0 13 4

81. Rect. de Fynagh ... 3 0 0

82. „ deDurragh... 3 0 0

83. Yic. deAglyneclogh-

rane 10 0

84. Yic. de Ballylough-

cugn 10 0

85. Rec. de Baunagh-

cayue 3 0 0

86. Yic. de Killansow-

lagh 0 10 0

87. „ de Clonleagh... 10 0

88. „ de Kilfinaghta . 10 0

89. „ de Kilteelagh .10 0

90. „ de Killokendice 10 0

91. „ do Killnoe 2 0 0

92. „ de Killuran ... 0 15 0

93. „ deOgonoka(tliis
seemed in original
ra.ther like de Ogo-
nola)

94. Yic. de Moynoe

95. „ de Kiltanaleigh

96. „ de Kilbraghtas

97. „ deTullo

98. „ de Templemalie

99. „ de Insicronane.

100. „ de Dysert

101. „ de Finagh

102. „ de Kilchrist ...

103. „ de Killidisart .

104. „ deKilmihiU ...

2 0 0
0 15 0
10 0
10 0

3 0 0
0 15 0

3 0 0

4 0 0
0 5 0
10 0
2 0 0
10 0

The title in the printed vol. of the " Valor Beneficiorum "
gives the following abridged heading : — '' Hdoc extenta et
Taxatio partim facta fuit 5 anno Car. I., per Rowland Dela-
hoide et alios Commission arios."

The taxation of Kilfenora district is not given in the King's
Eooks, doubtless owing to the tenuity of the endowments.

In the Appendix will be found the topography of the
parishes briefly set forth from the best authorities^ also a map
on the lines of Dr. Beauford's.

The events connected with the internal and external state of
the Church within the limits of the Diocese of Killaloe and
Kilfenora it shall be our aim to record. The task is not lightly
entered upon^ and is more difficult than even the indulgent

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may be ready to allow. Should, however, this sketch of a
diocesan history serve in ever so slight a degree to cheer along
the path of Christian devotedness those whose ancestors fought
the good fight of faitli ; should these pages direct the attention
of others outside to a diocese long placed in most trying cir-
cumstances, the labours. of the writer will not be altogether
lost, nor the censure of presumption prove intolerable to him.

That he has enjojxd the help of kind and learned friends
must be evident. Their names shall be mentioned in connexion
with the manuscripts they lent and the helps they have given.
On the other hand, local advantages and access to some private
collections have resulted in too many instances in but slender
additions to what had been already published by Bishop Mant
and Archdeacon Cotton, &c. Indeed, "Ware's lament too often
turned out true : — " I have found so few memoirs of the Bishops
of it (viz., Kilfenora), that I am under a necessity of owning
that the following catalogue of them is very lame and imperfect.'^
And Archdeacon Cotton re-echoes the lament : — " In truth the
lists of succession in almost every diocese are defective ; and
the information which could be gleaned respecting individuals
very scanty.'*

Note, p. 2. — Aran Islands.— Colgan, in vit. S. Eiidei Abbatis Ai^-
niensis (p. 704) die 21 Januarie, draws the following glowing picture : —
" Anro illo S£8cnlo quinto, quo coslestium astronim numerum Sanctorum
syderibus sacra Insula Hibemice propb JBquabat, co?pit mirabilis con-
versio et mirifica conversatio, S. Endei Abbatis," &c. Colgan, how-
ever, relates that the records of the Island are lost — a loss, indeed,
when the facts known are so few, and the fictions so freely spun round
them have given to the whole account the complexion of a mediasval
romance.

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THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE IN THE REIGN OF KING
HENRY VIII.

The question whether the King of England or the Roman
Pontiff was to be supreme in England and in Ireland in all
causes spiritual and temporal became mature for decision in
the reign of King Henry VIII. Nor was this a novel con-
tention. On the contrary, as Sir John Davis remarked in his
^' Speech at the censuring of Recusants '^ (Calendar of State
Papers, King James L, 1605, No. 580), "The prerogative of
the King in matters Ecclesiastical is no new thing invented in
the time of King Henry VIIL, Edward VI., or Queen
Elizabeth, but hath been a flower of the Crown from the
beginning, ever since any Church had been planted in England

or Ireland And as the law had given the King this

powder and jurisdiction, so had it excluded all foreign princes

and prelates, and particularly the Bishop of Rome

That was the voice of the people in open Parliament at that

time Before the Statute of Premunire, the ancient

common law was, that whoever brought a bull of excommuni-
cation against any of the King's subjects was adjudged a

traitor .... thus the law utterly excluded the Pope

He spoke of the old common law and statute law for 400 years
before King Henry VIIL was born. The judges who expounded
those laws were not Protestants, but old Popish judges, learned
in the canon law. Not one king since the Norman Conquest
but had claimed and used that authority." As to the Acts re-
establishing the King's supremacy, which was the first step of
reformation, it will be remembered that in the year of our

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Lord 1537, King Henry VIII., having had his supremacy in
the Church of England '^ recognised by the clergy and autho-
rized by Parliament/' naturally desired the establishment of
the like supremacy in the Church of Ireland. Accordingly a
Parliament was summoned in Dublin, and at length, notwith-
standing *Hhobstancie of the spiritualitie used in this cession/'
the Supremacy '^ Bills overcame all opposition, and were passed
into law.^' But another Act was also passed in the year 1511,
at the suggestion of Bishop Staples of Meath, by which Henry
was declared to be not '^ Dominus,^^ but '' Rex HihernicB,'^
" which style and name of Rex HibernicB shall no doubt put
many fantasies and opynions out of Irishmens heddes, that they
held before to the contrary : and especially that abhominable
error, that the most of them reputed the Busshop of Ptome as
hedd and King of this land. For prouflPe and experiment of
the same to be true, divers of them si then s, rather incl}Tied to
obedience and conformitie." (Cal. St. Papers, Pt. III.,
H. VIIL, page 341.) And the Bill was read, and declared to
the said Lords, who most willingly with all the rest of the
Lords spiritual and temporal consented to the same : and after
three times read with like consent, it was sent to the lower
house, where it likewise passed with no less joy and gladness.
Among " the names of such Lords both English and Irish as
were at the same, who gave their liberal consents thereunto,''
we read as the representatives of the Diocese of Killaloe : —

Episcopus Lawonensis.

Episcopus Duanensis=Duacensis, or Kilmacduagh.

Episcopus Clonfortensis.

We also find the heads of the laity connected with the
diocese well represented by proxies, viz. : —
Istinondum z' Procuratores Domini Obrene.
sunt de Par- J Willielmus de Burgo, sue nacionis capitaneus.
liamento. j Donat Obrene. {Ubi supra, V^S^ 307.)

The proxies of the first party above, Scntlcger calls ^* deputies
assigned by the greate Obrien to be for him in the Parliament."

The letter of Senblcgcr to King Heur}^ YIII. announces the passing
of this xict as a step of the greatest importance to the King, and tells
how '' all the hoole Howse moste willinglye and joyouslye condissended

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and agreid to the same ;" he adds, '' and for that the thing passeth so
joyously, and so miche to the contentation of every person, the Sonday
foloing ther were made in the citie greate bonfires, wyne sette in the
Btretis, greate festinges in their howses with a goodly sorfc of gunnes."
The King on this occasion issued a proclamation for a general pardon.
And the said Sonday, all the Lordes and gentilmenrode to yonr Chirche
of Sent Patrikes-, where was song a solempne masse by the Arche-
bisshop of Dublin, and after the Masse, the said Acte proclaymed ther
in presens of 2000 parsons, and Te Deum song, with greate joye and
gladnes to all men. And forbicause my riches is small, I have sente
Your Majestie a poore paier of gloves of silke, beseching Your Majestie
to accepte the same so simple a presente, as of him that wold as gladly
presente yow with the empier of hoole worlde, if it were in him to gyve ;
beseching Almighti God to send Your Excellente Magestie no lesse
honour than the moste honorable that ever raigned in erthe.

Your Magestes humble subject and sarvant,

Antony Sentleger.

It would be a grievous omission if we did not give one other
extract from the letter just quoted in reference to the Speaker
of the House and the object sought in the session. The writer
uses the following terms : *^ and the Friday following being
assembled in the place of Parliament accustomed, the Commons
presented unto us their Speaker, one Sir Thomas Cusake, a man
that haath right painfully served your Majesty at all times ;
who made a right solemn proposition in giving such laud and
praise to 3"our Majesty, as justly and most worthily your
Majesty hath merited, as well for the extirpation of the usurped
power of the Bishop of Rome out of this your Realm (who
had of many years been a great robber and destroyer of the
same), as also for your innumerable benefits showed unto your
Realms and subjects of the same."

That the effects of the Supremacy Laws should have been
anticipated as injurious, and resisted accordingly by the Court
of Rome, is only what might be expected to have taken place in
a land which had proved a mine of wealth to the Bishop of
Rome, as Sentleger states above — in a land, too, where the
Pontiff had devoted adherents ready for any amount of treason
and conspiracy, which they might justify to themselves on the
score *^that the King's Highness is an heretic against the faith
because he obe3^eth not and believeth not the Bishop of Rome's
primacy/' ( Ubi sicpra, p. 147.) Besides this, these men were
reckless, who ^' tcoll have all, or lose all,^'

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The attitude which the Spirituality assumed is now presented.
On the one hand Archbishop Browne of Dublin writes to
Crumwell thus : " Concerning even his Diocese of Dublin and
province of the same, where the King's power ought to be best
known, yet that notwithstanding, neither by gentle exhortation,
evangelical instruction, neither by oaths of them solemuly
taken, nor yet by threats of sharp correction, can I persuade or
induce any, either religious or secular, since my coming over
once to preach the "Word of God, or the just title of our most
illustrious Prince." The Archbishop then censures their incon-
sistency, " who will now not once open their lips in any pulpit
for the manifestation of this, although they used to preach very
often until the right Christians were wxary of them." And
again he deplores that " there is never an archbishop or bishop
but myself made by the King but he is repelled, even now by
provision." (S. P., vol. ii., H. VIIL, part III. pp. 539, &c.) The
conduct towards the ^' Fourme of Beades " indicates the existence
of an intense opposition to the Royal supremacy. And Archbishop
Browne complains to Crumwell of one Prebendary Humphrays
playing a daring trick indicating this opposition : '* When the
form of beades should have been customably read in the man-
ner set forth, the Prebendary scorned to read them, and the
preacher went up into the pulpit and there began to read them
to the people. He had only read three or four lines, when the
parson began the preface and the choir sang, insomuch that the
beades were unbidden." The Archbishop complains, "they be
in manner all at the same point with me. There is an twenty-
eight of them, and amongst them all there is not three learned
of them, nor yet scarce one that favoureth God's Word." ( Ubi
supra, iii. iii., p. 7.) And the Archbishop, vehemently pressing
his demand for a Master of Faculties, tells Crumwell how the
friars expect now daily to bring the people's minds to their
own "lewre that they mought be once again esteemed as young
Godes — which God forbid they should." But then, on the other
hand, it must be remembered that the supremacy was insisted
upon as a crucial test of loyalty due to the Crown on the part of
the Church. In the ordinances for Ireland of 1534 the follow-
ing appears : " Forasmuch as it is notorious and manifest that
the abominable abuse and usurpation of the Bishop of Rome's
jurisdiction, by his provisions and otherwise, hath not only

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destroyed the Churches of Ireland, but also been the most
occasion of the division and dissension amongst the people of
the said land, and the desolation, ruin, and decay of the same,
the King's Highness, like a most virtuous Christian Prince,
above all things desiring the repressing of any enormity or
abuse which by any means might tend to the violation of the
laws of God, or be an occasion to his people to digress from
charity or Christian manners — willeth and straightly chargeth
and commandeth his deputy and council of that land, that they
and every of them, endeavour themselves to their powers to
resist the said Bishop of Rome's provisions and other his pre-
tensed and usurped jurisdiction according to the statutes there-
upon provided, and the like to be enacted there the next
Parliament/' In 1583 Bishop Staples of Meath writes :
" Over this mine advice shall be, that his Lordship appoint some
means how that such bishops as had their Bulls of the Bishop of
Rome, by our Sovereign Lord's commandment may bring in
their Bulls, cancelling the same, and to have some remembrance
from his Highness, which shall stand them in like effect with
the same." {Ubi supra, iii. iii., p. 28.) Cowley to Crumwell
deplores the ejection, from a diocese in the West, of Bishop de
Angulo or JSTangle, the King's presentee, in favour of " one Roland
Burke, who purchased Bulls from the Bishop of Rome,'^ and
adds, ^' Nothing was executed of the King's pleasure in that
behalf, whereby general recourse is daily to Rome by religious
men of the Irish nation and papisticalls, so that where in time
past they repaired to the King's Highness to obtain his Grace's
denomination, they go now immediately to Rome, and obtain
what they pursue, so that there be now lately five bishops in
Ireland, by the Bishop of Rome's authority, besides abbots and
priors. And never so much suit from Ireland as now to Rome,
all by permission and sufferance, without any persecuting."
( Ubi supra) Grey, in 1538, took a tour, ^* setting forward
towards Ofaley, 17th June " ; and in Limerick the following is
related by him to have occurred: — "And after this I called
before me the Bishop of Limerick, Coyn or Quin, and had him
sworn likewise, according to the tenor of the Act of Supremac}^,
and hath commanded him to have all his clergy sworn, and the
same to be certified unto your Chancery." {Ubi supra, p. 59.)
And in " Galway he took the like order with the Bishop."

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(P. 60.) The Council writes to Cmmwell of a tour they took
and of what they did at Clonmel. This is most valuable in
evidence. "We kept sessions this day, and on Sunday the
Archbishop of Dublin will preach here likewise, as he did in
other places before mentioned, in the presence of all the Bishops
of Munster, who, upon our commandment, been repaii^ed thither
for the most part already, and or (ever) they depart shall be
sworn to the supremacy of the King and against the Bishop of
Rome/^ (P. 115.) And as to the actual execution of this
determination, the Council again to the same writes (p. 117) : —
" At Clonmel was with us two archbishops and eight bishops
(why not the Eallaloe Bishop among them as a Suffragan of
Cashel Province?), in whose presence my Lord of Dublin
preached in advancing the King's supremacy and the extinguish-
ment of the Bishop of Pome. And, his sermon finished, all the
said bishops, in all the open audience, took the oaths mentioned
in the Acts of Parliament, both touching the King^s succession
and supremacy, before me, the King's Chancellor. And divers
others there present did the like."

Nor was this all. In 1542 Henry VIII. to Deputy and Council
writes thus (S. P. III. III., 430) : " Seventh, we be pleased
that the late Master of Any shall be preferred to the Bishoprick
of Emolye for his election ; and to such Bishops as you shall
think meet for his consecration as to take his oath and homage
according to the minute which you shall receive herewith, — ■
which oath our pleasure is that all Bishops to be hereafter made
in that our realm of Ireland shall make unto us. And being
these things done by you our Deputy, we will that by like war-
rant hereof, you our Chancellor shall with the advice consent
and oversight of our Deputy make out and deliver to the said
Bishop such and as many our writs and other writings under
our seal in your custody as in such cases be requisite."

The King again in the case of another Bishop writes in 1543
(uhi supra, p. 476) : — " We have granted that the Bishop of
Clonfert shall have the said Bishoprick confirmed unto him by
our letters patent, so that he cancell and utterly renounce the
Bishop of Pome's bulls and grants of the same ; &c. &c."

How fully then is the following official language of the Arch-
bishop of Dublin borne out : — " It appeareth plainly that the
said Bishop of Rome hath.nother autoritie ne pour, in this land

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nor never had by Goddis Lawes'' (S. P. III. III., H. VIII., p.
565). It is to be fairly presumed that the Bishop of Killaloe,
who voted for the title of " King " in Parliament in 1537, also
took the oath of supremacy and abjured the Pope as Head of
the Church ; and that the Bishop in any intermediate vacancy
of the see of Killaloe (such as in the case of O'Corrin),
until Cornelius O'Dea, did the same. Of this latter the follow-
ing entry appears in "Morin's Patent Polls" (I., p. 130): —
" 20, Election of Cornelius O'Dea, Chaplain to the Earl of
Thomond, to the Bishopric of Killaloe, vacant by the resignation
of James Curyn ; ^' also ** consecration of Cornelius O'Dea,
July 12th, 1546.^^ Bishop O'Dea therefore may be well pre-
sumed to have obtained and held his office upon a solemn
renunciation of the Pope's authority.

The attitude taken by the Laity of the Diocese of Killaloe in
this reign is patent and beyond all reasonable dispute.

In the "State of Ireland ""^ it is narrated that there
" Peigneth over sixty chief captains in Ireland, and every one
of them liveth only by the sword, and obeyeth no other tem-
poral person, but only to himself that is strong. And every
other said captain maketh war and peace for himself, and
holdeth by the sword, and hath imperial jurisdiction within
his own room (or, territory), and obeyeth to no other person,
English ne Irish, except only to such persons as may subdue
him by the sword." " Hereafter folowyth the names of the
Chyef Iryshe Regyons and Countreys of Twomounde and Chyef
Captaines of the same : —

Obryen de Toybryen, Chyef Captaine of his nation.
Okenedy de Oromounde, „ „

Ocherwell de Ely, „ „

Omeaghyr de Ikery „ „

McMahunde de Bruye-Colls de Corkvaskyn „
Ochonochour de Corkenruo „ „

Ologhlyn de Boryn „ „

Ograde de Kenall Downall „ „

Obren de Arraghe* „ „

* State Papers, Henry VIII., vol. ii. pt. iii. p. 1.
f From river Arra, which runs by Wenagh and falls into Shannon at
Dromineer.

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Omolryan de When, or Owney, Chyef Captaine of his nation.
O'Dwyer de Kylnemanagh „ „

McBren de Coonagh „ „

The relation of Ireland to King Henry YIII. must have
caused him much anxiety. On the one hand there was a
foreign Potentate claiming to be the Sovereign Lord in both
Temporals and Spirituals, and, on the other, there were the
sixty captains, " reigning, every one of them — li\dng only by
the sword, and obeying no other temporal person but only
himself, that is strong, and each one making war and peace for
himself, and holding by the sword, and exercising Imperial
jurisdiction, and obeying no other person, English or Irish,
except only such persons as may subdue him with the sword.''
Here then were two extreme forms of rule in Ireland, both
clashing with the King's authority. And the latter was not
a heptarchy as once in Saxon England, but no less a thing
than a Keltic Sexagintarchy, or a dominion of sixty, such as is
related above. If the King broke with the foreign power
and trode down its pretensions, it was needful that he should
not break with but rather conciliate the sixty captains or as
many of them as he could turn to his part. And in particular,
of these formidable gentlemen the King had need to make fast
friendships with those whose territories lay so far west of the
English pale as Munster, and whose subjugation woiild involve
the assembling of large armies and supplies, and the fitting out
of vast and costly flotillas.

The submission, then, to the Crown of any of these captains,
and above all of such distinguished leaders as the Lords of
Thomond and Inchiquin, and the Tanists McNemarroe and
O'Grady, must have been regarded as a grand stroke of polic}^,
to be celebrated with pomp and ratified by gains. In fact,
the whole thing was to be made very pleasing to the ambition
and material interests of the Irish captains.

Accordingly, after several negotiations, the chief of these
captains, Sir Donnough Obrj^en, wrote to the King a letter of
submission, in which he addresses him as *' under God my ledo^e
Lord and vice Dei," and adds that though he made submission
to the Deputy now in Ireland and had pardon under the Great
Seal, yet his mind is never satisfied till he has done the same
to the King's Grace in his own person, whom he most desires

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to see above all creatures on earth living, now in his old days,
which sight he doubts not but shall prolong his life.'^ The
Deputy also wrote to apprize the King that Sir Donnough
in company with his uncle, Lord O'Brien, had determined to do
his duty to his Majesty and to recognise his humble obedience
for the same.

And " as he is a gentleman of hardy courage, and one that of
long time hath right faithfully served his highness, the Deputy
trusted that this access to his Majesty and the sight of his
princely magnificence and the savouring of his most kingly
bounty shall totally confirm him to good civility and order
whereunto he is much given by his own inclination."

Accordingly, on Sunday July 1st, in the thirty-fifth year of
King Henry YIII/s reign, there was a most imposing spectacle
elaborated to impress the minds of the native Irish chieftains
in a manner favourable to the Imperial power of England and
the magnificence of the King.

Of this the King writes, "We be pleased that O'Brien
coming in and doing his duty and making his submission unto
us, &c., &c., be advanced to such honour and degrees as here-
after shall be specified." " The Queen's closet at Greenwich
was richly hanged with cloth of arras and well strawed with
rushes."

The Earls and Baron to be created, viz., Moroughe O'Brien,
William Burgh, and Donoghe O'Brien, in company, went to
the Queen's closet aforesaid, and there after sacring of High
Mass put on their robes of estate with all the King's noble
Counsell with other noble persons of his realm, as well spiritual
as temporal, to a great number, and the Ambassadors of Scot-
land, &c., &c. ; then came in the Earl of Thomond, the
Yiscount Lisle, bearing before him his sword the hilt upwards,
Gartier before him bearing his Letters Patent; and so pro-
ceeded to the King's Majesty. At length Secretary read them
openly.

And when he came to '' Cinduram Gladii^' the Viscounte
Lisle presented to the King the sword, and the King girded the
said sword about the said Earl bawdrickewise, the foresaid Earl
kneeling, and the Lords standing that led him, and so Clan-
ryckard the second Earl was created there in everything
according to the ceremony of the first Earl. That done, the

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Baron was had in, the patents read, and when he came to
'^ invest imns '' he put on his robe.

And so when the patent was read out, the King's Majesty
put about every one of their necks a chain of gould with a cross
hanging to yt, and took them their Letters Patent, and they
gave thanks to him.

And there the King^s Majesty made five of the men that
came with them Knights. Then they all took leave of the
King's Highness, and were conveyed, with their Letters Patent
in their hands, to the Council Chamber underneath the King's
Majesty's chamber, appointed for their dining place, in formal
order.

After the second course, Crartier proclaimed their Stiles in
maimer following : —

Du Treshault et Puissant Seigneur Murrough O'Brien, Conte
de Tomond, Seigneur de Insecoyne, du Eoyaulme de
Irelande.
Du Treshault et Puissant Seigneur Guillaume Bourghe,
Conte de Claunryckarde, Seigneur de Downkelleyn, du
Poyaulme de Irelande.
Du Noble Seigneur Donoghe O'Brien, Seigneur de Tbrakan,

du Poyaulme de Irelande.^
It must be particularly noticed that the King, writing to the
Deputy and Council, especially points out the Kmitations
under which he creates " O'Brien Earl of Thomonde." This
is only " for terme of his Kef, and his son after him to be Baron
of Enchequine."

As to Sir Donough O'Brien, Baron of Ibrackain, he writes :
"We have given him aU such lands as he now possesseth

* The five newly-made Kjiiglits were : —

1. Md^emaiTOc. The Deputy and Council wrote urgently to the King
in behalf of McNemaiToe, " an Irish Captain, bordering upon O'Brien's
lands, and Lord of ClencuUen/' pressing that he be advanced to the
honoui' of a Baron.

2. O'Shafnessy is described as " a goodly gentleman dwelling twixt
Thomond and Connaught, who would only take his lands of your
Grace."

3. Denys.

4. Grady was from Kinnell Downell, in Thomond ; in fact, from Tom*
gi-aney, or Termou-i'-grady.

5. Wyse.

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beyond the Shanon to him and his heirs masles, having also
appointed him in the Letters Patent of his Uncle to be Earl of
Thomond for the term of his life/' an arrangement which
caused much trouble to Clare in aftertimes. The four Earls and
Barons appointed also got each one "summe house and pece of
land near Dublin for the keeping of their horses and trains at
their repair to our Parliaments and Councils in Dublin.'' For
instance, " Conor 3rd Earl of Thomond, 13th Nov., 1582,
entered into articles with John Bath of Drumconrath, who
obliged himself to find his Lordship 4 boys, 4 horses, also
horse and man meat as often as he came to Dublin." — Lodge.

The King's Majesty also gave them their robes of estate,
and all things belonging thereunto, and paid all manner of
duties belonging to the same, also pensions to the Earl of
Clanrickarde and Lord Inchiquin. The King also, for the
expenses required for the journey from Ireland by the O'Brien,
lent him 100/., which was to be handed to him =^ '^in harp
grotes," in default of other money available in the Irish trea-
sury.

And Clanrickarde, Thomond, Inchiquin, and the rest no
doubt took the King's oath in the words which stand in the
indentures of O'Donnell, O'JN'eil, and Lord Barry, which runs
thus : — " Quod renunciabit religiiet et adnihilahit pro j^osse suo,
iisurpatam aiictoriiatem et Priynaciam Romani Pontijicis/'

One extract more must suffice on this head. Lord Gray to
the King writes {ubi supra, p. 59) : — " I went to Limerick and
remained there a week, in which time I called the Mayor
before me and his brethren, and there had them sworn unto
your Majesty according to the tenor of the Act of Supremacy,
and there further had them sworn ' to refuse usurpid powre of
the Byshopp of Rome, ' which things, after their humble and
bounden duties unto your Majesty, without stop or grudge, they
conformed themselves to ; and further, I commanded the Mayor
to have all the commonalty of the city in likewise sworn, and
to certify the same their oaths unto your chancery."

Thus, the renunciation of the Pope became an accomplished

* Simon, on Irish Coins, says of these :— " In 1530 the harp was now-
first put on Irish coins. All these groats (struck with certain differ-
ences) weigh from 36 to 39 grains, and were probably struck at the rate
of 40 grains each— that is, 14 i pieces to the lb."— (Simon, Eeprint 1810,
p. 32.)

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fact in the reign of Henry VIII. throughout Ireland generally,
and was accepted by the Bishop and chieftains of Killaloe
Diocese ; in particular by those acting as the legitimate represen-
tatives of the clergy of the diocese, and of the laity of Thomond.

But the subject which, above all others, concerns this
Diocesan History, is the policy which was laid down in detail
by King Henry VIII., and deliberately carried out by him in
dealing with the Temporalities of the Church. His Majesty
remarks to the Lord Deputy upon this subject, ^^ And for the
better alluring of those of the remote parts, we shall not
much stick to let them have some of the religious houses
which shall be suppressed in their countries, in farm, at such
reasonable rents as you shall think meet, so as we may be in
surety to be answered of the rents as appertaineth." (State
Papers, vol. iii., H. YIII., pt. iii. p. 334). On the occasion now
xmder re^dew — of the creation of Moroghe O'Brien, Earl of
Thomond, for term of his life and his son after him, to be Baron
of Inchiquin, the King writes to the Deputy and Council " that
he has given to him all such lands as he hath and possesseth,
at this present, in Thomond, on the further side of the river
Shannon, and also all such abbeys as he hath in his possession
in Thomond aforesaid, to him and to his heirs masles. We have
also granted unto him the gifts of all benefices spiritual being
of our patronage within the compass of the said lands, bishop-
ricks only accepted.'' The King adds, '' We have created
Mc William Earl of Clanrickarde, and have granted him estate,
&c., &c. We have also given unto him the gift and disposing
of all such parsonages and vicarages as be of our gift within
the compass of his lands and possessions aforesaid (bishopricks
except), with the third part of the first fruits growing of the
same towards the maintenance of his estates. Further, we have
also granted unto him and his heirs masles, the Abbey de Yia
Nova, in the Diocese of Clonfert, which is now in the possession
of his son, being of the yearly value of forty marks sterling or
thereabouts." {Ubi supra, p. 474.)

As to the Baron of Ibrickane the King remarks that to him
he has given the Abbey of EUennegrane (or, as more correctly
stated in the patent, Ilaun-na-Gannanagh, or Canons Island),
a rich island at the mouth of the Fergus and Shannon, and the
moiety of Clare Abbey alread}^ in his possession.

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Another question remains, — namely, what progress was made
with the reformation of the Church, outside of the essential and
primary requirement of the utter negation of Papal Supremacy
in the reign of King Henry YIII. In elucidation of this point
a few illustrations are submitted.

A glimpse of the state of Ireland in the reigns of Edward
lY., Edward V., Richard III., Henry VII., and perhaps under
Henry VIII., is given in a curious paper composed by an
author styled the '' Pandar.^' (State P., II., III., H. VIII., p. 1,
&c.)

" The noble folk of Ireland oppresseth and spoileth the
prelates of the Church of Christ of their possessions and liber-
ties, and therefore they have no fortune ne grace, in prosperity
of body ne soulle.

" Who supported the Church of Christ in Ireland save the
poor Commons ? by whom the Church is most supported right
well, by them most grace shall grow/' (Page 10.)

Again the Pandar showeth ^Hhat the holy woman Saint
Brigitta used to enquire of her good angel many questions of
secred dyvine, and among aU other, ' Of what Christian land was
most sowUes damned V

"The angel showed her a land in the West part of the
world (!)

^* She enquired the cause why.

" The angel said, ^ For there the Christian folk died most out
of charity ' (! !)

" She enquired the cause why.

" The angel said, ' For there is most continual war, root of
hate and envy, and of vices contrerary to charity, and without
charity the sowUes can not be saved.'

^' And the angel did show to her the lapse of the sowlles of
Crystjm. folk of that land, how they fell down into hell as thik
(thick) as haylle shewrys (hail-showers) (! ! !)

" And pity thereof moved the Pandar, for, after his opinion,
this is the land the angel understood.

" For there is no land in this world of so long continual war
within hymsellf, ne of so great sheding of Chiystyn blode, ne of
so great rubbeing spoyleing praying (the Pandar surely meant
making preys, not prayers) and burnings, ne of so great wrong-
ful extortion continually as Ireland.

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'^ Wherefore it cannot be denyed by very estymation of man
but that the angel did understand the land of Ireland.'^

In the " State of Ireland, and Plan for its Reformation,
anno 1515 '^ {ubi supra), the following is assigned among the
causes of the extreme wretchedness of Ireland : —

Some say that the Prelates of the Cliurch and Clergy is much cause
of all the misorder of tlie land. For tliere is no Archbishop ne
Bishop, Abbot ne Prior, Parson ne vycar, ne any other person of the
Church, high or low, great or small, English or Irish, that usetlito prea<:h
the Word of God, savuig the 'poor Fryers beggars. And ther ivodde (sic)
do cesse, tliere can be no grace. And luithout the sjyeciaJ groxe of God
this land may never he reforraed. And by preaching and teaching of
Prelates of the Church, and by prayer and oryson of the devout persons
of the same, God useth always to gi^ant the abundance of his grace.
Ergo, the Church not using the ^premises is much cause of all the mis-
order of this land.

Also the Church of this land use not to learn any other science but
the Law of Canon, for covetyce {sic) of lucre transitory. All other
science, whereof grow none such lucre, the Parsons of the Church doth
despise. (P. 16.)

In 1541 Cusake, to the Council^, gives the following striking
reason of the failure of administering the laws of the realm : —

These orders ne non other shall take good effect among them for
lack of knowledge of the laws of God and the King's laws of that his
Majesty's realm.

For ihey never liear the word of God preached ajuong them, and in
divers i:>laces little or no christening tiscd.

"Wherefore after my poor mind, it were requisite that every bishop
made and to be made shall preach certain times in the year in his
diocese, or else find one to preach for him, or be fined, toties guoties, ten
pounds.

In " certain decrees for the Reformation of Ireland/' John
Travers deplores the state of the inhabitants of the realm in
these terms : — '^ For the more part they have of long time and
yet hitherto be ignorant of the true doctrine of Cltrist, for lack of
j)reac]nng of the same which hath caused them to neglect due
obedience to God and the King.

" It shall be for remedy thereof necessary that the Archbishop
of Dublin, my Lord of Meath, and such others as favour the
gospel, do instruct the Irish bishops of this realm, causing them
to relinquish and renounce all Popish or Papistical doctrine, and
set forth sincerely, within each of their diocese, the true word
of God/'

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Among " the Irislimen's requests '* we find first that of
O'Brien ; and whether it was made sincerely or not sincerely,
it must have been the re-echo of a very general persuasion, not
only in England but also in Ireland, even in Henry VIII. 's
reign.

"Item. That there may be sent into Ireland some well-
learned Irishman (? men) (sic in p. 463, S. P., vol. iii., part iii.,
Hy. VIII.), brought up in the Universities of Oxford and
Cambridge, not being infected with the poison of the Church of
Home.

" And they to be approved first by the King's Majesty, and
then to be sent to preach the ivord of God in Ireland.'

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THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE IN THE REIGNS OF EDWARD VI.

AND MARY.

In the reigu of King Edward YI. appear but slender notices
of the Bishops or of the Dioceses of Killaloe and Kilfenora.
The Crown gave pardon to Cornelius O'Daye, Bishop of
Killaloe, and again October 24th, fourth year of reign. Also
there was made a '^ conveyance from Maurice Earl of Tomond,
to Cornelius O'Dea of the Castle of Desert ( = Dysert) in
Thomond .... lying between the land of Dromfeiglas and
the territory of Eath, on the north, and the land of Donald
Vechlanaghi, or Clancy, of Kyll Ennayne (= Killenena) on tbe
south, and the lands of the Sept of Ydeane (? the O'Deas) on
the south and west ; to hold for the term of his life, at the
rent of a red rose, with remainder to Dermot O'Dea, son of
the Bishop, for life. And the Earl appoints Thady and Donat
O'Breene, his sons, his attorney, to give seizen of the castle to
the said Lord Cornelius the Bishop."* (Morin, i. 261.) This
certainly indicates pretty plainly that the Crown regarded
O'Dea as a Bishop of the Reformed Church of Ireland, also
as " the husband of one wife.^^

Of Kilfenora, Ware relates that John O'Hinalan was Bishop
in 1552 of Killaloe or Kilfenora. As to the deans of the
diocese. Archdeacon Cotton places on the list in "15 — Boetius
Clancy.'' He died in 1559. This is probably the individual
whose name is subscribed to the grant of Dysert, in 1551, as
above, although he was not at that time dean. For it appears by

* Witnesses Boetius McClanchy, chief of his nation, with many
others.

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Morin (i. 283), anno. 1552, that there was then another dean, con-
cerning whom the following special privilege is delated— ^^ 150,
Like grant (viz.)-o/ English liberty— to Donat McShiddie'
Dean of Killaloe/' What this conveyed is explained by Sir
John Da^ds— ^^ This, then, I note as a great defect in the civil
polity of this kingdom, in that for the space of 350 years at
least, after the conquest first attempted, the English laws were
not communicated to the Irish, nor the benefit and protection
thereof allowed to them, though they earnestly desired and
sought the same, for as long as they were out of the protection
of the law, so as every Englishman might oppress, spoil, and
kill them without control, how was it possible they should be
other than outlaws and enemies to the Crown of England ?"

As to the laity, elements of most important consequence had
been introduced into " life in Thomond" by the submission of the
O'Briens in the former reign, and by their acceptance of Peer-
ages and holding their lands from the English Crown under
tenure of knight's service. " It was only on the demise (re-
marks Mr. O'Donohue in his "Historical Memoirs of the
O^Briens,'^ p. 186) of these patentees, that questions were
raised, the discussion of which opened the ej^es of the people at
large to the importance of the changes introduced by the
acceptance of titles conferred by the King of England, and
produced that series of civil commotions which desolated Ireland
during the reigns of the remaining Princes of the House of
Tudor. The surrender of the Royalty of Thomond and accept-
ance of a Peerage by Murrough O'Brien was productive of
tranquillity among the Dalgais for some years."

On Murrough' s death, however, in 1551, the discontents of
the O'Briens, which were ill suppressed during the lifetime of
the head of that warlike race, burst out and involved the
Dalgais in the miseries of a war more than civil/^' The Feudal
Law of England now came into conflict with the Celtic Law of
Tanistr}^, and by means of descent being limited in the line of
primogeniture, it cut off from the possibility of ever succeeding
to any rank or knightly pre-eminence the second ftxmily of
Conor the last King. There was no end of the blood shed, and of
the sorrow entailed by the fierce contentions brought about in

* See Annl. 4 M., p. 523, cdn. M'Dermott.

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that way. And even during Queen Mary's brief reign Donald
O'Brien was suffered to continue in the undisturbed possession
of the rights and privileges of the dominion of Thomond,
which he ruled according to the ancient law of Tanistry. At
length, in 1558, Sussex, the Lord Deputy, entered Thomond,
and placed Connor, Earl of Thomond, in full possession of
title and lands, the said Connor publickly renouncing in the
Cathedral of Limerick the name of O'Brien as an appellation
or title, promising to be faithful to the Crown of England, and
to defend Her Majesty's subjects of Thomond according to the
laws. {Vbi supra, p. 191. See also E. O'Curry Manners, &c.,
iii. 229, and Ann. 4 Mast.)

Bishop O'Dea died in 1555, and Terence O'Brien sncceeded
in 1556. And although he came into his see on the Pope's
nomination as a Marian Bishop, in a very few years after we
shall find that he became an Elizabethan Bishop, at least by
making a complete negation of the Pope's supremacy, if not
also by further action. And he remained the Bishop of KiUaloe
until 1568, when he died. " Instructions had been sent to
Lord Fitzwilliam, Lord Deputy, and the Council in Ireland, to
advance the true Catholic faith and religion now recovered in
England and in Ireland, and to set forth the honor and dignity
of the Pope and Apostolic See, and with the aid of the secular
force to punish and repress all heretics and Lollards, and their
damnable sects, opinions, and errors." (Carew MSS. Lam-
beth Calendar, pp. 252-3, from transcript of Hi. Nugent.)

Now, however, all this is changed with the change of
Queens, and the Bishop turns his bac on his old friends
and publickly ignores " the honor and dignity of the Apostolic
See." But even Marian Bishops, as such, did not receive
restitution of temporalities without making remarkable renun-
ciations. Thus in Curwen's case, the Queen writes to Lord
Chancellor of Ireland —

Sept. 13, 2° & 3° Ann".— "Whereas we have received from our Holy
Father the Pope a Bull herein enclosed which you shall clearly under-
stand, that his holiness upon our recommendation hath preferred nnto the
Arch Bishoprick of D iiblin in Ireland, oui' trusty and well-b eloved Chaplain
Hugh Corren (or Curwen) where upon he hath done nnto us his homage
and fealty, and hath exirrcssJy renounced all things contained in the said
Bull or any other which may he prejudicial to us or our Croicn : we there-
fore will and command you that under our great seal you make out such,

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and as many writs as shall be necessary and requisite for the restitution
of the Temporalities of the Arch Bishoprick to our said Chaplain accord-
ingly. And restitution of Temporalities was made to Hugh Con^en,
Oct. 21, 2° & 3« Ann", regni."

This Bishop Terence also took part in the Parliament of 1560,
which passed the Elizabethan Act of Uniformity. All this formal
recognition of Queen Elizabeth's supremacy and renun-
ciation of the Pope's, made by the legal representatives of the
Church of Ireland, may have been very "glaring," and to
some (such as Mr. Thomas Moore) was very disgusting, but the
fact is, that such a thing seems most probably to have taken
place, whatever the consequences may be to those who do not
like it. (SeeT. Moore's History of Ireland.)

It is to be borne in mind that the lands, &c., belonging to
the religious houses suppressed by King Henry YIIL were not
interfered with by Queen Mary, great though her zeal for the
Roman Church in Ireland may have been. Cardinal Pole was
too far-sighted an adviser to raise a universal confusion and
turmoil by so arbitrary and unpopular a movement openly un-
dertaken. He preferred to wait, and if things went on well
to regain as much power and property as could be safely
grasped in time. At the same time, the Queen, in her 4th
year of reign, secured the passing of an Act, cap, 8, repealing
statutes and provisions made against the Apostolic See of
Pome since the 20 Henry 8, thus reviving the authority of the
Pope from this day in matters ecclesiastical. Also, an Act,
ch. 9, reciting that the ordinaries wanted authority against
those who were infected with errors and heresies which there
lately had increased within the kingdom, and for that purpose
the Act revives the Statute of the 5th of Richard Second,
and a Statute of the 2nd Henr}^ 4th, giving ample powers in
that behalf. (Hardinge's Narrative, p. 3].) But behind all
this was the high presumption of Pope Paul TV., who erected
Ireland into a kingdom and conferred it on the English Queen
Mary, that it might appear that she did not derive it from her
father but from himself, to whom alone it belonged to dispose of
crowns and to erect states into kingdoms. He at first used the
same haughty language with Queen Elizabeth, but she would
none of it.

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THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE, ETC., IN THE REIGN OF QUEEN
ELIZABETH.

The general condition of the Diocese of Killaloe, as part of
the Church of Ireland, having been traced from the commence-
ment of Henry YIII.'s reign to the close of Queen Mary's, the
parentage, education, and official life of Mauritius Mac O'Brien
Arra now claim particular attention.

Mac O'Brien Arra, or ^^De Bren de Arrha," was one of the
sixty great Irish captains of their nations. His territory
extended along the eastern side of the Shannon —

Up from the Castle of Druim-anair,
Down from the top of Camailte.

In fact he occupied what is called the Barony of Arra, now
running with that of Owney, the latter also the territory of
another O'Brien. He had a castle at Kilmastulla and a manor
house at Castletown. This latter position commanded a noble
view of ^^ Mighty Shenan, spreading like an inland sea" across
the expanse of Lough Dearg into the bosom of Scariff Bay, the
whole prospect bounded on the west by a wild range of purple
mountains between Clare and Galwa}^, and having as a central
object the lofty round tower on Holy Island. Ormond to Cowley
tells how Mac O'Brene Arha '^ stickid mouche to give any
hostage, most of any man he met in all Munster." However,
he submitted after quiet persuasion, and became a good subject
of England on " assurance of protection against his immediate
friends and neighbours." (! !)

In 1569 (the date of Bishop Terence O'Brien's death —
An. 4 M.) the Deputy apprises Cecil " that a bishopricke named
Eallalowe is presently void, the custodium whereof he has

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committed to McO'Brien Arra — a very good subject, of good
power in his country, and especially well-inclined to the English
Government — that he, McO'B., having sued, had obtained power
to hold his lands from Her Majesty; that he also sued for his
son Morgan, who was too young to be made a bishop, but
might be permitted to enjoy fruits of the bishoprick to maintain
him at Oxford till more years, with English education, whereby
he may be more fit to enjoy the place itself.'^ Her Majesty
directs that this be so done, as no person could enjoy without
the goodwill of O'Brien Arra the profits of the Bishoprick of
Killaloe. Poor Morgan, however, complains in a letter to
Burleigh that, after three years in Oxford and Cambridge, he
never received any profit or commodity from the see : and adds,
^^The rudeness of the country is such and the people so
disordered that for the most part they care to be fed with
Pharoe's fleshpots than to taste the heavenly manna — he
means the comfortable bread of the Gospel. He begs them in
the name of the furtherance of God's truth for relief that he
may take his journey thither to the glory of God and the com-
fort of his weak brethren blinded with ignorance.' '

Morgan or Maurice MacO'Brien writes again (this time to
the Privy Council), reminds of being elected bishop three years
past, and that he was to have and to enjoy the same, when the
country shall b^ quiet, which now, through rebellion and other
means, as of certain persons who gladly would that their Bull
from Eome should take place; so that as yet he cannot be
placed or have any commodity, although for his furtherance in
learning he had been at great cost and charges at Oxford and
Cambridge. He finally prays " to be put in lawful possession
of the bishoprick, and thus that he would, by God's grace, so
instruct the people there, that he doubteth not but to cause
them to be true subjects, to the pleasure of the Queen's Majesty
and comfort of the people therein." The Queen writes to the
Deputy, Lord Eitzwilliam, to aid Maurice " in convenient sort
and by all the best means expedient assist him further in all his
lawful causes."

Maurice, dating from Castletown Manor and styling himself
" Bishop Elect," discloses a conspiracy and a meeting the
Thursday after Christmas-day, 1573. The Earl of Desmond
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McMorrough, O'Brien, &c., &c., on tlie other side the Shannon,
their intention being, as the common report is, to send some of
their messengers with their letters signed with their own hands
and seals unto the King Phillippe, desiring him to send them
aid out of Spain. He closes his letter with a sad lamentation —
^^ Alas ! my Lord, it is hard to trust any man in these quarters.
For they do but rob, steal, burn, and kill every night, li were better
to be in prison in England than to be here amongst ihemy^ (! !)

At last, however, in 1570 according to Ware and Cotton,
after Maurice " had been well- commended from my Lord Grrace
of Canterbury,'' all difficulties are overcome, and he is con-
secrated, as may be fairly presumed, with all the requisite
solemnities.

The deplorable picture drawn by Maurice of ^' the preys and
frays " of his native country is by no means over-coloured, and
his fears were not groundless. He had doubtless learned among
the traditions of his family that, in 1460, ^^ the Bishop of Killa-
loe — an O'Brien — was killed by Bryan of the fleet, the son of
Donogh, at Clonroad, that is, Ennis " (Anl. 4 M.). Yes, the
bishop of the diocese was hilled, but then it was only in ^^Ennis^
by Bryan of the fleet."

In 1548, Edward Staples, Bishop of Meath, writes from
Ardbraccan. " Particularizes the excessive hatred raised
against himself among all ranks of society for preaching the
Reformed religion, for which the people accuse him of heresy.
Fears for his life. Desires a chamber among the petty Canons,
which was Sir John Eussell's " (C. S. P., p. 96).

Lord Deputy Sussex, in 1561, informs the Queen of ^^ letters
from Armagh confirming that Shane O'jSTeile had attempted the
burning of the church, and was repulsed with the loss of divers
men. Shane, oSended with that, assembled next day all his
force of horsemen, footmen, and gallowglasses, who brought
with every one of them a faggot to a little hill not far from the
church, where he caused the Popish-pretensed Primate to sing
Mass with all the friars. After Mass the Frimate and the friars
went thrice about Shane's men, saying certain prayers, and
willed them to go forward, for God was on their side.

* The AuL 4 Masters are full of sucli statements, and just at the time
a feud raged between Butlers and Desmonds.

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Whereupon he and all his men made a solemn vow, and took
their oaths never to turn their faces from the Church till they
had burnt the church and all the English churches. And so
with a great shout set forward."

But this was not all of the dangers and difficulties which
beset Irish Bishops in those days. Thomas Lancaster, Arch-
bishop of Armagh, writing from Dublin, Nov. 12, 1568, gives
the following lively illustration of the episcopal situation : —
^* Many complaints of the poor people for wrongs done unto
them, which my Lord takes care to redress. Also one Morrish
rioghe McGibbon, who came from the Pope, hath taken the
ArchBp. of Cashel prisoner in his own house, and carried him
away, some say to Spain. For my part I have not yet durst to
go to Ardmagh for fear of the like ; yet notwithstanding some-
thing is done towards the Church, for there is a E-oof cut for
the Chancel with shingles and all that appertaineth, but not
yet brought home."

Sir E. Fytton andR.-Dillon appointed a sessions at Athlone,
and directed the attendance of Earls Clanrickarde and Thomond
and both the Bishops of Tuam and Clonfert, according to the
trust and charges laid upon them for the government of their
countries, Not one member resorted to the sessions ; the
Bishops only excepted, and with what peril they journeyed may
appear from their joint letter : —

Kilconayll, March 5, 1574.
Archbishop of Tuam and Bishop of Clonfert to Lord Deputy.
To the illustrious Lord Edward, Treasurer of this kingdom of L'eland.
Health and the consolation of the Holy Spirit is our prayer for you.
Your letters we received with the best of goodwill, by virtue of which
we were cited to Athlone on the 6th of this month of March. But when
there is so great peril, that one can hardly pass from one place to
another without corporal danger, inasmuch as the Scots roam about in
Clanrickarde and linger there ; and more particularly do so in all places
where they perceive that we are forwarding your interests. And not
only, are they content with the present Scots, but with other Scots to
thd^Mimber of seven hundred, with John, the son of the Knight (as we
found to be the commonly current persuasion), are immediately to
arrive.* And further, because in the common road, lying between the
Elvers vSuck and Shannon, there are so many difficulties and dangers
besetting, arising from the insurrection of some of Sylkelly, who there
lye in wait for all travellers, and inasmuch as we understand the generals
of the Scots are hovering about these very parts, we could only attempt

* See State of Ireland — List of Kebellions.

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to make our journey good to Athlone as our point, by making our way
by Clonf ert and passing on thence without a safe conduct. And accord-
ingly we earnestly prayed and found a place of safe retreat with Edmond
0 'Fallen and other loyal men. And so we hope to be at Clonf ert, unless
something terrible comes to pass, &c. (Translation of transcript by Ri.
ISTugent.)

All this, however, formed but a part of the religious and
Royalist difficulty which the bishops and all faithful lieges of
the Crown encountered on every side. But the every day and
every night requirements of life in Thomond must now be
superadded and specified in detail.

In 1537 R. Cowley to Crumwell ad^ises " that no silk or
saffron be set upon shirts, for, especially against High Feasts
at Christmas and Easter, there is no Irish man of war — horse-
men, Kernagh, nor gallowglass — for the more part, but will
steal, rob out of churches or elsewhere, to go ga^^ at a feast :
yea, and bestoweth for saffron and silk to one shirt many times
five marks, so that more robbery and felon}^ is against such
feasts committed as all the year following."

In 1544 the Deputy and Council inform the King of a cer-
tain castle or pyle, situate in the remote parts, marching as
well upon Mc J. Brian Arra's as upon O'MoU Ryans ; and
high to the River Shannon in a very barren and waste soil,
which was of late inhabited by a sept of thieves and outlaws,
called properly " The old evil children'^ — by reason whereof few
or none of your Grace's subjects in effect could pass or travel
between your Highness's cities of Limerick or Waterford but
they were either spoiled, robbed, or killed in your highway
betwixt both cities. It is.^ requested that Teige Mc J. Bryen,
who so well demeaned himself to the expulsion of these male-
factors, and is married to Lord Power's sister, may have the
castle and his heirs masles. But though these '' old evil
children" w^ere thus expulsed, another lot of the same old evil
children grew up — the illegitimate sons of Terence late Bishop
of Killaloe.

The Deputy and Council to Privy Council give the follow-
ing account of these sons of this Bishop : — '' Upon my depar-
ture fiom Limerick, and a little before the Earls of Clan-
rickarde and Thomond came unto us, and perceiving by them
and by complaint from the merchants of Galway, that on the
borders of Thomond certain outlaws being bastards of the Bishop

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of Killaloe robbed all travellers, and had put a ward in a castle,
which they meant to defend, I marched thither, and after it
was attempted, the ward in the night came away and left the
place, which was committed to the custody of Sir Eoger
O'Shafnis Lord of that country— an obedient and dutiful
servant of the Queen's Highness— one of the best to be
liked in all Connaught."

The Bishop 'smother — Maure Ny O'Carrill — writes in strong
terms of an event, which exasperated her considerably : —

After myhartie commendations yon shall nnder stand tliat Mr. Edward
Butler— his men came to yonr country of Arra tlie 9th of this present
m.onth of November with force and arms and hath not only taken away
all the kyne and cattle that was left to the number of sixteen score kyne,
six score* capples and 11 hondrithe shepe and goots with all the house-
hold stuff in the counti-y. But also burned Kilmastulla with eleven
children in one house in the said town— and killed your loving Uncle
Tage McDonough Bowe with divers others of your men ; whose death
grieves me more than all your said losses— which Tage we have wor-
shipfully buried at Yoaghell upon St. Marten's Day. Therefore I desire
you to show and declare this with other your sore griefs and great
losses to the Lord Deputy: — earnestly desii'ing this honor of speedy
redress herein betyme ; against those Butlersf whom hath ah-eady ( =who
have) past recovery disturbede, banished, robbed and spoiled all her
Majesty's true subjects in these borders, and do aid, maintain, and suc-
cour all her Highness's enemies as these rebellers and traitors be,
insuring you as I suppose you were better holding some farm in the
English Pale, whereby you may lead a quieter life, than to be thus
alway and continually sustaining such outragious extremity and cruel
dealing undeserved ; for when all men travelled either in to England
or to Dublin where the law is ministered and extended, then do they
their best to spoil those that travel. And thus I take my leave fi'om
An'a the 12 of this present ISTovembre 1568.
Your loving wifE

Dorso More Ny Carrill.J

To her loving husband Mac Y' Brine AiTa, geve these.

In haste at Dublin, post hast.

(From a transcript in full by Ei, Nugent, Esq.)

Can there be any wonder, then, that this Bishop, Irishman
and native though he was, felt ashamed of his country and
afraid of returning to his birth-place, and had rather '' live
in a prison in England than here amongst them" ? Indeed he

^- Horses,
f The Desmonds and Butlers had a hon-ible feud then, as noticed.
X At p. 139 of the Kilkenny Archa3ological Society's Proceedings,
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seems to have combined in Hs lot the unhappy alternatives
which E/obinson Crusoe contrasted. For,

He both dwelt in the midst of alarms
And reigned in a horrible place.

One of the strangest statements confirmatory of the wretched
condition of afikirs in Ormond, and of the bad opinion
entertained about the district in question, is to be found in
Camden's Britannia. (See Edn. 1600, Impensis Georg Bishop
Londoni, p. 770.) After describing Ormond, and alluding to
the Butler family as ^^ clarissima/' Camden then gravely adds
(Bishop Gibson's edition of Camden's Brit,, YoL 2, p. 135) : —

As to what has been said by some of the Irish (and these too such as
would be thought very creditable witnesses) that certain 'men in tTiese
pa^is are every year converted into wolves, it is without doubt
fabulous, unless 'perhaps ^ through excess of melancholy, they may be
affected with the distemper that the physicians call AvKai'BpcoTna, which
makes them fancy and imagine themselves to be so transformed. And
as for these metamorphosed Lycaones in Livonia, so much talked of, I
cannot but have the same opinion of them also.

Thus far of Munster, which Queen Elizabeth, with great
wisdom, sought to advance, and to advance the wealth and
happiness of this kingdom committed to the government of a
Lord President, who (with one assistant, two lawyers, and a
secretary) might correct the insolencies of this Province and
keep all men to their duty. The first President was Wadham
St. Leger, Kt.

As to the sons of the Bishop, it is stated by Sidney, with a
military brevity quite in the style of Cassar, ^^I went into
Thomond, where the Earl met me. I there subdued a rebellious
race of the sirname of the Earl — the O'Briens. Their captains
were called the Bishop's Sons, and, indeed, the bastards they
were of the Bishop of Killalowe, which Bishop was son to an
O'Brien, Captain of Thomond" (ColKn's Edn. State Papers).

It has been pronounced by a master of the art of writino-
history to be a most diflSicult achievement to enter into the
spirit of an age gone by, throwing aside one's modern pre-
judices and looking at the past in the light of the past and

old churchyard of Castletown, Arra, county Tipperary, which seems to
have been erected in memory of this lady. It runs thus — *'Eo-o Teren.
Brien hoc in meo et in uxoris Morine Caryl noie fieri feci," &c., &c.

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with the eyes of those who are passed away. Certainly it is very
difficult for us to look upon such a case as that before us as
being an actual reality. But this is not all. If credit is given to
Camden, this mode of life taken up by the Bishop of Killaloe's
sons was not exceptional, but one quite in the ordinary course
of things, and apparently carried on according to known laws
and universal allowance. In the " Hibernicorum Mores of
Camden," Edn. 1600, p. 288, the following will be found :—

" Latrocinia apud eos nullam babent infamiam, quae passim summa
cum immanitate exercentur. I atrocinaturi preces ad Deum fundunt
(see Sir S. Baker, Livingstone, and explorers of savage Central Africa),
ut prseda offeratur, et pra3dam pro munere a Deo oblatum arbitrantur,
neque vim, neque rapinam, neque homicidium Deo desplicere per-
suadentur. Audies a sicariis et incendiariis " Misericors est Dominus et
non sinet jrjretium sui so/ngtdnis in rue irritum."

Patrum pon-o vestigiis se insistere dicunt et eam sibi vivendi
rationem reliquam esse, nobilitatis suae autem infamiam esse, si velint
ex labore manuum victitare, et a facinoribus abstinere. Progredientes
ad pra3dam, vel aliquod aliud opus, observant mane quem primum
obvium habent. Si bene res cedat, ut idem quotidie sibi occurrat,
curant ; sin secus, studios^ evitant. Nocte tempestuosissima stertere,
et non pedibus viam longissimam noctu conficere et spoliando omnibus
periculis se objicere, abjecti animi esse dicunt. Nuper nee templis nee
sacris locis parcunt, quin inde etiam deprsedantur, ignem quoque non
nunquam injiciunt, homines ibi latitantes interficiunt est sacri-

ficulorum turpissima vita Sacrificulorumque horum filii, qui

studia non consectantur plerumque latrocinio sunt insignes qui enim
MacDecan, MacPherson, MacO' SpaCj id est, Filii Decani, Ecclesioe
Redoris, et Episcopi maximi existunt praedones et ex parentum libertate
ad seditiosorum manum conscribendam potentiores, eoque magis quod
ad paternum. Exemplum hospitalitate vacant. Filiae autem horum
sacrificorum, patribus superstitibus, magnis dotibus elocantur, si
nubunt, patribus vero defunctis, aut mendicant aut se prostituunt.

The case before us certainly bears out Camden's statement,
wherever drawn from, and demonstrates (even if standing alone)
the fearful depths of corruption among all classes in Ireland,
and the absolute need for what one properly calls " the special
grace of God if ever this land be reformed."

With respect to an opprobrious ejDithet ajDplied to the nativity
of the sons of Bishop Terence O'Brien by an English con-
temporary report, it is only of a piece with the record of an
impediment in Bishop Terence's own appointment, as given by
Dr. Brady *^ from the Barberini Archives."

Die LunsD, 25 Julii, 1554. Referente Reodigs Carpensi, sua

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Sanctitas providit Eccles. Laoneno. vacanti per obitum hence
memorice Jacobi Corrin extra Romanam Curiam defuncti, de
persona Dni Theodorici O'Brien decani Eccles. Duacensis cum
dispensatione super defectu natalium."^ It also seems strange
that the name McAnaspic (McAnaspie, the Bishop's son)
should be so general. Anyhow, the observance by the chieftains,
bishops, and others of what Protestants enumerate as the 7th
Commandment is very curiously exemplified in the BrehonLaws.

In reference to some of the painful disclosures which fidelity
to truth compels to be made upon the melancholy state of moral
depravity prevalent in the West of Ireland, some remarks are
submitted.

First, Camden, in his tractate on the " Antient and Modern
Customs,'^ &c., bears witness that the Eev. Mr. Good (of
Limerick) testifies nothing malicious or partial, but all he says
is what is exactly true.

Secondly, the Law of Social Connexions (Senchus, Mor. II.,
381, 399, and 401) contemplates and has given some strange
rules as to (1) "a first wife'^ and (2) the " Airech," (3) the
"Carrthach," (4) the Dormuine, (5) the Imrim, (6) the IndKs.
In fact, this whole system reminds one of one of the Eastern
Rajahs, or the Abyssinian chieftains, or of that Zoolu in whose
illumination and conversion Bishop Colenso seemed to have
taken such a pleasure and pride.

Thirdl}', in reference to Poets, and what St. Patrick abolished
also allowed, the following will give a very correct idea of what
was considered as the subjects which, above all others, were
congenial to the national tastes and dispositions of the Irish
(Senchus, Mor. L, 47) : —** These were the chief stories. The
chief stories, the chief which they repeated, treated of demoli-

* This phrase *' de defectu nataliiim," under whicli Ter. O'Brien
laboured, poiuts to the fact that, according to the Canon Law of the
Roman Church, he was as illegitimate under an impediment. Yan
Espen (pars, ii., vol. x., cap. 3, de irregularitate ex defectu natalium)
gives much learning on this point. Gregory IX. (1227 — 41) resei'^^ed to
the Holy See this dispensation m all the higher cases, leaving minor
orders for the Bishop's dispensation or faculty. The Pope complains —
" Nimis deformatur Ecclcsioe honestas, ex eo quod filii Sacerdotum et
alii non legitime nati, ad dignitates, et Personatus, et alia beneficia
cui*am animarum habentia sine dispensatione sedis apostolicse " (Dr. L.
Studdert).

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tions, cattle spoils, courtships, battles, killings, combats, elope-
ments, adventures, tragedies, and plunderings." Particular
examples are then given, such as the cattle spoils of Cuailgne,
the Carlingford mountains ; then follow those upon demoli-
tions, then of courtships, then of battles.

But as the Bishop came to live so he continued in his diocese
without going back to an English prison in preference, as he
somewhat passionately seemed to desire. After due delay and
proper testing of his fitness, he was consecrated and admitted
into the full rights of the Bishoprick of Killaloe, it is supposed,
some time in 1575-6. And this will appear by the following
extracts taken from the official correspondence. In December,
1573, he writes from Castletown Manor, signing himself
'^ Futurus Epus. Laonen."

The Lord-Deputy, in August, 1574, writes that —

When tlie Bishoprick of Killalowe was bestowed in custodium upon one
Maurice O'Brien Ai'ra, alias Morgan, for his maintenance in the
University of Oxford, Her Majesty, about a year ago or somewhat more,
upon the said Maurice's return, luell commended from my Lord of Can-
terhury, addressed his letters unto me with the said Maurice, signifying
that it was Her Highness's pleasure that the said Bishopricke should be
conferred on him ; but yet not warranting me thereby to proceed to his
consecration, but referring me to a former warrant which it was sup-
posed I had in that behalf. Hereupon I wrote my letters in November
last, opening this case, and humbly praying Her Majesty's pleasure
therein. And now the party renewing the matter unto me (I presume
-v^ ith your Lordship's good favour) humbly pray your favourable con-
sideration thereof to perfection. The rather for that the said Maurice,
his father and himself (besides his sufficiency and zealous disposition to
the true religion), have and do at this time of stir show themselves as
well by good advertizements as otherwise, very well and dutifully
affected to Her Majesty's service.

In January, 1575-6: —

Her Majesty has appointed Maurice O'Brien to be Bishop of Killalowe
now void, and wills and commands to Lord-Deputy upon sight thereof
to cause letters patent and writs to be issued under the great seal for
his consecration and admission to the said Bishoprick, with all rights,
duties, &c., &c., appertaining, as has been accustomed; and commends
the said Maurice to the kind offices of the Lord-Deputy.

Mauritius Mac O'Brien Arra being now safely settled in his
Bishoprick without any possibility of his disallowance or rejec-
tion by art or craft of competitors, we must now take a look
at his rival.

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It becomes a duty to disclose some particulars of the career
of Malachias O'Molona, tlie Titular Bishop of Killaloe. Dr.
Brady makes this Malachias O'Molona the successor of
Terence O'Brien, and says — He was " appointed by Papal provi-
sion on 10 January, 1571, and per obitum Terentii was trans-
lated to Kilmacduagh, on the 22 August, 1576, when Cornelius
O'Melrian was appointed to Killaloe/' The author of " The
See of Killaloe in 16 Co." (see Irish Eccl. Eecord, page 464, July,
1865), agrees, calling this *'his being proclaimed in Consistory."
And adds, that "on 22nd August, 1576, his translation to
Kilmacduagh was solemnly promulgated in the Roman Court."

He had appeared in London prior to this and was the guest
of Ed. Grindall, then Bishop of London. In the spring of
1571 he is in London, not in the good quarters of the kind
bishop; but in the Marshalsea, with a fellow prisoner — one
Herle — who made himself spy of Lord Burleigh. Herle
wormed himself into his secrets but to betray him. Here is his
report. "Touching Malachias (he writes in 1571) he shall write
unto your Lordship to desire that he may come unto your pre-
sence, for so he hath entreated of himself before, alledging that
he hath something to say unto your Lordship, whereupon your
Lordship sending for him secretly by the backways with gentle-
ness he is to be won and with promise of his former promotion,
for he is ambitious and obstinate, and hath entered into some
displeasure with the Spanish Ambassador, insomuch as he would
utter all he said if he refused now to help him for whose cause
only it is, — which displeasure of his might be aggravated (if
your Lordship thought so good) ministering unto him some
sharpness and contempt proceeding from the Spanish Ambas-
sador." But all this did not free Malachias from durance vile.
So after some year and a-half elapsed, Malachias threw himself
upon the sympathy and pity of Mauritius Mac O'Brien, Bishop-
elect of Killaloe. He told tliis ^''oung man how greatly and
unfeignedly he did detest the Antichrist of Rome — how he
w^ould write a book against the Pope ; he told him about the
plots and machinations of the Pope against England and the
Queen. And Mauritius believed all that Malachias told him
so plausibly. And with a genuine good nature he forwarded
his letter to Burleigh. Mauritius, however, found out, through
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him about, viz., that he was appointed by Papal provision per
obitum Terentii to the See of Killaloe. In fact guileless
Mauritius found out that his suppliant was his rival and anti-
Eishop, and intended to write after his name " Malachias
Laonensis,'' having the sanction of the Queen super-added to
that of the Pope already in his pocket — provided only he could
get out of prison and make his little plot go on well. Accord-
ingly Malachias (though secretly " giving Popish counsel to
some of the Archbishop of Canterbury's servants'') put on a
bold face and appeared before the Privy Council. Here he
submitted, protested, confessed, promised, repented, bewailed
his Popish superstition and idolatry. And to crown all with a
brilliant climax, swore a solemn oath on the Holy Evangelists
to bear to the Queen true allegiance, and that he would devote
his future life to her service. But alas, he went back to prison
notwithstanding. After ten days' deliberation he made one
more appeal, and in April, 1573, was released. And now that
he is free, he waits on his deliverer. '' On the knees of his
heart," as he says, he offers him his thanks and asks him some
further favours. Burleigh shook him ojff at once and referred
him to Archbishop Parker. This good prelate admitted him,
listened to his requests for what he called '' a Plurality,"
which he did not give him, " to hold with his bishoprick." But
he did give him for his immediate wants '^ an honest piece of
gold." Exit Malachias with the gold in his pocket, and per-
haps some more besides, left out of " the 20 marks " which
prying Herle found out and reported he possessed. This was
in 1573, and it is presumed that Malachias betook himself to
Ireland, where after three years, or in 1576, he was trans-
lated to Kilmacduagh. In 1580 we find Malachias again busy
at plots and counter-plots. Sir N. Malbie writes from Athlone
to Walshingham that Ulick Burke has joined himself with
John, by means of O'Molony, constituted by the Pope Bishop
of Killaloe. They proclaim hanging to the priests that will
not say mass. " Again in April, 1583, Malachias O'Molona,
Popish Bishop of Killaloe, writes to Malbie in Latin, express-
ing his desire to converse with Malbie and to reveal certain
matters perilous to the State." (See the State Papers, Vol.
1572 — 1583.) But it was in Galway in the year 1584, August,
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transmutations^ and the narrative must be given in Sir J.
Perrott's ^^ Answer about Malachias" (copia plena) : —

Touchiag Malachias, he was brought to me as I remember in Galway
by the Earl of Clanrickarde the Bishop of Eallaloe to my chambers,
as many other the ministry came to me, and seeing that he was a priest,
and hearing that he was learned and had been beyond the sea, I told
him of his great faults therein, as I now remember by Done the sworn
interpreter, or some other and in broken Latin, that he was in fault to
go beyond the seas without license, being a subject, and further per-
suaded him to acknowledge the sup'myssi (= supremacy) to be in her
Majesty, and also to confess other his errors and to conform himself in
religion according to her Majesty's laws, and he might do good. Be-
cause it was said he was ready to confer with any learned man in that
matter, and would not be found obstinate being persuaded. Whereupon
the Bishop of Laughlin was appointed to confer with him, and the
Bishop after some disputations found him conformable. And there was
drawn a recantation acknowledging the supremacy to be in her Majesty —
that her Majesty's subjects were not to obey any foreign Prince or
Potentate but her only, or the like words, as of other things, which was
brought to me. And I believe the Bishop of Kildare was some dealer
in the matter. And I was glad thereof, and willed that the Bishop of
Laughlin should make a sermon, in the Cathedral Church of Galway,
as I remember of his recantation which was done in the presence of a
multitude of people. He the said Malachias being before the pulpit,
sitting in a chair or such like thing during the sermon in the face of the
people. And after that the Bishop had ended his sermon he did publish
the said recantation in English and Latin. And the said Malachias
did there likewise read the same in Latin, and published it to the
people in Irish. And then the said Malachias came after to take his
leave of me, at which time I told him, I would be good unto him, and
seeing he had begun so well, I wished him to continue and go forward
and to advertize me of any inconvenienceys that he should hear like to
fall out in the Slate of Conaught or Ulster, which he faithfully promised
me to do. And did as I remember write certain letters unto me of the
Scotts coming out of the North, and such like things of his order in those
provinces. And the said Malachias came to Dublin, but what time I
do not now remember. And then I believe I told the Lord Chancellor
and other how I had converted him, and a Friar, being Su- Ei. Burkes,
Son., some time called McWilliam Enter, who was well learned, adding
how well I had played the Bishop, and telling how he did advertize me \
of very necessary things. And I believe the said Malachias and the said
Friar did there acknowledge their errors, and to encourage him
and other, I and the Council or I myself gave him some concor-
datum or waiTant for £6 13s. 4d. The Recorde thereof will best witness
the same. And he and the Friar likewise that recanted had at some
other time some small livings (! !), but what they were I know not. And
I further believe that the said Malachias was pardoned at the Earl of ■
Clanrickarde 's suit among a number of others by me and the Council

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long before I saw him or heard of him, for I have seen a wairant under
my hand, written by one John Tompkins, sometimes clerk to Phillip
Wittens, being Ann° d' 1584, for the granting of that pardon, wherein
Malachias was pardoned. Knowing that there was many thousand
pardoned that I never saw or heard by their names, which was done
upon good policy, as had been used by other Grovemors to quiet the
State, and to have bonds upon most of them for good behaviour thence-
foi-ward. Other than this I had never to do with the priest, neither
did I nor the Council think of the granting of his pardon, but that he
had been some chaplain of the Earl's. And I did never hear until
now of late that any Pope had spoken such lewd and treacherous
words of her Majesty. And I have often caused my chaplains to
preach vehemently in their sermons against the Pope and his Bulls.

In a letter written by Perrott in 1584, September, he had
given a statement of Malachias' conversion, though very
briefly. ^^ The suspected Buyshop Malachias Analone, and a
Friar, &c., did renounce the Pope, swear to the supremacie, and
the Friar gave over his habit presently, both published a pro-
fession of their faith and recantation " (Perrott's Life, p. 150).

In 1590, August 9th, Kilmainham, the Lord Deputy, to
Chancellor writes : — "As for Malachias O'Molony, I think it
not good to trust hi7n with himself, for the causes mentioned in
N. Dillon and R. Mile^s declaration ; and so I send him under
guard with Segar, the late constable, and NoUen, the pursui-
vant, who is in your schedule called Kelly."

In August, 1590, Sir Denis Roughan to Lord Burghley
writes a letter bearing hardly enough against Perrott, in which,
however, is contained a most valuable statement as to the
causes for which parties professing the Roman Catholic faith
were subjected to punishment of death. (This Roughan was a
Popish priest convicted of counterfeiting Perrott 's handwriting.
See Perrott's Life, p. 231.) : —

Su^ D. Eougham to Burghley.

August 30, 1590.
And as for Malachias O'MoUenane he confesseth that he had a Bull
from the Pope to dispense ivith any for whatsoever {sic). But concern-
ing Sir John Perrott he can say nothing of him but that he had a pardon
and promotion of a Hviug and 20 nobles for giving Sir John a good
conceite {sic, perhaps good information), and for no other cause, as he
saith, and would not confess nothing against Sir John Perrott, the
which, all the world that would scan, see, or hear this would not believe
that Sir John Perrott, Her Majesty's Deputy, would pardon a Roman

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Bishop, and one that confesseth to have a Bull from the Pope. I deny
that any Deputy that was in Ireland in this Her Majesty's time did
pardon any bishop or priest, an-d having committed no other fault but
to minister the office of a bishop or a priest, after the Pope's authority,
for so doing is no pardon nor death-matter in Ireland. For there is no
hishojp or 'priest or any man put to death for religion only in Ireland.
Ergo, Malachias did cormnit soiine great heanoiise matter of treason against
her Majesty, or else he would never seek for a pardon only for minister-
ing of his office or in granting of dispensations, which is, it must needs
be, high treason that he was pardoned for, for which Sir John PeiTott
could not for whatsoever, especially a traitorous Poman bishop, the
which the said Malachias confesses himself to be. Ergo, Sir John
Perrott is a traitor.

My Lord the Bishop Malachias should be compelled to tell truth,
otherwise he will conceal all and confess nothing.

Dated 30 August, 1590.

Malachias is found to have ordained Sir Den^^s ^^ Aucioritafe
RomanaJ^ Another is mentioned as ordained by him in Cashel,
viz., John Hasshea, " fatetur se primum fuisse ordinatum per
Malachiam O'Malone, postea per Milor Archbishop Cassel."
(See the Cashel Regal Commissioners' Report, MSS.)

In Dr. Cotton's 4th vol., p. 207, among the Treasurers of
Kilmaeduagh, or Tuam, is found, — " 1591, Malachi O'Molona,
or Molownan." Sir John Perrott mentioned that Malachias
and the friar had '^ at some other time some small livings
bestowed upon them." And although the dates may not
exactly agree, yet delay of induction or neglect to make an
entry in the Registry may have occasioned the difference.
Should this prove the veritable Malaohias whose career we
have so far traced, it is clear that he ended very wretchedly
after all his manoeuverings and t wis tings, being deprived of liis
small living under the sentence of King James's Commissioners,
"Propter manifestametnocivaminformalitatem." (MSS.T.C. D.,
E. 3, 14, p. 87.) Dr. Brady, in his celebrated work on the
Irish Reformation (5th edition, p. 155), alluding to Perrott's

and such, statements, concludes thus concerning Malachias :

^' The foregoing extracts from the State Papers leave no doubt
remaining that Malachy O'Molony conformed in Queen Eliza-
beth's reign to the State religion ; but according to the Roman
Catholic historians O'Molony was a staunch upholder of the
Pope and the Papal faiths So much the worse for Malachy
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have been passed over as a ridiculous weathercock ecclesiastic ;
now he stands forth a shameless hypocrite, eating the bread of
one Church the better to do the work of a rival. It is only-
right to remark that for most of the State documents quoted in
reference to Malachias the writer is indebted to Mr. E. Nugent,
who most kindly lent his valuable MS. collection of extracts,
and supplied others needed to a full elucidation of this curious
case.

In 1576 Malachias was translated to Kilmacduagh to make
way for a more suitable man — " Cornelius O'Melrian (O'Mul-
Ryan), O.S.F., and for forty-one years till his death, in 1617,
he continues Bishop of this ancient See. This Prelate played
an important part in the last great struggle of the Desmond
chieftains. And we have intentionally passed rapidly over the
preceding bishops that space might remain for dwelling on the
unpublished documents connected with his history." So writes
the author of " The See of Killaloe in the 16th Century " (&c.,
nhi supy^a, p. 465). This is fortunate, as Dr. Brady "has several
of O'Melrian's unpublished letters copied, but they are not
sufficiently interesting for publication," although he pro-
nounced O'MulRyan himself to have been " a bitter opponent
of Elizabeth and a frequent correspondent of the Roman
Court.' ^

Few of the outbreaks or rebellions in Ireland fell so heavily
upon those who originated and carried them on as that of
Desmond. Spenser's descriptions of the desolations he wit-
nessed in Munster, and those gaunt spectres of famine-
stricken survivors he encountered crawling out of their hiding-
places and crowding around the springs where watercresses
grew to grasp them as food, form about the most effective
delineations of his gifted pen. The Privy Council warned
Desmond beforehand of the perils he was incurring. (C. S. P.,
1571, &c. Pref. xlii.)

The Queen wrote a letter of entreaty to the Countess of
Desmond {ubi supra, xlii.) : —

We be advertized (urges her Majesty) of the suhniissioti and late
corning in of the Earl your husband to our Bepuhj, &c., and of his pur-
pose to shake off the great number he hath had attending on him,
entertained through fear he conceived by a false rumour spread of a
Commission that our President had to apprehend him— a matter never

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thought or intended towards him, but suggested, as we conjecture, by-
such of jour private enemies as would gladly by any practice throw
him into some action of arms, whereby he might incur our heavy
displeasure,

Foi-asmuch as We be also informed that your good travel with your
husband to remove from him this vain fear of his apprehension, and to
leave off his number of followers, hath brought him to such good terms
of conformity as he now standeth in. We thought it very meet to signify
unto you Our good acceptation of your travel m this behalf, wherein as
you have shewed yourself a dutiful subject to Us, and careful of the
quiet of that country, so have you declared yourself no less wise and
loving towards your husband for the preservation of his estate, which
m.ight easily have been utterly ruined if he had not by good means been
brought to the said submission. (And so the Queen entreats the
Countess to continue her loyal and loving influence vrith Desmond)
*' in persuading him to cut off the multitude of his followers," the
Queen engaging " to protect and defend him against all the unlawful
attempts and injuries of such as seek his decay and overthrow." —
Minute to Countess of Desmond, March 1,1678.

Nor was Desmond himself without signs of some active
impulses of patriotism and loyalty, especially on the occasion
of " the arrival in the harbour of Dingle of six Spanish ships,
both great and small, suspected to be appertaining to the
traitor James Fitzmaurice,^' of all which, in the words above
used, Desmond himself gave intimation to Lord Justice Dury.
( Ubi supra, Ivi.)

Nor was this all that Desmond had done and endured
valiantly while walking in the paths of loyalty. In 1579
Desmond writes thus to Ormond (as in Calendar, ubi supra,
p. 189) : — Relates his ser^dces against Fitzmaurice, a bishop,
and two Irish scholars, arrested by him and executed. His
successful opposition to the traitor and the O'Flaherties.
John of Desmond most cruelly murdered by Mr. Davells and
the Provost Marshall. Fears that his brothers would imbrue
their cruel hands in the blood of his wife and son. He chased
Sir James Fitzmaurice, &c., whence to be ran to where lie was
slain by Desmond's nephews. Relates the ill usage he suffered.
Killed Rory ny Dillon and Knagery O'K^Tie. Malbey hath
spoiled Rathmore, murdered the keeper of the castle, spoiled
Rathkelly, defaced and burned the Abbey and town of
Askeaton. Desires his correspondent (Ormond) as a gentle-
man to certify her Majesty and the Council of these doings
(and his sufferings).

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But other influences swayed Desmond to his ruin, other
advisers made him the tool of their inordinate ambition. On
June 14, 1578, information was given to the Privy Council of
Stukeley^s invasion ; £5,000 was provided as the sinews of war
to resist him. That it was no small storm he was prepared to
hurl upon these shores may be gathered from the account
received from the region whence it fell. The Pope Gregory XIII,
was amusing himself tcith the dream, of making his son, Signor
lacomo, King of Ireland. Stukeley (C. S. P., Pref. xlii., 1574)
agreed to everything, and was preparing a large army for the
purpose, when, on going to the young King of Portugal, Don
Sebastian, to ask for aid from him, that King prevailed on him
to ^o first (! !) against Muley Moloch, King of Fez, Morocco,
&c., and promised that afterivards he would give him valuable
aid for his invasion of Ireland. But the King of Morocco beat
them utterly, not above 50 escaping, and the King and Stukeley
with the flower of Castilian chivalry falling at the battle of
Alcazar-quivir. (C. S. P. Ir., an. 1574, Pref. xhii.) All this
fell out in the course of God's providence, just in the same way
as when Julian chose first to march to conquer Persia, or
Charles the Fifth must first beat the Moslem before he would
attack the Protestants of Germany. Nor was this all the
discouragement and weakening. It was just as complete at
home as abroad. Sir N. Malbrie vanquished in Connaught the
few among the Burkes, O'Flahertys, &c., not forgetting
Grany-ny Moyle, the great heroine of the Western Main,
who were expected to create an important diversion and
weaken the Queen's military movements in the South. These
were stirred up by the Earl of Desmond and Doctor Saunders
(see a letter of Saunders' printed in ElKs's Original Letters,
Second Series, Vol. iii., pp. 92—7) to raise their forces and
enter into open rebellion, with promise of present aid from
Spain and other countries to assist them in this holy enterprise
(so termed by Dr. Saunders) for maintenance of the Catholic
faith and liberty of their country. ( Ubi supra, lix.)

Pope Gregory next fixed his attention on Ireland (as Ranke
has remarked. Lives, &c., 456, Bohn's edition.) It was repre-
sented to him that there was no people more strictly and
sturdily Catholic than the Irish, that the nation was tyrannized
and maltreated by the English Government, that the people

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were despoiled, disunited, wilfully kept in barbarism, and
oppressed in tbeir religious convictions, that they were thus at
every moment prepared for war, and wanted nothing more than
the aid of a small body of troops ; with 5,000 men, Ireland

might be conquered Philip of Spain contributed a sum

to the Expedition, just 20,000 scudi according to the J^uncio
Sega. He also made grants. Baron d' Acres, Signor Buono, and
other English noblemen then at Madrid, these he urged to go
on this Expedition, together with Bishop Lionese (= Laonensis)
of Ireland.

But what else of Bishop Cornelius all this time ? Let the
brave Sir W. Sent Leger, President of Munster, reply. From
Cork to the Queen in 1582 he writes : —

Haying first for sundry good reasons reprobated a war of Trasting
advocated as the only means of subduing and famishing the traitors
in the five counties of the Province of Munster, he then goes on to
mention " the state of the traitors " and the head and front of the
rebellion. " There is as I am credibly informed come of late from
Eome a traitor called O'Midrian, a man bom iu the County Limerick,
brother to O'Mulryan chieftain of the county he beareth name, which
traitor usurpeth the name of the Bishop of Cork and Cloyne, autho-
rized so to do from the Pope. This traitor as it is given out hath
brought assured promises from the Pope to the Earl, that he shall
have relief both of men, money, and munition by mid- summer next
at the farthest ; upon whose anival the traitor the Earl calls all his
followers before him and caused this lewd prelate to deliver them
this news— which done the said traitor the Earl told his followers
that there were some amongst them that sought to betray him for
that he could not go through with the enterprize he had begun, re-
quiring them to be trae and faithful to him, till the time pronounced
by the prelate, and then if they found not his sayings true, no longer
to trust him, but seek means for their safeties. Whereupon they all
swore to be true and fajthf ul unto him. (Lxxxvii. p. ubi supra.)

But before coming to the really rich treat of " the unpub-
lished documents,*' one might just take a rapid glance at those
that are published. It can do no harm, especially when given
as abbreviated in the general index of the Calendar of State
Papers {ubi siqjra), in which O'Mul Ryan figures largely, as much
inquired after by English Ambassadors and statesmen. His
country is South Tipperary or Limerick.

" He is the pretended Bishop of Killaloe and nominally of
Cork and Ross. With another Bishop and with 300 soldiers
he is in Stukeley's well-appointed ship at Lisbon. Friar

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MOviedo, Commr. Apostolic, and (our friend) the Bishop, are in
company with the Spaniards in Ireland. The Pope's message
to the Earl of Desmond (is given by him), he being made
Bishop of Cork (why so, we shall see anon). He and Pat Pitz-
Maurice (of whom something has been noted already) have
gone to Spain. Desmond has sent him and Purcell to Spain to
hasten the foreigners. He and Lacy are bringing help to
Desmond. He and McThomas (reported) slain. His last
voyage to Ireland (of this more after 'Hhe unpublished").
Receives a pension from King of Spain." (C. S. P. 106.)

" Before setting sail from Lisbon, 30 Oct., 1577, James Pitz-
maurice wrote to the Archbishop of Toledo, acquainting him
with the disaster which had befallen our Bishop Cornelius, who
a little while before, having sailed from Rochelle for the Irish
coast, was captured by pirates, and being despoiled of all he pos-
sessed, was obliged to return to the Continent. Fitzmaurice
adds : — '^ He (Dr. O'Melrian) is most devoted to us, and we
confide to him all the secrets which are to be communicated
to you connected with the succour which is sent to us. It
would be most useful that he should accompany the expedition
of troops to instruct them as to the place of landing as well as
to conduct them to our quarters."

After this declaration it can be no ill-natured comment to
say that Bishop O^Melrian acted the part of Quarter -Master
General of an army of foreigners invading Ireland in the
interests of the Pope. Then follow three letters of Desmond
urging for aid to be sent by the Pope (Gregory 13th), and
eulogizing Dr. O'Melrian as the Ambassador of the Confede-
rates : —

Sanctis sime Pater,
In vinea Domini exercituum laboramus, expugnando Luteranam istam
Anglise Eeginam ; toto enim hoc triennio elapso, prout jam helium
gerimus, in armis sumus. Nostrum omnemque statum omniaque
nostra exposuimus periculo evidentissimo semper perdendi, bel-
lumque istud in Hibernia propter causas subsequent es his-
tribus annis elapsis in manus libentissime assumpsimus, nimirum
quod sanctas matris ecclesi^e causa erat, ac quod vestra Sanc-
titas jussit atque bortabatur ut rem inciperemus. Mihi meisque
omnibus minime peperci, oppida villas et pagos, arces et castra cum
fratribus nostris Johanne et Jacobo de Geraldinis ac Sexdecim aliis ex
nostra domo, in hoc bello perdidimus : nihilominus quamdiu vita comes-
fuerit, istud bellum prosequemur contra xinglia) maledictam Reginam,

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donee S. Sanctitas ac Sua Majestas Catholica nos juverit ut possimus
hsereticos propellere ex Hibernia totumque regniim siibjicere legibns
sanctae matris EcclesiEe. (That was very pleasant for some, but not for
others "in Hibernia.") Et quia hactenus prsestolationem istius
subsidii experimur, harum latorem Episcopum Laonensem nostro et
omnium nobilium hujus causae consensu ambasciatorem et soUicita-
torem universi negotii ad suam Sanctitatem et ad S. Majestat Cat.
mittimus cui Y. Sanctitas omnem fidem dabit, illumque ita auscultet
non secus quam nos si praesentes fuissemus auscultaret, rogantes
obnixe Y. Sanctit (cui pedes humili animo exosculamur) ut nosti'aiu
inquietudinem et longam perturbationem animadvertat auxihumque
cum hoc nostro ambasciatore mittatur quo poterimus confrigere
audaciam adversariorum Christi ecclesiae. Expediret denique ut Y.
Sanctitas auctoritatem nuncii in negotiis ecclesiasticis mitteret ad
Laonensem Episcopum et potissimum ut ipsi liceat pontificalia officia
exercere ubicunque se invenerit cum licentia ordinarii, Yir enim spec-
tatae vita6 et vu-tutis magna3que spei apud omnes est, huicque causaa
addictissimus ac fidelissimus.

Datum in Castris Catholicorum in Hibernia,
Die 1 Sept. 1582,

Sanctitatis yas : addictissimus servus,

Gerold Desmond.

This last request indicates that though O^Mulryan was found
useful as a mihtary man and ambassador, ho would be much
more useful as such by following the Army into any other
diocese than his own and there discharging Episcopal duties for
the Army as a military chaplain of the Episcopal order.

In a second letter, after recounting his bereavements and
losses, he tells the Pope that he will cling with a desperate
tenacity to the cause of God and the Pope, but must obtain help
^^quo possem severos Ecclesiae hostes propellere ex Regno,
illiusque integrum statum legibus sanctoe matris Ecclesiai
subjicere.'^

Then he urges that with the subsidy he demands should come
among them some one having the authority of a Nuncio ; and
that the Bishop of Killaloe, according to universal consent,
wouM be the fittest person for this.

Then, in a third letter, dated 18th June in the following
year, Desmond repeats the same sentiments of devoted attach-
ment to the Holy See, and petitions that the lands of the
deceased James Geraldine should be granted to his son Gerald,
It thus concludes :—

Literas vero super praedictas teiTas confectas, Y. Sanctitas dignetur
mittere per Nunciuin Apostolicum Hispaniarum ad nostrum Ambascia>

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torem Cornelinm Episcopum Laonensem cui cupimus nt Y. Sanctitas
fidem m omnibus adhibeat, eumque fretum auctoritate Nuncii cum
subsidio mittendo ad nos dignetur mittere, quia aliis palmam prsesipit
quibus hoc esset concedendum. Yaleat ac Yivat Y. Sancitas, &c. &c.

Desmond.

The conclusion of this letter is given in full in " Spicilegium
Ossoriense '' (p. 81), and tlie part of the letter in which Des-
mond asks the Pope to dispose of lands in Ireland as Sovereign
Lord deserves a full meed of acknowledgment for its outspoken
confidence. Indeed the compiler, who has disclosed such a de-
licious morsel of loyalti/ for the inward digestion of the public
of the 19th century who live under Queen Yictoria, must be
complimented for his candour and kindness.

The writer of the letter entitles himself—

Geraldus Desmondiae Comes, Yree Stis Generahs Dux* Exercitus
CathoHcorum in Hibemia et Sincerus Servus, Salutem precatur atque
eeternam felicitatem optat.

Quia ratio postulat ut illi qui toto zelo inserviunt atque omni desiderio
Sti Yra3 pr^mia sibi suisque successoribus subministrentur, ut ahi
incitentur ut eorum exempla in servitio S. Statis imitentur.

Quare cum noster Consobrinus D. Jacobus Geraldinus noster prsede-
cessor Generalis S. Yrae, in Hibemia sit interfectus a filiis Gulielmi
Burk et a quibusdam safcelletibus Capitani, MacBrien Ai^a, dignum con-
suimus oratum iri S. Stsm ut dignetur ]der hreve Apostoliciim eorum
terras loerpeiuo concedere Geroldo filio pr^dicti D. Jacobi Geraldini
ej usque hseredibus, ut quemadmodum praedicti serviendo Keginse
Anglia3 neci tradendo D. Jacobum prasmia opima recipiunt, ita
nostra domus Geraldina decoretur a S. Yra, nedum propter servi-
tium in defensione fidei et S. Yree causa contra nefandani atque
ini-plar/i j^otestatem Eegince maledicfce Anglia3, cujus rei causa magis
cupimus gloriosam mortem ipsam impugnando, quam legibus male
dictas Eegina9 obtemperare, participesque fieri ejus maledictionis et
fulmine anathematis feriri, quo ipsa aUique adhaerentes innodata existit.

The writer of ^^The Diocese of Killaloe " already quoted
has remarked ^^ that the relations of our (Catholic) Bishops
and of the Holy See with the native Princes during the wars
of Elizabeth's reign have often been misconstrued in the
writings of those who are led away by the frenzy of political
agitation. The Irish chieftains had at this period the title and
privileges of independent (!) Princes, and as such they were

♦ The Pojje's Standard (earned before Desmond's rebel forces) was
nearly taken in the battle at Adare, Oct. 12, 1679 (C.S.P. 1574, &c., p
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entitled (!) to defend ^vitli the sword those religious and civil
rights which the Government of Elizabeth attempted to destroy.
Hence their struggle merited the sympathies of the Holy See
and the blessing of our martyr clergy. But far more distant
than heaven is from earth were the chivalry of James Fitz-
maurice and the heroism of Hugh O'lN'eill from that cursed
Fenian blight which, alas ! nowadays has fallen upon some of
our benighted and deluded countrymen/'

In other words, it is quite right for subjects— sworn to
allegiance as Desmond was sworn — to rebel against their
Sovereign in the interests of the Holy See. But for such subjects
to rebel, to the imperilling of these interests, then, oh ! it is a
case " of an accursed blight falling upon our benighted and
deluded countrymen " ! But why not this latter equally true
in the one case as in the other ? in Desmondism as in Fenianism 1
in the, 16th as well as the 19th century? — ''the frenzy of
political (or Episcopal) agitation" notwithstanding, unless,
indeed, the knowledge of the times and seasons for Irish rebel-
lions, also the exclusive pri^ilcge of hatching and bringing them
forth, are to be supposed belonging to others and not to the
wretched Irish rebels themselves.

The letters of the Bishop O'Mulryan may now supply a few
further traces of the diplomatic mission he followed and of the
tear I ike enterprises he sustained. In his 1st he implores
succour for the Catholics and Desmond, or else it will be
all over with them, and the accursed Queen will vanquish them
and bring them under her power. He also states that a
clause in his Episcopal title forbids his exercise of Episcopal
functions outside of the limits of his Diocese without express
license of the Ordinary. And he asks that this license should
be granted as a most important advantage. In his 2nd to the
Pope from Madrid, he reminds his Holiness tbat the King was
ready with men, but the Pope must come down with money
for the Irish expedition at once, or else the enterprise will
fail. And that Desmond was promised this help and has suf-
fered heavily. His 3rd urges " ut necesse esse ut sua sanctitas
subministret pecunias ut parti militum stipendia solvantur."
In his 4th he states that his Catholic Majesty is supplying
for the war in Ireland a great sum for purchase of arms and
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Desmond's relief. His Holiness must frequently urge this
matter on his Catholic Majesty to complete the war.

His own demand for an extended license the Bishop presses
in these urgent terms : —

Intelligat sua Sanctitas hanc clausulam non esse positam in mea
Bulla proper meam culpam, neque etiam esse positam in Bullis Hibern,
Episcopm. post me creatorum, qui nihil perpessi sunt in hoc bello Hiber-
nico, quemadmodum ego perpessus sum, nullaque prseclara facinora
ediderant quemadmodum me edidisse, nobilesque Hibernos esse valde
offensos quando dicebam, in cam'po me non jposse exercere pontificalia
extra nieum 'Episcopatum etiam cum licentia ordinariorum loci. Proinde
sua Dominatio rogabit Suam Sanctit ; ut dignetur in proemium laborum
Busceptorum et suscepiendorum in hoc bello Hibernico mihi. Conce-
dere facultatem exercendi pontificalia et hie interim quoad me rex
detineat, cum licentia ordinariorum vel sede vacante jussu regis et
in Hibemia eodem modo et ubi non sunt Episcopi Catholici, jussu
Comitis Desmondiae Generalis Catholicorum possem similiter exercere
pontificalia, servatis servandis a jure et a Sacro Concilio Tridenfcino,
contra quod aliquid molire illicitum esse semper duxi.

26 May, 1583. Coiinelius Episcorus Laonensis.

July 5, 1583. — He writes that his Catholic Majesty declared
it impossible that a fleet could be sent to Ireland before his
Majesty, ^^ intelligat exitum classis quae jam proficiscitur ad
insulas Tertias, contra Dominum Antonium." Then he men-
tions his going with supplies, &c., and of his obtaining a
pension. "Interea Rex Cathol jussit ut pensio mihi assig-
naretur, qua honeste potuissem me sustinere super Episcopatu
Tigitanensi, interimque classis praoparabitur, cujus proprius
pastor oblitus sui status se junxit Domino Antonio contra
Regem Catholicum Ex portu de Scetufill.

July 5, 1583.— The sixth letter of Bishop Cornelius is ad-
dressed August, 1583, "Sanctissime Pater," and urges what
Desmond had proposed in reference to the Pope giving away
lands in Ireland to recoup some of the Desmond sufferers : —

Comes Desmondias Generalis Catholicorum ferventer scripsit ad me
superioribus dictus, ut cum su^ sanctitate agerem ut digneretur per
BuUam authenticam, vel per Breve Aposolicum concedere terras pos-
sessionesque illorum qui interfecerunt Dominum Jacobum Geraldinum
Generalem Yestra) Sanctitatis in Hibernia, Geraldo Geraldino filio
pr^dicti Jacobi ut ipsi Geraldini vehementius habeant ansam in ser-
viendi sedi Apostolica3 atque su^ sanctitatis ac ut adversarii hoc
concedeudo tcrreantur (!) ne Sedem Apostolicam impugnent, neve
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atque opitulentur posthac quemadmodum hactenus. Quocirca non
nihil conducet negotio atque ad augmentationem fidei in Hibernia,
ut sua Sanctitas consideret servitium Geraldinorum et potissimum
Jacobi Gerald Generalis Vestroi Sanditatis et istius postremo (ser-
vitium) Comitis Desmondiae qui totis viribus impugnat maledictam
Eeginam ej usque fautores qui que progressus felices ipsam impugnando
hactenus habuit. Proinde in prsemium horum omnium Vestra Sanctitas
dignetur concedere litteras atc[ue possessiones istorum qui interfece-
runt D. Jacobum Geraldinum, Domino Geraldo Geraldino filio prae-
dicti D. Jacobum Generalis Vestras Sanctitatis prout Comes Desmondise
suse Sanctitati fusissime scripsit ; quod si fecerit sua Sanctitas rem
gratissimam Comiti, factura sit caeterosque poene nobiles Hibernos
concitabit ut sibi sedique Apostolicse inserriant, domumque Geraldi-
norum semper sibi addictissimam et promptissimam experietur, &c.

If this does not exhibit Bishop Cornelius urging the Pope to
act as Sovereign Lord of Ireland, punishing the Queen's sub-
jects by dispossessing them of the lands she gave to them, and
rewarding his subjects by bestowing these lands upon them
for services against the Queen, then there can be no acts by
which Sovereign Lords exercise their authority and liege sub-
jects exhibit their fealty.

In the seventh letter Bishop Cornelius agitates the sending

of the fleet to Ireland : —

Qu^ ti-ansmissa, Hibernia legibus sanctee matris ecclesiaa, atque
Anglia propediem subjicietur. Denique haec erit proxima via-, qua Sua
Majestas habebit Flandriam quietam sibique subjectam. Cornelius, &c.

8tL letter, written from Lisbon, deplores the death and de-
capitation of Desmond : —

Tristissima ac longe moestissima nova nobis sunt ista, ac prorsus de re-
ductione Hiberniae ad fidem principia (sic) desperandi, nisi S. Sanctitas
mox manus adjutrices porrigat, turn subserviendo militibus aut pecuniis
tum etiam scribendo quam effectuosissime ad Suam Majestatem
Catholicam ut non differat jam mittere classem ad Hibemiam, qua
transmissa Universa HilDernia legibus Sanctas Matris Ecclesise subji-
cietur, erit que etiam principium et solidum, fundamentum reductionis
Anglias ad fidem ; quod si hoc non fiet mox antequam Eegina Maledicta
iniquis Suis legibus subjiciat sibi regnum, cum non sit aliquis principalis
qui resistat — actum erit de toto negotio et scintilla fidei quae hue
usque illic viguit omnino extinguetur, eritque Hibernia non secus
quam Anglia referta iniquis legibus Maledictai Regina^.

CoRNELroS.

In the 9th letter Cornelius Ep Laonensis implores some
money to be paid by the collector in Lisbon, as he is in penury

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and actual need; that lie receives none of Lis Episcopal
revenues ; that he will stay on in Lisbon to be near intelli-
gence from Ireland, until either the invading fleet sets sail or
the Queen shall die.

His 10th letter is to the Pope, and he closes with a de-
mand, not for a miserable subsidy, but for a fleet to save Ireland,
win England, and secure Flanders.

His 11th and last letter in the collection is dated 29 Oct.
1584, and addressed to Cardinal de Como : —

Illustrious Lord,
Ten years have passed away since his Holiness created me a Bishop.
And although I betook myself to Ireland, I had no induction to my
Bishoprick, in consequence of its being in the possession of a certain
pseudo Bishop of the Queen's appointment, who although he collected
the revenues, took no trouble about the cure of souls, and during the
whole time did not live within his Episcopate * And thus I could not
touch a farthing of my Episcopal revenues, nor can I ever expect to do
so at least until the Queen's death, or until your HoHness and his
Catholic Majesty shall send a fleet to Ireland, in which I shall then resort
thither. But hitherto, with the Earl of Desmond and the rest of the
nobles adhering to him, I remained in Ireland in the camps of the
Catholics, showing myself a bright pattern of all virtues, enduring
terrible labours and want of food, preaching, exhorting, admonishing,
correcting vicious conduct, sometimes with gentleness, sometimes with
severity, and always giving such advice and counsel as was best calcu-
lated to promote the salvation of men and the progress of the war
against the English, those most fi-antic and ferocious enemies of the
Church. At length it seemed good to the Earl of Desmond, Geneml of
the Catholics, and to the rest of the leaders, to send me hither (to
Lisbon), relying as I did upon my authority as ambassador to move his
Holiness and his Catholic Majesty on the subject of sending a fleet and
a subsidy into Ireland. And this undertaking of mine I discharged
with all diligence in the way of corresponding with his Holiness, as very
well known to your Excellency. I pleaded also most urgently with his
Catholic Majesty, and with difficulty wrung from him one little ship
with arms and money, which had but reached the shores of Ireland when
news was brought of the Earl of Desmond being slain in the war, and
that all his followers were so scattered that not a word about a war was
heard any more. Then the subsidies were fetched back to this place,
and I restored the sum total thereof to his Catholic Majesty. And yet
after all I am still working urgently upon his Majesty that he would
deign to send a fleet, or at least a moderate subsidy, to Ireland under
command of Lord Maurice Geraldine, the next of kin of Earl Desmond,
who at this very time, for sake of imploring aid from his Holiness and
the Catholic King, has hastened hither out of Ireland. Most urgently I

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plead witli your Excellency to treat with his Holiness to come over and
help us. Let his Holiness condescend to treat with his Majesty as
to carrying out this matter. This Lord (Desmond) is indeed a man
of energy, noble, and of much practical knowledge in warlike
affairs, and one who, in the late war of the Earl of Desmond,
won some important victories against the English. And surely
his Holiness is under deep obligations to the Geraldines, who ex-
posed their lives and properties to peril of utter ruin in the service of
his Holiness. And further, his Excellency will understand that I am
remaining here in Lisbon for sake of news from L-eland, and for sake of
pressing an incessant suit with his Majesty that he would send a subsidy
worth mention or else a fleet to Ireland.

The creation of Bishops just at present is quite useless, unless a fleet
be sent. Indeed it is injurious, because Bishops cannot easily be conse-
crated or sent forth on the Mission in Ireland or in England (unless in
parts of Ulster in Ireland) ; because in either case they have only to hide
themselves, or appear disguised in secular dress, or must adopt the
soldier's, cany a girded sword or else a halbert (?), without being either
shaven or shoi-n, without any clerical habit, without revenue or obedience
rendered by their subject faithful. And thus even so far, if they are
convicted of being Bishops, they suffer capital punishment or perpetual
imprisonment — nay, even their own parents and blood relations who
give them shelter lose all their chattels and estates, which go to the
Eoyal treasury.

(He then proceeds with particulars as to what befel the
Titulars of Cashel and Tuam, of Emly and Ferns, of Ross and
Limerick, and closes with an earnest dissuasive against the
immediate appointment of successors in the present position
of Irish affairs.) But we must take one last look at this Cor-
nelius O^Melryan—" the ILLUSTEIOTIS Bishop of Killaloe "(!!)
— on the occasion of his final visit to the shores of his native land
after a life spent not in the sedulous discharge of episcopal
functions within the diocese which he never once visited, but
in bustling about amid the clash of arms and in crouching a
suppliant at foreign Courts for ships and soldiers to subjugate
Ireland to the Pope.

The Calendar of State Papers is usually dry as dust and
pulseless as a skeleton. But R. Wingfield in a letter to Ch.
Jas. "Wallop, with something of grand measured pathos —
something of the swing and swell of a Greek tragic chorus —
sounds the alarm and points the moral of these wild and wicked
enterprises of rebellion, Desmond being now dead, and the
bloody swords of Elizabeth's soldiers just wiped dr}^ after Keltic
slaughter only to slaughter again with a sharpened thirst.

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Arrival of a carvill of five tops for the late Earl of Desmond. The
chief man in her that presented himself was an old friar, who demanded
of the country people who went on board, where the Desmond was ?
They answered, He was slain.

He demanded, who maintained that action ?

Answer was made — None ; for that all were either slain or else pro-
tected. Quoth he — Is there none of the Earl's name, that will take
upon him to follow and maintain that enterprize ? They answered —
Not one. "Well, said he, if any had continued it until now, we had
brought here to furnish them, of treasure and munition good store.
And shortly they would have more, and aid enough. And therewith he
shewed them great store, both of treasure and munition. The Lord

General Ormond hath written to the ports to send out to take it

Dublin, January 21, 1584. Letters to be written to the Lords Justices
and the Lord General to intercept the supposed Bishop of Killaloe. (! !)

He died in exile in 1617. And what makes Lis overt rebellious
activity all the more culpable is the fact that his own subjects
in Thomond, when the Spanish Armada was wrecked, right
loyally aided the Sheriff Boetius Clancy to march the invaders
to Ennis, instead of giving them any encouragement or help.

It may appear to some that an undue stress has been laid
upon the case of this military Bishop — or rather military agent
of the Court of Eome acting under the guise of a bishop.
But it must be remembered that O'Melryan was not the only
one of these militant ecclesiastics. Oviedo is another, Mac
Eggan another, and doubtless there were more of them, all able
men and well chosen for their work. But as for their being
bishops, this was a mere colourable pretext, the better to
engraft religious war upon hostility of races, and thereby pro-
mote at once ecclesiastical revenge and imperial ambition.
As for Desmond being "an INDEPENDENT Prince and
lEISH Chieftain"— as the writer in the I. E. Record ventures to
assert— this man was of English origin, and had always, as his
ancestors, held under the Crown of England. And it was
'' his plundering and rebelling against England " that brought
him to his doom, at the wicked persuasion of O'Melryan— hid
evil angel. (See Annl. 4, Masters.)

The pedigree of the Earls of Desmond from the MSS. of Sir
Wm. Betham, U.K.A., 1834, is given in Mr. SainthilFs " Old
Countess of Desmond," after p. 72. The first name on the
long list of this renowned family is Gerald De Windsor, Con-

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stable of Pembroke Castle, and Governor of S. Wales, wbo
marries Nesta, d. of Rhys, Prince of S. Wales. Their son was
Maurice Fitzgerald, one of the conquerors of Ireland, who
died A.D. 1177, and w^as buried in the Grey Friary of Wex-
ford.

The Episcopal succession of Kilfenora Diocese now claims a
brief notice. '' On the 16th of May, 1552, John O'Hinalan was
Bishop of Kilfenora, but I have not yet discovered (writes
Ware) either the time of his consecration, or death. One John
was Bishop of Kilfenora in 1570. I do not know whether it
was John O'Hinalan.'" The Four Masters relate that a " John
of Kilfenora, was John Oge O'Niallan, a preacher of the
word of God, and that he died a.d. 1572, and was interred in
Kilfenora." Anyhow, in 1573, Murtagh, son of Sir D. O'Brien,
succeeds. Ware omits him altogether, so does Dr. Cotton. But
of this link in the chain of episcopal succession there can be little
doubt, inasmuch as the record of the Calendar of State Papers
exhibits the following (page 502, May 10, 1573) : — "Lord
Deputy and Council to Queen. Commend Murtough O'Brien,
son of Sir Donnell O'Brien, for the Bishoprick of Kilfenora.
The Archbishop of Dubim and Bishop of Meath certify his
worthiness,^' But as the matter is of some importance, owing
to the careless way in which it has been believed that the
Bishops of the Reformed Church of Ireland in those days
were mere political agents — very little better than English
policemen in black clothes, — it is safer to give the letter in
full which relates this business : —

Lord Deputy and Council to Queen.

Dublin Castle, May 10, 1573.
Sute hatli bin made unto us to commend unto yr Majty oneMui'touo-h
O'Brien, son of Sii- Donnell O'Brien, Knight, for the Bishoprick of
Kilfenora, alias Finniborcnsis, being voide, and by us assigned to the
custody of the said Murtough. For his sufficiency every icay he hath been
well commended inito iis by diverse. But we not thinking it good without
further trial to presume to commend him to your Majestic, committed
the examination of liini to the ArchBishop of Dublin, who under his
hand hath certified unto us that he and the Bishop of Meath had con-
feiTed with him and found him to be the worthiest man for that promo-
tion (for godly life and sincere religion in that province)

In an official document (a composition-deed, dated 1585)
appear the names of the Bishops of Killaloe and of Kilfenora as

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parties of the deed in their capacity as " Lords Spirituall/^
viz. —

'' The Revd. Father in God Mauritius, Bishopp of Killalow."

'' Daniell, electe Bishopp of Killfinnoragh.^'

The following also appear : —

" Daniel Sheanagh, Dean of Kilfenoragh ; Donogh O'Hiaran,
do. of Killaloe ; Denis, Archdeacon of Kilfenoragh."

As this deed is of much value, illustrating the topography,
customs, and tenures of Thorn ond, also the Lords or chieftains in
Elizabeth's days, and their relationship to the Crown and to
their dependents, illustrating also much about the Church
and its property, it has been considered better to give it in
" \J extenso in the Appendix, No^ But the chief value of it arises

from the fact that this document marks the second step of an
important kind taken by England at that period in reference
to the Irish. In the reign of King Henry VIII. the Sovereign
Lordship of the King as the fountain of honour was asserted.
Now the Eegal power to establish something like the English
system of taxation was attempted, instead of the irregular and
most oppressive exactions used under the Irish regime.

Sir J. Perrott had made a similar composition with the
Chieftains of Gal way, which is given in 0' Flaherty's H lar by
Hardiman. This deed relating to Thomond has never, to the
writer's knowledge, been given in full. The copy from which
it is transcribed, belongs to the Ennistymon House collection,
and seems of the time of Charles I.; made, probably, when
enquiries about tenures and grants under the Crown were rife.

The document and transaction are referred to in Annals of
4 M., who state that '' a session was held in Ennis in which
were enacted extraordinary decrees,'^ and they look with no
favourable eyes upon this innovation.

It may be added that Sir J. Perrott was highly esteemed
and greatly beloved for his kind and considerate bearing to
the Irish.

Another highly characteristic document is added in the
Appendix, viz., a copy of the Fiant appointing Sir D. O'Brien
Seneshall to Corcomroe and Burren, &c. From this, together
with the previous document, a tolerably fair idea may be gained
of what was the political and social condition of the Dioceses of
Killaloe and Kilfenora in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

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Two particulars of consequence in connection with the eccle-
siastical affairs of the period in Killaloe still demand consideration.

1st. The language in which the services of the Church were
appointed to be conducted.

2nd. The state of education.

In the " Proposal for the Conversion of the Popish Natives of
Ireland to the Established Religion^ submitted and dedicated by
John Richardson — afterwards Bishop of Paphoe — to the
Upper and Lower Houses in Convocation assembled, and printed
in Dublin, 1711/' the following suitable observation is laid
down as a primary postulate" (page 1) : —

" When a design is set on foot to convert a nation to the
true religion, one would think that the ordinary Gospel-means
are the fittest and most unexceptionable. Wherefore, to pre-
vent all just cause of exception about so useful and necessary
undertaking, the scheme here proposed for the conversion of the
Popish natives was framed according to that most excellent
pattern." And at page 21 of this outspoken manifesto Richard-
son states and confutes the following objection : —

^* XL It is objected that the best way to convert the Irish is to
abolish their language according to the wise design of our ancestors
nigh 200 years ago. I answer that after the experience of near
200 years we find very little or no progress made in this
design — they still retain their language and their religion too.
Na}^, the Trish language is so far from being abolished^ that as
many British proportionably speak Irish as natives speak
Ensjlish." So far Richardson as to the eflects of not folio win o-
" that most excellent pattern," But how this came to pass may
be further elucidated from the just reflections made by Dr.
Stephens in his Introduction to The Book of Common Prayer
for Ireland, p. cxxxa4., &c.

While the Canon Law provided " ut pontifices ci^dtatum vel
diocesum provideant viros ideneos, qui secundum diversitates
rituum et linguarum, di\ina ilKs officia celebrent, et ecclesiastica
sacramenta ministrent, instruendo eos verbo pariter et exemplo,"
— while '' the Queen, like a most godly and virtuous Princess,
having chief respect and regard to the honour and glory of God,
and the soul's health of her subjects, did in the first year of her
reign, by the authority of her High Court of Parliament chiefly
for that purpose called, set forth a Book of Common Praver,

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&c., in the vulgar English, tongue, to be used through all her
realm of England, Wales, and the marches of the same, that
thereby her Highness's most loving subjects, understanding in
their own language the terrible and fearful threats rehearsed in
the Eook of God against the wicked and malefactors, the
pleasant and infallible promises made to the elect and chosen
flock, with a just order to rule and guide their lives according
to the Commandments of God, might much better learn to love
and fear God, to serve and obey their Prince, and to know their
duties towards their neighbours. Which book being received
as a most precious jewel with an unspeakable joy to all such her
subjects as did and do understand the English tongue — the
which tongue is not understanded of the most and greatest
number of all her Majesty's most loving and obedient subjects
inhabiting within her Highness's dominion and country of
Wales, being no small part of this realm, who therefore are
utterly destitute of God's Holy Word, and do remain in the
like or rather more darkness and ignorance than they were in
the time of PajDistry," — enacted, '^ That the P>ishops of Here-
ford, St. David, Asaph, Bangor, and Llandaff, and their suc-
cessors shall take such order among themselves for ihQ souFs
health of the flocks committed to their charge within Wales,
that the whole Bible containing the Wew Testament and Old,
with the Book of Common Prayer, &c., as is now used within
this realm in English, to be truly and exactly translated into the
British or Welsh tongue." But this was substantially identical
with the Irish tongue, a Connaught harvestman to this day
being intelligible to a Welshman and vice versa. Provision is
also made for the correction, publication, and general use of
such translation by curates and ministers before a given day.

But in Ireland, notwithstanding that in the time of Eliza-
beth, four-fifths of the population understood no language but
the Irish, no statutable provisions were made to have the
Book of Common Prayer translated into Irish, or that clergy-
men should speak the vernacular language of their own flocks.
l]ut, on the contrary (seemingly to provide for Englishmen), it
was expressly enacted by Stat. 2nd Elizabeth, ch. 2, sect. 15
(Ir.), that the Book of Common Prayer should only be read in
English or Latin (! !) And it may here be observed that even
in 1537, Stat. 28 Henry VIII., ch. 15, sect. 7, (Ireland)

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directed " spiritual promotions to be conferred solely on such as
could speak English, unless after four proclamations in the
next market town such could not be had," But of this un-
happy Act of Henry* VIII. more hereafter.

Sir Henry Sidney, in 1576, ventured to call the attention of
the EngHsh Government to the importance of providing the
natives of Ireland with religious instruction in the only lan-
guage they could speak or understand, and yet this was asked
for only in the remote places.

A curious incident is related in an interesting modern work
of an English Ambassador on his way to the Court of Spain,
being caught by a south-western storm and driven for refuge
to Tralee Harbour. He landed, went to morning prayer, and
to his utter amazement found the service in the parish church
conducted in the Latin tongue. Nor was it until 1587 that the
following steps were taken to attempt a partial remedy of this
great evil : —

Council Eegister, Yol. Yll.

November, 1587, to May, 1589.

Apud Greenewich. iiij. Marcy 1587.

Piite.

L. Chancellor, L. Shrer, L. Stewarde, Mr. Shrer, IMr. Yice

Ctiamberlaine, Mr, Secretarye, ^h\ Wolley.

Page 86.

ALre to the L. Dcpntie of Ireland and L. Archb. of Dublm, that her
Maty had been of late aduertised of a notable abuse continued in
Thengllsh ixde, where it was said that in sundry partes thereof the
book of Comon prayer is publicklie vsed in the Latin tongue, and con-
trary wise the booke of praier in English appointed by the Lawes there
is allmost whollic neglected, and but lyttle vsed, whereby the people
there for lack of instruction that they might have reccaucd if the Comon
prayers might haue been vsed in a known tongue, are still bredd vp in
error and blinde zeale to poperie to the great offence of Allmightie
G-od, and the wth drawino: of great numbers of her Ma ties subject cs in
that realme from due obedycnce in pointe of relligion, whereat her
Matie doth gi^cathe mruaile and cannot but impute the faulte thereof
chiefly to the L. Archb. Considering how the care to abolish such
kind of suprstitious abuses principallie aprtainethto him, for that it be-
longed vnto his L. to have acquainted the L. Deputie wth all, by whose
aucthoritie the said Inconvenience might haue been redressed. Their
Lis are required to take piit order throughout all Thenglish Palo for
the reformacon of the said abuse, and the establishing and gencrale vse
of the Bible and Book of Comon Prayer in English, according to her
Matys Iniunctions, and not otherwise, and to see that all such as should
bo found to neglect or refuse to yield vnto such reformacon, as by their

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Lis slionld be appoynted, be ordered according to tbeir good dis-
crecons.

At the same time, although, this attempt to suppress the
language of a nation produced a very injurious effect upon the
political and religious relations between the English and Irish,
unfortunately there were other causes at work producing
effects not much less injurious. Indeed, Dr. Richardson asserts
this when he designates the opposition to the Irish tongue " the
principal cause why the Reformed Religion hath made no
greater progress/' but adds, "it must be acknowledged, indeed,
that other causes have concurred^^ (p. 67).

A word on the state of education in the Diocese of Killaloe
under Queen Elizabeth may close this chapter. As regards
the effects of a superior native education apparent upon the
clergy, unfortunately there are no means of arriving at an
immediate decision, all records having perished. But this may
be judged in the way of comparison, when the further progress
of the Church is traced and its records are searched out. Yet
it would be strange to conclude that almost immediately after
Trinity College, Dublin, had emerged the bright particular
star of sacred and secular illumination in the Western Hemi-
sphere, no graduate of this University was found upon the
Diocesan Roll of Clergy. As regards intermediate education,
we can find nothing performed, nothing even attempted. And
although the principle was laid down by law that there shall
be a parochial school in every parish, yet the provisions of this
Act must have proved inoperative from the very date of
publication, its application and action being left to be car-
ried out not from public funds, not from ecclesiastical for-
feitures, but at the cost and charges of the few half-starved
clergy who constituted the diocesan staff of Bishop Mauritius
Mac O'Brien in Killaloe. In fact, as to Church work in
general in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, we may safely con-
clude in the light of even what these pages disclose, and
without the labour of reproducing Bishop Mant's minute
citation of particulars, that it went but a very little way,
merely laying the foundations of an ecclesiastical and civil
polity, and endeavouring to provide security for life and pro-
perty, rather by repelHng force than by establishing law,
and kindling the beacon-lights of the Church and School
in full blaze throughout a benighted Diocese.

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Sir John Davys, showing how the defects and errors in the
government of Ireland had been supplied and amended since
the beginning of his Majesty's reign, first touches upon errors
in martial affairs amended ; secondly, points out the courses pur-
sued for the supply of the defects in the ci^Hil government ; then
dwells, thirdly, upon the settling of all the estates and pos-
sessions, as well of Irish as of English, throughout the
kingdom. Under the second head, he luxuriates in an expo-
sition of the establishment of the public justice in every part
of the kingdom, by which the common people, albeit rude
and barbarous, yet did they quickly apprehend the difference
between the tj^ranny and oppression under which they lived
before, and the just government and protection which we pro-
mised unto them for the time to come. The law having made
progress into Ulster with good success, A. Chichester established
new circuits in Oonnaught and Munster. Of this energetic
Deputy's circuits in Ulster, and of what knowledge he acquired
not only in affairs secular but, alas, in the affairs of the
Church, summaries appear in Bishop Mant's History of the
Church of Ireland. To Sir J. Davis' circuit of justice in
Munster reference is now made, that a well-drawn picture of
life in the West during the earlier years of King James I. may
be presented (C. S. P. Ireland, p. 467, 1603-9) :—

Having related the issue of the legal proceedings against " well nigh
100 of the citizens and burgesses of Cork — who at the Quarter Sessions

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before, liad heeji indicted ivjpon tlie statute for not coming to cliurcli, we
'required them to pay the ];)enaltij of the laws — viz., twel've]pence for
edhh Sunday and holiday. The chief of them then desired copies of the
indictments to the end they might put their traverses thereunto ....
they submitted to payment. Thegross sumamountedto £60 and upwards,
for which Ave appointed collectors, and assigned the moneys towards
the building of a hospital there : as well because that town does swarm
with poor and impotent people, as also because one of the citizens dying
in London had by his testament given £200 to maintain the poor, when-
soever the city should erect an hospital. The citizens were glad of this
assignment. And so we departed from Cork towards the county of

Clare and Thomond, where we had appointed our next session

In the county of Clare, which contains all Thomond, when I beheld the
appearance and fashion of the people, I would I had been in Ulster
again, for these are as mere Irish as they, and in their outward form not
unlike them ; but when we came to dispatch the business, we found
that many of them spake good English and imderstood the course of
our proceedings well. For the Justices of Munster were wont ever to
visit this country, both before my Lord of Thomond had the parti-
cular government thereof and sithence. After the dispatch of the
gaol which contained no extraordinary malefactors, our principal labours
did consist in establishing sundry possessions of freeholders in that
county which had been disturbed in the time of rebellion and had not
been settled sithence. The best freeholders next to the O'Briens are the
McNemaraes and the O'Lancys (sic*) (rather the O'Clanceys). (See

C. S. P. 1606, p. 211.) The chief of which families appeared in a civil habit
and fashion, the rest are not so reformed as the people of Munster.
But it is to be hoped that the example of the Earl,f whose education
and carriage your Lordship knows, and who indeed is served and waited
on very civilly and honourably, will within a few years alter the
manners of this people, and draw them to civility and religion both."

We ended the ordinary business of the county Clare somewhat sooner ■
than we expected. (Then follows an account of the horrible cruelty of
one Downing, " a swashbuckler," towards a poor idiot. Downing
was reprieved.) The gaol being cleared, we began to consider how we

■^ Ballynacloghy Castle, now Stone-Hall, is said to have been built by

D. McClancy, and was returned in 1570 as the property of D. McClanshy.
The McClanchys were the hereditary Brehons, Judges or Lawgivers of
Thomond, and many documents still exist attested by members of that
family. Before 1641 Ballynaclough passed into the hands of Nicholas
Fanning. Thomas Cullen was installed as Titulado. (Note by Hon.

E. O'Brien from Dinely's Tour, p. 81.) The name of Clancy appears
elsewhere in this volume. Boetius was the most eminent of the family,
and it was borne by a Dr. McClancy, an eminent literary man, whose
Memoirs in two volumes were published in 1750. The Clancys are still
found in Kilfarboy parish— a respectable and industrious family.

t Sec Dyneley's Tour.

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conld cut off two notorious thieves or rebells wlio with, two or three
kern at their heels did infest the whole country— the latter, Redmond
Purcell, we understood chiefly to lie reheved in the county of Arra
upon the borders of Thomond and Tipperary by Sir Tirlagh O'Brien
and his sons, — which Sir Tu^lagh is brother to the Bishop of Killalowe,
natural Lord of Arra and uncle to the Earl of Thomond by the
mother's side. For Sir T. O'Brien and his sons we had at once
resolved to take bonds of them for their appearance at the next sessions,
because the proofs against them were not direct and clear ; but after-
wards the Bishop of Killalowe (Mauritius Mac O'Brien), his own brother,
accusing him and his sons as relievers and familiar companions of
Eedmond Purcell— my Lord President after our departure from
Limerick towards Oashell, committed them prisoners to the Castle of
Lymerick. Whereupon this effect did follow — Purcell not da-ring to
trust the inhabitants of Arra, among whom he was wont to lurk
fearing they would seek his head to redeem Sir Tirlaghe's liberty,
retired into the county Limerick, where one M'Hui'ley di-ew him into
a castle of his, and brought some of my Lord President's soldiers upon
him, who killing one or two of his kern, took Purcell himself alive
and brought hun to the President since the end of our circuit, so that
now we hear he is executed by martial law.

Sir John then proceeds to give an account of the petitions
of certain undertakers in this county (Limerick) and the
county Kerry for the re-establishment of their possessions in
some parcels of land whereof they had been disseized in the
time of the late wars. Sir John pitied them as English and
poor, but in other respects they deserved no favour — ^' as bad
pays, Adle farmers, and, finally, as observing few or none of the
covenants comprized in their Letters Patent, and laid down in
that wise and exact plot for the undertakers of Munster — and
among the rest they utterly neglected the principal, namely, that
they should inhabit their lands with tenants of English birth
to the end that every Lord of a seigniory, being able upon all
occasions to rise up with 150 to 200 Englishmen, they might
be a mutual strength and security one to the other, and be
enabled to stand upon their guard against the mightiest rebel
that could rise in those parts. But contrarywise, all our
undertakers for the most part have planted Irish tenants, and
among others even the sons and kinsmen of the ancient pro-
prietors and owners thereof, who forfeited the same by their
attainders ; so that these vipers being nourished in their bosoms,
upon the first alarm of any rebellion, do fall upon their land-
lords and cut their throats, make spoil and booty of all their

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substance, and cast out their wives and children stript and
stark naked, whereof even these men themselves had a bitter ex-
perience upon the last revolt in Munster.'' (472-3, nhi supra.)

Donough, the fourth E. of Thomond, was most exemplary in
his efforts to introduce civilization and plant with English.
Thus Sir A. Chichester holds him up as a bright example to
other noble Lords in the following terms : —

'' Often advises the Lords, especially in the North, to embrace
civil plantations, and to take example from the Earl of
Thomond, who receives and entertains as many English as he
can any way draw unto him, and uses them so well that many
resort thither. Suggests that by some letter or other means
he the Earl may receive encouragement to continue that good
course which is the best means to bring peace, safety, and
plenty into the land.'' (C.'^S. P. 1606, &c., p. 34,) In a note
by the late Honble. Eob. O'Brien to Dyneley's Tour, the fol-
lowing appears : — " The Earls of Thomond were anxious to
encourage Protestant settlers on their estates, and several of
the Earl's tenants and of the New Patentees, had houses in
this town. The rents paid in 1675 for houses and plots of
ground bear a very high proportion compared to the value of
farms. £10 a year for a house and shop, with a covenant to
rebuild, and <£50 a year for a malt-house, represent the rents
paid for considerable extents of land even in the vicinity of
Sixmile Bridge." (O'B.) At a future page reference is inci-
dentally made to a plantation of Dutch settled at Kilrush. In
the subsequent notes of Dyneley it is stated that " The Earl of
Thomond, after the restoration, granted a lease of Kilrush with
four and a half plough lands to Isaac Granger (? Ganier) to
expire in 1675, and another in reversion in 1672 to Col. J.
Blount, which contained a covenant to lay out the town of
Kilrush, and settle therein ten English families or in want of
them ten tradesmen, and to build no houses, but with brick or
stone and lime, &c. At general hostings to send two horse-
men, furnished for 1 mo. &c. &c."

At Clonmel, Sir J. Davyes adds {sujjra, p. 475), We arraigned
but one prisoner, namely, one of the sons of Sir Tirlagh
O'Brien before named, who was indicted for a murder or treason,
found to have been committed by him and Redmond Purcell, the
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lewd company. The county did so mucli complain of mischiefs
done by E. Purcell, that it was thought meet for a terror and
example to suffer the execution of the law upon this young
gent, (sic) and accordingly he was executed.

After this, my Lord President (whose zeal in matters of
religion tempered with good moderation doth merit very much
consideration) w^as desirous that a priest, one James Morice,
who was lately before apprehended, should have been indicted
for publishing a slanderous and seditious hull, though without
all question it be a forged and counterfeit thing, as you may
perceive by the copy. We deferred this business to another ses-
sion. This town being in the liberty is more haunted with
Jesuits and priests than any other town or city in the province,
which is the cause we found the burgesses more obstinate here
than elsewhere. He then gives the legal proceedings against
the Recusants, and the names and haunts of the Jesuits in
Munster.

Sir John crowns these statements as to his legal action
against Recusants with the following extremely sensible and
forcible suggestions, as a sort of per contra, addressed to the
chiefs of the Established Church and the friends of the Refor-
mation in Ireland : —

'^ If our Bishops and others that have cure of souls were but
half as diligent in their several charges, as these men are in the
places where they haunt, the people would not receive and
nourish them as now they do. But it is the extreme neo-lio-ence
and remissness of our clergy here, which was first the cause of
the general desertion and apostacy, and is now again the remora
or the impediment of reformation." At the same time, refer-
ring to the state of things he found at Dungarvan, he remarks
that '^ the true reason why country towns and villages are not
yet looked into (for carrying out the Recusant prosecutions and
fines) doth consist in this — the most part of their churches are
broken down or ruined, and the Commission for the re-edification
thereof and planting of the ministers therein hath not yet been
well executed. The New Testament and the Book of Common
Prayer in the Irish tongue, which will incredibly allure the
common country people, are not yet fully prepared.'^ (C. S. P.
1603, &c., p. 467.) And as reference has been made by Sir J.
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well to give a few brief notes from Cashel Begal Visitation
Book, 1606, now in Ch. Temp, and Eecord Oflfices, also calen-
dared in State Papers, as perhaps Eallaloe was then not very
much better off.

'' Vicar de Fithmenen or Fishmoyne " was John McGrathe
puer 10 annorum at school. He learns in the Book of the
^^ Seven Wise Men." (This youth is officially pronounced
" studiosus " for this mighty mental achievement.) A Popish
priest is his curate. The Archbishop holds many livings "in
commendam" (besides what his sons and others hold for him).
Others were vacant and no curate. Others alleged that their
letters of Orders were burned . Another parish was served by
Patricius Maguire, a runaway priest. Another by " a decrepid
old man." Lewis Jones (Cotton L, p. 35), afterwards made
Bishop of Killaloe, who, by the way, makes a strange-looking
bargain about Church lands with the all-devouring Archbishop
Miler Magrath. The parish of Camkill has no church, no
chancel, no curate, and yet it was assigned " ad mensam Archi-
episcopi." Ballycahill was better off; as, though it had no
curate, the church and chancel "were covered with straw." Of
several parishes the note is thus : " Ecclesia (de duff^^n)
ignota " ! ! The Prebend of Dysert Lauras was rather well off.
" Vicar Edmond Hurley, Student in College, Curatus. Da
MacFoy sacerdos rudis et Barbarus." Almost solitary stands
the favoured case of Ballynlough. " Vicar David Eawley, a
reading minister, resident and serving his cure." Ecclesia
Balinard had for Vicar, Docald O'Torg, " an unworthy fellow."
Another had Hugo Hartes— " Homo indignissimus." This
individual was also " Minister of Willistown, value 4/., for eight
years, but upon oath he doth confess that he never yet cele-
brated Baptism or Communion, and accordingly he was de-
prived." But the Precentor of Cashel, one Stephen Dowdall,
is one of the most interesting cases of all. " Erat servus Domi ;
Archiepiscopi" (Peg. Visitn. Book)— " altogether unlearned,
not understanding Latin, and only able to read English."
The visitors deprived this worthy "Heavenly Footman" as
John Bunyan might well have called him.

Before passing to particular details of the Ecclesiastical affairs
of the Diocese in this reign, it is advisable to give a brief extract
from a State Paper on the subject of " The removal of grievances

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and tlie advancement of trade/^ these being among other
projects furthered by the King, ^^ with a desire to advance the
flourishing estate of the realm of Ireland.'^ (Eot. Pat.^ 19 Jas. I.,
pt. 16, jSTo. 46.) The Commissioners were to enquire,
&c., *^what lands, rents, or hereditaments were given, &c., by
our predecessors to any College, Free-School, or the mainte-
nance of any corporation or other charitable or public use —
and by whom they were given, when given, where the same
are situated, of what value they are, &c. ; whether they have
been wholly or in part converted to the use of any private
person, or contrary to the use designed; and how they may
be restored to the good charitable uses designed." With
regard to Killaloe Diocese there is not a trace of an endow-
ment in this way accruing, although under its peculiar condi-
tions most particularl}^ requiring such extraneous helps.

The Commissioners of the King were also to enquire, exa-
mine, and find out all such things as do or may in any wise
occasion the let, hindrance, or decay of trade, traffic, and com-
merce within theldngdom (of Ireland), &c.

And now having approached the period of conflict between
the English laws, customs, social and political systems, with
those of Ireland, some brief reflections may not be deemed
altogether out of place in the present narrative. This conflict,
the manner in which it was carried out, and the issues involved,
may perhaps be found to have a far greater influence than is gene-
rally taken account of upon the fate and fortunes of the Eeformed
Christianity now raising its glorious standard in the West.

The establishment and enforcement by the English upon the
Irish or Keltic community of their English laws and language,
of their domestic and social usages, their prying interference
with and suppression of old Irish family names, their minute
spying out and dictation of the dress"^' the Irish man and woman
must wear, and even how he is to trim his beard, and whether
he wears a moustache on his lip or not, the hard measures dealt

* la Patent Eolls, by Mr. Morrin, the following in reference to di^ess
and the material and coloiu'ing of same is interesting : —

Pat. II., Jas. I. 63. Grant to Danl. Birne and Chas. Hedley, Gent.,
of antliority to seize all Irish mantles and bendells dyed with Saffron
which may be worn in Leinster and Munster Provinces, etc., together
with § part of all fines incnrred for wearing thereof, contrary to the
Statute, during seven years, yielding to the Crown the J of such fines.
17 Apl. 11. Act. Ecg.

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out not alone against the Brelion interpreting tlie antient laws
of Ireland at the cairn, the fort, or the old cross, but also against
the wandering harper and the '^ rimer," or bard, beloved of old
and young, of rich and poor in the tribe and clan — all this was
not a thing first put forward at the time of the Reformation in
religion and the enforcement of English rule by Elizabeth and
James. It was an old story, the story of conquerors crushing
and exterminating the fallen, instead of undertaking the gradual
and humane amalgamation of diverse tribes and estranged races
under one beneficent rule. The 28th of Henry YIIL, chap
15, deals with '' a conformitie, concordance and familiaritie in
language and tongue, in manners order and apparell with them
that be civil people.'^ Here also is set down the notable opinion
" that there is againe nothing which doth more conteyne and
keep many of his subjects of this his said land in a certain
sauvage and wild kind and manor of living than the diversitie
that is betwixt them in tongue language order and habit,'' &c.
Then particulars ensue in proof of " the persons that esteem not
his most dread laws." They are these : Such as shall be shorn
or shaven about the ears or use the wearing of"^ hair upon their
heads, like unto long locks called glibbes, or have or use any
hair growing on their upper lips, or use or wear any shirt,
smocke, kercher, bendel or linn en-cap, coloured or dyed with
safiron — ne yet in any of their shirts or smocks above seven

* A curious incident is related in Perrott's Life (p. 199) : The Lord
Deputie caused a Parliament to be summoned. In which none of any
degree or calling were suffered to come in any clothes, but only in
English attire, and although it appeared uncouth and cumbersome for
some of them to be so clad (who preferred custom before decency and
opinion before reason) yet he constrayned them that did need any
constraynt. Amongst whom because it is a matter of some mu'the and
that doth discover their myndes, though it be not of any great wayght,
we may remember one, who being put into English apparell came unto
the L. Deputy and besought one thinge of hym (in a pleasant sorte, as
they are most of them wittie) which was that it please his Lordship,
to let one of hys Chaplyns, whom he termed his Prieste, to accom-
pany hym arrayed in Irish Apparel, and then quoth he they will wonder
so much at hym as they do now at me. Soe shall I pass more quietly and
unpointed at.

By this it should seem, that they think, when once they leave
their old costomes, then all men wonder at them, and that then they
are out of all Frame and good Fashion, according to that saying, " They
ivUch are home in Hell, thinlc there is no Heaven,'' What folly all
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yards of cloth to be measured according to tlie King's Stan-
dard (! !) Or that^no woman wear kyrtell or cote tucked uj), or
embroidered or garnished with silk, or conched ne laid with
usker, after the Irish fashion (! !) Then, the Act prohibits
" mantles &c. made after the Irish fashion '^ under penalty of
a forfeiture of the offending article, also with penalties and
mulcts ('* times of hosting or rising out upon a cry'' always
mercifully or indeed selfishly excepted). Then come penalties
specified in a sliding scale, from 61. 13s. 4:d. down. Then comes
a prohibition of induction of Irish-speaking Clergy, unless after
notice at market-cross, and in default of any other English
applicants coming forward. (See ^^ The Statutes of Ireland
newly perused, &c. Dublin : Printed by the Society of Sta-
tioners.")

Going back to the preceding reign, we find it gravely enacted
about war-cries, ''that no person shall take part with any
Lord or uphold variances, using the words ' Crom a boo,
Butler aboo,' but to call only on iSaint George or the name of his
Sovereign Lord the King for the time being. ^^ In the same reign
is an Act for confirmation of the Statutes of Kilkenn3^

That all and every of the aforesaid statutes (those that will that
every subject shall ride in a saddle, and those that speaketh of the
language of Ireland all only excepted) be authorized, <.%c., &c.

One more specimen of this legislation so systematically pur-
sued will be found in the 5th of Edward lY., cap. 3 (Ireland) :
" Every Irishman that dwells betwixt or among Englishmen in
Coy. of Dublin, Uriel, Meath, and Kildare, shall goe like to one
Englishman in apparell and shaving of his beard about the
mouth and shall be within one year sworne the liege men of the
King in the hands of the Lieut, or Deputy — and shall take to
him an English Surname of one town, as Sutton, Chester, Trym,
Skre}Tie, Cork, Kinsale, or colour, as Black, "White, or Browne,
or an art or science, as Smith or Carpenter, or an office, as
Cooke, Butler. And that he and his issue shall use this name
under pain of forfeiting of his good, yearly, till all the premises
be done, to be levied two times by the year to the Kino-'s
warres," &c. Now, without at all conveying that no legislation
had been useful and needful, even though utterly adverse to
Irish prejudices and practices, the kind of legislation, which may
be called irritating intrusive and ineffective, had largely pro-
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Heformation period a very sore feeling, and a deep-rooted aver-
sion to England and every tiling that came under English
auspices or was associated with English power in Ireland.
Whether this was right or wrong is not now the question ; but
that such is a fair statement of a matter of fact can hardly be
made a question. However, an authority as learned and as
English as can well be found may now be produced in confirma-
tion of these conclusions.

" I do not know (writes Mr. Maine in his Early History of In-
stitutions, p. 54) " that the omission of the English, when they
had once thoroughly conquered the country, to enforce the
Brehon laws through the Courts which they established, has
ever been reckoned among the wrongs of Ireland.''*'

This is not the question before us. But the question now to
ask is. Did it redound to the wisdom of English policy, and did
it pave the way for a ^^ free course '^ of the pure reformed faith,
to which the Irish were then by no means averse, that the Irish-
man found all which tied him by the very heart-strings to the
past and to the present of his native soil, treated as if it was the
barbarism of a barbarian, who must at once strip himself of these
absurd and intolerable belongings and surroundings?! Allu-
ding to " Coyn. Livery and Coshering," the same erudite
exponent of ancient law makes the following decisive concession
(p. 161, uhi supra) : — " Perhaps there was no Irish usage which
seemed to Englishmen so amply to justify that which as a
whole I believe to have been a great mist alee and a great wrong —
the entire judicial and legislative abolition of Irish customs:' And
what made this all the worse was the fact that the English did

* Whether any one may contend, that the omission of the English
conquerors of Ireland to enforce the Brehon laws through the Courts
they established is to be reckoned among the wrongs of Ireland, is a
matter of indifference to the writer. But it may be worth statmg that
one who is fully competent to give an opinion as a jurist and as an Iinsh
archaBologist has arrived at "the following conclusion as the result of a
careful enquiry:—" That tliere \s o^sn^hdcuitial rcscmUancchQi^cQu the
antient Celtic law of Ireland and some considerable portion of the Com-
mon Law. And this disclosure, with further elucidations and enforce-
ments will teach om- countrymen the wholesome social and pohtical
lesson that cdl our insular populations have a common inheritance m the
Common Law." (Dr. S. rcrguson\s Taper, E.LA. Transactions, p. 37.)
f See Sir John Davis on the Cavan Case.

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much to perpetuate the Brehon law in the state in which we
find it. " And the Anglo-Norman settlement on the East Coast
of Ireland acted like a running sore^ constantly irritating the
Celtic regions beyond the pale, and deepening the confusion
which prevailed there." Thus, for example, some of the chief-
tains gained only a life interest and not a real estate trans-
missible, as MclsTamara, of Glancullen, under Sir J. Perrott^s
deed. And the McNamara is soon brought to Dublin under
strong escort, by the orders of the energetic Chichester, upon a
charge of treason and traitorous correspondence. (See C. S. P.
1606, p. 428.) Besides this, the tenants of the chieftains (ex-
cept, indeed, those of the Earl Thomond and the Earl Clanric-
karde, who are honourably omitted from the censure (C. S. P. I.
1606, p. 211), though ever so meekly preferring to be fleeced
by their own chieftains, if only not bled by others, fared worse
than before, from the Crown giying them no adequate protection
against unmerciful exactions. Thus it was with McNamara above.
So also with O'Neille. ^^ So soon one mischief succeeds another
in this accursed kingdom!" as Chichester bitterly exclaimed.
(C. S.P.I. 1606, p. 560.)

In Miscellaneous Collections of co. Clare in P. I. Academy
among the Ordinance Survey MSS., it is stated at p. 246 that
'^ the Irish Brehon law was ordered to be abohshed and the laws
of England were substituted in their stead, excejDt with some
families who retained the privilege of being governed by the
Irish law, as the O'Loghlens, the O'Connors, &c. But perhaps
some important aspects of this question may be better taken in
by reading the following Letter of Queen Elizabeth in favour of
Conor, Earl of Thomond, a.d. 1577 (from original Poll) : —

Wc liavc, ill cousidcration of the dutiful mind the said Earl pretends
to bear to us and our said service, not only consented that for his better
contentation, such a confiraiation should pass under our Great Seal of
this our Realm of England, &c., with liraitations to be decided by the
Counsell. He is allowed freedom fi'om cess, not only in the 8 Baronies
in which he enjoys his estates, but also freedom from same in the rest.

2nd. Where the said Eai4 pretends an antient Government, by way of
commandment, over the Freeholders within of Thomond, especially in
viakinr/ of Surnames, and after the decease of every Chief of every name, to
alloio iJte ne:d Caidain or Successor, icliicJi he says has been heretofore
Ijcncficial and pruhtablc to him and to his ancestors that were Captains
of that country. Which custom he either prays may continue in
him ; or else for his relief. If the land shall be or shall be brous?ht into

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an ordinary succession of inheritance, as were to be wished both here
both there and in the rest of the Irishrie, that the wardships of their
heirs may be at his disposal, as his heir by his tenure ought to be Ward
unto us, &c. (This is gi^anted very doubtingly and with strict limita-
tions, but with a generous consideration had) " of his loyalty towards us
as of the meanness of his estate and hability to maintain the countenance
of the degi-ee whereunto he is called without such help."

3rd. He alledges great sums of money due to him for cesses, &c.
And during inquiry as to the truth of this " we have thought Rood to
lend him 200Z."

4th. He is allowed the customs of Clare and Clonroade chiefly upon
merchandizes of wine and ale brought from our Port towns to
castles, &c.

5th. The Bonnaght of the gallowglasses, a cesse of victuals raised
universally upon the whole of Thomond for their wages is now to be
allowed the Earl so far " as hath been leviable on his own proper lands,"
be remitted to him.

6th. King Henry YIIL, by grant, gave Earl of T the moiety of the

Abbey of Clare. And he wants the other moiety still in our hands,
with the territories of Ince and Cohenny. The Chantries of Termon

Shenam, Termon Tulloughe, Termon Mynough, and T n Skenoway,

we are well pleased that upon a survey to be made thereof by our
surveyor, &c.. He shall have an estate in ye sd Abbey lands, &c., and
Chauntries to him and the heirs males of his body, reserving to us such
rent.

Lastly, he desu^es the island of Innis Cathrie, under pretence that he
wld convert it in to a " Fyshe-town," (unless, because we suppose it to
be within the river Shenyn, and of some importance to the city of
Lymerick), We have thought good to be advertized therein, and there-
fore require to be informed of you touching the imjoortance and situation
of the place.

To Sii' H. Sidney and Sir Wm. Gerrard, &c.

What a contrast to all the needless confusion and lasting
offence raised upon collateral issues — issues not absolutely
essential to the requirements of either Church or State — is pre-
sented in the conduct of St. Patrick when he came preaching
the Gospel in Ireland. In Senchus Mor, p. 5, vol. i. of the
Brehon Laws translation, one may read that —

" Patrick baptized with glory
In the time of Theodosius,
He preached the gospel loithout failnre
To the glorious people of Milidh's sons."

And what makes this contrast of the manner in which the
reformed Christianity of the sixteenth century was propagated
in Ireland, as compared with the manner in which St. Patrick

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propagated the Christianity which he brought to Erin in the
fifth century, appear so striking, is to be found involved in a
single consideration. The two s^^stems were both in their
positive and negative aspects substantially identical. In par-
ticular, they indicated an absence or else a negation of extreme
Pelagian tenets, of Pagan"^ rites and old-world importations, of
a sad retracing of the Christians' footstejDS into the slavery of
Levitical institutions, — above all, of the building up a
sacramental idol partly upon an arbitrary distinction
borrowed from Aristotle's philosoph}^, and partly out of what
Coleridge called " Rhetoric turned into logic."

The argument is well summed up by the writer quoted in
^' Lawrence's Interest of Ireland," p. 56 : —

" If the ancient godly fathers, which first converted them
(the Irish), when they were Infidels, to the faith, were able to
pull them from idolatry and paganism to the true belief in
Christ, as St. Patrick and St. Columb, how much more easily
shall Godly teachers bring them to the true understanding of
that which they already profess." Yes, if an unfortunate pre-
judice makes not the old true faith odious when preached again.

Patrick came to Erin to baptize and to disseminate religion
among the Gaeidhil. And Legaire, King of Erin, in order to
test his sincerity, ordered his people to kill a man of Patrick's
people. And the Lord ordered him to lower his hands to
obtain judgment for his servant who had been killed, and told
him he would get his choice of the Brehons in Erin. And he
consented to this, as God had ordered him to lower his hands
to obtain judgment for his servant who had been killed, and
told him that he would get his choice of the Brehons in Erin,
a7id he consented to this as God had ordered him. (Senchus.)
The subject-matter of controversy was, whether there should
be exercised Celtic retaliation or Christian forgiveness. The
Brehon adopted in his decision a middle course. And it was
after this sentence (thus given) that Patrick requested the men
of Erin to come to one place and hold a conference with him.
^' Then the King said. It is necessary for you. Oh, men of Erin,
that every other law shoidd be settled and arranged as well as
this. It is better to do so, said Patrick. And accordingly ichat
did not clash ivith the Word of God in the written lazv and in the

* Among the Saiats of the 1st order at least. See Usher and
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New Testament, and with the consciences of believers, was con-
firmed in the laws of Brelion by Patrick and by the Ecclesiastics
and Chiefs, for the law of nature had been quite right, except
the faith and its obligations and the harmony of the Church
and people. And this is the Senchus Mor.'* And it is further
related that until Patrick came, only three classes of persons
were permitted to speak in Erin : 1st, a chronicler to relate
events ; 2nd, a poet to eulogize and satirize ; 3rd, a Brehon to
pass sentence from the precedents and commentaries. Since
Patrick's arrival, however, each utterance of these professions is
subject to the man of the white language, i.e. the Canon of the
Gospel." (Senchus Mor, Introduction.) And if we add to this
happy union, so judiciously cemented by Patrick between
patriotic feeling and religious reformation, the recent experience
" of the government of India being rendered appreciably easier
by the discoveries which have brought home to the educated of
both races of their common Aryan parentage" (Maine, uhi
supra, p. 19) ; also if due weight be given to the fact of the late
movements in Fijian affairs being eminently successful owing to
the bold use of the principle of assimilation instead of iiinovation
(see Daily News, August, 1876), the utter unwisdom of the
English of the period under review will stand out in full pro-
minence. They went out of their way apparently to raise up
an almost insuperable barrier against themselves and their
government ; and, worse still, against the pure, holy, and love-
able religion of the Lord Jesus Christ, which they professed
to follow and spread, when they flung away all Irish institutions,
manners, customs, and usages, the retentive shrines of the
chronicler^s lore and of the Brehon's memory, alike with the
golden cord of the poet's fancy and the magic touch of the harper's
skill. (See the Composition Deed and the Fiant of Seneschal of
Barren, &c., in Appendix.)

The slender success of the Peformation among the Celts was
therefore due, not alone or mainly (as is usually considered and
repeated) to the fact that the Irish tongue was prohibited in
divine services and the Latin preferred. The measure of success
is traceable to the general system of the English nation in their
dealings with the Irish. This impelled the men who freely
yielded to Gray and Perrott and Sidne}^, afterwards to turn with
aversion from every English institution and association — their

* How differcut all this from the modern Infallibility theory of 1870.

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religion pre-eminently — and to cling with a conyulsive tenacity
to their own old-world life as they knew it. And nowhere was
this more conspicuous than in Thomond ; for (Manners, &c., of
A Irish E. O'Curry, vol. i., xv.) ^^ in 1509 the Irish laws were
still in force in the county of Clare, which is indeed the part of
Ireland in which the last judgment of a Brehon was delivered ;
and the poetry, historic tales, and genealogies of olden times,
still lived in the memory of the people.'^ And although portions
of the Brehon law were unintelligible in the commencement of
the 16th century in Ireland, still the startling change caused by
the great social revolution now without ruth carried out, turned
the singular tenacity of the Irish for their early institutions
into a deep-rooted aversion of the new system in all its aspects.

This was the unfortunate influence acting then and since
(alas ! too often) under which men were prepared for accepting
the National though reformed Christianity by being first tho-
roughly affronted, and were considerately treated as slaves in
order to train them to take their place in a brotherhood of free
men. And yet, though the Irish race had much to complain of
in these and other ways, and thoughtful Englishmen have not a
little to regret at needless hindrances of Evangelical progress in
the past, still it cannot be denied that, with all just abatement
made and fair complaints allowed, the change even as made was an
infinitely better thing, on the whole, for the Irish themselves,
both high and low, than had things continued on as they were
before. But why was the change marred b}^ a gratuitous ofien-
siveness ? At the same time, also, few things are more absurd
than the solemn introduction into Irishmen's national covenant
with the Crown, in the next reign, of a reservation — or, rather,
a restoration — to the Irish of their cherished custom or right of
tilling the ground by tying the scratching instrument they
called a plough to the tail of the horse. (See Borlase and Cox.)
The rationaU of this custom is to be found in the following:
curious and graphic delineation of Thos. Dyneley,Esq., in his visit
to Ireland in the reign of Charles II., whose pen was as descrip-
tive as his pencil : —

Here (a part of Tliomoud) Horses 4 abrest dmw the Plougli by the
Tayles, which was the custome all over Ireland, untill a Statut<^ forbad
it. Yet they are tolei^ted (in) this custom here, because they cannot
manage their land otherwise, their plough-geers, tackles, and traces

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being (as they are all over the rest of the Eangdom) of gadds or withs of
twiggs twisted, which here would break to pieces by the plough-share
so often jubbing against the rock, which the geers being fastened by
■vrattles or wispes to the horses tayles, tlie horses heing sensible stop,
until the Ploughman lifts it over. (Kilkenny Archaeol. Journal, N.S.,
July 1867 ; p. 192.)

A matter of no small importance may here best be treated,
and that is the question of the effect upon the marriage laws
which the English system produced. To refer the improve-
ment upon the old system to the discipline of the Roman
Church would seem wide of the fact.'^ The Ptoman Communion
had very quietly allowed a state of things, grave in the extreme,
to proceed for centuries. The connubial license given to an
Irish chieftain under the Brehon Laws was something very
free and easy ; and the Church of Rome certainly did not put
it down. As Archbishop Browne states to Crumwell (Cal.
St. P. Ir., vol. iii. pt. 3, page 104), " In the Irishtie, a manshal
not Jinde amonges an hunderith 2^^f'sons, not twenty legitthnate
horne^ so that they can never come to their purposes of sundry
proniLOcions without letters of licenses, which doubtless wolde be
beneficial unto the Kinges Highnes." The estabhshment of
the English Law of Primogeniture, to the superseding of the
elective system of having the strongest and boldest chosen head
of the tribe, partly worked out the change from the laxity of
the marriage bond in Ireland. (See some curious illustrations
of the Irish state of marriage in Sainthill's '^ Old Countess of
Desmond," vol. ii., page 63, &c.) But this beneficial change
w^s also mainly due to the action of the reformed religion. Of
this there can be no doubt, if credit be given to the valuable
evidence adduced by Dr. Russell and Mr, Prendergast, in their
Preface to C. S. P. Ir., p. xxvii. — " The Lord President and
Council were to call upon the bishops (of the Church Esta-
blished) severally to proceed, according to the censure of the
Church, against all notorious adulterers, and such as without
lawful divorce have two wives, or leave their wives, or while
their lawful wife liveth marry with an other ; and to esiecute
the sentence pronounced by bishop or ordinary upon such
offender.''

* See Maine as above, j^- 61.

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But to return to the strictly ecclesiastical condition of
affairs. Maurice Mac O'Brien, having first succeeded to his
brother's property (see Morin's Patent Rolls), and also having
attained to other considerable pecuniary benefits by favour of
the Crown, at length resigned the see of Killaloe in 1612 and
demised in the next year.

Dr. Cotton, after Ware, gives the following account of O'Brien's
successor in the see of Eallaloe : — " 1613, John Rider, M.A.,
was a native of Carrington in Ghe$liire, and was educated at
Jesus College, Oxford. For some years he held preferment in
England, being Minister of Bermondsey near London, and
afterwards Rector of Winwick in Lancashire : and coming
over to Ireland, he became Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin,
Archdeacon of Meath, and a Prebendary of Killaloe. He
was consecrated on January 12th, 16 If. His patent haA^ng
been dated August 12, 1612. In 1616, the Bishop obtained a
Royal letter, for the restoration of such lands as had been
wrongfully taken from his see, and also for the general im-
provement of the Bishoprick. (Rol. Pat. 14 Jac. 1.)
He also made a representation to the Royal Coromissi oners
of 1622 of several rectories aliened from his see by his prede-
cessor, M. O'Brien, and, it appears, was successful in causing
their restoration. The literary works which the Bishop pub-
lished are : —

1. A Latin and English Dictionary (improved from

Thomasius, 1589).

2. A letter concerning news out of Ireland, Quarto. Lon-

don, 1601.

3. A claim of antiquity in behalf of the Protestant Reli-

gion. Quarto. London, 1608.
He compiled a valuable document entitled ' The state of \}iq
Diocese of Killaloe presented to his Majesty's Commissioners
at Dublin. 1st July 1622.' A copy of this return is pre-
served in the Diocesan Registry of Cashel. It is very copious,
minute, and interesting ; and well deserves to he printed. The Bishop
shows himself to be extremely anxious that the clergy should
study and use the Irish language for the better instruction of
the natives. He died at Killaloe on Nov. 12, 1632 (leavino-
two sons, John and Thomas), and was buried in his Cathedral.'^
So far Dr. Cotton,

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Every effort in the power of the writer has been made to
acquire additional information of the birth, family, and literary
labours of this Bishop. Search was made in that magnificent
work, Ormerod's Cheshire, edited by the learned Mr. T. Helsby,
but the result did not answer expectation. Fuller's Worthies
a^^ded nothing new, and alludes unfavourably to the Dictionary
of Thuanus. There is no copy of any of the Bishop's works to
be found either in T.C.D. or Marsh's library. In the
British Museum is a copy of his controversy with the Jesuit,
Fitzsimon, with the following title : —

E/ider (John), Bishop of Killaloe.

A friendly caveat to Irelands Catholickes concerning the Daungerous
Dreame of Olu^ists corporall (yet invisible) presence in the Sacrament
of the Lords Supper, grounded upon a letter pretended to be sent by
some Catbolickes who doubted, and therefore desired satisfaction . . .
with the Aunsewere and prooffes of the Komane Catholick Priest.
Perused and allowed for Apostolicall and Catholicke by the subscription
of H. Fitzsimon, Jesuit, &c.

Dublin, 1602, 4-^

Deaneof St. Patrick's.

This performance extends to something about 150 pages foolscap
printed matter.

The fullest account of Rider accessible is to be found in
Mason's St. Patrick's Cathedral, of which he was Dean in
1597. In this is a sketch of his controversy with Fitzsimon in
the Castle of Dublin, while Fitzsimon was a prisoner there.

But neither his controversial nor his literary efforts are to be
put in the scale with his able and honest labours as Bishop of
Killaloe. These are indeed fine gold. Mr. R. Lascelles, in
Lib. Mun. Ilib., alluding to Bishop Rider's successor, uses the
expression of there being then made an exceptional addition to
'' a dead list,'' Ilad Mr. Lascelles made himself at all
acquainted with the work by Bishop John Rider wrought in
Killaloe, he could hardly have found anything dead or
indifferent about this Prelate.

The following document, though not a very exciting study,
is well worth the careful perusal of those who desire a competent
knowledge of the diocese and of its Bishop, Dr. John Rider.

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Pat. Eoles (Court of Chanceiy) Ireland.
James Eex.

Ires dni Eegis p Joliani Eider laonens Epo.
Eight trustie and welbeloved wee greete you well. Whereas John
Eider the Bushopp of Killaloe hath made his repaire unto our presence
and hath informed us of the greate decaies and unconscionaMe concealmte
and usurpacons of the temporalties tythes advoivsons and other spiriiu-
alties of that BishopHche to the idter overthrovje of the state thereof if it
be not repared with our tymlye care and assistance wch informacon of
his and the waies by him psented unto us howe the same mi^ht be
amended wee thought fitt to refer to the consideracon of the moste
reverend fathers in G-od the Archbishopps of Canterburie and Ai-magh
who have restored unto us their advise and opinion what course is
fittest to be taken to restore the said Bishoppricke in some measure to
the righte belonginge unto it to wch wee have given good allowance and
accordinglie are pleased to direct these our Ires unto you loillinge and
reqidreinge you our deputie of that our Kingdome or other Cheife
Governor or Governors for the tyme beinge takinge to you or them the
assistance of our Chancellor for the tyme beinge the Primate of Armagh
for the tyme beinge the Bishoppe of Meath for the tyme being our
Cheife Justice of our bench there for the tyme beinge or any three of
them our Cheife Justice beinge allwaies one or any three of them by
them selves when you our deputie are not at leasure our Cheife Justice
beinge allwaies present to examine thoroitghlie the state of the psent and
late p)osses8ions of the said Bushopricke and to restore the said Bishop
to the possession of all such landes tythes fishinge and other heredita-
mente as shalbe found to have bine wi^oungfuUy detained and usurped
from the said Bishopricke or otherwise to have benn frauduientHe
graunted and confinned without any rent or a verie small rent reserved,
together with the restitucon of the aiTeares of the meane proffitte if you
shall see good cause in equitie to move you thereunto. And this to hee
doun in a suniarie course of pceeding giving you authoritie to call any
pson or pson by way of pcesse or if neede be by any othere conipidsorie
meanes as you shall thinke fitt before you to shewe hy ivhate tytle they
hould the land tythes and fishinge which the now Bishopp challengeth
and they possesse and if it fall out they have noe lawfidl tytle or in-
terest in the said land tythes and fishinges but possesse them by usur-
pacon or pretended prescripcon that then fodhwith the Bishopp be
put in possession of the same to the use of him and his successors
and that you doe cause psent restitucon of the arreares allsoe unto
the said Bishopp if there be cause iu equitie so to doe giving as
often as neede in the prosecution thereof in charge to our learned
counsell as in case of our owne landes and that the suites may
be admitted and prosecuted without payinge any fines or othere
cxpences in lawe by the said Bishopp or his successors — and for such
lands of the said Bishoprick as are inioyed by pretence of our or any
our predecessors Ires patten &c. havinge frauduJently sarrendred the
same Bishopps lande with their owne or otherwise without expresse
nominacon of the pticulers frome hence that the now Bishopp and his

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successors may be admitted to traverse any office or offices wcli concern6
not any plantacon whereby oni' Crowne is or was intituled and tbat to be
doun with all expedicon and lawfull favour without any fee to our remem-
brancer or any other officer or officers whatsoever and that the Cheife
Baron or Barons of our Exchequer there uppon the findinge of such
traverses doe cause psent restitution to the said Bishopp and his
successors and our Councell learned in the lawes to take charge thereof
as of our owne land. But for such lande as were by expresse name from
hence warranted by us to be graunted there, that then for recompence
thereof our will and pleasure is that you our deputie or other Governour
or Govenors for the tyme beinge shall graunte unto the said Bishoppe
B/ider and his successors for ever so much of the psent or next escheated
lande foimd tlierein that Mngdome hy office or hereafter to he foiinde ivch
shall not he dis]^osed of hy ivay of plantacon as shall in valew countervaile
that our graunte— and whereas divers have gained in the rebellious
tymes past most of the possessions belonginge to the said Bishoppricke
either by fraud or force and so uppon payment of a small chafrie would
plead pscription to theis soe greate disorders and lawlesse enormities
bred by the confusion of former tymes and not to be suffred in a Chris-
tian peaceble comonwealth, wee think fitt to give a speedie redresse and
therefore wee require you to take such psent order by the spediest course
that you can advise or thynke fitt that this Bishopp for his psente use
and his successors may bee relived in all his and their pticular wronges
as he or they shall informe you whether the concerne landes tythes
fishing Jurisdiccons advowsons defections Court Barons or any other
thing whatsoever belonginge or hath belonged unto the said Bishoprick
and now detained in pte or in whole from the same and if you thinke it
nttinge uppon resonable increase of rent wee are willinge to giae leave
and by theis our present Ires doe give leave and license unto the said
Bishopp and his successors to make lease or leases unto them or their
assignes for threescore yeares jorovided ever the said tennant shall
surrender upp unto the said Bishopp and his successors all
other claymes tythes and interest wch now they uniustlie
doe challenge or if they shall refuse them to lease the
same in pai-te or in whole bo anyother soe incresing the rent and
holding ymedeately of the said Bishopp for the said lands and further
wee require you to have a speciall care to examyne within that dioces
wch he imjrro'priaxons {re vera) and wch be not and that the vicaredges
ivth their glcahes, arreares, and niansion houses he restored and intierlie
reserved to the use of the ni'misters of God's service and not otherwise and
if they ca/nnot sheive lawfull warrant that they l^e imppriacons then you
restore them as psentatyes to the Church and soe to remaine forever
exacting from them a trcw accompt and restitution for their former
sacriledge and if you shall finde any to be unconformable to such rea-
sonable condicons and composicons as you shall propound unto them in
the behalfe of the said Bishopp and his successors then wee require you
to certifie their names and what you have donn therein to our Arch-
bishopp of Canterbury that such further course may be taken with them
in this busines as shalbe thought expedient— and for the better

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effectinge o£ this our will and pleasure wee authorize will aud require
you if neede be to graimte out any Comission or Comissions under our
gi^eate seale and without ffee to discover by oath the fraudulent graunte
suiTenders and wth holdinge of pmisses or to doe or suffer to be doun
any other thinge or things devise or devises whereby the pmisses may
be expedited with all celeritie in the shortest kinde of Sumarie hearinge
without delaies and lastely out of our religious care wee have for the
said Church and Gods service wee are well pleased if the said Bishopp
or his successors by his or their learned councell thinke itt fitt and co-
modious for him to surrender all the jDrmisses unto us that you doe
accept the same and allsoe prsentlie regraunt them for ever to him and
his successors in such lawfuU manner as cann best be devised by our
learned counsell there without any ffee or ft'ees whatsoever and these
our Ires shalbe your sufficient warrant and dischardge in that behalfe.
Given under our Signet at our Mannour of Theobald the eighteenth day
of July in fhe fourteenth yeare of our Eaigne England ffrance and Ire-
land and of Scotland the nyne and fortieth.

To our Eight trustie and welbeloved Sir OHver St. John our deputie
of our Eealme of Ireland and to any other deputie cheife Governor
Chauncellor or Keep of our gTeate Scale now beinge and which here-
after shalbe whome it may concerne.

Md' quod ultimo die Septembr' Millesimo Sexcentesimo decimo Sexto
GriffijQUS Steephens vicar' venit in Cane' dni Eegis Eegni Sui hibnie et
petiit has Iras pse' Supa Script' Irrotulai'i ad cujus requisicon' IiTotu-
lanter de verbo in verbu cum Indorsament' inde prout Supius.

A Regal Yisitation of this Diocese prior to 1622 is now pre-
sented. Part was found in transcript among the R. I. A. papers,
the rest in Armagh. Doubtless this was part of the General
Ecclesiastical Yisitation throughout Ireland by Commission
directed to the Archbishop of Dublin, the Lord Chancellor and
others, 13 Jacs. I., p. 501, Patent Rolls (Morin). In addition to
the above King's letter to restore to Bishop John Rider and his
successors so much wrongfully taken from his see, we now present

THE EOYAL VISITATION OF KILLALOE DIOCESE, 1615.

(Copied from original. Compared with the official transcript.
Finished the loth March, 1812, by E. G. Greene ; and further
compared with the duplicate originals by the Yeiy Eev. "\V.
Eceves, D.D.)

COMITATUS CLAEE DIOCESIS LAONEXSIS.

Ecclia Cath (edralis) the chauncell repa3^red.
CEconomia Ecclias.

Rectoria Kyllmoor, antiquitus spectans ad a3dilic ecclia3. Yal. 247.
Set and demised for seven yeeres for 10?. per an.
Killalow, Degory Hawkes, minister et predicator inservit.
(Thus far is written on the verso of the cover in the visitor's hands.)

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COMITAT. CLAEE, DIOCES LAONEN.

Decanus, va. 30?. Hugo O'Hogan, minister legens.

Precentor, va. 41. Daniel Kennedy, minister legens.

Cancellarius, va. 20 marc. Yacat Cancellariatus (seqnestr.).

Thesaurarius, va. 41. Nicholaus Briglit, minister.

Archidiaconus, va. 40 marcar. Patricias O'Hogan, minister legens.

Prebendarius de Tomgreny, va. 201. Dns Ep. Limnicen.

Prebendarius de Loghkin, va. 71. 10s. Georgius Andrew, Decanus

Limericen.
Prebendarius de Cloindagad, va. 4 nobles. Thomas Prichard, minister

et predicator.
Prebendarius de Tulloghe, va. 4Z. Danl. Kennedy, minister legens.
Prebendarius de E;atli Bartholomeus White, minister legens.

DECANATUS DE OMULLED.
Eector de Omulled, va. xvii. Eichardus ffuller, minister legens. Church

well and chancell.
Pect. de Clonilea, ad rect. de Omulled.
Yic. de ead, va. 3L, vacat. Johes Blagrave, cur. minister legens. Old

walls only.
Eect. de Killfinaghta, ad rect. de Omulled.

Yic. ad ead, va. 71. Andreas Chapline, minister legens, residens.
Eect. de Killteely, ad rect. de Omulled.

Yic ad ead, va. 3L Church well. Johes Blagrave, idem qui supra.
Eect. de Killokennedy, ad rect. de Omulled. Id. Eooff unthatched.
Yic. de ead, va. 61 5s. Idem. Johes Blagrave.
Eect. de Killnoa, ad rect. de Omulled. Walls up, uncovered.
Yic. de eadem, va. 37. Johes Corbett, minister legens.
Eect. de Feikle, ad rect. de Omulled. Church and chancel shingled well.
Yic. de ead, va. 41. Owen Prichard.

Eect. de Killvran, ad rect. de Omulled. Church down, chanceU ruinous.
Yic. de ead, va. 405. Owen Prichard.
Eect. de Ogonila, ad rect. de Omulled.
Yic. de eadem, va. 41. Johes Moran, absens in Auglia. Anthony

Hawkes, Cur. , . . n

Eect. de Moynoe, Sequestr. Ya. 61. Idem. Johes. church and chancell

down. - n ^

Yic. de eadem Yacat. Hugo O'Hogan, Decanus Laonensis. Curat.
Eect. de Clom-ush. Impropr Comiti Thomonige.
Yic. de eadem Yacat. Hugo O'Hogan Decanus. Curat.
Eect.delnisgealtra. Impropr Eico Boyle Mil. par vi valor is. Churchdown.

Yic. de eadem Yacat. -r^ -i^ t -o a

Eect. de Stradbury als Killanagaraffe. Improp Dno Bourke, Baron de

Castleconnell. Ya. 201. una cum Yicaria.
Yic. de eadem Yacat. Hugo O'Hart, Curat.

No curat appeares. . , ri i.i ^n

Eect. de CastleconneU. Impropr Dno Bourke, Baroni de Castleconnell.

Church and chauncell in good repayre.
Yic. de eadem, Yacat. Hugo O'Hart, Curat. Ya. 15L una cum preced.

Yic. No curat appeares.

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Val. 51

VaL 41
Val. 51.

VaL 305.

Val. 505.
ViJ. 50s.

VaL il
VaL 30s.

Val. il.

VaL it.
VaL 408.

VaL 50s.

VaL

50s.

Val.

il.

Val.

20s

VaL

20s.

Eect. de Killtinanlea. Improp Comiti Tlionioiiiffi. Cliilrch and

cliauncell repayred.
Vic. de eadem Vacat.

deca:n'atus ogassik

Eect. de Ogassin. Dnus Epns Limericeru Val. 40Z.

Eect. de Quyn ad Eect. de Ogassin. VaL 41.

Vic. de eadem. .Morgan Bennis, minister legens, residens. Churcli and

cliauncell downe.
Vic. de Tulloghe. Cornelius McMahowne, minister legens. Cliurch

and chauncell repaired.
Eect. de Clonee ad Eect. de Ogassin. Churcli and cliauncell downe.
Vic. de ead. Morgan Bennis, qui supra.

Eect. de Dury ad rect. Ogassin, Church and chauncell down.
Vic. de eadem. Thomas Prichard. The parishioners resort to the

Church of Innish.
Eect. de KilLraghtas ad Eect. de Ogassin. Church and chauncell

uncovered.
Vic. de ead, vacat. Johes Corbet, curat.
Eect. de Killtoolaghe ad Pr^ebend de Tomgi-eny. Church and chauncell

downe.
Vic de eadem. No curat.
Eect. de Templemaly ad Eect. de Ogassin.
Vic. de eadem. Thomas Prichard. Annexed to Innish.
Eect. de Inchicronan ad Eect, de Ogassin.
Vic. de ead. Impropr. Comiti Thomoniee. Church and chauncel

in repairing. My Lord of Thomond hath undertaken it.
Eect. de Killmorinagall ad Eect. de Ogassin. Church and chauncell

uncovered.
Vic. de eadem. Andreas Chapline, qui supra.

DECANATUS DE TEADRT.
Eect. de Tradry. Johes Steere, minister predicat.
Eect. de Tomfinloh ad Eect. de Tradry. Chmxh uncovered, the chancel

repaired.
Vic. de ead. Gregorius Saich, minister legens.
Eect. de Killanafinlaghe ad rect de Tradry. Church and chauncell

downe.
Vic. de ead. Petrus Lambert, minister legens.

Eect. de Killmaleery ad rect. de Tradry. Church and chauncell downe.
Vic. de eadem. Petrus Lambert, curatus.

Eect. de Killconry ad rec. de Tradiy. Church and chauncell downe.
Vic, de eadem, vacat. Petrus Lambert, cui-atus.
Eect. de Clonloghan, ad rect. de Tradry. Church and chancell up.
Vic. de eadem. Petrus Lambert.
Eect. de Drumlein ad mensam Epi.
Vic. de eadem, ad Thesaimarium. >|

Eect. de Finnoh, ad Eect. de Tradry.
Vic. de eadem, vacat. Morgan Bennis, cui'ut.
Eect. de Bonratty ad rect. de Tradiy.
Vic. de eadem, vacat. Morgan Bennis, cui'at.

These Vicaradges

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E-ect. de Killonie, als Killughe. Improp dmno. Baro de Inchiquin.
VaL Bl. Vic. de eadem. Church and chancel downe, no curat,
sequestd. 'Red. de Inishdadrum, vie. de eadem. Improp Comiti Thomoniae. No
church, no inhabitants.

Val. 40
markes,
Tina cum
Rectoria
de Kil-
maly.

VaL ei.

VaL 8Z.
VaL 4Z.

VaL 101.

VaL ei.

VaL 61.
VaL m.

VaL il.
VaL 20s.
VaL 3Z.

VaL 50^.
VaL U.

VaL 3Z.

DECANATUS DE DEUMCLEIFFE.

Rectory de Brumldeiffe deprivat, sequest. to Captn Norton, sheriffe.
Cornelius McConsidin, minister legens. confesses that he hath but
five pound from the patron. Church and chauncell down, to be an-
nexed to Innish, value 40 marks — una cum Rect. de Ealmaly. Church
and chancel down. Vic. de eadem Thos. Prichard, qui supra.
Val, E-ect. de Kilmaly. Cornelius McConsidin. Church and chauncell

repaired. Vic. de eadem, Thos Prichard.
Eect. de Killeneboy. Thos Prichard. Ch and chauncell down.
Vic. de eadem, Barthol White, minister legens. Barthol White, inservit

curae.
Eect. de Eath. Daniel Mc Gillie saghta [now Lysaght, W. E.]. Church

and chauncell repayred.
Vic. de eadem. Barthol White, inservit curas.

Edmond O'Hogan to appere before the Commis att Innish for these.
c Eect. sive prebend de Diserfc. Andreas McGilliesaghta. Chancel up,
\ church downe. Bart White, curat.

] Vic. de eadem, dudum vacavit sequestrata. Cornell McGilliesaghta ad
C inserviendum curae.

J Eect. de Killnamona. Franciscus Frothingham, minister praedicat.
( Vic. de eadem. Church and chappie in reasonable repaire.
Eect. de Kilkeady, Vic. de eadem. Jacobus Darsy, scho. studendi, gratia-
Chui^ch and chauncell unrepayred. Evan Jones, minister leg
inservit cui^ae.

DECANATUS DE COEKAVASIN.

Eect. de Clonidagad. Improp. dmo. Baroni de Inchiquin. Church

and chauncell repaired.
Vic. de eadem, Eobertus Frothingham, a deacon inservit cur^.
Eect- de Killchrist. Improp Comiti ThomoniEe. Church and chauncel

downe.
Vic. de ead, vacat. Eobt Frothingham, curatus qui supra.
Eect. de Disertmurhuly als Killedisert. Imp. Comiti Thomoniae. Church

and chauncell in repairing.
Vic. de eadem . My Lord of Thomond undertakes to admit an honest

man in the vicaradge.
Eect. de Killfeddan. Impropr Comiti ThomonijB. Church and chancel

downe.
Vic. de ead, vacat. My Lord of Thomond undertakes as aforesayd.
Eect. de Killofin. Imp Com Thomon. Church and chauncell well up.
Vic, de ead, Franciscus Frothingham. Cumt, Christopher Frothing-
ham.
Eect. de Kilmurry, ) Improp Com Thomona3. Church and chauncel m

Clonderelah ) reasonable repaire,
Yic. de eadem. Eobertus Frothingham.

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Val. 3Z.
Val. ZOs.

VaL 40«.

Val, U.
Val. 30^.

VaL 40^.
VaL 30«.

Val. 50s.

Val. U.

VaL 3Z.

Endorsed
" KHaUow
pro 5 De-
canatibus.
Suthwell."

Eect. de Killarda ad prebend de Killrash. Churcli and chauncel re-

payred.
Vic. de eadem. Eobertus Tuisden, Minister predicat inservit Cur«.
Eect. de Killamm^e, Imp Comiti Thomon®. Church and chanceU up.
Vic. de eadem. My Lord of Thomond undertakes as aforesayd.
Eect. de Killmichell. Impr Comiti Thomonise. Ch and chancel up.
Vic. de ead. Eobertus Frothingham, qui supra.
Eect. de Killmcaduan. Imp Com Thomon. Church and chauncel

uncovered.
Vic. de ead. Eobert Tuisden, qui supra, inservit Cure.
Eect. sive Prebend de Killmsh. Marcus Lynch, student, deprived.

The Preb sequestr to Eobert Tuesden.
Eect. de Killfieraghe. Spectat ad Prebend de Killrush. Church and

chauncel um-epaired.
Vic. de eadem, vac. Wilmus Milsam, a mere layman.
Eect. de KilbaUihone ad Preb de Tomgreny. Church and chauncel

uncovered. Wmus Milsam, Cure, qui supra.
Eect. de Kilmurry Ibrickan. Improp Comiti Thomonias. Church and

chauncel repaired.
Vic. de eadem. ISTo vicar. No curat. Comitted to my L of Thomond.
Eect. de Killfarboy. Improp Comiti Thomond. Chuix-h and chauncell

repaired.
Vic de eadem. Barthols White, insei-vit curee.
Eect. de Moefartah. Impropr Comiti Thomond. Church and chancel

uncovered.
Vic. de eadem. Eobt Tuisden, qui supra, inservit Curae.

Laonensis Dioceseos pars, viz.
Decanatus Ormoniae Superioris et Inferioris. Decanatus de Ely

0 'Carroll seu ( ).

DECANATUS GEMGNLE.

Eectoria de Nenah. Impropriat at Monaster de Gwney Sii' Edmund

Walsh— firmarius. Church raynous, chancell downe. No curat.
Vicaria ibidem. Impropriata va<?at.
Eect. integra de Ballinacloy. Est membrum decanatus Laonensis. De-

canus inservit.
Eectoria de Lisbimny. Impropriat ad monasterium de Gwney, Sir

Ed. Walsh, firmarius. Chuixh and chancel down. No cumt.
Vic ibidem, impropriat vacat.
Eect. de Killanruffe. Impropriat ad monasterium de Tyone. Sancti

Johis de Neynah. Church and chancel down. No curate.
Vicaria ibidem. Impropriat vacat.
Eect. de Dola. Impropriata spectat ad mensam Epi.
Vic. ibidem, impropriat va<;at. Dms de Inchequyii tenet. No curat.
Eect. integra de Kilkeery. Hugo Hogan, Decanus Laonensis.
Eect. integra de Dunnamona, est capella annexa ad parochiam de

Killalow, et spectat ad Decanum et capitulum Laonen. No church,

no chancel, no curate.
,Eect. de Burgo boga. Impropriat ad monasterium de Gwney, Sir

Edward Walsh. A good church, a good chauncell.
„ pr Incumljcntiif.

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Yicar ibidem. Donatus 0 'Kenedy Studens. Precentor Ecclesise Cath,

inservit Curse
Rec.'de Yoghallarra, est parcella rectoriae de Moysea et Decanatus

Laon, spectat ad Decanum.
Yic. ib est parcella vicarise de ffennogh ut dicitur. Piers Butler,

Incumbens, Yicar.
Bector de Castletownarra. Danl. 0' Kenedy, Cler. Precentor Laonens.

Churcli and cbancell well.
Yic. ibidem idem Daniel, Yaloris, 8Z. aut circiter.
E/Cct. integra de Dromineer, est membrum Decanatus Laonensis,

Dictus incumbens inservit curse. Ch- and cba- well.
Rector de Killmore impropriat ad fabric eccliae Cath.
Eect. de Kneagb. Improp ad monaster De Owney, Sir Edmund Walsli.

Churcb ruined, chancel.
Yic. ibidem. Jobs Hogan Studens. Precentor inservit. Yalo 31.
Eect. de Killodiema, improp. ad monast. de Tyone.
Yic. ib impropriat. No curat.
Eect. de Clobapriora impropriat ad monast de Tyone. Church and

chancel down.
Yic. ib impropriat. No curat.
Eect. de Kilbarraia. Impropnat ad Monaster de Owney, Sir Edm

Walsh. Ecclesia et cancella in ruin.
Yic. ibm. Geraldus Fytzgerald in arte Baccalaureus. Decanus in-
servit. Yalor 5?'.
Eect. de Ardcrony. Impropriat ad Mensam Epi. Chauncell up, the

body down.
Yic. ib Patricius 0 'Hogan, inservit Cui'^e. Yalor 405.
Eect. de Modrinich. Petms Butler,. Cler. Yalor 101 Chauncell up,

church down.
Yic. ib idem Petrus. Inservit Curse.
Eect. de Kilroain, Impropr. ad Monast. de Tyon. Church quite

downe. No curat.
Yic. ibid impropriat. Yacat.

Eect. de Balligibbon. Digoiy Hawkes, Cler. inservit Cure. Yal. 41.
Yic. de Balligibbon. Impropriata. Yacat, nullus Curatus.
Eec. de BaUimacky, improp. ad monaster de Tyon.
Yic. e-jusdem est parcella annexa ad dignitat Cancellariatus Laonensis.

Val. 20 nobles. Deprived for non-residence. Corpus Cancellariatus.
Eec. integra de Thome, est simihs parcella, et memb cancellariatus

Laonensis. Pars cancellariatus.
Eect. de Athanameala impropriat ad Abbathiam de Tyone. Brian

Magrath tenet.
Yic. ib. impropriat.

Eect. de Burss na fierna, Impropriat. Neither church nor chauncell.
Yic. ib. impropriat.
Eect. de Lattrah. Yal. 4?.. Donat O'Kennedy, Studens. Precentor in-

sei^t. Church and chauncell well.
Yic. de Lattrab. Est membrum precentoriatus Laonensis. Yaloris

40s. Pi-ecentor inservit.

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Eect. de Templedeiy. Impropriata ad Abbathiam de Tjone. Church

and chauncell down.
Yic. ibidem, impropriat. Yacat.
Rect. de Kilderidagrum. Impropriat ad Tjon.
Kilerin ibidem. Impropriata. ISTo curat. Yacat.
Eect. de Fennoh. Petrus Butler, Cler. Minister legens. A church only

in repayr, no chauncell.
Yic. ib. id Petrus. Inservit cura).
Rect. do Tirreglas est membnim Eectorise de Fennoh. Petrus Butler

minister legens. Pr with Finoa supra. Chancel covered.
Yic. ibidem est membrum Decanatus Laon. Decanus inservit est Corpus

Decan.
Rector de Lorrho — impropriat. Una pars ad Priorem de Lorra. Chaun-
cell up, Church down. Altei'u est parcella Archidiaconatus

Archidiaconus inservit cura3.
Yicaria ibidem. Est parcella Archidiaconatus Laonensis. Ipse

inservit, pr.
Rect. de Bonohom. Patricius O'Hogan clencus tenet per dispensationem

Yal. 3L Church up and Chauncell.
Yic. ib. impropriat Priori Lorha, vacat. IsTo curat.
Rect. de Durroh. Patricius O'Hogan per dispensationem.
Yic. ib. impropriat ad Priorem de Lorra. No curat. Sequest.
Rect. de Lockin. Est Prsebend^ de Lockin, ad Decanum Lymeri-

censem. Church and chancell well repayred.
Yic. de Lockin. Brian O'Hogan, Studens. Yalor 3Z.
Rect. de Ballingary. Impropriat ad Abbathiam de Any Sr Rich Boylo

firmarius.
Yic. ib Patricius O'Hogan cler idem inservit. Yal. 3?.
Rect. de Usgenan, improp ad Monasterium de Any Sir Richd Boyle.

Church and chancel decayed, all save the Yicar's part.
Yic. ib Ceraldus Figerald in Art Baccalaui-eus Studens in coUegio.
Rect. de Aglisclohan est parcella Rectorise de Durro, ujia pars : et

altera pars est parcella de Rect de Finnoh. Piers Butler et Ai'chidia-

conus. Ch and chauncell well.
Yic. de ead est membrum Archidiaconat Laon, Ipse inservit.
Rect. de Buiiskean, impropriat ad Monaster de Owney.
Yic. de ead. Petrus Butler, Cler.
Rectoria de Mosea. Yal. 20?. Ch and chan well.
Yic. ibid vacat. Yal. 87.
Hactenus de Decanatu Ormoni^, incipit Decanatus de Ely.

DECANATUS DE ELY O'CARROLL.

Rect. de Roscrea, impropriat ad Monaster de Tyon, Olyver Grace,
fii-marius. Yal. 8L Sequestrat ob ruinam ecclesice.

Yic. ib ^neas Callanan Apostata, ideo sequestratur. Yicaria valet 9?.
Church and chauncell downe.

Rect. de Castletowne. Impropriat ad Tion. Oliver Grace finnarius valet.
Chui'ch down and chauncell up. Seqr.

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Vic. ibidem Cornelius O'Sheran cler, inservit Cur^. Yalet 5L

Rect. de Eamaveog. Impropriat ad Tyon. (Firmarius) Oliver Grace

valet — Churcli and chauncell downe.
Yic. ib est parcella Yicarige de Castleton, Cornelius O'Sheran, qui supra,

inservit Curee. Parcella Castleton and rated there.
Eect. Integra de Finglas, dicitur ea parcella de Dunkerin. Rector Cor-
nelius O'Sheran. Yalet 205. Parcella Dunkerin.
Eect. de Dunkerin, impropriat ad Tyon. Firmarius Olyver Grace.

Yalet 121. Church downe, chauncel up.
Yic. ibidem, Cornelius O'Sherin cler, inservit cure et residet, valet 6L
Eect. de Templehary. Improp ad Tyon. Firmarius quis upra, valet —

Church and chauncell down tyme owt of mynd.
Yic. ib est pcella Yicarise de Dunkerin. Cornelius O'Keran qui supra.

Yalet 20s.
Eect. de Burrin impropriat ad monasterium Sancte Crucis. Firmarius

Comes Ormoniae. Yalet 20 mks.
Yic. ibid Stephanus Stephens Studens. Cornelius O'Keran inservit

cm-as, valet 20 nobles. Habet pro stipendio 20s. Church and

chauncell np.
Eect. de Swinroan est impropriat ad Tyrone Oliver Grace firmarius.

Yalet. Ch and chan up.
Yic. ib Nicolaus Nelly studens. No curat. Ideo sequcstratus fructus in

manus Nicolai Nelly, una cam fructibus rcctoriee de Kilmurrey.
Eect. de Kilmurrey Nicolaus Nelly studens, valet cum priori vicaria de

Swynroan 4 lib.
Yic. ibidem Taddeus O'Donnilan studens, Gualterus Fytzsymons inser-
vit cura3. Yalet 40s. Ch and chan up.
Eect. de Birrha. Walter Fizimon cler inservit cura3. Yalet 10 marks.

Church repayrmg and chancel up.
Yic. ib vacat et sequcstratus in manus Patricii O'Hogan, Archidiaconi.

Sequcstratus ad manus Walteri FitzSymons qui inservit curas.
Eect. de Kilcolman. Est parcella rector de Birrha. Yalet 10 marks.

Eector qui supra. Church downe, chauncell up.
Yic. ib. impropriat, valet 5Z. No curat, sequestrat.
Eect. de Ahankon improp ad monast de Thome. Firmarius Bemardus

Magrorgs. Church and chan downe. Sequestr.
Yic. ib impropriat ad monester vel prioratum do Innishnambeo .

(Now Monahincha.) No curat, to Mr Jas Dyllon firmar.

Sequest.
Eect. de Etagh impropriat ad mon. de Tyone firm, qui supra. Ch and

chan u-p.
Yic. ib. Eneas Qallanan. Apostata, ideo sequest. No curat.
Eectoria temporalis de Eoskomroe impropriat, ad Tyone, fir qui supra.

Ch and chan partly uncovered. Yalet 6 li.
Eectoria ecclesiastica ib. impropriat to Sir Jas Dyllon. Yalet 4-0 p.

Parcella ejud parochias.
Yicaria de Eoskomro. Thomas Denteth predictus concronat. Yalet

4 1. The ch and chan partly uncovered, sequestrantur fructus recto-

riarum eb vicaria? in manus vicarii ad aDdificationem ccclesia?.

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Eect, Integra de Clonfertmulloh. Taddeus O'Donnilan stndens. Gual-

terus Fitzsymons inservit cur^. Valet 4 li. Ch and chan up.
Eect. temporalis de Ejnnitj improp ad monast de Inyshimeo — fir-

marius Jacobus Dyllon Miles. Yal vi. li.
Eectoria ecclestica Gulihelmus Donnilan studens. Yalet 6 li.
Yic. de Ejuonity. Idem Gulihelmus Donnilan. Tho Denteth inservit

Curae. Yal 4 li. Ch and chan downe.
Ideo sequestr: fruct utriusque. Eectorise et vicariae in manus Edmundi

Donolan ad sedificationem ecclesise ante mensem Mali prox., viz.

anno 1616.
Eect. temporalis de Litterluna improp ad monast de Inyshymeo

firmar Jacobus Dyllon Miles valet ( )

Eect. ecclesiastica ib. Thom Denteth cler qui inservit curae. Yal 201.

Ch and chan down. Sequest fructus.
Yic. ibidem vacat et sequestratur in manus ejusd Thomae ad inser-

viendum curas animarum. Yalet 3 li. Sequestrantur fructus.

Yicariae et Eectorise ecclesiae in manus Thomas Dent, ut inser-

viat curae, et asdificet eam partem ecclesige qua3 ad vicarium et seip-

sum pertinet.
Eect. Integra de Ej.1 cummin. Yacat et seqr. in manus Caroli 0 'Carroll

ad reparationem templi et reliquos usus in lege destinatos. Cornelius

O'Sheran inservit curas habet stipendium 20^. Church and

chancell downe. Yalet 3 li.
Eect. de Quillanoan imiDropriat ad Tyone, fir qui supra.
Yic. ib sequestr. No curat. Ch and cha downe.
Eect. de Inshinameoh (Insula viventium. W. E.) als CorbaUy im-

propriata ad prioratum de Inyshymeo fir. Guil Dyllin.
^5* nota.

Church and chauncell up, but shut up agaynst the minister and

reserved for masses. (This is the veritable old church near Eoscrea

which Ledwich has described. W. E.)
Yic. ib impropriata ad predict monast de Inyshymeo. Yacat. No

curat.

In Decanatu de OrmomEe et Ely 0' Carroll.
Sunt 50 Eectorias et Yicariae imropriatas ad monasteria vel prioratus,
viz.,

In Decanatu Ormonise sunt Eect improp ... ... 17

Et vie ib improp ... ... ... ... ... 15

In Decanatu de Ely O'CaiToll sunt rect improp ... 14

Et vicarice ib improp ... ... ... ... 4

Sacerdotes misales {i. e.,
Onnonia

Mortah O'Glassan
Piers McCostei
Wm O'Hogan
Edraond 0' Kenny
H

Mass Priests) sunt in
Ely 0' Carroll
Teig Moynahau
Shane Gago
Wm O'Hegan
Teig McShane

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fforgenanim Egan Philip O'Hynan
(vir sine nomine) Teigh O'Gownan

Lndimagistri Papales — Papist Schoolmasters.
Patrick and Mary
Nicolas Webb, Welshman
(ISTomina impropriatorum spectant ad comitem Ormoniae
Diocesem Ossorien, quorum cancellae non sunt reparatse.)

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BOOKE OF MY CLEARGIE OF MY DIOCES OF KILLFENORAGHB
AND ALL THE PARSONS VICARS AND CURATES INCUMBENTS
IN ALL THE PARISHES OF THE DIOCES ACCORDINGE TO THE
RIGHT HONAJBLE THE LORD VISITORS DIRECTIONS.

Livinges belonging to the
Deanrye of Killfeno-
raghe.

Bectoria de Kiltoraghe.

Kectoria de Cloen.

Rectoria de Glaninaghe.

Bectoria de

Livinges pertaining to the

Tr easur er shipp .
Rectoria de Drum-Krye In-

tegi'um.

The Dean Donnellon is revolted to popery.

valoris 6/.
Sequestred by the faculties, nowe voyd.
All these^Churches ruyned.

Treasurer of the said Cathedrall Churche
Mr. Evan Jones minister and preacher
who hath vnited to the said Treasurer-
ship the Vicarages of Elillmakrie and
Killaspoclanan. These are valet nijlL,
the Vicaridges iijU. Church and Chaun-
cell ruinated.

Chauncelor of the said Cathedrale Churche
Mr. Richard Walker minister and
preacher who hath vnited to the said
Chauncelorshipp the parsonage and
vicaradge of Killeylage Cancellar valet
40s. Rectorige valent xxvis. Sd. Kil-
muney 6Zt. V3s. M. Killeylaghe : all
ruinated, Church and Chancels ruin-
ated.

The Archdeacon of the said Church Mi'«
Hughe Powell, who hath united to the
said Dignitie the parsonadge and vicar-
age of Rathbornie the vicarages of
Uchtmawne and Killmanahyn. Archi-
diacon valet iiij^i. 105. Rathbornie valet
305. Uchtmawne 205. Kilmanahinl3s.4(^.
Churches and Chancells ruinated.

The chauntershippe ignoratur for as I have
learned it hath bin swallowed up in loose
tyme.

Vicar de Nochvall and ) Murtogh oDaveryn minister and an Irishe-
Tomalyn. ] man. Valet xxxs.

Parson and Vicar of Killc- } Bartholomew White minister and an Irish-
no ^han. ] man. Valet xxxv6\ All downe.

Livinges pertayning to the

Chauncelorshipp.
The Rectorie of Killeny.
The Rectorie of LTchtmawn.
The Rectorie Ealltorney.

Livinges belonginge to the

Archdeacon.
Rectoria de Killaspoclonan.
Rectoria de Killmakrie.
Rectoria de Killmanahyn.

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Parsonage of ISTocliwall ) Jolin Willson deacon not yet, and scliole-
and Yicar of Killkornej > master of the said dioces of Killf enoraghe.
and Clowney. ) Yalent 50^. All downe.

N Sequestred this yeare towardes the cover-
mi ^. p -j^.-,, / inge of the cathedrall churche ; and f or the

and Killtoraghe.

The Deane
The Treasurer
The Chancelor
The Archdeacon

Willm ISTeland, deacon

Mm-toghe oDaveryn minis-
ter

Andi'eas McGrillisaught

Derby Nestor

Mathew Powell

The last cannon portion

vicaradge of Killenye is to be receaved
i xiiij s. by Wm. JSTeylen and for the vicaradge
of Killtoraghe xxs, and no more.

The Cannon Portions nomuie prebendarum
belonging to the cathedrall church of
Killf enoraghe.

Hath one cannon portion belonging to his
dignitie of anncient cnstome xiiij^.

Hath one cannon portion belonging to his
dignitie xiiij.?.

Hath one cannon portion belonging to his
dignitie xiiij 5,

Hath one cannon portion belonging to his
dignitie xiiij §.

Hath one cannon portion, xiiij.?.

Hath one cannon portion xiiij 5.

A Protestant's somi and a student in the
Colledge att Dublin hathe one cannon
portion xiiij 8.

A Protestant, hath one cannon portion
xiiij s.

A minister's sonn hath one cannon portion
studendi gratia xiiij 5.

Is sequestred this yeere onely for the repa-
racion of the cathedrall church.

Parson and Yicar of ) Mr. Marke Pagett the younger, bachelor of Arts
Came Integr. ( and Student in the Colledg att Dubhn

THE STATE AND VALUE OF THE BISHOPRIC OF KLLFENORAGHE.

The Byshopricke of Killf enoraghe in the Kinges bookes valued att \s.
Irishe per annum

The just value as it is now, appereth in the particulars followeinge

There are in the Baronye of Corkcomrowe two plowlands J

belonging to the manor house of Kilfenoraghe f .... -..
Demayne landes, and in the Bushoppes possession T •'"
per annum ... ... ... ... ... ... ;

One plowland in the barony of Burren called Drom-
cree Derrayen lands and in the Bushoppes possession /
leased to one Hugh Powell of which lease there are > xl. s
behinde of xxitie yeres xij yeres, the rent xl6\ per \
annum

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THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE^ ETC., IN THE

CHIEFFE RENTE IN THE BARONYE OF CORKGOMROWE.

Cloen — twoe quarters — Rent per annum
Licken one quarter — Rent per annum
Kiltoraglie twoe quarters — Rent per annum
Ballywrea twoe quarters — Rent per annum
Ballycross one quarter — Rent per annum
Kearnhmebaughely — two quarters, Rent per annum
Kearhumore — one quarter — Rent per annum
Lisdowny — one quarter — Rent per annum
Ballingowne foure quarters — Rent per annum ...
Ballytarsenaglie, one quarter — Rent per annum...
Ychtoraghe one half quarter — Rent per annum . . .
Killenbegeaglan and Killaclu-ie ny Killy — Rent

annum
Killmachree foure quarters — Rent per annum . . .
Liskanerye, one quarter— payeth no Rent

per

XX. s
X. s
XX. s

xxiij. s iiij. d
xi. s viij. d
viij. s iiij. d
yiij. s iiij. d
xi. s viij. d
xl. s

xi. s viij. d
X. s

iii. s iiii. d

XX. s

Chieff Rents in the Baeonye or Bukren.

ISTohewall, four Cesses — Rent per annum ... ... ... iiij. li

Killcorne, two Cesses — Rent per annum ... ... ... xx. s

Uclitmawne and Aglienonan, foure Cesses — Eent per

annum ... ... ... ... ... ... ... xl. s

Gleaninaghe, five Cesses — Rent per annum xx. s

Killenalian, twoe Cesses — Rent per annum ... ... xx. s

Ejromelin, one Cesse —Rent per annum ... ... ... x. »

Annuall Proxies fif tie two shillinges lij. s

The Ilandes of Aron auncientlye belonginge to the Bishopricke of Kill-
fenoraghe which are live markes rent. "Where also there are twoo
Prebendes belonginge to the Cathedrall Churche the one named
Disarte Breckan the other Killurly. But I could never gett any
thinge out of the said Ilandes since I had the Commendam of the
Bishopricke, which is almost Tenn yeares.

So the true value of the Bishopricke of Killfenoraghe )
communibus annis amounteth to no more then )

BAR LiMER ET FeNCH.

This was Barnard or Bernard Adams, Bishop of Limerick and Kil-
fenora.

We now direct special attention to

THE STATE OF THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE, PRESENTED TO HIS
MAJESTIES COMMISSIONERS AT DUBLIN, JULY 1, 1622, PER
JOHANNEM LAONENSEM EPISCOPUM.

(This copy was made from a copy in my possession, this 8th of July,
by a writer employed by me, and named Wm. Edward Ellis.

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101

The copy, from which this copy was made, was made by myself from,
what is most probably the original Eeport, in May, 1873.

The Document from which my copy was made was temporarily placed
in my hands by Major R. A. Stnddert for the purpose of having
a copy made for Eichard jN'ugent, Esq., of 32, Charing Cross, Lon-
don, which copy was duly made by the aforesaid clerk for Mr.
ISTugent, to whom the copy was duly forwarded. The said Document
was duly returned by Major Studdert's direction to the Dean of
Killaloe, the Yery Eev. J. H. Allen, the Eegistrar of that Diocese.

Archdeacon Cotton speaks of this document in his Fasti, and says it is
worth printing. He also states that there is a copy in the Cashel
Diocesan Eegistry.

This copy was made for Eev. P. Dwyer, and at his expense.

Christopher Feeling M'Cready, M.A., Clk.)
Dublin, 8 July, 1874.

THE LOYALL ANSWER OF JOHN RIDEB BISHOP OF KILLALOE TO
THE EOTALL DEMAUNDS OF HIS MATIE PROPOSED BY HIS
HOBLE COMISSIONERS IN 14 ARTICLES WHEREOF 12 ARE
EXPRESSED IN THEYR LETTERS TO ME DIRECTED BEARING
DATE APR. 23, 1622. AND YE OTHER TWO ARE EXPRESSED IN
THEYR SECOND LETTER DAT MAY 1 1622

How many Parish Chm^ches are wthin ye Diocese of Killaloe ?

I answer there are one hundred and sixteene as may appear by a par-
ticular account of them given in the answer to the thii-d article.

^he second How many of those churches are Presentative and wch are appropriate ?

.rticle. J ajiswer yt ye chm'ches in my diocese canot be so distinguished for
that some of the churches are divided into 30 [ — P] parts of severall
natui-es : and every church hath his Eectory [and ?] Yicarage ; and
the Eectory may be pstative, and ye Yicarage imppriate, and so on ye
contrary : but all ye Benefices [in .^] my whole Diocesse do stand in
five differences

['he first
.rticle.

^Donative

Collative
J Presentative
I Appropriate

Impropriate

^from ye Kings Matie
from ye Bishop
from Lay Patrons

beins

To ye Bp Deane, chap. | number

and Prebends
To certain Abbies

90
16

64[?]
78

And wch of ye sd Benefices are so Donative, Collative Presentative
Apppriate or Imppriate is set downe in ye first columne ye answere to
the thu'd article thi^oughout every page.

^he thii'd How are ye said churches and Parishes supplied with ministers, Curates
.rticle. and Incumbents, and how are ye Cm-es discharged ?

I answer this article by a particular enumeration of [every ?] Parish
Church wthin my Diocese, together wth ye names of [the ?] Incum-
bent and Curate, also (if there be no Incumbent) ye qu [ — ?] of theyr
persons, and yearely value of theyr benefices as ne [arly ?] as could be
remembered (diductis diducendis) mentioning also the Patrons of ye
said livings, and what pxies are aunciently due to mc ye Bishop out
of ye said severall Benefices : as followeth

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THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE^ ETC., IN THE

Proxies.

£ 8. d.
15 0

[?]'

Benefices.

The Deanery to
whicli belonges :—
Eectory in- j ^^v
tire of Dro- > -d -p
mmeer... P^^^^"
Rectory in-
tire of Kil-
teery

Yicarage of
Ballinacloliy
Yicarage of
Tirraglasse
Ologinkelly
of Yohall,

£ s. cl
20 0 0

[?]5 0

[?][?] 8

[?]6 8

61
Ben

62
Ben,

88
Ben,

68
Ben

The Chauntorship
to wch belongs Yi-
carage of Lattrah
and ye Clohinkel
lies of

Kilmore

Kilteely

Clonibrah

Kiltinanleh

The Chauncellor'
ship to wch be-
longs Rectory in-
tire of Thorn

Yicarage of Bally-
macky

The Treasnrership
to wch belongs
the Yicarage of
Dromkeen and ye
Clohinkellies of
fhnnah, Killinasu
lah.

The Archdeaconry,
to wch belongs the
Yicarage of Clo^
han, the Yicarage
of Lorrho, and
part of ye Rectory
of Lorrho.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Hugh Hogan, a native
minister and canon^
ist.

Installed in ye yeare
1602.

How ye Cures are
served shall appeare
in theyr severall
places.

The King's
Majestic,

5 0 0 Daniel Kennedy, a na-
tive minister and ca-
nonist.
Installed in Anno 1604
Cm-e served by him-
self e.

15 0 O'lohn Blagi-ave, mi-
nister and preacher,
a man of good learn-
ing and conversa-
tion.

Installed Aug. 26th,
1618.

Cure served by him-
self e.

10 0 0

20 0 0

Nicholas Bright, a mi-
nister and preacher,
a man of good con-
versation.
Installed in Anno 1616
Cure not served, see
ye cause alledged by
ye incumbent pag. — ,

Patrick Hogan, a na-
tive minister and
canonist.
Installed in Anno 1590
Cures sei-ved by Brian
O'Moldhan, pag.(— )
numero ( — ) in this
booke.

Patrons.

The Bishop
of Klillaloe.

The Bishop

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103

Proxies.

£ s. d.
10 0

0 14 4

Benefices.

Prebend, of Tom-
greeny, to wch. be-
longs Eectory in-
tire of Tomgreeny.

Eectory intire of
Killoolah.

Part of ye Rectory
of Kilballihon.

£
20

Value.

Incumbents.

Prebend, of Ennis-
kalty to wch be^
longeth Rectory
of ye Iland of En-
niskalty. Rectory
intii'e of
Kilrusbi ...0 5 0
And part
of ye Rec-
tories.
.Killofin ... 2
Killoemuir. 1
Kilfiera ... 3

of^

Killardah.. 0 6
MoeJBEarta.. 1 3
KilbalHhon 0 8

14 4

0 3 4 Prebend, of Lockin,
to wch. belongeth
the Rectory of
Lockin.

0 3 4

0 0 8

Prebend, of Tulloh^
to wch belongeth
the one halfe of
ye Rectory of
Tulloh.

Prebend, of Disert,
to wch belongeth
some small por-
tion of tithes in
ye parish of Di-
sert.

0 Barnard Lo. Bishop of
Limerick.

Installed in Anno

1610.
Cures how served.

Yide in suis locis.
Pag. 7. Num. 22.
Pag. 11. Num. 54.

Patrons.

40 0 0, Thomas Edens, a min-
ister and preacher,
sometimes student
in Oxford : a man of
good life and con
versation.

Installed in Anno 1617

Cui'e of Ealrush served
by himself e.

The rest are served by
their severallYicars.

Pag. — in this booke.

8 0 0

16 0 0

2 0 0

Denis Garforth, a mi-
nister, one of good
life and conversa-
tion.

Installed Oct. 31, 1620.

Cure served by ye
Yicar.

Daniel Kennedy.
Qui supra, pag, 2,
Installed in Anno 1604.
Cure served by ye
Yicar.

John Steere, student,

sone to ye L Bp of

Ardfert.
Installed studendi

gratia for 3 yeares,

Jan. 12, 1620.
Cure served by ye

Yicar.

The Bishop
of KiUaloe.

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THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE, ETC., TN THE

Proxies.

Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

£ s. d.
0 10

Prebend, of Clonda-
gad, to wch be-
longeth some
small portion of
tith in ye Parish
of Clondagad.

£ s. d.
10 0

Nicholas Booth, min-
ister and preacher.

Installed Sept. 3, 1619.

Cure served by yo
Yicar.

The Bishop

0 0 8

Prebend, of Path,
to wch belongeth
some small por-
tion of tithe in ye
Parish of Path.

10 0

Eichard Wilkins,
Master of Arts, a
knowne preacher of
good life and learn-
ing.

Installed Jan. 10, 1621.

Cure served by ye
Yicar.

G^ Thus farre of ye Deane, Chapter, and Prebends. Now foUowe the
severall Deaneries in the Diocese whereby shall be gathered ye number of
ye parishes in ye whole Diocese.

I.— IN YE DEANEEY OF OMOLLED.

Proxies.

Benefices.

£ 8. d.

0 3[P]4, Killaloe parish
Eectory intire.

Yalue.

£ s. d.
20 0 0

Incumbents.

Patrons.

The deane and chapter,Deane and
who partly by some chapter to
of themselves,jwhom it is

partly by some orApppriate,
ye preb e ndarie s , and
partly by others
have ye word of God
there preached

every Sabbath.

[r?J
EandoU Huxley, a
native and a minis-
ter brought up in
ye Colledge at Dub-
lin, one of good life
and learning is cu-
rate Eesident there.

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Proxies.

Benefices.

£ s. d.

0 1 SClonlea—

Rectory

0 18

Yicarage

10 0 0

0 5 0
0 5 0

Ej.lfinagh.ta —
Rectory

Yicarage

0_1 8
0 18

Kilteely—
Rectory

Yicarage

0 5 0
0 5 0

Kilurain —
Rectory

Yicarage

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

Richard ff oiler, minis- Earle of
ter, a man of goodThomond.
conversation. |

Inducted Anno 1617. The Bishop

George Zouch, minis-
ter a man of good
conversation.

Inducted Anno 1617.

Cure served by him-
self e.

12 0 0
12 0 0

Richard ffuller, quiEarle of
supra. jThomond.

Andrew Chaplaine a The Bishop
minister and zealous'
preacher : a man of ^
good life and con-
versation.

Inducted in Anno
1614.

Cure served by him-
selfe.

8 0 0 Richard fPuller, qui
supra.

8 0 0 William DoiiilanJ

Master of Arts and
a minister : a native,
and a preacber : a
man of good learn-
ing and conversa-
tion.
Inducted Apr.l6, 1622.
Cure served by G-eorge
Zouch, qui supra

4 0 0 Rich, duller, qui supra Earle of

j JThomond.

4 0 0 William Doiiilan, qui The Bishop
supra.
Cure served by George
Zouch, qui supra.

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THE DIOCESK OF KILLALOE, ETC., IN THE

Proxies.

Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

£ 8. cl
0 2 6
0 2 6

Killokenedy —
Rectory

Yicarage

e 8. d.
6 13 4
6 13 4

Rich, ffuller, qui supra

Marmaduke Tailour, a
zealous preacher : a
man of good learn-
ing and conversa-
tion.

Inducted in Anno
1621.

Cure served by him-
selfe.

Earle of
Thomond.
The Bishop

0 3 4

TCilnoa —
Rectory

Yicarage

6 13 4
6 13 4

Richard SuUer. Qui
supra num. 2.

John Corbett: minister
one who reades to
ye people in ye Irish
Comunion Booke :
and is of good con-
versation. Inducted
in Anno 1614. Cure
served by himselfe.

Earle of
Thomond.
The Bishop

0 2 6
0 2 6

ffeacle —
Rectory

Yicarage

10 0 0
10 0 0

Richard ffuller. Qui

supra.
Appropriate to ye

JDeane and Chapter.
John Corbett : minister

seizes ye cure there,

being nearer unto

him.

Earle of
Thomond.
Deane and
Chapter, to
whom it is
appropri-
ate.

vid.
pag. 3.

Tomgreeny —

■ Rectory intire

yid.
pag. 3.

The Lord Bishop of
Limmericke. Qui
supra, pag. 3.

Cure served by Mar-
maduke Tailour :
Qui supra num. 6.

The Bishop
of Killaloe.

0 18
0 0 10

Moinoe —
Rectory

Yicarage

6 0 0
3 0 0

Deane and Chapter as

appropriat.
Yacat propter exilitat,

Edward Philips.

Qui infra num. 65.

Served ye cure

hitherto.

Deane and
Chapter.
The Bishop

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Proxies.

£ s.
0 1
0 0 10

0 4 3
0 2 1

0 6
0 3 4

Benefices.

Clonrush —
Rectory

Yicarao^e

Inishgaltrah —
Eectory

Yicai'uge

"Value.

£ s. d.
6 0 0
3 0 0

Incumbents.

Deane and Chapter as
appropriat. |

Yacat propter exilita-
tern. Cure served
by Trig McKjiavin,
a native and a
minister.

Patrons.

2 0 0
10 0

0 13 4
0 6 8

0 2 3
Oil

Ogonilla —
Rectory

Yicarage

Castleconnell, alias
Stradbally, alias
CapeUa de J'dum
Rectory

Yicarage

20 0 0
10 0 0

Killinaganuff-
Rectory

Yicai-age

Kiltinanleh

alias
Dunassy —

Rectory

Yicarasre

Deane and
chapter.
The Bishop

Impropriat. Earle of

Corke.
Yacat propter exilita- The Bishop

tem. Cure not

served, being an

Island, and but one

house.

16 0 0
8 0 0

Impropriat. Earle of

Ormonde.
Nicholas Bright. Qui'Earle of

supra pag. 2. In- Ormonde.

ducted March 18,

1621. Cui^e served

by himselfe.

20 0 0
10 0 0

10 0 0
5 0 0

Richard fPuller. QuilEarle of
sup. no. 2. iThomond.

Marmaduke Tailour. 'The Bishop
Qui. supra nu. 6.

Impropriat.

Nicholas Bright, qui
supra, pag 2.

Inducted Mar.l8, 1621.

Cui'e served by him-
selfe.

Eai'le of

Ormonde.

Idem.

Impropriat

Robert Chaloner

minister, a man of
good conversation.

Inducted July 4, 1621.

Cure served by him-
lelfe.

Earle of
Ormond.
The Bishop

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Proxies.

Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

£ s, d,
0 3 4
0 3 4

Quin —

Rectory

Yicarage

£ s. d.
10 0 0
10 0 0

Lo : Bp. of Limericke
qui supra pag. 3.

John Jesop, a minister
of honest conversa-
tion.

Inducted Jan 10, 1621.

Cure served by him-
self e.

Earle of
Thomond.
The

Bishop of
Killaloe.

0 5 0

donee-
Rectory

Yicarage

10 0 0
10 0 0

Lo : Bp. of Limericke*
qui supra nu 18 [!]

John Jesop, qui supra.

Inducted Jan 10, 1621.

Cure served by him-
seKe.

Earle of
Thomond.
The

Bishop of
IGllaloe.

0 3 4

0 0 10[?]

0 3 4

Tulloh—
Yicarage

16 0 0
Pag. 3

16 0 0

Lo : Bp. of Limericke
qui supra, pag 5.

Daniel Kenedy, qui
supra, pag. 2.

William Hewet, a zea-
lous preacher : a
man of good life and
conversation.

Inducted Anno 1618.

Earle of
Thomond.
The Bishop

The Bishop

0 2 6
0 2 6

Dury —

Rectory

Yicarage

10 0 0
10 0 0

Lo : Bp. of Limericke

qui supra.
G-eorge Andrewe, a
Mr. of Arts of 23
yeares standing, a
learned and zealous
preacher of God's
word, and one of
singular good life
and conversation.
Inducted Apr.26, 1622.
Cure served by Tho-
mas Pritchard, qui
infra, pag.

Earle of
Thomond.
The Bishop

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Proxies.

Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

0 2 6
0 2 6

Kilraghtas —
Eectory

Yicarage

£ s. d.
5 0 0

5 0 0

Lo : Bishop of Lim-
mericke. Qui supra
pag. 3.

Eichard Walker,
minister and
preacher : a man of
good life. Inducted
October 28, 1620.
Cure served by
himselfe.

Earle of
Thomond.

The Bishop

0 0 0

Kiltoolah —

Bectory intire

Pag. 3.

Lo : Bishop of Lim-
ericke. Holds it
as part of ye Pre-
bend of Tom-
greeny, p. 3, n. 1.
Cure not served.

The Bishop
of E:ilIaloe.

0 18
0 18

Templemaly —
Eectory

Yicarage

5 0 0
5 0 0

Lo : Bishop of Lim-
ericke. Qui supra.

Eichard Walker.
Qui supi-a, num. 21.

Earle of
Thomond.
The Bishop

0 2 6

KilmormagaU —
Rectory

Yicarage

8 0 0
8 0 0

Lo : Bishop of Lim-

ericke. Qui supra.
Andrew Chaplain. Q.

supra, pag. 4, num.

3. Inducted ut ubi.

Cure served by hirn-

selfe.

Earle of
Thomond.
The Bishop

0 3 8
0 3 8

Inscronan —
Eectoiy

Yicarage

15 0 0
15 0 0

Lo : Bishop of Lim-
ericke. Qui supi-a.

Yacat. No cure
served.

Earle of
Thomond.
Earle of
Thomond.

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Proxies.

Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

£ s. d.
0 2 10

Tomfinloh—
Eectory

Yicarage

£ s. d.

10 0 0

5 0 0

Yacat.

George Zouch. Qui
supra, pag. 4, num.
2. Inducted in
Anno 1617. Cure
sei'ved by himself e.

Earle of
Thomond.
The Bishop

0 3 4

Killinasoolah —
Eectory

Yicarage

12 0 0
6 0 0

Yacat.

John Yorke, Mr. of
Ai^ts, and preacher:
a man of good learn-
ing and conversa-
tion. Inducted in
Anno 1619. Cure
served by John Cor-
bett. Qui supra,
pag. 5, num. 7.

Earle of
Thomond.

0 15

0 0 9

Kilmallery —
Eectory
Yicarage

6 0 0
8 0 0

Yacat.

Cornelius Keiton, stu-
dent, a native.

Inducted in Anno 1620.

Cure lately served by
Morgan Bennis, a
minister newly dead.

The Bishop
?

0 3 4
0 18

Kilconi^ —
Eectory

Yicarage

8 0 0
4 0 0

Yacat.

Cornelius Keiton, qui

supra, num. 28.
Inducted ut supra.
Cure served ut supra.

Earle of
Thomond.
The Bishop

0 0 10
0 0 10

Clonluhcin —
Eectory

Yicarage

8 0 0
8 0 0

Yacat.

John Yorke, qui supra,

num. 27.
Inducted ut ibi :
Cure served ut ibi :

Earle of
Thomond.
The Bishop

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Proxies.

Benefices.

Value.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

£ s. d.
0 3 4
0 0 0

Dromline —
Eectory

Vicarage

£ 6. d.
20 0 0
Pag. 2.

Ap2^ropriat ad mensam

E'-piscojpi.
Appropriate to ye

Treasurer, viz. :
Nicholas Bright, qui

supra, pag. 2.
No cure served for ye

cause alleadgedpag.

The Bishop
The Bishop

0 0 10
0 0 5

0&nnah —
Eectory

Vicarage

8 0 0
4 0 0

Vacat.

No Cure served.

Earle of

Thomond.

Idem.

0 6 8
0 3 4

Bonralty —
Eectory

Vicarage

13 6 8
6 13 4

Vacat.

Cure served by John
Jesop, qui supra,
num. 17. And ser-
mons often there
preached by ye E.
Hoble ye Earle of
Thomond's chaplain.

Earle of

Thomond.

Idem.

0 6 8
0 3 4

Killuh—
Eectory

Vicarage

10 0 0
5 0 0

Impropriat.

Impropriat ut dicitur.
No cure served.

Lo : Baron
of Insiquin
Idem.

3£

0 1 4

Inishdadi'om —
Eectory

1 Vicarage

Impropriat.

Impropriat ut dicitur.
No cure served.

Earle of
Thomond.
Idem.

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Proxies.

Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

£ s. d.
0 5 6

Dromcliffe —
Eectory

Yicarage

£• s. d.
30 0 0

15 0 0

Thomas Prit chard, a
grave minister and
preacher; a man of
good life and con-
versation. Inducted
in anno 1617.

Idem Thomas. In-
ducted in Anno 1617
Cure served by him-
selfe.

The Bishop
of Killaloe.

Idem.

0 8 0
0 4 0

Kilmaly —
Eectoiy

Yicarage

8 0 0
4 0 0

Thomas Prit chard, qui

supra.
Idem Thomas. Cure

annexed to Drom-

clift'e.

Idem.
Idem.

0 6 8
0 3 4

Elillinaboy —
Eectory

Yicarage

10 0 0
5 0 0

Bartholomew White, a
minister and native :
a man of good life.

Idem Bartholomew.
Inducted 5th Octo-
ber, 1613. Cure
served by himselfe.

Idem.
Idem.

0 4 0

0 2 0
Pag. 3.

Eath—

Eectory

Yicarage
Prebend

10 0 0

5 0 0
Pag. 3.

Andreas Gillisaght, a
minister and a na-
tive, one that was
educated in ye Col-
ledge at Dublin and
reades ye Irish ser-
vice to ye people,
and is of honest con-
versation. Inducted
October 28th, 1620.

Idem Andreas, who
serves the cure
there.

Eichard Wilkins, pag.
3.

Idem.

Idem.
Idem.

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Proxies.

Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

£ s. d,
0 6 4

0 3 0
Pag. 3.

Disert—

R ectory

Yicarage
Prebend

£ s. d.
20 0 0

10 0 0
Pag. 3.

John Twenbrooke, a
minister and
preacher ; a man of
good learning and
conversation. In-
ducted 28th Octo-
ber, 1620.

Andreas Gillisaght,
qui supra, num. 39.
Cm-e served by him-
self e.

John Steere, student,
qui supra, pag. 3.

Idem.

Idem.
Idem.

0 5 0

Kilnamona—
Rectory intire

10 0 0

Richard Walker, qui
supra, num. 21.

Cure served by him-
selfe.

The Bishop
of Killaloe.

0 5 10
0 2 10

Kilkeedy —
Rectory
Yicarage

10 0 0
5 0 0

Yacat.

Daniel O'Meara, a
native aad minister.

Inducted in Anno 1620.

Cure served by him-
self e.

Idem.
Idem.

Y.— m YE DEANERY OP CORKOYASKIN.

Proxies.

Benefices.

Clondagad —
Rectory

Yicarage

Prebend

Yalue.

£ s. d.

10 0 0

5 0 0

Pacr. 3.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

Impropriat. L. Baron of

Insiquin.

Nicholas Booth, qui The Bishop
supra, pag. 3 .

Inducted 28 Mar. 1621

Cure served by him-
self e.

Idem JSTicolaus.

Idem.

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Proxies.

Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

£ s. d.
0 4 5
0 2 3

Kilchrist —
Eectory

Yicarage

£ s, d.

12 0 0

6 0 0

Impropriat.

Yacat.

No cure served.

Earle of

Thomond.

Idem.

0 4 5
0 2 3

Killidysert als Di-
sert morhnly —
Eectory
Yicarage

12 0 0
6 0 0

Imppriat.

Yacat.

Cure not served.

Idem.
Idem.

Pag. 3.

Kilmsh —

Eectory intire

Pag. 3.

Prsebendary de Innis-
kalty, Tho. Edens,
qui supra, pag. 3.

Cure served by him-
selfe.

The Bishop

0 4 5
0 2 3

Kilfeddain—
Eectory

Yicarage

12 0 0
6 0 0

Impropriat.

Laurence Boyle, mi-
nister, a good cate-
chizer, and one of
good conversation.

Inducted 31 Oct., 1618.

Cure served by him-
self e.

Lo : Baron
of Insiquin.
The Bishop
of Killaloe.

0 2 0
0 0 0

0 2 3

Killofin—

Eector pars

Eector pars
Yicarage

6 0 0
Pag. 3.

4 0 0

Impropriat.

Appropriat to ye Pre-
bend of Iniskalty,
qui supra, pag. 3.

Lawrence Boyle, qui
supra, num. 47.

Inducted ut supra.

Cure served ut supra.

Lo : Baron
of Insiquin.
The Bishop

Idem.

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Proxies.

Benefices.

Value.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

£ 8. d.

0 3 4

0 18

Kilmurry Clonde-
rila —
Rectory

Vicarage

£ 8. d,

16 6 0
8 0 0

Impropriat.

Thomas Tun steed, a
Batchelour of Arts,
and a minister, a
good Preacher, and
one of honest con-
versation.

Inducted Aug. 1, 1621.

Cure sei-ved by him-
selEe,

Earle of
Thomond.
The Bishop
of Killaloe.

0 12
Pag. 3.
0 12

Killoemuir —

Rectory pars.

Yicarage

5 0 0
Pag. 3,
5 0 0

Impropriat.

Appriat to ye Prebend
of Inniskalty. Pag. 3.

Thomas Tunsteed, qui
supra, num. 49.

Cure served by him-
self e.

Earle of
Thomond.
The Bishop

Idem.

0 4 5
0 2 3

KilmuiTy Ibric-
kan —
Rectory

Vicarage

16 0 0
8 0 0

Impropriat.

Vacat.

The Cui'e not served.

Earle of

Thomond.

Idem.

0 10 5
0 5 3

Kilmacdowan —
Rectory pars
maxima

pars minima
a cloginkelly yt
paies no tithes [P]
Vicarage

12 0 0
0 5 0

6 0 0
I 2

Impropriat.

Appriat to ye Deane
and Chapter.

Murtogh 0 Considin, a
native and a min-
ister, one that reades
the Irish service
booke to 5^e people.,
and is of good life.

Inducted in Ano. 1620.

Cure served by him-
selfe.

Earle of
Thomond.
De. and
Chapter.

The Bishop
of Killaloe.

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Proxies.

Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

£ s. d.

Kilfierali —

£ s. d.

0 16

Eector pars.

7 0 0

[mpropriat.

Earle of
Thomond.

Pag. 3.

Kector pars.

Pag. 3.

Appropriat to ye Pre-
bend of Inniskalty.

The Bishop

Pag. 3.

0 2 6

Yicarage

7 0 0

Peter Ellis, a minister
and Preacber, a man
of good life and con-
versation.

Inducted.

Cure served by bim-
selfe.

Idem.

Kilballihon—

5 0 0

Impropriat.

Earle of
Thomond.

■*

Pag. 3.

Apppriat to ye Pre-

The Bishop

0 3 0

Kector pars.

Pag. 3.

bend of Tomgreeny.
Apppriat to ye Pre-

Idem.

bend of Inniskalty.

PaR. 3.

0 2 2

Yicarage

3 0 ODermott O'Hamey,

Idem.

minister and native.

Inducted 1 Apr., 1622.

Cure sei-ved by him-

self e.

Kilardah —

0 2 10

( pars.
Eector <

6 0 0

Impropriat.

Earle of
Thomond.

Pag. 3.

( pars.

Pag. 3.

Appriat to ye Prebend
of Inniskalty. Pag.

The Bishop

0 18

Yicarage

7 0 0

o.
Edward Philips,

minister and preach-
er : a man of good
life and conversa-
tion.

Inducted 9 Apr., 1621.

Cure served by him-
selfe.

Kilfarboy—

0 3 4

Rectory

16 0 0

Yacat.

Earle of
Thomond.

0 18

Yicarage

8 0 0

Edward Philips, qui

supra, num. 55.

Inducted 9 Apr., 1621.

Cure sei-^ed by him-

self e.

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Proxies.

Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

£ s. d.

0 2 1
Pag. 3.

0 18

Moe&rt,ah—

fpars.
Bectory <

(.pars.

Yicarage

12 0 0
Pag. 3.

8 0 0

Impropriat.

Appropriat to ye Pre-
bend of Enniskalty.
Pag. 3.

Peter Elhs, qui supra,
num. 53.

Inducted.

Cure served by him-
selfe.

Earle of
Thomond.
The Bishop

Idem.

0 2 7
0 15
0 2 0

Kilmihm—

( pars.
Eectory <

( pars.

Yicarage

5 0 0

3 0 0

4 0 0

Impropriat.
Impropriat.

Murtoh 0 Considin,
qui supra., num. 52.

Inducted.

Cure served by him-
self e.

Earle of
Thomond.
Lo : Baron
of Insiquin
The Bishop

YI.— UST YE DEAISTERY OF OEMOISTD.

Proxies.

£ s, d.
0 16 8

0 8 4

Nenagh als Enagli-
Bectory

Yicarage

Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

20 0 Ojlmpropriat to ye Abby
of Oony.

10 0 0

Bichard Wilkins, qui
supra, pag. 3.

Inducted Jan. 10, 1621.

Cure not yet served,
because ye incum-
bent being disturbed
by ye pretended im-
propriator, is faine
to waite in Dublin
for redresse of his

Wl'OUgS.

Sr. Ed-
mund
Welch.
The Bishop

Patrons.

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Proxies.

Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

£ s. d.
0 10 0

0 5 0

Lisbuny —
Rectory

Yicarage

£ s. d.
12 0 0

6 0 0

Impropriat to ye Abby
of Oony.

Richard Wilkins, qui

supra, pag. 3.
InductedJan.10,1621.
Cure not served for ye

cause named above.

Num. 69.

Sr. Ed-
mund
Welsh.
The Bishop

Pag. 2

Kilkeery—

Rectoiy intire

Pag. 2.

Hugh Hogan, to whom
it is appropriat.
Pag. 2.

Cure served by Wil-
liam Kenedy, a mi-
nister and a native.

Pag. 2.

s, d
10 0
Pag. 2.

Ballinaclohy —
Rectory

Yicarage

£ s. d.

10 0 0

Pag. 2.

Impropriat to ye Abby

of Olonold.
Appriat to ye Deanery.

Pag. 2.
Cure served by Wm.

Kenedy, qui supra

num. 61.

TJncer-
taine.
Pag. 2.

10 0
5 0

Killandufi:—
Rectory

Yicarage

20 0 0
10 0 0

Imppriat to ye Abby
of Tion als St. John
de la N[?]enagh.

Held also as impro-
priat. No cure
served.

Oliver
Grace.

Idem.

7 8
3 10

Dalla—

Rectory

Yicarage

13 6 8
6 13 4

Appropriat ad men-

sam Episcopi Lao-

nensis.
Held as imppriat to

the abbie of Killoin.

No cure served.

The
Bishop.

Lo : Baron
of Insiquin.

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Proxies.

Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

s. d.

6 8

3 4

Kilmore—
Rectory

Yicarage

£ s. d.

10 0 0

5 0 0

Appropriat to ye
Deane and Chapter
for ye fabricke of ye
Quire of ye Cathe-
drall Church.

Held as impropriat.

Cure served by Robert
Coxe, qui infra, num.
79.

The
Bishop.

Earle of
Ormond.

1 8
1 8

1 8

Dunamona —

Rector yintire
Pars, la

Pars. 2a
Pars. 3a

4 0 0
4 0 0

4 0 0

Impropriat.

Impropriat to ye Ab-
bie of Oony.

Appropriate to ye
Deane and Chapter,
and ye Cure served
by Robt. Coxe, qui
infra, num. 79, at ye
charges and direc-
tion of ye Deane and
Chapter.

Earle ol
Ormond.
Sir Ed-
mund
Welch.
Deane and
Chapter.

3 4
1 8

Burges-boga—
Rectory

Yicarage

10 0 0
5 0 0

Impropriat to ye Abby
of Oony.

John Hogan, a mi-
nister and a native.
Inducted in Anno
1616. Cure served
by himselfe.

Sir Ed-
mund
Welch.
The
Bishop.

4 4

Pag. 2

2 2

Toghall-arra—

fpars.

Rector ^

pars.

Yicarage

6 0 0

Pag. 2.
6 0 0

Approppriat to ye
Rectory of Moisea.
Num. 71.

Appropriat ad Deca-
natum.

Neptune Blood, stu-
dent in ye CoUedge
at Dublin : dis-
pensed wth pro
quinquenio, April
13th, 1622. A good
scholar, and reades
ye Irish tongue. In-
ducted June 10th,
1622.

Cure not yet served
by reason of his late
induction.

The
Bishop.

Pag. 2.

The
Bishop.

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Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

^ s. d.

Castletowne-arra —

£ s.

0 4 5

Eectory

14 0

Daniel Kennedy, qui
supra. Pag. 2.

The
Bishop.

2 3

Vicarage

7 0

Idem. Daniel. In-
ducted.
Cure served by him-

Idem.

self e.

Dromineere —

Pag. 2

Eectory intire

Pag.

Apppriat to ye Dea-

Pag. 2.

nery. Pag. 2.
Cure served by ye

Deane himself.

Moisea —

'068

Eectory

4 0

John Eeynolds, stu-
dent, dispensed wth
for 4 yeares.

Inducted Jan. 24,1619.

The
Bishop.

10 3 4

Yicarage

10 0

Eichard Hogan, Mas-
ter of Arts of ye

The
Bishop.

Coll edge of Dublin :
a native, a minister
and preacher of
good learning and
conversation.

Inducted Dec. 26, 1615.

Cure served by him-
selfe.

Kneah —

0 16 8

Eectory

10 0

Impropriat to ye Abby
of Cony

Sir Edmd.
Welch.

0 8 4

Yicarage

5 0

Eichard Hogan, qui
supra, num. 71.

Inducted.

Cure served hy him-
self e.

The
Bishop.

Killodiema —

'050

Eectory

16 0

Impropriat.

01. Grace.

0 2 6

Yicarage

8 0

Held as impropriat.

Idem.

No cure served.

Clohapriora —

0 8 4

Eectory

16 0

Impropriat.

Idem.

4 2

Yicarage

8 0

Held as impropriat.
No cure served.

Idem.

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Proxies.

Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

£ 8. d.

16 8
8 4

Kilbarrain —
Rectory

Yicarage

ij s. d.
20 0 0
10 0 0

[mpropriat to ye Abby
of Any.

Richard Burk, native,
and preacher gra-
duat of ye CoUedge
of Dublin, a man of
good life.

Inducted 1 Jun. 1617.

Cm^e served by ye
Deane.

Earle of
Oorke.
The
Bishop.

5 0
2 6

Ardcrony —
Rectory

Yicarage

10 0 0
5 0 0

Appropriat ad mensam

Episcopi.
Patricke Hogan, q.

supra. Pag. 2.
Inducted.
Cure served by Tho.

Garforth, minister

qui infra, num. 90.

The
Bishop.

16 8
8 4

Modrinith —
Rectory

Yicarage

24 0 0
12 0 0

Piers Butler, a minis-
ter and a native.

Inducted in Ano. 1609.

William Cap ell, a gi-ave
minister and a prea-
cher : a man of good
life and conversa-
tion.

Inducted in Ano. 1609.

Cure served by him-
selfe.

The
Bishop.

13 4
6 8

Kilrnan —
Rectory
Yicarage

12 0 0
6 0 0

Impropriat.

Held as impropriat.

No cure served.

01. Grace.
Idem.

5 0
2 6

Balligibbon —
Rectory

Yicarage

10 0 0
5 0 C

Robert Cox, a minister,
a man of good life
and conversation.

Inducted in Ano. 1620

Cure served by him-
selfe, wthout allow
ance of ye Yicar.

Held as impropriat.

The Bishop
01. Grace.

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Proxies.

Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

£ s. d.

10 0
Pag. 2.

Ballimackey —
Rectory
Yicarage

£ s. d

24 0 C
Pag. 2.

Impropriat.

Appropriat to ye Chan-
cellorship. Pag. 2
Num. 3.

Cure served by ye said
Chauncellor.

Idem.
The Bishop

Pag. 2.

Thorn [Thorn?] —
Rectory intire

Pag. 2.

Appropriat toyeChaun-
cellorship. Pag. 2.

Cure served by ye saic
Chauncellor.

Idem.

10 0
5 0

Ahanameala —
Rectory

Yicarage

16 0 0
8 0 0

Impppriat to ye Abby

of Thorn [mP].
Held as impropriat.
]^o Cure served.

Brian Mc

Grath.

Idem.

4 8
2 4

Bures-na-fierna —
Rectory
Yicarage

10 0 0
5 0 0

Impropriat.
Held as imppriat.
No Cure served.

01. Grace.

5 0
2 6

Kilderydagrom —
Rectory

Yicarage

8 0 0
4 0 0

Imppriat.

Held as imppriat.
No Cure served.

Brian 0

Grath.

Idem.

•

5 0
2 6

Templederry —
Rectory
Yicarage

10 0 0
5 0 0

Imppriat.

Held as imppriat.

No Cure served.

01. Grace.
Idem.

10 0
Pag. 2.

Lateragh —
Rectory

Yicarage

6 0 0
3 0 0

John Andi-ewe : stu-
dent, dispensed wtli
for 5 yeares.

Inducted May 1, 1621.

Apppriat to ye Chaun-
lourship. Pag. 2.

Cure served by ye
Chauntor.

The Bishop
Idem.

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Proxies.

Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

£ s. d.
i
5 0

2 6

B.nnoh —
Rectory

Yicai^ge

£ 8. d,
20 0 0
10 0 0"

Piers Butler, qui supra, '.

num. 77.
[dem.
Cure not served.

[dem.

10 0
Pag. 2.

rirraglasse —
Rectory

Yicarage

16 0 0
Pag. 2.

Apppriat to ye Rectory
offfinnoh. Num. 87.

Apppriat to ye Dea-
nery. Pag. 2.

Cure served by ye
Deane.

[dem.
Pag. 2.

0 0
5 0
5 0

0 0

Lorrha —

' pars 1

Rectory ■{ 2

L 3

Yicarage

Pag. 2.
6 0 0
6 0 0

Pag. 2.

Apppriat to ye Arch-
deaconry. Pag. 2.

Apppriat to ye Rectory

offfirioh,sup. N'um. 87.

Apppriat to ye Rectory
of Dun^o, inf. Num.
91.

Apppriat to ye Arch-
deaconry. Pag. 2.

Cure served by Brian
0 'Molahna, qui in f ra.
Num. 106.

The Bishop

Idem.

3 4

1 8

Bonohom —
Rectory

Yicarage

16 0 0
8 0 0

Patricke Hogan, qui

supi-a, pag. 2.
Thomas Garthforth, a

minister and one of

honest conversation.
Inducted Sept. 22,

1620.
Cure served by him-

selfe.

The Bishop
Idem.'

3 4
1 i

Durroh —
Rectoiy

] Yicarage

20 0 C
10 0 C

Patricke Hogan, qui

supra, pag. 2.
) Thomas Garforth, q

sup., nu. 90.
Inducted Sept. 22

1620.
Cui-e served by him

selfe.

Idem.
Idem.

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Proxies.

Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

£ s. d.

Lockein —

£ s.

Pag. 3.

Eectory

Pag.

Est Prebenda de
Lockin. Pag. 3.

Idem.

\)'A

1 8

Yicarage

6 0

Dyonise Garforth,
qui supra, pag. 3.

Inducted Oct. 1, 1618.

Cure served by him-
selfe.

Idem.

Ballingariy als Gar-

raga—

3 4

Eectory

20 0

Impropriat.

Earle of
Corke.

1 8

Yicarage

10 0

Patricke Hogan, q.

sup. pag. 2.
Inducted in Ano. 1604.
Cure served by Tho.

Garforth. Quisupm,

num. 90.

The Bishop

Clolian als Aglis-
clohain —

1 8

( 1

Eector pars. <

6 0

Apppriat to ye Eectory
of ffinnoh, sup.
num. 87.

Idem.

1 8

( 2

6 0

Apppriat to ye Eectory

Idem.

of Durroh, sup.
num. 91.

Pag. 2.

Yicarage

Pag.'

Apppriat to ye Arch-
deaconry. Pag. 2.

Cure served by Brian
Molahna, qui infra,
num. 106.

Idem.

Usgrean —

6 8

Eectory

12 0

Imppriat to ye Com-
andry of Any.

Earle of
Corke.

3 4

Yicarage

6 0

Denis Garforth, qui

sup. p. 3.
Inducted Oct. 1, 1618.
Cure served by him-

selfe.

The Bishop

■"

Buriskeen —

6 8

Eectory

16 0

Imppriat to ye Abby
of Oony.

Sr. Ed-
mund

3 4

Yicarage

8 0

William Capell, qui

Welch.

sup. num. 77.

Inducted.

Cure served by him-
self e.

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Proxies.

Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

£ s. d.

13 4

6 8

Eoscrea —
Eectory

Yicarage

£ s. d.
20 0 0
10 0 0

Held as imppriat to ye
Abby of Tion.

Joseph Clement, a
minister, and good
catechizer, and one
of good life and con-
versation.

Inducted fPeb. 25,1621,

Cm'e served by him-
self e.

01. Grace.

6 8
3 4

Oastletowne Ely—
Eectory
Yicarage

12 0 0
6 0 0

Impropriat.

Cornelius O'Sherin, a
native and minister :
one of good life and
leai-ning : and one
that reades ye Irish
service perfectly. In-
ducted ffeb. 4th,
1613.

Cui-e served by him-
self e.

01. Grace.
The Bishop
of Killaloe.

3 4

1 8

Elamavtog —
Eectory
Yicarage

6 0 0
3 0 0

Impropriat.
Cornelius O'Sherin,

q. sup. num. 98.
Cure served by him-

selfe.

01. Gmce.

The

Bishop.

100

ffhiglasse—

Eectory intire

3 0 0

Cornelius O'Sherin, q.
sup. num 98.

Cure served by him-
self e.

The
Bishop.

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Proxies.

Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

101

£ s. d.
5 6
2 10

Burrin —
Rectory

Yicarage

£ s. d.

14 0 0
7 0 0

Imppriat. Earle of
Ormond.
Brian O'Brian, native The

and student, a good Bishop.

scholar, and one that

reades ye Irish per-
fectly. InductedlOth

June, 1622.
Cure served by Joseph

Clement, qui sup.

num. 97, being ye

next parish adjoyn-

ing.

102

6 8
3 4

Dunkerin —
Rectory
Yicarage

20 0 0
10 0 0

Imppriat.

Cornelius O'Sherin, q.
sup. num. 98. In-
ducted 4 ffeb. 1613.

Cured served by him-
selfe.

01. Grace.

The

Bishop.

103

3 4

1 8

Tempi eharry —
Rectory
Yicarage

30 0 0
60 0 0

Imppriat.

Cornelius O'Sherin,

q. s. num. 98.
Cure served by him-
selfe.

01 Grace.

The

Bishop.

104

3 4
1 8

Shinroan —
Rectory
Yicarage

16 0 0
8 0 0

Imppriat.

Ma,rmaduke Clapham,
a preacher, a man of
good life and con-
versation. Inducted
9th Oct. 1619.

Cure sei-ved by him-
selfe.

01. Grace.

The

Bishop.

105

5 6

2 10

Kilmurry—
Rectory

Yicarage.

8 0 0
4 0 0

MaremadukeClapham,
q. s. num. 104,

Teige O'Donilan, na-
tive and student.
Inducted in Ano
1614.

Gure served by ye
Parson.

The

Bishop.

Idem.

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Proxies.

Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

106

£ s. d.

5 6

2 10

Birrha —
Rectory

Yicarage

£ s. d.
20 0 0

10 0 0

Henry Sutton, Mr.
of Arts, a worthy
learned preacher,
and one of good Life
and conversation.
Inducted 25th Sept.
1618.

Brian O'Molahna, mi-
nister and native,
reades not only ye
EngHsh but ye Irish
service perfectly.
Inducted ,
1621.

Cure served by him-
seHe.

The
Bishop.

Idem.

107

1 8
0 10

Ej-lcolman —
Rectory

Yicarage

8 0 0
4 0 0

Apppriat to ye Rector

of Birrha, q. sup

num. 106.
Held as imppriate.
Cure served by Brian

O'Molahna, q. s. n.

106.

The
Bishop.

'^. DiUon,
Bar. of
Kilkenny.

108

3 4
1 8

Ahankon—
Rectory

Yicarage

16 0 0
8 0 0

Impropriat to ye Abby

of Thorn.
Held as impropriat to

ye monastery of In-

shinameoh in Ige-

rim.
No cure served.

Brian
O'Grath.
Lo ; Dillon.

109

2 2
1 2

Etagh—
Rectory
Yicarage

20 0 0
10 0 0

Impropriat.

Joseph Clement, qui

sup. num. 91.
Inducted 25 ffeb. 1621.
Cm*e served by him-

selfe.

01. Grace.

The

Bishop.

110

2 10
1 5

Roscomrowe —
Rectory
Yicarage

14 0 0
7 0 0

Impropriat.

Wilham Wevill, a good
preacher and a man
of good life and con-
versation.

Inducted.

Cui-e served by him-
selfe.

01. Grace.

The

Bishop.

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Proxies.

Benefices.

Yalue.

Incumbents.

Patrons.

111

£ s. d.
5 0

Clonfert-mulloh als
Kilnacorbe —
Rectory intire

£ s. d.
16 0 0

Samuell Home, a min-
ister and preacher
and a man of gooc
conversation.

Inducted Jan. 10, 1621.

Oui-e served by him-
selfe.

The
Bisht)p.

112

1 8
1 8

1 8

Kinnity —

Rectory pars j o

Yicarage

8 0 0
3 0 0

5 0 0

Impropriat.

Wm. Wevill, qui sup.

num. 110.
Inducted.
Cure served by him-

selfe.

Lo : Dillon.

The

Bishop.

The

Bishop.

113

1 8
1 8

1 8

Litterlana —

Rectory pars j q

Yicarage

8 0 0
3 0 0

5 0 0

Impropriat.

Wm. Wevill, qui supra,
num. 110.

Idem.

Inducted.

Cure served by him-
self e.

Lo : Dillon.
The
Bishop.
Idem.

114

1 8

Ealcummin —

Rectory in tire

6 0 0

Marmaduke Clapham,

q. s. num. 104.
Inducted 9 Oct. 1619.
Cure served by him-

self'e.

The
Bishop.

115

8 0
4 0

Quill anoan —
Rectory
Yicarage

16 0 0
8 0 0

Impropriat.

He d as impropriat.

No cure served.

01. Grace.
Idem.

116

0 0

Corbally —
Rectory

Yicarage

10 0 0
5 0 0

Impropriat to ye mo-
nastery of Inshina-
nieoh als Insula
Yiventium.

Hold as impropriat
also to ye same.

No cure served.

Lo : Dillon.
Lo: Dillon.

This third Article being (I trust) fully answered, now follow the rest of ye
Articles with theyr sevcrall answers annexed.

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e fourth
-tide.

What livinge and meanes ye Incumbents and cnrats have, &c. ?

3 fifth
'tide.

e sixth
'tide.

I answer

fl&rst, for ye Incumbents, theyr means are set downe in ye severall
value of every mans livinge in ye answer to ye third article above,
throughout ye whole.

Secondly, for ye curats of ye Benefices Presentative, Collative, and
Appropriate, they have sufficient allowance to theyr content.

But for ye impropriatours, eyther they have no curats at all, or els
they allowe them nothing but what they get for burying, marying, and
christening.

Of what quality and condition ye Incumbents, ministers, and
curats are in learning, life, and conversation ?

I answer

That this is satisfied in my answer to ye third Article throughout,
where mention is made of every particular Incumbent in my Dioces,
and of what quality and condition they are.

What gi^aunts have bene made from ye crowne of appropriations
or chui'ch -livings to any person for maintenance or provision of
able miuisters, &c. ?

I answer

That I knowe none at all in my Dioces se : saving that in ye yeare
1606 his Majesty by his letters Patents gave unto Piers Butler, a native
and a minister, ye Eectory of Modrenith, Kectory of ffinnoh (under
wch he carries away ye Rectory of Tirraglasse) and vicarage of ffinnoh
wth other livings, ye better to incourage him in his ministery to take
paines to instruct ye people in theyr language, he being theyi- countrey
man : but he taketh no pains nor care at all, neyther doth live wthin ye
Diocesse.

'enth

-tide.

What churches are fit to be re-edified, or built de novo : and ye
places where, and how, &c., and how ye cures may be served ?

I answer

I knowe not of any place, where there is need of a church to be built
de novo : but of many places, where ye churches are fit to be re-edified :
and concerning that point thus I certifie :

ffirst, concerning ye cathedi^ll church of Killaloe, called Ecclesia Sti.
fflanani Laonensis : the quire of it is in very good repaii e, and adorned
wth a new pulpit, and wth many new, faire, and convenient seates : and ye
roofe well timbred and slatted, and ye church well glassed : and this partly
upon ye prfits of ye Rectory of Kilmore appointed for that purpose, as
appeares in ye answer to ye third Article Pag. 13 num. 65. But for ye

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body of ye said church, it belonges to ye parishioners to build, who have
brought all theyr materialls in place, erected theyr scaffolds, and I hope
this summer it will be finished.

Secondly, there is another faire and large church in my Diocesse,
called ye church of Ennis, wch is not pperly a Paroch Church : yet
because ye said Ennis is ye shire towne for that county (being in ye
county of Clare) yrfore it was thought fit by ye Eegall Yisitours in
Ano. 1615 to build that church, and to cause ye parishioners of ye next
adjoyning parishes, viz., of Dury, Dromcliffe, and Kilmaly to resort
thither to divine service, as to theyr parish church.

This church is fairely built and adorned by ye E. Hoble ye Earle of
Thomond.

Thirdly, for ye rest of ye churches in ye county of Clare, they are for
ye most part built by ye helpe of ye fines of ye Eecusants, wch fines
have been that way imployed for these two yeares last past by ye advise
of ye said Earle of Thomonde.

fourthly : ye churches in ye King's County and County of Tiperary
wthin my Diocesse are few of them built. Indeed they have pmised
me (upon suchlegall courses as I held wth them) to baild theyi- churches
long before this time, but as yet they have not performed ye worke :
So yt I must upon my retui^ne proceed to excomunication, if no other
meanes can be used, wherein according to my duty I will not be wanting-

Lastly, concerning ye last part of ye Article, how ye cures may be
served : I thinke it good in my judgement, yt some part of ye Eecu-
sant's fines in every parish may be given at every assizes or sessions to
such curats or ministers as are certainly knowne to reade divine service
in ye Irish tongue unto ye parishioners, yt others by theyr example may
be encouraged to practise ye reading of ye Irish language, for ye gaining
of many of ye natives, who hitherto will not hcare us.

The eighth
Article.

What parishes are fit to be united in ye said Diocesse ?

I answer

This had need to be considered of, as well by visitation in ye places
as by a diligent and particular conference wth my whole clergy : wch
conference I could not have in regard of theyr distance from me at this
time, and my necessary abode here in Dublin these 2 Termes about ye
recovery of 21 plough lands unto ye see of Killaloe, as unto yrselves is
knowne. And yrfore I desire to be respited jrin from further answer
for a time. In ye meantime I move 2 things concerning this point ; —

ffirst yt order may be taken yt two Ecctories or Vicarages either Pre-
sentative or Collative, or three where they arc poore and adjoyning may
be really united : and yt then that church of those 2 or 3 may for ever
be held for ye Parish Church, as ye Bishop shall knowc to be most con-
venient.

Secondly yt wheresoever in any one parish there shall be found a

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The ninth
Article,

Eectoiy and a Vicarage both eythier Presentative or Collative, there may
of that Rectory and Vicarage be made a real union, yt ye Incumbent
may there reside ye better for God's glory and ye good of ye Parishioners.

What and how many alienations, charges and incumbrances have
bene made, permitted and suffered of any Ecclesiasticall lands
tenements, rents or hereditaments wthin yr Dioces : and by
and to whom ye same have bene made, pmitted and suffered,
and at what time or times : and what ye said tenements or
hereditaments so aliened be of.

My answer hereunto shall be shewed by setting down these '^ foure "
tilings in order done by former Bishops.

ffirst, there are five advowsons alienated from ye Bishopricke, viz.
of ye

f Eectory of Modrinith
/ I Rectory of Durroh

\ Rectory of fi&nnoh
I Rectory of Oastletowne-Anix
(^ Rectory of Moisea

These being of ye Patronage of ye Bishop of Killaloe and his suc-
cessors, yet were fraudulently surrendered, as I am informed, by ye then
Bishop Maurish als Moriarto 6 Brian, into ye hands of ye Elings Matie
that now is, about ye yeare of Or L. God 1610. Wch Bishop did (as is
said) take backe from his Matie ye advowsons of ye said Rectories by
letters Patents to ye use of himselfe and his heires for ever : and so ye
Church is for ever disinherited of those advowsons, if it be not relieved
by his Maties transcendent authority.

Secondly, my Predecessour Mauritius 6 Brian hath by consent of ye
then incumbents made certaine leases of divers Parsonages, Vicarages,
and Prebends wthin ye Dioces whereby ye service of God and good of
ye people is much hindered: seeing yt ye meanes is taken away from
those clergy-men who should teach and instruct ye people : the leases
are thus set downe as followeth, viz. : —

Benefices leased

The Rectoiy of Gas- \
I tletowne Ai^rah and (
I The Prebend of (

TuUoh ;

' Rectory of DuiToh \

and Vicarage of /
^ Ardcrony )

Vicarage of Castle-

connell and Vicarage

of Killinagaraft'

The Rectory of

Moisea

In wt
yeare

1610

1610
1607

for how
loner

21 yeares

41 yeares
as I heare

K 2

for wt 1

-ent

the now value

SO stcrlino:

40 St.

26 13 4
40 St.

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Feb. 12,
1611.

I confesse indeed yt in this kind I myselfe have comitted an errour :
but when ye case shal be weighed, and all circumstances discussed, I
hope it shall appeare yt either my action was justifiable, or my errour
very pardonable. The case is this : There is ye Rectory of Birrha in my
Diocese (mentioned in this booke, pag. 17, num. 106). This Rectory Sr.
John Mackohlan did usurpe upon, and under ye coloure of his pretended
patronage got ye pfits into his owne hands and gave ye last incumbent,
Walter ffitzimons, little or nothing, as ye said Walter hath told to some
of my officialls. Now at ye death of ye sd Walter I pjected to prevent
all such danger to come by reducing ye patronage into ye Bishops hand
againe : Just at this time did ye late Lo : Deputy Yiscount Grandison
by his letters, wch I have to shew, comend to me his chaplaine, Mr.
Henry Sutton, a Mi\ of Arts, a learned Preacher, to bestowe upon him a
Prebend (of my church) wch was then thought to be voide, but indeed
was not. Whereupon I most willingly tooke ye occasion to collate him
to ye sd Rectory of Birrha ; wch being done, Sr. John McCoghlan began
to contest, but Mr. Sutton offered me, yt if I would make his assignee a
lease of that Rectory for 21 years at ye rent of bl. sterl. p afium, he
would at his owne charge maintaine ye patronage of ye Bishop of
Killaloe in that Rectory ; whereunto for ye more secure gaining it backe
to ye church for ever, I yielded, and so he carieth it unto this day. In
ye circumstances of wch business (there being wth all three yeares at
least already spent, and a sufficient vicarage left endowed), I hope your
Hoble Wisedomes will cleare me of any imputation that may be laid
against me in that behalf e.

Thirdly, certaine Rectories apppriat ad mensam Episcopi are leased
away by ye last Bishop, or wthheld by others, viz. : —

Rectory of Dola leased to Daniell 0 'Brian, gent, for 21 yeares, in Ano
1611 (Feb. 12), for fifteene shillings p. anum, and it is worth yearely 20
markes st.

Rectory of Shamberloe in ye Parish of Quin, leased in Ano. 1587 for
three score and one yeares to Daniel Mac-ne maiTa of Dingane-wiggen
in ye county of Clare, gent, for ISd. pence p aiium : it is worth yearely
ten pounds sterl.
' Rectoiy of Dromleen, in ye county of Clare, detained from me by ye
Earle of Thomond, Lo : President of Mounster : it is worth p anum
twenty pounds sterl.

Fourthly, ye temporall lands anciently belonging to ye Bishopricke
are now made away in lease or fee farme by ye former Bishops, or at
least wth held from me by others.

Now ye names of ye detainers together wth ye names, quantity, rent
and value of ye said lands wth other circumstances are fully described
in this and ye next pages : —

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Names of ye
Lands.

Quantities by plough lands.

Old
Eent.

New
Eent.

Yearl

Yalu

7
e.

i .

Deteynors.

Whole. Halfe. Other parts.

£ s. d.

£ s, i

Carrickgoholgy,

conteyning —
Eeinmacderig

0 halfe

0 6 8

5 0

Sr. Daniel
0 Brian

Eohanasli

1 0

0 13 4

10 0

Idem.

Clonknrmin )

or ClonkELr- >

1 0

1 0 0

10 0

Idem,

rain )

Kilcarradain

1 0

1 0 0

10 0

Idem.

Kilbehah

0 halfe

1 6 8

5 0

Earle of
Thomond.

Kilclohir

1 halfe

2 0 0

15 0

Idem.

Callabeg als ^

Atlinegall als f
Almontrin- (

2 0

2 13 4

20 0

Sr. Daniel
0 Brian.

ollohan )

Kilcrony

1 0

1 6 8

10 0

Earle of
Thomond.

Lissin and ")
ffurrahmore j

2 0

2 0 0

20 0

Idem.

Downahah

2 0

2 0 0

20 0

Sr. Dan.
Jorian.

Quirinkully

4 0

7 13 4

40 0

Earle of
Thomond.

Killinagallah

0 halfe

0 13 4

5 0

Idem.

Bealantalin als "j

Termontenan >

3 0

10 0

30 0

Idem.

Galrista )

Kilfierah

1 0

16 8

10 0

Idem.
{ Doroghc

Ballionan

1 0

1 10 0

10 0

\ Clansha.
\ Dermot c
' Cahan.

Kilcasliim

0 0

Karcomer

0 6 8

2 10

Idem.

Kilquih or

0 halfe and Karromer

1 10 0

7 10

Owny c

Kilkey

Swiny.

Listin

1 0

0 13 4

10 0

Owin c
Cahan.

Kilrush

4 0

2 13 4

40 0

Earle of
Thomonde.

Ballinoad

4 0

2 13 4

40 0

Earle oE
Thomond.

Karranalongfort

Two-thirds of

a quarter.

0 13 4

6 13

Idem.

Kilcarrowl

0 haKe

0 13 4

5 0

Idem.

Knockeri- \

heer, als f
Knockeri- (

Two-thu'ds of

a quarter.

0 13 4

6 13

Donel o
Gorman.

hash ^ ;

KJQOckerihaig

Two-thirds of

a quarter.

0 13 -4

6 13

Earle of

Madda-more ")

Thomond.

als >

1 0

1 6 e

10 0

) Donel c

Moyfadda J

Gorman.
Dermot c
Gorman.

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Names of tlie
Lands.

Quantity by plongh lands.

Old
Bent.

The now
Bent.

Yeare
Yalu

Deteiners.

Madda-beg ]

Whole. Halfe. Other parts.

£ s, d.

£ s.

Moquot and >

1 0

0 13 4

10 0

Sr Daniel

Moony )

0 Brian.

Balliketfc

Two-thirds of

a quarter.

0 13 4

6 13

Earle of

Kilkevan

A sixth part of

a quarter.

0 13 4

1 13

Thomond.
Idem.

Ganyx

4 0

10 0

40 0

Idem.

Kilmacdowan

1 0

10 0

Idem.

Kilteelin, als .

Termonafee- /

rah, als >

3 0

10 0

30 0

Idem.

Termona- \

priora ^
Moyasta

0 halfe

0 13 4

5 0

Idem.

Kilderma

0 haKe

5 0

John c

Karronbeg )
Karrowdoly ]

1 0 and a third

1 6 g

13 6

Donell.
Earle of
Thomond.

Downagowg

Two-thirds of

a quarter.

0 13 4

6 13

Idem.

Molaha

Two-thirds of

a quarter.

0 13 4

6 13

Idem.

Carownamall

als

The Places

als

1 0

0 13 4

10 0

Idem.

The Balles

als

Tirvarna

Killiny als. )

Kilfinny (

conteyning —

0 13 4

Knock

0 halfe

5 0

Donogh c

Swiny.

Idem.

Lecarrobane

0 halfe

5 0

Cassernah

0 0

Karromer

2 10

Idem.

dim.

Cassernah

0 0

Karromer

2 10

Edmund c

dim.

Swiny.

Kilmore

0 halfe

5 0

Idem.

Karroncnusky^

0 halfe

Idem.

Ashlitmackno-

2 10

hor

5 0

conteyning —

0 13 4

10 0

Killofin

0 halfe

0 13 4

5 0

Turle Boe
c Mahoone.

Knockakottin

0 halfe

0 13 4

5 0

Idem.

Balliariny

0 lialfe

5 0

Murroh

Slcndoolyand)
Knockcoe j

0 halfe

5 0

Merigy.

Murroh

Moyle.

0 noli or c

Moindda

0 halfe

0 13 4

5 0

Killidiserfc als )

Shane.

Discrtmor- >

0 halfe

0 13 4

2 0 0

6 0

liuly )

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Names of tlie
Lands.

Liskormack

Inishkarker

Inislimore
, Barrain and
Filloemuir

Quirindonellroe
Tullakreen
Tullacurraboy
Ballinagreenan
Bunnell et ")
Cahii^ >

Strassko )
Ballioegan
Kilkeran

Ballimackolinan
Ballinamiilkier
Cuillisnaliog
Kilfennan
Knock eiy

KilmoonyinBur-

Converbiatus de
Disert

Killein or Kil-
loin
Dromcliffe

Kilnamona

Eatliblanagc

Kilkcedy

Ahadrumkilly

Kilfinan

Ealcursay

Quantity by plough lands.

Whole. Halfe. Other parts.
0 halfe

0 halfe

£' s. d.
0 13 4

halfe andKarromer
0

0 13 4

2 0 0

1 13 4

2 0 0

0 10 0

1 6

0 13 4

1 0

1 and a third of a quarter.

4
12

Old
Eent.

The now

Rent.

£ s. d.£ s. d.

0 13
0 13
0 13 4
0 13 4

16 8

3 3 4

2 13 4

5 0 0

2 13 4
8 0 0
2 13 4

0 13 4
10 0
0 13 4

Yearly
Value.

2 0 0

5 0 0

20 0 0

30 0 0

7 10 0

20 0 0

10 0 0

20 0 0

Trige c
DoneU or
Mahoone
oge c Gilla-
patricke.
Earle of
Thomond.
Idem.

Trige
McMa-
hoone and
Turloc
Donnell.

50 0 0

40 0 0
70 0 0

40 0 0
120 0 0
40 0 0

Deteiners.

Turlo c
Mahoone.
Idem-
Idem.

Sr. Dan
o Brian.
Dono
o Brian c
Turlo.
Heyres of
Bp. ISTey-
land.

The Earle
holds it for
100 yeares
at 9d per
an. from
Maur-Law
[?]

10 0 0
10 0 0
10 0 0

Nich.
Darcy and
others.

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Names of the
Lands.

Quantity by plougli lands

Killinaboy

Kilnafarboy

Kilnmrry or

Killinuin
Thomolinny
Aghnes

Dromleen

Clonlugliani
Kilmalleery
Killinasoolah
Kilconry

Clonilea
Kilmain

Kilteely

In converbiatu 7

de Tomfinloh )
Greenahan als )

Ballicarr )

In converbiatu \

de Tulloh 3
In converbiatu 7

de Moinse )
Cionrush

Balliruain

In converbiatu
de Tomgreeny
Ballinacleery

Kilnorully or ")
Killumpully j
Kilfinaghta

Killokenedy

Whole. Halfe. Other parts.
5 and ye towne.

4
1

0
0
0
0

0
0

0
halfe.

£ 8. d.
2 13 4

2 0 0

Old

E-ent.

1 6

1 6
1 6

2 13 4

0 16 8

0 6 8

0 16 8
0 6

0 13 4

1 6

0 13 4

0 6

2 13 4

1. 0 0

2 13 4

1 0 0

0 13 4

0 16 8

0 13 4

The now
Bent.

Yearly
Value.

£ s. d.£ s. d.
5 0 040 0 0

30 0 0

20 0 0

40 0 0

3 0 0

4 0 0

10
O'lO
010

16 0 0

20 0

Deteiners.

Heires or
executors
of Bp, Nei-
land, Bp. of
Kildare.
Earle of
Thomond.

Sxecutors
of Bp. Ney-
land.
Earle of
Thomond.

Earle of
Thomond.

Sr. John c
Nemarra.

120 0 0

Daniel c
Nemarra.
0,Earle of
Thomond.

10 0

10 0 0

0 Richard
oge Burk
and Conor
o fflanura.
Earle of
Cianrick-
arde.

10 0 0 Sr. John c
Nemarra.
10 0 0

13 6

10 0

8 Earle of
Thomond
and Don-
nell 0 Rud-
dun.

OLuke Bra-
dy and
Donoh c
Shane
Moyle.

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Names of the
Lands.

Quantity by plough lands.

Old
Eent.

The now
Rent.

Yearly
Yalue.

Deteiners.

Whole. HaKe. Other parts.

£ s. d.

£ 8. d.

Killaloe

5 0

Glanamnnt^- "

4 0^

20 0 0

Earle of

malone

Thomond.

Finleh

1 0

5 0 0

Lo : Bai'on
of In siquin.

Ballinreehy )
orBalliduffy 5

1 0

5 0 0

Earle of

Thomond

3 6 8

under a
cheif ery [?]

Craiglegh

1 0

5 0 0

St. John 0
NemaiTa.

Balliteig

1 0

5 0 0

Clonfadda

2 0

10 0 0

Earle of
Thomond.

Lickinbana

3 0,

15 0 0

Idem.

Ballikillidagk

1 0

5 0 0

Idem.

Gortmagy

1 0

5 0 0

Idem.

Lackintoreand

1 0

5 0 0

Idem.

Balligerin

Killistrer

1 0

5 0 0

Lo : Baron

Ballikorney

1 0

5 0 0

oflnsiquin.
Idem.

Ballikogaron

1 0

0 6 8

5 0 0

Earle of
Thomond.

Garranboy

1 0

5 0 0

John c

Tomgreeny

1 0 ,

5 0 0

Loghlin.

Shariff

1 0

Elalla als )
Knockekalla j

2 0

Balliranan

1 0

Ballyguin

0 halfe

BallimuUin

1 and halfe

Eahiny
Tullohary

1 0
1 0

Ballivenog

2 0

ffossa-beg

1 0

ffossa-more

1 0

Elappah-roe

1 0

Agherim

2 0

Moony

1 0

Clonosker

1 0

Kappah-coman

1 0

Oallagory

2 0

Kilmoe in ye*^

Barony of In- >

1 0

6 0 0

one of ye

siquin )

Brians.

iDromineer

2 0

5 0 0

20 0 0

John Cant-
well.
"Patricke
Hogan.

Ardorony

3 0

4 0 0

30 0 0

Daniell
j Hogan.

Thomas

^Hogan.

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■^^Lands ^^^ Quantity by plough lands.

Lattrah

Tirraglasse

Curralia

Killicronagan
Killogalia

Ramabrog

Kilclonfert-mul-
loh

Boscrea Castlo
and man our ex
changed wth ye
Bishop of Kil
laloe for Castle
Lions nearer to
Dublin, as ap'
peares upon
good record,
yet ye Bishop
of Killaloe can
enjoy neyther
the one nor ye
other : nor any
consideration
for ye same

Whole. Halfe. Other parts
7 0

1 0

2 0

Old
Rent.

The now
Rent.

ij s. d.
8 0 0

parromer

1 13 4
1 6
0 10 0

£ 8. d.

0 halfe

1 6

2 13 4
2 13 4

Yearly
Value.

£ s. d.
70 0 0

10 0 0

20 0 0

2 10 0

5 0 0

40 0 0

1-0 0 0

Deteiners.

John Mor-
ris and
others.
The Kene-
dies and
others.
John 0 Ke-
nedy of
Lackin.
Conor oge
o Dean.
Teige o
Carroll of
Quilla-
noam.
Wm. Dui-
gan and
others,
lidem.

Roscrea
Castle and
mannour is
wth held by
ye Earle of
Ormond,
and Castle
Lions is
wth held by

In ye description of ye former lands expssed in ye 3 Pages going
immediately before, I doe not take upon me to have described precisely
eithe ye names of ye lands (in regard of ye diversity of them one man
pronouncing them otherwise than another) or ye pcise quantity of ye
said lands (in regard of divers fractions in dividing :) or ye direct [?]
value (in regard of ye difference of ye soyle :) but yet what I have set
downe is far under ye vahie ; or ye names of those that wthhold the
said lands by reason both of ye continuall yearely change of tenants,
and also ye private compacts of them that hold themselves to be Lords
of those lands, wch indeed doe not belong to them but to ye Bishop.
But I have gone as necrely as possibly I could by an exact search into
those few imperfect rollcs that now remaine and by diUgent conference
wth ancient men who have scene ye courses of these things.
Thus much for answer to ye ninth article.

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e tenth
-tide.

What lands, tenements, rents or htereditaments have been given
by his []\Iajestie] or his progenitours, or by any other to any
coUedge, free schoole, corporation, or to any other charitable
use, &c.

I answer,

I know of none, saving those lands mentioned in ye 4 jiages
precedent, wherewith no donbt his Maties noble progenitours and prede-
cessours principally have endowed ye said Bishopricke of Killaloe, and
now are unjustly deteined from this see, either in part or in whole as is
before described.

iventh

rticle.

Concerning greivances, complaints, and motions for the Clergy.

I answer this by proposing things of that nature, two waies :
namely,

ffirst in ye behalfe of my self e, the Bishop.
Secondly, in ye behalfe of my clergy.

My owne grievance, complaints, and humble motions be these 12
in order following.

ffirst I do complaine of those lands formerly mentioned as deteined
from me, in ye compassc of wch lands are many castles, halls, stone-
houses, other tenements, services, fishings, refections, and other profits
thereto belonging all deteined also from me Kay further, ivliereas the
said lands were held from ye Bishop of Killaloe, some by lease,
some as tenants at will, and all yearely paying to ye Bishop
either rent, or refection or both : yet both earles, barons, knights,
and gentlemen have sui-rendered these lands unto his Matie, and of
many of them have procured out letters patents, wch if it were tho-
roughly searched, it w^ould appear yt ye said letters patents are surrep-
titious, and ye surrenders fraudulent ; their forefathers next in all theyr
ofiices challenging the said lands.

Now ye persons that doe withhold these things are so much the
more confident (ye most of them) because when any church business
comes to triall, ye jurors (who for ye most part are recusants) are
very scrupulous in giving any verdict for ye church : and ye deteiners
of those lands are both many and great, and yrfore full both in number
and purse : and so consequently the Bp. not able to deale wth them.

Besides that it is not altogether so fit yt a Bp. should spend his
time in these temporall affaires, wch arc accompanied wth so many
contentions incident to causes of that nature : seeing that he is to bend
his endeavours another way, namely to his private studies, ye direction
of his clergy, and reforming of ye people.

In consideration whereof I humbly desire you ye Et Honblc Co-
missioners to comcnd my most humble suite to his most excellent
Matie yt his highness would be pleased eyther to cause some speedy
and strict course irrevocably to be taken, as to justice and equity ap-
pertaineth f or ye regaining of those lands, and other things so deteined
from my see.

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Or els that whereas ye value of ye deteined premises doth amount yearely
to tivo thousand pounds sterl. at ye rate of ten pounds a plough, land
(ye most of them being at this day at ye rate of tv\^enty pounds), his
Matie would be pleased to take into his own disposition all ye said
lands, and all other profits belonging to ye said Bishopricke (saving
what I do now enjoy) and to cause foure hundred pounds sterl. to be
paid yearely by four equall portions out of his Highness Exchequer
unto me ye now Bp of Killaloe, and my succes sours ; yt we might
ye more freely spend our selves, and or times in ye imediate service of
God.

Secondly I complaine yt ye pxies of benefices imppriat of monas-
teries are eyther made away, or wthheld, viz. : —

ffirst for ye i^roxies of ye henefices imppriat there is Joept from me to ye
value of tivo and tvjenty pounds st yearely by those whom I have
named as imppriators from ye 6th page of this booke to ye 18th.

Secondly I say yt there are ceHeine monasteries in ye dwcesse wch.
anciently were taxed to pay proxies, besides what is before described,
as it may appear e by ye ancient rolle wch was delivered me upon ye
said proxies, viz. : —

£ s. d.

(1)

(2)

(3)

Monasterium de Lorrha in ye County of Tipperary. This

is in ye hands of one John Cantwell : and is taxed at
Monasterium de Inshinameoh als Insula Yiventium, in ye

coun. Tip. This is in ye hands of ye L. James Dillon : and

is taxed at
Monasterium de Sto Johane de la Nenagh comonly called

Tion in ye county aforesaid. This, in ye hands of 01.

Grace gent. tax. at
(4) Monasterium de Thom in com. p. diet. In ye possession

of Brian c Grath sone to ye Lo : Archbishop of Cashell :

and is taxed at . . .
Monasterium de foragio als de forago in ye County of

Clare. In ye possession of ye Bt Hoble ye Earle of

Thomond Lo : President of Mounster : and it is taxed at. ..
Monasterium de Insicronan : in comitatu predicto : In ye

possession of ye said Earle of Thomond : and is taxed at
Monasterium de Inishgad als Ilanakananah als Insula

Canonicorum : Chanons Hand in comit de Clare p. diet.

In ye possession of ye said Earle of Thomond : and is

taxed at . . .

Monasterium MonaHum de Killoin in comitat. p. diet. In
ye possession of ye Lo : Ba : of Insiquin : and is taxed at

Sume

(5)

(6)
(7)

(8)

10 0

2 13 i

2 13 4

1 6 8

2 13 4

1 6

2 13 4

out of all wch I doe enjoy but

So that there is a yearely Debentur of

15 13

2 0
13 13

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£ s, d.

wch sume of 13 13 4

being added to the 22 0 0, viz :

to ye defects of ye proxies of imppriat benefices before

calculated in ye pcedent page : the totall stime of ye pxies £ s.
yearely wthheld from me, amounteth to 35 13

Thii'dly I complaine of ye multitude of Eectories " impropriat '*
being in number fifty three as in ye answer to ye third article in ye title
of Incumbents appeareth. Concerning which imppriat Rectories it may
be (by diligent view of ye severall patents : or by ye offices upon wch
ye said letters patents are grounded ; or by ye letters or warrants upon
wch ye said offices were taken ; or by some other meanes) it will be
found yt his Matie hath not given away those Eectories at all, or yt ye
King was deceived in his graunt.

And in some part for manifestation of this point, there is ye Eectory
of Eoscrea (Pag. 16. num. 97) held as imppriat by Oliver Grace; it is
worth at this day fourty pounds p anum, and it is in taxe in ye Kings
booke at £7 for first fruites ; and ought to pay 7s, st. for 20th yearely,
wch money is never paid : so great damage doth his Matie susteine by
this ptended imppriation. Yet ye taxation is an evident argument that
it is no imppriation indeed, but a thing foisted into ye patent of Oliver
Grace or Garret Grace his father. Or it may be yt ye Prior of ye
Monastery of Tion or St.' Johns de la ISTenagh held that Eectory in title
from ye Bp of KQlaloe, and so being possessed of it at ye time of ye
dissolution of ye abbies, it might be found by an ignorant Jury to be
parcell of ye Monastery of St. Johns ; wch indeed it was not but a mere
collative living from ye Bp and no imppriation at all.

And ye like may be said of *' apppriations," but especially of three
Eectories wch have at least three and twenty Eectories apppriat to
them, viz.

( Eectory of Omolled ) ( 8 )

< Eectory of Ogassin } hath ^ 8 > described pa^.

( Eectory of Tradry ) ( 7 )

^, 5.)

Fomi:hly I complaine of ye multitude of '' imppriat vicarages " beuig
in number 25, viz : —

Insicronan

^ 7|Killanduflt "^

fl3lTcmpledeiTy ^

Killuh

91Dolla

KildeiTydagro

Inishdadrom

9Kilmore

Bonohom

Kilchrist

10 Killodiernan

Durroh

Killidisert l^pag.-j 10

Clohapriora

►pag. ^ 14

Kilcolman

►pag. "

Kilmurry )
Ibrictan j

Kilruan

Ahankon

Balligibbon

Quikanoam

ISTenagh

Ahanameala

Corbally

Lisbunny

Burresnaferna^

But it may be by yc practise of ye course above named many of ye
said vicarages shal be found not to be imppriat.

ffor in ye patent of Oliver Grace (who is ye greatest Imppriator for

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Yicaraf?e of

ri6.-

! 17.

17.

17.
117.
Ll8J

number of benefices in my Dioces) there is mention made only of
Rectories, and not Yicarages at all. Yet (he being ye Kings patentee)
I have not much medled wth him : although (I confesse) that at my
first entrance into ye Bishopricke in Ano. 1612 I ventured upon sixe of
his vicarages/wch he seemed to hold as Imppriat, viz.

^Roscrea

Castletowne Ely

Ramaveog .

Dunkerin '^P^S-

Templehary
LEtagh • j

To all wch I collated ministers, and they doe to this day enjoy ye
pfits entirely. Since that, I have farther adventured lately to collate
into 6 of those 25 impropriat vicarages afore mentioned, viz.,

Kilchrist and Killidysert ] i 10.

Dun^oh and Bonohom > pag. < 16.

Nenagh and Lisbunny ) ( 12.

out of all wch my coUatees were ejected.

In these imppriat Yicarages ye glebe land is alwaies devoured,
alienated, and turned to ye temporall lands of ye imppriator.

Fifthly I complaine yt where there is an Imppriation, I canot gefc
that church to be builded ; for ye Imppriator saies he paics a great rent
to ye King, and so will not be compelled by me to joyne wth ye Incum-
bent, and wth ye parish in so good a worke.

Sixthly I complaine that where there is an Imppriation, especially
where ye Yicarage is imppriatcly held, there ye cure is not served ; and
where any Curat is put upon them, they will give him no allowance but
what ye Curat shall casually get out of manages, burials, and christen-
ings ; and scarce that neither.

Seventhly I complaine yt there are divers Ahhies or Monasteries
dissolved in my Dioces, wherein yet ye people do bury theyi- dead out of
ye ordinary place of christian buriall to ye contempt of religion and
maintenance of theyr superstition. And besides that, to these places
many feiars and Priests doe ordinarily resort and sometimes in ye yeare
great concourse of people publikely : as in ye abby of Qubi in ye county
of Clare : and abby of Inshinameoh in ye county of Tiperary : and in
Inishgealtragh or ye Band of Seven Altars standing in ye midst of ye
river of Shanan bordering on ye county of Galway.

Eighthly I complaine that divers advowsons and patronages belonging
to ye Bishopricke are challenged and usurped upon by others, viz.,

Advowsons

and

Patronages

of the

^Prebend of Tomgi^eeny
Rectory of Kilkeedy
Rectory of Dromcliffe
Prebend of Iniskalty
Rectory of Kilrush
Rectory of Killanaboy
Rectory of Disert

^ Rectory of Rath

'Hugh Bradyes heires.

Nicholas Dai-cy.

Lo : Baron of Insiquiu.

Idem.

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wch challenges and usurpations of theyrs phaps may easily be avoided
by looking into tbeyr severall Patents wch tbey have gotten first and
last from his Matie.

Ninthly I complaine yt ye under-sheriffes, county-clarkes, and other
officers under ye high sheriff es in most of ye counties "wth in my Diocese,
are for ye most part recusants, and yet ordinarily serve at Assises,
Sessions, and county-courts : yea sometime ye Bigh Shei-rffe himself e
either takes not ye oath of Supremacy, or at least cometh not to church.

By wch means ye advancement of God's truth and Religion, and ye
service of ye Kings Matie is altogether hindered.

Tenthly I complaine yt ye High Sheriffes in ye severall counties, to
wch my Dioces doth extend, do not well execute ye severall kinds of
capias wch do conceme ye advancement of Religion, viz. :

first they execute not truly ye Capias against Recusants indicted
according to ye statute of 2o Elizab. in this Elngdome of Ireland,
whereby God is dishonoured, religion made a scorne, and ye pious
intendements of his majesties lawes are frustrated.

Secondly they doe not truly execute ye writ de excomunicati
capiendo wch sometimes I get forth against Recusants, wth whom I
have pceeded, and other notorious offenders : but by theyr putting of ye
said writ into ye hands of theyr Popish officers, ye parties offending
psently have notice of it, and they doe shunne that sheriffe during his
time : and at ye end of his yeare ye writ is not dehvered over to ye next
sheriffe, and so ye writ is lost, or concealed among them to ye contempt
of Religion.

Eleventhly I complaine of ye multitude of Popish preists wthin my
Dioces who di-awe ye people from theyi^ obedience to his Majesty : and
then especially when any pclamation or direction comes from his
Highncs : hindering also ye minister in ye worke of his calling, and
drawing backe those whom ye minister had formerly gained.

The preists are thus named (as followeth) for so many as yet are
remembsred wth theyr places of residence and interteiners : —

Names of ye preists.

Parishes and places of
residence.

Interteiners.

John 0 Halluran

Quin

Domiell 0 Haigshy

Abby of Quin

(sshy ?)

Hugh Halluran

Clonee

Shane oge o Coxy

Tulloh

Plugh Hogan

Kilmoriaagall

In his own house at Balli-
mulchashell.

]\Iorrogh c Teig

Killofin and Kilfcddain

In his own house.

Kenedy c Teig

Kilmacdowan

Teige McKencdy his father.

Donnell o Gowan

Rath and Disert

Teig c Owin

^lorffartah

Henry Blackwell.

Mahoon c Jurkan

Kilrush

In his fathers house.

Teig 0 Rowhan

Kilmurry Clonderila

Thomas oge Gorman.

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Connor o Davine
Lohlin o Meahan

Donnoh o Dooly als

Dowly
John Reogh
Morgan o Coman
Donnell c Broodin
Teig c Gilpatricke

Donnoh o Malone
William o Clery
William o Coxy
James Harty
Eichard o Macky

Donnoh. c Cnoghor
Donnoh c Lohlin

John o Hogan
Murtoh Glissan
Teig o Donnavom
Donnoh o Tierna
Piers 0 Costy
ffarginanam c Egan
Eory c Teig
Kenedy Hogan
Oony c Teig
Connor o Toohy
JohnMelampitt
John o Gravan

Kilfarboy
Kilmaly

Clonlughain

Olondagad
Kilfinaghta
Killinaboy & Kilkeedy
Dromcliffe, Abby of

Clare and Killone
Kilmihil

Clonilea and Killurain
Dowry
Killodiernan
Killruain and Lisenu-

sky

Dorra [?]

Killaloe

Moisea

Kilmore

Ballymachursey

Ballymacky

Dunkerin

Usgran

Ahanameala

Ballingary

Kilclonfert muUo

Etagh

Bnrges Boga

Durroh and Bonohom

Donnogh c Gilpatricke.

In his fathers house

Murtoh o Meahan.

one

Oliver Grace.
William o Meara.

In his own house.

John c Lohlin, ye Shiddars,

and others.
Connor Hogan his brother.
Murtoh 0 Glissan.

William o Gavan.

In his owne house.

In his owne castle there.

James o Kenedy.

William Duigan, the Corbe.

Donnell o Brian.
John o Kennedy.

Besides all this, one Nethemias ISTestor priest came over about 4<
yeares since from Rome, and tookt upon him to be ye Pope's nuntio,
and liveth in ye baronies of Insiquin Burrin and Corkomrowe in the
county of Clare : he wthdrawes ye people from theyr obedience to
God and his Maties and getteth infinite wealth from the people.

And over ye whole Diocesse Mahoon McGrath is vicar- generall from
ye Pope, who takes upon him to order priests, and to dispense in cases
of matrimony, and other cases, as is to be shewne and proved : He
resorts for ye most part to Sr John Macnamara Kt. at his house in
Montalle [ ] in ye county of Clare.

The twelfth and last grievance on my owne part is ye despising of my
jurisdiction, to wch very few are obedient at this day, occasioned partly
by ye neghgence of sheriffes in not executing ye writts de excomunicato
capiendo : partly through ye multitude of priests and Popish lawyers
who still hold ye people in hand, yt there shalbe liberty of conscience :
and abolishing of the ye fees in ye Ecclesiasticall Courts : and partly
thorough the calling of ye warrant of assistance backe, given formerly
to me (as unto other Bishops) from ye Eight Hoble ye Lo. Deputy and
in particular to me further from ye Earle of Thomond : which course
againe is much to be desired for ye strengthening of ecclesiasticall juris-
dTction, wch otherwise will come to nothing : and so both recusants and

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other notorious offenders against ye Kings laws and against ye Leitourgy
established will goe on unbridled and unlimited in theyr bad and super-
stitious courses in token whereof ye natives that came to church in
severall parishes are gone all backe againe since ye recalling of those
warrants.

Thus much for ye answer to ye first part of the eleventh Article con-
cerning my owne grievances.

ISTow concerning ye clergy in my Dioces, who though at my first
coming to the Bishopricke in Anno 1612 were not above ye number of
seven, yet now God be praised are sevenand forty and of them foure and
twenty preachers : they according to ye purport of that 11th Article
doe xpose theyr grievances, together wth theyr humble notions as
f olloweth :

ffirst theyr grievances : and that two waies, in particular and in
generall. In particular : viz.,

1. Joseph Clement, vicar of Eoscrea, complaines yt divers houses,
glebes and ruinated places are deteined from him by Garret c [?] Ly-
saght, and others challenging under ye Earle of Ormond.

Nicholas Booth, vicar of Clondagad, complaines yt one Michael Heath-
cott under colom- of the Earle of Thomond doth keep away from him his
glebe land there.

2. ISTicholas Bright, Treasm^er of Killaloe, complaines yt having no
other benefice but ye vicarage of Dromlee belonging to his Treasure-
ship, yet ye said vicarage is wholly taken away from him, and so kept
these 7 [?] yeares last past by ye du^ection of ye Earle of Thomond.

3. Thomas Edens, Prebendary of Inishkalty, complaines yt ye maior
and corporation of ye city of Limericke doe keepe from him ye pfits of
ye rectory of Inishkalty under ptenceof thyr charter graunted inScptimo
Jacobi.

4. Also ye sdThomas Edens complaines yt his glebe land in the parish
of Kilrush parish of ye sd prebend is kept away from him by Gi^neer
ye Dutchman and others clayming under ye Earle of Thomond.

5. Also ye sd Thomas Edens complaines yt whereas in August 1618
he was instituted and inducted into ye quiet possession of Kilchrist and
KJiUidisert, and enjoyed ye pfits of them for one yeare, yet he hath bene
since ejected out of the same by ye meanes of the Earle of Thomond, who
claimes those vicarages as imppriat.

6. Eichard Wilkins, Yicar of jSTenaghand Lisbunny, complaines oE his
eject from ye pfits of ye sd vicaniges by Lewis Welch Imppriator.

In generall they all complain, viz., as f olloweth : —

1. Imp'imls they all complaine that theyi' glebe lands arc wth held
from them by ye chiefe Lords of theyi' severall parishes in j^art or in
whole.

2. Item they complaine yt so many burialls are used in abbies,

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monasteries, old chappells and places where rectories and vicarages are
both imppriat, whereby they are defrauded of theyr duties due to them
in such cases,

3. It : yt ye imppriatoures under colour of their imppriations doe take
away fi'om ye incumbent two parts of ye offerings, milch money, wooll,
lambe and other pfits : yea also they take from them ye two parts of
those duties wch should only be apppriat to ye incumbent for ye
p.sonall executing of his office and duty : and those two parts ye Popish
imppriatours (as for ye most part they are) give to theyr preists besides
all other allowances.

4. It : yt ye imppriat ors under colour of theyr imppriate rectory or
vicarage respectively doe take away ye glebe or part or in whole, so yb
ye incumbent shall have no house nor place to build a house, but cither
must live in some poore hked cabin in danger of theyr lives, or in a
victualling house not answerable to theyr calling : or be non-resident in
repairing to some well peopled towne for safety and habitation.

5. It: yt theyi' fees of mariages, burialls and christenings, wch was
wont to be much of theyr maintenance is now made lesse than formerly ;
yea much less then is given to ye Popish preists in that kind, occasioned
as by other mcanes, so especially by ye working of ye said preists, who
rob God of his glory, and them of theyr dues : ye people being unwilling
to pay double both to ye clergy of my diocese and to ye Popish preists.

Secondly ye most humble motions of ye clergy :
eight as followeth :

and Ihc}^ are these

They desire to be relieved in all yc former greivances.

They desire to have ye fines oE ye recusants in theyr several 1
parishes to be allowed to them yearely in some part or totally for a
time towards ye building of theyr part of ye cliaun cells, in regard of
theyr poverty.

Thirdly they desire yt ye office of psenting recusants may not be
imposed on them any longer, but on ye churchwardens of ye sevcrall
jDarishes, who are best at leasure in time of divine service to observe
who are absent ; and who are best acquainted wth ye inhabitants ; yt
ye clergy by avoyding of that office may ye better win ye love of theyr
parishioners, and avoide that danger wch ye malice of thc}^' Poi^ish
adversaries is well known to plot against them.

They desire yt ye charge of ye schoolmasters stipend may be laid not
upon them, but wholy ujDon ye imppriatours who gaine much, and doe
nothing.

They desire yt they may be farmours to his Matic in ye imppriat
rectories or vicarages in ye severall parishes where they arc beneficed,
at ye same rate that now yc imppriatours pay unto his Matie (if theyr
estate can in justice and honour be avoydcd :) or that 3^e imppriatours
may be copcUcd to give a good allowance yearely to ye incumbent, or
to ye curate where there is no incumbent ; and that to be taxed and
ordered at ye discretion of ye Bishop.

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They desire to be relieved in theyr grazing money according to jq
true meaning of ye order made by ye Eegall Yisitonrs in ye yeare 1615,
for otherwise they shalbe very much impoverished and discouraged in
ye execution of theyr places.

They-desire to be relieved in ye matter of parish clarkes, yt neither
ye parishioners may deny them theyr choyce yrin (they being allowed
of by ye Bishop :) neither ye usuall maintenance for them be kept
backe, viz. a penny a quarter yearely out of every smoke [?] as it is
used in England, besides other usuall allowances at manages, burialls
and christenings : and yt some strict course may be comanded to be
taken herein for theyr releife.

Lastly they humbly desu'e yt whensoever in any of theyr severall
IDarishes any lands shall be at his Maties disposing by reason of any
plantation, surrender, attainder, forfeiture or other meanes (as hath
befallen in Ely o.Caroll) they pstrate themselves wth all humble ac-
knowledgment and thankfulness at ye feete of his Matie yt they might
in such like cases have assigned to them as of his Maties bounty some
pportion of glebe land to be allotted in ye most convenient place : and
yt upon any inquisition to this end, ye Bishop of ye Dioces, or in his
absence, ye Deane of ye Cathedrall Church may be one in Comission to
see ye same to be pformed according to his Maties gracious gi^unt and
Royall intent in that behalf e.

Thus much in answer to ye 11th Article. Pag. 25.

The

twelfth

Article.

What Ecclesiastical Courts are kept wthin ye Diocesse, by whom
executed, under whom, and by what authority "^

I answer,

That there are Ecclesiasticall Courts kept in my Consistory at Killaloe,
and in ye Dioces abroad ; and that by my Chaunceloiu- and Register.

My Chauncelom' is Winter Bridgeman, Esq., an Englishman borne,
sometime a Scholar of Oxford of Lincolne Colled ge for ye space of
three yeares or thereabouts ; and after that, a student foure yeares in
ye Inner Temple ; and since that addicted to ye study of ye Civill Lawes,
wherein he doth excell: (being well seene [?] also, in ye Comon Lawes :)
His experience in this kingdome is of thirty yeares : A man not un-
knowne to ye state generall of this kingdome : and so well appved and
liked by the ye Rt Hoble ye Earle of Thomond, and ye County of Clare,
yt they have moved ye Rt Hoble ye Lo : Chauncellour of Ireland to put
him in ye Comission of Peace for that Coimty ; and lives at this day in
ye execution as well of that office, as of my jurisdiction upright, wth-
out scandall gi-eivance or complaint.

My Register is one Henry Boreman, gent, who was made in England
a publicke notary and executeth ye place wth care skill and faithf ni-
nes : and one that is knowne to many of ye counciU of state in this
kingdome.

And hitherto of ye answer to all ye twelve articles pposcd in ye
first letter sent me mentioned in vc first page of this bookc,
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148 THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE, ETC., IN THE

Now foUowetli ye answer to ye second letter sent to me from ye Et
Hoble &c. ye Commissioners.

Date. May 10, 1622.

This letter consisteth upon two articles.

Wliat Proxies have bene paid to ye Bp in ye Dioces &c.

To this I have already fully answered in my satisfaction to ye third

article in ye first colmnne of every page throughout, under ye title of

Proxies.

The second ^^ ^^^^ ^ catalogue or note of all admissions. Institutions and Induc-

Article. tions since Prime of Henry ye Eighth, or as farre as you can.

To this I answer yt never any of ye ancient Eegister-bookes did ever
come to my hands, or notice, whereby I knowe not what hath bene
done before my time, except it be in those few that were beneficed in
my Dioces before my time and doe yet live : whose inductions or in-
stalhngs I have set downe under every man's name ; as also ye induc-
tion of every Incumbent now beneficed in my Dioces, as may appeare
nnder ye title of Incumbents in every page in ye answer to ye third
article.

And because in many of those benefices there have been divers
others inducted [ ], deprived, or having relinquished ye worse to
take a better, I have yrfore (as w[ell as I] possibly collect) made a
rehearsall of theyr

Benefices.

Incumbents.

Eectory of Trdry
Eectory of Ogassim
Vicar of Tulloh
Eector of Birrah
Eector and Vicar of\

Moysea
The Chauncellorship
Prebend of Tomgreeny
Vicar of Killokenedy
Vicar of Quin
Vicar of Clondagad
Eector of Killinaboy
Eector of Litterluna
Vicar of Eoscrea )
Vicar of Etah j
Eector of Kilmuriy

Victr^fKinnity

Vicar of Kilbarrain
Eector of Kilfarboy
Eector of Balligibbon

Teig McBroody
Conor McShane
Conor c Mahoone
Walter fiitzimons
Denis o Brian

Christopher Siangan
Marke Pagett
John Blagi-ave, a preacher
Morgan Bennis, clerke
Eobert ff'rothingham, student
Thomas Pritchard, preacher
Thomas Denteth, clerke

iEneas Callanan, clerke

Patricke Quin, clerke

Denis o Brian, clerke

G-arrett fl&tzgerald, clerke
Morgan Bennis, clerke
Digory Hawkcs

Inductions.

Before my time.
Before my time.
Before my time.
Before my time.
Before my time.

Before my time.
Before my time.
Dec. 9, 1613.
Oct. 9, 1613.
Feb. 28, 1613.
May 5, 1613.
Feb. 16, 1613.

Apr. 4, 1613.

May 6, 1613.

Apr. 7, 1613.

June 10, 1613.
July 1614.
Aprill 1614.

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Benefices.

Incumbents.

Inductions.

Vicar of Roscrea )
Vicar of Etagh J
Vicar of Killokenedy
Vicar of Killidisert |
Vicar of Kilckrist )
Vicar of OgonilJa
Vicar of Kilkeely
Rector of Tradry
^7-. ( Kiltinanleffh )
^^?M Castleconnell

^^ ( Killinagaraffe )
Vicar of Burrin
Rector of Kilmurry )
Vicar of Smnroan )
Vicar of Kilteely ")
Vicar of Killurain j
Vicar of Killamuir
Vicar of "Kilmurry

Clonderila
Vicar of Kilraghtas
Vicar of Templemaly
Vicar of Killard f
Vicar of Kilfierah S
Vicar of Roscreah
Rector of Clonf ert mullo
Rector of Lattrah.
Vicar of Yohall-arra

Edmund Donnilan, clerke

Murtoh o Donnilan

Thomas fiSangan, a preacher

Peter Ellis, preacher

Thomas fiQangan, preacher

Idem

Morgan Bennis, clerke

William Jannes, a preacher

Benjamin Austen, clerke
Marmaduke Clapham, preacher

Gillabride c Broodin, student
Peter Ellis, preacher

John Twenbrooke, preacher

Abraham Holt, clerke

Henry Barrham, student

Idem

Robert Chuffe, clerke

Brian o Brian, student

Anno 1614.

Anno 1615.

Aug. 31, 1618.

Aug. 12, 1618.

Aug. 31, 1618.
Aug. 31, 1618.
Aug. 12, 1618.

Oct. 1, 1618.

Aug. 31, 1616.
Jan. 8, 1618.

May 1619.
June 16, 1619.

Feb. 3, 1610.

Feb. 3, 1619.

July 1, 1619.
Dec. 5, 1619.
July 1, 1619.
Mar. 26, 1619.

Thus have I fuUy satisfied (I trust) yi^ expectations in my answer
to ye Articles prposed in both ye forenamed letters.

All wch I do humbly comend unto you his IMaties Rt Hoble, &c.,
Comissioners, and doe intreat yt as well ye greivances of ye clergy,
and my owne, as also or humble motions may be taken into [your] wise
and gi-ave considemtions : praying for a blessing from heaven above
to be given to yr [ ] endeavours, for ye glory of ye gi-eat God, and
for ye good both of this desolate Church [and dejcaying common-
wealth.

Some notes on the above most valuable document are added,
with the view of drawing more particular attention to matters
of importance requiring elucidation.

ON FOURTH ARTICLE OF THE BISHOP's REPORT.

The Bishop's answer to the Fourth Article at page 20 of the
original, needs some further consideration. He very properly

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states " the value '' of eacTi benefice separately. However, by
holding several parishes together, as pluralists, parishes some-
times covering a space equal to a Barony, some of the clergy
had incomes a little better than what may appear. Thus —
4 had incomes from £50 to £75
15 „ „ 15 to 20

37 „ „ 2 to 20

56
The Bishop of Limerick took from the Diocese just £100 per
annum in sinecures and dignities. He also held Kilfenora
Bishoprick by dispensation (Ware), and was near having had
Dromore thrown in (C. S. P. I. 1606, p. 77). he temporalities
of the Bishoprick of Limerick were diminished and brought low,
as low as sacrilege could reduce them (a fact already men-
tioned). Bishop Bernard Adams expressly disclaims anything
like grasping after riches. On his monumental slab in St.
Mary's Cathedral, Limerick, the following may still be read : —

" Sufficient God did give me wliicli I spent

" I little borrowed and as little lent

" I left them whom I loved enough in store

'' Increased this Bishoprick and relieved the poor."

This was all quite true, and very proper indeed. But then how
many clergymen of Killaloe did this money, thus abstracted
from their diocese, leave deprived of " sufficient to spend " for
themselves, or of any "store" to leave "for them whom they
loved." (?)

ox FIFTH ARTICLE.

The Bishop designates the quality and condition of the
incumbents and ministers " as to learning, life, and conversa-
tion," with nice particularity and laborious accuracy of detail.
Thus — Some 11 were "native ministers" — or not imported
from England, &c. Some 14 were "ministers and preachers."
One was a Canonist, Mr. Andrewe. Of the greater number
he can report favourably, as " men of good conversation," and
of some in particular as " grave ministers." At page 31 he
incidentally alludes to "divers (who were) deprived." Of
students there were 5. The preachers are classified as either
" known, zealous, or good," and number 6 or 7, Of those who

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read in tlie Irish, tongue are 5 or 6. Of graduate (students)
are 2 or 3. Of Masters of Arts among the clergy there are 4.

SIXTH ARTICLE.

The Bishop is very sore about Piers Butler, who contrived
with aid of the Crown to secure £70 per annum as a Pluralist,
and gave no value for it in clerical services, although pos-
sessing high powers of usefulness from his familiarity with the
Irish tongue.

SEVENTH ARTICLE.

Eeser\ing our remarks on particular churches to the Topo-
graphical Notes in Appendix, it is very striking, according to
the present views of toleration, how the good Bishop could
regard with satisfaction the condition of the great majority of
the churches in Clare, as ha\ing been for the most part " built
by the help of the fines of the Pecusants." This may
have been a good way of building churches, certainly a very
economical way, but whether it was a good way of fiUing the
churches with the Pecusants and making them genuine and
generous supporters of the Peformed faith, is entirely a
different question. So, too, giving " the Pecusants fines " as sti-
pends of missionary curates seems an equally repulsive and fatal
proceeding. How these Pecusants could have been fined into
the love of Protestantism baffles all experience of hmnan or
Hibernian nature, unless on the supposition that money was the
god of such Pecusants' idolatr^^, and that they gave up their pro-
fessed recusansy the more abundantly to worship the God they
really loved. But it is a hard thing to live in advance of one's
day and generation and to see clearly the dangers which ever
beset the path of duty on the right hand and on the left. And
if earnestness carried good men like Bishop John Rider into a
repulsive intolerance some two centuries ago, easiness might be
leading men of the present day into a cold indifferentism.
An^^vay, the enterprize of fining Irish Pecusants into the love
of the Peformed faith does not savour of the spirit of Jesus
Christ and his Apostles, at least according to New Testa-
ment principles ; nor, as the event alas has proved, did it avail
much "/or ye gaining of ye natives, who hitherto will not hear.^*

In the "Interest of Ireland,^' p. 56, &c., the following quo-

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tation and sensible remark may be found :—'' In planting of
religion this much is needful to be observed,— that it be not
sought forcibly, to be impressed into them with terror, and
sharp penalties as now is the manner, but rather delivered and
intimated with mildness and gentleness, so as it may not be
hated, before it be understood, &c. The true religion is not
to be planted by penal laws, or the terror of punishments, which
may fill a church with temporizing hypocrites, but never with
sincere professors— nor is it to be propagated by a vicious, sloth-
ful minister."

EIGHTH ARTICLE.

The Bishop's sore travail to recover '' 21 townlands into the
See of Killaloe '^ was not without good effect. Mr. Erck, in
I. E. E., 1830, p. 209, relates that, "Pursuant to Privy Seal
dated 26 Feb., 1619, and to Patent of June, 1620, the King
granted to John Pp. of Killaloe and his successors, the ter-
ritory called Termon-i-grady, als Tomgraney or Greney, inthe
coy. of Clare, containing 21 qrs. or plough lands, with all its
spiritual and temporal hereditaments, to hold by one Knight's
fee. And with leave to Bishop to renew his letters patent
with the addition of the said lands and of such ors as he
should recover."

NINTH ARTICLE.

Of alienations, &c., some corroborations and illustrations
will occur in the progress of the narrative.

THIRD COMPLAINT (oF BISHOP).

Let it be again impressed on the reader's attention, that out
of 116 benefices in Killaloe Diocese, 53 were impropriate, or
else seized upon as such. And that this was the final conse-
quence of the invasions of the parochial by the monastic
system. " The greatest impropriator and devourer of livings '^
was Oliver Grace, of whom and his ancestors there is a full
account given in a Paper on TuUoroan Parish, to be found in
Mason's Parochial Survey. There is also a Memoir of the
Grace family, by Sheffield Grace, which is profusely illustrated
and of exact research. From these the following may be
selected as likely to interest : —

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Raymond Fitzwilliam Carew Le Gros accompamed Strongbow
to Ireland. The annals of James Grace of Kilkenny com-
mence with the invasion of the English^ and close with the
deaths of Ormonde and Desmonde. He married Basilia,
daughter of Strongbow, as a reward for his services, and he
got the control of Grace's Country — 80,000 acres. The most
illustrious families trace from R. Le Gros.

He is the common ancestor of the noble Houses of Windsor,
Earl of Plymouth ; Carew, Earl of Totnes ; Fitzmaurice,
Marquis of Lansdowne and Earl of Kerry ; Gerard, Earl of
Macclesfield, and Gerard, Bart. ; Fitzgerald, Duke of Leinster,
Earl of Desmond, and Fitzgerald, Bart. ; M'Kenzie, Earl of
Leaforth and Cromartie ; and Fitzgibbon, Earl of Clare.
Raymond Le Gros was thus the stem of a tree which during
more than 1,000 years has borne its honours high, and spread
them branchingly (sic) in society. But, omitting the honours,
exertions, alliances, and glories of the Graces, the following
may prove more to the object in hand. It appears by various
official records that the Grace family possessed, under the
ancient ecclesiastical and regal polity, considerable Church
patronage, which was wrested from them by despotic enact-
ments of the new Puritanical hierarchy (!) and Protectoral
Government of Cromwell. They exercised at that period the
right of advow^son to the following " Rectories " {sic) : —

In counties of Kilkenny, Tipperary, King's and Queen's
County.

Graces Parish, Ballygrannagh, Ballyvakye (Ballymackey),
Templedeere (Templederry), Ballyandine, Kilcrowan, Kilordir-
nane (Killodeernan), Cloghprior, Cowlenwane (CuUenwaine),
Templeneharry, Dunkerene, Ballycashelem, Ramoreake
(Rathnaveogue), Roskene, Rossmorrowe, Etagh, Coynrane,
Castle Grace.

In 1615, Oliver Grace, of Ballyhnch and Carney Castles,
presented to the valuable li\dngs of Castletown and Roscrea,
both in Tipperary. To an enlightened and benevolent mind
(pursues Mr. Sheffd. Grace) the possession of ecclesiastical
patronage afi'ords frequent occasions of just and exquisite satis-
faction. The Grace family inherited the advowson of eio-hteen
livings. The loyalty of the House of Grace to the unfortunate
House of Stuart was attended with most disastrous conse-

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quences to its prosperity. His estates in King's County were
seized by Parliament and granted to one John Vaughan.

The Commissioners of the Commonwealth distributed (p. 50)
lands of the Graces to the extent of 17,000 acres, together
with sixteen Rectories and four Residences.

When King James II. was predominant, Oliver Grace had
assigned to him the properties of the most considerable of the
Queen^s County Protestants.

" The 28 Sept., 5th Eliz. (1563), the Monastery of Tyone,
or St. John, with its appurtenances and about 700 acres of
land, with several chief rents and 16 Rectories, were granted
for ever to Oliver Grace, by homage and fealty only, at the
yearly rent of 39/. 0^. 10c/. ; and by Inquisition Post-Mortem
at Phillipstown, 23 Oct., 1626, was found seized of above
Rectories, all of which were part and parcel of the lately
dissolved Monastery of St. John, near Nenagh, in County
Tipperary."— Cooke's History of Birr, Ed. 1875, p. 303.

But it may prove of more importance to give a brief abstract
of the pecuniary values of the 116 Benefices in the Diocese,
ranked under their denominations : —

Yaluc.

Donatives, presented to by Crown
CoUatives, presented to by Bishop
Presentatives, presented to by Lay Patrons .
Appropriated ad mensam Episcopi, or for cathedral
purposes ......

Impropriated in Lay Presentees .

Total

. 20

. 988

. 279

. 125

. 833

. 2,246

Consequently, one-third of the total amount of the value of
the Benefices was passed from sacred to secular objects ; one-
eighteenth had gone from the clergy, though used by Bishop
and for cathedral objects ; one-eighth had gone as a certainty
from the working clergy of the Diocese ; not quite one-half of
the value of the Benefices was all that the worldng clergy of
the Diocese had to live upon, being on an average for each
21/. IO5. 0^/. And this is all the endowment wherewith the
clergy of this Diocese were remunerated.

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FOURTH COMPLAINT (continued).

Page 27. " I ventured upon six of his Yicarages, which he
seemed to hold as impropriate/' If the reader will reflect
upon the juries, the lawyers, the long purses of the spoliators,
on the Sherifis, the subordinate officers, and all and sundry the
opposition which the Bishop had to encounter, this action
which he so modestly relates will most justly redound to his
credit as a brave and wise administrator of his Diocese, bent on
doing his duty.

No. 6. '^No allowance." Some remarks on this and its
miserable consequences must be deferred to a future page.

No. 10. On the Sheriffs not executing the writs of cajnas
against Recusants, " under ye 2nd of Elizabeth," " ichereby
God is dishonour edj'^ &c. So, no doubt, thought our worthy
Bishop. There was no ecclesiastical Mr. Rarey in those days,
to tame and train, with a quiet, firm hand. At the same time,
when the Recusants did ever get the better of their natural
enemies, as they counted them, we shall see how they could
act. But as to the practice of ^^ shunning the Sheriff during his
time,'' there was nothing novel in it, nothing special in the
way ^" of contempt of religion" about it. But, indeed, it was
a practice, not quite forgotten in Thomond at the present day,
nor confined to Recusants cither.

COMPLAINT ELEVENTH

Is a very serious one ; but if the pure faith of the Reforma-
tion came, associated with fear and made offensive to the pride of
the Romanized Celt or the debased English settler, the priests
of the Roman Mission in Ireland, on the contrary, appealed to
their natural feelings of resentment, and inflamed their hopes
of help from Spain, from France, from the Pope, from any
quarter at aU hostile to England ; and thus, with other influ-
ences combining, won an easy factory over a system of com-
pulsion, and '^ drew back those whom ye minister had formerly
gained."

COMPLAINT NO. 4 OF CLERGY.

The charge of the schoolmaster laid exclusively upon the
clergy, and clergy so poor, to the entire exemption of the

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Impropriators, was a grievous evil. The consequence must
have been a deteriorated system of parochial education ; in
fact, a mere name and a sham. For No. 6, as to grazing-
money, see Order of Visitors in 1615.

Page 30. Registration Books have proved a great difficulty
and sore evil ; indeed, a sad scandal in the Church. Duplicate
registration, with a small fee, and a central office of safe-
keeping and reference, may yet effectually secure an uniformity,
certainty, and security nearly equal to the cylinders of Assyria.
On the death of a dignitary holding a high place in one of the
united Dioceses, his widow performed suttee, not of herself,
but with a large pile of most valuable ancient books and papers
belonging to the Diocese. Some sacks of papers belonging to
the archives of the other Diocese have been sold by a private
person for a few shillings to a collector. The papers are of
unknown value, and ought to be in safe keeping for public use.
There are few parochial documents extending to the Reforma-
tion period; even the Chapter Book only dates from the
Restoration. When a clergyman dies, generally speaking no
one knows what befals the registers. In a book now before the
writer are blanks and void spaces, caused (it is credibly
reported) by two ecclesiastical spinsters erasing their names to
conceal their age, so far. Mostly parish books are either
burned or else moulder away in damp. Since Eley's patent
cartridges and the breechloaders have come into general use,
these old papers have enjoyed some respite. Mr. White, in
his " History of Cashel," tells of how the rebels took the
sermons of the Rector of Fethard — of course to use as wadding
of their guns. Perhaps this use may have imparted an
unwonted fire into the delivery of them.

'^ Praying for a blessing.^' As the good Bishop laboured so
carefully and effectively, so did he also pray earnestly for the
glory of the great God, the good of this desolate Church (and,
oh ! how desolate has he not demonstrated fully in this accurate
and comprehensive paper?) ; also of this consequently ^^ decay-
ing Commonwealth.^^ From the sldll, energy, and piety
manifested by the great and good Bishop in the above elaborate
report of the state of his Diocese, and from his own action
therein, it may be safely inferred with what paternal affection
and pastoral solicitude he continued to look after the interests

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of those committed to his charge, and to govern his clergy
during the remainder of his episcopate.

Indeed, without any disparagement of any other Bishop,
the Eight Eeverend Father in Grod, Dr. John E^ider, may be
well regarded as the founder of the Eeformed faith in this
Diocese. If it be thought by some that too much stress has
been laid by Dr. Eider ujpon the financial condition of the
Diocese, let it be borne in mind by such what has been
denounced, in the Law and Gospel alike, against those who
muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And surely none
can deny that every officer was underpaid, and each benefice
that showed anything barely sufficient for the eye of avarice to
spy, and finger of sacrilege to grasp, was plucked and fleeced.
The Danes never plundered in their wars more minutely and
mercilessly than did our Lords and our la3rtnen, aye, and some
of our Bishops too. Impropriators and ecclesiastical tenants
swept away everything they could seize of the temporalities of
the Church in the Diocese of Killaloe.

The Author of "The Present State of Ireland" (London,
1673) bears the following faithful witness to the poverty and
misery prevalent among the ecclesiastics of the West of
Ireland, at page 118: — "First, it is observed that the clergy
of this country were formerly little beholding to their Lay-
Patrons, some of their Bishops being so poor that they had
no other revenues than the jpasture of two milch beasts. And
so far had the Monasteries and Eeligious Houses invaded by
appropriations the Christian rites, that of late times, in the
w^hole province of Connaught, the whole stipend of the
Incumbent was not above 40^., in some places not above 16^.
So that the poor Irish must needs be better fed than taught.'^

If other Bishops, by " setting up their own servants and
horseboys to take up the tythes and fruits " for their own
aggrandizement, gathered hoards with which they contrived to
purchase great estates and build fair castles, it was not so with
Bishop John Eider, nor with his successors, as shall appear.
Finding his natural strength failing, he caused to be written a
letter, with a view of providing for the Diocese he had loved
so well, and served so nobly, one on whom his mantle should
fall, to be an Elisha after him ; of w^hich letter the following'' is
the reply : —

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The Lords Justices of Ireland to tlie Bishop of London.

Eight Eeverend and our very good Lord,— It was part of his Ma't's
charge unto us, and according to our duties is our daily care to make
provision for the Church in this kingdom ; and now occasion is offered
us to express some part of it in that kynde. There is here an ancient
Bishop, one John Eider, Bipp. of Killalow, neere four score years of age,
who fynding himselE unable any longer to undergoe the bui^den of his
place by reason of the greate decay of his body and memorie, is desirous
to leave his Bishopricke to a more hable man. And to that end he hath
recommended unto us George Andreiu, Dean of Limerick— one whom he
hath long and in effect only employed in the governmt of his Dioces.
And his Lordship hath prayed us to commend the sd Deane to His
Highnes, that so by his Ma's grace and bounty he might succeed in
that Sea after his Ldsp's death or resignation. ISTow we well under-
standing his Eoyal Highnes Eoyal and especial care to order aright the
affairs of the Church, and that by yr Lordship's means and pious
endeavours, we heartily pray your Lordship to make this our humble
mocon knowen to his most excellent Majestic. And that his Highness
wld be pleased to direct his gracious letters unto us that the sd
Bishop's resignation may be accepted, and upon the said resignation (or
death, whichsoever shall first hajDpen) that the sd Dean Andrewe may
be invested into the said Bishopricke according to the laws of this
land and as of his Majestie's bounty and most gi^acious donation. Mr
Andrewe is an Antient Mr of Arts in Oxford, and one of competent
age. Hee hath been Dean of Limerick these 28 yeares, and soe long
knowen unto us and approved by us and the whole state of this kingdom
for his deserving parts, and is well experienced in the ordering and
government of Church affairs, especially in ye Dioces.

'Now the Bishopricke of Killalowe, as it stands at the present, through
the iniquitie* of the predecessors and injury of tymes, is not worth
above one hundred pounds per ann., as wee are credibly informed.
Therefore wee doe sooner pray your Lordship to be an effectual means
to his Majesty that a Commendam of the Chantershipp of the Cathedral
Chuixh of St. Patrick's in or neere Dublin, and of the Eectory of
Drumcliffe in the Dio of Killowe (wh he now enjoyeth), may be added
to the Bishopricke : and that in regard the sd Deane hath been at a
very great charge in re-edifying the decayed House of the Chanter of
St. Patrick's : and that it will be expedient that the Bishopp of Killalowe
for the tyme being should have a competent howse (sic) to receive when
his occasions draw him to this State, wee humbly recommend this
addition to yr Lordship's good furtherance. And your Lordship to the
everlasting protection of the Almightie.

Prom Dublyn the last of Nov. 1631, your Lordship's affectionate
fi'iends and humble servants.

An. Loft us (Cauc), E. Coeke.

'* Sec Bramhall, Appendix to Life, xvii. p.

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Addressed to the Eight Eev. Father in God our very good Lord, the
Ld Bishop of London, and one of the Li's of his Majts Privy
Councill in England.

Endorsed by Bp Land, of London. Noy. 30, 1631. The Justices
of L-eland about the Bp of Killalyc for Mr. Andrewe.

Of Dean Andrewe, it may be noted that though, the Diocese
of Killaloe lost his services^ his merits as an ecclesiastic of high
ability could not be long laid aside by the narrowness of party
spirit. He was chosen Chairman of the Committee of the
Lower House of Convocation, and there acted with so much
ability and spirit as to draw from Stafforde a bitter encomium
and a doubtful reward. Ware mentions that the imperious
Governor-General ^^ sent for him and told him that not a Dean
of Lymerick but Ananias had sat in the chair. . . . Make
him Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin to hold without commendams ;
and then I assure you he shall leave better behind him than
will be recompensed out of that Bishoprick, which is one of the
meanest in the kingdom." And accordingly his promotion
followed. (Ware, 448.) So again (in ^^ Papers," &c., by Mr.
Shirley), ^^ Dean (Lesley), in respect of the exility of the
revenues of Ferns and Leighlin, hath craved leave of my Lord
to fall off. £200 a year is the full extent of them both — too
little for any man to come of England for. Dean Andrewe
would be contented to accept of them, I know no man better
accommodated every way for that work than himself. Tlie
man is a grave cathedral-man, well befriended and able to sub-
sist of himself. I confess he hath been a great deliherator this
Parliament, but surely rather as an instrument of others than
a principal agent." J. Derensis, DubKn, Dec, 1634.

At length this great and good Bishop died at his post — " died
at Killaloe on the 12 of Nov. 1632, where he was buried in
Saint Flaunan's Church."

Having served God in his day and generation, he was
mercifully taken away from the evil to come which desolated
the vineyard he had cultivated so well and had raised to so fair
a prospect of much fruit. jN'o monument remains to mark the
resting-place of his body. Ware does not mention any existino-
in his day. And even had such been erected, the marble lono-
since might have been moss-grown, and the monumental urn
itself mayhap become burled in the wreck of groveyard debris.

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Bishop John Eider's ^^ State of the Diocese of Killaloe" must,
therefore, be set up for a memorial of him. Almost everything
else of him having vanished away and being lost among the
shadows of the past, let his own works at length praise him in
the gates. And whose works, it may well be asked, whether of
Killaloe's or other Irish Bishop, have exceeded those of this
Bishop in the eminent qualities of energy, skill, wisdom, and a
holy and hopeful courage in the discharge of duty ?

The following being another of the Eoyal Visitations is to be
placed in the interval between the decease of Bishop John Eider,
Nov. 12, 1632, and the consecration of Bp. L. Jones, his suc-
cessor, on the 12th April, 1633. The second article noted by
Dean Eeeves as '^ in BramhalPs hand,^' indicates the character
of the Yisitation and the authority of the Yisitors.

The Eoll of the clergy is of value as indicating the number
of Incumbents — their collegiate standing, with other particulars
of interest, indicative of the earnest efforts of the aged Bishop,
John Eider, to provide as large a supply as possible of " able
men."

LAONENSIS DIOCESIS.
13*^ Martii 1633. Epatus Laonensis.

Hex Patronus, val. Eccia Cathedi^alis Sci Flannani Laonensis. Decanus

Ix^. ster. per annum. euisdem Alexander Spicer predicator.

Epns confert, valet Precentor Johannes Andi-ew predicator clericus, in Artibus

30^. ster. per annum. Magister : Eobertus Cox Curatus,

Non residens. [Written in Bramhall's hand. Wm. E.]
Epus confert, valet Cancellarius. Yacat eadem dignitas per mortem naturalem

30Z. ster. per annum. j^|^-g Blagrave nit Cancellar ibid.
Eicus Blagrave Cnratus ibm.
Epus confert, val. xxZ. Thesanrai'ius. Eobertus Sibthorpe, predicator, Sacre

s^- P ^^ Theologie Baccalareus.

Epus confert, val. U. Archidiaconus. Thomas Lodge, predicator, in Ai-tibus

==£50 St. p an. Baccalareus.

Epus confert, val. Prebendarius de Lockayn. Dionisius Garthforth, Clericus.

xvi^. p an.
Epus confert, vaL xxZ. Prebendar de Tomegreeny. Eicus Wilkins, predicator, in

St. p an. Arts Magi\

Epus confert, val. xxl. Prebendarius de Clondigad. ISTicholaus Booth, predicator.

St. p an.
Epus confert, val. xxl. Prebendarius de Tullagh. Gulielmus Hewett, predicator.

ster. p an.

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Epus confert, vaL U. Prebendar de Disert. Johes Twenbrooke, predicator, in

ster. per an. Arts Bac.

Epus confert, vaL ]xl. Prebendar de Inniskatty. Thomas Heaton, predicator.

ste. p an. ^ .

EpuB confert, vaL xU. P^endar de Kath Tacat. Sequestrata in manus Ed^ardi

ster. p an. Fennour.

Oes E«ctorie spectant DIOCAlf ATUS O MULLEAD.

ad o Mulled valent , _ . ^ ^ t,, t x

p an. IxZ. ster. Comes Clonlea.— Eector dee Eccie, Jokes Elagrave, predicator,
*Ormonie patronus. clericus,

Epus cfert valet xiiZ. Yicarius, Georgius South.

ster p an.
Epus cfert, val. p an. KiLLFnsAGHTA. — Eector, Jokes Blagrave, antedcns.

^^- ster. Yicarius, Andi-eas Chaplin, predicator, clericus.

Epus cfert, vaL ix^, EjXTEELY. — Eector Dens, Joke^ Blagrave.
ster. p aru Yicarius, Gulielmus Cox, predicator, clericus.

Epus cfert, vaL ix?. KiLLOKENNEDY. — Deus Blagrave, rector,
ster. p an. Yicarius prefatus, Grulielmus Cox,

Epus cfert, vaL xiijZ. KiLLNO. — Blagrave prenominatus rector.
iii5. iiiic?. p an. Thomas Ayres, vicarius eiusdem.

Epus cfert, vaL iijZ. EliLLUNAX. — Eector eiusd sepenominatus Johes Blagrave.
ster p an. Yicarius prefatus, Richardus AVilkins.

VaL xl. ster. p an. Feakell. — Eector sepedcus, Johes Blagrave.

Yicari dicr sj^ectans ad caplum eceie Cathlis pdce.

Valet xZ. ster. p an. MoYNO. — Ecoria ptinet ad dcum caplum.
Epus cfei't, valet t^. Yicari eiusdem, Eichus Barnes,

ster. p an.
VaL xl. ster. p an. Cloneois. — Ecoria ptint ad caplum.
Epus cfert, vai. 51, Yicari, Eichus Barnes, antedcus.

ster. p an.
VaL vZ ster p an Innisgaltea. — Ecoria imppriata spectans ad preceptoria

de Any in possessione Comitis Corke.
Comes Corke Patron, Yicaria vacat sequestrata,

Val. xlZ. St. p an.

Spectat ad Omullead. Ogonila. — Eector pfat, Blagi^ave.

Epus cfert. val. xiZ, Yicari, Edward Eennor, pdicator.

ster . p an ,
VaL xxZ. st. p an, Idumyn als Steadbally. — Ecoria imppriata. jDossessa p

Comite Ormonie.
Epus cfert, vaL xvZ. Yicari dnus Aepus Capelen tenet in comendam.

ster. p annum. Eobertus CkaUener, Cm'atus ibm.

VaL xxl, ster. p an. KiLLENEGAE^-E. — Eecoria imppriata concessa Comiti Ormo-
nie.
Epus cfert, valet xvZ, Yicarius, eju de pfat dnus Aepus,

^^^^' P a»' Eobertus Ckallenor, Curatus.

♦ Quere, Thomonie.
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Val. xl. p an. Kiltanlet. — Ecoria impropriata dehereditate Comifcis Or*

monie.

Epus cfert, vaL viijZ. Yicarius, Eobertus Challoner.

ster. p an.

DEOAJSTAT DE OGASSHHST.

Valet cl. ster. p an. QuiN. — Ecor Johes Yorke, predicator. It is alleadged on ye

belialfe of Mr. Yorke that the Eectory is in ye
presentacon of ye Earle of Thomond, and it is
alleadged on je part of Mr. Wm. Huett, clerk,
that it is in the gift of his Matie jure cor one,
Epus cfert, val. si. Vicarius, Thomas Browne, pdicator.

ster. p an.

TuLLAGH. — Ecor einsd eccie Johes Yorke, antedcus.
Simlr ut in actu precedente.

Epus cfert, val. xv?. Yicarius, pfatus Gulielmus Hewett.

ster. p an.

Valor antea. KiLLTOOLAGH — Ecoria integra spectans ad pbenda de Tome-

greny.

Cloney. — Ecor ide Johes Yorke. Simlr nt in Quinn.
Epns cfert, vaL xiij^. Yicari, pdcus Thomas Browne.

DoTJRY, — Ecor pdcus Yorke. Simlr ut in Quinn.
Epns cfert, val. xvZ. Yicarius, pfatus Hewett.

ster. p an,

KiLLRAGHTAS. — Ecor scpedcus Johes Yorke. Simlr ut in

Quinn.

Epus cfert, val. vii?. Yicarius, Eobt. Browne.

ster. p an.
Epus cfert, val. xZ. Templemaly — Johes Yorke, sepedcus Ecor eide. Simlr ut

ster. pan. ^ in Quinn.

Ensycronan. — Idem Yorke, Eector. Simlr ut in Quin.
Comes Thomond, Yicarius, Johes Blagrave, pmentionatus.

patron. Val. xxZ.

ster. p an. KiLLANURRYNE GALL.— Ecor dcus Yorke. Sunlr ut in Qum.

Epus cfert, vaL viZ. Yicarius, pfatus Adreas Chaplein.

ster. p an.

DECANTAT DE DEUMCLIFEE.

Baro de Inchiquin, Drumclief. — Eector, Johes Andrew, antedcus.

patronus. Val ,

xlZ. ster. p an.
Epus cfert, val. xxxZ. Yicari, Nicolaus Bright, predicator.

ster. p an.
Valor antea. KiLLMEALY. — Eectoria est pcella de Drumcliffe.

Yicaria similiter.
Epus cfert, vaL xxiijZ. KiLLiNEBOY. — Ecor, Samuel Elliott, predicator.

^^•Vf'^' Neptune Blood, Yicarius.

Epus cfert, valet xvt.
ster. p an.

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Yicarius, Neptune Blood, predicator.

;tor "s

et i Jolies Twenbrooke, pdicator.

jarius 3

Baro de Inchequin, Eath. — Ecor Andreas Gylliesaghta, predicator [now

Epus cf ert, vaL xl. st,

p an.
Epus cfert, vaL xxviZ. DiSERT. — Eector

ste. p an.

Epus cfert, val. xxvi^. Vicar

ster. p an.

Epus cfert, vaL SI. KiLNEMOXA. — Ecor dcus, Jolies Twenbrooke.
ster. p an.

Epus cfert, vaL 41, Yicarius, Gulielmus Flanigan.

St. p an.

Epus cfert, vaL xvZ. Kile:eedie, — Ecor, Jolies Cookeson, pdicator.
St. p an.

Epus cfert, val. xiijZ. Yicarius, idem Johannes.

St. p an.

DECANAT DE TEADEEIE.

ToMENLOUGH. — Eector, Eobt. Sibtborpe, antedcus.
would expect of an Omes Eecorie prectan ad dcum Decanatie, valet

Irish speaking clerk P ^^ clZ. ster.

for Tomfinlough. Comes Thomonie, patronus.

W. E.) • ^

Epus cfert, vaL vl Yicarius, Georgius South.

ster. p an,

KiLLENASALAGH, — Ecor, Eobtus Sibthoi'pe, pdcus.
Epus cfert, vaL 14Z. Yicarius, Nathaniel Snow, predicator.

ster. p an.

KiLCONRiE.— Eobtus Sibthorpe.
Epus cfert, vaL 71 Yicarius, Andreas Chaplein.

ster. p an.

Clonloghane, — Eecor, Eobtus Sibthorpe, antedcus.

Epus cfert, vaL 81 Yicarius Snow, antedcus,

ster. p an.
Valor antea. Dromline. — Ecoria spectat ptim ad mensam Epi. partim

ad Ecorem de Traderie.
Yicarius, Thesaurari Laonenis.

BuNRATTiE. — Ecor, Eobtus Sibthorpe.
Epus cfert, val. SI. p Yicarius, Thos Bennis, legit Hibnice.

an.

Fynnagh. — Ecor, Eobtus Sibthorpe.

Yicarius, Thos Bennis, antedcus.

VaL 81. St. p an- Killagh, — Eecoria ippriata possessa p Barone de Inchquin,

Val. U. ster. p an. Yicaiia vacat,

Valent 41. ster. p an- Inishdadru:m:. — Eectoria et Yicaria, spctat ad pcentore.
num.

Ejllmalery. — Ecor, Eobt Sibthorpe, pdcus.
Yicarius, Andreas Chaplein, pdcus.

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DECANAT DE COECKAYASKIN.

Val. xZ. St. p an. Clondigad. — Ecoria ippriata in possession Barony de

IncMquin.

Epus cfert, val. \l. Yicari, Nicholaus Booth, pdcus.

ster. p an.

Val. xZ. St. p an. KiLLCHRiST. — Ecoria ippriata possessa p Comite Tliomonie.

Epus cfert, val. vZ. st. Yicarius, ISTathaniel Buckley,

p an.

[i.e., John's Church. KiLLONE. — Ecoria ippriata Monasterio de Killone possessa

W. E.] p Baronem de Inchiquin.

Val. xxZ. ster. p an.

Val. viZ. ster. p an. Yicaria vacat. Imppriata ad dcu Barone de Inchi-

quin.

Yal. 8Z. St. p an. KiLLPEADAN. — Ecoria ippriata possessa p Comite Thomonie.

Epus cfert, val. 8Z. st. Yicarius, Laurentius Boyt, pdicator.

p na.

Yal. 8Z. St. p an. KiLLAFiN. — Impropriata Ecoria ut supra.

Epus cfert, val. 8Z. st. Yicarius, Laurentius Boyt.

p an.

KiLLMUREiE Clonderala. — Ecoria imppriata ad Comitem de
Thomonia.
Epus cfert, val. viZ. Yicarius, Thomas Tunsteed.

St. p an.

Yal. xlZ. st. p an. Killmuerie Ibrickane. — Ecoria impropriata ad Com Tho-

monie.
Yicaria vacat.

Killemure. — Ecoria imppriata ad Comite Thomonie.
Epus cfert, val. 8Z. st. Yicarius. Thomas Tunsteed.

p an.
Yal. xxZ. St. p an. KiLLiDiSART. — Ecoria ippriata ad Comite Thomonie.
Comes (Quere, Eec- Yicaria vacat quo ad inductione. I^athaniel Buck-

tius, Thomonie) |^„_

Y^et^\mL^ litT. Yicari ibm non induct est ad vicaria.

p an.
Yal. xviZ. ster. p an. KiLLMCDUAN.— Ecoria imppriata ad Comite Thomonie.
Epus cfert, val. xZ. Yicarius, Murtagh McConsiden, legit Hibnice.

ster. p an.

^Ton'^^'' Tat''' 2ot KiLLFARBOY.-Ecoria vacat p morte Eichardi Twisse.

ster. p an.
Ep 'cfert, val. vijZ. Yicarius, Daniell McBrodin.

ster. p an.

Yal. xviZ. ster. p an. KiLLFEiRAGii. — Ecoria imppriata ad Comite Thomonie

pparte.
Epus cfert, val. 8Z. st. Yicarius Nathaniel Buckley, antedcus.

KiLB.y:.Lino:NE. — Ecoria ps ad Coite Thomonie, ps ad pbenda
de Tomgrency.
Yicarius, Franciscus Menerell.

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Val. xvl. St. p an. KiLLARD. — Ecoria imppriata ad Comitem Thomon.

Ep cfert, val. 7^. x5. Yicarius, DanieJl McBrodin.

St. p an.

Val. xiijZ. St. p an. MoYPARTA. — Ecoria imppriata ad Comitem Thomonie.

Epus cfert, val. xl st. Yicarius, Francis cus Menerell.

p an.

KiLLMiHiLL. — Ecoria imppriata ad Comitem Thomonie.
Yicarius, Murtagh McConsiden.

Yal. xijZ. St. p an.
Epus cfert, val. 61 st,

p an.
Yalor antea.

Val. 30Z. ster.

p an.

Ejllrtjsh. — Ecoria integi^a est Pbenda de Iniskattj.

Ecoria imppriata ad Comite Thomonie spectan.
JSTathaniell Buckley, Curatus.

Val. 20?. ster. p an. DECANAT DE OEMOXIA SUPIOEI.

aonach tepc. Epus ]S^E^'AG^. — Ecoria imppriata in possessione LeTns Walsh,

cfert, val. 61. ster. p Yicaria vacat.

an.
Valor antea. KiLKERT. — Ecoria spectat ad Decanum Laonensem.

Ballinacloghy. — Ecoria imppriata Monrio de Clonold pos-
sessa p Walterum Gough.
Yicaria spectan ad Decanu Laonensem.

Val. 16/. ster. p an. LiSBUNis^Y. — Ecria imppriata qua Lewis Welsh possidet.
Epus cfert, val. 8L st. Yicaria vacat.

p an.
Val 301 st T> an KiLLENEAFPE. — Ecoria imppriata tenta p Cerrott oge Grace.

Epus cfert, val. 201. Yacaria vacat. Antiquitus habebat Incumbentem

st p an. ibm.

Val. xl. st. p an.
Epus cfert, val. xv?.

st. p an.
Val. xii/.. St. p an.

Epus cfert, val. xxl,
St. p an.

Val. lil. St. p an.
Epus cfert.

Val. xl. ster. p an.
Epus cfert, val. U. st.

p an.
Val. x\l. St. p an.

Epus cfert, val. 61. st.
p an.

DoLLA. — Spectat Eectoria ad mensam Epi

Yicaria vacat possessa per Barone de Inchiquin,

KiLLMORE. — Eecoria spctatadfabricamcancelliEccie Catlilis
Laonen vel ad mensam Epi.
Yicaria vacat possessa p Comite Ormon per pretextum
impropriationis ad monasteriu See Crucis ut dicr.

DuxAMONA. — Ecoria est partita equaliter inter Comitem Or-
monie et Decanu et Caplum Laonen.
Yicaria vacat. Existens 3a ps qua Lewis Walsh het
prextu ippriacois. Spctat ad monasteriu do
Omagh in comitatu Limricensi ut dicitur.

BuRGESBOGA. — Ecoria imppriata per Lewis Welsh.

Yicarius, Gulielmus Keitson.
YouGHALLARA. — Ecoria est divisa in ijas ptes quar unam
possidet Ecor de Moysea, alteram Decanu s
antedcus.
Yicarius antedcus Keitson.

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Castletowne Area.— Ector pfatus Johes Andrew.
Yicarius, Eichardus Blagrave, pdicator.

Epus cfert, val. x?. at. Balliguibbon.— Ecor, Eobt. Cox.
p an.

Epus cfert, val. y\l. Yicaria vacat. Possessa p Gerrott oge Gi-ace colore

^** P ^^' imppriacois. Spectat ad monasterium Sci Johes

ioSs^'' W^R] ^^""^^ = Jerusalem alias Tyone [beside Nenagh.

— W. E].

Val. 30^. ster. p an.

Valor antea.
Valor antea.

Val. 30^. St. p an.

Val. xl. ster. p an.

Val. 201. ster. p an.
Val. 61. ster. p an.

Valor antea.

Val. xii^. st. p an.

Val. vii^. St. p an.
Val. xiiZ. st. p an.

Val. vi/. st. p an.

Valor antea.

Val. xyI. ster. p an.
Val. 81. ster. p an.

Ballimacky. — Ecoria ippriata tenta p dcum Geraldu Grace.
Spectans ad Tyone pdict.
Vicaria est mebru corpis Cancellariat qai vacat.

Thome. — Ecoria Integra spctans ad cancellariatu antedcum
ut ps eidem.

Ahanamela. — Ecoria ptinet ad sacrista Monasterii de
Thome, imppriata tenta p Marcn McCrath de
Bleane in com Tippary.
Vicaria vacat tenta p pdcu Marum ptextu imppriacos
spectan ad Thome predict.

BuRiSNAPEBNA. — Ecoria imppriata tenta p dcum Marcum.
Vicaria vacat possessa p eude Marcu colore pdco.

Lattragh. — Eectoria et vicaria, spectans ad dcum, Jo hem
Andrew Prcentore.

Templederey. — Ecoria imppriata lenta p dcum, Geraldu
Grace, spectan ad Tyone predict.
Vicaria vacat possessa p eundem.

KiLDEERYDAGEOME. — Ectoria imppriata possessa p dcu,
Marcum McCrath.
Vicaria vacat. Tenr p ipsutanqua imppriata.

DECANAT OEMONDIOE INFEEIOEIS.
Dromeneee. — Ecoria Integra de corpore Decanat antedci.

MoYSEA. — Eector, Gerrofct Fitz Gerrot, predicator.
Vicarius, Eicus Logan Artium Baccalars.

KiLLODiEENA. — Ecoria imppriata qua tenet, Gerrott oge
Grace, pdcus.
Vicaria vacat possessa p dcum Grace.

Kneagh. — Ecoria imppriata possessa p Lewis Wilsh.
Vicarius, Eichardus Logan, antedcus.
[This an appropn of Owney, or Abington, in Co. Lime-
rick, now Knigh ; but I find it spelt Cnoyagh. It's a very
cuiious name. — W. E.]

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Val. xxl. p an. Cloghaprioea. — Ecoria ippra quam tenet Dmns Gerrott oge

Grace.
Val. Yill. St. p an. Yicaria eiusde vacate, dnus Grace prextu imppriacois

possidet.

Val. 30Z. St. p an. KiLBAEEANE. — Ecoria ippiat a qua dnus Comes de Corke tenet.
Epus cfert, val. xvl. Yicarius eide eccie, Edmundus Hurley.

St. p an.
Val. 161. St. p an. Aedceony. — Ecoria spectat ad mensa Epi.
Epus cfert, val. viZ. st. Yicarius, Bryan McDonogli.

p an.
Epus cfert, val. 21. st. MoDEYNiTH. — Eector, Petrus Butler.

p an.
Epus cfert, val. xl. st. Yicarius, Gulielmus Caple, predicator.

p an.

KiLLEUAN. — Ecoria ippiata tenet, Gerrot oge Grace pdcus.

Idem het Yicaria vacant e.

Val. xxxZ. st. p an.
Val. xl. ster. p an.

Ej)us cfert, val. xl. st.

p an.
Epus cfert, val. yI. st.

p an.

Val. xl. St. p an.
Valor antea.

Fyngugh. — Eector, Peirce Butler antedictus.
Yicarius eiusdem dictus Petnis Butler.

Teeouglasse. — Ecoria est mebru de Fynogli.
Yicaria est de corpore Decanat pdci.

Val. xxl. St. p an. Bueiskeane. — Ecoria ippiata in possessoe Lewis "Walsh.
Epus cfert, val. yU. Yicarius dee eccie, Gulielm Caple, antedcus.

6s. Sd. St. p an.
Ep cfert val Idl 135 I^^EEHO. — Ecor eide eccie Thos Bridgeman, studios in

4d. collegio see Trinitatis, Dublin.

Epus cfert, val. yI. st Yicarius, Eobtus Slieepeley, pdicator.

p an.
Valor antea. BoNNAHAN. — Ecoria est pcella de Dun^lio predco.

(Hanc ecciam multo
labore ho die inveni.
W.R.)
Epus confert, valet Yicarius idem Sheep eley.

iiijZ. st. p an.

LoEEOGH. — Ecoria in iij ptes diuisa quar una spctat ad
Durrogh, pdicta altera ad rctoriam de Finogh.
Yicaria | pcella Archinatus pdci.

Valor antea.
Valor antea.
Valor antea.

Egliscloghan. — Ecoria het ijas ptes diuisas quitr alta ad
Pynogh alta ad Durrogh spctat.
Valor antea. Yicai'ia i de Archinatu pdco.

Val. 30^. st. p an. Ballingaey. — Ecoria spctat ad pceptoria de Any. imppriata

de hereditate dni Comitis Corcke.

Epus cfert, val. xyI. Yicarius, Edmund Hurley, antedcus.

st. p an.

Valor antea. LoCHAYN. — Ecoria J Pbenda, Pbedari Dionisius Guriliforth.

Epus cfert, val 4^. st. Vicari, ide Dionisi Garthfoi'th.

p an.

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THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE^ ETC, IN THE

UsGEANE. — Rcoria ippiata ad pceptoriam de Any. pred, in

possessone dni Comitis de Corcke pdei.

Epus cfert, val. 40^. Yicarius, pfat Dionisius Garthforth.

St. p an.

DEOAJSTAT' DE ELY CARROLL AND EGERIK

[Ely O'Carroll formerly belonged to Munster, and this is shown by its ecclesiastical
location. But civilly it was transferred to King's Co. in Leinster, where it
comprises the baronies of Ballybrett and Clonlisk. Egerin is Ikerin barony
in Tii:>perary. W. R.]

Val. c/. St. p an. RoscEEA, — Rcoria vacat possessa p Gerrott Grace, pdci

taqua ippiata. 75., the 20th part paide for this,
and therefore not imppriat.
Epus cfert, val. 25^. Yicarius, Josephus Clement.

St. p an.

Val. 30^. St. p an. Etagh. — Rcoria imppriata in possessoe dci Gerrott.

Epus cfert, val. xiiZ. Yicarius prefatus, Josephus Clement.

St. p an.

Epus cfert, valet 41. FiNGLASSE. — Rctoria intega qua Cornelius oge o'Shcrin,
ster. p an. studios in collegio pdco tenet studendi

gratia.

Val. 20?. St. p an. DuxKEURiN. — Rctoriam ippiatam het pfat Grace.
(O^e in the former en-
try is equivalent to

Epus cfert, val. xl. Yicarius, Cornelius Sherin, senior.

ster. p an.
Valor antea Templekoriiy. — Rcoria ippiata tenet dnus Grace.

Valor antea. Yicarius, pfatus Cornelius Sherin, tenet vicariam

existente parcella vicarie de Dunkerrin pdeo.

Val. 20/. St. p an. Castletowne Ely. — Rcoria imppriata tener a dco Gerrot

Grace

Epus cfert, val. xl st. Yicarius eiusdem Cornelius Sherin predictus.

p an.

Valor antea.

Valor antea.
Val. 20Z. St. p an.

Ramavyoge. — Rcoria imppriata hanc etiam het dcus Grace.
Spectat ad Dunkerrin.
Vicaria est ppcella de Dunkerrin pdca ut dicitur.

SwiNROANE.— Rcoria est impropriata. Het illam etiam
dcus Grace. Spectat ad Tyone.
Epus cfert, val. 8?. st. Yicarius, Marmaduke Clapham, pdicator.

p an.
Epus cfert, val. xl. st. KiLLMTJRRY. — Rector dcus, Clapham.

p an.
Epus cfert, val. vl. Idem, Claioham, Yicarius eiusdem.

ster. p an.
Epus cfert, val. 3/. St. KiLLCOMiN. — Rcoria Integra, dcus Clapham -i-incubcns

P an. cidem.

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BiKRiiA. — Eector, Thomas Heaton, pdicator.

Yicarius eiusdem eccie, Robertus Shepeley.

Valor antea. KiLLCOLLMAN — Killcolman Rectoris est parcella Rectorie de

Birrha.

Epus cfert, val. xxZ, Yicarius prefatus, Joseph Clement,

ster. p an.

Val. SOL ster. p an. Ahancon.— Rcoria imppiata possessa p Comitem Roscom-
mon.

Epus cfert, val. 201, Yicarius, Joseph Clement, pnominat us.'

St. p an.

Val. 61. St. p an. RoscoMBOE. — Rcoria imppiata tenetur p Gerrot Grace,

pdcum.

Epus cfert, val. U. st. Yicarius, Thomas Smith, predicator.

p an.

[This is in Queen's

Coy. W. R.]
Val. 16^. ster. p an. Cloitfeetmtjllqgh. — Rcoria integi^a cuius incumbens est
Epus confert, Johes Costigan.

Epus cfert, val. il. st. LiTTERLUNA. — Rector, Johes Sterne, pdicator qui het una
P^^' ptem eiusdem. Altera p.-^ippiata quam tenet

Valet 61 (ys. 8d. st. p dmnus Comes de Roscomon.

an.

Epus confert, val. vl Yicarius pefatus, Johes Sterne,

st. p an.
Epus confert, val, SI. KiNNEETY. — Rcoria dividitur, nichilominus Robtus She-
ster. p an, peley qui unam partem habet tantum est rector.

Val. XV?. ster. p an. Alteram ptem tenet Dnus Comes de Roscomon

impropriator.
Epus confert, val. xijZ. Yicarius iben pfatus, John Sterne,

ster. p an.

BuRREN. — Rcoria imppiata spectat ad dnum Comm
Ormonie.
Yicarius, Thomas Smith.

[i.e. Cullenwayne, W. Quellanean. — Rcoria imppiata possessa p sepedcum, Ger-
JLv. 1 val. xxt. St. , -, jry

raldu Grace.

p an.
Val. xZ. St. p an

Vicaria vacat tent a p ipsum.

VaL ZOl. St. p an, *Caebully. — Rcoria impropriata in possessione predicti

Comistes de Roscomon.

Epus cfert, val. 201. Yicarius eiusdem eccie pfat, Joseph Clement,

st. p an.

Henricus Bridge:man, Norius. Pubcus.,
Registi-arius.

[* Corbally is the parish where was the now dried lake of Loch Cre, which gives
name to Ros-cre. In this lake was the celebrated Insula viventium, now Monaincha (Bog
island), of which the wonderfid stories told of it in Giraldus' times, circ, the English
conquest, are chronicled by him. W. K.]

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THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE, ETC., IN THE

THE EOLL OF THE CLERGY.
LAONENSIS DIOCESIS.

13 Martii juxta cursum, cfcc, 1633.

Cornelius O'Sherin, ordd deacon by John Bp. of Killaloe Oct. 25,
1613 ; ordd. priest by same May 1, 1614.

Instituted to the Yicarage of Castrum Philippi, orwise Castletown
Ely (which vicarage the said Bishop, on account of their tenuity, united
pro hac vice to that of Dunkerin), with mandate of induction, May 24,
1613.

Inducted by G-eorge Andrewe, A.M., 20 July, 1614.

Joseph Cle:ment, Yicar of Roscrea, presented by Charles I. to the
Yicarages of Killcollman, Ahyncon, and Corbally, jure devoluto, as by
Letters Patent, Aug. 2 an. 3° ; which vicarage the King united propter
tenuitatem pro hac vice.

James Abp. of Armagh granted a faculty to hold same, dated
Oct. 1, 1618.

Thomas Smith, A.B., ordained deacon and priest by Thomas Bp. of
Ferns and Leighlm, 21 May, 1625.

Yicar of Eoscomroe, admitted by John Bp. of Elillaloe to the Yic. of
Berrin, vacant by the free resignatn of Nathaniel Snow, last incumbt,
with mandate of inductn. dated 26 Aug., 1629 (which vicarages the Bp.
united propter tenuitatem). Inducted by Henry Bourman, Not. PubL,
Archdeacon's Surrogate, Nov. 4, 1629.

Bkianus Brian, Clk., alumnus of T.C.D., ordd deaxjon by John Bp.
of Killaloe, Feb. 11, 1620 ; and priest by same, Jan. 13, 1627.

Instituted by same to Yic. of Ardcronie, with mandate of inductn
dated Feb. 25, 1627. Inducted by said Henry Bourman Mar. 10, 1627.

MuRTOGH McCoNSiDiN, in re literaria studiosus, ordd deacon by John
Bp. of Killaloe Sept. 10, 1617 ; and priest by same Aug. 9, 1618.

Institd. to Yics. of Killmichill and Kilmaduan, with mandate of
inductn. Oct. 6, 1617 (which vies, the Bp. united propter tenuitatem).
Inducted by Cornelius McConsidin, Clk., June 13, 1618.

Franciscus Menerell, ordained deacon by Wm. Bp. of Ardfert and
Aghadoe 20 April, 1633, and priest in same year.

Instituted by Lewis, Bp. of Killaloe, to the Yics. of Moyfert,
and Kilbalhyhone, with mandate of induction November 7, 1633 ; vacant
by free resignation of Nicholas Bright, late incumbent, which vicarages
the Bishop, propter tenuitatem, united. Inducted by Nicholas
Booth, Clk., November 25, 1633.

Laurentius Boyle, schoolmaster, ordained deacon by John, Bp. of
KiUaloe, August 9, 1618, and priest August 16,1618. Instituted by
him to the Yics. of KiLEaddan and Killofin, with mandate of induction

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August 30, 1614, which vies, the Bishop, propter tenuitatem, nnited.
Inducted by Winter Bridgman, archdeacon's surrogate, January 12,
1618.

Andreas Lyshaght, alumnus of T.C.D., ordained deacon by John,
Bp. of Killaloe, August 23, 1618; and priest by same, September 14,
1623. Instituted by George Andrewe, A.M., Dean of Limerick, and
Yicar-Gen. of John, Bp. of Killaloe, to the Eectory of Eathblanagh
(now Rath, "W. E,.)> with mandate of induction addressed to the Arch-
deacon or John Twenbroke, Beet, of Disart, dated August 28, 1632.
Inducted by Twenbrooke, September 1, 1632.

Mahmaducus Clapham, ordained deacon and priest by Wm. Bp. of
Kildare, November 4, 1616.

Licensed to preach by Toby, Abp. of York, January 18, 1617.

Instituted to Yic. of Swinroan, R. and Y . of Killcummur and E. of
Kilmurrye, by John, Bp. of Killaloe, with mandate of induction dated
February 22, 1622. Which Beet, and Yic. the Bp., propter tenuitatem,
united pro ha<3 vice. Inducted by Wm. Caple, the archdeacon's sub-
stitute, April 26, 1627.

Daniell M. BuoDnf, schoolmaster, ordained deacon, by John, Bp. of
Killaloe, April 20, 1628, and priest, by same, April 4, 1624.

Instituted by him to Yics. of Killardagh and Killfarboy, with man-
date of inducn dated April 18, 1623, united propter tenuitatem.
Inducted by Winter Bridgman, the archdeacon's official. May 7,
1623.

CoKXELiiJS Shemn, jun., in re literaria studiosus, collated by Geo.
Andrew, A.M., D.Y.P., Dean of Limerick, and Winter Bridgman, Esq.,
Commissioner of Malcolm, Arcbbishop of Cashel, to exercise triennial
visitation in Killaloe (in 1627), to the entire Rec. of Finglasse, now
void of incumbent, and to the Abp's collation by lapse devolved,
with seven years' dispensation to study in T.C.D. or any
other public school where the royal injunctions are observed, with
mandate to Thos Lodge, Archdeacon of Killaloe, or substitute, to
induct said Cornelius, dated Nov. 29, 1627. Inducted by Henry Bourman,
official of Thos. Lodge, Archdn. Laonen. Nov. 30, 1627.

NicHOLAUS Bright, clericus, ordaind deacon and priest, by John,
Bp of Gloucester, in 1600.

Instd. by Jno., Bp. of Killaloe, to Yice. of Drumcliffe als Icormach,
vac. by resign, of George Andrew, la^t incumb., with mandate of in-
ductn. Oct. 17, 1629. Inducted by Henry Bourman, Surrog of Archdn.
Laonen. Nov. 10,1629.

Thomas Tunsteede, Cler. A.B., vicar of the united vicarges of
Kilmurry, Clonderala., and Killemur, ordained dea<3on and priest by
Thos., Bp. of Lichfield, collated to the vies, by Jno., Bp. of Killaloe,
united under his epal seal. Inducted Aug. 5, 1633, as proved by certi-
ficate dated Mar. 13, 1633.

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THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE, ETC., IN THE

RoBERTUs Challinor, studiosus, ordd. deacon by Jno., Bp. of Kil-
laloe, 24 June, 1621 ; and priest by same, 29 Sep.,1622. Inst, by him
to Vic. Kilmanleigh, vac. by resign, of Nathaniel Snowe last vie. with
mandate for inductn. dated 13 Nov., 1629. Induct, by Thos. Lodge,
ArcMn. of Killaloe, 22 Novr., 1629.

Edwardus Fennor, Cler. Verbi Div. Predicator, instd. by Lewis, Bp.
of Killaloe,^ to Vic. Ogonila, vac. by resignat. of Thomas Ayres, last
incumbent, with madate for inductn. dated 10 March, 1633.

Instituted by same Bp. to Vic. of Templemalie, vac. by death of
Richard Walker, last Incumbent, with mandate for induct, dated 6 May,
1633. Inducted by Jno. Twenbrooke, Clk., 19 May, 1633.

Robert Cox, Clk., ordd Deacon by John, Bp, of Waterford and
Lismore, 25 July, 1615. And Priest by same Bp., 7 April 1616.
Instituted by Jno, Bp of Killaloe to R. and V. of Balligibbon, with
mandate for indue, 13 Jan., 1620 (said R. and V, united by Bp. propter
exilitatem, &c.). Inducted by Winter Bridgman, offic. of Archn^ Feb. 9,
1620,

Thomas Bridgman, in re literaria studiosus, instd by Jno, Bp. of
Killaloe, to Rect of Durrogh, vac. by deprivat. of, Daniel O'Brian, Clk.,
last incumbt. ; studendi gratia, with mandate of inducn dated 19 April,
1628. Inducted by Henry Bourman, surrogate of Archn, June 4, 1628.

Wm. Flanigan, Clk., institut by Lewis, Bp of Killaloe, to Vic. of
Kilnemone, vacant by cession of Jno Twenbrooke, last incumbt, with
mandate of inducn dated 18 Oct., 1633. Inducted by Nichs Booth, clk.,
by mand. of Archdn. Lodge, 15 Nov., 1633.

Hugo Powell, Clk., admitted by Jno, Bp. of Kilfenora, to the Arch-
deaconry and a Canonry in the Cath. Church of St. Fecknan of
Kelfenoi-a, and to the R. and V. of Rathborny, Oghmama, Killmacree,
Kilmanaheen and Kilespughanan, Kilfenore dioc, with mand. to Dean of
Killaloe to induct and install ; which vicarages and Archdeaconry,
propter tenuitatem, the Bp. united into one benefice, Jan. 17, 1628.

Installd in Archdeaconry by Hygatus Lone, Dean of Kilfenora, &c.,
18 Jan., 1618.

Admittedtotheord. of Priest by Bernard, Bp. of Limerick and Kilfenora,
Aug. 2, 1616.

Edmund Hurley, studiosus, ordd. Deacon by Jno Bp. of Killaloe
Sept. 30, 1621, and Priest by same 28th Oct.

Inst, to V. of Kilbarrane, vac. by resignat, promon, deprivan, or
cessn of Richard Bourke, last incumb., with mandate of inducn dated
23rd Dec. 1622. Inducted by Winter Bridgman, Official of Ai'chdn,
Dec. 27, 1622.

Instd. by same Bp to Vic. of Ballingarrie, with mandate of inductn,
also uniting the two benefices propter exilitatem, Aug. 9, 1630. Inductd
by Hen Bourman, SuiTogate of Archdn. Aug. 10, 1630.

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John Andrew, A.B., ordd. Deacon and Priest 22 Kov. 1629, by John
Bp of Killaloe. Instd by him to Eect. of Castletowne Arra, simplex
beneficium vac. by resignn of Daniel Kenedaie, last Incumb, with man-
date of inducn. dated 14 Feb. 1623. Inducted by Geo. Andrew, Clk.,
A.M., 21 Feb. 1623.

Instd to Precentorship in Cath. Ch. of S. Flannan of Killaloe by Geo.
Andrew, M.A., Dean of Limerick, Yiear Gen. of the Bp of Killaloe, with
mandate of installatn. 12 Jun. 1632. Installed by Thos. Lodge, Archdn.,
19 Jnn. 1632.

Instituted by James Abp of Armagh to the Rectory of Drumclrff,
with mandate of Induction dat. 15 Dec. 1633, on presentation by King
Charles by two Let* Pat. dat Dec. 13. ano. 9°.

Thomas Aihes, pedagogus, ordd Deacon by Jno Bp. of Killaloe 29 Jun.
1628. Priest by same 12 April, 1629.

Instituted by same to Yics of Ogonola and Killnoe, vact. by resignan.
of Bobei-t Challenor, last incumb., with mandate of inducn. dated June
30, 1628. United by Bp. propter tenuitatem. Inducted by Hemy
Bourman, July 2, 1628.

BicHAED "WiLKiNS, A.M., ordd Deacon by Geoi^ Bp. of London
4 March, 1609, and Priest by same on same day.

Instd. by Jno Bp. of Killaloe to Vic. of Killuran, Tact by cessn. or
deprivn. of Wm. Donnellan, elk., last Incumb., with mandate for inducn.
dat. 5 Jan. 1622. Inducted by Winter Bridgman, Archdns Official,
Feb. 1623.

Collat and instit by same Bp. to Preb. of Tomgreney in Ec.
Cathl. Flanain of Killaloe, vacant by death of Barnard, late Bp. of
Limerick (1625-6), with mandate to the Dean of Killaloe or other Cathe-
dral prelate to install same, 28 March, 1626.

Installd by Daniel Kennedaie, Clk, Precentor, &c., 8 April, 1626.

Nathaniel Snowe, A.B., ord Priest (and previously Deacon) by Jolin
Bp of Killaloe. Inst, to Yics of Killeneasolagh and Clonloghane, with
mandate of inducn dated Jan. 10, 1630. Yicarage united propter exili-
tatem. Inducted by Henry Bourman 13 Jan. 1631.

Nathaniel Buckley, AM., ord Deacon by Thos. Bishop of Peter-
borough 24 Feb. 1617 ; and Priest by John Bp, of London, 23 May, 1619.

Instd. to Yic. of Kilfieragh, with mand. of inducn. 15 Oct. 1627 ; in-
ducted by Henry Bourman 15 Nov. 1627.

Inst, by Lewis Bp. of Killaloe to the Yics, of Kill-christ and Kille-
disert, with mandate of induction 13 Sep. 1633. Yicarages united
pter exilitatem.

Georgitjs Sough, Cler., ordained Priest by Wm. Bp of Cork, Cloyne,
and Boss (previously ordd Deacon by Jno Bp of Killaloe) Aug 5, 1616.
Inst, by Jno Bp of Killaloe to Yic. of Clonlea with mand. of inducn
Jan 15, 1617. Said Yicarage united to Yic. of Tomfinloch, propter exili-
tatem. Inducted by Andrew, Chapleine, Clk, Yic. of Killfinaghta, 23
Jan. 1617.

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THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE, ETC., IN THE

The Dean and Chapter confirmed the said union of Clonfinloe and
Clonlea, Jan. 15, 1617. (Quere for Clonfinloe, Tomfinloe. P. D.)

Thomas Bkowne, Clk., A.B., ord Deacon by Francis Bp of Limerick 15
April, 1632 ; and Priest by same on same day. Instd by Geo. Andrew,
Official of Jno Bp. of Killaloe, to the Vies, of Quinn and Clonic, with man-
date of inducn. April 20, 1632. Said Vicarages united by sd Andrew
ppter tenuitatem. Inducted by Heri. Bourman, 21 April, 1631.

Thomas Lodge, Acad. Oxonien Studen, ordained Deacon by Bernard
Bp Limerick 2 May, 1620, and Priest by same 6 May, 1620.

Said Thos Lodge, A.B., Div. Verb. Pred. coll and inst. to Archdeaconry
with mandate of installn. 27 Feb. 1624. Installed by Jno Bla^rave, Clk,
13 July, 1625.

James Abp of Armagh granted him a dispensn to hold with his
Archdeaconry two other benefices, 20 May, 1625.

JosEPHTJS Clement, Studiosus, ordained Deacon by JohnBp of Ivillaloe
13 Aug. 1620 ; and Priest by same, 4 March, 1620-21.

Instd to Vies, of Koscrea and Etagh, with madate of inducn., and
union of the Vicarages ppter tenuitatem 25 Feb. 1621. Inducted by
Winter Bridgeman, 1 March, 1621.

Instd by same Bp to the Vies of Killcoleman, Ahyncon, and Corbally
on presn. of King Charles by Let. Pat. of 2d Aug., 3d year with mandate
of inducn 24 Oct. 1627. Inducted by Eobert Grey, Clk., 5 Nov. 1627.

EoBEKT Sheplte, A.B., ordained Deacon and Priest by Willm. Bp. of
Kildare 13 Jun. 1617.

Inst, by John Bp IGllaloe to Vies, of Birrah, Durrogh, and Bon-
noghan, vacant by resign, of Samuel Honie, Clk., last incumbt., with
mand. of inducn. 28 Oct. 1623. Which Vies, of Birrah and Durrogh
the Bp united to the Vic. of Bonnoghan nomine unius beneficii. In-
ducted by Marmaduke Clapham, Clk., 30 Oct. 1623.

Instd. by same Bp. to Kect. of Kinnettie, vac. by resign, of Nathaniel
Buckley, Clk., last incumbent, with mand. of inducn 9 Feb. 1627. In-
ducted by Wm. Wynell, Clk., 11th Feb. 1628.

Andreas Chaplein, Clk., ordd. Priest by Jno. Bp. of Killaloe 18
March, 1613. Said Andrew Vicar of Kilfinaghta was instituted by said
Bp. to Eallmurrinagall, with mand. of inducn. 21 March, 1613. Which
Vicarage the Bishop united pro hac vice with that of Kilfinaghta. In-
ducted by Winter Bridgman, Official of the Archdn., 26 April, 1614.

King Charles, by Lett. Pat., dated at Dublin, 8th July, an. 7, pre-
sented said Andrew to the Vies, of Kilconrie and ELilmalerie, vacant by
lapse, with mandate to institute ; which vicarages the King united pro
hac vice with the first named two. Inst, by Geo. Andrew, Dean of
Limerick, official of Bp. of Killaloe, to Vies, of Kilconrie and Killmaloere,
with mandate of inducn. 22 Oct., 1622.

Inducted to same by Hen. Bourman, surroge. of archdn., 7 Nov.,
1631.

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DioNisius Gautfoeth, schoolmaster, ord. Deacon by Jolm, Bp. of
Killaloe, 4 Oct., 1618 ; priest, by same, 25th Oct., 1618.

Instituted by same to Vicarages of Lockeine and Uskean, with man-
date of inducn. 1 Oct. 1618. Vies, united pro hac vice propter tenui-
tatem. Inducted by Patrick the Archdn, Oct. 31, 1618.

Collated to preb. of Lockeine, vacant by resign, of George Andrew,
last incumb. With mandate to instal. 31 Oct., 1620. Installed by
Hugh Hogan, Dean of Killaloe, Jan. 31, 1620.

Johannes Twenbhooke, ord. Deacon by William, Bp. of Cork, Cloyne,
and Ross, 19 July, 1615 ; priest, by same, 2nd April, 1616.

Inst, by John, Bp. of Killaloe, to Rec. and V. of Killenamona, vac-ant
by deprivan. of Richard Walker, Clk,, last Incumbt., with mandate of
induction 12 Jan., 1622. Inducted by Rich. Walker, clerk, 27 March,
1623.

King Charles, by Let. Pat., 18 May, an. 1, granted to said JokQ, B.A.,
the Archdeaconry of St. Feeknan, of Kilfenora ; also Rectoiy of Disert,
in dioc. Killaloe, vac. per lapse, with mandate to James, Abp. of Annagh,
to admit same, with mandate of installan. The King uniting the Arch-
deaconry with Rec. Disert pro hac vice propter tenuitatem. Instit. in
Archdeaconry and Rectory by Malcolm, Abp. Cashel, with mandate of
installan 21 May, 1625. Inducted and installed by Hygate Loue, Dec
Feneboren, &c., 2 June, 1625.

Institud by Jno, Bp. Killaloe, in preb. of Dysert., with mandate of
installan 10 May, 1628. Installed by Daniel Kennedaye, Precentor, 6
Aug., 1628. Admitted and institut by Geo. Andrew, Dean of Limerick,
to Yic. of Dysert, vac by resignan of Andrew McGillishaghta, elk, last
incumbent, with mandate of induction 8 Aug., 1632. Inductd by Henry
Bourman, 14° Aug., 1632.

James, Abp. Armachan, granted letters dispensatory to hold the
Rects of Killenamona and Disert, also Prebend of same and Vicarage of
Disert, Nov. 9, 1632.

William Cox, Student of College of All Souls, Oxon, ordd Deacon by
Jno, Bp of Killaloe, 20 April, 1623, and Priest by same, 27 April, 1623.
Francis, Bp. of Limerick, admitted same Wm. tobe one of his Chaplains,
10 Feb., 1630.

Inst, by Jno, Bp. of KiUaloe, to Yics of Killokenedy and Killteeleigh,
vacant by the free resignan of Richard Wilkins, elk., last incumbent,
with clause of union and mandate for inducn 5 Aug., 1628.

Inducted by Hem-y Bourman, Archdn's Surrogate, Aug. 6, 1628.

James, Abp Armagh, granted dispensan to him to hold the Yicarage
of Mungiet, in Limer. dioc, with the Yics of Kilteely and Killokennedy,
3 July, 1633.

JoHES CooKESON, B.A., ordaiued Deacon and Priest by John, Bp of
Lincoln, 5 March, 1625.

Instituted by Lewis, Bp. of Killaloe, to the R. and Y. of Killkeedie,
vacant by the death, cession, and deprivan of Richd. Walker, last incumb,
with mandate of inducn May 11, 1633.

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Nicholas BootH) Clk^ inst. by Jno, Bp. of Killaloe, to the Yic. of
Clondegad, vac. by the volunty resignan of Eugene Pritcbard, Clk., last
incumbt, witb mandate of inducn 28 March, 1621. Inducted by Johne
Twenbrooke, Clk, 5 April, 1621.

Johannes Stekne, Clk., A.M., inst. by Lewis, Bp. of Killaloe, to E.
and Y. of Litter] une, and Y. of Kinneetie, with mandate of inducn.
13 May, 1633, said vicarages united propter tenuitatem. Inducted by
Henry Bourman, 3 July, 1633.

Edwaedus Eennek, schoolmaster, ordd. Deacon by Jno., Bp. of Kil-
laloe, 1 Jan., 1619 ; and priest by same, 6 Jan., 1619.

Samuell Elliott, Clk., A.B. Instit. by Jno., Bp. of Killaloe, to E.
of Killenboy als Killeneboy, on presentatn. of King Charles by Let.
Pat. 22 Jun. An. 2, with mandate of inductn. 17 Jun., 1626. Inducted
by Archdn. Thos. Lodge, Nov. 7, 1626.

WiLLMUS Hewett, ordained Priest by Jno., Bp. of Killaloe, 12 April,
1618. Inst, by same to Yics. of Dowrie and Tullagh, with mand. of
inducn. and clause of union ppter tenuitatem, 11 Dec, 1624. Induct,
by Winter Bridgman, 6 Jan., 1624.

Coll. and inst. by same Jno. to Preb. of Tullagh, vac. by death of
Eobert Bridgman, last incumbt., with mandate to Eichard Hackett,
Dean of Killaloe, to install., July 12, 1627. Installd. by Danl, Keneday,
precentor, 13 July, 1627.

Neptuntjs Blood, Clk., ord. Priest by Fi-ancis, Bp. of Limerick, 18
March, 1632. Instit. by George Andrewe, sun-ogate of Lewis of
Killaloe dioc, to Yic. of Eathblanaghe, with mandate of induction
22 Sep., 1632,

Inducted by Henr. Bourman, 7 Oct., 1632. Coll. and inst. by James,
Bp. of Kilfenora, to the Precentorship of Kilfenoi-a, with mandate for
installn. Nov. 4, 1632.

Installd. by Hegatius Lowe, Decan., 5 Nov., 1632,

Inst, by Lewis, Bp. Laonen, to Yic. of Killinaboy, vac. by deprivn. of
Dermot Nestor, last incumbent, with mandate for inducn 2 May, 1633.
Clause of union of Yics. Killinaboy and Eathblanaghe.

Inducted by Henry Boui-man, 26 May, 1633.

Johannes Blagkave, Clk., ordd. Deacon by Jno., Bp. of Killaloe, 19
April, 1629 ; priest by same, 2 May, 1630. Inst, by Jno., Bp. Killaloe,
to Eect. o Mullead, vac. by resign, of Eichard Fuller, last inct., with
mandate of inducn. June 15, 1631. Induct, by Archdn. Thos. Lodge,
6 June, 1631. Instd. by Geo. Andrewe, Yicar-Gen. in Spirituals of said
Bp., to Yic. of Insicronane, vac. by deprivan. of Wm. Danaye, last
incumb., with mandate of inducn. 3 Oct. 1683.

Induct, by Archdn. Thos. Lodge, 7 Nov. 1633.

EiCHAKDUS Barnes, literatus, ordd. Deacon by Jno., Bp. of Killaloe,
6 July, 1628 ; and priest, by same, Nov. 30, 1628.

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Instit. by said Bp, to the Yics. of Moyno and Clonrush, vac. by resign,
of Nathanl. Snow, elk., last incumb., with mandate of inducn. 10 Jan.,
1630 ; said vicarages united by Bp. Inducted by Henry Bourman, the
archdn's official, 16 Jan., 1630.

Thomas Bex^^is, Clk., ord. Deacon by John, Bp. of Kilfenora, 9 Dec,
1621 ; and priest, by John, Bp. of Ardfert and Aghadowe, 24 July,
1626.

Inst, by Jno., Bp. of Killaloe, to the Yics. of Bonratty and Finnaugh,
with mandate of inducn. and clause of union 19 Oct. 1624. Inducted
by Winter Bridgman, archd's official, 26 Oct., 1624.

WiLLUS Keitson, pedagogus, ord. Deacon by Jno., Bp. of Killaloe,
29 June, 1628 ; and priest, by same. May 31, 1629. Inst, by said Bp.
to Vies, of Bui'gesbege and YoghallaiTa, with mandate of inducn. and
clause of union, June 30, 1628.

Inducted by Archdn. Thos. Lodge, 8 July, 1628.

WiLLMUS Caple, A.B., ord. Deacon and Priest by Thomas, Bp. of Bath
and Wells, 29 March, 1609. Inst, by John, Bp. of KiUaloe, to Yics. of
Modrinith and Buriskean, with mandate of inducn. June 30, 1620, with
clause of union propter tenuitatem fructuum.

Inducte'a by Winter Bridgman, official of the Archdeacon of Kil-
laloe.

(Total 46 incumbents. P. D.)
FENEBOEENSIS DIOCESIS.

APUD KILLALOW.

14*' Ilartil, 1633, 'Epatv.s Fenehorensis.
Val. xxl St. Eccia Cathlie Sci Feenani. Decem Canonie portioncs spectan.

Yal. xl. Decanus. Higatus Loue, Clicus predicator.

Yal. ivZ. p an., epus Precentor. ISTeptunus Blood, Chcus predicator.

confert.
Yal. ixl. St., epus con- Cancellarius. Patricius Lisaght in Artt. Bac. predicator.

fert.
Yal. 8Z., epus confert. Thesaurarus. Nehemias o Daveron.

Yal. xl, epus confert. Archideaoanat. Andreas Lisaght in Artt. Baccs. predicator.

Yal. 13Z. 135. id. Killydea. — Eector, Daniel Lisaght in Ai'tt. Mag. predicator.

Yal. 61 13s. 4d, epus Yicar eiusdem Owen jSTelane. ISTullus Curatus.

confert.
Yal. xii/.pan. Dnua KiLLMOONYE. — Eector Daniel Lisaght in Artt. Magi'.

Baro de Inchiquin.
Yal. 7?. p an., epus Yicarius eiusdem Owen Nealne Clericus.

confert.

KiLLMACREE. — Eectoria. spectat Ai-chidiacono.
Yal. viz., epus confert. Yicarius eiusdem Owen !N ealne.

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KiLLMANYHEENE. — Eectoiia spectat Archidiacono.
Val. 50s. ster., epiis. Yicarius Hugo Powell Clericus.

KiLTO\vTiAGn. — Capellanus spectat Decano.

Cloney. — Eectoria spectat Decano.

Val. 60s. p an., epus Yicarius Patricius Lisaglit.

confert.

Kjlle^'y. — Rectoria spectat Cancellario.

Yal. 40s., epus cfert. Yicarius Gillykally o Hickye Clericus.

Yalent xl. KiLLO^'OGnA^^E. — Eector Nehemias o Daveran Thcsaur.

Epus cfert. Yicarius eiusclem JSTelieinias o Dayeron.

Eathboexy. — Eector ISTelieniias o Daveron.

Yalent xiiZ., epus Yicarius eiusdem ISTehcmias o Daveron.

cfei-t.

Glan Ikagh. — Eectoria spectan Decano.

Val. 1.3s. id., epus Yicarius Gillykally 6 Hickye.

confert.

Ckomylyun. — Eectoria spectan Decano.
Vicaria vacat.

KiLKOOXEY. — Eectoria spectat Cancellario.
Val. 40s., epus con- Vicaria spectat Cancellario pdicto.

fert.
Val. xl. Dnus Baro Cahne. — Eector Hygatus Laue Dccanus.

de Inchiquin, pa-

tronus.
Val. 51., epus confert. Vicar eiusdem Jolies Loue minori studendo gratia.

Epus confert,
Epus confert.

Djiomce.ee. — Eector Nehemias o Daveron.

Yicarius eiusdem Ncliemias o Daveron.

NoGiiAVAL. — Eectoria spectan Precentor.
Val. iiijZ. p an., epus Yicarius Patricius Lisaglit.

cfert.
Baro de Inchiquin. KiLsnsnoxxUY.—Impropr. Curatum Gillykully 6 Hicky
1.5/. p an. liabet stipendium decim unius Car.rucat terrc

que yalent communibus annis 135. ster.

DictusBaro. Monasteriura Corcomroe. Impropr. Curatus. Gillykully

6 Hicky. 30s. stipendium.

PENEBOEENSIS DIOCESIS.
Dcclnio qiiario Maiiii, 1633.

EuGENius Nealand, in re literaria studiosus, ordained Deacon by Jno.
Bp. of Killaloe,27 April, 1617, and priest by same 5 Oct., 1617.

King Charles, by Let. Pat. 8 Aug, an. 5th, presented said Eii genius to
the Yics. of Carne and KillinCrihy, vacant by lapse, with mandate for
institun., uniting them propter tcnuitatcm to Killcisagh and Kilmoon,

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whicli said Eugenius possesses. Instituted to YY. of Carne, Killin
Crihj, Killeilagh, and Kilmoone by Pat. Gilliesaglita, Chancellor of
Kilfenora, 17 Sept., 1629. Inducted into same by Daniel Gilliesaglita,
rector of Killielsaght, 19 Sept., 1629.

Daniel Gilliesaghta, A.M., ordd. Deacon by Jno. Bp. of ElHenora,
23 Aug., 1618, and priest by same, same day and year.

Instd. by sd. Bp. to RE,, of Killeilagli and Kilmoone, vac. by resignan
of Richd. Walker, last incumbt., witli mandate of indun. to Hygate Loue
the Dean, ISTov. 23, 1620. Inducted by Eugene ISTelland, vicar of Killen,
28 Dec, 1620.

Andeeas McGillisaghta, Clk., A.B., admitted by James, Bp. of Kil-
fenora, to the Archdeaconry in Ec. Cath. S. Feckenani Fineboren,
vacant by the voluntary resignan. of John Twenbrooke, Clk., last incum-
bent, with mandate for installn. 3 Oct., 1632.

Installed by Hygatus Loue, Clk., Dean, jSTov. 6, 1632.

Patricius Lyshaght, A.B., ordd Deacon by Lancelot, Abp. of Dublin,
23 April, 1623 ; and Priest by Roland, Bp. of Kllmaduagh and Clonf ert,
27 Nov. 1624.

Institut. by Christopher [Hampton], Abp. of Ai'magh, to the Chan-
cellorship of Ellfenora and Vicarages of Nuoghvaile, Cloney, and Kill-
corney, vac. by lapse, on persentan. of King James, with mandate of
inducn. and installan., uniting sd Yicai^ges and Chancellorship by
patent propter tenuiatem, 19 May, 1623.

InstUd. by Hygatus Loue, Dean, 26 June, 1625.

HiGATUs Loue, ordd Deacon by Bernard, Bp. of Eimerick and Kil-
fenora, 3d Dec. 1615, and Priest by same 3 Feb. 1615, King James by
Lett. Pat. dated at Dubl. 2d June, an. reg. 15, granted to same Higatus,
Clk., the Deaneiy of Kilfenora and Rectory of Carund, vacant by lapse,
which Deanery and Rectory the ELing united under the name of one
benefice 20 Jim., an. regni 15. Inducted and installed by Jno. Bp. of
Kilfenora, Nov. 11, 1617.

Johannes Loue, studiosus, instit by Jno. Bp. of Kilfenoi'a to the perp.
Vic. of Carne als Carund, vacan studendi gi-atia, with mandate to the
Archdn. to induct, Oct 31, 1620. Inducted by his proxy Hygatus Loue,
Dean, Jan. 1, 1620.

GiLLiQUiLLES O'HiCKiE, ordd Deacon by Jno. Bp. of KiHcnora, 19 Oct.
1618, and Priest by same 18 April, 1620. Instit. by James, Bp. of Kil-
fenora, to Vies, of Killerea and Glanninafuagh, with clause of union
ppter tenuitatem.

Inducted by Atidi'ew Gillisaghta, Clk., Oct. 10, 1632. Admitted by
same Bp. to serve the cures of Kilshany and Corkanii'oe, 5 July, 1630.

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Tlie successor of Bisliop Jolin Bider now appears at the head
of the Diocesan affairs. The good Bishop's earnest wish and
urgent letter in behalf of his old and worthy friend, Dean
Andrewe, proved ineffectual. And the Diocese lost as a head
a learned and good man, who was both an able administrator
and intimately acquainted with the special Diocesan require-
ments. It was charged as a fault of his — that he was " a
Church and Cathedral man." Enough, that another Dean
was appointed to the position, of whom the following is
recorded : —

Lewis Jones was a native of Merionethshire in Wales, and
was educated in Oxford. He has been already noticed in these
]3ages as Dean of Cashel, under Archbishop Miler Magrath
(that disgrace of the Protestant Church in Ireland). Although
he made an arrangement, if not corrupt^ at least extremely
weak, about his Decanal revenues to the vast advantage of the
voracious Archbishop's son, yet. Archbishop Usher very warmly
recommended him. On the other hand, he had been accused
to Parliament of being a favourer of the Scotch Covenanters,
and was censured by the High Commission Court. Any how
he is made Bishop, in succession to Dr. John Ptider, in 1633,
^^with a clause enabling him to take other livings in com-
mendam (except the Deanery), and with power to exchange
what he hath." (Lib mun Hib.)

As the principal question of interest associated with Bishop
Jones relates to the age at which he died, with other matters
in connection, it may be pardonable to give the different con-
clusions arrived at on the subject.

In Harris Ware " it is stated that he died in the 104th year
of his age." On the other hand. Dr. Cotton asserts ^Hhat
this must be erroneous, for if the Bishop's age be correctly
stated, he must have been upivards of ninety years old at his
consecration. Unfortunately the parish register of St. Wer-
burgh's does not extend so far back, and no monument of him
is found there. But this error is (thinks Dr. Cotton) satisfac-
torily corrected by Archbishop Usher, who in a letter to Bishop
Laud, dated May, 1629, recommends Dean Jones very strongly
for the vacant Archbishoprick of Cashel, and describes him as
being then sixty-nine years old. If so, he was born in 1560,
and at his death, in 1646, would be eighty-six years of age.

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(See Tanner's MSS., 461, in Bodleian Library, Oxford.)" So
far Dr. Cotton. There is a difference between Ware and Dr.
Cotton of eighteen years about the age at which Bishop Jones
died in 1646. On the other hand, as to Ware's version being
the correct one, it may be submitted, 1st, that this age is
printed in Ware's book by the Bishop's own grandchildren,
who could hardly allow to be published an incorrect account of
their grandfather's age, to whom they curiously allude as
printers of his life, and as the offspring of his eldest son.
Then, 2nd, as to Archbishop Usher's statement of his age, in
the letter of 1629, it must be remarked that Bishop Laud,
writing in June, 1629, to Usher, calls this very Jones, in a
very sly pointed way, '^ the old BeanP (See Parr's Usher,
p. 409.) Further, if in 1629 Jones was only sixty-nine years of
age, he must have been in 1615 only fifty-five. Now, is there
any standard for measuring his age in this year ? The Regal
Visitors of Cashel in this very year in a solemn official
declaration pronounce Jones " a decrepid old man,'^ and at
fifty-five (?). Surely then, with Jones^ own grandchildren,
Bishop Laud, the Royal Commissioners, and Ware all on the
one side. Archbishop Usher, though so eminent a master of
chronology, must be considered misinformed for once in his
life on a question of antiquity. On the other hand comes the
fact of the epithet " vivacious " being applied to the uxorious
Bishop. This is a question for physiologists.

The age of Bishop Jones at his death having been discussed,
his will, as extracted from the Record Office, is now given.
And those who have a persuasion that the Bishops of Killaloe
in those days were a kind of godless infidels or English
police, who Kved only to amass wealth and to oppress the poor,
may learn something of the real facts of the case and the true
character of the man. Tracings of this and of the other suc-
ceeding Bishops* autographs, taken by the kind permission of
the Deputy Registrar, have been given in fac simile elsewhere.
Bishop Lewis Jones' WilL

In the name of God Amen. I Lewis Lord Bp. of Killaloe, sick in body
but of perfect understanding and memory, do make my last will and
test in mamier and form following,

1, I commit my soule to Almiglity God my Maker and Eedeemer, and
my body to the earth whence it was taken. I bequeath all my lands to
my gi^ndchild Lewis Jones. I becj[ucath to my sou Michael Dore what

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he owetli me besides my lands in Cloon Kezwell, which I have given
him. I do bequeath to my son Oliver Jones (besides what I have
already given him in lands and otherwise) £50 which is to be paid unto
him out of my debts as they shall be recovered.
I have already given my son Ambrose Jones £100 for his portion.
I bequeath to my son Theophilus Jones (besides £110 which he hath
ah-eady received) £50 which is to be paid unto him out of my debts as
they shall be recovered.

I bequeath to my daughter Alice £50 to be paid out of my debts
when recovered.

I bequeath to my daughter Mary Elliott £50 which Croker (?)
Hilton oweth me.

I bequeath to my daughter Sarah Jones to be paid out of debts
when, &c.

I bequeath unto Catherine Fowler £5 and to Anthony Gosford my
servant £5, which sums out of debts, &c.

Heave to be distributed among the poor Protestants 40s.

Comerford oweth me £150 0 0

Cahill O'Matigan (?), &c 249 0 0

John Gate, of Templemore 72 0 0

Donogh O'Kennedy 158 0 0

John White and Mrs. Bouseman 4 0 0

(For Michaelmas rent 1641.)

Thos. McGonner Glythe 3 0 0

John McGheedy, of Kilcredane 8 10 0

Sir Danl. O'Brien two Bonds of 1100 0 0

(Are in Mr. Moley the attorney's hands.
The debt is recovered in King's Bench.)
Jno. McLouglihn 4 0 0

£1748 10 0

I lef b with Jno. McLoughlyn nine bullocks, some brasse (?), house-
hold stufte, and half a garnish of pewter to be kept for me. I left like-
wise with Teige McLoughlin sixteen cows, and nine garrans. I left
likewise with Darby Meehan some cadowes (?) and household stuff. I
do hereby revoke all former wills and tests and do declare this to be my
last will and test. I do appoint my son Henry Jones and my grand-
child Lewis exors of my last will and test.

In witness whereof I have hereunto put mine hand and seal this 10
June, 1646.

Present, &c.

Hen. Glogher, Dr. Garforth, Hen. Darragh.

It will be observed that the Bishop calls his children in this
document by the name Jones, not Jauns or Jahnnes. This is a
mere fancy of a Avriter in the Kilkenny Archicological, p. 149,
without any foundation except the existence of a monument in
Killaloe of a recent date relating to quite a different family.

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THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE IN THE REIGN OF KING CHARLES

THE FIRST.

The demise of Bishop Rider, and the appointment of his
successor, Dean Jones, are the events of importance taking
j)lace at the commencement of this reign, a reign so fruitful of
sorrow and of change.

"WTiatever may have been the sins, errors, or misfortunes of
King Charles I. and his Irish Executive in the conduct
of the secular affairs of that part of the King's dominions,
■(here can be no doubt that their intentions were friendly to the
Church, and their action in some respects advantageous. '' The
principal Irish statutes relating to ecclesiastical subjects that
were passed during the reign of King Charles I. were few and
unimportant. They are as follow : —

I. Stat. 10 Car. I., chap. 21, Sess. 2, for the restraining of
all persons from marriage until their former wives and former
husbands be dead (with a specified exception).

II. Stat. 10 Car. I., c. 23, Sess. 2, granting eight entire
subsidies by Prelates and Clergy of Ireland.

III. Stat. 10 and 11 Car. I., ch. 2, to enable restitution of
impropriations and tythes and other rights ecclesiastical to the
clergy, with a restraint of aliening the same, and directions
for presentations to the churches.

IV. Stat. 10 and 11 Car. L, ch. 3, for preservation of the
inheritance, rights, and profits of lands belonging to the
Church and persons ecclesiastical.

y. Stat. 15 Car. L, ch. 10, for endowing churches with glebe
lands.

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(So far Dr. Stephens. Introduction MSS. Common Prayer,
Irish.)

VI. The 10 and 11 of Charles I., cap. 3, also provides
against profane swearing, a vice very prevalent at and before
that time. Indeed Irishmen, even in the position of gentlemen
and gallants, were so notoriously addicted to this odious habit,
that Shakespeare has introduced an Irish captain as the
exponent of this offence against God and good breeding.^

YII. The 16th Charles I., ch. 2, s. 4, provides that Courts
Spiritual shall not inflict temporal punishments.

VIII. The 1st Charles I., ch. 1, provides punishment of
breakers of the Lord's Day under spiritual jurisdiction.

IX. The 2nd Charles I., ch. 2, enforces residence of clergy
by voidance of leases if absence over eighty days in a year
takes place.

X. 10 and 11 Charles I., ch. 2, provides and enables, as to
Vicar, if none endowed, that impropriations may be given
without license.

It would be unfair to the aristocracy to omit the case of an
Irish cursing Lord, as recorded in " Moses in the Mount,^'
page 6 : —

An Irish Lord, quartering at West Kerby, being bound for Ireland,
was observed to be a prodigious swearer, belching out most horrid
oaths in great abundance. Tidings are brought to Mr. Murcot in the
morning, as he is going to celebrate a solemn fast. The work of the
day being over, Mr. Murcot, being lately with Grod in the Mount, and
now grown warm in His cause and quarrel, is impatient of brooking
these high dishonours tliat were done unto His majesty. Wherefore,
taking with him a friend, be rides the same niglit six miles to a
magistrate — pi'ocurcs a warrant. Tho. trembling constables are at first
astonished to think of approaching in such a t^ ay to guilty greatness.
But, being animated Ijy Mr. Murcot, they serve their warrant, which
provoked a new rage, the multiplying of fresh oaths, even without
number, to the great amazement of the standers by. Notwithstanding

^- In King Henry Y., Act 3, scene 2 : — " An Irishman, a very valiant
gentleman," Captain MacMorris, in a few words, filling about twenty
lines, flings out of his mouth about as many curses, utterly outdoing
.Jamy, the Scots captain, and Fluellcn, the Welsbman, in this accom-
plislmient. He swears '' by Chrish {sic), hy his hand, by his father's
soul ; So Chrish {sic) save me " (again and again) ; and closes his part
with the trucid threat,

" So Chrish save me,
I will cut off your head."

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the boisterous menaces and outrage of this great man, his horses were
seized on and kept till he paid 201. (sic), which was employed as a stock
for the poor of the parish, so wickedly liberal was this Lord to them.

It is no wonder some public check by fines was attempted of
this great offence; and yet this was audaciously violated, as:
R. Lawrence mentions gravely in his " Interest of Ireland/'
1682, p. 38 :—

Our prophane ones so glory in this shame, that they will often belch
out their filthy vomit in the face of magistrates, who, when they
reprove them, and demand one shilling for an oath, have contemptuously,
both to God and the King's law, thrown down then- guinea, and imme-
diately sivore it out.

The particulars referred to in Nos. VI. — X. are detailed bv
Dr. BuUingbrooke, in addition to the summary statement made
by Dr. Stephens.

A brief review must now be taken of tlie religious^ j)^^^^^^^^^
and economical condition of the "West of Ireland prior to
1641. (See more in Desiderata Curiosa, p. 78.)

A Petition of Remonstrance was presented to the Lord
Deputy from the knights, citizens, and burgesses assembled in
Parliament, that ^^ divers complaints were made of many grievous
exactions, pressures, and vexatious proceedings of some of the
clergy of this kingdom, and their officers and ministers, against
the lait}^, especially the poorer sort, to the great impoverish-
ment and general detriment of the whole kingdom," and so
forth. These grievances were divided into two classes. First,
those to be abolished : —

1. For hearse cloths 6s. 8d., though there be no hearse cloth at all.

2. The parish clerk takes a barrel of corn for every plowland, and
two quarters of wheat for every acre ploughed.

3. For every corn-mill a bowl of corn grinded per week.

4. In Counaught and elsewhere 6d. per annum of eveiy couple, by
the name of Holy Water Cleric.

5. The Bishops appoint Commissioners for subsidies, and J. P.'s as
churchwardens upon them, under the pain of excommunication.

6. Curates, &c., are made Commissaries.

7. Men summoned to appear, when, &c., no informer or hbel.

8. Married couples that five long together are brought to Court to
prove their maniages and then pay 7s. for a dismiss.

9. Allowances by Court to churchwardens and inquisitors, non-pay-
ment a matter of mulct to parish.

10. Churcliwardens must pay unjust fees, and buy books of articles.

11. Also pay for certificates and discharges.

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12. Four tail of corn = nine sheaves tlie tail per eveiy plough, besides
tythe corn in specie.

13. One sheaf for eveiy horse in the plough, called Pimue-nahracJce.

14. Also 32 quarters Lenten-oats.

15. Quides or refections of every parishioner, now a constant revenue.

16. Coshers = Is. a plough, or spade, per annum.

17. In Connaught a mescan or dish of butter in summer, of each
parishioner = 6d. or 8d.

18. Of every man that dies a muUoe, by the name of anointing midtoe.

19. From a poor man that hath but one cow, they take that for a
mortuary. From one that is better off, his best garment for a mortuary,
if a woman her best garment. And a gallon of di^ink for every
brewing by name of Mary -gallons. Then come ^^liide and talloio, and
la.mh-rnuttoe, soul-money y 'portion canons^ Patricks ridges, rood.-sheaves,
hook money, beggars mortuaries, and parish boundary dues."

Secondly come —

The gi^ievances which parsons, vicars, and curates must reform and
moderate. Marriage, churching, burial, clandestine marriage, breaking
ground in body of parish chui'ch, ditto in chancel— fees.

Multiplying apparitors.

By an Act of Parliament in this Kingdom the Bishop should admi-
nister an oath to every minister to keep a school within the parish,
to teach children the English tongue. This is not observed, nor the
schools kept. (To be reformed.)

By another Act a Fuee ScnooL should be kept in every Diocese.
Not observed, to the great prejudice of the Kingdom of Ireland.
(This is to be reformed.)

Great sums of money received by several Bishops of this Kingdom
for commuting of ^lenance, which monies by his Majesty's instructions
should be converted to 'pious uses. ISTot observed, but made a private
profit.

The mode of dealing with this gi^ievance is that

This is to be disposed of in reparation of churches, bridges, high-
ways, and for the relief of the poor within the parish, where the fact
was committed. And Bishops to account for these before the Judges
of Assize in their circuits once a year.

'Eo more blank processes to issue.

No more frivolous charges, security for cost by informers.

Bishops' Coui'ts not to be too frequent.

Nor Eegisters inordinate about fees.

(Journals of the House of Commons, a.d. 1640, June, p. 258, Second
Edition.)

What a sad and instructive lesson to Churches does all this
teach, not only of dangers jDast but also in the future. Defi-
cient endowments drove clerical men and Ecclesiastical Corpo-
rations to unworthy shifts and shabby extortions. If men
muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn, the ox will work

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sluggishly and trespass wickedly. " Eem quocunque modo
rem '^ is a motto not to be argued out of a hungry man's
head.

In respect of political and economical affairs the King was
advised to raise money by the expedient of selling lands in
Ireland to adventurers, at so much per acre, in the different
provinces.

This is the object of the 17 of Charles I., called — The
Adventurers Act. In a curious square quarto, "printed in
London for Joseph Hunscott, 1642," and " Published by
Authoritie," and entitled a " Particular Relation of the Present
State and Condition of Ireland as it now Stands, manifested
by several letters," &c,, &c., the following appears in the pre-
face or introduction : — " Therefore, in answer to those who
doubt whether there wdl be so much land escheated to the
Crown out of the rebels estates, as may raise those millions
and a half of acres (designed by Parliament for the satisfaction
of those undertakers, who with the houses and the rest of the
kingdom may be engaged therein). It is credibly affirmed and
may by these letters and the Proclamation (published in Ire-
land) appear to those who know the persons and their estates,
that there will be sufficient escheated land to answer that
quantity of land (contracted for) upon the terms in the peti-
tions and propositions manifested.'' This pamphlet concludes
with a letter to Sir R. Eang from " Ad. Loftus," the closing
sentence of which is too good to be left in obh^-ion. ^^ "We
have indited of treason all the noblemen, gentlemen, and free-
holders in the counties of Dublin, Meath, Kildare, and Wick-
loe, which I hope will be a great advantage to the Crown, and
good to this poor kingdom, when these rascals shall be con-
founded, and honest Protestants planted in their places." (Ad.
Loftus, 14 Feb., 1641.)

Than this Act, there could hardly have been invented by
his Majesty's greatest enemy a more certain method of in-
juring his friends, of strengthening his foes, and of ultimately
ruining the Royal cause in Ireland. Also an idea was long
cherished that as Queen Elizabeth had settled Munster, and
King James Ulster, so Charles must needs settle Connau2;ht.
But the difference was this. In the first case Desmond's
rebellion naturally led to a vast forfeiture, and O'Neile's bloody

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uprising had left tlie Crown in absolute mastery of the six
counties of the North. Charles I. was to make good the for-
feiture and settlement of Connaught by legal chicanery and an
unkingly breach of faith, and in fact by coming forward as
the self- authorized plunderer of " friendly punctuality." If
the chieftains of Clare had on their composition with Sir John
Perrot and subsequently surrendered their estates, but neglected
to enrol their surrenders and take out new Letters Patent, was
it not too hard that their titles should be vitiated and them-
selves turned adrift, because by a neglect of the officers in
Chancery the full formalities had not been complied with,
though the cost of the fees had been actually paid into Court
by the tenants of the Crown ? The details of this ill-starred
measure— of this '' fons et origo malorum," may prove interest-
ing and instructive, inasmuch as the Reformed faith was
associated with the King as upon earth the Head of the
Church, also ecclesiastics of high degree had mixed themselves
up more or less wdth these strange proceedings. Letter after
letter is found in Stafforde's State Letters (Vol. ii., pp. 84, 93,
98, 332), in which the Royal approbation is expressed, and the
completion of the plot urged forward. The greater success of
the proceedings in the way of finding his Majesty's title to
the two Ormonds is attributed to the influence of the Earl
of Ormond, and the friendly aid of the Earl of Tho-
mond is reckoned upon, through the weight of the solid con-
siderations which the King himself held forth to the latter
nobleman, in the shape of " his not having the fourth part
of his lands taken from him as from the other natives there,
but that he be suffered still to hold them on such increase of
rent as shall be set " upon the rest. (See Lodge's Archdall,
sub Inchiquin, vol. ii., p. 49.)

Dr. John Bramhall, Bishop of Derry, whose zeal for recover-
ing the alienated possessions of the Church was so ardent,
took occasion to join Stafforde in his mission for the inquiry
into defective titles. After the defeat in Connaught^ (see
Carte), through Lord Clanrickarde's bolcbiess and manliness,
the Bishop was surprised to find the revenues of the See of
Kilfenora miserably small and quite insufficient for a Bishop,
as had been stated by Laud in a letter to Usher in 1629.
(Parr's Life of Usher, &c., Letters, p. 416, also p. 427.)

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^*You have answered notliing about the Bishoprick of Kil-
fenora, which is so poor in itself that no man asks it of the
Xing, and his Majesty is graciously pleased that your Lord-
ship would think of some parsonage or vicarage or donative
that might for ever be annexed to it." Bramhall did not
openly mix himself up with the Connaught inquisition. The
names of the ecclesiastical persons at the foot of the great
Connaught Inquisition Roll, now in the Record Office, are
^^Robertus Clonfert" and "Randolph Tuamensis/' Indeed,
Dr. Bramhall, feeling the need of caution in this desperate
undertaking, writes that " To have two Bishops in the Comtee
for plantation were not amisse, so that it were done without
noise. My Lord Deputies designs have been still so pro-
pitious to the Church, that to propose anj^, the least, addition
to his resolves were in my poor judgment a degree of ingrati-
tude." (Shirley's Papers, p. 59.) "I am very fearful to be
seen to have any hand in this business." ( Ubi supra, p. 68.)

On the 4th of March, 1640, articles of High Treason were
exhibited to the House of Lords in Ireland against him and
others ; this land affair, and his connexion with it, being the
chief offence. (See article 2 in Argt. by P. Darcy, Esq.,
p. 172 ; also in the Journals of I. House of Commons.) Members
of the O'Brien family, and in particular Captain Dermot
O'Brien, one of the representatives of Clare, took an active
share in opposing these proceedings. (See History and Memoir
of O'Briens.) What was the exact cause of their dislike to
Bramhall has not been made quite apparent, whether his con-
nexion with Strafforde, who was invading their lands, or his
efforts to rehabilitate Bishopricks which were dilapidated by fee
farms and long leases at small rents. Anyhow the charge was
made and Bramhall met it. All the Bishop's friends wrote to
him to decline the trial, but he thought it dishonourable to fly.
He showed himself next day in the Parliament House, Dublin,
where his enemies stood staring at him for awhile, and then
made him close prisoner. Nor was this all ; for so determined
W'as the House that he should not escape out of their hands,
that the following order was made (though afterwards
'^vacated''): — ^'' It is ordered that the imdernamed persons
are presently to repair to the Lords and to signify unto their
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pleased in regard the Lord Bishop of Derry lyeth so ?iear the
luater to appoint his Lordship a more secure lodging:' (Journals,
Commons, Second Edition, 1641, p. 377.) In this distress he
wrote to the Primate Usher, then in England, who wrote to
him a most friendly and sympathising letter in reply. But
though proceedings were ordered by the King to be stopped,
and the affair died out of itself, and he was at length restored
to libert}^, yet aU this took place without a pubhc acquittal
given to him (Bramhall's Works, vol. i., pp. ix. and xxvi..
Lib. Angl. Theol.) until many years after. (See Journals
H. C, 16 July, 1661.)

Thus diflicult and dangerous was it to uphold the cause of
the Irish Church in these days, according to the shrewd remark
of Bedell, Bishop of Kilmore, to Dr. Usher, Archbishop elect.
'^ The growth of the Irish Church (notwithstanding his
Majesty's endowments and directions) receives every day
more impediments and opposition than ever. Impropriators
in all places may hold all ancient customs, only they upon
whom the care of souls is laid are debarred.'' (Parr's Usher,
p. 322.) One of the strongest passions of the human heart
is the proprietary feeling, and the dearest objects around which
it clings are landed rights and real property. Stafforde unjustly
assailed the real property of the laity. Bramhall honestly
(see Carte, jd. 68, vol. i.) contested the landed rights of the
Church. Making this concession as to the rights of property so
unwisely and unwarrantably invaded ; conceding, too, that
"i\\Q claim of the Irish Poman Catholics not to be excom-
municated by the Protestant clergy " (see Carte, i., p. 545),
as well as by their own clergy into the bargain, who were not
slack thus to smite, was not at all an unreasonable claim;
conceding, likewise, that the Court of Wards exercised an
ingeniously op^Dressive mode of deahng with the children of
the higher classes ; conceding, too, how reckless and provocative
of rebellion and outbreak was the severity of the legislative
action when it had to back it such an incapable Administration
and so beggarly an armament as was found at the moment of
Ireland's danger (see Carte, Cox, and Borlace) in a few moth-
eaten bows and musty bow-strings and withered pike-staves ;
p>ivinf>- also full weight to the injurious effects of trade restric-
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the woollen manufacture In the West^ which might other-
wise have drawn many a young man from wild ferocity and
bloody ^^ toryism '' to honest industry and peaceful living, —
conceding all this, and even that reforms admitted as neces-
sary by Lord Falkland, for instance, had been left incomplete
and, indeed, untried, these were sore evils, irritating items
and inflictions at once humiliating and provoking and scarce
endurable. And yet, after all, if with respect of these, and
the Plantation and Adventurer schemes, the Kelts and old
Anglo-Normans, whether as proprietors, occupiers, or re-
ligionists, had just and good reasons to be dissatisfied and
indignant with the King, with his ad^dsers, with his Executive,
and with his Parliaments English and Irish, we ask what had
the English Protestant settlers, whether as purchasers, lease-
holders, traders, artizans, or whatever else that bore the English
name and professed the English faith, of concern or share, of
partnership or responsibility in all this, that tliey should be
rushed upon as though by a pack of wolves, and treated in a
manner almost without a parallel in the records of barbarians ?

The Irish *^ of late times (see * Present State of Ireland,' p.
121) were so much civilized by their cohabitation with the
English, as that their ancient animosities and hatreds seemed
now to be quite departed and buried in a firm conglutination of
their afiection, and national obligations passed between them.

. . . And so great an advantage did they find b}^ the
English commerce and cohabitation in the profits and high
improvements of their lands and native commodities — so incom-
parably beyond what they ever formerly enjoyed or could expect
to raise by their own proper industry — as (that) Sir Phelimon
O'lvTeal and many others of the prime leaders in the last Rebel-
lion had not long before turned their Irhh tenants ofi* their
lands, while they took on English, who were able to give them
much greater rents and more certainly pay the same." jN"o
ingenuity, no special pleading can prove that the quarrel of the
Kelts, whether as Kelts or as Roman Catholics, had any pretence
of a just standing with these innocent English and Protestants.
What had they done to provoke a sudden outburst of malio-nant
violence which reached even to the dogs of the English ?

The terrible tragedy of 16-11 has been ^dewed and reviewed
from difi'erent points and on o]3posing grounds by Protestant

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and English writers on the one hand and by the apologists of
the Kelts and the Roman Catholics on the other. Almost every
assertion has been contradicted as stoutly as it has been made,
whether concerning the causes which led to the outbreak, the
exact time of its bursting forth, the space it extended over, the
originators and first actors in the fatal scenes, with their
motives and various methods of operation, as well as the con-
sequences arising out of it to life, property, and religion. This
has gone on from the time of " the Remonstrance given to his
Majesty at Oxford in May, 1644," in a long line down to the
present day.

And, indeed, though the denials, evasions, and explanations
were always effectually encountered, there seemed no particular
anxiety on the part of the Protestants and Enghsh — at least
those of later times — to rake up these miserable details. Bishop
Henry Rider of Killaloe gave utterance to this feeling in the
following noble and manly words, part of a State sermon
preached before the House of Commons (page 3), 23 Oct.,
1695:—

It may, I say, be expected that I should enlarge upon these par-
ticulars, but hope that the task may be equally ungrateful to us alL
That as we delight not in the effusion of any man's blood, so we
sympathize too far with the sufferings of our ancestors to disturb the
weary that are at rest, to lay open their bleeding wounds, to revive
these persuasive calls to vengeance— these cries and fearful shrieks
which run parallel to nothing but that in the Eevelation, " How long,
Lord, Holy and true, wilt thou not judge and avenge our blood P "

And so, too, most gladly would we exclude such sad details
from these pages, were it not that this exclusion would leave
unaccounted for the most decisive event which has taken place in
the Diocese of Killaloe since the Reformation ; also, if we
exclude them, certain grave consequences, attributable exclu-
sively to this cause, might be most injuriously attributed to
other causes inadequate to produce them. And, certainl^r,
some of the more recent 'Vindications" can hardly pass
without a refutation of the very confident assertions and
denials they contain. Some principle, therefore, must be
found, some canon of historical verity used, which nothing but
violent prejudice or downright unbelief can dare to resist or
gainsay. Such principle seems to be laid down by a recent
writer, who has bestowed much research upon this period, and

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has exhibited no undue partiality towards the cloaking of
English severity, nor yet any insensibility to Keltic sorrows.
The Author of the " Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland "
(2nd Edition, page 60) has laid it down that '^ The proper
evidence to prove or disprove this dreadful massacre are, of
course, authentic contemporaneous documents, not compil-
ations of a later date, like Hume^s ' History of England,' or
even the ponderous pamphlets of the party writers of the day
— hke Milton and Clarendon — strangers to Ireland and its
transactions." Whoever else may have dwelt with relish upon
these deeds done upon the soil of Erin, or, in a spirit of bitter
resentfulness, may have ^' kept up the expiring memory of the
outrages committed by the Irish to posterity," or, "by an
afterthought, included murder among the other acts of robbers,"
such is not our object nor our mode of narration. The event
which inflicted on the Protestant religion in Ireland in general,
and on the Diocese of Killaloe in particular, " an inexpressible
blow," as Ware calls it — a woujul from the effects of which the
Diocese has never yet recovered its strength, after 360 years, and
the traces of w^hich remain on bo:h sides of the Shannon, and
in almost every parish, must of necessity be now disclosed and
dwelt on from " authentic and contemporaneous documents.''
As to one class of these, Mr. Hardiman is fully convinced
(after a close inspection) of the importance and value of the
Depositions connected with 1641 in MSS. T. C. D.; and so he
is persuaded that without their aid the transactions of the
seventeenth century, which are among the most momentous of
Irish history, can never be adequately portrayed by the
historian. (See O'Flaherty's H. lar., ed. Hardiman, p. 418).
Another class of evidence, also contemporaneous and authentic,
is that contained in such works as *^ Irish Narratives of 1641,"
published by the Camden Society, and ha^dng their sanction,
and Cooke's "Picture of Parsonstown." The first of these
contains a contemporary manuscript (Introduction IX.) by Mr.
Cufl'e of this siege. The second gives extracts from Sir Wm.
Parsons' '^Journal of the Siege of the Birr," made at the time,
and on the spot. And both of these are fully corroborated by
one or more, in some cases b}^ several independent witnesses,
on oath, as given in the Depositions ; and many of these
witnesses, too, are clergymen of the Diocese ; also gentlemen

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and ladies of position and property, and other parties usually
held worthy of credit in Courts of Justice, and among men of
honour. Another class of evidence, also authentic and con-
temporaneous, here made available, was found in the MSS.
Collection of the O'Briens of Dough — now in Ennistymon
House— most generously placed at the writer's disposal by
Mrs. McNamara. These give some very interesting local dis-
closures, and corroborate statements made in the former classes
of evidence. Another branch of evidence which is relied upon,
and not without corroboration, is that to be found in the
writings of Carte, Clanrickarde, Castlehaven ; indeed, also of
Coxe. Temple has come under the suspicion of writing under
an undue excitement; Borlase has also been discredited. They
are not called up to give evidence, although they may exhibit
documents worthy of full credit ; but their evidence, together
with " The Black Book of Athlone,'^ and anything else
emanating from exaggeration, revenge, lucre, or partizanship^
are left aside as worse than useless.

What is relied on (let it be repeated) is e^ddence clear,
cogent, and often exhaustive, fairly brought forward in proof
of facts, which, by a painful necessity, must be disclosed in
pursuance of a sacred obj ect, and in vindication of the Ptef ormed
faith from the devices of many writers, who, with no slight
amount of pertinacity and effrontery, have laboured to deny^
to palliate, to justify, to suppress — anyhow, in some way or
other, to mislead the public concerning facts of the utmost
possible consequence in their bearing upon the fortunes of the
Diocese of Killaloe.

The first item of evidence from authentic contemporaneous
documents relates to

THE SIEGE OF BALLYALLA.

The name of this once-important stronghold is explained as
Halley or Haley's-town. The situation is told in detail by the
besiegers. It is about two miles from Ennis on the north-east
towards the borders of Galway, and on the edge of the course
which the Fergus formerly took, sweeiDing round by Ballygriffy
Castle and spreading into a lake between Ballyalla and Drum-
cliffe Eoundtower. The castle stood upon a hill or moimd.

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somewhat distant from the scrubby slope which runs away
west towards Templemaley. The remains of the building may
still be found by those who climb the mound, which is swelled
partly by the dehrls of the castle itself. On the lakeside are
traces not effaced of an enclosure — the hay-yard, doubtless,
alluded to in the siege. Here the Protestants of Clare made a
desperate stand, and the family of the Cuffes won a lasting re-
nown. The ownership is established by Fiants accessible. It
was leased by the Galway family of Sir Y. Elake to Mr. Cuffe, a
merchant of Ennis. This Mr. Cuffe was buried within the
precincts of the Franciscan Abby, Ennis, in 1638. For this
tomb close search was made by the writer, and in vain. The
family may well carry the motto, " Virtus repulsae nescia
sordid^,'^ after Ballyalla siege and defence. His widow. Mrs.
Cuffe, represented him, and exhibited much foresight and judg-
ment before, as her seven sons showed much noble courage and
humanity during, the siege. The property is now in the pos-
session of Capt. Wm. Stacpoole, M.P. for Ennis.

The following items are taken from " Narratives Illustrative
of the Contests in Ii-eland in 1641 and 1690. Edited by Thos
Crofton Croker. London : Printed for the Camden Society^' : —

Parte of a brief narration of the beginning and continuance
of some of the commotion of the County Clare, alias Thomond,
mth the manner and prime actors of it, against the Protestants
of the said county, chiefly against the Castell of Ballyal3\

Having recited that on '' the 1st of Nov., 1641, news was
sent from Limrick to Pobt. Coppinger, Esq., being then at the
fair of Clare, of the rebellion that was begun in the North, and
how the Lord MacGire and his adherents attempted to take the
Castel of Dublin," the progress of the movement westward is then
traced ^* to the next abordering counties, specially Ormond,
Dough-arra (or Blackarra, where the slate quarries are opened
and a wild population lives), and the rest of the Coy Tip-
perarie, and how the English of those parts were pilleged and
robed of all their goodes and cattell, which enforced them to
fly from there howses and betake themselves for safety of lives
to Castell {sic) J many being stripped out of there cloathes and
exposed naked to the extremity of the could, except they would
revolt from the Protestant religion."

Then Murtagh O'Brien, " after robbing many of the Eng-

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lish, &c., threatened to surprize tlie town of Xillalow and
Castell Bank, and to strip the Bishop of Eallalow, Dr. Jones,
with the rest of the English in them parts : for fear of whose
barbarous usage, the sd. Bishop, with his English tenants, for-
sook the towne of Killaloe, and fled to his Majesty's Castell at
Limrick, where they remained till the rebells tuck the sd.
Castell of Limrick, which was the 23 of June, 1642." Then
ensues a good deal of a play most congenial to the Irish, viz.,
cattle snatching in Duharra and in Thomond, but the Enghsh
settlers came ofi* second best in this play. Then "Oliver
Delaho^d, of Terreada (now T^^edagh, near TuUa), and John
of Fonerla (now Fomerla), go still more heavily into cow-steal-
ing,'' also for befooling the Earle of Thomond. " Ownie Owg
O'Loghlen, and his 3 sons are now out,'' and " About the 22
of Ober they went to Balecare, and from thence by night drove
awaies many cows and sheep from George Colpis, Esq., and
from other English." Then Robert Hibard complains of Hugh
Gradie taking away from him some 160 English catell, besides
horses and sheep, and wounded his servants and occupied his
howses. Then the Gradies (of Tomgraney), when a force was
sent to chastize them, ran away to hide in Conaght. Then the
Earl's soldiers " began to opres {sic) and abuse the English that
remained in there dwellings, but the most of the E. had betaken
them to their castells. Then the Earle strangely gives
warrants to strip the English of their arms, and accordingly
D. O'Brien came to the Castell of Ballyalla, which then was in
the poseshon of Elizabeth and Maurice Cufi'e, of Innish, mer-
chants, and by him fortified, and a ward by his mother and
bros. put therein. The mother gave no armes and no admis-
sion to D. O'Brien ; he went away discontented and offended,
and being resolved of be avenged of the within wardar."
Then " D. McNamara goes North to confer with Sir Phehm
O'Neale and the rest of their chiefe rebels, to be derected what
armes thaye should goe on withall in Thomond and to procure
some battr'ng peeces — being reported there were plenty of
them and all other engens of war with them rebels in the North
parts — which reportes and threetnings they daily threetened
the English with all that were then in Castells — divars Castells
at that time being posest by the English, as I shall hereafter
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McNemarrowe's returne, specially the Castell of Ballyalla, but
he returned without any ordinance.

'' Now I shall nominat what Castells were in Englishmen's
hands at the begining of the rebellion and whoes poseshon in
Thomond.

Bunratty Castell, posest by

Earle of Thomond.

Eossmaua (her) „ „

Christian Coule.

Cappagh „ „

Frances Morton.

Drumline „ „

Edward Fenar.

Balycare „ „

Geo. Colpis, Esq.

Ballymacasheii (parte of) „

Thomas Benes.

Dronimolan ., „

Kobert Starkey, Esq.

The Ing

Peter Ware.

Cloghanaboye „ „

Mr. Rawson's tenants.

10.

Clare Castell

Captain Hengh Norton, Esq.

11.

Balyaly „ „

Maurice CoSe, merchant.

12.

Balehoreck „ „

Wm. Brickdall, Esq.

13.

Coonaghan ,, „

Mi\ Thomas Bui-ton and Mr. Moun-
sall.

14.

Donagarogue „ „

Anthony Usher, Esq.

15.

Moygh Castle ,, „

George ISTorton.

16.

Incheyneagli „ „

Simson and others.

17.

ISTewtoime „ „

Donogh O'Brien, Esq. (then Pro-
testant).

18.

Carnne Duffe „ „

Francis Dawes.

19.

Baleportre ,, ,,

John Brickdall.

20.

Ballyliarehanc „ „

Mr. Huxley.

21.

Incliecronanc „ .,

Anthony Heathcote.

22.

Clowne ,, „

Thomas Boui-ne.

23.

Lisdfin ,, „

William Costolow.

24.

Graroro „ „

John Carter.

25.

Scareff „ „

Eichard Blagraf e (son of Eev. John
B., minister and preacher).

26.

Caherhiirley „ „

Matthew Hickes.

27.

Toumgi^aney „ „

Luke Brady, Esq.

28.

Castell Bank „ „

Mr. Washington.

29.

ToiimroTv Castle „ „

Peeter Ward, where hee and his
wifie were most cruely mur-
dered by the enemy. (See infra.)

30.

Balenacragen „ „

Eichard Keaton.

31.

Castell Keale „

James Marten."

As to the castles in Clare, there is a MS. in T.C.D. {vide
Appendix No. VII.), being a return of those in the year 1584.
They number 165. Mr. Hely Button, in his survey, 1802,
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namaras built 57. The castles in Clare, from the Ordinance
Survey in 1862, are 149. Those in excess of the number
known to Mr. Dutton (who was only a bird of passage) are
given in the subsequent more accurate survey. Colonel
Connor O'Brien, of Lemanegh, now comes forward on the side
of the rebellion, and accompanied '' by diver other Irish gentry,^'
went and drove away what cattell he eld find of Mr. Burton^s,
Mr. Hickman's, and of any other Englishman, the whole
cuntrey being now out in general. About 20 January Mr.
Twimbrock (sic) (the Eev. John, see Visitation Tour, supra
No. 40, Ptector of Dysert) was turned out of his house and
goods by Turlough O'Brien, &c., not leaving him or Wm. and
Jno. Bridgman, his two sonn-in-laws, anything, but were to
betake themselves to Teige O'Brien, of Drummore Castell,'^^
"Esq. (now the property of T. Crowe, Esq., D.L.). Here
O'Brien gained two or three fowling peeces and some powthar
which was then preshes (precious).

At this castell of Teige O'Bryens, the aforesaid Twinbrocke,
through fair promises and invitation of the said Brien, had sent
most of his and his sons best goods, but were faine to give the
greatest part or all to the said Brien to convey them. Then
ensue robbery of arms from English, and also alarms of war —
'^ that the Irish gentry of that county had generally resolved to
beseege and take all the English cas tells in that county, and
that they would furst begin with the Castell of Ballgaly —
where they expected to recover both welth and store of peeces
and powthar and bullets, which would inabell them much for
taking other castels, and that the taking of that castell wld
be a great danting to all other EiigHsh of the county. This
Castell of Ballgaly having a reasonable strong ward and well pro-
vided, notwithstanding the country's malles, as the poorer sort of
people, specially some of Mrs. Cuffcs and her sons tenants, would
furnish us privately with some fresh provition for mony, as
hennes egges, geese, lambs, and the like. This, however, is put
a stop to."

* The Castle of Dromore still stands, bcaiititully situated near the
lake ; over the doorway is a slab with the following inscription :—

"This Castle w^as build by Teige, Second Sojic to Connor, Third
Earle of Thomond, and by Slancy Brien, wife to the said Teige.
Anno D."

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Sir V. Blake then by letters demands possession, which
is boldly refused. Then '' divers that cum for shelter to the
said Castell of poore English, whereof part of them were robbed
of their goods and provisions, not being able to withstand so
sudden a seedges as was intended, and not any in the castell
being provided with more than what they had pro^dded for
themselves and families. The names shall hereafter follow of
all. (K'ames not given.*) Hereupon finding ourselves bard
of pro\ation for mony, and heaiing and seeing the emenent
dainger wee were in, cased us to tak time, while time sarved,
to releeve these poore, and lickwaises ourselves, with a leetell
fresh provition. Whereupon there was a party sent forth,
which gained from the enemie and brought home 11 cowes and
32 sheepe which were killed for the releefe of the poore
whereby they might induer the seege the bettar."

On 4th February, 1641, came a final demand of the Castle
by letter, to which was written a final refusal.

Dermod sent Turlough to besiedge us, indevering to pre-
vent us of firing and water. Then came assistance of the coun-
try in general from each barony by turns, and cabins beult
under the hedgeroes and bushes, which were seized for firewood
by the beseiged. " It was lickwaises obsarved deuring the
first scidge, that whenevar the enemi had any practice to com
ageinst us, it pleased God to sonde extreame stormes of wind
or haile or raine."

Then ensued false claims, e\41 cursings — " to express these
base and wicked termes were soe tedious and base, that it were
abell to shame the reader to heere their wicked inventions and
damnable curses '' to frighten the defenders.

TJie Plot now Thickens,

About the 21st of February Capt. H. O'Gradey summons
the Castell, and being demanded by some that were upon the
battlement what aiithority he had to demand it ? whereupon
he answered that he had Cumishon (Commission) from his
IMajest}^ to banish all the Protestants of Ireland. Hereupon
without further excamcnation (sic) there was a bullet sent from
the Castle by one of the warders to exsamen {sic) his Cumishon

Sec uamcs in evidence of Andrew Chaplin.

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(sic) which went through his thigh. But he made a shift to
rumbell (sic) to the bushes, and there fell down, but only lay-
by it 16 weeks, in which tiioe unhapely (sic) it was cured.

This evening a poore maid that foremarley came stripped to
the Castell, being desirous to venture to an aunt she had
at Ballycarr Castle, li\dng with Coalpes (Colpoys), had no
sooner begun her journey but was taken and tortured to reveal
who shot 0' Grady — which then she was forced to confess — the
party being Andrew Chapling, minstar."^^

The Forme of the So ires built hij the Enemy,

This daye they advanced there sowes, and recoverd her
within the outar trench of the Castell Island.

The great sowe was 35 ft. long and 9 foote broad. It was
made upon 4 wheels, mad of whole timber, bound about with
hoops of iron ; the axel -trees whereon she run was great round
bars of iron, the beams she was built upon being timber.
They had cross beams within to work their levers, to force her
along as they j)leased to guide her. The hinder part of the sow
was left open for their men to go in and out. The forepai-t of
the sowe had 4 doors, 2 on roof and 2 on lower parts, which
did hang upon great iron buckles, but were not to open till
they came close to the wall of the castell, where they intended
to work through the walls of the castell with their tools they
had provided. The ruff of the sowe was built like the ruff of
a house, with a very sharp ridge, the lower part as the walls of
a house. She was double-planked, with many thick oaken
planks, and driven very thick with five-stroke nails, which
nails cost 5/., being intended for a house of correction which
should have been built in Innisli. This sowe was lickwaise
covered over with two rows of hides and two rows of sheep-
skins, so that no musket-bullet or steel arrow could pearse it,
of which trial often was made.

There was a lessar sowe im^Dloyed to go for ^dtaU for the
great sowe to the camp, and for any to come to the big sowe, &c.

* In Lib. Muii. Hib. vol. ii. p. 100, col. 2, No. 18, our brave Parson is
thus accounted fur :— '' GhapliTi (Andj'ow), Yicaragc of Kilkenry and
Kilmalley, Diocese of Tvillaloo, vrith clause of union pro liac vice tantum
to tlic Vicarage of Kilnanaugbta and Kilmurrynageal, in said Diocese,
whicli he now possesses. July 8." See also p. 174<.

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The description of the leathern piece {of ordenance) made hij the

enemy.

The said ^Deece was about 5 feet in length, not built upon
carriage, but fastened to a stocke of timber. This goon (-szc)
they planted in the great trench near the castell, to be ready
when they found occation to discharge her.

Then follows a night attack, in part successful, and an
attempt to cut off the besieged.

" The next morning they made triall of their lethren gun at us,
but she only gave a great report (!), having 13 lbs. of powdhar
in her, hut let fly hackwarde (! !), the bullet remaining within (!!!).
They likewise let fly many musket-shot at our spikeholes, but,
God be praised, did no hurt." Then they ''continued ex-
changing shots '' very hot till Sunday morning, and had the
''killing of divers, but lost none." ^ Then ensued a battle in
the haggard, and a sortie for water, and a successful attack
upon the sowes. JSTotwithstanding, the enemy kept their
camps, not remo^dng from us till the 12 of March. Our ward
of Ballyaly having cleared and terrified the Irish between
Clare and Ballyaly reasanable well, whereupon the poor
English would venture from Clare to us divars times for some
relief, the which they had usedly given them by us ; but at
last two poor women coming, being Elizabeth Hackery and
Margt. Whitcomb, were by two of the Cowries (?) kild. Then

'^^ The subject of ordnance, and the attempts to supply it, here so
absurdly illustrated, may occasion the remark that Sir W. Ealeigh
mentions that " the Netherlands in those days had looodeii guns, and
the Irish had darts." — Three Discourses. Also, the patriot Tyrolese
fought the French most brilliantly with ^Tooden guns. The main reason
assigned by Bishop Dease, Titular of Meath, for his opposing the rising
of the Catholic Confederates, in after days, was their lack of great
guns; as if to rebel without artillery was contravening the Canon
Laws. (See Cogan's '*' Meath.'') But the strangest attempt of all to
extemporize artillery was that made by the Lord Yiscount Clanmaleire :

"After two months he brought a great piece of ordinance, to the

making of which, as it was credibly reported, there went seven score
pots and pans, which was cast three times by an Irishman fi^om
Athboy before they brought it to that perfection it was in at Geashil.
His Lordship discharged his piece of ordinance aguinst the Castle, which
at the Iirst shot broke and flew to pieces.'' (See more in Lodge's
" Peerage," by Archdall sub. Digby). Every one will remember the
kind of missiles suggested to the men of 184;8.

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ensued smart affairs in cattle raids, and ^' the death of Connell
O'Herr, being a noted rebell. My brother Thomas meeting
with him, he shat him as he was running awaie, and Icild him'^
Then ensued another grand cattle raid for the benefit of the
poor. " Theie marched this day at least X miles compass, and
gained divars cat tell and sheepe, all which they drove with
them awaie to Clare, where Captain Norton and Mr. Brickdale
prevailed with my brothers in regard of many poor people they
had there, to leave that prey there, and the next they should
have wholly to Ballyally, which they granted. Now, after a
very good dinner, they returned to Ballyally, with help against
an ambuscade.

" Upon this the ward of Ballyally parshued the enemy and
kept them." Before passing away from Ballyally Castle, and its
siege, as related in quaint but graphic terms by Cuffe, it may
be well to notice some corroborative statements given in the
Depositions ; also, a further account of the second siege.
(F. 2, 22.)

Thus Frances Bridgeman (676), wife of Hewit Bridgeman,
late of Drujnsarem (?), county Clare, widow, that about middle
of December, 1641, she lost, was robbed, forcibly despoiled of
goods, chattels, to ^oOl., was dispossessed of a lease, lost debts
due, &c. She complains of dishonest and deceitful conduct of
D. O'Brien, of Drummore (as we shall see in other evidence).
Then she escaped, and ^^ being in a castle called Ballyalia, was
closely besieged." She mentions ^^men, women, and children,
to the number of 100," so long besieged that they were almost
starved, and they " wor faine " to eat horses, the hoggcs, cows,
and our doggcs (and there dyed many of the famine). She
mentions the sally, also how ''that Henry Woodfin and his
wife, John Carter and his wife and children, and George
Burke and his wife, which were before this rebellion Protest-
ants, had since turned Papists," &c.

The warders killed she names as —

1. John Walker.

2. Abraham Baker, of Ballymulcahill, carpenter.

3. John Burgess, of Ballymally.

4. Ambrose, of Ennis.

5. Thos. White.

6. John Twisden.

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7. John Smith, of Ballymally.

8. John Hart, of Ennis, shoemaker.

(703.) Erias Pteade, of Knockenane, swears to losses, amount
505/. D. O'Brien, of Bonnahowe, was particularly aggressive,
and took his arms and said, " It was by a warrant from the Earl
of Thomond to disarm all the English, affirming, ' By my soule,
Erias,' quoth he, ' I would not do it had I not been commanded
by his Lordship'" {sic in orig,), Erias also informeth that
from that time forth '' almost every cowboy did at his will rob
and pillage the English, these being thus exposed for want of
their army to their rapine."

He further deposeth that about 20 Dec. -that among divers
other families of English persons, 150 in number, he fled to
take refuge in Ballyally Castle. He then mentions by name
the besiegers, also the sowes, and the leathern gun. He further
saith that the besiegers forsook the castle to lay at least any
assault to it till about 28 June last, about which time his
Majesty's Castle of Lymerick was yielded up, from whence the
said parties, or some of them, procured an iron demi-culverin,
and brought the same to Ballyala, out of which they discharged
( — ) shotts against the castle, having done no operation they
continued aforesaid siege to the castle which endured for 12
weeks.

He mentions the name of the slain, as Mrs. Bridgeman does,
adding some horrible items as to the treatment of the bodies for
the purpose of intimidating the heroic defenders.

He further deposes on oath to their sufferings from famine, and
how they had '^ to eat horseflesh and raw hides, and the poorer
sort ratts and doggs, and could only recover water with sheets
and other clothes upon the top of the castle." He also deposes
to his hearing Christopher O'Brien audibly affirm that they
(the Irish) had his Majesty's Commission for what they did,
which if I had not certainly known (quoth he) I would not have
joined with them. He then mentions how '* orders from the
E. of Thomond did greatly disarrange the Protestants."

Jurat P. Bisse, Holwell. Erias X Peade.

As to this pretended Commission, see Warner (p. 77) and
Pushworth ; also as to the withdrawing of arms. In fact, '' no
method which fraud or artifice could suggest in order to draw
in their own people or to ensnare the English was left untried" ;

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but '^ the cliief engine of fraud and artifice " was a loretended
^^ Commission from the King in Scotland/^

Joe Hawkins, sadler (Innish), Co. Clare (805), swears he was
robbed of 39Z. lO.s. 8d., and gives a very full and clear statement
of the affairs at Ballyala.

The Englishmen in or near Innish or thereabouts, namely —

Winter Bridgeman (of Tulla O'Decr), Maurice, Edward,
Thomas, Joseph Cuffe, brothers, all of Innish.

John Crumpe.

Wm. Birley.

Eichd. White.

Eichd. Roche.

E.obt. Baker.

Andrew Chaplin (clerk), and their family, with some others.

John Walker.

John Bandicour.

When all the country was ready to go into rebellion, betook
themselves to Ballyala, and were closely besieged (names of
besiegers, as by Cuffe). Failure of sowes and relaxing of siege
next related, also slaughter and wounding of one hundred of
besiegers.

About the 27 June they came to besiege the castle the second
time and continued the siege to the 17th Sept. During which
period the English within the castle, besides an infectious fever
raging among them, had all of them died for want of victuals
and relief, being so closely besieged and driven through the
extremity of that long and tedious siege. Sundry were driven
to eat ratts and doggs, and to eat likewise salt hides half rotten,
constrained to wash out the lime, &c.

Dept saith that during second siege your dept and men like-
wise killed at least thirty-six, and there died (list as above),
besides women and children that were utterly starved in the

castle.

Beatrice Hopdidch, (324) after sundry statements not now re-
cited, swears that she and four more did succeed " in flying to
the Castle of Ballyala, and she and about a 100 more Pro-
testants were there from about the 20 June, 1642, last past,
until about the 4 Sept. following, besieged by the Ecbels and
by Danl O'Brien, of Lemaneigh, and Oge Koe O'Brien, brother
to the Lord Inchiquin. . . She saw colours flying, &c. That

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the besieged durst not go out for water nor fuel^ and were glad
to eat tlie flesh of horses, dogs, and to feed on nettles, docks^
or weeds. So that divers famished and dyed of want, and some
that had four or five children would have one left aHve. Then
a parley ensued. '^ And so far did Christopher O^Brien by his
^ adularious and quiteful speeches^ prevail and persuade with
Maurice Cufie, that he and others went out to O^'Brien and the
rest of the rebels. But they were no sooner gone a little out of
the castle but that the rebels laid violent hands on Cufie and
the rest and made them prisoners. But Cuffe and John Cweefe
suddenly overrun them and fled back. Then after a few days
the rebels erected a gallows in front of the castle, threatening to
hang them if those inside the castle would not surrender it. At
length the castle was given up, as there were no means of relief,
nor water, and the castle was given to the rebellious enemy.
Then the deponent getting to an Irishman's house was there
kept for some time. But being laboured to go to Mass, she and
her children escaped to Barrenmore Castle by night, thence to
Galway, and by sea to Dublin. And she saith that the women
rebells were firmer and crueller than the men, and among the
rest one Sarah O'Brien, sister to D. O^Brien, undertook to con-
vey and bring safely out of the Castle of Dromore Peter JSTew-
man^'s wife, the dept's sister, and their family. But when she
had gotten their goods, she sufiered the rebels first to cut ofi'

P. Newman's arm, afterwards grievously to him, and at

length to shoot him. And after, the sd Sarah stripped the sd
P. Newman's wife and her children of their clothes and turned
them away exposed to the dangers of ih^ cold. And she hired
parties to kill them, but hearing of it, they escaped by another
way.

Andrew Chaplin, elk (628), swears to being despoiled of goods,
&c., 520/., and church livings worth 105Z. Dermod O'Brien drove
away his stock and stole his goods from Ballynially farm, with
the aid of certain yeomen. This is the clergyman who was
mentioned above in the Visitation tour, and whose appointment
is alluded to in Lib. Mun. Hib.

He gives the list of those in the castle as the others have
done, but with more exactness.

1. Elizabeth Coufte (widow).

2. Winter Bridgman.

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12.
13.

3. Jno. Vandervort.

4. Alex. Hill.

5. Richd. White.

6. TJrias Reade.

7. Wm. Benley.

8. Jno. Hawkins.

9. Hu. Austin.

10. Jno. Walker.

11. Jno. Ribson.
Wm. Long.
Ei. Wolff.

14. Jno. Smith.

15. Jno. Conie.

16. Eo. Baker, with their families respectively. And the
stripped people came afterwards into the Castle to the number
of 150 people, who presently after and especially about the
4th February then following, being Wednesday morning, were
assailed and closely besieged. He then tells of the great
assault upon the 20th February with the sows and leathern
gun. He then tells of the intermitting of the siege, and of
the demi-culyerin brought from Limerick about 28th June, till
the 6th or 7th of August, and how the rebels continued the
second siege for twelve wrecks before and after the bringing of
the same gun. He then deposes as to the giving up of the
Castle (26th Sept., margin) and the violation of the terms of
ao-reement. He also deposes to the extremity of besieged by
famine, as the others have done. He then heard the O'Briens
and the rest putting forth (the fable of) the Commission from
the King. He also heard Mohune M. McMahon solemnly
assert that he would as soon be "hanged as stand with or go in
this insurrection, if the Earl of Thomond had not certainly
known that they had the King's command. Deponent further
examined : that after the Castle was given up, 26th September,
he and others were conveyed to Bunratty ; saw and observed
Donnell O'Brien, and Conor his brother, and Teigue and
Dermod, also divers others, especially sundry of the said
besiegers (of Ballyala aforesaid), freely entertained by his
Lordship at Bunratty with meat, drink, and lodging. And
near about the 15th of May last, while Lymerick Castle was
besieged, Examinant saw and read an instruction or command

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sent from the said Earl to W, Bridgman, T. Cuffe, and the rest,
&c.y in Ballyalla, straitly charging and commanding them
not to sally forth to burn, pillage, or do any execution upon
the country people, being (since) they only came for service
against them, in regard the chiefest and prime men were then
at the siege of Lymerick. By which command his Lordship
plainly intended to dissuade the Protestants in the Castle from
persecuting or persevering against the rebels. Deponent read
the paper, which was subscribed in his Lordship's own hand-
writing. That examinant likewise informeth that the said
Earl of Thomond doth countenance and protect rebels in those
parts and adheres to them (notwithstanding the daily and
lamentable murders, strippings, depredations committed by
these people upon the English, as is well known to his Lord-
ship). Deponent specifies his Lordship's entertainment of and
confidence in McNemara of Moyreisk, knovm to be in actual
rebellion and Treasurer of the rebels' fimds in Clare. 2nd.
His Lordship remonstrated with the country people for their
ingratitude to him in not paying him their rents, who had
kept the Sherifi* from burning their houses, robbing and killing
their families. 3rdly. That some of the beseegers in parley
declared their aim was to drive out all the English and Pro-
testants, and keep the castles for themselves. And as to Earl
of Thomond they intended to leave him 14 ploughlands for his
cattle, until they saw how he would decide for or against them.
But the Earl enjoyeth his stock and undiminished."

Andrew Chaplin.
Jurat coram P. Blisse J. Wallace.

(821.) The evidence of Edward Mainwaiing of Ejlmoney is
here introduced as bearing upon the line of action taken by the
Earl of Thomond: — "Also the said Earl of Thomond, as he
pretended for the good of the country, made and appointed
certain of his own kindred, all Papists, to be captains and
commanders in that county, and to muster and lev}" men in
the same. And assessed and ordered all the English and Irish,
inhabitants there to bear and pay 1^. for every ploughland to
the said captains and soldiers, which was paid by those Enolish
in those parts for two months together.'^ And then all
THOSE CAPTAINS AND THEIR SOLDIERS FELL into 02)en rebellion

'^^ Particular Kelations, &c., of Ireland. London, by aiitlioritj, 1612.

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and robbed and deprived the riiost of the English of all their goods,
as deponent believes, and killed a great number of tbem. And
although the Earl of Thomond was still suffered to enjoy all
his means, yet these rebels at length seemed not to care for
him (! !) And further, the commanders so appointed by the
Earl of Thomond took away all the English arms, and took
from them about 17 or 18 castles. And whereas, at the first
about 100 English and Dutchmen^' offered to take up arms
and defend themselves, castles, houses, and goods, and the
country so far as they were able ; yet the said Earl of Thomond
would not suffer them so to do, but said that course would
further provoke and incense the Irish to anger than other-
And so the said Earl apjoointed and gave the rule of the

wise.

whole country to the captains and commanders as aforesaid
(chiefly his own relatives), whom at first he commanded him-
self, but after this they seemed not to care for, nor to be
commanded by, him."

Jurat, 8 Jan., 1643. Edw. Mainwaring.

In the letter of the Lords Chief Justices of date February 8,
1641, the following is to be found : — ^^ And we issued arms also
to many noblemen and gentlemen of the Pale, and elsewhere, of
the Romish religion, for the defence of their houses against the
rebels. Yet much contrary to the expectation of all equall-
minded men, and in deceit of the trust reposed in them by this
State, and directly contrary as to their loyalty and duty to his
Majesty, so to the great professions which they had so lately
before made at this Council Board, — man 3^ of those, ( — ) as well
whole counties, as particular persons entrusted with these arms,
revolted to the rebels, carried his Majesty's arms with them,
and so the arms, which were trusted into their hands for the
protection of his Majesty's good subjects, they converted to the
annoyance and destruction (as much as in them lay) of those
good subjects they were trusted to protect, and of this State
and G overnment, and have not only not resisted the rebels, but
have also joined with them, and they and the rebels assembled
in arms in hostile manner, with banners displayed against his
Majesty, in besieging some of his towns, taking into their pos-
session by force or fraud many of his Majesty's burroughs.

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walled and un walled, and in committing murders, spoils, robberies,
and many detestable cruelties on bis Majesty's good subjects. '^

So far the defence of Ballyalla, conducted by the heroic Mrs.
Cuffe and her gallant sons — a defence all the more notable
from the extremity of the sufferings undergone by the besieged,
from their humanity to crowding fugitives, and from their
hopeless and unbefriended condition. No help came from Eng-
land, no help came from Eunratty, no help came from Galway,
Army lists of Cavaliers are extant (edited by the very learned
E. Peacocke, Esq., and reprinted by Hotten, London, 1863),
also of " the army of his Excellency Robert Earle of Essex, of
the Royal IS^avie (too), for guard of narrow seas and for Ire-
land " (! !) Lists remain of the '' Orthodox ( = Puritan) Di\^nes
to be consulted with by the Parliament touching the reformation
of Church government and ilie Liturgies There is a list, too, of
the field of&cers chosen and appointed b}^ the Committee at Guild-
hall for the Irish Expedition. " London, printed for Edward
Paxton, June 11th, 1642 '^ {su2')ra, page 65). This was to con-
sist of ^^ Regiments of 5,000 Foot and 500 Horse under the
command of Philip Lord Wharton, iS:c." Also in the Raw-
don PajDcrs, Appendix, p. 408, is a memorial addressed to the
colonels of the English regiments in LTlster, for the jourpose of
clothing the troops under their command. This is signed
by the members of the Committee for Irish affairs, and dated
London, July 8th, 1642. It seems very like a gigantic tailor's
bill, such as one meets with in Napoleon's correspondence with
Jerome. But it was men and their movements were wantino:
then, and not ^^ shirtes of Locram at lid. the ell, consigned
unto Wm. Roberto.^' But neither Cavalier nor Roundhead,
neither Orthodox Divine nor Royal J^Tavy gave the slightest
assistance to the Protestants beleaguered, and stripped, and
starved, and slaughtered, from one end of Ireland to another.

To succour the Protestants of Ireland and save them from
their cruel foes might have been a bad policy for the Saints,
as depriving democratic fanatics of so man}^ soldiers to fight
the King, as putting in hazard the power and prey they
sought through the fall of Charles, the extirpation of the
Celts, and the overthrow of the Episcopal Reformed Charch.
(See Warner, ad reruy and An order for the relief of the Pro-
testants of Ireland, printed January, 1643.)

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The Siege of the Casiell of Inchecronane is also given in
Cuffe's narrative.

This Castle was besiedged the 13 of March, being the dale after
they left Balyaly, by G. O'Shafnes {sic), and the Grade's, and
some Conaght men, that were returning home. Whereupon
Anthony Heathcot sent a letter to the Earle of Thomond, pro-
mising his Lordship a rick of wheat if his Lordship would be
pleased to releve him (! !) Whereupon the Earle sent for D.
O'Brien and J. McNemerrowe and their companies to go with
him, which they did accordingly, and likewise tuk his one troop
and about 50 Englishmen in armes, and went according to Mr.
n.'s desire. But before he came to the Castell some of the Lish
sent notes to the beseigers, whereupon they removed before his
Lordship came. But, however, finding two or three rogues
remaining in the bushes, his Lordship kild them. But the rick
of wheat by the enemy was burnt (!) Now the Earle returned
home. The seidge being cleared, some of the English ven-
tured forth to recover fresh provisions. But they ventured
not far, but the Gradies and the Pcowhans fell upon them and
hild 9, suffering only one, Neuman, to return with neus
(= news) losing all their peeces.

Now Gilladuffe (O^Shafnessy) and the rest came against the
Castell again, whereupon the aforesaid Heathcot sent to Durmot
O^Brien to bring them and their goods off. Whereup)on the
said Brien ordered the English to give the said Shafnes £20
and so to part with their goods. But they no sooner opened their
Castell, but whom pleased entered in, and tuck more of their
goods away. Soe some of them were sent to Clare Castell and
some came to Ballyaly without any provision to maintain them.
But notwithstanding their quarter, they there likewise killed
the foresaid Newman there.

John Cookson, of Atterglancey (752) Kilkeedy Parish, swears
he was turned out of Castle of Dercane (or, qu8cre, Derryowen)
by Ed. O'Hogan of Moghill, and lost cattle, horses, linen, &c. ;
also deposes that Christopher Ilebridge, Peter Newman, John
Twisden, jun., Nicholas Wheeler, one Adams, a collier, and
his wife, and the wife of Ed. Coom, and Pobt. Hart — all
which were late of Parish of Inchecronane — were murdered by
the hands and means of the sons of Johna McThomas Burk of
Kiltarton, in County Galway. He further saith that Catherine

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Cookson his wife, and cliildren, were all stripped by O^ea
McLaughlin. (F. 2, 22. 7o2)

The Siege of Tr timer oe Cislle.

The reader will bear in mind the brief note upon this case
made by Mr. Cuffe, which is copied above. There is, alas, only
too strong evidence to substantiate the case, the e\ddence of
the actors taken at the time. There are also curious and tragic
results in the way of retribution recorded.

In the edition of OTlaherty's West Connaught, edited by
the learned Mr. Hardiman, and published for the Irish Archaeo-
logical Society, at page 407, the following will be found : —

^'In the beginning of May, 1653, John Browne, of the Isles
of Aran, came before the magistrates of Galway and gave
information on oath against Col. Edward 0' Flaherty and others
for the murder of Peter Ward, of Tromragh, in the county of
Clare. This 0' Flaherty (p. 412) was tried and executed at
Galway, where his kindsman the Lord Viscount Mayo had
shortly before suffered for the massacre at Shruel. And thus
ignominiously (pursues the learned Archaeologist) perished two
of the most leading men of the province at the time, for crimes
into which the^^ had been unfortunately urged by the unsettled
state of society at that unhappy period. That Colonel E.
0' Flaherty considered himself acting in the afftdr within the
rales of leo'itimate warfare there can be little doubt."

His arrest was curious,

''A. party of soldiers was dispatched into lar Connaught in
pursuit of the accused. After a long and fruitless search the
party was returning, and passing beside a small dark wood near
Renville their attention was attracted by the unusual noise and
croaking of ravens, hovering in the air towards the centre of
the wood. On arriving at the spot over which the birds still
continued on the wing, the soldiers discovered a cavity in the
rock, from which they drew forth a miserable-looking man,
who was soon recognised as the unfortunate object of their
pursuit. With him they found a poorly-attired and emaciated
female, who afterwards proved to be his wife — the daughter of
Sir Christopher Garvey of Lehinch, in the county of Mayo."
*^ And truly who had seen them would have said they had

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been rayther ghosts than men, for pitifully looked they, pyned
away for want of food, and altogether ghastly with fear.'^
(See more from Sir Pt. Bingham's Discourse Cotton Lib.,
British Mus. Titus B. 13.)

His Exanmiation Ensues,

Being examined how long he was in arms against the Com-
monwealth of England, saith, he was called hither to this town
of Galway by the Archbishop of Tuam (Titular), who was
President, and by Fra Blake of Galway, who was then Com-
mander-in-Chief of the forces in this said town of Galway,
raised against the fort, that he came and assisted with his com-
pany in besieging said fort. Then he went to the isles of Aran
and continued until he wore out his welcome with the
islanders, " upon which he and company went in their boats to
the county of Clare to a castle named Tromroe, which was
possessed by one Mr. Ward, whom he heard was an honest
gentleman, and never heard of him before and neither doth
know of what religion or nation he was of (??!). And came to
said castle 1 May, 1642, in the beginning of the night — within
musket shot of said castle — to a house where he and his com-
pany kept their Court of Guard. Before their coming to the
said house they made some shots from the castle at him, and
continued shooting all night, with which shots some of his
men were wounded. Then his men attacked the castle ^by the
hall, which was joining the castle.' They then stormed the
castle, and continued from Sunday night to Wednesday morn-
icg, at which time conditions were made by John Ward for his
own life with Teige O'Brien and the (Par.) Priest, — which said
John this examinant employed as a messenger to his father in
the said castle, desiring him to take quarter several times. He
would not take quarter of Belian or Scuell {sic). On Wed-
nesday Ward^s two daughters and two younger sons came out,
also an Englishman and his wife. The son and heir of P.
Ward came out on Tuesday and was slained in the way by
Sorrell Folone (= Fooloo or Foley), who is now gone with
Cusack. He gave quarter to each one that came out of the
castle except him that was killed as aforesaid. P. Ward did keep
his chamber in the said castle from Tuesday night until Wed-
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by a shot tlirougli the window of the said chamber by whom he
did not know. And further saith, he ordered his men to keep
said P. W. awake, with intention to give him quarter (! !),
and the said P. Ward making a thrust out of the door with
some weapon was taken by the arm, drawn forth and slained.
He defended himself in his chamber for twenty-four hours after
the rest went forth. He conve3^ed seven persons safe to Ki.
White of Kilmurry, which was the place they desired to go unto.
He and company plundered the house and divided it on
Stranee island. He forced John Browne, a drummer, to go

with him ^Vnd being demanded wherefore he came not

under protection, answered, because he ivas afraid in respect of
the act he had committed. And further saith not Edmd.
Flaherty."

Let a few words be added from the evidence of John Ward,
who escaped \\dth his life.

^''On 25 Apl. 1643, saith (examined) that on the 17 Aph
1642, saith Peter, Alson (Mrs.) and George Ward were in a
most cruel and rebellious manner murdered and stripped by
the hands of E. O'Flahertie Esqre. and others of his confede-
rates (manner much as related by E. F.) .... he shot or
caused to be shot Alson (Mrs.) under the right side with a
bullet whereof she died immediately, and likewise gave George
18 (! !) wounds whereof he instantly died on 20th. Peter Ward
together with said xilson and George, was stripped and they three
buried in or near the said castle walls, from whence by direc-
tions of Donnell O'Brien of Douagh Esqre. in said Com. they
were removed and enterred in the parish church of Kilmurr}^
aforesaid. Yet, notwithstanding, D. McScanlane McGorman
of Dunsallagh, in the said Com. Mass Priest, caused their
corps to be digged up again, and buried without in the church-
yard for no other cause as far as Deponent could learn, but that
they said that no unsanctified or heretical corps of Protestants
(as they term them) must remain within their churches.

"This Deponent saith, that the said Ed. F. was abetted,
counselled, and assisted in said rebellious and traiterous design
by the undernamed persons, namel}^ Donnough O'Brien of
Newtowne, M. McDermot of Tromoroe, T. McDermot, Conor
D. Richd. Fitzpatrick (Seneschal of Ibrikane, and then and
now receiver to E. Thomond). Don O'Brien possessed himself

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of £100 of P. W.'s cattle, which he detaineth to this day.
Hugh"^ McOoutten also did use to take a note in writing of the
beseegers, openly extolling them for their valour and good
service/' &c., &c. (Depositions, Clare, vol. xxi., page 709.)

The traveller from Kilkee northward by the coast road, after
emerging out of the valley through which the Annagh river
tumbles in a cascade over a ledge of rocks and then runs
into Lough Donald, has a noble coast and sea view to re-
ward him. In clear weather along the horizon before him,
the Nine Pins of Connemara rear their sharpened summits.
From the further side of these OTlaherty started on his
expedition to Galway. To the left hand stand the cliffs of
Moher and the Hag's Head facing the Atlantic. Further sea-
ward may be discerned the long, low, '^ kidney -shajmV^ Isles
of ''Aran,'' at the opening of Galway Bay. Here O'Flaherty
made the final rendezvous for his raid into Clare. J^earer
hand, with many a bluff promontory intervening, Spanish
Point still receives the resounding shock of the ceaseless
Atlantic surges. Approaching the western limits of this
glorious panorama of land and water, stands, well in shore.
Straw, now called Mutton Island, where O'Flaherty divided the
booty and refused that silver goblet to Browne, the drummer — an
act which Browne neither forgot nor forgave after over ten years'
time. Close to the beach of the ked strand, Tra-moiioe Castle
(so called) still rears its lonely, lofty head. And bounding all,
is found Kilmurry Churchyard, from the consecrated precincts
of which were so piously ejected the gashed and mangled
remains of the gentleman and his offspring, of whose name,
religion, or nation, O'Flaherty and his piratical crew swore
they were ignorant. And yet, '' acting within the rules of
legitimate wixrt'dre, and urged by the unsettled state of society,"
they foully put them to death.

Moygh and Inchlveaghe Castles.

In the list of castles held by English are the following : —
No. 15. — Moygh Castle. Held by George Norton.
No. IG. — Inchivcaglie. Held by Simson and others.

Quaere McCurtin, ancestor of the two Irish writers.

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There are also two other castles to wHcli reference must be
made, viz. : —

The Castle of Dough, also
The Castle of Ballinalacken,

both the property of Donogh O'Brien. Of this gentleman^s
descent the particulars will be found in '^ Memoirs of O'Briens/*
pp. 545 and 549. He came of a stock which sprung from Brian
Boroihme, monarch of Ireland, through Donald, second son of
Conor, ancestor of the extinct Earls of Thomond and Viscounts
Clare. His conduct stands in strong contrast with that of
0' Flaherty and of the other chieftains of his name and country.
(See Carte ad rem.) His territorial position was considerable.
(See Letter of King James I.)

Among the valuable papers in the Ennistymon House Collec-
tion, kindly placed at the writer's disposal by Mrs. MclN'amara,
there is a lease between Captain D. O'Brien, of the one part,
and John Simpson and William King well, on the other, of cer-
tain lands and tenements. These English settlers, with a sad
forecasting, covenanted inter alia,

And it is also agreed that if tlii^e hapen any warres, mutanie or re-
bellion insomuch as the aforesaid or theu' assigns be forced from the
same lands so that they may not enjoy it, Doi'ing such, no rents to be
jDayed or demanded,

John SnisoN, his X Eiarke,

Wm. Kingayell.

These two write the following letter, joined by another, ^^.z.,
Robert Boothe :—

To Captn O'Brien.

Worthie Sir, — Our service love and prayers for your happiness alwaies
premised. Whereas you wi'it unto us concerning oui' removall and like-
wise the children of Johna Steele, — so it is that ** fonismuch as the
childi-en hath seene the lamentahle lyi'ospect of their father' s^ brother's"
and mother s mwiiher done before the castle windoxv, they are become so
exceeding fearful that they will not leave the Castle or venture them-
selves abroad at all, except we should put them out by violence. But,
God forbid that ever we should be so inhumane and unnatural towards
them. As concerning their goods we have sent you a true inventory of
all that which is with us except what is in the lofts which are kept , ,

lsh\ O'Brien your servant will deliver you up the keys thereof, neither
shall they be opened by God's grace, 'till such time as yooi' worship
shall be at the opening of them.

And as concernuig that little provision which they have, in regard we

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are so near and dear unto them, doubt not, we pray you, but it shall be
drest (?) ordered and husbanded as -well as can be possible even as long
as it will last.

JSTow as concerning ourselves, we stand here by God's providence and
your worship's gi^cious favor shewn long towards us. And therefore,
come life or death, if God and yr worship be so joleased, we desire that
we all may continue here, until such time as it please God to deliver us,
to the end that we may praise Him and express our great gi^atitude to
yi'self.

ISTotwithstanding, if anything here be in any way displeasing unto
you, we beseech you to grant your servants only a month's respite,
about whiche time by God's grace, we will be so farre from giving yr
worship any discontent, that we will rather give you a full satisfactory
answer.

Soe, remitting you to the gi^acious pj;otection of the Almighty, we
rest and will remain your wp's very loving friends and servants,

RoBT BooTHE, Jno Simson, and Wm Kingwell.

Dated from Tullareigh,

this
21st April 1642.
Superscribed

To the worshijipfull and very much respected friend and land-
lord Captn Danl O'Brien

These with our sei^ice jDresent.

The following is the solemn testimony of Captain JSTorton as
to the transactions in this remote district during these sad times,
and it gives a vivid picture of what the English suffered, and
how D. O'Brien befriended them : —

I Captn G ISTorton of Cloughlea in Coy of Cork, an English Protestant
resident in the beginning of the late rebellion and before at Mooh
(Moy) Castle in the parish of Kilfarboy, three miles N of Miltown Mal-
bay (the ruins of the Castle shew it to have been a place of consider-
able strength, His Mem O'B. p 489) in the Barony of Ibrickane, which is
two miles distant from Dough, in which Danl O'Brien of Dough alwaies
was resident, — at the instance of the sd Danl do honestly certify that
the sd Danl O'Brieu m the years 164}l-2-and-3 did serve assist, relieve and
maintained myself, my wife, children and many of the English Pro-
testant families then resident at my sd Castle of Mooh. And did furnish
us from time to time with what necessary provision and ammunition we
wanted during our being at Mooh GaiTison. And at my request and my
father in law (Brickdall, since spelled Brigdall) did safely convey
myself, my wife, children and the English families aforesd with what
goods we were pleased to carry with us to the Englisli Garrison of Clare,
accommodating himself for his assistance with all his own Irish tenants
for our defence and safe conduct and by directions of the Earle of
Thoraond agamst the Irish forces then lying in way before him and us.

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And that tlie sd Danl O'Brien did to liis utmost pioneer safely lodge
me and my father and goods and at all times after, both at the gaiTison
of Clare and Bunratty sent me and my father, what provisions, milshi
cows, beeves, wheat and mioney we called to him for. And kindly and
faithfully gave us satisfaction for the goods by us committed to his trust
and did the like to several other English families being his tenants then
and before and some other his neighboui's. And had alwaies afforded
to the English communication out and in. And was one in whom the E
of Thomond reposed trust then to see their letters mutually with safetie
conveyed. And that he exacted nothing then and dui'ing my acquaint-
ance with him against the English (like as the gentleman who held
Dromore did) but supported and maintained them to his power.

And that the said Danl O'Brien did maintain a child of myne and his
nurse and gave them livelihood to maintain themselves for many years
dm^ing the rebellion. And that the sd Danl O'Brien gave myself
arising and accruing to the Earle of Thomond at Bunratty then.

The Irish that stood up in opposition agt the English took the sd
Danl as then* enemy and did imprison him at Clare Castle ^ going to the
E of Thomond after the same was taken by the Irish.

And the sd Danl harboured relieved and maintained two English
Captains and the Mariners of a ship an-iving near his Castle of Dough,
and there shipwrecked by tempest, — friiught with tobacco from the
Indies in Dec. 1641 and entertained them at his Castle and safely con-
veyed them with their goods to the English Gan'ison of Mooh, and from
thence to Clare at his desiring him, and relieved and entertained the
IMaster of a shijD called John Cooley for two years at his Castle of
Dough and afterwards sent him to Gulway at his own desire. And did
harbour and protect one of the E of Thomond's English Tenants living
at Lisawell called John Copp in the begmning of the rebellion and from
thence safely conveyed him to one of the sd Danl's castles called
where some of the English Tenants and neighbours
garrisoned — as was told furnished them with muskets, powder and or
necessaries as they wanted and desired and gave them his Castle for
their safetye, until at then' own request a long time after he safeli con-
veyed them to Galway.

All wliich at the request of the sd Danl. in discharge of my conscience
I do gladly certify under my hand and seal this 1 May 1656.

Captain Geo. Norton's wife writes from ^* Clear " (or Clare)
the 22 July, 1642, the following letter of a niotlier : —

Worthie Sir,

I present myne and my husbands humble service and heart-thanks
to jv most loving selfe for your grate kindnesse to us. For all which I
hartely desir God to requit you, and what is in our powers shall never
faile for being (since) I have found so plentiful assurances of yi- love.
I comfort myself with the abseuc of my poor child that you so kindly
ded tak in your cear. Unto whom I am confidant you will show a
tendar fatherly love untill it please God that I can receive hem from
you againe. I hope his nui'ts (quere, nurse) will be willing to stay

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Bunratty Sept. 22, 1642.

with liini from the company of Ned Barley, that will not leave my father
yet. If she will not, I entret you to provid anothar good norse for

him. But I trust that will not leave him so. Senc you left, we

resolved of a more chargeable corse for oui' saftis. Therefor I and my
husband entreats you to spear ous ten pound mor, and send it within
f eve days safe — which will be in all £16 that you have lent ous, — all
which we will secuer to you with many thanks, when it plese God, we
can have liberty. Thus, I tak leave and rest

Yo-^jr true friend

to serve you

'DORATHY ISTORTOX.

For my much honored and assured loving friend Captane Donnat
O'Briant these

Same to Same
Worthie Cossen

My love to you remembered, my Lord having come this whole
week by ship boord, expecting to have joined you and your Brother with
the rest of the Gentry of this County, to have mett him according to
their promises to him and to my Lord ( ) who are not very

well pleased and they

were never so disappointed by the Country.

My Lord out of love to you and to your Brother, commended me for
to write to you, how earnestly he does desire you both to repahe hither
to him without delay, and dothe think it very strange that upon his
last letter, you have so long delayed and not come to him.

My Lord doth desire you out of the love you bear and yr Brother to
him and as ever you expect any favor at his hands that you fail not to
repaii-e unto him with all speede,— where you may have your own hearts
desire in any thing that lyeth in my Lord's power.

You cannot believe how it does trouble and grieve my Lord, who hath
laboured aU that lyeth in his power to bring this County into a settled
way of peece as the County of Gallaway (see O'Donohue in His Mem
0 B 257). And to see how the Gentry and his Kindsmen doo detest
and forget the good way he intends for them.

Soo, desiring you not to fail in this my Lord's request, I rest yr

Lovin^c Cosen to be commanded

Geo. jSToeton.

Bunratty Sept 22, 1642.

At close of another letter he makes the following request :—

Clare Augt 10, 1642.

My father and Bro Brickdall, present their sei^ce to you. My bless-
in- to my little boy and our love to his nurse. Thankmg you for your
crreat care over her and the child and desiring you for to get my (ille-
gible) and send it to me alsoe as conveniently as you can with

it my wifes riding-coat and had (quere, hat). If you do hear of it, and
what land you lett of mine, if you lett any from yourself,-to get it lett
from year to yeare during pleasure.

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That it went liard with Daniel O'Brien for his loyalty and
humanity to the English is now made evident, also that but for
these rare qualities of his a considerable number of English
settlers in the district of Dough must have perished. How-
ever, if earthly rewards do sometimes in God's providence
crown acts of noble disinterestedness, Daniel O^Brien, before a
dozen years, was able to exonerate himself frcm the position of
a " JS^ocent,'' and to claim the advantages of a friend and faith-
ful supporter of the English ^^ with constant good will." This
will appear in the

Humble petition of Danl O'Brien of Dough Esqre, To The Honble
Col. Gr Stubber and ye rest of ye Commissioners appointed for the over-
throwing and demolishing of Castells in ye Province of Conaght and
Coy of Clare.

Humbly the Trithin your Petitioner demaining himself in the begin-
ning of this waiT, consonant nnto the Laws and statutes established in
this nation and to the uttermost of his power assisted his neighbourino-
English against the rebellious insuiTection of as many of the natives
as have raised against them, in cutting the ears of many of the plun-
derers and executing of others.

The Earle of Thomond and your petitioner being of one resolution as
by his Lordship's testimony may appear and soe continued for two
years until by the predominant power of his adversaries his person was
taken and his boddy imprisoned, where he continued untill forced to
pay contribution.

But neither then nor during the waiT, was in arms, nor otherwise
acted against the Commonwealth, as is apparent and visible by as many
of the English as continued resident in ye countie of Clare— and since
ye taking of Lymrick hath paid a heavy monthly contribution, some-
times 1007. and sometimes more— the month — 'till all the substance he
had was exhausted and he was reduced to such extremity and poverty
that he hath no livelihood to sustain him self e and his charo-e, but if in
the future settlement he is in expectation to be relieved by reall estate.
If your Honor be pleased to remove an inconveniency, which would
partly prevent the same.

Now soe it is, if five of the Petitioners castles were razed doun not-
withstanding if the Governor of the Precinct of Lymerick and Clare
gave orders that they should not be razed imtil ye rest of ye Castles in
the Coy. of Clare were razed doune.

Yet contrary to the sd Orders, the Masons razed them doun.

And the Petitioner further sheweth that of late he made application
to build a house in Dough, which is noe place of strength and a little
castle wh is already demolished by the Irish, hj name Ballenalacken
which hath iio bawne or Barbican that stands as yet, and not in the list
of the masons. But however your Petitioner is afeard that the said
masons out of malice or gain, will fall doune the sd stearcasc of Dou<^h

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or the rainous Castle of Balliiialacken to yr Petitioners great prejudice
ia building his house and the disadvantage of the Commonwealth or
that yr Honor may be pleased to grant the Order that the stearcase
may not be pulled doun nor the sd ruinous Castle. And the rather
to save the estate fi-om charges if yr Hour doe think it fitt, that he will
upon his own charges, put doune the steappe in the case and dismantele
the ruinous Castle of Ballinalacken.

And further that he will enter sufficient security— that they shall not
be anywaies prejudicial to the Commonwealth and he shall ever pray
&c. '

Longhrea, 13 Sept. 1654.
Upon consideration hadd of the Petition of Qr Master Smith for the
demolishing of Castles in Coy Clare, is hereby required to forbear
demolishing the within-mentioned strand {sic) basse of Dough and the
within ruinous Castle of Ballinalacken until f mother orders, or until the
Lord Protector and the rest that are joined with us doe send you further
orders at our next meeting in regard they are now absent. However
you are not to faile, and for so doing this shall be your authoritie.
And in Qr Master's Smiths' absence any other employed aforesaid is to
observe this order.

Date ut supra,

Gn. Stubbee.
The following letter from Earl Thomond being important,
and having never been published, is here submitted : —
Cousen,

I have received your letter and soe good token of your afCection to
secure the countrey.

The soldiers you sent from Ennis (have reached) and joynedthe other
company that were not so well made up and sent them under the
command of my into the border between Scariff and

Lymerick to restrain and correct loose and ill-disposed rascally persons
that make a habit of stealing.

I shall therefore desire and authorize you to make up the number of
50 men in the completest and best manner you can, and so march with
you in full speed into Innish — where you are to divide them to be
garrissoned solely there, and all commanded by for the

better discipline and countenance of them. I also desire your continuino-
your o-wn personal directions amongst them. And soe upon youi^
discretion to raise and goe abroad for restraining the excesses that may
be committed in the country. You are to have authority to
billet at the rate assessed, being one pennie for everie souldier.

Every constable on duty that the same may be discharged. And you
are likewise authorized to seize upon and take into your hands freely
both for better furnishing of yr men, all such guns muskets and or
weapons as you shall find in the country not necessarily used for the
defence and safety of the inhabitants otherwise. And for soe doino-
this shall be yr wari^nt

Yr very loving kindsman,
Bunratty, 17th May, 1613. Tjlio3xo.\d.

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Keepe and retui-n me an account from time to time of all the weapons
and arms you take ujd from the country.

I am now resolved of a course, in hope thereby to j^i^eserve the goods
that are mine and the rest of the English tenants in the Country — which
I have du^ected my to imparte to you and my couzen

Boetius Clancy and desire you (he was High Sheriff) to put the same in
execution.

Having now perused the letters of Steele, Simpson, and
Kingwell, also the testimony of Norton, the order of Stubber,
with the confession and execution of Ed. Flaherty, one need
not look with any suspicion upon the following statement which
they or others make, because they happen to appear in the
Dej)ositions :• —

John Symjpson, yeoman, swears he was robbed and forcibly
despoiled of his goods and chattels to the value of 314/. Also,
that John Steele, of Moybulgen; Johanna Steele, his wife ;
Robert Steele, his brother-in-law, were cruelly murdered by the
rebels. Jurat 16th Dec, 1642.

Nejyticne Blood, of Creggane, in the county of Clare, clerk,
sworn, saith that upon the 26th of December last, and since the
beginning of the present rebellion, he lost, was robbed, and forci-
bly despoiled of goods and chattels worth 180/., besides his spiri-
tual living, worth 140/. yearly. He also saith that about the 24th
of May last Eobert Steele and Joshua Steele, his brother, and
the said Joshua Steele's wife, were, in a most cruel and bar-
barous manner, murdered by James Casey. Likewise Margery
Owens, the wife of John Owens, of Kilfenora, yeoman, was
murdered by Teige McGilla Patrick. That Ml. Hunt, of
Moogh, in the said county, yeoman, was murdered by Simon
McGilli Patrick, Jurat, Nep. Blood.^ (699)

^ Copy of part of an old manuscript, made by H. W. Eussell, Esq.,
Bank of Ireland, Limerick, and kindly submitted to the writer :— '

" Edmond Blood was the first of the name that came over to Ireland,
and settled in Clare about the year 1590. He was a captain of cavalry, and
came with forces brought over from England by the Earl of Inchiquin.
Capt. Blood had a sonborn on the passage. The earl and another nobleman
promised to be godfathers for the child if he were named Neptune.
Accordingly he was baptized by that name, and from this circumstance
it is supposed the family crest of the Bloods of Ireland was originated,
and has been borne by the family ever since. The original arms of the
Bloods bore as a crest a stag's head with an arrow through the nostrils,
and gouts of blood falling from it. The arms of the Bloods of Ireland

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Before passing from Kilfenora district, tlie evidence of
Margery Steele maybe noted. (774.) She swears she was robbed
of goods, &c., to value 187/. She then names Conor and T.
O'Brien as having, in a most inhumane manner, murdered depo-
nent's husband, by name Hobert Steele, his brother Joshua
Steele. Also that one Edward Bedford and his wife Magaret,
Roger McNery and his wife Ann, all in the parish of Kilfenora,
turned Papists. Jurat 22 Sept., 1642.

The subject of Compulsory Conversions in the district of
Kilfenora having been introduced, it is now necessary to call
special attention to the evidence of the Beverend John Twem-
brooke, late of Tullydean, in the Parish of Disert^ (^"^2) — " was
last Christmas robbed and despoiled of goods and chattels to his
loss and damage in 348/., besides his Church living worth 200/.
per ann., cow-s, horses, mares, heiffers, turf, books, linens, woolens,
hay, corn, leases, debts. That he was robbed at night in his
house by T. O'Brien of TuUa (-Turla-) more. And that
" 1. John Loue, Thesaurus of Kilfenora,
^' 2. Patrick Lysaght of Ballywire, Chancellor of same,
^^3. Owen Nellane of Killaspuglenane (clerk),
'' 4. O'Hirley, Vicar of Glanina, and divers others,
'' 5. Eobt. Cox, clerk,
^' 6. One Mr Geoghegan, clerk,
" 7. Poobt. Hogan, clerk,
*^^ 8. Pierce Bulter, near Cashel, clerk,
^' all of them since this rebellion turned Papist as this depo-
nent is credibly informed.

Jurat 24 June, 1642/' John Tw^enbroke.

Dr. Cotton sets down Twenbrooke himself as another of the
compulsory clerical converts. Gregory Hickman, Esq., dc-

(see Heraldic- office, Ireland), a fosse gules between three mantlets sable.
The erest on a wreath of colours, a demi-l^eptune proper, crown and
trident. Motto: 'Honor, virtutis, pra^mium.' This Neptune Blood,
who was born at sea, was the fii'st Dean Neptune Blood of Kilfenora,
and his son Neptune was the second dean of the same name."— H. W. R.
The descendants of the Dean are still in Clare, occupying a high posi-
tion, and owning, with other acquisitions, some of the property origi-
nally acquired by the Dean. (See Commons Journals Ir. Par. vol. ii.

343.)

* Can this be he who took things so easily, to the great wrath of

Bishop Ryder?

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poses to the same effect of Lysaght^ also of others in Ennis and
Corrofin.

And if we look to the South of Clare, the same picture of
violence, cruelty, and expulsion is exhibited.

Maximilian Graneer (one of the Dutch settlers) swears to
losses by being forcibly despoiled of goods and chattels to
the enormous amount of 2,389/., and complains bitterly of
the ^dolence of Charles O'Cahane, and likewise Owen in
Kilballyowen. (664)

Wm. Chambers of Kilrush, British Protestant, was robbed
and forcibly despoiled of his goods and chattels, worth 1,519/.,
also his cattle, that were sent to Conard O'Brien of Bally-
macooda. He names several, all being English Protestants,
who were strijjped by the rebels. (672)

Isaac Graneer, late of Kilrush, swears to losses by robbery,
also to violence, at Dunagroge Castle. (686)

Ptob. Abraham of Kilrush, swears he was robbed and de-
spoiled by Sir D. O'Brien, Knight, of Carrigalwet.

Ann Usher of Ballinkennan, in Killymer Parish, deposes
to being robbed and at a loss to the value of 944/. in debts
and cattle.

"And after many raids upon her cattle and garrans," about
Christmas last her house was rifled and pillaged by Charley
O'Cahan of Termon. Jurat,

So Peter Belfons, or Bolton, of Kilmurr^^, Ibrickane,
swears to robbery and losses of 664/.

The central jmrts of Clare were in as wrecked a condition,
and the English and Protestants despoiled and stripped and
slain, as elsewhere.

George Waters, Merchant, British Protestant, swears he was
robbed and forcibly despoiled of goods to the value of 2,047/.

John Pring, of Lattoon, swears he was despoiled of goods
worth 1,354/. ; also Martin Trinke, Barony of Islands, is robbed
and despoiled by rebels; also Wm. Bridgman, of Coogie, is
robbed, and Haslop of Dysert, both swearing against O'Brien
of Dromore. Alex. Hill, and a son living in parish of Killowen,
swear to losses in cows, cattle, and horses forcibly taken. He
fled to Ballyala and stood the siege (Chaplin swears to his
name in list of warders). And in the direction of Tulla the

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same deeds of violence were done. Thomas Andrew, of
in the Barony of Tulloh, British Protestant, was robbed about
25 Deer, last past, of household stuffe, provision, implements of
husbandry, corn, hay, thrashed corn, books, instruments of
chirurgery, physicall drugs, pots, glasses, plate, towels, brass
and pewter to value of 146/. He also lost besides, debts due
and leases unexpired.

In the Six-mile Bridge and Banratty Districts, Francis Ham, a
poor glover, is robbed by Bory Boe. And one Boundtree, a
husbandman in Kiltoolaght, of his produce.

B. Damer, of Crattelagh, deposes to certain being '^ in open
rebellion." Several husbandmen at Anaghbeg were stripped
and robbed; also Ann Edwards, widow, was robbed and
despoiled to value of 104/. Thos. Lere, of Cool, Bunratty, is
robbed to value of 14/. 248, Teige Meale, of Anaghbeg in
Barony of Bunratty, husbandman, lost and was robbed of to
value of 44/. Likewise the McNamaras and other rebels
stripped naked the deponent and his three children, and the
children died through the extremity of the cold.

The deponent further saith that the under-named, English
and Protestants, hving at Aunaghbeg, about the same time
were robbed of all their goods and chattels by the McNamaras
and Company. The names of farmers, shoemakers, weavers,
&c., follow to the number of ten. (748)

Jurat. Geo. Meale.

Mary Canter, of Doonass, is robbed &c., of value of 50/., and
flies to Castle of Limerick.

William CuUiner, of Annacogey, in the parish of Kilm}^-
leagh (quere Kilmalerey), Barony of Bunratty, shoemaker,
British Protestant, Is robbed and despoiled to value of 132/. 85.
He further saith — (this evidence discloses horrors quite equal to
those recently charged against the Turks in Bulgaria, 788.)
He then names six lapsed Protestants. Mary Young deposes
to her losses, amount 927/., by Dom. McNemara, of Crattalough,
and Jas. vSarsfield, of Lymerick. Also to afiairs in Castle of
Lymerick during siege.

James Vande-lure (792) swears to losses in value 1,830/. lie
swears he was robbed and his goods taken by I). O'Brien, of
Dromore, Esq., McNamara of Bossroe, and McNemara of
Crattalagh; also McNamara of Ralahine. This deponent saith
that he was expelled and driven away from his dwelling house

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in Sixmile Bridge, from his water mills, and a mill for bark, a
malt house, tan yard, and many other tenements, and four
quarters of land.

The evidence of another wealthy and respectable gentleman,
Gregory Hickman, Esq., of Barntick, is now given, and sub-
stantiates the sad fact stated by Cuffe that not alone the common
sort, but the highest gentry of Clare joined in the proceedings
of 1641, &c.

Gregory Hickman, late of Barntick, in parish of Clare
Abbey, a British Protestant, was robbed of and lost to the
value of 3,672/. 7^. Sd, O'Brien, of Ball3^macooda, threshed
his corn. Rough 0' Grady drove away his cattle. Some one
else took his wool. Lilcewise his cows, bull, and gelding were
taken by Boetius Clancy. Conor O'Brien, of Lemaneigh,
Gentleman (sic), in a most rebellious manner seized upon
deponent's corn and turned the same to his own use. Likewise
Synen ny Hehir, wife of Eough Hehir, of Cahir (= McCunna),
yeoman, did about the 12th of Feby. last, accompanied with
divers of her servants, come to his house at Bally Cashin,
and took away deponent's poultry, household stuff, &c., at least
worth 10/., and one brass kettle. Then about the 12th of Feb.
last, Conor O'Brien, of Lemaneigh, accompanied with Mary
Brien (this is the celebrated Maureen Ehue), McLaughlin Oge,
McCasey, yeoman, &c., &c., with force and arms came to
deponent's house and took away 14 English swine and a parcel
of his household stuff. Likewise the said Conor O'Brien took
away 400 sheep from off his lands. His servants were either
murdered or else stripped and turned rebels. He then men-
tions several recent coiiverts, in particular Rev. P. L3^saght, of
Kilfenora diocese. Deposes also to murder of Wm. IMoore,
near Kilrush, husbandman, by Sir D. O'Brien's followers, about
Easter last, and Rich. Blagrave, of InchiCronane (quere son
of the clergyman, vide Rider's Tour), Goldsmith, and Roger a
butcher, and one Whitcombe a husbandman. These were
hanged by John O'Griffa (=Griffin) and his followers, Laughlin
Oge O'Hehir sitting by on horseback. The butcher's head
was then carried from thence to Ballyalla, and they told those
in the castle that it was Wm. Buker's head, &c., thinking
thereb}^ to turn her (the heroic Mrs. Cuffe) to the yielding up
of the castle, which notwithstanding they did not yield up.

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In his second examination he deposes that he was sent with a
cargo of old tobacco from Old Kinsale, to raise money for the
King's army, but found sales without licences made by the
fleet. He was taken prisoner over and over again, and only
got ofi* upon covenant of a cwt. w^eight of tobacco. He also
saw parties with and without protection at Bunratty come
into the tower day after day without any disturbance.

Jurat. G. Hickman.

Maurice Hickey, of E-ossmemaher, Gent., and John Hickey,
of same, husbandmen, the latter was assaulted by McNamara
in a field of wheat near Ballycarr and threatened on account of
his Master Colpoyse. The deponent saw John Shaw knocked
on the head by I). Mcfinen with the butt end of his musket,
and the said Teige McSheeda struck and stabbed him with his
skean, after a while, and in the presence of his wife, who was
summoned for the occasion. John Shaw arose from a ditch
where he was, and then he fell down of his wounds in deponent's
presence, and '^ was buried while he sturd, and had life in
him.''

Jurat. M. HicKEY.

{Castle Bank) Seige.

John Panders, late of Ballywallis, in Barony of Tulla, an
IiiiSH Protestant, on 3rd December last lost houses, leases,
debts, &c.— 336/.

Frances Rinders, his wife, sworn upon the Holy Evange-
lists, saith that the particulars of John Binders^ losses are true
as above.

She deposeth that on 1st of January, 1642, among other
English Protestants to the number of 100 (one hundred) per-
sons (men, w^omen, and children) or thereabouts fledHo Castle-
Bank, w^here they continued to the 27th day of June following,
1642 at which time the castle was delivered up into the hands
of one Dermd O'Brien, during which time the parties in the
castle, being blocked up by the enemy abroad at least for eight
wrecks and were driven towards then to feed upon horseflesh.

As also William Pidgeon, minister at Castle Bank aforesaid,
was murdered upon the castle, by whom unknown, likewise
George Morgan and Thomas Bailey, two warders (English
Protestants;, were, when half a mile from the castle, mur-
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Also during the time tliey were blocked up three young
children, one Matthew Einders, and two Ptobert Bank's his
children, assaying to go forth to gather heartes were taken by
the enemy and never found or heard of again. But the common
opinion was that they were murdered and buried or thrown into
the river and drowned.

She being further examined saith that three of her children,
as also thirty others, men, women, and children, during the
siege, through the extremity of the same, and being otherwise
starved, died in the said castle and were all in the said castle
buried.

Jurat. John Binders

Frances
Anthony Heathcote deposes to heavy losses =-3,278^., also
corroborates the Binders e\ddence of the siege of Castle Bank
and the sufferings of the besieged, also swears to the barbarous
murder of a confidential man of Earl of Thomond, while on
his Lordship's business.

Such is the evidence from authentic and contemporaneous
documents, abbreviated of necessity, concerning the affairs in
Clare from October, 1641, for the space of a year. Passing
to the eastern district of the diocese of KiUaloe, the siege
of Parsonstown is first to be noticed. The primary source of
information is a manuscript Journal of the Siege of 1642, in
the possession of the Earl of Bosse. This is used as found in
Cooke's picture of Parsonstown.

The statements of Captain Chidley Coote and others, as
taken from the depositions (F. 2, 7) will then follow, partly in
illustration of the integrity of the evidence given in the
depositions, and partly to supply any additional items likely
to prove interesting and to complete the sad narrative in all
essential details.

But first it may be well to note some antecedent particulars
connected with the settlement, the family, and the defenders.

Mr. Cooke quotes records in which the plantation of the ter-
ritory Ely 0' Carrol, together with the County Longford, by
King James I. m Id 18, is set forth. This territory containeth

of—

Arable land 10,022

Profitable wood .... 1,794

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Bog .

Unprofitable w and b
Mountain unprof.
Formerly granted .
Abbey land .
Glebe .

10,370

6,992

1,186

2,282

151

Total . . . 54,199
or of good land Total . • . 36,873

Among the undertakers to bestow the land upon in Ely
O'Carrol is found Mr. Laurence Parsons, and bis share is 1,000
acres; other planters get considerable slices too. The order
for giving bim possession dates 22nd June, 1620, and in the
letters patent, the castle and fort, village and land of Birr arc
mentioned.

Sir Laurence also made several purchases and was a great
builder and improver. He was knighted by the Lord DejDuty
St. John, and was joined with his brother. Sir "William, in the
ofiBces of Surveyor- General and Court of Wards. He was
descended from a Norfolk family and had settled as an official
in Ireland. L. Parsons had married Anne, daughter of Mr.
Malbam, of Yorkshire, and she was residing with William,
her second son, from the commencement of the outbreak until
the garrison capitulated.

It is very remarkable that the names of three ladies, viz.,
Mrs. Caffe, Lady Parsons, and Lady Offaley, are connected with
three most heroic defences of castles in this part of Ireland,
viz.. Lady Parsons, with Birr ; Mrs. Cufi'e, with Ballyalela ; and
the Lady Oifaley, with Geashil. Nor should Lady Hamilton
be forgotten, though she chose the gentle paths of charity, and
seemed to walk an angel of mercy for the relief of misery, as
shall appear.

On the 22nd Oct., 1641, upon the first news of the war, the
said William Parsons seized upon all the gunpowder in Parsons-
town, and sent to Limerick and Kilkenny to buy more, and for
some muskets. Then he raised a force of horse and foot for the
defence of Ely 0' Carroll and its borders, mustered them (140
foot and 60 horse), and marched to Shinrone as a demonstration.
Many of the inhabitants of Parsonstown swore allegiance to the

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Crown, and the people undertook to support a defence force for
a month. Then Parsons secured the castle, and made a flanker,
fortified the church, &c., and made stations of guard.

Then the garrison marched out to Castle Cufie, and took a
swivel gun, or " murdering piece, '^ also, to relieve Mr. Hodgins
and Lady Offaly at Geashill, where they shot Captain MoUoy.
Then they relieved Grolden Grove, or Knocknamease. Engage-
ments ensued on the 8th, 14th, and 23rd Feb., also on the 3rd
of March. Some polite correspondence then follows, and high
compliments to ^' your good mother," from the rebel chief. On
the 13th April a surprise was attempted, but it failed ; and on
the 30th Governor Parsons beat the MoUoys, ^'' as usual.'^ We
find this castle more closely besieged by the Irish in April, 1642.
It was reduced to such great distress during the siege, that
many died, while others maintained nature with cats and dogs,
several respectable persons giving 20-s. for a sucking colt and 2^.
for the blood and entrails of a horse, there having been 900
souls in the castle and town. (See also Lodge and Carte.)
The town was then relieved by a party of horse, after a forced
march, arriving in Birr at 12 o'clock p.m. on Easter Sunday.
The castles of Burros and Knocknamase were also succoured.

About tliis period Birr afforded an as^ium to several Pro-
testants who were harassed by the Irish.

Great indignation was kindled by the hanging of a poor
English boy in a wood.

A gallant exploit was now successfull}^ achieved in the relief
of Knockamease, in which twenty or thirty were said to have
died of starvation, and an ample supply of pro^dsions generously
given by Sir W. Parsons,

On the 15th June the Governor led out the garrison to en-
counter the CarroUs, *Svhose horse first floundered in a boo-,
and then ran away as fast as they could."

On the 15th SejDt. 1,000 of the Irish horse and foot laid close
siege all about Birr. They fired about 100 shots into the
castle, and then fired the turf.

The castle of Clonehill was next stormed ; and in two days
after the enemy assaulted Ballinderra Castle furiously, but in
vain. On the I4th January, 1643, Preston advances, and on
the 20th the place surrendered, but not until the castle was
attacked by artillery as well as undermined by sap.

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Lord CastleHaven, however, tells in his memoirs how ^' he had
the good fortune to begin his command with an action of charity/'
for going to see the garrison of Birrh, before it marched out—

I came [tie says] into a great room Tvhere many people of Quality were,
botli men and women. They with many tears so soon as they saw me,
fell on their knees desiring me to save their lives. I was astonished at
their posture and petition, and desiiing them to rise asked them what
the matter was ? They answered that from the first day of the wars,
there had been continual action and much blood shed between them and
then- Irish neighbours and little quarter on either side given. And
therefore understanding that I was an Englishman, some knowing me,
they desired that I wld take them into my protection. I doubted that
there was too much reason for theu^ fears, considering they were to
march two or three days through the woods of Iregan and waste
countreys before they came to Athy their next friends' garrison. I
went immediately to the General and desired that I might command
theii' convoy, which he granted. Then calling out 200 horse and 300 foot,
in whom I had most confidence, I marched and delivered them with
then- baggage safe. They were at least eight hundred men women and
children. (Audley and CastlcHaA^en Memoirs. London, 1680, page
23, &c.)

This slender abstract of Parsons' MSS. of the siege, as given
by Cooke, may now be followed by some extracts from Captain
Chidley Coote's depositions. This gallant gentleman was
married to Alice, daughter of Sir T. Phillips, of Co. Derry, and
was the Governor's brother-in-law. He was made captain of
the infantry.

^^ Examination 53. Chidley Coote of Eglish Esqre. He
deposes to the formation of the troop of 40 horse and of 100
foot out of the town dwellers and their own servants, and these
jooorly armed as they were, marched into the Dunn's County
17 Nov. and brought away the men and several families, with
munition arms and goods, from Castle Cuffe. On Dec. 1st, they
heard of Bryan MoUoy robbing stripping and despo3ding many
families of the poor English. The Birr garrison then surprized
him, took prisoners a prey of 2000 sheep and 100 cows and pil-
laged houses. The MoUoys then attacked in revenge Clonahella
but in vain.''

He then attempts the relief of Geashil. On the 24th Dec. he
seizes Richard Butler, of Ormond, and in the night attacks and
rifles his house and pillages his sheep and cows. Being met,
there ensued a successful skirmish in the woods. On Ash
Wednesday he fights and beats the Carrols near Cree.

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About this time Captain Errol O'Kennedy murdered five
poor women and one poor old man. (See E\ddence infra,)
Through April they had excursions, fights, and preys of cattle
and corn, in particular a barnful from A. McConnell, ^"'whereof
we distributed among the poor, languishing English, who were
at that time in very great distress."

On the 8th May Ormonde caused relief to be thrown into
Birr, Burros, and Knocknaamease, now Golden Grove, by a large
body of horse.

On the 24th May intelligence came of ^^ the necessity in
which the poor English were in in Knockamease ; and that
having eaten up all the horses, dogs, and cowhides, they were
enforced to eat the very carcases of the rebels slain by them ;
and others of them to hang up their own children till they
were dead, and eat them; and others to eat the small morsels
of bread their husbands had, and to feed their husbands with
the milk of their breasts."

1st June they attempted a relief with 40 horse and no foot,
but obstacles on the road forced them to return ; but with
20 foot added they attempted the second time, though with
long fights, great difficulty, and danger, yet they made a
way on the rebels' works with shovels and spades, and
wattles and thatch, and, with the power of God, put into
the house of Knocknamease three months' provisions for all the
fighting men thereof, and all with the loss of but one man,
killing some score of the rebels, our men having fired upon
them very fiercely and roundly. Some six hours before they
were so, by God's assistance, relieved, Koger O'More, with
the O'Maughers, the O'Carrols, &c., to the number of 500 or
600 horse and foot, had surrounded the place very strictly,
engaging quarter. But the poor English, by woeful experience
finding the brutishness and perfidiousness of the rebels'^ refused
their cruel advice; at which the rebels went laughing away,
asking them whether or no they expected the relief would
come down to them from heaven, for they were well assured
there was no way for man to relieve them.

In July, August, and September were more sallies made
and preys taken.

The references to the siege of Birr, and the correspondence
between Lord Clarickarde and Mr. Parsons, are to be found
in Clanrickarde's Memoirs, Folio edition.

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In page 5. — His Lordship's advice.

,, 8. — Parsons' thanks for same.

„ 28.— Has not a barrel of powder to spare. Dec.

„ 29. — Parsons' thanks for offers of help.

,j 38. — Declines to relieve Lady Offaley in Geashill
Dec. 16.
In Sept., 16 4*2, the Marquis of Clanrickarde writes (Mems.

p. 263) : — " I reed this month several letters from ,

from Mr. Wm. Parsons, and Captain Chidley Coote, full of
thanks and acknowledgments of my care of them, and sup-
plying of them with all things in my power, and privately
persuading others to relieve them. Mr. Parsons was served
with salt and cattle from others."

About the 11th of September some few of the poor English
of Knocknamease stole unto them at Birr and brought them a
message desiring a second relief. This they could not do, yet
they hazarded them a small convoy of 25, who got into the
Castle in the most private manner in the night. About the
15th of September they forsook the house, it being very dark.
Some five or six of the weaker ones lagging behind were over-
taken and slain. Through the rest of September there were
some very severe engagements and arduous efforts, and on the
24th of October, after a long and lying palaver, "they raised
the siege and went away,'^ which they of Birr next morning
perceiving, could not but much rejoice, in regard that their
extreme necessity and want of victuals was such that during
the time of restraint, as their poor townspeople, both men,
women, and children, were most pitifully hunger-starved,
having eaten up all the dogs and horses of the town. Some
few horses of service except, and many of them were forced to
eat sheepskins, cowhides, and tallow. And many who starved
at the siege would have been glad to have eaten hay or stubble,
if by that means they could have kept life. But very many
who formerly lived in good esteem and condition were contented
rather patiently to endure by famine, than to beg mercy of the
rebel Papists, or relief from their idoll-gods (sic). Though
some of weaker kind of temper would during this siege-time
fly unto them for mercy, desiring their pardon in a most sub-
missive manner, if in anything they had done amiss, preferring
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their lives, if they would put them to serve them and give
them relief. But the most pitiful answers they could obtain
were stripes and taunts, and strictest commands to go to Birr
and pray to the Puritan gods for relief and to their gods of
the Birr, assuring them that if ever they should durst to come
unto them again they would kill them, though for this time
they were content to let them go back again amongst the
English dogs and sowes, and there starve before their e^'CS to
their grief and vexation. And meanwhile, until 13th January,
the Garrison made wider circuits with their horsemen, and drove
great preys in every direction, of cows, sheep, horses, swine,
and corn. Then came Colonel Preston, Titular- General of
Leinster, Lord CastleHaven, and with considerable bodies of
horse and foot.

14th January. — The rebels ^droned the grounds about the
Castle to make their approaches, and that day was both a busy
and troublesome day unto deponents and rest in the Castle.
Such was the flocking in of all the poor widows and orphans
from the town into the Castle, of the poor town dwellers, and
the poor women and children that were now turned out of the
country unto them, out of an intent to starve them out the
sooner, whose husbands and children were cruelly murdered by
the rebels of the O'Molloy's country and Ely O'Carrol. And
the numbers of them being at the fewest 300 or 400 that came
in naked upon them without all manners of relief, but what the
Almighty made them the ministrants of gaining them by the
sword, did much annoy, trouble, and anger them. Soon the
Castle is more closely besieged and the lines of approach drawn,
but the shot of the defenders "gawled" (sic) them so that they
desisted from digging in the rocky soil any longer that day.
Then a demi-culverin was directed against the Castle, which was
replied to with pistol shot, square shot, and musket shot. And
the besieged shot both their canoneers with the pistol shot.
And although neither of them was killed dead, yet there was
not such a supply of canoneers as any longer to trouble the
Castle with their ordinance. About the 18th of January a
most brilliant aflair took place at a stone mill, which 200 or
300 of the enemy attacked, and it was successfully defended,
and the rebels fearfully beaten oft' and '^ gawled " by a guard of
six musketeers, yet about the break of day they came on again,

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with every man a fagot of straw or dry wood fagot with them.
And every man casting down his fagot near one end of the
mill, they grew to such a heap that they touched the shingle-
eaves of the mill, and then putting fire to the heap, the roof
took fire, and was suddenly all on a flame, which the rebels
perceiving, asked the besieged whether they would take quarter.
But they returned them no answer hut what their muskets gave
them. But some shot or other were faine to beat down the
shingles from the side, and two (of the defenders) did so bestir
themselves, so that what with the fire and what with their
halberts, the whole roof was almost without any shingles, and
the poor men were left destitute of every other roof but that of
the heavens to cover them. But so glad were they that their
imminent danger of burning was over as (that) they called on
the rebels to ''fall on again for shame J^ But it seemeth at that
time they had not any mind so to do, and it was well they had
not, for our powder was all spent to some dozen shot, which
the Deponent supposeth was the reason which put the men to
set so good faces on the matter, that thereby they might inti-
midate the rebels the more. And although the distance of the
mill was not over a musket shot from the Castle, yet were all
the besieged so surrounded that they could not know whether
the men were dead or alive Then they came to a feigned
parley with Preston on a matter of cows, which angered him
much. Meanwhile, the six brave fellows crept under the mill-
dam and escaped with their arms.

On the 18th January mining was tried, under guidance of a
mason who was at the building of the Castle. The mouth of
their mine was not four yards distant from the foundation of
the walls on the west side of the Castle. The besieged heariog
their sapping, bestirred themselves with shooting, and with
casting and rolling great stones toward the bank on them,
which did much annoy them, and many of them fell through
right. But at last the night grew so dark that they were faine
to hang on the wall two and three links, long lanthornes, and
to cast straw on the walls, and firebrands to give the better
light, which helped them very much to hit the bodies of these
men, and so annoy their sap.

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break of day under ground, and for aught they knew, under
the very walls, which the besieged perceiving, and knowing
how impossible it was for them to hold out, having had in four-
teen months no more than one cwt. (small weight) of powder
out of his Majesty's store, — all that time enforced to fight for
only the bit they put in their mouths, and seeing no hope of
relief. They thought good rather to surrender the Castle than
assuredly to lose all their lives, certainly knowing that the
passages between them and their armies were so well manned
by the rebels, as it were not to be thought the Lords Justices
and Council would run the hazard of finding out a way from
Dublin unto them, the distance between 50 and 60 miles, to
make through not only the bodies of men, but through men
strengthened and encouraged to fight by the natural and arti-
ficial strength of paths, fords, rivers, and strong outworks.

Moreover, moved by the seditious cries of poor women and
children ready to starve — their cattle, by which they must
subsist and live, eating the manes and tails of one another for
M^ant of fodder, — their men, not in number above fifty for the
defence of the whole Castle, killed almost, what for want of
sleep, and what with cold, which they took often, — rushing
through the dirty court to answer alarums, which was made so
noisome by the treading of the cattle, that each step a man
took he sunk to the very knees in mud and filth, — the besieged,
therefore, duly considering all the forementioned reasons and
respects, about the 19th of January, at the fall of the night,
sent to Preston and desired to have a parley. This took place,
the usual pro^dso anent the commission from the King being
at once presented and denied.

The General Preston allowed to the Governor and the
Deponent himself that they should have liberty to march away
with a competent number of arms, with their horse and foot
with half their plate and money, all their clothes ; but for the
rest, they should only march away with their wearing clothes,
half their money, and as much provision as would carry them
away to Dublin. Then the next day we surrendered the Castle,
20th January— very sorry to part with it on those terms, which
they should not have done had they been able to have main-
tained it. (For all his Jesuitical professions of his Majesty's

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commission.) But much more sorry to see Ms gracious Majesty
so impiously belied and illused.

Jurat 11 Apl. 1643. Chidley Coote.

Coram Jno, Wilson,
Wm. Aldrish,
Hen. Brereton.

Capt. Coote does not approve of these terms, but it seems es-
tablished, from the researches of Mr. Cooke, that there were
secret reasons, in consideration of which the besieged got off far
better than they could have expected. These relate to secret
articles, under which Parsons should undertake his best endea-
vours, " with the Lord Justice and Council, that they will
discharge the bodies of Nicholas Egan and Katherine Preston
his wife, with her sister — a religious woman — the hopes of which
enlargement hath encouraged his Lordship to give me so fair
and honourable quarter."

Wm. Parsons.
Exam. No. 41.

I. Ptobert S. Hopley, clerk, Yicar of Parsonstown and Rector
of Kinnity,
11. Thomas Mitchell of Birr, Schoolmaster of the Free
School there,

III. George Walker of the same, clothier,

IV. Laurence Maltham of the same, gentleman,
being duly sworn and examined, deposed —

That they have known and seen 4 Camps — viz., of Molloys,
Coghlans, Carrols, and the Ormond— 500 or 600 at a time, and
sometimes 1000. They also have credibly heard and known that
the Camp of the Molloys did in Christmas, 16 11, traitorously kill
and murder near Dowrass Capt. Kobt. Smith ; Johnson, clerk ;
Kobert Banth (? Bennett), clerk; Thomas Holmfield, Esq.,
Eobert Hall, John Johnson, Thomas Torvey.

They have also known and seen seven poor women killed by
the Ormond Camp as they were going to get some corno for their
relief, and divers poor were killed in time of harvest almost

daily.

They have also known and seen the firing of Clonagall Castle
by the greatest of the Camps of the Molloys, O'Coghlans, Car-
rols—where three or four of that garrison were then and there

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burned to death, \iz., one Harrison with his wife and son, and
one other man. The same day, &c., they assaulted the Castle of
Ballinderry.

Hopley was despoyled of 1,160/. and value of his Church
living.

Mich ell 253/. goods. Employ 20/. per annum.

Walker was robbed of 1,279/., also his estate and chattels.

Eichard Taylor of the Birr, shoemaker, deposes to a horrible
transaction in which Mary Nelson, a Scottish Protestant at
Croghan, near Birr, was concerned, and lost her life — and
Ellen Palmer, Mary Taylor, and four more. The details of
their slaughter and exposure are reserved. And then Mr.
Parsons made such means that they were sent for and carried
to Birr in cars, where they were all buried in the Deponent's
grave. Deponent also swears to other murders — too disgusting
to detail.

56. Ealph Walmsley deposes to robberies near Birr and
Portumna, also to murders witnessed and to something about
a Friar's conduct. He also gives evidence of slaughter of
Mrs. R. "Ward — and of one Wm. Peed, an Englishman, being
turned Papist near Glass House. Two of the rebels came to
his house, where they feasted themselves all night. Next
morning they took him off towards the Camp at Eglish, but
in the way at Boltonacrush, these wicked villains killed and
slew him and then bragged of the fact, and having brought
with them his bloody shirt they forced deponent's maid servant
to wash the same. His name was P. O'Coolly. The witness
recites the awful act of cannibalism in Knocknamease Castle
as given by Coote, and he names parties then living in
Portumna who were in the Castle when these things were done
before their eyes.

Richard Williamson of Birr deposes to having encountered a
Devilish Virago, the wife of Pierce Butler of Ormond, who
being present at the capture of an old Englishman, a boy and
five British women, commanded the soldiers to take their spears
to wound and martyr those women in a horrible manner.
And one of those five women, Mary Nelson, beino- assaulted
by two rebel soldiers disarmed one of them of his pike and
threw down the other on the ground and kept him there (! !),
but in a cowardly and treacherous way had her back broken by

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a butcher, her next door neighbour, and then she falling down,
these rebels gave her thirty-seven wounds, so that she instantly
died. Jurat.

Anthony Stockdales loses 760/.

Edward Walsh gives an exact and full inventory of his losses
in stock, crops, utensils, &c., 1,302/., and then adds the following
most graphic description of an unwelcome interruption of his
supper.

On the 7th of December, at supper-time, T. Rush and G.
Cavenagh and nineteen others, with swords and skeans, came up
to this deponent, and Rush, putting his sword to his breast,
bade him deliver up the castle to the Pope's Holiness, but this
deponent thought he jested, till several other swords likewise
were presented at his breast. And E-. Fitzgerald, taking his
petronell, ready cocked, presented the same also to the
deponent's breast, saying (when this deponent offered to draw
his sword) that it was in vain for him to strive against so many,
and so disarmed him, and took from him his sword and dagger,
with eight guns, powder, &c., alledging that there was an
excommunication from the chief of their Church against any of
his religion that would not do the likes, and that if he had not
done so, some of his neighbours would have had his own head.

Henry Bolton, of Culfin (quere : CuUenwaine), deposes to
losses — was beleaguered in Birr for fourteen months — till the
most of the poor Protestant Christians were so miserably dis-
tressed for want of food that many of them died for want. And
others eating cats and dogs — and many of good fashion formerly,
gave 20s, for a sucking colt, and 2^. for the blood and entrails
of a horse, at that time there being 900 souls, men, women, and
children, in the castle and town of Birr, beset with the rebels.

Jurat.

Henry Skelton (ex. 10) deposes to storming of Kinnitty, and

a horrible graveyard scene.

We close this sad narrative of 1641, &c., in that part of the
Diocese of Killaloe which is in King's County, merely remarking
that the evidence of Parsons and Coote are beyond all cavil, and
that so far from our pressing from these into an undue
prominence all the most tragic details and ghastly items, our
abstract looks tame and weak beside the originals. We now

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leave this locality with the evidence of the Rev. Marmaduke
Clapham, Yicar of Synerone : —

" A preacher, a man of good life and conversation," inducted
into Shinroan 1619. "The cure served by himself." (See
Bishop Eider, supra.) The evidence of a man thus li^dng before
the world for twenty years and more, sustaining, as would
appear^ the character which his sagacious Bishop solemnly gave
him in a State paper, must be regarded with very particular
attention and respect.

He, being duly sworn, deposeth that he lost in moneys,
household stulf, provisions, goods, cattle and chattels at his farm
of Darrymore, and the yearly profit of the same, together with
his Church means in Synroane, amounting in all to about
1,000/., in manner and form following. About December last,
one D. M^Coughlan, of Leddane, with his other confederates, as
yet unknown, seized upon his cattle, horses, mares, sheep, and
broke up his house.

About the same time, deponent fearing the rimiours of
rebellion, caused his servants with his garrans to draw away his
household stuffe to Tomane, to one Fra Merhope Esqrs. house,
which, when Owen Oge McGilfoyle (heard), he desired the
deponent that he would be pleased to come to his castle with
his goods, pretending that rather than the deponent should
suffer any hurt, he would spend his heart's blood. But as soon
as he had gotten the same into his castle, his wife told the
deponent^s wife that her husband nor she durst keep the
deponent and his son-in-law, because they were ministers.
Whereupon the same night the deponent and his two sons and
daughters (left), intending for Waterford and so into England.
At Castletown, four miles from Sinroane,at oneMahon Kellane's,
they were assaulted in their body, robbed, and stripped of money,
plate, apparel, and six horses and saddles, by three cousin-germans
of the said McGuilfoyle, sons xDf one Daniel K. O'Carrol, accom-
panied by thirty men armed with spears, skeyns, and sw^ords drawn.
And they wounded the deponent, retui^ned to go to McGuilfoyle,
who had the custody of the rest of the deponent's goods, who that
night received them. But the next day McGuilfoyle, by force
and arms, thrust out of his castle and town the deponent^ his
wife, and children ; and as soon as they departed, the said
McGuilfoyle broke open the lock of deponent's chest and trunk

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and took away all that were in them, and cast them out the
castle empty, and likewise the household stuff and other
provision. Likewise he had his servants killed, thirty sows,
oxen and cows of the deponent, and broke up and pillaged all
his houses. Whereupon John O'CarroU, of Clonlisk, Esq., sent
for the deponent and his wife and children, and promised that
for his old acquaintance and good neighbourhood he would kee|)
them one year, averring the same with many asseverations, for
which the deponent was to give him four ricks of corn. But
within one week the said John 0' Carrol told deponent that he
would keep him no longer for fear the country should rob him
of his cattle for hatred of the deponent. Yet he undertook to
the deponent that if he would assign over unto him his estate
whensoever he could get it, upon that condition and no other,
he would send a convoy to see him, his wife and children, safe
conducted to Dublin ; otherwise he said it was impossible for
them to escape killing. "Whereupon, to save their lives, the
deponent made over his estate to John Carroll in writing. But
the convoy ran away, and forsook the deponent after ten miles
travelling. Whereupon, immediately after they were stripped
naked, and had forthwith perished but that out of Christian
charity deponent was relieved by Sir Robert Pigot and Sir
William Culbert (?)

Jurat April 13, 1642.

Idem, iterum Jurat.

'' The rebels threatened that if he or his wife stayed longer in
a tenant's house of his, where they were sheltered, they should
have their throats cut or the house burned over their heads.
They threatened also to hang his servants when they came to
him. Neither would they suffer their servants to guard him
or his wife in their travels. For, though they were stripped
naked in terrible winter weather, and in that i^itiful plight,
peril of life, misery, danger, yet they could not travel above
three miles a day, so constantly did every company run upon
and assault. Those being armed with skeynes, and swords
drawn, darts, pikes, and peeces, shaking, hallooing, pulling and
beating them sometimes, as if they had been dogs, with igno-
minious treatment not to be related— and amongst other railings
calling them Puritan rogues, English dogs, rascals, and the
like.

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^^They said they would hang Mr. Wm. Parker (?) and Capt.
M. Peiseley on their own gates — and that they detested the
ground whereon an EngKsh Protestant did tread, and whatso-
ever in any sort might have relation to them. And thereupon
they have made such havoc upon their cattle and sheep, killing
the lean and young breed as well as the fat and hogs, in such
multitude that for want of salt much was corrupted and lost.
And the very dogs that were of English breed they killed, so
transported they were with an and inveterate

malice to extirpate the very memory of our nation.

*^ That their men and women, which formerly used the Eng-
lish habit — as bands, ruffs, hats, cloaks, gowns, breeches, &c.
— now wear kerchiefs, mantles, trowsers and all Irish habit. In-
somuch as forty years' improvement is destroyed by these
miscreants in one half year.

" Further, the}^ said they did resolve to banish and kill all the
English, and so it was resolved among them to have the king-
dom and land for themselves, and that it should never continue
(or, contain) the two religions of Roman Catholique and Pro-
testants any longer hereafter. And that we should quit the
kingdom or they. And that this was the resolution concluded
upon by their grand ones. That a million of men were up in
arms ; and 900 Priests, Titular BishojDS, and Friars in O'N'eille's
army, who were richly attired, — adorned with Trinkets, Bulls,
pardons, Agnus Deis, Scapulars, &c., and that we should
surrender completely and (peld) for
And when about Easter last, albeit
honest families of English, men, women, and children, who had
lived formerly in commendable fashion, keeping good hospitality
to strangers, their neighbours and the poor — have perished and
died in the deluge of destruction, first being robbed and stripped
and turned out of their estates, houses, and (deprived of) gar-
ments in frost, snow, hail, wind in the depth of \\anter, and so
killed with grievous hunger and cold — yet because it pleased
God that some by his providence had escaped, the Rebels said
that they were sorry, that when they stripped the^^ did not kill
them, and but that they thought cold and famine would have
despatched them all, they would have done it. For it was not
of any pity but of malice to put the English to more pain by a

effecting their design.
thousands of good and

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lingering languishing death that they spared at that time their
lives/' Marmaduke Clapham.

The Depositions concerning murders and robberies done in
CO. Tipperary are found in vol. numbered F., 2 — 14.

Magdalen Eedfern's evidence (No. 98) relates that ^^ some of
the rebels were more pitiful than the rest." "What the rest
were to her she has related, and it is recorded in Temple's narra-
tive. So we pass it by.

The evidence (No. Ill) of Jane, the wife of Eobert Baxter,
'' late Preacher of the word of God at Clonmacnosh (Clonmac-
noise) in the King's Coy, sworn abt 20 Deer 1641, the Depts hus-
band and she were robbed, deprived of and lost their goods,
chattels, means worth £100 stg. And that her husband and
Captn B. Smyth and 20 more of his soldiers were slain by the
rebels in a skirmish near Tirrinelough."

Ml. Caxton (page 1130) " Depth that he heard ih.Q cause
assigned of inducing the country to rise was because no English
garrison should be placed there " — in Ely 0' Carrol — '' at any
future time." What folly it was that such was not there already,
and with a chain of communications stretching thence through
the best towns to Dublin as the grand basis of operations.

(F.^ 2—14.) ''Dionis Garforth (elk) Prebendary . of the
Church of Lockine in the Diocese of Killaloe and Coy of Tipy
lost £604 and profits of living £220. Was dcspoyled by
Ri Butler of Turloughduffe and McDaniel his servant, by McEgan
of B orris, John Grace Esqrc of Ballinamonin, Philip Roe,
yeoman. But one of his children was left behind when he fled
to Birr, and he could by no means regain him. Jurat, Denis
Gakforth."

Thomas Meredith, Catherine Thomas, Robert Langdon,
Thomas Turner, and John Fox, all of the parish of Kilmore, in
Upper Ormond, depose to losses, plunderings, despoilings, &c.

Lydia, relict of John Colquite, late of Castletown, county of
Tipper ary, gentleman, sworn, saith that since the beginning of
the late rebellion she was robbed and lost to the value of 316/.,
chiefly by George Carter, of Knockandurrusk, an agent in the
silver mines for Sir Basil Brooke, Knight. This Carter they
trusted with the most of their goods when before the rebellion
they came to Castletown. And after the said George Carter

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turned rebel, and yet (as she hath credibly heard) being an
Englishman, was at length murdered by the rebels in that
county (! !) And she hath also been told by Sir Thomas Mere-
dyth that divers of the English workmen at the silver mines,
that were indebted to her husband and her, were cruelly mur-
dered by the rebels and thrown into the lime-pits. Jurat.

414. Ann, the late wife (sic) of John Sherring, of silver-
works of the county Tipperary, aged about 25 years, sworn,
that about Candlemas was two years, the said John Sherring,
her then husband, going from his farm, which he held from
one John Kennedy, Esq., near to the silver-works, one Hugh
Kennedy, and the brother of the said John, and several rebels,
together with a great multitude of Irish rebels (soldiers), then
and there forcibly assaulted and set on her said husband,
and upon John Eurke McLoughlin, and eighteen more Eng-
lish Protestants, and about ten women^ and upon four children
in their compan}^, and then and there, first with stones,
poleaxes, skeanes, swords, pikes, and other weapons, most
barbarously massacred and murdered her husband and all the
other Protestant men, women, and children. In the time of which
massacre a most loud and fearful noise and storm of thunder,
lightning, wind, hailstones, and rain began ; the time being
on a Sabbath-day, about one hour before night, the former part
of that day being very fair; but that thunder, lightning,
and tempest happening suddenly, soon after the massacre
was begun, ofFrighted much and terrified the deponent
and many others; inasmuch as some of those murderers
themselves confessed it to be a sign of God's anger and
threatening of them for such their cruelty. Yet it deterred
them not, but they persisted in their bloody act until they
had murdered those said English Protestants, and had hacked,
hewed, slashed, stabbed, and so massacred them that raan}^
of them were cut all to pieces. And her husband, for his
part, had thirty grievous wounds then and there given unto
him near his heart, ten mortal wounds in his head, three in
his belly, and in either arm four, and the rest in his thi^^is,
legs, back, and neck. And that murder done, those bar-
barous rebels tyed withes about their necks, and drew them out
of the refining mines where they slew them, into a deep hole
formerly made, one upon another, so that none of those men,

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women, or children escaped them ; howbeit one Thomas Eadell,
a Scottish man, and one Thomas Collop, who then and there
endured and had many grievous wounds, and being left on the
ground for dead, crawled up after the rebels were gone away,
and with much difficulty escaped with their lives. And depo-
nent further saith, that such was God's judgment upon the
said Hugh Kennedy for that bloody fact, that he fell into a
most desperate madness and distraction, and could not rest day
nor night ; yet, coveting to do more mischief vipon the English,
but being prevented and denied to do it, he, about a week after,
drowned himself in the next river to the silver-works. But
his barbarous and wicked soldiers went on with their wicked-
ness, and bragged how they had killed a minister and his wife
and children near to the city of Lymerick. And this deponent
is too well assured that these or other Irish rebels in that part
of the county exercised and committed a great number of
bloody murders, robberies, and outrages against the persons
and goods of the Protestants, so as very few escaped with their
lives, and none at all saved their goods. And further saith,
that all the Popish gentry in the county thereabouts, especially
all those of the septs and names of the O'Brians, Coghlans, and
the Kennedys, were all acting in the present rebellion against
His Majesty, and otherwise acted, assisted, incited, or consented
to all the murders, robberies, cruelties, and rebellious acts afore-
said. And she further saith, that by means of the aforesaid
rebellion herself and husband were deprived, about Candlemas,
1641, of their cattle, household stuffs, corn, malt, provisions,
c%c., &c., to 160/. And that the said John Kennedy was the
man who so deprived and robbed them, and the other rebels
stripped her stark naked. Jurat coram H. Jones, H. Burton,
30th Sept., 1643.

William Timmes (416), of Belltaine in Owney, gives a most
graphic statement of his hairbreadth escapes and wondrous
deliverances. He first relates how he joined with his Irish
neighbours, who were gentry, to stand loyal together ; and how
they sent him to Lymerick to procure powder ; also, how on his
return with 141b. of it he met the despoyled English miners
who escaped from the silver-works ; how they dissuaded him
from going on ; how he did so, and by firing his fowling-piece
into a band of co. Clare men, got a way for himself made,

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and galloioed to the top of a hill, and thence back to Lymerick.
He tells how he attempted to induce the wife of one of the
Irish gentry, by a ring, to befriend his wife and save his goods ;
and how at last they (the Irish) earnestly persuaded deponent's
wife to come to Lymerick to him, and to prevail with him to
return unto them with his arms and ammunition, and withal to
become a Roman Catholic, and then he should have all his estate
and means, and live quietly amongst them, and have what com-
mand he pleased among them — i.e. the Irish — using, as depo-
nent's wife protested unto him, more than ordinary promises
and fair shews to draw him and his arms and ammunition
thither. Howbeit (as it seemeth) because they would be
sure to strip the deponent's wife of all that she had, they
persuaded her to go in brogues and a mantle, like a
meer Irishwoman (for her more safety in the way), and so
leave all her clothes with them, which she more for fear than
by their persuasions consented unto. She came away in a
mantle and brogues, and so filthily disguised, that when he
saw her he scarcely knew her. But when she had acquainted
him of their promises and desires, and that he returned them
a resolute answer, that he would neither be of their religion —
come unto them — nor trust them an}^ more — then they stripped
deponent's children of their own clothes and sent them in rags
or poor Irish habits unto him and their mother at Lymerick
aforesaid.

Timmes then swears that a plot was made to seize and carry him
off in ^^ cottes" (or Shannon skiffs), to be useful to the rebels in the
art of making of gunpowder. And then he tells how D. Fanning
(Mayor of Limerick) acted, " whereupon the deponent suddenly
fled to the castle," where he remained as a volunteer for the
defence of that castle from that time vmtil about Midsummer
then next following. \Yhich castle being for about seven weeks
beseiged by the rebel General Barry, of Barry's county, and bv
the said Mayor, Mr. Fanning, who (treacherousl}- and contrary
to the minds of many in the city) let the said General Barry
into the city, and by Stephen Purcell, and by Serjeant-ilajor
McNemara, of the County Clare, kindsman of the Earl of
Tomond, and by divers other Papistical rebels.

There died of English and other Protestants mthin the said
castle within the time and by occasion and straitness of the

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seige, and by want of necessaries, about three hundred of the
same, by 14, 15, or 16^ in a night. So that they were forced
to bury them by 8 or more of them together in one grave,
which with their wants among the living and a continued
mortality, pestered (sic) and weakened the sur^dvors so, that
afterwards they were enforced to surrender it to the rebels.

Then he describes scenes of mining and countermining the
castle, also of the taking of two pieces of their ordnance. And
yet (he adds) such was the assistance of God that in one of
these countermines which the deponent and the rest drove
against them, that they killed one Father White, a notable
priest or friar, and about 7 or 8 more of the rebels. In and
about which operations, the deponent was almost choked and
smothered with the very powder of the pistols he discharged
against them. Howbeit so many and strong were the assailants
and the defenders so weak, that they were necessitated to yield
it upon quarter, to part away with bag and baggage, and to
leave all their arms and ammunition to the rebels. (Timmes
does not mention Bishop Jones, of Killaloe, in the castle, nor
does he seem alluded to in the other depositions. Doubtless
he escaped to Dublin by sea as fast as he could.)

Then Timmes relates how he and as many as pleased were
conveyed by water to Cork by Captain Constable, an English-
man, who long endeavoured to stay in the river to protect the
castle, but could not. Howbeit, in his attempts to relieve
it, his ship received several shots through and through, and lost
its main anchor, and endured much loss and danger besides.

Arrived at Cork, Timmes took arms and fought against the
rebels.

The evidence of Timmes as to the affair at the silver-mines
is notable : —

He deposes that divers of the English miners had fled from
tlie silver-works to Ballycahil Castle, belonging to Sir T.
]\[eredyth, two miles from the mines, and also carried tlieir
goods thither ; where, after they had continued for a few
weeks, John Kennedy and others j^ersuaded them to give it
up, and go and live at the mines again and work there, pro-
mising that none should hurt or pillage them of anything.
Whereupon these poor credulous people returned with wives,
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not long continued there, but that one Hugh Kennedy, brother
to the said John, John Glissane, E. O'Kennedy, T. Brane
(servant), Donell Glissan, called '' Great DonneU,'' John, and
two or three more O'Kennedys, Hugh O'Coghie, ^' a most
cunning and bloody \illain,'^ (sic) being all armed with
pistols, skenes, hatchets, swords, and other weapons, came all
together on a Sabbath-day at Candlemas, 1641, suddenly and
rebelliously into the refining house of said mines, and then and
there in several rooms and places, near — (he then tells the
slaughter and details the names of the Protestants slain, also
mentions the thunderstorm). He then proceeds to narrate that
^' Presently, after the murder aforsaid, Margaret, the wife of
Philip O'Kennedy, of Coolene, Co. Tip., Gentleman, Margaret,
the mfe of the Gi^eat Daniel Gleeson, and the wife of B.ory
Kennedy, with some other women belonging to the murderers,
came and — (this act of these ladies is not fit for publication.
Suffice it to say that the Bashi Bazooks or other most brutal
of the Turkish oppressors of the Bulgarians were never charged
with anything equal in its atrocity to what was here done),
and so left the bodies unburied where they lay until they
were buried in a watery ditch — save two.'^ He then tells of
the marvellous escape of CoUopy, after being wounded in
several places and left for dead. Also how Ladeley had " 36
wounds and escaped with his life by the good succour and
help of Sir Alexander Hamilton, Knight, and the Honble.
Georg(ina) Humbleton, Lady, sister to the most Honble. James,
Lord Marquis of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant-General of Ireland.
And so did the said Collopy and his wife (cherished, cured, and
recovered by the said Plonble. Lady), yet being afterwards
stripped naked as she went towards Limerick, b}^ the other
rebels, quickly afterwards died."

Deponent then mentions how " there ciime some directions
from the supreme Council (Kilkenny) to John Kennedy to
apprehend and bring to prison the persons of all those that
joined the murders aforesaid (page 431, suh fin.), whereupon
the said John Kenned}^ did apprehend and convey to prison all
the known murderers (saving his brother Hugh, who aforetime
had drowned himself), and the said Hugh O'Cohey, who was ser-
vant to himself, which Cohey to prevent some confession and
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said Coliey for the acting of more miscliief, the Deponent can-
not tell. He the said Jno Kennedy suffered him to go away
and stay until the danger was over amongst a wicked company
of Priests or Friars. But when the other parties were so appre-
hended and imprisoned for some time, and strictly questioned
for the fact, then they were either suffered to escape or set at
liberty, and so came home again/'

Deponent, after affairs connected with Limerick, tells how
John Kennedy's castle was struck by a thunderbolt, " or
whatever else it pleased God, and severely injured, also a rick
was carried away into the valley to the admiration of all, but
the said John Kennedy shewed no sign of repentance.'^

Finally, Timmes says that he does not relate cruelties and
murders by hearsay, but only those he saw with his own eyes.
His losses amounted to 1,290/.

Jurat 6 May Coram Henry Clogher.

1645. Henry Bunton.

Page 406. John Powell, of the Mines, silver refiner, gives
harrowing details of the scene in the refining-room, especially
the murder of Mrs. Clarke's baby by the master, Hugh
Kennedy, who seems quite of the type of Nana Sahib. He also
adds a word of praise in memory of Lady Hamilton, sister of
the Lord Lieut.-General, " by whom not only they but many
other of the distressed English met with ample rehef, who other-
wise would have perished."

He adds that Kandal Bigford and wife, now servant to Lord
Clanrickarde, were present, and eye-witnesses; also Eobert
Kichardson. " And one John Tymmes and his wife, who now
live in St. Patrick Street, Dubhn, were present and know of the
same and gave relation thereof to the Deponent and one Wm.

Lome."

Cornelia Fleming (1946), relict of James Flemmg, of near
silver-mines. She and her husband were robbed and despoiled
by their landlord Darby Mulryan, Esq., of Garrane, gentle-
man (!) Then they fled to Limerick Castle. Her husband, ex-
posing himself on the walls, was shot in the side, and, after a
miserable languishing, died, having also fallen down. Then
two of licr children died, " of famine merely.'^ Then she and
another escaped to Dublin after the surrender, " where they
remained in great misery, from whence (the great God dehvering

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them) they have been forced into England to seek relief. She
saith that her father was robbed of a very fair and comfortable
estate. And four of his sons taking arms against the rebels
were all slain, being first robbed of all. Jurat, C. Fleming.''

I think (writes T. Carlyle) a certain terrible fact, which tlie Irish
Imaginaiion 'pretends to treat sometwies as <x chhnera, might profitably
retnm and reassert itself there. The Massacre of 1641 was not, we will
believe, premeditated by the leaders of the Eebelhon. But it is an aivfid
truth, vjritt en in sun-dear evidence^ thai it did happen ; and the noble-
minded among the men of Ireland are called to admit it, and to mourn
for it, and to leam from it ! To the ear of History those " ghosts " still
shriek from the Bridge of Portadown, if not now for jnst vengeance on
their murderers, yet for pity on them, for hon-or at them. And no just
man, whatever his new feelings may be, but will share more or less the
Lord-Lieutenant Cromweirs old feelings on that matter. It must not be
denied, it requires to be admitted. As an act of blind, hysterical fnr}-,
rery blind and weak and mad, and at once quite miserable and quite
detestable, it remains on the face of Irish History, and will have to
remain till Ireland cease, much more generally than it has yet done, to
mistake loud bluster for inspu^ed wisdom, and spasmodic frenzy for
strength — till, let us say, Ireland do an erinal a^t of magnanimous for-
bearance of valour in the silent kind. Of which also we have by no
means lost hope. — Part V. Letters of Cromwell, by T. Carlyle, ano. I60O.

Turning from the massacre of 1641, ^^ that barbarous a)id
unparalleled rebellion in which the Protestant religion received an
inexpressible bloio'^ (Harris's Ware, page 109), we must take
another glance at the Diocese as the scene of some affairs of
stirring interest. D. O'Brien, in his petition already cited,
sets forth how much he suffered since the taking of Lpnerick
by the heavy monthly contribution, so that he was well-nigh
beggared. One of the McNamaras — he of Crevah — was the
Treasurer of this fund. Carte mentions the arrival of Lord
Forbes in the Bay of Galway with a fleet fitted out by the
London Adventurers. As soon as he got into the Bay of
Galway, he landed some men on the Thomond side, burned the
houses and wasted the lands of Daniel and Torlogh O'Brien,
the only two gentlemen in the county that had not joined in
the rebellion, wdio had preserved and relieved the English, and
had assisted with their long boats and with provisions for the
relief of the fort when it was besieged. But as an extenuation
of this and other atrocities of Forbes, Carte mentions that ^' he
was much governed by the ad\dce of the famous Hugh Peters, his

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chaplain " — a Puritan maniac, wlio called himself a preacher
of the Gospel, but w^s really, like one Jerome, imported to teach
high-treason and hatred of the Church. In fact, he was quite of
the type of MacBriar, whom Sir W. Scott has immortalized.
And O'Brien, as Norton has deposed, was also imprisoned in
Clare Castle by the confederate Catholics for his loyalty to the
English.

A curious squib exhibits the frenzied fury of Peters against
the Church and Prayer-book in these sharp terms : —

" Whether it would not much advance our long-desired Ueformation
if those places of Scrijyture out of which the Common Frayer-hook is col-
lected were diligently sought after, and hlotted out of our Bibles, that no
mark of the superstitious Liturgy may remam among ns to make our
children Idolaters J'

The tyranny of ^^ the Saints,'^ as now exercised by the Com-
missioners in Dublin, soon grew to such a pitch as to turn upon
and crush some of the foremost men who had raised them to
power. In illustration we take from the " History of Indepen-
dency/' Part IL, p. 64, the following doleful experieDce of
William Pryn, now in prison ( 1 ! ) : —

I shall close up all (says he in his second letter to Faufax) with this
observation, that as the most glorious angels in heaven when they fell
(thi'ough pride and ambition as most conceive), became the very foulest
devils in hell, so the most splendid seeming hypocritical saints when
they fall through the like sins and ham ■poiver in their hands, become the
m^st incarnate°devils and monsters of treachery and tyranny upon earth,
exceeding Turks and Pagans therein, of which we have now sad
experience in our army-saints, who every day aggravate and yet justifie
their impieties and exorbitancies.

Of Hugh Peters we must have another glimpse (ubi supra,

p. 67) :—

Cromwell, Ireton, and Hugh Peters have several times made it their
errand to go into the city and visit the mmisters, giving them threaten-
ing admonitions not to preach anything against the actings of the army
and their Vadianient. But Hugh acted his part aljove all of them. He
took some musketiers with him to the house of Master Calamy, and
knocking at the door, a rnaid asked whom he would speak with ? He
told her,\ith her master. She asked his name. He replied Mr. Hugh
Peters ' While the maid went up to Calamy, who was in conference with
some Divines, Peters was overheard telhng the soldiers " The name of
Peters will frio-ht them alL" When called up he told Mr. Calamy that he
Tvas commancfed by the General to warn him to come before him.
Calamy however, leaving Peters vapouring and canting rehgion and
nonsense to the rest of the Divines, shppcd down stairs and went to the

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General to know his pleasure, telling liim lie had been summoned before
him by Hugh Peters. The General said Peters tvas a knave, and had no
such directions from him.

And this was the man who came to convert all Gal way (see
Carte) forthwith.

Since this the Council of War, finding it difficult to stop the
ministers' mouths, havedebated often how to shut up the churches'
doors in the city for reformation of the Church and propagation
of the Gospel. They imprisoned Mr. Canton for praying for
King Charles, and threatened to try him for his life. And one
of the Dutch agents advises Cromwell to stop the ministers'
mouths b}^ hanging up a dozen of them, and vouches a precedent
for it in the Low Countries.

Bat not alone the tyrann}^ and frenzy of the Cromwellians,
but the fury and rapacity of the Irish become prominent just
now. In Lord Thomond's letter already printed, he urges : —

Keepe and return me an account from time to time of all the weapons
and arms you take up from the country, lam now resolved of a course
in hope thereby to preserve the goods that are mine and the rest of the
English tenants in the country, which I have directed my , ... to
imparte to you and to my cosen, Boetius Clancy (High Sherrff), to put
, the same in execution.

It was rather late for his Lordship, in 1643, to look after '*' the
goods of the English tenants,'^ when they were all slain, or
plundered, or driven away naked. As to his Lordship's '^ own
goods, ^^ they were not quite so safe, as we have exhibited
already.

In April, 16-13, Lord Thomond writes to Earl Clanrickarde
to the following effect : — '^ That your Majesty's declaration and
letters into these parts cannot work upon their obstinate dis-
positions there." (Clanrickarde Mems. Folio, p. 386.) Prior
to this the Marquis notes (p. 351), ** I received a long letter
from my Lord of Thomond, date 30th January, complainino^ of
being debarred intelligence more than such as came from the
Irish party, expressing that he rejoiced at my happiness, havin*-^
man}^ faithful friends and followers adhering to me, but must
bemoan himself, being generall}^ deserted by such as shoidd
show the like respect to him, having erected a new frame of
Government, and confederated themselves with the province of
]\Iunster. That he had tried all ways to bring them to obedi-
ence, but could not prevail, that they had profaned his Majesty's

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sacred name, avouching tlieir actions to be warranted by him.
That he had represented the same to his Majest}^, and expected
a return to disprove that rumour, but that such was the incre-
dulity of our countrymen, that he conceived if the King were
himself in person here to declare his detestation of their courses,
they would not believe it."

General Preston, on the eastern end of the diocese, by the
fall of Birr, was free ''to advance further and take Banagher."
And though he met with some losses, he was able to reduce all
the forts of the King's County.

Lord Clanrickarde, so far back as January, 1641, writes to
the King, that (59) '' My Lord President of Conaught is forced
to retire to the Castle of Athlone, and cannot move far from
thence. My Lord of Thomond is in little better condition, as
I am informed, and all his English and Dutch j^lantations for-
saken." (This proves an important fact of which no other
account is available besides an allusion noticed above.)

On the 2nd of November, 1646, Bishop Jones died in Dublin,
and was buried in St. Werburgh's Church. His successor was
" Rev. Edward Parry, D.D." He was a native of ITewry,
County Do\vn, a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and Pro
Yice-Chancellor. He possessed considerable talents, and an
intense love of the Church and of the Prayer-book, which he
showed ''in a manner to excite surprise and veneration." In
1627, he was Prebendary of Tipperkevin, in the Cathedral of
St. Patrick's, Dublin. (In 1630, he was Incumbent of St.
Bride's.) In 1634, he was made Treasurer of Christ Church
(and in 1635 was appointed one of the High Commission for
Ecclesiastical Causes). In 1636, he was Prebendary of
Stagonyl, in St. Patrick's. In 1640 (he was presented to St.
Olave's, Waterford, on March 16, with license to hold his other
preferments in union (Rolls). He was installed March 20th).
He then resigned, and became Dean of Lismore, and attempted,
without success, to recover his Deanery lands, seized by the
first Earl of Cork, into his family's grip for near a century.
Other lands were never recovered from same family. In 1643,
he was Archdeacon of Glendalagh (Dean Parry's house is
entered in the Hearth-money Rolls as being in St. Steplien
Street, assessed for eight hearths). The King's letter in his
favour is dated 20th December, 16 1-6, patent 20th March fol-

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lowing. He was consecrated in Christ Church Cathedral on
March 28^ 1647, by Launcelot, Archbishop of Dublin, assisted
by Bishops of Kildare and Cloyne. He was highly recom-
mended by the Marquis of Ormonde as one singularly well
affected for his Majesty ^s service, and beyond all exception for
his life and learning. On account of his good character and
the smallness of the revenues of this see, the King permitted
him to hold his former livings in commendam. Two daj^s
afterwards, March 30th, arrived Colonel Castle^s Regiment,
which was sent by the Parliament to the Marquis of Ormond's
assistance, and was followed by Colonel Hunger ford's HegimeiLt
and Colonel Long's, and by the Commissioners themselves, who
landed the 7th June, and brought with them 1,400 foot and GOO
horse, and the treaty was on the 18th June concluded. And
the same day the Marquis of Ormonde, " extremd necessitate
comimUuHy^ says Mr. Beling, surrendered Dublin, Tredagh,
and his other garrisons to them, but kept the Eegalia till the 25th
Jul3^ This action (specially directed by the King) hath irre-
served Iretcind in obedience to the Croivn of Engla?id, and there-
fore the Confederates, especially the Nuncio j)^i'^y (whose
designs were diametrically opposite to that which happened),
do hate the name of Ormond above all things, and have written
volumes of scandal {e.(/, *' The Unkinde Deserter of Loyall men
and true friends," Cox in Hib. Angl. p. 193). And it is also
worth note, that in the articles of agreement concluded,
the 10th secures 2,000/. per annum, being given in pensions
unto such of the civil and martial list, as also of the
distressed clergy; the 4th provides for those who live in
English quarters protection of their persons and estates,
without any distinction of office or religion ; and the 2nd
concludes for all Protestants whatsoever that they be secured
in their persons, estates, and goods, and that they may live
quietly and securely. And it is also to be noted that just before
this event the clerg}^ had met in the castle and thanked the
Marquis of Ormond for his vigilant care exercised to preserve,
not only within the city of Dublin, but also in out-garrisons,
the free exercise of the true reformed religion, according to the
Liturgy and Canons of the Church of England, at a time ichen
the use of that Liturgy teas prohibited both in Engtand and
Scotland. Let it be remembered then with what precipitancv,

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presumption, impolicy, and intolerance the Commissioners
sought to enforce an Anti-Liturgical Uniformity in the Three
Kingdoms. (See Solemn League, &c.) As Borlace tells it
neatly enough, " Soon after the Parliaments Commissioners
were warm in the Government they put their sickle into the
service of the Church.'^

Order as to Booh of Common PrayeVy hy the Commissioners from the
Parliament of England.
For prevention of inconveniences that may hereafter arise by continu-
ing the Common Prayer-book and ceremonies in the churches of the
kingdom, We have thought fit and do hereby require that the same
for the future be discontinued. Given at Dublin, June 24, 1647, A.
Annesley, Rob. King, Rob. Meredith, Michael Jones, John Moore.

The Church clergy deemed themselves unable, consistently
with their clerical vows, to yield obedience. And when they
came after the next following Sunday for their usual weehhj
allowance of bread (! !) granted to them by the Marquis of
Ormonde, they were met by a refusal and the insulting remark
that they might join the ranks of the Eoundheads as common
soldiers (!!!)

The following is the petition of the clergy : —
To the Honble the Commors of the affairs for Ireland, the Humble
Petition of the banished clergy,

Humbly shewing,— That Petitioners have formerly had weekly a
certain proportion of bread allowed them for their relief, wh yr Honours
have lately been pleased to continue to us, which we thankfully acknow-
ledo-e. And now the said hread loill not he delivered to -us tiU further
order* given by yr Honours. May it therefore please yr Hours to look
upon your Petitioners wants and to give orders that the same may be
weekly given out unto us, 'till some other livelihood be acquired, that
we may not be troublesome to yr Hours by continual suit and Petition.
And they as in duty bound shall ever pray.

Their Honours pointedly reply :— x t o i itm^

Dubhn, July 2nd, 10-17.

If the Petitioners be preaching Ministers, they did ill, not to bestow
their pains in such churches as wanted the Ministry of the Word last
Lord's-day, and render themselves thereby unworthy of relief. But if
they find themselves not qualified for the ministry, they may betake
themselves to some other calling, and v,^;ist themselves (! ! !) if they will
in some companies or troops, where doing service they shall be provided
for, equally with others. ^ ^^ ^ ,

Bv command from the Comrs from the Parliament of England,
-^ Wm. Rov»^7^.

" Which of you if his son ask for bread will give him a stone P" None
but a Cromwcllian.

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These extracts are taken from the Abstract of the Carte papers
by Eev. Dr. Eussell and Mr. Prendergast.

But ^^the Honourable (?) Commissioners from the Parlia-
ment of England '' received, on the 9th of July, " an humble
answer and petition from the Protestant clergy of Dublin/'
signed first by Bishop Parry, of Killaloe, which is a model of
clearness, reason, and manly Christian eloquence, and which is
attributed to his able pen and noble genius.

The declaration was an answer to the message from the Com-
missioners, inquiring (I), "Whether the ministers of the city
will officiate in their several churches, not using the Book of
Common Praj^er." (II) Also contained the concession "' That
such as will officiate may use the Directory or such service as is
agreeable to the Word of God, but not use the Book of Common
Prayer."

The answer of the clergy, " exciting from its firm and manly
tone sensations of veneration and surjDrise," is an expression of
grief at the loss of a customary daily service ; of complaint on
account of the penalty of "non-protection" for disobedience,
and a profession of strong conscientious reluctance to discon-
tinue the Prayer-book and receive the Directory. Then follow
eight solid arguments for this, clearl}^ enumerating : — 1st. Their
ordination vow. 2nd. The oath of supremacy which they took.
3rd. The standing obligation on them of Queen Elizabeth's
unrepealed Act of Uniformity, •^th. To lay aside the Book of
Common Prayer and receive the Directory would be to depart
from the Communion of the Church of England and Ireland ;
in fact, would be schism. 5th. It would also be a violation and
subversion of all ecclesiastical law and order. 6th. It would be
an enslavement of a free national Church. 7th. Pastors and
people alike were bound to it, were blessed by it, believed in it,
and loved it. The Book of Common Prayer had been in use
in this Church from the beginning of the Reformation. They
had preached for it, and recommended it to the people. The
'people of God in this eity generally loved it, (!) had been edified
by it, were loath to part from it, and earnestly desired its con-
tinuance. Should they consent to take it away, they would be
guilty of a sin in destroying that which is well built, and in
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brethren. 8th. Compliance would be a censure unjustifiable
upon both Church and State in England.^

The Petition founded on these weighty reasons runs thus : —

That you ayM be pleased in pity and compassion to tlie Protestants of
this City and to us the Ministers, who else by your injunction aforesaid
are indangered to be exposed to banishment, loss of estate and of
present substance, with our wives and families, to restore us to our
churches, ministry, and exercise thereof, by permitting of us to use the
Book of Common Prayer in our several cathedral and parish churches, as
formeily we used the same, before your injunction aforesaid, and to grant
us youi' protection therein till such time as further order be taken by a
Convocation of the Clergy and an Act of Parliament in this kingdom.
And in the meantime, we shall endeavour to demean ourselves in the
whole course of our ministry with such Christian faithfulness and
moderation as that we shall, by the help of God, give no just offence.

2nd. That in case your Hrs shall be pleased to gi^ant us this
petition, which we hope you will, if after our stay and residence here,
we or any of us, shall by the imposal of anything against our consciences
be forced hereafter to depart this kingdom, we may then respectively
have free passes and convenient time to remove our persons, families, and
goods.

3rd. That during the time of our residence here we may enjoy the
profits, benefits, and means of our several church livings for our sub-
sistence which are due or allotted to us by the Law of the Land and
Acts of State.

4th. That we be permitted to keep the monthly fast (30 ApL), being a
day of preparation for the monthly Communion according to our custom
these five years past.

9 July, 1617. Ed. Laonensis, &c. &c.

Having mentioned Bishop Parry^s entrance upon an Episco-
pate of utter desolation in Killaloe Diocese, and his noble
fortitude in standing up to vindicate the great principles of
Catholic and Apostolic Union and Communion in the face of
the democratic fanaticism and cruel intolerance now in the
ascendant, it may be well to notice a sermon he preached, or
rather indeed a volume he wrote.

The services of the Bishop if brilliant were also brief. He
died of the plague in Dublin, on July 20, 1650, and was buried
in St. Audoen's Church.

The information above, connected with Dr. Parry^s promo-
tion, which is marked within ( ), has been procured through

* The above bears a strong resemblance to " Reasons of the Present
Judgment of University of Oxlbrd. 1st June, 1617."

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the kindness of Rev. Dr. Leeper, E.ev. 0. McCready, of St.
Audoens^ of Rev. W. G. Carroll, of St. Bride's, and Rev. Dr.
Gimlette, of Waterford, and is additional to that supplied by-
Ware and Dr. Cotton.

The vestry book of St. Audoen's records at date 18th April,
1681, that a portion of the N. West comer of the church was
railed off for the Parry family bur^Hlng place, 11 by 8 feet,
the Parry family to pay 40s. a year, one half to the Prebendar}^,
and one half to the Churchwardens.

Mr. Garstin referred to the journal alluded to by Dr. Cotton
in hopes of finding there a transcript of the original inscription,
upon the old monument, but in vain.

We now add the copy of a monument erected in St. Au-
doen's Church, Dublin, 1818, in lieu of or in addition to a
monument erected on the decease of the Bishops Parry, on which
the inscription is almost wholly effaced.

(C. McCready, 22nd June, 1876.)

In memory of

Edward Parry and his two Sons John and Benjamin Parry,

who were interred near this spot.

Edward Pany, D.J).,

Pro-Vice-ChanceUor of the University of Trinity College, Dublin,

was consecrated Bishop of Ej.llaloe 28 March, 164-7,

and died of the plague m this city June 20, 1650.

John Parry, D.D.,

was promoted to the Deanery of Christ's Church, Dublin, Apl. 2, 1666 ;

was consecrated Bishop of Ossory Apl. 22, 1672 ;

and departed this life Oct. 4, 1687.

On the repairs of this church, a.d. 1818, by permission of
Rev. James Howie, A.M., Prebendary of the same, Dame Eliza-
beth Puleston, of AUington Hall, Shropshire, relict of Sir
Richard Puleston, Bart., and Anna, Eleanor Frances, and
Elizabeth Hawkshaw, daughters of the late Lieut.-Col. John
Stewart Hawkshaw, of Divernagh, Co. Aimagh, caused this
new monument to be erected in memory of the above-named
Bishops; the said Sir Ri. Puleston and Lt.-Col. John Stewart
Hawkshaw having been lineally descended from the above-
named Edward Parry. The monument underneath was the
one originally erected by the said John Parry to the memory
of his father, Edward Par^3^

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Of Bishop Edward Parry's literary remains only one production
has been published, and this after his death, by his son John. In
the Preface to the Reader, some faint hopes are held out of a
*^ judicious and knowing person giving a large account of his
life." But these hopes do not appear to have been realised.
'* A short character" of this eminent Prelate is given ^' by a
Reverend Divine of great intimacy with the (Right) Reverend
Author while alive.'' In this it is stated that "He was a
person of very quick and ready parts, of a clear head, and
(which is rare) happy in as great a memory as judgment;
of indefatigable industry, as being (notwithstanding his many
other employments) a very constant preacher all his lifetime."

He was of a most eminent and singular piety, of an ex-
emplary holy life (such as the world could not cast the least
stain upon), of a winning though serious deportment, and of
a hospitable spirit. He was, as the reverend person remarks
(to Parry's son), " as you can witness, a tender and affectionate
father, and, as I can witness, a most sincere and faithful friend,
a vigilant pastor, and such a preacher, that, as I have heard
from good hands, the Right Honbe. the Lord Bigby, a person
of no mean judgment, upon hearing of him, equalled him to
any he ever was an auditor of.

^^ In a word, he was a true son of the Church and a most
loyal subject to the Crown of England.

^^ Not all the frowns which were cast upon Episcopacy, nor
the calamities wherewith that sacred order was threatened, could
frighten him from an acceptance (for he never in the least
manner sought for it) of a patent from his late Majesty of glo-
rious memory. Even then, when as I have often heard him
protest, he looked for nothing hut persecution. To sum up all, he
was really composed of those excellencies which St. Paul requires
in the making up of a Bishop indeed."

Of this discourse — " David Restored," which is very scarce,
and only to be found as a rare and curious book — a few extracts
are now given, selected not only to show the style and earnest
piety of the author, but also his estimate of some most im-
portant matters then and now demanding attention. Enlarging
upon the ^* goodness of God to Israel " here in their houses of
clay, and while they are in some respects absent from Him, he
infers, in a noble exclamation of Christian hope, " How great

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tten, how transcendently high shall this goodness be to them,
in the great day of retribution, when He shall perfectly accom-
plish all that was promised. How great, when the fire shall
restore that which flames devoured, the earth open its vast bosom
and the sea deliver unto them their consumed bodies, — when
that which was sown in corruption shall be raised in incorrupt
tion. How great, — when the Lord Jesus appearing in all his
glory with the splendid equipage of saints and angels comes in
majesty and glory. When they shall see him, whom tljey so
steadfastly believed, and sincerely obeyed, bringing his reward
with him. How great, when that comfortable sentence, Come
ye blessed of my Father receive the Kingdom prepared for you,
fills them with joy. How great, when that which is perfect is
come, and that which is imperfect is done away, when their souls
shall be enriched with the most absolute treasures of grace and
glory, when their understandings triumph in the full clearness
of a divine light. — How great, when God with all his majesty,
mercies, comforts and beauties incomprehensible, shall dwell
with them in that fulness of perfection. — How great, lastly,
when they shall both themselves possess all these unutterable
glories to all eternity, world without end."

^* Thus from all this discourse there is a short view given unto
us of God's high, eminent goodness.

" We have been first led into the outer court, the nations
abroad, and seen his goodness eminently dispersed among them.

" We have been next in the inner Court, the Church visible,
where high and comfortable rays of goodness shined upon us.
We have opened the temple doors and entered into a contem-
plation of the invisible Church of Christ, where still greater
expressions of goodness appeared before us. And, lastl}^, we
have been brought within the vail of the glorious heavenly
kingdom, where goodness itself in open full streams com-
municates itself to the Church triumphant."

Commenting on the sin of violencey our faithful divine teaches
thus (p. 75) : —

^* What oppression was till within late years few of us
knew, but now it overflows to a doleful experience, such as no
age can, since the Conquest, parallel. Nor can the world afibrd
us more unhappy examples of cruel oppression and violence.
The Crown saves not the Sovereign, nor Holy Orders secure

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the clergy, nor will the shield of a Reformation defend from
enthusiasts. Men are bent upon spoil, and the greater success
they have, the more they are resolved upon oppression. While
innocence in the meantime is everywhere struck at, the cries of
orphans and the groans of widows are multiplied and the kiog-
doms run to ruin and confusion. And too many of us, who
before would have thought any one piece of injustice horrid,
as shamelessly comply, and in an unbecoming slavery prostitute
ourselves to the wickedest (if successful) designs of our great
masters.''

Of the unlimited disorders of " the tongue walking through
the earth," this brave and acute exponent of God's word thus
expresses himself :—" If in this perambulation of the tongue
they meet with truth, they darken it with lies and home-made
inventions ; if with innocence, they brand it with false accusa-
tions and bitter aspersions ; if with a strict Government and
good laws, then they cry, ' Let us break their bonds asunder
and cast away their cords from us ' ; if with religion, they
term it heresy and superstition ; if with patience, they term it
obstinacy ; if with the Church, they think of nothing less than
of devouring it, and cry, ^Let us take the houses of God in pos-
session ' ; if with the thoughts of resurrection and of future
hopes, ' Let us eat and drink,' cry they, ' for to-morrow we shall
die."^ Thus no corner is left unsearched by their abusive tongue
which walks through the earth.

" If we cast our eyes about us a little we may find a most
extravagant licence in these days, where the sword keeps down
all laws and gives liberty to the broaching of anything but
what is true — where the uncontrolled tongue runs about in a
licence as audible as that of the sicord, and the hand that wields
it is visible. Upon one hand we may find a religion made up
of legions, on the other, nothing but enthusiastical j)hantasies
which are asserted as infallible. Those excellent things (for
the enjoyment of which we were thought happy) are now
blasted with the breath of poisonous lips and embittered with
gall flowing from extravagant pens. The breath of our nostrils
lies under black obloquies. That Church Government so many
ages acknowledged Apostolicall, is now termed Babylonish and
Antichristian, That Liturf/tj, which some men defended with
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itself defamed and prostituted by those \clio ovon no such degree^
and who look upon Christ's ministers as the offscourings of the
world, the utter ruin of whom is accounted the highest service to
God:'

Grappling boldly with Atheism, associated with ^^ yet never
higher profession of God's glory or more zealous pretences of
reformation of religion/' our faithful preacher lays down the
warning with no little foresight.

" Let us not be too secure, whilst we are totally bent upon ex-
elusion of Popery — another enemy proves as dangerous. What
is it that hath robbed us of our friends and estates ? but
Atheism. What is it that hath shed the blood of so many
innocents, and under the cloake of a pretended Reformation,
hath triumphed in the disturbance of our peace and the mines
of our kingdoms — but Atheism? He only, he hath reduced us
to these miseries and wrought our woe that says in his heart
there is no God and imperiously demands is there knowledge in
the most High ? As for those demure iwetences, w'herewith they
speciously guild their actings. They are so far from excusing
as they make their atheism more horrid, and serve to render it
more perniciously effectual, spreading and contagious. Should
men openly profess they fear not God's knowledge they would
not have so many applauding [sic) followers. But now, whilst
they politiquely pretend his service and j^et deny him in their
actings they endanger many who look no farther than their hypo-
critical pretences to help them on and to partake of their sins."

(p. 134) About ^^ broaching dangerous opinions," our faith-
ful prelate, with a prophetic foresight, admonishes in the fol-
lowing terms : —

'' Though this admonition may seem to concern preachers
especially, 3'et since (as these licentious times are) they pre-
sume to preiich who are not sent, the}' may take along with them
this caveat. That the}^ add not damnable heresies to their pre-
sumptuous usurpation. It is more than they can well answer
for, to intrude into an office they are not called linto. How
will they then appear ?

'^When they have by uncouth forms of unsound cwnting erpres-
sionsmade a p^ycy upon the weak sex, and led a lot of silly ivom'CR
captive, though they may look upon theiiiselves beyond erring,
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that error in them is more than probable — one is their ignorance,
of which there is not a greater evidence than that they keep not
within their own bounds. The other is that they run without
their commission. For, were their abilities never so high, yet
the defect of that is a just ground, that they may be given
over to strong delusions.' '

" Despite of places of worship," our Bishop deals with in
these words : ^^ And now since all things look with a common
and promiscuous face. Churches not preferred before stables,
public resorts slighted, ministers most injuriously ejected. All
recourse unto them condemned {men now pretending abilities
beyond the best of their teachers), God's word wholly left and
exposed to the interpretation of private fansie— how can it
otherwise be imagined, but swarms of stinking locusts and de-
vouring caterpillars may darken our hemisphere into a confusion,
and that extravagant sects, and unheard of unparalleled divisions
break out so thick, as men know not what religion to be of.
How can we otherwise think bict that in this strange inconstancy
Atheism will creep in, get head, and turn all religion out of doors, ^^

The point and force of some of these remarks will appear all
the more forcible, if but one sentence is added, written by the
Bishop's son John, in his ^' resolution of a seasonable case of
conscience," in reference to the principle put forward in these
terms by Cartwright and others : ** That every action is unlaw-
ful which is not expressly commanded from Scripture. Which
as it hath been formerly made use of by those of the more rigid
size against the decencies and constitutions of the Church, so it
is of late driven so high as that a respectful civility is esteemed
a piece of idolatry, and the most innocent ceremonies, the most
indifferent trivial actions, are persecuted as inconsistencies with
the purity of religion unless they carry a ' Scriptum est ' in
their foreheads." The divina effigies Reverend issimi Patris
Edw (Parry) EpiscopiLaonensis is presented in this vol., repro-
duced by the aid of photography after the engraving by Dick-
son, 1660, Oxon, in the frontispiece of ^^ David Restored."

From the cessation of the massacre of the Protestants and
English to the complete establishment of the Usurpation, a
period intervenes of some ten years. Than this it would not
be easy to find, even in the history of Ireland, another ten
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was divided into many parties, each of which claimed exclusive
loyalty to the throne and true love of the land. Ormond led
the Protestant, Clanrickarde the Catholic Loyalists. The
Kilkenny Confederates— who had as a Representative from
Munster Sir Daniel O'Brien of Clare — consulted their theo-
logical guides as to the lawfulness of their taking up arms,
putting prominently forward the intensity of their devotion to
the King and Royal Family of England. (See p. 5, Yindicise
Catholicee Hib. Parisiis, 1650.) A curious controversy as to
the genuine character of this loyalty, what it permits and what
it forbids, is to be found in the Memoirs of the Marquis of
Clanrickarde. When Preston had taken Birr and Fort Falk-
land, he felt emboldened to open a correspondence with the
Marquis, expecting to convert him to his views. Preston (p.
330, folio edition. London, 1757) eloquently expatiates on
how "he cast off the high employments he had in the Low
Countries to embark himself, wife, children, estate, and honour
in a cause so full of imminent danger to each. But when, by
the opinion of all divines, he perceived that the Catholic
religion, the rights and prerogatives of his Majesty his dread
Sovereign, the liberties of his country, and whether there
should be an Irishman or not, were the principal prizes at
stake, he thought all those but weak motives to withhold him
from the service of his God, his King and country." The
reply is, " I must freely confess my own ignorance, and there-
upon, for my own particular, must trust to his Majesty's
mercy for not being active and adhering to those unusual ways
of service which difftr much from those rules and instructions
which his Majesty left me to guide my actions by; and I
believe I have with as much industry as any other endeavoured
to know his pleasure, and cannot find anything varying from
his former commands." And again, supposing a change of
places between Preston and himself, the Marquis asks, " Would
you entertain any designs, or run any doubtful course of
opposition to that settled trust and command deposited in your
hands, without a clear and undoubted warrant from that power
that gave it you ? Or would you not esteem it a scandal to
your religion, a dishonour to your nation, a stain and shame to
your name and family, and that you justly merited the scorn
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make present use of you?" And, indeed, these high preten-
sions of volunteer loyalty, embarking in courses most detri-
mental to the Royal cause, are very accurately estimated by
the King himself, in the emphatic words of the "Eikon
Basilike " : — '^ It is no news for some of my subjects to fight,
not only without my commission, but against my command
and person too, yet all the while to pretend they fight by my
authority and for my safet3^" So, in like manner, Clanrickarde
tells the Kilkenny Confederates, when they urge him to join
their cause, that a trust was reposed in him by the King, and
special honours bestowed ; and he desires it to be taken into
serious consideration in what posture or condition he is most
probable to discharge his duty to God, to the King, and to
manifest his natural affection to his country, if he should
break this trust by any doubtful ways of proceeding. ^Yhen
the Connaught Bishops threatened to excommunicate the
soldiers who refused the Oath of Association, and thus would
take them from the King's service to that of his quasi friends,
Clanrickarde remarks : — " I have heard of many punished
for perjury and swearing, but never any excommunicated
for 7iot swearing, though the oath had been lawful and lawfully
administered : temporal punishments and penalties are and have
been inflicted by Princes upon their subjects." Again, he
answers the Archbishop of Tuam:— "If the war be, as is
alleged, for God, King, and country, and that no disturbance
is intended to any one's loyalty to his Majesty, I have produced
the King's late and undoubted authority, approving and
directing my proceedings in his serAdce, and his Majesty hath
required no more than a quick obedience to me, a native and
Catholic governor. Where, then, Hes the cause of excom-
munication against such as adhere to me ?" But, whatever may
be the force of these controversies about loyalty, one fact is
past all doubt, that the English and Protestant loyalists fared
very ill, and chiefly at the hands of these professors of loyalty.
As the result of the first two years after the war began, the
Author of Vindicice Cath. thus sums up the gains and losses
(Cap. 1) :— "The Catholics perceptibly increased in resources,
in counsel, and in spirit, by Avhich it was brought about that
all the Protestants, almost everywhere, were driven from the
central parts of the kingdom, and forced back into the towns
near the coasts."

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As for Clare in particular, Carte mentions how only two of
the gentlemen remained attached to the Royal cause, or sub-
mitted to the orders of the King's Lieutenant. And Clan-
rickarde mentions how, by a strange perversity of fate, these
two were apparently selected for plunder and outrage by the
commander of an Adventurers' fleet, as has been related.

But whatever the Kilkenny confederates designed or did, in
the name of the King, and really against his cause and best
friends, Rinunccini the Nuncio, exceeded them. The quarrel
between this emissary of the Pope, and these Home-rulers, is
very instructive. It demonstrates that such domestic legis-
lators and rulers of Ireland must always expect to be mere
tools in the hands of some foreign power — a Roman Catholic
power — if not indeed Rome itself. It also brings into the
clearest light the state and prospects of the Reformed faith in
this island during those days. The memoranda for Monsignor
Rinunccini (if allowed to be genuine) close with a suggestion
that there should be a conjunction of Catholic armies in Eng-
land, formed partly of English and partly of Irish ; to fight, of
course, for the King, and in his name, upon English soil. " And
then if, by means of this Catholic army, you can obtain from
his Majesty the revocation of the penal laws, the abolition of
the proposed Oath of Fidelity, and freedom in religion, we may
hope in a few years for the conversion of the whole kingdom —
a most important step towards the eradication of heresy from the
ivhole north of Europe, and without which the Irish can never hope
to enjoy in peace the conditions granted in favour of the true
faith in Ireland.'' (" Embassy in Ireland," English Trans-
lation, Ixiv.) In his Report on the affairs of Ireland ('' Me-
moirs," p. 486), the Nuncio, looking back, extols as '' glorious
the resolution taken in 1641 by the Irish Catholics, to enter
into a confederacy, in order to ohtain by a'>ms and from the
King (all in the way of loyalty !) the free and public exercise
of the Catholic religion." '^ And doubtless," he adds, ** there
was manifest in this determination a ray of Divhie ivisdom (!)
for, despite jealousies, they at once imited to oppose the Eng-
lish, to open the churches, to dismiss the heretic ministers, to
recall the parish priests and bishops ; and succeeded so far in
establishing religious worship that, the Christian world at large,
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of restoring the same public worship in England by the example,
and with the assistance of the Irish " (p. 486). And as to what
" dismissing the heretic ministers '' means, the Nuncio is clear
enough in a case occurring in Limerick city : — " I took the
opportunity of entreating the citizens, as I had done the
Supreme Council, to forbid the public preaching of heretical
ministers in this city, within certain antient ruins of a monas-
tery of St. Augustine — a desecration I have always bitterly
felt, and of which there is not another example in any of these
confederate towns. Many difficulties must be overcome on
account of the number of heretical professors in the city, yet
God will perhaps reveal some way to obtain our desire *' (192).
But, independently of the fanatical intolerance of the Nuncio
insisting upon the cessation of pubKc worship by the members
of the Reformed Church in Ireland, while he himself claimed
liberty of conscience for the Roman Catholics, Ormond was so
far overpowered by the urgent conditions of the King's aifairs,
and the desire to conciliate the Irish, that among the articles of
the treaty signed conditionally between him and the Confede-
rates, the Sixth runs thus, to the utter extinction of Protes-
tantism in the Diocese of Killaloe in particular (had the
treaty been carried into effect). " That the plantation of Con-
naught, Kilkenny, Clare, Thomond, Tipperary, Limerick, and
Wickloe, may be revoked by Act of Parliament, and their
estates secured in the next sessions.'' Thus Ormond proposed
his peace, and the Confederates were disposed to accept it, in
which, among other conditions, the forfeited ecclesiastical pro-
perty was to be left in the hands of the existing professors,
very much as Cardinal Pole had arrranged for it in Queen Mary's
time (see Yind. Cath.) But Rinunccini insisted that this pro-
perty should be all resumed by the Ecclesiastical Corporations as
before Henry VIII. 's time. The cathedrals, churches, and places
of worship were to be left in Protestant hands so far as they
were holding them. But the Nuncio insisted that all were to
be given up. The tythes, church lands, and revenues were
impounded, and used for secular purposes — mainly to carry on
the war — these the Nuncio insisted should be all given back in
perpetuity to the Roman Catholic Church, and so forth in every
item of advantage. In fact, the Church of Rome was to have
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let it rise up no more/' was the stem demand of the Nuncio.
For this he argued and excommunicated ; for this he imprisoned
the chief confederates, joined the trucid O'Neill, aimed at the
taking of Dublin, and so '' destroy the heretics ^' (p. 437), and,
in one word, filled Ireland with a protracted confusion and
bloodshed. Nothing could exceed his rage when it was pro-
posed that even Cloyne Cathedral should continue in the hands
of the Reformed (pp. 390, 475). But it was not alone in
obstructing the peace or protracting the cessation that the
Nuncio was so active ; he was equally energetic in the field of
battle. One does not wonder to read that in those days of
universal battling Preston issued from Birr and took the strong
castle and important town of Roscrea. It is only what might
be expected that Purcell, with a party of Munster men, had to
fling himself into county Clare to watch the O'Briens, who
were taking occasion to raise disturbance. (Vindic. Hib. Ch.
14, p. 133.) That Carte tells us of the Roman Catholic Bishop
of Eillaloe being in arms and worsted in a severe engagement
near Quin, and being wellnigh taken and hanged, is but what
is due to the warlike blood of the old Dalcassian stock of the
O'Molonys. But the Nuncio's performances at Bunratty
exceed all these ; naj^, even that exploit of Ever MacMahon,
the Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, who so bravely,
but unwisely, conflicted with Coote near Letterkenny.
The writer of the '* Yindiciae," though making much
of the taking of Bunratty, uses but few words (p. 32) :
" In the ensuing summer of 1646 the war was
waged with sufiiciently happy issues by the Catholics, for
both Roscommon was taken by Preston and Bunratty by Mus-
kerry — both being important strongholds of the Enemy." But
not so hastily or carelessly does the Nuncio write of the taking
of Bunratty. In March he announces that the Earl of Tho-
mond joined the Parliamentarians. Barnaby, Earl of Tho-
niond, had not joined the Irish massacre of 1641, but iieither
ivould he join against it (so Carlyle). He apologized to the
King's Lieutenant on that occasion, said he had no money, no
force, — retired with many apologetic bows into England to the
King himself, leaving his unmoneyed Castle of Bunrath to the
King's Lieutenant, who straightway found some 2,000/. of good
money lying bid in it, ^* buried in the walls," and cheerfully

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appropriated the same. *^The modesty of the Earl's desires "
(T. Carlyle thinks) must relate to this 2,000/. that it might be
acknowledged as a debt, and allowed on the Earl of Peter-
borough's estate. (See Ludlow, i. 21, Whitlocke, 2nd Edn., pp.
201, 420 ; Commons Journal vi., 279, 445 ; ColHns Peerage, ii.,
216.) These are authorities ad rem by T. Carlyle,
Cromwell's letter runs thus : —

To the Eight Honble. Sir James Harrington, Knight, of the Council
o£ State. These —

London, 9 July, 164^.

Sir— You see by the enclosed, how great damage, the Earl of Tho-
mond hath sustained by these Troubles and what straits he and his
family are reduced unto by reason hereof. You see the modesty of his
desires to be such as may well merit consideration I am confident that
wh he seeks is not so much the advantge of himself, as out of a desire
to preserve his Son in Law the Earl of Peterborough's fortune and
family from ruin. If the result of the favour of the house fall upon him
although but in this way, its very probable it will obhge his Lordship to
endeavour the peace and quiet of this Commonwealth, which will be
no disservice to the State— perhaps of more advantage than the extremity
of his fine. Besides, you showing readiness to do a good office herein

will Yerj much oblige.

Sir yr

Oliver Cromwell.

July 3 the Nuncio dates from *' Camp at Bunratty," and
infers from the victory at Benburb, that " this peace is impossible,
and the question must be decided by arms." He adds, for
Cardinal Pamj)hili's delectation, " Fearing that the siege of Bun-
ratty wouldbe abandoned by the troops owing to their want of pay,
I have come to the Camp and brought all the money I had left
and some of my own also to lend to them, and I wall not leave
the place until I see a certainty of success, or else that \4ctory
is despaired of." Vindicating himself in his Report on the
affairs of Ireland (p. 497), he relates how the Earl of Thomond
took part with the Parliamentarians, and gave them up his
Castle at Bunratty.

He expresses distrust of Muskerry, and anticipates a very
protracted siege to meet some dark purpose of Ormond's. He
determines to go there in person, and in the twelve days that
he remained at Bunratty the siege was concluded. He provided
everything that was needed, lent money to prevent any shadow
of excuse, inspected the batteries himself, and at the conclusion of
the sien-e he had the English ensigns carried through the city

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of Limerick as a trophy of the Catholic religion. On the 19th
July he writes in glowing exultation (p. 191) : '' The taking of
Bunratty is of no small consideration to Munster and to the
city of Limerick ; and although the money employed was not
sent direct from Rome, I have at all events lent some of ray
own, and having given in person and otherwise constant assist-
ance during the siege, the people recognised it as an apostolic
undertaking of the same kind as all the resty Poor Colonel
McAdam and the other brave soldiers in the castle doubtless
thought somewhat differently, and regarded the whole action
of the assailants as rather diabolic than apostolic. Einunccini
is related to have been so intensely fascinated with the glory of
these battles and brave doings in Ireland during his mission,
that upon his return to Italy he caused frescoes of them to be
painted in his archiepiti copal palace at Fermo. What a pity
that the jealousy or bad taste of his successor caused these to
be destroyed ! '' How gladly would the pilgrim turn to the
pictures of Bunratty !" exclaims Mr. Meehan in his ^' Confede-
rates," &c. No doubt of this. Life is short, art is long. The
painter, next to the poet, must needs follow the footsteps of the
great, the brave, and the good ; and if a befitting motto is
needed to draw the moral out of each event, the IsTuncio
" inspecting the batteries^' of Mucegros old Castle of Bunratty,
built '' to coerce the rebels," deserves the apposite memento,
" The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty
through Grod to the pulling down of strongholds," for ''' the
servant of the Lord must not strive."

Another castle of consequence in Clare escaped for the
present. Taaffe, in 1648, wrote a letter to the Governor
warning him to prepare himself for a very serious assault or

Lord Taaffe to Governor of Clare Castle.

I am informed that you take very little care or regard to provide
maintenance for the gaiTison I appointed at Clare, whereat I may
advertise youi' being very sensible of the consequences therefrome
of that place stands upon. Now I pray and require you to provide
an nndelayed route for provisions for that garrison from time to time
untill my coming to those partes, where they may pretend no excuse
to neglect the secm-ity thereof. Otherwise uppon the first intimation
of the failme herein I cannot but direct the said warder to take up
means wherewith it may be had upon that coimtry which may tend

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to the great prejudice of some particular persons there. The disorder
and blame thereof cannot but be imputed to you. Therefore I pray
let not the said warders have any further cause of complaint in this
particular, otherwise you will hazard the securitie of the said place,
T\ hereby you may prejudice the public, and specially incur the high
displesure of yr very loving friend,

Ta^vpfe.
Drumriske Campe, 16 Augt. 1648.

Here too it was that Ormond rested a few days, and en-
deavoured to treat with the infatuated men of Limerick city —
but in vain. Ormond by flying from Dublin had checkmated
the Nuncio, Ormond being afterwards beaten by Jones, and
failing to take Dubb'n, the fate of the Irish Catholics was
sealed to the sword of Cromwell. O'Neill now accepts far less
advantageous conditions from artful Geo. Monk, than had been
scoffed at before when coming from Ormond. The hierarchy
in 1649, assemble at Clonmacnoise, and ostentatiously issue in-
effectual appeals and verbose regrets over concord lost and
dangers coming. They advise devotion at the altar, censure
the ** otiosi juvenes '' or *' play boys,'' as if these were the
authors of the prevalent violence and shocking mischief so rife
— recognise the wrath of God come and coming again upon the
land. Here for once they were right, also in not damnifying
Ormond, as it was expected they were to have done.

And these Bishops, if not wringing their hands in useless
agony, perhaps at least not without trembling hands, did they
take up their pens. And among the rest of them one who
subscribed to the Clonmacnoise paper the name —

"Joan (O'Molony) Epis Laonen."

But it is all in vain in the present state of progress attained
for these Bishops to try to break or unravel the fatal threads of
a destiny deliberately woven by themselves and others into a
winding-sheet for Ireland.

And thus this intensely wretched period closes. How any
one could call it one of "joy and hope^' {see Cohan's
Meath) seems a piece of strange misjudging. The members of
the Reformed Church in Killaloe Diocese, as much if not more
so than any others elsewhere in Ireland, are now for some twenty
years ground between the upper and nether millstones of the
Long Parliament and the Eoman Curia. Dr. Gauden, in his

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elaborate Suspiria (at B. 1, ch. iv.) weeps for the English
Church thus : —

^^My wounds, my wastes, my ruins, my deformities, my
desolations are not by the barbarous inundations of Goths and
Vandals, not by the rude invasions of Saracens and Turks, not
by the severe Inquisitions and cruel per sec utims of P< pists. I
do not owe my miseries to the incursions of foreigners to a
nation of strange language, of professed enmity, of different
interests and religion. They are not professed Neroes, Domi-
tians, Diocletians, and Julians, heathen princes, and persecu-
tors that have done me this despight, for then perhaps I and
my children could have borne it as did the martyrs of old.
But alas ! I am ambiguously wounded by those that are of my
own house, family, and profession, that have been washed at my
baptismal font, tasted of my sacramental bread -these have
lifted up their heel against me, ^ by these I am hated and
despised,' stripped and wounded, torn and mangled, im-
poverished and debased below any Church— Christian or Ke-
formed.''

And who shall lament loud enough, who raise the Threnodia
of tender pathos long enough over one of the dioceses which has
suffered ''in the fury of the times'' (see Act of Settlement) at
once from English democratic fanaticism and from Ultramon-
tane intolerance, from Papists and foreigners speaking a strange
tongue, aUke as from those of our own blood— a Diocese at once
widowed by the death of brave Dr. Edward Parry, bereaved by
the massacre and expulsion of her sons and daughters, beggared
by the abstraction of her resources, and left without altar or
service of praise by the seizure and sacrilege of her shrines.

The motto on our title page is not ill-chosen, when such
chapters form so large a part of the history of Killaloe.
Nay, it is most true. And then, and since, and yet onwards
into the future, let it be even so " If the Lord had not been on
our side when men rose up against us."

For some further details concerning Rinunccini, O'Neilc, Monk,
MacAdam, and Bunratty, see Appendix No. YI.

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THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE UNDER THE USURPATION.

It may be well to call attention to a few facts occurring just
before armaments of the Usurpation burst like a tornado upon
Ireland.

And first in reference to the relief and assistance of the Pro-
testants in Ireland, and how it did not come until too late for
their deliverance. The King piteously protested that he might
wash his hands in his tears as to the sad apprehensions he had to
see the rebellion spread so far and make such waste, and this at
a time when distractions and jealousies in England made most
men rather intent on their own safety or designs, than to the
relief of those who were every day inhumanly butchered in
Ireland. He affirms solemnly that he had offered to go him-
self in person upon the Irish expedition, and draws the just
inference that next to the sin of those who began the rebellion,
theirs must needs be who either hindered the speedy suppress-
ing of it by domestic dissensions, or diverted the aids or exas-
perated the rebels to the most desperate resolutions and
actions. (See Eikon Bas., p. 76.) On the other hand,
appears *^ An order of the Lords and Commons in Parliament
for the relief and assistance of the Protestants in Ireland,
also several votes concerning the securing the Kingdom of
England and Dominion of Wales, ordered to be printed and
published for T. Wright. London, 1643, Jany. 4.'^ Now
although securities are here engaged to victuallers for sujDplies
to be rendered in Dublin, Youghall, Carrigvergus, and London-
derry to the amount of £35,000, still several votes resolved

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^' That the several Commissions granted under the great seal to
the Lieutenants of Counties were illegal, also any action by
the militia in "Wales without the consent of both Houses."
And again, in "A Declaration with Additional Reasons, Sabbathi,
12 Martii, 1641, ordered to beforth^^dth published," the Com-
mons, enumerating ^^ the causes of their fears and jealousies,"
charged upon the Xing the design of altering the religion of
the nation — of the war in Scotland being chiefl}^ procured and
fomented by the Papists to make way for this effect — also
'' that the rebellion in Ireland was framed and contrived here in
England, and that the English Papists should have risen about
the same time." And the Commons, in their *' Additional
Reasons" at p. 7, charge the King with leaving Whitehall,
^^ out of a design to discourage the undertakers and hinder
the other provisions for raising money for defence of Ireland.
And that this will very much hearten the rebels there and the
disaffected in England," &c. We leave the victory in this
dispute to which side soever the reader may incline, content to
have brought to light the fact that while two great parties in
England were engaged in mortal combat, the interests of the
Churchmen of Ireland in their hour of supreme distress were
■ postponed or only taken up as supplying the combatants with
fresh firebrands to fling at one another.

In reference to the means to be procured for carrying on the
service for Ireland, a Committee treated with the Common
Council of the City of London for borrowing the sum of
£120,000. And the Common Council reported that the security
proposed was not sufficient, and that a further securit}^ would
be requisite. And accordingly the House made some further
progress for the encouragement of such as shall advance money
upon Deans' and Chapter lands^ and passed further orders for the
advance of money and provisions for the service of Ireland.
(Mod. Intel. Ap. 12 to 18, and Perf. Diur., May 19, cited in
Cromwelliana, p. 58.) This is the third instance of the secu-
larizing of Church funds from the Reformation to the Revolu-
tion, the loyalty of the Irish Chieftains being purchased in the
first case, the services of an Irish soldiery secured in the
second, and an English invading force provided in the third.

As to the main agent and leader of the Irish Expedition, it
may be noted that there was printed, in 1G42, '' A list of the

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field-officers chosen and appointed for the Irish. Expedition by
the Committee, Guildhall, London, for the regiments of 5,000
Foot and 500 Horse under the command of Philip Ijord
"Wharton, Baron of Scarborough, Lord General of Ireland."
(See reprint by Hooten, London, 1863.) These troops, raised
ostensibly for ^Hhe Irish Expedition," wore really used for
fighting against the King. And among the foot companies are
found first the names of

The Colonel General.

His Captain, Edward Massey.

His Ensigne, Oliver Cromwell.
This was in 1642, and not until seven years after, when the
English and Protestants were all dead or gone, at least out
of the western and rural districts of Ireland, did this same
Oliver Cromwell, upon the 15th August, 1649, as Commander-
in-Chief and Lord-Lieutenant, '' arrive in Dublin, where he
was received with all possible demonstrations of joy."

The Ftkst Great Feature arresting attention in ^' the
Service in Ireland" is, the March of the Con-
querors.

Oliver Cromwell pursued a career of victory north and
south, from the Boyne to the Suir. And ere he could vanquish
the western portions of the Island, was recalled to carry on
operations against the Scots. However he left behind him in
Ireton a lieutenant who was well able to flash the terrors of his
sword and to enforce the rigours of his intolerance in the faces
of his Irish antagonists. '' The slaughter at Drogheda,"
remarks Ludlow (p. 117), *^ continued with extraordinary
severity to discourage others from making oi^position." "I
do not believe, neither do I hear," observes 0. Cromwell him-
self, reporting this victory, to Bradshaw (Letters and Speeches
by Carlyle, ii. 148), ^' that any officer escaped with his life
save only one lieutenant, who I hear going to the enemy said
that he was the only man that escaped of all the garrison.
The enemy upon this were filled with much terror. And
truly I believe this bitterness will save much effusion of blood
through the goodness of God. I wish that all honest hearts
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praise of this 7nerci/ belongs.'^ So above lie remarks,
" Being entered, we refused them quarter, ha^dng the day be-
fore summoned the town. I believe we put to the sword the
whole number of the defendants. I do not think thirty of the
whole number escaped with their lives. Those that did are
in safe custody for Barbadoes." And writing to Lenthall, he
dwells upon this universal slaughter, and points to whom it
was due in his persuasion : —

The Governor Sii' A. Asliton and divers considerable ofiGLcers being
in the Mill -Mount, our men getting up to them, were ordered hy me to
piU them all to the sword. And indeed being in the heat of action, I
forhad them to spare any that were in arms in the town, and I think that

night they put to the sword about 2,000 men I am persuaded that

this is a. righteous judgment of God upon these harlarous wretches, who
have imbrued their hands in much innocent blood, and that it will tend
to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. Which are the satis-
factoiy ground to such actions, which otherwise cannot but work

remorse and regret And now give me leave to say liov: it comes to

10 ass that tliis ivorh isicrought. It was set upon some of our hearts
that a great thing shonld be done, not by power or might, hut hy the
Spirit of God. And is it not so, clearly ? That which caused your men
[o storm, &c., courageoush^ It was the Spirit of God, that gave your
men courage and took it away again ; and gave the enemy coumge and
took it away again ; and gave your men courage again, and there with
this happy result. And therefore it is good that God cdone have all the
glory. (Ubi supra.)

Into the Christian etliics or common humanity of all this no
inquiry is made, but only into the military policy thereof.
This one thing is to be shown. Here is the man and the
manner of man, who now begins to overrun and overpower
Ireland, " an armed soldier, terrible as death, relentless as
doom, doing God's judgments, as he believes, on the enemies
of God," not relying so much on his Commission from Par-
liament, as upon a direct impulse, a guiding providence and
special mission from Him, who declares ^' vengeance is mine,
I will repay."

And what makes this terrible butchery at Drogheda all the
more remarkable, is the contrast of action and sentiment in
the very same man after he had threshed the Scots so com-
pletely at Dunbar.

Giving Secretarj' Lenthall a gracious *' prospect of one of
the most signal mercies God hath done for England and liis

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people in this war," he adds, as a special feature (Letters, iii.
46) :—

Since we came in Scotland, it hath been our desire and longing to

have avoided blood in this business, by reason that God hath a people

here fearing His name, though much deceived. And to that end toe

offered 'iivucli love unto such in the bowels of Christ and concerning the

truth of our hearts herein, have we appealed unto the Lord. The

ministers (= clergy) of Scotland have hindered the passage of these

things to the hearts of those, to whom we intended them. And now we

hear, that not only the deceived people, but some of the ministers are

fallen in this battle. This is the great hand of God, and worthy of the

consideration of all those who take into their hands the instruments of

a foolish shepherd — to wit, meddling with worldly politics and mixtures

of earthly power, to set up that which they call the Kingdom of Christ,

which is neither it, nor if it were, would such means be found effectual

to that end — and (who) neglect or trust not to, the Word of God, the

sword of the Spirit, which is alone powerful and able for the setting up

of that kingdom ; and when trusted to, will be found effectually able to

that end, and will also do it. This is humbly otTered, for their sakes,

who were lately too much turned aside. That they might return again

to preach Jesus Christ, according to the simplicity of the Gospel — and

then no doubt they will discern and find yoicr lyrotedio'Ji and encourage'

ment.

Your most obedient servant,

Oliver Cbomavell.

And certainly the extraordinary severity had much of the
desired effect in Ireland. For this discouragement, together
with the smouldering discontents kept in motion by the
Regulars, whom Rinunccini had instructed so to work (see
Yindic. Cathol. sub fin.), made the conquest of Ireland a com-
paratively easy task, always allowing for the desperate resist-
ance Cromwell met from An. O'JSTeill in the bloody breach at
Clonmel, and at another well-known place. As an illustration
of this want of true courage exhibited by the Irish in the
presence of the Parliamentarian arms, a curious account is
found in the ^'Perfect Diurnal of June 27, 1653," which
records —

What new mercy we have been made partakers of, as follows. On June
13 a very good service was performed at JSTeddeen, in the County of
Kerry, against O'Sullivan's and Lieut. -Col. O'Brien's party, who came
close to the said fort about break of day in the absence of Capt. Bar-
rington with the purpose to undo his quarters, which they thought
infallibly to compass, being in number 300 or 400 men. But those few
horse which we had, prepared to charge them and came up to them as
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were ready to entertain them (in appearance) fonr times so many more
as they were, and put in such a posture to fight, having before possessed
themselves of a few cows they took near the fort. But it pleased the
Lord to give (such) courage to our horse though few, that they charged
them through and through, and routed them, and in their route, they
killed no less than 60 of their men, also several ofi&cers of distinction
(named). In achieving of this service there were not 30 Horse and
but two files of Foot, which Capt. Barnard brought up to relieve the
horse. So that it is the opinion of many that it was the despei-atest
service, and as well managed, as hath been performed in Munster these
many days, and is hoped will be the break-neck and undoing of all the
Tories in those Western parts, all their arms or the greatest part of
them, being left behind them. I have sent you the following list of the
Eegiments established here for the service in Ireland : —
Eight {sic) Begiments of Horse —

His Excellency General Cromweirs.

General Fleetwood's.

Lieut- General Ludlow's.

Com.-General Eeynolds'.

Sir Cha. Coot's.

Colonel Henry Cromwell' s.

Colonel Sankey's.
Two Eegiments Dragoons —

Colonel Abbot's.

Colonel Ingoldsby's.
Foot— Twelve Begiments, 1,200 in each —

General Cromwell's.

General Fleetwood's,

Major-General Waller's.

Sir Cha. Coote's.

Colonel Hewson's.

Colonel Yenables'.

Colonel Stubber's.

Colonel Axtel's.

Colonel Laurence's.

Colonel Phaire's.

Colonel Sadler's.

Colonel Clark's.
Lord Clanrickarde's house at Portumna having been sur-
rendered, with 6,000 acres of bnd around designed for Lord H,
Cromwell, and a castle being built on Derr^^ Island, just
opposite, for the purpose, as local tradition still maintains, of
keeping a watch and a restraint against an}^ further hostile
movements of the Clanrickarde, Sir Dermot O'Shagnessy's
castle of Gorteen-slie-gore having been stormed. Colonel
Connor O'Brien, of Lemaneigh, having been slain in an affair
near the pass of Inchicronane, and his castle, on being found

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^^indifferent strong/' having been occupied; a garrison also
having been put into Killaloe, and an hospital set up for the
sick and invalids ; Clare Castle, too, having been surrendered,
and Carrigaholt taken, and abundant store of guns being
provided for a siege-train in the ships of the Parliament now
riding at anchor in the Shannon, the siege of Limerick was
safely begun, with a good prospect of a successful issue.

And here one is tempted to reproduce a touch or two cf the
quaint picture which Ludlow drew of himself during this
campaign in Clare. Having caught cold sleeping in his tent
on the hill near Clare Castle, doubtless near Carnelly, he finds
himself much discomposed. But, unwilling to quit the charge
committed to his care, he cloathes himself as warm as he could,
putting on a fur coat over his buff, and an oiled one over that,
by which means he prevents the further increase of his dis-
temper ; and so orders his quarters that night that he has his
own bed to rest in, set up in an Irish cabin, where, about
break of day, he falls into so violent a sweat that he is obliged
to keep with him two troops of horse, for his guard, after he
had given orders for the rest to march. With these he over-
takes the party on their bleak road to Carrigaholt, the wind
and hail beating so violently in their faces that the horses often
turned about ; also the foot having to wade an arm of the sea
(doubtless, at Eathaniskey). All, however, does him no
serious harm, even though he apprehended much evil from the
fact that the sumpter-horse, which carried " his waters and
medicines," fell into the river at Bunratty, and they were lost.

On the south of Limerick the operations are thus recorded by
Cromwell himself, in a letter to Hon. John Bradshaw, dated
Cashcl, March 5, 1G49 (Carlyle, IL, 233) :—

It bath pleased God still to enlarge your interest here. The Castle
of Cahir, very considerable, built upon a rock, and seated in an island
in the midst of the Suir, was lately rendered to me. It cost the Ear.
of Essex, as I am informed, about eight weeks' siege with his army and
artillery. (But see State papers.) It is now yours, without the loss of
one man. So, also, is the Castle of Kiltinan, a very large and strong
castle of the Lord of Dunboyne's. This latter I took in with my
cannon, without the loss of a man. We have taken the Castle of
Golden Bridge, another pass upon the Suir; as also the Castle of
Dundrum, in°which we lost about six men, Colonel Zanchy, who com-
manded the party, being shot through the hand. We have placed
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Queen's Comities. We have divers garrisons in the County Limerick,
and by these we take away the enemy's subsistence and diminish, their
contributions ; by which, in time, I hope tbey will sink.

The further military operations by which this result was
brought about are thus summarized by Cox (II., p. 56), as
taking place along the eastern side of the Diocese of Killaloe :
— Ireton marched on to Sir Charles Coote ; and, ha\T.ng joined,
they went to Athlon e ; but the bridge being broken, and the
town on the Leinster side burned, Ireton left Coote there ;
and haying in his way taken two castles in MacCoughlan's
country, together with Birr, which the Irish had deserted and
burnt, he came before Limerick ; but finding the year far
spent, and that Limerick could not be forced, unless it were
attacked on both sides the river, he endeavoured to get KiUaloe
pass; and so, having taken JSTenagh, Castletown (arra), and
Dromineer, he went into winter quarters in Kilkenny on the
10th of November. In the meantime, part of the Marquis of
Clanrickarde's forces had retaken Birr, and the other two
castles in the MacGoghlan's country, and pretended to relieve
Athlone if it should be distressed. Whereupon Colonel Axtell,
Governor of Kilkenny, being joined with the Wexford and
Tipperary forces at Ptoscrea^ encountered them near Meelick
Island (a pass or ford a few miles below Banagher) on the 25th
October, and gave them a sore defeat, killing 1,500 men, and
taking 200 horse and all their baggage.

Ludlow (p. 151) gives a curious account of an interview he
had with an unlucky Tipperary boy taken in arms : — ^' Having
finished our aflairs at Kilkenny, and dismissed the officers to
their respective quarters, I resolved to go to Portumna to make
all things ready for the siege of Galway. Being on my march
on the other side of Nenagh, an advanced party found two of
the rebels, one of whom was killed by the guard before I came
up to them; the other was saved. And being brought before
me at Portumna, and I asking him ' if he had a mind io be
hanged ? ' he only answered, ' If you please,' so insensibly
stupid were many of these poor creatures.'^ Stupid, indeed,
few of them were by nature, or under ordinary circumstances,
but the terror of the Cromwellians was upon their hearts, and
this doubtless drew from the party in question so strange
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O'Loughlins of Burren severely, " laying their country
waste, and seizing what he could, that it might be no longer
useful to the enemy." It must be added that, in 1651, Ireton
placed a strong garrison in Castle Connell, while on the march
to blockade Limerick.

With the fall of Limerick and the surrender of Galv^^ay the
conquest of the West was completed.

The second head of inquiry is —

II. — How THE Victors Disposed of their Territorial
Acquisitions on the Eastern and Western Sides of
THE Diocese.

First, as to the Eastern or Tipperary side, it is to be pre-
mised that on the 26th February, 1641, according to Whitlocke
(p. 54), the House of Commons passed the Bill for the Adven-
turers for Ireland, that every one that would bring in and
adventure money for the reducing of Ireland should have so
many acres of the Irish rebels' lands, proportionable to the
money which they brought in, and very good bargains (sic),
whereupon very great sums of money were brought in for that
service, amounting in all to 360,000/. Lots were to be drawn
first for the pro^dnce, secondly for the county, of which ten
were named, wherein the adventurers' share was to be settled.
Tipperary Count}^ had 60,000/. of adventurers' money put upon
it to satisfy, with lands at 450/. per 1,000 acres (this being the
Munster rate). And there was '^ the doubhng clause ^' also
thrown in for the further benefit of the adventurers who had
gone deeper and deeper still into the ^^ ver}^ good bargains."
Then came the soldiers who served under Cromwell, whose
claims were recognised in the Ordinance for the settling of
Ireland of 1652. And by an Ordinance, 1653, for the satisfac-
tion of adventurers and soldiers, the forfeited lands in the ten
counties were to be divided ^' between adventurers and soldiers
by baronies, moietively by lot " (see Public Records, Ireland^
1825, p. 29, &c.). So far as Tipperary was concerned, the
moiety of the adventurers fell by the lot cast for the adven-
turers in the Baronies of Ikerrin, Ileagh, Eliogarty, Clanwil-
liam, Middlethird, Iffa, and Ofla. And the moiety for the
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Ormond, Kilnemanagli, and Slievedaragli. And thus it came
about that Lower Ormond, with Owney and Arra, being within
the limits of the Diocese of Killaloe, were united with its for-
tunes and became the main source of its Protestant strength.
The map at the end of '' The Cromwellian Settlement '' will
display this in an intelligible form.

As to part of the diocese in the Barony of Clonlisk in King's
County, this came under the Ordinance of 1653, and as being
one of the ten counties, the forfeited lands therein were to be
charged with the sums due to adventurers and soldiers, accord-
ing to the rates settled, and to be divided between them by
baronies, moietively by lot; and for the satisfaction of the
arrears of the forces there, who should be immediately disbanded,
several other proportions of forfeited lands were set out. The
actual tenants in 1659 are to be found in Synoptical View,
Appendix No. 4, by baronies and parishes. The exact location
of each officer's and soldier's lot was to have been marked upon
the map of the Down survey, with an index of their names
and positions. This was omitted, and the subdivisions were
only returned in descriptive lists to Chancery. Even these
perished by the fire of 1711. Had they been marked in the
Down survey, there would have been seen regiment b}^ regiment,
troop by troop, and company by company, encamping almost
on the lands they had conquered (Cromwellian Settlement, 205).
At the same time a very good idea of the new proprietary, of their
numbers, and where they were settled, may be gathered from
the lists of the ^" Tituladoes " as brought to light b}' Mr.
TIardinge, and explained in his paper, read before Ro3^al Irish
Academy. From the transcript of these valuable lists are
extracted the parochial totals, with names of the more remark-
able of these Commonwealth tenants or Tituladoes. These will
appear in juxtaposition with other authentic accounts of the
prior and subsequent conditions of ownership of property
within the diocesan bounds. (See Appendix No. Y.)

But a far more important consideration than this is the pecu-
liarity of the religious opinions of these new settlers. To this
Lord Clare has alluded in the following terms in his celebrated
speech, or pamphlet as Grattan calls it, on the Union, page 16, Occ. :
— " And thus a new colony of new settlers, composed of all the
various sects which then infested England — Independents, Ana-

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baptist?;, Seceders, Brownists, Socinians, Millenarians, and
Dissenters of every description, many of them infected witli
the leaven of democracy— poured into Ireland, and were put in
possession of the antient inheritance of its inhabitants. And
(continues Lord Clare) I speak with great personal respect of
the men when I state that a considerable portion of the power
and opulence of the Kingdom of Ireland centres at this day in
the descendants of this motley collection of English adven-
turers/' And yet w^hen these men came under the influence of
the faithful and sober teachings of the Church in this diocese,
if not themselves in a body, and all at once, yet at least their
descendants became its true and attached members, and continue
such to this day. Nor is this a thing strange or hard to
account for. Wearied with the fantastic excesses of individual
impulse in matters of religion, and with the hoUowness of cant,
and at the same time repelled by her exorbitant pretensions of
absolute authority from cultivating any friendly relations with
the Church of Rome, the adventurers and soldiers who
settled, gladly found a secure and blessed resting-place in that
Church of ours, which reconciles a sober liberty for each with
a mild authority over all of ^^ the many members unified in one
spiritual body.'' And thus it has been, that the seeds of
disaster and days of weeping have in due time produced a noble
harvest and an occasion of triumph to the Church. At the
same time, the soldiers in many instances made strange uses of
their territorial acquisitions. Everyone knows the story of the
White Horse of the Peppers. Stories of this kind abound.
Thus, at TuUah the dragoon sold his lot for a gallon of ale,
after having been led a wild-goose chase over bogs and
morasses all day. A field at Inch, near Ennis, is still called
'^ The Breeches Park," from the leathern equivalent for which
the land was demised.

And if the Eastern portion of the Diocese became the acquit-
tance for the Conquerors' wages in arrear, the Western is turned
into a kind of penal settlement or place of transportation in
which certain of the shattered and scattered remnants of the
vanquished Celts and Roman Catholics were to be transplanted.
The province of Connaught, of which Coy. Clare then formed
the Southern boundary, being at once isolated and enclosed, by
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bound coast on the other — the Isles of Aran being also seized
and fortified, as a key to Gralway City, and a mile-line or cordon
of military settlers being established all round the Province (as
more recently has been tried on the confines between Hungary
and Wallachia) — a kind of pen or enclosure was thus formed
for those who were not transported to Barbadoes, &c., or did not
as "Swordsmen" or " Wildgeese " cross the sea and go mas-
sacre the Yaudois in their valleys, or confront the Turk at
Belgrade, or command Ptussian fleets, or turn the tide of
battle on many a bloody day of Continental warfare. The Celtic
inhabitants of Kerry were to be transplanted from their wild
retreats to the wilds of Burren and Inchiquin. The inhabitants
of Kilkenny, Westmeath, Longford, King's Coy., and Tippe-
rary were to be transplanted into the Baronies of Tullagh, Bun-
ratty, Islands, Corcomroe, Clanderla, Moyfarta, and Ibrickan.
And the Irish widows of English extraction, i.e., the widows of
the nobility and antient English gentry— ladies such as Yis-
countess Mayo, Lady Louth, Lady Grace Talbot, Lady Dun-
boyne —were to transplant themselves and their belongings
(servant men and maids, garrons, cows, swine, geese, &c., &c.)
into the Baronies of Tulla, of which there were two, and into
Bunrattyin Clare (Cromwellian Settlement, p. 162). The decrees
to Co. Clare proprietors of " constant good aflection " (this
being the clause among the requirements on which so many
were cast out) must needs have been very few indeed. O'Brien,
of Dough, most deservedly obtained one of these, from which we
have already given extracts.

Henry, the second of that name, succeeded as seventh Earl
of Thomond in 1657. He first married Lady Anne, his cousin ;
secondly, Sarah, third daughter of Sir F. Russell, widow of the
Cromwellian General Reynolds, Avho had left her very rich.
Her sister was married to Henry Cromwell, through whose
influence the Earl was allowed to enter into possession of his
estates before the Restoration. He resided at Great Billing in
Northamptonshire, and being a Protestant, his estates escaped
the general forfeiture in which almost the entire of the County
of Clare was subjected. In royal fashion in the documents of
the day he is styled ^^ Henry the Second^' (Earl of Thomond).
He was seventh as Earl, but second as King. His monument
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MacNamaras, John Finn having been declared a Protestant in
1655, obtained a settlement at Doonmulvihill Castle in Inchi-
cronane Par, and after the Pbestoration, his son (36 Ch. 11.)
obtained a grant of considerable estates. From him spring the
McNamaras of Doolen. The mother of Sir D. O'Brien, of Dro-
moland (daughter of Col. McMahon, a lady of strong masculine
temperament, when Col. O'Brien, of Lemaneigh, her husband,
was killed at Ballyline), married Cornet John Cooper, of Bun-
ratty, a Cromwellian officer — by which means the estates were
rescued at the general confiscation (Dinely's Journal, with
Notes by Hon. P. O'Brien).

The case of the Creaghe family will appear further on.

This transplantation was duly proclaimed by sound of trumpet
and beat of drum on the 11th of Oct., 1652. The nobility and
gentry were especially required to comply. This transplanting
was most hateful to the Irish, but was enforced by hanging,
then afterwards it was made a matter of transportation to any
others who were obstinate enough to refuse compliance. Doubt-
less to this is due the phrase, '^ To II — 11 or Connaught," as a
choice of locations. The transplanted Irish of English descent
were to be kept separate from the mere Irish. And the whole
inhabitants of no one country were to be set down together.
The earliest lot was set down in Burren, which is the most
bleak and cheerless part of Ireland. And there was issued a
general order, 19th March, 1655, for the general arrest of all
transplantable persons who were not transplanted (see Crom-
wellian Settlement, passim).

The operation, though conducted with much skill, was at-
tended with no slight amount of inconvenience, personal suf-
fering, and pecuniary losses to those who were subjected to it.
Pecords of these proceedings, of which the headquarters were at
Loughrea, may be consulted for the full details. But a citation
from ^^ The Perfect Diurnal" may give some idea of the un-
bounded anxiety and almost breathless — one may not say
pious — longings with which the Cromwellian expectants awaited
the movement by which a way was to be opened for them into
the possession of goodly houses they builded not, and fair
orchards they planted not.

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Friday, Saturday, July 1 and 2.
This to tlie Council of State from the Commission Officers of
Limbrick and Clare, came as followeth : —

liigld Honhle, — We the Commission Officers in the precinct of Lim-
hrich and Clare, in Ireland, whose names are under-wi'itten, having
perused the declaration from his Excellency the Ld. General Cromwell
and his Council of Officers, being sufficiently satisfied with the grounds
therein expressed, for their dissolving the late Parliament, holding it
necessaiy, in times of such great changes as these are, that tlie peoiile of
the Lord (tliatare employed in carrying on His design in ilie tvorld) should
be acquainted with the minds and spirit one of another. We doe there-
fore hereby declare our sense, that as the work is God's, which is now
afoot, so the course taken to effect it is according to His pleasure, though
it be much contrary to flesh and blood, God now leading His people in
untrodden paths. Assuring our dear brethren that as our hearts close
with them in the same, so we shall be no niggards (through God's assist-
ance) to hazard our lives if called to it along with them for the perfect-
ing of what is begun.

This being the breviate of our thoughts, which God hath sealed on
oui^ spirits, we humbly desire may be imparted to the Lord General and
the army in England, from

Their, and your, and the Commonwealth's
Faithful servants,
Sam. Wilkins, Heny. Glover, Thos. Man, Ya. Greateates,
Rob. Huwford, Hen. Lee, Eich, Kirle, Peter Purifie,
Wil. Miller, Wil. King, Ealph Wilson, Eobt. Wilkinson,
H. Ligoldsby, W. Purifie, I. Hidenham, Jas. Harrison,
Sam Porter, Eob. Stannerd, Sam. Clarke, Arthur Hels-
ham, I. Friend, Y. Hunt, Kic. Mounton, I. Gibbons, I.
Pawns, Fr. Gibbons, I. Gibbons, I. Cobb, Eobt. Spooner,
I. Freeman, AYalter Bourgh, W. Skinner, H. Wels, Mic.
Cusack, Hum. Hartwell, Eob. Mason, W. Howton, Eic.
Dingley, Jos. Miller, I. HaiTison,G. Fullow, Hum. Eogers,
I. Tilley, I. HaiTison, Ed. Llanden, Mat. Cradock, Wil.
Hamond, I. Giles, I. Fry, Hen. Morton, Tho. Hewet, I.
Crafts, Mat. Philips, Eich. Deyos, ISTic. Curtis, Hen.
Frogg, Too. Lloyd, L Bearnes. (Page 2827.)

This orderly unity, this calm submission to being led in un-
trodden paths, reminds one of the quiet and stead}^ walk before
the start in a race — the jostlings, crossings, and cannonings, &c.,
&c., having not yet commenced. And of these a curious speci-
men must be selected from Larcom's Edition of Petty's Down
Survey, Chapter XYIII. ^' Sir Hierome Sankey has a regular
pitched battle with Dr. Wm. Petty on the floor of the House.
Sir Jerome preferred six articles of misdemeanour and breach
of trust against Dr. Petty. But what aggravated him above all

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else was Petty's irritating refusal to let some one have a por-
tion of land in the i^orth Liberties of Limerick. This was the
desire of the man's heart.

' Oh si proximiTS accederit mihi Angulus iste.'
Petty made a calm, clear statement in vindication of himself,
being a very able man, and having a cool, calculating head ; to
which the Knight replied in so violent and blundering a way
that he was silenced. At last he began again, thus (p. 299) :
' Why then, Mr. Speaker, there is Captain Winkworth come
with an order for the Liberties of Lymrick. But the doctor
said, '' Captain, will you sell V ''" No," said the captain ; " it is
the price of my blood.'' ^^ Then," said the doctor, ^^ 'Tis
bravely said. Wh}^ then, my noble captain, the Liberties of
Lymrick are meat for your master ^^ — meaning the Lord-Depnti/,
Now, Mr. Speaker, who dishonours my Lord-Deputy, the
doctor or I? In my judgment the doctor doth. Then comes
Lt. -Colonel Brayfield for land ; but the doctor asked whether he
would sell? He said, '^ No." ^' Then," said the doctor,
" Little man ; little man, there is land for you beyond the
moon." I have more yet, Mr. Speaker. There be fouler things
yet ; this is but half.'' Here he was interrupted on the score of
' private quarrels interposed to obstructing of public business.'
Finally, an enquiry was ordered.'^

But however all this may have been, the concern is at pre-
sent with results ; and taking these and the premises into due
consideration, one may perceive how it has come to pass, by
what seemed to be a providential retribution, that the plan of
Strafforde for establishing a great English and Protestant colony
in the West by means of fraudulent eject m.ents became utterly
reversed by another plan, namely, Cromweirs one of driving a
great host of Irish and other Roman Catholics, by transplanta-
tion, within the narrow confines of a single province. This was
the way in which Clare became, numerically at least, an essen-
tially Roman Catholic count}^, and the inhabitants, to add no
more, so intensely national in spirit — a S2:)irit slumbering and
sluggish, yet bursting forth betimes with all the noisy rage of
mountain torrents foaming down her own rugged hills. This
fate, then, has woven into the social contexture so considerable
a difference between the Eastern and Western portions of the
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tion predominating here, a body of Cromwellian soldiers and
speculating adventurers leaving their characteristic impressions
there. Thirdly, it seems hardly necessary to enlarge uj)on or
illustrate by many examples —

The Intolerance of the Yictorious Cromwellians.

Apparently permitted by Providence to check the ex-
cessive lengths to which the King had carried his prero-
gative and the heads of Churches their claims of authorit}^, this
mighty power became no less tyrannical and intolerant than the
powers it had overcome and crushed. This intolerance extended
as far as it could well go, trampling down in its stern career
everything which opposed it. What could be expected to stay
the hands of regicides who accounted themselves inspired and
sent by Heaven^s decree — of those who, in their earlier and
milder moods (Whitlocke, p. 28), ^* impeach the Marquis of
Ormonde because he forbids the taking of the Covenant ^^ ; that
Covenant which, after Mr. White, one of the Assembl}^, had
prayed for an hour to prepare both Houses, with the Assembly
of Divines and the Scotch Commissioners, for the takino^ of it,
Mr. Nye in the pulpit then highly eulogises, ^^ showing the
warrant of it from Scripture, the examples of it since the Crea-
Hon (sic), and the benefit to the Church accruing thereby'^
{ubi supra, jd. 70).

To illustrate this intolerance we take from Mod, Intel.,
August 30 to September 6, 1649, the following picture of life
in Dublin : —

" Every man in that kingdom fit to bear arms is in posture of war,
the issue time will shew, tlie hiff coat instead of the Hack gown appears
in Dublin pulpits, that being a furtherer of preferment, if valour
accompany it, to use two swords is meritorious. Not a word of St.
Austin, or Thos Aquinas, nor any such hard words, only downrio-ht
honesty is now given forth."

Accordingly the Presb^^terians in their turn suffer, and cry
out lustily enough after the rout at Dunbar ; and the ministers
of Edinburgh,

Perceiving the persecution to be personal by the practice of your party
[the Independents] upon the ministers of Christ in England and Ireland
and in the Kingdom of Scotland since your unjust invasion thereof, and
finding nothing in 0. C.'s letter, whereupon to build any security for

their persons while they are there and for their return hither they are

resolved to reserve themselves for better times and to wait upon Him
wlio hath hidden His face for a while from the Sons of Jacob.

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Oliver in reply asserts '^ that no man hatli been troubled in
England or Ireland for preaching the Gospel/^ and gravely
ridicules them " for comforting themselves with being the Sons
of Jacob." The ministers rejoin by a citation of the following
stinging facts, viz. : —

That when Ministers of the Gospel have been imprisoned, deprived of
their benefices, sequestered, forced to fiee from their dwelHngs and
bitterly threatened for their faithful declaring the will of God against
the godless and wicked proceedings of men, it cannot be accounted " an
imaginary fear of suffering" in such as are resolved to follow the like
freedom and faithfulness in discharge of their Master's message.

Oliver turns on them again, and charges '' the ministers with
railing against the Civil power " which delivered them from a
tyrant (Charles I.), telling them '' they err through mistaking
the Scripture/' sends them some tough queries to solve, and
turns from them as '' having no reasonable good leisure to un-
fold himself further to them in the way of pen and ink," imply-
ing there remain other ways — the way of cannon, batteries, and
Derbyshire miners. (See this extraordinary controversy in
Cromwell's Letters, by Carlyle ; Letters JSTos. 147-149.)
Yenables inflicted no small amount of sufferings upon the
Presbyterians in the North under the oath of " Engagement,"
violently excluding them from their pulpits, withdrawing their
subsistence, and harassing them by arrest and imprisonment.
(See Reid's History of Presb3^terians, Vol. IL, p. 246.) But
there were at that time no Scotch or Presbyterians in the West,
nor any ambitious movement to extend the system in that direc-
tion. (See Hardin go's Lists.) But if the Presbyterians, as
'' Sons of Jacob,'^ came in for heavy blows, what must the
Bishops and the Church of Ireland expect, as '' Sons of Esau,'^
in the way of mercy from Cromwell and his party ? The saintly
and erudite Usher pleads with Oliver in vain for them, and re-
tires to weep all night from his nearly sightless eyes. (See
Parr's Usher.) Archbishop Bramhall is proscribed, and de-
clared, together with many of the best men of Ireland, incapable
of pardon, of life, or estate. The Irish Church lands and revenues
are seized and secularized with as little remorse or reverence as
the Kilkenny confederates had just shown in iha case. The
churches are turned into stables and cow-houses, &c. The very
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ing inserted slab still to be found in the old cliurch of Ennis on
the south wall : —

Dom. Eugenius Considin, Celebris Stirps nominis hujus, pro se, pro-
que suis. banc ohim struxerat umam. Post destructa fuit Cromvelli
marte furentis. Reparata Jacobo rege secundo ab Eugenic juniori
1686.

The public use of the Book of Common Prayer is now as
sternly proscribed as it had been before by the Commissioners
of Parliament upon their getting hold of Dublin, and this to
the great increase of sin and general corruptness of manners^ as
Lathbury has proved by ample instances in his History of the
Book of Common Prayer to have occurred in England. When
the pure reformed faith of our Church was thus put down with
a sternness worthy of the Inquisitors of heretical pra^aty — in
fact, with as effective an animosity as the Nuncio had expressed ;
when our diocesan ministers were all dead, or had jled away,
and, indeed, ^^ not one Protestant was left in Limerick city on
its being yielded up to Ireton '^ (see Clarendon) ; when the last
known public use of our Liturgy, even on the confines of Killa-
loe Diocese, took place in Portumna, upon Bramhall, b)^ a
special license, being permitted to lift up to heaven the sweet
pure words of holy and classic harmony, in which saints and
martyrs and men of God had winged the highest devotions of
their souls with blessed acceptance before the throne of grace ;
must we not now look upon our faith as for a while dead with-
in this Diocese, and its idtiiesses buried ?

As for the Irish Papists, they showed little mercy, they
found less ; they united to destroy, and were destroyed mainly
through their own disunion. They thought to make great
gains for their Church as the Scotch had done. A power that
was able to crush the Scotch, crushed them too. Never was
more fearfully illustrated the warning to Peter, ''All \]iq\t
that take the sword shall perish with the sword." For some
ten terrible years the Irish Roman Catholics had inflicted un-
paralleled miseries, for about as many more they endured
the same. But equal to severest corporeal was the mental
and moral laceration which Cromwell inflicted upon the Roman
Catholic prelates who, in an evil hour, issued that celebrated
manifesto from Clonmacnoise, to which allusion has already
been made.

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As if there was before him a town to batter, an army to
rout, Oliver deliberately fires out and with fury ungovernable
drives at them. He charges, tramples and scatters their poor
array of puerile arguments and flimsy statements. He seizes
them, thumb-screwing them with torturing reminiscences and
racking them amid universal scorn. Like the Genius of Battle
and the Angel of Judgment in one, he grows before their
appalled gaze into more than mortal dimensions, and stands in
a light supernatural and scaring. Well may Mr. Carlyle call
his reply '' one of the remarkablest {sic) State papers ever pub-
lished in Ireland since Strongbow or even since St. Patrick...
But let there be a noble pity for them in the hearts of the
noble."

The Declaration of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland for theundeceiviDg
of deluded and seduced people, which may be satisfactory to all, who
do not wilfully shut their eyes against the light. In answer to certain
Declarations and Acts, framed by the Irish Popish Prelates and Clergy
in a Conventicle at Clonmacnoise.

After dwelling scornfully upon their existing '' differences " and pro-
posed " union," also upon their distinction between the ''Clergy and
Laity," he tells them he is not troubled at then- " union." By the
gi-ace of God we fear not, we care not for it. Your union is like that
of Simeon and Levi (brethi^en in cruelty). Though it becomes iis to be
humble in respect of ourselves, yet we can say to you, God is not with
you. You say your union is against a *' Common Enemy." And to
this, if you be talking of union, I will give you some wormwood to lite
on, by which it will appear God is not with you. Who is it that created
this " Common Enemy." (I suppose you mean Englishmen). The Eng-
lish ? Remember, ye hypocrites, Ireland was once united to England.
That was the original " Union." Englishmen had good inheritances,
which many of them purchased with their money— they and their
ancestors from you and your ancestors. They had good leases from
Irishmen, for long times to come, great stocks thereupon ; houses and
plantations erected at their own cost and charge. They lived peace-
ably and honestly amongst you. You had generally equal benefit of
the protection of England with them, and equal justice from the Laws

saving what was necessary for the State, to put upon some few

people, apt to rebel upon the instigation of such as yon. You broke
this " Union." You, unprovoked, put the English to the most unheard
of and most barbarous massacre (without respect of age or sex) that
ever the Sun beheld. And at a time when Ireland was in perfect peace.
And when, through the example of Enghsh industry, through commerce
and traffic, that which was in the Natives hands was better to them
than if all Ireland had been in their possession and not an Englishman
in it. And yet then, I say, was this unheard of villany perpetrated,

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by jour instigation, who boast of "ijeace making " and " union against
the Common Enemy." What think yon by this time, is not my asser-
tion true ? Is God, will God be with you ? I am confident He will
not!

After a most taunting criticism upon their design and the right of
their Church, of their Archbishops, Bishops and Prelates, upon their
lay-fee, then- jurisdiction, ecclesiastical authority and the faith of their
Church (as if it were hopeless to enlighten, and useless to elevate such) ;
he asks, — But alas, why is this said ? "Why are these pearls cast before
you ? Tou are resolved not to be charmed from using '' the instru-
ments of a foolish shepherd.'*' You are a part of Antichrist, whose
Kingdom the Scripture so expressly speaks should " be laid in blood,"
yea " in the blood of the Saints." You have shed great store of that
already, and ere it be long, you must all of you '' have blood to drink,'*
even "the dregs of the cup of the fury and the wrath of God," which
'' will be poured out upon you." ( ! !)

Upon their putting forward " the interest of his Majesty " as " a
ground for this war." What Majesty is it you mean (he demands). Is
it France, or Spain, or Scotland ? Speak plainly ! You have some of
you lately been harping, or else we are misinformed, upon his Majesty
of Spain to be your Protector. Was it because his Majesty of Scotland
was too little a Majesty for your purpose ? We know you love great
Majesties (!) Or is it because he is not fully come over to you in point
of religion ? If he be short in that, you will quickly find out upon that
score another " Majesty." His father, who complied with you too much,
you rejected, and now would make the world believe you would make
the son's interest a great part of the state of your quarrel. How can
we but think there is some reserve in this ? And that the son (Chas.
ii.) has agreed to do somewhat more for you than ever his father (Chas.
i.) did ? Or else, tell us, whence this new zeal is ? That the father did
too much for you, in all Protestant judgments, instead of many
instances, let this be considered, what one of your own doctors. Dr.
Enos, of Dublin, sa3^s, who, writing against the Agreement made
between the Lord of Ormond and the Irish Catholics, finds fault with
it, and says, it was "nothing so good as that which the Earl of
Glamorgan had warrant from the King to make, but exceeding far short
of what the Lord George Digby had waiTant to agree to, with the Pope
himself at Kome in favour of the Irish Catholics." I intend not this to
you, but to such Protestants as may incline to you, and join with you
upon this single account, which is the only appearing inducement to
them. "To them I intend it," seeing there is so much probability of ill
in this abstracted, and so much certainty of ill in fighting for the
Eomish religion against the Protestant, and fighting along with men
under the guilt of so horrid a massacre, from participating in which
guilt, whilst they take part with them, they will never be able to assail
themselves either before God or good men. How dare you assume to
call these men " your Jlochs " whom you have plunged into so horrid
a rebellion, by which you have made them and the country almost a
ruinous heap ? And whom you have fleeced and jDolled and peeled

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hitherto, aud make it your business to do so still. Ton cannot feed
them ; you poison them with your false, abominable, and Antichristian
doctrine and practices ; you keep the Word of God from them, and
instead thereof give them your senseless orders and traditions ; you
teach them *' implicit faith ;" he that goes amongst them may find many
that do not understand anything in the matters of your religion. I have
had few better answers from any since I came to Ireland that are of
your flocks than this, " That indeed they did not trouble themselves
about naatters of religion, but left that to the Church." Thus are your
flocks fed. And such credit have you of them. But they must take
heed of losing then* religion. Alas ! poor creatures, what have they to
lose ?

Concerning this losing of their religion, you instance Cromwell's letter,
repeating his words to the then Governor of Eoss, 19 Oct., 1649, which
are as follows, viz. : — *' For that which you mention concerning liberty
of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience ; but if by liberty
of conscience you mean a liberty to exercise the Mass, I judge it best to
use plain dealing, and to let you know, where the Parliament of England
have poivers that loill not he allowed o/." And this you call a tyrannical
resolution, which you say hath been put in execution in Wexford, Eoss,
and Tredagh.

And now for the people of Ireland. I do particularly declare what
they may expect at my hands in this point, wherein you will easily
perceive that, as I neither have flattered, nor shall flatter you, so neither
shall I go about to delude them with specious pretences, as you have
ever done.

First, therefore, I shall not.iohere I have poiver, and the Lord is 'pleased
to Hess me, suffer the exercise of the Mass ivhere I can take notice of it.
No, nor in any way suffer you that are F agists, tvhere I can find yoto
seducing the people, or hy any overt act violating the latvs estaUished. But
if you come into my hmids, I shcdl cause to he inflicted the punishments
oppoioited hy the laws, to use your ovm term, " secundum gra;vitatem delicti,''*
upon you, and shall try to reduce things to their former state on this hehcdf.
As for the people, what thoughts they have in matters of religion in
their own breasts I cannot reach, but shall think it my duty, if they
walk honestly and peaceably, not to cause them in the least to suffer for
the same, and shall endeavour to walk patiently and in love towards
them to see if at any time it shall please God to give them another and
a better mind. And all men under the power of England within this
dominion are hereby required and enjoined strictly and religiously to do

the same.

To the second danger threatened, which is " the destruction of the
lives of the inhabitants of this nation," to make it good that this is
designed, they (the Hierarchy) give not one reason, which is either
because they have none to give, or else for that they believe the people
will receive everything for truth they say, which they have too well
taught them, and God knows the people are too apt to do. But I will a
little help them. They speak indeed '' of rooting out the common
people," and also by way of consequent, that " the extirpating of the

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Catholic religion is not to be effected without tlie massacring, destroying,
or banishing the Catholic inhabitants." (He then proposes what Mr.
Carlyle terms a very subtle "dilemma, and very Oliverian, but it has a
real logical validity." Call your religion true ; men have changed from it
without being massacred. Admit it to be false ; will you say they need
massacring ? Whatever religion you may have, I think you have not
much logic to spare.) Tour words are " massa<jre, destroy, and banish."
Good : now give us an instance of one 'man since my coming into Ireland not
in arms, massacred, destroyed, or hanished, concerning tli-e massacre or
destruction of vjliom justice hath not been done, or endeavoicred to he done.
As for the other — banishment, I must now speak unto the people whom
you would delude, and whom this most concerns, that they may know
in this what to expect at my hands. The question is of the destruction
of life, or of that which is but little inferior to it, to wit, of banishment.
ISTow, first, I shall not willingly take, or suffer to be taken, away the life
of any man not in arms, but by the trial to which the people of this
nation are subject by law for offences against the same. And, secondly t
as for the banishment, it hath not hitherto been inflicted on any but
such who, being in arms might justly, upon the terms they were taken
under, have been put to death — as might those who are instanced in
your Declaration to be sent to the " Tobacco Islands." And therefore
I do declare, Tha.t if the peoi^le he ready to run to arms hy the instigation
of their clergy or otherwise, such as God hy His Providence shall give into
my hands, m.ay expect that or vjorse measure from me, hut not otherwise.

Thirdly, as to that of *' the ruin of their fortune," you instance the
act of suhscription whereby the estates of the inhabitants of this nation
are sold, so as there remaineth now no more but to put the purchasers
in possession, and that for this cause are the 'forces drawn out of Eng-
land. And that you might carry the interest far so as to engage the
common sort of people with you. You farther say to them " that the
modei^te usages hitherto exercised to them, is to no other end but to
our private advantage and for the better support of your army, we in-
tending at the close of our 'conquest,' as you term it, to root out the
common people also, and to plant the land with colonies to be brought
hither out of England."

This consisting of divers parts, will ask distinct answers —
Andi first, as to the act of subscription. It is time there is such an
act, and it was a just one. For when, by your execrable massacre and
rebellion, you had not only raised a bloody war to ja-stify the same,
and thereby occasioned the exhausting the treasure of England in the
prosecution of so just a war against you, was it not a wise and just a<^t in
the State to raise money by escheating the lands of thoscwho had a hand
in the rebellion ? Was it not fit to make their estates to defi-ay the
charge who had caused the trouble ? Oliver, (after allowing how this
act naturally tended to induce the Irish to fight it out in desperation
rather than repent or lay down arms, also to expect no mercy from Eng-
land), asks : — " But what was the English army brought over for f/i/^ pur-
pose, as you allege ? Do you think that the state of England will be at
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in that for wliicli they did disburse httle above a quarter of a million ?
Although there is justice in that also, which ought and I trust will be
seasonably performed toward them. ISTo, I can give you abetter reason
for the army coming than this. England hath had experience of the
hlessing of God in ijersecuting just and, righteous causes whatever the co t
and hazard he. And. if ever men ivere engaged in a righteotis cause in the
ivorMj this ivill scarce he second, to it. We are come to a^li an account of
the innocent hlood that hath heen shed, and to endeavour to hring to an
account (by the blessing and presence of the Almighty, in whom alone
is our hope and strength) all who, by appearing in arms, seek to justify
the same.

We come to break the power of a company of lawless rebels who,
having cast off the authority of England, live as enemies to human
society, whose principles (the world hath experience) are to destroy and
subjugate all men not complying with them.

We come, by the assistance of God, to hold forth and maintain the
lustre and glory of English liberty in a nation where we have an
undoubted right to do it— wherein the people of Ireland (if they listen
not to such seducers as you are) may equally participate in all
benefits ; to use their liberty and fortune equally wifch Englishmen if
they keep out of arms.

And now, having said this to you, I have a word to them, that in this
point which concerns them in their estates and fortunes they may know
what to trust to —

(I.) Such as have been formerly in arms may, submitting themselves,
have their cases presented to the State of England, where no doubt the
State will be ready to take into coi^sideration the nature and quality
of their actings, and deal mercifully with them. (II.) As for those
now in arms, who shall come in and submit, and give engagements for
their future quiet and honest carriage and submission to the State of
England, I doubt not but they will find like merciful consideration.
(III.) Except only the leading persons and principal contrivers of this
rebellion whom I am confident they will reserve to make examples of
justice, whatsoever hazards they incur thereby. (lY.) And as for such
private soldiers as lay down their arms and shall live peaceably and
honestly at their several homes, they shall be permitted so to do.
And in general (Y.) for the first two sorts for such as have b jen or arc
now in arms and shall submit, I shall humbly and effectually represent
their cases to the Parliament, as far as becomes the duty and place
I bear. But (YI.) as for those who, notwithstanding all this, persist and
continue in arms, they must expect what the providence of God, in
that which is falsely called the chance of war, will cast upon them.
(\aL) Eor such of the Nobility, Gentry, and Commons of Ireland as
have not been actors in this rebellion, they shall and may expect the
protection in their goods, liberties, and lives, which the law gives them.
And in their husbandry, merchandizing, manufactures, and other trad-
ing whatsoever, the same ; they behaving themselves as becomes honest
and peaceable men, testifying their good affections upon all occasions
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with tlie English. They shall bear proportionably with them in taxes,
and if the soldiery be insolent upon them, upon complaint and proof
it shall be punished with the utmost severity, and they protected equally
with Englishmen.

And having said this, and purposing honestly to perform it, if this
people shall headily run on after the counsels of their prelates and
clergy and other leaders, I hope to be free from the misery and desola-
tion, blood and ruin, that shall befall them, and shall rejoice to e^eercise
utmost severity against them. — Oliver Cromwell, given at Youghal, Jan.,
164^9.

The intelligent and discriminating reader of so much, of the
above declaration, will not regret tlie time and labour spent
over it. If '^wolves, and priests, and tories/' were now the
three wild beasts to be exterminated in Ireland, with prices
put on their heads, for their more certain capture, let it be
known equally well, that as it seems if not the religion {supra),
at least the course of action taken by the Roman Catholics of
Ireland, that they behave in a certain way towards the English
and Protestants in Ireland ; so it was the religion of Oliver
Cromwell, and his course of action to behave in a certain way by
these same Roman Catholics in return. And so he behaves
accordingly, no doubt in compliance with the dictates of his
conscience. Also in the Declaration, he gives full notice of his
motives and purposes. But, above all, the question must never
be forgotten or lost sight of, who brought down an Oliver Cromwell
upon Ireland, so sternly ^^ asking accoun t of innocent blood
that was shed, and rejoicing to exercise the utmost severity."

And accordingly, sundry priests of the Church of Rome
were, by incredible escapes, romantic adventures, and ingenious
disguises, able to avoid arrest, — some for a shorter, some a
longer time, some altogether. Others of them were arrested
and transported in great numbers. The first lot of them was
sent to Spain. Iparbadoes was pitched upon for the next; and
the Isles of Aran (where a grand old Abbey had been torn
down to make a fort for artillery) were chosen for the seques-
tration of the rest of those captured, who were to live upon a
subsistence of 6d. a day each, and under shelter of cabins erected
especially for them. (See ^'' Cromwellian Settlement," p. 3.^1 ;
Petty's *^ Dow^n Survey ; '' also Ilavertys' " Tour to Aran
Isles.")

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tholics (and especially the transplanted) more than ever to
their priesthood, it was this course of systematic intolerance.
Men, the most part of whom were not very remarkable or at-
tractive, or gifted with high endowments of any kind, assumed,
in the estimation of those among whom they ministered, the
exalted character of heroes and martyrs, — simply because they
pursued their ministrations under the ban of persecution. This
was the secret mystery of the romantic tie of ^' Soggarth
Aroon."

However, besides the general principles laid down by Crom-
well, and the practice elsewhere, it is in our power to add an
account of the particular status of the priests of Clare, as defined
in the deed of surrender ratified on the 21st day of April,
1652, in behalf of " The Brigade of Thomond."

(The extract is made from an attested copy which lingered
as an heirloom among the O'Bryens of Glen' Columbkill.)

(1) Major-^General Sir Hardress Waller, Colonel Peter Sbubbs (s/c),
Commander-in-Chief of the forces in the County of Clare, Colonel
Thomas Sadler, Lieutenant- Colonel John Nelson, Governor of Kilmaloe
(? Killaloe or Kilmatlock) and the rest of the Council of War, for and
in behalf of the Parliament of England, of the one part ; and (2) Colonel
Murtogh O'Bryen, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Brigade in the
County of Clare, Colonel Daniel McISTemara, and Lieutenant-Colonel
James Fitzgerald, Commissioner, entrusted and authorized by the
Brigade, on the other part, as f olloweth : —

There are fifteen articles in the agreement concluded.

The first provides that the forces of horse and foot, under the com-
mand of Colonel Murtough O'Brjen, shall bjr the 4th May next deliver
up their arms and horses, at or near the Castle of Clare or Innesh
(Ennis), to Major-General Sir Hardress Waller, or whom he may ap-
point, for the service of the Commonwealth of England; and till
that time the county where they are now quartered is to provide for
them.

2nd. Those so complying are to receive protection for their lands
and several estates, and live in such places as shall be thought fit by
Sir H. Waller, &c.

3rd. Liberty to sell horses.

4rh. Protection and quarters.

5th. As to the real estate of any of the party, they shall have equal
benefit with others under like qualifications in any office that shall here-
after be held out from the Parhament of the Commonwealth of England,
as hath been since 2nd February last.

6th. Liberty to transport themselves to serve any State in amity with
the State of England, and under certain further conditions.

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7th. Liberty to collect and receive a month's contribution for the
Brigade.

8th. Colonel and officers (unless excepted) to enjoy horses, arms, and
attendants, &c.

9th. On submission of Brigade, enlargement, liberty, protection for
lives, and personal estates, or security given for future good demeanour, —
those who cannot get security to be transported to such place in amity
with England, under such officers as they shall choose that shall make
any such condition with any foreign nation as before mentioned, — pro-
vided that the benefit of all, or any of the articles aforesaid, extend not
to any " Who hath heen giiilty of 'murder or onass acre of any of the English^
or any adhering to them since the year 1641 ;" and for the avoiding of
scruples, which at any time hereafter may arise in the construction of
the word " Murder J' It is hereby declared and intended that the same
shall only be constructed, and extend to such person or persons as had
in the year aforesaid or since, murdered any English person or other,
not then in arms ; and the same shall not extend to any man killed,
whose forts and castles were besieged in the year aforesaid or since, and
that the same shall extend only to such person or persons as committed
or aided, in such murder, if any, and no other.

10th. Acts of officers and soldiers, as such, to be absolutely for-
given.

11th. Provided also that the benefit of those articles extend not
to any i^riest or others of the Romanist clergy in orders, fui'ther than the
said Major- General do undertake industriously to solicit the Commis-
sioners of Parliament, that such of the clergy in orders, that having
710 other act or crime laid to their charge, than officiating their functions as
priest, shall have liberty and passes to go beyond the seas ; nor any
other officer or soldier that have taken away the lives of any of our
party after quarter given ; and provided also that the benefit of them
extend not to any that have been formerly of the Parliament-party who
deserted their colours, since the Lord-Lieutenant Cromwell first arrived,
and are or may be now in said party.

12th. Those embezzling horses, or arms, to be excluded benefits.

13th. Conditions as to partial breach of articles— as to election
between them — as to sustentation covenanted for — as to incapacity of
employment or trust in the Parliament ser^ace averted.

14th. The benefit of better conditions if granted to Lord Muskerry
covenanted for.

15th. Lists to be sent to Clare Castle of officers and soldiers accept-
ing condition within 6 days after signing, &c.

To the copy from which the above has been taken the following cer-
tificate is appended : — " I certify that the within is a true copy of the
Articles of Capitulation of the Brigade of Thomond, 1652, original of
which is in my possession, stating Murtagh O'Bryen to be Commander-
in-Chief of the Irish Brigade. June 18, 1843.

Danl. McNamara, Bouchier.

(The document has also been compared with " Articles of Capitula-
tion," vol. iv. p. 70, Press 14, shelf E.)

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As allusion has been made to '' letter terms under Lord Muskerry's
Articles ^of Capitulation," the following is ''The Explanacon on ye
Articles," in Mr. Hardinge's paper on the Circumstances &c. (p. 408,
E. I. A.), so far as relates to the definition of murder and the dealings
with the Eoman CathoHc Priests. (1) The definitions are nearly the
same in both documents, but in Muskerry's sun^ender, the words
'^'^ murder or massacre of any of the Enghsh " have after the words
"not inarms," the addition of —"but following their occupations in
their farms and freeholds." This clearly points to a cowardly sur-
prizal of the unsuspecting and inoffensive. Also the Muskerry docu-
ment adds guilty knowledge of breach of quarter, and subsequent har-
bouring, as an exclusion of benefit since the first year.

The declaration as to

" Eeligion " is very brief.

" We do declare that it is not our intention nor, as we conceive the
intention of those whom we serve to force any to their worship and
service contrary to theu^ conscience."

All this, however, is quite compatible with forcing any if they per-
sist in their own Worship and Service to do so under most serious
disabilities and inflictions.

But although so much of intolerance was exhibited to '' the
Sons of Esau " and even ^' of Jacob/' it is but an act of justice
to call the reader's attention to a remarkable and exceptional
fact. The Cromwellians made a slender recognition of a cer-
tain kind of Teacher or Minister of Religion within the limits
of this Diocese and elsewhere in Ireland. Doubtless this was
done in accordance with the decision of Parliament when
despoiling the Church and Universities.

The Cromwellian system being much better fitted for over-
throwing than for building up institutions, projected but a
wretchedly inadequate Ministry of the Gospel, such as it was,
in Ireland. So far as the Diocese of Killaloe was concerned,
we give the names, stations, and ministers' allowance as appear-
ing in the '^ Civil Establishment of the Commonwealth for Ire-
land," as copied by Reid in Appendix Histy. Preb3^s. II. 496.
In the Precinct of Lymeriche.

Per

annum.

Ennis, Alexander Young

Seven Mile Bridge.
(Quere, Six Mile B).

£100

Robert Thornton

. . .

100

Killaloe, Gawen, or Gavin Berkeley

In the Precinct of Atlilonc.

100

■i.

Birr, Charles Chandler

100

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These four were ttie favoured individuals to represent this
ministry of the Gospel in the Diocese of Killaloe. Doubtless
^Hhe Triers of Preachers '^ tried them, and " after honest care
taken for the ejecting of scandalous ministers (viz., chiefly
those belonging to the Diocese), and for bringing in them that
have passed an approbation,'^ (see Oliver's Y.th speech in
Carlyle, ubi supra), they were accepted as vessels of grace, and
having unction, and they were also no doubt just as one-sided
and shallow in their theological pronouncements as the like have
been before and since. Possibly we may meet some of these
again in the progress of the narrative.

Our account of the Diocese imder the Usurpation would be
seriously deficient without some notice of (IV.)

" The Civil and Military Administration."

Copious extracts bearing on this important subject are now
appended, taken from " The Order Book of the Commissioners
of Lymerick, Joshua Bennett, Thomas Carpenter, Thomas
Harden,^' a work which seems not to have attracted attention on
the part of historical students.

"John Ljsaglib engages himself to bring in the body of Sebastian
Creaghe in the penalty of £100."

The following are sworn Constables of Wards in the City :— John
Parker, John Greenwood, Thomas Bailey, Thomas Chaplin, ISTich. Dowell
and Edward Sheehey, for Kilmnrry Parish. The Oath they took mns
thus : —

" I swear to be true and faithful to the Commonweahh of England as
it is established without a King or House of Lords, and to act faithfully
as Constables of Wards of Lymerick."

Mr. Blood, plaintiff. Ordered that Mr. Robinson do issue forth a
sequestration to the petitioner ol such goods and chattels as were the
defendants, and are now unjustly detained.

12 Oct. 1652. Ordered that the Governors of Crattalaugh do forth-
with restore unto the petitioners the within-mentioned (indistinct;
quere '' Corne ") and the petitioners do likewise enjoy and benefit of
then- certaintie. They, together with the inhabitants of Annaghbeg,
paying equally fire and candle-light to the gaiTison of Castle\\.nk,'
according to the establishment, to be fi^eed from all other garrison.

16 Oct. 1652. Ordered that Lieutenant Jos. Miller do enter into the
house late belonging to Dan. Creaghe or Nic. Neothan till farther
iiotice.

Bryen O'Bryen, petitioner. It appearing that petitioner is

resident with all his substance in the Barony of Islands, it is therefore
ordered that petitioner be charged in said Barony and not in Inchiquin,
provided he hath paid up his arrears.

Colonel John McNaniara is discharged from supplying;

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firing to Castle Bank and the Governor to expect his firing from the
trustees.

21 October, 1652.

The dividend of oats upon both countries, from the 15th inst. to the
15th of December, allowance one Bristoll (bound) barrel for each troop
per mensem, also settlement for fire and candlelight, viz. : —

3 loads of wood,
3 lbs of candlelight

for every three men per week, with non-commissioned oflB.cers of horse.
Clare County. Limerick Barrels.

140

„ Islands

... ... j--r\j

„ Inchiquin

,, Corcomroe

„ Clonderlaw

,, Moyfarta

280

The assignations for horse and Dragoons for the two months —

1. Captain King's troop, consisting of 102, assigned for | Qq^^^^^

102 barrels upon j g^^^^ ^o^tj.

2. Captain Porter's troop of 88 on...

3. Captain Napper's troop of 92, ditto barrels

4. Captain G-ibbon's troop of 91, ditto barrels

... > Bunratty.

iBunratty.
Corcumroe.
Clanderlaw.
Moyfarta.
) Bunratty.
... > Islands.
) Inchiquin.

(This shows how the county was made pay for the conquerors who held
it. But more of this anon.)

22nd October, 1652.
Slaney Bryen petitioned to the new trustees of the Barony of
Bunratty to examine and compose by consent or certify.

This referred to Lieutenant Willy, Governor of Ralagheine,

John McNamara, and Mr. Thos. Fanning to examine and compose by
consent, or certify.

John Eeaghe McNamara, petitioner. The Governor of Ballyawlia
(Ballyalla) is desired and authorized to examine what corn hath been
taken from the petitioner by Lieutenant Bret Lewis, and upon what
score the same was taken away. And the same to certify with all
speed if such course may be taken for the plaintiff's relief. And
whereas it is alleged that the petitioner took the lands of Kilcussin (Q.
Kilkishen) for the fourth sheaf. Ordered that he be not troubled in
plowing or sowing the same.

Ordered that Mary Purcell doth not plow the meadow of

and u]}o\\ any pretence.

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Tlie inliabitants of Moyfarta petitioned against an over-
charge of 19Z. It is ordered that the petitioners do receive the said
191. out of the iythe-money due upon that Barony, in consideration whereof
such persons as are engaged for the said tjthes are to take notice, and
this order be a discharge for so much paid. (Thus it seems that the
inhabitants were robbed so shamefully that restitution must be made.
But this comes out of the tythes which had been taken from the
Church.)

29th October, 1652.
The Trustees of Barony of Bunratty, petitioners.

Whereas it was alleged that the within-mentioned instrument
(whereupon we have granted our fonner order to the within-mentioned
McNemara) was not signed by the persons themselves, but their hands
counterfeited. Whereas it is alleged that the gentry of said Barony
for the most part never consented to sign same, and the order was
surreptitious.

Order was revoked and proceedings nulUfied.

1st November, 1652.

Richard Creaghe, order for his protection in Barony of Moyfarta to
commanding ofl&cer at Carrigahaulta.

Bory McMahon's woods to be preserved for the use of the coal works,
and no person do cut same.

(This, with some former and further orders will account in some
degree for what became of the old trees and vast woods in the west
of Ireland, at least those not felled or burned in the times of Elizabeth
and James).

1st November, 1652.

The dividend of 400L, monthly contribution upon the County of
Clare commencing the first of November, together with the monthly
sum of 11 OZ. laid upon the said county in lieu of Carradge and Corne
(sf.):-

(Distribution of same.)

put to lOL

Bonrattie

... £226

.. £62 0

abate lOZ.

Islands...

10 0

put to 3Z. 15s. Os.

Inchiquine

13 15

Corcomroe

6 12

Moyfarta

13 15

£400 0 0

£110 0 0

set forth their losses
the gr.eat charge of
delmquencies of the

The inhabitants of Corcomroe, Petitioners,
over and above their monthly pajonents, also
" forredg " {sic) thi'ough the refractoriness and
Faronies of Burren and other Baronies. That the inhabitants may the
better pay their monthly contribution, we have thought fit and do
according order shall so save the rent arising to the State out of the corn
of Burren for this year (being 28?.), together with the rent arising to the
State out of the tythes {! !) of the said Barony of Corcomroe for this year

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being 40Z., in all 68?., in fall satisfaction of the said losses and charges o£
forredg {sic) laid upon them through the refractoriness of others, until
the 1st of November, whereof Captain Napper and Captain Castle are to
take notice and pay the said sums according, unto three indifferent men
to be chosen by the Baroney.

4th November, 1652.

Order that the inhabitants of Barony of Tullagh pay, according to
their substance, an equal balance with substance of petitioners towards
discharging said Rarony of Bunratty of their monthly contribution.

A permit to Mrs. Maley for to fetch three or four cows from the county
of Clare into the lands of Ballyhaise.

5th November.
Petition of inhabitants of Moyarta to ascertain on oath, by reference
to Captains Napperand Gibbons, the substance of " home and corne " in
the Barony, with a view to an abatement.

9th November.
An order to suspend payments until we take course to put said
Baronies into equal balance with rest of Baronies. And said Captain is
to certify what stores of oats or was brought into Carrigahaltie and
Killquii (Kilkee).

11th November.
Another dividend of 400Z. monthly, with 1101. in lieu of forradg — the
first to continue for thu'teen months, the last for six — was agi^eed and
concluded upon.

Cornet John Gore, Petitioner.

The Inhabitants of Islands. A Eeply to their Petition or Grievance.

1. As to fire and candle, is refeiTed to Governor of Countie to settle
same as shall be most convenient both for the Barony and all garrisons,
according to justice, observing the establishment.

2. All persons who have removed since May last are to return, or else
the inhabitants are to set fire to their goods.

3. Orders of exemption to be reconsidered, especially to Eobert
Peacocke.

4. Ordered that inhabitants are not to be molested in cutting wood
for garrisons.

5. Ordered that the Barony of Clanderlaw shall be at liberty to
continue where they are, or else remove into the Barony of Islands.

6. If any in said Barony conceal their goods to evade payment of
contributions, goods to be seized, valued, aiid sold in satisfaction.

7. Trustees to send duplicates of applotments seven days after made.

Petition of Koe McMara, John Teige, and Others.
Eeply is that Colonel Purefoy, the Governor of Ballyallia, and Thomas
Fannig, are to examine, &c., and balance with Bunratty.

12th November.
In re L. O'Hogan for inhabitants of Killenaboy.

An order of reference of Captain Gibbings and Lieutenant Floyd to
examine.

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15th November.

Andrew Hickman's com to be restored, " lie only paying his portion
of contribution, if any be."

A waiTant to Captain Kyshe to pay unto Captain Lynnocks for the
reparation of several places, viz., Six-mile Bridge, a new bridge at the
Loughgir, and other places.

The case of Mr. ISTeptune Blood v. John McNamara and the Justices of
Bunratty, to be heard next Thursday seven night.

18th November.

Thomas Hickman's losses to be made good by the Barony of Bunratty
now, or as soon as they can.

Oats applotted for two months for the Genei^l's troop from 15th
October ; Buni^tty twenty barrels.

Annie Considine als Mahon, *' to make good her husband's loyalty."

On petition of Inchiquin Barony — (I.) Other Baronies to be joined in
payment. (II.) They shall have 10s. per ton for hay.

19th November.
Dr. Grabriel O'Dolory had license to depart, and is not to be charged in
Moyfeadta.

20th November.

Assignment of a certam amount of sequestered tythes, as they (the
payers) are to pay it to the State in discharge of Edward White's claim
for satisfaction.

The payers are :

Quarter-Master Janns, tenant to Drumcleave
TTiomas Clanchy, Clare Abbey ...
The Petitioner himself, for Clondagad

20
6

£
. 11

, 18
. 13

s.
10

5
15

0
0
0

23rd November.

Captain Stannard's troop ; oats, two months.

Bunmtty ... ... . ...

Inchiquin
Islands

£43

31
24th November.

Dermod McGlissane. Petition true. Corcomroe. Such of the in-
habitants of as are now residing in the Barony shall live and contribute
there in future.

John Comyn. Petition and Order. That L. O'Downe and rest shall
cut and carry no timber from the wood of Meelick.

26th November.
On Neptune Blood's complaint. Ordered that the trustees of Barony
of Bunratty appear.

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2nd December, 1652.
Dame Honora O'Brien, petitioner.
Forasmuch as "upon setting the tythes of Clare, we have reserved
the Lord Thomond's therein unto himself, or those standing under him,
and have only set the States parts ; it is therefore ordered that such as
received the said lord's part of the said tythes give the petitioner satis-
faction for the amount, or appear and show cause in four days.

6th December.
Petitioners, the inhabitants of Corcomroe, per James McEnchroe.
As to his petition that Captain Castle be joined with Lieutenant Floyd
to hear. The matter is referred to the following : —

Connor O'Dea,
Hugh "^

and > MAcENCimoE.
James )
Bbyen O'Bryen.
Bryan BLaurahan.

Sir Daniel O'Bryen, petitioner.

That Ensign Hovenden and petitioner shall appear before us to deter-
mine the marketable price of beeves taken from petitioner by Captain
Napper for use of his troop, and also restore said cattle in specie.

30.

Maurish Hurley had twenty-six beeves taken from him by order of
commander for the supply of a party with Lieut. -Colonel Warden.

Ordered that Hurley receive satisfaction for the same from certain in
the barony such as are refractory. Trustees to take notice. (Poor
Hurley ; is he as yet paid for his twenty-six beeves on the order to the
refractory p As good security as an order on the pump at Aldersgate.)

20th December.
That Prances MacBrien be allowed a plow of Garranes and two cows ;
and that further she be permitted to live upon the lands by paying
the proportion of charges.

Ordered to pay John Eeddan for twenty-four tons of hay, at 10s.
a ton.

Creaghe v. Widenham.

31st December.

That the lands of Athdane (Adane) were inliabited, and paid contri-
bution to the State, at time the said lands were demised to defendant.

Orders to farmers of tythe, by petition, to pay two gales in con-
sideration of losses.

Barony of Bunratty to provide thirty bushels of oats, Lymerick
measure.

'Wsbde, — That the 50L tythe-rent of Kilkeedy, sequestered by former
order, in the hands of Captain Wade, be forthwith paid into the Trea-
sury, and there sequestered ; and that the said Wade do forthwith pay
in likewise to the Treasury the remainder of what he had not paid of
the first gale of 50?., being reserved upon him to the State out of the

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tythes of said parish of Kilkeedy, unless he can produce an order for
abatement of same under the hands of us, or any of us.

Tnos. Jackson.

Jas. Knight.

Wm. Skinner.
16th January.

Ireland, by order of Commissioners of Parliament.
Whereas Colonel Ingoldsby hath been at great charge, as Governor
of county Clare the last year, in entertaining parties in their marches to
and fro the said counties, for which he never as yet received any con-
sideration, it is therefore ordered that the Commissioners of the
Revenue for the precinct of Lymerick do order, by warrant, the treasurer
of said precinct to pay unto Colonel Ingoldsby two hundred pounds out
of said customs and excise to be received for the two hundred tuns of
French wines licensed to be brought into the port. Dated at Kilkenny,
6th October, 1652.

Edm. Ludlow.

CiiA. Fleetwood.

Miles Corbet.

John Jones.
18th January.

Daniel O'Brien, of Dough, Esquire.
Ordered that the examination of the matter be referred to Captain
Napper and Captain Piers to examine and certify.

20th January.

A seizure of corn ordered on the lands of Ballymorris for non-pay-
ment of charges thereon.

Roger Crowe, In re. Order. — That he be not charged for the cow he
hath already sold.

25th January.
Robert Cox's petition favourably dealt with, and his sufferings for,
and his affection to, the Parliament and present Government apparent,
is encouraged to live on his estate and protected variously.

7th February.

Bunratty barony to provide eighty barrels of oats.
Captain Porter for oats — thirty- six barrels from Islands Inchiquin
and Corcomroe.

That Daniel Connery entering sufficient security to transport himself
for Spain on the first conveniency, then be remitted and himself set at
llhert?/ (?)

Petition of Edward White (Ti/thes).
Whereas it appeareth by certificate of Capt. Walker and Capt. Staple -
ton that 720 sheaves of the within tythes of Dromileer parish, sold unto
petitioner in 1651, were taken away from him for the use of the State
[that was a pleasant ty thing of tythes, and seizing of what was so'd]
which said sheaves we value to six barrels, that the receiver of revenue

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of the precinct abate E. White for amount of 3?. 12.5., at 12d. per barrel,

out of rent due from petitioner to State for said tythes.

C. Giles Yandaleur, plaintiff ) -pi • , • rv , , , • ^

/ . N ' ^ f rlamtm to take possession of

i all defendant's rooms.

(sic)
Mi. Stritch, defendant.

The baronies of Bunratty Islands and Corcomroe had a charge of 115?.
on them for the fortification of Athlone (! !), and Captain Nap per having
seized cattle for same is to account with treasurer.

14th March.

m r^^ j.-i.- ( 136 sheaves of oates,

Thos. Clancy, petitioner | g^^ ^_ ^^ ^^^^^^^

taken from petitioner.

The treasurer is ordered to make an abatement for value of the same .
out of the aiTears of tythes or absentees' corn from any of the inhabitants
of Clare, in 1651. [Poor Tom Clancy. He would rather have had his
corn and beans than such a shadowy equivalent.]

To the Eight Honourable Commissioners of Revenue.

Petition fi'om the destroyed barony of Cosmay. [Though this is not in
Clare or Tipperary, yet it will give a very good idea of the ruinous effect
of such exactions as have been exposed above.]

1. Whereas it is reported that the great po.rt of the tythes and glebe land
in other counties goes to assist the counties to pay their contrihutiorij whether
it be your sense that this barony may have their glebe and tythes to
assist them in some. And the rather because the tythes are surveyed
with the rest of the arrears, and paid for by the inhabitants. And some
oi the glebes Suve inhah it ed and stocked with the substance and cattle of tlie
said barony ; and that to such a number as no such quantity of glebe
lands are able to bear on or sustain.

In answer to proposition.

To No. 1 we say nothing.

A Proclamation.

23rd March.

All persons which live in any cabin, either in the South or North
Liberties, that lived not in the city at May last, are required to depart
within fourteen days on pain of forfeiture of their goods and chattels.
All such as have lived on Thomond side are to depart to the barony of
Bunratty.

Those forsaking their homes, their corn to be arrested and goods
seized, for Bunratty, by Thomas Clanchy, 26th March. Shebeen houses (! !)
Whereas it is manifest that there is a multitude of taverns and tippling
houses within this city, as also in the suburbs, by which means idleness
and unchristianness in many idle and debased persons is maintained and
nourished. And the Commonwealth greatly dampnified (sic). And
other ways of industry neglected for people to get a livelyhood. We
have, therefore, upon serious consideration of the premises, thought
meet to order, and accordingly do order, that no person or persons

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within this city or suburbs thereof do, after the 20th of May next,
presume to sell, or utter by retail, any wines, strong drinks, beer or ale,
or any liquors, upon any pretence whatsoever. Penalties, first offence,
40s. ; second 5Z. ; third, imprisonment.

The following is also remarkable and valuable in its way : —

Commissioners of city to take care that the Lord's-day be not pro-
faned, to put iu execution all Acts of Parliament, and make rounds, and
visit the tippling-houses.

On said day, low and idle persons be not permitted lazily to walk
about the streets, or boys to sport, play, or hollowe (sic) there, to the
disturbance of Divine service and scandal of religion. (This Divine
service must have been not that of our Church, but that of the Inde-
pendents or Brownists.)

To certify how many public-houses exist, and how many you judge
may be licensed in every ward under orderly and fit persons. Against
mill-owners, what course had best be taken for preventing their grinding
the faces of the poor instea<I of their corn (sic). (This is an instance of
the grim wit of the Cromwellians. No doubt there was a cause.)

To recommend how such as are able to work so as to earn their
livings, and for the rehef of the rest, also to prevent strange beggars
being harboured.

Captain tapper's troop of di-agoons is empowered and licensed to
plow, manure, and sow for the season, with small barley or oats, certain
specified kinds of land.

April 1^, 1653.

Ordered that the Lord of Thomond, or his agent, be permitted and
licensed to keep two Irish servants on the lands of Coonagh, provided
they have but one cow apiece. And for the rest of his Lordship's
tenants on aforesaid lands, ordered that they be at liberty either to
remove into the Barony of Bunratty,or continue where they are provided ;
that they pay their contribution out of their flock and substance in
Bunratty, and not elsewhere, and applotters to have notice thereof.

S. Cl.o,ke,
"W. Ski:^xer,
W. Carter.

The soldiers to enjoy garden as soon as present crop is raised.
18 September, 1653.

Governor of Nenagh to an-est and transmit Thomas Grady, " who did
not pass or clear his account," and he is to be delivered to the Marshal-
sea of this precinct, there to remain.

23 AprH, 1653.

Captain Miller hath returned the assignment hereunder written, given
him upon the Barony of Ilracken, as being insolvent , for which he hath
not received any payment. (This proves again how fast the civil and
military administration was dmnng the country into beggary. But
more of this anon.)

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21 April, 1663.

(A nice case in Churcli and Tythe affairs, giving a glimpse of what
doubtless was common enough.)

Whereas the church and churchyard of Croagh (in County Limerick),
■with the steeple and a broken wall about it, situated on the borders of
Mr. George Aylmer, his land in ye Barony of Connologh, and County of
Limerick, is only fit at present for a hawne or defence for cattle to
preserve them frotn stealth. And that the said George Aylmer hath
expressed his desu-e unto us to enter upon the premises for the security
of — his cattle and servants — ploughing and manuring his lands there.

It is therefore ordered that the said George Aylmer be licensed and
permitted to enter into and upon said church, churchyard, steeple, and
bawne for himself and his assigns for security, provided he doth not
demolish the same, or any part thereof, provided also if there be any
occasion at any time to put same to public use or service (! !) he doth
quit and give up same in as good condition and reparation as at present.

S. Claiike,
J. L. Ingoldsby,
W. Carter.

22 April, 1653.

Daniel McNamara having proved to the satisfaction of the Commis-
sioners that the tythes (in kind) which he held on lease and farmed in
Tomgraney and Moynoe, were taken away by the Thories, he is allowed
in abatement the value of the same.

23 April, 1653.

Upon reading the petition of Samuel Burton, and consideration had
thereupon, forasmuch as the said Burton is an Englishman, and purposes
to come and plant here, and is at great loss in his stock by the Thories
under command of Colonel Morthew Bryne, he hath received little or
no satisfaction in regard of the poverty of his strong castle, &c., &c.

Likewise upon consideration had of the poverty and disabilities of
the Barony of Islands where Mr. Burton lived. For the better encou-
ragement of Mr. Burton to live, and plant, and make improvement in
said barony, we do accordingly order that the certainty of forty shillings
per mensem given to said S. Burton be continued, and remain in full
force for one whole year.

3 May.

Military at Bunratty to assist T. Clancy in collecting i-ates.

John McNamara petitions for a survey of Rath-la-hine, to make a
return in what condition it is at present, and what it may be worth over
and above county charges per annum for three years, that we may
proceed to let the same to petitioners accordingly.

6 May, 1653.
The Lady McMaughoon's petitioners ordered that she shall be free
from paying any contribution for self or servants in the place where she
now is, and have liberty to go to Clanderla Barony and the nearest
commander to protect her from overcharges.

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9 May, 1653.
On petition of James McISTamara, and Jourdan Bourke, and the inha-
bitants of Innish (Ennis).

Ordered that Defendant appear on the 19th that we may order and
determine the matter in difference ; and meantime defendant's goods
and chattels are to remain sequestered upon the hands of Captain Porter,
that same be not embezzled.

May 16th.

The Order for glebe lands upon certain Governors of the whole
county of Lymerick. Ordered that the rent of such glebe lands as are
set free from contribution be allowed unto the barony (where such glebe
land lyes) towards the payment of its contribution, &c.

12th May.

(This order demonstrates the continuance of that state of things
which had been growing under the iron rule of the military and civil
administration of the grinding conquerors) : Upon serious considera-
tion had of the present povertij and disability of the whole county Clare,
and the starving condition ivliich the few poor remaining inliahitants are
in, and the impossibility there is of getting in the monthly contribution
charged upon the said county by the commands of Parliament — their
whole substance being engaged for their arrears hitherto.

It is thought fit and ordered, that from the 27th of May, 1653, the
said county be charged with the monthly sum of until the further
pleasure of the Commissioners of of England for the affaii^s of

Ireland, be known therein.

H. Ingoldsby,

W. SONNER,

S. Cl/LRKe.
18th May.

Lieut. Colpuise, or Colpoys, ordered to be free of tax, &c., outside the
barony he resides in, as he has necessity to remove unto the Islands
of Innishmore, in Barony of Islands.

18th May.

Sir Danl. O'Brien has four cows restored to him, and Sam. Burton
ordered to restore same.

25th May.

The Governors of the adjacent garrisons are desired and authorized
to be aiding and assisting to the petitioner (Richard Bourke), in recover-
ing his just demands for tytlies and other public dues, &c., in justice,
and /or the advancement of the revenue.

30th May.

Ordered that Captain Cockayne do make a survey of two town lands
of Moyfearta, the town land of Killballyhone, with other plow lands
adjoining, and make a return thereof, that we may dispose of the same
to Lieut. -Col. Napper and Lieut. Wade, who are in the meantime to
enter into possession.

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31st May.

Ordered that Mr. Savage and Mr. Horton paying the impost for the
three months past, for the excise of the Barony of Islands, shall be
disengaged from same for future, and said barony be caused against
the next Monday, 6th June, of which Captain Greene is to take notice.

Gyles Yandalur (sic), is authorized from time to time to join with
the other applotters of the Barony of Bunratty for the public business.

3rd June, 1653.
On the petition of Thomas Donough.

A Poor Minister (! !)
The petitioner finding out a tenement that is oiot already disposed of
or set to any other, he is to be preferred to any tennary (sic) thereof,
and may enter thereinto ; and to compound for and take out his lease
for such reasonable time as tve shall think fit.

W. E.-C. Car, W.S.K.

(Certes, this was a great act of condescension and of liberality " to
a 'poor minister.")

1st June.

It is hereby ordered that glebe lands of Kilkeedy be not charged or
assessed.

5th June.

The Commissioners of the Commonwealth will not allow abatement
ordered in May last to county of Clare as begarred {sic)j but will insist
on arrear of bal. loOl. being at once made up, and the full money be
paid in future, which instructions in that behalf are not to fail.

(Bad news this for beggared Clare, now in like case with the brick-
makers in Egypt, whom the taskmasters did oppress.)

1st June.

Sui^ey ordered of the lands of Gortontubrid and BalJy England, for
Cornet John Gore, Sir E. Fitzgerald to appear and object if he have
anything.

7th June.

Teigc O'Mollona's cow strayed, and was tracked to Bunratty, where
her skin, &c. was found, — the inhabitants of Bunratty to make satis-
faction for same in 3Z.

11th June.

Finella Burke, alias McNemarra, licensed to remove to her estate in
Lymerick county out of Clare, her husband having been murdered and
her lands in Clare waste, also allowance for payment in Clare if made.

11th June.

Ordered to enquire at what rent Cornet Bentley holds the mill at
Lymerick.

14tli June.

The arrest of John O'Dea, of Dysert, ordered
the engaorement Mac-en -Chroe.'*

' until he deliver out

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letli June.

Clare to be taxed for monthly contribution and equally charged with
Lymerick city (P. Creaghe, Mayor). Notice given to Aldermen Fitz-
andrew, Stacpoo]e, and the rest.

21st June.

Upon debate concerning the canting of tythes.

Resolved and ordered : —

1. That Englishmen shall have the tythes of their own lands at 20.?.
the English acre of tythes without canting.

2. Upon further debate had, whether Englishmen shall have the
tythes of their lands at the rate in such parishes where there are
impropriations belonging to an Englishman— whereof two parts belong
to the State, viz., the one-third part which formerly belonged to the
Yicar, and another one-third part taken from the impropriators in lieu
of contribution.

3. Resolved upon, that where there is an English interest besides the
impropriation, the impropriator is to have one-third part of said lands,
two parts at the rate of 20s. per acre, and the Englishman to have the
other one-third part of his own and his tenants' improvements at the
rate aforesaid. And where there is no English interest, the impro-
priator is to have the whole, viz., his own part and the other two parts
at 20s. per acre.

4. Upon debate, whether those (English) who have impropriations
shall be admitted to enjoy the same,

Resolved in affirmative, until further warrants further ordering the
contrary.

21st.
Survey of Clare and Lymerick ordered to be presented immediately.

25th.
Captain (Joseph) Caffe (one of the Ballyalla defenders), authorized to
cut and carry timber to repair Castle Mungret, from Castle Connell
woods, Cuffe being tenant to the Commonwealth Castle, Mungret.

30th July.
Upon the petition of John Andrew, ininister of the Gospel to the
Commissioners. (N.B. — This is one of their own gospellers, whose name
is down in the list for Precinct of Lymerick, thus : " Rathkeele, John
Andrews, 120L" How they treated, indeed snubbed him, under the
peculiar conditions, is almost amusing, and reminds one of the line in
Juvenal, " Donee Bythino libeat vigilare tyranno.") ** In regard through
other 7>vore urgent affairs, toe camiot as yet meet for hearing and settling
the petitioner's demands, in order to (have) the Right Honourable the
Commander Generals (?) Their order of reference in that behalf, and
in regard it is the time of harvest, and the corn of the place may be
reaped, disposed of, embezzled, so as the petitioner shall be bereaved of
his right for this year of his tythes now due. Therefore, we hereby
order that so much of the said corn and tythes of the Rectory of
Browry (Bruree) and Bullyhyward, as may belong to the petitioners, he

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% YOU sequestered and secured in your hands tmtll farther orders. To
Mr. Bohert Cox, Esq., or whom he may appoint.
^ (Did poor Andrew get the corn and tythes out of Cox ? How did he
live till such luck befel him p or, could he get it without Cox ?)

Two distressed orphans (Koches) are allowed immediately to take
possession of the small " cadge-work " (sic) house, situated on the east
side of High Street.

Martin and Carter may cut turf.

15th.

Boetius D'Avorem has sowed corn on lands of Knockfyn, and claims
leave to cut and carry.

18th.

Teige O'Brien, of Kilmastulla, had his whole residence and substance
here. Claims protection. Granted, if his arrears are paid.

22nd July, 1653.
(A hope for Clare in extremity.)
The Commissioners are satisfied that Clare is so destitute, and the suh-
stance so slender, that the contribution is reduced as before

But the deficiency is made up thus, viz. : — to be supplied out of the
one half of the tythes otot appointed for the maintenance of hospitals,
for maimed soldiers, whereof the Treasurer of the Eevenue in this pre-
cinct is to take notice.

Upon the petition of D. O'Kerin and the rest of the inhabitants of

Inichiquine,

Ordered that the petition be referred to Captain Cullen, Lieut. Rosse
St. John, the Governor of Ennis, pro tern., Loughlin Mclnerney, Richard
White, or any two or more of them, are desired and authorized, calling
the Trustees and the within- named

Hugh McEuchroe (=Crowe, now of Dromore),
a trustee, before them, with all their proofs and e^ddences, serious (sic)
to consider of the matter of fact of the petition.

5th August.
Quartermaster James' assignment of 178L is in arrcar, and he is
authorized to distrain all such persons as are in arrears.

9th October.
The Inhabitants of Barony of Islands.

In consideration of very great losses sustained by petitioners from
thoroughfare of the Army in 1651, the petition is favourably presented
to the Right Hon. tbe Commissioners for the Commonwealth.

Considering that the petitioners are brought to a very loiv condition
by reason of the heavy contribtition and to the taxes laid upon them, and
so take leave.

ISTat. Wilmek,'
Wm. Rumsey.

Note. — (A curious inscription in Eunis Old Church indicates that the
Crqaghes were not so very thankful as expected.)

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19tli September.
Pierce Creaghe, petitioner.
Whereas it appears that Pierce Creaghe Fitzandrew, of Lymerick,
alderman, being employed as Eeceiver-General for the Irish, is to be
banished this nation. Considering the promises made to Creaghe by
the late Lord Deputy Ireton, for his good service done by him, and
his appearing in the beginning of the Eebellion on the behalf of the
English, to the hazard of his life, and great prejudice of his estate, as
appears by testimony and report. He is declared free from censure of
banishment, and permitted to remain. And as to his estate, it is referred
to the Commissioners of Revenue (for) to him to enjoy such part of his
estate as is indisposed of, he paying contribution.

20th September.

Order to Captain Stearne to cut and from any adjacent woods, timber,
to repair the garrisons herein- named, provided this be not under this
pretence for any other purposes.

Garrisons m margin, viz. : —

1. Palahine.

2. Cloghenabeg.

3. Danginnybracke.

4. Bryan's Castle.

5. Irchicronene.

6. Inckiquine.

7. Dysert.

8. Smithstown.

(This list is very important, as it exhibits the lines of communication,
and the disjDosition of so much of the forces.)

20th October.
Henry Sup]3le \
and [

The Thories. )

it appears that the petitioners had brought in to Lt.-Col. Flower three
Thories who were condemned. These ai^e therefore, in pursuance of a
late proclamation for apprehending Thories— and to require payment of
said money as remains in your hands to issue for the within-payments
to the said Henry Supple, the sum of 61 for taking and bringing in said
Thories — being 40s. for each man, and this with receipt of petitioner,
and the annexed certificate to be your \\ arrant —

3rd 9ber.
For as much as the sum of 40s. hath been expended in the reparation
of the garrison of Mougani (querns Moughana) by Sargt. Thomas
Powell, you are therefore required immediately upon sight hereof to
pay 40s. to Sargt. Powell and not to fail.

To applotters of Corcomroe.
4th 9ber.

Order to Henry Earl of Bath to receive and enjoy, &c., within this
precinct.

By annexed certificate of Capt. Wilkinson

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9tli Nov.
Jolm Dwyer, one of the late Attorneys in this precinct, being put
and secluded from his practice, hath no further or more dealiugs,
commerce, or interest in this city than one chamber to lodge in, where
he paid rent, he being exempted from contribution.

15th Nov.
L. O'Hehir took six Thories, of whom five were hanged and one trans-
ported, whereby there accrued to him 121., order for payment.

21st Nov., 1653.

On the petition of the poor fishermen of Killaloe —

It is ordered that petitioners be not taxed or charged with any man-
ner of tax, charge, or contribution, other than what is taxed upon them
for applotment in Banroy, who are required to take special care that they
be not overcharged.

23rd Nov.

Town Major, Isaac G-ranyer, has due an arrear of 23L 10s.

(This was one of the Dutchmen from Kilrush.)

Mr. "Wilham Bennis (name still found in Limerick) ordered to assist
Mr. Martin in filling up entries, &c.

William Thome's petition, disposing his house for use of State.
(This name is still found near Bird Hill.)

24th November.
Lieut. Chafe to make speedy satisfaction to Connor O'Mollowney.

9th December, 1653.
Upon the petition of the poor inhabitants of the parish of Islands, a
meeting at Ennis was ordered of the Commissioners for applotment,
and their oath taken as to " inability to pay," and " so much abatement
allowed," and an oath taken " of their own and the substance of each
barony,"

10th December, 1653.
Barony of Owney. Ordered that Mr. John Byan be dismissed from
being applotter, and Teige O'Byrne or Captain Barrington be appointed,
if he doth undertake to act in his stead.

The inhabitants of Owney Barony. We desire and authorize Captain
Barrington and Lieut, Hose, with the former referees, viz. —
Cornet Andrews,
Quarter -Master Cockdell,

to arrange for arrears.

20th December.
A proclamation forbidding the transplanted Irish cross the Shannon
by bridge, by boat, or by swimming cattle, until their applotments were
assigned, on pahi of forfeiture.

Here must close such notices as may be allowable in this
work concerning the civil and military administration under the
Cromwellian system ; and this, taken in connexion with the

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religious intolerance essential to the system, and with the
transplantation and payment of arrears by lands, and all these
conditions being duly estimated as crowning a career of terrible
and bloody victory over the rebellious Keltic and Roman
Catholic population, it is not an unwarranted conclusion that
while, as a policy of retribution, " the curse of Cromwell '^ was
a rare success, indeed, " a burden from the Lord,'' yet this same
" curse of Cromwell " has left behind bleeding wounds and
rankhng memories which for two centuries have been welling
up in the fond and cherished folk-lore of our Keltic firesides,
and filling with gall and bitterness the hearts of Irishmen at
home and abroad, to the incalculable detriment of English
interests in Ireland and, of what are infinitely more precious,
the interests and extension of the pure old faith of the Gospel,
which at the first and for a long time had free course and was
glorified. But this was the alternative put before England :
that there must be either a successful rebellion and general
massacre of the English and Protestants, or else, if all this was
to be put down sternly and with a high hand, the Roman Catholic
Irish survivors were evermore to raise an outcry of the shocking
martyrdom which their piety and patriotism had brought upon
them at the hands of blood-stained England.

One topic more may suffice for this sketch of the Diocese of
Killaloe under the Usurpation. The number of English and of
Protestants of course diminished considerably in the period of 18
years, from 1641 to 1659. In the precis given at the foot of
Mr. Hardinge's Paper, read March 16, 1865, before R. I. A.,
there were in Clare of the English race 440 ; of Irish, 16,474.
But if fair account be taken of Protestants and English in Clare
in 1641, they must have been at least double this number, as
may be judged from the many castles they held, and the lands
they occupied, also from the numbers besieged, slain, and fugi-
tives, as well as from the tradesmen in the towns, the farmers
in the country parts, and the colonists brought in by Earl
Thomond, not forgetting the number of the parochial clergy.

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THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE IN THE REIGN OF KING CHARLES

THE SECOND.

The Usurpation having terminated with the Hfe of Oliver
Cromwell, who was its main support and centre, all honest
men rejoiced when the reign of sanctimonious intolerance and
grasping ambition had come to an end. But it requires no
slight effort of mind to associate with King Charles II. any-
thing wise or good in Church or State, and especially in the
minds of those who have been at once shocked and fascinated
by the pictures of the profligate Court and awful death-scene of
this worthless Monarch, so boldly drawn and highly coloured
by that chief of pictorial and romantic historians, Lord
Macaulay.

The Diocese of Killaloe, like so many more, having been for
years without a Bishop, " on the 27th day of January, 1660,'*
the ceremonial of consecrating twelve Bishops took place in the
Cathedral of St. Patrick, Dublin. It is remarkable that in the
procession of ^Hhe men of worth, learning, and abilities,
zealously affected to the constitution of this Church, and well
qualified to maintain their possession, who were selected to fill
up the highest ecclesiastical preferments" (Carte II., 207 ;
also, BramhalPs Life, and Taylor's Sermon at Funeral of
Primate), the following order was observed: —

The Bishops elect, in their albs.

The Juniors preceding.

And first among these, as Junior, not in j^ears, but in
Diocesan rank, walked ^^ Edward Worth, D.D., Bishop elect
of Killaloe."

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This ^^ Edward Worth was the son of James Worth (clerc),
of Newmarket, Co. Cork, whose father was Jasper Worth, of
Tytherington (sic), in the parish of Prestbury and Coy. of
Cheshire, where the family had resided, as we learn from
Lysons (Cheshire, p. 732), upwards of 300 years." (Mason's
St. Patrick, Cath., 205, note.) Anxious to obtain as much
information as could be gathered from the best sources, the
writer made an application to Mr. Helsby, the learned Editor
of Ormerod's Cheshire^ — a work of extraordinary fulness and
ability — and this gentleman courteously stated in reply, " that
he has no doubt that the Bishop was the grandson of Jasper
Worth, of Titherington and of Worth, originally a family of
perhaps six centuries' standing, like most Cheshire families.
But there is no proof (Mr. Helsby continues) that he is aware
of as to Bishop Worth's connection. He was, perhaps, grand-
son, or son of Thomas, a brother of Jasper." The Worth
family must have been in prosperous circumstances, as appears
from the large quantity of lands standing in the name of the
Bishop in the Abstract of Grants, under the Acts of Settle-
ment and Explanation. (15 Report Record Commissioners, p.

337.)*

The Bishop had two sons, one Dean of St. Patrick's ; the
other became a Baron of the Exchequer, of whom Mr. Harris,
in William the Thii'd's Life, writes in disparaging terms for
the part he took in the establishment of the Court of Claims.

In reference to the line of action taken by Dr. Worth, in
Cork, during the Usurpation, an allusion has been made by the
late Dr. Eeid, in his History of Presbyterianism. It may be
better, instead of relying on partial statements, or dealing in
indiscriminate censures, to give the original authorities in full,
from which an exact and impartial account may be gathered of
the whole transaction.

In *^ Moses in the Mount, being Several Works of Mr.

* In Abstract of Grants of Lands by Commissioners of Grace, edited
by Mr. G. Hatchell, is a large quantity of land in Lower Ormond,
Owney, and Arra, Upper Ormond, to the name of William Worth,
Esq. There is also a very curious incidental allusion, in another branch
of ]\Ii\ Worth's possessions, to the destructive methods of fishing used
on the Shannon at that time : — " The fishing, fire-Jishing, net-fishing,
and weirs between SherifFe Point on Thomond side, and Dromineer
Point, in Tipperary, on the North," &c., &c., are conveyed.

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John Murcot, &c. London, 1657/' at page 16 the following
occurs : —

Some time after Joseph Eyres came out of England to Youghall,
upon the account of his own personal concernments, and resolvedrafter
the expiration of some months, to return to London ; but, preaching
occasionally at Cork, the inhabitants desire his stay, and exercise of his
ministry amongst them ; and so much the rather because at that time
the Minuters of the County of Cork were articled against. A petition was
presented to the authority there, which, to the sadning of the souls
of the righteous, met not with a desired compliance. However, Mr.
Eyres was ingaged to continue there till addresses should be made to
the superior powers at Dublin.

In order hereto a fast is appointed ; Doctor Worth, Mr. Hacket, and
Mr. Eyres preached and prayed ; the product of which was an unanimous
resolution in the people to send Mr. Mark Taylor (a man of known
integrity, zeal for God, and love lo the truth) to Dublin with a petition
to the Commissioners of Parliament, the tenour of which was an humble
request that they might have Mr. Murcot and Mr. Eyres settled
amongst them. The Commissioners are more inclinable to Mr. Murcot's
removal than the inhabitants of Dublin, who are loath to part with a
clear and steady light in times of distraction, confusion, and doleful
defection from the truth. "Wherefore the city petitions the authority
for his stay, yet are willing to spare him for two months. So that Mr.
Taylor hath his company down to Cork, and the people of that and
other places the benefit of his ministry, whose doctrine dropping as the
rain, and distilling as the dew, caused a greenness and verdure to
appear upon some parched mountains of pride, vanity, and profaneness,
and a re-lBiourishing in such precious plants as were now in a languishing
condition for want of those refreshing showers which, after a time of
drought, were the more welcome to him, and the more fruitfully
improved by them. During the time of his abode in Cork, and visible
success there, an unhappy accident fell out, whereby the minds of the
attentive people (who now began to look about them, and to mind the
things belonging to their peace) were wofully distracted, and the free
progi-ess and passage of the Gospel impeded, and that was his engage-
ment with Dr. Harding about Infant Baptism, an account whereof
take {sic) under hi's o.wn hand, sent in a letter to a friend in Dublin : —

A Brief Narrative of the Discourse hetiveen Dr. Ilarcling and Dr, Worth
and myself) and the occasion thereof.

Formerly Dr. Worth and some others had a conference with Dr.
Harding and some others touching Infants' Baptism, and, being not
satisfied herewith, Dr. Harding did provoke Dr. Worth to a further
debate about it. And, to omit many other passages not worth the
mentioning, Thursday, May 19th, after my sermon at Peter's, Dr.
Harding publikely produced a question (which before he had sent to Dr.
Worth), and bore the people in hand he was willing to dispute it with
Dr. Worth, and that Dr. Worth was unwilling ; though, indeed, the

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question was such a confused heap that it is no wonder if neither Dr.
Worth nor any other rational man would undertake it, viz., whether the
pi-actice of Dr. Worth and other pretended ministers of Jesus Christ in
England, Scotland, and Ireland, in sprinkling of infants, were according
to the mind of Christ, and so be proved and approved by the primitive
Churches, or to this purpose, I am sure, for all the substantials of it.
If Dr. Worth undertakes this, then every rational man sees what con-
fusion he is involved in ; if not, then the people must believe he declines
disputing with him.

It is doubtful Dr. Harding did not much matter which way it had
gone ; he had his ends either way. I conceive Dr. Worth declined his
question as stated by himself, and offered to dispute upon either of
these two, viz. : —

1. Whether any infants ought to be baptized, holding the affii-mative.
2. Whether persons duly baptized in infancy ought to be rebaptized
when adult, holding the negative. Dr. BLarding refused both, and
nothing would serve him but his confused heap of questions in one— a
known fallacy. After much contest, 'pro and co/?, I was grieved to see
BO little candor as I conceived in Dr. Harding, and took the boldness to
request of him to satisfy the congregation that to the first of the two
he would say I or no. When Dr. Worth pressed him to it many
times, he would not answer ; no sooner had I spoken, but he said to
Mr. Murcot he would say, ISTo ; that is, that no infants were to be
baptized ; and, to satisfie the eongi-egation, would maintain it against
me, though not against him. This much troubled me, it being so
beside^ my intention and against my resolution to turn aside from the
main work to anything of this nature. And, indeed, it did, I doubt
(thi'ough the subtility of the wicked one), put that sermon out of the
people's minds, and prevent them of another the next week.

I did long refuse it, telling him— He did but now challenge all men
and why not undertake Dr. Worth as well as me, except he fought for
victory more than thruth; but at last I yielded to undertake with Dr.
Worth though I must be forlorn.

The next Thursday, that is May 26, as I remember was set for it, the
question was agreed upon then a week before and the manner of
managing it, by way of Syllogism, not long discourses which lead
people in a maize. The time came and yet (notwithstanding former
arguments in the face of the congi'egation) there was so little candour
shewed as that two hours I am confident were spent before I could
bring him to agree to the question and manner of discoursing it. A
sad omen what the issue was like to be : all that he urged for the
negative (which according to promise at last I prevailed with him to
defend) was that there was no command or example, or thus, — no insti-
tution, warrant nor example for it in the Gospel ergo. It was answered,
There was express warrant for baptism in the Gospel and consequential
warrant for the circumstance of time, the age of the subject. After a
cavil (mther than an argument), that for the time it must be in the
womb, or after birth and then before the eighth day, or upon it, or
after it, which were as easily answered as said ; the result was, he

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denyed my consequential Gospel waiTant for the time, and truly this
was all he had to say against us there. Now I was put to prove a con-
sequential warrant for infants' baptism from the Gos]Del. I first laid
down Matt. 28 — 19 to argue from a Scripture— and argued that from
thence there was warrant to baptise all disciples whatsoever, and infants
were disciples, ergo ; I put not the arguments in form in this narrative ;
much cavilling there was about discipling. He would have it only such
disciples as could learn and that infants were not disciples according to
Mat. 28. Dr. Worth iirged according to that before, if the word fiaOrjTevco
signify all disciples whatsoever, then infants are such as are there
intended but the former is true ergo. Here Mr. Hacket unadvisedly
tore a piece of the paper upon which the arguments were written,
thinking he had torn off only a syllogism of his own which he had
written not willing to appear in the dispute in writing.

It seems some letter of Dr. Harding's writing was on the other
side, or of mine which Mr. Hacket saw not, else I believe would not
have torn it. At this the Dr. takes occasion to break off, crying out
of perfidiousness, which the Lord knows was nothing but an igno-
rance. I am sure to me it was so. He knew the best time to give
over even before we came to the pitch of controversie, so the people
went away as much unsatisfied as they came, except it were of the
want of ingenuity (ingenuousness) in carrying of it on. I am sure I
was not a little troubled we should tire ourselves and the people in six
hours discourse to so little purpose. I hope it will be a warning to
me for the future the Dr. being full at stomack the last Lord's Day
in the morning at St. Peter's names a text Heb. 6 beginning, laies it
aside instead of a sermon calls for pen and paper writes down the
following 13 arguments of infants baptizm, professing (I suppose else,
I know not to what end he took that pain) to maintain the nega-
tive against all these grounds, thus he entertained the congregation he
had to the wearying of some of them, and sent the paper to Dr. Worth
or in his absence to me, but with no intimation to what end, as I re-
member— the arguments are as followeth : —

Paedobap is Assert.

4. Familiae,

At go.

6. Sancti.

At g6

6. Foederati.

At g6.

7. Sanctificati.
At p:d.

1 Circumcisi Sunt baptizandi
At g6.

2. Discipuli {ol fj,adT]T€v6fx€voi).

At go.

3. Uciirra idvr], baptizandi.
Critic S. (Quere Critici Sacri).
At gc).

8. Pilii Die.

At go.

9. Cliristiani.

e^'

10. Haeredes Eegni.

At go.

11. Privilegiati, Seu privi]e<?io

peculiari Supra caeteros. (The
next word I cannot read.)
At gb.

12. Traditio seu consuetude.

At go.

13. Promissum (fTrayytXta).

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These I received about lialf an hour before I went to preach in the
afternoon, which (though some distraction to my thoughts) I resolved
to say nothing, but to mind that I prepared for the people's greater edifi-
cation ; only by way of preface I let the people know I had received
such a paper of arguments for infants' baptism, some whereof I owned,
and some not ; but in the general I said what was said of Bellarmine,
that he had brought more arguments against himself than he could
answer. So I thought of these, and cautioned the people to beware
what doctrine they did embrace, and gave some other suitable counsel
to them.

And so I fell upon my intended seiTtion. This is the true state of
the matter for the substance, which I thought good to send, conceiv-
ing there might be occasion for it there. I. M.

As for Murcot himself (the subject of prayer having been alluded to)
the language of his biographer, in the quaint phrases of the day, runs
thus : —

Page 12, " Jonah's prayer was a line to pluck him up out of the
deep, Murcot's a bladder to keep him and many others from sinking into
it. He got a 'feavour' after preaching on the fast day before the
Commissioners of Parliament, and was near death, until his nurse
minghng some sack (of course not ' an intolerable quantity ') his
wasted spirits were refi^eshed therewith, and the fever left him " — as
so often in like cases, the insane system of bleeding and starvation
being eschewed.

One word more of Murcot, " He manifested his affections for Cork, by
procuring an order for the repairing of Christ's Church and settling
Mr. Eyres in it " — the ministers of course being " generally articled
against " — snubbed, starved, and silenced.

In the Report of Dr. Hussell and Mr. Prendergast on the
Carte papers, at p. 106 is a very interesting letter to Sir G.
Lane, of date 21 January, 1660-1, whicli elucidates the case of
Dr. Worth, and makes it evident and passing all doubt that
Dr. Worth had in some degree committed himself during the
usurpation period, although it is hardly possible that he could
be supposed to have gone so far in compromising himself and
his Church as Dr. Read would have it believed : —

The Primate to Sir G. Lane.

21 January, 16G0-1.
Sir — After the general consecration is done to-morrow, and so many
of the public aii'au^s despatched, I hope I shall have a little more leisure.
I send you herein enclosed our intended form of consecration. The
Lords Justice, Council, Convention will be all present. Your father is
a good Protestant, and we have a good Protestant, &c. We have had
some exceplions agaiad tlic Bp of Clogher and the- Loixl Elect of Killaloe.
But I have ended them all with a general consent, and in the presence
of all the Bishops absolved the Bishop of Clogher for his irregularitv.

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The Bishop of Clogher had joined the army, acting as muster-
master, and adopting Presbyterian principles. But the Bishop
Elect of Killaloe had not gone so far, and no mention is made
of his being absolved ; and it must have been from his having
given occasion for reproach from his co-operation with the
Independents in Cork, though never nominated as one of their
ministers, or even assistants, or taking the payments which such
received.

Before entering upon the subjects more especially belonging
to the diocesan affairs in this reign, a brief notice may be taken
of the legalizing of the Liturgy. The Parliamentary Commis-
sioners, on June 24th, 1647, having issued an order, on their
sole authority, for abolishing the Book of Common Prayer, and
for the observance of the Director}^, the Parhament of
Charles 11. availed themselves of the earliest opportunity for
manifesting their sentiments upon the late course of public
affairs, and showing their horror of an Usurpation under which
the Church and the Monarchy had both fallen.

Accordingly, the two Houses of Parliament concurred in
pronouncing a judgment of stern reprobation of ^' the Solemn
League and Covenant/' to the introduction and prevalence of
which they ascribed the late rebellion, and which they ordered
to be branded with the marks of the greatest ignominy, pro-
nouncing a justification of it to be an act of hostility and injury
to the King, the Church, and the Kingdom. As to the rejec-
tion of the Directory, "a meagre and latitudinarian code of in-
structions to the Puritanical clergy,'' as Dr. A. J. Stephens calls
it, the further remarks of this eminently learned civilian upon
the acceptance of the Liturgy are not less worthy of attention :
" The reception of the English Common Prayer-book was not
forced on this Church, but originated with itself in the acts of
its own Convocation." He adds : " It is an extraordinary fact
that no Prayer-hook belonging to the Church of Ireland is re-
cognised in the Irish Act of Uniformity, and that the only
Book of Common Prayer that is recognised is that of the Church
of England, It is true that in all the editions of the statutes it
is stated to be ' The Book of Common Prayer according to the
use of the Church of Ireland,' but the Editor [Dr. A. J. Ste-
phens] has recently examined the MS. statute deposited in the
Rolls' Office at Dublin, from which it appears that the 'p™ded

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statutes of the realm have given A false representation of that
record." One point more from a letter by the learned E. Stop-
ford, Bishop of Meath, 1849, may be noted : " As to how much
of our present Prayer-book is to be considered Q,^law; the Pre-
face, however good, is not part of the Prayer-hook, as sanctioned
by Convocation and the Legislature in Ireland, neither that
part immediately following the Preface, ^ concerning the service
of the Church/ nor yet ' of ceremonies, why some should be
abolished and some retaiued.' These all give excellent advice, hut
are not to he quoted as law,^^ The Player- book begins with the
two orders, viz, "The order how the psalter," &c., and the
order "How the rest of the Holy Scripture,^' &c. (MS. Book
of Common Prayer for Ireland, A. J. Stephens' Introduction.)
But, at the same time, it is only just to state that while the
consecration of the Bishops was delayed owing to the time re-
quired for the making of "a new Great Seal," a kind of anti-
Church reaction was got up by the adventurers and officers,
civil and military, in behalf " of the godly ministers of the
Gospel, that they might be continued and countenanced." Sir
Thos. Stanley, Colonel LehuDte, and other officers quartered
about Cashel, were very zealous in promoting a petition of this
nature, sending it into all the haro?iies of the county Tipperary,
and pressing all persons to sign it. (Carte IL, 209.) But,
then, be it remembered that the non-encouragement — and, in
fact, the non- establishment — of these teachers was a thing very
different from the active plundering and the systematic persecu-
tion which the Church clergy met at the hands of Presbyterians
and of Independents, as they had power.

The state in which Bishop Worth found the Diocese, and
especially the temporalities of it, is fortunately not altogether
beyond the reach of observation, iidthough the documents con-
nected with this and the former times in this Diocese are few
and yield but scanty information, also collateral sources of in-
formation are, in fact, not known or in existence, some few
authentic and contemporaneous authorities have been secured
and laid under contribution, from which items of interest may
be gathered. These are : — " An Accompt of all the Lands and
other Profits belonging to the Bishop of Killalow, collected by
me [Ed. Laonensis], 1661, so far as I could get Information."
(This is an autograph private account-book of Bishop Worth's,

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most kindly placed at the Writer's disposal by Dr. Wm. Fitz-
gerald, Lord Bishop of Killaloe. It is a sniall vellum-bouTid
book, in 12mo., written in a hand rather even than fine, though
not illegible, and is carefully paginated.) '' The Chapter Book
of the Cathedral of St. Flannan," commencing at p. 1, with the
date May 4, 1661. The entries are in Latin to the 44th page.
A page is lost between 9 and 11, and an entry on p. 11 states
that " the old Chapter Book was stolen," which seems an allu-
sion to some words in the text. The entries continue to a.d.
1842. ''The Primary Visitation of Dr. Thos. (Price), Arch-
bishop of Cashel, in 1667/^ This is now in the Record Office,
Dublin, and its title is, " Visitatio primaria Thomse Cassel, &c.,
Archiepus habit in Cathed S S Flanani 29 Sept. 1667." An-
other source of information which may be made available in
suffioient time is the large collection of records of the Con-
sistorial Court of Killaloe, discharged from the Cathedral, and
now fallen into private hands.

Possibly some private letters and family papers may also
throw an occasional ray of light athwart the gloomy and
buried past of this troubled and dreary reign.

" The Order of Bishops and use of the Liturgy having been
preserved'^ (see Carte II. 207), the King gave orders for the
settling of all impropriate and forfeited tythes in his disposal
upon the respective incumbents of the parishes where they lay.
This was a confirmation of what the late King had granted to
the clergy of Ireland, and what the Marquis of Ormond did
not fail effectually to solicit. But though Ormond may have
solicited this, not much came out of it for some time. Indeed,
one grand feature attaches to this reign. And no one has
described this so well as Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex, who knew
Ireland intimately in this reign as Lord Lieutenant. " This
country has been perpetually rent and torn since his Majesty's
restoration. I can compare it to nothing better than the
flinging the reward upon the death of a deer among a pack of
hounds, where every one pulls and tears what he can for him-
self for indeed it has been no other than a perpetual scramble ''
(Letters, 278 p.) But out of the scramble the following at
length reached the Church in Killaloe.

It was not until 1673 (see Erck's I. E. Register, 1830, p. 211),
that " all the impropriate or appropriate tythes forfeited to, or

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vesting in his Majesty by the Act of Explanation, or otherwise
escheating to him in right of his Crown, w^ere by a clause in
said Act for ever settled and established on the present and
future incumbents having actual care of souls in the respective
parishes wherein the said tythes arose.*' In pursuance whereof
the King, by priv^^ seal, dated July 4, and by patent, 5 July,
1675, to John (Roan), Bishop of Killaloe, and his successors,
granted in trust for the clergy of this Diocese the following
impropriate tythes : —

The farm of the Rectoiy of Nenagh als Enagh, at a rent of 21.
farm two-thirds improp. tythe ; Lisbunny ol. ; two parts Kuigha 1?.. 8s.
two-thirds ; Boreskeyne at 21. Os. 9M. ; do. Boreslebeg 13s. o^d.
Ardcroney at 10s. ; all which formerly belonged to Lewis Walsh, found
nocent., and the farm of two-thirds impropriate tythes of Killodernane
at 4s. 9^d. Part of Tyone, the property of John Grace, nocent.

Also to like trust and like uses were granted by privy seal, July 4,
1673, and by patent, 1680— £ s.

The Rectories, &c., Ballinegrannanagh and Dallyandive at 1 7

Cloughprior ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 7

Killodernane ... ... ... ... ... ... 0 13

Ealleroan, als Kilruane 1 7

Ballyvakie, als Ballymackey

Templedeny, als Templedire
all in County Tipperary. Also in King

Cowlenewane, als Cullenoan

Templeneharry ...

Dunkerrin

Ballynecashelane, als Castletown

Ramoveogue, als Rathinoveogg

Roscree, als Roscrea
all situate in Tipperary.

Rectories and Tjthes of Etagh

Rosmoroe, a1s Roscomroe

Teyneraine, als Synroane, als Rossinroane
situated in King's County and Tipperary.

All which, forming parcels of the estate of the late Abbey or Monas-
tery of Nenagh, were granted by patent, dated 14th September, 1669,
by the names of all the impropriations belonging to the late Abbey of
Tyhone, in County Tipperary, to Robert Boyle, Esq., for a term of 61
years, from 17th April, 1662. (So Robert Boyle had to disgorge this
much.)

Also the Rectories, Churches, Tythes of Stradbally, als

Castle Conn el ... ... ... ... ... ... 4 6 6

Yicarage of Kilmore Magdalen ... ... ... 1 0 0

in Limerick or Tipperary.

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The tythes of Annaghmore at 41. 6s. 6d.j in Co. Clare, and being part of
Athassell Abbey estate, were, by patent, 13th September, 1606, demised
to Theobald, Yiscount Butler, of Tullyophelim, for 61 years, fi'om Sep-
tember 1, 1621, saving to James, Duke of Ormonde, his right to Strad-
bally and Annaghmore. The aforesaid rectories and tythes were granted
to the Bishop of Killaloe and his successors in trust for use of incum-
bents having actual cure of souls wherein the same arose and renewed.
The said incumbents not only paying such rents, reservations, and
duties as were formerly paid for same, but such increase of rent as the
Chief Governor and Privy Council should adjudge reasonable within
two years from the time of this enactment, and not after. Act of Settle-
ment and Inrolment.

Having now evidence of the good wishes of Bishop John
Rider for the adequate endowment of the clergy, being in some
small degree realized after many days, we must take a look into
Bishop Worth's book for an account of the lands at present in
his possession.

BARONY OF TULLA.

After a list of houses and plots in Killaloe, let for 18/. 15^.
a-year.

Ballwallie, 1 qr., is set for 21 years at 61. per annum, with conditions
and reservations usual in his leases.

Moigh, 1 qr. Two acres of bog in controversy with Earl of Inchi-
quin. This qr. hath been usually kept in Bishop's own hands, as
most convenient for his own family, yet he finds it set to Henry Bose-
man for 12Z. during Bishop Eider's life.

The Ferry. This and the Green Island (6 October, 1613) was set to
Sir T. O'Brien for 21 years at 18.s. yearly. A lease of the same was
granted to D. and C. O'Brien, 1635, for 21 years, at 21. yearly rent, with
other conditions. Whilst Captain Graham, d^tring the usurped poivers,
held the Bishop's estate, he suffered Mr. Barkley, who was tenant of
Ballina, to enjoy one-half of the profits of this ferry. But when
(writes Bishop Worth) I came to be Bishop, and found as well by the
said lease as by the rent-roll of Bishop Kider, that the ferry indefinitely
(sic) belonged to the Bishop, I declared my right to the whole, whereon
Mr. Barclay, to prevent me, seized on the boat, April ult., 1661, with ye
help of souldiers, and chained it to a post at Ballina. I intended to
liave prosecuted him for this force, but Major Thompson, at that time
landlord of Ballina, and Mr. Gavin Barclay (clerke), father of the said
Mi\ Barclay, engaged themselves to refer this difference to Sir Jerome
Alexander and Mr. Shaplest, before whom we debated our respective
claims, upon which, and upon examining the patent gi'anted for those
lands of Ballina to Mac O'Brien, and not finding any express mention of
said ferry in said grant, they freely yielded to my right, and submitted
themselves to my pleasure for satisfaction of the rent of the year
last past, beiiTg 61. sterling, whereof I was contented to forgive Barclay

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one-half. And lie accordingly hereupon at my order delivered the ferry
boat to Mahon O'Xihill his partners, to whom I have set the same for
this year at the rent of 161. sterling, with other additions.

(The Gavin Barclay above, whose son seized on the Bishop's ferry
boat, was the Independent Minister, who seems to have lingered on,
and certainly acted in a proper manner on the trying occasion.)

THE FISHING WEAEES.

These and two nights' fishing of Poleklei-anne to belong to the Bishop,
and valued at 61., he sets for the year to Mahon O'Neill and Co. for
28L sterling, with conditions to bring down his timber wood, and per-
form certain requirements, and also to furnish his h€use with fish every
Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday.

After alluding to other weares at Moygh he gives the following
account of

BISHOP eider's mill,

erected by him in 1619, and set with 3 qrs. of Knocklevane, Creveroe,
Barry, and the fair and market to Mr. Anthony Lawrence, of London,
merchant, for 41. fine and dOl. per annum. It was afterwards rebuilt by
Bishop Lewis Jones, and set to Teige 0 'Murphy for 21 years at 12Z.
yearly, 3rd May, 1636, and afterwards to Robert Casey, 3rd June, 1639.
It was set this last year by Captain Graham for bl.j and must be rebuilt.

The mill was rebuilt by 1663 in a new place, because in the

former seat, by every flood of the Shannon, the wheel was choked up,
and a new watercourse drawn to it. In regard whereof it was set to
him for 21 years at the rent of 2?., and it was afterwards (1655) burned
down by accident, and, in regard of the rebuilding of the same, it was
set to D. Boile for 2?-. yearly for 21 years and fair and market.

THE ROYALTIES OP THE BARONY OP TULLA.

These belong to the Bishop in right of his sea — heriots, weaves and
strayes, felons' goods, fines for battery and bloodshed, customs and tolls
(which are accordingly mentioned as demised at p. 72), &c.

MOYNOE.

Four quarters, being the whole parish. It consists of 5,607 acres,
whereof of rough mountain 4,099 is set as follows : —

(I.) CuiTomore to McCormocan and McBrodine ; three stonehouses on
it before the rebellion, and very well enclosed.

(Perhaps this McBrodine is related to the celebrated Clare Ecclesias-
tical author Brodinus.)

(II.) Coolocupane, set to Thorn, McBrodyne.

(III.) Drummarhie, part to ditto.

(IV.) Moynoe. A discrepancy with the county survey is here stated
and explained ; also the names of several successive lessees are named —
McCormocan, Foot (Sti^nge and Purefoy under usurpation). Major
Henry Bridgman. (After sundiy changes the leasing ended thus) : —
*' I set to ]\Ii\ Foot, referring to the Bishop 40?. per annum for 21 years,
and engaging Mr. F. to pay-lOZ. more yearly during the said term to my
son, John Worth, until the said Foot should pay me the sum of 200?.
sterling by way of fine in j^a?'? of my dishurseincnts and ihe rt>-edifyhig
of the Bisliop^s house (! !)

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(From what was detailed above of duties by the lessees of the weare
at Killaloe, it looks more than probable that this '* Bishop's House " was
not at Mojnoe but at Killaloe ; also that Bishop Eider had erected this
building in a cheap and temporary manner, after having decided upon
Killaloe in preference to another state, of which more below.)

KiLFiNAGHTY.— The Bishop offcrs 1 cart (Carrownakelli) to Mr.
Hickman, Agent for Lord Thomond, for 21 years, dated 20th October,
1637, at 41. per annum, but he dechning I set that part which is on the
other side of the water to Mr. Burdet (clke) for lOl. fine and 61 per
annum. The other part, whereon Mrs. Stephens hath built her
house, I reserved to set her at 7L per annum at the desire of Mr.
Hickman .

Clonlea. — 1 qr. in three distinct parcels.

Bishop Eider set moiety of the whole qr. in 1619 to Laughlin
O'Euddan for 60 years next ensuing at 201. per annum.

The Usurped powers agreed for this with Captain Peter Purefoy for
21 years at 21. yearly, but (observes the Bishop) I have agi^eed with
Purefoy's agent for hi. fine and 61. yearly for 21 years.

In Bishop Jones' rental, 1639, Any, wife of Florence Mcnemara,
holdeth the island called Kilcornan, adjoining to Clonlea.

KILTEILEIGH, ALS KILSEILEIGII.

1 qr. C. Mac Flanera released this to Bishop in 1618; two counter-
parts of lease, in both of which there is an exception of a thatched house
near the church, and an English acre of land. (Quasre, whether the
glebe and glebe house.) I agreed with Cornet Bently to set him this
qr. at the old rent of 41. per annum, he giving me 41. fine ; but he after-
wards refused it, so that it now lies waste.

KILLINASOOLAGII, B. BUNRATTY.

1 qr. released by Ja. McEnneragh, 1616. On 6th Feb., 1636, Bishop
L. Jones sealed a lease thereof to Wm. Pric^, who, Feb. 11, entered the
dwelling-house of Ja. McEnneragh and demanded possession thereof.
Conor Mallone, yeoman, took a clod of earth and delivered it to lessee as
possession for the said ]and.

PAEISH KILLINAS (?).

This qr., or Killinasulagh (P), was set by usurped powers to Captain
W. King, who took it for use of Captain W. Cullen,* and he paid for
same. I have agreed with Captain CuUen for 21 years at 41. per annum
and 101. fine.

KILLMALERIE rABISH.

1 qr. This was released by Murtogh Cltxnchie, 6th Jan., 1617, to
Bishop. Afterwards I find no lease made to any, jet enjoyed by Clan-
chie. Eichard Holcroft was in Dublin, and gave information that said
Clanchie did, 26 years past, willing land to his son, who died an infant.
Honora, surviving daughter, was married to one Matthew Lawrence, a

* N.B. — More of this Captain Cullen and where he lived, in Dyncly's
Tour, edited by the learned Mr. Shirley.

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Dutchman and a Protestant, and that for this cause both he and she
suffered the loss of all their goods by the rebels (!) That said Lawrence
died in Holland, and left said Honora with 8 children very poor ; that
said Honora is now maiTied to said R. Holcroft. (Note on margin,
" Whether Clanchie made not over his interest to Tirlagh McMahon ?")

When I was at Ennis (adds the Bishop) in 1G60, some persons whose
names I know not came to treat with me in the right and name of the
said Honora for said land of Killmalerie. The price we agreed on is SI.
per annum for 21 years.

The usurped powers set this to Captain W. King in behalf of Colonel
H. Ingoldsby for [obliterated] per annum. And in case the said Honora
and Holcroft do not make good their claim, I have promised Captain
Cullen that I shall make a lease thereof to Colonel Ingoldsbie for 21
years at SI. per annum.

CL0NL0IIA>\

1 qr. There was in 1640 on this qr. an old castle a little unrepaired.

Released by Boetius Clanchy, 6th Jan., 1617. I find no lease since.
C. and his assignees hold since at 3?. per annnm.

A contention about renewal of lease between Captain Hartwell and
one Hickie. " I ordered the lease should be cancelled."

DRUMCLIFFE, BARONT OF ISLANDS.

7i qrs. Total, 787 acres. Profitable, 333 ; unprofitable, 454.
The particulars are : —

Eyne, ^ qr.
Loughvellie, 1 qr.
Knockrone, 1 qr.
Carrownacreene, 1 qr.
Ballyconaght, 1 qr.
Drumcliffe, als Balliannagh, 1 qr.
Clunfeagh, 1 qr.
Shanhiltagh, 1 qr.
These qrs. of Drumcliffe were set by Mauritius (O'Brien-arra), Bishop
of Killaloe, unto one Nelan, Bishop of Kildare, for 99 years at ninepence
yearlij (sic), and this lease assigned over to tJie Earl of Thornond. The
invalidity was proved before the Deputy. The lease was siUTendered to
Lewis (Jones), Lord Bishop of Killaloe, in 1634, who leased the same to
Boetius Clancy at 40/. per annum (instead of ninepence per annum as to
Bishop IS elan, of Kildare, and his assignee the Earl of Thomond).

In the year 1610 (pursues Bishop Worth) these lands were set to
Barnaby, Earl of Thomond, for 42?. per annum for 21 years.

In the year 1636 one Patrick Meere commenced a suit in Chancery
against Lewis, Bishop of Killaloe, for these lands as his inheritance (! !),
whereas he had been only a tenant to the same for many years before
the making of the first-mentioned lease to Nelan. But Meere seems to
have been only engaged in this suit by the Earl of Thomond, and ac-
cordingly surceased the same when the Earl and Bishop aime to an
agreement.

These lands of Drumclift'e are set by me to — . Hobson, Esquire, for
21 years, for the fine of 50?. sterling and the rent of 55?. yearly for the

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first five years, and afterwards 60^. per annum. The term commenced
1st May, 1661, at which time the Earl of Thomond's lease expired.

Mr. Hobson hath, with my consent, assigned over his interest herein
to Rev. Robert Fish (clerk), the Prebend of Dysert. This lease was con-
firmed by the Dean and Chapter, April, 1661.

Of which fact the certainty will appear by quoting from the Chapter
Book as follows : —

" Quodie (4th May, 1661) et loco post matur. deliberationem, una
dimissio facta de sept, quart de Dromcliffe a dno, Epo. ad Johan
Hobson Armiger pro termo 21 annor, a Maii primo ad redit 557'. lib pro
tribus primis annis et ad redit 601, lib pro reliquis, quantum in illis est,
confirmaverunt."

Also a lease to Wm. Hartwell, of Clonloghan, for 21 years at 201,

And Aug. 7, lease to P. Purefoy was also confirmed, of Olonlea.

And to Geo. Ross, of Termon of Killmaloy.

And to Christina Young, of Killenamona.

And on 13th Nov., the Killinasulagh lease to D. Cullen.

We now come to the Barony of Inchiquin, parish of Killine-
boy. Five qrs. : —

In which lies a parcel called Moherroe, containing 15 acres belonging
to the i qr. of Cross-Caher in county survey.

These j^-ye qrs. in the Lord of Stratforde's survey are returned by six
sworn men to be Bishop's land.

Yet four qrs. only were in the Bishop's possession in 1641. And
Munnigat, als Cloonehilteen, als Cloonakill, ^ qr., was possessed by
the Lord of Inchiquin ; and Munanileen, -^- qr., by Tihogue Onelan, but
continually set by the Bishop, as appears p. 38. Munnigat and Cloona-
hyllin were released by the Bishop (p. 42).

1 car. of Ballinelackin. This was formerly set by divided particles
with other lands, and is mentioned in the old leases of Killineboy under
these figures :— [Here follow details.]

The whole five qrs. were found by the Inquisition in the Book of Com-
position (which is in the Audit Office) to belong to the Bishop, and no
part to Lord Inchiquin. Nor did the Lord of Inchiquin, in Bishop
Jones's time, challenge any more than a cartron thereof, and that de-
tained by the Quins, who were usurpers.

Besides these, there are other denominations in the leases,
many whereof are particles taken out of the Commons, which
paid rent distinct from the land.

The lands of Killenaboy were antiently divided into five proportions,
called Cooleavnagh, derived from " Colunmar a column or proportion,
each less than a particular quarter. And that is the reason why in the
Composition Book Killenaboy is computed at 4 qrs., noted m Stafford's
5 qrs For when Bishop Jones found the living and recovered the
lands* according to the Composition Book, under the composition of
4 qrs' they set him forth as but 4 callownaglias, and on the pretence
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a quarter. And the Bishop challenging but 4 qrs., had right to no more
than 16 callownaglias, whereas the Bishop's right is to the whole, and
the releases are of the whole.

This deceit was practised in Dean Blood's remembrance.

CONCERNING AGHNIS.

Mauritius, Lord Bishop of Killaloe, made first a lease of the Island
of Aghnis to Daniel :^reylan, Lord Bishop of Kildare, for 101 years, at
the rent of 9d. yearly. And upon the sun^ender of the lease, he granted
a new lease of said isles, with the 5 qrs. of land of Killenaboy, and the
town of Kilnaboy, &c., for 101, at the rent of V2d. yearly, which lease
was only confirmed by the Dean and two of the Chapters, whereas the
Bishop pleaded the major part of the Chapter are at least seveii, in
regard the number of the whole ai*e huelve.

By virtue of this lease, the said Bishop Neylan, and after his decease
his son William and Sir Eoger O'Shagnis, who married the relict and
executrix of the said Bishop ISTeylan, were possessed of the said Island
of Aghnis and of one caiTOwmere of Kilnaboy, and received out of the
rest of the said 5 qrs. and town of Kilnaboy only 3?. sterling, suffering
on some privy contract the Quins, being usurpers, to hold the same.

In 1618, John Eider, Lord Bishop, recovered at Council Board the
said town and lands from said Quins, and William ISTeylan was possessed
accordingly. After which, Sir Eoger O'Shagnis, claiming in right of
his wife, commenced a suit against said Bishop and his tenants in the
Common Pleas, which suit being stopped by an injunction from the
Council Board, the decision thereof was by consent of parties submitted
to the Lord Deputy and Council, who ordered to the said Sir Eoger a
new lease for 61 years at bl. per annum, otherwise to be possessed of
the said lands of Killenaboy, and continued in possession of lands of
Aghnis. This order is dated 26th November, 1619. To this order the
Bishop and Sir E. put their hands.

But I do not find that ever the Bishop, in conformity to said order,
made any such lease.

In 1633 a decree, February 27, passed at Council Board that Sir
Eoger should surrender his lease of Aghnis, and the tenants of Kille-
naboy their leases, and Bishop Jones grant a new lease to Sir E. at 12Z.
per annum for 21 years, and to the tenants of Killenaboy at 61. per
annum for each for 21 years.

So far as I am informed. Bishop Jones never made of the town and
lands of Kilnaboy above 21/. per annum.

AYhen I came to the Bishoprick these lands were in ye possession of
one Patrick Allen, of Dublin, merchant, who, pretending an old lease
by Bishop Jones to Eobert Casey, whose relict he married, obtained a
decree in Court of Claims to be allowed the said lease, which was said
to be for 21, from May, 1610, at 8/. per annum.

But when I came to the Bishoprick, as I saw no ground to confirm his
new lease, so neither could I find any other ground of pretence for the
old, but only that about 1610, the Bishop having some contest with his
tenants on Kilnaboy, and Bohed Casey being his soUicitor and attorney,
the Bishop made him a lease of ejectment (! !)

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As soon as I was consecrated I entered on the lands of Killenaboy,
and distrained for the rent due 24th March, 1660, most part whereof
Mr. Blood received for me, but rent due 29th September was received
by Allen.

The termon of Rath consists of four plow lands. These were leased
to O'Deas, Hogans also. The Bishop adds : —

" 1 cart of Carrownacrossie, 1 cart of Poligriffeen (both of these in
possession of Mr. Hugh McEnchroe, by final settlement, 22nd Sep-
tember, 1662). Mr. Hugh McEnchroe came to me to Killaloe and desired
to be admitted to the tenancy thereof under me."

The Bishop enters into minute particulars about Moyhill and Rath-
Knockorachie. As to the former place he notes : —

" That in year 1641, there was in Moyhill a new stone house in repair,
in Scowell a castle out of repair, in Bath stood the church and a stump
of an old castle."

In Composition Book, Rath is ment'oned under the name of Kinal-
wye, which was the old name of the parish, and the 4 qrs. therein said
to belong to the Bishop. This appears by the record in Auditor's
Office, a copy whereof I have extracted. It appears also, by Bishop
Rider's orders to Dermot Crone, O'Dea, 27th March, 1618, and
Michaelmas, 1620, that the whole termon of Rath was to pay refections
to the Bishop as therein appeareth by lease, &c.

ON THE TERMON OF KILLENAMONA.

Consists of 4 qrs., Cloongownagh, Lucknane, Ballinakill, and Rushane.
Some of these lands '' were transfen-ed to transplanters," also Island-gar.
1 Killinane, Dysert 4 qrs.

Boetius Clancy pretended that a part of this was his inheritance,
whereas it appears, by Bishop Rider's orders to his sergeant, 20th
March, 16 18, that Boetius paid rent for the same.

Ballycullinaboy possessed in 1641, by O'Deas and McLoughlins —
released— challenged— set by Mr. Blood to Mr. D. O'Brien.

1 cart Knockdrumcline, do.

1 cart Ballykerwith, do.

1 cart Knockane, set by Mr. Dean Blood to John Brickdale, together
with Agashlea, and half a cart of Qonmere for 2L 10s., challenged by
O'Deas.

1 cart Agashlea, do.

1 Drumcurrin W. to B. Hennessy.
E. to J. O'Dea.

Letter Moylan challenged by Haires and Brodies, but set to Hobson.

1 cart Clanore and Carhue set to Brigdal and Kerin>

1 cart Benaghar to O'Dea, Rice, and Hogau.

1 cart Murcullen to James Hogan.

The four qrs. of Dyserb by the Composition Book, 11 August, 1585,

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(obliterated), were

as appears by copy attested by Sir Henry

retained as belonging to the Bishop.

And Bishop Eider, in his orders to J. O'Dea in 1618 and 1620, required
him to tahe no rent out of the Castle ojid lands of Dysert because he hoiked
to live in it himself

Among the papers which I had from John Brigdell, I find mention
made of a Commission from the Council Table, in which it was proved
that the tenants at Dysert were tenants at will to the Bishop.

Among some papers I have acquittances for the Termon of Eath,
Disert, and Killenamona, 10th October, 1669.

By letter of attorney I authorized Mr. Dean Blood to set such lands
of Dysert as were imset, and he gave me an account that he disposed
of the same after the rate of 4Z. per annum, with refections and reser-
vations.

(In the further enumeration the good Bishop notes as to Littermoy-
lan), " I have agreed with Mr. Hobson for the half-portion (?), at the
rent of 8?. per annum for 21 years, but it is worth more, and I to as over-
readied in the hargain. (No wonder, when he had to bargain with such
able dealers. He adds, however, with an evident gusto of satisfaction),
" And Mr. Hobson failing to pay me the said rent, I have declared my
resolution to dispute the lease " (! !)

His Lordship proceeds in these wonderfxd revelations as to the tem-
poralities of the Church, thus : —

" Upon my petition to the House of Lords, 2nd June, 1662, I had an
order that the possessors of the castle and lands of Disert should
deliver up the possession thereof to me, or appear and show cause to the
contrary. And upon the affidavit of John Credne, 3 Julii, that the said
order was served on Teige O'Griffa (Griffin) and Wm. Carrig, who
obeyed not the same, nor appeared, I had an order to the Sheriff to
put me ia possession, who, with George Purdon, Esq., on 5th Sep-
tember, went personally to deliver the possession to me, but the castle
was forcibly detained by Captain AVilliam Nealand, but he quickly

delivered up the possession of the same to , who was authorized by

the Sheriff to take it, and which was delivered up to Lieut.-Col. Lucas
in the nght of the Bishop [75.] However, I petitioned the House of
Lords agaiQst Neylan, and thereupon a Sergeant of Arms was issued
against him.

neylan's title,

as I am informed, stands thus. One James Gould, of Ennis, was guar-
dian of the children of Dermot O'Dea. The names of these children were
— Conor-Leigh, Conor-Duff, Daniel Mall. This James Gould selling his
interest in the said land to Daniel Neylan, Bishop of Kildare, delivered
possession of the Castle and 1^ qrs. to the said Neylan. In 1603 or
thereabouts, Neylan died, after whose death an office was taken by
Denis Jordan, deputy escheator, the loth January, 1603, who certified
as follows : —

Whereas an office is passed upon the late Lord Bishop of Kildare,
his lands (and) Daniel Neylan, the lands hereunder wi'itten were found
to liave been in his possession at the time of his death, to which the

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O'Deas (above-mentioned of tlae Sept of the O'Deas) maketh claim
continually to be their own inheritance, and wrongfully detained from
them, which claim is set down in the body of the office, found by the
jury, which at their requests, I thought hereby to certify under my
liand, dated 13th January, 1603 : —

1. The Castle of the Dysert, with IJ qr. land, out of which the Lord
Bishop of Killaloe receiveth rent yearly —

2. Clonetowhill 1 qr.

3. Toonenigihie and Critt ... ... ... ... ... 1 qr.

4. Cahir Maccirmoyne ... ... ... ... ... 1^ cartron.

This is the true copy of so much as concerneth the above Sept of the

O'Deas, Davis Jordan, Deputy Escheator, and his certificate is in the
hands of Michael Dea, and was shown me 25th March, 1663.

The Bishop adds of Aghnis, —

At my first coming to the Bishoprick I could not make thereof above
7L per annum, but 1 have now agreed with Colonel Dillon for a lease of
21 years at 15L per annum, &c.

KILMOON PAUISH.

1 qr. and one-third 300 acres now in possession of Daniel O'Brien
of Duough.

In one parcel stands a decayed church and a stone house in good
repair.

CO. TIPPEKARY, B. IKEHKIN, P. KAMANEAGE (nOW RathnaVCOgUe.)

The land, 14a or 19a, and glebe 8, was set by Bishop Rider, 1619, to
M. Carney for use of James Batler, Lord Dunboyne, for 60 years, at 10s.
per annum.

I entered and set to Ensign Bond of Ballinakill at 21. for 6 years.

MENSAL TYTHES.

Kilmore P.

Challenged for many years by Dean and Chapter as belonging to
fabric of the Church, and return by Regal Visitation in 1633 was
thus —

Kilmore **Rect. spectat ad fabric: cancelli Eccles Cath. Laonens,
vel ad mensam Episcopi." Bid I find it ahvays ^^oseessed hy Bisho})
Ilider and Bishop Jones, and lastly by Bishop Pan-y. I set to D.
Kennedy at 40?.. per annum for 21 years (Bishop Rider at pp. 119
and 129 states the contrary).

RECT. DOLLOIT.

Mensals set to D. Kennedy for 21 years at 121.

IlECT. ARDCRONEY.

Mensal set to D. Prescott for 21 years at 20 barrels of wheat and 10
baiTels of barley malt. But in 1637 was set by Bishop Jones to Andrew
Darling, the BislLOi:}'s servant ( ! ! ), for 12L yearly.

1661. These three rectories are set by me to Captam Parker and D.
Kennedy, together (with) the Vicarage of Ardcroney, for 55Z. sterling.

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E. OF DRUMLINE IN BUNEATTY, B.

Also Men sal —

Two leases, one in 1587 to John Macnemara for 61 years at 25. ; one
to D. Macnemara, 1633, for 21 at 101. per annum.

Quere, whether this tythe be the same with Shamberlaght ?

GEANAHEE.

1^. to Colpoys.

MOITEAETA.

Ballinode, a townland with an island by E. Thomond held, pays
2?. 136'. 4d.

KilkeiToll, held by Sir D. O'Brien. Held by 49 men in 1662 for pre-
sent rent — worth lOZ. per annum.

For I of a qr. in 1641, Su' D. O'B. paid Bishop 13.5. 4c?., on being
recovered at Council Board from the Mahoons, ordered to be set for
60 years at 41. per annum, was set to Harry Bowerman and Sii* E..
Delahoyde.

Knockkerriher, Earl of Thomond recovered, set to Sir R. D.

Madda-more, to Sii- D. O'B., IL 6s. Sd.

Maddabeg, with field, to Sir D. O'B.

Ballyket in this parcel was a good castle and good store-house in re-
pair in 1641, to Sir D. O'B., at 18s.

Gowyr, or Gowerha, possessed 1641 by Sir D. O'B., IZ. per annum to
Bishop. Four qrs., Kilnish, by Bishop Eider, lease set at 11. yearly,
but by Bishop Mauritius at 4 markes yearly.

p. MOITEAETA.

In 1641, Sir D. O'B. at 1?-. per annum.

Kiltillyn, do., at 11.

KilcoiTydone, or Kilcredane. Here stood the walls of an old chapel,
ruined. Sir D. O'B., 1641, at 1?.

Donahoe, E. (Dunaha) and W., at 21. per annum, to Sir D. O'B.

The town, village, -lands, hamlet, and fields of Carrigahowlie, alias
E/inaneaderrick, Sir D. O'B.

Lissine and FaiTow, Kilcroney, ColecoiTan, to Sir D. O'B.

RILFIEEAGH.

Sundry lots to Sir D. O'B., viz., \ qr. Mayhasta, 13s. 4(1 ; -J do. Kil-
negallagh, 13.s. 4d. Here stands an old chapel ruinated ; Kilkashel, 6s.

J qr. of Kilkie, in 1641. One half thereof was possessed by Sir
D. O'B., in 1641, on which stood a good stone house.

The other half by Hugh McSwyny, whereon stood a castle. (This
McSwyny was a dependant of Sir Daniel O'Brien; we shall find the
name agam ere long. Some remains of this castle are still traceable
in the rere of the premises in the square now held by Mrs. Russell.)

Lisdwyin, 1 qr., was possessed in 1641 by Su- D. O'Brien at 13s. 4(Z.,
as the interest of Charles O'Cahan of Lishonahan, though returned as
Sir D. O'B.'s.

Kilfieragh, 1 qr., glebe 3 acres. Sir D. O'B., IZ. 6s. Sd.

In 1641.

Bally onan, Teige Murtagh and Eobcrt Cahan (Keane).

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Kildema, Hugh Clancie.

Kilballyown, Eoss, &c., 2 qr.,all in 1641, by Sir D. O'B., at 21. 13s. U.

So others as Kilcloher, and in bulk more, of which Sir D. O'B. is
returned to pay 241. 10s. to Bishop for several parcels, names not
mentioned.

From this summary it is clear that a bishop in those days had
extraordinary difficnlties to contend with in order to preserve
the property of the see from the tenants, and no few temptations
also to join them in divers forms of sacrilegious aggrandisement
at the expense of the Church.

The Chapter-Book is conversant with the confirmation of
bishops' leases, and chiefly wath those to which allusion has been
made in the Bishop's account-book of the See estate. Another
entry, however, must now be made, closing our statement of
this part of the subject : —

Nov. 7, 1664.

Lease confirmed to Bart. Stacpoole, of Nenagh (OTlynn), of one qr.
of Kiltinaghty, Cahirnakelly, at 18L per annum for 21 years.
(So in Chapter-Book.)

Similiter eodem die et loco confirmavimus al indentura sive dimis-
sion fact a dicto Domino Episcopo Gulielmo Worth, Armigero Johan
Worth generos, et Susannae Cross, juniori et eorum longiori superstiti
de 408 jugeribus in terr. de Fossamore et Capparoe in Baronia de Tulla,
de Craglea continent de 244 jugera, de 37 jugera de Cahirles, etiam Tir-
ronaravan (P), in Baronia de Clonderla, 612 jugera.

Terrse de Ard-Croney de Ormondia inferiori in comitatu Tipperary pro
termo vitarum naturalium duorum Guliel, Johan, et ISusan, et de
superstitis ab hoc instanti die ad reditum 55 hb stg.

(Thus. 1301 acres were set for long periods to members of this
Bishop's own family at the rent of 55L per annum, a portion of which
had been leased formerly to the Bishop's own man-servant).

At the same time, it is only fair to state that a succeeding
Bishop not long after reset the parcel on the same terms, w^hat-
ever in the way of exculpation this may be worth. (See
Chapter-Book.)

Attention is now directed to the Acts of Settlement and
Explanation, which are '' the Magna Charta of Irish pro-
perty/' Into the principles of these Acts any investigation
would be out of place ; but the results produced thereby are of
much consequence, and have an important bearing upon reli-
gious profession in the Diocese of Killaloe. This is given in
the Appendix No. IV., in which also appears a sufficiently full
statement of the Proprietary in 1641, 1659, 1662, and 1688.

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The effects which a long series of wild and blood}' uprisings
against England (always instigated by Roman agents) produced
on Ireland and her sons — whether original Kelts, naturalized
Saxons, or rather, indeed, Normans, but all of the Roman
persuasion — are here brought into a clear light. And an
answer is also given to the indignant declamation in the speech
or tract of the Right Hon. John, Earl of Clare, in which he
demands —

" What, then, was the situation of Ireland at the Eevokition, and
what is it at this day P The whole power and property of the country
has been conferred by successive Monarchs of England upon an English
colony, composed of thi^ee sets of English adventui^ers, who poured into
this country at the termination of three successive rebellions. Confisca-
tion is their common title ; and from their first settlement they have
been hemmed in on every side by the old inhabitants of the Island,
brooding over their discontents in sullen indignation." (Speech, p. 22.

The Writer is strongly tempted to present the other side of
the question, in which a Roman Catholic Irish gentleman of
position deplores the folly and infatuation under which his
family, like so many others of the Roman Catholics of the
West, flung themselves into the cause of the Stuarts, or of
Rome, and thereby flung away their own good estates, and left
Ireland to be bled and blistered under penal laws, and bound b}^
weighty chains, as dangerous maniacs and delirious patients were
then used to be treated. But to the point. A gentleman of a
name so highly honoured in Ireland as that of Sarsfield writes
thus in confidence to the lady of his love. This letter is so
quaint and like a thing that Lever would have distilled into
spicy fragrance, or Scott have lingered fondly gazing upon as
some rich gem of the past glittering with barbaric splendour in
the midst of a massive golden setting, that it must appear in
full and exactly as it was penned : —

Toomullen, July li, 1785.

My dear Madam—

I dare say j^ou'll intcrtain little or no doubt, when I take upon
me to assure you with the greatest truth, it has given me uncommon
concern and uneasiness that I had it not in my power to write to yau
earlier, owing to an inflammation I got in my eyes. Surely it's not to
be sus|iected, I could deny myself the honour and pleasure to make
answer to your most agreeable and acceptaljle favour, notwithstanding
any idle or indifferent reports, I've been told, which I nuist own gave
me a dale of umbrage. I canot but feel with pleasure such mai'ks of

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your regard for me. As to mj part, be assured. I shall not be wanting
in any degree to testify my attachment to your own dear person. I
shall always take pride and pleasure to see a certain dignity of mind in
a lady, to whome I heartily wish to be united. Belieye me it's my deter-
mined wish and purpose to be down with you as soon as possible, and
that your Ladyship and I may come face to face and inter more minutely
into the subject of our affair. Further, I hope I need not say more than
to request the pleasure of a few lines from you with all convenient speed.
My charmer and life, I take leave to subscribe myself without reserve
your most faithful affectionate and loving

James Sarsfield.
Please to turn over.

P.S. — I should be glad you would as soon as leasure permits to
collect such papers as are necessary for my inspection, and particularly
an account of all the assets and how administered l^y you and by the
late jNIr. Rice. The filly is a beauty and in capital order. I would have
you look out for a pair of good chattle for your carriage. Since I wrote
the within I've been considering how ellegible and advisable it would be,
if you would but in God's name determine with yourself to come up to
Doolen this fine season. Delays are dangerous. Time is to be taken by
the forelock. Your co-operating with me will make everything go
smooth and happy. I little imagine you would have refused me the two
panes of glass and the stick of Indian ink I sent to you, for which
[what] was then wanting to compleat the plan of mine.

Wlio in the world could exert himself more-early in the morning to
relieve you from the great danger you were in ? Is it not a fact well-
known that I v/as detenu ined to go to you myself single banded to your

assistance and fought in blood for your redemption, but that Mrs. M

ordered the arms to be hid from me ? I hesitated not a moment to
rouse Mr. M and the family.

And now comes the grand disclosure of this thoroughly
genuine and most confidential letter : —

It ivas one of tlio f/reat(3st rnisfoHuncs tltcd ivcre aftcnduu/ the Stuart line
that they tcere not as grateful as iiiey onrjlit to hr to fit e poor Irish.

Tve often heard my father say h.nvj James tlie 2iid behaved to thed hrave
and gedlant officer, Fatrich, Earl of Luca/n, vjlto so onnch signalized him-
self in the service of that unfortunate Prince.

There can be no doubt of it-, then, that the three great confis-
cations were the direct consequence — the inevitable retribution
which the Roman Catholics of Irehmd brought down on them-
selves by making themselves the tools of the Ptoman and chiefly
Episcopal agents of the Pope, and of the continental foes of
England and liberty. But then, on the other hand, it is only
fair to ask, Did England, victorious as she was, under God's
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rigour as was absolutely necessary ? Did she also strive to
mitigate the terrible penal consequences of the Irish massacres
and rebellions in the manner which Christianity and humanity,
and even good policy, would have dictated, by adopting judi-
cious healing measures, and carr}^ng out impro\ing provisions ?
The fact of such a mode of treatment would have greatly neutra-
lized the evil effects of foreign policy working on native exaspe-
ration, and indeed desperation ; and above all, would have
paved the way for the ^'free course" of the old religion of
Ireland once more among those who had embraced a novel and
a corrupted substitute. And further, the oppressions, discon-
tents, intrigues, plots, and wretched fluctuations which are the
features of this reign, so far as Ireland is concerned, must have
operated most injuriously upon the interests of a remote part
of Ireland like the Diocese of Killaloe, in which trade and
commerce were not progressive, and even pastoral pursuits
ceased for a time to )"ield a profit.

The Bill of the Enghsh Parliament, in 1665, for the
total prohibition of Irish cattle from the English markets was
a heavy blow to Irish interests, especially in pastoral districts
like Clare. The state of affairs in 1666 was most critical.
Deprived of commerce with England, disabled from foreign
trade, exposed to enemies open and concealed, and every moment
in danger of insurrection, Ireland was reduced to a most
lamentable condition. At length, in 1667, Ireland was allowed
a free trade with all foreign countries. Woollen manufactories
were set up in Clonmel ; "Walloons were encouraged to settle;
but all was not right.

The Duke of Ormonde's orders to a Council of Trade (see Hi.
Lawrence's Interest of Ireland, p. 191) produced some good
effects for the time. The great lords, who were grantees of
" great scopes of land, in several of their lots found old, ruined
towns ; and, to get them planted, grew eager for manufactures,
to whom the Lord-Lieutenant gave all possible encouragement,
(so) that we had in a few years, erected by private persons on
their own accounts, many considerable manufactures. In
Leinster . . . Esquire Parsons at the Byrr ; in Munster
. several Dutch merchants at Limerick and Clare ; and
the Dulio himself erected a most considerable manufacture at
Clonmell. But all these, except the northern linen manufac-

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tures, did, after the Duke's removal, dwindle away to nothing,
except a few, lingering like sick folk, ready to expire." And
yet of what use were linen and silk manufactures and looms
and bobbins fl}^ng, at a time when dark designs were afoot as
well by the monarch as against him ? It was the hush before
a storm. Leaden clouds charged with fierce influences, over-
hung the fated scene. Church progress was scarcely apparent,
and certainly not real. Material interests made but Kttle stir. A
greater trade was driven in the sale of land debentures, and better
fortunes made in one year than otherwise to be made in seven
years. ( TJbi svjyra, p. 4.)

There remains no account of any visitation held by Bishop
Worth. But in the Record-office is to be found " The Primary
Visitation of Thomas (Price) Archbishop of Cashel, &c., held at
St. Flannan's Cathedral, 29th Sept., 1667,'' which sets forth the
following as the condition of the Diocese in respect of those
matters which are recorded as having been enquired into, viz.,
fees and proxies : —

Edward Worth (Bishop)
Economy of Killaloe...
Dean, Jasper Pheasant
Precentor, John Andrews ...

Chancellor, Panl Amyrant

Treasurer, Edwd. Remolds

Archdn., Dr. John Hall

Prebendakies —

Tomgraney, Geo. Sinclair ...

Lockeen, Ez. Webb

Eatli, Kep. Blood

Dyseiii, Rob. Fish

Olondegad, Era. Whitston

Omnllod, John Cox

Kilfinaghta, Rich. Woodmg

Kilseely, D. DriscoU

Kiltananlea, Jno. Scrodon ...

O gasliin, John Worth (!!!)

Traderee, William Fuller, Bishop c>f Limerick (! ! !)

Killofin, Kilfidano, and Clardcvilla, Wm. Fuller,
above ... ... •••

Prebendary of Inniscaltry, John Padfield

Modneney, Jos. Amymlt

Roscrea, M. McHenry

Kilcoleman, Thos. James

ScedulaPro-

curationum.

£ s.

.. 0 13

.. 2 10 10

.. 2 8 10

.. 1 17

..0 9

.. 1 11

... 1 4

.. 0 15

,.. 0 16

... 0 10

... 1 8

... 0 10 11

... 0 12

... 0 9

... 1 4

... 1 2

... 0 13

... 1 9

... 2 0 10

... 1 8

... 0 11

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0 13
0 2
0 2

0 5 6

Letterluna, Kinnitt j, &c., Thos. Holmes £0 8

Inchecronane, Cornl. Sherin 0 3

Tulla, John Bayllie OU

Finglas and Dunkerin, Roger Cooke 0 11

Burgesbeg, Toughal, John Godfrey 0 6

Kilmore, Richd. Lynge 0 5

iMPROraiATORS.

Thos. Southwell, Stradbally

Jacob Lilly, Kilnagan-iJffe ...

„ Eliltanalea

The Duke of Ormond, the Rectory of Bourchin (or

Bourney)
Comes Thomondia3 ...
Monaster, Innis da- Canaragh
Monaster, Inchecronane

Do. Deforagio (=Fergus) ...
Rect., Innis da drum
Yicar, Ejusdem
Rect. de Kilchi'ist ...
Rect. de Kildysert ...
Kilmurry, Clonderla
Pars. Rect. de Killimor
Do. Kilmacduane

Rect. do Kilmuny Ibrikane
Pars. Rect. Kilfiera ...

„ „ Kilballj'hane

,, „ Killardagh

,, „ JSTearyfarta

„ ,, Kihnihil ...

Comes Wont worth :

Total ... £15 0 0

Comes Corcagia3 :
Rect. Inniscaltrie
,, Kilbarrane
„ Ballingarry
„ Uskane
(In the two last the duty was deducted ])y Mr. Amyrault.) ... £1 1 11

Comes Inchiquin, per Ben. J. Lucas :
Monast. Killonc
Rect. Killough
Yic. do. ...

Rect. of Clondagad

Rect. of Kilfidane ...
Pars. Killafin

„ Kilmihil £S 1 0

Letterluna
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Monaster, de Innis-na-meo (-mesh)
Eectory de C orb ally

£2 16 0

Edmond Wailsli :

Burrisokane

Nenagh

Lisbunney

Bm^gesbeg

Knio^b

Beet. Athnacan
Monast. de Thome . . .
Monaster de Lorha . . .
Beet, de Ballinaclough

Margaretta, Domina Grace :

Anna Meadle :

Dominus Dmigan :

Dominus Gough :

Bobert Boyle Ai^miger:

£2 18

£0 18

£1 0

£0 1

Beet, de Killnaneffe

,, Killodiernan

Yic. do.

Beet, de Kilmanc
Yic. de do.

de Ballymackey
de Temple Harry
de Dunkerrin ...
de Bathnaveague
Beet, de Castletown ely
Shmrone
Boscomroe
Cullenwaine

Yic. Ettagh

Beet. Clonghprior ...
Yic. do.

£5 0 4

A few remarks are not inapposite.

1. This is a reliable statement, as far as it goes, of the finan-
cial condition of the Diocese, of the number of working clergy,
and of their remuneration, also of the amounts abstracted by Im-
propriators. And comparing these particulars with those
recorded in Bp. John Eider's Yisitation-disclosures in 1622,
and with the Visitation of 1633, the results are in the main par-
ticularly unsatisfactory— fewer clergy at work, lower remune-
ration for them, diocesan funds still grasped to a large extent
by the Impropriators, and " Comes Corcag'm '' and the Boyles
not yet satiated with the deep drain they had established else-

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where upon the body of the Church. (See Usher, Ware, Cot-
ton, and Elrington ad rem,) Indeed, if the same rate of taxation
is assumed for the working clergy and dignitaries as for the
Impropriators, these latter have more by one-third to receive
than have the former.

The amount in one case being . . . £27 9 5
The other 38 0 6

Balance in favour of the Impropriators . £10 11 1

It now remains briefly to notice Bishop Worth's published
theological opinions, also his testamentary bequests.

He published : —

1st. A Sermon at the Funeral of Bishop Boyle. 4to. Cork,
1644.

2nd. Scripture Evidence for Baptizing the Children of Cove-
nanters. 4to. Cork, 1653.

3rd. Sermon at Funeral of Ch. J. Pepeys. 4to. Dublin,
1659.

The Last Will and Testament of Bishop Worth.

In the name of God — Amen.

Being apprehensive of the common condition of fallen nature and
that my house of clay is at present mouldering away, and desirous after
the example of my Master to leave peace among my dear relatives, I,
Edward Woi-th, Bishop of Killaloe, do make, constitute and ordain this
my last will and testament.

Item. I commit my Soul and body into the hands of the Lord my
God as unto a faithful Creator and gracious Eedeemer who will keep
that which is committed to Him.

It. I bewail the sinfulness of my nature as the seed-plot of all that
which is evil, and of the sinfulness of my life, by means whereof the
very good ways of the God I serve have been by some evil-spoken of,
and thereby the spiritual good of others obstructed.

It. I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, who died for my sins and
rose again for my justification, through faith in whose blood I hope to
partake the inheritance of the Saints in light.

It. I profess myself, tlii'ough grace, a son of the Catholic Church,
and more particularly the Cammunion of the Chui'ch of Christ in
England ; the best reformed church, and most consonant to Apostolical
institution.

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Bider whence she is fallen and to do her first works. (She was of the
family of the Boyles.)

It. I ingage my dear childi-en to make religion their business that
they may secnre an interest in that Father, who cannot die, and in that
inheritance which cannot be moved.

It. As for my temporal estate, wherewith it hath pleased God to
bless me, my will is —

It. I give and bequeath to my dear wife, Susanna Worth, all my
stock, chattels, and plate, &c., to value of 200Z,, also leases, in Clare
and Tipperary, with profits, in lieu of her dower and thirds, she releasing
my son Wm. Worth in two mos. to her marriage demands.

It. My wife to allow benefit under leases in Clare of HOI. to the
three children of Susanna Crosse, also a debt due by Cousin Sylvester
Crosse of 60?., &c.

It. To Susanna Crosse, my six silver plates.

It. To my son John and heirs, my lands in Clare, houses in Lime-
rick, mortgages on lands in county Cork, leases in counties Cork and
Limerick ; also half of my library of books to be divided between John
and William, my sons, or survivor, with respect to their studies and
callings.

It. I leave 5L to be laid out towards reparation of church of New-
market, county Cork, or otherwise to be disposed for use and benefit of
said church by Sir Eichard Aldworth, Knight, the Vicar or Hector for
time being, or the Churchwardens, &c.

It. I will lOOZ. to be raised out of moneys due, to purchase a parcel
of land or houses in Kinsale, and the issues and profits to be disposed
of and laid out towards the relief of such poor people as shall from
time to time be in the Eock ( P ) of Kingsale (sic). My will is that no
person shall be allowed to live or inhabit in the said hospital or be
maintained or relieved, &c., unless under consent and direction of the
local ofiicers and parties to be named.

It. I desire for the yearly maintenance of four schollars (sic) in the
College {sic) of DubHn, till they successively commence Batchclors of
Arts, all my interest and estate in certain leases of lands and houses
in the N. liberties of Cork ; the said scholars to be chosen, and the said
allowances equally to be proportioned by the provost of the college for
the time being, by my heirs-at-law and the overseers of this my will or
the major part of them, &c.

It. To Dorothy Woods, widow, for her care and affection, 61 per
annum annuity, secured, &c.

It. Legacy to Philis Jounkin, in acknowledgment of her true and
faithful services, an annuity of 61. per annum, secured on his lands.

He leaves liis cousin James Worth, exempted from tlie payment of a
debt due, also bequeaths him his tan-house and hides and 11. per annum
for same.

It. Wm. Worth, his son, sole executor.

It. I constitute my brother, the Eight Eev. Eichard Boyle, Lord
Bishop of Ferns and Loughlin, Thos. Hackett, D.D., and John Hall,
Archdeacon, Overseers of mj will.

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It. T conjure my cliildren to conform themselves to m}' wishes
herein determined.

It. John, my son, must not marry without the consent of his mother,
else, &c. And further, I strictly charge and command him, that if
it shall not please Grod to enable him for that gi^eat work of the
ministry, then that he studiously and carefully apply himself to some
other profession, and that he at once resign all spiritual and ecclesi-
astical means and livings which he now has or hereafter may have,
except he has taken upon him the office and charge of a minister, which
I earnestly desire he should do, so as he be fit for the same.

And I desire that all my debts may be justl}^ and faithfully paid,
and that afterwards some such memorial may be given to my sisters
and cousins as my overseers shall judge most ( ? best) for my executors
to do, as also to my servants and other friends.

Lastly. I do revoke, &c.

The autograph signatures to this and the other Bishops'
Trails will be found in fac-simile elsewhere in this volume.

Access ha\ang been allowed to the residue of documents
once belonging to the Consistorial Court of Killaloe, througli
the very polite consideration of Mr. Maurice Lenihan, the well-
known author of the learned ^^ History of Limerick," into
whose careful hands these interesting papers have fallen, it
may not be amiss to insert here some notes and characteristic
cases, to illustrate the nature and working of an ecclesiastical
jurisdiction scarcely intelligible to, or endurable by, the Church-
men of the present day. Before entering into particulars some
general remarks apply. Not a tytlie of the papers have sur-
vived the wreck and ruin, which befel the collection. No reader
of judgment will argue from the particular to the universal by
concluding adversely to the general morals of Churchmen in
the time u^nder review, out of the isolated and exceptional
instances brought before the Consistorial Court. The cases
cited sometimes belong to the middle of the 18th century, but
are inserted as being characteristic, and to close the subject
finally. Much is inserted as of interest to local readers of
these pages.

The following paper will give an idea of the vast amount of
the records and instruments which had accumulated at the
opening of the 18tli century, and of the complicated proceed-
ings and weighty interests involved : —

This indenture, made this 14th day of September, 17 13, between
Eichard Morgan, gentleman, Principall llegister of the Diocese of

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THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE, ETC., IN THE

Killaloe, of tlie one part, and Francis Hawkins, gentleman, his Deputy,
of the other.

Witnesseth that the following records and instruments are in the
Registry of the aforesaid Diocese of Killaloe, viz., the Wills and
Testaments of Denish McISTamara, Matthew Kennedy, Brian O'Bryen,
Teige Cusacke, Domk McNamara, William Smith, Phillip Sullevane[
Matthew Honan, Daniel Kennedy, — . Parnell, Margt. Parker, Eliza
Powell, Patrick McNamara, William Carter, Eichard Eingrose, Maudlin
Honan, Christopher Watson, Thomas Poer, Daniel Corry, George Webb,
Martogh McMahon, Philip Colleen Kennedy, John Lawson, Martin

White, Teige O'Brien, Eoger Carroll, Patrick , Joseph Fruen, John

Taylor, John Gryppa, Edmond Perry, Garrett Prendergast, Herbert
Norman, Eobert Lynn, Donogh Dulhunty, John James, John Higham,
Daniel McNamara, — . McBoufield, Terence O'Hyare, John Fitzgerald,
Era. Wcstropp, Darby Meara, Frank Browne, — . Hopwell, William
Carroll, Francis Fitzgerald, William Fletcher, Patrick Supple, Thomas
Grady, Patrick Arthur, Dermot O'Dea, Teige O'Gorman, — . Barrett,
William Meara, John Wilder, John Keeling, Matt. McNamara, John
Barton, James Cleary, Dermot Hurley, — . Anthony, Thomas
Hernane, David Machie, Thomas Burke, Theo. Butler, Dan O'Brien,
Danish Kennedy, John McNamara, James Eoche, — . Mulryane, Teige
Mulloney, Matt. Sweeny, Thomas Wall, Daniel Carrighy, Edmond
Dyr^re, Edmond Mealing, Dermod O'Kearing, Francis Foare, Loughlin
MclN'amara, John Straton, Teige Mossan, Jane Stanley, Ohver Burke,
Edmond Kelly, John McMahon McNamara, Charles Plallinane, William
Merony, Nich. Merreweather, Patrick Meara, Daniel Daffy, Steptum
Stirtch, Patrick Seaton, Owna Frawley, Joseph Kendall, Christopher
Arthew, Ealph Dolly, James Hendy, Hugh Hickman, William Connell,
Teige Gorman, Nil. Croker, William Walsh, Teige Eyan, Murtogh
McGoonane, John Gray, Able Thomas, Matt. Cusacke, Ellen Cornwall,
Laughlin O'Hehh, Teige O'Bryen, Murtagh Eoe McMahon, Isaac Yan-
hoze, James Himsey, Eichard Walls, John Williams, John O'Meskell,
Thomas Folds, John Crowe, Johnathan Cecil, John Stoakes, Ohver
Newhouse, Edmond Brough, Patrick WouKe, John Hogan.

The Inventories of the goods of Michael Croker, Andrew Wolfe,
Andrew Creaghe, Muganus Murfco Eoe McMahon, John McDonogh
McNamara, Margaret Spelhssy, Teige Crinane, — . Cory, Teige Considin,
Daniel Hoggnis, James Wolfe, The Widow Casan, Patrick Seaton,
Morgan Eyan, Eichard Morony, Dermot Daly, Joseph Eandall, Bernard
O'Brien, Theobald Butler, David Machgie, William Walsh, Edward

Mealinge, David White, Francis , James Wall, James Steward,

David Melne, William Walsh, — . Power, Dan Magee, John Simmes,
Teige Cumane, Oliver ISTewhouse, John Hall, Conor Considine, John
Hall, James Creaghe, Daniel DuJfy, Thomas Bold, John Egan, Thomas
Eoche, John Peppard, Daniel Howe, Teige Kcarane, James Eoch, Mort
Kelly, John Connell, Mor. Kelly, Colonel Bl. John Merriott, Maurice
Connell, John Eeddome, William Hewitt, John Datch, Christopher
Arthur, Daniel Eyan, Edm. Seaton, Ei. Scott, Patrick Fitzsimons,
Nl. Boufield, Ed. Catherall, John Kennedy, Teige Gorman, Basill

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Browne, Fra. Browne, Ml. Griffe, William Hipwell, William ffnller,
Garrett Pindergast, Dominick Artliur, Simon Martin, Matt. Hehii%
Brian O'Brien, Teige Considin, Jolm Lawson, William Connell, James
Quin, Daniel Dulhunty, Ei. Wall, Peregi'ine Blood, Herborde Normane,
Owen Cussidin, Matt. Honan, Christopher Watson, John Taylor, Teige
O'Brien, Ed. Boy Ian, Martin Mnswery, Margt. Parker, James Bailley,
John Simon, John Salisbmy, John Warham, Connell Hollo way, Simon
]\iartin, D. Sullivane, Deunish Carroll, Teige Lynchy, Patrick McNamara,
Thomas Talbott, John Lawson, Thomas Talbot, K. Whealan, William
Stack.

The following papers —

Citations,

Petitions,

Exceptions,

Answers and Replications,

Duplications,

Tkiplications,

also PtEPLICATIONS CrOSS,

Intebhogatorys,
Alligations,
Forms of,
also Renunciations,
Inhibitions,

Apostell's and Appeal,
Denunciations,
(Hiatns) In Pope's Cause,
Sentences,

Bonds of Matrimony and others,
Terriers of Glebe Lands,
Bonds of the Probate of Wills,
15 Visitation Books,
4 Books of the (hiatus),
Register Books and
An Old Table of Fees, —

all which records and instruments are at present in the Registry of Dio.
Killaloe, and have been deposited with said Ri. Morgan to ye care and

custody of the aforesaid.

Fra. Hawkins,
Morgan.

In presence of Bcnj. Lloyd,

Jno. Machamara.

To the Right Rev. my Lord Bishop of Ivillalow.
The Representation of the Church \Yardeas of the United Parishes of
Finoc, Cloghprior, Ivcbarron, and Teriglas.
Showing that ever since the restoration these foresaid parishes have
been united, and consequently by the Act of Settlement, § 137, are to be
understood as one parish, and in pursuance of which the several
churches in ye above union, being out of repair, a vestry was called by

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THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE, ETC., IN THE

Rev. Jo. Hall, then incumbent, to be held in Bellinderry, near ye center of
these united parishes, in ye year 1683 or 4, unto which all the freeholders
and farmers of said Union came to consider which of the churches would be
most convenient to be pitched upon for the Mother Church. And after a
full hearing of all parties, it was at length unanimously agreed that the
church of Finnoe should be the Mother Church, and to be repaired by
the aforesaid united parishes for Divine service, and it was accordingly
unanimously agreed upon that the sum of 50L should be laid upon the
foresaid parishes to repair the church of Finnoe, and to fit it for Divine
service, and that Jno. Hunt, Esq. and Mr. Edward Legge should be
churchwardens of the said Union to raise the said sum for the use of
the said church, and Mr. McMerrit should be overseer of the said
reparation.

This act was confirmed by the Right Rev. Dr. John Roan, the Bishop
of Killalow, and the said money was raised and employed to the repair
the said Church of Finoe, and that ever since, under the several Rectors,
the aforesaid union has unanunously joyned in the keeping of the said
mother Church of Finoh in constant and decent repair without any
opposition.

Notwithstanding of which some ill-disposed persons upon frivolous
pretences, in the parish of Teriglas, refuse to pay their proportion of
the money laid upon the Union in this year, 1728, for the repair of their
mother Church, the names of whom are hereunto adjoined and pre-
sented to your Lordship's Court. Humbly intreatiug that your Lord-
ship will order a vigorous prosecution to oblige them to repair their
mother Church, as they have always done, according to the Ecclesias-
tical Laws in that case made and provided.

Ed. Legge, ) n w.

— . KILBUH^^E. J ^- ^^•

October, 1728.

October, 23, 1728.
We, the Churchwardens, present the following, viz., Imyrvmis
John Barry ...
Mr. Cha. Minchin
Mr. Sam. Rob bins
Mr. Richd. Biggs
Mr. Tho. TalJjot
Hugh Hogan , . .
M. Luscurry ...
E. Kingsboro ...
In all, presented eight persons.

Parish of Ballymackey.
for ecclesiastical dues

Return of the several portions of tytl
rio-ht belonging to the Incumbent of the Union of Ballymackey, which
co°nsists of the following denominations :—Burrisafarney, Kilderryda-
drom, Anaghmeadle, and Ballymackey. The two first are by the Down
Survey swallowed up m that of Annaghmeadle, ^hich contains altogether
5 983 acres. B mackey contains according to same 5,963, &c. They
are all Rectories endowed with the Vicarages, and all in the possession

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of the Incumbent, by an Episcopal Union of tlie Yic. of Ballymackey,
with the small contiguous Eectory of Templedowney, worth about 12L
per annum, is the Corps of the Chancellorship to which belongs the 3rd
part of the tythes of the whole parish of Ballymackey and the Book
money. Upon this Yicarage is the Church, which the whole Union has
time out of mind resorted to, and contributed towards its repau-s. The
tithes paid in the above parishes are of all manner of grain, hay, wool,
and lamb. The Book money, or small fees, are as follows, viz. : —

Every marriage, with licence, to minister, 10s., to clerk, bs.

Do. by Banns, 2s., to clerk, 8cl.

Chuixhing, 2s., to clerk, 6d.

Burials in Churchyard, 2s., to clerk, 6d.
Inside Church, 8s. l^d.
Chancel, 13s. 4tZ.

No first fi'uits payable, but a Crown Eent, 21. 12s. 2c?.

Clerk receives 9d. out of every house at Easter.

The above is the state of the Parish and Union of Ballymackey, given
into Eegistry 5th August, 1747, pursuant to ye 20 Canon.

Petee Wybeants, Kector.

The Eev. Era Gore, Eector of Tradree, in a Tythe Case against Henry
Desterre, of Eossmanaher, deposes that Desterre would not allow hay
to be taken according to custom of country, " but offered it in cocks
about the bigness of a man's hat." So also he separated and scattered
the oats unfairly, item the barley.

So also Desterre cut down an Osiery to his own use untythed.

Then, further, " the tythe of potatoes, honey, geese, milk, pigs, and
kitchen garden, Destei-re applied all untythed to his own use, all to
value of 4/. sterlmg. He would not consent to a valuation reasonable
by his neighbour, Mr. Daulton.

Inventory of ]\Ii^s. Jane McJ^amara, or Wilkinson, of Balleyvalley.
Yery extensive. 1748.

Statement of Lord Inchiquin's presentations in Clare, made by J as.
Hogan (agent), 1749 : —

Killenaboy and Kilkeedy, entire. ( Ambrose Upton, clerk,

Inchicronane, ^. I aged over 60 ; set at

Disert and Eath, k \ 170?., well worth 200Z.

C 60?. yearly. — . Ward,
) aged about 70, lives at
j Middleton, in Cork;
( worth 100?.
( — . Bolleyn, a young
< man, lives at Eosstet-
( Ian ; worth 50?.
( — . Cooper, a very old
\ gent, lives in Cork;
( worth 80?.

Yescy's Eectoiy, in gift of the O'Briens; without cure.
Ogashiu, set at 250?., to Pat. Tymons.

Kilrush
Disert, I

Eath, ■

Kilmoou and Killeily

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THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE, ETC., IN THE

The humble petition of Wm. Smith to the Eev. Jno. Hawkins, clerk,
officiall principal, and delegate to his Grace Mauritius, Lord Arch-
bishop of Cashel, and Guardian of the Spiritualities of the Diocese
of Killaloe.
Humbly sheweth unto your Eeverence that whereas your Petitioner
was, contrary to the Canons and Constitutions of ye Church, married to
Susan Stamers (or Stramers), and thereof convicted — therefore submits
to the jurisdiction of the Court, and desires ye benefit of commutation.
And your Petitioner, &c., shall ever, &c.

Feb. 15, 1692.
I do hereby accept of the above Petitioner's submission, and doe order
that as a commutation for the acknowledged offence he doe pay into Mr.
M. Cogan's hands ye sume of one pound sterling, to be laid out for ye
use of the Cathedi^al Church of Killaloe, over and besides all fees, &c.

Jno. Hawkins,

Vicar Spiritual.

Marriage Bond in 100?. Ed. D erring and Susan Graunger, of Castle
Keale, in Parish of Kilnasulagh.
Inventoiy goods, debts, &c., of Francis Gore, 1694 : —

Ten bigg cowes at

One heifer ...

One bullock, 2 year old

Two fillies, coming 3 years

Two mares ...

One yeow and a lamb

One sowe

Two Boro' piggs

1^ barl. wheat

A cowlter (sic), list.

A hatched, 6wt.

Two aggers (2 daggers, or augers)

Six „ at

Produce of 2 beds potatoes, 10 bushels...
Wheat sowed, 6 barls. produce ...
Oats sowed, produce 14 barls.
Barley (after sheaf e, do.) ...

A small owld chest

A pott, or 10.S., one of Tiege Madigan ...
Portion-coUop, due T. Madigan, the day he
married, at 65. . . . ...

Total

£12 10

0 10

1 10

2 10

0 6

0 5

0 4

1 4

0 1

0 3

2 8

1 8

0 3

0 0

0 10

0 6 0

24 16 8J

Wm. Fames, Donogh Horney.
Deductions to be taken out of the within inventory :—
Land rent ...

To the doctor, value

To the smith

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... 20 5

... 0 18

... 4 7

... 9 12

551

PvElG^^ OF KING CHARLES THE

Paid for 2 quarts of kihnery (? canarj) ...

For appoticaiystuffe (sic)...

For funeral charges and legassies

To be deducted

Libellus. Eev. Jacob Lovey v. Jno. Baldwin. Tjtbes. Shinrone and

Kitmurry.
To Eev. Jno. Hawkins, Yicar- General Diocese Killaloe. Humble peti-
tion of Wm. Huett, presented in your Court for fornication with
one Maiy Fitzgerald, to which your Petitioner submitted.
Forasmuch as ye Petitioner is thoroughly son-y for committing said
crime, and also resolved never to commit the like againe, may it please
your Keverence to gi-ant Petitioner benefit of commutation, and be
favoui'able unto him in the sum he shall pay.

Judgment.

I allow Petitioner benefit of commutation, and order him to pay, &c.,
40s. — 14s. into my hands, to be laid out for pious uses.

14th Jan., 1695.

Francis Heaton confeses that in King's County, before the wars, and
when he was young and foolish, he committed sin with Mary Kennedy.
Since he lived a becoming life as man-ied man. Submits and begs not to
be exposed to public penance.

Instead of open penance he is adjudged to pay 1?. and costs.

Matthew Kennedy, Kilcraggone, in parish de Larha : Eoger Cleiy,
de Kilpadda, Tirraglas parish; also Danl. Hogan, "oh crimen forni-
cationis," and being contumacious, were adjudged by public sentence,
dehvered in the parish churches of Larha and Tu'raglas, excommuiucaied ;
and the congregation was also exhorted to have no commerce, consort
or dealings whatsoever with the above-mentioned, under penalty.

Maur. Cogan, Dep. Eeg.
To Archd. Amiralt.

1(390.

Thos. Erby acknowledges himself guilty of the same " horrible and
abominable crime," and seeks mercy.

Erhy\s Sentence.
Let Petitioner -extract (?) — by forme of penance, to be pereformedon
Sunday in the church of Killrush, and then in ye chm-ch of Kilmurrv,
Clonderla, at the time of Divine service, also paying fees, to be dis-
chai^ged.

J. Hawkixs, Yic. Gcu.

Denuncicdio, 13th Sept., 1(397, of several, addi'cssed to Eev. Mr.
Meade, Eeetor of Eoscrea, for publication, viz. : —

Eoger Dooly, Cehaucen, fornication.
Ml. Leo, Bourney, clandestine maiTiage,
Pat. Mm^:»hy, Eoscrea, fornication.
Patk. Leo, do. do.

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The humble petition of Honora Hogau in a paternity case against one
Tiege O'Brien, of Brien's Castle, prays a warrant against his father for
abusing and beating her, and begs relief.

Petition " for jactitation of marriage against Wm. Ryan, of Corbally,
who .... and threatened to murder his wife, and betakes himself

to ( ) whom he declared to have bewitched him, and gives yr

Petitioner no subsistence."

Ordered, to sue in forma pauperis for jactitation, dissolving the mar-
riage with this charming partner.

Citation of Wm. Shagnessy, of Byris (sacerdotem). 1699.
John Pyan contra Hewet Bridgman, Armiger Libellus, in causa re-
covationis in administrat. Cath. Ryan al Bridgman, nuper defunct.

Thomas Moriarty allowed to commute 11. and fees. Fornication
case.

A charge against Isaac Jackson, of Clonlara, of incest, made by Widow
Reynolds, is compurgated.

One witness swears she knows Mi^. Reynolds and her son ; knows
them to be grievous enemies of Jackson, &c., of several quarrels, &c.
Another son made a shot with bullets at this Jackson.

Another swears Jackson " a good, pious, and honest man, of good
fame, &c. ; his hateful enemies, the Reynolds', invent lies against him."
(And so the case goes on, covering over 28 long pages of close conti"ucted
writing.)

Mauritius Stacpole is excommuicated.

David Fitzgerald excommunicated for substraction of fees (sic), sub-
mits and promises to abide and stand by mandate of Court, and asks to
be absolved.

The humble petition of Michael McMahon, of Ennis, charged in a case
of fornication, submits, is adjudged thus :

" To perform the usual penance on three successive Sundays or holi-
days in churches of Ennis, Kilnaboy, and Killaloe during Divine ser-
vice : also to pay fees and 2L to pious and charitable uses."

31st Jan., 1700.
J. Hawkins acknowledging the rccpt remitting fees, and discharges
Ml. McMahon.

James Stritch pleads to have erred in ignorance against Court, and is

absolved.

Margaret McNamara's paternity case.

And *' a caveat to issue that no license of marriage between the
co-respondent be granted with any other woman ; also an inhibition
against his marriage."

The humble petition of Margaret Hiornane, too poor to pay fees o£
administration.

They are remitted, and liberty allowed.

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To John Ouchterlony, Surrogate.
A petition to proceed in forma ijauperis.

LougMin Meelian, charged with fornication, being free to take his
oath, does so pubHckly that he is innocent of said charge, and is dis-
charged from any probation against him.

Slaney Mc^N'amara allowed to sue hi forma pauperis Teigc Croghaue
for breach of matrimonial contract.

Donogh McMahon oifers to exonerate himself on oath of charge of
fornication,

Edniond Ruarke confesses, submits, and pays 40s.
Elinor Kennedy, a poor widow, administration without fees.
Richard Carrol deposes and certifies that Thos. IMcXamara has been
his apprentice, and " is capable in the knowledge to be an atturney "
(sic), &c.

The humble petition of Daniel Ferala, accused of fornication or adul-
teiy, deposes that the party concerned is a married woman, and himself

" seventy years of age or above," and therefore .

His petition is discharged on his paying 10s. cost, &c.
His compurgators are —

John .

Wm. Digan.

John Bentley, C.W.

Henry Eossington, do.

Wm. Hayes.

Ed. Malincre.

Jno. Welsh.

Roger Plamellton.

The 2 Parsons

of
Kilseily parish.

Substraction of tythes

Marriage Bond. John Malloney of Drumoland, and Eliz. Huddlcston.

Augustm Fitzgerald confesses the fact of fornication, and instead of
publick penance, is adjudged to pay (with fees of Court extra) 57. 15s., to
be disposed to pious and charitable uses, and then he be discharged.

1^02. J. Hawkins, V.G.

James Burke, item 17. 105.

Case of Hems worth v. Moore, clerk,
at great length.

Elizabeth Gibbon, of Ennis, widow, against James Purcell.
In re distribution of goods imder will.

Caleb Minnett, of Kncigh, having been tried at assizes and acquitted
of rape, confesses to fornication.

He is " ordered to do penance pul^lickly during Divine service on
three several Sundays at Killaloe, Nenagh, and Birr ; and, until
penance is performed, is to stand suspended from all Divine offices and
communion."

Sept., 1701.

J. Hawkins, Y.G.

Case of slandering of Robert Lydall, at Silvermine.

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THE DIOCESE OP KILLALOE, ETC., IN THE

Paternity case by M. Keating, als McMahon, of Cloni'oad. " About
one year ago she contracted herself in marriage, and did likewise confirm
the same by their mutual oaths in the presence of witnesses." Ah !
poor Mary ! !

(" And such is the fate of village maid,
By love's false artifice betrayed," (fee.)

Robert George swears he is guiltless of the charge against him in the
matter of — Murphy, and is hereby discharged of the crime.

(A Batch of Nice Boys.)

" Patrick Mulrihill, Brian McMahon, Henry Judge, Jno. Dundon,
Thos. Cooley, Thos. Cooley, Jas. Marrinane, Eob. Harvey, Wm. Camg,
Dennis -Xiynchy, James Porrit, P. Walsh, L. Liddane, Wm. Neilan, and
D. Haly, are requbed to appear at the Consistorial Court, 30th January,
1717, between 8 — 12 a.m., to hear and see themselves excommunicated
for their manifest contempt in not appearing to answer concerning their
respective crimes of Sabbath-breaking, fornication, and adultery. Fr.
Hawkins, Dep. Peg." Which excommunication was solemnly executed
and stands duly recorded 11th December, 1717.

James Dabbins, clerk, certifies that he read a mandate and paper in
church of Clondagad and Kilfaboy 2nd January, 1717, in reference to
David Haly, and that David Haly has since condoned and married the
woman, &c., &c.

A case of subs traction of tythes in Corbally, denied on part of
MlBergin, of Roscrea.

Meade v. Meaher.
Impugning testamentary interposition.

Bookmoney in Killaloe Cathedral.
John Healy farmed out the bookmoney of Killaloe to petitioner, Pat
Butler, and the Chapter threatened to proceed for deficits, but "the
parishioners are refractory in paying the money." And petitioner prays
himselfe excused of so much deficit, else to have such compelled to
book-up. He gives a list of the refractories, thus : —

Dan. Cull an, of Clonfay, for burial money and offenngs

J. Reddane, of Rooghe, for churching his wife and offerings

J. Madigan, of Trough, for burial

E. Mui-phy, Glanlow, churching, &c

D. Cullane, for churching, burial, and offerings

J. Ryan, Killaloe, churching

J. Street, the like, &c

Joseph Allen, Ijurial and offerings

. McGnllohmedy, churching

Consl. Mullowney, of Ballyquin, for burial and offerings
p. Kennedy, Ballygibbin, burial

£ 8.

..0 3

... 0 3

... 0 2

... 0 3

..0 6

... 0 2

... 0 3

... 0 2

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Another case of bookmoney in Dysert Par.
The defaulters here were —

Eneas McEnchroe
J. Hogan

A. Grifa

J.Do

&c.
The complainant is admitted to sue and process in fonna pauperis.
Elizabeth Cooke, a very poor woman, whose husband had been late
parish clerk of Dunkerrin, and admitted by Eev. Mr» Tovey out of charity
to occupy a house and garden free on the glebe lands of the parish. The
widow now begs to be allowed administration in forma pauperis, &c.

Florence McNamara, " a young gentleman very much under his
father's frown," begs commutation for the confessed crime ol fornica-
tion. Plea allowed. Fine, 10s.

Petition of four orphans, whose mother married again, and the goods
of their father were taken from them. Administration free.
Mat. Cusacke is cited at the suit of Pev. Jas. Yandereur.
Mary Bonfield, alias Wolfe, of Ennis, petitions her discharge, and
excuses an appearance. She had been charged with adultery, but the
case had been disproved by the co-respondent. And she could not
attend without risk to her life, " being to a height troubled with the
drops}^, and, as the doctors tell her, with a consumption." That the
charge came through " the barbarity, malice, and wicked inventions of
James Bui^k-e's wife," &c.

Next comes a defamation case, in which certain Whitnells, Gores,
and Coles are concerned. They are from near Nenagh.

Then comes a case of vituperation and scandal at O'Callaghan's Mills,
between Mr. O'Callaghan, a respectable gentleman, and McGrath, who
gi'eviously maligned him.

After this a bond of 1007., in case of appeal to Cashel Court.
An inventory of the goods of Wm. Deane's substance by Thomas
Carroll.

Thomas lilakes out his first item thus : —
Paide to the Jug (sic) of the Court...
Paid to Mr. Haughens for righting (sic) a
letter

To father Pat. Hogan

To father John Guilfoyle
Then he gives a list of the cattle and a
sorrcll horse, and " 55 sheeps " and '' 5
putter dishes" ...
(Then, inter alia,)
" Querons and the di'iser "...

£11 0 0

Total 51 17 0

William Walton, of Dungan, and his son appointed sequestrators of
t3^thes of Kildysert, &c., livings of Jno. Lawson, deceased, in 1711.

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J3 2

0 6

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3 0

0 15

License of marriage, Eicb. White to Anne Harstinge.
Inventory of the assets of David Molouy, deceased, and of Thomas
Nash, tailors, late of Gortacorky —

The fonrtli part of 10 2-year-olds sold at

Spaniel Hill

More to the 4th part of 1 do. sold...

To the 4th part of a yearling's skm

A mare, bndle, and saddle ...

An old bed, one sheet, and quilt ...

" 3 yards cloth ; scissors. Id. ; wigg powder,

Id. ; shoe and knee buckles, an old

stock

Inventory Will. French, Culroe, farmer, deceased.
Letters of tutelage and tuition in re Whittens, yeoman, Parish of But.
Inventory, true and perfect, by exor. of Hi. Henn, late of Paradise,
deceased, 14th July, 1717 :—

25 cows

16 calves

93 4-yr-old bullocks

98 3-yr bullocks and heiftcrs ...

86 2-yi'-old b's and h's ...

23 1-yi^-old b's and h's ...

2 horses

738 sheep

Interest in farm of Ballynagard

Do. Effernane

Do. Ballynamally

Do. Canon Island...

Do. Cuney Island

190 lambs

Eights, debts, and credits

Beds, linen, dowlas, and all other sorts of
household goods

Total

This is a large sum for those times. The prices of stock may
interest agricultural readers, and contrast curiously with pre-
sent prices.

The humble petition of Wm. Ilogan, excommunicated for contempt
and non-appearance. He wishes sentence taken off, to enable him to
go to the Sacrament ne>:t Sunday, manage his Imsiness, and clear him-
self in the Court Sentence. January 8, 1713. " I did al^solvc the peti-
tioner tautum ad canlelam after he was sworn destaudo in" articulo (?)

In 1722. The churchwardens of Cloney, Quiii, and Doory, being Da.
Bindon and Fra Sweeny, do present the following as refractory and not
paying the Church rate for the use of the Church.

£21

1G4

132

129

133

411

176

1300

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In Cloony —

J. Staplcton for Derrj^aliffe ...
J. Coniiell for Carrigal
for Magliery
for Bally verkin
Ri. Greene Connor of Eatlicluney . . ,

Geo. Mealier for Ballyoraliane
Jas. McNamara for Mucknish
D. Hickie, Derby O'Brien, for Corbally ;
for Tunnoghnore ...

Dooiy Par.

Bafc. McISTamara for Ballyorbla

Roger Do. for Moyreisk
P. Hickie, Finanagh ...

Drum
Clancy for Mumnea ...
Hasbea for Knockcscribbol ...

Bat. McMara, I^oubaval

Dr. Barnaby O'Logblin for Knockanean

Teige Clancy for Doory

Randal McDonnell, Esq., for Kilbregkane'
more ...

Beg

Donngh McTeigc for Shanakiel
D . Hallynane for Dromdoloty

The foregoing is the list of the refractory.

Ed. Egan swears that Revd. Mr. Meade has been inducted to living
of Roscrca, and believes impugnant John Meagher to be indebted to
promovent jMi\ Meade —

For nine purifications ... ... ... £1

For offerings at Easter and Christmas, due
for 2 (J years past ... ... ... ... 0

For his marriage ... ... ... ... 0

6. d.

... 0

2 0

... 0

2 4

... 0

3 11

... 0

2 3

... 0

1 of

... 0

1 5f

... 0

1 51

... 0

2 4i

... 0

3 2

John Miller

... 0

1 9i

... 0

3 5|

... 0

2 6i

... 0

0 11

... 0

1 lOi

... 0

0 10

... 0

2 3

... 0

1 2

... 0

3 0

le-
... 0

1 0

... 0

1 0

... 0

2 0

... 0

1 0

2 6

4 0

Of this the (shabby) impugnant only paid.

Due

1 15 2

0 1 3

1 13 11

Thomas Wcstropp of Ballysteen , and Robert ^Yestropp of Fartane,
Co. Clare, decline to act as executors of last will of Henry ~W hite of
Carrigtoher. 1727.

Account of what Mr. Michael Mahon of Funis, merchant, died seized
and possessed of. 25 Sept., 1738.

A long hst ensues, covering three pages folio, closely written. On

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the fourth page, which doubtless was the outside or verso of the docu-
ment, appears the following : —

" Acoumpt of Mr. Michael Mahon of Ennis, merchant, his effects, and
several ould bonds. The people that past them were dead, fled, or gone
a begging. And most of all the bonds Mr. M. Mahon had are worth
nothing " ( ! ! )

Then follows about a lease from Henry Brigdale, do. from Capt.
A. Gore of Parks, betwixt Clare and Ennis, do. from Anthony Roache.
Then comes a vciy respectable wardi^obe, including no less than " three
wiggs." Among the live-stock appears the prqdigy of "a leam cow, a
mayor (sic) and her filly," &c., &c.

Mr. William Garden's letter for a licence to marry, in which he tells
his relative, the Y.-General, that his hopes of happiness with this lady
are built upon her having so " great a sense and knowledge of her duty
to God and man, that any reasonable raan can't fail of being happy with
her." This lady was Miss Colborne, and it is hoped there was more
happiness found than in the following case, in which

Mary Armstrong, wife of William Armstrong, of Mt. Heaton, prays
for a separation from bed and Vjoard on account of cruelty of her husband.
But he challenges the allegations through his Proctor.

William Bowdy, of Sixmile Bridge, is cited for diff'amation (sic) and
other reproach by Mrs. Gray.

The inventory of John McXamara, brogue maker, of Killaloe, reaches

the total of -5^. 19s. 6 J., while that of "the Rev. Mr.

Henry Birch, deceased, reaches only 28/. 6s., including " one black horse,
value 2L"

The following does not exhibit much satisfaction at the way his father
*' cut up," or at the share coming to him,

Rev. Sir, — I have had by my father, as a cLild's division of his liouse-
hold goods, three or 4 beads and beadsteads (sic), with half-a-dozen old
pewter dishes, one dozen old plates, with some wooden vessels, and 3
old metal pots, being the most of what goods he dyed possessed of in
his old days, which I certifye to yr Reverence this 19 March, 1734.

Inventory of Thomas Antissell, of Shradulfe, gentleman, Co. Tipy.

Chatties

... 1798

Goods

... 251

Debts

... 220

H- Furniture

... 50

£2321

CiTA. Cassin, Admr.

Substraction of tythes due to Rev. W. Chamberlaine, of Borrisokane,
V, James Reynolds, of Tunbrickane.

Petition of John Ringrose and Richard Harrison, gentlemen, sets
forth that they were chosen chmxhwardens of Toragraney parish, and
returned and registered as such. But having neglected to attend the

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visitation " through, ignorance and inadvertency," were justly decreed
contumacious for contempt, and incuiTcd the dreadful sentence of
excommunication, being thereby made unfit to partake of the prayers
of the Church, or of the Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, for
all which they are heartily sorrow, &c., pray absolution and admission
into Church.

(This shows what serious consequences excommunication brought.)

Inventory of Emanuel Poe, of Solsboro', 174-8, 9ool.

Inventory of Mrs. Alice Blood, deceased, exhibits, inter alia, the fol-
lowing, belonging to the lady's wardrobe, whereby some idea may be
had of " the style " in Clare in 1750.

33 caps

. 0 8

15 do

, 0 18

6 pair ruffles

. 0 5

22 caps

. 0 1

5 Cambric Hkerchief s . .

. 0 15

4 worked

. 0 12

a striped silk gown.

do. blue taffety, do.

do. black poplin, do.

3 cloaks, viz., scarlet,

laced, and velvet.

a capusheen.

a china gown,

Tmiothy Yauglian, of Glanomera, goods and chattels
Debts, &c

Balance ...

.£22
21

Wm. McNamara, of Doolen, v. Davoren.

Substraction of tythes in 1756.

These were farmed by McN. for Rev. Ambrose Upton, &c.

'' Miss Fanny Darby, of Ennis, is apprehensive of some ill ofllces
being shown her relative to her sister's death, who by right she is
heiress to." Caveat issued in her behalf.

John Bean seeks protection of the Court to save him from a strange
will, made by his father some time in 1754, when he had got a fall from
his horse and " fractured his head."

Mrs, Catherine Bowdy is excommimicated for contempt in not appear-
ing to substantiate her charges of defamation or reproa<?h against Mrs.
Mary Henchy, contrary to charity.

I do nominate Eev. Mr. Thomas Stephens, my curate, in the Prebend
of Tomgi-aney, at 40L per annum, 26 September, 1752.

Godfrey Massey.

Inventory of goods, &c., etc., of John Minnett, of Chapmansparks,
that came into the hands lh\ Bobert Minnett, of Knigh , 1731.

Execution of will and testament of William England, of Ennis by,
Timothy Lucas, of Ballymacooda, Co. Clare, 1739.

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In a case of defamation, viz., J. Sayers v. Era. Kennedy, of Ennis, the
aforesaid Fra. not being mindful of his soul's health, and regardless of
the penalty of the law, did, contrary to charity and brotherly love, use
opprobrious and defamatoiy words, &c.

Sayers desires justice, and that F. K. should retreat and revoke, or
else suffer and pay.

Deposition of John Hickey concerning the will of Jno. McJSTamara, of
Dromgreely.

Marriage bonds. Thomas Browne, of Ballyslattery (Newgrove), and
Elizabeth Smith, of Dunagrogue. 1694

Ai'thur Ward and Elizabeth Spaight, of Lodge. 1698.

Hugh Hickman and Anne Hasting. 1702.

Phihp Kelly and Jane Morris, of Coolsuppoon, 1702.

John Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Eeane.

Thomas Power and '' one Margt. Cunnone, of Kild3^sert." 170^.

Jas. Creagh and Ellena Morony. 1703.

Marriage licence of Cornet Blackwell, of Castle Connell, and Fra.
Humphret, widow. 1680.

Bond Max-riage. John Hyde to marry Susanna Eollestone, of Tow-
lough.

Do. Joseph Griffin and Mary Woulfe, of Craglea. 1692.

Do. John HaiTold and Anne Hickman, of Barntick. 1692,

An information on presenting of a drunken clergyman (one Orafford)
is found signed by Sir Wm. Parsons. Aug., 170-1.

Letters of tutelage of the bodies and goods of Danl. Kennedy, &c.
Marriage, &c.

Eras. McISTamara and Bridget Redden, of' Garrembuy. 1702.

Caleb Minuet having been excommunicated, earnestly desires to be
absolved, and promises to obey the dictates and mandate^ of the Cornet
and the mother the Church, in everything Jawful and honest. 1706.

Joseph Allen, of Ross, yeoman, of Killaloe, excommunicated, earnestly
desu-es to be absolved. 1706.

Marriage bonds. — John Head and Cassandra Merritt, of Finnoe.

1707.

Francis McITamara, of Moyreisk, tutelage bond.

Marriage bond. Mary Gregg, of Ennis, and Plenry Moore. 1710.

John Hogan, of Ballyphillip, in county Tipperary, excommunicated in
a matter of contempt in a tythes case, prays absolution. 1682.

Marriage bond. John Chawner and Mrs. Anne Alt, of Kilenellane,
county Tipperary. 1761.

(This name Alt maybe noticed as forming part of the well-known
word of Terror in the earlier part of the 19th century in Tipperary, viz.,
Teetiy-Alt. And the agrarian disturbers and murderers of that district
got the name from the heroic defence made against one of their mid-
night attacks by a certain " Terence," or '' Terry Alt.")

Thomas Matthews has this day, 3rd June, 1710, obtained license for a
marriage Avith Honora O'Brien, of New Hall.

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December, 1697.
The liumble petition of Elisha Eadnett,

Humbly sheweth that your petitioner, upon some false and malicious
information, bath been summoned to your Consistory Court of a pre
tended fornication committed upon Anne (sic) Child; that your peti-
tioner could not attend upon the first summons because Tvhen he
intended to prepare his horse for the journey, the smith drove two nails
into the quick, so that your petitioner could not come unless he came
afoot.

That your petitioner is a stranger, banished his own country for con-
science sake, and accused or hated by his Papist neighbours, who, to
vent their malice, gave this scandalous information against your peti-
tioner ; that your petitioner was not presented by ye churchwardens,
neither did he give any manner of occasion for being thus abused.

That your petitioner is satisfied that nobody will or durst appeare
publickly and charge him with any such crime.

And forasmuch as your petitioner is a stranger, and falsely and
maliciously accused, neither presented by chiu'ch war dens nor any of his
Protestant neighbours, but by such as would doe your petitioner all the
prejudice they coulde in ye dark, when they would not nor durst not
appeare to accuse him publickly, .

May it please your Reverence that your Court may not be made an
instrument by such people to persecute your petitioner, who is fled as
far as he could from persecution, and to dismiss your petitioner ; and
he shall ever pray.

Order of Court.
De^'cmber, 1697.

If the petitioner will, for the satisfaction of the Court and my justifi-
cation, pLpge himself by his voluntary oath, let him be discharged ; which
oath you are hereby empowered to take and administer.

J. Ha ATKINS, Y.G,
To Mr. M. Cogan.

Libel : in causa substractione salary vel. fasd. Henry Bii-ch (Rev.) v.
Danl. Hickey.

Joseph Magrath contra Eleanor Clearyin. Causa matrimonial, 1693.

The petition of James Molony to be dismissed in a most vn^ongful
charge, and for getting his costs.

The matter was substraction of tythes by ploughing out the potatoe
land in Affock.

Sentence on Hugh McLosliy.
(Ennis.)

The said H. McL. is to extract his form of penance to be performed

publickly on tlirec several Sundays in time of Divine service. One in

the Cathedral, Killaloe ; one in the parish of Ivilseily ; another in the

oratory, Ennis ; and to bring certificates of his due performance.

J. H., Y.G.
Dec. 1699.

Sentence of excommunication against Brian McMahon-fadda and
others.

January, 1700.

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The humble petition of Kob. Jackson, a very poor man. Sbewetli
that he most unhappily met one Anny Doogan on the road fromNenagh,
near Crannagh, and being then in drink, &c., &c. He prays that " in
regard of he is a poor, infirm, sickly man, now in consumption, and not
likely to hve long in this world, to allow his penance to be commuted to
a small sum." June 1701.

Mary Wallis, a very poor woman, prays the Court to order alimony to
herself and child from Edmond ffalia, of Castletown, yeoman, who con-
tracted himself to her in marriage, and by his fair promises and ingadge^
ments invaigilled her (sic), &c. Allowed to plead in forma faiii:ieri8, and
assigned Ei. Carrol, one of the Proctors, to act in her behalf.

Wm. Murphy, summoned for profaning the Sabbath, and not appear,
ing, is excommunicated. He petitions that out of ignorance he did not
appear, and is absolved tantum ad cautelam.

By J. H., y.G.

Lord Inchiqum's presentation of John Shepherd to Killnemona, &c.,
with the Bishop's return. July, 1705.

In 1711, l'^)th Aug., there issued a circular citation to several (some
25 to 30 parties) to answer charges of heinous crimes alledged, viz.,
fornication, adultery, temerarious administration of goods, pro ebrietate,
&c,, &c.

The humble petition of Joseph Eingrose, being a young man and
unmarried, unhappily became acquainted with Hester Scott, a young
woman living near Scarff, &c., submits and humbly deprecates public
penance.

Sentence is, that he must do the penances duly in Tulla, Feackle, and
Tomgraney churches, &c., also return certificates accordingly. Jan.,
1711—12.

Messrs. Thomas Blood and Ed. Hogan present sevei-al parties for non-
payment of their due share of the tax layed on certain parishes for the
repair of the parish church of Killeneboy. 17th Feb., 1713 — 14

Thomas pro dia Dia Laonen Epus issues sentence of excommunication,
and orders it to be read in parish church of Killeneboy by Eev. Ambrose
Upton, E. et Y., in the midst of Divine service, and when the church
was most largel}^ attended. The sentence was against Wm. Hogan, of
Ballylickey, ob adulter cum, &c., and being contumacious in not appear-
ing to answer charge and submit.

Ambrose Upton, E. and V., records that he read the sentence accord-

Certificate from Thomas Armach states that Francis Corbet, clerk,
curate of Dungannon, took the oaths as directed by law. Sept., 1714.

ISTicholas, Bishop of Killaloe, in 1715, issues a comprehensive citation
to answer the following charges : ob fornicat, ob adult, deeds of profa-
nation (inchxding temerar administrat Bonorm, in latter case Eob. Thad
Crowe de Ennis.

Thomas Blood and Ed. Hogan, churchwardens of Killeneboy, present
tlie undernamed for not paying their proportion of the tax laid on them
for repair of parish church of Killeneboy. ISth April, 1715.

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The names cover ten pages folio, closely written, and include the
largest as well as the smallest holders responsible in the parishes.

An account of a Yestry held at the church of Killeneboy on Easter
Monday, 22nd April, 1712.

Seventy-four pounds applotted as necessary for the payment of what
were repaj^red and not yet finished of the church of Killeneboy.

John Jones, Minister.

Thos. Blood
Fjra. O'Bjrie

:>i

C huiT-h war den s .

[Probably this was the demand neglected or resisted, which was
enforced by the parties being presented as above.]

Inven(,ory of goods of ISTathan Patterson, late of Burriskain, deceased,
by Mary, his widow and relict. Total, 2547.

Thomas Dalton is to answer Anne Stammers, of ^N'enagh, in a matri-
monial cause or case of contract, and the same T. D. is likewise
inhibited during the pendency of the suit either to marry or contract
himself to any other person, upon pain of contempt, 1721.

In reference to the case of Ann Stamers v. Thos. Dalton (supra), the
following were dejDOsed to inter alia by Mrs. Magrath, of Inane : — They
made a mutual contract of marriage, and swore same upon Holy
Evangelists before witness and others. The said Ann Stamers brouo-hb
forth a daughter after the said contract of marriage, which T. D. owned
as his child. He also wanted to bring a priest to marry them. He
wrote the letter, dated 19th April, 1722, which closes with these follow-
ing words : — " I now insist on leaving the blame entii^ely on your side.
You may assure yourself it is a mighty concern to me to be refused by
a lady I had so gi^eat a regard for as Madame. Your affectionate
humble servant, T, D. Madame, excuse me for being a Tom amono- the
maids." ( ! ! )

Patrick MclSTamara, of Kikush, stands excommunicated on a charo-e
of substraction of tythes prefen-ed by Mr. Nicholas Comyn (2nd June,
1721), and the congregation are to be forbidden upon pain of law to deal
keep company or society, or to con-espond with the above.

Case of Rev. Mr. Meade, of Eoscrea, v. John Meagher, of Inane, Sub-
straction of Tythes.

Presentment of the Union of DrumclifEe, made by churchwardens
Rob. Hickman, Stan Warham, 29th July, 1723, for non-payment of
church rates : —

Morgaa O'Brien, Cragg ... ... ... ... ... 0 15

Hugh Kelly, Leford ... ... ... ... ... 0 2

B. Griffa, widow ... ... ... ... ... ... Q

J. Fitzgerald, for Drombiggle ... ... ... ... Q

Darby Dooley, ib. ... .. ... ... ... ... q

Dan Cusack, Leford ... ... ... ... ... q

Denis Dwyer ... ... ... ... ... ... q

James Bm-ke, Clonk elan ... ... ... ... . i

Mr. P. Herte, for Lisbekane ... ... ... ... Q

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THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE, ETC., IN THE

]\Ir. Wat Hickma n, Furror

J. Hickey and Lucius Wilson, for Ballinacraggy

James Hehir, Cappaghlegh

W. Cunningham, ditto ...

Ter. Mighane ...

D. Murphy

M. Murierty, for BallimaCooda..
Thos. Crean, for Killuhir

H. Brigdall, ditto

Jas. Connell, ditto
E-och's, for Knocktana ...

J. Dondon, Kilmali

D. Bonfield, Knockmore ...
J. Gilarigh, for Portiganiff
Pat Eoughane, Clonlaghine

J. White, High Eock

H. j^eale, Derrygariffe ...
Thos. Hervey, for Eathkerry
D. E'unaghan, for Derryganif .,

KILLONE.

Mrs. Honor Matthews, widow ...

D. Considine, Dromadrehid

J. Considine, Drummuckaleagh

Captain James Aylmer, for two Kilhu'ks

Elan. Mulvihill, Knockanoura, &c.

KILNAMONA PAB.

Pat Culinan, ]tT. Power, &c., Balrashet...

Howlet Parker, Ballinakely

Ei. Griffin, Eushane

T. Barry, Knockakarne ...

CAKE ABBEY PAll.

Darby Ahern, of Ballwanavan ...

KILIIAGIITUSII.

Mr. Hy. Stamer, for Clonkery, &c., Molagha

Jas. Or iff a, BaUy gaff a

Laurence Crowe, of Drourngraugh

M. Fitzgerald, for Jcimes Eosslevin

D. McNamara, Molagha

TEMBLE^IALY PAR.

Ei. Grijffin, Bally cory ...

ISTora Hogan, widow, Ballynee ...

J. Hurley

PEESEXT3IENTS FOR TULLOE PAR.

March the last, 172k
Dear Sir, — I send you the names of those that wont pay us the church
tax of the parish of TuUa, therefore I desire you will send processes or

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citations for them, and an account of the fees we are to make them pay
if they compound.

Plerctyal Harte.

P.S. — Let as many as can be put into each citation.
May 25, 1725. A citation is issued against several widows for teme-
rarious administration.

Sarah, w of Eob. Spooner.
Dorothy, w of Thos. Folen, of Ballintotty.
Maryanne, w of Thos. Lewis, of BiiT.
Maryanne, w of Dan Carroll, of Kilcregane.
Chi-istina, w of T. Otway, of Lisheenarrit, and others.
Aiiihur Lowe Allen, rector of Kilmore, desires right and justice
against Teige O'Brien in the matter of bookmoney substracted from
1736—1740.

I do hereby certify that I did read and publickly publish the within-
written English dockett, appended to a citation for contempt, and
openly warn the said persons, John Can^oll, Thomas Cleaiy, DarVjy and
John Kilmartin, in the parish church of Birr, dm'ing the time of Divine
service, on Sunday morning the 2Sth inst.
Witness my hand and seal, 1742.

Jxo. Babtox, Minister.

Answer of John Shorb, of Gurteen, to Mary Short, in a pretended
libel of restitution of conjugal rights.

Bishop Witter, or Wytter, D.D., a native of England, cardie
to IreLand as Chaplain of James, Dnke of Ormonde, and was
successively made Dean of Ardfert, Prebendary of St. Michael's,
Dublin, Dean of Donn, and Chancellor of Dromore. He ^as
promoted to this see by patent, August 19, 1669, and was
consecrated in the following September at Cashel by Thomas
Price, Archbishop of Cashel. Dr. Cotton (Pref. xvi.) men-
tions a triennial \dsitation of Killaloe in 1672, which must
have taken place in Dr. "Wytter's time. Of this there seem
no traces to be found at present in the Eecord Office, the
officers of wdiich, in the kindest way possible, aided in pro-
curing the diocesan documents for full examination by the
writer.

In the singular paucity and dearth of matters of interest,
indeed of records of the affairs or of the clergy of this Epis-
copate available to the writer, it is necessary to pass forward
into the times made interesting by more stirrin^-*' events.
Bishop Wytter died in Dublin, March 16, 1674-5, and was
buried in St. MichaeFs Church, having by his ^ill left several

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benefactions to his churcli of Killaloe. He likewise gave £50
towards providing communion-plate for the chapel of Trinity
College, Dublin (So Dr. Cotton). A copy of his will may
interest — a will ^^ written in great pain and haste," as the
prelate mentions, which is indeed evident from his trembling
hand and struggling words.

Sber. 24-, 1671.

In the name of God Almighty and most mei*ciful. Amen.

I hum?jly resign my soul to my gracious Grod, trusting to be saved
by his mercy and my Saviour's merits. My body to be decently buried
at Killaloe (if I die there) ; my heart I leave to the Church of England,
whose doctrine and sanctions I have always had in highest veneration ;
my fidelity to our King, whom God bless ; my love to all, even to my
enemies ; and I crave forgiveness of all I have injured, either in word or
deed, from my prince to the meanest subject. I leave my gratitude and
prayers for all my benefactors, especially my Lord Duke and his family,
which God prosper and protect.

I leave my rents and goods, after paying my debts (Mr. Shuckborough
is he they [sic] I owe most to), the fourth part of all (my debts being
paid)^ after my stock, books, and furniture are sold, to be disbursed for
the use of this Church, to Imy a silver flagon for the altar, the Com-
mandments, Creed, Lord's Prayer to be hung in the Church, and the
rest to go for his adornment within, except 10?. of that fourth part,
which I give the poor of the parisli, and 101. to old Elizabeth Harbottle.

I leave another one-fourth to my cozen Susan Carleton, after my
debts paid, another one-fourth to my cousin Sarah Wittar, now in Dublin,
and the remaining one-fourth part to my cousin Elizabeth Backhouse
and Wm. Wittar. If my cousin Yorke continues after me him (quaere,
then) my brother's son.

I heartily desire Dean Pheasant, Dr. Andrews, Dean Smith, Lt.-Col.
Finch to see my will faithfully executed, to every one of which I leave
a gold ring. Written in r/reat pciin and haste (!!!)

Dan. Laonensis (Loc. Sig.)

Sealed in presence of Jasper Pheasant, Ptr Laonens, John
Limerick.

What debts I owe, to the best of my remembrance a sudden, (are
to be) paid to Mr. Wm. Yorke, Limerick, merchant, moneys due for
wine, boards, brandy, what he (demands). I believe him honest, and
have found him kind. Let him be paid to a penny, with what interest
he deshes. And my greatest and best ox, which I long since gave him

to Mr. Pi. Shuckborough, of Dublin ( ) my very good friend, 40/., and

use from day of loan; besides I assign \m\\ (for) a ring at least 2(),s-.
Ibl. to Mr. Merrick, which I have given an order to Poger Lee to pay
to V]r. Taylor Morian (P) at Skinner's Pow. I confess about VM. or 11/.,
for I cannot now look for his Ijill. Put what Lis note or book speaks for,
I do not distrust him. Let there (H) be pnid what I owe in Limerick

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for phis(ic) or any other thing, or anywhere else. Let my servants
be paid their wages to a farthing : to Mr. John LilHes 101., which I wish
may be paid carefully with the first that is paid. The moneys of the
clergies towards the disbursement of them intrusted for the stopping
of the intended imposition, bl I have ordered to be paid by (?) my
good Lord Bishop of Kdlaloe to Dn Stiles. What moneys are yet left
unpaid for the candlesticks given hj me to the College. Dr. Stiles
can best give an account of this. What moneys are due Mr. Page of
Dublin, &c.

In the Appendix No. II. on cathedrals, it will be found
how that in the year after this Bishop's decease the Dean and
Chapter undertook some extensive repairs upon the cathedral
of St. Flannan. And it is more than probable these were
undertaken from the testamentary benefactions of the Bishop,
to " the fourth, part of all his net residue of rents and goods.''

In 1675 John Roan, or Ptoane, D.D., said to have been a
native of Wales, and educated in Brazenose College, Oxford (?),
tliough he did not graduate there, came over to Ireland, but
under the patronage of what great man or governor has not
been recorded. However, his own merits and excellent good
qualities became the best patron he could have had, and recom-
mended him for promotion. He became Dean of Clogher in
1GG7, and was promoted to this see by patent dated April 10.
tie was consecrated in the following June at Cashel by Thomas,
Archbishop of Cashel, assisted by Bishops of Waterford and
Limerick.

Arthur Capel, Earl of Essex, entertained a very high opinion
of him, and on March 17, 1674-5, wrote thus in his favour : —
^' The Bishop of Killaloe being lately dead, I have herewith
sent you the draft of a letter for placing that bishoprick u2:)on
Dr. Roan, the present Dean of Clogher. He is a very grave
man, of good life, and one every way qualified to be a bishop ;
wherefore if you please to get the letter despatched, I shall
take it as a kindness. P.S. The Bishoprick of Killaloe is the
lowest of value in the whole kingdom."

And a very unfortunate circumstance for the diocese this
proved. Writing again March 30, he presses Dr. Roan's suit
to Lord R.anelagh in these strong terms : — '' I have recom-
mended Mr. Dean Roan, a very grave man, and one who has
the repute from all here to be very deserving, to succeed in
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endeayoiiring, by my Lord Ormonde, to get into this Bishoprick,
This hint, I send you that you may enquire, if it be true. And
I doubt not but, your Lordship will use your endeavours that
I be not baffled in a thing of this nature." (p. 109.) Just at
that time the great Duke was not in very high favour at Court,
or rather indeed the Court was under his disfavour. So Mr.
Dean Smith did not obtain the prize he coveted, though a
^'Bishoprick of the lowest value in the kingdom."

The closing years of King Charles the Second's reign were by
no means happy. As a pamphleteer in 1689 phrases it, '^ This
king, insensible to that illustrious providence which put him
on his throne, and regardless of God's word, gave up himself
to sensuality, airy phantasies, and crafty policies, and most
ungratefully by an evil example transfused a torrent of all
kind of vice, fraud, injustice, profaneness, contempt of religion,
and all manner of impudent wickedness, all over the nation."
(Reflections upon the Occurences of the last year ; London,
1689.) One therefore may expect any movements, no matter
how inconsistent, under such a ruler. Conspiracies abounded
in these times, whether real or sham ones let others decide.

A form of prayer with thanksgiving was ordered to be used
on Sept. 9th — being the day of thanksgiving appointed by the
King's declaration to be solemnly observed in all churches
and chappels within this kingdom, in due acknowledgment of
God's wonderful providence in discovering and defeating the
late treasonable conspiracy against His Sacred Majesty's person
and government. "By His Majesty's Special Command''
— Dublin, 1683. In this order of service appears the follow-
ing, inter alia, " Strengthen the hands of our Gracious King
Charles {who was a Papist all the time) and all that are put in
authority under him, with judgment and justice, to cut ofi* all
such workers of iniquity as turn religion into rebellion, and
faith into faction, that they may never prevail against us, or
triumph in the ruin of thy Church among us, &c." Also, '' Wc
yield unto Thee, from the very bottom of our hearts, unfeigned
thanks and praise for the late signal and wonderful deliverance
of our Most Gracious Sovereign, his Eoyal Brother, and
loyal subjects of all orders and degrees, by the fanatic rage
and treachery of wicked and ungodly men, appointed as sheep
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this unnatural and hellish conspiracy, not our merit/' &c.
And to carry on the system of universal collusion, deception,
and censure, there is among other evidences of Popish plots
and Irish conspiracies being hatched, a curious paper, still
extant, in which one John Macnamara, a county Clare man,
swears to an extraordinary conspiracy extending over the
counties of TVaterford, Limerick, Cork, Kerry, and Clare.
The objects of this were to raise men (p. 7, ad fn.) in every
county of Ireland, and that superior officers might meet, that
they might return an exact account of their forces to the
French King, which being done, and all things ready, the said
King would land many thousands of his own men upon the
coasts of the river Shannon and march to Limerick, possess
themselves of the city and King's castle, and expel all the
English very suddenl3\ '^ One of the means for preparing the
way to bring all this about was by stealing horses in various
counties (p. 17 j, and keeping same in charge of agents of the
Earl of Tyrone." He swears he found out this through the
Titular Lean of Waterford, Kobert Powre by name. And (in
p. 2) gives the following account of a curious inducement pro-
posed in a sermon preached by one Edmond Poore, a Jesuit,
^* the substance of which was to let the congregation understand
that they had an indulgence from the Pope of Ptome granted
them, and liberty to eat flesh on Vv'^ednesdays. But in the
conclusion he told them that there was a consideration for which
so great a privilege as that was g]'anted. At the time of his
confession (this informant being then one of that religion),
made his confession, and (being warned of the great sin of
divulging), was informed that the aforesaid indulgence and
liberty was granted on this account, that whoever was in a
capacit}^ to help and absist the holy cause in the present
designs, and which had been in hand for a long time, might
have the benefit of the aforesaid indulgcncies, which was a
pardon of sins for man 3^ years. He further added that the
clergy were to have the benctits and profits of the tythos accrew-
ing out of each parish, with the glebes and Monks' lands, and
appurtenances belonging unto them, which the heretics had
wrongfully possessed for a long time." (*' The Information of
John Mci^^amara, gent., touching the Popish plot in Ireland,
carried out by the conspiracies of the Earl of Tyrone and others,

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his confederates, to deliver up that kingdom to the French
King, and establish the Popish religion therein. Being all
matter of fact, and delivered upon oath to his Majesty "and both
Houses of Parliament in November, 1680." London, 1680.)

But however it may be as to " all the above being matter of
fact " or not, it must be borne in mind that a committee "was
appointed so far back as 1661, to desire the Lords Justices that
a bill may be prepared for the suppression of the Popish
hierarchy in this kingdom, and the Lords Justices assent. Also
the Lord Chancellor promises to supersede several Irish Papists
who have got into the Commission of the Peace in Connaught.
Also in 1662 two Bills were prepared, one for the suppression
of the Popish hierarchy, and the other disabling persons not
taking oaths of allegiance and supremacy from serving in
Parliament, read and approved, nem. con., after solemn debate
by the Ilouse upon the first reading, and presented by the Lord
Lieutenant for transmission. (See the Commons journals.) Thus
this reign closes as it began in suspicions, censures, strifes, and
discords.

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THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE, ETC., IN THE REIGN OF KING
JAMES THE SECOND.

In these pages it is enough to remark, by way of general introduc-
tion to days of change and a season of sorrow, that the infatuated
King first attempted to overthrow the Hberties of England and
crush under foot the Protestant principles of his people. And
when foiled in this insane project, he risked his last desperate
cast in Ireland, against terribly adverse odds, upon the chance
of handing over the Island, purged of Protestantism, to become
an appendage of the French Imperial Crown. This is the third
persecution in succession which, within the space of some fifty
years, befel the Church of Ireland. The first was carried on in
the way of surprise and massacre ; the second in the way of
fanatical and democratic retribution ; the third, under colour of
legal form, made the Constitution subvert itself. All three fell
with peculiar severity upon the Diocese of Killaloe.

From a curious paper entitled, '' Aphorisms relating to the
Kingdom of Ireland, humbly submitted to the Most Noble
Assembly of Lords and Commons at the Great Convention at
Westminster " (Jos. Watts, London, 1689), the following parti-
culars are taken, as indicating the impressions of the English
concerning the needs of Ireland : —

III". That whosoever hath the Crown of England is, ipso facto, Sove-
reign of Ireland.

y^ Without the subjection of Ireland England cannot flourish, and
perhaps not subsist.

YP. That Ireland was never in such danger as it is now.

VIT\ That the Protestants there, unless speedily relieved, must ne-
cessarily be ruined.

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YIIP. That no people in tlio world are in so miserable a condition as
the Protestants of Ireland. For they are not only insulted by their own
servants, and in a certain way of beggary, but are also in continual fear,
and under imminent danger of being massacred.

Xyil°. That the Protestants are already damnified to the value of
3,000,000?., and in 3 months more will suffer as much again.

XVIII^'. The Protestants of Ireland had been eternally ruined if it
were not for the glorious achievements of the Prince of Orange.

XIX". The policy and true scheme of government was totally sub-
verted in Ireland. The army was disbanded with circumstances as bad
as the fact, and Papists introduced to guard us against themselves.
And Irish brought to garrison within those walls that were purposely
built to keep them out.

XX°. The law was likewise subverted. For, the force and energy of
the law being resolved into trials by jury, when the judge, sheriff, jury,
witness, and party were all of a piece, and that in a countiy where per-
jury is so frequent that Irish evidence is become proverbially scanda-
lous, what could an English Protestant expect but that many notorious
murders should pass unpunished, many forged deeds should be trumped
up, and many hundreds of English indicted, drawn in question, and
prosecuted without as much as a probability or colour of truth.

XXP. These injuries would have been perpetuated and legitimated,
and our religion and nation destroyed there by law. For they dissolved
all corporations on forged or frivolous pretences, and in so precipitate a
manner, that they did not give competent time to draw, much less to
review, the pleadings. They projected to call the eldest sons of Popish
noblemen by writ, and so made themselves sure in both Houses of an
Irish Parliament.

XXIP. That the disbanded Protestant officers deserve and are fit to
be employed in the recovery of Ireland.

XXIII". That the Prince wants neither courage, conduct, reputation,
or zeal.

"With such statements taken from the English Loyalist and
Protestant standpoint, and with the full and clear account
given by Arclibishop King in his great work upon *'Tiie State
OF THE Protestants of Ireland/' as well, as by other writers
of the time, also with certain unpublished documents at hand,
the great difficult}^ will be how to oiler, within a moderate com-
pass, anything like an adequate illustration of all the injuries,
wrongs, losses, dangers, and sufferings endured by the members
of the Pteformed Church in the Diocese of Kill aloe during this
reign of terror. With a decided liability rather to an under
than to an over-statement, the following particulars of evidence
are adduced as bearing upon the state of the Protestants of the
I3ioccse of Killaloc during this reign.

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And 1st as to Corporations.— In the list of tlie consti-
tuent members of the several new corporations established by
King James II. upon the ruins of the old ones, destroyed by
quo warrantos and forced surrenders, as taken from the Patent
Rolls of the Court of Chancery (Harris, Wm. III. Appendix,
p. X.), the following are given for

XIX.— iNxisir.

David White, merchant, Portreve.

Burgesses, 12.
Daniel, Viscount Clare.
Dennis O'Bryen, of Duogh, Esq.
Florence McNamara, Esq.
John McNamara.
Pierce Creaghe, merchant.
James Casey, merchant.
Peter Eice, merchant.
Andrew White, do.
Andrew Wolfe, do.
Obadiah Dawson, apothecary.
James White, merchant.
John Lentall, vintner.
Denis Casey, town clerk.

In the old MS. Corporation Minutes, some time in the hands
of the late Thos. Crowe, Esq., D.L., Dromore, the following
spirited remonstrance is registered : —

(31). 16 May, 1GS7. Then the Freemen would not allow the new
Charter to be imposed on them. Whereas the Provost and free Bur-
gesses of this Burrough were served with a writ of [illegible] against
the Charter of the said Burrough; that the Provost having received an
account from those concerned in said Charter, that there should be a
meeting of the Provost, Burgesses, and Freemen, and Commons to con-
sider and return what revenues and immunities belong to the Corpora-
tion, and what they would have added in the same Charter, if agreed to
be taken out ; that thereupon the said Provost, together with John
Gore, Esquire, one of the Burgesses, did this day meet in said Court
House, where were several freemen, kc, made acquainted with the

same.

Mr. S3dvestcr O'Hehire stood (sic) and took upon himself and said
that he was employed by the Freemen of the said town to speak and
declare their mind, was not contradicted, whereupon he declared if a
charter be imposed upon them, and they must take it out, they would
take it out themselves, and that no country-man be burgess or freemen.
But that they would have all within themselves. And what all said
(was) that they would have no charter if it could be avoided. And that
they would apply themselves to the Government.

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2iidly. The Manner in which the Army was Constituted,

AND HOW THE MeN BeHAVED.

In respect of the constitution of the army of King James II.,
Lord Macaulay has represented, rather broadl}^, that the
ofiB.cers were '^ cobblers, tailors, butchers, or footmen.''

To have vanquished an army led by such a contemptible set
of quasi-soldiers as these was a lowering of the glory due to
the heroes of Athlone, the Boyne, and Aughrim. Anyone
who looks through Mr. D'Alton^s ^^Army List of King
James 11." must come to the conclusion that, so far at least as
the regiments connected with Tipperary and Clare are con-
cerned, there can be no doubt of the majorit}^ of the officers
being gentlemen, and some even the very flower of old Irish
chivalry. The chief of these regiments was Lord Clare's Yellow
Dragoons, in which are found the names of McNamara of Crat-
loe, Magrath, Fitzgerald, Shaugnessy, O'Bryen, Quin, Cahane,
Purdon, Hogan, Perry, Clancy, JSTeylan, Sullivan, O'Dea,
Hurley, &c. But, curiously enough, Mr. D'Alton states that,
'^ By an order of Lord Tyrconnel to Colonel John Pussell, 18th
June, 1686, that officer was directed to receive into his regi-
ment, and to rank there on his respective companies (inter
alios) Lieut. C. O'Bryen, Lieat. T. O'Brien, Ensign T. O'Bryen,
Ensign M. O'Bryen." These were all doubtless pronounced
partizans of the anti-English and anti-Protestant interest ; but
whom they superseded, and why those superseded were so dealt
with, will be no matter of difficult surmise with those who
have duly considered the arbitrar}^ and bigotted manner in
which Tyrconnel dealt with the army under his control. (See
King's ''State" and Wellwood's ''Memoirs.") Much the
same state of organization belongj to Colonel Dudley BagenaPs
regiment of infantry from Tipperary South. The case of
Colonel Oxburgh and his infantry from Ballybrit and the
Southern portion of King's County somewhat difFers.

On Mr. Dalton's authority it is stated that, by Royal man-
date on the 12lh of July, 1689, Colonel Ileward Oxburgh,
Owen Carroll, Esq., Captain John Dunne, Captain Andrew
Kellv, Pierce Bryan, Esq., and Thady Fitzpatrick, were con-
stituted provosts marshal of the King's and Queen's Counties,
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against robbers, thieves, and Tories, with whom, as stated, these
countries were infested.

Here, some notice must be taken of this Oxburgh, who he
was, and how he became colonel, and what he did with the aid
of martial law at his back. In the Impar. iS'arrative of Sir L.
Parsons, written in the reign of King William III., and ex-
tracted from Cooke's *^Parsonstown '' (p. 112), the following
exhibition is given of this colonel. In April, 1687, Sir Law-
rence Parsons and his family went to England in consequence
of the Lady Parsons having been threatened to be impeached
by a man who had formerly been a servant in her family.
Previous to his departure from Ireland, Sir L. appointed
Captain Heward Oxburgh his agent, with directions to remit
him 500^. yearly, and to apply remainder of his fortune to
pay certain debts on his estate. Sir L. being a year away
without any remittances, returned, and found Oxburgh ad-
vanced to the office of High-sheriff of King's County. The
town of Parsonstown was at that time garrisoned by the
troops of the Marquis of Ormond, under command of Capt.
P. Grace, who ordered his dragoons to turn their horses into
the castle meadows. This was done, and Sir L. remonstrated
in vain. In vain, too, he applied to his faithless agent Oxburgh
for redress. He could not interfere ; and if there were wars in
Ireland Sir L. must expect no favour, was his repl3\ But what
of the receipts unaccounted for by Oxburgh as agent, and how
was he to discharge his liabilities ? He had taken up from the
tenants 3,000/., which he had applied to the raising of the regiment
of infantry so gloriously paraded in Mr. D'Alton's pages. He
was its colonel, and he also got up a regiment of dragoons for
one of his sons. After awhile an occasion offered, by which
Sir L. was deprived of the active and friendly aid of a powerful
friend at the helm of affairs, who was then principal Secretary
of State in Ireland. At this period the country about Birr was
much infested with robbers and raparees ; in particular one
Fannin committed serious depredations in the way of murder and
burglar}^ and Sir L., when the poor people around flocked to
him for protection, protected in his castle some four score of his
neighbours and tenants, with their wives and children.

Oxburgh now saw his way to settle accounts with Sir L.
Parsons, and accordingly reported liim to Tyrconnel for havino-

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fifteen hundred armed men within his castle, and keeping^
smiths busy in making warlike implements. Colonel Garrett
Moore was sent to inquire^ and to disperse this force. But
he gave a certificate (original copied in Cooke) that there was
no such force, and undertook to prevail with Tyrconnel that
the castle should not be turned into a garrison. But Oxburgh
prevailed that it should ; he also demanded possession, set up
a siege with his twenty-two companies and a troop of dragoons,
and at length accepted a surrender, artfully drawn up to the
great disadvantage of Sir L. And, finally, Oxburgh seized
upon his person, with five of his principal tenants — viz.,
John Phillips, Philip Moore, P. Knight, J. Bury, and J. Pascoe ;
and kept all six in close confinement in the Castle of Birr,
spending Sir L.'s money, and imprisoning one John Clay, who
asked the tenants, on behalf of unfortunate Parsons, for some
of the rents due, to procure the very necessaries of life. In
three da^^s after the arrest of Sir L., Mr, Jonathan Darby, of
Leap, and his brother, were arrested and put in the same
prison ; also Mr. Thomas Roe. (Then follows an account of
the trial, of which more hereafter.) From the time of the
surrender of the Castle, two companies of Colonel Oxburgh' s
regiment were quartered in it, and did great damage there,
stripping the shingles ofi* the building for firing, to which
purpose they also applied all the timber and wooden vessels in
the place. At this period Colonel Oxburgh's regiment consisted
of twenty-two companies, two of which were quartered in the
Castle, and the other twenty in the town of Parsonstown, as
was also Captain John Oxburgh' s troop of dragoons and a
company of infantry commanded by Lieut. -Col. Robert Grace.
Then Lord Tyrconnel was expected to come and review the
troops, and Mr. Phillips, Sir L.'s kmdsman, was, with his
family, turned out of the Castle, and Captain John Baldwin'^s
fat oxen, and Mr. J. Darby^s fat wethers, were seized and
slauo-htered for his Excellency's entertainment. However,
Sarsfield came instead, and carried himself well towards all
parties, making no distinction between Protestant and Catholic,
but courteously treating all alike. Oxburgh's regiment was
drawn up for review, and while the Colonel was inspecting the
troops two soldiers suddenly threw down their aj^pointments
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jack boots and pursued them. They were soon overtaken, and
brought back by him, and ordered to be shot; but Colonel
Oxburgh's wife and daughter being hard by in their coach in
great pomp, threw themselves upon their knees supplicating for
mercy, and the generous warrior Sarsfield, yielding to their
entreaties, forgave them. At this review Sarsfield disbanded
nine companies of the regiment.

Passing from Oxburgh and his regiment, which he employed
not to protect, but to plunder and dispossess the King's sub-
jects for Oxburgh's own dishonest ends, we must now take a
brief glance at Lord Clare's dragoons, called yellow, from the
colour of their facings, and see how they conducted themselves,
not indeed as yet at Lisnaskeay, nor yet behind the palisades on
the Eoyne, but while quartered in their own county. And if
this was *^the flower of King James's army,'^ of what sort
must have been the fag end of it, and how they acted will be no
matter of surprise to any. On this subject Sir Toby Butler,
King James's Solicitor-General (ancestor of Colonel Augustine
Butler, of Ballyline), writes the following explicit letter to Sir
D. O'Bryen, Bart., at Ennis : —

Dablin Castle, I7th December, 1689.

Sir,— When I found tliat eight troops of Colonel Daniel O'Bryen's
dragoons must of necessit}^ be sent into that country, and remembered
the sad complaints made heretofore of them, I could not think of a
better expedient than that you should appoint their cpiarters, and that
you should receive affidavits of any extortions they should commit, and
send them to the Secretary here, that they may be corrected and pay-
ment made to the parties injured, I would be glad to preserve all
places, and particularly that county, though I have no interest of my
own there now, but my acquaintance with— I cannot dii^ect you on this
point who knows the county better than I. But I suppose drao-oons
cannot hope to keep their horses all at hay, and therefore good grass
and some corn would do well, which I believe the western parts of that
country can afford rcasonabl3\ As for the men, since it is impossible to
quarter all in the towns, there being none there, I do not know how it
can be done better than to send a quota to each chief landlord, and
they to distribute them among their tenants, and the troopers to buy
their beef and mutton, corn or broad, which the head landlords would see
delivered at reasonable rates, and wc to put them westward, and a troop
at Corofin, another at Kilfenora, for I must advertise you that what part
you place at Ennis, I believe will not be long there, and therefore when
orders come, you must have a prospect where to dispose of them.

I am, Sir,

Your veiy humble servant,

Theobald Butlbr.

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(Transcribed from Colonel William A. MacDonnell's Book of
MS. collections on Clare affairs, which, with other valuable
information, was kindly and courteously placed at the writer's
disposal.)

If the yellow dragoons practised such systematic rapine in
their own country, what pleasant folk were they not for the
chief landlords to be responsible for feeding, &c., and how
delightful the recompense too, in the debased coin of James —
even if they should touch it at all.

" It may be well to give here a brief notice by Dean Davies
of SOME MILITARY MOVEMENTS in this sidc of the diocese, he
being chaplain with the troops of King William, 1690, Sep-
tember 14."

I preached at Thurles about Contentment in Heb. 13, 5.

18th, the garrison that was at Bunyokane marched
through the town towards Kilkenny, being relieved by some French
that are quartered there. They told us that hearing some cannon on
Monday last towards Hoscrea, they sent two dragoons to inquire into
the matter, who, near Lisnaskca, meeting with seven of King James's
horses, and mistaking them for friends, were shot in the back mortally.
There came also a trumpeter through the town from the enemy to treat
about exchange of prisoners, and with him a soldier as his guard, who
told us that Sarsfield had besieged Birr, and that the cannon we heard
was there. That our army was on its march to relieve it, under
command of Douglas and Kirk.

In Macarice Excidium, the operations are thus fancifully
described : —

Young Tiridates (Duke of Berwick), at the head of 4,(X)0 foot, 2,000
men-at-arms, and as many light horse, passed the river Lycus (Shannon)
into the province of Salaminia (Leinster), where he attacked the castle
of a Cicilian (English) knight, to which he applied his rams and other
battering engines, though it might be easily gained without any such
trouble. i:iut upon an alarm of the enemy's advance to relieve the
place, though with a party much inferior in force, he decamped, and his
shameful retreat much discouraged the army and the nation.

3rdl3^ The occupants of the legal tribunals, as well as
other functionaries, and how they administered justice
between man and man, also in particular between the Pro-
testants and the Crown, may here receive a few notices and
illustrations. The trial of Sir L. Parsons gives a good idea of
what may have been the general method in such cases.

On the 27th March, 1689, the prisoners (L. Parsons, Jona-

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than and Jolin Darby, Esquires, of Leap Castle, and Thos. Roe,
and others) were sent, under escort, to take their trial at Philips-
town assizes. (So the Journal, pp. 15, 15, per Cooke.) On their
arrival in the county town, they were conducted to the house of
one Eobt. Molesworth, which was the only place of entertain-
ment in the town. On the 28th the Judge, Sir Henry L^^nch,
arrived also at Moles worth's, and immediately ordered the Sheriff
to remove the prisoners (whom he called traitors) out of the
house. Whereupon they were conducted to the house of one
Thomas Eutland, in which they were well guarded by soldiers,
who actually stojDped in the same room with them. Soon after
their arrival they were informed of the charges upon which it
was intended they should be tried on the 30th, and which were
as follows : —

Sir L. Parsons, John Phillips, Philip Moore, Randal Knight,
John Bury, and James Eascoe for high treason, in keeping the
Castle of Parsonstown as a garrison against the King. Jona-
than and John Darby for high treason, in rescuing Captain Pi
Coote. And Thos. Poe for high treason, in holding the house
of Ballinmoney against his Majesty. Of these, however, Philip
Moore was never indicted.

The accused retained Lieut. -Colonel Owen Carroll and Mr.
Henry Oxburgh, the colonel's eMest son, as their counsel, not
so much expecting any kindness or assistance as in hopes of
abating their malice, and consequentl}^ the fury of the prose-
cution. They also retained a Protestant lawyer of the
name of Cliff, who exerted himself to the utmost in their behalf.

The day of trial was now arrived, Sir Henry Lynch was the
presiding judge. He was passionate, furious, overbearing, a
professor of the Roman Catholic rehgion ; rage so overcame his
reason that he would scarcely suffer the prisoners or their
counsel to speak.

When the jury was called over, they proved to be men of
little or no property ; and the prisoners excepted against some
of them for not being freeholders, but the Court informed them
that they must all join in their challenges, and not except alto-
gether against more than twenty peremptoril3^ Ultimately a
jury was sworn, composed of the following persons, viz., Georo-e
Sankie, Rich. Reding, Oliver Nelson, Robt. L'Estrange, Owen
Coghlan, Ignatius Archer, Andrew Fitzgerald, Philip Molloy,

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Cosney MoUoy, Robert Cusack, and John Kelly. (Only eleven
names.)

Of these Sankie was nephew to Sir H. Sankie, who was mar-
ried to Sir L. Parsons' sister-in-law. This conscientious juror
was asleep during the whole trial in consequence of intoxication.
Eeding was an ignorant young man, never before upon a jury.
Nelson afterwards felt severely the stings of conscience for
having agreed to the verdict; and, with the exception of
L'Estrange, who pretended to be a Protestant, all the rest were
Roman Catholics, and of course in those days steady adherents
to King James.

The first witness examined was a person of the name of Cor-
nelius Cleer, who was a creature of Colonel Oxburgh's, and
therefore prejudiced against Sir Laurence. This witness deposed
that Sir L. built a wall of defence against King James's army ;
that he made spike-holes it, and kept guards night and day ;
and that he made a portcullis over his gate, and regularly ex-
ercised the persons in the castle. The next person produced
was Bryan Coghlan, who was the principal servant of Colonel
Oxburgh, and by him emj)loyed in receiving Sir L/s rents
during the time of his confinement. He proved the perfection
of the articles of surrender of the castle by Sir L. to Oxburgh
and Lieut.- Colonel Grace — the counterpart of which was written
by this witness. Ignatius Archer, who was one of the jury,
corroborated the testimony of Cleer. Archer was originally a
little shopkeeper in 'Parsonstown, but was, from his great zeal,
advanced to a lieutenant in Capt. Pay's comj)any of Colonel
Oxburgh's regiment. Captain Wm. Dulhunty, who from being
a private trooper, was promoted to a captaincy in the same
regiment with the last witness, gave evidence to the like effect.
A trumpeter in Captain Pi Coote's troojD, who became
an approver, deposed that there passed a great deal of
private conversation between Sir L. and Captain Coote
at one Darby's, wherein Sir L. said he would raise
fifty cavalry for Captain Coote. He likewise swore that Moore
was present at the interview. Lieut. -Colonel Carroll also
appeared as a witness against Sir L., although he professed to
be of counsel for him ( ! ! ), and proved the perfection of the
articles of surrender, to which he was a subscribing witness,
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ship, induced Sir L. to sign them^ assuring him that they were
only matter of form ( ! ! ). The evidence ha^dng been closed,
Sir Henry Lynch caused the articles of surrender to be read,
and declared that they were implicated in an overt act of high
treason, and charged the jury to find all the prisoners guilty.
The jury soon agreed on a verdict against Sir L., Jonathan
Darby, and James Rascoe. The rest of the prisoners, having
no p'oiperty to forfeit, ivere acquitted (! I ), It is here worthy
of remark that there was no evidence whatever against Ptascoe
yet he was con^dcted, in consequence of his having been a
man of property, consisting of malt, leather, and hides, as
he had extensive trade as a maltster, tanner, and skinner.

As soon as the verdict was announced the Sherifi* ordered
Darby and Eascoe to be ironed. But Sir L. being lame with
the gout, it was unnecessary to bolt him. The trial took place
on the 30th jMarch, 1689, and the convicts were brought up
for judgment on the Monday following, when they were
sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered, but happily after
reflection, the judge reprieved Sir L. for a month. He, how-
ever could not be prevailed upon to reprieve Darby or Eascoe
for more than ten days. Darby was therefore obliged to send
ofi" a solicitor to Dublin, who, after much trouble, procured a
month's respite from King James for his client and Rascoe.
Upon the conviction of Sir L. he was transmitted under an
escort of military to Parsonstown, where he remained impri-
soned until 2nd April, 1690 ; during which period he was
several times reprieved. He had also the misfortune to be
attainted, as were likewise his son and brother, by the Parlia-
ment held in Dublin under King James II., in 1689, in which
the before-mentioned Colonel Oxburgh and Owen Carroll sat as
members for the King's County.

Parsonstown was also represented as a borough in that Par-
liament. Archbishop King says that Sir L. escaped from
death, because they did not think it safe to execute him, until
the war was over. Certainly such apprehensions might have
had their clfect. But the suspension of the execution of his
sentence is also in a great measure to be attributed to various
sums of money paid by his friends from time to time in the
shape of bribes.

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roll was Chief Commissioner of Oyer and Terminier, and the
King's Commissioner for seizing on forfeited estates, as also
on the property of absentees.

Colonel Oxburgh, who was father-in-law of Carroll, with the
weakness ever incident to narrow minds, conceived himself
eclipsed by his son-in-law's greatness, and therefore sent his
son, Captain Henry Oxburgh, to Dublin, to solicit Government
to invest him with the office of Provost Marshall of the King's
County. No sooner was this granted, than Oxburgh showed
his authority by riding through the country in great state, and
causing gallows to be erected in several places. Amongst the
rest, he had a gallows with three pegs put up in the streets of
Parsonstown, which was then supposed to be intended for the ex-
ecution of Sir L. Parsons, Mr. Jonathan Darby, and Mr. James
Eascoe. This gallows was erected on May-day, 1689, and was,
therefore, ever after called Colonel Oxburgh's Maypole. At
Shinrone, he also caused another gallows to be erected, on
which he hanged a poor man because some mutton was found
hidden in his garden. After Sir L. and the other convicts
were brought from the Assizes, they were confined in Parsons-
town Castle ; but the noise and insults offered to them by
Oxburgh's soldiers were so unsupj)ortable, that they were
obliged to apply to be removed to the common jail — which
was greatly out of repair — although Colonel Oxburgh had re-
ceived money for putting it in order. Sir L. therefore, on being
brought thither, applied to Colonel Oxburgh to lay out some
of the money which he had received for its reparation ; but all
to no purpose, for Sir L. was ultimately obliged to repair it at
his own expense.

On the 15th June, 1680, Oxburgh came to visit Sir L. in his
confinement, informing him that he was to march next day
with his regiment to the North, and requesting to know who
Sir L. would wish left in care of the castle. Sir L. requested
him to commit it to his Idndsman Mr. John Phillips. But
Oxburgh next day appointed as governor C. Cleer, the person
who gave evidence against Sir L. on his trial. The man was
afterwards dubbed governor, and was so notoriously litigious
that he went by name of Coimcellor Cleer, Lieutenant-Colonel
Carroll and one L. Harman, having been appointed by the King
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previous to his setting out witli liis regiment to the North of
Ireland^ took from them all Sir L.'s estates for one shilling and
sixpence an acre, and the town of Birr thrown into the bargain.
Having thus become possessed of the property, he made abate-
ments to the Irish tenantry^ and made them allowances for
the losses occasioned by the calamities of the times ; but the
English he kept to the rigour of their former engagements with-
out remorse or pity.

Sir L. being thus deprived of his property and liberty, his
wife and children were supported in the town of Manchester,
by presents from their friends and relations, afterwards grate-
fully repaid. His son William, then ver}^ young, wrote to
threaten Oxl^urgh with vengeance, if a hair of his father^s
head was injured.

Sir L.'s journey to Dublin and subsequent most righteous
release, we must only barely mention. But poetic justice must
needs depict the fate of this Oxburgh and his family. The
father soon dies, so do his two daughters, all sadly and sud-
denly. The eldest son joins King William's army, but is ere
long disbanded, and lives at Boveen, near Birr, with his mother,
in such a state of distress that she is forced to employ her
coach — that coach wherein she had sat in such glittering pomp
on the day of Sarsfield's grand review — in carrying fire-wood
for sale into Birr market in order thereby to maintain herself
and family. How the begrimed and tattered and tarnished
" shanderdijdan'' must have groaned under the dead weight
of its new loading — groaned too must Mrs. Oxburgh often,
and her poor heart have sunk within her as she trudged along
the weary road to Birr on her ignominious daily task. Ev tt;?
a\Xayrj<;. Many a stirring drama has ofttimes been woven
out of less brilliant materials, and smiles of fortune not a whit
more changeful and inconstant have pointed a moral and
adorned a tale of high classic renown.

So far of law, and afterwards of arms, in King's Coy. Here
a note must be struck as to the state of law^ and its adminis-
tration in Coy. Tipperary in these sad times.

In section 36 King notes that ''A gi^eat many in the Gov.
Tipperary were like^Yise brought into trouble, but escaped the
first tunc by a kind of mii^acle. One of the jurors was so maUciously
bent^ against them that he swore he would die before he would
acquit them. It happened to him according to his own desire.

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He fell dead in the place while they were disputing about retraining the
verdict, which saved the gentlemen for that time ; yet this did not dis-
courage their prosecutors. They caused them to be indicted anew, and
upon theu^ second trial Justice Macarty, afterwards made Lord Mount-
cashel by King James, came into the court, threatened and lectured
Sir John Meade, who then sat as judge for the Duke of Ormonde, it
bemg within his Grace's Palatinate, because he would not du-ect the
jury to find him guilty. But Sir John stood his ground, and declared
that there was no sufficient evidence against them. On which they were
acquitted. It vexed them that they could not bring their Popish
sheriffs and judges into that county, as they did into the rest of Ire-
land, by reason that the nomination of them was in his Grace as Lord
of the Pbegalities. And therefore, in their pretended Parliament, they
not only attainted, but likewise by a particular act dissolved his princi-
pality. Their first plot against the gentlemen of the country having
miscarried, they began a second, and got depositions a,gainst several ;
but they were as unlucky in this as in the first. They laid the scheme
of their affairs so unskilfully that the witnesses swore that the gentle-
men met to carry on their plot at Nenar/h, a place about 50 miles from
Dublin, on the same day that some of them had been examined before
the Council-board on the first informations. This appearing to the
Council by an entry made in their own books, cpiashed the design
against them, and saved them a third time. It would take a volume
to enumerate all the particulars of this nature."

4thly. The following evidence goes to corroborate Archbishop
King's statements, under the head of Subsidies, Taxes, and
Forcible Seizures. (See Section 52.)

The Parliament granted the King a tax of 20,0007. per month for
thirteen months, which the kingdom could hardly have paid if it had
been in its most flourishing condition. But they knew it would fall
most heavy on the Protestants, who must be forced to pay it out of
their ready money, having lost their stocks generally by plunder, and
deprived of their rents and income.

In Mr. D'Alton's lists of Counties Assessments the following
are the Commissioners for Clare : —

The High Sheriff' pro tem, viz.,

Sir Donough O'Brien, Bart.

John McNamara of Cratelagh, Esq.

Donough O'Brien of Donough, Esq.

Daniel McNamara, Esq., of Ayle.

John McNamara, Esq., of Mayriff (Moyrcisk).

James Aylmer, Esq., Cragbrien.

El or ence M cNamara.

iSaml. Bo3^ton (quaere) Burton,'^ of Bancrao gy.

John AJcNamara, Esq., Collector.

The Provost of Ennis, pro tern.

(cpia^rc) John Gore of Clonroade.

Their applotment was 1,798/. os. (kl. for three mos.

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As to the Horses pressed in Co3^ Clare, the following letters
and lists must interest especially the reader connected with
the localities concerned : —

To the Eight Honble the Earl of Lymericke.

20 April, 1690.
Mj Lord,— According to your Lordship's commands, I send a Hst of
the chief gentlemen and ablest persons of this county, whose name I
have returned to the respective high constables, to be summoned im-
mediately to bring in their ablest horses without any delay to go to
Cork for his Majesty's service. Lt.-Col. McNamara was with me at
the making of this list, and has sent a squadron of dragoons to each
high constable to go about with them and immediately to seize such of the
said persons as refuse or delay the bringing in of their horses, and to
carry them as prisoners before your Lordship. This course will, I hope, ex-
pedite the business, so as that I make no doubt but a good many of the
horses will be at Lymerick a' Monday next, and the rest soon after ac-
cording as the distance of the places from whence they are to come will
allow of it. jNIy Lord, it is the want of horses generally throughout this
county, which have been taken from the people by dragoons and others,
(and not the want of a good ^ill to serve his Majesty with all they
have) that makes this county so backward in sending their horses, as
your Lordship says they are. But now I hope what they send will
please your Lordship, and that you will not impute any default of this
to me. Since I have endeavoured and always will be ready to execute
your Lordship's commands.

Your Lordship's humble servant,

DoxouGU O'Brten,

Sheriff of Co. C^are.

I send also a copy of my warrant to the constables, and you may see
I have not omitted to do all I can in this matter.

Wciii-anf.
By virtue of the Eight Honourable William, Earl and Governor of
L3"mcrick and Province of Munstcr, and the forces therein. His orders
unto me directed bearing date the 19 of April inst., and likewise his
jMajesty's commands of the Revenue unto me directed. A copy whereof
is hereunto annexed. You are upon sight hereof to wait in person
with a squadron of your Dragoons upon the High Constable of the
Barony of ( ) in order to raise strong horses for carriage

upon the respective gentlemen of the said Barony, for which Sir
Donougli O'Brien directed his warrant to the High Constable; and
if any of the said gentlemen and inhabitants refuse or delay to comply
with the said Sir Lonough O'Brien's warrant, you are forthwith to
secure him and l)ring him prisoner to the Earl of Lymerick. Herein
you are not to fail, and for so doing this shall be your sufficient
warrant.

D. O'Brien, Sheriff.
25 April, KJOO.

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We add the list of '^ the chief gentlemen and ablest persons in
the coyy whose horses were to be taken from them, and them-
selves arrested and imprisoned in case of refusal or delay to
comply.

EAlloyy or TULLA.

Thomas Spaight,* Tcige Mci^amara of Legort, Simon Purdon, Esq.,
John Grady, James Grady, gentleman, Florence McKamara, Esq,,
Henry Thornton, Daniel McISlaraara, Esq., Donoiigh McNamara, of
Kanna, Nicholas Magrath, Henry Tney (c{. Toohey), Captn. Teige
McISTamara of Eanna, Henry Bridgeman, John Cusack, James Stac-
pole, John Magrath, Ambrose Perj^, Edward Nagle, Patrick Arthur,
Teige Malony, Donagh McISTamara, of Derry(f)ada.

BAllONY OF BUNBATTY.

John McNamara, Esqre., Sir Donongh O'Brien, Bart., Thos.
McNamara, D. l^cNamara of Gra, T. McKamara, John McNamara of
Moyreisk, Esqre., Hoger McNamaro, Edward Uniacke, Managh Grady,
Andrew Creagh, John Magee, David Bindon, Captn. Edward Fitz-
gerald, Captn. John Fitzgerald, Edward Pympton, Ignatius and
Patrick Connell, Ed. Delahoyde, Francis O'Brien, D. McISTamara, John
Clanchy, D. McNamara, Giles Yandeclure (sic), William Keyall, T.
Dillon, Wm. Butler, Henry Coopp, Michl. Comyn, H. Destare (sic),
Bichd. Glue, John Resin e, Peter Wargc (quere Ward), John Colpoyse,
Sir Oliver Boorke, Man. Grady, Ij. Grady.

INSEQIJIN BABONY.

Thomas Blood, Ed. Hogan, M. Dea, D. Grady, Pierce Butler, D.
O'Kcaryn, H. Hehir, Ed. Hehir, M. Griffa (? Griffin), Lt.-Col. Donough
O'Biyen, Captn. D. ISTeylan, L. Hehir, Pi. Connell.

COBCOMBOE BABONY.

Donough O'Brien, Esqre., of Ennistymon, Esqre , John Hurley,
Bryan Hanrahan, Thos. O'Connor, James Coffee, Wm. McDonagh and
his two sons, Darmod O'Teige, James Fitzgerald, Murtagh O'Bryen,
Danl. Clancy, Thos. Clancy, Andrew Hehir, Ml. McDonagh, Boetius
Clancy, Captn. Mich Lynch.

BUBBEN B-VBONY.

Colonel Terlagh O'Loghlen.

His son, Dan. O'Loghlen.

Murtao'h O'Brien, Constance Davoren and LIugli N. Davoren of Bally-
Yorohugh, James Davoren, George Martyn, William Davoren, Wm.
Lamer ^P), Edmond Brcen, John McDonagh, D. Roe O'Loghlen, J.
O'Daly, John Mariaghaun (quere Moynahan or Marinan), M.DaAoian
of Nuohaval, J. MacDonagh.

IBICKEN BABONY.

Augustine Fitzgerald, Andrew Wliite, Edmond Duyer, Patrick
QQniyn, — Quillinane, The Lady Dowager of Clare, McJSTihill.i

MOYFABTA BABONY.

James MacDonnell of Kilcpee, Henry Hickman, Edmond Mul-
rooney, C. Considyn, Bryan Cahane (Kcane), John Yanhogard, Ri.

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Creaghe, The town of Kilrush, Mmiagli McMahon, Dermot Consedyn,
Ei. Scott, Pa. Wolfe, J. McKamara.

CLONDERLAW BARONY.

Montiford Westropp, Thos. Crofton, J. Lincliey, T. Considyn, P.
White, Connor McMahon, Eob. Peacocke, Henry Lee, Dan. Ffynucane,
T. McMahoii, Theo. White, Geo. Mellon, Geo. Eosse, Ei. Henn.

ISLANDS BARONY.

The Provost and Burrough of Innish, William Herrot, Mich. Wolfe,
Sam. Burke, James Creaghe, Owen Considyn, L. Curry, T. O'Brien,
James Aylemer, James Bedand (?), J. Hickman, Geo. Stamer, S. Hehir.
(These papers are extracted from Colonel MacDonnell's MS. Book.)

The burden of supplying the horses fell on these gentlemen
and principal persons, many of whom were Protestants. But
it must be borne in mind another instance of seizure of horses
is recorded in Appendix of Archbishop King's State fNo. 16).
The sufferers were travelling the road leading from Irris
(? Innis), in the county of Clare, towards the town of Loughrea,
when the High. Sheriff of Gal way and Captain Burke stopped
tlieir progress and took tlieir horses and arms.

That prior to this, *^ without the least notice, or decla-
ration premised, the Lord Dejmt}^, on the 24tli Jul}^, 1688, took
away the arms and horses of the Protestants throughout the
whole kingdom, except in tlie JSTorth, t\ here they durst not yet
attempt it. And a second proclamation, published by King
James himself, dated 20th July, 1689, did expressly forbid all
Protestants to wear or keep any swords under the penalty of
being counted rebels and traitors, and used as such. And lest
some should wear them and not be discovered, they beset all
the church doors on Sunday morning, Feb. 23rd, 1689, whilst
the Protestants were at their devotions, to their great terror,
being ignorant of their design. And the soldiers searched
every one whether he had a sword or not." (King, sect. 43.)

The author of ^' A Full aiii Impartial Account," c^c, bears
the following curious testimony to the wicked and wasteful
destruction of cattle, the property of the English Protes-
tants : —

The nativcM manfully applii'd themselves to rob and steal from the
English, -which, though a continued practice in all the aforesaid reign,
yet never arrived at its maturity till this time. In the night time, with
firearms and other weapons, they would go and steal 100 or 200 head of
catUe from an Englishman at once. This practice continued so long,
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hundreds of black cattle and sheep, &c., had not one left. So that those
who had lived in great hospitality and plenty had not now bread to eat
or anything left to preserve them from starving. This calamity was
almost universal over the whole kingdom, though in some counties
more than in others. And I have been told that in some county in the
Province of Munsfer eleven thousand cattle were stole by the Irish in nme
days. And that hardly one English gentleman or farmer in all that
country had above two or three cows left. And that for forty miles
together the Irish cabbins w^cre full of beef stolen from the English,
which they did not so much as bestow salt upon, but hung it up in the
smoke. And that it stunk, and looked as bad as any carrion (p. 142).

But the loss of arms, seizure of horses, infliction of subsidy
after subsidy, and such other invasions of rights, were but
slight evils compared with those of which some brief account
must now appear.

5th ly. Archbishop King, sect. 69, gives particulars of the
different methods adopted ^' by whtch the Papists got
POSSESSIONS.'^ Among these was that of " sending the Pro-
testant owners to the gaol, who must never have expected their
houses and lives if King James had prevailed." But more
particularly ^^ the Lieutenants of counties had an order from
Albaville, Secretary of State, to turn all Protestants out of their
houses, if they judged them to be houses of any strength, and
to garrison them with Papists. We could never procure any
copy of this order from the office, though they owned there was
such an order, and we found the effects of it. The reasons of
concealing it, we suppose, were the same with concealing the
Act of Attainder. The design of the order was to turn out the
few Protestant gentry that lived on their ancient estates, and
had neither forfeited them by the Act of Attainder, nor lost
them, by the Act of Pepeal. It was left to the discretion of the
Lieutenant of the county whom they would turn out, and they
acted according to their inclinations, and turned out almost
everybody, and it was with great difficulty and interest that
any procured to be eased of this trouble. In short, the soldiers
or militia took possession of such gentlemen's houses as durst
venture to live in the country, and they themselves were sent
to goal ; and had King James got the better, they must never
have expected to have got possession of their houses, or been
released of their confinement, 'till they had gone to execution,
for though they had been very cautious how they conversed,
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corresponded with somebody in England or Scotland since the
1st of August, 1688, and then their estates were forfeited."

A letter from Daniel, Viscount Clare, to Donat O'Brien,
Esq., of Ennishtimon, Deputy Lieutenant of the County Clare,
relative to the securing of Protestants in the count}^, &c., may
here find a place as corroborating Archbishop King^s testi-
mony : —

Cork, 10 August, 1689.

Dear Cousin— For your comfort I have only to tell you that yesterday
came to me here a gentleman who belongs to the King (James II.), and
comes with letters from the King of France. He left Brest on Monday
last, where (he) saw a hundred capital ships and fire-ships under sail
going towards Plymouth to seek the English and Dutch fleet, and fi'om
thence to come to us. He says we shall have in Kinsale this night or
to-morrow three frigates leaden with arms and ammunition, and our
men which were in the Isle of Wight and a great many French oflicers
are coming. He says that if the King of France gave them leave, we
may have 100,000 men from France upon their own charge, such is their
zeal to serve our King against his rebels. And he says he never saw
men more desirous than they are to fight the English and Dutch fleets.
Speak to Father Teigue, and send to aU the clergy (Eoman Catholic, of
course) in the county to pray for their good success. We shall hear
soon of a great engagement. You arc to remove all the Protestants
from Clare Castle, and to keep them confined at Piers Creaghe's house,
with a guard of your militia and townsmen, except Ceorge Stamer, who
you are to leave at Clare Castle with a guard I order for him, Mr. Pur-
don, and Thos. Hickman, who are both to remain under the charge of
Hugh Sweeny at Clare Castle along with George Stamer. And herein
fail not without delay (to) confine Bindon, Hewitt, and such other towns-
men as are in the county, though you have them not in the list returned
from Dublin, as Colpoys, young Lee, young Yandeluer, Smith, and all
such, especially when you hear of an invader. Take every one of them
that are young (Seir or Mr.), and let the common sort (sic) lie in the
prison, and the rest strictly guarded, or rather put into some strong
castle that has a grate to be locked on the outside, as Ballahinan (sic).
Ye ould folks (sic) may not be so strictly used. But leave not a young
Protestant in the county without streight (sic) confinement, for which
this shall be your warrant.

(Signed) Clare.

Note by Colonel MacDonnell : —

The original of this letter was sent by Major Edward O'Brien to Sir
Edward O'Brien, and is now in Dromoland.

Another copy also exists in the handwriting of the late Mr.
Andrew^ Finucano, and is identical in every particular with the
copy above transcribed, having been collated by the Writer.

But Dean Davies in liis Diary (Camden Society reprint),

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under date April 9tb, 1689, writes more precisely to the
point of the invasion : —

The rest of the day I spent with Captn. H. Boyle, and heard no news,
but that the Scots were well-mclined to proclahiL King Wm., though tlte
French had 20/jOO omn at Brest, ready to invade Ireland.

A reflection or two may be made on this authentic and
authoritative document. As to the Jleet and the goodwill of the
King of France, and the zeal of his subjects to fight the
English and the Dutch by sea, one is reminded of the remarks
made by Lord Macaulay upon the exertions of Louis to save
James which the perverse folly of James rendered nugatory^
'' flattery and vanity having turned his head." And so it
came about that the naval succours which Louis offered through
Bourepaux were not absolutely declined. But his reception at
Whitehall was cold, and he was forced to return without having
settled anything. (Chap, ix., Ano 1688, p. 448, vol. ii.)

And the remark may be made as to the reason why Mr,
Stamer teas excepted from the same extreme of rigorous usage
to which the other Protestant gentlemen of Clare were
subjected. The simple fact is that Mr. Stamer was the tenant
of Lord Thomond ousted by Lord Clare from Chare Castle.
This gentleman, who was the scion of an old English stock in
Sussex, had married the daughter of Mr. William Yorke, who
was a most successful, prosperous, and generous gentleman,
connected with the commerceof the city of Limerick, and whom all
the writers concerning that city unite to praise. Mr. Stamer,
however, though not in this way extremely dealt with by Lord
Clare, met with other harsh treatment at his hands, against
which he complains in the following statement : —

Captain George Stamer's allegations why he ought not to pay any
rent for his holdings from Henry, late Eai-1 of Thomond, from 29tli
September, 1688, for the Castle and five ploughlands of Clare and to^^n
— 14.01. per annum.

1st. He paid his rent for Michaelmas, 1088 ; that before the next
gale grew due, the Lord Clare, by order from the Earl of Tyrconnell,
enters in January, 1688, on the Castle of C'lare and the town and the dwell-
ing-house of the said Stamers, and took possession thereof and placed a
company of foot therein, 1)}^ reason A\hereof tlie said George Stamer was
forced to remove himself and family to Lymerick, where he was forced
to live at great expense and damage several years.

And the said Lord Clare brought all the horses seized from the

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English on the said lands, also all his own cattle and stiidd, to a great
number.

And seized all the said George's corn and hay on the said five plough-
lands, and lived himself in the said castle.

So that the said George Stamer could make no advantage of the
said lands, nor of his house, though he had laid out 400?.. thereon.
(From an original document among the Stamer family papers, allowed
to be copied by Mrs. Stamer, of Stamer Park.)

" The list returned from Dublin " is evidently what Archbishop
King alludes to, but though many other important papers have
been found among those left behind by Donat O'Brien, no trace
of this has been found to the knowledge of the writer. The
probabilit}^ is that orders were issued to destroy the list on
receipt, but to keep in memory the names of the parties
recorded therein for their imprisonment. Nor can we identify
^' Father Teige'' We turned to the list of ofhcers in Lord
Clare's Dragoons, but, alas, in vain. Only the sirname of the
chajDlain is given, thus, '' — Daly.'' But anyhow '^Father
Teige^s inayers^'^ with those of '^ the other clergy," raised to
heaven for the success of King James whether by seii or by
land, as well as any other exertions he or they may have made
on earth, all proved in vain and to no purpose. Neither
pra3^ers raised nor swords drawn, nor horses taken, nor Pro-
testants put up in strait confinement in '' strong castles that
had a grate," could save King James and his cause. The end
was to come. The world had seen enough of ecclesiastical and
regal despotism propping each other up to the sorrow and
enslavement of mankind. But possibly it may be ingeniously
argued that this peremptory letter of Lord Clare's, genuine
though it be, bore no fruit, and fell to the ground without
efiect. This might be thought one of the possibilities of the
case quite sustainable by a perverse disputant ; but alas facts go
the other way, and some other documents are here brought
forward in demonstration of the rigorous action taken against
the Protestants of at least one Barony of the county of Clare.
(Colonel MacDonnell's collection as above must again aid.)

Cou^'TY Clare.

To the Keeper of His Majesty's Gaolc for said County.

Whereas I am informed that the persons hereunder named are

persons disaffected to the GoA^ernment, and tit to be secured. These

arc therefore in Ilis Majesty's name to will and require you in sight

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thereof to take into your custody the bodies of the said persons, and
then safely to secure in His Majesty's gaole for the said county, until
delivered by due course of law, or further orders from the Government,
whereof you are not to fail.

Given under my hand,
7th July, 1690. i). O'Buien.

These—
Edmond Blood, Benjamin Lucas, John Emerson, John Hobson, Thos.
Eaircloth, Eobert Wheeler, John Bodely, Henry Hudson, John Bugler,
Samuel Huleatt, John Huleatt, John Woodroffe, John Partridge.

To Sir Don. O'Brien, Bart., High Sheriff of Clare County.

Ennis Gaole, 8th July, 1690.
Honoured Sir, —

We, the undersigned, poor Protestants out of the Barony of
Insiquine, being in particular committed to your common gaole of this
county, and after several intercessions by our friends, by name Captain
John O'Brien and others, he sent us word that we lay in your custody,
inasmuch as we were committed to your gaole, and told us that you can
make your gaole, when you please, empty, which emboden us to trouble
you with this address ; hereby imploring the favour of you to enlarge us
upon sufficient securities, or to remove our confinement to a more
humane place, upon sufficient securities, where we maybe better accom-
modated. Sir, it is a most barbarous usage that we in particular should
be crammed into a common gaole, without cause or crime, and we leave
all to your discretion, presuming that you know our conditions, and do
expect that you will rise us from this particular thraldom, inasmuch as
lies in your power.

Your most humble obedient servants,

Edmond Blood,

B. Lucas,

J. Emerson,

JonN Hobson, &c., &c.

Such is a faint sketch of just one particular instance of ^^the
barbarous usage by which these poor Protestants should be
committed to gaole without cause or crime " (unless it be
sufficient cause and crime that they were Protestants), in the
pursuance of the insane and inhuman policy of exterminating
the Protestants of Ireland, and handing over the island an
enslaved and Romanized province to be added to the dominions
of the King of France, to the ultimate gain of St. Peter's
successors, if not of Lord Tyrconnell, as Einrj of Ireland ( ! ! )

On this the reader may consult Mr. Ilallam's extraordinary
revelation. (Constitutional History, III., 339.)

The unmitigated and systematic cruelty by which the un-

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fortunate Protestants of Ireland were pursued (the details of
wliich would fill large volumes) had the efiect upon many,
indeed upon all who could manage it, of driving them to
England for refuge. They paid enormous bribes at Ringsend
to get across. They adventured themselves in anything that
could float, no matter how small or crowded it may be. Death
rode fast behind them ; not worse appeared before them. The
bottom of the sea seemed not more dreadful than the rage of
their persecutors. And large numbers escaped. This however
occasioned a fresh and ingenious method of reaping as soon as
possible the profits of these departures. A servile Parliament
passed a quasi law to make absenteeism under certain conditions
punishable by confiscation.

These absentees were divided into five classes, and the names of
those fvoscrihed which belong to the Diocese of Killaloe are
selected.

Article \st. Those attainted with time given them to the lOlh
of August to surrender themselves. And this Act was kept a
dead secret, and only disclosed by a providential occurrence.

Adare, Wm., King's Coy. (?)
Baldwin, John, King's (Joy. (?)
Lradstone, Lieut., Tipperary (?)
Bryen, Connor 0., Clare.
Lryen, Henry 0., Dublin (Lord

Ibricken).
Bryen, Wni. 0. (Earl of Incbiquin),

Dublin.
Bryen, Wm. 0., son of Earl of

Incbiquin, Dabliu.
Crowe, Wm., Esq., Dublin.
Foulkes, E., Tipperary.
Eox, Capt. H., Tipperary.

Hamilton, Jas., Esq., Clare.
Hawkins, Tho3., Gent., Clare.
Hickman, Hy., Gent., Clare.
Ingoldsby, Sir H., Limerick and

Clare.
Lloyd, Ed\vard.
Parker, M., Gent., Tipperary.
Parsons, Sir L., of Bir. Bart.
Parsons, Wra., Lieut., King's Coy.
Parsons, Wm., King's County.
Taylor, A., Tipperary.
Warburton, Hi., Esq., King's Coy.

Article 2iid. — To appear 1st September, 1680.
Article 3rJ.— Absentees from Nov. 5, 1688, to appear 1st Oct., 1689.

Aid worth (?) Tipperary.
Annesley, Tipperary.
Brady, Hugh, Gent., Clare.
Castle, John, Gent., Tipperary.
Clarke, Tipperary.
Clutterbuck, Tippci ar3^
Cope.

Cuffe, A. ] Queen's County,
Culie, M. } Kilkenny (see
Cuffe, T. ) Ballyalla).

Huti-heson, E., Tipperary.
Jones, Gent., Tipperary.
Page, Gent., Tipperary.
Parker, Gent., King's County.

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Article 4bfli. — To signify
Ballard, Tipperary.
Biggs, Jos., Tipperary.
Doherty, L, C]k., Tipperary.
])rew, Esq., Clare.
Farmer, Tipperary.
Fowler, Tipperary.
Godfrey, Tipperary.
Gore, F., Clare.
Green, J., Tipperary.
Haynes, Tipperary.
Hoyle, Tipperary.
Jones, Tipperary.

List ^th. — Persons absentees, as sick or nnder-aged, to prove loyalty on
last day of first term. Meanwhile their estates to vest in the King.

loyalty by 1st October, 1689.
Lucas, Saml., Gent., Clare.
Meade, Tipperary.
Meridyth, Tipperary.
Moody, Tipperary.
Perry, Tipperary.
Pike, Gent., Tipperary.
Pretty, Henry, Tipperary.
Sadler, Jno., Tipperary.
Sadler, lii., Tipperary.
Westenra, Hy., King's County.
White, Jno., Tipperary.

Hamilton, Mary, Widow, Tipperary.
Hunter, Widow, Tipperary.
Hunter, her son, Tipperary.
Parnell, Anne, Widow, Tipperary.

Biggs, Fran., Widow, Tipperary.
Davis, Mary, Tip]K^rary.
Frost, Elizabeth, Tipperary.
Frost, Jane, Tipperary.
Hamilton, Elizabeth, Tipperary.

These may not be all, certainly, belonging to the Diocese of Killaloe.
But the list of the Act of Settlement may be used to test whether any
names are to be omitted. Indeed, the names are mostly of families
well known, and many of them having representatives to this day in
the diocese. There can bo very little doubt that after a fair estimate,
between fifty and sixty heads of the highest families are here marked
out for confiscation.

Passing by anything done under ^' the x\ct of Grace/' of
which the particulars are systematically tabulated and published
by Mr. Hatchell, of Record OjBBce, we reproduce so much as
relates to this diocese out of '^ a list of (1) such persons, Pro-
testants of Ireland, as are lately fled out the kingdom for safety
of their lives, and of (2) the yearly value of their estates now,
either sequestered by the Papists in Ireland, or so kept from
them the said Protestants, that they neither do nor can receive
profit of their estates. There are separate headings given in
the way of a formal distribution as to ^^ real estates " — personal
estate offices — estates in England, &c. Omitting these latter
details as unimportant concerning those who, under the iron
rule of King James, were made well-nigh beggars, we proceed,
merely premising that the paper is in the MS. Room, T.C.D.,
under title (F. 4, 3)

In the first schedule is a list of the archbishops and bishops.
On this the name of the Bishop of Killaloe does not appear
among the eight prelates who fled.

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On the other appear the following : —

Barclay, Lady, C, income lost

Eayley, John, 0. 0. (Clare?)

Baldwin, John, King's Co. ...

Babington, Wm., C. C(lare) ( ? ) Gent

Barrett, G. R., C. C(lare) ?

Barnct, or / ^ ^i/i ^ / o \

Burnet, J Geo. C(lare) ( O

Birclies, Thos., C. C(lare) ...

Biggs, Joseph, Co. Tipy., family and wife

Bolton, L'la.ry, Co. Tipy., widow, 3 children

Blundell, Sir Geo., King's Co., w. and 4 children
Briggs, Jno., Co. Tip., Gent.

Brady, Hy., Co. Clare, Gent., wife, 7 children

Busteed, ML, C. C(larc) ? Gent., w. and 3 ch

Cox, Ei., C. C(lare), w. 6 children

Colbourne, Stephen, C. C(lare) ? ...

Cole, Sir Eobt., Co. Tipy., Bart

Chidley, Coote, Esq., K.'s C, w. and 3 ch.

Drew, Jno., Co. Clare, Gent., w. and 7 children

Fox, Hy., Tipy

Godfrey, Wm., Tipy., Esq., w. and 3 ch.

Gwine, Tippy.

Hailes, J., Co. TijDy., w. and 1 ch...,

Harrison, J., Tipy., w. and 2 ch. ...

Hamilton, Jas., Tipy., w. ...

Hamilton, J., King's Co., w.

Hengy, Bigoe, King's Co., w., 8 ch.

Hickman, Hy. Co. Clare

Hntchinson, Esqre., Tipy. ...

Inchiquin, Earl, w. and 2 sons

Legge, Edwd., Tipy., Gent., 4 sisters, 2 brothers

Lysaught, Mic, C. Clare ...

Parker, ML, Tipy

Patterson, John, Clerk (in Holy Orders), (Clare), w. ...

Patterson, Nat. and Jno., orphans

Parsons, Wm., King's Coy., w.

Perry, Jno., Tipy., Gent. ...

Pyke, Jno., Tipy., Esqre. ...

Pretty, Hy., Tipy., w^. and 6 ch. ...

Purdon, A., C. Clare, w. and 1 ch.

Syng, Geo., C. C(lare), w. ...

Smith, Tho., Clare, Gent. ...

Wade, Richd. and Elizb. (minor, her gnardian H. Pretty)

Wakeham, Wm., Tipy., Gent., w. and 4 ch.

Walton, Switlien, C. C(lare), mother and sisters

W^arburton, Ri. King's Co., 6 ch

Walkins, Jno., C. C(lare), w. and 6 ch

£300

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160
100
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572
200
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350
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White, Jno., C. C(]are)
Worth, Wm., Dublin, Esqre.
Worth, ML, Dublin, Esqre.

700
300

The second folio contains a list of the persons receiving relief from
June to April in the ensuing year.

Another is opened thus :— The brief for the Protestants of Ireland at
Chester.

Dr £2204. 2 0

Cr. ... ... ... ... ... 2204 2 0

All this however supplies but a faint sketch of the Protes-
tants of the diocese in general. Something must now be added
in particular concerning the state of the Protestant
Clergy of Killaloe Diocese. And first as to the Bishop.
He fared better than another bishop of the South of Ireland,
of whom Dean Davies (as above) gives the following stirring
account : —

1690, Sept. 7.

This morning I gave Scravenmore an account of the usefulness of
the steeple of the Cathedral (of Cork) — that if boards were laid on the
beams thereof, our men might gall the enemy in the fort from that
place with their muskets, whereupon Lieutenant Townsend was sent
with men thither, and did very good execution. I also took care to
have the course of Drowsses mill-stream turned, which ran through
the North of the City, and drove a grist-mill there. In the morning
our heavy artillery was landed near the Ked Cow, by Red Abbey, and
there a battery was raised of 30 six-poundirs, which playing against
the city wall soon made it tumble.

Whereupon the enemy let the Bishop (Dr. Whettenhall*) come out

* This imprisonment of Dr. Whettenhall seems very harsh, if con-
sideration be taken of the? six sermons he had preached, earnestly
inculcating loyalty to King James. A sentence or two may be ex-
tracted from this volume entitled ^'Hexap'a Jacobasa — A Sp3cimen
of Loyalty to King James IL" At page 2 ol the first sermon he says,
*' When we consider that, notwithstanding all our fears and other's
malice, James IL — the dear and faithful brother of Charles Second,
that glorious martyr for his religion and the laws— the grandson of
the great and happy King James I., in whom the three Crowns were
happily united— has succeeded, and that without any stir, tumults, or
bloodshed, but with the greatest peace and ease imaginable, unto the
throne of his Hoyal father (and mny he long hold it so, may these
days of peace long continue to him and to us) — when wo consider this,
I say, we ought to cheer ourselves and endeavour the temperating our
griefs and composing our minds." And in *' The Christian Law of the
tSword" (Ser. vi. p. 36) he goes so far as to affirm " From the whole
tenor of this discourse appears, the lUter unlaiofalmss of sithjeds resist-
ing the prince or mar/istrate ivhom God has set over them, yea, thov/jh it
he in the ahuse of his power.'' Here is non-resistence in the extreme.

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to US, whom ihey rnacle lorisoyier in the city zvith all the clergy and about
1,300 of the Protestants, where-upon a truce was gi^anted until next
morning.

Of the twenty-two ^Spiritual Lords only seven were left in
the kingdom, of which Dr. Ml. Boyle, Archbishop of Armagh ;
Dr. Hugh Gore, Bishop of Waterford ; Dr. Eoan, Bishop of
Xillaloe, were excused on the account of age and sickness.
The other four, who Avere obliged to appear, unanimously re-
fused to have to do with the Proscription Act. Although
Dr. Roan was prevented or excused from his attendance as a
Spiritual Peer in King James II. 's Parliament, his age did not
save him from being "stripped of all his substance, so that
he had little left him behind." He took part in the conse-
cration of Dr. Wm. King, Bishop of Derry, in 1690. He died
at his Episcopal house at Killaloe on the 5th of Sept., 1692,
and was buried at the east end of the cathedral. The fol-
lowing is the present state of his tombstone and its inscrip-
tion, as kindly examined by the Rev. Thos. Vereker, curate
of the cathedral : —

'^ Copy of inscription on the tomb of Bishop Roan, under
the east window (outside) of the Cathedral of Killaloe : —

" ^ Hie jacet corpus Johannis Roan, S.S., Theolo. Doctoris,
Laonensis Episcopi, qui obiit 5 die Septembris, Anno Domini
1692.' ''

There are remains of a sentence under this inscription, but
Mr. Yereker has never been able to decipher them.

Mr. y. has also extracted the following entry in the register
of baptisms, marriages, and burials : —

"Killaloe Parish. 1692.

" The Right Revd. Father in God John Roan, late Lord
Bishop of Killaloe, departed this life on Monday night, being
the 3rd of September, and was interred in a brick tomb in ye
churchyard, under ye great window att ye east side of ve
church of Killaloe, on Thursday, being ye 8th day of September,
1692. IJbi in pace quiescit. Judicio extreme in Sanctis inde
resurget.""

The following is Dr. Roan's mil in full, and a very touchino-
and simple expression it is of the piety, charity, and hope of a
Christian man : —

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BP. JOHN KOAN S WILL.

In the name of God, Amen. 1, John Eoan, Dr. in Dlvmity, and
Bishop of Killaloe, seriously considering my own mortaUty, now
that by the course of nature the time of my dissolution draweth near.
And I being of sane memory (blessed be God) am desirous to set my
house in order as well for my temporal and spiritual concerns before
I die. (Eevoking all former wills at any time heretofore made, &c.),
do now make this my last will and tcstmt. in manner and form fol-
lowing :

1"^ I commend and bequeath my soul into the hands of my most
gracious God and Creator in hopes of salvation through the alone
merits and intercession of the Lord Jesus Christ my only Saviour.
And as I have in my lifetime professed to adhere to the doctrine of
and communion with the Church of England, which I take to be the
most orthodox both for doctrine and discipline of any Church in the
world, so in the same communion I desire to die. And my body I
commit to the earth out of which it was formed, to be buried after
Christian burial, in hopes of a blessed reunion both of body and soul
at the general resurrection, at the last and second coming of my Lord
Jesus, which I humbly pray for him to hasten.

And as for my worldly goods, which are very inconsiderable, having
been stript of what stock, household stuii, and books I had, and now
little left to me but much debt, accrued by the injuries of the times,
so that I am quite debarred from those acts of charity I intended.

Imprimis, I desire and require my Exor. hereafter that he carefully
pay and discharge all my just debts, with my funeral expenses.

Item, I bequeath to my sister Dorothy Hawkins twenty shillings.

Item, I will and Ijequeath to my nephew John Hawkins and his wife
Bridget twenty shillings each.

Also I bequeath to my sister Elizabeth Lloyd twenty shillings.

Item, I bequeath to their three sons, John, Thos., and Francis, twenty
shillings each.

Item, to their two daughters, Grace and Jane, twenty shillings each.

Item, to my nephew, Thos. Hawkins, 20s.

Item, to my niece, Susan Eoan, five pounds, but hope that her brother
will be more kind to her, knowing my former intentions, if I had not
been so impoverished.

Item, I bequeath to my servant, John Downes, the sum of £5.

Item, I give to the poor the sum of 40s., to bo distributed as my
Exor. shall think fit.

Lastly, I give and bequeath to my nephew, John Eoan, all my

estate, real and personal, l:>ills, bonds, plate, and household stufi", all

my cliattels of what nature soever, and constitute sd. John Eoan my

sole Exor, &c. 28 June, 1692.

Mr. Craford Clerk, j ^ntnesses.
John Downes, )

Having now reviewed the case of the Bishops^ we must take
up the story of the clergy of Killaloc, of whom but few traces

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are left in the wild upset of family documents and official
archives during this reign of terror.

After the surrender of the Castle of Parsonstown by Sir L.
Parsons to Oxburgh, the journal as referred to by Mr. Cooke
(p. 430), gives the following statement of the manner in which
the Protestant minister of this parish^ the Pev. Mr. Crump,
acted :

^^ He made away, and deserted his flock, whereupon the
profits of the li\dng were seized upon for the King by His
Majesty's Receiver, Garret Trant, who set the glebe to the
Pev. Thos. Kennedy, the then Roman Catholic Priest of this
parish. He also set the tythes of the whole parish to the same
tenant. ^ This seizure was the first of the kind made in the
King's County, or probably in Ireland, and in all likelihood
would never have taken place if ihe minister had kept his
ground.'" (So Mr. Cooke, commenting upon the Journal.)

The state of the clergy generally with regard to their main-
tenance is explained in the clearest terms by the author of " A
Full and Complete Account" (p 136).

The clergy made their complaints to the judges the year before as to
the obstinacy of the country in the non-pa^nnent of their small dues, and
received no redress, but now the evils were grown upon them to an
higher pitch. The priests were now become so confident in their hopes
of establishing Popery, that they could no longer contain from shewing
their inveterate malice against the Protestant clergy, against whom they
endeavoured to prepossess the people at Mass (over whom they have an
unlimited and arljitrar}^ power) with all imaginable prejudice and con-
tempt. The priests now suggested to them that b}' the same reason
that they detained the Irssrr ivom, they might also refuse the paying the
greaier tythes to, the ministers, as corn, hay, &c. They told them they
saw by their own experience they had been discouraged in then- pursuit
after the first, and after all their endeavours could get no redress, and
now that the Catholics had liberty of their religion, they saw not why
they should not deny them the last. For the law would nob give these
to them more than the former. Of right, they told them, that all tlie
tythes belonged to them, as their proper due ; and though, by the op-
pression and injustice of the Protestant Government, they had l.)een
kept out of them so long, to their apparent prejudice and disadvantage,
yet now things were in another posture. They had now a Catholic
King and Catholic magistrates of their own, who would not take tlieir
dues from them, but rather invest them in them, and therefore charged
the people, under iiahi (xf cxccmimunlcaUoii and the severest anatheiuas,
not to pet [f any manner of tythes to the Protestant ministers. The vulfnir
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(whose sentence in anything they reverence with an equal fear and a
like profound veneration, as if pronounced by the Pope in the Infallible
Chair), that none would come to the Protestant clergy to take tythes of
them unless these dreaded imprecations (which, if incurred, they be-
lieved themselves to be certainly damned) were taken off.

By this means the great tythes were like to lie upon the ministers'
hands, a great inconveniency in most parts of Ireland, where their
parishes, being of vast circumference and full of bogs and mountainous
places, 'twould be difficult, if not impossible almost, to gather their
tythes in kind, at least, without having one-half of them embezzled and
stole by the Irish. This puts the clergy upon a necessity either of set-
ting out their tythes in small proportions, or else they must lose them.
And in those countries where the Irish are most numerous, the vulgar
sort were wont to take the tythes, which the priests now prohibiting,
under the aforesaid penalties, would (as they were sensible) be an un-
speakable loss and mischief to the ministers, for the reasons already
mentioned, which was what they studiously aimed at, and were desirous
to improve as high as they could. These malicious practices of the
priests put the Protestant clergy to great inconveniences in the disposal
of their tythes, especially in such countries where the Irish were most
numerous. Most were forced to descend to an accommodation with the
priests, bestowmg a considerable proportion of tythes upon themselves
(which was what they drove at) to sulf er the ordinary Irish to come and
buy the rest. Some that would not be abused at that rate made their
applications to the Judges of Assize, complaining of these insolent and
irregular proceedings of tlie priests. But, alas ! it was not to be ex-
pected that these Catholic judges would go and punish their ghostly
Fathers— a very unnatui^al act in their religion. In short, no law could
be found out to punish them. All that could be gained (and that very
rarely) was a civil admonition to them not to disturb the Protestant
clergy in their rights, and the like, and so were dismissed, how plain
soever the matter of fact was proved against them. By this it seemed
that those of the clerg}^ though not the most courageous, yet were the
most politic, who dealt privately with the priests, and by fair words and
considerable largesses of tythe corn, &c., prevailed upon them to Ije
quiet. For the meek and filial regard of these judges to their vjoriluj
FatJters served but to make them more imperious and insulting over the
ministers who stiil animated (sic) the country against them. And at
last to that height that several of the Irish in many parishes violently
seized upon the tythe corn, &c., and converted it to their own use,
neither sull'ering any other to buy it, nor any servant of the minister's
to come r.i)on the land to coUecb it.

The parochial ministers of the Diocese of Killaloe must have
been ^' in evil case " whichever way they might choose to come
by their own and live. We have, moreover, a particular in-
stance of these hardships inflicted upon one of the clergy —
the Rev. Mr. ] Barclay. We have also the sudden and surprising

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termination of these inflictions and oppressions, and a very-
notable instance of "the tables being turned at last.'' The account
is to be found in vol. ii. of Mason's Parochial Survey, p. 461,
and is here given in full. " The Rev. Mr. Barclay, Yicar of the
Union of Kilmurry McMahon, remained at home during the
whole contest, and holding a valuable farm under the See of
Killaloe paid the tythes of it to the Catholic priest who had
usurped his living. The priest was particularly severe in exact-
ing tythes from the ejected vicar, and always required security
for their payment. In the summer of 1691 he was unusually
hard to be pleased in the security, and Mr. Barclay despairing
of being able to procure it, was returning in low spirits to his
residence at Ballyartne3% when he met Captain O'Brien, of
Ennist^^mon, with the news of the utter defeat of the Irish
army at Aughrim. He returned immediately to the house,
where the intruder was setting the tythes of his parish, sur-
rounded by a great number of people. ' Have you got
security, sir ?' said the priest, in a loud and imperious voice.
* I have,' said Barclay; *my security is the great King William.
And if you don't deliver up the security in ten minutes, I
will have you hanged on the high road of Kilmurry.' The
priest turned pale, and trembled in his seat of office. Lord
Clare's dragoons galloped through the village in confusion,
pushing for the pass of Moyarta. Mr. Barclay's tythe-books
were submissively returned to him ; and the Protestants of
Clare for fifty years after drank to ^Barclay's Security' in a
bumper-toast."^

Of one other clergyman a word — the Rev. John Yandeleur.
In the First -fruit Books his name and entrance upon the
parish of Kilrush are thus recorded : — " Johes Yandaleur,
Cler. In Artibus Magister. Collat Prst. 6 die May, and Pre-
bend de Inniscathrie, also Kilrush, 4/. Yicar de Mo3^ferta,
106\; Killard, lOs. ; Kilfieragh, 205. ; Killballyhane, 13^. M.
Com. Clare."

The Yanderleurs had been connected with Ireland since
the days of Queen Elizabeth, as appears by a curious record
tried in Dublin, in which they succeeded against a Dublin fii-m
for 257/., the price of a cargo of wine delivered from Bordeaux.
King James gave a special warrant fiant for giving Maximilian

* The family still holds Balljartney. Mr. Barclay is photographed.

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Van-der-Leur, a Dutch merchant^ lately made a free denizen
of this realm, special privileges. (Calendar State Papers,
1603, &c., p. 399.) The name is found before and in Crom-
well's time, at Six-mile Eridge, in connection with extensive
manufacturing industries. And a petition appears in the
Chapter Book of Killaloe in 1685, and the confirmation of an
instrument, setting forth the erection of a monument and
place of sepulture in Six-mile Bridge Church for the use of
" Egerio Yan-de-lure, of Eathlahine Armigero," with con-
sent of Bishop allowing the same. Notice to John Paterson,
parson.

Pi. Cotton. 1 m i ^
Wm. Butlek. / Churchwardens.

At a visitation in 1725 (infra) we found the name of James
Vanderlure, and the name is also spelt in the same way in re-
ference to the Pev. John, at a visitation by Archbishop Palliser
in 1714. Anyhow, of this Rev. John, of Kilrush, the following
is recorded by Mr. Graham in his valuable paper (ubi supra) : —

'^ The Rev. John Yandeleur, a younger son of the Ralahine
family in the east of this country, succeeded to the living of
Kilrush on 6th March, 1687, in the room of the Rev. John
Paterson, deceased. Feeling, in common with the rest of the
Protestants of Ireland, the intolerable pressure of Lord Tyr-
connell's Government, he took an early opportunity of joining
his fellow-sufi'erers in seeking redress ; and after rendering
many services to the Protestant cause, and being severely
wounded at the battle of Aughrim, he returned to Kilrush, and
repossessed himself of his benefice." Such are among ^^ the
modern traditions of the locality,'^ and apparently they bear the
signs of truthfulness about them.

As the Bishop and Clergy of Killaloe have been found in
a state of much affliction and suffering during this reign, so a
painful duty imposes the necessity of giving a truthful repre-
sentation of the Bishop of the Unreformed or Roman Commu-
nion in the Diocese during the same period, and of exposing the
policy which he and others like him carried out. But first a
brief retrospect is needed. Bishop John Rider, in 1622, men-
tions Mahon McGrath as Vicar-General under Papal authority.
In 1624, as it is stated by Mr. Meehan (Franciscans, 5th ed., p.
344), an important and influential memorial was presented by the

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chief nobilit}^, in which they pray that Dr. M. Quaely, who had
acted as the Vicar-General for two years with great exertions
and distinguished success, might be appointed Bishop. This
Dr. Quaely was of an ancient family in Thomond, the name of
which is still associated with a mill in Kilmaley parish, on the
Furroor river. But although so highly ^^ preconized/' as
Mr. Meehan puts it, Quaely fails to gain the coveted honour,
through the adverse interest of the French Queen-mother,
enlisted in behalf of Molony, and has to wait a little for the
higher position of Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam. His
activity and characteristic energies are thus celebrated by his
great friend, Dr. Edmond O'Dwyer, Bishop of Limerick :
'^ Taamensis is the only Bishop Souldier in the Countrye.
General of a Connatian Army, he maintains at his own charge
200 foot. God be praised ( ! ! ) If all other things, said he (of
Tuam) fa3de, I can have a souldier' s pay ; ma}^ be, it w^ill be
the nearest way to heaven." This Tuamensis was the indivi-
dual who lost his life in Sligo, after a sanguinary engagement,
and in whose carriage was found a copy of the celebrated Glan-
morgan Treaty, out of which so much political capital was made
against the King. He was also appointed and acted as the prime
adviser, and in fact political nurse, of Rinuccini, and supported
and backed him up in his impracticable and ruinous courses.
Of Dr. Edmond O'Dwyer, Bishop of Limerick, a word. At
first he went in with the policy of the Nuncio and the anti-
pacification party ; but afterwards suffered much obloquy and
the frowns of the Roman war-faction for having abandoned
their extreme views. Another Bishop of the same period may
be noticed as having been grievously dealt with for his honest
and constant opposition to the war policy and the designs of the
Nuncio. This was Dr. Dease, of Meath, who had not associated
in vain with the most distinguished of the nobility of his time,
(See Cogan's Diocese of Meath, vol. ii., p. 99, and Vindic. Hib.)
The manner in which the Nuncio expressed his disappoint-
ment and disgust at the announcement of this venerable eccle-
siastical gentleman's death turning out to be premature is very
discreditable to this Italian.

It is a pleasure to dwell on the fact that such men as
Drs. Dease and O'Dwyer lived in these days to take a ^dse
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that- siicli a noble specimen of Eoman Catholic loyalty was
to be found in that exemplary nobleman Lord Clanric-
karde. Yet these reasonable Roman Catholics, lay and
clerical both alike, were the exceptional cases of men who
thought for themselves in their country's hour of peril, but
were not of commanding influence ; while the short-sighted and
more violent had the greatest weight with the excitable and
sanguine Irish.

But returning to Bishop John O'Molony, Titular of Killaloe.
He must not be mistaken for the first of that name and title. This
was the party who signed the Clonmacnoise Manifesto, already
alluded to ; also prior to this, had put his name to another
document of dread significance, viz., " A declaration of the
Ecclesiastical Congregation of both Cleargies of Ireland, as-
sembled together in the name of the Holy Ghost at AVaterford,"
In this " all and singular confederate Catholiques who shall
adhere to the said peace (of Ormonde) or consent with the
favourers of it, or after any other manner shall entcrtane or
embrace it, is absolutely to be accounted perjured. The other
question concerning Excommunication we have referred until
the next sessions.

" 12th August, 1646.
^' John Laonens, Episcopus.''
(Fifth name on the list.)

This is copied from a London reprint, in which also
appears the actual promulgation of the sentence of excom-
munication of the Cleargie of Kilkenny for adhering to the
peace concluded between the Councell and Ormond. This
document closes with the following words : ** After mature
deliberation and consent of our Cleargie {in detestation of this
heinous and scandalous disobedience of the Supreme Councell)
and others who adhere unto them in matter of conscience
towards the Holy Church, and in hatred to so wilful and
abominable an act, do by these presents (according to the
prescription of Sacred Canons) pronounce and command (from
henceforth) a general cessation of divine Offices throughout
all the city and suburbs of Kilkenny in all churches, monas-
teries, and houses in them whatsoever. Given at our Palace
of Nova Curia, the 18th day of August, 1646." (Page 6 of
^ The Copy of a Barbarous and Bloody declaration by the Irish

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Rebels^ against the Supreame Councell of Ireland and the
Votes of the Popish assembly at Waterford against peace and a
Proclamation excommunicating the Clergie of Kilkenny from
saying Maskes (sic) or executing any other Church ofEces.
Sept. 28th. This declaration and Proclamation is examined,
printed, and published, according to order. London, printed
for N. E., Anno Dom., 1646.")

So much then for Dr. M. Quaely, the V. G., and for the first
Bishop John Molony of Killaloe, — both of whom, as well as
the Bishop 0 MulRyan, took such a line of action as seemed to
demonstrate that the highest pretensions ever hazarded in the
Canon Laws of the absolute predominance of the clergy over
the laity in secular as well as in spiritual afiairs, was the tradi-
tional poKcy of the Church of Rome in the Diocese of Mllaloe
from the Reformation and onwards thus far at least. Nor was
Dr. John O'Molony, the second of that name titular Bishop of
KUlaloe, inferior to his predecessors in his devotion to this
policy, while he far surpassed them in the energy and versatile
genius which he brought to bear upon this main object of
pursuit. He was of the old stock of O'MaolDomhniagh, of the
progeny of Blat, which held wide sway in the Antient Glan-
cullein (now the Barony of TuUa) for some ten generations be-
fore Brian Borhoime. The prefix ^^lull," or "MaU,'' in the
name was used to signify a person devoted or consecrated to a
cause (Mr. E. O'Curry's letter to the late James Molony,
Esqre., D. L., Kiltanon). And certainly this ecclesiastic ex-
emplified the characteristic feature of his name. If all this were
apparent only in his discharge of the spiritualities he had un-
dertaken, he might be left unnamed as one responsible to his
superiors alone. But as it was with temporal afi'airs that he
meddled, and as his political activity stimulated a movement
which proved beyond expression injurious to Ireland, unjust
and cruel to the Enghsh and Protestants, and absolutely ruin-
ous in every possible way to his own countrymen and co-
religionists ; the wretched task of tracing the career of this
busy meddling priest must be pursued in somewhat further detail.

Assuming that this party is the writer of a letter in the
Spicilegium Ossoriense, p. 488, of date 1669, this earnest in-
triguing courtier thus expresses his conscious sense of power : —

Accipe, vir Illime qualecnuque grati animi testimonium, et si quid

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exigui hominis et fere inutilis opera hisce in partibus valeat, sive pro
rebus familiaribus, sive pro publicis ecclesiae negotiis in quibus totns
versaris, promptissimum in me reperies parendi animum, studiosis
simamque complacendi et satisfacendi voluntatem.

In aula apud regni ministros non sum ignotus, — in rebus agendis
et tractandis non penitus ignarus,— in nostra facultate Theolee. Parisi-
ensis apud melioris notse et sanioris mentis Theologos, qui debitam
Sdi Aplicse reverentiam et obedientiam nunquam detrectarunt (cum
liis enim solis portionem meam semper ponebam) nonnihil possum.
Post haec autem omnia, nibil mihi melius convenit quam quod sim.
D. Y. Illmae.

Servus quidem inutilis, obseqius tamen et fidissimus.

J. O'MOLONY.

Parisiis, 19 July, 1669.

Accordingly we find in just five years time, seem Bat-
tersby's Directory (1837, p. 258), or in four seem Gam (p. 224),
this able and bold ecclesiastic appointed administrator of the
Diocese of Killaloe. In 1690 he was found an ardent supporter
of King James II., for whom he acted as Envoy at the Court
of Louis XIV., negotiating assistance for Ireland. Mr. O'Cal-
laghan gives a creditable account of Dr. O'Molony's bravery
and humanity in saving the Scotch Major-General Maxwell,
who was in great danger of being thrown overboard by some
of the embassy, under the suspicion of his secret hostility.
(Irish Brigade, p. 101.)

The Doctor was much dreaded by the Government of King
William, and was subjected to frequent proscription, and
obliged to exile — a fact which is somewhat ostentatiously
paraded on his tombstone in the Irish College, Paris, as a thing
quite meritorious. Being in receipt of a pension of 150/. per
annum from King James II., he was well able to endow two
bursaries^ in the Irish college, also to build a chapel therein.

'^ As to the bursaries in the Irish college, the members of the family of
Molony were to have the preference. The right was exercised on dif-
ferent occasions. The writer has seen a curious letter on the subject
of fitting out a candidate and sending him to Paris. Bishop Jo. Mo-
lony's gold signet ring is at present in possession of the worthy head
oC the family, Major Wm. Mills Molony, D. L. Kiltanon. The R. 0.
Dean O'Shaughnessy, sometime P. P. of Ennis, got a Bursary tlirough
the MacMahons, in default of a nominee from the Molonys. A Mo-
lony (one James) got another soon afterwards. The musket he carried
while on guard during the revolutionary troubles, was long kept in
the Molony family of Cragg ; also the bayonet, which looked a very
alarming instrument, being some 15 inches long, and in shape awfully
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Not only his personal activity, but also his letters made him
especially formidable. Abbe Walsh attributed to Bishop Mo-
lony the letter sent to the King; August 14, 1686, '' found in
Bishop Tyrrell's papers, but imperfect." In this the writer
urges the very strongest measures and the boldest men to
fight against England, and scornfully confutes the moderate
counsels of "^trimming courtiers and cow-hearted Catholics."
But another document also survives in '' Appendix of King's
State,'' No. 17, to which Lord Macaulay has alluded. It was
addressed to Bishop T3^rrell, among whose papers it was found.
And these papers of this Bishop Tyrrell were of so formidable
a character that a Committee of the Irish House of Lords and
Commons in 1697 made a very severe report upon the dan-
gerous principles therein disclosed. (Journals, vol. ii. p. 978.)
In the letter referred to, Bishox3 Molony or Maloony, as his
name is spelt, argues the question '^ How to dispose of Ireland,
in which are two parties — the Protestants and the Catholics/'
and he comes to the conclusion, with much satisfaction
to himself and friends^ that to trim and temporize is not
with the usurpers politic ; '^ that to irritate and provoke
the anger of the Protestants of England " is not to be
thought of. The true policy is for the King to put
the kingdom of Ireland upon the best and highest foot, both
ecclesiastical and temporal, he can contrive (and yet granting
it nothing but its natural right and due), in order that it ma}--
be a check upon the people of England. I dare aver, he adds
(anticipating the Utopian theories still floated in Ireland under
many names), if Ireland were put upon such a foot by the King,
he shall never fear any rebellion in England, especially if Scot-
land be faithful to him, and Erance a friend. This pleasant
mode of checkmating England in perpetuity, the ardent Bishop
wishes to be insinuated and imprinted, as much as can be done,
into the heads and hearts of the ministers and people about
Court. He also advises the upsetting of the Act of Settlement
— a process which he calls an efi'ort for a great and solid settle-
onent for Ireland — generously pensioning off the Protestant
possessors, whether temporal or spiritual, although with an
almost Scottish caution, abstaining from stating either the
security for the payment of their pensions or for the current
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purchasers being Protestants, they must console themselves for
their loss of purchases and of money on their being ejected, by
reflecting too late upon the phrase, '' caveat emptor/' with all
that it implies. Finally this pious prelate applies also to these
his pet projects of spoliating and proscribing the Protestants of
Ireland the words of Holy "Writ in the Vulgate : — " Nunc
tempus acceptibile, nunc dies salutis. Dum ergo tempus
habemus operamur honum, maxime ad domesticos Jidei,^^ Or, as
in the Authorized Version rendered, '^ Now is the accepted time,
now is the day of salvation; while we have time therefore let
us do good unto all men, especially unto them that are of the
household of faith." ! !

The extreme violence of Bishop O'Molony (for his celebrated
letter in full see Appendix No. VII.), and in particular his deter-
mination at all hazards to break the Act of Settlement, like
those reckless men already mentioned '' who woll have all
OR LOSE ALL," stand out in very remarkable contrast with the
following statement made by Lesly in his answer to the King : —

" I will give you (says Lesly, p. 102) a farther proof of King James's
zeal to preserve the Acts of Settlement. It is well known that the
address of the Lord Chief Justice Keating in behalf of the purchasers
under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, and the Lord Bishop of
Meath's speech, set down at large in this author's appendix, were
subsequent to several conferences King James had with several of the
Members of the House of Commons, and with a Committee of that
House, in presence of the Lord Chief Justice Nugent, Lord Chief Baron
Eice, Judge Daily, and Attorney General ISI eagle, and others of the
Privy Council, where King James plainly laid before them the unreason-
ableness of their proceeedings. That it was not proper to enter into so
great a matter as the destroying the said Act in time of war, when all
parties could not be heard. And some of the Roman Catholic judges
asserted, not only to the King, but to the said Committee and to several
of both Houses of Parliament and of the Privy Council, that it was
unjust to break the Acts and destroy purchasers, widows, orphans,
merchants, and all tmders, on pretence to relieve widows and oiTphans.
And one of the Ptoman Catholic Judges did reduce this to writing, and
showed it to Lord Chief Justice Keating, who had a copy of it, as
appears under his hand, and that the Lord Bishop of Meath had the
jjerusal of it, and as I am credibly informed, had a copy of it.

At another place the same writer remarks :— " I am very sensible of
the many ill steps made in King James's Government, and above all, of
the mischievous consequence of the Lord Tyrconnel's administration,
which the most of any one thing, brought on the misfortunes of his
master." (P. 188.)

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He might have placed next in rank, and at but a slender
interval, the declared policy of the titular Bishop J. O'Molony,
and the effect which his exertions brought about.

This slight sketch of the reign of King James IT., so far as
the Diocese of Killaloe is concerned, must now conclude with
the remark of Lord Macaulay, " For the authority of law, for
the security of property, for the peace of our streets, for the
happiness of our homes, our gratitude is due, under Him who
raises and pulls down nations at his pleasure, to the Long
Parliament, to the Convention, and to William of Orange.^'

Without adding to the many censures so freely hurled against
King James IL, and by none more freely than by the Irish
Roman Catholics themselves, this may be recorded as a
full explanation of why he was, and what he did in life and
time. His ill-starred project in Ireland succeeded fully in
nothing else but in producing one most needful and much to be
desired consummation — the reconciliation and harmonizing of
individual liberty and Parliamentary representation with the
action of an hereditar}^ and limited monarchy— to the vast
advantage of establishing coustitutional government and of
securing a due protection and free scope for the reformed faith.
For what this poor hapless King intended, but failed in — let
him be generously forgiven — for what his reckless action has
led to, quite unforeseen by himself and b}^ such as Tyrconnell and
titular Bishop O'Molony, let him be regarded as a blind agent
mercifully directed for good by Him who ruleth in the armies
of heaven, and over the inhabitants of earth.

Note on jjages 384 a?id 386.

Tliomas Spciight, Esquire {supra p. 384).

This gentleman was the son of Thomas Spaight, Esquire, and came
from Woolwich, in Kent, to Ireland. He settled first in Carlow, in
which town he made many considerable improvements (see Kilkenny
Archa3ological Journal). He was on the grand jury of Clare in 1G83,
which voted the address to King Charles II. He was high sheriff of
Clare in 16^7. He is described as sole steward and seneschal to Henry
Earl of Thomond. He deceased in 1698. His eldest son Thomas was
high sheriff of Clare in 1725, and (male issue extinct) his eldest daughter
Grace was married to Robt. Eeeves, Esquire ; and the estates are now
vested, in their great-grandson^ R. W. C. Reeves, Esq., J.P.D.L., Bess-
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The Spaiglit family of Limerick and Clare are descended from William
Spaight, the second son of Thomas the seneschaL The photograph of
this gentleman, whose horses were taken, &c., &c., was made from an
oil painting in the possession of Mr. Reeves, which he very kindly lent
for the purpose.

Samuel Burton {siqwa p. 386).

In MS. Ordinance Survey 14 B. 17, R.I.A., it is noted " That Francis
Burton came to Ireland in the year 1610, accompanied with his brother,
and settled at Bally ea, part of the estate of Buncraggy, in the county of
Clare, in 1611, as appears by a lease thereof granted to him that year
by Don. Earl of Thomond : and the town of Ennis being chartered, he
was made one of its first free burgesses. Thomas, his brother, suc-
ceeded him, and settled in Buncraggy, who gob a lease fi'om Baraaby
Earl of Thomond. Samuel, his son (the gentleman named above), was
sheriff of Clare in 1669, and married the daughter of Harris, Esquire.
He left a daughter, Dorothy, who married David Bindon, of Clooney,
county Clare, Esquire, and he had three sons, Francis, Charles, and Ben-
jamin. Francis succeeded, was usher of the Court of Chancery, and,
in 1690, was made high sheriff of Clare by King William, then at the
camp at KilcuUen. No person was returned for that county in 1691.
He was chosen member for Ennis in 1695." So much for this family,
now represented by the Marquis of Oonyngham, Lord Francis Coyng-
ham, M.P., and F. N. Burton, Esquire, D.L., of Carrigaholt Castle and
Car nelly, county Clare.

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THE DIOCESE OF KILLALOE, ETC., IN THE REIGN OF KING
WILLIAM THE THIRD.

Estimating aright the effects of the Eevolution as developed
in the reign of King WilHam III., one must guard against the
extremes of praise as well as of censure, and justly proportion
the measure of each.

If the Long Parliament restricted the excesses of Royal pre-
rogative, it established an extravagant democratic domination.
]f the Convention ejected one form of religious intolerance, it
restored and strengthened another. And William of Orange,
deliverer though he was, found himself coerced into a policy of
exasperating retaliation and repression of the Irish Poman
Catholics, while he indulged in an irritating policy towards the
Church of the nation, and was very far from satisfying the
Dissenters.

But, then, after all these abatements are fairly weighed, a
great evil was overcome, a noble deliverance was wrought. The
foundations of a secure internal freedom were traced out, and
the chains of foreign slavery rent asunder. However, in so far
as religious progress and the fair shining of Gospel light depend
for their free course and glorious issues upon the existence of
civil and rehgious liberty, it is a fact patent to any unpreju-
diced enquirer that toleration was not extended to the Roman
Catholics of Ireland ; nay. on the contrary, that very arbitrary,
oppressive, and cruel enactments were passed and carried out
against them in this reign. ^Hiether it was wise, as a matter
of human policy and deep sagacious statecraft, thus to trample
on the fallen, thus to drive to despair men already quite de-
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determine. But it is within the legitimate scope of these eccle-
siastical investigations to maintain the following conclusion.
That such a policy — whether right or wrong, wise or foolish,
necessary or needless for the State — raised up an almost invin-
cible barrier against the Church, in the way of her successfully
spreading among the conquered the religion professed by the
conquerors, no matter how excellent, how pure, how apostolic,
how truly national that religion may have been. The Church as a
Divine institution has been freely censured for the ill success of
her mission among the Roman Catholics. The main cause of this
was due to the tremendous severity of the Penal Code. The Nor-
man was never to the Saxon what the Englishman was to the
Irish in stern repression and in contemptuous and vindictive
dominancy. And this was eminently so from the time when —

Now at last the saddest day is come, that ever appeared above the
horizon of Ireland. The sun was darkened and covered over with a
black cloud, as if unwilhng to behold such a woeful spectacle. There
needed no rain to bedew the earth, the tears of the disconsolate Irish
did abundantly moisten their native soil to which they were that day to
bid the last farewell. Those who resolved to leave it, never hoped to
see it again. And those who made the unfortunate choice to continue
therein, could at the same time have nothing in prospect but contempt
and poverty, chains and imprisonment, and, in a word, all the miseries
that a conquered nation could naturally expect from the power and
malice of implacable enemies. Here might be seen the aged father,
whom years and infirmities rendered unfit to travel, giving the last
embraces to his only son ; brothers parting in tears, and the dearest
comrades forcibly divorced by a cruel destiny which they could not avoid.
But nothing was more dismal than the sad separation of man and wife,
for though the husbands were assured not only of a conveniency to
transport their wives and children but also of a maintenance to be
established for them in France, yet when the ablest men were once got
on shipboard, the women and babes were left on the shore, exposed to
hunger and cold, without any manner of provision, and without any
shelter in that rigorous season but the canopy of heaven, and in such
a miserable condition that it moved pity in some of their enemies.
The lamentable cries of this poor forlorn troop, when the fleet that
carried away their fathers and husbands was under sail and gone out
of sicrht, would beget compassion in wolves and tigers, and even in
creatures that are insensible. Some of them had the whole length^ of
Ireland to traverse before they came to their former habitations, which
were then possessed by the enemy. They had neither victuals to eat,
nor money Co buy them. And their plundered countrymeD, among
whom they were to travel, and from whom they might expect some
relief, had not wherewithal to feed themselves.

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This woeful revolution filled with grief and astonishment all the na-
tions of Europe, who were equally concerned and surprised to behold
the most warlike of nations (according to the testimony of one of their
greatest adversaries), and a people heretofore undaunted in adversity, so
shamefully to lay down their arms, and so feebly undergo that servile
yoke, which by former experiments they found insupportable. The
fountain of my weak eyes hath been drained up already by the too fi'e-
quent remembrance of the slaughter at Aughrim, and the sad sepai^ting
at Limerick. (Macariae Excidium.)

The Irish had now lost all. Time after time they had allowed
themselves to be flung against England, as the ready weapons
of rage and craft in the hands of ecclesiastical intolerance and
of imperial ambition. Time after time they came out of their
rebellions, sadder but not wiser men. The animosities of race
and the frenzy of fanaticism were still freely available for use
by the confederated Imperial and Roman Agents, to inflame the
Irish into a crazy readiness for yet other desperate efibrts
and still wilder hopes of foreign aid. But worse than all else,
coming down upon the Irish was the accumulating severity of
restraint infliction and penalty, to which these desperate men
were subjected under the prevalence of irritation and panic.
This was the method of an intolerant age ; these the manifold
chains of a deeply injured and much incensed and thoroughly
alarmed Mistress. And these she now loads heavily and binds
firmly upon her proud, impulsive rival in a long and galling
bondage after her reiterated outbreaks of passionate revolt.
What an opportunity was now let slip. Mercy shown at this
time would, to say the least of it, have saved millions of money,
and have given the Reformed Church something like fair play
among the Roman Catholics of Ireland. But then, on the
other hand, vindictive legislation and a feeble executive were
less expensive and troublesome than adequate armaments,
accompanied by generous healing measures. Human afiairs,
after all, progress but slowly towards the standard of a high
rectitude. And the day of triumph has its duties equally with
the day of trouble — its Nemesis too.

The die was cast. The Irish difficulty had originated, and
now ripened, and fast bore its teeming fruits of e^dl. But who-
ever else may apologize for, or whoever else may censure, either
of the parties engaged in this lasting contention, one thing is
certain ; one thing must be reiterated — the Church became pre-

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eminently a sufferer between them botli. Her fair form, her
heavenly visage, were lost to view, or encountered but a savage
glare of defiance and scorn, amid the smoke-wreaths of battle-
fields or throughout regions trampled down and plundered by
hostile battalions. Her words of truth and peace, her works
of love, and all her gentle offices of goodwill to man, passed,
alas too often, unheard and unheeded amidst the rage and
dismay, the pride and ferocity of conquerors and conquered, of
winners and losers alike.

These remarks are made for the consideration of those who
censure the Church of Ireland loudly and freely, and lay at her
door the blame of slender success in a land which had become the
regular battle-field of a most complicated imperial and national
contention.

And yet, after all, it would be unfair to pass by without
due consideration the weighty fact that the stern repres-
sive policy of England seemed in those days not without a
cause. To look upon it exclusively in its effects upon the Eoman
Catholics of Ireland, isolated and overcome as they were, would
be to take a very partial view. One must remember the fact
that a movement had been started, of which France was the
head, to crush England and to master Europe ; and that the Irish
who had lent their hands to carry forward the objects of this
movement, were regarded as the most dangerous of all the
co-operators, and were, as such, at any risk to be put down and
kept down.

'' The feeling (writes Lord Macaulay, vol. 2, p. 185, eleventh edition)
with which King "William regarded France explains the tohole of his
Xjolicy trnvards J^nrjland His public spirit was an Enroj^ean public
spirit. The chief object of his care was not our island, nor even his
native Holland, but the great community of nations threatened^ with

subjugation by one too powerful member (And again, p. 189) It

was plain that when the European crisis came, England would, if JaTues
were her Master, either remain inactive, or act in conjunction with
France." And thus the Irish having made their bed, had to lie upon it,
and as best they could endure its discomforts.

Nor are these unfounded speculations. The situation of
affairs cannot be understood without making such allowances as
these— allowances made by at least two eminent historical
writers, the one an earnest honest Irish Protestant, the other a
cold and clearheaded philosophical observer.

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The revolution (remarks Dr. Miller, in his Philosophy of History, at
vol. iv., ch. 14) which placed William on the throne of the British
islands, however ultimately beneficial to every part of the Empire, was
not, in its immediate operation, the epoch of the constitutional liberty
of Ireland. It, however, arrested the violence which would have over-
whelmed in one common ruin the religious establishment of the Pro-
testants and the political rights both of them and of the Roman Catholics,
and it proved to be the commencement of a series of events, which at
the close of almost a century terminated inbestovringupon the country
the blessings of political freedom and of commercial prosperity. This
was all which it could effect for a country so unprepared for receiving
the adjustment of a balanced Constitution. Its parties had been long
opposed, not in the civil struggle of contending orders eager for pre-
eminence, and slowly ascertaining their political situation amidst
alternate advantages, but in the deadly feud of exasperated enemies,
who saw their safety only in the entire subjugation and the lasting de-
pression of their adversaries.

Nor did the Protestant party of Ireland at that time possess the
privileges of freedom. The Roman Catholics were depressed, but the
Protestants were not free. The struggle for ascendency had ceased, but
the struggle for a constitution remained ; and it was only the entire
removal of all apprehension of a renewal of the former which could
permit the Protestants to engage in the latter with the English Govern-
ment.

So, too, Mr. PI all am lays it down that —

The Irish or Anglo-Irish Catholics were still formidable from their
numbers and sufferings ; and the victorious party saw no security but
in a system of oppression contained in a series of laws during the reigns
of William and Anne, which have scarce a parallel in European history,
unless it be that of the Protestants in France after the Revocation of
the Edict of ISTantes, who yet were but a feeble minority of the whole
people. (Constitutional History, vol. 3, p. 400, tenth edition.)

In the most cursor}^ manner the Popery laws of this reign
must now be alluded to, with the following general observations
premised : —

It is to be observed in general that Popish recusants are liable to all
the forfeitures and disabilities and other inconveniences to which other
recusants are liable, and to many others to 'yshioh other recusants are not
liahle. The reader will observe, from the dates of several Acts, how the
penalties have been enforced and enlarged upon every fresh attempt against
the Government, e^peciaU^ at the several periods daring QjieenElizaheth's
reign, after the powder plot in the reign of James I., and after the rehellion in.
1688. (*' Bullinbroke's Justice of the Peace for Ireland," p. 634, article
PoPEiiy.)

The special enactments superadded in this reign contemplated
in addition to those unrepealed : —

(I.) The foreign education of Papists was, by the Act of

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7 William III., chap. 4, prohibited, under penalty of forfeiture
of lands, &c.

(II.) By the 9 William III., chap. 1, all Popish seculars and
all other regular clergy, and all Papists exercising any eccle-
siastical jurisdiction, shall depart out of the kingdom before the
1st of May, otherwise sufler imprisonment until they be trans-
ported. Those who return are guilty of high treason.

None of the like shall come into the kingdom. If so, they
shall be served in the same manner.

Harbouring is penal, under accumulating mulcts.

And so the Act goes on until section 11. " Every justice of
the peace shall from time to time issue their warrants for appre-
hending and committal of all Popish bishops, Jesuits, friars, and
other Popish ecclesiastical persons that shall remain in the
kingdom."

(III.) It may not be amiss, for the information of those to
whom investigation into the past and peering into old records is
odious, that we here give the curiously dramatic form of oath
which recusants under the English statute were to take when
they abjure the r aim, before two justices or a coroner, otherwise
be guilty of felony, without benefit of clergy : —

This hear yon, Sir Coroner, that I, A. 0., of

, in county of

-, am a Popish recusant, and in contempt of the laws and statutes
of Eno-land, I have and do refuse to come to their church. I do, there-
fore, according to the intent and meaning of the statute made in the
35 of Queen Elizabeth, late Queen of this realm of England, ahjure the

realm of England. And I shall haste me towards the port of P ,

which you have given and assigned to me. And that I shall not go out
of the highway leading thither, nor return back again. And if I do, I

will that I be taken as a felon of the King. And that at P I will

diUgently seek for passage, and I will tarry there but one flood and ebb
if lean have passage. And unless I can have it in such space, I will go
every day into the sea up to my knees, assaying to pass over, so help me
God, and his doom.

[It is obvious that the framers of this curious form contemplated the
identity of the profession of the Roman CathoHc religion in England
with an active incitement to rebellion against England ; and, conse-
quently, in this polite form enabled certain parties to take their flight
for more congenial climes.]

A proclamation by the Lords Justices of Ireland, quoted in
the appendix of " Lesly's Answer to the King," at page 16,
and dated 26th Sept., 1690, in the second year of their

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Majesties reign, gives stringent directions to the following
effect : —

We do hereby strictly charge and command all their Majesties sub-
jects in this kingdom not to shelter, harbour, or entertain any of their
Majesties enemies or rebels, or any other Irish Papist whatsoever, but
such as they know to be under their Majesties obedience, undtsr
penalty, &c., &c.

Another proclamation, same date, refers to the wives, children, and
families of several killed in actual rebellion, are now adhering to the
enemies in their quarters, or give intelligence or correspond ; all such
are to be searched for and apprehended, and conducted to the next ad-
jacent county to the River Shannon, where the sheriff is to be notified,
&c., &c,, until they are removed from all places under their ^Majesties obe-
dience ; such are permitted to carry so much of their goods and chattels
as shall be necessary for their subsistence in their jouruey.

A third proclamation orders that no Papist whatsoever shall, from and
after the 14th of October next ensuing, inhabit or dwell within ten miles
of any of their Majesties frontier garrisons, nor within ten miles of the
Eiver Shannon, but that all such Papists shall forthwith, with their
families, be moved to some other parts of this kingdom, great part
thereof being now waste.

Any who shall presume otherwise to d^vell, shall be looked upon as
spies, and prosecuted accordingly.

[In tho county Clare letters of the Ordnance Survey, B.I.A., the writer
has met with a statement to the effect that these banished Eomaii
Catholics betook themselves to Ennis, in which they settled, and turned
to seek a livelihood by trade, commerce, and their own peaceable
industry.]

IV.

S/mII not Teach Sc/woL

By Act 7 William III., chap. 4, no person of the Popish
religion shall publickly teach school, or instruct youth,
or in private houses teach or instruct youth, except
only the children or others under the guardianship of the
master or mistress of such private family, upon pain of 20/. or
be committed to prison for every such offence. (Thus it is plain
from this and the statement on page 155, that

1st. The Roman Catholic was not allowed freely to teach
school or instruct youth.

2nd. The Protestant was not enabled to do so.

3rd. The State did not attempt fairly to mediate for the
educational benefit of both parties.

4th. Nearly 150 years elapsed before this idea of fair play to
all in the matter of education was attempted to be put in
practice,

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5 th. And after over 40 years* trial it does not please both
parties.)

Burying in suppressed monasteries forbidden by the Act
9tli William III., chap. 1. Penalty to forfeit 10/., divisible
between informer and the minister and churchwardens.

Arms of Papists, "under order of any two Justices, to be
searched for and seized, to be preserved for King, &c. ; to be
searched for only between sun rising and setting."

The other sections are too many and complex for an abstract ;
instead of which it may be as well to make just two practical
remarks — 1st. In the reign of King James 11. the arms of the
Protestants were ordered to be taken from them, which order
was diligently fulfilled ; 2nd, under King William the very same
invasion of the Poman Catholics was practised by the Pro-
testants, and quite as severely.

1699. Akms Taken.

Pursuant to wan^nt by Capt. Purdon and Capt. Stamers for search-
ing the house and castle of Innisdiman for arms, I do hereby certify to
have done the same, and to have found in the said house, after diUgent
search and enquiry,

One fowhng-piece,
One brass bhmderbus.

All which I engage to deliver to Capt. Purden, in order to be restored to
the owner when he forwards suflBcient orders from the Government for
the same.

Witness my hand,

Edwd. Shank.

To this may be added the receipt passed by the mformer who
took up these arms from this gentleman : —

1700. Know all men by these presents, that I, Edward Shanks, of
Ennis, county Clare, shoemaker, do hereby acknowledge to have re-
ceived from Christopher O'Brien, Esqre., of Innistyman, within said
county Clare, the sum of lol. (fifteen), in full satisfaction and payment
of the like sum imposed on him as a fine at the last general assizes and
general gaol delivery that was held for the said county, on his
being found guilty on the statute against Papists candying of arms,
and then ordered by the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland to be paid to me, in
pursuance of the said statute, for discovering of the said arms, and pro-
secuting the said Christopher O'Brien at the said assizes. I do like-

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Wise acquit, exonerate, and disckarge John Ciisacke, Esqre., now high-
sheriff, for the said sum and fine which he was ordered to receive and
pay unto me.

Edwaed Shaxk,

Sor. (shoemaker.)
Present —

Tim. O'Brien.
Ch McDonagh.
Ed. Wadham.
(Copied from the originals in Ennistymon House Collection.)

The gentleman thus grievously invaded, insulted, and heavily
fined was not only most loyal but also most humane, and it is a
tardy though pleasing act of justice to copy the following from
the representative of a mercantile firm in reference to his
humanity : —

To Captain C. O'Brien.

It is some satisfaction and a little comfort to me and my friends
concerned in the cargo on board "The Little Mary," that in our mis-
fortune we are fallen on your coast. The Master, and Mr. Hackett
particularly, does acknowledge your extraordinary kindness, which
obliges me in a particular manner to give you my thanks, though at
present I cannot hope to make due acknowledgment.

This gentleman for some years subsequently (from 1726 to
1735) was the trusted and active agent of Lord Thomond in
Clare. Now, however, he suffers under this Arms Act, as we
have seen.

YI.
Horses of Papists,

By the Act of 7th Wm. III. ch. 5, no Papist shall be capable
to have or keep in his possession, or have kept for his use, &c.,
any horse, gelding, or mare which shall be of the value of 5/.
There are several clauses in this Act ; and in old leases, made
just subsequently, there are curiously worded provisions en-
forcing, under penalties, the keeping of none but " Protesiani
horses,^' which expression seems to have been selected to estab-
lish a contradistinction to the Papist horses, which must be
under the value of 5/., and of indifferent breeding.

VII.

Tendering the Oaths to Papists.
This was the Oath of Abjuration and Declaration against
Transubstantiation. And we are able to give another iUustra-

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tion of the carrying out of this Act in the case of the Corpora-
tion of Ennis, taking the extract from the MS. Minute Book
already referred to : —

44.

A fine laid on John Higgins for incorraging (sic) James Hickey to
open shop without being free of the borrough. Whereas John Higgins,
appothecarry (sic), contrary to the laws of the Corporation, lie himself
not being a freeman, did, in contempt of said laws, countenance and
abett one James Hickey, a hnoiou Pa]jisfy and one who refused to sign
the Declaration and talce the oailis, as required hy lato, and therefore was
fined 20s. sterling for keeping open an appothecarry 's (sic) shop in said
town and borrough by owning himself to be his servant and that the shop
was his.

The Court fined 40s. to be leveyed.

Fined again.

45.

Then the Serjeants-at-Mace of said borrough distrained two mortars
of brass that weighed 120 pounds, an iron pestill (sic) that weighed S-h
pounds, all valued to the sum of ol. 13.s. sterling, also a nest of boxes, a
pair of brass skoals (sic)^ appraised with the mortars and valued in the
above sum.

Happy, happy Burrough of Ennis, with laws in w^hich the
Apothecary had his beggarly array of empty boxes taken away
and sold, and his scales weighed for his edification ; mortars
likewise appraised, to impress him with a due aversion and an
intelligent reprobation of the mediixjval figment of transubstan-
tiation. But after all, this ^^ lean Apothecary '^ of Ennis might
well have rejoiced in heart, when he felt sure that by the Irish
statute of 7 Wm. III. ch. 2, the writ De Ilcerdico Cumburcndo,
and all punishment by death upon ecclesiastical censures were
now taken away, otherwise himself and his '' nests of drawers "
might have been burned with the aid of his drugs, essences, old
cakes of roses, and crackling bundles of botanical simples cast
in, and all the ill-shaped fishes and stuffed alligators superadded
to stimulate the grand combustion at the market cross of Ennis.

" The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law."
Poor Popish apothecary of Ennis !

Another law, really well-intentioned, was the Act to prevent
Protestants intermarrying with Papists. (7 Wm. III., ch. 28.)

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Also to empower churchwardens to levy forfeitures for
cursing and swearing. (6 and 7 Wm. III., ch. 2, sec. 2.)

In respect of fraudulent deeds and long leases of Church lands,
provision was made, and encouragements for building glebe
houses Avere now first given in 10 Wm. III., ch. 6.

A considerable amount of light has been thrown upon '' the
old schools of Dublin ^^ by the learned researches of the He v.
W. G. Carroll, A.M., Eector of St. Bride's, Dublin, to whom
the writer is indebted for the following notice of Dr. Ileiir}^

Rider, which shall be inserted thus ( ) in the order of time

into Dr, Cotton's statement based on Ware, concerning this
prelate. In 1639 Henry Ryder, or Rider, M.A., was born at
Paris. He was educated at Westminster School, and from
thence was elected to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1663, and
in that University he took the degrees of A.B. in 1666, and
M.A. in 1673. He afterw^ards became a member of Trinity
College, Dublin. (He is called on the Matriculation Books
"Reader " and Rider. "He was one of a long and honoured
list of Ludi-Magistri scholcc libera) Dioca^s. Dublin et Eccles,
Cathedral Sti Patricii." In 1679 he applied to the Dean and
Chapter of St. Patrick for arrears of salary, and there is an
enrollment (C. A. 1660—1689) of a lease made by the Chapter
to his brother for his "satisfaction." He was afterwards
promoted to Killcenny College, and he educated there two sons
of Primate Margetson, several of the Usher family, and Dean
Swift.) He became also Prebendary of Mulhuddart, in St.
Patrick's Cathedral, in 1683. In 1692 ^Vrchdeacon of Ossory,
from whence he was advanced to this See by Patent, dated June
5th, and was consecrated on the Sunday following (June 11) in
the parish church of Dunboyne, in the County Meath, by the
Archbishop of Cashel, assisted by the Bishops of Limerick and
Killala.

Through the kindness of Dr. William Reeves, Dean of
Armagh, the following very important Regal Visitation is
presented. The letter of Dr. R3^der prefixed is of great value,
as illustrating the point already noticed, that this diocese
suflered considerably from impropriations, and that the evil was
not corrected, nor even equitably modified, as suggested by the
Bishop.

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[J7m Letter of B]^. Henry Ryder is prefixed to tlve Iteturn.']
{'Endorsed)
To Eichard Aldworth, Es.j.,
At the Castle in DubHn.

Killaloe, the 11th day of [ 16]93.

I here at last send you the best account I can at present of this
Diocese. I hope hereafter to supply its defects. By it you see that through
the many impropriations and rectories in the gift of the JEarle of Tomond,
he is in a manner the Bishop of the Diocess, and that consequently the gene-
rality of the clergy must he in a mean condition, and that it is imvpossihle
for the BishoiJ to prevent it. I hope the Goyernment will consider it, and
at least unite the rectories and the vicaridges of each parish, and settle
it soe that the Lay Patron and the Bishop may present by turnes.
As to your other queries, what unions there are here, and what the
Yalue of the liveings : to the first I answer, that there are no unions
in the Diocese, and none fitter to be made than those before men-
tioned ; to the latter, that the country is generally wast, most of the
liveings worth little, some nothing, and the best scarce a competency.

I am, Sir,

Your very humble Servant,
Heney Killaloe.

[Note.'] — The volume from which this and what follows are copied, con-
tains the returns of several dioceses, as made by order of the Lords
Justices, and sent through Mr. Secretary Aldworth, in the year
[1693.]

THE STATE OF THE DIOCESS OF KILLALOE.

The economy of the Cathedrall — •
The Eectory of Killaloe.
The Eectory of Moynoe.
The Eectory of Clonrush.
Part of the Eectory of Ogonilla.
The Yicaridge of Omullud.
The Eectory of Dunamona.
The Yicaridge of ffeackle.

Cure served at present
by Mr. James Tovey, in
the Cathedrall, not in re-
paire.

Names of the
Clergy.

Their Liveings.

Cures and con-
dition of their
Churches.

Patrons.

Hieronimus
Eyves, deane

Eectory of Kilkeary
Yicaridge of Ballyna-

cloghy
Eectory of Dromineer
Eectory of iMunsea

Noe cure

The King of the
three first in
right of the
Deanery, the
Bishop of the
fourth

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Names of tlie
Clergy.

Patrick Fitz-
Symonds,
chaunter

Daniel Tomlin
son, chancellor

John Hawkins,
treasurer

Joseph Ami-
rath, archdea-

Their Liveinsrs.

Cures and con

dition of their

Churches.

Vicaridge of Kilragh-

tis
Vicaridge of Temple-

maly
Rectory and yicaridge

of Kilmaly
Rectory and vicaridge

of Dromcliffe
Rectory and vicaridge

of Kilnemona
Entire rectory of Lat-

teragh

Rectory and vicaridge

of Ballymaky
Rectoi-y of Toem
Rectory and vicaridge

of Aghnamedall
Rectory and vicaridge

of Burresnnefarna
Rectory of Kilruane
Rectory of Aghancon

Vicaridge of Dromline
Rectory and vicaridge

of Kilnasolagh
Rectory of Kilconry
Rectory of Clonlo-

ghane
Rectory of Bunratty
Rectory of ffinogh
Rectory and vicaridge

of Kilmaleery
Rectoiy of Tomfinloe

Rectory and vicaridge

of Ballygibbon
Rectory and vicaridge

of Cloghpriora
Rectory and vicaridge

of ffinoogh
Rectory and vicaridge

of Terry glasse
Vicaridge of Kilbar-

i^ne
Rectory and vicaridge

of Larha
Rectory and vicaridge

of Durrogh
Rectory and vicaridge

of Aghlishcloghane

Served by him-
self e at Ennis
the abby there
in good repau^e

Served by Mr
Craven in Bal-
lymaky Church,
in rei3aire

Serv'd by him-
self e in the
church of Eol-
nasolao^h

Two cures, ser
v'd in the
churches of
ffiniagh and
Larha by him-
selfe

Both in repah^e

Patrons.

The Lord Tho-
mond of the
two first, the
Bishop of the
rest

Bishop

The Earle of
Thomond of
all the recto-
ries, all being
comprehended
under the rec-
tory of Trad-
dery

The Bishop to
the Ticarid2:es

The Bishop

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ISTames of the
Clergy.

Their Liveings.

Cures and con-
dition of their
Churches.

Daniel Higginp
prebend of
Toruegreany

Rectory of Tome-

greany
Yicaridge of Moynoe
Yicaridge of Kilrush
Yicaridge of Innis

kealtra

William Nelson
prebend of
Lackeene

Rectory andvicaridge

of Lackene
Rectory and yicaridge

of Birr
Rectory andvicaridge
I of Roscomroe
Yicaridge of Kilcole

man
Rectory and yicaridge

of Litterluna

Cure seryed by
himselfe in the
church of
Tomegreany

Out of repair e

The Bishop

Patrons.

Seryed by Mr.
Edward Arm-
strong at Birr

Church in re-
paire

The Bishop

John Yander-
lure, prebend
of Enniscath

Richard Good-
man, prebend
of Rath

Robert Wallis,
prebend of
TuUoe

Rectory of Kilrush
Yicaridge of Kilfie

ragh ..
Yicaridge of Ivilbally

hone
Yicaridge of Killard
Yicaridge of Moyferta

Rectory of Rath
Rectory of Dyshart

Rectory and yicaridge

of Dunkerryn
Rectory and yicaridge

of Templeharry
Rectory and yicaridge

of Shinrone
Rectory and yicaridge

of KilmuiTy in Ealj

6 Can^oll
Rectory of Kilcolemau

Sery'd by him-
self in the
churches of
Kilrush and
Moyferta

The church of
Kilrush in re-
paire, the other
not

Served by the
vicar
Not in repaire

Sery'd by him
selfe at Shin
rone and Dun
kerrin

In repaire

The Bishop

The Earle of
Inchiquin to
the rectories

TheBp to the
prebend

The Bishop

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ITames of the
Clergy.

Jolin Jones,
prebend of
Dyshart

John Lawson,
Scotchman,
prebend of
Clondagad

John Patterson

Dominic Meade

Their Liveings.

Cures and con-
dition of their
Churches.

Prebend of Dyshart

and vicar of the

same
Rectory and yicaridge

of Kilhnaboy
Vicaridge of Path
Rectory and yicaridge

of Kilkeedy
Yicaridge of Insicro-

Prebend and vicar of

Clondagad
Vicar of Kilchrist
Vicar of Killadyshart
Rectory of Kilfarboy
Vicaridge of Kilmi-

chael

Rectory of Kilseyly
Rectory of Kilfie-

naughty
Rectoiy of Killoge-

nedy
Rectory of Kilnoe
Rectory of Clonlea
Rectory of Killorane
Rectory of fPeakle
Rectory of Ogonnilla

Served by him
selfe in the
churches of
Dyshart and
Kilhneboy

Out of repaii'e

Served by him
selfe in ye
church of Clon-
dagad

Not in full re
pau-e

Rectoiy and vicaridge

of RoEcrea
Rectory and vicaridge

of Etagh
Rectory and vicaridge

of Rathmaveoge
Rectory of Finglasse
Rectory and vicaridge

of Castletown Ealy
Vicaridge of Aghan-

con
Vicaridge of Kilcol

man
Rectory of Clonfert-

molloe
Vicaridge of Burr chin

als Boiu'ney
Rectory and vicaridge

of Cullenwayne

Patrons.

The Bishop

The Bishop to
the prebend
and vicaridge
of Clondagad ;
Earle of Tho-
mond the rest

Served by the
severall vicars

The chm'ch of
Kilseyly not in
repair ; the
church of Kil
fenaughty in
repair

Cure served by
himself at

Roscrea, and
in a private
house till th
Church of

Aghancon be
repair'd

Earle of Tlio-
mond

All these rec-
tories are com-
prehended
under the

name of the
rectory of

Omullud, and
soe presented
by the patron

The Bishop

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JSTames of the
Clergy.

William Twigg

James Vander-
lure

John Lawson
Englishman

Their Liveings.

David Barclay

John Crawford

Rectory and vicaridge

of Stradbally
Rectory and vicaridge

of Kilnegarmffe
Rectory and vicaridge

of Kiltenanle-a
Vicaridge of Kilseyly
Vicaridge of Ealfea-

nuaughty
Vicar of Killogenedy
Vicar of Kilnoe
\^icar of Clonlea
Vicur of Killurane
Vicar of Bunratty
Vicar of Clonloghane
Vicar of Kilconry
Vicar of Kilmurryne-

gaul
Vicar of Finnogh
Vicar of Tomfinloe
Rectory and vicaridge

of Quin
Rectory and vicaridge

of Tulloe
Rectory and vicaridge

of Cluony
Rectory and vicar of

Dowry
Rectory of Temj^le

maly
Rectory of Kilraghtis
Rectoiy of Kilmurry-

negaul
Vicarage of Kilfedane
Vicaridge of Killofin
Vicaridge of Killey-

mur
Vicar of KilmuriT"

Clonderela
Vicaridge of Kilmac-

dwan
Rectory and vicaridge

of Neneigh
Rectory and vicaridge

of Lisbunny
Rectory and vicaridge

of Kilneneaffe
Vicaridge of Dolla
Vicaridge of Kilmore
Vicar of Munsea
Rectory and vicaridge

of Templederry
Rectory and vicaridge

of Killodiernane
Rectory and vicaridge

of Kneagh

Cures and con

dition of their

Churches.

Served by him-
selfe in the
Church of

Stradbally

ISTctinrepaire

Served by him-
self in the
churches of
Kilfeanaughty
and Killseyly

The church of
Kilfeanaughty
in repaire, the
other not

ISTo cure serv'd
at present ; noe
church in re-
pau^e ; the
country all
wast

Patrons.

The Bishop

Served by him
self in the
church of Kil-
muiTy

In repaire

Serv'd in chur-
ches of Nenagh
and Temple
derry

ISTenagh chan
cell in repaire

The chm'ch ot
Templederry
in repaire

Both serv'd by
himself

Earle of Tho-
mond to the
rectories, all
being com-
prised under
the name of
the rectory of
Ogashin

The Bishop to
the vicaridores

The Bishop

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Names of the
Clergy.

Theh" Liveings.

Cores and con-
dition of their
Chmxhes.

Patrons.

Nathaniel Terry

Eectory and vicaridge

Serv'd by him-

The Bishop

of Burgessbog

selfe in the

Eectory and vicaridge

church of

of Youghall arra

Castletown

Eectory and vicaridge

Out of repaire

of Castletowne aiTa

[No name]

Eectory and vicaridge Served by him- The Bishop

of Madrenhy selfe in the

Eectory and vicaridge churches of

of Burreskeane Madrenhy and;

Vicaridge of Ardcrony Burreskane |

Vicaridge of Uskeane Churches in re-

Vicaridge of Bally-

paire

garry

Impropriations.

The Liveings.

Cures and con-
dition of their
Churches.

Patrons.

Eectory of Kilchrist
Eectory of Killofin
Eectory of Kilmurry

Clouderala
Eectory of Killa-

dishert
Eectory of Kilmac-

dwan
Eectory of Killbally-

hone
Eectory of Killard
Part of the rectory of

Kilmurry Ibrickane
Eectory of Moyferta
Eectory of Kilmichael
Eectory of Inshicro-

nane
Eectory of Clareabby
Eectory of Kilfeirah

Earle of Tho-
mond

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The Liveings.

Cures and con-
dition of their
Churches.

Patrons.

Part of the rectory of

Clondagad
Part of the rectory of

Killeymur
Bectory of Killone
Bectory of Kilfeddan

Part of the rectory of

Dunamona
Bectory of B urchin

als Bourney

Bectory of Inniskeal-

tra
Rectory of Ballygarry
Bectory of Kilbarrane
Bectory of Uskeane

Earle of Inchi-
quin

Duke of Or-
naond

Earle of Corke

[The two last sheets of the original have been transposed in the bind-
ing. The last sheet should be that beginning with Dominic Meade's
union of Boscrea, and ending with the impropriations of the four noble-
men.—W. B.]

(The sheets are printed in proper order. — P. D.]

The Primary Visitation of this Bishop is now submitted,
being the only one among the Archives, since that held in 1667,
found by the writer, although Dr. Cotton alludes to one of
Killaloe— a triennial held in 1672. This is an ordinary visita-
tion held in 1695.

Yisitatio ordinaria Bevdi in Christo Patris ac Dvn Dommi.

Henrici providentia divina Luacensis (sic) episcopi, — incohata, tenta
et celcbrata die lunaB,— die quinto Augusti Ao Di 1695, annoque
consei-A-acionis, Dv Dvni Epi tertio, — in Ecclesia Cathedrali Sancti Flan-
nani Laonia3 in com : Clare coram ipso Dno. Epo. et ibidem in Ponti-
ficalibus pro tribunali sedent.

Interessente et adstante Clericorum coetu.

(Nomina Dignitor.)

Hieronymus Byves, Cler. in Art Mag Decanu.s.
Patricius Fitz Simons, Cler. in Art Mag Precentor.
Danl. Tomlinson, Cler. in Art Mag.
Johannes Hawkins, Cler. in Art Mag Archideaconus.

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(ISTomina Prsebendarior.)

1. Daiil, Higgins, A.M., Preb. de Tomgreney.

2. Wm. JSTelson, A.M., Preb. de Lockeene.

3. Johannes Yande (sic) lure, Cler., A.M., Preb. de Inniscattery.

4. Eobert Wallis, Cler.,-A.M., Preb. de Tulloe.

6. Johannes Jones, Cler., A.M., Preb. de Djsert.

6. Robertas Goodman, Cler., A.M., Preb. de Path.

7. Johannes Lawson (Scotus), Clk., A.M., de Clondagad.

(^conomia Cathedralis Eccles.)

Pectoria Integra paroch. de Killaloe, in Com Clare.

Pect. eccles paroch. de Moynoe, in Com Clare.

Pect. eccles paroch. de Clonrush.

Media pars Pect. eccles par de Ogonnelloe in Com Clare.

Yicaria de Feaekle.

Pars Pector eccles, paroch in DoT\'namona in Comitat. de Tipperary.

Daniel Tomlinson, Cancellarius Economus.

(Denominationes Benefi et Impropriat.)

Decanatus de Omollode.

I. OmolludPect.

Nulla reperitnr ecclesia in Omollud. (This is a sinecure.)
Johannes Hawkins, Prsecentor ct Pector.

II. Kilseilly Pect et Yic.

Johannes Paterson, Cleiicus, AM,, Pector. (This Pev. gentleman's
name is found in the Chapter Book as the Ciu^te of Peackle, and
was afterwards worthily represented in the County Clare by a
Chief Justice and his representatives )

Ja<}.obus A^anderlure (sic) Cler., A.M., Yicar. ^Ye have noticed him
already.

III. Killokennedie, Pec. et Yic.
John Paterson.

Jas. Yanderleur.
lY. KUlnoe, P. et Y. (as above.)
Y. Killuraue, P. et Y. (as above.)
YI. Clonlea, P. et Y. (as above.)
YTL. Kilfonaughtie (as above.)
YIII. Killaloe Pectoria integra.

Jacobus Tovey, Clk., A.M., Curatus et Pra^dicator.

(The entry in Chapter Book about this Pev. gentleman is to be found
in Appendix No 2.)

IX. Feackill, R. and Y.

Johannes Paterson, Ecct. Yicaria et pars, economus eccles cathe-
di^lis.
(Mr. Paterson, according to the Chapter Book, got 10?. a-year as
vicar.)

X. Tomgraney, Pect. integra, Corpus Pra^bendai.
Danl. Iliggins, Prasbendarius.

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XI. Mojnoe, K. et Y., Eectoria spectat ad decanat et capit.
Danl. Higgins, Yicarius.

XII. ClonrTlsh, R. et Y., Rect spectat nbi supra.
Danl. Higgins, Yicar.

XIII. Inniscaltra, R. et Y., Rec Impropriat.
Conies Corcagiae Proprietar.

XIY. Ogonilla, R. et Y.

Rect divisa in duas partes quarum una spectat ad rect de Omullod,

alia ad decan et capit.
Daniel Tovey, Yicar.
XY. Stradbally, als Bumen (?) R. et Y.

Twigg, Clerk, A.M.

XYI. Killingarrifie, R. et Y.

Idem, R. et Y.
XYII. Kiltinnaulea, R. et Y., als Doonassey.
Idem, E. et Y.

Decanatus de Coe-cavaskin.

I. Clondagad, R. et Y.

Pars. Rectoriae, spectat ad Prebend, de Clondagad, alia pars, per-

tinet ad Cora. Insiquin.
John Lawson {Scotics) Prebendarius et Yicarius.

II. Kilchrist, R. et Y.

Rec et Impropriat. Comes Thomond, Propriet Rectoriee.
Idem, J. Lawson.

III. KiUadysert, R. et Y.

Rec. et Impropriat, Comes Thomond Propriet Rect.
Idem, J. Lawson, Yicarius.
lY. Kilfedane, R, et Y.

Rect. Improp., Comes Thomond, Propriet Rectias.

Davidius Barclay (we have seen him already in photograph), elk.,
A.M.
Y. Killyfynon, R. et Y.

Rect, Comes, Thomond Propriet.
David Barclay, Yicarius.
YI. Killymur, R. et Y.

Comes, Thomond, et Insequin, Prop.
David Barclay, Yic.
YII. KilmuiTy, Clanderalla, R. et Y.
Comes Thomond, Imp. et Prop.
David Barclay.
YIII. Kilmacduane, R. et Y.
Comes Thomond, Prop.
David Barclay.

IX. Kilfarboy, R. ct Y.

Johannes Lawson (Scotus), Rec. et Yic.

X. Killfieragh, R. and Y.

Rec. est pars, Prebendias de Inniscatterie.
John Yanderlure, Praeb. et Yic.

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Xr. Kilballyhone, E. et Y.
Itec. est Impropriate.

Comes Thomond, Proprius Eec.
John Yanderlure, Vic.

XII. KiUard, Eec. et Yic.
Thomond, Proprius.

Yanderlure, Y.

XIII. Kilmurry, Ibrickane.
Eect. integra, Impropriate.

Comes Thomondige, proprius.
XIY. Moyfearta, E. et Y.
Eec. Improp.

Comes Thomond, Proprius Eec.
Johan Yanderlure, Yic.
XY. Killrush, Eectoria Corpus Prsebend.
Prasbendarius, Johan Yanderlure.

Decanatus de Ogasitix.

1. Ogashin, Eectoria Integra.
Johnas Lawson (Anglus), Eector.

2. Quin, Eec. et Yic.

Idem, Johs. Lawson, E. et Y.

3. Tullo, Eec. et Yic.
Eobertus Wallis, Pr^bdy.

Idem, Johnes Lawson, Eec. et Yic.

4. Clonie, Eec. et Yic.
Idem, Eec. et Yic.

5. Dowrie, Eec. et Yic.
Idem.

6. Kilraghtis.
Idem, Eector.

Patricius Fitzsimon, Y.

7. Tempi emaley, E. et Y.
Johnes Lawson, E.

Pat. Fitzsimons, Y.

8. Inahicronane, E. et Y.

Eect. Irapropriat, Comes Thomond.
Proprius, Eect.

John Jones, Clericus, Yic.

9. Kilmunynegaul.
Eec. et Yic.

John Lawson, Eec.
Jac. Yanderlure, Yic.

Decaxatus de Traderee.

1. Tradere, E. et Y

Johannes Hawkins, Thesaur.
Eec. et Yic.

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THE DIOCESE OF KTLLALOE, ETC., IN THE

2. Kilnasulagh, R. et "Vic.
Idem, R. et Y,

3. Tomfiiiloiigli,R. et V.
John Hawkins, Rec.
Jacob Yanderlure, Yic.

4. Kilconnery, R. et Y.
Hawkins.
Yanderlnre.

5. Clonloghane, R. et Y.
Hawkins.
Yanderlure.

6. Dromlyne, R. et Y.
Idem, Johannes Hawkins.

Rec. et Yic.

7. Bunrattj, Rec. et. Yic.
Hawkins, R.
Yanderlure, Y.

8. Kilmaleery, R. et. Y.
Idem, Johannes Hawkins.

Rec. et Yic.

9. Finnoagh, Rec. et Yic.
J. Hawkins, R.

J. Yanderlure, Y.
10. Innisdadrom, Rec. et Yic.
Corpus Precentoriatus,
Patricius Fitzsimons, Rec. et Yic.
Precentor.

Decanatus de Dhomcleave.

1. Dromcleave, Rec. et Yic.
Patricius Fitzsimons, R. et Y.

2. Kilmaley, R. et Y.
Idem, P. F., R. et Y.

3. Killone Rectoria Impropriata.
Comes Thomond Proprius.

4. Dysart, Rect. et Yic.
Ricardus Goodman, Rec. ct Yic.
Johannes Jones, Yicar.

5. Killinaboy, Rec. et Yic.
R. Goodman, R.

J. Jones, Y.

6. Kilkeedy, Rec. et Yic.
Johnes Jones, Rec. et Yic.

Decanatus de Oemandia SurEiiioii,

1. Nenagh als Enagh, Rec. et Yic.

John Cralford, Clcricus, A.M., Rec. et Vic.

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2. Kilkearrie, Rec. Integ. Corpus Decanatus.

3. Ballynaclough.

Rec. est Impropriata.

Johannes De Lane, nuper tenuit Rectoriam.

Baylie, firmarius Rec.

4. Lisbunny R. et V.
Jobs. Graff ord.

5. Keill na neaffe (sic), R. et Y.
Idem, R. et V.

6. Dolla, R. et Y.

Rectoria spectat ad mensam Dni. Epusi.
Johannes Crafford, Yic.

7. Donnamana, Rec. Integra.

Pars spectat ad ducem Ormandiae.
Pars ad decan et Cap.
Pars ad Johnan. Ci*afford.

8. Burggess Beg, R. et Y.
Nathaniel Thi en-y, R. et Y

9. Keilmore, R. et Y.
T. Crafford, Yic.
Youghalarra als. Oghill Rec.
Rec. est pars Decanatus.
Vic. Nat. Thierry (elk.).
Castletown aiTa. R. et Y.
Nat. Thierry, R. et Y.

12. Ballygibbon, Rec. et Yic.
Josephus Amii^nt, R. et Y.

13. Ballymackey, R. et Y.

Yicaria est corpus Cancellariatus.
Daniel Tomlinson, Rec. et Cancell.

14. Toem, Rec. Integra spectat ad corpus Cancell.

15. Aghnameadall, Rec. et Yic.
Danl. Tomlinson, R. et Y.

16. Borrisnafearney, R. et Y.
Idem, R. et Y.

17. Latteragh, Rec. Integra pars corporis Pra3centoriatus.

18. Templederiy, R. et Y.
J. Crafford, R. et Y.

1 9. Kilderrydadrom, R. et Y.
Danl, Tomlinson, R. ct Y.

10,

Decanatus de Ormondia IxFERioRr.

1. Monsea, R. et Y.
liieronymus Ryves Decanus, R.
John Cmfford, Y.

2. Dromineer, Rec. Integra spectat ad decanat Laonens.

3. Killodiernane, R. et Y.
John Crafford, R. et Y.

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4. Kneagh, R. et Y,
Idem, R. et V.

5. Cloughprior, R. et Y.
Joseph Amirant, R. et Y,

6. Ardcronie.

Rectoria spectat ad mensam Episcopi.
Gualteras Browne, cler. A. M. Yicar.

7. Ballingarrie, Rec. et Yio.

Rec. impropriata. Comes Oorcagiae.

Proprius Rector, Gualterus Browne.
8- Modrenny, R. et Y.

Gualterus Bix)wne, R. et Y.
9. Killmane, R. et Y.

Danl. Tomlinson, R. et Y.

10. Finnoagh, R. et Y.
J. Amirant, R. et Y.

11. Tyraglasse, R. et Y.
Idem, R. et Y.

12. Kilbarrane, R. et Y.

Rect. impropriat Comes Corcagise (again) .
Yic., Josepli Amirant.

13. Bun-eskeine, R. et Y.
G. Browne, R. et Y.

14. Lorha, R. et Y.

Jos. Amirant, R. et Y.

15. Aglish Clohane, R. et Y.
Idem, R. et V.

16. Dorra als Duitow, R. et Y.
Idem, Rec. et Yic.

17. Bonnohem, R. et Y.
Idem, R. et Y.

18. TJskeane.

Rect., Comes Corcagiae (and again).
Yic, Walter Browne.

19. TJskeane, Rec. et Yic.

Rec. improp. Comes Corcagiae.
Yic, Walter Browne.

20. Lockeen, R. et Y.
Walter Nelson, Prebendary.

Decanatus de Ely O'Cakroll et Ikyrrin.

1. Roscrea, R. et Y.

Dom. Meade, cler. A. M. Rec. et Yic.

2. Castletown, Ely R. et Y. idem.

3. Ratlimoviogge, R. et Y. idem.

4. Finglas, Rec integi-a, idem Rec.

5. Dunkyrrin, Rec. et Yic.
Robertus Wallis, elk. A. M.
Rec. et Yic.

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6. Temple Harrie, E. et Y. idem,

7. Shinroane, R. et V. idem.

8. Kilmurrj Ely, R. et Y. idem.

9. Ditto, idem.

10. Kilcommin, Rector ia integra, idem,

11. Ettagh, R. et V., D. Meade, R. et V.

12. Aghancon, R. et Y., D. Tomlinson, R. et V.

13. ByiTa, R. et Y., Guliel Nelson, R. et Y.

14. RosscomLToe, Rec. improp., Anthony Pierce, Proprius,

15. Literluna, improp. ut Roscomroe.
Guliel Nelson, Yicar.

16. Clonfert Molloe, Rec. integra.
Dom. Meade, Rector.

17. Burliem or Bournej.

Rect. improp.. Dux Ormondiae^ Proprius,
Dom. Meade, Yicar.

18. Kinnitty, R. et Y.

Media pars, Rec. impropria, A. Percie,
Altera pars spectat ad vie.
Wm. Nelson, Yic.

19. Cullenwaine als Coolonvane.
R. et Y., Dom. Meade, R. et Y.

20. Insula Yiventium als Innisknameo et Gorbally.
Rectoria impropriata.

Anth. Percie, Proprius.
Finis prospectus Diooes. Laonen.

Examined Jas.

FkAS. CAPtROLL, Reg-

(Diocesan Registry Yisitation Books, 2 N. 2GI.)

The further list in this Yisitation is meant to exhibit the
proxies and other fees which the clergy were bound to pay.
And it is useful for the purpose of demonstrating to what an
extent of misery and t-enuity the livings had sunk, so as to
make it necessary for the work of the diocese to be attempted
by twenty-four incumbents. Those who are acquainted with
the country will he able to judge of the enormous size of the
Unions, which are in some cases even larger than entire
baronies.

Proxies, and }^ Exhibits.

1. Mr. Jer. Ryve's held the Deanerj^, Monsea, and 2 pts. of

Youghal

2. Mr. P. Fitz Simmons, Chanter, held Drumcliffe R. and

Y., Kilmalerie R. and Y., Kilnemona R. and Y., Kih
raghtis Y., Templemalcy A''.

F F 2

£ s. d.
2 1 9

2 11 7

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3. Mr. D. Tomlinson held Chancellorship, E. of Bally-

mackey, R. of Thome, R. of Athnameadle, E. and Y.
of Burrisnafeama, E. and Y. of Kilderrydadrom, E.
of Kilrune, E. of Aghancon

4. Mr. John Hawkins held Treasurership, Eect. Tomfin-

lough, E. Kilnasulagh, E. and Y. of Kilmalerie, E. and
Y. of Clerahane (?), E. and Y. Dromline, Eect. of
Fenagh, Eec. Bunratty

5. Mr. Amyrant, the Archdn., E. and Y. of Clonghprior,

Y. of Kilbarron, ^ E. of Lerha, E. and Y. of Bonohan,
E. and Y. Durrow, E. of Aglish clohane, Eec. and Yic.
Finnoagh, Eec. Tyrraglasse, Eec. and Yic. Bally-
gibbon ...

6. Mr. Danl. Higgins, Eect. of Tomgrency, Y. of Moynoe,

Y. Clonrnsh, Y. Inniscaltra

7. Mr. Wm. ISTelsone, Preb. of Lockeen, Eec. and Yic. Bier,

Eec. Kilcoleman, Yic. Eosscomroe, -| Eec. Kinnilty, Yic.
do., i Eec. Literluna, Yic. do., omitted Eoosscomroe...

8. Mr. Eob. Wallis, Preb. Talloe, Eect. and Yic. Dunkyrin,

Eec. Temple Harrie, Eec. Shinrone, Yic. do., Eec. and
Yic. Kilmurrie, Eec. Kilcnmmin

9. Mr. John Jones, Preb. Dysert, Eec. and Yic. Killna-

boy, Eec. Killkeedie, Yic. Eath, Yic. Inshicronane
Union

10. Mr. Eichd. Goodman, Preb. of Eath, Eec. of do.

11. Mr. Percival, Preb. of Dysert, Preb. of Dysert. No union

12. Mr. Lawson, Preb. of Clondagad, Yic. do., Yic. of Kil-
dysert, Eec. of Kilfarboy, Yic. do., Yic. of Kilchrist,
Yic. of Kilmichael Union, &c

Dean and Chapter, Eec. Killaloe, do. Moynoe, do. Clonrnsh,
do. Ogonelloe, do. Fcackle, part of Dunamona

13. Mr. James Tovey, not recorded, Yicar of Ogonella, &c.

14. Mr. John Paterson, Eec. of Clonlea, E. of Kilfinaghtie,

E. of Kilseily, E. of Killurane, E. of Killokennedy, E.
of Kilnoe, E. of Kilf cackle

15. Mr. James Yanderlure, Yic. Kilfinaghtie, Yics. of
Kilseily, Killuran, Kilokennedy, Kilconry, Clonlohane,
Finnoagh, Bunratty, Kilmurrynegau], Tomfinlougli,
Clonlea, Kilnoe

Mr. Twigg, Eec. and Yic. Castle Connell, E. and Y. of
Kilnegarruffe, E. and Yic. of Kiltananlea

17. Mr. Barclay, Y. of Killofin, Kilmurry, Kilmacduane,
Kilfeddane, Killymur

18. Mr. Nat. Therry, Yic. Youghal, E. and Yic. Castlebeg,
Eec. and Yic. of Castletown Union, Letters

19. Mr. W. Browne, E. and Y. Modreney, E. and Y. Bor-
risokane, Y. Ardcroney, Y. Uskeane, Y. BalHngarry,
Orders, Union

£ s. d.

4 13 3

1 17 6

4 19 0

2 12 4

2 8 1

3 10

0 17 8

1 10 0

16.

1 U

1 14 2

1 5 7

1 6

17 1

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20. Mr. John Crafford, R. and Y. Nenagh, E. and Y. Lis-
bunny

21. Gore Kilnanaffe (?), R. and Y. Kilmore, Yic. Monsea,
Yic. Killodyernane, Rec. Neagh, R. and Y. Temple-
deiTy, R. and Y. Union, Letters of Orders

22. Mr. Tom. Meade, Rec. Roscrea, R. and Y. Rosscrea, do.
Castletown, do. Rathnaveoge, R. Finglasso, R. Burre-
chin, Clonfertmolloe, Cullinwajne, Kilcoleman,
Ettagli, 5 Clauses of Union, 5 Letters of Orders

23. Mr. Rob. Wallis, entered before.

24. Mr. Lawson (Anglus), R. and Y. Quin, R, and Y.

Cloney, ^ Rec. Tulloe and Yic, R. and Y. DoTvrie,
Rects. Kilraghtis, Kilmaley, Kilmurry, Union Orders

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£ 6. d.

6 4

4 0 0

2 9 7

Impropriations.

Tliomond Comes ... ... ... ... ... ... 15 1 4

Cork Comes 1 10 11

Insequin ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 8 1 10

Roscommon, E. of (Carey), per Mr. Anthony Pearcc,

and Mr. Emerson 2 16 0

The number of clergy seems greatly dimmished since the
former Yisitations^ and the work of the diocese inadequately
done. Possibly the Protestant population may not as yet have
recovered the severe drain during the days of James I.

The Bishop, though a scholar and man of ability, has not
been recorded as having left behind any literary work. One
State sermon has come into the writer's hand, from which a
pleasing extract was given in a former page. One or two ad-
ditional excerpts may be here presented. The sermon was
preached in Christ Church, Dublin, on the 23rd Oct., 1695,
being the "anniversary thanksgiving," &c., and was ordered
by the Lords to be printed. The text is taken from Job viii.
13:—

" The hypocrite's hope shall perish."

1st. Of the hypocritical pretexts under which the Irish rebellion was
attempted to be justified the Bishop thus discourses : —

" It was, say they, a just and holy war, for the liberty of their con-
sciences and the freedom of that which they call their faith and religion.
And yet at that very time they enjoyed such a hcentious freedom of all
their superstitions, that if one of their own holy fathers may be credited,
the frogs of the second plague of Egypt were not more numerous than
the Priests and Fryers that then swarmed within the precincts of this

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one city. But it has never been thouglit any reflection upon either the
piety or charity of the good Cathohcs to shelter their pride and ambi-
tion, their maUce and revenge, under the colour of religion, to counter-
feit Christ's commission, to put His cross into their banners, to express
their zeal for the Lord and His House, in the blaze and flames of their
neighbours."

2nd. But then, alas ! the Protestants were the first aggressors, and the
Papists not daring to stay at home assembled together, purely for the
safety of their lives, and their mutual preservation. And therefore
admire that they should be called rebels, who were only a few discon-
tented gentlemen apprehensive of a general massacre, and could not
but make some little defence for themselves^ and civilly oppose them
who first blew the trumpet, and were ready for the battle.

And now, as for the more particular hopes and expectations of our
barbarous and inhumane enemies, indeed they promised themselves to
do a very great and glorious work — to kill and take possession of all
— to suppress our religion, and establish their idolatrous worship, to
wrest the sword out of his Majesty's hands, to make themselves absolute
masters of this country, and to set up a king of their own. And when
they well fleshed and blooded, they made no doubt of transporting their
victorious arms into Englayid — of making that kingdom such another
shambles, and not leaving the memorial of the English name under
heaven.

How far these instruments of cinielty might have prevailed, to what
height they might have swelled the rivers of that land too with blood,
had not an oveiTuling Providence interposed and stayed their hands,
who in three months had turned this Island of Saints into a wilderness of
ravening wolves ; murdered and destroyed an hundred and fifty thou-
sand souls — God knows. But blessed be His holy name, their hopes
were in a great measure baffled and defeated, and we have yet a
Gracious King, a nursing father to the same Church, they then made
such havoc of and persecuted with such rage and violence. That vine,
which God's own right hand hath planted, flourishes in the land, and
after that excellent way which they call Heresy^ we even now worship
the God of our fathers. And for these great incendiaries and pro-
moters of that unnatural rebellion— those bloodthirsty and deceitful
men who would not that the English mouarchs should reign over them
— few of them lived out half their days, or went down to their graves
in peace ; then- cruelties have been repaid into their own bosom. As
they have done, so God hath rewarded them.

And now (pursues the Bishop), if there be any persons here present
who persist in the same design, act under the same disguises, and truly
bear witness that they allow the deeds of their fathers, what can be-
come of all their hopes^ either in this world or that which is to come ?
God forbid, that we should prescribe any bounds to His infinite goodness
and mercy. But without true and unfeigned repentance, we may with-
out breach of charity conclude that they who have Ijeen saints only in
show, shall be saved only by appearance — that their expectations are
all mere notion, their hopes a golden dream, and that they of all men
fchall be most miserable.

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A time will certainly come, when our masks and veils sball be pulled
off and our habits and disguises laid aside, and we shall have no more
cloaks for our sin, but shall appear in our own shapes and colours,
the same wicked persons we were behind the curtain, and all our ini-
quities shall be openly exposed to the eyes of God, angels, and men.

It will then be strictly inquired, not how long we have lived, but how
well, not in what pomp and splendour, but in what religion and devo-
tion, not what estates and fortunes we have left behind us, but what
souls and consciences we have brought along with us, and happy then
shall we be, if we can say with good Hezekiah, '' Remember, Oh Lord,
we beseech Thee, that we have walked before Thee with truth and with
perfect hearts," that some may at the last hear that blessed Euge,
*'Well done, good and faithful servants, enter into the joy of your
master."

Bishop Henry Rider soon, after preaching this sermon died,
and (we do trust and hope) entered into the rest of the faithful
servants of the Lord. His death took place on the 30th of
January, 1695-6, and he was buried in the church of Clon-
meathan, in the County of DubKn.

Of his grave or place of rest, no trace can be found, nor
is there an inscription, effigy, or attempt to carve his name or
record his worth. The reason for this will doubtless be found
in the strict injunctions he imposed in his will, of the utmost
"frugality and thrift."

He, like his immediate predecessors, died a poor man, " being
apprehensive that what worldl}^ substance he has will scarcely
pay his just debts." Comment is needless upon this statement.
It is most suggestive.

BISHOP HENET RIDER'S WILL.

In the name of God Amen. I Hemy, Lord Bishop of Killaloe, bemg
sick and weak in body, but of perfect sound memory (praised be God),
do make this my last will and testament, 12th of January, 1605. First.
I bequeath my soul to Almighty God, who gave it, hoping for eternal
salvation only by the meritorious death and through the mediation ol:
my blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Item. I bequeath my body to the ground, to be bm-ied in the parish
church of Clonmethau. And being apprehensive that what worldl}^
substance I have will scarcely pay my just debts, I make it my re-
quest to my executor, that my funeral may be managed with all the
frugality and thrift that can be used, — that he provide only a pliiii
coffin, covered with black cloth, and that he give not a glove, ribbau,
or scarf at my funeral.

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Item. I give and bequeath unto my dear brother, Thomas Ryder, of
Wainstoun, lOL, to buy him a mourning suit.

Item. I give and bequeath to my dear sister, Mary Eyder, 101. to
buy her mouraing. All the rest of my estate, both real and personal,
I bequeath to my dear brother Thomas (as above).

^Yitn esses : —

SnELSTON Telea_k.ek.
Edwd. Gyles,
Geo. Ogle.
EicHD. Ellmor.

It may be now only briefly noted that Bishop Ryder's suc-
cessor was Dr. Thomas Lindsay or Lyndesay, D.D. He was
consecrated in St. Patrick^s, on the 20th of March, by Dr.
Narcissus (Marsh), Archbishop of Dublin, assisted by William,
Bishop of Kildare, and Nathaniel, Bishop of Waterford. Of
his family and labours, the details belong to a period wbich
falls outside the limits of the present inyestigation.

1°. This history may now conclude with a summary review of
the chief features brought to light in the progress of the narra-
tive. While many within this diocese were blushing to own,
and in heart deploring the predominance of that religious
system which held undisputed sway since the supplanting of the
pure old religion of St. Patrick's days, and scarcely were daring
to expect a reformation in doctrine and discipline, the Pe-
formed faith was established, and in starting upon its high
career, found both public and private morals reduced to a very
low ebb indeed ; found also society (if such a name could be
applied) going forward in the habitual practice of bloodshedding,
rapine, and impurity.

11°. The Church, although established by law and favoured
accordingly by the State, was endowed in a manner and to an
amount which left it impoverished and crippled and altogether
inadequate as an effective instrument for the extension of reli-
gion, morality, and civilization within the diocese.

III^ The legal means proposed and put in force to repair
the ecclesiastical structures and fill them with worshippers,
were eminently effectual in repelling the Irish people from the
Peformed faith ; also the manner in which their prejudices were
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language, habits, and customs — and in fact of everytliing
national ; while a strange indifference and a haughty want of
comprehension were exhibited as to there being any necessity
for engaging their confidence, esteem, and affection, or for
enlightening them by means of a system of secular education
universally 'diffused. Not but that the Irish themselves all
through appeared to be wild, insidious, and resentful, and
almost hopeless of having amicable relations permanently culti-
vated with them.

IV*^. The massacre of 1641 inflicted a blow upon the Re-
formed faith in the Diocese, the injurious effects of which are
apparent to this day. The hot anger of Cromwell in avenging
this, and the cold, resentful, and repressive legislation of King
"William III., after the Irish army had been utterly beaten
down, were both alike eminently calculated to make the Irish
and their descendants desperate and implacable ; hatred becom-
ing their most cherished tradition, and deliverance their con-
stant hope.

V°. Some paint the English in Ireland as so many heroes,
martyrs^ and angels ; and make out the Irish as very little
better than savages, murderers, and of decidedly Satanic tem-
perament. Others, again, hotly enough maintain precisely
opposite views. But whichever of these parties be more nearly
correct, whichever picture look more true to life, one thing is
past doubt, and it is this, that the Eeformed faith, planted in
the midst of such desperately conflicting elements, must have
had a precarious existence — suffering from friend and foe alike,
and ofttimes well-nigh overwhelmed between them both, like
those vineyards situated on the slopes of a volcano, liable at
once to streams of lava and showers of ashes.

YI°. The foreign influences and agencies, no matter how
artful persistent and malignant, could never have injected the
poison of an universal dislo3^alty to the Reformed faith, if onlv
Ireland had been governed in a way inducing its people at once
to love and fear England. The latter motive alone was culti-
vated ; the former was left untried, if not even despised. And
this was exactly the thing which, beyond all other impediments,
checked the successful progress of the Reformed faith among the

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Irish people. This faith was a pure embodiment of love Divine^
but being seen through and associated with the medium of
political severit}^^ it became hated before it tras known. If it was
the necessity, so it was also the infelicity of the true old Irish
faith, now reformed and purified, to reappear before the Irish
for recognition and acceptance, associated with and seen
through the medium of the Enghsh system of governing Ire-
land prevalent in the 16th and 17th centuries. '' Noscitur a
sociis'' was its stinging censure. Who looked for an unearthly
and supernatural excellence here ? What Irish eye but was
strained along the horizon of the deep for fleets and armies of
deliverance ? And the sons of Erin glared defiance at the
Sassenach minister of religion, scorning the bare mention of
his forms of worship. We do not affirm all this with the least
approval as of a thing wise or just ; on the contrary, we insist
upon it merely as a result greatly to be deplored and carefully
to be avoided in the future so far as may be. Nor can
the situation be reconciled with any rational theory of dis-
establishment for England, where it is impossible that any-
thing could be found running parallel with such unhappy com-
plications as prevailed over Ireland in and through the union of
Church and State as it was managed.

VII"". The chronic state of contention, superadded to the
working of the monopoly laws so long in force, brought about
a condition of things fraught with such notorious uncertainties
and risks, that capital, sensitive as it has ever proved itself to
be, shrank back, and would make no considerable venture in
Ireland unless in the northern provinces. And thus it came to
pass that trade and commerce and manufacturing industries,
and a constant stream of improving English settlers, did not
make Ireland (at least the western parts of it) their adopted
home, nor ever recruited the numbers and increased the power
and prestige of the Reformed Church in this Diocese ; any
occasional or casual efforts such as those of the great Duke of
Ormond or some of tlie Earls of Thomond and others to the
contrary notwithstanding.

VHP. Nor again would it be a ju.-^t criticism to pi^onounce
such disclosures and conclusions as in these pages are ven-
tured upon to have originated in an ungrateful spirit of hos-

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tility towards England. Entertaining the highest respect for
and admiration of England and her institutions, we might, in
the very same tone, maintain that by a very similar exhi-
bition of poKtical and religious repression, the true interests
and general reception of this very same Reformed faith
were very considerably interfered with in England itself.
This piling up of extraneous outworks of defence made the
Church in both islands wear the aspect rather of a fortress
of human devising than a temple of Divine building. Not
but that, without some such national safeguards and rallying-
points, religion and liberty must have fallen a prey to Con-
tinental hostihty and to our own fanatical extravagancies.
If truth then points out how a dire necessity made defensive
measures a sacrifice at best, and how the overstraining of their
value inflicted a serious injury upon the Reformed faith, truth
does but discharge her office ; it may be feebly, but of a
certain it would be faithfully and fairly attempted in respect of
England and Ireland aUke.

IX^. As for countenancing the notion that Ireland could
prosper dissevered from England in religion and law, Ire-
land left to herself for a few years would become an island
without an Irishman, all the natives falling in a series of
universal domestic contentions, or else before foreign invaders
and conquerors. This at least became considerably realized in
the two decennial periods succeeding 1641, when the Kilkenny
Convention became the t^^ical original of '' the Ellkenny Cats,"
until Cromwell saved the combatants from one another by
slaughtering them both alike.

And with this another consideration may be joined, namely,
that however the Irish people may have fought with one another,
however as yet they may have failed to recognize the attrac-
tions of their own national faith, one thing is clear, that under
any circumstances they have never exhibited the slightest in-
clination towards but alwa3^s a strong repugnance for non-
Episcopal Protestantism and democratic fanatics in every shape.

X^ The course of this narrative has disclosed (in one section
of the Church of Ireland at least) the following curious
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majority of the people of this country turned from the religion
of their country, and clung to the religion of their conquerors,
as imposed upon them under King Henry II. ; and if their con-
tinuance in this unnatural and unnational error is traceable to
a persistent course of misrepresentation on the part of those
interested in perpetuating this error, the entrance by these Irish
upon such a course is due no less to an extraordinary amount of
mispresentation on the part of those interested in the universal
reception of the pure old religion of Ireland. And so it has
come to pass that the initial mistakes, made by the friends of
the Reformation and by those associated with them, have proved
nearly as fatal to its extension, as have proved the varied forms
of antagonism set in motion by its foes. " The Policy of the
Church of Rome in Ireland ^' has been ably analysed, and is
generally acknowledged. The want of policy on the part of
the Reformed Church in Ireland is almost unknown, and
perhaps the elucidation of it is an offence.

Xr. Leaving the potsherds to strive with the potsherds of the
earth, higher and nobler relations remain to be traced out. With
all her trials, difficulties, upsets, neglects, mistakes, massacres,
and sujBFerings — sufferings not often exceeded in their poignancy,
frequency, and diversity — the Reformed Church in this diocese
of Killaloe was so befriended and sustained by a Divine and
gracious Presence in her midst, that the words which we have
already repeated must full often have dwelt upon the hearts and
started to the lips of her godly sons and daughters, '^ If the
Lord Himself had not been upon our side when men rose up
against us," &c.

And thus, as the bush in the desert — still on fire, still uncon-
sumed — was a wonder of power for God Himself to exhibit and
for man to admire, the descendants of the Killaloe Churchmen
of the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries may well take up these
versicles of praise and love and holy hope.

*' Oh, God, we have heard with our ears and our fathers have declared
unto us the noble works that Thou didst in their days and in the old
time before them."

Oh Lord, arise, help us and deliver ns for ihine honour.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

As it -was in the beginning, is note, and ever shcdl he, world wilhoid
end' Amen.

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APPENDICES.

PAGE

I. The order and succession of the Bishops of the Church of
Ireland, and of the Titular Bishops and Yicars Apostolic
of the Roman Mission, in the diocese of Elillaloe 447

II. The origin, structure, and condition of the Cathedral, with a

brief account of the officers, revenues, and other details ... 451

III. The topography of the parishes (116) briefly noted in the

more important particulars 472

lY. Sir John Perrot's tripartite deed on the part of the Queen
with the Chieftains, Lords, and Bishops, also with the
tenants and commonalty of Thomond, together with the
fiant to Sir D. O'Brien as seneschal of Burren; also King
James I, letter to O'Brien of Duagh, and O'Conor's deed ... 540

Y. The effect of the several confiscations upon religious profes-
sion within the Diocese 556

YI. The Nuncio, Bunratty, and MacAdam, also the letter of

Bishop J. 0 'Maloney (Titular Bishop) 564

YII. The Castles of Clare in 1584 568

YIII. Further elucidations, with sundry annotations and correc-
tions while the work was at press 573

General Index.

Map and Pictorial Illustrations.

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APPENDIX I.

THE ORDER AND SUCCESSION OF BISHOPS,

Richard Hogan, a Frauciscan Friar and Bishop of Killaloe, succeeded
in 1525, and was tmnslated to the See of Clonmacnoise by Pope Paul
III. on the 16th June, 1539 or 1538 (Ware and Cotton).

II.

"James O'Corrin succeeded and resigned in 1546" (Ware). Gam in
his "Series Episcoporum," p. 224, gives the folloTring summary:—
"Jacob O'CoiTin resigned. Dies et an. mortis, 1546." The author of
" The See of Killaloe " in I. E. Record, p. 476, remarks : — "As regards
the Bishops of the EstabHshment, that of James Curryn, or Con-in,
seems to have been the first appointment made by Xing Henry YIII.
Some call him Bishop of Killaloe as early as 1529, during the Episcopate
of Dr. Hogan. Others date his appointment from 1539-40." l^r.
Hardinge in " ISTarrative," p. 18, says " O'Corrin's consecrators are
unknown," also in p. 21, "He succeeded in 1540 in Anno 31 Henry
YIII." Dr. Brady states that the Berberini papers record action being
taken by the Pope " die Lun^e 25 Junii, 1554," and adds, " Sua sanctf-
tas providit Ecclesia3 Laonensi per obitum bona? memoria? Jacobi Corrin
extra Romanam curiam defuncti."

III.

In July, 1546, the 37th of Henry YIII., Cornelius O'Dea, Chaplain to
Maurice, Earl of Thomond, was appointed next successor by Kino-
Henry YIII., and a little after was consecrated by his Metropolitan (the
Aix-hbishop of Cashel) (Ware). " He, of course"'" (adds Mr. Hardinge
ubi supra, p. 72), " took the oath of Henry YIII. He sat in the See about
nine years, until in the second year of Queen Mary, 1555, when he
died."

It is remarkable that The Catholic Registry for 1837, "compiled
by Mr. J. B., and re^ased by a Catholic Priest, approved of for that
purpose," makes no mention of this Bishop C. O'Dea, either amono-
the Roman Catholic or among the Protestant Bishops of Killaloe, ol
both of whom he gives a list ; although the Bishop is mentioned by Dr.
Brady, as above, also in Gam's Series and " See of Killaloe."

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Terence O'Brien III. obtained this Bishoprick in the reign of Queen
Maiy, and governed it until the end of the year 1566. " But I have not
discovered how long after," says Ware. " He held the see to the year
1569, the year of his death." See the 4 Masters. (Cotton, p. 463.) Within
this time occurred the advent of Queen Elizabeth, in whose second
year were repealed the several Acts of Parliament by Queen Mary, and
others were imposed reviving the supremacy of the Crown, the Conse-
cration of Bishops, &c. (Hardinge.) To this Terence's birth, conver-
sation, and manner of domestic life, reference has been akeady made.
(The writer of "The See of Killaloe," in I. E. Eecord, p. 464, mentions
Tirlough or Theodoricus O'Brien as the successor of R. Hogan in
Killaloe (J. su^ora), and being " appointed its Bishop in June, 1539, he
died before December the same year ; and then mentions Dr. F. O'Geira-
wan or Kirwan, appointed Bishop of the united sees of Clonmacnoise
and Killaloe, on December 15, 1539.") It is in reference to this, doubtless,
that the Archdeacon Stopford remarks, " Either Terence O'Brien was a
' Marian Bishop,' holding under the Crown, or he succeeded only to one
who was a mere ]ia])ol intruder, ivhile O'Dea held the see canonically."
(" The Unity," &c., p. 121.) In Battersby's Cat. Directory, uhi supra,
no mention is made of Terence O'Brien.

In 1569, December 26, the Lord Deputy recommends to the Queen
that Morgan-Maurice-Murtogh-Moriertach O'Brien, potius Mac O'Brien-
Arra, should have the profits of Killaloe Bishoprick (which must
have been then void) to keep him at Oxford. (Hardinge, p. 72.) He
received the profits six years before consecration, and sat about thirty-
six years after. (Ware.)

YI.
John Eider succeeded 1612 ; ob. 1632 ; consecrated 1612-3, January 12.
(Cotton.)

YII.
Lewis Jones, 1633 ; ob. 1646.

YIII.

Edward Parry, 1617 to 1650.

IX.

(After a vacancy of eleven years.)
Edward Worth, 1660-1 ; ob. 1669.

X.
Daniel Witter, 1669 ; ob. March, 1674-5.

XL
John Eoan, 1675 ; ob. 1698.

XIL
Henry Eider, 1693 ; ob. 1695.

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The prelates and admLiiisti'ators of the Boman [Mission during tlie
above period commenced with

Malachy O'Molony, or Malachias O'Molona. "He was proclaimed in
Consistory on the 10th January, 1571. (*' See of Killaloe," nhi siqjra^
p. 465) ; " was appointed by Papal provision, i^er ohitu/m Terentii, on 10th
January, 1571."

And on the 22nd August, 1576, was translated to Kilmacduagh. His
death is given by Gam as occurring *'20th of vii mo. 1603." But
this may have been the date of his apostacy, and not of his death.

II.

Cornelius Ryan, or O'MalEyan, or O'Melrian, alias '' Conougban
O'Mulrian," O.S.F., succeeded as military envoy of the Pope in Des-
mond, under the assumed title of Bishop of Kj.llaloe. He was appointed
26 August, 1576, "and for forty-one years, until his death in 1617, he
continued (nominolly) Bishop of this antient See." (The See of Killa-
loe in 16th Century, uhi sicpra, p. 465.)

in.

From 1616 to 1632 were sundry Yicars- General Apostolic. (Brady,
p. 145.)

Gam omits any entiy until 1640 ; Battersby's Compiler does the same.
The author of " The See " also omits details. Bishop Eider, in 1622,
mentions Mahoon McGrath as Y.G. But how long he had so a^ted, or
continued so to act, does not appear from any direct source. However, in
1624, August 1 7, a petition was signed by sundry eminent persons of
Thomond in behalf of Jno. O'Molony, (Meehan's Franciscans, 5th ed.,
p. 345.)

On the other hand, in 1629, O'Neill wrote in behalf of M. O'Quely.
But the petition of 1621 sets forth that "for two years past a duobus
jam annis sudavit " Qualaeus in his capacity of " Yicar Apostolical of
Killaloe." Accordingly this fills up some of the break from Mahoon
McGrath to John O'Molony.

Dr. Brady gives, "John Molony, Bishop from 1632 to 1650."
Battersby's Compiler gives, "John O'Molony, 161-8."
Gam gives, " Jacob O'Hurley succeeded in 1640," and no date of his
death ; and then " Suce Johannes O'Molony " + (= translated) ; and
then "post 13, xii., 1649."

lY.

Dr. Brady gives next —

" 1650 to 1671, Yicars -General Apostolic."
Gam gives, "1650, sed (ebat) Thomas O'Molony."
Battersby's Compiler gives —

" Thomas O'Molonj^ 1650."
Amidst so great an uncertainty, indeed obscurity, of ecclesiastical
authorities who profess to treat upon the order and succession of the
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landmarks, at least to aid in an approximate way towards an exact solu-
tion of the difficulty.

That a John O'Molony was Titular Bishop of Killaloe in the year 1646
we have proved at p. 404. That there was such also in 1649 is evident
from the date of the Clonmacnoise manifesto ; and that he continued as
such so long at least as the 12th of August, 1650, will be evident from
the date of the declaration and excommunication issued at James-
town, to which he was a subscribing party. (See Coxe, Appendix, 48.)
The (titular) Bishop of Cloufert, writing from Innisboffin on the last day
of August, 1652, gives an account of his episcopal brethren ; and of
Laonensis notes, " Jam judum etiam anno preeterito Laonensis in
civitate Limericen : obsessus, et Galvia) illustrissimus. D. Dublinensis
et Meden obierunt." (Spicily Ossor, p. 386.)

Having now accounted for John Laonen up to 1651, we proceed with
the Authorities as to the subsequent administration.

Dr. Brady gives next in order —

" 1650—1671, Yicars-General Apostolic."
Gam gives, 1650 —

" Sed (ebat) Thomas O'Molony."
Battersby's Compiler gives —

"Thomas O'Molony, 1650."
In a paper on the State of Ireland in 1653, by the Bishop of Kilmac-
duagh (Fitzalan) in Spici. Ossor., p. 405, it is stated that only four or
five Bishops remain in Ireland, none of whom are the Bishop of Killaloe.
Again, in 1656, there was no Bishop of Killaloe living in or out of Ire-
land. The only further addition of historical data which we now add is
the fact that a tombstone in Killodiernan parochial graveyard exhibits
Doctor D. Harty as Y. G. Apostolic of Killaloe for some time immedi-
ately precediiag 1667 (see Topography).

YI.

Gam gives —

" 1673, Johannes O'Molony."

Brady gives— ^

'' 1671 to 1702, John O'Molony, also Bishop of Lmaerick.

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THE ORIGIN, STRUCTURE, AND CONDITION OF THE CATHEDRAL,
WITH A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE OFFICERS, REVENUES, AND
OTHER ITEMS.

The tiistory of a Diocese being obviously incomplete without an account
of its Cathedral, the following is submitted in reference to

The Cathedral of St. Fla^naks,
drawn from the best sources of information available.

Of the Approach an^d Site,

Bishop Mant gives the following clear statement in a paper, read by
him August 26th, 184-t, before the Down and Connor and Dromore
Church AiX'hitecture Society, and kindly lent to the writer by the
Rev. W. Mcllwaine, D.D.—

" The Cathedi-al stands on a level with the western or Clare bank of
the river Shannon, from which it is separated by a churchyard alone,
that being perfectly flat. Low, however, and unpretending as Klillaloe
Cathedral is in its situation (a situation chosen doubtless fi^om the
existence of the stone-roofed oratory on the sacred enclosm-e and from
the associations connected therewith), it is nevertheless a conspicuous
and captivating object, especially when approached from the eastern
side of the Shannon, which here expands to a considei^ble breadth, and
exhibits the Cathedi^ to advantage on the opposite bank. As you
advance towards the town by the Kilmastulla road (the noble river
flowing rapidly beside you), your eye is caught by the old Cathedral,
the south side of which, with its projecting ti-ansept, is first presented
to yom^ notice. Advancing, you confront and pass the eastern end
with its lofty triplet window. By a turn to the left, you soon cross
the river on a bridge (in Dr. Mant's time of nineteen arches). The
north side of the Cathedral, as you cross the river, is nearly parallel to
your passage, and of course prQsents a new and convenient point of
observation. Near the foot of the bridge, another turn to the left
brings you through a short street to the west end and entrance of
the building, of which you will thus have had the opportunity of re-
marking a variety of picturesque and agreeable views."

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The Towee..
In every view of the Catliedral, the Tower cannot but form an emi-
nent object. As represented by Harris's plate in 1738 (Ware's Works,
Yol. 1), it appears very different from the actual condition. It is
there totally destitute of of battlement or parapet, being terminated
by straight lines at each side so as to make a level square, from
which rises a low pyramidal roof, somewhat smaller at the base than
the area from which it springs, and supporting a short pole, which
again is surmounted by an iron pillar and vane. The vane is inscribed
with the figure " 1682." The tower in its actual condition presents
four angular turret-like eminences, one at each corner, four small
windows, two and two on each side of the tower, and a graduated
battlement midway between the two angles.

This addition to the tower was made by the late Honble. Wm. Knox,
Bishop of Killaloe from 1794 to 1803. His motive for the addition is
understood to have been, that the tower, which was previously not well
visible from the Bishop's palace, Clarisford House, might be so elevated
as to make a pleasing and appropriate picture in the prospect. By the
addition then made of 17 feet, the entire tower was then raised to 80 feet.
(In 1795, 13 August, the Chapter directed that certain " sums of money
be expended in decorating the Cathedi-al Church at the discretion of the
Honble. the Lord Bishop of Killaloe." See Chapter Book). As to the
finish with the pyramidal vane and the inscription " 1682," a further re-
ference to the Chapter Book will make it probable that the extensive
works upon the roof of the chancel ("tegminis cancelli"), commenced
in 1676, may also have been extended to the tower, and finished in 1682.
Further, considerable works of reparation upon the tower were carried
on in 1703, of which the following particulars are recorded : —

" Paid for 29cwt. 3q. 191b. lead for the steeple .£28 7 7

Paid for carriage of same from Dublin ... ... ... 500

Paid Street for sheeting steeple ... ... ... ... 0 15 0

Paid Curry for laying the leads 1 13 0

Paid labourers for drawing up the lead ... ... ... 0 20

Paid mending stairs and making door 0 3 0"

The "vane " must have been up before this, for, in 1701, the Econo-
mist discharges himself,

'' To ye Smith for ye whether-cock (sic) 00 06 00."

And in 1702,

" Paid carpenter for taking down and putting up ye

wether-cock 00 06 00"

The West End.

" I proceed to the West End (continues Bp. Mant), which is one gable
of the principal part of the fabric, containing a single unornamented
doorway, the arch of which is 9ft. 6in. and -If b. 7in. wide, and above it a
long lancet 20ft. 6in. and 2ft. wide, splayed in the inside to the height of
25 feet and to the width of 8ft. 5in." The western front does not pre-
sent cither " a very beautiful appearance," as some (evidently con-
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GTen deserve the epithet *' imposing/' giren to it in Lewis' Topogra-
phical Dictionary. This epithet might rather apply to descriptions of
what the writers, having never seen, had taken to give at second hand.

Before passing from the western end of the cathedral, a matter
omitted by Bishop Mant may be noticed. The Churchyard is bounded
on the western or road front by a plain rough rubble wall, which
runs in height some 6ft. Gin. across the entire open of the yard,
thus intercepting the full view of the Cathedral, the Oratory, and the
space around. In the estimates furnished by Mr. Gillespie in 1851 the
following item appears : —
" Enclosing fence on road side with rails ... ... ... £30 0 0 "

If any may be found objecting to the removal of a dead wall, which
might suitably enough enclose a parish jDOund, or shelter a straw-yard,
and to the substitution of a suitable u'on paling with a gain in light,
air, and prospect of the Cathedral, of the unique Oratory, and perhaps
even of the space across the Shannon — let such persons be reminded of
the former condition of Limerick Cathedral, closed ofi and shut up by
high walls and hideous ruins, but now opened out in all its venerable
dignity as something fit to be seen, instead of what people seemed
ashamed of and strove to hide away.

The Sides of the Extekior.

Both are much like each other, except that the South side nearest the
West end has a peculiarity in the arch, to which we shall refer more
particularly. Between the West end of the building and each transept
is a window, and a little beyond is a buttress at each angle. The
Eastern division of the side or choir is divided by two buttresses into
three compartments or bays, each containing a lancet window. The
buttresses are broad and shallow and flat, slightly projecting from the
walls, and without gi^dations, ending under the cornice or tabu, which
supports the eave of the roof. At each angle of the building is a
massive square buttress, also without gradations, but rising a little
above the eave, and finished with a stunted pyramidal top. The outer
angle of each of these is ornamented with a small shaft, terminating in a
foliated capital, which is also characteristic of the transition or semi-
Norman era. The windows are long, narrow, and simple, with acute
lancet-heads, those in different i^arts being of very different heights.
The window in the south gable is 21ft. Sin. high, or, including the splay,
27ft. ; and those in the sides of the choir are lift. 7in., or inside, inclu-
ding the splays, 18ft. each.

The East Window.

This may be well described as *' having a beautiful appearance." It
consists of " three lofty narrow arches, the centre one circular and the
others pointed." This dissimilarity in the shape of the arches has
always appeared to Bishop Mant an architectural curiosity, and seems
to him to indicate a slate of transition ere the round arch had entirely
given way to its successor, whilst he has been charmed with the loftiness,
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try, acquired or improved by the combination of its parts. Thus beau-
tiful in itself, it serves likewise, by its elegance, to relieve a building
which has been pronounced *' heavy." In the Killaloe triplet the
exterior height of the centre light is SO^ft., of each side light 254ft. ; the
breadth of each is alike, viz., 1ft. Sin.

The Interioe.
" We proceed to the interior," pursues Bishop Mant, " into which we
must enter through the west door, and first speak of its dimensions:'
Bev. Ei. Martin, of Killaloe, after actual measurement, kindly informed
him that the extent from West to East in the clear is 156ft. 6in., or,
including the thickness of the walls (4ft. each), 164ft. 6in., and that the
width is 29ft. Sin. ; also that the extent from North to South is
100ft. 6in., or, with the walls, 108ft. 6in. The height of what Mr.
Holmes, in his " Sketches," calls " the great aisle," and Mr. Bell more
properly " the nave and choir," is lofty. From the floor to the ceiling it
is 38ft. 6in. It was once 4ft. loftier, as indicated by a mark at the out-
side of the tower. (The surface was also 3ft. below the present level.)
To the spring of the arches which support the roof is 20ft. ; the same to
the spring of the arches which support the tower ; and to the top of the
said arches 46ft., the span being 304ft. at the base. Passing from
Bishop Mant's paper, this is the fit place to notice that Bishop John
Bider, in his Visitation, a.d. 1622, reported that '* the choir of the Cathe-
dral was in very good repair. But for tlie hody of the said church (he
adds), that it helongs to the ^parishioners to huild, who have all their
materials in place, erected their scaffolds, and he hopes this summer it
will be finished." This would naturally lead to the conclusion that, with
the exception of the tower and choir, the rest of the Cathedral church, or
a great part of it, was built, or rebuilt, in Bishop John Eider's time.
Another fact also points to this, namely, that in the Eegal Visitation of
1615 (supra) it is stated that " in eccles. cath. chcmncell tvas repayred,'' no
mention being made of any other part as being in existence. That the
transepts were a recent or modern addition will be made clear fi'om the
"discoveries" in 1851 (infra). And the " choir," which in 1622 was in
good repair, came to need very extensive repairs of its roof in 1676, the
chapter consulting and determining " de et super reparat. tegminis can-
celli eccles. cath. Laonen. in quantum et quousque ruinosa existit et
reparatio. in prassenti indiget."

The Form oe the Cathedral.

The building is cruciform (continues Bishop Mant), and consists of
a nave without side aisles, a choir, and two transepts, the tower rising
above the intersection, on four arches, the ribs of which are supported
by corbels 3ft. 9in.high, partly imbedded in the wall, and standing 16ft.
3in. above the floor.

Distribution of Parts.

A wall 3ft. 4in. thick divides the nave from the choir, the former being
88ft. 9in., the latter 65ft. (Whether this dividing-wall formed a part of
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and recent, may be. a question whicli professed ecclesiastical architects
will be able to solve, also whether in any case it is either an advantage
or an ornament to be preserved in future.) But the following terms
used in an account of the Chapter with their Economist, Mr. Lloyd, in
1707, may be fairly taken, upon the lowest interpretation, to indicate
very considerable expenditure upon the upper part of this partition, or
screen, if not upon the building of it from the ground.
*' The screen and portall at the west end of the choir " £30

Tjraxsepts.
In the north transept is the chapter-house and vestry-room, and in
the south the consistorial com-t. (This latter is now used as a place of
meeting for the Diocesan Synod.) And some slight attempt has been
made to correct. its vavil,t-likQ appearance and chill air of desolation.
This most important requirement, as mentioned in Mr. Gillespie's
Report, shall be noticed fiirther on.

The Choir.

Passing from the nave, you enter the choir under an organ loft, the
Dean's stall on your right, the Precentor's on your left, and the three other
dignitaries and the seven prebendai'ies having also their seveml stalls
ranged respectively on either side. And the Bishop's throne, orna-
mented with a carved mitre, and with foliage and flowers, on a slight
elevation, is situated on the south side, midway between the entrance
of the choir and the east end, where, over the Communion-table, rises
to the roof of the building the handsome triplet window. The extreme
height of the window, including splay, architrave, cornice, moulding, is
37ft. 8in., the extreme breadth 17ft. lOin. The three lights are separated
from each other by piers 3ft. wide, greatly splayed on the inside, and
ornamented at the meetiag of the splays with slender intervening
columns. They are also inclosed under a pointed arch, the two principal
mouldings of which are decorated with a herring-bone and lozenge
sculpture, supported by eight columns corresponding with those between
the lights. The other windows of the Cathedral are of graceful
structure, and do not approach in elegance and beauty to this, which is
the char act eristical ornament of the fabric. There are six other windows
each of a single light, three on either side the choir, each admitting the
greatest quantity of hght. They are each 18ft. 2in. in height, and are
furnished with metal frames and diamond-shaped glass. In reference
to the choir and its fittings, some extracts from the Chapter Book are
added in elucidation of Bishop Mant's remarks. 1st. The Dean and
Chapter passed the following Resolution as to the roofing, to which
allusion has been made already, both in appendix and in the text. 2nd.
In 1698, 40L was laid out upon the choir. 3rd. In 1704,
Feb. 16, 1704-5. Paid Mr. Wm. Twigge towards ye altar-

piece £0(3 q q

July 16. Paid Mr. Jas. Carr for finis, ye altar-piece ... ... 7 0 0

July, 1706. Paid Jas. Carr towards ye stalls 9 0 0

„ For velvet cushions for ye Dignitaries and carriage 10 10 0

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£21 0

. 38 0

. 40 0

. 0 13

. 14 10

. 6 0

. 1 0

. 24 9

. 6 14

. 1 8

. 0 12

. 0 8

30 6 8

August 6, 1703. For ye Bishop's throne

„ For ye Stalls

January, 1708. James Carr, in full for TVainscotting Choir
Item, Iron for Enges (?; Hinges

„ Leading S. Isle

„ Building a Pulpit

„ Priming ye Pulpit and Gilding two Cherubims

„ Painting and Gilding ye Choir of Killaloe, by Cook ye
Painter

„ A Bible, Common Prayer-Book, and Carriage ...
1716. Rails about Communion Table

„ Painting ye Lathers (sic) Quere Ladders
1708. Making up two Seats in ye Church

„ Flagging broken parts of Choir

In 1716 is another charge —

*' To expenses for Communion Plate
• Bishop Mant must once again become our architectural guide, and
first on the subject of

TuE Font.

*'This venerable monument of antiquity," his Lordship remarks,
" stands on a pedestal of 2ft. 6in. high, consisting of a pillar slightly
tapering, supported on a square plinth, and is excavated in a rectan-
gular block of stone, of which the dimensions are 1ft. lOin., 1ft. 9in.
broad, and 1ft. 2in. high. The font is ornamented with a cross, sur-
rounded by foliage, rudely carved in relief, and of shapes ill-defined and
not easy to be appropriated. Its appearance bespeaks it to belong to an
era at least as antient as that of the church in which it stands. * The
font,' says R. Hoare, in 1806, ' now overturned, is decorated with ara-
besque ornaments in relievo.' This necessary appendage of a Christian
church, not undeserving of attention in this case as a work of art, seems
not to have been noticed by any visitor of Killaloe Cathedral, except the
worthy Baronet. It continued to lie unheeded and neglected in a
corner of the nave, cast aside to * the moles and the bats,' till it was
re-erected in 1820 (the year of this Bishop's consecration for Killaloe),
and took its station near the entrance to the choir. Probably, in archi-
tectural propriety, it should have been placed near the west door of
the whole building, but for the convenience of the administration of
Holy Baptism in the presence and hearing of the congregated people,
it was judged better to place it within the precincts of the choir."
So far the worthy Bishop. It now becomes a painful duty to give a few
extracts from the Chapter Book, by which his Lordship's theoiy of the
extreme antiquity of this font may be somewhat weakened, if not indeed
quite upset.

The Chapter account for 1701 exhibits the followmg : " Ordered by
the Rev. Joseph Amirald, Archdeacon and Sub-Dean ; Patrick Fitz-
simons, C haunter ; William Twigge, Chancellor ; and John Hawkins,
Treasurer, this 8th day of January, in the year 1701, that four pounds
sterling shall be paid by the Economist to Edmond Daniel, Stone-
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iqj a font in the Quire, where and as the Lord Bishop shall order it,
which sum of four pounds is to be allowed the Economist out of the
above ballance of 13L 17s. As witness the day and year above written."
And in a memorandum, in the handwriting of the Economist, is the
following entiy : " The font not yet made."

At the same time, it is only proper to note that the font is of red
sandstone, of a loose texture, and has yielded fi^eely to the corrosive
tooth of time. Hence the appearance of an antiquity not due to the
work. Besides, it has been made after an antique pattern.

Jos. Amirald, Archdeacon and Sub -Dean.

Patrick Fitzsymons, Precentor.

Wm. Twigge, Chancellor.

Jno. Hawkins, Treasurer.

The Abch.

This curiously elaborate structure is to be found near the angle at
which the South wall of the nave meets the Western. Commenting on
some who pronounced it a relic of the Saxon period, the Bishop con-
tends that it is connected with the Norman period, and describes it in
the following terms : —

*'The architectural antiquaiy who shall have an opportunity of
minutely tiTicing the richly-carved succession of retiring pillars and
arches, with their plain or ornamental mouldings, their corbel heads and
embattled or nail-head fretwork, the imagery of human faces and indis-
tinct animals, their varied shafts and capitals — playful effusions of
fancy, which I lament my inability to analyze and describe with a scien-
tific pen — will probably concur with me in opinion that justice must yet
be done to this cm^ious remnant of Irish art. Though vulgarly styled a
monument, it evidently is a doorway — the Southern portal of the cathe-
dral. And it is not unlikely that when the cathedral was erected here
in 1160 this doorway, having previously existed as the portal of a more
antient building, may have been retained for its beauty, or convenience
of communication with the adjoining cemetery. But whatever may be
the conjecture or speculation on its original, the cui'ious fact is palpable
of an elaborate and highly ornamental Norman relique still existing,
after the lapse of more than seven centuries, in solitary contrast with
the severe simplicity of an edifice of a different if not later style." So
far the erudite Bishop. As considei^ble repairs were carried on in the
cathedral from 1708 to 1711, the Chapter-Book must be again put under
requisition for accurate information.

Eeb. 25, 1708. Paid Thomas Cash, for six days' work of
two masons hewing, laying, and putting in the bars of
the West window of the church ... ... ... ... £0 1 6 0

To ye same for windows of South isle ... ... ... 0 16 0

Apl. 5, 1708. Paid for carrying rubbish, &c., out of the

church 0 5 0

To cash for throiolng down the ivall of the South Isle of the

church, and for carrying rubbish out 0 10 0

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£20

1709. Mr. Lloyd's account of receipts and disbursements
on the South isle after deduction of IZ. Is.

N. Kennedy, for S. Isle

16 poles for scaffolding

A quarter of a hundred of deal for same . . .

Tai-red ropes ...

To Thos. Greene, for plaistering the S. isle

To two tuns (sic) straight timber

To Humphreys, the glazier, for ye West window, which

the Bishop refused to pay because ill don (sic) 0 15 3

The above items make it plain that there was a complete work of re-
building of the Western fi^ont and the Southern isle early in last century,
which must both or either have altogether fallen down or been found in
a ruinous condition, needing building from the foundation, or nearly so.
This must have influenced considerably the status of the Romanesque
arch. (1) Was it then left where it had been found, and merely built
over ? (2) or was it rebuilt on the same site ? (3) or was its site changed
in order to incorporate it into the newly made or repaired walls ? Look-
ing at the S. wall from the outside, one may see tails and spurs of some
previous rubble work projecting roughly ; and looking at the arch
itself from the inside, the scientific architect will pronounce whether all
the stones of the arch as it stands correspond with the original design,
or whether some have been set out of correspondence with it.

Some Speculative and Historical Statements

upon the antient structure of the cathedral, of which this arch is the
great specialty, may here be appended. Thus Dr. Petrie, in his R.
Towers, &c. (p. 277), argues : *' That the cathedral is not of Brian's time
is sufficiently obvious from its architectm-al details, which clearly belong
to the close of the 12th century ; and its re-erection is attributed, with
every appearance of truth, to Donnell More O'Brien, King of Limerick,
who died anno. 1194. Yet that a 'more ancient church, and one of con-
siderahle splendour, had previously existed on its site, is evident from
the semi-circular archway in the S. wall of the nave, now built upon, and
which is remarkable for the richness of its embellishments in the
Romanesque or ISTorman style. It is true that this archway does not
appear to be as old as the time of Brian ; and the tradition of the place
has probably a foundation in truth which considers it as the entrance to
the tomb of Muuxheartach O'Brien, King of Ireland, who died on the
8th March, a.d. 1120, who, as Ware tells us, was a great benefactor to
the Church of Killaloe; and, pursuant to his commands while living,
was buried there."

The late Mr. Brash makes the following observations on the subject
in his valuable work on " The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland,"
p.l7:-

" At Killaloe we have the cathedral, a cruciform building, without
aisles, having a central tower. Its prevailing character is Early Pointed,
and it is probably erected in the middle of the 13th centuiy. In S.
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ing evidently to a more ancient Cliurch. It does not show externally, but
forms an internal recess. It is of ricli Romanesque design, having four
shafts on each jamb, with carved caps and bases, and diapered surfa<?es.
The arch is composed of four orders, all richly carved. This preserved
door and other indications (vide infra) would jDoint to ani earlier Church
on the same site.''

An allasion to this Cathedral and to the neighbouring churches of
Tomgraney and Inniscaltra in the days of '' the earlier Church," is made
in " Wars of the Gaedhill and the Gail."

" By him (Brian Boroimhe) were erected the Church of Cell-da-lua
and the Church of Inniscealtra, and the Clochteach of Toemgraine."
The terms erect and huilcl (see Petrie), are frequently used in the annals
for repair and re-edify." (The arch was opened out, and discovered by
Bishop Mant, the suspicion of its presence doubtless having been
suggested by the plate in Ware, which indicates the doorway externally.

We regret to notice that the arch has suffered considerably at the
hands of the late Lord Dunraven, vjlio had it vjhiteivashed, to throw out
a photograph more distinctly from the dim southern corner. But his
Lordship's photograph is a complete failure, indeed, the only very bad
one in his two volumes, and the arch is spoiled into the bargain. A
really good representation is given in this volume, reproduced fro^i a
sketch made for Bishop Mant by James Sandes, Esq., architect.)

Mr. M. Keane, at page 372 " Towers and Temples," gives his opinion
on Killaloe Cathedral in the following terms : —

" 1 beg to refer the reader to page 263 ante, for evidence that the
ancient temple at Killaloe was a Cuthite structure, dedicated to Luan,
The Moon, who in Hagiology is turned into St. Luan or St. Mo lua — the
good Moon." So far of historical and scientij&c, also specalative state-
ments.

Tlie Catiiedeal Eeparations, &c.

Subsequent to those already referred to may now claim attention.

1713. The whole charge of flagging tho south aisle and west end of
the chui'ch, being 3,505 foot at o^d. a foot, 51Z. 2s. 3^(1

In 1725, such sums as the Lord Bishop might think fit to expend
were ordered to be laid out in erecting peu^s and gate to the churchyard,
also for making pavements, gravelhng the walk, and other improve-
ments.

In 1728, was an item for planting trees at the west side of the church-
yard wall.

In same year '' It was ordered that the Eight Eev. Charles, Lord
Bishop, shall have the west side of the churchyard wall of Killaloe
raised as many feet higher as shall seem necessary to his Lordship.
And that the part now standing be dashed or painted."

In 1732 the sum of 22/. lis. 3d. was allowed to the Lord Bishop
towards the discharge of a greater sum expended by him in repairing
and adorning the Cathedral of Killaloe.

In 1737 Chapter orders 90Z. to be expended by the Eight Eev.

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Charles, Lord Bishop, upou a clock and other necessary repairs for the
Cathedral.

In 1741 the choir was slated, 8^. Os. 9d.

In 1742, to stripping and slating the choir, SI. Os. 9d.

Mending the Library and other lock.

Repairs ordered, also necessaries herein mentioned be bought as soon
as convenient, viz., two master's hoods, two surplices, cushions for
Bishop's throne, ditto and forms for the stalls, a velvet cushion for the
Chapter, a green cloath {sic) for the table, Communion-table linen, a
font set up without the choire ( ! 1 ), to mend the old Prayer-books and
to buy half-a-dozen new, to have the south isle steeple, and west end of
church immediately repaired.

174i. Ordered that a gown be bought for the Yerger, and that the
steeple walls be dashed.

1782. " Whereas it would be for the dignity of the Cathedral Church
that an Organ should be erected in the same. We therefore approve
that such a sum out of the economy as may be spared from the
necessary uses of said Cathedral may be appropriated to that
purpose, and do hereby impower Thomas, Lord Bishop of Killaloe, to
take such steps towards the same as shall appear proper."

In 1821 the Dean and Chapter consent (in consideration that the
CatTbedral is in so bad a condition as to require a considerable sum of
money to be immediately laid out upon it for its security) to raise the
sum of 10,000Z. by way of loan from the Board of First Fruits, the Dean
and Chapter giving sufficient security for the repayment of loan.

That no reasonable doubt exists of provision to repay when the present
lease of the economy funds shall have expired in 1824.

The Chapter consent that the expenditure be made for the repairs in
such way as the Bishop shall direct.

1827. The Dean and Chapter enter into articles of agreement with
John Cullen, of Newport, County Tipperary, builder, to execute works ,
repairs, alterations, &c., upon Cathedral for 2,050Z., to be paid by two
sums to date, and the rest in instalments haK-yearly, with interest
allowed at six per cent.

These repairs are extensive, and comprise roofing, slating, ceiling,
repairs of pews, new pulpit, reading and clerk's desk, repairs of stalls,
altering throne, stove, repairs in gallery, nave, Bishop's coui't, chapter
and school-room.

Then again there was a supplementary contract for works internal
and external. Total of all, 2,862Z.

All new stalls instead of repairing.

A screen at back of organ.

A new throne, floor, canopy.

Joists new.

In account from 183-5-7, with Cabel Going, Esq., receiver, is the
following amount : —

** Paid difference between old and new bell, 14Z. 176'. 8t2."

In account of 1841 is the following :—

''A marble font for Cathedral, 37."

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In the Chapter o£ 1830 questions "vrere raised as to passing *'the
second bond to Mr. Cnllen," Eev. Robert Hume, referee.

In 1849 a considerable debt, amounting to 2,0007., was still due to Ilr.
Cullen, and the Economy Estate was in Chancery. This slow discharge
and liquidation was noticed by the Ecclesiastical Commission, 1840.

In 1851 a letter was received by the Rev. Wm. E dwards from the
solicitors of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, setting forth the im-
portant legal principle that "the Economy Fund was the proper source
from which the necessary expense should be derived, and that when-
ever repairs are required, and the probable expenses ascertained, a
motion should be made to the Court in Cullen v. Klllaloe, that same
be paid out of proceeds of Economy Estate, and that the building was
not to be allowed to go to ruin."

Mr. Joseph Napier's opinion was sought, and he, relying on 10 and 11
Chas. I. cap. 3, advised that under this Deans and Cliapters v:ere disahJed
from hindlng their successors, so thar. Cullen's charge can/? of be legally
enforced after the incumbency of the present Dean.

After this a valuable report is made by Mr. "Wm. Gillespie, the ac-
complished architect of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Of this
report, as being a full exposition of the condition of the Cathedral in
1851, the following summary is taken : —

The walls are in an | excellent state generally as regards solidity and
perpendicularity and straightness.

Considerable alterations had been made from time to time, but of
snbstantial materials and in an enduring manner. Roofs entii'ely re-
newed, but timbers not strong enough. Choir roof liable to danger — of too
low a pitch. Flooringof choir generally good and sound. Tlie flagging
very good, but should be re-laid ; and as damp rises from below, a good
layer of shingles would remedy it.

(Yide supra in Transepts and Consistorial Court.)

Tower, roof, &c., needs extensive repairs.

The gi'ound outside is higher than the aisle flagging all round, and
should be excavated, particularly on the S. side. A pla<?e like a well, at
angle between jST. Ti-ansept and ISTave, must be drained. The breach
of wall closed up.

Walls external to be pinned, and Barges flashed. ISTew stoves required,
slating good, fence sufHcient.

Absolutely necessary (as above) £287 0 0

Restoration works ... ... ... ... ... ... 505 0 0

On the absolutely necessary works being apphed for by the Receiver
from Master in Chancery, Cullen took defence, but was beaten, on the
ground that the repairs of the huilding are a charge prior to any creditor.
And that it is Receiver's duty to keep Cathedral in proper order.

Accurate account of works done from 1852-3 : —

1. Antient doorway with side of nave re-opened, &c., &c.

2. A ci^ck in window of Bishop's Coui't bound and closed.

3. Rude doorway stopped up and wall closed.

4. Tower roof, thorough renewal.

5. ISIew Choii' roof of open timbers.

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6. Studding removed.

7. Coats of whitewash and paint removed from stonework of great
E. window, also corbels and string course purified with great trouble.

8. Stone wall of E. window renewed where deficient.

9. String course repaired.

10. Two new stone corbels (over Bishop's throne and over S. gallery)
instead of plaister ones.

il. The double Aumbrey on S. side of E. window opened and repaired.
Also that on N. side fully disclosed.

12. Windows on each side of choir opened down,

13. Stoves repaired.

14. Eave shoots re-set.

15. Bishop's throne and stalls repaired, and the latter lettered.

16. New painting and varnishing of wood- work.

17. A new font after pattern of font in West Deeping Church in
Lincolnshire, of 12th Century.

18. Pinnacles re-set.

19. Ancient corheh removed from Tower (this shows that the tower
was not of the original structure), and set in Choir for support of
roof.

Total cost £347 0 0

Discoveries made while the above works were being carried on : —

1. That the original floor of Cathedral was three feet below present
level.

2. Doorway under Purdon monument to an Aisle or Chapel. A
loose panel shows this.

3. Another behind Stall of Inniscathrie, stopped up when S. tran-
sept was built.

4. Two Aumbrey s and Piscina, all now left open.

5. Brass Pixis cover, now in R. I. Academy Museum.

6. Bemains of passage in wall over Bishop's throne.

7. Windows on south side of Choir are very handsomely finished as
to their external framework in carved stones, but now plaistered over,
and cannot be exhibited without new sashes.

8. Doorway in south transept, under early English window, on its
eastern side, very rudely broken in.

9. When the old plaistering was hacked off the walls, it was disco-
vered that a great many elaborately- carved stones were used here and
there as common building stones ; and as a number of these are
elsewhere to be seen {i.e., one immediately inside the door leading up
to the tower, and several on the outside of the eastern gable over the
great window, as well as a couple in the splayed mullions within side),
the presumption seems plain that in former times the Cathedral here
was a building of elaborate execution ; and that, having fallen to ruins,
it was rebuilt in its present plain and unpretending condition. The
east window (which was evidently once in a state of ruin), the richly-
carved corbels, the doorway at the south-western angle of the nave
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light, about 1821, by Bisbop Mant), are all probably remains of the more
ancient building.

10. Several other discoveries, of less importance, were also made,
showing that from time to time great changes have been made in the
building. As an illustration of what has been said in the preceding
paragraph, it may be stated that one of the carved stones which
formed the capital of the pillar, dividing the south aumbrey, was found
in the wall over the window at the north-west corner of the Choir.

W. Edwauds, A.m.,

Precentor of St. Flannan's.

June 7, 1853.

The Obatort.

It is desired to record that in this year the ancient Oratory of St.
Flannan, situated in the Cathedral Yard, was repaired, it having been
in a very ruinous condition. The stone roof was renewed where it had
fallen away ; the earth which had accumulated around it was removed.
Iron gates were put upon it, &c., &c. The whole cost was 6Q1., defrayed
by a collection made throughout the Diocese, and in other parts of
Ireland and England.

John Head Deax.
November 22, 1853.

Mr. Button, in his " Survey of Clare," gives a deplorable account of
the condition of this venerable monument of antiquity. Eut it must
be borne in mmd that this, like some of his other descriptions, was
influenced by his acrimonious feelings towards the clergy. He says
that this building was in a vile state of filth, and used as a fold for the
clergyman's flock,— not of parishioners, but of sheep. " Hie nigri
lohginis fucus ha3c msera aarugo."

The following remarks, and accurately given dimensions of this
building, by lh\ Brash, may be considered a desideratum by those who
wish for correct information : —

*' A few yards from the north side of the Cathedral stands a stone-
roofed church, attributed to St. Flannan, who was the successor of St.
Mullua. In its present form it is a nave of 29 ft. by 17 ft., clear of
walls, which are 4 ft. thick It was built of flat coui^ses of various thick-
nesses, the joints being generally vertical and horizontal. ^Vhen oric^i-
nally finished it must have been a fine piece of mason-work. Inter-
nally it was spanned by a semi- circular arch, which supports the stone
roof; the over-croft is a chamber, the section of which is in form a
pointed arch ; its width on the floor-line is 6 ft. 9 in., its height to
vertex of arch 7 ft. It is Hghted by a semi circular-headed opening in
the west gable, and by an angular-headed one in the east, both having
inclined sides. The doorway is in the west end ; semi-circular headed^
the arch springing from chamfered imposts ; it was 3 ft. 7 in. at base^
3 ft. 2 in. at springing, and 6 ft. 6 in. high to imposts. It is externally
ornamented by a pair of stout jamb-shafts, with carved capitals; the
right-hand one showing two animals much defaced,~the left a sVstem
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cTaainfered. Above these tlie arcb. is moulded, consisting of simple
rounds and hollows, and having a label cut on the under side into rectan-
gular notches—" the square indent." In north wall was a window
opening, in the south a small angular-headed one.

This building had a cliancel, the arch still remains, though now built
up and a common door inserted. It was quite plain ; 6 ft. 6 in. wide,
and springs from chamfered imposts. The chancel has disappeared.
Some toothing stones in the east gable show it to have been 12 ft. wide, its
length might be ascertained by excavation. Jdouht much of its being coeval
ivith the main huUcling, as it appears to have bad scarcely any connection
with it : the narrowness of the archway would also militate against it.
Dr. Petrie labours to prove that it was not the church stated to have
been built by Brien Boroimhe, but that traditionally assigned to St.
Flannan, a.d. 639, and that the ornamental doorway is of same date.
This opinion is untenable. Whatever age the fabric may be, the door-
way cannot be earher than the 10th century, and maybe later. There is
a remarkable incongruity in many particulars between the general
design and details of the church. And the probability is this, that the
original church was erected by St. Flannan, the first Bishop of Killaloe,
somewhere in the middle of the 7th century, the chancel was added, and
the west doorway inserted under the auspices of Brian."

Mr. Crofton Croker, in his " Eesearches," at p. 66, gives a sketch of
this " oratory, or stone-roofed chapel, supposed to be of remote con-
struction, and certainly of a much earlier date than the cathedral. Both
gable ends contain portals; that on the west side is adorned with
mouldings, and the east side (which he sketches as he found it) appears
to have had a building with a lower roof attached to it."

Of the other oratoiy, on Friars Island, a few notes shall appear in the
parish of Templeichally at the end of the topography.

The cathedral and oratory of St. Flannan having been now treated of
in respect of origin, form, and condition, a brief notice may follow as
to the

EcOxNOMY Fund,

with the sources from which it was drawn, and the amomit to which it
reached at different periods :—

It is unfortunate that the old chapter-book, ruuning back prior to
1661, has been stolen, to which fact a reference is made in the existing
chapter-book under the year 1675— "In priori libro capitulari ultimo et
per furtum sublato." But even from this, and from Bishop John
Rider's statements, a full account may be gathered of all the means at
the disposal of the chapter towards the maintenance and repair of the
cathedral and the conduct of the services.

August 9th, 1698.— Mr. P. Fitzsimon, chanter and economist,
accounted for the economy sett in the year 1698 for the sum of
77L 7s.

(This is the first statement in the chapter-book of the particular

amount of economy-fund.)
In 1699 it was set for 99L 76-.

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In 1701 Mr. Patrick Fitzsimon accounted for the sum of 105L 15s. Id.,
" with which he charges himself, as the value of the economy of the
Cathedral of Killaloe f or 1700."

In 1708 the Bishop charges himself with one whole year's rent, 1007.

On going to Eaphoe, in 1713, this Bishop gave up his lease of the
tythes of the economy, and the Cliapter accepted the same.

In 1711?, " we do set all the tythes of lamb and wool for the present
summer, and all other tythes, great and small, belonging to the Chapter
of Killaloe, to Joseph Allen and Wm.. Stones for one whole year."

-^•B. — There were two plots of gi^ound, held in lease by the Bishop
and his predecessors, Bishops of 'KiiloAoe, he! ong in j to tlw Arch deacon rij
and Chancellor of Killaloe, bounded on south by Bishop's orchard, on
east by passage into orchard, on west by Treasurer's plot, on north by
St. Flannan'S'lane. By leave the Bishop takes off so much as may pre-
vent passage into the lane, d'C.

(Signed) :^ic. Killaxoe.

In 1716 the economy fund was 105?.

In 1720 a lease was made of the economy tythes to the Right Rev.
Charles, Lord Bishop.

This is valuable, as there is an accurate specification of these tythes
made in the instrument, thus :- —

"All and singular the tj'thcs, great and small and mixed, belonging
to the said Dean and Chapter, viz., the tythes of the entii^e rector}- of
the parish of Killaloe, the tythes of the rector}^ of Moynoe, the tythes
of the half rectory of the parish of Ogonilloe, the tythes of the vicarage
of the parish church of Feacle, all situate, lying, and being within the
county of Clare. The tythes of the rectory of Dunamona, in the county
of Tipperary, and the tythes of the rectory of Clonrush, in county
Galway, for (in two half-yearly payments) 105/. per annum."

In 1720 the Chapter had trouble with one Allen, to whom they had
previously set the t}'thes.

Besides much expensive law, they had to arrest him. Of these pro-
ceedings there are some curious entries —

£ s. d,
"At Killaloe to Willson's Bill for entertaining the
Coniraissioners and Members of the Chapter at
sirearing our ansicrrs ... ... ... ... 1 3 11

" Sending Affidavit of Anthony Dwyer ... ... Oil

(He was a Solicitor and the Churchwarden of Castle Connell).
" Expensps connected with proof of the arrestino;

of Allen and his being rescued by his Sons ... 118
" To McNamara for taking Allen ... ... ... 49 0

^In 1737 a lease was made of the Economy Tythes to Francis Hawkins
at 1101. per annum.

In 1774 Archd. Synge resigns the office oE Economist and is dis-
charged of all claims against him.

In 1782 Theobald Butler is declared tenant for 21 years under lease
and gives an additional rent of 87. lO^. 7^(7.
In 1781 lease perfected to Theobald Butler's widow.

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In 1803 lease to representatives of Ellen Bonrke, for 21 years at
172L 10s. 7<:Z., these representatives also paying a fine of lOOL and dis-
charging all arrears, &c.

In 1830 the composition for Tythes of Economy of Killaloe Cathedral
amount to 629Z. 19s. lOd. per annum.

But there are ominous entries of expenses of collection, such as —

** For refreshments to Police when attending Receiver in different
Parishes, 21. 16s. lOcZ.

*' For Drivers fees 20L, &c."

In 1865 the Dean and Chapter passed a highly complimentary reso-
lution pointing out their sense of the exertions and valuable services
of Rev. Wm. Edwards, and attached a salary of 25L yearly to the office
of Economist.

After tue Disendowment Act, the EcoNo:^rY Fuxds ^vere taken away

IN TOTO, AND ALL THAT WAS LEITT AS THE NUCLEUS OF A FUND FOR :yiAIN-
TAINING THE CATHEDRAL WAS —

£ S. cl.
Commutation of Clerk, Sexton, and Yerger ... 277 16 10

And 423 15 6

(The interest of which latter sum is to be paid to the present Organist,
Miss Williams, while she performs the duties of her ofiice).

The Officers of the Cathedral.
1st. The Superior Officers, viz. : —
Deans —

McShiddie, Donat, 1552. (See Morin, 1, 283.)
Clancy, Boetius. (Died 1559.)
Ryan, Cornelius, 1559.
O'Horan, Donagh, 1585.
Hogan, Hugh, 1602-1624.
Hackett, Rich., 1624.
Spicer, Alex., 1628.
Parker, Jno., 1637.
(The foUowiDg is the entry of his burial taken from the Registry
of St. Michans, Dublin :— *' John Parker, Deane of Killaloe and Pre-
bendary of the Parish, 1643, June 2nd.")
Pheasant, Jasper, 1662—1692.
During this time his name appears regularly in Chapter Book as
taking a part in the action of the Capitular Body.

In 1676 the Dean presented a renewed petition demanding pay-
ment from the Chapter on the score of salary due to him for serving
the Cure and for Catechizing at 20s. for each Lord's day of the time
of his actual service.

He also demanded that the Prebendaries should attend in person at
the Cathedral unless otherwise absolutely prevented.

He also insisted that this duty was set forth in the former Chapter
Book, which had been stolen. And that it should be in future dis-
charged under a penalty of 20s. in each case of breach.

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Iq 1677, Augt. the Dean sought that his salary be paid.
Eyves, Jerome, 1692—1699.
Abbadie, James, 1699—1727-8.
His name appears at foot of Acts of Chapter at a meeting 4th of
November, 1699. And a tracing of it is given with those of the Bishops
infra,

Pr.^centors,

O'Molowna, Lr., 1591.

Kennedy, DanL, 1604-22.

Andrew, John, 1632—1674. His name appears in Acts of
Chapter always as here spelled.

FitzSimons, Patrick, 1674 — 1705. He was Chapter's Proctor at
Convocation in 1705.

Chancellors,

Flanagan, Christopher, deprived 1615.

Blagrave, Jno., 1618 — 1634 (v. Bishop Eyder, visitation).

Atherton, Jno., 1634.

Bradley, Jno., 1635.

Amyrant, Paul. Dr. Cotton puts his appointment in 1667, but
his name appears in Chapter Book as Chancellor from 1661, and is
spelled as here given.

Wooding, Ei., 1674.

Tomlinson, Dan., 1693.

Twigge, Wm., 1690.

Treasurers,

Bright, Ni., 1615.

Andrew, Jno., 1629.

Sibthorpe, E., 1633.

Eeynolds, Ed. In 1661 his name appears in Chapter Book as
**Thesaur."

Hawkins, Jno., 1687.
In 1693, he was appointed Yicar- General, Chancellor, and OfiBcial
Principal, " durante vita."

Archdeacons,

Nelland or Keiland, Jno., 1558.
(1579. About this time the Bishop had two archdeacons).

Hogan, Patk., 1590—1622.

Lodge, Thos., 1624-5.

Jones, Henry, 1638.

Barclay, Gavin, 1660-1. Thus Dr. Cotton (on the authority of
the Lib. mun Hib.), and so far correctly. But the Chapter Book gives

" Hall, John, Archidiaco 4 die Maii, 1661." (See more in
Bishop Worth's MSS. Book in text.) His name appears again in
Chapter Book in 1676—82—87, 88.

Amyrant, Joseph, 1691, &c.

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The Pkebendahies not being members of the Cliapter.

1. TOMGHANEY —

Flanagan, Patk.

Pagett, Mark, 1613.

Adams, Bernard, 1610 (see Bishop Eyder's visitation).

Gee, Eobt. (Quere).

"Wilkins, Ei, 1626.

Sinclair, Geo., 1666.

Mortimer, Patk., 1675.

Otwaj, Nick, 1685-6.

Higgins, Danl, 1692.

Patterson, Jno., 1698.

2. IXNISCALTRY —

Lynch, Marcus, 1615, deprived.
Eden, Thos., 1617.
Pleaton, Eich., 1633.
Bandynell, Jno., 1668.
"Wilson, Eob., 1670.

Bedell, Wm., 1672. (Was this a son of the great Bishop ? No
other trace of him appears.)

Mortimer, Patk, 1674.
Sinclair, Geo., 1675.
Wallis, Eobt., 1681.
Patterson, Jno., 1685.
Yandeleiir, Jno., 1687.

3. TULLAGII —

Kennedy, Dank, 1604.
Bridgman, Eobt.
Hewitt, Wm., 1627.

Worth, Jno. (The Bishop's son ; see his will and Mason's, St.
Patrick.)

Bedell, Wm., 1672.
Griffith, Jno., 1688.
Wallis, Eobt., 1693.
Tovey, Jas., 1697.

4. Dysert—

Ncalan, Wm.

Callananc, ^ncas, 1612.

I^ysaght, A., 1615.

Stccre, Jiio., 1620.

Twenbrooke, Jno., 1628. (Sec the depositions for his case in
1642.)

Hoyle, Jonatlian, 1635. (Qurere, &c., depositions.)

Fish, Eobt., 1667. (His name appears in Bishop Worth's Book
as holding Church lands under lease ; and in Chapter Book in 1662 as
holding 7 qrs. of Drumcliffe at 60/. per an.)

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Padfield, Jna, 1672.
Considine, Danl.
Jones, .John, 1692.

5. Eath —

White, Bart., 1615.
Wilkins, Ei., 1621.
Hogan, Ei., 1637.

Blood, Nep., 1667. (See Bp. Worth's Book and the Deposi-
tions, &c.)

Goodman, Ei, 1695.

6. Cloxdagad —

Pritchard, Ei , 1615. (See Bp. Eider.)

Booth, Michl., 1619.

Whitstone, Fra., 1667. (The descendants of this clergyman, a
most respectable family, still live and hold property in Clondagad, near
the church.)

Lawson, Jno. (Scotus), 1687.

7. Lackeen —

Omolony, D., 1591 ; also Eector of Dramcliffe.

Andrews, Geo. (See of his career in Bp. Eider's Visitation,
also Stafford's State Letters, Usher, &c.)

Garforth, D., 1620. (See his evidence in Depositions.)

Webbe, Ezk., 1667.

Nelson, Wm., 1693.

Hemsworth, Thos., 1699, Proctor for the Clergy in Convocation.
(This name is found still represented by a most respectable old family
in Lorha parish.)

{^^ The above list is drawn from Dr. Cotton's laborious work, which
in but very few instances has been found incon-ect.)

But other lists may be added, drawn from the Chapter Book. Secondly,
of the clergymen appointed by the Dean and Chapter ; and thirdly, of the
secular and subordinate oflBcers connected with the Chapter and the
Cathedral.

2nd. Curates of Killaloe axd Feakle.

1688, July 7. The Dean, &c., unanimously determined that the cure
of souls of the Cathedral be filled up. In the meanwhile, they take the
duty by turns themselves, and dismiss Daniel Higgins from this
curacy.

In ISTov., 1688, they nominate Mr. Hemy Jennings to serve the cure of
the parishes of Killaloe and Fekill, commencing the year on 25th Koy.
at thirty-five pounds, with the book-money, &c.

In 1693 the Eev. James Tovey is appointed Curate of Killaloe Church
and parish at 30L, with book-money.

In 1699 agreed with the Eev. Mr. (sic) John Patcrson to serve the

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cnre in parisli of Feakle at 5Z. per an., witli book-money allowed him.
This gentleman was also Preb. of Inniscattery, &c. (Probably from him
has come the worthy family of Paterson, at present represented by
Colonel Marcus Paterson, of Clifden.)

1701. To Mr. Cashin, serving cure of Killaloe for one year, 307.

1703. Paid Mr. Cashin, for a year's salary, ending July 21, 1703, and
for two extraordinary sermons (so in the original), 311. lOs.

To Mr. Paterson, for serving the cure of Feakle for one year (an in-
crease), 101.

Mr. Ben. Lloyd came after Mr. Cashin as Curate of Cathedral, &c.,
at 35Z.
Procurator or Econoviiis —

1676. Ed. Reynolds, economus.

1677. Patrick Fitzsimon.

1688. Moxon Watkins de Lorha, procurator ad a^stimandum, &c.,
dccimas, &c.

1692. Thomas MacNamara, of Killaloe, do., do.

1700. Mr. P. Fitzsimon, oeconomist.

1701. Thomas, Lord Bp. of Killaloe, took lease of tythes.

3kd. Secular and Subokdinate Officehs.

1695. Ordered that the sexton, Jonathan Worrall, shall receive the
sum of forty shillings for cleaning the church and chapter-house for said
year. (They must have required it somewhat.)

In 1697, it was agreed that JohnHealy, parish clerk of Killaloe, shall
have 40s. for this year for his care and attendance of the church, and
the sexton also to have the like sum.

Mention having been made of *' Book-money," or church fees, the
following curious petition from John Healy, parish clerk of Killaloe, is
given verbatim : — '* Humbly shewcth that your Petitioner is indebted to
your Eevcrences for Book-money, which your Petitioner sett to other
jjersons, which said persons is runncd out of the country, being thereto
constrained by the Pshioners (Parishioners), so the said Petitioner has
had no manner of satisfaction from ym^ and is therefore like to be a
sufferer thereby to your Reverences, if not by your Eeverences com-
miseration. Your petitioner being in a very loe condition, and not able
to discharge your said debt, and inasmuch as your Petitioner received
no profit thereby, humbly begs your Reverences to forgive the debt or
as your Reverences sliall think fit."

(To this early example of the danger of creating or allowing a ruiddle-
■lu'i !/'.'< hit<rpst, vrhfther in fees or in farms), the Chapter graciously
" orders that J. Healy be forgiven 5?.. Is."

A verger, or virgcr, is also paid.

Nothing remaining now of the information attainable except con-
cerning

Education,

of this a note is copied to the following effect :—
*' For slating the school-house," 14,5.

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This, however, dates after 1700, and not until even later on appear items
of payment (miserable ones too) for the schoolmaster and the diocesan
schoolmaster.

Communion Tllte.
Patella. — Inscription on : —

" Ex dono reverendissimi in Christo
Patris Nicholai Episcopi Laonensis."

Chalice. — No inscription on it.

On Fiaxjon. — A coat of arms overhead; underneath the following in-
scription : —

" Deo et Sacris per Rever Dan
Witter Sac Sanct Theol Dooi
et Episi Laonen,
1674."

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THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE PARISHES.

The parishes are taken in the order in which they stand under the
several rural deaneries, as set forth in the Eegal Visitation of 1622, and
the particulars to which attention is dh^ected appear in the following
order throughout, viz. : —

1°. The name or names of the parish.

2°. The meaning or etymology of the name, as given by some com-
petent authority in Irish literature.

S". The size, with the actual and relative situation of the parish in
each case.

4°. The ecclesiastical and other principal ancient remains and documents ;
also brief notes of men of mark, old famihes, natural curiosities,
or any historical incidents of importance connected with the
parish ; also the inscriptions on old church plate.

I. The Eural Deaxery O'Mullod.

This is the same as the territory or cantred of O'Mullod, so called from
'' M'Blod, the son ofCasr

KiLLALOE Parish.

The name is usually interpreted as Klll-cla-lna, or KiU-O'MoUua, from
a famous saint of the 6th century, who is believed to have iBlourished
here. (Lanigan, quoted at Clont'crt-Mollua, infra.)

The parish is situated on the western side of the Shannon, in size
13,045 acres ; and is bounded on the north hj the parish of Ogonello and
Xilno ; on the west by that of Killokennedy ; on the south by Kiltc-
nanlea ; and on the east l)y the Shannon, which separates it from the
county of Tipperary.

The ecclesiastical remains are the cathedral, and the stone-roofed
oratory, or dulrthracli, to the north of it, which is not unlike Saint
ColumKille's house at Ivells, or Kevin's kitchen at Glendalough. Par-
ticulars of these structures are given in detail in Appendix on Cathe-
ch'als. Killaloe was once the resort of many pilgrims. There is a
well dedicated to St. Flannan at the east end of the town. On an
eminence, iust where the Shannon contracts above the rapids, is the
spot where the great King of Ireland, " Brian Boriomhe, fixed his
residence, at Chann-Coradh (the ITcad of the Weir), in the immediate
neio'hbourhood of his own ancestral residence of Grianan LacJdria, the
rains of which are still to be seen on the south shoulder of the hill of
Craiglh-Llatlb, about a mile north-west of Killaloe." (E. O'CmTy's
" Manners and Customs," vol. 2, lee. vi.) Bishop Mant caused one of

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the crosses, removed from Kilfenora, to be erected in the demesne at

Clares-ford, with a Latin inscription to this effect : —

Qnam spectas crucem

In Agro Fenaborensi vetustate collapsam

Ke penitus incuria sitnque abolesceret

Hie

Apud sedeni Laonensem

Erigi Curavit

Antiquitatis ecclesiastic^e Studiosus

E.M.S.T.P.

Utriusque dioceseos Episcopus

A.D. MDCCCXXI.

'' The Bishop writes that he found two or three out of the five or six
stone crosses of Kilfenora broken and lying on th*fe ground, neglected
and overgrown with weeds. The clergyman of the parish (E-ev. E-ichard
Brew, afterwards Prebendary of Tulloh) proposed to send him one of
the crosses, which be said might be done without difficulty or danger of
giving offence." (Bishop Mr.nt and his Dioceses, 183.)

Craghath Mountain is the widely-known haunt of the great evil spirit,
the banshee of Munster and the Dalcassians. Curious that all the
saints and bishops have not exorcised her. Has she gone since the
potato-blight and the emigration p

Clonlea Paeisii,

or Clonleagh, or Clonleigh, which means " The Meadow of the Calves."
The parish comprises 5,355 statute acres. It is 4^ miles north of Six-
mile Bridge, bounded on the north by Clonic and Tulloh, on the south
by Kilmurrynegaul, east by KiJseil}^, west by Quin. On the south-west
bank of Clonlea Lake are the ruins of the old parish church and the
burial- gi^ound. In this parish is also the old ruin of Stackpoole
Castle.

KlLriNAGETA PaEISII.

Kilfinaghta, or Kilfinaughty. That is to say, the Clinrch of Flnar/lda.
Who he was, or where this church stood, seems unknown. The parish
comprises 7,212 acres, mostly mountain ; is on the River Ougarnee, and
on the old road from Limerick City to Ennis. It is bounded on the
north by Kilmuriynegaul parish, on the south by Kilfintinan parish,
on the east by Kilcely and Kilquane parish, and on the west by
Dromline and Finough. A church stands at Bally sheen, which is
considered to be the Church of Kilfinaghta.

Inscrijjfion on Cltalice.

The Gift of
Cuuiicn IN YE County

TO Y'E Six Miles

(3y OF Clare, Iuly ye 8,

1713.

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There are some old raonumental slabs in Sixmile Bridge Church,
which, i£ decypherable, shall appear after this Appendix.

KiLTEELY PaHISLT,

Also called Kilseily.
This parish is about 10,000 acres in extent, is situated nine miles
west-by-south from Killaloe on the road to Ennis, and six miles north
of Limerick City; and is bounded on the north by Killuran and
Tulloh parishes, on the south by Kiltannalea and Kilquane, on the
east by Killokennedy, on the west by Clonlea. There are extensive
slate quarries in the mountam country of Broadford.

Killuran Paiusii.
This means the Cliurclu of JuhJiran or XJraii—dj saint now unknown to
fame. Only some of the south wall remains. The parish is about
seven miles to the north-west of Killaloe, and in extent 3,107 acres.
It is bounded on the north by Kilnoe, on south by Kilseily, east by
Killaloe, west by Tulloh and Clonlea. There aru some few remains
of old castles — e.g,, Monegona and Tierovane.

Killokennedy Paeisii.
The name is obvious. It is about five miles from Killaloe ; contains
9,347 acres, mostly heathy mountain. It is bounded on the north by
Killaloe, on the south by O'Brien's B., on the east by ditto, on the
west by Kilseily and Killuran parishes. The old church, built of field
stones, stands in Glenomcra, is partly rebuilt, and not divided into nave
and choir. Here is a holy well and old ash tree, which, according to an
inscription on a stone, *' was planted by Wm. Doogan, P.P., in 1733."
His tomb was erected by himself, long before his death, with the in-
scription : —

''This thomb was erected by Wm. 0 'Doogan, Eector
of the Parishes of Killaloe, Kilseely, and Killo-
genncdy, 1723."

KiLNOA Paiusii,
Alias Kilnoe, and signifies the New Clairch.
The main road from ScarifE to Ennis cuts this parish at about three
miles from former to^n. It comprises nearly 10,000 acres, and is
bounded north by Tomgrancy and Feackle, on south by Killuran, on
east by Ogonelloe, on west by Tulloh. The ruins of the church remam
at the roadside, near the Lake of Ballinahinch. Here, too, is a well,
dedicated to St. Mocollo of Tulla. Possibly this latter was the old
name. Some old ruins remain of the Castles of Ballinahinch, also of
Coolreagh.

Peackle Parish,

Alias Feacle.
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narrow strip of arable land, running to a point into the wild heathy
mountain of Sleive Eichtghe. The walls of the old church were built
up into the new Protestant Church in modern times. While the patron
saint of Tulla is Mochille ; he of Feackle is Mochunna. In this parish on
the Townland of Ballycroum is perhaps the most curious well in Ireland,
as fully bearing identification with the well called " The Kling of
Waters," celebitited in Book of Armagh. Tubber-Graney is resorted
to for the cure of sore eyes. Little doubt can be that this was a Pagan
well, worshipped by the old idolaters of Ireland, of whom were two
kinds — the worshippers of fire and the worshippers of ivatcr. The
modern people of Feackle seem to have united these forms of worship
in the extensive production and use of Fire-icater, distilled and imbibed
largely until the revenue and police officers interfered. The Lake of
Loughgraney is extensive, and its sides are well wooded ; also rare
exotics bloom in great luxuriance in Cahir, the romantic residence of
Wm. O'Hara, Esq. The late James Molony, Esq., of Kiltanon, opened
up this wild district by modern roads. Traditions exist of superior
schools being carried on in these wild retreats of the people, whose love
of learning was inextinguishable.

ToMGRANEY Parish.
Alias Termon i graxey.
This name is considered by some, and on antient Irish authority too,
to have been given in allusion to the worship of GrancBVLS Apollo, the
Sun- God. Others associate this name with some poetical fancy of the
entombment of The Lady Grain, which in plain prose is nothing but the
fact that a certain mountain stream arising in Lough Graney has its
outflow into the Shannon near hand.

The parish is situated on Scariff Bay, a deep indent of Lough Derg,
and comprises nearly 8,000 acres. The great N.W. limestone district of
(Jlare dips at Bodjke Hill and reappears across the Shannon in Lower
Ormond, near Dromineer. The soil where the limestone and shale
blend is, as usual, sound and rich. The parish is distant about 8 miles
from the N.N.W. of Killaloe, and is bounded Is. by Moynoeand Feackle,
S. by Kilnoe, E. by O'Gonelloe and the Lake, and W. by Kilnoe. The
ecclesiastical structure still iised as the parish church, and more
particularly the W. gable, have exercised the skill and elicited the
admiration alike of speculative archaoologists and of practical architects,
from Dr. Pctrie to Mr. Marcus Keane and the late Mr. Brash. Lord
Dum-aven has photographed the western gable as quite a wonder of
Cyclopean architecture.

It is but right to mention that Mr. John O'Donovan, in the Letters
Ordnance Survey, has committed himself to the opinion that " the pre-
sent church of Tuaim Greiue is of no antiquity, and there is nothing
there by which the antiquarian can be interested but a rude castle.'*
Lord Dunraven's editors seem to have fallen into an error by following
Archdall, who places "Tomgraney Church three or four miles east of
Lough Derg," whereas this church is to the west of the lake and not a
mile from the head of ScarifE Bay. However, the measurements and
descriptions are worthy of attention, as given with accuracy and abilitv.

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To summarise, in the most abstract form, the various statements,
theories, historical allusions, and expressions of astonishment exceed the
present limits. Suffice it, then, to reproduce from the accurate obser-
vations of Mr. Brash, -with something added out of Lord Duuraven's
notes and Mr. Keane's theories. Having quoted from " The Wars of
the Gaedhillwith the Gaill" that Brian Borhoime erected the Church of
Celldalua and the Church of Inniscealtra, and the Clochtcach of Tuam-
grainey, &c., Mr. B. adds : —

" The terms ' erect ' and ' build ' are frequently used in our churches
for ' repair and re-edify,' and Brian's works at the two former churches
were certainly of the latter description. It is also a curious fact that
though his work at Tomgraney is confined in the above passage to the
Clocliteacli, of which there is no trace in memory or tradition [however,
Pctrie asserts the contrary], yet ' iJi-e great stone clm/rclo' of that place,
which still exists, shows in its eastern end an addition apparently of the
same age as the ornamental j^ortions of St. Flannan's and St. Camin's.
The west end of Tomgraney Church is tlie finest speriinen of ilu? j'n'iriiitioe
type ill 01 i/r Island. Its massive Pelasgic-looking doorway and grand old
masonry strike both antiquary and architect with astonishment, while
the east end, in its attached quoin-shafts and Komanesque windows,
evidences a much later age."

In Lord Dunraven's vol. (I., p. 121) it is called —

''A long building, measuring on the outside 78ft. 6in. in length by
27ft. in width. It is divided by a cross wall into two compartments,
which may be termed nave and chancel, though in reality they are sepa-
rate buildings, the work of different periods and styles. The older
portion, or nave, measures 36ft. by 21ft. 6in. It is built of massive
polygonal masonry. The stones, which are closely fitted, arc of great
size, particularly in the north wall, one being 7ft. long by 2ft. deep.
There are square pilasters, or antce, at the W. corners of the building,
which measure 2ft. lOin. and 1ft. 11 in. deep. They are capped by a
double projecting course of stone. The W. door is square-headed, with
inclined sides, built of massive blocks of wcll-CQt stone, which extend
the full thickness of the wall, thus being 3ft. in depth. It is tift. 5in.
high by 3ft. 5in. wide at base, 3ft. 2in. at top. The lintel is 7ft. Lin. long,
the only ornament a flat architrave band Oin. wide, Jin. deep. There are
two rude square-headed windows in nave. In the later-built portion,
or chancel, the masonry is very peculiar. The tower portion is fine
jointed ashlar, continued for 7ft. or 8ft. above the level of the ground.
Over this the work is inferior, and higher still it is laid on irregular
courses, such as in the masonry of O'Eourke's tower at Clonmacnoise.
Then of the wnidows. That in N. wall of chancel is very handsome. In
the windows of the S. wall of chancel the mouldings arc very curious.
Tliey resemble the wmdow at Monaincha, are square-headed outside and
round inside, with vertical jambs. The aiigle chevron and mould roll-
moulding may be seen on these windows," &c.

That the founder was Cronan is deduced from the fact that the
Abbots of this place were called " Coarbs of Cronan." So far in
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theory, iDronounces upon Tomgraney Churcli thus (at p. 079 " Towers
and Temples, &c.") :— '' There seem to have been two Cuthite (from
Cush, son of Nimrod) temples at this place, one of the plain, the other
of the ornamented style. Fragments of both are incorporated in the
modern church." Mr. Keane also identifies " Cronan, the founder, with
Cronos, the Titan, Saturn," just as he would identify '' Kieran with
Chiron the Centaur, and Dichul with the D L"

Here it may be well to quote a passage fi'om " The History of the
Architecture of all Countries, by James Fergusson " (vol. ii. p. 345).

The identity of Armenian with Msh old ecclesiastical architecture
having been established by a citation of particulars as to size, foiTn,
grouping, and ornamentation of both, Sir J. Fergusson proceeds to
account for this in a footnote, for which we make no apology, so great
is its value as a clue to the solution of the arch^ological difficulties
involved. " It may seem (p. 345, supra) so wild a speculation to breatlie
it even in a footnote ; but it is, nevertheless, a fact, that there is a
similarity between the styles of Armenia and Ireland that cannot be
mistaken. It may, of course, be accidental, but is it not also possible,
that during the Persian i-)erseevAions in the oth and 6tJi. centuries some
exiled Chri)<tians may have sonr/ht refnr/e in the r/reen island of the West,
and hrovcjht with tJicni their arts ? It is true it may be suggested that
the two countries may hav^ derived their architecture from some
common source external to both ; but whether this be so or not, it at
least seems certain that if there was no communication between
Armenia and Ireland, the coincidence is exceptional. There is no other
case at present known of two countries whose architecture, without the
one boiTowing from the other, presents anything approaching to the
similarity both in plan and detail that exists between the Churches of
Armenia and those of Ireland in the earlier stages of their art." At the
same time, although Sir J. Fergusson may have been a first-rate archi-
tect, his assertion or supposition requires an historical substantiation.
Can anyone prove historically that these Armenian Christians left their
country on account of persecution for religion at the time stated, also
that they made their way to Ireland and set up their religion there, and
built churches, &c., on the models of those they are said to have left
behind them in their own land .^ ^^^cn this is done, the controversy
will be brought out of the regions of speculation ard assertion into tho
solid standing grounds of fact and history.

In reference to remarkable men connected with Tomgrane}', the fol-
lowing is abridged from ''a memoir compiled for and presented by
Eev. Wm. M. Brady, B.D., son of the late Cliancellor of Ireland, Eight
Hon. M. Brady, to be preserved along with the Registers of the parish of
Tomgraney" (''J. E. Garstin, scripsit "). The late Eev. T. B. Brady,
Prebendary of Tomgraney, was the 8th in descent from Sir D. O'Grady,
or O'Brady, Knight, chief of his name, who resigned the lands held by
his ancestors to King Henry YIIL, and had a regrant of them by
patent, 5th Jan., 151-3, under name of Thoymcrcncy F3-nnagh, Kvlla-
chullybeg, to him and his heirs in capite by service of Knight's fee.
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name ("The O'Grady," from whom descend O'Gradys of Killballyowen,
Lord Yi&count Guillamore, and the other branches of the O'Gradys and
Gradys), surrendered to Queen Elizabeth, &c. (see Perrot's deed, infra),
and received regrant with Hugh, his younger brother, and heirs for
ever. This Hugh was the Eight Hon. and Most Eev. Hugli Brady, or
0' Grady, Lord Bishop of Meath, the first prelate of the Reformed faith
who held that see. He was advanced to it by favour of Queen Elizabeth
and Cecil. During his incumbency the See of Clonmacnoise was added
to Meath. He died 13th Feb., 1583, and was buried in his native towc,
Dunboyne, County Meath. His will is preserved. His descendants
always called themselves " Brady." His eldest son and heir had liveiy
of his estate by patent, 6th March, 1630. From him descended the
ancient family of Brady of Tomgraney. The Bishop's second son,
Nicholas, was grandfather of the Rev. Dr. Nicholas Brady, Prebendary
of Kilnaglony, Cork, and afterwards Rector of Clapham, London, &c.
He translated the new version of the Psalms of David, in conjunction
with Nahum Tate, the Poet Laureate. He was Chaplain to King William
and Queen Mary, after to Queen Anne, was born 28th Oct., 1659, at
Bandon, County Cork, and died 22nd May, 1726, at Richmond. He was
great-great-grandfather of Right Hon. M. Brady, Lord Chancellor of
Ireland in 1859. An original oil-painting was in the Chancellor's
possession of the translator of the Psalms.

MoiNOE Parish,
Alias Moynoe.

This is from two Irish words signifying The valley of the Yew-tree,
Many places are called from this feature, e.fj., Youghal or the Yew of
the Stranger. The parish is about 8 miles to the N.W. of Killaloe, and is
near the village of Scariff, so called from the rongli and tumbling waters
of the river that runs into the Shannon from L. Graney. It contains
nearly 2,000 acres, and is partly mountainous. Is bounded on IST. by
Feackle, on S. by Tomgraney, on E. by Inniscaltra, and on W. by
Tomgraney. The old church still stands, and is in ruins. Near hand is
the square building erected by the Reade family as a burying place.

Clonrush Parish.

This must be the meadoio of the BeisJc, or ivet marsh land. The parish
comprises 11,000 acres, and is situated in Covinty Galway, on L. Derg.
It is bounded by Ballynakill and Woodford on N., by Inniscaltra on S.,
by same on W., and by Shannon on E. There are no ecclesiastical
remains or monuments of interest. There are iron mines in the hills,
and near Whitegate a curious old building remains, said by the people
to have been a smelting house for preparing the iron. This may account,
in part at least, for the utter want of old timber.

Inishgaltrah Parish,

Alias Inniscaltra. Bishop Rider gives a derivation as The Idand of
Altars f or Churches,

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The parish is situated at the south corner of County Galway, and runs
along the beautiful shore of Lough Derg. It is in extent ^,000 acres.
The ruins on the island are extremely interesting and picturesque, and
include Caimin's Church, the belfry, the oratory, the confessional, St.
Mary's and St. Michael's Churches, &c. The belfry or round tower is
now but 80ft. in height, and is 4'Gft. in circumference. Dr. Petrie, in
reference to the rule of proportion established in the Senchus Mor
between the church and the belfry, observes on this one to the follow-
ing effect :— "In cases of chvirches ha^dng a chancel and nave the rule
equally applies. Thus the church of Inniscaltra gives a perimeter ot
162ft., from which deducting 46ft., the circumference of the tower, we
have 116ft. as the prescribed height of the latter, which cannot be far
from the actual original height of the tower. For to its present height
of 80 must be added 10 or 12ft. for the upper story now wanting, 15ft.
for conical roof, and a few feet for portion concealed at its base. (Petrie,
E. Ts. p. 366-7.)

Of Caimin's Church itself, it may be noted briefly that it stands E.N.E.
of the belfiy, is divided into nave 31ft. by 21ft., and chancel 15ft. by
12ft. 6in., wall 2ft. 6in. thick, E. wall gone, masonry irregular, inside
plaistered, chancel 8ft. 6in. in height, eave-course partly ornamented by
large pellets, masonry of chancel unlike that of nave, is fine jointed
ashlar, flat pilaster buttresses at E. and W. ends of nave, &c. Chancel
arch is of fine cut stone, of tliree plain orders, not rounded 'off,
fine on gaged shafts in the jambs, capitals very peculiar. This beautiful
arch (now as well as capital at N. side somewhat displaced and in
danger) measures 10ft. 2in. iu width at bottom, 9ft. llin. at top of
jambs ; the height is 5ft. from ground to capitals. Eev. Jas. Graves
pronounces tliis chancel arch to be work of a date earlier by a centiiry
than that in Cormac's chapel, and has no doubt of its being the inserted
work of King Brian. He relies on the absence of profuse surface orna-
ment and on the square-cut plain orders of the arch, &c. (In this
respect is there not a striking resemblance to Nouhaval chancel arch ?)
The base of a cross may be seen 30ft. S.E. of chancel. It is inscribed —

ILAD IN DEIOHEiS^ BOIR.

The Stone Tomb of the ten Persons.

The remains of a stone tomb are to be seen 100 yds. E. of the church,
towards the shore of the lake ; one of the stones of which it is built is
4^ft. long by 1ft. thick. It has a narrow doorway of cut stone on E.
side ; the walls are down ; dimensions 12ft. 9in.

Can this be the tomb ordered by Sir Teigue Mac O'Brien Arra to be
specially erected for his remains according to the direction of his will ?
Or can this be the broken-down tomb Oft. square to the north-west, near
the enclosure?* St. Mary's Church is larger than St. Caimin's, and
not peculiarly interesting. Lord Dunraven points attention to an

* Sii^ T. O'B.'s will (see next page).

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inscTi])ed stone witb. an interlaced cross connected with this island, with
an inscription —

OR DO CHUNK

i.e.,
Pray tor Conn. Can this be " Cinnathin, one of the four sons of
Cas, 6th in descent from Corniac " ? Lord Dunraven, not without
genealogical authority to rely npon, claims this as the head of the
O'Quin family. At the same time, the seat of this family lay in the
opposite direction at Inchi-quin lake. Miss Stokes, in " Christian In-
scriptions," gives other monnmental inscriptions — 5-4 Or do Ardesi, 55
MoENGAL Mac Lodgin, 56 supra, 57 Or do Diarmait Mac Dolbad. He
was a bishop here early in 10th century, 58 Or do Meal Patrick, not
identified, 59 Or do Siatii-bertacu.

Extracts from the will of Sir Tirrelagh O'Brycn, Knight and
Baronet. Prerogative, 1626.
' Imprimis. I bequeath my soule unto Almightye God my Saviour
and Redeemer, and my lodie to he hurled in a clta.ppell to he made for mee
near our Ladyes Clinrrh- in Inishlcealirye. He then disposes of his
mortgaged and other properties, &c., inter alia. "1 will and ordain
that the said Daniel O'Bryen shall stand and be seized and possessed of
the Prebendary (he means the Prebend) of Tullagh, within the Diocese
of Killaloe, during my interest therein, to such pious uses as I have
appointed." He leaves all and singular his fishing wares and fishings
on the Synyn (Shanon) to his mother, Slanync Bryen, and after her
decease the remainder and reversion to the said D. O'Bryen, without
power of reversion. He makes a bequest of -lO?. sterling that shall
accrue and issue out of the parsonage of Castletown, to be given to
John O'Duigin Dr. Mdear/ltlero CyQiidij (Yicar-Gcncral of Killaloe),
and Father Bryen O'Bryen to be disposed of, as to them in
their conscience shall be thought mcete. Some of his personal bequests
give a good idea of life in Thomond 200 years ago, and accordingly are
abrido-ed. He gives his chiefest bay horse, with his best saddle, to his
cousin John O'Carrule of Clonlyske.

To Thomas Hogaue, his black mourning suite, new cloak and all, with
his wax boots and black spurrs, and 5/. sterling.

To his uncle, Olhver Grace, one of his pistalls, and to his cousin,
Bryan Duff, the other.

He bequeaths his wife's gowne to his sister, Mary Butler, and the
trunke wherein it is kept, his wedding-ring to the Countess of Ormond.
He bequeaths to Lewis Walsh his second bay horse, three of his best
mares and fovir English cowes, and a cupp of his plate. He bequeaths
to his brother John those parcels of plate that his father left him, with
his best salt. To his sister Margaret, one of his cupps of plate and a
mcasing (sic) (qu. from maison) pan. Leaves to his sister More one
cupp more, and a measing pan.

Leaves his largest cupp of plate he has to our Ladies Caiurch m
Inishkeaterye, to be made a chalice of, there to remain for his soule.
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viall-booke to his cousin D. O'Bryen, his crossbow and fowling-peece to
Philip Grace.

Item, his riding- coat e and cnllered (sic) hatt to T. McPharrallane, if
he will, otherwise to T. O'Hogane. He leaves his black boots and his
new spunks to "W. Hurley, the other black paire to D. O'Hogane.
Leaves the lyninge-velvett of his red cloke to be made into a vestment
of to the Church of our Lady at Inniskattery aforesaid.

Leaves his black velvett cloke to Lewis Walsh, with his black satten
suite and olde morninge cloak to D. O'Hogane. He leaves his black
nag to his servant man, and his beaver hatt to T. Bourke, &c., &c.

Probate granted 29th Nov., 1626, to the Executors.

In the S. wall of the great Church there is an inserted monument of
an elaborate kind, with the following inscription : —

" This monument was erected by the Lady Slaney MacO'Brien, sister
to Sir Tirlagh," and underneath,

" Here lye the bodies of the noble Knight, Sir Teigue Mac O'Brien-ara,
Baronet, who died 28th March, a.d. 1626. And his lady, d. to the Eight
Hon. Walter, Earl of Ormond, who died 10th Feb., 1625. Pray for
their soules.

Memento raori."

Attention is directed to another inserted slab, which contains the
following : —

(The Grady Arms)
" Yulneratus non Yictus."
(" Ja:mes Grady repaired these cnuRcnEs and monuments to tue

PRAISE AND GLORY OF GoD.")

Bishop John Rider describes the annual gatherings or patterns, in his
time, as most objectionable. Mr. P. Dixon Hardy and some of the
old people of the place tell stories of very dreadful wickedness done in
the present centuiy. Public opinion, fortunately for common decency,
has couipelled the managers of the lucrative traffic in iniquity, con-
ducted under the name of religion, to suppress the meetings totally.

Of St. Camin hiinself a word may be added. There is a Camin's
Church at Aranmore as well as here ; but this is not the only case in
which the great educational and missionaiy establishment of Anin sent
forth labourers even far more eastward, as Brendan to Clonfert, Cole-
man to Roscrca, and Brecan to Meath. He belonged to the 7th century.
As one of the authorities states, " St. Camin flourished here in miracles
and vii^tucs about the year of salvation 610." (A. 1, M.) But he was
also noted for abstinence, and for learning having wi'itten a copy of the
Psalms of David in the Hebrew. A few leaves of what was considered
to be this identical document were extant even to the time of Arch-
bishop Usher, who expressed an opinion to this effect. And these
leaves are still preserved in the Franciscan Library, Dublin (so Mv.
Moehan states in Fi*anciscans, 5th edition).

]\Ii\ Philip Eeade, of Woodparks, showed the writer a bunch of keys,
large and antique, which were found on disturbing the grave of an old
sacristan or sexton. They must have belonged to the old churches.

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Ogonilla Parish,

alias Ogonnelloe, This is so called from a settlement made there by the
O'Connells, from Limerick ; after whom a barony in same county is also
named. It is situated about four miles north of Killaloe, on the road to
Scariff, with the lake for its eastern boundary, Killaloe for its southern,
Tomgraney its northern, and Killokennedy its western. Its size is about
5,500 acres. In this parish is BelkelJy Wood also Cahir Castle which
in recent times was bombarded by artillery brought from Limerick,
as the building was applied to the very improper use of a distillery of
mountain dew.

Castle Connell Paeish,

alias Stradbally or Bircet-town, Castle Connell or Conings Castle, alias
Capella de Judum (qusere) Cluain. The parish is in county of Tip-
perary and principally in Limerick, is about six miles from the city ;
is bounded on the east by the Shannon, on the west by O'Brien's B.,
on the north by Kilmurry and Kilnegaruff, on the south by Newport.
It comprises 5,850 acres. This parish, although of remarkable beauty
along the banks of the Shannon, is not in its ecclesiastical aspects re-
markable, the only ruin being the remains of a friary on an island. Of
the castle it is needless to discourse further than that it belonged to the
De Burgh OS, had once four round towers at the four corners, and was
destroyed by De Ginkle in 1690. Here is a spa, praised by Eutty, and
once much frequented, but now forsaken. It is chalybeate.

Killinaganistfe Parish,

alias Kilnegarruff ; doubtless so called from the vicinity of the church
to the tumbling or broken waters of a stream, such as tliat from which
ScarifE gets its kindred name. This parish is next to Stradbally, on the
south or Limerick side, comprising 2,900 acres ; has no monuments of
ecclesiastical antiquity, the church having been destroyed by the Crom-
wellians.

KiLTINANLEA PARISH.

Alias Doonassy ; also Kiltonanlca.

This is pronounced to mean the Church of Senan the Hoar?/. Another
name like this is to be found in Kiltanon,ncar Tulla ; doubtless pointing
to the same saint. The parish is on the road between Killaloe and
Limerick, and is about four miles from the latter city. There are no
monuments of ecclesiastical antiquity to be found here. The second
name of Doonass, or Doonassy, is interpreted *' The fort of ilie rapids.''
Its situation is unrivalled, in beauty.

There is a curious instrument given by Dr. Theiner, in his Momnnenia,
p. 433, by which Pope Pius IL, in 1462, removes Malachias Maconmara
from his living and appoints Thady Maconmara instead. Malachias,
*' Eector Parochialis ecclesias de Clueynlard (Clonlara) Medie-Cantricdo
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fornicator existit." And then lie is to be removed, on proof after trial,
from "ecclesia de Killokemedid," which is in respect of the vicarage
worth " sex marchanim steriingorum."

THE EUEAL DEANEET OF OGASSIX

This name Ogassin, or Ogashin, is supposed to be derived from Cas,
the head of the great Dal-cass-iaiv race. We find the first parish in this
cantred according to Civil, or Eural Deanery in ecclesiastical division,
to be

Also Choin, or Quinchey, or Cuinche, or Quint.

This is supposed to point to the name of " a Saint Conclienna, sl virgin
from whom the place took its name, and who is venerated here on the
28th April." This, however, is disputed ; inasmuch as " it was prophe-
sied that the place would be named from or hj St. Flneen.''^ All this
indicates clearly a feeble attempt to reconcile medieval piety with
Keltic philology. The parish is about five miles east of Ennis, and is
bounded on the north by Cloney, on the south by Tomfinlough, east by
Cloney and Clonlea, and on the west by Dowrie. The great feature of
ecclesiastical interest is the Abbey, weU situated on a fair flowing
river, and one of the finest and most comjDlete remains of monastic
antiquity in Ireland. It is built of black marble, and the carvings have
been remarked for their resistance to the effects of weather ; not so the
carving on the tombstones, which are much corroded by the tooth of
time, and few ol them easily deciphered. An old abbey erected here was
consumed by fire in 1278. The Monastery for Fi-anciscans was founded
here in 1402, by Sioda (or the Son of Hugh) Con McXamarra, of
Glancullein. The best descriptions the writer has met with are now
given, being — 1st. King Henry YIII.'s deed to G'Bryen, of Douagh ;
2nd. Queen Elizabeth's renewal ; 3rd. Bishop Pococke's account in the
last century ; 4th. In Modern Times Lady Chatterton's Tour.

18th September, 1578.

Qnin,
(1) 2687.

For the term of 21 years or less for and in

consideration of the sum of 40s. cun^ent money of Ireland,

hath demised, gi-anted, and let unto the said Ti MaConnor
O'Brien and Tierlagh O'Brien, and their assignes,the scite, circuite, and
precincte of the late house of Fi-ances Friars, of Q.ueyae, in Thomonde, in
County Clare, containing 1 acre ; in which is one great church, now
ruinose, covered with sclate and stepill, greatelie dacied, and church-
yard and cloister and one greate hauU, fowre chambers, two cellers,
and ruinous Doctor (s/c)— (query, f?oi'eco/e), with an orchard, and other
edifices, &c., of the said Fricra ; and also one water-mill, now ruinous
and prosti-ate, and ten cottages in the town, village, or Immlet of Quiney,
with outgardens and all other lands, &c., belonging to the frier}', and
woods, imdcr woods, and all kind of mines, advousens of churches

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knights fees, &c., &c., excepted. Hedge-botte, plougli-botte, fire-botte,
cart-botte, and housel-botte, reserved to the said tenents, to be expended
in and upon the premises and not elsewhere. Tenents yearly to repair
sufficiently, and keep np all houses, cottages, chancels, and other
buildings.

(Taken from certified copy of original among Ennistymon papers.)

15th December, 1584
(2) 26 Elizabeth.

A surrender of lands, and grant back again of the same, as also grant
of the Abbey of Quin and all belonging to it— To Sir Tirlagh O'Brien,
of Innisdymene, his heirs and assigns for ever : irrovicled that he and his
heirs shall not conspire with rebels.

3. Bishop Pococke states that " Quin is one of the finest and most entire
monasteries that he has seen in Ireland. It is situated on a fine stream,
vrith an ascent of several steps to the church. At the entrance one is
surprised with the view of the high altar enthe, and of an altar on each
side of the arch of the chancel. To the S. of the chapel, with three or
four altars in it, is a very fine Gothic figure in relief of some saint. On
the iST. side of the chancel is a fine monument of the family of the
McITaman-as, of Ranee (Ranee), erected by the founder. On a stone by
the high altar the name of Kennedye appears in large letters. In the
middle, between the body and the chancel, is a fine tower built on two
gable ends. (This square campanile, placed central and so supported, is
a characteristic of the Franciscan Abbey.) The cloister is in the usual
form, with couplets of pillars, but is particular in having buttresses round
it by way of ornament. There are apartments on three sides of it, the
refectory, the dormitory, and another grand room to the IST. of the
chancel, with a vaulted chamber under them all. To the N. of the larger
room is a closet, which leads through a private way to a very strong
round tower, the walls of which are near 10ft. thick. In the front of the
monastery is a building which seems to have been an apartment for
strangers. To the S.W. are two other buildings."

4. Lady Chatterton, in her Tour, &c., gives her views thus upon Quin
Abbey : —

"We made a detour to visit the ruins of Quin Abbey. It stands in a
fine green plain near the clear (?) river. The cloisters resemble those of
Askeatony, and are in good preservation ; indeed, the whole building,
except the roof, is entire. Most of the chimney-pieces remain ; and a
peasant woman, who came up to speak to me as I was examining an old
monument, said that her gi^ndmother remembered when it was all per-
fect. I looked on these cloisters with great interest, as the place where
the monk who composed those beautiful lines to Lady O'Brien was wont
to meditate and pray."

The corner of the transept and nave affords a space in which a moun-
tain of human bones was piled up. A good hole has been made in it
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Scotch schooner lately anchored and took away a cargo from a church-
yard at the seaside. It is not proper to s abject the bones of decent
Irish Christians to the action of sulphuric acid to enrich Glasgow
chemists.

As for tombs and inscriptions, we take the following : —

1. "This tomb was erected by Matthew McXemara, of Moohane, in
the year 1500, and repaired by his great grandson Matthew McXemara,
of Summerhill, in the year 1768, in memory of his father Teige and his
brother Eowe McNemai^."

2. Here lies the body of Denis McNemara, who died Xov. 17, 1744.

3. There is no inscription on the tomb of Fireball McXemara, the
great duellist, as though he had inscribed his mark on many quite deep
enough during his lifetime.

4. The name of Bontet is on a tomb, date 1751.

5. A tomb also exhibits in deep clear lines an adze, or hatchet, as the
implement of a carpenter.

ISTo. 6. " Here lie (sic) the remains of the Eight Rev. Pat. McMahon,
R. C. Bcshop of Killaloe, who departed this life on the 9th June, 1836,
aged 76 years. May the Lord have mercy on his soul." For more of
the inscriptions see at the end of this Appendix.

Cloxee Paeisu,
Alias Cloney, or the parish of Cluain.
This is a cluain, or meadow. This parish contains 7,695 acres, and is
situated on the dii^ect road between Ennis and Tulla, about 4^ miles
from former town. It is bounded on N. by Kilraghtis, on S. by Quin, on
E. by Tulla, on W. by Dowrie. The old church near the castle in Cloney
demesne is not of much antiquity or interest, and has been disused since
Dr. Andrcwe's incumbency under Bishop Eider. In the townland of
Toonagh, in this parish, is the field of Maghadhair, where the Dalcassian
Princes were inaugurated. (See O'Brien's Irish Dictionary, and Exudus,
ch. 24, V. 4.)

TULLOH PaHISH,

Alias Tulloe, Tullagh, Tulla.
This parish is so called from the old church being built on a Uffle It ill.
It is 9 miles from Ennis on the east, and 16 from Killaloe. It comprises
15,384 acres. The soil is limestone. There are lead mines at Miltown.
The church on the hill contains some rather elaborate monuments, and
had once a rich black marble carved altar-piece. We copy one of the
monuments, leaving out those of the O'Callaghans, Hartes, Brownes,
Westropps, &c., for lack of space.

Hoc monument um fieri fecit
Dominus Jacobus Molony de
Kiltanen die 2 Junii 1702.
Quod ex vetustate ruinam minitans
Conditoris posteri de domo Cragg
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For a grant to this parish, which became forfeited, see Kilrush infra.
The McNamaras held grand state at Eanee, the ruins of their desolate
halls still remaining. Here, too, is Kiltanon, or Senan's Church ; also
the curious excavations made by the AfCock Eiver, and called Too-
mmes. For an item of curious interest see end of this Appendix.

DunY Pahish,

Alias Doora, so called either from Dur (loater) or Dzcran (a patron
saint). Also called Ballagh-boy, or Bunoivn,

This parish comprises 3,684 acres, mostly bog and crag, and is situated
near Ennis, on the E. bank of the Fergus. The old church is situated
in the middle of a bog, and is of considerable antiquity, being remodelled
early. There is a stone over the doorway outside, with the head of some
animal rudely shaped. There is a very antient kind of window, round-
headed in and outside. One of the windows has over it the head of a
wolf-dog.

" The base of the 'N, wall is a very fine piece of masomy, and evidently
ancient."

KiLEAGHTIS.

This is called from Eaghtis, Whether this be a man or a place or
what else the authorities candidly confess ignorance.

It is 3. or 4 miles IST. of Ennis in the Gort du-ection, and contains 4,594
acres. The old church still stands in the centre of the burial ground.
No part of it is over 400 years old. Ballyalla is in this parish.

KiLTooLAH Parish.
In Carrowmere is a small old church called Kiltoolah.

Alias/

Templem:aley CriuRcn,

This is Maley or O^Maleifs Chitrcli (a name not uncommon), situated
about 3 miles ]^.W. of Ennis. It shape is long and narrow, and it com-
prises 3,781 acres. There is an old church here in good preservation.

KlLMUERYI^EGAUL PakISU.

This is tlie Church of Mary of the Sbxinger, It is I^.W. of Sixmile Bridge,
on the road to TuUa. Size 2,129 acres. There are the ruins of an old
church in the parish, and certain old castles.

IXSECROXAN PAIlISn,

Alias Inchycronane, alias Inis Cronan, or the Island of Cronan.
It is in size nearly 15,000 acres, and extends into the wild mountains
on the confines between Clare and Gal way. The Abbey is not, as Arcli-
dall carelessly stated (an eiTor left imcorrected by his recent editor),
built '* on an island in the Shannon," but on an island in the Lake of
Inchicronane, just at Ballyline, and about a mile from the village of
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old church. This was done by order or D. O'Brien, King of Limerick,
and for the use of Canons of the Augustinan Order in the 12th century.
It looks picturesque from the railway, but is of no architectural import-
ance, eoc^c^l- ftr^-ri, ^ij^a/r clfT-t^^^^^-^ C.4^^^^ cjzZy '^ '"^ '" -^'-^

IN THE DEANEEY OF TEADEY.

This territory (according to Mr. E. 0 'Curry's Manners and Customs,
&c., II. 220) even to the present day retains the name of Trod^ forming
as it doestheDeaneiy Tr aid-r aid-he , in the present Barony of Bunratty,
County Clare, a tract which comprises the parishes of Tuaimfinnlocha,
Cill-ogh-na-Suloch, Cill Mailuighre, Cill Coirne, Cluain Lochain, Drom-
lighin, Fiodnach, Bunratty, and Cill Eoin, and the island of Inis-da-
drom in the E. Fergus. And this Ti-ad, who was a kingly chief and
Druid, found himself without much land though with many children.
So he held a consultation with his wife AeiEe, and she went to her
father Lugaidh, and requested that he and his six sons should depart
out of the country and leave the land to Trad and his growing family
for ever. And submitting as though to a fated result (and in this very
unhke either the landlords or the tenants of modem times), Lugaidh
meekly complied. And luckly Trad made the rich lands his own, which
have been called after his name, and thei^ is no record of his being shot
or beaten to death for so doing — which is strange indeed,

To3j:ri:N^LOUGH Pabish.

This name must have been given from the tumidus of fJie clear or
hn(jlit laJce. It is fom- miles IST.W. from Sixmile Bridge, and comprises
3,424 acres. The ruins of an old church are in the parish, near a
smaU plot of glebe land. Ballycar is in this paiish, where the old
family of Colpoys had their residence. Though the name is extinct,
there are descendants in the female line. Dynely, in his Tom\, gives a
graphic exhibition of this district. About 100 years ago, the day coach
from Ennis to Limerick divided the day's journej" at Ballycar.

KiLNi^suLAGn Paeish,

"Why this is so called is in '' Letters " declared unknown, the name
beiug variously spelled in the original Irish. The old church is gone,
too, the site being occupied by the parish church. The parish is
situated on the road between Ennis and Limerick.

Inscription on the Sacramental Cup of the pai-ish of Kilnasulagh —
Ex dono donati O'Brien, Baronetti in vsvm ecclesico Killanasvlalach
in comitatv Clare.

Inscription on Patten the same,

Kil:^iallery Pahisii.
Who this Mallery or Leery may have been is not stated by the autho-
rities. Also the old church, of not many centuries ago, is nearly gone.
The parish is S.W. of Newmarket. The land very rich. The Castle of
Clenagh, a lofty square tower, once the i^sidence of the McMahons, is
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stairs, that none else should ever ascend them again, and use them for
convenience as a resident.

KiLCONHY Parish.

This is situated at the very junction of the Shannon and Fergus. To
it belong thi-ee islands in the Fergus : Dynish, Feenish, and Ennish-
machauten. The land is of unusual fertility. The ecclesiastical
remains are an old church in tolerable preservation, dimensions 55ft. 7in.
by 17ft. 9in. On the island of Feenish, or Insula Sylvae, Senanus built
a church. Only an old castle now remains.

Clonluhein Paeish.

This parish is situated on the R. Shannon, and is chiefly rich corcass
land. It is so called as ilie meadoio of the Choff or of the Lough.

Dromline Parish.

This parish is supposed to have been so called from its situation and
the character of the soil, being The Biclge of the Flax. The parish is
situated three miles S.E. of Newmarket on the Shannon. It comprises
2,365 acres. The old church here is nearly destroyed to the foundation-
stone. A large portion of this parish was the Bishop's mensah

Feinagh Parish,

or fPenagh. This is said by some to have got its name as " the looody
place," by others from a man of the name. Who this Finnagh was, or
where his church stood, seems unknown, at least so it is confessed by
the learned author of " Letters in Ordinance Survey."

Bojs^RALTY Parish,

alias Bonratty, also Bunratty. This is pronounced as meaning TJie motith
of the Raite — a river also called the Owengarney, which has its rise
eastward beyond Broadford, and its coui^se along the 'N. base of the
Broadford range. The parish is six miles W. of Limerick, on the
Shannon, and on the dii'ect road to Ennis. The old church measures
66ft. by 36ft. The W. gable is stiU perfect, but featureless. The old
graveyard contains no ancient or remarkable inscriptions. The church
is probably coeval with the castle, which was erected by Mucegi^os in
1277. De Clare's widow forsook it after her husband fell at the bloody
battle of Dysert O'Dea. Of this Castle and the sieges, details are
given elsewhere. The church field is of extraordinary fertility.

KiLLTjn Parish.
Below Clare to the Eastward.

IXNISDADROM PaRISH.

This is ihd island of the tivo hacks or Bulges, which is now called

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Coney Island. There are here two churches, not very ancient,
name is also given as Kilderrydadrom.

The

IN YE DEAXEEY OF DROMCLIFFE.
DEOIiiCLrFFE Pabisk.

This is so called from Irish words signifying the hill or ridge of the
lasket, and just such it is to this day, with its hazel-copse, to which the
scollop-cutters resort, and retm-n with their gatherings for basket-
making and thatching. Another name of the parish is O'Gormudc,
The old church of the parish is (say) two miles from Ennis,and an antient
structure, remodelled five or six centui-ies ago ; its dimensions, 58ft. 9in.
by 20ft. lOin. It has a doorway pointed on outside and semi-circular at
the top on the inside. This gives an appearance of antiquity rare in
churches of the same period. The tombs are all modern, viz., .James
Tymons, 1775 ; Alice Brew, 1789 ; John Tymons, 1789 ; Foster Parsons,
1789 ; Major Swyney, Mary Stamer, Dean Stacpoole. At 3i|ft. from
the chui'ch is a round to\7er, called Cloga Dromaclieve, built of large
field stones, and, especially near the base, of truly Cyclopean appearance.
The remains of the tower are about -i-ift. in height. There is no patron
saint to this parish.

The chief item of ecclesiastical interest besides the above will be found
in the old Franciscan Chui'ch of Ennis. This is said to have been
founded by an O'Brien in 1240, and repaired in 1305 by T. O'Brien, who
presented many ornamental ecclesiastical appliances, and in particular a
" blue painted window." (Xo doubt for the lovely east window, with its
lofty graceful shafts.) The dimensions of this remarkable structui'e
are : the length of chancel, from great window to square tower, 55ft. ;
breadth of same, 25ft. 4in. The eastern gable has five openings ; two,
at each outside extremity, are formed by strong stone mullions, di^awn
to an edge inside, while the three interior ones are formed by mullions
of extremely slender dimensions, which give to the window a most plea-
sing appearance of hghtness and gi*ace. There is a striking specimen
of the flat ornamental dovetailed arch in what appears to have been a
side altar, or tomb, on the S. side ; while at the opposite side is the tomb
of the Creaghe family. Tliis is an elaborate work, and represents on
an enriched entablature in spirited stone carvings, some scenes of our
Lord's passion ; there are also the 13 Apostles. Yandals have shock-
ingly defaced this work of native genius. The inscription runs thus : —

Creaghe arms.

(Motto) VIRTUTE ET NU^kllXE.

A tempore cum finibus exton-es ct hirreditas sua Adarensis Limui-
censem juxta ad alienos injuste translata fuit.
Hie humati-sunt nepotes

O'Nicl Creaghe.
1 Creaghe filia Matthei Macnamara de Crattalough, obt. 16-11.

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Piers Creagli, marts, ejus, et ISTobilis Franciee, obiit Castcllo suo Dan-
gan, 1667.

Simon Creagh, filius eorum, obt. circiter 1700. Maria McMahon de
Creagh, uxor ejus, obiit eodem terapore.

Piers Creagli, filius eorum, obt. 1743.

Uxor ejus. dom.ina Elizabetha Mattbew de Thomastoun de domo
Shandaff, et soror uterina Ormondae ducis magni, obiit 1745.

Elizabetha Creagb, alias Davoran, filia Perciin (sic) et Elizabetbae
Matthew, obt. 1760.

Piers Creagh, filius primus ejusdem Piers Creagh et Elizabethce
Matthew, obt. 1779.

Catharina Quin de Adarensi, uxor prima ejus. obt. 1753.

Gertruda Maghlin, uxor secunda ejus. obt. 1757.

Lavinia Pennefather Newpark, uxor tertia ejus. obt. 1806.

Pobertus Creagh, filius supradict Percii et Gertrudse, 1842, sine prole.

Pichd., filius primus Percii et LaYiniae, obt. 1836.

Uxor Picardi, ejusdem Christina O'Callaghan, obt. 1812.

Simon Pierce Creaghe, fihus junior Percii et Laviniae Pennefather,
obt. 1814.

Inside the tower, to the west or street front, the structure has been
considerably renovated, and the dimensions are : from the street front,
wall itself not included, 71ft. to tower arch, for which must be added
14ft. The items of interest apparent are a carved recess mider the
tower, with richly wrought interlaced tracery work, and corbels clearly
cut, &c., also certain old inserted monumental slabs. One of these latter,
that of Considines, has already been copied in the body of this work.
The rest run thus : —

1. On S. wall next tower—'' Quisquis eris," &c. " Ora pro anima Lau-
renti Hehir. Drumkharin," &c.

2. N. wall near tower— " Here lyes the body of Teige O'Kerin, of
Glean, who died 26 Jany. 1685. This stone was set up by Thady Keriii,
his son," &c.

3. On same wall, between windows—" Dermitrius McConsidin, hunc
tumulum fieri fecit, anno. 1631." (An exquisitely carved miniature cross
of the circular kind is on the left side of this slab.)

A south transept runs out 39ft. 6in., with walls say 4ft., and it is 34ft.
across. The window is graceful, but damaged.

Outside to the north are the remains of the old arched kitchen, and
above the library or refectory. , ^^^ t^

In the o-raveyard are vaults and tombs— J. Lardncr, 1772 ; Daven-
ports 1761; Kobt. Crowe, 1772; Ei. Burk, 1772; Margt. Green, 1797 ;
Pat. England, 1797 ; T. Mahon, 1745 ; E. Eyan, 1774.

In 1621 the site, &c., was gi-anted to William Dongan, seem. Erck
but to Wm. Donegan, seem, to the new edition of Archdall. There
had been a castle at Ennis Cluan-road, as it is pronounced, but it was
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building in stonework in Mar-Tnse, on the western side. An old cross
is alluded to in tlie Corporation Minutes in these words : —

" 3 Oct. 1711.
*' A quey to be built for the use of the burrough {40s. granted), near
James Skerritt's quey ; and that the stones of the cross in the middle of
the street may be removed to assist the building of said quey."

This treatment of the distinctive symbol of the Christian religion,
and for such a purpose, seems rather strange.

The arms of Ennis are "three galleys with sails sable," which evi-
dently mean turf-boats. And to accommodate these the better, some
work of art, doubtless reai-ed by the piety of olden times, was wantonly
sacrificed or else allowed to perish, and its very socket or pediment
sunk in the river.

Another item of expenditure, of a little earlier date, exhibits none
of this destructive penury : —

"61. A piew (sic) to be errected (sic) for the provost (in the parish
church). "We find and present that the sum of 5?. be equally ap-
plotted on the inhabitants of the burrough and liberties, by Mr. John
Grigg (quere Gregg), John Cruce, and Mr. Fra. Kent, in order to make
a good and decent piew (sic) or sate (sic), with a cannopy (sic) for
the provost of the said burrough for the time being ; and that Thos.
Blackwell, joyner, shall make up the same, and give security, &c. And
that Patrick Fitzsimons, clerk, shall be overseer thereof." The
chalice bears the following inscription : —

"For Exnis Cnimcir, 16S5."

KiLLo^^E Parish,
although not specially enumerated, may here receive a brief no-
tice. The palish is a small one, situate in the Barony of Islands,
and due south of Drumcliffe. In 1290, Donald O'Brien, King of Li-
merick, founded an Abbey here for nims, of the rule of St. Augustin,
and dedicated it to John the Baptist. Slaney O'Brien, of the' royal
race of Thomond, was Abbess here, and was eminent for good works.
The Abbey is situated on an eminence overhanging a lake. Its di-
mensions are 28ft. Sin. by 88ft. There is a fin'e enriched diagonal
moulding over the east window-opens, and a neatly mullionod window
in north wall ; also a fragment of an ornamental font. A transept is
thrown out on the south of the main building; and a large buildin^^
from this runs parallel to the main structure— doubtless the domicile.
Ihe external face of the north side of the wall is of much greater anti-
quity than the rest, and seems to have survived, a thing of beauty and
strength.

'J he buildings are in general wonderfully well preserved. Here is a
well called holy, frequented by numbers as a place of pilgrimage and
of devotion. But these or others, in gi^eat numbers, fell into such
scandalous courses of open wickedness, that the resort to it on a certain
day was put a stop to by the Yery Rev. Dean Kenny, P.P. of Ennis

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who also, in a very creditable spirit, put down tlie scandalous doings
on Scattery Island, in honour of Senan and his victory over the
Piach, or serpent, or Outlandish Beast, in which the votaries made
utter beasts of themselves.

There are tombs here of several families oE the locality. That of
the Armstrong MacDonnell family of New Hall, runs under the chancel,
all across, and is arched over, 'i he flooring consists of monumental
slabs, neatly arranged. Outside of the west wall is an enclosure of the
Stacpooles of Eden Yale. Here are also the tombs of Joseph Lucas,
1763 ; John Daxon, the Englands, the Darcys, &c. In the chancel the
" Rev, Jos. Broggy erected a monument in honour of his uncle. Rev.
Darby, in 1783."

KiLMALEY PAE^ISn.

This is called the Church of Matey, The name is still found in the
district. It is four and a half miles from Ennis, west-south-west.
The vicarage of this parish, until 1832, was always united with Drum-
cliJffe Yicarage. The old church still remains the burial-place of the
Keanes or O'Cahans, a family which came from the north of Ireland in
the 13th century. The parish is mostly pastoral, and the land is cold and
wet, being outside of the great limestone field of Clare. There are
several forts or raths on the eminences, into which, doubtless, the
cattle were gathered from the low swamps and out of reach of the
nightly marauder. The old church is prettily situated, overhanging the
Furroor River. Its south wall and gable stand. In gable is a neatly
finished east window, with two opens, having cu'cular headings and
handsome exterior ornamentation. An ornamental coping, or cornice,
rims along the south wall, with neat corbels at regular intervals. There
was also a carefully finished and pointed porch to south doorway, the
latter having a circular head, and at right-hand side the vessel for holy
water. The vault of '* James Burke, of Strasburg, 1781," with two
others, are built on outside of south wall.

KiLLINABOY PaEISH,

or Kill(ena)boy, or Kilneboy, which Mr. J. O'Donovan interprets to
mean '' The Church of Inrjhiiie or lunkoee, the daughter of Boetlics,

The parish is situated on the road from Ennis to Kilfenora, and in it
are remains of the old Royal Road. It has Kilkeedy on the N., Dysert
S., Ruane E., Rath and Cloney on W., and is of considerable extent
and of great diversity of hill and dale, of bare rocks and rich valleys.
The walls of the Church of Killenaboy, which is at the side of the road,
at the base of Rougham Hill, measure 62ft. 8in. by 20ft. 3in. The
chancel slopes on the outside, with buttressed extensions or anta3. There
is a circular-headed doorway on S. side, ISJCt. from W. gable, 7ft. 9in.
by 4ft., having the representation in relief on a carved slab of a dwarf
or stunted man. Mr. Keane pronounces this a rcHc of Phallic worship.
There are two windows on same side, 8ft. by Mt, and on E. a window
with circular head, and divided into windows by three stone mullions
below and by two above that. No part is older than the 14th century.

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except the W. gable, whicli is of the 11th, in the opinion of the author of
"Letters." He also mentions a tradition which relates that Oliver
Cromwell battered this church, which seems a pure fiction.

There are many tombs within this church, some of which are rich and
elaborate.

1. On the W. wall, between entrance door and angle, inside, is the
following : —

"Loughlen Eeagh

O'Hehirs Tombe, F

inished by his son

Andrew O'Heher

Inn. 1711."

2. On S. wall, in a circular-headed and pannelled niche, is the 0 'Flana-
gan monument. At the top are the letters —

I. N. E. I.
1644.

Under this is a crucifixion, in relief, with the two Maiys on either side.
Then comes the following —

" Under these carved marbel stones

lieth Connor OTlanagain's body and bones,

which monument was made

by Anabel his wife.

Orate pro salute Deo."

3. Further towards the E. gable, on the S. wall, is the O'Neillan tomb.
Overhead is a coat of arms and a stone with inscriptions much oblite-
rated by incrustations ; this only can be deciphered, and not certainly

" The Achievements of Fonella Ne."

Underneath the following is plain enough —

^ '' Dermod O'Nenian and Teige O'Neillan his Brother, for them and
their Heirs made this Sepulchre, 1645."

4. A circular low archway of cut-stone, on the K wall, at the ground
near the E. gable, is, according to tradition, the entrance to the "family
vault of the great old famHy of O'Quin, from which the lovely lake in
the bosom of the valley gets its name. Near this is cast a slab with the
following —

*' Here lies the body of Joseph Leonard,
who departed this life 2 Janry, 1773."

5. There is also a richly pointed and recessed niche, the oldest in the
church, but without inscription.

6. Near this, but to the westward, is a monumental stone to—

" Melaghlin O'Hchir and More Hogan, his wife."

7. Adjacent to the N. wall, about the centre, and nearly opposite the
OTlanagan tomb, is the following interesting modern inscription - -

" Underneath, in the tomb of his fathers, the body of the Eev. Patrick
Hare, A.M., Rector of the Union of Kilbrogan and Prebendary

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in the Dio. of Casliel, and for many years V. G. of said Dio., died at the
city of Cashel, 27th day of June, 1816, in the 85th year of his age."
This was the father of Dr. Charles Hare. S.F.T.O.D.

8. Further on, same side, is an inserted slab with hand and dagger
overhead —

"This is of the O'Briens of Cross,"
and underneath —

" This monument was erected to M. O'Brien in affectionate memory
of his father, who departed this life 25th June, 1794."

On the ou.tside of the S. wall, at the comer near chancel, is an inserted
slab —

*' Erected to the Eev. Patrick De Burgo, Anno Di. 1764, orate
precor."

At the western side of the crowded graveyard is a flag slab with a
curious symbolical emblem for the parish clerk, bearing the appearance
of a stuTup and iron, but really exhibiting a bell attached to a strap
with which he rang the people to prayers, perambulating the parish.

There is the stump of a round tower to the N. side of the church,
only 12ft. in height.

The Cross of Killeneboy is represented by Mr. Dutton and IMr. Keane
as a small stone shaped something like the top of a crutch, with two
faces of men and with hands joined carved ; and all this is to set on per-
manent record the reconciliation of the two great families of O'Bnen
and Quin after some fierce feud. On the other hand, the author of
'' Letters " scoffs at all this in unmeasured terms of severity.

The facts are these, maintains this high authority : near the gate into
Lemaneigh is a large stone, which has a socket cut in it, and into this
fits a little cross, having three raised welts across at the top and
descending about 4in. at each side. This was a landmark of the ter-
mon of Inniwee, and is one of the three which marked its limits.
This marked her churchlands on the S. and W., together with another
which stood near the house of Elm Yale, still called Teige-na-Croise,
and the third stood about i mile to the E., at a place still called
Crossard, or the Height of the Cross. The last of these crosses left
standing was that outside the gate mentioned above. The writer visited
and inspected it some years ago. But on a recent visit he could find
no traces of it. However the person who removed it is not unknown,
and if he sets up to be an antiquarian and a gentleman, he had better
have it lifted back as quietly as he lifted it away. Under the Mosaic
law a very heavy and just penalty was inflicted on him *' who re-
moved his neighbour's landmark."

The populous village of Killeneboy once stood near the old church.
There is a very large and fine cahir, 36 yards in diameter near the
cross, walls 7 feet high, with abattis, and 8 feet thick at top. There is
a subterranean chamber.

A word may be added of Cood, or Comhad, Church. The name is said

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to mean " oj eqvMl height ;^^ and this alludes to a certain stone now
fixed in a hedgerow, its ancient situation, and of its being of equal
height with T. O'Brien. The church contains, among other tombstones,
one with the f ollowiag inscription : —

" Here lyes the bodies

of Maiy and Slaney ny Brien,

daughters to Conor and Mary Brien,

alias Mahon, of Lemineigh.

Anno Domini 1651."

There are some nch engraved coats of arms behind the east window
with inscriptions and mottoes, all tossed about in wild confusion. " Sic
transit gloria."

Of the castles, courtyards, royal roads, cromlechs, wells, and tra-
ditions, particularly that of the fair lady who appeared out of the lake
to Conor O'Qura, also of the doings of Loon-Mac-Leomhtha, and of
the pail-filhng powers of his wondrous cow from Sleive na glaise, the
romantic and poetical writers have doubtless given abundant par-
ticulars.

Eath,

a parish called from a foH or mound, is situated to the north-west of
Ennis, at a distance jof some five miles. The old church stands on an
eminence to the east of a small lake. There is a remai'kable carving on
the jamb of the window, which, like that over the door at Kilnaboy, is
considered an indication of Phalhc worship continuing down to
modem times. Others from this argue an extreme antiquity and pagan
origin.

Dyseut,

so called from some hermit establishing himself on a lonely or deserted
spot in this beautiful locality. Tho parish was also called in full Dysert-
O'Dea, or Dysert-Tola. It is bounded on north by Elillenaboy, on
south by Templemaley, on the east by Euan, and on the west by
Eath.

The church of Dysert is a remarkably fine specimen of the
Eomanesque architecture, and is a long building, at different periods
put together, and consisting of chancel and nave, divided by a central
arch. The nave is 50ft. 9in. by 2-ift., and for a part by 26ft. wide. The
chancel is 25ft. by 20ft. 9in., and an evident aftcrwork. The chancel
arch is pointed, and springs from square piers. There is a rude and
double aumbrey inE. wall. A neat string-course, or cornice, is here, as
at Kilmaley, &c. In the north wall is the unusual feature of a window,
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out in consequence of the darkness. In the nave, at north side, is the
following inscription on a slab : —

" This thombe was erected by Michael O'Dea,

son of Conor Crone O'Dea,
the second day of May, in the year of our Lord
1684,
wherein was interred
Joan Dea, alias Butler,
wife of the said Mich-
ael O'Dea, the eleventh of JSTov.
following, &c."

But the doorway is the gi^eat glory and beauty of this struc-
ture. Its di'mensions are 6ft. lOin. by 3ffc. 2in., and is of four orders ;
the outer order is enriched by a row of human heads, intermixed with
which are animal heads, which latter hold portions of a roll-moulding in
their mouths, like that of Clonfert doorway. This roll is not continuous
in the other heads. There are curious interlaced patterns on the
jambs, as well as incised chevrons. Lord Dunraven was inclined to
conclude from the difference in the heads, and from the appearance
of two styles of head in the same row, that the door was an insertion,
and even, perhaps, taken from an older church, and made up of two
doors. Mr. M. Keane also considers this door an unskilful resetting,
as the base stones of the second outer arch are misplaced. But how-
ever this may be, the door is even in its present decayed and weather-
worn condition a very pleasing specimen of elaborate ecclesiastical
ornamentation, and even, in some respects, superior to the doorway in
Killaloe Cathedral, and very similar to the ornate door in Inchaguila, as
figured by Mr. Brash, p. 56.

The round tower is remarkable, being not, as usual with such towers,
tapering gradually towards the summit, but just Uke a telescope di^awn
out, diminishing by steps to the narrow extremity, and these steps cor-
respond with the successive stories within. In this respect this tower
resembles Ardmore and Killossy, although these two latter-named have
moulded string-courses adorning the offsets.

As to the cross of Dysert, the following is submitted. It stands on
the summit of arise in the field between Dysert Lodge and the farm-
house. It measures 14ft. 6in. in height. The head of the figure, repre-
sentinrr the Crucifixion, is a separate and inserted stone, once square,
but now nearly rounded from being used as a rolling stone by boys ni
their sports down the slope. This part of the structure was m equal
demand by old women, who held it to their jaw as a cure of toothache.
It is now inserted into its proper place.

On a larcre pannellcd section of the lower part of the shaft appears a
Bishop in full pontificals, mitre, casula, albe, and bachal. Pannellmg,
with interlacings and other ornaments, fill the space on the reverse side,
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occupies every portion of this elaborate erection. An inscription appears
on the east side of the base, to this effect : — " This cross was
newly repayred by Michael O'Dea, son of Connor Crone O'Dea,
in the year 1683." Mr. Brash remarks that, " To the disgrace
of the clergy and gentry of all denominations in the neigh-
bourhood, that venerable and interesting monument was lying
prostrate on the roadside when I visited it in 1855, and had
been so for a number of years. I have reason to believe (he adds) tlia^t
it is still ill the savie stated This is his remark in '' Ecclesiastical
Architectui-e of Ireland," at p. 59, published in 1875. But that this
usually accurate and painstaking writer must have been misinformed
will appear clear to anyone who reads the following, which was engraved
four years previously to this. On the south face of the base is the
following plain statement, " Ee-erected by Francis Hutchinson Synge,
of Dysart, fourth son of the late Sir Edward Synge, Bart.., and Mary
Helena, his wife, in the year 1871." So the cross is standing instead of
"lying," and the censure of the clergy and gentry does not apply
through the good taste and public spirit of that most worthy Christian
gentleman, Mr. F. H, Synge. But, alas, Mr. Synge is deceased, mourned
by many, by none more than by the writer, who had the happiness of
his intimate friendship. The old Castle is an interesting relic, and the
entire locality, what between the Church and the Cross, the Castle and
Lake, those emerald hills and the fertile valley, weave the spell of a
potent charm over every visitor of taste.

It must not be omitted that the name Tola, associated with Dysert,
has come fi^om " Tola, Bishop of Disert, in the upper part of Dal Cais,
in Thomond. He was of the race of Corlomac, son of Tadhg, son of
Cian, son of Oilioll Ollom."

Dr. Lanigan is quoted by Lord Dunraven's editor on the subject of
Tola, But the good Dr., on the principle of splitting the difference
" between Meath and Munster," places Dysert Tola in Garry Castle
Barony and King's County. And yet he had just written that, " accord-
ing to every other authority " but the Calendar of Cashel, it was in
Upper Dalcassia, that is, the ISTorthern part of Munster. He adds,
" Tola died Bishop of Clonard, in 731^, 30th March " (see *' Eccles. History
of L-eland," vol. iii., p. 171, and note 107).

KiLNEMONA PARISn.

This would seem so called as being '' The Church of the Bog,'' and bog
does here abound. It is situated four miles to the W. of Ennis, on the
Ennistymon road. Part of the old church is in good preservation.
There are one or two old inscribed slabs of the Hogans.

IviLKEEDY Parish.

The Church of Keedy. The parish is situated on the confines of
Clare and G^lway, in the dh-ection of G-ort, and being in the great flat
l^etween the Galway and Burren mountain ranges, like a cup it
receives the outflow from this extensive rainshed. The parish is conse-

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quently dotted with lakes in every direction. The old Church of
Kilkeedy is noticeable for having an addition thrown out on the north
side, which has an upper story, with corbels for floor joists, also fire-
places, &c. , and seems clearly to have been intended as the place of
residence of the priest. This seems in accordance with the case
alluded to by Dr. Petrie. The only exception to the simple forms
ah'eady described is the occasional presence of small apartment on one
side of the chancel, to serve the purpose of a sacristy." There is
monumental slab, with letters in alto-relievo, plainly though rudely cut,
and the inscription is to the following effect : —

''1706.
" This tumbe is made by Fra Oonmullen, for him and his family, in
his ancestors chaple, to whom God be merciful."

Some interesting castles are in this parish, in particular, Derryowen, &c.

IN COECOYASKIN E. DEANEEY.

This rural deanery formed the cantred which comprises the baronies
of Clonderla, Moyarta, and Ibricken, It is said to have got the name,
not from Cork — as Ledwich, to the utter disgust of J. O'Donovan,
dreamed — but from a colony of the " race of Baschin " from the Basque
Provinces in Spain.

The first parish is

Clondagad.

Any who please may believe the tradition or romance that it was so
called from two priests competing in Thaumaturgic arts, with two gads,
or green withes, as their instruments of rival mhacle working. After a
long trial of skill, Fidane lost by his adversary swimming his stick right
up against the stream (not so difficult after all, if the tide was flowing)
and left the parish to his ingenious rival. It is bounded on N. by
Killone, on S. by Kilchrist, on E. by the Fergus Eiver, and W. by Kil-
mihill. The old church is gone without a trace. In connexion with the
modern chui'ch is the following inscription : —

" Within this burying-place lyes interred the body of George Eoss,
Esq., who was the founder thereof. He died the 19th May, 1700, in 79
year of his age. This monument was erected the same year by the
order of his kinds man Mr. Eobert Harrison."

Another inscription runs thus :—

" Stand, passenger, gaze and see,
Such as I am so shalt thou be ;
Who died to live, so live to die.
Depart, muse on eternity.

]Mr. Eobt. Smith departed this life 17 Feb., 1676."

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KiLCHEIST.

The name is obvious, and is " an evident proof against the antiquity
of the church, as it is now pretty well understood that the ancient Irish
did not dedicate their churches to any but saints of their country and
people." {Letters.) It is situated S. of Clondagad along the Fergus.
The ruins of the old church remain in the burial ground.

KlLLIDYSERT,

alias Dysert-Marhuly.
This is situated along the western shore of the Fergus, at its point of
disembogueing into the Shannon, just opposite Einanna point. The
ruins of the old church still remain in the burial gi'ound near the shore.
It was a small monastery, with a square tower let into the west wall,
but not fining it up across. It was sloped at the ground for strength.
It had several stories, with window-opens and corbels for flooring, but
no sign of a chimney. In the south waU of the church, a few feet from
an arched opening over a piscina, is a curious doorway, with sloping
jambs and of small dimensions, being also on a lower level than the
window adjacent. Such an entrance is also found in KHlone Abbey.
The E. window is arched with a neatly constructed circular arch. On
Canon Island is an old abbey, having part of a Gothic inscription—*' Hie
jacet Magister Cornehus."

KiLKUSH Parish

runs along the N. shore of the Shannon, and is bounded also by KiLmac-
duane, Killymuir, and Kilfiera. An authority maintains that the name
signifies—" The church of the ivood or of the point.''

"The chief interest attaches to the ruins and remains of the churches
of Senanus. These are situated partly in the townland of Moylough, or
MuUagha, some 4 miles to the E. of Kilmsh. Here are two old build-
ings associated with the memory of Senanus, and are held by local tradi-
tion to mark the spot on which he was born, also began his ministry.
The buildings stand on a flattened ridge of land, with a lake on one side
and a bog on the other, and the site commands a fine view of the estuary
of the Shannon. The smaller of these buildings is an oratory, and mea-
sures about 12ft. Gin. in the clear by 6ft. 9in. across ; and it was just
equal in size to Benen's oratory in Aran Island. There is a small win-
dow in the E. gable. The larger building is all fallen, except the W.
gable and some of the S. wall. To the W. of this gable, and sunk in the
gi'ound where it fell, is the top-stone, socketted for a cross. Fi^gments
of this are also at hand, and it must have been of the foliated kind.

But the chief remains of Senanus are on Scattery Island, and consist
of the following, according to Mr. M. Keane (T. and T. Ancient Ireland,
pp. 377) :-

Here is a fine round tower, more than 100ft. m height, and apparently
perfect to the conical top. (This is the 5th such tower in Clare standing
in whole or in part— 1st, Drumcliffe ; 2nd, Killenaboy ; 3rd, Dysert ;

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4tli, Inniscaltra. B. towers are said to have existed in Tomgraney, also
in Killaloe, but no traces remain.) It lias undergone such frequent and
extensive repairs that it has lost much of its original character. The
ancient doorway is ^one, and the place which it occupied, 26ft. from the
ground, was built up with good masonry about 12 years since. Several
stones of the ancient doorway seem to have been used in the construction
of a modern doorway, opened on the ground-level, before the dissolution
of the monastery.

2. The most interesting object on the island is the "W. wall of the St.
Senan's Church, within a dozen yards of the R, tower. This wall, to
the height of 10ft., is a fine specimen of Cyclopean architecture, with the
characteristic feature of buttresses, used when perfect to support a stone
roof, and between these buttresses is a very fine Cyclopean doorway (hke
that at Rafctas, in Kerry), having sloping jambs and a massive lintel. We
can recognise traces of the original masonry in this ruin, but the upper
courses of the walls are all of early Christian workmanship, with fragments
of the ancient stone-cutting and sculpture introduced.

3. In a small church, about 100 yards to the W. of the tower, is an
ancient window of wide splay— a resetting. All the other buildings on
the island (which are said to have been seven churches) are early Chris-
tian stractures.

So far Mr. Keane. The He v. John Graham, curate of Kilrush, in
Mason's Parochial Survey, vol. 2, p. 441, gives the following informa-
tion : —

'' The remains of the monument of Senanus, which was defaced by the
Danes in 816, are still to be seen in Scattery Island, with the ruins of
eleven churches and several cells. In the stone that closes the top of
the altar window of the cathedral church is the head of the Saint, with
his mitre, boldly executed and but little defaced."

The tower is a conspicuous object to mariners working up the
Shannon.

In the Island was set up in modern times, by some absurd persons
(stonemasons, byname Thomas, James, and Pat. Cusack), a stone with a
clumsy representation of an angel, also of St. Senanus, together with
certain rhymes about going the rounds of penance, and the high honour
the Saint earned by " casting the amphibious beast out of the blessed
Island." The stone now lies forgotten somewhere in Kilkee. Also it is
to be noted that at the west end of the town was a cairn called Gluin
Shenan, or Senan's Knee, where he kneeled whUe banishing the serpent.
All the passers by used to bow in adoration at the cairn ; but Dean
Kenny, now of Ennis, while in Kih'ush as P.P. in 1827, got men to cast
this into the adjacent strand; also he put a stop to the pilgi'images in
Scattery as immoral.

Of Senanus now a brief notice must suffice. While Mr. M. Keane con-
siders Senanus nothing else than " Shanaun, the ancient Ana, the
mother of the gods (Irish), the River Shannon " (p. 46), also that there
were '' twenty-five Senans, the ancient Ana " ; others, again, of no small
note in the learned world, consider that there was a Senan connected
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but a real man, who played his part in actual life, even though what he
did is mixed up with and overlaid by the romantic and fabulous, as in
many other cases of men whose lives and actions fell into the hands of
the medieval hagiologists. And further, a long Hst remains, from the
6th century downwards, of his successors as abbots or bishops who pre-
sided over the ecclesiastical establishments which he set up. The Editor of
Archdall's " Monasticon " (new edition) quotes a passage which, ifreliahJe,
settles this question, not only of Senan's actual existence and identity,
but also goes far to settle the round-tower controversy. We give it as
we find it translated : —

" Senan built seven churches or religious houses in Linis-CailiaujJi.
Senan used to have sixty friars in one church, and thirty priests together
with seven bishops in another church in Innis-Cathaigh. Senan, too,
built a clogas (belfry) in Innis-Cathaigh, which was 115ft. in height, so
that when a bell was placed in it, near to its top, the sound of the bell
used to be heard over all Corcliahhaisgiii, so that sacrifice used to be
made in every church in Corchabhaisgin at the same time that Senan
and his followers were engaged in offering it in Innis-Cathaigh." (If
this passage is not reliahle, Irish scholars who may take up the Pagan
theory in the round-tower controversy ought to make such appear mani-
fest by demolishing it.)

The serpent and the lady we must leave to Colgan, Moore, and other
speculators and spimiers of fijie-di^awn romances, also to all others whom
it may concern, to say^

" Eedi ifcerum ad speculum
Ne sis nobis in Scandalum
Et si es casta pectore
Sexum liabes in corpore."

Of Senan's bell we note that it was in great esteem as a sacred swear-
ing-piece. Indeed, an oath on it was regarded as of far more obligation
than if taken on the Holy Evangelists. It was accordingly in frequent
requisition in the usually abounding cases of cattle stealing, assault,
and abduction. The bell is now with Mr. M, Keane. It was called first
Clog-na-neal, or the Bell of the Clouds, but recently has gone by the
name of Clog-an-oir, or the Bell of Gold, although this metal— with
which it had been adorned, as well as with precious stones — disap-
peared.

This beautiful relic of old times has been faithfully depicted in a beau-
tiful illustration to be found in Transactions of the Eoyal Irish Academy
Antiquities plate. At end of Appendix see more.

Lord Thomond desired the Island and buildings in order to set up a
fishing village, but Queen Elizabeth would not, preferring rather to
grant it to the Corporation of Limerick. Just before the Corporation
Reform Bill came into action it was leased. A member of the Keane, or
Cahane, family, which had been in old times the managers of the see or
ecclesiastical property of Inniscattcry, is now the owner of the Island.

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There is a Senan's well and stone. Many are called Synon after
him.

The possessions of this See were considerable. By inquisition taken
in 1604, Shinan McGnrygine, formerly Bishop of Iniskaha, or Iniscathay,
in County Clare, was found seized as of fee of sixteen qrs. of land, of
which three lay in Killylline, in Clanderla Bar, three in Boallamtellinge.
Four qrs. were called Kilrusheene, a qr. Killygillaghe and Moyhassey,
and two qrs. were called Killcorridan. Situate in Moyfortie Barony,
which sixteen qrs. of land were in the Irish language, known by the
name of " Tarremon Sldnon,'' or the lands granted in free gift by the
aforesaid Shinan, to hold to the Church to pious uses, &c., &c. Also
under same inquest, Maurice, Bishop of Killaloe, with assent of his
Dean and Chapter, did make several leases, viz., 10th July, 1595, three
qrs. of Beallatallinge to John Gegynn, on last of March, 1595 ; three
qrs., called Killtelau, to T. McGillehanna, for 101 years, the said Thady
being at the time Prior of Inniskaha. The said Bishop also at same
time granted to Nicholas Cahan and his heirs the four qrs. of Kilrushe,
which Nicholas and his ancestors were commonly called '* Gorubhne de
Tearymon Shynan," that is, " the overseer or keeper of Sinanus Church
lands." This inquest also finds that " Mack-ny-maiToe," of Danymid,
gent , gave one qr. of land, called Caherncottine, in County Clare, to the
Church of Tulloe-ny-aspill, in said County, for mass and service, which,
being in mortmain, was forfeited. (Erck's Irish Ecclesiastical Register,
1830, p. 209.)

KlLFEDDAIN.

This is situated to the S.W. of Kildysert. The parish is not so called
from a Saint Feddan, a fiction clumsily coined to explain a fact, but
from being the Church of the streamlet, which the locality exhibits still.
The old church is in good preservation, but not of interest to the anti-
quarian or architect.

To the S. of church is Tober Shcnam, a well '* good for sore eyes."

KiLLOFIN.

This parish is on the N. shore of the Shannon, situated between Clon-
derla Bay on the W., and Kalladysert on W., is named after the family
of Finn.

There are some remains of the old parish church. The burial-ground
is still used; also at Kilkerin are the ruins of an old chuix-h, " of great
antiquity." Culm is found in this district.

KlLMUHRY, ClONDEE-LA,

There are two other Kilmunys or Churches of Mary. This parish is
situated on the N.W. shore of the Bay of Clonderla, and on the Shannon.
There are no ancient ecclesiastical ruins. There is an acre of old glebe
near the modern church. In Clonderla demesne are the remains of Sir
T. McMahon's Castle, on an eminence overlooking the long inlet of
water.

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KiLLAMurR Parish.
This parish is beautifully situated along the Shannon, and further to
the West, in the direction of Kibush. It is so called as '' The Church
of the Virgin St. Emma." But hagiology has recorded, or invented
nothing more of her accessible. The church tells the tale of its own
age. The oldest of it belongs to the 9th century. It was contemplated
within the present century to remove the cui'ious old east window, and
set it up in Kilrush. The enterprise was abandoned. The churchyard
is now famous for the burial-place of Ellen Hanly, a beautiful poor girl,
drowned in the Shannon, whose murder Mi\ Gerald Grififin has made
the basis of the romance called the Collegians, which has also been
dramatized as Colleen Bawn, by Mr. D. Bourcicault, of Ennis parentage.
Mi\ Beeves erected the Memorial Cross.

KlLl^IURRY, IbRICKANE PaRISH.

This parish is situated along the shore of the Atlantic, having Kil-
farboy on the N., with Killard and Ealmacduane on the S. The church
stands still, and is in good repair, being built of the flat flagstones of
the district. It is near Tromeroe Castle. The sea-going population
here is poor, and must have been in olden times very simple and igno-
rant, unless far wiser than the present inhabitants, who pay for masses
for mackarel, which are still celebrated on the shore, and not always
with the success anticipated, as nothing but dog-fishes are netted
too often. But then, there are in different places, such melancholy exhibi-
tions as masses for sick cattle, unthi^ifty swine, slow churnings, and
other such like, celebrated by those who thus make a trifle out of the
gi'oss superstition of their blinded neighbours. These things surely
are done " on the sly," and cannot be supposed known to the autho-
rities ecclesiastical.

KiLMACDUAKE PaRISU.

This is so called as '* the Church of the son of Dubham." Some
remains of the old ruins still linger. The parish is to the S. of Kil-
murry, to E. of Killard, to W. of Kilmihil. This whole region is wild
and wet.

KiLFIERAH.

This parish is situated on a promontory, which runs westward into
the Atlantic, and has on the one side Eolballyowen, on the other Kilrush,
and to the north, Killard.

The name Kilkee, formerly spelt Kilkei, signifies '*the Church of
Caeidhe." The size of the parish is 8,591 acresr statute measure. The
old church was used for purposes of public worship, imtil some forty
years ago, having been considerably repaired. It is a poor, plain
building. The remains of a church belonging to some religious sister-
hood are to be found in Killnacaillech, the church of the woman or
nun, which is situated on the W. side of Poolnashery Bay.

The old Castle of Kilkei is not quite down ; it belonged to the Sweenys,
who were dependants of Sir T. O'Brien, of Carrigaholt.

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The noble cliffs and the tossing waves along this coast are too well
known to need special notice. The island of the starving Bishop is to
the left of Kilkee Bay, near what is called Lookout Cliff. Of this we
have given a notice in the body of this work at p. 2.

KiLBALLYHONE.

This is the Church of Owen or John, The parish runs to Loop Head,
i.e., where Cuchullin took his wondrous leap in trying to escape the
pursuit of an importunate lady. She leaped after him, but failed in
return. Her blood dyed the waves to Hag's Head. Her name was Mai,
hence the designation of IfaZbay. All this for those who listen to such
stories sitting on a lofty promontory in the sun, or sheltered from the
storm ensconced in some deep recess, while the storm howls and the
rollers fall with thundering blows on the cliffs. The Church of Kil-
ballyowen is in a wonderfully perfect state. " Not a cut stone in the
whole building," says the author of " Letters." The east window
admits but a nan^ow opening, and the rest are but spike holes.
Three courses of hewn stones project over, one over another, round
about the side walls, and are supported on the inside by 27 projecting
stones firmly fastened in the wall. This accounts for the perfect state of
the building. The arch of the door is Gothic. There are remains of a
baptismal font here. On the shaft is a human figure, bare-headed,
with staff or crozier ; also a tree with branches, doubtless to show of
good fruits in the baiDtized. The church measures 76ft. 6in. by 21ft.
There is another church called '* Of the nine Saints. Their graves are
shown. Boss is near this, and a wonderful place it is, with its natural
bridges.

Mr. M. Keane pronounces Ross to be Rossbenchoir, of which Archdall
in " Monasticon " states that " Rossbenchoir (is) near the Western Ocean.
St. Cocca, nurse to St. Kieran, was Abbess of the Nunnery here, which
is now wholly unknown." In a note to new edition, a quotation from
Annals of Innisfallen sets forth that " a.d. 500, the Monastery of Ross-
bean- choir was founded in County Clare by St. Conchad." Mr.
Graham notes the church as 30ft. by 15ft., with E. wall down, rebuilt
as well as altar with loose stones, there is also " a graven image of
limestone, which is on the altar." On the bleak crown of the cliff
are piled in wild confusion several huge stones, said to have been heaved
from below by the tremendous fury of the Atlantic during the earth-
quake which destroyed Lisbon in 1759.

KlLABDAH,

or Killard, means the Church of the Height or Hill. It is situated to
the N.W. of Kilrush, on the Kilkee and Miltown road. It contains
8 824 acres. It was proposed in the last century to make Dunbeg a
harboui' of refuge, also to cut a ship canal across the bog to Kilrush.
The land about here is mostly very wet, and the sea outside extremely
wild There are no ecclesiastical monuments. The watch-tower on
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invasions threatened in the last century. The Tower or Castle of Dun-
beg is a strong square building.

KlLFAEBOY.

This parish is said to get its name from Kil, a church,/rtr, a man,
and huidhe, yellow, in consequence of the number of dark-skinned
Spaniards or others thrown up by the sea and buried here. Another
account however is, that it gets its old name from St. Fobrick, who
founded a monastery here in 741, of which Cormac was Bishop. But
the monastery has disappeared and no traces of it can be found. So
that anyone may please himself in pronouncing all this about Fobric a
mere fabrication or not. But the parish is there, comprising some
12,000 acres of land. Also the church of Kilfarboy, situated to the
N.N.E. of the town of jMiltown Malbay, by the side of a pleasant prat-
tling brook. Its dimensions are pronounced to be 65ft. 9in. by 17ft.,
walls good, except western gable, and made of the flat flag of the dis-
trict. The monuments and inscriptions are mostly modern, of the
0 'Germans, Taltys, &c., &c.

In this parish, on Mount Callan Hill, close to the road at the
right, on the Miltown side of '' The Hand,'' is the celebrated Ogham
Stone. The writer in Lewis T. Dictionary, article Elilfarboy, calls
it " a veiy large and remarkable sepulchral stone of great anti-
quity, which was discovered about 1781. It bears an inscription
in the ancient Ogham character, having the peculiarity of beino-
read in five different ways, to the memory of the Chief Coiian,
whose death is alluded to in one of the legends of the 8th century
(ascribed to Ossian) as having taken place in the year before the
battle of Gabhra, which was fought in 296. From the hard nature
of the stone the inscription when discovered was perfectly legible."
But then on the other hand Mr. E. O'Curry and Mr. John O'Donovan,
renowned Wsh scholars, have fiercely pronounced all this caiwing as
not a discovery but a forgery and a piece of sham archaic per]3etrated
impudently and wickedly (as though a pot-lid was made out to be a
glorious old shield) by a Mr. Comyn, who lived in the district, knew
Irish well, and wrote fictions too in that tongue, on local affairs, and
when he died had all his papers bm-ued. However, Dr. S. Ferguson, an
Antiquary, has expended rare labour and deep ingenuity in vindicatino-
the antiquity of the inscription, and his paper published in proceedincrs
of K. I. Academy will amply repay careful perusal. From all the writ^-r
could learn, this Mr. Comyn was not the wild scamp supposed, but was
remarkable for his sobriety, business capacity, hospitality, also for pay-
ing his debts. (See p. 363.) The inscription runs : —

"under this stone is laid conax the fierce and turbulent."
(See more at end of Appendix.)

Moeffarta,
or Moyfarta, or Moy-ferta, or Moyarta, signifies '' The plain, of the
Grave.'' It forms part of the peninsula bounded by the Atlantic on one
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churcli is gone to ruin, indeed gone to the grave — the greater part
of the walls having been so applied. The place was once a great
burial-place for the McMahons, O'Cahans, and O'Honeens, &c. (The
writer has read a curious collection of letters from an Admiral O'Honeen
in the French Imperial Navy, which, with such other matter, may yet
see the light.) The celebrated name of " Conti " is said by Mr. Graham
to have been found inscribed on several tombstones in this burying-
place. In this parish is the famous old Castle of Carrigaholt, so called
as " The Eock of the Fleet," or, according to others, " The Rock of
the Ulster Man." 'J his was the head-quarters of the renowned family
of McMahons. In this parish, on a projecting spur, is the storm-
beaten Castle of Dunlickey.

KiLMIHILL.

This parish is so called as having been dedicated to Michael the ArcJi-
angel, by Senanus, as an acknowledgment of the help which this high
potentate of the heavenly host vouchsafed in the troublesome affair of
expelling the Piach, or Cathach, or serpent-monster, from InnisCattery.

The writer of " Letters " does not like all this too well, and gi'ows
indignant at this presumption of the Saint, whom he pronounces " a
feeble hermit possessed of all the human frailties (what, all ?), and who
was as crazy and vindictive as he was austere and pious, though indeed
a great and good man for the little and bad times he lived in." The
parish is situated with Kilfarboy on north, Kilmurry on south, Kildy-
sert on east, and Kilmacduane on west. It contains 8,089 acres ap-
plotted. It is, for the most part, an extremely wild and boggy district.
The ruins of the old chiirch remain.

The ecclesiastical topography of Thomond having now been consi-
dered, it is but right to allude to the fact that, as Kilfenora Diocese
had not been taken into union with Killaloe until the middle of the
eighteenth century, all the very interesting and curious items connected
with so many buildings of extreme antiquity here abounding had, of
necessity, to be left out of this volume, which otherwise would have
been enlarged beyond due bounds.

THE EURAL DEANERY OF ORMOND,

or East Munster, extends in its present limits from the Shannon
eastward. The first parish is

Nenagh, alias Enagu,

which is so called from The Fair or Fair-town of Ormond. " The
Aenach, or fair, was an assembly of the whole people of a Tuath, or
province, always held at the place of the burial of kings and nobles.
An assembly was called to celebrate the funeral rites, funeral games,
and anniversary commemorations."— So Mr. E. O'Carry, M. & C. A.
Irish. (A^ol. i., Introduction 326.)

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The parish is bounded on north by Knigh, south by Lisbunny, east by
Ballymackie, west by Monsea. Of the old church not a trace remains.
At the rear of the barrack, foundations of an old building were struck
upon, the old Fmnciscan Friary walls are 20ft. in height and 3ft. 4in.
in thickness. Near the north-east comer are fragments of a stone,
with figure of a warrior in armoui'. — So Archdall.

Smith in MSS. mentions " a gi^ceful Abbey founded by the
O'Butlers." It is a wonder if any building, secular or sacred, has survived
the fury of O'CarroU, or O'Carvil, '' who burned Aonach, both
monastery and town, from the fortress outward." (A. 4 M. 1548.)
And in Carew MSS., Book of Howth, p. 165 :— In 1347 "the town of
Nenagh, and all the country thereabouts, was burned by Irishmen on
St. Stephen's day."

Of the Bu tilers, Botelers, or Pincerna Regis, a word or two from
Lynch, on Feudal Dignities, may be added. This high office was con-
ferred upon Theobald Walter soon after 1170, by King Henry 11, ; the
King hoping to '* redeem his credit in the world, after the mui'der of
Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury, by preferring his relations
to wealth and honour ; and this family of Le Boteler were nearly related
to the Archbishop, being descended fi^om his sister." — Camden apud
Lynch, p. 60.

Thomas, the seventh earl, dying without issue male, his honours and
estates in England were inherited by his two daughters, Aone and
Margaret ; through the latter of whom, who was grandmother of Anna
Boleyn and great- grandmother of the Princess Elizabeth, he became
progenitor of the most renowned and illustrious Queen that ever en-
joyed the crown of England. The great Duke of Ormond, in his
confirmation, in all his ancient paternal properties, by several patents
and statutes, is styled " James, Duke, Marquis, and Earl, of Ormonde
and Ossory, Yiscount Thui'les, Lord Baron of Arklow, Lord of the Be-
galities and Liberties of Tipperary. (Tliis will explain an incident men-
tioned in the text.)

Baron Butler, of Lanthony, and Earl of Brecknock in Wales, and as
it is elegantly, bat truly expressed, " Comes ex Comitibus praedict^
Ormandia3, perch'citer quater- centum annos semper intactce fidei
semper aut bello aut pace conspicuus."

Nenagh Castle, or Round, is a striking object. The erection of it is
attributed to King John, and it was at first the head-quarters of the
Butlers. Its external ciixumference is about 166ft. It much resembles
Inchiquin Castle in County Cork. South of the round tower are ruins
of a large rectangular building, 60ft. by 28ft. 9in. In BMin Fenny
Jom-nal, March 16, 1833, appear some curious particulars of Nenagh.
The Round held out against Gink ell and 1500 men for twenty-four
hours.

Here was an Hospital of Augustinian Canons, founded about 1200 ;
also a Franciscan Friary in the reign of Henry III., one of the richest in
the kingdom.

Of Tyone Abbey, or St. John's House. This is in ruins, and
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architecture is of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and rather
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Side walls

This monastery had a vast number of rectories swallowed up, which
the Grace family gained from Queen Elizabeth.

Of the old church plate there are four silver articles. On a Patena is
inscribed " Parish of JSTenagh ; bought in the year 1788 ; cost 41 2s. 6d:'
On a very old silver Patena is no inscription. On a flagon is an in-
scription "Nenagh Church, 1820." On a silver chalice, inscription
*' Purchased for ISTenagh Church by R. Minnett, at cost of parish
1699." Mr. J. J. Poe has recently presented church plate.

LiSBUNNY.

The name is pronounced not of ecclesiastical origin, but derived from
a townland on which the original church stood, *' anc BwinncB omolieris
insignis." The parish is situated in IST. part of Barony of U. Ormond,
bounded on N.W. by Nenagh, on E. by Ballymackey and Ejllruane, on S.
by Kilkeery, on W. by Ballynaclough. The old church is much dilapi-
dated. In this parish are the Castles of Lisbunny and that of Ballin-
totty. The latter is square, with angles slightly softened off.

KlLKEEUY, OR KlLKEAEY,

Parish is situated near centre of Upper Ormond, bounded on IN", by
Lisbunny, Ballymackey, and Toom, on S. by Latera and Kilnaneave, on
East by Anameidal, and on W. by Ballynaclough. The old church is
much damaged, and quite overspread with ivy. The part remaining
was built of large limestone rocks, in semi- Cyclopean style. There is
scarcely one small stone in the walls — the best sign of antiquity. Wm.
Carrol's tombstone is at the E. end. He was of Bally grenode, gentle-
man, and died 19th Feb., 1706.

Ballinaclohy,
Or Ballynaclough.

This name signifies " The totun of the stone,'' i.e., stone-house or castle.
It contains 3,701 s. acres. It is situated in Upper Ormond, is bounded
on IsT. and E. by Lisbunny and Kilkeery, on S. and W. by Dolla, Nenagh,
and Kilnaneave. The old church is situated on level ground, on town
land of same name. It is divided into nave and choir, the former 58ft.
by 26ft., the latter 23ft. by 20ft. The choir arch is semi-circular. In
nave is a tombstone with inscription in raised letters—

" Here lyes the body of Samuel Bindon,

Son of David Bindon, who died in

the year of our Lord, 1611."

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Can this be the family afterwards appearing in Ennis Cloney and
Aughanis ?

EIiLLANDurr.

Can this be Kilnaneave, situated in U. Ormond, containing 4,594
stat. a., bounded on N. by Ballynaclough and Kilkeery, on E. by part of
Annameadle and Templederry, on S. by the same, and on W. by Dolla.
The name signifies " The Church of the Saints," equal to " All Saints
Church." The church is gone to utter ruin, graveyard is large, and
much used.

Dolla, or Dalla.

Dean Reeves, a first-rate Irish authority, seems to consider this name
rather obscure, and as conjectural derivations (being deceptive and a
literary idolatry) are worse than useless, honest ignorance is pleaded.
The parish is five miles S.S.E. of Nenagh. The remains of the old
church are in Kilboy demesne. This was much disfigured by the great
storm of 1838. Like Kilkeedy, it had a lateral house or sacristry
attached to it. The parish is, in shape, a long narrow strip.

Kilmohe.

Name signifies Great Clnircli. Parish is situated in north of Upper
Ormond, 1\ miles south-west of Kenagh, and 7^ miles east of Killaloe.
It is bounded all round by ISTenagh, Dolla, Killoskully, and Burges.

The name Colgan takes to be the same (Kilmore-aradh-tire) men-
tioned in life of Senan of Innis Scattery (see p. 173, Acta SS., col. i.
xiii, " Quadamdie S. ^Natalis et S. Senanus iter agentes versus Ecclesiam
de Kill-mor-aradh-thu'e cum appropinquarent, conspiciunt ante ostium
magnam populi multitudinem." And then something follows so like
to the narrative of the raising of the widow of Gain's son, that there
is no use in pretending the Gospel fact is not the foundation of the
mediaeval fiction).

Of the old parish church on the townland of same name, the walls
retain their height, and are nearly perfect —

ft. in.
It is 51 6 in length,
24 11 in breadth.
Ballycahill old church is used as a haggard. Here are the Castles of
Ballycahill, Tinnekilla, B ally gown ; the remains of the old Castle of
Dunally, once the O'Kennedy's stronghold. The fort or dun is to south-
east of Castle, &c.

DuxAMONA Parish,
or the Fort of the Bog.

Burges Boga,

Alias Burgessbeg,

Is situated in Barony of Owny and Arra, two miles south-west of

ISTenagh, and is bounded by parishes of Is'enagh, Kilmore, Killoskully,

Kilmastulla, and Youghalarra. The name is simply a corruption of the

Anglo-JSToiTaan word Burgage, Of the old church only portions appear,

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and featureless fragments. In the graveyard was dug up a curious
old tombstone, with the inscription : —

" Hie jacet Donatus Der-
mitii, als Brien de Gortmore."

YOUGHALAERA.

The name signifies in Irish the " Yeiu luood of Arra.'' Just as
Youghal in Cork comes by the same name from the same cause,
" and even some of the old yew trees still remain." It is situated in
the north of the Barony of Owney and Arra, to the north-west of
ISTenagh, and is bounded on north and west by Lough Derg, and on
east and south by Monsea and Castletown. An old church stands in
ruins close to north of the village of Youghal, upon high gi^ound,
built of brown and red grit- stone, and with mortar of lime and sand.
On the interior the surface of the walls presents a structure of small
and long stones, all as much as possible shaped quadrangular by dress-
ing with chisel or hammer. A human head is chiselled on a stone
in south wall, with an inscription and date, viz. : —

ST. C 0 E A-

NE, 433.

There is also a cross inscribed near this. In the parish are the

Castles of Murroe, Kilcolemem, and Pallas. As the Mac O'Briens of

Ari'a belonged to this parish their genealogy may here find a place : —

Muircheartach
The Bishop

Toirdhealbhach

Muircheartach

Domhnall

Tadhg

Toirdhealbhach

I
Murch udh na Raithnighe

Brian

Domhnall

Brian Ruadh
Conchabhar na Suibh-diune

Donchadh Cairb reach

Domhnall-mor, King of Cashel 30 years

Torrdheal bhach na Brien, King of Munster 5 years

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Dairmad na Brian, King of Munster 4 years

Toirdheal bhach, King of Ireland 12 years

Tadhg na Brian

Brian Boroimlie, King of Ireland 12 years.

The diyision of property made by the father of Bishop Mauritius may
be here given, as found in pedigree of the O'Briens (MSS. T.C.D.,
H. i. 7) : — " And it was this Toirdhealbhach who divided the territory
among his sons in this manner, viz., — He left the Lordship of the.
territory and its chieftainship to Murchoirtach, who was called the
Bishop, And he left Bealanatha, now Ballina, and Oonocan-an-Enfhin,
now Bird Hill, namely two good castles, with the portions of lands
appertaining to them, to Toirdeal-bach, Carrach. He left Cilcoleman,
namely a castle with its lands, to Tadhg na Buile. He left the Castle
of Tuath-easa Greine, with its lands, to Murcha na Dtuagh. He left
Baile-au-Chaisleau, the old mansion-seat of the family, andMoinruadh
(now Monroe), another castle ; Pailis, another castle ; and Cathair
Conchubhair, and other castles. Also the chieftainship, with the power
of cosheiing and hosting the inhabitants of the country, to his son
and heir, namely, Muirchoirtach, who was called the Bishop ; and his
entire will to be fulfilled by his brothers, and that he should not exer-
cise injustice to them ; and this was the third division that was made
of the territory of DuhaiTa, from the time when DomhhaU, son of
Brian Euadh, entered into it."

In this parish is pointed out Grallows Hill, a place with a conveniency
erected for hanging culprits.

St. Cunlan is said to be patron of the parish. His well is in the
village. His bachall, or crozier, is said to remain among the Hogans ;
it was made of wood, with a brass image on it.

Castletown Area

is situated in 'N. of Owney and Arra B., about 4 miles fi'om Killaloe on
E. side of Shannon. The parish takes its name from the Caislean, or
Manor House, of the Mac O'Briens. This castle is not now in existence,
but there are ruins of a building called Castle, the former residence of
L. Parker, Esq. The site of the old church is occupied by the new.
The old tomb of Bishop Mauritius, Mac O'Brien's mother, Maure ne
Carule, has been mentioned in the text as outside the walls of the pre-
sent churchyard. The castles of GaiTy Kennedy and Castlelough remain.
Also, in townland of Tomlough, an old house, built by the Roulstons on
low ground near the lake ; the length of this building was 48ft. 9in. by
29ft. 6in.

DnOMlNEER.

This parish takes its name from a physical feature. Here is the Drom
(or ridge) of the Inver (rivers montli, or, according to others, the westerh/
ridge). This is a small parish, bounded N. and W. by L. Derg, on E.
by Killodiernan and Kneigh, and on the S. by Monsea. The old church

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is of very considerable antiquity, constructed of very large blocks of
granite and slate stones, but not divided into nave and choir. It mea-
sures in the clear 59ft. 5in. by 23ft. ; the walls are 2ft. 9in. in thickness,
and 9ft. in height, and they are held together by a cement of excellent
lime and mortar. The semi-circular-headed doorway on west gable is
now nearly gone to ruin ; the E. window is a very large one, and finely
wrought.

MOISEA,

alias Monsea, alias Mousea,

is situated to the west of Nenagh and towards the Shannon in Barony
of Oroney and Arra. The meaning of the name in Irish is not at all
manifest. The old church stands near the new, has no division of nave
and choir, is some three centuries old, is 60ft. by 22ft. 5ui., and the side
walls are 3ft. lOin. in height.

Kneah,
alias Knigh.

No authority of value has been discovered to throw light upon the
meaning of this name. The parish is in Lr. Ormond Barony, bounded
onN. by Killodiernan and Cloghprior, on E. by Killruane, on S. and W.
by Nenagh and Monsea, and on W. by Dromineer. The old church is
not divided into nave and choir. It is 52ft. 6in. in length, 24ft. 3in. in
breadth ; the walls are 3ft. thick and 13ft. high. The burial place of the
famihes of Fletcher and Minnet is enclosed by a wall inside this church,
cutting off a portion at the western end. Cat hair Boime is the name of
the remains of a large stone fort, such as is found in the Barony of
Burren. It is to the N. of the old church.

KiLLODIEENA

is situated in Lr. Ormond; bounded on N. by Kilbarron, on E. by
Cloughprior, on S. by Kneigh, on W. by Drommeer and the lake. The
name°signifies The Church of O'Tiernan. It is an old church, of con-
siderable antiquity, but remodelled in 14th and 15th centunes. It is not
divided into nave and choir. The east window is round-headed inside
and quadrangular outside, of chiselled and ornamented gritstone. A
limestone tablet is inserted in N. wall to '' P. Egan, who lived beloved
and died lamented in 1821." A little chapel, built in 1667, is attached
to this church on the E. side.

Copy of inscription on a tomb in the old graveyard of E:illodiernan,
situate in demesne of Johnstown Park :—

'' Divus Dionysius Harty, TheologijB Doctor Protonotarius nee non
Yicarius Apostolicus Laonensis Diocesi hoc tumulum et Sacellum hoc

fieri fecit. Anno di.

1G67.
Orate pro anima ejus."

(Per Sadlier Stoney, Esq.)

The name comes from
remains.

Cloghapriora.
' The Trior s Stone, or Castle.''

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The parish is situated in B. of Lr. Ormond, and is bounded on IST. by
parish of Eolbarron and Finnoe, on E. by Kilmane and Ardcrony, on S.
by Ejieigh, on W. by Killodieman. The old church is damaged, seems
to date thi'ee centuries back, and is densely clad with ivy. There is an
old castle on the townland of Carney ; this is iu ruins, and was once the
residence of the Grace family.

Kelbaekain,

alias, Kilbarron.

The name signifies the Church of Barron. The parish is situated in
W. of Barony of Lr. Oi-mond, bounded on W. by L, Derg, on K. by
Terryglas, on E. by Fionoe and Cloghprior, on S. by Eallodiema. The
old church is on low ground near the Shannon, had nave, choir, and
tower — all much dilapidated. The graveyard is much used. Inside the
church is a tomb-stone with inscription —

" Donatus Kendy, Sacerdos 27
Annos ISTatus, 11 Octbris 1706, obiit."
Another reads thus —

" Gulielmus Clebome de Bally cull ehome,
Armiger obiit, Yicessimo Secundo,
die mensis 8 bris, a.d., 1684."
Lisguillebeen Castle was built by 0 'Kennedy. The foundations of a
church are shown in S.E. of Islandmore. There is a standing stone
\ mile to S.W. of the old church. Ballycollattone Castle is near Mr.
Parker's house.

Ardcroney,

This parish is situated in Lr. Ormond, 2 miles S.W. of Barrisokane,
on the Nenagh road.

There are remains of an old church very rudely built, divided iuto
choir and nave. On the west wall is a figure of a human head chiselled.

MODRINETH,

alias Modreney,
situated iu Lr. Ormond. The name is written in the Irish signifying
" The Plain of Dreoiie." So McFirbis on the tribe of Ema.

This was a young lady who went off vrith a youth and lived among
the fairies in Knock-shee-owna for one year ere she would return to her
parents' presence. AU which might signify the floweriug of the thDrns
from May to May. Only a fi-agment of the old church remains near
the modem one, and is an ivy-clad ruin. The castles are Clogh Keat-
ing, Ballycappul ; the latter erected by the Hogans, and Behemore.

In the churchyard is a broken monument, with the following remnant
of an interesting inscription, here given as Mr. Sadlier Stoney kindly
transcribed it —

" Here lyeth •

John Harrison

Jordan Esq and

his wife. She dy

1689 and he dy

June 1697 ."

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His son James built Clojordon, and occupied it with disbanded soldiers.
The inscription on his tomb runs thus —

** Here lieth the body of James Harrison of Cloghjordan, Esq. who
died the 25 of July, 1727, in the 72nd year of his age."

His daughter was married to Henry Prittie, Esq. ; their grandchild
was the first Lord Dunally.

The old church plate consists of a small silver cup and paten on each
of which the following inscription is deeply and legibly traced —

'* Sacris Sti. Kerani Modriniansis, D. Dq Humilimus Jesu Servus
Johannes Harrison."

This inscription forms a circle in both cases.

KiLEUAN.

This parish is situated in S. of Lr. Ormond, bounded by Ardcroney,
Bally gibbon, Lisbunny, Knigh, and Ballymackey. The name in Irish
signifies The Church of St. Ruadan.

The old church is a mere ruin. On the townland of Rath-Thurles
stands inside of an earthen fort an old church. The rath consisted of
three concentric rings, the outermost measuring 137 paces in diameter.
It is called in Irish " The Strongfort." Outside on the N. are two large
stones prostrate— a part doubtless of a pagan monument. Near hand
is the very strong Castle of Eathurles, which belonged to the 0 'Ken-
nedys.

Ballygibbon,

situated IST.E. part of IJpr. Ormond, li miles S.W. of Cloghjordan.
This is Gibbonstown. The walls of the old church are nearly perfect.
It measm^es 64ft. by 24ft., is 10ft. high, and 2ft. lOin. thick. The old
Castle of Glenahelty is situated on high ground, the lower story inhabited

by a farmer.

Ballymackey,

abas Ballyvackey.
The name seems to allude to someone of the name of Mackey, but no
trace of authority exists for this. The old church is on the townland of
Cloonmore, and the N. end of the W. gable remains. The old castle is
near on the low ground, 49ft. by 32ft., walls 6-|ft. thick. It was an
O'Kennedy stronghold. There are some monuments in the graveyard,
of which the following is curious enough :—

'^ I shall see the Lord in glory.
Hereunder lieth the body of Anne, Lady Cole, daughter of
John Spratt, of Grange, in Oxfordshire, Esq., first relict of Su*
Robert Cole, of Ballymackey, in the Coy. of Tipperary, Knt.,
with whom she came to Ireland in 1670 ; afterwards the rehct
of Colonel Thos. Whitney, of Newpass, in Coy. of Westmeath,
who departed May 30, 1716, in the 62nd year of her age."
This lady, by her will, bequeathed lOOL for the support of an English
school in Ballymackey aforesaid, interest on which is still paid. The
church plate modern.

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Thoen or Thom
and Ahanameala, also Aghnameadle,
situated in S. E. of Barony of Upr. Ormond in two detaclied portions, the
larger of which is bounded on W. by the parishes of Lateragh and Kil-
keary, and on the IS", by Templedowney and Ballymackey, on the I^. E.
by the King's Coy., on E. by Borrisnafearney, and on S. by Glankeen.
The name means '* The Ford of the Medals." The old church is nearly
gone ; the graveyard is situated in a small hillock a little to the W. of
the church. There is a strong-roofed corpse-house or vault of the
MacEgans in Anaghmeada. South of the church is a square castle ; also
in Blean townland another old castle stands. At the four roads in the
townland of Ballinlough is a liagan, or standing stone, 8ft. 4in. in height.
Toora must be the modem Toomavara, or sepulchre of Omara. There
are some rains here, supposed to belong to a preceptory of Ejiights
Templars.

BuHES-XA-riEKNA.

This parish is situated in the west of Ikerin Barony ; bounded on ^.
by King's Coy., on N. E. by Eathnaveogue, on E. by Killea and Bourney,
on S. by Barnane Ely, and on W. by Anameadle.

The name in Irish signifies The hurga^e of the Alder Wood. The old
church is gone ; the graveyard of St. John's church marks its site.

EjLDERB. Y-D A- GEOM.

This is most probably the parish of Innis-da-drom, embracing what
is now called Coney Island, in the river Fergus. Innis-da-drom means
*' The island with the two backs, or ridges ;" and KiUdeiy-da-di'om,
" The Church of the Oakwood on the two ridges."

*' On Coney Island stand two ancient churches, the oldest of the pri-
mitive type, being 16 ft. 8 in. by 9 ft. 10 in. clear of walls, which are 3 ft.
thick. The masonry large-sized rubble, well fitted, the lower course
formed of large blocks. The doorway is but 6 ft. 1 in. in height, 2 ft. 1 in.
wide at the bottom, 1 ft. 8 in. at top, built of large blocks, well dressed,
being quite angular, with inclined jambs. It had but one window,
opened in the eastern gable, which has been removed and a breach
left."— (Brash, p. 16.)

Teiiplederet.

This means, doubtless, " The Church of the Wood of Oaks.'' It is
situated six miles south-east of ISTenagh. What may be the original
difference between a CiU and a Teamiml we dare not determine, Mr.
M. Keane, however, pronounces that " Kill, or Cille, was the ordinaiy
Christian substitute for the Irish word Teampull, which was too
manifestly connected with heathenism to be tolerated." In Killaloe
diocese alone, on the east side, are Temple Harry and Templedeny, and,
on the west, Temple Maley. And in the next diocese are Templemore
and Templeichally, now in Killaloe. Of Templederry no part of the
original chm'ch remains ; the stones were used to build the modern
church. Castle Otway is near at hand.

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Latehagh.

This name is celebrated in ecclesiastical annals, and signifies *' the
slopes or hill sides of O'Dmn." The situation of the parish is in the
south-east part of the Barony of Upper Ormond ; bounded by
Anameadle, Kilkenny, and Glankeen.

The old church stands on high ground in the townland of Lateragh.
The nave is all destroyed except ten feet. The walls of the choir are
nearly perfect, except at the east. There is a large graveyard, much
used, and having a fine old ash tree, as at Moynoe. According to
Colgan, Odran of Lateragh died of the plague on 2nd Oct., 648 a.d.

FlNNOH,

also Finoagh, also Finnoe,

in Lr. Ormond, bounded by Kilbarron, by Terryglass, by Borrisokane,
by Ardcrony and Cloghprior. The name is supposed the same as the
Irish word, signifying a woody place. The site of the original church is
occupied by the existing Protestant church. The following is an
interesting inscription found in this church by the Eector, Eev. Ei.
Martin, A.M., and kindly communicated : —

Overhead is a coat-of-arms, or, more properly speaking, a shirt-of-
arms, with a two-handed sword erect in the centre, and a motto
underneath,

'* The Lord is my Shield."

(Then the following ensues) : — ■

" Underneath this tomb do lie ye remains of Elizabeth Greenshields
ye elder, who died ye year of our Lord, 1739, aged 7^-. Also of Eev.
Jas. Greenshields, Eector of Finoe for 26 yrs., and died in the year — 44,
aged 76. Also of Elizabeth Greenshields ye younger, who died in ye
year — d?8, aged 24. Also of Eev. Wm. Greenshields, Eector of Finoe
for 30 yrs., who died in ye year 1772, aged 68. His son, Wm. Green-
shields, caused this memorial to be erected in token of his profound
respect for the deceased."

The Yery Eev. Wm. Eeeves, D.D., Dean of Armagh, promises a life
of Mr. Greenshields, which, like every other production of his learned
pen, must prove full of interest and of great value to the Church.

In this parish is the old castle, built by the O'Kennedys, temp
Elizabeth, exhibiting on a Quoin stone, rudely sculptured, a figure of a
*' Sheelanagigg," or in other words, a "female who plunged herself into
all kind of excesses." 'Now tvhy she is set up here is a question. Is it in
bad taste as a wicked and wanton exhibition ? or does she serve to play
the part of an awful warning, like the Teetotal Lecturer's Brother p or
can this be an old stone found in some old Pagan building, and here
preserved? Some curious speculations occur in " MSS. Letters,"
Ordnance Sui'vey series about Kiltissan, near Fethard, where some
such exhibition also occurs. The Patena is inscribed : —

•' UNION OF PINNOAGH, 1792."

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TiKEAGLASSE.

alias Tirdaglas, alias Terryglass.

Dr. Lanigan pronounces the name to mean " the land of Greenness."
There is, however, a better account of it from a higher source, namely,
Adamnan, who, in his life of Columba, defines it as '' Ager duorum-
riyorum," the land of the two streams, just like Finglas, near Dunkerim
the bright or fair- flowing stream. The parish is situated in B. of Lr.
Ormond, and is bounded by the lake on the N. and W., on E. by Lorha
and Aglish, on S. by Borrisokane, Finnoe, and Kilbarron. The ruins of
the old Court are here, also an extensive Bawn, said to occupy the site
of the great college. St. Patrick is said to have come westward, and
that many of the people of Thomond crossed the Shannon to be baptized
by him. Columba founded a monastery here, of which he became the
first Abbot, and died in 552. The glory of this old school died out after
its having been often wrecked and plundered by the Danes, and was
unknown except by name after 12th century. The four masters, Colgan
and Usher, allude to this school. In this parish is Old Cornet Castle, a
very ancient and strong building.

LOKRHA,

This name is given with much variety : " Lotharia, Lothra-Lurchoa,
Lortha, Lorhoe, Lorha, Lorhiagh et Lorhes, pronunciatur Lorra, in amoe-
nissimo loco situs, non longe a flumine Shanano, juxta pagum ictum
Fratribus Pra3dicatoribus, Coenobium extruxisse ano. di. 1269. Gual-
terum de Burgo-Comitem Ultonise, Dominum Conacise tam certum est,
quam quod maxime, id vel uno Scriptorum omnium concensu ad eviden-
tiam comprobante jm*e avi sui amplissima habebat latifundia in Tippe-
rarensi agro Momoniee. G. De Burgo tandem Lothoriense anno 1269,
fundare non dubitavit et quidem in honorem ^t. Petri Martyris. Templi
itaque majoris partis coenobii Moenia ad hue integi^a manent.

" Ad hue supersunt e^ in regione viventes qui refeinint, se propriis
vidisse oculis centum et quadi^aginta circiter religiosos in hoc conventu
vestibus Domini canis indutos, sodales nempe conventus et patres capitu-
lares Comitionem Provincialium anno 1688, reguante Jacobo Secundo
Orthodoxo, hie celebratis, in quibus electus in Proviucialem P. Magister
Galasius MacMahon, Cuinam post Kegularium Domorum dissolutionem
concessa fueruit Coenobii hujus latifundia Hanissum latet Actualis
autem Dominus fundi (ut ibidem accepi), est Jacobus Euddock Ai-miger,
qui justa pagum habitat in propria dome sat magnifica." This extnict
is from De Purge's Hibernia Dominicana (chap. ix. sect. xxi. p. 274, &c.),
and it accounts for the origin and final occupation of the Dominican
Abbey, situated at the east side of the village. The Dominican
Abbey walls are nearly entire. The building is of the early English
style : it is 145ft. 5in. long, by 24ft. 9iu. broad, the walls 1ft. 3in. thick,
and very high-coped in part. A graceful belfry surmounts the western
gable. The window in east gable is broken down, and the walls have a
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on the soutli side, near the western end the two nearest being
shortened below. Two other small plain windows, one square the
other pointed, appear on the long side wall. In the graveyard are the
following inscribed tombstones : —

1. " Sacred to the memory of Constantino Egan, of BallymacEgan,
who departed this life in the year 1680."

2. " John Kennedy, founder of Lackeen Castle, died 1766."

3. " Sacred to the memory of O'Hogan, of Kilgask, who departed this
life 1622."

We now take a brief glance at the Abbey of Canons Regulars,
founded by St. Euadan. Of the saint himself. Dr. Lanigan, vol. ii.
p. 233, pronounces him *' an eminent saint of th-is period, founder of
the Monastery of Lothra, in County Tipperaiy. He is said to have
been of noble extraction. He studied under Finucoin of Clonard, and
was reckoned among his chiof disciples. He was Abbot of Lothra
before the death of Kieran of Laigher, and had probably founded it
about 550. He died 584. His festival is held on 15th April Some
writings have been attributed to him, concerning which let others
inquire." But it was not his writings, nor even his alleged miraculous
powers, so much as his having cursed Tara, that has made him memo-
rable in Hibernian hagiology. The manner in which Tara, or Team-
hair, came under the saint's displeasure, and how he showed it with
a fatal effect, is given in the Book of Eights, which has been trans-
lated by Mr. J. O'Donovan. The King of Ireland took a relative of Eua-
dan's, and the saint, with the saints of Eire, fasted against the aggressor,
and promised or predicted the destruction of the race, and *' No King
to be at Temor." On the method of dealing with a creditor by fasting,
Sir H. Mayne, in E. Hist. Institutions, p. 39 — 40, has some interesting
remarks as a very curious custom, also on the similar Hindoo custom of
Dharna.

The ruins of the Canons Abbey, and sundry other old buildings remain,
not being architecturally remarkable. The ]mrish church is incorpo-
rated with one of these. Here are the following inscriptions : —

'' S. to m of Mary Walsh, of Derry, died 1740,

aged 54 years."

'' S to the m of Thomas Bailey, of Newgrove, died

1788, aged 88 ; ditto, of Charles Bailey, died 1766, aged 68."

" S to m of Sarah Walslx, of Walsh Park, departed this

life in the year 1760, aged 16 years."

" S to m of Cha. Walsh, of Walsh Park, died 1749, aged

54."

The square black castle was but the abbey mill. In Ballyquirke is
another square castle, 31 by 37. Portan tolchain anglicc. Portland is
mentioned in A. 4 M., anno 1441 , '* as taken with gi-e^xt booty of wea-
pons. In 1600 one Ecdmond Burke took this and many other castles
in Ormond, during a pleasant summer excursion." JSTear Eedwood, in
this parish, O'Sullivan crossed the Shannon, in his wonderful retreat
throuo-h Heland. This was the scut of the MacEgans, an old stock.

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Ware mentions that a silver shrine, Tfith the saint's hand, was pre-
served in the Abbey to the suppression. It is held that the Cumdach
which bears the following inscription, originally came from Lor ha : —
" The blessing of God on every soul according to its merit ;
" Pray for Donchadh, son of Brian, for (the) King of Ireland;
" t And for MacEaith, descendant of Donnehad, for the King of

Cashel :
" t Pray for Dunchad, descendant of Taccan, of the family of Cluain,

who made this ;
" Pray for Nain. descendant of Cat , for whom it was made,

and for

" And at laig."

This inscription was made, according to Dr. Todd, between 1023 and
1050, A.D. The following further inscription runs round the top of the
case, and is of 300 years later date : —

" Pray for Philip (for) the King of Ormond

" (By whom) this reliquary was covered.

" And for Aine, his wife.

" t Donald O'Tolari arraigned me.

** Pi-ay for GiUa Euadan, descendant of Macan, the successor, by whom

this was covered."

In Calendar of ^ngus, the high praise is given to St. Euadan.
That he was

*' An excellent flame that wanes not.
He vanquished urgenr, desires.

Fair was the precious Jem, — Euadan."

Lamp of Lothra,

Here he presided over 150 monks, who " used to obtain sufficiency
always without human labour to sustain them, by continually praying
to and praising the Lord of the elements." (Did they also adveHlse
like some modern managers of refuges, who live hj faith ^)

The bell of St. Euadan was preserved in the Chm-ch of Lorha up to a
recent period, when it was obtained by the late Mr. Cooke, of Birr, and
purchased for the British Museum.

In the above the name GDla Euadan, or servant of Kuadan, may
suggest that the owner of it may have been comarba, or successor,
of the patron of Lorha.

The cumdach on which this inscription occurs is square in form,
measui'ing 7Hn. in length, and is over 6in. broad, and 2in. thick. The
material is oak, covered with plates of silver ; it is divided into four
compartments, covered with engraved silver plates. It contains a copy
of the Gospel of St. John, the wi'iter of which gives his name in the
Ogham characters, at the end of the Gospel, in these words — " Deo
gratias ago Amen, Finit Amen, Eogo (ut) quicunque hunc liberum (sic)
legens, ut memineris mei peccatoris scriptoris i (the Ogham) &c.
Amen."

The MSS. also contain a missal of great antiquity. This missal

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seems to have been canned to Eatisbon, and was recovered by Mr.
Grace, of the Austrian Army. (Trans. E. I. A., vol. xxiii., pt. 2, p. 6.)
The above is from Christian inscriptions, edited by Miss Stokes, p. 93,
pt.6.

BONOHAM.

On the east gable of Bonoham Castle is a sculptured inscription —
'' Erected by Patrick Mara, of Bonoham."

Dareoh,
ahas Dorra, tlie Oah-ioood,
is situated in the IST.E. end of Lr. Ormond, on the way between Portumna
and Birr.

An old church stands in ruins near Palace, on the N. side of the church
now in use, and near a winding stream.

The length of the building was 56ft. by 19ft. 6in., and the walls 3ft. in
thickness. In N. wall is fixed a monumental stone thus inscribed : —

I H S

Dominus Bernardus Kennedy tunc Culross inhabitans, sibi, dilectoe
conjugi Dominoe Eleanori Kennedy, alias Tubman, ac pro dilecto filio
Jacobo Kennedy, bonse indolis juveni, 9 Jan. 1704 defuncto, ac posteris
suis, necnon in memoriam sepulture majorum, me fieri fecit die 27
Feb. 1705.

Palace Old Castle stood near the Church to the S.W. St. Deoma's
Well is to the east.

LOCKEIX,

alias Loughkeen,

situated in Lr. Ormond, bounded by parish of Dorha, by King's Co.,
by Ballingarry, by Lorha. The name seems formed by aphoeresis, and
reduced from Ballagh-a-ken, or ''the tovmland of the heaidiful field'' See
the 4 M. in describing the route of O'Sullivanein 1602. The old church
is a mere ruin.

Ballingahry,

also Garrago.

The name signifies, according to the 4 Masters, " the tmun of the
garden " of Knock shee-una, the most remarkable and conspicuous hill in
Lr. Ormond. The parish is in the E. of Lr. Ormond, and is bounded on
N. by Eghsh and Loughkeen, on S. by King's Co. and Modreney, on E.
by Loughkeen and King's Co., on W. by Uskeane.

The bawn of the old castle remains, used now as a vegetable garden.
In A. 4 M., about 1597, it is noted that Shane 0 'Kennedy was slain here
by Hugh O'Kennedy, of Baile, in Chuirch^Ballyquirke. The great hill
named was the principal habitation of the Sldhj or fairies of Munster.

Cloghan,

also Aiglish Cloghane, also Eghsh.

This means obviously The Church, or Ecclosia of the Stepping-stones
or Stone Houses.

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It is in Lr. Ormond, north from Barrisokane in the Portiinina direc-
tion. There is a great bog running in the direction of Birr in this
parish.

USGEEAN,

alias Uskean, also Uskane.

The name means Terra Palndosa, or the Watery Country, on the
analogy of that park near Dublin called by the natives Fhi-uisge, or the
Clear Water, but politely and poetically transformed by Lord Chester-
field into a Phoenix Park. However, the wide bogs and di-enching
showers of this moist locality still keep up the credit of the old name all
over its flat and saturated surface. The old church is near Kent's
house. The parish is 2 miles N.E. of Borrisokane.

Btjkriskeen,
also Borrisokane, or Kean.
The parish gets its. name from being

*' The burgage of O'Keane."

What brought the O'Ciahans to Clare is known ; what brought them
here none has told. This is the district of the O'Hogans and 0 'Ken-
nedys. The parish is in the centre of Lr. Ormond, 10 miles to IST.E. of
Nenagh. 'No old church or ruins of one remain. The present parish
church is supposed to occupy the site of the old one ; and doubtless is
built of the stone filched out of it. Tanbrickane Castle is on the Por-
tumna road. It is 43ft. 7in. by 33ft. 9in., walls 7ft. Sin. thick, and about
80ft. in height. The only inscription on Church plate is " Burrisokane
Church, 1776."

IN YE DEANEEY OF ELY AND IQEEIM.

EOSCREA.

The name was derived say some (1) from Cre, the daughter of Eid-
leochin and the wife of Dalaglas. According to the Book of Lismore,
the name means (2) " Boscus Serois.'' Others, nearer the mark, say it
comes from (3) Eiask-cre, or Eos-cre — the marsh or icood of the Lake Ore
— in which Monaincha was buHt.

The parish is situated in Ikerrin Barony, and is bounded by Shinrone,
Corbally, Eathnaveoge, and Kyle.

The western gable of the old church of St. Cronan is all that remains
since 1812, when the rest of it was taken down as being in the way of
the modern church. This gable now serves as a fence, and supplies an
entrance into the chui'ch premises. It is fortunate that a structure of
so much beauty was spared. The doorway is of three orders ; (1] the
inner arch, or actual aperture, is 8 ft. 9 in. by 5 ft. ^in. wide at base,
and 4 ft. 9Jin. at springing of arch; (2) the central arch 9 ft. 7 in. by
6 ft. 7 in. at base, and 6 ft. 4J in. at springing of arch ; the (3) outer arch
is 10 ft. 4 in. high by 8 ft. 5 in. at base, and 8 ft. 4 m. at springing
of arch. The arches spring from square piers and slightly-rounded

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shafts, formed of chiselled grit-stone, with capitals and bases, the abacus
being a bold square and chamfer, and the capital in two instances is
formed of a human head, while two others have a spiral design. The
arches are enriched with bold chevron mouldings, while their soffits
are ornamented with a delicately incised zig-zag pattern. The pillars of
the outer arch have been re-erected at a comparatively modem period.
The stones of the south pillars are not ornamented, and do not seem to
be the original ones. The interior of this doorway seems to have been
remodelled at a comparatively modern period also. At each side of the
porch is an arcade, formed of round arches, two of which have their
edges simply rounded off, and two are enriched with chevron mould-
ings surmounted by pediments. The termination of the mouldings of
the two pediments next the centre one is formed by animals' heads, rather
resembling the drip-stone terminations at Eahen. The two others have
human heads. The pediments " are formed by a projecting square mem-
ber, the under edge cut into notches, and above these canopies is a hori-
zontal string course, consisting of a square member supported by corbel
heads." So in Lord Dunraven's Notes, p. 118 and 119.

The round tower is twenty-three paces to the north-west of the gable.
It is now about 60 ft. high, or 80 ft. as in Lord Dunraven's Notes ; but it
was 20 ft. higher until 1798, when one of the rebels shot from the top of it
the sentinel at his post in the barracks. The Government then got it
reduced in height to prevent the recurrence of such an act. The internal
diameter at the ground is 8 ft. 3 in., the thickness 3 ft. 6 in. — 4 ft. seen in
Dunmven. This tower is built of sandstone, in irregular courses,
worked roughly to a curve ; the courses are spirally shaped, and the
stones peculiarly notched one into another.

The doorway is 9 ft. 9 in. from ground, and is on the east side of the
building, facing the church. It is 5 ft. 3 in. in height, 2 ft. 1 in. at base,
and 2 ft. at springing of the arch. It is round-arched, and the arch is
formed out of three stones.

There is another doorway, and on one of the inner stones a knot is
incised, '' and on the opposite side a ship is carved in relief, about
^ in. deep ; it is about 13 in. long, and is raised above the
surface of the entire jamb of the door, and therefore original."
Whatever may have been the original use of this tower, it was used as a
belfry of the old chm^ch in the last century.

About seveuteen paces south of the gable of the old church, and in
the churchyard, is the upper part of a stone cross, having a circle
round the arms, one of which is entirely broken. On one side of this
cross is a representation of the Crucifixion, and on the other a figure
popularly considered St. Cronan, as also that over the doorway. The
present height is 5 ft. 1-^ in., made of grit-stone, and in original

pedestal. -, ., i x i

To the west of the cross is a qitadrilaieral grit-stone, nearly erect, and

now entering into the building of the churchyard wall. It is 6 ft. 2 in.

hicrh. On its north and south side are raised two human heads, now

greatly injured by time.

St. Cronan's Well is at Inane.

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An old monuTfiental stone was dug up from the foundations, on
which, were ancient characters, which read thus, when rightly ren-
dered in EngUsh, " Pray for O'Carroll, King of Ely." A tomhstone,
with a cross also, has an inscription, having the words, " Eechta(b)hra."
This name may, perhaps, be identified with the following in A. 4 M.,
" A.D. 898, Scannall of Teachteille, ActiU of Eath, Episp., and Eeach-
tathra of Roscrea, died." (See Miss Stoke's Christian Inscriptions,
pt. 5, p. 38.)

Of Gronan & word may now be added. According to Usher's Pri-
mordia, p. 969, Cronan was the son of Selvius, whose death is recorded
in the Annals to have occurred in 665. And Cronan Abbot was son of
Odran, of whom in his life we read Cronan came to the eastern district
of Munster in his own county of Ely, and set up a cell near Crounan
Lurgan, over against the land of Ossaigus, which is situated in the
south of Leinster. And this cell was near (Stagnam Cree) the Lake of
Cre, in which is a little island whereupon there is a monastery of monks
under a perpetual vow of religion (semper religiosum). And this cell
was called

Clan Poss.

He afterwards, because the place was desert and out of the way, changed
his quarters and built a monastery, where a great town grew up which
was called Eoss-cree. And here, after performing many miracles, the
aged Saint Cronan rested in death with Christ.

The situation of this is in Tipperary County, near Ely 0 'Carrol ; and
in 1283 was bestowed upon Edmond Butler, father of James, the first
Earl of Ormond, by King Edward III. It was also in former times the
seat of a bishop, but is long since annexed to Killaloe.

Poscrea was also a famous fau' place, and here the Danes received a
terrible overthrow, leaving traces of their disasters in the names of
many places, so far even as Moni-a-gall, or the hog of the stranger, in
which bones are still occasionally found.

Here a T\ord may be added of the Bool' of Blmina, In National MSS.
of Ireland (Pt, i. in Introduction, page xi.) it is related, among other
matters, connected with this beautiful old copy of the four Gospels in
Latin, ha^^ng ritual and Yisitation of Sick added, that the Scribe
Dimma Mac Nathi at close deprecates '* venomous criticism." Also
this Dimma is supposed the one who is mentioned in a legend as having
made a copy of the Gospels in the seventh century for St. Cronan in
Boscrea ; that he finished in forty days, but only thought he took up
one day. The Book of Dimma, now in the Library of Trinity College,
Dublin, is stated to have been long presei-ved in the monastery of
Eoscrea, in a silver case. Of this part remains, which sets forth that
the case was gilt by 0 'Carrol, Lord of Ely, in the twelfth century, and

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repaired about one hundred years ago by a Bishop of Killaloe. The
case and its contents went through strange changes of fortune, being at
one time buried in a field near Boumey. Four pages of the MSS. are
fac-similed in plates 18 and 19, and show a very clear, even, and close
writing, with an elaborate initial letter and ornamental page.

Castletown Ely.

This parish is called from my, a descendant of Cian, who gave his
name to a Barony ; it is on the confines of Tipperary, near Money gaU,
on the skirts of the hilly range which runs nearly parallel to the
Shannon, and sinks in Queen's County. There is an old church ruined
here. The land is fertile and the scenery picturesque.

Ramaveog.
Alias Eath-na-veog ; alias Eanavague.

This is so called from Rath-ma -Mobheog, or the circular fort of this
saint. So it is spelled in the Down Survey. This parish is situated in
Barony of Ikerrin, between Dunkerriu and Roscrea. The old church
was 56ft. 6in. by 22ft. 6in. There was a sacristy, as at Kilkeedy, &c.
Near to the north is an old Castle square, with three ornamental chim-
ney-pieces.

FiNGLAS.

This seems called from Fin, or clear, and Glas, a running -str earn.
It is a small parish near Moneyagall, 2\ miles east-south-east.

BumiiN.

Alias Bourchin, alias Boumey.

The name is not clear to the authorities, but it seems not very far
from the word 'RaXjh-hou7iiey, and this means Fort of Ilochy ijlaces,
just as Burrin seems akin to Barren, or Boclcy.

1 he parish is in Ikerrin Barony, bounded by Corbally, Rathmaveogue,
Kyle, Rathclonney, Templemore, &c. The old church is gone. An old
church remains in Cloonakenny. There are two old Castles here —
Boolybawn and Baummadrum. Two great rivers, the Nore and the
Suir, take their rise in this parish, near to each other, on the side of
Bendufi.

DUNKEEEIN.

The name is pronounced obscure, and its derivation is not ventured
upon by the authorities. The situation is marked by the great coach
road from Nenagh to Roscrea passing through it. The Down Survey
refers thus to this parish : — " In which townlands are situated the
Castles of Cloonegannah, Classigad, Ballintemple, Emmil." This evi-
dently included what is called Temple Hariy parish. The site of the

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old church is occupied by a modem structure. The monumental slab
that marks the resting-place of John O'Oarroll, who lived at Cullen-
waine in the latter part of the 1 7th centurj, is still to be seen in the
burial ground at Dunkerrin.

It is inscribed thus —

Dominus Anthonius O'CaiToll, hunclapidem hie apponi (cura-
vit) super corpus, Patris sui Johannis O 'Carroll de Gallon vane,
qui obiit anno doni, 1681 die 12 martis.

Hequiescat anima ejus in pace. Amen.

The church plate bears the following inscriptions : —

1. " The gift of Thomas ffranck, Esq., for the use of the Church of Dun-
kerrin."

2. '' The gift of Jane Carroll, of Emell, deceased, to the parish chm^ch
of Donkarin, ye 26 Oct., 1698."

We cannot pass from DunkeiTin in these brief notes without trans-
cribing a modern monument, erected to the memory of one whom the
wi'iter began to know most intimately while Curate of Dunkerrin durino-
the famine years, and, in common with everyone else who knew him,
loved and respected him greatly.

SACEED

to the memory of

James fpeank Eolleston, D.L.,

late of this Parish.
That the virtues and usefulness

of one exemplary

in the dijfferent Eelations of Life,

A Good Husband, an Indulgent Father,

A kind Friend and Landlord,

And an upright Magistrate,

May be recorded in this Church,

which he himself

Was so instrumental in preserving

To promote the worship and glory of God,

1 his humble Memorial has been erected

By his sorrowing Widow and Children,

He died 30th Dec, 1875,

Aged 69 years.

*' After he had served his own generation,

By the will of God

Fell on sleep, and was laid

Unto his Fathers."

Acts xiii., 36 verse.

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Temple Hahry.

The name seems very like Teampull na Carriga, The Cliurch of the
Bock, and the rock on which the church stands certainly appears at the
pathway of the road. But it may be the same in derivation as Carrig-
a-Horrig, and so mean The Temple of the Shouting, as though to keep up
the memory of some great battle fought near the spot.

This parish is in Ikerrin and Clonlisk Baronies, between Dunkerrin
and Kilcoleman. The remains of the old church appear to advantage,
situated on an eminence. In this parish is " The Bloody Togher," so
called from the O'CarroUs having destroyed a large party of King
William's army at the place.

Shineoan,

alias Shinrone, alias Sinroan.

A passage from the 4 Masters mentions that the Earl of Kildare went
a second time to Ely to assist 0' Carroll at Suidhean-roan, &c. This
determines the Irish etymology, which the authorities pronounce to
mean " The Setting of the Seal.'" What brought a seal so far inland is
not related, nor whether he might not have been a hairy man who was
as fond of taking to the water of the httle Brosna as if he had been this
amphibious animal. The parish is noted in Down Survey as containing
the walls of a church and a castle of the O'Carrolls. The latter is to be
found at the rear of Mr. Dancer's house in the village. Dunamase was
an English castle. The CromweUians took and destroyed Cangoiii
Castle.

KiLMUEEY,

alias Ejimurry Ely.

This is Mary's Cliurch of Ely 0 'Carroll. It lies to the N. of Shinroan
and S. of Parsonstovm. It contains 4,077 acres.

BlEHA.

The meaning of this name has exercised the acuteness and rather
tried the temper of the archaeologists and Irish scholars. Some say
(1) that the word comes from the Ahhey of Biorra, founded by Brendan.
Others (2) that the word is identical with Bior, a vjatery field, and stoutly
maintain that it would be an audacious thing boldly to reject the testi-
mony of O'Cleiy and the old glossographers who establish this defini-
tion. And particularly so, in favour of ISlr. Cooke's absurd and un-
authorised conjecture (3) that it comes from Bir a spit. Indeed the
author of Letters roasts Cooke on his own spit, putting him under a
fiery ordeal not only for this but for some other matters contained in
his Picture of Parson stown.

The parish is situated in Ely O'Carrol, and comprises 4,018 acres. It
is about 60 miles from Dublin, and is considered to be in the centre of
Ireland, and is accordingly pronounced to be " Uuihilicus Hihernice.''

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Indeed a curious stone is said to have been removed from the town by
the celebrated Tom Steele, the Head Pacificator of Ireland, and placed
in O'Connell's* Chapel in Clare (Where was this ?) And this is probably
the very stone mentioned by Usher as " excavatus lapis qui hodie
ostenditur." However all this may be, the parish is bounded on the
'N. by Eglish, on S. by Kilcoleman, on E. by Seirkyran, on W. by Lockein
and Bonahan. There are no features at Birr, of church, or school, or
cell, bearing the name of Brendan, in fact nothing but his well which,
lies in the demesne of Lord Rosse. In the Irish Calendar the following
reference is made to St. Brendan, the patron of Birr — '^ Nov. 30, St,
Brendan of Birra, the son of ISTemen of the Clannakury race. He was a
contemporary and companion of Brendan of Clonfert, and the founder
and first Abbot of Birradh. He died on the 29th Nov., 572." Sir Jas.
Ware calls him " Brendan the son of Luaigne, Abbot of Birrh." But
he was mistaken. In the Felire of JEngus is a reference to the situa-
tion of Brendan's Chuj'ch. " On the confine of Ely and Fearacall Birra
is " — Dr. Lanigan refers to the 4 masters relating that Brendan, sur-
named Biorra, was seen rising into the air, 553 (554)." Yol. 2, p. 40.

Instead of such dreams, which have not even the merit of originality,
it is better to advert briefly to the schools of Ireland, a celebi-ated one
of which was set up in Bu-r by Brendan.

In J. L. Yillaneuva's notes on " S. Fatricii Sijnodi," &c., p. 51, an
account is given of the schools from the time of St. Patrick, which not
alone in cathedrals and in cells were opened for instructing children
in primar^^ education, but in them also young men received higher
instruction in grammar, rhetoric and the more sublime sciences, and
particularly in the knowledge of Holy Scripture. He then quotes Bede
and the Canon of the Council of Constantinople to this effect — " Let
the Presbyters have schools in town and country, and the education
free." These schools got the name Abgetoria, from the letters of the
Latin alphabet, a, h and. g. So great was the fame of the schools of
Finian and Coleman, that they were crowded with scholars from Eng-
land, and in particular they came for the study of Holy Scripture " ad
Scripturam Sacram addiscendam." And the same writer notes how the
author of the Life of Molua, an alumnus of the same school, mentions
that " A host of Irish saints were drilled into the mysteries of divinity
by St. Finian."

And this went on for some centui'ies, until BiiT and its great educa-
tional and ecclesiastical establishment at length fell into the cruel hands
of the barbarous Danes, who left no trace of these olden times after
them. The same writer, in Appendix III., gives a list of the cities,
churches, and monasteries despoiled, plundered, overthrown, and com-
mitted to the flames from the days of Patrick to the 12th century ; of
those connected with or near Killaloe, he mentions —

'* The town of Birr was plundered anno 841."

'^ Tom Steele set up a stone in the Fergus, opposite the Abbey, with
his arms engraved thereon, but this was to the beautiful Miss Mattie
Crowe by whom his impressionable heart was captivated.

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" Lorrha was burned four times from 843 to 1179 a.d."
■ " Terry glass was given to the flames in 801, and was laid waste in 843."

" Clonfert was despoiled thrice."
- *' Aran, or the Island of Aran was despoiled and devastated in 1081
A.D., and was submitted to the flames in 1020 a.d."

" Inish Clothran (? Innis Clonroad) was robbed in 1050."

" Eosenca was burned up four times between 1130 and 1152."

*' Tomgraney was burned twice, first in 1084, and again in 1164."

. And he might have added, Inniscaltra and Innis Scattery were both
of them wasted and burned several times (see Wars of Gaedhil, &c., and
A. 4 M.)

Mr. Cooke notes from Colgan (A. A. S.S. p. 715) his statement that
Brendan of Birr hes buried in the church called " Tempiil on Cheathuir
dUdnrif i.e. quatuorum pulchrorum qui Sunt Sancti. Furseus, Brandanus
Birrensis, Conallus et Birchanus quorum corpora in uno eodem feruntur
sepulchro sepulta jacente in coemiteriis ejusdem ecclesiae."

The walls of this church are now only a few feet above the ground.
To the E. is a small enclosure, and near the church a beautiful little
well. To the W. is a spot called tlie graves of the four beauties. They
are rude headstones, but without inscriptions. (ISTotes on Irish Archi-
tecture, Vol. I. p. 76.)

Of the inscriptions in the churchyard of Birr, the following may be
noted briefly : —

1. " Edwardo Singe, A.M.

Hujus ecclesiae per annos XXY Eectori

Ine Yixit annis LXYII

Et requievit Septimo idus Octobris

Anno Salutis

MDCCXCII."

(The family name was MilUngton.)

'^ Sophia Singe
Conjugi dilectissimo posuit
et sibi suisque
Posterisque eorum."

*' Her epitaph is virtue,
It desireth no encomium,
And needs no panegyric."

(Ah, why could they not add

For she played on the Harmonium.^

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Hail sacred ashes of
The best of fathers, mourn-
Full, thy son moves to
Thy urn revered, on seden-
Tary feet from clime re-
Mote, by filial duty sent
To guard thy tomb."

The communion plate is thus inscribed —

*' The Communion Cup of the parish Churche

of Parsonstowne in the Kings Countie

Anno Domini

1636."

The patena or cover is inscribed —

" The cover of the Communion Cup
of Parsonstowne 1636,"

If no traces but the well remain to mai'k the career of St. Brendan
in Bin-, there is another name connected with this place. And his handy-
work still sui^vives, and But may be very proud of the fact. If Roscrea
has an indirect claim to Dimma's MSS., and Lorha boasts of Ruadan's
casket and its Gospel of St. John, and if Inniscalta's fair isle claims as
her own some sui^vi-sdng leaves of St. Caimin's transcript of the Hebrew
Psalter, But has the proud distinction belonging to it of " Tke Gospels
OF Mac Regol." This was Scribe, Bishop and Abbot of But, who died
in 820, A.D. In the final page he leaves his brand " MacRegol de-
PINEXIT." This is the largest- sized of the old Gospel-books and contains
the four Gospels in Latin, with figures of Mark, Luke, and John, ea-ch
occupying an entire page. It has also ornamental initial letters. The
book fell into the hands of Rushworth, the historical compiler, and
having been presented by him to the Bodleian Library, remains there
ever since. The Saxon interlinear version with the Latin text, was for
the first time printed in 18M-65 (MSS. of Ireland, folio, p. xiu.).

One remark may not be thought out of place to close these brief
notes. In the 6th and following centuries, the principal towns of the
Diocese of Killaloe were noted seats of learning, noted above all for
the high honour to God's Holy Word of life shown by multiplying
copies of it that all might drink of its sa^^.ng truths and their souls live.

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KiLCOLEMAN.

'* S. Colmanus a matre Macdarene, id est, Filius Darenise dictus, Epis-
copus de Doremor in confinibus OssoriaB efc Elias, inter filios A'Engussi
regis memoratur." This is what Colgan has to say, Acta SS., p. 174.
The church of Kilcoleman is in ruins, also a chapel of ease, within the
churchyard, said to have been built by 0 'Carroll, Colonel Oxburgh's
father-in-law, who lived at Boveen. There is a stone representing a
human head fixed over entrance in the south wall of the old church.

Ahankon,

alias Aghancon.

Ahancon is in Irish the same as *^ Ager Canorum," or " the Field of the
Hounds,'" This name accordingly gives the precedent of ancient usage
to the sports of the chase, and " the Ormond Hunt " is no novelty.
Indeed the writer was informed by an aged gentleman, long since
deceased, that five packs of fox-hounds were kept by gentlemen living
on either side of the road between Nenagh and Roscrea, in the last and
early part of the present century. The old story of Actason, who was
eaten by his own dogs, seems to have been forgotten in those days ; and
the potatoe famine of 1846 finished the work of desolation and change.
But matters for some time are brought to a better standing. And
"mighty hunters" still go forth "to join the chase at break of
day."

Etagh,

alias Ettagh.

The parish seems to have got its name from the Virgin Ettagh or
Hettie. The parish is bounded by Kilcoleman, Ahankon, the Slieve
Bloom Mountains, and Elilmurry. Knockamase Castle is situated in this
parish, on that town-land now called Golden Grove. No ecclesiastical
remains of interest.

ROSSCOMROWE.

Ross generally means a wood. The parish is hidden in a corner
between Kinnitty and the Slieve Bloom Mountain.

Clonfert Mollua.

The Meadoio of the grave of Mollua. It is called also Kil-na Corbe, or
the Church of the Co-arhc, alias Kyle.

A reference to Dr. Lanigan will satisfy those who would desire " a
sketch of the history of Mollua." The origin of the name of the parish
is thus given (note, p. 209), " Cluain-ferta Molua " id est '' LaU-hulum
mirabile S. Moluns, eo quod ipse in ^dta sua multa miracula in ilia fecit,
et ad hue gratia Dei per eum patrantur." The learned Dr. denies that
he was evel- at Finnian's School of Clonard, and asserts that he became
a disciple of Comgall of Bangor not earlier than 659. The Dr. does
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praised and blessed. The Churcli of Killaloe is supposed (sic) to have
got its name from the Saint (in question) either from his having lived
there for some time, or from its having been dedicated to his name.
This is not improbable, although far from certain. It has been said by
some that Mollua was afiBLicted by leprosy, but this leper was quite a
different person from the real Mollua of Killaloe.

The Dr., notwithstanding, assigns the day of his death with gi'eat
exactness, to the 4th August, not long after the beginning of the 7th
century, and also reckons him among the Fathers of the Irish Church.

This is the only parish of the Diocese in the Queen's County.

KiNNITTY,

alias Kihietty.

In A. 4 M. ad an. 1213, it is stated that " the English went to Athlone
and erected a castle there. They also erected the Castle of Ceaun-eitigh,
the Castle of But, and the Castle of Durmagh." The name thus clearly
points to the signification " The head of Ettagh, or Ita," a lady and saint
of eminence, who seems to have lived at Ettagh, and been buried here-
" Tertius est Finanus (Tri. Thau. 380) cognomento Cam. Abbas de Ken-
nitigh, in confinibus Eliee et Fercellae ut constat in ejus Yita quam
dabimus 7th Aprilis, Finanus de Kennetigh f uit discipulus S. Brendanio
Cluan fertensis."

LiTTERLAXA,

alias Letterluna.

This looks very like Latteragh, vjet hill sid-es and Lana, or Lena ; a
vmter meadow. Anyhow, the parish is situated north of Kinnitty, on
the Dublin road.

KlLCU:50IIN.

After a long dissertation and much learned refutation of Lanigan's
mistakes, and Colgan's toi^ographical looseness, the wi'iter of *' Letters,"
T. 0 'Conor, at last settles it to his satisfaction that Kilcommin is the
Irish

Cill-Chuimin,

formerly called " Disert Chuimin." The parish is situated between
Temple Harry and Shinrone. In the churchyard of Kilcumin are some
ruins of religious edifices. In the one that is most central appears to
have been an apartment with a stone roof, exactly similar to those in
Drumcullein and Eathlihin old Churches. In the Down Survey it is
stated that " there are two small rivoletts passing through it, on which
stand two mills, one at Clonlisk, one at Kilcommon. The remains of
the Abbey are on side of the road from Shinrone to Dunkerrin.

Qui LLANO AN,

alias Ciillenwaine.

" From the local pronunciation the parish may be called after * The
White Holly.' " So in " Letters." But Isir. Joyce pronounces it " The
Corner or Angle of the O'Duanes.'' The parish is in the S. of King's

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Co., between Temple-Harry and Castletown Ely. In Down Survey it is
stated : *' At Coolenane, in this parish, stand the walls of a church and
castle, with some Iinsh cabbins at Branstown."

COEBALLY.

This name is derived from an Irish word signifying " odd,'' but another
authority pronounces it not odd, but "uneven." So be it between
them.

The parish is situated in Ikerin Barony, three miles from Hoscrea.
It is bounded on N.W. by Koscrea, on N.E. by King's Coy., on E. and S.
by Queen's Coy., on W. by Eathnaveague.

In the townland of Corbally are the ruins of a small abbey, built in
form of a cross, 44ft. 6in. by 19ft. lin., and the S. arm of the cross is
18ft. 6in. by 14ft. llin., and the northern 17ft. 5in. by 16ft. 6in. In the
townland of Timoney are the ruins of an old church 59ft. by 22ft. ; also
in Cloneen and Glen is the fragment of a remarkable castle of the
O'Mahers.

But the gem, and indeed glory, of this parish is to be found in Mona-
incha, or " The Island of the Bog.'' Here are the ruins of an ancient and
beautiful church, constructed and ornamented in the primitive style — a
curious monument surviving after so many centuries to exhibit the taste
and civilization of the ancient Irish.

And on this happy shore, a temple still
Of small and delicate proportions keeps,
Upon a mild declivity of hill,
The memory of thee.

The history of this institution is not altogether lost in the mists of
antiquity or distorted by fables, as is the case with so many other
churches ; audit seems briefly this : that an abbey was founded here by
Culdees— that is, " Cultores Dei "—and was originally dedicated to
Columba. An island was the site, to which the early Irish Christians
were very partial, as already noted in many cases of this diocese. The
island got the name of Inish-na-mbeo, or " The Island of the Living.''
It was also called Innish-locra-cree, or " The Island of the Lalce of Ore."
Archdall tells us that "the antiquity of this monastery is indisputable."
Giraldus Cambrensis mentions what is evidently this foundation as being
"situated in N. Munster in a lake containing two islands. In the
greater is a church of the ancient religion." Dr. LaniganlV. 291, raves
at this rendering of the words, "Major ecclesiam habet antiquas reli-
gionis," and translates the words, " A church of ancient veneration."
Of course, this is because the doctor did not like the idea of any religion
or church in Ireland more ancient than the mission which John Paparo
inaugurated. And in the lesser island is a chapel, in which a few monks
(i.e., ccelihes-hachelovs) called Culdees devoutly serve God. Then
Giraldus goes on to open a package of nonsense about women, sick-
nesses, life, death, and something about a boat which savours strongly of
what Lucian, and before him Herodotus, had written concerning Charon
and the death-boat of the Nile Lake.

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Finding *' the Island of the Living " deadly unwholesome, the residents
removed to Corbally, where they became canons regulars of St. Augus-
tine, and had a priory under the name of S. Hilary or Mary.

The huilding, in its present state, may now claim attention ; and first
of all, let it be noted that the lake has been drained, and a very careful
architect and measurer has given the following description, than which
no better has appeared or could well be given, ArchdaU's account not
excepted : —

The Eomanesque church stands nearly in the centre of a mised piece
of ground of an irregularly circular form, from 80ft. to 90ft. in diameter,
and is enclosed by a rubble-stone fence from 4ft. to 5ft. high; the
internal ground is level with top of fence. The church consists of nave
and chancel, with a sacristy thrown out on the N. wall (as at Kilkeedy,
<%c.) The masonry is of superior rubble- stones, large, hammer- dressed,
of few spawls, and the grey gritstone found near. The nave measures
32ft. 9in. by 16ft. Sin. clear of walls, which are 2ft. Sin. and lift, to 12ft.
in height. The entrance is in W. gable by a very fine doorway 4ft. Sin.
by 7ft. 3in., of highly ornamental details. This doorway has been much
injured since 1851. The nave is lighted by three windows on S., two a
couplet.

The chancel mesbSMTes 9ft. 2in. from E. to W. and 8ft.. 2in. from I^[. to S.
Its arch is the most interesting feature of the building, measuring lift.
6in. from out to out of pillars, and 13ft. 6in. to top of outside arch.
There are three columns in each pier, with double plinths and
moulded bases. The bells of the capitals are cone-fluted as in
most Norman examples. The j)illars are well-proportioned, and
the arches em-iched. The ornamentation consists of chevi'ons, plain
and enriched triangular panels, and lozenge ditto, with pellets. The
entire has a very chaste and pleasing appearance, and is one of the
purest specimens of Norman which Islr. Brash had seen. The east
window was, same as in nave, not large, but had human heads for capi-
tals. There is no piscina either in nave or chancel. (This fact may aid
in the solution of a question connected with certain doctrines and prac-
tices associated at present with the administration of the Lord's Supper
in the Church of Kome.)

The sacristy is entered from nave b}^ a pointed doorway, through a
small vestibule. Here are the remains of a stair to the sleeping chainber.
On the whole, Mr. Brash considers the building more ancient than the
door-open or chancel arch. The portion of an anta>, the quoin shafts of
the chancel, together with the plain diminutive window opes, are all
conclusive evidences that the original church was a plain, unornamented
edifice of eai'ly date ; and that the entrance, chancel-arch, and ornamen-
tation of wii:idows, are all insertions of a later date.

The whole structure and its lands, with the many parishes by which
its splendour was ministered to, were passed into secular hands, and
were only estimated at the value of -tO^.— '' the gi^eater part of the
lands and parishes being waste." There was recently a pedestal of a
cross found here— shaft prostrate, with a Crucifixion scene, since re-
moved.

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The inscriptions are on a broken stone —

** Or ar Meanach,
TJameal Lugdach."
i,e.,

Pray for Meanach,

The descendant of Meal-

Lngdach.

There is no cross or other device on the stone.

Templeically.

The name signifies the Glmrcli of the Calloiu or Marsh of flooded land.
The parish is situated with Castletown to north-east, Kilmastulla to
east, Kilcomenty to south, Lough Derg to west.

The old church stands on a commanding rise, about 150 paces from
the Shannon, and half a mile to south of Killaloe. It measures 62ft. 9in.
by 25ft. 6in. ; walls 3ft. Gin. thick, by 10ft. in height, and made of brown
sand-stone, cemented with mortar of lime and sand. To the north is an
old castle, called Cloghnafionna, or the Bock of the ivine. On a small
island, called Friar's Island, stands a remarkable and veiy ancient stone-
roofed chapel of considerable beauty. Grose has a sketch of it, taken
when the building was much more perfect than when Du Noyer limned
it. Brash has a plan and section, with an elevation of the east wmdow.
Lord Dunraven has disclosed the building, by removing the dense
coveiing of old ivy. The best verbal description of it is given by Mr.
Brash. Having mentioned about the island as a deposit of sand, gravel,
and boulders, he adds, about the centre of the islet is a small church,
consisting of a ruined nave and a nearly perfect chancel — the latter
being the original oratory of St. Mollua. Its dimensions are 10ft. 6in.
by 6ft. 6in., clear of walls, which are 3ft. thick on the flanks, the gables
being 3ft. 4in. (or about the same dimensions as Benens on Aran and
Senans, near Ealrush). It was lighted by a semi-circular headed opening
1ft. 6in. high, by 9-|ft. wide externally, having large inward splays, the
head being cut out of a single stone. The original doorway was m west
gable : but when the nave was added, the door-ope was cut away
and enlarged, and an ope to the chancel constructed, 5ft 9in. wide.
The alteration is quite palpable. A rude door-ope was also cut
through the south wall of the oratory. Its most remarkable feature,
however, is the stone roof, which is constructed of rectangular slabs of
various thicknesses, laid in courses, each overlapping the preceding one,
and dressed both inside and outside to the rake of the roof, which has
the same angle both internally and externally. Under the ridge is a
rectangular air-chamber, 2ft. by 1ft. 3in., having an external vent, and
communicating internally by a square ope in ceiling of 1ft. 3in., and
close to the west gable. This was evidently a chamber for ventilation.
It also lightened the dead weight in the apex of roof. It was built with
great solidity and care; the masonry was of large-sized rubble,
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and ivy. The nave, added at some remote period, was itself a
building of great antiquity, 21ft. 5in. by 12ft. 7in. clear of walls, of
wbich are only about 3ft. in height remaining. The west gable
fell about twelve years before Mr. B.'s visit. Grose's drawing shows the
doorway to have been a massive square-headed ope, with converging
jambs. St. Lua, in the early part of the 6th century, built a cell in this
place, hence it was named Oell-da-lua. We have every reason to believe
that the oratory on Friar's Island was this identical cell. By judicious
care it may stand another 500 years, while the more recently-built
nave has all but disappeared. (Brash, pp. 9 and 10.)

Mr. Hull's remarks on the formation of rock basins in calcareous lime-
stone are interesting, especially in reference to the pecuHarity of Lough
Derg, which spreads out widely over the limestone plain before enter-
ing the gorge above Killaloe, where the banks of the lough (here
merging into the river) are of slate. (See p. 200 Physical Geography of
Ireland.) At page 173 the learned writer discusses the question why
the Shannon did not run westward towards Gal way Bay, but rather cut
its way through hard beds of silurian grits and slates, followed by red
sandstone, and concludes, " that when the Shannon selected its channel,
the ridge of mountains through which it passes was somewhat lower
than the plain to the north ; in fact the river was older than the moun-
tains." Sir K. Kane calculates a total of over 30,000 horse-power avail-
able here all the year round, but not availed of except to a trifling
extent in one small marble -works.

SUPPLEMENTAEY MATTEE.

TuLLA Parish, sitpra, p. 485.

The following curious Irish tradition is noted by Mr. King in his
learned " Church History of Ireland " (Suppy. Vol., p. 1047), and it con-
nects the parish of Tulla with the issuing of the celebrated Bull of Pope
Adrian lY. in the following manner : —

" The sale of Ii^eland by the Pope to the Kings of England was brought
about, partly at least, under the influence of revenge for injuries in-
flicted on a Papal officer by the Irish, won-ied, as it would seem, to
resistance by his extortions. Tlie account is as follows : — O'Annoc and
O'Chelchin, of Cill-mor, O'Sluaisti, from Cill-0'Sluaisti {noio Coolo-
slilusht}jy a toivnland hi the parish of Tidla^ Barony of Z'pper Tulla j
County Clare), O'Glesom. These were they who stole the horses, and
the mules, and the asses of the Cardinal who came from Rome to the
land of Erin to mstruct it, in the time of Dornhnall Mor O'Brien, King
of Munster, andittva^ on that accoicnt that the cowarha (Le,, successor) of
Peter sold the rent and right of Erin to the Saxons, and that is the rif^ht
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day, for it was to the cowarba of Peter, to Eome, used to go the rent
and tribute of Erin until then."

At the same time, ifc is but fair to say that the Writer does not know,
nor has learned during a protracted residence in Tulla, of any so-named
townland; nor does it appear in the " Tythe Composition Book," nor
the " Summary of Act of Settlement ;" nor has any one of the inhabi-
tants consulted been able to give a good account of this name.

QuiN, sitiora, p. 483*

Some additional monumental inscriptions : —

In the cloisters. — Eevd. Mr* Patrick Liddy» 1762.

Eevd. Cornelius Hehir, Parochus nuper de Quin. 1769.

Thos. Kendal, in memory of his ancestors and of his son and daughter.
1763.

Dermod Hick ey, surgeon. 1738*

Patrick Pall. 1781.

Peter McNamara. 1784.

In the nave are flat stones to the Lynches, Olunes, Hallorans, O'Neills,
to Thomas Silver, to the Hogans, Hassetts, &c., &c.

Near the piscina, in transept, is the grave of Moylans, &c., and certain
others nameless, besides what have been already noted.

Under the camioanile^ on the west side, is a broken slab, with letters
i^ised round the border, running somehow thus : —

*' Hic JACET Johannes coupus (?) Macumarra . » . 1601 . . . aura me

FIERI EECET."

At the right side of great altar we read on a slab, in an elaborate style
of decoration —

" This monument was erected by Mahon Danl. McNemara, and

reijaired by Captn. Teige McNemara of Kannae, a.d. 1714.

Firmitas in coelo."

Crest : Lion rampant, sword, and dagger.
The inscription round the base was illegible, to the writer at least.

We find among other crowding monuments of the departed, one to
*' James andMargt. McNemara, in front of the old high altar " ; and not
to load these pages beyond all endurance, we give but one inscription
more : —

*'Here lies the body of Edmond McNemara, grandson of Hugh
McNemara, of Corbally, 1761."

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KiLFAKBOY, supra, p. 505.

A reference liaving been made to Dr. Ferguson's paper on the Mount
Callan Inscription, read Feb. 10, 1873, the following resume of it may
prove acceptable to many readers : —

Theophilus 0 'Flanagan read the first paper on this subject in R I.
Academy in 1785. His reading purports to have been prompted b}^
some lines which he cites as from an Irish poem called " The Battle of
Gahhra," to the effect that one of the Fenian heroes named Conan had
been slain at the spot by the Fiaana on the occasion of an assembly held
for worship of the Sun, and that Conan's name, in Ogham characters,
existed on his sepulchral stone, where he had been buried on this inoun-
tain. He does not pretend to find the name of Conan, totidem Uteris, on
the monument, but avers that, according to certain rules of Ogham spel-
ling, the letters Conaf appearing there stand for Conan, the n and/
being commutable. (Then) he proceeds to extract a series of no less
than five several readings from the line of digits constituting the in-
scription.

The result is unlike any known authentic sepulchral legend of any
age or country, and particularly unlike any Ogham formula hitherto
observed. As might have been expected, it has been received with very
o^eneral distrust. It is now a common thing to hear the Callan moun-
tain inscription, and the verses about Conan from the Cath-Gahhra,
treated as palpable forgeries, the disgrace of which is imputed sometimes
to John Lloyd, author of an Account of the County Clare ; and some-
times to Michael Comynsj a gentleman of the same county, who distin-
guished himself as a poet and romance writer, in the Irish language,
about the middle of the last century. Much of the obloquy cast on
O'Flanagan is divided with General Yallancey, to support whose specu-
lations, about the ancient Irish having been sun-worshippers, is sup-
posed to have been 0 'Flanagan's object in the fabrication of the im-
peached verses. These charges have been put forward with much
authority by the late John O'Donovan and Eugene O'Carry. Dr.
Ferguson then powerfully vindicates Lloyd and 0 'Flanagan, also Comyns.
Of Lloyd the writer may add that he was a teacher or tutor at Mr.
Austin Fitzgerald, of Toureen ; also was no poet, and any verses in his
little work are signed with the initials " T. M.," or Thomas Meehan,
who was a teacher of mathematics in Ennis, and whose advertisements
are to be found in the files of the Glare Journal. Poor Lloyd's weakness
lay in potations. He was found dead on the road.

KiLPiNAGUTY P.vrvisii. Tombstoucs.

Coi^ledfroni Tonih, or raiher Vault-stones, in Aisle of Si.vrnilc
Bridge Church.

STAY - GENTLE - EEADER - DROr - A - TE.VR
FOR - nous - DUST - IS BURIED - HERE -
A - VERTUOUS - WYFE - A - PRUDEN - MOTHER
AND - ZEALOUS - SANT - LIE - UERE - TOGETHER

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lER T (This line quite illegible)

THEN - COURTEOUS - READER - CEASE - TO - MOANE

KATIERIN - COTTER - WIFE - TO - RICHARD

COTTER - DEPARTED - THIS - LIFE - THE - 19

DAY - OF - OCTOBER • 1679.

(Spelled as above.)

Here lies the body of Miss Mary Hickman

Who departed this Life the 13th day of May

1771 Aged 28 years

Erected by her brother,

Bobert Hickman Esq.

HERE - LYES - THE - BODY - OF - REBEKAII

0J> (illegible) wife to - iohn - owen (

illegible) wno departed this life the

F ( rest illegible) 1723 aged (illegible)

(Spelled as above.)

The flag, with the following Inscription, forms the threshold of
church door : —

IN THE YEAR OF (rest illegible) lord

GOD •

Letters across stone,
E V T (illegible).

(On opposite side of stone, just as here)
MicKiL CLARK Moisi (illegible)

R ( rest illegible) departed

THIS (- rest altogether illegible)

(Spelled as above.)

KiLRusH Parish, p. 449^ su.]ora.

From the plate of the Bell of Senan (as it is called), it seems to have
been about 5in. in height and 2^in. at base, and 2in. at the top on the
broad portion front and rear ; but at the sides it is but 2in., and runs up
into a point of less than half-an-inch. The measurements thus given
will indicate that this bell was in shape pyramidal and quadrangular,
but naiTOwer at the side tlmn on the front. The front face exhibits two
grotesque winged serpents, standing erect, back to back, neck inter-
lacing with neck, and with hands (or fins rather) grasping mutually. The
forked tongue of each is protuberant, and falls on the wing. Each sup-
ports itself on a broad fishy tail. If winged serpents could be supposed
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spin, " a deux tem'ps.'" Light foliage bordering completes the decora-
tion round these lively monsters. The back of the bell is divided into
well-proportioned compartments or panels, over which a serpentine
decoration is elaborately evolved in intricate coils, reminding one of
the tomb decorations of Egypt.

The two ends are taken np with a bold, comprehensive panel, having
in each instance a human head, and in one a body draped in diaper
robing, and a beast of the leopard tribe rampant, as though making a
deadly spring towards the vital parts near the neck of the man. In the
other case, though the head above is human and unomamented, an alle-
gorical fiend, wearing a crown hke a Roman mural one, seems to have
got its death-blow, and is in an attitude of collapse — head aside, wings
drooped, and legs falling together. A question will arise as to what this
instrument was originally intended for ? If for a bell, it could not have
been heard at any considerable distance, certainly not *^ all across Cor-
cavaskin." But if not originally a bell, what else then was it meant
for ? Was it to embody the tradition of some heaven-sent blessing, its
material representing Divinity, its principal figures exhibiting humanity,
and its action indicating sin rampant, but grace triumphant ? The
verse will occur, " I saw Satan like hghtning fall from heaven," or
rather, " JSTow is the prince of this world cast out." But then it may
be maintained, not without good grounds, that this is not a Christian
but a Pagan symbolical sacred monument. So some think.

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I. SIR J. PERROTT'S TRIPARTITE DEED.
II. FIANT TO T. O'BRIEN AS SENESCHAL OF BURREN.

III. KING JAMES I.'S LETTER TO SIR D. O'BRIEN OF DOUGH.

IV. O'LOUGHLIN'S TRANSFER.
V. O'CONOR'S DEED.

I". This Indenture Tripartite, made betwixt tlie Eight Honourable Sir
John Perrott, Knight, Lord Deputy Generall of Ireland, for and in
behalfe of the Queen's Most Excellent Majestic, of the one parte, and
the Lords, spirituall and temporall, Chieftanios, freeholders and ff'armers
and inhabitants of lands or holdings in parte or parcell, of the Province
of Connaught called Thomond, that is to Tvitt, Donnogh Earl of
Thomond, and Mon^ogh Lord Barron of Inchiquine, the Eev. Fathers
in God Mauritius, Bisshopp of Killalow, Daniell EUecte, Bisshop of
Killfinnoragh, Donogh O'Horane, Deane of Killalow, Daniel Shennaghe,
Deane of Killfinorogh, Dennis^ Archdeacon of the same. Sir Edward
Waterhouse, of Downassy, Knight, Sir Terlagh O'Brien, of Ennistyman,
Knight, John McNemara, of Cnappogue, otherwise called McNemara, of
West Clancullane, Daniell Reagh McNeman^a, of CaiTOwlagh, otherwise
called McISTemarra, of East CloncoUan, TeigeMcMahon, of Clonaddorala,
otherwise called McMahon, of East Corconwaskine, Terlagh McMahon,
of Moyartie, chiefe of his name in West Corcovaskin, Monertagh
O'Brien, of Dromaleyne, Gent., Mahonne O'Brien, of Clonduanc, Diony
O'Laughline, of the Gragans, otherwise called O'Laughline, Eosse
O'Laughline, of Glancollumkyle, Tani&t to the same O'Laughline,
Mahon and Dermot O'Dea, of Tullaghdea, chief of their names, Connor
McGilreooghe, of Cragbreane, chief of his name, Terlagh McTeige
O'Brien, of Beallacorege, gente, Lulce JBrady^ sonn and heir of the late
Bisshop'p of Meath, Edward White, of the Crattelagh, gente, Geo.
Cusake, of Dromoylin, gente, Boetius Clanchy, of Knockfi'ynne, gente,
John McNemarra, of the Moetullen, gente, Henery 0 'Grady, of the
Hand of Inchecronan, gente, Donogh McOlancy, of the Urlion, chief of
his name, Donogh Garragh O'Brien, of Ballecessye, gente, Connor
O'Brien, of Curharcorcal, gente, and George Ffanninge, of Lymericke,
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countrey or teiritorie of Thomond is devided into nine principall
Barronies, that is to say —

1. The Barony of Tullaghynaspyll.

2. The Barony of Dengynvj'ggon.

3. The Barony of Clonraude, " otherwise called " the Islands.

4. The Barony of Clunderala, " otherwise called " East Corcawaskine.

5. The Barony of Moarte, " otherwise called " West Corcowaskine.

6. The Barony of Ibrackane.

7. The Barony of Corcumrow, otherwise called Doughycomogher.

8. The Barony of Gragans, otherwise called BoiTen,

9. And the Barony of Tullaghyda<?, which containe in themselyes, as
well by antient division as by later inquisicon and presentment hereunto
annexed, the number of " one thousand two hundred fifty-nine quarters
and a halfe and one-third part of land, estimating every quarter with
his pasture, meaddow, woode, and bogge of att a hundred and twenty
acres, as by a more particular layeing downe of ye same in manner and
forme following it may appear.

1'^. In the Barony of {TvMagliypyll) There is a quantity of land
called Tuomore, consisting of thirty -nine quarters. Also TuUo^, consist-
ing of twelve quarters, belonging to Her Majestic, as in right of the
Abbay of Tulloe. Of TuUagliline, consisting of thirteen quarters. Also
Tceronye, consisting of twenty-one quarters. Also Tennonigrady, con-
sisting of eighteen quarters, belougiug to the Queen's Majestie, as in
right of the spiiitual living of Tomgrenny. Alsoe Moynose, consisting
of four quarters, belonging to the Queen's Majestie, as in right of the
spiritual living of Maynooe aforesaid. Alsoe TuogouniU, consisting of
fourteen quarters. Alsoe Trog, Killalow, consisting of twenty-eight
quarters, whereof belongeth to the J5i6\s7i'Oj>ri!'c/i*e of KUJaloiv five quarters,
Alsoe Annaghmore and Annaghhegg, consisting of nine quarters. Alsoe
Tiioglanny, consisting of twelve quarters. Also Tuogluicine, consisting
of fifteen quarters. Alsoe Toanohowne, consisting of sixteen quarters.
Alsoe Toglierlshart, consisting of seaven quarters. Alsoe KyUadoimell,
consisting of forty-four quarters, whereof lyeth in tliis Barony twenty-
two quarters, and in the Barony of Dengynnyviggon other twenty-two
quarters, which in ye whole within this Baronie of Tullaghynespeill
Cometh to Tuo liundred twenty- eight quarters.

2''. In the Barony of Denginyviggon there is a quantity of land called ye
Toti-CloncoUen-Woglitraghe, consisting of forty- six quarters. Alsoe
Touenevercone, consisting of forty quarters. Alsoe ToUicoghtrugh-
Traderee, consisting of thirty-three quarters, whereof one quarter
beareth cheefry to the Byshoprick of Killalow. Also Tuovannagh-
Tradry, consisting of thirty-nine quarters and a half, whereof of six
quarters beareth cheefry to the Bishopricke of Killalow, Tooightragli-
Tradry, consisting of thirty-eight quarters, whereof two quarters
beareth cheefry to the Bisshopricke of Killalow. Allsoe ToUuomarrod,
consisting of forty-nine quarters. Alsoe Torrespard, consisting of seven

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quarters. Alsoe Kynnadownoll, alias KiUaiiadownell, consistin-g of forty-
four quarters, whereof belongeth to this barrony twenty-two quarters as
aforesaid, which in the whole within that Baronie cometh to two hundred
seventy-four quarters and a half.

3''. In the Barony of Clonraude, otherwise called the Hands, there is a
quantity of lands called Coggryanhe, consisting of twenty-three quarters.
Alsoe Icorjmich, consisting of forty-one quarters. Alsoe Clonrancli,
consisting of twelve quarters. Alsoe Killone, Ballyruthcla^, consisting
of three quarters, belonging to the Queen's Majestic in right of ye Abby
of Killoone. Alsoe Glanchonsodyne, consisting of four quarters. Alsoe
Belacoryge, consisting of two quarters. Alsoe hinisdadroon-Coiqipal of
one quarter. Alsoe of Bromiline, consisting of seaven quarters, belong-
ing to the Bishoprick of Killalow. Alsoe the Abbay of Clare, consisting
of fifteen quarters, belonging to the Queen's Majestic as in right of said
Abbay. Alsoe Tuhennaley, consisting of one quarter. Alsoe Ballyni-
coody, consisting of three qaarters. Alsoe Killyglasse, consisting of
two quarters. Alsoe Knochnehallymoch, consisting of one quarter.
Alsoe UlannagoManagh, consisting of two quarters, which in the whole
within that Barony cometh to one hundred and seaveenteene quarters.

Clondeelaw.

4P. In the Barronie of ClonedderoXae,ot]ievwi^Q called East Corcowaskine,
there is a quantity of land called Traviolhe, consisting of fourteen
quarters, whereof one quarter beareth cheefry to the Bishopricke of
Killalowe. Alsoe Tooenefyorny, consisting of thirteen quai'ters,. whereof
one quarter beareth cheefery to the Bishop of Killalowe. Alsoe Toea-
allae, consisting of thirteen quarters JDi, whereof two quarters Di beareth
cheefry to the Bishopricke of Killalowe. Alsoe Tuonekelly, consisting
of thirteen quarters, whereof five quarters beareth cheefry to the said
Bishopricke. Alsoe Tooeagneagh, consisting of eleven quarters, whereof
three quarters beareth cheefry to the said Bishopricke of Killaloe,
which in the whole within the Barony cometh to three score five
quarters.

MOYAETIE.

5^ In ye Baronie of 3fo7/ar^ie, otherwise called West Cor koivasldne, there
is a quantity of land called Aghamoanagh, consisting of twenty-six
quarters, whereof fourteen quarters beareth cheefry to the Bishopriche of
Killaloio. Also the west side of the said Barony, consisting of forty-one
quarters, whereof twenty-three beareth cheefry to the said Bishoprick
of Killalow, which in the whole within that Barony cometh to sixty-
seven quarters.

Ibrackane.

6^. In the Barony of Ibrackanc, there is contained sixty quarters, which
the said Earl of Thomond challengeth wholly and freely to himselfe ;
alsoe in Penle Mullou Killarnane and in Enlagh one quarter ; alsoe
Cloghoane and Dremardlough, consisting of two quarters challenged
by the said Earle to his household officers, which in the whole within
that Barony cometh to sixty-three quarters.

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7°. In the Barony of Corcomroe, otlierTrise called Boiogliiwnno'jhr, there
is a quantity of land called ToUwougMer-fflaheHie, consisting: of forty
quarters, whereof belongeth to ye Bisshopricke of Killfynnoragh two
quarters, do. to the Deanery of the same one quarter, and unto the
Queen's Majesty as in right of the Abbay of Killoone one quarter;
also Toowoughter-She, consisting of forty-five quarters, whereof be-
longeth in right of the Abbay of Killsonnagh five quarters, and to ye
Bishopricke of Kilfynnoragh seven quarters ; alsoe Tooraine, consist-
ing of thirty quarters, whereof belongeth to the Bishopricke of Kilfin-
noragh seven quarters ; alsoe Quoilea, consisting of twenty-six quarters,
whereof belongeth to the said bishopricke half a quarter, which in the
whole within that Barony cometh io one hundred and forty-one
quarters.

Graganes.
8^. In the Barony of Graganes, otherwise called Borren, there is a quan-
tity of land called Toofflanneth, consisting of twenty-five quarters,
whereof belongeth to the Bishopricke of Killfynnoragh two quarters
and two- third parts of a quarter ; also Toonagh, consisting of thirty-
seven quarters and one-third part, whereof belongeth to the said
Bishopricke of Kyllfynnoragh six quarters and one-thii'd part, and to
the Bishopricke of Kjllalow two quarters one-thu^d part ; also Mmjnter'
arga-gh, consisting of twelve quarters one-half part, whereof belongeth
to the Bishopricke of Killfynnoragh one quarter ; also Glannomannagh,
consisting of twenty-one quarters and two-third parts, whereof belono^eth
to the Queen's Majestic as in right of the Abbay of Corcomroe ten
quarters and two-thirds, and to the Bishopricke of Killfynnoragh two
quarters and two-third parts; also Gloight-Donough-O'Lo^hline, con-
consisting of eight quarters, whereof belongeth to the Bishopricke of
Killfynnoragh one quarter one-third part; also Gloight-Jen-oll, con-
sisting of nine quarters one-third part, whereof belongeth to the
Bishopricke of KQlfynnoragh one quarter and a third part ; also the
Towne of the Gragannes, consisting of two quarters two-third part;
also Muckenish, two-thii-d parts ; also Cdrricogane, consisting of one
quarter one-third part ; also the island called Aghnis, consisting of one
quarter one-third part, which in the whole within that Barony cometh to
one hundred and twenty- seven quarters and one-third part.

TULLAGUADEA.

9^ In the Barony of TuUaghadae there is a quantity of land called
Cloonofarrane, consisting of nineteen quarters, whereof belonj^eth to the
Bishopricke of Killalow four quarters; also Too Inchigiune,^ coiisistincr
of seven quarters ; also 2/oynee, consisting of four quarters ; also Toe-
oloviche, consisting of fifteen quarters; also Toevalaryne, con sis tin o- of
fourteen quarters, whereof belongeth to the Bishopricke of Killalow Four
quarters ; also Toekmalwotjre, consisting of seventeen quarters, whereof
belongeth to the Bishopricke of Killalow four quarters ; also the Dyserfe
consisting of four quarters, belonging to the Bishopricke of KiHa,'

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low ; also Killfynnan Kilceorishe, consisting of two quarters, belonging
to the Bishopricke of Killalow; also Maglieryfargo.gh, consisting of
three score and twelve quarters, whereof belongeth to the Bishoppricke
of Killalow one quarter; also TuUagliComone, consisting of two quarters;
alsoe Killoivlayhy, consisting of thirty-two quarters ; also Aglirynie, con-
sisting of one quarter, which in the whole within that Barony cometh
to one hundred three score and seventeen quarters. All which being
drawn into one total cometh to the aforesaid number of one thousand
two hundred fifty-nine quarters and a half and one -third part, whereof
belongeth unto Her Majestie three score and eight quarters two-thhd
parts, and to the aforesaid Lords Spritual one hundred twenty-seven
quarters.

The said lords, cheiftenios, gents, freeholders, and ffarmcrs, ac-
knowledging the mamjfould henejitts and easements which they find in
possessing of then- lands and goods, since the peaceable government
of the said Lord Deputy, and the just dealinge of Sir Richard Bing-
hame, Knight, their chief oJOacer, as well against comon malefactors
and spoyllards, also against the umneasivralle cesses and oppresssions of
■' all sorts of men of loar heretofore laid upon them, \}d!^t in consideration
thereof, and for that alsoe, the said Right Honourable the Lord Deputie
doth promise, covenant, and grant to and with the said lords, chief-
tenios, gents, freeholders, and inhabitants of the said County of Tho-
mond, for and in the behaHe of the Queen's Most Excellent Majestie,
that they and every of them, their heirs, successors, and assigns, for
their lands within the said County'orThomond, shall from and after
the date hereof be freely and lohohj discharged, acquitted and exonerated
for ever of and from all manner of cusfcoms, taxes, charges, exactions,
cuttings, impositions, purveying cuttings, findings, or boarding of soul-
diers, and all other hurdens whatsoever other than the rents, reservations,
and charges hereafter in this indenture specified, and to he enacted hy Far-
liament, willingly and thankfully for them, their heirs, successors,
assigns, given and granted, like as hereby they do give and grant to the
said Right Honourable, the Lord Deputy, and his heirs, to the use and
behooffe of the Queen's Most Excellent Majestie, her heirs and suc-
cessors for ever, one yearly rent charge often shillings of good and laivfid
money of England, going ont of every gnarter of one tliousand fourscore
and seveideon quarters of the aforesaid number of one thousand two
hundred and fifty-nine quarters D, and one-third part of land, withm
the whole, amountcth yearly to the sum five hundred forty-three pounds
tenn shillings sterling, payable at the feasts of St. Michael the Arch-
ano-ell andEaster, by even portions ; the first payment to begm at the
feast of St Michael the Ai^changcll next ensumg the date hereof, and
so yearly for ever at the severall feasts aforesaid, at Her Highness's
Exchequer within the same realm of L^eland, or to the hands of ye
Treasurer or General Receiver of the said rcalme for the tnne bemg.
And for the lacke of money to be paid into the Exchequer as aforesaid,
the same Treasurer or General Receiver to receive kyne to the value of
the said rent, or soe much thereof as shall remain unpaid att ye rate of
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^Ub iff it fortune the said rent of five hundred forty-tln-ee pounds tenn
shillings sterling, to be behind and unpaide in part, or in all, in manner
and form aforesaid, that then it shall be lawfuU unto the said Right
Honoui-able, the Lord Deputie, or other governor or governors of this
realm, for the time being, or to the Treasui-er, or General Receiver for
the time being, to enter and distrain in all and singular the lands,
tenements, and hereditaments of the said one thousand four score
and seaven quarters, soe being in arrear, and the distress taken, to
detain and keep until the said yearly rent as aforesaid be fully and
TvhoUy satisfied and paid. ^tO&titi always that if it fortune any
part of the quarters subject to this composition to be so toast, as thai it
heareth neither home nor come, that the same be not laid upon the rest
that is inhabited, till the lands so wast be inhabited as aforesaid.

And further, the persons above named, for them, their heirs, suc-
cessors, and assigns, doe covenant, promise, and grant to, and with the
said Right Honourable the Lord Deputy, and his heirs for and in the
behalf of the Queen's Most Excellent Majestic, her heirs and successors,
not only to answer and heare yearly for ever to all liostings, rades, and
journys within the said Province of Conaught a/nd Tlwniond, vjhereas
and ( ) at what time they shall be thereunto commanded by the
Lord Deputy, or other governor or governors of this realme, or by the
chiefe officer of the said province, forty good ahle Ti or semen and two
hundred footmen, well armed, iipon their owne i:>roper costs and charges,
over o/ad besides the rent aforesaid (the lands assigned by this indenture
as domains to the manners and houses of the late Earl of Thomond, the
Barron of Lichiquine, and the Bisshopps of Killalow and Killfynnoragh,
always excepted) ; but also to answer and, heare all general hostijigs pro-
claimed in this realme, fifteen good and able horsemen and fiftie foot-
men, well armed and furnished with carriage and victualls upon theii'
own proper costs and charges, during the time of the said hostings, if
the Lord Deputy or other governor of this realm, for the time being, doe
require the same, securing and reserving cdways, this priviledge and
favour of Her Majesties grace to the said Earl of Thomond, the Lord
Barron of Inchiquine, and the Bishops of Killalow and Kil-
fynnoragh, that they shall in no other sort or manner answer or
beare to this general hosting then as theii' peers of English —
carles, barrens, and bishops doth or ought to doe. 3tXtJ further, it is
condescended (sic), concluded, and agreed as well by the said Right Honble.
the Lord Deputy for and in the behalf of the Queene's Most Excellent
Majestic, and also by the said Donough Eai'l of Thomond, MuiTough
Baron of Inchiquin, Sh^ Tyrrolagh O'Brien, Knight, John Macnemari^a.,
Daniel Roough McNemarra, Teigc McMahoune, Tyi-lagh Me]\rahoune,
Bryan (or Owen) Laughline, Rosse O'Laughline, Mahoune O'Dae
Dermott O'Dae, and Conor McGillreowgh, a)id others of the Irishry
above named, in manner and forme following, (viz.) that the names, stiles,
and titles of captaiites ships, Tanish shi2^s,and all other Irish authorities
and jurisdictions heretofore used by the said chieffaines and gentlemen,
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great strife and contention amongst them, shall from henceforth be utterly
abolished, extinct, renounced, put back within the said county of Thomond
forever. In consideration whereof, and for that Her Majestie doth
graciously mind the benefit and advancement of every good subject
according to his degree, hy reduceing of their imceiiain and tmlaivfid
manner of takeinng from others to a ceiiain and more beneficial state of
liveing for them and their heirs than their said 2oretendecl titles and claimes
did or could hith&rto afford them, W^t said Right Honble. Lord Deputy
for and in behalf e of the Queen's Most Excellent Majestie, and also the
aforesaid lords, chieftains, gents, and freeholders, on the behalf e of them-
selves and the rest of the inhabitants of the said countrey, doth cove-
nant, promise, and agree to and with the said Donogh, Earle of Tho-
mond, W^KX where the Barrony of Ibrickane consisteth of three-
quarters of land fully exonerated and discharged, the said Donogh, Earl
of Thomond, shall have, hold, possess, and enjoy to him and to the heirs
males of the body of his grandfather Donough O'Brien, late Lord Barron
of Ibrickane, the said three score and three-quarters of lamd freely
e^conerated and discharged from the said composition of five Imndred
and foHy-three pounds ten shillings sterling, as a domain to his castles
of Ibraccane, Cahirnishe, and BoxDnorgan, ivith all the goods and chattels
of persons attainted of felony that shaU happen or chance to dwell or
inhabit within the aforesaid three score and of land, all other casualties
and amerciaments that shall grow from time to time within the same ;
and whereas the BaiTony of Clonrande consisteth of one hundred and
seaventeen quarters of land, whereof thare is of abbey land eighteen
quarters, and belonging to the Bisshoprick of Killalow seaven quar-
ters, and soe remaineth three score and twelve quarters. Jit IS
likewise agi^eed that the said earle shall have, hold, possess, enjoy to
him and his heirs for ever as aforesaid, tivelve quarters of the said
remainder as a domayne to his manner of CL0NBA^^DE, and one quarter
to his Castle of Clare, fi^eely exonerated and discharged of and from the
said composition, and alsoe out of eveiy quarter of the residue of the
said quarters, being three score and nineteen five shillmgs sterling,
amounting by the year to nyneteen pounds lbs. \d. sterluig, in ftoll
recompense of all duties, exactions, and spendings by him claymed upon
the freeholders of the same note, charging the portion of the wast land
upon the inhabitted ; and that they and eveiy of them according to
his estate, their heirs and assigns, shall hold the said thi^ee score and
nineteen quarters of the said earle and the heirs males of his gi^and-
father as aforesaid by hnigMs service; that is to say, by the fortieth part of
a hiightfee (?) and the rent aforesaid as of his manner of Clonronde, and
shall doe suite to his Courte Barron and CourteLeete of the said mamior,
together with all the goods and chatties of persons attained of felonie
that shall happen or chance to dwell and inhabitt within the aforesaid
quarters of land assigned to him as well in doma.yne as hi services, and
all other casual ammercements that shall gi'ow from time to time
within the said townlands.

^nU whereas the Barrony of Dongynnyviggoon consisteth of 274

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quarters, di., whereof belongeth to the Bisshoppricke of Eallatnoe (sic,
quere Killaloe), nine quarters, and allowed to McNemareas, and ssone by-
way of freedome six quarters, and nine quarters in controversie betwixt
the Ban-on of Inchiquine and Sir Th'lagh O'Briene, and soe remaineth

two hundred and fiftie quarters di. Jit is farther covenanted, promised,
granted, and agreed by the said Eight Honourable the Lord Deputie for
and in the behalfe of the Queen's Most Excellent Majestic and the
aforesaid Lord Chieftains, gents, and freeholders on the behalfe of them-
selves and the rest of the inhabitants of the County of Thomond, that
for the better support or care of the state and dignitie of the said Earle,
he shall have to him and his heirs as aforesaid six quojiers of the afore-
said 250 quarters di. as a domain to his Castle of Bunrattij, freely exone-
rated and discha/rged of the said composition. And one yearly rent charge
of 6s. sterling goeing out of the residue of the said quarters, being 244
quarters di. to him and his heirs as aforesaid, amounting by the yeare
to 621. 2s. 6d. sterling, not charging the portion of the wast land upon
the inhabitted. In full recompense of all duties, exactions, and spendings
hy him claymed zipon the freeholders of the same, and that they and every
of them, their heirs, and assigns, according to his rate, shall hold the
same of the said Earle, and the heirs males of his grandfather, hy
Knight's service, that is to say, by the 40th part of a Knight's fee, and
the rent aforesaid, as of his Castle of Bunratty, and shall alsoe doe suite
to his Court Barron and Courtleete of his said Castle, together with all
the goods and chatties of persons attainted of felony that shall happen
or chance to dwell and inhabit within the aforesaid quarter of land
assigned to him, as well in domayne as in services, and all other casual-
ties and amerciaments that shall gi'ow from time to time within the
same.

SltXi whereas the Ban'ony of Tullaghynaspyll consisteth of 228
quarters, Avhereof belongeth to the spiritual living of Tomgeny, Tullagh,
and Moynooe, thirty-fom- quarters, to the Bishoprick of Killalow, five
quarters, to ye BaiTon of Inchiquine, eighteen quarters, and to
McNemarra Rough, as a freedome allowed him by this indentui'e, six
quarters, to Sir Edward Waterhouse, Knight, nine quarters, whereof
allowed to him as a free domaine to his Castle of Downasse, eight
quarters, soe remaineth 156 quarters. It is upon like consideration,
granted, covenanted, and agi-eed, as well by the said Bight Honourable
the Lord Deputy as the said Lords Chieftains, gents, freeholders, and
the rest above-named, that the said Earle shall have to him and his
heirs, masles as aforesaid, one yearly rent charge of bs. sterling, goeing out
of every quarter of the said rernaine of one hundred fifty-six quarters,
amountiag by the yeare to 39^. sterling (not charging the portion of the
wast land upon the inhabitted) in full recompense of all his dzdies,
exactions, and spending hy him, claymed upon the freeholders and inha-
hitants of the said BaiTony, and that they and every of them (accordino-
to his rate), then' hcii's and assigns shall hold the same of the Queen's
Majestic, his heks and successors by Knight scr^dcc, that is to say, by
the 40th part of a Knight's fee as of Her Majestic, or mannoui^ of

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Innyshe, in the County Clare, with the moyety or half fondeale (sic) of all
the goods and chatties of persons attainted of felonie that shall happen
or chance to dwell and inhabitt within the aforesaid, 156 quarters of
land, and all other casualties (&c., vide supra).

jdtlu whereas the Ban^onie of Clonderrealae consisteth of sixty-five
quarters, whereof belongeth to the Bishop of Killalow 14 quarters, and
to McMahowne, as a freedom allowed to his house of Clonedarralea and
Dongen, 6 quarters, and so remaineth 45 quarters. It is upon like con-
sideration granted, &c., that the Earle shall have to him and his heirs as
aforesaid one yearly rent- charge of 5s. sterling, gooing out of every
quarter of said 45, amounting by year to 111. 5s., &c., by 40 parts of a
Kjiight's fee as of her house or manner of Innyshe, in the County of
Clare, with the moyetie or halfendall of all the goods and chatties, of
possessions, &c. (as above).

Moyartie, 67 quarters.
Bishoprick Killaloe, 37.
Turlough McMahonne, as a free domain to his house of Moyartie and
Dounehoissie.

Quarters 6

And so remaineth — 24 quarters.

It is upon like consideration, &c., 5s. a quarter, or 6L

The Baronie of Gragganes consisteth of quarters 127

Qrs.

Bishoprick of Kyllfennoragh 101

in chiefery.
In domain e to
his house in Kyllfyn
noragh and Killas
hykll manner. a

Bishop Killalow in chiefry 2|

To O'Laughline as a

free domain to his

houses of the Gragranes

and Glancollowkylly 6

And soe remaineth 101

To said Earle 5s. a year, or 2QI., and the rest as above.

Barrony of Tullaghada, quarters 1*77

Bishoprick Ejllalow ^ -^

156 (8)

W[}Z Lord Barron of Iticluqiunc,iov yc bctbcr supporlacon of his
name and dignity, shall hold, possess, and enjoy to lihn and his heirs
male of the body of his great grandfather Morroagh O'Brien 6 tjuartcrs.

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as a domain to bis Manor of Incliiquine, freely exonerated, &c., and dis-
charged of and from this composition and all other rents and demands
of the Earle of Thomond ; and the said Lord Barron shall have also to
him and his heirs males as aforesaid one yearly rent-charge of 5s. ster-
ling, gooening out of every quarter of the residue, or 38^. sterling per
annum (conditions of duty and obligation mutually as above, but to Lord
Ban-on of Inchiquine) ; alsoe said Lord Barron shall have, hold seven
quarters of his own land in Barony of Tullaghynaspyll freely discharged
of this composition.

Slntf further, Lord Bisshop of Killalow and his successors shall have
5 quarters of land as a domain to his house or manor of Killalow freely
exonerated and discharged of this composition, with all the goods and
chatties of persons attainted of f elonie and all other casualties and amer-
ciaments growing of the inhabitants dwelling within the said 5 quarters
from time to time ; and that allsoe the Lord Bishop of Kilfynnoragh and
his successors like freedom in 4 quarters as a domain adjoining to his
houses of Killfynnoragh and Killaspicklomann, in Barony of Corcom-
roe.

S'Utl further, with the said Tirlogh O'Briene, Kmight, that where tha
Barronie of Corcamroe consisteth of 147 quarters, whereof belongeth to
the Queen 6 quarters, to Bishop Killfynoragh 17, to Dean 1 quarter, 3
quarters di. allowed to Boetius Cianchye as a free domain, to his house or
co.stle of Knock jine andsoe remaineth 114 quarters, that the said Turlogh
O'Briene, for the better maintenance of said degree, whereunto it hath
pleased the Queen's Majestic to call him, shall possess and enjoy to him
and his heii's 14 quarters o/ ^7ie aforesaid as a. domain to his house of
Douoghyconuogher, Innyshtyman, and BallyneJachney, within the said
Barronie, freely exonerated and discharged of and from this composition,
and of and from all other rents and demands of the Earle of Thomond and
his heu-s. And that the said Sii' Tirlough shaU have to him and his
heu^s one yearly rent- charge of 5s. sterling, gooing out of eveiy quarter
of the aforesaid 100 quarters, amounting by year to 25?., not charging the
portion of the wast land upon the inhabitants in fdl recompense of all
duties, exactions, and spending clayrned, as well by him as by the Earle of
Thomond, upon the freeholders of the said Barrony, and that they and
every of them according to his rate, theii' heii's and assigns shall hold
the same of the same (said Sii- Tu^lough and his heirs) for ever as of his
castle or mainior of Doughyconougher, in the Barrony aforesaid, by
Knight's service, viz., by the 40th part of a Knight's fee and the rent
aforesaid, and shall alsoe doe suit to the Couii: Barron and Leete of the
said castle or manor of Doughy connougher, with all the goods, &c., &c.,
loithin said 14 quarters assigned^ as domain, with the moyetie or half-
endall of lilce royaltie growing from time to time within the said 100
quarters of land assigned to him in service. ^UD it is likewise cove-
nanted, granted, &c., &c., with Shane MciS'emarra, otherwise called
McNema.rra Sinne, that for his better maintenance of living he shall

hold, &c for his heirs and assigns for ever for the castle (?)

of Cna.p2^ocke, in the Barrony of Dongynnyviggoon, with four quarters of

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land with their appurtenances belonging to the same, and two quarters
of land with theii- appurtenances in the toiun of Dangen freely exone-
rated and discharged of and from this composition of and from all other
rents or demands of the Earle of Thomond and his heirs, together with

all the goods and chatties of persons attained, &c., &c and

shall also hold and possess 19 quarters of land, with their appurtenances
belonging to the same, whereof he is now to be seized as his inheritance,
the same to be holden of Her Majestic, &c., by Knight's service, viz., by
the twentieth (sic) part of a Knight's fee as of her house or mannor of
Innysh. And that after the decease of the said Shane McNemarra all
such rents, duties, and customs as are challenged to be belonging to the
name of McNemarra Sissine shall (in consideration that the same is nott
extorted and — ) be henceforth utterly determined and extinct for ever,

^ttO it is likewise covenanted, granted, promised, and agreed as
aforesaid to and with Daniell Boogli McNemarra, otherwise McNemarra
Eoogh, that for his better maintenance of living he shall have, hold,
possess, and enjoy to him, his heirs, and for ever the castle of Gccrrua-
roglie^ in the Barony of Tidlaglinasinjll, with four quarters of land with
their appurtenances belonging to the same. And two quarters of land
with their appurtenances, belonging to the town of Dongen, wholly
exonerated and from composition, &c,, to Earle of Thomond, &c., and
shall alsoe have 11 quarters of land, whereof he is said to be now seized,
as his inheritance in the Barrony of Tullaghynaspyll, the same to be
holden of Her Majestic by Knight's service, viz., one-twentieth joart of a
Knight's fee, as of her Majestie's house or manor of Innyshe. And that
after the decease of the said Danl. Eoogh McNemarra all such rents,
duties, and customs as are claymed to be belonging to the name of
McNemaiTa Roogh in consideration that the same is but extorted shall
be henceforth extinguished and determined for ever.

^tlllf it is likewise covenanted to and with Tiege McMahowne, other-
wise called McMahowne, that for his better maintenance of hving, his
heii's, &c., shall have, hold, &c., for ever the Castle of Chnderlavjj in the
Barony of Cloneddcrlaw, with three quarters of land, with then appur-
tenances freely belonging to the same, and to his Castle of Dongen,
three quarters, &c., each one rated, &c., and shall also enjoy eleven
quarters on Knight's service ; and that after decease of said Teige
McMahone all such rents, duties, and customs as are challenged to he
helonging to the ouoae of McMahowne, shall in consideration that the
same is butt extorted, be extinguished, &c., &c.

^tlll it ^^ likewise, &c., that the said Tirlagh McMahowne shall
hold the towne of Moyartie with two quarters, and the Castle of Down-
obegg with four quarters, also four quarters.

^UXi it is likewise covenanted, &c., with Owen O'Laughline, other-
wise called O'Laughline, that for his better mahitenancc, &c., and shall
hold, &c., the Castle of the Gragancs and the Castle of Grlancollidkyllc,
with two quarters of land discharged from demands of Earl of Tho-
mond or Tirlagh O'Bricne, their heirs, &c., to be holden by Knight's fee,
and that after decease of, &c , as above.

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^lS0 it is likewise, &c., with Maliowne O'Briene of Clonduane (?)

said Castle of Clonduane, .... with six quarters

freely exonerated from composition, rents, claims, demands of Earl of
Thomond and the Lord Barron of Inchiquine, on Knight's service, &c.
(KB. — No reservation of life use, as supra.)

^XiQ it is condiscended, granted, &c., for better inhabiting of Sir
Ed.ward Waterliouse, Knight, to inhabit the lands luhich he ha.s purcha.sed
in the said County of Thomond, hordering upon ill neighbours, that he
shall have, hold, possess, &c., to him, and heirs, and assigns, the Castle
of Botonassye, otherwise called Annaghinore in the Barrony of Tullagh-
7iaspyll, which and with eight quarters of land, with their appurte-
nances, &c. The same to be holden in soccage, according to the
tenure and purport of Her Majesties' letters, bearing date xxviii.th
Augusti, in the xxviii.th yeare of Her Majesty's reign, discharged
from all manner of services, other than are mentioned in the letters
patents.

^tUl that Doctor James Neylaine, in res'pect of his assistance and
good inclyncdion towards the State, whereof he hath good testimony,
under the hands of many govemours of this realme, shall have, hold, &c.,
to him, his heh'S, and assigns, the Castles of Ballaly, BaMyvi^hahiU,
and Ballycoivrie with 240 acres of land to them belonging freely acgidtted^
exonerated, Sc, from composition, rents, demands, &c., of the Earl of
Thomond, Mc^N'emarra, or any other, for him and heirs for ever, to be
holden by knight's service, — viz., one-fortieth part of a knight's ffee, as
of her said house and manor of Innigshe.

^tltJ ^^^^ Boetius Clancy, of Knocfynne, gent., in regard of his hirth,
learning, and good bringing iqrp, shall have, hold, possess, and enjoy, to him,
his heii^s, and assigns, the said Castle of Elnockfynne, with thi-ee-quarters
and a half of land, with their appurtenances freely acquitted, exonerated,
and discharged of and from this composition, and fi'om all rents and
demands of Sir Torlagh O'Briene, or any other, their heirs and assigns,

together with all the goods, &c Alsoe Edward White,

Clarke of the Councill, in the said Province of Conaglit, shall, in consi-
deration of his service, have, hold, possess, and enjoy to him and his
heirs, the Castle of Crattalagh, with three quarters of land lying in the
said Crattagh Kuyrenboy, PoHreyne, and Clansynshon, freely exone-
rated, &c., also of all duties, &c., from McJN'emarra, or other, to bo
holden of the Queen's Majesty, by Knight's service — viz., 40 part, tSrc.

SlUll that alsoe George Cusacke of Dromolyne, in the Barrony of
Danginnyviggoon, gent., shall for his better encouragement to inhabit
the west land by him purchased in the said county, have, hold, possess,
enjoy to him and his heirs the said Dromolyne with four quarters of
land belonging to the same, freely exoncmtcd and discharged, &c., by
Knight's service.

^i^tltl the said Lords and Temporal and chieftains, gents, freeholders,
farmers and inhabitants, for them and either of them, their heirs, suc-
cessors and assigns, have and by these presents doe give full power,

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consent and assent that the present deed indented in Court

of Chancery there to of record for ever.

ittl CEltttXtSS whereof each of the aforesaid parties have hereunto
putt there scales and subscribed the seaventeenth day of August, Anno
Domini, 1585, in the seaventeenth year of the reigne of our Soveraigne
Lady Lady Ehzabeth, Queen of England, France and L^eland, Defender
of the Faith.

Do. Thomond.

Mauriti Laoon.

Donaldi Syne (Brien) ?

Dame Marie M. C Garrett Lichiquine
for the young Barron her Sonne.

Therlagh O'Briene.

Meriortagh O'Briene (mark, M. B,).

McISTemarra E-oogh (mark, D.).

Teige McMahowne (T. M.).

Tirlagh McMahowne.

Mahowne O'Dia (is marke D).

Mahowne O'Briens (M. Y.).

Owen O'Loghlins (marke D.).

Eosse O'Loghlins (marke T. S.)-

Edward White.

Geo. Cusacke.

James Nelleyne.

Boetius Clanchy.

Connor McGilreaghs (marke D.).

Donogh Glanckoigh (is marke W.).

Conor O'Brienes (marke, G. 0.).

George Ffeminge.

2.
3.

10.

Whereas humble suite is made unto us by the three daughters and
co-heirs of Thady McMurrough O'Brien, of Ballingown, Tirlagh McTeige
O'Brien, of Boolacorige, Murrough Mc Connor O'Brien, of Cakirmonan^
and Moriatagh McConor O'Brien of Drumleyue, to grant unto them
certaine quarters of land free of her Majesty's composition in respect of
their birth and dignitie, viz., the Castle of Ballycarre and two quarters
of land thereunto belonging to Onora Ny Brien ; the Castle of Tullamore
and four quarters of land with their appurtenances, to Slany ny Brien
and Ony ny Brien ; the Castell of Bealytige (?) with thi^ee quarters

(lacuna) Inyshclane adjoining to

(lacuna) the first part at Inyslioviccony

to Conor O'Brien, Caharnonane with three quarters of land and appur-
tenances, viz., the quarters of Cahcrnonanmore, the quarter of Carroow-
gane, Curragh-fliaherty, the quarter of Ballyi^adine to Morortagh
O'Conor O'Brien of Dromlyne, the quarter of the Castle of Dromlync,
the quarter of Clensogliine, adjoining to the same, and the quarter of
ManMt Bcgg, belonging to the house of Manisbcgg, although we can-

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not grant the same, without breaking the Order o£ Her Majesties com-
position, yet we think reasonable that the same be granted nnto them
by Letters Pattents from Her Majestie iff soe itt shall stand with the
pleasure of the Right Honble.

2603.

II''. Grant unto our well-beloved Tireleigh O'Brien, Esq., son of Sir D.
O'B., Knight, the office of seneschall of the two Baronies of Corkam-
rowe and Burren, in Co. Clare, province of Munster, to enjoy the said
office, with profits, &c., dm-ing so long time as he shall, will, and
uprightly behave himself in the exercise of the said office. And fuii;her,
we give full power and authority to the said SirT. O'B. to call together
and assemble all freeholders, farmers, and all other the inhabitants
being abiding and dwelling within the said baronies of what profes-
sion, nation, degree, or condition ... to charge and command to do
what shall be for the defence of the two baronies, the public wealth of
the inhabitants of the same, or punishments of malefactors.

Sir T. is to prosecute, invade, chase away, banish, withstand, punish?
correct by all manner of ways and means, all malefactors, their servants,
followers, adherents, which are or shall be malefactors, rebels, vacca-
bounds, (sic) rimnors, Irish liarxjers, idell men and ivomen, and all such
unprofitable members whatsoever, &c. All to assist.

Letters to be made patents, &c. 13 March, 1575.

IIP. King James' letter to Daniel O'Brien, son of Sii' Turlough O'Brien.

Whereas, at the humble suit of the inhabitants of the province of
Connaught and county of Clare, we signified our pleasure to be to
accept a sm-render of them of all such lands as they respectively should
be found to be seized and possessed of, and by one or more grants under
the gi-eat seal of that of our realm to gi^ant the same unto them, their
heirs and assignes, or such person or persons, his or theii' heirs and
assignes, as they shall nominate and appoint as of our Castle of Athlone
by . . . services.

We are informed by the humble suit of our faithful subject Daniel
O'Brien, of Dowagh Iconogher, in our said county of Clare, Esqre.,
son and heii'- apparent unto Sir Turlough O'Brien, Knight, that by the
indentm^es of composition made in the seven and twentieth year of our
late sister Queen Elizabeth it was, amongst other things, agreed that
all the lands in the Barony of Corkamrowe, in our said count}' of Clare
(except the lands of the Bishop of Kilienora and some other few parcels
in the said indentui'es mentioned), should be hould of the said Sir Tur-
lough, his heirs, by certain services and yearly rents, with services and
rents . . . surrenders unto us hj force of our foresaid Avarrant and
letters patents thereupon to be made, our said subject Daniel O'Brien,
unto whom his said father conveyed the premises, is in danger to
lose if we out of our princely bounty prevent not the same.

And therefore hath humbly besought us to be gi^aciously pleased to
gmnt that in all grants from us to be made by force of our said warrant

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of and lands, tenements, or hereditaments witliin the said Barony of
Corkamrowe, the immediate tenure be reserved to be holden of the said
Daniel, his heirs and assignes by the serrices and yearly rents men-
tioned by the said indentures unto his said father, to whose humble
suit we have condescended. Wherefore we will and authorize you to
provide and take order that in all grants to be passed from us of any
lands, tenements or hereditaments, within the said barony, by force of
our said warrant, to any person or persons other than the saidD. O'Brien,
the immediate tenm'e be reserved unto the said Daniel, &c., by the
services and yearly rents mentioned for his father by the said
indentures.

And that the immediate (right) be reserved unto us, our heirs and
successors, in such manner as in our former warrant is expressed.

And we are further pleased, and so do will and authorize to cause to
be passed by grant from us under the great seal of that realm unto the
said Daniel, &c., all such courts, liberties, privileges, jurisdictions within
the said barony, as in and by the said indentures we mentioned for his
said father with such other hberties, prvileges, and immunities as to you
shall be thought fit. And these our letters shall be as well to your own
deputy and chancellor there now being as to any other, &c., hereafter
given under our signet at our palace at Westminster, the four and
twentieth day of December, in the 19th year of our reign of England,
France, and Ireland, and of Scotland, the five and fiftieth, &c., &c.

To the Lord Yiscount Grandison,
our Deputy, &c., &c.

30 Kov., 1621.

TV. Copy of an Irish writing which the slucht or descendants of
Muilleaghin O'Loughlin past to Conor O'Brien, the original remain-
ing with Boetius MacClancy, of Knockfyn. 9th June, 1590,
Be it known to all men who read or hear writing that we are now in
existance of the descendents of Malleikey O'Loughlin, of Ballyvaughan,
i e Trial, the son of Boss, and Donogh the son of Brien, and Lucius the
son of Mahon, of Ballyayvola, in the agreement that passed between
Connor the son of Turlough O'Brien, the great grandfather of the present
Earl and our progenitors, to be from om^selves unto you Donogh
O'Brien, and in concordance with that here we sign these in presence of
those people who will be as witness to this instrument, and this is the

asreement. -, „ -^ -,■, -, i e

All those the descendents of Mallakey and of Ballyvaughan and of
Binnrow and all their hereditary estates to be made over all conferred
bvus and our heirs on Connor O'Brien and his heirs after him, and that
we and they are bound not to sell or mortgage any castle or estate bat by
and with the consent of Connor or his heirs after him, and that sam
Connor or his heirs are the true heirs of Mallakey. And we farther
bind om^selves to be at his will, and our dependants also to be at the will,
of Connor O'Brien and his heirs after him

Furthermore, I, the Eari of Thomond, acknowledge on my honour that
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people that came to perfection that I will leave it to the arbitration of
Boetious Ma<iClanchey, John Timey, and Eugene O'Daly to be from the
Earl unto them, and we will not put any of the lands that Boetious
MacClanchey holds in this agreement, anno x.p. 1590. This 9th day of
June, at Knockfinn, we gave our consent to this writing and signed it in
concordance with the old agreement, and the heirs of those people to be
bound for ever one to the other.
I, Gilbert Dovoren, wrote this copy.

Do^'OGH Thomoj?d.

Donogh 0 ' Lough 1 in copia vera ex lbs.
Bat Clancy Nial O'Loughlin, written deade, was written, read, and
published.

John Tierket.
EuGEXE O'Daly.

O'Conoe's Deed.

Y°. Omnibus Christi fidelibus ad quos per prsesens scriptum pervenerit.
Salutem. Sciatis, nos Teige McPhelim O'Conor, de Killeylagh, gent.;
Cahil McMahown O'Conor, de Cahirmenaubeg.

Donell Mc O'Conor, de Fantii, gent. ; Conor McOwen O'Conor, de

Ballyhea, gent. ; Conor MacConor O'Conor, de Innisdyman, gent. ; Bi-yen
Mohoone O'Conor, de Liskannor, gent.; Brian McCahil O'Conor, de
Down-na-goarr, gent.; Donell McTeige O^Conor, de Glan, gent.;
Edmund Altie McEory O'Conor, de Ballygrical, gent. ; et Brian McConor
O'Conor, de Innishdyman, gent.

Eemisisse, relaxasse, et do de nobis et hereditibus nris. imppetund
Terrentio al Therrallay O'Briean, de Innishdyman, in Co. Clare. Armi-
gero totum jus nostrum, titulum et clameum quod habemus, vel aliqus
nostrum habet, vel habere in future poterimus, de et in omnibus terris
et tenementis et heriditamentis.

Dough alias Dough I. Conor, Innisdyman, LisCannor, Dunebal Je-
hearie Dunnagoar. Tulla, Innishovehause et Ballagh in Corckomoroe,
alias Barronia de Dough in al. Terralagh, heredibus et assignatis suis
imppetum. ad proprium usum die Ter. also Tarralagh et hered. su.
aliquid jus, Titulum vel Clameum in premissis habere poterimus. In
cujus rei testimonium nostra signa., et nosti-a manualia apposuimus.

Datum apud. Ballyvehane vicessimo secundo die men Januar, 1582,
ad reg. dnoe. nos Elizabetha3 Ang. Ei-an. et Hib. Eeginaa fidei defensoris.
Anno vicessimo quint o.

(The signs are in Irish character.)

Witnesses.

BoETius Clancy.

DiONYS. HELLANrS.

James Coyne.

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THE EFFECTS WHICH THE SEVERAL GREAT CHANGES IN THE
OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY HAVE PRODUCED UPON RELI-
GIOUS PROFESSION IN THE DIOCESES OF KILLALOE AND
KILFENORA.

The Changes to whidi reference is liere made are thus indicated:— 1st
appear the names of those in possession in 1641, and their qualifications
as found in the Book of Survey and Distribution, parish by parish, and
town land by town land. The town lands, acreage, and quality of land,
&c., are omitted as unnecessary to the present design. 2nd. Appear the
lists of Tituladoes in 1659. These were tenants under the Common-
wealth, concerning whom the inquirer will find further information in
the researches of Mr. Hardinge. And their claims and status were to a
considerable extent allowed under the Acts of Settlement and Explana-
tion. In the 3rd place appear those to whom the lands were disposed,
with their title to same, whether by dower, certificate of patent, &c.,
under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation. In the 4th place
appear those who came into enjoyment of lands under the Williamite
forfeitures, of which particulars are found in jd. 348, &c., Record Com-
missioners' Report, Appendix JSTo. 3, 15th Annual Report, also in lists
of Chichester House sales, in the Royal Irish Academy.

The parishes are taken in the order of the Book of Survey, &c., and
the spelling is observed ; the original page is also given in the fourth
column.

PARISH OF IISTNISCALTO, TULLCE BARONT,
COUNTY CLARE, &c.

Tituladoes 1659 (2)

1688, &c.

1641 (1)

1G62 (3)

ISTames Engl. Irish.

(4)

Redmond Burke.

The Poore Lord
of Ivilmal-
lock.

Q. C.f Land.

Earlc of Cork, reputed, George

E. of Cork, Pro-

proprietor.

Thornton,
Esq 2

testant.

Do.

G eorge Pur-
don, Esq.

Do. (Prot.)

R. McNemarra.

Do.

E. of Ossery.

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Tifculadoes 1659 (2)

1688, &c.

1641 (1)

1662 (3)

Names Engl. Irish.

(^)

Loghlen McJ^emarra 1

Sheedas >

"3"

McBroddy J

wants a proprietor.

A parcel in commons for

tlie whole parish of

Inniskalto, rough pas-

turable, 3,080.

Mountain in Controversy

with Clonrush Parish.

"3 "

Do. do.

«4"

Paeish op Moynoe, Tulloe Babony.

Bishop of Killaloe, My-
nerosse.

Do. Carramore.

Do. Drumaril.

Do. Coolecosan.

Common Mountain,

Bishop of Killaloe, pro-
prietor, solely of this
parish, being 4 qrs.

Edwd. Eitz-
Edmond,
gent.

John Leo,
gent.

Oliver Keat-
ing, gent.

Thomas
Hennessy,
gent.

Rich. .

Strange,
Esq. ...

Paul and '
Jas.

Strange,
his sons,
gents.

Ei. Butler,
gent.

Do.

Do.
Do.
Do.

We had prepared a full statement as in the 116 parishes, extendino-
over the whole Diocese of Killaloe, and this was done with considei-able
labour and expense. But as this volume has extended far beyond the
limits originally proposed, and so great a delay has unavoidably taken
place in the publication of it, we most reluctantly omit the rest of this
tabular statement, which would run at least to fifty pages of close
printing. However, we give the very interesting Baroniaf Summaries
of the numbers of the English inhabitants, and of the names of the
principal Irish families, at close of the Usurpation, so far as we find
them set forth, which may sufiice without the addition of the parochial

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details, Possibly on some other occasion this synoptical statement may
be published, with further elucidations. *' But suJB&cient unto the
day," &c.

Bahony of Ttjlla. Principal Irish names, and their number by
families ; also English, from lists of Tituladoes.

Arthur

. 7

Hart & O'H.

. 6

O'Bryen

. 37

Hogane . . .

. 25

*Bruody

. 10

Hennessy

.. 6

Butler

. 25

Hickey ...

. 27

Bourke

. 24

Heffemane

...

.. 8

Barry

. 18

Hally & O'H.

.. ..

.. 15

Carmody

. 8

Kelly ...

...

. 10

Mc & O'Connors

. 24

Keough...

. .. ..

.. 12

Comane

. 11

McLoughlan

...

. 12

McCusacke

. 21

Linchy ...

.. 7

ConnelandO'C

. 7

O'MuUouney

. 80

McCarthy

.. 16

Murphy

, , , , .

. 15

O'Cunigane

. 8

McMahon

. 12

O'Callaghan

.. 19

McN emara

, , , , ,

. 38

Callinaine

.. 8

Mahony...

. 12

Creaghe

. 6

Magrath

.. 9

Cullen and Calene

.. 9

Minghane

. 10

Clanchy

.. 8

Meagher

. 7

O'Carroll

.. 11

O'Nealane

. 8

Cooney

.. 9

O'Neal ...

. 6

McDonagh

.. 22

Nash

. 8

McDermot

. 7

Oge ...

. 9

McDwyer

. 36

Prendergast

. 17

McDanil

. 26

Power . . .

...

. 11

Dally

. 9

Stacpoole

. 7

Doogen

. 9

O'Sullevane

. . .

. 21

Fox

. 6

O'Shida

...

. 11

Feolane

. 8

Swyny ...

. 11

Fitzgerald

. 10

Mc Shane

. 30

O'Glossane

. 10

McTeige

. 32

O'Grady

. 11

McWilliam

. 14

Hallurane

, 30

White ...

O'Hea

. 20

Walsh ...

. 5

O'Hehir

. 7

WaU ...

. 7

Harrold

. 7

Total

in Tullagh Barony —

English...

106

Iiish

...

3903

4009

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The Principal Irish, names in the Barony of Bunratty, by families,
and their number, &c.

Arthur

Bryen & Mc and 0 ...

Butler

Bourke ...

Barry ...
McConnor
Creaghe
Cunigein

Consadin

Connellane

Connell ,.

Casey or Cassy

Cusacke

Coney or Cuney

Cuneen ...

Clanchy

Culane ...

Culinane

Cahil and O'Cahill ...

Carmody

McCarthy

McDaniel

Dennody

McDonagh

O'Dwyre

Dally & 0 'Dally

Donohue

Ferila, Ferily, & Ferilry

Flanigane

Grady and O'Grady ...

Gerane and Girane

Fitzgerald

0' Grip ha

Glissane

O'Hehur

0 'Hallurane

... 11

Hogan

.. 22

... 26

O'Hashea

.. 11

.„ 13

Hickie ...

. 25

... 23

O'Fartigan

. 9

... 6

O'Hanneen

. 9

... 23

Mclnemey

. 29

... 14

Fitzjames

.. 11

... 9

Kenedy

. 14

... 9

KeUy

. 9

... 11

McLoughlin

. 19

... 12

McMurrogh

. 13

... 8

O'Mighane

. 9

... 11

O'Mullowney and Mulloney.

. 47

... 13

Mahony

. 7

... 8

MuUone ,

. 12

... 16

McMortah

. 17

... 8

Mci^emara

. 52

5—13

O'Nealane

.. 8

... 8

O'Neale

. 9

... 7

O'^^ihiU

. 12

... 8

Power

. 12

... 31

O'Quelly

. 9

... 8

Eoch

. 7

... 32

McRory

. 21

... 12

Pudane

. 9

... 8

O'Roughane

. 12

... 7

Eyane or O'E.

. 10

... 11

McShane

, 34

... 15

Slattery

. 10

... 19

Sextin

. 11

... 12

Sti-ich

. 7

... 10

McTeige

. 17

... 14

McThomas

. 10

... 10

McWilham

. 8

... 10

Walsh

. 8

... 36

White

. 16

Total in Bum'atty Barony —

English...
Irish

144

4204

Total

4348

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ConcoMROE Bauony. Principal Irish names, and their numbers.

O'Bryen
Boy

Cahill ...

Cusocke

O'Connor

Carthy ...

Clanchy

McDonagh

McDermott

7
8
7
24
8
5
9
5

Fitzgerald

Hogane

O'Hanrahane

Mclncarigie

Lyedie ...

Mahony

Murphy

Sulevane

McTeige

o
12
13

Number of people in ye Barony —

English
Irish

5
1034

The total

1039

Principal Irish names in Islands Barony. Their number.

Bcolane

Bourke ...

Conn ell ...

Corbane

Conor, Mac and 0

Considin, I

Clanchy

McDainell

O'DaUy...

Gorman

O'Grypha

Fitzgerald

Hea and O

Hallarane

O'Hehir

. 7

O'Hally

. 9

O'Hogan

. 7

Mclncargy

. 5

McMahon

d'o

. 17

McMahony

andO.

. 12

O'Meolane

. 6

O'Mullenney ...

. 16

O'Meighane

. 14

Nealane

Sextin

. 7

O'Slattery

. 8

Sulevane

. 7

McTeige

. 7

Welch

. 14

English ...

Irish

...

1593

1651

12
6
9

15
4
7
8
7
9
6

11
6

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Principal Irish names. Their numbers in Clonderla Barony.

Bryen . . .
Burke . . .
CuUegane
Callaghane
Carthy ...
McDaniel
McDermott
McEdmund

10
6

Fitzgerald
G-rypha . . .
Kelly ...
McMahon
McMurrogh
Oge ...
McShane

6 McSwyny

The number of people in ye Barony —

English ... ... ... 62

Irish 1144

16
5
6

17
8
6

Total ... 1176

Principal Irish names in Barony of Moyfearta and their numbers : —

Cahane ...

Conor ...

McDaniel

McDae O'Dea .

Fitzgerald
Gorman...

Hurley ...
Lenchy ...
Lyne
Mullonney

English

Irish

14
6

Mahoney

MciSIahon

Fitzmorris

Madigane

Quelly ...

Sulevane

Scanlane

McShane

McTeio:e

... 31

... 993

12
9

10
5

12
7

11
6
6

1024

Principal Irish names in BuiTen Barony : —

Byren ...
Conor ...
McCarthy
McDonogh
Dally and O'Dally
0 'Donovan
McDermot

McFineene

O'Hea

Hayne and 0 ' ...
Mc and O'Loghlin

Oge

McShane
McTeisre

6
6
5
13
9
6

Total in Barren Barony —

Enghsh
Irish

7
816

823

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Inchiquine.
Principal Eaglisli and Irish names in Barony, their number : —

BryenandO'B 23 O'Hehir

Bourke ... ... ... ... 11 O'Hner...

O'Culenane ... ... ... 13 Hickie ...

Mc and O'Conor 13 Fitzmoi-rish

Connelane and O'C 14 Nealane

O'Donoghew ... ... ... 5 McOwen

McDonogh 9 Quine and 0'

McDaniell 11 Ryane

O'Dea 11 Eoch :.

*McEncroe 9 Rowe

Gripha and O'Giypha ... 21 Mc Shane

Fitzgerrold ... ... ... 11 O'Sheghane

Henessy and O'H 8 McTeigh

O'Heyne 7 White

Hogane and O'H 13

The number of people in the Barony of Inchiquiae : —

English 34

Irish 1961

Total ...

BUEKOTJGH OF InISH.

1995

En.
... 13

Jas. McNemara, gent

Laur.' Creaghe, gent.

Principal names of Irish in Ibrickane : —

Lyne

Mahon and MacMahon

Moriai-to

MuUowney

McNemara

Shea

Sullevane

McTeige

BaIiony of Ibrickaxe a^^d Buerough of Inisu.
English-
In Ibrickane 10

In Ennia 13

Irish —

In Ibrickane 276

Inlnish 550

826

Ir.
245

Creagh

Clancy

Carthy

Conor

.. 6
.. 10
.. 9
.. 11

Cassy

Clovane

.. 5
.. 5

Hiemane

.. 8

Hickes

.. 5

Ch'cind total in Clare-

English

Irish

849

440
16474

16914

7
11
5
4
5

* This family has droji^ed the two fii'st syllables and added " w '
in the final one.

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Principal Irish names

in Lr. Ormond, and their number : —

Bryen and MacB.

... 11

Ingowen

.. 6

Bane and Banan

... 13

Kenedy

.. 81

Butler

... 9

Kelly

.. 22

Burke ...

... 10

Kilfoyle

.. 12

Conner and Mac

.. 7

Meagher

. 12

Cahasey

.. 8

Mara, &c.

. 55

Cleary and Clery

.. 38

McMarroe

. 7

Carroll

.. 19

McMurrough

. 8

Drane

.. 18

Maddin

Doogan

.. 8

Murphy

. 6

O'Dwyre

.. 10

Morane

. 9

Daniel and Mac

.. 18

Martin ...

. 6

McDonogh

.. 12

Mynoge

. 6

Donohew

.. 7

Morrish...

. 7

Egane and Mac

.. 22

ISTollane

. 15

Glisane

.. 19

Quirke

Gydagh

.. 11

Ryan

. 24

Galte

.. 9

Eoe

Hanny

.. 8

Slattery

. 10

Hogan

.. 83

Scully

. 9

Heaveine

McTeige

. 8

Tlie number of persons in the Barony of Lr. Ormond : —

The total—

Of Englist

L 341

Of Irish ..

2731

Total

... 3072

Total English in Tipiwrary po7i:ion of Killaloe: —

In Lr. Ormond 341

In Upr. Ormond ... ... ... ... ... 63

In Ikerrin

In Owney and AiTa (less Templekelly, omitted) 86

Total English in King's Co. portion of Killaloe. . . 117

Total English in Clare, brought over 440

Add IkeiTin (say)

1047
153

Total English and Pi'otestants in 1659 in Dio. of

Killaloe 120<3

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APPENDIX VI.

THE NUNCIO-BUNRATTY-COLONEL MONCK-CAPTAIN
MACADAM-ALSO THE LETTER OF BISHOP J. O'MALONEY.

1°. As to the manner in whicli the Nuncio carried himself at the Siege
of Bunratty ; the following is Wadding's excited description (as given
in Mr. Meehan's translation, Francisan Ed. 6, p. 235.) —

" What ! the most illustrious Rinuccini in the camp ! In a clay hut !
The ISTuncio transformed into a General, who would have thought of
such a fact P Could he himself have foreseen it ? But God's cause
demanded this. Yerily the finger of God is here. Led by a General
so sanctified, God will give strength and power to His people."

11°. Of Bunratty the Nuncio writes :— *' I have no hesitation in assert-
ing that it is the most beautiful spot I have ever seen. In Italy there is
nothing like the palace and grounds of the Lord of Thomond. Nothing
like its ponds and park, with its 3,000 head of deer." Massari in a
letter to the same nobleman speaks of the castle and site as the most
delightful place he had seen in Ireland. Nothing could be more beau-
tiful, and the palace is fit for an emperor. (So too Beling in Frag.
Hist. p. 333.)

III*^. Of MacAclam, it is to be noted that he came from England in a fleet
of adventurers, sailed round from Cork and anchored in the Shannon.
Landing on the Clare side he routed easily Lord Thomond's forces and
occupied his castle of Bunratty.* He was however struck during the

■^' This routing we find described in a rare pamphlet, '' A True and
Exact Eelation of Two Great Victories, &c., by John Browne, 1647."
That most valiant and renowned gentleman. Colonel MacAdams, having
a commission from the Parliament of England to prosecute the design
against the Irish rebels and to further and advance the cause of the
Protestants, jointly resolved with his whole regiment of 700 foot to try
strange adventures abroad and to change their winter garrisons. . . .
Fired the garrison of Dingle and the Castle, and then betook them-
selves to their shipping and so sailed up the stately river of Limbricke,
and being within two or three leagues of Bunrattie, the souldiers began
to prepare themselves for shore, and at the last arrived there in safety.
The aforesaid Colonel having landed his regiment, drew them up in
battalion and there made a gallant speech unto them concerning their
present design against the Earl of Thomond and hie (sic) party being
in number ai^out 1,500. The Colonel had no sooner ended his oration,
but the souldiers set up such a IloUi-loe, that caused all the Irish there-
abouts, to leave their ov^n houses and betake themselves to their boggs
and woods.

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siege by a random shot as he stood at an upper window of the castle,
and his knee-bone being splintered, lost his life. (Original Papers,
p. 338.)

IY°. Colonel Monh. — Of this clever manager of affairs a curious account
is given in " The History of Independency," part 2, p. 226, of the way
in which he attempted to patch up a peace or come to an understanding
with O'lSTeal and the rebels in the north. " Who can believe (observes
the writer at p. 228) that any subordinate officer commissioned to pro-
secute a war against Owen Roe and the rest in arms in that kingdom
should dare to, and conclude an agreement and conjunction with that
very man he had a commission to fight against, without the knowledge
or directions, public or private, of those from under whom he hath his
authority, and should be so bold, when he is done, to come over and
justify his said doings, notwithstanding they proved unprosperous."
At p. 236, the conclusion drawn is this, " You see the counterfeit
Alchemy Saints are content to join covertly with the massacreing Irish
papists to can'y on their anti- monarchical designs and to make a false
religion and corrupt worship the wages of righteousness." But " Foxes
and Firebrands " sets forth this at large as the line taken by the un-
scrupulous fanatics, whose main object was to enrich themselves with
the spoils of Church and State, religion being only a cloke so far as
convenient to their main design.

y°. The copy of a letter sent the Eang, August 14th, 1686. Found in
Bishop Tyrrel's papers, but imperfect : —

May it please your Majesty,

I humbly beg of you, for God's sake and yom' own, to read what I
here presume to bewrite ; not but that I know it may well be thought
an inexcusable piece of presumption in any subject to say or wi^ite any-
thing that may look like prescribing to a King, especially a King that
from his own knowledge, and the best mother of it— long experience,
must, with universal consent, be allowed the most competent judge in
his dominions of what ought or ought not to be done.

Yet inasmuch as your present counsellors are for the most part
divided from you by the unhappy difference in religion, I hope your
Majesty will pardon a loyal plain-dealer for presuming to offer his well-
meaning opinion of the present posture of affairs. Su% as I am one that
make it my business to study your interest, I took the liberty of telHncr
you in former letters that in order to replant religion in your dominions
you ought to begin with Ireland, where the work is more than half done
at your hand, and where your prerogative allows you to do with that
kingdom as you please, for it was not to be expected that England and
Scotland, so irreconcileable to Popery, would consent to t-ake off the
penal laws by a Parliament, if not awed by a more faithful army than
you have at present.

And now that a needful alteration is begun in Ireland, it should be
can-ied on speedily for your own and Catholick subjects security, for all
the sectaries in your dominions are so galled at some of the phanaticks

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ArPENDlX.

being discarded in Ireland, that tliey joyne heads, concert councils,
swear and contrive vengeance against all Papists, who must expect no
quarters but during your Majesty's reign. But all good men have
reason to hope that that God who delivered you from the manifold
dangers of your life, and made your enemies your footstool, will spare
your precious life till you accomplish the glorious work reserved for you
by that Providence that is your best lifeguard.

And 'tis the comfort of all good subjects, that besides your being of
all sides descended from healthy parents, you have (I thank God) at
present all the symptoms of a vigorous, long-lived man ; nay, that
your having been suckled by a veiy healthy, long-lived woman, must, in
reason, contribute much to the length of your life ; therefore put your
trust in that God that never faileth any good man his hopes with con-
fidence in Him, and consider the proverb, "That he that will has in a
manner done his work ;" which cannot be more aptly than to the auspi-
cious beginning of your reign : For God has so dashed the enterprizes
and hopes of your enemies, that the terror of your name, and their
experience of your good fortune is with the help of the army they gave
you may to raise sufficient if not to change their hearts, at least to
curb their insolence : Therefore listen not to trimming counsellors,
whose aversion to your religion and cunning design of spinning out
your life with their pian piano, may put them upon lu-ging to you that
great alterations are dangerous when carried on otherwise than by slow
and imperceptible degrees ; which is true where matters are so ordered,
in point of power, as not to need fear a perturbation in the State ; but
otherwise, celerity and resolution adds life and vigour to all actions,
especially such as relate to change, which is often prevented by tedious
deliberations ; for the party fearing an alteration is always (as having
more reason) more jealous and vigilant than he from whom it is feared,
and therefore leaves no stone unturned to hinder the accomplishment of
designs that might take effect, if not marred, for not being vigorously
pushed on as soon as resolved upon. And as precipitation is an
error, so is irresolution, which is never to be practised by any, especially
by a resolute prince; but when the issue oE enterprizes depends
more upon chance than a prudent management of causes and rational
foresight of events. But nothing causes irresolution more than a
medly of counsellors of a different religion, which their prince, who
will be on all occasions as industrious to prevent, as he can be to carry
on any design for re-establishing religion ; and that all three meet to the
highest pitch in your Majesty, no Protestant councellor will advise you
to any alteration in the Government that may directly or indirectly tend
to a change in religion. Nay they he under such jealousy and prejudice
as may induce them to magnify danger where there is none at all, and
take no notice where it really is, a device much practised in England of
late years ; hence in the late King's time no danger threatened his
Majesty but from the Catholick quarters, whilst the gi^eatest of dangers
hovered over his and your sacred heads, wrap'd up in the dark cloud of
fanatick treachery and dissimulation.

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making your Catholick subjects considerable. For God's sake, con-
sider that yours and their sworn enemies threaten above board that
Popery or Protestantism must and shall be for ever extirpated in these
kingdoms ; and that all Papists must inevitably split upon a rock in that
haven where they had reason to hope for safety, if not secured against
the threatening storm during your Majesty's life, whereof the days and
hours are precious, considering the important game you have to play,
and the indispensible obligation you lie under (before that God,
****** *

and contribute as much from the helm to the conversion of souls as
the best of preachers from pulpits ; for words do but move, but
examples, and especially those of great men, have more resistless
charms and a more than ordinary ascendent over the minds of the com-
mon people : which consideration should prevail with your Majesty
to prefer without delay courageous, wise, and zealous Catholics to
the most eminent and profitable stations, especially in your house-
hold, where you are King by a two-fold title, by which means you would
in a short time be stock' d with faithfull councellora all of a piece,
that would join heads, hearts, and hands, and would contribute
unanimously to the effectual carrying on so good a design.

distinction twixt his politick and natural capacity fighting against the
one in defence of the other, it is to be feared the Protestants of
your English aiTuy.

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APPENDIX VII.

THE CASTLES OF THE COUNTY OF CLARE.

Copy of a manuscript in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. Being
a return of the Castles in the County of Clare in the year 1684.

Baeony of Tallaghnanaspull.

Containing McNamara's County, alias Mortimer's County, by east the
Baron of Inchiquin and Donald Reagh McNamara, chiefs in same.

Gentlemen.

Donald Reagh MclSTamara. . .
Edmond 0' Grady ...

Ditto

D enough and Rory MclSTamara
Donald Reagh McNamara
Rory McNamara's son's
Donough MclSTamara
Moriertagh Custos ...
Baron of Inchiquin
Shane na Gettagh . . .
Donnell Roe
Teige oge McCommea
Tui'lough MacDonnellroe
Donnell Reagh MacNamara
Sivda, MacRory
Turlogh O'Brien ...
Flan McNanzara's son
Donnell Reagh MacISTamara
Shane MacMahon ...
Shane MacDonnell
Brian MacDonnell ...
Comea McMahon ...
Earl of Thomond ...
Donough McConoher
Fynin McLoughlin...
Teige Oultagh
Corney McShane, reagh

Same
Rory McMahowne ...

Same

Castles,

Tullagh ...
Toymegrane
Maynoe ...
Ffortingaroingnagh
Flychl en early
Island Caher
Killalowe
O'Brien's Bridge
Castlelough
Dunasse ...
Cuttislough
Neadenmorry . .
Glanomra
Scartcashel
Moynogeanagh .
Gleanmadow
Moynetallown . .
Tyi'owannin
Enagh O'Floyn.
Beallacuttin
Beallacarilly
Beallamhullin .,
Castelcattagh . ,
Abereynagh

Rosroe

Ballymogashill ..
Quaromoyre
Callane ...
Elilkishen
Lisoffin ...
Lismeehan

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Gentlemen,

Turlough O'Brien ...

Same
Shane McNamara ...
Edmd. 0 'Grady ...

Same

Rory Meal Macffynin

Castles.

Fomerla ...
Tyreadagh.
Cappagh . . .
Skariff ...
Tniagb. . . .
Beallagli . . .

. 32
. 33
. 34
. 35
. 36
. 37

Daxgan West.
MadSTamara's County. Shane MclSTamara chief in same.

Shane MciSTamara ...
Tnrlogh O'Brien ...
Shane McNamara . . .
Donogh McMorough
Donogh MacMahowe
Wilham Nellaw
Brune O'Brien
James ITellan

Same
Donoghue MacClanchy
Donogh O'Brien

Earl of Thomond

Fineen MacLoughlin
Donel MacTeige ...
Shane McNamara ...

Earl of Thomond

Same
Donel MacNamara...
Moriartagh O'Brien
Donogh MacClanchy

Teige MacClanchy

Moriartagh MacClanchy . . .
Brian na Ff oriry
Mac Enery Trony ...
Donogh O'Brien
Teige MacMorrongh
Donogh O'Grady ...
Shane MacMahowne
Donogh MacClanchy

Cloyxdeelaw.
Containing East Corkevaskin. Teige McMahowne chief m same.

Dangan

.. 38

Cnoppogue

.. 39

Dangenbrack

.. 40

Quinchy

.. 41

Dromollyn (Dromline) . . .

.. 42

Bally hanne en

.. 43

Castleton nemanagh ...

.. 44

Bally casheen

.. 45

Ballyally

.. 46

Ballycashell ...

.. 47

Mnghane

.. 48

Eossmanaher

.. 53

Seywarro

.. 54

Cratt elaghmor e

.. 55

Crattalaghmall

.. 56

Bunratty

.. 57

Cloynemonegh

,. 58

Crattalagh Keal

.. 59

Drumline ... ...

.. 60

Clonloghan

.. 61

Ballynaclogh (Stone Hall) ,

.. 62

Nnrlin

.. 63

Flynish

.. 64

Ballincraige

.. 65

Bachavollayne ...

.. 66

Ballyconilly

.. 67

Cloyne

.. 68

Corbally ...

.. 69

Bodevoher

.. 70

Teige MacMahowne

Dangan Moyburke

... 71

Same

Clonytheralaw

... 72

Same

Caheracon

... 73

Same

Bally Mac C ol man

... 74

Same

DeiTycrossan

... 75

Teige MacConor O'Brien

Carroobrighane

... 76

Teige MacMoriertagh Cam

Donogrogue

... 77

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Containing West Corkevaskin. Tui'logh MacMahowne chief in same.

Gentlemen,

Castles,

Charles Cahane (by inheritance called a Corboe), Inish Catha

James Cahane

Turlough MacMahowne .

Same

Same
Sir Donnell O'Brien, Knt.

Same

Ballykette

Carrigahowly

Moyarta ...

Dunlecky

Dunmore

Dunbear

.. 78

.. 79

.. 80

.. 81

.. 82

.. 83

.. 84

TUAGH MORE Y CONOR.

Containing Corkemroe. Sir Donel O'Brien, Knt., chief in same.

Su* Donel O'Brien

Same

Same
Teige MacMorroh ...

Same

Same
Teige MacMorrogh

Same

Same
Sir Donell O 'Brien ...
Teige MacMorrough

Sir Donell O'Brien

Teige MacMorrough
Sir Donnell O'Brien
Teige MacMorrogh
Conor MacClanchy...
Teige MacMorrogh ...

Same

Sir Donel O'Brien

O'Loughlen ...
Same
Same
Same
Same
Same
Same
Same
Same
Same
Same
Same
Same
Same
Same

Inisdyman

... 85

Glan

... 86

Ballhanire

... 87

Tnllowmore

... 88'

Ffante

... 89

Ballingowne

... 90

Inchonea

... 91

Ballyshanny

... 92

Eaveen

... 93

Beancorroe

... 94

Cahimimane

... 95

Tullagh

... 96

Legmeneagh

... 97

Dinnegoir

... 98

Sunny c Phelim

... 99

Tuomulleu

...100

Ballanclacken

...101

Beallagh

...102

Lockbulligan

...103

Kylemna

...104

Duagh

...105

Lis Cannor

...106

ren Barony).

Caherclogan

...107

Lysegleeson

...108

Cahirenally

...109

Ballymonoghan

...110

Meghanos

...111

Glensteed

...112

Gregans

...113

Glaninagh

...114

Bally vaughan

...115

Shanmokeas

...116

Nacknasse

...117

Kynvarra

...118

Turlough

...119

Glancollymkilly

...120

Neassalee

...121

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Gentlemen.

O'Loughlen ...
Same
Same

Castles.

Castleton

Creaghwell

Rughaine

..122
..123
..124

TULLAGH O'DeA.

Sir Donel O'Brien, Knt., chief in same.

Baron of Incliiquin. . .
Mahon MacBrien O'Brien

Same

Same
Teige MacMorrogh ...
Moriertagh Goit ...
Moriertagh, Grarr ...
Sir Donel O'Brien ...
Teige Mac MacMorrogh . . .
Mahowne O'Dea

O'Griffie

Donogh Duff MacConsadine
Earl of Thomond ,
Baron of Inchiquin
Mahon O'Brien
Dermot O'Brien

Same
Owen MacSwyne ...

Same

Donel Meal O'Dea

Mahon (the Baron's Son) ...

Inchiqnin ... ... ... 125

Tiremacbryne 126

Ballycottry 127

Carrowduff 128

Bohinim 129

Cahercorcrauie ... ... 130

Rath ... 131

Killinbuoy 132

Drominglass ... ... ... 133

Bealnahcke; Magowna ... 134

BaUygriffll 135

Ballyharahan (Port) 136

Mcethrie 137

Denyowen ... ... ... 138 >-

Clonowyne ... ... ... 139

Cloynshelhearne ... ... 140

Owarronnagnille ... ... 141

Doonmulvihill ... ... 142

Carriganooher... ... ... 143

Bealnafireamadronayn ... 144

Desert ... ... ... ... 145

Kilkeedy 146

// . /'y\

Clonrawde.
Earl of Thomond chief in same.

Earl of Thomond

Same

Same
Baron of Inchiquin

Same

Conogher MacClanchy

Brian Duff ...

Teige MacMorrough

Teige MacConor O'Brien

Same

MacGillereagh

Same

MacCraith

Teige MacConor

Baron of Ibrickan (eldest son of

th e Earl of Thomond)

Earl of Thomond

Teige MacConoher

Teige MacMorrogh

Clonrawde

... 147

Clare

... 148

Inish

... 149

Killone

... 150

Ballymacooda

... 151

Enerishy

... 152

Shalen

... 153

Maghowny

... 154

Inishacivahny

... 155

Inishdagrome

... 156

Inishnawar

... 157

Crag Brien

... 158

Tyi-miclane

... 159

Island Magi-ath

... 160

Belacorick

... 161

Moyobreacain

... 162

Caherrush

... 163

Tromm

... 164

Donogan

... 165

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Claro

Inish ...

St. John's ISTunnery (Killone)

Corcomroe ...

Island Chanons

Kiltena

Quinchy

Inchcronan ...

Possessed by.

Sir Donel and Teige

MacConnor his Son
James Nellan . . .
Baron of Inchiquin

Same ...
Earl of Thomond

Same

Friers ...

Same ...

BOUND TOWEES IN EILLALOE DIOCESE.
Cloigtheach Round Tower, par of Kilnaboy, Bar of Inchiquin.

par of Dysert „

No. 24.

par of Drumcliffe, Bar Islands,

No. 33.

par of Innis cattery.

par of Inniscaltra.

par of Roscrea.

ANCIENT CROSSES IN CLARE.

St. Flannan's, Killaloe, Barony of Tulla, Lower.

St. Tola's Cross, Dysert, Barony of Inchiquin.

Kjiockannacrusha Cross, Dysert, Barony of Inchiquin.

Inneenboy Cross, Kilnaboy „

Kilfenora Cross, in Corcomroe.

Noughaval Cross, in Burren.

Termon Cross, in Burren, Parish of CaiTan.

Coined by Jolm C. Bwyei\

N.B. — The three last lists on this page are taken from other sources
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FURTHER ELUCIDATIONS AND SOME CORRECTIONS WHILE
THE WORK WAS AT PRESS.

Page 2, ^umher of structures on Clare mainland. — This has been
noticed by few writers, and is a remarkable fact, deserring attention on
the part of the ecclesiastical and antiquarian student.

Page 4. Well preserved. — Hardly so. This is an error.

Page 8. Diocesan houndaries. — Clanwilliam Barony is not in the diocese,
nor does the diocese extend into Limerick so far, as Thomond once ran
on the south. Also the diocese projects into Queen's County the parish
of Kyle or Clonfert Mollua. See more at page 11.

Page 16. The Roman Pontiff supreme in Eii^loAid. — The religious
or polemical aspects of this high pretension are well put in.

JJsher^s Speech at censuring of Bee lis ant 8.

The foreiner that challengeth this ecclesiastical or spiritual jurisdiction
over us, is the Bishop of Rome. And the title, whereby he claimeth this
power over us, is the same whereby he claimeth it over the whole world
— because he is Peter's successor, forsooth ! And indeed, if Peter him-
self had been now alive, I should freely confesse that hee ought to have
spiritual authority and supremacie within this kingdom. But so would
I say also, if St. Andrew, St. Bartholmew, St. Thomas, or any of the
other Apostles, had been alive. For I know that their commission was
very large — " to go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every
creature ; " so that, in what part of the world soever they Hved, they
could not be out of their charge : their apostleship being a kind of uni-
versal bishoprick. If, therefore, the Bishop of Rome can prove himself
to be of this rank, the oath must be amended, and we must acknow-
ledge that he hath ecclesiastical authority within this realm. — 1631,
page 10.

Page 17. The King's Title to Ireland, is set forth in seven points
in Carew MSS., vol. i., 178; some pomts strong, some rather fine-
drawn.

Page 19. "Young Godes." — One is struck with the statements in
Mill's India, " On the Brahmins," as illustrative of extreme ecclesias-
tical pretensions in rude states of social existence.

Page 22. The list of Captains of Ireland. — In Carew MSS., Book of
Howth ; where, at page 255, the same list is found mider the head of
" Wliat Ireland is, and how much ? '*

Page 35. — The last will and testament of this gentleman is to be
found in Appendix, under parish of Youghallara, page 511.

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O'Bri&iij the Bishop^ 6 son, page 41 ; the same is given in Carew MSS.,
vol. 1675 to 1688.

Also at page 198 Mahonne M'Enaspike O'Bryne is reported " to have
7nade faithful promise to join with, the rebels," and that " U. Burke has
promised to procure for them the aid of 1,000 Scots, and when Desmond
prayed Dr. Saunders to embark himself for Spain to haste hither the
forces, he made answer that his letter was sufl&cient to bring that to
pass without his own travel, offering that he would remain pledge to
be massacred (for that was his manner of speech) unless those forces
did arrive shortly."

Page 48. Malachias Analone.—In a joint letter, August, 1684, Perrott
and the Privy Council wrote —

" Lastly the suspected Bishop Malachias Analone, and a friar, bro-
ther to McWilliam-Enghter, did openly renounce the Pope, swear to
the Supremacy, and the friar gave over his habit presently, and both
made public profession of their faith and recantation."
Page 62. The region where it fell, read whence.

Page 62. Saunders letter.— A. letter of his to U. Burke is given in
Carew MSS. 1575-8—

** We fight against the Heretics by the authority of the Head of the
Church. If it please you to join in this holy quarrel, you shall be
under the protection of that prince, whom God hath set up in place of
this usurper, and of God's vicar who will see every man rewarded for
his service to the Church," &c., &c.

Page 62. Desmond's pedigree is also given in Carew B. of Howth,
page 118.

Page 64. Exactions.— In a discourse on the reformation of Ireland it
is stated that " the rebeUion being suppressed, it will be necessary to
call a Parhament to enact new Statutes for establishmg for certain
matters among the rest— cesse, cuttings, and all Irish exactions to
be abohshed, and in lieu thereof an annual rent to be rated on every
ploughland." (C. S. P. Carew, 1675, &c.)

Page 64. D. O'Briens Fiant.— In the discourse noted above, at ITos.
7 and 13 the following appear—

" All brehons, carraghes, bards, rhymers, fi-iars, monks, Jesmts, par-
doners, nuns, and such like be executed by martial law.

** 13. Msh habits for men and women be abohshed, and the English
tongue to be extended."

Pac^e 68 Education.— Trinity College. The number of clergy who
were° graduates of this to Bishop Eider's time are given, supra,

page 148.

Page 72. Thomond, Donat E. o/.-In C. S. P. Carew, 1600, page 4o0,
this nobleman is thus lauded—

" If the rest of the Irish nobility had followed the example of my
noble friend the Earl of Thomond her mr. jesty's expenses and losses
had never been as they are and will be. His service hath proceeded
out of a true nobleness of mind and from no great cncoui'agement re-
ceived from hence."

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Page 74 Lewis Jones, Bean. — How lie allowed Miler Magrath's son to
get his Church lands for a nominal rate is stated in the Liber Regahs
Yisitationis, 1615, in very severe terms of censure — " Improvide
dimisit."

Page 81. " Hoied " Spenser denounces the use of " terrors and sharp
penalties as resulting in making the rehgion hated before it is under-
stood and the professors despised and rejected." See View, &c.

Page 81. The Christianity of St Pcutrick and of the Eeformation suh-
stantially identical in their ijositive and negative aspects. — As this is a
subject of considerable importance and one fully entered into by many
writers of high character, from Archbishop Usher and Sir Jas. Ware
down to the writers of modern times, we do not propose to repeat what
they have written, at the same time anyone who will go to the trouble
of comparing St. Patrick's genuine remains with the definitions given
in the 39 Articles of Eeligion on the one hand and with those given iu
the Creed and Oath of Pope Pius lY. on the other hand, must come to
the conclusion that if the latter ecclesiastical instrument is the Catholic
faith, St. Patrick accepted nothing Hke it, and professed much antago-
nistic to it, whereas his own doctrinal statements harmonise both posi-
tively and negatively with the standard of doctrine accepted by the
Church of Ireland. We now only add the bold and faithful uttBrances
of the official head of the true old reformed faith in Ireland, as Dr.
Beresford delivered them at his ordiuary visitation iu 1877. "Their
Church had a great history — well worthy of their consideration. He
held her to be the true representative of primitive Chiistianity in this
country. Were St. Patrick or St. Columba again to visit this scene of
their apostolic labours they would find, subject to such change as time,
the growth of knowledge, and the progress of civilization had necessarily
effected, the same religion in all vital and essential particulars, as they
professed and propagated during their earthly ministry. They would
find the same Gospel that they preached still proclaimed in its grand
simplicity to perishing sinners. They would find the same threefold
orders of apostolic descent as they established, existing unbroken in the
land, and on the very hill in that city they would find, where the apostle
of Ireland erected his humble cathedral, that the voice of prayer and the
voice of thanksgiving, and the voice of melody, and the sound of the
everlasting G-ospel, still rose daily to heaven. As Israel went down to
Egypt, and the house of Jacob sojourned among a strange people, so had
the Church its days of bondage and its days of darkness. The light of
the Eeformation broke upon the land. The light shone in upon
the darkness, but the darkness comprehended it not. It was not
his business to inquire into the cause of this. He need only re-
mind them that the Church that came forth, purified by her fiery ordeal
across the waters of the Channel, and baptized with the blood of
martyrs, became the Church of their fathers, who had left it as a pre-
cious heritage to them their children."

Omitting other evidences of the existence of a Prereformation
Church, strikingly identical with the present Church in its main essential
features, we give some extmcts, from Dr. Theiner's Monumervta, page

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269, suitable to demonstrate the fact, this being a work dedicated to
Cardinal Cullen, and having his sanction.

In a letter written by Pope Benedict XII. from Avignon, on the Ides
of ISTov., 1335, and addressed to Edward the King of England, he first
alludes to " hereticos quidem pestiferos usque ad hsec tempera lati-
tantes." He then goes on to state how Eichard the (Roman) Bishop of
Ossory found them out, "Dum venerabilis frater noster Ricardus Epus
Ossoriensis suam diocesim jure ordinario visitaret, axrparu.erunt in
medio CathoUci ^oj^ndi hommes et eoriim fautores heretici ceno
pravitatis heretice labefacti, quorum quidam asserebant Jliesum
Christum fuisse Tiominem peccatorem, et juste Crucifixum ]yi'o suis
extitisse peccatis, alii vero factis per eos homagiis demonibus, etiam
eis sacrificiis impensis ad dictorum informationes demonum cle Sacra-
mento corxjoHs Ghristi aliter sentiehant, quaon cle illo Catholica et
Bomana ecclesia sentit, dlcentes non esse colendam, nee adorandum
tdlo modo sacr amentum prefo.tum; et etiam assererdes quod decre-
tihus et decretahilihus, ac etiam mandatis Apostolicis credere vel ohedire
minirtie tejiehantur, nee non ad consulendum demones in agendis juxta
ritus et sectas Gentium et paganorum, spretis ecclesie CatJiolice sacra-
mentis, Christi-fideles suis super stifAonihus attraxerunt. Ha^c lo.hes heretica
intermixta fidelium cetihus fcedat illos, hie morbus sui pudore contao-ii
proximos fideles interficit adhercntes, et hoc pestiferum aconitum
serpens interimit animas illius pestilentia infectorum. Unde cum
sicut accepimus in eadem Hybernia et Regno aliaque terra tui dominii
Anglie non sunt Inquisitores hereseos, nee ex offitio inquisitionis
sue pravitatis hereses ibidem inveniri et puniri soleant, propter quod
jura et privilegia inquisitionis ejusdem pravitatis incognita et
inusitata inibi existere dinoscuntur, ad tui favoris clipeum, fili carissime,
in quo splendor longe lateque irridiat fidei orthodoxe veluti ad strenu-
issimum Christi et ejusdem fidei pugilem pro Ivujusmodi pravitaie,
ac ejus cU'ltorihus confuiulendis et extirpandis recurrit Sojicta Mater Eccle-
sia conjidenier. Quapropter Serenitatem Regiam attente requirimus,
attentius exhortamur in Domino, et obnixius deprecamur, cum in fulci-
mentum ecclesiastice potestatis temporalis fortitudinis sit gladius
institutus, quatenus pro divina reverentia, honore ipsius fidei et popu-

lari salute tarn Jnsticiario tuo Hybemie prelibate quam

casteris ministris tuis per ipsam Hiberniam constitutis dare cures per-
vigil, ferventer et efficaciter per tuas literas in mandatis, ut dicto Epis-
copo, caeterisque Antistitibus Hybernie supradicte, quotiens et quando
ab iis fuerint requisiti, virUiter et poterder assistant auxilio hrachii secu-
laris ad capiendiom^ piuniendum et extirpandum pircefatos homines et alias
hereses in illis p)artihus noviter pididantes, ac etiam c^eteros credentes,
fautores, receptatores et defcnsores corundum hasreticorum juxta
canonica instituta, &c.

Omitting particulars of what would appear the object of the pre-
ceding letter of the Pope, in which those faithful old Irish Churchmen
are charged (1) with robbing the goods of the Diocese of Ossory —
whereas, if we had their evidence before us, they would doubtless depose
that these goods were their own, and that the Pope's intrusive bishop
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the letter quoted above, (2) that these members o£ the original Irish Church
were called "Heretics — up to the present time lying hidden," &c. (3) We
find that these Irish Christians thus called Heretics (see Acts xxiv. 14)
held certain religious opinions in particular prominence, which are re-
presented accordingly as being opposed to Eoman teaching. (4) They
believed that the Lord Jesus Christ was a sinful man, and deservedly
punished for His own misdoings. But this after all can only mean,
when justly interpreted, that these old Irish Churchmen boldly and
loudly proclaimed the doctrine of the Apostles, *' that He was made sin
for us who knew no sin." All this was just only what Martin Luther
stated over and over again, or what Dr Barrow held in his sermon on
the Passion as to *'oui' Lord's sufferings being criminal, or as, in sem-
hlancey being an execution of justice upon Him." (5) These also taught
concerning the Sacrament of the Lord's Body differently from what the
Church of Rome of that day had begun to teach. And in particular
they held, concerning this Sacrament, that the consecrated elements in
the Sacramentwereby no means to be made the object of a religious cultus
or adoration contrary to the old Catholic and Apostolic faith. (6) These
faithful old Chm^chmen of Ireland refused to accept as Sacraments
the five novel impositions so called, and openly protested accordingly ;
and attracted many to accept this unadulterated version of sacramental
purity along with themselves. (7) They also faithfully and boldly pro-
tested against the novel pretension that they, as Irish Churchmen, were
obliged to believe or to receive, or must submit to and be bound by, any
Roman decrees or decretals, or even the so-called Apostolic mandates of
this ambitious and innovating Church. (8) And accordingly the Sove-
reign Pontiff uses his best persuasions with the King of England that
he would hand them over to the secular arm to arrest, punish, extirpate,
and plunder them, and in fact to disestablish and disendow them, so as
to get them clean out of the way of the novel Church which meant to
reign supreme over both the bodies and the souls of English and Irish
alike. Now when ignorant people ask where was your Church before
Luther, this additional link in the chain of evidence as to its early exist-
ence and faithful protests may prove not unworthy of their attention,
while they always must thank Dr. Cullen for its publication.

Page 84. The Church of It o me did not put It down. — However some
wi'iters may angrily deny it, there is no doubt that if (1st) we take the
period of the Brehon laws, we find evident proofs of a great laxity
concerning the marriage tie ; then (2nd), if we take the period of the
English Conquest and setting up of the Roman Church, the same fact
stares us in the face. Gii^ldus Cambrensis, after all, has not been over-
thrown in his plain assertions. To the same effect is the testimony in
the Book of Howth (Carew MSS., p. 71, &c.) : " The King bade to bring
him the letters that were made in the Council of Cassell of the unclean
life and the horrible sins that the people of Ireland lived in, otherwise
that (than P) Christian men ought to live, &c. When the Pope Adrian
it (sic) heard openly the sinful and e\^l life that the people of Ii-eland
led — loorsethamvild leasts, and out of constitutions of Holy Church and

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ri-ght helief—he required the King that he would go into Ireland for to
redress and spread the terms of Holy Church for to withstand and to
let the men of sinful lives, to amend the lewder lives, and set them to
receive the religion of Christendom, so that it were worship to God and
health to their souls." And if we take (3rdly) the Eeformation period,
the evidence in the text ought to satisfy any reasonable mind. To this
we now add the following curious item of corroborative evidence from
the surrender of Ely 0 'Carroll, as given by Mr. Cooke in his Birr,
p. 380 :—

The Deputy undertook a grant to Sir Wm. Kerroll " an theires males
of his bodi, lawfully begotten and to be begotten, and for lack of such to
John O'Kerroll, his eldest base son, &c., and for lack ol males heirs by
him lawfully begotten to Teige O'Kerroll, another base son of Sir
William, and for lack of lawfully begotten issue here again to Calloghe
O'Kerroll, a third base son of Sir Wm., and for lack of lawfully begotten
issue on still to Donoghe, a further base son of Sir Wm., and finally to
Sir Wm.'s brother."

Can Sir Wm. be considered altogether out of the fashion or in the
fashion in all this, or was laxity allowed to Bishops alone ?

Page 188. Legal cliicanery. — " Half of this realm was found to belong
unto his Majesty, as his ancient demesne and inheritance, upon old
feigned titles of 300 years past, by juries, against law, their evidence,
and conscience, who were corrupted to find the said titles upon promise
of part of those lands so found for the King, or other reward, or else
were di'awn thereto by threats of the judges in the circuits, or by heavy
fines, mulcts, and censures of pillory, stigmatizings, and other like
cruel and unusual punishments." (Desiderata Curiosa Hib., p. 82.)
To the same effect is the charge in Captain Audleij Mervijibs speech : —
*' What is it to violate the gra-nts of money of this Majesties progeni-
tors, kings and queens of England, confirmed under the Broad Seal,
being the publique faith of this kingdom, by an extra judicial breach
gi'ounded upon no record ?"

Page 188. The neglect to enrol surrenders. — See fall particulars of this
affair in *' Historical Memoir of the O'Briens," p. 255. " This project o£
King James I. was interrupted by the demise of the Crown and the
accession of Charles —not abandoned, however, it was only postponed."

Page 191. The terrlhle frajedg of 16J1. — The particulars summarized
in Dr. Jones's " Remonstrance " are very interesting. They relate
rather to affairs in the North.

Page 201. Weapons of Irish Behels.— The following curious remarks
from Eutherford's "Fenians," Yol. I., page 187, &c., will interest, also
throw additional light on Bishop Dcase's advice against rebellion with-
out artillery : —

*' At the funeral of McManus, the Archbishop (E. C.) of New York
delivered an address in which he explained the three conditions which
justify rebellion in the eyes of the Church. These conditions arc based
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of Thomas Aquinas. The first is a real grievance ; the second, a general
rising ; the third condition is the possession of the meo/as mid ability
wherewith to acwmplish, with a reasonable hope of success, what they
undertake."

At page 152, Yol. II., it is stated that—

*' Some years after Kelly had disappeared from the scene, and all
danger of insurrection in Ireland was at an end, there was dug up on a
farm near Cork, once occupied by a Centre, a wooden canon (sic) care-
fully bound round with ii'on hoops, and evidently intended for service
in the field. At Blackball Road Factory were manufactured hand
grenades and Orsini shells by the score, fulminating bullets, and Greek
fire, &c., &c., which often scorched the coats of those who carried it
about, so that the wearers had occasionally to throw them away in the
streets, and run for their lives." Page 158, supra. The engineer was
thus one day, in the streets of Cork, " hoist by his own petard."

Page 203. " The Fret ended Commission of the King" — It was too bad
that such frauds were aU laid at the poor King's door. But the Queen vms
his ruin.

From "^ Declaration of the Commons concerning the Rise a.)id Progress
of the Great Rebellion in Trelomd/' page 22 : —

*' So that, to imagine the nobility, gentry, and in a manner the whole
Kingdom of Ireland, who at that time enjoyed more freedom of religion
than they had done for many years before, should thus desperately en-
gage their lives and estates in so wicked, so rash an enterprize, vnthout
being encouraged, incited, nay, commanded, from England, with an
assurance both of connivance and assistance too, were to deny them to
be reasonable creatm^es."

This unheard-of and monstrous rebellion of Ireland was projected,
incited, and assisted by those counsels now only prevalent with His
Majesty. That the Queen, lolth her Romish priests, the Papists of all His
Majestijs three Kingdoms, have been principal actors and sticklers therein.
That now those bloody rebels have in a manner rooted out the Protestant
religion in Ireland, there is a design to pardon them, and to bring them
into England to do the like. That no earthly power is likely, in human
reason, to withstand this damnable plot, but only the Parliament now
declared by a late Proclamation null and of none effect.

It is a curious coincidence that among the heads of the causes which
moved the Catholics of Ireland to take arms, one (Xo. 15) is alleged
to be—

The gross injuries and scandal given by said House of Commons to
the Queen s Majesty and her chaplains and servants, in breach of the
Articles made upon her marriage." (See Desiderata Curiosa.)

Page 21-i. Stranee Island. — It is a mistake in the text to call Stninoe
Island Straw Island, and identify it with Mutton Island. lb is really
one of the Aran Islands. (See Sir W. Petty's Map.)

Page 215. King James' Letter,— See in Appendix lY.

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Page 249. The Massacre of 1641.— The question about tlie Irish Mas-
sacre of 1641 is not (1) whether such an event ever occurred, and was
only a dream and a delusion, an after-thought and an exaggeration.
This attempt at explanation is equally successful in the eyes of sensible
people who judge from evidence, with the attempt of Moses to bury in
the sand the Egyptian he had slain. The only other question to ask is,
(2) assuming this wholesale slaughter (whether by the sword or by the
slower method of exposure in nakedness to the cold) to have occurred,
how can it be judged of ? Was it a case of justifiable homicide, or was it
ivilfid murder ? The verdict of contemporaries and of posterity pro-
nounces it to have been the latter. Those who prefer to contend against
this are free to hold the former, with the monstrous absurdities which
its maintenance involves.

Page 250. Hugh Peters, the Puritan maniac. — The following may serve
to give a slight idea of the contempt in which this raving maniac was
held :—

" Nineteen cases of Conscience.
(A Squib of the 17th Century.)

" No. 3. Whether it would not much advance our long-desired Ke-
formation, if those places of Scripture out of which the Common Prayer
Book is collected were diligently sought after and blotted out of oui-
Bibles, that no mark of the superstitious Liturgy may remain among
us to make our children idolaters.

" No. 4. Whether lying, crying at pleasure, swearing by the living
God, murdering men at a High Court of Justice, perjury three or four
times over, eating the bread of orphans, gi-inding the faces of the poor,
trampling on abilities, starving a learned and orthodox ministry, and ex-
ercising a worse tyranny for five years past over England than Pharaoh
did over Egypt, were sins or not — and if sins, whether any whit more
venial in a saint than a sinner ? "

There is evidence that Cromwell looked on him with suspicion and
contempt. In History of Independency it is also stated that " The
King's library at St. James' was given to that ignorant stage player,
Hugh Peters."

Page 251. The state of Ireland in 1643. — The question why Ireland
was kept in a starving state in 1613 is thus answered in History of In-
dependency, p. 6h : —

" That kingdom (which is purposely kept in a starving condition to
break the Lord Inchiquin's Army, that Ireland may be a receptacle for
the Saints against England spews them forth) hath nothing but the
envy of it, the sole benefit going to this army. Tliis 20,000/.. a month
being a secret, unknown to the common soldiers, the grandees of the
army put it in their own purses."

To the same effect —
A declaration of the Lords cmd Commons Assembled in Parliament,
30th Sexjt, 1643.

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made them (the Irish rebels) unnatural and canniball-like, eate and
feede one upon another — therefore that they may have time to expect
from their friends abroad new supplies of victuals and ammunition, and
may without molestation reap the fruit of this harvest, they have
laboui-ed a treaty for a cessation." Then a cessation is denounced.

Page 253. The hostility to the Liturgy was manifested alike by the
Independents as by the Presbyterians, although these parties contended
fuiiously against each other (see History of Independency), but to
clutch the spoils of the Church was the grand object of them alU (See
Bishop Parry on Atheism.)

Page 256. Bislioj) Farry.—The following is due to the Eev. Messrs.
Carroll and McCready's kindness :—

" In St. Bride's Pegister of Baptisms " are these four entries of the
Parry family :—

1st. 1638. Edward Parry Sonne of Mr. Doctor Pany, baptized the first
of Jany. 1638.

2nd. Benjamin Pany, Son of Mr. Edwd. Pany, baptized 12 March,
1634. (Mr. Monck Mason has made a mistake in Histy. Patrick's,
note p. 199, as he cites " Regist. of St. Mich, of Pole.")

1636. Pany, daughter of Mr. Edward Parry, baptized 24th May,
1636.

1639. Robert Parry, Son of Mr. Doctor Parry, baptized 21st Jany.,
1639.

The daughter must be '' ISIrs. Ellinor Hawkshaw," buried in St.
Audoen's, 22iid August, 1690.

Page 264. Frotcstants driven from central ijarts.—ln Beling's Frag-
mentum Bistoricum, in the Desiderata Curiosa Hib., p. 157, we read,
" Moreover they (the Kilkenny Conference) gi-anted aU the privileges of
a native and exemption of a third part of all the public charges and
levies to any of the English, Welsh, and Scotish ITation, being a Roman
Catholic, that would live among them."

Page 265. Riniiccini.—T:]ii^ by a misprint is spelled with n before cc.
Baling gives the following account in his Fragmentum Historicum, of
his interference : —

" But when the Archbishop of Firmo began to entertain thoughts of
shaking the Government and of limiting it to those principles,°whic.h
his o^n zeal, that wanted experience, framed to himself," &c., &c.

Page 268. Peace.—'' The Nuncio told the Bishop of Killaloe, when the
treaty for peace was progressing, that if the Council and Committee
did conclude it he would take the Bishops with him and leave the
kingdom." Ubi supra , p. 317.

Page 268. Bmiratty.'--'Belmg, in hi.s Fragmentum Historicum, states
that—

" The Earl of Thomond, who before lived peaceably, without offending
the country, admitted into it at this very time a garrison of 800 foot and

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fourscore horse— most of them reformed officers— and left it under com-
mand of Captain McAdam, a stout officer, who began to raise works, &c."

John Brown's letter, quoted elsewhere, states this somewhat differ-
ently, thus : —

" The army of Thomond were so amazed to see such a gallant fleet at
sea and so brave a body on land, that immediately he (Thomond) retired
to Six Mile Bridge (sic), where he drew up in a body with a resolution
to give our forces battle. But seeing them come on with such a mag-
nanimous courage, and our yellow colom's in the van, they immediately
threw down their arms and betook themselves to the mountains, leaving
all their provision, bagg and baggage, behind them."

This is in answer to a letter of enquiry for news, dated 16th March,
1646, and the letter is printed 1647 " for the general satisfaction of the
Kingdom of England."

Page 270. O'Neill and Monh the Artful. — In History of Independency ^
Fart IL, %)arje 226, a full account is given of the association between
O'Neill and Col. Monk, with the sham vote of disapproval passed by the
House. " Who can believe," observes the writer at page 228, " that any
subordinate officer commissioned to prosecute a war against Owen Roe
and the rest in arms in that Kingdom (see Desiderata Curiosa, page 481)
should dare to treat and conclude an agreement and conjunction with
that very enemy he had commission to fight against without the know-
ledge or directions (pubHc or private) of those from or under whom he
hath his authority, and should be so bold, when he is done, to come
over and justify his said doings, notwithstanding they proved unpro-
sperous." In page 236 the conclusion is, "You see the counterfeit
Alchemy Saints are content to join covertly with the massacreing Irish
Papists to carry on their an ti- monarchical designs, and to make a false
religion and corrupt worship the wages of righteousness."

Page 283. Confront the Turk at Belgrade. — From Revolution Politics
(Sept. 6, page 47, Part YI.) we extract the following curious confirma-
tion : —

" 'Twas this day given out that Belgrade was taken by storm by the
Ottoman forces. That we deny with both our hands. It was by the
Ii-ish forces in pay of the Emperor, under the command of one O'Dyi^c
(O'Dwyer), an Irish General, and they did wonders : for they crept under
the belly of the enemy's horses and destroyed them with their bayonets ;
for which gi^eat scr\nce O'Dyer was made by the Emperor Duke of
Belgrade as a reward of his merit."

Page 283. General Ueynolds.

*' EoleH Beynokls had £2,000 given to him, besides Abington Hall and
the lands, worth £400 a year ; hath bought a good pennyworth of
Bishop's lands ; hath £20,000 beyond sea, as he made appear upon his
marriage." (History of Independency, page 168, &c.)

Page 285. Untrodden Paths. — Besides these and little pickings on the
way before them, it must not bo forgotten that the History of Inde-

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pendeucy, page 168, contains a list of the Mernhers of the House of Com-
mons ^ observing which are affairs of the army, contrary to the self-
denying ordinoMce, together with such sums of money, oJBfices, and lands
as they have given to themselves for service due, and to be due, against
the King and Kingdom.

Page 286. Retrilution. — IMr. Hardinge's reflections on this are just
and well put.

Page 287. Mr. White in the House. — ^We give an extract from the
curious speech of this gentleman as we find it in an old square quarto
pamphlet of the day, now before us : —

" Again (if I be not much deceived), the Episcopacy, in whatsoever it
exceeds the Presbyter's office {m which case only I speak of it), is a
branch of the Hierarchic of Rome and of the Antichrist, and of that con-
sider what is prophesied. Rev. xiv. 11 : " They shaU not have any rest
day or night that receive any print of the name of the Beast." And
examine the former and present times, whether the same hath not been
verified among us and in all such places where the Hiei-archie hath been
entertained, whether the most troubles and miseries of the Chui'ches,
and in great part also of the commonwealth, have not sprung from the
said Episcopacy, and the fruits thereof.

"Therefore let us proceed to thQ 2^erfectinrf of the Reformation of our
Church, and to the gathering out of it every stone that offends, even
whatsoever is not according to Grod, and reduce everything in the
Government to the rule, and walk in it, in God's way, which is the sure
way to have His presence with us and blessing upon us and ours for
ever."

" Pcrfectii)(j the Beforraaiion of our Church,^' and what it meant may
be judged of by the following petition from *' the distressed inhabitants
of South Wales": —

The Commissioners, by themselves and their agents, had the manag-
ing and disposing of the tithes and ecclesiastic revenue there for three
years by that Act, which were privately let to many of their relations at
under values, for they posted none of their bargains, nor used any means
to improve the same for public benefit. And for one other year, namely,
1653, they continued the receiving and disposing thereof by virtue of his
late Highncss's letter ; and it was observed that many employed in this
work did suddenly and highly improve their estates ; and one man
before the wars not worth £500 hath since acqnh'ed above £5,000 per
annum. The 10th March, 1651, complaint of the premesis was made to
the men of Parliament by petition, attested by many hands of those
seven counties, who prayed —

1. A supply of theh" churches with such godly, able ministers as the
Parliament should approve of.

2. That an exact accompt might be made of that revenue, which was
moderately estimated by the petitioners at £20,000 per annum, and so
much offered the Parliament for the same, and good security for the pay-
ment thereof.

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Page 287. The fanaticism and intolerance of the Indejpendenis under
the Commonwealth.

I71 Gro'rmvelliana,

1650, July 12—19, we read that—

*' The ministers are now active in the military discipline, as formerly
they were in the Gospel profession. Parson Ennis, Parson Brown, and
about 30 other ministers having received commissions to be majors and
captains, who now hold forth."

In Historical Sketches of the ISTative Irish, by Christopher Ander-
son, at 97 page note, we find that S. Mather was a Fellow of Trinity
College, Dublin, and Preacher at Nicholas, and that " when a commis-
sion was drawn out by the Lord Deputy for removing the Episco2oal
ministers of Mimster, ifc was Mather who declined, saying that he was
called into the country to preach the Gospel, and not to lander others
from doing so.'' This was a very manly sentiment, a very rare one
too from such a quarter.

Page 289. Corruptness of 3fanners.— The state of literature at the
very acme of the Saint's reign in England may interest : —

In " A Beacon set on fire," ^

1652. Published by the London Stationers, the following appears :—

" The just fear we have, lest Pofjish and Blasjjhemoics Boohs should
gi^w so numerous, as to become a considerable, if not the greatest part
of our trade, and so we be tempted to be venders of such loathsome
ware, or else leave our calling to keep our consciences pure."

Nineteen works of the former class are then detailed. Then come
*' The names and blasphemies of some books not Popish." Hobs (sic) his
Leviathan is then quoted at pp. 205, 219, 220-232, 24I-244-, 245, 271-
273, 284, with a great deal more of such blasphemous stuff. " A testi-
mony of approaching Glory, by Sprigge," is then quoted, then the
Bacovian Catechism, and Biddle's Book.

Page 296.— S OGGARTH AEOON.

BY JOHN BANIN.

AiE — '' Alleen Aroo)i.''

Am I the slave they say,

Soggarth aroon,
Since you did show the way,

Soggarth aroon,
Their slave no more to be
While they would work with me
Ould Ireland's slavei-y,

Soggarth aroon ?

Why not her poorest man,

Soggarth aroon,
Try and do all he can,

vSoggarth aroon,

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Her commands to fulfil,
Of his own heart and will,
Side by side with you still,
Soggarth aroon ?

Loyal and brave to you,

Soggarth aroon,
Yet be no slave to you,

Soggarth aroon —
Nor, out of fear to you.
Stand up so near to you —
Och ! out of fear to you !

Soggarth aroon.

Who, in the winter's night,

Soggarth aroon,
When the could blast did bite,

Soggarth aroon.
Came to my cabin-door.
And, on my earthen-flure.
Knelt by me sick and poor,

Soggarth aroon ?

Who, on the marriage-day,

Soggarth aroon,
Made the poor cabin gay,

Soggarth aroon —
And did both laugh and sing,
Making our hearts to ring.
At the poor christening,

Soggarth aroon ?

Who, as fi'iend only met,

Soggarth aroon.
Never did flout me yet,

Soggarth aroon ?
And when my heart was dim
Gave, while his eye did brim,
What I should give to him,

Soggarth aroon ?

Och ! you, and only you,

Soggarth aroon !
And for this I was true to you,

Soggarth aroon ;
In love they'll never shake.
When for ould Ireland's sake,
We a true part did take,

Soggarth aroon !

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Page 299. Fire and candle UgJit.—Biow this system of free quartering
was relished in England, we may see by the following from The Junto,
p. 65 ;—

Free quarters. — Here it may not be amiss to say a word or two of
this Yillanous oppression. Free quarter, whereby we are reduced to the
condition of conquered slaves. No man being master of his own family,
but living like bond-slaves in their own houses under these Egyptian
taskmasters, who are spies and intelhgencers upon our words and deeds,
so that every man's table is become a snare to him.

Page 317. Sanctimonious intolerance and grasping arahition. — The
following, from a tract of these times, seems to put the true state of the
case fairly and clearly : —

Relations and Observations , page 17.
Shall we complain of God? God hath a controversy with us. Of
whom shall we complain ? Of ourselves ? We must first reform our-
selves, we that take upon us to reform Church and Commonwealth.
Shall we complain of our sins ? Ask the grace ol repentance first, and
so ask that we may obtain. Shall we complain of our punishments 1
Let us first repent, and amend our sins that caused them. Let us first
pluck off the mask of hypocrisy. God will see through such a fantas-
tical garment of fig leaves. Let us no longer make religion a stalking
horse. God, who is all wisdom and truth, will not be deceived. If we
talk like Christians, and walk like Turks, Christ will not own us. To
fast for a day, and hang our heads like bullrushes, will not reconcile us.
We must fast from public epoils, rapines, and oppression, and not drink
the tears of the poor and needy. Shall we complain with the Prophet,
that our princes are become thieves, now v:e must cry that our thieves
are become princes.

Page 316. Tlie usurpation terminates tvith Oliver Crominell. — One ot
the last Acts of Parliament under the usurpation is An Act for Protec-
tion of His Highness, cmd forhids, under pencdty, " to hold any intelligence
or correspondence with Charles Stuart, James, or Henry do.," &c. The
Irish Conirnissioners, for carrying out the objects of this Act, are: —

The Lord Chancellor, Chief Justices of either Bench, and the Barons
of the Exchequer, Bob. Goodwin, Matt. Thomlinson, Wm. Bury, Sir
Jas. Barry, Ar. Hill, Vincent Gookin, Wm. Jephson, H. Markham, Jno.
Hewson, Ri. Lawrence, Thos. Cooper, Thos. Sadler, Jer. Zankey, Henry
Pritty, Sir J. Eeynolds, Rob. Phaire, John Fowke, Sir Theop. Jones, Sir
R. Meredith, Sir Jno. Temple, Sir Rob. King, Sir Hardress Waller, Sol.
Richards, jun.. Sir Wm. Fenton, Henry Ingoldsby, Geo. Do., Jno. King,
Ri. Tigh, Aldmn. Dublin, Jno. Bret, Hy. Owen, Era. Bolton, Tristram
Berrisford, Morris Fenton, Rob. Southwell, Sir Chas. Coot, Rob. Ormsby,
Jno. Percival, Thos. Southwell, Wm. Warden, Dan. Redman, Nich.
Purdon, Era. Fowlkes, Walter Waller, Thos. Herbert, Jno, Brie, Recorder,
Dublin, Anthy. Morgan, Ri. Blaney, Wm. Aston, Ed. Roberts, Jos
Standish, Jno. Vernor, Wm. Duckenfield, Peter Wallis, Dan. Abbott,
Rob. Saunders, Peter Stubber, Wm. Halsey, Ralph King, Wm. Aniop,

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Jno. Nelson, Jno. Bridges, Hy, Jones, Jno. Cook, Jas. Trail, or any
thirteen of them.

Page 339. Mitigate the terriUe consequences. — The following is worth
notice : —

" Faik Waenii^'G ;
or,
Twenty -five reasons against Toleration or Indulgence of Popery. 1663."

1. The Archbishop of Canterbury to the King.

" Tour Majesty hath propounded a toleration of rehgion. I beseech
you take into considei'ation what the Act is next ; what the consequence
may be. You labour to set up that most damnable and heretical doc-
trine of the Church of Eome, whore of Babylon, &c."

The Irish Bench of Bishops, headed by Jas. Ardma^anus, pronounce
toleration " a grievous sin, as making ourselyes accessories to all the
abominations of Popery, also a matter of most dangerous consequence."

Then come twenty-five rea-sons agaiast toleration.

Page 340.
Cathedral.

St. TJiomas's Cathedral. — This is really St. Flannan'a

Page 371. Constitution suhvert itself. — How the Eevolution was strictly
constitutional is set forth by a Mr. S. Johnson, in the followuig argu-
ment, as given in his pamphlet : —

*' The Eevolution Strictly Legal." — Samuel Johnson's.

Argument that the abrogation of 'King James and the promotion of
the Prince of Orange, were a matter of fact and of right.

As a matter of fact Kling James forfeited, his Crown and abdicated the
Government, so that the throne thereby became vacant. And the
people of England finding the vacancy thus made, had a perfect right
to act according to the declaration of the Lords and Commons in the
10th Eichd. 2nd.

Our Lord the King.

" But there is moreover one part of our message, still left to acquaint
you withal in the name of your people. They have it by antient statute
and by a late doleful instance, that in case the king shall alienate him-
self from his people, by any bad advice whatsoever, or foolish contu-
macy, or contempt, or self-will, or any other in^egular way; and will
not be governed and ruled by the laws, statutes, and laudable ordi-
nances of the realm, with the wholesome ad^dce of the Lords and Peers
of the realm, but in a headstrong way will exercise his own self-will :
From thenceforward it is lawful for them, with the common assent and
consent of the people of the realm, to depose the King from the reo-al
throne, and to promote some kinsman of his of the royal family to the
throne of the kingdom in his stead."

If any person will vouchsafe to give an answer to anything I have
here said, I desire him to do it, fairly, by setting his name to it, and I
have done. For I hate to have my books answered as they lately were
in a midnight- visor-masque.

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Page 396. The Bishops.— The way in whicli the Church was to be
made the instrument for establishing a tyranny and for drawing down
God's blessing upon intolerance and invasion will appear in the follow-
ing extract from —

A Form of Prayer and Humiliation, Edn. Ann. 1690, and an Abhorrence.

" Comfort him, Oh, Lord I in the sadness of his spirit.

" Guide him in the perplexity of his mind, and support him in the
streightsand necessities of his fortunes. Raise him friends abroad. Con-
vert or confound the hearts of his enemies at home'^

By these, his friends abroad, the French Dragoons and Irish Cut-
throats, they would have this nation converted to advance the Church
and Monarchy. Thus they may have the means of reformation left
them and may be rewarded for constancy to mother Church, and the
mischief of a Commonwealth may be prevented in all the three king-
doms by making them provinces to the French Monarchy. P. 29.

Page 411. A noble deliverance

From,

" The Prince of Orange

His

Declaration, Showing the Eeasons why he Invades Ireland."

*' The dismal effects of this subversion of the Established Keligion,

Laws, and liberties of England appear more evidently unto us, by what

we see done in Ireland, where the whole government is put in the

hands of the Papists, and where all the Protestant inhabitants are under

the daily fears of what may be justly apprehended from the arbitrary

power which is set up there, which has made great numbers of them leave

that kingdom and abandon their estates in it, remembering well that

cruel and bloody massacre which fell out in that island in 16iL "We

will also study to bring the Kingdom of Ireland to such a state that

the settlement there may be religiously observed, and that the Protestant

and British interest there may be secured.

" The Hague, 1688, Oct. 10th."

Page 414. France. — The same idea appears in

The Late King James' Manifesto, 1697.
(274.)

But the chief reason which engages the confederate Princes to main-
tain the Prince of Orange, is, as they say, because he is irreconcilable
with France, and therefore they will be always sure of him, and con-
sequently he must be maintained at any rate. Must then hatred against
France prevail against most essential duties of Justice and Eeligion,
and must the innocent be sacrificed, and the crime countenanced to be
revenged of an enemy ?

Doubtless 'tis the advantage of Europe that the Throne of England
be possessed by His Majesty, not that he is irreconcilable with France,

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as it is asserted, but because he knows the true interest of Christendom,
and how necessary it is to reduce the power of that ambitious Crown
into its just bounds. 'Tis near thirty years ago that pohticians foresaw
that Europe would be a slave to France unless England broke its
fetters ; the rapid conquests of Louis the 14th made those fears veiy
probable, yet England lay asleep all that while, and when King James
came to the throne and had refused to join with the allies, 'tis certain
that things were come to that extremity, that the late happy revolu-
tion alone could deliver Great Britain and stop the progi^ess of the
French, who, in conjunction with the Turks, flattered themselves with
the easy conquest of Europe.

Page 414. Ueg ions plundered. — The following from the London Gazette
will justify the correctness of this description : —

*' On the 20th Feby., 1690-1, Lieutenant- Colonel Lilliugton, Governor
of Roscrea, having intelligence that a party of rebels were at Moneygall,
within four or five miles of that place, went out with a party of horse
and foot of that garrison, and at break of day fell upon that, whom they
found to be a part of Col. Oxburgh's regiment, with a party of rapparees,
killed thirty-five, took twelve prisoners, and one Captain O'Connor,
who commanded them." March 24. " Lieutenant- Colonel Lilliugton,
with a party from Roscrea, joined by another from Birr, marched to
Nenagh, beat the enemy into the Castle, took two or thi^ee strong posts,
lurnt the town, where they had laid up a good store of provisions, and
brought away three hundred head of cattle, having lost but two soldiers
and one horse in the action."

Page 415. A System of Oppression, in a Series of Laws, during tlie
Reigns of William and Anne.— '' An Appeal to all Protestant Kings,
Princes, and States'' (1700, p. 37) will exemplify this awful fact.
" And is it now possible (since the state of the Protestant religion and
interest is such at this day as is briefly represented in the entrance to
this appeal) that any Protestant Prince or State should want a verv
vigorous sense of what infinite importance it is to prevent the farther
growth of Popery in their respective dominions ? Can they find it difficult
to persuade themselves, to provide to the utmost of tlieii- power, for
their security from again falling under a bondage, in comparison of
which that was a very light one which the antient Israelites felt under
the cruel Pharaoh ? Can they think it worth their while to be heartily
concerned about any public affair and neglect this, which is so apparentlv
of the highest importance imaginable, both to their own and their
people's (?2^er?mZ welfare and temporal too, nay, is (as these leaves have
shewn us) of absolute necessity to their but tolerahle condition in this
world ? God foebid." How well had it been if the measures " to prevent
the further growth of Popery" had not the exact opposite effect,
and with a vengeance. What did the antient Israehtes feel under
cmel Pharaoh hke what the modern Papists felt under William and
Anne ?

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The same is illustrated in A Tractate on " tlie present danger o£
Popery in England/' showing —

1. The strength of the English Papists at home.

2. An account of their religious houses.

3. An abstract of the laws in force against Papists.

4. Eeasons for putting these laws in execution.

5. A proposal for the same, dedicated to the civil magistrates of Eng-
land, Ii^eland, and Scotland.

The same writer concludes with a suggestion that " a society should
be formed to put in execution the laws against Papists."

Page 442. " Political Severity made it hated hefore it ivas Icnotvn.'' —
The fact that the majority of the Irish people have rejected the religion
of their country, and cling to that of their conquerors, ipvesents an extra-
ordinary anomaly not generally accounted for. The effect of persistent
onisrejoresentation in perpetuating this state of things has been obvious
to many. But the degree in which mispresentation originated the evil
is not at all so generally understood ; and one must account for it on
Bishop Butler's theory of self-deceit, through " a general ignorance of
themselves, and wrong way of thinking and judging in everything
relating to themselves."

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Abbey and Monastery

Dr. Todd on

Dr. Beeves on ...

Usher, Arcbbisbop, on . . .
Absentee, law to confiscate Protestants

Abjuring realm, form of

Account, full and impartial, quoted

Administration, civil and military, under the usurpation
Adventurers' Act a great error

Lord Forbes in Galway Bay ...

Act, good bargains under
Aghnis, Bishop, lands in .r.

Andrewe, Geo. Dean

Aran, islands of, missionary head-quat^rs ...

Do. Endeus apud Colgan

Archbishop of Armagh fears^pduct ion

Arms o£ Protestants seized ... ... v..

Army, Parliamentary, in Ireland, list of

King James II. ...
Artillery and Irish Bebel s

Do. do.

Ballyalla, siege of

preliminary actions

plot thickens

sows and leathern guns

evidence corroborating

pretended commission...

evidence of E. Beadc ...

B. Hopditch

Bev. A. Chaplin

Baker, &c.

Ballymackcy, tythcs and dues in

PAGE

393

416

387

299

187

249

280

331

159

38
387
277
374
196
201

194
195
199
&c.
... 202
... 203
... 303
... 204
... 205
206, &c.
... 318

200,

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INDEX,

Barclay, Eev. Mr., his security

Bedell, Bishop, quoted ...
Beehive Houses ...
Benefices, impropriate

Bishop's Island

Bishops, Iiish reformed, misrepresented

and clergy in great poverty ...

um-eformed, their sons rob and slay.

suborned by Sidney

unreformed, of Killaloe

Blood, Neptune, Yery Eev

Blood, Mrs., inventory ... •

Book money

Bi-amhall, Bishop, his zeal

his fears ...

indicted for high treason

arrested ...

Commons Journals quoted, of

and use of P. Book

on Dr. Worth, and exceptions against
Brehons and Bards

law in Thomond

Ed. Curry, on ...
Burton, Samuel, Esq.
Butler, Sii' Toby, his letter

Camden, on clerical morality

Carlyle, Mr. T., on 1641

Cashel, clergy, their fitness
Castles in Clare in 1641 ...
Castle Bank, siege of
Castle Haven, Lord, at Birr

Chaplin, Kev. Mr., a good shot

Charles I., his Irish Ecclesiastical legislation

fines on cursing

his Irish secular policy, bad ...

his Connaught settlement scheme .

quoted in Eikon Basilike

his readiness to save Irish Protestant

his controversies with Parliament ..

Chieftains, Irish, Henry VIII

Church with roof...

with chancel arch

temporalities and Henry YIII.

land in England security for war

Irish, how often robbed, and for what
Churches and monuments rifled by Cromwell
Churchmen persecuted by Puritans and Papists

PAGE

« ...

400, &c.

190

• ...

...

157

...

402

221, &c.

359

•

354

188

189

190

289

t him . . .

321

...

410

377

249

• ..

197

226

•

230

. ...

200

. • .

183

. • ..

184

187

. . .

188

264

272

. ...

273

. ...

• ...

. ...

, , ,,

273

. . •

289

271

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593

Churchmen persecuted by Cromwellians
Clancy, Boetius, Dean of Kilfenora

High Sheriff of Clare

Clancys, the ...

Clanrickarde correspondence

his eminent loyalty
Clapham, Eev. ]\Ii\, important evidence of

sets forth fury of Irish
Clare, gentry of, join rebellion of 1641

south of, and central, in 1641 ...

made a penal settlement

Commissioners for, in D'Alton's lists

horses pressed in

chief gentlemen and ablest persons in

Lord, his letter to arrest the chief Protestants
country

clergy, compulsory conversion to escape death
Clergy, the distressed, how treated

petition of

refused bread, ordered to enlist

their answer to Commissioners

reasons of petition stated

in Killaloe, under James II. ...

how their tythes went from them
Clonlisk Barony ...
Clonmacnoise Manifesto ...
Commissioners' order against Prayer Book

Composition Deed, Perrott's

Compurgations, cases of ...

Confiscations provoked ...

Congregationalist teachers in Killaloe...

Conquering Parliamentarians, march of

Convention Aphorisms ...

Cooke, Mr., quoted

Coote, Chidley's evidence

Cork taken...

Covenant absurdly lauded

Cromwelhan settlement quoted

Cromwell, 0., his letter on Thomond, E.

estimated

his letter after Dunkirk

his letter on operations in Munster

attacks Clonmacnoise Manifesto

his revenge declared ...
Crump, Pev. Mr., runs away
Curwen's Case, the Queen on ...
Cursing, laws against
Cusake on preaching the Gospel

Q Q

PAGE

.. 288

. 31

.. 62

.. 70

. 251

. 263

. 239

. 241

. 196

223

. 282

. 384

. 385

. 386

s of the

. 387

222

...

'. 252

. 254

.. 254

.. 255

. 396

...

. 399

. 281

. 270

. 253

...

. 64

. 352

. 339

. 298

. 274

. 371

. 228

.. 230

.. 396

. 287

. 193

.. 268

. 275

. 276

. 278

. 290

...

. 295

. 399

. 33

. 184

. 29

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INDEX.

Darby, Mr. J., condemned to death
Davis, Sir John, on Irish law

and the Jesuits ...
Davies, Dean, on war
Dease, Bishop, Titular ...
Defectu natalium ...
Desmond's rebellion

Countess, letter to

once loyal

swayed to his ruin

asks the Pope for lands

of English ongin
Dispute on baptism at Cork .
Drogheda, slaughter in ...

the Spirit of God promotes ..
Dromore Castle, built by whom

Education by Elizabeth

nnder William III

Elizabeth Queen, and Church work
English-speaking clergy prefeiTed
English and Dutch offer to save Clare

help delayed, why

number of reduced
Ennis Corporation minutes

apothecary
Exactions of clergy
Excommunication, cases of

Elannan, St., his oratory. . .

Cathedral
Fenianism or Desmondism
Fermor the Crown
Einnoe, churchwardens of
France and William III. . . .
French fleet at Brest

Gauden Doctor, quoted ...

Gmces, account of

Gray, Lord L., in Limenck

God's Word

Gore, F., his inventory ...

Haliam, Mr., quoted

H— 1 or Conaught

Henn's inventory

Henry YIII. and conciliation
Hickman, Gregory, in 1641

164

PAGE

382

378

403

318

274

275

198

417

&208

209

315

373

420

185

350

347

414

390

271

394

350

415

284

356

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595

luchecronane, siege of ...

Inchiquin's, Lord, presentations

Inniscattery diocese

Intolerance of Cromwellians

Inventories

Ireland and Pope Gregory

present state of, quoted

parties in, after 1641 ...
Irish, language not to be used ...

Dr. Stephens, ad rem

Sidney remonstrates ...

dress, language, and habits ...

names changed ...

Maine quoted on

Dr. S. Ferguson quoted on ...

their absurd demands ...

are dissatisfied and irritated . . .

Expedition, the ...

are cowed by Cromwell

Papists in Cromwell's hands...

James I. 's commission to enquire

II., third persecution under . . .

why he lived
Jones, Dean, his bargain...

Bishop of Eallaloe

his age debated...

his will ...

how he spells his name
Justice, Lord Chief, bis letter

the administration of, under James II.

Kilf enora Diocese, Dr. Todd on

Cathedral

Fachnan's slab ...

Ware's lament ...

J. O'Hinalan, Bishop ...

examined closely

Bishop rick beggarly

KileneboyCburch-lands ...
Killaloe Diocese, form and size ...

follows civil boundaries

Cathedral centi-al

in King's books on

Bishops of, and supremacy

Morin quoted ...

sixty captains, which of in

Bishoprick void...

a q2

164

PAGE
210

3i9

287

355

191

263

0, &c.
274
277

287

o/l

40:)
74
180
180
187
182
208
378

188

330

3, Szc.

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INDEX.

Killaloe, Bishop H. Eider's sermon quoted

Bishop Jones stripped and fugitive

Bishop Parry, ditto

his action in commissioners' affair

Bishop Parry, death

monument in Audoen's Church

character of

his " David Restored " quoted

on dangers of atheism ...

his son's remarks on atheism

Bishop Parry, his portrait

Bishop Dr. E. Worth ,.[

a lease he made...

with the Independents in Cork

Murcot on the matter

Dr. Worth, how far implicated with Independents

Bishop Wytter, his will

Bishop Boan

Lord Essex's letters in favour of Dr. Roan...

under James 11. ., .

his death and burial

his will ...

Bishop H. Eider

dioces e of, in sad state after 1 641

diocese, military occupation in East...

Consistorial Court, remnant of papers

summary, in 1713
King of Ireland proclaimed

and rejoicings ...
King, Archbishop, quoted

Ladies Irish, at Silvermines

other heroic
Latin jDref erred to Irish ...

prayers in Tralce

abuse m English pale ...
Law, feudal and tanist ...

English and Irish in conflict . .

in Tipperary
Lay preachers in buff coats

Leases by Bishops

Lenihan, Mr. M., his courtesy

Limerick, siege prepared for

and Clare, oflicers' petition ...

precinct of, order-books quoted

Liturgy legalized

Livings held in cornviendam
Macaria) excidium quoted

PAGE

192
196

252
252
256
257
258
259
262
262
262
316
336
317
318
321
365—6
367
367
397
307
398
421
271
279
345
346
17
18
372

247

228

382

287

329

345

277

285

209

r)22

378

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597

Macari^ excidium quoted

Macaulay, Lord, quoted

on King William

Mac O'Brien aira ... ...

MacNamara on conspiracies and horse- stealings

Magrath Miler, his servant beneficed

Matrimonial cause, cui-ious
Marriage laws, pre -reformation ...

IVIary Queen, her policy

Massacre of 1641 ...

why exposed again

Canon of Yerity used on

sources of information on

nature of evidence

affairs in Tipperaiy

Mass-priests

McSheedy, Dean

English liberty to

Mensal tythes

Miller, Dr., quoted

Mollua, his oratory

Molony, Jno., Titular Bishop of Killaloe

signs declaration at Clanmacnois

signs declaration at Waterford

Moore, Mr. T

Moral depi^vity ...

Moy and Inchiveaghe Castles ...

Simpson's, &c., letters from ...

Norton's evidence on . . .

jMi's., letters

Murcot quoted

on prayer, like a bladder

O'Brien

his visit to the King, &c

T., Bishop of Killaloe, and his sons . . .

Sir T., son of, convicted at Clonmel...

of Dough

Daniel, loyalty and reward

land ravaged ...

Sir T., of Dromoland

D., Sheriff of Clare

arms seized

O'Daye, Bishop of Killaloe

O'Dwyi-e, Dr. E

O'Hinalan, Bishop

O'Melrian, Dr., Titular ...

described by Sent Leger

PAGE

... 412

... 374

... 414
35—44

... 378

... 74

... 363

... 84

... 34

... 192

... 193

... 194
242

... 97

... 32

... 334

... 415
2

... 267

... 270

... 404

... 34

... 43

... 214

... 215

... 216

... 217

... 318

... 321

... 25

... 25
33, &c.

... 73

... 194

... 219

... 249

... 284

... 385

... 418

... 31

... 403

... 31

... 50

... 53

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INDEX.

O'Melrian, described in State Papers

PAGE

captured by pirates

praised by Desmond ...

a Quartermaster- General

his letters

why to be made Bishop of Cork

asks for lands in Ireland

deplores Desmond

describes his campaigning life

- 60

his last visit to Ireland

Wingfield's letter on

a military agent

O'Molona Malachias

guest of Grindall

in prison

deceives M. O'Brien ...

Sir M. Maltbie writes of

Porrott on his conversion

Roughan's account of him

his final exit

why noticed

O'Molony, Jno., 2nd Bishop Titular

404

derivation of name

405

'' a busy meddling priest "

405

his letter

406

King James 2nd's envoy

406

founds bursaries ...

406

his ring

406

his letters to Tyrrell ... ...

407

calls Irish cow-hearted

407

would overthrow Act of Settlement

407

quotes Scripture strangely

408

contrasted with Lesly

408

Oratory ... ...

Ormond, men of, wolves annually

Earl of, surrenders Dublin ...

252

stipulations of

253

submits to hard terms

266

consequences of his defeat

270

impeached for refusing Covenant

287

Oxburg, Colonel

374

his regiment ...

375

robs his employer ... ...

383

fall of his family

338

Pandar, the, quoted

Parish cess, lists of non-payers of

357

Parsons, Sir L

376

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PAGE

Parsons, Sir L., his trial ... ... ... ... ... ... 378

saves his life, how ... ... ... ... ... ... 381

Pars on stown, siege of, 1641 ... ... ... ... ... ... 227

famine prices ... ... ... ... ... ... 229, &c.

bravery of defenders ... ... ... ... ... ... 23 i

terrible sufferings ... ... ... ... ... ... 235

surrender, terms of ... ... ... ... ... ... 335

evidence of Messrs. Hopley, Mitchell, Walker, and Maltham 236

evidence of Coote and Parsons, with reflections on same 238

Patrick, Saint, and Senchus Mor 80

Judicious evangelist ... ... ... ... 82

Patrick's Cathedral, great consecration in ... ... ... ... 316

Popish-pretensed Primate 37

Popery laws. King Wilham III. 415

no foreign education ... ... ... ... ... ... 416

not to live near Shannon ... ... ... ... ... 416

not to teach school ... ... ... ... ... ... 417

their arms seized ... ... .,, ... ... ... 418

their horses, what sort ... ... ... ... ... 418

must declare against transubstantiation ... ... ... 420

in Ennis... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 420

Presbyterians and Cromwell ... ... ... ... ... ... 287

andVenables 288

Presentments for non-payment of Church rates ... ... ... 363

Preys and frays ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 37

Priests, Irish, banished ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 295

effects of this severity 296

state of, by deed of 1652 297

Proprietary rights ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 190

Protestants, their possessions robbed... ... ... ... ... 392

their persons seized ... ... ... ... ... ... 389

their actual arrest ... ... ... ... ... ... 389

theii' petition from Ennis Jail ... ... ... ... 392

then- flight to England 393

lists of proscribed 393

lists of the relieved 395

Provincial of Au gustine hissed ... ... ... ... ... ... 7

Qualey, Y.G. Killaloe 403

Quo warranto s ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 373

Reaction, anti-Church ...
RebclUon Feuds ...
Peeves, Dean
Reformation, Lawrence, on

mismanaged
Refugee, his petition
R'jtribution

... 52
160 & 421
... 81
... 83
... 361
... 286

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INDEX.

Revolution the, estimated

Rider John, Bishop of Killaloe

his literary works

searches after ...

in ]\ias on' s Patrick

wronged by Lascelles

King James' letter to

his merits

recommends Dean Andrew ...

his death and memorial
Ryder, Bishop Henry, his will ...
Rinuccini fights with Confederates

plans conquest of England

hi s intolerance ...

his rage ...

figures at Bunratty siege

Sankey and Petty, their row

Sarsfield's letter ...
Sebastian, Don, is slain ...

Settl er s in Tipperary

Lord Clare on ...
become good churchmen
Settlement, and Act of ...
Silvermines in 16-il

Six-mile Bridge in 1611

Spaight, Thomas

Spirituality resists reformation
daring trick of . . .

how esteemed ...
Spoliation ...

Bramhall on

S tamer, Mr.

Staples, Bishop, on Supremacy

" State of Ireland " quoted

State Prayers, temp. Charles II.

Stephens, Dr., quoted

Stukeley's invasion

Submission of O'Brien produces commotion.

Subsidies and forcible seiziii-es

Supremacy, Sir J. Davis on

Laws resisted

contentions

enforced at Clonmel

Taffe Lord, his letter from Clare

Teige, Father, his prayers

Ihomond and Inchiquin submit

PAGE

... 411

... 85

... 86

... 86
87&88

... 166

... 158

... 159

... 327

... 265

... 266

... 267

... 268

... 285

... 337

... 52

... 281

... 282

... 336

... 241

... 224

... 410

... 19

... 19
7
8

... 390.

... 20

... 29

,.. 368

.. 322

... 52

,.. 32

.. 384

.. 16

.. 18

.. 20

.. 21

. . 269

.. 391

,. 23

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601

Thomond and Inchiquin get rich Church grants

Conor, Earl of, renounces name of O'Brien

life in

D., Earl of, praised

C, Earl of, Queen's letter to

Earl of, induced to join Conanght plantation scheme

Barnaby, Earl of, how acting

evidence on

Earl of, his letter to O'Brien

Mr, Carljle comments on

Henry, Earl of

Tituladoes ...

Trade and commerce reg. Charles II. . . .

Trade Council ordered ... ... ... •-•

Tra vers on ignorance of G-ospel
Tru meroe siege ...

0' Flaherty's action and arrest

O' Flaherty s examination

Ward's evidence ...

locality described
Tuam, Titular Archbishop, and Clam-ickarde

and Clonfert, Bishop's letter .. .

Twenbroke, Eev. Ml'

Tyrconnell, King of Ireland

Tythes restored by Chai'les 11

Tythe case

Undertakers and English

Usurpation, reflections on

and see Property

Valor beneficiorum

Vandeleur, Rev. Mr.

Vicar- Genei^l of Killaloe

Mahoon McMahon ).,'."

Queley, Dr. ... ' '... ... .••

his elevation to Tuam . . ,
Vic^rius or substitute Priest

Vindicire Catholicse quoted

Vii'ago, a devilish ... ... .^-

Visitation, regal, in 1615

of Kilfenora

of Killaloe in 1622

how transcribed

articles of

grievances set forth

names of ye Masse Priests

name of Vicar- General

PAGE

... 26

... 33

... 39

... 72

... 79

... 188

... 196

... 206

... 220

... 267

... 283

... 281

... 339

... 29

... 211

... 212

... 213

... 2U

... 264

... 38

... 198

... 324

... 349

... 71

... 315

... 326

... 13

401, &c.

... 402

... 403

... 403
6

.,. 264

.,, 237

... 89

... 9S

... 100

... 101

... 139

... 143

... 144

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INDEX.

PAGE

Yisitation, humble motions of Clergy

146

Ecclesiastical Courts ;

147

catalogue of admissions

148

notes on Articles

148

ofl633

166

Eoll of Clergy

167

Kilfenora

177

ditto, Roll of Clergy

178

Primary, of Archbishop of Cashel in 1667 . . .

340

remarks upon

342

regal, in 1693

422

letter from Bishop H. Rider

422

Waller, Sir H., in Burren

280

Whettenhall, Bishop of Cork, sub. James II.

396

William III., King, intolemnce under

411

injurious policy for Church

412

Yellow dragoons ...

376

Finis.

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