1585. June. Vol. 613, p. 53. Aug. 8. Vol. 632, p. 81a. 579. 580. provided that no Parliament should be holden in this realm Copy. Pp. 2. RENTS and SERVICES. "Certain reservations to her Majesty's use upon receipt of surrenders, and upon other compositions and agreements, between the Lord Deputy of the one party, and certain lords and gentlemen on the other party, made from the 10th day of June 1584 until this present month of June 1585, and to continue as followeth, besides a tenure of knight service upon all the lands thereupon reserved to her Majesty;" sc., rent per annum, 5457. 198.; chief horses, 4; hawks, 11; beeves, 427; English horsemen, 25; English footmen, 1,089; Irish horsemen at every hosting, 210; Irish footmen at ditto, 455. Copy. Pp. 4. JAMES VI., KING OF SCOTS, to LORD DEPUTY PERROT. We have by this bearer, Captain Dawtrie, received your answer of our letter, announcing your immediate order taken with our merchants' goods restrained by your command at sundry parts upon the coast. We promise that Copran, of Dublin, and the other two merchants of Carigefergus pretending to have been spoiled by Broadstones and Agnus McDonnell, shall have like justice. Agnus and his brother, Sorley Boy's brother and sons, and their followers shall be prohibited from making incursions into Ireland, under the pain of treason. If they attempt the contrary, we shall use them as our rebels, and give commission to McAllane and the country thereabout to rise and prosecute them. On the other part, we crave of you that they may be kindly used in all things which may be justly claimed by them. St. Andrew's, 8 August 1585, the 19th year of our reign. Copy. P. 1. 1585. Oct. 3. 581. Vol. 614, p. 15. COMPOSITION for CESSE in CONNAUGHT. Commission from the Queen to Sir Richard Bingham, Chief Commissioner in Connaught and Thomond; the Archbishop of Tome (Tuam); the Earls of Ormond and Clanricard; the Bishop[s] of Clonfert and Elphine; the Lord Brimigham, Baron of Athenry; Sir Nicholas White, Master of the Rolls; Sir Edward Waterhouse, one of the Privy Council; Sir Thomas Lestrange, one of the same; Thomas Dillon, Chief Justice of the said province; Charles Calthorp, Attorney-General; Gerald Quemerford, Attorney in the said province; Sir Tirrelagh O'Brien; Sir Donell O'Connor Sligo; Sir Brien O'Rorck; Sir Richard Bourck; Sir Morogh ne Dowe O'Flaerty; Francis Barkley, Provost-Marshal in the said province; Nicholas Fitz Symons, of Dublin, alderman; John Marbury; Robert Fowle; and John Browne. Whereas the said province is torn by the dissensions of the lords and chieftains, who challenge authorities, cuttings, and cessings, under pretext of defending the people under their rules; and we understand that these our subjects are inclined, through the ministry of Sir John Perrott, our Deputy General, to embrace all good ways and means to conserve them in obedience, whereby our prerogative may be known, and their rights and titles made certain: We authorize you to call before you all the nobility, spiritual and temporal, and all the chieftains and lords of the countries, and thereupon, in lieu of the uncertain cesse borne to us and of the cutting[s] and spendings of the lords, to compound for a rent certain to us upon every quarter or quantity of land within that province. The baronies to be divided into manors. Witness our said Lord Deputy General, at Dublin, 15 July, 27 Eliz. II. The RETURN of the COMMISSIONERS. By our own view, and by the presentments of good and lawful men, we have found what number of quarters of land are contained within the counties of Clare, Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Rosscommon, and the confines thereof, within Connaught and Thomond, accompting O'Rorck's country to be of the same, as in the several presentments taken thereof is at large inserted, which we return, together with the several indentures passed and agreed upon for the composition rent granted in the same to the Queen by the lords, freeholders, &c. Dated 3 October, 27 Eliz. The barony of Clancoistolla is not as yet presented, nor comprised within this composition. Signed by Sir Richard Bingham and others. 1585. Nov. Vol. 600, p. 115. 582. III. CONNAUGHT and THOMOND. (1.) "A brief abstract of the composition there lately taken, as well for the Queen's most excellent Majesty, as also between the lords and their freeholders." Irish callings, customary rents, and spendings to be extinguished. Sum of the quarters of land, 7,872; whereof 6,712 are chargeable by composition, and the rest remain in freedom. (2.) "The names of the new erected manors for the Queen's Majesty in the province of Connaught and Thomond aforesaid, with the rents and services to them knit and annexed. Total of the yearly profits arising to her Majesty by the composition:-Rents, 3,3651.; tenures, royalties, suits, and services, 475.; 340 quarters concealed, and found since this composition (at 10s. each), 160l. (sic). Also reserved to her Majesty, 312 horsemen and 1,386 foot men. IV. MAC'S and O's. "Names of all the Mackes and Ooes within the province of Connaught and Thomond," whose lands are to be comfirmed to them by letters patents in English succession, with small yearly rents. 41 Mac's and 26 O's. V. The LORDS and CHIEFTAINS of CONNAUGHT and THO- Where it hath pleased you to send hither Sir Nicholas White, From the province of Connaught, 27 September 1585. * Signed: W. Tuamen., Ulick Clanricard, D. Thomond, Sir Donnell O'Connor, Mack William, E. Athenry, Eugenius Achad.,† Eugenius electus Aladen.,‡ Thirlaugh O'Brien, Sir Brien O'Rorck, Sir Morough ne Doo, Knight, Margett Cusake, in the name of the young Baron of Inchequin, her son. Contemp. copies. Pp. 22. INSTRUCTIONS for SIR JOHN PERROT, LORD DEPUTY. Heads of Instructions for Secretary Fenton, to be communicated to the Deputy, for peopling Munster. Immediately on his return to Ireland, he is to communicate the design for the peopling of Munster to the Lord Deputy, who shall certify his own and the Council's opinion on the * William Lealy, Archbishop of Tuam. 1585. [Nov.or Dec?] 583. Vol. 632, p. 82. subject. Commissioners are to be appointed by him to repair to Munster, and take the evidence of those freeholders and copyholders whose lands, without any taint of disloyalty, are intermixed with the lands escheated to her Majesty. Mr. Smithes and Mr. Meaghe, Justice and Second Justice in Munster, are fit for this service. Such freeholders and copyholders as have good titles are to be reasonably compounded with, that no quarrel may ensue between them and the new settlers. A survey is also to be taken of freeholds and copyholds which have escheated to her Majesty for default of heirs, not yet taken by Sir Valentine Browne. The Commissioners are also to have power to inspect her Majesty's leases, and arrange for a composition. Special care is to be taken that no offence be given to the freeholders and lessees. No person to enjoy the custodiam of escheated lands, unless he accept the same with the conditions arranged in England. A survey is to be made of the escheated lands; and for this, besides her Majesty's Surveyor in Ireland, Mr. [Christopher] Payton, [Roger] Mannaringe, Thomas Wiseman, and Robins are fit to be employed. Orders are to be given to the Vice-President of Munster to appoint certain of the garrison there to attend on the said Commissioners for their security, so that before the end of this next summer places may be appointed for planting parishes according to the plott, and for demesne lands and house for the President of Munster, not exceeding 500 acres. The Deputy is also to consider what lands may be allotted to Patrick Condon, seneschal, and other principal persons of that province, who have been pardoned, without creating dissensions. Pp. 3. Endorsed by Carew, "November 1585." The QUEEN to LORD DEPUTY PERROT. We understand by your letters of 30 June that the Baron of Dungannon presented in Parliament a supplication for his place of Earl of Tyrone, and a petition for the lands of his grandfather in Ulster; and that you did yield him the place of the earldom by virtue of letters patents, but referred him to us respecting his lands and superiority in Ulster, by reason of the Act whereby Shane O'Neale was attainted, and the whole territories of Ulster were invested in us. He has since offered new articles for keeping a peace between him and his kinsmen. Cause inquisition to be made of the said lands, and thereupon devise (1) what parts of them should for their strength be kept in our possession, (2) what portions are meet for him to have, and (3) what portions may be by us limited "in some special state tail for the sons of Tirlough Lenough, and the sons of Shane O'Neale and of Henry McShane, and such others as have any colour of competitorship to the signority of the title of O'Neale;" the whole to be held of us in capite. 1585. Dec. 7. Vol. 608, p. 98a. Dec. 13. Vol. 611, p. 273. Vol. 613, p. 55. Vol. 611, p. 275. 584. 585. 586. He is to bear 200 soldiers. As he has had two wives, and children by them both, if the limitation be made to exclude his first children, as he desires, some controversy may hereafter grow. The articles by him offered for renouncing the usurped title of O'Neile, and the uriaghts, shall be comprised in a writing indented betwixt us and him. He offers to make consideration of such as be expectants in Tyrone of the title of O'Neile. We think it better for him to have that authority by grant from us. We understand divers ways of the good disposition of the said Earl to serve us. Undated. Copy. Pp. 41. The QUEEN to the LORD DEPUTY (PERROT). Commission to take the surrender of O'Molloye, chief of his nation, and sundry other loyal subjects of Ireland, regranting their lands, liberties, &c. on English tenures. "Given under our sign manual.” Dated in the margin, " November 1585;" but in Morrin's The QUEEN to the LORD CHANCELLOR and OTHERS. Where by our commission dated 4 November 1583 we authorized you to hear and determine the accompts of the Vice-Treasurer, &c., and to call Sir Henry Wallop before you; and whereas by another later commission, dated 19 August in our 26th year, we enlarged the time of the said accompts; we now prolong our said commissions till 30 September last, in our 27th year. Manor of Richmond, 13 December 1585, 28 Eliz. Addressed to the Archbishop of Dublin, Chancellor, the Chief Justices of the Queen's Bench and Common Pleas, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Master of the Rolls, Auditor, and Surveyor. Copy. Pp. 2. 2. Another copy. The QUEEN to the LORD CHANCELLOR and OTHERS. Whereas in our former commissions of 4 Nov., 25 Eliz., 19 August, 26 Eliz., and 13 December, 28 Eliz., the Clerk of our Hanaper, the Clerk of our Twentieth Parts and First Fruits, the Clerk of our Castle Chamber, the Clerk to our High Commissioners in Causes Ecclesiastical, the Clerk of our Fines under our presidents or governors of our provinces, the Clerk or Collectors of Casualties, and such like are not comprised and specified; we now authorize you to call before you all the said accomptants, and to hear and determine their accompts. |