uersing in which y" cannot learne but bad manners; when y' happen to fancie keeping companie, let yt be with the good, in which company y" will learne distance and maners, and y" will make ym y' friendes on all occasions that may hapen; be not ouer free to spend, for y' wd render y" unworthy of getting thankes, for y' spending it wd be attributed to y' follie and drinking disposition; when you hapen in good companie doe and pay as they doe, or keepe noe company in case y' money be wanting; be not ouer silent or any ways over talkative; study y' words before y" speake, if y" finde y' companie pinious, and ouermuch inclined to stay and drink; after paying y' share, take leave, or steale y way home, wch is a jentile and prudent way. Now, son, after this I aduise y not to be any way profuse in y' house, nor any way a nigard; consider wy have to spend what of yt after paying y' due y" can have to spare; doe not go according to y' own reason, or give the same any libertie, but rather observe y way & rule the happy and wise will & doe follow; spare & spend according to y substance; prove not base or penurious, doe all in a gentile maner, & doe y' wisely as God will enable you.

If som poor friendes will leane on y", give what money, corne, or clothes y can to such, & give noe way to make a hospitall of y' house for them, which is a greate ease & adauntage to y" & to ye other, he will improue what y" will give him, & yu will be at the less trouble and charges, keepe no seruants, but such as y" will pay a certainty; if y" keepe them, y" will repent it; be sure to haue a care & a greate care to serue the verie (very) poore in spirit. I had little care of lustie people yt make a trade of beging, & be sure to have a care of sharpers, and of those y' may promise to be much y' friends, they are dangerous. I found out many of them y" must not ouermuch trust any; the disposition of many people is dangerous, let not theire fayre words deceive y", specially if they can get by y" any way the advantage, they expect to get by wronging your suplies & fills up, and stops the way of honestie in y; this is theire bad rule, but in great use with spiring people.

This warning I give y" that y" may haue a care, but without friendes y cannot doe well; y" will studie and know who y" can trust; make known y enemie, & fawne not ouermuch; be verie civill to all & complesant, but be not a slaue or vassall, but as little as y" can; give due respects; be not capacious or sharp be of affable smileing countenance; discreetly make fine iokes [jokes], and laudable pranks; read good bookes; be formal in y' prayers, remember noe good is but from God, & that he neuer fayles such as pue [prove] true to him; there is nothing bad but from the deuill [devil]; serue God, & y" will not want any; he promised it, and be sure he will perform it; let noe coruptions lodge in y"; keepe a cleere way & conscience, & y' mind will be still.

DERMOT OGE CLORAN, 1694.

DERMOT OGE'S NOTES FOR O'SHAUGHNESSY, MAY, 1698.

My notes, memorandums, and advise to Wm. O'Shaughnussye, alias O'Shaughnussye of Gortinsigory, who is now under the command of the K. of France.

Y". have heard how y'. mother disposed of herselfe in marriage, soe that I will write nothing of y'. subiect [subject]; y". will casilie understand how y'. Estate was disposed, to whome and by whome destroyed. I am sorry y'. father did not stay under y°. command of the Cheefe of Conoght, as his parents did in all war times; if he had, his estate w. be saved as well as theires. Y'. ancestors continued in poperitie as long as any of Irish blood, as old books ean testifie—the ill management of y'. parents or bad fortune destroyed allyour God can mende it when he pleaseth.

Your patent is recorded in Dublin, by which y". can understand y'. right in K. Charles, his time. There is som more lands belonging to y". that is not in y'. patent, which are fractions that I placed deficincies on, viz., Loghcutra, one att as more at large y". will finde in ye quit-rent booke in y'. father's name; those fractions are in som other man's patent to y'. father's use, and saued [saved] to him, which may be knowen by ye papers and instrttson left in Mr. Donovan's custody.

I think them fractions are in Brine Killkellye's patent; all that is in y'. pattent belongs to y". as heir to y'. father onely, y'. Unchle Charles, his lands y'. y. Grandfather gave him, in mortgage of three hundred, seventy-fivepounds; the lands he hath is Killaglis, Cappamore, and three quarters of Behagh; the mill and garden is excepted, as his deedes more at large declares; the 24t, at Sessee, belongs really to Connor Reagh O'Shaghnussie-the 38t. in Clonine belongs to Mathew Geagin, by will of his Grandfather Anthony, in jointure of Clonine; both Connor and Mathew puayled [prevailed] with y'. father to put ym. too parcells in his patent, which he did; they paid him theire pportion of charges and costs of pattent; they haue som notes from yr. father, declaring ym. parcells to be theires, and that the paid the s. costs of Court; and the so. pattent, the two quarters and halfe of Lissine, parte of Ballynamond belongs to me, my heires males, according to my deedes from y'. grandfather and father, paying fiue pounds per annum, and other dueties mensoned in my said deedes, it was the ancient estate of my forefathers before yo. yeare 1628. Sir Roger sued all the old pprietors of Kinalea [the tribe of Hugh] to take all their lands they withstood him-they in y'. time were to pay him a mark [13. 4.] a year cheefrey; my grandfather to auoyde [avoid] law, agreed to pay forty shillings a year to Sir Roger, and Sir Dermot gaue my father a bond, that when Sir Roger would dye, my father and his heires should pay but a mark a year, which bond I haue amongst my old papers; yet I made a new agreement with Sir Dermott and y'. father, to pay forty shillings a year, with other duties mensoned in my deede; from them there is a saucing to Charles in y'. patent; there is another sauing in the patent for all those y'. derieus theire title from yr. father, which is put purposely to saue as well my interest at Lissine, as alsoe Connor Reagh's and Mathew Gegin's interest in the aforsaid parcels; y'. mother haue [have] a joynture of twelve quarters of land mensoned [mentioned] in the deede of intermariage, which I will name hereafter. She sayes y'. deede allows her to dispose of ym. to whom she

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pleases soeuer [soever]; if such a thing be in the deede, it is by a mistake, and for want of taking care to examen y. deede by a good layer [lawyer] Marcus Lynch was ye. layer intrusted by Sir Dermott and my Lord of Clare to draw ye. deede. I stood by yo. drawing of y. same, but could not take notice of yt. disadvantage, and I am sure there was no intenson [intention] to doe or giue [give] y'. mother any more y". [than] a ioynture [jointure] dureing [during] her life, as was usuale for yo. like of her. I will not believe that Marcus Lynch would play such knavery, but rather believe, if such words be in the deede, yt. it is through his mistake. Sir Dermott was soe confident of himself, he would not believe he wd. put any such disadvantage willingly in y'. deede; he was knowen to be a uery [very] good layer, and there was noe intenson on any one to make any more for y'. mother then [than] a bare ioynture, as other women usually haue; the porson [portion] promised y'. father was eight hundred pounds; he got but three hundred of that in cattle, double ualued [valued] for the rest, interest and all amounting to a thousand pound, besides cost of court; there's Statute staples recording in Lim*. the lands of Carighoulta, &c., in ye. same; y'. father sued for y. possession of y". but did not follow it as reel [real] as he ought so; y'. after all his orders were not taken out for want of money; all this M'. Jeremiah Donouan [Donovan] knowes, and it may be found on recorde in Dublin.

If occasion may serve yt. y". would willingly know what estate Sir Roger had in the year 1641, you may finde it in the clayme of Sir Dermott hath intered in the Court in Athlone (1652), and in the Court in Dublin after the King's restoration, year 1662 or 1663.

There be a copie of them y'. mother's hands, if they be kept for you; there are severall notes and coppies of the kinde in my chest, which I hope y". will see; I would wish I could show ym. to y". myselfe, and instruct y". in y"., as your grandfather instructed me; besides, I am sure there is not one liuing y'. knowes yt. concerne better y". I doe, being yo. onely one that had yo. management of it since King Charles, his restoration, till your father dyed the 11th of July, 1690, after the breach of the Boyne; he was not in y'. fight, but som myles from it; he never recouered his health since he received your letter of som misussage you got in France.

Your father's will was not in any right forme drawen by him-it was not proued in any Eclesiasticall Court. Your father had seuerall mortgages on lands hereafter mensoned, that is to say on

The 47 acres of land belonging to Edmond Oge Burke at Ballynakilty, the sum of £; on the 66 acres of Bryan O'Bryan, in Ballinakelly, the sum of £- ; on Gortogan and Maghony, the sum of £; on the 47 acres belonging to Dermott Tully, at Ravillydoon and Goortooher, the sum of £15.

Walter Taylor, Esq., bought from Frederick Trench, Esq., the forty acres of Killofine, and the 22 acres of Carubreeda, and sould y. to y'. father for twenty shillings per acre, which I paid Mr. Taylor; he gave onely a bond

obligeing himselfe to pass a conveyance at y'. father's request of ym. lands, in which bond he ownes to have received y. money for ye. said land; but he entered on the same in King William, his time, known opposeing him; the bond y'. father had of that I haue.

William M'Shane's 20 acres is past to your father by mortgage for the sum of £

There is a bond due to y'. father on Mathew Geagin, for the payment of £ sterling. The design was to admo'. to that, and have it as mortgage on the said Mathew's land; it was not to covet his land, but to secure it, the possessiors being disposing of it to others.

These mortgages I was by command of y. Judge of Assize, in the year 1696, forced to diliver ye. Judge, onely the bond that your father had from Walter Taylor for Killafine aforesaid; and ye. 22 acres at Caubiseda, which I, at the request of Mr. Taylor, kept, the rather that he w. doe me prejudice if I had not complyed with him; he has nothing to doe with it, and that bond aforesaid is in my chest; he was never in possession of it till by the aforesaid way he intered on it in K. William's time.

It was after the Court of Claims in K. Charles, his time, granted with other lands to Sir Arthur Upton-he gave it to Paul Brasier. Paul set it for twentyone years to Dono. McNamara, which was in trust for y'. Grandfather; before the twenty-one years was expired, Walter Taylor bought it from the assignee of Brazier (ffrederick Trench), at which buying y'. father was in possession of it by virtue of the lease from Upton.

Y'. father bought the said two parcells from Mr. Taylor for 208. per acre, being 62 acres for £62. I paid the money to him at Bally McCrath, tooke onely his bond to sign, and pass a deede of it at your father's will and plesaure, in which bond he acknowledges to have rec. the said £62 for the considerason aforesaid.

Mr. Taylor bought other lands from Trench along with the sd. 62 acres; that is, Carecarra 104 acres, and Ensy 44 acres; before he bought, he promised O'Shaghnussy Killafine, Carubessidy, at the rates aforesaid; and promised Ensy to Mr. Martin, and did perform it to each. Mr. Martin was wise to get his deede-O'Shaughnessy did not matter it, he thought the bond was enogh-he ordered me to draw yo. deede, which I neglected. Mr. Taylor, taking advantage of the time, and believing it easie for him, inters on Killofine. I contested with him, because I wd. not have him inter on O'Shaghnussy's land that I paid him for it, and yt. I expected would be restored some time to O'S. Mr. Walter Taylor tould me that he never passed deede for it to O'S.; that he would have the land; that the worst wd. be to sue him the sd. Walter Taylor for the contents of the bonddispayre [despair] made me hould my tongue, and so lies y'. case.

You may understand that y'. father's porson was onely £800-y'. of y'. £300 was p'. in cattle, soe that £500 was resting due, which £500 was unpaid or som time, getting noe interest out of the same; y'. father sued both

for the s. £500 and the interest; my Lord of Clare prevayled with y'. father in March, 1673, to give him time for som years for the payment of that money and interest, which, if he had not paid y". [then], he promised not onely the said sums, but interest for the time of yt. forbearance, and for all the time it w". be unpaid-on this account my Lord of Clare gave a Statute staple of £1,000 to y'. father, recorded in Limerick by the Mayor of the staple there by which Statute and the deedes y". [then] signed, my Lord Clare assigned and named severall lands about Carigholta to y'. father.

Now the case is, as I understand, that all your father's right and interest is granted Sir Thomas Prendergast, for his good service in discovering the haynous, murthering plot against K. W., that the s". Sir Thomas discovered that my Lord of Clare owed as aforesaid, £1,000 to your father; he prevayled with your mother to let him have the said deedes, for which he paid your mother and her husband pounds.

DERMOTT OGE CLORAN.

[The Jeremiah O'Donevan referred to twice by the painstaking Dermot Oge was M. P. for the borough of Doneraile, in the county of Cork, in King James's Irish Parliament, assembled at Dublin in 1689, which, by the way, was the subject of the Litany of Doneraile, by Patrick O'Kelly, Esq., more commonly known as the Curse of Doneraile.]

but is

THE TREATY OF GALWAY IN 1691.

The Articles of Galloway as they were confirmed afterwards by their Majesties.

Gulielmus et Maria Dei Gratia Angliæ Scotia Franciæ et Hiberniæ Rex et Regina Fidei Defensores, &c., Omnibus ad quos præsentes Litera Nostræ pervenirint salutem: Inspeximus Irrotulamentum quarandum Literarum patentium de confirmatione gerenda et apud Westmonalterium decimo septimo die Februarii ultimo præterito in Curia Cancelaria Nostra Irrotulata ac ibidem Recordo Remanente in hæc verba :

William and Mary by the grace of God, &c. To all to whom these presents shall come greeting. Whereas certain Articles bearing date the one and twentieth day of July last past were made and agreed upon by our trusty and wellbeloved Godert Baron de Ginckell, Lieutenant-General and Commander-inChief of Our Forces in Our kingdom of Ireland, and the Constable and Governor of our Town of Galway in our said Kingdom, Whereby our said General promises that we should ratify these Capitulations within the space of three months from the date thereof or sooner, The Tenor of which said Articles is as followeth, viz. :—