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were continued down to the year 1608, when Father Bernardin 



O'Clery was for the second time elected Guardian. 



" Brother Michael O'Clery above mentioned, Cucogry O'Clery, 



and Conary O'Clery, have been the transcribers of the Annals from 



1832 to 1608. The books from which they transcribed have been 

 the greater part of O'Maolconary's book ending with the year 1505. 

 The book of the O'Duigenans, aforesaid, from the year 900 to 1563. 

 The book of Senate Mac Magnus ending with 1532; a part also of 

 the book of Cucogry, the son of Dermod O'Clery, from the year 1281 

 to 1537. The book likewise of Maohn og Mac Bruodin from the 

 year 1588 to 1603 ; the book moreover of Lugad O'Clery from 

 1586 to 1602. All those books we have seen in the hands of the 

 antiquaries, who have been the compilers of the present work, toge- 

 ther with other documents too many to be mentioned. — In proof of 

 what we have here set forth, we have hereunto annexed our manual 

 signatures in the Convent of Dunagall, August the 10th, 1636. 



Signed " Bernardinus O'Clery, Guardianus, Dungallensis. 

 " Brother Maurice Dunlevy, ^c. 8fc'' 



Before we proceed further, let us reflect for a moment on the 

 matter furnished by those interesting documents, to which the wri- 

 ters were so anxious to give all possible durability. How prophetic 

 were the just apprehensions of that chief compiler, " that if the work 

 were then neglected, or consigned to a future time, a risk might be 

 run that the materials for it should never again be brought together." 

 Such, indeed, would have been the sad result. Those fearful pre- 

 dictions were made on the very eve of that awful rebellion which 

 caused a revolution of property, and an extent of human affliction, 

 such, perhaps, as no other country ever experienced. In that un- 



