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Deed of Appointment hy Mac Carthy More.* A. D. 1584. 



To all men greeting. — Where Teige Mac Carthy, formerly Mac 

 Carthy More, aliasTeige naManistraghe, granted to Cathal O'Rourke 

 and his heirs, in consideration of the said Cathal being overseere in 

 buildinge or repairing, partlie at his own chardges, the weire on the 

 river Laune, adjoining Lough-leine (^Ki Harney^ in Dheas-Mumhain 



• The following curious document taken from the patent roll, 13 Eliz. (1571,) presents 



« striking contrast to the above Milesian grant " The most humble submission of the 



unworthy and most unnatural Earl of Clancaliir otherwise called Mac Carthy More, unto the 

 Right Honorable Sir Henry Sidney knight. — I the most unworthy and unnatural Earl of Clan- 

 cahir, with inward sorrow of mind and most hearty repentance, calling to mind the great bene- 

 fits and exceeding bounty I have in sundry sorts received from the Queen's most excellent Ma- 

 jesty, and the place of honor and pre-eminence I have been most unworthily called unto by her 

 Majesty, far greater than ever I, accursed creature, have or can deserve, or that any of mine 

 ancestors heretofore have had, which, with bitter tears and compunction of mind I most humbly 

 do confess, do so much the more aggravate the heinousness of mine offences, and heaps more 

 abundantly her Majesty's most just indignation against me, do most humbly acknowledge and 

 confess before you, my dear Lord and Governor, and this honorable Table, that being seduced 

 by that most perverse rebel, James Fitz-Morris and other of the Geraldynes his associates, upon 

 a false pretence to have a parley with me, and to conclude a friendship betwixt the said James 

 and Mr. Richard Grenville, then sheriff of the county of Cork, which when it took effect, I, 

 forgetting my duty to Almighty God and obedience to her Majesty, was, by subtle intice- 

 ments and most wicked persuasions, induced and brought to take an unadvised and rash oath ; 

 which done, I consequently entered into that fury and madness of unnatural rebellion against 

 my most gracious Sovereign, combining myself both with Sir Edmund Butler, and with all the 

 rest of the principal rebels in Ireland, wherein, in sundry degrees, I have disloyally swerved and 

 declined from my allegiance to her Highness, by raising traiterously her Majesty's subjects 

 against her Highness's peace and laws, besieging her towns, shamefully murdering and destroy- 

 ing her subjects, burning her houses and castles, and besides have committed, since my entry 

 into that my disobedience, sundry grievous offences, and heinous and detestable treasons, de- 

 gerving extreme punishment and sharp correction : which my heinous misdemeanors as I neither 



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