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IV. 



Translation. — Acknowledgment of Debts, Sfc. — No date.* 



•f Mac Conmara. 



These are the debts due unto the children of John Mac Conmara 

 by the children of Conmara Mac Donald, i. e. by Teige and Conor 

 Mac Namara Mac Donald, viz. Eleven cows of Eric. Donald 

 Roe Mac Shane Mac Conmara and Teige of Buaile brought 

 those debts on the children of Conor Mac Aodha ; and Conor 

 Mac Donald is to raise eleven ounces-f- of the Eric of Donald 



* The following extract may fix the date of this instrument. — In 1374. Comar Mac Conmarre, 

 captain of his nation, petitioned the L. L. and council, and set forth, that when O'Breen 

 Tothomond, the King's Irish enemy and rebel, had lately fought against John Mac Conmarre his 

 Jather, now deceased, because he and his men were faithful leige subjects, wasted his lands, the 

 County of Limerick and the adjacent parts, he the said Comar, after his father's death, raised 

 400 defensible men to fight O'Breen, and restrain his intended mischief, whom at his own charge 

 he had kept from Christmas last, whereby the faithful people of those parts were much com- 

 forted, and better enabled to restrain O'Breen ; but would not be able to keep his said retinue 

 longer, without some aid from the king, or oppose O'Breen for the future. And this statement 

 being affirmed by the Earl of Ormond, the mayor and bailiffs of Limerick, and other credible 

 people of those parts, before the council, and that the adjacent country would have been destroyed 

 and wasted by O'Breen if the said Comar had not opposed him — the King (Edw. III.) by advice 



of the council, directed fifty marks to be paid him, taking his receipt Kilkenny, 7 May 1374. — 



Rot. Claus. 48. E. III. f. r. 5. 



"The chieftains of the Sept of Macnamara were afterwards distinguished by the title " Reagh." 

 In the composition agreed on between the Lord Deputy, Perrott, and the lords, chieftains, gentr}', 

 freeholders and inhabitants of Thomond, at Innishe 17 August 1585, Donall reogh Mac 

 Nemarrie, for his better maintenanpe of living, was to hold and enjoy for ever the castle of Gar- 

 voragh and several lands ; but at his death all rights, duties and customs claimed to be belonging 

 to the name of Mac Nemarrie reogh, in consideration that the same is but extorted, should be 

 utterly extinguished and determined for ever. — Orig. Record. 



f The ounce like the pound, was a standard of value. In the instance before us the eleven 

 ounces appear to have formed part of the eleven cows Eric. It will be seen by Nos. XIV. and 



