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to have in the same maner halfe a quarter of the said land, ex- 

 cepting the fifth parte, and that the said John shall have tenne 

 groates* rent accreweing unto him out of the said lands, over and 

 above the said morthgage ; and that the said Mahon and his sonnes 

 or the survivor shall have the said three and twentie cowes paid un- 

 to them att the time of redemption in one whole and entire paiment, 

 and the redemption to be made att the Baw^on of Culreagh, by 

 Mid-Somer. Alsoe Couen and Mahon having come a while after, 

 receaved fouer cowes for the said tenne groates ; and the paiment 

 given them in Hew of the said fouer cowes was a milch-cowe and a 

 stood mare, and the same to be repaid att once with the rest of the 

 said morthgage : and if there be anie challenge or trouble come upon 

 Durah aforesaid in the behalf of John Mac Roery and his children, 

 Cluonachoir is to stand in Morlhgage insteed of the same, and alsoe 

 fouer cowes more upon the said Donnogh Mac Vic Con Mac Owen 

 his share, as morthgage ; and it is covenanted betweene the said 

 Mahon for himself and his posteritie that the said Conor shall not 

 give power of redemption in the said land or in anie other land, unto 

 anie other personne, unless they be able to redeeme the same them- 

 selves, but the same land to stand allwaies in morthgage as aforesaid : 

 and another parte of the said covenant is, that if it shall chance the 

 said land to be charged with anie Borowa,-f vlt. O'Brien's rent, that 



•" Tenne groates." In the original " I7?«^e" an ounce. There were several kimls of groats 

 current in Ireland — I. Broad-faced groats minted for 4:c/. but worth 8d — 2. Cross-keale groats 

 stamped with the Pope's treble crown. — 3. Dominus groats, coined by such English kings 



as stiled themselves lords of Ireland — Rex groats by Hen. VIII. and Edw. VI White groats of 



so base an alloy that nine were but the value of a shilling. 



f Boromha Laighean, was a tribute of cattle, laid on the king and people of Leinster by 

 k. Tuathal Teachtmar about the year of Christ, 134', which was remitted by Finacht the 

 Hospitable, A. D. 693, at the intercession of St. Moling. It was afterwards exacted by K. Bryen 

 in the eleventh century ; from whence he got the name of Boruma. It was so called from 

 It an ox or cow, as it consisted chiefly in cattle Harris. Ware's Antiquities. Vol. I. 



