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doth all mischief & intends mor & more, a most dangerous 
man, that keepes Tories of his owne name about him in woods 
& mountaines to assist him : Cominge of late from the County 
of Louth to the County of Ardmagh to dispose of my bookes 
& dispatch myself out of this Kingdome upon occasion of con- 
tention I had w'* these rebellious sperits, I was betraid by 
them as a tory to one William Hammilton of Kinderd who 
apprehended mee layinge sicke, tooke away all my bookes, 
charges & horse & committed my selfe findinge that in other 
countries I have been a Regular priest, though I lived as a 
secular priest in Ireland, albeit hee knew I was betraid asa 
thory by the kinges enemyes of envy & hatred & sett purpose 
to represse & hinder my evidence in the Kinges behalfe against 
_ them & such like. 
Wherefore my earnest request is that yo' grace may bee 
pleased to writ w" the first post for my releasment & full res- 
titution of all taken from me to appeare before yo" own selfes 
grace to speake mout to mout, which graunted I will conti- 
nually pray for yo' graces prosperity whose servant I remaine 
Georce Copan 
Ardmagh the 19'4 of 
Oct. 1680. 
Here I send yo grace a panegyricall poem ; respect the poet 
Oia beta a Stmuip bucleip, 
a pulpe Tpean thic na ngpdp, 
0 00 SemM100 mbpomn vo thatap 
. o1a Géain moc sup an ldp. 
Feap 1onad an prog a n€ipinn, 
pe linn cogaid agup piod, 
oa ttUs Na Tioodlaiccead mépa 
Cmopc, copa ounne bes pao. 
Mac déémun bioconca Tulud, 
mo na cu-Ulwd Neill théip, 
Feap poiunca na ccurg ccuigzead, 
Pugspad oeacaip molad comp. 
