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or barren heath, converted into good ground, should y* Queenes Ma‘ de- 
mand one farthing or halfpenny per Acre of Sir Walter Ralegh for the 
improved land. } 
‘In Witness whereof the said Pties to theis Pnt Indentures, inter- 
chaungablie have putt their hands and Seales, Yroven the day and 
yeare first above written (Anno Dni) 1588. 
‘W. Ratetex.” 
—From the original lease, copied by S. H. 
The manor of Inchiquin is now the property of Lord Ponsonby, and 
among his Lordship’s muniments is the copy of a subsequent lease of 
Sir Walter Raleigh’s, of another part of the manor, in which the rights 
of the Old Countess are equally recognized, but with the same implied 
certainty that her life was not to extend beyond, A.D. 1593, if indeed 
so long. 
«This indenture, made the 1st day of February, in the one-and-thir- 
tieth year* of the reign of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth, by the grace 
of God, Queen of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, 
&c, Between the Honorable Sir Walter Ralegh, Knight, Lord Warden 
of the Stannaries in the counties of Devon and Cornewell, one of the 
principall undertakers with Her Majestie, for the repeoplemg and in- 
habitinge escheated lands in the counties of Corke and Waterford, in the 
province of Munster, in Her Highnes realme of Ireland of the one partie, 
and Robert Reve of Bury Sainte Edmonds in the countie of Suff. gen- 
tleman, and Alice his wife of the other partie witnesseth, that the said 
Sir Walter Ralegh, &c., &c., &c., dothe give, grant, enfeoffe, and con- 
firme unto the said Robert Reve and Alice his wife, all and singular the 
lands, tenements, and hereditaments whatsoever, called and knowne by 
the name of the Plougheland of Coullye Ffoina, within the barony of 
Inchequyn Ralegh in the countie of Corke aforesaide. And also if there 
be not 400 acres of arable grounde in Coullye Ffoina aforesaid, (the said 
400 acres to bemeasured by the standard of England),then the said Sir Wal- 
ter Ralegh hath given &c., &c., to the said Robert Reve and Alice his 
wife, so many acres of arrable grounde next adjoining, either in Cloyne, 
Ardes, or in Poull Moore, &c., &c., as shall make up the full number of 
400 acres, &c., &c., &e. To have and to holde &c., &c., to the only use 
and behoofe of the said Robert Reve and Alice his wife, their heirs and 
assigns for ever, &c., &c., &c. Yieldinge and paying therefore yearly 
from and after the decease of y° Lady Cattelyn oulde Countess Dow- 
ager of Desmond, Widdoue, and from and after the end of the year of 
our Lord God, which shall be one thousand ffive hundred ffourscore and 
nyne, untill the end of the year of our Lord God, which shall be, one 
thousand ffive hundred and ffourscore and thirteen, five pounds of law- 
ful money of England, at two feasts or termes in the year, that is to 
saie, at the feasts of Sainte Michael the Archaungell, and the Annun- 
ciation of our Lady Sainte Mary the Virgin by even and equal portions, 
the first paymente thereof to begin at either of the said feasts, which of 
* 1589. 
