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pose that any lawyer would admit the Earl of Leicester’s gossep to be 
worth a moment’s consideration. 
Be that as it may, Sir Walter Raleigh’s lease to John Cleaver, 
and the lease to Robert Reve, clearly establish that the Countess 
then held her jointure by public acknowleged legal right, and not by 
sufferance or generosity. Her life-interest in the lands let by Raleigh to 
Cleaver and Reve are equally recognized by the lessor and the lessee, the 
_ landlord requiring, and the tenants engaging, to pay double rent, and to 
furnish and maintain a light-horseman after the decease of the old 
Countess Cattelyn, which we may fairly presume was considered by 
both parties equivalent to the interest which the Countess had in these 
lands: therefore, whenever Mr. Boyle purchased Sir Walter Raleigh’s 
estates, he took them subject to this lease; and there is not the slightest 
_ shadow of evidence (supposing the Countess ‘was then living) that he 
made any attempt to disturb what these papers prove was her acknow- 
ledged legal rights; for this supposed eviction is only another of the as- 
sumptions to support Lord Leycester’s gossip; but if Mr. Boyle hadmade . 
the attempt, he would have been also resisted by the London tenant, 
Mr. Cleaver, who had a beneficial interest in the continuance of her life- 
interest, and, being close’ to the English court, was not a person to be 
injured with impunity. 
From ‘‘ Catenpar oF State Papers, Domestic Serres, James I. 1603- 
1610.” London, 1857. 
Page 146.— Release to Richard Boyle for a payment of a debt of £1000 
for Sir Walter Raleigh, 1604, Aug‘ 26.—[ Ind. W. & B. H.], page 41. 
—Calendar of Irish Patent Rolls, James 1%, page 41, 10% May, 2"¢ 
[year of reign, 1604].—Grant from the King to Sir Richard 
Boyle, Kt. 
This is a confirmation of Sir Walter Raleigh’s deed of sale of his 
Trish estates to R* Boyle, Esq” for £1500; of which £500 was paid 
beforehand, £500 was to be paid at Michaelmas, 1603, and £500 to be 
paid at Easter, 1604; but Sir Walter being (justly or otherwise) at- 
tainted for treason against James I., Sir Richard Boyle, as we see, 
paid the two sums of £500 to the Crown, and very wisely got a grant 
of his purchase direct from the King. This grant commences with the 
barony, manor, and castle of Inchiquin; and among the denominations 
is that of ‘‘ Cooly-Clough-Finnagh,” clearly the land let by Sir W. R. 
to Mr. Cleaver, shewing that it was part of the old Countess Kathrin’s 
jointure-lands. 
In the enrolment of Sir Walter Raleigh’s sale of his Irish estates to 
Richard Boyle, Esq., Rot. Pat. 1°, James I., p. 87-38, is a schedule an- 
nexed of all the leases granted by Sir W. R., 33 in number; the first 
dated 18th February, 30th Eliz. (1588), the last 27 May, 40th Eliz. 
(1598). The fourth lease in date is ‘‘ To John Cleaver, gent., a plough- 
land called Coolid Clofyma, and other lands, 21st July, 30th Eliz.” The 
deed of sale is dated 7th December, 1602, 45th Eliz. We have there- 
