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fore in this roll the highest legal evidence that, fourteen years subsequent 
to its date, the existing validity of Cleaver’s lease, preserving the old 
Countess’s rights, is stipulated by Sir W. R. who sells, and recognized 
by Mr. Boyle, who purchases the property ; and that Mr. Boyle enrolled 
his purchase in 16038, the new King, James I., being then on the throne, 
whose ministers (the same persons, be it remembered, who were Queen 
Elizabeth’s) are assumed by the Earl of Leicester’s followers, ‘‘ to have 
overlooked the old jointuress of seventy years’ possession, and in issuing 
the new patent to have ignored the poor old widow;” they themselves 
overlooking and ignoring that, so late as 1589, on their own shewing, 
these very ministers had admitted the Countess Kathrin’s legal possession 
of the jointure lande. 
From “Memoirs of the illustrious Family of the Boyles, Dublin, 1754.” 
Pages 13 and 14. 
The Lord President of Munster, Sir George Carey (Carew), after the 
' taking of Beer Haven Castle from the Spaniards, “‘ told Mr. Boyle that 
he resolved to send him into England, to obtain leave from her Majesty 
that he himself might repair to her royal presence, and give her a full 
account of the posture of her affairs in Ireland. At the same time he 
advised him to buy all Sir Walter Raleigh’s lands in Munster, and 
offered to befriend him in the purchase. Accordingly, when he dis- 
patch’d him for England, he sent two letters by him: one of these was 
directed to Sir Robert Cecill, Secretary of State, in which he gave a 
very advantageous account of Mr. Boyle’s great abilities, and of the 
services he had done his country ; in consideration of which, he desired 
the Secretary would introduce him to Sir Walter Raleigh, and recom- 
mend him to that great man, as a proper purchaser for all his lands in 
Ireland, if he was disposed to part with them. The Lord President’s 
other letter was directed to Sir Walter himself, acquainting him that 
the bearer, Mr. Boyle, was a person capable of purchasing all his estate 
in Ireland, which he presumed he would be glad to dispose of, since the 
management of it in those troublesome times gave him a great deal of 
trouble, and the income it produced was very inconsiderable. These 
letters occasioned a meeting between Sir Robert Cecill, Sir Walter © 
Raleigh, and Mr. Boyle ; at which the two last, by the mediation of the 
first, soon struck up a bargain, and proper conveyances were executed 
between them. These lands, though they had yielded but little to Sir 
Walter Raleigh, became soon after (when the war in Ireland was fully 
ended) a very noble estate to Mr. Boyle, who had purchased them. 
‘ And this (says he in his Memoirs, when he was Earl of Cork) was a 
third addition and rise to my estate.’”’ ~ 
From Calendar Irish Patent Rolls, James I., page 41, 10 May 2nd [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, Sir 
Richard paying the King the two sums of £500, which he was to have 
