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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 th 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 as a 

 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 r grace may bee 

 pleased to writ w l . h the first post for my releasment & full res- 

 titution of all taken from me to appeare before yo r own selfes 

 grace to speake mout to mout, Avhich graunted I will conti- 

 nually pray for yo r graces prosperity whose servant I remaine 



George Couan 



Ardmagh the 19 lh of 

 Oct. 1680. 



Here I send yo r grace a panegyricall poem ; respect the poet 



Dm beca a Sfrnuip buclefp, 

 a puipe cpean line na nspdp, 

 o Oo gemioO mbpomn Oo macap 

 Oia Gcaip pioc gup an loir. 



peap lonao an piog a nBipmn, 

 re linn co^aiS agup pfo&, 

 Oa ecu 5 na cioOlaicceao m6pa 

 Cpiopc, copa omnne bee paoi. 



TTlac dgmup bioconca Culu&, 

 mo na cu-Ulu6 Neill iii6ip, 

 peap paupca na ccuig ccuiseao, 

 puspao Oeacaip molaD c6ip. 



