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on the east end of this Towne is [buryed the erased?^ a Franciscan Fryerie 

 built by the Ld John Verdon in King Henry the thirds reigne here was the 

 fayrest east windowe for the Curiositie of the worke in all this Kiugdome 



Here is another Priorie of the Crutched Fryers called S' Leonards 

 under the rule of S* Augustine to which belonged great endown's built by 

 Nicholas De Verdon Ld thereof saye others by Bertram de Verdon Ld of 

 Dundalke [4] Here is a Fayre Castle & house about an English niyle 

 westward of this Towne called Castletowne belonging for severall hundreds 

 of yeares past to S"^ John Bellewes auncestor which came to them together 

 with auncient Manners of the Eoatch by intermarriage with the heresse of 

 the sd Verdone fi-om a great Mount neere this Castle called Dundalgan the 

 Towne of Dundalke takes its name all about this Towne of Dundalke is good 

 Lands as any in this Kingdome^ 



The Fagher Church upon the confines of the Countie of Ardmagh remark- 

 able for the Scotch Kings buryall onelie 



Ballymascanlane Castle 



Belonging the right Ho^'" the Ld Moore Earle of Droghedah but formerlie 

 to the 6 Neyles Earles of Tyrone 



The Towne & Borrough of Carlingford from which the Earle of Carling- 

 ford Ld vise' Taaffe of Correu is dignified where a Corporation though 

 inhabited but with few fishermen it hath a large Castle therein in former 

 time a Constableship belonging to the Crowne & -likewise here was at 

 Carlingford a Dominican Priorie built by the Earles of Ulster (Ware) 



[5J Here is a verie fayre & large harbour for shippinge & great plenty of 



all sea tish 



Here 



betweene Dundalke for about Twelve luyles a small brooke or vayle of verie 



fine Land but towards the Counties of Downs & Ardmagh mightie 



mountaynes 



The Barony of Ardee als Atherdee or De Atrio' Dei. 



A \sw\ where there were many good houses & Castles & the 



coi;poration ■- -" •' ° 



ruines of a verie large Church with the ruines of great walls & mightie Comons 



belonging to this Towne Here was a Frierie of the Crutched Fryers built by 



the Ld Eoger Pipard of Atherdee' in Anno 1207/ 



' From "all about " to " Kingdome " sijueezed in as an afterthought. 



-From " likewise " the end of this paragraph added in the margin. 



^ Downing seems to have written " Atrico " tirst and then corrected it. 



^ These words, of Atherdee, in the niartjiu. 



■'Downing wrote originally "a Frierie of the Carmelites built by the Ld Roger 

 Pipard in King Edward the first his reigne " and then altered the passage to the form 

 given above, drawing a line through the superseded words. 



