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shall submit to pay whatever is decided upon by Mortogh 

 Mac Egan, or whoever may be the Brehon at the time, &c." 



The original of this deed, vphich is in Irish, is in the pos- 

 session of Sir Richard Nagle, the lineal representative of 

 Mac Geoghegan, who has kindly permitted a copy of it to 

 be taken and deposited in the Library of the Academy. 



The great body of the document is uninjured and legible; 

 the only imperfection which occurs is in the following pas- 

 sage at the end, which contains the signatures and date of 

 the agreement. 



" These are they of the Foxes' country who are present 

 with us, viz. the Fox himself, and the two sons of Edmund, 

 viz. Murtogh and Phelim ; and the two sons of Brian Fox, 

 viz. Breasal and Cucogry ; and Murtogh, son of Owen, son 



of i. e. the Ollamh (poet or historian) of Fox .... 



and myself James O'Cionga [or king] the son of Carbry 

 O'Cionga, who was present at the making of this agreement, 

 and who wrote it. And it was on the Fast [i. e. the Eve] of 

 St. Adamnan this agreement was made; and particularly on 

 Wednesday; and it was on a Friday it was written. And 

 this is the year of the Lord at this time, viz. six years, and 

 twenty, five hundred and one thousand years [1526], and 

 the 22nd day of the month of August. 



" "J- lam the Mac Geoghegan. »J* I am the Fox." [Here 

 follows a line in the characters of the consonant Ogham, but 

 so much effaced that although the key is known, it has been 

 found impossible to decipher it. The last word only is le- 

 gible, which is Graine, or Grace, a woman's name : then 

 follows] " are in Ireland. 4* We are the sons of Edmund 

 Fox. •!■ We are the sons of Brian Fox." 



Mr. Mallet gave a notice of recent improvements in the 

 formation of Mosaic pavements. 



