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VI. 



A VEEY EAEE KILKENNY-PRINTED PROCLAMATION, AND 

 WILLIAM SMITH, ITS PRINTER. 



By E. R. M'CLINTOCK DIX. 



(Plate IV.) 



Read May 25. Ordered for Publication June 24. Published August 25, 1908. 



Since I have been admitted a Member of the Academy, I have devoted a good 

 deal of time to examining carefully several bundles and boxes of broadsides, 

 pamphlets, etc., all in the Strong Room, but not yet catalogued or placed. 

 My search has been rewarded by finding several items of interest or rarity; 

 and I hope that these may be rendered accessible when the Hon. Librarian 

 has considered how this may best be done. All, or nearly all, the contents of 

 these bundles and boxes bear the stamp of the " Halliday Collection," and 

 many have a catalogue slip attached. They form in themselves a large 

 collection, and contain a great deal of very useful matter. For example, there 

 are very many priated Appeals in House of Lords cases of the eighteenth 

 century. These should be classified and bound, as they are full of interesting 

 and valuable facts and information about Irish and other families, and would 

 be very useful to genealogists for pedigree purposes. I commend them 

 particularly to the notice and consideration of Sir E. T. Bewley, Mr. P. G. 

 Mahony (Cork Herald), Mr. T. G. H. Greene, and other members of the 

 Academy interested in genealogy. 



In my researches through these bundles I have sought in the first place 

 for all items of Irish printing, as those that appealed to me most directly ; and 

 I found, to my very great pleasure, the very rare, perhaps unique, specimen 

 which I now exhibit and deal with. 



It is a Proclamation by the Marquis of Ormonde, printed in Kilkenny, 

 and dated 22nd January, 1648 (O.S.), 1649 (N.S.). Ormonde landed in Cork 

 on Michaelmas Day, 1648; and on the 16th of January following (1649) 

 he concluded a peace with the Supreme Council of the Confederate Catholics, 

 who had for some time had their headquarters in Kilkenny. By this peace he 



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