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Captain henshoe/^ payenge to the quen's Ma*' that late was 40li rent lands 

 p an. str., besydes other servyces that he was tyed unto, amountynge gQ^^^^^^g 

 well neare to 40li more, whych rent Captain henshoe (so long as he surveyed & 

 lyved) very duly dyscharged, as it apeareth by the rowles of hys passed in 

 Ma*'^ revenue. It was but lately farmed by Syr Edward Blaney^^ for atV^shU- 

 a tearme of yeares at the yearely rent of fyf ty fyve shellyngs but now lings. 

 Syr Edward Elaney surrenderynge hys lease, under coloure of that 

 comyssyon for defectyve tyteles, hath passed it in fee fearme, at the 

 said rent of 55s wythowt any other duty reserved to the kynge. 



I myght speake here of certeyne composytyon mony that hath iii Con- 

 byne demynyshed in many places, but namely that in Con aught '^^^^ 

 amountynge to the surne of 3500li> but the Colectors of late yeares composition 

 hath used to pay the 5001i & do keape backe the other SOOOti to them i^on)\ 

 selves. Thys was the costom very lately, how it is reformed I knowe '^^^^^'^^^^^^^ 

 not. 



Of SOiTE EOYALTYES BELOXGYNGE TO HYS Ma*'' 

 ESTATE IN IeELANDE THAT AEE PASSED AWAY 



Leavynge to speake of some Eoyaltyes that haue eu'^more belonged to 

 the upp houldinge of hys ma*'' estat in Irelande, namely of 1000 

 Irysh peckes of corne that was passed away to one, and now latly 

 hys Ma*'' house of Kylmayname^^ past away to an other, I wyll 

 brefly set downe how hys Ma*' hath byne defeated, not onely of an 

 anuall rent, but lykwyse of such a royalty as yf after ocasyon of 

 warre shuld fall owt in Ireland myght very yll be spared : It pleased " 

 hys ma*' uppon a specyall sute made unto hym by the Earle of Tomonde 

 to make a change of so much lande amountynge to the yearely value 

 of one lOOli rent p an. ^^'ow here is to be noted that one lOOli landes 

 p an. as it is surveyed for hys ma*' is at all tymes worth so much 

 more. The Earle togyther wyth the lande mad choyce of the castell of 

 cartholough^^ whych castell beynge a royalty belongynge to the kynge 



Captain Thomas Henshaw, appointed seneschal of Monaghan for his long 

 services in Ulster in 1591. See " Fiants of Elizabeth," No. 5690, 16th Report of 

 Deputy Keeper of Records in Ireland. See also Shirley's " History of Monaghan." 



^' Sir Edward Blayney, created, in 1621, Baron Blayney of Monaghan. See 

 Lodge's " Peerage," vol. vi., p. 307. 



The Priory of Kilmainham, known since its resumption by the Crown under 

 Stat. 2 Eliz., cap. 7, as his or her Majesty's house at Kilmainham, had been 

 granted to Sir Richard Sutton, Auditor of Imprests in 1609, and by him 

 assigned to Sir Edward Fisher in 1611. See a paper on the Phoenix Park in 

 " Proceedings," third Series, vol. vi., p. 470. 



On 14th July, 1604, a grant was made to Donogh, 4th Earl of Thomond, in 



