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serch for & a specyall place for garysone in the tyme of warre, ther is flat 

 that bond, prohybytion by acte of pliament not onely of that castell by name but 

 lyke wyse of dyu^se others, that no man whosoeu'' he be that is of 

 Iryshe byrthe, shuld eyther haue costody or any maul of comand over 

 them : the Earle havynge passed thys Castell, togyther wyth the 

 lande made back agayne to the kynge the Abby of Golbery & entered 

 into bond hymself & Syr Eychard Eoylle that it shuld rendre hys 

 ma^' an anuall rent of one 100^' p an. but now very lately the rente 

 was behynd unpayd for dyiS se yeares togyther, and allthough ther 

 were processe issued owt it could not be levyed, and for the bond that 

 was gyven in by the Earle & Sir Richard Boylle it could not be f ounde. 



I myght yet speake of some other Casteles & houses that contrary 

 to the statutes of Irelande are houlden by such men as are not 

 capable of them by lawe 



HOW HYS MA*' HATH BYNE DEFEATED TJNDEE 

 THE COLOIJE OF THAT COMYSSYON FOE DEFECTYYE TYTELES 



Thys comyssyon for defectyve tyteles whych it pleased hys Ma*' 

 gratyously to grante in releefe of the subiecte was converted onely to 

 hys ma*'' dysadvantage, when the greatest numbre that undre the 

 p^tence of mendynge ther tyteles have altered ther tenures to hys 

 ma*'' p^iudyce, not onely dymynyshynge some pte of his ma*"' rente 

 but haue lykewyse defrauded hym of some pte of hys ryght & haue 

 freed ther landes from wardshippes & from many other servyces & 

 duties belongynge to the kynge. As Syr Edwarde Blane for one, who 

 fyrst havynge but a lease of Monohan for tearme of yeares, hath now 

 chopped it to a fee fearme therby wypynge away more then a 

 hundred markes p an from hys ma^' & hys heyers for eu^. Syr 

 Edward Eytz Garraf^*^ in lyke man*^ that by hys Ma*'' leters shuld 

 haue passed Balla Boggyn in fee fearme, hath converted it to a fee 

 symple, therby defeatynge hys Ma*' of all the rente and all other 



consideration of his surrender of lands in Limerick and Tipperary. This grant 

 included " The manor of Catherlogh or Catherlagh, the old castle with four turrets 

 on the east of the Barrow, -vvith the precincts and buildings thereto belonging 

 excepted— the custom of a salmon yearly out of every net used in taking salmon in 

 the Barrow, running by the bounds of the said castle — and the demesne lands 

 within the site and circuit of said manor in Carlow and Queen's County." Ryan's 

 " History of Carlow," p. 120. 



20 Sir Edward Fitz Gerald, of Tecroghan, received in 1599 a grant of the 

 reversion of the Priory of Ballybogan, Co. Meath. See " Plants of Elizabeth," 

 No. 6327, loc. clt. 



