Catalogue description CONATIUS O'NELL.

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Title: CONATIUS O'NELL.
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Writing made at the castle of Moynoth 1st July 1535, 37 Henry VIII.--Gillaspike McDonyll, constable of the Lord Conatius O'Nell, and principal captain of his nation, being the special nuncio of O'Nell, and having full powers to conclude a peace, promised, (1.) that O'Nell will be a faithful and liege subject of the King and serve the King and his Deputies against the King's enemies. (2.) That, for arrangement of all damages and injuries done to the King's subjects and all those who are of his peace by O'Nell, and of all disputes between the Lord Deputy and the Lords Odo O'Donell and Mallachi O'Raileigh, Lord of Brenigh, O'Nell shall come to the presence of the Deputy and Council on the 16th July, or within two days after, to "villam Pontanam" (Drogheda) or to Trym. For his security there shall remain in the hands of Gillaspike, Master Anthony Collie, son of the said Lord Deputy, and two other men to be chosen by O'Nell, excepting Matthew and Thomas Skeffington, sons of the Lord Deputy, on account of the custody of the castle of Moynoth and the youth of the said Thomas. (3.) The said Conatius shall receive his usual stipend, and all persons coming from his country with merchandize during this peace shall have free ingress and regress in the parts of the English, who shall have ingress and regress in O'Nell's country. (4.) Gillaspike promises that if the said Conatius shall not fulfil the articles of this treaty, he will aid the Lord Deputy with all his adherents against the said Conatius. Present, Odo O'Donell, James Preston, Viscount Gormanstone, Thomas Cusake, Secondary Justice of the Common Pleas, McSwine and many others, and Hugh Holgrave, notary public (?).

 

Mem.--On 25th July the Lord O'Nell affixed his hand and seal to this indenture at Droedagh.

 

Signed: William Skeffingtone, William Brabason, Patrick Fingles, Justice.

 

Copy.
Date: 1 July 1535
Held by: Lambeth Palace Library, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: MS 601, p. 21
Language: Latin
Physical description: 3 Pages.
Unpublished finding aids:

Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, ed. J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen (6 vols., 1867-73), vol. I, document 54.

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