Catalogue description EARL OF OSSORY AND ORMOND.

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Title: EARL OF OSSORY AND ORMOND.
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Extent of the lands comprised in the Earl of Ossory's bill, by the year, 140l. Although he pretends to have an undoubted title to 60l. thereof, yet he does not intend to "try with the King," but to be a petitioner to his Majesty for the whole. He "cannot dispend by all his lands by the year above the sum of 500 marks st.

 

Extent of the land that Burnell had in his possession, by the year, 42l. Extent of the reversion that his mother has in possession, by the year, 30l. Extent of the lands that his brother has in possession, by the year, 13l. 6s. 8d.

 

The said Earl of Ossory, on the death of Thomas [Butler], late Earl of Ormond, [Died 1515.] was found "by office" to be Ormond's next heir male. Thereupon he sued out his livery, and was named Earl of Ormond, both by the King's letters patent, and by his Grace's letters missives; and he was so reputed and accepted for 16 years. "And now the Earl of Wiltshire [Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire and Ormond, 8 Dec. 1529; died 1538.] is contented he be so named Earl of Ormond in Ireland, semblably as the two Lords Dacres be named the one of the South and the other of the North.

 

In a contemp. hand. Endorsed: "The extent of the lands of Combmertyn, for my Lord Butler." Also: "My Lord Butler's suits.

Date: 1537
Held by: Lambeth Palace Library, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: MS 602, p. 161
Language: English
Physical description: 1 Page.
Unpublished finding aids: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 105.

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