Catalogue description PHELIM MCNEL BOY.

Examination of Phelim MacNel Boy, chief of his sept, and one of the captains of their Majesties' galloglasses, of the age of 50 years or thereabout, taken at Kilmaynam, 24 June 1557.

He remembers that this Earl of Kildare's father put bonaught upon MakMahon, O'Rely, and others, and heard say that this Earl's grandfather did the like upon the Annaly and the county of Kildare; but whether they were Deputies then or not he is in doubt, for in his youth he served O'Neyll in the North, and was not privy to those doings. "He doth not know that the Earl of Kildare did at any time put any first bonaught upon any Irishman when he was not Deputy." Being asked whether those bonaughts were first set to the King's use or to the Earl's use, he says "he never knew any bonaught set or levied but to the King's use and by the Deputy for the time being, and that they went alway in the King's service.

Signed: T. Sussex, Henry Radeclyff. [Sir Henry Ratcliffe. He became Earl of Sussex in 1583 on the death of his brother Thomas.]

The persons whose names are underwritten were present at this examination: Jaques Wingfeld; Sir Petyr Lewys, chaplen; Harry Stafforde; George Dellves; Frauncis Cosbie.

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 209.