Catalogue description EARL OF OSSORY AND ORMOND.

Thomas Bullen, Earl of Ormond, made a deed of gift unto Peers Butler (afterward Earl of Ossory and Ormond) of the manors of Tully Phelim and Arkeloe to him and his heirs, yielding unto the said Earl Thomas and his heirs the fourth part of all the profits growing out of them, the charges in keeping the same being defrayed; for the said manors had been intruded upon by the Irish for the space of 200 years, which the said Pearce Butler recovered from them, as appeareth in letters written by the said Pearce (and now remaining in Sir Robert Cotton's custody) to Mr. Cromwell, the King's secretary, and to the above-named Thomas Bullen, Earl of Ormond and Wiltshire. The rents of the said manors were paid to the Earl by the said Pearce Butler, and also he wrote to the said Earl to be his tenant of his manor of Carrick McGriffin.

Pearce Butler, afterward Earl of Ossory and Ormond, upon the death of Thomas Butler, late Earl of Ormond, was by office found to be next heir male to the said Earl, and thereupon sued out his livery and was styled Earl of Ormond, as well by the King's most gracious letters patents, as by his Grace's letters missives, and so reputed and accepted, and now Sir Thomas Bullen, Earl of Ormond and Wiltshire, is contented he be named Earl of Ormond in Ireland, semblably as the two Lords Dacres be named the one of the South, the other of the North. This is to be seen at large in Sir Robert Cotton's custody.

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 106.