Catalogue description EARL OF OSSORY and LORD JAMES BUTLER.

Letters patent for Peter Butler, Earl of Ossory and Ormond, and James Butler, Lord Butler, Treasurer of Ireland, (who has shed his blood in the wars against the Geraldines and other rebels,) granting them the manors, castles, and towns of Ballinganran, Dunfert, Knoktoffer, Kylkenny, Glasshare, and Rosbarkan, in co. Kilkenny; Carrikmagriffyn, Bellenale (sic) alias Kyldanale, Knokgraffyn, Castellcorte, Thurlies, the Nenagh, Roskree, Ballynryte, and Channoston, in co. Tipperary; Ratheville, Clonmore, Tullagh, Offellym, Kallasue, Powerston, and Leghlyn, in co. Catherlagh; Durbrordyesland alias the Great Island, in co. Wexford; the Little Island, in co. Waterford; Oughterard, Castell Warninge, Donadaa, and Clyntonskourte, in co. Kildare; Ruysshe, Ballyskaddan, Curduf, and Portrany, in co. Dublin; Blakcastell and Donamore, in co. Meath; the Baron's Innes in or near the city of Dublin; a house or messuage in Casshell; a house or great messuage with a garden to the same annexed in the parish of St. Nicholas, Dublin, (which house by the attainder of Gerald Fitz Gerald, late Earl of Kildare, came to our hands); and the manor of Arkloo;--to hold in survivorship, and to the heirs male of the body of the same Peter, by the service of one knight's fee.

Westminster, 23 October, 29 Hen. VIII.

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At the end are the following notes:--"Anno 27 Hen. 8, 3. die Martii, Tur. Lond. Rex etc. concessit etc. Thomæ Comiti Wiltoñ et Domino Rotchford, &c.--Anno 21 Hen. 8, 24 die Jan., Tur. Lond. Rex etc. concessit etc. Thomæ Comiti Wiltoñ et Ormond custodiam Roberti Knevett, etc.--Anno 21 Hen. 8, 8 die Dec., Tur. Lond. Rex etc. creavit Vicecomitem Rotchford in Comitem Wiltoñ et Ormond."

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 107.