Catalogue description CAYHYR O'CONOUR.

Submission of Cayhyr O'Conour, brother of Barnard O'Conour, late captain of Offaly, made to the King before the Lord Deputy, the King's Commissioners, and others of the Council at Dublin, 6th March, 29 Hen. VIII.

(1.) He promises that he will be a faithful and liege subject.

(2.) He will not admit the jurisdiction or authority of the Roman Pontiff.

(3.) He will not exact or claim any black rents or exactions from any subjects of the King.

(4.) He petitions that the King by letters patents would make him and his issue of a free estate and liege men after the manner of the English.

(5.) He promises to hold that portion of lands which he has in his own country and in Offaly of the King according to English laws, and that he and all others and his heirs will pay to the King annually for each carucate of land 3s. 4d., and as often as it shall seem necessary to the Deputy, he shall be burthened with men of war for the defence of the King's subjects.

(6.) Finally he promises all other things which O'Conour promises.

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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 117.