Catalogue description SIR OWEN O'SULLIVAN.

"Hereafter ensueth such services, duties, and demands as Sir Owen O'Swlyvan, Knight, and his heirs, ought to pay and do unto the Earl of Clankarre and [his] heirs." [The original document is in Record Office. It was enclosed in the Earl of Clancarr's petition to the Queen, dated 13 July 1565.]

(1.) Sir Owen holds of him "by the service to be one of the marshals of his company in the field, and there to serve him in proper person with his whole power."

(2.) Sir Owen ought to find continually five gallaglasses or five kerne out of every quarter of land arable inhabited and manured in his country, "to be afore the guard of the said Earl's person;" and in the default of every such gallaglass or kerne to pay 6s. 8d. sterling or one beef.

(3.) The said Earl ought to have 2s. 6d. sterling out of every ship that comes a fishing or with merchandise to any port, creek, or haven in Sir Owen's country, at the hands of such as bring the said ships.

(4.) To have all kind of wares and merchandises brought there by any ships at the same prices as Sir Owen.

(5.) Sir Owen ought to find yearly for two days and two nights sufficient meat and drink for the said Earl and his train at his house called Dunboye, otherwise Beare Haven. In case the said Earl should come at any other time into his country, the Earl to have convenient meat and drink. Sir Owen ought also to find and send to the Earl's house, called Palice, sufficient horsemeat for the finding of the Earl's horses throughout the year.

(6.) Sir Owen ought to find throughout the year, upon the territories of Bentrey and Dunboye, "the hunt" and hunts of the said Earl with convenient sustenance for all his greyhounds, hounds, and spaniels.

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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 247.