Catalogue description THE O'FARROLLS.

Indenture betwixt Sir Henry Sydney, President of the Council of Wales, and Lord Deputy General of Ireland, of the one part, and Faghne O'Ferall, otherwise called O'Farroll Bane, of Tully, in the county of Longford, sometime called the country of the Annele; William Fitz Donell O'Farroll, of the Mote; John O'Farrall, of the Glane, captain of Williams sept; Donell O'Farroll, of the Reen, now McMorghe, in Tlewe; Moylaghlen O'Farroll, of Moylynlegan, called MacHioge, of Maythra; Felyn Boye O'Coyne of the Brewne, called O'Coyne; Donnell O'Ferroll, of Kilgresse, captain of Gillernow's sept in the said county, gentlemen, of the other part.

Faghne O'Ferrall and the rest above named promise and bargain to surrender in the court of Chancery in Ireland, to the use of the Queen, when they shall be required to do so, all their possessions in the said country, sometime called the Annelye, and now the county of Longford. And the Lord Deputy promises that they shall receive the same by letters patents from the Queen, to hold to them and their heirs for ever by knights' service, and that they shall be exonerated from the bonaught accustomed to be paid out of the said country to the Queen's galloglasses, and from all other cesses and impositions. In consideration thereof they grant to the Lord Deputy "and his heirs" to the use of the Queen and her successors a yearly rentcharge of 200 marks Irish, payable at the feasts of Michaelmas and Easter, from Michaelmas next. For lack of money to be paid in the Exchequer, the Treasurer or Receiver General is to receive kine to the value of the rent unpaid, as kine shall be worth and sold in the market[s] of Athboye and Navan. If the rent be behind unpaid in part or in all by the space of six months next after any of the said feasts, it shall be lawful to the Lord Deputy, or to the Treasurer or General Receiver, to enter and distrain in all their lands.

(2.) They promise to answer to all general hostings, roads, journeys, and risings out, as they have been accustomed, and to pay yearly for ever "the ancient rent due to the Queen's Majesty out of the said portion of the said country now being under the rule of the said Faghne O'Ferroll, that is to say 50 kine, or 6s. Irish for every cow."

(3.) "That the captainship of that portion of the said county sometime called the Annelye, which heretofore hath been used by the said O'Ferroll Bane, shall from henceforth be utterly abolished, extinguished, removed, ["renowned" in MS.] and put back within the said county for ever; and that the said Faghne O'Ferroll shall receive and take, by letters patents from the Queen's Majesty, for term of his life, an authority in the said county called Clentane in the said county of Longford, by the names and stiles of Seneschal, and not otherwise, together with all such customs, duties, and charges as been accustomed to be yearly yielded and paid unto the said Faghne O'Ferrall as captain of the said country, and endorsed upon the back of these indentures; and the said O'Ferrall not to be removed from his captainry till such time as he have in patent the senescalship." After his death like letters patents to be made to one of the Ferrolls within the said county, such as the governor for the time being shall choose.

(4.) None shall be chief serjeant or petty serjeant in any barony within the said country, but one of the said country birth.

(5.) The said Seneschal shall apprehend all traitors, felons, and other malefactors, and commit them to the common shire gaol of the said county, and prosecute them according to the laws. For this his travail he shall have the moiety or halfendell of the lands of persons attainted and of the goods and chattels of such felons as shall be executed within his rule; the other moiety to remain to the Queen. The Seneschal shall also have all frays, batteries, and bloodsheds that shall happen within his rule, according as [O'Ferroll and his predecessors] have used to have by the name of O'Ferroll.

(6.) The county of Longford shall from henceforth pay yearly the subsidy of 13s. 4d. sterling upon a ploughland, granted of late by Parliament to the Queen, when it shall be divided into ploughlands. For the first three years next after the said division into ploughlands, wastes shall be allowed as in other places of shire ground. The lands of the Geraldines and Nugents, and others of the English pale, and all abbey lands shall be contributors, and bear to the said Seneschal all such lawful customs and duties as heretofore they used to receive by the names of captains or "stanist." If the same be obstinately refused, the sheriff of the said shire shall distrain.

(7.) None of the gentlemen, freeholders, or others of the said county shall take any goods or chattels one from another on any account, "but only for rent service, rent charge, or damage fesant; and ["in" in MS.] none of them to seek to revenge their private quarrels one upon another for anything but by order of the Queen's laws or arbitrament with consent of the parties, upon pain of double the thing received totiens quotiens to him or to them that shall so offend."

(8.) Neither the Seneschal nor sheriff shall levy or exact upon the said county any money, cattle, or other things for their expenses in coming to the Governor and Council to Dublin or elsewhere, in their own private business, unless they be appointed by the said country for the common profit thereof; and then such expenses as they shall have shall be first condescended by the said county, and cessed equally and indifferently.

(9.) The said county shall be discharged of soldier, horse, horseboy, and all other cesses and exactions, "unless it be when the said soldier, horse, horseboy shall have occasion for service of the Prince to travel through the said country."

Sealed by the parties above named, 11 February 1570, 13 Eliz.

Signed and delivered in the presence of Richard Tailor, Fergus O'Ferrall, Richard Staine, William McDonall.

Copy.

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 275.