Catalogue description THE CAVENAGHES.

I. "An abstract of the Cavenaghes and of other lands, as it hath been divided in times past, which was written in anno 1572." [Sir Peter Carew is mentioned.]

II. "To whom and to what manors these Cavenaghes do belong."

III. "What lands and services belongeth to these manors."

IV. "How these manors stand."

At the end are the following paragraphs:--"There be of estimation of the Cavenaghes but three, that is, Brian McCare, of St. Mylyn's, Mortagh Oge of the Garghill, and Care Duff of Clamolyne, and there is none of them able to make eight horsemen of his own buying, and every one of them is enemy unto other; but they have thieves on foot to steal from the Queen's true subjects, and they do all dwell in the counties of Wexford and Carlaugh, and easy to be brought to answer to the law; for I myself have seen and caused the fathers of the disturbers to carry stones and mortar to the building up of the Queen's Majesty's houses in those parts.

"Within one month after that I come home I will send your Honour a plainer book."

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 289.