Catalogue description The EARL OF TYRONE.

"Articles agreed unto in the Cessation of Arms taken the 27th of October 1595."

(1.) That no act of hostility or stealth be committed upon her Majesty's subjects.

(2.) That all her Majesty's garrisons shall freely pass with victuals, munition, and other provisions.

(3.) That any soldier shall fetch in grass, timber, stone, &c., for the fortifying or repairing of the said garrisons.

(4.) That the Earl shall not make any journeys into Clandeboy or other countries bordering upon Tirone, to use force upon any that submit to her Majesty.

(5.) That the creaughts of the Earl's adherents shall not graze upon the ground of any persons under her Majesty's obedience.

(6.) That if any of the contrary part shall offer themselves to her Majesty's obedience, it shall be lawful to receive them.

(7.) For the performance of all things in these articles the Earl shall deliver such pledges as by Captain St. Leger shall be demanded ; which pledges, in case his pardon be not granted, shall be re-delivered.

(8.) As the Earl's followers will reap great benefit from this cessation, in that their cattle shall freely feed in the plains, he is therefore to furnish 1,000 beoves for the garrisons.

[Note in the margin: "This article only for the beoves denied by the Earl, and all the rest agreed unto."]

(9.) This truce to continue till 1 January, and for one month longer if the Lord Deputy desire it.

Signed : Hugh Tyrone.

Names of the pledges: Brian O'Hagan, McFerdarragh O'Hagan, Donough Rerogh O'Hagan, McMelaghlin McBrian Boy O'Hagan.

Copy.

Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, ed. J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen (6 vols., 1867-73), vol. III, document 174.