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A NOTE of how many CITIES and BOROUGH TOWNS are to send Burgesses to the Parliament...
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- A NOTE of how many CITIES and BOROUGH TOWNS are to send Burgesses to the Parliament in Ireland out of every County in every several Province.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1611
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Mounster, containing 7 counties, viz., Cork, 7; Waterford, 3; Kerry, 2; Tipperary, 1; Crosse, 2; Limerick, 3; Clare, 1; whereof 8 new boroughs to be erected.
Leinster, containing 12 counties, viz., Kilkenny, 5; Caterlogh, 1; Louth, 4; Queen's, 2; King's, 1; Westmeath, 3; Meath, 4; Dublin, 3; Kildare, 2; Wexford, 2; Wicklo, 0; Longford, 0; whereof 3 new boroughs and the University to be erected.
Connaught, containing 5 cos., Galloway, 2; Rorskoman, 1; Letrim, 1; Sligo, 1; Mayo, 1; whereof 4 new burgesses are to be erected.
Ulster, containing 9 counties, Down, 3; Antrim, 3; Colerane, 1; Donnegal, 5; Tirone, 4; Ardmagh, 3; Cavan, 3; Fermanagh, 1; Monaghan; 1; whereof 22 new boroughs are to be erected. Cities, 9; old boroughs, 31; new boroughs, 36 = 76.
Endorsed in Lo. Carew's handwriting: "The counties of Ireland and how many boroughs there are in every county that have been of old and must be erected to send burgesses to Parliament.
The Higher House consists of lords spiritual and temporal, 44.
The Lower House in knights of shires, 66; in burgesses, 152; in all, 218.
The numbers of both the Houses amount unto 262."
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Lambeth Palace Library
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- MS 629, p. 41
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- 1 Page.
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- <p>Calender of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, ed. J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen (6 vols., 1867-73), vol. V, document 85.</p>
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/05a4e165-d06e-4a71-a46b-4e2252ec6edd/
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A NOTE of how many CITIES and BOROUGH TOWNS are to send Burgesses to the Parliament in Ireland out of every County in every several Province.