Creation of CON O'NEALE EARL OF TYRONE.

Sunday, 1 October 34 Hen. VIII., at the manor of Greenwich, Con O'Neale was created Earl of Tyrone, in manner and form following.

The Queen's closet at Greenwich was richly hanged with cloth of arras, and well strewed with rushes, and after the sacring of the high mass, these Earls (sic) in company went to the said closet, and there put on their robes of estate. And immediately after the King's Majesty, being under the cloth of estate, accompanied with all his noblemen, councillors, and others, came in the Earl, led between the Earl of Oxenford and the Earl of Hertford, the Viscount Lisle bearing before him his sword, the hilts upwards, Garter before him, bearing his letters patents; and so proceeded to the King's Majesty, who received of Garter the letters patents, and took them to Mr. Wriotesley, Secretary, to read them openly. And when he came to centuriam [Sic. Error for cincturam.] gladii, the Viscount Lisle presented unto the King the sword, and the King girt the said sword about the said Earl baudrickwise, the foresaid Earl kneeling, and the other Lords standing that led him. And so the patent read out, the King's Highness took him his letters patents, and he gave him thanks in his language, and a priest made answer of his saying in English; and there the King made two of the men that came with him knights. And so the Earls in order aforesaid took their leave of the King's Highness, and departed unto the place appointed for their dinners, the Earl of Tyrone bearing his letters patents himself, the trumpets blowing before him unto the chamber, which was the Lord Great Master's under the King's lodging. And so they sat at dinner. At the second course Garter proclaimed the King's style, and after the said new Earl's in manner following: Du treshaut et puissant Seigneur Con, Conte de Tyrone, en la Royaulme d'Irlande. He gave unto Garter for the fine of his gown 20 angels, and to the whole office of Arms, 10l., and so to the trumpets 40s., and other officers were honorably rewarded, according to the old and ancient custom.

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