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O'CONNOUR SLIGO.
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Title (The name of the record)
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O'CONNOUR SLIGO.
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Date (When the record was created)
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24 Oct 1566
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Description (What the record is about)
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Indenture, 24 October, 8 Eliz., between Sir Henry Sydney, K.G., President of the Council in the Marches of Wales and Deputy General in Ireland, with the Council of that kingdom, of the one part, and Donald O'Connour, commonly called O'Connour Sligo, of the other part.
(1.) O'Connour acknowledges the Queen to be his liege Lady and Queen, and to be sole and supreme in both ecclesiastical and temporal causes.
(2.) He promises not to adhere to any rebel or enemy of the Queen, but to prosecute them, and especially John (Shane) O'Neill.
(3.) Whereas the Lord Deputy, on the Queen's behalf, has entered into the castle of Sligo, and demanded a certain annual rent from O'Connour, and the Earl of Kildare has claimed the said castle and rent by right of inheritance; and whereas Lord Calough O'Donell, captain and chief of Tireconell, has demanded the same rent, asserting that he has been invested in it for a long time past, and that he received it from time to time until the Purification last; it is agreed, that as no one has heretofore demanded the said rents and services to the Queen's use, or to the use of the Earl of Kildare, O'Donnell shall have a half year's rent from O'Connour; and in consideration of the war, and for the defence of his country (now restored) from the invasions of the rebel John O'Neill, the Lord Deputy and Council have granted to O'Donnell, for his greater assistance, the other half year's rent, to be paid by O'Connour at the Purification next; saving all demands and rights of the Queen and the said Earl after that feast. The Lord Deputy promises that he will discuss and adjudicate touching the right and titles of the Queen, the Earl, and O'Donell before the 1st of May next. The Earl and O'Donell have promised to produce their writings and evidences; and O'Connour is contented to stand to the order and judgment of the Lord Deputy.
(4.) For this winter and next spring only O'Connour shall render aid to O'Donell against O'Neill with his horsemen and kerne; and this not of any right, but by virtue of the mandate of the Lord Deputy for the Queen's service.
Monastery of Aboyle, on the day and year aforesaid.
Contemp. copy. Endorsed at p. 158a.
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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)
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MS 614, p. 155
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Language (The language of the record)
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Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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2 Pages.
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- <p>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 253.</p>
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/58c2855a-11d9-4fd0-801e-edec6fa836f5/
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