The grants are set forth plainly
enough in the following entries:--"The Queen, desirous to have the
Province of Munster, in the realm of Ireland, re-peopled and inhabited
with civil, loyal, and dutiful subjects, in consideration of the great
charge and trouble which Sir Walter Raleghe sustained in transporting
and planting English people into the province, and in recompense of his
good service rendered in Ireland, pursuant to her royal letters dated
the last of February, 1586 to the Lord Deputy and Lord Chancellor
directed, and intending to bestow upon him three seignories and a-half
of land, ... 'lying as near to the town of Youghall as they may be
conveniently,' _each seignory containing_ 12,000 _acres of tenanted
land, not accounting mountains, bogs, or barren heath_." And again: "And
as Sir Walter made humble suit, to enable him the better to perform the
enterprize for the habitation and repeopling of the land, to grant him
and his heirs, in fee-farm for ever, the _possessions_ of the late
dissolved abbey or monastery called Molanassa, otherwise Molana, and the
late dissolved priory of the Observant Friars, or the Black Friars, near
Youghall, ... and, as they lie adjoining the lands already granted to
him, her Majesty is pleased to comply with his request, and by her
letters, dated at Greenwich the 2nd of July, 1587, directed to the Lord
Deputy, expressed her intention to that effect.
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