" _Patent and Close
Rolls, Chancery, Ireland, reg. Elizabeth_, Mem. 5, 41, 1595, p. 323.
As the lands at first granted did not measure the 42,000 acres, the Lord
Deputy is instructed to issue a commission to measure off so much of
other escheated lands adjoining "as shall be requisite to make up the
full number and quantity of three seignories and a-half of tenantable
land, without mountains, bogs, or barren heath; To hold for ever in
fee-farm, as of the Castle of Carregroghan, in the Co. of Cork, in free
soccage and not in capite."--_Ibid._ p. 327.
Alas! how soon he tired of the great and coveted prize.
[6] Hooker, Suppl. to Holinshed's Chronicle, p. 183.
[7] Some Considerations for the Promoting of Agriculture and Employing
the Poor, addressed to Members of the House of Commons, by R.L. V.M.
Haliday Collection of pamphlets in the Library of the Royal Irish
Academy, Vol. 54.
[8] Page 18.
[9] Page 35.
[10] Short View of the State of Ireland. Haliday Pamphlets, Vol. 74.
[11] An answer to a paper called "A Memorial of the Poor Inhabitants of
the Kingdom of Ireland." _Same Vol._
[12] "Answer to Memorial," signed A.B., March 25, 1728.
[13] "Letter to the Duke of Newcastle.
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