ORIGINAL INDENTURE OF GRANT dated the 8th December, 1628, 4th Charles I, from the Court of Wards and Liveries to Donough O'Brien, son and heir of Connor O'Brien of Lemenegh, County of Clare, deceased, from the Claimant's archives. "This Indenture made the VIII daie of December, Anno Dãi 1628, and in the fourth year of the reigne "of our Soveraigne Lord Charles by the grace of God Kinge of England, Scotland, Frannce, and Ireland, "Defender of the Fayth, &c. Betweene the Honble Sr William Parsons, Knight and Barronett, Master of His "Mts Courte of Wards and Liuris in his said Kingdome of Ireland, Sr Richard Bolton, Knight, Lord Chiefe "Baron of His Mats Court of Excheq', His Mats Attorney of the said Courte of Wards and Liùries, &c., and "William Barker, Esq., His Mats Survey of the said Courte, for and in the name and behalfe of Or Sovraigne "Lord the Kinge of the one ptie, and Donogh O'Bryen, sonne and heire of Connor O'Bryen of Lemenegh in "the county of Clare, gentleman, deceased, of the other ptie, Whereas or said Sovraigne Lo: the Kinge is 66 agreed to graunt to the said heire a speciall livy to be had of and in all such lordshipps, mannors, lands, "tenemts, rents, reucons, services, and other hereditaments, with the appurtences wch to the said heire be "descended and come in use, possession, or reversion, from the said Connor O'Bryen, as in the said speciall lily more playnely is contained, nevertheless for that of said Sovraigne Lord the Kinge should not be the said heire hath delivd the day of the date hereof unto His Maties Court "of Wards, a wrytinge in pchmt intented, hereunder annexed in which the said Donogh O'Bryen "covenanteth grannteth and pmisseth by these psents that therein are contayned and specified All those "lopps, mannors, lands, tenemts, rents, reucons, services, and other hereditaments wch he the sd heire "willeth and intendeth to have out of His Mts hands or possession by the said speciall liury. "deceaved "WM. PARSONS. (L.S.) RI. BOLTON. (L.S.) WILLM. BARKER. (L.S.)" "Valor sive Extent annu valor omni? et singul ten. tento3 et ceter hereditam que nup fuer Connor O'Bryen 66 nup de Lemenagh in Com Clare gen. defunct ijo die Januar 1609. Et que p faie post eius mort "descesder vel descendere debuer in usu psione vel reucone Donat. O'Bryen filio et hered suo qui fuit "etat octo annož tempore mort přis sui pdi put p Inquis inde capt apud vill de Inish in Com p'dco xxijo "die Julij Ao. Dñi 1624 virtute Commission sub magno sigillo plen apparet. ORIGINAL LETTERS PATENT under the Great Seal, bearing date at Dublin the 27th January, 4th Charles 1st (1628), being the grant to Donough O'Brien of the lands, &c., of his father, Connor O'Brien, late of Leamenegh, county Clare, from the Claimant's archives. 66 "Carolus de grã Anglie Scotie Franciæ et Hibnie Rex fidei defens &c. Omnibus ad quos pñtes lře nře Bu uener saltm Sciatis quod nos de grã nĩa spiati ac ex certa scientia et mero motu nris et p et in consideracon "septem libro; et decem solid legtas monet Hibñie in Hannapio não huius regni nri Hitnie ad usum ñrm "solvend in festo Pasche que fuer in Anno Dñi 1629, et in festo scti Michis Archi tunc pxim sequen p equal porcones p fidel subdit nĩm Donat O'Brien filius et hered Cornelij O'Brien nup de Lemenagh in Com Clare 66 66 66 gener defunct Necnon de advisament et consens dilcoz et fideliu Consiliar nroz in deo Regno nro Hibnie Concessimus et licenciam dedimus ac p pntes p nobis hered et successor nris quantu in nobis est "concedimus et licenc damus p fat Donat O'Brien et omibus at seitis ad eius usu vel nup ad usu pd Cornelij "O'Brien qui quidem Cornelius de nup pře não Rego Jacobo tenuit in Capte die quo obij p servic militar." PROPOSITION XX. To Prove that the said DONOUGH O'BRIEN died 10th January, 1634, leaving issue by his wife, Honora (the 'daughter of Richard Wingfield, of Robertstown, in the county of Limerick, Esq.), an eldest son, CONNOR (born 1617). LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION of the Goods, &c., of Donat als Donnough O'Brien, dated the 11th December, 1635, granted by the Archbishop of Armagh to Honora ny Bryen als Wingfield, the widow of said deceased, in the Claimant's possession. "Jacobus providen diña Armachañ Archiepus totius Hiðnie Primas et Metropous necnon Judex pr's sive "Commissarius Curie regie progative pro causis Ecclics et ad Facultes in et p totu regnu Hitnie regia auctate "rite et ltime constitutus piter et fultus Dilect nob in Christo Honoræ ny Bryen als Wingfield vidue et "relce Donati ats Donough O'Bryen nup de Lemaneagh in Com Clare Ar defuncti salutem Qrm idem "Donatus ats. Donnogh O'Bryen sic ut prmittet" defunctus habens dum vixit et morts sue tempore bona “jura credita siue Cattalla in duis dioc sive peculiarib3 jurisdiciob3 iam nup ab intestate nullo p ea condito "testament (ut assetur) ab hac luce migravit. "In Cuius rei fidem et testimon sigilla Cur regie progative et caus Ecleste et ad Facultes pred adtib, opponi fecimus Datum undecimo die mensis Decemb1 Anno dñi 1635 et nre trans Anno undecimo." SEAL. ORIGINAL GRANT (or Lease) under the Great Seal, dated the 13th December, 1636, being the grant of the lands of Donough O'Brien (Lemenagh) to Sir Edward Wingfield, during the minority of Connor O'Brien, son and heir of said Donnogh O'Brien. Between the said most "This Indenture made the thirteenth day of Dec1. Anno Dñi, 1636, "excellent Prince and our dread Sovraigne Lord Charles by the grace of God Kinge of England, Scotland, "France, and Ireland, of the one ptie, and Sr Edward Wingfield of Powerscourt in the county of Wickloe, Knight, of the other ptie, witnesseth that our dreade Sovraigne Lord the Kinge, wth the advice [&c.], is " contented and pleased to grannte, demise, sett and to farme lett, and by these psents doth demise, grannt, sett "and to farme lett the said Sr Edward Wingfield the lands and possessions late of Donnogh O'Bryen of "Lemenogh, in the county of Clare, Esq., deceased the tenth day of January Anno Dñi 1634, hereafter "ptculery declared,that is to say "All wch pmisses are situate, lyinge and beinge in the said county of Clare, and now in his Mates hands by reason of the mynority of Connor O'Bryen, sonne and heire of the said Donnogh O'Bryen. “To have and to hould all and singular the above demised põisses with their and eủy of their apteñnces "whatesoev (except before excepted) unto the said Sir Edwd Wingfield, his executors, admrs and assigns, "to the use and behoof of the sd Connor O'Bryen, from the day of the date hereof, for and dureinge soe longe tyme as the same shall remaine in the hands of His Matie, his heires and successors, by reason of the mynoryty of the said Connor yealdinge and payeinge therefore yearely." PROPOSITION XXI. To Prove that CONNOR died 1651, leaving issue by his wife, Mary (the daughter of Teige Roe Mc Mahon), an eldest son, DONOUGH, who was created a Baronet of the Kingdom of Ireland. ORIGINAL DECREE of the Commissioners for putting in execution the Act of Settlement madeth e 21st August, 15 Charles II. [1663], in favor of Donogh O'Brien, son and heir of Col. Connor O'Brien, in the Claimant's possession. "Present: "Sir Edward Deering, Bart. "John Cooper and Mary his "Wife, and Donogh "O'Bryen Plts. "Sir William Domvile, Knight, "his Maties Attorney Gen', "Bryen Goodwyn, and "others Defts. "Whereas, John Cooper of Meelicke, in the County of Clare, Esq, and "Mary his Wife, the late Wife and relict of Connor O'Bryen late of "Leamenagh, in the County of Clare, Esq. deceased, in the behalfe of "Donough O'Bryen Sonne and heir of the said Connor, and of Onora ny "Bryen and Mary ny Bryen, the two daughters of the said Connor, all "of them minors and under age, and as prochien amys tutors and overseers "of them and of their respective interests and estates exhibitted their clayme before his Maiesties late "Commrs for executing his Maiesties gracious declaracon for the settlement of Ireland, on the 6th day of "Octob, in the thirteenth yeare of the raigue of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the Second, by the grace of "God, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c., thereby setting forth "that the said Connor O'Bryen was in his lifetime seised in his demeasne as of fee or other estate of "inheritance, which descended to him from his ancestors whose heire he was of the castle, town, and "lands of Lemeneagh, containing, [&c.] "And the said claymant further setting forth that the said Connor O'Bryen being thereof so seized by "his deed of feoffit, beareinge date the nyneteenth day of October, in the yeare of our Lord one thousand "six hundred thirty nyne, in consideracon of a marriage betweene the said Connor and his then wife, Mary "ny Bryen als Mahony, daughter of Terlagh Row Mc Mahon, late of Cluonderala, Esq., deceased 66 66 did convey the premises to the said John Mc Nemara and Terlagh Mc Mahon, their "heires and assigns, to the uses following. And the said claymts farther setting forth "that the said Connor and Mary, and the said feoffees, being of the premisses soe seised, he the said Connor (haveing issue the said Onora, his first daughter by him begotten upon the body of the said Mary in "November, in the yeare one thousand six hundred forty-five, and likewise his said second daughter Mary, "in the yeare one thousand six hundred and fifty), was killed in his Maieties service, by and after whose "death the premisses by the said deed limitted to the said Connor and Mary his wife, and the survivor of "them dureing life, came to the said Mary by survivorshipp, and the remainder thereof imediately expectant, "to the said Donough O'Bryen, as sonne and heire male of the said Connor, begotten on the body of the said "Mary and the said ffeoffees respectively of the respective premisses "continued soe seized untill they were dispossed thereof by the late usurped powers. And that the said "Connor was killed in his Maiesties service as aforesaid, and his children brought upp in the Protestant 66 Religion, and therefore prayed to be restored to the possion of all and singular the premises To which "the said clayme Sr William Domvile, Knight, hiş Maieties Attorney Genel, on the behalfe of his Maty, and "other defendants appeared and answered. Upon which pleadings the said cause proceeded to a finall "heareing, and was heard by this Court this present day, that is to say, Friday, the one and twentith day of August, in the fifteenth yeare of the King's Maiesties raigne that now is, in open Court, at the place comonly called the Kings Inns, Dublin, in the presence of the counsell on both sides learned in the law And "forasmuch as upon hearing of the said cause, upon the testimonies, proofs, and evidences produced before us, "It appeared unto the Court that the said claymant resorteth to the benefitt of articles as to the lands of "Smithstown and the impropriacon of the parish of Kilshanny aforesaid, And that the said Donnogh O'Bryen "was and is an innocent Protestant, and sonne and heire of his father, the said Connor O'Bryen 66 66 "It is therefore thereof considered, ordered, adjudged, and decreed by this Court, that the said claymt, "Donnogh O'Bryen, was and is an innocent Protestant, within and according to the true intent and true meaning of the said Act; and that he be forthwith restored unto, and that he and the heirs males of his body "shall and may have and enjoy such estate in possion after the death of the claymt Mary, and noe other, as by "the said deed is to him limitted and appointed, after the deaths of his said father and mother, and which did 66 or 66 of right ought to come unto him as sonne and heire, in remainder to his said father of and in all and singular [&c.] (Signed) "RI. RAYNSFORD, EDWARD DERING, THO. BEVERLEY, "Intratur, in officio Auditoris Generalis nono die Febr., 1670. "Exd and Enrolled by THOS Kennedy, "Chief Clerke to the Commrs." ORIGINAL INJUNCTION or Warrant, dated 21st August, 1663, for giving possession of Leameneh to Donough O'Brien, in the Claimant's possession: : "Wee, his Maiesties Comm's appointed for putting in execučon the Act of Settlemt of Ireland, unto the "Sherriffe of the county of Clare send greeting, Whereas, by our order and decree bearing date the one and "twentith day of August, in the fifteenth yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord the King's Maiesty that now is, Donnogh O Bryen, and the heires males of his body, are restored (after the death of Mary Cooper "at Bryen, his mother), unto the castle and plowland of Lemeaneagh, the quarter or plowland of Cahirmole, "the quarter of Cahirfadda, the castle and two plowlands of Ballymorroughow, the two plowlands of Clonenes, "the halfe quarter of Moher Callanagh, with all and singular their appurteñces in your Baylywicke; These "are therefore to require and comannd you that without delay (imediately from and after the death of the said "Mary Cooper als Bryen), you give and deliver or cause possion of the premisses to be given and delivered "unto the said Donough O'Bryen, or the heires males of his body, or to his or their agent, attorney, or "assignes, and to quiett him and them in the possession of the same from time to time as occasion shall "require. And for your soe doeing, this our precpt shal be unto you a sufficient warrant. Given under our "hands and seales the one and twentith day of August in the fifteenth yeare of the raygne of our gracious Soveraigne Lord King Charles the Second, annoq, Dni 1663. 66 "RI. RAYNSFORD (L.S.) " EDWARD DEring (L.s.) "Exd by THOS. KENNEDY, "Ch. Clke. to the Commrs" ORIGINAL INJUNCTION OR WARRANT, dated 2nd October, 1663, for granting possession of other property to said Donough O'Brien, in the Claimant's possession: 66 66 We, His Maiesties Commrs. appointed for putting in execučon the Act for Settlement of Ireland, unto "the Sherriffe of the county of Clare send greeting: Whereas by our order and decree, bearing date the one "and twentith day of August in the fifteenth yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord the Kings Maiesty "that now is, Donnogh O'Brien is restored unto the castle and two plowlands of Ballygriffa the plowland "of Ardkearny, the third part of a plowland in Aghrem, the castle and plowland of Bally portrea, the quarter "of Insicnolaght and Derrys, the quarter of Ballyashie, the halfe quarter of Ballycassin, the quarter and fifth 66 part of a quarter in Ballynabinny Moylgrane and Ballynealane, the cartron of Gortlahane, the sixth part "of a quarter in Dromnegah, the two third parts of a quarter in Carrhownegowle, the halfe quarter in Towerlaghmore, the quarter of Kiltocby, the half quarter of Aylish, the halfe quarter of Fianmeanagh "the Cartron of Pullynachona, the halfe quarter and halfe a cartron in Carhownemaddera, the half quarter "of Roughhanetweskagh and Layna, the quarter of Tobermaly, the half quarter of Cahirmackuna, the halfe quarter of Moclerane, the quarter of Poulcoolickye Fahafane and Cahirpolla, halfe a quarter and the third CC part of a quarter in Poolynafooka Rannagh Keileneglassie and Moynoha, the halfe quarter and halfe cartron "of Killnoe Cragganboy and Tonereguij, the halfe quarter of Gortneylogh and Maghirry, with all and singular their rights members and appurteñces in yor Baylywicke, saveing and excepting out of this our 66 precept the estate, right, title, interest, and possion of the transplanted persons hereafter named dureinge "the continuance of the same respectively, that is to say, of Mathew O'Hehir, James Bourke, Teige "O'Kearin, Mathew Griffa, Moore Brody, and James her sonne, Bryen Goodwyn and Willm. Barry, which "said persons, their heires and assignes, or any of them, are not by you to be removed out of their respective "interests and possions, until they be respectively restored to their former estates, or shall have a reprize of "lands of equall value worth and purchase, in pursuance of and according to the said Act These are "therefore to require and comannd you that without delay you give and deliver, or cause the poŝsion of all "and singular the premises (except before excepted) forthwith to be given and delivered unto the said Donogh "O'Bryen, his heires, or assignes, or to or for their agent, attorney or assignes and of the same excepted “premisses, and every part thereof, when the said persons above named their heires or assignes respectively |