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GLEANINGS FROM IRISH MANUSCRIPTS
the part of it which I wrote in the house of
Thomas,29 son of Redmond, and his good wife,
Sadhbh, daughter of Mac Giollapadraig ; for I
have spoken of these in another part of the book.
I am Richard, son of Muircheartach, etc, who
wrote [this], and I beseech the King of kings
and the Creator of heaven and earth that He may
assign and grant a Christian's share of His
great merciful Principality to myself, and to
every one of these good kindly couples which
I have enumerated. And I put it as an obligation,
for the sake of the God of heaven, on every one
who shall read this to recite an earnest prayer
for my own soul, and for their souls, and for
the soul of every other Christian for whom we
are obliged to pray by the wish of God and of
the Church.
These are the names of the officials that are
set over Ireland by the Queen of England, that
is, by Elizabeth, daughter of the eighth King
Henry :
Deputy 30 : Sir William Fitzwilliams.
President of the two Provinces of Munster ;
Sir John Norris.
Governor of Connacht : Sir Richard Bingham.
Apart from the Deputy, there is no special
official over Leinster, save in the case of three
countries which have been taken into the King's
hand,3i namely, I Failghe 3^ (under the power of
Sir George Bourchier), and Laoighis 33 (under
the yoke of Captain Saintleger), and likewise
Captain Harrington over the O Byrnes' country ;
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