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pleasure and good cheer (pious Bp Jeremy Taylor treating the Primate and Clergy, & all y" Gentry
that came to his Tables, after he had preached an excellent sermon) & I had also desireable com-
pany & discourses, & gained some knowledge in Ecclesiasticall Courts practise (to Learn w ch I
chiefly went) for I had some Hitts to look to (and I knew I should be mentioned at that visitation :
and that my Absence would be misrepresented, & might turn to my prejudice: w ch I prevented &
obviated, by being personally there. So the Reader may judge whether I went on a sleevless
errand : And also if I had (yea or No) penyworth for my mony, and Paines expended therein.
Now after these Last fower memorandas here interjected, the better to observe point of times &
to recreate y e Reader with diversity of matter, I will proceed to write of other sortes of affaires viz.
A 1666 I took my Deare wife, and young son 1 * (in his childs coats with leading Sleeves,)
unto Dublin, to visit the Countess of Mount Alex' 1 * 1 & other relations, & thence went to Trim,
Navan, and elswhere, to see our Rotten Cabbins and waste tenements, & some Lands in Longford
(w ch were encumbered by other mens Claims) and had fallen to my Lott, for my fathers arreares of
Pay due before June 1649. I42 Such was my bad happ, to my great loss, toile, charge, & vexations;
meeting oppositions or fals Informations, to find out w ch evils & to remedy them, I borrowed Mony
for this Journey. T « But we both being weary of Travell, & of dissapointm ts in our hopes to have
seen excellent things, & to get ready possession, and finding also great mistakes in y e Lott, w ch
must be Rectified by y e Court of Claimes, & by y e Green Chamber afores d , where y e Trustees & I
sate. 1 **
Wee therefore came back to Dublin, and haveing rested above a week, and renewed our visits,
and after that bidding farewell to all friends (especially to our Deo re said Countess 145 ) wee then
returned to Rosemount (which jorney cost me cinq solz in new clothes a la mode &c. & there we
stayed till summer 1667 that I went up to get the reprizalls for mistakes in my said Lotts. &
haveing pitched on, & picked up some parcells farr scattered, which I could not help tho I was a
140 Young' son. — This was James Montgomery, the more, 1 cartron, 5 2a > an( i 2 4P- ! Aghaknappagh, 3
author's only son, and only surviving child. cartrons, 163a. 2r. 4p. ; Cartron-Garrow, Tuaralin and
141 Countess of Mount Alar. — Catherine Jones, the Cartron-Keele, 2 cartrons and a quarter, 143a. 2r. 24p., —
second wife of the first earl. See p. 230, supra. all in the barony of Moydow, and county of Longford.
142 June. 1649. — His father's arrears, including pay as Total quantity 59 Ia - an d 24p, plantation measure, or
a 1649 officer and his expenses in raising and equipping 957a. 2r. 9p. statute measure. Total rent ,£12 os ojd.
troops in 1641, amounted to the sum of ,£9,942 os 7d, to In Foare, county Westmeath, he was assigned eleven
satisfy which the author obtained under the Act of Settle- cottages, twenty-one garden plotts, one acre of meadow,
ment the several fragments of property here referred to. one stang of pasture, and four waste places on which
The claims of the 1649 officers had not been provided for cabins had stood, the total rent of all being 13s 2d. In
in Cromwell's protectorate, nor by the parliament that the town of Navan, county of Meath, he was allotted 28
had assembled soon after the restoration. Some ruinous houses, consisting generally of walls without roofs,
ands, indeed, that had been set out to soldiers and and yards and gardens attached, the total rent of which
adventurers, were allotted to these officers, but this pro- was £*>. In the town of Trim, county Meath, eighteen
vision was not found sufficient ; and, to supplement it, the ruined houses with yards and gardens, the total rent
forfeited Corporations and Houses within their bounds, £1 I7d. In the town of Drogheda, six ruinous houses
were added. To render these the more valuable, the with gardens and yards, rent 3s 3d. See Irish Record
Act of Explanation provided that no Irish papist, although Commission Reports, vol. iii. , pp. 176.
innocent, should be permitted to enjoy any House within I43 lor this Journey. — Among those who gave the
a corporation, except the natives of Cork and Fethard. author trouble were certain kinsfolk named Montgomery.
The following is a list of the lands and tenements assigned See p. 391, supra.
to the author, in satisfaction of his father's claims on the ' 44 And I sate. — See pp. 406, 422, supra.
government: — A tenement in St. Thomas street, Dublin, I45 Deare said Countess. — See p. 230, supra.
rent, 12s 4^d; Gurtinloe, I cartron, part, 112a. 2r.; Derry-