Historical account of the Macdonnells of Antrim

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highly favoured indeed, encircled by a ring of English gentlemen and their followers, who would
protect it from all enemies without, and impose their own regulations for self-aggrandisement on all
subjugated Irish and Scottish inhabitants within ! This project, however, had never any consum-
mation but on paper, for Sorley Boy had not been consulted, and was prepared to hold his own
against all comers. The following document is now interesting, as showing us how nicely these
gentry had made their arrangements for the appropriation of other people's lands, and what dainty
visitants Sorley Boy's redshanks then drove rudely away from our shores : —
"A Noate of the Several/ Seates for placying of the Gentlemen Adventurers for their principal!
dwellyngs.
" Glenarm, (2) William Morgan of Penycode, (3) distant from Red Bay (4) eight miles.
" The Red Bay, Lord Rich, (5) distant from Burnay Dall (6) eight miles.
" Burnay Dall, Henry Knolles, (7) distant six miles from
" Marketon Bay ; (8) on the countries of Mowbray and Cary, (9) William and John Norryce
(10) in Mowbray; Michael and John Cary (11) in Cary ; distant three miles from
(2) Glenarm. — See pp. 73, 18S, 250, supra. This
place was often known as Inverarma, and must have
always been an important position on the coast. Its
abbey and all its lands were included in a grant from
the crown to Alexander Macrandal Boy Macdonnell, in
the year 1557. This chieftain of the Clan Randal,
Garmoran branch, appears to have confined his operations
to Lecale in the county of Down, and probably never
ventured to assert his claim to Glenarm, in opposition to
his kinsmen, the Clandonnell.
(3) Penycode. — William Morgan was provost-marshal
in Essex's army, but probably he never saw Glenarm, his
grant in that district taking no effect whatever. He
subsequently distinguished himself as a soldier, in the
Low Countries, where he served under count Ludovic, and
assisted at several defeats of the Spaniards. See Somers'
Tracts, vol. i., pp. 346, 355, 362.
(4) Red Bay. — See pp. 45, 119, 171, 175, 188, supra.
(5) Lord Rick. — This was Robert, second lord Rich,
who soon deserted Essex, being "heartily sick" of the
part he had taken in the expedition. He afterwards
married Penelope Devereux, a daughter of Essex, whom
he was soon compelled to divorce, and who was afterwards
married to sir Charles Blount, eighth baron Mountjoy. The
son of this lord Rich was created earl of Warwick in 1613,
although, in 1601, he had encouraged and assisted Robert,
the second Devereux earl of Essex, whilst attempting his
insane rebellion.
(6) Burnay Dall. — Correctly Btm-na-Dall, the 'foot
of the river Dall.' This was another name for Cushindall,
Cos-abhann-Dhalla, — the Irish term Cos in these topo-
graphicalnameshavingthesamemeaningastheword Bun.
Cushindun Bay was sometimes called Bun-abhann-Duine,
or 'foot of the river Dun.' See Annals of the Four Masters,
A.D. 1567; Reeves's Eccl. Antiquities, p. 83.
(7) Henry Knolles. — This gentleman was a son of sir
Francis Knollys or Knowles, vice-chamberlain and
treasurer of the household to Elizabeth. Henry Knolles
was brother of Alice, lady Essex, afterwards countess of
Leicester.
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(8) Marketon Bay. — Now Ballycastle Bay, see pp. 48,
124, 167, supra.
(9) Mowbray and Cary. — The district known then as
Mowbray, but afterwards as Munerie, comprised the
present parish of Ramoan and Grange of Drumtullagh.
(See Reeves's Eccles. Antiquities, p. 332). Carey here
applies only to the parish of Culfeightrin, to which this
territorial name has long been restricted. The barony of
Carey, however, includes the parishes of Culfeightrin,
Ramoan, Ballintoy, part of Billy, Armoy, and the island
of Rathlin ; but the two English gentlemen to whom it
was granted — on paper — had only the parish of Culfeigh-
trin, locally called Carey, See pp. 147, 162, 181, supra.
(10) A r orryce. — These brothers, William and John
Norris, to whom the lands of Mowbray or Munerie were
granted, were the sons of lord Norris, their mother being
a daughter of Henry Williams of Tyne, " a noble person,
to whom in her adversitie, the queene had been committed
to his safe custodie, and from him had received more than
ordinarie observances. My Lord Norris had by his lady
an apt issue, which the queene highly respected, for he
had six sonnes, and all martiall and brave men." William
was the eldest of these sons. John was but too well known
in Ireland, being cruel and ruthless in his dealings with
the Scots of Antrim. (See pp. 183 — 186, supra.) On the
failure of Robert, the second earl of Essex, against the rebel
earl of Tyrone, sir John Norris was sent hither in 1596,
with the title of lord-general, but he, too, was unsuccessful,
being over-reached by Tyrone, and at constant enmity with
the lord-deputy Russell. When the latter was recalled,
Norris expected to succeed him, but Essex had influence
enough to get lord Bourg sent as Irish deputy, which so
wounded and enraged Norris that he retired sullenly to
his presidency of Munster, and died in '597- See Somers'
Tracts, vol. i. , pp. 266 —268.
(11) Cary. — These Carys, who were to have become
lords of Culfeightrin, had Sorley Boy kept quiet, were
second cousins of queen Elizabeth, being the sons of her
cousin-german, sir Henry Cary, created by her viscount
Hunsdon. Henry Cary was the son of the queen's aunt,