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MISCELLANEOUS
them that is referred to McCallines owne good will and
pleasour with all other thinges conteined in this Indentour
And Likewayes McCallin is to aid and assist O’domnaill and
his men fare or neir at hand wherever they be just as
O domniall himself would doe. This contract is first
made and ended the 13th of July the yeare of God 1555
yeares Before these witnesses the Lord Lome Gillaescoib
McDubgaill and Callin McEoin Reabhuidh and Donald
Gorume McSivinnie and Erige Cuy O domniall And that
it was renewed the . . . day of . . . the yeare of God 1560
years And this contract was compleated ended subscrivit
and sealled with ther handis and sealls as said is
Sic Subscrib1
In dor so : Has Double of the contract between E. Argyll
and O’domniall in Ireland anno 1555 years.
This is the contract and mutual bond originally made
between Gillaescoib [Archibald] Earl of Argyll to wit
Mac Calen with his descendants and heirs and the Calvagh
O’ Donnell who was then not in possession of his Lordship
of Tyreconnell and his descendants and heirs after him;
and the 2nd Contract was confirmed and mutually bound
between Gilluescoib [Archibald] son of the aforesaid Earl
to wit MacCalin with whom is the Lordship of his father
with the Consent and counsel of the clann McQuibhne and
the good men of Argyll of the one part and the Calvach
O’Donnell with whom is the Lordship of Tyr Connell with
the consent and counsel of the good men of Tyrconnell of
the other part
The first point. The kindness and confederacy which
was between their men in the past to exist in the future.
And in particular the said Earl MacCailin to assist and
take part with him O Donnell in reducing the patrimony
of his father and grandfather under his hand and authority
and to submission to him to the full extent of the force
of the said Earl together with a gun for breaching walls
to breach castles and with a force of men every time . . .
he shall need them expressly at the cost of O Donnell.
The gun to be at Mac Cailins [cost] as long as it is on board