Clanricarde, Sir William de Burgh, the last M⭑William
eighter, created earl of, 81; excluded from all power in
Galway, 82.

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Rickard, earl of, first lord president of Connaught,
99, note; appointed governor of Galway, 102.

Ulick, marquis of, his care to secure the public
peace, 109; his character, ib. note; composes the differences
between the town and fort, 110; reduces the town to
obedience, 114; succeeds Ormond as lord deputy of Ireland
127.

Clare Galway abbey and castle built, 44, note; castle
garrisoned, 112; surprised by captain Burke, 120; taken
by Coote, 128.

Clare, Richard de, war between him and de Burgo, 53.
Clarence, duke of, marries Elizabeth, heiress of the earl of
Ulster, 57; lays claim to Galway, ib; his issue, ib. note;
inquisition taken after his death, ib.

Clifford, Sir Conyers, president of Connaught, 94, note.
Cogan, Milo, defeated in Connaught, 44.

Collegiate church, 233; seal, ib; chapel, 254.

Cole, Elisha, A.M. 89; note, 252.

Coleman, family of, 21.

Colony, Dutch, proposes to settle near Galway, 101;
frustrated, 102.

Commerce of Galway, 51, 58, 67, 83, 106, 138; declines,
174; causes misrepresented, 286; chamber of, 290.
Common council, list of, 187, note.

Communication between Lough-Corrib and the sea, commonly
called Lynch's folly, commenced, 76.
Conflagration in the town, 41, 65, 76, 101.

Connaught, 8, 99, note; derivation of the name, 32; its
miserable situation, 45; divided into counties, 91.

Coote, Sir Charles, defeats and kills the R. C. archbishop
of Tuam, 122; invests Galway, 128; proposes conditions,
130; town surrenders, 152; his severities, 137.
Corporation disputes, 170, 227; decayed state, 285
Corrib, lough, 4, 279.

Costume of the Irish, 202, note.

Council of state assembles in Galway, 131.

Craddock, family of, 21.

Crean, family of, 21, 25.

Dune-bun na Gaillve, castle of Galway, so called, 40.
Dunlo Castle, near Ballinasloe, built, 39.

East-tower gate built, 103, note.

Education of the Irish, 86, note; low state of in Ireland
dnring the reigns of Henry VIII. and Elizabeth, 86, note;
Edw. IV. his charter to the town, 65; Edw. VI. his charter,
84; declares the bull of Innocent VIII. void, and re-esta-
blishes the collegiate church, 240.
Emon-a-Tuane Lynch, 57.

English rapacity and want of principle, 68, note.
mayor and sheriffs appointed, 136.

Eochaidh Feidhlioch, monarch of Ireland, divides Connaught
into three parts, 33.

Essex, earl of, describes the ruined state of Galway, 146.
Etymological inquiries, 1.

Excommunication by the warden of Galway, 113, note.
Eyre, Edward, his dispute with Robert Martin of Ross, 142;
accused of treasonable words, ib; acquitted by the house
of commons, 145; his answer, ib. note; obtains a lease
from the corporation, 145, note.

Stratford, esq. governor of the town, 177; his returns
on the state of the fortifications, ib; complaints of his rigor,
180; his answers, ib.

Fairs, patents for holding at Galway, 224, note; at Balli -
nasloe, 287, note.

Falkland, lord deputy, arrives in Galway, 102; his muni-
ficence, ib.

Ffallon, family of, 21, 26, 65.

Families of Galway before Henry II. 6.

Fines paid by the O'Conors, M'Dermods, O'Kellies,
O'Flendegan and O'Fergill, 48, 49, note.

Fire-engine much wanted in Galway, 315, note.

Fishery, salmon, 291; herring, 296; sunfish, cod and turbot,
297.

Fitton, president of Connaught, his severities, 85.

Fitzpatrick, Richard, esq. M. P. supports the Daly interest.
against that of Eyre, 188.

Fitzwilliams, lord deputy, his cruelty, 93; visits Galway,
receives submissions of the Irish chieftains, and causes
several Spaniards to be beheaded, ib.

Flaxseed first imported into Galway, 290, note.
Fleet, East India, arrives in the bay, 168, 190.
Ffont, family of, 13, 25, 50.

Forbes, lord, arrives in the bay of Galway, 116; his
brutal conduct, 118.

Fortifications built, 122; decayed state described, 177;
demolished, 192.

Franciscan friary, 264; chapel built, 267; nunnery, 274.
Freemen, non-resident, decision in favor of, 196.
Ffrench, family of, 13, 25, 65.

Governor of Galway, remarkable anecdote of a, 12, note.
Grana-weal, troops sent to besiege her castle, 86, note.
Green, inclosed and planted with trees, 103.

Grey, lord deputy, arrives in Galway, 81; receives submis-
sions, ib.; his exactions, ib.

Guild of merchants of the staple established, 100.

Hackett, family of, 219, note.

Hamilton, Mrs. corporation lands, charter and market-duties
granted to, 146.

Henry IV. his charter, 63; Henry VIII. his charter, 82.
Heylyn, anecdote respecting Galway by, 22.
Hospital, first built in High-street, 77.

of St. Bridget founded in the east suburbs, 81.
Howard, Mr. visits the prisons, infirmary, charter and free-
schools at Galway, 302, 304; note, 306, 311.
Hy-Many or Maneach, O'Kelly king of, slain, 54, note.

Independence of Galway asserted, 195.

Innocent VIII. pope, his bull of confirmation, 68.
Inquisition concerning the O'Conor family, and the earl of

Ulster, 52, note; defining the boundaries of the county of
Galway, 99, note; finding the title of Cha. I. to Connaught,
105, note.

Ireton, his letter to general Preston, 128, note; to the citizens
of Galway, 129, note; their answer, 130, note.
Italian traveller, curious observations concerning Galway by

Lacy, Hugo de, defeated in Connaught, 45.

Ladies of Galway, 315.

Lambert, family of, 21.

Licentiousness of the country gentlemen, 96; resolutions of
the corporation thereon, ib.

Limerick, customs paid in, before 1300, inferior to those paid
in Galway, 51, note; jealousies between the merchants of
both places, 60; hostilities between the city and town, 78;
curious articles of peace, ib. note; further jealousies, 79.
Longevity, instances of, 207, note; 281, note.
Lorrain, duke of, his treaty, 127.
Loughrea castle built, 48, note.

Loyalty of the inhabitants of Galway, 88, 123, 125, 141,
183, 190.

Ludlow, his correspondence with Sir Richard Blake, 131.
Lurgan-loch supposed to have been the bay of Galway, 4.
Lynch, family of, 17, 25, 26, 50.

T

John, his description of Galway, 23; account of his
life and writings, addenda.
Mac-an-Earlas, driven into rebellion, 85; harrass the town,
ib.; destroy the country, 86; submit, ib.; sent prisoners to

Dublin, ib.; liberated and again take arms, ib. ; besiege the
castle of Loughrea, 88; defeated and finally subdued, ib.
Mac Yeoris, or Berminghnm, submits, 81.
Magistrates of Galway, 197.

Maps of the town, 22, 23, 24.

Marble quarries near Galway, 288; in Arran 311, note.
Martin, family of, 18, 25, 50.

Mass, celebration of, prevented in Galway, 168.

Mayo, principal inhabitants of, submit to the lord deputy, 93.
Mayor and bailiffs first elected, 69.

Medal to perpetuate the surrender of Galway to William III.

Moncton, family of, 516.

Monuments and inscriptions in St.Nicholas' church, 252, 253;
in St. Francis' abbey, 268; in Dominican abbey 271.
Moore, family of, 21.

Morris, or Mares, family of, 19, 25, 65.

Mountjoy, lord deputy, fortifies Galway, 96; causes the fort
of St. Augustine to be built, 97; visits the town, ib.;
receives the submission of several chieftains, ib.
Murage charter, 58.

Mutton island, fort on, surrenders, 132; the island used as
a commonage by the town, 144, note; castle repaired, 164;
fortified, 167; light-house, 280.

Nagnata, the ancient city of Galway, 37.

Natives of Galway, members of the assembly of confederate
Catholics at Kilkenny, 123, note.
New rules regulating the corporation, 144.
Nicholas, St. account of, 233, note.
Nolan, family of, 21, 26, 66.

O'Brien, Dermod more, protects the trade of Galway, 51.
O'Briens lords of Arran, 52, note; expelled by the O'Flaher-
ties, ib.; petition of the corporation in their favor, ib.;
curious transactions concerning them, 207, note.
O'Conor, Roderick, monarch of Ireland, makes peace with
Henry II. 44; dethroned by his sons, 45; dies in Cong, ib.
Cathal Crovdearg, defeats Decourcy, 45; founds
Abbey Knockmoy, ib.; defeats Cathal Carragh O'Conor,
46; joins Miler Fitz-Henry, ib.; forces de Burgo to sur-
render, and enters into a treaty with king John, ib. ; dies, ib.
—, Fedhlim, established, 47; visits Henry III. ib.;
takes the castle of Galway, 48; dies, ib.

Hugh, defeats Walter de Burgo, 49; is slain, ib.
Fedhlim, joins the earl of Ulster against Bruce, 54;
puts his rival, Roderick O'Conor, to death, ib.; slain at
the battle of Athenry, ib.

-, Balldearg, account of, 156, note.
O'Flaherty, family of, 10, 20, 40; note, 81.

O'Halloran, sept of, 3, 18, 20; note.

O'Madden, chieftain of Siol-Anmcad, submits, 81.
O'Mahony, Connor, his violent publication, 123; curious.
censure of it by the corporation of Galway, ib. note.
O'Mayle, chieftain of Borishoole, submits, 86.
O'Murray, Donat, archbishop of Tuam, establishes the war-
denship, 68, 234.

Plantation of Galway by a colony from Liverpool and Glou-

cester projected, 139.

Population, 192, 193, 194.

Portumna castle, 109; town 122.

Possessions of the collegiate church, 114, nole,

Presentation convent, 278.

Presidents of Connaught, 103, note.

Preston, general, appointed governor, 128; takes shipping in
the bay, and goes to France, 129; his letter to Ireton, ib. note.
Prisage of wines, 81, 85, 91, 92.

Protestant inhabitants removed out of the town, 155; petition
parliament, 171, 186.

Ptolemy, his description of Ireland, 35.

Purcell, colonel Toby, his upright conduct, 164, note; opposes
Sir Henry Bellasyse, ib.; accuses Edward Eyre, ib.

Quarter episcopals, what, 247, note.

Queen Elizabeth, her charter, 86.

Quin, family of, 21, 26, 66.

Quo-Warranto against the corporation, 152.

Recorders, list of, 230.

Reilig-na-Riogh, famous burying place of, 33.

Remarkable instance of inflexible justice, 70.

Richard II. his first charter to Galway, 61; second charter, ib.
III. his charter, 69.

Rinmore, battery erected at, 120.

Rintinane, battery at, ib.

Rinuncini, the pope's nuncio, his violent proceedings in
Galway, 124; takes shipping in the bay, and quits the
kingdom, 125.

Robe, town of, 60.

Roscommon, county of, 99, note.

Ross, barony of, 100, note.

Rotherham, Sir Thomas, appointed first governor of St. Au-
gustine's fort, 97; his character 98; elected Mayor, ib.
Russell, lord deputy, visits the town, 94.

colonel, purchases the charter and other duties from
Mrs. Hamilton, 147; elected mayor, ib.

Schools in Galway, 175, note.

Semper, family of, 21.

Several curious particulars requiring reformation, 208.
Ships of Galway, Dune and Conmacnamara, 41.
Shruel, massacre at, 110, note.

Sidney, lord deputy, arrives in Galway, 85; his observations
on the town, ib.

Simcockes, family of, 223, note.
Skerrett, family of, 19, 25, 50.
Smith, Erasmus, his free-school, 310.
Smuggling prevalent in Galway, 174.
Spa-well near the town, 281, note.
Spanish pride, 314, note.

Speed, his description of Galway, 22.

St. John, Sir Oliver, his description of Connaught, 22.
Staple for wool, &c. established in Galway, 58; removed, 59.
Strafford, lord, vide Wentworth.

Sussex, lord deputy, arrives in Galway, 84.

Streets of Galway first paved, 77.

Stubbers, colonel, appointed governor of the town, 134; his
proceedings, ib.

Tacitus, his observations on Ireland, 34,
Taylor, Walter, esq. his return, 175.
Tenures, singular, in Galway, 282, note.
Theatre, 315.

Thomond, country of, added to Connaught, 91; afterwards
united to Munster, ib. note.

earl of, arrives in Galway, 89; his son put to
death, 88, note.

Tierney, family of, 21.

Tirellan, castle of, 112; taken by Coote, 128; burned, 159.
Town-clerks, list of, 230.

clock erected, 103, note.

Travelling from Galway to Dublin dangerous, 84, note.
Tribes of Galway, origin of this appellation, 6.

Tuam, titular archbishop of, killed, 122; narrative of the
transaction, 125, note.

Tully, family of, 21, 26, 66.

Tyrconnell, lord, withdraws the garrison from Galway, 154;
curious letter of, 248, note.

Ulick, origin of this christian name, 54, note.

Ulster, William, earl of, assassinated, 55; consequences
thereof, 56.

Union, declaration of the inhabitants of Galway in favor of
the, 191.

Vallancey, general, his derivation of the name of Galway, 3.
Vesey, archbishop, his attempt to remove the archiepiscopal
see from Tuam to Galway, 249,

Volunteers of Galway 189; reviewed, 190.

Ware Sir James, his derivation of the name of Galway, 2;
his opinion as to the Irish tribes mentioned by Ptolemy, 35,
36, 37.

Warrant of freedom to Galway, 127, note.

Wentworth, lord deputy, arrives in the town, 104; proceed-
ings to find the king's title to Connaught, ib. his arbitrary
treatment of the sheriff and jury of Galway, 105; the
king's title found, ib.

West-gate and tower, built by Thomas Martin, 84.
Will of Dominick Lynch, curious extract from, 235, note.
Willoughby, Sir Francis, appointed governor of St Augustine's
fort, 98; arrives in Dublin, and describes the state of the
town, 109.

captain Anthony, left in command of the fort,
109; his violent conduct, 110; burns the suburbs, 112;
defeats the pacific measures of Lord Clanricarde, 115;
kills many of the town's people 116; surrenders the fort,
121; tragical fate of several of his men, ib. note.
Wool, exportation of, 174, note.

Young, Arthur, his tour through Ireland, 292, note.
men, company of, formed, 77.