1 Talduffe. Lisnacreog. BALLENE FUEIGH. Treakre in. Gort Glagon. Mah-re-mere. Coolban. Slatalearty. Don Manye. Coleroskan. RORSET MONA. Ba-Moore. Teden Bane. Trean Altena.* * The following list of the names of the townlands, and their modern appellations, has been kindly communicated by Henry Anderson, Esq. of Ballymoney : In the year 1614 it was proposed that a sufficient person should be sent over as agent to undertake the management of the Irish Estate, and Mr. George Canning, a member of the Ironmongers' Company, was appointed to that office. The Commission grantid to George Canning, citizen and Iremonger of London, from the right wor" the Master, Wardens, and Committees of the Company of Iremongers, London, and other the wor" Companyes of London their associates. To all men to whome this or pret warrant shall come, greeting. Theise are to give you to understand that wee the Mr and Wardens and Committees of the Company of Iremongers, Brewers, Scriveners, Coupers, Pewterers, Barber Surgions, and Carpinters, being joined assotiates in the 7th pportion of the citties lands in the pvince of Ulster, within the realme of Ireland, have assigned and authorised the said George Canninge, or trustie and well beloved, to bee or agent and deputie for us, and to oo uses to receive the possession of the said lands, and the rents thereof, and arreags of rents, and the said lands to stake and bound out apart by themselves from the lands of other men, church, or companies, and for us and to or uses to provide whatsoever materialls the said place or countrie may best afford, to and for or intendid buildings (which we hope by God's pmission to pceed with): And we authorise and give him power for us and to or uses to fell and cutt downe tymber for the said buildings, eyther in o" owne or in the pportions of other companyes to us adjoyning, as the same may best fall out unto our uses, or most convenient and necessarie; and the said lands to view and survey, and the place and places to sett for o erections, which wee intend to bee a castell and baune besids four other buildings: And this o" authorities we graunt him to doe and execute for us and to or uses by himself or other his deputie or deputies; requesting in his and their favours the lawfull assistaunce of our citties agents: and the same wee subscribe. Given under or hands, att London, this nyneteenth day of September, 1614. Note. That besides these the Wardens of the Brewers' subscribed. 1615. Some particulars of the condition of the Ironmongers' proportion occur under this date, in a note delivered to Sir Josias Bodley, from which the following is an extract: Their chefe house or castell is fiftie (sic) foot in length, and ye bredth thereof thirtie foote, and hathe four flanches, on at each corner. The height of the said walles is xxxi. foote, and foure foote thicke, built of stone and bricke and covered with slates. There is stone, brick, tymber, and lyme, readie in place and agreed with, for the making of the baune and other houses next spring. There are also six other dwelling houses, &c. &c. The money expended in building at that period is stated to be Total for making bricks . Paid workmen, as appereth For materials, as appereth For carrying thereof For subsidies and King's rent . £ S. d. Delivered to the Committee by Mr. Wm. Brock upon his coming over; from a copy in the Irish Correspondence Book belonging to the Ironmongers' Company. 1615. Sir Josias Bodley having made an unfavourable report to King James of the slow progress of the citizens of London in accomplishing the purposes of the intended Plantation, his Majesty addressed a letter to Sir Arthur Chichester, then Lord Deputy of Ireland, signifyng his intention to resume the lands of all parties who had neglected to carry out his instructions, unless by the end of August in the following year such improvements were effected as should appear to Sir Josias Bodley, in the survey then to be taken by him, satisfactory, and in full conformity with the original articles. The coppie of the tre from the King's Matie to the Lorde Deputie of Ireland about the overview of the Plantation. To our trustie and wel-beloved counsellor the Lord Chichester, our deputie of or realme of Ireland, or to any other deputie, chief governor, or keeper of our great seale that hereafter shalbe, or to anie other our ministers and officers whome it may concerne. Right trusty and welbeloved, Wee greet you well. Wee receaved latelie from you a relaton of the psent estate of the plantacon in Ulster, sett downe with some clearnes and order by the pen of Sr Josias Bodley, according to the exactnes of the survey thereof taken lately by himself by o" commandment; that wee acknowlege his care and industrye in pformance of that service, and do require of you to give him thanckes in our name for it. We have examined, viewed, and reviewed with or own eyes everie pte thereof, and finde, greatlie to our discontentment, the slowe pgression of that plantacon; some fewe of the Brittishe undertakers, 3vitors, and natives having as yett proceeded effectuallie to the accomplishing of such thinges in all points as wee required of them by the articles of the plantacon; the rest, and by much more the greater pte, having either done nothing at all, or so little, or by reason of the (slightness) thereof to so little purpose, that the work seems rather to us to be forgotten by them, and to pishe under their hands, than any whitt to be advanced by them; some having begun to build and not to plant, others began to plant and not build, and all of them in geñall reteyning the Irish still upon their lands, the avoiding of wch was the fundamental reason of that plantacon. Wee have made collection of their names, as wee find their endeav's or negligences noted in this svice, wch wee will reteyne as a memoriall with us, and they shalbe sure to feele accordingly the effectes of or ffavour as there shalbe occasion. It is well knowne unto you that if wee had intended onlie our psent profitt, as it seemes most of them over greedelie have done, wee might have convted those large territories of o escheated lands to the greate impvemt of the revenewe of or crowne there. But wee chose rather, for the safetie of that coun |