Other instances of local proceedings, as remarkable as those of the Anabaptists given by our author, might be adduced; but it is necessary to limit this continuation of our former. note, to one or two incidents of a harmless nature which occurred here. In A. D. 1655, two disciples of George Fox, "Humphy Norton and William Shaw, being in a peaceable meeting at Samuel Newton's house in Galway, were by a guard of soldiers forcibly haled thereout, the meeting broken up, and turned out of the town, and not suffered to go in to fetch their Horses."-Compendious View of some extraordinary Sufferings of the People called Quakers, 8vo. Dublin, 1731, p. 53. The "Quakers," however, persevered. In A. D. 1669, “Solomon Eccles, being moved of the Lord to go as a sign, on the 14th of the 7th month, and that naked, with fire and brimstone burning on his head, without the gates of the City, into a papists' Mass-meeting, and the Fryar and people being upon their knees, he (in the spirit of the Lord) said, 'wo to these idolatrous worshippers; God hath sent me this day to warn you, and to let you see, that if you repent not, what shall be your reward.' And so he went over the bridge into the City, warning them also to repentance; and when done he was had to prison, with his three Friends, Randal Cousins, Nich. Gribble, and Henry Bloodworth, who accompanied him in his services; Eliza Harper, visiting them in prison, was also there detained, and after several days imprisonment, were all released.”—Id. p. 113. It is a curious fact that from that time to the present, not a Quaker or Jew has been seen in these western parts of Ireland. The following occurrence in this district, recorded in Cambrensis Eversus, will shew to what extent the spirit of religious feeling had excited people at that period: Nuperrimè firmioris et infirmioris sexus et ætatis multitudo ad fontem Galviæ vicinum lavanda confluxit, ut salubritatem, vel naturâ vel S. Augustini (cujus nomen gerit) deprecatione aquis ejus inditam hauriret. Ad innoxiam hanc turbam gubernator Galviensis ducum suorum audacia satelles præsidiarios milites eduxit, qui jussu ejus plumbeæ grandinis nimbo insontes ex improviso perfuderunt; quorum aliqui gravioribus vulneribus affecti, cæteri veste, bonisque nudati in carceres non ducti sed tracti sunt."-Epist. Dedic. For rank, possessions, and the exercise of that species of military service, called by modern usage, "Martial Law,” Richard Burke, the Red Earl of Ulster, who died in A. D. 1326, was undoubtedly one of the foremost men of his time in Ireland. He is commemorated as follows by the noble editor of the Memoirs of the Marquis of Clan ricarde go ricarde, before referred to, p. 39, note ". Richard, the second earl of Ulster, usually called, from his complexion, the Red Earl, had such large possessions, that he was the most powerful subject in Ireland.”—Ped. VIII. As our author has, p. 32, adduced documents to shew some of the burgagery and manorial rights of this earl's immediate descendants, I may here refer to a curious old family record, formerly belonging to Mac William Oughter, head of the Bourkes of Mayo, and treating of them alone, and which is now preserved in the MS. Library of Trinity College, Dublin, F. 4. 13. It is described, "Historia et Genealogia Familiæ de Burgo, cum Picturis et Armis multorum nobilium hujusce Familiæ, in membrana delineatis; et Rhithmis in Lingua Hibernice. Omnia Hibernice-Codex membr." This book contains an exaggerated description of the possessions of the "Red Earl," which, it alleges, extended o na Forbachaiġ a n-iarżar Chonnaċt, an dużaiż ṁuintis Fhlażaptuiż, baile mic Scanlain laiṁ le Dun dealgan; agus o Tuċuid a d-Tuait Mhuman i Bhrian, go Baile-hanaiż [Beal aża seanaiż] ċois na h-Eirne, &c. "From Forbagh [a place six miles west of Galway] in Iar-Connaught, the territory of the O'Flaherties, to Ballymac Scanlan, near Dundalk; and from Luchud [now Lowid or Lughid bridge] in Thomond [viz. in Kilkeedy parish, barony of Inchiquin], to Ballyshannon, on Lough Earn." For the remainder of the exaggerated statement of those possessions, see the old volume referred to, fol. 1. Mac Firbis, in his large and valuable book of genealogies, now in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, after fol. 798, has the following entry in English to the same effect, and probably translated from the same old volume, viz.: "The Red Earle was lord in Demayne and Sarvice, for the most parte, from Bealagh-Lughyd in Tuamond to Bailiehany, which is an hundred miles, and from the Norbagh [Forbagh] by the sea side, to Bailie Mac Skanlon by Dundalke; and also from Limbricke to Waterford, besides all his Lands in four Shires, and in the Countie of Kilkenny, and Tipperary." But though it is evident that Mac Firbis doubted the extent of the statement, yet that the Red Earl's possessions were widely extended there can be no doubt. The following curious and hitherto unpublished record may serve to explain how some of those widely extended possessions were acquired: "[Anglia, SS. Conmac.] Placita apud Tristeldermot coram Johanne Wogan Justic. de Anno XXXIII. Edw. I., A. D. 1305. Supplicavit nobis dilectus et fidelis noster Ricardus de Burgo Comes Ultonie, quod, cum O'Conoghur [O'Conor] Hibernicus, quiquam plura homicidia, roberias, latrocinia et alia enormia diversa, in terra ipsius comitis de Conacia, et aliis terris adjacentibus, hactenus perpetravit, et de die in diem, in pacis nostre lesione, perpetrare non non desistit, teneat quandam terram nostram in Conacia que appellatur Scilmorthy [Siol Muiredhaigh], dictam terram ipsius comitis ibidem contigua, de nobis ad firmam ; velimus dictam terram de Scilmorthy eidem comiti, vel alicui altero Anglico, concedere; habendum pro tanto nobis inde annuatim reddendo, quantum dictus Hibernicus nobis inde hactenus reddere consuevit, vel in excambium pro tantis terris et tanti valoris per extentum, nobis per eundem comitem in terra pacis pro predicta terra de Scilmorthy danda et concedenda: Nos, igitur, volentes petitionem ipsius comitis, quatenus sine nostri incomodo poterimus, condescendere in hac parte; Vobis mandamus, quod per sacramentum proborum et legalium hominum de partibus illis, per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit, diligentur inquiratis, si nos, absque injuria vel prejuditio nobis vel alteri facienda, feoffare possumus prefatum comitem vel alium Anglicum quem voluerimus, de dictis terris de Scilmorthy, habendis in forma superius annotata, et quantum dicta terra de Scilmorthy, valeat per annum, in omnibus exitibus, juxta verum valorem ejusdem: et inquisicionem inde distincte et aperte factam, nobis sub sigillo vestro et sigillis eorum per quos facta fuit, sine dilatione mittatis et hoc breve. Teste meipso apud Wymlyngwelde, decimo tercio die Julii, anno regni nostri tricesimo tertio. “Pretextu cujus mandati justiciarius hic processit ad inquisicionem inde faciendam, per juratos subscriptos, in hunc modum. "Inquisitio capta apud Tristledermod, coram Johanne Wogan, justiciario Hibernie, a die Sancti Michaelis in quindecim dies, anno regni Regis Edwardi, XXXIII.io per subscriptos, viz.: Robertum Gent.; Matheum Dreu; Stephanum Tallry; Johannem Ffleming; Nicholaum Foleramb, de dicta terra de Scilmorthy; Jordanum de Exon; Johannem de Staunton; Richardum Dulyt; Willielmum Gaynard, militem, de comitatu Conacie; Walterum de Riddlesford; Michaelem de Kerdiffe; Adam le Poer; Phillipum filium Ade; Stephanum le Prond de eadem comitatu; Walterum le Brett; Willielmum de Sancto Leodegario; Richardum de Walleis, militem, de comitatu Tipperary; Johannem filium Ryrteth; Willielmum de Grafton; Johannem de Lowth; Willielmum Serle; Rodolphum Serle; Petrum Muriet; Johannem le Ken de eodem comitatu; Richardum Gernoun; Henricum de Crus, de comitatu Midie; Richardum de Valle, militem, de comitatu Tipperary; et Johannem Coterel, de comitatu Midie: Qui Jurati, dicunt super sacramentum suum, quod postquam terra de Scilmorthy, que continet quinque cantredras, devenit ad manus Domini Regis, post conquestum quem Willielmus de Burgo fecit de Conacia, quidam Hibernicus nomine Ffeylym O'Conoghur, qui se appellavit Regem Conacie, tenuit predictas quinque cantredras de Domino Henrico Rege, patre Domini Regis nunc, reddendo inde, singulis annis, Domino Regi quingentas marcas. Et ipse Feylim, tota vita sua, tenuit bonam pacem et fideliter pacavit pacavit redditum suum. Et post ejus mortem, surrexit filius ejus, et devenit felo Domini Regis et ligeos Anglicos Domini Regis de partibus suis interfecit, et movit communem guerram contra dominum Regem qui nunc est, et prostravit castra sua de Roscoman, et Randon; Quodquidam castrum de Roscomon, Robertus Dufford, primo tempore quo fuit justiciarius domini Regis nunc, firmaverat per custagia quasi inestimabilia, proper quod, utlagatus fuit, et obiit felo domini Regis, ita quod a tempore mortis Ffelym O'Conoghur, usque ad tempus quo predictus Robertus Dufford iterato venit justiciarius, dominus Rex parum vel nihil cepit de predicta terra, preterquam de una cantreda que vocatur O'Many, quam Dominus Rex nunc dederat Ricardo de la Rokele ad feodum firmum, et predictus Robertus, in secundo suo adventu, per magnos exercitus et custos quasi inestimabiles, iterato firmavit castrum de Roscomon in predicta terra, et ipse dimisit cuidam O'Conaghur duas cantredas et dimidium de predicta terra, que sunt versus magnam Iretheriam Conacie et Ultonie, ad firmum, viz. cantredam de Maylurg et Tyrelele, et cantredam de Tothes, excepta una villata terre que vocatur Cloinnagganenan, que fuit Richardi de Calne, que nunc est in manibus Domini Regis per minorem etatem heredis ipsius, et dimidium cantredi de Moyhe, reddendo inde domino Regi, singulis annis, centum marcas. Et sic postea diversi justiciarii diversis Hibernicis consanguinitatis et cognominis illius, per consimilem firmam illas duas cantredas et dimidium dimiserunt, sed Hibernici illi raro totam firmam, et sepe parte per annum, et sepius nihil inde solverunt. Et dicunt quod predicte due cantrede et dimidium valent, communioribus annis, tempore pacis in omnibus exitibus, centum marcas. Et dicunt quod si Hibernici fuissent fugati de partibus illis, et terra fuisset assessa fidelibus hominibus ille duo cantrede et dimidium valerent, per annum, ducenti et quinquaginta marcas, sicut predictus Felym pro eis reddit: sed dicunt hoc non posse fieri sine magno posse ipsius domini Regis, et sumptibus inestimabilibus, valorem. dicte terre excedentibus, maxime cum predictus O'Conoghur sit unus de quinque capitaneis hibernicis Hibernie. Et dicunt quod dominus Rex, sine prejudicio vel injuria sibi vel alteri faciendo, potest feoffare predictum comitem, vel alium quem voluerit, de predictis duobus cantredis et dimidium, quas O'Conoghur modo tenet, preter predictas villatas terre. Et dicunt quod erit ad commodum domini Regis et fidelium suorum de partibus illis, si dominus Rex det terram illam predicto comiti in escambium pro centum mercatis terre, vel redditibus in terra pacis, maxime cum predictus comes habeat terras suas in Conacia et Ultonia, et magnum posse Anglicorum et Hibernicorum contiguum terre ille per quod melius poterit hibernicos terre illius castigare quam alius. In cujus rei testimonium, predicti juratores sigilla sua apposuerunt huic Inquisitioni, die et anno supradictis." The foregoing extraordinary record has been transcribed by the editor from the original original Exemplification under the Great Seal of Charles I., which exemplification was produced by the Earl of Strafford to the memorable jury impannelled at Portumna, in A. D. 1635, to try the King's title to Connaught. For an account of that trial see Carte's Life of the Duke of Ormonde, vol. i. p. 82. Some of the proceedings of Walter de Burgo, the father of this "Red earl," against Felim O'Conor, King of Connaught, and which are alluded to in this document, will be found detailed in the Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the venerable Charles O'Conor, p. 41. The Blakes of Galway. He was Richard Caddle, dictus niger or the Black, a quo Blake, was the " common ancestor" of all the present families of this name in the west of Ireland. sheriff of Connaught in A. D. 1306; and as our author informs us, p. 32, was "bailiffe of Galway under Richard de Burgo, the Red Earl of Ulster," in A. D. 1312. The extract from Debrett given in the History of Galway, p. 7, is altogether fabulous. But the following remarkable petition of John Blake, alias Caddle (the eldest lineal descendant of the above Richard Caddle, dictus niger), to the Commissioners of the Plantation of Connaught, in A. D. 1640; and the other original instruments which accompany it, satisfactorily prove the origin and descent of this old family. These curious documents have been providently saved, and kindly communicated to the Editor, by his respected friend, Michael Joseph Browne, Esq., of Moyne, in the county of Galway; who is himself maternally descended from the same stock, and whose public and private virtues reflect honour on the ancient race from which he is sprung. "The humble Peticon of John Blake, alias Caddle. "To the honble his Maties Commissioners for the Plantacon of the Countie of Gallway. "Humbly sheweing, that the peticioner and his auncestors, whose heire male he is by lyneall descent, as he is reddy to make it appere by many auncient and authentick records and evidences, for eleaven descents, is and have ben respectively seised, as of their auncient inheritaunce, of the Castle and two water mills of Kiltorroge, and of the moiety of the two quarters of land thereunto belonging; and of two quarters and an halfe of land in Slewclare, parcell of Kiltorroge aforesaid, in the barrony of Clare, and of the moiety of the Castle and fowre quarters of land of Balli m croe; and of the moiety of the Castle and fowre quarters of land of Kiltullagh in the barony of Dunkellin, and of divers messuadges and lands within the auncient liberties of |