aleghe sustained in transporting
and planting English people into the province, and in recompense of his
good service rendered in Ireland, pursuant to her royal letters dated
the last of February, 1586 to the Lord Deputy and Lord Chancellor
directed, and intending to bestow upon him three seignories and a-half
of land, ... 'lying as near to the town of Youghall as they may be
conveniently,' _each seignory containing_ 12,000 _acres of tenanted
land, not accounting mountains, bogs, or barren heath_." And again: "And
as Sir Walter made humble suit, to enable him the better to perform the
enterprize for the habitation and repeopling of the land, to grant him
and his heirs, in fee-farm for ever, the _possessions_ of the late
dissolved abbey or monastery called Molanassa, otherwise Molana, and the
late dissolved priory of the Observant Friars, or the Black Friars, near
Youghall, ... and, as they lie adjoining the lands already granted to
him, her Majesty is pleased to comply with his request, and by her
letters, dated at Greenwich the 2nd of July, 1587, directed to the Lord
Deputy, expressed her intention to that effect." _Patent and Close
Rolls, Chancery, Ireland, reg. Elizabeth_, Mem. 5, 41, 1595, p. 323.

As the lands at first granted did not measure the 42,000 acres, the Lord
Deputy is instructed to issue a commission to measure off so much of
other escheated lands adjoining "as shall be requisite to make up the
full number and quantity of three seignories and a-half of tenantable
land, without mountains, bogs, or barren heath; To hold for ever in
fee-farm, as of the Castle of Carregroghan, in the Co. of Cork, in free
soccage and not in capite."--_Ibid._ p. 327.

Alas! how soon he tired of the great and coveted prize.

[6] Hooker, Suppl. to Holinshed's Chronicle, p. 183.

[7] Some Considerations for the Promoting of Agriculture and Employing
the Poor, addressed to Members of the House of Commons, by R.L. V.M.
Haliday Collection of pamphlets in the Library of the Royal Irish
Academy, Vol. 54.

[8] Page 18.

[9] Page 35.

[10] Short View of the State of Ireland. Haliday Pamphlets, Vol. 74.

[11] An answer to a paper called "A Memorial of the Poor Inhabitants of
the Kingdom of Ireland." _Same Vol._

[12] "Answer to Memorial," signed A.B., March 25, 1728.

[13] "Letter to the Duke of Newcastle."

[14] Vol. I., p. 166.

[15] "The famine of 1741 was not regarded with any active interest in
England or in any forei