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The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork
The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork Author:Charles Smith Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Conta1n1ng The Re1gn Of Queen El1zabeth, Wh1ch 1ncludes The Several Rebell1ons Of The Earl Of Desmond, And The Defeat Of The Span1ards At K... more »1nsale. AMES, the fifteenth Earl of Desmond, who was eldest son of John Fitx-Thomas, the fourteenth earl, being made lord high treasurer of Ireland in 1542, died on the 14th of October (A.D. 1558) at Askeaton, in the county of Limerick. He had four wives ; his first was daughter to the Lord Roche, but this marriage was called in question on pretence of consanguinity. His second wife was daughter to O'Carrol; his third was Catharine, daughter to Pierce, Earl of Ormond ; and his fourth was Ellen, daughter to MacCarty More. Thomas, his eldest son by the Lord Roche's daughter, was reputed a bastard, and did not inherit. James, the eldest son of this Thomas, by the second wife, assumed the title of earl, and was called so in Spain. His other son, John, became a bloody rebel, and fled into Spain, where he died. Before the death of this fifteenth earl, he made a formal submission to Thomas Ratcliff, Earl of Sussex, lord deputy of Ireland, at Limerick, who gave a chain of gold to a child of his, to whom he then stood godfather. Dcrmod MacCarty, of Muskery, submitted at the same time to the lord deputy, who knighted him, and gave him also a gold chain, and a pair of gilt spurs/') During the government of Sir Henry Sidney, MacCarty More was created Earl of Clancare. He went over to England, and made a surrender of his estate to Queen Elizabeth, which she regranted to him by letters patent, and, after he had sworn fealty, conferred on him the above title, and paid the charges of his journey. He was, at the same time, made lord baron of Valentia. O'Sullivan Bear also took out a patent for his estate, wherein was a proviso " that...« less