Carrickfergus old town records 1569-1747 by Mid and East Antrim Borough Council

RECORDS OF CARRICKFERGUS AS COPIED FROM THE ORIGINALS BY RICHARD DOBBS

RECORDS OF CARRICKFERGUS AS COPIED FROM THE ORIGINALS BY RICHARD DOBBS DEAN OF CONNOR, AND RECTOR OF THE PARISH OF CARRICKFERGUS IN THE YEAR 1785

CAUSED TO BE TRANSCRIBED INTO TYPESCRIPT IN THE YEAR 1982 BY JOHN S LOGAN

AND DIGITIZED 2021 BY JOHN I LOGAN

PUBLISHED BY PERMISSION OF THE DEPUTY KEEPER OF THE RECORDS OF NORTHERN IRELAND

CONTENTS

TEXT Preface to First Edition

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Preface to Second Edition

The Extent of the Records

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Main Records 1569–1747

Officials Elected 1568–1801

Extracts of Deeds and Leases

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Sources

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Appendix I — History of the Records

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Appendix II — Lands to the South-West

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Appendix III — Miscellaneous

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Name Index

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General Index

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IMAGES Letter from PRONI 1936

Map of Carrickfergus 1550

Map of Carrickfergus 1567 (1612 copy)

Graph of Leaf Number against Year

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First Leaf of Dobbs’ Manuscript

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Ruins of the Castle of Cloughnaharty

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Suggested Layout of Lands to the South-West

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Part of the charter of 11 July , 7 James I

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PRONI’s. offer to purchase the original Dobbs’ manuscript.

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Preface to first Edition The Deputy Keeper of the Records of Northern Ireland has kindly allowed us to make this transcript of Dean Dobbs' manuscript copy of the older records of the town of Carrickfergus. We have been able so far to make three typescript copies. The Dobbs manuscript bound in leather was in the library of our grandfather, Doctor William Logan, of Knocknagulliagh, Whitehead. It was familiar to me in our childhood. In 1936 it was sold to the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland for £10. The offer of the Deputy Keeper of the Records of that time, Dr. Chart, came to be made to Mrs Katie Logan because he had heard of the manuscript in our possession from Professor R.K. McElderry. Professor McElderry had heard about it in conversation with me. The family were reluctant to part with the manuscript, but the Record Office seemed a safe and suitable repository, and the adverse circumstances of the time did not allow of a refusal. We continued to be interested in the book and to feel some responsibility for making it more easily accessible to the citizens of Carrickfergus and to historians. Eventually after some fifty years we have been able to have this typescript made. We have not yet been able to arrange better publication. Mrs Margaret Clarke has devoted great skill and patience to making an exact typescript copy of Dean Dobbs' manuscript. The capricious, and even perverse, variations of spelling have made it very difficult, and we are glad to acknowledge the exact care Mrs Clarke has exercised. If any reader is in doubt about a point of spelling or calligraphy, the original manuscript should be inspected. Doctor Mary Logan has given many hours to patient and accurate proof reading and this volume owes much to her work.

JOHN S. LOGAN Knocknagulliagh Whitehead Co Antrim 1st August 1982.

From Samuel M‘Skimin’s The History and Antiquities of the County of the Town of Carrickfergus.

Preface to Second Edition We do not know what records Carrickfergus possessed before 1569 as all were said to have been destroyed in various disturbances (see Appendix I). What is presented here is a digitized copy1 of the 1982 typescript copy of the written copy made in 1785 by Richard Dobbs, Dean of Connor and Rector of the Parish of Carrickfergus of the Carrickfergus records subsequent to 1569. It was very fortunate that Dean Dobbs took the trouble to make his copy as the originals were lost some thirty or forty years later. Dobbs used a number of abbreviations which, given that he preserved the spelling of the time, were probably present in the original. These were transcribed by Mrs Margaret Clarke when she skilfully typed out the 1982 version, and have been reproduced here by employing a modified font. Dobbs penned one copy, and the 1982 typewritten edition was limited to a top copy and two carbons, but it is expected that this digital edition will be freely available, and that a number of copies in book form will be distributed to libraries and elsewhere, the better to preserve Carrickfergus’s early history. Dobbs numbered his pages but sometimes erratically and the page numbers shown here in the margins correspond to his copy’s actual page count. Identifiable comments by him are shown in italics. The transcriber’s guess of a missing word, correction of an error, and slight change in layout are delineated by [square brackets]. A note on the extent of the records and three appendices have been added. Appendix I deals mainly with the history of the town records, Appendix II discusses the arable lands lying to the south-west of the town of Carrickfergus, and Appendix III mostly relates to the 1594 petition to the Crown. I am grateful to Mike McKeag of the North of Ireland Family History Society who produced the invaluable name index which greatly enhances the usefulness of the book, identified some misspellings, and pointed out that: • Prior to 1st January 1752 the year number changed on Lady Day, 25th March. • The Mayor and two Sheriffs of Carrickfergus were elected between 25th June and 1st July and took office for a year from the feast of St Michael and all Angels, i.e. Michaelmas, 29th September. I am also grateful to Mícheál Ó Mainnín and Frances Kane, Irish & Celtic Studies, Queen’s University of Belfast, for their respective suggestions that the name Faseris Neey might relate in part to ‘deer’ in Irish, and that the name Lysnashemer might mean ‘fort of the shamrock’; to Shirin Murphy, Collections Access Officer at Carrickfergus Museum, for the photograph of the charter of 11 July, 7 James I; and to Sheela Speers, Helen Rankin, Eunice Sherratt, and the Carrickfergus and District Historical Society for support and advice. The text, prepared using Papyrus Author Free, has been checked several times but errors and omissions may have escaped detection and that fault is mine alone. John I Logan jlog@zetnet.co.uk 22nd October 2021

Which was checked against Dobbs’ copy.

Carrickfergus A 1612 copy by John Dunstall of a plan drawn by Robert Lythe in 1567. With thanks to the British Library Board.

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LibreOffice Calc.

The Extent of the Records

The Reverend Richard Dobbs wrote that “the most antient of said Books of Records, is marked by leaves instead of Pages”. Up to 1601 he nearly always used the phrase “xth leaf of oldest records” while after that he exclusively used “xth leaf of old book”, suggesting that the earlier leaves were loose and that the later ones were bound. The first meeting recorded was on 1 June 1569 and the last on 24 October 1747 but, as will be seen from the graph of leaf number plotted against the year, the records inbetween are incomplete, especially for the years 1615–1635 and 1692–1739. While Dobbs might not have recorded everything in the original records,1 it is very unlikely that he would have omitted one or more decades and either those records had been lost by 1785 or had not been written. Support for the latter suggestion comes from the curious group of leaves with lower numbers than expected between the years 1656 and 1740, and it is interesting to note that if that group were moved 60 years to the left, the leaf numbers would fit quite well into the gap centred around 1625. It is quite conceivable that every year was given its own leaf or leaves but that some were mostly left blank until, years later, an economical scribe decided to make use of the space. Note that no leaf numbers were given for the very last records but rather directions such as “See the two leaves in the old book, next the list of Mayors & Sheriffs” and “See the latter end of old book”.

He acknowledged leaving out leaves 98–102 (see page 86) and part of leaves 43–44 (see page 76).

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The first page of Dobbs’ manuscript.

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Records of Carrickfergus, as copied from the old books of Records by Richard Dobbs, Dean of Connor, & Rector of the Parish of Carrickfergus aforesÃ, in the year 1785. NOTE — the most antient of said Books of Records, is marked by leaves instead of Pages — Wherefore the references to that book, must be made in like manner. CURIA tenta in Ecclesia parochiali Sancti Nicholai coram ThomÛ Stivenson pro tempore Maiorem de Villa Knockfergus existent. et JohanneÚ Teed & Nicholam Wills ejusdem Villa VicecomÒ primo die Junii anno Domini — 1569 See first leaf of oldest records. In this Court it was ordered by MÑ Maior & Sheriffes with the whole consent of the Aldermen Burgioses & Cominalty, that all Tiplers in this Towne which have licence to sell ale or beere or bread, shou’d have free liberty so to doe:– Provided alwayes that every of the sayd tiplers shall find in every of their housen tow bedds for the lodging of Strangers, or any such as shall be appointed by MÑ Maior or Sheriffes to be lodged. — And that every of them shall erect a stable sufficient for the stabling of fowre horses, and that they shall pay any such fine as MÑ Maior shall appoint for their tipling. — And lastly that they shall pay Scott & Lott, as from time to time shall fall out to their share. CURIA tenta vigessimo septimo Die Junii anÎ DomÈ 1569 coram Thomam Stivenson pro tempore Maiorem de Villa Knockfergus existent. in Ecclesia parochiali Sancti Nicholai. — In this Court it was ordered, that whereas John Whyt had lost his freedome of this Towne for his non-residence. — That he was fined by the sayd court in the some of forty ShilÒ currant money of England — That whereas he willingly payd & was receyved againe to the fredome & liberty of this Towne. — In this Court JohanÒ Teed was elected Maior and alsoe were 2

were elected Sheriffes for the yere following, Nicholas Rogers and John fflood. See first leaf of oldest records CURIA tenta vigessimo nono die Julii in Ecclesia parochiali Sancti Nicholai coram Thomam Stivenson MaiorÚ & Nicholam Wills & JohanÚ Teed VicecomÒ — In this Court, Richard Sendall one of the AldermÚ of this Towne was condemned to have broken his othe in cullering of certain unfreman’s goods, namelye, seven hogshedds of Gascoine Wine, being the proper goods of Robert Magye then not free of the liberties of this Towne, and parte thereof of the proper Goods of Phellimy Magye, the which Goods the said Richard Sendall contrarie to his othe had entered with the Customer in his owne name cullerably to defraude the Quene’s MajØ & the Towne of ther Customes, wherupon the sayd wines were forfayted, & the sayd Richard Sendall dismissed of his fredome. — After the which, the sayd Richard to be admitted againe to the liberties & fredome of this Towne made humble sute & Submission whereupon he was presentlye fined to pay to the rest of the Towne, one Tonne of Gasgoine wine, or ells in lieu thereof Tenn Pounds currant mony of England — The which he payed, & so was admitted to the fredome & liberties of this Towne in his former Estate. See first leaf of oldest Records Anno Domini 1569 CURIA tenta nono die Decembris coram Johannem Teed MaiorÚ & Nichol. Rogers et Johann. Flood vicecomÒ in le Towne-house de Knockfergus — In this Court, John Deare Burgiose of this Towne for useing undecent words & unreverent to MÑ Maior was

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comitted to Straight Prison, and fined at fortye Shillings currant mony of England, the which he payd. 3

In this Court it was ordered by MÑ Maior & his brethren the Aldermen that Whosoever should take his othe to be a freeman of this Towne shall pay to the Towne Clark two Shillings Sixe Pense Irishe See 4Óç leaf of the oldest records. CURIA tenta vicessimo die Junii 1570 coram Johannem Teed Maiorem, et NicholÚ Rogers & JohannÚ Flood vicecomÒ in le Towne house de Knockfergus. In this Courte by the full & hole consent & agreement of the Maior Aldermen Burgioses & Cominaltie of this Towne, Richard Sendall Alderman was elected Maior, to begin at the feast of SÓ Michael next imediately following, & to continue for a whole yeare — Also at the same Court was elected Sheriffes for the yeare following Wolstone Elderton & CornelÒ O Cahan vicecomÒ in le Towne house de Knockfergus See the 4th leaf of the oldest Records. 1571 CURIA tenta vicessimo sexto Junii anno 1571 coram RichardÚ Sendall MaioreÚ Et Wolstone Elderton & CorneliuÚ O Cahan VicecomÒ in le Towne-house de Knockfergus. — In this Court it was ordered, for that the Maiors sending his officers to warne as well the Husbandmen or Labourers as also ther Garrons to be in redinesse for the Service of her Majestye, that the said husbandmen for fliing away should paye for the want of every Garron five shillÒ currant mony of England, and for fliing away of every such husbandman or laborer Twelve pense SterlÆ See 4th leaf of the oldest records. In this Court the day & yeare above writtin it was by the full & hole consent & agreement of the Maior Aldermen Burgioses & Cominaltie agreed, that Edward Browne should be elected Maior of this Towne to begin at the feast of SÓ Michael next imediatly following, & to continue for one whole yeare — Also at the same Court was elected Sheriffes for the yeare following Gulielm. Dobbin & Patric. Savadge JunÑ VicecomÒ in le Towne house de Knockfergus. See 4th leaf of the oldest records. 4

1572 CURIA tenta vicessimo die Julii anno 1572 coram Edvardum Browne Maiorem, Gulielm. Dobbin, & Patric. Savadge JunÑ VicecomÒ in le Towne house de Knockfergus. — In this Court holden the Twenty day of July in the yeare abovesayd, it was ordered for the better strengthening of the Towne, that every Inhabitant dwelling by the waterside should goe abought to strengthen their backside to the sea, as they shall be apointed by the Maior, and whosoever doe not goe abought the same within five dayes after this order taken, shall be loyfull for the Maior to take a distresse, & the distresse to sell for the buylding upp of the same worke. — It was ordered also by the Maior & bench, that John Flood & CornelÒ O Cahan Burgioses of this Towne should be called for this present yeare by the name of Collectors & receyvers of all sumes of mony, as is or shall be due to the sayd Towne, eyther by impresse, fines, Rents, or other arrearages whatsoever, and quarterly to yeld accompt to the Maior — And for ther paines to have of every Pound 12 Pence SterlÆ

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In this Court by the full & hole consent & agreement of the Maior, Aldermen, Burgioses & Cominaltie, was CaptÍ William Pierse elected Maior of this Towne to begin at SÓ Michael next immediatly following, & to continew for one whole yeare — Also at this same Court was elected Sherriffes for the yeare following, Wolston Elderton & John Deere in le Towne-house de Knockfergus. See 2Ã leaf of old Record. 1573 CURIA tenta secundo die Junii anÎ 1573 coram CapitainnÚ GuilielmÚ Pierse MaiorÚ Wolston. Elderton & JohanneÚ Deere VicecomÒ in le Towne-house de Knockfergus. — In this yeare the 2Ã day of June was this Towne of Knockfergus for the most part distroyed by fier, by reason of 5

Captaine Smithe’s departure out of the same with his force, not leaving sufficient force to defend the same, by Sur Brian MÂPhellime & his Co-perteners. — In the Same Yeare abought the 20óç of August came the right honorable the Earle of Essex into this lond as Lord Governour of the Province of Ulster accompanied with many a lusty Gentleman & londed in this Towne of Knockfergus. See 2Ã leaf of the old records CURIA tenta vicessimo quarto die Junii anÎ 1573 coram CapitainÚ GulielmÚ Pierce MaiorÚ Wolston. Elderton & JohanÚ Deere VicecomÒ in le Towne-house de Knockfergus. — In this Court the day & yeare above written, by the full & hole consent & agreement of the Maior, Aldermen, Burgioses, & Cominaltie, was Thomas Stivenson Elected Maior of this Towne to begin at SÓ Michaell the Arch-Angell next imediatly following & to continew for one whole yeare. — Also at that same Court was elected Sherriffes of this Towne for the yeare following Gregory Grafton & William Field Senior in le Towne-house de Knockfergus. See 2Ã leaf of old records 1574 CURIA tenta 12 die Julii anÎ 1574 coram Thomam Stivenson MaiorÚ & GregoranÚ Grafton & GuilielmÚ Field SeniorÚ VicecomÒ in le Towne-house de Knockfergus. — Lewis Jones comitted to the Sherryffes Gayle this present Court for stryking & misusing of the water-Baylye named John Lugg was released by MÑ Maiors deputy upon Suretyes, which Suretyes named Patrick Savidge & AlexÑ Heale acknowledged themselves before the sayd Maiors deputy named James Russell to be aunswearable for the sayd Lewis Jones to appeare before the Maior within KnockferÒ before the feast of SÓ Michaell the Arch-Angell next following, & to pay any fine that is to be levyed upon him eyther for his non-apearance 6

or for his offence comitted. — In the same Court it was ordered that the Townesmen for the strengthening of the Watch shall from henceforthe find five men to the Stand & two fremen to the Search, & that every house within the Towne shall by the owner thereof be aunswerable to the sayd Watch, whether they be in pay or not, And also that no man within this Towne shall after the bell ringing be out of his house, And yf any manner of parson shall be found by the Watch to be abrod after the bell rings, then it is ordered that the Watch shall apprehend them, And yf they be men of the Towne to bring them to the Officers of the Towne, and yf they be of the Garryson to bring them to the Marchiall’s officers. — It was also ordered that present Court, that whosoever of

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this Towne shall within the Court speak disorderlye & make a noyse, that being once warned, yf he againe do make a noyse or be talking againe shall pay 10 grotts SterlÆ CURIA tenta 4 die Septembris anÎ 1574 coram Thomam Stivenson Maiorem, GregoranÚ Grafton & GuilielmÚ Field Seniorem VicecomÒ in le Towne house de Knockfergus. — This present day it was ordered that for the misbehaviour of John Deere in disobeying the Officers of the Towne he shall pay as a fine to the use of the Towne the some of 20 ShilÒ SterlÆ — In the same Court it was also ordered, that whereas Francis Turner did most slanderously use thes undecent wordes following — viz. Parson Darsye made a Sermon to his Parishoners & cryed thryce (soho) which he sayd did sygnyfye I have found, and so sayd he a sort of knaves I have found you, & so I will leave you, & so will I sell my house & goe my wayes, for the punyshment whereof it was 7

ordered that the sayd Francis shall openly before the Maior & Aldermen of this Towne say thes wordes upon his knee kneeling — viz. MÑ Maior & the rest of the Aldermen I have slandered your worshipps, & for the same I ask God & your worshipps all forgivenes most hartely; And also that the sayd Francis shall be committed to the Marshialls ward & there remayne in bolts so long as it shall please the Maior and Generall. In this Court, by the hole & full consent & agreement of the Maior Aldermen Burgioses & Cominalty was William Piers JunÑ elected Maior of this Towne to begin at SÓ Michaell the Arch-Angell next imediatly following & to continew for one whole yeare — At the same Court was elected Sherriffes of this Towne for the yeare following Humfry Potts & John Cockrell in le Towne house de Knockfergus. See 3d leaf of oldest Records. N:B: CaptÍ Malby Governour — is there in the margin CURIA tenta quinto die Octobris anÎ 1574 coram GuilielmÚ Piers Maiorem & HumpfrigÚ Potts & JohanÚ Cockrell vicecomÒ in le Towne house de Knockfergus — This present day it was ordered & agreed by the Maior Sherriffes Burgioses & Cominalty that ther should be a Vamour (perhaps rampart) of sodds or Turffe round abought the Towne, for the defence or better strengthening of the Inhabitants of the same, which should be finished by the hole Corporation, the fower Mountes at the fower Corners of the Towne excepted, which was made & compiled at the charge of the Prince, which Vamour as aforesaid was finished within one month after the decree made. It was ordered & agreed by the hole Court holden the 29óç day of this month, that all manner of skoldes which shall be openly detected of skolding or evill wordes in manner of skolding, & for the same shall be condemned 8

before MÑ Maior & his brethern, shall be drawne at the sterne of a boate in the water from the ende of the Peare round abought the Quene’s Majesties Castell in manner of ducking, & after when a Cage shall be made the Party so condemned for a Skold shall be therein punished at the discretion of the Maior. — This present day Lewis Jones for disobeying of an officer was fined by the Court according to the Statute in that behalfe. See 5óç leaf of the oldest Records. CURIA tenta decimo sexto die Novembris 1574. coram GuilielmÚ Piers JuniorÚ Maiorem, et HumfrigÚ Pottes & JohanÚ Cockrell vicecomÒ in le Towne-house de Knockfergus. — William ffield the doer for disobedience to Sherryffe Cockrell & other unreverent

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wordes given in the Court was fined at 7sh. & 8D. Sterlg. and after for adding more vehement evill wordes in the presence of the Court, the fine was by the Mayor & hole Court made 20 sh. SterlÆ CURIA tenta 26 die Novembris anÎ 1574 coram GuilielmÚ Piers juniorÚ Maiorem, et HumfrigÚ Pottes & JohanÚ Cockrell vicecomÒ in le Towne house de Knockfergus. — In this Court it was ordered & agreed by the Mayor Sherryffes Burgioses & Cominalty, that whereas the Pavementes of this Towne were greatly decayed & broken, that they should be shortly amended, which was presently accomplished at the Towne’s charge. CURIA tenta tertio die Februarii anÎ 1574 coram GuilielmÚ Piers JuniorÚ MaiorÚ et HumfrigÚ Pottes & JohanÚ Cockrell vicecomÒ in le Towne house de Knockfergus — It was ordered & agreed by the Mayor & the rest of his bretheren, that whereas ill measures 9

of ale was found within this Towne to the great anoyance of the Poore & displeasing of God, that the sayd fault should be corrected with punishment according, that is to say for the first fault comitted in ill measure by any man, to pay therefore 12D. sterlÆ & the ale so complayned of, and the second time that any man should therein offend to pay 5sh. SterÆ & the ale complayned of, and the third time the hole brewing or the value thereof, the one halfe of the sayd forfaytes so taken to belong to the mayor for the time being, and the other halfe thereof to apertayne to his substitute apointed under him, which is apointed to seale the sayd Cannes & look to the measures thereof. — The 22Ã day of this month Ralph Crawly for breaking of Owen Duff his head being Sergeant was by the Mayor & the hole Court condemned to pay Twenty sh. SterÆ to the Towne, and the bludshedd to the Sherryffes. Certaine butlers delivered by the Maior of Knockfergus by Commission from the Lord of Essex unto Burkes Clarke of the victualls, which butlers were by the sayd Mayor taken upp in this Towne the 8th day of Novembre last past by the coÝandment of the sayd Earle of Essex, MÑ John Norryes being Generall under the sayd Earle heare, which 8Óç day Sur Brian MÂPhellime knight Chiefe of Clandeboy & Rowry Ogg MÂQuillin Chiefe of the Route were at Belfast taken prisoners, & his butlers taken upp by the sayd comandement as aforesayd & delivered by MÑ Mayor which beareth date the 5Óç of February. See 5th leaf of the oldest Records CURIA tenta tertio die Martis anÎ 1574 coram GilielmÚ Piers JuniorÚ maiorem, et HumfrigÚ Pottes & JohanÚ Cockrell vicecomites in le Towne house de Knockfergus. — This present day it was ordered & agreed 10

by the Mayor & the rest of his bretheren, that what Action soever shall be brought to an Inquest, yf the action shall amount to the some of 30sh. SterÆ or above, every Such Action shall pay the hole Costes of the Court, and yf the Action be under 30sh. SterÆ to pay but halfe the charges of the Court. N:B: in the margin are the following words — For the ease & relefe of pore peple whoe are shued in this Court for small debtes. In the Court holden the 17Óç day of March, Thomas MÂCarroull for disobeying the water-bayly coming in hur Majesties Name to doe his office, as well in resisting his authority & stricking him, as also in threatening to throw him overboard contrary to the duty of a Subject as was sufficiently proved before the Mayor and the Bench by the

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testimony & othes of Thomas Cockran Scotysman, Brenin Dobbin, Phellime MÂGye & Donough MÂGoan, and for the same disobedient part was condemned to pay to the Towne the sum of 6£ SterÆ, for the which some Lewis Jones Burgiose became Surety for the payment, & discharged the same. 1575 CURIA tenta decimo octavo die Aprilis anÎ 1575. coram Guilielm. Pier. JuniorÚ Maiorem, et HumfrigÚ Pottes & JohanÚ Cockrell vicecomÒ in le towne house de Knockfergus. In this Court was Michael Savidg for breaking downe of the Timber of the Peere & occupying it to his own use fined at 20sh. SterÆ, and further order taken that whosoever should break or diminish the same hereafter, should pay the like fine. — In this present Court came Lewis Jones & avouched in open Court before the Mayor & hole bench, that Thomas MÂCarroull used to him oprobrious wordes tending to the defamation & slander of the State of the hole Corporation — the sayd Thomas being by the sayd Mayor & bench reproved for the sayd fault, was upon his humble submission forgiven. See 7óç leaf of oldest records. 11

CURIA tenta decimo die Maii anÎ 1575 coram GulielmÚ Piers JuniorÚ Maiorem, et HumfrigÚ Pottes & JohanÚ Cockrell VicecomÒ in le Towne house de Knockfergus. — Whereas Edward Parkinson for many & sundry times disobeying the Maior Sherryffes & other Officers, & divers others contempts & misdemeanours by him comitted & often punished for the same, & would take no warning to live dutifully, was by the Mayor & bench bound in a bond of £3–5 sh. & 8d. SterÆ to pay to the Townes use, at the comitting of the next undutifull part, which bond upon his humble submission and in hope of amendment was forgiven him & the bond chanceled, notwithstanding the favour to him shewed hath continewed his disordered life, & punished & fined for the same divers & sundry times as apeares more at large in the Towne booke. CURIA tenta vicessimo sexto die Junii anÎ 1575 coram GulielmÚ Piers JuniorÚ Maiorem, et HumfrigÚ Pottes & JohanÚ Cockrell VicecomÒ in le Towne house de Knockfergus. — In this Court by the full & hole assent consent & agreement of the Mayor Sherryffes Burgioses & Cominalty was William Piers the younger now Mayor, newly elected Mayor, for the good liking they had of him, & for his due administration of Justice, to begin at SÓ Michaell the Arch-Angell next ensuing after the date hereof, & to continue for one whole yeare following. In this sayd month Sir Brian MÂPhellime & Rowry Ogg MÂQuillin were executed in this Towne. — Also in this Court were elected Sherryffes of this Towne for the Yeare following Humfry Pottes & John Dishford in le Towne house de Knockfergus. In this court, Daniell Beggahan & Murto OHenry, for hiding themselves & ther Garrons being warned by the sargiant to be ready to Serve the Quene were fined at 7sh. 8d. SterÆ In August MÑ John Norryes being Chiefe heare under my Lord of Essex went by sea unto the Raghlines & spoyled the Raghlines, toke the Castle, and killed to the number of 240. — The 6Óç of Septembre in this yeare was CaptÍ Baker, Wolstone Elderton Aldermen, Gregory Grafton Towne Clark, & 14 householders of our Townsmen, besydes officers & souldieres of CaptÍ Norryes & CapÍ Bakers CompÒ to the number of 5 or 6 skore slayne abought the Towne by Surleboy & the rest of the Skotts. See 7Óç leaf of oldest records.

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CURIA tenta sexto die Octobris 1575 coram GuilielmÚ Piers JuniorÚ Maiorem, et HumfrigÚ Pottes & JohanÚ Dishford vicecomÒ in le Towne house de Knockfergus. — In this Court it was wholly agreed by the Maior Sheryffes Burgioses & the rest of the hole Court, that every parson or parsons should make cleane his or ther doore the breadth of his howse unto the middest of the streat or Cawsy, or in default thereof to be loyfull for the Mayor or his officer to take of every parson so offending, for every Saterday a paun for 12D. SterÆ The 8th day of this moneth of Octobre Sur Henry Sydnye of the most noble Order Knyght, Lord Deputy Generall of Ireland came unto this Towne and made Peace with the Skotts, & delivered the Rawghlins to ther Custody, & called home the ward there resydent. — This present time of his being heare, he himselfe gave, and caused the rest of the Garryson heare to give a sartaine some of mony towards the building upp of our Church. Also at his honor being heare We the Maior & Corporation for the better furthering of the Walling of this Towne, toke in bargaine of his Honor to wall from her Majesties Castle on the North East unto the mount of the mill along by the sea syde at 5sh. SterÆ the foote, every foote to be made 7 foote in the foundation, 4 foote in the topp of the wall, & 16 foote in heyght, as apereth by the Indentures of the bargaine bearing date 21Òó of Octobre. — The first of February Humfry Pottes Sherryffe of this Towne dyed, & in his rome was John Cockrell chosen Sherryffe. — The 24Óç of March ThomÒ Stivenson AlderÍ of this Towne dyed. 1576 CURIA tenta vicessimo quarto die Aprilis anÎ 1576 coram GuilielmÚ Piers JuniorÚ Maiorem, et JohanÚ Dishford & JohanÚ Cockrell VicecomÒ in le Towne house de Knockfergus. — In this sayd Court Myhill Savidg, John Savidg, with others were fined for neglecting ther duty in not answering to assist the Maior being misused in the Streate by Captaine Loouyd & his Soldiours. — For the which undecent usage or Garboyle by Captaine Loouyd & his Soldiours comitted against the Maior & Towne, the Lord Deputy being advertized thereof, & thoroughly knowing the trouth of the same, for Justice sake & for punishment of Vyce, sent down a Comission directed unto the Maior, the Lord Bishop of Downe, & CaptÍ William Piers, Seniscall 13

of the Country, to make due examination who were the chiefe partakers with CaptÍ Louyd in that Garboyle, which being by the sayd Comissieners tryed out, should take to the numbre of three or fowre of them, & cause them eyther to be openly whipped, thorowgh the Towne & so banyshed the Garryson, or ells stand publiquily in the day time on the Pillory three or fower howers with a paper on ther heedes with thes wordes written, Viz. for assaulting the Maior, smyting the Bishopp, & for mutiny, and afterwards to be disarmed in the market place as a note of infamy, & so banyshed the Towne for ever. For the punishment whereof accordingly, the Maior erected & made upp a Pillory. — And also at that same time he erected & made a Cage for the punishing of Skouldes & other offenders. At this present yeare the Maior erected a Fish Shambells on the hill right against the Castle. In this Court it was agreed that whosoever shall be made free of this Towne, shall presently pay a dinner to the sayd Towne, and yf he be entered as a hole Share to pay besydes his dinner 4£ SterÆ — yf he be entered halfe Share 40Sh. SterÆ — yf he be quar-

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ter Share 20Sh. Ster. and if any such freeman so made be of greater welthe, to pay over & above at the discretion of the Maior & Court. — Also it is agreed by the Maior & the hole bench, that the fower quarter assemblyes should be for more sartainty sett downe — viz. The Munday sevennight after Michelmas daye. The Munday sevennight after twelfe day. The Munday sevennight after Easter daye. The Munday sevennight after midsomer daye. See 8Óç leaf of the oldest records. CURIA tenta decimo die Maii anÎ 1576 coram GuilielmÚ Piers Juniorem Maiorem, et JohanÚ Dishford & JohanÚ Cockrell vicecomÒ in le Towne house de Knockfergus. In this Court the freemen of this Towne made humble request for certaine good orders to be sett downe, to the advancement of a Common Weale, which for that they were commodious were granted accordingly — Viz. — That tow parsons should be elected & chosen amonges the freemen by a hole voyse to understand the state of the revenewes of this Towne, and that the sayd two parsons so elected mought be prevy to every cesse or Cutting & to any 14

other benifitt or charge growing to the Towne, ffurther that all Aldarmen that remaine in books of record may be cest accordingly or ells to be disffranchysed ffurther — that the Maior for this yeare may be tresurer for the yeare following, & so to yeld an accompt as well of the revenewes of the Towne as also of all Cuttings & Cesses made in that yeare following — ffurther, that the fees & dutyes of Sherryffes, Towne Clark, & Sargiants shall be sett downe in record, for anything that is to be donne by any of them in ther officies — ffurther, that no forryner should incroach or repe the benefitt of our freedome, but presently the falt to be reformed so sone as it is knowen, — ffurther that every freeman may abyde three dayes somoning before any Action of debt or trespas procede against him, & then to aunswere the same in his owne Court. — The third somoning is his arrest. — ffurther, that no freeman nor forryner be arrested within a freemans howse for Debt or Trespas, whether the doore of the freeman be shutt or open, but in the streate or in a forryners howse. — ffurther it is agreed, that yearely tow parsons shall be chosen by the consent of the hole Towne for the accomplishing of the order aforesayd, which for this yeare were chosen Arthur Stark & Ralph Crawley. See 9Óç leaf of oldest records. CURIA tenta octavo die Junii anÎ 1576 coram GuilielmÚ Piers JuniorÚ Maiorem et JohanÚ Dishford & JohanÚ Cockrell vicecomÒ in le Towne house de Knockfergus. — In this Court it was ordered & agreed by the hole Court that any bargaine being made by the Mayor & his brethren as a Towne bargaine, and any man having part thereof & breaketh the day which is apointed for payment by the sayd Maior & bretheren, that he shall pay double the valew of his part of the sayd bargaine without any favour, but to be payed presently. The 25Óç day of June by the hole consent of the Maior, Sherryffes, Burgioses & Cominalty, was William Dobbin Aldarman elected Maior to begin at the feast of SÓ Michaell the Arch-Angell next insueing the date hereof, & to continew one hole yeare following. — Also at the same time in the same Court were elected Sherryffes of this Towne for the yeare following John Dishford and John Deere.

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CURIA tenta quarto die Septembris anÎ 1576 coram GuilielmÚ Piers JuniorÚ MaiorÚ, et JohanÚ Dishford & JohanÚ Cockrell vicecomÒ in le Towne house de Knockfergus. — Whereas a controversy fell betwene John Royden & Thomas Cumbarlug of & for an action of sellery comensed by the sayd John against the sayd Thomas, who by verditt of Twelfe men was cleared, whereupon the sayd Thomas comensed an action of false conspirasy of his death against the sayd John, therewith agreved complayned unto the Right Honorable the Lord Deputy, who derected down a comyssion unto Captaine William Piers EsqÑ & William Piers Junior Maior, who calling the Partyes before them for the better decyding of the Cause, the sayd Partyes joyntly made in open Court earnest request that the matter mought be ended, whereupon it was ordered that they should from thenceforth remayne lovers & frendes, and that the sayd John should pay unto the within-named Thomas all such somes of mony as was ordered unto him by the Verditt of Twelfe men. — In witness of which agreement, both the Partyes have set to ther handes in the Towne booke as apeareth ther. In this Court it is ordered & agreed, that it shall not be loyfull for any freeman Stapler or other, to sell lade or carry away out of this Towne any hides salt or drye to any other place before Christmas next insueing after the date hereof, unless it be for a Townes bargaine, but all hides so Sould to be transported, to be forfeyted. In this Court it was ordered & agreed that Captain William Piers EsqÑ in consideration of his greate trobles in the Earle of Essex time, and also the small profitt he reaped of the Londes which he hath in lease of the Towne, that he the sayd Captaine should have a generall quittance from the beginning of his lease untell & for Michalmaas next insueing the date hereof, the which is in the yeare of our Lord God 1576. See 9Óç leaf oldest records. 1577 WHEREAS William Piers Junior Alderman of the Towne of Knockfergus receyved from the Right honorable SÑ Henry Sydney of the most noble order Knyght Lord Deputy Generall of Ierland a sartaine some of mony, & was given towards the buylding of the Churcghe. — We the Maior Sherryffes & Aldermen of this Towne do hereby confesse that the sayd William Piers with all our consents hath lead out & dysbursed towards the cutting 16

of the Tymber for our Churghe, to the karpenters, & otherwyse for that worke, the whole & full some of 26£ 13Sh. currant mony of England, the which sayd some for his discharge we the Maior Sherryffes & bretheren of this Towne have hereunto set our hands & made unto him this acquyttance, this present 20Óç daye of Maye 1577 26lb . 13Sh. WillÌ Dobbin Maior RichÃ Sendall the true paper of a discharge given by Henry Wills. those whose names are signed. James Russell Nicholas Wills. John Deare } Sherryffes John Dishford } Henry Sybthorp Town Clark (See 15Óç leaf oldest records) BE IT KNOWN unto all men by this present acquytance, that whereas William Piers JunÑ Alderman of this Towne of Knockfergus, receaved of the Right Honorable SÑ Henry

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Sidney of the most noble Order Knight, and Lord Deputie of Ireland, a certaine some of mony to be delivered unto every freeholdere that holds land by the Sea Side from the Quene’s Majesties Castell aloungst to & nearest the Mounte by the Myll after the rate of every fott 6Sh. SterÆ as apeareth more at learge in a pere of Indentures betwyxt the Right Honorable the Lord Deputie & Maire & Corporation, — And for that the sayd William Piers has satisfied contented & paid fully to every freeholder that hath lands between our sayd Queen’s Castell & Mount as before spesyfied, We the Maior & brethern have, for testifying about, caused these presents to be made as acquytance for his Discharge in that behalf Written in Cragfergus the 16Óç of AugÓ anÎ domÈ 1577 — Copia vera. — WillÌ Dobbin — Maior RichÃ Sendall — James Russell — Henry Wills — NichÒ Wills John Deare — John Dishford — Sherryffes Hen. Sybthorp Town Clerk (See 6Óç leaf oldest records) WHEREAS ther was sartyne mony payd out & dysbursed by William Piers JunÑ in the tyme of his Mayoraltie anÎ 1575 for the Towne’s use, the which mony was then cut for him, But by reason of the povertie of thowse it was cut upon, & for other occasions sake, the maior in anÎ 1576 the yeare following Jhon Deare & Jhon Dishford Sherryffes with the assent & agreement of the whole Court dyd forgeve unto thouse whose names ensue the sayd mony to the some of fiftie three shilÒ SterÆ the which some being due to the said WillÌ Piers, 17

the names of thouse which were forgiven were these, by the Constables 6Sh. Daniell Adrain 2Sh. WÌ Murdech 2Sh. Owen Omanaghan 2 Sh. Robert Wyntle 6Sh. Mary Magye 5Sh 1D. NichÒ Conlan’s wyfe 5Sh. Nell Odelle 1 Shi: Thomas MÂFarrell 11Sh. John Sendall 5Sh. AlyxÑ Bole 6Sh. 6D. Edmond Gibson 2Sh. 2D. — And so testifying that ther is the some of 3£ SterÆ owing to the sayd WillÌ Piers by the whole Towne, we William Dobbin Maior, Jhon Deere, Jhon Dishford Sherryffes, with the Aldermen of this Towne have hereunto set our hands the 27Óç daye of August 1577. Copia vera William Dobbin Maior Richard Sendall — Henry Wills — JaÒ Russell — Nicholas Wills John Dishford — John Deare — Sherryffes (See 15Óç leaf oldest records) NOTE — The three following Entries, tho’ not in order in point of Date, are here inserted on account of their connexion with the preceding Entries. WHEREAS William Piers JunÑ Alderman of this Towne of Knockfergus receved from the Right Honorable SÑ Henry Sydney Knyght of the most noble order & Lord Deputy of Ierland, a sarten some of mony, & was gyven towards the repayring & bewlding up of the Churche, we the Maior Sherryffes and Aldermen do hereby confesse & wyttnes that the sayd William Piers with all our Consents hath payd out & dysbursed in anÎ 1578 in repayring & bewlding up of the Rouf of the Chansell, & also for making up of the Gavell end & the Porche, as well with stoune worcke as also with Tymber worcke, the full & whole some of fyve Pounds 3Sh. 6d. Sterg. And for wyttnes he hath dysbursed the foresayd 5£ 3Sh. 6D. Ster. we the forsayd Maior, Sherryffes & Aldermen

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have gyven this acquyttance for his dyscharge and have set our hands thereunto this 16Óç of JanØ 1588. Copia Vera RichÃ Sendall — WillÌ Dobbin — James Russell — Henry Wills Mychell Savage — & Humffrey Johnson — Sherryffes Thomas Buttlar — Town Clerk

Nicholas Wills Maior

(See 15Óç leaf oldest records) WHEREAS the Right Honorable SÑ Henrye Sidney Knight of the most noble order of the Garter & Lord Deputie Generall of Ireland, at his last being in this Towne bestowed a certten some of mony as well of his selfe as for the Garyson towards the bewlding up of the Parish Church of this said Towne, William Piers Alderman then being Maior, whoe 18

by the whole consent of us the Maior Sherryffes, Burgesses, & Cominalty, as apeareth by our Severall acquyttances gyven unto him, the which he in Court openly has showed us, amounting to the some of Thirtie foure Pounds, nyne shillinges, foure Pense Currant mony of England, and he has requested our hands for the testifying of the Premysses to be true — wytness our hands this 8Óç of AugÓ 1589 — Also where the sayd William Piers receaved at the hands of the foresaid Lord Deputie a certen some of mony for the walling by the Sea Side from her Majesties Castell aloungst unto the mount by the angle, we doe also hereby wytnes that he has satisfied & paid every man his porsion of the foresaid mony according to there measure of there Land, which apeares more at large by a peare of Indentures remayninge in the Towne-house betwixt the Right Honorable the Lord Deputie & Corporation — for the which he has lykewise our acquyttance, & for wyttnes the Premysses to be true, we the Maior Sherryffes & Aldermen have set hereunto our hands this 8Óç of AugÓ 1589 (See 6Óç leaf oldest records) 1580 CURIA tenta primo die AugÓ 1580 coram Thomam Sackford MaiorÚ et Barnard Ward & Thomam Stivenson VicecomÒ in le Towne house de KnockfÒ — In this Court it was agreed, that whearas ther was a sut bytwyxt James Russell Alderman & James Dobbin of 20sh. Ster. — It is fully ended, that James Russell is to paye unto James Dobbin the some of 17£ Ster. within twoe yeares — viz. fore Pound 5Sh. Ster. at the first of February 1580 — viz. — other fore pound 5Sh. Ster. at the first of AugÓ 1581 — viz — other fore Pound 5Sh. Ster. the first of February 1581 — viz — the last fore Pound 5Sh. Ster. at the fyrst of August 1582 — the which payments well & truly to be payd, the foresayd James Russell hath bound himself his heares & assignes byfore these present without any further Sutt of Lawe, levye to by made of his bodye or goods, in knowledghe wheareof the Sayd James Russell hath put to his hand to this boke of records the daye & yeare abouffe wrytten — P. me James Russell Thomas Sackford — Maior Willyam Dobbin — Carryckfargus — 10th daye of SepÑ 1580 (See 11Óç leaf oldest records) 19

1581 CURIA tenta decimo die Maiei 1581. coram GuilielmÚ Dobbin MaiorÚ et JohanÚ Deere & HumfrigÚ Jhonson vicecomÒ in le Towne house de KnockÒ

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Agreed in this Court holden the daye abouffe wrytten by twelve men appointed to ende a sut brought by Mychell Savyge agaynst John Logg for one quarter of Bourgasse of Lande, and the fynding that the foresayd Mychell Savyge dyd wrongfully bring his sute agaynst the sayd John Logg hath indorsed & gyven ther verdet that John Logg should enjoye the sayd quarter Bourgasse of Land as he dyd beffore. (See 12Óç leaf oldest records) 1590 KNOWE all men by these presents, that I Edward Edgworthe DoctÑ of Dyvynity & Custodial of the Spiritualties & Temporalties of the united Bushopricke of Downe & Connor have constitued ordained & in my place put my welbiloved in Chryste James Carleile of Carickfergus Gent. my Substitute & Attorney to aske demande receyve gather & Collect in my name, for me & to my use, all maner of Rents, Tythes, Duties, Revenywes, & whatsoever profits & Comodyties which by any waye or meanes doth or ought of Right apperteyne to the said unyted Bushopricke of Downe & Connor, — And I also do geve full power & authorytie to my Said Substitute or Atturney, to sue implead imprison arrest acquyte release & dischardge any & all manner of Persones in any cases or causes nedefull for & concerninge the Premisses; geveing also & grantinge unto my Said Substitute & Atturney full Power & Authority to Let Grawnte & Demise all or any the Landes Tithes proffyts or Comodities belonginge or in any wise apperteynninge to the said unyted Bushopricke of Downe & Connor; And whatsoever my Said Substitute & Atturney shall do touchinge or concerninge the premisses, I do promise by these presents to ratifie & confirme in as full & ample manner as though I were then & there in my owne persone present, In witnes whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seale the ffirst of Auguste 1590 & in the two and Thirtieth yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God Quene of England ffraunce & Ireland Defender of the ffaithe etc. Sealed Subscribed & delyvered per me EdwÃ Edgworthe } Copia vera verbatim Custod. Episc. Dun. & Con. } T. Vaughan in the presence of Mathew Jones, Mayor John Marshall Homfrey Johnston } Sherff. Marmaduke Nealsome WillÌ W Savadge } his mark EdwÃ Moore James Dobbin/John Dyre Deputy Sherriffe (See 13Óç leaf of oldest records) 20

1592 John Asscullen hath half a Burgadge of Land lyinge on the west side of Nicholas Wills lands for the Tearme of Threescore yeares, begyninge at the feast of All StÒ 1592, paying Yearlye at the feast of — left unfinished (See 19Óç leaf oldest records) 1593 The last of April 1593 in MÑ John Dallwayes Mayoraltye William Lymsey was sworne Recorder of this Towne, & had graunted him for the excercyse of the said Office £20 SterÆ by the yeare, payable yearly at the Feastes of All Saintes & Phillipp & Jacob comenly called May day by equall portions. Also in MÑ Dallwayes Mayoraltye Castell Worrough was covered repayered & made fytt for a Courte House, wheare before the Mayor was constrayned to kepe his Courte in SÓ Nicholas Church havinge none other place conveniente for the same.

1593

Allso in the tyme of his Mayoraltye dyvers leases weare graunted for iii, xxi yeares (I suppose thrice 21) of certaine plotts & parcels of Grownd in the West strete condicionally that they should buylde with lyme & stoane Wheareby the sayd strete was made fayer & stronge wheare before the most parte thereof was in rotten & ruinous clay houses & Cottages. Allso in his Mayoraltye dyvers good & necessary orders and statuts weare made for the reformation of the Towne, and to bringe it unto civilytye — And in the said MÑ Dallwaye’s Mayoraltye besydes the good done in reforminge the Towne & taking away some things which weare prejudiciall, — The revenue was much encreased and enhaunced. The 25Óç of June 1593 — this day beinge the assembly day, by the full & whole consente of the Mayor, Sherives, Burgesses & Comenalty, Nicholas Wills Alderman was chosen to be Mayor for the yeare following to begin at the next Michallmas after:– John Hooper & James Ryce chosen to be Sherives for the same yeare:– which sayd Nicholas Wills departed this worlde the 26Óç JanØ followinge, in whose place MÑ Michaell Savage was chosen to execute the office of Mayor for the resydue of the yeare. (See 13Óç leaf oldest records) 21

1594 The 11Óç of June 1594 William Lymsey Recorder & Humfery Jhonson of the same Towne Alderman, beinge appointed & chosen by the whole consente of the Towne to be Agents for the obtaynenge of thear auntyent Lands & Comons, departed the Towne the day & yeare aforesayde for England for the graunte & passing whearof they obtayned the Quene’s letter to SÑ William Russell then LÃ Deputy & the Cownsell, and from them a Comission under the greate seale of Ireland for the Bowndinge & mearinge thearof. (See 14Óç leaf oldest records) 1593 The 25Óç of June 1593 in the Mayoraltie of MÑ John Dallwaye beinge the Assemblie daye, yt was ordered condesended & agreed by the Maior Aldermen Sheriffs Burgioses & Comenaltie, that from henceforth none shall challance or take upon hym to be a ffree marchant or to by or sell anye waires but the twentie Marchants now chosen & ellected free Marchants of the Staple, And all others must hereafter either sarve there yeares with a Martchant of the Staple or otherwyse by waye of fyne to com in to be admitted a member thearof, and the same to be obtayned by astablishment under the staple. (See 13th leaf oldest records) MÑ John Savage was elected & chosen Mayor the fyrste of July 1594, by the full & whole concente of the Mayor Sherives Burgesses & Comenaltye to begyn at Michallmas next, & so to continue for one whole yeare followinge, Roberte Wills & Rychard Thomas chosen to be Sherives for the same yeare. — Which Robert Wylls departed this worlde the 7Óç of June 1595, In whose place was chosen Jhon Dyer the 11Óç of the same. (See 13th leaf oldest records) 1595 The last of June 1595: This day beinge the Assembly daye by the full & whole concente of the Mayor Sherives Burgesses & Comenalty Thomas Stephenson was cho-

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sen to be Mayor for the yeare followinge to beginne at Michellmas next following: Roger Cowper & Rycharde Conlan chosen to be Sherives for the same yeare. (See 13th leaf oldest records) Memorand. that the 10Óç of Auguste 1595 MÑ John Savage the Mayor, Rycharde Thomas & John Dyer Sherives, the Aldermen & Comoners beinge then present, all former accomptants as well such as have been heartofore Mayors or Sherives, as also all that weare any way 22

indebted to the Towne weare called in question, and uppon due examination all former accompts as well of the sayde John Savage then Mayor, as of all other the Mayors Sherives & other accomptants or Debtors whatsoever, weare brought into a certayntye, & theare accompts & Reckonings releasede tyll that daye: And uppon the clearinge & perfectinge of the sayde accompts it appeared that the Towne was then indebted the some of Threescore Pounds eyghte Shillings & Tenne pence Ster. whearof was due to MÑ Lymsey then Recorder for his charges & disbursments aboute the Townes sute as well in England as at Dublin the some of 35£ ster. for paymente whearof order was then taken that one byll of 17£ Ster. of CaptÍ Meryeman for the Victyalinge of his Companye 10 Dayes for & from the 27Óç of July for & to 5Óç of Auguste, and one other byll of 15£ Ster. of Captayn Bethell for the _ of Julye, & 3£ of the Townes Cuttinge, to make upp the full some of 35£ Ster. as before was to be delyvered to the sayde Recorder. (See 14Óç leaf oldest records) Payments of the Towne’s charges etc. sute in Englande & Irelande 1595 Whole shares - £ s d MÑ John Savage — Maior - 2 0 0 WillÌ Lymsey — Recorder - 2 0 0 WillÌ Pyerce - 2 0 0 WillÌ Dobin - 2 0 0 Thomas Stephenson - 2 0 0 Humfrye Johnson - 2 0 0 Mychaell Savage - 2 0 0 Jhon Dallwaye - 2 0 0 Allas Jhones Wyddow - 2 0 0 halfe shares Roberte Wylls & his wyfe - 1 0 0 Rycharde Thomas - 1 0 0 John Dyer - 1 0 0 Robert Magye - 1 0 0 John Longe - 1 0 0 John Dishforde - 1 0 0

half shares continued James Dobin John Skully Thomas Vaughan Roger Cowper WillÌ Savage Henry Ockford AlexandÑ Haynes John Hooper James Ryce Rycharde Conlan WillÌ Harper, alÒ Baker Nycholas Dobin Peter Gallwaye John MÂCharne Andrewe Taylor

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

half shares continued Thomas Person - 1 WillÌ Underwood - 1 Thomas Wytter - 1 Hugh MÂCharne - 1

0 0 0 0

Quarter shares continued Jhon O Hanan - 0 Hughe O Lynne - 0 George Savage - 0 Phillipp Kelly - 0

10 10 10 10

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Thomas MÂManus Rycharde Dowdall John Keppocke Owen Magye Rycharde Newton

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Phelome O Havran Tyrloe MÂLaughlin & Isabel Piers his wyfe Robert Stephenson Robert Conlan John Savage Oge WillÌ Bathe Ny. Duffe Wylles, alias Isabell Sendall

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(See also 35Óç Page of this book) MÑ Charles Egerton Constable oweth the whole dutys for his share of the Townes charge ever synce the yeare of ower Lorde 1586, unto this tyme amountinge to the some of 10£. Moyses Hill allso for his portion of the Townes walles & other charges 5£. — Andrewe Russell resteth indebtede to the Towne for the Rents of the Marshalls towne for too whole yeares endinge the fyrste of May 1595 in both the Savages Mayoraltyes the sum of More he owethe for the rent of the howse (near the Abby) called Brynckles howse, which the sayde Russell had from Walter Mowntenes wyfe due at Maye daye 1595. — More he oweth for fyve yeares endinge at Hallontide 1600. (See 16th leaf of oldest records) 1596 The 28Óç of June 1596 beinge the Election daye, by the full & whole concent of the Mayor, Sherriffes, Burgesses & Comenaltye, Charles Eggarton Esquier was chosen to be Maior for the yeare followinge to beginne at Michaelmas next after, Thomas Vaughan & Thomas Witter chosen to be Sherriffes for the same yeare. (See 13Óç leaf oldest records) 24

1597 The 28Óç of June 1597 beinge the Election daye, by the full & hole consente of the Deputie Maior, Sheriffes Burgioses & Comenaltie Homfrey Johnson was ellected & chosen Maior for the yeare followinge to begine at Michellmas next after the Date hereof, Richarde Thomas & Thomas Gravett chosen to be Sheriffs for the same yeare followinge after whose election imediattlye the forsayde Maior Aldermen Burgioses & Comanaltie with one assente & agreemente did grante unto the said MÑ Johnston as a Gifte towards the Mayntenance of his house the some of Twentye Pounds curante monye of Englande — RichÃ Thomas one of the said Sheriffs dyed the 5Óç of September, & Henry Ockford elected & chosen Sheriffe in his place. (See 14Óç leaf oldest records) 1599 The order of the ffower men beinge chosen by MÑ Maior & Sheriffs for the endinge of a matter in controversie betweene Shane O Draine & Enewerie his Siyster now wiffe unto Henry Faye consarninge the challanc of the howse wherein WillÌ O Draine deceased dwelte, late father to the said Shane & Enewerie — Viz. — We doe order condesende & agree that the saide howse with the backsyde in such manner & forme as the said William O Draine enjoyed the same at the tyme of his desease shall from hencforthe be equallye devyded betwene them & their heires lawfullie begotten:

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And that all former challances & controversies tuchinge the same from hencforthe shal be voyde:– In witnes whereof we have to this our Agreement sette our handes this 10Óç daye of Januarie, anÎ DomÈ Nostri 1599 who was these persons — Richard Newton, Thomas Vaughan, Thomas Gravet, & John Lougge. (See 17Óç leaf oldest records) 1600 The 6Óç of October 1600 — In the Coorte houlden the same daye yt was ordered & agreed by the Maior & Benche, that Henrye Spearpoint for drawinge his dager & offeringe to stricke Richard Tathe Sheriffe, was ffyned at 40 Sh. Ster. and to remayne in prison duringe the Maiors pleasure. 1600 The 10Óç of Januarie 1600 — In the Maioraltie of MÑ John Dallwaye with the assent consent & agreement of the saide Maior Bench & Comons, Moyses Hill Alderman was ffyned for many his 25

slanders & missdemúûs as well comitted & done unto Homfrey Johnson late Maior, as also unto the said MÑ Dallwaye nowe Maior, for which he was ffyned in the som of Six Pounds thirteene Shillings & fower pence Ster. which was by the said MÑ Hill satysfied & paid. (See 17Óç leaf oldest records) CURIA tenta decimo nono die Januarie anno DÍè 1600 coram JohanÚ Dallwaye MaiorÚ, RichÚ Newton & RichÚ Tathe Vicecomittes in le Towne howse de Carrigffergus. — In the said Coorte beinge the Assemblie Daye, by Assent Consent & Agreement of the said Maior Aldermen Sheriffs Burgioses & Comanaltie, Thomas Stevenson Alderman for arreastinge of the saide MÑ Dallwaye nowe Maior after Mighellmas Day going into the Coort howse to receave his Othe, was by the said Coort fyned in Three Poundes Six Shillings & Eight pence for which he was comitted, as well for the said fyne as further punishment, unto the Marshall, & there remained untill satisfaction & payment was made. In the same Coort Dudlie Yearworthe was chosen & appointed Marshall of this Corparation, for execution of which office We give & grant unto hym all such perquisses & ffees as unto hym appertainethe in as large & ample manner as Dublin or Drougheda. Allso in the foresaid Coort it was ordered & agreed that from hencforthe any ffreeman takinge uppon hym the office of Provost Marshall of this Garrison heare residente of what degree soever he or they be so employed, shall have no benefit of Marchanrice as a freeman to by or sell duringe his contenuance in the said office of Provost Marshall, and if contrarie unto this Act he or they by vertue of there freedome or Countenance of his place do undertake to by or sell either Wyne, Irone, Salt, Spice, Clothe, or any othere Marchanrice, or do salte hydes and Beevffes, or Sell either hydes Beevff or Tallow the same Goodes by hym soulde salted or convarted as before other then for his owne use, so much of his Goods as can be found to be forfeited and the partie or parties so offendinge to be punished & dismissed his or there freedomes at the discression of the Maior & Benche. In the same assemblie, Sydnye Russell beinge an Aldermans Sonn of this Corparation, for arreastinge of James Birt Alderman by a Sargent at Dublin & ther comencinge Suite against the said MÑ Birt contrarie to his Oathe, was by the assent consent & agreement of the Maior Aldermen Sheriffs Burgioses & Comanaltie dismissed his freedom.

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Also in the foresaid Assemblie yt is concluded condesended & agreed by the holl Corparacon that from hencfourthe forever that not any beinge free of this Towne shall take uppon hym notwithstandinge his freedom of this Towne, beinge not of the Trenetie Yeild nowe established, to be a free MartchÓ & be permitted to by or retaile either wyne, Iron, Salt, Cloth, Spice, or any othere marchanrice whatsoever within this Towne or the Liberties thereof upon the forfeiture of the Goods so bought or soulde th one half to the Towne, & the othere half to the presenter & Sheriffs of the Towne for the tyme being. In the fforesaid Assemblie it was also condesended & agreed that from hencforthe no ffree martchant shall entertaine any foriner or Souldior to sell or retaile any Wyne, or anye other Marchanrice within the Liberties of this Towne on paine of forficture of Tenn Pounds Ster. & lose of his Liberties and Freedom. In the foresaid Assemblie it was allso condesended & agreed by the holl CorparaÜßÞ that all such Aldermen of this Towne as are now devyded into sevrall Quarters or wardes are to have there able men in eatche of there sevrall quarters provided of some convenient wapons as unto them shall be thought meete, which is to be accomplished by the last of this Monthe of Januarie 1600. And who shall wante such meette & convenient Wappons beinge appointed by the Aldermen shall be fyned at the discression of the Alderman of the said warde, and what Alderman & Deputie shall not give a good reason why they are not then furnished shall be fyned at eatche 14 Dayes so offending the Alderman in 2Sh. Ster. and his deputie in 12D. Ster. thone half to the Maior, and thother half to the Sheriffs, and that the Aldermen or there deputies shall by vertue of this statute in th’absence of the Maior & Sheriffs have full power & authorittie to comitt any person or persons for any disorder within there sevrall wardes & to enlardge them at there pleasure, so as there offence hathe not bene before the Maior for the tyme beinge: And that the Aldermen & there deputies shall from tyme to tyme everie frydaye or saterdaye cause the streetts to be made cleane in there sevrall quarters, And if anye of the said Aldermen or there deputies shall refuse so to doe the Alderman to be fyned at 2 Sh. Ster. & the deputie at 12D. Ster. And who shall infrindge this order shall be furder punished at the Maiors pleasure, and this statute to remaine in force from tyme to tyme. 27

In the foresaid Assemblie yt was condesended & agreed that from hencforthe no martchant of this Towne shall take uppon hym to receave his share of anye wyne, Iron, Salt, Clothe, or other martchanrice beinge a Townes bargaine under ColloÑ to take yt to his or there howses & after there lott cast do make saile thereof to any othere free Martchants wiffe, Sarvant or Factor, uppon the penaltie of the lose of his freedom amongst the Martchants of the Trenetie Yeild as aforesaid And the Goods so sould to be dispossed at the discression of the Maior and Martchants pleasure. (See 18Óç leaf oldest records) 1601 CURIA tenta sexto die Julii 1601 coram JohanÚ Dallwaye maiorÚ et RichardÚ Newton & RichardÚ Tathe Vicecomittes in le Towne howse de Carrigfergus. It is enacted in the foresaid Cort that the Maior of the Staple for the tyme beinge is to be established for ever heareafter MÑ of the Trenittie Yeelde & Martchants of the Towne for one yeare after he is out of his Maioraltie of the Staple, and the yeare following Threrñ so as after the ellection of the Maior he is one yeare Maior of the Towne,

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Secondlie Maior of the Staple, Thirdlie MÑ of the Trenetie Yeelde & MÑ of the Companie of Marchantes, and the fourth yeare Treasurer of the Towne:– Thease offices to succeed for ever to eatche person after his ellection as before, except by Deathe or cause to the contrarye be showed by misdemenÑ and then to proceed to a new election whereby the place or places may allwayes be supplied. It is enacted that the Maior of the Staple, MÑ of the Trenetie Yeelde, Threasurer of the Towne, Sheriffs & Towne Clarke with ffower men for the Comons, shall quarterlie take order for the collectinge of all the profitts belonging to the Towne, & after the Vew thereof & knowen what thy do rise unto, the Maior of the Towne shall give warrant to the Sheriffs & Towne Clarke to collect & receave all the somes comprehended, and the same somes to be presentlie collected by the said Sheriffs & Towne Clarke: And for that heretofore the Towne hathe lost many greate somes by necligence of the officers, from hencforwarde if they shall not within the quarter make dew collection accordinge to the Maiors Warrant or showe cause to the contrarie by a dischardge from the Maior three aldermen & ffower for the Comons for the tyme beinge shall be chardged with the Maiors warrants from tyme to tyme without remittall. These two acts with a general Consent of the Bench & Comons was cancelled the 18Óç of October 1601 beinge the contynuance of the assemblie. 28

It is enacted that all profitts of Rents or fynes, Dutie or anythinge whatsoever shall contenewallie for ever redowne to & for the benefitt of the Towne and a booke of accompt to be kept by the MÑ of the Trenetie Yeelde: And for that the revenewe of this Towne is to be accompted for as before. It is enacted that the Maior of the Towne for the tyme beinge shall have towards his howsekepinge the some of Twentye Pounds Ster. pÑ ann., and the third part of her Majesties Customs, and the pettie Customs usuallie belonginge to the Towne if the revenewes & profittes as well of the fynes & new imposiÜßÞs laid upon the marchants for all wynes to be bought after the date heareof shall yearlie amounte to the Vallewe thereof to the end that noe Maior of this Towne heareafter for the tyme beinge shall sell either wyne, ale, or aqua vite to any foraigner or others, either at his table or in his presence upon forficture of his Stipente of Twentie Pounds, and to be fyned after his Maioraltie at the discression of the Benche. It is enacted that the payment of the Stipent of the Maior, Sheriffs Towne Clarke & Sargiants, the ImpossiÜßÞs dulie to bee imposed is to bee collected in manner & forme followinge - Viz. Upon evrie Tonne of ffranche wyne ffower shillinges Ster, And upon evrie Tonne of Spanishe wyne six Shillinges Ster. the Tonne, unladen at the Key of Carrigfergus eithere by Towne or private bargaine and the wine so landed to be retailled or soulde either within the Towne & Government of the Governor of the Forces heare, Viz.* within the towe Clandeboyes, the Root & the Glenes, they shall paye towards the Chardges aforesaide out of evrye hodgshead as before, and so ratablie be it more or lese, and the saide Collection to be made by the Sheriffs & Towne Clarke, And the Sheriffs to be accomptable for the same as of the rest of the Townes Revenewes & Profittes, and to be deliverd to the Treasurer quarterlie as the rest: And out of evrie Towne or private bargaine of what Malt or anye other graine brought by sea the person which byethe the same is to paye towards the makinge of the Key for evrie barell of wheat three pence Ster. And for all other sortes of graine & Malt towe pence the barell, And evrie Barcque & Boate not belonginge to the Towne shall paye after the rate of the

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quantetie one penye out of evrye Tonne as often as they shall be occasioned to come for succor or otherwise into the Keye. * Note — I find in one of LÃ Donegalls Patents this GovernmÓ included also the Barony of Dufferin, & the Territories of Rillultra & Killwarning — RichÃ Dobbs 29

The 12Óç of October 1607 (beinge the assembly daye) notwithstandinge the Crossing, cancelling, & defacinge of these former orders at the daye aforesayde, yt is nevarthelesse ordered condesended & agreed that they shall stand in as full force & power as ever hearetofore they have bene, and are therefore by one comon & whole consent agayne renewed & from hencforth againe to be established & allowed of. The fowrth of Aprill 1608 beinge the assemblye daye it was consented & agreed by the Maior Sheriffs Burgesses & Comonalty that untill Michaellmas next the Maiors stipend of Twentye Pounds shall contynew & from thencforth the sayde order to surcease as above written. (See 19Óç leaf oldÒó Records) 1601 Ellizabeth by the Grace of God Quene of England Frannce & Ireland Defender of the Faith etc — To our right trusty and well beloved SÑ Geffery Fenton knight our Secretary and Surveyor & one of our Privy Counsell in Irland, SÑ Edward Moore knight one of our Privy Counsell there, Charles Calthrope Esquier our Attorney Generall of Irland, SÑ Arthur Chichester knight Governor of our Forces in our Towne of Carrickfergus, SÑ Fowlke Conway knight, John Dallway Maior of our said Towne of C.fergus Gregory Norton, Charles Egarton Constable of our Castell in our said Towne of C.fergus and his vice Constable there for the tyme beinge — Gretinge — Knowe Ye, that we havinge speciall Trust & Confidence in your wisdomes Industries & circumspectiones by the Advice & Consent of our right trusty & right well beloved Counsellor Charles Lord Mountjoye knigÓ of the moste noble order of the Garter, our Deputye generall of our said Realme of Irland & one of our Privy Counsell of the same Realme, And accordinge to our pleasure signified in this behalfe by our letter dated the Twelthe day of October one thowsand fyve hondred nyntye fower in the Sixe and Thirtiethe Yeare of our Raigne, Have given & graunted like as hereby we do geve and graunte full Power & Aucthority unto yow or any fower of yow, whereof yow the said SÑ Arthure Chichester knight, SÑ Gefferey Fenton knight or his Deputye as Surveyor, and the Constable of C.fergus or his vice connstable, to be three, to Viewe Survey Lymytte Assigne & Sett owt by Oathe of one good & Sufficient Jury & by all other lawfull meanes accordinge to your beste discresiones the certayne Scirrite quantitye & nature of all the lands tenements comons of pasture & hereditaments 30

aunciently belonginge to the Corporacion of C.fergus aforesaid, And whiche have alwayes or of a longe tyme contynued in there manuraunce grasinge & possession, And to lymyte & put into certaynty the boundes Meares & contents of the said landes tenements comons of pasture & hereditaments by certayne names meares & markes, And of your whole procedinges herein our will & pleasure is, that you the said SÑ Geffrey Fenton knight SÑ Edward Moore knight, Charles Calthrope Esquier, SÑ Arthure Chichester knÓ, SÑ Fulke Conway knÓ, John Dallway Maior of C.fergus aforesÃ, Gregory Norton, Charles Egarton Connstable of our Castell of C.fergus aforesÃ and his vice Connstable for the tyme beinge, or any fower of yow, whereof yow the sÃ SÑ Arthure Chichester knÓ, SÑ Geffrey Fenton knÓ or his Deputye as Surveyor, and the Connstable of C.fergus

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or his vice-Constable for the tyme beinge to be three, shall within convenient tyme retorne the same under yowr hands & Seales, or under the hands & Seales of any fower of yow as aforesÃ, whereof yow the said SÑ Arthure Chichester knÓ SÑ Geffrey Fenton knÓ or his deputye as Surveyour, and the Connstable of C.fergus or his Vice-Connstable for the tyme beinge to be three, into our Chauncery of our Realme of Irland there to be recorded, willinge & commandinge all Maiors, Shirives, Bayliffs, Connstables, & other our officers ministers & lovinge Subjects to whom in case yt shall appertayne, to be aidinge, attendinge, & aunswerable to yow our Comissioners for the better execution of the Premisses, as they & every of them will be aunswerable for the contrary at their perills. — In witness whereof we have caused these our letters to be made Pattent, witness our said Deputye Generall at Dublin the Tenthe day of June in the three and fortiethe yeare of our Raigne Phillips copia vera. Whereas a comission hath of lat ysued from hennce under the great Seale for limytinge of certayne landes assigned by her Majesty to the Towne of Knockfergus accordinge to the Tenor and purporte of her Majestic therein. — And for that I am a 31

Comissioner amongst others in that cause, And by reason of other her Majesties waighty affaires which requier my contynual presence here at Dublin I cannot be there in person at the tyme of the execucion of the said Comission, I have therefore thought good to constitute & appoint you CaptÍ John Jephson my Deputy and lawfull assigne in the execucion of the said Comission, hac vice tantum, hereby fully aucthorizinge yow in my absence accordinge to the effect & purpose of the sÃ Comission to proceed with the rest to Viewe Survey & Lymytt all the sÃ Lands and Precincts accordinge to the Tenor of the sÃ Comission, and thereof to make perfect report & recorde in writing to be presently sent up hether to me, to be put in her Majestie’s office of Survey, And for the better assertinge thereof you may call unto yow suche assistaunce of auncient and experienced parties in that Towne as shall be thought most fitt and able to enforme yow particularly & trewly in the premises, And in all your procedinges to have a care that her Majestie be not prejudiced, and that the Corporacion may have right, without hurtinge any privat man’s interest, — For all which your doinges this shall be your sufficient warrant & aucthority, Geven at Dublin under my hand & Seale the 12Óç day of June 1601 — Geff. Fenton copia vera. WHEREAS there was a comission under her Majesties great Seale bearinge Date the 10Óç day of June 1601, & in the forty three years of her Majesties most gracious Raigne directed unto us SÑ Geffrey Fenton knÓ SurveyÑ Generall or his Deputy, SÑ Edward Moore knÓ, Charles Calthrope Esquier, Attorney generall, SÑ Arthure Chichester knÓ, SÑ Fulke Conway knÓ, John Dallway, Gregory Norton, Charles Egarton, Connstable of the Castell of Carrigfergus & his vice-Connstable, Givinge and grauntinge full power & aucthoritye unto us or any fower of us, whereof the said SÑ Arthure Chichester knÓ, SÑ Geffrey Fenton knÓ or his Deputye as Surveyor, and the Connstable of the Castell or his vice-connstable to be three, — To Vewe, Survey, Lymytt, assigne & Set owt by the Oathes of one good & Sufficient Jury & all other lawfull meanes accordinge to our best discressiones, the certentye Scirrytt quantitye and Nature of all the lands tenements comons of pasture and hereditaments aunciently belonginge to the Corporacion of C.fergus

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and which have allwayes or of a longe tyme contynewed in there manurance graising & possession, And to Lymytt & put into certainty the boundes meares & Contents of the said landes tenements Comons of pasture & hereditaments by certayne names, meares & markes, By virtue of which Comission we SÑ Arthure Chichester knÓ, CaptÍ John Jephson Deputy to SÑ Geffrey Fenton knÓ as Surveyour, SÑ Fulke Conway knÓ, John Dallway, Gregory Norton, & William Whittington vice-connstable of the Castell of C.fergus the 6Óç day of October 1601 have before us in Saynte Nicholas Churche within the Towne of Carrigfergus the inhabitantes of the Towne and Corporacion and Suche of the Country as would or could give any knowledge thereof, owt of which, we the said SÑ Arthure Chichester knÓ, CaptÍ John Jephson Deputy to SÑ Geffrey Fenton knÓ as Surveyour, SÑ Fulke Conway knÓ, John Dallway, Gregory Norton, & William Whittington viceConnstable of the Castell of C.fergus, made choyce of twentie fower good & sufficient men, at which place & day they weare duely sworne to deliver their owne knowledge & the whole trouthe as they could enforme themselves from others, And they do fynde scirryte quantitye & nature of the lands Tenements Comons of pasture & hereditaments auncientlye belonginge to the Corporacion of C.fergus as by there verditt hereunder annexed appeareth, which we retorne together with owr owne oppinions — And we fynde that the landes bounded within the meares names & markes of there Verditt dothe belonge and hathe of a long tyme bene in the manurance & occupacion of the Inhabitaunts of the Corporacion of C.fergus more then what is exempted by them as belonginge to the owld stone called Goodborne, and the hospittall of Spittell. — But we are of oppinion that some six akers of land or therabouts, auncientlye belonginge to the Pallice knowen by the name of Saint Francis abbey doth appertaine to her Majestie, for that we fynde not any acts or graunt made thereof to the said Corporacion by any Specialty, which notwithstanding, yt is challendged by the said Corporacion as past unto them by her Majestie in there Charter, it beinge within there Borrough 33

so given and graunted — In witness &c Copia vera Next follows the verdict, or finding of the Jury &c We doe finde that the Lands auncientlie belonginge unto the Corporacion of C.fergus is scittuated & bounded within the meares & markes followinge — Viz — From the Northe East ende of the sÃ Towne leadinge by the Sea Side unto a streame or small Rever called Copland watter which devideth the Townes landes & the landes belonginge to the Busshopp of Downe & Connor, And then from the Sea Side alongst by the sÃ Watter Side to a forde called annagullmyn (alias Clubbs forde) beinge North North West from the enteringe of Coplande watter into the sea, which Forde is the furdest part & boundes of the earrable landes medowe & pasture that appertainethe to the same Towne that waye — And from the said Clubbes Forde West South West directlie alongst a meare & ditche syde to the South ende of Lough moorne — And so contenewinge from thence full West South West to a meare & marke called Carnehusshocke (alias Lark’s hill), and to a hill called Carnesolloghe — And from thence, still devidinge the Earable landes Medowe & Pasture from the Comons, South West directlie to little Duneorowe and over the Forde of Larbricke Southwest to the Forde of Turnegrawee allongst the back of the Knockaghe to a meare or marke called Faseris Neey (alias the Deares layne) which is also the furdest part & boundes of the Earrable landes medowe & pasture belonginge to the Towne that waye — And from thence

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turninge Sowthe to a Smale Streame or Rever called Lysnashemer which runethe Sowthe into the sea, and devydethe the Townes landes and the Earles Medowe — And from thence leadinge by the Sea Side North-East unto the foresaide Towne of Carrigfergus. — We do alsoe finde, that the CoÝons for graisinge, Turburie, Heathe, & all other Fewells, reatchethe from the above-named Forde annagullmyn (alias Clubbes forde) Northe Northe West over the Moorie, Heathye & boggie hills, to a forde called Avalley1shione* (alias Johnstowne’s forde) beinge the uttermoste parte & boundes of the saide Comons that waye — And from thence leadinge to an oulde stone walle called Ralowe — And from thence West Southe West directlie to a hill called Browsley, which is also the uttermost 34

Part & Boundes of the Comons that waye — And from thence turninge Southe to the fore-named Meare or Marke called Faseris Neey (alias the Deares Layne) which is all the boundes of the Comons belonginge to the same Towne. — All which landes, within those boundes Markes & Meares before mentioned, with all woods underwoods Bogges Heathe Medowes pastures Comons of graisinge and Turburie, doth auncientlie belonge & appertaine to the Towne & Corporacion of Carrigfergus, & ever in their manurance graisinge & Possession. — Within which boundes there is a Rewenated & decayed Abbaye called Goodborne, & SÓ Bride’s Hospittall called the Spittall Howse, (which is found to be her Majestie’s) with a small quantetye of landes to them belonginge, which are bounded severallye within themselves. — In Witness whereof we have heareunto Subscribed our Names & annexed our Seales the 12Óç daye of October anno DomÈ 1601 WillÌ Dobin foreman } RichÃ Conlan } RichÃ Butler Humfrey Johnston } Henry Spearepoint } WillÌ Ledall John Savage } Robert Lyndon } John MÂCarne ThoÒ Stevenson } John Thomas } Brian O Carr James Birte } WillÌ Turkman } John Clarke ThoÒ Vaughan } ThoÒ MÂManus } Turlogh Hyan John Lugg } Walter Holman } Phillipp Kellie Henrie Ockforde } ThoÒ Bashforde } Neall MÂCollam Jurii — Copia vera See 12Óç leaf and 20Óç which are duplicates of the above Whereas latlie there hathe beene survaye maide of the landes ancyentlie apertainynge to the Corporacion of C.fergus and in the same survaye noe relacion made of the landes belonginge unto the freeholders of the said Towne yf there be anye suche — Therefore yt was ordered condesended & agreed in the Assemblie daye hollden the Twelthe of October anno DomÈ 1601, that notwithstandinge the Survaye & Varditt of the Jurie, whosoever shall hereafter upon the devicion of the said landes bringe in anye Lawfull Deedes, Evidence, or dewe Prooffe of any there ancyant lands or in hereditaments, shall possess & enjoye them as formerlie theye or there Predisessors hathe done. See 22Ã leaf of old book of records 35

Upon the Assemblie daye being the 7Óç of July 1595 MÑ John Savage Maior, Richard Thomas & John Dier Sheriffs, yt was then ordered & agreed by the consent of the holl * 1Note — Avalley shione should probably have been Balle Shane or John’s Town

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Assemblie, that all suche parsons whiche shoulde hereafter be admitted to the Liberties & Freedome of this Corporacion before such tyme as there weare a devesion made unto the freemen of such lands as by her Majestie’s Grant and letter appointinge so to be devided amongst them, bearinge date at Nonsuche the 15Óç of October 1594, That then they and everie of them so made free, if they shall clame or desier to have suche proportion of landes as other freemen of there like quallitie should have allotted unto them, that then they are to pay such somes of mony as other the freemen have allredie payd in their sutte for obtainynge the same as the chardge thereof appearethe in Recorde on the other Syde of the leafe. (See 16Óç leaf old Book — and 22Ã Page of this book) A list of such freemen as are content to paye such Imposicions as are resarved by this Statute in the Assemblie daye hollden the 6Óç daye of July 1601 — viz £ s d £ s d SÑ Arthure Chichester knÓ Governor 2 0 0 WillÌ Storie 1 0 0 CaptÍ Gregorie Norton 2 0 0 John Thomas 1 0 0 MÑ Hill 1 0 0 Nicholas Dobbin 1 0 0 MÑ Birte 2 0 0 Robart Lindon 1 0 0 MÑ Hooper 1 0 0 John Clarcke 1 0 0 Sheriff Newton 1 0 0 WillÌ Bathe 1 0 0 Sheriff Tathe 2 0 0 Dearemod Haines 1 0 0 half shares WillÌ Prince 1 0 0 Henrie Spearpoint 1 0 0 Thomas Gravet 1 0 0 Dudley Yeareworthe 1 0 0 Morgan Woodes 0 10 0 Mighell White 1 0 0 Som. Tot. 29 10 0 Rowland Mathew 1 0 0 Walter Hollman 1 0 0 WillÌ Ledall 1 0 0 Richard Buttler 1 0 0 Ralf Storie 1 0 0 Thomas Bashford 1 0 0 See 16Óç leaf of old book 36

1602 In the assembly holden in this Towne of Carrigfergus beinge the 11Óç day of October 1602 by the assent & consent of the Maior Aldermen & Commons, Dudley Yearworth was chosen & sworne Towne Clarke of Carrigfergus. Note the above is included again in the next record — R.D. 1602 In the assemblye hollden in Carrigfergus the 11Óç daye of October anno Dom. 1602 by the assente & Consente of the Maior Aldermen & Commones, Thomas Hibbotes Gen., then Exchange Mastor for these Partes was sworne & made free man of this Corporacion as whole share, and admytted to the Bench, And was lickewyse the same daye by the assente & Consente of the said Maior Aldermen & Commones elected & chosen Recorder of this Towne, he to have & injoye all dewties, fees & other perquisses belonginge or appertayninge to the sÃ place of Recorder. The same daye Dudley Yerworthe was by a generall assent and consent of the Maior, Aldermen, & Cominalty appointed Towne Clarcke.

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The 21Òó day of December 1602, in a Cort holden before the Maior & Shrives, the Aldermen & most of the Commons beinge present, yt was ordered by the Maior & the whole Bench with consent of all the Commons then present, touchinge two Severall Contempts then late before commytted by MÑ John Dallway & MÑ James Byrt Aldermen, the first for not comynge to the Maior, beinge severall tymes sent for, as was dyrectly proved to the Court; — The other, for that they beinge commytted by the Maior in the Town house, they & ether of them did disobediently & contemptuosly depart thence without licence eyther of the Maior or Bench, which was held by the whole assembly to be a very notoriose contempt as well of the Maior’s authority as of the present Government of this Towne, and a notable example of disobedience to others, if they should not be condignly punished for the same; And therefore the said MÑ Dallway & MÑ Byrt were by order of the Court to be commytted to the Shrives Custody, duringe the pleasure of the Maior & Bench, — viz — MÑ Dallway to the keepinge of Shrive White, & MÑ Byrt to Shrive Story, And eyther of them fyned at fyve Pounds SterÆ the pece, for these offences, the same to be levyed by the Shrives, by warrant from the Maior. See 22Ã leaf old book of records 37

1603 In the Assemblye holden the 1Òó day of Maÿ 1603, yt ys ordered & agreed by the Maior Bourgeyses & Commonallty by ther whole assent & consent, for the saffer & better keepinge of the Townes Charter and all other ansigne recordes whatsoever, That from henceforthe ther shall be a suffycient Chest furnyshed with three or fowre lockes with fyttinge keayse for the same, which are from tyme to tyme keept in the custodye of these, Viz — the Chest to be in the Maiors house for the tyme beinge, and one keay to be with the Master of the Marchants, another with the Treasurer, the other in the keepinge of those that shall be appointed for the Commons, provided allwayse that the saide Chest shall never be carryed out of the liberties of this Towne. (See 23Ã leaf old Book) The 25Óç daye of July 1603, In a Courte holden by the Maior Auldermen & most of the Commons then presente, consernynge a contempt and abuse commytted by Michell Whit then one of the Shiryffes, agaynst the John Hooper then Maior, yt was ordered by the whole bench and consente of the Commons that the saide Shiryffe shoulde be fyned in £10 of the New Standart of Ierlande, and by the Maior commytted to Shiryffe Gravett’s house the saide day & there to contenewe untill Michellmas next followinge, yett upon intreatye releassed and put at lybertye the 28Óç of the present July 1603, the saide Tenne Pounds to be ymployed for the use of the Towne. (See 23Ã leaf old book) In the Assemblye holden in this Court the 16Óç of January 1603 yt is ordered & agreed by the Maior & bench with ther whole consents, that this yeare untill Michellmas next 1604, CaptÍ Gregory Norton shall joyne with MÑ Hooper Maior of the Staple for making of anye bargayne, of all suche Marchandice as shall com to be soulde to this Towne, for which tyme the saide CaptÍ Norton shall have alowance for doinge the same, namely one share & halfe, and from that tyme forthe the Maior of the Staple to dale in suche bargaynes, & to have the same alowance as abovesaid. (See 23Ã leaf old book)

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1604 John Roads hath bound himselfe as aprintice this 26Óç daye of Januarÿ 1604 unto Murtagh Gillmur whome he is to searve for the space of seaven Yeares from the daye aforesayd. (See 24 leaf old book) 38

1605 Thomas Millner hath bound himselfe as apprintice for the tearm of Seaven Yeares: begining the first daye of Maÿ in anß one Thousand Six Hundred and five, unto Thomas Witter of Carickfergus Marchant. Walter Plunkett hath likwise as apprintice bound himselfe for Seaven Yeares unto Clement Ford of the Towne of Carickfergus Marchaunt begining the 24Óç of July in anß one Thowsand Six Hundred & five. Thomas O’Conlan hath also bound himself as apprintice for eight yeares unto MÑ John Savadge of the Towne of Carickfergus AldermÍ, begining the first of Maye in anß one Thowsand Six Hundred and Five. 1606 The 28Óç daye of Aprill, one Thousand Six hundred & Six years, the Assembly daye, Marmaduke Newton did bynd himself as apprintice to RichÃ Newton of this Towne Burgiosse for the term of Eight Yeares. Roger Happer did bynd himselfe as apprintice to serve John Happer his brother (being likewise Burgiosse of the same towne) for the term & space of Seaven yeares. — eodem die & anno. Hugh O’Gillmur did the 26Óç daye of Januarÿ 1606 bind himselfe apprintice unto his brother Murtagh O’Gillmur whom he is to serve for the term & space of seaven whole yeares from the date aforesayd. 1607 Thomas O’Carr came the 19Óç daye of October 1607 and bound himselfe as apprintice unto John Thomas of this Towne shoemaker whome he is to serve truly & dutifullye for the tearm & space of Seaven hole Yeares from the daye of the date aforesayde. 1610 Robert Storye (as by a payer of Indentures dated the first daye of November 1610 doth appeare) did bynde himselfe as apprintice to serve Edward Massone of this towne of Knockfergus Chandler for terme of Seaven whole yeares from the Date aforesayde, which Robert Storye is sonn unto one WillÌ Story of Closen in Lestershire within the Kingdome of England, Cutler. 1616 The 16Óç daye of September 1616 — Ralphe Bythell Sonne unto RobÓ Bythell of Knockfergus Maryner came in open Courte helde the daye & yeare aforesayde, & he acknowledged & confessed himselfe to be bound as an apprintice unto Phillip Meares of Knockfergus Taylore for tearme of Seaven Yeares of which terme of yeares the sayde Phillip did likwyse acknowledge that the sÃ Ralphe had served him three whole yeares to be ended at Michaellmas next followinge (See 24Óç leaf old Book) 39

The 4Óç daye of November — Roberte Stephensone sonne unto Thomas Stephenson late of Knockfergus Gent (whoo voluntarilye went upon the Swedene Viadge where he dyed) came into the Courte and with the Consent of his Unkle WillÌ Stephenson did put and bynde himselfe as apprintice unto WillÌ Welles of Knockfergus aforesayde Masson; with whome he is to dwell, and whome he is to serve for the terme & space of Tenne Yeares, during which tyme the sÃ WillÌ Welles is to give him sufficient Meat Drinck and Cloathes, both wollen & lynen, and at the ende & expiracione of the sayd

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Yeares is to give him such helpe of Tooles apparell or money, as is usually given to other apprintices of his professione and craft, as also to instructe & teach him or cause him to be taught & instructed in his sayde trade & occupacione of Massone, the terme for which the sayd Robert is to Serve, is untill he be 21 years of Adge nowe being uncertayne. 1617 The first of December 1617 — John Gotthraye, sonne unto Patricke Gotthraye of the Towne of Ayer, Burges deceased, came in open Courte then healde before Michaell Whitt Alderman, then Deputy Maior unto the Right Worshipfull SÑ Moyses Hill KnÓ, and then & there did not only acknowledg himselfe by worde to be an apprintice unto Thomas Kirkpatricke of Knockfergus Burges: But also shewed a payer of Indentures signed under the hand of the sayd Thomas Kirkpatrick bearinge date the 29Óç daye of Aprill anß DomÈ 1615, signifying & declaringe that the John Gotthraye did bynde himselfe as apprintice unto the said Thomas Kirkpatrick for terme of Eight whole yeares to be runne out compleat and ended from the first daye of Maÿ 1615, of which terme there are twoe yeares runn out the first of Maÿ last past, and so there remayneth five yeares & a halfe as yet unexpired, at the expiracione whereof the sayde Thomas Kirckpatrick his Executors or Assigns are to pay or cause to be payde unto the sayde John Gotthraye or his Assignes the full and just some of five Pounds SterÆ Current Money of & in England; as also in the mean tyme to fynde unto him meate drinck Cloathes & apparell, and all other necessaryes fitting and convenient for an apprintice of Professione & Faculty. 1618 The 19Óç Octoberis 1618 — Cormocke OBoylan, sonne unto Arte OBoylan of the Rewte in the County of Antrym husbandman, and Hugh Fegan of Knockfergus Butcher, did shew a payer of Indentures, bearinge 40

Date the 14Óç of December 1612, wherewith sayde Cormucke OBoylan did bynde himselfe as Apprintice unto the sayde Hugh Fegan for terme of Seaven whole yeares from the Date of the sÃ Indentures. 1618 The 24Óç of December 1618 — Edward Fisher sonn unto Christofer Fisher of Knockfergus Burges, did by Indenture put & bynd himselfe as apprintice unto the sayd Hugh Feggan with the assent & consent of his sayde Father Christofer Fisher whoo is also bounde for him, to serve his Master Hugh Fegan truly dutifully & honestly, for terme of eleaven whole yeares from the Date aforesayde. 1619 The 11Óç daye of October 1619, being the assembly daye — Thomas Hunt one of the sonnes of James Hunt of Manchester in the County of Lancaster Hosyer deceased cam in open Cowrte then then houlde before the Right Worshipfull Sir Hugh Clotworthy Knight Maior of the Towne of Knockfergus, and then & there did not onely by worde confesse himselfe to be an apprintice unto Joshua Wharton of Knockfergus Merchant for term of Seaven whole Yeares to be runn out, compleate & ended, from the 21Òó daye of Februarÿ 1617:– But also shewed his Indentures to that Effecte, the contents wherof he did acknowledge, & withal did promise (God permittinge him life) to accomplish & performe the same:– After the expiraÜßÞe of which Seaven Yeares and the accomplishing of the Service truly & dutifully menÜßÞed in the sayde Indenture, the sayd Joshua Wharton is to procure the sayd Thomas Hunt his freedome within this Towne of Knockfergus; As also to give him yearly every Christmas daye yf yt shal be demanded the some of fourpence SterlÆ current Money of & In England, and withal fynding & giving unto his sayd apprintice during the sayd yeares sufficient foode &

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apparell fittinge for one of his mistery or professione. This Recorde was taken at the earnest sute & request, & with the consent of both partyes. (See 25Óç leaf of old book) 1620 The 11Óç daye of October 1620 — John Morry sonn of ThoÒ Morry of Ayer within the Realme of Scotland merchaunt, came into the Courte helde before the Worshipfull James Byrte Maior of the Towne of Knockfergus, and then & there did not onely by worde confesse himselfe to be apprintice unto Thomas Kirckpatrick 41

of Knockfergus merchaunt for tearme of Seaven whole yeares beginning the last of May 1620, but also shewed his Indentures to that effecte in the face and presents of the Courte the daye & yeare above written, and desyred that the same should be recorded accordinglye. 1626 The 15Óç Maÿ 1626 — James MÂKie came into the Courte, and did acknowledge himselfe to be apprintice unto MÑ Thomas Kirckpatrick Alderman, whom he is to serve for Seaven whole yeares, from the 2Ã of September 1626, being the Date of his Indenture made in his behalfe, and therefore both parties desyred that the contents of the sayd Indenture should be recorded & Inrolled accordinglye. 1628 The 11Óç daye of August 1628 — Charles Houshould sonn unto Thomas Houshold of Knockfergus locksmyth, came in open Courte before the worshipfull Matthewe Johnson Maior of the Towne of Knockfergus aforesayde, and did acknowledge himselfe to be an apprintice unto the sayd Thomas Houshould his father, whom he is to serve for terme of Seaven whole yeares to be compleate & ended, from & after the 24Óç daye of June 1628; and withal the sayd Charles Houshould did the same daye shewe his Indentures to that effecte & purpose, and likewyse by God’s permission promised to accomplishe & performe the contents of the sayd Indentures; and therefore at the Instance & request of both Partyes this Recorde was taken & inrolled accordinglye. 1629 The 9Óç of Februarÿ 1629 — Laurence Kirkpatrick seconde sonne to Thomas Kirkpatricke of the Towne of Knockfergus Alderman, came into the Courte, and then & there did shewe a payer of Indentures bearinge Date the 13Óç daye of Januarÿ 1629, shewinge & declaringe that he the sayd Laurence did put & bynd himselfe as apprintice unto his sayd father Thomas Kirkpatrick for terme of Seaven whole yeares to be expired from & after the Date of the sayde Indentures, and to performe certayne other Covenants belonging to an apprintice, as in and by the sayde Indentures are at large expressed. NOTE — having found all the above records of Indentures, entered together in the old book, I thought it better to enter them here in the same order — I shall now return back to the year 1603, and pursue this work as nearly in the order of time as I can — R.D.

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The following (being the first Division of the Lands of the Corporation of Knockfergus) is without Date in the old Corporation book but it appears from the Dates of many of the deeds in the Town Chest, made pursuant to such Division, that it must have taken place in 1603 — R.D. The DeviÜßÞe of the Towne’s land lying betwixt Copland water & Woodborne River, is as followeth — (viz) — Next to Copland Water lyeth the lands of SÑ Arthur Chester Knt iiii } iiii Quarter Shares

next to that Bryane O’Carr William Bath Wyddowe Vaughan Wyddowe Prince Murtagh Woods next to that MÑ Dallwaye Owen Magye John Wills next to that Tho: Hibbott Tho: Stephenson next to that Richard Newton Thomas Gravett John Clearke Walter Howlman next to that Moyses Hill John Thomas WillÌ Tubman Edmond Hussey next to that MÑ Hooper WillÌ Story Alses Story

i} ii } ii } viii ii } i}

iiii } ii } viii ii }

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iiii } iiii } viii

Quarter Shares

ii } ii } ii } viii ii }

Quarter Shares

iiii } ii } i } viii i}

Quarter Shares

iiii } ii } viii ii }

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next to that Dudley Yeareworth John MÂCarne Will. Lydall Thomas Bashford next to that John Scully WillÌ Long Rich: Tath Henry Thomson Wyddowe Sendall next to that Robert Lyndon John Lougg RichÃ Baymount WillÌ Savadg next to that MÑ Johnson Phillip Kelly Gildony Kelly Wyddowe Conlan next to that CaptÍ Norton MÑ Byrte next to that John Savadg George Savadg RichÃ Conlan John Hannyn

ii } ii } ii } viii ii }

ii } ii } ii } viii i} i}

ii } ii } ii } viii ii }

iiii } ii } i } viii i}

iiii } iiii } viii

iiii } i} ii } viii i}

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first Division continued next to that Henry Ockforde Henry Spearpoynt Rowland Mathewes Dermott Haynes next to that Michaell Whitt Thomas MÂManus RichÃ Buttler Wyddowe Karne next to that MÑ Dobbin Nicholas Dobbin Farell Fox John Magye next to that Thomas Wytter Sydney Russell James Savadg John Cappock

ii } ii } ii } viii ii }

iiii } ii } i } viii i}

ii } ii } ii } viii ii }

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Lands given by the CorporaÜßÞe in regard of Servic done, to these Partyes following, over & above their shares. To MÑ Johnson - 60 - Ackers To MÑ Lougg - 40 - Ackers To MÑ Lyndon 7 - Ackers mor. to Alse Hill 60 - Ackers CaptÍ Roger Langford } on the west of Woodborne river } in lue of his porÜßÞe or share } of the lands aforesaid }

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iiii (See 28Óç leaf old Book)

1606 This Record of the Towne’s land lying on the South west of the River of Woodborne, was entered with the assent and Consent of the whole Assembly held & begunne at the Towne House of Carickfergus the 13Óç of October 1606, and continued untill the 28Óç of the same month. Wheras by Authorytye under the Maior & Sheriffs hands, with consent of the Commons, for equall laying out the Lands beyond the River of Woodborne, wherby every freeman might knowe his porÜßÞe; and wheras we have according the same warrant measured the sayd lands, and have layd foure whole shares in lott togither, which we

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fynd the most easiest waye, for to bring every man’s share to the most squarest & equalest deviÜßÞe — (viz) — Begining at the West end of Woodborne land at the Sea Syde, ther is a high waye layd out alongst the land of Woodborne towards the Knockaghe of one Hundredth Thirty & Six Perches in length or therabowts, & in breadth foure Perches or therabowts, and as it is marked at both the Ends, And likewise begining at the entrye of the same high-waye by the Sea Syde, ther is neare the end of the firste halfe lott of land a high-waye layd out above the bancks untill you com neare the oulde stone of foure Perches in breadth, as likewise continuing under the Banck & through the Strond still by the Sea Syde the usuall high-waye to the uttermost Bounds of the Towne lands; under which high waye upon the bancks ther is one proporÜßÞe of land, and having one odde share which could not well be devyded amongst the rest, we have assigned the same for that purpose, still reserving the high-waye through the same lands. First for the DevyÜßÞe begining at the high waye which parteth Woodborne lands & the Towne lands, alongest by the Sea Syde untill you come to the Silver Streame, we fynd to be in breadth the number of foure hundred & sixty Perches or therabouts, and likewise in breadth above towards the Knockagh to be four Hundred & forty Perches or thereabouts, and the length one hundred Perches be yt more or lesse, as yt is already marked; only the first halfe lott which lyeth by the high waye which devydeth Woodborne lands & the Towne 45

Towne lands, which is lesse then the residue in length, & so marked out wher we begin the DevyÜßÞe, & have layd out for the first halfe lott, being twoe whole shares, in breadth att the Sea Syde Forty Perches, & at the upper end in breadth Thirtye & Three Perches, and so the same lott to be perched and layd equally in length as other the rest of the Shares be according the proporÜßÞe. For the residue of the lands untill you com to the Silver Streame which is devyded into six lotts, being foure whole shares in every lott, and at the high-waye syde leading neare the Sea Syde, every lott being in breadthe three skore eight Perches, and at the upper end every lott in breadth three skore six Perches or therabouts, and the length of every lott as aforesayd as yt falleth out, and as yt is marked be yt more or lesse; For the residue of the Freemens shares being three lotts & an half, ther is layd out a proporÜßÞe of land lying above the first halfe lott of land, the which a high-waye nowe layd out parteth, beinge in breadth twoe perches & an halfe, and a marke made neare unto a Bush, from which marke eastward to the lands of CaptÍ Langford which was for his first share, contayning in breadth two Hundred & Forty Perches, and in length from the sayd marke neare unto the end of the great Knockagh Eastward of certayne whit stones which lyeth under the end of the sayd great Knockagh two Hundred Perches be yt more or lesse, as yt is already marked & layd out; and from thenc in breadth still under the great & little Knockagh untill you come unto a newe marked high-waye, Two Hundred and Fortye Perches, which high-waye turneth downe to the end of CaptÍ Langford’s land, and so leadeth two Perches & a halfe alongest the North end of the sayd CaptÍ Langford’s land in breadth, untill yt come into the high-waye which leadeth from the Towne unto Masseryne. Begining agayne at the West marke, eastward allongest the land of Woodborne untill you come to the first share granted CaptÍ Langford, ther is layd out a high-waye of twoe Perches

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and a halfe in breadth, so that yt falleth out begining at the West marke, and so leading Eastward from the halfe share of land contayned in the three lotts & an halfe thirtye five Perches in breadth, & in length as aforesayd, which halfe lott of land is to be joyned in one lott with the other halfe lott of land which lyeth under the same towards the Sea Syde. And for the other three lotts, ther falleth out in breadth eastward allongst the highwaye which parteth the lands of Woodborne & the same, three skore seaven Perches to every lott, wherin ther is contayned foure whole shares, and so the breadth of the same lands above under the Knockaghes is lykwise three skore Seaven Perches, and in length, Two Hundred from the high-waye towards the Knockagh at the least, or be yt more as yt is marked. Further, that yt was lawfull, notwithstanding any man’s lott of land, but that all men should cut Hey for that Seasone in all parts as they usually did cut or otherwise made, for that presente yeare. Thyse lands before menÜßÞed (being devyded into Tenn whole lotts & halfe a lott) every of which lotts, to the number of Eight, do contayne foure whole Aldermens shares, and the other twoe lotts do contayne three Aldermens shares, wer allotted unto these severall Persons underwritten in manner & forme following — (viz)

Lands above Woodborne

Next unto the share of lands allotted unto CaptÍ Langford in lue of his share of the lands betwixt Copland Watter and Woodborne River being on the East — lyeth SÑ Arthur Chichester KnÓ iiii } next to that CaptÍ Roger Langford iiii } viii ThoÒ Cooper ii } Quarter Shares WillÌ Long ii } next to that Robert Lyndon ii } John Savadg iiii } The Lo: Bishop iiii } xvi John Scully ii } ThoÒ Hibbotts iiii } George Savadg i} Jenkin Winslowe i} WillÌ Savadg ii } Widdowe Conlan i} Quarter Shares John Hannyne i } xvi Henry Thomson i} next to that James Savadg ii } Humfrey Johnson iiii } Widdowe Sendall i} ThoÒ Walsh ii } WillÌ Story ii } John Clearke ii } Quarter Shares Phillip Kelly ii } xvi RichÃ OKane ii } Patrick Flynne ii } Sydney Russell ii } Quarter Shares

next to that John Hooper ThoÒ Stephenson Clement Ford

iiii } iiii } ii }

next to that Margarett Dobbin NichÒ Dobbin Christopher Doran

iiii } ii } ii }

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next to that CaptÍ Norton James Byrte Rowland Mathewes James Bradye Bryan O’Carr Robert Magye John MÂCarne

ii } xvi ii } ii }

iiii } iiii } ii } i } xvi i} ii } ii }

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next to that MÑ Dallway RichÃ Newton RichÃ Tath WillÌ Bath John Magye of the Gat Patrick Long Widdowe Vaughan Widdowe Baymond

iiii } ii } ii } ii } i } xvi i} ii } ii }

iiii } i} i} i} i } xvi ii } ii } ii } ii }

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next to that Moyses Hill Farrel Fox John Magye WillÌ Tubman Edmond Hussey ThoÒ Wytter John Redworth John Thomas John Conlan

WillÌ Lyddal ThoÒ Bashford

ii } xii ii }

ii } ii } ii } ii } ii } xvi ii } ii } ii }

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Lands near the sea west of Woodborne

John Lougg John Plunkett Robert Elice

next to that RichÃ Conlan Henry Spearpoint Dudley Yeareworth ThoÒ MÂManus Owen Magye RichÃ Butler John Wills Dermott Haynes

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next to that Note the following 12 Lotts shou’d be placed above Moses Hills, having been omitted in their proper place Jasper Happer ii } ThoÒ Gravett ii } Walter Howlman ii } Leonard Gale ii } xii Henry Ockford ii } Morgan Woods i} Gildony Kelly i} Quarter Shares

Quarter Shares

(See 29Óç leaf old Book) 48

1607 The 21Òó daye of July 1607 MÑ Taaffe for his unreverent & uncomely speaches used to the Maior in open Courte — (viz) I will teach you Sir heareafter, you never saved the creditt of this Towne; but you have discredited it inough; Doe your worst to me, and I will doe my worst to you: and being comanded by the Maior uppon utteraunce of these speaches to goe with the Sheriffs from the Bench, He sayd he would not goe, and further he sayd thou hast pinched my purse allreadye, and thou shall never pinch yt agayne, and yf I live I wil be even with thee: for all which was with greate favoure censured to paye the some of three Pounds curraunt money of Irelande, and to remayne in the Cowrte Howse untill he had satisfyed the same. (see 31Òó leaf old book)

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Eodem die et aÞo Tho: Witter then Maior. Whereas Clement Forde Burges formerly comitted diverse & sundrye misdemeanours agaynst the Maior & Sheriffs in resistinge ther authoritye in cessinge upon him souldiers, and in coller swearinge by an Oath to the Maiors face that he would never attende him to Church or otherwise whiles he was Maior of Carickfergus, And at another tyme the Maior Sittinge in Courte, the sayd Forde came & openly defyed him to his face, and tould Ensigne Cooper that one Judge might lawfully bydd a Turde in anothers teeth, and therefore he beinge Sheriffe might lawfully byd a Turde in the Maior’s teeth, with many other unlawfull prancks by him playde; All which in hope of amendment having lett slipp, nowe the sayd Forde never ceasinge to persist in his ill and unseemly behaviour, on the 29Óç daye of June last in open assembly drewe the whole Comons in a mutanye to ellecte & choose a Maior of themselves, telling Thomas Gravett yf he would they coulde make him Maior and that the Charter woulde beare the same; The Maior tould him he should be comitted for his misdemeanures, He answered him agayne in pert maner yf he did comitt him yt should be the dearest comittall 49

comittall that ever he comitted in all his Life:– For which latter offences He was by the Maior & Bench censured to paye the some of Fortye Shillings curraunt Money in Ireland, and likewise to remayn prisoner untill he had confessed & acknowledged his fault, and also to paye the foresayd fyne before he should departe the Courte Howse. The 27Óç daye of July 1607 Michaell Whit Alderman cominge behynd John Conlan, & suddenly strickinge him in the heade with a spade, with which blowe he fell into a Sounde, uppon which was lik to growe a great uproare & bralle betwixt the Warders of the Castell & Townesmen, had not MÑ Witter then Deputy Maior pacifyed the same by comandinge MÑ Whitt to his Howse, & ther to remayne untill the Maiors pleasure was knowne, which comand the sayd Whit contemptuously disobeyd in goinge abroade at his owne pleasure; Also the sayd Whitt upon the daye of ElleÜßÞe peremptorily annimated the Comons with these words — (viz) Goe doe it, & we will sett our hands to yt, which was to goe into another Rowm by themselves & sett downe the ElleÜßÞe themselves, & choose a Maior out of them; — all which they did without the Bench:– For all which misdemeanures he was censured by the Maior & Bench to paye the some of Twenty Six Shillings & Eight Pence curraunt money in Ireland; — which some he was ordered to satisfye before he should departe the Courte Howse. Eodem die & ano.

The 27Óç daye of July 1607

Thomas MÂManus for entering into the heade of the Comßns and drawing them out to a wrongfull ElleÜßÞe, through which ther was like to growe a great Muttynye, therefore he was by the Maior and Bench censured not onely to be dismist from beinge forespeaker for the Comons for this Yeare endinge at Michaelmas next, but also was fyned in the some of Thirteene Shillings four Pence current money of Irelande, which some he was ordered to paye before he should depart the Courte Howse.

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The 3Ã daye of August 1607 Whereas Thomas Cooper Burges formerly comitted diverse & sundry misdemeanures agaynst the Maior & Sheriffs, in resisting ther Authoritye in cessinge uppon him Souldiers, in comparing himselfe to be a better man then the Maior, with diverse others his evell carrages; all which wer (in hope of amendment, for the presente) overslipt & forborne; And nowe uppon the daye of ElleÜßÞe, being the 29Óç of June 1607, was one of them that drewe the Comons into a mutany & uproare, and withall came into the Maiors presents sittinge at the Bench, and peremptorily commaunded the Sheriffs to goe & attend uppon them:– for all which latter offences he was censured by the Maior & Bench, not only to be displaced from being forespeaker for the Comons for this yeare ending at Michaelmas next, but also was fyned in the some of Thirteene Shillings fourpence current money in Ireland, and not to departe the Courte untill he had satysfyed the foresayd fyne. The 24Óç daye of August 1607 The Maior & most parte of the Bench laying downe uppon the daye of ElleÜßÞe which was the 29Óç of June 1607 an orderly course which hath bene ever used in this Towne for the ElleÜßÞe of the Maiors, Richard Newton Alderman standing upp agaynst him, did in open assemly delyver in most vehement maner these words following — (viz) — MÑ Maior it nether may be nor shal be, doe what you can; and lookinge back uppon the Comons sayde further, it is a good deed to take the rodd out of his hand and pull him from the benche, for I have sene the like done in other places, and further bravinge the Maior in comparing with him of Wealth, Government, & Justice, using his pleasure as he thought best:– for all which misdemeanures & outradges, with many more too long to be repeted, it is in regard of these his greate offences thought meete & requisitt by the Maior & Bench, that the sayd Newton be presently dismissed, as well from the Bench & counsell of this Towne, 51

as also to be incapable of office within the same, untill he shall by open submission acknowledge his fault, & also paye a fyne of Tenn Pounds to the use of the Towne, & then to com in, yf it please the Maior for the tyme being & the Bench, & not otherwise:– And yf any Maior heareafter for the tyme beinge shall offer to mittigate ether his submission or fyne without consent, that same Maior from that tyme forth shall stand & be dewly & trewly indebted unto the Towne & CorporaÜßÞe in the just some of Twentye Pounds to be levyed of his Goods, by any Maior which shall ever after take advantage thereof, the one halfe to the Maior himselfe and the other halfe to the Towne. — 1606 19Óç daye of January 1606 — Forasmuch as att this assemblye houlden the 19Óç daye of January 1606, by the consent of the Maior, Sherriffs, Burgiosses, & Comonaltye, the ymposiÜßÞe is surceased & no longer to be continued, by Meanes whereof the Revenewes of the Towne is much lessened; In consideraÜßÞe of which yt is with good advise likewise agreed uppon, that the Maior, Sheriffs, Towne Clearke & Sergents, shall have from the Towne, begininge at Michaellmas next insuinge the Date heareof — (viz) — The Maior the thirde part of his Majestys Customs & petty Custom, the Sheriffes twenty Shillings le piece, with all such perquissitts as hath auncientlye bene belonginge to the Maiors & Sheriffs before MÑ Dallwayes last maioralty, at which tyme & from thencforth the Towne Clearke is to have foure Pounds, and the two Sargents

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which shall then continue to have forty shillings le piece pÑ annum, all which payment to be made in curraunt & lawfull money of Ireland, and no otherwise. — The fourth of Aprill 1608, this above written order, from Michaelmas next is to contynue & to be established. (See 30Óç leaf old book) 1613 The 11Óç daye of July 1613 — Mary Vaughan Widdowe, late wife unto Thomas Vaughan of this Towne Burgesse deceased, & her sonne Charles Vaughan came in open Courte & humbly requested that the Maior & CorporaÜßÞe would passe under the Towne Seale unto 52

MÑ Richard Taafe Alderman & his heiers & assignes for ever, all that halfe share of the Townes lande first devyded which was allotted unto the above written Thomas Vaughan & Mary his wife; to which ther Suyte & earnest requeste the whole Courte gave consent, on this condiÜßÞe, for that the sayde Mary Vaughan did then in open Courte bynd herselfe to forfeyte unto hir twoe sonnes Charles Vaughan & Arthure Vaughan or to the longer lyver of them, the some of Twenty Pounds Sterg. current money of & in England, yf ever she should passe awaye the howse wherein shee nowe dwelleth to any other than one of hir sayde sonnes, the one halfe of which howse came in waye of exchange from MÑ Taaffe unto the sayd Mary Vaughan & hir sonne Charles for the above written halfe share of lande & Tenn Pounds sterg, money of & in England, which was payd by the sayd Richard Taaffe unto the sayd Mary Vaughan & hir sonne Charles in reddy money:– as wyttnes we whose names are underwritten Robte Lyndon Maior Humfrey Johnson Mychell Whit Thomas Witter Dudley Yerworth Cle. Forde Richd. O’Kane } Towne Clerke (See 32Ã leaf old book) 1614 Wheras WillÌ Dobbin th elder late Sheriffe of this Towne of Knockfergus for diverse & sundry disorders & misdemeanurs towards the Maior, (one of which was, that the sayd WillÌ Dobbin in the presense of the Maior, sayde that he woulde comitt one John MÂGalpeny to prysone, only for that the sayde John MÂGalpeny did complayne to the Maior for Justice) for which cause, with many & sundry other disorders the sayd WillÌ Dobbin was by coÝaundement of the Maior comitted to his owne Howse as prysoner, from which he was sent for both to 53

Courte & to MÑ Maiors Howse, & was proffered his inlargment, so as he woulde once acknowledge himselfe to have comitted an error, which he most obstinatly & stubbornly refused to confesse, his liberty & inlargment being many tymes, & by sundry persons sent from the Maior, proffered him upon acknowledgment of his faults; and so he still mantayning his owne opynion, in the ende complayned to the Judges of Assisses, who (very judicially hearinge & examininge the matter from the begining) found that the sayd WillÌ Dobbin had comitted many & sundrye offences in the exercysinge of his office of Sheriffe, as well towards the Maior as other Persons; And therefore they did order, that the sayde WillÌ Dobbin should be put out & dissmist from his office of Sherivalty, & that another should be chosen in his Rowme, and withall should

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paye as fyne the some of Fortye Pounds Ster., which fyne belongeth to the Towne; The performaunce of which order or censure was left to the discretione of the Maior & Bench; wherupon a Courte was called upon the 8Óç daye of Aprill 1614, in which Courte it was ordered & agreed by the Bench, that the sayd WillÌ Dobbin from that foresayd 8Óç daye of Aprill 1614 should be put out & dissmist from his place of Sherivaltye of this Towne, & that another shoulde be chosen & ellected in his place, and that for ever afterwards he shoulde not be heald or esteemed worthye or capeable to cary or heave any office within this CorporaÜßÞe:– And yt was further ordered that he should put in sufficient securitye to restore & give upp all such moneyes as he had taken upp for the Towne, or had any warraunt to take upp, or els should give & passe a just & lawfull accompt howe the same hath bene disbursed for the Towne’s use; — And yt is further ordered that in open Courte he should publiquelye confesse his offence comitted agaynst the Maior, and should make submissione for the same; untill which tyme & afterward it was ordered he should contynue prysoner, untill the Maior should give order for his inlargment:– But for his fyne of Fortye Pounds ymposed as aforesÃ yt was thought meete by the Maior & Bench, both in regard of some 54

some charges that he had formerly bene att as also for the better mayntenaunce & releeffe of himselfe, his wiffe, children & famylye heareafter, that the same should wholy be remitted; the Fyne of right belonging to the Towne. The 28Óç May 1614 — WillÌ Dobbin cam in open Courte, & ther made his Submissione, & craved remissione for his former faults & offences comitted agaynst the Maior, wherupon he was sett at libertye, and his offences forgiven by the Maior & Courte. A true copye of the Judges of Assisses order menÜßÞed in this above written order. C.fergus 1Ìî ApË 1614. Upon due examinacone of the matter it is ordered, that the plÓ shall lye in pryson untill he paye Fortye Pounds Ster. for the Kings fyne, & submitt himselfe to MÑ Maior, & acknowledge his fault before the Aldermen, and that he shal be dissmissed of his Sherivaltye, & another to be appoynted by the Maior. WillÌ Methwold Will: Sparke. (see 33Ã leaf old book) 1624 The 28Óç daye of June 1624 — beinge the ElleÜßÞe daye Uppon a moÜßÞe then made by the Comons before they proceaded to any ElleÜßÞe ether of Maior or Sheriffs, it was ordered condiscended & agreed with a generall consent & assent of the whole Bench & Comons, that the thirde parte of the King’s Customes graunted to this Towne & CorporaÜßÞe by Charter, and heretofore given & allowed by the Towne to the precedent Maiors as parte of ther aÞual Stipend, shalbe from henceforth taken from all Maiors hereafter succeadinge; and that from & after Michaellmas daye next ensuinge the above written date, the sayde thirde parte of the Custome shall for ever stande & remayne to the generall good of the Towne and CorporaÜßÞe, And that this Acte shall for ever hereafter stande, & be forever irrevocable. (See 34th leaf old book) At a generall Quarter Assembly, healde before the Right WorsË SÑ Hercules Langforde KnÓ Maior of the Towne of Knockfergus, and the rest of the Bench and Aldermen there — 5Óç daye of July 1624 —

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It was ordered condiscended & agreed by the whole assembly, that all such of the late made Aldermen as have not brought in there plate, which they should have delyvered upon the Table in the Courte Howse the same daye they were admitted & sworne Aldermen, shall at or before the first daye of the nexte assembly after Easter nexte bringe in ther plate, or in deffault thereof that they & every of them makinge deffault shall then & there tender & delyver in reddye moneyes without further delaye the some of Twentye Nobles Ster. le piece (viz) Thomas Powell Alderman his Executors or assignes the some of Twentye Nobles of the moneyes aforesayde, Thomas Kirkpatrick Alderman his executors or assignes the some of Twenty Nobles of the moneyes aforesayde, Anthoney Dobbin Alderman his Executors or assignes the some of Twenty Nobles of the moneyes aforesayde, and the executors of Ezekiel Davis the some of Tenn Pounds of the moneyes aforesayde. The same daye & yeare It was ordered condiscended & agreed (by the assent & consent aforesayde) that from thenceforth the Twentye Nobles allowed yearely from the Towne to the Sheriffs, and the Three Pounds allowed them yearely for intertayning ther attorneyes at his Majesty’s Courts att Dublin, shal be resumed into the Towne’s hands & be no more allowed, and the Sheriffs from henceforth shall rest contented, and onely have from the Towne all such fynes as shall growe due for Batteryes & Bloodshedds within this Towne & Countye for there stipend, and withall that the Sheriffs hereafter att there owne Costs and charges for the consideraÜßÞe aforesayde shall discharge the fees for passinge & allowinge there accompts to the officers of his Majesty’s Courte of Exchequyer yearelye; as also that they shall not be troubled with the gatheringe & collecting of the Townes Rents or Revenewes hereafter; But that the sayde Revenewes shal be leavyed and collected by such Collector or Collectors as the Towne shall from tyme to tyme appoynt for the leavyinge & collecting thereof. 56

The same daye & yeare John Frederick Rottengather was admitted free as a halfe share without payinge any fyne to the Towne for his freedome, save onely that he shall cast the first Bell which the Towne shall have occasione to use, ether in the Church or elsewhere (at his owne costs & charges) of what weight or biggnes so ever the CorporaÜßÞe shal be pleased to make the same, the Towne fyndinge & providinge the mettall wood & fewell, and the sayde Rottengather to be at the charge of the worke & workmanshype — The same daye & yeare It was also ordered condiscended & agreed, that the Six Pounds which this Towne & CorporaÜÜßÞe did allowe and give unto MÑ Openshawe towards the payment of his house rent should be from & after Michaelmas next reduced unto three Pounds Ster. per anÞ, with which three Pounds he is to rest satisfyed & contented in that behalfe, & to have no more from the Towne but £3 ster. Yearelye. Note - entered in the margin opposite the above act of assembly — (viz) — The 25. Aprilis 1625 beinge the assembly daye, this was cancelled with a generall consent. The same daye & yeare It was likewyse ordered condiscended & agreed, that Richard Brooks shall have as Stipend from the Towne for the banishinge & drivinge out of all strange beggars &

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other idle & loyteringe persons, both out of the Towne & County, the some of Thirty Shillings Ster. current money of & in England. Note - entered likewise in the margin — This was likewyse the same daye with a generall consent also cancelled. The same daye & yeare It was also ordered condiscended & agreed, that the foure Pounds yearely allowed to the Towne Clearke as Stypend from the Towne should be agayne resumed & taken into the Townes hande, and that the Towne Clearke shoulde enforme himselfe from other Cyttyes and CorporaÜßÞes what fees other Clearkes doe usually take for exercysinge that place or office, & that accordinge the Graunt 57

Graunt specifyed to us in our Towne Charter he shall from henceforth at full levy receave & take upp the like & the same fees, as well for entry of aÜÜßÞes, declaraÜÜßÞes and answers, as also for readinge of PettiÜÜßÞes, & for writtinge of any order or Refferment upon any petiÜÜßÞe togither with all other perquissitts & fees that belonge to the Towne Clearke or Clerk of the Toulsell in any other Cytty or Towne; and withall that the Towne Clearke for the tyme beinge shall be freed & exempted of & from all maner of leavyes & assessments hereafter at any tyme to be made for any cause or occassione within this Towne & Countye of this Towne. (See 34Óç leaf old book) 1624

A generall Quarter assembly healde before the Right WorshËë SÑ Hercules Langforde KnÓ Maior of the Towne of Knockfergus, and the rest of the Bench & Aldermen the 11Óç of October 1624.

WillÌ Clough with a generall consent of the Bench & Comons was chosen & ellected Thrúû for the Towne, and MÑ Ingraham Horsman Alderman and Thomas Bashford Burges togither with him did acknowledge a Bonnd of Three Hundred Pounds Ster. to the Towne & CorporaÜßÞe that the sayde WillÌ Clough shoulde yealde & give ether quarterlye or every halfe yeare (at the pleasure or elleÜÜßÞe of the Maior & Bench) a true & just accompte of all such somes of money as he shoulde from tyme to tyme receave for the use of the Towne. (See 35Óç leaf old book) The same daye & yeare Cornell O’Kane was with the consent aforesayde ellected & chosen to be Collector of all such Revenewes as shoulde growe due to the Towne, and of all the fynes & amercements which should accrewe at the foure assemblyes, and for his paynes to be taken herein, yt was condiscended that he shoulde have 12Ã Ster. out of the Pounde, and he to put in good & sufficient securitye Quarterlye or every halfe yeare (at ether of which tymes the Maior & Bench shal be pleased to call him to accompt) to yealde & give a true & just accoumpt of all such moneyes as he shall gather & collecte for the Townes use, or for which he shall receave 58

receave a warrant to collect any moneyes for the Townes use, for performaunce wherof Joseph Davis & Richard O’Kane togither with the sayde Cornell O’Kane did in open Courte acknowledge a Bonnde of three Hundred Pounds to this Towne & CorporaÜÜßÞe yf the sayde Cornell shoulde make deffaulte.

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The same daye & yeare Richard Mather was chosen & ellected to be collector of thirde parte of his Majestys Customes graunted to this Towne by Charter, for collecting wherof & for keepinge both a booke & just accoumpt of the same, he is to have for his paynes the some of foure Pounds Ster. pÑ anÞ, and is to passe & give his accoumpts to the Maior for the tyme beinge att all tymes when the same shal be demaunded, ether monthlye or quarterlye, and is to fynd & put in good & sufficient security for performaunce of the same. This Richard Mather departed this liffe in November followinge, and MÑ Robert Pulhame was by the Maior & Aldermen chosen & ellected to succeed in his Rowme & place, and for exercysinge and executing the same was to have the sayde stypende or allowance of foure Pounds Ster. pÑ anÞ. 1636 — The 25Óç Aprilis 1636 — beinge an assembly daye Whereas the daye & yeare above written, by the generall consent of the Maior Sheriffs Burgesses & Comonalty, MÑ Roger Lyndon Alderman was nominated & appoynted the Towne Thrúû, & receaver of all & singuler the Revenewes, as well causuall as certayne, by him the sayde Roger to be receaved and to be disbursed for the sayde Townes use, as by the Maior of the sayde Towne for the tyme being and twoe or more of the Aldermen of the same Towne from tyme to tyme shal be warranted & directed under there hands and not otherwyse:– The sayde Roger is to enter into the execuÜÜßÞe of the sayde Imployment at Michaelmas next, & therein to contynue duringe good behaviour; provided that once every yeare by the first of January at the farthest (yt being required) he render a true & exacte accoumpt of the sayde Townes Revenewes respectyvely by him receaved unto the sayde Maior for the tyme beinge, or to such commisioners as by him the sayde Maior for the tyme beinge or CorporaÜÜßÞe shal be nominated & appoynted for that purpose; And withall the sayde Roger is to enter into Bonde of Five Hundred Pounds Sterlinge to be answerable unto the sayde CorporaÜßÞe from tyme to tyme for such some or somes 59

somes of money as shal be remayninge in his hands upon perfectinge of such accoumpts to be delyvered upp uppon his the sÃ Roger his discontinuance. And yt is likewyse ordered that all the Estreats of fynes & amercements, & other causuall Profitts belonginge or any waye growinge due to the sayde CorporaÜßÞe, shal be directed unto the sayde Roger Lyndon by him or his Substitute to be leavyed in as full & ample maner as the Sheriffs or other officers nowe or heretofore have or ought to have leavyed & receaved the same for the sayde Townes use, the sayde Rogers acquittance or acquittances or other discharges respectyvelye for such Revenewes to the partyes paying the same from tyme to tyme duringe the sayde imployment to be sufficient good authentique & byndinge agaynst the sayde Maior Sheriffs Burgesses and Comonalty, & there successors for ever:– In consideraÜÜßÞe of the sayde Rogers care & paynes to be taken in the premisses it is likewyse ordered and allowed by the sayde Maior Sheriffs Burgesses & Comonaltye, that the sayde Roger shall receave yearelye during his imployment the some of five Pounds over & besyds the yearely Stypende of Tenn Pounds Ster. heretofore allowed him for receavinge & collectinge the thirde parte of the Customes due & payable to the sayde Towne:– This order is forthwith to be entered, and a coppy thereof under the Maiors & Sheriffs hands to be delivered the sayde Roger for his warrant for proceadinge in the sayde office. (See 35Óç leaf old book)

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1637 — Wentworth — By the Lord Deputy & Councell Whereas Richard Sperpoint Mayor of the Corporation of Knockfergus Edward Johnson & John Hall Sheriffs of the said Corporation, & the Burgesses & CoÝonaltie thereof, have beene humble suiters unto us the Lord Deputy & others his Majestys CoÝittees for his highnes revenewes, to accept and receave from them (for & to the use of his most excellent Majestie our Sovereign Lord Charles by the Grace of God of England Scotland Fraunce & Ireland Kinge, Defender of the Faith &c his Heires & Successors) a good & sufficient surrender to bee made in due forme of Lawe, of the third part of all & singuler the Customes as well great as small, to be devided into three parts; and all & Singuler Sommes of money to them due 60

due & payable for & concerninge the Customes of any wares & merchandizes whatsoever from tyme to tyme brought or carried into the Port of Knockfergus aforsaid, or into any other Port, Baye, or Creek belonging or adjacent to the said Towne of Knockfergus, & beeinge betwixt the Sound of faire furlonges in the County of Antrim and the Beerlomes in the County of Downe, and of for & concerninge the Customes of all wares & merchandizes whatsoever from tyme to tyme shipped laden or exported, or to be shipped, laden or exported of from or out of the sÃ Porte or Haven of Knockfergus, or of or out of any other Haven Baye Creeke or any other place within the Sound of faire Furlonges & Beerlomes aforesaid, or from any one or any of them:– And that in Consideration of the said Surrender soe to be made, wee the said Lord Deputy & Councell would bee pleased that they the said Mayor Sheriffes Burgesses & CoÝonaltie of Knockfergus aforsaid might have & receave of his Majestie the Some of three Thousand Pounds, to be bestowed & employed in the purchasinge of Lands for & to the use benefitt & beehoofe of them & their successors & to none other use:– Wee therefore havinge taken the Premisses, and the longe & faithfull service done to the Crowne by the said Corporation, into consideration; And beinge desirous by all just & honnorable wayes & meanes to advance & augment the publique utility, & profit & Revenewe of the said Corporation, are contented and pleased, and do hereby order & appointe that the Said Summe of three Thousand Pounds shall, within two monethes next after such Surrender made & perfected, be paid unto & deposited in the hands of Arthur Chichester Esquier, Arthur Hill Esquier, & Roger Lyndon Gent. to be by them disposed of & imployed to & for the use of the said Corporation, untill the Saide Some of three Thousand Pounds shall be disposed of & laid out & imployed by the said Mayor Sheriffes Burgesses & CoÝonaltie, or the more part of them, for the buyinge purchasinge and acquiringe Lands, for & to the use of the said Corporation; which Lands soe to bee purchased & acquired, wee do ordaine & require that they bee from tyme to tyme imployed for the best benefitt 61

of the said Corporation, without makinge any alienaÜßÞe or Estate thereof, other then for the tearme of one and Twenty Yeares, and for valuable rents to be reserved to the said Corporation, except it bee by Speciall Licence from the Lord Deputy or other cheife Governor or Governors of this Kingdome & Councell for the tyme beinge. — Given at his Majesties Castle of Dublin the 1Òó of February 1637. Adam Loftus canc. — Adam Loftus — G. Lowther Jo: Borlase — Geo: Radcliffe — Ro. Meridith concordÓ cum original. Paul Davyes. (See 68 leaf old book)

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1639 The first of November 1639 — Roger Lyndon EsqÑ sworne Deputye Recorder of this Towne of Knockfergus by vertue of this Deputatione hereafter written — (viz) — This Indenture made the nineteenth day of October anno 1639, between SÑ William Sambach KnÓ his Majestys Serjeant at Lawe, & Recorder of the CorporaÜßÞe of Knockfergus on th’one partye, and Roger Lyndone of Knockfergus aforesÃ EsqÑ of th other partye, witnesseth, that the said SÑ William Sambach for divers goode causes & consideraÜßÞes him thereunto movinge, hath made ordeyned constituted and appoynted, and by theise presents doth make ordeyne constitute and appoynte the saide Roger Lyndone his true & lawfull Deputy, or Deputy Recorder of the saide CorporaÜÜßÞe of Knockfergus — To Have Houlde Exercyse & execute the saide office of Deputye Recorder of the saide CorporaÜÜßÞe of Knockfergus for & duringe the will & pleasure of the saide SÑ William Sambach, and not any longer or otherwyse:– And the saide Roger Lyndone for him his heirs Executors & Administrators doth by theise presents covenant promise graunt & agree, to & with the saide SÑ WillÌ Sambach his Executors & administrators, that the saide Roger Lyndone for & duringe all such tyme as he shal bee or contynue Deputy Recorder of the saide CorporaÜÜßÞe of Knockfergus as aforesaide, shall & will well & faythfully uprightly a sincerely, accordinge the best of his understandinge skill & cunninge, honestly demeane & behave himself 62

himself in the exercyse & execuÜÜßÞe of the saide office of Deputye Recorder of the saide CorporaÜÜßÞe of Knockfergus aforesaide, And shall & will from tyme to tyme & at all tymes hereafter acquit dischardge & save harmeless the saide SÑ WillÌ Sambach his Executors & administrators & every of them, of & from all & all manner of losse damadge trouble molestaÜÜßÞe & disturbance whatsoever which may or shall happen to him them or any of them, for or by reasone of any Act or Acts thinge or thinges whatsoever had made don comitted or permitted by the saide Roger Lyndone in for & concerninge the saide office of Deputye Recorder of the saide CorporaÜÜßÞe of Knockfergus in any sort whatsoever, or the ExecuÜÜßÞe of the saide office or anything belonging thereunto or concerninge the same in any sorte whatsoever. — In wittness wherof the saide partyes to theise presents interchangably put there hands & seales the day and yeare first above written. — Sealed Signed & delivered Wm. Sambach in the presence of Edm. Hunte Madden. (See 51Òó leaf old book) 1640

At the Assembly helde before the right worsË SÑ Roger Langforde KnÓ Maior of the Countye of the Towne of Knockfergus, & Roger Lyndone EsqÑ deputye Recorder of the same, And the rest of the Bench & CoÝons — the first daye of June 1640

It was agreed & inacted the day & yeare aforesaide by the Maior Aldermen & Comons then assembled, that noe persone or Persones whatsoever be put into any ElleÜÜßÞe to be Maior Sheriff within or of this Towne & CorporaÜÜßÞe of Knockfergus that doe or shall owe any money to saide CorporaÜÜßÞe before such tyme as Bonds bee taken for such money or moneyes as shall be due by him or them, and withall that the moneyes nowe due bee paide by mydsomer next; provided that this Act doe not extende to any

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persone or persones as shall by that tyme pay in the moneyes nowe due by that tyme, And all others in that case that shall from tyme to tyme pay 63

pay such moneyes respectively to bee due by them before they can be admitted into the ElleÜÜßÞe as aforesaide. Roger Langforde Maior Roger Lyndone Mathewe Johnsone Hum. Johnsone vic. T Whitaker (See 52Ã leaf old book) 1644 — At a generall assembly healde for the Countye of the Towne of Knockfergus the 20Óç of January 1644. Whereas mature consideraÜßÞe beinge then had by the Maior Sheriffes Burgesses & Comonaltye of the Saide Towne & Countye, of the present condicÜßÞe the saide Towne is in concerninge the Revenewes thereof, the many debts due by them to sundrey Persones, and of many necessarye workes & other Chardges & expences it stands lyable unto, as well in respect of the stipend due to the Maior & the several officers belonging unto it, to whom dayly allowance is to bee given; And in regard its nowe chardged as a Garrison, burdened with Souldiers:– For all which reasons, it was this day thought fitt & ordered, that certayne comissioners as well of the Bench as of the Comons shoulde be nominated & chosen for the orderinge of the saide Revenewes & other the Premisses for the best goode & advantdge of the saide Towne, which comissioners have beene accordingly elected & chosen by a generall consent in open Courte, whose names are heareafter sett downe, and whoe are hereby autorized (or the greater nomber of them) MÑ Maior to bee alwayes one), to call before them the several Collector and Collectors since the warr began, and to call them to accoumpt for their or any of their receipts & disbursements sithenn the saide tyme; and alsoe from tyme to tyme hereafter till further order to the contrary, to look too, examyne & take accoumpts as cause requyres, and to setle a ThûÑ of the Revenewes, such a man as will give goode bonndes or security for the answering of the Townes Revenewes that shall come to his handes, (whoe is to appoynte his owne collector) from tyme to tyme, & as often as he shal be called unto by the saide Comissioners or the greater nomber of them; And that the saide Thûer shall not issue any moneyes 64

moneyes without warrant from the saide Comissioners or greater parte of them under their hands; And the saide Comissioners are to vewe & examyne all other accoumpts for workes done in & about this Garrisone, and of other disbursements made for the use of this CorporaÜÜßÞe, and as they fynde just cause to allowe & setle the same in such order as all men may have their due, and the CorporaÜÜßÞe bee knowinge of the state of their Revenewes; The allowance of the saide Comissioners or the greater parte of them to bee goode & authentick, as well for as agaynst the saide Towne, wherein the saide Comissioners intrusted are to have care & integritye accordinge their Oathes to the goode of the saide Corporaccone, so farr as Justice & Equity requyres:– And this beinge the full desires of the saide assembly, its to bee entered as a Recorde of the Courte, for the saide Comissioners more safe proceedinge in the Premisses. Tho. Kirkpatrick — MÑ Maior — Roger Lyndone Mathewe Johnsone — Rich. Speerepoynte — Clem. Bashforde

1650

WillÌ Hooper — John Bullworthye — James Dobbin WillÌ Bashforde — WillÌ Cathcarte. (See 52Ã leaf old Book) 1650 PetiÜßÞe of JnÎ Lyttle vers. WillÌ Jordan. To the WorshË of the Countye of the Towne of Knockfergus, Maior. Humblye sheweth unto you, that in consideraÜÜßÞe of the sume of Twenty Pounds Ster. Incombe to bee paide by your PetiÜÜßÞer unto William Jordan, & the yearlye Rent of Forty Shillings Ster. (at twoe tearmes) by the Yeare, the saide WillÌ Jordan was to demyse unto your petiÜÜßÞer a parcell of Killacrott wheron was a Killn & other the appurtents for & duringe his reverÜÜßÞe, to compleate Threeskore & one yeares; and to that purpose a lease was caused to be drawen in parchment which is extant readye; albeit the saide John Lytle hath paide the saide sume of Twentye Pounds Ster. Incombe, & the rent hitherto due, as shall bee made clear by accoumpt: yet nevertheles, the saide WillÌ Jordan refused 65

refused to come & make a perfect accoumpt or Signe the saide lease altho often requyred. — May it therefore please you in regarde of the Premisses, and that the saide Premisses are subject to causualties besides mortallyte, to graunt order to cause the saide accoumpts to be revewed by such Persones, twoe or three, as you shall appoynte, as you shall thinke meete, and as CertificaÜÜßÞe shal be made by them to cause to bee recorded, that your PetiÜÜßÞer may bee established in his right accordinge to the Premisses, and its true intent and meaninge of the same, with your answere in writtinge:– And your PetiÜÜßÞer accordinge his bounden Dutye shall prayre. Carickfergus the 30Óç of July 1650 Michaell Savadge, John Bullworthye SenÑ, & Thomas Baker, or any twoe of them, are desired to examyne the difference, if they can (noatice beinge given to the DeffÓ) and to certifye their opinione, that there bee no further cause of complaynte, which yf upon informaÜÜßÞe given to the DeffÓ (whoe is to take noatice therof) for his neglect to answere by the last of August next, the Towne Clerke of Carickfergus is to recorde the retourne given him, whoe is concerned not to fayle. Sic Subscribitur — William Haper — Maior By Vertue of the within written Referrence to us John Bulworthye SenÑ directed, wee have examyned the accoumpts given in by John Lytle, and doe fynde that upon the Auditinge of the accoumpts betwixt the saide John Lytle & the within named William Jordan, subscribed by James Dobbin & William Bashforde the 26Óç of May 1645 John Lytle aforesaid hath dischardged the sume of Twentye one pounds Thirteene shillings & Foure pence Ster. and sithenne that, that the saide John Lytle doth make appear that he hath paide and dishbursed for & to the use of the saide William Jordan in his Rent till May last the sum of Eleaven Poundes three Shillings & Six Pence Ster., onley William Jordan disproves the accoumpt by the tyme lymitted, which wee thought goode to certifye in obedience of the within written Refferrence — wittnes our handes the 66

the last of July, One Thousande Six Hundred & Fiftye Sic Subscribitur —

Michaell Savadge Tho: Baker

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The 29Óç Aprill one Thousand Six Hundred Fifty one The orriginall PetiÜÜßÞe beinge to me produced, with the Refferrence (by the saide MÑ Haper Maior) signed, & the retourne on the backside therof Indorced I have examined, beinge the true coppye of the whole, and recorded it by the Directiones aforesaide — in the presents of Rich: O’Cahane James Dobbin Clk – ifÌ William O’Cahane (See 56 leaf old book) 1651

Recorded the 19Óç of FebruØ 1651 concerninge the heirs of George Savadg and John Hounsell in theise wordes

Wheras sithenn the Death of John Dobbin noe man hath beene appoynted to mannadge the Estate that doth belong to the heirs of George Savadge within this Libertye of Carrickfergus, and seeinge it doth belonge to my place & authorytye to doe for the fatherles accordinge to Equitye; and as I am informed that one John Hounsell was in possessione thereof at the tyme of the Death of the foresaid John Dobbin, I doe therefore hereby pray and authorize James Dobbin Alderman, & Mich: Savadge Burges neare akynn to the said Heirs, to bee aydinge & assistinge the saide John Hounsell in the mannadginge thereof untill the heirs come to perfect adges, and withal to take a straight accoumpt of the saide John Hounsell for the tyme past, as well of the Proffitts as of his disbursements, and to retourne under their handes howe yow doe fynde it, and to doe any thinge concerninge the Premisses as yow in your discreÜÜßÞes shall thinke fitt:– And for your soe doinge this shal bee your warrant. Given under my hande at Carrickfergus the 12Óç of March 1650 Sic Subscribitur — William Haper — Mayor 67

Their Retourne In obedience, and by Vertue to/of the above written Refferrence wee examined the receipts & dishbursements of the saide John Hounsell concerninge the Premisses, and doe fynde due to the saide John Hounsell from the Heirs of George Savadge Eleaven Pounds Eight Shillings & three Pence, and thinke meete & allowe that the saide John Hounsell & his assignes ought to have towardes the satisfyinge therof the landes Tenants & possessiones belonginge to the saide heires for five yeares & a halfe from Candlemas next, the saide John Hounsell & his assignes payinge & dischardginge such Rents on the same reserved to the CorporaÜÜßÞe of Knockfergus, and the ContribuÜÜßÞe ymposed on the same to the Publique, soe that the ContribuÜÜßÞe monethlye exceede not xviii (eighteen) Pence) duringe that tyme: witnes our Hands this 28Óç of SeptÑ 1651. And it is provided, that yf the saide monethlye contribuÜÜßÞe doe surmount in that five yeares & a halfe more than the saide Eighteen Pence, then the saide lande to bee healde by the saide John Hounsell or his assignes till the saide surplussadge bee repaide:– If hee the saide Patricke Savadge or any of his allyance doth paye the saide John Hounsell the sume of money that then shal be due, the saide Hounsell is willinge to relingues his interest of the Estate:– As wittnes our hands this the daye within written. Sic Subscribitur — James Dobbin Michaell Savadge

1656

This is a true coppye of the orriginall remayninge with the saide John Hounsell as I have tested, by the Indorsment appeares the daye & yeare first above written beinge the 19Óç of FebruØ one Thousande Six Hundred Fiftye & one Rich: O’Cahane Clk. ifÌ 68

1656 — At a private assemblie holden for the Towne & CorporaÜÜßÞe of Carrickfergus before John Orpin EsqÑ Mayor of the said Towne & the rest of the Aldermen & Burgesses of the said Towne heere under named, the second day of February 1656. Whereas it was then proposed to the Court, that James Dobbin one of the Aldermen of the said Towne being sittinge on the Bench at the last Generall Quarter Sessions held for the Towne & County of Carrickfergus, to witt, uppon Monday the 26Óç of January in the Yeare aforesaid, utterd very injurious reproachfull & execrable speeches then in open Court, tendinge & conducinge to the disquiett of the whole Court & the obstructinge of the publique service, and specially towards Captaine Roger Lyndon Recorder of the said Towne. Uppon mature & deliberate consideraÜßÞ had of the Premisses, and for that there was no cause or occasion given by the said Recorder unto the said James Dobbin to utter any such irreverent horrid & execrable speeches as he the said James Dobbin then utterd & declared in open Court; It is this day thought fitt & accordingly ordered, that the said James Dobbin shall bee from this tyme foorth removed from the place & office of Alderman of the saide Towne; And likewise he the said James Dobbin is hereby made incabable of his freedome, unless he come in by the next Court of tryalls to be holden at the Tollsell or Courthouse of the saide Towne and there make his publique submission before the Mayor & Court for his offence comitted. Present John Orpin Maior Robt. Savadge Michaell Savadge Robt. Wytter Anthony Hall Peeter Tailour Jasper Haper John Wadman William Thompson

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Mathewe Johnson John Bullworthy John Davies John Dallway Robert Welsh John Byrt

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William Dobbin } Sheriffes Tho: Griffith } ExamÃ by mee Edmond Yeo Towne Clerk — (See 57Óç leaf old book)

1656 — I doe acknowledge to have receaved at the hands of John Magee of Carickfergus Yeoman, full satisfaÜßÞ of the mortadge which I had upon the Garden knowen & called by the name of Garden Komman, which Thomas King had in mortadge from Murtagh Woods of Knockfergus Burdges deceased, and thereof & every part & parcel of the said mortadge I doe hereby cleerly acquite exonerate & dischardge the said John Magee & his heires & assignes for ever — As wittnes my hand the 7Óç of March 1656. —

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Only the thirds of the said Garden is reserved to Elizabeth the Relict or Widow of Donell OCahan deceased during her naturall Life & no longer. Wittnes herunto John Orpin Maior James Dobbin (See 36 leaf old book) 1657 — At an Assembly held for the Towne & Corporation of C.fergus before John Orpin EsqÑ Mayor of the said Towne &c. Captaine Roger Lyndon Recorder — the 19Óç day of November 1657. Then ordered by the Court, that from henceforth a Court of Assembly be kept for this Towne & Corporation the first Tuesday in every moneth, to begin the first Tuesday of the next moneth, and so to continue. John Orpin Maior Ordered likewise by the Court aforsaid, that noe apprentize now made, or heareafter to be made, shall serve lesse than seaven yeares for his freedome as an apprentize before he bee made free:– And none shall bee admitted, unles they come & first enter their Indentures in the Towne bookes of Record after three monethes of the signeinge of the said Indentures; for which the Towne clerk is to receave three Shillinges & foure Pence:– This Act is to remaine and bee irrevocable:– And it is further ordered, that those that have beene bound before this Act, shall come within the space of three Monethes next after the date heereof, or loose the benefitt of the tyme they have served. John Orpin Maior And it is likewise ordered, that hencefoorth none be admitted free of this Corporation but such as truly & duely serve their said Apprentishipps or such as shall bee capable to have it by their birth-rights 70

birth-rights accordinge to the ancient custome of this Towne; And such as by a late Act made in England:– Provided that whosoever shall soe or otherwise bee admitted free, other than those nominated & recited as aforsaid, shall pay no lesse then Tenn Pounds SterlÆ for his or their fyne for the said freedome. John Orpin Maior (See 57 leaf old book) 1657

At an Assembly held for the Towne & Corporation of Carrickfergus, before John Orpin EsqÑ Mayor & Captaine Roger Lyndon Recorder &c, the Eighth day of December 1657.

Ordered by the Court, that the Aldermen of the severall wards of this Towne & Corporation respectively have a speciall care to have the streets kept cleane, and to observe all such orders therein, as was formerly acted; wherein all Persons inhabitinge within their severall wards are to obey the said severall Aldermen in their Precincts, uppon paine of fyne & imprisonment John Orpin Maior (See 58 leaf old book)

1658

1658 — Carrickfergus — June the 28Óç 1658. Whereas there have been very sinister wayes & courses used in gayneinge & procuringe of Voices to bee Mayor of this Towne, And that by some one of the Aldermen of the said Towne; The which is generally conceaved to be most unworthy & contrary to our charter, (at least the Honnour of it): And therefore upon mature consideration had thereof wee conceave, & so think fitt to order, And do hereby order, that whatsoever Alderman of this Towne hath alreadie, or shall heereafter use any wayes or meanes directly or indirectly, to procure Votes or Voices to make himselfe Mayor & hinder a free Election, shall be Voide to all Intents & Purposes; — Neither shall that Person so chosen by such sinister Meanes (if any happen to bee) stand vallidd to bee Mayor for the year ensueinge:– And wee doe farther conceave, and so thinke fitt to order, And doe heereby order, that any Person or Persons that have beene lately admitted freemen of this Corporation uppon confidence that they & every of them should foorthwith pay & bringe in the severall small fynes imposed on them, together with the officers of the Court their fees, if they have not already paid, 71

or shall refuse to pay the same, they & every of them so refusinge shall have no voice in the Election of our Mayor, untill they & every of them have made full satisfaction of the said fynes & fees John Orpin Maior (See 58Óç leaf old book) 1658 — At a Meetinge or Assemblie suÝoned before John Orpin EsqÑ Mayor of the Towne of Carrickfergus &c — the major part of the Aldermen & CoÝon Councell of the saide Towne the 7Óç day of SeptÑ 1658. Whereas, there were severall defects in the Towne neere unto the Pond or the West Millnes of the said Towne beefore the late accident happeninge the third day of this instant:– Uppon mature & deliberate consideration had thereof, It is this day ordered concluded & agreed uppon by a generall consent of the major part of the Aldermen & CoÝon Councell of the said Towne, in the presence of the Mayor & with his assent & consent, That the Breach of the said Towne Wall shall bee for the present rebuilt & repaired in sufficient manner at the Townes Charge; And afterward Captaine Roger Lyndon his heires ExecÑò AdministÑò & Assignes shall repaire Sustaine & Maintayne the said Wall from tyme to tyme & at all tymes thereafter at his owne charge; And that the said Captaine Roger Lyndon shall bringe & produce his Deed that hee hath from the Corporation, that the Same may bee endorsed on the back thereof, Provided that this Act doe not prejudice the Corporation in generall, or any other person or persons that have sustained losse in their particuler by the Said late accident. John Orpin Maior At the same Meetinge & Assembly it was concluded by the assent & consent of all Parties, that Mathewe Johnson Alderman in respect of his Adge and present disability of Estate, shall from All Saints next have and receave from this Towne and Corporation the some of Tenn Poundes yearelie — And Ralph Hillman Burgesse for the like reason the some of fower Poundes yearelie — This to continue duringe the Townes Pleasure. John Orpin Maior (See 58Óç leaf old book)

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1659 — Propositions exhibited by the coÝon Councell of the Towne of Carrickfergus in the behalfe of the whole Comonaltie of the said Towne, to the Mayor, Bench & the rest now sittinge in Assembly the 24Óç of June 1659. First, wee present unto you the condiÜßÞ of our said Towne, Howe wee are at this instant involved in many great Debts; And wee conceave the cheife reasons thereof to bee, by alloweinge the severall late Mayors greater Stipends then the Revenue of the Towne would permit; So that wee are not onely endebted thereby, but likewise reduced to pay great Interest for the same; — for prevention whereof for the future, wee humbly offer, and thinke it meete that all Mayors heereafter shall not have & receave for their Stipends above Thirty Pounds pÑ anÌ which was the Stipend given, when the Towne was in a farr better capacitie than now it is. Secondly — It is not unknowne unto you, that the Towne is already sued by severall persons for severall debts, and are like to be further sued for vast summes of moneyes by severall others who threaten the same dailay, and wee conceave they may recover against us; and the rather, for that wee have not any moneyes in Banke to defend ourselves:– For prevenÜßÞ of that allso we thinke fitt and doe present unto you, that from the 29Óç day of September next, noe Mayor shall receave any of the Towne’s Revenews, but that the same shall bee put unto a publique purse, and to be comitted to the care of some honest man or men that shall bee thought meete to have the keeping thereof; And that it bee not dispurst but by order of the Mayor & major part of the Bench and Comon Councell, or such as they shall nominate & appointe. Thirdly — Wee present unto you the great neglect of the Towne in suffering many that have great holdings from the Corporation, & pay very small & inconsiderable Rents for the Same, Yet have refused these many yeares past to pay their said Small Rent; by which meanes the Towne’s Revenewe is much retarded, and wee thereby much distres’d — For prevenÜßÞ of that

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of that likewise for the future, and that wee may enjoye our just Rights, wee present & thinke fitt, that all & every Person or Persons who hold such lands be demanded their severall & respective rents due with the arrears; And in case they or any of them refuse to make payment accordingly, that then they be forthwith distrained for the same, and for want of distresse sufficient to re-enter consonant to the tenor of the Leases granted. Fourthly — wee present, (and it is very well knowne unto you) that wee by our Charter formerlye enjoyed the third of the Customes of this Port & members thereunto belonginge for many yeares, which said benefitt (as wee conceave) was by the Towne or otherwise sold, to the great prejudice of this place, for which some afterwards (as wee are informed) perticuler Persons or perticuler men gave Security to the use of the said Towne, promisinge & engaginge thereby that the said moneyes should not onely bee foorthcominge to the Towne, but allso that they would duely & truly pay interest for the same; And although it hath beene now 22 yeares past or thereabouts, yet the Towne hath neither receaved Principall nor Interest to it’s Ruine; And wee conceave it is the policie of some to suffer the said Towne to plunge them-selves in such Debt (as now they are) on purpose to make them uncapable of proceedinge in Lawe against them:– And it is well knowne likewise that this Towne hath for these many yeares past paid a great & heavy Taxe, which hath kept many of the members thereof both poore &

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lowe, whilest others who are the said Towne’s Debtors & eminent Men, have gayned & purchased to themselves vast Estates, and the poorer sort scarce able to feede or maintaine their families with bread; Notwithstandinge all which they have beene from tyme to tyme oppressed by quarteringe of Souldiers, payinge contribucÞÝs, Parish charges, & many other burdens, without any intervall of tyme to give them breathinge, For prevention whereof for the future, and that the Towne may receave their just due, wee present that such men as have the said Towne’s moneyes in their hands may forthwith 74

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forthwith give a just accompt as well of the Principall as the Interest, and that they foorthwith pay unto the Towne what shall be due on their severall Accompts, the Towne beinge not able any longer to forbeare the same, in regard of their present Povertie and Condition. Fifthly — Wee present unto you, that in the yeare 1640 there was an Act made by this Towne at a generall Assembly then held, that any member thereof being a Debtor to the said Towne should not bee capable of bearinge office of Mayor & Sheriffes within the Towne, unless they or any such Person had first paid such Moneyes as were due by them, so that wee thinke fitt that the said Act may bee in force & accordingly observed.

Allowed

Sixthly — Wee are informed that wee have Bonds of great value belonginge to this Towne which were committed to the trust & keepinge of SÑ WillÌ Sambidge our then Recorder, and now he beinge deceased, and wee not knowinge what are become of the said Bonds and other writinges that related to the said Towne, Wee humbly present & thinke fitt that there should bee speedy care taken to get them into our Custodie, And to that purpose doe desire that there may be one or more Agents appointed to finde out & receave the same; And so to be delivered into the hands of the Towne Clerke or some other as shall be appointed by the Mayor, Bench or Councell, that the said Bonds be readily had when there may be occasion to use them for the use of the said Towne. Seaventhly — Wee present that wee have a great Priviledge belongine to this Towne (namely the Staple) which hath for these many Yeares beene slighted and neglected, by which meanes the chiefe members thereof are much prejudiced and the Trade of the Towne much abated; Wee therefore doe thinke fitt that the said Staple Court be foorthwith setled, and that all freemen of the Staple Court may have Ticquets of their freedome, that so none may clayme right thereunto, but such to whom

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it justly belonges, that our succeeding generation may reape the benefitt, And that wee in our tyme may not be accompted Slighters of so great a Priviledge, which was so gratiously bestowed on us. Eighthly — Wee present, that forasmuch as this Towne is at present in a very poore & bad condition, as hath beene before recited, whereby wee are unable to provide in Lawe against our Debtors for the recovery of our just rights; wee therefore doe earnestly desire, that all such Members of this Towne as are of abilities will contribute with us of the Councell in lendinge the Towne some Moneyes, which wee for our parts (or as many of as are able) are willing to doe; and that the care & keepinge thereof be coÝitted to some honest man, that so wee may bee in a capacity to receave our just rights; and this to be done, in case our Debtors refuse to give us satisfaction.

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Ninthlie — Wee present, that all our Torbery & Heath which was given for ever for the supply of all persons relatinge to this Towne, and grazeinge & all other necessary uses, (the greatest part thereof beinge sett to some particuler person and as some conceave illegally, to the great prejudice of this Towne): Wee therefore thinke fitt that the remayninge part of the Commons unsett, may not heereafter be leased or disposed to any particuler person whatsoever, but that the same be kept for the generall good of this Corporation in Common, beinge fifteen hundred acres, or thereabouts:– And wee further desire, that the Leases of the Commons formerly given, may be brought & produced & strictly examined, that wee may certainly knowe whether the same be legally sett or no. Tenthly — Wee present, that there may be foorthwith Survey taken of every particuler persons estate within our Libertie, accordinge to the severall & respective holdinges they & every of them have from the Corporation, And an exact accompt of the present Rent-roll of the Townes Revenew as it now stands:– And lastly wee desire that there may be a constant settlement for the future, of the charges issuable

issuable by the Towne; And that after the Debts shall be paid by the Towne now due, that there shall bee noe further engagement then what the Revenewe shall from tyme to tyme be able to discharge & cleere at the Yeare’s end. Thomas Dobbin John Wadman SherrÒ Jasper Haper Samuell Trehorne Ralph Hillman Robert Savadge Thomas Wall Rowland MÂQuillen Jo: Harris RobÓ Wytter Thomas MÂClellan Anthony Hall Thomas Griffith Peeter Taylor Richard Johnson Andrew Willoughby William Thompson Edmond Yeo Towne Clerke MichaË Karr Andrew Gardner June the 24Óç 1569 [Error for 1659] Ordered then by the Court of Assembly, that all the Tenn Propositions before exhibited, be allowed of & are fully assented unto, and that they may bee foorthwith recorded in the Towne’s book of Record, to the intent that Speedy course bee taken for satisfyinge of what is due by the Corporation; And likewise those that are endebted to the Towne to come to Accompt & make satisfaction allso; And all other demands incerted in the said propositions approved of, and to be put in present execution punctually, accordinge the Tennor & Effect of the Same, and that in a legall manner. Signed by Order — Edmond Yeo Towne Clerke (See 59 & 60 leaves old book) 1660 — September the Seaventh 1660 Ordered by consent of the Bench & CoÝon Councell, that Emond Davies Alderman, Anthony Hall & Edmond Yeo Burgesses, bee & are heereby authorized & appointed Trustees to receave all such Moneyes as belonge to the Revenewe of this Corporation from the Collectors, & that from the 29Óç of SeptemÑ Instant, And that the same continue for the whole Yeare ensuinge; and the said Moneyes to be issued from tyme to

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tyme by Warrant from the Major part of the said Aldermen & Common Councell directed to the said Trustees or any two of them. Signed by Order — Edmond Yeo Towne Clerke (See 61Òó leaf old book) 77

1662 — Know all Men by theis presents, that I Ann Orpin Widdowe & Relict of John Orpin late of the Towne of Carrickfergus Alderman deceasÃ, doe heereby for mee my Executors & Administrators freely & absolutely remise & release and for ever quite clayme to the Mayor Sherriffes Burgesses & CoÝonaltie of the Countie of the Towne of Carrickfergus their Successors & Assignes, of & from all manner of Debts claymes & challenges whatsoever that are due to me the said Ann Orpin in the right of my late Husband from the said Corporation, either by Bond Bill Accompt Salary (as Mayor) or Reckoninge whatsoever, from the beginninge of the World until the day of the date heereof; as witness my hand & Seal the Tenth day of November in the Yeare of our Lord God one Thousand Six Hundred & Sixtie Two 1662. Witnes heereunto Ann Orpin ¥ Seal WÌ Dobbin Edmond Yeo Towne Clerke (See 67Óç leaf old book) 1662 — November the 13Óç 1662 — At a Meetinge that day with the Mayor & the major part of the sixteen Aldermen of the Towne of Carrickfergus, Anthony Hall of the said Towne Burgesse was then elected & chosen & sworne to bee one of the Aldermen of the said Towne, in the vacancy of John Bullworthy late Alderman deceased, and that with the full & unanimous consent of all then present beinge the major part. (See 68 leaf old book) 1663 — At an Assembly held the Seaventh day of December 1663 before Hercules But hee was never Davies EsqÑ Mayor of Carrickfergus, Sir Audley Mervin Knight was chosworne nor did hee sen Recorder of the said Towne by the major vote of the Aldermen Sherever take upon him the exercise of the riffes & Burgesses then assembled, as wittnes their hands the said day & place of Recorder. yeare. Andrew Willoughby Tho: Dobbin } SherÒ Hercules Davies Mayor Tho: MÂClellom Jasper Haper } John Dallway AldÑ Thomas O’Cahan Robert Savadge Edmond Davies Ald John Tiso — Michaell Savadge Mathewe Johnson } Peeter Taylor Robert Welsh } AldÑ John Wadman John Byrtt } Richard Johnson Anth Hall } Robert Witter Michell Karr (See 71Òó leaf old book) 78

1663 — 12Óç of November 1663 — There beinge this day a full Assembly called by Hercules Davies Esquire Mayor, at which Assembly soe called, and allso in obedience thereto, did meete the major part of both Aldermen and CoÝon Councell, and the question beinge putt to the said Assembly by the said Mayor whether or not they would allowe to MÑ James Dobbin late Mayor Thirty Pounds for his then Salary or

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more, who all nemine contradicente, concluded that he should have Thirty Pounds accordinge a former order of Assembly the 24Óç of June 1659 and noe more. Tho: Dobbin Shirif. Hercules Davies Mayor Andrew Gardner John Dallway AldÑ Jesper Haper Edmond Davies AldÑ Michell Savadge Wm Dobbin AldÑ Robert Savadge Robert Welsh AldÑ Richard Johnson John Byrtt AldÑ Peeter Taylor Anth: Hall AldÑ Michell Karr Henry Davies AldÑ Robert Witter Tho: MÂClellom John Tiso James Savadge Edmond Yeo (see 61 leaf old book) 1664 — Carrickfergus June the 24Óç 1664 At a Meetinge & Assembly then conveened before Hercules Davies Esquire Mayor of the said Towne, it was then ordered, That whereas there was an order of the 24Óç June 1659 for the Settlinge of Thirty Pounds pÑ ann: for the Mayor for the tyme beinge as his Stipend, And for that it is thought somewhat little in regard of his expence in that tyme, It is therefore ordered that He the said Mayor shall have all the Fynes that shall then happen to be due to the Corporation (exceptinge such fynes as shall accrewe to the said Corporation for makinge men free thereof, and that as such fynes shall bee imposed & laid on by the Mayor, Recorder, & two or more Aldermen then present, or any three of them, the Mayor allwaies beinge one Signed by Order — Edmond Yeo — Towne Clerke (See 71 leaf old book) 1664 — March the 2Ã 1664 — Then weare SÑ Arthur Chichester KnÓ & LeutÓ Coll. Moyses Hill elected & chosen by the majßr parte of the AldderÍ of this Towne to be Aldermen thereof, & accordingly sworne, to supply the vacancys of Coll. Arthur Hill & ThoÒ Howard AlderÍ late deceased. (See 68 leaf old Book) 79

1664 — Whereas Maudlin Drakeford of Carrickfergus, wife of Thomas Drakeford, hath by vertue of a letter of Attorney by him made & left unto her, released Solomon Faith his heires & assignes of all challenges claymes & demands whatsoever, which the said Maudlin or Thomas Drakeford her husband their heires or assignes could challenge clayme or demande of the said Solomon Faith his heires & assignes in relatinge to a Bargain of lands; And whereas the said Maudlin hath occasion to make use of the said letter of Attorney in England, at the request of the said Solomon Faith & Maudlin Drakeford it is granted by the Mayor of this Towne of Carrickfergus aforesaid that the said letter of Attorney should be enrolled, and which followeth, in these words (viz) Know all men by these Presents, that I Thomas Drakeford of the Towne & County of Carrickfergus Sergeant under the Command of SÑ ThosÒ Fortescue in the Realme of

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Ireland, for diverse good causes &c (here follows the letter of attorney in the usual stile, empowering his wife to dispose of lands he possed in the County of Westmeath) Dated 25Óç FebØ 1664 — & Signed by — Tho: Drakeford — ¥ Seal Signed Sealed & delivered in presence of Thomas Richardson Susanny Lurty Walter Richett —

} A true copy compared with the originall } and attested by me— Edmond Yeo — Towne Clerke (See 74 leaf old book)

1665 — Whereas complaint hath beene made by Captaine Solomon Faith that there hath beene an Intrenchment made upon part of his land next adjoyninge to the land of the Relict & Children of John Hall late of Carrickfergus Burgesse deceased, neere the River leadinge to the West Gate now on the possession of Edmond Yeo of the same Towne Clerke:– Theis are therefore to pray & authorize the persons hereunder named to view the sÃ lande & meeres & Bounds thereof, and make returne whether they finde any such Intrenchment and how much, that the sÃ Complaynant may be redrest as to equity shall appertaine: Given under our hands at the Bench the Tenth day of July 1665 John Dallway — Mayor To Edmond Davies & Anthony Hall AlderÍ and the now Sheriffes, or any three of them:–

James Dobbin D:Recorder

In obedience to the order above written wee have viewed the land above specified, and accordinge to our best skill & knowledge have measured it & bounded the same, and doe finde that part 80

part of the Gabell end of the House wherein MÑ Edmond Yeo now dwelleth, and the Gabell end of a little back-house or Cabbin thereunto belonginge are on CaptÍ Solomon Faith’s land, the Incrochment of the dwellinge house beinge five Inches, and the little back house three foote — witnes our hands 30Óç of August 1665 Edmond Davies Tho: Dobbin Richard Johnson Carrickfergus the 11Óç of SeptÑ 1665 Upon ConsideraÜßÞ had of the within Complaint order & certificate returned thereon, wee thinke fitt and soe doe order, that accordinge to the said certificate and the Bounds therein menÜßÞed & laid out, the respective persons any way concerned in the Premisses shall have & enjoye their respective lands & Tenements & noe otherwise. John Dallway Mayor Roger Lyndon D:Recorder. (see 71 leaf old book) 1665 — Memorand: That upon the 29Óç Day of September 1665, Andrew Willoughby Burgesse was fyn’d in open Court for not cominge & appearinge at the Tollsell that Day to receave the Oath of a Sheriffe — in Twenty Nobles SterlÆ Anth: Hall Mayor (See 76 leaf old book)

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1665 — At an Assembly held for the County of the Towne of Carrickfergus this twelfth day of March 1665 before Anthony Hall EsqÑ Mayor of the saide Towne. Uppon Satterday last the Tenth Instant, beinge with MÑ Mayor MÑ Magee Sherriffe, Thomas MÂManus and Mathewe Loggan of Brade Island at Corporall Davies House, John Hinch came in, and beinge there a little space demanded of MÑ Mayor who sett upp the Grate betweene his house & MÑ Yoe? — the Mayor answered hee ordered it; Hee replyed, whoever ordered the puttinge of it upp, I will pull it downe and Indite them that putt it upp:– Then MÑ Mayor said that it was presented by the grand Jury as fitt to be done; Hinch answered that hee would indite both the Grand Jury & the Mayor too:– The Mayor beinge offended with his language bad him goe about his busines; He answered his busines was there; and that he would not goe out:81

The Mayor told him he was too saucy in givinge such languadge to him as Mayor; He answered in a contemptuous way and putt off his hatt to him when he spoke to him, and that he did not owne him to bee Mayor there; whereupon the Mayor coÝanded Sheriffe Magee to see him safe in Humphrey Pue’s custodie in Prison; Hinch answered he would not goe, for neither the Mayor nor Sheriffe; then the Mayor required him to goe by vertue of his Oath as a freeman with the Sheriffe, which hee also refused, and sate downe with the company at Table; And when hee was sate downe, hee asked the Mayor who nayled upp his back doore next the water? — The Mayor answered that he coÝanded it, because out thereof they threwe the Dung of the Stable into the River: Hinch said, you did shutt it upp and I have opened it, & will justifie it, & indite you for shuttinge it upp; uppon which the Mayor left the Roome, & shortly after came upp fower Constables to carry him into custodie; his expressions dureing the Constables stay in the roome, the Sherriffes & Constables can give accompt of: March the 12Óç 1665

Hugh Smith & Thomas MÂManus deposed uppon Oath in Court, that the Contents of the above writinge is true.

Ordered then by the major vote of the said Court, that John Hinch of the Towne & CorporaÜßÞ of Carrickfergus freeman and Cordwinder bee foorthwith coÝitted to the coÝon Prison of the said Towne and stand disfranchized of his freedome in the said Towne for ever, and to remaine in Prison untill hee acknowledge his offence done & coÝitted, (the which hath beene proved by severall witnesses) and that is in speakinge & publishlnge unreverent & threateninge words of the Mayor of the said Towne to his face uppon Satterday the Tenth instant. Anth: Hall — Mayor. The Thirteenth of March 1665 the said John Hinch came before the Mayor Aldermen Sherriffes & Burgesses of the said Towne & made his Submission publiquely, that hee had offended the Mayor, and that he was heartily sorry for it, and receaved his pardon; And thereupon he was enlarged out of Prison. A true coppie — attested by me— Edmond Yeo — Towne Clerke (see 73 leaf old book) 82

1666 — Memorandum — that uppon the request of James Dobbin and William Dobbin Aldermen of this Corporation, to vew a fence in contraversey between the said James Dobbin & the hous wherein Mathew Johnston Alderman now dwelleth, together with that part of the said fence possessed by Baptist Boyd, widdow MÂFee, and John Torbry Senior, was by the mutuall consent of them both refer’d unto me Anthony Hall now

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Mayor to lay out the said fences, which accordingly was by me done the 30Óç day of July last, & then & ther did strick downe slackes allong the new Bounds of the said fence, whereon itt was then found that the new wall lately built by MÑ Matthew Johnston was Ten Inches within the land of the said William Dobbin at the north end thereof, whereuppon Margrett Dobbin, wife to the said James Dobbin made itt her humble request that the new fence might be drawn range with the sÃ wall built by MÑ Johnston to the trew Bounds att the garden doore, she ingadging that at any time hereafter the said tenn Inches of Ground should be owned & acknowledged by the heires of MÑ James Dobbin to be the land of MÑ William Dobbin, which accordingly was done; all which I confirme to be a reall truth, and therfore upon the request of the said William Dobbin have inrould the same; wittnes my hand this 4Óç day of AugÓ 1666. Anth: Hall Mayor (see 72Ã leaf old book) 1666 — Ordered at the Court of Assemblie of the 24Óç of September 1666, that the Sword-bearer Robert Savadge shall have & receave from the Corporation from Michaellmas or All Saints next the some of five Pounds SterlÆ yearlie & every yeare for his salary as Sword-bearer, untill such tyme as the said Corporation shall bee in a better condition to allowe him more. — And likewise it is further ordered then by the Bench and CoÝons sittinge in Assemblie that the salary of fower Pounds yearlie that hath beene allowed to the Towne Clerke as his salarie as Towne Clerke shall cease from the tyme aforesaid untill further order; And that there be care taken by the CorporaÜßÞ that the arreares due by the said CorporaÜßÞ may be paid to the said Swordbearer & Towne Clerke, for and untill Michaellmas and 83

and All Saints next, accordinge to their former allowances. James Dobbin — Anth: Hall Mayor WÌ Dobbin RobÓ Welsh Roger Lyndon pÑ Recorder. John Magee } Sherifs Cor. Bashford } Will: Thomsone Speaker for the CoÝons. (see 75Óç leaf old book) 1666 — Memorand: That upon the Twenty fourth day of the moneth of September in the Yeare one Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty Six, James Tracy of Carrickfergus in the County of the said Towne clerke, came before me Anthony Hall EsqÑ Mayor of the said Towne, and did voluntarily depose on the holy Gospells of God, that in & about the yeare of our Lord 1650, Edward Breers of Mullacartan in the County of Antrim Gent. (then the Husband of Margarett Wylde, the late Relict of Jefferie Wylde Gent. deceased) receaved from Major George Rawden (as a debt due by Collonell Arthur Hill) the some of Sixtie two pounds & ten Shillings SterlÆ; from CaptÍ Roger Lyndon Fiftie Pounds Ster.; and from CaptÍ Arthur Langford the some of Fiftie Pounds Ster.; in all the some of one Hundred Sixtie two Pounds Ster.; all which said somes of moneyes were paid him the said Edward Breers in the right of the wife & children of the said Jeffery Wylde as Coexecutor with this DeponÓ and John Orpin late Alderman of Carrickfergus aforesaid, of the last Will & testament of the said Dame Anne Langford late of the said Towne of Carrickfergus deceased. Anth: Hall Mayor (see 75Óç leaf old book.)

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1666 — Memorandum — That whereas Marey Dollway widdÖ did refuse to pay hyr Rent dew & payable out of the Commonable Lands of the Corporacion held by hyr late husband John Dollway Ald: whereupon the Mayor & Sheriffes of the Corporacion of Carrickfergus did one the 25Óç of this InsÓ September att the rising of the Sonn did appeer upon the said Commonable lands sett to MÑ John Dollway with one of the Towne Baleyes & one of our Sargants and finding noe distres thereon left one of the said Baleyes (viz) William Read, to attend one the foresaid land to see 84

to see if any Distres could bee found, but could find none all that day; and about five of the clocke in the eavning, wee the said Mayor & Sheriffes retorned to the foresaid land againe with seaverall wittnises in our Company then and finding noe distress thereon, did about the setting of the sonn re-enter on the forsaid commonable land formerly sett unto the said John Dollway and called by the name of Sleaman Roe; in testimony thereof, wee the Mayor & Sheriffes have hereunto subscribed our hands this 29Óç day of September 1666. — Anth: Hall — Mayor John Magee } Sheriffes Cor: Bashford } (see 75Óç leaf old book). 1666 — Knowe all men by these presents, that I John Hinch of Carrickfergus cordwinder doe acknowledge & confesse myselfe to be holden & firmely bound unto James Dobbin of Carrickfergus AlderÍ in the full & just some of one hundred Pounds sterlÆ to be paid to the said James Dobbin or certaine Attorney, his heires executors administrators or assignes, for the true payment whereof I doe binde mee my heires executors & administrators firmely by theis presents, dated the 26Óç Aprill in the yeare of our Lord God one Thousand Six Hundred & Sixty Six. The condiÜßÞ of the above obligaÜßÞ is such, that whereas the above-named James Dobbin hath been lately taken in execuÜßÞ for a debt of Forty Pounds at the suit of one Margarett Patterson wid. upon a Bond for standinge to an award:– Now the condiÜßÞ of the said obligaÜßÞ is such, that if the above bounden John Hinch shall & doe save & keepe harmlesse & indemnified the said James Dobbin of & from the said Forty Pounds, as allso from all & all manner of payments losses Damages charges & costs whatsoever that shall or may happen by reason of the said execuÜßÞ in the difference aforesaid; that then this present obligaÜßÞ to bee voide, otherwise to bee & remaine in full force in the Lawe. — John Hinch ¥ Seal Signed Sealed & delivered in presence of Anth: Houghton Will. Thomsone William Dobbin A true copie compared with the originall and attested by Edmon Yeo Towne Clerke (see 74Óç leaf old book) 85

1666 — Memorand: That this 29Óç day of October Anß. Dni. 1666, and in the 18Óç Yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England, Scotland, France & Ireland King DefendÑ of the Faith &c — Hugh Smith of the County of the Towne of Carrickfergus Gent. was constituted & appointed publique

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Notary alÒ Towne Clearke, Clearke of the Peace & Clearke of the Crowne, of the County of the Towne of Carrickfergus — And the sÃ Day in open Court tooke the oath of Supremacy, and an Oath well & truly to execute the office of Towne Clearke, Clearke of the Peace & Clearke of the Crowne of the County of the said Towne, and in consideraÜßÞ of the Sum of Fifty Pounds paid in hand to William Dobbin EsqÑ present Mayor for the use of the CorporaÜßÞ, the said Hugh Smith receÃ a full & formall Commission under the Seal of office of Mayoralty of said Towne1 dated this Day, & subscribed by the present Mayor & Sheriffes, & the major part of the Aldermen and Burgesses to execute the said offices, and to receive the fees Perquisites & Emoluments to the same belonging & appertaining during his Life or good behaviour, in as full ample & beneficiall manner as any other his Predecessors in the said imployment ever had or enjoyed; which at his request wee thought fitt here to make record of, and to put to our hands the day and yeare abovesaid. — WÌ Dobbin — Mayor Rich: Westbrooke } Sheriffes Hen. Burnes } (See 75Óç leaf old book) 1666 — The PetiÜßÞ of Francis Fowell, and an order upon it. To WÌ Dobbin EsqÑ Mayor of Carrickfergus, CaptÍ Roger Lyndon RecordÑ, And the rest of the WorsËë Bench The humble PetiÜßÞ of Francis Fowell In most humble manner sheweth that your poore Petitioner hath been an old Inhabitant about this CorporaÜßÞ, and hath ever since the beginning of Sesse or Taxes borne his parte & paid to his ability and now being decayed & weake with his aged wife by reason of their old age, and not able to subsiste under the burden of Sesse any longer, most humbly intreat that your Worships would be favourably pleased, now in his old decayed Age that he be admitted free of Sesse and Taxes, and he with his aged wife shall ever pray for 86

pray for your Worships good health & happines. Carrickfergus 8Óç FebÑy 1666 — Wee thinke fit and soe doe order, that the Petitioner be charged (by reason of his great age & unfitnes to labour for his liveing & his poore sick blind aged wife) but with halfe taxes of what kind soever, to be applotted and leavyed within this County Towne & Parish, whereof all Persons now or hereafter concerned are to take Notice, and to performe from time to time what is hereby consented unto & agreed upon by the Bench the last QuÑ Sessions; And for their soe doeing this is their Warrant, — Given under our hands the Day and Yeare abovesaid. Copia vera — examinat. WÌ Dobbin — Mayor pÑ WÌ Dobbin Mayor. — Roger Lyndon pr. RecordÑ (See 73Ã leaf old book)

[See J.R.S.A.I., Vol III, Pt. I., 5th Ser. Pg 69, for a note regarding the origin of this seal.]

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1666 — By the Lord LieutÓ Generall, & generall Governor of Ireland — To our trusty & well beloved the Mayor of the Town of Carrickfergus for the time being. ORMOND We reposeing Speciall trust & confidence, as well in the care diligence & circumspecÜßÞ, as in the Loyalty, Courage & Readynes of you to do his Majesty good & faythfull Service, have nominated constituted & appointed, and we do by Vertue of the power & authority unto us given by his Majestie, nominate constitute & appoint you the said Mayor of the Towne of Carrickfergus for the time being to be Captain of a Company of Foot, raised or to be raised in the Town & County of the Town of Carrickfergus for his Majesties Service and the Defence of this Kingdom; which Company you are to take into your charge & care as Captain thereof, and duely to exercise both Officers & Souldiers in Arms, And as they are hereby commanded to obey you as their Captain, so you are likewise to observe & follow such Orders & direcÜßÞs as you shall from time to time receive from us or other Your Superior Officer or Officers; And for so doing, this shall be your Sufficient Warrant & CoÝission in that behalf. Given under our hand & Seal of Arms at his Majestys Castle of Dublin the 11Óç day of July 1666 in the 18Óç yeare of his Majesties Reign. — G: Lane Compared with the originall by me Hen. Clements Mayor — CaptÍ Solomon Faith AldÌ is LieutÓ of sÃ Company, and MÑ Hugh Smith Town Clerk Ensign. (See 91Òó leaf old book). 87

1667 — Carrickfergus — At an Assizes & Goale Delivery held at Carrickfergus for the County of the Towne of Carrickfergus the 11Óç Day of April in the Yeare of our Lord God 1667 before WÌ Dobbin EsqÑ Mayor of Carrickfergus and SÑ Richard Kennedy KnÓ Second Baron of his Majesties Court of ExcheqÑ in Ireland, Justices appointed to hold Assizes and Goale Delivery in & throughout the said County. Whereas it is presented by the Grand Jury at the said Assizes that an allowance should be given to the Militia Company of Foot raised in this Towne & County of Carrickfergus for his Majesties Service, every Day it shall be drawne forth to exercise Six Pence a day to each private Souldier, pursuant to an order from his Grace the LÃ LieutÓ & Councell dated in March last; ordered accordingly that an allowance be given to the Militia Company of foot raised in the said Towne and County of Carrickfergus for his Majesties Service every day they shall be drawn forth to exercise, Six Pence a day to each private Souldier pursuant to the said Act of the LÃ LieutÓ & Councell, Dated at Carrickfergus this 14Óç of April 1667 — Signed by order Copia vera — examiÓ Arth: Ward Dep. Cl. Coron. pÑ Hugh Smith Towne Cl. (see 76Óç leaf old book) 1667 — To the WorËë the MayÑ & RecordÑ & the rest of the WorËë Bench The humble Peticon of Nicolas Wills & RobÓ Hogg Humbly sheweth — That there is a difference of a fence between the Petitioners & one John Addison, which fence by the Statute of the CorporaÜßÞ was always kept by the Inhabitants of the said land before the Rebellion, your PetÑò haveing their proporÜßÞ of fences according to the Towne’s Statute to the former rule in that case provided, notwithstanding the said John Addison doth trouble your PetÑò about the said

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fence which properly belongs to that Land which at present he possesseth. — May it therefore please your WorshÏò to grant an order that the said fence may be maintained by the party to whom it properly belongs according to the Townes Statute, & they shall ever Pray. Carrickfergus 22Ã July 1667 It’s found by the Auncient Record or Towne’s Survey that MÑ Dallway hath 36 Acres next the Sea Side, who is to maintaine the 88

the fence next the Sea, & head Ditch of that Division, and the fence on the right hand thereof towards the Common Ditch as farr as it extends; And Nicolas Wills is to fence the head Ditch of his 30 Acres, & on the right as aforesaid; And Owen Magee or his Assigns are to make the head Ditch of his 30 Acres, with the right hand Ditch; And after this rule those above Owen Magee’s said 30 Acres are to make their respective fences, the uppermost share the Common Ditch; and after this manner all the respective shares of Land from the Towne & Sea Side is to be observed, being the Auncient Custome time out of minde, which if duely observed as formerly would remove all contraversies:– Memorandum — that what Ditches are made in any of the Shares, it’s between Landlord & Tenant, and not any way relateing to the Towne’s Divisions. — Copia vera — exÓ WÌ Dobbin MayÑ pÑ Hugh Smith Towne Cl. Roger Lyndon (See 76Óç leaf old book) 1667 — Noverint Universi per presentes nos Rogerum Lindon Com: Vill. de Carrickfergus in Regno Hibernia ArmÌ et Johanem Lindon de eadem armÌ teneri et firmiter obligari Michaeli Johnson de Parochia Sancti Martini in Campis in Comitatu Middlesex Scissori, in cent et viginti libris bona et legalis moneta solvendis eidem Michaeli Johnson aut suo certo atturnato, executoribus, administratoribus, vel Assignatis Suis, ad quam quidem solutionem bene et fideliter faciendam obligamus nos et utrumque nostrum conjunctim et divisim heredes Executores et administratores nostros firmiter per presentes, sigillis nostris sigillat, Dat: Vicesimo Sexto die July, anno regni Domini nostri Caroli Secundi Dei gratia Angliae Scotiae Franciae & Hiberniae Regis fidei Defensoris &c 19Î annoque Domini 1667 The condiÜßÞ of the above obligaÜßÞ is such, that if they the above bounden Roger Lindon & John Lindon or either of them, their or either of their heires ExecÑò & AdminÑò or any of them, doe well & truly pay or cause to be paid unto the above named Michaell Johnson or to his certaine Atturney execÑò AdminÑò or Assignes, or any of them, the full sum of Threescore Pounds SterÆ of like lawfull English Money at one entire payment 89

at or before the 26Óç day of July which shall be in the yeare of our Lord God 1668, without fraud or further delay, that then this present obligaÜßÞ to be void & of none effect, or else to remain in full force & vertue in Lawe. Signed sealed & delivered in the presence of us WÌ Dobbin Hugh Smith Copia vera examÓ pÑ WÌ Dobbin MayÑ

Roger Lindon ¥ Seal John Lindon ¥ Seal

(See 77 leaf old book)

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1667/8 — By Edmond Davies EsqÑ Mayor of Carrickfergus. Whereas at a consultation this day had with the Aldermen of this Towne my Bretheren, it was thought fitt & accordingly agreed upon, that in regard the time of our next Assizes neare aproacheth, and that there are sundry affaires of this Towne that require a speedy Debate, that a generall Assembly should forthwith be called:– These are therefore in pursuance of the said result, to require you to suÝon all the AldermÍ Sheriffes, Burgesses & Freemen of this CorporaÜßÞ in the aÞexed list menÜßÞed to meet mee on Munday next the 17Óç Instant at the houres of nine of the clock in the forenoone of the said day at the Tholsell or Court House of the said Towne; that then & there such matters & things may be debated & disscussed as relate to the publique benefitt of the said CorporaÜßÞ, wherein I desire noe faileing may be; Given under my hand this 14Óç FebØ 1667. To John Johnson Serjant at Mace — Edmond Davies Mayor Copia vera — examÓ pÑ Hugh Smith In obedience to the aforesÃ Precept, a full Assembly did convene at the time & place therein menÜßÞed, when & where (amongst other things) was proposed to them by the present Mayor the want of a Towne Clearke and amongst the Aldermen & Burgesses it was put to the Vote 1Òó — Whether they should immediately without further stop proceed to an absolute ElleÜÜßÞ of a Towne Clearke. — 2Ëø or whether they should forbeare at present or for some time, to make an absolute ElleÜÜßÞ of a Towne Clearke, and appoint a certaine Person to supply that place till an absolute ElleÜÜßÞ should be appointed. — Carried in the former by Ten Votes; (viz) that they should immedlately, without further stop proceed to an absolute ElleÜÜßÞ of a Towne Clearke. 90

Whereupon it was left to the said Assembly who they would chuse to be Towne Clearke, And the whole list of Aldermen Sheriffes Burgesses & freemen was called over, and they whose names are subscribed did at the time & place aforesaid give their Votes that Hugh Smith of this Towne Gent. should be constituted & appointed Towne Clearke alò Clearke of the Tholsell Clearke of the Crowne & Peace of the County of the said Towne, which was assented unto by the present Mayor Edmond Davies EsqÑ; And then & there in open Court the Oath of Supremacy was administred to him, and an Oath well & truely to execute the said Office in these words (viz) You shall well & truely execute & performe the office of Towne Clearke of this CorporaÜßÞ so long as you shall continue in the same, to the best of your skill knowledge & judgment — soe help you God.

Totall of the Votes Aldermen SheriÒ & Burgesses freemen

102 4 13 85 102

The persons names that voted for Hugh Smith at the said Assembly to be Towne Clearke — are as follows (viz) Edmond Davies. EsqÑ MayÑ John Davies WilÌ Mount WÌ Dobbin EsqÑ MayÑ of John Henderson ThoÒ MÂCully the Staple John Torbery EldÑ JaÒ MÂCullough Simon Richison David Fleming Mathew Johnson AldÍ Walter Brady John Stubbs Anthony Hall AldÍ John Morrison John Craford John Gray AndÖ Mane Ezekell Davies } Sheriffs Baptist Boyd John Rosse RichÃ Pendleton } Clement Lea AlexÑ Leathes John Torbery YouÑ Darby O Haggan

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RichÃ Westbrooke Henry Burnes Burgesses Robert Savage Michaell Savage Robert Witter Michaell Karr Solomon Faith James Savage John Tiso Thomas Dobbin Richard Johnson Freemen Hugh White Darby Quin John Whitaker John Childs John Little Rowland Hanna John Murris Henry Sayers John Smith Jacob Household Thomas Edgar

} CoronÑs RichÃ Stacey } WÌ Tenison Patrick Gillin John Hanna John Purdy James Barry Richard Jackson Roger Carnaghan WilÌ Hilditch John Read John Dawson James Lang John MÂMuchrie Henry Clearke Peter Woods Amos Darby RichÃ Conlon WÌ Dawson ThoÒ MÂManus AndÖ Sinklar John Jowland AlexÑ Gordan ThoÒ Harrison ThoÒ Preistly JnÎ Derumple James Gathery Gawen Tippin RichÃ Edwards gent.

James Mane Hugh Smith Daniel Urkett Thomas Wills John Harpur WÌ MÂClenahan Michell Russell Adam Denison SamË Welbye genÓ John Esum Hugh Blare EdwÃ Hall John Broxan WÌ Browne RobÓ Barry Patrick Savage Hugh Williams George Tremble Thomas Byrtt George Gravett genÓ WÌ Bennitt genÓ John Johnson ThoÒ Seaman AlexÑ Duffe John Stephens ArthÑ O Marran ThoÒ Bates genÓ voted for AldÍ James Dobbin

MÑ Hugh Smith his DeputaÜßÞ to be Towne Clearke of this Towne of Carrickfergus. Whereas James (by the Grace of God) late of England Scotland France & Ireland King, Defender of the Faith &c by his Letters Patents under his Great Seale of Ireland, bearing Date at Dublin the 14Óç day of December, in the Yeare of his Raigne of England France & Ireland the 10Óç, and of Scotland the 46Óç, (amongst other Priviledges & immunities given & granted to this Towne of Carrickfergus alÒ Knockfergus) did, for himselfe his heires & successors give & grant unto the Mayor Sheriffes Burgesses & Comonality of Carrickfergus alÒ Knockfergus aforesÃ & their successors, that they & their successors or the greater part of them, whereof the Mayor for the time being to be one, from time to time and as often as need should require, might be able & of power to make & constitute one honest & discreet man to be Clearke of the Tholsell, otherwise called the Towne Clearke of the said Towne, to doe & performe all such matters & things as to the said office did appertaine, in as full & ample manner as any Clearke of the Tholsell in any Citty or Towne in his said Kingdom of Ireland might doe or performe:– And that every such Clearke soe constituted & appointed, shoÃ take his corporall Oath (in such cases used) well & truely to execute the said Office, as also the Oath of Supremacy, before the Mayor of the said Towne for the time being; And after the said Oathes taken as aforesaid, he should have & exercise the said Office at the will & pleasure of the said Mayor Sheriffes Burgesses & Comonality or the greater part of them, whereof the Mayor for the time being to be one; And that the said Clearke of the

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Tholsell, otherwise Towne Clearke of the said Towne for the time being & his successors, should for ever be in time to come Clearke of the Crowne & Peace in the County of the said Towne; And that he & they might have & exercise, & be of power to have & exercise the said offices of Clearke of the Crowne & Peace of the County of the said Towne, as fully & amply as any other Clearke of the Crowne or Peace in any other County Citty or Towne in his said Kingdom of Ireland, had or exercised the same. Now knowe all men by these Presents, that wee the Mayor Aldermen Sheriffes Burgesses & Comonality of Carrickfergus alÒ Knockfergus for the time being, reposeing Speciall trust & confidence as well in the faithfullnes & honesty as the discretion & ability of Hugh Smith of the County of this Towne GenÓ, at a generall assembly this day held at the Tholsell of the said Towne, with a free & full consent, and by vertue of the Power derived unto us by the aforesaid Letters Patents, have 92

have nominated ellected & chosen him the said Hugh Smith to be clearke of the Tholsell otherwise Towne Clearke of this Towne, & Clearke of the Crowne & Peace of the County of the same, during our will & pleasure and the will & pleasure of our Successors or the major part of them; And that the said Hugh Smith this day hath taken the aforesaid Oathes in the aforesaid Letters Patents enjoyned; And wee further have and by these presents doe constitute depute & appoint him the said Hugh Smith to have exercise & execute the said offices dureing our will & pleasure, & the will & pleasure of our successors or the major part of them, according to the tenor of the said Letters Patents, And to have enjoy & receave all the fees perquisites & emoluments to the said offices belonging or appertaining, dureing his continuance in the same; In witnes whereof wee have hereunto affixed the Seale of Office of Mayoralty of this Towne of Carrickfergus, and subscribed our names this 17Óç day of FebØ in the Yeare of our Lord God, one Thousand Six Hundred & Sixty Seaven, and in the Twentieth Yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France & Ireland King, Defender of the Faith &c. — Copia vera exÓ pÑ (See 77Óç & 78Óç leaves). Publique Memorand. 1666 — Mutiny —

1670 Castle of C.fergus in the keeping of the Militia

1667 Returne of the Charter

Mutany of the souldiers enguarisoned in Carrickfergus happened in the month of May 1666, when the souldiers seized his Majesties Castle here & forced their officers away:– which Mutany was suppressed by his Grace the LÃ Duke of Ormond LÃ LÓ of Ireland, by a force sent downe from Dublin by sea, joyning with the land army in these parts. — The generall Rendezvouze of all the army of Ireland by order of the Lord Berkeley LÃ LÓ of the same, was held at the Curragh of Kildare, at which time the Castle of Carrickfergus was kept by the militia Company of Carrickfergus, Anthony Horsman EsqÑ Mayor being then CapÓ of the said Company as Mayor to whose care & keeping the said Castle with the keys thereof were comitted 1670. — The Charter of this Towne by ProclamaÜßÞ from the LÃ LÓ & Councell brought to Dublin in the Yeare 1667 by WÌ Dobbin EsqÑ then Mayor, was brought back by WÌ Hill EsqÑ in the second yeare of his Mayoralty at his own charge.

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— A scarlett Gowne bestowed on the CorporaÜßÞ for the use of the future Mayors thereof by WÌ Hill EsqÑ Alderman, in the yeare Scarlett Gowne bestowed by AldÌ WÌ of the Mayoralty of Solomon Faith EsqÑ Mayor coÝenced at MichÒ Hill 1677. 1677 — Pavement & Watter

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— The Pavement of the Towne was repaired, and the watter caried unto the Thoulsall & back againe, in the Mayoralty of Solloman Faith 1677. — The Clocke & Diall was sett upp & erected in the Church, and three mort. Clothes dellivered unto the church-wardens in the Mayoralty of Solloman Faith 1678. for the above memÒ (See 87Óç Leaf old book).

1668 — Att an Assembly held at the Tholsell of Carrickfergus by the Mayor Sherriffes Burgesses & Comonalty of the same, the first day of June 1668. Whereas Andrew Willougby of this Towne Burgesse was (according to the auncient custome here had & used) elected to be one of the Sherriffes of the County of the sÃ Towne for the Yeare begun at Michaelmas 1665, and upon his non appearance at the sÃ time according to the sÃ EleÜÜßÞ to take his Oath to execute the said office was fined by the then Mayor Anthony Hall Alderman & the rest of the Assembly at the Tholsell of this Towne then convened in Twenty Nobles SterÆ as by a proceeding recorded appeareth; which said Fine by the then Mayor MÑ Hall & the then Sherriffes was accordingly leavyed: And whereas it appeares that the said MÑ Willoughby hath comenced a suit against the sÃ late Mayor & Sheriffes for the Goods taken from him apprized & sold for the satisfaÜÜßÞ of the said fine imposed upon him for the default aforesaid; the ill consequences whereof the said Assembly having taken into their consideraÜßÞ, & being desirous to prevent any inrode to the violaÜßÞ of their unquestionable priveledges and to exonerate the said Mayor & Sheriffes in their legall actings, do unanimously consent agree & resolve that the said suit comenced as aforesaid shall be defended at the publique cost & charge of this CorporaÜßÞ, and what hath been or shall be necessarily expended by the said Mayor & Sheriffes in the former or future defence of the same shall be repaid to them by the CorporaÜon. Signed by order Hugh Smith Towne Cl. Whereas at the said assembly complaint was made by MÑ RichÃ Pendleton one of the present Sherriffes of the County of the sÃ Town, that John Johnson one of the Serjeants at Mace upon the 31Òó of March last being taken by the said Sherriffe upon a Capias 94

a Capias from the last Assizes, refused to be comitted by him, despised his authority, gave him very scurrilous language, & made severall stroakes at him, as by severall examinaÜßÞs taken upon Oath appeared, as also by the confession of the said John Johnson; The Court haveing considered the hainousnes of his offence, adjudged him deserveing the losse of his imployment for the same; but upon consideraÜßÞ had of his wife & children, & that their future subsistance depended uppon the proffitts of his said office, have out of their comiseraÜßÞ thought fitt to order, and accordingly they doe order, that the said John Johnson for the said offence shall publiquely in Court make his submission, and upon his inlargemÓ should pay a marke SterÆ for the use of the Poore of this Parish, and that upon his next offence or misdemeanour in any kind

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to any person comitted, he should be discharged his imployment & be rendered uncapable of bearing any office in this Corporacon — Dated as aforesaid — Signed by order Hugh Smith Towne Cl. (See 79Óç leaf old book) 1668 — I Michaell Savage one of the Burgesses of this CorporaÜßÞ of Carrickfergus, being by reason of my age rendered uncapable of serving the Towne in the sÃ Capacity, doe desire to be discharged of the Burden of the sÃ Place, and that some fitt person may be elected to serve in my roome. Given under my hand this 29Óç of June 1668 — Michaell Savage. Copia Vera examÓ per Hugh Smith Towne Cl. Memorand. that the same day & yeare MÑ Hugh Smith was chosen & elected Burgesse in the stead & place of the sÃ MichË Savage by the CoÝon Councell of this CorporaÜßÞ. I Nicholas Wills one of the Burgesses of this CorporaÜßÞ of Carrickfergus, being by reason of my age rendered uncapable of serving the Towne in the sÃ Capacity, doe desire to be discharged of the burden of the sÃ place, and that some fitt person may be elected to serve in my roome. Given under my hand this 29Óç of June Ano. DÌè 1668 — Nicholas Wills. Copia vera examÓ pÑ Hugh Smith Towne Cl. MemorÌ — the sÃ day & Yeare WÌ Hilditch was elected Burgesse in the stead & place of the above-named Nicholas Wills by the coÝon Counsell of this CorpaÜßÞ. — As also the sÃ day & Yeare the sÃ WÌ Hilditch was chosen one of the Sherriffes of the same for one whole yeare to comence the 29Óç of SeptemÑ next. — (See 79Óç leaf old book). 95

1668 — June the 29. 1668 — Memorand. That the day & yeare aforÃ George Garnett sonne of Thomas Garnett of Shanes Castle in the County of Antrim Yeß., came before mee Edmond Davies EsqÑ MayÑ of Carrickfergus, And did acknowledge himselfe to be an Apprentice unto MÑ Richard Pendelton of Carrickfergus MerchÓ one of the present Sherriffes of the County of the said Towne, with him to serve in the manner & nature of an apprentice for the full terme & time of seaven whole Yeares, commenced the first day of May last, according to the tenour of his Indentures dated the said first of May & produced before mee the day abovesaid; And the said apprentice George Garnett did promise before mee by God’s permission to accomplish & performe the contents of the said Indentures on his part & behalfe to be accomplished & performed, And therefore at the instance & request of both parties this Record was taken & inrolled accordingly. Edmond Davies Mayor. (See 45Óç leaf old book). 1669 — At an Assembly of the Aldermen of Carrickfergus, held at the House of Anthony Horsman EsqÑ Mayor the first day of JanØ AnÎ DoÌè 1669 present — Anthony Horsman EsqÑ Mayor Edmond Davies } RobÓ Walsh } John Byrtt } William Dobbin } Aldermen Hercules Davies }

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James Dobbin } SÑ Arthure Chichester KnÓ } Richard Dobbs } At the said Assembly Solomon Faith & Ezekell Davies Burgesses were chosen Aldermen, and the usuall Oathes administred to them and taken by them at the time & place aforesaid. A Horsman Mayor (See 81Òó leaf old book) 1669 — FebØ 21Òó 1669 — Memorand. that the same day & Yeare Thomas Sinkler sonne of James Sinkler late of Lisburne in the County of Antrim Gunsmith came before mee AnthØ Horsman EsqÑ Mayor of C.fergus, and did acknowledge himselfe to be an Apprentice unto AndÖ Sinkler of C.fergus Gunsmith, with him to serve in the Manner & Nature of an Apprentice for the full terme of Six Yeares from this day accordæ. to the tenor of his Indentures, dated this day & perfected before mee; And the said Apprentice ThoÒ Sinkler did promise before me, by God’s permission to accomplish & performe the contents of the sÃ Indentures, which on his part & behalfe is to be accomplished & performed, and therefore at the instance & request of both Parties, this record was taken & accordingly inrolled A Horsman Mayor (See 45Óç leaf old book) 96

1671 — The next Munday after Midsomer day being the day of in the Yeare of our Lord God 1671, & in the three & Twentyth Yeare of his Majestie the King Charles the Second by the Grace of God of England Scotland France & Ireland, Defender of the Faith &c — Richard Dobb of Castle Dobb EsqÑ one of the Aldermen of this Towne was by the universall vote of the Aldermen Burgesses & CoÝinalty of the same (not above three or fower dissenting) chosen & Ellected Mayor of the said Towne for the Yeare to commence at the Feaste of SÓ Michaell the Arch-Angell next ensueing, and Symon Richyson glover, & John Jolan tanner were then ellected Sherriffes for the same Yeare; uppon which Feast day of SÓ Michaell the said Richard Dobb was sworne Mayor in his Majesties Castle of Carrickfergus before CaptÍ Nathanyell Foster then Deputy Constable of the said Castle, when John Jolan aforesÃ being called divers times to take uppon him the Oath & office of Sherriffee, and neglecting to doe the same was fined by the Courte in £20 SterÆ — And William Bennett of the sÃ Towne MerchÓ being immediately (then sitting in the Courte) elected Burgesse in the roome & place of Hugh Smith Towne Clerke whoe had surrendered the same, the said William Bennet was forthwith ellected Sherriffe by the Mayor in the place of John Jolan, and the sÃ William Bennett & Symon Richyson were then sworne Sheriffes accordingly. Afterwards a Warrant issued from the Mayor & Deputy Recorder for the apprehending & keepeing in safe custodye the sÃ John Jolan untill the said Fine of £20 should bee satisfyed & payd to the CorporaÜßÞ. Whoe was thereuppon taken & deteyned in pryson severall dayes: But at length in commiseraÜßÞ of the sÃ John & his familye the said Fine was reduced to seaven Pounds, which was accordingly payed to the Mayor, and he the said John thereuppon enlarged; And the said Munny was layed out uppon cleaneing the Towne Clock, and repayreing the clock-house. (See 82Ã leaf old book)

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1671 — At the generall Quarter Sessions of the peace held for this Towne the 19Óç day of OctobÑ 1671 before Richard Dobb EsqÑ Mayor and John Lyndon EsqÑ Recorder, — These persons following were admitted free of this CorporaÜßÞ — (viz) Andrew Foord Weaveñ, John Craford Weaveñ, John Gardner Sh.makñ, Robert Norrell Shoemñ, RobÓ Lyghtfoote Divenñ. NovembÑ 28Óç 1671 — at the Courte then held John Wardlow chandler, & WÌ Yell baker were made free. (See 82Ã leaf old book) 97

1671/2 — Memorand. that uppon Michaelmas day 1671, when the Militia Company of this Towne was delivered to the then new sworne Mayor, there appeared but 62 men in armes that were receaved by the said Mayor. FebØ the 5Óç 1671 — Memorand. That MÑ Henery Clements of the Strade was then ellected Alderman in the place of Robert Walsh Alderman lately deceased. Same Date — Memorand. That at this present the Lord Barkeley is Lord Leiftenent of Ireland, the Arch-Buishop of Dublin LÃ Chancellor, SÑ James Barry LÃ Baron of Santry LÃ Cheif Justice of the King’s Bench, SÑ Robert Booth LÃ Cheefe Justice of the CoÝon Place, MÑ John Bysse LÃ Cheif Barron. SeptembÑ 9Óç 1672 — The Earle of Essex Sonne to the Lord Capell that suffered for adheareing to the Kind under the usurper, is at this present LÃ LeiftÓ of Ireland. 1671 & 1672 — Memorand. that in the yeare of my Mayoralty, the way out of the North Street to the Church yard was first paved; the wall that brings the watter thorrough the Church yard was built at the Towne’s charge; the Towne Pump sett up by Benevolence; The Sword & Standart in the church new furbished; and Munny ordered for re-casting the Bell. N.B. RichÃ Dobbs was Mayor from MichÒ 1671 to MichÒ 1672. (See 82Ã leaf old book) 1671 — Richard Dobb EsqÑ Mayor Simon Richison } Sherriffes WÌ Bennet } Knowe all men by these presents that I James Dobbin of C.fergus, Alderman doe hereby acknowledge myselfe to owe & stand justly indebted unto John Wadman & Stephen Holland Church-wardens of the sÃ Towne & Parish, in the full & just sum of Twenty Pounds SterÆ lawfull money of & in England, to be paid to the said Church-wardens or either of them, their or either of their successÑò or assignes, for the which Payment well & truly to be made & done I binde me my heires ExecÑò & administratÑò firmely by these Presents, Sealed with my Seale, dated this 19Óç day of DecÑ 1671. The condiÜßÞ of the above obligaÜßÞ is such, that if the above bounden James Dobbin his Heireò ExecÑò AdminÑò or Assignes, or any of them, doe well & truly pay, or cause to be paid 98

unto the above named John Wadman and Stephen Holland or either of them, their or either of their SuccessÑò or assignes, or any of them, the full & just sum of Tenn Pounds SterÆ of like lawfull English money at one entire payment, at or before the 19Óç day of DecÑ anÎ DÌè 1672 (for the use of the Poore of the sÃ Parish) without fraud, deceit,

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coven, or further delay; that then the above obligaÜßÞ to be voyd & of none effect, otherwis to remaine in full force strength & vertue in Law. Signed Sealed & delivered in presence of us And. Willoughby } Hen. Burnes }

James Dobbin ¥ Seal

This is a true coppy of the originell, by mee intended to bee layd upp in the Towne chest and was entered here by order from mee the 23Ã day of DecÑ 1671 Richard Dobbs Mayor This munney was left to the Poore of the Towne by John Matthewes Tanner deceased, and lent to AlderÌ Dobbin who assigned Henery Burnes Burgesse to pay the use, being Twenty shillings yearely, and did undertake to pay the same yearly at Christmas, the sÃ James alloweing soe much to him in his Rent. Richard Dobbs Mayor N:B: this bond was paid to John Davies the 17Óç of DecÑ 1686 by MÑ WÌ Dobbin John Davys (See 83Ã leaf old book) 1668 Omitted in its proper place} Memorand. That att a former assizes held for the County of the Towne of Carrickfergus, John Hinch of the same Cordwinder was presented by AnthØ Hall of the same AldÍ for CoÝon Barretry; that at the following Assizes the sÃ Hinch was brought in upon the Capias & entered his Traverse to the InditemÓ, which he removed to the King’s Bench at Dublin by certiorari, and there the sÃ AnthØ Hall did prosecute the sÃ InditemÓ against the sÃ Hinch who brought the same downe by nisi prius to be tryed at the Assizes held for the County of the sÃ Towne the 11Óç day of July anÎ DÌè 1668; at the sÃ Assizes upon the prosecution of the sÃ MÑ Hall in behalfe of his Majestie, the sÃ John Hinch was found Guilty of CoÝon Barretry by a Jury then impanelled consisting of these persons following — (viz) John Byrtt AldermÍ, AlexÑ Dallway AldÍ, SamË Trehorne Burgesse, JaspÑ Haper burgÒ, RichÃ Johnson burg., WÌ Thompson burg., John Magee buÑ, WÌ Johnson MerchÓ, ThoÒ MÂManus MerÓ, Darby Quin gent., JnÎ Edgar gent., & JnÎ Smith cordwinder. — And the sÃ John Hinch was then fined in £20 SterÆ for the sÃ trespasses (whereof as aforesaid he was found guilty) by SÑ Jerome Alexander KnÓ then Justice of Assize 99

Justice of Assize for the North East Circuit of Ulster; of all which att the request of the sÃ MÑ Hall a record was assented unto to be made this 20Óç day of July in the Yeare of our Lord God 1668, and in the 20Óç Yeare of the Raigne of our Sovraigne Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God of England Scotland France & Ireland King, Defender of the Faith &c. Signed by Order Hugh Smith Towne Cl. (See 80Óç leaf old book) 1671 This ensueing is a true coppy of the originall bond

& entered by my appointÓ the 22Ã Dec. 1671 Richard Dobbs MayÑ

Anthony Horsman AldÌ Mayor John Hendersone } Sherriffes John Stubes }

Knowe all men by these presents that I Richard Johnson of the County of the Towne of Carrickfergus Burgess, doe acknowledge to owe and stand justly indebted unto

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Anthony Horsman EsqÑ Mayor of the same, & John Wadman & Stephen Holland churchwardens of the said Towne & Parish in the full suÝe of Six Pounds SterÆ lawful money of & in England, & to bee payd to the said Mayor & churchwardens or any of them, their successÑò or assignes, for the which payment well & truely to bee made & done, I bind mee my heires ExecÑò & adminñò firmely by these presents. Sealed with my Seale, dated this 17Óç day of December anno DomÈ 1670. The condiÜßÞ of the above obligaÜßÞ is such, that if the above bound Richard Johnson his ExecÑò AdminÑò or assignes or any of them, shall well & truely pay or cause to be payã unto unto the above named Mayor & churchwardens or any of them their SuccessÑò or assignes upon demand (for the use of the Poore of the said Parish of C.fergus) the full & just suÝe of three Pounds SterÆ of like lawfull English money at one entire paymÓ without fraud coven or further delay — that then &c &c Signed &c Hen. Clements Hugh Smith JaÒ MÂCully (See 80Óç leaf old book) 1671/2 — JanØ the 8Óç 1671 — this was desyered to be entered by John Henderson & Thomas Edgar. Richard Dobb Mayor Symon Richardson } Sherriffes. William Bennet } These are to will & require you forthwith to seize & leavy the Goods of John Henderson Thomas Edgar & Thomas Bane of this Towne freemen, and that soe seized & leavyed keepe apprize & sell according to Law, to satisfie Jacobb Houshold of the same Locksmith the full suÝe of Thirty Pounds SterÆ debt, together 100

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together with the suÝe of Six Pounds SterÆ for Damage or Interest of said suÝe of Thirty Pounds due by two speciall bills or specialties of £60; dated the 8Óç day of Aprile 16__ for the paymÓ of the aforesÃ suÝe of Thirty Pounds unto the PlÅå, that the said DefendÓò entered into, and for which judgment was acknowledged by the DefendÓò in the Towne’s bookes of Record the 2Ã of SeptÑ last; And for want of goods sufficient that you attach their bodies if not already in custodie as being formerly coÝitted, and these keepe in safe & secure custody untill they or any or either of them satisfye the aforesaid suÝe of Thirty Pounds principall Debt, Six Pounds interest or Damage, and Fifteene ShillÒ & Eight Pence for Costes of Courte expended by the PlÅå in prosecution of his suite, besides your own fees, and the same deliver to the sÃ Plf or his order and then make returne hereof — Dated this 18Óç of OctoÑ 1659 To the Sherriffes of the County of the Towne aforesaid and their assistants — These — Jo: Davies Mayor (See 84Óç leaf old book)

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1672 — Aprile the 20Óç 1672 Richard Dobb EsqÑ Mayor Symon Richardson } Sherriffes William Bennit } His Majesty’s DeclaraÜßÞ against the States Generall of the United Provinces of the Lowe Countries Published by the advice of his Privy Councill. We have been alwayes so zealous for the quiet of Christendom, and so carefull not to invade any other Kingdom or State, that we hope the world will doe us the Justice to believe, that it is nothing but inevitable necessity forceth us to the resolution of taking up armes. Immediately upon our RestoraÜßÞ to our Crownes, the first worke we undertooke was the establishing of Peace, and the settling of good correspondence between us & our Neighbours; And in particular, our care was to conclude a strict league with the States Generall of the United Provinces, upon such equal termes as would certainly not have been broken if any obligaÜßÞs could have kept them within the bounds of friendship or Justice. This League was maintained inviolable on our parte; But in the Yeare 1664, we were stirred up by the complaints 101

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of our People, & the unanimous vote of both our Houses of Parliament, finding it a Vaine attempt to endeavour the prosperity of our Kingdomes by peacable ways at home, whilst our Subjects were still exposed to the injuries & oppressions of the States abroad:– That whole summer was spent in negotiations & endeavours on our side, to bring them to reasonable tearmes, which notwithstanding all we could do proved at lenth ineffectuall; for the more we pursued them with friendly propositions, the more obstinately they kept of from agreeing with us. Upon thin ensued the warr in the Yeare 1665, & continued to the Yeare 1667, in all which time our Victories & their losses were memorable enough to put them in mind of being more faithfull to their Leagues for the future:– But instead of that the peace was no sooner made, but they returned to their usual custom of breaking Articles, & Supplanting our Trade; for instance the States were particularly engaged in an article of the treaty at Breda, to send commissioners to us at London about the regulation of our trade in the East Indies; but they were so far from doing it upon that obligaÜßÞ, that when we sent over our ambassador to put them in mind of it, he could not in three yeares time any satisfaction in the Materiall Points, nor a forbearance of the wrongs which our Subjects received in those parts. In the West Indies they went a little further; for by an article in the same treaty we were to restore Surinam into their hands, and by Articles upon the place confirmed by that Treaty, they were to give liberty to all our subjects in that Colony, to transport themselves & their Estates into any other of our Plantations:– In pursuance of this agreement we delivered up the place, and yet they detained all our men in it; only Major Banister they sent away prisoner, for but desireing to remove according to the Articles: Our Ambassadour complaining of this behaviour, after two years solicitation obtained an order for performance of these Articles; but when we sent Commissioners and two ships to bring our men away, the Hollanders (according to their former practice in the business of Poleroon for above forty yeares together) sent private orders

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journey thither, was to bring away some few of the poorest of our Subjects, and the prayers & cryes of the most considerable & wealthiest of them for reliefe out of that captivity:– After this we made our complaints by our letter in August last to the States Generall, wherein we desired an order to their Governor there, for the full observance of those Articles; Yet to this time we could never receive one word of answer or satisfaction. — But it is no wonder that they venture at these outrages upon our Subjects in remote parts, when they dare be so bold with our Royal Person & the honour of this nation so neare us, as in their own Countrie there being scarce a Towne within their territories that is not filled with abusive pictures & false historicall Medals & Pillars, some of which have been exposed to the publick view by coÝand of the States themselves and in the very time when we were joyned with them in united Councells for the support of the triple League & the peace of Christendom:– This alone were cause for our displeasure, & the resentment of all our Subjects; But we are urged to it by considerations yet nearer to us then what only relates to our Self, the safety of our Trade, upon which the Wealth & prosperity of our People depends, the preservaÜßÞ of them abroad from violence & oppression, and the Hollanders daring to affront us almost within our very Ports, are the things which move our just indignaÜßÞ against them. The right of the Flagg is so ancient, that it was one of the first Prerogatives of our Royall Predecessors, and ought to be the last from which this Kingdom should ever departe:– It was never questioned, and it was expressly acknowledged in the treaty at Breda; and yet this last SuÝer it was not only violated by their CoÝanders at sea, & that violation afterwards justified at the Hague, but it was also represented by them in most Courts of Christendom as rediculous for us to demand. An ungratefull insolence! That they should contend with us about the Dominion of these Seas, who even in the Raigne of our Royall Father thought it an obligaÜßÞ to be allowed to fish in them by taking of Licences & for a Tribute; And who owe their being now in a condiÜßÞ of making this 103

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this dispute to the Protection of our Ancestors, & the valour & blood of their Subjects. Notwithstanding all these provocations, we patiently expected satisfaction; not being willing to expose the Peace of Christendom for our particular resentments; whilst they ceased not on their parts to endeavour to provoke the most Christian King against us; of which they thought themselves so secure, that for above these twelve months their ministers here have [threatened?] us with it. At lenth hearing nothing from them we sent another ambassador to them, who after severall pressing memorialls in our name could receive no answer, till after he had declared his revocation: Then they offered a Paper to this effect, that in this conjuncture they should condescend to strike to us; if we would assist them against the French, but upon condiÜßÞ that it should never be taken for a president hereafter to their prejudice. Since the returne of our said ambassador, they have sent an extraordinary one to us, who in a most extraordinary manner has given us to understand, that he can offer us no satisfaction till he hath sent back to his Masters. Wherefore dispairing now of any good Effect of a further treaty, we are compelled to take up armes in Defence of the ancient Prerogative of our Crownes, & the Glory &

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subjects & Inhabitants; willing & requireing all our Subjects to take Notice of the same, whom we henceforth straightly forbid on pain of Death, to hold any correspondence or communicaÜßÞ with the said States Generall or their subjects (those only excepted who are necessitated thereunto for the withdrawing of their Persons & Estates out of the united Provinces) — And because there are remaining in our Kingdoms many Subjects of the States Generall of the united Provinces, we do declare & give our Royall Word, that all such of the Dutch Nation as shall demaine themselves dutifully towards us, and not correspond with our Enemies, shall be safe in their Persons & Estates, & free from all Molestation & trouble of any kind. And further we do declare, that if any of the low Country subjects, either out of affection to us or our Government, or because of the oppression they meet with at home, shall come into our Kingdomes, they shall be by us protected in their Persons & Estates. — And whereas we are engaged by a treaty to support the Peace made at Aix la Chapelle we do finally declare, that notwithstanding the prosecution of this Warr, we will maintain the true intent & scope of the said Treaty, And that in all the alliances which we have or shall make in the progresse of this War, we have & will take care to preserve the ends thereof inviolable, unless provoked to the contrary. Given at our Court at Whitehall, the 17Óç day of March in the 24Óç Yeare of our Reigne 1671/2. ExÓ pÑ Richard Dobb — Mayor (See 86 & 87Óç leaf old book). 1677 — At a publique Quarterly Assembly held for the Towne of C.fergus at the Tholsell of the Same the 21Òó of JanØ 1667 Ordered — 1Òó — That the severall Pavements, as well within the Towne as Suburbs, be repaired by the severall Inhabitants before their respective holdings, and for default of such reparaÜßÞ, after due notice thereof given by the Mayor of the Repair of Pavements Towne for the time being, it shall be lawfull for the sÃ Mayor to impose such a fine on the offender & the same leavy of his Goods, as the sÃ Mayor shall 105

s d thinke fitt, not exceeding 6 -8 for each offence; and soe to fine the said offenders from time to time, untill the said repairaÜßÞs be finished. 2Ãly —

Thatt all Fines & amerciaments of what kinde soever that shall hereafter arise or become due to the towne, either in the Towne Court, Quarter Sessions, Publiq fines to be paid to quarter Assembly, or for passing any Deeds or Leases from the Towne, or the Sherriffs admission to the freedome of the same, shall be deposited in the Sherriffes

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hands for the time being, (to be issued for the Towne’s use) by the said Sheriffes upon such order as they shall receive from time to time from the Mayor for the time being; and whereas the Mayors past have usually claimed the chief fine happening in their severall Mayoraltys as a perquisite due to themselves, It is ordered that from henceforth the Mayor for the time being shall have Twenty ShillÒ SterÆ & noe more out of the fines happening in his Yeare, in full of his said claime. 3Ãly —

That noe Mayor & Sherriffes hereafter shall presume to passe any bond or bonds obligeing the Corporacon to the paymÓ of any suÝ or suÝs of money to any Person or Persons whatsoever save att a General Quarterly Assembly, & in the presence of Eight Aldermen, twelve Burgesses & other Comoners; And Signeing of that such Mayor & Sherriffes offending contrary to the intent of this Order, it Bonds shall & may be lawfull to & for the succeeding Mayors in the Name of the CorporaÜßÞ to sue such offenders for double the suÝ which shall be past by them by bond as aforesaid, and the sÃ offenders to disfranchise. 4Óçly — That noe person or Persons hereafter shall cutt any turfe on the Commonable Lands or other Lands sett for terme of Yeares within the County of the Towne of C.fergus without licence first obtained from the Mayor for the time being, save what shall necessarily be expended on the sÃ lands soe lett to lease as Guard turfe aforesÃ for Yeares, alwayes reserving two loads out of the Score for the Corporacon’s use, and he that shall offend contrary to this order to be indicted for a waste, & sued by the Mayor for the time being for Damages. 5Óçly — That noe Warrant hereafter for issueing of the towne’s Revenue be signed, save in open Court, on the first Munday in every month.

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6Óçly — That noe Mayor or Deputy Mayor shall be in ElleÜÜßÞ for the ensueing Yeare ElleÜÜßÞ of upon paine of disfranchisement to the persons offending against this order. — Mayor These bye Laws to be read every ElleÜÜßÞ Daye. 7Óçly — That Fortunatas Carrickfergus the Towne’s child be forthwith put to Apprentis at the Towne’s charge, for the prevenÜßÞ of a continual charge to the said CorporaÜßÞ for his Maintainance. Signed by Order Hugh Smith Towne Cler. (See 89Óç leaf old book). 1678 — At a generall QuartÑ Assembly held for the County of the Towne of C.fergus at the Tholsell of the Same, on Munday 22Ã July 1678. Unanimously agreed upon & ordered at the sÃ Assembly, that whereas the Fares of the Towne Yearly held on the feast Days of Philipp & James Jacob and All Saints have for maney Yeares past been wholely sleighted, and this CorporaÜßÞ deprived of the benefitt of the same, for remedy whereof for the time to come, to incourage & invitt a further aceesse thereunto that no Custome, toll, or other Dutties be exacted or taken at any fare hereafter the day before the fare & the day after the sÃ fare, here to be held for the space of Seaven Yeares to come; Whereof publicaÜßÞ to be made in all the adjacent Markett townes three Markett Dayes before each fare. Dated ut supra (See 90Óç leaf old book)

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1681 — The returne of the severall Constables within theyr respective Wards, of all the Men between the Age of Sixteen & Sixty att the Court Leet held for the Town in May 1681, amounted in all to the number of four Hundred ninety & six, besides the Aldermen Burgesses & other officers. Hen: Clements Mayor s d Vill de Carrickfergus} — A DistribuÜßÞ of 26 – 8 amongst the officers of the ExcheqÑ to be payed Yearly by the Sherriffs of the Town of C.fergus for the fees of passing their acctÒ s – d To the Chief RemembrancÑ 2 – 6 To the Second RemembrancÑ 3 – 6 To the Auditor 2 – 6 To the Clerk of the Pipe 2 – 8 To the Comptroller of the Pipe 2 – 4 To the Sumonister 2 – 0 To the Forreign Apposer 2 – 0 To the Usher 1 – 6 To the Officers of the Receipt 2 – 2 To the Cryer 1 – 6 1 – 6 – 8 Copia vera exÓ pÑ Hen: Warren (See 49Óç leaf old book).

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1681 The Names of the Aldermen of Carrickfergus accorÃ to their Seniority — AÎ DÌi 1681. 1. James Dobbin 2. Edmond Davis 3. Anthony Horsman 4. Hercules Davys 5. Henry Davys 6. Anthony Hall 7. Richard Dobbs 8. Solomon Faith 9. William Hill 10. Ezekiel Davys 11. Henry Clements 5Óç FebØ 1671 12. Andrew Willoughby 10Óç SeptÑ 1672 13. Hugh Earl of Mount Alexander 14. John Chichester 15. John Davys — 15Óç June 1673 16. FranÒ Earl of Longford in the place of the Earl of Donegall 17. Samuel Welby [in the place of] John Byrt AldÌ Note — the following names are added to the above list in the old book, in the order (it is presumed),in which they succeeded after the above Date in 1681 — Arthure Earle of Donegall, in the place of JaÒ Dobbin aldÌ chosen with an unanimous consent. 12Óç June. 1682.

Andrew Clements RichÃ Horsman MarmadÊ Newton Samuel Davys John Davys JunÑ Cornelius Crymble Edward Clements Trevor Hill now LÃ HillsbÎ John Chaplain Ephraim Dawson Robert Gardner Edward Clements JunÑ Patrick Meade (See 40Óç Leaf old book)

The Names of the Burgesses of Carrickfergus according to their Seniority — AÎ DÞi — 1681 1. Andrew Gardiner 2. William Thomson 3. Samuell Trehorn 4. John Tyso 5. John Magee 6. Cornelius Bashford 7. Henry Burnes 8. Richard Pendleton 9. William Hillditch 10. John Henderson 11. Simon Richardson 12. John Davys 13. William Bennett 14. Thomas Harper 15. James MÂCullogh 16. John Smith 17. George Walsh 18. Edward Hall 19. Robert Williams 20. William Dawson 21. John Byrtt 22. Andrew Clements 23. John Dobbin 24. William Johnston

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1682— The Humble Addresse of the Grand Jury of the County of the Towne of C.fergus in Your Majesties Province of Ulster and Kingdome of Ireland, presented to the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen and Sherriffes, at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace held for the sÃ County the Tenth of July 1682, and (by the unanimous consent of the Court) agreed upon, and ordered to be under the common seale of the said Towne presented To the Kings most excellent Majestie Though wee acknowledge ourselves indispensably obliged by the Oaths of Allegiance & Supremacy which every individuall member of this auntient CorporaÜßÞ hath solemnly taken, and likewise by those Priviledges which your Majesties Royall Progenitors have vouchsaft, and your Majestie hath gratiously been pleased to continue to us, yett wee hold it our duty not to omitt any occasion of declaring to the world our unfeigned ResoluÜßÞ in maintaining (to the utmost of our Lives & Fortunes) your Majesties sacred Person, the true Protestant Religion, & the Laws of these Kingdomes as now establisht, against all turbulent & factious associators whatsoever, whom wee utterly detest & abhorr, lett their pretences be ever soe specious or plausible. And we humbly beseech your Majestie to be assured that this applicaÜßÞ doth not proceed out of any formality, but from a deep sense of our Duty, and of the great blessings which wee enjoy under your Majesties gracious Raigne, and that our Loyalty (which hath hitherto remained unshaken, noe particular Person within this County having forfeited a foote of land by the late horrid & unnaturall Rebellion) shall continue inviolable to your Majestie, your heires & lawfull SuccessÑò for ever. May it please your Majestie to accept of this our humble addresse from the hands of the most HonÁëä James Duke of Ormonde his Grace LÃ LieutÓ of this your Majesties Kingdome, under whose prudent Government wee have enjoyed much peace & tranquillity. That God will long preserve your Majestie to all our Comforts & Security, and continue the Crowne in its due course of Succession, is & ever shall be the hearty prayer of your Majesties most dutiful and Loyall subjects. Signed by Samuel Welbie EsqÑ Mayor, John Dobbin and Henry Burnes Sherriffes, the Recorder, & severall Aldermen Burgesses & freemen, to the number of about two Hundred. (See 42Ã leaf old book). 109

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1682 — Memorand: That Randell Lord Marquess of Antrym (whose first Ladye was the Dutchesse of Buckingham; and laste the sole Daughter & heire of SÑ Henery O’Neile of Shanes Castle), dyed upon Saturday the fowerteenth of February in the Yeare 1682; Hee left noe issue, and the Estate & honor of Earle descended to his Brother Allexander MÂDonnell of Glenarme whoe is father at this time of a Sonn called Randell & Daughter called Mary R Dobbs Mayor August the 27Óç 1683 — Memorand that William Shaw EsqÑ Robert MÂNeile & Hugh Magill of the County of Downe EsqÑ, John Browne of Donnoghadee MerchÓ, Charles Shaw Sonne of CaptÍ John Shaw MercÓ, Thomas Colcot GenÓ Surveyor of the Custome house in this Towne were sworne free of this CorporaÜßÞ: And upon the 28Óç Nicholas Kenedye & WillÌ Harryson were sworn.

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This Summer (though extreame wett) the way from the West Quarter of this Towne leading to Antrym (towards the mill Race that crosseth the same) was taken upp, new paved, cawsyed & gravelled except some of the farr end:– Soe likewise was a considerable parte of the North Way leading to Glenarme new paved, or raysed & repaired; And that parte of the sÃ highway from the Common Ditch towards Lyndon’s Parke repayred by the bounty of Thomas Warde Deane of Connor & Parson of Carrickfergus. Mem: that between Michaelmas Day 1682, & the 21Òó of SeptÑ 1683, there was but one cause in the Towne Courte of C.fergus that came to a full heareing & Tryall by Verdict of a Jurye, which happened between Thomas Harper Burgesse & one WÌ Baylise. (for the above Memorandums see 42Ã leaf old book). 1683 — 43Ã & 44Óç Leaves old book) contain a copy of the rules & orders &c made in 1672 when LÃ Essex was LÃ LÓ of Ireland, for the better regulating the several cities, walled Townes & Corporations, among which Carrickfergus is mentioned as one; which being recited at large in the 3Ã vol. of the Irish Statutes Page 229, and also abridged in Bullingbroke’s abridgment under the Article Corporations, I do not think it necessary to enter them here. NB: At the conclusion of this entry in the old Book, is added in these words — (viz) A true Coppy entered by mee the 17Óç day of SeptÑ 1683 Richard Dobbs Mayor and then follows — This Earle of Essex whoe was LÃ Leiftenant of this Kingdome at the makeinge of the above orders &c (was Sonne to the Lord Capell who was beheaded for serveing King Charles the 1Òó) and killed himself (as it is said) in the Tower of London this Summer being committed to the same for the Plott for which the LÃ Russell was beheaded, & CaptÍ Walcote & others executed. (see 44Óç leaf old book). 110

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1688 — DecembÑ the 2Ã being Sunday 1688 — The Lord Eveagh & two other Captains entered this Towne with 3 Companies of new raysed foote unarmed, and then parte receaved armes & had the Castle delivered unto them (according to order) by CaptÍ George Talbot CaptÍ of Granadeers then Governor, and next day the said CaptÍ Talbot, CaptÍ SÑ Patrick Barnwall, CaptÍ Newgent, & CaptÍ Shurlock marched towards Dublin with their Companies. (See 46 leaf old book). 1690 — 14Óç of June 1690 — This day King William landed (came over in the Mary Yaught) landed on the key, and within halfe an hower went to Belfaste. (See 46 leaf old book). 1690 — June the 26Óç 1690 — Memorand:– at the request of the Burgesses I appointed a meeting of them to ellect three Burgesses in the places of WillÌ Hilditch, Anthony Karre, & WillÌ Dobbin Burgesse deceased; And in regarde Samuell Davies is at present in England, and made severall voyages too & fro without acquainting the Mayor when hee went or returned, I tould severall of the Burgesses I would not approve of it, or consent to the Ellection if they made choyce of him, and notwithstanding that by the Charter the Mayor is to be one in all Assemblies & Ellections yet the Burgesses made

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choyce of the sÃ Samuell Davies against which Ellection I then instantly made protestaÜßÞ of my dissent. Richard Dobbs Mayor (See 46Óç leaf old book). 1690 Memorand:– When King William’s Army under General Schomberg invested this Towne (being possessed by the Irish) the 20Óç of August 1689, I was upon the first appearance of the Army committed Prisoner in the Vault next to the Mayn Guard, and next day was committed to the common Goale, into which I had this book, and the Towne Chest; (wherein all the Records Deeds & Charters of the Towne were) brought into the Gaole, where they remayned till the Towne was delivered the 27Óç and the English entered:– Next day I delivered the Sword (which was hid by my Serjant) to General Schomberg in the Markett place, whoe was pleased to restore it unto mee; and I continued till the 29Óç of SeptÑ 1690. Richard Dobbs — Mayor (See 50Óç leaf old book). 111

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1692 — The returne of the severall Constables within theyr severall wards of all the men between the age of Sixteen & Sixty by a special order from the LÃ LieuÓ this 23Ã of JanØ 1692 amounting to the number of four Hundred Sixty four — (viz) Three Hundred Ninety three Protestants, and Seaventy one Roman Catholicks, besides the Aldermen & Burgesses. MarmÊä Newton — Mayor (See 49Óç leaf old book) 1718 — A coppy of a Certificate to be sent to Dublin, of the Mayor and Sherriffes of Carrickfergus being sworn at Michaelmas. Prehonorabilibus CancellarÚ ThesaurarÚ et Baronibus de ScaccarÚ DomÚ Everyone Regis HibernÚ — Nos Burgenses villÚ dictÚ DomÚ Regis de Carrickfergus that Signes, humilime certificamus quod Iohanes Chaplin AlderÚ Vill. predict. electus must Sett est in loco Majoris Vill. predict. pro uno anno integro inchoasÚ a die Sancti his Seal. ¥ Michaelis anno DomÚ Millesimo Septingentesimo decimo Septimo Instant. ¥ ex tunc proxime Sequent. et finiendÚ, ac etiam quod Rigby Dobbin et ¥ Andrew Newton electi sunt in loco VicecomÚ ejusdem villae pro anno ¥ Supradict., et quod Iurament. et declarationem Secundum actum Parlia¥ menti Nuper in Anglia editÚ acceperunt; In cujus rei testimonium Sigilla ¥ nostra apposuimus dat. vicesimo nono die Septembris Anno Regni Georgii ¥ Dei Gratia Magnae Britanniae Franciae & Hiberniae Regis, fidei Defensoris, et tertio anno Domin. 1718. Francis Ellis Richard Horsman Francis Clements David Morison } Sheriffs WillÌ Spencer } Thomas Young Nicholas Brown (See 90Óç leaf old book)

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The following was omitted in its proper order Present — When a bond of one hundred & fifteen Pounds ten ShillÒ for payment of fifty seven Pounds fifteen shillÒ to John Davies of this Town Burgesse the 28Óç day of OctoÑ AnÎ 1679 was past, dated 28Óç OctÑ 1678 witnessed by nine Aldermen, 16 Burgesses, Town clerk, and 2 others. (See 90Óç leaf old book). 112

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1739 — MemÃì — That on the 4Óç day of OctoÑ 1739 the Officers Foot Barracks was begun/the foundation layd on that Piece of Ground (commonly called Lyndon’s Garden) which piece of ground is within the Bounds & Jurisdiction of this Corporation, it being a Plott or Parcell of sÃ lands & pays Rent one Pound Six Shillings & Eight Pence pÑ annum to the Mayor of this Town for time past, and now by CaptÍ John Davys of Dublin, whose ancestors made it a freehold to the family of the Lyndons, and the late Edward Lyndon Recorder made it a freehold to the Crown, Since which time it has been waste & unemployed untill this present year. (See 84Óç leaf old book). 1739 —A Precedent for all Wrecks of Sea that happen from Fairfurlongs in the County of Antrim (now called Fair Head) to Beerlooms in the County of Down. By H: G: County of furlongs the town of EsqÑ Mayor of said Town, & Vice Admiral of the Sea from Fairfurlions to BeerC.fergus — looms — to witt Whereas the Kings & Queens of Great Britain (of glorious Memory) have, among other Grants Privileges & Immunities, given & granted to this Antient & Loyall Corporation of C.fergus all & all manner of wrecks which from time to time shall happen within the Bounds & Limits aforesaid; And whereas I am credibly informed that several wrecks have lately happened upon the Coasts of Isle Magee, Larn, Carncastle, Arclunish, Glenarm, and other Places within the said Limits. I do therefore by Virtue of the Charter of sÃ Corporation hereby authorise & impower you & your assistants to Seize & Secure all the said wrecks, or any other wreck that shall hereafter happen within the Limits aforesaid during the time of my Mayoralty, and returne the same to me within a convenient time after such seizure made for the use of the said Corporation, and for your so doing that shall be your sufficient warrant; Given under my hand & seal of Office this 22Ã day of OctoÑ 1739 H.G. Mayor To Mr. J.D.; N:B: Henry Gill was Mayor. For a further or his assistants description of F.furlongs &c See the next article. (See 85Óç leaf old book). 113

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Whereas King James the First by his Charter to this Corporation dated the 14Óç Day of DecÑ in the 10Óç Year of his Reign of England, and of Scotland the 48Óç, did give & grant to this antient & Loyall Corporation all wrecks of Sea that should happen or be then & for ever between Beer Looms in the County of Downe and Fairfurlongs in the County of Antrim; Now as these two Places are not properly described as to their situations: judged it proper to enter this Record where Beer Looms begins in the County of Down, & where Fairfurlongs is & terminates in the County of Antrim, so that the succeeding Mayors of this Corporation may know the extent of their Jurisdiction. — Beerlooms begins at Cloughen Bay opposite to which is the North & South Rocks, both said Rocks

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are but a small distance from Porttferry. — Fairfurlongs or Fairforeland (now called Fair Head) is nigh Ballycastle. (See 85 leaf old book). 1740 1. ArÑ Martin 2. George Martin 3. John Sion 4. WÌ Gray 5. John Gray 6. RobÓ Hunter

7. RobÓ Scrogee 8. AndÖ Mearns 9. WÌ Meagh 10. DavÃ MÂClurgh 11. DavÃ Junkin 12. John Smilly

13. John Junkin 14. John Wilson 15. AndÖ MÂIlwain 16. Robert Boyd 17. John MÂIlwain 18. NathË Mearns.

Com. Antrim } By RobÓ Leathes EsqÑ one of his MajÒ JustÒ of the Peace for Ye Co. I do hereby certifie, that this day ThomÒ Barry & DavÃ MÂClurgh came before me & voluntarily made oath that the abovenamed Eighteen Persons being freemen of the Corporation of C.fergus and who at the Election of the Mayor of the sÃ Corporation for the ensuing year on Monday after Midsummer day last past did vote that Edward Clements EsqÑ should be Mayor of the sÃ Town for the said Year, do inhabit live & reside within the mears & bounds of the Liberty of the sÃ Corporation, as the mears & bounds of the same are generally known & riden to their certain Knowledge by the Mayors etc of said Corporation; Given under my hand at Belfast this 26Óç of July 1711 Eleven. Robert Leathes The above being a true coppy taken from the Originall & carefully examined by me this 17Óç June 1740 — Henry Gill (See 37 leaf old book). 114

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N:B: The following is an Entry in the handwriting of Henry Gill but no date. By the Charters granted to the CorporÍ of C.fergus by the Kings & Queens of England (of glorious Memory) among other Priviledges & Immunities — (viz) That they shall have Power & Authority then & at all times hereafter for ever, to have any number of Aldermen not exceeding Seventeen, of which Number the Mayor is to be one, And that they may also admit & make as many free Burgesses as they think convenient; And agreeable and in pursuance of the above Authority given them, came to the Resolution & agreement that the Number of free Burgesses should be Twenty Four, out of which body or number should the Sheriffs alway be chosen, And that the Mayor Sherriffs Aldermen Burgesses & Commonalty should always have the power of choosing one of the sÃ Burgesses to be Sherriff for the Town, And that the Mayor should have power to name another out of said Burgesses to be his Sherriff, And that the Sherriff chosen by the Corporation should at all times take the right hand of the Mayors Sherriff. — It was also resolved & agreed on immediately after this Town was incorporated, that no Recorder for this Town should have liberty to appoint any for his Deputy but one of the Aldermen of sÃ Corporation, agreable to a clause in the Charter of sÃ CorpÍ, which says that no Recorder shall make any Deputy but such as the Mayor for the time being will approve of and the greatest number of the Aldermen, agreable to which none but an Alderman has been Deputy Recorder of this Town. N:B: (the above mentioned Burgesses are the ComÍ Council & RepresentÒ for the freemen.

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Within the County of the Town of C.fergus & the Liberties thereof, all Cattle that’s killed for sale on Friday in every week by any freeman or freeman Butcher, the tongues of the sÃ Cattle so killed, whether OxÍ, Bullocks, cows, or Heifers, belongs to the Mayors of said Town by Custom immemoriall. — The Mayor of this Town by Charter is Custos Rotulorum of the County of the Town of C.fergus, and the Liberties thereof, as also the Governor of sÃ Town in as full and ample manner, & in as express words as can be given. — The Year after his Mayoralty he is Mayor of the Staple; the Year following to be Master of the Guild of Merchants; And the fourth Year to be Treasurer of the said Town. 115

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The Mayor of said Town is first in commission with the Judge or Judges of Assize, for said Town, and during his Mayoralty is one of the first Justices of the Peace for the County of Antrim, but his Deputy is not a Justice of the Peace for the County of Antrim. Immediately after that Queen Elizabeth gave & granted by Charter to this Corporation the Castles Lands & Houses that sÃ Corporation had been a long time in their Manurance & Possession, in said Reign they came to a Resolution & Agreement to lay out said Lands as well within the Town & Suburbs as the Libertys thereof into so many Lotts or Parcells or Shares which they called Burgesses Shares; And for the Lands that lies within the Town & Suburbs, it was ordered & agreed to that 84 feet fronting any of the sÃ Streets of said Town should be deemed & allowed a Burgesses whole share, and to extend backwards so far as not to incroach upon any other Burgesses share already layd out. We find on the viewing the Deeds of this Corporation, that severall of said Deeds are for a whole or half a Burgesses share, and some for a quarter of a Burgesses share, without mentioning in said Deeds the number of feet front in said whole, half, or quarter shares, which for the better understanding I have underneath explained, as well as for the Lands also granted by sÃ Deeds in the fields. Half a Burgesses Share of the Castles Houses or lands within the Town & Suburbs, is Forty two feet. Quarter Burgesses share of Ditto is Twenty one feet. One whole Burgesses share of the land layed out without the Town, was one Hundred & Two Perches in lenth, And Ninety Nine Perches in breadth. (See 47 & 48 leaf old book). Note — It were to be wished MÑ Gill had given his Authority for many things he asserts in the foregoing entry — there being reason to believe some of them are without authority. His accÓ of the division of lands within the Town is just; not so of those without; the length & breadth varying in most instances, as might be expected from the nature of the Ground. — R.D.

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Docket of Fees belonging to the Water Bailliffe of the Liberties of C.fergus, the same being taken by the Water Bailiffe of Dublin, and by our Charter are granted the Privileges of Dublin &c. 1Òó The Water Bayliffe is to enquire & find out, as much as in him lyeth, all such rights & duties as do any ways belong to the Mayor as Admiral and to seize to his use, and to certifie & be accountable for the same. 2Ã The Water Bayliffe is to enquire of any Person that hath taken in the Seas within the Admiral’s Libertys, Whales, Sturgeons, Porposes, Ballands, Grampuses, or any other overgrown fish, and hath not satisfied the Mayor as Admiral thereof. 3Ã The Water-Bayliffe is to have the custody of the Water Measures & weights, & to measure & weigh all & singular goods and merchandizes which are to be weighed & measured within Shipboard, to be loaden, carried, transported, or brought over; that thereby the King be not deceived in his Customs, or any of his Subjects either in false measures or weights; and also size & seal every weight & measure, and be sealed & marked with the Admirals seal. 4Óç The Water-Bayliffe is to have of every boat of Fish as Cod, Ling, Hake, Place, Mullett, Haddock, or any other dry or wet fish, one chief Fish. 5Óç The Water Bayliffe is to have of every Barque, Ship, or Vessell, that taketh ballast of Sand, Gravel, or Stones, being within the flowing or reflowing of the sea or salt-water, upon any of the shores within the Corporation’s Jurisdiction, for lastage of every Tunn of the said ballast, three Pence. 6Óç He is also to have for anchoring of every ship with two Topps, one Shilling. 7Óç For every Barque or Ship without Topps, Six Pence. 8Óç For every Small Boat that beareth Anchor, Four Pence. 9Óç And for such of those Ships or Barques that cast Anchors, not having a buoy thereto, in any navigable River, shall forfeit to the Water-Bayliffe three Shillings & four Pence. 10Óç & 11Óç For Grounding every Barque Six Pence, and for every Stranger one Shilling. EntÃ 117

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12Óç And for every Vessel laden with Corn, Coal, or Salt, one Measure wherewith they usually measure the aforesÃ Corn, Coal, or Salt; And every vessel laden with Wine, Iron, Timber, Freestone, Hard stone, Clapp boards, Deal Boards, Masts, Mill Stones or Grind Stones, for Baylinge of every one of these, one Shilling. 13Óç The Water-Bayliffe is to have of every boat of Herrings, fresh or salted, for the fishing time, one Hundred, be they huddled or barrelid. 14Óç The Water Bayliffe is to have for every bloodshed within his Jurisdiction happening, three ShillÒ & four Pence. 15Óç All Deodands, Fynes, Forfeitures, Presentments, Bloodsheds, & Casualties under the £20, according to the Custom of the Admiralty are to be devided into four Parts, whereof the half is to go to the Judge, the other equally to be devided betwixt the Register & Marshall, which was so settled in regard they have no Salaries allowed them. The above being an Abstract of the Office & Duty of the Water-Bayliffe to the Admiralty, with the fees and Perquisites belonging to the same, established in the 4Óç Year of

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King Edward the Sixth by Thomas Seamore then LÃ High Admiral of England & Ireland, and ever since continued & observed in England & Ireland by the said Water Bayliffe in right of the Admiral. N:B: The above is in the handwritÆ of H. Gill (See 91 leaf old book). Dockett of fees belongÆ to the Several Officers of this Town. The Mayor’s fees For giving JudgmÓ in every Action Signing & Sealing every ExecuÜßÞ Taxing every Bill of Costs thereupon Seal of Mayoralty to any Certificate Bill of Health, Pass &c For recordÆ every Verdict of Jury For every Lease granted by the Town License for every Fisher boat from a Foreigner From a freeman for the same As Clerk of the Market For every Firkin of butter sold or going through the town

Ò-Ã 1-0 1-0 6 } }

} }

2-6 1-0 3-4 6-8 3-4

ob.

Ò-Ã For every Load of Grain For a Sheep, Lamb, Swine, or Calfe, dead or alive For every Cow or Bullock dead or alive For a Horse or Mare sold & booked For every Sack of Meal, Wheat &c For every piece of Cloth woollen or linen if under Ten yards If above For any Shoemaker or Cowpers Standing per diem For every Sack of Wool For every Pack of Wool

1 } }

} } } }

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Mayors fees as Clerk of the Market Continued

Town Clerks fees continued

Ò-Ã

For every Sack of Potatoes, Apples or Nuts 1 For every Pedlars Stall 3 For every Clothyers Standing 2 For every Horse draught of Timber 1 For every Dozen of Cleft Boards 1 For every load of Barrel Staves 1 Every Green Hide 1 Every kip ob. For every Habeas Corpus or Writ of Error 6-8 As Seal Master for Sealæ. every } Dicker of Leather } 4 The Mayor’s fees on Admission of every freemen, what he pleases to make the Fine under £10 SterÆ N:B: the last entry is added in the handwriting of Hen. Gill which I doubt is without sufficient authority. R.D.

Fileing a DeclaraÜßÞ or Plea DrawÆ a Warrant Signed by the Mayor Every Submission to an Indictment Every Traverse rest of this article is defaced Drawing an order on every PetiÜßÞ Drawing a Certificate that passes } the Seal of Mayorality } Copy of a Declaracon, Plea, or bond Return of a Writt of Error

Recorder’s fees For every freeman upon his Admission Perusal of every Deed granted by the town

Sherriffes Fees For every Person attached & having } given in Bail } 2-2 For every Person attached & presently } agreeing with the Plaintiff } 1-0 For every Person committed on } every Action of Debt } 8-8 For every Person committed } for Treason, Burglary, Felony &c } 13-4 The rest of their fees being many I refer them to Duttons Sherif where they will find them at large.

Town Clerks fees For every Summons or Attachment Appearance & Bail Imparlance each Rule Withdrawing any Action before Tryal Venire facias Entry of Judgment Drawing the ExecuÜßÞ For every freeman upon Admission Drawing any Deed or Lease from the Town Recognizance taken in Court pro Rege Reading a Petition (except for the Poor) Writing any Summons ad testificandum

3-4 3-4

6 4 4 1-4 6 1-0 1-0 3-6 } } 13-4 2-6 6 6

Attorneys fees One fee in every Action Another fee, if the Action be £5 or above, on the Tryal Drawing a DeclaraÜßÞ or Plea Joining of Issue

6 1-0

2-6 } }

Sword-Bearers fees For every freeman on his Admission Ditto for Water Bailif on DÎ Sergeants at Mace Servæ. Sumons on AttachmÓ on freeman in } Town &c } For DÎ on Persons not free in Town or } Suburbs } For DÎ out of Town, in the liberties On admission of every freeman For every affidavÓ in Court or Mayor’s } Chambers }

Entd.

4 6 4-6 6-8 6

2-6 1-0 6

2-6 1-0

3 4 1-0 1-0 4

(See 92Ã leaf old book)

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1739/40 A Precedent of a Warrant for the collecting & Levying any public money of the Corporation of Carrickfergus.

County of the town of C.fergus — to witt

By the Mayor and Recorder of said Town.

You are hereby required forthwith to collect & levy off and from the several Inhabitants in the annexed list mentioned (by way of distress or otherwise according to Law) the Several Sums to their Several Names severally annexed, amounting in the whole to the sum of £0-0-0. SterÆ being their just Proportion of the present contingent charge of £0-0-0 on the Inhabitants of the County of this Town & Parish, and the said sum of £0-0-0 so raised pay to the Mayor of said Town or his order, at or before the 20Óç day of March next And for your so doing this shall be your Warrant Given under our hands & seals this 28Óç day of FebØ 1739/40 — H.G. Mayor To J.H. Constable of &c G.S. Recorder Precedent of the Contingent Charge A contingent charge on the County of the Town & Parish of C.fergus for the ends & uses following — to wit — Assize the 8Óç April 1739/40 To John

Goaler, for a Years Salary endæ. MichÀò 1739 — £4-0-0 Vestry 24Óç April 1739

To WillÌ

For Sacramental Elements to this day — £1-11-10 and so on, according to this form, always reciting the order, whether by Presentment or Vestry. (See 94Óç leaf old book).

1740 — A Precedent of a Warrant for Sumonæ. a Jury for Clerk of the Markett Court CØ of the TÍ of C.fergus — You are hereby required to summon & warn 24 good and lawful men of the County of the said Town, to be & appear before me at the Tholsell or Court House of the sÃ Town on Thursday next by Ten of the Clock in the forenoon of said Day, then & there to compare adjust, regulate & Seal all the weights & measures of the said Town with the Standard Weights of this Kingdom, accordæ. to the Act of ParlÓ in that case made & provided — Given under my hand & Seal this 8Óç day of SeptÑ 1740 H. G. To J.M. one of the Serjeants at Mace See further on the other side (See 96Óç leaf old book). 120

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A Precedent for a Warrant to the Constables for Sumoning the Inhabitants, with their weights & measures, to be adjusted at the Clerk of the Market’s Court. You are hereby required to summon & warn all & every the Inhabitants of your Constablewick to bring into the Tholsell or Court House of this Town upon Thursday next by Ten of the Clock in the forenoon of sÃ day all & every of their weights & liquid measures, then & there to be compared, adjusted, & regulated, with the Standard weights and liquid Measures of this Kingdome pursuant to the Act of Par-

CÓ of the TÍ of C.fergus

1740

liamÓ in that case made & provided; at which time and place attend you with this Precept Given under my hand & Seal this 8Óç day of SeptÑ 1740. H. G. To the Constable of the (See 96Óç leaf old book). 1740 Car.fergus} At an Assembly held for sÃ Town, 19Óç DecÑ 1740. Whereas several Persons holding Lands under this Corporation adjoining to the Sea, have laid a claim to the Tangle Wreck or Sea Ware growing within the Sea between the High & low water Mark, and also to the said Tangle wreck or sea Ware when thrown ashore by the storms or In-blowing winds, tho’ no ways conveyed by this Corporation to any of them, being all without the Limits or Bounds of the several lands conveyed to them by their several Deeds from this Corporation. It is unanimously agreed at the said Assembly, that no Person shall be allowed to cut or carry on Shore any Tangle Wreck or Sea Ware wherewith Kelp is made, without first coming to an agreement with & taking out Licence from this Corporation, and that we shall prosecute any Person who shall act contrary to this our Act of Assembly, And we do also give all Persons adjoining to or near the Sea to whom it is convenient to carry off all or any wreck or sea ware thrown on Shore by Storms or Winds, to manure their Ground, provided they dont trespass upon their Neighbours by entering into any of their Parks or inclosures; and we do hereby impower the Mayor to receive proposals & set the cutting of the Wreck to the best bidder for a Term not exceeding Seven Years. William Magee } George Spaight DepØ Mayor. NathË Byrtt } Burgesses Henry Gill. DepØ Recorder. WillÌ Brown } Francis Ellis } Arthur Dobbs } Aldermen (true Copy) John Seeds } Sheriff (See 97 leaf old book). 121

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N:B: Leaves 98, 99, 100, 101 & 102, in the old book contain copies of sundry Papers respecting the advowson of this Parish of C.fergus, which I omit entering here, having taken more exact copies from the original Papers in the Town Chest, and entered them elsewhere. 1747 — At a Court of General Assembly held in the Town House of Knockfergus otherwise Carrickfergus on the 26Óç day of SeptÑ 1747 pursuant to a Notice for that Purpose by & from Willoughby Chaplin EsqÑ Mayor of Knockfergus otherwise C.fergus aforesÃ It was then & there ordered & enacted by the Mayor Sheriffs Burgesses & Commonalty of Kn.fergus otherwise C.fergus aforesÃ, and in the presence of the said Mayor. 1st. — Whereas the Chest containing the Seal Deeds & Papers belonging to this Corporation hath three different Locks & Keys belonging to the Same, some of which keys are kept by private Members of this Corporation, & who do not reside therein, whereby constant recourse can not be had thereunto:– It is therefore presented & ordered that three new locks be affixed thereunto, and three keys made for them, one whereof shall be lodged with the Mayor, one other with the Recorder, and the other with the elder Sheriff or the Sheriff who shall be first chosen yearly for the time being, and that the respective keys be delivered over constantly in succession. And that in the mean time the present Mayor & Sheriffs do cause a list to be made of whatever Deeds & Papers

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are contained in said Chest, and cause the present locks to be struck off for that purpose, and take proper care of whatever is contained in the said Chest untill such new locks are affixed thereto and the keys delivered to such Persons as are hereby for the future to have the custody of them. 2Ãëø Whereas at a general Assembly met on the 24Óç day of June 1659, It was presented that such part of the Commons as was then unsett, (consisting as therein is recited of 1500 acres) should not thereafter be sett or disposed of to any particular Persons whatsoever, but that the same should be kept for the general good of the Corporation in Common:– And whereas it hath been found by Experience, that the preserving so large a tract of Ground in Common, is only an Inducement to Strangers & Persons not 122

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intitled to the freedom of this Corporation to settle in the neighbourhood of such Commons, and to graze their Cattle & to cut Turf thereon, & sell the same; whilst the Members of this Corporation, (for whose only use & benefit the Turbary & Common was intended) do not derive any real benefit by continuing the same in Common; And it is apprehended, that a considerable advantage may arise to this Corporation, by setting all the said Commons except two Hundred Acres to be set apart for a Turbary under a yearly Rent to be reserved thereout, and by applying such reserved Rent to the promoting of Trade, the maintenance of decayed freemen, or to some other useful purpose to be directed by this Corporation; It is therefore presented and ordered, that the said Proposal or By-Law be, and the same is hereby ordered & declared to be repealed. 3Ãëø At which day & time it is further presented & ordered that two Hundred Acres (part of the lands on the 24Óç day of June 1659 set apart for a Common) be surveyed & set apart for a Turbary for the benefit of the Members of this Corporation & the Inhabitants of the Town of C.fergus, And that all foreigners & strangers be totally excluded from cutting any turf therein, or grazing their Cattle thereon, And that James Cobham & James Craig Gentlemen be appointed to set out such 200 Acres allotted for a Turbary in such part of the said Commons as they shall judge most convenient & useful, & cause the same to be surveyed & inclosed at the expence of this Corporation. 4Óçëø At which day & time it is further presented & ordered, that on the feast of SÓ Michael the Arch-Angel in every Year, there be appointed two Persons Members of this Corporation to superintend the Turbary or Moss belonging to & set apart for the use of this Corporation, for which they & each of them shall receive a Salary not exceeding Five Pounds Yearly at the pleasure of this Corporation; And that their duty be; and they are hereby required to appoint that such Members of this Corporation and Inhabitants of the Town of C.fergus as cut their turf therein do & shall cut the same in a regular manner & in drains, for the better preservation of the Turbary & to exclude all foreigners & Persons not members of this Corporation or Inhabitants of the said Town of Carrickfergus from cutting therein; And in case of their neglect of their Duty, or permitting strangers to cut Turf therein that they may be removed & their Sallaries stopped. WillÁø Chaplin Mayor Vesey Kirk Master of the Butchers WÌ Macartney } CharÒ MakePeace clk. NathË Byrtt } Sheriffs James Craig (EntÃ)

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The foregoing Assembly being adjourned to the 24Óç of OctÑ 1747. The Mayor, Aldermen, Sherriffs, Burgesses & Commonalty met according to the said Adjournment, and taking into consideration the foregoing Act & Acts & by Laws, it is thought & appears that the Same are prejudicial to this Corporation:– It is therefore hereby ordered, that the same & every Article & clause therein contained, be & are hereby repealed; And that the by-law made the 24Óç of June 1659 be, and is hereby continued notwithstanding the Repeal in said Act mentioned. James Kirk Town Cl. WillÁø Chaplin Mayor Edward Jones } Davys Wilson } William Magee } Burgesses RichÃ Chaplin } Sheriffs (EntÃ) FraÒ Clements } Henry Magee Henry Gill } Aldermen Arthur Wilson Henry Ellis } See the two leaves in the old book, next the list of Mayors & Sheriffs. 1739 The Manner how War was proclaimed against the King of Spain, on Monday the 5Óç of NovÑ 1739, (it being agreable & according to the Antient Custom of the Corporation of C.fergus proclaiming War) in the Mayoralty of Henry Gill Alderman. The Mayor called an Assembly of the Aldermen & Burgesses, as also caused all the different Corporations or Trades to be warned, and when the Aldermen Burgesses &c were assembled, the Mayor attended by the Recorder, Sherriffs, Aldermen, Burgesses, Sword Bearer, Town Clerk, &c all on horseback in their formalities proceeded to the Castle Gate & there caused the Proclamation to be read by the Town Clerk; after the Proclamation was read, the Sword of Honour was drawn, each Gentleman in Company, drawing his sword; after this they went to the Tholsell, North Gate & West Gate, where the Proclamation was read; after each reading the People who attended in great multitudes gave three Huzzas:– When the Ceremony was ended, the Mayor invited the Gentlemen that attended on the occasion to his house, where many loyal healths were drank, particularly success to his Majestys Arms by Sea & Land, at which time the Great Guns at the Castle were fired. N:B: After the Sword of Honour was drawn, the Mayor carried it until the Ceremony was ended and before that carried the Rod of Mayoralty. (See the latter end of old book). 1720/1 5Óç JanØ 1720/1 — Inrolment of a Release from JaÒ Ross to FranÒ Clemens of Strade, concernæ. a Bond for £70 SterÆ James Ross

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Aldermen that were made within the Towne of Knockfergus in the Yeare 1631 and Sithence In MÑ James Burte his Maioraltye

SÑ Roger Langford KnÓ Peeter Hill EsqÑ WillÌ Henry

April the 25Óç 1631

SÑ Henry O’Neile KnÓ

the 4Óç of July 1631

In MÑ CornelÒ Hermens his Maioraltye, the sÃ JaÒ Byrte beinge his substitute.

EdwÃ Lo.ViscÓ Chichester

the 14Óç of JanØ 1632

In the Maioraltye of MÑ Mathewe Johnsone

Arthure Hill EsqÑ Thomas Whitaker

28Óç of April 1633

Arthure Chichester EqÑ Henry Upton EsqÑ

the 19Óç AugÓ 1633

In MÑ Kirkpatrick’s Maioraltye

EdwÃ Lo:ViscÓ Conway

14Óç October 1633

In the Maioraltye of MÑ WillÌ Henry

RichÃ Shuckburgh, Parsone of Knockfergus & Deane of Connor made

19Óç JanØ 1634

Roger Lyndone and Rich: Spearepoynte

the 6Óç of April 1635

WilÌ Sambach Sworne Recorder & freeman in MÑ Whitakers House in the tyme of his Maioraltye — the 12Óç day of AugÓ 1636 In MÑ Sperpoynte his Maioraltye

John Davies

the 2Íã of July 1638

Roger Lyndone EsqÑ his Maioraltye

SÑ John Burlasse KnÓ MastÓ of the Ordnance at MÑ Lyndone’s House

the 30Óç of July 1639

John Dalway EsqÑ

the 9Óç of SeptÑ 1639

In SÑ Roger Langforde KnÓ his Maioraltye

John Parks

the 26Óç of SeptÑ 1640 at the Maior his house.

John Davies his Maioraltye

Clement Bashforde CaptÍ Humphry Johnsone WillÌ Haper

the 4Óç of July 1642

CaptÍ Roger Lyndone his Maioraltye

Hugh Lyndone

the l0Óç of April 1643

Thom: Kirkpatrick his Maioraltye

Hugh Lo:ViscÓ Mountgomery Robert Sendall Major Monro

the 5Óç of DecÑ 1644 being Thursday

Freemen then made CaptÍ James Wallace Doctor RobÓ Cunninghame Comissary AlexÑ Moore

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125

MÑ RichÃ Sperepoynt’s Maioraltye

Thomas Gravett, in steede of John Parks

the 18Óç of OctoÑ 1647

Capt. John Dalwaye in steede of SÑ RogÑ Langforde KnÓ

the 9Óç of NovÑ 1647

The Maioraltye of Capt. Roger Lyndone

Capt Henry Clements in steede of Edw. Lo. Visct. Chichester JaÒ Fitznich Dobbin in steede of Thomas Gravett

the 27Óç of JanØ 1648 at MÑ Maiors house.

Capt. John Dallwayes Maioraltye

Coll. Robert Venables Anthony Horsman Tho. Howard RobÓ Walsh

anno 1652

In the Mayoraltye of Capt. John Dallway

Hercules Davies insteade of Joseph Harryes.

4Óç July 1660

Henry Davies insteade of RobÓ 23Ñã April 1661 Venables Alexander Dallway insteade of 10. Junii 1661 John Orpin In the Mayoralty of Anthony Horsman

Capt. Sollomon Faith was anno 1669 elected in the place & stead of Capt. Roger Lyndon Alderman EzekË Davys was elected in the place & stead of MÑ AlexÑ Dallway AldÍ

In the Mayoralty of Richard Dobbs EsqÑ

Henery Clements of the No date to this. Strade Gent was elected in the N:B: Ric. Dobbs was place & steade of RobÓ Walsh Mayor in 1671 AlderÍ deceased.

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The Names of all such as hath bene Maiors and Sheriffs sithence the Date of the Charter, within this Towne of Carrickfergus, begining the Eleventh of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Ladye Queen Elizabeth, and in the Yeare of our Lorde God 1568.1 1568 Maior elect: Thomas Stephenson

vicecomites (i.e. sheriffs) John Tead Nicholas Wills

eadem anno

1569 Maior electe John Teade

Vice com: Nicholas Rogers John Flude

eadem anno

[See M‘Skimin, History of Carrickfergus, for extensive notes on some of these names (p409 in 1909 edition).]

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1570 Maior electe Richarde Sendall

Wolston Elderton Cornell O’Kane

eadem anno

1571 Maior electe Edwarde Browne

WillÌ Dobbin Patrick Savadge

eadem anno

1572 Maior electe CaptÍ William Peers

Wolston Elderton John Dyer

eadem anno

1573 Maior elect: ThomÒ Stephenson

Gregory Grafton WillÌ Field SenÑ

eadem anno

1574 Maior elect: WillÌ Piers JunÑ

Humphrey Potts John Cockrell

eadem anno

1575 Maior elect: WillÌ Piers JunÑ

Humfrey Potts John Dishford

eadem anno

Humfry Potts deceased the 2Ã of FebØ in his SherØ & JnÎ Cockrell elected in his roome. 1576 Maior elect: WillÌ Dobbin

John Dishford John Deare

eadem anno

1577 Maior elect: WillÌ Piers JunÑ

Robert Magye Robert Warcope

eadem anno

1578 Maior elect: Nicholas Wills

Humphrey Johnson Michaell Savadge

eadem anno

1579 Maior elect: CaptÍ ThoÒ Seckforde

Barnabie Ward ThoÒ Stephenson

eadem anno

1580 Maior elect: WillÌ Dobbin

Humphrey Johnson John Dyer

eadem anno

1581 Maior elect: Capt. Thos. Seckford

John Savadge Phellimy Magy

eadem anno

CaptÍ Seckforde deceased 15Óç of June in his maioraltye, & Nicholas Wills was elected to serve out the yeare as Maior. 1582 Maior elect: WillÌ Piers

John Dishford James Dobbin

eadem anno

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1583 Maior elect: WillÌ Dobbin

John Dyer Richard Thompson

eadem anno

1584 Maior elect: CapÍ NichÒ Dawtrey

Mathewe Johnes John Scully

eadem anno

1585 Maior elect: WillÌ Dobbin

John Dishford Michaell Savadg

eadem anno

1586 Maior elect: ThoÒ Stephenson

Humphrey Johnson John Scully

eadem anno

Mayors and Sheriffs Elected

1587 Maior elect: John Savadge

John Dyere James Dobbin

eadem anno

1588 Maior ellect: WillÌ Dobbin

ThoÒ Vaughan John Lugg

eadem anno

1589 Maior elect: CharÒ Eggarton

James Dobbin Roger Cooper

eadem anno

1590 Maior elect: Matthew Jones

WillÌ Savadge Henry Ockforde

eadem anno

1591 Maior elect: Humphrey Johnson

Moyses Hill Roger Cooper

eadem anno

1592 Maior elect: John Dallway

AlexÑ Haynes James Dobbin

eadem anno

1593 Maior elect: Nicholas Wills

John Hooper James Rice

eodem anno

MÑ NichÒ Wills deceased the 26Óç of JanØ following in whose place was chosen Michaell Savadge 1594 Maior elect: John Savadge

Robert Wills Richard Thomas

eod. anÎ

The said Robert left this world the 7Óç of Janu:1 John Dyer was chosen in his place 1595 Maior elect: ultimo Jun ThoÒ Stephenson

Roger Cooper RichÃ Conlan

eodem anno

1596 Maior elect: 28Óç June CharÒ Eggarton Esquier

Thomas Vaughan Thomas Wytter

eodem anno

1597 Maior elect: 27Óç June Humphrey Johnson

Richard Thomas Thomas Gravett

eod. anno

The said RichÃ Thomas left this world the 5Óç of September, and Henry Ockford was chosen in his place. 1598 Maior elect: 28Óç June John Savadge

Richard Newton Owen Mage

eodem anno

1599 Maior elect: 25Óç June Humphrey Johnson

Henry Spearepoynt Sydney Russell

eadem anno

1600 Maior elect: 29Óç June John Dallwaye

Richard Newton Richard Tath this is the same name with Taaff

eodem anno

1281

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1601 Maior elect: 29Óç June Gregorie Norton

Richard Newton Richard Tath

eodem anno

1602 Maior elect: 28Óç June John Hooper

Michaell Whit Ralph Story

eodem anno

[On page 13, the month given for the death of Robert Wills/Wylls is June.]

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The said Ralph deceased 14Óç of March and Thomas Gravett was chosen in his place. 1603 Maior elect: 27Óç June Moyses Hill

Dudley Yearworth Robert Lyndon

eodem anno

1604 Maior elect: 25Óç June John Savadge

Thomas Wytter Clement Foord

eodem anno

1605 Maior elect: 28Óç June James Byrte

ThoÒ MÂManus ThoÒ Cooper

eodem anno

1606 Maior elect: 30Óç June James Byrte

Owen Magye Leonard Gale

eodem anno

1607 Maior elect: 29Óç June ThoÒ Wytter

NichÒ Dobbin Dermott Haynes

eodem anno

1608 Maior elect: 2Ã July SÑ Foulke Conway KnÓ

Robert Elice Walter Hillman

eodem anno

1609 Maior elect: 26Óç June SÑ Foulke Conway KnÓ

Jasper Happer Thomas Powell

eodem anno

1610 Maior elect: 25Óç June Rich: Taaffe

Bartholomewe Johnson Rich: Wytter

eodem anno

1611 Maior elect: 1Òó July Michaell Whitt

WillÌ Hurley EdwÃ Hodgsone

eodem anno

1612 Maior elect: 29Óç June RobÓ Lyndon

Ezechiell Davis Thomas Bashford

eodem anno

1613 Maior elect: 28Óç June Thomas Cooperñ

WillÌ Dobbin SenÑ WillÌ Stephenson

Was for some misdemeanour put from his place, & Carewe Hart was chosen in his roome the 18Óç April 1614.1

In whose Maioraltye the 30Óç of May 1614 the sworde & mases by his procurement wer first brought & borne in this Towne, being formerly granted to this Corporacone by ther Charter to be borne & carryed before the Maior of this Towne from tyme to tyme.

The fyne to be thought of upon the next Assembly.

1614 Maior elect: 27Óç June Hercules Langford

Clement Foord Anthony Dobbin

eodem anno

1615 Maior elect: 26Óç June Humfry Johnson

Thomas MÂManus Thomas Papes

eodem anno

1616 Maior elect: lÒó July CapÓ Humfrey Norton

William Hurley ThoÒ Kirkpatricke

eodem anno

1617 — the last of June — The Right Honorable Arthure LÃ Chichester was with a generall consent of the Bench & Comons ellected & chosen Maior, He being then in Scotland; after whose Returne, upon a motione by him made to the CorporaÜßÞe he shewinge many good & forceable reasons as well for the good of the Towne as otherwyse, and withall submitting himselfe to what fyne the1 Towne would ympose upon him; they came to a seconde ElleÜßÞe upon the 19Óç day of SeptÑ 1617 1

[Probably refers to WillÌ Dobbin SenÑ. Page 36.]

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upon which daye SÑ Moyses Hill KnÓ with the like consent was elected & chosen Maior. 1617 Maior elect: 19Óç SepÑ SÑ Moyses Hill KnÓ

Mathewe Johnson John Redworth

eodem anno

1618 Maior elect: 29Óç June Thomas Witter

Nicholas Dobbin Cornell OKane

eodem anno

The sÃ ThoÒ Witter departed this life the 19Óç July 1619, and MichË Whitt AlderÍ was elected & sworne the 21Òó of the same month as Maior for the residue of that Yeare untill MichÒ followinge, God lending him life & health. 1619 Maior elect: 28Óç June SÑ Hugh Clotworthye KnÓ

William Hurley EdwÃ Wilkinson

eodem anno

1620 Maior elect: 26Óç June James Byrte

Edward Hodgson Ingraham Horsman

eodem anno

1621 Maior elect: 25Óç June Thomas CooperD

Cornell OKane James Savadge

The said James departed this world the 16Óç FebØ 1621, and WillÌ Storr was elected Sheriff in his roome the 25Óç of the same month onely by the Bench, & without the voice of the Comons. 1622 Maior elect: 1Òó July Michaell Whit

RobÓ Savadge Joseph Davis

eodem anno

1623 Maior elect: last of June SÑ HercÒ Langford KnÓ with a general consent

RichÃ Spearepoynt WillÌ Cloughe

eodem anno

1624 Maior elect: 28Óç June SÑ Hercules Langford KnÓ was chosen with a general consent

Marmaduke Newton Edwarde Mason

eodem anno

1625 Maior elect: 27Óç June ThoÒ Kirkpatrick

Edwarde Hodgson Andrewe Dixon

eodem anno

1626 Maior elect: 26Óç June with a generall consent Anthony Dobbin

CornelÒ Hermans with a eodem anno general consent John Housell ellected pÑ Mayor

1627 Maior elect: 25Óç June Ingrahame Horsman

ThoÒ Richardson with genË consÓ Ralph Hillman pÑ Maior

eodem anno

The sayde Ingrahame Horsman departed this life upon Thursdaye being the 8Óç daye of November, and Mathewe Johnson upon Munday followinge being the 12Óç of the same moneth with a generall voice & consent both of the Bench & Comons was chosen and elected Maior in his Rowme & place. 1628 Maior elect: 30Óç June with a genË consent Mathewe Johnson

John Tourneur John Edger

eodem anno

RECORDS OF CARRICKFERGUS

1629 Maior elect: 29 June SÑ Moyses Hill KnÓ

WillÌ Penry WillÌ Cankarth

eodem anno

1630 Maior elect: 28Óç June ThoÒ Whittaker with a generall eodem anno James Byrte with a generall consent consent Anthony Haull pÑ Maior 1631 Maior elect: 27Óç June Joshua Wharton with a SÑ HercÒ Langford KnÓ with generall consent a genËë consent of the whole Clement Bashford pÑ MaiÑ courte 1632 Maior elect: June Cornelius Hermans

eodem anno

RichÃ Spearpoynt with a geneËë eodem anno consent. Markaduke Newton pÑ Maior

The sayde CornelÒ Hermans departed this life upon Fridaye the 1Òó of FebØ 1632, and Mathewe Johnson upon Mondaye followinge being the 4Óç day of the same moneth by Ellection was chosen & afterwards sworne in open Courte, before the Right HonÁëä EdwÃ LÃ Visct Chichester, & the rest of the Aldermen. 130

130

1633 Maior elect: 1Òó July ThoÒ Kirkpatrick

John Davis John Parkes

eodem anno

1634 Maior elect: last of June WillÌ Penrye

WillÌ Haper WillÌ Ayshworth

eodem anno

1635 Maior elect: 29Óç June ThoÒ Whitaker

ThoÒ Gravett WillÌ Bashforde

eodem anno

1636 Maior elect: 27Óç June Arthure Chichester EsqÑ

ThoÒ Richardson by a generËl consent, WillÌ Williams pÑ Maior

eodem anno — the sheriffs are to hould their place notwithstandæ. the 2Ã election of the Maior.

The before named Arthure Chichester EsqÑ upon menÜßÞe made by him to the Maior & CorporaÜßÞe, shewing many good & forceable causes & reasons hinderinge him to undergo or take upon him the sÃ office of Maioraltye for the year succeeding; and withall submittinge himselfe to be lyable to paye any reasonable fyne the CorporaÜßÞe would impose upon him: to which his request the CorporaÜßÞe did yealde & consent & so came to a second ellection upon the 13Óç of SeptÑ, upon which daye RichÃ Spearepoynt AldÌ was chosen with a genË consent to be Maior for the next yeare following. The 12Óç of August, 1636, WillÌ Sambach EsqÑ was (at the House of MÑ ThoÒ Whitaker then Maior) in the presents of some of the Aldermen & the Sheriffs, sworne freeman & Recorder of this Towne and CorporaÜßÞe of Knockfergus. 1637 Maior elect: 26Óç June RichÃ Spearepoynt

EdwÃ Johnson John Hall

eodem anno

1638 Maior elect: 25Óç June Roger Lyndon

WillÌ Haper WillÌ Penry JunÑ

eodem anno

Mayors and Sheriffs Elected

1639 Maior elect: 1Òó July SÑ Roger Langford KnÓ

ThoÒ Gravett Humphrey Johnson

1640 Maior elect: 29Óç June John Davies

RobÓ Savadge George Haper

eodem anno

29Óç SeptÑ 1640 ThoÒ Baker was chosen SherÅ by the sÃ JnÎ Davies Maior, instead of the sÃ George Haper whoe is in England, and as for his fyne the Maior & Bench are to consider thereof for the sÃ George Hapers contempt in going thither without license. 1641 Maior elect: 28Óç June John Davies

Michaell Savadge John Bulworthy

eodem anno

1642 Maior elect: 27. June CaptÍ Roger Lyndone

WillÌ Bashforde PatÊ Fitz JaÒ Savadge

eodem anno

1643 Maior elect: 26. June CapÍ Roger Lyndone

WilÌ Bashford Pat. Fitz JaÒ Savadge

The sÃ WÌ Bashford & Pat. F. JaÒ Savage by the generË consent of Maior Bench and Commons were chosen Sherrifs for the succeeding yeare, In regarde they were very diligent this yeare in their office; and for that they were very expert in theise tymes of distracÜßÞs. 1644 Maior elect: ThoÒ Kirkpatrick

JaÒ Fitz NichÒ Dobbin John Savadge

eodem anno

1645 Maior elect: MÑ Matthewe Johnson

WillÌ Bashford ThoÒ Tennisson

Sherr: eodem anno

1646 Maior elect: MÑ RichÃ Sperpoynt

John Orpin John Boyd

Sherr. eodem anno

1647 Maior elect: MÑ RichÃ Sperpoynt

John Orpin John Boyd

Sherr: eodem anno

131

1648 Mayor elect: CapÍ Roger Lyndone

James Dobbin WillÌ Cathcart

Sherr:

1649 Mayor elect: MÑ WilÌ Haper

John Orpin James Crooke

Sher: eod. anno

1650 Mayor elect MÑ WilÌ Haper

RobÓ Welsh Rowland MÂQuillen

Sher. eod. anno

1651 Mayor elect: CaptÍ Roger Lyndone

Edmond Davies ThoÒ Dobbin

Sher: eod. anno

1652 Mayor elect: CapÍ JnÎ Dallway

JnÎ Bulworthy JunÑ Anthony Hall

Sher: eod: anno

1653 Mayor elect CapÍ Lyndon

RowlÃ MÂQuillen John Hall

Sher: eod: anno

1654 Mayor elect: MÑ JnÎ Bulworthy

John Byrte Peeter Taylour

Sher: eod anno

RECORDS OF CARRICKFERGUS

1655 Mayor elect: MÑ JnÎ Bulworthy

ThoÒ Dobbin RobÓ Wytter

Sher: eod ano

Edmond Yeo was elected Town Clerke by the unanimous consent of the whole Court 16Óç OctÑ in the year aforsÃ, and then took his oath. 1656 Mayor elect JnÎ Orpin

WillÌ Dobbin ThoÒ Griffith

Sher: eod. anno

1657 Mayor elect: MÑ JnÎ Orpin

Andrew Gardner Jasper Haper

Sher: eod: anno

1658 Mayor elect: 28Óç June Joseph Harris MerchÓ

John Wadman Samuel Trehorne

Sher: eod. anno

1659 Mayor elect John Davies EsqÑ

WillÌ Thomson Michaell Karr

Sher: eod. anno

The sÃ John Davies having occasion to go for England & from thence to Breda to his Majestie King Charles the 2Ã of Eng. ScotÃ France & Ireland Defender of the Faith &c, Left CaptÍ John Dallway his Deputy 30Óç May 1660. 1660 Mayor John Dallway EsqÑ

Richard Johnson ThoÒ Dobbin

Sher. eod: anno.

1661 Mayor elect: 1Òó July CapÍ John Dallway

Rowland MÂQuillen WillÌ Thomson

Sher: eod: anno

1662 Mayor elect: 30 June JaÒ Dobbin EsqÑ

Rowland MÂQuillen ThoÒ Dobbin

Sher: eod: anno

1663 Mayor elect. 29 June Hercules Davies EsqÑ

Rowland MÂQuillen ThoÒ Dobbin

Sher: eod: anno

1664 Mayor elect: 27Óç June JnÎ Dallway EsqÑ

ThoÒ Dobbin RichÃ Johnson

Sher. eod: anno

132

1665 Mayor elect: Anthony Hall

John Magee Cornelius Bashford

Sher: eod: anno

1666 Mayor elect: 29Óç June WillÌ Dobbin

RichÃ Westbrooke Henry Burns

Sher: eod: anno

1667 Mayor elect: 1Òó July Edmond Davies

Ezekell. Davies RichÃ Pendleton

Sher: eod: anno

1668 Mayor elect: 29Óç June Robert Walsh

WillÌ Hilditch Samuel Trehorne

Sher: eod: anno

1669 Mayor elect 28Óç June AnthØ Horsman

John Stubbs John Henderson

Sher: eod: anno

1670 Mayor elect 27Óç June AnthØ Horsman

John Stubbs John Henderson

Sher: eod: anno

1671 Mayor elect: Richard Dobbs

Symon Richardson WillÌ Bennett

Sher: eod: anno

Mayors and Sheriffs Elected

1672 Mayor elect: Henry Davies

ThoÒ MÂManus John Smith

Sher: eod: anno

1673 Mayor elect:– WillÌ Hill EsqÑ AnthØ Horsman his Deputy

James MÂCulloch John Davies

Sher: eod: anno

1674 WilÌ Hill continued Mayor and Anth. Horsman his Deputy

George Walsh Edward Hall

Sher: eod: anno

1675 Mayor elect: John Byrtt Esqr

ThoÒ Harpur Adam Denison

Sher: eod: anno

1676 John Byrtt EsqÑ continued Mayor

John Smith John Tyso

Sher: eod: anno

1677 Mayor elect: (nem: con: Solomon Faith EsqÑ

James MÂColloch WillÌ Dawson

Sher: eod: anno

1678 Mayor elect: Ezekell Davies EsqÑ

RobÓ Williams CornelÒ Bashford

Sher: eod: anno

1679 Hercules Davies Mayor elect.

RichÃ Pendleton John Magee

Sher: eod: anno

1680 Mayor elect: Henry Clements

AndÖ Clements John Byrtt

Sher: eod: anno

1681 Mayor elect: Samuel Welby

John Dobbin Henry Burnes

Sher: eod: anno

1682 Mayor elect: RichÃ Dobbs

John Davies WillÌ Johnston

Sher: eod: anno

133

1683 Mayor elect: AndÖ Willoughby

John Karr Edwarde Hall

Sher: eod: anno

1684 Mayor elect: Edmond Davys

Symon Richison John Henderson

Sher: eod: anno

1685 Mayor elect: JaÒ MÂCulloch Arthur 3Ã Earle of Donegall Jo: Karr Solomon Faith his Deputy

Sher: eod: anno

1686 Mayor elect: John Davys

JaÒ MÂCulloch RichÃ Kane

Sher. eod. anno

1687 Mayor elect: RichÃ Dobbs

RichÃ Horsman Marmaduke Newton

Sher: eod: anno

RECORDS OF CARRICKFERGUS

Tyrconell By the LÃ Deputy & Councell Whereas on the 13Óç day of this InsÓ July, A Certificate was returned unto this Board from the Mayor & SherÒ of C.fergus dated 27Óç day of June 1687 whereby it appears that on the sÃ 27Óç June RichÃ Dobbs AldÍ was chosen Mayor of sÃ Towne for one Yeare comencing at MichÌàò next and RichÃ Horsman & Marm: Newton SherrÒ for the yeare aforesÃ — We the LÃ Deputy & Councell doe by this our Order approve of the choyce of the sÃ Persons to serve in the several offices aforesÃ, for the sÃ yeare coÝencing at MichÒ next; Given at the Councell Chambers in Dublin the 13Óç day of July 1687. A: Fytton C. — Granard — Mountjoy — WÌ Davies — ThoÒ Keightly — T Nugent — SteÍ Ryce — JnÎ Davies — De: Daly — Garrett Moore 22Ã FebØ 1687/8 Cormick O’Neile EsqÑ was elected AldÌ in place of AndÖ Willoughby late deceased -Nemine contradicente 1689

The Same Mayor & Sheriffs continued till the 29Óç of SeptÑ 1690.

1690 Mayor elect: Henry Davys

Samuell Davys WillÌ Tisdell

Sher: eod: anno

1691 Mayor elect: AndÖ Clements

Solomon Bashford John Brown

Sheriffs eod: anno

1692 Mayor elect: Marmaduke Newton

David Hood ThoÒ MÂCully

Sher: eod: anno

1693 Mayor elect: MarmÊä Newton

WillÌ Dawson James Erwin

Sher: eod: anno

1694 Mayor elect: RichÃ Horsman

WillÌ Tisdell Cornelius Crimble

Sher: eod: anno

1695 Mayor elect: Samuel Davys

CornÒ Bashford RobÓ Williams

Sher: eod: anno

1696 Mayor elect: Henry Clements

Roger Horsman } Note—these are not entered in the Solomon Bashford } old list from which the foregoing mayors & sheriffs are taken—but I find them signing as sheriffs in one Act of Assembly in that year Rich: Dobbs.

The said Henry Clements departed this life the 2Ã of NovÑ and SamË Davys AldÍ on Friday 5Óç of NovÑ was by ellection chosen, & sworn in the King’s Castle. 1697 Mayor elect: Hon: John Itchinham Chichester

John Chaplin Sher: } Note—I find DavÃ Hood and James Erwin signing an act of Assembly as Sheriffs in that year R. Dobbs.

1698 Mayor elect: Henry Davys

CapÍ Arthur Davys CapÍ John Davys

Sher: eod. anno

134

1699 Mayor elect: SÑ Thomas Dancer

John Chaplin CaptÍ Gibbons

Sheriffs

1700 Mayor elect: Cornelius Crimble

Solomon Bashford James Erwin

Sheriffs

Mayors and Sheriffs Elected

1701 Mayor elect: CaptÍ John Davys

John Bashford Nathaniell Byrtt

Sheriffs

1702 Mayor elect: AndÖ Clements

David Hood ThoÒ Bashford

Sheriffs

1703 Mayor elect: AndÖ Clements

David Hood ThoÒ Bashford

Sheriffs

1704 Mayor elect: EdwÃ Clements

John Chaplin ThoÒ Bashford

Sheriffs

1705 Mayor elect: EdwÃ Clements

John Chaplin ThoÒ Bashford

Sheriffs

1706 Mayor elect: RichÃ Horsman

Thomas Young Nicholas Brown

Sheriffs

1707 Mayor elect: RichÃ Horsman

ThoÒ Young NichÒ Brown

Sheriffs

1708 Mayor elect: Cornelius Crymble

John Bashford ThoÒ Bashford

Sheriffs

1709 Mayor elect: Cornelius Crymble

John Bashford ThoÒ Bashford

Sheriffs

1710 Mayor elect: EdwÃ Clements

ThoÒ Young WillÌ Bashford

Sheriffs

1711 Mayor elect: John Chaplin

Rigby Dobbin Nicholas Brown

Sheriffs

1712 Mayor elect: Samuel Davys

Charles Howard James Wilson

Sheriffs

1713 Mayor elect: Samuel Davys

Ezekiel Davys Wilson John Brown JunÑ

Sheriffs

1714 Mayor elect: John Davys JunÑ

ThoÒ Young John Bashford

Sheriffs

1715 Mayor elect: AndÖ Clements

Rigby Dobbin Nicholas Brown

Sheriffs

1716 Mayor elect: Francis Ellis

David Morison WillÌ Bashford

Sheriffs

135

1717 Mayor elect: Francis Ellis

David Morison WillÌ Spencer

Sheriffs

1718 Mayor elect: John Chaplin

Rigby Dobbin AndÖ Newton

Sheriffs

1719 Mayor elect: Francis Clements FranÒ Ellis his Deputy

David Morison WillÌ Bashford

Sheriffs

100

RECORDS OF CARRICKFERGUS

1720 Mayor elect: Arthur Dobbs

David Morison WillÌ Magee

Sheriffs

1721 Mayor elect: John Lyndon JnÎ Chaplin his deputy

WillÌ Bashford James Irwine

Sheriffs

1722 Mayor elect: EzekË Davys Wilson

David Morison ThoÒ Bashford

Sheriffs

1723 Mayor elect: Anthony Horsman

David Morison ThoÒ Bashford

Sheriffs

1724 Mayor elect: Rigby Dobbin JnÎ Chaplin his DepØ

David Morison ThoÒ Bashford

Sheriffs

1725 Mayor elect: Valentine Jones EzekË Davys Wilson his DepØ

Willoughby Chaplin Nathaniel Byrtt

Sheriffs

1726 Mayor elect Francis Ellis

David Morison John Coleman

Sheriffs

1727 Mayor elect Francis Clements

John Chaplin George Spaight

Sheriffs

1728 Mayor elect: Arthur Dobbs FranÒ Clements his DepØ

Nathaniel Byrtt William Magee

Sheriffs

1729 Mayor elect:– Francis LÃ Conway FranÒ Clements Deputy

Henry Gill George Spaight

Sheriffs

1730 Mayor elect: John Lyndon Francis Clements DepØ

Wiloughby Chaplin NathË Byrtt

Sheriffs

1731 Mayor elect: Francis Ellis FranÒ Clements, DepØ

David Morison Clements Courtney

Sheriffs

1732 Mayor elect: Arthur Dobbs George Spaight DepØ

John Chaplin Clements Courtney

Sheriffs

1733 Mayor elect: Willoughby Chaplin

John Chaplin NathË Byrtt

Sheriffs

1734 Mayor elect: George Spaight

Clements Courtney John Coleman

Sheriffs

Mayors and Sheriffs Elected

101

136

1735 Mayor elect: Willougby Chaplin

Clements Courtney John Coleman

Sheriffs

1736 Mayor elect: Francis Ellis

NathanË Byrtt John Coleman

Sheriffs

1737 Mayor elect: Henry Ellis

NathË Byrtt John Coleman

Sheriffs

1738 Mayor elect: George Spaight

NathË Byrtt Hercules Clements

Sheriffs

1739 Mayor elect: Henry Gill

RichÃ Chaplin John Seeds

Sheriffs

1740 Mayor elect: Francis Clements

John Seeds John Davys

Sheriffs

1741 Mayor elect: Arthur Dobbs

NathË Byrtt RichÃ Chaplin

Sheriffs

1742 Mayor elect: Willoughby Chaplin

Davys Wilson RichÃ Chaplin

Sheriffs

1743 Mayor elect: CaptÍ John Davys but not appearing to be sworn 29Óç Sept. — WilØ Chaplin held over

Edward Jones Davys Wilson

Sheriffs

1744 Mayor elect: Hon. JnÎ Chichester not appearing 29Óç SeptÑ WillØ Chaplin held over

RichÃ Chaplin elected but not appearing 29 SeptÑ Edward Jones and } continuedSheriffs Davys Wilson }

1745 Mayor elect: RichÃ Chaplin RÓ HonÁëä ArthÑ Earl of Nat. Byrtt Donegall not appearing MichÌas day WillØ Chaplin held over

Sheriffs

1746 Mayor elect: WillÌ Macartney HonÁëä JnÎ Chichester Nat. Byrtt but being dead before the day a new election was held 20Óç SeptÑ 1746 when WillØ Chaplin was elected.

Sheriffs

NOTE — The List of Mayors & Sheriffes in the old book is brought down no further than the 29Óç SeptÑ 1746 — The remainder of the list is collected from other authentic Vouchers, and added here in order to carry on the list compleat. RichÃ Dobbs.

102

RECORDS OF CARRICKFERGUS

1747 Mayor elect: RichÃ Chaplin Arthur Earl of Donegall Davys Wilson not appearing WillØ Chaplin held over

Sheriffs

1748 Mayor elect: Edward Brice

EdwÃ Jones – – – Macartney

Sheriffs

1749 Mayor elect: Willoughby Chaplin

RichÃ Chaplin John Seeds

Sheriffs

137

1750 Mayor elect: ArtÑ Earl of Donegall, not appearæ. WillØ Chaplin held over

RichÃ Chaplin John Seeds

Sheriffs

1751 Mayor elect: Willoughby Chaplin

RichÃ Chaplin John Seeds

Sheriffs

1752 Mayor WillØ Chaplin

RicÃ Chaplin EzekË Wilson

Sheriffs

1753 Mayor elect: Valentine Jones WillØ Chaplin DepØ

EzekË Wilson John Seeds

Sheriffs

1754 Mayor elect: Henry Ellis

EzekË Wilson John Seeds

Sheriffs

1755 Mayor elect: ArtÑ Earl of Donegall not appearinæ. Hen:Ellis held over

EzekË Wilson John Seeds

Sheriffs

1756 Mayor elect: ArthÑ Earl of Donegall— not appearæ. Hen:Ellis held over

Henry Burleigh John Seeds

Sheriffs

1757 Mayor elect: WilloØ Chaplin

EzekË Wilson John Seeds

Sheriffs N:B: EdwÃ Smyth was elected Recorder

N:B: Henry Ellis the late Mayor wilfully neglecting or refusing to attend 29Óç SeptÑ to swear in the Mayor elect according to Charter, sÃ Chaplin was sworn into office irregullarly; on which accÓ judgment of ouster was obtained against him in the King’s Bench. He was put out of office, and Henry Ellis held over & served the remainder of the year. During the time WillØ Chaplin was in office he admitted a considerable number to their freedom, who from the above circumstance were called ouster men. 1758 Mayor elect: Hill Wilson WilloØ Chaplin DepØ

Ezekiel Wilson John Seeds

Sheriffs

Mayors and Sheriffs Elected

103

1759 Mayor elect: Francis Price WillØ Chaplin Deputy

Ezekiel Wilson ThoÒ Ludford

Sheriffs N:B: JnÎ Ludford elected Recorder

1760 Mayor elect: ArÑ Earl of Donegall who not appearæ. F. Price held over & WillØ Chaplin his Deputy.

Ezekiel Wilson John Seeds

Sheriffs

1761 Mayor elect: FrÒ Earl of Hertford who not appearæ. F. Price held over WillØ Chaplin his Deputy

Ezekiel Wilson John Seeds

Sheriffs

1762 FranÒ Earl of Hertford EzekË Wilson MayÑ elect: John Seeds not appearæ. F. Price held over. WillØ Chaplin his DepØ

Sheriffs

1763 ArÑ Earl of Donegall MayÑ elect not appearæ. F. Price held over. WillØ Chaplin his Deputy

Ezekiel Wilson John Seeds

Sheriffs

1764 Mayor elect: Francis Price Willoughby Chaplin DepØ

Ezekiel Wilson John Seeds

Sheriffs

1765 Mayor elect: ArthÑ Earl of Donegall

Ezekiel Wilson John Seeds

Sheriffs

138

9Óç Oct. 1765 Geor. Hamilton was elected Recorder. 1766 Mayor elect: ArtÑ Earl of Donegall Hen: Ellis DepØ from 3Ã NovÑ 1766

Stewart Banks John Seeds

Sheriffs

1767 Mayor elect: ArtÑ Earl of Doneggall EzË Davys Wilson his Deputy

Stewart Banks John Seeds

Sheriffs

1768 Mayor elect: Stewart Banks ArtÑ Earl of Donegall John Seeds Willoughby Chaplin Deputy

Sheriffs

1769 Mayor elect: Ezekiel Davys Wilson

Sheriffs

John Seeds WillÌ Craig

104

RECORDS OF CARRICKFERGUS

1770 Mayor elect: Hercules Ellis

John Seeds WillÌ Craig

Sheriffs

1771 Mayor elect: Keneth AlexÑ Price

John Seeds WillÌ Craig

Sheriffs

1772 Mayor elect: EzekË Davys Wilson

John Seeds WillÌ Craig

Sheriffs

1773 Mayor elect: Henry Ellis

John Seeds WillÌ Craig

Sheriffs

1774 Mayor elect: Hercules Ellis

John Seeds ThoÒ Kirk

Sheriffs

1775 Mayor elect: EzekË Davys Wilson

John Seeds ThoÒ Kirk

Sheriffs

1776 Mayor elect: EdwÃ Brice Dobbs

John Seeds ThoÒ Kirk

Sheriffs

1777 Mayor elect: EzekË Davys Wilson

John Seeds ThoÒ Kirk

Sheriffs

17Óç JanØ 1778 Barry Yelverton was elected Recorder. 1778 Mayor elect: EdwÃ Brice Dobbs

John Seeds ThoÒ Kirk

Sheriffs

1779 Mayor elect: EzekË Davys Wilson

John Seeds ThoÒ Kirk

Sheriffs

1780 Mayor elect: William Kirk

John Seeds— died & succeeded by RobÓ Clements ThoÒ Kirk

Sheriffs

1781 Mayor elect: EzekË Davys Wilson

ThoÒ Kirk RobÓ Clements

Sheriffs

1782 Mayor elect: William Kirk

ThoÒ Kirk RobÓ Clements

Sheriffs

139

1783 Mayor elect: EzekË Davys Wilson

ThoÒ Kirk RobÓ Clements

Sheriffs

1784 Mayor elect: William Kirk

ThoÒ Kirk Robert Clements

Sheriffs

1785 Mayor elect: EzekË Davys Wilson

ThoÒ Kirk RobÓ Clements

Sheriffs

1786 Mayor elect: William Kirk

RobÓ Clements ThoÒ Legg

Sheriffs

N:B: during this man’s Mayoralty CharÒ Duke of Rutland LÃ LieutÓ came to C.fergus, received his freedom in a gold box, and in return was pleased to knight the Mayor.

Mayors and Sheriffs Elected

105

1787 Mayor elect: EzekË Davys Wilson

RobÓ Clements ThoÒ Legg

Sheriffs

1788 Mayor elect: SÑ WÌ Kirk

ThoÒ Legg RobÓ Clement

Sheriffs

1789 Mayor elect: EzekË Davys Wilson

ThoÒ Legg RobÓ Clements

Sheriffs

1790 Mayor elect: SÑ WÌ Kirk

ThoÒ Legg RobÓ Clements

Sheriffs

1791 Mayor elect: EzekË Davys Wilson

ThoÒ Legg ThoÒ Kirk

Sheriffs

N:B: ThoÒ Legg on the day of Election made no objection to his being elected. But on Michaelmas day following he refused being sworn into office and tendered his resignation which was not accepted by the Mayor. He afterwards took the opinion of Counsel on the case, which was that pursuant to the new Rules (He having served the office before) could not be compelled to serve, and would be punishable if he should attempt it. The opinion of Counsel further stated that the Mayor and Corporation should apply for a mandamus to hold a new Election for a second Sheriff; but this being expensive was omitted, and ThoÒ Kirk served the office alone for that year. 1792 Mayor elect: SÑ WillÌ Kirk

RobÓ Clements ThoÒ Kirk

Sheriffs

1793 Mayor elect: EzekË Davys Wilson

RobÓ Clements ThoÒ Kirk

Sheriffs

1794 Mayor elect SÑ WillÌ Kirk

RobÓ Clements ThoÒ Kirk

Sheriffs

1795 Mayor elect EzekË Davys Wilson

RobÓ Clements died in office & T Kirk served remainder of the year alone ThoÒ Kirk

Sheriffs

1796 Mayor elect SÑ WillÌ Kirk

ThoÒ Kirk William Craig

Sheriffs

1797 Mayor elect EzekË Davys Wilson

ThoÒ Kirk Barry Martin

Sheriffs

1798 Mayor elect SÑ WillÌ Kirk

ThoÒ Kirk Barry Martin

Sheriffs

1799 Mayor elect EzekË Davys Wilson

ThoÒ Kirk Barry Martin

Sheriffs

140

1800 Mayor elect SÑ WillÌ Kirk

ThoÒ Kirk Barry Martin

Sheriffs

1801 Mayor elect E.D. Wilson

ThoÒ Kirk Barry Martin

Sheriffs

106

RECORDS OF CARRICKFERGUS

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Extracts of Sundry Deeds & Leases &c inrolled the old book John Lugge — Be it knowen unto all men by thes Presents — That wheareas Thomas Lugge sometyme of Knockfergus Burgeois in his life tyme was seazed in fee Simple of certayne Castles, Halles, Lands, Tenements & other Hereditaments within the towne or Borough of Knockfergus aforesaide and which Castles &c have by Estreat fallen from the sÃ Thomas to be the proper Castles &c of right appertayneing to us the Maior Shereffs Burgeoises & CoÝynaltye & our SuccÑs forever. — We the Maior &c have given granted &c &c unto John Lugge now Water Baylye of this towne, the sone of John Lugge who was the sone of the sÃ Thomas Lugg, all & all manner of Right, clayme &c &c (to the above Premisses) beinge within the compas of the sÃ Borough or Towne of Knockfergus, To have & to hold &c for ever Dated 1Òó March 1574 in presence of &c WillÌ Piers Maior Gregory Grafton Towne Clerk ThoÒ Stevenson John Deere RichÃ Sandall &c &c (See 10Óç leaf old book) Thomas Gravett — Conveyance to him from Thomas Garvan & Ellen Garvan (late wife unto John Russell deceased) for Ten Pounds of their Interest for a Tearm of Yeares of the Milles lyeing without the West Gate, which Milles was demised & let by lease by the Maior &c unto John Russell for Thirtie one Yeares dated 20Óç JanuØe 1595. In wittnes whereof &c &c 16Óç daye of Maye 1598 G Garvan testes Thomas T his mark WillÌ Haper Rych: Newton Towne Clerke EllenoB Garvan her mark

(See 17Óç leaf old book) John Ellis — Settlement by Robert Ellis the father, on John Ellis his son, & his Issue, upon his marriage with Mary Daughter of Arnald Mitchell, of 30 Acres more or less at Duncrowe, held by sÃ Robert in fee farme from the Corporation. — Also certain Tenements in the Scottish Quarter in the occupation of ThoÒ Kirkpatrick AldermÍ, EdwÃ Mason, Mary Moore alÒ Savage, Nicholas Wilson, John Child, Jo:Parker, AlexÑ Grear the elder, AlexÑ Grear the younger, JaÒ Miller, John Edger, & John Coulter. — And also all his other Messuages &c — And appoints RichÃ OKane & John Willoughby his Lawful Attorneys &c &c — Dated 13Óç May 1635 Robert Ellis (See 64Óç leaf old book) SÑ Roger Langford & John Dallway — Deed to them from James Byrt Alderman, in trust for certain Purposes of a Marriage Settlement between his Daughter Margret & RichÃ Peers of Derriaghey Gent. and also for the provision of his other children — by which he conveys unto sÃ Trustees all his Lands Tenements &c within the County of the Towne of C.fergus 142

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of C.fergus in the tenure &c of sÃ James Byrt & RichÃ Shuckbrough Deane of Connor, John Davies Alderman, John Mead Gent., John Carnachan, WÌ Hogg, AlexÑ Russell, RobÓ Glover, WÌ Sloane, JnÎ Richy, Henry Jackson, Fergus Clarc, & JnÎ MÂNaight. — That is to say, for the purposes hereafter mentioned — (viz) — the profits of John Davies & WillÌ Hogg’s holdings (being £20-10-0 yearly) to the use of Richard Peers for 5 years, in full

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paymÓ of the remainder of his marriage Portion, afterwards to sÃ JaÒ Byrt during Life, and after his Death to his youngest son John & his issue, failing which to his second son Thomas & his issue, failing which to his eldest son Arthur & his Issue, failing which to his Daughters Lettice Johnson & Mary Peers, and for the rest of his Lands & tenements beforementioned they are disposed of & entailed in the same manner first on his youngest son John, then on his second Thomas, and so to the rest as above mentioned &c. In witnes whereof the above parties interchangeably have set their hands & seals the day & year first above written — (viz) 1Òó SeptÑ 1638. In presence of JnÎ Washer — James Byrt RichÃ Wollocomb WÌ Snowe The perfection of the foregoing Deed hath been sworne by JnÎ Davies AldÍ & RichÃ Peers GenÓ to have been done by JaÒ Byrt AldÍ, a true copy whereof is before recited & attested by us whose names are hereunto Subscribed, And that the sÃ RichÃ Peers had a duplicate of the sÃ Deed, which was afterwards burnt in the Town of Lisnegarva at the begining of the late Rebellion, as sworn by the sÃ RichÃ Peers — Dated 20Óç of April 1661 — Sworn before the Mayor — Recorder — & others — subscribed by Jo. Davies RichÃ Johnson Sheriffs John Dallway Mayor RichÃ Peers ThoÒ Dobbin Roger Lyndon Recorder and several others — Aldermen & Burgesses — EdmÃ Yeo — Town Clerk. N:B:– in the following year (1638) the several Persons within mentioned atturned to SÑ Roger Langford & John Dallway — as there witnessed &c (See 53Ã leaf old book). Arthur Dillon, Mayor — Lease from the Earl of Donegall and SÑ Maurice Eustace & SÑ RobÓ Dixon Lessees in trust for sÃ Earl, of the half Towne of Ballyclare (by estimation 250 acres) and another parcell of land called Cregnisheimagh in Foxe’s hill (by estimation Fifty acres) in the Manor of Moylinny & CØ of Antrim, for 60 Years, paying Eleven Pounds pÑ an: besides an Herriot at the Death of chief Tenant &c and other usual services &c. — Provided that in case of war that may hinder sÃ Dillon from enjoying the profits, the sÃ Rent & Services to be remitted for the time. — And provided sÃ Dillon shall not alien without consent of said Earl — In witness whereof &c the day & yeare first above written 25 ApË 1650. Signed Sealed &c Donegall Maurice Eustace Ro: Dixon 143

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Next follows the assignmÓ of Arthur Dillon, of the above lease to John Boyd and John Teggart — And after that, the consent of LÃ Chichester, confirming the assignment of his Cousin Arthur Dillon. signed Dated at London 1652. Chichester A true Coppy, compÃ by EdmÃ Yeo Towne Clerke And then follows an agreemÓ between sÃ Boyd & Teggart for equal Division. (See 54Óç & 55Óç leaves old book). 14Óç May 1661 — inrolled Roger Lyndon — Deed of Bargaine & Sale made by SÑ Roger Langford KnÓ unto CaptÍ Roger Lyndon his heirs &c forever — (viz) — In consideration of the sume of four Hun-

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dred Pounds, hath solde &c all those parcels of land thereafter mentioned — (viz) — Two parcels containing by estimation 65 Acres now in possÍ of sÃ SÑ Roger Langford, on part whereof sÃ SÑ Roger’s Dairy House is erected; and all the several parcells in possÍ of Matthew Taylor or assignes 30 acres more or less, being part of the Demense lands of sÃ SÑ Roger Langford lying on the West side of Woodburn River; and all that parcel late in possessÍ of James Miller on the West side of the way to Glenarm known by the name of Kelly’s land, 26 acres more or less, as by the Deed from the Corporation to his father CaptÍ Roger Langford more at large appears; — And also all these plotts or parcels hereafter expressed which were late the lands &c of SÑ Hercules Langford deceased Unckle to the sÃ SÑ Roger Langford to whom sÃ lands descended as nephew & next heir, and were also devised to him by the last Will of sÃ SÑ Hercules after the Death of his Lady Dame Ann Langford (viz) one parcell in tenure of one Hugh Browne 38 acres more or less set by sÃ SÑ Hercules to John Davis Gent.; Two other parcels demised to John Barrow & DavÃ Meachan 24 acres more or less; and one other parcell demised to sÃ John Davis (sometime in possÍ of Esras Christian) 16 acres more or less; and one other parcell in tenure of sÃ MatÖ Taylor 10 acres more or less: And all that parcell known by the name of the Bottoms through which sÃ Woodburn River runs, the greater part of which is in the possessÍ of sÃ SÑ Roger Langford, & the other part in the occupation of sÃ Mathew Taylor; And all that parcell lately demised by sÃ SÑ Hercules to one Pat. Ashby deceased, lying near Iernerasy on the East; And all that 50 Acres of mountain land part of Bradentang land more or less, likewise demised by sÃ SÑ Hercules to sÃ Patrick Ashby and to one ThoÒ Savage by two several Leases; And all that parcell 20 Acres more or less, late in tenure of JnÎ Mulholland, lying on the East side of the highway to Glenarm: — Dated 1Òó May 1643 In presence of & Signed by Roger Langforde WillÌ Bashford FÒ Clerke Jeffery Wylde EntÃ (See 61 & 62Ã leaves old book). 144

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ThoÒ MÂManus MichË Savadge — &c Edmond Yeo Town Clerke (See 65 & 66 leaves old book) Mathew Johnson — Deed of Feoffment from MatÖ Johnson AldermÍ to MathÖ Johnson of Carmony Yeoman in trust for his wife and two Daughters Jane, & Letitia of that Mansion House in which John Grose now liveth, bounded on the East by the High Street leading to the Kay, in breadth from the House of ThoÒ MÂManus Burges deceased on the South, unto the Shire Hall on the North forty two feet, and extendæ. back to the lands of RichÃ O’Cahan & WÌ Wills on the West Sixty three feet, at which end it is Thirty Six feet. With power of redemption to his Son Roger then in Barbadoes or his heirs on paying at any time £100 to his DauÑ Jane, and £50 to his DauÑ Letitia. Dated 26Óç AugÓ 1662 In presence of &c Mathew Johnson Robt Walsh, MichË Savage, Hugh Smyth (See 67Óç leaf old book) Inrolled 2Ã DecÑ 1662. James Smyth — Lease from RobÓ Sendall MerchÓ — All that his Plott or House Room on the West Side of Cheston’s Lane in occupation of sÃ RobÓ Sendall, in breadth from sÃ Street (Cheston Lane) on the South, to the land of AntØ Hall in possessÍ of JnÎ Richy Barber on the West the breadth of Sendall’s Castle, and from the houses lately demised by sÃ Sendall to James Smyth on the North, to the lands of RichÃ O’Kane Burgess (lately purchased from sÃ Sendall) on the South 34 feet. from May 1635 for 99 Years — Rent £2-10-0 pÑ an. See the next article — entÃ (See 69 & 70 leaf old book) 145

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Years. Rent £4-15-0 and 0-4-6. pÑ an. N:B: this last Article contains all that is mentioned in the two former Articles. (See 72Ã leaf old book) William Dawson — Deed of Bargain & Sale from Nicholas Wills to WÌ Dawson Inkeeper in consideration of £24 — of all those two parcels of Ground called Crooked Garden & Gillin’s Acres by estimation three Acres, lying in the North side of the Scotch Quarter, bounded as follows, (viz) by lands now or lately belonging to LÃ Conway on the West; by the lands of the Earl of Donegall on the North; by the highway to ThoÒ Bashford’s lands & part of one ThoÒ Stephenson’s Garden (now in possessÍ of JnÎ Johnson) on the East; and by the land of JnÎ Dobbin & RobÓ Wills (now in possessÍ of John Edgar) on the South — paying the reserved Rent to the Corporation of 0-3-4 pÑ an. (See 80 & 81 leaves old book) Inrolled 10Óç June 1669 Ezekiel Davies — Deed of bargain & Sale from Anthony Horsman AldermÍ to EzekË Davies MerchÓ in consideration of £100 Ster. of all that house wherein sÃ Ez. Davies dwelleth, and the Gallery over the lane leading to the Church, with the remainder of the Years yet unexpired, of that Lease granted by the Mayor &c to sÃ Horsman from 1659 for ninety nine Years in front to West Street 40 feet, joining the lane to the Church on the West, to the lands of said Horsman in possÍ of Adam Dennison on the East North East; extending back from said street towards the Church yard 61 feet — Dated 10Óç June 1669 In presence of EdmÃ Davies — John Byrtt AnthØ Horseman Hugh Smith — WÌ Dobbin John Byrtt JunÑ (See 88 & 89 leaves old book). 146

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Richard Horseman — Deed of Settlement from AnthØ Horseman AldÍ upon his son RichÃ Horseman of the Houses, Lands & Mills following (viz) The House & Appurtenances in possessÍ of JaÒ MÂCulloch Burgess on the South Side of West Street — Another House & appurtÒ in possÍ of Adam Denison on the North Side of West Street — Another parcell of Tenements near the West Gate, formerly in possÍ of Andrew Gardner, Burgess, Darby Quin GenÓ & others, now in possÍ of Thomas Davison, ThoÒ Harrison, & others — another House & appurtÒ Sometime in possÍ of MichË Karr Burgess deceased late in tenure of Margaret Whitehead widÖ and now in possÍ of Corporal Downard, WilÌ Grahams, Samuel Woods, Butchers, & others — And all the lands tenemÓò & mills in the tenure of John Luty, ThoÒ Ingram, Patrick Dun, &c lying in the North Division of said Town Dated 1677 — for ever In presence of AndÖ Clements A Horseman Hugh Smith ThoÒ Smith ThoÒ Tipping (See 38Óç leaf old book) Richard Dobbs & John Dobbs — Deed of Conveyance from AnthØ Hall AldÍ & Ann his wife to RichÃ Dobbs & John Dobbs his eldest son, in trust for the following uses — (viz) whereas WÌ Williams of C.fergus Chandler, in 1642 bequeathed his house (wherein sÃ

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Hall now dwelleth) to his then wife the mother of sÃ Ann Hall, RobÓ Williams the brother of sÃ Ann, & sÃ House to go to the Survivor of sÃ Robert and Ann — Now the sÃ Ann being the Survivor, she & sÃ Hall her husband grant to sÃ Dobbs for the use of their DauÑ Martha Berkley & her Issue; & in failure of Issue to Sarah Williams DauÑ of RobÓ Williams, & in failure of her Issue to John Williams of Sto in the Ould in Gloucestershire & his Issue — And in failure of his Issue, to the use of ElizabÇ Jackson DauÑ of sÃ RichÃ Dobbs and her right heirs for ever. — Dated 1683 In presence of RichÃ Dobbs Anth. Hall John Rogers Ann Hall AndÖ Stewart &c (see 45Óç leaf old book) Andrew Newton — Copy of his & Henry Newton’s bond for £100 SterÆ to the Mayor &c — with the following condition — Whereas the above-bounden Henry Newton in consideration of a piece of Ground commonly called the Pingle, which he holdeth from the above-named Mayor Sheriffs Burgesses & Commonalty, is obliged to uphold & Keep in sufficient repair the two wooden foot-bridges in the Scotch Quarter, on the road leading from the Water Gate to the Copland Water, as by the Deed granted by the Corporation of C.fergus aforesaid of the said Pingle, (relation being thereto had) more fully and at large may appear:– And whereas the Grand Jury at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace held for the County 147

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of the said Town the 20Óç day of JanØ last past, did raise of the Inhabitants of the said County of the said Town and contribute Five Pounds SterÆ towards erecting two new stone Bridges instead of the said wooden Bridges, over and above the sÃ parcell of Ground; the condition therefore of the above obligation is such that if the sÃ Henry Newton his Heirs &c do at his & their own proper costs & charge at or before the first day of November next build & erect two new Bridges of Stone & Lime fitt & convenient for Coaches & cars to pass & repass upon, in place of the said wooden bridges, and the same in good and sufficient repair do keep uphold & maintain for ever; that then the above obligation to be void & of none effect, otherwise to remain in full force & virtue in Law. Sealed & delivered in presence of AndÖ Newton ¥ Gilbert Ross James Kirk True Coppy taken from the original May 13Óç 1740 by me Henry Gill Mayor

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SOURCES FOR MATERIAL IN THE APPENDICES

Calendar of State Papers 1592–96 https://archive.org/details/1890calendarofstatep05greauoft Carrickfergus Book (1911): Carrickfergus Urban District Council Records of Title of the Corporate Property 1911. https://issuu.com/meabc/docs/carrickfergus_book_complete Carrickfergus and District Historical Journal: Published by the Carrickfergus and District Historical Society. M‘Skimin (1909): The History and Antiquities of the County of the Town of Carrickfergus, Samuel M‘Skimin. New edition, with notes and appendix by K J M‘Crum, F.R.S.A. Belfast: Mullan & Son, James Cleeland, Davidson & M‘Cormack. 1909 edition: https://archive.org/details/historyantiquiti00mcskiala/page/n7/mode/2up Memoirs of Ireland: Ordnance Survey, Memoirs of Ireland, Parishes of County Antrim,1832, 1839–40, Carrickfergus, ed. Angélique Day and Patrick McWilliams. Report of the Deputy Keeper: Eighteenth Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records in Ireland, 1886. https://archive.org/download/op1251954-1001/op1251954-1001.pdf Reports From Commissioners (1835): Reports From Commissioners 1835; Sixteen Volumes: — Contents of the Eighth Volume. Corporations (Ireland): Appendix to Municipal Corporations, Ireland. Part II. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lksSAAAAYAAJ Young (1896): Historical Notices of Old Belfast and its Vicinity, Robert M Young, Marcus Ward & Co., Limited, Belfast, 1896. https://archive.org/download/historicalnotice00youn/historicalnotice00youn.pdf

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It might be wondered why no records earlier than 1569 were copied by Richard Dobbs, and the reason almost certainly is given in this extract from the charter of 11 Elizabeth 20 March 15681 (old style or 1569 new style): “…considering that the said town is an ancient Borough and that the inhabitants thereof claim that many liberties privileges and franchise were granted unto them by our ancestors which now they cannot lawfully use because they mislaid and lost the Letters Patent of the grant of the aforesaid liberties privileges and franchises made unto them in the aforesaid time of war by the disturbances and prosecutions of our aforesaid enemies”. It seems reasonable to suppose that if the original Letters Patent were lost in the disturbances, then so were other earlier records. The charter goes on to make Carrickfergus a “free and undoubted borough and an entire and incorporated county of itself and entirely separate and distinct from all other counties and be and be called for ever the County of the Town of Knockfergus”. It then says that “the Burgesses and Commonality of the said Town upon sight of these presents may lawfully proceed to elect Thomas Stephens Mayor and Nicholas Wylles and John Teedes Sheriffs of the said town”—and this is where Dobbs’ record comes in, beginning as it does with “ThomÛ Stivenson pro tempore Maiorem de Villa Knockfergus existent. et JohanneÚ Teed & Nicholam Wills ejusdem Villa VicecomÒ primo die Junii anno Domini — 1569.” The rest of the material in this appendix has been transcribed from Reports From Commissioners 1835 starting at Page 746 and shows the attempts by the Commissioners to discover what records existed and what happened to them over the years. It will be noted that Samuel M‘Skimin said he had access to the original town records from 1805 to 1807 via a Thomas Hanley who had borrowed them to enable this. Hanley died some time before 1835 and the originals were never recovered. The Commissioners seem not to have been aware of Dobbs’ copy and they relied instead on M‘Skimins’s copies of the records and his History. 9. The Muniments of the corporation, according to ancient custom, have been lodged in a strong oaken chest, commonly called “The Town Chest.” That now in use has three locks, and it is stated to have been made in 1602. According to an ancient rule, the mayor for the time being should hold one of the keys, and each of the others should remain in the custody of an alderman. While the commons continued to send representatives to the assembly, they had charge of one of the keys. We found one of the keys in the possession of the mayor, Peter Kirk, Esq. This had been in the custody of his father, Sir William Kirk, who had served as mayor almost every alternate year from 1780 to 1817; he died in 1819. It was afterwards, for about a year, in the possession of Mr. Gunning, (the treasurer and an alderman,) upon whose death, (in October 1823,) if not before, it was returned to Mr. Kirk, who had been elected a burgess in 1821. Another key was in the hands of Mr. C. E. Dobbs, (the recorder and a burgess elect.) He had it from the Rev. John Dobbs, who had been an alderman since 1825. 1

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The third was in the hands of Mr. Henry Adair, (the treasurer and an alderman.) He received it while a burgess from the executrix of his uncle, Alderman Henry Clements Ellis. The keys were thus handed from one individual or family to another, without the intervention of the corporation or assembly. There are few instances recorded of the opening of the town chest. It appears to have been opened in 1738, a book being extant purporting to have been compiled in that year, “from the deeds and leases out of the town chest.” In 1768 a committee was appointed to inquire what lands of the corporation were out of lease, and they were empowered to open the town chest for inspecting all deeds and papers. The chest was again opened in 1775 and 1777. In 1786, on the 27th September, a notice was given of a meeting of the assembly for the 6th October, “in order to open the town chest on business of importance relative to the said corporation.” And, “at said assembly it was resolved, that the town chest, containing the deeds and other papers relative to the corporation shall, for greater security, be removed from the market-house, and henceforth kept in the house of the mayor for the time being; and that the following persons be appointed as a committee to examine the said deeds and papers, and put them into regular order, viz., the Rev. Dean Dobbs, Captain Ellis, Marriott Dalway, Thomas Legg, and Snowden Cupples; and to meet when they shall think proper, in the house of the mayor, for that purpose.” This appears to have been acted upon, a book being extant, in the handwriting of Dean Dobbs, containing a catalogue of deeds and leases in the town chest, pursuant to the above order. It is stated, that the town chest was opened upon some occasions of trials at nisi prius, but no further entry appears on the subject in the proceedings, until the 20th September 1822, when it was “resolved, that a committee of five (Marquis of Donegall, Thomas Millar, Thomas Verner, Sir Arthur Chichester, and the Rev. John Dobbs) do open the town chest, and take an account of the papers therein: also, to call on the persons that have papers belonging to the corporation to deposit them therein, and to take such other steps for its future safety, and that every three of the above be a quorum.” We were unable to ascertain how far this resolution was acted upon, as the Marquis of Donegall stated, that he never was present at the opening of the town chest; Sir Arthur Chichester stated, that he had no recollection of having acted as one of the committee; Thomas Millar was dead; Thomas Verner out of the country; and the Rev. John Dobbs in a state of mental incapacity. The chest, however, must have been opened, as we found in it two receipts, dated the 14th October 1822, one signed Richard Dobbs, and the other Peter Kirk, for certain deeds out of the town chest by consent of the committee appointed to examine it; each of those parties, with Thomas Millar, witnessed the other’s receipt. These deeds, except one, were returned during our Inquiry, and of that one we procured a copy. The next instance was in February 1826, when an assembly having been called to consider the propriety of executing (to Lord Blaney) “a recognition of the grant of the lands of Windmill Hill, the original thereof being mislaid, and the description of the premises not being perfectly defined by the deeds under which, said property is held,” and an opinion of counsel as to the lands referred to having been read, by which opinion the propriety of searching the corporation records was recommended, — “It was ordered, on the motion of Sir Stephen May, seconded by Sir Arthur Chichester, that the mayor be requested to take the most effectual mode of examining the town chest

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and records of the corporation for the original deed under which these lands were claimed, or any document relating thereto, and to make his report next meeting. Ordered, that Mr. Macartney, Mr. Kirk, with the mayor and sheriffs, be a committee to assist the mayor in the above business.” In the month of July following, the committee reported, that they had searched the corporation records and papers, and did not find any deed or paper relating to the lands referred to. 10. The Town Chest having been opened during our Inquiry, we return a catalogue of the Documents in the contents as now forthcoming. They may be summed up as follows: 1. Letters patent 7th July, 7 James I. 2. Letters patent 1st May, 20 James I. 3. An old book, headed, “An Abstract of the Deeds and Leases out of the Town Chest, taken August the 14th and 15th 1738, by a Committee appointed by Act of Assembly, and also out of the Old Books of Record belonging to the Corporation of Carrickfergus,” containing abstracts of deeds, names of grantees, description of premises, tenures, and rents. 4. A book, headed, “Catalogue of Deeds and Leases in the Town Chest, undertaken by Order of an Assembly held in October 1786, when Hercules Ellis, and Marriott Dalway, aldermen, Thomas Legg, Rev. Snowden Cupples, and Rev. Richard Dobbs, burgesses, were appointed a Committee for that purpose,” &c. (Signed) “Richard Dobbs.” (N. B. This book was not in the town chest at the time of its being opened, but was produced by the recorder, son of Dean Richard Dobbs, in whose handwriting it is.) 5. Three loose sheets in the handwriting of Thomas Legg, containing some abstracts from deeds, and memoranda respecting others. 6. A book containing proceedings in assembly from 28th May to 29th September 1787. 7. There are 141 feefarm grants from the corporation, 133 of which were in the chest when opened, and eight were brought in during our Inquiry, for seven of which receipts had been given. A copy of another, for which a receipt had been given by the Rev. Richard Dobbs, has been brought in, verified by the mayor during, our Inquiry. 8. There are 21 leases for years, 18 of which were in the chest when opened, the other three were brought in during, our Inquiry. 9. Twenty-nine feefarm grants from the corporation were returned in the catalogue of 1738, in which the premises are described as from the grants; they were returned in the catalogue of 1786, as being then missing, and are not now forthcoming. There are receipts for four of them. The new catalogue, which we return, was made out during our Inquiry. There were also found in the chest several other documents of various descriptions. 10. Among these are 83 other leases from the corporation for terms of years expired; and, of three other such leases, not now forthcoming, one was returned in 1786, as then missing, and the other two as then in the town chest. 11. It appeared that certain documents relating to the corporation were in the possession of George Macartney, Esq., of Lissanoure Castle, in the county of Antrim, the devisee of the estates of the late Lord Macartney, whose ancestors had been members of the assembly, and had possessed property in the town.

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We found the following, viz. an exemplification of the charter of 15th December, 10 Jac. I., a translation of that charter, and copies of some bye-laws of the town, ( from 1569 to 1677,) in the hands of the law agent of Lord Belfast, to whom Mr. Macartney had lent them. Mr. Macartney required that those documents should be returned to him, and declined our request to search among his papers “for documents of a public nature relative to the corporation of Carrickfergus,” unless, as he said, compelled to it by the House of Commons. He said, if a list of documents to be searched for were handed to him, he was willing to make search for them; and that if a proper application were made to him by the mayor for the exemplification of the charter, &c. he would then consider the propriety of his giving them over to the corporation. 12. Two Books only, containing entries of Corporate Proceedings, were produced before us, the earlier of the two commencing at the date of 27th of September 1765. It was very distinctly proved that similar books of prior dates existed at a recent period; but they have disappeared. Mr. Samuel M‘Skimin (a freeman) published, about the year 1810, his first edition of a book, entitled “The History and Antiquities of the County and Town of Carrickfergus, from the earliest records to the present time;” a third edition appeared in 1829. In this work are various passages purporting to refer to the “Records of Carrickfergus” and proceedings of the corporation, at dates extending back to the year 1573. Mr. M‘Skimin stated, that he derived this information from ancient books of proceedings of the corporation commencing in 1568, (the year of the grant of the charter 11 Elizabeth,) and continued down to 1725 or 1730; that he had constant access to them in 1805,1806, 1807; and had made extracts with such care and accuracy, that they might be relied upon as perfect transcripts of the original entries. He produced a manuscript book containing the extracts as he had originally made them. He denied having seen or heard of these books since 1807, and stated that they were then in the possession of Mr. Thomas Hanly, (a freeman and a resident manufacturer in the town,) who had intimated to him that the books had been borrowed to assist M‘Skimin in compiling his history. Hanly died a few years ago; we examined his relatives and representatives, but were unable to obtain any information respecting the books from them or from any other source. Under these circumstances we have considered ourselves warranted in treating the extracts and information contained in M‘Skimin’s history, when derived from this source, as evidence of the proceedings of the corporation prior to the year 1765 when the records now extant commence. WILLIAM E. HUDSON, MATTHEW R. SAUSSE Commissioners

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Suggested layout of the arable lands to the south-west of Carrickfergus In the early 1600s.

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This appendix examines the status of the arable land lying to the south-west of the Woodburn river in the early 1600s. Note that all emphasis has been added, and that all years are new style.1 Summary 1. The hills of Great Knockagh and Little Knockagh lie to the west of Carrickfergus, and three important streams or rivers, important in the context of boundaries, flow from their vicinities more or less south-east to the sea. From west to east these are the Silver Stream (arising from the western end of Great Knockagh), a stream currently unnamed on Ordinance Survey maps (arising from the Stoney glen between Great Knockagh and Little Knockagh), and the Woodburn river (running to the east of Little Knockagh). The distances between these as they discharge into the sea are roughly 1.9 and 0.6 statute miles respectively, while the distance from the Knockagh to the sea is roughly 1.4 statute miles.2 2. There is evidence (see later), that the Stoney Glen was once called Faseris Neey3 (or the Deer’s Lane), and that the stream arising from there and running close to Trooperslane before entering the sea, was once called the Lysnashemer3 stream. 3. The Lysnashemer stream divides the land lying between the Silver Stream and the Woodburn River into a south-westerly part and a north-easterly part, marked ‘2’ and ‘3’ respectively on the map opposite. 4. In 1601 a local jury was asked to record “all the lands, tenements, commons of pasture, and hereditaments anciently belonging to the corporation of Carrickfergus aforesaid and which have always or of a long time continued in their manurance,4 grazing, and possession.” 5 5. The south-westerly part, between the Silver Stream and the Lysnashemer stream, was in the town’s possession by 15946 but it was not included in the findings of the jury of 1601 suggesting that it was a more recent acquisition. The charter of 8 March 1602, 44 Elizabeth I, while not recognising it as a part of the town’s ancient lands, did grant it to the “county of the town of Carrickfergus”7 under the name of Cloghloghortie and with an area of about 1,200 acres. Whether it legally became part of the county of the town or simply belonged to it is unclear, but if it did, it was soon excluded by 11 July 1609, 7 James I8 although the town itself continued to own it. 6. The north-easterly part, between the Lysnashemer stream and the Woodburn River, was included in the ancient lands defined by the jury in 1601 and was granted to 1

That is to say the new year is assumed to start on 1 January. Based on the distance of 460 Irish perches from Trooperslane to the Silver Stream (see below). 3 See the Preface to Second Edition for possible derivations of these names. 4 “Occupation and cultivation.” 5 Pages 19–22 above. 6 Page 124 below. 7 It had been “incorporated by the names of the Mayor, Alderman, Burgesses, and Commonality of the County of the Town of Knockfergus” in the charter 20 March 1569, 11 Elizabeth I. 8 There were two Carrickfergus charters, dated 7th and 11th, in the July of that year. 2

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the county of the town of Carrickfergus by 44 Elizabeth I, this grant being confirmed by 11 July, 7 James I. 7. The name Cloghloghortie is said to mean “the old stone” and to refer to Castle Lugg. 8. The Lugg family seem to have owned much land and property and at least some passed to Carrickfergus before 1574 by means of a forfeit, thus offering one possible explanation of how Cloghloghortie came to be in the possession of Carrickfergus by 1594. The earliest account of the limits of the lands of Carrickfergus is dated 25 July 1594 and can be found on page 19 of Young (1896), coming after two other items, the Petition of Agents for the Town of Carrickfergus and the Answer to the Lord Treasurer’s Objections.1 The petition had been presented to Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasurer of England, by William Lymsey and Humfery Johnson on behalf of the town,2 and as the account of the lands is informal, incomplete, and possessive, it was most likely written by them while they were in England. It reads (in part): “At the west end of our ancient town standeth the Abbey of Woodborne, which hath belonging unto it 20 Irish acres of land, from the which land unto Earle’s Meddow we esteem to be a mile, which is as far as the town’s land reacheth in length westward; and from the sea-side, being south to the great mountain northward, about three-quarters of a mile. …above the hills there is moores, mosses, and heathy, bad ground as far as the end of the great hill called the Knockowe, whereunto adjoineth the Earle’s meadow, by the separation of a river coming out of the end of that hill, which doth part the town’s land and the Earle’s meadow…”. The river described as coming out of the end of the “great hill called the Knockowe” and marking the boundary between the land of the town and the Earl’s Meadow, is almost certainly the Silver Stream. The charter of 20 March 1569, 11 Elizabeth I incorporated the county of the town of Carrickfergus as a legal entity but it did not define its limits, and two subsequent attempts to have this done were unsuccessful. The first is recorded in the petition presented to Lord Burghley mentioned above: “to have granted all the ancient land and common belonging to the town, which have continued in the possession and maunrance of the Corporation time out of mind the same being commanded by Her Highness to Sir Henry Syddney to allot and appoint, which yet remains undone by reason of his revocation, as in our petition is more at large expressed. The like warrant we now crave to the Lord Deputy.”3 This second plea likewise failed in that while Lymsey and Johnson did obtain a letter from the Queen to the Lord Deputy (Sir William Russell) and the Council in Dublin, and from them a commission under the great seal of Ireland for the bounding and marking of the lands4 there is nothing in the records to suggest that it took place. (In the Appendix to the 18óç report of the Deputy Keeper of Records,5 the grant of lands in 1601 was said to have been under the queen’s letter of 12 October 1594, but whether this refers to the letter Lymsey and Johnston took to the Lord Deputy and Council in 1

All three are reproduced in Appendix III. Page 13 above records their selection. 3 Young (1896), page 18. 4 Page 13 above. 5 Report of the Deputy Keeper, §6620 (p67). 2

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Dublin, or to the commission subsequently issued from there is not clear. If the former then it took nearly five months to obtain. In any event, it seems to be wrong as will be seen in the next paragraph.) Seven years later on 10 June 1601 Elizabeth I commanded1 that a description of limits of the ancient lands (see point 4. above) belonging to Carrickfergus should be set down—and this time it was done. At a meeting in St Nicholas’s church on 6 October 1601,2 overseen by Sir Arthure Chichester, Captain John Jephson, Deputy to Sir Geffrey Fenton, Surveyor General of Ireland, Sir Fulke Conway, John Dallway, Gregory Norton, & William Whittington vice-constable of the Castle of Carrickfergus, a jury of 24 local men assembled to deliver from their own knowledge and from that of others a true account of the boundaries. The result was the description of two areas,3 the first the arable land which they called “the Town’s lands”, and the second the land used for grazing and extraction of turf which they called “the Commons”. The north-west boundary of the Town’s lands ran west-south-west from Lough Mourne to a hill called Carnesolloghe, then southwest past little Duneorowe to two fords,4 then “allongst the back of the Knockaghe to a meare or marke called Faseris Neey (alias the Deares layne) which is also the furdest part & boundes of the Earrable landes medowe & pasture belonginge to the Towne that waye—And from thence turninge Sowthe to a Smale Streame or Rever called Lysnashemer which runethe Sowthe into the sea, and devydethe the Townes landes and the Earles Medowe”. The charter of 44 Elizabeth I,5 after reciting the boundaries determined by the jury, “[did] give grant and confirme unto the Mayor, Sheriffs, Burgesses, and Commonaltie of the County of the Towne of Carrickfergus aforesaid one parcel of land called Edengrene Marshalstowne, and Hill called Houghnekeage, and one other hill called Haughmarowecaple, Loughmorne, Duncrowe, and little Duncrowe, the Touge, two Hills called the Little and Great Knockagh, Cloghloghortie alias the Ould Stone, containing by estimation tenn ploughlands of lands arable, be it more or lesse, besides wastes and Commons, and all other the lands and Commons of pasture auncientlie belonging to the said Town of Carrigfergus, bounded, situate, and meared within the several meares and bounds before expressed. Except and always reserved to our Constable of our said Castle for the time being, and the garrison there to have free Grazing in summer, and winter provisions for their Horses, as in our said Letters, dated our Mannor of Nonesuch, is expressed.” That part of the charter of 11 July, 7 James I dealing with the south-west boundary is very important because it makes it quite clear that the Silver Stream did not mark the south-west boundary of the Town’s land. Two versions are available, the almost identical relevant text being underlined in the quotations below. A third version, M‘Skimin’s, by omitting that same text at the point marked ‘þ’ in the quote below from his book says quite the opposite and has misled readers for over two hundred years.

Image of part of the charter of 11 July, 7 James I. “Cloghanogherty, between (? ? ? ?) Silverstream and land/territory town of Knockfergus”. 1

Page 19 above. Page 21 above. 3 Pages 21 and 22 above. 4 These must be over the two tributaries of the Woodburn River. 5 Carrickfergus Book (1911), page 24–30, particularly pages 26–29 . 2

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The first version is found on page 38 of the Carrickfergus Book (1911) and reads: “so to Fasserneigh otherwise the Deer’s Lane and from thence as far as the head of a certain small river falling thence into the bay of Carrickfergus aforesaid near Cloughanoghertie between another small river called Silver Stream and the lands of the town of Knockfergus otherwise Carrickfergus which said river rising near Fasserneigh aforesaid is the western bound of the said lands”. The second is found on page 743 of the Reports from Commissioners (1835) and reads: “so to Fassermegh, otherwise the Deer’s Lane, and from thence as far as the head of a certain small stream descending from thence into the bay of Carrickfergus towards Cloghanoghertie, between another small stream called Silverstream and the land of Knockfergus, otherwise Carrickfergus aforesaid, which stream, beginning near Fassermeigh aforesaid, is the western boundary of the land aforesaid”. M‘Skimin’s version is found in his History of Carrickfergus1 and reads: “so to Fasserneagh, alias the Deer’s-lane, and from thence as far as the head of a certain small streamþcalled Silver-stream, and the lands of the town of Knockfergus, alias, Carrickfergus, aforesaid, which river beginning near Fasser-neagh, aforesaid, is the western boundary of said lands”. A very significant error, and one apparently due to M‘Skimin or the compositor skipping from the first occurrence of “small stream” to the second and missing everything in between—an easy mistake to make. Further evidence which helps to identify the Lysnashemer stream and the Deer’s Lane comes from a consideration of the division of the land lying to the south-west of the Woodburn River in 1606.2 No details of the division itself will be gone into here and the reader is referred instead to Mrs Sheela Speers’ invaluable paper entitled The Imprint of the Past: The Divisions of Carrickfergus.3 The records say4 “Begining at the West end of Woodborne land5 at the Sea Syde, ther is a high waye layd out alongst the land of Woodborne towards the Knockaghe of one Hundredth Thirty & Six Perches in length or therabowts”, and from the lower end of this highway “which parteth Woodborne lands & the Towne lands” to the Silver Stream along the shore was “foure hundred and sixty Perches or thereabouts”. Sheela Speers has pointed out that the modern Trooperslane lies almost exactly this distance from the Silver Stream, thus showing that it and the highway are one and the same. If, as seems reasonable, it is assumed that the land referred to as the Town’s lands in 1601 is the same as that referred to by the same name in 1606, then this is a most useful point as it can be used to fix the Lysnashemer stream and thus Faseris Neey alias the Deer’s Lane. The jury found in 1601 that the south-west boundary of the Town’s lands was formed by the Lysnashemer stream, and the town in 1606 said that the Town’s lands were divided from the Woodburn lands by the highway. As the Lysnashemer stream and the highway were both markers of that same south-west boundary along their respective lengths they must have been closely aligned, and it is surely significant that today a small stream is still aligned with Trooperslane. Unnamed on the map, it rises in the Stoney Glen between Great Knockagh and Little Knockagh and after running south-east down to and under the Upper Road and railway, it follows

Page 188 of the 1811 edition, page 346 of the 1832 edition, and page 437 of the 1909 edition. Pages 31 and 32 above. 3 Carrickfergus and District Historical Journal, volume 2, 1986, pages 29–37. 4 Pages 29 and 30 above. 5 “Woodborne land” was not defined in the records. 2

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Trooperslane closely on the Carrickfergus side until it diverges towards the end and makes its way to the sea. It seems fairly certain that this is the stream which in 1601 was called the Lysnashemer, and that the glen in which it arises was then called the Deer’s Lane. Note that both it and the Silver Stream were said to have marked the boundary of the Earl’s Meadow but that almost certainly it was the Silver Stream which did. (There is a path called the Deer’s Lane on the Ordinance Survey map but south-south-west of the Knockagh monument and with no stream running to the sea close to the south of it.) The Confirmation of the Chichester Patents, Inrolled 16691 includes the following: “and to the East part of the said Territories or parcels of Land thereof, and the Lands of Carrickfergus, runs a small River beginning near the water-fall Fasermeagh alias the Deer’s Land, and running by or near the old stone House called Cloghanoghertie towards the West from the same, and also from another small River called Silver Stream towards the East, and from Fasermeagh aforesaid the Meares extend directly…”. (This description, presumably written by a scribe in London, differs from the original findings of the local jury in 1601 and is less likely to be correct.) This is the third time that we have met the name Cloghloghortie/Cloghanoghertie.2 The first was in 44 Elizabeth I (“Cloghloghortie alias the Ould Stone, containing by estimation tenn ploughlands of lands arable”) and the second was in 11 July, 7 James I (“descending from thence into the bay of Carrickfergus towards Cloghanoghertie”). Now, the ten plough lands that Cloghloghortie was said to contain is a significant amount of land. One plough land or carucate is eight oxgangs and an oxgang is the area that a single ox can plough in one season which in English sizes is about 15 acres.3,4 Ten plough lands therefore might be 1,200 acres or 1.9 square miles and as this was of “lands arable” it would not include any hills or rough ground— so where was it? The only place outside the Town’s lands that it could have been was the area bounded by the Lysnashemer stream, the Silver Stream, the Knockagh, and the shore, which is marked ‘2’ or “South-westerly Part” on the map on page 118. This land, roughly 2.1 square miles in extent, was not included in the jury’s boundary verdict in 1601 nor in the boundaries recited in 44 Elizabeth I, but it was granted by that charter to the county of the town of Carrickfergus under the name of Cloghloghortie and it was part of the land which was divided up in 1606. It was excluded from the lands which went to make up the county of the town of Carrickfergus in 11 July, 7 James I, but it remained in the possession of the town. Cloghloghortie’s alias was the Ould Stone, and Sheela Speers5 said that the Ould Stone was Castle Lugg (which sits within the area described). John Salmon said that Lugg’s Castle was anciently called Cloughnaharty,6 where “cloċ, a stone, often means a castle, especially in names of places” and he thought that the rest of the name was slightly corrupt but that it signified old or ancient or age or antiquity. Whether the castle gave the land the name or vice versa is unknown. An entry in the town records dated 1 March 15747 notes that John Lugg, a waterbailiff employed by the town, was being given back “certayne Castles, Halles, Lands, 1

Young (1896) page 129. Also ‘Cloughnaharty’. See below and page 117 above. 3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carucate 4 https://www.sizes.com/units/oxgang.htm 5 Carrickfergus and District Historical Journal, volume 2, 1986, page 33. 6 Ulster Journal of Archaeology, vol 1, 1894, page 150. 7 Page 106 above. 2

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Tenements & other Hereditaments within the towne or Borough of Knockfergus” which had once been held in fee simple by Thomas Lugg, his grandfather, but which “by Estreat”1 had become the property of the county of the town of Carrickfergus. M‘Skimin2 said Lugg’s castle was so called “from a family of this place, by whom the lands attached to it were held in 1576”, and the Memoirs of Ireland3 said “The Luggs, by whom it was inhabited, held some extensive tracts of the adjoining land.” How extensive they were is unknown but about 1592, John Lugg of Knockfergus, “the last and only relic of his whole ‘stirpe,’4” asked for the return of “one small parcel” of land in Lower or North Clandeboy “whereof is the ancient inheritance of your honour’s poor distressed orator, which parcel does not amount to more than four ploughlands”5—which would have been 480 acres. The discrepancy between Cloghloghortie’s large size and value and the relative obscurity in history of Castle Lugg would suggest that the one did not belong to the other, but it must be said that judging from the property returned in 1574 and claimed in 1592, John Lugg’s ancestors’ holdings must have been fairly extensive. Perhaps his grandfather Thomas did once own Cloghloghortie and perhaps it did pass to the town by forfeit. In any event, the town had it in their possession in 1594 as we find that Lymsey and Johnston said in Answer to the Lord Treasurer’s Objections, July 25, 15946 “for that part of the town’s land which lieth west from Woodborne to the Earl’s meadow, the garrison and constable have the whole grasing and commodity thereof as well for summer as winter provision for their horses and hackneyes. The said ten plough lands is no such great compass or circuit as may perhaps seem to your Lordship, and we do now hold the same7 in a manner with as great commodity as when the same shall be alloted”. That ten plough lands can only have been Cloghloghortie. The Report from Commissioners (1835)8 also acknowledged that different areas of land were held in different ways when it said “The corporation, from a remote period, were possessed of the entire county of the town, with the exception of a few tenements, which, in the reign of Elizabeth, were vested in the Crown; they were also possessed of other Lands extending beyond the present limits of their jurisdiction”. In conclusion, this account of the town’s arable lands to the south-west of the Woodburn river may seem complicated but it does appear to agree with the available facts.

“enforce the forfeit of (a surety for bail or other recognizance)” https://www.lexico.com/definition/estreat M‘Skimin page 371. 3 Memoirs of Ireland, Carrickfergus, page 84. 4 “lineage” 5 Calendar of State Papers 1592–96, page 61, item 52. 6 Young (1896), page 16. Also see Appendix III. 7 Perhaps there is a little suggestion here that it was a recent acquisition? 8 Reports From Commissioners (1835), page 772. 2

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MISCELLANEOUS William Lymsey and Humfery Johnson in England On 11 June 15941 William Lymsey, Recorder, and Humfery Johnson, Alderman, were chosen to go to England as agents “for the obtaynenge of thear auntyent Lands & Comons”. The text of their petition, their answer to an objection from Lord Burghley, and an early description of the limits of the lands belonging to Carrickfergus are all available. All three carry the same date of 25 July 1594 which may be the date of their filing in the state archives. Petition of Agents for the Town of Carrickfergus, 25th July, 1594.2 To the Right Honble. the Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasurer of England. Most humbly beseecheth your honorable Lordship, William Lymsey and Humfrey Johnson, agents for the town of Carrickfergus, to consider the substance of our demands, consisting in these two points following:- First, to have granted all the ancient land and common belonging to the town, which have continued in the possession and maunrance of the Corporation time out of mind the same being commanded by Her Highness to Sir Henry Syddney to allot and appoint, which yet remains undone by reason of his revocation, as in our petition is more at large expressed. The like warrant we now crave to the Lord Deputy. Together also with the land belonging to the Abbey of Woodborn, adjoining to the town, which we now hold by concordatum from Her Highness, the same being surveyed at 20 Irish acres, which we are content shall be chiefly to the use of the garrison there resident, so that in time of war we may have some relief thereof, for which we are content to pay the yearly rent reserved to Her Highness, being 15s, sterling. Secondly that it wd. please Her Majesty to finish the walling of the town, and make up the Peare as is specified in Her Highness’s gracious letters patents to us granted, and now in force; whereupon we do yield and agree to pay yearly £40 rent to Her Majesty as in the said letters patents is mentioned. If your Honor did know the often slaughters, burnings, preys, spoils, and stealths made upon us, it were most lamentable, the which we could in particular lay down but for troubling your Lordship. And now of late since March last, upon bruit of the Earl of Tirone’s going out, the country, taking that opportunity, did prey and spoil the most part of Her Majesty’s subjects in those parts, and the garrison being then called away by him that had the command of them, the town left naked and open to the enemy. Our Mayor then, with all the townsmen, were constrained to work all day and watch every night for their own safety and defence of Her Majesty’s town, which, being walled, they might with some boldness have issued out and resisted the enemy and saved their goods, as oftentimes they have done. And the land being alloted they would have ditched and entrenched the same, leaving some few and narrow passages to the enemy, whereby they should have been less able to do harm, and with more advantage be encountered, where now the townsmen durst not issue out for hazarding the town and their few goods in it. Right Honorable, if the great extremities by famine and otherwise were thoroughly made known to Her Majesty, your Honor, and the rest of her honourable Council, no doubt Her Highness would think this too little, but would yield us much more than we now demand. And where it is enformed your Lordship the unreasonableness of our suit in seeking to take all from Her Majesty, as namely, the abbey or palace, albeit the same is 1 2

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contained within Her Highness’s letters patents, yet we never hitherto made any penny profit thereof; and if the granting of the same shall seem prejudicial to Her Majesty, we are ready (having authority from the town), upon the dispatch of our suit, to surrender the same, and to yield to any other thing which to your Honour shall seem reasonable. Our town, in regard of your fatherly care of all Her Majesty’s dominions and countries, did advise us especially both to acquaint and depend upon your Honour in all causes touching their suits. Therefore we humbly beseech your Lordship not to believe any suggestion against us, for that we will inform your Honor nothing but truth, which we will maintain with the loss of our goods, liberties, and lives. Wherefore, if anything seem to your Lordship to be unreasonable, we humbly crave to have the same delivered in particular, which done, we doubt not but to satisfy your Lordship with reason. Thus craving pardon, with our hearty prayer to God for your Lordship’s long-continued health to the relief of poor suitors, We most humbly take leave. Indorsed. The humble petition of Willm. Lymsey and Humfrey Johnson, agents for the town of Carrickfergus, in Ireland. Answer to the Lord Treasurer’s Objections, July 25, 1594.1 Where it seemeth good to your Lordship that a portion of land shall be reserved out of the ancient land belonging to the town of Carickfargus for the use of the garrison, and another portion for the use of the Queen’s Castle. Our answer is that the same lands have been belonging to the town time out of mind, being never severed therefrom, nor any man able to make title thereunto. And as touching provision for Her Majesty’s garrison, we are content that they shall have free grazing in the summer, with hay and winter provision for their horses and hackeneyes which they keep for Her Majesty’s service. And for land to be laid to the Queen’s Castle out of the same, we do also answer that the Constable for the time being shall have like allowance as before for the garrison; and he being also a freeman of the town by our Charter, shall have over and besides the said grasing and hay, &c., as large a portion of land as the best freeman or alderman of the town shall have, yielding for his share such duties and charges as other townsmen do for the like proportion and quantity. We humbly beseech your Lordship to consider the premises, and to weigh the pitiful and distressed estate of that poor town; the innumerable killings, burnings, spoils, and stealths made upon them, with the often famine and misery which they have sustained for the defence and safe keeping of that Her Majesty’s goole of the North: as also the great poverty which now of late they are brought unto by these late outrages, spoils, and stealths made upon them by their evil neighbours, which have lands enough of Her Majesty’s lying near about us waste, by the space of 20 or 30 miles compass every way from our town lands, which in regard of them are but a handful, and therefore very hard to be taken from us. We are further to inform your Honor, that we are at the yearly charge of 50li. ster. at the least, with the garrison, in finding them houseroom, fire, bedding, besides other necessaries. And now since February last we have been at more than 100li. ster. by the year in repairing and maintaining the ditches and rampirs until the wall shall be built. We do assure ourselves the entertainment which the Constable hath of Her Majesty may well maintain the Castle without seeking to take away for his own private use that which is the relief of many a poor creature, and if he shall allege the contrary we will 1

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undertake (if it shall stand with your Lordship’s liking) that the town shall keep as many warders, as sufficient men, and as well furnished, as are now there, for half the pay he hath for the same. And as touching Wodborne, which is 20 Irish acres, we desire to have the same at such rent as it is surveyed, viz., 15s. ster., and yet the same to remain to the use of the garrison, for that they cannot keep their horses and hackneyes in any other place safe from the enemy, especially in time of war, provided that in such troublesome times we may have some relief thereof. We did upon the same consideration give unto Mr. Eggerton 10li. ster., that he should not hold the same in severalty to himself, after he had procured a grant thereof, whereunto he did agree, for that he perceived how necessarily the same did lie for the safety of all our goods; and the Constable hath, notwithstanding, as great commodity and profit thereof as the whole town hath, and for that part of the town’s land which lieth west from Woodborne to the Earl’s meadow, the garrison and constable have the whole grasing and commodity thereof as well for summer as winter provision for their horses and hackneyes. The said ten plough lands is no such great compass or circuit as may perhaps seem to your Lordship, and we do now hold the same in a manner with as great commodity as when the same shall be alloted. For our chief purpose in seeking to have the same laid out, is to the end we may entrench and ditch it about, leaving some few narrow passages for the enemy to come in, by which means we hope to save our goods, which oftentimes heretofore we have lost, for that the land is not enclosed. We must acknowledge ourselves bound to your Lordship for many favours, most humbly beseeching your Honor for a good dispatch, and what good shall befal our town in these their suits must of right be attributed to your Lordship, for which they and their posterity shall to their uttermost for ever rest thankful. Our answer to the L. Treasurer’s objections touching the lands. (Irish Correspondence, State Paper Office.) Note of the Bounds of the Town Lands, July 25th, 1594.1 At the west end of our ancient town standeth the Abbey of Woodborne, which hath belonging unto it 20 Irish acres of land, from the which land unto Earle’s Meddow we esteem to be a mile, which is as far as the town’s land reacheth in length westward; and from the sea-side, being south to the great mountain northward, about three-quarters of a mile. At the north-east end of the town standeth a spyttel-house, whereunto is belonging 4 or 5 Irish acres of land, from which land unto Copplande water is about some quarter of a mile, which is as far as the town’s land extendeth that way in length. And from the seaside northward in breadth up to the hills, upon which hills there is a Loughe called Loughmourne, of a mile in length northward, which runneth into the river of Copplande water; and so westward from the Loughe above the hills there is moores, mosses, and heathy, bad ground as far as the end of the great hill called the Knockowe, whereunto adjoineth the Earle’s meadow, by the separation of a river coming out of the end of that hill, which doth part the town’s land and the Earle’s meadow, upon which hills of moor and heathy ground we have, time out of mind, had comen (sic) of Turbarye heath and pasture in the summer-time, whereby our cattle in the heat of the day might be near the Lough for their refreshing. 1

Young (1896), page 19.

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The wall undertaken by Mr. Lackforde was 8 foot at the foundation in breadth, to be built 16 foot high, and to be at the height of the said 16 foot 6 foot broad, and thereupon a vannor of 4 ft. high and 2 ft. broad, which in the full height is 20 ft. The charge of every pearch of the same height and breadth will stand in the building thereof at the least 15ëè ster. And there is yet unbuilt 90 pearches, besides three towers and two gates, which must be built 4 ft. higher than the rest, with frestone for the gates, towers, and spikeholes; as also 8 stancks of lime and stone, which must be made without the wall to keep the ditches full of water, which altogether will be above the number of 10 pearches. So the whole unbuilt is at the least 100 perches, which, after the rate aforesaid, doth amount to 1,500ëè ster., besides the charge of building up the keye or peare. (Irish Correspondence, State Paper Office.)

M‘Skimin’s claim of early divisions of land is incorrect M‘Skimin1 claimed that divisions had taken place in 1595 and 1601 but this seems not to be so. What happened was that on 10 August 15952 an examination of the town’s accounts acknowledged that £35 was owed to the Recorder, Mr Lymsey, “for his charges & disbursments aboute the Townes sute as well in England as at Dublin”. After he was paid by the town, a list of existing landholders was drawn up showing what each owed the town in the matter, the rate being £2 for a whole share, £1 for a half share, and 10s for a quarter share. Earlier that year, on 7 July,3 it had been agreed that those admitted to the liberties and freedom of the corporation after that date but before a division of the lands took place, and who wished to claim a share of the land, should pay a sum equivalent to that to be paid by existing freemen. As a consequence of that, on 6 July 16014 another list was drawn up of those who were content to pay and the amounts they owed, and as no person in that list appeared in the earlier one, all presumably had been made free of the corporation after 7 July 1595. Rather than the lists marking a division, therefore, they simply indicated the amount to be paid to the town by those who were going to benefit from the division of the land in order to cover the cost of Mr Lymsey’s expenses.

Fate of the lands A detailed discussion regarding the fate of the lands up to the 1800s will be found in the Reports from Commissioners.5

M‘Skimin page 296 and 297. Page 14 above, 3 Page 22 above. 4 Page 23 above. 5 Report from Commissioners, starting on page 772. 2

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PREPARED BY MIKE MCKEAG Notes • Many abbreviations and spellings were used; to facilitate searching, those for Christian names and surnames are listed with their more usual present day forms. • It is possible that one name may refer to more than one person. Surnames Where several spellings are used, they have all been listed in the index under a single form for ease of searching, e.g. Magee with alternative spellings Magye, MÂGye and Magy; and Harper with Happer, Haper and Harpur. Christian names The name is often abbreviated, e.g. Thomas may be written as ThomÛ, or sometimes it is in Latin with an appropriate ending, e.g. Thomam. Variant spellings are listed below and the index uses the more normal form.

VARIANT SPELLINGS Alexander:

Farrall: Fergus: Francis: Fulke: Geoffrey:

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Moses: Murtagh: Nathaniel: Neil: Nicholas: Patrick: Peter: Phelim: Phillip: Ralph: Richard:

Robert:

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Roger: Rory: Samuel: Sidney: Simon: Solomon: Sorley Boy:

Index of Personal Names Name Page - - -, John, Gaoler | Goaler 84 - - -, William, for Sacramental Elements 84 Adair, Henry 114 Addison, John 58 Adrain, Daniel 10 Alexander, Jerome 67 Allen, Hugh 7 Antrim | Antrym Alexander—see MÂDonnell 75 Randell—see MÂDonnell 75 Ashby, Patrick 108 Asscullen, John 12 Aungier, Francis—see Longford 74 Ayshworth, William 94 Baker Captain 6 Thomas 43,95 William—see Harper 14 Bane, Thomas 68 Banister, Major 69 Banks, Stewart 103 Barnwall, Patrick 76 Barrow, John 108

Name Page Barry James 61,66 Robert 61 Thomas 79 Bashford | Bashforde Clement 42,88,94 Cornelius 55–56,74,96–98 John 99 Solomon 98 Thomas 22–23,28,32,38,92,99–100,110 William 43,94–95,99–100,108 Bates, Thomas 61 Bath | Bathe, William 15,23,28,32 Baylise, William 76 Baymount | Baymond Richard 28 Widow 32 Beggahan, Daniel 6 Belfast, Lord —see Chichester, George Jnr. 116 Bennett | Bennet | Bennitt William 61,65–66,68,74,96

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Berkeley | Barkeley | Berkley John 62,66 Marthasee Dobbs 111 Bethell, Captain 14 Blaney, Lord 114 Blare, Hugh 61 Blount, Charles—see Mountjoy 19 Bole, Alexander 10 Booth, Robert 66 Borlase, Jo: 40 Boyd Baptist 54,60 John 95,107 Mary—see Kid 109 Robert 79 Boyle, Michael1 66 Brady James 32 Walter 60 Breers, Edward—see Wylde 55 Brice, Edward 102 Brooks, Richard 37 Browne | Brown Edward 2,90 Hugh 108 John 75,98–99 Nicholas 77,99 William 61,85 Broxan, John 61 Buckingham, Katherine—see Manners 75 Bullworthye | Bulworthy | Bulworthye John 43,45,51,95–96 Burlasse, John 88 Burleigh, Henry 102 Burns | Burnes Henry 57,61,67,74–75,96–97 Butler | Buttler | Buttlar James FitzThomas2 see Ormonde 58,62,75 Richard 22–23,29,32 Thomas 11 Bysse, John 66 Byrtt | Birte | Birt | Byrte | Burte | Byrt Arthur 107 James 16,22–24,27–28,32,88,92–94 106–107 John 45,51–52,64,67,74,95,97,107,110 Letitia—see Johnson 107 Margaret—see Pierce 106

Byrtt | Birte | Birt etc. (continued) Mary—see Pierce 107 Nathaniel 85–86,99–101 Thomas 61,107,109 Bythell Ralph 25 Robert 25 Calthrope, Charles 19–20 Cankarth, William 94 Capell | Capel Arthur 66,76 Cappock, John 29 Carleile, James 12 Carnaghan | Carnachan John 106 Roger 61 Carrickfergus, Fortunatas 72 Cathcart | Cathcarte William 43,95 Cecil, William1 120,125 Chaplin | Chaplain John 74,76,98–100 Richard 87,101–102 Willoughby 85–87,100–103 Charles King Charles I 40,76 King Charles II 56,62,65,67,75,96 Chichester | Chester Arthur2—see Donegall 19–21,23,28,31, 40,52,65,88,92,94,97,101–103, 107,110,114–115,121 Edward 88–89,94 George Snr3 114 George Jnr4 116 John 74,98,101 Childs | Child John 61,106 Chuntrell, John 109 Christian, Esras 108 Clarke | Clarc | Clerke | Clarcke | Clearke Burkes 5 Fergus 106,108 Henry 61 John 22–23,28,31 Clements | Clement Andrew 74,97–99,110 Edward 74,79,99 Francis 77,87,99–101

Michael Boyle, Archbishop of Dublin and subsequently of Armagh. 2 James FitzThomas Butler, Duke of Ormonde & Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. Arthur Chichester, Earl of Donegall. 3 George Chichester, 2nd Marquess of Donegall. 4 George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall. 2

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Clements | Clement (continued) Henry 58,66,68,73–74,89,97–98 Hercules 101 Robert 104–105 Clotworthy | Clotwortye Hugh 26,93 Clough | Cloughe William 38,93 Cobham, James 86 Cockran, Thomas 6 Cockrell, John 4–9,90 Colcot, Thomas 75 Coleman, John 100–101 Conlan | Conlon John 32–33 Richard 14,22,28,32,61,91 Robert 15 Widow 28,31 Wife of Nicholas 10 Conway Edward 88,110 Francis—see Seymour-Conway 100 Fulke 19–21,92,121 Cooper | Cowper | Cooperr Ensign 33 Roger 14,91 Thomas 31,34,92–93 Coulter, John 106 Courtney, Clements 100–101 Craford, John 60,66 Craig James 86 William 103–105 Crawley | Crawly Ralph 5,8 Crooke, James 95 Crymble | Crimble Cornelius 74,98–99 Cumbarlug, Thomas 9 Cunninghame, Robert 88 Cupples, Snowden 114–115 Dallway | Dallwaye | Dallwayes | Dollway | Dalway | Dalwaye Alexander 67,89 John 12–14,16–17,19–21,24,28,32,34,45, 51–53,56,59,88–89,91,95–96,106–107,121 Marriott 114–115 Mary 56 Daly, Denis 98 Dancer, Thomas 98 Darby, Amos 61

Darsye, Parson 4 Davies | Davis | Davys Arthur 98 Corporal 54 Edmond 50–53,60,64,74,95–97,108,110 Ezekiel 37,60,65,74,89,92,96–97,110 Henry 52,74,89,97–98 Hercules 51–52,64,74,89,96–97 John 45,60,67–68,74,78,88,94–99,101, 106–108 Joseph 38,93 Paul 40 Samuel 74,76–77,98–99 William 98 Davison, Thomas 110 Dawson Ephraim 74 John 61 William 61,74,97–98,110 Dawtrey, Nicholas 90 Deere | Deare | Dyre John 1,3–4,8–12,90,106 Denison | Dennison Adam 61,97,110 Derumple, John 61 Devereux, Walter1—see Essex 3,5–6,9 Dillon, Arthur 107 Dishford | Dishforde John 6–10,14,90 Dixon Andrew 93 Robert 107 Dobbin | Dobin Anthony 37,92–93 Brendan 6 James 11–12,14,43–46,51,53–56,61,65–67, 74,89–91,95–96 John 44,74–75,97,110 Margaret 31,55 Nicholas 14,23,29,31,92–93 Rigby 77,99–100 Thomas 50–53,61,95–96,107 William 2,8–11,14,22,29,35–36,45,51–52, 54–60,62,64,67,76,90–92,96,110 Dobbs | Dobb | D. Arthur 85,100–101 C. E. 114 Edward Brice 104 Elizabeth—see Jackson 111 John 110,114 1

Walter Devereux, Earl of Essex.

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Dobbs | Dobb | D. (continued) Martha—see Berkeley 111 Richard 1,19,65–69,71,74–77,80,89,96–98, 101,110–111 Richard (Reverend Dean) 114–115 Donegall Arthur—see Chichester 19,40,52,74,97, 101–103,107,110 George—see Chichester 114 Doran, Christopher 31 Dowdall, Richard 15 Downard, Corporal 110 Drakeford Maudlin 52 Thomas 52–53 Duffe | Duff Alexander 61 Isabel—see Wills & Sendall 15 Owen—see O Cashonan 5,15 Dun, Patrick 110 Dyer | Dyre | Dier | Dyere John 12–14,22,90–91 Edgar | Edger John 67,93,106,110 Thomas 61,68 Edgworthe, Edward 12 Edward, King Edward VI 82 Edwards, Richard 61 Egerton | Eggarton | Egarton | Eggerton Charles 15,19–20,91,127 Elderton, Wolstone 2–3,6,90 Elizabeth, Queen Elizabeth I 12,80,89 Ellis | Elice Captain 114 Francis 77,85,99–101 Henry 87,101–104 Henry Clements 114 Hercules 104,115 John 106 Mary—see Mitchell 106 Robert 32,92,106 Erwin | Irwine James 98,100 Essex Arthur—see Capell 66,76 Walter—see Devereux 3,5–6,9 Esum, John 61 Eustace, Maurice 107 Eveagh, Lord 76 Faith, Solomon 52–53,58,61,63,65,74,89,97

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Faye Enewerie—see O Draine 15 Henry 15 Fegan | Feggan Hugh 26 Fenton, Geoffrey 19–21,121 Field | ffield William 3–4,90 Fisher Christopher 26 Edward 26 Fleming, David 60 Flood | fflood | Flude John 1–2,89 Flynne, Patrick 31 Forbes, Arthur1—see Granard 98 Ford | Forde | Foord Andrew 66 Clement 25,31,33,35,92 Fortescue, Thomas 52 Foster, Nathaniel 65 Fowell, Francis 57 Fox | Foxe Farrall 15,29,32 Fytton, Alexander2 98 Gale, Leonard 32,92 Gallwaye, Peter 14 Gardner | Gardiner Andrew 50,52,74,96,110 John 66 Robert 74 Garnett George 64 Thomas 64 Garvan Ellen 106 Thomas 106 Gathery, James 61 Gibbons, Captain 98 Gibson, Edmond 10 Gill | G. Henry 78–80,82–85,87,100–101,111 Gillin, Patrick 61 Gillmur | O’Gillmur Hugh 25 Murtagh 25 Glover, Robert 106 Gordan, Alexander 61 1 2

Arthur Forbes, Earl of Granard. Alexander Fitton, Lord Fitton of Gawsworth & Lord Chancellor of Ireland

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Gotthraye John 26 Patrick 26 Grafton, Gregory 3–4,6,90,106 Grahams, William 110 Granard, Arthur1—see Forbes 98 Gravett | Gravet George 61 Thomas 15–16,23–24,28,32–33,89,91–92, 94–95,106 Gray John 60,79 William 79 Grear, Alexander 106 Griffith, Thomas 45,50,96 Grose, John 109 Gunning, - - 113 H., J., Constable 84 Haines | Haynes Alexander 14,91 Dermot 23,29,32,92 Hall | Haull Ann—see Williams 110–111 Anthony 45,50–56,60,63,67,74,94–96, 109–111 Edward 61,74,97 John 40,53,94–95 Hamilton, George 103 Hanly, Thomas 116 Hanna John 61 Rowland 61 Harper | Happer | Haper | Harpur George 95 Jasper 32,45,50–52,67,92,96 John 25,61 Roger 25 Thomas 74,76,97 William see Baker 14,43–44,88,94–95,106 Harris | Harryes Joseph 50,89,96 Harrison | Harryson Thomas 61,110 William 75 Hart, Carewe 92 Haynes Alexander 14,91 Dermot 29,32,92 Heale, Alexander 3 Henderson, John 60,67–68,74,96–97 Henry, William 88

Hermans | Hermens Cornelius 88,93–94 Hertford, Francis — see Seymour-Conway 103 Hibbott | Hibbotes Thomas 23,28,31 Hilditch | Hillditch William 61,64,74,76,96 Hill Alice 29 Arthur 40,52,55,88 Moses 15–16,23,26,28,32,52,91–94 Peter 88 Trevor—see Hillsborough 74 William 62–63,74,97 Hillman Ralph 47,50,93 Walter 92 Hillsborough, Trevor—see Hill 74 Hinch, John 54,56,67 Hodgson | Hodgsone Edward 92–93 Hogg Robert 58 William 106 Holland, Stephen 66,68 Holman | Hollman | Howlman Walter 22–23,28,32 Hood, David 98–99 Hooper John 13–14,23–24,28,31,91 William 43 Horsman | Horseman Anthony 62,64–65,67–68,74,89,96–97, 100,110 Ingraham 38,93 Richard 74,77,97–99,110 Roger 98 Houghton, Anthony 56 Hounsell | Housell John 44–45,93 Household | Houshould | Houshold Charles 27 Jacob 61,68 Thomas 27 Howard Charles 99 Thomas 52,89 Humpston, Robert1 31

Robert Humpston, Bishop of Down & Connor.

INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES

Hunt | Hunte Edmond 41 James 26 Thomas 26 Hunter, Robert 79 Hurley, William 92–93 Hussey, Edmond 28,32 Hyan, Turlogh 22 Ingram, Thomas 110 Jackson Elizabeth—see Dobbs 111 Henry 106 Richard 61 James, King James I & VI 61,78 Jephson, John 20–21,121 Johnson | Jhonson | Johnston | Johnsone Bartholomew 92 Edward 40,94 Humphrey 11–16,22,27–29,31,35,42,88, 90–91,95,120,124–126 Jane 109 John 60–61,63,110 Letitia—see Byrtt 107,109 Mary—see Pierce 107 Matthew 27,42,45,47,51,54–55,59–60, 88,93–95,109 Michael 59 Richard 50–53,61,67–68,96,107 Roger 109 William 67,74,97 Jolan, John 65 Jones | Jhones | Johnes Alice 14 Edward 87,101–102 Lewis 3–4,6 Matthew 12,90–91 Valentine 100,102 Jordan, William 43 Jowland, John 61 Junkin David 79 John 79 Kane see O’Cahan Karne, Widow 29 Karr | Karre Anthony 76 John 97 Michael 50–52,61,96,110 Keightly, Thomas 98

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Kelly | O Kelly | Kellie Gildony 15,28,32 Phillip 14,22,28,31 Kennedy | Kenedye Nicholas 75 Richard 58 Keppocke, John 15 Kid, Mary—see Boyd 109 King, Thomas 45 Kirk James 87,111 Peter 113–115 Thomas 104–105 Vesey 86 William 104–105,113 Kirkpatrick | Kirkpatricke | Kirckpatrick Laurence 27 Thomas 26–27,37,42,88,92–95,106 Lackforde, - - 128 Lane, G: 58 Lang, James 61 Langford | Langforde Anne 55,108 Arthur 55 Hercules 36,38,92–94,108 Roger 29–31,41–42,88–89,95,106–108 Lea, Clement 60 Leathes Alexander 60 Robert 79 Ledall | Lydall | Lyddal William 22–23,28,32 Legg, Thomas 104–105,114–115 Loftus, Adam 40 Loggan Matthew 54 Long, John 14 Patrick 32 William 28,31 Longford, Francis—see Aungier 74 Louyd | Loouyd Captain 7 Lowther, G. 40 Ludford John 103 Thomas 103 Lugg | Logg | Lougge | Lougg | Lugge John 3,12,16,22,28–29,32,91,106,108, 120,124 Thomas 106,120,124

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Luty | Lurty John 110 Susannah 53 Lyghtfoote, Robert 66 Lymsey, William 12–14,120,124,125,126,128 Lyndon | Lyndone | Lindon Edward 78 Hugh 88 John 59,66,100 Robert 22–23,28–29,31,35,92 Roger 39–42,45–47,53,55,57,59,88–89, 94–95,107 Lyttle | Lytle | Little John 43,61 M., J., Serjeant at Mace 84 MÂCarne | MÂCharne Hugh 14 John 14,22,28,32 MÂCarroull, Thomas 5–6 Macartney --102,115 George 115–116 William 86,101 MÂClellan | MÂClellom Thomas 50–52 MÂClenahan, William 61 MÂClurgh, David 79 MÂCollam, Neil 22 MÂCullough | MÂCully | MÂColloch | MÂCulloch James 60,68,74,97,110 Thomas 60,98 MÂDonnell Alexander—see Antrim 75 Katherine—see Manners, Villiers & Buckingham 75 Mary 75 Randell—see Antrim 75 Rose—see O’Neill 75 Sorley Boy 6 MÂFarrell, Thomas 10 MÂFee, Widow 54 MÂGalpeny, John 35 MÂGoan, Donough 6 MÂIlwain Andrew 79 John 79 MÂKie, James 27 MÂLaughlin Isabel—see Pierce 15 Turlogh 15

MÂManus, Thomas

15,22,29,32–33,54,61, 67,92,97,109 MÂMuchrie, John 61 MÂNaight, John 106 MÂNeile, Robert 75 M‘Skimin, Samuel 116,124,128 MÂQuillan | MÂQuillen | MÂQuillin Rowland 50,95–96 Rory Ogg 5–6 Madden, - - 41 Magee | Magye | MÂGye | Magy Henry 87 John 29,32,45,54–56,67,74,96–97 Mary 10 Owen 15,28,32,59,91–92 Phelim 1,6,90 Robert 1,14,32,90 William 85,87,100 Magill, Hugh 75 MakePeace, Charles 86 Malby, Captain 4 Mane Andrew 60 James 61 Manners Charles—see Rutland 104 Katherine—see MÂDonnell, Villiers & Buckingham 75 Marshall, John 12 Martin Arthur 79 Barry 105 George 79 Mason | Massone Edward 25,93,106 Mather, Richard 39 Mathew | Mathewes | Matthewes John 67 Rowland 23,29,32 May, Sir Stephen 115 Meachan, David 108 Meade | Mead John 106 Patrick 74 Meagh, William 79 Meares, Phillip 25 Mearns Andrew 79 Nathaniel 79 Meridith, Robert 40 Mervin, Audley 51

INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES

Meryeman, Captain 14 Methwold, William 36 Miller James 106,108 Thomas 114 Millner, Thomas 25 Mitchell Arnald 106 Mary—see Ellis 106 Moore Alexander 88 Edward 12,19–20 Garrett 98 Mary—see Savage 106 Morrison | Morison David 77,99–100 John 60 Morry John 27 Thomas 27 Mount, William 60 Mount Alexander, Hugh —see Mountgomery 74,88 Mountgomery, Hugh —see Mount Alexander 74,88 Mountjoy | Mountjoye Charles—see Blount 19 William—see Stewart 98 Mowntene Walter 15 Wife of Walter 15 Mulholland, John 108 Murdech, William 10 Murris, John 61 Nealsome, Marmaduke 12 Newton Andrew 77,99,111 Henry 111 Marmaduke 25,74,77,93,97–98 Richard 15–17,23,25,28,32,34,91,106 Norrell, Robert 66 Norryes, John 5–6 Norton Gregory 19–21,23–24,28,32,91,121 Humphrey 92 Nugent | Newgent Captain 76 Thomas 98 Oboylan Art 26 Cormac 26

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O’Cahan | O Cahan | O’Kane | OCahan | Okane | O’Cahane Cornelius 2,38,90,93 Donnell 46 Elizabeth 46 Richard 31,35,38,44–45,97,106,109 Thomas 51,109 William 44 O’Carr | O Carre | O Carr Brian 15,22,28,32 Thomas 25 O Cashonan, Owen—see Duffe 5,15 O’Conlan, Thomas 25 O Draine Enewerie—see Faye 15 Shane 15 William 15 O’Gillmur | Gillmur Hugh 25 Murtagh 25 O Haggan, Darby 60 O Hanan | Hannyn | Hannyne John 14,28,31 O Havran, Phelim 15 OHenry, Murtagh 6 O Lynne, Hugh 14 Omanaghan, Owen 10 O Marran, Arthur 61 O’Neile Brian MÂPhellime 3,5–6 Cormac 98 Henry 75,88 Hugh1 125 Rose 75 Ockford | Ockforde Henry 14–15,22,29,32,91 Odelle, Nell 10 Openshawe, MÑ 37 Ormond | Ormonde James FitzThomas—see Butler 58,62,75 Orpin Ann 51 John 45–47,51,55,89,95–96 Papes, Thomas 92 Parker, Jo: 106 Parkinson, Edward 6 Parks | Parkes John 88–89,94 Patterson, Margaret 56

Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone.

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Pendleton | Pendelton Richard 60,63–64,74,96–97,109 Penry | Penrye William 94 Person, Thomas 14 Philip, King Philip V of Spain 87 Phillips, - - 20 Pierce | Piers | Pier. | Pierse | Peers | Pyerce Isabel—see MÂLaughlin 15 Margaret—see Byrtt 106 Mary—see Byrtt 107 Richard 106–107 William 3–11,14,90,106 Plunkett John 32 Walter 25 Potts | Pottes, Humphrey 4–7,90 Powell, Thomas 37,92 Preistly, Thomas 61 Price Francis 103 Kenneth Alexander 104 Prince William 23 Widow 28 Pue, Humphrey 54 Pulhame, Robert 39 Purdy, John 61 Quin, Darby 61,67,110 Radcliffe, George 40 Rawden, George 55 Read, John 61 Redworth, John 32,93 Rice | Ryce James 13–14,91 Stephen 98 Richardson | Richison | Richyson Simon 60,65–66,68–69,74,96–97 Thomas 53,93–94 Richett, Walter 53 Richy, John 106,109 Roads, John 25 Rogers John 111 Nicholas 1–2,89 Ross | Rosse Gilbert 111 James 87 John 60 Rottengather, John Frederick 37 Royden, John 9

Russell Alexander 106 Andrew 15 Christopher 108 Ellen—see Garvan 106 James 3,9–11 John 106 Michael 61 Sidney 16,29,31,91,108 William 13,76,120 Rutland, Charles—see Manners 104 S., G., Recorder 84 Sackford, Thomas 11 Salmon, John 123 Sambach | Sambidge William 41,49,88,94 Savage | Savidge | Savidg. | Savyge | Savadge | Savadg George 14,28,31,44 James 29,31,52,61,93,108 John 7,13–15,22,25,28,31,90–92,95 Mary—see Moore 106 Michael 6–7,11–15,43–45,51–52,61,64, 90–91,95,109 Patrick 2–3,44,61,90,95 Robert 45,50–52,55,61,93,95 Thomas 108 William 12,14,28,31,91 Sayers, Henry 61 Schomberg, General 77 Scrogee, Robert 79 Scully | Skully John 14,28,31,90 Seaman, Thomas 61 Seckford | Seckforde Thomas 90 Seeds, John 85,101–104 Sendall | Sandall Isabel—see Wills & Duffe 15 John 10 Richard 1–2,9–11,90,106 Robert 88,109 Widow 28,31 Seymour-Conway, Francis—see Conway 100 Shaw Charles 75 John 75 William 75 Shuckburgh | Shuckbrough Richard 88,106 Shurlock, Captain 76

INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES

Sidney | Sydnye | Sydney Henry 7,9–11,120,125 Sinkler | Sinklar Andrew 61,65 James 65 Thomas 65 Sion, John 79 Sloane, William 106 Smilly, John 79 Smith | Smithe | Smyth Captain 3 Christian 109 Edward 102 Hugh 54,56–65,67–68,72,109–110 James 109 John 61,67,74,97 Thomas 110 Snowe, William 107 Spaight, George 85,100–101 Sparke, William 36 Spearpoint | Spearpointe | Spearpoynt | Spearepoynt | Sperpoint | Speerepoynte | Spearepoynte | Sperpoynte | Sperepoynte Henry 16,22–23,29,32,91 Richard 40,42,88–89,93–95 Speers, Sheela 122–123 Spencer, William 77,99 Stacey, Richard 61 Stark, Arthur 8 Stephens, John 61 Stephenson | Stivenson | Stevenson | Stephensone M 15 Robert 15,25 Thomas1 1,3–4,7,11,13–14,16,22,25,28,31, 89–91,106,110,113 William 25,92 Stewart Andrew 111 William—see Mountjoy 98 1

The younger Thomas Stephenson is described as “late of Knockfergus gent (whoo voluntarilye went upon the Swedene Viadge where he dyed)”. George B. Clark: Irish Soldiers in Europe 17th to 19th Century, page 249—“In 1614 Sir Arthur Chichester, Lord Deputy of Ireland, claimed credit for having shipped many Irish to Sweden, mostly from Ulster. He boasted that ‘besides the cutting off of many bad and disloyal offenders within the land I have sent away 6,000 of the same inclination and profession to the wars in Sweden.’” It seems that Thomas Stephenson had been instrumental in this expedition—he was alive in 1603 and dead by 1616.

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Vaughan Arthur 35 Charles 35 Mary 28,32,35 Thomas 12,14–16,22,35,91 Venables, Robert 89 Verner, Thomas 114 Villiers, Katherine—see MÂDonnell 75 Wadman, John 45,50–51,66,68,96 Walcote, Captain 76 Wall, Thomas 50 Wallace, James 88 Walsh George 74,97 Robert 64,66,89,96,109 Thomas 31 Warcope, Robert 90 Ward Arthur 58 Barnaby 90 Bernard 11 Thomas 76 Wardlow, John 66 Warren, Henry 73 Washer, John 107 Welby | Welbye | Welbie Samuel 61,74–75,97 Welles, William 25 Welsh, Robert 45,51–52,55,95 Wentworth, Thomas 40 Westbrooke, Richard 57,61,96 Wharton, Joshua 26,94 Whitaker | Whittaker John 61 Thomas 42,88,94 White | Whit | Whitt | Whyt Hugh 61 John 1 Michael 23–26,29,33,35,91–93 Whitehead, Margaret 110 Whittington, William 21,121 Wilkinson, Edward 93 William, King William III 76–77 Williams Ann—see Hall 110–111 Hugh 61 John 111 Robert 74,97–98,111 Sarah 111 William 94,110

Willoughby | Willougby Andrew 50–51,53,63,67,74,97–98 John 106 Wills | Wills. | Wylles | Wylls Henry 9–10 Isabel—see Duffe & Sendall 15 John 28,32 Nicholas 1,9–10,58–59,64,89–91,110,113 Robert 13–14,91,110 Thomas 61 Wife of Robert 14 William 109 Wilson Arthur 87 Davys 87,101–102 Ezekiel 99–100,102–105 Hill 102 James 99 John 79 Nicholas 106 Winslowe | Wynsloe Jenkin 15,31 Witter | Wytter Richard 92 Robert 45,50–52,61,96,108 Thomas 14–15,25,29,32–33,35,91–93 Wollocomb, Richard 107 Woods | Woodes Morgan 23,32 Murtagh 28,45 Peter 61 Samuel 110 Wylde Jeffery 55,108 Margaret—see Breers 55 Wyntle, Robert 10 Yearworth | Yeareworthe | Yearworthe | Yerworthe | Yeareworth | Yerworth Dudley 16,23,28,32,35,92 Yell, William 66 Yelverton, Barry 104 Yeo | Yoe Edmond 45,50–54,56,96,107,109 York, James1 71 Young, Thomas 77,99

Duke of York; subsequently King James II & VII.

GENERAL INDEX

aldermen 1600 powers etc. —can imprison disorderly persons 17 —ensure men have access to weapons 17 —responsible for street cleaning 17 ¿confirmed (1657) 46 1624 new appointees to bring in their plate or be fined 37 1681 listed according to seniority 74 1791 refused to be sworn into office 105 apprenticeships duration must be 7 or more years 46 indentures —to be entered in town records (1657) 46 —various recorded 24–27,64,65 bourgasse/burgadge [‘burgage’, a long town plot with narrow front] 11,12 burgesses 1668 two request retirement due to age 64 1681 listed according to seniority 74 1690 one elected against mayor’s wishes 76 butlers [weapons? soldiers?] 5 church (St Nicholas) 1575 donations for, (see finances/audits) 7 1590 deputy appointed to collect tithes 12 1678 —clock and dial set up 63 —mort. clothes delivered to 63 —sword and standard inside refurbished 66 coram [‘before’] see records of assembly 1–17 court agreements etc. recorded —1574 property from Thomas Lugge by estreat returned to grandson John 106 —1592 lease of land (incomplete record) 12 —1598 sale of an interest in mills lying outside the West Gate 106 —1613 exchange of land & money for half share in house etc 35 —1635 ¿lease houses in West Street 109 ¿lease plot west side Cheston’s Lane 109 ¿settlement of property on son on occasion of his marriage 106 —1638 property in trust for daughter on her marriage, & his other children 106 —1643 sale many tracts of land for £400 106 —1650 lease of 300 acres, rent to be abated if war prevents profits 106

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—1652 above lease re-assigned with consent of landlord 106 —1656 discharge of a mortgage 45 —1657 sale of various tracts of land for £185 106 —1661 lease of tenements 109 —1662 ¿deed of feoffment in trust for wife and daughters 106 ¿quit for ever any claim against the corporation 51 —1664 letter of attorney regarding lands in co. Westmeath 52 —1666 ¿deposition regarding money paid in 1650 for a widow & her children 55 ¿unsuccessful attempt by town to seize property to cover unpaid rent 55 ¿bond for £100 56 —1667 bond for £120 59 —1669 lease of house 110 — . . . . sale of two parcels of land 110 —1671 ¿bonds for money left to the poor ·£20 by John Matthews 67 ·£6 by Richard Johnston 67 —1677 settlement of various properties on son 110 —1678 bond for £115 10s 78 —1683 deed of conveyance 110 —1720 release of bond for £70 87 —1740 bond for £100 111 cases before —1569 cullerably defrauded HM Customs and town 1 —1575 disobedience, contempt and misdemenour 6 —1576 sellery, and false conspiracy of death 9 —1580 uncertain, perhaps debt 11 —1581 false claim over quarter bourgasse 11 —1599 controversy over inherited house 15 —1614 offences in exercise of office of Sheriff 35 —1650 failure of lessor to sign lease despite being paid 43 —1665 incursion of buildings unto land 53 —1666 incursion of wall unto land 54 —1667 fences: occupier maintains head and right-hand ones 59 —1668 common battery 67

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RECORDS OF CARRICKFERGUS

—1682–83 only one case of trial by jury 76 costs, whole charged for actions valued over 30s, half for those below (1574) 5 guardians, appointed for heirs and report on estate (1651) 44 noise in, fines for (1574) 4 warrants (some only examples) —1671 to sheriffs for seizing goods in lieu of outstanding debt 68 —1739 ¿to J.D., (water-bailiff?), for seizing and securing all recent wrecks 78 ¿to J.H., constable, for collecting and levying public money 84 —1740 to constables ¿for summoning a jury to check weights and measures 84 ¿for summoning populace to have their weights and measures checked 84 courthouse St Nicholas church used before 1593 12 Castle Worrough used 1593 onwards 12 curia tenta [‘court held’] see records of assembly 1–17 finances audits —1578–1579 spending on church 9,10,11 —1577–1589 spending on defences 10,11 —1595 accounts of officials and others 14 —1644 commissioners appointed to audit & oversee town’s finances 42 bargains, town —1576 debtors to pay double if do not settle on time 8 —1600 merchants may not sell share of town bargain to a freeman’s wife, servant, or factor 17 —1603 Greg. Norton joins MÑ Hooper in making of until Michalmas 1604 24 charges, contingent, for gaoler and sacramental elements (1739) 84 customs (HM), town’s one-third share of —1606 mayor to receive 34 —1624 town to receive, not mayor 36 —1624 collectors appointed ¿Richard Mather in October, to have £4 per annum, died in November 39 ¿Robert Pulhame in his stead with same stipend 39 —1640 given up to Crown in exchange for £3,000 to trustees to buy land for town 40

—1659 demand that trustees account for this £3,000 and interest (failed) 48 debtors —1577 forgiveness 10 —1595 long-term, Charles Egerton, Moyses Hill, Andrewe Russell 15 —1659 town members should lend money so debtors can be sued 49 income —collectors for town appointed ·1572 John Flood & CornelÒ O Cahan 2 ·1624 Cornell O’Kane 38 —1601 revenue determined quarterly & collected by mayor’s warrant 18 —1601 collection has been neglected, mayor will issue warrant on failure 18 —1601 duties on wine for stipends, on grain and malt for upkeep of quay 18 —1601 all to be recorded by mayor of Trenetie Yeild and used for town 18 —1624 sheriffs no longer to collect the rents and revenue of the town, 37 —1624 town’s one-third share of HM Customs taken from mayor 36 —1640 town’s one-third share of HM Customs given up to Crown 40 —1660 trustees appointed to receive money from collectors 50 —1677 sheriffs to collect all fines and apply them to the town’s use 71 —1739 example warrant to constable for collecting public money 84 outgoings —1659 excessive due to mayors’ large stipends, great interest on debts, etc 48 —1659 money for town’s use to be kept by honest men to only pay on order 48 —1660 trustees only to pay on warrant from aldermen and Commons 50 —1677 payment bonds only to be issued in a quarterly assembly 72 —1677 warrants for issuing of revenue to be signed monthly in open court 72 problems —1659 town in debt, many reasons 49–50 —1659 valuable bonds held by trustee now deceased, must be retrieved 49 stipends and fees —1624 Richard Brooks, for banishing strange beggars etc, 30s per annum 37

GENERAL INDEX

—1740 (ca.) dockets of fees for several officers of the town —mayor ¿1601 stipend set to £20 and share of customs if the fines and taxes on wine exceed a certain value but he must not sell wine, ale or spirits ¿1608 stipend of £20 to continue until Michaelmas next ¿1659 stipend previously excessive, now £30 as town in poor condition ¿1663 aldermen and Commons agree the limit of £30 should continue ¿1664 to be allowed some fines as £30 not sufficient for expenses ¿1677 allowed no more than 20s per annum out of fines —sergeants 40s per annum (1606) —sheriffs ¿1606 allowed 20s per annum and usual perquisites ¿1624 ·must pay cost of filing own accounts ·stipend and expenses removed —sword-bearer ¿1666 £5 fixed per annum until town can afford more —town clerk ¿1624 to receive a stipend again, also the fees to which he is entitled ¿1666 £4 stipend removed treasurer —1579 mayor could account for his year if treasurer the year following —1601 mayor is town treasurer in third year after his mayorality —1624 William Clough appointed —1636 Roger Lyndon appointed —1681 officers of exchequer repaid costs of passing their accounts freemen 1569 fee payable on taking oath 1576 dinner to town on being elected 1576 two to be made privy to finances 1600 forbidden to trade —if made Provost Marshall —if not a member of the “Trenetie Yeild” 1657 eligible if finished apprenticeship, by right of birth, or pay at least £10 1658 must pay any fines owing if elected 1683 eight elected

18 19 48 51 52 71 35

34 37 37

38 55

8 80 38 39 73 2 7 8 16 17 46 47 75

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1757 “ouster men” elected 102 land arable land, division of —1595 none, M‘Skimin wrong 128 „ „ „ —1601 128 —1603 first, list of recipients 28,29 —1606 second, list of recipients 29,30 boundaries —1594 petition to Crown regarding land and defences ¿William Lymsey and Humfery Johnston to bring to England 13 ¿text, and reply to Lord Burghley 125–127 ¿first description of town limits 120,127 ¿letter from Crown obtained, then official commission from Dublin 13 ¿landowners’ charges to cover cost ·1595 what existing freemen owe 14 ·1601 what new freemen will owe if they wish a share in the land 22,23 —1601 survey ordered by Elizabeth I 19 ¿Geffery Fenton, Surveyor, appointed John Jephson as his deputy 20 ¿jury constituted and verdict given 21 ¿irrespective of verdict, existing legal deeds to land will be accepted 21 —south-westerly ¿discussion of 119–124 ·Cloghloghortie 123–124 ·M‘Skimin’s Silverstream error 121–122 burgesses’ share, in town and out 80 common land —1659 remaining 1,500 acres, to continue free for use of town 50 —1677 turf from ¿none to be cut without licence 72 ¿two loads out of twenty reserved for corporation 72 —1747 ¿to let all except 200 acres to be enclosed for turf, and supervised 86 ¿above cancelled, 1659 ruling to stand 87 leases —1576 William Piers excused rent until Michaelmas 9 —1593 granted in West Street on condition build with lime and stone 12 —1659 all rent and arrears should be paid and failure not be tolerated 48 —1659 review of rent roll and leases should be undertaken 50

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RECORDS OF CARRICKFERGUS

named —Bottoms, the 108 —Cloghloghortie 119–124 —Cregnisheimagh 107 —Crooked Garden 110 —Earl’s Meadow 22,120–121,123–124,127 —Garden Komman 45 —Gillin’s Acres 110 —Lyndon’s Garden 78 —Pingle, the 111 —Woodborne 28–32,119,120,122,124, 125,127 mayors 1601 to be successively mayor; mayor of Staple; Master of “Trenittie Yeelde” & Guild of Merchants; town treasurer 17 1677 William Hill presents scarlet gown 63 1740 (ca.) dubious assertions1 —may appoint up to 16 aldermen, 24 burgesses, 1 sheriff 79 —is Custos Rotulorum—first Justice of the Peace and keeper of records 80 —has privilege of receiving tongues of all cattle killed for sale on Fridays 80 —successively mayor; mayor of Staple; Master of Guild of Merchants; and town treasurer 80 military 1573 Captain Smithe & men left the town which was then attacked and burnt 3 1573 Earl of Essex and others arrived 3 1575 Rathlin islanders killed 6 1575 some townsmen and soldiers killed 6 1672 war declared vs the States General of United Provinces of Low Countries 69 1688 some newly-raised unarmed troops arrived and were supplied 76 1690 King William landed from the Mary yacht and left for Belfast 76 1739 —foundation of officers’ foot barracks laid 78 —war declared against the King of Spain 87 militia/company of foot 1666 mayor to raise, train, and captain it 58 1667 every private soldier to be paid 6p per day when on exercise 58 1670 castle-keeping entrusted to during army rendezvous at the Curragh 62 1671 only 62 men turned out when command transferred to new mayor 66

misdemeanours altercations —physical 3,5,7,13,33,63 —verbal 1,4,6,13,32,34,35,45,54,63 cullering of non-freeman’s goods 1 disobedience to civil directive 2,4,6,24,34 incorrect measures of ale found 5 mutiny —in the assembly ¿1607, July 33 ¿1607, August 34 —of troops ¿1576 of at least some 7 ¿1666 of the garrison 62 resisting arrest 63 scolding 4 miscellaneous 1682 death of Lord Marquess of Antrim 75 1739 Beer Looms & Fairfurlongs, limits of mayor’s authority over wrecks defined 78 monetary system Irish/current money Ireland 2,32,33,34,35 new standard of Ireland 24 of England 1,2,9,11,15,26,35,38 sterling 1–111 punishments apologise 1,4,6,36,54,63 banished from town (1576) 7 deprived of —freedom of the town for ¿1569 defrauding customs 1 ¿1569 non-residence 1 ¿1600 arrest of mayor and suing him 16 ¿1665 verbal altercation with mayor 54 —office for ¿1607 misdemeanours and outrages, alderman 34 ¿1607 mutiny, forespeaker of the Commons 34 ¿1614 for offences in office, sheriff 35 ¿1656 for execrable speech, alderman 45 executions, Sir Brian MÂPhellime and Rowry Ogg MÂQuillin 6 house arrest 24,35,45 imprisonments 2,3,4,16,24,33,36,54,63,65 —mayor committed to common gaol with town chest by enemy (1689) 77 pay —bloodshed1 5 —fines 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,16,32,33,34,36,53,63,65

Richard Dobbs wrote that these assertions in Richard Gill’s writing were without authority,

This seems to have been a fine collected by an official, e.g., the water-bailiff, if blood was shed in a fight.

GENERAL INDEX

pillorying 7 scolds, to be drawn behind boat or caged 4 whipping 7 recorders appointed 1593 William Lymsey at stipend of £20 12 1602 Thomas Hibbotes, Exchange, Master, also freeman 23 1636 William Sambach, also freeman 88 ¿1639 made Roger Lyndon his deputy 41 1656 Roger Lyndon deputy recorder 45 1663 Audley Mervin chosen but did not take up the position 51 1665 James Dobbin deputy recorder in July, Roger Lyndon the same in Sept. 53 1671 John Lyndon 66 1739 Edward Lyndon ex-recorder 78 1739 G. S. 84 1740 Henry Gill deputy recorder 85 1757 Edward Smyth 102 1759 John Ludford 103 1765 George Hamilton 103 1778 Barry Yelverton 104 scott and lott [a proportionate contribution or tax] 1 sheriffs refusal to take oath of office —1665 Andrew Willougby 53 ¿1668 he sued town over goods which it seized in lieu of unpaid fine 63 —1671 John Jolan, fine £7, used to clean town clock and clock house 65 tipler [licenced ale-seller] must provide two beds for strangers and stabling for four horses (1569) 1 town assembly —Common’s suggestions for dealing with: ¿1576 advancing the common weal 8 ¿1659 town’s poor finances 49–50 —days of meeting ¿1576 quarterly 8 ¿1657 monthly 46 —places of meetings ¿1569 St Nicholas church June and July 1 ¿1569 town house December onwards (location later often omitted) 1 bell —1624 town’s first, bellfounder made freeman, town supplies necessities 37 —1671 re-cast 66

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charters —extracts from 113,119,121–123 —taken to Dublin & returned (1667) 62 chest, for town’s records —1603 obtained, has three locks 24 —1747 three new locks and keys 85 —1835 ¿history and contents recorded 115 ¿key holders 113–114 ¿recorded openings 114 child, Fortunatas Carrickfergus, to be put to apprenticeship (1677) 72 defences, improving —1572 on sea side of houses 2 —1574 vamour of sods around the town 4 —1575 wall along sea side (agreed) 7 —1575? built by Mr Lackforde 128 —1658 wall collapsed near the pond, town to rebuild without prejudice 47 destruction, by fire, (1573) 3 elections —1640 no one in debt to town may stand unless covered by bond 41 ¿1659 demand that this be enforced 49 —1658 for mayor, irregularities noted, such elections will be held void 47 —1677 mayor and deputy mayor not to stand in year after their office 72 —1718 certificate of, sent to Dublin 77 —1740 copy of 1711 deposition, freemen who voted for Edward Clements1 79 —results: see in record & pages 88–105 fairs, no taxes to pay to encourage attendance (1678) 72 fish shambles erected (1576) 7 garrison, cost of to town (1594) 126 humble address to Charles II (1682) 75 incorporation of 113 pavements repaired —1574 5 —1677 63,71 pier, damage to and occupation of 6 pensions —1658 Mathew Johnston, alderman, £10 47 —1658 Ralph Hillman, Burgess, £4 47 petition —1666 Francis Fowell and wife ask pay no taxes due age (rebated by half) 57 1

See David Hayton, Ruling Ireland, 1685-1742: Politics, Politicians and Parties, page 202, for information about a dispute between Edward Clements and Samuel Davys.

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RECORDS OF CARRICKFERGUS

records —books of proceedings in chest ¿two from September 1765 116 ¿one May to September 1787 115 —list directed to be made (1747) 85 —lost before 1569 113 returns of men aged sixteen to sixty —1681 four hundred and ninety six 73 —1692 four hundred and sixty four 77 roads and streets —1575 householders to clean their part of street 7 —1671 way from North Street to the church yard was paved 66 —1683 roads repaired despite poor summer 76 —1740 stone bridges replacing wooden 111 rules, for towns etc, made in 1672, and copied by mayor into records in 16831 76 sea wrack or tangle, cutting of prohibited except by licence (1740) 85 security —1574 ¿curfew, anyone on street after bell rung may be apprehended 3 ¿house owners in town answerable to the watch 3 ¿watch, strengthened, five to the stand and two to the search 3 staple, the 9,13,17,18,24,49,60,80, town clerk appointed —1602 Dudley Yerworthe 23 —1666 Hugh Smith 56 —1667 Hugh Smith (new election well documented per charter 10 James I) 60 water supply —1665 mayor ordered door of stable nailed up to stop pollution of river 54 —1671 ¿town built a wall to bring water through the church yard 66 ¿donor paid for a pump for the town 66 —1677 water carried to Thoulsall ‘and back again’ 63 trade 1576 export, of hides, temporarily prohibited unless town bargain 9 1601 taxes imposed on various items 18 1659 reduced due to neglect of the Staple 49 1

Omitted by Richard Dobbs as they were available in the 3Ã vol. of the Irish Statutes page 229.

trading 1600 freemen forbidden to allow foreigners and soldiers to sell wine etc 17 1600 merchants may not sell their share of a town bargain to a freeman’s wife, servant, or factor 17 1593 restrictions on unless a merchant of the Staple 13 water-bailiff 1574 assaulted and threatened —March by Thomas MÂCarroull 5 —July by Lewis Jones 3 1739 warrant to J.D., (water-bailiff?), for seizing and securing all recent wrecks 78 1740 (ca.) duties and privileges set out (as established in 1550 by the Lord High Admiral) 81 John Lugg 3,141

Carrickfergus old town records 1569-1747

Articles inside

General Index

Par t of the char ter of 11 July , 7 James I

Appendix I — Histor y of the Records

Sources

Appendix III — Miscellaneous

Appendix II — L ands to the South-West