This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...p'sentem diem fact' commiss' sive perpetrat', incend' domor' blad' et garbar' seu eor' alicujus voluntar' vel non voluntar', murdra homicid' et interfecciones, tam ex malicia precogitat' quam aliter quomodocumque. Et precipue mortem homicid' et interfeccionem Gibbonis mac Shane mac-I-reddery de Clanegibbons quem predict' Mauricius Roche til' et heres D'ni Roche interfecit ut die'. Ac omnes et singul' invasiones insid' insult' illicit' spoliac' depredac' illic' confederac' per ipsos Mauricium Johannem Jacobum Gilleduff Johannem Jacobum, et per eorum aliquem, aut per procurac' suas ullo modo ante hunc presentem diem quotiescumque et qualitercumque fact' commiss' omiss' sive perpetrat'. Ac omnia et singula indictament' condempnac' Judicia penas mortis et execuciones eorundem seu eorum alicujus, racione seu occasione p'missorum seu eorum alicujus "Deliberat' fuit in cane' Hib'nie decimo die Aprilis Anno Regni Regine nostre Elizabeth octavo ad exequend'." (Fiant, No. 698, Eliz., Public Record Office.) It does not appear to be correct, as stated in the foregoing letter, that the son of the James Roche slain by the White Knight had a grant of lands from the Crown. There is no record of any such grant in the Chancery or Kxchequer departments. The only James Roche who had a lease of some of the White Knight's lands was the person slain by Edmond FitzGibbon, under the circumstances related in the preceding narrative, p. 23. For this homicide of James Roche, the White Knight had a pardon from the Crown, which is described in the original " Fiant" directing the grant to him, as "A pardon for Edmoml FitzGibbons for the death of James Roche Negelagh and all those that were Lease.The particulars of this lease have been castle of...

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