Letters of a 17th-Century Ulster Gaelic Lord Manuscripts: T...

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Letters of a 17th-Century Ulster Gaelic Lord

Manuscripts: Three Holograph Letters – two written from Dunluce Castle - from Randall MacSorley MacDonnell, Earl of Antrim (d 1636), to Archibald Edmonstone of Duntreath in Stirlingshire, with photocopies of transcripts published in HMC Report on MSS in Various Collections, vol. V (1909).

In the first (12 Oct. 1636), MacDonnell warns Edmonstone not to attempt to dispossess of her lands his niece, the wife of “Ever  Moquileene” (MacQuillan). In the second (10 April 1631) he writes on behalf of tenants summoned to appear before Edmonstone, and concludes by urging him to “looke well unto my plott of a gardeene at Glenarme, for I have paid the money and there is noe performance on the gardiner’s behalfe yet, for which yow are bound”. In the third (18 May 1631) he complains that tenants on land Edmonstone had made over to him have refused to pay their rents. As manuscripts, w.a.f. (3)