School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Fethard (roll number 8903)
- Location:
- Fethard, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Sr M. Agatha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0557, Page 413
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of the Commonwealth, to which they sent the following answer Nov. 2nd 1653.
In obedience to your honours reference, having taken into consideration the articles of Fethard and the testimony of the good affection of the inhabitants of the said town to the English interest in the beginning of the rebellion, an the constant manifestation of their good affection sinc ethe said articles and the expressions of the Lord Lieutenant and the late Lord Deputy upon consideration of their articles that they were a people to be differenced fromt he rest of the whole nation.
We hmble offer that the said inhabitants may enjoy the benefit of their articles int he place where they now live and not to be transplanted into Connaught or elsewhere.
Signed in the name and by appointment of the said Committee,
Charles Coote.
When the Royalist officers, after the restoration of Charles II, who were to divide between them all the houses of the Irish in towns as not yet set out to the adventurers or soldiers, sent surveyors there, as to all other towns to measure and value the houses, the(continues on next page)
