from time to time to Dublin, to advocate our cause before the lords
justices and council, at our sole charge, over and above the
aforesaid sum, which we give him on account of his services; and on
condition that the said John shall not put any of us out of our
lands; and we promise to behave ourselves most dutifully to him, and
_not to adhere to any of the O'Rourkes_. In witness whereof we have
put our hands and seals to this writing the 5th day of December.
1556.

CAHAL MAC CONOCHAR.

There were present at this agreement, when it was ratified, and when
it was interchanged, and when the seals were put upon it, to wit,
God in the first place; Richard O'Hivganane; Anlan O'Molloy;
Toraylach Mac Ranald; the two sons of Teig, the son of Ayan, to wit,
Owen and William; Kiruah Mac Manus; Gerald, deacon of Feana; Cormac,
deacon of Cloon; Conachar Mac Giolla Sooly; Manus Mac Giolla Roe;
Owen O'Colla.

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From the avowed object of the above deed, to detach the Magranals from the
interest of O'Rourke, against whom war was at that time in preparation, as
well as from the deed itself having been found _in the Castle of Dublin_,
more than two hundred years afterwards, there can be little doubt that the
whole affair was got up by the lords justices, and that Magranal of Claduff
was an agent in their pay. The Magranals, however, _took nothing by their
motion_; for although they were arrayed under their new chief against
O'Rourke in the war which followed, their estates were confiscated at the
same time with his, the lawyers having discovered, that as O'Rourke was