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 436 CORRIGENDA, ETC., TO VOL IV. laflt line, finr *' having," read " uAuallj (iho' inoorreetly) said to have " ; fvr " 1223/* Ttad <' 1 223(1*) " ; and wnri a» taid note '' (b) ' The date of 1223 should be 1205 [i,e.t 7 John^ not 7 Hen. I 11.^ aa erroneously quoted in ' Lodg9 * 'and has moreover nothing to do with the Courcys or with Kiugsale.* It relates to the confirmation by King John (29 May 1205) of the lands of Ulster to Hugh de Lacy [Quarterly Review, as above].*' pp. 393 to 400 ; in margin, r$dues each number by one, t.^., for " II. 2" read p. 393; in margin, for "12301" read ** 1221," and ineeri at the top thereof, <' Barony [I.]/' line 8, deU *< a title" to " 1230 " lines 4 and 5. dele from *< (De Oourcy) *' to " He/' ineert '* Dk Courcy, whose parentage is unknown(o), but who possibly was a son of Miles, son of John de Oourcy, Uie younger, may be con- Bidered(<») BARON OF KINQSALE AND RINQRONti, oo. Cork [I.], being apparently in posfiessiou of that Baronial territory, when he," insert as said note « ^oe) < The Lords Kingsale were undoubtedly seated in their Baronial territory of (Jourey*s from the days of Hen. III. and possess a peerage dignity of great antiquity . . . [but], . . there is no evidence that Henry III. granted a Barony of Kingsale no evidence that it ever belonged to Miles de Courcy . . . [and] no evidence that he was the father of that Patrick de Courcy who is the first of the family on record. The whole story has been patched together, to connect the fatherless Patrick with John, the Conqueror of Ulster'" Quart9rly Review, aa above.] Note (^), eonclude ** It is also to be noted ' that the true title, however, was not Kingsale, but Conrey, and so late as 1613 the then Peer sat in Pari, as Lord Courcy of Jdiugroane. In the littt drawn up preliminary to that Pari, he is styled the Lord Baron Cursie ; and Lord Courey, simply, was the style by which these Peers had always been known. The creation, however, of a Viscount Kingsale in 1625 was resented by Lord Courcy as an encroachment on his own territory, and in 1627 he obtained from Royal Commissionera a misleading report that the Lord Courey was not only Dtrd Courey, but Baron of Kingsaie and also of Ringrone. In 1634 the Lords' Journals still style him Lord Courey in their list, but eventually Kingsale, in lieu of Courcy was adopted as the title of their peerage dignity, which, however, continues to be but one' [Quarterly Review, as above]. Even as late as the reign of Charles II. ' the young Lord Courcy ' was the term applied to Almoricus, the then Baron." p. 394 ; line 7, /or ** 20 Ric. II.," read '< 20 Ric. n.(«»)," and insert at said note '* (••) The writer above quoted, after remarking that ' whatever the family's status was [previously] it required we learn from Ulster to be confirmed by patent, 1897,' says that that date (or the one of * 1396-97, 20 liic. II ') is ai-rived at by * mis- reading Lodge, who does not supply one.' He adds that ' as the earliest patent for an Irish Barony is assigned to 1462, the terms of the De Courcy ^latent would be of extreme interest, and it is much to be regretted that Lodge did not quote them. Possibly they implied a creation de novo and would tlius have been distasteful to his patrons. In anv case, so long aa it is kept tN retentis a doubt will surround this document ' [Quarterly Review, as above.] Search has since been made among the records at Dublin by a competent authority (Frank S. Marsh), who writes thereon as follows : * There is an old Lodge MS$. book purporting to be an official list of the Peers and Baronets of Ireland compiled from the earliest reoords and histories extant. This bouk formerly belougetl to Ulster's office, but is now [1898] in the P.R.O. In this is an entrv [vit.] Miles de Courey {son of John, Earl of Ulster), title — Lord Courey of Kingsale and Ringrone^ CO, Corke, date of patetit ItBS^ 7^ Hen, S (and in brackets below), conjlrined hy patent in 1397 ^ io Rie, B. This must be the same patent as is mentioned in tlie beginning of the paragraph [Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, edit. 1789, vol. vi] on p. 148, as issued at Westminster, 1 Jan. 1397, and I think it must be to it that the concluding words of the paragraph [by t/ie letters patent of that King, reeeieed a eonflnnation of the honours and titles of Baron of Kingsaie and Ringrone] refer. There may have been some slight confusion in the mind of the writer which led him to make two patents out of one. At all events if there is another patent it must be in the English Rolls. I searched the index to the Patent and Close Rolls of Rio. II. (there are none here from 18 lUa 11. to end of his reign), and also went through the Repertory to the Memoranda Rolls and inspected a stray Reward Roll of same reign (which I discovered) but without finding any trace ai
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