PROCLAMATION of LORD DEPUTY AND COUNCIL

     To  assure  the  inhabitants  of  Tyrone and  Tyrconnell that they will not be disturbed in the peaceable possession of their lands so long as they demean, themselves as dutiful subjects, notwithstanding the sudden departure of the Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell, who, with Hugh Baron of Dungannon, Caffor Oge O'Donnel, brother to the Earl of Tyrconnell, and Arte Oge O'Neale, nephew to the Earl of Tyrone, having taken with them the Countess of Tyrone and two of the youngest sons of the Earl of Tyrone and the son and heir apparent of the Earl of Tyrconnell, being an infant of the age of one year or thereabouts, with their servants and followers, have lately embarked at Lough Swilly, and are secretly departed out of the realm without licence. And that the King has appointed commissioners, as well English as Irish, residing in the several countries, to protect them, as being now under his immediate protection, and to administer justice, instead of the said Earls, to whom he had formerly committed the government thereof.   

 

Rathfarnham,

7 September 1607.

Signed: Thomas Dublin, Canc., George Derrien, Thomas

Ridgeway, Jas. Ley,  H. Winch, Anth. Sentleger,  Oliver

St. John, Henry Harrington, Oliver Lambert, Geoffrey Fenton,

Rich. Cooke.

 

(Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, 1606-8, p.263)