[Excerpts from "Calendar of Ormond Deeds, Vol. VI., 1584-1603 A.D.", ed by Edmund Curtis, 1943]
[excerpted 9 Jun 2005, Mark Murphy]

p. 114 (139)
[John Murphie witnessed the] Conveyances of Sir Edmund Butler's estates.
Deed (in Latin) of April 6, 1601, by Sir Edmund Butler of Cloghgrenan in Co. Carlow, son of James
Butler, late Earl of Ormond....

p. 132
Glashare.
Robert Murphie of Glashare, co. Kilk. husb. age 60, sworn, etc. to 11th Interr. touchinge the meares of
Glashare saith that one Teig O ffahie a very olde man who dwelt at Glashare in Therle of Killdare is tyme
tolde this Examynate divers tymes that the meare betwixt Glasshare and Ossory begineth at the foord called
Aghbealandewode near Cowlnecrotte, and extendeth from thence as the Ditch goeth from the said foord to
the Rathquill and from thence....

p. 133
Patrick Archdekin of Cowlcasshine, Co. Killk. gent. age 60, lykewise sworn, etc. to the 11th Interr. deposeth 
that the meare sett downe in the deposicion of Robert Morphie is the true and auncyent meare betwene the 
lands of the manor of Glasshare and Up. Ossory....

p. 181
(cont. from p. 180, Appendix V.  The Common Revenue of the Town of Kilkenny, 1596-1600.  A perfect
rent charge of the common revenue of the town of Kilkenny examined by John Archer, anno 1596, beginning
Michaelmas term and truly conferred and agreeing with the book of entries with the defects corrected in 
every point)
The gate of the town of Kilkenny....
The encroachments appointed by the town ditch in the south side of St. John's street....
Thomas Casse's assigns for a parcel of said ditch broken in his back-side		xii
Harry Sex for the like encroachment					xii...
...Thomas Gyanan's assigns to Richard Croke and John Morphie for the like encroachment	xii...
Henry Sex for the slip over the water near his house...

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