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tains 1; other pair of green satin curtains 4 5 0 A brass kettle 0 8 6 'A payer of covyrons' 0 5 0 2 baskets with certain broken earthen dishes and some waste spices 0 2 0 Half a pound of white and blue starch 0 0 4 A vessel with 11 gallons of vinegar 0 3 0 17 pewter dishes 0 15 0 3 glass bottles 0 1 6 2 stone jugs, whereof 1 broken 0 0 6 A little iron pot 0 1 6 A great spit 0 1 6 6 garrons at 80 s. apiece 9 0 0 19 stud mares, whereof [some] were claimed by Nicholas Weston, which were restored to him by warrant, 30 l. 9 s. being proved to be his own, and so remaineth 17 0 0 With respect to rents, Sir Toby Caulfield left a memorandum, stating that there was no certain portion of Tyrone's land let to any of his tenants that paid him rent, and that such rents as he received were paid to him partly in money and partly in victuals, as oats, oatmeal, butter, hogs, and sheep. The money-rents were chargeable on all the cows, milch or in calf, which grazed on his lands, at the rate of a shilling a quarter each. The cows were to be numbered in May and November by the earl's officers, and 'so the rents were taken up at said rate for all the cows that were so numbered, except only the heads and principal men of the _creaghts_, as they enabled them to live better than the common multitude under them, whom they caused to pay the said rents, which amounted to about twelve hundred sterling Irish a year. 'The butter and other provisions were usually paid by those styled horsemen--O'Hagans, O'Quins, the O'Donnillys, O'Devolins, and others.' These were a sort of middle men, and to some of them an allowance was made by the Government. 'Thus for example, Loughlin O'Hagan, formerly constable of the castle of Dungannon, received in lieu thereof a portion of his brother Henry's goods, and Henry O'Hagan's wife and her children had all her husband's goods, at the suit of her father Sir G. O'Ghy O'Hanlon, who had made a surrender of all his lands to the crown.' The cattle were to be all numbered ov
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