APPENDIX TO THE FRENCH EDITION Dublin, 2nd Janry. 1580 (22nd year of the reign). Queen Elizabeth nominates Walter de Montayne, Vice-Lieutenant of the County of Kilkenny (in Ireland). Elisabeth, Dei gracia, Anglie, Francie et Hibernie regina, fidei defensor, etc. Omnibus ad quos presentes littere pervenerint, salutem. Sciatis quod constituimus dilectum nobis Walterum Walshe de Mountayne generosum, vicarium nostrum comitatus nostri Kilkennensis; habendum, tenendum occupandum et excercendum officium illud prefato Waltero Walshe quamdiu nobis placuerit; ita quod firmas debitas comitatui predicto nobis annuatim reddat; ac de omnibus aliis redditibus, exitibus et profituis comitatus predicti nobis ad saccarium nostrum Hibernie respondeat et compotum inde reddat, prout moris est. In cujus rei testimonium has litteras fieri fecimus patentes; teste Thoma comite Ormonie et Ossori, thesaurario regni nostri Hibernie. Datum apud Dublin, secundo die januarii, anno regni nostri XXIIdo. MAIMVARINGE, RECEPTOR REGINE. (Act on parchment, small quarto, formerly sealed on double tag.) Dublin, 4th Jany. 1580 (22nd year of the reign). Queen Elizabeth orders Richard Sheethe and Robert Rothe to receive the oath of Walter Walsh de Mountagne, nominated Vice-Lieutenant of the County of Kilkenny. (Original on parchment.) Dublin, 29th Novber. 1586 (28th year of the reign). Queen Elizabeth nominates Walter Walsh, Vice-Lieutenant of the County of Kilkenny (in Ireland). (Original on parchment.) Dublin, 11th May 1621.1 James I., King of England, of Scotland and of Ireland, approves the lease on fief passed between the late Walter Walsh of Castlehoell, in the County 1 [The original must of course have been in English (if not in Latin) but in the publication from which this is taken, it is in French.-TR.] of Kilkenny, Esquire, on the one part and Richard Grant of Corsoddy, and William Wale of Muckery in the County of Tipperary. The revenues of these lands will be delivered to Walter Walsh, after him to his wife, Elicie Cutler; after her to one of their five sons, Robert, Edmund, James, William and John Walsh; after them to Robert Walsh, father of Walter Walsh. (Original on parchment.) Dublin, 6th August (21st year of the reign in England). James I., King of England, Scotland and Ireland, referring to his letters patent dated at Westminster, 23rd Sept. 1622 (20th year of the reign), gives to Walter Walsh junior, cousin and heir of Walter Walsh of Castlehoyle in the County of Kilkenny (in Ireland), son of Robert Walsh, himself son of Walter Walsh the elder, the heritage of the latter on payment of 57 pounds, sixpence eight farthings, Irish money, into the Treasury of Dublin. Witness Henry, Viscount of Falkland, Deputy General in Ireland. (Original on parchment sealed with double strip.) Blackfryers near Kilkenny in Ireland, 8 April 1635, (old style). Attestation regarding the alienation by the late Walter Walsh of Castlehoyle (County of Kilkenny) of a fief situated at Farrenfelbine and Ballyferoge, for the benefit of Edmund Walsh of Killmanalim, and of Agnes Walsh his wife, according to the rolls of the Chancellery of Ireland, under Charles I.,—Notarial copy made in 1752 with numerous seals and attestations legal and diplomatic to be made use of abroad. (Original on parchment.) LETTERS OF 'ARRET' [DECREE] BEARING RECOGNITION OF NOBILITY IN FAVOUR OF ANTHONY WALSH.1 Louis by the grace of God, King of France and of Navarre to our loved and faithful2 councillors, the persons holding our courts of Parliament and of the Accounts of Brittany and to all our other officers and justiciaries whom it may concern, greeting.3 By decree given in our Council of State, we being present, the 10th Novber 1753, on the request of our dear and well-beloved Anthony Walsh, Secretary of the King, of the Crown of France and of our finances, of Irish origin. We have on the titles herewith and for the causes there contained acknowledged the said Mr.1 Walsh as noble by name and by arms, and maintained in his nobility of ancient extraction, ordered that he should be regarded as such, both in judgment [law ?] and outside, and that in consequence he should enjoy for himself and his posterity, born and to be born in lawful marriage, the same honours, privileges, pre-eminences, prerogatives, franchises and exemptions as are enjoyed by the nobles ['gentilshommes ']2 of the kingdom, so long as they live nobly and do no act derogatory to nobility, and that for this effect he should be inscribed in the catalogue of the nobles, conformably to the regulation and decree of the 22d. March 1666 and 26th Feby. 1697, and ordered also that on the present decree all the necessary letters should be expedited, which the said Mr. Anthony Walsh has very humbly entreated us to grant to him. For these causes by the advice of our council, by these presents signed by our own hand we acknowledge (or recognise) the said Mr. Anthony Walsh to be noble by name and by extraction, we will and order that he should be regarded as such, as well in judgment as outside, and that in consequence he shall enjoy himself and his posterity, born or to be born in lawful marriage, the same honours, privileges, pre-eminences, prerogatives, franchises and exemptions as are enjoyed by the nobles and 'gentilshommes'2 of our kingdom as long as they live nobly and do no act derogatory to nobility; that to this effect he shall be inscribed in the catalogue of the nobles, conformably to the regulation and decree of the 22d. March 1666, and the 26th Feby. 1697. Here we make known to you that you have to register these presents and to execute the contents of these according to their form and tenor, stopping and causing to stop all troubles (difficulties) and hindrances, notwithstanding all things to the contrary. For such is our pleasure. Given at Versailles first day of December the year of grace 1753, and of our reign the thirty-ninth. 3 LOUIS. Par le Roy, PHÉLIPPEAUX. 'Insinué' [inserted?] at Nantes the 9th June 1756, due the sum of 120 pounds including the four shillings per pound, without further liability according to the registration. MIONNET. Registered at the office of the Court of the Parliament of Rennes on the final decree of 9th Jany. 1754. 1['Sieur': this is simply a diminutive of 'Monsieur' often used in law, and is of no special signification.—TR.] 2 [The term is applied only to nobles, not in the English signification.-TR.] 3 PICQUET. ['Icelles,' old term for 'celui-la,' celle-là or ceux' only used in law.-TR.] 4 ['Sans tirer à consequence.'-TR.] Registered at the office of the Chamber of the Accounts of Brittany by virtue of the decree of the same1 of the 6th Feby. 1754. (Sealed on single tag.) FLEURY, Office Clerk. LETTERS PATENT CREATING THE COUNTSHIP OF SERRANT, GRANTED TO FRANÇOIS JACQUES WALSH, 1755 Louis, by the grace of God, King of France, and of Navarre, to all present and to come, greeting. We see with pleasure that the fertility of our kingdom, the mildness of the habits of our subjects, the wisdom of our laws and the moderation of our government has attracted to it several foreign families, who are able in the extent of our states to make establishments [settlements] advantageous for them and for our Kingdom, in order also to favour these settlements and encourage them to multiply we should not neglect any opportunity of giving to these families proofs of our goodness by adopting them among our other subjects by letters of naturalisation, preserving to them the prerogatives of their birth by letters recognising their nobility and adorning the possessions they may acquire by the titles of which they are susceptible; it is by these same motives and on these same principles that the brothers Walsh, born in our kingdom but Irish by origin, having by authentic titles satisfied us that they descended from an ancient noble house, which goes back to their nineteenth great-grandfather, Philip Walsh, surnamed the Breton 2 (in Irish, Brenagh) who in 1174 killed with his own hand the admiral of the Danish Fleet which had invaded the country, and thereby acquired an immortal glory and great possessions in Ireland, which his descendants have enjoyed and which they have augmented by illustrious alliances, and that the splendour and the riches of the Walshes in Ireland has subsisted as long as it has been permitted to subjects faithful to God and to their king to preserve their possessions and their titles. We have recognised their ancient nobility by the decrees of our Council and letters patent which our Parliament and our Chamber of comptability of Brittany have registered with a kind of eagerness which well showed the satisfaction given to these courts by the titles which have been presented to us, and in which we have recognised the ancient noble extraction. of the gentlemen Walsh. The distinguished proofs which they have given us of their zeal for our service, have also induced us to receive the very humble supplication made to us by M. François Jacques Walsh, Lord of the County of Serrant, of the barony of Ingrande, the chatelaintries of Champtoce, of Savenières, of Serrant, of the Roche Serrant, of Belnoè-en-petit-Paris and other places, to unite these different lordships and their dependencies and erect them into the Countship of Serrant for his legitimate posterity born and to be born, and 1 1 ['Icelle'-Old French.-TR.] 2 [A Welshman.-TR.] |