The copye of the submissyon of Oneyll which he made to the Kynges Maiestie at Grenewych the. xxiiii. daye of September, in the. xxxiiii. yere of his Maiesties most noble raygne, and delyuered to his Hyghnes in wrytyng, subscrybed with his owne hande on this fascyon.

Author: Tyrone, Con Bacagh O'Neill, Earl of, ca. 1484-1559.1542

The copye of the Submissyon of Oneyll / which he made to the Kynges Maiestie at Grenewych the .xxiiii. daye of September / in the .xxxiiii. yere of his Maiesties most noble raygne / and delyuered to his Hyghnes in wrytyng / subscrybed with his owne hande on this facyon. ✚
¶To the Kynges Maiestie / our most gracyous Soueraygne Lorde.

PLeaseth your most excellent Maiestie / I Oneyll one of your Maiesties most humble subiectes of the Realme of Ireland / do confesse & knowledge before your most excellent hyghnes that by ignoraunce & for lacke of knowledge of my most boū dē dutye of alegiaūce / I haue most greuously offended your Maiestie / For the which I aske your Grace here mercy and forgyuenes / most humbly besechynge your hyghnes of your most gracyous pardon / refusynge my name and state / which I haue vsurped vppon your grace agaynst my dutye and requyrynge your Maiestie of your clemencye / to gyue me what name / state / tytle / lande / or lyuynge it shall please your Hyghnes / which I shall knowledge to take and hold of your Maiesties mere gyft / And in all thynges do here after / as shall beseme your most true and faythfull snbiecte.

¶And God saue your Hyghnes.

☜The name of the Erledom gyuen to Oneyll at Grenewych the fyrst day of October in the aboue named yere of the raygne of our sayd Soueraygne Lorde Kynge Henry the eyght.

¶Leu Trehault et puissant Syr Connake Countye de Tyronne en la Relme de Irelande.

His sonnes name is Mathye / Baron of Doncane.

¶Imprynted at London in Saynt Sepulchres Paryssh in the Old Bayly / by Rychard Lant. For Iohn̄ Gough dwellynge at Smartes kay next Byllynges gate. Cum priuile gio ad imprimendum solum. *

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