Docwra's Derry by William Kelly

Author:William Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781908448224
Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation
Published: 2011-03-06T16:00:00+00:00

REMARKS ON THE PRECEDING TRACT

THE foregoing tract is printed from a MS copy which is evidently of an age contemporaneous with the writer, now preserved in the Library of the Irish Ordnance Survey Office, Mountjoy Barracks, Phoenix Park, Dublin. It is in a plain strong clerk hand, and the flyleaf exhibits the autograph of “Theodore Docwra,” but no date. The original, in Sir Henry Docwra’s own hand, is said to be in the possession of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart, of Middle Hill, who has not condescended to communicate to the Society any account of the state of the MS. The probability is that the original consists of rough notes and various original letters, which were drawn up into the following form by a professional scribe under Sir Henry Docwra’s own direction, and that the present copy in the Ordnance Survey Library was made for the use of Theodare Docwra, the son and heir of the author.

There are various Genealogical memoranda, and Armorial bearings of several branches of the Docwra’s family, as of Cambridge, Yorkshire, Herts, &c. preserved in the Library of the British Museum, (Egerton, No. 74, 6769, &c.) but the descent of our author does not appear among them. In March, 1599, he was appointed by letters patent under the great seal of the Realm, “Chief Commander and Governor of all her Majesty’s forces of horse and foot assigned for Lough Foyle.” And in the same month the following instructions were given to him and Sir Matthew Morgan from her Majesty’s Castle of Dublin by the Lord Deputy and Council.

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