sheets  only  had  reached  this  stage.  ***

^^  The  entire  volume  had  however  been        "  One  thousand,  three  hundred,  ten,  and

amended  in  MS.  as  the  result  of  the  con-  forty  years  from  the  birth  of  Christ  tiU

sultations  with  him,  which  I  have  referred  this  night ;  and  this  is  the  second  year  of

to,  and  had  the  benefit  of  his  latest  views  the  coming  of  the  plague  into  Ireland.     I

of  the  interpretation  and  translation  of  the  have  written  this  in  the  twentieth  year  of

law  terms.  my  age.     I  am  Hugh,  son  of  Conor  Mae

**  On  a  few  of  the  sheets  observations  were  Egan,  and   let  hfan  who   reads   it  offer  a

made  by  the  Rev.  James  H.  Todd,  D.D.,  prayer  for  mercy  on  my  soull     This  b

one  of  the  commissioners,  and  the  entire  Christmas  night,  and  on  this  night  I  place

translation  was  read  in  proof  by  the  Very  myself  under  the  protection  of  the  King  ef

Bev.  Charles  Graves,  D.D.,  another  of  the  Heaven  and  Earth,  beseeching  that  He  wiU

eommissioners,  and  has  had  the  benefit  of  bring  me  and  my  friends  safe  through  this

nis  many  valuable  suggestions.  plague,  &c.     Hugh  (son  of  Conor,  son  of

*^  The  proof  sheets  have  all  been  con-  Gilla    na    Kaeve  fservant    of   the  Holy

ridered  and  revised  by  Professor  0*Mahony  Ghost),  son  of  Dunuavey)  Mac  ^^an,  who

and  by  myself,  with  such  aid  as  could  be  wrote  this  in  his  father's  own  book  In  the

derived  from  reference  to  other  portions  of  year  of  the  great  plague."
the  Brehon  laws,  translated  by  Dr.  O'Dono-

▼an  and  Professor  0*Curry.  Oonfirming    the    genuineneM    of

"After  the  death  of  Dr.  O'Donovan,  the  this  document,  the  "TouT  Masters**
commissioners  proposed  to  submit  the  proof  record  the  entry  of  a  phume  into  Ire-
sheets  to  Professor  O'Curry,  hi  order  to  i^  j  j^  ,  ^q  •'  mu  '^TTSriftH  onrihA
have  the  benefit  of  his  suggestiomi  ahK>,  but  ^^.J.  "J  the  DestUenoT^  d^
his  sudden  death  prevented  this  being  ?^?"J®?  S^^^tI  ^
carried  out  "  ^^^  recorded,  1369.
