PROI DKPRI 13/7 3612
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A fiant from 1578 or 1579, in the reign of Elizabeth I, containing instructions to Sir Henry Harrington, the recently appointed seneschal and chief of O'Byrne's Country in Co. Wicklow. The document has been frequently cited for its instruction to enforce severe penalties on every “idle person, vagabond or masterless man, bard, rymor, or other notorious malefactor” who remains in the district.
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