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Register of the mayors of Drogheda

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An English-language register of the mayors of Drogheda, including a set of annals relating to Irish affairs between the 12th and 16th centuries. The original does not survive, but extracts were made by James Ware (Rawl. B 484).

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Text

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 484/ff. 67-71 

rubric: Out of the Register of the mayors of Drogheda, written about the year 1591   incipit: The battle of the Knock mistaken. he Irish rebelled against the English ...   The transcript bears the date 9 July 1664.

ff. 67–71  

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[ed.] Mac Iomhair, Diarmuid, “Two old Drogheda chronicles”, Journal of the County Louth Archaeological Society 15 (1961): 88–95.

89–93