for [o 1] Brin in the Brittish language signifieth wooddy, and Toole hilly, which names it seemes they tooke of the country es which they inhabited, which is all very mountainous and woody. In the which it seemeth that ever since the comming in of the English with [o 2] Dermot ni-Gall, they have continued: Whether that their countrey being so rude and mountainous was of them despised, and thought unworthy the inhabiting, or that they were received to grace by them, and suffered to enjoy their lands, as unfit for any other, yet it seemeth, that in some places of the same they have put foote, and fortified with sundry castles, of which the mines onely doe there now remaine, since which time they are growne to that strength, that they are able to lift up hand against all that state; and now lately through the boldnes and late good successe of this Feagh Mac Hugh, they are so farre imboldened, that they threaten perill even to Dublin, over whose necke they continually hang. But touching your demand of this Feaghes right unto that countrey which he claimes, or the seigniory therein,
- ↑ Brin in the Brittish language signifieth wooddy,] In Richard Creagh's booke De Lingua Hibernica, there is a very plentiful collection of Irish words, derived from the Brittish or Welch tongue, which doth much strengthen the authors opinion, in houlding that the Birnes, Tooles, and Cavenaghs, with other the ancient inhabitants of the easterne parts, were originally British colonyes. Sir James Ware.
- ↑ Dermot ni-Gall,] Dei-mot Mac Morrogh, King of Leinster, who was surnamed ni-Gall, as being a friend to the English, and chiefe instrument in inciting them to the conquest of Ireland. Sir James Ware.
