[279.] Appended to Sir John Davies' Discovery of Ireland, in some of the early editions.
[280.] Compare the words of Tacitus, 'Agri pro numero cultorum ab universis vicis occupantur, quos mox inter se secundum dignationem partiuntur. Germania, xxvi.
[281.] In Monaghan Sir J. Davies had found tates with 60 acres each. Here there were only 30 acres in a tate, so he kept to his old rule, and took 2 tates as his lowest unit.
[282.] This may be found also in Ancient Laws of Ireland, iii. Preface, xxxv. 6.
[283.] Calendar of State Papers, Ireland, 1603–6, p. 554; and 1606–8, p. 492.
[284.] The evidence by which he was gradually informed may be traced in detail in the above-mentioned Calendars.
[285.] Sir John Davies' Discovery of Ireland, 1612, pp. 167 et seq.
[286.] Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish, E. O'Curry. Dr. Sullivan's Introduction, p. xcvi. See also Skene's Celtic Scotland, iii. 154.
[287.] Skene, iii. 155. Sullivan, p. xcii.
[288.] Skene, iii. 158, quoting a tract published in the appendix to Tribes and Customs of Hy Fiachraich, p. 453.