THE CONFISCATION OF ULSTER.

Sir Toby Caulfield, accompanied by the sheriffs of Tyrone and Tyrconnel, followed quickly the proclamation of the lord deputy to the people of Ulster, and took possession of the houses, goods, and chattels of the fugitive earls.  Sir Toby was further empowered to act as receiver over the estates, taking up the rents according to the Irish usage until other arrangements could be made.  His inventory of the effects of O’Neill in the castle of Dungannon is a curious document, showing that according to the ideas of those times in the matter of furniture ‘man wants but little here below.’  The following is a copy of the document taken from the memorandum roll of the exchequer by the late Mr. Ferguson.  It is headed, ’The Earl of Tyrone’s goods, viz.’ The spelling is, however, modernised, and ordinary figures substituted for Roman numerals.

The Earl of Tyrone’s Goods, viz.

L. s. d.

Small steers, 9 at 10 s. 4 10 0

60 hogs, at 2 s. 6 d. 7 10 0

2 long tables, 10 s. 2 long forms, 5 s.; an old bedstead, 5 s.  An old trunk, 3 s.; a long stool, 12 d. 3 hogsheads of salt, 28 s. 6 d.; all valued at 4 12 6

A silk jacket 0 13 4

8 vessels of butter, containing 4-1/2 barrels 5 17 6

2 iron spikes 0 2 0

A powdering tub 0 0 6

2 old chests 0 4 0

A frying-pan and a dripping-pan 0 3 0

5 pewter dishes 0 5 0

A casket, 2 d.; a comb and comb case, 18 d. 0 1 8

2 dozen of trenchers and a basket 0 0 10

2 eighteen-bar ferris 0 6 0

A box and 2 drinking glasses 0 1 3

A trunk 1; a pair of red taffeta curtains 1; other pair of green satin curtains 4 5 0

A brass kettle 0 8 6

‘A payer of covyrons’ 0 5 0

2 baskets with certain broken earthen dishes and some waste spices 0 2 0

Half a pound of white and blue starch 0 0 4

A vessel with 11 gallons of vinegar 0 3 0

17 pewter dishes 0 15 0

3 glass bottles 0 1 6

2 stone jugs, whereof 1 broken 0 0 6

A little iron pot 0 1 6

A great spit 0 1 6