"The documents ... extent from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Among them are letters, verses, petitions, and unique papers connected with the military arrangements in Ireland from the reign of Queen Elizabeth to that of James I."--Taken from the Fourteenth report of the Commission (p. 51).

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