Introduction to the Ellis Papers
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Around 400 documents, 1585 to around 1850 relating in the main to the administration of the See of Derry and to the management of the diocesan lands at the time of the Plantation of Ulster and afterwards.
The papers are particularly detailed and valuable for the period from around 1603 to around 1720, but, it should be noted that a number of the earlier documents exist as late seventeenth century or early eighteenth century copies. An example of this is a copy of a letter from Sir Lucas Dillon, Irish statesman, to Sir Francis Walsingham, English statesman, 8 September 1585, which discusses the routing of Scottish forces at Clandeboye, Co. Down and the settlement of controversies between Shane O'Neill's sons, the Earl of Tyrone, and Tirlough Luineach.