The Book of the White Earl is an Irish religious and literary

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created circa 1404–1452. ''The Book of the White Earl'', now Bodleian Laud Misc. MS 610, consists of twelve folios inserted into Leabhar na Rátha, aka The Book of Pottlerath. It was created by

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under the patronage of

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(1392–1452). Henry and Marsh-Michel describe it as follows: Butler is admired for having been strongly

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. He was an Irish-speaker and seems to have been the very first of the

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lords to appoint a

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, Domhnall Mac Flannachadha, for his service. Butler granted Mac Flannchadha lands in Tipperary.

Sources

*''Manuscripts and illuminations 1169-1603'', by Francoise Henry and Genevieve Louise Marsh-Micheli, in ''A New History of Ireland'', pp. 801–803, volume two. *''Laud 610
The Laud Genealogies and Tribal Histories.
' UCC CELT project. **

' at UCC CELT project - primitive version of the

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