For the other side of the story see https://www.dib.ie/biography/wandesforde-christopher-a8913 which discusses the O'Brennans, who had been dispossessed of Idough, which became the Castlecomer estate, in 1635 and were still contesting this in the courts at the time of Thornton's letter. #EarlyModern 🗃️
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21 April 1682 #OTD Alice Thornton wrote a letter to her sister-in-law, Eleanor Wandesford, expressing concern about her brother Christopher’s estate in Ireland and offering reassurance: ‘I am sure there never was anything done in its purchase but what was most just and upright by my dear father’. 🗃️
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