Excerpt from Memoirs of the Family of Taaffe To him succeeded Sir Lawrence Taaffe Knt., who in 1472 was one of the 13 honourable and most faithfully disposed per sons in the counties of Kildare, Dublin, Meath and Louth, esta blished by act of Parliament a society, by the name ofxthe Captain and Brethren at Arms, or the Brotherhood of St. George, for the preservation of the english pale. From him descended Peter Taaffe of Ballybraggan Esq., whose son and heir Nicholas in 1552 (6 Edw. A special livery of his inheritance and represented the county of Louth in the Parliament, which met 2. January 1559. He left issue John Taaffe of Ballybraggan and-of Harleston Esq., who had three sons, viz. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.