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May I be very cheeky, please, and ask for another translation?
It's more complicated...
I've done what I can using Brooke Westcott's book & some guess work but, as you can see, not very successfully...
(63) ib eod die [5 Sept 1633]
THOS. DOMINUS CROMWELL, VICECOM' LECALE, seis' fuit de scit', circuit', ambit' & pcinct' nup dissolut' abbie de Inch, descit' nup dissolut' monaster' de Downe, de scit' nup dissolut' monaster' sci Joh' canonicer' Hibnie de Downe pd', de scit', ambit' & pcinct' nup dissolut' monaster' scoru' Joh' & Tho' de Downe, de scit' monaster' fratru' minor de Downe, de scit' nup monaster' sci Patric de Downe, de maner' de Downepatrick, de quada' insul' vocat' le inshul' de le Inch, ac de vil' & ter' ...... de Corgaghnchoweley, cu ptin', jacen' in co' Downe pd, & contin' 6 casir', 1000 mes', 1000 cottag', 1000 toft', 3 molendin', 2 columbar' & 15,500 acr' ter', omnis generis; de anual' reddit' 40s excun' ex vil' & ter' de Cnockaneguarne al' Welchestowne..., de liber' piscar', cu ptin, in le spal' fluv' sive aquis de Loughdown..., & de sepal' passag' de Portillage & Coyle, etc de & infra maner' & ceter' pmiss' pd.- pfat' Tho' dnus Cromwell sic inde seis', p fine levat' an' regni Regis nunc 9, alienavit ois pmiss' Humfrid' O'Keaver & Edw' Aston, & hered' suis, imppet', put p dict' fine, cujusquide tenor sequit' in orig', apparet, - pmiss' tenent' de Re p svic' mil'.
at that place on the same day,
THOMAS LORD CROMWELL, VISCOUNT LECALE, was seised of the decreed, surrounds, area around, extent & boundary [?] of the lately dissolved abbey of Inch, of the late dissolved monastery of Downe, of the late dissolved monastery of St John Irish Canon of Downe[?], of the extent & boundary of the late dissolved monastery of Saints John & Thomas of Downe, of the monastery of the little brothers of Downe [?], of the late monastery of St Patrick of Downe, the manor of Downpatrick, the [quada] island called the Isle of Inch, and the towns and lands of ....[lots of townlands]... of Corgaghnchoweley, [cu ptin', jacen'] all lying? in the said Co. Down, & containing 6 castles, 1000 messuages, 1000 cottages, 1000 crofts?, 3 [molendin'], 2 pigeon houses & 15,500 acres of land, of every kind; of annual rent of 40s excluding the town & land of Cnockaneguame alias Welchestowne..., of free fishing? [cu ptin] in the rivers and waters[?] of Loughdown..., & the covered passage? of Coyle [there was a toll bridge across the Quoile river at this time] of & in the manner & [ceter' pmiss'] - said Tho' Lord Cromwell was also seised at this time, by a fine levied in the 9th year of the reign of the King, [alienavit ois - raised on?] the premises of Humfrid O'Keaver & Edwd Aston, & their heirs, [imppet'], [put p] the said fine?, [cujusquide tenor sequit' in orig', apparet,] - premises are held of the King for military services.