English: "This obscure Franciscan friary is extremely remarkable in the annals of Ireland, for being the place where the Roman Catholic prelates assembled, August 6th, 1650. The forces of parliament had been every where successful, and a gloomy darkness hungover the affairs of the king and Catholics. The clergy, without consulting the government, met at Jamestown town, and nominated commissioners to enter into a treaty with any foreign power, who was ready to aid them .. their names and titles: Hugh O'Reilly, Archbilhop of Armagh. John Burk, Archbishop of Tuam, John Culenan, Bifhop of Raphoe, Eugene Swiny, Bifhop of Kilmore, Francis Kirwan, Bishop of Killala, Nicholas French, Bishop of Ferns, and Procter for Thomas Fleming, Archbishop of Dublin, Antony Geoghegan, Bishop of Clonmacnoise, Walter Lynch, Bishop of Clonfert, and Proxy for Edmund O'Dempfey, Bishop of Leighlin, Arthur Magines, Bishop of Down and Connor, and Proxy for the Bishop of Dromore, Hugh Burk, Bishop of Kilmacdough. William Burk, Provincial of the Franciscans, James, Abbot of Cong, and Commissionary of the Canon's Regular of St. Augustian, Thomas Keran, Abbot of Boyle, Charles Kelly, Dean of Tuam. Bernard Egan, Proctor for the Provincial of the Dominicans. Richard OKelly, Prior of Rathbran, Thady Egan, Provost of Tuam, Luke Plunket, Apostolic Prothonotary, Rector of the College of Killeen in Meath, and Chaplain to the Leinister army, John Dowly, Abbot of Kilmanock, and one of the Proctors for the chapter and clergy of Tuam, Walter Euos, Apostolic Prothonotary, Treasurer of Ferns, and Proxy for the Provoft of the Collegiate Church of Galway."