 Many of the Loígis king's rights acknowledged that there were seven Loígis of Leinster (').Those seven were what early seventeenth-century English records would later call the seven septs of Leix.The king of Leinster covenanted, for example, to retain in his employ seven of the followers of the king of Loígis, while the latter agreed to provide seven oxen and to maintain seven score of warriors to fight for the king of Leinster.