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 THE RED BOOK OF THE IRISH EXCHEQUER. 
 
 BY JAMES FREDERICK FERGUSON, ESQ. 
 
 From the Proceedings and Transactions of the Kilkenny and South-Eastem Archaeological 
 Society, January 18, 1854. 
 
 The Red Book of the Irish Exchequer has been adverted to by 
 several writers. Each has selected some portion of its contents to 
 which his remarks have been confined, but the entire record has 
 not hitherto received that full description to which, from its nature 
 and antiquity, it is undoubtedly well entitled. Sir .John Davys 
 refers to it in his " Historical Relations." Patrick Darcy in his 
 "Argument delivered in 1641 by the express order of the House 
 of Commons," makes mention of it also. Parts of it have been long 
 since transcribed, and will be found in the MS. in Trinity Col- 
 lege, Dublin, entitled E. 3. 20. Gorges Edmond Howard, in his 
 *' Treatise of the Exchequer andReveniie of Ireland," Dublin, 1 776, 
 vol. i., p. 14, makes mention of it also, but merely states that the 
 chief remembrancer "has in his custody the Red Book of the Ex- 
 chequer," andadds, in the Appendix, No. I, vol. ii., p. 47, the oaths 
 of the officers and ministers of the Court of Exchequer, and of some 
 others, taken iiom the same book. In the year 1820 Dr. Henry 
 Joseph Monck Mason, in the Transactions ol" the Royal Irish Aca- 
 demy, gave a fac-similc of an ancient drawing of the Court of Ex- 
 chequer which appears upon one of tiic leaves of the Red liook, 
 accompanied by a short and, I think, an inaccurate description of it. 
 Lynch, in his "Feudal Dignities," refers to this book, and to many 
 of the entries appearing In it. William Henry Black, Esq., has 
 
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 recently published amongst the " Transactions of the ChjiJDnological 
 Institute of London," the memorabilia, Avhich are iiMimed in the 
 old Calendar ; and the writer of this paper has on tym or three oc- 
 casions ti'ansmitted to the Editor of " Notes and Xjiieries" copies of 
 several entries therein, calculated to throw light upon some of the 
 many interesting questions from time to tiiTie appearing in that 
 wide-spread publication. This book is also referred to in the Eng- 
 lish Record Reports, and transcripts jj©f Statutes have been made 
 and published from it. 
 
 There can be little if any doubt, that the earliest entries In 
 this book have not been made at a later period of time than during 
 the reign of King John or of Henry III. It is probable that the 
 Canon of the Mass and the Calendar are not of a later period. That 
 the Magna Charta Hibernian of the first year of Henry III. was 
 therein recorded at the time that it was made, is, I think, unques- 
 tionable, and, therefore, it is not going too far to say, that the Red 
 Book of the Exchequer, as a national muniment, from its nature 
 and antiquity, takes precedence of all other records in Ireland. 
 
 The ancient pagination has been erased, and a more modern 
 paging has been substituted by some rude and unskilful hand, 
 whence it becomes somewhat difficult to say in what form this re- 
 cord originally stood. The binding of the book (as I have been 
 informed by a gentleman whose opinion is of value) is not of an earlier 
 date than George III.'s time, and consequently it is not now pre- 
 sented to us in its original form. The book is written partly on 
 vellum and partly on parchment, and consists of 179 pages. 
 
 As it requires more time and attention to decipher a large 
 portion of the handwriting of this manuscript, which is much de- 
 faced through time and careless guardianship, than I have as yet been 
 able to devote to it, I feel that justice is scarcely done to so valuable 
 a record by giving to it a hasty description, but as, each day that 
 passes, it is liable to many casualties, and as hitherto no attempt 
 has been made to elucidate its contents, the following short descrip- 
 tion is now submitted, in the hope that at some futiu-e time the 
 entire book, or at least the greater part of it, may be published. 
 
 I am inclined to think that the Red Book originally consisted 
 of two separate parts, and I shall therefore now describe it as if it 
 were divided into tAvo distinct portions, namely. Parts I. and II. 
 
 Part I. Folios 1-6. — Upon these folios are written an ancient 
 Calendar, similar to that which has been published by the Archaeo- 
 logical Society of Ireland.^ As each folio consists of two pages, 
 each month occupies a page, i. e. there are six folios, or twelve pages, 
 being one page for each of the twelve months. At the top of each 
 
 • *' The Book of Obits and ^Mavtp-ology of Clirist Church, DubUn," pp. (30-74.
 
 of these pages, Latin lines have been written, descriptive of unlucky 
 days, and these lines will be found in a recent number of " Notes 
 and Queries." Scattered here and there throughout the entire Ca- 
 lendar, there have been from time to time inserted memoranda of 
 remai'kable events : these have been transcribed by one who has 
 done more to rescue valuable records from decay and obscurity than 
 })erhaps any other in modern times, and whose anticjuarian skill and 
 ability are well known (William li. Black, Esq., of London), who 
 has published them, as 1 have already mentioned, in one of the pa- 
 pers of the Chronological Institute. At the foot of one of the pages 
 of this Calendar, namely, the second page, which is devoted to the 
 month of February, the tbllowing Latin lines have been written : — 
 
 Post nonas Februarii novam Lunam quere 
 Inde quartam feriam proximo venere, 
 Ibi festum Cinerum prudentes fecere 
 Nunquam per banc regulam tu dissipiere. 
 
 It is probablc"'that the foregoing lines contain a rhythmical 
 direction for the finding of Ash Wednesday. 
 
 The ancient Calendar to which I have adverted is followed by 
 the Canon of the j\lass, and as it is a perfect as well as a very an- 
 cient copy, it is well Avorthy of the examination of those who take 
 an interest in the early ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies. The 
 Canon of the Mass occupies sixteen pages, namely, from page 49 to 
 page 64. 
 
 This Canon of the ]\Iass is followed on page 64 by two lines, 
 which cannot be deciphered by the writer of this paper at present, 
 and these lines are followed by other Latin lines descriptive of the 
 meaning attached to the forms of taking an oath upon " the book" 
 (librum), having reference, as I presume, to the Bible, and not to 
 the lied Book. As these Unes have recently appeared in " Notes 
 and Queries," I conceive it to be unnecessary to repeat them here. 
 Upon the same page is given, in the Norman French, the oath 
 taken by the members of the King's council, but so much defaced 
 that it is scarcely possible to decipher the greater })art of it. 
 
 Assuming that I am cori*ect in the ophiion I have formed, that 
 the Red Book originally consisted of two distinct parts, I would 
 say, that the above-mentioned Calendar, and Canon of the Mass, 
 and also the above-mentioned oatli of the King's councillors, as 
 well as the oaths of sheriffs, mayors, and bailiffs, of the judges of 
 the several courts, and of the treasurer of the Kxchetiuer, and of 
 the escheator, were also included in that first part, and 1 am also 
 inclined to think that the Magna Cliarta Hiberniie of the first year 
 of Henry IIL also formed a portion of the original book. 
 
 The several oaths to which 1 lia\c above adverted are Avritten 
 in Norman French, and a transcript in what is usually called "long
 
 Latin," of the Magna Charta, will be found in the Appendix to the 
 first volume of Leland's History of Ireland : it is also referred to in 
 a pubHcation called the " Law Keporter," wherein a short accoimt 
 was many years past given by the writer of this paper of the points of 
 difference existing between this and the great Charter of King John 
 for England. 
 
 Various entries which appear in the Books of Orders of the 
 Com't of Exchequer show that the officers of the Crown in Ireland . 
 were sworn upon the Red Book, and the form in which the oaths 
 were administered is manifest by the present appearance of many of 
 its vellum leaves, which have been partly worn away by the fre- 
 quent pressure of the lips of high officials ; so much so that many of 
 the memorabilia of the Calendar cannot now be deciphered. One of 
 the entries to which I have above alluded, desciiptive of the mode in 
 which the oath of office was administered to a Lord Mayor of Dublin, 
 has been read at one of the recent meetings of the IHlkenny Archaeo- 
 logical Society. 
 
 Part II. — As the first part consisted, as I conceive, of the 
 above-mentioned records or documents, so does it, of necessity, fol- 
 low, that the remaining records of which the book is also now com- 
 posed must have been added to it, and these additions appear to me 
 to have been made from time to time, at various intervals, between 
 the reigns of Edward I. and Charles 11. I shall now enumerate and 
 briefly describe these additional records, not taking them in' their 
 oi'der as to dates, but as they follow each other in the book. 
 
 Page 1. — The first page does not contain anything more than 
 mere scribbling, amongst which the only perfect line appears to be 
 
 Anglorum regi scola scribit sola. 
 
 Page 2. — The second page contains seven Latin couplets reflect- 
 ing in unmeasured terms upon the Enghsh nation (gens Anglo- 
 rum), the sense Avhereof merely can be discovered, in consequence of 
 their having sustained much injury through carelessness or other 
 causes. Amongst other things they*are accused of occasioning loss to 
 French property, and they contain a statement that God would sanc- 
 tify Avhomsoever [would punish] them. It is somewhat curious that 
 tlie name William Black here appears in the margin, and the name 
 of Alison Aylmer is also here inserted. 
 
 The above lines are followed by a memorandum that nothing 
 was answered (probably by the escheator) of the rents and issues of 
 the estates of Richard de St. Michael, at Waspaileston, county of 
 Dublin, because they were granted in fee-farm to Geoffrey le Botil- 
 ler, and his wife, the daughter and heir of the said Richard. This 
 record liears date in the September of the second yeai* of Edward II. 
 lmme<.liately under it ai'e these hues : —
 
 Donee mare erit siccum 
 Nunquam pauper habebit amicuni. 
 
 And then these verses : — 
 
 Tempore felicii multi nominantur amici 
 Dum oportune periit nullus amicus erit. 
 
 The above are followed by a memorandum of the second year 
 of Edward II., that the village of Castlemore, in the county of 
 Cork, had accounted for a sum of £69 (i^. 8d.y the arrears of mu- 
 rage which had not been expended upon the walls (in opere posito). 
 Then follows a memorandum of tlie twenty-fourth year of Edward 
 III., that by letters patent from England it aj)pears that no officers 
 or ministers, the treasurer excepted, should be admitted to any 
 office in Ireland under English patents, unless found to be fit and 
 able (idoneos et habiles), by the justiciary, chancellor, treasurer, 
 and council of Ireland. 
 
 The above is followed by a memorandum of the same date, that 
 magnates of England having lands in Ireland should find men at 
 arms. 
 
 Then follows a memorandum of the forty-third year of Edward 
 III., being a note of a Statute of that date, chap. 8, relating to 
 the manner in which sheriffs and bailiffs of franchises should render 
 their accounts. 
 
 This is followed by a note stating, that it appears by the memo- 
 randa roll of the forty-sixth year of Edward III., mem. 16, that 
 AVilliam [ ] and his wife Johanna, owed the King £20 9^. 4d. 
 
 Page 3. — This page commences with the Statute passed at 
 Dublin in the eleventh year of Henry II., whereby it was enacted 
 that sheriffs should be thenceforth elected by the people. This 
 Statute is not to be found amongst the printed Acts of Ireland. 
 
 This Statute is followed by a memorandum whereby it appears 
 that in Hilary Term, in the forty-sixth year of Edward III., Isabella, 
 the widow of John Wogan, Avas charged with two marks, being the 
 profits of certain sessions held before him as a justice of the peace of 
 the county of Kildare ; by another memorandum of the same date, 
 relating to the fruits and emoluments of Ambrosetown, due to the 
 King in consequence of the owner's absence ; by another entry to 
 the effect, that it appears by the ^Memoranda Koll of the twentieth 
 year of Richard II. that certain evil-doers had canned away certain 
 goods and chattels, value ten marks ; and by a further memoran- 
 dum, stating that it appears by the rolls of the collectors of the 
 customs of the city of Cork, that something had been done, which 
 cannot be deciphered, with some horse-skins by a man named Shor- 
 
 lyng. 
 
 Then follow, upon the fom-th page, the Acts or Ordinances made 
 in a Parliament at Westminster, and enrolled on the Memoranda
 
 Roll of the fifth and sixth years of Edward III., consisting of eight 
 clauses, the three last of which are much defaced. By an EngHsh 
 writ or mandate which precedes these Acts, it appears that the jus- 
 ticiary, chancellor, and treasurer were directed to cause them to be 
 held and observed in Ireland towards the quieting and tranquiUiz- 
 ing of the country. 
 
 As the Red Book is now bound, the oaths of sheriffs, mayors, 
 and bailiffs, of judges, of the treasurer and escheator, here follow. 
 These, as I have already mentioned, formed, as I conceive, part of 
 the Red Book as it stood originally, and are therefore included in 
 Part I. In the vacant spaces between two of these oaths, the fol- 
 lowing Latin verses and lines have been inserted : — 
 
 'is 
 
 Ecce modum mirum femina que fert breve Eegis 
 Non tamgendo virum convictum robore legis. 
 
 Nasceris et moreris, quod preterit inter utraque 
 Crede supervacuum preter amare Deum. 
 
 Proximus extremus quibus intiraus adde suppremus 
 
 Infimus addatur duplex gradus liiis tribuatur. [Et declinatur.] 
 
 These are followed, on the sixth page, by the degi^ees of com- 
 parison of the words "■ prope," " extra," " intra," " supra," " su- 
 premus," "infra," and "iniimus." 
 
 Page 8. — At the commencement of this page, there is entered 
 a writ or mandate tested at Westminster by the King himself, and 
 dated the 17th of December, in the first year of Henry IV., which 
 recites the Act of Absentees passed in the third year of Richard II., 
 and commands the Lord Lieutenant and the Chancellor and Trea- 
 surer of Ireland, to cause the Act to be observed in all its arti- 
 cles. This writ is followed by a memorandum that the Statute 
 of Absentees, upon Avhich the following Avrit was founded, was 
 entered in the White Book of the Exchequer. The writ, which 
 is set forth in hcec verba, is dated at Drogheda, the 28th of 
 June, in the fourth year of Richard IL, and bears the teste of 
 Edmund de Mortimer, Earl of March and Ulster, the then Lord 
 Lieutenant. It recites very fully the Act Avhich was passed at 
 Westminster in the then last Parliament, and directs the Trea- 
 surer and Barons of the Exchequer to search the rolls, writs, and 
 memoranda of the Exchequer in their custody for the purpose of 
 obtaining more full information as to the lands, rents, offices, be- 
 nefices, &c., of those who were absentees in the time of Edward III., 
 and in the hands of that King by pretext of the ordinance made by 
 him at Guildeford, and also to inquire, by the oaths of good and 
 lawfid men, what lands, &c., belonging to absentees, have not been 
 seized, on behalf of the Crown, in consequence of their not sending 
 people to occupy their places, and to return inquisitions thereupon,
 
 so that two-thirds or one-tliird of" the profits of their estates might 
 be appHed towards their defence as the Ordinance directs. A me- 
 morandum is added at the foot of this writ, stating that the above- 
 mentioned patent and writ remain amongst the writs from England 
 of the third year of Kichard II., being in the custody of the Cliief 
 Remembrancer. 
 
 Upon the ninth page there is an entry or enrolment of the Statute 
 passed at Westminster (27 Edw. III., chap. 1), entitled in the mar- 
 gin the " Custuma Hiberniaj," directing the payment to the Cro'WTi 
 of customs upon wool, Avoolfels, lead, and so forth, and this Act is 
 concluded upon that page, but is much disfigured by the injudicious 
 use of tincture of galls. 
 
 Page 10 is devoted to part of a mandate or wTit tested by 
 Thomas de Burgh, the Treasurer, and dated the 1 7th of Januaiy, in 
 the seventh year of Edward II., reciting a grant of the small customs, 
 called the three-penny customs, made to Edward I. by foreign mer- 
 chants, and that the King had appointed two collectors to receive 
 the said customs at the town of Ross ; and directing all persons to 
 aid the collectors in such their duty. 
 
 At the foot of this mandate there is a memorandum that the 
 Statute above referred to is enrolled upon the Memoranda Roll of 
 the thirty-first year of Edward I. 
 
 Pajje 13 commences with the Grievances which were laid before 
 Edward III., on behalf of the people of Ireland, by John Archer, 
 the Prior of St. John of Jerusalem, and Master Thomas W'ogan, in 
 the sixteenth year of that monarch's reign. This very interesting 
 and curious state paper occupies seven pages of the Red Book, but 
 as they are to be found fidly set forth in Rhymer, vol. ii., part ii., 
 p. 1193 (the last edition), as well as in Pr^mne's " Fourth Institute," 
 p. 35, it is unnecessaiy to advert to them here at any greater length. 
 
 At the foot of page 20 there is an entry of the Statute passed 
 at "Westminster, on Monday next after the feast of Easter, in 
 the thirty-first year of Edward III., making the chancellor and 
 treasurer, aided by the barons of the Exchequer, judges of ap- 
 peal in cases of error arising in that Court. This is followed on 
 the same page by an entry of the Act passed at Westminster, on 
 Monday next after the feast of St. Mark the Evangelist, in the 
 twenty-eighth year of Edward I., in relation to the duty of es- 
 cheators in cases of livery, being the " Statute for Escheators," Avhich 
 is printed with the Statutes of the Realm (p. 142), and is dated in 
 the twenty-ninth year of Edward I. 
 
 Page 21. — Tliis page conmiences with a copy of a writ tested by 
 the King at Westminster, and dated the 20th of February, in the 
 forty-first year of Edward III., whereby the King states that, con- 
 sidering the constant fealty of his prelates and other magnates, and 
 also of his people of Ireland, and the losses they had sustained by 
 reason of the wars for a long time arisen in that land, whilst they
 
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 had endeavoured to preserve the King's honour, and to defend the 
 land against his Irish enemies, thereby exposing themselves to various 
 perils ; and being desirous, as becometh the royal majesty, to increase 
 their estate so that they might in future be more prompt in their 
 services; the King states that he has pardoned all their debts due 
 to him, and which had been incurred prior to the 1 3th of October, 
 in the thirty-sixth year of his reign, excepting, however, from the 
 benefit of this grant all treasurers, escheators, sheriffs, and other 
 ministers and farmers who had received money to the King's use 
 out of the chattel property of the Crown's debtors. 
 
 Page 22. — Upon this page there is entered a memorandum that 
 by virtue of the above-mentioned pardon, on the 23rd of Novem- 
 ber, in the forty-ninth year of Edward III., it was accorded by the 
 Treasurer and Barons that a sign equivalent to the word pardon 
 should be placed upon the Pipe Rolls opposite to the names of the 
 debtors thus exonerated by this grant. 
 
 The same page is devoted also to a copy of the Statute of the 
 thirteenth year of Richard II., to restrain admirals and their depu- 
 ties from holding their courts Avithin franchises, and restricting them 
 to questions as to things done upon the sea. Another Statute of a 
 similar kind, passed the fifteenth year of Richard II., immediately 
 folloAvs, whereby the power of admirals is also limited and defined. 
 
 Page 23. — Upon this page there is entered the Statute of the 
 fourteenth year of Richard II., chapter 10, relating to customers 
 and comptrollers. This Statute is followed by these lines, which 
 were probably written in the year 1627, by Robert Kennedy, Esq., 
 the then Chief Remembrancer, whose name is added to them : — 
 
 Ilium nullus amat, qui semper 
 da mihi clamat. 
 
 Qui facit contra conscientiam, 
 edificat sibi Jehemiam. 
 
 Page 24. — On this page the following lines have been written : — 
 
 Ludens ignorans me defendendo docendo, 
 Prelati jussu si pr^monitus ferat arma, 
 [Si] cum conjuncta michi reperio muliere, 
 Percussi clericum sine pena casibixistis. 
 
 Sedens sede ista, Judex inflexibilis sta. 
 
 Sint tibi lucerna, lux, lex, pellisque paterna. 
 
 The above lines are followed by the Latin verses which describe 
 the four causes why the cross should be adored, and which verses 
 have already appeared in one of Mr. Prim's papers, on Way-side 
 Crosses, printed in the Transactions of the Kilkenny Archaeological 
 Society.
 
 The following three couplets are then given, but many oi' the 
 words at present are scarcely decipherable : — 
 
 Mane greca gens incipit, astra sequentes 
 In medio lucis, Judeus vespere sancta 
 Inchoat . . . medio sub tempore noctis. 
 
 Quicquid center um series fecit ovidiorum. 
 Continet iste liber tarn paucorum foliorum. 
 
 Page 25. — This and part of the succeeding page are devoted to 
 the Statutes or Ordinances of the third year of Edward II., passed 
 at Kilkenny (as is stated in the Index), consisting of eleven chapters. 
 By the last chapter of these Ordinances the Irish archbishops, 
 bishops, and other prelates, were directed to cause them to be read 
 and published in every cathedral church, and, amongst other things, 
 to excommunicate all who should disobey them. At the loot of these 
 Ordinances there is entered a certificate stating that by their autho- 
 rity the Archbishop of Cashel, Bishops of Ossory, Emly, Lismore, 
 LeighUu, and other prelates, on the 12th of February, in the great 
 church of St. Canicc, Kilkenny, in the presence ol' Kichard, Earl of 
 Ulster, John Wogan the Justiciary, Richard de Clare, John Fitz- 
 Thomas, John de Barry, Maurice de Rupe, and many other mag- 
 nates, and Avith their assent, pronounced a sentence of excommuni- 
 cation (which is also here set forth), whereby the said prelates, by 
 the authority of God, of His Son, of the Holy Ghost, the Virgin 
 Mary, St. ^lichael, of all Angels, Saints Peter and Paul, and all the 
 apostles, martyrs, confessors, and virgins, excommunicate, anathe- 
 matize, damn, and exclude from the rights of holy mother Church 
 all who violated or disturbed, or caused to be violated or disturbed, 
 the King's peace, or gave counsel or aid to the disturbers and vio- 
 laters of the said peace. This sentence is followed by an additional 
 piece of legislation, whereby the said Justiciary and Council make 
 an Ordinance relating to sheriffs, but the entry appears to be incom- 
 plete;^ and thus ends the 26th page. 
 
 Page 27. — The Statutes enacted in a Parliament held at Dublin 
 in Easter month, in the thirteenth year of Edward II., before 
 Roger de jSIortimer, the then Justiciary, are set forth upon this and 
 the two succeeding pages. These Acts are not to be found in the 
 
 ' Upon an examination of these Sta- Book are not printed. Llr, Hardiman 
 
 tntes with the printed Acts of the third has priven, from the Red Book, a tran- 
 
 Edward II.. behig the first to be found script of the sentence of excommunica- 
 
 in the authorized edition of the Statutes tion above refen-ed to — "Statute of 
 
 of Ireland, I find the variances to be so Kilkenny," p. VIO. Printed by the Irish 
 
 great that it appears to be scarcely pos- Arducological Society, in a volume 
 
 sible that they are the same Acts. At entitled, " Tracts relating to Ireland," 
 
 present I am inclined to think that the vol. ii. ; i)robably the most interesting 
 
 Statutes entered in this part of the Red t)f tlieii- entire series.
 
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 authorized edition of the Irish Statutes, but are included in the 
 "List of public General Acts, not found in the printed edition," 
 which was published by the Chancery Record Commissioners in the 
 year 1830. 
 
 Page 30. — Upon this page the following Latin verses have been 
 written : — 
 
 Linco coax Ravis Ora qorvis navar navis, 
 
 Ad logicam perge mortem non tunc eris. 
 
 Verte retro roma melius duravit tua poma. 
 
 Arbor inest silvis que scribitur octo figuris, 
 Inde tribus demptis, vix unam mille videbis. 
 
 Est verbum sine p, quod servit nocti dieique, 
 Si cum p, poteris tunicam facere tibi si vis. 
 
 Lex est defuncta, quia Judicis est manus uncta. 
 Propter unguentum, jus est in carcere tentum. 
 
 The foregoing verses are followed by the oath taken by collec- 
 tors of customs, set forth in the Norman French. 
 
 Page 3 1 . — Upon this page has been entered the Statute passed 
 at Dublin in the eleventh year of Henry IV., called the Statute of 
 Labourers. It prohibits the exportation of husbandmen from Ire- 
 land by mariners Avithout license ; and it also enacts, that sheriffs 
 shall be chosen by the commons of counties. This Statute is not 
 printed, but is included in the List of the unpublished General Acts 
 to which I have already adverted. 
 
 Page 32. — At the commencement of this page there is entered 
 an Act which is called " A good Statute for the people" — " Bone 
 Estatute pur le people." It, as well as the above-mentioned Sta- 
 tutes, is w^ritten in the Norman French, but, being much defaced, is 
 scarcely decipherable. It seems, however, to give power to the 
 treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to " atterminate" debts due 
 to the King which are less in amount than £300. I do not find this 
 Act either amongst the printed Statutes, or inserted in the List of 
 those that are yet unpublished. 
 
 A pen-and-ink sketch of the Court of Exchequer occupies the 
 remainder of this page. A fac-simile of tliis sketch accompanies this 
 paper, taken from a copper-plate in the writer s possession. A short 
 description of it has been already published in " Notes and Queries." 
 With respect to the several human figures appearing in this sketch, 
 it appears to me to be probable that the six persons who are placed 
 at the top are officers of the Court ; that the three figures to the left 
 are judges ; that the three to the right are suitors ; and that a 
 sheriff is seated at the bottom. To the right, at the top of the 
 sketch, is the crier, who appears to be in the act of adjourning the 
 Court, by exclaiming, " A demayn," a form of adjournment still
 
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 observed by the same officer, who says, " To-mon'ow, God save the 
 Queen," -when the Court is about to rise. The officer to the left 
 is i)robably the second remembrancer, who holds in his hand a mem- 
 brane of parchment containing the words, " Preceptum fuit vice- 
 comiti per breve hujus scaccarij." The figure at his right hand 
 is perhaps the chief remembrancer. Pie is in the act of examining 
 his pen, and holds in his hand a slip of parchment whereon are 
 written the words, " Memorandum quod x" die Maij, &c." At his 
 right hand we perceive an officer who is in the act of writing upon 
 a piece of parchment which is placed upon his left knee, Avhile his 
 left foot rests u})on the table. This person is probably the clerk of 
 the Pipe, who is preparing a writ commencing with the words, 
 *' Henricus dei gratia." The figure to the extreme left of the pic- 
 ture holds in his hand a slip of parchment containing the words 
 "■ Exiit breve vicecomiti." This may be the marshal of the Ex- 
 chequer, and the officer he is addressing is probably the usher. 
 With respect to the judges, it is difficult to determine whether they 
 are all barons, or whether two of them are the treasurer and chan- 
 cellor of the Exchequer. One of them says, " Soient forfez," and the 
 other, " Vo}T dire." Madox tells us that "accounts were to be ren- 
 dered at the Exchequer upon oath. When the accountant had been 
 sworn dejideli compoto reddendo, he entered upon and Avent through 
 his account. In some records mention is made of the accountant's 
 answering at the Exchequer/)(?/'^f/em ov per veruin dictum. AVhether 
 this Jides and verumdictum Avas the same with an oath, or in what 
 respect different from it, I am not prepared to determine ; but I am 
 inclined to think it was rather a voire dire, or a declaration upon 
 their faith or allegiance, than an oath." This passage may explain 
 the meaning of the words, voijr dire. Placed before the j udges are the 
 " Eaga cum rotulis," the Red Book, and the counters which Madox 
 says " were sometimes used at the Exchequer in the way of computa- 
 tion." And there is also placed upon the table a King's letter, or a 
 petition, commencing with the words, " Ceo vous." Three suitors 
 are standing at the right of the picture — onesays, "Oy de brie," ano- 
 ther, who is extending his arm as if he were in the act of challenging 
 some person or statement, exclaims "Chalange," and the third says, 
 " Soit oughte." One of the most prominent figures in the sketch 
 is a suitor, who may l)e easily distinguished from the rest by his 
 laced boot, ami)le sleeve, the buttons upon his coat, and his sword, 
 which, by the by, is [)laced at his right side. It Avill be perceived 
 that the hands of this jierson are placed in a somewhat striking posi- 
 tion, i.e. the thumb of his left hand is placed between the fore and 
 middle finger of his right. And this may be explained by the fol- 
 lowing extract from Johnson's Dictionary. "Toy?//, in Spanish, 
 hir/as dar, is to insult by putting the thumb between the lore and 
 middle finger. From this Spanish custom we yet say in contempt,
 
 12 
 
 Afiij for you." A sheriff, who is seated at the bottom of the sketch, 
 bears upon his head the leathern cap which was placed upon that officer 
 at the tune that he was undergoing an examination in Cornet in rela- 
 tion to his accounts. Such is, I fear, but an imperfect descrip- 
 tion of tliis sketch of the Court of Exchequer, Avhich, as Mad ox 
 informs us, was in the olden time fitted up " with a square chequer- 
 board, and seats about it for the treasurer, barons, clerks, and mi- 
 nisters, and with a bar for those who plead and attend there." 
 Some lines which appear to have been written at the bottom of the 
 sketch are altogether obliterated, but the Latin verses that have 
 been written upon the three remaining sides may be still partly- 
 deciphered. Of some of these lines transcripts have been here 
 already given, inasmuch as they appear upon other pages of this 
 book, as, for instance, the lines commencing with the words — 
 "Propter unguentum" — "Lex est defuncta," and "Sedens sede 
 ista," and the remaining line is as follows: — 
 
 Judicium recti non muaere nee prece flecti. 
 
 Page 33. — At the commencement of this page there is entered 
 a memorandum that on the 4th of May, 17 Edward II., the 
 King commanded the Chancellor of Ireland to cause to be pub- 
 lished and observed in Ireland the Statutes that had been lately 
 edited at Lincoln and York. I'he writ thus referred to, which is wit- 
 nessed by the King himself at Nottingham, on the 20th of November, 
 in the seventeenth year of his reign, is then set forth in lime verba, and 
 the writ is followed by the Statutes therein referred to. The Acts 
 passed at York terminate at page 36. The Act passed at Lincoln 
 will be found amongst the printed " Statutes of the Realm" (9th 
 Edw. II., page 174). Those of the tAvelfth year of Edward IL, 
 passed at York, are also to be found amongst the same printed 
 Statutes at page 177. 
 
 Upon the same page also is entered the Statute against Protec- 
 tions of the tenth year of Henry IV., followed by an Act of the sixth 
 year of the same King, apparently confirming the Statute of West- 
 minster the first, and to the effect that, when application by peti- 
 tion is made to the King for any fee or annuity, the petitioner shall 
 state the value of llie thing he prays for, so that the King may 
 not be deceived in his grants. 
 
 The 37th page of the Ked Book, as it now appears, was, as is 
 evident by the old pagination, which is still to be traced, the first 
 page of some book, and this may have been the commencement of 
 the fii'st part of the Ked Book to which I have already alluded.^ 
 
 » From page .37 to page 64 are en- C!aiion of the Mass which have been 
 tered the ancient Calendar and the ah-eady described. >
 
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 Page 65. — This page commences with a statement in law Latin 
 of the sums received by the " Kegister" of English money for the 
 making and stamping of" coin ; which is followed by a statement in 
 the Norman French of the proper weights of pence, half-pence, 
 and farthings. Then follows a letter, or probably part of a let- 
 ter, written in the Norman French, whereby the writer (whose 
 name is not given) informs the person to whom it is addressed 
 (whose name also docs not appear) that he has sent to him by Lape, 
 the money changer (Ic changeur) of London, certain "strong" and 
 " weak" pence, and also some half-pence and fartiiings. The above 
 is followed by a memorandum, that on Sunday (die Dominica), the 
 7th of November, in the twenty-second year of Edward L, Master 
 Wm. de Wymundham, the Keeper of the King's Exchanges in Eng- 
 land, by the directions of \V^. Bishop of Bath and \Vells, the Trea- 
 sm'er, had sent to the Treasurer of Ireland, Lord W.dc Esendene, 
 twenty-four pieces of coin to make money thereof (which are here 
 described) by John the miner, Thomas Doul, and.Iohnof Mhordich 
 (the Moorditch), of the Society of Moneyers in the London Ex- 
 change, to make such money ; and that in the presence of lioger de 
 Chykewclle, Barthw. of St. Albans, ffno. dela Donne, John Cleine- 
 hand, Adam of jMhordich, William of Brchon, and Peter de Hardres, 
 the said twenty-four pieces of coin were delivered to the said John, 
 Thomas, and John, under the sign (sub signo) of the said Keeper. 
 
 The preceding memoranda are followed by another, stating, 
 that on Friday next before the feast of St. Patrick, in the thirtieth 
 year of Edward I., the petition which follows in hcec verba was de- 
 livered to Friar William of Boss, Prior of St. John's of Jerusalem 
 and Deputy Chief Justice in the council chamber. Of this peti- 
 tion nothing more can be discovered than that the applicant is a 
 female named Johanna, and that she appears to complain of the 
 bailiffs of Dublin. 
 
 Page ()G. — There then follows on page QQ a small portion of a 
 memorandum to the effect (as I presume) that the Statutes which 
 are thereafter set forth in hcec verba were transmitted from Eng- 
 land to the Lord Deputy J. Wogan. These Statutes relate to 
 the base money called Pollards and Crocards, and are not printed in 
 the authorized edition of the Irish Statutes ; they are, however, to 
 be found amongst the printed Acts of the Realm, at page 131. The 
 writ transmitting these Acts to Ireland is dated the loth of May, 
 in the twenty-seventh year of Edward I. 
 
 Pages 07 and 68. — The above are followed on pages 67 and 68 
 by the oath of the justiciary, the oath of sheriffs and bailiffs, and 
 the oath of the judges ; and these three oaths are in Norman 
 French. 
 
 Page 68. — To this page there is attached an origmal writ 
 tested by the Treasurer of Ireland, J. de Rees, on the 26th of
 
 14 
 
 October, in the eleventh year of Edward I., and du-ected to the 
 sheriffs of Dublin, wherein it is stated, that by reason of the urgent 
 necessity the King had for money in Ireland, as for the keeping 
 of the King's peace and other arduous business specially relating 
 to that country, the King had directed the treasurer and barons 
 of the Exchequer at Dublin to collect all debts due to the King, 
 with the greatest diligence and despatch, notwithstanding any 
 " atterminations" made; Avherefore the treasurer commands the 
 sheriff to levy, without delay, all the debts that were then due to 
 the Crown within his bailiwick, bringing into the Exchequer, day 
 after day, the money paid to him. The endorsements upon the 
 writ made by the chief serjeant, the bailiff of St. Sepulchre's, and 
 the sheriff, are not material, and it is therefore not necessary to do 
 more than say that they appear. 
 
 Pages 69 to 73. — The Magna Charta Hiberniae, to which I 
 have already adverted, is inserted (as the Red Book is now bound) 
 between the oaths lastly above mentioned and the following memo- 
 randum, which is entered on page 73 : — 
 
 Be it remembered, that the letters which came from the Roman Court 
 for the Kings BaihfFs lest they might be excommunicated are [deposited] 
 in the great trunk or coffer in the Tower. 
 
 And then follow these lines : — 
 
 Res est grata senem juveniliter esse jocosum, 
 Gracius est juvenem moribus esse senem. 
 
 Inconstans animus, oculus vagus, instabihs pes, 
 Hec hominis signa sunt, de quo nulla boni spes. 
 
 Gratia nulla perit nisi gratia grey (whyt) monachorum 
 Est et semper erit unthough in line laborum. 
 
 Tempus preteritum, tempus presensque futurum 
 Discretus recolit, fatuus nullum nisi presens. 
 
 Sunt tria nigrorum devastaut res monachorum, 
 Renes et venter, et pocula, sumpta frequenter. 
 
 Pages 74 and 75. — The Articuli Cleri Hiberni^ are entered 
 upon these pages. A transcript of these, as well as of other parts 
 of the book, has been made by the writer, who conceives that these 
 Articuli Cleri, as well as the other unpublished portions of this 
 volume, are well worthy of iDublication. 
 
 Page 76. — There is entered upon this page a memorandum in 
 the law Latin, commencing with the words, " Walter de Lacy gives 
 the Lord the King 4000 marks for having his land in Ireland." 
 There is no date to this record. It i?* referred to by AVilliam Lynch, 
 Esq., in his " Feudal Dignities," and is also printed in the first 
 volume of the Irish Record Reports, p. 1 60.
 
 15 
 
 Page 77. — Upon this, and part of the following page, are en- 
 tered the Statutes of the twenty-first of Edward L, which are not 
 printed amongst the Statutes of Ireland, but are included in the List 
 of the unpublished Statutes to which reference has been already 
 made. The writ that was transmitted from England to the trea- 
 surer and barons of the Exchequer here, whereby they were directed 
 to cause the said Statutes to be observed, is also entered upon this 
 page, and beai's the date of the 1 2th of Jidy in the same year. 
 
 Page 78. — A writ of the 11th of March, in the thirteenth year 
 of Edward I., tested by the then Lord Deputy Thomas Fitz- 
 maurice. Earl of Kildare, at Dublin, and addressed to the trea- 
 surer and barons of the Exchequer, is entered on this page. It 
 states that the Acts recently passed at Naas were therewith sent to 
 them, and directs that they should be observed. This Act is 
 included in the List of unpublished Statutes. 
 
 Page 79. — By the MS. Index to the Red Book the Statute en- 
 rolled on this page is called the Statute of Rutland. It is the Eng- 
 lish Statute of the twelfth year of Edward I., as to " Provisions 
 made in the Exchequer," and is printed on page 69 of the published 
 Statutes of the Kcalm. 
 
 Page 80. — The oath of sheriffs, mayors, and bailiffs in the Nor- 
 man French is entered on this page. 
 
 Pages 81 to 91. — Upon these pages are entered the Statutes of 
 Westminster the first, which are to be found amongst the printed 
 Statutes of the Realm, ]iage 25, by Avhich it appears that they were 
 taken from the copy which is entered in this Red Book, afl^brding 
 undoubted evidence of its value and importance. 
 
 Pages 92 to 96. — Upon these pages the Statutes passed at Glou- 
 cester are enrolled. These Acts are pi'inted, and will be found 
 amongst the Statutes of the Realm, at page 45. 
 
 Pages 97 to 119. — Upon these pages are entered the Statutes 
 of Westminster the second. These are also printed amongst the 
 Statutes of the Realm, and Avill be found at pages 71 to 95. Upon 
 page 119 are also given several Latin lines (Avliich appear also in 
 another part of the book), with these additional lines : — 
 
 Semper est et erit similis, similem sibi querit. 
 
 Yocativos oculos, ablatives loculos, gerunt mulieres. 
 
 Si datis fueris genetis eris quocumque veneris, 
 
 Hiis diebus jam transactis nulla. 
 
 Fuge cetum feminarum, 
 Nanique status omnis harum, 
 Parva dat stipeudia. 
 Si sit virgo, quam tu gliscis,
 
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 Dampna rerum concupiscis, 
 Cordis et iucendia. 
 Maritatam si tu amas, 
 Pacem spernis te defamas, 
 Incendis periculum. 
 Vidua htec est elata, 
 Fraude plena, delicata, 
 Eris ei ridiculum. 
 Monialis hec si placet, 
 Semper petit, nunquam tacet, 
 Eadit ut navicula. 
 Si bagute facieris 
 Mox per earn difFameris, 
 Linguam fieret ut facula. 
 
 Page 120. — There is nothing but scribbling upon this page. 
 
 Pages 121 to 127. — Upon these pages is entered a calculation 
 table in the handwriting of the time of Charles I. or II. 
 
 Page 128. — This page commences with a transcript of what ap- 
 pears to be an Act of Parliament relating to the privileges claimed 
 and enjoyed by the officers of the Exchequer. At the close of the 
 Act mention is made of the Great Council held at Dublin, on the 
 Friday next before the feast of St. Luke, which was confirmed in 
 the Parliament held at Drogheda on (Monday) next before the feast 
 of St. Mark the Evangelist, in the twenty-eighth of Henry VI., 
 being the same year in which the said Great Council was held. The 
 latter of these Statutes is inserted in the list of unpublished Acts, 
 with, however, this note : — " N.B. — Sonie of these are printed." 
 
 The above-mentioned enrolment is followed by a writ tested by 
 W. T. (William de Tynbegh), the Chief Baron, and dated the 18th 
 of March, but the year of the King's reign is not given, relating to 
 a proceeding or action of trespass brought in the King's Bench, 
 against one Richard Hill, a minister of the Treasm'er, contrary to 
 the privileges enjoyed by Exchequer officers, and directing such suit 
 to be presented in the Exchequer Court. This writ is directed to 
 the Justices of the King's Bench ; and as William de Tynbegh Avas 
 Chief Baron between the years 1414 and 1419, this writ was, of 
 course, Avritten at that time. A paper copy of it is at present 
 bound with the rest of the Ked Book. 
 
 Page 133. — At the commencement of this page there is entered 
 a Statute, apparently of the date of the twenty-eighth year of 
 Henry VI., relating to verdicts given at inquests, but I do not find 
 it amongst the printed Statutes. 
 
 This is followed by another copy of the above-mentioned writ, 
 tested by Chief Baron Tynbegh. 
 
 Page 134. — Upon this page there is written some music in score 
 and of ancient date, followed by a Latin hymn to St. Nicholas.
 
 17 
 
 Page 135. — Upon this page there is also written a Latin prayer, 
 commencing Avith the wortls, " Eteme Kex altissime redemptor et 
 fidclium." This is followed by eight lines beginning with the words, 
 " Ut queant laxis resonare fibx'is mira gestorum famuli tuorum solve 
 poluti." Then follow two lines commencing Avith " Fuit homo 
 missus a Deo." Ei^-ht Latin lines succeed the foregoing, which is 
 apparently a prayer addressed to the Virgin Mary ; and two lines 
 \ery indistinctly written complete this page. 
 
 I am inclined to think that the music and prayers upon pages 
 134 and 135 have some connexion with an ancient custom that is 
 still observed in the Court of Exchequer, namely, the singing of 
 an anthem and the repeating of some prayers by one of the minis- 
 ters, and by the choristers of Christ Church, once in every Term. 
 It would occupy too much space at present to give in detail a history 
 of this singular custom ; it may, however, be stated, that whenever 
 this ceremony was performed, an entry Avas made in one of the 
 rule-books of the Court to the effect that " the chauntor of Christ 
 Church brought into Court the viccars choralls and performed theire 
 accustomed service and homage due to his jSlajestie, by singing an 
 Antheme and saying certain collects and prayers, Avhich being done 
 they had Avarrant under the Barons hands directed to the Vice 
 Threasurer for recciveing theire Avonted fee of ten shillings ster- 
 ling." The music in the Ked Book is not formed, as at this day, 
 of round dots, but of perpendicular dashes or strokes ; neither is it 
 diAided by bars. The supposition that it AA^as that Avhich Avas simg 
 by the choristers of Christ Church at the time of the rendering of 
 their homage is in some degree strengthened by the line Avhich is 
 placed beneath it, namely, "et debet incipi a secundario Bememo- 
 ratori ;" — that the second remembrancer (one of the principal offi- 
 cers of the Court), Avho Avas in all probability a dericus or clerk, 
 should commence the anthem (if such it be); and as the words 
 "Eterne Rex altissime" are also placed beneath the music, it is not 
 unlikely that the Avords of the prayer given beloAv, Avhich is evi- 
 dently addressed to our Saviour, Avere those by Avhich the music Avas 
 accompanied. 
 
 The hymn to St. Nicholas which follows it, and which was pro- 
 bably Avritten in the time of Heniy IV. or V., is as follows: — 
 
 Sospitati dedit egros olei perfusio, 
 Nicholaus naufragantum afFuit presidio, 
 Relevavit a detunctis defunctum in binio, 
 Baptizatur auri viso judeus judicio, 
 Vas in mari mersuni patri redditur cum filio. 
 Ergo laudes Nicholao concinat hec concio, 
 Nam qui corde possit ilium pro pulsato vicio, 
 Sospes egredietiir. 
 
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 To this hymn succeeds, upon page 135, these lines: — 
 
 Eterne rex altissime redemptor et fidelium quo mors soluta, 
 Deperitidatur triumphus gratie scandens tribunal dextero patris, 
 Potestas omnium collata est Jeshu celitus que non erat humanitus, 
 Ut trina rex macliina celestium terestrium et infernorum condita, 
 Flectat genu jam subdita tremunt videntes Angeli versa, 
 Vice mortalium culpat caro purgat caro regnat deus dei caro, 
 Tu esto nostrum gaudium qui es futurus premium sit nostra in te gloria, 
 Per cuncta semper secula. Gloria tibi domine qui scandis supra, 
 Sidera cum patre et sane to spiritu in sempiterna secula. 
 
 Page 136. — A Tabula Eegum is entered upon this page. This 
 Table has been printed in " Notes and Queries." 
 
 Page 137. — This page consists of four separate wiits, probably 
 of the reign of Edward IV. It is scarcely necessary to describe 
 these writs at present in detail. 
 
 Pages 139 to 142 are either blank or contain but mere scrib- 
 bling. 
 
 Pages 143 to 146 appear to have originally formed a portion of 
 the old cover of the Red Book. They are supposed to be part of a 
 very old treatise on the Jaws of motion. 
 
 Pages 147 and 148. — Upon these pages the oath of allegiance 
 is written, in the handwriting of the time of James I. or Charles I. 
 
 Pages 149 and 150. — These pages are blank. 
 
 Pages 151 to 177. — These pages contain the oaths of public 
 officers and ministers, which are printed in the second volume of 
 Howard's "Revenue and Exchequer." 
 
 Page 178. — This contains the names of those who were the 
 officers of the Exchequer in the year 1626. 
 
 Page 179. — This, Avhich is the last page, contains the oath of a 
 Commissioner of Appeals, and a memorandum, that on the 26th of 
 September, 1662, Sir James Ware, Sir WiUiamUssher, John Povey, 
 Esq., and Peter AVybrants, Alderman, came before " the Lord 
 Cheefe," and severally took the said oath. 
 
 The Annals or memorabilia which were written upon the Calen- 
 dar of the Red Book are now much defaced, and as many of the 
 entries appear to have been heretofore transcribed, and are now to 
 be found in one of the MSS. of Trinity College, Dublin [E. 3. 20. 
 pp. 304-306], copies have been thereof made, and are here printed. 
 
 Ex Rubro Libro Scaccarii Hibernise, 
 
 Memorandum quod Johannes Stanley miles juratus fuit in officio lo- 
 cumtenentis marcliionis Dublinensis in Hibernia, 18° die Septembris anno 
 regni regis Richardi 11. [ ]. 
 
 Idem Johannes Justiciarius Hibernia; applicuit 22° Octobris anno 
 regni regis Richardi II. 1 3°, in eadem terra.
 
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 Obiit Edmundus comes Marchie, &c., a.d. 1424. 
 
 Anno regni regis Edwardi filij Edwardi III. occisus fuit J. de Bonevill 
 per Arnaldum de Poer, AVillielmum de Lynet et alios. 
 
 Anno regni regis Edwardi II. obiit magister T. Cantoke episcopus 
 Imelacensis et cancellarius Hibernie. 
 
 Die raartis quinto die Februarij anno regis Edwardi III. post conques- 
 tum regni sui Anglie 15", regni vero sui Francie primo, obiit frater Roge- 
 rus Outlawe, prior hospitalis Sancti Johannis Jerusalem in Hybernia, et 
 tenens locum Johannis Darcy Justiciarij Ilybernie, et cancellarius Hy- 
 bernie. 
 
 Die lune 23" die Februarij anno regni regis Edwardi III. 40" venit 
 Henricus de Brysloy pro assaiam minarum in Hibernia faciendum, &c. 
 
 Die lune 10" die Aprilis anno regni regis Edwardi III. 20" lecta fuit 
 commissio domini Hogeri Darcy justiciarii Ilybernie. Eodem die lune 
 A.D. 1413 coronatus Henricus V. apud Westmonasterium, 
 
 A. D. 1399 Kicliardus rex Anglie II. applicuit apud Waterford. 
 
 Anno regni regis Edwardi III. post conqucstum 5° venit Antonius de 
 Lucy justiciarius et Thomas de Burgh thesaurarius Hybernie. 
 
 Preconizatur domiuus Theobaldus de Verdun justiciarius Hibernie, 
 A.D. 1318. 
 
 Die mercurii in translatione Sancti Edwardi anno regni regis Edwardi 
 HI. 43° dominus Willielmus de Windesore locumtenens domini regis in 
 Hibernia applicuit Dublinensi. 
 
 Anno regni regis Ilenrici VI. 6" Johannes Sutton miles locumtenens 
 Hibernie applicuit in Hibernia. 
 
 Die jovis 29" die Junij anno regni regis Edwardi III. 20° lecta fuit 
 commissio domini Walteri de Bermyngham Justiciarii Hyberniaj. 
 
 Die veneris 10" die Julii anno 40" regni Edwardi HI. vac~ Henricus de 
 Brysley assaiator minarum in Hybernia. 
 
 Anno regni regis Edwardi 30" confusi fuerunt et occisi comes de Artoys 
 et alii magnates Francie juxta Cortray in Flandr. per ipsos Flandr. viz. : — 
 6 comites et 40 bannereti et alii sine numero. 
 
 Die jovis 15^ die Julij anno r. r. Edwardi III. post conquestum Anglie 
 18" et Francie quinto, lecta fuit commissio Eadulphi de UfFord justiciarii 
 Hybernie in Scaccario Kegis. 
 
 Die martis 23° die Augusti circa horamdecimam anno r. r. Henrici V. 
 secundo, arripuit Stephanus Lescrop chevalier deputatus domini Thome 
 de Lancastre seneschalli Anglie filii regis, locumtenentislly hernias, unacum 
 T. archiepiscopo Dublinensis cancellario Hybernie apud Clontarf. 
 
 Die lune decapitatus fuit jNIauricius de Caunteton felo domini regis in 
 monte de Slemargi per "Willielmum de Rupe et fratres suos exeuntes in 
 comitiva Joliannis Wogan justiciarii Hybernie, et plures cum eo. 
 
 Per diem Sabbati A. D., 1318, fuerunt disconfusi omnes Scoti inter 
 Dondalke et le Faghered, et Edwardus le Bruys, Johannes de Soules et alii 
 proceres de Scotia quamplurimi occisi per Johannem de Byrmengham, 
 Milonem de Verdoun et Hugonem de Stapelton capitales duces communis 
 populi Urielis et Midie, et sic per manus communis populi et dextram Dei 
 deliberatur populus Dei a precogitata et machinata servitute. 
 
 Memorandum quod in meridie diei veneris A. D., 1394, Richardus 11. 
 rex Anglie et Frauncie post conquestum applicuit terra; Hibernia; apud
 
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 Waterford cum grandi exercitu, ad inimicos suos et rebelles Hybernie 
 intens debellandum et castigandum, &c. 
 
 Johannes comes Wigornie deputatus &c., applicuit apud Houth anno 
 7" regis Edwardi IV. 
 
 Decimo tertio die Octobris anno 1 1° Edwardi III. venit Dublinensi 
 Johannes de Cherleton justiciarius Hybernie. 
 
 Die jovis dominus Thomas de Rukeby justiciarius Hybernie prestitit 
 sacramentum de officio justiciarii Hibernie anno r. r. Edwardi III. post 
 conquestum Anglie 30". 
 
 Johannes comes Salopie applicuit apud Dalkey anno 25° regis Hen- 
 rici VI. 
 
 Die jovis fuit David de Caunteton suspensus pro felonia quam com- 
 misit contra regem, anno r. r. Edwardi tertio. 
 
 Die lune 27° die Novembris anno r. r. Edwardi III. 21° lecta fuit 
 commissio fratris Johannis Larcher prioris hospitalis Sancti Johannis Je- 
 rusalem in Hybernia locumtenentis "Walter! de Bermyngham justiciarii 
 Hibernie. 
 
 Memorandum quod die lune in festo Sancti Magni regis et martiris 
 viz. : — 19° die Augusti anno r. r. Henrici VII. 19° erat bellum de Knock- 
 thoo in Connacia latum per Geraldum comitem Kyldarie et maiorem et 
 cives Dublinensis et Droghede et aliorum Anglicorum Midie et Fyngallie, 
 nullo Anglico in bello illo leso, et tamen fuerunt ibidem interfecti ex parte 
 M'William Ricard Obrene et Okerell 4000 de optimis capitaneum gallo- 
 glassorum suorum, &c, laus Deo. 
 
 Memorandum quod 20° die Decembris anno r. r. Edwardi III. post 
 conquestum Anglie 23° lecta fuit commissio domini Thome de Rokeby de 
 officio justiciarii Hybernie. 
 
 Memorandum quod A. D. 1 329 occisus fuit dominus Johannes de Ber- 
 myngham comes Louth. 
 
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