The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-06-27

let to farm by patents, to the Com
missioners themselves or other off,
GERS or councillors Of the King: and
great impediments were thrown in
the way Of the proprietors recover
ing their property by law; and it is
added that the said prelates. lords.
gentles. and commons, were dis
gusted with their lives, from being
impoverished and injured by
lawsuits, as by their Petition to Par
lament plainly appeared.
In the note to these statements it
is said that formerly the Commission
to Justice in Eyre did not contain
more than eight lines at the most,
and now they contained forty OF six
ty; and it is added that Justices in
Eyre were abolished in England by
Edward ILL.,. because the country
would not submit to their jurisdic-
ton, an assertion not borne out by
the fact.
1.-THE Commons then complained
of the exactionos Of the soldiers, who
took goods and provisions without
payment; and the conduct Of the
soldiers and kernes in the lordship Of
the Earl of Ormonde is cited as evil
dence of the truth Of the allegation.
The next complaint was, that in de-
fiance of Magma Charta, many
Churchmen, lords, gentles, and 9th
ers of the Kings sub jects. were daily
imprisoned without any legal process,
and compelled to purchase charters
Of pardon, their property being con-
sidered as forfeited, and this was
done as we'll by sheriffs. justices of
the peace, and other ministers of the
King as by soldiers. In proof Of this
statement, it is said, the Lieutenant
of Ireland received 80 marks of the
goods of the Archbishop Of Armagh,
and that he took to the value of $40
Of the goods Of the Archdiocese of
Kildare. Among several other in
stances Sir Nicholas Alger is said to
have been imprisoned until the lieu
tenant obtained a misal worth ten
marks and forty marks in money;
and John Tainer, parson of New
castle, was taken by soldiers, called
to the castle Of Wicklow among the
Irish enemies, where he was ran
John Of Liverpool, to Crane. thence
somed for five pound and grant Of
lands; but the next morning some
other soldiers went to Tainer's cot
tage and seized a pipe of wine for the
lieutenant's use. broke open his cof-
fers. and did what they pleased. He
petitioned for redress in a Great
Council at Mas, but the lieutenant
forbad the petitioners counsel from
mentioning the subject; and this had
occurred in many others.
"The Commons also stated that
ever since the conquest such of the
Kings sub jects as made any Of the
Irish enemies prisoners in war, were
entitled to their ransom, but sew
eral instances where this custom had
been violated by the lieutenant's SOL
diers are adduced; that the country
was greatly devastated by kernes and
idle people, as well on foot as on
horseback, who paid nothing for pro-
visions; and that whenever their de-
mands were not complied with, they
levied distresses, placing the males
in irons and retaining their goods I'M
til they received the money that they
asked.
"The Commons OF the small coun-
ty of Louth complained that the
commissioners had issued an order
to distress Aghy MacMahon, and 9TH
er Irish. the Kings enemies on the
county, to the Impeachment of his
subjects therein and against the law,
the Irish refused to accept
such food as the compliments them
selves used; but were dispersed with
their 'caifs,' nurses, and children
throughout the country, espying by
day and night all the roads and
fortresses, whence the greatest mis-
chief might hereafter arise; and they
therefore prayed that MacMahon
and the other enemies might be sent
out of the county. Complaints were