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Timestamp: 2019-04-19 15:18:30+00:00

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'John Prene, dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, one of the auditors of causes of the sacred palace of Pope Boniface, holds peaceably at present the said deanery, which is an elective benefice, by force of a provision of the apostolic see. PARDON to him of his trespass in this and RATIFICATION of his estate in that deanery.
CPR 1399–1401, p. 443; RCH; BL, Egerton MS 78, p. 25.
1 An enrolment of letters patent under the g.s. of Eng. The date in CPR 1399–1401, p. 443, is 9 March 1401. RCH reads '1 March'.
1 This is the first of three items calendared in RCH as bundle with the item-number range §§89–91.
GRANT to Robert Kynerfy esq. of two horses that belonged to Nicholas Obryn, felon, which were forfeited to the K. and arrested by John Loundres kt.
LICENCE to John fitz Nicholas Feypo, baron of Skreen, to enfeoff Richard Rede and Roger Deveynshe, chaplains, of the manor of Skreen and of 1 messuage, 1 mill, 3 carucates of land, 24 acres of meadow, 40 acres of pasture and 10 acres of moor in Kylkarne, which are held in chief of Edmund, son and heir of Roger [Mortimer], late earl of March, a minor being in the K.'s custody, as of his manor of Trim, by knight service; to have to them and their heirs forever. And LICENCE to them to give that manor [etc.] to the said John to have to him and the heirs male of his body; with remainder to Thomas Mareward senior and his heirs male; and reversion to the right heirs of Francis Feypo kt, forever.
COA, PH 13203, p. 351; RCH; NLI, GO MS 193, p. 49.
1 This is the first of two items calendared in RCH as bundle with the item-number range §§17–18.
LICENCE to Thomas Chernok chaplain, prebendary of Saggart in the cathedral church of St Patrick, Dublin,1 to absent himself for two years in order to prosecute his business in the court of Rome.
RCH; NLI, GO MS 193, p. 49.
1 RCH reads 'in co. Dublin', which may be a misreading.
RCH; RIA, MS 12.D.16, p. 97; COA, PH 13203, p. 351.
1 See also CIRCLE, PR 3 Hen. V, §53.
NAI, Lodge MS 19, p. 203.
1 The original enrolment was torn here by the time Lodge examined it the eighteenth century. This item would have come before the first printed item in RCH.
GRANT to John Sy, one of the yeomen of the chamber of Thomas of Lancaster, Lt of Ire., of custody of the lands that belonged to Richard Lange in the town of Balirodan within the barony of Galtrim, co. Meath, in the K.'s hand by reason of the minority of Nicholas, son and heir of Richard; to have until Nicholas comes of age together with his marriage, without rendering anything.
RCH; NAI, Lodge MS 19, p. 203.
Nicholas Omery chaplain has the K.'s letters of presentation to the vicarage of the church of Mayne, addressed to R[obert Montayne], bp Meath.
Vacated becase [the letters were] later returned and cancelled.
PARDON to Geoffrey Casshell and William Casshell junior of suit of peace for treasons [etc.].
William s. of Walter Dowdall has similar letters [of PARDON, as in §19] of treasons [etc.].
APPOINTMENT, during good behaviour, of Thomas Bathe, archdeacon of Meath, as chief baron of the Ex.
By letters of the p.s. of the Lt.
GRANT to Philip Durant that he shall not be placed on assizes [etc.].
LICENCE to Richard Clopton esq. to cross to Eng and absent himself from Ire. for one year.
GRANT to John Hanwood chaplain of the free chapel of St Mary Magdalene near Kells, diocese of Meath.
PARDON to John Noble clk of Drumker of suit of peace for treasons [etc.].
RCH, p. 185, §63 (=further grant dated at Trim, 10 March 1407).
1 See CIRCLE, PR 8 Hen. IV, §63.
PARDON to Henry Walsh of suit of peace for felonies [etc.].
APPOINTMENT of Walter Pafford as deputy [of William Mirson, customer of Ire., as in §18] in his absence.
GRANT, for service and by mainprize of Richard Clopton of co. Dublin and Nicholas Fountayns of co. Kildare, to Thomas Myldcombe esq. of custody of two thirds of the lands and services, and also wrecks of sea, in Marynereston and Donaghkerny, co. Meath, in the K.'s hand by reason of the minority of Edmund, son and heir of Roger [Mortimer], late earl of March, dcd; [to have] until the said heir comes of age, rendering 6m p.a.
The prior and brethren of the house of St John the Baptist outside the New Gate, Dublin, have petitioned that Edward III had granted the K.'s deodands within the land of Ire. for 20 years and that Richard II had confirmed that grant. GIFT to them of those deodands for the next 10 years.
RCH; BL, Egerton MS 78, p. 26.
LICENCE to William Symcok of Drogheda to transport wine to Ulster.
On 16 Feb.  1 Hen. IV the K. appointed John Barry as his attorney in the common bench and Ex. GRANT to John that he may execute that office for life by his sufficient deputies.
Being confident in their prudence, circumspection and industry, APPOINTMENT of the K.'s beloved esquires Thomas s. of Simon Cruys, Christopher Holywood, Thomas Serjaunt and Walter Tyrell, together and separately, as keepers and supervisors of keepers of the K.'s peace in co. Dublin. They are to assess and cause to be arrayed all men and ecclesiastics having temporalities within that county to horses and arms, hobelars, archers and foot according to the quantity of their lands and tenements, goods and chattels; and, having been thus assessed and arrayed and fortified with arms, to place them in twenties, hundreds and thousands, and lead them to marcher areas where hostile invasion by Irishmen or Englishmen, rebelling against the K. or his faithful people or the K.'s peace, may occur; and, with God leading, to fight and repulse them.
And they are to observe the Statute of Winchester in all its articles for the conservation of the K.'s peace within that county, because of robberies and other felonies committed there beyond measure. And also to amerce all those unwilling or refusing to do the premises or to rise in hue and cry to their aid and that of the K.'s faithful people; and to cause those amercements to be levied speedily, and from time to time they are to render faithfully an account before the venerable father in Christ, Thomas [Cranley], abp Dublin, and not elsewhere. And they are to do and execute all and singular things which seem best to them for the benefit of the K.'s peace. Giving to them, by the tenor of these presents, full power to deputize, place and appoint other sufficient and suitable persons, for whom they are willing to answer, in any baronies or districts in that county whatsoever, to do and execute all and singular of the premises for the benefit of the K.'s peace.
APPOINTMENT also to inquire, by oath of prudent and law-worthy men of that county through whom the truth might best be known, concerning all trespasses, seditions, felonies, ambidextries, champerties, extortions, contempts, falsities, false allegiances, conspiracies, confederacies, maintenances, receipts of felons, and all excesses whatever; and to arrest all and singular persons indicted before them, and to commit them to gaol, to stay there until the K. ordains for their delivery or otherwise. And also to arrest all goods and chattels of felons, fugitives or outlaws forfeited to the K., and to appraise them by oath of worthy and law-worthy men of that county. Wishing and granting by the tenor of these presents that they and each of them for their labours should have of the K.'s gift one third of all goods and chattels of such felons and outlaws as happen to be taken or levied by them to the K.'s use; such that they are to answer for the other two thirds of those goods and chattels due to the K.
NLI, [Harris] MS 4, f. 112d (=Frame, 'Commissions of the peace', pp 36–7).
Frame, 'Commissions of the peace', §44.
1 This is the first item on the dorse of RCI roll §65.
PARDON to Michael de la Felde, dean of the cathedral church of Kilkenny, of suit of peace for all manner of felonies [etc.].
APPOINTMENT of Edward Perers and Geoffrey Vale, knights, and also Simon Vale and Thomas Taillour of Carlow, as keepers of the peace in co. Carlow.
Frame, 'Commissions of the peace', §3.
GRANT to John Scotte of the office of controller of the customs of the coket and 2s from each tun, together with the control of searchers in the ports of Dublin and Drogheda; to have by himself or by deputies during good behaviour.
Thomas of Lancaster, steward of Eng., Lt of Ire.
RCH; RIA, MS 12.D.16, p. 97.
CIRCLE, PR 9 Hen. IV, §10.
Bertram Golding has letters of PROTECTION.
Thomas Bathe, archdeacon of Meath, has letters of PROTECTION.
GRANT to the K.'s esquire, Thomas Walleys and Basilia his wife of lands forfeited in Molaghowe, co. Dublin (lately taken into the K.'s hand as forfeit and granted to the value of 4m p.a. to the K.'s yeoman, William Lister, by letters patent returned by him to the K.); and 40 acres of land in Troyesrathe, which previously belonged to Thomas fitz Arnold, outlaw, and are in the K.'s hand on account of his forfeiture, worth 30s p.a. (which were lately granted to the K.'s yeoman, William Thornebury, by letters patent returned by him to the K.); to have for their lives and that of the survivor.
CPR 1401–5, p. 390 (=an inspeximus dated at Westminster, 3 May 1404); RCH.
On 17 June  2 Hen. IV, by letters patent, the K. appointed Thomas of Lancaster, steward of Eng., as Lt of Ire.; and later on 10 March  4 Hen. IV, by other letters patent, he granted to him all manner of issues [etc.] pertaining to the K. APPOINTMENT, during pleasure, of Stephen Lescrop kt as his deputy.
APPOINTMENT of John Cruys kt, Christopher Holywood, Thomas Serjeant, Thomas Howth, Robert White and John Oweyn to ordain for assemblies of the magnates, peers and commons of that county when necessary: because the commons of co. Dublin, reporting the industry of the said John [etc.] in a certain assembly among themselves before Thomas [Cranley], abp Dublin, C. of Ire., have now lately elected them to ordain in the best manner they could for the governance of that county.
RCH; NLI, GO MS 193, p. 52.
Richard Rede has letters of general attorney under the names of William Tynbegh and John Herbert.
Wishing to bestow gracious favour upon the K.'s beloved liege Maurice Sydrak, who is by birth of Irish blood, as is said, GRANT, for half a mark paid in the hanaper, to the same Maurice that he and all his issue, both born and to be born, may be of free status and condition, and free and quit from all Irish servitude; and that they shall be answered in all the courts of Ire., and that they may enjoy and use English law in and through all things in the same manner as English persons [homines Anglici] in the K.'s said land enjoy and use them; and that they may acquire lands, tenements, rents, services and possessions, and may have, hold, possess and enjoy them, succeed in them and dispose of them at their will; and also that they may be promoted to all ecclesiastical benefices, notwithstanding the Irish condition or any statute made to the contrary. So long, however, as the same Maurice and his said issue are faithful lieges to the K. and his heirs.
NLI, [Harris] MS 4, f. 135.
RCH; Curtis, Med. Ire. (2nd ed.), appendix IV, p. 420.
LICENCE to David Wogan kt [chiv’] to absent himself from Ire.
1 This is the first of two items calendared in RCH as bundle with a single item-number.
Matthew Hussey has letters of PROTECTION [as in §73].
To the K.'s customers in the port of the town of Galway.
ORDER to pay 5m p.a. to [Edmund Mercer, controller of customs in the port of the town of Galway, as in §27].
William Mirreson of Lancaster, collector of customs in Ire., has letters of general attorney.
COMMISSION, by mainprize of Walter de la Hyde and Reginald Tayllour of co. Meath, to Thomas Cusak kt and Hugh Bavent1 clk of custody of the manors of Skreen and Kylbarne, together with knights' fees, markets, fairs and other profits whatsoever pertaining [to the same]; and a water-mill in Milton of Kylbarne; and also one quarter of the lands that belonged to John Feypo in Ballymulghan; [to have] for as long as they are in the K.'s hand, rendering the extent.
By bill of the T.
LICENCE to Hugh Bavent,1 clerk of the hanaper of chancery, to cross to Eng.
By petition endorsed by the deputy and sealed with his seal.
RCH; NAI, Lodge MS 21, p. 47; NLI, GO MS 193, p. 51.
Nicholas Hayod has letters of PROTECTION.
COMMISSION, during pleasure, to Simon Vale of the office of sheriff of Carlow.
RCH; NLI, GO MS 193, p. 50.
1 This is the first of two items calendared in RCH as bundle with the item-number range §§40–1.
Philip Caddegan Walsh has similar letters [of PARDON, as in §41].
APPOINTMENT of Thomas Taylour and Simon Vale as justices to deliver the gaol of Carlow castle.
Thomas Neell of Waterford has pleaded showing that he was indicted as if he were of Irish birth so that the lands, tenements, rents and possessions that he acquired contrary to the form of the statute within the city of Waterford and the suburbs of the same, and also elsewhere in Ire., ought to be taken into the K.'s hand. PARDON to him.
By the deputy, endorsed and sealed with his seal.
PARDON, for 20m paid in the hanaper, to Hugh Rochefort of co. Wexford of suit of peace for all manner of trespasses [etc.]; and PARDON also to him of the goods and chattels that belonged to John Houland, late duke of Exeter, and other good and chattels forfeited, and also of outlawry [etc.].
PARDON, for a fine, to John Middiltone clk of suit of peace for treasons [etc.].
APPOINTMENT of Laurence Merbury kt [chiv’], John Barry, John Bateman and John Crosse as justices to take an assize of novel disseisin that Thomas Taillour of Carlow has arraigned against Robert Herbrik concerning a tenement in Carlow.
The K. appointed Stephen Lecrope kt as deputy of the K.'s son, Thomas of Lancaster, Lt of Ire., during his absence in Eng., and also as deputy of the same in Connacht and keeper there during the minority of Edmund, son and heir of Roger [Mortimer], late earl of March. Because Stephen is so constantly occupied that he can not go to Connacht, APPOINTMENT, during pleasure, of William Burgh kt as his deputy in Connacht with power to do all things for the good governance of those parts during Stephen's absence; and William is to receive the revenues [etc.] of the town of Galway.
NLI, [Harris] MS 4, f. 138.
NAI, Lodge MS 21, p. 9; RCH.
To the seneschal of the liberty of Wexford.
ORDER to place [Philip Rokeley chaplain] in possession [of the free chapel of St Saviour of New Ross, as in §64].
GRANT to Philip Rokeley chaplain of the free chapel of St Saviour of New Ross.
John fitz David Coyng has similar letters [of PARDON, as in §59] for treasons [etc.].
1 This is the fourth item in a bundle of numbered §§58–60 in RCH; it should, therefore, have been §61, but in fact it was not assigned its own item-number in RCH. For convenience, it has been recorded here as RCH 177/60 (a).
COMMISSION, by mainprize of Thomas s. of Simon Cruys of co. Dublin and Walter Nugent of co. Meath, to Walter de la Hyde kt [chivaler], of custody of the lands that belonged to Roger [Mortimer], late earl of March, in Balyskeagh, Rathconre, Richereston, Heyneston, Seneschalleston, Balyrayn and Coulecurragh, in the K.'s hand by reason of the minority of Edmund, son and heir of Roger.
APOINTMENT of John [Colton], abp Armagh, and also John Bellew kt and John Darcy to summon, in the K.'s name, convocations of the clergy of the diocese of Armagh and the magnates, peers and commons of co. Louth, in the absence of Stephen Lescrope kt, deputy of the K.'s son, Thomas of Lancaster, Lt.
NLI, [Harris] MS 4, f. 139.
RCH; BL, Egerton MS 78, p. 27.
ADMISSION of the election of John Gosner, burgess of the town of Drogheda, as mayor, and Thomas Thomesson and William Maltone as constables of the staple of wool [etc.] at that town on both sides of the water.
COMMISSION, by mainprize of William Gylton clk of co. Dublin and Thomas Aleyn of co. Meath, to John [Waltham], bp Ossory, of custody of the temporalities of that bishopric; [to have] for as long as they are in the K.'s hand, rendering £40 p.a.
John Drak, citizen of Dublin, has letters of general attorney under the names of William Tynbegh and John Blakeney.
GRANT to Milo Chepman of Dundalk of protection of the peace.
To the mayor and bailiffs of the town of Drogheda on the side of Louth.
ORDER to cause the said rigging, which is in the custody of William Pecok, to be delivered to the said John [Sandre of Drogheda, as in §50].
PARDON to John Peche of treasons [etc.].
Nicholas Fleming clk has letters of general attorney.
PARDON to Philip Galmole of treasons [etc.].
GRANT to Nicholas Woder of Dublin to transport 6 weys of wheat to Bordeaux in order to buy wine.
ORDER to the bishop of Ossory to admit [John Nugent as prebendary of Ensnak, diocese of Ossory]; and to the dean and chapter to assign him a stall in the choir and a place in the chapter.
Richard Went, parson of Rinrone, diocese of Cork, has shown by petition how, although he was presented to that church by the K. and was admitted canonically by the bishop, he has, however, been unduly impeded by a certain incumbent; and he pleads that his enemies are more afraid of ecclesiastical censure than any process of the K.; and that the pope provided that church to the said Richard. He seeks that the K. pardon his trespass in accepting that church on account of the said provision. PARDON to him of that trespass.
Thomas Cusak kt has letters of PROTECTION.
PARDON to Richard Whitechurche esq. of suit of peace for treasons [etc.].
John fitz John fitz Maurice has letters of PROTECTION.
Roland fitz Eustace has letters of PROTECTION.
NAI, Lodge MS 17, p. 218; RCH.
1 This is the first item on the dorse of RCI roll §66.
William Nyngent, alias William More, has similar letters [of PARDON, as in §54].
LICENCE to Robert Yvenhowe of Manne to transport two weys of wheat to that place.
By petition [endorsed] by the deputy.
1 This is the first of four items calendared in RCH as bundle with the item-number range §§58–60.
PARDON to John Ketyng of Drogheda of outlawry in a process of debt at the suit of Roger Tiburton merchant before John fitz Adam and his fellow justices of the common bench.
Thomas Caundish has similar letters [of PARDON, as in §59] for felonies [etc.].
to expend the moneys arising from such amercements upon the defence of the county, rendering an account of such receipts not to the K.’s Ex. but to the Bishop of Kildare; to imprison all those opposing and resisting their authority; and to treat and parley with the K.'s Irish enemies. With ORDER to the sheriff of the county and the keepers of the peace, serjeants, bailiffs [etc.] to receive the K.’s writs from the elected persons, or from any one of them, and to be intendant to their orders.
NLI, [Harris] MS 4, f. 140.
Matthew Devitt, ‘The barony of Okethy’, Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society, 8 (1915–17), 472 (citing the original Irish patent roll); RCH; NLI, GO MS 193, p. 52; BL, Egerton MS 78, p. 27.
LICENCE to Thomas Cusak kt [chiv’] to absent himself in Eng. for one year, and to levy rents [etc.] by deputies in the meantime, notwithstanding the statute [concerning absentees].
The K. previously gave to William Lange clk the escape of John Sarcefeld, who feloniously killed John Wyrall, as was said, to be received from the town of Navan. GRANT of that escape to be received both from the said town and also from other towns upon which he happens to be adjudged.
APPOINTMENT, during pleasure, of Edmund s. of Edmund Savage as seneschal of the liberty of Ulster for as long as that liberty remains in the K.'s hand. He is to receive the customary fee and to render his account annually at the K.'s Ex. of Ire.
NLI, [Harris] MS 4, f. 141.
RCH; COA, PH 15157, vol. 1, p. 19; NLI, GO MS 193, p. 50.
APPOINTMENT of William Sutton, Howell ap Henry and John Howet to purvey oats and other victuals for the household of Thomas of Lancaster, Lt.
Nicholas Wogan has similar letters [granting licence to transport grain overseas, as in §71].
By bill of the deputy and sealed with his seal.
1 This is the first of two items calendared in RCH as bundle with the item-number range §§69–70.
On the advice of Stephen le Scrope kt, deputy of Thomas of Lancaster, steward of Eng., Lt in Ire., and on account of the good service rendered by William Sutton, GRANT to William of the office of the clerk of common pleas of the Ex. of Ire., to be exercised by him and his sufficient deputies for life, receiving annually such fees, wages and rewards as John Penkeston, formerly clerk of the common pleas, was accustomed to receive in the time of Edward III, notwithstanding any grant of that office made before this time or to be made by the chancellor of the green wax of that Ex.
Stephen le Scrope kt, deputy of Thomas of Lancaster, steward of Eng., Lt in Ire.
TCD, MS 1747, pp 80–3, 93–5, 150–3.
NAI, RC 8/41, p. 283; CPR 1401–5, pp 377–8 (=an inspeximus dated at Eltham Manor, 28 March 1404); RCH, p. 177, §62; RCH, p. 203, §21 (=CIRCLE, PR 1 Hen. V, §60: an inspeximus dated at Dublin, 7 Dec. 1413); RCH, p. 251, §20 (=CIRCLE, CR 9 Hen. V, §20: an inspeximus under the g.s. of Ire. dated 22 Feb. 1421); CPR 1422–9, p. 83 (=CIRCLE, PR 1 Hen. VI, §15: an inspeximus dated at Westminster, 3 May 1423); NLI, GO MS 193, p. 50.
PARDON to Philip Creff of suit of peace for treasons [etc.].
The mayor, bailiffs and community of the city of Down in Ulster have letters of PROTECTION.
RCH; BL, Egerton MS 76, p. 17.
[…] has a similar LICENCE [as in §97] to transport 1 wey of wheat to Wexford.
Roger Grymaston of Dublin has petitioned showing that now lately he was robbed by Scots, both of the highlands and also from the isles [de alta patria quam de insulis]. GRANT to him of a licence to cross by himself or his attorney, John Whit of Carrickfergus, on three occasions, to those parts and to transport flour, wine, ale and salt to the value of £10.
Stephen Lescrope, kt, deputy of Thomas of Lancaster, steward of Eng., Lt in Ire.
RCH; CPR 1401–5, p. 419 (=an inspeximus dated at Westminster, 22 Jul. 1404); BL, Egerton MS 76, p. 20; NLI, GO MS 193, p. 53.
1 This is the first item in RCI roll §66, identified as follows in RCH: 'Rotulus patens de anno 5 Hen. IV. 2a pars' (=§§101–28 below).
APPOINTMENT of John Shryggeley kt, John fitz Adam, John Bermingham and William Tynbegh as justices to take an assize of novel disseisin that Nicholas Cristor chaplain and Robert Shymlyn arraigned against John Stokes, Gerald Stokes and others concerning a tenement in Stokestoun near Sydan [co. Meath].
'MEMORANDUM that in a certain council held at Castledermot after St David the Bishop last past [3 March 1404], the prelates, magnates, peers, clergy and commons summoned and appearing there discussed before the council how the K.'s beloved and faithful Stephen Lescrope kt, deputy of the K.'s beloved son Thomas of Lancaster, steward of Eng., Lt in his land of Ire., now lately suddenly withdrew from that land, without having made provision for its governance or rule before his departure or afterwards. Consequently the land is in great desolation, and the K.'s enemies and rebels of that land, having seen and understood the premises, prepared themselves, and are ready and prepared, to wage war and destroy the K.'s faithful lieges of that land unless their malice can be speedily resisted and repulsed with force; and that little or nothing remains in the K.'s treasury of that land for the payment of soldiers in aid of the resistance of the said malice or the fees and wages of the justices or other ministers or constables of the K.'s castles in that land, as was sufficiently declared there.
Whereupon the same prelates, magnates, peers, clergy and commons― considering the damage, destruction and other unbearable evils which (God forbid!) might truly occur within a short time if they were not aided― granted of their common assent and consent to the K.'s beloved and faithful cousin James Butler, e. Ormond—as soldier and governor of the wars of that land [tanquam eorum Soldario et Gubernatori Guerrarum terre nostre predicte], in aid of his expenses both in resisting the malice of those enemies and rebels and also in sustanance of the wars in the same land, and also for the salvation and defence of the said lieges—6s 8d to be levied of each carucate of cultivated land in the whole of Leinster and the counties of Meath, Louth, and also Waterford and Tipperary, in the manner and form that is more fully contained in the K.'s commissions made concerning this. Furthermore the prelates and clergy of those parts and counties similarly agreed to contribute for themselves, their lay tenants, gavellers and chattels; and similarly the commons of [the cities]1 Dublin and Waterford, the town of Drogheda on both sides of the water, and of other towns from those parts and counties appearing there, also agreed to contribute for the citizens and burgesses aforesaid, in aid of the aforesaid expenses for their part, according to the rate of 6s 8d on each carucate of land in those counties, just as they used to contribute before this time in such grants.
Furthermore they agreed to pay half of the said subsidy into the hands of receivers appointed by the said earl as quickly as it could be had and levied; and the other half is to be paid at the Nativity of St John the Baptist next coming [24 June 1404], on this condition: that if the K. should sufficiently ordain in the meantime for the good governance, salvation and defence of his land and the resistance of the said malice, such that that ordinance be manifest before the Nativity of St John next, that then the levy and payment of the second half of the subsidy should cease; but that otherwise should be levied and paid to the said earl in the said form.
And also the same prelates, magnates, clergy, peers and commons similarly granted to the same earl that if the K. does not sufficiently ordain for the said good governance, salvation and defence within the half-year now following, and the same earl well, manfully and with force saves and defends [that land] in the meantime against the malice of the said enemies and rebels, and castigates and punishes all manner of Irish rebels, that then whenever the earl wishes after that he may cause them [the prelates, magnates etc.] to be convoked, so that they and each of them should contribute reasonably in aid of his expenses from time to time, according to their faculties.
And also the same prelates, magnates, clergy, peers and commons granted the premises to the said earl as their soldier and governor of wars of the said land, as is said before, and not as Jcr or any other officer of the K. of that land, compelled by urgent necessity, as aforesaid, and under this condition: that coygnes of the said earl and the taking of victuals without making due payment into hands for the same, and also liveries in that country [liberaciones in patria] should cease and be nullified from now on for the time he is Jcr of the K.'s land. for the time from which he was Jcr of the said land, cease and are nullifed; and they also protested that they do not wish nor intend that this grant, made by them for their salvation and defence in this their exceptional necessity, should be taken as an example henceforth, nor as a precedent in new appointments of justiciars or other governors of that land in future times. And furthermore they asked that this become of record in the K.'s chancery.
1PKCI reads 'communes commitatum Dublinii et Waterfordie', but it is likely that this is an error for 'commons of the cities of Dublin and Waterford'.
2 The exemplification concludes with the following 'mention of service': Everdoun (=Thomas Everdon).
APPOINTMENT of John fitz Adam, John Bocombe junior, William Tynbegh, Peter Cooke of Cokestoun and Robert Cusak of Cosynestoun as justices to take an assize of novel disseisin that Thomas s. of William Lucas arraigned against Thomas s. of John fitz Lucas, John Mongomery and others concerning a tenement in Balytarstyn and Miltoun [co. Meath].
1 This is the first of three items calendared in RCH as bundle with the item-number range §§17–18.
Philip Ofynan, burgess of the town of Drogheda, has similar letters [granting LICENCE to transport grain] for seven weys of wheat to the town [of Kinsale, as in §124].
COMMISSION, by mainprize of John Coryngham clk and John Cotyngham of co. Dublin, to Henry Stanyhurst esq. of custody of all messuages, lands [etc.] that belonged to Robert Arthur dcd in Slane, taken into the K.'s hand for debts of Peter Arthur, his son and heir; rendering the extent.
COMMISSION, by mainprize of John Corryngham clk of co. Dublin and Thomas Aleyn of co. Meath, to James White of custody of 24 acres of land in Balywaltyr, co. Meath, in the barony of Dunboyne, being in the K.'s hand; rendering the extent.
Peter Chepman, one of the bailiffs of the town of Drogheda, going to Eng., has appointed John Beke, burgess of the same town, as his deputy. ORDER to all to be intendant to the same John.
COMMISSION, by mainprize of Henry Stanyhurst of co. Dublin and John Barry of co. Wexford, to James White of custody of one carucate of land in Rothestoun near Ardee in co. Louth, which lately belonged to Thomas Gernon; and 2 marcates of rent in Croyngestoun in the same county, being in the K.'s hand; rendering the extent.
On 10 Oct.  3 Hen. IV, by letters patent of Eng., the K. committed to Laurence Merbury the office of T. of Ire. during pleasure, with the accustomed fee. Now, on advice of James Butler, e. Ormond, Jcr of Ire., COMMISSION to him of the same office with the fee [etc.] granted to him in that office in the time of the K.'s son, Thomas of Lancaster, Lt, during good behaviour.
By petition endorsed by the Jcr and sealed with his seal.
NLI, [Harris] MS 4, f. 142.
COMMISSION, by mainprize of Walter Plunket and Richard Fleming of co. Louth, to Richard Sydegreve and John Heyne of co. Meath and Thomas Fourneys clk of co. Dublin of custody of the temporalities of the archbishopric of Armagh in cos. Louth and Meath, in the K.'s hand on account of the death of John [Colton], the last bishop there; [to have] for as long as they are in the K.'s hand, rendering the extent.
Brother Robert White, prior of the hospital of St John of Jerusalem in Ire., going to Eng. in the K.'s service, has letters of PROTECTION with clause volumus to last for one year.
Hugh Bavent1 clk has the K.'s letters of presentation to the church of St James of Athboy, diocese of Meath.
To the bishop of Ossory and the dean and chapter of the cathedral church of Ossory.
ORDER to admit [Richard Ohedyan, archdeacon of Cashel, to the prebend of St Malla in the cathedral church of Ossory, together with the church of Kilmanagh annexed to it, as in §114], as is customary.
APPOINTMENT of John Galvy, John Wynchedoun and William Gowlys to inquire by [oath etc.] of cos. Cork and Limerick concerning escheators and deputy escheators, clerks of the market, coroners, justices of the peace, sheriffs, bailiffs and other ministers of the K. within those counties, and [concerning] their defects, acts and concealments [etc.].
By petition endorsed by the Jcr and sealed with the p.s.
NLI, [Harris] MS 4, f. 143.
Robert Fynglas of Swords has a similar LICENCE [to transport] half a wey of wheat to the same parts [Wexford, as in §99].
APPOINTMENT of Walter Wellesley, Thomas Stanton and Thomas White as keepers of the peace in co. Kildare.
By bill of the Jcr.
Frame, 'Commissions of the peace', §73.
COMMISSION, by mainprize of Christopher Preston kt and Thomas Bacoun of co. Meath, to Thomas Starkey and John Keppagh of custody of the manor of Shanbowe, co. Kilkenny, being in the K.'s hand; rendering the extent.
PARDON, for 20s paid in the hanaper, to Henry Haberge of suit of peace for all manner of treasons, trespasses [etc.], and also of outlawry [etc.].
Margaret Ocurryn, Irishwoman, has a charter of English liberty; for 1m paid in the hanaper.
John Meddeltoun clk has letters of pardon of outlawry of a plea of debt at the suit of Robert Crull clk.
PARDON to Katherine of Desmond of her trespass in acquiring to herself and her heirs from James Butler, e. Ormond, a moiety of the town of Youghal, together with a moiety of the manor and barony of Inchecoyn, which are held of the K. in chief; and PARDON to the same earl for alienating those lands and tenements without having obtained the K.'s licence.
RCH; COA, PH 13203, p. 352.
Wishing to bestow gracious favour upon the K.'s beloved Nicholas Ologhlyn chaplain, who is by birth of Irish blood, as is said, GRANT of the K.'s special grace, for half a mark paid in the hanaper, to the same Nicholas that he may be of free status and condition, and free and quit from all Irish servitude; and that he may enjoy and use English law in and through all things in the same manner as English persons [homines Anglici] in the K.'s said land enjoy and use them; that he shall answer and be answered in all courts of the land of Ire.; and that he may acquire lands, tenements, goods and chattels, rents and possessions, and that he may dispose of them at his owill as the K.'s liege in his said land; and that he may be promoted to any ecclesiastical benefices and dignities, and accept them peacefully and freely, notwithstanding the Irish condition or any statute or ordinance made to the contrary.
NLI, [Harris] MS 4, f. 144.
PARDON to Thomas Mareward of all intrusions, alienations without licence, contempts [etc.] in and of the manor of Skreen and 1 messuage, 1 mill and lands in les Kilcarnes committed by him or his ancestors; and also of all fines, profits [etc.] owed to the K. or his ancestors; and RATIFICATION of his estate in the same.
NAI, Ferguson Coll. 2, p. 157.
COMMISSION to Katherine of Desmond of custody of a waste town called Devenysshestoun, co. Waterford, which is in the K.'s hand, to reinhabit and rebuild the same in aid and comfort of the K.'s lieges of that county; [to have] for as long as it remains in the K.'s hand, without rendering anything.
PARDON, for 40s, to John Nosterfeld, vicar of the church of Swords, and to John White chaplain of all manner of misprisions, intrusions [etc.] committed by him in and of the manors of Marynerestoun and Donaghkerny; and also of all issues and profits of the said manors.
Richard s. of Tancard Walsh and Nicholas s. of Thomas Mauclerc have similar letters [appointing them as keepers of the peace, as in §92] in the crosslands of Tipperary.
William Symcok [has similar letters granting LICENCE to transport grain, as in §124] for four weys of wheat to the town of Tynbegh in Wales; for half a mark paid in the hanaper.
In Magna Carta, made of old in the time of the K.'s progenitors, formerly K.'s of Eng., it was decreed among other things for the common good of the K.'s subjects that the church of Eng. and Ire. should always be free and quit from all secular servitude, and have all liberties and free customs which it had at any time or ought to have had. This statute was agreed to and confirmed in each parliament held by the K. or his progenitors from the time of its making, and also in each of the parish churches in the K.'s said lands, four times every year, sentences of excommunication are fulminated against anyone infringing or contravening that statute in any of its articles. Nevertheless, certain sons of iniquity, unmindful of their salvation, and attaching little weight to the said statute, do daily impose impositions and illicit burdens upon the lands and ecclesiastical possessions of the venerable father Gerald [Caneton], bp Cloyne, and also others of the clergy of his diocese, without their assent, consent or will, viz. both the sustenance of horse and foot within that county, and in making and sustaining at their will coignes and other undue contributions; and they compel them, the bishop, dean, chapter and clergy, against their will, to support and receive such illicit impositions, without right, in contempt of the K. and to the weakening of the said statute, to the grave injury and destruction of the said bishop, dean, chapter and clergy, to the pernicious example of other malefactors, and to the manifest violation of ecclesiastical liberty, damnably incurring the sentence of greater excommunication, as the K. is more fully informed by their complaint, at which the K. wonders very much indeed and is moved, especially as he is bound by the bond of his coronation oath to observe inviolably those liberties.
Paul MacCotter and Kenneth Nicholls (eds), The pipe roll of Cloyne: Rotulus pipae Clonensis (Cloyne Literary and Historical Society: Midleton, 1996), pp 132–4; Rotulus pipae Clonensis, ed. Caulfield, pp 59–60.
1 This translation is based on that in Paul MacCotter and Kenneth Nicholls (eds), The pipe roll of Cloyne: Rotulus pipae Clonensis (Cloyne Literary and Historical Society: Midleton, 1996), 133–5.
COMMISSION, by mainprize of John fitz Aleyn and Robert Meones of co. Meath, to Edward Scurlag of custody of all messuages, lands, tenements, customs, rents and services belonging to the portion of Thomas Fleming, baron of Slane, and Elizabeth, one of the daughters and heirs of William Loundres, wife of Christopher Preston, of the manors of Culmolyn, Kells and Clonleon, in the K.'s hands for certain reasons.
NAI, Ferguson Coll. 2, p. 149.
The commons of co. Dublin, in a certain great council assembled at Castledermot, granted 113s 4d for the sustenance of 800 foot who are to proceed from that town to Ulster in the K.'s service at his wages upon the recovery of those parts, which have been destroyed both by Scots and other enemies from the outer isles [de forinsecis insulis], and also by the Irish. They assessed 9d upon each carucate of land in that county for the payment of the said sum; and they elected Simon Coulok, William Bossard and John Mongomery as collectors. APPOINTMENT of Simon, William and John to levy and collect those 9d [from each carucate]; and APPOINTMENT of Thomas [Cranley], abp Dublin, as receiver of that subsidy, for which he is to account at the Ex.
NLI, [Harris] MS 4, f. 146.
PARDON to Thomas Fleming, baron of Slane, of intrusions, alienations, fines [etc.].
Bodl., MS Laud. Misc. 613, f. 308.
David Odonyr1 clk has similar letters [of PARDON, as in §110], at the suit of the prior of the hospital of St John [the Baptist] outside the New Gate, Dublin.
1Sic in RCH; possibly a misreading for 'Odouyr' (=O'Dwyer / Ó Duidhir).
1 This is the first legible item in RCI roll §65, identified as follows in RCH: 'Rotulus patens de anno 5 Hen. IV. 1a pars' (=§§1–100 below). The item is dated 'Teste ut supra', in reference to an earlier item from the same roll that was illegible by 1828. A second detached portion of the same patent roll (RCI roll §66), consisting of two membranes, is identified as follows in RCH: 'Rotulus patens de anno 5 Hen. IV. 1a pars' (=§101–28 below).
Considering the damages that the enemies of the marches of co. Meath are doing, APPOINTMENT of R[obert Montayne], bp Meath, and also Christopher Preston kt, John Darcy and John Herbert as justices of the peace in that county, and supervisors of the keepers of the peace there.
Vacated because nothing was done concerning this.
Frame, 'Commissions of the peace', §144.
1 This is the first of two items calendared in RCH as bundle with the item-number range §§11–12.

References: §53
 §19
 §63
 §63
 §18
 §44
 §65
 §3
 §10
 §73
 §27
 §41
 §64
 §59
 §61
 §50
 §66
 §54
 §59
 §71
 §62
 §21
 §60
 §20
 §20
 §15
 §97
 §66
 §124
 §114
 §99
 §73
 §92
 §124
 §110
 §65
 §66
 §144