APPOINTMENT, during pleasure, of James Boys as chief chamberlain of the Ex.

APPOINTMENT, during pleasure, of William Archbold as second engrosser of the Ex.

APPOINTMENT, during pleasure, of John Breccan as one of the barons of the Ex.

APPOINTMENT of Alexander [Balscot], bp Ossory, and John Breccan, chief remembrancer of the Ex., to inquire by oath of a jury in co. Kilkenny concerning the lands and goods that William Ilger, formerly escheator of Ire., the K.'s debtor, held there, and into whose hands they have now come.

INSPEXIMUS of [1] a charter of Stephen s. of Adam Hereford [?1250] and [2] letters of acquittance of Maurice s. of Thomas, e. Kildare [8 Aug. 1345]:

[1] 'Stephen Hereford gives and grants to Geoffrey Hereford and his heirs for his homage and service all the land that Adam Hereford, the grantor's father, gave to Roger Hereford, his nephew, for his homage and service in the tenement of Cloncurry, viz. Mayn and BalymcCologh and Clonhomery and Hachmacoban and Derneganhach and Feybocullan, with all nativi belonging to those lands. He also gives and grants to Geoffrey Hereford and his heirs that they shall not make suit at his court of Cloncurry forever. To have and to hold all the aforesaid lands etc. of him and his heirs in fee and inheritance forever, well and in peace, freely, quietly and fully, both in lordships and demesnes, homages, services, wardships, reliefs and escheats, in wood and plain, meadows and pastures etc., fishings, huntings, advowsons of churches and all liberties and free customs pertaining thereto: performing for this to him and his heirs the service of one quarter of a knight.

Witnesses: Hugh Ley, Adam Ledewyche, John Possewych, Godfrey Valon', Geoffrey Hereford, John de la Liserne, Thomas, parson of Tachoneny, and John s. of Walter the clerk, who wrote this charter.'

[2] The K. has inspected certain letters of acquittance made under the seal of Maurice s. of Thomas, e. Kildare, in these words:

'We, Maurice s. of Thomas, e. Kildare, have received from Thomas Dagworth kt and Eleanor his wife, countess of Ormond, 20s silver by the hands of Simon Flatesbury of royal service proclaimed at Modessel before Ralph Ufford, Jcr of Ire., for the lands and tenements belonging to the said Simon in Balymcscallok in the barony of Cloncurry, Offelan. And those whose concern it is, we have notified of this.

Given at Kildare on 8 Aug. [1345] 19 Edw. III.'

The K. has exemplified this charter and letters of acquittance at the request of James Butler, e. Ormond, in witness of which the K. has had these letters made.

GRANT, on the advice of the Jcr and council of Ire., and of Nicholas Dagworth kt, surveyor of Ire., to John Asshewell of Drogheda and his heirs and assigns of a vacant plot called Castelmote of Drogheda on the side of Meath, for 60 years, rendering 12d p.a. at the Ex. of Ire. LICENCE also to build a windmill on that plot, and for that purpose to pull down the stone walls of an old house in a garden called Le Castelblathaghyord of Drogheda, adjacent to the said plot, and to use the materials; and also LICENCE to make a way to that mill through a vacant place called Castelblathagh, but without hindrance to the K.'s access to, and repair of, his prison there.

EXEMPLIFICATION of articles in charter to the city of Dublin by Edward III [5 July 1363].¹

'Notwithstanding the privilege of the citizens of Dublin that no foreign merchant should sell his merchandise by retail in the said city, some foreign merchants, under pretext of the statute or ordinance of the staple lately published—that all merchants coming to the staple of the cities and boroughs in the kingdom of Eng. and the K.'s lands of Ire. and Wales, may sell their merchandise by wholesale or retail or by parcels, without impediment—come to Dublin, and at their will sell and buy goods by retail as freely as the merchants of that city, and thus engross the profits that may arise from buying and selling there, giving no aid or contribution towards the charges for the preservation and defence of the city of Dublin. Under an ordinance recently made that all wool, hides and other goods from the K.'s dominions for foreign parts are to be carried to his town of Calais and not elsewhere, the citizens of Dublin are bound to bring their merchandise, namely old cloth, wool, hides and other exempted goods, which are very unlike and different from the merchandise of other lands to the town of Calais, where they can with difficulty sell such goods for any proper value, or obtain wines, iron, salt, or other merchandise fit for Ire.; and the citizens of Dublin, having disposed of their goods at a low price at Calais, are necessitated to take a new freight to Eng., Gascony or elsewhere, to obtain merchandise suitable for their country, and they have thus to incur two freights instead of one, to their great loss and manifest impoverishment. In consideration of these circumstances, and for the peace and advantage of the citizens of Dublin, the K. by this charter ordains that all foreign merchants buying and selling merchandise within the city under the statute of the staple shall pay and be obliged to pay with the citizens in aids and contributions to the tallage, and such other charges on the city as may be just, according to the amount of their purchases or sales. The citizens of Dublin are authorized to bring old cloth, wool, hides and all other wares produced in Ire., except grain when prohibited, to Eng. Gascony and other places, where they may desire, as they did before the enactment of the statute and ordinance of the staple.'