[ENROLMENT, in French, of statutes of the Irish parliament.]1
In the K.'s parliament held at Dublin on Thursday next after the quindene of Easter 3 Hen. IV [13 April 1402] before Thomas of Lancaster, steward of Eng., Lt of Ire., the K.—greatly desiring that the peace, laws, and statutes ordained in the land of Ire. before this time, and the good governance of the same, be guarded and maintained in all points, and that his faithful lieges and subjects be sustained and governed [nurries et gouvernes] in quiet and tranquillity in all parts of the said land, to the honour of God and Holy Church, and the common profit of all the people of his said land—by the assent of the prelates, earls, barons and other magnates, and all the community of his land summoned to that parliament, ORDAINED and ESTABLISHED in that parliament the following statutes and ordinances:
[1] Holy Church is to have and enjoy all her franchises, liberties, free usages and customs without impeachment, as she has had and used them, according to the franchises ordained and granted by the K. or his progenitors by statutes or ordinances made in Eng. or in Ire.
[2] The land of Ire. to Ire. is to have and enjoy its liberties and franchises, good customs and usages, as have been used reasonably before this time.
[3] The statutes and ordinances made in a parliament held at Kilkenny on Thursday next after Ash Wednesday 40 Edw. III [19 Feb. 1366] before Lionel duke of Clarence, Lt of Ire., are to be held, observed and confirmed and sent to all the sheriffs of the land under the g.s. to be proclaimed and published in […].2
[3] The statute of admirals made in Eng. [15 Ric. II, stat., c. 3] is to be held, observed and executed in the land of Ire. in all its points. As admirals and their deputies in the said land usurp the [privileges] jurisdictions, franchises and other profits that pertain to the [K.] in cities, boroughs and towns, both inside and outside of franchises, to the great oppression [of the people of the said] land and the K.'s loss, and contrary to the statute made in Eng. in the time of Richard II, predecessor of the present K., by which it was ordained and established that admirals and their deputies ought not to interfere in anything done in the realm, but only concerning matters done on sea, and that all manner of contracts, pleas and plaints, and all other things done or arising in the body of the counties, as well by land as by water, and also wreck of the sea, should be tried, determined and argued, and remedied by the law of the land, and not before the admirals or their deputies or any other.
[4] The statute concerning the clerk of the market as to weights [13 Ric. II, stat. 1, c. 5] is to be observed in Ire. As the clerk of the market takes to his own use many fees, fines, and amercements [from] cities, lordships, boroughs and towns, in right of his office [pro officio respectuando], to the great oppression of the common people of the said land and contrary to the statutes in those cases made in Eng. in the time of Richard II, predecessor the present K., by which it was ordained that the said clerk ought duly to execute his office, and burn all the false measures, without taking any fine, and punish everyone that he [finds] guilty, according to his deserts. And if the said clerk or his deputies do the contrary, and be convicted of this, the said clerk shall make fine to the K. and lose his office.
[5] Letters patents of licence under the g.s. of Ire. [made] and granted henceforth to those who are or shall be absent from Ire. are to be as valid [soient dactuel force] as letters patents made and granted under the g.s. of Eng.
[6] If any man enters into the rabbit warren [le Conynger] of any lord or anyone else in the said land of Ire., and kills the rabbits within that warren, the aggrieved party is to have his action by writ or by bill, and recover his damages tenfold, and furthermore [that the offender] is to be fined at the will of the K.
[7] No purveyor of the households of the Lt, Jcr or cons[…]3 of that land, at present or in future, is to measure any grain for the said households except by the bushel sealed [buschelle en seal] according to the standard; and if anyone does to the contrary and is convicted of that, or if it is duly proved, he shall be removed from his office and fined at the will of the K.
