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2 After Curcies decease, because he left no heires, the earledome of Vlster was giuen vnto Hugh
Lacie in recompense of his good seruice. There was one of the Curcies remaining in Ireland that was lord of
Rathermie and Kilbarrocke, whome (as an espiall of all these practises and informer thereof to the king)
Walter and Hugh the sons of Hugh Lacie slue, by reason whereof great trouble and disquietnesse insued: those
Lacies bearing themselues (now after the decease of their father) for gouernors out of checke. To set the
realme in quiet, king Iohn was faine to passe thither himselfe in person with a maine armie, King Iohn went into Ireland. banished the
Lacies, subdued the residue of the countrie yet not conquered, tooke pledges, punished malefactors,
established the execution of Sée more [...]ereof in En|gland. English lawes, coined monie of like value currant sterling in both realmes. The
two Lacies repenting their misdemeanors, fled into France disguised They fled in|to France. in poore apparell, and
serued there in an abbeie as gardeners, till the abbat by their countenance and behauior began to gesse
their estates, and opposed them so farre that they disclosed what they were; be|seeching the abbat to keepe
their counsels, who com|mending their repentant humblenes, aduised them yet to make sute for their princes
fauor, if it might be had, promising to doo what he could in the matter, and so tooke vpon him to be a suter
for them vnto the king that was his godcept and well acquainted with him. He trauelled so earnestlie herein,
that at length he obteined their pardons: but yet they were fined, They are pardoned, and
put to their fines. Walter at foure thousand, and Hugh at fiue and twentie hundred markes: and
herevpon Walter was restored vnto the lordship of Meth, and Hugh to the earledome of Ulster.
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appointed his lieutenants in Ire|land, and returning home, subdued the Welshmen, and soone after with
Pandulfus the legat of pope Innocentius the third, who came to release him of the censure, wherin he stood
excommunicat, to whom as to the popes legat he made a personall surrender of both realmes in waie of
submission; and after he was once absolued, he receiued them againe. Some adde, that he gaue awaie his
kingdoms to the see of Rome for him and his successors, recognising to hold the same of the popes in fée,
paieng yearelie therefore one thousand markes, as seauen hundred for Eng|land, and three hundred for
Ireland. Blondus saith An hundred marks of gold. Blondus.
Centum pro vtroque auri marchias. Sir Thomas More (as Campion saith) a man both in calling
& office likelie to sound the matter to the depth, writeth preciselie, that neither such writing the
pope can shew, neither were it effectuall if he could. How farre foorth, and with what limitation a prince
may or may not addict his realme feodarie to another, Iohn Maior a Sco|tish chronicler, and a
Sorbonist not vnlearned part|lie scanneth, who thinketh three hundred markes for Ireland no verie hard
peniworth. The instrument (as Campion thinketh) which our English writers rehearse, might happilie
be motioned and drawen, and yet not confirmed with anie seale, nor ratified:
Iohn Bale in his apologie against bows. but though the copie of this writing remaine in
re|cord, yet certeine it is, king Iohns successors neuer paid it. After Iohn Comin archbishop of Dublin, and
founder of saint Patriks church succéeded Hen|rie Londores in the sée, who builded the kings castell there,
being lord chéefe iustice of Ireland, him they nick named (as the Irish doo commonlie giue additi|ons in
respect of some fact or qualitie) Scorchuille in, that is, But nobil, because he required to peruse the
writings of his tenants, colorable pretending to learne the kind of ech mans seuerall tenure, and bur|ned
the same before their faces, causing them [...] new their takings, or to hold at will.
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1 In the yeare one thousand two hundred and sixteene king Iohn departed this life. In his daies
diuerse monasteries were builded in Ireland, as (beside those that before are mentioned) in the fourth yeare
of his reigne the abbeie of Dowish was founded; in the sixt the abbeie of Wetherham in the countie of
Limerike, by Theobald le Butler lord of Cacrackie, and in the twelfe yeare Richard Oute builded the
monasterie of Grenard. In the daies of Henrie the third that succeeded his father king Henrie the
third. warresbe|twixt Lacie and Marshall. 1228 The Gi|raldines. Iohn great warres
were raised in Ireland betwixt Hugh Lacie & William Marshall, so that the countrie of Meth was
greeuouslie afflicted. In the yeare of our Lord 1228, after the death of Londores archbishop of Dublin, that
was lord cheefe iustice, king Henrie the third vnderstanding the good seruice doone by the Giraldines euer
since their first comming into Ireland, although by wrong reports EEBO page image 62 the same had beene to their preiudice for a
time sinisterlie misconstrued, so as the gentlemen had still béene kept backe, and not rewarded according to
their deserts. The king now informed of the truth made Morice Fitzgerald the sonne of Morice afore|said
Morice Fitz|girald. Lucas arch|bishop. lord chéefe iustice of Ireland. Lucas
succeeded Londres in the archbishops sée, and was consecrated. In the yeare one thousand two hundred and
thirtie, Richard Marshall was taken prisoner in battell at 1230 Kildare. Some
write that he was wounded there, and within few daies after died of the
hurt at Kil|kennie, 1234 and was buried there in the queere of the church of the
friers preachers, néere to the place where his brother William was interred, who departed this life in the
yeare one thousand two hundred thir|tie and one.