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in part of his fee of £40 a year;—Idem R. 1;—and haying set forth that he had continued in Munster for a quarter of a year, under Edmund Earl of March and Ulster, L. L., for the execution of his office of Chancellor, with the same retinue, for the more safe and secure conduct of himself and the King's Seal, receiving no wages for his said men, as other Chancellors had used to receive, for six men-at-arms and twelve archers on the same account; that he had received almost none, or a very small profit from your Seal for that tune, and that after the sudden death of the said L. L., and the departure of his household and retinue from Cork, he had made his personal abode in those parts, for the safety and defence thereof against the Irish enemies and English rebels, who long before and then were daily in arms, and retained at his own expense, knights, esquires, and daily other defensible men on that occasion; prayed to be allowed some competent reward, which the King taking into consideration, and that he had kept the said men with him for the defence of the city and county of Cork to the day he was appointed and sworn Lord Justice, granted him £40 as a reward for the same, for which he had a liberate, dated at Cork, 19 January, 1882.—Idem, R. 7.

William Tany, Prior of St. John, Jerusalem,—Colton revoked,—patent, Westminster, Nov. 26, 1381.—Sworn 15 February, and 19, Dean Colton delivered