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DESMOND 235 with his father at Callan. He was b. about Apr. i26i.() He came to England in 1282, C") and the King having taken his homage, he had livery of i^ cantreds in Thomond of which his grandfather, John titz Thomas, had died seized, 8 Feb. i2 83/4,() and of the lands in Decies and Desmond of which his said grandfather had died seized, saving the King's right thereto, 9 May i2 84.() Subsequently, the King recovered these lands, on the grounds that he was a minor when he granted them, and that John fitz Thomas had intruded thereon without livery from the King or his ministers. But on 6 Feb. 1291/2 the King gave to Thomas titz Morice and Margaret his wife, the King's cousin, all the said lands of Decies and Desmond and the custody of the castle of Dungar- van, to hold, to them and the heirs of Thomas, at a rent of 200 marks a year, by the service of half a knight's fee: saving to the King the crosses (') in the same lands, and the said counties [of Waterford and Desmond], and the pleas and profits, fffc, pertaining to those counties and to the Crown. ('^) He was sum. for Military Service from 29 June (1294) 22 Edw. I to 17 May (1297) 25 Edw. I, by writs directed Thome filio Mauricii. Keeper {Gustos) of Ireland, 19 Apr. to 2 Dec. 1295, holding the place and receiving the salary of Justiciar. (") He ;;;., before a former wife, Joan or Julian, da. of John de Cogan, who " brought into the family" Carrigaline and many other manors, co. Cork. But Carrigaline (Beauver), fs'c., belonged to the family of Cogan till 12 June 17 Hen. VI, when they were sold to James, Earl of Desmond, by Robert Cogan, Captain of his nation (Cotton MSS., Titus, B II, f. 235 v: Carew MSS., vol. 608, f. 25 v). And Julian de Cogan was really da. of Gerald fitz Morice (who d. i 243), and sister of Morice fitz Gerald of OfFaly, called Ruadh (who was drowned in the Irish sea, 28 July 1268), being wife of John de Cogan, and aunt and h. of Gerald fitz Morice of Offaly, Captain of the Geraldines, called Rochfalyaht, who d. s.p. in 1287. See Cogan and Offaly. (*) He reached his age shortly before 13 Apr. 1282, according to a writ ot that date. {Ch. Inq. p. m. — on John fitz Thomas — Edw. I, file 31, no. i). (b) Patent Rolls, lO Edw. I, w. 15; 12 Edw. I, m. 20: Close Roll, 12 Edw. I, mm. 9, 5. He appears, from entries on the Patent Rolls, to have been constantly in England till Feb. 1291/2. On 4 Apr. 1291 he witnessed a charter of Roger, Earl of Norfolk, dated at Berkeley. {Close Roll, 19 Edw. I, rn. 5 d). ("=) Crociis, crosses or cross lands, that is, Church lands exempt from the juris- diction of the lords of the liberties. The calendarers of the Carew MSS., vol. v, p. 404, translate the word absurdly, as " profits of saffron," and Jeayes, Berkeley Charters, p. 147, as "all the saffron growing on the said lands." (^) Charter Roll, 20 Edw. I, ;?;. 9: Patent Roll [I.], antiguissime, no. 17. (") He was paid for his services from 19 Apr. to 2 Dec, as Keeper of Ireland, holding the place of Justiciar (worth ^^500 a year), for 196 days, ^^269 16s. O^d., and as coming with an armed force from Munster to Leinster on account of the war in Ireland, for the other 31 days at lOOj. a day, ^^155. {Pipe ^fl//[with a mistake in tlie figures] and Chancellor's Roll, 27 Edw. I, Hihernia). He had been locum tenens for the preceding Justiciar since Jan. 1294/5. {Justiciary Rolls [I.], vol. i, p. i). The next Justiciar was appointed 18 Oct. 1295. {Patent Roll, 23 Edw. I, m. 3).