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238 DESMOND subduing the O'Nolans and the 0'Mores.(*) He was prohibited from attack- ing the Earl of Ulster, 19 June 1330: (*") both Earls were taken into custody, but Desmond escaped. (^) He was ordered, 28 Sep. 1330, to appear before the King and Council, to receive justice in a certain matter-C") He absented himself from the Pari, held at Dublin in July I33i,but made peace with the Justiciar, Anthony de Lucy, at Kilkenny, on 5 Aug., and swore fealty to the King.(*) He was, however, arrested at Eimerick, 16 Aug., and sent to Dublin Castle on 7 Oct.(*) Here he remained about 18 months, when, having found mainpernors, he was released. (^) On 16 July 1334 the royal liberties in co. Kerry, which the King had resumed, were restored to him.() He was sum. for Military Service against the Scots, 8 May 1335, and accompanied the Justiciar, John Darcy, in his expedition to Arran and Bute in the autumn of that year.C^) The King's resumption of all grants made by himself or his father in Ireland,(') and the removal from office of all Irishmen, and Englishmen who held no land in EnglandiC) having aroused much resentment, the Anglo-Irish lords absented themselves from a Pari, summoned by the Deputy Justiciar, John Morice, in Oct. 1341, and assembled at another convened by them- selves at Kilkenny in Nov.Q There they formulated their grievances and their charges against the King's officials.(«) The Earl of Desmond took a leading part in this affair. He sum. a Pari, at Callan on his own initiative in Feb. 1344/5, but the magnates summoned failed to attend. C") He was it was found by inquisition that the said Robert fitz Stephen — who together with Miles de Cogan had been enfeoffed by Henry II of all the demesne of Desmond except the city of Cork — was a bastard and had d. s.p. {Fine Roll, 5 Edw. Ill, m. 4). It appears from a writ, dated 20 June (1342) 16 Edw. Ill, that the Earl of Desmond then detained and occupied all the lands in Ireland of which Giles de Badlesmere (son of Margaret) had died seized, on the pretext that they were held of him, and not oi the King. (Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. Ill, file 57). (*) Annals of Ireland, pp. 372-378: Clyn, p. 23. {") Close Roll, 4 Edw. Ill, mm. 29 d, 21 d. (<=) Patent Roll, 8 Edw. Ill, p. Urn. 4. Grant ratified, 28 Nov. 1336. {Idem, 10 Edw. Ill, p. 2,m. 13). {^) Clyn, p. 26: Close Roll [I.], 9- 10 Edw. Ill, no. 40. The year is usually given incorrectly as 1333. («) Fine Roll, 15 Edw. Ill, m. 14; Close Roll, p. 2, m. 28. The writs to the Justiciar are dated 24 and 27 July. Annals 0/ Ireland, p. 383. Previous to this " nunquam inter Anglicos in Anglia oriundos et Anglicos in terra Hibernie oriundos ita notabilis et manifesta divisio habebatur." (s) The petitions and the King's answers are on the Ciose Roll, 16 Edw. Ill, p. 1, mm. 25 d, 24 d. (•■) " McccxLiv. Item in festo Cathedre Petri fuit parliamentum factum apud Callan et quare ncscio, ad quod venit Mauricius filius Thome cum multis millibus hominum, ad quod credidit majores terre ad eum venisse : sed Rex timens talia con- venticula suspecta et pocius malum quam bonum ex hoc evenire, per breve Regis prohibitum est omnibus ne venirent. Et per hoc majores terre predicto Mauricio se excusabant sed domi manserunt." (Clyn, p. 30).