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DARCY 57 Flanders, isfc, 3 Oct. ,(') and with the King of Scots, 7 Oct. I337.(") A proxv to sign the treaty with the Flemings, 10 June I338.(') Appointed Justiciar of Ireland for life, 3 Mar. 1339/40; as the King could not dispense with his continual attendance, a deputy was appointed, 16 Mar. 1340/1: he resigned the office, 10 Feb. i343/4.() Chamberlain to the King from 1341 to Sep. 1346 or later.('=) He accompanied the Earl of Northampton in his expedi- (») ^/mahi Ro//>, II Edw. Ill, m. 2; 12 Edw. III,/.. 1, m. 11: Scottish Roll, 1 1 Edw. Ill, ;/,. 6. {^) Patnit Rolls, 14 Edw. Ill, /). 1, m. 32; 15 Edw. Ill, p. I, m. 35; 18 Edw. Ill, p. I, rri. 43. He had a erant of / 183 6;. 8^. in fee as a recompense. [IJ.^r,, m. 36). (■=) Stephen ot Birchington relates that, in 1 34 1, after certain charges had been brought against the Archbishop of Canterbury, the latter took his seat in Pari. (sum. for 23 Apr.) from 24 to 27 Apr., in spite of some objections made on the King's behalf. The next day, on presenting himself, he was informed by two serjeants-at-arms that he could not be admitted. He remonstrated. " Et modico facto intervallo accesserunt ad Archiepiscopum Johannes Darsy senior [camerarius Regis], Egidius de Bello Campo, Johannes Darsy junior, et Thomas Medham, milites. Et voce furibunda Johannes Darsy senior dictum Archiepiscopum sic allcquitur: 'En quid facis hie r' Cui Archiepiscopus respondit: ' Ego ex brevi Regis ad hoc Parliamentum vocatus, pro jure Ecclesie mee vindicande hie sto et stabo ad ingrediendum Parliamentum.' Cui Johannes Darsy malefico vultii dixit: ' Utinam ibi stes perpetuo et nunquam recedas.' Ad hec Archiepiscopus maliciam eorum considerans dixit: 'Hie est corpus paratum, de quo facere poteris quod volueris. Animam meam spero reddere Creatori.' Cui tyrannus: 'Non sic, non sic; non tu ita dignus nee nos ita fatui.' " Birchington goes on to say that the Archbishop was in the end successful. [Anglia Sacra, p. 39). But he may have misrepresented the facts in the Archbishop's fa'our. For the French Chron. of London (Cotton MSS., Cleop., A6, f. 104) gives a different account. " Lors vindrent touz les grauntz Dengeltere a le parlement le Rov. Mes lercheuesqe de Caunterbury ne son frere . . . estoient hors clos du parlement par vne semcigne entier, par abettement sire William de Killesby . . . Puisse apres, en le seeounde semeigne, le counte de Garrenne uint au parlement deuant le Roy, si troua la sire Robert P'uinke [Treasurer], le baroun de Stafford' [Steward of the Household, but he had his writ], sire William Killesby [the King's clerk, Keeper of the Privy Seal], et sire johan Darcy, et autres nient couenables de seer en parlement, si comenza sa resoun et dit: 'Sire Roy, coment ua ceo parlement? Jadis ne soleit niye ensy estre. II est tut besturnee en autre manere. Car ceux qe deiuent estre principals sount forsclos, et autres gentz de mester seent icy en parlement qe ne deiuent estre a tiel counseil, mes soulement les peres de la tere qe uous, sire Roy, puissent eyder et meintener a uostre graunt bosoigne. Et, siie Roy, de ceo deuez penser.' Et meintenaunt coyement sire Johan Darcv se leua et sen ala hors, et puisse apres sire William de Killesby et touz les autres susnomez saunz nul mot parler. Lors se leua le counte Daroundel [to whom no writ is enrolled] et dit au Roy: ' Sire, lessez lercheuesqe entrer deuant vous,' c/c." Time, however, brings his revenges. And in 1903 the House of Lords determined that the presence in Pari, of John Darcy the Chamberlain, on another occasion (1344), but in the same capacity [vrz., as one ot the King's Council), thereby proved that he sat in Pari, in right of the Barony 0/ Darcy, that is, on an equality with those " peres de la tere," who, in his lifetime, had disowned him.