the same reason.—Trym, February 13, 1404.—B.T. 6 Hen. IV. 2« pars d. No. 38.
Sir Laurence Merbury, Knt.,—patent, July 14, 1407.—Usual fees;—and 23 of that month, the King, considering the great expense of supporting the dignity of this office, granted him 6s. 8d. a day: and considering further his services in the wars of Ireland, and the charges he had been at, granted him all the said fees for nine years, with a clause in his patent that he should not be removed upon any complaint without an opportunity given him of making his defence before the Privy Council.—B.T. 8 Hen. IV. f. No. 68.
Patrick Barrett, Bp. of Ferns,—patent, June 13, 1410.—B.T. 13 Hen. IV. f. No. 49.
Thomas Le Botillier, Prior of St. John of Jerusalem.—The Lord Deputy being about to go into the counties of Dublin, Meath, Louth, Kildare, and Carlow, for the good government and safety of those parts, and to resist the English rebels and Irish enemies, and Patrick, Bp. of Ferns, being employed in the defence of the county of Wexford, and not being able to leave that country vtdthout manifest hazard of the destruction of the inhabitants, it was agreed by instrument, dated at Kilkenny, 4 May, 1412, that Robert Sutton, Keeper of the Rolls, should be appointed Deputy Chancellor in the meantime, and Keeper of the Great Seal.—Idem.
