Thomas Cranley, Abp. of Dublin, vice the Bp. of Ferns,—patent, 1412.
Sir Laurence Merbury, Knt.,—the Abp. revoked,—patent, Kenilworth, March 2, 1413, (19.)—A mandate, dated at Westminster the same day, was directed to the Abp., Lord Justice, and Lord C, to deliver the office and all things relating thereto to him: and on the 18 September, 1414, his said patents being read within the Council Chamber in Christ Church, the Abp. delivered the Great Seal into his custody, and he was sworn Lord Chancellor.—B.T. 2 Hen. V. f. Nos. 5, 61, 62, 63, 127.—Also by patent, dated at Naas, 26 February following, he had a grant of 10s. a day increase of pay, which had been enjoyed by some other Chancellors.—Idem.—And 13 March, 1415, Roger Hawkenshaw, 2d Justice of the Common Pleas, and Richard Assewell Clerke, were commissioned to hear and determine causes in Chancery during his absence in different parts of the kingdom, to administer justice to the King's liege subjects who could not repair to the Court of Chancery to prosecute their just causes by reason of the distance and danger of the way.—B.T. 2 Hen. V. 1a pars f. No. 112.—And the King considering the weighty affairs which Sir Laurence Merbury, his Chancellor, had to prosecute in England, granted him leave to transact them to the feast of St. Peter ad vincula ensuing, and appointed his beloved clerk, Hugh Banent, Deputy to
