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CAMPION'S HISTORE

130 campion's historie his brother Thomas Bishop of Hereford, Lord Chaun- cellor, and Iohn Rice Treasurer, and two hundred Welchmen souldiours. The Bishop became Lord Ius- tice, in whose time S all the Irish of Ireland were at defiance with the English, but were shortly calmed by the Earles of Kildare and Desmond. Sir Iohn Darcy by the Kings Letters Patents Lord Iustice of Ireland during life, in the fourteenth yeare of Edward the third, which king abused by some cor- rupt informers, h called in under his signet royal], fraun- chises, and liberties, and graunts whatsoever his pre- decessours had ratified to the Realme of Ireland, and to every person thereof. This revocation was taken very displeasantly. The English of birth, and the English of bloud falling to words, and divided in factions about it. The Irish lave wayting for the contention, so as the Realme was even upon point to give over all and rebell. For remedy the Iustice began a Parliament at Divelin, whereto the nobles refused to make apparance, & as- sembled themselves quietly without disturbance at Kil- kenny, where they with the Commons agreed upon certaine questions to be demaunded of the King by way of supplication, by which questions they partly signified their griefes: Those in effect were, 1. How a Realme of warre might be governed « 1338. h 1340.