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 OF IRELAND. 131 by one, both unskilfull and unable In all warlike ser- vices. 2. How an officer under the king that entred very poore, might in one yeare grow to more excessive wealth, then men of great patrimony in many yeares. 3. How it happened seeing they all were called Lords of their owne, that the Lord of them all was not a penny the richer for them. The Prince of this repining was Morice Earle of Desmond, > whom Vfford the now Lord Iustice in paine of forfeiture of all his lands commaunded to the Par- liament at Dublin, and there put him under arrest, de- livered him by main prise of the tvvoEarles Vlster & Ormondj & of 28. knights & squiers : All which, ex- cept the Earles & two knights, lost their inheritance by rigour of the said Vfford^ because Desmond had escaped. Therefore at the decease of the Lords Iustice, which ensued the next yeare, Bonfires and gawdes were so- lemnized in all the Land : his Lady was a miserable sott, and led him to extortion and bribery, much he clipped the prerogatives of the Church, and was so hated, that even in the sight of the country, he was robbed without rescue, by Mac Carty, notwithstanding 1345