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 132 campion's histome he gathered power, and dispersed the rebellions of Vlster. Eobert Darcy Lord Iustice, k chosen by the Coun- cell, untill the Kings charter came to Sir Iohn Fitz Morrice, who inlarged Fitz Thomas Earle of Kildare, left in holde by Vff'ord, Fitz Morrice was deposed, and Sir Walter Bermingham elected, who procured safe conduct for Desmond to pleade his right before the King, where he was liberally intreated & allowed to- wards his expences there twenty shillings a day at the Princes charge, in consideration of which curtesie to his kinsman, the Earle of Kildare, accompanyed with diverse Lords, Knights, and chosen horsemen, served the King at Callice, a towne thought impregnable, and returned after the winning thereof in great pompe and jollity. Iohn Archer of Kilmainam, Lieutenant to the Lord Iustice, * to whom succeeded Baron Carew, after Carew followed Sir Tlvomas Rokesby knight. This yeare m dyed Kemvricke Shereman, sometimes Major of Divelin, a Benefactour to every Church and religious house twenty miles round about the citty : his legacies to poore and others, besides the liberality shewed in his life time, amounted to 3000. marks : with such plenty were our fathers blessed, that cheerefully k 1346. * 1348. - 1350.