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 OF IRELAND. 135 of Ormond, ° and Morrice Fitz Thomas Earle of Kil- dare, P Iustices of Ireland by turnes. q To this last, the Kings letters appointed in yearely fee, for his office 500. pounds^ with promise that the said go- vernour should finde twenty great horse to the field, and should bee the twentieth man in going out against the enemy, which allowance and con- ditions at these days, I thinke were ordinary. Leonell the third sonne of Fdivard the third Duke of Clarence, r and in the right of his wife, Earle of Vlster, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He published an inhibition, to all of Irish birth, that none of them should approach his army, nor be imployed in service of the warres. Obrene he vanquished sud- dainely, but no man wist how, an hundred of his prin- cipall Souldiours in garrison were missed, whose dis- patch, that seditious decree was thought to have pro- cured, wherefore hee advised himselfe and united the people, shewing alike fatherly care towards them all, and ever after prospered, Knights he created these Gentlemen, the worthiest then in Chivalry, and at this day continuing in great worship, Preston, now the house of Gormanstowne, Holy wood, Talbot, Cu- sacke, Delahide, Palricke, Robert and Iohn de Fraxinis. The exchequer he removed to Catherlagh, and bestowed in furnishing that towne 500. pounds. Gerald Fitz Morrice Earle of Desmond, Lord • 1357. p 135 9- « 13GO. ' 1361.