Page:Chronicle of the law officers of Ireland.djvu/33

8, Bp. of Meath,—patent, January 4, 1399.—Being obliged to attend the King's service in Munster, with the L. L. Stanley, John Kyrkeby Gierke, Master of the Rolls, was appointed his Deputy Chancellor, with a power also to set the Exchequer Seal to all writs, &c., in Leinster, Uriel, and Ulster, by patent, dated at Naas, 7 May, 1400.—B.T. 1 Hen. IV. 1$a$ pars d. No. 111.

, Abp. of Dublin, vice the Bp. of Meath,—patent, August 23, 1401.—Being unable to execute the office on account of his great infirmity of body, and other reasons, Thomas de Everdon, Keeper of the Rolls, was appointed his deputy during his absence, 9 Not. 1402.— B.T. 4 Hen. IV. 1$a$ pars f. No. 14. And the Abp. being so engaged and employed in the King's service, in the county of Dublin, about the expediting of divers affairs, that he could not conveniently attend Sir Stephen Lescropp, Deputy to the King's son, Thomas of Lancaster, L. L., with the Great Seal, the King, with the advice and consent of the said Lord Deputy Chancellor, and Privy Council, appointed Robert Sutton, Keeper of the Rolls, to be his deputy, to keep the seal, and to execute all things relating to the office of Chancellor dming his absence, by patent, dated at Kilkenny, 7 March, 1404.—B.T. 6 Hen. IV. 1$a$ pars f. No. 1.

, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and John Bermyngham, 2d Justice of the King's Bench, jointly or severally, made deputies to the Abp. for