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 450 BUTLER have failed (^) in creating its recipient EARL OF CARRICK [I.j.C") and we find him witnessing charters i6 Dec. 13 15 and 4 Feb. 13 15-16 (merely) as "Edmundus le Botiller, Justiciarius;" and officially described, in 13 19, as "Edmundus Water, Pincerna Hiberniae;" while his son is described, in 1321-22, as "James, s. and h. of Edmund le Botiller" and again, in the Or- mond creation charter, in 1328 (simply) as "James le Botiller," though after that date, continuously described as "Earl of Ormond." He »?., 1302, Joan, da. of John (Fitz Thomas Fitz Gerald), ist Earl of Kildare [I.], by Blanche, da. of John Roche, of Fermoy. He d. (after returning from a pilgrimage to St. Jago of Compostella in Spain) in London, 13 Sep., and was bur. 9 Nov. 132 1, at Gowran, co. Kilkenny. M.L('') James Butler, or le Botiller, s. and h., under age 3 Dec. 1325. On 2 Nov. 1328, he was cr. EARL OF ORMOND [L]. See "Ormond," Earldom of [I.], cr. 1328. (^) See an able article on "the Earldoms of Ormond" [I.] by J. H. Round, (Foster's Coll. Gen., pp. 84-93), ^^ '° ^^^ *'^ ■'•'"'^^ Earldoms cr. before 1330, vix., Ulster 1205-06, to heirs general. Carrick, 1 Sep. 13 15, to heirs general. Kildare, 14 May 1316, to heirs male. Louth, 12 May 1319, to heirs male. Ormond, 2 Nov. 1328, to heirs general. Desmond, 22 Aug. 1329, to heirs male. From this exhaustive article the account in the text (above) of the charter of i Sep. 131 5 is taken. It is suggested that though the charter erected certain lands into an Earldom, it was "without, ipso facto, conferring the actual dignity; the latter being effectively cr. by subsequent cincture or belting" ; and this view is supported by the later charters creating the Earldoms of Louth, of Ormond, and of Desmond [I.], in which is recited "the creation of the Earl, as something over and above the creation of the Earldom." e.g. in 1328, "ipsumque Comitem de Ormound prefecimus et gladio cinximus." If it should be urged that in these three cases the "feodum" was non- territorial, compare them with the earlier case of the Earldom of Ulster [I.] in 1 205-6, where the "feodum" granted was "totam terram Ultonias, cum omnibus pe-^mentiis suis, de qua ipsum cinximus in Comitem." "The simple fact," adds J. H. Round, "that the title [of Carrick] was never really conferred will solve the otherwise imohdle problem of its (on the hypothesis of its existence) most mysterious disappearance. As x.% feodum the Castles of Karrick Macgrffyn, and Roscrea, continued in the hands of the Butlers, it is otherwise incom- prehensible why they should have allowed it to be 'superseded' (as Lord James But- ler expresses it) by a title which completely ignored it; and, still more why they did not revive it when precedence was the mmmum bonum, and when it would have ranked them above their rivals of Kildare, and made them in fact the Premier Earls" [of Ireland]. (*>) See, however. Close Roll, 26 Nov. 131 5, 3 Oct. and 8 Oct. 1316, and Patent Roll, 23 Nov. 1316, where he is designated as Earl of Carrick. On 7 Mar. 1320/1, however, he is simply called "Sir Edmund le Botiller of Ireland." V.G. ("=) His monument is still (191 2) to be seen there. V.G.