Catalogue description Remembrance de parler á n& rtilde;e sire le roy [Ric. II.], en son Conseil, pour l'estat et gouverneall de la terre d'Irland; par les Signuers et Communs de Parlement au dit terre.

(1.) That the Lieutenants or Justices be ordered to keep the full number of the retinue appointed for the wars, as they keep but the third part, to their own private gain.

(2.) That fines and amercements at sessions and forfeitures of war go the King instead of the Lieutenant.

(3.) The Great Seal in the Chancery of Ireland used to render 2,000 marks and more, besides officers' fees, to the Exchequer, but now they are insufficient to pay the Chancellor alone, because the fines, which used to range from 100l. to 20l., now vary from 10l. to 40d.

(4.) The King receives no profit from lands seized into his hand, as the inquisitions are allowed to be traversed and others are forged.

(5.) The revenues are so small, because the great taxes and talliages (sometimes 20s. on the ploughland) have been levied by the armed men of every country, who were made accountable, not to the Exchequer, but to various persons, such as the Prior of Holy Trinity, Dublin; also because the former great subsidies on merchandises (cloth, grain, iron, salt, hides, wool, wine, salmon, etc.) have not been granted to the King since his departure from Ireland.

(6.) The issues of the King's Bench are not sufficient to pay the fees and wages of the justice, who will not therefore do justice in cases of misprision. It is the same with all other offices.

(7.) The Chancellor refuses to receive the Treasurer's bills ordering letters patent to be made for the custody of lands, etc.

(8.) The Mayors of Dublin and Cork and other cities will not suffer searches (?) to be made by the Treasurer within their bailiwicks.

(9.) The English rebels, as the Butlers, Tobines, Powers, Burkes, Geraudines, Barets, and many other sects, by sufferance of their chieftains, make such riot that the liege people is destroyed.

(10.) It is to be learned from the King and his Council, whether, in the case of Irish captains who have waged war since the King's departure after becoming liege, the annuity granted to them is to be continued.

(11.) All offices to be filled from England.

(12.) James Cotenham, pretending to be Deputy to the Earl of Rutland, Admiral of Ireland, has taken inquisitions, contrary to the laws, touching concealed customs, and received fines to his own use.

(13.) The said James has also levied a subsidy of 12d. from every weigh of wheat passing out of port, and from every man or woman crossing the sea from 40d. to 12d., without authority.

(14.) When the lieutenant of the Treasurer lately rode towards Drogheda and elsewhere in Meath, to inquire for the King's profit, and to levy their debts for the payment of the Irish, the said James with a large number of armed men, and one Lawrence Newton, serjeant-at-arms, searched all the country through to arrest said lieutenant, who knows not even now for what purpose.

(15.) The said James thrice sent his ships to Scotland with wine, flour, etc., contrary to the statute, and brought false money from Scotland to Ireland.

(16.) Charge should be given to certain faithful lieges to inquire into the misprisions, disturbances, and violences done by said James against the King and his ministers.

Headed: "Tempore Regis Ricardi II.

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