Catalogue description Les pointes pur la sauvegarde de la terre d'Irlande, demandez par le Conte Marshall, Thomas Plantagenet.

To have sufficient commissions of lieutenancy for seven years, in same manner as the Earl of March and William of Windsor. To have 500 men-at-arms and 1,000 archers. To be paid for the first year beforehand, and afterwards every half year in advance; and if payment fail, to be allowed to discharge his retinue. To have a fee of 1,000 marks a year, and the expenses of his men in crossing and recrossing the sea. The customs, or some other royal revenues, to be assigned for the payments of Ireland, as ordained for the town of Calais. To have power to diminish or increase his retinue according to the seasons of the year; to remove officers; to give benefices with cure and without; and to remove the Common Pleas and the Exchequer, The musters of his retinue to be viewed from time to time, so that he may have due allowance from the Exchequer. If the King go to war in person, he may go in the King's company, leaving a lieutenant in his place. To have from every one or two parishes in England a man and his wife to inhabit the destroyed parts of the Marches; such men to have lands given them in fee. To have the travelling expenses of all future additions to his retinue. All patents granting appurtenances of the Crown to be annulled, and the statute of absentees to be put in force.

Headed: "Temp. Hen. IV.

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