Catalogue description EMBEZZLING of RECORDS.

"Petition of the Commons of the Parliament in Ireland touching the embezzling of records of the King's lands. Anno 1535."

That, as the earldoms of March and Ulster, and the lordships of Trym and Connaught are annexed to the Crown, and all the records, rolls, and inquisitions in the treasury of Trym, which entitled the King to all the revenues of the said earldoms and lordships, of late were taken and embezzled by divers persons of malice prepenced; it be enacted by this present Parliament, that whatever person have any of the said records or know where they be, and do not deliver them or show where they be to the King's Council in the said land within two months, shall be deemed felons attainted; that it be lawful to the King and his heirs to re-enter and seize all such lordships and their appurtenances; that the King "may present to all and every manor, advowson of church or free chapel appending to any of the said honors, manors, or lordships, or to advowsons in gross, any presentation, confirmation, or ratification to the patron notwithstanding, and to seize all and every manner ward or wards, escheat, waifs, felons' goods, and all other things appertaining or belonging to the said earldoms and lordships," whereto the King's title cannot be shewed; and that this act extend not nor be prejudicial to such grants as were made by Richard, late Duke of York and Lord of Trym, to the Abbot and convent of Our Lady of Trym.

Copy.

Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, ed. J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen (6 vols., 1867-73), vol. I, document 69.