last responsibility became so much divided that it was inoperative. Was such a state of things to last much longer?

Mr. Ferguson also forwarded the accounts rendered into the Irish court of exchequer by the seneschals (at that time equivalent to our sheriffs) of Kilkenny, in the 45th and 46th years of Henry III., together with the following very curious morceau, being a copy of a transcript from the original parchment document in the British Museum (Cotton. MSS. Titus, B. xi.), of the 20th year of Hen. VI.

"The Lordes spiritual and temporall of your said Londe and the Commons of the same in your Parlement holden at Develyn the Fryday next after the fest of St. Martyn in Wynter last passed were fully advysed and assented that I & my fellow messers for the said Londe should desyre of you, sov'ain Lorde, to ordeyn a myghtye1 of this youre Realm of Englande for to be your Lieutennt of your said Londe; that tyme beyng there present the Erlle of Ormond as Deputy to the Lorde Welles then your Lieutet there. Please it your Highnesse to be enformed howe that if it had be [iseyn] goode & profitable for you & for your seide Londe for to have hade the said Erle yor Lieuten1 he should have been named at the said Parlement, gyving you to understond that they all both Lordes spiritual & temporall & Commons there assembled considered in their wisdome that it was moste expedient to your sov'ain Lorde to have to your Lieuten' there a Lorde of the birth of this your noble Realme, whom yor people shew woll more favour & obey than to any man of that Londes birth. For men of this Realme kepe better Justice, execute your Laws, & favour more your common people & ever have done before thys tyme better than ever dyd any man of that Londe or ever is like to do. And please it your Highnesse to consider howe that it behoveth that he that shoulde be your Lieutnnt there be a mighti courageous & laborous man to kepe the felde & and to make resistence against yor Enemyes in comforte & supportac'on of your true Lege people there, and none of thes ben seyn ne founde in ye sd Erle for both hee is aged unwieldy & unlusty [. ] hath for lak of labour loste in substance all his castelles towns & Lordeshippes that he had within your said Londe, wherefore it is not likely that he shoulde conquer ne get eny grounds to your sov'ain Lord that thus hath lost his own. [

] Moreover plese it you to wete that at dyvers Parlements when that the said Erle hath the rule there he hath ordeyned & made Irissh men & gromes & pages of his householde Knyghtes of the Shyre, the which wolde not in no wyse assent to no goode rule nor to no thing that shulde profite & avaylle to your sovran Lorde, and also hath suffered dyvers Lordes sp'ual & temporal to absent them from Parlements hereafore, takyng of them greate fynes to his singular avaylle there, as the profitt shoulde be youre."

This document has been alluded to by Leland in his "History of Ireland," vol. ii. p. 27, but, as Mr. Ferguson believes, never published in full.

Albert Way, Esq., forwarded a transcript of a very curious letter of the thirteenth century, from the archives of Canterbury Cathedral, being an epistle from David, bishop of Emly, to the prior of Christ's Church, Canterbury, in favour of David, treasurer of Emly, who had been entrusted with the suit of the said prior, against the prior of St. John's, Kilkenny, in the matter of the parishes of SS. Evin and Mary, of New Ross, then the property of the Canterbury monastic house. The bishop concludes by expressing his intention of visiting the shrine of St. Thomas, the martyr, ere he returned to Ireland. David O'Tussigh, abbot of Holy Cross, was elected bishop of Emly in 1275, and died in 1281. The letter is preserved in the treasury at Canterbury (Carte Antiquæ I. 240), and is as follows, the contracted words being here given in extenso :—

Sic-the word "man" or "lord" probably omitted.

Frater D. miseracione divina Imelacensis episcopus venerabili viro ac religioso Fratri [blank] Priori Ecclesie Christi Cantuar' salutem in salutis auctore. Noverit discretio vestra quod nos execucionem sententie late quondam per Thessaurarium Lyssmore nobis per Romanum Pontificem comissam pro domo vestra contra Priorem et fratres domus sancti Johannis de Kylken' in solidum comissimus magistro David Thessaurario Ecclesie nostre, quem vestri gratia curialiter in domo vestra una cum socio suo admissistis, qui plenarie dictam execucionem, mittendo vestros procuratores in possessionem Ecclesiarum vestrarum Sancti Ewyni et Sancte Marie de nova Ross cum pertinentiis, est executus, dictos priorem et fratres Kylken' propter eorum rebellionem, contradictionem, inobedienciam mandato Apostolico nobis super dictam execucionem directo, cum suis fautoribus vinculo excommunicacionis innodando, super quibus missione et execucione pretextu dicte execucionis factis multa dampna in rebus suis dictus noster clericus a regalibus ad peticionem dictorum prioris et conventus de Kylken' passus est, quare oportuit nos per mandatum Justic' Hibernie de exitibus prebende sue per triennium eidem respondere, de cujus prebende sue exitibus per dictum terminum nullum denarium nobis ad huc percepit. Quare vos rogamus, quatenus si placet ad honestatem curialitatis vestre observandam et ob salutem anime vestre, dum nemini beneficium necnon et officium debet esse juxta juris formam dampnosum, eundem magistrum commissarium nostrum super suis deperditis et dampnis, maxime cum moram trahit in scol', respicere velitis, vobis significantes, quod si aliquid super est ad agendum in dicta execucione, quod ipse juxta juris formam voluntatem vestram adimplebit, et antequam ad partes Hibernie accesserimus Tumbam beati Thome Martiris per dei gratiam visitare intendimus.' Valete.

Mr. Prim read a paper on the Market Cross of Kilkenny, which will be found printed at p. 219, ante.

Mr. Hitchcock communicated Notes made in the Archæological Court of the Great Exhibition of 1853, which are given at p. 280, ante.

1 The last sentence, regarding a proposed visit by bishop David to the shrine of St. Thomas, is in paler coloured ink, and al

though perhaps by the same hand as the rest of the letter, it seems to have been a postscript.

Ana, emblems of, where found, 54 Wor- Ardosoyll, 269.

Arms manufactured by the ancient Irish, | Ballyknock, 386.

285.

Ballyloskye, 378.

Ballymacegan, 346, n.
Ballymacshane, 87.

Arran, 345, n. Great storm at, 73. Islands Ballymacus, ancient cemetery at, 230, 232,

of, 73.

Arun river, 74.

Ashburnham, lord, 343, n.

Assaroe, 346, n.

Assylin, 340, n., 341, 344, n.

Athdare, 270.

353.

Ballymoney, bronze instrument found at,

285.

Ballymore Loughseudy, 347, n.

Ballyne, 187, 196.

Athlone, 312, 339, n. Constable of, 338, Ballyoughteragh, 129.

339.

Attymas, 344, n.

Augh na cloch-mullen, 274.

Aughrim, battle of, 335, 386.

Auldbar, 200.
Australia, 121.

Ballynemara, 190, 191.

Ballyquin, 136, n.

Ballyragget, 223, 287.

Ballysadare, 51.

Ballyshannon, 317, 318, 346, n.

Ballytimmon, 365.

Ballytober, 340, n. 341.

Barrow Furlong, excavation of, 123, n.,
124, n.

Barry, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 91, 92, 94, 268,
269, 307.

Ballybeg, 86, 88, 94, 95, 265, 268, 269, Barrymore, 86, 87, 96.

Beavor, 126, 155, 161, 162, 164, 165. 174. Bolton, 79, 81, 82, 156, 170.