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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 181. 



Kilkennle to prosecute his accusation) was reputed 

 parciall : and when by meanes hereof the matter hanged 

 in suspense, he infamed the said prior as an abettor 

 and favourer of Arnold's heresie. The Prior submitted 

 himselfe to the trial." 



Proclamation was made, "That it should be 

 lawful for anie man . . to accuse, &c. the Lord 

 Justice ; but none came." In the end, six inqui- 

 sitors were appointed to examine the bishops and 

 other persons, and they — 



*' All with universal consent deposed for the Prior, 

 affirming that (to their judgements) he was a zelous 

 and a faithfuU child of the Catholike Church. In the 

 meane time, Arnold le Powre, the prisoner, deceased 

 in the castell ; and because he stood unpurged, long he 

 laie unburied. " 



In 1332, William Outlawe is said to have been 

 Prior of Kilmainham, and lieutenant of John 

 Lord Darcie, Lord Justice. 



This Bishop of Ossorie, Ricbard Lederede, was 

 a minorite of London : he had a troubled episco- 

 pate, and was long in banishment in England. 

 I have met with his name in the Register of Adam 

 de Orlton, Bishop of Winchester, where he is re- 

 corded as assisting that prelate in some of his 

 duties, A.D. 1336. He died however peaceably in 

 his see, and was a benefactor to his cathedral. (See 

 Ware's History of Ireland.^ W. H. G. 



Winchester. 



[It may be added, that much information respecting 

 both Roger Outlawe and the trial of Alice Kyteler 

 would be found in the interesting volume published by 

 the Camden Society in 1842, under the editorship of 

 Mr. Wright, entitled Proceedings against Dame Alice 

 Kyteler, prosecuted for Sorcery in 1324.3 



Your correspondent H. T. Ellacombe asks who 

 this Roger Outlawe was, and expresses his surprise 

 that a prior of a religious house should " sit as 

 locum tenens of a judge in a law court." 



But the words " tenens locum Johannis Darcy 

 le cosyn justiclarii Hiberniae" do not imply that 

 Outlawe sat as locum tenens of a judge in a law 

 court. For this Sir John Darcy was Lord Justice, 

 or Lord Lieutenant (as we would now say), of 

 Ireland, and Roger Outlawe was his locum tenens. 



Nothing, however, was more common at that 

 period than for ecclesiastics to be judges in law 

 courts ; and it happens that this very Roger was 

 Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1321 to 1325, and 

 again, 1326 — 1330: again, 1333: again (a fourth 

 time), 1335: and a fifth time in 1339: for even 

 then, as now, we were cursed in Ireland by per- 

 petual changes of administration and of law of- 

 ficers, so that we have scarcely had any uniform 

 practice, and our respect for law has been propor- 

 tionally small. 



Sir John Darcy was Lord Justice, or Lord 

 Lieutenant, in IS22, in 1324, in 1328 (in which 



year Roger Outlawe was his locum tenens during 

 his absence), in 1322, and on to 1340. 



Roger Outlawe was Lord Justice, either in his 

 own right or as locum tenens for others, in 1328, 

 1330, and 1340, in which last year he died ia 

 office. His death is thus recorded in Clyn's An- 

 nals (edited by Dean Butler for the Irish Archaeo- 

 logical Society), p. 29. : 



" Item die Martis, in crastino beatae Agatliaj virginis, 

 obiit frater Rogerus Outlawe, prior hospitalis in Hi- 

 bernia, apud Any, tunc locum justiciarii tenens : et 

 etiam Cancellarius Domini Regis, trium simul functus 

 officio. Vir prudens et graciosus, qui multas posses- 

 siones, ecclesias, et redditus ordini suo adquisivit sua 

 industria, et regis Anglice gratia special! et licentia," 



To this day, in the absence of the Lord Lieute- 

 nant of Ireland, Lords Justices are appointed. 



J. H. Todd. 

 Trin. Coll., Dublin. 



PROSPECTUS TO CIBBEB S " LIVES OF THE POETS. 



(Vol. v., pp. 25. 65.; Vol. vii., p. 341.) 



I am obliged to Dr. Rimbault for noticing, 

 what had escaped me, that this Prospectus has 

 been reprinted in the Censura Literaria, vol. vi. 

 p. 352. With respect to my ground for attribut- 

 ing it to Johnson, it will, I think, be obvious enough 

 to any one who reads my remarks, that it was on 

 the internal evidence alone, on which, as every one 

 is aware, many additions have been made to his 

 acknowledged compositions. Your correspondent 

 C, with whom I always regret to differ, is so far 

 at variance with me as to state it as his opinion 

 that " nothing can be less like Johnson's peculiar 

 style," and refers me to a note, with which I was 

 perfectly familiar, to show — but which I must say 

 I cannot see that it does in the slightest degree^ 

 " that it is impossible that Johnson could have 

 written this Prospectus." Another correspondent, 

 whose communication I am unable immediately to 

 refer to, likewise recorded his dissent from my 

 conclusion. Next follows Dr. Rimbault, whom 

 I understand to differ from me also, and who says 

 (but where is the authority for the statement ?) 

 " Haslewood believed it to have been the produc- 

 tion of Messrs. Gibber and Shields." I have every 

 respect for Haslewood as a diligent antiquary, but 

 I confess I do not attach much weight to his 

 opinion on a question of critical taste or nice dis- 

 crimination of style. I had, as I have observed, 

 assigned the Prospectus to Dr. Johnson on the in- 

 ternal evidence alone ; but since it appeared ia 

 " N. & Q." I have become aware of an important 

 corroboration of my opinion in a copy of Gibber's 

 Lives which formerly belonged to Isaac Reed, and 

 which I have recently purchased. At the begin- 

 ning of the first volume he has pasted in the Pro- 

 spectus, and under it is the following note in his 



