DESCRIPTION 

 OF AN ANCIENT DRAWING 



IN THE 



RED BOOK OF THE EXCHEQUER IN IRELAND, 

 BY H. JOS. MONCK MASON, ESQ. L. L. D. M. R. I. A. 



Read, Feb. 28th, 1820. 



1 HE annexed sketch is an accurate fac simile of a drawing traced 

 upon one of the leaves of an antient book of record, called the Red 

 Book of the Exchequer, which is preserved in the office of the chief 

 remembrancer of that court in Ireland, 



An inscription in the drawing, and the entries which precede and 

 follow it, determine it to have been made about the 1 1th year of the 

 reign of king Henry IV: the spectacles are plainly a modern addition, 

 and are drawn in different ink from the rest. 



