98 Lionel's Will 



To Sir Richard Musard,* knight, a g-olden girdle, and a war- 

 horse, named Maungeneleyn.^ 



with Edmund, Earl of March (Rymer). On Aug. 26, 1379, he went to 

 Ireland, accompanied by 60 men-at-arms, 120 archers, and several knights 

 (Cal. Pat. Rolls), and on Sept. 22 received his appointment as justiciary 

 for Ireland, an office which he still held on Feb. 14, 1380 (ib.). On July 

 2, 1383, he was still justice of the peace, as he had been much earlier (ib.). 

 He is mentioned on Nov. 14, 1385, but had apparently died before Sept. 

 25, 1388 (cf. May 29 and June 26, 1389; all Cal. Pat. Rolls). His exe- 

 cutors are named on Aug. 17, 1389, first in order being his (second) wife, 

 Katharine (ib.). 



Concerning his relations with Lionel, three things stand out. First, 

 before and after Lionel assumed the viceroyalty of Ireland, Bromwych was 

 appealed to concerning the affairs of that island. Secondly, he had been 

 associated, before the journey to Italy, with Despenser, Lionel's cousin 

 and close friend (both being of Gloucestershire), in the commission of 

 the peace. Thirdly, the king treated him with especial kindness because 

 of his devotion to Lionel. Thus, in the document quoted above (p. 94) 

 we read : 



'Item, ils remercieront a monseigneur Johan de Bromwyche du bon 

 service qu'il fist a monseigneur le due en sa vie, et de la diligence 

 quele il mist pur la salvation del honour du roi et du due es parties 

 de Lumbardie, a ce que le roi est bien vraiement enformes, dont le 

 roi lui sciet tres-bons grees.' 



And as late as May 13, 1371, the king showed his favor on this account, 

 as will appear from the following document of that date (Cal. Pat. Rolls) : 

 'Whereas, because John de Bromwice, 'chivaler,' who held and 

 holds for life the town of Banowe and other lordships and lands in 

 Jeripont and Ederdrym, co. Wexford, held in chief, with reversion to 

 Elizabeth, his wife, and her heirs, did not come to Ireland or send 

 men in accordance with the late ordinance for the safety of that land, 

 nor did the said Elizabeth do so, the said lands were taken into the 

 king's hand as forfeit and are still in his hand ; the king, in considera- 

 tion of the fact that John has made continual stay from the time 

 of the said ordinance until now, first with Lionel, duke of Clarence, 

 in the parts of Lombardy during the duke's life, and afterwards with 

 Edmund, earl of March, the king's son, on the king's service in France 

 and England, has pardoned the said forfeiture and has restored the 

 premises to him for life with reversion as above.' 



To be, or to have been, a loyal servant of Lionel's seems always to have 

 been a passport to Edward Ill's grace. A few instances follow (all 

 Cal. Pat. Rolls except the first) : 



'^^3^3, March i. Grant of £200 annually to the Countess of Ormond for 

 her husband's labors and expenses in the Irish wars, especially from the 

 coming to Ireland of the king's dear (carissimi) son Lionel (Rymer). 



