Falkiner — Tke Counties of Ireland. 177 



represented in all essentials the Palatine constitution of earlier times.' 

 The jurisdiction, authorities, and liberties set out in the Quo Warranto 

 of James I. were restored on the reconstitution of the Palatinate in 

 1662 in favour of James, first Duke of Ormond, with the exception 

 (which appears to have been a reservation common to all Palatine 

 grants) of the four pleas of arson, rape, forestalling, and treasure 

 trove, as originally reserved in the grant of Edward III. 



In tracing the position of the Irish counties through the obscui-e 



^ The following are among the more important of the privileges vested in the 

 Earls of Ormond within their Palatinate : — 



1. To have and to hold within the county of Tipperary one Curia Cancellariae, 

 commonly called a Chancery Court, and to make, appoint, and constitute one 

 CanccUarms, or officer of the same Court, commonly called a Chancellor, M'hich 

 Chancellor, under colour of such his office, makes and causes to be made all kinds 

 of original writs and other processes in all actions, as well real as personal and 

 mixed, within the aforesaid county arising, occurring, or happening. 



2. To have and to hold within the aforesaid county one other Court of Pleas of 

 the Crown of the said Lord the now King, and to make, appoint, and constitute 

 one other officer or Seneschallus, commonly called a Seneschal, and one other 

 officer or Justiciarius, commonly called a Justice, to hold Pleas of the Crown of 

 the said Lord the King. 



3. And also to have and to hold within the aforesaid county one other Court of 

 Common Pleas held before the aforesaid Seneschal and Justice. 



4. And also yearly to nominate, appoint, make, and constitute in the same 

 county one other officer, viz., one Vieecomes, commonly called a Sheriff, for the 

 custody of the same county, which sheriff makes execution of all writs, &c., issuing 

 and directed to the same sheriff from the four courts of the said lord the King held 

 at the King's Courts in the County of the City of Dublin, also from the Justices 

 assigned to take the assizes in the County of Tipperary aforesaid, as well as from 

 the aforesaid Chancellor, Justice, and Seneschal in the same county. And lie holds 

 in the same county divers Courts of Turn, Leet, and Curiae Coniitatns, called 

 County Courts. 



5. And moreover to have and appropriate to themselves the power of granting 

 charters of Pardon, and ad pardonandum — Anglicc, to pardon — whatsoever persons 

 are suspected, accused, convicted, outlawed, condemned, or attainted of any felonies 

 and treasons by them within the aforesaid county in any wise done, committed, or 



perpetrated And further to do and execute within the aforesaid county all 



other things whatsoever which appertain to any Earl of any County Palatine to be 

 done or executed. 



6.. And also to make, appoint, and constitute in the aforesaid county divers 

 other officers, viz., one or more Coroners, and one Escheator and one Fcodary, 

 and one Clerk of the Markets, and one Sub-vicecomes, commonly called a Sub- 

 sheriff. — Fifth Eeport of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Eecords of Ireland, 

 pp. 34-36. 



