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say, in 1224 that was the value of the King's goods in Limerick Castle ! ' 

 The accounts of 1299-1300 are quite defaced; the other missing years have 

 no accounts. I only give pounds in this table : — 



"Farm" of Cities. Dublin.-(-200 marks)— 1229, 1271. 1278-81,1283, 

 1284, 200 marks ; 1275, £204 ; 1276, £218 ; 1282, £265 ; 1287, £267 ; 1288. 

 £319; 1293, £.3.32; 1301, £111; 1302, £1-39 ; 130.5, £221 ; 1307, £240 ; 

 130.3-1308, £262; 1813, £260; 1314, £200; 1316, £120; 1317, £142 ; 

 132.3, £200. ----- 



LisiERiCK.— 1231, £563; 1262, £283; 1272, £44; 1273-6, £517; 

 1279-80, £237; 1281, £183; 1282 and 1284, £73 ; 1284, £302 and £50; 

 1288, £138; 1296, £882; 1319, £437. 



Dkogheda (£40) (Uriel).— 123, 1262 to 1325 paid £40 a year, and 

 Drogheda (Meath), 40 marks. I also found Drogheda (Uriel), 1231, £20; 

 1281, £45; 1283, £50; 1289, £99; 1290, £42; 1293, £120 ; 1301, £180 ; 

 1317, £60 ; 1322, £80 ; and (Meath sidc; 40 marks, 1301, £145 ; 13L7, £74 ; 

 1322, £26. 



Wateefoed (100 marks yearly)— 1236, £113 ; 1261, £66; 1272, £101 ; 

 1273, £146; 1274, £40 ; 1281, £200; 1282-6, £407 ; 1289, £526; 1290, 

 £356 ; 1302, £436; 1315, £486 ; 1324, £160; 1325, £100. 



Cork (80 marks).— 1275, 80 marks: 1277-1279, £160 ; 1282-3, 160 m.; 

 1290-92, £165 ; 1302, £266 ; 1-303, £1-33 ; 1306-7, £312; 1307-8, £224 ; 

 1307-9, £213; 1.310, £53; 1314, £108; 1317, £169; 1319, £129; 1323. 

 £67. " Kilsale," 1282-3, paid £39 ; Youghal, 1306-8, £48. 



These sums are so complicated by other items and by arrears that they 

 are only valuable as showing the comparative wealth of the cities. 



There is, however, a direct list of great value, that in the " Early Statutes 

 of Ireland" (by Dr. H. F. Berry), dating 1300. The Justiciar, before Parlia- 

 ment met, went round the chief towns to stimulate their generosity to the 

 Crown. Selecting the towns on the early maps, we find the amounts con- 

 tributed were— Drogheda (Uriel), 200 marks ; Drogheda (Meath), 60 m. ; 

 Dublin, 200 m. ; community of the Earl of Norfolk's borough of Eos, £40 ; 

 "WatertOTd,100m.;Dungai-van, £15, paid with 1,500 fish; Limerick, 40 m.; 

 Cork, 260 m. ; Eethard, 10 m. ; and Gilbert, son of Thomas de Clare, of 

 Toghel, £40, and five hundred weight of fish, worth 100 marks.= 



Edward III, in 1353, established the staple, appointing Dublin, Waterford, 

 Cork, and Drogheda as sta-ple towns. Foreign merchants could sell all their 



•In 1663-9, the proportion of the Custom (taken at 100) was— Dublin, 40 ; Cork, 10 ; Waterford 

 and G^«-ay, 7 ; Limerick, Kinsale, and Toughal, 5 ; Drogheda, Derry, and Carrickfergus, 3 : 

 eiford, Dundaik, and others, 1 . (TV. Pinkerton, TJkter Journal of Archaeology, vol. iii, p. 192.) 

 From JusUciary Roll, 23 Ed. I, mem. 2, p. 231, Cal 



