258 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



that the antiquo manuscripto referred to was the document in the Treasury 

 at Waterford, later owned by Dopping and seen by Molyneux. Dopping's 

 contention that his MS. dated from the time of Henry II cannot be upheld, 

 for both the edition he printed and the transcript before us contain the 

 2:)ractmmientes clause, which is evidence tliat it is no earlier than 1294, and the 

 payment of knights, which limits its modernity to 1327.' These may, of 

 course, be interpolations, as it is evident that such were made from time to 

 time ; but in this, its earliest known form, the Irish " Modus " belongs to the 

 late thirteenth or early fourteenth century. It is simply an abridged edition of 

 that for England fitted to Ireland, with two clauses added, which do not 

 appear in any other document. They are as follows : — 



De Consiliis. Ac etiam Eex vult quod eadem forma in Consiliis pe?' 

 summonietonem facta??!, observetur, excepto quod pro Eege et legibus 

 in ipsis Consiliis erunt ordinaciones in parliamento vero statuta. 



Coustitutio Jnsticiariwm in Hiberuia. Ac etia?)! Eex vult ut absence 

 rege a dicta terra sine procuratore eiusde?n terrae quocunqwe alio nomine 

 censeatur^ (here the ms. breaks off, as above). 



The second Irish "Modus," E. 3. 18, f. 10, also on paper, was written between 

 the years 1597 and 1629.' It occurs in a trauscript of an exemplifieation 

 of documents found with Sir Christopher Preston by Sir John Talbot, 

 Lieutenant of Henry V.^ Its authority is vouched for in a note at the end: 

 "This is a true copie of y*^ exemplificacion under y* greate Scale of Ireland 

 remayning in y" haudes of S'' Eo: Cotton, Knighc. Dan: Molyneux, Ulster 

 Kinge of Armes." The first document in the exemplification is the " Modus " 

 for Ireland. It closely follows the transcript examined above, but with this 

 important difference, that whereas the last provision (that for providing 

 a governor) is incomplete in the former, in this it is perfect. It is as 

 follows : — 



Et etia?)j Eex vult ut absents rege And also the King wills that, in the 



a djeia terra [sine]° procurator [e] vel absence of the King from the said land 



gubernator[e] ejusdew terrae quo- without a procurator or governor of the 



He suggested that it might have passed to another branch or liave been sold in 1849 

 or 1851. Inquiries have been made, but no trace can be found. The ms. was not in the 

 Record Office before it was destroyed, nor is it in the Library of Trinity College or that 

 of the Royal Irish Academy. 



' Hardy, " Modus," pp. viii and xvi. - E. 3. 18, f. 3. 



^ Molyneux, under whom it was transcribed, was Ulster King of Arms from 1597 to 

 1629. 



•> See below, p. 263, note 7. 



^ The square brackets [ ] enclose the corrections of Molyneux, Ulster King of Arms. 

 The word for which "sine" is substituted would appear to be "sum?nus." 



