Akmsi'EONg — 31amiscripts of'-'' Modus tenendi Parliamenimn.'''' 259 



said land by wliatever other name he 

 may be known, having been appointed 

 by the King himself (that) straightway 

 .... (with) haste the council of the 

 King there shall be summoned for (i.e., 

 to consist of) the Archbishops, Bishops, 

 Priors, Earls, Barons, and others their 

 peers and the nobles and discrete men 

 to the very nearest of the three 

 adjacent counties where the more 

 quickly they can come, on a certain 

 immediate day and at a place which 

 they must decide upon, for delibe- 

 rating, taking counsel, and agreeing 

 (concerning) a .Justiciar of the King 

 for the land of Ireland, who shall 

 supply in all things the offices of the 

 King as Lord of Ireland, on which 

 straightway the aforesaid council of 

 the King under the Great Seal of the 

 King for the aforesaid land may 

 appoint him Justiciar of Ireland for 

 governing the aforesaid land in all 

 things in the name of the King. The 

 King wills that in his land of Ireland 

 this form may be observed in all 

 things. 



This was the customary procedure in a voidance. Dopping believed that 

 it was exercised as early as Strongbows death. However that may be, it is 

 referred to in the Eolls of Parliament in the time of Pdehard II as a statute 

 of Henry fitz Empress (Henry 11)." 



cunque alio nomine senciatur per 

 ipsum Regeifi constitutus' (sic) quod 

 Stat [im] . ? celeritate coneiliuwi Eegis 

 ibicfem mittatwr^ pro Archiepiscopis 

 Episco^jM Abbat/6!ts priorib?ts comi- 

 t^'iMS Baronibus et eorum paribus 

 aliisqwe proceribws et discretis viris 

 ad nimis proxim«7)j tr[i]um comi'ta- 

 tuum p)'Ox [imor«77i ubij festinfl/itius 

 convenire possint' ad oertum brevem 

 diem et locu?« curae* ipsis essendwwi 

 ad tractandM?)t consulend«m et con- 

 senciend-zOTi . . .^ Justiciars Eegis 

 tarae Hibeniiae qui vices Regis ut 

 do??mius Hiberniae in no?;ii«e ipsius 

 Regis in omnibus supplebit, super quo 

 [statim] ' concilium Eegis pj-aedictuiK 

 sub magno sigillo Eegis tercae prae- 

 dictae Justicmr!t?)i Hiberniae constitua- 

 tur (sic) teiTam p7-aedicta»i in omnibus 

 no^Miwe Eegis justificando." Hanc 

 formam Eex vult ut in terra sua Hiber- 

 niae in omnibus . . . observetur. 



'The correction to "constituto" may have been overlooked by Molyneux. His 

 former corrections would, most naturally, require it. 



^ Since working on this ms. I have found that Hakewill made a transcript of the exempli- 

 fication, which is published in Steele's "Tudor Proclamations." I have comjiared this 

 and noted any variant readings. In this case he supplies " cum." 



* Hakevvill's transcript, as edited by Steele, p. oxoi, "mittat." 



* This Steele edits as "ad minus comitatus proximi, ut festinius convenire 

 possint," which does not seem to yield sense. 



* Steele, " coram." 



" Steele, " cum." This would mean that they took counsel with the Justiciar, which 

 would be impossible when they were meeting to appoint him. 



' " Statim " originally appeared after " concilium." 



^ Steele, p. cxci, " justiciaudum." In a foot-note he states that Hakewill's transcript 

 reads " justifioandum." This was the word in use in late Latin, and was not a mistake 

 on Hakewill's part. 



' Harris's Ware, "Antiquities," p. 79. 



