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after the comitatus of Dublin, and that Theobald de Yerdon should do suit for 

 himself and his tenant Almaricus de Sancto Amando at this comitatus. Also, 

 that Kildare should be a county instead of being a liberty dependent on Dublin. 



(2) Because certain persons holding lands both in the Irish marches and 

 in peaceful places, live in the latter, leading the former waste and undefended, 

 to the detriment of their English inhabitants, it is agreed that said persons 

 shall keep wards in their march lands to hinder depredations, and that if 

 necessary they shall be compelled to do so by taking their lands into the 

 King's hand. And, because depredators often escape on account of the 

 inhabitants not having horses to follow them, each tenant of 20 librates of 

 land in the marches or elsewhere shall keep a mailed horse, with other arms, 

 always in readiness at his mansion, and other tenants hobbies and other 

 horses according to their means. Those who live outside Ireland shall leave 

 there sufficient forces for the defence of their holdings and tenants in case of 

 war. In the event of depredations being committed in any district, all the 

 inhabitants shall join with the sufferers in pursuing the robbers. All persons 

 failing to do so shall be punished and shall be compelled to make restitution 

 of goods lost or injured, in proportion to the extent of their negligence. 



(3) No one shall lead an army outside his own lands without licence from 

 the chief justiciary. Penalties similar to those in (2). 



(4) No one shall have more kernes or idle men than he is able and 

 willing to maintain at his own cost. Offenders in this matter shall be 

 punished, and their idle men shall be imprisoned during the pleasure of the 

 King's court, and before release shall give pledges of future good beha^T.our. 



(5) Since it is the custom of the Irish when they are at war with their 

 English neighbours to make a truce with one part of them in order that they 

 may more effectively make war upon the rest, and then when they have 

 destroyed the latter to break truce with the former, it is agreed that no 

 one shall make truce with Irish .who are out of peace, unless it be universal. 

 Penalties as in paragraph (2) above. 



(6) None shall molest the Irish of any place to whom truce has been 

 granted, so long as they keep the peace. Offenders shall be severely punished 

 and shall make restitution to the Irish affected. 



(7) The lands of the marches having been frequently devastated by sudden 

 attacks of the Irish when the justiciary was in remote parts, and few or none 

 were found to resist them, it is agreed that in such cases all those who live in 

 the invaded county or liberty and their neighbours on the confines of their 

 marches shall together resist the Irish and maintain war against them at 

 their own cost till they return to peace or obtain truce from magnates 

 delegated for that purpose. 



