184 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academ//. 



30. Ordiuances and Statutes by the Council [and] the King at Dyuelyn 

 1351. and Kilkenny. ff. 49^-53^ 55. 



The parliaments referred to were held at Dyuelyn 17 October, and at 

 Kilkenny 31 October. 

 In French. 

 Printed in Irish Statutes, 3^4:. 



31. Letter of Edward III to the Sheriff of the Cross of Kilkenny and 

 3 February, 1360. Seneschal of the Liberty of Kilkenny. f. 55. 



States that many English in Ireland (1) have come to be of the 

 condition of Irishmen, being unwilling to submit to the laws and customs 

 hitherto used in the King's Court among the English, or to plead in the 

 said Court, and make raids under the name of ' vadia' and distraints 

 on those against whom they intend to have actions, and hold parliaments, 

 after the manner of the Irish, with other Englishmen concerning such actions, 

 according to the law of the March, as if one of the parties were wholly 

 Irish ; and (2) learn and speak the Irish language, and have their children 

 brought up among the Irish, that they may use the Irish language. The King 

 has therefore ordered that the English desist from (1), on pain of forfeiture 

 of life and limbs and all other things that can be forfeited, save only that 

 lords of fees may in their fees make distraints for customs and service due to 

 them, as they used to do aforetime ; and he further orders that after the 

 ensuing Nativity of St. John Baptist (24 June) they desist from (2), on pain 

 of loss of English liberty, and that meanwhile they learn the English 

 language. The Sheriff and Seneschal is to have this ordinance publicly 

 proclaimed within his bailiwick. 



Ends : " Teste Jacobo le Botiller comite Dormound justiciario nostro apud 

 Dublinia," etc. 



Printed in H M C 260. 



32. Summary of the ordinance in no. 31. f. 55. 

 1360. Printed in HMC 261. 



33. Statute of Labourers. ff. 55^ 54, 56. 

 9 February, 1351. Enacted at a Parliament at Westminster. 



In Prench. 



Printed in Statutes i. 311. 



34. Statute agamst absentees. f. 56\ 

 1380. All persons who have lands, rents, benefices, offices, or other 

 possessions in Ireland are to reside there from the ensuing festival of the 



