Falkiner — Parliament of Ireland under Tudor Sovereigns. 541 



summarised in the Calendar of State Papers} His ''diligence in 

 Parliament " had, however, been expressly recognised by a grant 

 of £40, lands. Walsh, doubtless, owed his selection for the chair by 

 Perrott to the acquaintance he had previously had with the Deputy 

 when the latter filled the ofilce of President of Munster ; and it may 

 have been with a view to this selection that Walsh was transferred 

 to the King's Bench the year before the meeting of Parliament. 



In 1597 Walsh was appointed to the Chief Justiceship of the 

 Common Pleas, and held this office till his death. In the same year 

 he received the honour of knighthood through the Lord Justice, 

 Sir Thomas Norris. He appears to have been in the confidence of 

 Sir John Davies, and was frequently sent on special commissions to 

 Munster. His report on the circuit of 1606 to the Earl of Salisbury 

 has been printed from the State Papers in the present writer's 

 Illustrations of Irish History and Topography^ p. 141. Walsh died in 

 Dublin in April, 1615. His will, dated March 9, 1613, is at theEecord 

 Office. 



1 Calendar of State Papers [Ireland), 1586-1588, pp. 55-58. 



