XII. 



THE PARLIA.MENT OF IRELAND raDER THE TUDOR 

 SOVEREIGNS : SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER. 



Br C. LITTON FALKINER, M.A. 



Read Xovembek 13 ; Ordered for publication November 15 ; 

 Published December 15, 1905. 



Two Manuscripts illustrative of the Proceedings of the Irish Parliament, 

 viz. : — 



I. A List of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in the Irish Parliament, 

 1568-9. 



II. John Hooker's Diary or Journal of the Proceedings of the Irish Parliament 

 of 11 Elizabeth, from its opening on Monday, January 17, 1568-9, to 

 the close of its first Session, on February 28, of the same year. 



In a paper which I had the honour to read before the Academy, 

 earlier in the present year, on " The Parliament of Ireland under the 

 Tudor Sovereigns," I had occasion to deplore the paucity of original 

 records which, even so late as the reign of Elizabeth, hinders the 

 attempt to follow the development of Irish constitutional history, and 

 to trace the forms of Parliamentary procedure in the Tudor age. For 

 information on these points, as I then pointed out, we have hitherto 

 been obliged to depend on two lists of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, 

 and the knights, citizens, and burgesses of the Parliaments of 1560 and 

 1585, which have been printed by Lynch, in his Feudal Dignities^ 

 and by Hardiman in his valuable notes on the Statute of Killcenny ; 

 upon Hooker's contribution to Holinshed's Chronicle^ which contains a 

 \4vid narrative, at first hand, of the proceedings of the Parliament 

 of 1668, for which no list has hitherto been available ; and upon a 



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