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few passages in Stanihurst's Descriptioti^ and in Campion's History of 

 Ireland. The main object of my former paper was to supplement 

 these meagre sources by bringing together the results of a study of 

 such references to the subject as are to be found in the State Paper 

 Calendars for the period. By an analysis of all the available 

 information, I sought to arrive at a just notion of the procedure 

 of the Tudor Parliaments, and of the proper importance of these 

 Parliaments in relation to the general history of the Irish Legislature. 

 Since the paper I have referred to was read, I have been fortunate 

 enough to meet with two original sources of information regarding 

 the second Parliament of Elizabeth, which add some very interesting 

 items to the information already in our possession, and which ought, 

 I think, to be made better known, through the medium of the 

 Academy's publications, for the benefit of those interested in the 

 documentary materials of Irish Parliamentary history. 



The first and more important of these documents is to be found 

 among the additional MSS. at the British Museum, and is catalogued 

 as a List of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of the Irish 

 Parliament of 1568." This list fills, to a great extent, the gap in 

 the rolls of the Elizabethan Parliaments, for only two of which, as 

 I have just observed, have lists been hitherto available. Although 

 we know more of the proceedings of the second Parliament of 

 Elizabeth/^than of the first or last of the three held in Ireland in 

 that reign, we have hitherto been without any record of the persons 

 who composed it. And, notwithstanding that the list I am bringing 

 under your notice is of inferior value to those of 1560 and 1585, in 

 this important particular that it does not include, as they do, a 

 list of the members of the House of Commons, it is superior to them 

 in the interest of the details of a more picturesque kind which the 

 compiler of the list has combined with the actual record of tlie names 

 of the peers attending it. 



The document is contained in a manuscript volume entitled 

 ^'The Book of Heraldrye and other things, together with the Order 

 of Coronacions " — a kind of common-place book kept by one Robert 

 Commaundre, or Commander, who describes himself as Rector of 

 Tarporley, Co. Chester, and Chaplain to Sir Henry Sidney. The 

 full contents of this Book of Heraldry are set out in detail in the 

 catalogue of additions to the manuscripts in the British Museum, for 

 the years 1882-87, where it is numbered Egerton^ 2642. It proves 

 the compiler to have been a person much interested in antiquarian 

 and ceremonial lore. Among its fifty items are iccluded, in addition 



