560 Proceedings of the Royal Irkli Acade))n/. 



John Chevees. 



John Chevers, who was thus twice elected to the Speaker's 

 Chair, is in all probability identical with the John Chevers who is 

 mentioned in the Chartulary of St. Maryh Abbey as having been 

 Chief Justice of the Chief Place in 1472.^ The habit of selecting a 

 Speaker from memb'ers of the legal profession increases the probability 

 which the dates suggest. He is probably also identical with the 

 John Chevers mentioned in a document printed in the Council Book of 

 Richard 11.^^ who is described in the year 1442 as of Lincoln's Inn, 

 and a brother of William Chevers who was then second justice of the 

 King's Eench, and as concerned in the defence of James, 4th Earl of 

 Ormond, against charges of maladministration which had been brought 

 against that nobleman. Chief Justice Chevers died in 1474 ; and his 

 will, dated June 4 of that year, has been printed in Archbishop 

 Tregury's Eegister of Dublin Wills, 1457-1483,^ so carefully edited 

 by Mr. H. F. Berry. Besides legacies to John, 6th Earl of Ormond, 

 it contains bequests of masses for the soul of the testator, and of 

 James, 5th Earl of Ormond, who was Lord Lieutenant in 1453, which 

 seem to indicate that Chevers was a protege of the latter nobleman, 

 and probably owed his promotion to his influence. 



LIST OF THE LORDS SPIRITUAL AND TEMPORAL IN 

 THE IRISH PARLIAMENT, 1568-9.^ 



The Names of all the Noble men as well Spiritual as Temporal, 

 which were summoned to appear at a parliament holden at 

 the City of Dublin within her Majesty's realm of Ireland 

 xvij° die Januarij Anno Dni 1568 et regni due nre Regine 

 Elizabeth undecimo, Sir Henry Sydney, knight of the 

 most noble order of the Garter, Lord President of Wales, 

 then Lord Deputy of the said Realm of Ireland. 

 The said Lord Deputy of Ireland sat under the Cloth of Estate in 



1 Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin, ii., p. 24. 



2 Roll Series, Appendix, p. 287. 



Register of Wills and Inventories of the Diocese of Diihlin in the times of 

 Archbishops Tregury and Walton, 1^51-11^83 \ edited, with Translation, Notes, 

 and Introduction, by Henry F. Berry, p. 146. 



^ Egerton MS. (British Museum), 2642, No. 29 (fo. 282). 



