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thereof & dyd contynew from the [same] fryday vntyll the Twesday 

 folowenge the 29[^^ of] Januarie : at w'^ day the matter beiui; 

 before [referred] to the L. depute & Judges of the realme, the speker 

 being sent to the saide L. depute for resolucion brought awnswere 

 that it was concluded by the L. depute, that all suche shirifEes or 

 maiors as had returned them selves, and also all such burgesses as 

 were for no corporatt townes sholde be dysmyssed out of the house / 

 but as for the resydew w'^ [were not resident] notw*^standing they 

 beinge returned [by the maiors and shiri:ffs] might sytt there lawfully 

 so [ ] if any wolde fre them, upon the [ ] answere they 



wolde not credytt [ ] Luke Dyllon^ the Queues atturney was 



sent from the L. depute w*'' the lyke advertysement, who lykewise 

 coulde not be credytted oneles the iudges wolde come them selffes / 

 wherevpon a byll being redd they wolde not abyde the hiringe of it. 

 On Wednesday S'" John plunckett- S"" Robert Dillon^ beinge the 

 cheffe Justyces, M' fynlas,^ the Queues sergent / W Luke Dillon the 

 queues atturney / M' nugent® the Queues sollycitor / came to the house 

 and there affirmed theire resolucions w'^'' they before had bothe saide 

 & written / This same day at after none the lord depute willed the 

 house to be before him at the castle savinge suche as were the dystur- 

 bers / neverthelesse some of them appered there w*'' the resydewe / 

 where my L. havinge all before him blamed miche such vaunt parlers 

 as beinge selfO willed wolde not yelde to that that was reason / and 

 notw^standinge M'' barnewell & others wolde scorne to humble them 

 selffes / yet my L. gave this commandment that the house sholde 

 assemble them selffs the day folowinge & to proceade to theire 

 matters, willinge that such as wolde not be resolved to take choyse 

 what they wolde do / And chardgd also the speker to have regarde 

 bothe to the chardge comitted vnto him as also to see punyshment to 

 be donne vpon such as dyd dysorder them selffes yn the house /// The 

 thursday the house assembled agayne / where one buttler demaundinge 

 my L. resolucion was advertysed thereof / who saide he wolde yelde 



1 Sir Luke Dillon, Attorney-General, 1566-1570, Chief Baron, 1570-1593. 



2 Sir John Plunkett, Chief Justice of the King's Bench, 1559-1583. 



^ Sir Robert Dillon, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1559-1593. and again 

 1594-1597. 



* Eichard Finglas, Queen's Sergeant-at-law, 1554-1574. He had i^reviously 

 held his office of Principal Solicitor. 



^ Nicholas Nugent, Solicitor- General, 1565-1570, a Baron of the Exchequer, 

 1570-1578. 



