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vnto it, but nevertheles his conscience dyd know the lawe to be to the 

 contrarie / w'*' barnewell affirmed to be trew; also the cavenaghts 

 the same day had the overthrow / and the same daye there passed 

 a byll for lymy[ting] places by the L. depute & counsayle for 



28 tannyng of lether / // on ftrydaye there was adoo about the byll 

 for the repeale of the L. poynynges act, but at lengthe dy verse 

 were resolved //// about the byll; on thursday befor said the house 

 was devyded by polls / & of thone parte were xP^ for the negatyve 



29 & of thother L. englyshe affirmatyve / on saterday the sayde byll 

 of poynynges being redd the third tyme was miche debated & 

 dyscorsed but at lengthe overthrowen / for the polls of thenglysche 

 were 44 / & of the irishe 48. / 



one moneday a byll made that no capteyne nor lordes sholde vse 

 any lyberties oneles he were therevnto admytted by lettres patentes 

 was redd threes & passed / and then sent to the lordes. 

 ij 1 on tueseday a byll passed that the L: depute sholde for x yeres 

 promote & give all the dignyties in the churches of Monster & 

 6 Connagh / on saterday a byll passed that the L: depute may chose 

 skottes to serve w*4n the realme notw^^'standinge former actes to 

 the contrarie. 



9 Item an acte passed one wenesday agaynst gray merchantes / 

 Item an acte that none shall foster children to irishe lordes / M'^ this 

 day I spake yn the byll of impost & made an oration yn the 

 describyng the offyce & authoritie of a prynce / the" dewte of a 



11 Judge &c. / w'^ was well lyked but by some myslyked / on frydaye 

 then folowenge buter & bathe laweirs & S' Christopher b[arnewell] 

 claymed the lybertie to inveighe agaynst me chardgyng that I had 

 naughtyly compared phillip & the queue vnto pharao & that I sholde 

 name them to be kernes and that the Queue dyd tak bysid the lawe / 

 but they were willed to put yn wrytinge agaynst monday next / at 

 the same tyme also butler, being yn a coller, seyde if|_ these wordes 

 had benne spoken yn any other place then yn this house there be a 

 great many here that they wolde rather have dyed [then to have 



12 suffred it / on saterday the byll passed for a subsyde of xiij' iiii'^ 

 vpon everie ploughe land &c. / On weneseday the 16. of februarye 



17 the statute past for thattendure of Thomas eustac / on thuresday the 



parlament was proroged tyll moneday foloweing / In this cessyons 



ther passed these statutes folowing. 

 21 Item on moneday the 21 of february the parlament assembled and 



that day the act for the repeale of poynynges act was passed & then 



the parlament proroged tyll the wenesday. 



