W. Bremingham f. 96. The nobility of Ireland went to the siege of Callesse. Joan Fyz Leonis died. Bremingham Baron of Kellis in Ossori, belonging sometime to Pouer. Baron Caro was L. Justice; f. 155. be allowed* 20s. a day during his abiding in England for his charge. This said year Walter Bremyngham, L. Deputy, and Morise FitzThomas, Earl of Kyldare, assembled a host, in November, against the O'Mores and hist partakers, that destroyed the foresaid country of Ley and Kilnehed; and he and his fellows they extremely pursued, invaded, spoiled, burned, and killed, notwithstanding the said O'More and his partakers did strongly and to the uttermost of their power withstand them; but in the end were enforced to submit themselves to the Prince's authority, and what the said Earl would have them to do. The year 1347 the Earl of Kyldare, with barons and knights, went into England to the King, by his commandment, being in siege about Kellysse. Also the said town of Keylles, the 4. day of June, was rendered unto the King of England. Also Walter Bonvill, William Balf, William Wellesly, and many others, nobles and stout gentlemen, as well of England as of Ireland and Wales, was infected at Callise, and there died. Also Donile McMorchey, son to Donill McCarte McMorcho, King of Leynester, the 5. day of June, was killed traitorously by some of his own folks. Also Morise FitzThomas, Earl of Kildare, was then made knight by the King. Also the said Earl did marry then L. Barthelme de Bourcus§ his daughter. Also the town of Nenagh and all the country thereabouts was burned by Irishmen, a Saint Stephen's day. Also Joan FitzLiones, wife to Simon Genevile, died, and was buried at the Friars in Trime, the second day of April.|| The year of our Lord 1348, the 22. year of King Edward the Third, there was a great pestilence in Ireland that began first in other lands. The said year Walter Bremingam, L. Deputy, went into England, and left the Prior of Kylmaynam in his stead, and returned the said year L. Deputy; and the King gave him the barony of Kelles in Ossery, because he took a great host with him against the Earl of Desmonde with the foresaid Ufford; which barony belonged some time to Eustace Pouer, that was drawn and hanged at the Castle of the Island. The year 1349 Walter Bremingham, a very good Lord Justice, gave over his office, and the Baron Caro,¶ knight, succeeded him in the said office. Anno 1350, L. Thomas Rocisbe** was made Lord Deputy. Also Walter Bremingham, a very good L. Deputy, in the Vigil of Saint Marget's, died in England. Savage, Knight in f. 97. Desmond L. Deputy. Rockesby L. Justice. A worthy saying of a magistrate; and few was his like after. Amore de Sancto Armachanus, St. * 1321, the 25. year of the said King, died Kenwricke Sherenan, sometime Mayor of Dublinge, in the chapel of the said city; which chapel he himself decked, and builded the whole abbey, and glass windows thereof, and did much good amongst them, and did make his testament, which amounted to the sum of 3,000 marks, and legacied much goods to churches, priests, and religious men and secular men, within 20 miles about Doublinge. 1322,† Robert Sawage, knight, determined to build castles and manors in divers places in Ulster, which, when it was done, said unto his son Harry Sawage, "Let us make strong walls about us, lest Irishmen should come and destroy our places and our people, and so be blamed of all men." Whose son answered him, and said, "Wheresoever there be a force of people there is a good castle, which is able to defend the force of the enemy, among whom I meant to be, and will take them as my castle, and so to verify the ancient proverb, 'Better is a castle of bones than a castle of stones.' Whose opinion, when the father did hear, somewhat moved with his words, gave over of his works, and said he would make no more castles of stone, but bestow his goods in hospitality, and prophesied that his children should lament and bewail the destruction of Ireland, and the losses thereof, in the default of castles. The year of our Lord 1355, Thomas Rockesby lost his office, and Morise FitzThomas, Earl of Desmond, succeeded him, and continued therein during his life, and died in the Conversion§ of Saint Paul, not without great lamentation of them that did love quietness and peace, and was entombed in the Friars Preachers of Dublin, and was carried thence to Traly, where he was buried. This was a just man in his office, in so much that he would hang his own kinsmen for their evil deeds as well as strangers, and chased very well Irishmen. 1356. Thomas Rockesbe was made Lord Justice, that did punish very well Irishmen, and paid very well for his victuals' and would commonly say that he would eat and drink of cups made of timber, and pay gold and silver therefor, rather than to extort the poor. This same year Thomas, Lord Justice, died in the castle of Culrane, and the next year following Amore de Sancto Amando was made Deputy, and came into Ireland about this season, that did raise a great controversy¶ betwixt Richard Rowe, Archbishop of Ardmargh, and the four orders of Friars; but there was nothing done between them, and they were put to silence by the Pope. *Sic, for 1351. + Sic, for 1352. "conwersacion," MS. "chast," MS. ¶ "conteruercy," MS. **This is in a more modern hand. Butler, L. Deputy. Robert Sawage, a f. 98. Lionel Earl of Ulster, L. Lieutenant, in right of his wife, Elizabeth Bourke. Marget Bermingham, wife to Preston, died, and was sister to W. B. 1358. This said Amore was put from his office, and the year following James Butler, Earl of Wormond, was made L. Deputy. This year Joan Bourcke, Countess of Kildare, died, and was buried by her husband in Kyldare. 1356. Richard Rooe died the 16th of December, whose bones was worshipfully brought by Stevine Bishop of Mythe to be buried in the samet Nicholas Church in Done-Dalke, where he was born. This same year Robert Sawage, a worthy knight of Ulster, with a few Englishmen, did kill in one day of the Irishry thereof three thousand, but before he went to the battle he commanded to give a good draught of wine or ale to every soldier, whereof he had great plenty of hogsheads and tuns, and the rest caused to be reserved until his return; and also caused a great store of cows to be killed, and caused a great store of wild fowl and venery‡ to be had, and willed it to be made ready against those that had returned from the battle, that whatsoever they were; and said it was a great slander, if their enemies won the victory, that they should not have a sufficient in their camp to eat and drink. But God of his mercy gave the said Robert and his company the victory; wherefore he commanded them all to supper, and bestow[ed] such good cheer as he had prepared upon his own soldiers; and so, being merry, gave thanks unto God of their victory. And the said Robert said that it was better so than it should be cast away there, as it hath been accustomed before this so to do. Then the Earl of Wo[r]mond, L. Deputy, went into England, in whose room was appointed to the same office Morise FitzThomas, Earl of Kyll-dare, the three and 30. year of the reign of the King. Then James Butler, Earl of Wormond, came out of England L. Deputy, and then the Earl of Kyldare was displaced. The year of our Lord 1361, Lionel the King's son of England, and Earl of Ulster in the right of his wife Elizabeth Bourke, daughter and heir to William Bourke late Earl, came into Ireland L. Lieutenant of Ireland, and landed at Dublinge in the Octa[ve] of the Nativity of Our Lady. This same year the second pestilence came, and that year died Henry Duke of Lankester, Earl of Marche Northamonye.* Also the 6. of January Moryche Doncres,§ citizen of Dublinge, died, and is buried in the churchyard of the said city, which left with the said church 40 pound. The said year died Lady Joan Flemming, wife to Jeffrey Treves, and Lady Margaret Bremingham, wife to Lord Robert Prestone, in the Vigil of Saint Marget, and is buried in the Friars Preachers' of Drogheda. Also this year died Walter Bremingham at Saint Laurence's day, that left his inheritance with his sisters, of whom the said Robert Prestone married one of them. The Exchequer holden at Carlacke. Saint Patrick's church burnt. Lionel, Duke of Clarens, and Earl of Ulstere. Preston, Chief f. 99. A strange act After, the foresaid Lionel did land in Ireland, and passed a while. Then he made war upon the O'Brens, who killed shortly after a hundred of his soldiers. The said Lionel, seeing that, brought his people, as well Irish as English, into one, and from thence did prosper well, and made much war upon the Irishmen in all places, with the help of God and the men of Ireland that took his part, and made divers knights as well of English as of Irish, among whom was Robert Preston, Robert Holywode, Thomas Talbot, Walter Cusacke, James Dalahid, John de Fraccens*, Patrick and Robert de Fraccens, and many others. Off the said L. Lionel caused the Court of the Exchequer to be had from Dubling and holden at Carlogh, and gave fifty pound to help build the walls of the same. About the said season there was a great wind which did cast down pinacles of houses, chimneys, out‡ of a number of trees, and did cast down the steeple of the Friars Preachers of Dublinge to the ground. The year of our Lord 1362, John§ Sexten's fire did burn Saint Patrick's church of Doublinge. 1364, Lord Lionel, Earl of Ulster, the 22. day of April went into England, and left L. Justice there the Earl of Wormond, and returned the 18. day of December Duke of Clarens. 1365, the said Lionel went into England, and left behind him Thomas Dale L. Justice. 1367, began a great war betwixt the Bremingham [s] of Carbre and the men of Mythe, because the Breminghams committed divers thefts upon them, for the which Robert Prestone, Knight, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, kept a great ward in Carbre, and bestowed much thereon, and defended the right of his wife. The same time Gerald FitzMorise was made L. Justice of Ireland. The year of our Lord 1368, the 42. year of the reign of the King, after a parliament holden betwixt the Englishmen and the Irishmen in Carbre, was taken Thomas Borle, prior of Kylmaynam and Chancellor of Ireland, John FitzRoger, sheriff of Mythe, Robert Terrell, Baron of Castle Knocke, and divers others, by the Bremingham[s] and them of Carbre; and then was James Bremingham, that was blind, then being in prison in the castle of Trym, delivered in exchange for the Chancellor, and the rest made their ransoms. That said year Our Lady Church and the abbey of Tryme was burned in the Vigil of Saint Luke the Evangel[ist.] This year died L. Lionel, Duke of Clarens, at an abbey in Piemonde; first intombed in the city of Pamfe,¶ and after brought to Clare, and there buried. Earl of Desmon taken, with divers others, by O'Bren. Terell, Baron of Cusacke, Baron of Castle Geysell builded. The Templars taken. Peter Bermingham died. f. 100. Ougane, L. Justice. The year of our Lord 1370, the 44. year of the reign of the King, the third time the pestilence came into Ireland, and thereof died innumerable numbers. This same year Gerald Fitz Morise, Earl of Desmonde, John FitzNicholas, and Thomas Fitz John, and divers other nobles, were taken besides Limricke by O'Bren and McCarte in Thomand, and there was divers slain; for the which the foresaid L. Lieutenant came unto Lymricke to defend Mounster, leaving the wars that they had with the O'Tolles and other Irishmen in Leynester. This same year died Robert Terrell, Baron of Castle Knocke, and Scolastica Houthe his wife, and his son and heir, for the which he left his inheritance betwixt his two sisters, Joan Terrell and Maud Terrell. This same year died Simon Flemynge, Baron of Slane, and John Cussake, Baron of Colmolen; and John Terrell, sometime Mayor of Dublinge, and Richard Mandwell, stored of money." In Ireland, at Saint Patrick's day, Richard McAoohyet and his two sons was taken by Thomas de Snetarby, by the New Castle; and there was Lorcane O'Bouye, a very strong thief, headed. This which follows unto fol. 108, is a confused collection.‡ The year of our Lord 1307§ Morishe Ballagh was headed near Marton by L. Canton, Knight. Soon after, Adam Dave was slain, and a great conflict and slaughter did happen upon the Englishmen in Connoght by the O'Scheles|| a May day. The Lord of Offalye builded the castle of Geschell, and a Saint Thomas even they did burn the castle and town of Ley, but soon after they were removed by John the son of Thomas and Edmond Butlere. This year the King of England died. The Templars this year was taken in Ireland the morrow after the Purification of Our Lady, and imprisoned. The year of our Lord 1308¶ the L. Peter Bremingham, a noble warrior, died, 20 Idus Aprilis. And in May the castle of Kenim was burned and the ward killed by William McWalter and his adherents, and also the town of Corke, only by these same malefactors. And in June following was L. John Ougane made L. Justice of Ireland, who with his company by Glandelorrogh was met by the said malefactors, and there they slew John Agellen, John Norton, John Bretone, with many others. And the 6. day of July was burned the town of Doulovane, Tobire, and many villages more, by the said malefactors. In England there was then a Parliament holden, in which great dissension happened, and a great conflict given between *Sic; qu. "stoured of many." † Sic. This note is in Carew's handwriting. § This seems to have been " 1377" originally, but has been altered as above. "Kellye" in margin (by Carew). This seems to have been "1378" originally. |
