1331-11-25, Alton

Order to come to the king in England with all speed in order to treat with the king secretly concerning his passage to Ireland, and to set out with the king for Ireland, as the king has ordained to go to Ireland for the reformation of its estate and the establishment of peace, and he wishes to have information and colloquy and treaty with the earl upon certain things touching his passage thither, for which reason he has now committed to Anthony de Lucy, justiciary of Ireland, those things that pertain to the preservation of the king's peace in that land and to its rulo, which things he had previously committed to the earl, to be exercised by Anthony in the earl's absence. The earl is enjoined to depute in the meantime some one or more of his men in whom be has full trust in his plave for the arraying of his subjects, which deputies shall be intendent to the justiciary in those things that pertain to the preservation of the king's peace and the tranquillity of that land and the restraining of malefactors there. [Fadera ; Report Dignity of Peer, iv. 403]. By K.&C.