1323-07-25, Cowick

To the justiciary of Ireland, or to him who supplies his place. Order not to: pardon to any one the suit of the king's peace for the death of a man henceforth without consulting the king, and not to grant protections to those have been insurgents against the king and his progenitors, as the king has been heretofore frequently given to understand that, owing to the suit of the peace of him and his progenitors for the death of a man having been pardoned too lightly by the justiciaries, and owing to protections for certain periods being granted to malefactors who had been insurgents against the king and his progenitors, during which time the malefactors were in the peace (de pace), and extorted during that time divers sums of money by intolerable threats from men who were in the peace, and many of them after such time have returned to their evil ways and have committed greater damage than before, the peace of the king and his progenitors in the people that land and tranquillity have not flourished and does not now flourish, aod homicides and divers other crimes have been perpetrated there with impunity (facelzus). The king has ordered the chancellor of that land not to obey the justiciary if he send to him letters granting such pardons or By K. and C.