page 361 note 1 I have noticed the following : p. 15, for V, 24 read V, 27 ; p. 138, Stafford for Strafford ; p. 142, impeaced ; p. 160, stature for statute ; p. 186, for document 13 read 14 ; p. 314, absention.

page 362 note 1 H.M.C. rep. 10, app. v. 385.

page 362 note 2 This may be inferred from the fact that the town was in process of being walled from 1272 onwards (P.R.I, rep. D.K., xxxvi. 47-8).

page 363 note 1 Op. cit., pp. 61, 197. (Here and elsewhere my references are to the original edition). It is better not to use the word ‘ provost’ to translate prepositus, which is the Latin equivalent of English ‘ reeve ‘ and French ‘ prévôt’ ‘ Portreeve ‘ was the term used in Galway in the fifteenth century and the usage presumably goes back to the thirteenth century.

page 363 note 2 The date is established by the reference in the petition to the Westminster parliament of November 1295 and by the date of the king's letters patent, 25 Mar. 1297 (R.I.A. Proc, xxxviii, sect, c, pp. 132-3 n.; cal.pat.rolls, 1292-1301, p. 245).

page 363 note 3 Cal. doc. Ire., 1252-84, p. 419 ; 1285-92, p. 1 ; 1302-7, p. 201 ; P.R.I, rep. D.K., xxxvi. 73.

page 363 note 4 Hist. mun. doc. Ire., pp. xxx ff., 541

page 363 note 5 The original has disappeared, as has also the enrolment, but the text is preserved in the confirmation of 12 Mar. 1402 (Cal. pat. rolls, 1401-5, p. 86) and in later confirmations.

page 364 note 1 Cal. rot. pat. Hib., p. 101b ; Chart, privil. immun., p. 73.

page 364 note 2 Cal. pat. rolls, 1401-5, p. 134. The captains appear again in 1460 (ibid., I452-6I, p. 655.)

page 364 note 3 It was printed by Hardiman (op. cit., app., p. ix) from the confirmation of 14 July 1579, and the recital lacks the final clauses of the original. It seems to have been supposed that this was under the great seal of England, but there is no trace of the instrument on the English patent roll, though, by a curious coincidence, a licence of the same date to Dominic Lynch authorising him to build a mill at Galway is enrolled there (Cal. pat. rolls, 1476-85, p. 502).

page 364 note 4 Galway Arch. Soc. Jn., xvi. 186-9.

page 364 note 5 Cal. rot. pat. Hib., pp. 167, 176.

page 364 note 6 The maintenance of a separate diocese of Annaghdown is a related problem that invites re-examination.

page 365 note 1 Stat. Ire., John-Hen. V, pp. 394, 462.

page 365 note 2 The Memoranda Rolls, in so far as they exist in manuscript, have yet to be explored, except for the concluding years of the century, when it is evident that a sheriff was in office (see above, i. 365-6).

page 365 note 3 Besides the references collected by Hardiman, op. cit., pp. 63-4, see Cal. rot. pat. Rib. pp. 152, 177, 197, 212, 216, 228, 233, 233b, 235, 256, 263b ; Proc. king's council, Ire., 1392-3, pp. 154-5. Among the Customs Accounts in P.R.O. there is a roll of seventeen membranes, for 4-5 Hen. IV, of cockets for hides shipped to English ports (E.122/17/7).

page 365 note 4 Such, for example, as master John Lang, mentioned below.

page 365 note 5 Stat. Ire., 1-12 Edw. IV, pp. 818-24, 886-8, 12-22 Edw. IV, pp. 370-6 ; H.M.C. rep. 10, app. v. 398, 408.

page 365 note 6 Op. cit., p. 68.

page 365 note 7 The sentences that follow are based upon Cal. doc. Ire., 1302-7, pp. 225-6, 235, and Cal. papal letters, iv. 304; v. 117, 149, 189, 254, 511 ; vi. 269, 429;

page 366 note 1 The documents are printed by Hardiman, op. cit., app. i and ii. Innocent VIII's bull is also printed, from his register, by Theiner, Vetera mon., pp. 492-3

page 366 note 2 Hardiman printed this instrument from an imperfect copy of the original, having failed to find an enrolment in Ireland (op. cit., app. iv). It is enrolled on the English patent roll (Cal. fat. rolls, 1550-3, pp. 100-1) and had already been printed in Foedera (ed. 1713), xv. 258-61. Neither text is satisfactory, but the one serves to correct the other.