Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 July 2016
A new edition of Professor Curti's History of Medieval Ireland is very welcome. Though essentially the same book, much has been rewritten : there are additions to the text as it appeared in 1923, and a good deal of detail and some footnotes have been omitted, for which the first edition must be consulted. Other changes are the division of the chapters into headed sections, the inclusion of genealogical tables, and appendices on the Ostmen, the towns and the legal treatment of the Irish.
The merits of Dr.Curti's work are very great, and chiefly his determination to write the history of the whole of Ireland, to rest every statement upon evidence, and to give exact references.
page no 382 note 1 A history of Medieval Ireland from 1086 to 1513. By Curtis, Edmund. Pp. xxxv, 433. London: Methuen. Second edition, 1938. 15sGoogle Scholar
page no 386 note 1 Cal. Rot. Pat. & Claus. Hib., p.154(41); Early Stats. Ire., John-Hen. V, p.498
page no 386 note 2 Proc. Privy Council, 1386-1410, p.56; Cal. Rot. Pat. & Claus. Hib., p.155(68-71).
page no 387 note 1 BM, Lansd. MS. 652, f. 200.
page no 387 note 2 For actual instances see Cal. Justiciary Rolls, Ire., 1295-1303, p. 156, 1305-1307, pp. 152, 414. The ransom became fixed at 5 marks, 40 pence: ibid., 1295-1303, pp. 283-4, 1305-1307, pp. 150, 152, 380; PRO, Ancient Petition 8820 (late Edward II).
page no 387 note 3 Cal. Justiciary Rolls, Ire., 1295-1303, pp. 97, 162, 1305-1307, p. 415.
page no 387 note 4 Proc. RIA, vol. xxxviii, sect. C, p. 142; Cal. Justiciary Rolls, Ire., 1305-1307, p. 352.
page no 387 note 5 Proc. RIA, vol. xxxviii, sect. C, p. 143; Cal. Justiciary Rolls, Ire., 1295-1303, p. 255, 1303-1307, p. 405.
page no 387 note 6 Ibid., 1295-1303, p. 95.
page no 388 note 1 Proc. RIA, vol. xxxviii, sect. C, p. 143.
page no 388 note 2 Cal. Justiciary Rolls, Ire., 1295-1303, pp. 95, 254-5.
page no 388 note 3 PRO, Ancient Petition 8820.
page no 388 note 4 Cal. Justiciary Rolls, Ire., 1295-1303, pp. 102-3, 317 : for the first of these entries in full see Prynne, Exact Chronological Vindication, iii. 776. See also PRO, Ancient Petition 10873 (c. 1317).
page no 388 note 5 Proc. RIA, vol. xxxviii, sect. C, p. 143.
page no 388 note 6 Rotuli Parliamentorum, i. 386: this is a petition from the ‘ liges gentz ’ of Ireland, in consequence of which the letters patent of 20 Jan. 1321, next mentioned, were issued.
page no 388 note 7 Early Stats. Ire., John-Hen. V, pp. 292, 322-4; Prynne, Animadversions
page no 388 note 8 For actions of trespass brought by Irishment' lord see Cal. Justiciary Rolls Ire., 1295-1303, p. 426, 1305-1307, p. 56.
page no 389 note 1 The two cases are ibid., 1295-1303, pp. 121-3, 271.
page no 389 note 2 For a good example see ibid., 1305-7, pp. 173-4 : cf. ibid., 1295-1303, p. 162
page no 389 note 3 Early Stats. Ire., John-Hen. V, p. 324.
page no 389 note 4 Cal. Justiciary Rolls, Ire., 1305-7, pp. 180-1.
page no 390 note 1 Ibid., pp. 173-4.
page no 390 note 2 Ibid., pp. 413-4.
page no 390 note 3 Ibid., 1295-1303, p. 162.
page no 390 note 4 PRO, Ancient Petitions 5944 and 8820.
page no 391 note 1 Early Stats. Ire., John-Hen. V, p. 324. At present our sole evidence that this instruction was observed is the case from a plea roll of 4 Edward III cited by Betham, Orgin and History …of the Early Parliaments of Ireland, p. 292.
page no 391 note 2 BM, Lansd. MS. 482, f. 140. This manuscript contains a transcript of the petition prepared at the Kilkenny ‘ parliament ’ of November 1341: it differs from the later and abberiviated from in Early Stats. Ire., John-Hen. V pp. 332 ff.
page no 391 note 3 History, xxii. 67-9.