[608] Dugdale, _Baronage_, pt. i. p. 414; who, however, has confused father and son. See _Genealogist_, vol. iv. pp. 133–141, and _Dic. Nat. Biog._ “Braose, William de.” [609] His father was living in that year; _Monasticon_, vol. vi. pt. i. p. 457. [610] _Ann. Camb._ a. 1189, 1192, 1195, 1196; _Brut y Tywysogion_, a. 1196, 1197. Maud died in 1209, _Brut_, _ad ann._ [611] _Rot. Chart._ p. 80. Walter was the eldest son of Hugh de Lacy who was killed in 1186. [612] _Foedera_, vol. i. pt. i. p. 107. [613] _Ann. Margan._ a. 1199. [614] _Rot. Chart._ p. 66 b. [615] _Rot. Oblat._ p. 99, “ad quodlibet scaccarium quingentas marcas argenti.” [616] _Rot. Chart._ p. 100 b. [617] Carte’s _Life of Ormonde_, ed. 1851, vol. i. pp. xliv., xlv.; _Rot. Chart._ pp. 19 b, 28. [618] _Rot. Pat._ vol. i. pp. 4, 7, 16 b, 18 b, 19 b. [619] W. Armor. _Philipp._ l. vi. vv. 478–492. The poet asserts that William resigned his charge because he suspected John’s intentions towards his prisoner. This would be shortly before the attempt to blind Arthur, who was then in the custody of Hubert de Burgh. [620] _Rot. Pat._ vol. i. p. 24 b. [621] _Ann. Loch Cé_, a. 1203. [622] _Rot. Chart._ p. 107 b. [623] _Rot. Pat._ vol. i. p. 31 b. [624] _Ib._ p. 39 b. On 29th April the commissioners are informed that De Burgh is respited, and Meiler is bidden to give him seisin of his lands again; _ib._ p. 41 b. [625] _Rot. Pat._ vol. i. p. 46. [626] _Ann. Loch Cé_, a. 1205; Four Masters, a. 1204. [627] _Rot. Pat._ p. 60 b. They seem to have been restored to his son Richard before July 11, 1214; _ib._ pp. 118 b, 119. [628] _Foedera_, vol. i. pt. i. p. 91. Cf. _Rot. Claus._ vol. i. p. 6 b. [629] _Rot. Claus._ vol. i. p. 62. [630] _Rot. Chart._ p. 68 b (a. 1200); _Rot. Claus._ vol. i. p. 40(a. 1205). I am indebted to Mr. G. H. Orpen for the information that the districts held by the English crown in Ireland were not known as “the Pale” till after Poynings’s Act (1494), when the colonists were ordered to maintain a ditch “six feet high on the side which neared next to the Irishmen” (Joyce, _Hist. of Ireland_, p. 351). [631] _Rot. Oblat._ p. 74. [632] Eyton, _Hist. of Shropshire_, vol. v. pp. 257, 258. [633] _Rot. Chart._ p. 133 b. [634] _Rot. Pat._ p. 15. [635] Four Masters, a. 1203. [636] _Rot. Pat._ p. 34 b. [637] _Ib._ pp. 45, 45 b. [638] Four Masters, a. 1204. [639] _Rot. Pat._ p. 54. [640] _Rot. Chart._ p. 151--“de qua [_i.e._ Ultonia] ipsum cinximus in comitem.” Date, May 29, 1205. [641] _Rot. Claus._ vol. i. p. 40. [642] _Rot. Chart._ pp. 133 b, 134. [643] _Rot. Pat._ p. 45 b. [644] _Rot. Claus._ vol. i. p. 6 b. [645] _Rot. Pat._ p. 45 b. John had granted another charter to Dublin on November 7, 1200; _Rot. Chart._ pp. 78 b, 79. [646] _Rot. Pat._ p. 47.