[692] Writs for a parliament held at some date between 1293 and 1298 were addressed to the _sheriffs_ of Dublin, Louth, Kildare, Waterford, Tipperary, Cork, Limerick, Kerry, “Connaught,” and Roscommon, and to the seneschals of the liberties of Meath, Wexford, Carlow, Kilkenny and Ulster. _Irish Archæological Society’s Miscellany_, p. 15. [693] _Rot. Chart._ pp. 171 b, 172, 172 b. Cf. an inquisition ordered April 3, 1206 (_Rot. Pat._ p. 60 b), which clearly implies that the eastern half of the “kingdom of Cork” was then in the king’s hands. [694] He is last mentioned as being in Dublin on August 24, and he was at Fishguard on August 26; _Itin._ a. 12. [695] _Rot. Pat._ pp. 131, 132 b, 151, 181. [696] _Dict. Nat. Biog._ “Lacy, Hugh de (d. 1242).” [697] _Hist. de G. le Mar._ vv. 14286–372. [698] _Foedera_, vol. i. pt. i. p. 108. [699] See Note I. at end. CHAPTER V JOHN AND THE POPE 1210–1214 [Rex] prudenter sane sibi et suis providens in hoc facto, licet id multis ignominiosum videretur, et enorme servitutis jugum. Cum enim res in arto esset, et undique timor vehemens, nulla erat via compendiosior imminens evadendi periculum, nec forsitan alia; quoniam ex quo se in protectione posuit apostolica, et regna sua beati Petri patrimonium fecit, non erat in orbe Romano princeps qui in sedis apostolicae injuriam vel illum infestare, vel illa invadere praesumeret. W. COVENTRY, ii. 210. [Sidenote: 1210–10] During John’s absence in Ireland, England had been disquieted by rumours of a threatened Welsh invasion. His ministers, however, faced the peril boldly; the justiciar, the treasurer (Bishop Peter of Winchester), and the earl of Chester marched into Wales with “a great host” and built three castles on Welsh soil,[700] and on the king’s return the Welsh “vanished,” as a chronicler says, into their mountains, “and the land kept silence before him.”[701] John, however, was in no mood, now that England, Scotland and Ireland were all at his feet, to be content with mere silence on the part of the Welsh princes, and especially of his own son-in-law, Llywelyn, who, having secured the hand of the king’s daughter and the mastery over the greater part of Wales, was now openly turning against the power by whose help he had risen. The case is frankly stated by a Welsh chronicler: “Llywelyn, son of Jorwerth, made cruel attacks upon the English; and on that account King John became enraged, and formed a design of entirely divesting Llywelyn of his dominion.”[702] The native rivals whom Llywelyn had forced into submission were always on the watch for a chance of flinging off the North-Welsh yoke; and when John assembled his host at Chester, seemingly in the third week of May 1211,[703] he was joined by most of the chieftains of the south.[704] At the tidings of his approach, “Llywelyn,” says the same chronicler, “moved with his forces into the middle of the country, and his property