In Angliam.—In this year there was ordinance made (‘communi consilio terrae Hiberniae’) that no lord or other person should leave the country without special license from the king, except merchants living altogether of their merchandize; in consequence of this ordinance the Earl of Kildare was forbidden to leave Ireland.—Rot. Cl. 32 Ed. III. 2 pars. 20. On the 8th of May, orders were given that no one should furnish horses, armour, or victuals to Art Kevenagh M'Murgh and Donenald Revagh, who with others of their sept (‘de Iraghto suo’) had made insurrection in Leinster.—Ibid. 34.
At this time M'Brene de Nathirlagh [Mac Brien of Aherlagh] was in rebellion on the marches of Limerick.—Rot. Pat. 32 Ed. III. 10. The counties of Cork and Waterford granted a subsidy of 2.s. on every carucate of tilled land,—1, 15. Kildare and Dublin also were assessed voluntarily for the pay of soldiers,—35, 55. The subsidy of Kildare, as ordered to be levied November 16 in the barony of Kilcullen, was for every carucate of tilled land a crannock of wheat, a crannock of oats, and a fat cow,—58. As in 1373, a crannock of wheat in Meath was worth 8s., and a crannock of oats 5s.—Rymer, vol. iii. p. 977. This assessment seems to have far exceeded 40d. a carucate. The Earl and County of Kildare also supplied the pay for twenty-four men at arms with armed horses at 8d., two hundred hobelars at 4d., and four hundred foot at 1 1/2d. per diem for a fortnight, or as long as the war should last, this pay to be raised by a cess of 40d. on every carucate of tilled land, and 40d. on chattels to the value of £6, to be paid weekly in money or provisions reasonably priced, every person to pay or to serve in person.—Rot. Pat. 32 Ed. III. 92. As a carucate contained 120 acres, it would appear from this entry that land in Kildare was then valued at 1s. the acre. This assessment, which was to be paid by the said county as long as the war should last, was ordered to be levied August 3rd, but peace having been made with the assent of the county of Kildare and the county of Carlow, the sheriff of Kildare was ordered, on August 12th, not to proceed to levy said pay—Rot. Cl. 32 Ed. III. 2d pars. 57. The Earl of Kildare, according to agreement, was paid 60s. by the county of Carlow for preventing the O' Mores from burning the town of Killaban.—Ibid. 64. On the 22nd August, William Vale, sheriff of Carlow, who had lost all his goods and chattels and friends and relations in repulsing the O'Nolans, when the confederated Irish were burning the towns and the corn fields, and carrying off every thing without resistance, and who had killed Donald Tagsone O' Nolan, and many other of their captains, and had brought their heads to the Castle of Dublin by the king's order, when he could have had great ransom for delivering them elsewhere, had an order for £30.—Ibid. 113;—Rot. Pat. 32 Ed. III. 57.
On the 9th of November, Thomas de Stafford, sergeant-at-arms, had an order for 8m., for a horse which he had lost in attendance upon the Justiciary in a raid (‘equitantis’) upon the M'Murghs and O'Morthes of Slemargy; and on the 9th of October Thomas de Baa, Esquire (‘valetto’), of Almaric de St. Amand, Justiciary, had an order for 10£ for a horse lost in like manner.—Rot. Cl. 32 Ed. III. 1 pars. 9, 10.