Piers Gaveston; a Chapter of Early Constitutional History
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The " Liberties," the lords of which assumed the state of princes, were (i) those of Con- naught, under de Burgh ; (2) Meath, under de Mortimer and de Verdon ; (3) Wexford, (4) Carlow, and (5) Kilkenny, each under the jurisdiction of the respective representatives of the husbands of the Marechal heiresses ; (6) North Munster, partly claimed by de Clare, and (7) West Munster, under a branch of the Fitzgeralds. These "absolute Pala- tines," wrote Sir John Davies, "made Barons and Knights, did exe...rcise high justice at all points within their territories, made their own Judges, Seneschals, Sheriffs, Coroners, and Estreators, so as the King's writ did not run in those counties, but only in the Church lands lying within the same, which were PIERS GAVESTON 77 called the ' Cross.' " These provincial princes were not bound to any one form of government, but used their own discretion freely. There was no feudal tenure or service assigned to the Crown, everything centred in the person of the Palatine.
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