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Excerpt from Calendar of Documents, Relating to Ireland, Preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office, London, 1285 1292 This our third volume, giving abstracts of the English Public Records relating to Ireland from 1285 to 1292 in elusive, differs in several material respects from either of the two previous volumes. Though of considerably greater bulk than the first, it contains upwards of two thousand articles less than it, and nearly twelve hundred articles less than the second volume. Nevertheless the matter con tained in our present volume is, we venture to think, neither less useful, nor less interesting, nor less important than that in either of the other two volumes. The reason of these peculiarities arises, we believe, from the multi plicity of details in the Irish Exchequer Rolls, of which we have here upwards of thirty-three. In dealing with such a vast and generally unconnected mass of matter it is difiicult to decide where to begin; but perhaps we cannot do better than follow the plan adopted in the two previous volumes, and consider the entries under general heads. We propose to do so in the following order - 1. Accounts; 2. Alienor, the Queen Consort; 3. Appointments; 4. Castles; 5. Chancery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.