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issued an order that both justices must always be in attendance on the lord president, unless he gave them special leave of absence. In the court's earlier years, it seems that there was no central judicial seat: the court could be convened wherever the president thought it necessary.
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shortly before his death in 1604. This was probably in consideration of his 20 years of loyal service to the Crown: his lack of a proper reward for his long and loyal service was a subject about which he had complained frequently over the years. He was also
Attorney General for
151:, which was considered the more improper since he never sat in the latter Court, and increasingly neglected his duties in Munster as well. On the other hand, it was understood that the office holder could expect to be promoted in due course to one of the
186:, who was generally ex officio the Irish admiralty judge. Sir Richard Aylward sat in the Parliament of 1585–6 while also serving as second justice of Munster, and John Meade, who sat in two Elizabethan parliaments, had also been Second Justice and
474:(1593-1603) he wrote regular, despondent letters to the English Government, concerning the state of English rule in Ireland. During the serious disturbances in Munster in 1598, he was described as being "utterly forsaken". In 1600 Queen
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in judicial matters. Despite his title of Chief
Justice, full judicial authority was vested in the lord president, who had "power to hear and determine at his discretion all manner of complaints in any part of the province of
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James Gould or Goold: he was second justice of
Munster when William Saxey was Chief Justice, despite objections to his qualifications, since he was Irish-born. He probably belonged to a well-known Limerick family. During the
499:(1620), which gives some useful details about the President's court as well as a vivid picture of the city of Limerick. He was still alive at the Restoration, when he received a pension, and died at a great age about 1672.
316:. This was said to be a tribute to the high regard in which he was held, although his enemies were quick to accuse him of disloyalty to the Crown. He was to be the last holder of the office, which was abolished in 1672.
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The court also had its own attorney general: the last known attorney was Henry
Bathurst (died 1676), later Recorder of Cork. Among the most eminent holders of this office were:
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the office of Chief
Justice lapsed, although Henry Gosnold, who had been appointed to the office in 1624, reached a great age and may still have been alive in 1658.
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Justice of Munster was an onerous one, and it was generally considered inadvisable to combine it with any other senior judicial position.
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James
Osborne (early 1600s?): little seems to be known of him except that he had a daughter, Katherine (died 1615), the first wife of Sir George Sexton of
495:: an Englishman by birth, he was appointed second justice of Munster in 1619. He is now remembered chiefly for his manuscript (probably a private letter)
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ordered that Gould and Saxey were to remain in constant attendance on the Lord
President of Munster "being of special trust appointed to his Council".
178:: Henry Gosnold, through much of his long career, was also the admiralty judge for Munster. This was at the time the only local division of the Irish
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by the lord president to the chief justice and the second justice, who were members of the lord president's council and travelled with him on
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Due to the chronic disturbances in Elizabethan Munster, going on circuit could be a hazardous experience: there was a serious
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aroused much indignation in 1599 when he refused to resign as Chief Justice on being appointed a justice of the
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in 1579 in which several Court officials were killed. In 1601–02, during the political crisis caused by the
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320:List of chief justices of Munster (1569–1672)
297:regime in a number of capacities, including
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