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was vacant at the time, Cantock set as many of his own men as he could to the task of guarding the country, and when his funds turned out to be insufficient he borrowed ÂŁ5 from one
Richard de Cardiff. As a separate plea, he asked the King to remember that he had also borrowed ÂŁ45 (a very substantial
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he addressed to the King in 1305, asking to be forgiven his debts, throws some light on his official duties, and illustrates the disturbed political conditions which had afflicted
Ireland over the previous decade.
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Chancellor of Ireland. He served as Chancellor from 1292 to 1295 or 1296, and he held the office again from 1306 to 1308. An order in the
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Cantock should be repaid the amounts claimed by him in instalments. The Crown no doubt remembered that in the late 1290s, his salary had been seriously in arrears.
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at which he feasted first the nobility, and then the citizenry of Dublin, with a magnificence "unheard of in those times". In 1307 he was granted a third part of the manor of
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