Excerpt from Record Revelations Resumed: A Letter, to the Right Hon. William Monsell, M. P., Colonel Francis P. Dunne, M. P., And Colonel Fitz-Stephen French, M. P., On Statements Recently Made in Parliament, on the Public Records of Ireland In March, 1863, I published, under the title of Record Revelations, a Letter to the Treasury, advocating the adoption of measures to aggregate, calendar, and render accessible, for legal and historical purposes, the long neglected Public Records Of Ireland and, in exempli fication of some of the evils resulting from the present Obscure state Of these muniments, I analysed two volumes, produced in 1861 and 1862, at considerable public ex pense, entitled Calendars of the Patent and Close Rolls Of Chancery in Ireland, of the reigns of Henry VIII. Edward VI. Mary and Elizabeth, edited by the Clerk of Enrolments in Chancery, by authority of the Lords Com missioners of her Majesty's Treasury, under the direction of the Master of the Rolls Of Ireland. 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.