Note 9 — Chapter I

So called after Sir Edward Poynings, who was lord deputy in Ireland during a great part of Henry’s reign, and in the earlier part of that of his successor. The lord deputy is described as “the active scourge of all insurgents,” and it was latterly said of him that “he might call all Ireland his own.” See Liber Munerum, book ii. cap. 1. Mr. Lascelles gives 1494 as the year in which this Act was passed. In the Statutes at Large it bears the date of 1495.