Note 911 — Chapter IV · TUTORS AND GOVERNORS 1221–1223

This is indicated by an agreement made in 1222 with the Irish King Donell of Thomond that the ferm due from him to the English Crown should be reduced from a hundred and thirty to a hundred marks a year “until our coming of age,” in consideration of a fine of two hundred marks; Pat. Rolls, vol. i. pp. 336, 337. In other words, Hubert, being in want of ready money for the needs of the state, borrowed from Donell in Henry’s name two hundred marks, to be repaid in instalments by the deduction of thirty marks a year from the ferm of Thomond till the repayment should be completed; which would be (roughly) in 1228.