_The Day of the Accession of Richard III._ (Vol. iii., p. 351.).--I have
examined the original inrolment of the entry upon the Remembrance Roll
_ex parte Capitalis Rememoratoris Hiberniæ_, of the second year of
Richard III., with the _fac-simile_ of that entry which appears in the
Irish Record Reports (1810-1815, plate 9.), and I find that the
_fac-simile_ is correct. The accession of Richard III. is shown by the
entry upon the original record to have taken place on the twenty-_sixth_
day of June. This entry is, as I have stated, upon the roll of the
second year of Richard III., and not of the first year, as stated by the
said Record Reports, there being no Remembrance or Memoranda Roll of the
first year of that monarch to be found amongst the Exchequer Records of
Ireland. Upon this subject of Richard III.'s accession, I beg to
transmit to you the copy of a regal table which is entered in the Red
Book of the Exchequer, probably the most ancient, as well as the most
curious, record in Ireland. Judging by the character of the handwriting
of this _Tabula Regum_, I would come to the conclusion, that the entries
prior in date to that of Henry VIII.'s reign have been made during the
time of that monarch; or, in other words, that this table has probably
not been compiled at any time previous to the reign of Henry VIII.