_Roger Outlawe._--A friend of mine in Germany has met with some ancient
rolls, said to have been from the Irish Court of Common Pleas, chiefly
of the time of Edward III., and headed thus:
"Communia placita apud Dublin coram fratre Rogero Outlawe
priore hospitii sancti Johannis de Jerusalem in hibernia
tenens locum Johannis Darcy le Cosyn Justiciarii hiberniæ apud
Dublin die pasche in viiij mense anno B. Etii post ultimum
conquestum hiberniæ quarto."
Can any person state who this _Roger Outlawe_ was? And is it not
singular that a prior of a religious and military establishment should
be qualified to sit as _locum tenens_ of a judge in a law court?