Submission text (English, translated by Edmund Curtis)
Notarial Instrument XXX records that: on the 6th day of April, in the great church of the Friars Preachers at Kilkenny, in the presence of King Richard, the notary, and others, Taig [Tadhg] MacCarthy Mor, removing his girdle, dagger, and cap, on bended knee, took these words in Irish, which were rendered in English by lord Maurice FitzMaurice, knight, viz. :
‘I, Taig MacCarthy, become liegeman of my lord King Richard’, &c. [as in Instrument I]. For observing which, he bound himself in 20,000 marks. Whereupon the King admitted him to the kiss of peace as his liege. Then came Donal MacCarthy and did liege homage in the same form and bound himself in 20,000 marks. Thereupon they requested the notary to make them public instruments.
'I, John MacDonald, become liegeman of the lord Richard, King of England and France and Lord of Ireland, sovereign lord of me and my nation, as also of his heirs, kings of England, from this day forth in life, limb, and earthly honour, so that
he and they shall have over me power of life and death, and I will be faithful to the same and his heirs for ever in all things and will help to defend him and his heirs against all worldly enemies whatsoever, and will be obedient to the laws,
commands, and ordinances of the same or any of them according to my power and that of all mine: and I will come to the said lord my King and his heirs, being kings of England, and to his or their parliament and council or otherwise whensoever he
or they shall send for me or whenever I shall be required, called, or summoned on his or their part or the part of their lieutenants: and I will well and faithfully come to the said Lord King, his heirs and their lieutenants, or to any of them,
to give counsel, and I will do in all and singular that which a good and faithful liegeman ought to do and is bound to do to his natural liege lord, so help me God and these God's holy Gospels.'
Witnesses : the Archbishop of Dublin, the bishops of Chichester, Llandaff, and Waterford-Lismore, the earls of Rutland and Huntingdon, and William Scrope.
Submission text (Latin, transcribed by Edmund Curtis)