13. Petition of Hamond Stafford to the Lords of the Privy Coun- cil, stating “ that he and his ancestors having been seized (for three hundred and odd years), of the town of the Ring, and the lands thereunto belonging, in the county of Wexford, about 23 years since Jasper Codd pretended title thereto, and commenced a suit against Daines Stafford, the plaintiff’s father, before Sir Hugh Curren, then Lord Chancellor, and taking advantage of the impotence and doting age of your petitioner’s father, obtained by default a decree that he should be put in possession of the lands. Notwithstanding afterwards the Lord Chancellor revoked the decree, and directed an order to the seneschal and sheriff to restore possession to the elder Stafford, upon whose death the title of your petitioner was again questioned by the said Jasper Codd, when the Lord Chancellor finding the former decree of record made a decree in favour of Codd, by default of your petitioner, who was the