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Showing himself to be a believer in the status quo, he argued that: "the King's
Serjeant has always used to maintain the pleas... for this two hundred years and more". By own account he was heavily involved in arguing lawsuits on behalf of the Crown before the Lord Chancellor, but there is evidence that his other duties made his attendance in Court irregular: in 1537 John Bolter, a
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was created for Cowley; Barnewall retained his seniority and his influence. No doubt emboldened by his success, he beat off a tentative proposal from a four-man commission on law reform to expand the role of the
Attorney-General, which would possibly have involved abolishing the office of Serjeant.
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The reprieve for the Irish monasteries was brief, and
Barnewall, like most of his fellow landowners (including Robert Dillon), soon abandoned his opposition to their dissolution. He sat on the commission for the surrender of the Irish monasteries during 1539–1541 and did well personally out of their
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was not noted for tolerating opposition to his wishes, while the Cowley family were busily spreading the story that
Barnewall had challenged the King's authority to dissolve any religious house. Again however Barnewall's friendship with Cromwell was decisive and the plan to dissolve the Irish houses
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Solicitor General in 1534 was largely due to the patronage of Cromwell, who actively promoted the careers of Barnewall and his brother-in-law Sir Thomas Luttrell, and recommended Barnewall in particular for high office as being a man of "integrity and learning". His main rivals for power were
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It has been suggested that he was exposing himself to great danger since there was a risk that the King would interpret any plea for mercy as evidence of his support for the rebels. However, he used his influence with
Cromwell to good effect, and during his visit to London in 1536-7 he succeeded in
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approached his influence. If his opposition to the suppression of the monasteries was self-interested, it nonetheless took considerable nerve; he also deserves credit for the courage he showed by his willingness to plead with Henry VIII for a general pardon for those gentry suspected of rebellion.
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Barnewall is now chiefly remembered for his role in establishing the King's Inns. Again his friendship with
Cromwell played an important part in furthering the project: on several occasions, Barnewall raised with Cromwell the need for the establishment in Dublin of a college for the education of
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Cromwell responded, but Barnewall continued to press the matter even after Cromwell's downfall. He was one of the original lessees named in the lease of Blackfriars (the property comprising the present-day King's Inns) by the King in 1541 (as was his uncle Robert Barnewall, a
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Barnewall has been described as a "redoubtable figure" who was noted for his integrity and learning. Kenny describes him as an astute politician. Hart agrees with this verdict and notes the crucial role
Barnewall played in Government; probably no other Solicitor General in Irish history ever
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Barnewall in the delicate task of pleading with Henry VIII for a general pardon on behalf of the Anglo-Irish gentry, many of whom were under suspicion of having supported the rebellion. Barnewall himself apparently had no sympathy for the rebel cause, although his enemy
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tried hard to persuade Cromwell that he had. His uncle Lord Trimlestown had, probably with more reason, been accused of wavering in his loyalty, but Cromwell was evidently prepared to overlook this. Given the close ties of blood and marriage which existed between nearly all the
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rolls, for whose safekeeping he was responsible as Master, be stored in the Library of the former St. Patrick's Cathedral, (suppressed in 1547, but restored in 1555) as there was no other secure and suitable place to keep them.
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and alienations, and the threat to dissolve the monasteries was therefore unwelcome to the landowners of the Pale, including Barnewall himself, who was the steward for seven manors in Ireland which were owned by the
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in 1540, although on a visit to England that year he was highly commended by the Crown. Unlike his uncle and his brother-in-law he failed to achieve elevation to the office of
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in the Irish House of Commons to the plan to dissolve the Irish monasteries and was asked to raise the matter with the King. This was another very delicate matter, since
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Barnewall and Dillon at the same time as they were pleading for the suspected rebels were entrusted with a second mission to the King, which was to deal with the
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lawyers; and in April 1538 he wrote that as he had previously declared; "if your lordship thought it meet that there should be a house of
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of their children, John and Marion. Marion, who inherited the family estates on John's death, married Patrick's son and heir Christopher.
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1244:1500s births
1170:Jonathan Pim
1035:Henry Ormsby
1010:Henry Ormsby
955:Edmund Hayes
840:John Doherty
810:John Stewart
800:Arthur Wolfe
780:Godfrey Lill
760:Warden Flood
720:John Forster
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1249:1552 deaths
1195:Denis Henry
1080:John Monroe
1050:Hugh Holmes
960:John George
695:John Temple
551:The Stuarts
507:Hart, A.R.
290:King's Inns
268:Knocktopher
179:Anglo-Irish
149:Reformation
95:Anne Boleyn
47:King's Inns
1238:Categories
1065:John Naish
805:John Toler
785:John Scott
750:John Bowes
630:John Bathe
404:References
266:priory of
251:Henry VIII
87:Gray's Inn
63:Clonmethan
57:Background
835:Henry Joy
770:John Gore
367:Character
328:execution
264:Carmelite
137:goldsmith
91:Irish Bar
1223:Category
1030:Hugh Law
360:Chancery
297:chancery
284:wardship
243:Somerset
214:Limerick
183:the Pale
157:the Pale
124:Drogheda
81:, later
73:, later
352:Munster
348:assizes
153:England
376:Family
234:leases
189:, the
120:Dublin
322:Judge
308:Irish
212:, to
388:Sir
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350:in
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