cleric Bartholemew de Camera, parson of Limerick Chapel, but the name of the senior justice is missing (the earliest reference to a first justice seems to be seven years later).Otway-Ruthven states that Thomas had in fact been acting as a judge for some time previously, and that the reforms of 1221 saw not the creation of a new system, but a formalising of existing procedures, so that the three justices would normally sit together as a bench. Thomas was still alive at the end of 1223 when he sent his servant Lawrence to England on Crown business. The next appointment to the Irish Bench seems to have been John Marshal, Baron of Hingham, a nephew of the leading noble William Marshal, who became senior justice itinerant in 1228. In the same year Richard Duket, a long-serving English-born Crown official who also had experience as an itinerant justice and as a diplomat, was appointed second justice, suggesting that Thomas had recently died or retired. Irish judges Sources Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 London John Murray 1926 Empey, C A. The Settlement of the Kingdom of Limerick Irish Academic Press 1981 Otway-Ruthven, A.J. History of Medieval Ireland New York Barnes and Noble reissue 1993 Sweetman, H.S. (ed.) Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland 5 volumes reprinted 1974 Footnotes