[1] He was also appointed Chief Justice of Munster, though Smyth, in his work Chronicle of the Irish Law Officers suggests that this was a year or two later.
[3]Patrick Flatsbury and his brother Edmund, of Johnstown, County Kildare, were charged with the murder of Hugh Burn.
Smythes prosecuted the jurors in Castle Chamber for perjury, the reasoning being that they had broken their oath to deliver a true verdict and in so doing set a "dangerous example" to other juries.
[5] The Attorney General for Munster, Richard Becon, expressed similar if rather less extreme views in his influential pamphlet "Solon his follie" (1594).
In 1588 he sat on the judicial commission, headed by Sir Edmund Anderson, the English Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and including Sir Robert Gardiner, the Lord Chief Justice of Ireland,[6] to deal with the flood of litigation over claims to the lands forfeited by the Earl of Desmond.