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THE 
 
 ANNALS OF IRELAND. 
 
 BY 
 
 FRIAR JOHN pLYN, 
 
 OF THE CONVENT OF FKIARS MINORS, KILKE>Trr ; 
 AND 
 
 THADY DOW LING, 
 
 CHANCELLOR OF LEIGHLIN. 
 
 TOGETHER WITH THE ANNALS OF ROSS. 
 
 EDITED, 
 
 FBOM MSS. IN THE LIBRARY OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, WITH INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, 
 
 BY 
 
 THE VERY REV. RICHARD BUTLER, A,B., M.R.I. A., 
 
 DEAN OF CLONJIACXOIS. 
 
 DUBLIN: 
 
 PRINTED FOR THE IRISH ARCHJiOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 MDCCCXLIX. 
 
THIS COPY WAS PRIXTED FOR 
 
 MICHAEL CREAGH, ESQ. 
 
 >[K>IBER OF THE SOCIETY. 
 
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 PVBl.lX : 
 
 IXTKIl AT THK VNIVF.RSITY IMtKSS, 
 BY M. II. 011,1.. 
 
IRISH ARCHiEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 
 
 FOUNDED MDCCCXL. 
 
 patron : 
 
 HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE ALBERT. 
 
 ^resilient : 
 
 His Grace the Duke of Leinster. 
 
 The Most Noble the Marquis of Kildare, M. P., M. R. I. A. 
 
 The Right Hox. the Earl of Leitrim, M. R. I. A. 
 
 The Right Hon. the Viscount Adare, M. P., M. R. I. A. 
 
 ©ouncH : 
 
 Elected list December, 1848. 
 
 Rev. Samuel Butcher, D. D., M. R. I. A. 
 
 Rev. Charles Graves, A. M., M. R. I. A. 
 
 James Hardiman, Esq., M. R. I. A. 
 
 William Elliot Hudson, Esq., A. M., M. R. I. A. 
 
 Major T. A. Larcom, R. E., V. P. R. I. A. 
 
 Charles Mac Donnell, Esq., M. R. I. A. 
 
 George Petrie, Esq., LL. D., R. H. A., V. P. R. I. A. 
 
 Rev. William Reeves, B. D., M. R. I. A. 
 
 Very Rev. L. Renehan, D. D., President of St. Patrick's 
 
 College, Maynooth. 
 Aquilla Smith, Esq., M. D., M. R. I. A., Treasurer. 
 J. Huband Smith, Esq., A. M., M. R. I. A. 
 Rev. J. H. Todd, D. D., M. R. I. A., Secretary. 
 
ANNALIUM HIBEllNI^ CHRONICON, 
 
 AD ANNUM MCCCXLIX. 
 
 DIGESSIT 
 
 FRATER JOHANNES CLYN, 
 
 ORDINIS MISOKDM EX CONVENTU DLKENNIEiNSI. 
 ACCEDCNT 
 
 ANNALES MONASTERII DE ROSSA-PONTIS. 
 
 NUNC FBIMUH 
 
 EX CODD. MSS. IN BIBLIOTHECA COLLEGII SS. TRINITATIS JUXTA DUBLIN TYPIS EDD. 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
 N Intention there was not long since by Sir James 
 Ley, Knight, then Lord Chiefs Justice of the King's 
 Bench in Irehmd (afterwards Lord High Treasurer 
 and Earle of Marleburgh), to have pubhshed some 
 of our country writers in this kinde, for which end 
 hee caused to be transcribed and made fit for the 
 Presse the Annales of John Clynne, a Friar Minor of Kilkenny (who 
 lived in the time of King Edward the Third), the Annales of the 
 Priory of St. John the Evangelist of Kilkenny, and the Annales of 
 Multifernan, Eosse, and Cloumell, &c. But his weighty occasions did 
 afterwards divert his purpose. The copies are yet preserved, and I 
 hope ere long with other Annales and Fragments of the same nature 
 will be divulged." 
 
 So wrote Sir James Ware, in his Preface to Campion's and Han- 
 mer's Histories, printed in Dublin in the year 1 633'''. More than 200 
 years have since passed, and by the publication of the Annals of Mul- 
 tifernan, and by the present publication, the Irish Archaeological So- 
 ciety 
 
 ^ Eeprinted in Dublin, 1 809. 
 IRISH ARCH. SOC. a 
 
ii 
 
 ciety is only now partly realizing the purpose of Ley, and the hopes 
 of Ware, Camden, and Ussher. 
 
 It is not for those who are endeavouring to put an end to it, to 
 attempt to justify the delay that has occurred in the publication of 
 these chronicles; it may, perhaps, partly be accounted for by the dry 
 and unsatisfactory nature of their contents. 
 
 Clyn lived ninety years after Matthew Paris, and was not many 
 years older than Froissart ; but instead of the caustic remarks and 
 striking details of the monk of St. Alban's, — instead of Froissart's 
 pictured pages, which make us familiar with the sentiments and 
 motives, and even with the outward bearing, of the men of his day, — 
 Ave have here, for the most part, only mere entries of names and of 
 facts, the ashes of history in which there is no living fire. The fact 
 is so, and must be acknowledged, nor shall we be siu-prised that it 
 is so, if we consider the circumstances in which Clyn and the other 
 Anglo-Irish monkish chroniclers wrote, and tlie objects which they 
 had in view. 
 
 The very materials for writing at that time were not abundant 
 in this country. Clyn mentions that he had left parchment for the 
 continuation of his Annals (see page 37), a pious precaution which 
 does not seem to have produced any effect ; and being confined by 
 precedent and by an allectation of scholarship to the use of Latin, 
 the monkish chroniclers were trammelled and hampered by a foreign 
 language, with which they were not familiar, and in which they 
 neither spoke nor thought, and in which, like men in a stiif and un- 
 usual dress, they moved with slow and awkward formality. 
 
 Nor were the authorities, from which they derived their informa- 
 tion, calculated to give them confidence and freedom. Their chief 
 written authorities were evidently the Obits of their own, or of some 
 other religious house of the same Order, combined with some brief 
 Registry of public events and of wonderful occurrences, which seems 
 
 to 
 
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 to have formed the common historical stock of all our Anglo-Irish 
 monkish chroniclers, and which was probably communicated to the 
 members of the different houses at the provincial or general Chapters 
 of the several Orders. 
 
 To synchronize this general history with the Obits and special 
 entries of their own records was the great object of the monkish 
 writers, a task not without difficulty, and in w^hich it is probable that 
 many mistakes were made, as in the older Mortiloges the entries were 
 made under the day of the month, without any notice of the year. 
 
 But we must not suppose that those annals were to the monks the 
 dry and bare catalogues which they are to us, or that the inhabitants 
 of the monastery were satisfied w^ith that modicum of knowledge which 
 we have inherited from them. Every name entered in their registry 
 at its entry had its own peculiar history, and that history was preserved 
 in the traditions of the chapter-room and of the cloister. From the 
 founder of the house and the giver of broad lands, to the bequeather 
 of a cope, and the increaser of their gaudy-day pittance, all their be- 
 nefactors had their places in the grateful memory of the brotherhood ; 
 and the novice and the lay brother were often told why this Baron 
 bestowed the rich farm, and why it was leased to such a Knight ; why 
 this Lady founded an altar and a chaplaincy, and why such a Burgess 
 was commemorated wdth a double Lection. Every name in the re- 
 gistry was made the text of some grave homily, or recalled some story, 
 kept alive, not only by being repeated on every recurring anniversary 
 amongst the habitual sitters round the refectory fire, and amongst the 
 pacers in the cloisters, but by being told to the knights and squires 
 who used the monastery as an inn, and to the pilgrims and visitors 
 from other religious houses who there claimed charitable hospitality. 
 
 Nor was it only gratitude, and the wish to maintain the credit of 
 their house before their visitors, that induced the monks to fill up in 
 conversation the bare outline of their registers with traditional his- 
 
 o 
 
 a 2 tories; 
 
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 tories; many of them had the strong interest of relationship, or of fa- 
 mily dependence, connected with the names recorded ; and it was 
 pleasant to tell how their fathers had fought in the battle in which 
 their benefactor was killed, whose tomb was in the choir and whose 
 death was in the Mortiloge. With respect, then, to occurrences in 
 its own neighbourhood, or referring to its special benefactors, the 
 date and the succession were almost all that was wanted by the in- 
 mates of a religious house, and these were supplied by the dryest of 
 their chronicles. The cloister tradition supplied the rest, giving to 
 the merest outline fulness of detail and warmth of colouring. 
 
 With regard to the events affecting other religious houses of the 
 same Order, the same knowledge was communicated by the mutual 
 visits of their respective members, and especially by the provincial 
 and general chapters. If we look upon a map of any Christian country 
 in the middle ages, we see how the houses of the different Orders were 
 scattered through it, so that lines drawn from one to another would 
 make a close net-work over its whole surface ; and it is difficult to 
 limit the amount of (general knowledsre which must have been in the 
 possession of the inquisitive members of these societies, and of which 
 we have nothing left but these meagre and lifeless chronicles. For 
 the view of the writers there were fields, and flowers, and trees, " ho- 
 minumque boumque labores but the deep flood of oblivion covers 
 them, >and we see nothing but the land-marks and the boundaiy 
 stones. 
 
 The authors of most of the other Anglo-Irish monastic annals are 
 unknown, and we can feel no sympathy with the impersonal and 
 unnamed writer who expresses no personal feeling in anything he 
 mentions, and who records, as it were mechanically, all events, whe- 
 ther of joy or sorrow, with equal brevity and with equal coldness. 
 
 Of the annals here printed we know at least the name and sta- 
 tion of the writer, and the time of their composition. 
 
 John 
 
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 John Clyn was a Franciscan friar, in the convent of tliat Order 
 in Kilkenny. He seems to have been highly esteemed in the bro- 
 therhood, for in 1336, when James, Earl of Ormonde, in his old 
 earldom of Carrick, founded a " locus"'' for Franciscans, John Clyn 
 was the first Warden or Guardian ; William Naase being Gustos; and 
 Friar Stephen Barry, Minister Provincial. The zeal and austerity 
 of the earlier Franciscans and Dominicans had attracted into their 
 Orders men of the loftiest minds and most generous tempers; and 
 in the fourteenth century, when the fervour of religious enthusiasm 
 was in some degree diminished, there were still to be found in these 
 Orders the most profound theologians and the most subtle speculative 
 philosophers. Among these the Irish Franciscans maintained a proud 
 and honourable position. If the haughty attempt of Primate Albert 
 of Gologne*^ to subject causes, properly belonging to the King's courts, 
 to Papal authority, provoked Henry HI. to forbid the future election'' 
 of any Franciscan to an Irish see, the prohibition was soon with- 
 drawn, and the royal displeasure was probably amply compensated 
 by that popular favour, which encouraged the Franciscans to en- 
 croach upon the rights of the Irish parochial clergy. The earliest 
 account of a British pilgrimage into the east* was written by Simon 
 Fitzsimon, and Hugh, the Illuminator, of the Franciscan Friary of 
 Dublin, who commenced their pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1322. 
 And when the University of Dublin was opened, — Universitas, as 
 Glyn^, disparagingly says, " quoad nomen, set utinam quoad factum 
 et rem," — three of the first four inceptors in theology were friars. 
 
 Of 
 
 The name appropriate to a Franciscan Frat. Minor, in Hib. eligatur de CEctero 
 or Benedictine monastery. Not given in ad dignitat. archiep. sive episcopi. T. L. 
 Du Cange. See pp. 38, 39, infra. ' Published by Nasmith, Cambridge, 
 
 " Harris's Ware's Bishops, p. 66. i??^. 
 
 ''28 Hen. in. Quod nullus de Ord. ' Ad an. 1320. 
 
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 Of tlie individual character of Clyn we know only what we can gather 
 from his own writings. The few gleams of natural feeling, which 
 occasionally brighten his formal entries, betoken a good and ge- 
 nerous mind, and make us lament that he did not let himself out 
 more freely and give utterance more frequently to his own thoughts 
 and sentiments. Some of his observations, brief and rare as they are, 
 are not without pith and point, and few passages, of the same date, are 
 more striking and pathetic in their calm and earnest simplicity, than 
 the close of his work. After thus describing the plague of 1348: 
 " That pestilence deprived of human inhabitant villages and cities, and 
 castles and towns, so that there was scarcely found a man to dwell 
 therein ; the pestilence was so contagious that whosoever touched the 
 sick or the dead was immediately infected and died ; and the penitent 
 and the confessor were carried together to the grave ; through fear 
 and dread men scarcely dared to perform the offices of piety and pity 
 in visiting the sick and in burying the dead ; many died of boils and 
 abscesses, and pustules on their shins or under their armpits ; others 
 died frantic with the pain in their head, and others sjjitting blood; 
 that year was beyond measure wonderful, unusual, and in many 
 things prodigious, yet" (is not the observation natural and pathetic?) 
 " it was sufficiently abundant and fruitful, however sickly and deadly," 
 — then, having made entries of a fratricide committed in the midst 
 of the pestilence, by Council O'More, on the morrow of the Purifica- 
 tion, and of the vengeance taken for it eight days afterwards, he 
 thus returns: " The pestilence was rife in Kilkenny in Lent, for, from 
 Christmas Day to the 6th day of March eight friars preachers died 
 of it. Scarcely one alone ever died in a house. Commonly husband, 
 wife, children, and servants, went the one way, the way of death. 
 And I, Friar John Clyn, of the Order of Friars Minor, and of the 
 convent of Kilkenny, wrote in this book those notable things, which 
 happened in my time, which I saw with my eyes, or which I learned 
 
 from 
 
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 from persons worthy of credit ; and lest things worthy of remem- 
 brance should perish with time, and fall away from the memory of 
 those who are to come after us, I, seeing these many evils, and the 
 whole world \jing, as it were, in the wicked one, among the dead, 
 waiting for death till it come, as I have truly heard and examined, 
 so have I reduced these things to writing ; and lest the writing 
 should perish with the writer, and the work fail together with the 
 workman, I leave parchment for continuing the work, if haply any 
 man survive, and any of the race of Adam escape this pestilence and 
 continue the work which I have commenced." Then follows one pa- 
 ragraph for 1349, containing the death and eulogy of Sir Fulco de la 
 Frene, and then the copyist's brief entry: " Here it seems the author 
 died." 
 
 Like most of the Anglo-Irish chroniclers, Clyn passes over in ig- 
 norance, or in contempt, the legends, whether poetical, mythical, or 
 enigmatical, with which the Irish seanachies filled up the vestibule of 
 Irish history, thronging its gates with forms of strange aspect, elusive 
 of the grasp. Yet even these legends, as we find them in Dowling 
 and in the native annalists, are worthy of record. Although not true 
 in themselves, it is true that they were once believed ; and altliough 
 they may not constitute the history of the times to which they are 
 assigned, they form at least important elements of the character of 
 the times in which they were received. But it is not likely that le- 
 gends, so widely propagated and so fondly cherished, had no founda- 
 tion in fact, that they were altogether either poetical fictions, or moral 
 and political parables and myths. It is more reasonable to conjecture 
 that they were the forms of historical narrative used by one people, 
 which, falling into the hands of another people of different language, 
 and of other habits of thought and turns of expression, were under- 
 stood by them in a sense which they were not intended to bear, and 
 in which they were not used by their authors. We would look upon 
 
 these 
 
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 these strange and portentous narratives as the hieroglyphic records of 
 forgotten but substantial history. 
 
 We know that the Northmen had a peculiar genius for high- 
 Avrought and lofty imagery, enigmatical rather than fantastical ; not 
 only were their ships " the wooden horses of the ocean," and their 
 swords " serpents ;" the very geography of their countries, either 
 from their own taste, or from the taste of their visitors, was allusive 
 and metaphorical. The Baltic Sound, which, in the days of Tacitus*, 
 was called " the Pillars of Hercules," was styled " the Hellespont" by 
 Saxo-Grammaticus. And the Africa of Nennius and GeofTry of Mon- 
 mouth seems to have been the southern coast of the Baltic, the land 
 of the sea robbers, with whom, as Dubhgalls or black strangers, we 
 are familiar in Irish history, but who startle and perplex us when 
 we meet them under the name of Africans. It may be conjectured 
 that the wild and seemingly absurd stories of Partholanus, Nemedus, 
 and Milesius, are mistranslated and misunderstood narratives of some 
 northern invasions, or rather of some one northern invasion, for all 
 these stories have so many circumstances in common that we cannot 
 but suspect them to be different versions of the same history. At 
 what period these invasions, or this invasion, occurred, it would be 
 difficult to ascertain ; it would seem, however, not to have been long 
 prior to the times of St. Patrick, who is said to have learned from 
 their contemporary, Ruanus, the history of those events. As to mis- 
 takes in Irish chronology, it must be remembered that, from the want 
 of any fixed and commonly acknowledged era, the dates of the oc- 
 currences in early Irish history must have been a matter of calcula- 
 tion. Even in the tenth century there is a difference of more than 
 
 sixty 
 
 ' Ipsum quinetiara Occanum ilia tenta- seu, quidquid ubique magnificum est, in 
 vimus. Et superesse adhuc Herculis Co- claritatcm ejus refcrre cousuevimus. — 
 lumnas fama vulgavit, sive adiit Hercules, G'i'mania, c. 34. 
 
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 sixty years between the dates of the Annals of Boyle and of the An- 
 nals of the Four Masters ; and, as low as the twelfth century, public 
 documents were at least occasionally dated, not from any fixed era, 
 but from such an arbitrary and mutable epoch as "the year when the 
 kine and swine of Ireland perished by a pestilence." 
 
 The facts mentioned in the earlier parts of Clyn's Annals are, 
 for the most part, common to all the Anglo-Irish annalists, and are to 
 be found, with little variety of expression, in Pembridge and Grace, 
 and the Annals of Multifernan^ It would appear, however, from the 
 following pages, that Clyn's Calendar differed from that of the Eng- 
 lish and Roman Churches, which was received in Ireland ; at least if 
 the transcript from which we print is correct, which is very doubtful, 
 it will follow that the Franciscans of Kilkenny held their festivals of 
 St. Stephen's Day, and of the Conversion of St. Paul, as well as other 
 festivals, on days peculiar to themselves. 
 
 In the early part of the fourteenth century the following annals 
 increase in interest. Clyn, as we have observed, was appointed the 
 first "Warden of the Franciscan Friary of Carrick in 1336. For such 
 an office, implying authority and discretion, it is not likely that a man 
 under 30 should have been selected from the convent of Kilkenny ; 
 and we may, therefore, conclude that Clyn was not born after 1306, 
 and that he may have been several years older. We are then not 
 surprised that his annals begin to expand, and to contain something 
 more than brief and general entries, about the year 1315. 
 
 In the present times, when we gather almost all our knowledge 
 from books, the period of whose history men are generally the most 
 ignorant runs backward from their own youth to the commencement 
 of the former generation. The history of the father's age has seldom 
 been compiled by public writers in the days of the son, and is often 
 
 not 
 
 So commonly called ; although they the Annals of Drogheda. Vide Kegistr. 
 are perhaps more properly to be termed Omnium Sanctorum, p. 134. 
 IRISH ARCH. SOC. b 
 
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 not told by the father, upon whom, as it fell drop by drop, it left an 
 imperfect sense of its relations and proportions ; and the son, eager 
 for something new or curious touching venerable antiquity, too often 
 looks without interest or inquiry upon the days of his father, as 
 upon times whose fashions are gone by, and whose notions he has 
 outgrown. Even should the succeeding generation inquire into the 
 history of that which immediately preceded it, the multitude of petty 
 and vulgar details perplex the mind and disgust the imagination ; and 
 we wander about, as in a thick wood from which we have no clue to 
 guide us, unable to recognise any of our well-known landmarks. But 
 in the fourteenth century, when reading and writing were rare ac- 
 complishments, and when there were no standard libraries, the case 
 was very different. Knowledge was then to be acquired, not from 
 books, but from men. And what could men teach but what they 
 had seen, in the words of Clyn, occulata fide, or what they had heard 
 fide digno relatu ? And, however highly we may value the following 
 annals, from the year 13 15, when Clyn was probably a grown man, 
 able to make his own observations on passing events, we cannot but 
 lament that he did not burn the previous entries, and write down 
 the remembrances and the traditions of the seniors of his convent. 
 
 From the Scottish invasion in 13 1 5, to the plague in 1349, may be 
 considered as the period of Clyn's Annals. It was a dark and stormy 
 period in the history of this country. It is strange that the reigns 
 of the worst and weakest of the kings, that ever sat upon the throne 
 of England, should have been the times of the greatest prosperity of 
 the English in Ireland. In the times of King John and Henry III. 
 the English authority seemed about to consolidate itself throughout 
 the kingdom. The whole country was then divided into shires, in 
 which the king's justices held their pleas ; the bishoprics, even in 
 Connaught and ISIunster, were not filled without the king's license. 
 O'Conor and O'Neill paid their tributes of cows and marks, and 
 
 obeyed 
 
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 obeyed the king's summons ; and, although frequently goaded into re- 
 sistance by the oppressions of the Earls of Ulster and of the lords of 
 Connaught, these Irish dynasts seem to have been willing to con- 
 sider themselves as English lords, and to have placed confidence in 
 appeals to the justice of the English king ; and, as the plainest evi- 
 dence of the tranquillity and prosperity of the country, the London 
 treasury was enriched by the transmission to London of money from 
 Ireland. Such was the state of Ireland during great part of the thir- 
 teenth century, as we learn from the Tower Records, from Rymer's 
 Foedera, and from the Rolls of the Irish Chancery, which are the au- 
 thentic records of Anglo-Irish history. Doubtless the same facts may 
 be learned with still greater distinctness from the Pipe Rolls, should 
 they ever be published. 
 
 There were, indeed, in these reigns, feuds, bloody and interminable, 
 between difierent lords in Ireland, both of Irish and of English blood. 
 The predatory habits of the country were continued ; and, except for 
 the barbarized names of the Norman barons, the reader of the Irish 
 chronicles would scarcely be able to distinguish the events of a year 
 in the thirteenth century from those of most of the years in the 
 eleventh ; but at that period the great distinction between the Eng- 
 Ush settlers and the native Irish was not strongly marked, although 
 it had already manifested itself in religious houses of Irish founda- 
 tion. The feuds were feuds between neighbours and not between na- 
 tions. In almost all the frays, which have been dignified by the title 
 of battles, English and Irish fought on both sides ; and the descen- 
 dants of O'Melaghlin, O'Neill, O'Conor, O'Brien, and Mac Murrogh, 
 boasted that they belonged to the five bloods who were entitled to 
 the coveted distinction of pleading the English law. If the daring 
 and resolute Prince Edward spent any time in his lordship of Ireland, 
 he probably thought that the authority of the sovereign and the 
 dominion of the law were fully as much respected by the Irish chiefs 
 
 I) 2 and 
 
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 and barons, as they were in England by the turbulent partisans of 
 Do Montfort, tlien plotting the overthrow of the monarchy and the 
 imprisonment of the king. 
 
 Perhaps it was this confidence in the strength of the English in 
 Ireland, joined, it may be, to a willingness to lower the pride and 
 power of the Anglo-Irish nobles, that induced Edward I. to neglect 
 this country, and to w^aste the best blood of its lords in the wars in 
 Gascony and Scotland. To whatever cause it may be ascribed, it is 
 certain that, in the reign of that great and powerful prince, the power 
 of the English government in this country lessened ; the English lords 
 became at once weaker and more insubordinate; while they adopted 
 the customs, claimed the privileges, and exercised the tyranny of the 
 native lords, to the extirpation of the sturdy English freeholders, 
 they at the same time frustrated the wise and benevolent wishes of 
 the king. He wished that the distinctions which were now felt be- 
 tween the English and the Irish, should be removed, and that all his 
 Irish subjects, of whatever birth or descent, should enjoy the protec- 
 tion of the English law and submit to its authority. 
 
 It is natural that, at the first introduction of a foreign power into 
 any country, the natives should jealously insist upon the preservation 
 of their peculiar laws and customs; and such a condition seems to 
 have been made by the Irish in the time of Henry II. But in process 
 of time it is also natural that the weaker people should desire admission 
 into the courts of justice of the stronger, and should petition to be 
 altogether incorporated with them. This is the best homage to su- 
 perior power and superior civilization. "Woe to the stronger if they 
 refuse such homage ! Hereafter there will be two nations in one 
 country ; they will be for centuries in daily struggle, as it were for life 
 or death; and their bitterest enemies will be at their doors. 
 
 It is true that the Irish law, to which alone the Irish were subject, 
 gave some advantages to the Irish culprit. For a crime for which an 
 
 Englishman 
 
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 Englishman would be hanged, an Irishman, according to the more le- 
 nient enactments of theBrehon law, might compound for a sum varying 
 from £1 to £100 at the will of the judge. It is to be feared that the 
 opposition of the Anglo-Irish lords to the extension of the English law 
 proceeded from very base motives. They were at once jealous of the 
 distinction of the English law, and anxious to escape from it. They 
 claimed that the offences committed by an Englishman against an 
 Irishman, should be tried by the Irish law, and they were unwilling 
 that the offences of an Irishman against an Englishman should not 
 subject the offender to all the penalties of the law of England. The 
 erics, or compositions, payable by Irish criminals, enlai^ged the re- 
 venues of the courts of their palatinates and lordships ; and, if the 
 lands of the Irish chiefs were to be held by royal charters, the title 
 of the native lords to their territories would then be secured by legal 
 documents, acknowledged in the king's courts, and all chance of 
 gaining possession of them, except by strictly legal means, would be 
 terminated. The question of the advantage of establishing one uniform 
 system of law throughout the country, especially when it was desired 
 by the native party, appears now to be of very simple solution, yet it 
 probably had its diflSculties in former days. The opposition of the 
 Anglo-Irish lords may have been j ustified by reasons which we do 
 not see, and which we could not rightly appreciate. It is not fair to 
 apply the notions of one century as a rule for measuring the conduct 
 of men in another ; and perhaps the statesman who is most aware of 
 the conflicting interests and discordant wishes of two races occupying 
 the same country, — of settlers and of natives, — will be the most dis- 
 posed to excuse the conduct of the Anglo-Irish lords, and to pity the 
 perplexities of the legislators or rulers of the fourteenth century. 
 
 In the hope of profiting by these internal dissensions, and being, 
 perhaps, invited over by some of the Irish princes of Ulster, Edward 
 Bruce, accompanied by Randolph, Steward, Menteith, Campbell, and 
 
 many 
 
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 many other of the knights of Bannockburn, with an army of 6000 men, 
 landed in Larne Lough on St. Augustine's day, in 13 15. 
 
 It was a luckless day for Bruce and for Ireland. Although 
 successful in various engagements, and crowned King of Ireland at 
 Dundalk, Bruce never had any firm power in this country. Of the 
 English barons scarcely any were accused of favouring him, except 
 the Lacies and their followers : and of their disloyalty, although their 
 estates were forfeited and their persons proscribed, there seems to be 
 some doubt. He was boldly opposed by the Earl of Ulster, Mande- 
 ville, Logan, the Savages, — " all hale the flur of Ullyster," — and by 
 Bisset, the descendant of a Scotsman, but not unmindful of the wrongs 
 of his ancestors. Nor was he effectively assisted by the native princes. 
 The usual fate awaited him, of those who, for their own aggrandize- 
 ment, interfere in the civil dissensions of a foreign country. The ob- 
 jects of the parties are different, and each hopes to use the other only 
 so far as may promote their own purposes. The Irish princes did not 
 fight to change their masters, but to secure their independence, and 
 they were no more willing to submit to a Scoto-Norman than to an 
 Anglo-Norman baronage. Meanwhile their general rebelUon against 
 the English, for their own special objects, and the disunion of the 
 English lords, any one of whom, we are told, would have been able, 
 with his own followers alone, to have driven back Edward Bruce, 
 allowed the Scots, now commanded by Robert Bruce, to ravage Ire- 
 land from Carrickfergus to Limerick. Although unable to take any 
 walled town, and suffering the extremity of hunger from the general 
 famine of the dreadful year 1316, in the words of Clyn, " They went 
 through all the country, burning, slaying, depredating, spoiling towns 
 and castles, and even churches, as they went and as they returned." 
 The horror at their cruelty, their impiety, and the misery that went 
 with them, dwelt long in the minds of all the inhabitants of Ireland; 
 and when the barons of Meath and Louth gave Edward Bruce battle, 
 
 defeated, 
 
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 defeated, and killed him at Dundalk, the Irish Annals of Clonmacnois 
 declare that he was slain, " to the great joy and comfort of the whole 
 kingdom in generall, for there was not a better deed that redounded 
 more to the good of the kingdom, since the creation of the world, and 
 since the banishment of the Fine Fomores out of this land, done in 
 Ireland, than the killing of Edward Bruce; for there reigned scarcity 
 of victuals, breach of promises, ill performance of covenants, and the 
 loss of men and women, throughout the whole kingdom, for the space 
 of three years and a half that he bore sway; insomuch that men did 
 commonly eat one another, for want of sustenance, during his time." 
 
 Many generations passed before the devastating effects of the 
 Scottish invasion, passing thus like a stream of lava through the 
 country, were done away. The animosity between the English and 
 the Irish was embittered, the sense of the greatness of the English 
 power was diminished, the authority of law and order was impaired, 
 the castle and the farm-house were alike ruined. The castle was more 
 easily rebuilt than the more important farm-house. The noble may 
 have had other resources ; in later times we know that his castle was 
 repaired at the expense of the district; he was bound by stronger ties 
 to the country; and when his castle was rebuilt, it was at least com- 
 paratively secure : but when the homestead was wrecked and burned, 
 and the haggard robbed of its stacks, and the bawn left without horse 
 or cow, and " all his gear were gone," the farmer, as he looked about 
 him in despair, might well be excused if he fled away to some safer 
 country ; or if, listening to hunger, that evil counsellor, he became an 
 idilman or a kerne, ready to plunder as he had been plundered, and 
 eating up the produce of other men's labours. 
 
 If he endeavoured to remain, what was before him, but, poor and 
 dispirited, deprived of his accustomed comforts, and of his compara- 
 tive respectability, to sink hopelessly into a lower stage of society, 
 and to yield to its customs ; or rather to turn in sullen or in passion- 
 ate 
 
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 ate anger from the civilization in wliich he no longer had a share, 
 and to resent, as an injury, the existence of comforts which were his 
 once, but were to be his no more, and to hate and to scorn their 
 possessors? 
 
 Such, doubtless, was the history of the degradation of many Eng- 
 lish freeholders consequent upon the Scottish invasion ; nor could the 
 degradation be limited to the retainer alone. In a country in which 
 there is no foreign interference, no rank of society can stand apart from 
 others, and in proportion to its height it needs the more numerous 
 supporters. The castle walls can no more keep out the influence of 
 the social maxims and principles of the lower ranks of the people, than 
 they can keep out the contagion of their diseases, and the lord neces- 
 sarily partook of the degradation of the vassal. 
 
 To the Scottish invasion, then, may, at least partly, be ascribed the 
 barbarism and the consequent weakness of the English in Ireland 
 during the greater part of the fourteenth and the whole of the fifteenth 
 century. In the thirty years that elapsed between that event and the 
 close of Clyn's Annals, that barbarism had made great progress. The 
 power of the central government grew weaker; the lords, whether of 
 Irish or of English blood, became more independent and irresponsible, 
 and, consequently, more arbitrary and tyrannical ; and private feuds, 
 resulting in open violence, became of more frequent occurrence. The 
 control of law nearly ceased, and little remained, as a rule of conduct, 
 except the will of the stronger. It then became a question whether 
 this anarchy should continue, or whether it should result in the pre- 
 valence of either the English or the Irish system, or, as seemed more 
 probable and more reasonable, whether some third system should not 
 be developed, formed from the amalgamation of these two, and the 
 natural growth of the circumstances of this country. 
 
 When the Normans came into Ireland they brought with them the 
 feudal law system, and that law system, with all its complexities, they 
 
 endeavoured 
 
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 endeavoured to establish wherever they had dominion. It was the 
 system of a victorious army cantoned amongst a conquered nation. 
 In this country the feudal Normans met with the remains of the pa- 
 triarchal system ; of our society the type was, not an army, but a fa- 
 mily. Such a system, doubtless, was subject to many inconveniences. 
 The breaking up of all general authority, and the multiplication of 
 petty independent principalities, was an abuse incident to the feudal 
 system ; it was inherent in the very essence of the patriarchal or family 
 system. That system began, as the feudal system ended, with small, 
 independent societies, each with its own separate centre of attraction, 
 each clustering round the lord or the chief, and each rather repelling 
 than attracting all similar societies. Yet the patriarchal system was 
 • not without its advantages. If the feudal system gave more strength 
 to attack a foreign enemy, the patriarchal system secured more hap- 
 piness at home. The one system implied inequality amongst the few, 
 and slavery amongst the many; the other system gave a feeling of equa- 
 lity to all. It is needless to inquire which of these two systems was the 
 better fitted to develope the powers and the virtues of mankind, and 
 whether either of them could exist in a state of general refinement 
 and civilization, which, perhaps necessarily, developes a system neither 
 feudal nor patriarchal, but commercial, industrial, and pecuniary. 
 
 But, surely, it was not strange that a people brought up as mem- 
 bers of septs, each recognised by the chief as of liis blood, bearing 
 his name, entitled by the law of gavelkind to a share of the public 
 property, should be blind to the evils that belonged to such a system, 
 and should have looked with wonder and contempt on the well regu- 
 lated gradations of feudal authority, and with horror on feudal vas- 
 salage and serfdom. Such were the natural feelings of the native Irisli, 
 and when the course of the king's writs, and the power of the English 
 courts, were limited by the weakness of the central government, they 
 joyfully fell back upon their native customs, as expounded by the 
 IRISH ARCH. soc. c Brchons 
 
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 Brehons upon the hills ; and they made welcome, as the sons of Heber, 
 Heremon, Ir, and Ith, those English lords, who, like the Desmonds, 
 adopted the manners of the country, and were rebuked amongst their 
 own countrymen, for being more Irish than the Irish. From the very 
 nature of the patriarchal system the exactions of the native chiefs 
 were not excessive. In the hands of the English lords these exactions 
 became intolerable to their English dependents. Unlike the Irish chiefs, 
 the English lords had no rule by which their demands were regula- 
 ted; they were ignorant of the restrictions of the Brehon law; and the 
 customary cain or ])urveyance of the Irish chiefs, and the regulated 
 and ascertained amount of their refections, became in English hands 
 the unlimited, " outrageous," coyne and livery, the ruin of the English 
 yeomanry, and the object of the well-earned maledictions and denun- 
 ciations of English judges, kings, and parliaments. Yet we find no 
 complaint made by the native Irish against the levy of these dues by 
 the Earls of Desmond. Those potent Earls, descendants of the first 
 conquerors, had adopted the Irish customs, and were in fact, at the 
 same time, Irish chiefs and English lords. By their Irish followers 
 they were beloved with the most romantic and prodigal afiection, and 
 respected with almost superstitious veneration ; and, so popular was 
 the first Earl amongst the English people of Leinster, that their special 
 object of detestation was Sir Robert UfFord, the vigorous English Jus- 
 tice, who drove the Earl into banishment, confiscated his lands, took 
 his castles, and at Castle Island, in Kerry, hanged his seneschal, Sir 
 John Cottrel, and his knights. Sir Eustace Power and Sir William 
 Grant. 
 
 It was time that some visrorous exertion should be made for the 
 support of the English government. The haughty Anglo-Irish nobles 
 ill brooked the authority of the English officials, some of whom were 
 men of low rank and of no great personal reputation ; and, indignant 
 at the distinction made by the Parliament in Dublin, between the Eng- 
 lish 
 
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 lisli by birth and the EngHsh by descent, and especially outraged by 
 the King's order for the removal from office of all persons born in 
 Ireland, they had held a Parliament at Kilkenny, not summoned by 
 the King, under the presidency of the great Desmond. At that Par- 
 liament, professing their loyalty to the King, of which they had given 
 proofs in following him, at their own charge, in his wars in Wales, 
 Gascony, and Scotland, they claimed the rights and immunities se- 
 cured to them by the great Charter, and manifested a determination 
 to resist all attacks upon their privileges or their properties. This 
 jealous and angry feeling between the English by birth and the Anglo- 
 Irish produced an approximation of the Anglo-Irish towards the 
 native Irish ; and had not the obnoxious disqualification of the Anglo- 
 Irish been withdrawn, and had not Desmond been beaten down by 
 the strong arm of Ufford, there seems to have been a probability that 
 the two races would at this time have been incorporated into one 
 people, and that the English and the Irish systems would have been 
 fused and melted into each other. But the circumstances of Ireland 
 did not permit the growth and development of any internal system, 
 with its peculiar compensations, producing in time its own corrections. 
 The process of mutual assimilation was continually checked ; Irish 
 civilization, such as it was, was destroyed, and the English statesmen 
 of the fourteenth century vainly busied themselves in striving to erect 
 upon its ruins the incongruous system into which Norman feudalism 
 had then been moulded by the social condition of England. 
 
 During the times contained in these annals the English Govern- 
 ment had not power to control the excesses of its subjects, or to re- 
 press the attacks of its opponents. The great Anglo-Irish families 
 had become septs. In Clyn's Latin, the St. Aubyns, now corrupted 
 into Tobins, and the Archdeacons, now transformed into the patrony- 
 mic Mac Odos, or Codys, are " naciones et cognomina ;" and he speaks 
 of the Hoddinets and Cantetons, " cum multis de sanguine eorum." 
 
 C2 If 
 
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 If the Irish chiefs acknowledged no common authority, and felt no 
 common interest, the same division prevailed amongst the lords of 
 English descent. Englishman was now opposed to Englishman, and 
 sought to revenge himself by the help of the Irish ; nor did the Eng- 
 lish refuse their aid to the Irish when plundering their own country- 
 men. When Brien O'Brien ravaged Ossory and slew the loyal English 
 of Aghaboe and Aghamacart, he had the help of the English of Ely. 
 
 The country Avas fast verging towards anarchy, and it was not 
 easy to stay its descent. The sword of the Lord Justice, if put into 
 the hands of any of the native lords, of the Ormondes or of the Kil- 
 dares, was used as an instrument to avenge their own wrongs, or to 
 promote their own interests, ratlier than to execute impartial justice, 
 and to promote the welfare of the whole country. Such also was 
 the case during tlie lieutenancy of any of the great English lords, who 
 liad estates or claims in Ireland, such as the great Mortimers ; and, 
 ])erhaps, nothing brought the royal authority into greater disrepute 
 tlian the use of it by these men as a cover for private revenge or for 
 private gain. Nor were the evils fewer, if the administration of the 
 Government was intrusted to Englishmen unconnected with this 
 country. Men of eminence, so situated, would scarcely accept the 
 office; we know that Pembridge altogether I'cfusedit; and men of in- 
 ferior rank and reputation, when invested with deputed and transient 
 authority, were scorned by the haughty Irish lords, and were freely 
 charged by them, and perhaps justly charged, Avith the grossest pecu- 
 lati(in and malversation. The castles of Athlone, Roscommon, Rin- 
 duin, and Bunratty, — say the Irish lords to Edward in 1343, — were 
 lost, because his treasurers did not pay the constables the wages 
 charged in their accounts ; and they continued to charge for castles 
 and constables, after the castles had been destroyed. Officials liable 
 to such imputations could have no moral influence; and when some 
 sturdy and honest man, like Sir Thomas Rokeby, who sold his plate 
 
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 to pay his soldiers, saying that he would eat off wooden platters and 
 pay in gold and silver, — or when some bold and vigorous soldiers, hke 
 Sir Robert Ufford or Sir Anthony Lucy, held the King's commission, — 
 they were hampered by the narrowness of their allowances, and were 
 thwarted by the old peers and ancient officials. The very success of 
 their exertions brought with it no lasting national advantage. If they 
 put down disturbance for a time, and reduced the English dominions 
 to order and submission, yet, at the termination of their authority, 
 there was a renewal of lawlessness ; and the only lasting effect of 
 their vigour "\vas the weakening of the natural props and buttresses 
 of internal government, and the consequent increase of anarchy and 
 disturbance. 
 
 Such was the political and social state of Ireland, during the ear- 
 lier part of the fourteenth century, as represented in the following 
 annals, and such, with little alteration, it continued to be for several 
 generations. Whatever w^ere the faults of the several parties in this long 
 and bitter struggle, — and, no doubt, all parties had great and grievous 
 faults, — they were the faults rather of the times than of the men. 
 At all events, it little becomes any Irishman of the present day to re- 
 proach their memories. He can scarcely do so without reproaching 
 the memory of his own ancestors. There are few living Irishmen, 
 whatever be their names, whether Celtic or Norman, in whose veins 
 does not run the mingled blood of Norman and of Celt, or rather of 
 Irishmen and Englishmen. Nor can the descendants of those good 
 knights, who stood with Edward III. in the trenches of Calais, or of 
 those hardy squires who overthrew the victors at Bannockburn, be 
 unwilling to claim kindred with the descendants of the Irish chiefs, 
 whose names were in the songs of the poet and the legends of the 
 saint, when the names of Normandy and of Norman were unknown. 
 
 Of the condition of the labouring classes during this period we 
 learn nothing from chronicles or histories. At that time the condi- 
 tion 
 
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 tion of the poor was but little regarded, from which circumstance it may 
 perhaps be inferred that there was among them no great, or at least 
 no unusual misery; had such existed it would have forced itself upon 
 the observation of the annalist. We may observe, also, that the exist- 
 ence of villeinage, when the right to a man's labour was a valuable 
 property, shows that the population had not exceeded its just limits, 
 and that the labourer, who, if he wandered from the land, was re- 
 claimed by the lord, must have been supplied with food sufficient to 
 maintain his strength. From monastic registries and chartularies, and 
 other legal documents, we may painfully collect the history of the 
 agricultural classes, which the professed historian would not conde- 
 scend to give ; but even more valuable than these sources of informa- 
 tion are the notices of labourers and farmers contained in contempo- 
 rary poetry. What would we not give for such a picture of an Irish 
 cabin in the fourteenth century, as Chaucer, the contemporary of 
 Clyn, has given of an English cottage in the Nonne's Prieste's Tale? 
 
 The social evils of Ireland, in the time now under our review, 
 seem to have been but little mitigated by the influence of religion. 
 When the Anglo-Irish nobles were gradually falling into Irish cus- 
 toms, and were confederating, whenever it served their purpose, as 
 readily with Irish against English as with English against Irish, we 
 find national differences and dissensions, where we should least wish 
 to find them, in the monastery and the convent. Although the autho- 
 rities, as well ecclesiastical as civil, favoured the English party, the 
 strife seems not to have been altogether unequal. " In 1325," writes 
 Clyn, " there was discord, as it Avere universally, amongst all the poor 
 religious of Ireland, some of them upholding, promoting, and cherish- 
 ing the part of their own uation, and blood, and tongue; others of them 
 canvassing for the offices of prelates and superiors." And he adds, 
 that in the same year, at the general chapter of the Order, held at 
 Lyons, the convents of Cork, Buttevant. Limerick, and Ardfcrt, were 
 
 tiiken 
 
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 taken from the Irish friars, and assigned as a fifth custody to the 
 English. 
 
 In those evil days neither the persons nor the places dedicated to 
 religion were safe from violence. We read in Clyn: 
 
 " In the year 1323, on the Friday within tlie octaves of Easter, 
 Phihp Talon, with his son and about twenty-six of tlie Codhlitanys, 
 was slain by Edmund Butler, Rector of Tullow, who, aided by the 
 Cantitons, dragged them out of the church, and burned the church 
 of Thamolyn, with their women and children, and the reliques of 
 Saint Molyng"^ 
 
 "In 1336, on Thursday, the 3rd Ides of April, Master Howel de 
 Bathe, Archdeacon of Ossory, a man of literature and munificence, 
 with Andrew Avenel and Adam de Bathe, was killed by the O'Brynys 
 of Duffyr, in defence of the goods of his church and parish." 
 
 But, perhaps, the most striking entry on this subject is the fol- 
 lowing: 
 
 " In 1346, on Friday, the 3rd Nones of May, Dermicius Mac Gilpa- 
 trick (surnamed Monoculus, in Irish Caeoch)^ who ever gave himself 
 up to plots and treacheries, little regarding perjury, burned the town 
 of Achabo, having taken and brought O'Carroll with him, and raging 
 against the cemetery, the church, and the shrine of St. Canice, that 
 
 most 
 
 * The MS. from which the text is print- or Condons (Conounaij), seated in the 
 ed has a slight imperfection in the word north of the present county of Cork. The 
 " O'Cod . . . tanys," but the O'Codhlitans Anglo-Irish familyof Talon were settled at 
 are plainly meant, a Carlow family now Agha, in the county of Carlow. Philip Ta- 
 rednced to poverty. The name in Irish is Ion, whose death is here noticed, had evi- 
 written O Coolacain, now anglice CoUa- dently sought for sanctuary or asylum in 
 tan. TheCantitones were a sept of Anglo- the church of St. MuUin's, on the borders 
 Norman descent, now anglicised Condon, of the present counties of Wexford and 
 a name still existing in the county of Kil- Carlow. 
 
 kenny, but the family is reduced and ob- The Editor is indebted to Mr. O'Dono- 
 scure. There was another sept of Cantons van for this note. 
 
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 most holy abbot, the patron of the county and the founder of the ab- 
 bey, like a degenerate son against a father, he burned them and con- 
 sumed them in unsparing fire." 
 
 Nor were oaths always reverenced, even when administered in any 
 of those strange forms, with which the Irishman still occasionally en- 
 deavours to awaken the religious feeling and to bind the conscience 
 of his opponent. So we are told in 1333, in the beginning of June, 
 Scanlei Mac Gylpatrick, after many and reiterated oaths on different 
 books and manifold reliques of saints, treacherously took and killed 
 two of the sons of Fynyn Mac Gylpatrick, his uncle, and blinded and 
 mutilated the third. Yet, notwithstanding the frequency of such acts 
 evidencing the little power of religious principle, our ancestors were 
 not devoid of religious feelings, of which, to omit others, the following 
 entry is a proof: "Also in this year (1348), and chiefly in September 
 and October, there came together, from divers parts of Ireland, bishops 
 and prelates, churchmen and religious, lords and others, and com- 
 monly all persons of both sexes, to the pilgrimage and wading of the 
 water at Thath Molyngis, in troops and multitudes, so that you could 
 see many thousands there at the same time for many days together. 
 Some came from feelings of devotion, but others, and they the majority, 
 from dread of the plague, which then grew very rife." 
 
 In the following annals there are some interesting notices of events 
 not immediately connected with Ireland, such as, in 1347, the siege of 
 Calais, at which were present Maurice, Earl of Kildare, and the Kil- 
 kenny Knight, Sir Fulco de la Frene ; and in the same year there oc- 
 curs a very curious notice of the Tribune Rienzi. To mention all 
 these, however, would be beyond our due limits; it may, however, be 
 allowed to give here together the various notices which are scattered 
 through different years relative to the city of Kilkenny. 
 
 We must, however, previously give admission to the following: 
 " 1329. In that battle, the battle in which the Louth men killed 
 
 their 
 
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 their new Earl, John Birmingham, fellCaech O'Kayrwill [O'Carroll], 
 that famous tympanist and harper, so pre-eminent that he was a phoe- 
 nix in his art, and with him fell about tw^enty tympanists, who were 
 liis scholars. He was called Caech O'KajTwill, because his eyes were 
 not straight, but squinted; and if he was not the first inventor of chord 
 music, yet, of all his predecessors and contemporaries, he was the cor- 
 rector, the teacher, and the director." 
 
 The following are Clyn's notices of Kilkenny: 
 
 " 1 267. The Friars Preachers opened the convent at Ross, and the 
 chapter of the Minors was held at Kilkenny." 
 
 •'1302. About the feast of Pentecost died Michael, Bishop of Ossory, 
 who was succeeded by William Fitz John, consecrated at Kilkenny, 
 'on the Sunday within the octaves of the Epiphany of the same year." 
 
 " 1308. A chapter of the Minors at Kilkenny, on the feast of the 
 Baptist." 
 
 "1315. A common parliament of the magnates at Kilkenny, in the 
 beginning of June, to give aid and counsel against the Scots." 
 
 "1318. "William Fitz John, Bishop of Ossory, is translated to the 
 archbishopric of Cashel, in whose room is substituted Friar Richard 
 Leddrede, who was consecrated by the Pope at Avignon, where the 
 Roman Court then abode, on the 8th Kalends of May." 
 
 " 1321. The new choir is built at Kilkenny." 
 
 " 1323. Consecration of the great altar of the Friars Minors at Kil- 
 kenny. On the same day, to Avit, 3rd Ides of January, the funeral of 
 Sir Robert Schortals." 
 
 " 1 324. On Thursday, in the octaves of St. Hilary, Wilham Outlaw, 
 entangled in heresy and notoriously defamed, and failing in his pur- 
 gation, publicly abjured his heresy in the church of St. Mary, in Kil- 
 kenny, reading a new profession of faith, and signing it with his own 
 hand." 
 
 " 1 33 1 . On Friday, the Feast of St. Cecilia the Virgin, by Nicholas, 
 IRISH ARCH, soc. cI Lord 
 
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 Lord Bishop of Waterford, the new cemetery outside the church of 
 the Friars Minors of Kilkenny was consecrated." 
 
 " 1 332. The belfry of St. Canice of Kilkenny fell, and great part of 
 the choir; the ruins broke down the vestibule of the chapels and the 
 bells, on Friday, the i ith Kalends of June, so that it was a hoi'rid and 
 pitiful spectacle to the beholders." 
 
 " 1334. On the feast of Tiburtius and Valerian, on Thursday, the 
 burgesses of Kilkenny began to make a pavement." 
 
 "1335. On Thursday, the morrow of the Invention of the Holy Cross, 
 Sir Remund le Ercedekne, with his two sons, Patrick and Sylvester, 
 Sir William le Ercedekne, and eleven of that name, were slain by 
 Leyath O'Morthe [Lewis OMore], his sons and servants, in a confe- 
 rence at Clargoly, as were Thomas de Bathe, Gerald Bagot, and others, 
 to the number of 50. This Remund, with his two elder sons, and 
 his uncle, Sir William, and three more of the name, were carried to be 
 buried in the convent of the Friars Minors, on seven biers together, 
 one following the other, through the town of Kilkenny, with the wail- 
 ing of many." 
 
 " In the same year, on Thursday, the morrow of Lucia the Virgin, 
 the great cross was put up in the centre of the market-place in Kil- 
 kenny, at which time mam' persons, flying to the cross, were marked 
 on the naked flesh with the sign of the cross, with a red hot iron, 
 that they might go to the Holy Land." 
 
 "1338. Sir Eustace le Poer, on the eve of the Ascension of our 
 Lord, being then seneschal of Kilkenny, attached and imprisoned Sii* 
 Fulco and Oliver de la Frene, without showing them any cause lor 
 their caption ; and they finding rather his malice and his revenge than 
 the rigour of justice, Oliver prudentl}' escaped from the castle on As- 
 cension Day, and on the morrow, having assembled their men and 
 their friends, with the strong hand they broke down the gates of the 
 castle of Kilkenny, and brought out Sir Fulco in spite of the seneschal " 
 
 " In 
 
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 " In the same year, on Tuesday, the 1 5th Kalends of December, 
 there was a very great flood, such as was not seen for forty years be- 
 fore, and it overthrew and carried away bridges, mills, and buildings. 
 Of the whole abbey of the Friars Minors of Kilkenny only the great 
 altar and the steps of the altar remained uncovered and untouched by 
 the flood." 
 
 "1340. On the Friday within the octaves of Easter, Robert Con ton 
 was killed in the street of Kilkenny." 
 
 "1343. Building of the new belfry of the church of St. Mary." 
 
 " 1 347. On the same day, Palm-Sunday and the day of the Annun- 
 ciation of the Blessed Mary, at Kilkenny, the Lady Isabella Palmer, 
 who built the front of the choir of the friars, was buried. She reached 
 ■ a praiseworthy old age, and having lived in her widowhood religiously 
 and honourably about seventy years, she passed from this world, as 
 was said, and as is believed, in a state of virginity." 
 
 "In the same year, on tlie first Sunday in Advent, began the con- 
 fraternity of the Friars Minors of Kilkenny, for the i^urpose of build- 
 ing a new belfry and of repairing the church." 
 
 " Also Friar Richard, Bishop of Ossory, obtained in the Roman 
 Covirt an exemption from the jurisdiction and superiority of the 
 Archbishop of Dublin." 
 
 Such, with the notices of the plague before extracted, are the 
 chief events given by Friar Clyn relative to the fair city of Kilkenny, 
 in which he passed the greater part of his life. 
 
 The Castle still stands, no longer, as in his days, a prison and a 
 fortress, but as Spenser described it, " a brave mansion in as fair a 
 land as may be read." Vainly will the antiquary seek for the great 
 Cross in the centre of the market-place, where Clyn saw the pilgrims 
 to the Holy Land burned with the sign of a cross on the naked 
 flesh, with a hot iron ; and where the young men of Kilkenny were 
 taught by the Protestant Bishop Bale to act his strange dramas 
 
 <-! 2 on 
 
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 on a Sunday in 1552. The Cathedral of St. Canice yet remains, a 
 memorial of the piety of past generations, consecrated to the glory of 
 God ; but Clyn's home is now ruined and profaned. Not gently sink- 
 ing, like many other holy ruins, in silence and quietude, into natural 
 forms, assimilating with natural objects, with trees, and hills, and ri- 
 vers, breathing deeper and holier thoughts than in its days of power 
 and splendour, the Friary of St. Francis is now surrounded with 
 poverty and wretchedness in the centre of the town. It was used 
 as a soldiers' barrack while its walls could be inhabited, and now its 
 beautiful church, vocal in Clj'n's time with the constant voice of 
 prayer and praise, is a racket-court for the citizens of Kilkenny. 
 
 To complete, as far as is in our power, the collection of Irish An- 
 nals contemplated by the Earl of Marlborough in the reign of James I., 
 tliere is printed in the Appendix the only remnant of the Annals of 
 Koss to which we have had access. 
 
 For the interesting and valuable notes, marked with his initials, 
 the Editor is indebted to the Rev. James Graves, of Kilkenny, from 
 whose local knowledge, and antiquarian zeal, that ancient city, and 
 the adjoining district, will hereafter derive yet greater elucidation. 
 
 The notes marked A. H. have been contributed by the Hon. 
 Algernon Herbert, and those marked J. O'D. by Mr. O'Donovan. 
 
 The text has been printed from a MS. in Trinity College Library, 
 Dublin (E. 3, 20), in the same volume which contains the Annals of 
 Ross and Dowling's Annals. It was collated Avith a copy of a later 
 date in the possession of Sir William Betham, which is deficient in a 
 few pages at the end, viz. from line 15, page 33, of the text now pub- 
 lished. 
 
 Although MSS. of Clyn do not seem to have been of rare occur- 
 rence in the preceding century, in which they were quoted by Harris 
 
 and 
 
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 and by Walker, yet such has been the recent loss of Irish historical 
 documents (affording strong proof of the utility of the labours of our 
 Society), that these were the only MSS. accessible to the Editor when 
 these pages were put to press ; and, although evidently carefully 
 written, it was impossible to place implicit reliance on them. It was, 
 therefore, with great pleasure tliat it was ascertained, when four sheets 
 of this edition had been printed, that a MS. of Clyn was to be found 
 amongst the Rawlinson MSS. in the Bodleian Library. 
 
 For a most careful and elaborate collation of this earlier authority 
 with the pages already printed from the College and Betham MSS., 
 and with the proof-sheets of the subsequent pages, our Society is in- 
 debted to the Rev J. AYilson, of Trinity College, Oxfords And it 
 
 was 
 
 ' To whom the Society is also indebted 
 for the following accurate description of 
 the copy in the Bodleian Library : 
 
 " The Bodleian Library, it seems, pos- 
 sesses one, and one only MS- of Clyn ; MSS. 
 Eawl. B. 496. It is a small folio, contain- 
 ing eighty-six leaves, which are so num- 
 bered on the first side only, so that there 
 are, of course, double that number of pages. 
 The portion comprising John Clyn's work 
 is from leaf 44 to 70 inclusive ; and, as 
 far as I can judge from turning over and 
 inspecting the pages, it is quite complete, 
 and has the continuation up to 1405, which 
 continuation, however, does in fact consist 
 of only half a page. It is written in a 
 close legal hand, such as a paid scribe 
 would have used; and to the best of my 
 judgment by the same hand from begin- 
 ning to end; but there are added in the 
 margin, in a paler ink and more careless 
 
 style of writing, a few corrections; and 
 in the body of the last page but one, where 
 a small space was left blank at the supposed 
 conclusion of Clyn's part of the work, are 
 inserted (evidently by the corrector) the 
 words ' videtur quod author hie obiit.' 
 The whole gives me the idea that some 
 scribe had been employed to make a copy 
 of the work, and that the person for whom 
 it was made had himself afterwards col- 
 lated and corrected it. 
 
 " Dr. Bandinel believes this to be the 
 Chandos copy mentioned in Harris's edi- 
 tion of Ware, and has favoured me with 
 the following note : ' This MS. formed 
 part of the Clarendon Library, and is re- 
 ferred to in Catal. jMSS. Angliw et Hiber- 
 nicE, ad calcem, sc. MSS. Hihernice, p. 5, 
 No. 19. Lord Clarendon's library came 
 wholly, or for the greater part, into the 
 possession of the Duke of Chandos, at 
 
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 was with great satisfaction that the Editor perceived that, altliough in 
 the unprinted pages'* he adopted some better readings from the Ox- 
 ford MS., yet tliat in substance and meaning it agreed so fully with 
 the other MSS. that there was no necessity for cancelling any of the 
 pages already printed off. 
 
 K. B. 
 
 POSTSCRIPT. 
 
 After the Notes had been printed off, the Editor received the fol- 
 lowing remarks, which are too interesting to be omitted, and are, 
 therefore, inserted here. For the information they contain he is in- 
 debted to Mr. Prim, of Kilkenny, and to the Rev. James Graves. 
 
 The Franciscan Abbey, Kilkenny. 
 
 It appears by entries in the " Clasped Book" of the Corporation of Kilkenny, 
 that the Franciscan abbey was assigned for building barracks on tlic 19th of 
 September, 1698. 
 
 " cth April, 1700. The waste of Francis' abbey, in addition to the former 
 grant, iriven for building barracks.'' — Id. 
 
 " 31st August, 1708. St. Francis' abbey (now in the possession of his father) 
 set to John Desborough, Jun., for forty-one years from the following Michael- 
 mas, 
 
 whose sale it was purchased by Dr. R. Raw- 
 hnson, as appears from a note of Rawlin- 
 son's in an interleaved copy of the Chandos 
 sale catalogue.' It is No. 1006 in this ca- 
 talogue. You may be interested in hearing 
 that Dr. Rawlinson gave two shillings for 
 the MS." 
 
 In Ussher's Treatise on English Laws 
 and Parliaments in Ireland, there is a 
 passage quoted from Clyn (page 30, line 
 28, of our edition), in which there is the 
 interesting reading " Rcge nescio," for the 
 words " quare nescio." Gutch's Collec- 
 tanea, vol. i. p. 35. 
 
XXXI 
 
 mas, at £io is. per annum, excepting thereout tlie horse-barrack, hay-yard, and 
 the set of pillars and uncovered walls within the said abbey." — Id. 
 
 The Corporation possesses the original grants of the Black and Grey friars, 
 and their possessions, made to them by Henry VIII., in the thirty-fifth year of 
 his reign. 
 
 It appears from the City Books that the Franciscan abbey was canted to 
 Alderman Evans at £6 a year, fee-farm lease, December 19th, 1724. It is still 
 held by his descendants, who are reduced to poverty. — J. G. 
 
 The " Pavage" of Kilkenny ^ 
 
 The burgesses of Kilkenny were incorported by William, Earl Marshal, the 
 elder, before the year 1220, and received several important Charters from that 
 nobleman's successors in the lordship of the district ; but the first royal grant 
 obtained by the Corporation of the town, which can be found in the Calendar 
 of Rolls, was made on the 25th November in the year named in the text, 1334, 
 and as it conferred upon the " provost, bailifis, and true men of Kilkenny," the 
 right of " pavage" for seven years, to pave their town, it appears by our author 
 that they lost no time in carrying its design into execution. [Rot. Claus. 8 
 Ed. III. 123.] However, after the expiration of the seven years for which the 
 privilege of " pavage" lasted, it would seem that the repair of their streets was 
 very much neglected by the burgesses. A manuscript preserved amongst the 
 Clarendon Papers, British Museum (tom. li. No. 479), which was written in 
 the early part of the seventeenth century, and is devoted to a description of 
 Kilkenny and the diocese of Ossory, notices the commencing of the pavement 
 of the town in 1334, and observes: " Cujus instaurationem a tanto tempore in- 
 termissam aut certe plurimum neglectam aggrediebatur vir nobilis L. S. dum 
 
 esset urbis Praetor anno salutis " The initials here given would 
 
 correspond with the name of Luke Shee, son of Sir Richard Shee, Knight, of 
 Uppercourt, who was Mayor of Kilkenny in the year 161 3, as appears from the 
 following entry in the " Red Book of the Corporation of Kilkenny," folio 311, 
 under the date September loth, 161 3 : 
 
 " Mr. Luke Shee refused to serve as mayor. His reasons were, that he lived 
 in the country, and, though named an alderman in the Charter, never took the 
 
 oath 
 
 ' See page 25. 
 
xxxii 
 
 oath of an ulderraan. The Corporation answered that he had an liouse in the 
 town, and therefore was an inhabitant; and that he had voted and acted as an 
 alderman, and therefore was an alderman. He submitted to the Corporation, 
 and was fined loo marks, Irish; and a by-law made that every person hereafter 
 refusing to serve mayor, when elected, shall forfeit 200 marks and be disfran- 
 chised." 
 
 The reparation of the ancient pavement of Kilkenny, thus begun by Lucas 
 Shee in 16 13, would seem to have been carried out by his immediate successors 
 in office ; but the Corporation appears only to have paved the centre of the 
 streets, and to have caused the side ways to be repaired at the expense of the 
 inhabitants. Thus in the " Red Book'"', at folio 341, under the date 16 15, we 
 find the following entry : 
 
 " A person hired by the city, by the year, to repair the streets. Every body 
 to find labourers and pave before their own doors; those who have leases, of 
 which twenty-one years are to come, to pay as inheritors; those who have less 
 time, the cost to be divided between them and the landlord, according to the 
 number of years to come." 
 
 In the " White Book," under the date 27th January, 1670, is the following: 
 
 " By-law for paving the streets — Every inhabitant to pave the breadth of 
 his front and twenty-one feet into the street ; and if those pavements do not 
 meet, the city to pave the remainder. But if the gutter be above twenty-one 
 feet from the door, the inhabitant to pave the gutter. If the street be not forty- 
 two feet wide, the opposite inhabitants to be at equal expenses. If not paid on 
 notice from the mayor, to be distrained for double the value of the pavement. ' 
 
 Again the " Clasped Book"' records that on the 22nd April, 1694, it was, 
 
 " Ordered, — That each inhabitant of this city do pave the gutter before 
 their doors, within the walls thereof, and that the city shall pave the rest." 
 
 The Corporation of Kilkenny at the present day dcfraj's the expense of re- 
 pairing the pavement of the town w ithin the limit of the ancient city walls, but 
 
 without 
 
 The " Red" and "White" Books of the copy, or rather summary of their coutents. 
 Corporation of Kilkenny are not at pre- made early in the last century, by Al- 
 sent in the possession of that body, and derman William Colles, and which is now 
 probably are not in existence; but the in the possession of Dr. James of Kil- 
 extracts above given are taken from a kenny. 
 
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 without their circuit, all such city works are carried on by the grand jury pre- 
 sentment. — J. G. ; A. P. 
 
 The Makket Cross of Kilkenny^. 
 
 This ancient and beautiful structure stood in the centre of High-street, near 
 the Tholsel, but was barbarously destroyed, by order of the Corporation, in the 
 year 1 77 1 . A drawing of it was preserved by the Rev. Mervyn Archdall, which 
 was engraved for Ledwichs History of Irishtown and Kilkenny, in the second 
 volume of the Collectanea de Rehus Hibernicis, and was copied in the first vo- 
 lume of the Dublin Penny Journal. In both of these works it is stated that 
 the date " M.C.C.C." was indented upon its fourth step ; but this must be a mis- 
 take, as Clyn, having been himself a resident of Kilkenny at the time, could 
 scarcely be incorrect as to the period of its erection. In other respects the 
 drawing would appear to correspond with the description given of the cross by 
 Archdekin, Motraye, and other old writers. The Clarendon MS., tom. li. No. 
 479, already alluded to in the note upon the paving of Kilkenny, represents it 
 as an arched structure, supported by marble columns, rising from a graduated 
 base. Above the arch rose a slender shaft, upon the top of which was a richly 
 sculptured cross, adorned with the figures ofSt. Kyran, St. Canice, St. Patrick, 
 and St. Brigid, all of which religious personages are there asserted to have been 
 the tutelary saints of the town. Archdekin states {TJieologia Tiipart. Universa. 
 par. 3) the Puritan soldiers of Cromwell to have shattered, with their muskets, 
 the portion of the carving which represented the symbol of the crucifixion; but 
 Motraye mentions that in 1730, though " the arms of it were broken off", the 
 shaft, adorned with good figures in relief, was well preserved." 
 
 The plea upon which the Corporation of 177 1 sought to justify the destruc- 
 tion of this venerable monument was, that it had fallen into a ruinous condi- 
 tion, and was dangerous to the public ; but it is stated by old inhabitants who 
 had often seen the cross before its final obliteration, that the expenditure of a 
 few pounds would have been sufficient to have restored it to perfect repair, and 
 preserve it to future ages. It appears from the municipal records that the civic 
 representative body of the seventeenth century was as anxious for its preserva- 
 tion as the corporators of the eighteenth seem to have been regardless of its va- 
 lue. 
 
 ' See page 27. 
 
 IRISH ARCH. SOC. 6 
 
xxxiv 
 
 lue. It was recorded in the " Red Book" that, on the 9th February, 1609, an 
 order was made by the Corporation that " the market cross and Croker's cross 
 be for ever repaired and kept in repair by the company of masons, in such 
 manner as the mayor shall direct." The preservation of the structure would 
 appear to have been immediately thereupon undertaken, as on the 20th April 
 follo%ving an invitation was sent forth to " every person that have plows within 
 the city, to send them to draw stones from the quarry to repair the market 
 cross ;" and on the 3rd August, in the next year, the following memorandum 
 was inserted in the " Red Book :" — " The market cross repaired May, 1 6 1 o, by 
 the Company of Masons. The Corporation paid for carriage and lime and 
 sand." Again, under the year 1624, October 15th, is this entry: " Part of the 
 Black Quarry allowed for making up the south side of the market cross." 
 
 This is the last record which can be discovered of any attempt towards the 
 reparation or preservation of the interesting and venerable structure ; but there 
 are some other curious allusions to the cross in the Corporation documents. 
 On the 13th April, 1632, "the north side of the market cross was granted to 
 two persons for shops during the fair times of Corpus Christi, in regard that 
 their shops are stopped up by the stations and play of Corpus Christi Day."' 
 The market cross seems to have been the locality of the performance of the 
 ancient plays and mysteries in Kilkenny. Two of the mysteries there acted, 
 and specially written for the purpose by John Bale, the first Protestant Bishop 
 of Ossory, in the year 1552, arc still preserved amongst the Harleian MSS., and 
 are extremely curious and interesting specimens of those religious dramatic 
 entertainments ; they are : — a tragedy entitled " God's Promises," and a comedy 
 named " John Baptist's Preachings in the VVildeniess," and both are strongly 
 directed against Popery. The following passage from the curious personal nar- 
 rative of Bale's " Vocation to tlio Bishopric of Ossory, and Persecutions in the 
 same," printed in the sixth volume of the Harleian Miscellany, is interesting as 
 connected with the subject of tliis note: 
 
 " On the XX daye of August was the Ladye Marye with vs at Kilkennye 
 proclaimed Queene of England Fraimce and Ireland, with the greatest solemp- 
 nyte, that there coulde be devised of processions, musters, and disgysings, all 
 the noble Captaynes and Gentilmen thereabout being present. What-a-do I 
 had that daye with the Prebcndaryes and Prcstes about "wearinge the cope, 
 croser, and mytcr, in prosession, it were to much to write. I tolde them earnestly, 
 
 whan 
 
XXXV 
 
 whan they would have compelled me thereunto, that I was not Moyses Minis- 
 ter, but Christes. I desyred them not to corapell me to his Denyall, which is, 
 S. Paule sayth, in the repetinge of Moyses sacraments and ceremoniall schad- 
 dowes. Gal. V. With that I take Christes Testament in my Hande, and went 
 to the Market Crosse, the people in great nombre foUowinge. There take I the 
 xiii. chap, of S. Paule to the Romanes, declaringe to them brevely what the au- 
 thoritie was of the worldly powers and Magistrates, what reverence and obe- 
 dience were due to the same. In the meane tyme had the prestos gotten ii dis- 
 gysed prestes, one to beare the myter afore me, and another the croser, making 
 iii procession pageaunts of one. The yonge men, in the forenoon, played a 
 Tragedye of God's promyses in the olde Lawe, at the Market Crosse, with or- 
 gane plainges, and songes, very aptly. In the afternone agayne they played a 
 comedie of Sanct Johan Baptistes preachings, of Christes baptisynge, and of his 
 temptacion in the wildemesse, to the small contentacion of the prestes, and 
 other papistes there." 
 
 There are some curious notices, in the " Red Book," of these religious plays 
 subsequently to Bale's time. On the 20th April, 1610, it was resolved, " that 
 the Mayor and Aldermen, with the advice of the Sheriffs and such of the second 
 council as they shall cull, shall order the celebration of Corpus Christi Day in 
 decent and solemn manner as usual, and shall employ carpenters to make rails 
 for keeping out horses and the mob, and for placing strangers at the place 
 where the interlude shall be plaid." On the 23rd July, same year, the Corpo- 
 ration granted a salary of twenty shillings per annum to a person " for keeping 
 the apparel used on Corpus Christi Day station, and the apparel of the Movies 
 and players of the Resurrection;" and on the 13th January, 1631, was allowed 
 "a salary of £3 13s. /^d. per annum to Wiliam Consey, for teaching to write 
 and read, and instructing the children of the natives for the play on Corpus 
 Christi day." 
 
 Croker's cross, alluded to in some of the foregoing extracts, was of lesser im- 
 portance than the market cross; it was a monument erected in 1407, in com- 
 memoration of the victory gained over the Burkes and O'CarroUs, at Callan, by 
 Sir Stephen Scroop, the Lord Deputy, in whose army the burgesses of Kil- 
 kenny served, under the leadership of their Sovereign, John Croker. This 
 monument stood in the cross-ways formed by the junction of High-street, Pa- 
 trick-street, Roseinn-street, and the parade, anciently called Castle-streer, but 
 
 it 
 
XXX\T 
 
 it has been long since removed. On the 9th February, 1609, the Corporation 
 ordered, " that the market place for cattle be at James's-green and Walkins- 
 green, and from the market cross to Croker's cross; and no one to buy else- 
 where." There were also several other similar monuments fbnnerlv existing 
 in Kilkenny. The Butt's cross is the only one yet remaining, but the sites of 
 others are determined by the old names of localities, such as St. Leger s cross, 
 Crinius's cross, Scaldcrow's cross, &c. The author of the Clarendon MS., torn. 
 51, No. 479, states that at the beginning of the seventeenth century there was 
 a monumental cross near the gate of the Franciscan abbey ; he, however, gives 
 nothing of its history, except that it had been removed thither from the suburb, 
 on the south side of the town, called Loughbuidhe. — J. G. ; A. P. 
 
 The Church of St. Mary, KILKE^•^■v^ 
 
 The original structure of St Mary's church appears to have been purely 
 early English in style, and was probably erected shortly after the incorporation 
 of the town by William Earl Marshal. The tower, whose erection Clyn has 
 recorded, existed until the year 18 19, when it was taken down. The church is 
 cruciform, and the tower stood at the north-west angle of the body of the build- 
 ing, and was not, as the present tower is, attached to the west gable. An an- 
 cient trowel was discovered imbedded in the wall of the old tower, which was 
 used in laying the foundation stone of the new one, but we believe that this 
 relic is not now in existence. 
 
 The walls of the present church are portions of the original building, but 
 the triple lancets in the north and south transept gables arc the only original 
 windows which have been retained. The chancel has been much curtailed in 
 length, as appears by the following extract from the Vestry Book of the parish : 
 
 " 2nd March, 1748. 
 
 " Agreed on by the minister, churchwardens, and parishioners, assembled — 
 that the eastern lie or chancel be pulled down within twenty-one loot of the 
 
 pulpit and that the several monuments in y* eastern isle and sheds 
 
 may be removed and setup in such parts of the church as y* Bishop shall aprove 
 of, at the expense of the proprietors." 
 
 By an entry made in the blank leaf at the commencement of the parish Re- 
 gister, 
 
 ' See page 30. at the year 1343. 
 
xxxvu 
 
 gister, it appears that in 1774 the Corporation of Kilkenny "repaired the steeple, 
 being in a very ruinous condition, and also adorned the church with an organ," 
 which cost £300. 
 
 The parish of St. Mary is at present a perpetual curacy in the gift of the 
 Bishop of Ossory, the curate being paid by minister's money ; but originally it 
 appears to have been an independent rectory. In the early taxations which oc- 
 cur in the " Red Book" of Ossory it is always termed " ecclesia." 
 
 Thus (at fol. 18, dorso) its value and denomination are given as under, in a 
 taxation made at the commencement of the fourteenth century : 
 
 " Ecc. be. Marie Kilkenn. cvi' viij"? Deci* viij*;" 
 
 and again in the new taxation made " post guerram Scotorum," circ. 1320, the 
 value and proxy payable thereout is thus given : 
 
 " Ecc be Marie iiij^' Deci" viij' procur. xij'.'" — Lib. Hub. Ossor. fol. 22, doi'so. 
 
 The subsequent history of the parish is exceedingly obscure ; whether at this 
 period it was in the gift of the bishop is not stated in the taxations; but from 
 various documents it appears that there was a very intimate connexion between 
 this parish and the Corporation of Kilkenny. In a burgess rent roll^, dated 
 ann. 5". Hen. V. there are entries which show that the Sovereign and burgesses 
 of Kilkenny had the setting of various houses and lands which were charged 
 with the supply of lights for the church of St. Mary, and this before the Refor- 
 mation, and consequent acquirement of confiscated church property. 
 
 Again, under the year 1643, find'' " a docket of St. Mary's lands belong- 
 ing to the city of Kilkenny," mentioning several houses and lands charged with 
 " finding ropes for the bells in our Lady's church," " repairing the church from 
 time to time," and " keeping the style, with lock and key to the church-yard." 
 Amongst the items is the following : " Edmund Grace for the Mary priest 
 cliamber and garden 61 years beginning 1621, at 20** ^ an." For a statement 
 made by Ledwich on this subject see his Antiquities, second edition, p. 495 . 
 His authorities were the MSS. of Counsellor James Laffan, Recorder of the city 
 of Kilkenny, which MSS. Ledwich borrowed, but never returned. — J. G. 
 
 5 Preserved in the Consistorial OfEce. Amongst the Corporatiun records, iu 
 
 Kilkenny. the possession of the Town Clerk. 
 
 IRISH ARCH. see. f 
 
FRATRIS JOHANNIS CLYN 
 
 ANNALES HIBERNI^. 
 
 • Ncipit cathologus sive cronice. Ite m secundum Orosium 
 ab orbe primo condito usque ad urbem Romam conditam 
 anni quatuor milia cccc octuaglnta quatuor anni. Et ab 
 lU'be condita usque nativitatem Christi 715 anni, et sic 
 ^- colliguntur ab origine 5199. 
 
 Dominus noster Jhesus Christus primus et summus pon- 
 tifex fuit, et sedit in hoc mundo annis 32 et 3 mensibus. Juxta illud ewan- 
 gelii, Jhesus erat quasi incipiens annorum 30, id est, tricesimum inceperat, 
 13 diebus tantum ejusdem anni peractis, quia eadem die anno revoluto con- 
 vertit aquam in vinimi; et in sequenti Pascha, id est, anni 33' incarceratus 
 est Baptista ; et in alio Pascha sequenti decoUatus, et in tertio Pascha, id 
 est, 33" anni passus est Dominus, et ita vixit 32 annis integre; et de 33° 
 anno quantum est temporis a Natali usque ad Pascham, pro anno dimidio com- 
 putatur. 
 
 Dominus noster [natus est] sub Augusto Cessare, id est, Octaviano, qui im- 
 peravit ante nativitatem Christi annis 42, et nato Domino 1 3 annis. Iste totum 
 [mundum] redegit in unam Monarchiam. Tiberius tempore Christi, annis 18. 
 
 Versus : 
 
 Anni bis centum minus uno millia quinque : 
 Sunt ab Adam primo numerantibus usque secundum. 
 IRISH ARCH. soc. B Item, 
 
2 
 
 Item, alius Versus : 
 
 Annis nongentis decies, iterumque ducentis 
 
 Unus defuerat quo Dens ortus erat. 
 Quater millenis tercentis uu"' annis 
 
 Nexus in inferno fuit Adam crimine primo. 
 
 In ortu Christi tria miracula appanierunt. Templum Romae corruit ; fons 
 olei erupit trans Tiberim de Tabema ; circulus ad speciem archus celestis circa 
 solem eo die apparuit. Nova Stella oita fuit. Octavianus precepit ne quis cum 
 Dominum vocaret ; ut captivi omnes liberentur ; et hereditas sua cuilibet red- 
 deretur. Pax summa ubique fuit. Hie mundum totum regebat, et habuit 44 
 lesriones militum. 
 
 Anno secundo. Innocentes occiduntur. 
 
 Anno tertio. Herodes occidit seipsum cultello, et Johannes evangelista natus 
 
 est. 
 
 Anno 19. Johannes Baptista predicavit in deserto. 
 
 Anno 30. Christus baptizatus, incepit predicare, et conversi sunt Apostoli. 
 
 Anno 33. 9°Kal: Aprilis, Christus crucifixus est; 6 Kal: Aprilis, surrexit; 
 4 Nonas Maii, ascendit ; 1 5 INIaii, Splritus super Apostolos descendit. Idus Juhi, 
 sunt divisi. 1 7 Kal : Januarii, Stcphanus lapidatus fuit. 
 
 Anno 34. viii° Idus Februarii, conversus est Paulus. Et 13 conversionis 
 anno gentibus predicavit. 
 
 Et nota, Britones in Anglia fuerunt ante Christi incamacionem per mille 
 quingentos annos et viii. 
 
 Et quod prima etas mundi fuit ab Adam usque Diluvium, et continet annos 
 1256: sccunda etas a Diluvio usque Habraham, et continet annos 292: tcrtia 
 fuit ab Habraham usque David, et continet annos 942 : quarta a David usque 
 transmigi-ationem Babilonis, et continet annos 473 : quinta a transmigratione 
 usque Christi adventum, et continet annos 588 : sexta etas nulla annorum 
 serie certa. 
 
 Petrus post Domini passionem tenuit cathedram sacerdotalem in partibus 
 orientis annis 4. Anno 20° vero cathedratur Antiochie 8° Kal : Maii, ubi 
 sedit annis vii. Ibi primam missam celebravit; dicendo tantimi verba Conse- 
 crationis, et Pater noster. 
 
 Anno 38. Matheus scripsit ewangelium. 
 
 Anno 
 
3 
 
 Anno 45. Catliedratus fmt Petrus Rome viii° Kal: Februarii; ubi sedit 
 annis 35, et mensibus 6, diebus 7. Hie 4° Neronis anno, cum Paulo martyri- 
 zatus. 
 
 Quadragesimo oetavo. Marchus scripsit ewangelium. 
 
 Quadragesimo nono. Tempore beati Petri Maria mater Domini obiit, 8 Kal : 
 Septembris, anno vite sue 63, secundum fidem Ebraicam, secvmdum vero 
 cronica anni computantm- sic, 14 annos habuit quando natus est Jesus, 33 
 annis \'ixit cum filio, post cujus passionem vixit annis 16. 
 
 Anno 58. Lapidatus est Jacobus, sed non ex toto extinctus. 
 
 Quinquagesimo nono. Festus fuit procurator Judese, a quo Paulus vinctus 
 Romam mittitur. 
 
 Sexagesimo secundo. Lapidatur Jacobus frater Domini, a Judeis. 
 
 Sexagesimo 3°. Maria IMagdalena obiit. 
 
 Sexagesimo 9°. Petrus et Paulus sub Nerone passi sunt ; qui eodem tem- 
 pore occidit Senecam magistrum suum, matrem suam et sororem : et primam 
 intulit cliristianis persecutionem. Hoc tempore Lucanus poeta moritur Parisius. 
 
 Septuagesimo 2°. Jerosolyma a Tyto et Vespasiano subvertitur. 
 
 Octuagesimo 3°. Johannes ewangelista in Palitmos relegatur, ubi scripsit 
 Apocalypsim et octuagesimo 5° scripsit ewangelium. 
 
 Nonagesimo 7°. Passio Dionisii, qui postquam decapitatus fuit caput suum 
 portavit ad locum sepulture, cantans liymnum " Gloria tibi Domine." 
 
 Anno 100°. Obiit Johannes ewangelista, post passionem Domini 50, etatis 
 sue 98°. 
 
 Centesimo 56°. Lucius rex Britannic efficitur cliristianus a papa Eleu- 
 therio. 
 
 Ducentesimo 33°. Ordinatur Ambrosius apud Mediolanum ; et Augustinus 
 a beato Ambrosio baptizatur. Hoc tempore, Turonis beatus Martinus virtutibus 
 radiabat. Jo: etid: [e^ Jeronimus'] apud Behtleem. 
 
 Anno 265. Cepit Lucius papa, et Anastasius fecit simbolum " Quicunque 
 vult." Et sanctus Hilarius claruit : et Donatus artis grammaticse. Et Sixtus 
 Papa, et beatus Laurentius martyrio coronantur. 
 
 Ducentesimo 86. Dioclesiano imperante, facta est persecutio christianorum, 
 que duravit per annos 10. Circa illud tempus, heresis Arriana pullulabat, et 
 dampnata in Niceno concilio. Hiis temporibus Constantius vir mansuetissimus 
 regebat Hispaniam, Galliam, etBritanniam, et Constantinum reliquit filium suum 
 
 B 2 ex 
 
4 
 
 cx concublna Elena, crcatum imperatorcm Galliarum. IIcc Helena fuit filia 
 regis Britannie, secundum Bcdam de gestls Anglorura. Et Albanus martlri- 
 zatur. 
 
 Anno 316. Silvester papa incepit, qui baptlzavit Constantinum iraperato- 
 rem magnum, et a lepra raundavit. Et sunt ab incarnatione Domini usque 
 primum annum Sylvestri, 316 anni, et 20 dies. Dictus Constantinus, filius 
 Helene, filie regis Britannie devicit Maxencium, et Lucium, et Serenum impe- 
 ratores. Maxencio depulso in Alexandria Constantinopolim transiit ; et multos 
 christianos occidit, et beatam virginem Katerinam. 
 
 Anno 410. Inventio corporis Sancti Stephani, et Augustinus composuit 
 librum " de Civitate Dei." 
 
 Tercentesimo 13°. Jeronymus claruit. 
 
 Quadringentesirao 11°. Obiit Martinus Turonensis episcopus. 
 Anno 423°. Obiit Augustinus. Palladius mittitur ad Hibcrniam. 
 Quadringentesimo 24°. Exordium regum Francorum ; Primus Faramundus: 
 secundus Clodio. 
 
 Quadringentesirao 1 7°. Cepit Celestinus papa ; hie misit beatum Patricium 
 in Hibcrniam : 
 
 Quadringentisimo 32°. Sanctus Patricius venit in Hiberniam, cujus etas sic 
 distinguitur. 16 annorum fuit, quando a piratis de Britannia in Hiberniam 
 captivus ducitur. 6 annis erat in servitute. 1 8 annis sub sancti Germani An- 
 cisiodorensis episcopi magistcrio deguit. 35 Hybemiam, et alias insulas, ad 
 Christum convertit. 33 annis conteraplationi intendebat. Obiit autem anno 
 493° incarnacionis Christi ; anno pontificante Felice papa ; prirao imperii Anas- 
 tasii imperatoris : principante Aurelio Ambrosio in Britannia. 
 
 Quadringentesimo 39°. Nascitur beata virgo Brigida. 
 
 457°. Venerunt Saxones in Britanniam. 
 
 490°. Sanctus Memertus instituit " Rogacioncs." 
 
 500°. Obiit beatus Bcnedictus. 
 
 Anno 525°. Francia convertitur ad Christum. 
 
 592°. Cepit Gregorius papa, qui misit 3° sui pontificatus anno beatum Au- 
 gustinura, et alios in Angliam misit. 
 595° Venit Augustinus in Angliam. 
 
 Anno 606". Cepit Bonefacius, hujus tempore Cosdre rex Persarum vastavit 
 Jcrosolumam: et lignum crucis secura in Pcrsidcm perduxit. 
 
 Anno 
 
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 Anno 638°. Cepit Severinus, huj us tempore Eraclius occidit Cosdre regem 
 Persarum : et crucis lignum reduxit in Jerusalem. 
 Sexcentesimo 88°. Ysidorus claruit. 
 Anno 729°. Beda claruit. 
 
 Septingentesimo [nonagesimo nono]. Karolus vadit Romam. 800°, Karolus 
 et Lodovicus imperatores perrexerunt in Britannlam. 
 Anno Domini 1066. Obiit Edwardusrex Anorlie. 
 
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 Anno 942°. Willelmus Dux Normannie occiditur. 
 Nongentesimo. Obiit Edmundus rex martyrio. 
 Nongentesimo 73°. Martirizatus Edwardus. 
 Nongentesimo 89°. Obiit beatus Dunstanus. 
 
 Anno Domini 1066. Obiit beatus Edwardus anno regni sui 24°: Alfredo 
 fratre suo occiso per Godewinum comitem Cancie. Cum ergo sanctus Ed- 
 wardus non potiorem heredem haberet Willelmo cognomento Bastardo duce 
 Normannie, consobrino suo, eidem regnum Anglie testament© legavit. Hie 
 Willelmus eodem anno, pridie ydus Octobris venit in Angliam, et interfecit 
 Haraldum, filium Godewini, apud Hastings, et coronatur Londini, die Natali 
 Domini. 
 
 Anno Domini 1087. Obiit Willelmus primus Bastardus, anno regni sui 21°. 
 Cui eodem anno successit filius ejus Willelmus Rufus. 
 
 Milesimo centesimo 3°. Hie Willelmus Rufus occiditvir, dum iret venatum, 
 anno regni sui 13°. Cui successit Henricus i , qui bonas condidit leges in Anglia. 
 
 1 106. Henricus Rex cepit Normanniam. Due Lune vise sunt in celo. 
 
 1 133. Domus Clare-vallis fundatur. 
 
 1 139. Monacbi venerunt in Hiberniam. 
 
 1152. Christanus legatus mittitur in Hiberniam, et distribuit 4 pallia, et 4 
 arcbiepiscopatus constituit. 
 
 1 153. Obiit beatus Bemardus. 
 
 1 183. Anselmus eligitur in archiepiscopum Cantuariensem. 
 
 1 153. Sanguis e terra emanavit, apud Hameste. 
 
 1109. Obiit Anselmus. Tamisia exsiccatur. 
 
 1 1 20. Ordo Premonstratensium confirmatur. 
 
 1 133. Malachias fit arclnepiscopus Ardmacanus. 
 
 1 125. Obiit Henricus rex. Successit Stephanus. 
 
 1 142. Constituitur abbacia Mellifontis. 
 
 1 144. 
 
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 1 144. Puer Willelmus crucifigitur apud Norwych. 
 1 148. Obiit Malacliias Clarevallis. 
 
 1 161. Thomas consecratur arcliicplscopus Cantuariensis ; et anno 1165 
 exulatur. 
 
 1169. Dcrmicius M'^Morkada ad Henricum secundum transfrctavit pro 
 auxilio liabendo. 
 
 1 1 70. Henricus primogenitus Hcnrici 2, coronatur Londini a Roberto ar- 
 chiepiscopo Eboraccnsl et sex aliis episcopis ; contra inhibicionem Alcxandri 
 papa iiii" et contra inhlbitionem Sancti Thome. Ex hac consecratione venit 
 episcoporum anathcmatizatio a sedc Apostolica. Inter patrera et fdium conse- 
 cratum dira rebellio. Thome occisio. Eodem anno scihcet 1 1 70, in estate pre- 
 cedente Thome martirizationem, venerunt Anglici primo in Hibemiam. 
 
 Versus : 
 Anno mileno centeno septuageno, 
 
 Anglorum primas corruit ense Thomas; 
 Pro Christ! sponsa, Christi sub tempore, Christi 
 
 In templo, Christi verus amator obit. 
 
 Milesimo centesimo 72°. Circa Kal. Mail obiit Dermicius M"=Morkada apud 
 Fernis. 
 
 1 1 74. Limcricum ab Anglicis occupatur. 
 
 1 177. Vivianus legatus mittitur in Hibemiam; et Johaimes de Curcy Ul- 
 toniam acquisivit. 
 
 1 183. Ordo Templariorum et Hosplcilariorum confirmatur. 
 
 1 185. Kal: iNIaii fuit cclipsis sohs, sole existentc colore sangulneo. Post 
 eclipsim Johannes filius Henrici regis Anglie cum magno exercitu Hibemiam 
 intravit, sibi a patre traditam, mense Maii. 
 
 1 1 86. Ordo Cartueciensium, et Granduensium confirmatur. 
 
 1 1 86. Hugo do Lacy occiditur. 
 
 1 187. Jerusalem cum cmce Domini capitur a Saracenis. 
 
 1 1 89. Henricus 2, filius Impcratricis obiit, pridie nonas Julii, cui successit 
 filius ejus Ricardus magnanimus, coronatus 3° nonas Septembris. 
 
 Anno 1 190. Ricardus rex Anglie et Philippus rex Francie vadunt in ter- 
 ram sanctam. 
 
 1 193. Ricardus rex Anglie capitur in Austria, in reditu suo ab lerosolymis, 
 et redcmptus infra scqucns tricnnium, pro C. M. libris. 
 
 1 199. 
 
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 1 199- Idem Ricardus obiit, interfectus 4° Idus Aprilis. Cui successit fra- 
 ter ejus Johannes, coronatus Westmonasterii in die Ascensionis, 5 Kal: Junii. 
 1 204. Johannes de Curcy capitur a Hugone de Lacy. 
 
 1 2 14. Interdictum Anglie relaxatur. 
 
 1215. Concilium generale celebratur Rome ab Innocencio 3°, ubi conce- 
 ditur Cistcrciensibus nullas decimas dare. Et ordo Minorum confirmatur. 
 
 1 2 16. Obiit Innocencius. Successit Honorius. Ordo Predicatorum con- 
 firmatur. 
 
 121 7. Henricus 3 coronatiir. 
 
 1 22 1. Predicatores intraverunt Angliam ; et obiit beatus Dominicus, fun- 
 dator eorum. 
 
 1226. Obiit beatus Franciscus, transactls 20 annis postquam adheserat 
 perfecte consiliis ewangeliorum perfectionis. 
 
 1228. Translacio beati Francisci. Et Jerusalem redditur cbristianis. 
 
 1 23 1 . Obiit beatus Antonius, doctor de ordine Minorum. 
 
 1232. Translatio beati Antonii. 
 
 1233. Edmimdus fit arcliiepiscopus Cantuarie, et translatio beati Dominici. 
 Et occiditur Ricardus comes Mariscalli Kyldarie in bello, per Geraldinos, locum 
 et partem regis tenentes : 
 
 Versus : 
 
 Post incarnatum lapsis de Virgine natum 
 Annis nongentis tribus triginta trecentis : 
 In primo mensis Aprilis, Kildariensis 
 Pugna die Sabbati fuit, in tristicia fati 
 Acciderant stallo pugne comiti Mariscallo. 
 
 Anno 1 240. Nascitur Edwardus primus filius Henrici iii". Et obiit Ead- 
 mundus archiepiscopus Cantuariensis. 
 
 1 24 1. Gregorius obiit, cui successit Alexander. Sedes Romana vacabat 
 per biennium. 
 
 1242. Willelmus de Marisco proditor tractus est London ad caudas equo- 
 rum. 
 
 1 243 . Obiit Hugo de Lacy, comes Ultonie ; et Henricus rex Anglie in- 
 travit Vasconiam. Obiit Geraldus filius Mauricii, et Ricardus de Burgo in 
 Vasconia. 
 
 1202. Fundatur domus de Conale per Meylerum filium Henrici. 
 
 1220. 
 
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 1220. Obiit Meylems Henrici, nobllis Hybcrnie conquestor. 
 
 Versus : 
 
 Indomitus domitor totius gentis H)'bere. 
 1245. Innocentius papa deposuit Fredericum imperatorem in concilio Lug- 
 dinensi, et obiit magister Alexander Halys, et magister Johannes dc Rupella. 
 
 1 25 1. Validus ventus fuit in Hibernia, idus Januarii. 
 
 1252. Occiditur Sanctus Petrus de ordine Prcdicatorum, et obiit David 
 archiepiscopus Casselensis. Successit David M"^ Karwyll ; et magna siccitas 
 fuit ; et Waterfordia comburitur. 
 
 1248. Incepit guerra Mackanfy, et 1250 occiditur idem. 
 
 1253. Obiit Robertus Grostete, episcopus Lincollniensis ; et Alanus Lys- 
 moriensis. 
 
 1254. Hybernia et Austria dantur Edwardo a patre suo Henrico. 
 
 1255. Obiit Lucas Dublin arcliicpiscopus. Et 4000 in Wallia occiduntur. 
 
 1257. Obiit dominus Mauricius filius Geraldi, justiciarius Hybemie, in 
 liabitu, et fratcr minor. 
 
 1258. Quatuor fratres regis Anglic exulantur, et ceteri alienigene; 12 pares 
 constituuntur in Anglia, quorum consilio Anglia regeretur. 
 
 1260- O'Neyl regulus Ultonie occiditur cum multo populo apud civitatem 
 dc Duno, dominica infra octavas Asccnsionis, et Willelmus de Dene fit justi- 
 ciarius Hibernie. 
 
 1 261. Occiditur dominus Johannes filius Thome, et filius suus in Desmonia. 
 
 1262. Obiit Ricardus de Clare, comes Gloucestric. 
 
 1264. BcUum de Lewys. Ilenricus rex capitur, cum fiho suo Edwardo, 
 et Ricardus frater ejus, et alii nobiles multi. Eodem anno guerra inter Geral- 
 dinos, et Waltcrum dc Burgo, comltem Ultonie ; et Mauricius filius Mauricii 
 cepit apud Tristeldermot Ricardum de la Rokelc justiciarium Hybemie, et 
 Theobaldum le Botiller, et Johannem de Cogan, et carceribus de Leye et 
 Donmaske mancipavit. 
 
 1265. Edwardus evasit de custodia Symonis de Monte-forti. Et pridie 
 nonas Augusti bellum apud Evcsam, ubi occiditur Symon de Monte-forti, et 
 alii nobiles multi. 
 
 1267. Predicatores ceperunt locum de Ros, et capitulum Minorum Kyl- 
 kennie. 
 
 1268. 
 
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 1268. Karolus vicit Coradellum imperatorem Grecorum. Item, dominus 
 Robcrtus de Ufford fit justiciarius Hibernie. Item, Mauricius filius Geraldi in 
 man submergitur, redeundo de Anglia, 5° Kal: Augusti. 
 
 1269. Introitus fratrum in Clonmele. 
 
 1270. Lodowicus rex Francie, et Edwardus rex Anglie vadunt in Terram 
 Sanctam ; Lodowicus in via moritur. Item, Walterus de Burgo vincitur a 
 rege Connaccie apud Ahtkyppe ; multis nobilibus et militibus ex parte Walteri 
 interemptis ; vix eo fiige presid[<o] se salvante. Et Jacobus de Audele, fit 
 •justiciarius Hybernie. 
 
 1 27 1. Facta est magna fames in Hibernia, et pestilentia gravis. Et obiit 
 Walterus de Burgo comes Ultonie. Item, occisi sunt domini Nicholaus et Jo- 
 hannes de Verdona. Obiit Fulco arcbiepiscopus Dublin. Obiit Henricus iiij"' 
 rex Anglie, anno regni sui 56°; et Edwardus filius ejus cepit regnare 5. Kal: 
 Augusti. Locus Predicatorum de Yoliil capitur. 
 
 1272. Jacobus de Audele justiciarius occiditur in Totmonia. Item, Mauri- 
 cius filius Mauricli fit justiciarius Hybernie. 
 
 1274. Concilium generale apud Lugdunum celebratur a Gregorio x. Inter- 
 fectio Anglicorum apud Glandelory. 
 
 1279. Nicholaus iiij"' fecit declaracionem super regulam beati Francisci. 
 In Yoaellia terremotus magnus subvertens castra, et absorbens homines discor- 
 des invicem bellantes. Obiit dominus David de Barry. 
 
 1280. Obiit Nicholaus Papa. Et Stephanus episcopus Waterfordie de or- 
 dlne Hospitalariorum miitavit monetam. Captus fuit Dermitius M<' Morkada. 
 Obiit domina Margaria de Say, uxor domini Robert! de UlFord ; et combusta 
 est Waterfordia. 
 
 1 28 1. Occiditur Hogekyn M"^ Gilpadricke. 
 
 1282. Guerra inter Edwardum iiij. regem Anglie, et Walenses. Item, occisi 
 Morkardaht et Art M'^Morkarda. Capitulum apud Dundalke ; Matheus fit mi- 
 nister Hybernie. 
 
 1283. Fit guerra inter Edwardum iiij. et Wallenses ; et destructa est 
 Wallia per eum, et occisus est Lewelyn princeps Wallie, et David frater ejus 
 captuS, et tractus cum equis. Item, combusta est Dublinia infra muros, in cras- 
 tino Circumcisionis Domini. 
 
 1284. Castriim de Leye perforatur per Hybernicos. Johannes de Sampford 
 ehgitur archiepiscopus Dublinie. Capitulum Minorum Dublinie in Pentecoste. 
 
 lEisu ARCH. soc. C Item, 
 
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 Item, dominus Galfridus de Sancto Leodegario, episcopus Ossoriensis, acqui- 
 sivit per duellum, manerium de Serrkeran. Item, dominus Emflues [Alphonsus] 
 filius Edwardl iiij obiit. Item, obiit Karolus, qui fuit Gallicus, et filius ejus 
 fuit incaiceratus. 
 
 1285. Occisus fuitWillelmus de Larokele. Obiit Theobaldus Plncema. Item, 
 Geraldus filius !Mauricii, (dictus Rochfalyalit) captus fuit a suis Hybemicis in 
 OfFaly, et dctentus. Item, rex Phillppus intravit regnum Arragonie, per prc- 
 ceptum Pape. Dominus Willeknus Hacket, cum multis de suo genere occisus 
 fuit ab Hibcrnicis. 
 
 1286. 7 Idas Aprills, id est Dominica Pahnanim, Johannes de Sampford 
 consecratur Dublinic in ecclesia Tiiuitatis. Item, Callan in Ossoria combusta 
 est. Captus est Calvab apud Kildariam. 
 
 1287. Mortuus est Geraldus filius Mauricii, capitaneus Geraldinorum ; he- 
 reditatem suam dedit domino Johanni filio Thome, filio adwunculi sui ; hie 
 Johannes, primus de hac nationc factus est comes Kildarie. Obiit dominus 
 Thomas de Clare. 
 
 1288. Dominus Johannes filius Thome amisit multos equos et garciones in 
 Offaly. 
 
 1290. Judei de Anglia exulantur. 
 
 1 29 1. Capitulum Cork. 
 
 1294. In festo bcatc Margarete vlrginis, fuit fulgur et corruscatio destruentcs 
 blada, unde provenlt maxima caristia, qua multi fame pericrunt. Item, eodcm 
 anno, ante festum Omnium Sanctorum, applicuit dominus Gilbertus de Clai'e, 
 comes Glouccstrie, apud Ros. Item, codem anno, dominus Johannes filius 
 Thome dedit vadium super domiuum Willelmum do Vcscy, in principio mensis 
 Aprilis, pugnandi in duello contra eum. Eodem die ad 40 annos occisus fuit 
 Ricardus Mariscalli Kildarie. 
 
 1294. Ricardus de Burgo comes Ultonie, captus fuit per Johannem filium 
 Thome, sabbato ante festum Sancte Lucie virmnis. 
 
 1302. Circa festum Pentecostes, obiit Michaell Ossoriensis episcopus, cui 
 succcssit Willelmus filius Johannis, consecratus Kylkennie, dominica infi-a oc- 
 tavas Epiphanie, anno codem. 
 
 1303. Ricardus comes Ultonie Scotiam intravit. Obiit Geraldus, filius 
 Johannis, lilii Thome. 
 
 1304. Abbacia beate Marie Dubllnie et locus Predicatorum, cum suburbio 
 illius comburuntur in festo Sancti CoUumbe abbatis. 
 
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 1305. O'Conkur, regulus de OSalj, et Calvaht frater ejus, cum aliis 12 
 melioribus illius nationis interficiuntuj in domo domini Petri de Brimegham, 
 circa festum Trinitatis. 
 
 1307. In crastino Purificationis JNIarie, capti fuenmt Templarii ubique. Obiit 
 Ed. iiii. 7. die Julii. 
 
 1308. Capitulum Minorum Kylkennie, in festo Baptiste. 
 
 1309. Obiit frater Philippus de Norraht, feria 3" ante Dominicam Palmarum. 
 PuUulabat secta Soraboitamm, presidente CIcmente Papa. Occiditur jNIauri- 
 cius Canteton et David suspensus. Dominus Johannes Bonevyl occiditur. 
 
 1 3 10. Captus fuit dominus Willelmus de Burgo. Interfectus dominus 
 Joliaunes de Crok, cum aliis multis in bello de Bonratte, in die Ascensionis 
 Domini, omissis in prelio spoliis multis. Item, obiit dominus Johannes de Cogan. 
 
 13 12. In festo Aniceti martyris, occiditur dominus Nicholaus de Aveneil, 
 Patricius de Rupe, et Hibernici multi, per dominum Nicholaum deVerdona, et 
 burgenses de Dundalke, juxta Dundalke. 
 
 131 1. Consilium generale celebratur Vienne per Clementem undecimum. 
 Ordo Templariorum distruitui-. 1 3 1 1 . Occiditur Philippus le Poer per Rupenses. 
 Obiit Eustacius le Poer ante Pasca. Captus est Petrus de Caustona [Gavaston] 
 per Baroniam et decapitatus, in festo nativitatis Baptiste. 
 
 13 12. Capitulum Minoriun de Yohil. Natus est Edwardus fillus regis 
 Edwardi 5. Et in sequenti Natali dominus Johannes filius Thome tenuit 
 magnum, opulentum et pacificum festum apud A[«f]dayr, et fecit Nicholaum 
 filium Mauricii de Kirrigia militem, et alios duos. 
 
 1 3 13. Obiit dominus Johannes de Burgo filius Ricardi, circa Pentecosten. 
 Capitulmn generale Bare . . nono et dominus Edmundus Pincerna tenuit Dublinie 
 magnum festum in festo beati Mlchaelis, et fecit 30 milites. In octabis beati 
 Francisci proximo sequentibus capitulum de Duno. Item, in Natali Domini 
 sequenti proximo, dominus Mauricius fiUus Thome duxit ad domum uxorem 
 suam Katerinam filiam Ricardi comitis Ultonie ; et fecit duos ibi milites Ed- 
 mundus le Botiller. 
 
 13 14. Moritur Clemens Papa xi [v]. Item, occiditur dominus Gilbertus de 
 Clare comes Gloucestrie, dominus Robertus de Clifford, et ahi multi no'ftiles, 
 atque flos Anglic apud Strifling per Robertum le Brus et Scotos, in festo 
 Johannis Baptiste. 
 
 13 15. Commune parliamentiun magnatum Hibernie apud Ivilkeuniam, pro 
 
 C 2 auxilio 
 
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 auxilio et consilio habendo contra Scotos in princlpio mensis Junil. Rio tem- 
 pore applicuerunt Scoti in Ultonia, quibus adheserunt toto tempore suo quo 
 fuerunt in Hibernia quasi omnes Hybernici tcrrc, paucis valde fidem et fide- 
 litatcm servautibus. Eodem anno Scoti cum Hibernicis combusscrunt Dondalk 
 et locum Fratrum spoliarunt libris, pannis, calicibus, vestimentis, et multos 
 occiderunt. 1315- Stragcs magna Hybernicorum, scilicet de O'Mmorcliys, et ho- 
 minibus illorum circiter 300 occiduntur juxta Baliletban, inEplphania Domini. 
 Item, in crastino conversionis Sancti Pauli bellum de Skcthrys inter Anglicos, 
 ubi occiduntur de Anglicis tantum 5 ; de Scotis vero, circa 70. Ibi occubuit 
 ille nobllis guerrator, Hamundus le Grasse, et dominus Willchnus Prindirgast 
 et 3 alii tantum, Aiiglici tamen campum dimiserunt cum Scotis, quorum prin- 
 ceps fuit Edwardus le Brus, ingerens se pro rege Hibernie, qui mala multa 
 intulit hominibus paccm diligentibus. 
 
 1 3 16. Dominus Johannes filius Thome, [et] Arnaldus lo Poer, ad Edwardum 
 5, in Angliam se transtulerunt, dantes obsides de fide et fidelitate servanda ; 
 et rex dedit Johanni filio Thome comitatum Kildarie, Arnaldo alias terras, 
 pro garisona. Item, dominus Willelmus Comyn cum duobus fratribus suis 
 occiditur, cii'ca festum Baptistc. Item, occiditui* dominus Henricus Crok. Item, 
 Johannes de Dene, Patricius Lercedekne, circa idem tempus. Item, eodem 
 anno et tempore, scilicet circa octavas Baptiste, fit magna strages Hibernicorum 
 juxta abbaciam de Balky nglas ; ubi circiter 300 occiduntur. Item, ex Scotis 
 interficiuntur circiter 300 in Ultonia per Anglicos patrie. 
 
 13 16. Magna caristia salis in Hibernia, sic quod unus cranocus communiter 
 vendebatur pro xl. solldis ; in aliqulbus locis pro 4 marcis et ultra. Hoc anno 
 oranes Hibcrnici fidcm fcdissZ/ne et fidclitatem deserentes, ut communiter se ad 
 guerram posuerunt. Item, eodem anno, in festo beati Laurencii martyris bel- 
 lum de Ahtnery in Connaccla ; ubi interficiuntur de Hybcrnicis per Ricardum 
 de Brimegham, dominum Willclmum de Burgo et ceteros Anglicos, multi 
 reguli et nobilcs, secundum communem relatura summa totalis, v . . . {here is a 
 manifest erasure in the original) M. in universo, numerus capitum absciso- 
 rum mille quingenta capita. Item, eodem anno circa Natale Domini, intravit 
 dominus Robertus le Brus, qui se gessit pro rege Scotorum, Hybcrniam trans- 
 iens per totam terram de Ultonia, ubi applicuit, usque fere Lymericum ; com- 
 burendo, occidendo, depredando, spoliando villas, castra et etiam ecclesias, 
 eundo et redeundo. 
 
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 1317- ^ Pascliate, fuit magna congregatlo magnatum Hibernie sub mon- 
 tem de Loddyn juxta Lymericum, contra Scotos ; Scotis ex opposite apud 
 castrum Conyl existentibus ; et facti fuerunt ibi de Anglicis 6 milites ; et in 
 liyeme precedente dominus Ricardus de Clare tenuit magnam gardam apud 
 Dernabt. 1317- Dominus Rogerus de Mortuo Mari justiciarius factus, applicuit 
 in Pascha apud Yokel, cum militibus 38, exiens de navibus fecit 2 milites ; et 
 appKcans ad se dominum Joliannem de Brimegliam, dominum Nicliolaum de 
 Verdona, ejecit omnes de nacione et cognomine de Lacy ex Hybernia ; et coegit 
 fiigere ad Scotiam in estate. Et occiduntur juxta Pontensem civitatem multi 
 de Ultonia ; quorum principalis fuit ubi de interfectis, Willelmus Savage. Hii 
 autem et alii Ultonienses per Scotos extra patriam suam expulsi fuerunt ; et 
 Scotos insequentes per Mediam, Legeniam et Momoniam, non minus quasi 
 quam Scoti preter combustionem et interfectionem populo terre dampnum in- 
 tulerunt. 
 
 13 18. 7° Kal : Aprilis, canonizatur Lodowicus episcopus et confessor de 
 ordine Minorum, arcliiepiscopus Tolosanus, filius et lieres regis Cicilie, a Papa 
 Johanne 22. Item, duo cardinales in Angliam mittuntur pro pace formanda 
 inter Anglicos et Scotos, sed nil profecerunt. Item, eodem anno, dominus 
 Willelmvis filius Jobannis, episcopus Ossoriensis, transfertur ad arcliiepiscopa- 
 tum Cassclensem ; cui substituitur frater Ricardus Leddrede, per Papam Jolian- 
 nem consecratus Avinnone ; ubi pro tunc degebat curia Romana, scilicet, 8°. 
 Kal : Maii. Item, eodem anno, id est, 1318, a festo apostolorum Pliilippi et 
 Jacobi usque autumpnum, fuit maxima caristia et fames, unde multi et innume- 
 rabiles morlebantur ; nam cranocus frumenti ut communiter pro xx. solidis et 
 amplius vendebatur. Item, Thomas Don, multarum navium depredator, sub- 
 versor, et pirata crudelis de parte Scotorum, occisus est. 
 
 13 17. Capitulum Waterfordie. Item, facta strages magna exercitus domini 
 Edmundi Pincerne in Hibernia per Donatmn O'Karwyll, ubi interficiuntur circa 
 ducenti. Item, Rogerus de Mortuo Mari fecit Joliannem Brimegliam militem, 
 et alios tres vel 4. 
 
 13 1 8. 5. Idus Maii, occiditur dominus Ricardus de Clare per suos Hiber- 
 nicos de Totmonia cum aliis 4 militibus, domino Thoma de Lesse, domino 
 Henrico de Capella, dominis Jacobo et Jobanne de Canteton, et aliis multis, 
 die Jovis in mane. Item, Capitulum de Ros, in festo Bartholomei apostoli. 
 
 Item, 
 
Item, in festo Michaelis proximo sequcnti, applicuit Alexander Byggenor de 
 Curia, arcliiepiscopus Dublinie factus, et justiciarii noraen et officium habens 
 Hibernie. Item, eodem anno, 131 8, in festo beati Kalixti papc et martyris, die 
 Sabbati mane, occiditur dominus Edwardus le Brus (usurpans sibi nomen ct 
 vocari a suis se faciens regem Hibernie), apud Dundalke, per Jobannem de 
 Brimegbam, et INIiloncm de Verdona cum Scotis multis. Item, eodem anno, 
 occiditur apud Kos, Gilbcrtus de Rupe (justorum occisor, ct fidelium depre- 
 dator) per burgenses de Ros. Item, occiditur dominus Jobannes de Lyvet, per 
 Tolonenses, et O'Nolanis. Item, circa festum Epiplianie intei-ficiuntur per 
 O'Nolanos, Petrus de Recbeford, et Oliverus filius David le Grassc, et alii cir- 
 citer 80, de exercitu domini Arnaldi le Poer, qui ductor crat et princeps 
 eorum. 
 
 13 19. Occiditur Jobannes filius Donati O'Mortbe et alii fratres sui, pacis 
 et pacilicorum fidelium iinpugnator. Item, occiditur dominus Jobannes le Bo- 
 tiller, per satellites domini Willelmi de Brimegbam. 
 
 1320. Capitulum Kildarie in festo Sancti Jacobi apostoli. Item, occiditur 
 dominus Fulco de la Frene, per Willelmum et Sylvestrem de jMarisco et ceteros 
 satellites Edmundi Pincerne ; volens suos et fideles patrie salvare, ne eos spolia- 
 rent ; scilicet, die Dominica infra octavas beati Martini episcopi et confessoris. 
 Item, in estate piecedente fuit congiegatio pastoium diversarum terrarum versus 
 Terrain Sanctam, spe tamen frustrata, sine commodo qui supervixcrant redie- 
 runt. 
 
 1 32 1. Inter Edwardum 5 regem Anglic et baroniam fuit maxima discordia, 
 propter Hugoucm de Spenser, qui contra eos fovebatur ; et ipse Hugo per 
 baroniam cum suo patrc et fibo exulantur, sed non diu exilium tenuerunt, 
 reducti iteium per regem, et ditati excellenter. Item, circa festum Pbilippi et 
 Jacobi occiduntur de O'Koncbours, circiter 300, in confinio IMidie et Legcnie, 
 per Andieara de Brimegbam. Item, capitulum de Clare in festo Baptiste. 
 Item, dominus Jobannes Brimegbam fit justiciarius Hybernie. Item, Meylerus 
 le Poer cpiscopus Lebtlinensis consecratus Waterfordie, Dominica Palmaimm 
 precedente. 
 
 1320. Incepit universitas Dublinie, universitas quoad nomen, sed utinam 
 quoad factum et rem. 
 
 1 32 1. Obiit Edmundus Pincerna Londonii, in vigiba exaltacionls Sancte 
 Crucis, et in vigilia vigilie beati Martini episcopi ct confessoris, apud Baliga- 
 
 veran 
 
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 veran sepelitur. Item, erigitur novus chorus Kilkennie. Item, circa festum 
 Omnium Sanctorum obiit Willelmus filius Mauricii de Canteton. Item, 1321, 
 occisus est dominus Omfrey de Boun, comes Herfordie, die Sancti Patricii 
 apud Burbrigs, cum 2 militibus, per dominum Andream Harcley, quem idem 
 comes militem fecerat ; volens Andreas ex hoc regi placere, et placuit ; quare 
 rex eum coraitem fecerat de Karlel, nec tamen commodum magnum reporta- 
 vit ; quia infra 2 annos ipse fedus cum Scotis in secreto (ut dicitur), contraxit : 
 et per regem Anglie tractus et suspensus est. Item, die Lune proximo sequente, 
 "in crastino Sancti Benedicti, decapitatus est dominus Thomas comes Lancastrie, 
 Leycestrie, Salisbirie et Lincohiie, ac Ferers, filius adwunculi domini regis, et 
 advrmculus regis Francie, et regine Anglie, per regem Anglie et suos justicia- 
 rios, ad instigacionem Hugonis de Spenser, cujus exilium ipse fecit et procu- 
 ravit in communi parliamento Londoni. Item, in eadem quindena, dominus 
 Rogerus de Clifford, dominus Johannes Mounbrey, dominus Bartholomeus de 
 Baldismer, et alii milites et barones, circiter 26, de melioribus et potioribus 
 Anglie, suspensi et tracti sunt ; alii vero multi nobiles, barones, milites et armi- 
 geri capti in diversis carceribus Anglie retruduntur, et redimuntur multo precio 
 pro voluntate regis. 
 
 1322. In principio autumpni, obiit Ricardus de Brimegham, dominus de 
 Ahtnery. Item, Willelmus filius Reginaldi Conteton (maximus malefactorum et 
 depredator), Dominica ante festum beati JNIichaelis occiditur. Item, Sabbato, 
 in viffilia vigilie Sancti Luce ewangeliste occisi per O'Nolanis Andreas de Bri- 
 megham, et dominus Nicholaus de Lande cum suis. Item, isto anno, in au- 
 tumpno intravit Edwardus 5 Scotiam cum exercitu copioso valde, de quibus 
 multa milia fame perierunt ; nec tamen an parum profecerunt ; sed redeundo 
 captus dominus Johannes de Britannia, comes Richmondie. Item, circa Natale 
 vendebatur cranocus de sale, xx*. et plus. Item, 1322, in die Palmarum apud 
 Waterfordiam consecrantur Nicholaus Welyfed episcopus Waterfordie, Johannes 
 Lavnaht episcopus Lysmorensis, et episcopus Fynaborensis, eodem die et loco. 
 
 1323. Feria 6. infra octavas Pasche, occisus est Philippus Talon cum filio 
 et circiter 26 de O'Cod . . tanys per Edmundum le Botiller, rectorem de Tylaht 
 et Cantitonenses, qui eos de ccclesia extraxerunt, et ecclesiam de Thalmolyn 
 cum viris et mulieribus et pueris, et Sancti Molyng reliquiis combusserunt. 
 
 Item, intra festum Assumptionis et Nativitatis Virginis, captus fuit 
 
 Mac Mor[^a(/a] et Henricus O'Nolan interfectus, et alii circa 24, per dominum 
 
 Henricum 
 
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 Henricum Traharne, et alios de Valle. Item, in vigilia ad Winculorum Sancti 
 Petri proximo preccdente, dominus Rogerus de Mortuo Mari evasit de carcere 
 turns Londonii. 1323. Consecratum est altare magnum Fratrum Minorum Kil- 
 kennie. Ipso die, scilicet, 3°. Idas Januarli, deposisslo domini Koberti Scor- 
 thals. Item, in purificatione beate Marie applicuit dominus Johannes Darcy 
 justiciarius Hibernie, apud Dubliniam. Item in Ixx*- mortuus est dominus 
 Willelmus de Burgo junior. Item, in vigilia Benedictl abbatis, interficiuntur de 
 Hibernicis et malcfactoribus de yi[r]lert clrciter 200 per dominum Robcrtum, 
 filium Mathei Caunteton. 
 
 1324. Cii'ca Pcntccosten obilt in Scotia dominus Walterus de Lacy, de Hv- 
 bernia exulatus. Item, circa festum Baptiste obiit dominus Eymerus de Va- 
 lencia comes Penbrochi in Vasconia. Item, obiit Johannes primogcnitus domini 
 Thome comitis Kyldarie in Anglia, regi datus pro obside. Item, eodem anno, 
 scilicet 1324 die Lune in festo Processi et Martiani martyrum, domina Alicia 
 Kyteler, propter sortilegia diversa et heresim multimodara, et sacrificia demo- 
 nibus immolata, per fratrem Ricardum episcopum Ossoriensem, est heretica 
 judicata, probata et condemnata ; presentibus domino Johanne Darcy justi- 
 ciario Hybernie, Priore de Kylraaynan, Cancellario, Thesaurarlo, et Arnaldo 
 le Poer, senescallo Kylkennie, hoc videntibus. Item, circa translationem 
 Sancti Thome martyris occiditur dominus Walterus dc Valle cum fillo suo, per 
 illos de cognomine de Crok, juxta Ncnaht Ybreyn. Item, in crastino Anima- 
 rum, anno eodem, mulier quedam PetronlUa de Midla dicta de secta et doc- 
 trina predicte domine Allele supcrius memorate, fult de heresi, sortilegio et 
 sacrificlo demonlbus Immolato condemnata et igni tradita et combusta. A re- 
 tro autcra actls temporlbus non est visum vel audltum, quod quisplam pro heresi 
 penam mortis sustlneret in Hibernia ante ipsam. Prima hec omnium secundum 
 homlnum memoriam tunc viventium et rclatum, non dico quara sit quia in hoc 
 facinore prlmo pcccavlt, sed quia prlmo passa est mortis justum judicium prop- 
 ter heresim. Item, eodem anno circa festum Leonardi abbatls, mortuus est 
 dominus Johannes fillus Thome, frater domini Mauricli filli Thome. Miles iste 
 juvcnis juvcnum consllio ut plurlmum constlpatus, ductus et seductus, a proge- 
 nitorum ejus militia et vcstiglls dcgcncrans, pads extltlt non propugnator nec 
 defensor, sed expugnator. Item, hoc anno, scilicet 1324, fuit pestis gravis 
 boum et vaccarum, in multis locls Illbernle. Item, eodem anno ante Natale, 
 Amoldus le Poer tunc scnescallus Kilkennle, cum aliis dc comitatu eodem 
 
 tenult 
 
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 tenuit magnam gardam apiid Ynistyoke contra Rupenses, et eos fortiter obsessit, 
 et obsides coegit reddere de pace et fidelitate amodo tenenda. Item, eodem 
 
 anno die Jo\"is in octavis Sancti Hilarii, Willelmus Owtlau 
 
 de heresi irretitus, et notorie defamatus, et in pnrgacione deficiens, in ecclesia 
 beate Virginis Kilkennie, heresim publice abjuravit ; professionem novam legens, 
 et manu propria conscribens. Item, Dominica precedente, obiit frater David, 
 Prior de Inystyoke, vir venerabilis ac honorabilis multorum judicio apud Deum 
 et homines. 
 
 Item, anno Domini 1325, occiditur Dermlcius Oge M'Kartby rex Desmonie, 
 per Willelmum filinm Nicholai filii Mauricii, apud Traly. 1325, fuit discordia 
 ut communiter inter religiosos panperes Hybernie quasi omnes, quidam eorum 
 nacionis sue et sanguinis et lingue partem tenentes et foventes ac promo- 
 Yentes ; alii prelacionis et superioritatis officia ambientes. 1325, die Lune in 
 festo beati Dominici confessoris, occisus fuit domlnus Johannes de Barry de 
 Hely, miles strenuus et frequenter probatus in arrais, per O'Carwyllis. 1325, 
 die dominico in crastino octav : Sancti Laurentii occiditur Dovenaldus DuiF 
 M"^ Gilpadricke per suos consanguineos, sed prodiciose. Item, eodem anno Jo- 
 hannes de Brimegham, et Thomas le Botiller collegerunt exercitum super 
 O'Carwyll ; qui hoc anno vix reliquit domum, castrum aut villam in Elycar- 
 wyll, inter Anglicos et pacis amatores, quin combussit et destruxit. 1325, in 
 Pentecoste, capitulum generale celebratum Lugduni ; uhi loca de Cork, Boton, 
 Lymyric et Tartdart aufer[un]tur ab Hybernicis fratribus, et Anglicis, et quinta 
 custodia assignatur, cum ante tantum fuissent 4 custodie. Item, eodem anno 
 feria quinta in crastino sanctorum martyrum Dionisii &c. ; occiditur Willelmus, 
 filius Ricardi le Butiller, cum multis aliis in Totmonia. Item, eodem anno, 
 circa festum Sancti Thome apostoli Bren O'Bren, vallatus auxilio Anglicorum 
 de Ely, cepit magnam predam in Ossoria, in confinio de Slesblanie, et super 
 Athbo et Admacart ; et interfecerunt fideles Anglicos circa del'ensionem bono- 
 rum suorum. Item, eodem anno die Lune in festo Epiphanie, in sero fuit 
 ventus validissimus et tempestas prosternens domos et edificia, denudans eccle- 
 sias et monasteria, frangens et evellens radicitus arbores et campanilia multa, 
 dispergens tassos bladorum et horrea. Eodem die Dublinie fuerunt facti duo 
 milites de ordine Hospitalariorum. 
 
 Item, anno 1326, in festo apostolorum Philippi et Jacobi (quod accidit die 
 Ascensionis), occiditur per O'Carwillis, dominus Matheus de Mylbome, miles 
 
 IRISH ARCH. see. D probus 
 
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 piobus et priulens, nacionc Anglicus, scd usu loquendl Gallicus, Gallicum tantiim 
 loquens. Annus autem iste siccus fuit ultra modum Hybernie consuetum ; sic 
 quod in yeme quasi parum pluvie fuit, in vere estate et autumpno quasi 
 nichil, tanta fuit siccitas et tantus calor, quod fontes et magni rivuli (ubi sem- 
 per emanabant aque copiose) penitus siccabantur. 
 
 Anno 1326. Die Martis ante festum Petri adVincula, obiit dominus Ricardus 
 de Burgo comes Ultonie et dominus Connaccie, apud Athyssell ; miles prudens, 
 facetus, dives et sapiens, plenus dierum ; de isto coramuniter fuit dictum, quod 
 lilias ejus nobiliter graciose et excellenter maritavit ; nam, unam Roberto de Brus, 
 qui tunc preerat regno Scotorum ; alteram comiti Glovemie ; tertiam comiti Kyl- 
 darie ; quartam comiti de Lowht ; quintam domino Mauricio filio Thome ; sex- 
 tam sed seniorem domino Thome de Multon maritavit ; filium filii sui rcliquit 
 heredem Willelmum Johannis de Burgo filii sui et filie comitis Glovemie. Item, 
 codem anno die Lunc in crastino Exaltacionis, obiit dominus Willelmus filius 
 Johannis, quondam episcopus Ossoriensis ; sed postmodum in archiepiscopum 
 Cassellensem translatus ; vir potens et dives, ac venerabilis in populo et in clero. 
 Item, eodem die occisi fuenmt de hominibus deCathyrlaht et patria ilia circiter 
 80, per O'Morchys. 1326. viii° Kal: Octobris, applicuit domina Isabella regina 
 Anglicorum cum filio suo Edwardo primogenito, de Francia, et vallata auxilio 
 comitis Hanaudie, et domini Rogeri de Mortuo Mari ; ceperunt Hugonem de 
 Spenser coniitem Wyntonie apud BristoUum, et eum ibi judicialiter fecerunt 
 trahi, suspendi et decapitari, in quindena beati Michaelis. Et in vigilia bcate 
 Katarine virginis eodem anno, dominum Hugonem de Spenser juniorem, qui 
 filiam duxerat et heredem comitis Glovemie; et eum apud Hcrcfordiam simill 
 pena cum patre suo occiderunt, et eum trahi fecemnt, suspendi et decapitari, 
 et membratim dividi, et quarteria sua ad 4 Anglle angulos transmisemnt, 
 capud mlttentes Londoniam pro spectaculo. Item, eodem tempore, dominus 
 Waltems Stapleton, episcopus Exonieusis, et thesaurarius Anglic, Londonils est 
 decapltatus per elves, quia erat de parte secta et consilio Dispensatomm, qui 
 nitebantur reginam et filium ejus destruere (postea regem), et de terra delere, 
 ut dlccbatur. Item, anno eodem, in communl parllamcnto Londonii circa Epi- 
 phanlam deponitur Edwardus quintus communl assensu clerl et popnli, cui 
 successit Edwardus vi"* filius ejus, 16 annorura ; coronatus Londonii Domi- 
 nica in vigilia Purlficatlonls beate ^^^ginis, anno Domini 1326. Obiit autem 
 iste dcpositus Edwardus in castro de Berclcy detentus, in festo sanctorum niar- 
 
 tyrum 
 
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 tyrum Eustacii et sociorum ejus proximo post ejus deposltionem et sepultus est 
 apud Gloverniam. 
 
 Item, anno 1327, in festo Sancte Trinitatis, occiditur Symon Purcyl, time 
 in officio \-icecomitis Kylkennie, per O'Brennanis, et alii cum eo fere 20. 1327, 
 Dominica scilicet prima de Adventu, et in vigilia beati Andree apostoli, com- 
 busta est villa et fere tota bai'onia de Keulys in Ossorla, per domlnum Willel- 
 mum de Brimegham et Geraldinos, homines, scilicet, domini Mauricii filii 
 Thome; et illo die ad octo dies combustum et destructum fuitGrasiscastel, cum 
 toto territorio in circuitu ; et fuit guerra sevissima inter Geraldinos, Brimeg- 
 hamys et sua[m] seq[uela[m] ex parte una, contra Poerinos et illos de Burgo 
 ex parte altera. Tunc unanimiter contra Poerinos insurrexerunt Geraldini, Bri- 
 
 meghamys sua potentia et illi de Valle, et de Sancto Albino, et 
 
 Ketyngys, cum multis aliis nacionibus, et multos Poerinorum occiderunt, et 
 fere omnes eormu terras combusserunt et destruxerunt. 
 
 1328. Feria 3* post Pascha, Nonas scilicet Aprihs, oblit dominus Thomas 
 filius Joliannis, comes Ivildarie, justiciarius tunc Hibernie, apud Maynoht. 
 Item, die Martis pridie Idus Aprilis anno eodem, occiditur apud Bargum, Wil- 
 lelmus filius Johannis de Rupe, cum aliis malefactoribus, hominibus et consan- 
 guineis suis, de loco Predicatorum extractis. Item 1 1 Kal : ejusdem mensis et 
 anni, occiditiu: Petrus Poer, filius et heres baronis de DonhuUe, cum aliis de 
 cognomine suo circa 12, per familiam domini Mauricii fihi Thome ; et illo die 
 occiditur dominus Johannes fiUus Geraldi, in eodem conflictu. Item, eodem 
 anno, 5° Kal : Junii, in vigilia Trinitatis obiit dominus Willelmus de Sancto 
 Leodegario. 1328, capitur et occiditur in vigilia vigilie beati Mathei apostoli 
 Johannes fiUus Benedicti le Poer, dominus de Rahtgormocke et Kylmydan, per 
 Cantitonenses ; et cito post obierunt Kateiina filia Mauricii, uxor ejusdem, et 
 heres eorum, apud Ros. 
 
 1327. Romani, cum Lodowyco duce Bavarie in Imperatorem electum. — 
 [Original hath a blank here — in margine.'] 
 
 1328. Edwardus rex Anglie (post conquestima) tercius, fecit fratrem suum 
 (Johannem de Eltam dictum), comitem Cornubie, dominumRogerum de Mortuo 
 Mari, comitem Marchie, et dominum Jacobum le Botiller, comitem Ermonie. 
 Item, 1328, circa festum Michaelis, Willelmus de Burgo comes Ultonie, in 
 AngUa educatus, cum Matilda uxore ejus, filia domini Henrici comitis Lancas- 
 trie, et consanguinea ipsius, ex dispensacione curie disponsati, quia erant in 
 
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 3° et 4° gradu affinltatis, venerunt ad Hibemiam ; hie crat filius Johannis de 
 Burgo, filii Ricardl, et Ellzabethe, filie Gilbcrti de Clare ; ciii tertia pars terra- 
 rum comitis Glovernie competebat, ex parte matris sue ipsius P>lizabethe. 
 
 1328. Dominica in crastino Agnetis secundo, obiit dominus Johannes le 
 Peer, baro de Dunhulle. Item, eodera anno scilicet ultimo die Februarii, die 
 Martis, combustum est Cumbyr, per dominum Willelmum de Brimegham. 
 
 1328. 2 Idus Martii, die scilicet Martis ante festum Patricii, obiit Dublinie 
 dominus Arnaldus le Poer. 
 
 1329. Die Veneris in festo Tiburcii et Susanna combustum fuit Drumhyr- 
 thyr in vigllia vigilie Palmarura, per O'Brenanys ; et die Lune post, per Do- 
 natum Gilpatrick, combusta patria de Moyarfe et spoliata. 
 
 1329. Die Lune in vigilia Brandani abbatis, occiduntur per Riipenses et 
 BaiTcnses Jacobus filius Roberti filii Jacobi Ketyng, cum aliis de suo cogno- 
 niine ; dominus Pliilippus Hoddinnet, Hugo Canteton, cum multis de sanguine 
 eorum, circiter 140, tarn de sanguine, quam de familia eorum. 
 
 1329. In vigilia Pentccostcs, et beati Barnabe apostoli, dominus Johannes 
 de Brimegham, comes de Lowht occiditur, contra cum conspiravemnt omnes de 
 comitatu suo, nolentes eum regnare super eos ; concilium fccerunt in unum, et 
 in multitudine magna annatorum congregati, nulli de familia ejus parcentes, eum 
 cum 160 et amplius, cum 2 I'ratribus ejus, et de cognomine ipsius circa novem 
 interfecerunt. In ista strage et eodem die Cam O'Kayrwill, famosus ille timpa- 
 nista et cytharista, in arte sua fenix, ea pollens prerogatlva et virtute, cum aliis 
 
 tympanistis discipulis ejus circiter 20 ibidem occubuit. Iste vocatus 
 
 Cam O'Kayrwyll, quia luscus erat nec habebat oculos rectos, sed oblique respi- 
 ciens, et si non fuerat artis musice cordalis primus inventor, omnium tamen 
 predecessorum et precedentiura ipsum, ac contemporancorum, corrector, doctor 
 et director extitit. Item in vigilia vimlie Columbe abbatis obiit Robertus de 
 Brus rex Scotorum, in armis strenuus, in bellicis negotiis doctus et expertus ; 
 vulgari et communi relatu, in hiis vix in orbe parem habens. Item, eodem anno 
 in crastino Johannis et Pauli, die scilicet Martis, occiduntur per Poerinos, Gilber- 
 
 tus etRemundus de Valle, Robertus O'Ncyle, cum aliis quasi Item, eodem 
 
 anno, Dominica in crastino Magdalene, occiditur Malahtlyng O'Konkour, non 
 marte sed arte prodiciosa, per Malmorthe filium fratris sui, cujus patrcm quoque 
 principera de Offaly (ut regnaret) exulavit, cujus et filium Dermoyd Oge, et in- 
 terficientis se fratrem, occiderat prodiciose, et sic ars deluditur arte. Item, eodem 
 
 die 
 
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 die occiduntur de O'Dymyscy circlter 200. post mortem ipsius Malahtlyn pa- 
 triam ut eam spoliarent intrantes, et in eodem die, ibidem occiduntui- de 
 O'Donyn septemdecim. 
 
 1329. In prima hebdomada Augusti, Breyn O'Breyn villas de Atbyssell et 
 Tyberary combussit, atque totam patriam in circuitu vastavit spoliavit et de- 
 stnixit. Item, Sabbato ante festum Laurencii, occiditur per O'Nolanys, David 
 le BotiUer, juxta Cathyrlabt. 
 
 1329. Cii'ca festum Sancti Petri ad Vinciila, obiit Londoniis Johannes 
 M'' Carwyll, primo episcopus Corcagiensis, postea Midensis, postremo factus 
 archiepiscopus Casselensis, de Curia Romana rediens. Item, ^'^ eodem anno, 
 dominus Jacobus pincerna Hibernie, per Edwardum Anglie regem post Nor- 
 mannorum conquestum tertium, factus est comes Ormonie Et domimis 
 Mauricius filius Thome per eundem, eodem anno, Desmonie comes est creatus. 
 Item, eodem anno, in vigilia beati Laurencii martyris, dominus Thomas le Bo- 
 tiUer cum aliis circiter 100 per M*^Hokegan juxta Molingar occiditur. Item, 
 eodem anno, 14 Kal: Augusti, Breyn O'Breyn apiid Yrlef, interfecit de exercitu 
 Willelmi de Burgo comitis Ultonie, Walterum filium Hillarii de Burgo, Konkur 
 O'Breyn, Nicholaum M"^ Nemare, cum aliis nobilibus de Totmonia. Item, 
 eodem anno, Dominica ante festum Mathei apostoli, sole existente in Libra, 
 castrum de Leye captum est per O'Dymyscy. Item, eodem anno die Martis, in 
 vigilia Cicilie virginis, dominus Henricus Traharue, et Laurencius frater domini 
 Jacobi le BotiUer, per O'Nolan sunt capti ; ob quam rem dominus Jacobus pin- 
 cerna coUecto nobili exercitu, die Jovis in crastino Lucie virginis, et die Veneris 
 sequente, terras eorum, et patriam fere totaliter ignis combustione vastavit. 
 
 1329. Idus Martii, captus est Eadmundus comes Cantii ; et in crastino Ed- 
 wardi regis et martyris decapitatus est apud Wincestriam, objecta sibi proditione, 
 scilicet quod regem capere et occidere niteretur, ut dicebant. 
 
 1330. In festo Philippi et Jacobi occiditur dominus Jacobus Beufo, cum 
 aliis fidelibus plebanis circiter 120, per Breyn O'Breyn. Item, die Lune in 
 vigilia vigilie beati Alexi confessoris, anno eodem fuit eclypsis solis ; et illo tem- 
 pore, dominus Willelmus de Burgo comes Ultonie coUegit exercitum copiosum 
 Ultoniensium et Connactenensium ; et dominus Jacobus le BotiUer suum exer- 
 citum [duxit] super Breyn O'Breyn ; eo quod eorum terras et patriam distrux- 
 isset. Qui omnes parmn profecerunt contra eum ilia vice ; sed sine magno lucro 
 vel dampno, dedecore vel honore ad sua sunt reversi. Item, die Mercurii sequent! 
 
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 in vigilia vigilie beate Margarete virginis, in predicta congregatione, juxta 
 Moyalby, idem comes Ultonic fecit Walterum de Brimegham, et alium de sua 
 familla milites. Doininus Waltcrus, dominum Ricardum do la Rokcl, et dorai- 
 nuin Gilbertum de Brimegbam ; et comes llermonle fecit domino;? Eadmunduin 
 Ic Botiller, Robertum et Patriciiun Travers milites; et dominus Willebnus de 
 Biimegliain, fecit dominos Joliannem de Sancto Albino, et Jobanncm Monsel 
 milites eodcm tempore et loco. Item, eodem anno, natus est Ileuricus primo- 
 genitus regis Edwardi tertii post conquestum ; [et postea, mutato nomine Ed- 
 wardus appellatur, iste Edwardus fuit pater regis Richardi, qui Ricliardus primo 
 vocabaturJobanne?, — in marf/ine!] Item, eodem anno, Dominica in festo Vitalis 
 et Agricolc, occiditur apud Kilkenniam, Donatus fiiius Galfridi M*^ Gilpatiike. 
 Item, in die Martis sequenti, in festo Sancti Leonardi natus est Jobannes pri- 
 mogenitus Jacobi Ic Botiller, comitis Ormonie, apud Atbur. Item, anno eodem, 
 Dominica in festo beate Katerine, fuit vehemcns ventus et borribilis ; et Domi- 
 nica in vigilia nativitatis Domini ventus consimilis, qiu tassos dispersit, domos 
 distruxit, et mala multa fecit. Isle annus fuit omnibus hominibus contrarius et 
 charus ; et multi fame perierunt. Nam cranocus frumenti in hyeme, marca 
 vendehatur, et ultra ; sed propter bladum de partibiis extraneis, parum ultra 
 valuit in estate ; a Mayo usque Februarium I'uit bumidus, pluviosus nimis et 
 ventosus, ita ut cstas et autumpnus in byemalem tempestatem fere vidcbatur 
 converti. Item in vigilia Circumcisionis, Ricardus O'Nolan, in campanili mo- 
 nacborum de Dowsky fuit obsessus, et filium suum in obsidem dare compulsus 
 est. Item, anno eodem, morti damnatur R. de Mortuo Mari comes Marcbie, 
 ante Natalc Domini. Item, obiit Waltcrus le Rede, arcbicpiscopus Cassellensis, 
 et Robertas de Brimegbam, [circa Purificationem, — in marr/ine.^ Item, anno 
 eodem, ante Dominican! Annunciationis, dominus Tbomas de Dene capitur per 
 Hibernlcos, et vulneratur, aliquibus de familia sua pcremptis ; et ipse, die Jovis 
 in crastino Sancti Aniceti pape et martyris sequenti, de vulnere accepto obiit. 
 Item, circa idem tempus, occiduntur duo filii domini David Beket, per satellites 
 domini Willelmi de Brimegbam. 
 
 133 1. Die Lune in crastino Tiburcii et Valeriani, occiduntur de Mac Mor- 
 cbada et O'Brynnys juxta Weysfordiam, per illos de patria ilia, plusquam ducenti. 
 
 1 33 1. Die Mcrcurii in vigilia beate Martbe [beatl Marci] ewangeliste, occi- 
 duntur per O'Tliobyl, dominus Pbilippus le Brit, et fdius ejus, et unus tcmpla- 
 rius de Geraldinis, et alii valentes Anglici de patria, circiter 30. Item, eodem 
 
 anno, 
 
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 anno, die Mercurii infra octavas Pentecostes Willelmus Haket apud Yorlys, cum 
 aliis de patria interficerunt de hominibus Breyn O'Breyn, et aliis Hibernicis circi- 
 ter 50, et ipse idem Willelmus eodem die et loco occiditur. Item, eodem anno, do- 
 minus Willelmus de Brimegham cum sua familia occupavit tenuit et mansit in 
 sylva monachorum de Dowsky in estate, et ibidem dominus Eustatbius le Poer 
 die Mercurii in festo Gervasii et Protbasii desponsa%'it filiam Johannis de Brime- 
 gham, comitis de Lowht ; et Sabbato proximo sequenti, interfecti sunt 9 de 
 Rupensibus ; inter quos interfectus fuit David filius David filii Alexandri de 
 
 Fermoy et alii cum eis 19. Et captus est filius Georgii de Rupe, 
 
 gener domini Willelmi Brimegham de nupciis versus Fernegylan redeundo. 
 Eodem anno venit dominus Antonius de Lucy, justiciarius in Hyberniam, circa 
 festum Trinitatis. Item, circa idem tempus obiit Ricardus filius Thome, fihus 
 et heres comitis Kyldarie, etatis circiter 15 annonun. Item, eodem anno, in 
 vigilia Alexandri confessoris, satellites Willelmi de Brimegham cum Cantitonen- 
 sibus et Hibernicis, 24 homines de villa Thome et Jeriponte occiderunt, et mala 
 multa in patria ilia fecerunt isto anno. Item, eodem anno, scilicet 1331, Mau- 
 ricius filius Thome comes Desmonie, et Willelmus de Brimegham die Lune, 
 in festo Benedicti confessoris, pacem cum predicto Antonio justiciario, pro 
 guerra sua fecerunt et tactis Evangeliis et Sanctorum reliquiis, ac Cliristi corpore 
 adducto, juraverunt pacem et fidelitatem domino regi et populo de cetero ser- 
 vare. Multi etiam de secta eorum hoc tempore pacem gravi rederaptione com- 
 paraverunt. Ubi proclamatum fuit, quod nulla de cetero pro morte Anglici 
 redemptio et pax concederetur. Eodem die juxta Balligaveran occiduntur et 
 capiuntur Cantonenses. Item, isto anno, circa festum Johannis Baptlste projecti 
 sunt ad terram in portu Dublinie, juxta villara, multi et grandes pisces marini, 
 . . . . et innumerabiles, quot non vidit etas hominum in Hibernia tunc viventium ; 
 erant in longitudine 40 pedum, quidam 30 ; ita quod quidam illorum vix nec 
 virtute hominum, vel robore jumentorum de loco trahi poterant; et tante erant 
 quidam altitudinis, ut duobus hominibus longis circa unum piscem stantibus, ex 
 una et altera parte ventris [neuter] alterum videre poterat. Item, anno eodem, 
 dominus Mauricius filius Thome, infra quindenam post pacem sibi concessam 
 per eundem justiciarium, apud Limiricum est captus, et in custodia sua de- 
 tentus ; et vi. Kal. Martii apud Clonmele capiuntur per eundem domini Wil- 
 lelmus et Walterus Brimegham. 
 
 133 1. Die Lune in festo beati Hillarionis abbatis, occiditur Ricardus filius 
 
 Philippi 
 
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 Pliilippi O'Nolan, per Pincemam et suos consanguineos. Item, eodem anno, 
 die Veneris, in festo beate Cecllie virginis, per dorainum NicKolaum Waterfor- 
 densem eplscopuni, confectum [consccratum ?] est novum cimitcriura extra 
 ecclesiam Fratrum Minorum Kylkenie. 
 
 Item, 1 33 1, circa festiim Omnium Sanctorum, oblit Dubliuie, Katerina de 
 Burgo, uxor Mauricii filii Thome. Item, eodem anno, circa festum Lucie vir- 
 ginis, occiditur Jordanus Caunteton et alii de cognomine suo, per Brein de 
 Nathyrlah. Item, hoc anno, dominus Willelmus de Burgo comes Ultonic cepit 
 et incarceravit Walterum de Burgo et fratres ejus, in castro de Knockfergus. 
 Item, eodem anno, natus est Jacobus, filius Jacobi le Botiller apud Kylkenniam, 
 in festo beati Francisci. 
 
 1332. Cecidit campanile Sancti Kannici, Kylkennie, et magna pars chori, 
 vestlbulum capcllarum, et campanas, et meremium confregit, die Veneris, 1 1 
 Kal : Junii ; unde horrlbilc et iniserabile spectaculum erat contuentibus. 
 
 1332. Antonius do Lucy, justiciarius, in crastino Tiinitatis coUecto exercitu 
 castrum de Clonmore reparavit et renovavit ; et in principlo autumpni imme- 
 diate sequentis, castmim de Arclo reedifica\'it. Item, eodem anno, in festo Pii 
 pape, die Sabbati Dublinie suspenditur dominus Willelmus de Brimegham, 
 miles strenuus et bellicosus, miles audax et inperteritus. Eodem vero tem- 
 pore, castrum de Bonrat (quod multorura judicio incxpugnablle videbatur) ; 
 per O'Brein et M'' Nemare destruitur. 
 
 1332. Fuit guerra inter Edwardum de Bayloyle et Scotos ; et multi Scoto- 
 rum, per ipsum et Anglicos sunt intcrfecti. Item, eodem anno, obiit in carcere 
 Walterus de Burgo. Item, isto anno, post festmn Omnium Sanctorum, comes 
 Ormonie et Geraldini et [i?«]rgudiui, cum populo communi guerram habue- 
 runt, contra Bren O'Bren ; et multos de suis occiderunt valde, et magnas predas 
 ab CO et suis ceperunt. 
 
 1333. In principio mensis Junii, Scanlei M"^ Gylpatrick prodiciose, post 
 multa et iterata sacramenta super diversis libris, et sanctorum multiplicibus re- 
 liquiis, duos filios Fynyn M'^ Gylpatrickc avuncull sui cepit et interfccit ; et 
 tercium cxoculavit et castravit. Item, eodem anno, sexto die Julii in octabis 
 Trlnitatis, Willelmus de Burgo, comes Ultonie dominusque Connactie, juxta 
 Cnokfergus per suos armigeros (in quibus confidcbat), prodiciose occiditur. 
 Hujus autcm scelcrls autores erant, Johannes de Logan, Robertus filius Ricardi 
 Mandevylc, Robertus filius Martini Mandevylc, qui tamen breve et momenta- 
 
 neum 
 
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 neum ex hoc solacium sunt consequti ; nam Hibemlcis se jungentes (qui semper 
 Anglicorum et fidelium persecutoribus receptores amici et defensores esse so- 
 lent), infra menses duos, per Joliannem de ]\Iandevyle et paucos de patria, 
 ccc. et amplius uno die occidimtur. Hoc malum, ut assolet, per mulierem, 
 scilicet Gyle de Burgo, uxorem domini Ricardi de INIandevyle dicebatur perpe- 
 tratum ; eo quod fratrem ejus Walterum de Burgo, et alios incarceravit. Hie 
 comes subtilissimi erat ingenii, reipublice et pacis amator, 20 annorum etatis, 
 unicam et unius anni filiam relinquens heredem. Item, feiia quinta post 
 octabas Trinitatis, tempore parliamenti occiditur apud Dubliniam IMurkyht 
 Nicol Othotliyl, cum in turma et inter multitudinem ambularet, occisore in- 
 cognito clam fugente, et in tmha latltante ; et hoc Dei justo judicio, qvii 
 multos male ipse fideles occiderat ante. 
 
 Item, comissa sunt multa dira bella inter Anglicos et Scotos ; ubi et multa 
 .milia Scotorum sunt occisa, duce Anglicorum Edwardo de Bayllol, qui plus 
 nominis in hiis expedicionibus liabuit quam facti, qvii Scotiam sibi jure vendi- 
 ca\'it hereditario, David filio regis Roberti Brus (qui vivente patre rex Scotie 
 coronatur) in Norwangia fugiente ; Scotis ad insulas remotas, sed fuge presidio 
 se tuentibus. Item, eodem anno, die Sabbati in crastino Sancti Remigii epis- 
 copi occiditur Galfridus de la Frene (qui heredem de Obargi, Johannam Pur- 
 eel duxerat in uxoi-em), per O'^Iorthys de Slemargys. Et die Veneris se- 
 quenti fit miles Thomas Cantewel, apud Yrlef per Jacobum le Botiller. Item, 
 circa Epiphaniam, apud Tyberary occiditur Willelmus Carraght O'Bren, de 
 Nathyrlaght ; homo perversus et malus, male vixit, malo fine vitam finivit, 
 semper in insidiis, semper in furtis, semper in spoliis et homicidiis vivcns. 
 Item, pridie Non : Marcii, Dominica quarta, scilicet, xl^. obiit frater Adam 
 de Callan, gardianus de Ros, vir gratiosus et dilectus, qui xxiiij. annis continue 
 fuit gardianus apud Ros. 
 
 1334. In festo Tibertii et Valerianl, inceperant Burgenses Kylkennie pavi- 
 mentum Kylkennie facere, scilicet, die Jovis. Item, die Dominico in vigilia 
 beati Marci ewangehste, Thomas Fanyn intravit castrum de Moytobyr, et occu- 
 pavit ; ejectis inde hominibus domini Eustachii le Poer et exclusis. Et pro 
 castri defensione, eadem ebdomada occiderunt castri custodes, Remundum et 
 David de Angulo, et Thomam Roht-Grasse ; et Sabbato sequenti compulsi sunt 
 reddere castrum Jacobo comitl Ermonie tanquam domino comitatus, et in 
 manu media, donee discuteretur quis pinguius jus haberet. 
 
 IRISH AKCH. sec. E Item, 
 
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 Item, Kal: August! David filius David de Barry, dominus de Olethan 
 
 in Desmonla, per Donatum Carbraht M'^ Karthey capitur, interfectis c. de horai- 
 nibus suis ipso die. Item, Sabbato in vigilia beati Augustini, dominus Jo- 
 hannes de Sancto Albino, dominus de Cumcy, per filios AValteri de Sancto 
 Albino (in quibus confidebat), in capella propria occiditur prodiciose. Item, 
 circa Epiphaniam, Guydo Canteton, propter multa mala sua opera, que ab pue- 
 ritia gessit inique, rapinas, scilicet, sacrilegia, dcpredaciones, incendia et homi- 
 cidia, Dublinie patibulo patris sui hereditatem invite suscepit ; et in eodem 
 ligno cum patre suo vitam finivit. Item, in ebdomada ante Purificationem per 
 viii. dies fuit nix magna, animalibus multum nociva, scd hominibus plus in- 
 festa et mala, ut quosdam ex eis (ut ita dicam) incendio occidit ; multo? muti- 
 lavit, infinites graviter et plus solito inflacione pedum, pena et vulneribus 
 afflixit ; molendina, gurgites et pontes ex glaciei dissolucione confregit et de- 
 struxit. Hec horainum passio, occisio et mutilacio fuit die Martis, scilicet ulti- 
 mo die Januarii, et maxime propter leporum venacionem. 
 
 1335. Die Jovis in crastino Invencionis Sancte Crucis, occiditur dominus 
 Remundus le Ercedckne, cum duobus filiis suis Patricio et Silvestro, dominus 
 Willelmus Ic Ercedckne et de illo cognomine xi. per Leyatli O'^Iortlie, filios 
 et familiam suam in parliament© apud Clar-Goly ; et Thomas de Bathe, Geral- 
 dus Bagot, et alii, usque circiter quinquaginta. Hie Remundus cum duobus 
 primogenitis ejus, et domino Willelmo avunculo suo, et aliis tribus de cogno- 
 mine eorum, in septem feretris simul et continue per villam Kilkennie, cum 
 multorum planctu ad locum Fratrum IMinomm deferuntur tumulandi. Item, 
 dominus Jacobus comes Ermonie, et dominus Mauricius filius Thome comes 
 Desmonie, et alii nobiles Hibernie, duce eorum Johaunc Darcy tunc justiciario 
 Hibernie, post assumpcionem Marie, Scotiam intra verunt cum Ivi. navibus ; 
 et spoliatis, combustis et subjugatis insulis de Aron et Bote, ac obsidibus ac- 
 ceptis, indempncs ad Hibcrniam sunt reversi. Pro isto autcm passagio, de 
 carucata qualibet pacifica Hibernie, dabantur duo solidi, a clero decima bono- 
 rum suorum,a civitatibus et villis magnis,subsidium compctens ad regis rogatum ; 
 sic ne in consequcnciam vcl consuetudinem duceretur. Item, eodem tempore 
 occiditur dominus David Beket, per O'Brj'nnys. Item, die Mercurii in octabis 
 beati Francisci, dominus Jacobus comes Ermonie intravit terras O'Brynnis de 
 Duffvr, spoliavit et combussit, et fecit ibidem Fulconem de la Frene militem ; 
 et dominus Fulco fecit domiuos Gregorium de la Launde, et Matheum filium 
 
 Oliveri 
 
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 Oliveri milites ipso die et loco. Item, die Jovip, in die Animarura, capiuntur 
 per O'Karwillys, dominus Ricardus de Mareys, dominus Robertus Travers, et 
 dominus Robertus filius David ; occiditur Johannes le Brit cum aliis. 
 
 Item, die Jovis, in crastino Lucie virginis, erecta magna crux in medio fori 
 Kilkennie ; hoc tempore multi ad crucem volantes, crucis signo cum ferro 
 candenti super nudam carnem sunt signati, ut in Terram Sanctam vadant. 
 Item, die Mercurii in octabis beati Johannis apostoli, dominus Mauricius filius 
 Thome comes Desmonie, fecit vii. milites juxta Greyn, in expedicione super 
 Bren O'Bren. Item, dominus Alexander Bigenor, arclnepiscopus Dublinie 
 incepit diocesim Ossorie visitare, que a xl. annis ante per nullum metropolita- 
 num ordinarie fuerat visitata ; scilicet, die Lune in festo beati Vincencii. 
 
 1336. Die Jovis, iii. Idus Aprilis, occiditur magister Howelus de Bathe, 
 archidiaconus Ossorie (vir literatus et largus), cum Andrea Avenel, et Adam 
 .de Bathe, per O'Bryinys de Duffyr, circa defensionem bonorum ecclesie, et 
 parochie sue. Item, tercio die Junii, dominus Jacobus conies Ermonie contulit 
 Fratribus Minoribus castrum suum et locum de Carrig. Item, die Sabbati, in 
 vigilia beati Johannis Baptiste, Brien O'Bryn combussit villam et ecclesiam de 
 Tyberary, cum hominibus et mulieribus. Item, die Sabbati in festo apostolorum 
 Petri et Pauli, ingressus fratrum primus in locum de Carrig ; fratre Stephano 
 de Barry ministro ; fratre Willelmo Nasse custode, et fratre Clyn, primo tunc 
 gardiano. Item, in estate ilia fuit guerra inter dominum Fulconem de la 
 Frene, tenentem et foventem partem Anglicorum Ossorie, et Leysaght O'Morthe ; 
 que ortum habuit ex morte domini Remundi Lercedekne et suorum ; nam idem 
 O'Morthe omnes Hibemicos communiter totius Momonie et Lagenie, suasio- 
 nibus, promissionibus et muneribus alexit ad guerram ; solum autem Scanlan 
 M"" Gilpatricke et Herry O'Ryan partem tenebant Anglicorum et pacis. Item, 
 eadem estate in vigilia beati Jacobi appostoli occiditur dominus Mathias filius 
 Henrici, et alii de comitatu Weysefordie fideles, circiter cc. per M*^ Morcada, 
 et O'Brynns. Item, die Lune in crastino nativitatls Marie, fuit bellum et duel- 
 lum assignatum, inter cognatos domini Johannis de Sancto Albino, et filios 
 Walteri de Sancto Albino ; nam ambe partes domino Justiciario manuceperunt 
 ipso die pugnare ; sed filii Walteri finem et exitum prodicionis sue timentes et 
 vincdictam, pugnare renuerunt. Item, xiiii. Kal : Decembris, Walterus Oge de 
 Sancto Albino, per Johannem de Recheford interficitur, et filios ejus. Item, in 
 vigilia vigilie beati Andree appostoli, occiduntur Johannes Cumcy et Thomas de 
 
 E 2 Sancto 
 
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 Sancto Albino, per filios Waltcii de Sancto Albino. Item, die Lixnc in festo 
 Fabianl et Sebastian!, Jacobus Ic Botiller apud Roscre fecit Joliannem de 
 Recheford ct Galfridura Scbortlialis milites. 
 
 1337. Dominica de passione, scilicet viij°. Idus Apiilis, consecratur Maurl- 
 cius de Roclieford cplscopus Lymerici, apud Lymericum. Item, die Lune in 
 crastino beati Lawrencii, miles efiicitur Henricus de Valle per Pincernam in 
 expcdicione super O'Brynnis, apud Arclo. Item, die Martis in festo Kalixti 
 papc, applicuit Dublinie dominus Johannes Scharlyngton justiciarius Ilibcrnic, 
 cum germano sue, domino Thoma Herefordensl eplscopo, cancellario, et Wallicis 
 circiter cc. sagittariis. Item, eodem anno, obiit apud Baligaveran, dominus 
 Jacobus le Botiller, primus comes Hermonie ; vir liberalis et amicabllis, facetus 
 et decorus, in flore juventutis flos emarcuit xii. Kal: Marcii, die Martis in sero. 
 
 Item, anno Domini 1338, dominus Eustacliius le Poer in vigilia Assensionis 
 Domini, tunc seneschallus Kilkennle, attacliia\'it ct incarceravit dominum 
 Fulconem et OUvcrum de la Frene, nulla eis ostcnsa causa capcionis ; qui 
 timcntcs potius malitiam ejus et vlncdictam, quam justitie rigorem ; Oliverus 
 die Assensionis prudcntcr dc castro evasit, et in crastino congregatis hominibus 
 et amicis eorum, cum manu valida portas castri Kilkcnnye confregerunt et do- 
 minum Fulconem inde, invito senescallo, eduxerunt. Item, eodem anno in 
 festo Baptiste Edwardus tercius post conquestum Anglie, cum magno exercitu 
 regni sui, ct preter illos, cum aliis centum millibus, et xli. millibus (ut nuncii 
 
 referunt), contra rcgem Francorum, Alemaine partes intravit. Item, 
 
 ultimo die Augusti, comes Dcsmonie fecit xiiij. milites apud Rahtymegan. 
 Item, die Mercurli, scilicet Nonas Octobris, Poterlni [.v/c] post juramenta et diem 
 captuni inter eos, et dominum Walterum de Valle, cum esset tunc vlcecomes 
 Tyberarie, redeundo de comltatu tento apud Clomele extra A-illam, cum cum 
 xlii. de sanguine et familia sua occiderunt. Item, die Sancti ^Martini in sero 
 fuit vcntus validlssimus et tempestas horribilis. Item, die Martis, scilicet xv. 
 Kal : Decerabris, fuit maxima inundancia aque, quails a xl'". annis ante non 
 est visa ; que pontes, molendina ct cdlficla funditus evertit et asportavit ; solum 
 altare magnum ct gradus altaiis de tota abbacla Fratrum Minorum Kilkennie, 
 aqua non attlgit nec cooperuit. 
 
 Hie annus fuit tempestuosus nimis et nocivus hominibus et anlmallbus ; quia 
 a festo Omnimn Sanctorum usque Pascha, ut plurimum fuit pluvla, nix, aut 
 gelu, a festo Andrce usque Vincencli festum ccssabant aratra propter nivem et 
 
 gelu, 
 
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 gelu, que illo tempore quasi continue habundabant. Sal communiter, pro xvi. 
 vel XX. solidis vendebatiu- ; propter regum discordiam Anglie et Francie. Hoc 
 anno boves et vacce moriebantur, et oves precipue, fere sunt destructe ; ita ut 
 juxta communem loquelam, vix septima pars ovium a peste evasit, scd agnormn 
 major inteiitus. Item, in hoc anno in quadi'agesima, salices in Anglia rosas pro- 
 tulerunt, que ad diversas terras pro spectaculo sunt advecte. Item, circa festura 
 Magdalene, Anglici super Hibernicos Desmonie, scilicet, M*^ Karthy, magnum 
 stratageme fecerunt, et statim post, super O'Dymiscj fuit facta magna occisio. 
 Item, in principio autumpni, Mauricius filius Thome, Desmonie tunc comes, 
 Clonmele et Kylkyban, a Willimo [*/c] de Grandissono [emit], mille et centum 
 marcis. Item, die Veneris in %agilia vigilie Assumpcionis, occiditur per O'Nolan- 
 nls Laurencius le BotiUer, frater comitis Ermonie. Item, die Lune in viofllia beati 
 Mathei apostoli occiditur Johannes filius Johannis de Sancto Albino (per filium 
 Walteri de Sancto Albino), et alii sex cum eo. Item, anno eodem dominus 
 Mauricius filius Nicholai, per Mauricium filium Thome comitem tunc Desmonie 
 capitur et incarceratur ; et infra octabas beati Francisci, in cai'cere, in dieta in- 
 clusus moritur. 
 
 1340. In platea Kilkenie occiditur Robertus Conton, die Veneris infra oc- 
 tabas Pasche. Item, die Jovis proximo post, occiditur Raynyl, soror M*^ Gil- 
 patricke, per Rechefordis. Item, Kalendis Maii, passagium omnium navium 
 indilFerentur conceditur per regem, et conciliiun suum ville de Ros, ad instan- 
 tiam, et laborem, et dihgenciam Radulphi INIeyleri. Item, hoc anno in festo 
 Baptiste, rex Anglie cum exercitu suo, classem na^ ium regis Francie ccpit et 
 destruxit, et multa milia hominum in eis inventorura gladio occidit et submer- 
 sit, et regnum Francie intravit, debellando, occidendo et comburendo, in tantum 
 quod Anglie et Francie simul regem se vocari fecit et scribi in omnibus causis, 
 placitis et Uteris suis. Item, die Veneris, scilicet iiij*" die Augusti, occiduntur 
 per M*^ Morcada et O'Nolan, circiter xxiiij. homines de Balygaveran. Isto anno 
 sal vendebatur xvi. solidis. Item, die Martis in crastino beate Agathe virginis 
 obiit frater Rogerus Owtlaw, prior Hospitahs in Hibernia apud Any, tunc lo- 
 cum justiciarii tenens ; et etiam cancellarius domini Regis, trium simul functus 
 officio. Vir prudens et graciosus, qui multas possessiones, ecclesias et redditus 
 ordini suo adquisivit sua industria, et regis Anglie gratia speciali et licentia. 
 
 134a. Parum ante Natale Domini obiit Leysart O'Morthe, a propria servo 
 in ebrietate occisus vir potens, dives et locuples, et in gente sua honoratus. Hie 
 
 fere 
 
3° 
 
 fere omnes Anglicos de terris suis et hereditate violenter ejcclt, nam uno sero, 
 vlii castra Angllcorum combussit ; et castrum nobile de Dunmaske domini Ro- 
 geri de Mortuo Mari dcstruxit, et dominium sibi patrie usurpavit ; de servo 
 dominus, de subject© prlnceps effectus. Item, xvi die Marcii miles cfficitur 
 Ricardus filius Remundi le Ercedekne in Desmonia, a Mauricio Clio Thome 
 comitis Desmonie ; et ipse Ricardus fecit eodem die Ires milites ; et Willebnus 
 Grant illo tempore fecit Johannem le Ercedekne militem. 
 
 1343. Fit novum campanile ecclesie beate Marie Kilkennie. Item, in Pen- 
 tecostc celebratur capitulum generalc apud Marciliam. Item, obiit in fcsto Vin- 
 cencii martiris dominus rex Robertus, rex Jerusalem et Cecilie, vir Celebris et 
 famosus, vir sapiens et sanctus, in habitu Fratrum Minorum Neapolim sepultus. 
 Item, destruuntur et prosternuntur per Hibemicos Castrum Viride in Ultonia, et 
 Castrum Kevini arcliiepiscopi Dublinie. 
 
 1344. xiij. die Julii applicuit Dublinie dominus Radulphus de Ufford, justi- 
 ciarius Hibernie, cum uxore sua Matilda comitissa Ultonie, filia comitis Lancas- 
 trie ; cum pul[cli]ra comitiva sagittariorum et aliorum armatorum, et militum. 
 die Martis, 3 Idus Julii. Hie terras M*^ Morkada in O'Kensel}-, et blada Hyber- 
 nicorum patrie combussit, et obsides de pace tenenda dare compulsit. Item, in 
 eodem anno combusta est villa de Mondesseyl, et tota patria de Cumscy integre, 
 et molestores de cognomine de Sancto Albino inde sunt expulsi ; nec domus 
 ibi dimissa in qua possent habitare, per dominum Fulconem de la Frene, tunc 
 senescliallimi Kilkennie, imediate ante et post nativitatem Domini. Item, in 
 xl*, dominus Radulplius DufFord justiciarius Hibernie, Ultoniam intra vit cum 
 manu valida, et passagium de Ymerdoylan repara^•it, et meabile fecit ; ejecto 
 Thoma M'^Arthan rege patrie, interfectis quibusdam de hominibus dire ; et 
 Henricura O'Neyl, regcm Ultonie deposuit a regno, substituto O'Done O'Neyl 
 pro eo ; et sic cum laude et triumplio rcvertitm\ Item, in festo Catliedre 
 Petri, fuit parliamentum factum apud Callan, et, quai'e nescio, ad quod venit 
 Mauricius filius Thome cum multis millibus hominum, ad quod credidit majores 
 tciTc ad eum vcnisse ; sed rex timens talia conventicula suspccta, et potius ma- 
 lum quam bonum ex hoc evenire, per breve regis prohibitum est omnibus no 
 venirent. Et per hoc majores terre predict© Mauricio se excusabant, sed domi 
 manserunt. Item, filii Walteri de Sancto Albino utramque villam de Colaht 
 combusserunt, et patriam spoliaverunt, multos fidelcs occidcrunt, gravia dampna 
 fidelibus patrie infcrcntes. Item, corpus Joseph ab Arimathia Glosconie dicitur 
 
 hoc 
 
31 
 
 hoc anno esse inventum. Item, fit novus rex Insularum, per Clementem quin- 
 tum in Curia Romana. 
 
 1345. Circa Pascha oblerunt domini Mauricius Geraldi, et Geraldus de 
 Rocheford. Item, Poerini combusserunt quasi totam patriam circa Waterfor- 
 diam, destruxerunt et spoliaverunt ; et ex lioc quidam eorum fuerunt suspensi, 
 tracti, et in quarteria divisi apud Waterfbrdiam. Item, in festo Baptiste, Mau- 
 ricius comes tunc Desmonie castrum de Menalit cum multis milibus obsesslt et 
 impugnaAat, sed non expugnavit, nec obtinuit ; frustratus a proposito revertitur. 
 Item, capitulum apiid Clan, in quo quatuor tantum custodie assignantur ; et loca 
 Kilkenie et Ros de custodia, Dublinie assignantur. Item, obiit dominus Jo- 
 hannes O'Grada, archiepiscopusCasselensis ; culsuccessitfraterRadulphusO'Kally. 
 Item, obiit dominus Henricus, comes Lancastrie ; vir venerabilis, potens et bo- 
 nus. Item, gueiTa inter Radulphum de UfFord, justiciarium Hibernie, et Mau- 
 ricium filium Thome, comitem Desmonie ; et justiciarius eum terris suis, 
 scilicet, Clomele, Kylsylan, Kysekyl, Oconyl, Kyrigan et Desmonia privaAat: 
 bona sua, predia ejus, dominia et possessiones ad opus et manum regis confis- 
 cando ; et majores nacionis et dominii comltis obsides regi de fidelitate et sub- 
 jectione regi servanda et facienda reddere fecit et coegit ; et multi eorum pacem 
 regis, et cartam pro vita et terris suis habendis magna et gravi redempcione 
 comparavenmt et habuerunt. Item, occidimtur per M*^ Dermada, dominus Ro- 
 bertus de Barry, et Philippus de Prendergast, partem regis et justiciarii tenen- 
 tes, contra genei-um suum ; nam, dominus Robertus germanam comitis, dominus 
 autem PhiUppus filiam germane ejus duxerant in uxores. Item, castrum comitis 
 predicti de Yniskysty, per justiciarium et suos obsessum, die Veneris (in festo 
 leronimi doctoris) est expugnatum et optentum. Item, die Veneris, xii. Kal : 
 Novembris, in festo Hillarionis abbatis, cum grandi exercitu Lageniensium, 
 Momoniensium et Connactencium, Castrum Insule, (quod vulgi judicio vix erat 
 expugnabile), ipse justiciarius ipsum castrum ab ipso et exercitu ante ad quin- 
 denam obsessum invasit et expugnavit ; et tunc primo in hac expedicione et 
 anno, vexillo regis erecto, extenso et elevato, Castrum Insule invaserunt, con- 
 fregerunt, cum manu valida et fortitudine intruerunt [sic'], et inde enim Johannem 
 Coteres [Coterel?], comitis senescallium (qui multas graves, extraneas, et intolera- 
 biles leges dicebatur exercuisse, tenuisse et invenisse), die Sabbati in crastino ju- 
 dicialiter trahi fecit justiciarius, suspendi, decapitari, interiora eju.s comburi et 
 membratim dividi, quarteria ejus ob memoriam tyranidis sue ad dlversa loca pro- 
 
 vincie 
 
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 vincie mittl mandavlt, ad exemplum allorum ; et dominus Eustachius le Poer, 
 et Willclmus le Grant, casti-um contra rcgcm et justiciariura tenentes, eodem 
 die de castro educti, die Lime proxima sequente in eodem loco tracti et suspensi 
 sunt ; et terre eorum in manum regis capte et forisfacte sunt. Item, die Sabbati 
 in crastino Calixti pape occiditur in parliamento a suis consanguineis Tir Hal- 
 waht O'Konkur, rex Conactie, ex discordia orta inter cos, una cum sagitta pro- 
 jecta ad intcritum ad comunem populuni, eum in genu percusslt, statim interiit, 
 aliis illesis omnibus permanentibus. Item, in festo Innocencium, Hibernici de 
 Slebanie combusserunt Bordgvrjd, et Robertum le Gras et alios Anglicos occi- 
 derunt ; et ipso die Carwill jNI'^ Gilpatrickc patrie princeps, occiditur. Item, 
 circa festum Annunciacionis Virginis, dominus Johannes de Weyr, comes Ox- 
 onle in Connactia cum suis de Britannia reddiens, tempestate et vi ventorum 
 depulsi sunt, dejccti, et inter Hibernicos applicuerunt ; qui spoliaverunt eos bo- 
 nis suis, equis et armis, graves insultus inferentes, et cum eis gra\'i et imparl in- 
 sultu pugnantes ; qui de naufragio seminudi v\x evaserunt. Eodem tempore 
 dominus Henricus Skrope in Desmonia de Brytania veniens, tempestate depul- 
 sus applicuit ; tamen inter fidelcs, qui nil ei mail fecerunt. 
 
 Item, anno 1346, quinto Idus Aprilis, et Dominica Palmarum, obiit apud 
 Kylmaynam, dominus Radulfus de Ufford, justiciarius Hibernie, delatus postea 
 ad Angliam sepeliendus. Item, in \agilia precedenti, obiit in castro Dublinie 
 dominus Mauricius filius Philippi, per justiciarium ante captus, et in carcere 
 detentus ; vir dapsilis et liberalis, licet non multum dives aut potens. Item, 
 parum post Pasclia, dominus Joliannes de Karrev castrum de Balymotha (quod 
 alio nomine de Clerevoyse dlcebatiu-), renovavit et reparavit, et gardam pro cus- 
 todia loci apposuit. Item, hoc tempore unlversaliter omnes Hibernici Lagenle 
 ad guerram contra Anglicos et paciflcos se posuerunt; comburentes, spoliantes 
 ot occidentes quos poterant ; non parcentes ecclesiis, aut locis sacratis vel sacris, 
 Imo ecclesias et cimiteria variis in locis spoliaverunt et combusserunt ; sicut ec- 
 clesiam de Duleke, et Fynnowyr, et Clodalit, et cetera. Item, occiditur Dermi- 
 cius O'Dymiscy, per Robertum filium INIauricii militem, feria sexta infra octabas 
 Pasche. Item, in ebdomada post Dominicam in Albis, castra de Ley, Kylme- 
 hyde, et Balylethan capiuntur et franguutur per O'Morthe, O'Konkur, et O'Dy- 
 miscy, die Jovis in crastino Sanctc Crucis. Item, die Veneris iii° Nonas Maii, 
 Dermicius M"^ Gilpatrick monoculus, qui semper insidiis et prodicionibus inten- 
 dere consucvit, perjuriaque parvi pendens villam de Athebo combussit, associate 
 
 sibi 
 
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 sibi O'Kayrwyll, et secum ducto, et in cimiterium et ecclesiam, ac Sancti Can- 
 nici abbatisviri sanctissimi, patroni patrie et loci f'undatoris, scvinium cum ossa- 
 mentis et reliquiis ejus Igne crudelissimo, (tanquam degener filius in patrem) 
 crudellter deseviens, igne crudelissimo combussit et consumpsit. Iste annus 
 sterilis fuit et carus, nam cranocus frumenti xii. solidis vendebatur. Item, circa 
 festum Baptistc occiduntur de hominibus Ergalie et Dundalke cccc. per Hiber- 
 nicos. Item, illo tempore venit dominus Walterus de Bermegliam justiciarius 
 Hibernie. Item, occiditur dominus Johannes filius Georgii de Rupe per Ketyn- 
 gis et Hodinetis. Item, baronia et dominium de Kenlis que fuit domini Eus- 
 tachii le Poer domino Waltero de Bermegham, et terra domini Willelmi le 
 Grant domino Fulconi de la Frene (que regi in escbaetam acciderant) per 
 regem eis assignantur. Item, Sabbato in festo beate Marthe virginis, Rogerus 
 de la Frene, tunc vicecomes Kilkennie cepit magnam predam super Carwyl 
 ^1"= Gillepatricke, et super homines ejus, qualem in partibus illis raro captam 
 meminit homo a multis annis. Edwardus rex Anglie post conquestum 
 tercius, regnum Francie intravit et commissis diris preliis et multis multos 
 Francos trucidavit, regem Boemie et regem Majoricarum occidit, duces et 
 comites xxv., archiepiscopos de Sannes et de Noynn, et episcopos et abbates 
 multos, priorera etiam hospitalis Franncie, dominos magnos, barones et milites 
 nominatos plus quam ij. milia occidit in bello, xxvi°. die Augusti, gentes ar- 
 morum xxv. milia, alios armatos xxx. milia, pedestres absque numero inter- 
 fecit. Item, die Martis in vigilia Sancti Luce ewangeliste capitur David le Brus 
 rex Scotorum, et comes de Fyf atque Willelmus de Douglas, et occiduntur de 
 Scotis apud Dunelmiam ij. milia per archiepiscopum Eboracensem, dominum de 
 Percy, dominum de Moubrey et dominum de Neyvil. Item, Sabbato in crastino 
 nativitatis beate Marie occiditur per dominum Fulconem de la Frene Thadeus 
 filius Roderici O'Carwyl princeps de Elycarwyl, vir potens, locuplex et dives et 
 bellicosus precipuus Anglicorum et fidelium inimicus et persecutor ; hie occidit, 
 exulavit et ejecit de terris suis de Elycarwyl illos de nacione de Barry, de Mil- 
 lebome, de Britis et alios Anglicos de patria, et terras eorum et castra tenuit et 
 occupavit, omnibus fidelibus vicinis gravis tirranus existens. Eodem die per eun- 
 dem capitur Rury fihus O'Morthe ; occiditur Nicholaus le Gras. Item, in hyeme 
 ilia fuit guerra inter Anglicos, videlicet, W. Bermegham comitem Kildarie, et 
 O'Morthe et O'Dymiscy, et terras eorum invaserimt et combusserunt, paucos 
 tamen homines occiderunt. Item, eodem tempore obiit Adam Northampton 
 IRISH ARCH. see. NO. II. F episcopus 
 
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 episcopus Fcmensis. Item, circa festum Clementis occiduntur do O'Dymisey 
 XXX. homines per duos, Thomam Wogan et Walterum Lenfant apud Ardscol. 
 Item, magistcr Hugo de Saltu, Dominica de passlone in episcopimi Femensem 
 Dublinlc consecratur. 
 
 1347. Dominica Palmarum et die Annunciationis beate Marie, dominus 
 Nicholaus de Verdona apud Droukeda cum magno apparatu et solerapni funere 
 et multorum procerum conventu honorifice sepelitur. 
 
 Item, codem die apud Kylkeiiniam liumo domina Isabella Palmer traditur, 
 que frontem chori fratrum erigi fecit, laudabili senio vitam transegit, hac in vi- 
 duitate religiose et honorifice vixit annis circiter Ixx., et in virginitate ut dice- 
 batur et crcdltur de hoc scculo migravit. Item, Mauricius filius Thome comes 
 Kyldaric et dominus Fulco de la Frene, per regem vocati et invitati, Franciam 
 intraverunt pro obsidione Calisie, que duravit a nativitatc beate Marie prece- 
 dentc usque ad festum Sancti Laurencii martins, et tunc post multos insultus et 
 diram famcm atque incrcdibilem compulsi sunt Galilei claves civitatis et scipsos 
 gracie regis Anglie submittere. Item, reedificatur villa de Thagmolingis per Wal- 
 terum Bermcghamtunc justiclariumHibcrnie. Item, capitur Karolus deBlovsdux 
 Britannic in Britannia per dominum Thomam Dagworht circa festum Baptiste. 
 Item, Fratres Predicatores Hibernie impetraverunt relaxacionem et licentiam 
 carnes comedendi ad ext*, a domino Papa Clemente VI°. quam ab exordio sue 
 religionis ante non habuerant. Item, in festo vii. Fratrum, obiit Rogerus de la 
 Frene tunc senescallus Kilkennie, juvenis validus, prudens et discretus, qui ut 
 putabatur ad magna et ardua ascendisset nisi morte prematura preventus fuisset. 
 Item, fit magna discordia, contraversia et sedicio inter cives Bristollie. Item, 
 incepit confraternitas Fratrum Minorum Kilkennie pro campanili novo eri- 
 gendo et ecclesia reparanda, dominica prima adventus Domini. Item, die Vene- 
 ris in crastino beati Nicholai obiit Oliverus de la Frene in officio seneschallie 
 Kilkennie, vir probus, modcstus et prudens. Item, in nataliciis Domini, Dome- 
 naldus O'Kenidy filius Philippi, facta conspiracione Hibcrnicorum ^lomonie, 
 Connactie, Midie et Lagenie, villam de Nenaght, et totam patriam et omnia 
 castra Ermonie preter castnmi de Nenaght combussit et dcstruxit ; qui leria 
 sexta post festum Annunciacionis beate Marie per Purcelles cum principe sue 
 nacionis captus est et incarceratus, et iiij'". Non: Junii judicialiter suspensus est 
 et tractus cum filio Breyn O'Brcyn apud Thurlis ad caudas equorum, anno sci- 
 licet 1348. Item, undccimo dieNovembris comitatus Ermonie et regalitas ejus 
 
 Jacobo 
 
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 Jacobo le Bottiller juniori per regem conceduiitur. Item, Hugo de Calce cleri- 
 cus Pape et collector et exactor fisci Dublinie in festo Patricii occiditur. Item, 
 frater Ricardus episcopus Ossoriensis in curia Romana optinuit exempcionem 
 a jurisdiccione et superioritate archiepiscopi Dublinie. Item, frater Forte- 
 narrus Vassali minister generalis assumitur ad arcliiepiscopatum Ravenarum. 
 Item, die Martis scilicet iij. Nonis Junii Dovenaldus M*^ Morkadaet Murcardalit 
 Kevanalit per sues consanguineos in prodicione occiduntur, viri bellatores versi- 
 pelles et pacis ac pacificoriim impugnatores graves, ob quorum morte venit pax 
 ad tempus, quievit populus pacificus, et cultura crevit. Item, fit novus tribunus 
 in Romana civitate qui dixit se velle Romam et Ytaliam et rempublicam repa- 
 rare in melius et resarcire, cujus officii et dignitatis titulus talis erat ; Nicholaus 
 severus et clemens libertatis pacis justicie tribunus, sacre Romane reipublice 
 liberator illustris, liberator urbis, zelator Italie, amator orbis, et Augustus. 
 
 1 348. In mense Julii et Augusti, dorainus Fulco de la Frene liabens curam et 
 custodiara terrarum comitis Ermonie, ipso comite in Anglia commorante, tenuit 
 magnam gardam apud Nenalit, et reduxit abjectos, revoca\at ad propria fideles 
 exulatos, muros confractos et diruptos per Hibernicos per ipsos reparari fecit et 
 coegit, et cum magna multacione et gravi redempcione vaccarum et obsidum 
 deliberacione, ad statum primum et subjectionem debitam (quod omnibus vide- 
 batur fieri non posse) compulit redire. Item, obiit Laurencius de Hastingis 
 comes Penbrochie. Item, hoc anno et maxime mense Septembri et Octobri 
 convenerunt undique de diversis partibus Hibernie, episcopi et prelati, viri ec- 
 clesiastici et religiosi, magnates et alii, et comuniter omnes utriusque sexus ad 
 percgrinacionem et vadacionem aque de Thaht-Molyngis, turmatim et in multi- 
 tudine, sic ut multa milia laominum simul illuc multis diebus convenire videres, 
 quidara venerunt devocionis affectu, alii (sed plures) pestilencie metu, que tunc 
 nimis invaluit, que primo juxta Dubliniam apud Howht [Dalkey — in margine'} 
 et Drovda incepit, ipsas civitates Dubliniam et Drovlida fere destruxit et vastavit 
 incolis et liominibus. Ita ut in Dublinia tautum, a principio Augusti usque 
 nativitatem Domini xiiij. milia hominum mortui sunt, hec pestilencia ab 
 oriente ut dicebatur incepit, et per incredulos et Saracenos transiens, de eis octo 
 milia legiones bominum interfecit. Item, in provincia, Avinione civitate ubi 
 tunc Romana viguit et fuit curia, a Januario precedenti incepit, tempore de- 
 mentis Pape VI. ubi et ibi ecclesie et cimiteria civitatis non sufficiebant capere 
 mortuorum corpora tumulanda. Et dominus ipse papa ordinavit unum cimi- 
 
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 terium novum consecrari, in quo mortui ex clade pestilencie interfecti reconde- 
 lentur. Ita ut a mense Maii usque Sancti Thome translacionem quinqua- 
 ginta milia ct co amplius corpora sunt sepulta in eodem cimiterio. De ista pes- 
 tilencia facta est visio mirabilis (ut dicebatur) anno precedenti scilicet 1347, 
 in claustro Cisterciensium Tripolls, sub hac forma ; quidam monachus celebravit 
 missam coram abbate suo, uno ministro presente, et inter ablucionem et commu- 
 nionem misse apparuit quedara raanus scribens super corporale in quo predictus 
 monachus confecerat. " Cedrus aha Libani succendetur et ibidem TripoUs de- 
 struetur, et Aeon capietur, et marchionatus mundura superabit, et Saturnus insi- 
 diabitur Jovi, et vespertllio fugabit ducem ab m. vi. Infra xv. annos erit una 
 fides et unus Deus, et altere evanescent, fiUi lerosolomitani a captivitate hbera- 
 buntur, gens quedam nascetur sine capite ; ve in clero et stenhtate navicula 
 Petri jactabitur vaUidis fluctibus sed evadet et dominabitur in fine dieiiim. In 
 mundo erunt muha preha et strages magne, et fames vallide, hominum morta- 
 Htas per loca, regnorum mutaciones, et terra Barbarorum convertetur, ordines 
 mendicantes certe quam plures adversabuntur ; bestia orientaHs et leo occiden- 
 taHs universum raundum suo subjugabunt impeno ; et pax erit in toto orbe 
 terrarum ; et copia fructuum per xv. annos. Tunc passagium erit commune ab 
 omnibus fidehbus uhra aquas congregatas ad Terrara Sanctam. Et civitas Jeru- 
 salem glorificabitur ; et sepulchrum Domini ab omnibus honorabitur ; in tanta 
 tranquillitate nova audientur de Antcchristo. Vigilate." Non est auditum a prin- 
 cipio seculi tot homines pestilencia, fame aut quacunquo infirmitate tanto tem- 
 pore mortuos in orbe ; nam terre motus, qui per miliaria multa se extendebat, 
 civitates, villas et castra subvertebat absorbuit et subvcrsit ; pestis ista villas, 
 civitates, castra et oppida homine habitalore omnino privavit, ut vix esset qui in 
 eis habitaret, ista pestilencia sic erat contagiosa quod tangentes mortuos vel inde 
 infirmos incontinenter et inficiebantur et moriebantur, et confitens et confessor 
 simul ducerentur ad sepulchrum. Et pre timore et horrore,pietatis opera et mise- 
 ricordie, videlicet, visitare infirmos et mortuos sepellire, homines excercere vix 
 audebant. Nam multi ex antrace et ex apostematibus, et pustulis que creverunt 
 in tibiis et sub aseUis [axiUis'\, alii ex passione capitis ct quasi in frenesim versi, 
 alii spuendo sanguinem moriebantur. Iste annus fuit ultra modum consuetum 
 mirabilis insolitus et in mvdtis prodigiosus, fertilis tamen satis et habundans, etsi, 
 morbidus et mortalis. In conventu Minortun de Drouda xxv. et in Dublinia 
 apud eosdcm xxllj. fratres mortui sunt, ante usijuc Natale. Item, die Martis in 
 
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 crastino Purificacionis, Connili O'Morthe patrie sue princeps et dominus per ger- 
 manos ejus in quibus confidebat, cum quibus ipso die simul epulabatur confi- 
 denter, quorum filios pro fidelitate et subjeccione sibi servanda tunc habebat 
 obsides, natorum suorum necem non formidantes, et in perjurii crimen incidere 
 non verentes, ambicio dominandi fraternum fedus disjunxit et seperavit ; et 
 rupto vinculo fraternitatis, spreto amore et federe sanguinis, eum prodiciose oc- 
 ciderunt, et quos venter et uterus univxs mulieris suscepit, tota ilia terra et patria 
 recipere non valebat ; nec aufertur nec etiam dilFertur inde vindicta, nam octavo 
 die Anglici de Ossoria, qui partem ipsius Conyl fovebant, patriam intrantes, com- 
 muni consensu populi filius ejus primogenitus Rury in principem est electus et 
 acceptus, et Anglicis Ossorie ad sua ut volebant revertentibus, David O'Morthe, 
 occisi germanus, eis obstitit cum quibusdam Anglicis comitatus Kildarie et 
 Cathirlaht, in quodam passu arto aliquos equos, qui sarcina et arma Ossoriensium 
 portabant, abstulerunt, et ibi occisus ipse David, vir potens, dives et discretus 
 post Conyl de sanguine parem non habens, et sic vitam perdidit, regnum et ger- 
 manum ; alii vero fratres omnes consentientes exulati patriam dimittere co- 
 guntur. Ista pestilencia apud Kilkenniam in xl*. invaluit, nam vi'°. die 
 Marcii viij Fratres Predicatores infra diem Natalem obierunt, vix [in] domo unus 
 tantum moriebatur, sed communiter vir et uxor cum natis eorum et familia 
 unam viam, scilicet mortis, transierunt. Ego autem frater Johannes Clyn de 
 Ordine Minoram et conventu Kilkennie hec notabilia facta, que tempore meo 
 acciderunt, in hoc libro scripsi, que occulata fide vel tide digno relatu didici, et 
 ne gesta notabilia cum tempore perirent et a memoria recederent futurorum, 
 videns hec multa mala et mundum totum quasi in maligno positum, inter mortuos 
 mortem expectans donee veniat, sicut veraciter audivi et examinavi sic in scrip- 
 turam redegi, et ne scriptura cum scriptore pereat, et opus simul cum operario 
 deficiat, dimitto pergamenam pro opere continuando, si forte in future homo 
 superstes remaneat, an aliquis de genere Ade hanc pestilenciam possit evadere 
 et opus continuare inceptum. 
 
 1349. In magna karistia sere et specierum, nam libra sere vendebatur xx". 
 denariis, et piperis et zinsiberis xl'^. denariis. Item, in festo Molingi episcopi, 
 dominus Fulco de la Frene confidens in promissionibus falaciis Hibernicorum 
 interficitur prodiciose, vir milicie et militaris a pueritia deditus et intendens, et 
 pacis defeccione reipublice defensor, malorum malleus, plurium relatu communi 
 in relacione vix in Hibernia parem habens ; hie Rupences, Cantonences fide- 
 
 lium 
 
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 limn oppressores do terra cxtirpavit, vir magnanimus, minas magnonim et [aa- 
 r/redi] non formidans, vir largus et plus nominls quam hominis habens, ma- 
 joris fame quam substancie, profusus erat in dandis epulis, nulli claudens suam 
 jannuam [hie vias fidelibus palcfecit — in jiuinjine'], et hominum Unguis loquor 
 et communis popull scntenciis vix in Hibernia relata. 
 Videtur quod Author hie obiit. 
 
 [Alia manu — in manjine'] Anno Domini 1375. In festo Anne matrix virginis 
 Marie intcrfectus fuit Donatus Kevenach M'^ Moorke per Galfridum de Valle 
 prope Carlachiam. Prima pestilencia in Hibernia multum invaluit anno Domini 
 1349. Secunda vero pestilencia similiter invaluit ibidem per xiij. annos postea, 
 viz. anno Domini 1362. Tercia etiam pestilencia acc\_revit] per xi. annos pos- 
 tea viz. anno Domini 1373- Quarta autem pestilencia crevit in Hibernia per ix. 
 annos post hoc viz. anno Domini 1382. Quinta autem pestilencia inolevit con- 
 similiter in partibus cjusdem per ix. annos, similiter post predictos annos, anno 
 viz. Domini 1391. 
 
 Anno Domini 1405. Frater Johannes minister Hybemle venlendo de capi- 
 tulo generali captus fult in marl per Flandrenses et solvit pro capclone sua xx". 
 marcas, et quinque pro famlllis, quo anno fuit Iv. annorum, anno viz. [anno] 
 Domini 1349 (natus) sir. 
 
 Anglia habet custodias vij. viz. Londoniensem, que habet viij. loca, viz. 
 Londoniam, Salisbiriam, Cantuarlam, Wynchilseyam, Southamptonam, Lewy- 
 siam, Vintoniam, et Chlchestriam. 
 
 Item Oxoniensem, que habet vlij°. loca, scilicet, Oxoniam, Radingiam, 
 Behtfordlam, Stafordlam, Nothyngamiam, Northamptonam, Leycestriam, et 
 Gronthamlam. 
 
 Item BrlstoUenscm, que habet ix. loca, scilicet, BristoUum, Gloucestrlam, 
 Herefordiam, Carmerdlnam, Kerdinlara, Brugewalterum, Exoniam, Dorcestriam, 
 et Bodminiam. 
 
 Item Granntcbrlglam, que habet vilj°. loca, scilicet, Cantibrigiam,Norwicum, 
 Sanctum Edmundura, Lemiam, Gernemutam, Gepwycum, Colcestriam et Dun- 
 wycum. 
 
 Item Wigornlam, que habet Ix. loca, scilicet, Wigorniam, Covcntreyam. 
 
 Lichfeldiam, 
 
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 Lichfeldiam, Stafordiam, Prestonam, Salopidiam, Cestriam, Lamasiam, et 
 Bregenorht. 
 
 Item Eboracensem, que habet vij. loca, scilicet, Eboracum, Lyncolniam, 
 Beverlacum, Duncastiiara, Sanctum Botulfum, Grimisbiam, et Scardeburgiam. 
 
 Item Novi Castri, que liabet ix. loca, scilicet. Novum Castrura, Ricliemun- 
 dlam, Hertpolliam, Carliolum, Barwycum, Rocliysburgiam, Hadyngtonam, 
 Dunde et Dunfres. 
 
 Item duo loca Sancte Clare, scilicet Londonie et Bethe [Iviii. loca. — in mar- 
 ffine.2 
 
 iBERNiAbabet custodias, scilicet Dublinencem, que habet 7 loca, scilicet, Dub- 
 li [ni]am, Kildariam, Clane, Totmoy, Desertum, Weysefordiam et Wykynlo. 
 
 Item Pontdris, que habet 6 loca, scilicet, Pontem, Trum, Dundalke, Molyn- 
 farnam, Dunum, et Cragfergus. 
 
 Item Casselensem, que habet 6 loca, Casselum, Kylkenniam, Rosse, Water- 
 fordiam, Clounmele, et Yohil. 
 
 Item Corkagensem, que habet v. loca, scilicet, Corkagiam, Botoniam, Ly- 
 mericum, Thathmelage, et Ardart. 
 
 Item Nenaghtensem que habet viij. loca, scilicet Neiiaght, Ahtloun, Clon- 
 ronda, Clare, Galwy, Ardmachiam, Breffiniam, et Kylleyht. 
 
 [xxxij. loca — in viavgine.'] 
 
 Summa omnium domorum 1455, Sancte Clare 410, iste estnumerus provin- 
 ciarum ordlnis Fratrum iSlinorum, custodiainim et locorum, collectis in capitulo 
 generali celebrate Anno Domini 1331 (1320) sic. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 THE following short Annals are copied from the Manuscript (E. 3. 20. p. 396, 
 et seq.) preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. They are 
 probably the same •which have been noticed, under the title of Annals of Ross, 
 in a passage already quoted (In trod, p i.) from Sir James Ware's Preface to 
 Campion's and Hanmer's Histories. " The Book of Ross," from which they 
 profess to be taken, is not now known to exist, but the present manuscript is 
 as old as Ware's time, and was probably a transcript made for him. It is 
 evident, from the families most commonly mentioned in the following Annals, 
 that the Ross to which this " Book of Ross" belonged, must have been Mic- 
 Triuin, or New Ross on the Barrow, on the borders of Wexford and Kilkenny, 
 where the Dominicans founded a locus in the year 1267, according to Clyn's 
 Annals. — See the Note on that passage, p. 48. 
 
 ANNALES HIBERNI^ EX LIBRO ROSSENSI. 
 
 1265. Occiditur Simon de Monteforti. 
 
 1266. Vincitur Walterus de Burgo ; et milites suicummultis aliis occiduntur. 
 1280. Mutatur moneta. Comburitur Water fordia. 
 
 1284. In festo Margaretse virginis fuit fulgor et coruscatio destruens blada, unde 
 provenit magna caristia, et multi fame perierunt. Eodem anno comes Gloverniffi 
 intravit Hibemiam, et Richardus de Burgo comes Ultoniae captus fuit per J ohannem 
 filium Thomse. 
 
 1304. Abbatia monachorum et locus praedicatorum in festo Columbae abbatis 
 Dubliniae sunt combustse. 
 
 IRISH ARCH. SOC. G 1305. 
 
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 1 305. Calvacb O'Konwhir et multi alii de cognomine in domo Petri de Brimingham 
 occiduntur. 
 
 1 3 10. Bellum de Bunrat, ubi capitur Willhelmus de Burgo cum multis aliis per 
 Richardum de Clare, et occiditur dominus Johannes Croke cum multis aliis. Eodem 
 anno obiit dominus J. Cogan. 
 
 1312. Ordo Templariorum destruitur. Eustacius le Poer moritur. Petrus Ca- 
 vistun. 
 
 1 3 1 3. In festo Sancti Michaelis, Edmundus pincerna Dubliniae fecit 30 milites. 
 1312. \^fort. 1 3 1 4] '. In festo J. Baptistae, Gilbertus comes Gloverniae apud Strive- 
 
 ling in bello occiditur. 
 
 1 3 15. Scoti intraverunt Hiberniam ; et in festo conversionis Sancti Pauli sequenti 
 apud Skethris bellum contra eos. 
 
 1 3 16. Dominus J. filius Tlioniaj intravit Angliam, et factus est comes Kildarise. 
 Eodem anno fuit magna caristia salis in Hibernia, ita quod cranocus unus vendebatur 
 pro 40 solidis, ut communiter, et aliquanto pro 4 marcis ; et eodem anno communiter 
 omnes Hibernici spreta fide et fidelitate omnimoda contra Anglicos posuerunt se ad 
 guerram ; et eodem anno in festo Laurentii bellum contra eos apud Atliynry in Con- 
 nacia, ubi interfecti fuerunt per Richardum de Brimingham et dominum Wilhelmum 
 de Burgo de Hibernicis, communi et multorum relatu, vii. M. 
 
 1 3 1 7. Dominus Rogerus de Mortuo Mari expulit illos de cognomine de Lacy de 
 Hibernia, et fugerunt in Scotiam. 
 
 1318. Fuit magna caristia in Hibernia, et immmerabilis populus moriebatur ; et 
 cranocus frumenti communiter pro 20 solidis et plus vendebatur. Eodem anno domi- 
 nus Richardus de Clare cum 4 nobilibus militibus et aliis multis a suis Hibernicis in 
 Totmonia occiditur. 
 
 1318. In festo Kalixti papae occiditur Edwardus le Brus, apud Dundalk, per J. de 
 Brimingham, et alios illius patriaj ; et eodeni anno congregatio pastorum volentium 
 acquirere Terram Sanctam. 
 
 1320. Universitas Dubliniae incepit. 
 
 1 32 1. Edmundus le Botiler, in vigilia exaltacionis Sanctw Crucis, Londonii mori- 
 tur. Eodem anno circa festum Sancti Patricii occiditur dominus Umfrai de Bouur 
 comes Herfordiae, dominus Thomas comes Lancastriffi et barones meliores et milites 
 Anglici circiter 28 trahuntur et suspenduntur, Hugone de Spenser hoc procurante et 
 faciente. 
 
 1322. Dominica Palmarum consecrantur Waterfordiae, J. Laynach episcopus Lis- 
 morensis, Nicholaus Welifedde episcopus Waterford, et episcopus Corkumroth. 
 
 •323- 
 
 » Vid. Chroii. Angl. 
 
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 1323- Obiit dominus Willelmus de Burgo. 
 
 1324. Fuit pestis communis vaccarum et etiam aliorum animalium, quse dicebatur 
 in Hibernia Maldow [mael duB]. 
 
 1325. In vigilia Epipbanias fuit ventus validissimus et magnus, qui prostravit 
 domos et sedificia, denudavit ecclesias et monasteria, evulsit radicitus arbores et cam- 
 panilia, dispersit tassos bladonim et horrea. 
 
 1326. Fuit magna siccitas in Hibernia quanta non est visa ante tempora tunc 
 viventi[um]. Eodem anno circa festum Petri ad Vincula mortuus fuit Eichardus de 
 Burgo comes Ultonios ; et eodem anno in crastino exaltationis sanctae crucis obiit 
 W. Archiepiscopus Cassiliensis : et eodem anno apud Clonmel in vigilia Sancti 
 Michaelis moriebatur mane nobilis armiger Theobaldus de Grandisono. (Item eodem 
 anno in hyeme decapitatur Londoniis episcopus Exoniensis et cetera. In die Ascen- 
 sionis occiditur dominus Matthtcus Mulburn). 
 
 1327. Dominica prima de Adventu comburitur Kenles in Ossoria, cum tota quasi 
 baronia per Willelmum de Brimingham et Geraldinos ; et octavo die destruitur et 
 comburitur Gras-castell, cum tota patria et terrae Poerinorum illo anno per eosdem. 
 
 1328. N. Aprilis, obiit dominus T. filius Jobannis comes Kildarise et justiciarius 
 Hiberniai. Item pridie Idus Aprilis, occiduntur Eupenses apud Bargun per Fulco- 
 nem de Fraxineto. Et ii. Kal. ejusdem mensis occiditur Petrus le Poer filius Baronis 
 de Dunoyl, et alii de sanguine circiter 14, per Geraldinos ; et eodem die et loco occi- 
 ditur dominus J. filius Geraldi. Item eodem anno in vigilia beati Mattbasi capitur 
 J. le Poer de Eathgormit et vulneratur, et cito post de vulnere moritur, per Can- 
 titones. 
 
 Item, 1328. Dominus Jacobus le Botiler factus est comes Hermonia;, et Mauricius 
 filius Thomce comes Desmonise, et Eogerus de Mortuo Mari comes Marcbise ; et eodem 
 anno in crastino Agnetis obiit dominus Jobannes le Poer, baro de Dunoyl. Item ii. 
 Idus Martii obiit dominus Arnoldus le Poer in castro Dubliniae. 
 
 1329. In vigilia Brandani abbatis occiditur Jacobus Ketyng per Rupenses. Do- 
 minus Pbilippus Hodinet, Hugo de Canton, cum aliis hominibus de cognominibus 
 ipsorum circiter 140, per Eupenses et Barrenses. Item anno eodem vii. Non. Junii, 
 obiit Eobertus le Brus rex Scotorum, in armis et bellicis negotiis vix parem habens. 
 Eodem anno in vigilia Pentecostes et beati Barnaba3 Apostoli occiditur dominus J. de 
 Brimingham comes de Lowthe cum fratre suo et aliis circa i6o, et cum eo occiditur 
 ille famosus tympanista, Caym O'Kerwille. Eodem anno in crastino Jobannis et 
 Pauli per Poerinos occiduntur Gilbertus de Valle et Eemundus de Valle et Eobertus 
 O'Neil, cum aliis quasi 80. Eodem anno in crastino Magdalenae occiditur Maglachlyn 
 O'Konwbir et multi de Odymsy ; et in principio Augusti Bren O'Bren combussit 
 
 G 2 villas 
 
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 villas Athissel, Tiberari, et sabbato ante festum beati Laurentii occiditur David le 
 Botiler per O'Nolans ; et post, eodem anno, statim in vigilia Laurentii occiditur do- 
 minus Thomas le Botiler et dominus J. Warini, et cum eis centum et plus occiduntur. 
 Et eodem anno 14 Kal. Augusti Bren O'Bren apud Ourleys interfecit Walterum de 
 Burgo filium Ullarii de Burgo, Conwhir O'Breyn, Mac Kenmar cum aliis dc Totmonia. 
 Et eodem anno captum est castrum de Ley per O'Dimsy, et eodem anno restitutum. 
 Et eodem anno in vigilia Cecilia; captus fuit per O'Nolan dominus Henricus Traharne 
 et Laurentius frater Pincerna;; ob quam causam Jacobus Pincerna collecto nobili 
 exercitu terram et patriam ipsorum combussit et destruxit, in crastino Luca; virginis, 
 et statim post modicum ante Natale, dominus Mauricius filius Thoma; cum magno 
 exercitu intravit Leys et cepit obsides de O'Morthe sine aliqua pugna et duxit cos 
 usque Dubliniam. 
 
 1330. Mac Gilpatrik occiditur Kilkennia; per Anglicos in dolo. Et eodem anno 
 in festo Philippi et Jacobi occiditur dominus Jacobus de Behun cum multis, quasi 1 20, 
 per Brien O'Bren. Et anno eodem die Lunaa in vigilia vigilia; vid. ex feria^ Alexi 
 confessoris fuit eclipsis solis ; et tunc fuit exercitus magnus versus Urleif Ultonien- 
 siuni et aliorum multorum contra Bren O'Bren ; qui illo anno destruxit et combussit 
 terras comitis Ultonia; et Hermonia;. Et in vigilia viglliae Margareta; virginis juxta 
 Mowyalin facti fuerunt milites, dominus Walterus de Brimingham, Edmundus le 
 Botiler, dominus Consyn et alii sex. 
 
 1 33 1. Captus est Mauricius filius Thoma; in dolo apud Limericum a domino An- 
 tonio de Lucy tunc justiciario Iliberniffi [in vigilia assumptionis Virginis]. Notain 
 luargine, " hoc Scriptum recentiori manu." Et eodem anno, in festo Sancti Matthasi 
 upostoli anno biscxtili ab eodem justiciario, capti sunt apud Clonmel dominus Wil- 
 lelnius de Brimingham, dominus Walterus filius ejus, dominus Gilbertus de eodem 
 cognomine, et dominus Johannes de Sancto Albino, dominus de Cumsy, et apud Corka- 
 giam Willelmus de Barri. 
 
 1332. Dominus Willelmus de Brimingham miles strenuus in festo Sancti Pii impie 
 morti traditur apud Dubliniam et suspenditur ; et statim post eodem anno comburitur 
 villa de Cathirdenesk et destruitur castrum de Bunrath in Totmonia per Hiberui- 
 cos. 1332" Post Antonium de Luci, mittitur dominus J. de Arci, justiciarius lli- 
 berniae. 
 
 1333. Occiditur Nicolaus Christofer per Poerinos ; et eodem anno per Hibernicos 
 occiduntur homines de Ros circiter 27. Et eodem anno, occiduntur de horainibus 
 Bren O'Bren 7"" 20", et ipsemet est vulneratus. Eodem anno, deliberatur Mauricius 
 
 filius 
 
 ^ Vid. ex feria, interlined. 
 
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 filius Thomse de castro Dublin infra octavas Ascensionis per dominum regem Anglite. 
 Eodem anno, Bren O'Bren ejicitur de Ourleyf per comitem Desmonise. 
 
 1333. Tenetur parliamentum magniim Dublin, et eundo versus dictum parlia- 
 mentum occiditur dominus Willelmus nobilis juvenis comes Ultoniaj, per suos Angli- 
 cos Ultonise proditiose ; et in eodem parliamento occiditur Mauricius filius Nicolai 
 Othoil Hibernicus et in armis strenuus. Eodem anno occiditur Willelmus O'Bren 
 Carrach. 
 
 (Fortasse 1 334)- Occiditur dominus Johannes de Sancto Albino dominus de Cumsy, 
 per suos consanguineos. 
 
 1335. Occiditur nobilis dominus Eeymundus Lercedeken cum duobus filiis suis 
 senioribus, Patricio, Silvestro, et avunculo suo domino Willelmo Lercedekne, in om- 
 nibus de illo cognomine 11, per O'Morthe. Eodem anno, Johannes Darcy justiciarius, 
 comes Hermonias, comes Destomonise, post Assumptionem intraverunt Scotiam et 
 alias insulas. Eodem anno, occiditur dominus David Beket. 
 
 1336. Comes Hermoniae dedit Fratribus Minoribus castrum suum et locum de 
 Carriggriffy ; et eodem anno Bren combussit ecclesiam de Typerary et villam cum 
 mulieribus et parvulis. Eodem anno, in comitatu Weisford occiditur dominus 
 Mathias filius Henrici, circiter 200, per Mac Murch. 
 
 1337. Johannes Charlingtune applicuit justiciarius cum germano suo episcopo 
 Herfordensi et cancellario, cum 200 sagittariis Wallensium. Eodem anno, obiit do- 
 minus Jacobus Pincerna comes Hermonite. Item, eodem anno, dominus Edwardus 
 rex tertius post conquestum Angliae cum magno exercitu regni sui ; et prater illos 
 cum aliis centum milibus et 40. milibus (ut relatum fuit) contra regem Francise, Al- 
 niannice partes intravit. Eodem anno, ultimo die Augusti, comes Dcsmonise fecit 14. 
 milites apud Rathymgan. Et eodem anno, Poerini occiderunt dominum Walterum 
 de Valle cum 13. de sanguine. Item, eodem anno, comes Desmoniae emit Clonmel, 
 Kylfekil, et eodem anno in vigilia Assumptionis occiditur Laurentius Pincerna. 
 
 1344, Intravit Hiberniam dominus Eadulphus de OlFord justiciarius ; et eodem 
 hyeme obsedit Mac Morth, et obtinuit obsides ejus. Eodem anno, cum vexillo regis 
 fugavit comitem Desmoniae, et obtinuit omnia castra sua et terras, et statim post 
 Dubliniae mortuus est. 
 
 1345. Intravit dominus Walterus Brimingham justiciarius Hiberniae. Interfecti 
 sunt dominus R. Barri, dominus Philippus Prendegast ; et eodem anno, apud Novum 
 Castrum comitis Desmoniae in Kerigia castro capto justiciarium suspender unt milites 
 comitis ; viz, dominus Eustacius le Poer, dominus Wilhelmus Grant, dominus J. Co- 
 terel. Et eodem anno, in bello capitur et vulneratur dominus Mauricius filius 
 Philippi, et de vulnere in castro Dubliniensi mortuus est. Capti sunt Moriartach 
 
 Mac 
 
46 
 
 Mac Murch cum uxore, sollemnior de sanguine, et clemens Ketyng malefactor pessi- 
 mus, per homines de Ros, Dominica infra octavas Corporis Christi, et ex utraque 
 parte duo interfecti. 
 
 1 346. Interficitur O'Karvwil in Elya per Ossorienses. 
 
 Sequentia a recentiori aliquo adscripta sunt : 
 
 1467. Anno Domini 1467°, et anno regni regis Edwarti IV. 7" apud Droghda in 
 parliamento tento ibidem per Johannem comitem Wygornia;, Thomas comes Desmonise 
 decapitatus 14" die Februarii, quasi hora 2' diei post nonam. 
 
 1480. Capitur et comburitur castrum Arbonen, constructum in Carigynserach 
 prope Lesrenor per filios Petri Botiller. Et eodem anno, capitur castrum de Mang 
 per Jacobum comitem Desmonia;, antea seditiose per Hibemicos deteutum. Et 
 eodem anno, comes Kildaria; justiciarius Hibernia; cepit castrum deLechlyn. Eodem 
 anno, filii Petri ButUler ceperunt castrum de Drongen, et comes Desmonise cepit cas- 
 trum de Balyewhill. Scoti et Dani intrarunt Angliam, et septem millia hominum 
 perdiderunt. Eodem anno, Eichardus filius Petri Butiller cepit et incarceravit Wal- 
 therum de Sancto Albino malefactorem magnum. Et eodem anno, pueri et infantes 
 in typum et figuram capturse de Carygferach in collibus solebant bellare unde vulnera 
 et incommoda proveniebant. 
 
 Ibid, (circa an. 1350). 
 
 Nota quod denarius ponderat 32. grana in medio spica;. 
 
 1 2. denarii faciunt unara unciam. 
 
 1 2. uncia; faciunt libram, de 20. solidis. 
 
 8. libra; de frumento faciunt galonem sive lagenam. 
 
 8. galones sive lagens faciunt busscUum, qui est 8. pars quarterii de frumento. 
 Et 15. uncise faciunt libram Londoniis. 
 12. libra; et dimid. faciixnt petram London. 
 
 NOTES. 
 
NOTES. 
 
 Page 2, line 21. 
 
 TiRITONES in Anglia. — According to this, the Britons arrived in the year 787 
 post diluvium. That appears to differ from Mr. O'Flaherty's computation, so far 
 as I can comprehend his scarcely intelligible chronology ; for he seems to say that 
 Britannus, son of Fergus of the Red Side, came over on the expulsion of the Nemedians 
 from Erin, which event he places in 588 post dil. — Ogyg., p. 66 — A. H. 
 
 Ibid., line 23. 
 
 Prima etas — The six ages, of Avhich the sixth dates from the first advent of Christ, 
 are founded upon the tradition of the house of Elias ; but they are made unequal in 
 their durations, in the attempt to make them historical. The Welsh divided them 
 into the pumoes, or five ages, and the chwechedoes, or the sixth age. Their five ages 
 were those of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and David, making no division at the 
 Captivity. — Taliesin Di^Tcgwawd, p. 96. — A. H. 
 
 Page 3, line 29. 
 
 Anastasius That Athanasius is meant, and the anachronism, need hardly be 
 
 pointed out. — A. H. 
 
 Page 4, line 2. 
 
 Secundum Bedam, — Beda says nothing of the sort, and simply calls her Hdena 
 concuhina. She was a woman of Naissus in Dacia, now Servia. The idea of Constan- 
 tine being a native of Britain arose from the words of Eumenius, " O fortunata Bri- 
 tannia quae Constantinum Ccesarem prima vidisti," in which Constantine first obtained 
 the dignity of a Caesar; and from the more general expression of the anonymous 
 panegyrist, " liberavit ille [Maximian] Britannias servitute [from CarausiusJ, tu 
 etiam nobiles illic oriundo fecisti." — A. H. 
 
 Page 
 
48 
 
 Page 4, line 7. 
 
 Luciuni el Serenum. — For " Lucium et Serenum" we must read " Licinium et Se- 
 vcrum," although, in fact, Severus was put down by the arms of Galerius A. II. 
 
 Ibid., line 8. 
 
 Maxencio depulso. — The sense seems to require " Maximinus depulsus." Maximi- 
 nus, surnamed Daha or Daga, is said to have put to death St. Catherine, the martyr, 
 who is also supposed to have been an Alexandrian woman ; but her existence is un- 
 ascertained. — A. II. 
 
 Page 8, line 10. 
 
 Mackanfy. — This should unquestionably be Mac Carthy. — O'Z). 
 
 Ibid., line 28. 
 
 Let/e et Donmaske, i. e. Lea, near Portarlington, and Donamase, near Maryborough. 
 —J. O'D. 
 
 Ibid., line 31. 
 
 Locum de Bos. — Ware understands this of Rosbercan, in the barony of Ida, County 
 Kilkenny ; but other authorities place the abbey at Ross-Pontis, or New Ross, which 
 is but a short way distant, although on the opposite side of the Barrow, and in the 
 County Wexford. De Burgo {Hibernia Dominicana, p. 271) thus explains this seem- 
 ing discrepancy: "Quod si dicas Waraeum, cj usque memoratos sequaces, refragari 
 anonymo scriptori sa;culi decimi tertii disertis verbis aienti, coenobium nostrum 
 apud ipsammet Rossam Pontis situm, ut in Catalogo ipsius alibi a me exscripto, 
 et mox recensito, legere est: nuUo negotio rcspondebo nihil inter eos versari contra- 
 dictionis, ut ea jam dictis facillime colligi potest. Enimvero tempore istius anonymi 
 Rosbercana inter Ross-Pontis fines comprehendebatur, nunc autem seorsim se habent, 
 tarn in civilibus, quam in ecclesiasticis\ Ut igitur juxta modernam rerum disposi- 
 tionem loqueretur Waraus, nostrum scite coUocat coenobium apud Rosbercanam in 
 agro Kilkenniensi, eoque vel maxime ne id confundere videretur cum Franciscano et 
 Augustiniano coenobiis, apud Ross-Pontem in agro Wexfordiensi sitis, de quibus hffic 
 habet pauUo ante locum mox allatum: 'Rosse, alias Ross-Pontis, Johannes Devereux 
 Miles fundavit conventum ordinis minorum in loco ubi aliquando domus erat Cruci- 
 ferorum, ad Baroi flumen Ripam, regnante Edwardo prirao — Conventus ordinis Ere- 
 mitarum S. Augustini fundatur ibidem regnante Edwardo tertio.' " 
 
 Page 
 
 » Rosbcrcon was incorporated, and granted all by Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester. — Chart. 
 the liberties and free customs previously granted to Privil. Immu. p. 39. — J. G. 
 the burgessea of Kilkenny, an. 28 Ed. I., circ. 1300, 
 
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 Page 9, line i. 
 
 Coradellum. — Conradine, son of Conrad IV., King of Germany, and grandson of 
 the Emperor Frederick II., who was defeated, and afterwards murdered, by Charles 
 
 of Anjou. He was titular king of Jerusalem. Query Why he is called Imperator 
 
 Graecorum ? — A. H. 
 
 Ibid., line 7. 
 
 Ahtki/ppe. — Ath-kyppe, or Ath-an-chip, the ford of the stock or trunk, as 
 Mr. O'Donovan interprets it. This name is now obsolete, but the place must have 
 been on the Shannon, near Carrick-on-Shannon. — See the Four Masters, at the year 
 1270, for an account of this battle, and O'Donovan's notes. 
 
 Ihid., line 14. 
 
 YoAj/.— Now Youghall; in Irish, eochaill — /. O'D. 
 
 Ihid., line 18. 
 
 Glandelory Now Glenmalure, in the county Wicklow. — See Dowling's Annals, 
 
 sub ann. 1 308. The Four Masters record this defeat of the English at the year 1275 
 thus : "A great victory over the foreigners [jcillaib] in Ulidia, so that there were 
 counted 200 horses, and 200 heads [i. e. chiefs], besides those that fell of their 
 plebeians." 
 
 Ibid., line 30. 
 
 Edwardum iiii — Edward, the first Norman king of that name, but the fourth Eng- 
 lish king; Edward the Elder, Edward the Martyr, and Edward the Confessor, having 
 preceded him. — A. H. 
 
 Ibid., line 31. 
 
 Morkardaht et Art M^Morlcarda, i. e. Muirchertach and Art Mac Murchadha, or 
 Mac Murrough — Seethe Four Masters at A. D. 1282. 
 
 Page 10, line i. 
 
 Item Dominus, &c. — In the Eed Book of Ossory, fol. i, dorso, is an entry in a 
 hand of the early part of the fourteenth century, perhaps written about forty or 
 fifty years after the acquisition of Saer Kyaran ; it is headed " Keddit DnI Epi 
 Ossorie," and contains, amongst other "items," the following : 
 
 "■^ Item. — Sayjikeran et fynchop. — xxiiij''. xii*. viij''." 
 
 24Z. 12s. 8d. was in those days a very large rent, and hence we see that the manor of 
 Saer Kyaran was well worth the trouble Geoffrey St. Ledger took to recover it. 
 IRISH ARCH. soc. H " Fynchop" 
 
50 
 
 " Fynchop" is now termed Fancroft. Immediately below the rent-roll, from which 
 the above item is taken, occurs, in a hand and ink apparently identical, a memorandum, 
 which states that the manor of Say^jkeran then contained twelve score acres of arable 
 land " in dominio," with its appurtenances; and the burgage land fifteen score acres 
 of arable land with its appurtenances, on which were settled forty-one burgesses; and 
 that each acre of arable land in the lordship and burgage land were valued at six- 
 pence per annum. At the bottom of the same page, in a hand of the seventeenth 
 century, the following entry appears : 
 
 " Nomina Villaru de Seyp. 
 Brechmorh [now Breachmore]. 
 Cuyll-na-fernog. 
 Athanarty [now Ahagurty]. 
 D'longport [now Longford]. 
 
 Caenachan. 
 Vfyghath. 
 Carrucata de Saeyp. 
 Cyllmeagayn [now Kyllmain]. 
 Capella de fyncora [now Fancroft]." 
 
 The denomination styled " Carrucata dc Saeyp," is probably that now called " Church 
 Land." The other denominations I have not been able to identify. — J. G. 
 
 Page 1 1, line i. 
 
 Calvaht. — The chieftains whose death is here recorded were Murtough O'Conor 
 Faly, and his brother Calvagh O'Conor. — See the Four Masters at A. D. 1 305, and 
 Mr. O' Donovan's note. 
 
 Ibid., line 7. 
 
 Norraht, i. e. Norrach, in the now county of Kildare — J. G'D. 
 
 Page 1 2, tine 6. 
 
 0''Mmorchys, i. e. the O'Mordhasor O'Mores. Balilethan is now Ballylehan, in the 
 Queen's County J. G'D. 
 
 Ibid., line 21. 
 
 BaUcynglass. — Bealach-Chonglais, now Baltinglass, in the county Wicklow 
 
 J. O'D. 
 
 Ibid., line 27. 
 
 Ahinery — Athenry, County Galway See an accoimt of this battle by the Four 
 
 Masters, A. D. 13 16, and Mr. O'Donovan's notes. 
 
 Page 13, liiie 2. 
 
 Loddyn — They met at Rath-laithin, near Quin Abbey, County Clare — See the 
 
 Caithreiiii 
 
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 Caiihreim Thoirdhealbhaigk, or Wars of Turlough, at A. D. 13 17. Castrum Conyl (in 
 Irish, Ccnplen Ul Chonainj, i. e. O'Conaing's castle) is the present Castle-Connell in 
 the county of Limerick. — J. O'Z). 
 
 Ibid., line 9. 
 
 Apttd Pontensem civitatem, L e. Opoiceo ara, i. e. the bridge of the ford, now 
 Drogheda, near the mouth of the Boyne. — J. G'D. 
 
 Page 13, line 20. 
 
 Cui mhstituihir frater Ricardus Leddrede. — Immediately after his inauguration, having 
 assembled his chapter and the entire clergy of his diocese, he held a synod in the 
 octaves of St. Michael, and passed constitutions, which are yet extant in the Red Book 
 of Ossory, written in a clear, bold, massive hand of the period. These constitutions 
 were printed by Wilkins (Concil. Magn. Brit, et Hib. torn. ii. pp. 501-506), as he him- 
 self informs us, from a transcript made by Otway, Bishop of Ossory, in 1686, for the 
 use of the Bishop of Meath (Anthony Dopping), and then in possession of Sterne, 
 Bishop of Clogher. This transcript, or at least Wilkin's printed copy of it, is in many 
 instances inaccurate, as is also the date assigned by him, viz., the second year of 
 Ledrede's episcopacy. The true date appears from a memorandum Avhich ibllows 
 immediately after the Constitutions (fol. 10, dorso), in the same hand and ink, and 
 which an attempt has been made to erase, for what purpose it is difficult to conjecture. 
 However, on the application of acid of galls, enough became legible to fix the period 
 when the synod was holden, viz., in the octaves of Michael the Archangel, next following 
 Ledrede's enthronization ; and it is remarkable that this contemporary memorandum, 
 made, as we may suppose, by order of Ledrede, as matter of record, places his succession 
 to the See of Ossory in the year 13 16, two years earlier than Clyn. The commence- 
 ment of the memorandum is as follows : 
 
 " Memorandum quod anno dni milllo ccc" sexto decimo, translate Willo Epo Ossor' 
 quarto die post festum Annunciacois beate Virginis ad Archiepatum Cassellen^ fFrater 
 Ricus de Ledred de ordine minorum de anglia oriundus, per sedem Aplicam factus est 
 Epus Ossors* pro illo subsequenter, qui adniissus a rege tempalibus erat, traditis et 
 Iris aplicis Archiepo Dublinien, et capitulo suo Kilkenii publicatis, celebrata inaugu- 
 racoe sua apud Kilkenii, convocato capitulo et clero totius dioc'' **** synodum 
 solempnem in octavis beati Michis sequeii ***** celebravit, et statuta synodalia 
 supradicta per eum facta publicavit, et de consensu capituli et cleri publice statuit 
 observari." — Liber Ruber Ossor., fol. 10, dorso. 
 
 Ware quotes the Regist. Pontif. in Wadding's Annals, for the date of Ledrede's 
 succession, but he was not ignorant of the existence of the Liber Ruber, as amongst 
 
 H 2 his 
 
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 his MSS. (Mus. Brit. 4787, vol. -vxvi. Clarend. MSS. No. 82) we find, " Excerpta ex 
 Regist. Ossoriensis voc. lib. rubro." Could this memorandum have been erased when 
 he or his amanuensis made these " excerpta?" — J. G. 
 
 Page 14, line 9. 
 Tolonemes, i. e. the O'Tuathails, or O'Tooles. — J. G'D. 
 
 Ibid., line 13. 
 
 Donati O'Morthe, i. e. the son of Donchadh or Donough O'Mordha, or O'More. — 
 J. O'D. 
 
 Ibid., line 27. 
 
 0* Konchours. — The O'Conchobhair, or O'Conor Faly. 
 
 Ibid., last line. 
 
 Apud Baligaveran Now Gowran, in the county of Kilkenny. See " Circuit of 
 
 Ireland," p. 39. Theobald Walter (created chief Butler of Ireland, circ. A. D. 1 1 77), 
 by a charter, in which he styles himself " Theobaldus Walter, Pincerna Hibernia?," 
 granted to his free burgesses of Ballygaveran various lands, at a rent of ten marks of 
 silver per annum. — Carte's Life of James, Duke of Ormonde; Introduction. 
 
 Carte also says, that by an entry in the Register of the diocese of Ossory, dated at 
 Kilkenny, the 2nd of November, 1 3 1 2, it appears that William, Bishop of Ossory, 
 binds himself to support, in the church of the Blessed Mary of Ballygaveran, four 
 priests, to pray for the souls of Edmond le Botiller, his wife, Joane, &c. &c. (Such 
 entry is not now to be found in any document connected with the see, to which I 
 have had access.) The church of the Blessed Mary, here mentioned, still exists; it 
 is a beautiful early English church of large dimensions; the chancel is at present 
 used as the parish church, and has been barbarously disfigured : the nave is ruinous. 
 It consisted of a centre and two side aisles, but the row of pillars on the north side has 
 fallen within the last twenty years. There is a tower between the nave and chancel, 
 but no transepts. In the west end is a very beautiful triple lancet window; the origi- 
 nal font still exists, and has been lately erected in the interior of the church by the 
 present rector. One or two effigies, represented in the armour of the early part of the 
 sixteenth century, are to be seen; they bear no inscriptions, but are of too late a cha- 
 racter to be assigned to the time of Edmond le Botiller. 
 
 James, grandson to the above Edmond, and third Earl of Ormond, built the castle 
 of Gowran, and, from the circumstance of his usually residing there, was often called 
 Earl of Gowran. This castle, which is described to have been a stately pile, was razed 
 
 to 
 
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 to the ground within the present century by the Viscount Clifden of the day. There 
 is now no trace of it, but the site is still shown. 
 
 By Rot. Pat. z Hen. V. 153, a grant of tolls, such as were levied in the town 
 of Kilkenny, is made to BallygaYcran for forty years, to enable the burgesses and 
 community to pave and wall their town, which had been lately burned, and the 
 lieges therein destroyed by the Irish enemy, by whom it was surrounded, "and who 
 daily threatened to do it again." — Calendar of the Rolls. 
 
 The four priests endowed by William Fitz-John, Bishop of Ossory, in 13 12, lived 
 collegiately, as appears by the following extract from the Regal Visitation Book of 
 1615, at present in the Royal Irish Academy: 
 
 " Erant ibidem ab antiquo quatuor vicarii in parvo coUegio, et quUibet eorum 
 recepit ex decimis illius villae ad valorem viginti marcarum : eorum erat officium in- 
 teresse divinis in Ecclesia Parochiale de Gowran." 
 
 "A. D. 1305, in the vigil of the Blessed Virgin, James Butler, Earl of Ormonde, 
 then Justiciary of Ireland, died at Gowran." Many other distinguished members of 
 the same family were interred in Gowran church Annals i)i Camden. 
 
 By a Taxation of the Diocese of Ossory, transcribed by Richard Ledrede, Bishop 
 of Ossory, from the original, " in Curia Romana, et in Registro Clericorum propc 
 London, et in Registro apud ecclesiam Sti Pauli ibidem" (from internal evidence this 
 taxation seems to have been made about 1306), it appears that the Templars of the 
 Priory of Kilmainham were the rectors of the church of Ballygaveran, and that the 
 vicarage belonged to the bishop, and was worth 61. 13s. ^d. The entry is as fol- 
 lows : 
 
 " Ecc de Balygavan. templar si rector, (not taxed). 
 Ex pie Vicar. Epus. vi". xiij'. iiij''. Decia xiij^ iiij''." 
 
 Liber Ruber. Ossor. fol. 1 9. 
 
 The Knights Hospitalers succeeded to the Rectory after the suppression of the Tem- 
 plars, as appears by another taxation made by the same bishop, " Post Guerram 
 Scotorum," by order of Edward II., in which Gowran is thus noticed: 
 
 " Ecclesia de Ballygavan. Hospital, (not taxed), 
 ex pte vicarii Ix'. DecIa vi*. Procur duor denar de marca ix""." 
 
 Liher Ruber Ossor. fol. 22, dorso, and fol. 23. 
 
 In a subsequent taxation, made about 15 10, Gowran is valued as follows: 
 
 " Ecc de Ballygavran. ps vie xxiij m^." 
 
 Liber Ruber Ossor. fol, 62. ' 
 
 And 
 
54 
 
 And again, in a subsequent taxation : 
 
 " Vica" de Ballygauran xx'." 
 
 Liber Ruber Ossor, fol. 69. 
 
 It is worthy of remark that the value of the vicarage was reduced more than one- 
 half by the devastations consequent on the invasion of Edward Bruce, of which 
 frightful accounts are given by all the Irish annalists. Bruce, on raising the siege of 
 Dublin in 1316, marched southwards, and was at Gowran some time before the 12th 
 of March in that year, old style Annals in Camden, and Grace's Annals, p. 81. 
 
 About the year 1324, Roger Outlaw, Prior of the Hospital of Kilmainham, and 
 Chancellor of Ireland, made over, for ten years, the fruits of the churches of Bally- 
 gaveran and Galmoy to the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of St. Canice, 
 Kilkenny, as security that William Outlaw (who had been convicted of heresy and 
 witchcraft, and, on submitting himself to the grace of the Church, had been ab- 
 solved from the sentence of excommunication, on condition, amongst other things, of 
 covering the chancel of the cathedral church of St. Canice, and the whole church from 
 the belfry eastward, and the chapel of the Blessed Mary the Virgin, with lead) should 
 perform said work perfectly, or that the said Prior should do it for him if he failed, 
 within four years. — Narrative of Proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler, pp. 28, 36, 
 37 ; printed for the Camden Society. 
 
 By a list of all benefices in the diocese of Ossory belonging to religious houses 
 before 1390, extant in the Liber Ruber, it appears that the churches or rectories of 
 Gowran and Galmoy belonged to the Priory of Kilmainham, and therefore to the 
 Templars of the same priory before their suppression, and subsequently to the Hospi- 
 talers'* — Liber Ruber Ossor., fol. 28. — /. G. 
 
 Page 1 5, line 3 1 . 
 
 OCod.. tanys. — The O'Codhlitans, now anglice Collitans. — See Introd. p. xxiii. 
 note. 
 
 ' Page 16, line 21. 
 
 Nenaht Ybreyn, i. e. Nenagh ; called in the Irish Annals Aenach Ur Mhumhan, or 
 the fair town of Ormond. Ybreyn is an attempt to anglicise Ur Mhumhan — J. O'D. 
 
 Page 
 
 By an Inquisition taken at Ballygauran, 21st Lands, which had been concealed and unjustly de- 
 July, an. 37 Eliz. it appears that the prior and tained from the Queen by Thomas Earl of Ormonde 
 religious of Kilmaiiiliam were seised, as in fee, of and Ossory — Inquisit. Repertorium ; Lagen. Com. 
 six messuages, with their appurten.mces, within the Kilk. Eliz. So. 1. 
 town of Ballygauran, commonly called St. Julm's 
 
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 Page 17, line i. 
 
 Ynistyoke, i. e. Inistiogue on the Nore, County Kilkenny. — /. O'Z). 
 
 Ihid; line 21. 
 
 Boton. — Buttevant. Tartdart, Le. Ardfert; an c-Qpo-peapca — J. O'D. 
 
 Ihid; line 27. 
 
 Slesblanie. — Eead Slevblame, now Slieve Bloom, Sliab Slaoma. Athho etAdma- 
 cart, i. e. Achabo and Acha-mic-Airt, now Aghabo and Aghamacart, situated on the 
 borders of the County Kilkenny and Queen's County. — J. O'D. 
 
 Page 18, line 7. 
 
 Athyssdl Ath-iseal, i. e. the low ford, now Athassel, on the Suir, county Tippe- 
 
 rary.— O'D. 
 
 Ibid; line 17. 
 
 Catkyrlaht, i. e. Ceirthearlach, or Catherlogh, now Carlow J. O'D. 
 
 Ihid; line 18. 
 
 CMorchys, i. e. O'Mordhas or O'Mores, seated in Leix, in the now Queen's County. 
 —J. O'D. 
 
 Ihid; line 29. 
 
 Dispensatorum — Dispensator expresses the same name which had been previously 
 written De Spenser — A. H. 
 
 Page 1 9, line 4. 
 
 O'Brennanis. — The O'Brennans of Idough, in the barony of Fassadineen, in the 
 county of Kilkenny J. O'D. 
 
 Ibid; line 8. 
 Graisiscastel. — Grace's Castle. — O'D. 
 
 Ibid; line 16. 
 
 Maynoht — Magh-Nuadhat, now Maynooth, in the county of Kildare J. O'D. 
 
 Ibid; line 17- 
 
 Bargum. — Now Bargy% in the south of the county of Wexford. — J. CD. 
 
 Page 
 
 « Rather Hereon, i. e. Rosbercon, in the county in Bargy ; besides, the family of De Rupe were set- 
 Kilkenny. We do not find a " locus praedicatorum'' tied at the Roar, near Rosbercon. — J. G. 
 
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 Page 19, line 20. 
 
 Donhulle. — Dunoyle, in the County Waterford ; in Irish, tDun aiUe, tlie fort of 
 the cliff— J. O'Z). 
 
 Ibid., line 25. 
 
 RahtgormocJce et Kylmydan. — Now Rathcormac and Kilmeadan, county Waterford. 
 —J. O'D. 
 
 Page 20, line 6. 
 
 Cumbyr, — or Comar, now Castlecomer, county Kilkenny J. G'D. 
 
 Ibid., line 9. 
 
 Drumhyrthyr. — Drumaghadohir, near Castlecomer. — O'Z). 
 
 Ibid., line 1 1. 
 
 Moyarfe. — Magh-Airbh, in the barony of Crannagh, county Kilkenny J. O'D. 
 
 Ibid., line 21. 
 
 Cam 0''Kayrwill. — Cam-shuilech, i. e. crooked or squint-eyed. — See line 24. He is 
 called Caec by the Four Masters. — J. 0''D. 
 
 Page 21, line 3. 
 
 G'Donyn. — Read O'Doynn, now O Dunne, a family seated in the barony of Tinne- 
 hinch, in the Queen's County. 
 
 Ibid., line 15. 
 M'Hokegan, i. e. Mageoghegan. — J. O^B. 
 
 Ibid., line 16. 
 
 Yrlef. — This is an evident mistake of transcription for Thurles, which in the old 
 manuscript was probably written ]"Ie|. — See also p. 23, line i — O B. 
 
 Ibid., line 1 8. 
 
 Totmonia. — Thomond.— /. O'D. 
 
 Page 22, line 2. 
 Moyalby Moyaliff, county Tipperary — J. O'B. 
 
 Page 
 
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 Page 22, line 13. 
 
 Athur. — Eead Achur, i. e. Achadh-ur, now Freshford, county Kilkenny — J. G'T). 
 
 Ibid., line 22. 
 
 Dowsky. — Graigue-na-Manach (the Grange of the Monks), on the Barrow. — /. O'Z). 
 
 Ibid., line penult. 
 
 O'Tkohyl.—0'Toole.—J. O'D. 
 
 Page 23, line 8. 
 Rupensibus. — The Eoches. — J. O'D. 
 
 Page 24, lijie 7. 
 
 Brein de Nathyrlah O'Brien of Atherlach, now the Glen of Aherlagh, lying be- 
 tween Sliabh-na muice and the Galty mountains in the south of the county of Tip- 
 perary. — J. O^D. 
 
 Ibid., line 9. 
 
 Knockfergm. — Now Carrickfersus, county Antrim J. O^D. 
 
 i. 
 
 Ibid., line 16. 
 
 Clonmore. — Cluain-mor, in the barony of Rathvilly, county Carlow. — J. O'D. 
 
 Ibid., line 21. 
 Bonrat. — Now Bunratty, county Clare. — /. O'Z). 
 
 Page 25, line 10. 
 
 Othothyl.—O'Toole J. O'D. 
 
 Ibid,, line 19. 
 
 Obargi. — 0-m Bairrhe, a territory in the Queen's County, and extending into the 
 county of Kilkenny — J. O'D. 
 
 Ibid., line 20. 
 
 O'Morthys de Slemargys. — The O'Mores of Slieve Margy, in the now Queen's 
 County.— J. O'D. 
 
 Rather Obercon, an ancient barony, Co. Kil- Their castle was at Ballyreddy, near Rosbercon 
 
 kenny. The family of De la Frene possessed the J. G. ; A. P. 
 greater portion of Obercon till deprived by CromwelL 
 
 IRISH ARCH. SOC. I Page 
 
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 Page 2j, line 20. 
 
 Et die Veneris sequenti fit miles Thomas CatUewel, &c. — In Camden's Britannia 
 (London, 1667, p. 733), amongst those "qui venerunt cum Derniicio Murchardi filio 
 in Hiberniam," we find the name of " Hugo de Gundevilla." Of this Hugo, Dominic 
 O'Daly, the author of the History of the Geraldines, thus writes: " Hugh Cantoval, 
 alias de Gundevilla, knight (the name is of Norman origin), was left by Henry the 
 Second .... in charge of Waterford From him descended the Cantwells and Con- 
 dons: in the ancient records of these families you will frequently find them called 
 Cantown. But the name is precisely Cantwell, for the English name is formed out of 
 the Norman one, i. e. Town pro Villa." — T/ie Geraldines, " Duffy'' s Library of Ireland,''^ 
 p. 22. However, very little weight can be allowed to so late a testimony as that of 
 O'Daly; the Cantwells and Condons were certainly different families. 
 
 Hanmer, p. 137, in the list of those who came to the conquest of Ireland, gives a 
 " Hugh Cantwell," and calls Hugo de Gundevilla, Hugh de Grandevilla; in both of 
 which he is in error; for any person comparing his list with that of Camden must 
 see, from the position of the names, that his Hugh de Cantwell is a mistranslation 
 from Camden's " Hugo Cantilonensis," which is equivalent to Hugh de Contilon, or 
 Cantileon. * 
 
 The different branches of the Cantwells I have been unable to trace; but it is 
 certain that very powerful families of that name were settled both in the counties of 
 Kilkenny and Tipperary. 
 
 In Kilcooly Abbey, in the latter county, on a monumental slab, there is still ex- 
 tant the following inscription: 
 
 " Hie Jacet Willielmus Cantwell quondam dominus de Ballyntobyr et Cloghe- 
 
 cordely qui obiit xxii luce Aprilis, A. D. Et Margareta Butler uxor ejus, quae 
 
 obiit xxi die mensis Novembris A, D. M".CCCCC".XXVIII°. pro quoru aiab' diccntib' 
 pater et ave conceduntur cxx dies indulgentiae." (An examination of the Munster 
 Inquisitions would, no doubt, throw much light on the Tipperary branch.) 
 
 It is probable that to the Tipperary Cantewells belonged the Thomas Cantewal 
 who, according to the text, was knighted by James le Botiller at Irlef, — an evident 
 mistake of the transcriber for Thurles. 
 
 The Kilkenny branch of this family had their principal castles at Cantewell's- 
 court, now Sandsford-court, near Kilkenny; and at Stroan, Kilfane, and Cloghscragg, 
 not far from Gowran. Of the first, the massive keep still exists; and within some 
 Ibrty years back the outer walls and gateway were standing. The remains at Stroan 
 and Cloghscregg are inconsiderable, and of that of Kilfane there is no trace. The 
 (•harter granted to Gowran by Theobald Walter, first Butler of Ireland (see p. 43, 
 
 ante) 
 
59 
 
 aide), is witnessed by " D. Thomas de Kentewell," whence it is probable he was in 
 possession of these latter castles and lands (being in the neighbourhood of Gowran), 
 at all events, before 1 206, the year of Theobald Walter's death. This Thomas de 
 Kentewell was perhaps grandfather to another of the same name, who was empowered 
 by Edward II., in 1 3 1 8, to treat with the O'Brenans and other felons of the Cantred 
 of Odogh. — Kot. Pat. 1 1° Ed. II. 2 '^ pars. No. 129. The Cantred of Odogh was com- 
 prised within the present barony of Fassadinan, County Kilkenny. Thomas de Cante- 
 well was at this period an old man, for in the year 1 3 1 9, by a writ dated at Thomastown 
 on the 6th of January, he was exempted from attending at assizes, "being worn out 
 with age."— ^o<. Put. 1^" Ed. II. No. 33. 
 
 In 1 382 Richard II. granted license to Thomas Derkyn and Walter Cantwell, 
 '• living in the Marshes of Ballygaveran, in front of the Irish enemies, M'Murgh and 
 O'Nolan, to treat for themselves, their tenants, and followers." — Rot. Pat. ^Ric. II. i " pars. 
 No. 192. This Walter was, probably, grandson to the Thomas who was worn out with 
 age in 1319. His castles of Stroan and Cloghscregg stand on the verge of the barony 
 of Gowran, in 1382 the " marshes" of the Pale. He died before 1409, as on the 18th 
 . of March in that year, the " custody of the lands, &c., of Robert, son and heir of 
 Walter Cantewell, in Rathcoull and Strowan," was committed, rent-free, to Richard 
 and Thomas Cantewell. And by a writ, dated at Kilkenny on the i6th of December 
 following, the king granted to Robert Cantewell (on his coming of age), " all the lands, 
 tenements, rents, and services, which the said Robert held in Rathcoull and Strawan 
 in the Co. Kilkenny, then in the king's hands." — Rot.Pat. 10 Hen. IV. 2" pars. Nos. 48 
 and 87. 
 
 On the 2nd of October, 1595, Thomas Archer Fitz- Walter, of Kilkenny, enfeofed 
 certain persons in the manor, town, and lands of Kathcoule and Carrigin, which he 
 held in mortgage of John Cantewell. — Repert. Inquisit. Com. Kilk. Temp. Jac. I. 
 No. 20. By another Inquisition, taken at the " Blackfryars," Kilkenny, the 6th of 
 Sept. 1637, it appears that the said John Cantewell, of Cantewell's-court, had mort- 
 gaged several other portions of his property to various individuals. And in another 
 Inquisition, taken at the same time and place, his possessions were ascertained as 
 follows : 
 
 " Joh Cantwell de Cantwell's Courte seis' fuit de maneP de Rathcoule, & Kil- 
 fanye (Kilfane), except proporcon spectant Walter Walsh in Kilfanye pdct, cu ptin ; 
 & de vil & ter de Rathcoule, Cantewells-Courte, Kilbennell, TuUaghbryn, le Ouldtowne 
 de Rowebone, le Ouldtowne de CowUwoekair (Kilmokar), le Ouldtowne de Glanheylie 
 Cubicketanevallie, Kilfaine, Stroane, Cloghskraggie, Lisnemenaght, ReamyndufF, 
 Carrigine, Killudigan, Rassigine al Rathsiggin, Kilkerin, le Garrans, al Cantewells- 
 
 I S Garrans, 
 
6o 
 
 Garrans, Johns-graige <'il Graigeshane, Insliilugh Ballyhomas, & Gawran in Co. 
 Kilken. Contiu '2i pccU ter & ^ pcell ter Anglice two horsemens beds and a half, 
 and the sixth part of a horseman's bed. . . . pmlss tenebat' de Re in caplte p s'vic mil." 
 The ample possessions here enumerated, and which composed the manors of Rathcoul 
 and Kilfane, John Cantewell alienated, for certain uses, to Patrick Archer of Kil- 
 kenny, and Patrick Coppinger of Clonmore, in the County Kilkenny, by indenture 
 bearing date 30th Dec. 1609. — Repert. Inquisit. Com. Kilk. Car. L Nos.92, 93. And 
 they were finally lost by the forfeiture of Thomas Cantewell of Cantewell's-court, 
 who was appointed provost marshal by the Supreme Council of Confederate Catholics 
 sometime after 1641, and is called "that cruel and bloody rebel" in one of the depo- 
 sitions given in Temple's Irish Rebellion (Ed. 1812, p. 119). 
 
 In the old church of Kilfane (a building originally erected in the early English 
 style, as appears by the remains of the sedilia and piscina, but barbarously disfigured 
 while used as the parish church) there lies a very perfect and well-sculptured cross- 
 legged sepulchral effigy. The figure is gigantic, measuring from head to heel seven 
 feet ten inches ; the body and limbs are represented as clad in a complete suit of mail, 
 and the head and throat are defended by a chaperon or hood of the same ; the hood 
 does not assume the shape of the head, but is flatted at top, presenting the form of a 
 slightly elevated cone. A loose surcoat is worn over the hauberk ; the right arm is 
 extended by the side, and the right leg crossed over the left. The spur has a broad 
 rowel, and the sword is placed under the figure, the end of it appearing from between 
 the legs. A long triangular shield, very much curved, is borne on the left side, sup- 
 ported by the guige passing over the right shoulder; the shield measures three feet 
 four inches in length, and bears, carved in relief, the arms of the Cantwells, viz., a 
 canton ermine, four annulets. Probably this efligy was erected in honour of the 
 Thomas de Cantewelle who was an old man in 13 19. It is called by the peasantry 
 " Cauntwell fada," the tall Cantwell ; and is traditionally said to have been brought 
 from beyond sea. Tombs were often erected by persons themselves before their deaths ; 
 ])erhaps such was the case in this instance. The rowdled spur forbids us to assign it to 
 the predecessor of Thomas, who must have died early in the thirteenth century. 
 
 The Cantwell arms are given somewhat differently in the tomb of Butler Viscount 
 Mountgarret, who died in 1571, and which still exists in St. Canice's Cathedral, Kil- 
 kenny: on its side is carved a shield, bearing, on a jvdd ermine, four annulets, and over 
 it the word Cantctocll J. G. 
 
 Page 25, line 22. 
 
 Willehnus Carraght O^Bren, i. e. William Carrach O'Brien, of the Glen of Aher- 
 lagh, near the town of Tipperary. — /. 0'2). 
 
 Page 
 
6i 
 
 Page 25, line 30. 
 
 Moytohyr iloyhobber, in the barony of Cuimseanach, or Compsey, in the county 
 
 Tipperary, the manor of the Fannings — See Inquis. Lagenice, 7 Car. I. — /. O'D. 
 
 Ibid., line tdt. 
 
 Manu media, i. e. in the hands of an indifferent person or stakeholder. — A. II. 
 
 Page 26, line 4. 
 
 Cumcy The barony of Corapsey, in the county Tipperary. — O'Z). 
 
 Ibid., line 17. 
 
 Excedekene. — Archdeacon, Archidiaconus ; alias Mac Odo, alias Cody J. OfD. 
 
 Ibid., line 1 8. 
 
 Lerjaih O'Morthe. — Read Lesach [i. e. Lewis] O'Mordha, or O'JIore See p. 27, 
 
 line 22, and p. 29, line penult — O'Z). 
 
 Page 27, line 8. 
 
 Greyn CnocGreine; from which the town of Pallas- Greine (Pallasgreen), county 
 
 Limerick, takes its name. — J. O'D. 
 
 Page 29, line 10. 
 
 Kilkyban. — Read Kilsylan, now Kilsillan, near Clonmel, county Tipperary. 
 
 Ibid., line 18. 
 
 Conton Read Contilon; and in the next line, for Raynyl, read Ranylt. — O'D. 
 
 Ibid., line 30. 
 Any Perhaps a mistake for Athy. 
 
 Paye 30, line 2. 
 
 Dunmaske, i. e. Dunamase; a great fortress near Maryborough, Queen's County. 
 — /. O'D. 
 
 Ibid., line 12. 
 
 Castrum Viride Green Castle, in Inishowen. There is auotlier Green Castle, a 
 
 place of great antiquity, in the county Down. — J. O^D. 
 
 Page 
 
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 Page 30, line 19. 
 
 Mondesseyl. — Modeshil (ITlaj oeipil), in the barony of Compsey, county Tippe- 
 rary.— J. O'D. 
 
 Ibid., line 25. 
 
 Thoma M'Arthan — Thomas Mac Artan was chief of the Kinel-Arty, a barony in 
 the present county Down J. O^D- 
 
 Ibid; line 26. 
 
 O'Done 0'Neyl.—Re&d Odone O'Neyl, i. e. Hugh O'Neill J. O'D. 
 
 Page 31, line 15. 
 
 Clonde, Clonmel. Kyhylan, Kilshee'.an. Kysekyl, read KylsekyL Oeonyl, i. e. 
 O'Conaill Gabhra. Kyrigan, i. e. Kerry. — /. O'Z). 
 
 Ibid., line 24. 
 
 Yniskysty- — Iniskisty, in Kerry, near Castle Island. — J. O^D. 
 
 Page 32, line 5. 
 
 Tir Ilalivaht O^Konkur. — Uoipoealbuc O'ConcoBaip, i. e. Turlogh O'Conor 
 
 J. O'D. 
 
 Ibid., line 8. 
 
 Hihemici de Slebanie, i. e. of Slieve Bloom, in the Queen's County J. G'D. 
 
 Ibid., line 9. 
 
 Bordgwyl. — Now Bordwell, in the Queen's Connty, on the borders of the county 
 Kilkenny.— J. 0'Z>. 
 
 Ibid., line 23. 
 
 Balymotha Ballymote, in the county Sligo. — G'D. 
 
 Ibid., line 31. 
 
 Kylmehyde. — Kilmohide, in the Queen's County — J. O^D. 
 
 Ibid., last line. 
 
 Athebo Read Aghabo, in the Queen's County. — J. O'D. 
 
 Page 34, line 2. 
 
 Ardscol. — Ardscull, near the hill of Mullamast, county Kildare. — J. CD. 
 
 Page 
 
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 Page 34, line 3. 
 
 Hugo de Saltu, i. e. Hugh of Leixlip; Leixlip is Danish, literally signifying Saltuf 
 Salmonis, i. e. Lax-leap, or Salmon Leap. — J. O'D. 
 
 Ibid., line 16. 
 
 Thagmolingis. — Now Tigh-Moling, or St. Moling's, in the county Carlow — J. O'D. 
 
 Page 35, line 30. 
 
 Hec pestilencia. — The pestilence of which our author has left so touching a memo- 
 rial is that known in history as the " black death," or " great mortality." Its progress 
 through Asia, Europe, and Africa, has been traced with great learning and ability by 
 Dr. J. F. C. Hecker, in his history of " The Epidemics of the Middle Ages," first pub- 
 lished in 1832 ; translated by Dr. B. G. Babington, and republished by the Sydenham 
 Society, in 1844. 
 
 The description of the disease given by Clyn not only agrees in every particular 
 with the accounts of eye-witnesses in other countries, but affords many particulars, 
 hitherto unpublished, of the ravages of the pestilence in the most western part of 
 Europe. For all we learn from Dr. Hecker is, that " Ireland was much less heavily 
 visited than England. The disease seems to have scarcely reached the mountainous 
 districts of that kingdom." — Page 27. 
 
 This pestilence, to which the compiler of the Annals himself seems to have ulti- 
 mately fallen a victim, has been followed by similar visitations from time to time in 
 Kilkenny. Indeed, all the more remarkable plagues of which mention is made in the 
 history of other countries we can trace to this city, through its municipal documents, 
 though we have, of course, a much more scanty record of their ravages than that sup- 
 plied by the worthy Brother Clyn, with respect to the pestilence of 1 348. 
 
 The pestUeuce which, in 1603, ravaged England, and struck terror into the court 
 of King James I. at London, reached Kilkenny in the year following. On the 25111 
 January, 1603 (old style), we find the municipal authorities of the Irish town of that 
 city enacting the following curious by-law, through which they vainly sought to pre- 
 vent the contagion from finding its way into their community. 
 
 " It is concluded and agreed by the assente and cosente of the portrive, burgesses, 
 and comons, that henceforward ev'ie day one proper tall ma shall stand with his hal- 
 bert intheoppen streete neere the gates at ev'ie gate within this Irishtowne, to keepe 
 oute all strangers, or suspected psons that might come from enny enfected place wt''iu 
 
 the kingdom, and y' for his dayly wadges he shall have the wch to be levyed 
 
 of 
 
64 
 
 of commons of the same Irishtowne if in case they doe not sev'ally watch in the gates 
 themselves. 
 
 " Cessors to take upp the sayd labor" hyre. 
 
 " Tug. Ffleming and John Mont. 
 
 " It is also cocluded y' all the poore people wch be Strang" to this towne shall 
 have 24 hours victualls at the towne charge, and after driven out of the towne." 
 
 Stringent as these measures were, they were, as might have been foreseen, of no 
 effect; and upon the 29th October, 1604, the following entry appears, which shews 
 that the plague had begun to do its work amongst the burgesses: 
 
 " In as much as it pleaseth God to visitt this poore towne with the sicknes for o' 
 manifould sinnes, and for y' div's places within this poore corporacon is visitted with 
 the same, it is needful! that care be taken to have the sick psons placed in some remote 
 places from oth" w'^'' are not as yett infected. Wee have therefore chosen the under 
 named psons to ov'see the sick psons severed from oth" hoping therby y' Gods indig- 
 nacon might spare some." 
 
 The Board of Health appointed to carry these regulations into effect consisted of 
 the portrieve, chief officer of the Irish town, and seven of the principal burgesses; and 
 a few of the by-laws which follow were evidently consequent upon the alarm caused 
 by the visitation of this plague. The enactments are curious, as shewing that, even 
 in those remote days, something like a conviction of the necessity of cleanliness and 
 sanitary regulation, for the preservation of the public health, had begun to force itself 
 even upon the somewhat obtuse comprehensions of petty corporate officers. 
 
 " It is inacted and concluded, the day and yere above written, by the cosente and 
 agremente of the portrive, burgesses, and conions of the Irishtowne, y' from henceforth 
 noe pson or psons within the franchis of the aforesayd Irishtowne doe keepc enny dung 
 in the oppe streete before there doores, uppo payne of the loss of the sayd dung and 
 xii''. stg. fine to the portrive toties qtioties, ech p''' being eight dayes warned before 
 the tyme. 
 
 " The day and yere aforesayde, it is concluded and inacted by the cosente and 
 assente aforesayd, that noe pson or psons w"'in this lybertye, from the fifth day of 
 November next doe not suffer any there hoggs to goe or lye in the streete uppon payne 
 of 4''. sterling to be levyed of the own' of the swine toties quoties, and if they will not 
 restrayne there hoggs, that then it shall and may be lawfull to and for the keep 
 appointed for the like to kill them and have them praysed bye the praysers, and one 
 qrtr of ev'ie such porke to be given to the prison"' according the portrive's direction, 
 and the rest to the own'. The officer appointed for same is Danyell O'Dowra." 
 
 In the year 1649 Kilkenny suffered much from another pestilence; and to avoid 
 
 its 
 
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 its contagion, as well as to get out of the neighbourhood of Cromwell, the Supreme 
 Council of Confederate Catholics removed their meetings from that city to the town 
 of Ennis, in the county of Clare. A Cromwellian writer of the day makes the follow- 
 ing curious mention of the circumstance: 
 
 " Some small party of ours, by way of alFront, went to the gates of Kilkenny to 
 ask who was there, where they learned, since the plague of the Supreme Council was 
 gone, that of the sickness supplied their room, and truly it is so briskly there, that 
 what is their danger is their security, and what fortifies besieges them, so that his Ex- 
 cellency, thinking he ought not to meddle with what the Lord has so visibly taken 
 into his hands, has declined taking Kilkenny into his own."' — (Vide/m// Penny Maga- 
 zine, page 1 1 4.) 
 
 However, Cromwell did soon after resolve to take Kilkenny into his hands, and 
 upon his approach to besiege it on the 23rd March, 1650, it appeared that the garri- 
 son, consisting of 200 horse and 1000 foot, had, through the ravages of the plague, 
 been reduced to 300 men, and there had been also an immense mortality of the inha- 
 bitants of the town. — (^Carte's Life of the Duke of Ormonde.') 
 
 From the evidence of a lease remaining on record in the office of the registrar of 
 the diocese of Ossory, we find that " the great plague" which desolated London in 
 1665 also reached Kilkenny. The document to which we allude recites a grant from 
 Griffith Williams, Bishop of Ossory, made to Martha Davis, on the 15th April, 1668, 
 of " that messuage or mansion-house uninhabited and ruinous, by reason that the 
 same was converted, in the late visitation of the city of Kilkenny, into a pest-house, 
 which is situate, lying, and being at the upper hill, in the Irish town of Kilkenny." 
 — /. G. 
 
 Page 36, line i. 
 
 Ex clade pestilencie. — The number of deaths at Avignon, in the black death of 
 1348, are said to have amounted to 500 daily, and the total number to 60,000. 
 Eebdorf apud Freher. Baluze Vitse Paparum Avenionensium, i. p. 316, cit. Hecker 
 on the Black Death, p. 59. This number exceeds by more than double the entire 
 modern population of that city. It farther appears, that the " unum cimiterium no- 
 vum," which Pope Clement consecrated, was nothing less than the river Rhone itself, 
 into which the bodies were flung, yet, by reason of that solemn benediction of the 
 river, were considered to receive Christian burial. — Torfaeus, cit. ibid. This circum- 
 stance will explain the otherwise surprising statement of John Clyn, that more than 
 50,000 bodies were laid in the new cemetery. On the 6th of April, 1348, the famous 
 Laura died at Avignon of this unparalleled plague. — A.H. 
 
 IRISH ARCH. SOC. K Page 
 
66 
 
 Page 36, line 8. 
 
 Cedrus alta Libani. — This prophecy announced the approaching end of the great 
 
 schism of the East, and the universal establishment of the Latin communion, or ship 
 of St. Peter. However, this union was not to be effected under one civil head, but 
 with a division of power between the Western Empire or Lion, and the Eastern Em- 
 pire, still schismatical (at the date of the prophecy), and so a Bestia. Therefore the 
 Marchionatus could only be destined "mundum superare," as to one-half of it, either 
 the Eastern or Western, which two were to comprise the " universum mundum." 
 But as the Bestia was to undergo a change, and to desist from its schism, while no 
 change is expressed or implied in the Leo, it is evident that the oriental mundus is 
 that which the Marchionate was, in 1347, expected to subdue. 
 
 With these data we can, I think, scarcely miss the prophet's meaning. There was 
 only one Marchionate of great renown in Syria and other parts of the East, not to say 
 anywhere; I mean the ancient Marchionate of Montferrat, which dated from the mid- 
 dle of the tenth century, and the reign of Otho I. The wars of the Cross had brought 
 that family of imperial feudatories into extraordinary celebrity, in the various forms 
 of kings of Jerusalem, Latin emperors of Constantinople, and kings of Thessaly. At 
 this particular epoch the Marchionatus was possessed by an ambitious and warlike 
 prince, John Palajologus, who was grandson to the Greek Emperor, Andronicus Pa- 
 Iseologus IL ; and represented, through his grandmother, lolante of Montferrat, the 
 extinct male line of the royal and imperial Marquisses. 
 
 His father, the Marquis Theodorus Palaiologus, had spent a great portion of his 
 life in Greece, and was learned in both languages. But the Marquis John, in whose 
 days the Cistercian of Syrian Tripoli delivered his prophecy, spent his whole reign of 
 more than forty years in his Piedmontese dominions, and in the prosecution of the wars 
 of Northern Italy. He was consequently living in a settled communion with the suc- 
 cessors of St. Peter, and his ears and lips were perfectly familiar with Filioque. There- 
 fore, in the case of his elevation to the throne of his male ancestors at Constantinople, 
 he might well be regarded as no unlikely person to effect the desired, but vainly at- 
 tempted, re-union of the churches, upon terms agreeable to the Latins. 
 
 We shall consider whether any reasons then existed for speculative minds to turn 
 their thoughts westward, to the warlike PalaBologi of Italy. In the June of 1341, 
 -Andronicus Palaeologus IIL, cousin-german to John Marquis of Montferrat, died, 
 leaving his son, John Palaeologus, only nine years old. The regency and guardian- 
 ship of the child had been confided to John Cantacuzene, his father's favourite minister. 
 But, no later than tiie October of the same year, Cantacuzene assumed the imperial 
 
 dignity 
 
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 dignity for himself ; and, after a civil war of more than fire years, became master of 
 Constantinople, and was crowned in the January of 1347, the year of the prophecy. 
 The title of the youthful prince continued to be recognised; but Cantacuzene reigned, 
 with undivided power, till his retirement in 1355. From which it appears that these 
 predictions offered themselves to the heated imagination of the monk of Tripoli, at the 
 precise epoch when the eastern sceptre of the Palaeologi had passed into the power 
 of a private usurper, and at a time when all that remained of power and energy in 
 that illustrious house was to be sought for in the Marchionate of Montferrat. I incline 
 to interpret the words " Vespertilio fugabit ducem," thus: The Marquis John, coming 
 from the Vespertine Region, or West, shall expel from Constantinople the man whom 
 I only recognise as a dux or officer of state, though he has assumed a higher title. If 
 " ab ill vi" can be made to signify " ab anno sexto," it will express that exact year of 
 Cantacuzene's usurpation, which was current until the 26th of October, 1347, and 
 complete on and after that day. 
 
 It had long been evident that a re-union of the churches was essential to any suc- 
 cessful renewal of the passagium, or crusading policy. The re-capture of St. John 
 D'Acre was the most important military operation incident to a successful passagium. 
 It is not so easy to understand why the Cistercian should determine upon destroying 
 his own residence at Tripoli. But his discontentment with all that surrounded him, 
 and the melancholy frame of his mind, might predispose him to exclaim, like Jesus 
 the son of Ananus : " Woe to the city and to the people. Woe to myself also !" It may 
 be remarked that the Tripolitans have retained the memory of some prophecy, that 
 their city shall be destroyed; and their expectations, that it will be buried under the 
 
 accumulating sand-hills of the shore Maundrell's Journey from Aleppo, p. 317, Ed. 
 
 Pinkerton, — A. H. 
 
 Page 37, line 21. 
 
 In conventu Kilkennie — The only portions of the Franciscan Abbey of Kilkenny, 
 at present remaining, consist of the chancel and belfry tower, with a small fragment of 
 the conventual buildings adjoining the south side of the latter. 
 
 The chancel (which measures seventy-three feet by twenty-five feet ten inches, the 
 walls being three feet two inches in thickness, and about twenty-nine or thirty feet high) 
 presents a very pure example of the early English style, both in its earlier and later pe- 
 culiarities, and in its constructive features affords a curious illustration of a passage in 
 these Annals, and a strong proof of their accuracy. Under the year 1 347 (see p. 34), the 
 burial of a benefactress of the abbey, the Lady Isabella Palmer, is recorded : " que frontem 
 chori fratrum erigi fecit." She is also stated to have lived seventy years a widow, and 
 
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68 
 
 if we suppose that she turned her attention to the improvement of the choir after her 
 widowhood, which is most probable, we cannot place such improvement earlier than 
 1277. Now it is a curious fact that about fifty feet of the icesteni end of the chancel 
 is extremely early in the style, and must have been erected in the early part of the 
 thirteenth century, as evidenced by its tall and narrow lancet lights, with plain 
 chamfered jambs and wide internal splays: whereas about twenty-three feet of the 
 eastern or forepart, frons chori, with the great east window, must have been erected 
 late in the style. An examination of the masonry also shows, even to the cursory 
 observer, an evident joint or want of proper bond in the wall, where the new work has 
 been added to the old. 
 
 The early or western end of the choir is lighted by five lancets on the north side, 
 and two small windows placed high up in the wall on the south. The addition made 
 by Dame Isabella Palmer presents a magnificent east window, occupying nearly the 
 entire breadth and height of the gable, and consisting of a cluster of seven lancet 
 lights, divided, not by piers, as in the early period of the style, but by slender mul- 
 lions, and rising, one above the other, toward the centre: over all, a bearing arch is 
 turned in the wall, to take the weight off the muUions ; but there is no hood moulding 
 or ornament of any kind, the mullions and jambs being simply chamfered. 
 
 In the north wall are the remains of a window of three lights, and on the 
 south side is a perfect one, consisting of two lancets, both adjoining the east end, and 
 presenting all the peculiarities exhibited by the great east window, being evidently 
 the work of the same architect. 
 
 It is, perhaps, worth mentioning, as a proof of the knowledge possessed by the 
 mediaeval builders with regard to the properties of stone, that the jambs of these 
 windows are of Caen stone, but in the mullions, where greater strength and solidity is 
 required, the compact limestone of the district is used. The windows of the chancel 
 are all walled up, and, sad to say, it has been converted into a racket-court. 
 
 With regard to the tower, the statements of Clynn are also verified by the existing 
 remains. He afiirms (p. 34) that a confraternity was formed by the Friars Minors in the 
 year 1 347, " pro campanile novo erigendo et ecclesia reparanda." Between that year 
 and the end of the fourteenth century the present tower must have been erected, as its 
 style is late decorated. The arch is a light and beautiful specimen of the style, and 
 the bearing-shafts of the groining are supported by curious figures, which seem to 
 represent the various contributors to the building. One, a female figure, has money in 
 her hand, and all grotesquely represent the position of persons using all their strength 
 to support the weight of the superincumbent mass. 
 
 In Grose's Antiquities there is a plate of the nave, as it existed when his sketch 
 was taken. The piers appear to have been very massive, but it is impossible to judge 
 
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 of their style. This portion of the building was destroyed, in order to erect a horse- 
 barrack on its site. 
 
 Of the many monuments which, no doubt, once adorned the church, none now 
 remain except a few fragments, on one or two of which a few words of Norman 
 French may be traced. A stone built into the waU of a starch-yard, which adjoins 
 the abbey on the south side, bears the following inscription, which is transcribed, in 
 order to show the late date to which the cemetery was used : 
 
 + -Ti- 
 ms. MA. 
 
 Here lyeth the body of Mrs. Agnes 
 Banckes alias Smith. Daughter of 
 Mr. John Smith of Damagh in the 
 
 County of Kilkenny Gentleman. 
 
 and was marryed to Mr. William 
 
 Banckes of Kilkenny, Pewterer. 
 Deceased the 8 th day of January, 1687. 
 
 I pray God be mercyfuU to her Soule. Amen. 
 
 The precinct of the abbey was bounded on the east by the river Nore, and on the 
 north by the Bregagh, a stream forming the wet ditch of a looped and bastioned wall, 
 which here was part of the city defences. A wall seems also to have extended along 
 the edge of the Nore. Cromwell attempted to gain entrance to the town by breach- 
 ing the wall of the Franciscans with pickaxes, but was beaten off. A breach in the 
 old work, filled up by a comparatively modern wall, not far from the tower at the 
 angle where the Bregagh joins the Nore, may, perhaps, have been the locality of this 
 attack. 
 
 The site of the abbey is a low alluvial inch, not many feet higher than the ordinary 
 level of the river, which will account for the flooding of the abbey recorded under the 
 year 1338, supra, p. 28. 
 
 The foundation of the chancel would seem to have been formed by sinking to a 
 considerable depth, not all through the entire length of the wall, but for piers at 
 stated distances, on which bearing arches were turned, and the intervals filled up with 
 masonry ; or perhaps piles were driven to support the piers. — /. G. 
 
 Page 37, last line. 
 Eupences, Cantonences, — The Roches and Condons. — J. G'D. 
 
 Page 
 
70 
 
 Page 38, line 8. 
 
 Donatus Kevenagh M^Moorhe. — Donogh Cavanagh, son of Morrough — O'D. 
 
 Page 39, line 1 1. 
 
 Totmoy. — Tuaith-maighe, in the east of the King's County, north of Portarling- 
 ton.— /. O'D. 
 
 Ibid., line 15. 
 
 Botoniam Buttevant — J. O'D. 
 
 Ibid., line 16. 
 
 Thaihnelage et Ardart. — Timoleague and Ardfert. — J. O'D. 
 
 Ibid., line 17. 
 
 Clonronda — Eead Clomouda, i. e. Clonzode, County Clare J. O'D. 
 
 Ibid., line 18. 
 
 Kylleyht — Cill-achaidh Droma-foda, now Killeigh, near Geshill, King's County. 
 —J. O'D. 
 
 Page 44, line 15. 
 
 In vigilia vigilice vid. ex feria Alexi — The words " vid. ex feria" are wrong, and 
 ought to be omitted. The feast of St. Alexius was the 17th of July, and the vigil of 
 that feast fell on Monday, in the year 1330. 
 
 Page 45, line 34. 
 
 Justiciarium susjienderunt. — SeeClyn, p. 31, svpra, for the correct account of these 
 transactions, by which it appears that it was the Lord Justice who hanged the knights, 
 not the knights that hanged the Lord Justice. Moreover, the Lord Justice at this 
 time was not Sir Walter Bermingham (who did not come into office for four years 
 after), but Sir Ralph Ufford. 
 
 INDEX. 
 
INDEX 
 
 Page. 
 
 A. 
 
 ABraham (Habraham), 2 
 
 Aeon 36 
 
 Adam, 1, 2, 37 
 
 Admacart, 17 
 
 Ahtenry. Vide Athenry. 
 
 Ahtkyppe, 9 
 
 Ahtlone. Vide Athlone. 
 
 Alanus, Episcopus Lysmoriensis, . . 8 
 
 Albanus, 4 
 
 Albino, Johannes de Sancto, .... 26 
 
 Alemaiae, 28 
 
 Alexander, Papa, 7 
 
 Alexander IV. Papa, 6 
 
 Alexandria, 4 
 
 Alfredus, 5 
 
 Alphonsus (Emflius), Edwardi III. fil., 10 
 
 Ambrosius, Mediolnensis, 3 
 
 Anastatius, [i. e. Athanasius] S., . . ib. 
 
 AnastasiuSj Imperator, 4 
 
 Anglia, 5, 6,7, 19, 29, 35 
 
 Angulo, David de, 25 
 
 Remundus de, ib. 
 
 Anselmus, ArchiepiscopusCantuariensis, 5 
 
 Antiochia, 2 
 
 Antonius, Beatus, 7 
 
 Page. 
 
 Any, 29 
 
 Arcedekne, Remundus, 27 
 
 Arclo 28 
 
 Castrum de 24 
 
 Ardart 29 
 
 Ardmachia 39 
 
 Ardscol, 34 
 
 Arimathia (Josephus de), 30 
 
 Aron (Arran), insula 26 
 
 Aragonia, 10 
 
 Arriana, Heresis, 3 
 
 Athbo, Villa de, 17 
 
 Athebo 32 
 
 Athenry (Ahtenry) 12, 15 
 
 Dominus de, Ricardus Brimeg- 
 
 ham 15 
 
 Athlone (Ahtloun), 39 
 
 Athur 22 
 
 Athyssell 18, 21 
 
 Audele, Jacobus de (Justiciarius Hiber- 
 
 nie) 9 
 
 Augustus Cessar, i. e. Octavianus, . . 1 
 Augustinus, (Sanctus), Hipponensis, . 3,4 
 
 ^S.) Cantuariensis, ... 4 
 
 Aurelius Ambrosius, 4 
 
 Austria, 6, 8 
 
72 
 
 Page. 
 
 Aveneil, Nicholaus de 11 
 
 Avenel, Andreas, 27 
 
 Aviiiio 13, 35 
 
 ACw)dayr [Adare], 11 
 
 B. 
 
 Hagot, Geraldus 26 
 
 Baldisroer, Bartholomeus 15 
 
 Balilethan, 12,32 
 
 Balkynglas 12 
 
 Balygaveran (Balligaveran, Baligaveran), 
 
 14, 23, 28, 29 
 
 Balymotha (Clerevoyse), Castrura de, . 32 
 
 Bargum, 19 
 
 Barry, David de 9 
 
 Barry, David de, Dominus de Olethan, . 26 
 
 Nacio de 33 
 
 Robertas de, 31 
 
 Stephaiius de, Minister Fratr. 
 
 Minor., 27 
 
 Barwycum (Berwick), 39 
 
 Bathe, Adam de 27 
 
 Howelus de, Archidiaconus Os- 
 
 sorie, ib. 
 
 Thomas, 26 
 
 Bavarie, Lodovicus Dux, 19 
 
 Bayloyle, Edwardus, .24 
 
 Bayllol, Edwardus 25 
 
 Bed;^ 4,5 
 
 Behtfordia 38 
 
 Beket, David, 22, 26 
 
 Benedictus, Beatus 4 
 
 Bercley, Castrum de 18 
 
 Bermegham (vide Birmegham et Bri- 
 
 megham), W 33 
 
 Bermegham, Walterus, Justiciarius Hi- 
 
 bernie 33, 34 
 
 Bernardus, Beatus 5 
 
 Bethe, 39 
 
 Page. 
 
 Bethlehem (Behtleem) 3 
 
 Beufo, Jacobus, 21 
 
 Beverlacus, 39 
 
 Bigenor, Alexander, Archiepiscopus Dub- 
 
 linie, 27 
 
 Birmegham, Walterus {vide Bermegham 
 
 et Briraegham), 23 
 
 Bloys de, Karoius, Dux Brittanie, . . 34 
 
 Bodminia 38 
 
 Boeniie, Rex 33 
 
 Bonefacius, Papa, 4 
 
 Bonevyl, Johannes 11 
 
 Bonrat, Castrum de, 24 
 
 Bonratte, Bellum de 11 
 
 Bordgwyl, 32 
 
 Bote (Bute), insula, 26 
 
 Botiller le, David, 21 
 
 Edmundus, 11,15,22 
 
 Jacobus, . • . 21,24,25,28,35 
 
 Comes Ermonie, . . 19 
 
 Johannes Primogenitus Jacobi, 
 
 Com. Ormonie 22 
 
 Johannes 14 
 
 Laurencius, 29 
 
 Ricardus, 17 
 
 Theobaldus, 8 
 
 Thomas 21 
 
 Willielmus 17 
 
 Boton, Botonia 17, 39 
 
 Boun, Umfrey de. Comes Herefordie, . 15 
 
 Breffinia 39 
 
 Bregenohrt, ib. 
 
 Brigida, Virgo 4 
 
 Brimegham. Vide Bermegham et Bir- 
 megham. 
 
 Andreas, 14, 15 
 
 ■ Gilbertus, Dominus, . . 22 
 
 Johannes, . . 13,14,17,23 
 
 Comes de Lowht, 20 
 
 Petrus, . , 11 
 
73 
 
 Page. 
 
 Brimegham, Ricardus 12, 15 
 
 . Robertus, 22 
 
 Walterus, ib. 
 
 Willielmus, . 14, 19, 22, 23 
 
 Dominus, . . 20, 
 
 22, 24 
 
 Brit, Johannes le, 27 
 
 Philippus, 22 
 
 Britannia, 3, 4, 5, 32, 34 
 
 Johannes de. Comes Richmon- 
 
 die, 15 
 
 Britis, nacio de, 33 
 
 BristoUum, Bristollia 18, 34, 38 
 
 Bruge, AValterus 38 
 
 Brus le, Rex Scotorura, 33 
 
 David 25 
 
 Edwardus, . . . . . . . 14 
 
 — Edwardus, Rex Hibernie, . . 12 
 
 .Robertus,. . . 11,12,18,20,25 
 
 Brytannia. Vide Britannia. 
 
 Burbrigs, 15 
 
 Burgo, illi de, 19 
 
 Gyle, uxor Richardi de Man- 
 
 deville 25 
 
 Hillarius de, 21 
 
 . Johannes de 1 1, 18, 20 
 
 Katerina, uxor Mauricii, fil. 
 
 Thomse de, 24 
 
 Ricardus de, . . . . 7, 11, 20 
 
 ■ Comes Ultonie, . . 10 
 
 . et Do- 
 minus Connacie, 18 
 
 Walterus de, . . . 9, 21, 24, 25 
 
 Comes Ultonie, . . 8 
 
 Willielmus de, . . 11, 12, 16, 18 
 
 Comes Ultonie, . 19, 21 
 
 Burgo, Willielmus de, Comes Ultonie et 
 
 Dominus Connactie, 24 
 
 BurgTidini, ib. 
 
 Byggenor, Alexander, Archiep. Dublin, 14, 27 I 
 IRISH ARCH. SOC. L 
 
 Page. 
 
 C. 
 
 Calce, Hugo de 35 
 
 Calisia, 34 
 
 Callan, 10, 30 
 
 Adam de, Gardianus de Ros, . 25 
 
 Calvah 10 
 
 Calvaht, frater O'Conkur, .... 1 1 
 
 Cancie, Comes de, Godwinus, ... 5 
 
 Canieus Sanctus Abbas, 33 
 
 Cantewel, Thomas, 25 
 
 Cantibrigia 38 
 
 Cantii, Comes, Eadmundus 21 
 
 Canteton \_md. Caunteton et Canteton], 19 
 
 David, 11 
 
 Guydo 26 
 
 Hugo, 20 
 
 Jacobus, 13 
 
 Johannes de, ib. 
 
 Maurlcius de 11 
 
 Willelmus, filius Mauricii de, 15 
 
 Cantitonenses, 15, 19 
 
 Cantonences, 37 
 
 Cantuaria 38 
 
 Cantuariensis, Archiepiscopus, . . 5, 6, 7 
 Cantwell. Vide Cantewel. 
 
 Capella de, Henricus, 13 
 
 Carlachia 38 
 
 Carliolum, ib. 
 
 Carmerdina, 38 
 
 Carol us. Vide Karolus. 
 
 Carrig, Castrum et locus de, .... 27 
 
 Cartuciensis, Ordo, 6 
 
 Cassel, 39 
 
 Casselensis, Archiepiscopus, David, . . 8 
 Casseleiisis, Archiepiscopus, J. M'Carwyll, 21 
 Johannes 
 
 OGrada, 31 
 
 Walterus le 
 
 Rede, 22 
 
74 
 
 Page. 
 
 Casselensis, Archieplscopus, VVillelmns 
 
 fil. Johannis 13, 18 
 
 Castrum Insule [Castle Island], ... 31 
 
 Kevini, 30 
 
 de Leye, 32 
 
 de Menaht [Kenagh.], . .31 
 
 Viride, 30 
 
 Cathirlaht [Carlow], 37 
 
 Cathyrlaht 18, 21 
 
 Caunteton, Jordanus 24 
 
 Mattheus 16 
 
 Robertus, ib. 
 
 Caustona [Gavaston], Petrus de, . . 11 
 
 Cicilie, Rex, 13, 30 
 
 Celestinus, Papa, 4 
 
 Cestria 39 
 
 Cistercienses, 7, 36 
 
 Chichestria, 38 
 
 Christianus, Legatus in Hibernia, . . 3 
 
 Clan (Capitulum apud) 31 
 
 Clare, 39 
 
 (Capitulum apud), 14 
 
 Clare, Elizabetha de 20 
 
 • Gilbertus de ib. 
 
 Comes Glocestrie, 10, 1 1 
 
 . Kicardus de 13 
 
 Comes Glocestrie, . 8 
 
 Thomas de, 10 
 
 Clar-Goly 26 
 
 Clarevallis, 5, 6 
 
 Clemens, Papa 11 
 
 V 31 
 
 VI 34, 35 
 
 XL, 11 
 
 Clerevoyse, 32 
 
 CliflFord, Robertus de 11 
 
 Rogerus de, 15 
 
 Clodaht, 32 
 
 Clodio. 4 
 
 Clomele 28,31 
 
 Page. 
 
 Clonmele 9, 23, 29 
 
 Clonmore, Castrum de, 24 
 
 Clonronda, 39 
 
 Clounmele, ib. 
 
 Clyn, Frater, Gardianus de Carrig, . . 27 
 
 Johannes, 37 
 
 Cnokfergus, 24 
 
 Cogan, Johannes de 8, 1 1 
 
 Colaht, Villa de 30 
 
 Colcestria, 38 
 
 Comyn, Willielmus 12 
 
 Conale, Domus de, 7 
 
 ConnacciaCConnaetia), vid. Burgo, 12, 32,34 
 
 Connacie, Rex 9, 32 
 
 Constantius, 3 
 
 Constantinus, 3, 4 
 
 Constantinopolis 4 
 
 Conteton, Reginaldus, 15 
 
 Willelmus, ib. 
 
 Conton, Robertus, 29 
 
 Cony I, Castrum de, 13, 37 
 
 Coradellus, Imperator Graecorum, . . 7 
 Corcagiensis Episcopus, M'Carwyll, . 21 
 Cornubia, Comes de, Johannes de Eltham, 1 9 
 
 Cork 10, 17 
 
 Corkagensis Custodia, 39 
 
 Cosdra, Rex Persarum, 45 
 
 Coteres, 31 
 
 Courcy, vide Curcy, 7 
 
 Coventreya, 38 
 
 Cragfergus 39 
 
 Crok, cognomen de, 16 
 
 Henricus, Dominus, .... 12 
 
 Johannes, 11 
 
 Cumbyr 20 
 
 Cumcy [Cumscy], 39 
 
 Dominus de, Johannes de Sancto 
 
 Albino 26 
 
 Johannes, 27 
 
 Curcy, Johannes de 6 
 
75 
 
 Pase. 
 
 Dalkey 35 
 
 Dagworht, Thomas 34 
 
 Darcy, Johannes, 26 
 
 Justiciarius Hibernie, 16 
 
 David, Propheta, 2 
 
 Archiepiscopus Casselensis, . . 8 
 
 Filius Alexandri, Rupensis, . . 23 
 
 Filius David, 32 
 
 Prior de Inystyoke, .... 17 
 
 (le Brus) Rex Scotorum, . . 33 
 
 Dene, Johannes de 12 
 
 Thomas de, 22 
 
 Willelmus de, 8 
 
 Dermod Oge 20 
 
 Dernaht, 13 
 
 Desertum 39 
 
 Desmonia, 8,26,30,31,32 
 
 Comes de, 28 
 
 Mauricius, filius 
 
 Thome 21,23, 27,29,30,31 
 
 Desmoniae Rex, 17 
 
 Dioclesian, 3 
 
 Dionysius, 3 
 
 Dispensatores, 18 
 
 Dominicus, Beatus, 7 
 
 Don, Thomas, 13 
 
 Dondalke. Vide Dundalke. 
 
 Donhulle, Baro de, 19 
 
 Donmaske 8 
 
 Dorcestria, 38 
 
 Douglas, Willielmus de 33 
 
 Dowsky, monachi de 22, 23 
 
 Drumhyrthyr, 20 
 
 Drouda, Conventus Minorum de, . . 36 
 
 Droukeda, 34 
 
 Drovda (Drovhda) 35 
 
 Dublinia, . 9, 17, 20, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 31, 
 
 34, 35, 36, 39 
 
 Page. 
 
 Dublinia, Abbacia Beate Marie, . . 10 
 
 Archiepiscopus 35 
 
 Alexander Bi- 
 
 genor, , 14, 27 
 
 Fulco, . . 9 
 
 . Lucas, . . 8 
 
 Castrum de, 32 
 
 Ecclesia Trinitatis, .... 10 
 
 Exactor Fisci, Hugo de Calce, 35 
 
 Hospitalorum Ordo, ... 17 
 
 Portus de, 23 
 
 Predicatorum locus, ... 10 
 
 Universitas, 14 
 
 Dufford (Ufford de), Radulphus, . . 30 
 
 Duffyr, O'Brynnys de, 26, 27 
 
 Duleke, 32 
 
 Duncastria 39 
 
 Dundalk (Dundalke, Dondalk), . 9, 11, 12, 
 
 14, 33, 39 
 
 Dunde, 39 
 
 Dunelm, 33 
 
 Dunfres, 39 
 
 Dunhulle, Baro de la Peer, . . . 1 9, 20 
 
 Dunmaske, Castro de, 30 
 
 Dunum, Capitulum apud, 11 
 
 Civitas 8 
 
 locus, 39 
 
 Dunstanus, Beatus, 5 
 
 Dunwycum, 38 
 
 E. 
 
 Eadmundus, Comes Cantii 21 
 
 Eboracum, locus, 39 
 
 Eboracensis, Archiepiscopus, .... 33 
 
 — . Robertus, . 6 
 
 Edmund, Archiepiscopus Cantuar, . . 7 
 
 Edmundus, Rex Martyr 5 
 
 Edwardus, Beatus, 5 
 
 filius Henrici III 7, 8 
 
 2 
 
76 
 
 Page. 
 
 Edwardus, filius Edwardi II., ... 11 
 
 Martyr, 5 
 
 Rex Anglie, 5, 9 
 
 Edwardus V. (II.), 14, 15, 18 
 
 III., . . 11,18,19,21,28,33 
 
 Elena, 4 
 
 Eleutherius, Fapa, 3 
 
 Eltham, Johannes de, Comes Cornubie, 19 
 
 Ely 17 
 
 Elycarwell ib. 
 
 Elycarwy], Princeps de, O'Carwyl, . . 33 
 Emflues (Alphonsus), fil. Edwardi IV , 10 
 
 E radius, 4 
 
 Ercedekne, Johannes le, miles factus, . 30 
 
 Patricius, 26 
 
 Remundus, 26 
 
 Ricardus ib. 30 
 
 Silvester, ib. 
 
 Willelmus, ib. 
 
 Ergalie, 33 
 
 Ermonia (Hermonia), Castra de, • . 34 
 
 _ Comes de, . . . 28, 29, 34, 35 
 
 Jacobus, . 25, 26, 27 
 
 Evesa 28 
 
 Exonia, 38 
 
 Exoniensis, Episcopus (Walterus Sta- 
 pleton), 18 
 
 F. 
 
 Fanyn, Thomas, 25 
 
 Faramundus, 4 
 
 Ferers, Thomas, Comes de, .... 15 
 
 Felix, Papa, 4 
 
 Fermoy 23 
 
 Fernegylan, ib. 
 
 Fernensis, Episcopus, Hugo de Saltu, . 34 
 
 Filius Geraldi 8 
 
 Johannes 19 
 
 Maurioius, 9 
 
 Page. 
 
 Filius Henrici Mathias, 27 
 
 Meylerus 7, 8 
 
 Filius Johannis, Thomas, Comes Kildare 
 
 et Justiciarius 19 
 
 Wiliielmus, Episcopus Os- 
 
 soriensis et Archiepiscopus Casselen- 
 
 sis 10, 13, 18 
 
 Filius Mauricii, Geraldus, ... 7, 10 
 
 Mauricius 8 
 
 Thomas, 11 
 
 Willelmus 15, 17 
 
 Filius Nicholai, Mauricius, .... 29 
 
 Filius Oliveri, Mattheus 26 
 
 Filius Philippi, Mauricius, Dominus, . 23 
 
 Ricardus, . . . . 23 
 
 Filius Roberti, Jacobus, 20 
 
 Filius Thomae Johannes, 8, 10, 11, 12, 16 
 
 Katerina, uxor Mauricii, 24 
 
 Ricardus 23 
 
 Mauricius, 16, 18, 19, 23, 24, 
 
 29, 30 
 
 Comes Desmonie, 
 
 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 31 
 
 Comes Kildarie, . 34 
 
 Flandrense.'i, 38 
 
 Francia, 4, 18, 33, 34 
 
 Francie, Rex, 29 
 
 Ludovicus (IX.) . . . . 9 
 
 Franciscus, Bcatus 7, 9 
 
 Fredericus, Impcrator 8 
 
 Frene, Fulcode la, 14, 26, 27, 28, .33, 34,35, 
 
 37 
 
 Seneschallus Kilken- 
 
 nie 30 
 
 Galfridus, 25 
 
 Oliverus Seneschallus Kil- 
 
 kennie, 28, 34 
 
 Rogerus, Seneschallus Kilken- 
 
 nie 34 
 
 Vicecomes Kilkennie, 33 
 
77 
 
 Page. 
 
 Fulco, Archiepiscopus Dublinie, ... 9 
 
 Fyf, Comes de, 33 
 
 Fynaborensis, Episcopus, Johannes Lav- 
 
 naht, 15 
 
 Fynuowyr, 32 
 
 G. 
 
 Gallia, 3 
 
 Gallicus, 18 
 
 Galwy, 39 
 
 Gavaston, Petrus (Caustona), . . . 11 
 
 Gepwycum, 38 
 
 Geraldi, Mauricius, 31 
 
 Geraldini, 19, 24 
 
 Germanus, Sanctus 4 
 
 Gernemuta, 38 
 
 Glandelory, 9 
 
 Glosconia, 30 
 
 Gloucestria, 38 
 
 Gloucester, Comes de, De Clare, . 8, 1 1 
 
 Glovernia, 19 
 
 . ■ Comes de, IS 
 
 Eliz. fil. Comitis de, . . . 20 
 
 Godwinus, Com. Cancie, 5 
 
 Granduensium, Ordo, (5 
 
 Gregorius, Papa, 4, 7, 9 
 
 Grandissono, Willimus de, .... 29 
 
 Granntebrigia, 38 
 
 Grant le, Willielmus, ... .30, 32 
 
 Gras le, Nicholaus, 33 
 
 Gras le, Robertas, 32 
 
 Grasis Castel, 19 
 
 Grasse le David, 14 
 
 Hamundus, 12 
 
 Oliver us, 14 
 
 Greyn, 27 
 
 Grimisbia, 39 
 
 Gronthamia, 38 
 
 Grostete, Robertus, Episcopus Lincoll- 
 
 niensis, 8 
 
 Page. 
 
 Gyle de Burgo, uxor Ricardi Mande- 
 
 vyle 25 
 
 H. 
 
 Habraham (Abraham) 2 
 
 Hacket (Haket), Willielmus, ... 10, 23 
 
 Hadyngtona, 39 
 
 Hales, Alexander, 8 
 
 Hameste, 5 
 
 Hanaudie, Comes, 18 
 
 Haraldus, 5 
 
 Harclay, Andreas, 15 
 
 Hastings, Laurencius de. Comes Pem- 
 
 brochie 35 
 
 Helena CElana), 4 
 
 Hely de, Johannes de Barry, . . . . 17 
 
 Henricus I., 5 
 
 II 6 
 
 ^ III 7,8,9 
 
 Comes de Lancastria, ... 19 
 
 Henricus, vel Edwardus, Priraogenitus 
 
 Edwardi III., 22 
 
 Herefordia, 18, 38 
 
 Comes de, Omfrey de Bonn, 15 
 
 Herefordensis, Episcopus, Thomas Schar- 
 
 lyngton, •>% 
 
 Hermonia. Vide Ermonia. 
 
 Herodes, 2 
 
 Hertpollia, 39 
 
 Hibernia (Hybernia), 4, 5, 6, 8, II, 12, 13, 
 14, 16, 18, 20, 23, 26, 29, 37, 38 
 
 Magnates de, 13 
 
 Minister de, 9, 38 
 
 Monachi, 5 
 
 Pauperes Religiosi, ... 17 
 
 Pestilencie Quinque, ... 38 
 
 Hilarius, Sanctus, 3 
 
 Hispania, 3 
 
 Hoddinet, Philippus, 20 
 
78 
 
 Page. 
 
 Hodinetis, 33 
 
 Honorius, Papa 7 
 
 Hospitalarioruin, Ordo, . . . 6, 9, 17 
 
 Hofipitalis, Franncie Prior 33 
 
 Howht 35 
 
 Hybernia. Vide Hibernia. 
 
 I. 
 
 Innocentius (Innocentius), . . . . 7, 8 
 
 Insularum Rex 31 
 
 Inystyoke, 17 
 
 Isabella, Regina Anglie, 18 
 
 Italia 35 
 
 J. 
 
 Jacobus, frater Domini 3 
 
 Pincerna Hibernie 21 
 
 Jeriponte, 23 
 
 Jeroniinus (Jeronymus), 3, 4 
 
 Jerusalem (Jerosolyma), . . 4, 5, C, 7, 36 
 
 Rex, Robertus, 30 
 
 Johannes, Baptista 1,2 
 
 Evangelista 2, 3 
 
 rilius Hcnrici, 6 
 
 . Frater, Minister Hibernie, . 38 
 
 ^ Papa (XXII.) 13 
 
 Rex 7 
 
 Joseph ab Arimathea 30 
 
 Judea, 4 
 
 Justiciarius Hibernie, Audele, Jacobus, 9 
 
 Bermigham, Wal- 
 
 terus, 33, 34 
 
 Brimegham, Jo- 
 hannes, 14 
 
 Darcy, J., . . . IG 
 
 de la Dene, Wil- 
 
 liehnus, 8 
 
 Lucy, Antonius, 23, 24 
 
 Page. 
 
 Justiciarius Hibernie, iilius Geraldi Mau- 
 ricius, 8 
 
 filius Johannis Tho- 
 mas, 19 
 
 Herefordensis Epis- 
 
 copus, Thomas, 28 
 
 Mortuo Mari, Ro- 
 ger us de 13 
 
 Rokele, Ricardus 
 
 de la 8 
 
 Sharlyngton, Jo- 
 hannes 28 
 
 Ufford, Radulphus 
 
 de. 30,31,32 
 
 Robertus de, 9 
 
 K. 
 
 Karlel, Comes de, Andreas Harclay, . 15 
 
 Karolus 5, 9 
 
 Karoius, qui fuit Gallicus 10 
 
 Karrev, Johannes de, Dominus, ... 32 
 
 Katerina, filia Mauricii, 19 
 
 uxor Maurici, fili Thome, . 1 1 
 
 Virgo 4 
 
 Kevanaht Murcardaht (Kevenaht), . . 35 
 
 Kenlys in Ossoria, 1 9, 33 
 
 Kerdinia, 38 
 
 Kettle (Kyteler), Alice, 16 
 
 Ketyng, Jacobus, 20 
 
 Ketyng, Robertus ib. 
 
 Ketyngis, 19,33 
 
 Kevini, Castrum 30 
 
 Kilderia (Kyldaria), 10, 39 
 
 Capitulum de, 14 
 
 Conies, 10, 18, 23 
 
 Thomas, 16 
 
 Mauricius, fil. Thome, 34 
 
 Johannes, fil. Thome, 12 
 
79 
 
 Page. 
 
 Kilkennia, . 10, 15. 22, 25, 26, 27, 29, 31, 
 
 34, 39 
 
 Castrum, 28 
 
 Ecclesia Beate Virginis, . 17, 30 
 
 Sancti Kannici, . . 24 
 
 Minores Fratres, 1 1, 24, 28, 34 
 
 Parliamentum, 11 
 
 Predicatores Fratres, ... 37 
 
 . Seneschallus de, Arnold le 
 
 Poer, 16 
 
 . . Eustachius 
 
 le Poer, 28 
 
 Fulco de la 
 
 Frene, 30 
 
 Oliverus de 
 
 la Frene, 34 
 
 Rogerus de 
 
 . la Frene ib. 
 
 Vicecomes de, . . . . 19,33 
 
 Kilmaynan, 16, 32 
 
 Kylmydan 19 
 
 Kirrigia, Mauricius de 11 
 
 Nicholaus de, ib. 
 
 Knockfergus, Castrum de 24 
 
 Kyldare. Vide Kildare. 
 Kylkennia. Vide Kilkennia. 
 
 Kylkyban, 29 
 
 Kylleght, 39 
 
 Kylmehyde, 32 
 
 Kylsylan, 31 
 
 Kyrigan, ib. 
 
 Kysekyl, 31 
 
 Kyteler. Vide Kettle. 
 
 L. 
 
 Lacy, de, 13 
 
 Hugo, 6, 7 
 
 Walterus, 16 
 
 Lagenia, 13, 27, 32, 34 
 
 Page. 
 
 Lamasia, 39 
 
 Lancastrie, Comes Henricus, . . . 19,31 
 
 Thomas, .... 15 
 
 . — ■ Matilda fil. Comitis, . . 30 
 
 Lande, de la, Nicholaus, 15 
 
 Larokele, Willielmus, 10 
 
 Launde, de la, Gregorius, ..... 26 
 
 Laurentius, Martyr, 3 
 
 Lavnaht (Laynach), Johannes, Episco- 
 
 pus Lismorensis, 15 
 
 Leddrede, Ricardus Episc. Ossor., 13, 16 
 Legenia. Vide Lagenia. 
 
 Lemia, 38 
 
 Lenfant, Walterus, 34 
 
 Lercedekene (ErcedekeueJ, Patricias, . 12 
 
 Remundus, 27 
 
 Lesse, Thomas de, 13 
 
 Lehtlenensis Episcopus, M. le Poer, . 14 
 
 Len elyn, Princeps 9 
 
 Lewysia, 8, 38 
 
 Leye, de, Castrum, . . . . 8, 9, 21, 32 
 
 Leycestria, 38 
 
 Comes de, Thomas, ... 15 
 
 Libanus, 36 
 
 Lichfeldia, 38, 39 
 
 Limericum (Lymericum), . . 6,17,23,39 
 
 Episcopus, M. de Rocheford, 28 
 
 Lincolnia 39 
 
 Comes, Thomas, 15 
 
 Lincollniensis Episcopus, Robertus Gros- 
 
 tete 8 
 
 Lismoriensis Episcopus, Alanus, ... 8 
 
 J. Lavnaht, . . 15 
 
 Loddyn, Mons de, 13 
 
 Lodovicus, 5 
 
 Archiepiscopus Tolosanus, . 13 
 
 Dux de Bavaria, . . . . 19 
 
 • Rex Francie, 9 
 
 Logan, Johannes de, 24 
 
 Londinium, . . 5, 7, 14, 15, 18, 21, 38, 39 
 
8o 
 
 Page. 
 
 Lowth (Lowht), 18, 23 
 
 Comes de, Johannes de Brime- 
 
 ghum 20 
 
 Lucanus, Poeta 3 
 
 Lucas, Arcbiepiscopus Dubliuie, . . 8 
 
 Lucius, Imperator, 4 
 
 Papa 3 
 
 Rex Brittanie 3 
 
 Lucy, Antonius de, Justiciarius Hiber- 
 
 iiia 23, 24 
 
 Ludovicus. Vide. Lodovicus. 
 
 Lugdunum, 8, 9, 17 
 
 Lymeric. Vide Limeric. 
 Lysmore. Vide Lisinore. 
 Lyvet, Johannes de 14 
 
 M. 
 
 M<^ Arthur, Thomas 30 
 
 M'' Dermada 31 
 
 RI' Gilpatrick (M'Gilpadricke), Carwill. 
 
 Princeps, 32, 33 
 
 Derniicius, 32 
 
 Donatus 20, 22 
 
 Dovenaldus Duff, ... 17 
 
 . Fynyn, 24 
 
 Galfridus, -22 
 
 Hogekyn, 9 
 
 Raynyl, 29 
 
 Scanlan (Scanleus), . . 24, 27 
 
 M'^Hokegan, 21 
 
 Mackanfy, 8 
 
 M' Karthy, 29 
 
 Donatus Carbralit, .... 26 
 
 Oge, Dermicius, Re.\ Desmonie, 17 
 
 Carwyll, David, Archiep. Cass., . . 8 
 Johannes, Episcopiis et Ar- 
 cbiepiscopus, 21 
 
 M' Moorke, Keveuach, Donatus, ... 38 
 
 Page. 
 
 M' Morkada (Mac Morcada), . 15, 22, 27, 
 
 29, 30 
 
 Dermicius (Dermitius), . 6, 9 
 
 Dovenaldus, 35 
 
 M-^ Morkada, Art, 9 
 
 M'' Nemare, 24 
 
 Nicholaus, 21 
 
 Majoricarum, Res, 33 
 
 Malachias, 6 
 
 Arcbiepiscopus Ardmacanus, 5 
 
 i Malahtlyiig O'Konkour, 21 
 
 Malmortha O'Konkour 20 
 
 Mandevyle, Johannes 25 
 
 Martinus, 24 
 
 Ricardu.s 23, 24 
 
 Robertus, 24 
 
 Marchie, Comes Rogerus de Mortuo 
 
 Mari 19,22 
 
 March us, 3 
 
 Marcilia, 30 
 
 Mareys, Ricardus de, 27 
 
 ^Liria, Mater Domini 3 
 
 Magdalene, ib. 
 
 Mariscalli, Comes Ricardus, .... 7 
 
 Marisco, Sylvestre de 14 
 
 Willelmus, 7, 14 
 
 Martinus, 3 
 
 Episcopus Turonensis, . . . 3, 4 
 
 Mattheus, . 2,9 
 
 Matilda, uxor W". de Burgo, .... 19 
 Radulphi d'Ufford, . . 30 
 
 j Maxentius, Imperator, 4 
 
 j Maynoht 19 
 
 j Media. Vide Midia. 
 
 I Mediolanum 4 
 
 j Mellifontis Abbacia, 5 
 
 ; Meraertus, Sanctus, 4 
 
 j Meylerus, filius Henrici, 7, 8 
 
 i Radulpbus, 29 
 
 : Michael], Episcopus Ossoriensis, ... 10 
 
8i 
 
 Page. 
 
 Midia (Media), .... 13,14,16,34 
 
 Petronilla de, 16 
 
 Midensis Episcopus, M' Carwyll, ... 21 
 
 Milleborne, Nacio de, 33 
 
 Minorum, Ordo, . . 7, 13, 24, 26, 27, 39 
 
 Conventus de Drouda, 36 
 
 Dublinie Capitulum, . 9 
 
 — Kilkennie, 8, 16, 28, 34, 37 
 
 Capitulum, . 11 
 
 Yohil, ib. 
 
 Molingar, 21 
 
 Molynfarnan, 39 
 
 Molyng, Sanctus, 15 
 
 Momonia, 13, 27, 34 
 
 Menaht Castrum, 31 
 
 Mondessyl, 30 
 
 Monsel, Johannes, Miles, 22 
 
 Monteforte, Symon, 8 
 
 Morkardaht 9 
 
 Mortuo Mari, Rogerus de, . . 13, 16, 30 
 
 Com. de Marchie, 1 9, 22 
 
 Mortuo Mari, Rogerus, Dominus de, . 18 
 
 . Justiciarius, . 13 
 
 Moubrey, Dominus, 33 
 
 Mounbrey, Johannes de 15 
 
 Moyalby, 22 
 
 Moyarfe, 20 
 
 Moytobyr, 25 
 
 Multon, Thomas de, 18 
 
 Mylborne, Matheus, 17 
 
 N. 
 
 Nasse, Willielmus, 27 
 
 Nathyrlah Brein de, 24 
 
 Nathyrlaght 25 
 
 Neapolis, 30 
 
 Nenaght 34, 35, 39 
 
 Ybreyn, 16 
 
 Nero, 3 
 
 IRISH ARCH SOC. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Neyvil, Dominus, 33 
 
 Nicenum Concilium, 3 
 
 Nieholaus, filius Willielmi, 17 
 
 Papa, 9 
 
 Tribunus, 35 
 
 Normannia, 5 
 
 Norraht, Philippus de, 11 
 
 Northamptona, 38 
 
 Adam, Episcopus Fernensis, 33 
 
 Norwangia, 25 
 
 Norwich, 6 
 
 Norwicum, 38 
 
 Nothyngama, ib. 
 
 Novum Castrum, 39 
 
 Noynn, Archiepiscopus de, 33 
 
 0. 
 
 Obargi, heres, Johanna Purcell, ... 25 
 
 O'Brananys, 19, 20 
 
 O'Brennis. Vide O'Brynnis. 
 
 O'Bren, Bren, 17, 24, 27 
 
 O Breyn, Breyn 21, 23, 34 
 
 Konkur, 21 
 
 Willelmus, Carraght, ... 23 
 
 O'Bryn, Brien, 27 
 
 O'Brynnis, O'Brynnys, O'Brennis, 26, 27, 28 
 
 Duffyr de, 26, 27 
 
 O'Carwyllis. Vide O'Karwyl. 
 
 O'Codtanys 15 
 
 O'Conkur, Regulus de OfFaly {vide 
 
 O'Konkur), 11 
 
 O'Conyl, 31 
 
 Octavian, 1, 2 
 
 O'Donyn 21 
 
 O'Dymiscy, 21, 29, 33, 34 
 
 Dermicius, 32 
 
 Offaly, 10 
 
 ■ O'Conkur, Regulus de, ... 11 
 
 Princeps de, 20 
 
 M 
 
82 
 
 Page. 
 
 O'Grada, Johannes, Archiepiscopus Cas- 
 
 selensis 31 
 
 O'Kally, Radulphus, Archiep. Cassel., ib. 
 O'Karwyl, O'Carwyl, O'Kayrwill, 17, 27, 33 
 
 Cam 20 
 
 Donatus 13 
 
 Rodericus, 33 
 
 Thadeus, Princeps Elycarwyl, ib. 
 
 O'Kenidy, Domenaldus, 34 
 
 Philippus, ib. 
 
 O'Kensely 30 
 
 O'Konchour, 14 
 
 Malahtlyng 20 
 
 O'Konkur, 32 
 
 Rex Connacie ib. 
 
 Olethan 26 
 
 O'Morchys, 12, 18 
 
 O'Morthe, . . . 32, 33 
 
 Cornelius (Conyl), .... 37 
 
 David, ib. 
 
 Donatus, 14 
 
 Johannes, 14 
 
 Leyath, Leysart, Leysaght, 
 
 26, 27, 29 
 
 Rury, 33, 37 
 
 O' Nolan 21, 29 
 
 Henricus, 15 
 
 Philippus .24 
 
 Ricardus, 22 
 
 O'Nolanys, 14,15,21,29 
 
 O'Neyl, Henricus, Rex Ultonie, ... 30 
 
 O'Done (Odo), ib. 
 
 O'Neyl, Regulus Ultonie, 8 
 
 Robertus, 20 
 
 Ormonia (vide Ermonia, Hermonia), 
 
 Comes de, 21, 24 
 
 Comes de. Jacobus le Botiller, 22 
 
 Orosius, I 
 
 O'Ryan, Kerry 27 
 
 Ossoria, 17, 19, 27, 37 
 
 Page. 
 
 Ossoria, Archidiaconus de, Howelus de 
 
 Bathe, 27 
 
 Ossoriensis Episcopus, Galfridus, . . 10 
 
 Michael, . . . ib. 
 
 Ricardus, . . 10,35 
 
 Willelmus, filius 
 
 Johannis, 10, 18 
 
 O'Thohyl, 22 
 
 O'Thothyl Murkyht Nicol, .... 23 
 
 Owtlaw, Rogerus, 29 
 
 Willelmus 17 
 
 Oxonia 38 
 
 Comes de, Johannes de W'eyr, . 32 
 
 P. 
 
 Palladius, 5 
 
 Palmer, Isabella, Domina, 34 
 
 Parisius, 3 
 
 Pascha, I 
 
 Patmos (Pahtmos), 3 
 
 Patricius, Sanctus, 4 
 
 Paulas, 2,3 
 
 Pembrochie Comes, L. de Hastingis, . 35 
 
 Eymerus de, Valencia, . 16 
 
 Percy, Dominus, 33 
 
 Petrus, . . ■ 3,8 
 
 Pharamond (Faramundus) 4 
 
 Philippus, Rex 6, 10 
 
 Pincerna Hibernie, 24, 28 
 
 Edmundus, 11, 13, 14 
 
 Jacobus, . . "21 
 
 Theobaldus, ... 10 
 
 Poer. Arnoldus le, 12, 14 
 
 Arnold, Seneschalus Kilkennie, 
 
 16, 20 
 
 Benedictus 19 
 
 Eustachius, . . . 11,25,32,33 
 
 Seneschalus Kilkennie, '28 
 
 Johannes, Baro de Dunhalle, 20 
 
 Dominu.«, .... 19 
 
83 
 
 Page. 
 
 Poer, Meylerus, Episcopus Lehtlinen- 
 
 sis, 
 
 14 
 
 Philippus, 11 
 
 . Petrus, Baro de Dunhalle, . . 19 
 
 Poerini, . ■ 19 
 
 Pontdris, 39 
 
 Pons, ib. 
 
 Pontensis Civitas, 13 
 
 Predicatorum Ordo, . . . . 7, 19, 34, 37 j 
 
 Premonstratensis Ordo, 5 j 
 
 Prendergast, Philippus, 31 
 
 Willielnius, 12 
 
 Prestona, 39 
 
 Purcell, Johanna, 25 
 
 Purcelles, 34 
 
 Purcyl, Symon, V'icecomes Kilkennie, . 19 
 
 R. 
 
 Radingia, 38 
 
 Rahtgormocke 19 
 
 Rahtymegan, 28 
 
 Ravennarum Archiepiscopus, Vassali For- 
 
 tenarus, 35 
 
 Raynyl M'Gilpatrick 29 
 
 Rechefordis (vide Rocheford), . . . ib. 
 
 Johannes de 27, 28 
 
 ■ Petrus de 14 
 
 Rede, Walterus de la, Archiepiscopus 
 
 Cassellensis 22 
 
 Ricardus, Comes Ultonie 11 
 
 Episcopus Ossoriensis, . 16,35 
 
 Ricardus, filius Henrici III., .... 8 
 
 Rex (I.), 6, 7 
 
 (II.) 22 
 
 Richmond, Comes de, J., 15 
 
 Richmundia, 39 
 
 Robertus, Archiepiscopus Eboracensis, . 6 
 
 Rex Jerusalem, 30 
 
 Rocheford (Recheford), Geraldus, . . 31 
 
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 Rocheford, Mauricius, Episcopus Limerici, 28 
 
 Rochysburgia, 39 
 
 Rochfalyaht, Geraldus, filius Mauricii, . 10 
 
 Rohtgrasse, Thomas, 25 
 
 Rokele, Ricardus de la, 8, 22 
 
 Roma, 1, 2, 3, 7, 35 
 
 Ros, Rosse, . . 8, 10, 14, 19, 25, 29, 31, 39 
 
 Capitulum, 13 
 
 Roscre, 28 
 
 Rupe, Georgius de, 23, 33 
 
 Gilbertus, 14 
 
 Johannes 19, 33 
 
 ■ Patricius, 11 
 
 Willielmus 19 
 
 Rupenses, 1 1, 17, 23 
 
 Rupella, Johannes de, 8 
 
 S. 
 
 Salisbiria, 38 
 
 Salopidia, 39 
 
 Saltu, Hugo de, Episcopus Fernensis, . 34 
 Sampforde, Johannes de, Archiepiscopus 
 
 Dublinie, 9, 10 
 
 Sannes, Archiepiscopus de 33 
 
 Sancto Albino, Cognomen de, . . 19, 30 
 
 J. Dominus de Cumcy, . 26 
 
 Johannes, . . . 22, 27, 29 
 
 Walt. Oge, .... 27 
 
 Walterus, . 27, 28, 29, 30 
 
 Sancti Canici Campanile, . . . . 24, 33 
 
 Scrinium, 33 
 
 Sancto Leodogario, Galfridus de, Epis- 
 copus Ossoriensis, 10 
 
 Willelmus, ... 19 
 
 Sanctus Botulfus, 39 
 
 . Edmundus, 38 
 
 Savage, Willielmus 13 
 
 Say, Margaria, uxor Robert! de Uf- 
 
 ford, 9 
 
84 
 
 Page. 
 
 Scardeburgia 39 
 
 Schorthalis, Galfridus 28 
 
 Scorthals, Robertus, 16 
 
 Scotia, 10, 15 
 
 Scotie, Rex, David le Brus, ... 25, 33 
 
 Seneca, 3 
 
 Scrrkeran, Maiierium de, 10 
 
 Serenus, Iraperator, 4 
 
 Severinus, ib. 
 
 Scharlyngton, Johannes, Justiciarius, . 28 
 Thomas, Episcopus Here- 
 
 fordensis 28 
 
 Sylvester, Papa, 4 
 
 Sixtus, Papa, 3 
 
 Skethrys, 12 
 
 Skrope, Henricus, 32 
 
 Slebania, Slesblania, 17, 32 
 
 Slemargys, O'Morthys de, 25 
 
 Soraboitarum Secta 11 
 
 Southampton, 38 
 
 Spenser, Hugo de, 14, 15, 18 
 
 Stafordia, 38, 39 
 
 Stapleton, Walterus, Episcopus Exoni- 
 
 ensis 18 
 
 Stephanus, Episcopus Waterford, . . 9 
 
 Rex, 5 
 
 Sanctus 2, 4 
 
 Strifling, .11 
 
 T. 
 
 Talon, Philippus, 15 
 
 Tamisia, 5 
 
 Tartdart, . , 17 
 
 Templariorum Ordo, 6, 1 1 
 
 Terra Sancta 14,27,36 
 
 Thagmolingis, villa de, 34 
 
 Thaht Molyngis 35 
 
 Thalmolyn, Ecclesia, 15 
 
 Thathmelage 39 
 
 Page. 
 
 Thomas, Archiepiscopus Cantuar., . . 6 
 
 Thomas, Sanctus, ib. 
 
 Thome Villa, 23 
 
 Thurlis, vide Yrlef, 34 
 
 Tiberis, 2 
 
 Tiberius, 1 
 
 Titus, 3 
 
 Tolonenses, 14 
 
 Tolosanus, Archiepiscopus, Ludovicus, 13 
 
 Totmonia 9, 13, 17, 21 
 
 Totraoy, 39 
 
 Traherne, Henricus IG, 21 
 
 Traly, - ... 17 
 
 Travers, Patricius 22 
 
 Robertus, 22, 27 
 
 Tribunus, Rome, 35 
 
 Tripolis 36 
 
 Tristeldermot, 8 
 
 Trum, 39 
 
 Turonis, 3 
 
 Tyberary 21,25,27,28 
 
 Tylaht, Rector de, Edwardus le Bo- 
 tiller 15 
 
 U. 
 
 Ufford, Radulphus de, 32 
 
 Justiciarius Hibernie, 
 
 30, 31 
 
 Robertus, 9 
 
 Ultonia, 6, 8, 12, 13, 30 
 
 Comes de, Hugo de Lacy, . . 7 
 
 Ultonia, Conies de, R. de Burgo, . . 18 
 . Ricardus, . . . 10, 11 
 
 W'illielmus de Burgo, 
 
 19, 21, 22, 24 
 
 V. 
 
 Valencia, Eymmers de. Comes Pem- 
 brochi, 16 
 
85 
 
 Page. 
 
 Valle de, 16, 19 
 
 Galfridus, 38 
 
 Gilbertus, 20 
 
 Henricus, 28 
 
 Remundus 20 
 
 Walterus 16,28 
 
 Vasconia, 7, 16 
 
 Vassali Fortenarrus, Archiepiscopus Ra- 
 
 venarum, 35 
 
 Verdona, Johannes de, 9 
 
 Milo 14 
 
 _ Nicholaus 9, 11, 13, 34 
 
 Vesey, de, Willielmus, 10 
 
 Vespasian, 3 
 
 Vienna Concilium 11 
 
 Vintonia, 38 
 
 Viride Castrum, . . 30 
 
 Vivianus, Legatus 6 
 
 Wallia 8, 9 
 
 Waterfordia, 8. 9, 31, 39 
 
 Capitulum, 13 
 
 W. 
 
 Waterfordensis, Episcopus, .... 14 
 
 Nicholaus 
 
 Welyfed 13 
 
 Page. 
 
 Waterfordensis, Episcopus, Nicholaus, 24 
 
 Stephanus, 9 
 
 Weyr, Johannes de. Comes de Oxonia, 32 
 
 Weysfordia, 22, 27, 39 
 
 Wigornia 38 
 
 Wincestria, 21 
 
 Winchelsia, Wynchelsia, .SS 
 
 Wintonia (Wyntonia), Comes de, . . IS 
 
 Willelmus, Dux Normannie 
 
 Puer, 
 
 Rufus, 5 
 
 Wogan, Thomas 34 
 
 Wykynlo, 39 
 
 Wynchelsea. Vide Winchelsia. 
 Wyntonia. Vide Wintonia. 
 
 Y. 
 
 Yoajllia, 9 
 
 Ybreyn Nenaht, 16 
 
 Ymerdoylan, 30 
 
 Yniskysty, 31 
 
 Yohil 9, 11, 13, 39 
 
 Yorlys 23 
 
 Yrtlef, Yirlef, vide Thultis, . . 16, 21, 25 
 
 Ysidorus, 5 
 
 Ytalia. Vide Italia. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 IRISH ARCH. SOC. 
 
 N 
 
ANNALES BREVES HIBERNIiE. 
 
 AUCTORE 
 
 THADD^O DOWLING, 
 
 CAXCKLLAUIO LECHLINEN.*!. 
 
 NCN'C PRIMCM 
 
 EX CODICE MS. IN BIBLIOTHECA COLLEGH SS. TRINITATIS JUXTA DUBLIN TYPIS EDITI. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 ;,N tlie fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the darkest 
 period of Irish society, there were amongst the eccle- 
 siastics of Leighhn some men of inquiring minds and 
 of literary habits. Nicholas Magwyr, bishop from 
 1490 to 1512, was educated in the University of 
 Oxford, and we are told that, " when Prebendary of 
 Ullard, he preached and delivered great learniuge with no lesse reve- 
 rence, being in favor with the king and nobilitie of Leinster, who, 
 together with theDeane and Chapter, elected him Bishop of Leighlin"\ 
 "When advanced to that see he was commended for his hospitality ; 
 and the number of cows which he grazed without loss upon the 
 woods and mountains of Knockbrannen^, Cumnabally, Aghcarew, 
 Ballycarew, andMoilglas, gave proof to his contemporaries how much 
 he was beloved in those districts. This bishop had begun many 
 learned works, but could not finish any, " saveinge one Cronicle sum- 
 mariely by him collected, and [it] is found in the handes of many in 
 written hand laten." 
 
 The 
 
 » Dowling, p. 32. Brandon-hill, near Graigne, Co. Kilkenny. 
 
 IRISH ARCH. SOC. 1 3. & 
 
n 
 
 Tlie Life of this learned and popular prelate was written by his 
 chaplain, Thomas Brown, and " his Cronicle," preserved in the Yel- 
 low Book of Leighlin, together with further collections made by 
 Thomas Waterfeld. Archdeacon of Leicrhlin, seems to have formed 
 the groundwork of the Irish collections subsequently made by Thady 
 Dowling'', Treasurer and Chancellor of that diocese. 
 
 That the following pages contain those collections in the state in 
 which they were left by Dowling it would be rash to affirm. In such 
 collections every transcriber thinks himself justified in adding new 
 matter, and in omitting what he esteems the mistaken entries of the 
 original compiler. In successive transcripts marginal observations 
 are apt to steal into the text, and from the way in which Dowling is 
 hereafter mentioned it would seem that he is rather the chief autho- 
 rity than the sole compiler of these Annals. We must, however, 
 observe, that in the manuscript they are ascribed to Dowling, and 
 that we have found no quotation attributed to Dowling by Hanmer 
 or Ussher, which is not to be found in these pages. 
 
 It is evident that the compiler of these Annals had access to no 
 contemptible library of printed books. Giraldus Cambrensis, Powell's 
 Caradoc of Llancarvan, and probably that learned Welshman's other 
 works on British History, Lanquet's Chronicle, continued by Bishop 
 Cooper, Sir J. Eliot, Stowe, and Holinshed, form a library, for whicli 
 many a modern clerical student of Irish history would envy Queen 
 Elizabeth's Chancellor of Leighlin. Yet in Dowling's days the old 
 cathedral town of St. Lazerian, looking from its sheltered slen and 
 bright stream, across the rich plain of the Barrow, to the blue and 
 undulating outline of Mount Leinster, beautiful as it ever must have 
 been to the eye of the painter, was a place ill-fitted for quiet study 
 
 and 
 
 " Dowling died at Leighlin in 1628, in the brief notice of him in Harris's Edition 
 the eighty-fourth year of his age. — See of Ware's Writers, p. 99. 
 
iii 
 
 and learned research. The neighbouring monastery of the CarmeHtes 
 at the bridge had been** converted into a royal garrison, and the 
 goodly Barrow, as it flowed under its walls, reflected, not cowls and 
 friars' frocks, but matchlocks and iron skull-caps. 
 
 In this transmuted monastery, in the beginning of the reign of 
 Edward VI., Sir Edward Bellingham^ Lord Deputy, kept a stall of 
 twenty or thirty horse ; and it was from this house that he rode into 
 Munster, to the house of the Earl of Desmond, when, being luilooked 
 for and unthought of, he found the Earl sitting at his Christmas fire, 
 and took him, and carried him away with him to Dublin. Some 
 years later, and in the time of Dowling, Leighlin was the residence 
 of one of these bold and accomplished soldiers, at once worldly and 
 romantic, who gave strength and glory to the throne of Queen Eliza- 
 beth. Here came Sir Peter Carew, who having been in his youth, as 
 recorded by his faithful steward^, at Constantinople in the Turk's 
 court, at Vienna in the Emperor's palace, at Venice, and in the French 
 king's court, and in the houses of most of all Christian princes, in 
 every of which places he left some token of his value, settled down 
 at Leighlin in his ripe manhood, determined to preserve by policy 
 and the strong hand the great Irish inheritance which he claimed by 
 descent, and had obtained by law. Here he kept continually, and 
 here, as we shall find, he needed to keep, in his own private family, 
 ICQ persons, and had always in readiness loo horsemen, well ap- 
 pointed, besides footmen, and loo kerns; here his cellar door was 
 never shut, and his buttery always open to all comers of any 
 credit. Those days, however, of military strength and of proud 
 hospitality, worthy of Branksome Hall, soon passed away ; and when 
 that worthy knight, old Sir Peter, died at Ross, his cousin and heir, 
 
 young 
 
 * Dowling, p. 38. ' Hooker, p. 323. 
 
 ' Hooker (ap. Holingshed), p. 376. 
 
 a 2 
 
iv 
 
 young Sir Peter, was unable to defend his inheritance. In 1580, as 
 we learn from Dowling, there was a great slaughter committed by 
 the Ketings at Leighlin, and at Glynmalowra, in the county of 
 Wicklow, by the Byrnes, where young Sir Peter, Baron of Odrone, 
 and Francis Cosby, Esq., captain of the loyal kerns of Leix, and 
 Master Moore, and Bernard Fitzwilliam, captains, were killed, with 
 many other gentlemen of estimation, byFiagh Mac Hugh [O'Byrne], 
 and other rebels, who afterwards, at the instigation of young Maurice 
 Cavanagh of Garrowchill, burned ten townlands in Idrone, and car- 
 ried off as prisoners Master Wood, who was probably one of the 
 Chapter, and Roger Hooker, Dean of Leighlin. 
 
 The Chancellor relates the captivity of the Dean of Leighlin with 
 great composure, indicating, perhaps, that Thady Dowling, with his 
 two Irish names, had no great sympathy with this English-born 
 Roger Hooker. Yet, if Roger Hooker, as seems likely, was the bro- 
 ther of the writer, John Hooker, alias Vowell, and promoted by the 
 interest of the bookish Carew, he was probably no unworthy head of 
 the Chapter of Leighlin, and no unfit associate in Dowling's historical 
 inquiries. If the Dean had his brother's learning it is to be hoped 
 that he did not make as vain a display of it as was made by that 
 worthy English gentleman, who, when member for Athenry, in Con- 
 naught, in a speech reported by himself, assured the Irish House of 
 Commons that the Lord Deputy, Sir Henry Sidney, was treated by 
 them as ungratefully as Moses had been treated, and Camillus, and 
 Scipio, as Socrates, Themistocles, Miltiades, and others, and proved 
 the same by various histories. Such learning we can w^ell spare, but 
 it is to be lamented that the Dean has not left any record of his cap- 
 tivity. It would be interesting to read how the English Protestant 
 churchman, the friend of the Carews and the brother of their law- 
 agent, was treated, in the fastnesses of Glenmalure, by this Fiagh 
 Mac Hugh, in his house of Balinecorr, who, from being a base varlet, 
 
 dared 
 
V 
 
 dared, in Spenser's time, " to front princes, and to make tearms with 
 great potentates." 
 
 The successor of scholars, such as were the scholars of the time, 
 and, as we suppose, the companion of scholars, Dowling spent a long 
 life in the discharge of his ecclesiastical functions, and in the study 
 of the literature and history of his country. There is something 
 pleasing in the picture of such a life in such times, and we like to 
 think of the old man, in the midst of an unquiet generation, as a re- 
 laxation from grave and important duties, now examining the new 
 and costly volumes in the library of the learned English knight, and 
 now poring over the manuscript records^ of his cathedral, or striving 
 to find some traces of romantic history in the names of the neighbour- 
 ing townlands, or searching for tombstones in the choir, and calling 
 upon the clerk and the carpenter to bear witness that they had seen 
 with their eyes the tomb which he had sought for. And, if the good 
 Chancellor mistook the import of the epitaph which he read in simple 
 verse, and, as has been suggested, confounded Burchard with Borard*", 
 and the Norwegian pirate with the Norman knight, — and, be it re- 
 membered, the mistake may not be on the part of Dowling, but on 
 that of his would-be corrector, — still graver mistakes have been made 
 by more learned men, who have not, like honest Dowling, preserved 
 the document by which the truth could be ascertained. 
 
 As the O'Dowlings were one of the six septs of Leix, it is pro- 
 bable that our Chancellor was of Irish blood ; the Statute against the 
 promotion of Irish churchmen remaining, like many better Statutes, a 
 dead letter on the Rolls of Parliament. We know from Ware that 
 he was an Irish scholar, and the compiler of an Irish grammar ; and in 
 
 these 
 
 ? Page 4. Gilbert de Borard founded a Eeceptory 
 
 Gilbert de Borard. Conquest of Ire- for Knights Templars at Killarge, in the 
 land, 1. 3 1 1 6. In the reign of King John, county of Car low. 
 
VI 
 
 these brief Annals he does not omit to mention that the art of print- 
 ing and of founding the letters and characters of the Irish language 
 was introduced into Dublin, in the year 1571, by John Kearna, Trea- 
 surer of St. Patrick's, and Nicholas Walsh, Bishop of Ossory. That 
 an Irishman by birth and by blood should understand L-ish in the 
 sixteenth century provokes no observation ; as in the beginning of 
 that century the Irish language was generally understood among the 
 Anglo-Irish nobles and cluirchmen. 
 
 In the catalogue of the Earl of Kildare's library, taken in 151 8, 
 there are nearly as many books in Irish as in English; and in' 1541 
 the Irish lords of English blood, Barry, Roch, Fitzmaurice, and Bir- 
 mingham, seem to have understood Irish alone ; at least Sentleger' 
 Avrites to Henry VIII. that Sir Thomas Cusake's " right solemn pro- 
 position in giving such laud and praise to His Majesty, as justly and 
 most worthily His Majesty had merited, as well for the extirpation 
 of the usurped power of the Bishop of Rome out of this realm, as 
 also for his innumerable benefits showed to his realms and subjects, 
 was briefly and prudently declared in the Irish tongue to the said 
 lords by the mouth of the Earl of Ormonde, greatly to their conten- 
 tation." 
 
 The policy of the English government, the great influx of English 
 settlers in the seventeenth century, and the irresistible flow of cir- 
 cumstances, have made us an English-speaking population ; but at no 
 time, from the days of Dowling to the present days, have there been 
 wanting wise and kind-hearted men, who, however they may have 
 rejoiced that the English language, rich with the richest trophies of 
 genius and of thought, was their's by inheritance, were anxious, not 
 to supplant English or to extend the use of Irish, but to perpetuate 
 the knowledge of the older and the more venerable language, and to 
 
 procure, 
 
 ' State Papers, cccxl. 
 
Vll 
 
 procure, tliroiigli its use, a readier access to the Irish heart and un- 
 derstanding. 
 
 It must be confessed, however, that in the following pages we 
 derive but little profit from Bowling's Irish scholarship. It is true 
 that he makes mention of the Hibernie Scriptores of the Life of 
 St. Patrick, and of the Hibernie Autiquarii, as well as of the Ilistorici 
 Hibernie, but he cites no Irish manuscript or Irish author by name ; 
 and his ancient Irish history is made vip of the traditions common 
 to Giraldus Cambrensis, to Fordun, and the Four Masters, and left 
 unsifted by them all, mingled with extracts from Saxo Grammaticus, 
 and from Powell's edition of Caradoc of Llancarvan. Yet, notwith- 
 standing this absence of Irish historical authority from Bowling's 
 collections, historical compilations appear to have been at all times 
 amongst the favourite productions of Irish literature. In the cata- 
 logue of the Earl of Kildare's Irish Library before referred to, which 
 is given in the note*, there occur names of works evidently historical ; 
 and the Four Masters, who, although later compilers, were living in 
 Bowling's old age, made use of nine sets of Irish chronicles, of which 
 six were not completed before the commencement of the sixteenth 
 century. 
 
 The publication of that great compilation of Irish annals in 
 O'Bonovan's splendid edition, rendered doubly valuable as it has 
 been by his topographical notes, has made us indifferent to Bowling's 
 neglect of Irish authorities, and has given to the student of Irish his- 
 tory 
 
 ' " Saltir Casshil. Saint Beraghan's lagh mc Moregh. Concullyns act. The 
 boke. Another boke wheriu is the begyn- monk of Egipt lif. Foilfylmiy. The VII. 
 nyng of the Cronicles of Ireland. The sages. The Declaracou of Gospellis. Saint 
 birth of Christ. baiut Kateryn's liff. Bernard passion. The History of Clave- 
 Saint Jacob is passion. Saint George is lyre. The Leching of Kene is legg. 
 passion. The Spech of Oyncheagh. Saint Castelens.^^^Eetrospect. Rev. and Hist, and 
 Feghin is lif. Saint Fynyan is lif. Bris- Antiq. Mag. 2nd Series, pt. i. p. 138. 
 
VI 11 
 
 tory ready access to all the knowledge which can be expected from 
 such compilations. However honestly drawn up, whether made by 
 the Chancellor of Leighlin or by the Friars of Donegal, such compi- 
 lations in no wise supersede the necessity of consulting the original 
 authorities. Tliey must always bear marks of the character and cir- 
 cumstances, not only of the author but also of the compiler, and it is 
 possible that the unconscious substitution of one word for another 
 supposed to be equivalent to it, may have destroyed the only clue left 
 by the original writer for unravelling the system, political, legal, or 
 ecclesiastical, of his times. 
 
 Nor have combinations of chronicles, however accurately and 
 fully expressed, the interest which belongs to the work of one mind. 
 It would be vain to expect in any collection of monkish chronicles 
 the philosophy which could fuse and mould their discordant mate- 
 rials into one consistent whole; their very copiousness becomes a 
 cause of obscurity, as the attention is worn out by the profusion of 
 small events, apparently springing from no motive, and certainly 
 leading to no result. As a national history such collections of annals 
 must be confused and disheartening, but as materials for local history 
 they are invaluable ; and if ever freely and boldly used for that pur- 
 pose, they will be found to suggest many thoughts relative to the 
 social condition of the country ; and being thus resolved into their 
 original elements, — for it was as local histories that their chief mate- 
 rials were originally composed, — they will cluster inform and clearness 
 round various points of great interest. Such is the mcagreness of 
 our historical records that it is only by the judicious use of these still" 
 and formal compilations, and of the wild legends of Irish hagiology, 
 that we can hope to gain any knowledge of the form and pressure of 
 the ante-Norman period of Irish history, to arrange it into its several 
 eras, to ascertain the habits and manners of those who lived in them, 
 and to comprehend their motives, their objects, and their characters, 
 
 and 
 
ix 
 
 and thus to form some vague notion how their past has influenced 
 our present. 
 
 The troubles occasioned by the O'Mores in Leix, and by the 
 Cavanaghs in Carlow and TTexford, form the staple of Bowling's 
 peculiar contributions to Irish history. These troubles, as we learn 
 from the folloAving pages, like almost all other Irish troubles, did not 
 spring originally from political causes, but were directly connected 
 with quarrels about the possession of land. 
 
 The Norman conquest of England, which preceded the conquest 
 of Ireland by little more than a hundred years, had effected as great 
 a revolution in landed property in England, as was designed in Ire- 
 land ; but the Saxon occupier soon learned to submit to his Norman 
 landlord: the rights of property, however acquired, in England were 
 imiversally assented to, and order and security arose from invasion 
 and spoliation. It was not so in Ireland. Some of the causes of this 
 great difference it is not difficult to discover. In England the grantees 
 of the Crown — however enormous were some of the Conqueror's 
 grants — formed a numerous and powerful body of feudal lords, all 
 equally interested in the common title of all to their several estates. 
 The presence of the central government, always interested in the 
 maintenance of order, tended at once to repress the provoking inso- 
 lence and tyranny of the landlord, and the insubordination of the 
 peasant ; and where order was observed, and property secure, the 
 industry of the tenant and the tradesman, before they were hardened 
 into a middle class, repellent alike of lord and of peasant, penetrated 
 the lower poor ^vith feelings of liope and of attachment to the exist- 
 ing state of society. 
 
 In Ireland, on the contrary, the grantees of the Crown were com- 
 paratively few ; from the first the head lords of lands were scattered 
 at wide intervals through the country. In the course of one or two 
 generations several of their great inheritances descended upon Eng- 
 
 IRISH ARCH. SOC. 1 3. b ligh 
 
X 
 
 lish nobles resident in England, and leaving their Irish estates to the 
 care of Irish undertakers, who seized the first opportunity from 
 agents to become proprietors. The power of tlie Deputy was unable 
 to repress the outrages of the landlord or the discontent of the 
 tenant ; and where all things were in confusion there could be no 
 accumulations of thrift or industry to give hope to peaceful ambition, 
 and to make the poor man friendly to the authority of the law. 
 
 To all these causes of the security of the Norman possessors of 
 Saxon estates, and of the constant resistance with which tlie grand- 
 sons of these Normans and their descendants were harassed when 
 they relied upon royal charters for the grant of Irish lands, must be 
 added, above all, the different systems of landed tenure which had 
 previously existed in both countries. 
 
 Whatever may have been the privileges of the Saxon churl, the 
 occupier of land, he was still a tenant, holding, on certain conditions, 
 under an hereditary, an official, or an elective superior, and liable, on 
 the failure of such conditions, to forfeit possession. To the imme- 
 diate cultivator of the soil the distinction of Bocland and Folcland 
 must have been indifierent. Whatever theory may be devised to 
 account for the origin of rent in countries otherwise circumstanced, 
 and whatever may have been the system of landed property origi- 
 nally prevalent amongst the Teutonic nations, it is plain that in 
 Saxon Britain, a conquered country, in which the natives were not 
 extirpated, there must have been a gradual progress with the 
 increase of civilization from the absolute slavery of the indigenous 
 race, from their being hewers of wood and drawers of water, through 
 serfdom and villeinage, to the commutation of arbitrary into fixed 
 services, ultimately resulting in the payment of rent either in 
 money or in kind. And this change must have brought about the 
 abolition of national distinctions between the native thrall, now 
 raised to the rank of a farmer, and the family of the smaller Saxon 
 
 proprietor, 
 
xi 
 
 proprietor, Avho gained their livelihood by the profitable occupation 
 of land. 
 
 Whether at the time of the Norman conquest this last result had, 
 or had not, been universally arrived at in England in all cases, it is 
 plain that by the substitution of a Norman lord for a Saxon thane, the 
 status of the Saxon occupier was not essentially changed ; the con- 
 ditions of his tenure may have become more burdensome, but he still 
 remained a tenant as he was before; and however strong may have 
 been his Saxon indignation at the Norman superiority, there was 
 little in it to affect his personal interest, or materially to deteriorate 
 his actual condition. 
 
 In the greater part of Ireland, on the contrary, although the 
 Saxon or Danish"' system seems to have been introduced into Fingal 
 and into other parts of the east coast, previous to the time of Strong- 
 bow, there were neither landlords nor tenants. Every seignory or 
 chiefry, with the portion of land that passed with it, went without 
 partition to the tanist, who always came in by election, or the strong 
 hand, and not by descent ; but by the law of gavelkind" all the infe- 
 rior tenancies were partible, not, as in Kent, only amongst the first 
 heirs male of the last possessor, but at the will of the head of the 
 sept, amongst all the males of the sept, whether legitimate or ille- 
 gitimate. 
 
 Such was the Irish custom of gavelkind, as explained by the sa- 
 gacious and inquiring Sir John Davies ; and although in the third 
 year of James I. it was declared and resolved by all the Judges that 
 this custom was void in law, not only for the inconvenience and un- 
 reasonableness of it, but because it was a mere personal custom, and 
 could not alter the descent of inheritance ; yet so deeply rooted in 
 Irish prejudices was the love of common holdings, with minute and 
 
 changeable 
 
 * Eegist. Omnium Sanctorum, p. 50. ' Sir J. Davies' Eeports, Gavelkind. 
 
 b 2 
 
xii 
 
 changeable subdivisions", that they survived to perplex Sir Henry 
 Piers in Westmeath in 1697, and Lord George Hill in Donegal in 
 1 846. Perplexing, however, as it may have been to landlords, bar- 
 barous as it was in the eyes of English lawyers, and however opposed 
 to the general improvement of the country, this Irish custom of gavel- 
 kind not only opened to every man a possibility of becoming tanist, 
 or heir apparent, at the death of the chief, but it had also the far 
 wider-spreading effect of giving to every man a positive interest in 
 the preservation of the family estate, and, when that estate was lost, 
 of exciting every man to exert himself for its recovery". 
 
 Nor was it clear to the Irish understanding that the lands of the 
 sept could ever legally be lost. By Irish law every occupier was but 
 an occupier for life, and could alienate or forfeit only his own life- 
 interest. As in the somewhat analogous case of the Kentish gavel- 
 kind, the father's felony could not forfeit the son's right to the lands : 
 in the old adage, though the father might be hanged " on the bough," 
 the son had still a right to return " to the plough". 
 
 With such strong and generally diffused motives for striving to 
 recover the landed property of the several septs, it is not surprising 
 that the Irish should have availed themselves of the diminution of 
 the small number of the original grantees, by absenteeism, by foreign 
 wars, and by the wars of the Roses, to re-enter upon lands which had 
 been wrested from their own sept, or from some other sept which 
 
 had 
 
 Chorograplucal Description of West- multiplied, and as the arable land was di- 
 meatb. The arable land alone was divi- vided into smaller portions, it is evident 
 ded, the pasture being held in common. that the relative power of the chief, whose 
 " In the English times the cuttings or portion was not partible, must have in- 
 dues of the Irish chiefs became excessive, creased within the sept, whilst the increase 
 but it must be remembered that they were of the numbers of his sept rendered him 
 paid in kind, and were consumed on the more formidable to his neighbours, 
 spot by members of the sept. As the sept 
 
xiii 
 
 had not courage or opportunity to resume their rights. And as such 
 attempts were contrary to Enghsh law, and inconsistent with Enghsh 
 authority, the claims of private property excited public disturbance, 
 and what might have been a lawsuit became a rebellion. 
 
 In the division made at Woodstock, by Henry III., of the great 
 seignory of Leinster, between the five sisters of the five childless 
 Earls Marshal, the country of Leix, with its chief castle of Duna- 
 mase, was assigned to the third sister, Eva, Avife of De Braosa, Lord 
 of Brecknock; and her daughter, Matilda, brought the manor to her 
 husband, Roger Mortimer. The territory of Leix, previous to the 
 English conquest, had been the patrimony of the O'Mores ; and after 
 the Scottish invasion, when the power of the English was every- 
 where shaken, the absentee Mortimer" esteemed it a good device for 
 the management of his lands to employ the services of one of that 
 supplanted sept, and " thought him not dishonoured by the service." 
 It was a common, but a perilous expedient, and the temptation proved 
 too strong for the fidelity of Lysaght O'More. Towards the end of 
 the reign of Edward II., and probably at the time when Mortimer 
 was proclaimed a traitor by his injured sovereign, the hour came for 
 gratifying his inherent desire of independence, perhaps his rankling 
 longings for revenge. In one night Lysaght O'More burned ten 
 Enghsh castles, and destroyed Dunamase, the head of Mortimer's ba- 
 rony; and on that night, to use the words of Clyn, from a serf he 
 become a lord, from a subject a prince: " De servo dominus, de sub- 
 jecto princeps effectus." 
 
 After the death of Lysaght, who was murdered, when drunk, by 
 his servant, the manor of Dunamase was recovered from the O'Mores, 
 and in the reign of Edward III., during the forfeiture of the Morti- 
 mers, was in the hands of Sir John Wellesley'^ ; but although some 
 
 of 
 
 " Finglas's Breviate, 82. •> Hibernica, Part II. p. 74. 
 
xiv 
 
 of the O'Mores were forced to acknowledge that they held their lands 
 in Leix, which then formed part of the county of KildareP, from 
 Mortimer, as of his manor of Dunamase, yet the greater part of the 
 De Braos portion of Strongbow's palatinate was lost to the Mortimers. 
 Nor was Leix the only territory in Leinster, the inheritance of Eva 
 MacMorogh, of which the princely Mortimers were deprived by native 
 claimants. Through the De Burghs and the Earls of Gloster they 
 had hereditary claims to the territory of Ossory"", and when the youth- 
 ful Earl of March, grandson of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, and pre- 
 sumptive heir of the crown of England, was appointed Lord Lieute- 
 nant by his friend and cousin, Richard II., the viceregal sword added 
 but little to his dignity in Ireland, where he was by descent Earl of 
 Ulster, Lord of Meath, of Connaught, of Leix, and of Ossory, claim- 
 ing in all these vast franchises the authority of a Lord Palatine, 
 absorbing the royal revenues, and exercising royal power. But all 
 these titles, and all this power, hereditary and deputed, were vain 
 when employed to recover estates once fallen into the hands of Irish- 
 men. In his attempt to rescue^ lands belonging to his mother, w'hich 
 his father had been obliged to reconquer, the " courteous" Earl of 
 March was resisted by O'Nowlan, O'Byrne, Mac David ^More [Mac 
 Morogh], Mortagh Mac Laghlin, and others; a battle was fought at 
 Calleston, nowKellistown.in O'Nowlan's country, where Raymond le 
 Gros had a castle in the time of Henry II.; the Earl was slain, and his 
 mother, as we learn from Dowling, gave two chalices, one to Myshall 
 and one to Garrowcheill, to ransom his body, which was sent to Eng- 
 land, and interred with his forefathers in the Abbey of "Wigmore. 
 
 In this obscure skirmish, fought in a place whose name has 
 hitherto been mistaken and its site unknown, were involved the 
 
 destinies 
 
 Rol. CI. 29, 30. Ed. III. ' Xote to Translation of Deposition of 
 
 ' Inquisitions, Jac I. 19, King's Co. Eichard II. p. 42 — Archajologia, vol. xx. 
 
XV 
 
 destinies of the British empire ; for it was to revenge the death of 
 his cousin and presumptive heir that King Richard came a second 
 time into Ireland, and so left the field open to Bolingbroke, to whose 
 towering ambition the superior claims of ]\fortimer s orphan children 
 offered only a feeble obstacle ; and hence the disputed succession, 
 the thinning of the old nobles of England, the rise of the landed 
 gentr}', and all the thousand ever-spreading consequences of the wars 
 of York and Lancaster. 
 
 Nor were the long and dangerous insurrections of the MacMoroghs 
 and the Cavanaghs less directly connected with disputes about land, 
 than those of the O'Nowlans and O'Mores. Connected with King 
 Dermod, if not descended from him, and consequently allied in blood 
 to all the noble posterity of Strongbow and the Countess Eva, and 
 possessing the distinguished privilege of being one of the quinque 
 sanguinum, the Mac Moroghs seem from the first to have held undis- 
 turbed possession of the hill country on the borders of Carlow and 
 Wexford. As the power of the English settlers decreased, the native 
 sept gradually spread over the low lands, and acquired extensive 
 possessions in both those counties. In 1327, ten years after Bruce's 
 invasion, at an assembly of the Irish at Leiuster, the power of the 
 sept, and certain traditional recollections, secured Donald Mac Murgh's 
 election to the title of King of Leinster, as Pembridge says somewhat 
 scornfully : " Hibernici de Lagenia collegerunt se simul, et fecerunt 
 quemdam Regem, videlicet Donaldum filium Arte Mac Murg]l"^ 
 
 The vain boasts of the new king that he would plant his standard 
 within two miles of Dublin, and then, after the fashion of the old 
 Irish kings, go through all Ireland, were dissipated : he was taken 
 prisoner by Sir Henry Traharne, and confined in the castle of Dub- 
 lin, until, at the end of three years, he made his escape, with the help 
 
 of 
 
 ' Pembridge in Camden, in anno 1327. 
 
XVI 
 
 of a rope, bought for him by Adam Nangle, for which, and perhaps 
 with which, Adam Nangle was hanged. 
 
 Notwithstanding Donald MacMurgh's misfortunes, the captainship 
 of the sept, with the title of king, long continued in this family. 
 
 In King Richard's" first expedition, on the i6th day of February, 
 1 395, Arte MacMorogh, who was called king, " although he had small 
 territories anywhere," came riding on a black horse to the field of 
 Baligory, near Carlow, and having heard the King's letters read, and 
 explained in English, by John Molton, clerk, of the diocese of Lin- 
 coln, and read in Irish by Friar Edmund Vale, Master of the Hospital 
 of St. John of Jerusalem in Ireland, with Gerald 0'Br)Ti, Donald 
 O'Nolan, Loy Oge, and Shane Mac Mauriceboy of Slewmergy, and 
 IMurogh O'Connohur of Offaly, all captains of their respective septs. 
 Arte Mac Morogh, having taken off his girdle, sword, and cap, joining 
 together the palms of his hands, and holding them upright within 
 the hands of the Earl of Nottingham, who had then a special commis- 
 sion from the King, did homage and swore allegiance, and bound 
 himself, on the restitution of his wife's baronv of the Norrasfh, and on 
 the annual payment of eighty marks as wages, to enter into the King's 
 service, and to surrender all his lands in Leinster, for which he was 
 to receive compensation by the grant of such lands as he might con- 
 quer elsewhere from the enemies of his lord the King. 
 
 By this promised removal from Leinster of Mac Morogh and the 
 other Irish captains, the English of Leinster would have been re- 
 lieved from troublesome neighbours ; but the native grasp of here- 
 ditary lands is not easily relaxed; and although they now bent before 
 the royal power of England, the Leinster septs were rather disposed 
 to intrude upon the old settled possessions of the English than to re- 
 linquish the lands of their ancestors. It Avas at that very time that the 
 
 Cavanaghs 
 
 " Submissio Hibernicorum enrolled in Court of Exchequer, England. 
 
xvii 
 
 Cavanaghs were supplanting the Carews in Idroue. The barony of 
 the Norrat^h, the estate of his wife, the heiress of the Calfes or 
 De Yeels, gave Mac Morogh a footing in Kildare; its non-restitntion 
 afforded him grounds for the continuance of hostilities, and " he 
 solemnly assured his wife," wrote the Irish Council in 1399, " that he 
 will never be at peace until he has restitution of her lands." 
 
 Scarcely then were the two hampers, filled with Irish surrenders 
 and indentures, delivered to the Court of Exchequer in England by 
 the Bishop of Salisbury, before disturbances again broke out ; and 
 although the Norragh'' was restored to his wife, and the eighty marks 
 annually paid to Mac jNIorogh and to many successive Mac Moroghs, yet 
 the lands of the sept in Leinster were never relinquished, nor was the 
 title of King of Leinster given up for many generations. Even as 
 late as 1522 we have in these Annals the death of Gerald Ke vanagli 
 Mac Murchad, " qui se fecit vocari Regem Lagenie et Ducem Laginen- 
 sium ;" and this titular king was biu-ied w^ith the king's lieges at 
 Leighlin. 
 
 But although, like the other sixty chief captains'' calling them- 
 selves kings, or kings' peers or princes, or dukes, or archdukes, 
 living only by the sword, and making war and peace for them- 
 selves, the Mac Moroghs exercised imperial jurisdiction within their 
 narroAv boundaries, these Annals show the insecurity of their power 
 and the troubles of their lives. "While, however, the captains, by 
 whatever title they were called, were occasionally defeated and com- 
 pelled to submit, or were imprisoned in Dublin or in London, or 
 were hanged, the main body of the sept continued to occupy their 
 hereditary and acquired lands, acknowledging no lord but their own 
 elected captain, and no law but that pronounced by their Brehons on 
 the hill side. 
 
 The 
 
 ° Rot. CI. 20 Hen. VI. ' State Papers, Part III. p. i. 
 
 IRISH ARCH. SOC. 1 3. C 
 
xviii 
 
 The power of tlie government of Henry VIII., and the activity of 
 Sentleger, brought about a change. The words of the intelUgent 
 Lord Deputy, in announcing his success to tlie king, are worthy of 
 notice, as they show that the points now insisted on liad not escaped 
 his observation : 
 
 " Perceiving that thos sectes of people called the Cavenaghes, as 
 Mac Morogh, and other hys complicis, wer not, as then, in pece with 
 Your Magestie, nor yet, at that tynie, had any pledges for securite of 
 the same, yt was thought good by me, and other of the Counsell, to 
 make a journay apon them, whiche we dyd the Monday next after 
 myne arryvall. And contynueing teen dales in their countrey,burnyng 
 and destroying the same, the said MacMorogh, with the moste parte 
 of his nation and sect, cam and submytted theymself to Your Heighnes 
 obedience, clerely renunsing the name of Mac Morogh, and never 
 more, after that day, to elect, nor choise emonge them none to bere 
 the same name, ne yet to be their governor, but only Your Magestie, 
 and suche as ye shall appoynte to the same ; and have promysed to 
 take their landes of Your Magestie, to holde the same by knight 
 service, and not only to serve you from hensforthe truly according 
 to ther dueties, but also to persecute all other of their nation that 
 Avill disobey the same. And athoughe the nature of the Irishemen be 
 very fikill and inconstant, yet it is thought here, by Your Magesties 
 Counsell, that thes men whiche thus liberally have submytted, re- 
 nunsing the same name, whiche they wolde never do bifor this tyme, 
 will contynue in their sayde goode purpose, seeing we handled 
 theyme after their saide submission very gentilly, not taking from 
 theijm any parte of their landes nor goodes, but only of suche as wolde 
 not condescende to the same reasonable submission ; whiche parte so 
 taken we agayne gave on of theymselves, which we sawe moost con- 
 formable to the saide honest submission, savely to kepe to Your Ma- 
 gesties use, alleging that yt was neyther their landes nor goodes, that 
 
 your 
 
xix 
 
 your Majesty so moche estemed, as their due obedience to the same, 
 which at lengthe they shuld well perceyve shulde redounde moste 
 to their owne profyte""^. 
 
 The increasing tranquillity of the country, and the reviving 
 strength of the English Government in the subsequent reigns, in- 
 volved the Cavanaghs in new troubles. Where the English go- 
 vernment was acknowledged there the English laws were to be 
 exercised, and the legal rights of English subjects were to be main- 
 tained. When, therefore, Sir Peter Carew^ of the county of Devon, 
 knight, " bethought himselfe" upon such lands as his ancestors for- 
 merly had in Ireland, he laid claim, among other possessions, to the 
 barony of Idrone, from which, after the death of Sir Leonard Carew 
 in 1369, his ancestor. Sir Thomas, as he alleged, had been driven by 
 M'Murchad, and which was then, and had been for 200 years, in the 
 hands of the Cavanaghs. The legal evidence of Sir Peter's right both 
 to the lordship of Maston, in Meath, and to this barony of Idrone, 
 was sufficient to satisfy Weston, then Lord Chancellor, and he en- 
 tered into possession. In the strange medley of Bowling's words, he 
 made " the Cavenages compound with him for Odrone, the which he 
 quietly enjoyed, savinge that Maurice Oge Kavenagh of Garrowcheill 
 per fas et nephas tenuit suas terras, vulgariter vocatas fyv mart 
 landes absque titulo vel interesse." 
 
 Even the temporary quietness of Carew's possession may well be 
 doubted. He had come from England to awaken obsolete claims, by 
 a precedent capable of wide application, and shaking the titles to their 
 lands of all those now loyal Irish captains, who, as tenants, managers, 
 or enemies, had re-entered on the territories granted by the parch- 
 ment charters of King Henry II. or King John, but which had been 
 re-occupied by the Irish in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 
 
 Such 
 
 " State Papers, Part III. vol. iii. pp. 235, 236. ^ Hooker, pp. 339, 376. 
 
 c 2 
 
XX 
 
 Such claims, however valid according to the principles of English 
 law, naturally provoked resistance, even when supported by Sir 
 Peter's loo kerns, and by his wise and statesmanlike conduct ; and 
 in 1569, the year after he had received what Dowling calls quiet pos- 
 session, the Leinstermen broke out in all sorts of enormities, and 
 men talked of Peter Carew's wars, and the Cavanaghs, in Bowling's 
 expressive language, which it is needless to translate, were " Diaboli 
 contra Petrum Carew." 
 
 Such was the origin, and such was the nature, of the wars which 
 disturbed the neighbourhood of Leighlin in the days of Chancellor 
 Dowling. As some compensation for these troubles , it is to be sup- 
 posed that he enjoyed the luxury of consulting, in Sir Peter Carew's 
 library, the books of modern date to which he often refers. He does 
 not, however, appear to have derived any advantage from the collec- 
 tion of Anglo-Irish documents, once in the possession of Sir George 
 Carew, which now enriches the library at Lambeth. To some docu- 
 ments, which have since been lost, Dowling had ready access. He 
 mentions the Registry, the Records, and the Yellow Book of Leigh- 
 lin, all of which have disappeared ; and we cannot but lament that 
 of these diocesan and capitular muniments he did not make freer use. 
 It is chiefly, if not solely, from incidental notices in such records that 
 we can gain clear notions of the ancient state of agriculture, of the 
 modes of subsistence, and of the mutual relation of landlord, farmer, 
 and labourer, upon which the happiness and the character of a 
 nation so much more depend than upon legislative enactments or 
 political events. The invaluable series of Church records, printed 
 by the Bannatyne Club, has cleared up many doubtful points of 
 great interest relative to the social condition of Scotland ; and the 
 internal state of the Anglo-Saxon people cannot be fully understood 
 without consulting the volumes of Mr. Kemble's Codex Diploma- 
 ticus. , 
 
 Of 
 
xxi 
 
 Of the transactions which took place in the time of Dowling in 
 tlie counties contiguous to Carlow we might expect to find fuller de- 
 tails in the following than in any other pages ; yet even in these 
 Dowling has commonly been anticipated by the publication of 
 Hooker, his more copious contemporary. Of the massacre of Mul- 
 laghmast, which is omitted by Hooker, Dowling gives the following 
 account : 
 
 " 1 577. Moris Mac Lasy Mac Conyll [O'More], Lord of j\Ierggi, as 
 he asserted, and successor of the Baron of Omergi, with forty of his 
 followers, after his confederation with Eory O'More, and after a cer- 
 tain promise of protection, was slain at Mullaghmastyn, in the county 
 of Kildare, the place appointed for it, by Master Cosby and Robert 
 Harpoole, having been summoned there treacherously, under pretence 
 of performing service. Harpoole excused it that Morris had geven 
 villanous wordes to the breach of his protection." 
 
 Such is Dowling's account of this event, the only recorded fulfil- 
 ment of the blind prophecies^ current in Queen Mary's days, that 
 there should be a bloody field fought at Mullaghmast, between the 
 Irish and the English inhabitants of Ireland. " And so bloody, 
 forsooth, shall it be," says Stanyhurst, " that a mill in a vale hard 
 by it shall run four and twenty hours with the stream of blood that 
 shall pour down from the hUl." 
 
 The value, however, of these Annals does not arise so much from 
 any new facts contained in them, as from their showing the difficulty 
 experienced by an inquisitive and not unlearned man, at the close of 
 the sixteenth century, in his endeavours to gain some knowledge of 
 the history of his country. Well might Hooker^ complain that the 
 Irish public records were slenderly and disorderly kept, and that 
 private historical collections remained in odd and obscure places. 
 
 The 
 
 Stanyhurst's Description of Ireland, p. 38. ' Preface. 
 
XXll 
 
 Tlie more fully the student of Irish antiquities is acquainted with the 
 earlier collections, manuscript and printed, so much the deeper will 
 be his gratitude for the benefits conferred on him by the sagacity and 
 industry of Sir James Ware, and by the stupendous learning and 
 sun-bright truthfulness of Archbishop Ussher. 
 
 The following pages possess some interest, from the indications of 
 the personal feelings of the compiler on religious and political events. 
 Dowling, it must be recollected, was an Irish Protestant churchman, 
 holding ecclesiastical preferment in the reigns of Elizabeth and 
 James I. ; yet there is little in his Annals to indicate that he felt any 
 interest in the religious excitement of his times. When, at 1420, he 
 tells how James Earl of Ormonde, in his attack on the Irish enemy, 
 made the clergy of every district, twice every week, in solemn pro- 
 cession, pray for his good success, he adds : " Would that the clergy 
 of this time would so devoutly call upon God in prayer that the 
 soldiers should believe that victory was from God." Of Bishop 
 Magwir and Bishop Deoran, ante-Reformation bishops, he speaks with 
 great respect ; and Travers, the first bishop of Leighlin nominated by 
 royal aiithority subsequent to the Reformation, he calls " cruel, cove- 
 tous, vexing his clergy." It is, indeed, to be feared that in the times 
 immediately preceding, as in the times immediately following the 
 Reformation, when as yet religious and political feelings did not run 
 in the same channels, there was not much earnest religion in this 
 country. The barbarous murder of Bishop Deoran, by his Arch- 
 deacon, Maurice Cavanagh, gives an evil distinction to the diocese of 
 Leighlin, and tends, at least with regard to that district, to confirm 
 the lamentable description of all orders in the Irish Church, as given 
 in the State of Ireland in 15I5^ 
 
 With 
 
 " Some of Bowling's mistakes are un- and his misplacing the time of Bishop 
 accountable ; for instance, his confounding Fleming. 
 
 Perkin Warbock with Lambert Simnel, " Some sayeth, that the prelates of 
 
xxiii 
 
 With regard to his political sentiments, it is plain from the tenor 
 of all his observations that ThaJj DowHng was zealously, and — if 
 he was the author of the peevish wish, " 1 would the rest of the rebels 
 had been so bestowed" — somewhat intemperately loyal to the English 
 Government. In the dissensions which harassed the country there 
 was nothing to attract to the side of revolt thoughtful and cultivated 
 men, even when, like the Chancellor of Leighlin, they were of Irish 
 descent. In the centuries of resistance to English law and English 
 government, from the days of Edward Bruce to the days of Roger 
 Moore, notwithstanding the bold pretensions of Hugh O'Neill, there 
 never appeared amongst the opposers of the Government any system 
 or combination which could awake the thought of national indepen- 
 dence. Of all such disturbances the objects were local and personal, 
 and violence and lawlessness were the means used to effect them. 
 Evil as was the conduct of the English party (and, however it may 
 be palliated and accounted for, no one will now justify it), their side 
 was the side of order, and of social and mental progress. It is doubtful 
 that a single town can be named which existed in any merely Irish 
 country, inland or on the coast, independent of English authority and 
 of English municipal regulations. The overthrow of the English 
 Government, at any period from the fourteenth to the seventeenth 
 centuries, would have brought about total anarchy, and would liave 
 quenched the faint and flickering light of civilization. 
 
 It 
 
 the churche and clergye is muche cause be no grace, and wythoute the specyall 
 of all the mysse order of the land; for ther (grace) of Godde, this laude may never be 
 
 is no archebysshop, ne bysshop, abbot, ne reformyd Also the Churche 
 
 pryor, parson, ne vycar, ne any other per- of thys lande use not to lerne any other 
 son of the Churche, highe or lowe, greate scyence, but the La we of Canon, for co- 
 or smalle, Englyshe or Iryshe, that useyth vetyse of lucre transytory ; all other scy- 
 to preache the worde of Godde, saveing ence wherof grows none suche lucre, the 
 the poor fryers beggers ; and ther wodde parsons of the Churche dothe desj^yce." — 
 [where word] of Godde do cesse, ther canne State Papers, Part III. vol. ii. pp. 15. 16. 
 
XXIV 
 
 It is only necessary in conclusion to say, that the text of the 
 Annals has been taken from a transcript on paper made for Archbishop 
 Ussher, now preserved in the Librar}^ of Trinity College, Dublin, 
 Class E. Tab. 3. No. 20. 
 
 The original brass matrix of the Chapter Seal of Leighlin is pre- 
 served in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy; from it the 
 following wood-cut has been engraved, and is added here as a suit- 
 able illustration of this work. It is probably a seal of the fifteenth 
 century. 
 
THADEI DOWLING CANCELLARII LEIGHLEN 
 
 ANNALES HIBERNIiE. 
 
 Artliolenus, aliter Bastolenus, Nini consanguineus ex suc- 
 cessione Nerarodi in familia Japheti nepotis, venit in Hi- 
 berniam cum sua complici et cum suis tribus filiis, qui 
 vocabantur Languinus, Salamius, et Ruthurgus, viri activi 
 et bellatores, eradicabant silvas et inliabitabant* eandem 
 insulam pro majoii parte ; et ex hoc isti vocavere certa 
 emincntia loca secundum eorum nomina, ut Langrini 
 strangius, mons Salanga, modo coUis Sancti Dominici, sed ab Eliota dicitur 
 " our ladies hill," et per hos eorumque posteros regebatur insula per 30 annos. 
 
 In consortio ejusdem Bartholeni venerunt plures gigantes ex stirpe Cham, 
 viribus admirabiles sed stolidi. 
 
 Bergon, filius Neptimi, acquisivit Hiberniam et insulam Orkney. 
 Ruanus gigas in ilia peste in quadam spelunca se abscondit, vixit (ut aiunt) 
 usque in adventum Sancti Patricii per spacium 2400 annorum, et omnia illi re- 
 tulit, et ab eo baptizatus ; hoc tempus longius*" est bis quam aetas Mathusalem, 
 sed nihil impossibile Deo. 
 
 Genandus, Rutheranus et Salvius, Greci, 5. filii Dale ex progenie Nemrodi, 
 audientes ci\'ilem dissentionem facile eos destruxerunt, et regionem in. 5. partes 
 
 diviserunt, 
 
 » Inhabitavit MS. Longior MS. 
 
 IRISH ARCH. see. I 3. B 
 
2 
 
 diviserunt, ct in cantredas seu baronias et cetera. Postea avaritia regnandi inter 
 sc pro principatu contcnderunt, et fit Salanus monarcha per 30 annos, et sepe- 
 litur in montc in Midia. 
 
 Quidam scribunt quod hoc tempore alii Schithiani de Nemrodi heredibus 
 venerunt, et fecerunt Claym ad Hibemiam jure hereditario, fuit magna guerra, 
 sed non obtinuerunt. 
 
 A. M. 3576, et ante Christum 387. Brennus, frater Belini, filius Muluntil, 
 
 de Dry tannia venit in Hibemiam, et sic Gurgodwyntius Belini predicti sed 
 
 nullam acquirere potuerunt possessioni quietem, pluries repellebantur. Bren- 
 nus hie fuit coheres Anglie anno ut supra, et Gurguntius iste erat rex Anglic 
 anno mundi 3588. Lanquetus dicit quod iste locavit Hibemiam Hispano'' 
 Heremono et suis filiis, sed cronica Scotorum dicit hoc fuisse ante tempus Gur- 
 guntii. 
 
 Gathclus, filius cujusdam nobllis in Gretia, nomine Nielani, in exilio a patria 
 (for robberies) cum suis adherentibus, in bello strenuus et eloquens, nobiliter 
 servicns contra ^thiopianos, sub conductu Mosis generalis exercitus, duxit in 
 uxorem filiam Pharaonis, et cetera. Ornavit llnguam Hibcrnicam, dicit Thad- 
 deus, et cetera. 
 
 Hiber, filius Jubal, gubernavit Hispaniam, et Hermon de progenie Gatheli 
 (ut quidam putant), venerunt cum filiis, filiabus, uxoribus in Hibemiam de 
 licentia Gurguntii regis et cetera, qui jurati de homagio et fidelitatc obtinue- 
 runt, et cetera. 
 
 A. M. 3270. Brechus, alitor Simon Brechus, filius Humeci, filii Hiberi, 
 venit in Hibemiam, primus rex apud cos coronatus, regna[vit] super Scotos 
 (alitor Scythas) Hibemic. Anno raundi 3270, post diluvium 1616, ab urbe 
 condita 55, post introitum Bruti 870, et ante Christum 697, hie Simon attulit 
 cathcdram suam regalem de lapide marmoreo in Hibemiam, quern lapidem Fer- 
 gutius auferebat in Scotiam minorcm et ibidem reliquit, qui Fcrgutius fuit sub- 
 mersus in Ultonia, loco ab ejus nomine hodie nuncupate Carrekfergus. Haec 
 fucrunt tempore Helie prophete. 
 
 Murldi Ultonle regis filii intraverunt Scotiam minorem, et ibi hinc inde 
 remanserunt, quasdam tenentes possessiones, quas eorum posteri tenuerunt 
 vivente Geraldo Cambrensi, anno domini 1200. 
 
 Hibernici 
 
 ' Hispanii MS. 
 
3 
 
 Hibernicl quidam fuerunt instruct! in fide et baptlzati per Jacobum Apos- 
 tolum, immediate post Christi resurrectionem. 
 
 Scotici scriptores asserunt quandam mulierem christianam de Pictis in con- 
 ductu regine Hibernie remanentem primo eos instruxisse in fide. 
 
 A. D. 389. Patricius secundum Hibernie scriptores filius Calphurni diaconi, 
 et filioe presbyteri, natus inter Scotiam et Angliam in villa nomine Kyburne, 
 cujus matris nomen erat Conches, (Concha) germana Sancti Martini, Turonensis 
 episcopi in Gallia. Iste Patritius etatis xvi, scholaris et cetera, per piratas 
 Hibernie captus et in Hiberniam ductus, porcorum custos fuit sub Hibernico, 
 nomine M'^Bway, sex annis, quo tempore linguam Hibernicam satis addiscebat, 
 et postea ultra mare transfretavit, et cum Germano Augarensi episcopo sacram 
 paginam per 40 annos addiscebat. A Celestino papa cum Uteris comendatltiis 
 venit Hiberniam, tempore Laigerii, filii Nielani magni, monarche totius Hibernie, 
 predicavit, baptizavit et cetera. Primo de Ultonia petiit Conatiam adDovaldum, 
 Conatie dominura, qui ab illo baptizatus cum suis ; qui misit ilium ad Loganum 
 regem Lagenie, quem baptizaAat, et misit in Momoniam ad comitem Darcys qui 
 ut ceteri et cetera. Postremo xvi. calend: Aprilis anno domini 496 obiit et 
 sepelitur in Duno. 
 
 Eodem tempore floruerunt Brigida virgo et Sanctus Columba, quorum in 
 eodera tumulo inventa sunt corpora statim post Anglorum conquestum. Haec 
 Cambrensis, et Johanes Coursey, miles, comes et conquestor Ultonie testatur se 
 vidisse precipua Hibernie Jocalia. 
 
 Tres sunt in Dunno et cetera. 
 
 Norwegiani, homines bellicosi, audaces, robusti et avidi, ad acquirendum 
 aliorum regnorum conquestum multum deditij postquam insulas de Orkney et 
 Hees acquisiverunt, viagium hue in Hiberniam fecerunt, tempore Laigerii mo- 
 narche Hibernie et tempore Sancti Patricli, et ab illo tempore usque ad con- 
 questum Turgesii Norwegii regnaverunf* 3 3 reges in Hibernia, vide infra in Tur- 
 gesio. 
 
 A. D. 590. Gurmundus pnncipalis eorundem Norwegianorum archipi- 
 rata (sic etiam Caradocus) AlFricanus natione, de Norwegianis acquisivit Hiber- 
 niam pro parte, et se regem Hibernie nominandum ; edificavit Gormagston, 
 et constituit filium suum et heredem, nomine Burchardum, aliter Burchardum 
 
 Gurmondi, 
 
 Regarunt MS. 
 
 B 2 
 
4 
 
 Gurmondi, duccra Lagenie, cujus successor coramuniter vocabatur ab Hibcrnicis 
 Gormagheyu, dux montis Onergi, sod ut alii volunt, duccra Lagenie et baronem 
 le Margee. Hie Gurraundus fuit qui de Norwegianis primo invasit Hibemiam, 
 et viam primo apcruit hominibus sue patrie in Hibernico man ; et ultcrius, D. 
 Powell et Lanquet et Gualter Oxonie et Caradocus habcnt in cronicis, quod iste 
 Gurmundus in anno 590 existens archipirata, Norwegiorum capitaneus, rex 
 esset Hibernie, et post conquestum Hibernie accersitus per Saxones contra Ca- 
 recticum Britannorum regem, vicit (potius fugavit) Carecticum in bello, et pro- 
 sequebatur Britannos ultra rivos de Severne et Dee. Et dedit Lloegriam 
 Saxonibus et ibidem edificavit Gurmondcestriam, et postea, secundum his- 
 toriam Hibernie, transfretavit in Galliam ad conquerendum et cetera, ubi 
 moriebatur, sed Hibernici antiquarii negant eum fuisse monarcham Hibernie, 
 quia non subjugavit preter Lageniam et Midiam quod pro conquestu non 
 reputarunt. 
 
 Burchardus Gurmundi, qui vulgariter nominatur O Gormagheyn, dux (ut 
 asseritur) Lagenie, edificasse dicitur Gurmundi grangiam, et palatium suum in 
 raonte Margeo cum aliis memorabilibus pro se et suis, et fundasse matricem seu 
 prioratum veteris Leighlen, sed potius earn dotavit tempore sancti Eubani Lenie* 
 patroni ; sed quidam nomine Lazerianus, episcopus et confessor, pro fundatione 
 et erectione ecclesie cathedralis ibidem anno domini 65 1 fuit procurator, vide 
 record. Leujlen. In eadem ecclesia fertur ille dux esse sepultus ex parte boreali 
 in muro summo chori juxta stallum thesaurarii ecclesie sub lapide marraoreo 
 habens ipsius ducis [nomen] desuper. Wittnesses lyvinge 1589 Karolus Rowac 
 alias Makeyigan clerk, Donagh M'^Gilpatrik, and Gilleranoy carpenters saw the 
 tumbe with their eyes, andThady Dowling*^ cancellar : ecclesie found his epitaph 
 in simple verse as fblloweth : 
 
 Hie jacet huraatus dux fundator Leniae, id est Legldenioe. 
 
 En Gormondi Burchardus vir gratus ecclesie. 
 
 Extant etiam adhuc alia testimonia circa banc villam ; scilicet nomina quo- 
 rundam locorura ut Gormondus grove et Gormondes foord et cetera. 
 
 Anno circa 542. Arthurus, filius Uter Pendragon, subdidit sibi Scotiam, 
 Hibcrniam, Daciam, Norwegiam, Islandiam, Gutlandiam, Insulas Orchadum et 
 Galliam, vicit Lucium generall of the Romaine army. SicThaddeus. 
 
 A. M. 
 
 ' Beiiie MS. f Downing MS. 
 
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 V A. M. 4553.) Plures Bri tones fugam recepemnt in Hibemiam acl evitandam 
 A. D. 592. / tyrannidem Etlielfredi et sociorum Saxonum. 
 A. M. 479i.|Turgesius Norwegianus cepit acqviirere Hiberniam per gene- 
 A. D. 830. Jralem conquestum, vicit Edlongdingum regem, monarcham 
 Hibernie, obtinuit totam terram et regnavit ut rex xxx annos. Sed quidani 
 tradunt ipsum fiiisse locum tenentem Norwegianoram ; et tandem superbia 
 elatus filiam unicam IMedensis regis, nomine O IMelaghlen, struprare (others 
 say marie) volens, petiit ab O Melaglilen ut sibi traderet ejus filiam. Rex 
 respondebat quod illud non convenebat, sed tortuoso vxiltu aspiciens et cetera. 
 Si opporteat, inquit, mittam earn cum aliis pulclirioribus puellis ad certum 
 diem secrete, quod bene placuit Turgesio, et assignavit locum et diem. Pater 
 misit eam cum xvi. pulchris juvenibus, quorum quilibet habuit longum cultrum 
 sub muliebri veste, et venientes in cenaculum ubi ille Turgesius cum lasciviosis 
 suis complicibus erat, et ubi interfecerunt eum cum suis, et recessenmt ad exer- 
 citum regis Midensis, qui prope in abscond! to juvenum expectabat adventum, 
 et tunc cepit conquestus Hibernicorum. 
 
 A. jVI. 4822. ) Abloickus Hibernie rex cum suo conductu applicuit in in- 
 A. D. 86 1. ) sulam de Mona, aliter Man, et cremandos villam de Holy- 
 head spoliavit comitatum'' de Llynn. — Powell p.62 (61) et obiit — Powell pag. 15. 
 
 A. D. 948. Abbatia beate Marie juxta Dublin erecta per Danos. — Cam- 
 brensis. 
 
 A. D. 950. Dani venerunt iterum in Hibemiam et interfecerunt in bello 
 Cormachum, Hibernie monarcham et episcopmn (id est primatem) totius Hi- 
 bernie, ac filium Cukemani, hominem pium et religiosum, et Kirvaltum filium 
 Murigani Lagenie regis. — Powell ex Math. West. pag. 44. 
 
 A. D. 924. Hawlassus Hibernie monarcha interfectus per Adelstanum . . . 
 . . . . apud Bremestbury cum rege Scotie et 5. regibus Danonun. — Powell 
 ut supra. 
 
 A. D. 952. Congellach Hibernie rex interfectus. — Powell pag. 60. 
 
 Rodericus filius Edwalli Voel rex Britannic interfectus fuit in Britannia 
 per Hibemicos qui spoliaverunt comitatum de Aberfraw. ibid. 
 
 Hibemia destructa per vermes ignotos, duos habentes dentes. — Powell ex 
 Math. West, pag, 42. 
 
 A. D. 
 
 e Crimando MS. Com MS. 
 
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 A. D. IOI2. Bemardus vulgaritcr Brian Bowrow Hibcrnie monarcha ac 
 filius ejus Murchardus M*=Brian et alii ejus reguli circa ha;c tempora in bello 
 Clantarf juxta Dublin pugnaverunt virilitcr contra Sutrarcum, alitor Sutrik, 
 filium Abloicci regis Dublin, et Moylmordha regera Lagenie ; qui Sutrick 
 conduxit multos militcs advcnas et piratas pro stipendio, in quo bello ceci- 
 derunt Bemardus illc monarcha cum suo filio Mauro, et aliis quampluribus de 
 familia et exercitu suo, et ex altera parte Moylmordha Lagenie rex et Roderi- 
 kus magnus piratarum advenarum capitaneus cum innumerabilibus aliis. — Powell 
 p. 80. concord, cum Histor. Hiber. 
 
 A. D. 1 04 1. Conan, filius Jago, rex North wallie, fugit in Hiberniam, et 
 cum Alfredo Dublinii rege reintravit North walliam, et secum attulerunt Griffith 
 rcgem Northwallie captivum, et reverterunt in Hiberniam non absque detri- 
 mento hominum et navium. — Powell. 
 
 A. D. 1050. Conan filius Jago navigando iterum in Walliam amisit quam- 
 plurcs tarn per mare submerses quam in terra interfectos, et Herald venit cum 
 eo in Hiberniam fugiendo quia adulterium cum regina Anglie comisit. 
 
 A. D. 1054 Hibernici transfretaverunt ad Griffith regem in Walliam cum 
 xviii. navibus ; Algerus Leafrici fuit eorum capitaneus. 
 
 Circa A. D. 1066. Dani, Norwegii, Normanni, et Suevlani, nomine com- 
 munitcr Ostomanni, e regione de Scandinavia fluxerunt in Franciam, Angliam, 
 Hiberniam et Scotiam minorem. 
 
 A. D. 107 1. Amylavus Sutaricus, ad petitionera regis Lagenie procuravit 
 Broydericura gigantem, archipiratam et capitaneum advenarum, filium domini 
 regis Danorum de Denmark in Hiberniam, qui Broydericus et sui interfecerunt 
 Brian Boro we, supremum Hibemle monarcham,in bello de Clantarf juxta Dublin, 
 cum suo hcrcde jNIorglio ^PBrian et suo exercitu, pluresque regni nobiles, qui se- 
 peliuntur ante crucem de Kylmaynam circa' Annum Domini 1 077, ut quidam his- 
 torici Hibernie scribunt ; a quorum opinione D. Powell differt in supputatione 
 annorum, nec mirum cum Powell Hibemicas fj'guras quibus utitur facile cog- 
 nosccre non valuit, scribunt enim ho 1564. 
 
 A. D. 1074. Patricius, Dublin episcopus, fuit in ecclesia Sancti Pauli 
 London per Lanfrancum Cantuariensem archiepiscopum consecratus, super 
 comendaclonc Teudionati, Hibernie monarche, Goderiique regis Lagenie, 
 
 ad 
 
 ' Citra MS. 
 
7 
 
 ad electionem cleri et populi episcopatus Dublin; hie erat eorum mos cre- 
 andi episcopos, quia nondum Armaclianus nec alii Hibernie archiepiscopi 
 sua receperunt pallia, ut quidam autiquarii scribunt et affirmant, quod mo- 
 narcba Hibernie propter dominium regale, titulumque honorum coronse et 
 alia regis privilegia, babuit negativam vocem in nominatione episcoporum totius 
 regni. 
 
 A. D. 1077. Frotbo, aliter Frotlieus, rex Danorum 3. post acquisitionem 
 Britannic venit in Hiberniam et interfecit O Carvell, capitaneum Hibernicoruna 
 bellantium, et recepit fratrem capitanei hujusmodi in suam protectionem ; et 
 circa hoc tempus Hibernici bellaverunt ex parte Grifitz filii Conan apud 
 montes Carmoon in Wallia contra Trahaern ap Caradoc, ubi victoriam obtinue- 
 runt famosam. 
 
 A. D. 1 1 05. Hugleto Hibernie monarcha (regnante Stracatliero gigante) a 
 Frotho 4. Danorum rege, in comitiva Herconis Segathii capitanei exercitus Da- 
 norum, venit in Hiberniam, quern quidem Herco Segathus Hibernicus dire vul- 
 neravit in capite, sed gigas hie Stracatherus talis stature, et animositatis ut ob- 
 tineret victoriam, et Dani crediderunt ilium invincibilem, qviidam Hibernici vo- 
 carunt ilium Fin M'^Coyl, sed brevi post fult interfectus. 
 
 Circa hoc tempus Cowkaggrig de Omoardha principalis de Clanmelaghlen 
 in Basca, fundavit et dedicavit monasterium de Lege Dei in Lease Carraohain 
 in Lagenia. 
 
 Reygnyrus filius Sydwardi, 2. ejusdem nominis, Danorum rex venit in Hi- 
 berniam et interfecit in bello Melbrichum, regem Hibernie, et Dublinia devicta 
 in eadem remansit per 1 2 menses. 
 
 Regnante Willelmo Rufo conquestoris filio in Anglia, exercitus Hibernico- 
 rum cum Riseo, aliter Rees, filio Theodori Britanni, devicit regem Wallie Ble- 
 thyn Convyn in bello de Llecryd in Wallia. 
 
 Owinus, filius Cadogan ap Blethyn, Northwallensis fugit hie [in] Hiberniam, 
 eo quod interfecit Willelmum de Braubant episcopum, propter quod rex Anglie 
 expulit patrem ejus Cadogan, et totam ejus hereditatem in Cambria dedit Gil- 
 berto Strangbow, comiti Strugulensi, qui comes edificavit castrum de Kylgaran 
 juxta Powis. 
 
 Grifitz filius Risei, educatus in Hibernia ab infantia, incepit vexare do- 
 minium Gilbcrti Strangbow, et in adjutorium slbi assumpsit plures Hiber- 
 nlcos. 
 
 A. D. 
 
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 A. D. 1 1 20. Murchardus screnlssimus Lagcnie in Hibemia princeps, fidus 
 amicis, terribilis inimicis, alienis liberalls, a subditisJ propter ejus benemerltam 
 pietatem et justlciam pre caeteris amandus, obiit, (quem cives Dublin in domo 
 consilii occidcrunt ct fecerunt cum cane sepeliri ut infra) ct apud Femes sepe- 
 litur. He was not so much beloved, but his sonne Dermot M'^Morogh (for his 
 cruelty and adultcrie committed mth the wif of Morice alias Murdhich king of 
 Midia) was hated, as shall appeare in the history foUowinge. 
 
 Waltcrus fitz Richard fit primus comes Penbrochie Anno 3 1 . Hcnrici i . et 
 edificavit abbatiam de Tyntern in Wallia, cui successit Gilbertus Richardus et 
 cetera. Anno Stephani 14. 
 
 A. D. 1137. Tres soles apparuerunt coloris rubel, unde magne guerre et 
 effusio sanguinis per totam Angliam, Walliam, et Hibemiam. 
 
 Eodem anno, mense Junio, duo dracones videbantur circa littus maris in 
 australi parte Wallie invicem prosequentes effectus, sequebatur, nam Richardus 
 Marshall de Hibernia, et Llewelyn princeps Wallie, insurrexerunt, et igne et 
 gladio totam patriam usque ad Sallsburiam, et sequebatur fames. Rex Henricus 
 3. pacem cum eis fecit. 
 
 A. D. 1 137. Griffith ab Conan, princeps North wallie, natus in Hibemia ex 
 muliere Hibernica, filia regis Eblane, aliter Dublin, duxit secum ex Hibernia 
 lyras, tympanas, cruttas, cytharas, cytharizantes. 
 
 A. D. 1 142. Kadwaladcr ap Griffith ap Conan fugam recepit in Hiber- 
 niam, et conduxit pro stipendio 2000 marcarum filium O CarvelU, nomine Che- 
 rulsum capitaneum super 1000 hominibus ad bellum aptis, \ma cum spoliis 
 et predis suls, et applicuerunt apud Carnarvon in Wallia, ipse cum suis adver- 
 sariis de treuga concludens dedit Hibernicis nomine stipendii 200 animalia, 
 preter spolia quajdam, sed quia (ad pacem confirmandam) ha!c spolia restituere 
 recusarunt, Kadwaladcr Hibemicos spoliis et omnibus aliis spollavit, et pro 
 majore parte eos interfecit persequens eos usque ad naves. 
 
 A. D. 1 147. Cogganus ecclesie de Killuskin aliter Killeshin in Margge 
 Lagenie patronus flomit hisce diebus, et ut Nicholaus Magwyre testatur, scripsit 
 sresta Malachie Armachani et Bemardi Clarevallensis. 
 1 155. Tordiclach rex Conatie in Hibernia obiit. 
 
 Rodcrik Conchurk, rex Conatie, factus est Hibernie monarcha a vindicando 
 
 injuriam 
 
 J Subditus MS. 
 
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 injuriara Moricii alias Miirdhicii regis Midie, sibi illatam per Dermitium M'^Mur- 
 chardi, Lagenie regem, qui Moricio in remotis agente rapuit illius uxorem. 
 Roderik avidus regnandi (postquam proprium fratrem occidisset) petiit La- 
 geniam, expulit Dermitium, totam ejus regalitatem in Lagenia sibi assumpsit, 
 fit monarclia; peniten[tia] ductus pro nece fratris dicitur erexisse campanilia, 
 alii dicimt quod lioc fecit in signum victorie. 
 
 Laurentius O Toole, abbas sancti Kevini, consecratur archiepiscopus Dublin 
 a Gelatio Armachano, obiit i i8o. 
 
 Henricus 2. conduxit magnam classem ex Hibernia versus Britones. — sic 
 Powel. 
 
 Henrici 2. tempore Robertus fitz Stephans cum 30 militibus, 60 armige- 
 ris, et 300 sagittariis cum Mauritio fitz Gerald applicuerunt apud Bagganbuu 
 in comitatu Weixford. 
 
 At the creek of Bagganbun Ireland is lost and wonne. 
 (Lost by the Irish and wonne by the Welsh^. 
 
 Robertus et Mauritius fuere germani ex una matre, Vesta filia Risei, avia Risei 
 ap Griffin principis Wallie. 
 
 Mauritius de Prindergast nobllis cum decem militibus et 100 sagittariis ex 
 portu Milford in duabus navibus applicuit 2° die Mali. 
 
 Dermitius de horum adventu intelligens misit spurium suum [filium] Don- 
 vald cum jooHlbernlcis ad Robertum fitz Steplian et complices ut venirent Welx- 
 fordlara ; villa per tres dies Insultante, Alphonsus episcopus ibi residens villanos 
 persuadebat se suo regi reddere. Dermitius dedlt Roberto fitz Stephans Weix- 
 ford cum suis pertinencils, et Harveio de Monte Marisco 2 cantredas inter 
 Weixford et Waterford juxta littus maris jacentes in perpetuum. 
 
 Britones habentes 3000 homines ad bellum, i° Donwaldum prlnclpem supe- 
 rioris Ossorie vicerunt, et certos dominos illius loci, et Dermitio tradiderunt 
 300 capita occlsorum. Ubi Robertus Barry et Milerus multum commendebantur. 
 
 Roderik Conchur, monarclia (ut superius) cum alils regulis quamplurlmis in- 
 surrexit, et obtullt pacem sub hiis conditlonibus quod Dermot M'^Morogbo rex 
 Lagenie de fidelltate jurans monarche, haberet et reclperet omnia jura et domi- 
 nla regalia in Lagenia, quse Roderik confiscabat super fuga et demeritis ejus. 
 2° quod idem Dermot spurium filium suum Conthurum Roderlco vadiaret pro 
 pace tenenda, cui Rodericus promisit fillam suam in maritagio dare, si hsec fide- 
 
 IKISH ARCH. soc. 13. C liter 
 
lO 
 
 liter oDserventur. 3° quod Dcrmitius restitutus dimitterct Walenses ex tota Hi- 
 bernia sine spe redeundi. 
 
 Rex de Ardglas fundavit abbatiam de Mellefont, que antiquior reperitur aedi- 
 ficata in Ilibernia, preter monasterium beate Marie juxta Dublin quas incepta 
 fuit per Danos 948, at supra. 
 
 Richardus Strangbo, obtenta licentia a domino regc, prcmisit Reymundum 
 dc la Grosse cum 10 militibus et 70 sagittariis, qui applicuit apud Dunevols 
 circa 4 milia a Watcrfordia. 
 
 Richardus Strangbow cum 200 militibus ex Milfordia applicuit apud Wa- 
 terfordiam vigilia Bartholomaei et crastino, scilicet die Martis, insultanmt parie- 
 tes civitatis, a quo bis rcpulsi, tandem frcgerunt parietem sub domo quadam 
 desuper edificata, et inde obtinucrunt sanguineam victoriam. Dcinde Dermot 
 Laginensis rex et Robertus fitz Stcplian accesserunt ad Waterfordiam et nupsit 
 Evam filiam eidem comiti Strangbo, cum reversione in successione regni sui 
 post ejus mortem. Iste Strangbo dicitur fulsse constabularius Anglie et vice- 
 dominus Normannie, sed tandem propter ejus prodigalitatem impignoravit do- 
 mini vim suum pro majorl parte, et in manus regis confiscabatur, adeo quod pla- 
 cuit ei fortunam sequi. Powell dicit quod iste comes venit in Hiberniam sine 
 licentia regis, ideo teiTa et dominium suum coufiscabantur, et quod pctiit restitu- 
 tionem possessionum suarum aut licentiam conquerendi in ultra-marinis partibus, 
 sed post conquestum Lagenie oportebat eum dare domino regi, Dublin, Weix- 
 ford, et Waterford. 
 
 A. D. 1 171''. Civitas Dublin fuit capta per Strangbo, et Dermitius rex ejus- 
 dem cives crudeliter punivit ; co quod patrem suum eorum ad tunc regem, in 
 domo consilii existentem' homicidio interfecerunt, et cum cane sepeliri fecerunt. 
 
 Eodem anno, Midia et confines spoliantur per Dermitium igne et gladio, et 
 Roderik monarcha decapitari fecit Conthurum filium regis Lagenie, quia pater 
 ejus noluit expellere incursionem Britonum. 
 
 1 1 72. Clerus apud Armacli congregati concludunt conquestum Hibeniie 
 non posse refrenari, et cetera. 
 
 Dublin assalted by Hastulph qui olim presidcbat eidem civitati, et nunc 
 venit cum Norwegianis sub conductu Johannis Heywod, quos Miles Coggan 
 cxpulsit. Hcywood interfcctus et Hastulphus captus et decapidatus. 
 
 MI74 MS. 'Existens MS. 
 
II 
 
 2°. Laurentius arckiepiscopus Dublin, persuasit Rodericum monarcham et 
 Godthredum reg-em de Man, cum Hibernicis et insularibus ad obsidendam civi- 
 tatem Dublin. Donaldus filius Dermitii nuper regis Lagenie, venit ex Kynsely, 
 ac O Breyn, nec non dominus de superiore Ossoria, obsiderunt castrum de Car- 
 rig Carughornan juxta Weixfordiam, ubi Robertus fitz Stephan was betraied, et 
 cetera. Sed Cogan et Dublinenses confundebant Rodericum, et venientes per 
 passum de Polmonte confundebant O Brien et Ossorienses. 
 
 3°. Oraricus rex Midie, vocatus monoculus, venit ad Dublinium cum magna 
 hominum armatura et obsidens convincebatur per Cogan. 
 
 Henricus 2. applicuit apud Waterfordiam cum 500 militibus preter equos et 
 sagittarios, anno etatis sue 41. regni 18. et comisit Robertum fitz Stephan Right- 
 genald tui'ri, quia absque licentia sua talem conquestum adtemtavit, sed postea 
 cum eo misericorditer dispensavit. 
 
 Resres Southwest Hibernie venerunt ad Henricum 2, scilicet Dermitius rex 
 Cork, Donvaldus rex Lymricii in Cashell, et Donvaldus ac O Melaghlyn ex 
 parte boreali, venerunt ad rivulum de Sure, et submittendo se juraverunt et ex- 
 hibuerunt vadimonia de pace domini regis tenenda. 
 
 Apud Dublin venerunt Machelanus O Phelan, O Mac Chalewy, O Tuelihelly, 
 Gile M"^ Holmoc, O Cathdhessy, O Carvell de Uriell, et Orwairk de Midia. Sed 
 Roderik rex Conatie obviavit Hugone de Lacy et Willelmo fitz Adelm ambasia- 
 toribus domini regis apud rivulum de Shynien in confine Midie, et fecit homa- 
 gium et promisit tributum et sic obtinuit pacem domini regis. 
 
 1 173. Cleri Hibernie congregati in Cashell autoritate pape Adiiani et 
 Alexandri ad instantiam Henrici 2. tunc in Hibernia existentis pro reformatione 
 ecclesie et cetera. Ubi Lismorensis episcopus legatus, Donatus Cashellensis, Lau- 
 rentius Dublin et Catholicus Tuanensis. 
 
 In primis, quod inhabitantes non contraherent aliquod incestuosum matri- 
 monium ciim suis consanguineis contra canonum sanctiones. 
 
 2°. Quod eorum infantes catechizentur per parochianos in porta ecclesie ante 
 baptismum in fonte. 
 
 3°. Quod omnes, qui se pro christianis gerunt, solvant integras decimas bla- 
 dorum, catallorum, et aliorum crescentium absque deductione expensorum, et 
 diminution e. 
 
 4°. Quod territorium ecclesie et omnes mansiones sint libere et immunes ab 
 omni seculari exactione et imposltione, et in specie, quod nec reges nec comites 
 
 C 2 neque 
 
1 2 
 
 neque alii dominl Hibcrnie, aut eorum filii, aut familia, vel caputanei, vcl alii 
 aliqui temporal . . petant, aut presumant aliquo modo exigere violenter ab hinc 
 aliqua esculenta aut poculenta, aut pcmoctare infra terram ecclesie, nec habeant 
 nec petant fore ilium dietam, quam in temporibus retroactis, quarterie annuatim 
 exigere solebant ab ecclesiasticis personis. 
 
 5°. Quod homines ecclesiastici per compositionem redemptionis seu recom- 
 pensationis homicidii per consanguineos comissi, non cogantur aliquid solvere, 
 nisi probcntur aecessorii in crimine. 
 
 6°. Quod testaraentum condens faciat testamentum fieri et legi coram per- 
 sonis fide idoneis, et bona sua debitis servorum stipendii solutis dividantur inter 
 uxores, liberos, et executores adusum funeralium, seu ut defunctus™ invite tem- 
 pore aliter ordinavit, et si non habeant liberos dividantur bona inter defunctiun 
 et uxorem. Sed si habeant liberos, uxore decessa, tunc div-idantur inter se et 
 liberos equaliter. 
 
 7°. Quod funeralia defunctorum devote et solempniter teneantur et exe- 
 quantur, et omnes vicini, sive fuerint inimici sive non, habeant tempore funera- 
 lium atque exequiarum liberum accessum et recessum. 
 
 8°. Quod ecclcsia Hibcrnie sit in uniformltate cum ecclesia Anglicana secun- 
 dum usum, morem, ritum et cereraoniam ecclesie Salisburiensis. 
 
 Abusus [«c] ecclesie Hibemie sub sigillo legati fuere propositi, et confinnati 
 percommunem Synodi consensum, et postea perGelatum alias Gelasium Arma- 
 chanum priinatcm in Dublin, qui ratione sue debilitatis et senectutis ad Cashell 
 venire non poterat, ita consumptus erat senio quod lacte "STiius vacce albe ute- 
 batur tantuni, et anno sequentl oblit. 
 
 ]Maelgunus, germanus regis Northwallie, fugit a domino fratre suo in Hibcr- 
 niam, sed revertendo in Walliam ex Hibcniia capiebatur a David ap Owen 
 principem predlctum ubi plures Hibernici conciderunt. 
 
 Ororicus, rex Midlensis, interficiebatur per Hugonem Lacy, quia ille propo- 
 suit interficere eum de Lacy secum in preliando. 
 
 Lymric iterum capta per Redmundum de la Grace die Martis, cujus pre- 
 textu rex Conatie et Donaldus rex Thomonle rcnovarunt homagium. 
 
 Richardus Strangbo, comes Penbrochie, dominus de Chepsto et Ogney 
 in Anglia, comes Strangulensis, atque in Hibernia comes Marchiarum, pri- 
 mus 
 
 Defectus MS. 
 
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 mus Anglus qui primo invasit Hiberniam, obiit circa Kalendas Junii, et se- 
 pelitur in ecclesia Trinitatis Dublin coram imagine crucis, relinquens unicani 
 filiam, nomine Isabellam, quae remansit sub custodia domini regis Anglie 14. 
 annis. 
 
 Hoc anno Geraldus Cambrensis cum fratre suo Philippo Barry venit in Hi- 
 berniam ad taxandum super\'idendum seu describendum terram Hibernie, qui 
 coUegit descriptionem totius terre Hibernie ad petitionem Roberti fitz Stephani 
 avunculi sui. 
 
 Eodem anno castrum Femes fuit edificatum per filios Mauricii fitz Gerald. 
 
 Johannes Courcey, factus comes Ultonie, obtinuit victorlam quinque bellis 
 versus Ultonienses, antequam fecit quietum conquestum, scilicet bis in Down, 
 semel afFerendo praedam", semel in Uriel, et postremo juxta fontem de Iveary. 
 
 Vivianus cardinalis tituli Sancti Stepliani in monteCelio sede Apostolice lega- 
 tus, ab Alexandro papa missus, venit in Hiberniam ad significandum titvilum et 
 interresse domini regis Anglie ad insulam Hibernie, super reservatione denarii 
 Petri, et insuper ad denimciandum excommunicatos et maledictos omnes, qui 
 resisterent aut negarent dare cibarium seu victum militibus ac familiis domini 
 regis pro rationabili pretio. 
 
 Milo Coggan et Ricliardus, alias Radulfus, filius Stephani ejus gener inter- 
 fecti fuerunt inter Waterfordiam et Lism[ore] per proditorem nomine Mach- 
 thyri, qui duxit eos ad convivium. 
 
 Ecclesia cathedralis Sancti Patricii Dublin fundebatur per Johannem Comen 
 archiepiscopum, dedit eidem obventiones et convertebat earn a parochiali in Ca- 
 thedralem, et postea controversia oriebatur inter ecclesiam Trinitatis et eam, sed 
 Trinitas obtinuit preferentiam. 
 
 Abbatia de Jeripont in comitatu Kilkennie fundatur per Donatum O Do- 
 nachow. 
 
 Meiller mutavit Kildariam pro Lacia, nunc vocata Queenes Countie, ut 
 Omoordha vi et gladio subjugaret, quos Harvey in aliquam [non] potuit addu- 
 cere conformitatem pacis, eo quod ille Meiller erat vir bellicosus et sanguineus. 
 
 Johannes Lacy, constabularius de Cestria, et Richardus de Peach missi sunt 
 gubematores in Hiberniam, edificarunt castrum in Frontera id est in Forhirtha 
 Ynowland, Trysteldermot, et Tawlaught et sic deinde reverterunt in Angliam. 
 
 Circa 
 
 » Poedam MS. 
 
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 Circa haec tcmpora Mauritius fitz Gerald, justiciarius Hibemie, edificavit 
 castrum dc Sliggagh in Conatia, vivente Pholino O Concliur rege ibidem. 
 
 1227. Civilis gucrra et comotio inter Hugonem Lacy et Willelraum Maris- 
 call, adeo ut JNIidia dcvastabatur. Galfridus TrewcU opiscopus Ossoriensis. 
 
 1233. Gualtorus Lacy dominus Midie obiit, habens ij. fUias heredes scilicet 
 Margaretam uxorcm domini Thome Verdon, et Matildam uxorem Galfridi Ge- 
 ne vile. 
 
 1 234. Richardus Mariscall comes Penbrochie et dominus de Ossoria in Hi- 
 bcrnia, dire vulncratus juxta Kildar in bello de le greath heath et obiit 4° Aprilis, 
 sepelitur apud Kilkenniam, et secundum alios captivus fuit apud Lacy. Powell 
 dicit hoc fuisse anno 1231, proditione familie sue, pag. 291. ' 
 
 1242. Gilbertus Mariscallus, 3. filius Willelmi senioris, comes Penbrochie 
 factus, intravit suam Hibemicam hereditatem. 
 
 Mauritius fitz Gerald dc Tyrconell et seisatus in tota provuicia dedit dimi- 
 diam Cormaco M'^Dermot M'^Rory. 
 
 Hugo JNIapilton episcopus Ossoriensis primus fundator ecclesie Sancti Keni- 
 tii Kilkenie claruit et obiit, ut alii dicunt 1243, 1256. 
 
 1243 filitcr 1253. Hugo Lacy comes Ultonie obiit et sepelitur in monaste- 
 rio fratrum minorum Carregfergi, relinquens unam filiam heredem, quam Wal- 
 terus de Burgo desponsavit et sic factus comes Ultonie. 
 
 1245. Walterus Mariscallus, 4. filius Willelmi senioris, comes Penbrochie 
 obiit apud castrum Godrici juxta Monmoth, cui successit 5. filius Ancelmus, 
 sed quia ordine juris omisso absque licentia domini regis hereditatem intra\'it, 
 uxor sive rclicta ejus portione uxorali gaudere non potuit. Marescallis omissis, 
 5 fratres absque heredibus deccsscrunt, et hereditas eorum fuit impartita inter 5. 
 filias Mariscalli, videbis in brevi coUectione sen summa per Nicolaum cpiscopum 
 Leighlin extracta, quam causa brevitatis hie omitto et scribam in foliis inter 
 alias et cetera. 
 
 1252. Henricus 3. concessit suo seniori filio Edwardo Gasconie principi 
 Hibcrniam et comitatum Ccstrie. 
 
 1253. Johannes Geffrey miles justiciarius Hibernie, forsitan eo anno obiit. 
 1257. Mauritius filius Galfridi de Geraldinis qui primus funda^^t monas- 
 
 terium fratrum minorum de Yoghell alias vocatur Mauritius fitz Gerald. 
 
 1 246. [ ?] Galfridus de Sancto Leothegario episcopus Ossoriensis famosus obiit. 
 1246 vel 1257. ^lianus de la Zouch justiciarius Hibemie. 
 
 Vide 
 
15 
 
 Vide antea. Mauritius fitz Gerald et Plielinus O Concliur postquam vene- 
 runt ex Wallia pugnaverunt ex parte Cormaci M'^Dermot M<^Rory contra O 
 Donull Hibernicum inimicum, qui subditos domini regis in Ultonia crudeliter 
 vexavit post obitum Lacy nuper comitis ibidem. 
 
 1258. Stephanus de longe espee justiciarius Hibernie. Anno 42 Henrici 3. 
 interfecit O Nel cum 352 ejus familiaribus in vice de Down. 
 
 1 26 1. Willelmus Den justiciarius Hibernie obiit, et Johannes fitz Thome 
 de Geraldinis (Desmond) cum filio ejus interfectus, qui fuit fundator monasterii 
 de Trayly. 
 
 1262. Rogerus, episcopus Ossoriensis. Thomas, episcopus Leighlenensis. 
 1264. Mauritius fitz Gerald et Mauritius fitz Maurice (filius ejus) manuce- 
 
 penmt Richardum de Capella justiciarium et Theobald um Butler et Milonera 
 Coggan apud Tristledermot, et inde Hibernia plena erat civili guerra et como- 
 tionibus inter Geraldinos et Waltemm Bvirk comitem Ultonie, ceterosque Burkes. 
 
 1 268. Conchur O Brien fuit interfectus per Dermitium M'^Mynard. Mau- 
 ritius fitz Gerald comes Desmondie submersus inter Walliam et Waterfordiam. 
 
 1 269. Terremotus in Hibernia. Castrum de Roscoman fundatum et pene 
 edificatum. 
 
 1270. Hugo, fratrum minorum, episcopus Ossoriensis, dedit foutem Sancti 
 Kenitii monasterio ibidem. 
 
 1 27 1. Richardus Verdon et Johannes Verdon interempti et castrum Sligo 
 fundat[um]. 
 
 Pestilentia et fames in tota Hibernia, et Fulco archiepiscopus Dubhn obiit. 
 Bonifacius papa petiit decimam omnium spiritualium promotionum in Hi- 
 bernia pro tnbus annis in subsidium ad guerrandum contra regem Aragon. 
 Henricus 3. obiit. 
 
 1272. Edwardus i. 
 
 Dominus Walterus de Gene vile revertens a terra Sancta factus justiciarius 
 Hibernie. 
 
 Waterfordia fuit cremata in magna parte. 
 
 Ricardus de Burgo comes Ultonie et Eustacius le Poer miles invaserunt Sco- 
 tiam. Waltergus alias Gwalterus episcopus Leighlen. 
 
 1 276. Magna strages hominum in Glyn-burrie et Rathpipherd ; et Han- 
 loynes persequebantur O Neill in bcllo, et castrum de Roscoman captum est per 
 Hibemicos iterum. 
 
 1277. 
 
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 1277. ^ Bryen Roo regulus Tholeremundi interfectus per Tliomam de 
 Clare, etidem Thomas cum suis fuerunt inclusi per Hibemicos in Slowbanny. 
 
 Edwardus i, statutum de terris in mortuam manum alias mortmayne (anno 
 9° Henrici 3. conditum) rcnovavit, quod fuit confirmatum anno 23 Henrici 8. 
 ft cetera, multa dabantur ecclesiis. 
 
 1278. Mac Dermot de Moylargo interfecit Cothgurum O Conchur regem Cona- 
 tie, et Johannes" de Derlington [fuit] archiepiscopus Dublin, secundum Raphuell- 
 
 1 28 1. Adam Cusak junior interfecit Willelmum Barret et plures Hiber- 
 nicos in Conatia. 
 
 Fulburnus frater, episcopus Waterfordie, factus est justiciarius Hibemie. 
 
 1282. Morthaghus (Murtagh) et Arthurus M'^Murchardi interfecti in Ath- 
 lone per Pynquietum. 
 
 1283. Galfridus Leothegarius episcopus Ossoriensis secundus fundator ec- 
 clcsie Sancti Kenltii Kylkennie, et primus fundator coUegii de le comuni aula 
 in Kilkennia, qui etiam dedit cameram suam cum manso eidem aulas comuni. 
 
 Waterfordia et Dublin casualiter per igne combust : et plures Anglicani in- 
 terfecti fuerunt in Ophaley, ubi dominus Theobaldus Butler perdidit equos et 
 familiam. 
 
 1285. Johannes Stamford consecratur archiepiscopus Dublin. 
 Dominus Theobaldus Butler obiit in Arcloo. 
 
 1286. Geraldus fitz Morice captus per Hibemicos in Ophaly, strages magna 
 in Rathod (Ratoth) a qua dominus Galfridus de Gene^dle fugiendo, Geraldus 
 Dogoit ct Radulphus Petit, interfecti sunt. 
 
 1290. O Mulseaghlen rex Midie interfectus per IVFCoughlan ct W"" Burg 
 devictus apud Delon per eundem M'^Coughlan cum diversis Anglis qui fuerunt 
 interfecti cum eodem rege. 
 
 Edwardus Baliol rex Scotie fecit homagium domino Veschy deputato Hi- 
 bernie, et magna mortalitas fuit in Hibernia hoc anno et ij annis sequentibus. 
 
 1 292. Will[cl]musVeschi justiciarius Hibemie habuit xv*"' partem omnium 
 bonorum temporalium sibi concessam ad onera guerrarum supportanda, et non 
 multis dicbus postea idem Veschie et Johannes comes Kildarie contenderunt, 
 cujus causa fugit Veschie in Franciam, metu combati prefixi. 
 
 1 294. Richardus Burgh comes Ultonie et Will[el]mus Burgh capti sunt per 
 
 Thomam 
 
 " Johannem — archiepiscopum MS. 
 
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 Thomam comitem Kildarie, et comitatus Coiiatie fait devastatus, et magna fames 
 ill Hibernia, adeo quod mensura de la cronock solvebatui* pro vii*. vi''. ster. 
 et Calough O Concliur cremavit recordas, rotulos, et ventalia comitatus in castro 
 Midie, ut credo in castro de Baliatliro^ni alias Thryme. 
 
 1295. Willraus Dongsells, justiciarius Hibernie, cujus tempore altcruni 
 fecerunt viagium ex Hibernia in Scotiam minorem. 
 
 1299. Joliannes Wogan miles justiciarius Hibernie, autoritate brevis ad 
 eundum cum domino rege in Scotiam, monuit Richardum de Burgo comitem 
 Ultonie, Galfridum de Genevile, Joliannem fitz Thomas, Johannem fitz Moris, 
 Theobaldum le Butler, dominum Thomam Verdon, domimim Petrum Breming- 
 ham, dominum Eustace de Power, dominum Hugonem de Prechell, Johannem 
 de Coggan, Johannem de Barry, Walterum de LacyP, Richardum de Exceter, Jo- 
 hannem Pipai d, Walterum Limfaunt, Willmum Caddell, J ohannem de Wale, Mau- 
 ritium de Carrwe, Georgium de la Roch ut essent in Withwalovn primo Martii. 
 
 1 30 1. Lagenienses inferiores insurrexerunt et devastaverunt comitatum 
 circa castra deArcloo etRathdown, propter quod catallaeorum fuerunt confiscata 
 ad usum domini regis. 
 
 1303. Comes Ultonie cum Richardo Burgo et Eustace Power militibus intravit 
 Scotiam minorem et antequam recessit ex civitate dubbavit 34milites. Vide supra. 
 
 1304. Civitas Dublin casualiter cremata fuit in magna parte. 
 ^Slortaghus O Conchur, rex de Ophaly, et Calvaticus ejus frater fuenmt 
 
 interfecti in curia Petri Bremyngham apud Carrig in Carebria^ per Jordanem 
 Comyn filium Archiepiscopi Comyn, vide supra. Bishops then did not mary, 
 yet had children. 
 
 1305. Richardus Fleeringis (Haveringis) archicpiscopus Dublin. 
 Interemptio facta siiper O Conchur et familiam et conspiratores suos ubique, 
 
 et in specie apud castrura de Geishell in Ophaley per O Dempsy. 
 
 1 306. O Breyen rex Tuamens : et Downaldus Russe rex Desmondie fuerunt 
 interfecti per M'Carty ; et magna strages contra Petrum Butler, dominum de le 
 Butler. 
 
 Bala Moor Eustace fuit combusta et depredata per Moardhas et alios Hi- 
 bemicos, et Henricus Calf generosus interfectus, magnaque guerra seu civilis 
 factio in Lagenia et magna strages in Glynfell. 
 
 1307- 
 
 Lastir MS. q Canebria MS. 
 
 IRISH AKCU. SOC. 1 3. D 
 
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 1307. Morchodus Ballach princeps Lagenie, decapitatus juxta Mcrton per 
 David Cantown militem, et statim postea Adam Dawn interfectus, et plures 
 Anglican! intcrfccti in Conatia per O Shiell, primo Maii, et Hibeniici rebelles 
 in Ophaly dcstruxorunt castcUum de Geishell, et crcmaverunt villain de Leay. 
 
 Rex Edwardus i . obiit 7° Julii. 
 
 1308. Edwardus' 2. cepit regnare, secundum alios anno 1307, deinde fecit 
 confiscari bona et proscribere [vtc] terras et personas Teraplariorura juxta 
 directionem Romani Pontilicis. 
 
 Willmus M'^ Balthar cremavit castrum de Kennun et villam de Courcowley 
 cum interfcctionc hominum ibidem. 
 
 1 3 08, 6° J unii . In Gly ndelory alias Glynmolo wra, Johannes Wogan j usticiarius 
 Hibernie in fugam coactus per Hibernicos rebelles ibidem, et Johannes deSancto 
 Howgelyn, Johannes Northon, Johannes Brereton et plures alii fuerunt interfecti. 
 Downlowan, Typper, et plures alie villa; cremate fuerunt per eosdem rebelles. 
 
 Petrus de Gaveston cum Uteris et autoritate a domino regfe venit in Hiber- 
 niara, cui dominus rex concessit jura regalia in Hibernia, qui Gaveston inter- 
 fecit O Dcmpsies, et edificavit diversa castra, pontes et pavimenta in Hibernia, 
 et fuit revocatus in Angliam anno sequenti. 
 
 1309. Dominus Roger Mortimer cum sua uxore, scilicet filia Petri Gene- 
 vile filii Galfredi Genevile, domini de Midia, applicuit in Hibeniiam vigilia 
 Sanctorum Simonis et Jude, et intravit possessionem segnorii de Midia jure 
 uxoris sue qua; fuit hcres. 
 
 13 10. Parlamcntum apud Kildariam tentuni ubi dominus Arnoldus le 
 Power fuit acquittus a morte domini Johannis Boneville per eum nuper inter- 
 fecti, quia in defensione sua fecit et cetera. 
 
 131 1. Parlaraentum apud Kilkenniam coram Johanne Wogan justiciario, 
 iibi plures condite sunt leges, que modo non sunt in usu, et in eodem par- 
 lamento contcnderunt Rowlandus Joice ])rimas Armarhanus et Johannes a 
 Leeckis archiepiscopus Dublin, quia primas Dublin inhibuit ei ne ipse Arma- 
 chanus pontificalia in provincia Lageniensium coram eo ferri faciat, vide infra. 
 
 Richardus Haveringis Dublin archiepiscopus obiit, qui <iuinque annis tunc 
 retroactis rationc sumpnii resignavit suam dignitatem. 
 
 O Brienses de Gailgaish ad numerum 600 fuerunt interfecti per Richardum 
 
 de 
 
 ' Richardus MS. 
 
19 
 
 de Clare justiciarium, et Johannes M"" Geoghcgan intercmptus per O Molmoy, 
 et dominus O Brien in Thomond per suos sequaces necatus. 
 
 13 12. Dominus Edmundus de le Butler deputatus justiciarii Wogan obsi- 
 debat O Byrnes alias Branenses in Glyndelowra, et cogebat eos paci domini regis 
 se submittere, et anno sequenti die Sancti Michaelis, dominico videlicet die, 
 creavit 30 milites apud Dublin, et die Lune proximo subjugavit Branenses et 
 quietam fecit Hiberniam ; adco quod ab Arcloo ad Clonemoore et inde ad Ca- 
 terlogh, et inde ad Cadelli domum, et inde ad Lymritivim solebat progredi cum 
 iij. equestris tantum. 
 
 1 3 14. Hospitalierii milites Sancti Johannis Jerusalem fuerunt primo insti- 
 tuti in terra ct possessionibus Templariorum per totam Hiberniam. 
 
 Theobaldus Verdon justiciarius Hibernie constitutus, quo anno fuit rebellio 
 universalis, Hibernenses in Conatia Ultonia et Midia rebellaverunt sic quoque 
 in Momonia et Lagenia et cetera. Othoiles, Branenses et Moardhas insurrexe- 
 runt cremantes et spoliantes a Wickloo usque ad Athy, non cessando donee 
 800 eorura fuerunt interfecti per deputatum Hibernie; et in Conatia juxta 
 Athenry Burgus et Bremyngham interfecerunt Fedelmicum O Conchur regem 
 Conatie et O Kelly in Manny cum xj. millibus de eorum confederatoribus. 
 
 P^dwardus de la Bruce frater Roberti regis Scotie invadit Hiberniam, et in 
 conductu suo habuit comites de Murrey et de Mentliothe, cum domino Johanne 
 Stvward, domino Johanne de Cainbell, domino Thoma Randulph, Fergutio de 
 Andresram, Johanne Wood, Johanne Bishett, applicuerunt apud Carrekfergus, 
 et conquisierunt Ultoniam et cremaveriuit Dundalk, deinde vencrunt ad Cas- 
 trum Knock proponentes obsidere Dublin, sed Dublinenses totum suburbium 
 cremaverunt, et pontem fregerunt. Rebelles mutaverunt consilium, manuca- 
 piendo senem Tyrrell de Castro Knock ciun uxore et herede, venerunt per 
 patriam cremando Naas, Tristeldermot, Cathirlogh, Gawran, alias Balla-Gawran, 
 Callan et Cashill et tenuerunt pasca juxta Lymritium, et ibidem dictus Bruce 
 fecit se denominari monarcha Hibernie. Sed civibus Lymritii resistentibus, in 
 regressu suo exercit[us] ejus famcm ob defectum provisionis patientes, plurcs 
 eorum in itinere moricbantur, et alii quamplurcs interfecti in Westmeath per 
 Butleros et cetera ; deinde vcnientes ad Dundalk dictus novus rex inter ceteros 
 decoUatus per carnificem de coherte Dublin (called Mappas) et tunc cessavit 
 conquestus Dublin. Suddane clymlng sudane falling, an high flood a low ebb. 
 Mappas a jugler knocked him with ij. bullets in a bagg and killed him, et ipse 
 
 D 2 super 
 
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 super eum occisus et terra dabatur a rege heredibus suis 4°^ poUcs. Tlie am- 
 bassadors of Scotland expected of the King of England some dispatch, and he, 
 as is said, thought to have geven Bruce Ulster, the head of Bruce with other 
 heads after a great feast for a banquet was laid before them, confusi surrcxerunt 
 et discesserunt. The Scottis were killed by Brymyngham, and he made erle of 
 Louth, vide infra in Alexander Bignor. 
 
 1 3 15 vcl 13 16. Johannes fitz Gerald primus comes Kildarie obiit. 
 1 3 1 6. Edmundus Butler justiciarius Hibemie. 
 
 Johannes Leech alias Aleecke Dublin archiepiscopus prohibuit primati Ar- 
 machano ne uteretur cruce, pallio aut aliis pontificalibus insigniis infi-a provin- 
 ciam Dublin, quoniam Metropolitanus Dublin ut allegatum et probatum fuit 
 non cognoscat aliquam superioritatem citra pontificem Romanum ; vide supra. 
 
 1 3 16 secundum alios 1334. Milcrus episcopus Leighlen, vel alius ejusdem 
 nomlnis. 
 
 1 3 16. Robertus de la Bruce rex Scotie applicuit in Hibemia apud Knock 
 (Carreg) Fergus, ecclesiam ibidem spoliavit, cepit castrum per sursum redditum 
 custodum, cibo eorum deflciente. 
 
 Die Lune post festum Omnium Sanctorum. De iisdem Scotis 300 in du- 
 plici armatura induti, ac 300 et supra in simplici armatura preter pedestres fue- 
 
 conducti 
 
 runt per Johanncm Loggan et Hugonem Byssett mllltes V quere \_sic]. 
 
 interfecti J 
 
 1317. Rogerus Mortymer dominus Middie jure uxoris, fit justiciarius Hi- 
 bernie. 
 
 Tempestas magna et validus ventus insurrexerunt, quae prostraverunt cam- 
 panile ecclesie Trinitatis Dublin et domos quamplurimas et alia nocumenta. 
 
 Fames irrationabilis prevaluit adeo quod mcnsura tritici de le cronock con- 
 tinens 4™ galones solvebatur pro xxiij.i. 
 
 13 18. Roger Mortimer justiciarius apud Yoghill applicans audivit quod 
 Pxlmundus Butler interfecit plures Hibernicos rcbclles apud Tristledermot, et 
 juxta Balylcathan alias Loaghan de familiaribus O Morochow. 
 
 Alexander Bignor archiepiscopus Dublin, qui crigens univcrsitatem in Dub- 
 lin crcavit cancellarium et vice-cancellarium, ceterosque officiarios ad eandem 
 requisitos, primo anno sue consecrationis, vide paulo infra. Alexander Bignor 
 lit justiciarius, in cujus gubcrnatione Ed wardus Ic Bruce cum 2000 Scotis et 
 
 aliis 
 
21 
 
 aliis combinatoribus suis fuerunt interfecti juxta Diindalk, per Johannem Bre- 
 myngham comitem de Louth, carapi generalem capitaneum, et tunc conquestus 
 Scotorum cessavit, vide supra. 
 
 400 fuere interfecti in Conatia inter duos nobiles ejusdem patiie circa par- 
 vam terre portionem contendentes. 
 
 1 3 19. Pons de Kilcullen et anno sequenti pons Leiglin fuerunt edificate 
 per ^lauritium (Johannem alii dicunt episcopum Kildarie postea) Jacckis cano- 
 nicum ecclesie Kildaiie propriis expensis et Hcentia prius obtenta. 
 
 1320. Academia Dubhn cum privilegiis universitatis a Johanne 22. papa 
 erecta, Alexander Bignor archicpiscopus, ejusdem fundator, creavit iij. doctores 
 sacre theologie, videlicet Willelmum Hardily, Henricum Cogie et Edmundum 
 Bemardin, et unum doctorem decretorum nomine Richardum archidiaconum 
 ecclesie Dublin, qui postea fuit cancellarius dicte universitatis et cetera; qui ter- 
 minos suos tenuerunt et comendationes solemniter, qutequidem academia fuisse 
 revocata non reperio, imrao ut credo quod ipsa per negligentiam et propter 
 defectum exhibitionis ruit. 
 
 Johannes fitz John 2. comes Kildarie fit justiciarius Hibernie et anno se- 
 quenti Johannes Bremyngham comes de Louth fuit creatus justiciarius Hibernie. 
 
 Edmundus Butler filius Theobaldi le Butler domini de Carrig Rosscrea apud 
 London in vigilia exaltacionis Sancte Crucis, primus comes de Pincemis, qui 
 vocabatur comes de Balygawran obiit, et vigilia Sancti Martini sepeliebatvir 
 apud Balygawran predictam. 
 
 1322. Dominus Johannes Darcy miles fit justiciarius Hibernie, vide infra 
 anno 1338. 
 
 1322. In Kilkennia vixit quedam domina nobilis nomine Alicia Kettell 
 sortilega cum Petronilla et Basilla suis complicibus et asserebat ipsam habuisse 
 (\-ide rotulam P^piscopi Ossoricnsis) colloquium omni nocte cum nephando spi- 
 ritu nomine Robin Artisson, cui ipsa consuevit saci'ificare in viaregali, ix. gallos 
 rubros et novem pavonura oculos et colligere purgamenta platee in Kilkenia 
 post complet[orium] ad domum filii sui, dicendo Anglice hunc versum. 
 
 To the house of W" my sonne. 
 Hie all the welth of Kilkenie towne : 
 
 et inveniebatur in camera ejus sacramentalis hostia et nomen diaboli in eadem 
 scriptum, una cum tonna olei, cum quo (ut serva ejus fassa fuit) baculum ad 
 
 equitandum 
 
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 cquitandum ubi voluerat ungebat, delnde ista nobills ex favore fugere permissa 
 fuit, ceteri vero consolii omnia istafassi et combusti fuerunt. 
 
 1326. Edwardus 2. oblit 25 Januarii, rcgnuvit 18 annis, 6 mensibus et 15 
 dicbus. 
 
 Edwardus 3. cepit regnare. 
 
 Adam Niger de familia de O Tooles in Lagenia spiritu satanico obsessus, 
 negans incamationem Christi, trinitatem personarum et resiirrectionem camis, 
 diccnsque scrlptum esse fabulam et Mariam vite fuisse dissolute, sedcmque 
 Apostolicam errores premissos affirmasse et cetera, cremabatur in Hogges Greene 
 juxta Dublin. 
 
 Arthurus M"^ Murchardi et Henricus Traberne miles capti per Butleros. 
 
 1327. Rogerus Owtlaw prior de Kylmaynam fit justiciarius Hibernie. 
 
 1329. Johannes Bremyngham comes de Louth et Talbot de Malaghide 
 cum pluribus aliis interfecti fuerunt apud Balybregan per inhabltantcs pa- 
 trie. 
 
 Thomas Butler et plures alii fuerunt interfecti per M*^ Geoghan juxta Mo- 
 lingar. 
 
 Adam M'^Gillamore et alii Hibemici cremaverunt 80 innocentes in una 
 ecclesia cum presbytero massam celebrante. 
 
 1330. Gives burgenscs Wexfordie interfeccrunt 400 Hibemicos rebelles 
 juxta rivulum de Slayne, et anno sequenti plures rebelles Hlbernici fuenmt 
 interfecti in Kinsellay. 
 
 1 3 3 1 . Castra de Femes et Cowlaugh et Arcloo capta fuerunt per O Theo- 
 thlll qui intcrfccit Anglicas garrisones ibidem, sed anno sequenti Anglici rccu- 
 pcrarunt ca, sed castrum de Bonrath alias Bonrathe destruitur per Hibernicos 
 de Toamond. 
 
 1332. Edwardus 3. in bello de Haldownhill in Scotia interfecit de Scotis 
 8 comites, 900 milites et baronettes, 400 armigeros, et alios innumerabiles, cepit 
 que Berwick cum aliis fortalitiis. 
 
 1333. Johannes Darcy Hibernie justiciarius intravit Scotiam et interfecit 
 700 Scotos vocatos m/ sliaiikes. 
 
 1334. Milcrus episcopus Leighlen. 
 
 Johannes episcopus Leighlin cognomine Mulgan primus fundator quatuor 
 capellanorum choralium ecclesie Cathcdralis Sancti Lazeriani Leighlen, sepul- 
 tus fuit juxta tumbam ducis Gurmundi, ad stallum thesauraurii ecclesie. 
 
 1336- 
 
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 1336- Cynnus et Oldratus legistse, ^ ^ 
 
 Sanctus Roclius vel Riochus et S. Hawlerus theologi ^ 
 
 In die Sancti Laurentii plures Hibernici rebelles interfecti fuerunt in 
 Conatia per Anglos patrie. 
 
 1337. Johannes Charleton baro Hibernie. Justiciarius cum 200 Walen- 
 sibus venit in Hiberniam, erat maxima exactio eorum exclamata, unde Tho- 
 mas, episcopus Herdfordiensis, eligitur et venit Justiciarius Hibernie 1338, et 
 anno .... Johannes Darcy assignatus fuit justiciarius Hibernie durante ejus 
 vita. 
 
 1339. Edw. 3. made clayme ad totum regnum Francie tanquam verum 
 ejus dominium et hereditatem, et fecit se proclamari regem Francie. 
 
 Thomas Minoth ^ Archiepiscopus Dviblin, quere quis prior, quis 
 
 Johannes de Sancto Paulo ^ posterior. 
 
 1340. Edwardus 3. ad sinistram persuasionem emulorum revocavit omnes 
 libertates antea concessas, inde omnes tam Anglicani quam Hibernici tenentes 
 scripserunt domino regi in Angliam querulando, et negaverunt interim venire 
 ad parlamentum in Dublin. 
 
 1348. Mortalitas magna et pestilentia in Hibernia. 
 
 Translatio Sancti Fyntani abbatis patroni de Clonenagh in episcopatu 
 Leighlen per Thomam de Sancto Leothegario episcopum Midensim facta fuit, 
 et si queratur quare examinatio miraculorum et autoritas canonizationis hujus- 
 modi non comittebatur potius ordinario loci quam extraneo, resp[ondetur] quod 
 episcopus Leighlen suppllcavit Romano pontifici pro caussione [_sic] translationis 
 et canonizationis et cetera. 
 
 1350. Kymbrichus (ut puto Kenvrik Britauus) Sherman, major Dublin, 
 magnus omnium ecclesiarum provintie benefactor, legavit in suo testaraento 
 3000 markes, whether to the church or no quere. 
 
 1355. Mauiitius fitz Gerald comes Desmond, durante vita justiciarius Hi- 
 bernie, obiit, et Thomas Rocksey miles justiciarius succedit. 
 
 1357. Rex Anglie plures habuit ex Hibernia, pugnatur versus Wallenses, 
 et in Francia apud Crostea, ubi obtinuit victoriam famosam et cepit castra in 
 triumpho. 
 
 Mauritius fitz Thomas comes Kildarie justiciarius secundum Campion et 
 Stanihurst anno 1357 habuit sibi per literas paten tes domini regis in feodo an- 
 nuali 500 libras ratione sui officii, ea condicione quod ipse haberet secum in quo- 
 
 libet 
 
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 li])et bello 20 equos magnos cum cquestris electis, quorum ipsemet sit unus. 
 Hlstoriographi putant hunc numerum fore ordinarium pro quolibet deputato et 
 justiciario guerris et rebellionibus persisterc. 
 
 1361. Leonellus filius Edw. 3. dux de Clarence et comes Ultonie, justi- 
 clarius Hibcrnie transtulit scaccarium domini regis ad Catlierlough, et disbur- 
 savit 500 libras in restaurationem parietum ville, et in autumno revocatus fuit 
 in Angliam. 
 
 1366. Thomas Carrew alias Grew rejcctus fuit (et fugit in Angliam) per 
 INP Murchardum a dominio et dominico suo in Baronia de Idrona quani tenebat 
 de Margareta alias Matilda cometissa Norfolcie in comitatu Catlierlough vide ?»- 
 fra. Sed postea tempore Henrici Sydney deputati quidam senior Petrus Carew 
 miles inveniens rotulam evidentiarum et cetera venit et invenit et cetera, unde 
 compulsi componere et cetera, Sidney went to hauke et cetera. 
 
 1369. Anno Edw. 3. 44. Parlamentum in Kilkennia tentum coram Wil- 
 lelmo de Windesor justiciario in quo concessum est domino regl 3000 libras pro 
 subsidio ad guerras, et hoc anno inhibuit rex Edwardus 3. peti, colligi aut solvi 
 denarium Petri ad usum ecclesie Romane. 
 
 1370. Pestilentia magna in Hibernia adeo quod propter imensitatem mor- 
 talitatis vocabatur ab antiquis tertia Hibcrnie pestilentia. 
 
 1372. Patritius Freigney miles senescallus Lagenie, ut in registro ecclesie 
 Leighlen reperitur, in itinere suo apud Caterlough, Kilkenniam et Wexfordiam 
 anno 45 Edward. 3. tenuit curiam libertatis autoritatis [«V] domini regis, et fecit 
 inquisitionem de chartis, iisibus, libertatibus, et liberis consuetudinibus burgen- 
 sium et libere tenentium Lagenie, copiaraque sue inquisitionis decrevit concedi 
 omnibus membris corporationum, qui suas chartas aut rescriptas aut escript 
 [stc] perdiderunt in ultimis comotionibus et cetera, si petercnt et cetera. He 
 made fayre wether with a vile reach, sed anno sequenti rex propter suas exac- 
 tiones et cetera, et eo quod deposuit plures injuste ex suis domiuiis et libere 
 tenementis revocavit autoritatem, cum incarcera^at fecit eum facere restitutio- 
 nem probantlbus et juste accusantibus et imposuit super eum mulctam pecunia- 
 riam. 
 
 1373. Johannes Hussey baro do Galtrym, Johannes Richard vicecomes de 
 Midia fuerunt interfecti in Kyncaliaagh. 
 
 Galfrldus le Wale interfecit Donatum M"=Murchard juxta Caterlaugh. 
 Richardus Bookum episcopus Leighlen. 
 
 1376- 
 
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 1376- Edwardus 3. obiit. Richardus 2. succedit. 
 
 1 3 8 1 . Edmundus Mortimer comes Marchiarum et Ultonie (qui desponsavit 
 Philippam filiam et solam lieredem Leonelli ducis de Clarence) obiit in civitate 
 Cork. 
 
 1383. Pliilippus de Courtney justiciarius postmortem Mortimeri. 
 
 1385. Ricardus Vere marques Dublin creatus est dux Hibernie durante 
 vita, et omnia precepta et brevia regalia sub teste et nomine ejus emanaverunt. 
 Pestilentia et mortalitas magna vocabatur 4 pestilentia. 
 
 1390. Robertus Wadby (Weekeford) frater Augustinianus archiepiscopus 
 Dublin. 
 
 1394. Richardus 2. pro morte regine sue vexatus venit in Hiberniam circa 
 festum Micbaelis, et revertebatur circa carnisprivii festum, secundum alios se- 
 cundum festum Sancti J ohannis, ad ejus detrimentum, nam Hereford et Lancas- 
 trie et comitatus Eboraci insurrexerunt ubi plures Hibcrnici ceciderunt in bellis 
 ex utraque parte pugnantes. 
 
 1397. Rogerus Mortimer miles justiciarius Hibernie, qui jure uxoris sue 
 fuit comes Marchiarum et Ultonie, fuit cum pluribus aliis interfectus per O Now- 
 lan, O Byrne, M'= David More, Mortagh M'^ Loaghlen capitaneum turbariorum 
 M*^ Murchardi et alios suos combinatores apud Calleston ab antiquis vocatum 
 Ardabother, cujus mater ejus [? iis] deditij. calices, unum in Misheill, alterum 
 in Garghill, ut haberet ilium vol vivum vel mortuum, ad transmittendum ilium 
 in Angliam. 
 
 Richardus Northalis frater carmelitanus translatus ab alia sede in Dublin 
 archiepiscopatum. 
 
 1398. Richardus 2. rex vindicaturus mortem Rogeri Mortimer sui depu- 
 tati venit in Hiberniam cum 200 navibus apud Waterfordiam ; et eo tempore 
 coegit O Nowlan vi. homines de majori natu sue patrie domino regi dare, ad 
 voluntatem et electionem domini regis annuatim per xi. annos, et 2000 vaccas 
 juvenes quolibet anno ad 7 annos. 
 
 Post adventum domini regis Jenicho de Arthois Gaiscoyn interfecit 200 Hi- 
 bernicos in comitatu Kildarie, et Dublinenses proximo die mane interfecerunt 
 40 inimicos, et ceperunt 33, quos captivos secum duxerunt ad Dublin. 
 
 In veteri (old) Leighlen fuere 86 burgesses. 
 
 1 40 1. Johannes Drack maior Dublin cum suis civibus interfecit 400 de 
 Hibernicis inimicis juxta Bree. 
 
 IRISH ARCH. sec. 13. E Primitias 
 
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 Plimitiae fucrunt hoc anno assignatae per pontificem Romanum adeo stricte, 
 quod nullus presbyter ad beneficium admittebatur, cxcepto quod hos fructus 
 prius solverct. 
 
 Thomas dominus de Lancaster filius et locum tenens domini regis Henrici 4. 
 in Hlbernia tenuit parlamentum apud Rosse, in quo habuit visum cartanrm et 
 patcntium horum, qui a domino rege tenuenmt in capite, et inde revertebatur 
 in Angliam. 
 
 1403. Jacobus le Butler comes Ormonie, justiciarius domini regis in Hi- 
 bemia. 
 
 1404. Cliarta libertatis Hibernie et statuta Kilkennie fucnmt confirmata 
 autoritate parlamenti coram comite Ormonie justiciario Hibernie, die Sancti 
 Vi talis raartyris ; et exercitus domini regis interfecerunt 100 de Hibemicis ini- 
 micis juxta Kilcaa, clero pro bono successu pugnantium in processione oranto 
 apud Tristeldermot. 
 
 1405. Jacobus Buteler comes Ormonie justiciarius Hibernie obiit apud 
 Bellyngan alias Belligard, ut credo. 
 
 1407. Jacobus Butler lilius predicti comitis premortui fuit justiciarius 
 Hibernie. 
 
 Hugo M'^Adam M'^Gillamor falsus et ethnicus Hibemicus inimicus in Ul- 
 tonia creraavit et destruxit 40 ecclesias, et manucaptum habuit Patritlum Savadg, 
 
 quem crudeliter tractavit, unde vulgo appellabatur et iste Hugo M*^Adam 
 
 M'= Gillamor non din postea petere beneficium sanctuarii compulsus, sed in ec- 
 clesia seu monasterio minorum apud Knockfergus sine misericordia et reverentia 
 fuit interfcctus, que \^sic] ipse et pater antea cremaverant. 
 
 1408. Stephanus Scrope fuit deputatus Thome Lancaster locum tenentis 
 domini regis in Hibernia, et obiit apud Casteldermot. 
 
 Comes Ormonie, comes Desmonie, et prior de Kilmaynam cum aliis gene- 
 rosis et capitaneis invadeiites terrara M"^ Murchardi pugnavenant in vicem in 
 campo, prime Hibernici inimici ferociter resistere proposuerunt, et animose 
 pugnaverunt, sed demum eis devictis comes Ormonie prosequendo viriliter 
 in fine cepit O Nowlan cum duobus filiis suis, et pluribus aliis, quos duxit cap- 
 tives ad dominum deputatum. But these O Nowlans were afterwards quite 
 extirped. 
 
 O Carvell et 800 de familia ct confederatoribus suis fuenmt interfecti per 
 comitcm Ormonie et alios Anglos in suo conducto apud Callan, et sol dicebatur 
 
 expectasse 
 
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 expectasse post naturale tempus et occasum sui, et lucens donee Angli equita- 
 inint vj. milia in prosecutione inimicorum puorum. 
 
 1409. Civitas Dublin recepit primo gladium regale ab Henrico 4. et tunc 
 creatus est maior cum an tea gubernabatuv per prepositum, in cujus probatione 
 Dublinenses tenent adhuc suum antiquum sigillum cum superscriptione preposi- 
 ture, et inde pluribus annis tunc sequentibus regebatur ilia civitas per maiorem 
 et ij. balivos, sed illos balivos Edward. 6. mutavit in ij. vicecomites. 
 
 14 10. Comunitas Anglie petiit Henricum 4. regem ut auferret temporalita- 
 tem a spiritualibus (which trebled England and Ireland, and especially the cler- 
 gie of both landes, that they called all their wittes together to defend them selfes) 
 allegando quod terra regni Anglie inordinate et negligenter per ecclesiasticos 
 devastata, sufficeretpro creatione et sustentacione xv. comitum, 6200 armigerum, 
 et 100 domibus elemosinariis et hospitalibus, atque exhiberent domino regi 
 annuatim preterea ad sumptus guerrarum supportandos 20 millia librarum, ita 
 quod quilibet comes haberet in feodo annuali seu redditu annuo 3000 marchas, 
 quilibet miles 1 00 marchas, et 4 carrucatas terre arabilis, quilibet armiger 40 
 marchas, cum ij. carrucatis terre arabilis, et quodlibet hospitale 100 marchas ; sed 
 cleri obstiterunt. Lanquet vel Cooper. 
 
 Fames matma in Hibernia. 
 
 Prior de Kilmaynam justiciarius Hibemie duxit secum 1500 turbarios, et 
 fecit viagium in patriam Byrnensium, ubi plures amisit cum Johanne Dorpatrik 
 generoso, quorum turbariorum quidam revolverunt ad inimicos. 
 
 1412. Henricus 4. obiit. Henricus 5. succedit. 
 
 OConchur de Ophaly multum nocuit Mi die, et captivavit 160 Anglos una 
 
 die. 
 
 1413. Johannes Stanley miles fit justiciarius Hibernie. 
 
 14 14. Dominus Johannes Talbot de Sheffield creatus locum tenens Hiber- 
 nie, et Robertus Talbot brevi obiit, qui suis expensis fabricari fecit parietes ville 
 Kilkennie. 
 
 ArchiepiscopusDublin fuit justiciarius Hibernie, cujus tempore ipso episcopo 
 et clero ad ejus mandatum in proccssione apud Tristeldermot, pro statu et bono 
 successu, et celeri expeditione pugnantium contra Hibernicos orantibus, 3000 
 Hibernici inimici fuere interfecti juxta Kilcaa, per comitem Ormonie generalem 
 armi et exercitus et suos Anglicos. As his father did a litle before. 
 
 Thomas episcopus Leighlen cognomine Fleminge frater ordinis Augustiniani, 
 
 E 2 in 
 
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 in ecclesia Sanctl Trinitatis Dublin icccpit ex parte domini regis homaglum et 
 fidelitatcm al) Hugone O Nell in prcsentia eplscopi Ossor: quo tempore Ipse 
 Willmus translatus fuit in Casslllens : archiepiscop : qui Thonaas obiit Leighlen 
 et juxta voluntatem suam scpultus fult in Kilkennia apud ordinem profes- 
 sionls sue. 
 
 1 4 1 5 . Patritius Borrett episcopus Femensis obiit, et sepultus est Kenlis. 
 
 14 16. Stcphanus Fleming archlcplscopus Armach obiit. 
 
 14 1 8. Consilium regale apud vlUam de Naas Lagenle, ubi concluserunt pro- 
 sequere Hibernicos inlmicos. 
 
 14 1 9. 4 Idus Mali. Donatus More Cavenagli M'' Murchardus principalis 
 omnium Lagenlcnslum capitaneus, quem nominarunt rcgem Lagenle, fuit cap- 
 tus et in Angllam missus, ubi per 7 annos fult ballnatus apud fabrum aurarium 
 in Turre, et postea dimissus et destinatus in Hibemiam sub certa conditionc. 
 
 Of Balachlllchovan that scept of Cavenaghs of the house of M*^ Morrgh 
 toke their names. 
 
 Thomas le Butler germanus comltis Ormonie (qui vocabatur Thomas clau- 
 dus) ivlt in Franclam jussu regis Anglic, habens in suo conductu 100 equites 
 Hibernicos ad suam electionem, qui appllcans in Franclam versus Roone crema- 
 vit patriam in suo itinere, et depredavit et predam tarn magnam duxit in cam- 
 
 pum regis erga noctem, adeo quod ubi solvebant mane x*. pro 
 
 habuerunt quarterium seu armum bovile pro i*. de nocte, sed post captionem 
 civltatis Ucet ipse prius intravlt secundum quosdam ibi obiit, secundum alios 
 in Anglla per venenum mulleris, post reversimi. 
 
 1420. Jacobus le Butler comes Ormonie, locum tenens domini regis in Hl- 
 bemia, occidlt pluies de familia et terriblli exercitu Ymoardha juxta Athy, et 
 sol preter naturam dlcltur et cronlcls scribitur stetissc per spaclum ilj. hora- 
 rum ita ad mlratloncm plurium et miraculose, et donee comes vicit hostes in 
 marisco nibeo (redd foord) alias prato rufo de Athy, nec grunna alias quack- 
 myre ibi obslstlt, quin equites justlciaril currebant in prosccutione hostium sicut 
 hostes. 
 
 Arthurus more iM''Murcharda, ferax rebellis, cujus potentle omncs Lagenien- 
 ses resistere non potuenmt, fuit dcmum per eimdem comitcm Ormonie devic- 
 tus, et mitigatus adeo quod sese et suos confederatores grade regali submisit. 
 
 Thomas comes Desmond et Momonie obiit, et sepultus In clvitate Rothma- 
 gens: vide infra in hac paglna annum verum. 
 
 Comes 
 
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 Comes Ormonie deputatus regis doma\4t O Bryens de Gailgaish, Burgos et 
 M^'Bannanos in campo seu bellico conllictu juxta Sagelome, deinde Moardhos, 
 O Geoghagan, Mahonn et omnes Hibernicos inimicos in tribus mensibus, et 
 durante hoc itinere et viagio ipse deputatus fecit ubique clerum cujusllbet patrie 
 esse in solemni processione, bis qualibet hebdomada, orantes pro bono et felici 
 statu ejusdem nobilis et aliorum pugnatorum contra dictos suos adversaries cete- 
 rosque reipublice dissipatores, utinam clerus bujus temporis Deum sic precibus 
 devote invocarent, ut pugnatores crederent victoriam a Deo obtineri. 
 
 142 1. Henricus 5. obiit. Henricus 6. succedit. 
 
 Richardus O Hiden archiepiscopus Cassiliensis accusatus in parlamento per 
 Johannem Geest episcopura Lismor et Waterfordie super 30 articulis, quorum 
 primus quod noluit promovere aliquem Anglicum ad beneficium in sua diocesi. 
 Alius articulus quod sic consuluit alios comprovinciales episcopos et cetera. 
 
 Henricus 6. cepit regnare ultimo Augusti, et mortuo Delpliino Carolo rege 
 Francorum, fuit proclamatus rex Francie. 
 
 Johannes Swanige primas Armachanus obiit. 
 
 M*' Mahonn multum nocuit Midie et Anglicanis cremando, spoliando, ne- 
 cando, et depredando, donee fuerat devictus per deputatum et Dublinenses, qui 
 animose et feliciter pugnaverunt. 
 
 1433 \yide 1419]- Thomas claudus le Butler miles deputatus domini regis 
 in Hibernia, obiit in obsidio civitatis Roone in Francia. 
 
 1438. Thomas Crawley archiepiscopus Dublin revertens a consilio Basil 
 autoritate Eugenii pape, in Auglia obiit. 
 
 1439. Richardus Talbot archiepiscopus Dublin. 
 
 1445. Henricus 6. rex Anglic (comite SulFolchie suadente) duxit in uxoreni 
 Margai'etam filiam regis Sicilie, et repudiavit filiam comitis Arminachie, cum 
 qua primo contraxerat, cuj us causa amisitNormanniam, et sui subjecti insurrex- 
 erunt, et finaUter depositus cum sua regina et filio primogenito fugiebat. 
 
 1448. Duces Eboren : et Lancaster contenderunt circa coronam, ita quod 
 quilibet eorum prosuo interesse excitai-unt principales Anglos in Hibernia suos 
 amicos respective, qui AngHci ceciderant in bello de Wakinfield, et sequenti 
 anno in bello de le Mortimers cross in Wallia, quo Hibernici in absentia Anglo- 
 rum assumentes vires et opportunitatem insurrexerunt in Hibernia, et obsiderunt 
 ubique castra et fortalicia, que tenuerunt usque ad tempora Henrici 7 et 8. 
 
 1449. Dux Eboracensis venit in Hiberniam cum magno scutto et exercitu 
 
 ad 
 
3° 
 
 ad pacificandos Hibernicos ct rebelles, qui nihil cstimablle potuit agere, nec 
 parum[? pacem] concluderc, nec Hibernicos vlncerc. 
 
 1458. Mac Geoghagan crcmavit Rathmore cum pluribus villis et villagiis 
 in Midia, que est hercditas Plantagenet ducis Eboracensis. 
 
 1459. Dux Eboracensis comes Sarum, et comes Warwik bellaverunt contra 
 regcra Anglic juxta London in Bloore heath sed in fine dux fugit in Hiber- 
 niam, alii in Caliciam. Et anno sequent! (1460) reversus est in Angliam et 
 fecit clamcn [stV] in coronam in parlamento ; deindc fuit interfectus cum filio suo 
 comite Rutland apud Wakefield per Margaretam reginam et suum excrcitum, 
 et sic rex liberatur e carcere. 
 
 Edward comes Marchianim et heres ducis Eboracensis debellavit contra 
 Henricum 6. et post aliquam intcrfcctionem rex fugit cum regina ct filio, cum 
 regnasset 38 annos, ad duccm de Angeo, et iste Edwardus cepit regnare nomine 
 Edwardus 4. et regit 22 annis. 
 
 1462. Thomas fitz John de Geraldinis qui prirao oneravit comitatum 
 Waterfbrdie, Corken, Kery, ct Limrici impositionibus Hibernlcalibus, scilicet 
 mercuniis, carragiis, pedagiis, et customis obiit, alii tamen dicunt quod ipse 
 comes propter has exactiones et outragias contra paccm domini Regis, et leges 
 Hibernie fuit decapitatus apud Droghcda per Johannem Tiptot comitem Wor- 
 cestrie deputatum domini Regis in terra Hibernie. Vide pedegrew Desmondie 
 quod non fuit comes, pater turn vivebat et cetera. Usurping upon his father, 
 and going to Tredaff, he gave him his curse, and said, thou shalt have an ill end. 
 
 Milo Roch episcopus Leighlen Momonie natus inter bardos numeratur pro 
 omnibus instrumentis musice et rythmis. 
 
 1464. Paulus 2. papa creatus, avarus, crudelis, injuriosus, immisericors, rudis 
 nec doctus, nec aliquo favore voluit prosequi doctos. 
 
 1469 [1487]. Lambertus nomine Peter Pcrchiade Warwik coronatusrex in 
 ecclesiaSancteTrinitatis Dublin, cujus causa bellum de Storke vulgariter Martin 
 Swarthsficld, in quo Thomas fitz morice de Geraldinis capitaneus Hibernicorum 
 cecidit cum comite Lincolnic ct pluribus nobilibus — Lanquet. 
 
 1470. Rowlandus Eustace deputatus Hibernie obiit. 
 
 1 47 1. Thomas fitz Morice comes Kildarie justiclarius Hlberine anno Ed- 
 wardi 4'' dicitur concessisse privilegium seu licentiam de la mortmayne ecclesie 
 Sancti Kenitii Kilkennie et coUegio vicar choralium ibidem. 
 
 Henricus 6. per ducem Clarencie, comites Warwick, Penbrochie et Oxford 
 
 dicitur 
 
3» 
 
 dicitiir restitutus, et Edwardum 4. fiigisse in Flandriam ad ducem Burgundie — 
 Lanquet. Sed postea Edward iste rex ratioiie sui fratris ducis Clarencie venit 
 ad London et cepit Henriciim regem in palatio episcopi reginam et Edwardum 
 principem, quem interfecit, et regnavit rexHenricus in turre per tempus et tunc 
 executus sepeliebatur in Scliordich. 
 
 1473. David episcopus Ossoriensis scribitur liabvusse autoritatem domini 
 regis Edward 4. per literas suas patentes ad excommunicandos et censurandos 
 omnes contradicentes et injuriantes vicarios de la communi aula. 
 
 1475. Edward 4. navigavit ad ducem Burgundie, qui liabuit secum in ex- 
 ercitu suo 1000 Hibernicos, et antequam venerunt rex Francie dedit regi Ed- 
 wardo pro bono pacis 75000 nobilia auri purl, et promisit tantum ei annuatim 
 pro 7 annis. 
 
 1476. Donaldus Fuscus Kavenagh qui se vocari regem Lagenie permisit 
 obiit. alii anno 1478. 
 
 1483. Edward 4. obiit, relinqucns Edwardum principem et Richardum 
 ducem Eboracen : et Edward princeps cepit regnare sub nomine Edward 5. et 
 obiit eodem anno. 
 
 Richardus dux Glocestrie avunculus cepit regnare et regnavit nomine 
 Richard 3 . et regna\at 2 annis, interfectus ab Henrico 7 . 
 
 1485. Henricus comes Richmond nomine Henric 7. regnavit et duxit in 
 uxorem Elizabetham filiam Edvvardi 4. et sic domus Eboracen : et Lancastren : 
 unitae et cetera. 
 
 1494. Edwardus Poynyngis deputatus domini regis in Hibernia plura 
 fecit statuta, et leges renovavit, et ordinationes regni in pristinum cum sua 
 charta confirmavit. 
 
 Hue usque dicit autor meus Thaddeus ; Nicolaus episcopus in libro flavo 
 Leighlen Annotationes fecit. 
 
 Octavius Armachanus totivis Hibernie primas addmittens appellationem 
 David Curreyn decani et capituli Leighlen, a sede metropolitica factam, inhi- 
 buit episcopo Leighlen ne quod attemptaret in prejudicium decani et capituli 
 appellantium circa suas distributiones quotidianas ; per sententie instrumentum 
 apparet episcopum comparuisse vigore inhibitionis et citationis emanate in consis- 
 torio generali crastino Sancti Patricii in cancello divi Laurentii, presente Wil- 
 lelmo priore Sancti Johannis baptiste de Drogheda 3° Novembris anno predicto 
 coram eodem primate in presentia domini Radulphi prions domus Hospitalis aut 
 
 ecclesie 
 
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 ecclesie Sancti Laurentii extra muros ville predicte, rcverandi Johannis episcopi 
 Midensis, Thome Lang clericl, autoritate apostolica imperiali notirli puplici 
 curie predicte conslstorle registrarii et scribe principalis, atquc Thome Move 
 apparitoris et preconis, Nlcolai prebendaril de Hillard economi sjndinque et 
 prolocutorls capituli atque procuratoris contra eundem episcopum in hac parte 
 destinat. 
 
 Vide antea quomodo Archicpiscopus Dublin in parlainento Kilkennie 
 inhlbct Armachano ne ferret ante se in sua provincia aliqua episcopalia 
 insignia. Notwithstanding out of the pro\'ince and in province he was 
 above him. 
 
 Nlcholaus Magwyr eplscopus Lelghlen vulgariter nuncupatur M*^ Syr Moris in 
 Odrona Lagenie in Hibemia natus apud Tulmogiraan, Sacerdotis spurius, 
 Thaddcus Dowlingc comendes him for hospltalitie and the number of cowes 
 that he grased without losse (so well was he beloved) upon the woodes and 
 mountaines of Knockbrannen, Cumnabally, Aghcarew, Ballycarew and Moil- 
 glas, but Thomas Brown his chaplen who also wrote his lif, reporteth that he 
 studied in Oxford, although it was but 11. yeres and 3 months, yet he profitted 
 so much in loglk, philosophie, the seven llberall sciences and dlvinltie that in 
 his latter days he seemed to excell, he was made prebendarie of Hillard, where 
 he preached and delivered great Icamlnge with no lesse reverence, beinge 
 in favor with the King and nobilitie of Lcnister, who together with the deane 
 and chapter elected him b[lshop] of Lelghlen to succeed Milo then lately de- 
 ceased. This Nicolas had obtained of the bishop of Rome litres of provision 
 and was consecrated b[lshop] being but 30 years of age, to the great losse of 
 the church he died anno 15 12 having begonne many learned workes and death 
 preventing his purpose he cold not finish any savinge one cronicle sumariely 
 by him collected and is found in tlie handes of many in written hand laten, and 
 so farre Dowlingc and Browne. 
 
 1495. Maxima perturbatlo in Anglia et Hibemia ex parte Perkin Warbeck 
 qui sc nominavlt Richardum Eboracensem fillum Edwardl regis. 
 
 1496. Thomas comes Surrey et domlnus Nevell cum magno exercltu fue- 
 runt mlssi hue in Scotiam raajorem ab Henrico 7. qui Scoticos domuenint. 
 
 1497. Katerlna filla Ferdinandl regis Hispanic fecit [? fuit] nupta principi 
 Arthuro prlmogcnito Hcnricl 7. qui in pasce sequenti obllt. 
 
 1500. Margareta filia Henrici 7. nupta fuit Jacobo regi Scotie. 
 
 1501 . 
 
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 1501. Henricus filius Henrici 7. constitutus dux Eborura, locum tenens 
 domini regis in Hibernia, qui postea fuit Henricus 8. 
 
 1503. Elizabeth regina obiit in puerperio in turre London. 
 
 1504. Bellum de Knocktoa per Geraldum comitem Kildarie, deputatum 
 Henrici ducis Eboracum locum tenentis Hibernie, contra Willelmum Burg de 
 Bellathclare in Conacia, O Bryen, M"^ Morogh, O Carvell, et alios boreales. Iste 
 collis de Knocto situatus est vi. milliaria a Galway et ij milliaria a Ballagh- 
 clare ; de quo versus. 
 
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 1506. Maria filia regis Henrici 7. nupta fuit Carolo archduci Austrie et 
 principl Castelle, et anno sequenti rex Castelle obiit. 
 
 1508. Henricus 8. anno etatis 18 cepit regnare. 
 
 1509. Geraldus comes Kildarie ordinis garterii miles qui Hibernicos gu- 
 bemavit 3 3 annos obiit, et sepultus in capella beate Marie infra ecclesiam Trini- 
 tatis Dublin. 
 
 1 5 10. Walterus archiepiscopus fuit cancellarius et justiciarius Hibernie, 
 obiit hoc anno, sic Nicolaus scribit. 
 
 Hue usque Nicolaus Leighlen. Sic Thaddeus (vide supra) scribitur. 
 15 1 2. Maurus Nemorosus (Mauritius Woodkerne) rex Lagenie obiit. Will- 
 mus archiepiscopus Dublin. 
 
 1 5 14. Insurrectio magna in Hibernia. 
 
 Maria soror regis Anglie nupta fuit Ludovico Francorum regi. 
 Petras Butler M"^ J ames, interfecit Jacobum nigrum (Duff) le Butler bas- 
 tardum comitis le Gawran inter Donmore et Kilkenniam, secundum alios anno 
 
 1497- 
 
 15 15. Maria regina de Suffolk nupta fuit duci de Suffolk. 
 
 Jacobus Butler comes Ormonie insultabatur per cives Dublin in manerio 
 archiepiscopi de la Sanct Sepulchres, unde legati sunt destinati a Romano 
 pontifice ad puniendam presumptuosam violationem sanctuarii Sancti Patricii 
 Dublin. 
 
 Thomes Halser Anglus Leighlen episcopus, utriusque juris doctor, protono- 
 tarius apostolicus, pro Anglia Scotia et Hibernia in basilica apostolorum de 
 urbe Rom : cujus vicar generalis erat abbas de Duysk nomine Carolus Cave- 
 nagh cancellarius ecclesie Leighlen per octo annos, et episcopo mortuo custos 
 fuit spiritualitatis per vi, annos. 
 
 IRISH ARCH. SOC. I3. F IS'?- 
 
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 1517- Magnum gelu in Hibemia et Anglia adeo quod curras equorum ive- 
 runt super flumcn de Tamesey [in] Anglia et super rivos Hibernie. 
 
 15 19. Thomas Howard comes Surrey qui postea fuit creatus dux Norfol- 
 chie cum 200 de regis roba vcnit locum tenens in Hibcmiam, et quia magna 
 perturbatio fuit in Hibemia, comes Kildarie fuit officio deputati depositus ; et 
 iste comes Surrey reduxit comitem Desmondie et alios Hibcrnicos ad bonam 
 conformitatem, deinde ipse Surrey cum multitudine Hibemicomm transnavi- 
 gavit in Franciam, cujus quidem reccssum habitantes (Angli) Hibernie qucru- 
 labant multum propter ejus integritatem, bonam naturam, et modum gubema- 
 tionis, secundum alios venit anno 1521 et recessit anno 1523. 
 
 1522. Geraldus Kevanagh M*^ Mochardus, qui se fecit vocari regem Lage- 
 nie et ducem Laginensium obiit, sepultus Leiglilen. 
 
 Mauritius episcopus Leighlen cognominatus Deoran in Laxia jam vocata 
 Queenes County in Leinster frater minorum professus, in Theologia controver- 
 sia et conversatione eloquentissimus predicator, castus a nativitatc, episcopa- 
 tum regebat annum cum dimidio [et] ij mensibus ; interfectus fuit per Maurum 
 (Mauritium) Cavenagh archidiaconiun dioceseos inter Kilneyn et Cloaghruish, 
 eo quod dicti archidiaconi et aliorum redarguit perversitatem et corrigere pro- 
 posuit. Iste episcopus in jocando ejus advcntu quibusdam persuadentibus du- 
 plicari subsidium cleri respondit : iMellus radere oves quam destruere. 
 
 David Curren rector de Urglilen, curieque consistorii Leighlen advocatus 
 ac capellanus choralis in ecclcsia cathedrali ibidem, hue usque in memorandis 
 suis, sic Thaddcus. 
 
 1523. Thomas fitz Water alias Radcliflf comes Surrey dux generosonun 
 exercitus Anglic habuit in suo conductu de Hibemia plures ad amia homines 
 aptos in expcditioncm Scotie, et ibidem crcmavit 37 villas et transcurrebat ab 
 orientali marchia usque in occidentem depredando et nccando. 
 
 Fames magna in Hibernia et Anglia, ita ut Henricus 8. tenuit festum nata- 
 litiorum in patria. 
 
 1524. Geraldus comes Kildarie juratus deputatus, qui Maurum (Mauri- 
 tium) Guer id est " sharp" interfectorem episcopi Deoran predicti cruci affigere 
 curavit, at the head of Glan Reynald by Leighlen, et ibidem intralia ejus fecit 
 comburi, anno 1525, vide supra. 
 
 1325. Robertus Talbot de Pollygard, amicus Petri Butler comitis Ossorie, 
 fuit interfectus juxla Ballymore per Jacobum fitz Gerald, pro eo quod suspec- 
 
 tus 
 
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 tus erat esse kalendarlum actorum coinitis Kildarie quo accusaretur, propter 
 quod Butlerii stomacliabantur, adeo quod multa sequebatur regni perturbatio. 
 
 1526. Carolus Cavenagh filius Mauritii juvenis et Mevina hibernice 
 Mean mater ejus cum aliis in Castro de Droymreagh juxta Killanna, modo 
 vocata Oldabbey, creraabantur per Cahlr M<= Arte de Pobuevaty. 
 
 1528. O Neil Ultoniorum capitaneus et O Conchur cum suis confederatis 
 insurrexerunt contra Petrum Butler comitem Ossorie, qui Ultonienses multum 
 nocuerunt marchis Midie, et cetera. Sed Waterfield in recordo ecclesie scribit 
 talem comotionem fuisse 1532. Uli etiam invasenint Uriell spoliando et de- 
 predando totam patriam. 
 
 Geraldus comes Kildarie contra O Carvell insurgendo et castrum de Byrre 
 insultando fuit dire vidneratus ex castro in latere suo per buletum, cui quidam 
 turbarius jocose dixerat, " domine cur gemis tarn dire, cum ego semel habui iij 
 buletos in me, et vides domine quam sanus sum ad presens ?" — cui comes mite 
 respondit (in agonia) quod liuuc etiam buUetum vellet ipsum in se una cum 
 ceteris habuisse. 
 
 Matlieus episcopus Leiglilen agnomine Saimders natus juxta Drogheda, 
 mirifice comendatur a Waterfieldo. 
 
 1529. Petrus Butler comes Ossorie, Hibernie deputatus, incepit accusare 
 comitem Kildarensem coram consilio in Anglia, vide ha)c omnia in Waterfieldo 
 qui eo tempore vixit. 
 
 1530. Hibernici ferociter insurrexerunt in absentia comitis Kildarie ad 
 tunc in Anglia commorantis, qui dominia dicti Kildarie, et plures patrias in 
 circuitu invaserunt, unde rex transmisit eundem comitem Kildarie et W™. 
 Skevington, qui rebellium ferocitatem cum celeritate reformarunt. 
 
 Cahir M'^ Gerald Cavenagb communiter vocatus M'^Nehenyne crostey, the 
 Sonne of the ill-begotten doughter, that is, a bastard, fuit factus M° Murchardus, 
 qui Mauritio Nemoroso Lagenie successit. 
 
 Edictum in parlamento emanavit quod nuUus in regno Anglic aut Hibernie 
 obtineret aliquod rescriptum aut beneficium ab ecclesia Romana. 
 
 1532. Parlamentum coram Geraldo comite Kildarie convocatum, quo finite 
 in Angliam coram consilio accusatur, convocatur et in torrim London comitti- 
 tur ubi finem vite imposuit. 
 
 1534. Thomas fitz Gerald vocatus Thomas serious, in Irish etida orsidan, 
 for that his followers had silk frienges about their head peeces, baro de Ophaly, 
 
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 cnstos gladii rcgalis, dcputatus patris sui, justlciarius Hibemie, restituit gla- 
 dium in presentia consilii ct loco ubl gladium recepit, et denunclavlt ibidem 
 rebellionem fieri publico et omnium subditorum regis bona et catella proscribi, 
 deinde fecit capi Joliannem Allen archiepiscopum Dublin et interfici apud 
 Tartayn. 
 
 Comitatus Kilkennie combustus fuit et depredatus per eundem Thomam 
 fitz Gerald. 
 
 W"". Skcffington miles venit in Hibemiam cum exercitu militum, deputa- 
 tus obiit apud Kilmaynam. — Stowe. 
 
 Dublinenses confusi fuerimt et interfecti per Thomam fitz Grerald tam 
 apud Kilmaynam quam apud Newgat, et vicum Sancti Thome incendio cre- 
 mavit. 
 
 1535. Nicolaus Moscraw et Hamerton cum exercitu militum tunicis albis 
 cruces rubeas gerentibus induti, interfecti fiierunt per eundem Thomam apud 
 Clontarff. 
 
 Dominus Leonardus Gray venit in Hibemiam et protexit Thomam fitz 
 Gerald cum suis avunculis, Jacobo, Waltero, Olivero, Johanne et Richardo, qui 
 postea fuerunt omnes super Uteris domini deputati executi, et decollati apud 
 Tiburun. Secundum Stowe 3 Februarii 1536. Et ipse Leonardus Gray postea 
 decoUatus apud Tourehill anno sequenti, vide alibi. 
 
 1536. Religiosaj domus et monasterla Hibemie fuerunt autoritate parla- 
 menti concessa domino regi ad numerum 376 domuum, quorum valor annuatim 
 extendit [ad] 32,000 libras, et bona mobilia eomm ad sumam 100,000 libr; et 
 numerus hominum religiosorum in eisdem domibus professoram, et inde ad 
 tunc rejectonim cxccdit 100,000, ceterisque religiosis abbatias suas et monas- 
 teria sursura reddentibus voluntarie, certe pensiones fuerunt quoad vixerunt 
 concesse. 
 
 1539. ONeil rebellavit et oriabat [«"c] fere xx. niillia in Mldia et English 
 pale, sed postea retractus per Leonardum Gray deputatuni. 
 
 Estus et ariditas admirabilis aridos fecit rivos magnos, ita quod comuniter 
 darent dimidium grani pro niolituia alterius, et multi obierunt febre et fluxu, 
 et hiems sequcbatur adeo frigida gelu et nivc, quod bestie inumerablles pre 
 frigore moriebantur, et ultimo pestis extirpavit inumerabiles. 
 
 Maneria ducis Norfolchie et Talbot comitis Waterfordie et Salop aliorum- 
 que absentium et non habitantium super suas possessiones in Hibernia con- 
 
 fiscabantur 
 
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 fiscabantu]' in manus domini regis autoritate parlamenti apud Dublin, coram 
 Leonardo Gray, 22 Mali. 
 
 Matheus Saunders episcopus Leigblen. 
 
 Milo Baron prior de Inisdiog episcopus Ossor. 
 
 1 54 1. Keadan alias Keadagli M*^ Congall M<^ Mealaghlen, rex ut vocabatur 
 Laxie, interfectus fuit juxta Kylneyn per Donaldum Cahil in festo Sancti 
 Petri. 
 
 Leonardus Gray deputatus lioc anno executus eo quod private tenuit fami- 
 liaritatem cum Thoma Fitz Gerald rebelle, et eo quod promisit servitores ejus 
 convertere ecclesiam catliedralem de Down in stabulam equorum, et quia non 
 punivit suos propter spoliationem subditorum, et eo quod non eque ministravit 
 jiistitiam postulan[tibus]. 
 
 Henricus 8. proclamabatur rex Hibernie. 
 
 Antonius Sanctleger miles fit deputatus Hibernie, et per concordatum sub 
 suis aliorumqvie de consiliis manibus in modiun charte magne decrevit pro liber- 
 tate et immunitate ecclesie Hibernicane, videlicet, quod maneria principalia 
 episcoporum Hibernie, mansusque rectorum et vicariorum ubi habitant ipsimet, 
 atque mansiones et glebe ecclesiarum valore annuo decem marcarvun ster : non 
 excedentes, fuisse et esse libera et exempta ab omnibus oppressionibus et im- 
 positionibus aliisque patrie usibus, coyney et livery, ut patet in archivis ecclesie 
 Leighlen. 
 
 1542. ONeil, ODonel, Magwir, O Kahan, M'^Gwyllyn, O Hanlan, cum 
 suis complicibus Hibernicis rebellarunt et spolianmt boreales subditos usque 
 ad Navan, et auferebant predas quam maximas, et anno sequenti submiserunt 
 se gratite regis, una cum O Bryen famoso rebelle. 
 
 1543. Willmus Brereton miles fuit justiciarius Hibernie qui per tempus 
 sui regiminis laudabiliter et pacifice gubernavit Hiberniam. 
 
 Magna perturbatio, crudelis et seditiosa factio in Hibcrnia. 
 Georg Brown archiepiscopus Dubhn. 
 
 1544. Hibernici ad numerum 500 sub gubernatione Poer et Finglas 
 transmissi in preparationem ad Bolen. 
 
 Hugo (Con) O Neil dominus in Ultonia creatus fuit per Henricum 8. comes 
 de Tyron, et Matheus ejus bastardus creatus Baro de Dunganon. 
 Donatus O Bryen creatus comes de Clanriccard durante vita. 
 
 1545. Cahir Cavenagh M'^ Art de Poolmohown alias Polmonty baronetus 
 
 de 
 
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 de Sancto Moling habuit victoriam de Gerald M'^Cahir de Gerrowcheyll juxta 
 Hacketston ubi ceciderunt dc Bymen ct aliis in Idouagh loo, et tarn multi 
 cx altera parte. I wold the rest of the rcbell." had been so bestoned. 
 
 Jacobus Butler comes Ormonie et Leonax comes de Downbrittan in Scotia 
 minore et Johannes Travers miles cum 3000 Hibemicis navigaverunt a portu 
 de Skyrres et applicuerunt in Scotia, ubi nihil memoria dignum fecerunt. 
 
 1546. Jacobus Butler comes Ormonie et Ossorie obiit in Holbome, Lon- 
 don, 18 Octobris, sepultus in ecclesia Sancti Thome de Acres; cor ejus dela- 
 tum ad ecclesiam Sanctii Kenitii Hibemie. 
 
 Monasterium fratrum Carmelitarum Leighlcn pontis in Lagenia Hibemie, 
 erat in manerlum aulamqiie regis et municipura edificatum, ad usum capitanei 
 Coghlen et regiorum militum ct garrison pro defensione patrie versus Hiber- 
 nicos rebelles. 
 
 1547. Henricus 8. moritur. Edwardus 6. succedit. 
 Edwardus 6. fecit ij. vicecomites in Dublin ubi antea balivi. 
 1550. Johannes Bale episcopus Ossorie. 
 
 Robertus Travers regali autoritate episcopus Leighlen, cruel, covetous, 
 vexing his clergie, fuit dccretum in cancellaria Hibemie contra ilium ex parte 
 communitatis ecclesie Leighlen. 
 
 1553. Edwardus 6. obiit, si causam queras lege Cardanura de genituris. 
 Jana filia Hcnrici ducis Suffolcie, uxor domini Gilford Dudley filii ducis 
 
 Northumbric, dcnunciabatur regina Anglie vigore cujusdam statuti per eun- 
 dem Edward regem ad persuasionera ducis Northumbrie editi, brevi fuit deca- 
 pitata. 
 
 Maria Henrici 8. filia. 
 
 1554. Philippus princcps Hispanie applicuit in Southampton in festo 
 Sancti Jacobi, et brevi matrimonium cum regina contraxit, et stilus comm ab 
 heraldo proclamatus et cetera, et stilus Caroli imperatoris illius patris in Gield- 
 hall, London scriptus et cetera. 
 
 Charles the fyft his stile set up in golden lettres in Guyldhall London. 
 
 Charles the fyft by favour and assent of devine mercy and grace elected 
 cmperour of the Romaynes, Alway Caesar, kinge of Almain, kinge of Castill, 
 kinge of Aragon, kinge of Leones, kinge of Naples, kinge of Cicillia, kinge of 
 Jerusalem, kinge of Hungarie, kinge of Dalmacia, kinge of Croacia, kinge of 
 Navarr, kinge of Granat, kinge of Morcia, kinge of Gien, kinire of Algarb, kinge 
 
 of 
 
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 of Dorden, kinge of Cordubia, kinge of Valencia, kinge of Sevil, kinge of Solet, 
 kinge of Corse, kinge of Algezirs, kinge of Gibraltar, kinge of Minorica and 
 Majorica, kinge of tlie Islands of Canarie, kinge of the Antisles in Inde, kinge 
 of tbe fyrme land of the ocean seas now called New Spaine — Archduke of 
 Austrich, duke of Burgonie, duke of Lotharingia, duke of Brabant, duke of 
 Lunbrock, duke of Luxenbrock, duke of Callabrie, duke of Athens, duke of 
 Nigripont, duke of Wiertingbick, duke of Gesder — Erie of Flaunders, erle of 
 Hasburge, erle of Marcellon, erle of Artois, erle ofBorgon, erle palatine of 
 the Mores, erle of Holland, erle of Zeland, erle of Ferret, erle of Ryburge, erle 
 of Rosillon, erle of Brittaine, erle of Marnier, erle of Zetaine — Lantgi'ave of 
 Alasy — Marques of Borgon, marques of Cristan, marques of Gocia -Prince of 
 Suetia, prince of Austrich — Lord of Frisland, lord of Slavonia, lord of Portua, 
 lord of Bisky, lord of Molyn, lord of Salses, lord of Tripolis, lord of Meth, 
 and lord of Lordships in Asia and Affrica. 
 
 Petnis Carew miles baro de Odrona in Hibernia et dominus de Mochonus — 
 court alias de Mohounstreet in Anglia propter insurrectionem apud Devon- 
 shire inceptam, audiensque infortunium Henrici ducis Suffolcie et postea deca- 
 pitati cum suo filio et filia Jana fugit in Franciam. Sed postea revertit et 
 reconciliabatur Phillippo et !Marie. 
 
 Elizabetha filia Henrici 8. tun i comissa, postea ducta ad Woodstock. 
 
 Cardinalis Polus restitutus et cetera, recepit supplicationes omnium in par- 
 lamento congregato quod penitieret eos de scismate et cetera, supplicarunt ut 
 absolvantur et cetera, ille eloquenti oratione acceptabilis penitentia et cetera 
 ostensa comissione a sede apostolica omnes absolvit et cetera, fit cantatio, Te 
 Deum laudamus et cetera, et hoc apud Romam audito processiones fiebant pro 
 vera conversione Anglicoiiim et Hibernicorum, et papa concessit per bullam 
 remissionem omnibus de hoc vere gaudentibus. 
 
 Georgius Brown archiepiscopus Dublin, Edwardus Midensis, Johannes Bale 
 Ossoriensis episcopus, Robertus Travers Leighlen episcopus, et Thomas Darey 
 aliique prelati et beneficiati fuere depositi per Georgiimi Dowdall primatem 
 Armachanum, et Thomam Lewrous alias Leurus episcopimi Darensem, primos 
 et principales comissarios et ceteros eormn coUegas, et custodia spirituaHtatis 
 Dublin concessa fuit Thome Lockwood decano Sancte Trinitatis Dublin, et 
 custodia spiritualitatis Leighlen comissa fuit decano Canell et archidiacono et 
 cetera, forgett not D. Kenell [in margine\ ■ 
 
 Thomas 
 
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 Thomas Fylay alias Fighill minorum frater autoritate apostolica episcopus 
 Lclghlen. 
 
 1555. Hugo Curren archiepiscopus Dublin vocavit provinciale concilium, 
 ut pretendebat pro reformationc religionis. 
 
 Thomas fitz Water alias Radclif comes Sussex deputatus Hibcmie, vide 
 viagium comitis Sussex et Thome comitis Ormonie in Scotiam. 
 
 Thomas Leighlen episcopus, ut patet in archivis ecclesie et libro concilii 
 regalis. 
 
 1557. Congal Oge rex Lacie, apud pontem Leighlen cruci affixus. 
 
 1558. Johannes Othownery frater, episcopus Ossoriensis pre dolore amis- 
 sionis thesauri sui per fures, mortuus. Fures confitebantur et executi. 
 
 Maria regina absente Philippo obiit, et multi nobiles cum ea. 
 
 Elizabeth regina 1 7 Novembris, religio reformata et corrupta pecunia extlr- 
 pata, vide sequens in statutis Hibernie. 
 
 1560. Thomas comes Ormonie et Geraldus comes Desmonie rebellarunt 
 in loco vocato Aghemoy infra comitatum Tipperaric, ubi plurlbus ex parte 
 Desmonie intcrfectis, comes Geraldus fiiit vulneratus, et captivus in Angliam 
 per Ormond transmissus. 
 
 1566. Edwardus Randolf armiger locum tenens domini regis in Ultonia 
 et coUanellus mille pedestrium a Bristollia arrivavit in Knockfergus, et inde 
 venit in Dyrrhy apud Laughfoil ubi fortificavit et 12° Decembris sequente in 
 conflictu vicit O Neil, qui cum eo pugnavit, et non postea diu vixit. 
 
 1567. Shane O Neil secundum Campion vocans se O Neil et dominum 
 provincie Ultonie in diversis conflictibus intcrfecit 3500 dc exercitu Henrici 
 Sidney deputati Hibernie, ac ctiam de Scoticis 300, dcmum suam conmatrem 
 in adulterio publice et notorle tenens, manus violentas in presbytenun qui una 
 cum sociis sibi dixit non licere ei (in confessione) uxorem alterius tenere, et in 
 ultima ejus etate crimina leste majestatis comittere et cetera, tandem compul- 
 sus ad inimicos fugere, quorum patres ipse occiderat, illi in ebrietate ejus 
 cultro cum inciderunt, et interfecerunt, at the key of Ybuyg. 
 
 1568. Whereas before mention was made of Thomas Carew Baron of 
 Odronc banished, and Sir Peter Carew knight claiming of liim, at this tyme 
 old Sir Peter Carew, (ha\nnge adopted as is said young Sir Peter Carew) 
 entered upon the possession of Odrone, and made the Cavenages compound 
 with him, the which he quietly enjoyed savinge that Morice Oge Kavenagh 
 
 of 
 
41 
 
 of Garrawcheill per fas et nephas tenuit suas terras vulgariter vocatas fyv-mart 
 Landes absque titiilo vel interesse. 
 
 1569. Lagenienses omnibus enormitatibus dediti, quidam dixere Peter 
 Carew his wanes, alii dixere Edmund Butlers warres. Cavanenses hie diu- 
 boli contra Petnun Carew. 
 
 1570. Adam Loftus archiepiscopus Dublin. 
 
 Lysac O Moardha (O Moore) sonne to Keadau Rough domini de Lasia 
 factus capitaneus ab Henrico Sidney deputato servivit animose contra Ultoni- 
 enses, sed postea (canis ad vomitiun) inventus in proditionibus, convictus sus- 
 pensus fuit ad pontem Leighlen. 
 
 Thomas Butler comes Ormonie venit ex Anglia, pacificavit rebelles, Robert 
 Mylles of the saf conduct et cetera) cepit fratrem Edmvmdum Butler, tradidit 
 eum deputato, quern Hibernenses fecerunt, statuerunt facere eum, capitaneum 
 suiun generale, Petro Carew principaliter resistente, sed e carcere aufugit, et 
 omnia ei condonata. 
 
 157 1. Magna clades in Conatia que vocatur belluin de Srughill inter 
 
 Johannem gubernatorem illius provincie de Conaught et 
 
 Conaghtinenses, ubi ceciderunt plures ex utraque parte, sed gubernator pre- 
 valuit. 
 
 Scientia imprimendi et cudendi literas et characteres lingue Hibernice 
 incepit in Hibernia in civitate Eoblana (Dublin) per Johannem Kerna thesau- 
 rarium ecclesie Sancti Patricii et Nicolaum Welsh Ossoriensem episcopum. 
 Daniel, episcopus Leighlin leased out all in maner. 
 
 1572. Willmus fitz Williams deputatus Hibernie. 
 
 1575. Rebellio Ketingensium sub Petro Keting eorum capitaneo sed brevi 
 confusi et occisi. 
 
 Thomas comes Ormond rejecit omnes impositiones Coney et Lyvery ex 
 patria sua. 
 
 Pestilentia magna per Weixfordiam, Dublin, Naas, Athie, Carloug ac 
 Leighlin-Pontem, ita quod civitas Dublin preter castra tantum fuit quasi 
 depopulata, ut fenmn et herbe nascebantur in plateis et valvis ecclesi- 
 arum. 
 
 Henricus Sidney iterum deputatus, post discessum W". fitz Williams. 
 
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 No terme after Trinities day held at Dublin, pretcxtu infectionis epidimias 
 pestis, et archicpiscopus Dublin per totara provinciam fecit litanias et suffragia 
 diebus Dominicis Mercurii et Veneris fieri contra pestem. 
 
 Petrus Carew senior miles vir libcralis, strenuus, potcns in armis, stature 
 fortis, licet senex animosus tamen et belliger ex juventutc, qui fortiter stravit 
 plures in conflictu dc Knockcownla de confedcratis rcbcUium, conquestor 
 Odronie in Lagenia et Corkybeig in Desmohown, dominus de Mohownsottrie 
 in Anglia, obiit apud Rossam-Pontis in Hibemia, et sepelitur in ecclesia Tri- 
 nitatis apud Waterfordiam ab antiquis vocatam Manapiam, qui in ultimo ejus 
 eulogio per quinque episcopos approbato et insinuate confirmavit statum ffeof- 
 amenti, per eum antea ad usum Petri juvcnis Carew et Georgii Carew (modo 
 presidentis Momonie) et ad usum aliorum in Anglia ad numerum 1 5 persona- 
 rum in toto ; volens ut invicem secundum ordinem insertum succederent, si 
 absque masculis de corporibus legitime sic procreatis vel procreandis successione 
 dicesserint. 
 
 1576. Walter Dc\tox comes Essex, comes Marshall in Hibemia obiit 
 Dublini, corpus in Angliam et cetera. 
 
 1577. Rory (Oge O Moor) O Moarda fecit magnam comotionem immo 
 maximam in Lagenia, quam tenuit per xviij. annos, quo tempore currente crema- 
 vit Naas, Athy, Caterlough, Leighlin-Pontem, Rathcoyl, Tassagard, Kilbrid, 
 Bayllymorc, Killy, et Rathmore in Lagenia (cepit treacherously Henricum 
 Havington et Alexandrum Cosby) ; cremavit cantredam de Duthy-Fhelly do- 
 minium O Carvelli, Athlone in Conacia, interfectus (whomc the Irish rimers 
 extol like him that burnt Diana his temple') fuit per Bernardum M'^Gilpatrick 
 dominum dc Upper Ossorie — vide infra. 
 
 Moris M'' Lasy M"^ Conyll dominus dc Merggi (ut ille asseniit) et baronis 
 dc OMergi successor, cum 40 hominibus de sua familia post confederationem 
 suam cum Rory OMoardha et super quadam protectione, interfectus fiiit apud 
 Molaghmastyn in comitatu Kildarie, ad eundem locum ob id propositum per 
 magistmm Cosby et Robertum HarpoU, sub umbra servitii accersitus coUu- 
 sorie. Harpoll excused it that Moris had geven villanous wordes to the breach 
 of his protection. 
 
 Eugcnius M"^ Hugh O Dempsie de Clonago\Tia miles ac dominus dc Glyn- 
 molyra fuit in castro suo ibidem interfectus per Lysac M^ Neill y Moardha. 
 
 Georgius 
 
 ' Interlined. 
 
43 
 
 Georgius Ackworth legum doctor, et Robertus Garvey legura baccalareus, 
 destinati ad clerum Hibernicum titulo magistrorum ad facultates pro refor- 
 matione cleri, sed ecclesie potlus perturbatio sequebatur. 
 
 1578. Henricus Sidney deputatus fecit siispendi 15 de familiaribus Calva- 
 tin M*^ Tyrrell capitanei eorum, eo quod extortionem comiserunt circa cibum et 
 pecuniam. 
 
 Willelmus Gerrard armiger cancellarius Hibernie iterura venit [in] Hiber- 
 niam. — vide quae scripsit et cetera, et pone eum inter scriptores. 
 
 Willelmns Drury miles (post discessum Henrici Sideney) factus justiciarius 
 Hibernie, moriebatur Waterfordie, corpus ferebatur Dublin, vibi per plures dies 
 insepultum remanebat, tandem expensis domine regine in ecclesia Sancti 
 Patricii inhimiatur. 
 
 1579. Jacobus fitz Moris Geraldinus cum filio prioris de Rhodes et Spa- 
 niardis ad numeriun 700 armatis, applicuit in portu de Coan Thymore et fece- 
 rimt fortalicium apud Down Moyre in Moimster, ubi postea per dominum 
 Gray fuerunt interfecti, paucis exceptis qui capiebantur. 
 
 Henricus Davels armiger, vicecomes comitatus Cork occisus apud Trally 
 per Johannem Desmond. 
 
 Willelmus Pellam miles fit justiciai'ius. 
 
 1580. Arthurus Gray de Wilton miles garterii fit deputatus Hibernie 
 duxit magnum exercitum ad fortalitium dc Down Moyr, interfecit Italos et 
 Hispanos, 4°'' generosis exceptis quorum unus erat filius prioris de Rhodes. 
 
 Magna strages et clades per Ketingos apud Leighlen et apud Glynmalowra 
 per Byrnenses, ubi Petrus Oge miles, baro de Odrona, Franciscus Cosby armiger 
 de Stradbally, Laxie capitaneus turbariorum ligiorum, magister Moor, et Ber- 
 nard fitz Williams capitanei, fuerunt interfecti una cum aliis quampluribus 
 generosis estimationis per Feagh M<=Hugh, et alios rebelles. 
 
 Feagh M"' Hugh de Balyncorr in CowLraynald, per procurationem Mauritii 
 Oge Kavenagh de Garrovcheill, cremavit x. villas in High Odron, et captivos 
 secum adduxit Magistrum Wood et Rogenim Hooker decanum Leighlen et 
 alios Anglicanos. 
 
 1582. Johannes O Desmond miles captus fuit una cum Jacobo na Dty- 
 
 noyll per capitaneum Smith executioni apud demandatus. 
 
 Thomas comes Ormond transfretavit in Angliam vma cum cometissa. 
 
 G2 1853. 
 
44 
 
 1583- Gcraldus fitz James comes Desmonie captus in cabano suo in sylva, 
 et dccoUatus per Tliomam Kelly — and this Kelly was hanged at Tyburnc. 
 
 Mackworth capitaneus cradelis interfectus per Oconors de Ophaly, mem- 
 brum gcnitale co vivcnte extraxemnt, eumque excoriaverunt. 
 
 Thomas comes Ormonie reversus est in Hiberniam et factus est trubernator 
 provincie de Mounster, et Desmond generalis. 
 
 Johannes Perrot miles deputatus Hibernic pacificavit regnum. 
 
 1588. Anglicani undertakers Geraldo comite Desmonie mortuo venerunt 
 f'amiliis ad inhabltandum. 
 
 Willelmus fitz Williams (post discessum Johannis Perrot) fit deputatus, eju8 
 tempore classis navalis Hispaniomm magnum habuit infortunium, preter in 
 AngHa perdit et cetera. In Hibernia. In Tyreconill infra Ultoniam super lo- 
 cum de Loghfoyl una na\n3 et 1 100 homines. In Conatia apud portum de 
 Sligo 3 naves magne, 1500 homines. In Tyreowley, i navis cum 400 
 hominibus. In Cleerc Island i navis cum 300 hominibus. In Fynglassy una 
 navis et 400 homines. In Ophlagartys contrey, 1 navis cum 200 homini- 
 bus. In Irrish ij. naves sed homines ex ilUs in alias naves fugerunt. In 
 Gallaway bay, 1 navis et 700 homines. In Momonia super Shenan, ij. naves 
 et 600 homines. In Trally, i navis et 24 homines. In Deishy, i navis et 
 500 homines. In Desmonia i navis 300 homines. In rivo de Shenan i navis 
 quam ipsi proprictarii crcmarunt fugiendo in aliam. Summa — Naviiun 17. 
 Homines 5394. — Vide compositio Turlagh Leoge et Hugonis Tyron. in turrc 
 London, et cetera. 
 
 1589. Richardus IMercdith episcopus Leighlen. 
 
 Orwairk rebellavit, fugit in Scotiam, captus in AngUani mittitur, et termino 
 Michaelis apud Tiburne suspensus, 1591. 
 
 1 59 1. Arthur Achnan Kavenagh pensionarius domine regine captus in 
 Monelly, et cum 7 do suis sociis fuit suspensus juxta Caterlough. 
 
 1592. Thomas comes Ormond applicuit in Hibernia. 
 
 1594. Willelmus Russell miles deputatus Hibemie, 20 Augusti ivit cum 
 exercitu contra Ultonienses. Johannes Noris miles. Birnenses et M^Mahown 
 interfcccrunt in uno conflictu 300 homines exercitun Henrici Duke militis, qui 
 victualia ad Iniskillen adferrc proposuerant. 
 
 Thomas dominus Burgh deputatus, obiit apud Newry. Wony APRory, in 
 Lease, etcetera. Thomas Noris miles justiciarius uno mense. 
 
 1598. 
 
45 
 
 1598- Adam Loftus et Robertus Gardiner justiciarii. Thomas comes Or- 
 mond locum tenens exercitum. 
 
 1599. Robertus Essex comes locum tenens domine regine. Adam Loftus 
 et Georgius Gary deputati Essex in ejus absentia. 
 
 1600. Carolus Mountjoy deputatus Hibemie mense Martii. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Page. 
 
 A. 
 
 ABerfraw, Comitatus 5 
 Abloicusvel Abloickus, Rex Dub- 
 lin, o 
 
 Hibernie, 6 
 
 Ackworth, Georgius, 43 
 
 Adelstanus 5 
 
 Adrianus, Papa 11 
 
 Affricatius 3 
 
 Aghcarew 32 
 
 Aghemoy, 40 
 
 Alexander, Papa, 11, 13 
 
 Allen, Johannes, Archep. Dublin, . . 36 
 
 Alphonsus Episcopus, 9 
 
 Andressam, Fergutius de, 19 
 
 Angeo, Dux de, 30 
 
 Anglia, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 13, 18, 24, 28, 30, 32, 
 33, 34, 33, 39, 41, 44 
 Anglie Regina, ....... 6, 38 
 
 Rex, 7, 13, 23, 29, 30 
 
 Anglicana Ecclesia, 12 
 
 Anglicani 18, 43 
 
 Undertakers, 44 
 
 Anglicorum Conversio, 39 
 
 Anglorum Conquestus, 3 
 
 Page. 
 
 Anglus, Thos. Hasler, Episcopus Leighlin, 33 
 
 Aragon, Rex 15 
 
 Arcloo, 16, 19, 22 
 
 Castrum de 17 
 
 Ardabother, 25 
 
 Ardglas, Rex de, 10 
 
 Armach, 10 
 
 Archiepiscopus, 28 
 
 Armachanus, 7, 32 
 
 Gelatius, 9 
 
 Malachias, 8 
 
 Octavius 31 
 
 Primas, 20, 39 
 
 Primas, Johannes Swanigi, 29 
 
 Rowlandus Joice, ... 18 
 
 Arminachie Comites, 29 
 
 Arthois, Jenicho de, 25 
 
 Arthur us, 4 
 
 Arthurus, Primogenitus Henrici VII, . 32 
 
 Artisson, Robin, 21 
 
 Athenry, 19 
 
 Athlone 16,42 
 
 Athy vel Athie, . . . , 19, 28, 41, 42 
 Augustiniani Ordinis Frater, .... 27 
 Austria, Archdux de, 33 
 
48 
 
 Page. 
 
 B. 
 
 Bagganbun, Creek of, 9 
 
 Bala Moor Eustace, 17 
 
 Bale, Johannes, Episcopus Ossoriensis, 38, 39 
 
 Baliathroyn, alias Thryme 17 
 
 Baliol, Edwardus, Rex Scotie, ... 16 
 
 Ballach Morchodus, Princeps Lagenie, 18 
 
 Ballacbillchovan 28 
 
 Ballaghclere, vel Bellathclare, ... 33 
 
 Balla-Gawran, 19 
 
 Ballycarew, 32 
 
 Ballymore v. Bayllymore, 42 
 
 Balybregan, 22 
 
 Balygawran, Comes de, Edmundus Butler, 21 
 
 Balyleathan alias Loaghan 20 
 
 Balyncorr, Feagh M'Hugh de, . . . 43 
 
 Baron Milo, Prior de loisdiog, ... 37 
 
 Barret, Willielmus 16 
 
 Barry, Johannes de 17 
 
 Milerus, 9 
 
 Philippus, 13 
 
 Robertus, 9 
 
 Bartholemus, aliter Bastolenus, ... 1 
 
 Basca, 7 
 
 Basilla 21 
 
 Bastolenus, 1 
 
 Belinus, 2 
 
 Bellathclere in Conacia, 33 
 
 Bellyngan, alias Belligard 26 
 
 Bergon, filius Neptuni 1 
 
 Bernardin, Edmundus, 21 
 
 Bernardus, vulg. Brian Bowrow, . . 6 
 
 Berwick, 22 
 
 Birnenses (vide Byrnenses), .... 44 
 
 Bignor, Alexander, 20 
 
 Arcbiepiscopus Dublin, . . 20, 21 
 
 Bishett, Johannes, 19 
 
 Blethyn Convyn. Rex Wallie, ... 7 
 
 Bloore heath, 30 
 
 Page. 
 
 Bonifacius, Papa, 15 
 
 Bonnevile, Johannes, 18 
 
 Bonrath, Castrum de, 22 
 
 Bookum, Richardus, Episcopus de Leigh- 
 
 lin, 24 
 
 Borrett, Patritius, Episcopus Femensis, 28 
 
 Braubant, Willielmus, Episcopus, . . 7 
 
 Branenses 19 
 
 Brechus, Simon 2 
 
 Bree, 25 
 
 Bremestbury, 5 
 
 Bremyngham (vide Brymingham), . . 19 
 
 Johannes, Comes Louth, 21, 22 
 
 Petrus, 17 
 
 Brennus, 2 
 
 Brereton, Johannes, 18 
 
 Willielmus, Justiciarius, . . 37 
 
 Brigida 3 
 
 Bristollia, 40 
 
 Britannia vel Brytannia 2, 5, 7 
 
 Britanie Rex, Edwallus Voel, .... 3 
 
 Britones 9 
 
 Brydericus, 6 
 
 Brown, George 37 
 
 Arcbiepiscopus Dublin, 39 
 
 Thomas 32 
 
 Bruce, Edwardus de la 19 
 
 Robertus, Rex Scotie, . . 19, 20 
 
 Brutus 2 
 
 Brymingham (vide Bremingham), Earl 
 
 of Louth, 20 
 
 Burchardus Gurmundi tcl O Gorma- 
 
 gheyn 4 
 
 Dux Lagenie, .... 3, 4 
 
 Burgh vel Burg, Richardus, Comes Ul- 
 
 tonie, 15, K), 17 
 
 Thomas, Deputatus Hibernie, . 44 
 
 Walterius de 14 
 
 Willielmus, 16, 33 
 
 Burgundie Dux, 31 
 
49 
 
 Page. 
 
 Burgus 19,29 
 
 Burk, Walterus, Com. Ultonie, ... 15 
 
 Burkes, 15 
 
 Butler, Edmundus, ... 19, 20, 21, 41 
 
 Comes Balygawran 
 
 et Pincerna, 21 
 
 Deputatus, ... 4 1 
 
 his warres, . . .41 
 
 Justiciarius Hibernie, 20, 
 
 26 
 
 Jacobus, Comes Ormonie, 28, 33, 38 
 
 Petrus, Comes Ossorie, ... 34 
 
 Deputatus Hiber- 
 nie, 35 
 
 . Dominus de le Butler, . 17 
 
 Thomas, 22 
 
 Claudus, Deputatus Hi- 
 bernie, 28,29 
 
 Theobaldus 15, 16, 17 
 
 Dominus de Carrig 
 
 Rosscrea 21 
 
 Butlerii, 19, 22, 35 
 
 Byrnen, 38 
 
 Byrnenses vel Birnenses, . . . . 43, 44 
 
 BjTnensium Patria 27 
 
 Byrre, castrum de, 35 
 
 Byssett, Hugo, 20 
 
 C. 
 
 Cadelli Domus, 19 
 
 Caddell, Willielmus 17 
 
 Cadogan ap Blethyn 7 
 
 Calf, Henricus, 17 
 
 Calicia, 30 
 
 Callan, 19,26 
 
 Calleston, 25 
 
 Calphurnus, 3 
 
 Cambell, Johannes, 19 
 
 Cambrensis {vide Giraldus), .... 3 
 
 IRISH ARCH. SOC. 1 3. H 
 
 Page. 
 
 Cambria, 7 
 
 Campion, 23, 40 
 
 Canel, vel Kenell, Decanus, .... 39 
 
 Cantown, David, 18 
 
 Cantuarensis Archiep. Lanfranc, . . 7 
 Capella, Richardus de, Justiciarius, . . 15 
 Caracticus, Rex Britannorum, ... 4 
 
 Caradocus, 3, 4 
 
 Cardanus, 38 
 
 Carebria, 17 
 
 Carolus, Archidux Austria, Princeps 
 
 Castellse 33 
 
 Imperator, 38 
 
 Carew, Georgius, 45 
 
 Mauritius 17 
 
 Peter's warres, 41 
 
 Petrus, 24, 40, 41 
 
 Petrus, Baro de Odrone, . . 39 
 
 . Sir Peter, 40, 42 
 
 alias Grew, Thomas, . . . 24, 40 
 
 Carlough vel Catherlough, 19, 24, 41, 42, 44 
 
 Carmoon Montes, 7 
 
 Carnarvon, 8 
 
 Carrickfergus, vel Carrekfergus, . 2, 19, 20 
 -Monasterium Fratrum Mi- 
 nor um 14 
 
 Carrig Rosscrea, Dominus de, Theob. 
 
 Butler 21 
 
 Carrig in Carebria 17 
 
 Carrig Carughornan castrum, ... 1 1 
 
 Carolus, Rex Francie 29 
 
 Cashell, 12, 19 
 
 Cassiliensis Archiepiscopus, .... 28 
 
 Richard O'Hi- 
 
 den, 29 
 
 Episcopus, 11 
 
 Casteldermot, 26 
 
 Castelle Rex, 33 
 
 Castrum Knock 19 
 
 Catholicus, Archiep. Tuamensis, . . 11 
 
50 
 
 Page. 
 
 Cavenagh, Carolus, 35 
 
 Maurus, vel Mauritius, . . 34 
 
 M'Gerald, Cahir, vocatus 
 
 M'Nehenyne Crosty 33 
 
 Cavenaghs, Scept of, 28, 40 
 
 Celestinus, Papa, 3 
 
 Cestria, Constab. de, Johannes Lacy, . 13 
 
 Coraitatus, 14 
 
 Cham 1 
 
 Charles fyft, his style 38 
 
 Charleton, Johannes, Justic. Hib., . . 23 
 
 Cherulsus, 8 
 
 Chepsto, Dominus, Strangbo, ... 12 
 
 Clanmelaghlen in Basca, 7 
 
 Clanriccard Comes, Donatus O'Bryen, . 37 
 Clare, Richardus, Justic. Hib. ... 19 
 
 Thomas de, 16 
 
 Clarence, Dux, Lionel, ... 25, 30, 31 
 
 Justic. Hib. . . 24 
 
 Clarevallensis, Bernardus, 8 
 
 Cleere Island, 44 
 
 Cloaghruish, 34 
 
 Clonagovna 42 
 
 Clonemoore 19 
 
 Clonenagh, 23 
 
 Clontarflf, vel Cluntarf, 6, 36 
 
 Coan Thymore, Portus de 43 
 
 Cogan, vel Coggan, 8, 1 1 
 
 Johannes de 17 
 
 . Miles, 10, 13, 15 
 
 Cogie, Henricus 21 
 
 Comyn, Archiepiscopus 17 
 
 Dublin, Johan- 
 nes 13 
 
 Comyn, J or dan us 17 
 
 Conan, 6, 8 
 
 Conacia, vel Conatia, 3, 14, 16, 17, 19, 21, 23, 
 
 33, 41, 42, 44 
 
 Conacia Rex, 8, 12, 19 
 
 Cothgurus O'Conchur, . . 16 
 
 Page. 
 
 Conaught, 41 
 
 Conaughtinenses, 41 
 
 Conchur, vel Concha, 3 
 
 Roderic Monarcha, .... 9 
 
 Congal Oge, Rex Lacie, 40 
 
 Congellach Rex Hibernie, 5 
 
 Cooper, 27 
 
 Cork, 25,30 
 
 Rex, Dermitius 11 
 
 Vice Comes, Henricus Davels, . 43 
 
 Corkybeig, 42 
 
 Cormachus, Monarcha Hibernie, et Episc, 5 
 
 Cosby, Alexander, 42 
 
 Franciscus, Capitaneus I.iaxie, . 43 
 
 Courcey, vel Coursey, Johannes, ... 3 
 
 Johannes, Comes Ultonie, . . 13 
 
 Courcowley, Villa de, 18 
 
 Courtney, Philippus, Justiciarius, . . 25 
 
 Cowkaggrig de Omoardha, .... 7 
 
 Cowlaugh, . 22 
 
 Crawley, Thomas, Archiep. Dublin, . 29 
 
 Crostea in Francia, 23 
 
 Cukeman, 5 
 
 Cumnabally 32 
 
 Curreyn vel Curren, David, . . . 31, 34 
 
 Hugo, Archiep. Dublin, ... 40 
 
 Cusak, Adam 16 
 
 Cynnus, Legista, 23 
 
 D. 
 
 Dacia 4 
 
 Dale, 1 
 
 Daniel, Episcopus Leighlin, .... 41 
 
 Danorum Rex, Frotheus 7 
 
 Dani, 5, 6, 7, 10 
 
 Darcy, Johannes, Justic. Hib., . 21, 22, 23 
 
 Thomas, . • 39 
 
 Darensis Episcopus, Leurus 39 
 
 Dareys, 3 
 
5 
 
 I 
 
 Page. 
 
 Davels, Henricus, V'ice Comes Cork, . 43 
 
 David ap Owen, 12 
 
 Dawn, Adam, 18 
 
 Dee, 4 
 
 Deishy, 44 
 
 Delon, 16 
 
 Den, Willielmus 15 
 
 Denmark, 6 
 
 Deoran, Episcopus 34 
 
 Derlington, Johannes de, Archiep. Dub- 
 lin, 16 
 
 Dermitius, Rex Cork, 11 
 
 vel Dermot, Rex Lagenie, 10, 11 
 
 Desmohown, 42 
 
 Desmond, 15 
 
 Desmonie, vel Desmondie, Job., . . 43, 44 
 
 Comes, .... 26, 34, 40, 44 
 
 Geraldus, ... 40, 44 
 
 Mauritius Fitzgerald, 15 
 
 Just. 
 
 Hib., 23 
 
 Pedigree, 30 
 
 Devonshire, 39 
 
 Devrox, \V'alterus, Comes Essex, . . 42 
 
 Diana, his temple 42 
 
 Dogoit, Geraldus, 16 
 
 Donatus, Episcopus Cashellensis, . . 11 
 
 Dongsells, Willielmus, Justic. Hib., . 17 
 
 Donaldus, Dominus Conatie, .... 3 
 
 filius Dermitii 11 
 
 Rex Thomonie, 12 
 
 Donmore 33 
 
 Donwaldus, vel Donvaldus, Princeps Os- 
 
 sorie 9 
 
 Rex Lymrieii 11 
 
 Dorpatrick, Johannes, 27 
 
 Dowdall, Georgius, Prim. Armachan., 39 
 
 Dowling, Thaddeus {vide Thaddeus), . 32 
 
 Thady, 3 
 
 Down, 13, 15 
 
 Page. 
 
 Down Cathedralis, 37 
 
 Downbrittan, Leonax, Comes de, . . 38 
 
 Downlowan, 18 
 
 Downmoyre in Mounster, 43 
 
 Drack, Johannes, Major Dublin, . . 25 
 
 Drogheda, 30, 35 
 
 Sancti Johannis Bapt. Prior, . 31 
 
 Droymreagh castrum, 35 
 
 Drury, Willielmus, Justic. Hibernie, . 43 
 
 Dtynoyll, Jacobus na, 43 
 
 Dublin, vel Eoblana, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 16, 
 17, 19, 22, 25, 27, 41, 42, 43 
 
 Academia vel Universitas, . 20, 21 
 
 Archiepiscopus, 32 
 
 . Alexander Big- 
 
 nor 20, 21 
 
 Adam Loftus, . 41 
 
 Georg. Brown, 37, 
 
 39 
 
 Johannes Allen, 36 
 
 Johannes Comen, 13 
 
 Johannes Der- 
 lington, 16 
 
 Johannes de Sanc- 
 
 to Paulo 23 
 
 Johannes Stam- 
 ford 16 
 
 Fulco, ... 15 
 
 Laurence, . . 11 
 
 Laurence O'Toole, 9 
 
 Leeckis, . 18, 22 
 
 Richardus Flee- 
 
 ringis vel Haveringis, . . . . 17, 18 
 
 Richardus Nor- 
 
 thalis, 25 
 
 Richardus Tal- 
 bot, 29 
 
 Robertas Wadby, 25 
 
 ■ Thomas Craw- 
 ley, 29 
 
 2 
 
52 
 
 Gives de, 
 
 Major, Johannes Drack, 
 Sharman, . . 
 
 Page. 
 
 Dublin, Archiepiscopus, Thomas Minoth, 23 
 
 Archidiaconus Richardus, . . 21 
 
 8, 33 
 25 
 23 
 3 
 10 
 25 
 20 
 23 
 6 
 6 
 13 
 41 
 
 lieata; Maria; Abbas, . 
 Monasterium, 
 
 Marques Kicardus Vere, 
 Metropolitanus, . . . 
 Parliamentum, . . . 
 Rex Abloicus, . . 
 Rex Alfredus, . . . 
 Sancti Patricii Cathedral 
 - — Ecclesia, 
 
 Sancte Trinitatis Ecclesia, 13, 20, 28, 
 
 30, 33, 39 
 
 Vice Comites, 38 
 
 Dublinenses, 1 1, 36 
 
 Dudley, Gilford, Dominus, 38 
 
 Duke, Henricus, Miles 44 
 
 Dundalk, 19,21 
 
 Dunevols, 10 
 
 Dunganon, Baro de. Matt O'Neill, . . 37 
 
 Dunnum, 3 
 
 Duthy-Fhelly 42 
 
 Duysk, Abbas de, Carolus Cavenagh, . 33 
 Dyrrhy, 40 
 
 E. 
 
 Eblana, vel Eoblana {vide Dublin), . 8, 41 
 
 Eboraci Comitatus, 25 
 
 Domus, 31 
 
 Eboren. Dux, 29 
 
 Plantagenet, .... 30 
 
 Richardus 31, 32 
 
 Edwardus, Episcopus Midensis, ... 39 
 
 Edwardus, Princeps, 14, 31 
 
 Edwardus, Rex 32 
 
 1 15, IG, 18 
 
 Page. 
 
 Edwardus, Rex II., 18,22 
 
 III.,. • ■ . 23,24,25 
 
 IV 30. 31 
 
 v., 31 
 
 VI 27, 28 
 
 Eliota, 1 
 
 Elizabeth, filia Edwardi IV., . . .31,33 
 
 filia Henrici VIII., . . . 39 
 
 Regina, 40 
 
 England 27 
 
 King of, 20 
 
 English Pale, 36 
 
 Essex, Comes de, Robertus, Locum Te- 
 
 nens Hib., 45 
 
 Walterus Devrox, ... 42 
 
 Ethelfredus 5 
 
 Eubanus Sanctus Lenie, 4 
 
 Eugenius, Papa, 29 
 
 Eustace Rowlandus, Deputatas Hib., . 30 
 
 Eva, filia Strongbo, 10 
 
 Exceter, Richardus de, 17 
 
 F. 
 
 Fergutius 2 
 
 Femes, 8 
 
 castrum de 13, 22 
 
 Fernensis Episcopus, Patricius Borrett, 28 
 
 Filius, Conan Grifitz, 7 
 
 Derniitii, II 
 
 • Galfridi de Geraldinis, Mauritius, 14 
 
 Mauritii, Carolus Cavenagh, . . 35 
 
 Risei, Grifitz, 7 
 
 Stephani, Richardus, alias Radul- 
 
 phus, 13 
 
 Finglas (vide Fynglassy) 37 
 
 Fin M'Coyl 7 
 
 Fitz Adelm, Willielmus 11 
 
 Fitz Gerald, Jacobus, 34 
 
 Johannes, Comes Kildarie, 20 
 
53 
 
 Page. 
 
 Fitz Gerald, Mauritius eel Mauricius, 9, 13, 
 
 15 
 
 Justiciarius Hiber- 
 
 nie, 14,23 
 
 de Tyrconuell, . 14 
 
 Thomas 36, 37 
 
 Sericus, . . 35, 36 
 
 Fitz James, Gerald, Comes Desmonie, . 44 
 Fitz John, Johannes, 2, Comes Kild., . 21 
 
 Thomas de Geraldinis, . . 30 
 
 Fitz Morice, vel Fitz Moris, vel Fitz 
 
 Maurice, Geraldus 16 
 
 • Jacobus Geraldinus, . . 43 
 
 Johannes, 17 
 
 Mauritius, Justic. Hib., . 30 
 
 Thomas de Geraldinis, . . 30 
 
 Fitz Richard, Gilbertus, 8 
 
 Richard 8 
 
 Walterus, 8 
 
 Fitz Stephan, Ric. (alias Radulfus), . 13 
 
 Robertas, ... 9, 10, 11, 13 
 
 Fitz Thomas, Johannes, 17 
 
 de Geraldinis, . 15 
 
 Mauritius, Comes Kildarie, 23 
 
 Fitz Water, alias Radcliffe, Thomas, 
 
 Deputatus 34, 40 
 
 Fitz William, Bernardus 43 
 
 Fitz Williams, Willielmus, Deputatus, 41, 44 
 
 Flandria, 31 
 
 Fleming, Stephanus, Archiep. Armach., 28 
 Fleminge, Thomas, Episcopus Leighlen, 27 
 Fleeringis, alias Haveringis, Richardus, 
 
 Archiep. Dublin 17 
 
 Francia, ... 6, 16, 23, 28, 29, 34, 39 
 
 Francie, Rex, 31 
 
 Forhirtha, Ynowland, 13 
 
 Frotho, aliter Frotheus, Rex Danorura, 7 
 Fulburnus, Episcop. Waterfordie, Justi- 
 ciarius Hibernie, 16 
 
 Fulco, Archiepiscopus Dublin, ... 15 
 
 Page. 
 
 Fylay, alias Fighill, Thomas, Episcopus 
 
 Leighlen, 40 
 
 Fynglassy 44 
 
 Fyv Mart Landes, 41 
 
 G. 
 
 Gailgaish, O'Bryens, IS, 29 
 
 Galloway Bay, 44 
 
 Gallia, 3, 4 
 
 Galway 33 
 
 Garghill, 25 
 
 Garrowcheill (vide Gerrowcheyll), . .41 
 Garrovcheill, Oge Kavanagh de, . . - 43 
 
 Garvey, Robertus, 43 
 
 Gasconie, Princeps Edwardus, ... 14 
 Gaiscoyn, Jenicho de Arthois, ... 25 
 
 Gathelus 2 
 
 Gaveston, Petrus de 18 
 
 Gawran, Comes 33 
 
 alias Balla- Gawran, ... 19 
 
 Geest, Johannes, Episcopus Lisraore et 
 
 Waterfordie 29 
 
 Geffrey, Johannes, Justic. Hib., ... 14 
 
 Geishell 17. 18 
 
 Gelatus, alias Gelasius, Primas Arma- 
 
 chan., 12 
 
 Genandus, 1 
 
 Genevile, Galfridus, . . . . 14, 16, 17 
 
 Dominus Midie, . IB 
 
 . Petrus 18 
 
 Walterus, Justic. Hib. . . 15 
 
 Geraldinis, Galfridus de, 14 
 
 Thomas Fitz John, ... 30 
 
 Thomas Fitz Morice, . . 30 
 
 Geraldini, 15 
 
 Geraldus, Comes Kildarie, .... 35 
 
 Deputatus, 33, 34 
 
 Cambrensis, 2, la 
 
 Germanus Augarensis, 3 
 
54 
 
 Page. 
 
 Gerrowcheyll, Gerald M'Cahir (ctrfc 
 
 Garrovcheill) 38 
 
 Gerrard, Willielmus 43 
 
 Gilbertus ( Fitz) Richard 8 
 
 Gild or Guvld Hall, London, ... 38 
 
 Gilford, Dudley, 38 
 
 Gilleranoy, 4 
 
 Glan Keynald 34 
 
 Glocestria 31 ; 
 
 Glyn-burrie 15 
 
 Glyndelory, alias Glenmolowra, 18, 19, 42, 
 
 43 
 
 Glynfell, 17 
 
 Godrici castrum, 14 
 
 Godthredus, Rex Man 11 
 
 Gormagheyn, vel O'Gormagheyo, . . 4 
 
 Gormagston 3 
 
 Gormondus Foord {vide Gurmundus), . 4 
 
 Grove, 4 
 
 Grace, Redmundus de la, 12 
 
 Gray, Leonardus, Deputatus, . . 36, 37 
 
 de Wilton, Arthurus, Deputatus, 43 
 
 Greci, Gretia, 1,2 
 
 Grewe, alias Carrew, Thomas, ... 24 
 Griffith ab Conan, Priuceps Northwal- 
 
 lie, 8 
 
 . Rex 6 
 
 Grifitz, filius Rise! 7 
 
 Grosse, Reymundus de la, 10 
 
 Guer (Sharp), Maurus, Mauritius, . . 34 
 
 Gurgodwyntius 2 
 
 Gurguntius, 2 
 
 Gurinondcestria 4 
 
 Gurmundus, 3 
 
 Burchardus, 4 
 
 Capitaneus Norwegiorum, 4 
 
 Dux 22 
 
 Rex Hibernie 4 
 
 Gurmundi Grangia 4 
 
 Gutlandia 4 
 
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 Gwalterus, alias Waltergus, Episcopus 
 Leighlen 15 
 
 H. 
 
 Hacketston, 38 
 
 Haldown Hill, 22 
 
 Hamerton, 36 
 
 Hanloynes, 15 
 
 Hardily, Willielmus, 21 
 
 Harpoll, Robertus, 42 
 
 Harington, Henricus, 42 
 
 Harvey, 13 
 
 Hastulphus 10 
 
 Haveringis,Richardus,Archiep. Dublin, 17, 18 
 Hawlassus, Monarcha Hibernie, ... 5 
 
 Helias, 2 
 
 Henricus Rex, 31 
 
 1 8 
 
 • II 9,11 
 
 Ill 14, 15 
 
 IV., 27 
 
 V 27, 29 
 
 VI 29, 30 
 
 VII., . . .29,31,32, 33 
 
 VIII., . . 29,33,34,38 
 
 Rex Hibernie. . . 37 
 
 filius Henrici VII., Dux Ebo- 
 
 racen, 33 
 
 Herald 6 
 
 Herco Segathus, 7 
 
 Herfordiensis Episcopus Thomas, Justi- 
 
 ciarius Hibernie, 23 
 
 Hereford 25 
 
 Heremon et Hermon, 2 
 
 Heywood, Johannis 10 
 
 Hiber, 2 
 
 Hibernia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 
 
 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 
 
 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 39, 40, 
 
 41, 42 
 
55 
 
 Po^e. 
 
 Hibernie Cancellarii, 38 
 
 Cancell. Willielmus Gerrard, 43 
 
 Cleri 11 
 
 Conquestus, 4 
 
 Deputati, viz. : 
 
 Archiep. Walterus, 33 
 
 Brereton, Williel- 
 mus, 37 
 
 Burgh, Thomas, . 44 
 
 . Butler, Edmundus, 41 
 
 Butler, Petrus, . . 35 
 
 . Butler, Thomas (clau- 
 
 dus) 29 
 
 Gary, Georgius, . 45 
 
 Eustace, Rowland, . 30 
 
 Fitz Water, alias Rad- 
 
 clifFe, Comes Sussex 40 
 
 Fitz William, Willi- 
 
 elmus 41, 44 
 
 Geraldus, Comes KiU 
 
 darie, 34 
 
 Gray, Leonardus, 33, 37 
 
 Gray, de Wilton, Ar- 
 
 thurus, 43 
 
 Loftus, Adam, . . 45 
 
 Mountjoy, Carolus, 45 
 
 • Perrot, Johannes, . 44 
 
 Poynings, Edwardus, 31 
 
 Russell, Willielmus, 44 
 
 Sanctleger, Antonius, 37 
 
 Sydney, vel Sidney, 
 
 Henrieus 24, 40, 41, 43 
 
 Tiptot, Johannes, 
 
 Comes Worcester, 30 
 
 Dux, Richardus Vere, ... 25 
 
 Ecclesia, 12, 37 
 
 Jocalia, 3 
 
 Justiciarii, viz. : 
 
 Bremyngham, Johan- 
 nes 21 
 
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 Hibernie Justiciarii : Butler, Edmundus, 19 
 
 Butler, Jacobus, . 26 
 
 Capella, Richardus, 15 
 
 Charleton, Johannes, 23 
 
 Clare, Richardus de, 18 
 
 Courtney, Phiiippus, 25 
 
 Darcy, Johannes, 21, 22 
 
 Den, Willielmus, . 15 
 
 Dongsells, Williel- 
 mus, 17 
 
 Drury, Willielmus, 43 
 
 . Fitz John, Johannes, 21 
 
 Fitz Gerald, Mauri- 
 tius 23 
 
 Fitz Morice, Thomas, 30 
 
 • Fitz Thomas, Mau- 
 ritius 23 
 
 Fulburne, Episc. Wa- 
 
 terfordie, 16 
 
 Gardiner, Robertus, 45 
 
 Geffrey, Johannes, . 14 
 
 Genevile, Hugo, . 15 
 
 Herdfordiensis Ep., 23 
 
 Kilmaynan, Prior, . 27 
 
 Lionel, Dux Clarencie, 24 
 
 Loftus, Adam, . . 45 
 
 Long Espee, Stephen, 15 
 
 Mortimer,Rogerus, 20, 25 
 
 Noris, Thomas, . . 44 
 
 . Owtlaw, Rogerus, . 22 
 
 Pellam, Willielmus, 43 
 
 Rocksey, Thomas, . 23 
 
 _ — . Stanley, Johannes, . 27 
 
 Verdon, Theobaldus, 19 
 
 Veschi, Willielmus, 16 
 
 Windesore, Williel- 
 mus de, 24 
 
 W^ogan, Johannes, 17, 18 
 
 Zouch, de la, ^lia- 
 
 nus, .14 
 
56 
 
 Page. I 
 
 Hibernie Locum Tenentes, viz. : 
 
 Butler, Jacobus le, . 28 
 
 Henricus, Dux Ebor., 33 
 
 Norfolchie, Dux, . . 34 
 
 Talbot, Johannes de 
 
 Sheffield, 27 
 
 Thomas, Dominus Lan- 
 
 castrie, 26 
 
 Monarcha, Brian Borowe, . 6 
 
 Hawlassus, ... 5 ' 
 
 Hugletus 7 ! 
 
 Tendionatus, ... 7 ' 
 
 Rex Abloickus, 5 j 
 
 Congellach, 5 
 
 Cormachus, 7 
 
 Melbricus 7 
 
 Hibernica Statuta, 40 
 
 Lingua, 3, 41 
 
 Hibernici, Rebelles, 18, 22, 23 
 
 Scriptores, 3 
 
 High Odrone, 43 
 
 Hillard, Prebendarius de, 32 
 
 Hispania, 2 
 
 Hispanic Princeps, Philippus, .... 38 
 
 Hispani, 43 
 
 Hispaniorum classis, 44 
 
 Hogges Green, Dublin, 22 
 
 Holburne, London, 38 
 
 Holyhead, Villa de, 3 
 
 Hooker, Rogerus, Decanus Leighlen, . 43 | 
 
 Hospitalierii Sancti Johaniiis Jerusalemi, 19 i 
 
 Howard, Thomas, Comes de Surry, . 34 
 
 Hugletus, Monarcha Hibernie, ... 7 1 
 
 Humecius, 2 
 
 Hussey, Johannes, Baro de Galtrim, . 24 } 
 
 L 
 
 Idouagh 38 
 
 Idrona, Baronia de, 24 
 
 Page. 
 
 Uees, 3 
 
 Inisdiog, Prior de, 37 
 
 Ireland 9, 27 
 
 Irish 9 
 
 Irrish, 44 
 
 Isabella, filia Strangbo, 13 
 
 Iveary, fons de, 13 
 
 J. 
 
 Jacckis, Mauritius 21 
 
 Jacobus Apostolus, 3 
 
 Nigrus (DufT), le Butler, . . 33 
 
 Rex Scotie, 32 
 
 Jago, Rex Northwallie, 6 
 
 Jana, filia Ducis Suffolcie, .... 38, 3'J 
 
 Japbetus, 1 
 
 Jeripoint Abbatia 13 
 
 Johannes, Comes Kildarie 16 
 
 Episcopus Kildar., .... 21 
 
 Episcopus Leighlen, cognomine 
 
 Mulgan, 22 
 
 Episcopus Midensis, ... 32 
 
 Johannes XXII. Papa, 21 
 
 Joice, Rowlandus, Primas Armachanus, 18 
 
 Jubal 2 
 
 K. 
 
 Kadwalader ap Griffith ap Conan, . . 8 
 
 Katerina, filia Ferdinandi, Regis Hisp., 32 
 
 Kavanagh, vel Cavenagh, Arthur, . . 44 
 
 Carolus, 33 • 
 
 Donaldus, Fuscus 31 
 
 Geraldus 34 
 
 M'Mochardus 34 
 
 Morice Oge, 40 
 
 Oge de Garrovcheill, ... 43 
 
 Keadau, Rough, 41 
 
 Kelly, Thomas 44 
 
 Kenlis 28 
 
 Kennun, castrum de, 18 
 
57 
 
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 Kenvrik, Britanus, 23 
 
 Kerna, Johannes, 41 
 
 Kery, 30 
 
 Keting, Petrus, 41 
 
 Ketingi, 43 
 
 Kilbrid, 42 
 
 Kilcaa, 26, 27 
 
 Kilcullen, 21 
 
 Kildarie 13, 14, 25 
 
 Comes, 33 
 
 Geraldus, . . . 34, 33 
 
 Fitz John, Johannes, 
 
 Just. Hib 21 
 
 • Johannes, ... 16 
 
 Thomas, 17 
 
 . . 42 
 . . 21 
 
 Comitatus, .... 
 
 Episcopus Johannes, 
 
 . Parlamentum, 18 
 
 Kilkennia 14, 21, 28, 33 
 
 Collegium de la Comuni aula, 16 
 
 Comitatus, 36 
 
 Parlamentum, ... 18, 24, 32 
 
 Sancti Kenitii Ecclesia, . . 30 
 
 Statuta, 26 
 
 Kilkenie Town, 21 
 
 Killanna, 33 
 
 Killeshin 8 
 
 Killy 42 
 
 Killuskin 8 
 
 Kilmaynam, 6, 36 
 
 Prior, Just. Hib., . 22, 26, 27 
 
 
 
 
 ... 22 
 
 
 
 
 ... 32 
 
 
 
 
 
 Knock (Carrig), Fergus, . . 
 
 20, 26, 40 
 
 
 
 
 ... 7 
 
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 Kylneyn, 37 
 
 Kymbriches (Kenvrick Britanus), . . 23 
 
 Kynealiaagh 24 
 
 Kynsely, 11 
 
 L. 
 
 Lacia, vocata Queene's Countie, . . 13, 40 
 
 Lacy, Comes Ultonie, 13 
 
 Gualterus, Dominus Midie, . . 14 
 
 Hugo, II, 12, 14 
 
 Comes Ultonie 14 
 
 Johannes, Constab. Cestriae, . . 13 
 
 Walterus de, 17 
 
 Lagenia, . . 3,4,7, 17, 18,19,22,38,42 
 
 Lagenie Dux, 4, 34 
 
 Principes, 8, 18 
 
 Rex 3, 5, 7, 31, 33 
 
 Dermot, 9, 10 
 
 Loganus 3 
 
 Donatus More Cavenagh 
 
 M'Murchardus 28 
 
 Godericus, 7 
 
 Moylmordha, 6 
 
 Seneschallus, Freigney Patritius, 24 
 
 Lagenienses, 17, 41 
 
 Laigerius 3 
 
 Lambertus, Peter, Perchia de Warwick, 30 
 
 Lancastria 23 
 
 Lancastrie, Dominus Thomas, Loc. Ten. 
 
 Hib 26 
 
 Domus, 31 
 
 Dux 29 
 
 Lanfrancus, Cantuariensis Archiep., . 7 
 
 Lang, Thomas 32 
 
 Languinus 1 
 
 Lanquet 2, 4, 27, 30, 31 
 
 Laurentius, 31 
 
 (O'Toole), Archiep. Dublin, 1 1 
 
 Laxie, Queene's Countie, 34 
 
 Capitaneus de Francis Cosby, . 43 
 
58 
 
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 Lazerianus 4 
 
 Leafrici, Algerus 6 
 
 Lease, 44 
 
 Lease Carraghain 7 
 
 Leay, villa de, 18 
 
 Leech, alias Aleecke, Johannes, Arch. 
 
 Dublin 20 
 
 Lege Dei, Monasterium de, . . . . 7 
 Leighlen, pei Lenia, . . . .4,21,34,43 
 
 Bishop of, 32 
 
 Capitulum de, 31 
 
 Decanus, Rogerus Hooker, . 43 
 
 Dux, 4 
 
 Ecclesia, 33, 37, 38 
 
 Episcopatus, 23 
 
 Episcopus Daniel 41 
 
 Johannes, ... 22 
 
 Matheus Saun- 
 ders 35, 37 
 
 Mauritius, ... 34 
 
 Milerus, . . 20, 22 
 
 ■ Mile Roch, . . 30 
 
 Nicolaas, .14,31,33 
 
 Magwyr, 32 
 
 ■ RichardusBookuin, 24 
 
 Mere- 
 dith, 44 
 
 Robertus Trjivers, 
 
 38, 39 
 
 — Thomas, ... 15 
 
 Fleminge, 
 
 27, 28 
 
 Fylay, alias 
 
 Fighill 40 
 
 — Halsar, . 33 
 
 Walterus, ... 15 
 
 Old, 25 
 
 Pons, .... 38, 40, 41, 42 
 
 Record, 4 
 
 Veteris, 4, 25 
 
 Page. 
 
 Leinster, vel Lenister, 32, 34 
 
 Leonax, Comes de Downbrittan, ... 38 
 Leonellus, Dux de Clarence, .... 24 
 Leothegarius, Galfridus, Episc. Ossor., 16 
 Leurus, vel Lewrous, Episc. Darensis, . 39 
 
 Limfaunt, Walterus 17 
 
 Limricia (vide Lymricia), 30 
 
 Lincolnie, Comes, 30 
 
 Lismore, 13 
 
 Lismorensis, Episcopus Johan. Geest., . 29 
 
 Legatus, ... 11 
 
 Llecryd in Wallia, 7 
 
 Llewelyn, Princeps VVallie 8 
 
 Lloegria, 4 
 
 Llynn, Comitatus, 5 
 
 Lockwood, Thomas, Decanus Sancte 
 
 Trinitatis, Dublin, 39 
 
 Locum tenentes. ]'ide Hibernie. 
 
 Loftus, Adam, Archiepisc. Dublin, . 41,45 
 
 Loggan, Johannes, 20 
 
 Loganus, Rex Lagenie, 3 
 
 London 21,30,31,38 
 
 Sancti Pauli Ecclesia, ... 6 
 
 Turris, 35, 44 
 
 Long Espee, Stephanu.*, Just. Hib., . . 15 
 Lough Foyl, vel Laughfoil, . . . 40, 44 
 Louth, Comes, Bermingham, Johannes, 
 Justiciarius Hibernie, . . . . 21, 22 
 
 Earl of, Breniingham, .... 20 
 
 Ludovicus XIL, Rex Francorum, . . 33 
 Lucius, General of the Roman army, . 4 
 
 Lymric, ceZ Limeric, 12,19 
 
 Lymricii, Rex Donvaldus, II 
 
 M. 
 
 M'Arte, Cahir, de Polmevaty, ... 35 
 
 M'"Arte, Cahir Cavenagh de Polmonty, 37 
 
 M-^Balthar, Willielmus 18 
 
 M'^Bannani 29 
 
 M'Brian, Murchardus, 6 
 
59 
 
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 M'^Bway, 3 
 
 M'^Cahill, Donaldus, 37 
 
 M<^Carty, 17 
 
 M'^Conyll, Dominus de Merggi, ... 42 
 
 M^Coughlan, 16 
 
 M'David More, 25 
 
 M-^Geoghan 22 
 
 M'^Geoghegan, 30 
 
 Johannes, 19 
 
 M'^Gillamor, Adam, 22 
 
 . M' Adam, Hugo, ... 26 
 
 M' Gilpatrick, Bernardus, Dominus Up. 
 
 Ossorie, 42 
 
 Donagh 4 
 
 M'Gwvllyn 37 
 
 M' Holmoc, Gile, 11 
 
 Machthyrus, 13 
 
 M'Hugh, Feagh, 43 
 
 Mackworth, Capitaneus 44 
 
 M James, Petrus Butler, 33 
 
 Maelgunus, 12 
 
 M'^Loughlen, Mortagh, 25 
 
 M'Mahown 44 
 
 M"^Mealaghlen, M'^Congall, Rex Laxie, . 37 
 
 M'^Mochardus, Kevanagh, 34 
 
 M'-Morogh, 33 
 
 RrMorogho M'Murchardi, Dermot, . 8, 9 
 
 M'^Morrgh, House of, 28 
 
 M Murchardus 24, 25, 26, 34 
 
 Arthurus, . . .16, 22, 28 
 
 Dermitius, 9 
 
 Donatus, . . . . 24, 28 
 
 Murtagh, 16 
 
 M'^Mynard, Dermitius, 15 
 
 APNehenyne, Crostey 35 
 
 M*^Neill y Moardha Lysac, 42 
 
 M'^Rory, M'Dermot Cormaco, . . 14, 15 
 
 Wony, 44 
 
 M<:Tyrrell, Calvaticus 43 
 
 Magwir 37 
 
 I 
 
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 Magwyr, Nicholaus, 8 
 
 Magwyr, Nicholaus, Episcopus Leighlen, 32 
 
 Malachi Armachan, 8 
 
 Man {vide Mona), II 
 
 Manapia, alias Waterfoid, 42 
 
 Manny, 19 
 
 Mapilton, Hugo, Episcopus Ossorie, . 14 
 
 Mappas 19 
 
 Marchiarum, Comes Edwardus, ... 30 
 Edmundus Morti- 
 mer, 25 
 
 Strongbow, . . 12 
 
 Margareta, alias Matilda, Cometissa 
 
 Norfolcie 24 
 
 Filia Gualteri Lacey, . . 14 
 
 Henrici VII., ... 32 
 
 Regis Sicilie, ... 29 
 
 Regina 30 
 
 Margee, le, 4 
 
 Margeus, Mons, ib. 
 
 Marie Beate, Abbatia 5 
 
 Monasterium, Dublin, . . 10 
 
 Maria, Filia Henrici VII 33 
 
 . VIII., .... 38 
 
 Regina 33, 40 
 
 Sorer Regis Anglie 33 
 
 Mariscallus, Ancelmus, 14 
 
 Gilbertus, ib. 
 
 Richardus, ib. 
 
 Walterus, ib. 
 
 Willielmus, ib. 
 
 Mariscalli, Filia, 14 
 
 Marshall, Comes in Hibernia, Walterus 
 
 Devereux, Comes Essex, .... 42 
 
 Matheus (O'Neill), Baro de Dungannon, 37 
 
 Episcopus Leighlin, cognomine 
 
 Saunders, 35 
 
 de Westminter, 5 
 
 Mathusala " 1 
 
 Matilda, Filia Gualteri Lacy, .... 14 
 
 2 
 
6o 
 
 Page. 
 
 Maurus, Mauritius 6 
 
 Mean, vel Mevina, mater Carolus Cava- 
 
 nagh , 33 
 
 Melbrichus, Rex Hibernie, .... 7 
 
 Mellefont, Abbatia de 10 
 
 Meluntius, vel Muluntius 8 
 
 Menthothe, Comes 19 
 
 Meredith, Kic, Episcopus Leighlen, . . 44 
 
 Merggi, Dominus de, 42 
 
 Mevina, Hibernice Mean, 35 
 
 Midia, vel Media, 2, 4, 10, 11, 14, 19, 27, 29, 
 
 30, 36 
 
 Castrum, 17 
 
 Dominus de Genevele Galfridus, 18 
 
 Gualterus Lacy, . . 14 
 
 Mortimer Rogerus, . 20 
 
 King of, . . 8 
 
 Marchis, 35 
 
 Rex O'Melaghlin, 5 
 
 O'Mulseaghlin, .... 16 
 
 ■ Murdhich, alias Morice, . . 8 
 
 Oraricus, 11 
 
 Midensis, Episcopus Edwardu.s, . . 32, 39 
 Thomas Leothera- 
 
 gius, 23 
 
 Rex, 12 
 
 Milerus, Episcopus Leighlen, . . . 20, 22 
 
 Milford, 9, 10 
 
 Milo, Bishop of Leighlen, ..... 32 
 Minoth, Archiepiscopus Dublin, ... 23 
 
 Misheill, 25 
 
 Moardhas, 17, 19, 29 
 
 M'Neill 42 
 
 Mochonus court, Dominus de Petrus 
 
 Carew, alias Mohounstreet, ... 39 
 
 Mohown, sottrie in Anglia 42 
 
 Moilglas 32 j 
 
 Molagh Mastyn, 42 
 
 Molingar 22 
 
 Momonia 3, 19, 44 
 
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 Momonie, Comes Thomas 28 
 
 Mona, Insula, aliter Man 5 
 
 Monelly 44 
 
 Monmouth, 14 
 
 Monte Marisco, Harveius de 9 
 
 Moor, Magister, 43 
 
 Morice, alias Murdhich, King of Midia, 8 
 
 Moricius, alias Murdhicius, Rex Midie, 9 
 
 Moris A^Syr, 32 
 
 Mortimer, Edmundus, 25 
 
 Roger 18, 20, 25 
 
 Mortimer's cross in Wallia 29 
 
 Moscraw, Nicolaus 36 
 
 Moses, 2 
 
 Mounster, 43, 44 
 
 Mountjoy, Carolus, Deputatus, ... 45 
 
 Moye, Thomas, 32 
 
 Moylargo, Mac Dermot de 16 
 
 Moylmordha, Rex Lagenie, .... 6 
 
 Mulgan, Johannes, Episcopus Leighlen, 22 
 
 Murchardus, Princeps Lagenie, ... 8 
 
 Murdhicius, alias Muricius, Rex Midie, 8, 9 
 
 Muriganus, Rex Lagenie, 5 
 
 Murrey, Comes, 19 
 
 Muridus, 2 
 
 Mylles, Robertas, 41 
 
 N. 
 
 Naas 19,28,41,42 
 
 Navan, 37 
 
 Nemorosus Maurus 33 
 
 Nemrod 1, 2 
 
 Nevell, Dominus, 32 
 
 Newgat, 36 
 
 Newry 44 
 
 Nicolaus, 33 
 
 Episcopus Leighlen, . 14, 31, 32 
 
 Prebendarius de Hillard, . . 32 
 
 Nielanus 2, 3 
 
6i 
 
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 Niger, Adam (OToole\ 22 
 
 Ninus, 1 
 
 Norfolchie, Dux, 34, 36 
 
 Noris, Johannes, Miles, 44 
 
 Thomas, Justiciarius Hibei-nie, . 44 
 
 Normanni 6 
 
 Normania, 10, 29 
 
 Northalis, Richardus, Archiepiscopus 
 
 Dublin, 25 
 
 Northon, Johannes, 18 
 
 Northumbrie, Dux, 38 
 
 Northwallia 6, 7 
 
 Princeps de, 8 
 
 Rex 12 
 
 Jago Griffith, ... 6 
 
 Norwegia, 4, 6 
 
 Norwegiani, 3, 4, 10 
 
 O. 
 
 O'Brien vel O'Bryen, .... 19, 33, 37 
 
 O'Brien, Conchur, 15 
 
 Dominus Ossorie, .... II 
 
 Donatus, Comes Clanricard. 37 
 
 Roo, Regulus Tholercmundi, 16 
 
 O'Brienses de Gailgash, 18 
 
 O'Bryens de Gailgash 29 
 
 O' Byrne, 25 
 
 O' Byrnes, alias Branenses, .... 19 
 
 O' Carvel, eel O' Car veil, . . 8, 26, 33, 35 
 
 Capitaneus Hibernicorum, . 7 
 
 O Carvell de Uriell, 11 
 
 O'Carvelli, Dominum 42 
 
 O'Conchur, 25 
 
 Calough, 17 
 
 Calvaticus, 17 
 
 Cothgurus, Rex Cunatie, . 16 
 
 familia, 17 
 
 Fedelmicus, Rex Conatie, . 19 
 
 Mortaghus, Rex Ophaley, . 17 
 
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 O'Conchur, Phelinus, 14, 15 
 
 O' Conors, de Ophaly, 44 
 
 O'Cathdhessy, 11 
 
 O'Dempsy, vel O'Dempsie, .... 17 
 
 Eugenius M'Hugh, ... 42 
 
 O'Dempsies, 18 
 
 O'Desmond, Johannes, Miles, . • . . 43 
 
 O'Donachu, Donatus, 13 
 
 O'Donull, »eZ O'Donel 15,37 
 
 O'Geoghegan, 29 
 
 O'Gormagheyn, vel Burchai'dus, Gur- 
 
 mimdi, 4 
 
 OHanlan, 37 
 
 O'Hiden, Richardus, Archiepis. Cassel- 
 
 iensis, 29 
 
 O'Kahan 37 
 
 O'Kelly, 19 
 
 O'Mac Chalewy, 11 
 
 O'Melaghlyn, 11 
 
 Rex Medensis, .... 5 
 
 O'Merggi, Baro, 42 
 
 O Molmoy, 19 
 
 O'Moardha, 7, 13 
 
 Lysac, M' Neill y, ... 41 
 
 O' Moore, 41 
 
 Rory, .... 42 
 
 O'Morochow, 20 
 
 O'Mulseaghlen, Rex Midie 16 
 
 O'Neill, jjeK3' Neill, O'Nel, . 15,36,37 
 
 Hugo, 28 
 
 (Con.) Comes de Tyron, 37 
 
 Dominus Ultonie, . 37 
 
 Shane, 40 
 
 Ultoniorum Capitaneus, ... 35 
 
 O'Nowlan • . . 25,' 26 
 
 O'Phelan, Machelanus 11 
 
 O'Shiell, 18 
 
 O'Thoiles, 19 
 
 O'Toole, Laurentius, Archiep. Dublin, 9, 11 
 familia de, 22 
 
6 
 
 2 
 
 Page. 
 
 O'Tuelihelly II 
 
 Odrona Lagenie, 32, 42 
 
 Odrone, Baro de, 43 
 
 Petrus Carew, .... 39 
 
 Baron of, Thomas Carew, . . 40 
 
 Qithiopiani 2 
 
 Ogney Dominus, Strangbo, .... 12 
 
 Old Abbey, 35 
 
 Oldratus Legista, 23 
 
 Onergi Montis Dux, 4 
 
 Ophaley, . . IG, 17, 18 
 
 Baro de, Thomas Fitz Gerald, 35 
 
 O'Conors de, 44 
 
 Ophlagarty's country 44 
 
 Oraricus vel Ororicus, Rex Midie, . 11, 12 
 
 Orchadum Insule, 4 
 
 Orkney Insula 1,3 
 
 Ormond, 40 
 
 Comes de, Thomas, . 43, 44, 45 
 
 Cometissa, 43 
 
 Ormonie Conies, Deputatus 29 
 
 Jacobus Butler, 26, 28, 33 
 
 Thomas Butler, . 40, 41 
 
 et Ossorie, Comes Jacobus 
 
 Butler, .38 
 
 Orwairk 44 
 
 de Midia, II 
 
 Ossorie Comes, Jacobus Butler, ... 38 
 
 Petrus, . . . . 34, 35 
 
 Ossorie Dominus, 11 
 
 Richardus Mariscall, . 14 
 
 Ossoriensis Episcopus . 28 
 
 Galfridus de S'" 
 
 Leothegario 14, 16 
 
 Trewell, 14 
 
 — — Hugo, .... 15 
 
 Mapilton, . 14 
 
 Johannes Bale, 38, 39 
 
 Othow- 
 
 nerv 40 
 
 Page. 
 
 Ossoriensis Episcopus, Mile Baron, . . 37 
 
 Nicholaus Welsh, 41 
 
 Roger us, ... 15 
 
 Willielmus, . . 28 
 
 ■ Princeps Donwaldus, . . 9 
 
 Ossorienses, 11 
 
 Othownery, Johannes, Episcopus Osso- 
 riensis, 40 
 
 Owtlaw, Rogerus, Prior Kilmaynam, . 22 
 
 Oxford, 32 
 
 Comes, 30 
 
 Oxonie Gualterus, 4 
 
 P. 
 
 Patricius, vel Patritius, 3 
 
 Episcopus Dublin, .... 6 
 
 Sanctus, 1,3 
 
 Paulus II., Papa, 30 
 
 Peach, Richardus de,Gubernator Hibernie, 13 
 
 Pellam, Willielmus, Justic. Hibernie, . 43 
 Pembrochie, vel Penbrochie, Comes, 8, 30 
 
 Comes Mariscall, Richardus, 14 
 
 Strangbo, Richardus, 12 
 
 Perchia, Peter de Warwik, Lambertus, 30 
 
 Petit, Radulphus 16 
 
 Petronilla, 21 
 
 Petri Denarii, 13, 24 
 
 Pharaon, 2 
 
 Philippa, filia Lconelli Ducis Clarencie, 25 
 Philippus, Princeps Hi^panie, . . 38, 40 
 
 et Maria 39 
 
 Picti 3 
 
 Pincerna Comes, Edmundus Butler, . 21 
 
 Pipard, Johannes 17 
 
 Poer {vide Power), 37 
 
 Eustacius le, 15 
 
 Pollygard, Robertus Talbot de, . . . 34 
 
 Polmevaty Cabir, M'Arte de, .... 35 
 
 Polmonte, alias PoolmahowD, .... 37 
 
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 Polmonte, Passus de, II 
 
 Polus Cardinalis, 39 
 
 Powell, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 14 
 
 Power, Arnoldus 18 
 
 Eustace de, 17 
 
 Powis 7 
 
 Poynyngis, Edwardus, Deputatus, . . 31 
 
 Prechell, Hugo de, 17 
 
 Prindergast, Mauritius, 9 
 
 Pynquietus, 16 
 
 Q. 
 
 Queen's County, 13, 34, 40 
 
 R. 
 
 Radcliflfe (Thomas Fitz Walter), Comes 
 
 Sussex, 34 
 
 Radulphus, Prior Domus Hospit Drogh., 31 
 
 alias Richardus, filius Ste- 
 
 phani 13 
 
 Randolf, Edwardus, 40 
 
 Randulph, Thomas, 19 
 
 Raphuell, 16 
 
 Rathcoyl, 42 
 
 Rathdown 17 
 
 Rathmore, 30 
 
 in Lagenia 42 
 
 Rathod, 16 
 
 Rathpipherd, 15 
 
 Rathurgus, 1 
 
 Ratoth, 16 
 
 Reygnyrus, filius Sydwardi, .... 7 
 
 Rhodes Prior de 43 
 
 Richardus II 23 
 
 Ill 31 
 
 — Archidiaconus Dublin, . . 21 
 
 Marshall de Hibernie, ... 8 
 
 Richmond Comes, Henrieus, ... .31 
 
 Riseus ap Griffin, Princeps Wallie, . . 9 
 
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 Riseus, aliter Rees, filius Theodori Bri- 
 
 tanni, 7 
 
 Rightgenald Turris, 11 
 
 Roch, Georgius de la, 17 
 
 Milo, Episcopus Leighlin, ... 30 
 
 Roderik, 9 
 
 Roderick, Rex Conatie 11 
 
 Rodericus, 5 
 
 Magnus, . . .... 6 
 
 Monarcha, 11 
 
 Rogerus, Episcopus Ossoriensis, ... 15 
 
 Romana Ecclesia 24, 33 
 
 Romanus Pontifex, . . 18, 20, 23, 26, 33 
 
 Roma Urbs 33 
 
 Rome, Bishop of, 32 
 
 Roone, in Francia, 28, 29 
 
 Roscomon Castrum, 15 
 
 Rossa Pons, 42 
 
 Rosse, Parlamentum apud, .... 26 
 
 Rothmagensis civitas, 28 
 
 Rowac, Karolus, alias Makeyigan, . . 4 
 
 Rutheramis, 1 
 
 Rutland, Comes, 30 
 
 Russe, Downaldus, Rex Desmondie, . 17 
 
 Russell, Willielmus, Deputatus Hibernie, 44 
 
 S. 
 
 Sagelome, 29 
 
 Salamius, 1 
 
 Salanga Mons 1 
 
 Salanus, 2 
 
 Salisburiensis Ecclesia 12 
 
 Salop Comes, Talbot, 36 
 
 Salvius, 1 
 
 Sanctus Columba 3 
 
 Sancti Dominici (Collis), 1 
 
 Fyntani Abbatis, Translatio, . 23 
 
 Sanctus Hawlerus, Theologus, ... 23 
 
 Sancto Howgelyn, Johannes de, . . . 18 
 
64 
 
 Pngfi. 
 
 Sancti Kenitii Ecclesia in Kilkennia, 14, 15, 
 
 16, 30, 38 
 
 Laurentii Ecclesia, .... 32 
 
 Lazcriani Ecclesia, .... 22 
 
 St. Leger, Antonius de, Deputatus, . . 37 
 Sancto Leothegario, Thomas de, Epis- 
 
 copus Midensis, 23 
 
 Martinus, 3 
 
 Sanctus Patricius, 1 
 
 Sancti Pati ieii Cathedralis, Dublin, . . 13 
 
 . Ecclesia Dublin, . . 41, 43 
 
 Sanctuarium, .... 33 
 
 Pauli Ecclesia, London, ... 6 
 
 Sancto Paulo, Johannes de, Arch. Dub- 
 lin, 23 
 
 Sanctus Rochus, vel Rochius, Theolo- 
 
 gus, 23 
 
 Sanct Sepulchres, manerium, .... 33 
 
 Sancte Thomi, vicus de, 36 
 
 Sancti Thome de Acres, Ecclesia, . . 38 
 Sancte Trinitatis Ecclesia Dublin, . 28, 30 
 Sarum, Comes de, Plantagenet, ... 30 
 Saunders, Matheus, Episcop. Leighlen, 35 
 
 Savadg, Patricius 26 
 
 Saxones 4 
 
 Scandinavia, 6 
 
 Schithiani, vel Scythar, 2 
 
 Shordich, 31 
 
 Scotia, 3, 4, 6, 15, 20, 22, 32, 33, 34, 38, 
 
 40, 44 
 
 Scotie Rex, 5 
 
 Edwardus Balliol, ... 16 
 
 Robertus Bruce, . . . 19, 20 
 
 Scotici Scriptorcs 3 
 
 C'ronica, 2 
 
 Scoti, 2, 21 
 
 vocati Red Shanhes, 22 
 
 Scotland, 20 
 
 Scrope, Stephanas, 26 
 
 Segathus 7 
 
 Page. 
 
 Severne, 4 
 
 Shenan, vel Sh3'nion, Rivulus de, ..11 
 
 Sherman, Major de Dublin, .... 23 
 
 Sicili» Rex, 29 
 
 Sidne)-, Henricus, Deputatus, 24, 40, 41, 43 
 Skeffington, vel Skevington, William, 35, 36 
 
 Skyrres, 38 
 
 Slayne, 22 
 
 Sliggagh in Conatia, 14 
 
 1 Sligo, . . • 44 
 
 Castrum, 15 
 
 Slowbanny, 16 
 
 Smith, Capitaneus, 43 
 
 Southampton 38 
 
 Srughill, 41 
 
 Spaniardis 43 
 
 Stanihurst, 23 
 
 Stanley, Johannes, Justiciarius Hibernie, 27 
 
 Storke, bellum de, 30 
 
 Stowe, 36 
 
 Stracartherus (Fin M'Coyl), .... 7 
 
 Stradbally, 43 
 
 Strangbo, Gilbertus, Com. Strugidensis, 7 
 
 Richardus 10 
 
 Comes Penbro- 
 
 chie, 12 
 
 Constabularius An- 
 
 glie 10 
 
 Strangulensis, Comes de, Strangbo, . . 12 
 
 Sty ward, Johannes 19 
 
 Sueviani 6 
 
 Suffolchie, Comes 29 
 
 Dux 33 
 
 Henricus 38, 39 
 
 Sure, Rivulus de 11 
 
 Surrey, Comes, Thomas Howard, . 32, 34 
 
 ' Sutaricus, alias Sutrik 6 
 
 Swanige, Johannes, Primas Arraachano, 29 
 
 Swarthsfield, Martin, 30 
 
 Sydwardus, 7 
 
65 
 
 Page. 
 
 T. 
 
 Talbot, Comes Waterfordie et Salopie, 36 
 
 
 22 
 
 Robertus de Pollygard, . . 
 
 . 34 
 
 Richardus, Arch. Dublin, 
 
 . 29 
 
 Johannes, de Sheffield, . . 
 
 . 27 
 
 
 34 
 
 
 . 36 
 
 
 . 42 
 
 
 
 Templariorum Possessiones, . . . 
 
 18, 19 
 
 
 . 15 
 
 
 . 7 
 
 Thaddeus, vel Thady (Bowling), 2, 4, 3 1 , 33, 34 
 
 
 . 7 
 
 
 . 16 
 
 
 . 17 
 
 Ormondie, . . . 
 
 43, 44 
 
 
 32 
 
 
 
 Episcopus Leighlen, . . 
 
 . 15 
 
 
 . 19 
 
 
 . 12 
 
 
 . 17 
 
 Tipperarie, vel Typper, Comitatus, . 
 
 18, 40 
 
 Tiptot, Johannes, Comes Worcestrie, 
 
 
 
 
 Tibern. Vide Tyburn. 
 
 
 
 . 22 
 
 
 
 
 . 7 
 
 
 00 
 
 
 43, 44 
 
 
 . 38 
 
 Robertus, Episcopus Leighlen, 38 
 
 Trayly, Monasterium de, 15 
 
 TredafF, 30 
 
 Trewell, Galfridus, Episcopus Ossoriensis, 14 
 Tristeldermot, vel Trysteldermot, 13, 15, 19, 
 
 20, 27 
 
 IRISH ARCH. SOC. 1 3. K 
 
 Page. 
 
 Trinitatis Ecclesia, Dublin, . . . 13, 20 
 
 Waterfordie, ... 42 
 
 Tuamens. Res, O'Bryan, I7 
 
 Tuanensis (Archiepiscopus), Catholicus, 11 
 
 Tulmogiman 32 
 
 Turgesius 3, 5 
 
 Turlagh Leoge, 44 
 
 Turonensis, Episcopus Martinus, . . 3 
 
 Tyburn, 36, 44 
 
 Tynterne Abbatia, 8 
 
 Tyreconill 44 
 
 Tyreowley 44 
 
 Tyron Comes, O'Neill (Con) 37 
 
 Hugo 44 
 
 Tyrrell de Castro Knock, 19 
 
 U. 
 
 Ulster, 20 
 
 Ultonia, .... 2, 3, 15,19,37,40, 44 
 
 Ultonie, Comes 17 
 
 ■ Edmundus Mortimer, 25 
 
 Hugo Lacy, .... 14 
 
 Johannes Courcey, . 13 
 
 Lionel Dux Clarencie, 24 
 
 Richardus de Burgo, 15, 17 
 
 Walterus de Burgo, . 14 
 
 Burk, ... 15 
 
 Upper Ossorie 42 
 
 Urghlen Rector de, David Curren, . . 34 
 
 Uriel, vel Uriell, 13, 35 
 
 O' Car veil 11 
 
 Uter Pendragon, 4 
 
 V. 
 
 Verdon, Johannes 15 
 
 Richardus 15 
 
 . Theobaldus, Justic. Hib., . . 19 
 
 Thomas, 14, 17 
 
66 
 
 Page. 
 
 Vere, Richardus, Marques Dublinie, 25 
 Veschi, Dominus, Deputatus Hibernie, 16 
 
 Vesta, filia Risei, 9 
 
 Vivianus, Cardinalis, 13 
 
 Voel, Edwallus, Rex Britannie, ... 5 
 
 W. 
 
 Wadby (Weekeford), Robertas, Archie- 
 
 piscopus Dublin, 25 
 
 Wakefield, vel Wakinfield, . . . . 29, 30 
 
 Wale, Galfridus le 24 
 
 Johannes de, 17 
 
 Wallia, 6, 7, 8, 12, 15, 29 
 
 Wallie Princeps, . 9 
 
 Llewelyn, 8 
 
 Rex, Blethyn Convyn, ... 7 
 
 Waltergus, alias Gwalterus, Episc. 
 
 Leighlen, 15 
 
 Walterus, Archiepiscopus Dublin, Just. 
 
 Hib., 33 
 
 Warbeck, Perkin, 32 
 
 Warwick, Comes, 30 
 
 Waterfield 33 
 
 Water fordia, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 25, 30,43 
 
 Ecclesia Trinitatis, ... 42 
 
 Welsh, Nicholaus, Episcopus Ossor., . 41 
 Westmeath 19 
 
 Page. 
 
 Wexfordia, vel Weixfordia, 9, 10, 1 1 ,22, 24,41 
 
 Wickioo, 19 
 
 Willielmus de Braubant, 7 
 
 . Comes de Pembrochie, . . 14 
 
 Episcopus Cassiliens, . . 28 
 
 Ossoriensis, ib. 
 
 Prior Sancti Johannis Bap- 
 
 tiste, Drogheda, 31 
 
 Rufus 7 
 
 Wilton, Arthurus Gray de. Dep. Hib., 43 
 
 Windesor, Willielmus, Justiciarius Hib., 24 
 
 Withwalovn, 1" 
 
 Wogan, Johannes, Justiciarius Hibernie, 17, 18 
 
 Wood, Johannes 19 
 
 Magister 43 
 
 Woodkerne, Mauritius, 33 
 
 Woodstock 39 
 
 Y. 
 
 Ybuyg, 40 
 
 Ymoardha 28 
 
 Ynowland, 13 
 
 Yoghell, vel Yoghill 14, 20 
 
 Z. 
 
 Zouch, iElianus de la, Justiciarius Hi- 
 bernie, 14 
 
 FINIS. 
 
IRISH 
 
 AECH^OLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 At a General Meeting of the Irish Arch^ological Society, held 
 in the Board Room of the Royal Irish Academy, on Thursday, the 
 2 1 St day of December, 1848, 
 
 The Most Noble the Marquis of Kildare in the Chair, 
 The Secretary read the following Report : 
 
 *' The Council, in congratulating the Society on the arrival of its eighth Anni- 
 versary, have but little to record of the events of the past year. 
 
 " Owing to the large number of Members who are in arrear of their sub- 
 scriptions, the Council have been compelled to continue the economical 
 arrangements announced in the last Report ; and they are happy to be able to 
 say, that they have succeeded in reducing the expenditure of the Society to 
 the hmits of its income. 
 
 " Since the last Annual Meeting, the following new Members have been 
 elected : 
 
 The Most Rev. Dr. Slattery. R. C. 
 
 Archbishop of Cashel. 
 The Earl of Arundel and Surrey. 
 The Right Rev. Dr. M'Gettigan, R. C. 
 
 Bishop of Raphoe. 
 The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of 
 
 St. Patrick's. 
 Captain Broughton, R. E. 
 
 Edward Hailstone, Esq. 
 Charles Kean, Esq. 
 Robert Mac Adam, Esq. 
 John O'Connell, Esq., M. P. 
 Maurice O'Connell, Esq., M. 
 James Power, Esq., D. L. 
 John Wallace, Esq. 
 James James, Esq. 
 
 " The Library of the Royal College of St. Patrick's, Maynooth, has also, 
 during the past year, subscribed for the Pubhcations of the Society. 
 
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 " We have lost by death, since the last Meeting, the following Members: 
 
 The Most Rev. William Howley, D. D., | The Earl of Powis. 
 
 Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. j The Right Rev. Samuel Kyle, D. D., 
 The Ri'jht Rev. Richard Mant, D. D., Lord Bi.shop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross. 
 
 Lord Bishop of Down and Connor, ; Mrs. Marg-aret Jones. 
 
 and Droinore. j George Matthews, Esq. 
 
 The Earl of Carlisle. | 
 
 "The Council have also exercised the powers intrusted to them by the 
 seventh Fundamental Law of the Society, as amended at the last Annual Meet- 
 ing, and have struck off your books the Names of several Members, who, after due 
 notice, have not paid their subscriptions; some others also, on being applied to 
 for their subscriptions, have voluntarily resigned. There are, therefore, now on 
 the books of the Society only 389 Members. But of these it is hoped there 
 are now very few who are not really interested in the objects of the Society, 
 and determined to give it their zealous support. 
 
 " The funds of the Society being so small, the Council are compelled to 
 restrict their Publications, during the present year, to the volume of Latin 
 Annalists of Ireland, which has already been announced. 
 
 " It will be ready for delivery to the Members very shortly, the printing 
 being now very far advanced. It contains the Annals of John Clyn of Kil- 
 kenny, with an Appendix containing the Annals of Ross ; and also the Annals 
 attributed to Thady Dowling, Chancellor of Leighlin. They are edited by the 
 Very Rev. Richard Butler, Dean of Clonmacnois, who has prefixed to each of 
 the two parts into which the volume is divided, a Preface, which will be read 
 with interest by every student of Irish history. 
 
 " The Council have made arrangements for proceeding with Cormac's Glos- 
 sary, some sheets of which are already printed, and, if no further difficulty occurs, 
 they hope to be able to give it to all members of the Society who are subscri- 
 bers for the year 1849. 
 
 " With respect to future publications, the Council have only to repeat what 
 was said in their last Report; they have in their hands the materials for a very 
 curious volume of the Society's Miscellany ; they have also ready for publica- 
 tion the Macarice Excidium, by Colonel Charles O'Kelly, with a translation and 
 Preface, by Denis Henry Kelly, Esq., and Mr. O'Callaghan's valuable notes. 
 
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 " A curious MS., illustrative of the same period, and giving an account of the 
 civil war under James II. in Ireland, has also been placed in their hands by the 
 Very Rev. Dr. Vignoles, Dean of St. Canice's, Kilkenny. This MS. is an auto- 
 graph autobiography by Mons. Dumont, who accompanied King William III. 
 into Ireland, and fought against King James at the battle of the Boyne. By 
 uniting this account with the Macarise Excidium, two original narratives of the 
 same events, by eye-witnesses engaged on opposite sides, and holding military 
 command under their respective leaders, will be preserved to our literature. It 
 is very much to be hoped that tlie funds of the Society will at no distant 
 period admit of their being published. 
 
 "Another very interesting MS. has also been selected for future publication. 
 It is a narrative entitled Cojao ^ameul le ^allaib, or The Wars of the Danes and 
 Irish, a tract which has been quoted frequently by Keating and other authori- 
 ties, but which, until lately, was supposed to have been lost. An ancient, 
 although mutilated MS. of it was discovered by Mr. Curry in the Library of Trinity 
 College ; and a perfect copy, beautifully written, and in excellent preservation, 
 in the handwriting of Michael O'Clery, one of the Four Masters, was subse- 
 quently found by iNIr. Bindon, and afterwards more fully identified by the Rev. 
 Charles Graves, in the Burgundian Library at Brussels. 
 
 " The account given by Mr. Graves of this copy induced the Secretary, 
 during the last summer, to visit Brussels, and to make a complete collation of 
 the MS. there preserved, noting all the readings in which it differed from the 
 Dublin copy, and transcribing the deficiencies which the mutilations of the 
 latter had occasioned. 
 
 " The Secretary has also been in correspondence with some influential 
 Members of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries of Copenhagen, who 
 have promised him their assistance in the editing of this curious tract; and 
 there is no doubt that the Sagas and other historical remains of Scandinavian 
 literature will be found to contain much to confirm and illustrate the notices 
 to be found in our Irish records of the ancient connexion between the Norse- 
 men and this country. It is unnecessary to call the attention of the Society to 
 the importance of such a work. By bringing together the historical docu- 
 ments of two nations so long and so entirely separated, it is obvious that, if 
 found to harmonize, the most satisfactory confirmation of the truth of the his- 
 torical traditions of both countries will be the result. 
 
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 " It is gratifying also to find that the value of such a comparison has been fully 
 recognised in Denmark. In the Report of the results of Mr. Worsaae's late 
 visit to this country, communicated to the Royal Society of Northern Antiqua- 
 ries by His Majesty the King of Denmark, there is the following passage : 
 ' L' Academic Royale d'Irlande et I'Universite appelee Trinity College a Dub- 
 lin, possedent I'une et I'autre un tres grand nombre d'anciens manuscrits Irian- 
 dais dont il n'y a que tres peu qui aient ete publics jusqua present dune 
 maniere fort imparfaite. On trouve dans ces manuscrits de nombreuses rela- 
 tions, pour la plupart en forme d'annales, sur les expeditions des anciens Scan- 
 dinavcs en Irlande. Une comparaison exacte de toutes ces relations avec les 
 rapports contenus dans les sagas Islandaises et dans les ocuvres de Saxon le 
 grammairien serait d'une importance inappreciable pour Tarchaeologie du Nord 
 de meme que pour celle d'Irlande. On en apprendrait en quels points les re- 
 lations s'accordent, d'ou Ton pourrait encore jugcr combien il faut y ajoutcr foi 
 sous d'autres rapports'(a). 
 
 " This passage describes exactly the object with which the Council would 
 put forward the CojjaD ^aioealle ^uUaib, or Wars of the Danes and Irish, and 
 its recognition of tlie importance of such a publication is the more interesting 
 because it contains no allusion to the labours of this Society, and, therefore, was 
 written evidently before our correspondence with Mr. Worsaae on the subject 
 had taken place(^>). 
 
 " In conclusion, the Council beg leaveto recommend to the Society the adoption 
 
 of 
 
 (a) Mumoires de la Societe Royale des disse Efterretninger med Beretningerne i de 
 Antiquaires du Nord, 1843-1849, p. 144. islandske Sagaer og hos Saxo Grammaticus 
 
 (b) In the Danish edition of the report, vilde have uberegnelig Vjerd baade for den 
 the passage above quoted is as follows : nordiske og den irske Archajologi. Den vilde 
 
 "DetKongelige Irske Academihar desuden vise, i hvilke Punkter Beretninger stemme 
 niedgivet niig Tegninger af de vigtigste Old- overeens, hvorfra man igjen kunde gjiire 
 sager i dets Museum. Baade Academiet og Slutninger til deres Trovairdighed i andre 
 Universitetet (eller Trinity College) ere i Be- Henseender. Det vilde derhos medfore den 
 siddelse af etmeget betydeligt Antal aeldgamle store Fordeel at alle de falske Anskuelser 
 irske Haandskrifter, der enten aldrig eller om de Danske og Nordniijendenes Toge, som 
 ikkun hoist ufuldsta>ndgit have vajret udgivne. i Saerdeleshed nyere politiske Bev.Tgelser 
 De indeholde talrige Efterretninger, mest i have bragt i Omlob, maatte gjore Plads for 
 analistisk Form, om Nordboernes Toge til en sandere og troere historisk Opfattelse af 
 Irland. En noiagtig Sammenstiliing af alle Datidens Begivenheder." 
 
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 of a Resolution, whicli they think will be for its advantage. It is not in any way 
 inconsistent with our Fundamental Laws ; and, therefore, the Council might, 
 perhaps, have adopted it, without the formal sanction of the Society ; but they 
 have thought it better to bring the matter before you, and to obtain your opi- 
 nion upon it. The Resolution will be proposed to you by the Treasurer, who 
 will briefly explain its object and advantages." 
 
 The Report having been read, it was proposed by Charles T. 
 Webber, Esq., 
 
 " That the Report now read be received and printed, and issued with the 
 forthcoming volume of Annals." 
 
 Proposed by the Rev. Dr. Renehan, President of St. Patrick's 
 College, Maynooth, 
 
 " That Charles T. Webber, Esq., and James M<=Glashan, Esq., be appointed 
 Auditors for the ensuing year; and that their statement of the accounts of the 
 Society be printed as an appendix to the Report." 
 Proposed by A. Smith, Esq., M. D., 
 
 " That Members who are not in arrear be permitted to purchase copies ol' 
 such books as were issued prior to their election, at prices to be fixed by the 
 Council ; reserving, however, for the use of future Members, as many complete 
 sets as the Council may consider desirable." 
 
 Proposed by George Smith, Esq., 
 
 " That His Grace the Duke of Leinster be elected President of the Society 
 for the following year, and that the Vice-Presidents and Council of the past 
 year be continued in office." 
 
 Proposed by the Rev. Dr. Russell, 
 
 " That the thanks of the Society be presented to the Royal Society of 
 Northern Antiquaries of Copenhagen, for their Memoirs which they have pre- 
 sented to this Society." 
 
 Proposed by John C. O'Callaghan, Esq., 
 
 " That the thanks of the Society be voted to the President and Council of 
 the Royal Irish Academy, for granting the use of their room on the present 
 occasion." 
 
IRISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 1848-1849. 
 
 patron : 
 
 HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE ALBERT. 
 
 ^resi'Jjent : 
 
 HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF LEINSTER. 
 
 The Most Noble the Marquis of Kildare, M. P., M. R.I. A. 
 The Right Hon. the Earl of Leitrim, M. R. I. A. 
 The Right Hon. the Viscount Adare, M. P., M. R. I. A. 
 
 Rev. Samuel Butcher, D. D., M. R.I. A. 
 Rev. Charles Graves, A. M., M. R. L A. 
 James Hardiman, Esq , M. R. I. A. 
 William Elliot Hudson, Esq., M.R.I. A. 
 Major T. A. Larcom, R.E., V. P. R.I. A. 
 Charles Mac Donnell, Esq., M. R. I. A. 
 George Petrie, Esq., LL. D., R. H. A., 
 V. P. R. I. A. 
 
 ©ouncti : 
 
 Rev. "William Reeves, B. D., M. R. I. A. 
 Very Rev. Dr. Renehan, President of St. 
 
 Patrick's College, Maynooth. 
 Aquilla Smith, Esq., M. D., M. R. I. A., 
 Treasurer. 
 
 J. HuBAND Smith, Esq., A. M., M.R.LA. 
 Rev. J. H. Todd, D. D., M. R. L A., Se- 
 cretary. 
 
 JBEmbers of tj^e ^ocietg ; 
 
 [Z?/e Members are marked thus*.'\ 
 •His Royal Highness The Prince Albert. *The Marquis of Drogheda. 
 His Excellency The Earl of Clarendon, *The Marquis of Kildare, M. P., M. R. I. A. 
 
 Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. *The Marquis of Lansdowne. 
 
 His Grace the Lord Primate of Ireland. j The Marquis of Ormonde. 
 *His Grace the Duke of Buckingham and The Marquis of Sligo. 
 
 Chandos. *The Marquis of Wateuford. 
 
 •His Grace the Duke of Leinster. | The Earl of Bandon. 
 
 The 
 
8 
 
 The Earl of Bective. 
 
 The Earl of Carlisle. 
 
 The Earl of Cawdor. 
 
 The Earl of Charlemont, M. R. I. A. 
 
 The Earl of Clancartv. 
 
 *The Earl De Grey. 
 
 The Earl of Donoughmore. 
 
 The Earl of Dunraven, M. R. I. A. 
 
 The Earl of Enmskillen. 
 
 The Earl Fitzwilliam. 
 
 The Earl P'ortescde. 
 
 The Earl of Glengall. 
 
 The Earl of Leitrim, M. R. I. A. 
 
 The Earl of Meath. 
 
 The Earl of Portarlisgton. 
 
 The Earl of Roden. 
 
 The Earl of Rosse, M. R. I. A. 
 
 The Earl of Shrewsbury. 
 
 The Viscount Acheson, M. P. 
 
 The Viscount Auare, M. P., M. R. I. A. 
 
 Rev. Edward S. Abbott, Upper Mount-street, 
 Dublin. 
 
 'Sir Robert Shafto Adair, Bart., Balljinena. 
 
 Miss M. J. Alexander, Dublin. 
 
 Rev. John H. Armstrong, A. B., Herbert- 
 place, Dublin. 
 
 George Atkinson, Esq., A. M,, M. B., Upper 
 Temple-street, Dublin. 
 
 Rev. James Kennedy Bailie, D. D., M. R. I. A., 
 Ardtrea House, Stewartstown. 
 
 Abraham Whyte Baker, Esq., Blessington- 
 street, Dublin. 
 
 James B. Ball, Esq., Merrion-square, East, 
 Dublin. 
 
 Sir Matthew Barrington, Bart., M. R. I. A., 
 
 St. Stephen's -green, Dublin. 
 Hugh Barton, Jan., Esq., Regent's-street, 
 
 London. 
 
 Miss Beaufort, Hatch-street, Dublin. 
 
 The Viscount Courtenay, M. P. 
 
 The Viscount De Vesci. 
 
 The Viscount Lorton. 
 
 The Viscount Massereene and Febrard. 
 
 The Viscount O'Neill. 
 
 *The Viscount Palmerston. 
 
 The Viscount Suirdale. 
 
 The Lord Bishop of Cashel, Emlt, Wa- 
 
 TERFORD, and LlSHOBE. 
 
 The Lord Bishop of Chichester. 
 
 The Lord Bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and 
 
 Ross, M. R. I. A. 
 The Lord Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin, and 
 
 Ardagh. 
 •Lord Clonbrock. 
 Lord Cremorne. 
 Lord Faenham. 
 Lord George Hill, M. R. L A. 
 Lord Talbot De Malahide. 
 
 Sir Michael Dillon Bellew, Bart., Mount- 
 Dillon, Galway. 
 
 Samuel Henry Bindon, Esq., Limerick. 
 
 Lieutenant-General Robert H. Birch, Leeson- 
 street, Dublin. 
 
 John Blachford, Esq., Bucklersbury, London. 
 
 The Rev. Beaver H. Blacker, A. M., Air- 
 field, Donnybrook. 
 
 Loftus H. Bland, Esq., Upper Fitzwilliam- 
 street, Dublin. 
 
 Bindon Blood, Esq., M. R. LA., F. R. S. E.. 
 Ennis. 
 
 Sir John P. Boileau, Bart., London. 
 Walter M. Bond, Esq., The Argory, Moy. 
 'Beriah Botfield, Esq., M. R. L A., London. 
 W. H. Bradshaw, Esq., Dysart House, Car- 
 
 rick-on-Suir. 
 Right Hon. Maziere Brady, Lord Chancellor 
 
 of Ireland, M. R. I. A. 
 
 William 
 
9 
 
 William Brooke, Esq., Q. C, Leeson-street, 
 Dublin. 
 
 William Edward Delves Broughton, Esq., 
 
 Captain, Royal Engineers. 
 John W. Browne, Esq., Upper Mount-street, 
 
 Dublin. 
 
 'R. Clayton Browne, Esq., Browne's Hill, 
 Carlow. 
 
 Haliday Bruce, Esq., M. R. I. A., Dame-st., 
 Dublin, 
 
 Colonel Henry Bruen, M. P., Oak Park, 
 Carlow. 
 
 Samuel Bryson, Esq., High-street, Belfast. 
 The Chevalier Bunsen, London. 
 John Ynyr Barges, Esq., Parkanaur, Dun- 
 gannon. 
 
 Joseph Burke, E?q., Elm Hall, Parsons- 
 town. 
 
 John Burrowes, Esq., Herbert-street, Dublin. 
 Robert Burrowes, Esq., Merrion-square, N., 
 Dublin. 
 
 Rev. Samuel Butcher, D. D., M. R. I. A., 
 Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. 
 
 The Very Rev. R. Butler, A. B., M. R. I. A., 
 Dean of Clonmacnoise, Trim. 
 
 'William E. Caldbeck, Esq., Kilinastiogue. 
 
 •Robert Callwell.Esq., M. R. I. A., Herbert- 
 place, Dublin. 
 
 Edward Cane, Esq., M. R. I. A., Dawson- 
 street, Dublin. 
 
 George Carr, Esq., M. R. I. A., Mountjoy- 
 square, S., Dublin. 
 
 *Rev. Joseph Carson, B. D., M. R. I. A., 
 Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. 
 
 Rev. William Carus, A. M., Fellow of Tri- 
 nity College, Cambridge. 
 
 Thomas Cather, Esq., Blessington-street, 
 Dublin. 
 
 •Patrick Chalmers, Esq., Auldbar, Brechin, 
 N. B. 
 
 John David Chambers, Esq., London. 
 
 William Chambers, Esq., High-street, Edin- 
 burgh. 
 
 Sir Montagu L. Chapman, Bart., M. R. I. A., 
 Killua Castle, Clonmellon. 
 
 Edward Wilmot Chetwode, Esq., M. R. L A., 
 Woodbrook, Portarlington. 
 
 Thomas Clarke, Esq., Baggot-street, Dublin. 
 
 Rev. William Cleaver, A. M., Delgany. 
 
 James Stratherne Close, Esq., Gardiner 's- 
 row, Dublin. 
 
 Rev. Thomas De Vere Coneys, A. M., Pro- 
 fessor of Irish in the University of Dublin. 
 
 Frederick W. Conway, Esq., M. R. L A., 
 Terrace Lodge, Rathmines-road, Dublin. 
 
 Adolphus Cooke, Esq., Cookesborough, Mul- 
 lingar. 
 
 James R. Cooke, Esq., Blessington-street, 
 Dublin. 
 
 Philip Davies Cooke, Esq.,Ouston, Doncaster. 
 Rev. Peter Cooper, Marlborough-street, 
 Dublin. 
 
 Sir Charles Coote, Bart., Ballyfin House, 
 Mountrath. 
 
 William Coppinger, Esq.,Barryscourt, Cork. 
 
 *Rev. George E. Corrie, B. D., Fellow of 
 St. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge. 
 
 The Ven. Henry Cotton, D. C. L., Archdea- 
 con of Cashel. 
 
 Rev. George Edmond Cotter, Glenview, 
 Middleton. 
 
 James T. Gibson Craig, Esq., Edinburgh. 
 
 Michael Creagh, Esq., Upper Gloucester- 
 street, Dublin. 
 
 Rev. George Crolly, Professor of Theology, 
 St. Patrick's College, Maynooth. 
 
 Rev. John C. Crosthwaite, A. M., The Rec 
 tory, St. Mary-at-Hill, London. 
 
 Rev. Edward Cupples, LL. B.,V. G. of Down 
 and Connor, Lisburn. 
 
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 Yorkshire. 
 
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 Lismore. 
 
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 Dublin. 
 
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 Cabinteely. 
 
 Quentin Dick, Esq., London. 
 
 •p. H. Dickinson, Esq., Kingweston, Somer- 
 setshire. 
 
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 Thomas Dobbin, Esq., Armagh. 
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 Dublin. 
 
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 Dublin. 
 
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 Rathmines, Dublin. 
 
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 Regius Professor of Divinity, Trin. Coll., 
 Dublin. 
 
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 West, Dublin. 
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 vensdale Park, Flurrybridge. 
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 Ballycastle. 
 
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 fast. 
 
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 Glebe, Dunfanaghy. 
 
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 Kingstown. 
 
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 rage, Berwick-on- Tweed. 
 
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 ham-street, Dublin. 
 
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 ■william-place, Dublin, 
 
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 green, Dublin. 
 
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 Hampton Hall, Balbriggan. 
 
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 begs. 
 
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 Observatory, Dunsink. 
 
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 Richmond, Yorkshire. 
 
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 chester. 
 
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 London. 
 
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 lingar. 
 
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 Dean of Armagh, Glenville, Watergrass- 
 hill. 
 
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 per Fitzwilliam-street, Dublin. 
 
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 minster. 
 
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 leigh, Suffolk. 
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 Dublin. 
 
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 Welch Regt., Lisreaghane, Lawrencetown, 
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 low of Trinity College, Dublin. 
 
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 West, Dublin. 
 
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 Cork. 
 
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 caster. 
 
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 Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. 
 
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 Regent's-park, London. 
 
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 Joseph Lowell, Esq., London. 
 
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 Belfast. 
 
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 Rhetoric, St. Patrick's College, Maynooth. 
 
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 ton Hall, Newcaslle-under-Line. 
 
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 House, Marlborough-street, Dublin. 
 
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 Bonabrougha House, Wicklow. 
 
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 Glenarm. 
 
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 Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dub- 
 lin. 
 
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 Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. j 
 
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 lath's, Tuam. 
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 British Museum. 
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 Pierce Mahony, Esq., M. R. L A., William- 
 street, Dublin. 
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 London. 
 
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 cargy. 
 
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 Dublin. 
 
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 Edinburgh. 
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 Belfast. 
 
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 tine, Hillsborough. 
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 London. 
 
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 heny. 
 
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 j Francis O'Brien, Esq., Thurles. 
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 land, Newmarket-on-Fergus. 
 
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 moyle, Rallikeale. 
 
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 place, Dublin. 
 
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 Dalkey. 
 
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 Abbey, county of Kerry. 
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 nagare. County Roscommon. 
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 Dublin. 
 
 The O'Donovan, Montpelier, Douglas, Cork. 
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 Dublin. 
 
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 square, West, Dublin. 
 
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 nor of Malta, 
 
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 Blessington-street, Dublin. 
 
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 street, Dublin. 
 
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 Sir Colman M. O'Loghlen, Bart., Merrion- 
 square. South, Dublin. 
 
 Rev. Mortimer O'Sullivan, D. D., Killyman, 
 Dungannon. 
 
 Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M. P., 
 London. 
 
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 George Petrie, Esq., LL. D., R. H. A., 
 
 V. P. R. L A., Great Charles-st., Dublin. 
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 Broadway, Worcestershire, 
 
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 South, Dublin. 
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 Dorchester. 
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 corthy. 
 
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 Balbriggan. 
 
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 stream Guards, Stanhope-street, London. 
 
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 Under Secretary for Ireland, Dublin Cas- 
 tle. 
 
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 on-Suir. 
 
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 of St. Patrick's College, Maynooth. 
 
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 ory, Derby. 
 
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 Observatory, Armagh. 
 
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 College, Maynooth, 
 
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 Provost of Trinity College, Dublin. 
 
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 Dublin, 
 
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 nity College, Dublin. 
 
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 Dublin, Kimmage House. 
 
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 macross. 
 
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Evelyn Philip SLirley, Esq., Eatington Park, 
 
 Shiplon-on-Stour. 
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 Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. 
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 of Cashel, Thurles. 
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 Lower Baggot-street, Dublin. 
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 Dublin. 
 
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 England. 
 
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 Dublin. 
 
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 London. 
 
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 ville, Bart., M. P., Somerville, Drogheda. 
 
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 Park, Northamptonshire. 
 
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 terkenny. 
 
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 town. 
 
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 Regius Professor of Physic, Dublin. 
 
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 Patrick'.s, Dublin. 
 
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 row, Dublin. 
 
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 tory of Cottesmore, Oakham. 
 
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 hob, Skibbereen. 
 
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 ton Mallet, Somersetshire. 
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 liam-place, Dublin. 
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 son, Keadue, Carrick-on-Shannon. 
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 Inistiogue. 
 
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 square, Dublin. 
 
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 Dublin. 
 
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 Caerniarthenshire. 
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 South Wales. 
 
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 Edward Wright, Esq., Upper Leeson-street, 
 
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 Sligo. 
 
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 PUBLICATIONS FOR THE YEAR 184I. 
 
 L Tracts relating to Ireland, vol. L containing: 
 
 1. The Circuit of Ireland ; by Muircheartach Mac Neill, Prince of Aileach; a 
 Poem written in the year 942 by Cormacan Eigeas, Chief Poet of the North 
 of Ireland. Edited, with a Translation and Notes, and a Map of the Circuit, 
 by John O'Donovan, Esq. 
 
 2. "A Brife Description of Ireland, made in this year 1589, by Robert Payne, 
 vnto XXV. of his partners, for whom he is vndertaker there." Reprinted from 
 the second edition, London, 1590, with a Preface and Notes, by AauiLLA 
 Smith, M. D., M. R. I. A. 
 
 II. The Annals of Ireland, by James Grace of Kilkenny. Edited from the MS. 
 in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, in the original Latin, with a translation and 
 Notes, by the Rev. Richard Bdtx-er, A. B., M. R. I. A. 
 
 PUBLICATIONS FOR THE YEAR 1 842. 
 
 I. Cach rriuijhi Rach. The Battle of Magh Rath (Moira), from an ancient MS. 
 in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. Edited in the original Irish, with a Trans- 
 lation and Notes, by John O'Donovan. 
 
 II. Tracts relating to Ireland, voL 11. containing: 
 
 1. "A Treatise of Ireland ; by John Dymmok." Edited from a MS. in the 
 British Museum, with Notes, by the Rev. Richard Butler, A. B., M. R. I. A. 
 
 2. The Annals of Multifernam ; from the original MS. in the Library of Trinity 
 College, Dublin. Edited by Aquilla Smith, M. D., M. R. I. A. 
 
 3. A Statute passed at a Parliament held at Kilkenny, A. D. 1367; from a MS. 
 in the British Museum. Edited, with a Translation and Notes, by James 
 Hardiman, Esq., M. R. I. A. 
 
 PUBLICATIONS FOR THE YEAR 1 843. 
 I. An account of the Tribes and Customs of the District of Hy-Many, commonly 
 called O'Kelly's Country, in the Counties of Galway and Roscommon. Edited from 
 
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 the Book of Lecan in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, in the original Irish ; 
 with a Translation and Notes, and a Map of Hy-Many, by John O'Dosovan, Esq. 
 
 II. The Book of Obits and Martyrology of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, com- 
 monly called Christ Church, Dublin. Edited from the original MS. in the Library 
 of Trinity College, Dublin. By the Rev. John Clarke Ceosthwaite, A. M., Rector 
 of St. Mary-at-Hill, and St. Andrew Hubbart, London. With an Introduction by 
 James Henthorn Todd, D. D., V. P. R. I. A., Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. 
 
 PUBLICATIONS FOR THE YEAR I 844. 
 
 I. " Registrum Ecclesie Omnium Sanctorum juxta Dublin;" from the original 
 MS. in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. Edited by the Rev. Richard But- 
 ler, A. B., M. R. L A. 
 
 II. An Account of the Tribes and Customs of the District of Hy-Fiachrach, in 
 the Counties of Sligo and Mayo. Edited from the Book of Lecan, in the Library of 
 the Royal Irish Academy, and from a copy of the Mac Firbis MS. in the possession of 
 the Earl of Roden. With a Translation and Notes, and a Map of Hy-Fiachrach. By 
 John O'Donovan, Esq. 
 
 PUBLICATION FOR THE YEAR I 845. 
 
 A Description of West or H-Iar Connaught, by Roderic O'Flaherty, Author of 
 the Ogygia, written A. D. 1684. Edited from a MS. in the Library of Trinity 
 College, Dublin, with copious Notes and an Appendix. By James Hardiman, Esq., 
 M. R. I. A. 
 
 PUBLICATION FOR THE YEAR 1 846. 
 
 The Miscellany of the Irish Archaeological Society. Vol. I. containing : 
 _ 1. An ancient Poem attributed to St. Columbkille, with a Translation and Notes 
 by John O'Donovan, Esq. 
 
 2. De Concilio Hiberniae ; the earliest extant record of a Parliament in Ireland; 
 with Notes by the Rev. R. Butler. 
 
 3. Copy of the Award as concerning the TolboU (Dublin) : contributed by Dr. 
 Aqdilla Smith. 
 
 4. Pedigree of Dr. Dominick Lynch, Regent of the Colledge of St. Thomas of 
 Aquin, in Seville, A. D. 1674: contributed by James Hardi>l\n, Esq. 
 
 5. A Latin Poem, by Dr. John Lynch, Author of Cambrensis Eversus, in reply 
 to the Question, Cur in patriam non redis f Contributed by James Hardi- 
 man, Esq. 
 
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 6. The Obits of Kilcormick, now Frankfort, King's County: contributed by the 
 Eev. J. H. Todd. 
 
 7. Ancient Testaments: contributed by Dr. Aquilla Smith. 
 
 8. Autograph Letter of Thady O'Roddy: with some Notices of the Author by 
 the Rev. J. H. Todd. 
 
 9. Autograph Letter of Oliver Cromwell to his Son, Harry Cromwell, Com- 
 mander in Chief in Ireland: contributed by Dr. A. Smith. 
 
 10. The Irish Charters in the Book of Kells, with a Translation and Notes by 
 John O'Donovan, Esq. 
 
 11. Original Charter granted by John Lord of Ireland, to the Abbey ofMelli- 
 font: contributed by Dr. A. Smith. 
 
 12. A Journey to Connaught in 1709 by Dr. Thomas Molyneux: contributed by 
 Dr. a. Smith. 
 
 13. A Covenant in Irish between Mageoghegan and the Fox; with a Translation, 
 and historical Notices of the two Families, by John O'Donovan, Esq. 
 
 14. The Annals of Ireland, from A. D. 1453 to 1468, translated from a lost Irish 
 original, by Dudley Firbisse; with Notes by J. O'Donovan, Esq. 
 
 PUBLICATION FOR THE YEAR I 847. 
 
 The Irish Version of the " Historia Britonum" of Nennius, or, as it is called in 
 Irish MSS., f-eabap 6pecnac, the British Book. Edited from the book of Balimote, 
 collated with copies in the Book of Lecan, and in the Library of Trinity College, 
 Dublin, with a Translation and Notes by James Henthorn Todd, D. D., M. R. I. A., 
 Fellow of Trinity College, &c. ; and Additional Notes and an Introduction by the 
 Hon. Algernon Herbert. 
 
 PUBLICATION POR THE YEAR I 848. 
 
 The Latin Annalists of Ireland ; edited, with introductory Remarks and Notes, by 
 the Very Rev. Richard Butler, M. R. I. A., Dean of Clanmorris, — viz. : 
 
 1. The Annals of Ireland, by John Clyn, of Kilkenny ; from a MS. in the Library 
 of Trinity College, Dublin, collated with another in the Bodleian Library, 
 Oxford. 
 
 2. The Annals of Ireland, by Thady Dowling, Chancellor of Leighlin. From a 
 MS. in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. 
 
 WORKS IN THE PRESS. 
 
 1. Cormac's Glossary; with a Translation and Notes by John O'Donovan and 
 Eugene Curry, Esqrs. 
 
 II. 
 
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 II. Macariae Excidium, the Destruction of Cyprus; being a secret History of the 
 Civil War in Ireland under James II., by Colonel Charles O'Kelly. Edited in the 
 Latin, from a MS. presented by the late Professor Mac CuUagh to the Library of the 
 Royal Irish Academy; with a translation, by Denis Henry Kelly, Esq.; and Notes 
 by John O'Callaghan, Esq. 
 
 PUBLICATIONS SUGGESTED OR IN PROGRESS. 
 
 The following Works are many of them nearly ready for the Press, and will be 
 undertaken as soon as the funds of the Society will permit: 
 
 I. The Irish Archaeological Miscellany, vol. n. 
 
 II. The Annals of Ulster. With a Translation and Notes. Edited from a MS. 
 in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, collated with the Translation made for Sir 
 James Ware by Dudley or Duald Mac Firbis, a MS. in the British Museum, by James 
 Henthorn Todd, D. D., M. R. I. A., and John O'Donovan, Esq.. M. R.I. A. 
 
 III. The Annals of InnisfaUen ; from a MS. in the Bodleian Library, Oxford ; with 
 a Translation and Notes by John O'Donovan, Esq. 
 
 IV. Ecclesiastical Taxation of Ireland, circ. 1500. Edited from the original Ex- 
 chequer Rolls, in the Carlton-Ride Record Office, London, with Notes, by the Rev. 
 William Reeves, M. B., of Trinity College, Dublin. 
 
 V. The Liber Hymnorum ; from the original MS. in the Library of Trinity Col- 
 lege, Dublin. Edited by the Rev. James Henthorn Todd, D. D., JI. R. I. A., Fellow 
 of Trinity College, and the Rev. William Reeves, M. B., M. R. I. A. 
 
 VI. Sir William Petty's Narrative of his Proceedings in the Survey of Ireland ; 
 from a MS. in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. Edited, with Notes, by Thos. 
 A. Larcom, Esq., Major R. E., V. P. R. I. A. 
 
 VII. Articles of Capitulation and Surrender of Cities, Towns, Castles, Forts, &c., 
 in Ireland, to the Parliamentary Forces, from A. D. 1649 to 1654. Edited, with His- 
 torical Notices, by James Hardiman, Esq., M. R. I. A. 
 
 VIII. The Genealogy and History of the Saints of Ireland : from the Book of 
 Lecan. Edited, with a Translation and Notes, by John O Donovax, Esq., and James 
 Henthorn Todd, D. D. 
 
 IX. An Account of the Firbolgs and Danes of Ireland, by Duald Mac Firbis, from 
 a MS. in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin ; with a Translation and Notes, by 
 John O'Donovan, Esq. 
 
 X. 6oiKiina. The Origin and History of the Boromean Tribute. Edited from a 
 MS. in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, with a Translation and Notes, by Eu- 
 gene Curry, Esq. 
 
 XI. 
 
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 XI. The Progresses of the Lords Lieutenant in Ireland; from MSS. in the Library 
 of Trinity College, Dublin. Edited by Joseph Huband Smith, Esq., A. M., M. R. I. A. 
 
 XII. A Treatise on the Ogham or occult Forms of Writing of the ancient Irish ; 
 from a MS. in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin ; with a Translation and Notes, 
 and preliminary Dissertation, by the Rev. Charles Graves, A. M., M. R. I. A., Fellow 
 of Trinity College, and Professor of Mathematics in the University of Dublin. 
 
 XIII. The Topographical Poems of O'Heerin and O'Duggan; with Notes by John 
 O'DoNOVAN, Esq. 
 
 XIV. CojQD ^aoioeal pe ^al'l'd'^'. The Wars of the Irish and Danes. Edited, 
 with a Translation and Notes, from a MS. in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, 
 collated with a MS. in the handwriting of Fr. Michael O'Clery, now in the 
 Burgundian Library at Brussels. By James Henthorn Todd, D. D., and John 
 O'DoNOVAN, Esq. 
 
 In addition to the foregoing projected Publications, there are many important 
 works in the contCTiplation of the Council, which want of funds alone prevents the 
 possibility of their undertaking, such as the Brehon Laws, the Dinnseanchus, the 
 Annals of Connaught, the Annals of Tigernach, &c., &c. 
 
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