MASTER NEGATIVE NO. 92-80650 MICROFILMED 1992 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES/NEW YORK as part of the "Foundations of Western Civilization Preservation Project" Funded by the NATIONAL ENDOV/MENT FOR THE HUMANITIES Reproductions may not be made without permission from Columbia University Library COPYRIGHT STATEMENT The copyright law of the United States - Title 17 United SS?.^' " T''""' *^ ^^"g °f photocopies o^t^er reproductions of copyrighted material.. Columbia University Library reserves the ri<^ht to refn.« to wou5 fnvT °''7 ^' '" lodgement, MfflSLen o^^^^^^^^^ w ou,d mvolve violation of the copyright law. AUTHOR: DUBLIN, CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF HOLY ... TITLE: ACCOUNT ROLL OF THE PRIORY OF THE HOLY.. 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Ok. )^^fe LIBRARY I ii'ri [■■—liiAiiiiiii . tJtt^lmimt \) ACCOUNT ROLL OF THE PEIOEY OF THE HOLY TRINITY, DUBLIN 1337-1346 BRING THE EXTRA VOLUME OF THK J!topaI ^ocictp of StittiquariCiBf of Sl^elanH FOR 1890-1891 ■X- I'lHHHim— WSiK^B'WBKSBtpSiSa'pi"'^ ■ ri«P»- ''« \ / i i (u INTRODUCTION. \ ; 1 1 A MONG the large number of early deeds and documents preserved by the care of the canons of Christ Church, Dublin, and saved from dispersion by the fact that that house was not suppressed with the other religious houses in the 16th century, is a group of early Accounts gathered together by some old-time antiquarian canon. These Accounts have been stitched together so as to form a roll of parchment 1 1 feet 8^ inches in length, and from 8| to llj inches in breadth. They are now placed as No. 235 in the Christ Church collection preserved in the Public Eecord Office, Dublin. This Roll consists of four distinct documents forming the Accounts II. to Y. printed in this volume. They must have been collected and sewn together for preservation long, probably not less than 100 years, after they were made. They stand on the Roll in this order, V., II., III., IV. Accompanying this Roll is another membrane forming part of tlie seneschal's account for parts of the years 1337-13^9. This membrane, though in excellent condition itself, is but a portion of a much longer account, having been originally preceded and fol- lowed by other membranes, as is shown by marks of stitching, and by a decayed fragment still attached to the top. In the course of a careful examination of some detached and defaced parchments accompanying the Christ Church collection, made after its removal to the Record Office, a mutilated fragment was found which proved to be an earlier part of this account, and was restored to its place with it. This membrane and fragment form Account I. in this volume. b i .' .'-. ■f I .1 ( ^ Introduction. Tlie Eoll attracted the attention of Dr. Lyon when examining the Christ Church records for the preparation of the Nocmn Megistmm, towards the middle of tlie last century. But its length probably deterred him from having it copied into tl,e Kegister hke the other documents whicli he at the same time selected ; and there are entered there only the headings of the four accounts with his description of it as " an ancient roll of Accounts which' contains things of no great moment, as it appears to me, reading It with some care" (" vetus Rotulus computorum qui continet res baud magni momenti, ut mihi videtur perlegenti eum non negli- genter"). Archdall, in his Mom.ticon, makes only the followino- • brief reference to it : " iy44.-An old parchment of the acts of the priory of this year informs us, that a pair of shoes was bought for the prior at the price of five pence." ° The Koll remained therefore practically unknown until the rebuilding of the church in 1872 rendered it necessary to secure a place of safety for its muniments, and the original documents were transferred to the Record Ollice. There, after some years they were carefully examined, and a calendar of the more ancient published. The portion of this calendar containing a notice of this Roll appeared as an appendix to the 20th Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Records in 1888 ; but enclosed in the cover of a Blue Book this notice failed to gain attention, until in 1890 tlie publication of the Roll in its entirety was proposed to the Council of the Society. The Prior's Expenditure. First in interest among the subjects dealt with in these accounts are the particulars of expenses incurred for the Prior and his chamber.' The term Prior's chamber meant the suite of apart- ments appropriated to the use of the Prior and his retinue.^ It 'Pages 1-16, D9-101, 113-118. _ ^ To illustralc the comprehensiveness of the term, I may point to Toulouse Abbev for 18 bed, and among many other articles, three horses, a eolt, and two nml 1 1 Jf«««m, Soc. Arch, du Midi * la Frmm, tome xiv., p. 7. mults.- Introduction. j£ must have included at least a hall for meals and reception of visitors, a sleeping room or cell, and accommodation for the Prior's retainers,' including a chamberlain, esquires, and garciones or serving men.' There is no indication of its position among the conventual buildings. Nor have we any inventory of its contents, but occasional purchases of articles required for it, give some idea of Its furniture. The floors were bare, as there is no purchase of litter to cover them. A substantial table was bought for 6. 1,^ Tins was probably a regular table for tlie Prior's use, to replace the boards and trestles in general use, whicli may still have been retained here for the tables of the household. Chairs, seats, and stools of straw were used. These were not bought ready-made, but a man was employed to make them and paid 16,/. for his work (p. 97). These may have resembled the chairs, foot-stools and mats of straw work, made like the old beehives which were still in frequent use in Dublin until some years ago. The table appointments were for the most part of pewter or more properly tin (pcutreum). On one occasion 12 dishes,' 12 plates, 12 saucers or sauce vessels, and two large dishes or chargers of this metal were bought at a cost of 7.->. (p. 89). They were considered sutficiently valuable to employ a goldsmith to mark them, who was paid 9rf. for doing so. Mustard, which was much used, was brought to table in small earthenware pots, three of which were bought for Id. The lock and key for the chamber cost 3rf. ; y. was spent on earthenware vessels whose use is not specified. Fuel is occasionally bought ; and candles cost Zd. for 21b. There is only an incidental notice of chamber or table linen m the payment of the washerwoman, whose charge for half a-year ending Easter was 6rf. (p. 99). The Prior himself was warmly clad in tunic or coat of woollen cloth, over which he wore a surcoat, or the longer capa, each of which as well as his hood were plentifully furred (pp. 88-90) Shoes or boots, and gloves completed his street dress. Thus clad he must have appeared abroad in very much the ordinary dress of laymen of corresponding position. For religious dress he was b 2 -i ■ Xll hit rod action. Introduction. xui ( furnished witli rocliets, over which a furred amice hung from liis Fhoulders to his waist.^ The amice worn by the prior and canons at a later time was of gray fur, lined with minever (p. 177). In addition he had special robes prepared for the great festivals, Christmas and Easter.^ The Prior rode abroad on liis own palfrey, whose groom w^as a lay official called palfredarius. The seneschal also had a horse for his journeys, for which he paid 19.v. 8^/. The housings of the l)alfrey and of another horse cost \M. ; two pairs of spurs for the Prior and seneschal cost M, and the seneschal's saddle and bridle 4.v. 6^/. The household retained by the Prior seems to have varied considerably. It consisted generally of one or two esquires, or clerks, who could be employed on responsible duties, such as over- seeing the harvest of the manors, commanding the levies of the ])riory tenants at hostings, and going on the more important missions for the Prior ; a chamberlain or housekeeper ; a palfreyman ; a cook ; and servingmen (garciones). Among his retinue were naturally often included relatives of the Prior. At times when a need for retrenchment was pressing the household was much reduced. At one time it consisted apparently of one chaplain and a cook only fp. 99). At such times the seneschal undertook direct charge of the Prior's chamber.^ As at other religious houses the more prominent guests were entertained at the Prior's table. One account gives the names of * Ilelyot, "Hist, des Ordres Monastiques," ii., p. 23. 2 Woollen cloth for 2 tunics cost 25. llrt. ; making 4 tunics 16^. ; tailor for making 2 robes for Prior \M. ; making tunic and hood for esquire Id. ; gloves, hd. a pair. 3 A fuller illustration of household arrangements is supplied by the corrody granted by the Prior of Kilmainham (p. 170). This shows the Prior of' that house sitting at the high table in his great hall, like a lay lord, M-hile his retainers sat at different lables in other parts of the hall according to their rank. Honoured guests were entertained at the Prior's own table ; clergy at the table of the brethren, which appears there to have been in the great hall instead of a separate refectory ; and the retainers of the guest at the tables of the Prior's retainers of similar standing. When Walter de Istelep, to whom this grant was made, so wished he might mess m his own house w ithin the priory close with his chaplain and 4 principal retainers, receiving then 10 gallons of the best ale, with meat as he desired from the kitchen, and certain quantities uf bread. the guests so entertained for a period covering about four months, in 1337-8, During these four months about 35 guests are named, besides on twelve occasions indefinite reference to " others " or '* strangers." Among those named are the justices itinerant, who seem to have been formally entertained in their judicial capacity, the sheriff of the county and his followers, the archbishop's chancellor, the prior of S. Wolstan's in Co. Kildare, with his retinue of 2 canons and esquires, the prior of Holmpatrick in the north of Co. Dublin, the friars preachers and chaplains of Arklow. Of 25 others named 7 were prominent Dublin citizens, 2 local ecclesiastics, 2 government officials, 4 prominent men of the county, several holding land from the Priory ; 3 were principal tenants of the manors belonging to the Priory, 2 were persons having business relations with the house, the remaining 5 only being not identified as neighbours or friends of the Priory. Casual strangers are comparatively rare, however, here, as the wealthier visitors to Dublin more commonly put up at Thomas-court, Mary's-abbey, and other houses outside the city walls. In the Prior's chamber there were three meals daily : break- fast, dinner (apparently about noou^), and supper. The introduction of breakfast was an indulgence copied perhaps from the Prior's secular neighbours, the townsmen." The table though not supplied with the lavish variety to be found, somewhat earlier, in the Household Expense Books of Bishop Swinfield (Camden Soc), was yet by no means ascetic. The English bishop's household observed two days a week for abstinence from flesh ; the Dublin Prior abstained on Friday only. Breakfast was at least sometimes a substantial meal, including bread, capons, pasties, oysters or salmon, and wine or ale. 1 Mr. Wright says that the dinner hour in England about this time was from 10 to 11 a.m. — Hist, of JJoniestic Manners. 2 The writer of the description of England in Holinshed speaks of breakfast as a serious degeneracy of past times in England from which his country had in the sixteenth century recovered, in his own words, " Now these od repasts thanked be God are verie well left, and eche one in maner (except here and there some yoong hungrie stomach that cannot fast till dinner tiuje) contenteth himself with dinner and supper." ■> lip )^ I iiiBMiii iiii||pji^Miii|iiiMi,i|ii XIV Introduction. Introduction. XV •I I I Dinner and supper were substantial, with abundance of meat, but without many different dishes. The principal articles of food were bread, beef and mutton, fowls, capons, geese (in autumn), and less frequently lamb (in season), pork, pigeons, goslings, rabbits, larks, plovers.' As an example, the following is a bill of fare for a dinner and supper to the sheriff of the county and some of his followers :— Dinner, wine dd. ; 5 baked pasties of fowl 91./. Supper, wine ^(L ; roast fowls 4(L ; half a lamb 2cL ; roast beef 4(t. (p. 8). This was only the 12th February, and lamb had already appeared at table on the preceding day— a quarter of lamb, hi. Very frequently the dishes were apparently bought ready cooked. The Priory stood some 100 yards from the Vicus Cocorum " the street of the cooks,'' still known as Cook-street, though the name has now quite lost its old significance. From the cook shops here came, no doubt, many of the dishes for the Prior's table, including the pies and pasties occasionally mentioned. On one occasion there is an entry of a present of hi. from the Prior to two cooks in the Cook-street (p. 111). In Lent, and ou Fridays, tliere was a plentiful supply of fish. Salmon, oysters, stock-fish (salted cod, c^c), and herrings, were most common, but there were also eels, trout, turbot, tublynges, plaice, gurnard, salted eels ; and other kinds may be included under the term " fish," used frequently ; salmon pasties also occur. These days of abstinence were not marked by any other privation than that of the change of fish for flesh. Thus, one of the most elaborate dinners mentioned was upon an Ash- Wednesday, when the bill of fare included, herrings, 6./., white fish, 12r/., salmon, 18./., for cooking it, 2./., almonds and rice," 4./., ginger and mustard, |af. Pread was in use at every meal. This was made in the Priory bake-house, but the frequency with which bread was bought for ' A carcase of beef cost 9s., of mutton 1*. 1^. to Is. id., of pork 2*. 2c/., a quarter of lamb Id., a capon 2d., fowl about Id. each, a goose Sd. - Almonds and rice are in these A-.counts almost always mentioned together B(X)rde m his " Dyetary of Health " (E.E.T.S), says that - Kvce potage made with almou mylke, doth restore and doth comfort nature." the Prior's table suggests that that made in the house was not very good. In the later accounts a finer kind of bread, Panisdominicus, lord's bread, the paindemaine of Chaucer and other contemporary writers, was frequently used by the Prior, especially for guests of more than usual importance. Butter and cheese were in common use. The only vegetable mentioned at table is the onion, and this but rarely. Beans and peas were largely grown, but were eaten only by the labourers and the horses. Among groceries and foreign produce (which were in proportion much higher in price than the home-grown articles) are olive oil {6(1. a quart), almonds, walnuts, rice (usually in conjunction with almonds), salt, white salt (the best qualities, the cheaper salts being very impure), pepper (20^/. a lb.), verjuice, figs (2d. alb,), mustard, saffron, spices. Fruit is very rare ; pears appear once when the archbishop was entertained (p. 112). The standing drink at every meal was ale for beer). It was made in the Priory bre^v-house, under the direction of the cellarer. The home-brewed ale was probably not very good, as ale is fre- quently bought for the Prior's table. But the Prior and his guests were not limited to ale ; wine is a continually recurring article, purchased sometimes two or three times in a day. it was but a step from the Priory gate to the street of wine shops, still called Winetavern-street, and so wine was bought as needed, by the quart or gallon. The price was 5d. or 6d. a gallon. White wine is sometimes distinguished, but is bought at the same price. Wine w^as usually bought retail, but was sometimes laid in in wood. It was then bought from a merchant named Stephen de Gascoyne, and if the wine came from the same quarter as the merchant's name, it was probably a claret. Piment (a drink made with wine, honey, and various spices) rarely occurs, and then only as a present for the archbishop. Such are the illustrations of life in the Prior's chamber. To complete its picture, there are a few entries relative to death there. In 1-346 the Prior, Simon de Ludgate, died. There is no entry of the emj)loyment of a physician, none at least was paid, and there was -\ XVI Tntroductlon. only one purchase of medicine, viz. rose-water and sugar, for 14r/. These not very active remedies were insufficient in the Prior's case, as is shown by the fact that the next entries are preparations for his burial. The body was, no doubt, arrayed in his canonicals, but a pair of pinsons, or leather shoes, were bought for 3r/. for his feet. The boards and nails, and the making of the coffin, cost 4s. Only one entry occurs about him after the cost of the coffin. This was the expenditure of 10|r/. for paiudemaine, wdne, and ale, for the dean of St. Patrick's, and others, at the Prior's wake. The next item in the account (p. 113) is a breakfast given by the Prior elect to his brethren, whose votes had advanced liim to be Prior and lord of Parliament. Tliere were good reasons why no delay should occur in the appointment of a successor. On tlie last three occasions of vacancies, the escheator had endeavoured, in the name of the Crown, to seize the possessions of the House during the vacancy. It was, therefore, important that no time should be lost in raising up a Prior legally entitled to hold the lands. Prior de Ludgate's death is put down in the Obits at Sept. 6. This was a Wednesday ; on tlie following Sunday tlie required preliminaries had been gone tlirougli, and the Prior elect entertained his brethren, although brother Jolin Dolfyn, who seems to have been Sub-Prior, was absent at Ivillenaule, in Co. Tipperary. On Wednesday after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, a fortnight from the death of bis predecessor, the new Prior was installed, and gave his modest installation dinner, consisting of two geese, 2d. worth of roast meat, and \d. wortli of wine and ale (p. 115). The new Prior did not for some time, take up his quarters in the Prior's chamber, and instead, entertained his guests in the Sacristy. The Priors who ruled the House at the times of these accounts were : — 1320-25. Hugh de Sutton, called also le Joevene, or le Jeune, became Prior about 1320, having been a canon of the House for over 20 years. He resigned in 1325 (Cotton says in June), and his resignation was made the occasion of putting forward the claim of the Crown to the possessions of the vacant Priory, which Introduction. xvii for more than 20 years was a source of annoyance and expense to the House. On retirement, he was given a pension, and allotted a separate chamber in the Monastery, where he could occasionally entertain guests (p. 115). 1326-31. E/obert of Gloucester succeeded. He was, perhaps, not a canon of the House. In 1315 he appeared as proctor of the abbey of Lanthony near Gloucester, in a suit against the Bishop of Meath. While Prior, he became a baron of the Exchequer. In 1330, he obtained a royal license to erect a battlemented bell tower, but his deatli early in the following year must have pre- vented his carrying this work into execution, 1331-7. Roger Goioun succeeded, and ruled until 1337, on the 6th July in which year he was deposed. Though frequent references to the fact of liis deposition occur, neither the registers of the church, the Papal regesta, nor the public records, seem to contain any explanation of the cause. No mention is made of him afterwards, except in connexion with the claims of the escheator on the possessions, or the debts left from his time of rule. That he was not, however, lost sight of, or excluded from communion, may be assumed from his obit being entered in the Mortilogium, where, at Aug. 4, is " Ob. Rogerus Goyowne prior noster." 1337-43. Gilbert de Bolyniop was elected to succeed. He was Prior during the period covered by account I., and resigned about the middle of the year 1343, when account II. begins. On resignation he was allowed a pension of two marks a-year. He was living in 1346, when the accounts end. 1343-6. Simon de Ludegate followed. He was a canon of the House. He is the Prior mentioned in accounts II., III., IV., and the earlier entries of V. He died 6 Sept., 1346. Notices of his death and burial occur on pp. 113-4. 1346-8. Robert de Hereford was at once elected to succeed. Entries connected with his election and installation may be found on pp. 113-5. In the following month (October, 1346), he attended a Parliament at Kilkenny. He died, 1348, and was succeeded by Stephen de Derby, a canon of the House, who con- tinued to rule it for more than 30 j^ears. XVlll In trod act ion. The Convent. Of the Convent itself the accounts give only incidental notices. It was a small body. There is no indication of its numbers at the time of these accounts, but a document of 1300, wliich appears to name all the members,^ specifies only eleven brethren, and a visita- tion in 1468 states that it included only the Prior and seven canons. The officials mentioned, beside the Prior, were the sub-prior, the seneschal, cellarer, and kitchener (besides which were a sacrist and precentor). The seneschal managed the extern business of the House under tlie Prior, received rents, presided at the courts of the manors belonging to the House, directed the home farms, and sometimes looked after the housekeeping of the Prior's chamber. The cellarer saw to supplies of corn for the House, and controlled the brew-house and bake-liouse which supplied the ale and bread consumed. A specimen of a cellarer's account is printed in the Appendix (p. 202). The kitchener directed the supply of food (other than bread) for the refectory. In other monasteries he was subordinate to the ceiiarer, but in tliis Priory he was an important functionary, several of whose successors became Priors. The brethren included among their numbers two ex- Priors, Hugh de Sutton, or le Jeune, who had resigned the office of Prior in 1325, and Gilbert de Polyniop, who resigned in 1337. The latter had a pension of two marks ; the former somewhat more. These ex-Priors probably possessed special privileges, occupying separate chambers, where they sometimes entertained guests (p. 115). We have no account of dietary in the refectory, similar to that of the Prior's chamber. This would have been supplied by the kitchener's accounts. But though the passing of such accounts is referred to, none survive. We are, tlierefore, left to cull incidental notices from the seneschal's accounts. These tend to suggest that if indulgence may have crept into the Prior's cliamber it was not extended to the refectory. There were here, probably, only two meals a day, dinner and supper, though a breakfast for the 1 Christ Church Deeds, No. 164. Introduction. XIX brethren is mentioned on the special occasion of the election of a new Prior. Bread was provided in considerable quantities ; when purchased, the day's supply cost 16^/. (p. 119). Debts of the kitchener paid to fishermen show that fish was used. Ale was, under ordinary circumstances, the drink exclusively used in the refectory, a day's supply costing 16^. (p. 119), or somewhat less. Wine appears to have been granted only on great festivals. A list of the days upon which wine was provided for the refectory is given in one of the accounts. It includes only twelve days in the year— Christmas, Epiphany, Purification, Easter-day, Ascension— on each of which 15^/. worth of wine was allowed. Circumcision, St. Patrick, Invention of the Holy Cross, lOr/. each. Palm Sunday, Vigil of Easter, Tuesday after Easter, Sunday after Easter, 5^/. each (pp. 101-2, see also pp. 6, 119). The refectory was, however, on some occasions at least, provided with a varied menu—\}i\Q Ash Wednesday dinner, mentioned before, having been served there. Other portions of the accounts give some idea of life outside the Convent. The seneschal, the Prior, and others, found it necessary to go abroad on business of various kinds. These journeyings were made on horseback, the brother on his horse being attended by a servant on foot, who took charge of the horse. The roads were, no doubt, much too bad to give the horseman much advan- tage in speed over his follower, who was, however, sometimes mounted. Another fact which, perhaps, also illustrates the badness of the roads, is the frequency with which it was necessary to have the horses' shoes attended to, being almost a daily charge in the travelling expenses. One journey, made by the Prior (pp. 1-3), will serve to illus- trate the manner of travelling : the Prior, accompanied by the seneschal and a few followers on horseback, started from Dublin on a Tuesday in November, for Balscadden, a manor near Bal- briggan, belonging to the Priory. lOJr/. worth of wine (about two gallons) was sent from Dublin for their use. Food was pro- vided from the larder of the manor house, the only article which it was found necessary to purchase being candles. The party remained at Balscadden on Wednesday and Thursday ; started XX Introduction. Introduction, XXI northward on Friday for another manor of the Priory at Drum- shallon, Co. Louth, about six miles north of Drogheda. Passing tlirough the latter, they stopped and bought bread, wine, ale, oysters, butter, clieese, and fish, on which, no doubt, they dined. Before evening, they rode on the remaining six miles to Drum- shallon, where it was necessary to buy 4f/. worth of ale to accom- pany the manor-farmliouse supper. Tlie stock here seems to have been so low, or so bad, that the next day ale, wine, oysters, fish, and even oats for the horses, had to be bought. On Sunday tlte party were back in Droglieda, where they again dined at tlieir own expense, notwithstanding the number of religious houses in the town, which miglit be expected to show tliem hospitality. It is not stated where this night was spent, but the following day finds them on the road homeward, taking refreshment at Swords, and on Tuesday the Prior is at home, receiving liis guests. The travelling represents an average journey of less than twenty miles a-day. General messages were committed to foot servants, who received an allowance for expenses of about Id. a-day. These were quite as expeditious as the mounted travellers, and seem to cover more than twenty miles a-day. To such messengers responsible duties, such as the collection of small sums of money, were sometimes entrusted. The most complete statement of the income of tlie House is to be found in the valuation of its property at p. 200, in Appendix. To the total of £226 there given (which includes property in Dublin diocese only) must be added the value of Killenaule and other possessions in Co. Tipperary ; Drumshallon, &c., Co. Loutli ; and the property in Lecale, Co. Down. These should bring the total to at least £240. In addition still, the offerings in church had been, in 1300, estimated at as much as £40 a-year.^ Taking them even at half this, the Convent must have been worth say £260 a-year. It is a very difficult and in many respects mis- leading thing to suggest any certain proportion between the value of money in mediteval times and now ; but, accepting as an approxi- mate average proportion, 1 to 15, which has been adopted by the 1 Christ Church Deeds, No. 164. editor of Bishop Swinfield's " Household Book," the income of Holy Trinity Priory would be equal to nearly £4000 of modern money. ^ Not a very great sum for the position w^hich the Priory occupied in the country ! It may be observed that this sum is much in excess of the income dealt with in the accounts. No. II. affords us the best means of estimating the revenue dealt with. The total receipts for a period of about half-a-year (omitting £5, which appears to be a balance in hand) were £72 19s. 8c/. Of this, however, no less than £16 was money advanced as loans. Setting this apart, the remainder represents an annual income of about £112. This, however, is only that part of the revenues applicable to the general expenses managed by the treasurer of the House. Separate portions of the revenue were allocated to the expenses of the cellarer, kitchener, sacrist, and other convent officers. An account of a cellarer may be seen on p. 202. The small total of £11 lO*. 9c/. shown there does not at all represent the amount required for the cellar. It only indicates the sums of money which passed through the cellarer's hands. In addition, he seems to have received all the surplus produce of the manors of Clonken, Gorman, and Glasnevin.^ The kitchener, too, must have had a considerable fund at his disposal, including probably the large property owned in the city of Dublin. Farmyards and Workmen. Another very interesting portion of the accounts is that which relates to the management of the home farms. At Grangegorman (pp. 36-40), the farm buildings included a hall, off which were some private rooms. Hound the yard stood a barn (kept dry by having its earthen floor raised above the general level of the ground), a malt house, workshop, and haggard ; the latter separated by a mud wall from the cowhouse and cattle yard. The great ^ A lower relative value has been assigned to the money of the period by other authorities, but they have based their calculations on higher prices and wages than those current in these accounts. 2 See Haggard Accounts, p. 78, &c. -JL. jjjjii Iiifroducfion. gate was strengthened with 200 great nails, called spikings. The bam and workshop were also secured with strong doors, and the two locks for them cost 7d. Near the malt house was a well, from which the water was raised by a bucket attached to an iron chain. The bucket cost 5(/. ; the chain was made in the farm •workshop. . On the manor farm of Clonken there was a similar group of buildings, as to the erection of which we have some details (pp. 60-1). They were probably not very substantial. We meet a mention of the fall of the cowhouse, which broke the head of one of Ihe labourers (p. 79). Yet he was not so seriously wounded but that a gift of two pecks of corn, to enable him to lie up for a time, could cure him. The ruin of the cowhouse, however, seems to have been complete, and it had to be entirely rebuilt. Timber was bought and brought from Glenwhery at a cost of 3s. 6(;. A carpenter took 10 days to make and put up the wooden frame of the house, which was apparently 16 yards long. The walls were erected by contract or piecework at 8rf. a perch. They consisted apparently of mud, an instrument or vessel having been used to throw water on them in course of construction. Hurdles and wattle were used in the construction of another outhouse, but whether for walls or root is not stated. All the farm buildings were thatched with straw, in applying which quantities of mud were used (pp. 37-8). _ The clumsy farm-cnrts had to be bound together with iron bands and clamps, or tied round with ropes to keep them from shaking to pieces over the uneven roads. Their solid wooden wheels were bound with iron. In the country districts a vehicle called a " car " is distinguished from the carecta or cart. It seems to have been a kind of sledge without wheels, used for field work. The ploughs were almost entirely of wood, with an iron share. Wooden spades seem to have been used, sometimes tipped with iron (p. 41). In connexion with the frequent repairs of the farm buildings and utensils, are many examples of the rates of wages. Carpenters Introduction. xxm > I 1 9. 4. were hired generally at 2(L a-day with board ; sometimes without board at 2d. or 2J-r/.^ Smiths' wages 2d. a-day with board. Labourers when engaged for short periods received with hardly an exception 1^?. a-day. Thatchers rarely 2d. a-day, generally the same as ordinary labourers. (Thatchers in England at this time had about 2^^/. a-day). Women employed as helpers to thatchers, &c., got only ^d. a-day. The money wages of permanently employed servants was very small. Thus the bailiff, the responsible manager, or steward as he would now be called, of the farm and manor, took in money wages only 6.s. 8(/. a-year. Ploughmen and carters 5.v. a-year. Drivers of the plough-teams 4s. a-year. Small additions of a few pence seem to have been made to the more deserving of these men (p. 34). But the chief part of the remuneration of these workmen consisted of allowances of corn for the food of them and their families. The bailiff of Clonken (p. 84) got 8 bushels of wheat, heaped measure, every 10 weeks. The ploughmen and other permanent farm workmen were allowed 6\ bushels in the same time. Such allowances were governed, or rather perhaps, the custom relating to them was recognized, by the earliest extant statute of an Irish Parliament, 53 Hen. III., which enacted that servants who were accustomed to receive corn for their food should receive only a quarter of London measure for twelve weeks (Betham, Constitution, p. 254). The allowances made to the workmen at Clonken approximated closely to the quantities specified in this statute. The food allowance made to the bailiff was entirely in wheat. But thos6 of the workmen, though estimated in wheat, were partly given in peas and beans, and in some mixed corn, the produce of the tolls taken in the manor mill. When these were substituted for the wheat, they were given in larger ^ The average rate of wages of carpenters in England at the same time was over Zd. a-day. Thorold Rogers, "Hist, of Agriculture and Prices." XXIV Introduction. Introduction. XXV quantities, 8 peeks of peas, beans, or mixed corn, being given as an equivalent to 7 pecks of wheat (pp. 81-5). Tlie actual allow- nnce for food made to one of these men during a year was 2 crannocs 5i bushels of wheat, H cranuoc of peas and beans, and more than \ crannoo of the mixed corn from the mill, the craunoo representing about a quarter. These allowances seem to be a sufficient quantity for the food of an average family. They may sometimes have left a small surplus to be exchanged for clothes and other necessaries. There is no indication of any other source of profit except the produce of the fowl, which must have been kept universally by the cottagers, as is shown by the payment of a hen at Christmas being a usual part of their service. Except the small portion of grain from the mill the allowance does not include any grain suitable for malting ; the money payments could have afforded very little for the purchase of meat • so we may perhaps conclude that the farm labourer 8 family must have lived mainly on wheat products and pulse, and without other drink than water. The farm servants lived in cottages near the manor, for whicli they paid rents of about Is. a-year, sometimes as much as 2«.-a very considerable portion of their slender money earnings. The village of Grangegorman consisted almost entirely of the farm servants, most of whom had no surnames apart from the name of their occupation. Of the 16 cottagers here, 3 were " holders " or ploughmen, 1 a plough " driver," 2 carters, a Ume burner, and a thresher. Poem. The accounts contain incidental notices of a great number of other matters bearing on the social and economic state of Dublin and its neighbourhood in the fourteenth century. But it is notice- able that among all the payments in these accounts there is not a single penny spent on books. There are repeated entries of the purchase of parchments for legal purposes, rentals, a>id letters, but not one entry of the purchase of books or of parchment for literary use in tlie Priory Scriptorium. But this neglect of the Scriptorium was soon to be removed. Under Prior Stephen de Derby, whose government of the house commenced only two years after the end of these accounts, was written the beautiful Psalter of Christ Church, now preserved in the Bodleian library, but known through the medium of Mr. Gilbert's National MSS. of Ireland (Vol. IV. — 1, App.). This w^ork must be acknowledged to be the most elaborate extant work of Anglo-Norman art in Ireland. But we are reminded in a more direct way of the existence of literary interests in the convent, by the uses which have been made of some of the vacant portions of the parchment of the accounts. The pretty French verses printed on p. 125 were written there soon after the middle of the fourteenth century ; and the English poem on pp. 126 to 142, was copied before the middle of the fifteenth century. This English poem, which we have distinguished as the " Pride of Life," possesses many points of great interest. Written on the first parcliment that could be found, by different hands relieving one another, sometimes at short intervals, we can realize the anxiety which existed in the Convent to secure without delay a literary treasure which may have been in the hands of some passing guest spending a night in the guest house of the monastery. The "Pride of Life " is a Moral Play, or Morality, and consists of a Prologue containing 28 stanzas or 112 lines, and Play con- taining 97^ stanzas or 390 lines. The latter is now imperfect, a large part is wanting at the end, and two smaller gaps evidently occur, the position of which is explained in the note p. 185. It is rendered of very special interest by being the only copy of the poem known to exist. The composition possesses a good deal of literary merit ; the style is vigorous ; and the part of the Queen is not without dramatic power. But perhaps the chief interest of the poem arises from its relation to other works of a kindred nature. ** The Castle of Perseverance " has been held to be the earliest extant Morality, being usually attributed to the middle of the fifteenth century. The copy of the " Pride of Life" is perhaps slightly older than this, and its language is probably older still. But in the development of allegorical arrangement it XXVI Introduction, Introduction, xxvii seems to occupy a distinctly earlier stage. In the " Castle of Perseverance " as still more in the Moralities of later date almost all the dramatis personce are personifications of abstract qualities, gathered into a complicated allegory. In the *' Pride of Life " the allegory is much simpler, and the personifications less numerous and less prominent. The principal character Eex Yivus, The King of Life, represents the man wholly engrossed by worldly success and heedless of the future, supported in his wantonness by Health and Strength (personified as his two kniglits), while he is further encouraged by Mirth, who as his herald (as in impious jest) challenges Death to combat. Death too is of course per- sonified. But here the allegorical character of the piece seems to end. The other two persons are quite real. The Queen is a true woman, loving to her husband, earnest as to the future, faithful to the Church. The bishop too is no doubt a typical churchman of the time, though his interesting attack on the evils of the age has little reference to the object of his appeal, and justifies the King's advice that he should "learn bet to preach/' While this limitation of the allegory leaves more scope for dramatic interest, it also implies an earlier stage in the development of Moralities, in the later examples of which allegory and abstract personifications occupy almost the whole composition. The Theology too is of a simpler type. Thus while in the " Castle of Perseverance " the state of the soul of Humanum Genus is the subject of argument, as in a court, between Justice, Mercy, and other characters, on which " Pater sedens in trono " gives his judgment. In " Pride of Life " the lost soul is rescued by the direct interposition of the Yirgin alone. On every ground the " Pride of Life " seems an earlier work than the " Castle of Perseverance" ; and hence it may be claimed as absolutely the earliest composition of its kind yet discovered in the English language. As to the source from which the poem was derived there is as yet no certain evidence. The dialect is mainly Southern, but with Midland influences; such as we might be prepared to find in the spoken tongue of Dublin, with its original Bristol connexion, but forced by position as a colonial capital to graft on its Southern dialect influences from other parts of England. But that the work is an English not a Dublin composition seems certain from tlie three place-names which occur. Berwick- on-Tweed (line 285) is mentioned in a way which only one writing in England would be likely to refer to it. The earldom of Kent is conferred as a reward on the messenger, and it has been pointed out that this earldom was vacant from soon after the beginning of the fifteenth century. The third name is the Castle of Gailispire on the hill ('line 301). Of this place I have not yet obtained any satisfactory identification ; but it is certainly an English, not an Irish name. It may be added that like most other medioeval plays, though composed in popular language the representations were intended to be under the direction of the clergy. Accordingly all stage directions and the names of the speakers are written in Latin. The literary treasure, hurriedly copied by two of the canons of the Priory four and a-half centuries ago, may have been acted in the church, or in the streets of Dublin, where it is almost certain that miracle-plays were at this time familiar. Then, having served its turn, it does not appear ever to have attracted attention again until the roll was examined in the Eecord Oflfice. Dr. Lyon, when he inspected the roll, could not have read the poem ; at least he makes no mention of it. A brief reference was made to it in the 20th Report of the Deputy-Keeper of the Public Records ; but no public attention was secured to it until the editor of this volume pointed out its interest in a Paper read before the Royal Irish Academy in April, 189L From the account thus given. Professor Morley, in the seventh volume of " English Writers " (published in the summer of 1891), gave a very interesting notice of the poem, before, however, the text had been fully transcribed. The Appendix. A few contemporary documents have been added to the volume as an Appendix, to illustrate matters referred to in the accounts. Some of these have been noticed in passing. / 1 XXVIU Introduction. TheBental (pp. 189-200) affords a species of information very rarely to be met with in Ireland. It supplies the names of all the cottagers in the villages of Glasnevin, Grangegorman, and Clonken or Kill-of-tlie-Grange, as well as of the farmers of those manors, and of Balscaddan in the extreme north of the county of Dublin ; with the amount of their rents, and a description of the customary services which they rendered. These services were now strictly defined and moderate in amount, and in most cases miglit be com- pounded for by a small money payment. The services of the larger holders are given in greater detail in the specimen lease printed at p. 207, and noticed on p. 172. The Eental is of importance as illustrating the position of the agricultural classes, and as giving some idea, by a comparison of names, as to tlie extent to wliich, about Dublin, the Anglo-Norman colonists had blended w^itli the Irish in the lower classes. The agreement for the celebration of Masses for John de Grauntsete (printed pp. 202-6, with a partial translation, pp. 148-51) gives some interesting details as to the conduct of the services in the Priory church. , Frequent references occur in the Accounts to the sojourn of members of the Convent on their possessions at Kilcullen and Killenaule. John Comyn, a canon of the House (who, in J 343-4, held the office of seneschal, and as such furnished the Accounts, Nos. II. and IV. in this volume), at one time seems to have been detailed for residence at Kilcullen. In the course of eight weeks there he incurred so much disfavour that a public inquiry into his conduct was held, the report of which is printed at p. 206. The charges against the canon himself seem for the most part so trivial as to be only prompted by personal illwill, but they afford not the less an interesting illustration of the time. In conclusion, I have to thank the Right Hon. the Master of the Rolls in Ireland for his permission to publish the Accounts and the other documents under his charge in the Record Office ; and Dr. La Touche, the Deputy-Keeper of the Records, for his help and encouragement in undertaking the work. The Very Rev. W. C. Greene, Dean of Christ Church, most kindly gave me Introduction. XXIX every facility for examining the ancient books preserved in his Cathedral. The Rev. Denis Murphy, M.R.I. A., who read the proofs of the Accounts, has made many suggestions, whose value can only be surpassed by the very kind way in which they were given. I am very much indebted to Miss L. Toulmin Smith, J. A. H. Murray, D.C.L., J. K. Ingram, LL.D, and Mr. James Gairdner, who have been so good as to read the proofs of the Poem ; Miss Toulmin Smith especially, having most obligingly taken much trouble to solve some of its difficulties. Mr. Henry F. Berry, Mr. M. J. M*Enery, and Mr. A. J. Fetherstonhaugh, of the Record Office, Dublin, have each been ever ready with willing help in the progress of the work ; and lastly, I cannot omit to mention the patience and interest bestowed on its pro- duction by Mr. Weldrick of the Dublin University Press. Bi^W»?*-SrTSW«SF5BIW"<.'s'^- I I ACCOUNT ROLL OF THE PRIORY OF HOLY TRINITY, DUBLIN. I. [ACCOUNT OF THOMAS DE BEULEY, SENESCHAL, TO 25th APRIL, 1339.] .... In vino empto in refectorio adventu Mauricii Howel, Johannis Aket & aliorum superventomm. Item eodem die in vino empto in cameram Prioris, pro priore de Holmpatrik, iiid. Die [Martis] in octaba Sancti Martini. In ojstreis emptis pro camera Prioris, i d., in ... id. ob. ; in vino empto ibidem post prandium, pro adventu Johannis de Novo Castro & Eoberti de Houton, i d. ob. Item eodem die, in vino empto & misso apud Balyscadan pro Priore ibidem, Senes- callo, W. Dasscheburne & aliis, x d. ob. Et in candelis emptis i d. ob. TRANSLATION. [Monday, 17th November, 1337.] In wine bought for the refectory for the coming of Maurice Howel, John Aket, and other strangers. Also on the same day, in wine bought for the Prior's chamber, for the prior of Holmpatrick, 3d. Tuesday, the octave of S. Martin. In oysters bought for the Prior's chamber, Id., in ... , l^d., in wine bought after dinner there for the coming of John de IS^ew Castle and Robert de Houton, l^d. Also on same day, in wine bought and sent to Balscaddan for the Prior there, the seneschal, W. de Assheburne, and others, lOJ^. And in candles bought, ly. B / I I Account Roll of the Prior?/ of the Holy Trinity, DuhKn. Diebus Mercurii & Jovis, nil nisi stauro. Die Veneris proxima post festum Sancti Edmundi Regis & Mar- tiris. Apud Droghda, in pane pro Priore, iiid., in vino, xii d. ; in eervisia, v d. ; in oystreis, i d. ; in botir & easeo, i d. ; in pisse, iii d. ; in ... i d. ; in pane pro vii equis ibidem, ii d. ob. ; in feno, i d. ob. Item in stablagio, i d. ; in ferura equorum ibidem, vd. Item eodem die apud Drorasalan, in eervisia, iiii d. ; in . . . pro equis ibidem ii d. Die Sabbati proxima sequente ibidem. In pane pro Priore. Senescallo, W. de Asshebume & aliis, iii d. ; in eervisia, .iii d. ; in vino vii d. ; in oystreis & pisce viii d. ; in avena pro prebenda equorum ibidem, ix d. Summa vii s. vii d. Probata. Die Dominica proxima sequente. Ad prandium apud Droghda ; in pane pro predictis, iiid.; in vino, iiid.; in eervisia, vi d. ; in came b[ovina] iiii d. ; in gallinis fumiendis missis de Dromsolan apud Droghda, ii d. Item ad cenam eodem die pro W. de Asshebume & Johanne Passeleu, iid. ob. In feno pro equis ibidem, id.; in pane pro eisdem [equis] . . . ; in ferura equorum ibidem, iiii d. Wednesday and Thursday. Nothing except from the stock. Friduv next after the feast of S. Edmund, king and martyr At Drogheda, in bread for the Prior, Zd. ; in wine, 12rf. ; ale, 5rf. ; oysters,^ U.- butter and cheese, U. ; fish, 3rf. ; \d.- in bread tor 7 horses there, 2*^. ; hay, Hd. Also stabling. Id ; shoeing horses there, bd. Also same day at Drumshallon, in ale, 4rf. ; in . . . . for horses there, Id. Saturday next following, at same place. In ^/^^d ^^^ f/ ^^^!>^' ''^;- schal W. de Asshebume, and others, ^d. ; ale, 13^. ; wine, Id. ; oysters and fish, 8^. ; oats for provender of horses there, 9rf. Total 7s. Id. Checked. Sunday next following. At dinner at Drogheda, in bread for those above named, 3rf. ; in wine, M, ; ale, 6^. ; beef, Ad. ; fowl cooked, sent from Dromshallon to Drogheda, 2d. Also at supper, same day, forW de Asshebume and John Passeleu, 2hd. In hay for the horses there, U. ; in bread for the same [horses] . . . . ; m shoe- ing of horses there, Ad. Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity^ Dublin. Die Lune proxima sequente. In . . . empt. pro eisdem apud Swerd, iii d. Die Martis proxima sequente .... empt. ad cameram Prioris pro adventu .... aliorum extraneorum, iiii d. ob. Die Mercurii. Omnia de stauro. Die Jovis proxima sequente. In vino pro camera Prioris ad pran- dium [et] cenam, x d. ob., pro adventu magistri Hugonis de Saltu, marescalli arehiepiscopi & aliorum. Item in eervisia pro eisdem, xd. In cer[visia in refect]orio pro Conventu, iiii d. Die Veneris proxima sequente. In camera Prioris, pro adventu diversorum canonicorum & armigerorum, in vino .... In eervisia empta pro Conventu in refectorio & Armaria, xii d. Item in penettes emptis & liberatis magistro E vi d. [Die Sabbati in vigjilia Sancti Andree apostoli. In eervisia empta, ad cameram Prioris ad nonam & sero, vi d. ob. Item Summa viii s. viii d. Probata. [Die Dominica injfesto Sancti Andree apostoli. In eervisia empta ad cameram Prioris ad nonam & sero, & pro Con- Monday next following. In ... . bought for the same at Swords, Zd. Tuesday .... bought for the Prior's chamber for the coming of ... . and other strangers, A\d. Wednesday. All from stock. Thursday. In wine for the Prior's chamber at dinner and supper, \^\d., for the coming of master Hugh de Saltu, the marshal of the archbishop, and others. Also in ale for them, \^d. In ale in the refectory for the convent, \d. Friday. In the Prior's chamber, for the coming of sundry canons and esquires, in wine .... In ale bought for the convent in the refectory and infirmary, \2d. Also in penettes bought and de- livered to master R . . . . 6^?. Saturday, the vigil of S. Andrew the apostle. In ale bought for the Prior's chamber at noon (or none) and evening, ^^d. Also .... Total 8«. U. Checked. Sunday, the feast of S. Andrew the apostle. In ale bought for the Prior's chamber at noon and evening, and for the convent in the refectory B 2 /i i! Account Boll of the Prior?/ of the Holy Trinity^ Dullin. ventu in refectorio & [firmaria] .... empta eodem die pro eisdem ob defectum celarii, xix d. Item pro Priore alias eodem die, ii d. Die Lune [ad camer]am Prioris, pro adventu magistri Thome de Kylmor, iii d. Item sero pro adventu Eicardi Eliot & armigeri Prioris ; in [Die Martis proxima sejquente. In cervisia empta ad cameram Prioris, ob defectum Celarii, ii d. Die Mercurii proxima sequente. In cervisia empta Die Veneris in vigilia Sancti Nicholai. In cervisia empta ad cameram Prioris, iii d. ; in vino empto, iii d empt. pro Priore, quia jejunavit ad aquam id. Summa iii s. . . . Probata. Die dominica proxima sequente. Omnia de stauro precomputato. Die Lune proxima sequente. In camera Prioris ad cenam ; in vino iii d. and infirmary .... bought on same day for the same owing to default of the cellarer, 19c?. Also for the Prior at another time on same day, 2d. Monday. [Wine] for the Prior's chamber, for the coming of master Thomas de Kylmor, M. Also at evening for the coming of Richard Eliot, and the esquire of the Prior, in ... . Tuesday. In ale bought for the Prior's chamber, owing to default of the cellarer, 2d. Wednesday. In ale bought Friday, the vigil of S. Nicholas. In ale bought for the Prior's chamber, ?id. ; wine, Zd [Saturday, 6th December, 1337.] .... bought for the Prior, because he fasted on water, \d. Total 3« Checked. Sunday next following [18th January, 1338]. All from the stock pre- viously accounted for. Monday. In the Prior's chamber at supper, in wine, Zd. Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity^ Dublin. Die Martis proxima sequente. In Sacrista, pro Priore, & priore de ITolmpatrik, Johanne Passelewe, et aliis, ad prandium ; in vino iii d. Item in ii paribus cirotecarum ad donandum p[recep]to Prioris iii d. Die Mercurii, in festo Sancte Agnetis virginis. In vino empto ad jantaculum Prioris & magistri Simonis cancellarii Archi- episcopi iii d. Et eodem die ; in vino pro adventu Johannis Welsshe, Walteri Brayhenogh, procuratorum, ad prandium ibidem iii d. ; in ii caponis furnitis & carne assata viii d. Eodem die ad cenam ibidem; in cervisia iid., in carne assata ii d. ob. Die Jovis proxima sequente. In camera Prioris pro adventu Johannis de Granc' [et] capellani sui ad jantaculum ; in pane id., in vino iii d., in i capono f urnito iii d. In cervisia sero i d. Die Veneris sequente. In vino empto pro camera Prioris, pro adventu dominorum Thome Wogan eschaetoris Hibernie, Elie de Assheburne, justiciariorura itinerariorum, et aliorum superventorum, ad prandium, iis. ; in oystreis iiiid., in ii libris de ffyges emptis iiii d. Item sero eodem die in camera Prioris, in cervisia id. Tuesday. In the sacristy, for the Prior, the prior of Holmpatrick, John Passalewe, and others, at dinner, in wine, Zd. Also in 2 pairs of gloves for gifts by command of the Prior, M. "Wednesday, the feast of S. Agnes the virgin. In wine bought for break- fast of the Prior and master Simon, chancellor of the Archbishop, Zd. And the same day, in wine for the coming of John Welsshe (and) Walter Brayhenogh, proctors, to dinner there, 3c?. ; in 2 cooked capons and roast meat, ^d. Same day at supper there, in ale 2d. ; roast meat, 2^d. Thursday. In the Prior's chamber for the coming of John de Grancet and his chaplain to breakfast, in bread, \d. \ wine, Zd. ; a cooked capon, Zd. In ale at evening, \d. Friday. In wine bought for the Prior's chamber, for the coming of sir Thomas Wogan, escheator of Ireland, and sir Elias de Assheburne justices itinerant, and other strangers, to dinner, 2s. ; in oysters, Ad. ; 2 pounds of figs bought, \d. Also at evening same day, in the Prior's chamber, in ale, \d. 6 Account Roll of the Priori/ of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, Die Sabbati sequente. In oystreis emptis pro Priore, senescallo, et celerario, in celario, ad prandium id., in vino iiid. Summa v s. x d. ob. Probata. Die Dominica, in festo conversionis Sancti Pauli. In anguillis salsatis emptis pro Priore viii d., et in ii pluvers emptis iid. Die Lune. In vino empto in camera Prions iii d., in cervisia ii d., in cinape id., in volatilibus i d. Die Martis sequente. In vino empto, in camera Prions iii d. Die Mercurii. Omnia de stauro. Die Jovis sequente. In cervisia empta pro Priore apud Glasnevin iiid. Die Veneris sequente. In camera Prions ad prandium, in pane i d. Die Sabbati sequente. In pane empto, in camera Prioris, i d. Summa ii s. i d. Probata. Die Dominica, in festo Sancte Brigide virginis. Omnia de stauro. Die Lune in festo Purificationis Beate Marie virginis. In vino empto in refectorio pro Conventu, ix d. Et eodem die in vino empto sero pro camera Prioris, iii d. Saturday. In oysters for the Prior, seneschal, and cellarer, in the cellar, at dinner, 1^. ; in wine, Zd. Total b8, \0^d. Checked. Sunday, the feast of the conversion of S. Paul. In salted eels bought for the Prior, 8^. ; in 2 plovers bought, 2d. Monday. In wine bought for the Prior's chamber, 3^.; ale, 2i.; mustard, \d. ; fowl, \d. Tuesday. In wine bought for the Prior's chamber, Zd. Wednesday. AU from stock. Thursday. In ale bought for the Prior at Glasnevin, 3^. Friday. In the Prior's chamber, at dinner, in bread, \d. Saturday. In bread bought for the Prior's chamber. Id, Total 28. Id. Checked. Sunday, the feast of S. Piigid the virgin. All from stock. Monday, the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In wine bought in the refectory for the convent, dd. And same day in wine bought at evening for the Prior's chamber, 3rf. Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin. Diebus Martis, Mercurii, Jovis, et Veneris. Omnia de stauro. Die Sabbati proxima sequente. In vino empto pro Priore, Johanne Haket, Grilberto de Moenes, in ffirmaria, iiii d. ob. Summa xvi d. ob. Die Dominica et die Lune proxima sequente. Omnia de stauro. Die Martis. Apud Dublin, in camera Prioris, pro adventu Johannis de Balygodman, ad prandium, in i gallina fur- nita & ii pyes furnitis, iii d. Item in vino iii d. Et sero ibidem pro eisdem, in vino, iii d. ; et in gallinis & came assatis, iiii d. Die Mercurii sequente. Ad jantaculum in camera Prioris, pro Priore, senescallo, coquiuario, & aliis ; in vino, iii d. ; in i pastello i d. Et eodem die sero ad cenam, pro adventu Johannis de Balygodman, Johannis Haket, & aliorum superventorum in Armaria ; in vino, iii d. ; in i gallina & volatilibus assatis, ii d. ob. Item in i quarterio agui assati, id.; in candelis, i. d. Die Jovis proxima post festura sancte Scolastice virginis. In Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. All from stock. Saturday. In wine bought for the Prior, John Haket, Gilbert de Moenes, in the infirmary, 4^^d. Total, \^d. Sunday and Monday following. All from stock. Tuesday. At Dublin, in the Prior's chamber, for the coming of John de Balygodman at dinner, in one fowl and 2 pies cooked, Zd. ; also in wine, Zd. ; and at evening there for the same, in wine, 3(^., and in fowl and meat roast, 4^. Wednesday. At breakfast in the Prior's chamber, for the Prior, seneschal, kitchener, and others, in wine, 3c?.; 1 pasty, \d. And on same day at evening at supper, for the coming of John de Balygodman, John Haket, and other strangers, in the infirmary, in wine, Zd. ; in one hen and fowl roasted, 2^d. Also in a quarter of roast lamb, \d. ; candles, Id. Thursday next after the feast of S. Scolastica the virgin. In the Prior's ^\\ jK*j', 8 . I II M I I .\ / J t Account Boll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, camera Prioris, pro adventu W. Comjn vicecomitis, Eicardi fratris sui, Johannis Haket, Willelmi Haket, Hugonis Lumbard, Nicholai clerici vicecomitis & aliorum ; in vino, IX d. ; in V pastellis gallinarum furnitis, ix d. ob. Et eodem die sero ad cenam pro eisdem ; in vino, vi d. ; in ii gallinisassatis& volatilibusemptis, iiii d. ; in dimidioagno, 11 d. ; in carne bovium assata, iiii d. ; in candelis, iii d. Die Veneris. Omnia de stauro. Die Sabbati, in festo Sancti Valentini. In ojstreis eraptis ad cameram Prioris, i d. ; in vino, iiii d. ob. ; in volatilibus, 11 d., pro die crastina ; in ii li. eandelarum, iii d. Summa vi s. ob. Probata. Diebus Dominica, Lune, Martis, & Mercurii, in festo Sancti Fin- tani. Omnia de stauro. Die Jovis proxima sequente. In i gallina empta pro Priore apud Glasnevin, i d. Item in i gallina furnita, i d. ob. Die Veneris sequente. In cervisia empta pro Conventu in refec- torio ad prandium, pro defectu celarii, & ad cenam, v d. chamber, for tbe coming of W. Comyn, sherifP, Richard his brother, John Haket, William Hacket, Hugh Lumbard, Nicholas clerk of the sheriff and others, in wine ; 9^. ; 5 pasties of fowl baked, 9^^. And on same day, at evening at supper for the same, in wine, 6^ • 2 hens roast and fowl bought, Ad. • half a lamb, 2d. ; roast beef, U • candles, 3^. * Friday. All from stock. Saturday, the feast of S. Valentine. In oysters bought for the Prior's chamber. Id.- wine, ^d.', fowl, 2d. for the day following; 2 lb. of candles, M. Total, 65. ^d. Checked. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the feast of S. Fintan. All from stock. Thursday next following. In one fowl bought for the Prior at Glasnevin, \d. Also in a cooked fowl, \^d. Priday. In ale bought for the convent in the refectory at dinner, through default of the cellarer, and at supper, bd. Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity ^ Dublin, Die Sabbati proxima sequente. In camera Prioris ad prandium pro Priore, senescallo, W. de Assheburne, quorum unus' ivit versus Kjlcolyn et alius versus Mackyngan ad wardam ; in vino, iii d. Summa x d. ob. Diebus Dominica & Lune proximis sequentibus. Omnia de stauro. Die Martis in festo Carniprivii. Pro Johanne de sancto Wlstano, in camera Prioris, in carne assata, id.; in vino, sero, iii d., in ii gallinis, iii d. Die Mercurii in festo Cinerum. Pro conventu in refectorio, & pro adventu magistri Jobannis de Pylattenbale ad pran- dium ; in allece, vi d. ; in pisse albo, xii d. ; in salmone, xviii d. ; in dicto salmone furniendo, ii d. ; in amigdalis & rys emptis, iiii d. ; in gingibero & cinape, ob. Item in f ocali, iii d. Die Jovis in crastino Cinerum. In vino empto pro Priore apud Glasnevin, iii d. ; in oystreis emptis ad prandium, i d. Die Sabbati proxima sequente. In camera Prioris pro adventu 9 Saturday. In the Prior's chamber at dinner for the Prior, seneschal, and W. de Assheburne, of whom one went towards Kilcullen, and the other towards Mackyngan [IS'ewcastle, co. Wicklow], to ward, in wine, ^d. Total, 10^^. Sunday and Monday next. All from stock. Tuesday in the feast of Carnival. For John de S. Wulstan, in the Prior's chamber, in roast meat, Id. j in wine at evening, M. ; 2 hens, Zd. Ash Wednesday. For the convent in the refectory, and for the coming of master John de Pylattenbale at dinner, in herrings, ^d. ; white fish, \2d.-, salmon, 18<^. ; baking the salmon, 2d.] almonds and rice, 4^. ; ginger and mustard, ^d. ; also in fuel, ^d. Thursday on the morrow of Ash Wednesday. In wine bought for the Prior at Glasnevin, Zd. ; oysters for dinner, \d. Saturday. In the Prior's chamber for the coming of Thomas Blakeburne, 10 I! ) \\ Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity ^ Dublin. Thome Blakebume ; in oystreis, ii d. ; in iiii pastellis salmonum emptis, iiii d. ; in cervisia, iii d. ; in candelis, uu d. Summa v s. ix d. ob. Probata. Dominica prima Quadragesime. In camera Prions pro jantaculo suo, in oystreis, id.; in salmone empto, ii d. Die Lune proxima sequente. In camera [Prioris] pro adventu fratrum Predicatorum & capellanornin de Arclo ; in oystreis, ii d. ; in salmone, ii d.. Die Martis sequente. In camera Prioris pro adventu Gilberti Moenes, Thome de Stokton & aliorum superventorum ; in oystreis, ii d. ; in stokfych, ii d. ; in salmone, ii d. Die Mercurii. De stauro. Die Jovis. In camera Prioris, ad prandium ; in oystreis, i d. ; in i quarta de oleo olivo, vi d. ; in cervisia, i d. ob. ; in cepis, ob. ; in iii parvis ollis luteis pro cinape inponendo, id. Die Veneris. Apud Gllasuevin pro Priore ; in cervisia, iiii d. ; in oystreis, i d. Item sero apud Dublin in camera Prioris ; in cervisia, ii d. i||i in oysters, 2d. ; in 4 salmon pasties bought, Ad. ; ale, Zd. ; candles, Ad. Total, 5«. 9^d. Checked. First Sunday of Lent. In the Prior's chamber for his breakfast, in oysters, Id.; in salmon bought, 2d. Monday. In the Prior's chamber for the coming of the friars Preachers and chaplains of Arklow, in oysters, 2d. ; salmon, 2d. Tuesday. In the Prior's chamber for the coming of Gilbert Moenes, Thomas de Stockton, and other strangers ; in oysters, 2d. ; stock- fish, 2d. ; salmon, 2d. Wednesday. Prom the stock. Thursday. In the Prior's chamber at dinner, in oysters, \d. ; one quart of olive oil, Qd. ; ale, \^d. ; onions, ^d. ; 3 little earthenware pots for putting mustard in, \d. Friday. At Glasnevin, for the Prior, in ale, Ad. ; oysters, \d. Also at evening, at Dublin, in the Prior's chamber, in ale, 2d. Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity^ Dublin, Die Sabbati. In camera Prioris ibidem ; in oystreis, i d. ; in vino, iii d. ; in cervisia empta, i d. Summa ii s. xi d. Probata. Die Dominica secunda Quadragesime. Omnia de stauro. Die Lune. De stauro. Die Martis. In camera Prioris, pro priore Sancti Wlstani, ii canonicorum & armigeris. In oystreis, id.; in vino empto, iii d. ; in stokfich, id.; in walnotes, ii d. Item post prandium pro magistro Thoma de Kylmor, in vino, iiid. Die Mercurii. De stauro. Die Jovis. De stauro. Die Veneris. De stauro. Die Sabbati. In camera Prioris, in amigdalis, ii d. Summa. xii d. Probata. Dominica iii* Quadragesime. Pro priore apud Clonken ; in vino, vi d. ; in amigdalis, iii d. Et eodem die pro adventu Johannis de Moenes, Thome de Stokton, & aliorum ; in vino, iii d. ; in candelis, i d. ob. 11 Saturday. In the Prior's chamber there, in oysters, Id. ; wine, M. ; ale bought, Id. Total, 28. Ud. Checked. Second Sunday of Lent. All from stock. Monday. From stock. Tuesday. In the Prior's chamber, for the prior of St. Wulstan's, 2 of the canons, and esquires, in oysters, \d. ; wine bought, ^d. ; stock- fish, \d. ; walnuts, 2d. Also after dinner, for master Thomas de Kylmor, in wine, ^d. Wednesday. From stock. Thursday. From stock. Friday. From stock. Saturday. In the Prior's chamber, in almonds, 2d. Total, \2d. Checked. Third Sunday of Lent. For the Prior at Clonken [Kill of the Grange, Co. Dublin], in wine, ^d. ; almonds, ^d. And on same day, for the coming of John de Moenes, Thomas de Stokton, and others, in wine, ^d. ; in candles, \^d. I Vi ,H 12 i \ Account Boll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity^ Dublin, Die Lune sequente. In pisse empto pro eodem ibidem, vi d. Die Martis. In camera Prioris pro adventu Roberti de Clifford, ad prandium ; in oystreis, id.; in salmone, ii d. Die Mercurii. Pro adventu dicti Thome de Stokton & aliorum ; in salmone furnito, i d. ; in stokfich, i d. Et post pran- dium pro adventu Eoberti Tanner ; in vino, iiii d. ob. Die Jovis sequente. In camera Prioris, pro adventu magistrorum Hugonis de Saltu, Thome de Kylmor, & aliorum ; in pane, i d. ; in vino, xii d. ; in cervisia, iii d. ; in allecibus, iii d. ; in tubljnges, ii d. ob. ; in plays, iii d. ; in troytes, id,; in amigdalis & rys, iiii d. Die Veneris proximo sequente. Apud Glasnevin, pro Priore ; in pane, ob. ; in vino, iii d. ; in amigdalis & rys, ii d. Die Sabbati. In camera Prioris, ad prandium ; in oystreis, i d. ; in vino, i d. ob. Summa v s. ii d. ob. Probata. Dominica iiii* Quadragesime, qua cantatur Letare Jerusalem. Pro Priore apud Clonken, pro le mustrysoun ; in allecibus, iii d. ; in amigdalis pro eodem ibidem, i d. ob. t J. / Monday. In fish bought for the same there, 6rf. Tuesday. In the Prior's chamber, for the coming of Robert de Clifford to dinner, in oysters, \d. ; salmon, ^d. "Wednesday. For the coming of said Thomas de Stokton and others, in cooked salmon, \d. ; stockfish, \d. And after dinner, for the coming of Robert Tanner, in wine, ^\d, Thursday. In the Prior's chamber, for the coming of masters Hugh de Saltu, Thomas de Kylmor, and others, in bread, \d. ; wine, 12^ *.**** qui venit de tuna Eomana, iiii s. Item cuidam nuncio venienti de Kyldenh[alJ • » . & redeunti, precepto Prioris, viii d. Item Tubaccionibus Justiciariorum qui fuerunt in Eefect Item Johanni Faytour Waffrer, ex dono eiusdem, iii d. Item cuidam parvo Cittheratori ex dono domini, iii d. ^^^^ .... clerico ex dono domini, vi d. Item Johanni Janitori Johanni Wheler euntibus ad inquirendum post Johannem Grancest' per ... . Also to Henry Whyte of the gift of the Prior of Kilcullen, ds. And to the same Nicholas of the gift of the Prior I2d And in repair of one pair of ^ ... Clonken, and Xew Castle m the service of the Pnor and convent, 9d. Also in supper of the seneschal at Cl[onken] wbo came from the Roman Court, 4s. Also to a certain messenger coming from Killenaule . . and returnmg, by command of the Prior, Sd. Also to the trumpeters of the justices who were in the refectory Also to John Faytour waferer, of the gift of the same, 3^.' Also to a certain little harper of the gift of the lord (Prior), 3d. ^^'^ clerk, of the gift of the lord, 6d. Also to John the doorkeeper and John Wheler going to inouire John Grancest bv . . . after c 2 liji 20 ^^ Account Roll of the Priori/ of the Holy Trimtu, Dublin. [Item] Johanni de Castro eunti ad curiam domini Regis iu Anglia pro negociis domus expediendis, cvi s. vui d. Item Item Fynnok OtoziU precepto Prioris, II s. Item Mariote Daweuoy pro debito cervisie de tempore Koberti ballivi de Glasneviii, ii s. Item Eoberto de Moenes in partem solucionis xl s., per literam aquitaucie, xx s. Item liberatum Priori quando senescallus ivit versus partes Momo- nie, xxxvi s. Item liberatum arebiepiscopo Casselleusi pro srnodalibus & amer- eiamentis per diversas vicarias per i literam quam Pr.or babet penes, xx s. Et apud Dublin, xx s. Et pro proeu- ratione apud Kildenbale, arebiepiscopo, . . . et apud . . . . . officiali, V s. Decano & aliis clericis adjuvantibus, in s. nn d. Item liberatum WiUelmo ballivo pro ... • debito, de debi.is Nicbolai de Esendeu coquiuaru, x s. Also to Jolm de Castro going to the court of the lord the king in England to transact.busincss of the house, 106s. 8rf. Also Also to Fynnok Otooll by command of the Prior, Is. Also to Mariota Dawonoy for a debt of ale from the time of Robert the bailiff of Glasnevin, 2s. Also to Robert de Moenes in part payment of 40s., by letter of acquittance, 20s. Also given to the Prior wlien the senes Munster, 36« schal went towards the parts of KUa T^iid to the archhishop of Cashel for synodals and penalties for ^'" 'd e e viLa,es, hyLe letter which the Prior hoUls, 20. , and at Duhlin, 20.. And for proxies at Kille.aule to the archbishop . . and to the official, 5.. To the dean and other clergy assisting, 3s. 4^. , -, , . p a-- i i Also paid to AVilliam the bailiff for . . . debt, of the debts of Nicholas de Esemlcn, kitchener, 10s. ' » ■ I Account Roll of the Prior}/ of the Holy Trinitfj, Dublin, Item Rogero de KylJar pro feodo suo, xx d. Item ciiidam Keuewrek de debito dicti B. Goioun pro panno ab eo empto, in partem solutionis xx s. per literam obliga- toriam, x s. Item Eoberto de Moenes, xiii s. iiii d. tarn de debitis E. Goioun quam Prioris qui nunc est. Item liberatum Pencoyt pro panno eapto de Hugone Louestok tempore E. Goioun, ix s., unde idem Pencoyt Priorem inplitavit. Item Willelmo de Assheburne pro autumpno apud Clonken, xls. Item Johanni Haket pro lorica & alia armatura ei inpignoratis per E. Goioun,. xiii s. iiii d. Item Edwardo piscatori pro antiquo debito Eoberti de Sancto Neoto nuper coquinario, xix d. Item liberatum Willelmo Sterre coquinario pro seldis quas magister Johannes Desewell tenuit pre Priore, x s. Item liberatum Stephano cissori de Oxmanton pro brasio ab eo empto, xxxviii s. iiiii d. die mercurii proxima ante festum Sancti Thome apostoli. 21 Also to Roger de Kildare for his fee, 20alUvo pro eodem, viii s. vi d. Item in i equo empto Johaimi Callan pro eodem, x s. Et in iii bobus emptis de Willelmo ballivo pro eodem, xxiiii s. viii d. Et in i affro empto de Petro Howell pro eodem, vi s. viii d. ,\ s Expenses ixctjered about the husbandry of Gorman for the time of the account. Gonnan, In the first place he accounts, in ploughs bought, mending of thcra, rods £216.s>.4W. for handles, making and mending of plough iron, wheels, carts, straddles, basses, trays (traces?), wages of servants, shoeing of cart horses, for the time of the account, and gloves for harvest as appears by schedule, £4 14.s. 3^;?. And in houses built anew there, old houses repaired, and walls made and repaired, with a lock for the gate and the like, and preparing the site of the cistern at Gorman during said term, 37*. M. Also in one ox for the plough at Gorman, bought of Geoffrey de Fyn- cham, 5.S. And in one horse bought of Andrew the bailiff, for same, 8«. (W. Also in one horse bought of John Callan for same, 10«. And in 3 oxen bought of William the bailiff, for same, 24.9. 8r/. And in one farm horse bought of Peter Howell for same, 6«. 8rf. Item in i nigro equo empto ad Milon. Passelewe pro eodem, vii s. vi d. In i bove empto apud Clonken pro eodem, vi s. viii d. In iii bobus & i tauro emptis ad Job. Passelewe pro eodem, xxii s. vi d. Item in sarclacione bladorum de Grangia Gorman hoc anno per tempus dicti Thome, ii s. i d. ob. Item in messione omnium bladorum hoc anno raanerio de Gorman crescentium, ut patet per pacellam, viii li. v s. iii d. quad. Item in expensis senescalli et aliorum apud Gorman commorancium per autumpnura pro blado ibidem intrando ad mensam, per totum autumpnum, ut patet per parcellas, xxxvs. vii d. Item idem computat in custibus carucarum, carectarum, emen- Glasnevin, daeione domorum & portarum, cum muris, sarclacione, fal- Jfi/d."b^* cacione, et messione bladorum apud Glasnevin, factis per tempus eompoti, ut patet per parcellam, absque stauro empto, viii li. viii s. x d. ob. Et in ii equis emptis pro carucis et carectis ibidem, xv s. vi d. Item idem computat in omni husbonderia, facta apud Clonken ; ut Clonken X s. ii d. Also in one black horse bought at Milo Passelewe's for same, Is. 6d. In one ox bought at Clonken for same, 6s. 8d. In 3 oxen and one bull bought at John Passelewe's for same, 22s. 6d. Also in hoeing the corn of Grange Gorman this year for the time of said Thomas (de Beulcy being in charge), 2s. l^d. Also in the harvesting of all corn growing this year in the manor of Gorman, as appears by a schedule, £8 5^. S^d. Also in expenses of the seneschal and others remaining at Gorman through the harvest time for the corn coming in there, at board, through the whole harvest time, as appears by schedules, 35*. 7d.- Also he accounts in cost of ploughs, carts, repair of houses and gates, with walls, weeding, mowing, and harvest of com at GlasncA-in, done during the time of the account as appears by schedule, ex- cluding stock bought, £8 8*. 10|^. And in 2 horses bought for ploughs and carts there, los. 6d. Also he accounts in all husbandry done at Clonken, as in carts, repair of Glasnevin, £9 4.v. 4irf. Clonken, 105-. 2d. 24 y i \\ !! Pio emen- dation e Diimovum xvi'is. iiid. Stauro XX s. iid. clx. li. eviiis. iid ob. Account Boll of the Prior?/ of the Holy Trinity^ Dublin. ill earectis, emendacione doraorum, ut patet per parcellam • per tenipus compoti, x s. ii d. Item in bordis clavis meremio & ealce eniptis pro domibus infra clausum Sanete Triiiitatis, ut patet per parcellam, xviii s. iii d. ob. Item in v bendis ferri & iii vomeribus emptis pro omnibus grangiis sustinendis, set ignoratur quot pro quanto, xx s. ii d. Item idem eomputat liberatum Willelmo de Burtlion pro debitis Domus Sanete Trinitatis prout patet per literam obliga- toriam, xl marc, de redditu de Balysscadan. Summa xl marc. Patet. Summa Summarum omnium Expensarum, clx li. xviii s. ii d. ob. Et sic debet iiii li. v s. iii d. ob. quad. Postea idem Thomas oneratur de ix s. receptis de perquisitionibus curie de Balyscadan per idem tempus. Unde non oneratur superius quia non habuit rotulos nee extractas curie de dicto tempore. Item de iii s. iiii d. receptis de quodam fine facto apud Baljscadau de quodam Hybernico de villa de IS.v. '.\(l. StfX'k, 'His. Id houses, as appears by schedule during the time of the account, 10s. Id. Repair of Also in boards, nails, timber, and lime, bought for houses within the close of Holy Trinity, as appears by schedule, 18,s. ?>ld. Also in 5 bends of iron and 3 ploughshares bought for supplying all the granges, but he knows not how much for each, 20*. Id. Also he accounts as paid to William de Burthon for debts of the house of the Holy Trinity, as appears by letter obligatory, 40 marks of the rent of Balseaddan. Total, 40 marks, is manifest. The sum- of tlie t^)tals of all the expenses, £160 18^. 2\d. And so he owes £4 5«. ;^^. Afterwards the same Tliomas is charged with 9/f. received of the pro- fits of the court of Balscaddan during the same time. He was not charged with this above, because he had not the rolls or estreats of tlie court for the said time. Also with 3-9. \d. received of a certain tine made at Balscaddan by a certain Irishman of the I Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin. Dermodeston pro ingressu habendo in xl acris terre. Summa debiti cum superoneracione adhibita iiii li. xvii s. vii d. ob. quad. Quos debet de elaro. Et memorandum quod in isto pede suprascripto, omnes compoti Thome de Beuley de toto tempore quo erat senescallus terrarum & tenementorum Prioris & Conventus Eeclesie Cathedralis Sanete Trinitatis Dublin usque festum sancti Marci Evangeliste anno regui regis xiii"'" finaliter per- clauduntur, ita quod dictis arreragiis suprascriptis plenarie solutis usque in festum Sancti Marci Evangeliste supra- dictum, ab omni actione compoti quietus permaneat. 25 town of Dermotstown for having entry in 40 acres of land. Total of the debt, with the additional charge added, £4 lis. 7^d., which he owes clear. And be it remembered that in above written foot of this account, all the accounts of Thomas de Beuley for the whole time in which he was seneschal of the lands and tenements of the Prior and Con- vent of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, to the feast of Saint Mark the Evangelist in the thirteenth year of the king's reign are finally closed, so that the said arrears above written being fully paid up to the feast of Saint Mark the Evan- gehst aforesaid, let him remain free from all action of account. 26 Account Roll of the Prior?/ of the Holy Trinity, Dublin. II. CoMPOTrs Fratrts Johannis Comyn, Senescalli Domus Sancte Trinitatts, Dublin, a die Luue in crastino Apostolo- riim Petri et Pauli Anno Domini Millesimo ecc"'" xliii° usque vigiliara Epiplianie Domini proximaiu sequentem ; videlicet, de Officio Senescalli. In primis idem reddit compotum de Ixviii s. iii d. ob. receptis de redditu de Gorman determiuo Omnium Sanctorum, ut patet per rent ale. Et de vii li. xviii s. vi d. receptis de redditu de Glasnevyn de eodeni termino ut patet per rentale. Et de Ixvi s. viii d. receptis de Roberto Poer pro redditu de K}^- turk de eodem termino. Et de xxxiii s. iiij d. receptis de redditu de Mablyeston de eodem termino. Et de 1 8. receptis de capitali redditu de Kynsaly de eodem termino. Et de V s. receptis de redditu de Killestre per annum integrum. Et de xviii d. receptis de Jacobo Laweles pro redditu de Coulok de eodem termino. 1/ Account of Brother Jonx Comtn, Seneschal of the house of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, from Monday (30th June), the morrow of the feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul, a. d. 1343, to the vi^il (5th Januaiy) of the Epiphany of our Lord next following : of his Senesehalship. In the first place he renders account of 68«. 3.W., received from the rent of Gorman, of the tcrai of All Saints, as appears by the rental. And of £7 18.5. 6f?. received from the rent of Glasnevin, of same term, as appears by the rental. And of 66.5. M. received from Kobert Poor, for rent of Kynturk, of same term. And of 33«. \d. received fi'om rent of Mabestown, of same term. And of 50s. received from chief rent of Kinsaley, of same tenu. And of 5a'. received from rent of Killester for a whole year. And of 18s service for the same terra, 2d. ■ r .x Also to llobct Jurdan, ploughman, in full payment of his service for the same term, 9d. j. aj Also to Robert Uryvere, in full payment of his service for same term, id. * Account Boll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin. Item liberatum carectario de eelario, uni carectario de manerio Wdlel.0 le Ecus .essori, Johanni Cha.burleyn ni^aori k balhvo, & quatuor tenentibus carucarum a festo Spennyn.es anno xvu' usque festum Omnium Sanctorum proxfmSm sequens, xx s. : cuilibet, ii s. vi d Item iiii" f ugantibus carucas per dictum terminum, viii s. : cuUibet 11 s» Item cuidam mulieri siccanti brasium de termino Omnium Sancto- rum anno xvi- usque Spennyges ii. s. vi d Item Johanni Coco pro servicio suo de tempore fratris Gilbert! Bolyniop nuper prioris, vs. Item Eicardo gareioni senescalli pro stipendio suo, per unum an- num, xvi d. de tempore fratris Gilberti prioris ""num'if '--T "'"''' "°' '^ '^'-'^ "'''"--°- P- an- num, VI 8. viii d. Item Johanni Gibbe garcioni senescalli pro indumento suo & caleiamento, per annum, vi s. Summa liiii s. iiii d. Probata. Item idem computat in uno bove empto pro carucis, vii s. ' Also paid to the carter of the cellar, to one carter of the manor Wili; ioSin:rmrfe?s;':rf "' --'- -^ "«^^«'' -'i- .-so Jt: '' t: '-^~^^^^:'X ^r '- '^^ "lather rs74£! ri '- - ^- "^ - -- - - Also to Richard, the seneschal's serrinir mnr. fn.h' led.^ from the time of brothr^C^' ^o^^ ^'''' ^^^ ^^^ ^-^' Also to^ Hen., Hay, for his salary hy a fixed agreement for a year, Also to John Gibbe, the seneschal's serving m«n f i.- i , • shoes for a year, 6s. ^ ' ^^"^ ^'' '^^^^^°g and Total, 545. 4d. Checked. Also he accounts in one ox bought for the ploughs, 7,. D 2 35 36 II h. Account Roll of the Priori, 'of the Holy Trirnty, DuhUn. Item in ii botus emptis pro carucis, xiil s. Item in i bove empto, v s. vi d. Summa xxv s. vi d. Item idem computat in ix copulis de quercu emptis pro granario& domo proxima edificanda, xx d. .... Item in ii seruris emptis pro granario & dome opens, vu d. Item in bordis emptis pro hostio granarii, in d. It" in tabulia I Wykinglowe bordis emptis pro d.cto grana.o. Item inlccdavis emptis pro eisdem firmandis pro dicto granario. Item int'de spykynges emptis pro magna porta -endan^-;;;^^ Item in c de Doublebordnaill emptis pro eadem porta L hostio granarii. ili d. j^^^„, fodientium le Boly & Item in oonduccione quatuor garcionu ^ implentium oarectas de fimis & puigantmm " b ritium murum inter bostar & grangiam . circa hos^^um bostaris & portantium terram ad e-l.andam a m de granario & pro le Beemfullyngges per vi dies ad tascham, iiii s. : cuilibet per diem, ii d. Also in 2 oxen bought for ploughs, 13s. Also in 1 ox bought, 5,. 6rf. ^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^ house adjoining, 20ii. Also in 2 locks bought for the barn and workshop 7rf. Also in boards bought for the door of the bam, 3rf 1 Z 100 planks of Wicklow boards bought for said barn Hrf 1 n 300 Lis bought for securing the s.nie for the said bam, 6.. Also in 200 large nails bought for mending the great ga e 5^^ Also in 100 dole-board-nails bought for same gate and for the Also ^^-:2:z^X^^^^^ and carrj-ing eaith to J"^^^;^ ^^ ,,a ty the day, 2d. beamfiUing, tor 6 days at fuU naoCS, -is. , Account Roll of the Priori/ of the Holy Trinity, Dublin. Item in conduccione cujusdam cooperientis grauarium & domum proximara usque ad aulam per vi dies ad mensani, vi d. Item uui mulieri tractanti stramen & eidem servienti per dictos vi dies, iii d. Item in conduccione unius coopertorii scarpilantis & aptantis copulas pro domo operis & facientis granarium & alia necessaria pro quadam camera privata de novo reparanda per vi dies ad mensam, xii d. Item in conduccione ii gareionum fodientium lutum & facientium le liemfullynges circa dictam domum per i diem, ii d. Item in conduccione unius hominis fodientis lutum '& servientis- cuidara coopertorio per sex dies ad tascliam, vi d. Item uni garcioni eunti ad quartam carucam per sex dies quia fugator infirmabatur & facienti alia opera necessaria per aiversa loca, vi d. Item in earne empta pro diversis operariis supradictis ad mensam qui eraut per sex dies, viii d. 37 the hall tor 6 days, at board, 6;;. ^^'" ^"eZ^^sf'"^'"^ '''"'" "'"' '"P"'^'"^ '* *° ^^' t^^t*« f"-- ^«id Also in hire of a roofer planing and fitting roof couples for the workshop and making the barn, and other things necessary for repairing anew a private chamber, for 6 days at board, 12rf. Also in hire of 2 servants digging mud and making the beamfiUing about the said house for one day, 2d. Also in hire of one man digging mud and serving a roofer for 6 days at tali wages, 6d. ^ driver was invalided, and domg other necessary work in different places, 6d. Also in meat bought for divers workmen above mentioned who were at board for 6 days, Sd. ' Servienti in original. Kmiisymm*0 lismimis 38 ■ ! . 1 Account Roll of the rrim-y of the Holy Trinity, Dublin. Item in conduc^ione unius coopertorii oooperientis stabulum & alias domos usque ad magnam portam, per sex dies ad mensam, Item iJcotduccione unius garcionis levantis lutum & stramen, per vi dies, vi d. « i • Item in allocatione ii mulierum traotaucium stramen & portancium aquam per sex dies vi d. : ouilibet per diem, ob. Item in couduccioue duorum garcionum pro.ternencium watlaturam pro granario per ii dies, iiii d. : cuilibet per i diem, i d. Item in conduccione cnjusdam Thome Dassheburne aptantis dictam watlaturam super dictum granarium & alias domos proxi- mas per quatuor dies ad mensam, iiii d. ... Item cuidam garcioni allocato ad carueam per vi dies qma fugator erat iiifiimus & pro aliis ueeessariis faciendis post prandium, vi d. . ,. Item in carue & pisce emptis pro supradictls ad mensam per vi dies. Item iJlnduccione iii garcionum aptantium lutum & Beemful- Ih.gges cau.eram juxta aulam, per i diem ad mensam, ui d. ' Also in hire of a tl.atcher roofing the stable and other houses as fur as the ureat L'l'to, fui- six days at board, 6rf. Also in hire ot a serving man euriying up uuul and straw for s.x days, 6f?. . a * • Also in payment of two women drawing straw and carrymg water for six days, 6rf. ; to each by the day, id. , , ., v w Also in iL of two serving men cutting down wattle for the tarn for 2 days, id. ; to each by the day, \d. ,.,4.1 Also in hire of a certain Thomas de Asshebume fitting tl,esa,d wattio upon the said barn and other adjoining houses, for four days at Mso toTi^idn serving man employed at the plough for 6 days beeausc ' the drh"r was Tick, and \o perfonn other necessary duties after dinner, 6^. ^ ^ ^ s a Also in meat and fish bought for the aforesaid men at board for days, Id, , Also in hire of 3 serving men applying mud and beamfiUmg to the chamber next the hall for one day at board, 3d. I, Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin. Item ~p.^ j^,.ienti fenestras dicte eamere, ad mensam Item in came e.npta pro diefcis servientibus ad mensam, v d Item - eonduecione dicti Thome Dassheburne eooperientis iii tassos quatuor tassos mao^nos frumenfi na -r.! • - haberet per vii dies°ad meusaZ vil d ' " "^""•^" Item " jHeribus tractentibus stramen & coopertorio portantibus ad tascham per diotos vii dies, vii d : per diem, ob I tern m came & pisce emptis pro supradietis ad mensam, v d ob Item in eonduccione unius coopertorii facientis spores inter grana- num & ahas domos propinquiores, per ii dies ad tascham, v d Item in eonduccione ii garcionum temperancium latum & servien- tmm pro dictis speres per unum diem ad tascham, ii d Item - -duccione unius carpentarii facientis dependenciam fontis ux ta torale & aha pertinentia pro eodem, fenestras & duo hos^ia pro cameris intrinsecis juxta aulam, per quatuor dies ad tascliam, x d. : per diem ii d. ob. '"" \Vo?et;: ^;.''°^" *"" ^^-'-^'■^ -' "-^ -^^ ^-''-- =>* board Also in moat bought for said servants at boar.l M ^\ wllVnT" ^^^'^''r"^ t'-^tching 3 stacks of oats, Also .-T^T^^^^^^t^^ZSt-^ ' Also m meat and fish bought for the abovesaid at board 5}*ti»M«i^rn«-p i. • i received nou^i^^^LZ: ^:rz^ i::: ^■-^-'' -^ -^^ Also m loss of rent of one cottage, formerlr nf Wir tr , sametenn, 15<^., because it i waste 1L LI ."" 'f ""' '" received nothing for it : vi.. at g£"„ ' " '''''''''' '>^»^-' -'' Also he claims allowanop nf «^ rtj p .-, -e ter., b^ns^' ' r^e.^Jir V//'"?^ '1'^' *''-' f- with 24,., because he will no p,v the nu' "1. 'I '''""'^"^ ''*"'^-« -■xt to eonie, and because raHnt-flrtV^^^^^^^^^ '^•^ to Thonaas Wauter, as appears b/thetSrf" '"■" '•"'' Also he claims allowance of 1 0*. of the rent of John Wh vt „f t' . whicl, brother Thomas de Beulev received for ff' ""'PP"''^*''^"' l-arvest, and whereof he is above'cha " d '"'""" "' *'' Gruii i ifiiw ii 48 ii , I Ml 1 Account Roll of the Priori/ of the Holy Trinity, Duhlln, (Item in decasu redditus Margarete Ketyngg de uno termino ii s., quia defficiunt vi acre per mensuram.)' Item in decasu redditus Stephani Olyn de dicto termino xviii d, quia iii acre terre de terra quam teuuit j ascent frisce. Summa xxxii s. viii d. Probata. Item idem computat in cervisia empta pro Priore k Conventu, ob deffectum Celarii, die dominica proxima ante festum Om- nium Sanctorum, xi d. Item in pane empto pro eisdem Priore & Conventu, die Sabbati proxima ante festum Sancti Luce, iii d. Item in pane empto pro eisdem, die Dominica proxima sequente, xvii d. Item in expensis diversimode factis in camera domini Prioris a tempore quo Petrus Camerarius se non intromisit de expen- sis camere Prioris, usque diem Luue in vigilia Epipbauie Domini, anno Domini mcccxliii., xxvii s. iiii d. ob., nt patet in uno rotulo inde. (Also in loss of rent of Margaret Ketyng, for one term, 2., because 6 acres, by admeasurement, are wanting.) Also in loss of rent of Stephen Olyn, of said term, 18r/., because 3 acres of the land which he held, lie uncultivated. Total, 32«. 8<^. Checked. Also he accounts in ale bought for the Prior and Convent owing to default of the cellarer, on Sunday next before the feast of All Saints, \\d. Also in bread bought for the same Prior and Convent, on the Saturday next before the feast of S. Luke, 3% mm is, Dy neaped measure, 6i pecks Also m seed, by tally again<;t Tohn rh^\ / noes 3 pecks. Chamburleyn, messer there, 34 cran- Also delivered to brother XirhnToo Ar. ji ^ him, 5 crannocs " ^"^°°' ''"•'""^'•' ^^ « *«»! against Also in allowances of said 10 serv^nfc f.r. -.i. r . . the Blessed Virgin iarv (8 stt To . .v 1 f *'' ^^''"''^ "' the feast of Alt Saints L't T, « )" ^'^ "^'^ ^' ^'"^'^ ""^^ ■ peeks, heaped, to he'c^^lr ^''^'' ' """""^'^ ' •'^^'^' ^' E 2 t ->w r:-:..j^ .V, 52 Account Boll of the Prion/ of the Holy Trinitu, Dublin. Item in liberatione unius ballivi ibidem a die Jovis proxima post festum Apostolorum Petri & Pauli usque diem Jovis prox. post festum Omnium Sanctorum per xviii septimanas ii eran. videlicet vii p'^ cumul' pro cran. Item liberatum Hugoni Belynges ballivo de Gorman per i talliam contra eundem ix cran. i p^. Summa v^^ ix cran. i p^ di., unde de incremento iii cran. vi p*' videlicet vii p"^ [cum.] pro cran. De quibus . . . HastiueU. Item reddit compotum de xvi cran. ii p' hastiuell receptis de exitu dicti hagardi. Summa xvi cran. ii p' patet. In semine, liberatum per i talliam contra Johannem Chambnrlejn ibidem messorem, ii cran. Item cuidam garcioni custodienti dictum hastiuell in campo, ii p'^ Item in liberationibus ii serviencium ibidem ii carectariorum & vi carucariorura, a festo Sancti Augustini usque fesfum Apos- tolorum Petri & Pauli prox. sequens, per v septimanas, vi cran. ii p"^ : cuilibet per v septimanas, v p^ Also in allowance of one bailiff there from Thursday (3 July) next after the feast of the apostles Peter and Paul to Thursday (6 Xov.) next after the feast of All Saints for 18 weeks, 2 crannocs, at 7 pecks, heaped, to the crannoc. Also delivered to Hugh Belvnges, bailiff of Gorman, by one tally against him, 9 crannocs 1 peck. Total, 109 crannocs U peck. of which 3 crannocs 6 pecks. at 7 pecks to the crannoc, are in excess of what is to be accounted for. Of which . . . Hastiuell. Also he renders account of 16 crannocs 2 pecks hastiuell received of the issue of said haggard. Total, 16 crannocs 2 pecks, is manifest. In seed, delivered by 1 tally against John Chamburlcyn, messer there, 2 crannocs. Also to a certain serving man guarding the said hastiuell in the field, 2 pecks. Also in allowances of 2 serjcants there, 2 carters, and 6 ploughmen, from the feast of S. Augustine (26 May) to the feast of the apostles Peter and Paul (29 June) next following, for 5 weeks, 6 crannocs 2 pecks ; to each for 5 weeks, 5 pecks. Account Boll of the Priory of the ' Holy Trinity, Dublin. Item liberatum Hugoni ballivo ibidem, per i talliam contra eundem vi cran. vi p<=. ' Item liberatum Johanni Chamburleyn ballivo de Clonken, per 1 [talliam] contra eundem, i cran. Summa ut supra. Et nihil remanet. Item idem reddit compotum de xi pc avenarum receptis ibidem post^tempusfratrum Willelmi de Assheburne & Stephani UeTby ad stallamentum Prioris. Et de vii pc avenarum receptis de empcione ut infra. Et de iiii cran. di. receptis de novo grano de exitu grangie, de nagardo supradicto. Summa v cran. xi p^ De quibus idem computat liberatum Henrico Hay palefridario Prions, per i talliam contra eundem, post adventura suum videlicet ad festum Sancti Petri Advincula, s p= di. Item in prebenda palefridi Prioris & haken brunei, a stallamento Prions usque festum Sancti Petri Advincula, iiii p= di. 53 Avene. Also delivered to Hugh, the bailiff there, by one tally against him, 6 crannocs 6 pecks. Also dcHvered to John Chamburleyn, bailiff of Clonken, by one tally against him, 1 crannoc. Total as above, and nothing remains. Also he renders account of 11 pecks of oats received there after the time Oats of brothers AVilliam de Assheburne and Stephen Derby at the installation of the Prior. And of 7 pecks of oats received by purchase, as inside the roll. And of 4 crannocs and a-half received of new grain of the issue of the grange, of the haggard abovesaid. Total, 5 crannocs 1 1 pecks. Of which he accounts as delivered to Henry Hay, palfreykeeper of the Pnor, by one tally against him after his coming, ^t the feast of b. Peter ad Vincula, IQJ peeks. Also in provender of the Prior's palfrey and the brown hackney, from the installation of the Prior to the feast of S. Peter ad Yincula 4^ pecks. ' 54 "f Account Boll of the Prior?/ of the Ilolf/ Trhiitf/^ DtihUn. Item liberatum Leticie Marcold siccatrici brasil ibidem, pro brasio inde facieudo per unam talliam contra eandem, iiii cran. x p* Summa ut supra. Et nihil remanet. f A Also delivered to Leticia Marcold, the woman drying malt there, to make malt of it, by one tally against her, 4 crannocs 10 pecks. Total as above, and nothing remains. Account Roll of the Priori/ of the Holy Trinity, Dublin. 55 III. CoMPOTUS JoHANNis Chamburleyn ballivi de Clonken de omnibus recepcionibus misis expensis & liberationibus ibidem per ipsum factis, a festo Sancti Petri Ad vincula, anno Domini Millesimo cce"^°. xliiii*", usque idem festum proximum sequens, anno revoluto. In primis idem reddit compotum de xiii s. ii d. receptis de placitis & Perquisi- perquisitionibus euriarum per tempus compoti tentarum ut cSun. patet per lii extractas super compotum prolatas. Summa xiii s. ii d. patet. Item idem reddit compotum de iiii s. ii d. receptis de minutis Minute decimis hoc anno receptis. Decime. Et de iii s. i d. receptis de turbis venditis hoc anno. Summa vii s. iii d. Item idem reddit compotum de iiii s.' receptis de argilla pro ollis Venditio luteis mde faciendis vendita, per manus Dowenild Ohelyn. ^'^^"^• Summa iiii s. patet. Account of John Chamburletn, bailiff of Clonken, of all receipts, disbursements, expenses, and payments there made by him' from the feast of Saint Peter ad Vincula (1st Aug.) a.d! 1344, to the same feast next following in the succeeding year. In the first place he renders account of 13*. 2d. received of the pleas and profits of- the courts held during the time of the account, as appears by 3 estreats produced upon the account. Total 13s. 2d., is manifest. Also he renders account of 4.. 2d. received for small tithes received this year. And of 3^. Id. received for turf sold this year. Total 7s. 3d. Also he renders account of 4.. received for clay sold by the hands of Dowenild OHelyn, for making earthenware pots. Total 48., is manifest. Profits of Courts. Small Tithes. Sale of Clav. ^ Written over xxii d. struck out. 4 56 f H Account Boll of the Priory of the IIolij Trinitf/, Dublin, Yenditio Item idem reddit compotum de xvii s. vi d. receptis de vii petrls & di. lane venditis, de tonsura de termino Omnium, precium petre ii s. iiii d. Et de xiiii s. vi d. receptis de vii petris & 1 quart, lane venditis de tonsura de termino Apostolorum Philippi & Jaeobi, precium petre ii s. Et de vii s. vi d. receptis de iii petris lane agnine venditis de ton- sura Nativitatis Beati Johannis, precium petre ii s. Summa xxxix s. vi d. frumend''^ Item idem reddit compotum de xix s. vii d. receptis de vi cran. V p^ frumenti venditis, precium cran. ii s. xi d. Et de iii s. ii d. ob. receptis de i cran. vendito, precium p^ v d. ob. Summa xxii s. ix d. ob. Item idem reddit compotum de x s. receptis de ii bobus venditis, pro debilitate & senectute, per visum fratris Johannis Comyn senescalli. Et de ii s. receptis de i porco vendito. Et de XX d. receptis de uno alio minori vendito. Venditio Stauri. Sale of Wool. Sale of Wheat. Sale of Stock. Also he renders account of 17*. 6^. received for 7^ stones of wool sold, of the shearing of the term of All [Saints, Nov. 1] : price 2«. 'id. a stone. And of 14«. Qd. received for 7|- stones of wool sold, of the shearing of the term of the apostles Philip and James (May 1) : price 2«. a stone. And of Is. 6d. received for 3 stones of lamhs' wool sold, of the shearing at the time of the Nativity of Saint John (June 24) : price 28. a stone. Total 398. 6d. Also he renders account of 19«. 7d. received for 6 crannocs 5 pecks of wheat sold : price 2s. lid. a crannoc. And of Ss. 2^d. received for one crannoc sold : price 5|^. a peck. Total 22*. 9^ Also he renders account of 10*. received for 2 oxen sold on account of weakness and old age, hy direction of brother John Comyn the seneschal. And of 2s. received for 1 hog sold. And of 20d. received for another smaller sold. Account Boll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin. 57 Et de iii d. receptis de i coreo affrino vendito, mortuo de morina. Com Jit de V d. receptis de i alio coreo equino vendito de morina. Et de iiii d. de i alio coreo affrino vendito de morina. Et de xiiii d. receptis de uno coreo vaceino vendito de morina Et de ii s. receptis de viii pellibus lanutis venditis, de multon' missis de Glasnevin, apud Clouken, ad dominum Archiepis- copum & ad Priorem. Summa xvii s. x d. Item idem reddit compotum de c iii s. v d. receptis de fratre Keo- for- Johanna Comyn senescallo per i talliam contra eundem, pro diversis rebus & Imsbonderia ibidem ordi[nanda] ante Natalem Domini. Et de xxxiii 8. V d. ob. receptis de eodem Johanne per i aliam talliam contra eundem. Summa, vi Ii. xvi s. x d. ob. Summa tocius recept', xii Ii. xvii d. Item idem computat in meremio empto pro xii carucis novis inde Cu.tus taciendis pro stauro habendo, de quodam hibernico iii s ^"'"^■ Item in uno seem' virga[rum] pro hartis & themes inde' faciendis ^' pro carucis, iii d. ' Ami of 3rf. received for one hide sold of an affer that died of murrain Hides And of 5rf. received for a horse hide sold, that died of murrain And of U. received for an affer hide sold, that died of murrain And of 1 U. received for a cow hide sold, that died of murrain. ' And of 2,. received of 8 woolfclls sold, of sheep sent from Glasnevin to Ctonken for the lord Archbishop and the Prior. Total, 17«. XM. Also he renders account of 103*. f>d. received from brother John Comyn, E.t, seneschal, as by one tally against him for divers things and L SpTs. conducting the farming there before Christmas And of 33*. ,id received from the same John, aa by one other tally agamst him. •' Total, £6 16«. \fi\d. Total of all receipts, £12 U. hd. Also he renders account in timber bought for making 12 new nloushs to p . , have in stock, of a certain Irishman, 3. ^ " ^^^"' *" %t± Also in one load of rods to make handles and themes for the ploughs, Zd. Ill 58 ft 1 Anira Carucarum ex Consue- tudine. Gustos Carecta- rum. Account Boll of the Prionj of the Holy TrinW/, Dublin, Item in duabus bendis & di. ferri pro ferro carucali inde susti- nendo & faciendo p^er tempus compoti, x s. Item in stipendio fabri pro dictis ferris caruealibus faciendis & fabricandis, per tempus supradictum, ex certa convencione, vi s. viii. d. Item in iiii"^ vomeribus emptis, ii s. Summa xxi s. xi d. Item idem computat in pane furnito ut extra pro xiiii carucis ex consuetudine ad semen yemale ad quas fuerunt xxviii viri, ii p^. frumenti. Item in cervisia xii d. Etde staiiro unus porcus.* Item in pane furnito pro arura alia, de xiiii carucis, ad qiias fuerunt xxviii viri, ii p« frumenti ut extra. In cervisia empta xiii d., in pisce empto, ix d. Summa ii s. x d. Item idem computat in una corda empta de canabo pro carecta liganda, iiii d. Item in ii paribus de tractibus de canabo emptis, iiii d. Item in uno pare rotarum empto, ii s. v d. Item in i alio pare rotarum empto, ii s. ii d. Also in two bends and a half of iron, to maintain and to make plough iron during the time of account, \0s. Also in wages of a smith to make and forge the said plough irons during the aforesaid time, by a fixed agreement, 6s. %d. Also in 4 ploughshares bought, 2s. Total 2 1«. \\d. Ploughing Also he accounts in bread baked as on the outer side (of the to\Y) for 14 r^e *1 111. ploughs by custom at wmter seed time, to which were 28 men, 2 pecks of wheat. Also in ale 1 2d. And from the stock 1 hog. Also in bread baked for another ploughing of 14 ploughs, to which were 28 men, 2 pecks of wheat, as on the other side. In ale bought 13^., in fish bought, 9^. Total, 28. \Qd. Also he accounts in one cord of hemp bought for binding a cart, Ad. Also in 2 pairs of traces of hemp bought, Ad, Also in one pair of wheels bought, 2*. 5^. Also in another pair of wheels bought, 2*. 2d. of the CU3 toraary ploughs. Cost of arts. Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin. Item in i alio pare rotarum empto, ii s. i d. Item_in i arbore empto pro i pare de razes pro earectis faciendo, Wnd:s, & ad .nponendos duos axes, per ii dies ad mensam m autumpno, li d. Item in unguento empto ad careefas, ii d. Item in duobus cartebaas emptis per visum Johannis Comyn, xu d Item m uno stradul empto ad carectam, id. Item mi earre empto ad tractandas decimas de Thillagb, ii d ob Item m i corda de canabo empta pro dicto carre ligand! d " I em m clut' ferreis & clavis emptis pro eisdem firmandi; v d Item in i axe empto, i d. ob. Item in ferura iii equorum ad carectam per tempus compoti, iiii s. Item m ferura equ. super quem frater Thomas de Beuley equitavit in autumpno, xii d. .74" Item in ii paribus rotarum lanearum emptis contra autumpnum, nil s. iiii d. ^ ' Item in ii axibus emptis pro carecta unacum imposicione & apta- Clone eorundem, iiii d. ob. Poreo in the original. Also in another pair of wheels bought, 2«. Id Also in one tree bought for making one pair of razes for carts, U. Also m hire of one carpenter for making said razes for carts, and putting on two axles, for 2 days, at board, in harvest time, 2d. Also in grease bought for the carts, 2d. Also m two cartbass bought by direction of John Comyn, 12^ Also in one straddle bought for a cart, \d. -^ ' ' . Also in one car bought to draw the tithes from Tully, 2hd Also in one cord of hemp bought to bind the said car, Id. ' Also m iron clouts, and nails bought to secure them, 6d. Also m one axle bought, \^d. Also in shoeing of 3 cart horses during the time of account, 4*. Also m shoeing of the horse which brother Thomas de Beuley rode in harvest, \2d. ^ Also in 2 pairs of woollen wheels bought against han-est 4* Ad Also m 2 axles bought for a cart, together with the' putting on and fitting of them, A\d. 59 11 |i 60 Account Boll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin. Item in clut' emptis, & clavis pro eisdem firmaudis, v d. ob. Summa xix s. x d. Emendacio Item idem computat iu factiira parietum domus torelli ex longi- Domoium. x j- tudme quatuor perticat' ii s. iiii d. : pro qualibet pertic', vii d. Item in conduccione cuiusdam carpentarii scarpilantis aptantis & levantis ii copulas pro eadem per iii dies ad mensam, vi d. Item in clatlies emptis pro eadem, iii d. Item euidam homiui colligenti watul pro eodem, i d. Item in conduccione unius coopertorii, cooperientis dictam domum per X dies ad tascham, ii s. i d., per diem ii d. ob. Item in conduccione duorum garcionum deserviencium eidem per dictos X dies ad tascham, xx d., cuilibet per diem i d. Item in conduccione dicti coopertorii cooperientis super bostar' per iiii"*". dies ad tascham x d., per diem ut supra. Item duobus eidem deservientibus per dictos iiii"^ dies ad tascham, viii d., cuilibet per diem i d. Item in conduccione eiusdem coopertorii cooperientis super gran- giam per ii dies ad tascham, v d., per diem ut supra. Also in clouts bought, and nails for securing them, b^. Total \98. \0d. Eepair of Also he accounts in making the walls of the kiln house of the length of houses. 4 perches, 2«. 4d. ; for each perch, Id. Also in hire of a carpenter cutting, fitting, and putting up two roof couples for the same, for 3 days at hoard, 6^. Also in hurdles bought for same, 3c?. Also to a man collecting wattle for same, \d. Also in hire of a thatcher roofing said house for 10 days at full wages, 2s. Id. ; by the day, 2hd. Also in hire of two serving men helping him for the said 10 days, at full wages, 20^. ; to each by the day, l^^. Also in hire of said thatcher roofing the ox house for 4 days, at full wages, 10^. ; by the day as above. Also to two men helping him for said 4 days at full wages, M. ; to each by the day, \d. Also in hire of the same thatcher roofing over the grange for 2 days, at full wages, bd. ; by the day as above. f 4 Account Roll of the Priory of the Hoi;, Trinity, Duhlin. Item dictis duobus eidem coopertorio deservientibus per dictos ii dies, iiu d. •^ " Item in C. de draghtbord emptis, ad Hibernicos, v s Item in meremio empto, per Ricardum Talcun, in Glenwhery, pro domo vaccarum de novo edificanda, iii s vi d Item in conduccione Rioardi Taloun carpentarii, dictum meremium aptant.s & levantis per octo dies ad tascham, xx d., per diem 11 a. ob. Item in factura murorum eiusdem domus ex longitudine iiii" perticatarum, u s. viii d., pro pertica ad tascbam viii d Item in factura unius parve serure ad le wyket magne porte, ii d. Item hberavit pro meremio supradicto cariando de Glewhery, die Sancti Nicholai, iiii d. Item in uno spochour empto ad iactandam aquam, ad muros iaciendos, i d. ob. Item in meremio empto videlicet xxvi spyres pro dicta domo ad- implenda, n s. ii. d. Item euidam carpentario facienti hostium & adimplenti dictam domum, per ii dies ad tascham, v d. Summa cum cedula xsix s. ii d. Also to said two helping the same thatcher for said 2 days id Also m 00 of draughtboard bought among the Irish, 5/ Also m timber bought by Richard Taloun ia Glenwhery to build anew the cow house, 3s. 6rf. ' ^^ timber for 8 days at full wages, 20d. ■ by the dav, 2W. Also ™-k>„g the walls of sa^e house of the length of^four perches _ 2s. 8,;. ; by the perch, at full wages, 8^. Also m making of a small lock for the wicket of the great gate 2d Also he pau for carrying the said timber from aTenwhe y on Saint Kicholas' day (Dec. 6), id. ^' Also in a spochour, bought to throw water for making the walls 1 ^d Also in timber bought, viz. 26 beams to complete the said house 2\\d Also to a carpenter making the door and completing the said Louse, for 2 days at full wages, bd. ' Total, with the schedule, 29*. 2d. 61 r* 1 i; 62 [Stipen] dia famu- lorum. Empcio Stauri. Expense Minute & necessarie. "Wasres of servants. Account Boll of the Prior fj of the Holy Trinity, Dublin. Item idem computat in stipendio Johannis Chamburleju ibidem ballivi, per annum, vi s. viii d. Item in stipendio unius servientis, uniiis earectarii & duorum ten- torum carucarum per annum xx s., cuilibet per annum, v s. pro eodem. Item liberatum duobus fugatoribus carucarum pro eodem per annum, i is repeated iu oriL^iual. \ J 1 I! II 64 Account Roll of the Priori/ of the Holy Trinity, Dublin. v^-^ xiii cran. & xiii p^ avene, vii s. iii d. ob. quad., videlicet pro ventilatione quatuor cran. i d. Item in conduceione ii homiuum amputancium subboscum in bosco de Clonken, per xiiii dies in autumpno ad niensara, ad bras' & furn' ad Abbatiam in autumpno, ii s. iiii d., cuilibet per diem i d. Item in conduceione ii hominum flagencium sive triturancium diversa blada in autumpno, per xi dies ad mensam, xxii d., cuilibet per diem ad mensam i d. Item duobus vigilantibus supra cacumina moncium pre timore Hibernicorum, per ii noctes, iiii d. Summa xxi s. quad, cum cedula. Falcacio. Item in v acris iii stangnis prati falcandis iii s. iii d. ob., pro acra vii d. Summa iii s. iii d. ob. Expense In conduccione vi metentium bastiuell, vi d. Autuinp- ' coiduc''.^ '"^ ^^^ '^^^'^ proxima post festum Sancti Petri Advincula in con- cione di- duccione iiii^^ viii metencium blada, ad cibum, vii s iiii d metencium cuilibet per diem i d. blada. Mowing. Harvest expenses : as in hire of divers reaping curu. 113 crannocs, 13 pecks of oats, 7^. 3Jd. Also to the serving man of Oliver Haket watching the tithes of Killiney and Loughlinstown, 2«. Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin. 69 Item cuidam C. . . . ken custodienti decimas de villa Eoch, & de illis partibus, ii s. iii d. Item Simoni Harald custodienti decimas de Baly ... & Ferne- cost, xviii d. Item Johanni Puuchard furnienti & bracianti ibidem per autump- num & facienti alia necessaria, ii s. Item Thome Haket pro sotularibus, iii d. Item Willelmo Haket pro sotularibus, iii d. Item Johanni Notyngham pro sotularibus, iiii d. Item Johanni de Burton clerico pro sotularibus, iiii d. Item Philippo Taunton pro sotularibus, ii d. Item Eoberto de Taunton custodienti decimas de Dengen, per modicum tempus, iiii d. Item in cirotecis emptis pro Thoma de Beuley & tota familia in hagardo, xii d. Item Johanni Haket pro cirotecis secundum consuetudinem, xii d. Item hominibus Joliannis Balygodman ex curialitate, xii d. Ex curiah- Item hominibus Margarete Ketyngg, ex curialitate, xii d. tate. ^ Picchuutibus iu original. Also to a certain .... watching the tithes of Eochestown and those parts, 2«. ^d. Also to Simon Harald watching the tithes of Baly .... and Fernecost, 18^. ' . Also to John Punchard baking and brewing there during the harvest time, and doing other necessary things, 2s. Also to Thomas Haket for shoes, Zd. Also to William Haket for shoes, Sc?. Also to John Notyngham for shoes, 4:d. Also to John de Burton, clerk, for shoes, Ad. Also to Philip Taunton for shoes, 2d. Also to Robert de Taunton watching tithes of Dengen for a short time, Ad. Also in gloves bought for Thomas de Beuley and the whole household in the haggard, \2d. Also to John Haket for gloves according to custom, \2d. Gratuity. Also to the men of John Balygodman, as a gratuity, 12^. Also to the men of Margaret Ketyng, as a gratuity, \2d. 70 Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity ^ Dublin, Item liominibus Gregorii Taunton ex curialitate, vi d. Summa xvi s. v d. Expense autupnales nt pro mensa tenenda. Die Merciirii proxima post festum Sancti Petri quod dicitur Advincula in pane fumito pro metentibus blada, vii p' fru- menti. Item in cervisia braeiata, eodem die, i p" brasii frumenti, & x p'' brasii avene. Item eodem die in carnibus emptis pro Johanne ballivo, ad mensam Johanne Punchard, uno carpentario emendanti vasa, parvo Stephano ibidem clavigero, ii d. Die Jovis omnia de stauro. Die Veneris proxima sequente panis & cervisia de stauro, in allece pro eisdem, i d. Diebus Sabbati, Dominice, Lune, & Martis, omnia de stauro. Die Mercurii proxima [sequente] in pane furnito i cran. frumenti, in cervisia empta viii d., quo die fuerunt ad mensam, f rater Thomas de Beul[ey, Johannes] Notyngham, Johannes Also to the men of Gregory Taunton, as a gratuity, 6c?. Total, 16*. bd. Harvest expenses^ as for maintaining the table : — On Wednesday (August 4) next after the feast of S, Peter which is called Ad Vincula, in bread baked for the reapers of the com, 7 pecks of "wheat. Also in ale brewed on same day, 1 peck of wheat malt, and 10 pecks of oat malt. Also on same day, in flesh bought for John the bailiff, there being at board John Punchard, a carpenter employed mending vessels, and little Stephen, the doorkeeper, 2d. Thursday. All from stock. Friday next following. Bread and ale from stock ; in herrings for same. Id. Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. All from stock. Wednesday next following. In bread baked, 1 crannoc of wheat ; in ale bought. B>d. On which day there were at table brother Thomas de Bculey, John Notyngham, John Burton, derks, Thomas Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity^ Dublin. Burton, clerici, Thomas Haket, Willelmus Haket filius Oliveri Haket, Philippus Taunto, garcio . . . una cum supra- dictis, in carnibus emptis, vi d. Die Jovis proxima sequente, omnia de stauro. Die Veneris proxima sequente panis de stauro, in cervisia braeiata . i p'' brasii frumenti & i cran. brasii avene, in allece, ii d. Die Sabbati proxima sequente, omnia de stauro. Die Dominica proxima sequente, panis & cervisia de stauro, in cam' empt' xi d. Die Lune proxima sequente, videlicet in festo Assumpcionis Beate Marie Virginis, omnia de stauro, preter in pullis, i d. Die Martis proxima sequente in pane furnito, i cran. frumenti. DiQ Mercurii proxima sequente, omnia de stauro. Die Jovis proxima sequente, panis & cervisia de stauro, in earn' empt' iiii d. ob. Die Veneris panis & cervisia de stauro, in allece, iii d. Die Sabbati in pane furnito i cran. iii p<^ frumenti, in cervisia braeiata i p« brasii frumenti, & i cran. brasii avene, &c., de stauro. Haket, William Haket son of Oliver Haket, Philip Taunton, the serving man .... together with the above named. In flesh bought, Qd. Thursday next following. All from stock. Friday. Bread from stock ; in ale brewed, 1 peck of wheat malt and 1 crannoc of oat malt ; in herrings, 2d. Saturday. All from stock. Sunday. Bread and ale from stock ; in flesh bought, 11^. Monday next following, viz. in the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. All from stock, except in chickens. Id. Tuesday next following. In bread baked, 1 crannoc of wheat. Wednesday. All from stock. Thursday. Bread and ale from stock ; in flesh bought, A^d. Friday. Bread and ale from stock ; in herrings, ^d. Saturday. In bread baked, 1 crannoc, 3 pecks of wheat ; in ale brewed, 1 peck of wheat malt and 1 crannoc of oat malt, &c., from stock. 72 Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinitij^ Duhlin, Die Dominica proxima sequeiite panis & cervisia de stauro, in carnibus xii d., in pulcin' i d. Die Lune in vigilia Sancti Bartholomei panis & cervisia de stauro, in allece, ii d. Diebus Martis & Mercurii, omnia de stauro. Die Jovis, omnia de stauro. Die Veneris, panis & cervisia de stauro, in allece ii d., in candelis, ii d. Die Sabbati proxima sequente panis de stauro, in cervisia braciata i p^ brasii frumenti, i cran. brasii avene, item in pane furnito i cran. iii p^ frumenti. Die Dominica in festo Decollacionis Sancti Johannis, panis & cervisia de stauro, in cam' . . . xiiii d. Diebus Lune & Martis omnia de stauro. Die Mercurii panis & cervisia de stauro, in allece, i d. Die Jovis omnia de stauro. Die Veneris panis de stauro, in cervisia empta, pro familia & metentibus, ii s., in allece, ii d. Sunday. Bread and ale from stock ; in flesh \2d. ; in chickens, \d. Monday, the vigil of S. Bartholomew. Bread and ale from stock; in herrings, Id. Tuesday and Wednesday. All from stock. Thursday. All from stock. Friday. Bread and ale from stock ; in herrings, Id. ; in candles, 2d. Saturday. Bread and ale from stock ; in ale brewed, 1 peck of wheat malt, 1 crannoc of oat malt. Also in bread baked, 1 crannoc, 3 pecks of wheat. Sunday, the feast of the beheading of S. John. Bread and ale from stock ; in flesh .... 14c?. Monday and Tuesday. All from stock. Wednesday. Bread and ale from stock ; in herrings, \d. Thursday. All from stock. Friday. Bread from stock ; in ale bought for the household and reapers, 2«. ; in herrings, 2d. Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity^ Dublin. Die Sabbati proxima sequente, in pane furnito, i cran. iii p^ fru- menti, in cervisia braciata i p^ brasii frumenti, di. cran. brasii avene & i cran. brasii hastiuell. Die Dominica proxima ante festum Nativitatis Beate Marie Virginis pro Priore, fratribus Willelmo de Assheborne, Hobert de Sancto Neoto & Johanne Comyn, cum eorum sequela venientibus ibidem, panis & cervisia de stauro, in cam' bovin' empta x d., in i multone empto xii d., in vino vii d. ob., et de stauro ii auce. Die Lune in vigilia Nativitatis Beate Marie Virginis panis «S; cervisia de stauro, in allece pro familia, ii d. Die Martis, omnia de stauro. Die Mercurii proxima sequente, panis de stauro, in cervisia bra- ciata di. p*^ brasii frumenti, i cran. brasii hastiuell, in earn' bovin', iiii d., et de stauro i porcus. Die Jovis proxima sequente, omnia de stauro. Die Veneris omnia de stauro, preter in allece ii d. Die Sabbati in pane furnito, i cran. iiii p^ frumenti, &c., de stauro. n Saturday. In bread baked, 1 crannoc, 3 pecks of wheat ; in ale brewed, 1 peck of wheat malt, half a crannoc of oat malt, and 1 crannoc of hastiuell malt. Sunday next before the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. For the Prior, brothers William de Assheborne, Robert de S. Neot, and John Comyn, with their following coming there, bread and ale from the stock ; in beef bought 10^. ; in 1 mutton bought, \1d. ; in wine, 7^c?. ; and from stock 2 geese. Monday, the vigil of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Bread and ale from stock ; in herrings for the household, Id. Tuesday. All from stock. Wednesday. Bread from stock ; in ale brewed, half a peck of wheat malt, 1 crannoc of hastiuell malt ; in beef ^d. ; and from stock, 1 hog. Thursday. All from stock. Friday. All from stock, except in herrings, 2d. Saturday. In bread baked, 1 crannoc, 4 pecks of wheat, &c., from stock. \ H 74 Account Boll of the Priorij of the Holy Trinity^ Dublin, Die Dominica proxima sequente, panis & cervisia de stauro, in earn' multon' pro Gregorio T[aunton], Simone Archebold eum iiii fratribus, iiii d., et de stauro i porcus, & i auca. Diebus Lune & Martis in festo Exaltacionis Sancte Crucis, omnia de stauro. Die Mercurii proxima sequente, panis de stauro, in cervisia braciata contra adventum Prioris ii p^ brasii frumenti, i cran. brasii hastiuell & x p*^ brasii avene, in i p° salis, iii d. Die Jovis omnia de stauro, preter in earn' multon', vi d. De Veneris omnia de stauro preter in cc allecibus emptis de Johanne Kendal, xvi d., item in vino empto, v d. Die Sabbati proxima sequente, in pane furnito contra adventum domini Archiepiscopi, i cran. iii p^ frumenti, in cervisia braciata ii p° brasii frumenti, i cran. brasii avene, &c. de stauro. Die Dominica ante festum Sancti Mathei Apostoli pro domino Arcbiepiscopo veniente ibidem, Priore & ejus sequela, panis de stauro, in cervisia empta causa Archiepiscopi ii s. id., in Sunday. Bread and ale from stock ; in mutton for Gregory Taunton, Simon Archebold, with 4 brethren, 4^. ; and from stock 1 hog, and 1 goose. Monday and Tuesday in feast of Exaltation of the Holy Cross. All from stock. Wednesday next following. Bread from stock ; in ale brewed against the coming of the Prior, 2 pecks of wheat malt, 1 crannoc of hastiuell malt, and 1 pecks of oat malt ; in 1 peck of salt, ^d. Thursday. All from stock, except in mutton, Q>d. Friday. All from stock, except in 200 herrings bought of John Kendal, 166?. ; also in wine bought, bd. Saturday. In bread baked against the coming of the lord Archbishop, I crannoc, 3 pecks of wheat ; in ale brewed, 2 pecks of wheat malt, 1 crannoc of oat malt, «S:c., from stock. Sunday before the feast of S. Matthew the Apostle. For the lord Arch- bishop coming there, the Prior and his retinue ; bread from stock ; in ale bought on account of the Archbishop, 2s. \d.\ in fuel 4 ,1 Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity^ Dublin, focali empto pro eodem x d., in vino empto x d., et in ex- hennio eidem ii multon' de stauro, et in prebenda pro eodem per ii noetes, ii cran. i p^ avene. Die Lune in vigilia Sancti Mathei, omnia de stauro, preter in vino pro Arcbiepiscopo, x d. Diebus Martis, Mercurii, Jovis, & Veneris, omnia de stauro, cum lib' Prioris. Die Sabbati [in] pane furnito, i cran. iiii p' frumenti, in cervisia braciata i p^ brasii frumenti, i cran. brasii avene. Die Dominica proxima sequente, panis & cervisia de stauro, in focali pro Priore v d., in pulcin' & ovis emptis ii d., et de stauro ii multon'. Diebus Lune & Martis, omnia de stauro. Die Mercurii in festo Sancti Michaelis, omnia de stauro, preter in pulcin' i d., et in vino vii d. ob., et de stauro unus porcus. Die Jovis omnia de stauro, preter in vino pro Priore, v d. Die Veneris, in pane furnito i cran. iii p*' frumenti, in cervisia braciata i p^ brasii frumenti, i cran. brasii hastiuell & v p° brasii avene, in allece iiii d. 75 bought for him, 10r iiii 116 Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity^ Dublin. Item In vino empto eodem die post prandium pro dicto monaco de Malverne & i armigero, ii d. Item in vino empto, pro Priore, fratre Thoma de Beuley, & aliis cenantibus in sacrist', die dominica proxima ante festum sancti Michaelis, i d. Item in vino empto, die sancti Michaelis pro Jolianne Haket pre- cepto Prioris, i d. ob. In cervisia, i d. Item post prandium eodem die in vino albo & rubro empto pro Priore Poberto de Plogbton, Roberto de Moenes seniore & Roberto de Moenes juniore, ii d. ob. quad. Item in vino empto, pro Priore & Willelmo de Barton clerico die Sabbati in crastino sancti Michaelis, iii d. In cervisia, i d. Item in vino empto Archidiacono Dublin, Eogero de Preston, Nicholao de Suyterby & eorum sequela die dominica proxima post festum sancti Michaelis post prandium, vi d. ob. Item die Martis proxima sequente in vino empto pro Priore dominis Johanne Dendredeby, Johanne atte Gate in camera Prioris, ii. d. ob. Also in wine bought on same day after dinner, for the said monk of Malvern and one esquire, 2d. Also in wine bought for the Prior, brother Thomas de Beuley and others, supping in the sacristy, on Sunday (Sept 24) next before the feast of S. Michael, \d. Also in wine bought on S. Michael's day, for John Haket, by order of the Prior, l^c?., in ale \d. .Uso after dinner on same day, in white and red wine bought for the Prior, Eobert de Hoghton, Kobert de Moenes senior, and llobert de Moenes junior, 2\d. Also in wine bought for the Prior amnVilliam de Barton, clerk, on Saturday the morrow of S. Michael, Zd ; in ale \d. Also in wine bought for the archdeacon of Dublin, lloger de Preston, Mcholas de Suyterby, and their retinue, on Sunday (Oct. 1) next after the feast of S. Michael, after dinner, ^\d. Also on Tuesday next following, in wine bought for the Prior, sir John Dendredeby, and sir John atte Gate, in the Prior's chamber, 2\d. K> Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, Item in vino empto pro Priore apud Gorman perj i noctem, die Jovis proxima post festum sancti Michaelis, iii d. In cervisia, i d. ob. In alaudis emptis, ii d. Item in cervisia empta, pro Priore, Priore de sancto Wlstano simulcomedentibus in camera coquine, iii d. Item in vino empto pro Priore domino Johanne Dendredeby & domino Johanne atte Gate alia vice, iii d. Die Sabbati proxima ante festum sancti Dyonisii, in cervisia pro Priore, fratre Thoma de Beuley & Johanne Rous & aliis in Sacrista venientibus de domino Archiepiscopo de Fynglas, ii. d. Die dominica proxima sequente, in vino empto pro eodem Priore, fratribus Thoma Beuley & Willelmo Sterre, ad compotum dicti fratris Willelmi reddendum, ii d. In cervisia, i d. ob. quad. Die Lune proxima sequente. In pane dominico pro Priore, Johanne Haket, magistro Thoma de Kylmor, Thoma Pypard & aliis ad jantaculum in sacrist', id. In i auca assata i cuniculo furn' & columbellis furn', vi d. In vino empto, V. d. 117 Also in wine bought for the Prior at Gorman, for one night, on Thursday next after the feast of S. Michael, 3c?. ; in ale \^d., larks bought 2d. Also in ale bought for the Prior, and the prior of S. Wolstan's, eating together in the chamber of the kitchen, Zd. Also in wine bought for the Prior, sir John Dendredeby, and sir John atte Gate, another time, M. On Saturday (Oct. 7.) next before the feast of S. Denis, in ale for the Prior, brother Thomas de Beuley, and John Rous, and others, in the sacristy, coming from the lord archbishop at Pinglas, 2d. On Sunday next following, in wine bought for same Prior, brothers Thomas Beuley and William Sterre, at the rendering of the account of said brother William, 2d. ; in ale, l^d. On Monday next following, in paindemaine for the Prior, John Haket, master Thomas de Kylmor, Thomas Pypard, and others, at breakfast in the sacristy. Id.-, in one roast goose, a rabbit cooked, and pigeons cooked, 6^^. ; in wine bought, bd. ■ H G 118 . f Pro Ce- lario. Frumeii- turn. Panis. For the Cellar. Wheat. liread. Account Roll. of the Priory of the Ilohj Trinity, Dublin, Item eodem die ad noctem in cervisia empta pro Priore ad Grorman, i d. ob. Item die Mercurii proxima ante festiim apostolorum Simonis & Jude. In vino empto pro Priore redeunte de Kjlkenn' de Parliamento, & Willelmo GoodDrjch subserviente, iii d. In dimidia auea, i d. ob. Die Jovis proxima sequente. In vino empto pro Priore, magistro Tlioma de Kylmor, Jobanne Haket & aliis, iii d. In i gallina pista, ii d. Sunmia xxi s. iii d. quad. Item idem computat in ii cran. frumenti emptis die sancti Panta- leonis pro celario, xxi s. iiii d. : precium p^ xvi d. Item in ii cran. frumenti emptis, iii^ die mensis Augusti, xxi s. iiii d. : precium p% ut supra. Item in iii cran. frumenti ultimo emptis, xxvi. s. : precium p% xiii d. Item in pane empto pro Eefectorio, die Veneris proxima ante festum sancti Petri quod dicitur Advincula, xiii d. Item in pane empto pro conventu, in vigilia Assumpcionis beate Marie Virginis, xv d. Also on same day at night, in ale bought for the Prior at Gorman, 1^./. Also on Wednesday (Oct. 25) next before the feast of the apostles Simon and Judo, in wine bought for the Prior returning from Kilkenny from the Parliament, and William Goodrych under-serjeant, 3r/.*; in half a goose 1 hd. Thursday next following, in wine bought for the Prior, ma^^ter Thomas de Kylmor, John Haket and others, 3r/., in one baked fowl, 2d. Total 21 5. 8^^. Also he accounts in 2 crannocs of wheat bought on the day of S. Pantaleo, ^ for the cellar, 21 5. 4^. : price 16^. a peck. Also in 2 crannocs of wheat bought on 3rd August, 21 5. Ad, : price as above. Also in 3 crannocs of wheat last bought, 26*. : price 13^. a peck. Also in bread bought for the refectory on Friday (July 28) next before the feast of S. Peter called Ad Yincula, 13^. Also in bread bought for the convent on the eve (Aug. 14) of the Assump- tion of the lilessed Virgin Mary, I5d. -c . ii Account Boll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin. 119 mum. Item in pane empto pro conventu in Eefectorio die Assumpcionis beate Marie Yirginis, xvi d. Item in pane empto pro Conventu in Eefectorio, die Jovis in festo sancti Addani, xviii d. quad. Item in vino empto pro conventu in Eefectorio die Exaltacionis vh sancte Crucis, v d. Item in cervisia empta pro collatione in refectorio, die Jovis in vigilia sancti Micbaelis Archangel!, iiii d. Item die sancti Micbaelis Ai'cbangeli in cervisia empta pro toto Cervisia. die ob deffectum celarii, in Eefectorio, xvi d. & alibi. Item in cervisia pro conventu in refectorio in crastino sancti Micbaelis ad prandium, vi d. ob. Summa Ixxvi s. v d. ob. quad. Item in pererameno empto per totum tempus compoti pro rentali- Expense ■*■ .. ,.i..-pT- •• necessarie. bus faciendis, curiis, compotis, literis, & alus neccessarns scribendis, xv d. Item in emendacione selle Prioris, vii d. Item in acubus & pbillo emptis pro saccis & ventilabris suendis, i d. ob. Also in bread bought for the convent in the refectory, on the day of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, \M. Also in bread bought for the convent in the refectory, on Thursday the feast of S. Addan, l^^d. Also in wine bought for the convent in the refectory, on the day of the Wine. Exaltation of the Holy Cross (Sept. 14), bd. Also in ale bought for a collation in the refectory, on Thursday Ale. (Sept. 28) the eve of S. Michael the archangel, \d. Also on the day of S. Michael the archangel, in aio bought for the whole day on account of default of the cellarer, in the refectory and elsewhere, \^d. Also in ale for the convent in the refectory, on the morrow of S. Michael, for dinner, (Shd. Total 76*. bid. Also in parchment bought during the whole time of the account for Necessary making rentals, courts, accounts, letters, and other things neces- expenses. sary to be written, \bd. Also in repair of the Prior's saddle, Id. Also in needles and thread bought for sewing bags and banners, l^d. I ' i t' 120 Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, Item in twistes & hokes unacum emendacione serure toralis apud GormaD, iii d. Item in i warrok empto pro harnesio Prioris, i d. Item in i brace emendo pro coffero domini, iii d. In iiii°^ capistris de canabo emptis, ii d. Item pro deeimis de Glasnevyn, cariandis de cimiterio ibidem infra manerium per ii vices, In pane & eervisia, ^ii d. Item in sale pro salmone salsando, v d. Summa iiii s. i d. ob. clenoo suo, & aliis apud Glasnevya, pro uno reutali de nova faciendo, iiii d. Item -in expensis eorundem quando venerunt de Clonken & fece- runt uuum rentale ibidem, & tenuerunt curiam, ii d. quad Item m expensis dicti fratris Thome diversimode perhendinantis apud Gorman, Clonkeu, & alibi per dies pariter & nootes a lesto sancti Michaelis usque festum Omnium Sanctorum xviii d. ' Summa ii s. quad. Also in twists and hooks, with the repair of the lock of the malt kiln at (jorman, M. Also in one warrok bought for the Prior's harness, Id. Also m one brace bought for the Prior's coffer, Zd. Also in 4 halters of hemp bought, 2d. Also for carrying the tithes of Glasnevin, from the cemetery there, into the manor, on two occasions, in bread and ale, Vld. Also in salt for salting salmon, od. Total 45. Ud. Expenses Also in ale & chickens bought for brother Thomas de Benley, his clerk Seneschal. , , . '^'^ "^^^^^^' ^^ Glasnevin for making a rental anew, U. Also m expenses of tlie same, when they came from Clonken and made a rental there, and held court, 2ld Also in expenses of said brother Thomas occasionally stopping at Gorman Clonken and elsewhere, by days as well as by nights, from the feast of .s. Michael (Sept. 29) to tbe feast of All Saints (i\ov. \Y Ud Total 28. 0\d. ^' Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, 121 Item in i pare calciamenti empto pro Priore, v d. In tibialibus Necessaria Prioris »^' emptis pro dicto fratre Thoma senescallo, per tempus com- senescaiu. poti, ii s. Summa ii s. v d. Item computat lib. ix famulis de Gorman, in partem solucionis Stipondia , . P -. - . . laniulo- salariorum eornm de termino sanctorum Fmlippi & Jacobi, rum. iiii s., cuilibet eornm ix, iiii d. ballivo vi d. & servient! vi d. Item carectario de celario pro eodem, iiii d. Item Henrico Wyhtbon, in partem solucionis salarii sui de eodem termino, i d. Item Jobanni Calfliurd, ii d. Item lib. Jobanni Rous clerico pro pane emendo apud Glasn' pro Custus Au- metentibus, die Lune proxima ante festum Exaltacionis sancte ^^^^^ ^^' Crucis, XV d. Item lib. Jobanni Notyngham apud Clonken pro calciamento suo, xii d. Item Thome Haket pro calciamento suo ibidem, iii d. ob. Also in one pair of shoes bought for the Prior, bd. In leggings bought for said brother Thomas, the seneschal, during the time of the account, 28. Total 28. bd. Also he accounts as given to 9 servants of Gorman in part payment of their wages for the term of SS. Philip & James, 4«. : to each of the nine, Ad., to the bailiff, 6^., and to the serjeant, ^d. Also to the carter of the cellar, for same, 4.d. Also to Henry Wyhtbon, in part payment of his wages for the same term, \d. Also to John Calfhurd, 2d. Also given to John Rous clerk, for buying bread at Glasnevin for the reapers, on Monday (Sept. 11) next before the feast of the Exalta- tion of the Holy Cross, Ibd. Also given to John Notyngham at Clonken, for his shoes, Vld. Also to Thomas Haket, for his shoes there, 2t^d. Neces- saries of the Prior and Senes- chal. "Wages of servants. Harvest expenses. 1 * Written over Omnium Sanctorum, struck out. n I 122 Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, Item cuidam Andree custodienti decimas de Karrykbrenan, pro calciamento, viii d. Item Stephano filio ballivi apud Clonken, pro sotularibus, iii d. Item Eicardo de Derby existent! ibidem, pro careotis pioliandis, k alia neccessaria faciendis, x d. Item lib. Johanni Kous existenti apud Glasn' pro bladis iotrandis viii d. Item Ricardo Comyn existenti ibidem & laboranti, xviii d. Item lib. Johanni Bathy clerico existenti apud Grorman, iiii d. pro sotularibus. Item Eicardo Palefridario & E. E. garcioni senescalli, viii d. Summa xii s. viii d. ob. Staunim. Item in iii porcellis pro stauro liabendo apud Gorman, viii d. ob. In vi anatibus emptis, vii d. In xviii pulcinis emptis xi d. Item in ii aucis marioF emptis, vi d. pro stauro habendo. Summa ii s. viii d. ob. Ke^s' ^nd ' ^"^^^ computat lib. fratri Eoberto do sancto Neolo, per unam talliam contra eundem, xi Ii. vi s. viii d. unde lespondebit. Stock. Payments of money to be ac- counted for. Also to one Andrew guarding tlie tithes of Carrickbrennan, for shoes, M. Also to Stephen, son of the bailiff at Clonken, for shoes, Zd. Also to Richard de Derby, being there for pitching carts and doing other things necessary, \^d. Also given to John Ilous being at Glasnevin for the incoming of the corn, Also to Richard Comyn, being there and working, \%d. Also given to John Bathy clerk, being at Gorman, \d. for shoes. Also to Richard the palfreykeeper & E. E. the seneschaFs servingman. 8a. Total 125. '^\d. Also in 3 young pigs to keep as stock at Gorman, %\d. In 6 ducks bought, Id. In 18 chickens bought, \\d. Also in 2 mariol geese bought, 6^^. to keep as stock. Total 2*. 8^^. Also he accounts as given to brother Robert de S. Neot, by one tally against him, £11 65. 8^?., whereof he sliall answer. Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin, 123 Item Johanni Chamburleyn, ballivo de Clonken, per i talliam contra eundem, Ixx s. iiii d. unde respondebit. Item Hugoni Belynges ballivo de Gorman, per i talliam contra eundem, Hi s. vii d. ob. unde respondebit. Item Nicholao Chamburleyn ballivo de Glasnevyn, per i talliam contra eundem, viii s. i d. ob. unde respondebit. Item lib. Petro Camerario per ii vices per i talliam contra eundem, iii s. x d. unde respondebit. Item computat lib. Nicholao Latonner per manus Petri Arnold de Soluciones . T -I . • i' • J i. Deoito- sancto Mauro in partem solucionis debiti antiqui, de tempore fratris S. Ludegate, xx a. Item magistro Eoberto de Cestria per manus dicti Petri, de antique debito de tempore ejusdem, x s. Item Waltero Gybyn per manus dicti Petri, de antiquo debito de tempore ejusdem, xi s. viii d. Item Andree Taylour per manus dicti Petri, de debito, vii s iiii d. Item Edmundo de Byrford, de antiquo debito de tempore ejusdem fratris S., vi s. viii d. Item Johanni Taylour civi Dublin in partem solucionis x Ii. de Debito- rum. Also to John Chamburleyn bailiff of Clonken, by one tally against him 70.S. 4^., whereof he shall answer. Also to Hugh Belynges bailiff of Gorman, by one tally against him 52«. Ihd., whereof he shall answer. Also to Nicholas Chamburleyn bailiff of Glasnevin, by one tally against him, 85. \\d., whereof he shall answer. Also given to Peter the chamberlain on two occasions, by one tally against him, 3s. \Qd. whereof he shall answer. Also he accounts as given to Nicholas Latonner, by the hands of Peter Payments Arnold de S. Maur, in part payment of an old debt of the time of °^ ^^^*^- brother Simon Ludegate, 205. Also to master Robert de Chester, by the hands of said Peter, for an old debt of the time of the same, IO5. Also to Walter Gybyn, by the hands of said Peter, for an old debt of the time of the same, lis. ^d. Also to Andrew Taylour, by the hands of said Peter, for a debt, 7s. Ad. Also to Edmund de Byrford, for an old debt of the time of same brother Simon, 6s. 8^. Also to John Taylour citizen of Dublin, in part payment of £10 of a M ' i •MiafWtft'BW*,.'^-'-" 3* ^*'«g' ^— * -"* - ! *»B L— ' "j * t !' "" — ' ■ — ■■<» "" -i L .;.fS4— a>.^ n till t ■« 124 Account Roll of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin. pro CO quinn. debito ejusdem fratris S. per i aquietanciam, die dominica proxima post festum sancti Micliaelis Archangeli, c s. Item Thome de Bolton de debito de promisso dicti fratris S., vi s. • • • 1 vui d. Item Eicardo le Eede piscatori de Oxemanton, pro debito coquine, viii s. ix d. Item Eicardo Glover pro debito ejusdem coquine per literam aquietancie xii s. ix d. Item Johanni Nachs, pro debito ejusdem, & in parte pro husbon- deria, per talliam, xiii s. viii d. Respond.' Item fratri Willelmo Sterre coquinario pro officio suo adjuvando, vi s. viii d. unde respondebit. Summa xxviii li. v s. ix d. Summa Omnium Misarum & Expensarum xxxviii li. iiii s. xi d. ob. quad. Et sic expendit in superplusagio xix s. viii d. ob. unde debentur pro ii bendis ferri viii s. vi d., pro ii vome- For the kitchen. To be ac- counted for. debt of same brother Simon, by one acquittance, on Sunday (Oct. 1) next after the feast of S. Micliael the archangel, lOO*. Also to Thomas de Bolton, for a debt on a promise of said brother Simon, 65. 8^?. Also to Richard le Rede fisherman of Oxmantown, for a debt of the kitchen, 8*. Qd. Also to Richard Glover, for a debt of the same kitchen, by letter of acquittance, 12*. 9d. Also to John ]^achs, for a debt of the same, and in part for husbandry by a tally, 135. 8^. Also to brother AYilliam Sterre kitchener, to help in the expenses of his office, 65. M. for which he shall answer. Total £28 55. M. Total of all payments and expenses £38 As. UU- And so he expended in excess 195. 8^^?., whereof there are owed for 2 bends of iron, 85. 6«..<.««M^~- 162 Poem. (4) (8) iThe following Poem u tcntten upon the unused parts of the hack of Account No. 11. above, in hands of the middle of the fifteenth century. As it is without title I have suggested the name, The Pride of Life.] Pees & horkynt hal ifer [ric] & por yong & hold men & weme^i yat bet her bot lerit & leut stout & bold lordi;/g^ & ladiis ]>ai beth heiide herkenith al w/t/ai sched h/s blodo Nou stond/t stil & beth hende • . . . yith al for J?e wed^r [&] 36 schal or 39 he/niis we>ide be glad ]pai 30 come hidir her 36 schulli^z her^ spelle of mirth & eke of kare herkenith & i wol 30U telle schal ffarc lif i wol 30U telle first bi ffore of fflessch & ffel bore stronge to sto;/de by Qomin of ki;/ge .... lawis in echo a londe . . dradd of no thinge . . pr?*de & liki??ge hia lif he leditli lordlich he lok/t with eye; . . . ce & duk^5 he seith \nm dredith . . . dredith no deth ffor to deye (12) (16) (20) (24) (28) Poem, . . hath a lady louelich al at liki^ige ne may he of no mirth mene ne misse he se/t in swetnisse he wol set Ih's liki/^ge & bri;?ge h/s bale bouw m to blisse kyntis 39 hat cumlic in bred & in leiut not i neuir no;i sue of stocey ne off strynt • wat helpit^ to yilp mucil of his mit or host to mucil of his blys . sorou may sit onis sit . ryt .... ay 36 not miss 127 ladi of lond . . . . st a lord sort to led . . may 36 be fort to stond . . hold yat blisful bled ladi is lettrit in lor as cumli becomit for a quen tun mit hir mac euirmor as a dar for dred him to ten ho bid him be war or 30 suirt , or in his lond det wol alond . ho leuit him gostlic in hert . it him bewar of his hend . begynit to charp of char es wordis wyt out losing det dot not spar kyntis cayser ne kyng nou lord leu yi likynd wyt bringit 30 soul gret baP yis answer ho had of 30 kyng 36 yis a womanis tal (32) (36) (40) (44) (48) (52) (56) (60) lelpit in original. 2 bas in original. 128 Poem. Poem, 129 3e kyng hit ne toke not to hert for hit was a woma^i is spec . . et hit mad hi?;^ to smert . . an him mit help no lee (64) . . que;^ yit can hir undirstond wat help yar mit be & sent aftir 3e bicop of 3e lond for he chont mor yan 30 (es) 3e chaw & precit al yat 30 coiij^e & warnit him hal of his hind . it saurit not in 30 kyng is mout hot horn 36 bad him wynd (72) wand 30 bicop is yam wend ixd^m yat .... stryf • ssenger ya?^ send . . . . 3e kyng of lif (ye) . . him wold do undirston . 30 may del & dit wold Qum into his ouin lond on him to kyt his mit (so) Deth com^t & drem/t a dr^dfPul dreme welle a3te al carye; & slow ffader & modt'>' & ])Qn lieme he ne wold none sparye. (34) sone afft^r hit be fel ]>ai deth & life beth to ged^r i take ; & gi;inith & str/uith a st^^rne str/fe ki;^g of life to wrake. . (ss) with him driuith a dou/? to grou;ide he dred/t no thi»g his kni3tis; & delith him depe dej^ls wou^/de & kith on him h/s mi3tis. (92) Qwhe>/ ]>Q body is dou;^ i bro3t j^e soule sorow a wakith ; ]?e body is pr/de is der^ a bo3t J?e soule ]>Q ffendis takith. (95) ^ & throgh p>7*ere of our^ lady mylde al godenisse scho wol qwyte; scho wol prey her son so mylde ]?e soule & body schul dispyte. ■ (100) \>e cors ])ai ner^ knewe of care No more ]>Qn stone in weye ; echal . . of sorow & sore care be twene ha?;^ tweye. (104) ]?e soule ])er on schal be weye ]>ai ]>Q ffendes haue i ka3te ; & oure lady schal ])er for preye so ^at with her he schal be lafte. (108) Nou heit in pes & be^t hende & distourbit no3t oure place ffor ]pis oure game schal gin & ende throgh ihesus crist is swete gmce. (112) E-EX VIUC^^^ I.VCIPIET SIC DICEXDC^if. Pes now 30 prznces of powere so prowde 3e ki^^ges 30 kempe.s 36 kni3te-s i korne 3e barons bolde ]?r/t be?t me bowte . . schal 3u my sawe swaynis i wome. (ne) sqwieris stoute stondit now stille & lesten?'t to my hestes i bote 3U now her Or [I] schal wirch 3U wo with werke-s of wil & dowi schal }e driwe be 36 neuer so dere. (120) king ic am ki^ide of hinges i korre Al J?e worlde wide to welde at my wil Nas Jjer neuer no msin of woma« i borre }ein me with sto^ide ]pat i nold him spille. (124) lordis of lond heit at my lediwge Al men schal a bow in hal & in bowr; (i26) n 130 I M Poem. baldli J?ou art mi bot tristili & ful treu of al mi rast j)Ou art rot I nil chong fer no new Bex. al in wel ic am bi went may ne grisful ))ing me grou likyng is wyt me bi . . . alyng is it mi behou strent & hel kyntis kete det rift in ded lak y for ne ying 30 let smartli to me sped bringit wyt ))ou brit brondis helmis brit & schend for ic am lord ofir al londis & yat is now i sen Primus miles fortitudo. lord in tru]?e J?ou mit trist feyfuli to stond j?ou mit liu as 30 list for wonschild is ])u fond. Ic am strent stif & strong ne uar is sue non in al yis world brod & long Iraad of blod & bon. Ilau no dout of no ying yat euir may befal ic am strenyt yi derling flour of knitis al. (130) (134) (138) (142) (146) (150) (154) Poem. S^cuNDvs Miles Sanitas. Ki7ig of lif ]>at berist J?e crouw As hit is skil and ri3te; I am hele i com to town ]>i kinde curteyse kni5te. >ou art lord of Urn & life & king with onten ende; stif & strong & st^rne in Btrii in londe qwher j)o\i wende. ]>on nast no nede to sike aoie ffor no thing on lyue ; j>o\i schal lyue euer more Qwho dar with ]?e strine. Bex. Str2ue nay to me qwho is so gode hit were bot if olye ; i>er is no ma;^ ])at me dur bode any vileynye. Qwher of schiild i drede Qwhen i am king of life; fPul evil sehuld he spede to me j)at worth strme. I schal lyue ever mo & crouw ber as kinge ; I ne may neuer wit of wo I lyue at my likiwge. Reg/.va. Sire ))ou saist as Jjc liste i>ou liuist at J?i wille ; bot somthing J?ou miste & ]?er ffor hold J)e stille. K 2 131 (l58) (162) (166) (170) (174) (178) (182) / G 132 Poem, thmke J?ou haddist begi/miwge Qwhe// ]?ou wer?ge ]?i sowle is ffor lore. loue god & holy cliirche & haue of hi;;^ som eye ; ffowde h/s werkai ]>ou sclial deye. Eex. douce daw? qwbi seistou so \)0\x spekis 1103 1 ^s ])q sleye I schal lyue eu^r mo ffor bo]?e two ]>m eye. woldistou ]>at i wer^ dede \iai ]?ou mi5t haue a new hor^ J?e deiiil gird of ]?i hede bot ]>r/t worde schal \>q rewe. E»EGAVA. dede sir^ nay god wote my wil \>at ne kepte i no3te ; hit wolde like me iful ille wer^ h/t J?ar^ to bro3te. . . j^ogh ]?ou be ki>/ge Nede schalt haue ende ; deth our^ comith al tliiy?ge hq of ki«de ; ]?is nis bot wome/i tale & ])ai i wol J^e ffi;/de. (186) (190) (194) (198) (202) (20G) (210) Poem, I ne schal neu^r deye if or I am king of life ; deth is vndir myne eye & ]>er ffor leue ]?i str/fe. )>r>u dost bot mak my/^ hert sore ffor h^t nel no3t helpe ; I prey J>e spek of him no more qwhflt wolte of him 3elpe. Eegava. 3ilpe sire nay so mot i the I sigge hit no3t qwher if ore bot ki^ide techzt bo]?e ]?e & me ffirst qwhew we were bore ffor dowte of deth is maistr* to wepe & make sorowe; holy writ & prophecy e ]>er of i take to borowe. ]>er ffor qwhile 30 have mi3te & ]?e worlde at wille ; I rede 30 serue god almi3te bo]?e loude & stille. ]?/s world is bot ffantasye & fful of trechurye; gode sire for 3oure curteysye take J?/s for no ifolye. ifor god wel J?e so]?e I ne sey hit for no fabil deth wol smyte to ]?e in ffeith loke ]?ou be stabil. Eex. Qwh^t prechistou of dethis mi3t & of his maistrye he ne durst onis wit me fi3t ffor his bo)?e eye. 133 (214) (218) (222) (226) (230) (234) I (238) (242) 134 N Poem. streinth & hele qwhr/t say 39 my ki?de korni/i knijt^s schal detA be lord ou^r me & reue me of mv^ies. I lU-LES. Mi lord so broz^ke I my bro^de God \ai me ifor bede; \ai deth schold do ])e wrowge q while i ^m in }>{ ^ede. I wol with stoy^de him with strife & make his sidis blede ; & tel him j>at j?6>u art king of life & lorde of lo??de & lede. (246) (250) (254) II MILES. May I hiw onis mete with Jj/s lo;^ge lau>^ce ; in ffelde oJ?^r i?i strete I wol him 3iue mischau^zce. Eex. 36 ])es be kni3t^5 of c?/rteisye & doghti me7i of dede; Of detA ne of his maistrie Ne have i no drede. Qwh^r is mirth my messag^r swifte so lefe on lynde ; he is a nobil bacheler^; i>at rewnis bi J?e wynde. Mirth & solas he can make & ren so J?e ro ; li3tly lepe oure ])e lake Qwher so euer he go. (268) (262) (266) (270) Poem, Com & her my talente A none & hy J^e blyue; Qwh^'r any ma^/ as ]>o\i has wewte dorst with me to strme. "N UNCI us. "King of lif & lord of lowde as Jjou sittis on Jji se; & florresschist with ))i bri3t browde to J?e i sit on kne. I am mirth wel ]?ou west ])i mery messagere ])ai wostou wel with oute host \>er nas neuer my pere ; do3tely to done a dede ]>at }e haue ffor to done ; hen to ber^wik pow twede & com }ein fful sone; \>er is no thing ])e i liche in al j>is worlde wide; Of gold & silu^'r & robis riche & hei hors on to ryde. I haue be;? bo]?e fer & nere in bataile & in str?f e ; Ocke ]>er was neuer J?y pare ffor \)o\i art ki^^g of life Eex. A ha solas now Jjou seist so j?ou miriest me in my mode ]?ou schal boy ar ]?ou he?mis go be auau;/syd bi J^e rode j)ou schal haue for ]?i gode wil to ]?i/^ auau??cemente ; ]?e castel of gailispire on J?e hil And j>e erldom of kente. 135 (274) (278) (282) (286) (290) (294) (298) (302) 136 * . h I ■i' Poem. Draw j)e cord sir^? streynth Best I wol now take; On erth in brede ne leynth Ne was nerc }et my make. (306) (310) ' Et tuHG clauso tentorio dicet Ptogi//a secrete nmicio. ^ Begava. Message;- i pray Je nowe ffor ]?i curteysye. Go to J?e bisschop for ]>[ prowe & byd him hydir to liye. bid hi?)i be war^? be ffore sey him l>at he most pr^^che; My lord })q king is ney lore bot he wol be his leche. sey him ])at he wol leue no3t j>at euer he schal deye; he is in siche eriour bro3te Of god sto;it hi?n non eye. '/ (314) (318) N UNCIUS. Ma dam i make no tariyng 'With softe wordis mo; ffor I am solas i most siwge Ouer al qwh^r i go. H csLntat sir^ bisschop J?ou sittist on j^i se with ])i mitir on >i heuede My lady >e qwen preyith >e hit schold no3t be bi leuyd (322) (326) ^ This direction and the word - Regina" occur in the original before the preceding stanza, but it seems obvious that they must have been intended to appear here. Poem, [Episcopus.] 36 world is nou so wo lo wo in sue bal i bound yat dred of god is al ago & treut is go to ground med is mad a demisma;^ streyint bet it 36 lau gocyl is mad a cepman & truyt is don of dau Wyt is nou al trecri oyis fals & gret play is nou uileni & corteysi is let lou is nou al lecuri cildrin bet onlerit halliday is glotuni yis Ian is bot irerit slot me» blet bleynd & lokit al amis he bicomit onkynd & yat is rent i uis frend may no man find of fremit ne of sib 3e ded bet out of mind gret soru it is to lib yes ricme?? bet reuj?yles 30 por got to ground & fals me;^ bet schanles ]?e sot ic hau i found 36 rio kynyit it is wrong al yat 30 por dot far yat is sen day & nit wo sa wol sig sot 137 (330) (334) (338) (342) (346) (350) (354) (358) r. 138 Poem, paraventur meM halt me a fol to sig yat fot tal yai farit as ficis in a pol 3e gret eteit 39 smal ric mew spart for noying to do 30 por wrong^ yai yingit not on hen ending ne on det yat is so strong noyir yai louit god ne dredit noyir hiw no his lauis touart hel fast hi;;^ draut ayeins har ending daus bot god of his godnis yif haw gras to amend Into 56 delful derkyns ]>e got wyt out hend yer is dred & sorow & wo wytoutin wel no maw may oyir borou be yer neuir so fel yer ne fallit ne maynpris ne sup^'rsidias )?ayt ]?e be kyng or iustis 30 passit not 3e pas lord yat for his manhed & also for his god \dX for lou & not for dred deit oppon 30 rod yif ou gras or lif to led yat be 3 our soulis to bot god of heuin for his godhed leu yat hit so mot. Amen Poem, 139 (362) (366) * worng in original. in end & hou yat J?ou schalt dey wat uey yat j?ou schalt wend bot ])ou be bisey eke yat ])0u art lenust man & haddist begyning & euirmor hau \o\xi opon ]>i dredful ending jjou schalt J?ing Jeanne & mac 30 euir ]?yar yat det is not 30 man for no ying 30 uil spar ]?ou schalt do dedis of charite & lernd crist is lor & lib in heuin lit to sauy yi soul fre sor Bex. wat bissop hyssop babler schold y of det hau dred ]>o\x art bot a chagler go hom yi wey i red wat Qom ])ou yerfor hidir wet dejjt me to afer J'it ]?ou & he wer bot togidir into 36 se irot uer go hom god yif 30 sorow j?ou wreist me in mi mod war woltou prec tomorou J?ou nost uer hi 30 rod (394) (393) (402) (406) (410) (414) (418) 140 Poem. troust ])0M I nold be ded In mi J'yng lif Jjou lisst screu bolhed euil met ]>o\x triwe. wat schold i do at churg wat schir bisop wostoner nay churc nis no wyl cot hit wol abid yer. I wool let car away & go on mi petying to hontyng & to oir play for al yi long prechyng I am ]>yng as ])ou mit se & ban no ned to char ]?e wyld 39 quen & . . me about me bet yar. 422 (426) (430) (434) Episcopus. thynk schir kyng one oyir trist yat tyng misst son j?ot J?ou leu nou as 36 list det wol Q\xm rit son. & 3iue ]?e deth is wou?^de ffor Ym outrage ; with in a litil stou^^de ]>Qn artou hut a page. Qwhe/i )?ou art graue// on grene ]>at mete is ffeyt & moide ; ]>en helpith litil I weue ]?i gay crown of golde. sir^ kyng haue goday Crist i 30U be teche. (438) (442) (446) Poem. Bex. 141 ffar^ wel blsschop J?i way & lerne bet to preche. hie adde (45o) Nou maifay hit schal be sene I trow 3 it to daye ; Qwher deth me durst tene & mete in ]?e waye. (454) Qwher artou my messagere solas bi ]?i name ; loke J?r/t ]>o\x go f!er & nere as ]?ou wolt haue no blame (^58) My banis ffor to crye by dayis & bi ni5te; & loke ]>at J?ou aspye 3e bi al >i mi3te. (^62) Of detA & of h/s maistrye Qwh^r he durst com in si3te ; 5eynis me & my meyne with fierce & armis to ffi3te. (466) loke \at \o\x go both est & west & com 3eyne on one ; lorde to wende I am prest lo now I am gone. & eat pla . . . (470) Pes & listenith to my sawe bo]?e 5onge & olde ; as 30 wol no3t be« a slawe be 30 'neu^r so bolde. (474) 1 am a messag^r i sente ^loni >e ki^^g of life; ])ai 3e schal fulfil his . . . ewte on peyne of lym & lif. • (478) iNNS*%*«g^H^i*»«H'*r 142 \\ Poem. h?*s hest^s to hold & h?*s lawe vche a man on honde ; lest 36 be lie;/ge & to draw Or kast \n hard bonde. 36 witti/i wel \ai he is kiwg & lord of al londis ; keper^ & maist^>' of al thl>/g w/t/^ in se & sondis. I am sente ffor to enquer o boute ferr6' & ner^ ; 3if any ma;i dar werr^? a rer6> a 3ei« suche a bachelors. to wro]?fr liele he was i bore \ai wold w/t/< \\\m stryue ; be hi;/i sikir he is i lore As her^ in J?is lyue ]?egh h/t w^r )>e ki;?g of deth & he so hardy wer^ ; bot he ne hath mi3t ne meth ]?e ki/ig of lif to a ffer^ be he so hardy or so wode m h?s loude to a ryue he wol se h/s herte blode And he with hi;;^ stryue (482) (486) (490) (494) (498) (502) NOTES. Page 1. Account of Thomas de Beuley.— This account, as extant, is but a fragment of a much longer document. There now remain one com- plete membrane, 22 J inches by 9| ; and a ragged fragment about 7 by 8 J inches. The fragment, so far as it has been deciphered, is printed on pages 1 to 4, and 16 to 20. Its ending, as well as illegible and defective parts, are indicated by dots Of Thomas de Beuley nothing is known beyond the notices to be found in these accounts. The Translation is slightly shortened by the omission of a few words where unnecessarily repeated. Seneschal. — The Seneschal was the land agent and judge of the manor courts of the possessions of the Priory. A treatise on the office of Seneschal, attributed to about the time of Edw. I., is included in a volume recently published by the Eoyal Historical Society (" Walter de Henley's Husbandry," &c.). This treatise thus describes the duties of a Seneschal : — ** He ought to know the law of the realm, to protect his lord's business, and to instruct and give assurance to the bailiffs who are beneath him, in their difficulties. He ought two or three times a-year to make his rounds, and visit the manors of his stewardship ; and then he ought to inquire about the rents, services, and customs hidden or withdrawn, and about franchises of courts, lands, woods, meadows, pastures, waters, mills, and other things which belong to the manor ; and if he be able, let him amend these things in the right way without doing wrong to any ; and if he be not, let him show it to his lord, that he may deal with it if he wish to maintain it." In the larger monasteries the Seneschal was frequently a layman, often a lawyer. In our Priory the office was undertaken by one of the canons, who also acted as treasurer. Maurice Ho wel was among the most prominent men of the southern part of Co. Dublin. In the Memorandum Roll of 5 & 6 Edw. III. he r 144 Notes. Notes, 145 is found accounting for the King's lands at Bray. Among other lands which he rented, he was brought into direct contact with the Priory, bv holdinc^ from it the lands of Carrickmines and Brennanstown. He had frequently been one of the leaders of the county levies agamst the O'Byrnes. John Aket.— This is no doubt the John Haket mentioned fre- quently afterwards. Other instances of the uncertain use of the aspi- rate about this period are not infrequent. Wine 3d —The price of wine was probably, as at a later time it is stated to be (p. 109), Qd. a gallon. The maximum price was reg^Med by proclamation. A few years previously wine had thus been forbidden to be sold at any higher price than 5rf. a gallon on pain of forfeiture {Mem, Rot 5 & 6 Edw. III.)- I^efore this the price had been fixed at 4^/., and a few years still earUer at 3^^. A prosecution against a seller of wine, when the price was fixed by proclamation at Sd., is prmted in Hist. & Mun. Doc, ed. Gilbert, p. 530. Prior —At this time Gilbert de Bolyniop, who had very recently been raised to the office in the room of Roger de Goioun, deprived m the preceding July. In 1343 (... p. 27) he found himself obliged to resi-n and is afterwards chiefly remembered by the debts which re- mained from his time of rule. He was after his retirement allowed a pension of two marks a-year (p. 104). Holmpatrick.— An early religious foundation of Augustinian canons, originally seated on S. Patrick's Island, but subsequently removed to the'' adjoining mainland, at or near the present town of Skerries, Co. Dublin, where the house at this time stood. John de Novo Castro, or Newcastle, was about this time appointed gau-er of wines for Ireland. He had before (in 1317) been employed as acting keeper of the temporal property of the See of Dubhn when m the King's hands during vacancy {Christ Church Deeds, No. 548) ; and had acted as paymaster of the forces sent from Ireland to Scotland in the King's service in the campaign of 1333 {Mem. Bot., 7 Edw. III.). He is to^'be distinguished from John de Castro afterwards mentioned. Robert de Houton, or Hoghton, was a citizen of Dublin ; at this time one of the bailifis of the city. He appears afterwards making small loans to the Priory, Balscaddan is a village and parish in the extreme north of the Co. DubUn, about three mHes inland from Balbriggan. It was granted to the Priory in 1250 by Henry III., in heu of the manor of Oconogh and its castle previously granted to them by King John. It was then valued at 30 hbrates of land, and the issues were to be shared with the dean and chapter of S. Patrick's {Sweetman Cal. i., p. 462). At this time the entire parish belonged to the Priory, forming one of the most valuable manors among its possessions. See Uental in Appendix. William de Asheburne was probably at this time one of the Prior's esquires. Twelve years previously he had been the Prior's attorney in a Quare impedit suit {Mem. Rot., 18 Edw. II.). He per- haps afterwards became a professed member of the Convent ; from page 42 onward he is always mentioned as '' brother." Twenty years previously there had been an abbot of S. Mary's, Dublin, of this name. Page 2. Bread, for Horses.— Panis equinus, or horse bread, is a not infre- quent item in Enghsli household accounts down to the 16th century. It has usually been "explained as being a mash made from meal ; bat must certainly have been baked loaves. In the London Liber Albus (vol. m., p. 426, Rolls Series) a baker is convicted of being found *' cum tribus panibus equinis," each of which was light in weight. In the glossary to same volume " Payn pur chivalx " is described'' as : '* Horse bread. This wasj made of beans as well as peas. It was also made into loaves, the weight and quality of which were regulated by assize." That the material for horse bread in Dublin was similar may be seen from an entry on p. 81. Dromsalon.— Drumshallon, Co. Louth, six miles due north of Drogheda. This ."was another of the manors belonging to the Priory. It appears from a memorandum preserved in the Black Book of Arch- bishop Alan (p. 28, Marsh's Lib. copy), that it had been granted to" the Priory a little before 1258 by Philip de Nugent. The Priory was to erect a cell here, where three of the canons were to remain in residence, serving the church of S. Mary at Drumshallon, as well as the church of Philipston Nugent (Philipstown parish, near Dundalk), with its chapels of Drumorcher and Hesmachlenyne, with which, as well as two carucates of land, the cell was endowed. The canons in the cell of Drumshallon soon incurred the displeasure of the Archbishop of Armagh, in whose diocese they were placed. The Archbishop, on the ground that the cell had not sufficient goods, and was too far distant from the mother church for a healthy religious Hfe, suppressed the cell, and with the sanction of Geoffrey de Nugent, son of t^je founder, L 146 Notes, permitted the endowments to pass to the Priory. This act was in 1359 confirmed by John de Kinton, who seems to have succeeded the Nugents in the property. John Passeleu was one of the tenants of the Priory at Bal- scaddan, visited a few days before. His obit is entered in the Morti- logium of the house at the 21st Dec. The family of Passelewe was intimately connected with this manor. In the grant from Henry III., in 1250, Robert and Andrew Passelewe are named as tenants there (Sweetman Cal. ii., p. 79). Notwithstanding the Norman form of the name, the family may have been Irish. In 1282 there was a grant to one Simon Passelewe, "born of an English mother, though of an Irish father," that he and his heirs may for ever use EngUsh law and custom [Sweetman Cal. ii., p. 423). The name is afterwards met among the Dublin citizens, passing into the form Paslow. In the Rental in the Appendix this name is found at Balscaddan hi immediate juxtaposition with the similar name Passavaunt. The latter name is quite Norman. The first of this name is stated to have been sent to Ireland in 1222, as one of the King's baUsters on foot— artillery officers {Sweetman Cal. i., p. 1G5). Later, John Passavaunt the baUster was employed to fortify the castles of Roscommon and Randon. Mem- bers of the family became leading citizens of Dublin in the llth and 15th centuries. Passavant was the war-cry of the Counts of Cham- pagne {Diet, de VAcad. Franc. Complement). Page 3. Swords hes on the road to Drogheda and the other places men- tioned during the preceding days, and was now passed on the home- ward journey from them. Hugh de Saltu, the Marshal of the Archbishop.— These may be the same or two different persons. The term marshal, originally a groom, was still, with decreasing frequency, connected with horses m the senses of a veterinary surgeon and a farrier ; its more general use at this time was, however, that of the controller of the household or master of the ceremonies in the hall of a great noble. If De Saltu was the marshal, he may, too, in that capacity, have led the Archbishop's contingent to the hosting against the O'Byrnes (p. 157), for an entry on the memorandum roll of 12 & 13 Edw. HI. records an order to pay him 100s. for two horses lost in the company of master John Rees, treasurer, going against the Obrynnes and other Irish enemies in the parts of Leinster. Hugh's full name was De Saltu Salmonum, i.e., Notes, 147 Salmon Leap or Leixlip. Cotton says he was born at that place. Several entries on the rolls testify to his connexion in some form wdth that manor. He was a canon of S. Patrick's, a position which he obtained by Papal provision {Regesta Pontificum, vol. iv., p. 517, London Record Office). In 1347 he became bishop of Ferns. Infirmary.— Properly the apartments devoted to invalided members of the confraternity. From the way the term is frequently used m these accounts (p. 7, &c.) it seems probable that it also included here the hospitium or guest house of the Prior . Page 4. Default of the Cellarer.— The home brewing and baking appear to have been under the direction of this officer, whose duty it was also to provide the corn required for these purposes. See Cellarer's account in Appendix. Master Thomas de Kylmor was a citizen of Dublin. He had probably received some minor orders, as at p. 44 he is described as a clerk. He married Susanna, daughter of William Beydyn of Dublin, clerk, with whom he received a house in Nicholas-street. The original conveyance is preserved {Ch. Ch. Deeds, p. 619). His will is preserved in Archbishop Alan's Black Book (p. 470, Marsh's Lib. copy), dated 27th July, 1354. He possessed a tenement in Dublin (probably that in Nicholas-street), which he inhabited; another called the Newhall, with the little hall next the pillory ; and a farm ; and left aU to his wife Susanna. Summa iii. s Probata.— Here ends one side of the frag- ment referred to on p. 142. The rest of this membrane, comprising ntries for six weeks, has decayed away. The extant complete mem- brane commences with the entry ''Die dominica proxima sequente. Omnia de stauro, &c." Page 5. Sacrista.— Properly Sacristeria or Sacristia. The form Sacrista, however, seems alone to have been known to the clerks who wrote these accounts, as in the only instances where the termination of this word is written fully it is in the form sacrista. The apartment referred to was probably the chamber of the sacristan, the convent officer in whose charge were the building and furniture of the church. L 2 148 Notes, John de Grancet or Graimtsete was a judge of the King's Bench He was son of Ralph de Grauntsete. He was appointed one of the barons of the Exchequer, 19 Edw. II., and second justice of the King's Bench 1 Edw. III. Soon after he fell into great disgrace for allowing a case before him to be removed to the Jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Court. For having thus failed to uphold the royal prerogative, he was removed from office, imprisoned, and fined 500 marks. In consideration, however, of his good services, and on representation from members of the King's Council, he was soon pardoned and restored to office (Mem.. lioL, 8 Edw. III.). He was afterwards repeatedly employed in responsible services, notably as one of the arbitrators sent to Kilkenny to arrange the disputes between the Earls of Ulster and Desmond (lb. 5 & 6 Edw. III.). He then visited England, and a writ of Liberate testifies to his services to the Kmg m vaiious parts of England as well as in Ireland (Ih. 7 Edw. III.). He married AHce, a daughter of Geoffrey de Morton, who had been Mayor of Dublin 32 Edw. I., and by her, as well as otherwise, acquired much property in and about the city. Relative to some of this property a curious a-reement between De Grauntsete and the city authorities may be found in Mr. Gilbert's Hist. & Mun. Doc, p. 281. De Morton had built some houses against the city wall at the end of the bridge in Bridge-street. These impeding the access to the wall for defence, were in part pulled down by royal command. On condition of leaving a Avell fortified passage along the wall 3^ feet broad, De Grauntsete and wife were permitted to rebuild the houses, with windows, latrines, and other necessary belongings ; the latrine to be made through the middle of the wall opening into the river Liftey. A document still preserved (Ch. Ch. Deeds, No. 225) attests m a remarkable way De Grauntsete's piety and the extent of his benefac- tions to the Priory. The following is a somewhat shortened trans- lation : — To all sons of holy mother Church who shall look upon this page, Brother Roger Goioun, Prior of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Dubhn, and the convent of the same place, health everlasting in God ... . Whereas, our very dear John de Grauntsete hfting his mind to heavenly desires, and aspiring to extend the office of divine worship, and for the devout increase of divine service, has lovingly offered and obtained for our house many and divers goods for perpetual memory, and to maintain the rights of the said church divers times has laboured much, and has many times performed things pleasing and useful to us and om- church in past times. We grant .... to the same John in Notes. 149 life and in death, and to Alice, formerly his wife, and all for whom they are bound as well living as dead, participation as full as to the founder of our said church in all masses, matins, preces, prayers, fasts, alms, suffrages, vigils, disciplines, and in all other good deeds which by the help of God may be done,within our said church and priory as long as the world shall last We will also and by our unanimous consent ordain, and we and all our successors effectively bind our- selves to find two canons priests in our said church serving the Most High under regular observance on every day to celebrate for ever divine offices, and the same celebration solemnly to begin on the day of the completion of these presents, especially for the welfare of the same John while he lives, and that all his works begun to the praise of God may be happily completed, also for the souls of the said Alice, their ancestors, heirs, benefactors, and all those for whom the same John and Ahce are in any way bound, and of all the faithful departed. And when the same John shall have passed from this life, the same canons shall daily celebrate specially for the soul of the same John and for the souls of the same Alice and of all aforesaid. Of which two canons one shall celebrate daily the Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as is the custom, and this specially for the said John and for the soul of the said Alice and for all aforesaid. And in each Mass for the said John and others aforesaid so celebrated, while John is living, he shall say spe- cially this collect daily for the same John, *' Pretende Domine famulo tuo dexteram celestis auxilii, ut te toto corde perquirat et que digne postulat assequatur." And for the souls of the said Ahce and of all the aforesaid he shall say another collect, " Omnipotens sempiterne Deus qui vivorum dominaris simul et mortuorum omniumque misereris quos tuos fide et opere futuros esse prenostis ; te supphces exoramus, ut pro quibus effundere preces decrevimus," &c. And when the said John shall have entered upon the way of all flesh, the said canon in every Mass shall say specially for the soul of the same John, this collect, ''Quesimus Domine pro tua pietate miserere anime famuli tui et a contagiis mortahtatis exutam in eterne sal- vacionis partem restitue " ; with the other collect, "Omnipotens, sempiterne Deus," aforesaid, for the soul of the same Alice and the others aforesaid. Also the other canon shall celebrate daily at the altar before the Holy Cross in our said church, specially for the said John and for the soul of the said AUce, and for the others aforesaid ; and shall say the aforesaid collects in the aforesaid form. Which canons having put on their sacred vestments before the introit of each Mass, privately or openly, shall say, *' Paternoster" and " Ave Maria" 150 Notes. for the said John and AUce, and for the souls of all faithful departed. And beside this, the anniversaries of the said John and AHce in our priory, we and all our successors as long as the world shall endure will celebrate, with such solemnity as the anniversary of our first and prin- cipal founder, and as solemnly as in any time past it was accustomed to be celebrated, to wit, the anniversary of the same John on the day of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the anniversary of said Ahce on the 6 June, and every day on which the commemoration of the dead shall be read through in our chapter or in the choir, the souls of the same John and Alice shall there be absolved by name. And as often as any of the said two canons on account of sickness or other lawful cause shall be prevented from celebrating, then another canon of our house shall faithfully supply his turn, and every Saturday and other days when the table of services of our choir shall be ordered, written, and read, by the hebdomadarius and other ministers of our said church, we will and grant unanimously for us and our successors, that the aforesaid two canons so to celebrate according to the said form for the said John and Alice and others above named, shall be faith- fully ordered and written in our said table, and of them by the ministers of our church in the reading of our said table, let there be express mention by name And likewise every Trior in our Priory newly created, in his entry into our chapter after his creation, in the presence of the convent, and all and every the novices before they shall be admitted to profession in our said Priory, in our lull cliapter, shall be bound with the bond of an oath that they will faithfully observe the said ordinance and chantry in every article, and to their ability for ever will maintain it We will also and grant for us and our successors that in every missal of the said house in the margin by the secretum of the Mass, there shall be written for perpetual memory of it, " Orate pro Johanne de Grauntsete et AUcia uxore ejus ac pro omnibus quibus tenentur," and so, unremoved for all time, let the writing remain. And lest forgetfulness destroy what loving gratitude has instituted, twice in every year, on All Souls Day and Quinquagesima Sunday, this present ordinance shall be read through in our chapter in the presence of all the brethren ; and let this whole agreement and ordinance, word for word, be entered and copied in our Mortilogium for the better record of it. Moreover, we will and ^rant for us and our successors that the ring of gold with the precious stone and with the silver chain, offered by the said John de Grauntsete in honour of the Holy Trinity in our said church to the Holy Cross there, may from the same lloly Cross, with the said chain, firmly hang for the sick, that Notes. 151 those whom Almighty God, by the virtue of the precious stone, shall liave restored to health, may pray for the same John and AHce to the Almighty, and that the keepers of the said holy cross and also those who administer the said ring to such sick persons shall openly enjoin and charge the said sick persons to pray specially for the said John and Alice and for those for whom they are bound. Moreover, we will and grant for us and our successors, that that ring remain there for ever and hang from the said holy cross, and under pain of anathema laid by us upon this, that no man should ever remove it from this cross for any cause Dated at Dublin in our chapter house 9 July, 1335. {Lepend on seal) s. johis filii RADVLPm de gravntsete. Notwithstanding the particularity of the concluding provisions, the document is not copied into the Martyrology as preserved to us, nor is there any commemoration of De Grauntsete on the feast of the As- sumption. Alice is, however, commemorated on the 6th June, the day of her obit ; and John, under the somewhat obscured form of Jolm de Gramcet, is grouped with several other benefactors to be remembered on Whit Sunday. Another document in the Christ Church Collection (No. 23G) is a further evidence of the piety of De Grauntsete. It recites that in 1341 Brother Gilbert (de Bolyniop), with consent of the Chapter of the Priory, had granted to John de Grauntsete, for ten years, all the offerings made before the image, ''Beate Marie Yirginis Gloriose," upon the bridge of Dublin, in consideration of certain meritorious works to be carried out by him before the same image on the bridge. Brother Robert de Hereforde, Prior, and the Convent, in 1347, consent that instead of the intended works on the bridge, the offerings may be expended on the erection of a certain chapel in honour of the Holy Trinity within the cemetery of their church of St. Michan in Ouste- mantoun, on the north side of that church (S. Michan's Church in Church-street, Dublin). Sir Thomas Wogan seems to have been the son and heir of Sir John Wogan, the vigorous Viceroy of Ireland under Edward I. He had only recently been appointed escheator in succession to Edward Morteyn, and in the execution of this office had probably already been brought into conflict with the Priory. He was made by the King Seneschal of Kildare, while the possessions were in the Crown during minority of the earl ; and was afterwards Seneschal of the Lordship of Meath. The annaUst Clyn, under the year 1346, tells that about 1 152 JSotes, Notes. 153 the feast of S. Clement, thirty men of the O'Dempseys were slain by two, Thomas Wogan and Walter Lenfant, at Ardscull. Elias de Assheburne was a justice of the King's Bench. He appears to have been a member of a family already, for some time, seated in Dublin. His father Eoger de Ashbourne had been Mayor of Dublin about the end of the 13th century; AVilUam was Abbot of S. Mary's Abbey somewhat later; and others of the name are met with. Elias sought advancement in England and was taken into the service of John bishop of Ely, Treasurer of England {Cat. Pat, Rot., p. 25). He first came into prominence on the fall of the Archbishop de Bykenor and Walter de Istelep, in 132G. He appears to have been sent specially to Ireland to superintend the seizure, on behalf of the King, of the goods of these two delinquents [Mem. Hot., 19 Edw. II.). To carry out this purpose he was appointed constable of the Castle of Swords, and Seneschal of the Archbishop's Manor of S. Sepulchre (Ibid.). He obtained a grant of lands which had been held by Walter de Istelep. These were situated near Tallaght, along the foot of the Dublin mountains, about Bohernabreena (Lib. Xig. Ahmi, p. 55, Marsh's Lib. copy). He had already acquired considerable property as a middleman ; and in the extent of the Archbishop's lands taken on their seizure, his name appears as tenant of six different holdings in the manor of Swords. He led during many years an active public life. He is mentioned on the rolls as leader of the county levies ; as constable of the Castle of Arklow ; commander at Newcastle ; fighting when necessary, treating when possible, with the O'Byrnes and other Irish of the mountains. In 1342 he was appointed chief justice. He had two sons, Robert and Sir Thomas. A daughter Ehzabeth, married William Marward, and from her the descent of the barons of Screen for several generations is traced in Archbishop Alan's Black Book (p. 55, Marsh's Lib. copy). An inquisition taken on his death, 30 Edw. III., is preserved in the same work (p. G72, T. C. D. copy). Justices Itinerant. — The Justices in Eyre or circuit judges. They were, perhaps, entertained officially before setting out on their circuit. See an entry on p. 19, which probably relates to the same visit. Page 7. John Haket was one of the most frequent visitors to the Prior. He was probably at this time the tenant of Stillorgan, and was the owner of a mill near Clonken (pp. 83 and 87), perhaps on one of two streams which flow by Stillorgan. He held also some position for which he received a fee from the Priory of 20s. (p. 44). He was a principal man in the district ; had been a leader of the counties levies against O'Byrne ; and was appointed one of four keepers of the peace appointed by the \aceroy and council to assess the men of the county for service in the field {Mem. Rot., 7 Edw. III.). Three other members of the family, WiUiam, OHver, and Thomas Haket are mentioned in these accounts, chiefly as helping in a neighbourly way at the manor of Clonken. The name is still preserved in the district, in the townland of Hacketsland, lying to the south of Killiney. Gilbert de Moenes held the lands now known as Rathmines. For a notice of him and of the family of De Meones, see the Journal of the Society for 1889, p. 36. John de Balygodman was also, apparently, a neighbour of the manor of Clonken (p. 69). He had a few years previously been chosen Sheriff of Co. Dublin, but being engaged in mihtary service with the Justiciary was excused from acting. Page 8. Sheriff. — WilHam Comyn was, this year, sheriff of the county of Dubhn. He was proprietor of Kinsaley, Co. Dublin, for which he paid a head rent to the Priory. Page 9. Kilcullen, Co. Kildare. — The rectory of this parish was a valuable property of the Priory. It appears to have been usual for one of the canons to reside here. See a curious instance of this quoted below under the head of John Comyn. Mackyngan, Newcastle, Co. Wicklow.— Now a small village, it was then a place of some consequence. It possessed a royal castle of which the remains still stand. Its burgesses were governed by a pro- vost, and paid an annual rent to the Crown of ^620. (Pijje Roll, 5 & 6 Edw. HI.). In 1303 the town received a grant of customs to be devoted to enclosing the town, implying, by the variety of articles on which duties were specified, an extensive trade (Chartae Rec. Com., ]^. 41). A httle later an assize court was held here {Mem. Rot., 33 Edw. I.). But its position was much exposed to attack. In a petition in 1344, the burgesses urge that, " the manor was in the Marches,. I.i I' 154 Notes. and clivers times by the Irish felons and rebels was burned and devas- tated " (Ih., 16 & 17 Edw. III.). And they were soon after permitted to retain a portion of their rent, to be expended in clearing and repair of the fosses round the town {lb. 18 & 19 Edw. III.). To Ward. — That is to take part in the garrisoning of Newcastle. W. de Asshebourne probably commanded the men levied on the manors of the Priory for this service. Entries on p. 18 relate to the defensive armour furnished for those going on this service. The Mem. Hot. Exch., 13 Edw. III., contains an order for John Aunger, clerk, who was assigned to pay the wages of the men-at-arms, hobelars, and footmen, placed at Newcastle M'Kynegan, for the custody of the castle, and of the faithful people of those parts against the hostile attacks of Irish enemies and rebels. From two to five men-at-arms, and eight or ten hobelars, the former at 1*. the latter at Qd. a-day, were then retained. See also p. 13. Master John de Pylattenhale is described as official of the archdeacon of Dublin {Mem. Bot., 3 Ed. II.). He returned an account to the Exchequer of goods which came to his hands from Sampson de Shaftesbury, clerk of the works of Dublin Castle, and vicar of S. Kevin's, Dublin. (Mem. Bot., 5 & G Edw. III.). See another entry referring to him on p. 16. Page 10. Friars Preachers of Arklow. — A Dominican friary was founded at Arklow, in the present county of Wicklow, by Theobald Fitz Walter, in the thirteenth century. Scarcely anything is known of its history. Page 11. Prior of S. Wolstan's, two of the canons. — The Priory de Scala Coeli, of canons of the congregation of S. Victor, at S. Wolstan's, on the Liffey, near Celbridge, Co. Kildare. This visit must have been coimected with the following incident : — " It was commanded to the Sheriff [of Co. Kild.] to take the Prior of the house of S. Wolstan, brother Gilbert Broun and brother Philip the Olde, fellow canons of said Prior, and put them in safe custody in prison, so that he have their bodies here to make fine with the King for a certain trespass made against John Norreys, valettus of Simon Fitz Eichard, chief justice of the Bench." The Sherifi: returned that they were not to be Isotes. 155 u found, and was commanded to arrest them by the following term. {Plea Boll No. 183, m. 18/. Easter, 12 Edw. III.). John de Moenes was Mayor of Dublin for the third time in this or the preceding year. Page 12. Robert dejXlifford held land of the King at Any, Co. Limerick. Robert Tanner became Mayor of Dublin this year, in succession to John de Moenes. He, too, had twice before held the office. Laetare Jerusalem.— The fourth Sunday in Lent, or Mid-Lent, is called Laetare Sunday, from the opening word of the antiphon of the introit— " Kejoice Jerusalem, and gather together all ye who love her," kc— Catholic Diet., Addis and Arnold. Page 13. Mustrison. — The assembly and inspection of the miUtary levy. The form used here, an old French one— Mustreson = Monstraison, action de montrer, de faire voir. — Godefroy Diet. A corresponding Latin form — mustrizona — is found on the Patent Eolls. Gregory Taunton was tenant of lands of the Priory at Cornels- court in the manor of Clonken. He held other lands in the neighbour- hood. Page 14. John Callan, a citizen of Dublin. He became one of the bailiffs of the city in this year. Peter Howel was tenant of the lands of Ballymorthan, or Bally- molwhan, now represented by Mur2:)hystown. Page 15. Parasceve. — Ilapaa-Kcvr), the Preparation. The term is usually applied to Good Friday, but here is referred to the preceding day. Holy Oil at Kildare.— The holy oil is consecrated by the Bishop on Holy Thursday, and received from him by the priests who have charge of parishes. In the absence of the Archbishop from Dublin, A! - I 156 Notes, Kildare would be the nearest place where a bishop had his seat. See again, p. 92. Robert Hony was a citizen and merchant of Dublin. He had been bailiff of the city in 1335. He became surety for the merchants of Aquitaine for the payment of certain customs on leather, for which they were liable. (Meyn, Hot., 13 and 14 Edw. III.). Page 16. William Mareschall was a prominent citizen of Dublin. He had been Mayor in 1327. A chaplain of the same name also is mentioned on the Patent Roll of 11 Edw. III. Summa x d. Probata.— With this entry ends the extant complete membrane of this account. The succeeding entries to p. 20 are upon the reverse of the fragment noted at p. 143. John de Castro. — He seems to have been one of the canons, and his other employments show him to have been specially trusted. To Trim.— The Escheator was at this time Thomas Wogan, who among other offices held the position of seneschal of the lordship of Trim. Escheator of Ireland. — For some years past an intermittent struggle had been carried on with the Escheators as representing the interests of the Crown, as to the Crown's right to hold the property of the Priory during the vacancy of the office of Prior, as in the case of bishoprics and other tenants in chief. It appears that the claim had never been put forward until 1326, when on the resignation of the Prior, Hugh le Joevene, the possessions were formally seized by the Escheator Walter de la Pulle ; and, though an Inquisition found that he had no right to do so, he only withdrew on receiving substantial personal security that the issues would be made good, if afterwards found to be legally belonging to the King. On the death of Prior Robert de Gloucester, a few years later, the possessions were seized by the then Escheator John Moris, but were restored by writ from the deputy 20th April, 1331. Again, on the deposition of Prior Roger Goioun July, 1337, they were seized by Edmund Morteyn, and then by his successor Thomas Wogan, Escheators ; but no effective attempt was made to take the profits. A letter in French from the prior and con- vent to the Justiciary and council at this time, asking for relief, is Notes, 157 preserved. A commission was issued for an inquiry, which proved entirely favourable to the Priory. But no definite concession was made, and the claim continued as a source of vexation and expense to the convent, and without any profit to the Crown. Numerous references will be met in these accounts to expedients for staying the hands of the Escheators on the occurrence of the two vacancies which arose during the period covered by the accounts. The claim was not finally relinquished until 1348, when a royal writ directed the restoration of the temporalities of the Priory, and that they should not be taken on occasion of any future vacancy. (C/i. Ch. Deeds, Nos. 220, 224, 229-31, 237.) A number of documents in this case may be found collected on the Memorandum Roll, 12 Edw. III. {m. 15). Poynteston. — Probably Punchestown, Co. Kildare. Pro subsidio spiritualium. — Probably in payment of the subsidy of one- tenth granted by the clergy in ParHament of 11 Edw. III. in aid of the wars of the land (Mem. Hot., 13 & 14 Ed. HI.). Page 17. Treasurer of Ireland was master John Rees, a Welshman, who in 1337 came to Ireland in that capacity, in the company of sir John Cheiieton, then appointed Justiciary. Camden's Annals say that with sir John and his brother Thomas Cherleton, bishop of Hereford, came ''master John Rees, Treasurer of Ireland, and Doctor in the Decretals, bringing with them many Welshmen, to the number of two hundred, and arrived in the haven of Dublin." He soon afterwards became justice of the Bench. Hobelarii. — Light armed horsemen. The pay of hobelars engaged at this time was iSd. a-day {see p. 154). The small payment in the text must therefore have been only a gratuity. Going with the Treasurer upon the Obrynnes.— No account is given of this expedition in the AnnaUsts. Some entries on the Memo- randum Rolls, however, seem to refer to it. Fynok Otothil (O'Toole) was paid (S(Ss. Sd. for wages of 10 hobelars and 12 footmen who took part in an attack against the O'Byrnes and others of Leinster (Mem. Hot., 12 Edw. III.). Hugh de Saltu's horses, mentioned above (p. 146), were evidently lost in this expedition. t h 158 Notes. Notes. 159 N. de Barton.— Nicholas de Barton had 20 years previously acted as proctor of the Prior and Convent in a suit with reference to Kilcullen {Ch. Ch. Deeds, No. 198). He was a canon, and is afterwards described as cellarer. John de Evesham w^as a canon of S. Patrick's, who had been employed on several fiscal posts. Thus he is found acting as pay- master of the men employed by the Justiciary against the Leinster rebels {Cal. Pat. Rot, p. 20). Subsidy . . . towards . . . Scotland.— By letters of 8th May, 9 Edw. III. (1335), printed in Kymer, the King directed the Govern- ment of Ireland to obtain aid in men and money for war against Scotland. In obedience to the first part of this order, the Justiciary went over in person with a force of men. It does not appear that any parliament was assembled to raise the money aid. The next parhament held here w^as in the 11th year, and the subsidy voted there was for the wars of the land, that is in Ireland. Money was raised for the Scotch wars nevertheless ; probably by direct appeals to the different towns and districts. The city of Dublin granted a subsidy of £100 for the Scotch wars {Mem. Rot., 9 Edw. III.)- The bishop and clergy of Cork granted the 20th penny, and the county of Dublin 12f/., a carucate from the temper aUties of the clergy, and 2s. a carucate of lay fee {Pipe Roll, Xo. GO, 9 Edw. III.). The sum now paid was no doubt in discharge of this grant. Page 18. Clerk of the Markets.— The transaction referred to in this entry was not an isolated case. On the 20th Feb., 1867, it was represented to the King by the prelates, magnates, and people that many persons had been excessively and unduly amerced by, and great abuses had taken place in the office of Clerk of the Market, who made journeys through the country, and charged exorbitant fees even where they did not examine the weights and measures. The King directed that no fees should be charged or enforced but those payable in England and which should be moderate. (Betham, Hist, of the Constitution^ p. 302.) The following standard measures were in care of this officer, and seven or eight years later were lodged in the Exchequer by a successor, John fitzSimon of Clondalkin, *' custos mercati Regis »' in Ireland (Me^n Rot., 19 & 20 Edw. III.) :— ^ 1 bushel bound with iron. 1 brass gallon. 1 brass quart. 1 iron eU. 3 iron seals for seahng weights and measures. 1 lead weight of the weight of a stone. 1 brass „ „ i ib. 1 lead „ „ ^ lb, ^ " »j if i lb. 1 brass „ „ ^ ib. Chancellor.— The Chancellor referred to was most probably Thomas de Cherlton, Bishop of Hereford, who had but a few months before come over to take up this office, under his brother, Sir John de Cherlton, whom he soon after succeeded in the government of the island. John Passelewe, was a tenant of the manor of Balscadden. See p. 146. The entry when complete may have meant that Passelewe havmg entertained the Seneschal when he went to Balscadden to hold the usual manor court, was unwilhng to receive payment for such service, and that the Seneschal had instead given money as a present to Passelewe's children. See a reference to this court on n 24. ^' Rolegh.— Maurice Rolegh was about this time and afterwards Sheriff of the county Kildare. The transaction was no doubt connected with the Escheator's claim to the temporalities of the Priory consequent on their technical seizure after the deprivation of Prior Goioun in Julv 1337. ^' Page 19. Henry Whyte.— A Henry Whyte was archdeacon of Emlv in 1355. {Cotto7i.) ^ Trumpeters of the Justices in the Refectory.— This entry refers no doubt to the formal reception of the justices itinerant by the con- vent, mentioned on p. 6. Waferer, a maker or seller of wafer cakes, a confectioner. In the household ordinances of Edward II. the waferer was a member of the household, and had allowance of eggs and sugar, apparently for use ; • I] 160 Notes, iM in liis work. The editor of Bishop Swinfield's Household Book states that waferarius had also the meaning of a minstrel who performed tricks of sleight-of-hand. Page 20. John de Castro going to the Court of the King.— The business of the house was no doubt connected with the attempted seizure by the Escheator mentioned at p. 15G. There are extant among the Ch. Ch. Deeds (No. 230), two petitions by the Prior and Convent about this time upon this subject. They are in French, the language of the Court, and are practically, though not verbally, the same. One, how- ever is addressed **A vous sire gardein et conseil nostre seigneur le Roi en Irland." The other " Au counseail nostre seignur le Eoi." The latter is probably a draft or copy of the actual letter carried by De Castro to the Court. That some such communication was made is probable from the existence of a writ from England to the Irish Exchequer, demanding a certificate of all proceedings in the matter {Mem. Rot., 12 Edw. III.). But no further result followed from the mission. Fynnok Otozill, perhaps rather Oto3ill, i.e. O'Tothill or O'Tuathaill, the Fynnok O'Tooll mentioned at p. 157. I do not find this name in the O'Toole pedigree. But the clan war-cry is said to have been Fianac abo, which in the Book of Howth (p. 135) takes the from of Fenock abo. Fynnok as a name may be connected with this. With this entry ends the fragment described on p. 142. The fol- lowing entries are on the reverse of the principal membrane of the account. Robert de Moenes was Mayor of the city in 1351. He appears again as a creditor at pp. 21 and 28. His obit was commemorated in the house on the 5th Sept. as '' Robertus de Meonis frater nostre congre- gacionis." {Marty vol orjy^ p. 40.) The Seneschal went to Munster. — This was a business visit to the property of the Priory there. The most important part of their pro- perty there was Killenaule, mentioned in the next entry. The sum here was cash to meet current expenses, which in the absence of the Seneschal the Prior took under hisown care. Killenaule is situated in the barony of Slieveardagh, Co. Tip- perary, ten miles E.N.E. of Cashel. The church here with lands was granted to the Priory early in the 13th century, by Adam de Stanton, with the intention that a cell should be founded here and Notes. 161 occupied by canons from the Priory. The deed conveys ''two carucates of land, of my land of Kilbrenin, except twelve acres, and on the other side I give them twelve acres which John Bedellus held, and the church of Kildenal with all chapels belonging to it, and the mill of Kilbrenin, and the tithe of all expense of my house of Kildenal, in bread and ale, and flesh and fish, in pure and perpetual alms, freely and fully, peace- fully and honourably, with all liberties and free customs belonging to the lands ; under this condition that the said canons (of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Dublin) build a cell on the said land, and have canons resident there serving God." {Ch. Ch. Deeds, No. 31). The last con- dition seems never to have been fully carried out, and perhaps did not meet with the approval of the Archbishop of Cashel, whose confirma- tion in 1315 only requires the Prior to provide a proper vicar. There are, however, several references in the accounts to visits made by canons of the Priory to Killenaule. apud . . . officiali. — The word KiMeyiale was written here, but has been erased. Nicholas de Esenden. — His obit was commemorated on the 7th September, as " Nicholaus Esyden sacerdos et canonicus noster." Kitchener was a canon to whom was committed the duty of providing the food for the Refectory, except bread, which seems to have belonged to the cellarer's province. Page 21. Kenewrek.— Kenewrik Sherman, or the shearman, mentioned below. R. Goioun. Roger Goioun, late Prior. He had been deprived, July 1337. In the absence of any extant reference to the cause of his de- privation in the records of Christ Church, or in the Roman transcripts in the London Record Office, which I have examined for this purpose, it seems not improbable that the debts here and elsewhere mentioned as incurred by him, which, though individually small, must have been col- lectively a serious addition to the monetary difficulties of the house, may have rendered pressing the necessity for his removal. Hugh Louestok, an aged Dublin merchant. A few years later he is described as ''so broken down by age and infirmity, that he cannot conduct his own business." He accordingly gave a power of attorney to Adam Louestok and Thos. Lof. {Cal Pat. Rot., p. 49, 19 & 20 Edw III.) M I i I'l i V.j 162 Notes. William Sterre, Kitchener.— He was one of the canons, and afterwards became cellarer. Tlie shops mentioned in this entry may have been part of the special fund for maintenance of the kitchen, and improperly conveyed by the Prior to Desewell. The payment to the Kitchener would then be for the purpose of recouping his fund for what was thus lost to it. Page 22. Gorman. — Still known as Grangegorman in the north-west suburbs of Dublin. The ancient manor house and farm buildings seem to have stood off Grangegorman-lane, near the Piichmond Asylum. Grange- gorman was the home farm of the Priory, and its lands extended over the ground now occupied by the Richmond Asylum and Penitentiary, the workhouse, and adjoining land. It appears from these accounts that the Prior had apartments here which he frequently occupied. The Seneschals of Christ Church held their courts here until the present century. Gloves for Harvest. — Throughout the accounts gloves are a fre- quent form of ceremonial present. Those here referred to may have been presented to persons whose servants helped, or they may have been for the men actually employed in the work. A fac-simile illustration of about this period in Dr. S. R. Gardiner's History of England repre- sents many of the workmen wearing gloves. John Gallan was about this time bailiff of the city. Page 24. William de Burthon, or Burton, was one of the Remembrancers of the Exchequer. He had been appointed to direct the commissariat for the war against Scotland, 9 Edw. III. Among other confidential employments, he was commissioned in 1345 to arrest the Earl of Kil- dare. Camden, in narrating the stratagem by which he effected this, calls him a knight ; but he is not so described in the commission {Mi'w. Hot., 18 & 19 Ed. III.). A Wm. de Burton knight in 48° Edw. ITT. was, with doctor Jolin de Wiclift* and others, one of the king's ambassadors to the Pope (Cal. Rot. Pat. Amj., p. 190). I have met no explanation of the large payments made to him hero, and in each of the following Seneschal's accounts, beyond the statement here that they were for debts of the house. Court of Balscaddan.— Balscaddan, Co. Dublin, was one of the manors of the Priory. The manor court was held occasionally by the •I I Mte '*• 1 6.3 Seneschal as part of liis duty, and the fines imposed in it sliould be accounted for by liini, or by tlie bailiff of the manor. An Irishman of the town of Dermodstown for having entry m 40 acres—Dermodstown is a townland in the manor and parish of Balscaddan^ In the Eental, in the Appendix, the principal tenant tliere was Raymond Colyn. who held 40 acres at a rent of 38v 4d The person here mentioned was probably Raymond's heir, whose suc- cession was thus formally recognized. Page 26. Brother John Comyn.-The family of Comyn had long been con- nected with the Priory. As early as the beginning of the 13th century Kinsaley, a valuable possession of the Priory, had passed into the hands of Ehas Cumin, who was almost certainly a relation of John Comyn, then Archbishop of Dublin. A few years later the Priory buildmgs were enlarged on land which belonged to Gilbert Comin Later in the same century, the Convent again granted the lands of Kinsaley to John Cumin (Ch. Ch. Dee,h, No. 19, 30, 90). A pedi<.ree of the family, not easily understood, is contained in the Black Book of Christ Church (p. 225). Of John Comyn, the canon, with whom we are now mterested, there is a curious account among the Christ Church Deeds. It is undated, but must have been before 1354, as Thomas de Kilmore (.-,.<. p. 147) is prominently concerned. Comyn, apparently as part of his duty as a canon, went into residence at Kilcullen, takinsr with him two brothers-sir Nicholas a chaplain, and Elias, and a kins- woman named Milsanda. They evidently made themselves obnoxious to the clergy of the chapels in the parish, and to the labourers on the lands. Complaints led to a formal inquiry, the report of which is thus preserved [Vh CI,. Dee,h, No. 72). This Inquisition was taken at Kil- cu len on Friday, the Feast of S. Matthias, in what year is not stated, before Master Thomas Kylmore. The jury included three chaplains, two other clerks, and four laymen. They found that Comyn had en- tertained his two brothers and his kinswoman for eight weeks from eight days before Christmas to S. Valentine's Day, at a cost of 10,, to the Convent. His brother Nicholas was suspected of impropriety with the housemaid, who wasted the goods of the Prior to the extent of 2s- to allay suspicion. John Comyn sold two crannocs of oats for 6. ' which it IS implied that he did not account for. He also took away hnen thread to the value of 5,s., and half a stone of wool worth 10,1 Nicholas gave six fleeces of wool for a supper. John and Nicholas^ M 2 5 • 3. ' i 164 Notes, -*i > il by bullying the servingmen, and stopping their foorl, interrupted the cultivation of the land to the loss of 4^. A farm horse died, valued at 5s. He lent a cart to Henry Tallon to carry a mill-stone, and gave him a piece of iron worth %L On the day of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin, John refused to celebrate his office in the church, which led to a loss of 2 lb. of wax worth l(Sd. Also he took away articles of Ikother Nicholas (probably another canon) found there, and other things to the value of 12d, The charges against John Comyn personally seem to be generally of a trivial character. There is no means of learning what action was taken in the matter. His obit was commemorated in the Marty rohypj, at 4 Nov., as " Johannes Comyne sacerdos et canonicus noster." Rent of Gorman. — For notes of names of places, and further details of the rents, see the Rental in the Appendix. Robert Poer was chamberlain and treasurer, and aftenvards chief baron of the Exchequer. He does not appear to have retained the last office, but was appointed one of the barons of the court {Jletn. Rot., 9 Edw. HI.). On the Memorandum Roll of the Exch., 9 Edw. ni., is an acknowledgment by the Prior and Convent that they were bound to Robert Poer in the sum of £25. Kynturk is the old form of the name now preserved as Clonturk, tlie parish name of Drumcondra, near Dublin. Kenturk always belonged to the Priory of All Saints. Some lands here must for a time at least have belonged to this Priory, as an extant deed {Ch. Ch. Deeds, No. 172) in 1802 surrenders to the Prior land in Kenturk held under grant from him. Killester and the following two small rents are not noticed in the Rental. Killester had been granted by the Priory soon after the Nonnan Invasion, to the family of Brun, rendering yearly half-an-ounce of gold on the altar of the church of Holy Trinity {Ch. Ch. Deeds, No. 4C8). Page 27. Archbishop of Dublin. — Alexander de Bykenor, a learned and vigorous prelate, who had held civil offices of Escheator, Treasurer, Chancellor, and Justiciary of Ireland. He had been employed by the King for some years in diplomatic missions on the Continent ; and was the founder of the university of Dublin, to which in 1320 he gave statutes, printed in Harris's Ware {Ant., p. 243). In his diocese he Notes. 165 was a determined enemy of idleness, and even in old age an active opponent of the mountain Irish, to whose incursions into the plains his see lands were much exposed. The two occasions in these accounts when the Prior had to send to Kildare on Holy Thursday to procure the episcopally consecrated Holy Oil imply that his episcopal functions sat lightly on the Archbishop. See accounts of him in Ware's Bishops (ed. Harris, pp. 380-2) and Dalton's Archbishops (pp. 123-134). De prestito.— Properly, money paid as an advance. Hence it comes frequently to mean simply a loan. Thomas de Beuley. — The present Seneschal's predecessor. Money probably paid on account of his balance. Gilbert de Bolyniop had been Prior since 1337 {see p. 144). He must have resigned that office about this time. Page 28. Adam Louestok.— Perhaps the son of Hugh Louestok {see p. 161). A citizen of Dublin ; was Bailiff of the city 1338, and Mayor 1352. He married Margery, daughter of Henry de Cestria, from whom he got as a marriage portion, a bond for 100 marks. Louestok, however, had to sue his father-in-law for the money, and obtained a judgment for it {Mem. Rot., 5 & 6 Edw. III. m. 22). A few years later he got into trouble again. Two stranger merchants, and the master and mariners of a ship from Tynemouth, were charged before the Court of Exchequer in Dublin. Louestok, fearing that they would not receive justice, and relying on his position as jurat of the city, came into court and demanded justice for them, using abusive language to the Treasurer. For this contempt he was, on petition of the Mayor and citizens, excused, on payment of a fine of one mark {ib., 16 Edw. III.). Plough.— The plough was made chiefly of timber. There was a long wooden beam, to which in front the oxen were yoked. At its other end, on the under side, there was apparently a shorter timber fixed to it, called a chippe : on this was mounted the share. Some of the ploughs appear to have had wheels {see p. 29, where four axletrees are included among articles bought for ploughs). There is no mention of the coulter, unless this, not the share, is intended by the vomer. (Vomer, culter of a iplow.—Catlwlicon, p. 284, n.) If this be so,ferriim carucale must mean the share. The feivum carucah is generally made by the hired smith, while the vomer is almost always purchased. A lighter plough was used in the dry summer fallow lands. This is the caruca estivalis, p. 29. i f 1G6 Kotos, Page 30. Hugh Belynges was bailiff of the manor of Gorman. Installation. — The installation of Simon de Ludgate, elected Prior on the resignation of Gilbert de Bolyniop. This must have been in the spring or early summer of 1343. Ad warectandum — Ad rebinandum. — In the most approved farming of the period the arable land was divided into three equal parts, each of which lay fallow every third year. In April, when all the sowing was completed, the section which was to lie fallow that year was ploughed. This ploughing of the fallow land was called warectatio. The same land was, towards the end of June, again lightly gone over witli the plough to destroy the weeds. This was called rebinatio. (See Cowel's Diet.; also Walter of Henley^ ed. Miss Lamond, p. 13.) Page 31. Carts. — The references to the carts in use lead us to infer that they were similar to the very rude and primitive conveyances which Malton's views of Dublin shoAv to have been the only one-horse vehicle for goods carriage in Dublin 100 years ago. It survived in the ^Yicklow mountains to within living memory. A pair of small solid wheels seem to be fixed to a massive axle ; the body of the cart rests in front on the shafts, and behind is supported from the ends of the shafts (which incline greatly owing to the very low wheels) by two uprights about 1 J feet high. Such was the Dublin cart of the last century. That of the account was no doubt similar. Its probably solid wheels were bound with iron strakes or tires, fastened to the wheels by strake- nails. Iron plates or clouts were nailed on where necessary, to reduce friction ; while it was often necessary to bind the cart together with iron clamps or ropes. The clouts were thought very necessary. Tusser, in his directions for June, says : — *' Let cart be well searched without and within, Well clouted and greased, ere hay-time begin." Smaller iron articles called lezerlegs and gropes were used possibly for attachment of the wheels to the axle and shafts. Besides the carecta or cart, wains and cars are sometimes men- tioned. The latter must have been merely sledges without wheels. Notes. Page 32. 167 Apud Kylcolyn.— The senior or more trusted brethren of the house are frequently found in residence at Kilcullen and Killenaule, in charge of those possessions, at a distance from the Priory. For a notice of John de Castro, see p. 160. See also pp. 42, 46. Page 34. Messor. — The messer, a farm officer, or ganger, who had over- sight of the men and crops. *' This word soundeth a mower, but his office was to oversee the workmen, and to kepe the cornefieldes from harme." Lambarde quoted in Introduction to Walter of Henley, p. xxxvi. Ploughmen.— The regular wages of a ploughman, besides allow- ances, was 5.V. a-year (p. 62). The sums mentioned here may, therefore, have been additional gratuities. Robert Dryvere.— This is a description as much as a name, representing one who was a driver of a plough team. In the Rental he appears among the Gorman tenants as Robert le Dryver. On next V^ge/uyantes' carucas is the corresponding Latin term. Page 35. Woman drying malt.— The malting and brewing were usually carried on by women. The phrase drying malt seems to be used for the whole process of malting, just as malt kiln seems to be used for the house in which all the process was carried on and the malt was stored. Page 36. Wicklow boards.— Frequent licences are to be met with permitting the carriage by sea of timber, fire-wood, &c., from the town of Wicklow to Dublin. Earth to raise the floor of the barn.— In Henry Best's Farming Book, 1641 {SunecsSoc, p. 107), are minute instructions for the making and repair of earthen barn floors. li tassss:- 168 Notes. Page 87. Drawing straw. — In the process of drawing, straw is prepared by the hand into suitable state for thatching. Roofer planing, and fitting roof couples. — The word coopertorii here is probably a mistake of the writer of the account for carpentarii. See p. 60 where the same work is to be done by a carpeyitarius. Digging mud and serving a roofer.— A description of thatching carried out in this manner, in the North of England in 1641, may be found in Best's Farming Book (Surtees Soc, p. 145). The thatcher was assisted as here by two men, one of whom drew the straw and got it ready for use, while the other made and tempered mud, which he carried up in a scuttle, apparently to fix the straw in position. Page 39. Long Stack of Peas. — Peas and beans in the farming of this period were not pulled green. They were considered a species of corn and allowed to remain in the field till ripe. They were then harvested, and subsequently threshed like corn. A minute descrip- tion of this treatment is to be found in a 17th-century treatise on farming. The peas harvest began in September, as soon as the barley reaping was ended. Wet weather was thought the most favourable, so that the stalks might come up easily by the root. The peas-pullers were provided with sharpened peas-hooks ; striking with their hooks near the root, the stalk is either cut, or pulled up by the roots. As they strike they roll the mass forward until a bundle is formed not so large as to be unwieldy. These heaps were left on the land for about a week ; then carted into the haggard, stacked, and carefully thatched. (Best's Farming Book, Surtees Soc, pp. 56-60, and 93.) Coopertorii facientis speres. — Here also coopertorii is, perhaps, a mistake in the original for carpentarii. Page 40. Kiln. — That is the malt kiln. Probably used generally for the houses in which the malting processes were carried on. The drying being the part of the work which was looked on as most important, the maltster's work is repeatedly referred to as " siccans brasium." " Maulte m the kylne " is used as corresponding to '* Corne in ye barne." (Best's Farming Book, p. 172.) r \ Notes. 169 Page 41. Yangis nudis. — Spades entirely of wood. The Glossary to '* Finchal Priory" (Surtees Soc) says that vanga was a wooden shovel used in winnowing corn. On the other hand, in every early use of the word I have met, it is placed among the instruments for field w^ork. See, for example, the 15th-century Pictorial Vocahularg, in Wright's Vocabularies (ed. 1884, p. 809), where it is translated " spade," and is grouped with dyker, mattock, shovel, and barrow. An illustration there exactly resembles a modern garden spade. Page 42. Sir Philip.— His surname was Walsh. See note, p. 181. Balycor is now Ballycore, on the borders of Cos. Wicklow and Kildare, the tithes of which belonged to the Priory. Kilgowan and Castlemartin were two chapels in the parish of Kilcullen. They had been granted to the Priory early in the 13th century (Ch. Ch. Deeds, No. 16), but continued to be served by a separate chaplain. William de Bosworth was keeper of the writs of the King's Bench. Walter de Istelep, ex-treasurer of Ireland. He came to Ireland probably in the train of Richard de Ferings, Archbishop of Dublin, from whom he received a power of attorney in 1300 {Sweetman's Cal.). He is afterwards described as treasurer and proctor of the same arch- bishop {Mem. Rot., 1 Edw. II.). On that prelate's death the custody of the temporalities of the see was committed to De Istelep, while in the King's hands. In the following year, 1307, he was made a baron of the Exchequer, soon after he became escheator, and in 1314 treasurer of Ireland. In 1326, when his predecessor. Archbishop de Bykenor, fell into disgrace, charged with irregularities in his accounts, De Istelep was accused of complicity, and all his property seized. He was soon after pardoned for a fine of 500 marks ; and apparently restored to office, but only to fall before new charges of irregularity. This time there were no personal goods forthcoming, and for several years writs were being issued for the seizure of his property, his total indebtedness being stated at £1330 ; and not until 1346 were the claims of the Crown finally satisfied (Mem. Rot., 19 & 20 Edw. III.). De Istelep in the days of prosperity succeeded in securing a very large share of church revenue. Beside the golden prebend of Swords, 170 Notes. ,i-l v he obtained the specially valuable rectory of Trim, the rectory of Athboy, the precentorship of Ferns, and the prebend of Blackrath in the diocese of Ossory. Not satisfied with these, he extorted from our Priory a pension of 20 marks a-year, 5 marks from that of All Saints, and 6 marks from the abbey of St. Thomas, Dublin. So great was the wealth he had amassed, that on the seizure of his goods in 1326 one box which nearly escaped detection was found to contain several hundred pounds worth of silver and jewels {Mem. liot.j 19 Edw. II.). Portion of his wealth (including the pension from our poor Priory) he had expended in the purchase of a corrody from the Prior of the hospital of St. John of Jerusalem at Kilmainham. A very full abstract of the deed conveying this corrody is given in Archdall's Monasticon (p. 283), from which the following is abstracted : — The Prior granted to Master Walter, for life, entertainment for himself, two armigers, a chamberlain and another servant, five garciones (inferior retainers), and five horses. Walter was to sit at the Prior's table on his right hand, the chaplain at the table of the brethren, and the retainers with those of the Prior of the same rank ; his horses were to have forage with the Prior's. At Christmas he was to have a gown and four garments of good cloth, the same as the Prior's, or 5 marks. The chaplain should be clothed as the brethren, and the retainers as those of the Prior, a suit at Christmas every second year ; or the Prior should pay 20.s\ for the chaplain, 40.s. for 2 armigers, 2 marks for 2 servants, and 50s. for the 5 garciones. Walter should have the whole house and chapel formerly built by the Prior Walter de Aqua. If he pleased, Walter, his chaplain, armigers, and upper servants, might have their meals in this house. Walter to have three white loaves equal to those served to the Prior ; the chaplain and the others 7 loaves the same as those served to the brethren ; and 10 gallons of the best ale, and from the kitchen meat raw or cooked as he desired ; the five garciones always to dine in the hall with those of the Prior. Walter might erect a kitchen for himself; should have free passage through the Priory gates ; might erect a stable for his horses outside the wall of the castle near the great gate ; and have part of the garden for his use. He should be allowed for use after dinner three gallons of the best ale ; and in the season of Lent and other times of fasting, he should be served with meat as usual, unless he chose to abstain. Among the goods of De Istelep seized in 132G was his library, consisting of three books : 1 bublia, 1 liber de la rose, et unus Hber de seint graal {Mem. Hot., 19 Edw. II., tramcript, p. 04). The two latter were well known French mediaeval romances. Notes. 171 John Rous, clerk, was probably the Prior's chaplain {see p. 99). He is previously described as vicar of Clonshillow, dio. Kildare {Pipe Roll, No. 60). John de Kinton, pleader. — The narrator was a counsel or barrister. John de Kinton, as was very commonly the case, seems to have been a gentleman of property. In the entry in the Black Book of Archbishop Alan, mentioned above, p. 145, he is described as lord of the knights' fee in which Drumshallon was, and as such he in 1359 confirmed the grant of that manor and rectory to the Priory. Uriel. — Oirghialla, a territory comprising the present counties of Armagh, Monaghan, and Louth. In English documents it is frequently used as an equivalent for the county of Louth. Page 44. Master Hervey Bagot was archdeacon of Glendalough, and in that capacity received the proxies of Kilcullen parish in his arch- deaconry. Writ of Supersedeas of the temporalities. Supersedeas is a writ, and signifies a command to stay or forbear the doing of that wliich ought not to be done, or something which might legally be done, but for the special reason for which the writ is granted (Cowel's L). Page 76. Sheriff.— Michael Montgomery. See p. 83. Prior went away.— The baihff's table account stops here, because he seems to be authorized to maintain a table out of the manor funds only during harvest, or when specially authorized by his lord. Page 77. Hoeing by custom.— This work was done by the cottagers in the village as part of their tenure. See also p. 79. Exitus Hagardi.— The entries from this to p. 87 are written on the back of the preceding account. Page 70. Carragh olyn.— The edge of the skin is torn close to the 'o' of olyn, so that this may be the end only of the name. The name Olyn, however, occurs on p. 48, and in the Rental. Page 82. Wulfran de Berneuall was the then head of the family afterwards known as Barnewall, and was seated at Drimnagh, near Dublin. He married Nichola daughter of Robert de Cla.iull [Mem. Rot., 3 Edw. III.). He was repeatedly sheriff, and was also escheator of the county Dublin. In 1333-4 he with three others was made cnstos jmcis of the county Dubhn. As such his duty was to assess the inhabitants of the county for horses and arms, and the maintenance of horsemen and footmen, according to ancient ordinance and to the Statute of Wynton ; so that they should be prepared to set out in the semce of the King, when called upon by the Justiciary of Ireland (Mem. Rut., 7 Edw. III. m. 10 d). He seems still to have held this office ; and the pluribus de eu:ercitu must refer to the men of this county levy. Page 84. S. Dunstan. — This seems to be a mistake. From the morrow of S. Dunstan to S. Peter ad Vinculais only about 10 weeks. Moreover, it is obvious that this allowance should be for the period outside that for which the baihff has already accounted in the maintenance of the general table during the progress of harvest and the work consequent upon it, from 1st Aug., 1344, to Friday, the 8th Oct. (pp. 70-6). From 10th Oct. to 81st Aug., 1345, would be 42 weeks as stated. As the 10th Oct. is the morrow of S. Denis, Dunstan is probably an error for Denis. Page 88. Pellura. — A fur skin prepared for use. Every man of the better classes had his outer garments lined or trimmed with fur. Capa. — A kind of loose gown reaching to the ankles, worn over other clothes by laymen and women as well as by the clergy. It is to be distinguished from capa chorahs, the church cope. (Du Gauge.) Capncium. — A furred hood was usually a portion of the dress of a person of any position. Amice. — This was the canonical vestment lined with fur to cover the head and shoulders. It was perfectly distinct from the sacerdotal vest- ment of fine linen also called amice. (Prompt. Parv. p. 11 n.). By an order of the archbishop in 1420, the prior and canons of Christ Church were on state occasions, and apparently also at other times, to wear amices of skins of gray fur without and minever within, as the canons of other cathedral churches in England and Ireland do in solemn processions and all other times. This order recites that in solemn processions the archbishop was followed by the prior of Holy Trinity and dean of S. Patrick's side by side, after them the sub-prior and the precentor of S. Patrick's, and so the other canons of the two cathedrals two and two ; and shows that the dress then worn by the canons of Christ Church was unhke that worn by the other canons, and unfitted for such occasions (Ch. Ch. Deeds, No. 277). Tunica.— Always translated 'cote' in Wright's Old Enr/lish Vocabuiaries. It was a short vest worn under the Capa, Supertunica or other outer garment. N 178 II Ih I ^ Notes. Page 89. William Broun was at this time summonister of the Exchequer. He afterwards became escheator of Ireland. He was probably the person whose obit is entered in the MortUo(jium at xii Kal. Aug. as " Willelmus Brune frater noster ad succurrendum." Saucers were vessels intended for serving the sauces at table. Page 90. Tholsel court. — The city court held before the mayor and bailiffs. Page 91. Gerald Obryn. — The Four Masters record the death of a chief of the O'Byrnes of this Christian name in 1399. John Barby was vicar of Maynooth, and held some official position in the court of the hberty of Kildare {Mem. Rot., 5 & 6 Edw. III.). Writ of Prohibition. — A writ which lietli for one that is im- pleaded in the Court Christian, for a cause belonging to the temporal jurisdiction, whereby the party as well as the Judge are forbidden to proceed any further in the cause. (Cowel, Law Dirt.) In this case it was probably to prevent action in the archbishop's court in reference to the disputed presentation to Kilcullen. See p. 90. Page 92. For oblations. — The meaning probably is that these presents to the officers of the mayor, and of the Tholsel court, professed to be to enable them to make the customary Christmas offerings in the Church. See also p. 96. About 1300 the oblations in Christ Church were valued at £40 yearly (Ch. Ch. Deeds, No. 164). Kilcullen. — The parish church and advow^son had been granted to the priory soon after the Norman invasion of Ireland (Ch. Ch. Deeds, Nos. 7, 12-15) ; and the right of presentation had been exercised by the Prior (//>. 82). Shortly before the end of the 13th century this right was contested (ib. 160-1) ; and the contest was repeatedly renewed {ib. 181, &c.). In 1326 the earl of Kildare claimed the presentation as Notes. 179 appendant to his manor of Kildare (Jlem. Rot, 18 Edw. II.). He seems to have obtained judgment which was afterwards set * aside {Ch. Ch. Deeds, 674, 222). But the claim was soon renewed by the Crown during the minority of the Eari {Mem. Rot., 6 Edw. III.). The result of the present suit was probably favourable to the Prior as* a few years later the Eari of Kildare relinquished his claim to the Priorv {Ch. Ch. Deeds, No. 241-2.) ^' Master Thomas Giffard was already chancellor of Kildare, and in 1353 became bishop of that see. Kildare.— A visit to Kildare for the same purpose on Holy Thursday, 1338, is referred to on page 15. The Assize.— No doubt for the hearing of an action as to the right of presentation to Kilcullen. Page 93. Super modo et causa.— This writ was addressed to the escheator {see p. 102) to require him to state the ground for a seizure made by him. The writ ran, '' Quia volumus certiorari super modo et causa capcionis," kc. Page 94. Supersedeas.— See as to this writ on p. 171 . In this case it was ad- dressed to the Escheator, as shown by the entry of its service on p. 95. The Escheator's claim to the temporal possessions of the Priory, arising out of Prior Gilbert de Bolyniop's resignation in the previous year, had evidently not yet been satisfied. Page 95. Justiciary going against Ulster.— The expedition of Ralph de Ufford, the Justiciary (whose wife was countess of Ulster), is placed by Clyn in Lent, 1344. It would appear from this entry to have really been in 1345. Page 96. Paindemaine.— Fine white bread or cakes made of specially fine flour, with eggs, &c. (see note in Prompt. Parv., p. 378). The Glossary to the Lib. Alb., Lond., says that it was so called from the figure of our Saviour impressed upon it. The Promptonum, however, translates N 2 180 Notes. paynmayne as />^rm vigons, which seems to connect it with dmaine in the sense oi poucoir (see Godefroie). Two capons, 19d.— There must be a mistake in the number here. The usual price for a capon is 2d, Page 97. Sir Robert Poer was one of the barons of the Exchequer. Straw chairs.— Chairs, mats, and stools of straw, made like the old straw beehives, were in common use in Dublin until some years ago. Page 98. Feretrum.— A shrine for rehcs. Feretrum ubi sunt nunc reliquiae Sanctorum, honestissimo decore composuit. Feretra reliquias Sanc- torum continentia ad corrogandas eleemosynas in reaedificationem Ecclesiarum aut in ahas necessitates cum processionibus circumlata. De Cange, s. t\ This was probably one of the many shrines and chests in which the jewels and reUcs of the Church were preserved, which were broken by the fall of the east window of the church m 1461 (Martyrologg, p. xix.). Laurence, garcio of the Prior's chamber. Perhaps the same as Laurence the Prior's kinsman mentioned on pp. 88-9. Page 101. Yerjuice.— The juice of unripe grapes, crab apples, &c. It was a favourite ingredient of the sauces, so important a branch of mediaeval cookery. For this purpose John Russell recommended— - Verdius to boyled capoun, veel, chiken, or bakon " (Babees Book, p. lo2). Expense pro Senescallo.— The entry thus distinguished is in a different hand, perhaps that of the Seneschal himself. The whole of head Ferura and the entry preceding it (p. 90), and the last three entries in the head Debita, &c. (p. 104), are also in this added hand. Page 102. Ralph de Same.— A Ralph de Saham appears on the Memorandum Roll of 5 & 6 Edw. III. (m. 9) as a person to whom Fromund le Brun owed £40. Notes. 181 Page 103. Kenewrik Sherman, or le Shearman, was mayor of Dublin, 1339-41. His death in 1351 is thus noticed : — ** Ken wrick Sherman sometime maior of the citie of Dublin died, and was buried under the Belfray of the Preaching Friers of the same city : which Belfray and Steeple himselfe erected, and glazed a window at the head of the Quire, and caused the roof of the Church to be made, with many more good deeds. In the same Convent he departed, the sixth day of March ; and at his end he made his will or testament, amounting to the value of three thousand marks ; and he bequeathed many good legacies unto the Priests of the Church, both religious and secular, that were within twenty miles about the city." — (Camden's Annals^ ed. 1637.) Page 104. Hugh le Jeune, also known as Hugh de Sutton, a former Prior who had resigned. See p. 171. Page 105. The account which ends here is apparently imperfect, the parch- ment being cut away close to the last entry. Page 106. Philip, chaplain of Rathozell, or rather Ratho3ell, now Rathtooll, a small parish in Co. Wicklow on the borders of Co. Kildare, consisting o but two townlands, Rathtooll and Ballycore. The tithes of the latter belonged to the Priory, and seem to have been farmed by Philip Walsh, the vicar of Rathtooll. Soon after this time the Bishop of Leighlin granted the church of Rathtooll also to the Prior and Canons of Holy Trinity {M kite Book of Christ Church, cap. xix.). They there- upon entered into an agreement with the vicar, dated on the Nativity of S. John Baptist, 1347, which is still preserved. By it the Prior and Convent granted to sir Philip Welsshe, chaplain, all the tithes of corn and hay, and the oblations and small tithes belonging to their church of Rathothul, for five years ; Philip paying them four marks yearly and supporting all other charges. He was within a year and a-half to repair properly the gable of the chancel, and roof the chancel efficiently with double boards, making it stiff and stanch ; to put in order the chancel below and the altar fittingly, and to bind and repair all the books in the church ; and to celebrate service in the church. (Ch. Ch. Deeds, No. 635.) The text is printed in the Appendix. J n 182 Notes, Page 107. Kilcullen tithes. — Archbishop Luke in 1253 had ordained that the vicars of Kilcullen presented by the Prior and Convent of Holy Trinity should pay to them 40 marks yearly, the remainder of the fruits and obventions of the church to be taken by the vicar (Ch. Ch, Deeds, No. 82). John Dolphyn. — His obit is commemorated in the Martyroloyy on 9th Nov., " Johannes Dolfyn sacerdos et canonicus noster." Laweles. — The Rental in Appendix, of a somewhat earher period, shows two tenants of this name, master John Laweles, and master Iioger Lawles, each paying 4s. a-year, or 2s. a term, rent. Sir John Dendredeby. — Cotton mentions a John de Endredeby as a canon of S. Patrick's about this time. . Page 108. Justiciary going to Naas.— Sir Walter de Bermingham, the recently-appointed Justiciary, with the aid of the Earl of Kildare, attacked and defeated in November of this year O'More and his allies, who earlier in the year had taken the castle of Ley and other places. Edmund de Byrford was a lawyer who afterwards became King's Serjeant. Rathouze, or rather Rathou3e. — Hugh Brown mentioned here was found by inquisition to have held 7 burgages and land in Bathtouthe (Cal. Fat. Hot., p. 77). Page 109. John de Redenesse became chief justice in 1356. Page 110. Notary. — A papal rescript obtained by Hugh de Calce about this time recites that there were in Ireland few or no notaries under apostolic authority. It enjoins the archbishop of Dublin to give this oiBce to two clerks to be named by Hugh. {Uumun Transcripts, Rcy. Po7it. V. 5, p. 24G). Sir Roger Darcy. — A son of sir John Darcy, several times Justiciary of Ireland, an office which Roger had himself held for a few months, earlier in the present year. Notes. Page 111. 183 Argendo. — Written so in original. For argento. Baron of Castleknock.— Hugh Tyrell was at this time lord of the manor of Castleknock. Though the title baron was not apphed to him in legal documents, it seems to have been commonly used of the lords of this manor. Parliament at Kilkenny.— This Parliament was held a fortnight after Michaelmas in the 20th year of Edward III. Its only recorded action was to grant the King a subsidy of two shillings on every carucate, to carry on the war against Irish enemies. (Betham, Hist, of Constitution, p. 292). Page 112. Piment.— AVirtr as well as pigmentum is given in the Catholicon as Latin for piment. A very full prescription for the making of nectar is printed by Mr. Gilbert from the Red Book of Ossory in the Hist. MSS. Comn. Report, 10, part v., p. 256. It consisted of wine, with a large proportion of honey, and ginger, cloves, and other spices. Ballymore, now Ballymore-Eustace, Co. Kildare, was one of the archbishop's chief manors. He had a castle containing a hall (in ruins in 1326), a chamber for the archbishop, a chapel, a little chamber for clerks, a kitchen, roofed with shingles, a stable and a grange thatched. (Lib, Nig. Alani, Marsh's Lib. copy, p. 286.) Tallaght.— Another of the archbishop's chief manors. The castle here is said with much probabihty to have been built by the present archbishop De Bykenor. Justiciary. — Sir Walter Bermingham had arrived in Ireland as Justiciary about a fortnight before {Clyn Annals), Page 113. Pynsonns seem to have been low shoes of leather. See an ex- haustive note on the word in the Catholicon, p. 280. Prior Elect.— Robert de Hereford was elected on the death of Simon de Ludgate. He lived only two years afterwards. f i . j 184 Notes, Notes, 185 Page 114. William Notyngham was precentor of S. Patrick's. Monk of Malvern. — The priory of Little Malvern in Worcester- shire owned half the tithes of Castleknock, near Dublin. Members of tlie convent appear to have come over occasionally on business connected with this property, as several references to monks of Malvern occur on the rolls. Page 116. Roger de Preston was second justice of the Common Bench, in which office he was about this time succeeded by Nicholas de Suyterby with whom he is here mentioned. John atte Gate. — John de Gate was treasurer of S. Patrick's about this time (Cotton). John at Gate was attorney of the archbishop [Mem. Rot., 16 & 17 Edw. III.). Page 117. Finglas was also one of the archbishop's manors. Archbishop Fulk de Sandford is said to have died at this manor in 1271. Page 119. Collatio, a late Supper. — Apud Monachos prnesertim, dicitur Sacrorum Hbrorum lectio, quae statis horis, maxime post ccenam, coram eis fiebat. A collationibus Monasticis, quibus finitis, ad bibitionem ibatur, serotime ccen® coUationum appellationem sortit^e sunt. — Du Cange. Page 122. Carrickbrennan. — Now known as Monkstown, Co. Dublin. The land belonged to S. Mary's Abbey, Dublin, but the tithes to our Priory. Page 123. John Taylour was baihff of the city 1342-6, and mayor in 1358. He was commemorated in the Martijrnhgn on 11th July, " Ob. Johannes Taylwr et Alicia Celi uxor ejus pro quibus fiunt ix lecciones." Page 125. Total of debts 13s. 4rf. recte 13s. 6d. Page 126. The poem is wTitten on those portions of the reverse of Account No. II., which had been left unoccupied in its original state. It is written in four rather crowded columns. The first being near the edge of the skin has been a good deal discoloured, so that in some places all trace of the writing has disappeared. The defects are indicated here by dots (. . . .). Besides being divided into four columns the poem is separated into two sections by the writing already upon the roll. When originally copied, another skin must have been attached which has now entirely disappeared, leaving the poem in the incomplete state in which we now find it. The w^ay in which the gaps in the poem occur may be understood from the following table showing the lines contained in the respective columns of the MS. : — t^ ;H t-^ t^ l-J. ■!• I-.. >-" p 3 P p a CD CQ H* t-i H-i to o CO H-l -q »-* -a o s- S crt- O ♦-* H-» to CO o> O CO 00 o o rf^ fcO CO -^ ^ CO CO fcO •-• (— * o en ^ CD et- e^ e»- et- o O O *.° 1— * 00 »(^ jn ot to bO i>^ Ct o C5 O) Oi • • • • • &•• • ►*^* 8 s C3 p z^ ^ e-K e»- P and y, and 3 is used in the most uncertain manner ; indeed the spelling generally is often very puzzHng. The following lines are written in this current hand : 1-4, 33-82, 127-154, 327-438. These in the set hand : 5-32, 83-12G, 155-826, 439-502. Letters printed in itahc are, in the original, represented only by contractions. Line 1.— horkynt, imp. pi. of herknen, to hearken. In line 6 the same word is written herkenith by the other copyist. Page 127. Line 33.— Kyntis. Here and elsewhere for knytis = knights. 3e is repeatedly written for he. Line 44.— bled, Miss Toulmin Smith explains this as " timid one." Blead, timid. — Stmtmann Dictionary (Clarendon Press edition.) Page 128. Lines 62, 64.— spec, lee, = speech, leech. Line 80. — Kyt. From cydan, to make known. Page 129. Line 114. — i korne = icoren, chosen. Line 121.— kinde. Dr. Murray suggests that this should be rea without the n. kid = renowned. Page 130. Line 146.— wonschild. Miss Toulmin Smith explains this "child of joy." Wunne, joy, pleasure.— ^'imi/// in the MS. — They think. This mistake occurs repeatedly. Line 379. — No expedient of the lawyers could release from that prison. Mainprise, bail. Supersedeas, a writ to stay proceedings in a court. Page 139. Line 415-6. — These two lines ending the third column of second section are repeated with some differences of spelling at the beginning of next column. Page 140. Line 431.— I'yng apparently for kyng. The words, as I'ou mit se, are repeated in the same hand immediately below. APPENDIX. EENTAL AND CUSTOMAL OF THE LANDS OF THE PRIORY, Circa 1326. Translated from the Latin Original, No, 570, Christ Church Collection, naw preserved in the PMic Record Office of Ireland, RENTAL OF THE RENT OF THE PRIOR OF THE CATHE- DRAL CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, DUBLIN, to be paid at different terms of the Year, videlicet : All Saints, Nativity [of our Lord] for his different Manors and Granges, to wit : John Comyn, of KynsaleyS holds .... and pays 100s, a-year, at the terms of SS. Philip and James, and All Saints. William le Whyte, of Mabil^ and pays 666'. Sd. a-year. terms of the year. Thomas Smoth holds^ and pays £Q Ids. a-year, at the feasts of Nativity of S. John And he renders suit to the court of Glasnevin or at Gorman twice . . . , . . . two days in summer time and two days with [Glasnevin.*] John de Barry holds 1 cottage and other tenements, and pays 27s. a-year, at the feasts of SS. Philip and James and All Saints, and suit as above ^ Kinsaley, near Portmarnock, co. Dublin. 2 Mabilstown, now Mabestown, in the parish of Kinsaley. 3 Thomas Smoth had lands at Donnybrook, co. Dublin, to which were given the name Smothscourt, now known as Simmonscourt ; but it does not appear what lauds he held of the priory. * There is in the original no trace of any place name here, but from some of the tenants' names, and from the amount of rent compared with receipts in the Accounts, it is evident that from this point down to John Serjant, at the beginning of the Gonuan tenants, the names are those of the tenants at Glasnevin, near Dublin. H !i ..^Z^KiK&^^^lii^l .1 190 Appendix. and he shall plough at winter seed with his plough . . . . . . two days, and if he has not a whole plough, he shall do according as he is able, at the cost of the lord in food and in drink, and it is worth, beyond drawbacks, 4.d. a day. Also, he shall plough at Lent seed time with his plough, if it be a whole one, for two days, which is worth and less, if it should be less.^ And he shall hoe (cerclahit) the lord's corn for two days with one man, and that is worth for a-day ^(L And he shall gather and make up the lord's hay (collifj . . . (B levahit fenum) when there may be need, and that work is worth ^d. And he shall reap in harvest for two days with one man, and that work is worth, by the day, Id. And he shall carry the lord's corn, at expense of the lord in food and in drink, in harvest for two days, and that work is worth, beyond drawbacks, 4^/. And he shall give, at the feast of the Nativity of our Lord, one hen, or Id. William Bodenham holds 1 messuage and 2 crofts and 23 acres I stang, and pays, by the year, at said feasts, 25.9. id, HuoH Faber {the Smith) holds 1 messuage and 1 croft and IG acres ^ stang, and pays, by the year, at said feasts, 18s. Nicholas Chaumberleyn holds 1 messuage 1 croft and 21 acres, less J stang, and pays, by the year, at said feasts, 225. 9(/. Robert Richard holds 1 messuage and 19 acres ^ stang, and pays, by the year, at said feasts, 22s. Ihl. Salamon juxta aquam {In/ the ivatei'), holds 1 messuage and 9J acres 1^ stang, and pays by the year, at said feasts, 10s. lOhl. Nicholas Ketyno holds 1 messuage and 3 crofts and 13 J acres II stang, and pays, by the year, at said feasts, 18s. William Uestham holds one messuage, and pays by the year, at said feasts, 8s. John Michel holds 1 messuage and 1 croft containing 1 acre, and 5 acres of land, and pays by the year, at said feasts, 7s. lid, John Rowe holds 1 messuage, and pays, by the year, at said feasts, Gs. Id. And the aforesaid William Bodenham, and the other farmers following, shall do in all things, and by all ways, in the aforesaid works, as John de Barry shall do, as is aforesaid, together with a hen at the feast of the Nativity of our Lord, each of them, as is aforesaid. 1 That is, if he possesses only a share in a plough, not a plough and full plough team of his own. Appendix, jgj Geoffrey Fynche holds^ 2 crofts, each of them 2s., and 32 acres of land, and pays, by the year, at the aforesaid terms, 40s And he shall reap in harvest with one man, and that work is worth 4.^. for same time. And he shall give, at the feast of the Nativity of Our Lord, three hens, or 3^. And shall plough, hoe, and make up hay, as the aforesaid John de Barry shall do in all things and by all ways John Fox holds 1 messuage and 1 croft, and pays, by the year, Ud. And he shall work as a cottager. Thomas the chamberlain of the lord, holds 2 crofts, 1 at 2s., and the other at 22ri., and pays, by the year, at the feasts of SS Phihp and James and All Saints, 4«. John Crobok holds 1 cottage and 1 croft, and pays, by the year at said terms, 2s. And he shall reap in harvest, and hoe 'and make up hay, as said John de Barry. And he shall give at the feast of the Nativity of Our Lord, one hen, or Id Thomas Cmian holds 1 cottage and 1 croft, and pays, by the year, at said terms, 2s. U. And he shall do, and give, as the afore- said John. Thomas Lang holds 1 cottage and 1 croft, and pays, by the year, at said terms, 21d, Matilda Kyngham holds 1 cottage and 1 croft, and pays, by the year, at said terms, 2s. Richard^ Braceator {the brewer) holds 1 cottage and 1 croft, and pays, by the year, at said terms, 2s. Cecilia Knyht holds 1 cottage and 1 croft, and pays, by the year, at said terms, 2s. Mariota Salman holds 1 cottage and 1 croft, and pays, by the year, at said terms, 16d. YvoR vertator {the turner /), holds 1 cottage and 1 croft, and pays, by the year, at said terms, 12d. Maurice Dryver holds 1 cottage and 1 croft, and pays, by the year, at said terms, 22rf. Margery Kakhkek holds 1 cottage, and pays, by the year, at said terms, Qd, Adam Moyn holds 1 cottage, and pays, by the year, at said terms, 12^. Annota Attehill holds 1 cottage, and pays, by the year, at said terms, Qd. Alice Lombe holds 1 cottage and 1 croft, and pays, by the year, at said terms, 18^/. J 1 messuage and 1 croft, 8s., is written ahove. - liie. is written over Hugo, struck out. 192 Appendix. John Baret holds 1 cottage and 1 croft, and 2 acres of land, less one stang, and pays, by the year, at said terms, 8s. 9c^., and for another croft newly taken, 14^/. Eva the widow, holds 1 cottage and 1 croft, and pays, by the year, at said terms, 12d. Thomas Michel holds a holding there, and pays, by the year, at said terms, 10s. 2d, Alice Othyre holds a holding there, and pays, by the year, at said terms, 6s. 8(^. John Lombe holds 1 cottage there, and pays, by the year, at said terms, 12(/. Alice Salman holds 1 cottage there, and pays, by the year, ^t said terms, 12^. Sir DA\^D the chaplain, holds 1 cottage there, and pays, by the year, at said terms, M, Nicholas the clerk, holds 1 cottage and 1 croft, and pays, by the year, at said terms, 18*/. And all those aforenamed, above written, shall perform works in all things, and by all ways, in all times, as John Crobok shall do. SiNON Fynche holds 1 cottage and 3 acres of land, and pays, by the year, 3s., for all services. Thomas Callagh holds 1 cottage, and pays, by the year, 8s. Sd. Egbert Olay holds 1 cottage and 1 croft, and pays, by the year, at the terms aforesaid, 22^/. ^Nicholas le Grete, holds 1 acre of land, and pays, by the year, 12 Glossavf/ of Words occurring in the Accounts, Chippe.— Chep, the part of a plough on which the share is placed (Wright, Prov. Diet.). Cindon for sindon, fine linen. Cericum for sericum, silk. Clouts.— Plates of iron for carts. (See p. i66.) Crannoc— The general measure of corn in the English settlements in Ireland to the end of the 14th century. Its value has been variously stated as from* quarter (Svveetman, vol, in., glossary) to 2 quarters (Betham Irish Antiquarian Researches, p. 5). The exact amount certainly varied' but at the times of these accounts, and long previously, the crannoc of wheat seems to have been nearly equivalent to the Eno-Hsh quarter. By a statute of 53 Hen. III., the earliest recorded Act of an Irish Parliament, the quarter of London was directed to be used throughout Ireland (Betham' Constitution, p. 254) ; and soon after, the crannoc of wheat is found to consist of 8 bushels, that of oats 16 bushels {Norfolk accounts). The latter is repeatedly stated to be equal to 2 quarters (Sweetman, vol. iv. p. 165), so that It may be assumed that the crannoc of wheat was then equivalent to one quarter. In 1326 the crannoc of wheat still consisted of 8 heaped bushels {Mem. Rot., 19 Edw. II.). In these accounts it is treated as 7 heaped pecks, that of oats 14 pecks, and of hastiuell 8 pecks-this term being locally used as equivalent to bushel. At some period an increase of one-third apparently took place in the amount represented by the crannoc. This is shown by an entry in the Black Book of Christ Church, p. 225 : ' Summa de frumento de veteri mensura xlv crannoc et fecit de nova mensura xxxiii crenoc' et vi peck " This was written during the latter half of the 14th century, but is obviously copied from some document to whose date there is no clue. The crannoc dropped out of use soon after the end of the 14th century. Dealbando (p. 98).— The term seems to refer to a process by which hides were preserved by being dried and bleached. See ' Fresed Leder ' Glossary York Fabric Rolls. Diversimode.-Properly, ' in different manner,' but frequently used by the writers of these accounts in the sense of ' at different times.' Draght bord (p. 61).— Apparently boards of extra size (see p. 175). Euillavit (p. 76)-Evillare seems to be used as an alternative form for devillare, included in Du Cange with the sense of discedere. Grange.-When, as at p. 36, distinguished from the granarium, Grange denotes the place in which the corn in the sheaf was preser\'ed-the stack yard ; while granarium is the barn in which the threshed grain was kept. Gropis (pp. 31, ^^).~VLo6k^ {Wardrobe Accounts, Glossary). Harness (p. 108).— Baggage and equipment, generally. Harts (pp. 22, 57).- Hart, a haft or handle. (Somerset), Halliwell. Glossary of Words occurring in the Accounts. 213 Hastiuell.-Probably a variety of barley. Perhaps that known in England as hastybere, said to have been so called from the rapidity with which it came to maturity. That this was also a characteristic of the Dublin hastiuell may be inferred from p. 64, where men seem to have been employed reaping it before the general harvest began. Heriot.— The best beast which a tenant had at the time of his death, which was by custom due to his lord. Issue.— The outgoing or produce of the tillage. Used as a title for the grain accounts. Jantaculum.— Dejeuner, in later use applied to the early dinner in England. Its use in these accounts, however, requires the sense of break- fast. Thus it always precedes p'andiu?n, which again always precedes cena. On p. 5 the three occur on the same day, in the order, Jantaculum, prandium, cena. Spelman says, ' quod postea jentaculum dictum est ohm prandium appellabatur.' {Glossary ufider Nona). Lezerlegs (pp. 30-1, 125).— Small iron articles used in the construction or fitting of wheels. In the Norfolk Accounts the word occurs in the form ' lerleg.' Messer (pp. 35, 5i_2)._A farm overseer (see p. 167). The messer at Gorman appears to correspond to the serviens or serjeant at Clonken. Nona.— Properly the ninth hour of the day- the time of the church office of none. The use of the word on p. 14 seems to require the sense of noon, or perhaps of dinner-time, which, according to Wright {Early English House) should have been 11 a.m., or earlier. 'Nona. Meridies. Tempus prandii. In antiquis maneriorum membranis Nona crebro usu venit pro meridie, quae inde Anglice appellatur None et Nonetide.'— Spelman Gloss, s. V. * Paindemaine.— Fine cake bread.— See p. 179. Peck.— The term was locally used in Dublin as equivalent to bushel In the Cat. of Records of Dublin, p. 185, the two words are thus used together. At this time the peck probably represented the English stan- dard bushel {see p. 159). At a later time the measure it represented became much larger in quantity. In 1524 a bushel of ale was 16 gallons {Cat. of Records, p. 182), and in 1585 a peck of wheat, according to the measure of Dublin, contained 18 gallons, i pottle, i pint {i^^th Ret>ort D. K. Records, Ireland, p. 112). Penettes (p. 3).-Sugar candy {Diet. Middle English, by Mayhew and Skeat). Licorish or pennets . . . other such like pectoral thin^-s (Nare's Glossary). Piment.— A compound of wine, honey, and spices.— See p. 183. Potura (pp. 79, 83).— An allowance of corn for food. ' Potura pro pas^ tura' (Du Cange}. 214 Glossanj of Words occurring in the Accounts, \^v Pykforks.-Pykstelus (p. 41). Pitchforks, and handles for them From pike, a hayfork ; stele, a handle. Razes (p. 59)-— This may also read ra3es. The character 3 is several times used m names in these accounts where the sound expected is th The word may therefore represent rathes, meaning a frame placed on a cart or waggon for carr>qng hay (Wright, Pruv. Diet.). Sacrista. — See note, p. 147. " Serjeant. — See messer. Somersadul (p. 99).— A sumpter or pack-horse saddle. Spennyngs (pp. 34-5, 47, 104, io6).-A local term for first of May. Speres (p. 39), spyres (pp. 40, 6i)-Beams of wood. At p. 39 it seems to mean the timber frame for a partition wall, a sense which connects It with the Yorkshire 'spires, timber stands' {Gloss. E. Yorks. Dialect ^00.). Spochour (p. 6 1). -A vessel used to put water on the mud walls in course of construction. Stang.— A measure of land, the fourth part of an acre. Strakes (p. 99), straknail (pp. 3 1 , 99)-Iron tires for cart wheels, and the nails which fastened them to the wheels. Tascha (pp. 28, 66. » >> n tt Army, 82, 176. Arnold, Peter, 123. Assheburne, Elias de, 5, 44, 152. Elizabeth, Robert, Roger, and Sir Thomas, 152. William de, i, 2, 9, 13, 16, 17, 21, 42, 53, 73, I45> 154- Wilham, Abbot of S. Mary's Abbey,^i52. Assize courts, 92, 153. Athboy, Co. Meath, 170. Atte Gate, Sir John, 116-17, 184. Attehill, Annota, 191. Attewell, Alex., 193. Aunger, John, 154. Avener, 82. Axe, price, 41. Axle, 59. Bagot, Hervey, 44, 171. Bailiff, allowances to, 84, 177 ; duties of, 174. Bailiff, Wm. the, 22. Baillif, John, 196. Bakehouse, 98. Baker, pay of, 69. Baker, Wm. the, 44. Balbriggan, Co. Dublin, 144. Balgaddy, Balygady, Co. Dublin, 199. Balisters, 146. Ball, Tho., 47. Ballybrenan, 195 : see Brennanstown. Ballycore, Co. Wicklow, 91, 169, 181 ; chaplain, 42 ; church, 107. Ballylaghnan, 68 : see Loughlinstown. Ballymolewhan — Ballymolghan, ySy '55> 194 : see Murphystown. Ballymore (Ballymore Eustace, Co. Kildare), 95, n2; castle, 183. t. 220 Index. Index. 221 Ballymorthan, 155, 194 : see Murphys- town. Ballytyper, Balitybyrt, Balytypur, 194, 202, 207-9 '- see Tipperstown. Balrotliery barony, 198. Balscadden, Balyskadan, Co. Dublin, xix., I, 24, 93, 144, 146, 159, 162, 200; rents, 27, 201 ; tenants, 198- 200; parish, 163, 199; church, 201. Balygodman, John de, 7, 13, 69, 153. Barby, Sir John, 91, 178. Baret, John, 192. Barley seed and produce, 80. Barn floors, 167. Barnewall family, 176. Barry, John de, 189-91. Barton, Nich. de, 17, 51, 158. ,, Wni. de, 1 15-6. Bathy, John, 122. Baysham, Walter, i-j, iii. Beans and peas, 80, 145. Bedellus, John, 161. B^ef, price of, 96. Becjg, Gilbert, 194. Belleyngs, Roger, 197. Belynges, Hugh de, 27, 30, 46, 49, 52-3, 81, 104, 123, 166. Benefactors, masses for, 149, 203. Bermingham, Sir Walter de, 182-3. Bernevall, Wulfran, 82, 177. Beuley, Thomas de, 13, 23, 27, 59, 69, 70, 103, 109, 1 16-7, 120-1, 143, 165 ; his accounts as seneschal, i- 25, 106-125. Beyden, Wm., 147. Black Book of Archbp. Alan, quoted, 145, 147, iS2> 171. Black Book of Christ Church quoted, 163, 200. Blackleas, 106. Blackrath prebend, 170. Blackthorn, Co. Dublin, 194. Blakeburne, Tho. 10. Bodenham, Wm., 190, Bohernabreena, 152. Bolloc, Wm., 2q6. Bolton, Tho. de, 115, 124. Bolyniop, Gilbert de, prior, xvii., 27, 144, 151. 1^5-6, 171, 179; allow- ance to, 45, 104 ; debts of, T,^, y^^ 44, 103. Books, xxiv., 170, i8r, 210. Bossard, Henry, 197. Bosworth, Wm. de,:42, 108, 169. Bourk, Adam,' 193. Brankeston, Nich. de, 95. Bray, 143. Brayhenogh, "Walter, 5. Bread, cost of, 48, 118-9 : fancy bread, 179 ; bread for horses, 2, 81, 145. Brendwode, Wm. de, 90. Brennanstown, Co. Dublin, 144, 195. Brewer, Rich., the, 191. Brewing, 70-6; toll on, 195, 208. Brit, Ricard, 198. Broun, Gilbert, 1C4. „ Hugh, 46, 94,^ 1 03-47" 108-9; 172, 182. ,, James, 102. ,, William, 89, 178. Brun, PVomund, 180. „ family, 164. Bryht, Tho., 198. Bucket for well, price, 40. Buildings (farm), materials for, xxi., xxii., 36.7. Burial, offerings at, 91. Burton, John de, 69, 70. „ Wm. de, 24, 46, 104, 162. Butter used as ointment, 29. Bykenor, Alex, de, 164-5 : see Arch- bishop. Byrford, Edm. de, 108, no, 113, 123, 182. Cabinteely, Co. Dublin, 194. Cakes, 179. Calce, Hughde, 49, 173, 182. Calfhurd, John, 121. Callagh, Tho., 192. Callan, John, 14, 22, 155, 162. Caman, Tho., 191. Candles, price of, 8. Capon, price of, 5, 99, 100. Car, 32, 166. Carmel, Brother Tho., 100. Carpenter, work and wages of, xxiii., 28-9, 31-2, 39, 59-61 ; food, 70. Camckbrennan, Co. Dublin, 1^2 184. Carrickmines, Carricmayn, Co. Dublin, H4, 195- Carrik, Michael, 194. ■ I )> ?) Cart, xxii.; requisites for, 32, 58-60, 166; for baggage train, 108. Carter, allowances to, 84. Carter, Jordan the, 194. „ Wm. the, 194. Cashel, 160. ,, archbishop, 20, 161. dean and clergy, 20. commissary, no. ,, notary, no. Castle of Perseverance, xxv. Castleknock, Co. Dublin, 184. „ baron, 183. Castlemartin, Co. Kildare, 42, 169. Castro, John de, 16, 20, 32, 42, 46, 79, no, 144, 156, 160, 167. Cathedral, dress of canons, 177. Cathelan, Rich., 197. Cathtlan, Rich., 197. Catt, John, 193. Caturcensis, 173. Celbridge, Co. Kildare, 154. Celi, Alicia, 184. Cell, founded, 145, 160-1 ; suppressed. Cellar, cart and carter of, 35, 82 ; door of, 98 ; purchase of wheat for, n8. Cellarer, xviii., xxi., 50-1, 147, IS^* 173; default in providing ale for the convent, 4, 8, 48; account, 202. Censer, price of, 97. Cemey, Henry, 47, 193. Cestria (Chester), Margery, dau. of Hen. de, 165. „ Rich, de, 95, 99- „ Robert de, 123. Chamberiain, Peter the, 4i» 43, 45-^, 48, 92, 96, 98-100, 123, 197. Chamberiain, Tho. the, 191. Chamburleyn, Chaumberleyn, John, 35, 45, 51-3, 55, 62, 84, 105-6, 123; his account, 55-87. Chamburleyn, Juliana, 198. „ Nicholas, 45, 50, 81, 105-6, 123, 190. Champagne, war cry of Counts of, 146. Chancel of parish church, repairs to, 209-10. Chancellor, 159, 164; gift to, 18. Chancery, officers of, 17, 18, 44, 94. Chaplain, sir David the, 192. Chaplain, sir Ralph the, 194. Cheese, price of, 41. Cherleton, sir John, 157, 159- ,, Tho., bishop of Hereford, 157, 159. Chester, Robert de, 123 ; see Cestria. Chickens, price of, 122. Chrism, 92. Christ Church, Deeds, 144, &c., 189, 202, 206, 207, 209; records pre- served by, ix. Christiana, the widow, 193. Christmas, robes for, 88. Church of priory, fall of east window, 180. Church (parish), arrangement with vicar, repairs, &c, 181, 209-10; vicar of Kilcullen, 182. Churchtown of Clonken, 173. Clahull, Nichola, dau. of Rob., 176. Clay for earthenware, 55, 174. Clenche, Rob., 206. Clerk, Hugh the, 196. „ Nich. the, 192. „ Peter the, 44. Clerk carts tithes, 68. Clerks, married, 147. Clifford, Robert de, 12. Clondalkin, Co. Dublin, 159. Clonken, Co. Dublin, 13, 19, 21, 23, 28, 46, 64, 120, 153, 155, 173-4; prior at, n, 12, 15, 57, 73, i^o, 1 2 1-2 ; bailiff of, 45, 53, 55, 105-6, 123; husbandry accounts, 23-4, 55-87 ; church, 201 ; demesnes, 208 ; manor court, 172 ; mill, 152 ; rents, 27 ; tenants, 194-8 ; value of lands, 201. Clonshillow, 171. Clonturk, Co. Dublin, 164. Close of monastery, houses in repaired, 24. Cloth, price of, 90 ; shearmg of, 97. Clothes, cost of, 170; pro\'ided for prior, 88-90, 177. Clyn, annals, 151. Coffin, cost of, n3. Colbi, John, 206. Colby, Adam, 193. Collatio, 184. Collects used, 149, 204. Colyn, Raymund, 163, 199. V I •iw> B^^^^fei- 222 Index, Commemoration of the dead, 150, 204. Common Bench, justice, 184. Comyn, Elias, 163, 206. ,, Gilbert, 163. ,, John, Archbishop of Dublin, 163. ,, John, of Kinsaley, 163, 189. „ John, canon, 56-7, 59, 63, 73, 81, 95, 106, 163 ; his ac- counts as seneschal, 26-54, 88-105; enquiry as to his conduct, xxviii., 206. ,, Nicholas, 163-4, 206-7. ,, Richard, 8, 122. ,, W., sheriff, 8, 153. ,, family, 82, 163. Convent, xviii. Cook-street, xiv., iii. Cooks, present to, in. Coolock, Co. Dublin, 26, 106. Cooper, wages of, 63. Cordel, 21. Cornel's court, Co. Dublin, 155, 175, 194. Corner, Villa, 194-5. Corueyser, Richard, 103. Cosyn, Milo, 198. Cottagers, xxiv. ; rents and services, 189, 191-5. Coulok, 26, 106. Counsel or pleaders' fees, 103 ; difficulty of consulting, ro8. Court Christian, 178. Courts of manors, 24, 55, 93, 174. Cowherd, 85. Craddok, John, 96. Crannoc, contents, 49-52, 212. Crispe, John, 198. Crobok, John, 191-2. Crosseby, 103. Crowhans, 194. Crown;claims possessionMuring vacancy of prior, xvi., 156.7. Cusak, John, 103. Customary services of tenants, 58, 78, 172, I74> I76,"r89, 208. Dalkey, Co. Dublin, 176, 195. Darcy, sir John, 182. ,, sir Roger, iro-ni, 182. Dassheburne, Thomas, 38-9. )> W. See Assheburne. David, Philip son of, 195-6. Dawenoy, Mariot, 20. Debts of the house, 24, 123-4. Decer, Rob., 46. Deen, Rich, de, 94, 99. Dendredeby, sir John, 107, 114, 116- 17, 182. Dengen, 68-9. Derby, Rich, de, 122. Stephen, 53, 173, prior, xvii. Dermodstown, Dermotstown, Co. Dub- lin, 25, 163, 199. Desewell, John, 17, 21, 162. Desmond, earl of, 148. Dishes bought, 62. Dolphyn, John, xvi., 42, 98, 100, no, n5, 182 ; sub prior, 107. Donnybrook, Co. Dublin, 189. Doorkeeper, John the, 19. Drayton, Wm. de, 94. Dress, account of, xi., xii., 88-9, 177. Drogheda, xx., 2, 43, 93, 109. Dromsalan, Adam, 197. Drumcondra, Co. Dublin, 164. Drumorcher, 145. Drumshallon, Co. Louth, xx., 2, 43, 145. 171. Dryver, Maurice, 19 r. Rob., 34, 167, 193. Dublin, 10, 16, 20, 76, 97, no, 152, 167, 180, 192, 200, 209-10; house on wall, 148. mayor, 148, 152, 155, 160, 165. bailiff, 144, 155-6, 162, 165. citizens, 144, 146-7, 155.6, 165. „ abbey of S. Mary, 152, 184. „ abbey of S. Thomas, 170. „ Bridge-street, 148. „ bridge, image of B. V. M. on, 151- „ castle, clerk of works, 154. ,, haven, 157. „ house of preaching friars, 181. ,, Nicholas street, 149. ,, priory of All Saints, 164, 170. ,, S. John's church, 200. )t S. Mary's abbey, 145. „ S. Michael's church, 200. I, S. Michan's church, 151, 192, 200. „ S. Patrick's church. See S. Patrick's. it Index, 223 Dublin, S. Sepulchre's, 152. „ university, 164. „ archbishop. See Archbishop. „ official of archdeacon, 154. „ deanery, 200. „ vicar of S. Kevin, 154. „ county, sheriff, 153. yy „ escheator, 176. ), M custos pacis, 176. „ „ levies, 152-3. ,, mountains, 152. Ducks, price of, 122. Duleek, Co. Meath, 42. Dundalk, Co. Louth, 145. Dunmoe, Co. Meath, no. Earthenware, price of, 10, 41 ; clay for, 55, 174. Easter, robes for, 88, 90 ; present for archbishop, 96; offerings, 96; pro- visions for, 100. Edward, Osbert, 198. „ Philip, 198. Eliot, Richard, 4. Ely, John, bishop of, 152. Emly, archdeacon, 159. Endredeby, John de, 182. England, service in rewarded, 148 ; Dublin man seeking advancement in, 152 ; treasurer of, 152. Ercedekne, John, 197. Escheator, 16, 17, 95, no-n, 151, 156, 159, 1^0, 164, 169, 171,178-9. „ sub, 18, 94. Esenden, Nich. de, 20, 104, 161. Eva, the widow, 192, 196. Evesham, John de, 17, 88, n3, 158. Exchequer, 154, 160, 162, 165. chief baron, 164. barons, 148, 164, 169. treasurer, 164. chamberlain, 164. summonister, 178. >> )» >> )» >> Fadd, Walter, 197. Fallow lands, treatment of, 30, 166. Fallynges, Wm., no-n. Farm buildings, 36-8 ; home farm at Grangegomian, xxi., xxii., 162, Farm servants' wages, xxiii., 34-5, 37, 60, 64, 68 ; allowances, xxiii., xxiv., 50-2, 84-5 : har- vestmen, 64-7 ; hoers and mowers, 77; stackers, 67-8. ,, utensils, 63. ,, See Husbandry. Fasting, Walter de Istelep, released from, 170. Fay tour, John, 19. Ferings, Rich, de, archbishop of Dub- lin, 169. Femecost, Femecosten, Co. Dublin, 69, 194. Ferns, bishop of, 147. Ferour, Wm., 193. Figs, price of, 5. Finglas, Co. Dublin, 117, 184. Firewood, 64. Fisherman, Edward the, 21. Fitz Richard, Simon, 154. Fitz Simon, John, 159. Fitz Walter, Theobald, 154. Flemyng, Elyas, 199. Folyngham, Godfrey, 95. Food of prior, xiii.-xv., 1-16, 113-18; of convent, xviii., xix. ; of reapers, 64-8, 70-2 ; manor farm-house table, 70-7 ; farm servants, xxiv., 83-5. Fowl, price of, 7-9. Fox, John, 191. Frankan, Cecilia, 197. „ Wm., 79. French, petition in, 160; verses, 125. Furs, cost of, 88-9. Fyncham, Geoffrey de, 22. Fynche, Geoffrey, 191. „ Sinon, 192. Gailispire, castle of, xxvii. Gairdner, Mr. James, 186-7. Gascoyne, Stephen de, 45, 171. Gate, John de, 184. Gernoun, John, 45, 172. Gibbe, Adam, 197. ,, John, 35. Giffard, Tho., 92, 96, 179. Gilbert, Mr., works quoted, xxv., 144, 148. Gilkeuyn, 198. * 224 Index. Index. 225 Glasnevin, Co. Dublin, 6, lo, 13, 15, 16, 5o» 57, 97-8, 100, 122, 201 ; husbandry account, 23 ; court, 189; rents, 26, 47 ; tenants, 189-92 ; tithes, 27, 120, 201. „ bailiff of manor, 20, 45-6, 50, 81, 105-6, 123. Glass windows, 98. Glencree, Co. Wicklow, 175. Glendalough, archdeacon, 42, 104, 171. Glenwhery, 61, 175. Gloucester, Rob. de, prior, xvii., 156. Glover, Richard, 124. Gloves used, 162 ; as presents, 5 ; price of, 5, 89-90. Goioun, Roger, prior, xvii., 144, 148, 156, 159, 161, 202; debts of, 21. Goldsmith, 90. Goodrj'ch, Wm., 118. Goose, price of, 1 14-15, 122. Gorman, 16, 18, 28, 82, 113, 120- 1, 162; husbandry accounts, 22-3, 49, 50, 105, 121 ; court, 189 ; grange, 201 ; messuage at, 107 ; prior at, 117-18, 162 ; rents, 26, 47, 164, 192 ; stock, 122 ; tenants, 192 ; wages of servants, 121. ,, bailiff of manor, 52, 81, 123, 166. Grange, in parish of Balscaddan, Co. Dublin, 200. Grangegorman, xxi., 162, 192-3 ; vil- lage, xxiv. Grauntsete, Grancest, Alice, 203-6. „ John de, 5, 14, 18, 19, 103, 148-51, 203-6. „ Ralph de, 148. Grete, Nich. le, 192. Guests, xii., xiii. Gybyn, Walter, 103, 123. Hacketsland, Co. Dublin, 153. Haggard account, 49-54, 77-87. Haket, John, 7, 8, 15, 21, 44, 69, 76, 83, 87, 100, 109, 115, 117- 18, 121,152; his sons, 100. See Aket. „ Oliver, 68, 70, 153. ,, Robert, 202, 207. Haket, Thomas, 69, 70, 153. „ William, 8, 15, 69, 70, 115, 153. Halters, price of, 32-3. Hanan, Peter, 34. Hanr', Math, son of, 206. Harald, Simon, 69. ,, Walter, 67-8. Harper, 19. Harvestmen, hire and wages of, 64-8 ; food, 70-2. Ha sard, John, Michael, and Walter, 199. Hastiuell account, 59, 80. Hay, Henry, 33-5, 53. Haymaking, customary, by tenants, 19a. Hebdomadarius, 150. Heir of tenant, recognition of, 163. Hemp cords, traces, &c., 58. Hens, customary payment of, 190-1, 193. Hereford, Thomas Cherleton, bishop of, 157. Hereford, Robert de, prior, xvii., 151, 183. Heriot, 28, 46. Herrings, price of, 74. Hesmachlenyne, 145. Hides, price of, 57. Hobelars, 17, 157 ; wages of, 154. Hoeing by custom, 193. Hogheryn, Philip, 68. Hogs, price of, 56. Holder, Gregory, John, and Wm., 193. ,, Peter the, 194. Holmpatrick, Co. Dublin, 94, ill, 144 ; prior, I, 5, 90, 94. Hony, Robert, 15, 156. Horses, price of, 17, 22-3, 62, 99 ; skin, 98 ; cost of feeding, 93-4 ; bread for, 81, 145 ; price of harness, xii,, 33-4 ; horse shoes, 33, 90. Houghton, Hoghton, Houton, Rob. de, I, 28, 49, 107, C16, 144. House on city wall, 148. Houses (farm), cost and manner of building, xxii., 60-1. Howel, Maurice, i, 143, 195. Peter, 14, 15, 22, 78, 81, 155, 194. Howryn, Elyas and Henry, 198. ,, Isabella, 197. Howth, Book of, 160. Hugh the cook, 100. Hugley, 42. ; Husbandry accounts, 22-4, 43, 49-54, 77-87. Hyncley, Geoffrey, 202. Income of house, xx., xxi. Infirmary, 147. Inistioge, prior, 108. Inquisition as to conduct of a canon, 163-4. Irish, adoption of Norman names by, 146. Irish enemies, war against, 183. Irish of mountains, 165. Irishmen, timber bought from, 57, 60 ; watchmen against, 64. Iron, price of, 29, 31. Isabella, the widow, 198. Istelep, Walter de, 42, 108-9, 152, 169. Janel, Roger, 47. Jeune, Joevene, brother Hugh le, 104, 156, 171, 181 ; prior, xvi. John the carter, 108. Judge disgraced, 148. Jurdan, Rob., 34. Justices itinerant entertained, 5, 19, 152, 159- Justiciary, 158, 164, 179, 182-3 ; going against Ulster, 95, 179; to Naas, 108, 182 ; consulting in prior^s chamber, 112. Justiciary, clerk of, 144. Kakhkek, Margery, 191. Kendal, John, 74, 176, 195. Kendal in England, 176. Kenedy, Ralph, 197— Kenewrek, 21. Kent, earldom of, xxvii., 135, 187. Kent, Roger de, 193. Ketyng, Margaret, 48, 69. ,, Nicholas, 190. Kilbrenin, 161. Kilcullen, Co. Kildare, xxviii., 9, 14, 17. I9» 32, 42, 44, 46, 91-2, 95-6, 109-11, 153, 158, 163, 167, 178-9, 206; proxies of church, 104, 171 ; tithes, 107, 182, 201. Kildare, 15, 91-3, 155-6, 1^5, ^79; manor, 179 ; court of liberty, 178. Kildare, earl, 151, 162, 178-9, 182. ,, seneschal, 151. ,, county, 18; sheriff, 154, 159. „ bishop, 179. ,, chancellor, 179. Kildare, Roger de, 2 1 , Kilgowan, 42, 169. Kilkenny, 148; parliament at, in, 118, 183. Killenaule, xx., 19, 20, no, 115, 160-1, 167 ; tithes, 27, 107. Killester, 26, 164. Killiney, Killeny, Kylleny, 65, 68, 153, 174, 195, 202. Kill of the Grange, 174, 194-5. Killoughter, Kyllothtyr, Co. Dublin, 200. Kilmainham, hospital of S. John of Jerusalem, 170. Kilmore : see Kylmore. King's Bench, chief justice, 154; judge, 148. King's Counsel, 148. King's Court, messenger to, 20, 160. Kingstown, Co. Dublin, 174. Kinsaley, Kynsaly, Co. Dublin, 26, 153, 163, 189. Kitchen, debt of, 46, 124; chamber, 117. Kitchener, xviii., xxi., 20, 21, 124, 161-2. Knyht, Cecilia, 191. Kylheel, Walter, 197. Kylmor, Tho. de, 4, 11, 12, 44, 95, 112-13, 117-18, 147, 163, 206. KjTigeston, Adam, 43, 96, 113. Kyngham, Matilda, 191. Kynsaly : see Kinsaley. Kynton, Kinton, John de, 42, 104, 108-9, 146, 171- Kynturk, Kenturk, 26, 164. Labourers' wages, xxiii., 60, 121. Laetare Jerusalem, 155. Lamb, price of, 7, 8. Lambswool, 56. Land, succession of tenants, 163 ; specimen lease, 207-9. Lang, Tho., 191. Lanthony abbey, xvii. Larks, 117. Latonner, Nich., 123. V -?. li H 226 Index. Laueragh, Maur., 196. Laurence, prior's kinsman, 88-9 ; serv- ing man, 98, 180. Laweles, 107, 182. ,, James, 26. ,, John, 182, 192. Lawles, Roger, 182, 192. Lawyer or pleader, fees to, 44-6, 95- Lecale, Co. Down, xx. Leighlin, bishop of, 18 1. Leinster, 157 : rebels, 158. Lenfant, Walter, 152. Lent (Mid), 155. Leopardstown, Co. Dublin, 194. Levy of fighting men, 176. Ley castle, 182. Lichefield, Simon, 114, LifFey, 148, 154. Lime, price of, 40. Lime burner, 193. Linen thread, 163, 207. Literary taste and employment, xxiv., XXV. Living, cost of, 163. Loan of money, 28; of com, 49. Locks and key, price of, 36, 40, 61. Lof, Tho., 161. Lombe, Alice, 191. ,, Gilbert, 197. „ John, 192. Lomp, Gilbert, 82. Louestok, Adam, 28, 161, 165. „ Hugh, 21, 103, 161. Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin, 68. Louth, county, 171. Ludegate, Simon, prior, xvii., 106, 123-4, 166, 183 ; his iUness and burial, XV,, xvi., 113. Lumbard, Hugh, 8. ,, Nich., 41. Lymberner, Walter, 193. Lyndesey, John de, 196. Lyon, Dr., x. Mablestown, Mabilstown. Mabes- town, Co. Dublin, 26, 45, 189. M'Heth, Michael, 198. M'Hethe, Geoffrey, 200. Mackyngan (Newcastle, Co. Wicklow), 9, 153- Macknebury, David, 195. Malt, made by women, 35, 54, 62, 82, 84, 167; malt kiln, 39, 168; malt account, 85-7. Malvern, monk of, 1 15-16, 184. Manehan, John, 197. Mannyng, Han, 206. Manor court, 24, 55, 162. Mar . . ., John, 82. Marcold, Letitia, 54. Mareschall, John, ^^. ,, Wm., 16, 156. Markets, clerk of, 158. Marriage portion, 165. Marshal, 146; of the archbishop, 3. Martyrology of Christ Church quoted, 151, 182, 184. Marward, Wm., 152. Masonn, Wm., 197. Masses said for benefactor of priory, 149, 202-5. Maynooth, 178, Mayor, Serjeants of, 92 : sec Dublin. Meals, xiii.-xv., 5, 170. Measure, heaped and level, 51, 84, 173. Measures, testing of, 18, 44, 158 ; stan- dard in use, 159. Meath, lordship, seneschal of, 151. Medical treatment of cattle, 29. Men-at-arms, wages of, 154. Meones de, family, 153 : see Moenes. Merchant, Ralph the (Mercatorem), 206. Messengers, xx. Messer, 167. Michel, John, 190. ,, Tho. 192. Mileston, Co. Dublin, 200. Mihs, John, 195. Mill tolls, 83. Missals, 150, 205. Moenes, Gilbert de, 7, 10, 14, 153. ,, John de, 11, 155. „ Robert de, 20, 21, 28, 116, 160. Mongomery, Michael, 8^, 176. Monkstown, Co. Dublin, 184. More, Mariota, 197. Moriey, Professor, notices 'Pride of Life,' xxvii. Morrath, 17. Morteyn, Edward, 151 ; Edmund, 156. Mortilogium, quoted, 146, 150, 178, 205. MMMMililM Index. 227 Morton, Geoftrey de, and Alice, 148. ,, John de, 46. Mowing, cost of, 64, 77. Moyn, Adam, 191. Mud used in thatching, 168 ; mud walls, xxi. Mulchanstown, 194 : see Murphy s- town. Munster, 20, 108, 160. Murphystown, Co. Dubnn,78, 81, 115, 174, 194. Murrain, loss of cattle by, 57. Murray, Dr., 186-7. Musters, 155. Mutton, price of, 73, 96-7. Naas, Co. Kildare, 14, 42, 44, 108, 182. Nachs, John, 124. Nails, price of, 32, 36, 40. Narrator or pleader, 171. Navan, 108. Nchoyhery, 27. New Castle, 19, 76, 79, 152-4: see Mackyngan. New Castle : see Novo Castro. Newhall, 147. Newrk, John, 88. Newtown, 199. Nicholas-street, Dublin, 147. Norreys, John, 154. Notaries, no, 182. Notyngham, John, 69, 70, 121. ,, master Wm. 114, 184. Novices, admission, 205. Novo Castro, John de, i, 144. Novum Registrum of Christ Church quoted, x., 202. Nugent, Geoffrey de, 145. Philip de, 145. Nuncio, 173. Oak used for farm buildings, 36, Oats, price of, 40, 163, 202; seed and produce, 81-2. Oblations, 178. Obrode, Nich., 196. ,, Stephen, 197. Obryn, (O'Byrne), Gerald, 91, 178. O'Byrnes, expedition against, 17, 144, 146, 152-3. 157- Oconoijh manor, 145. O'Dempseys, 152. Ohelyll, Downald, 195. O'Helyn, Dowenild, 55. Oil, consecrated, from Kildare, 15, 92, I55» 165. Oirghialla, 171. 0'Kenan,Nich.,Laur., andSteph. 196. Olay, Robert, 192. Olde, Philip the, 154. Olive oil, price of, 10. Olyn, Carragh, 79, 176. „ Olyng, Stephen, 48, 173, 196. O'More, 182. Othenan, Hen., 196. Othyre, Alice, 192. O'Toole, Fynnock, 20, 157, 160; M'ar cry, 160. Oxen, price of, 22, 35-6, 56, 62. Oxmantown, Oustemantoun, Dublin, 21, 124, 151. Paindkmaine, 179. Palfrey, prior's, 53. Palfrey-keeper or palfreyman, 53, 82. Palm Sunday, 96. Pannton, Wm. de, 102. Papal provision, 147. Parasceve, 155. Parliament, prior attends, 1 1 1, 1 18, 183. Paslow, 146. Passauant, 195. Passavant war cry, 146. Passavant, Wm., 199. Passavaunt, John, 146. Passeleu, John, 2, 5, 18, 23, 115, 146, I59» 199- Passeleu, Milo, 17, 23. „ Robert, Andrew, and Simon, 146. Passemount, Milo, 195. Pasturage of cows, 28. Pastry, price of, 7, 8, 10. Paynot, Wm., 107. Peas crop, treatment of, 168. Pelegrini, Raymond, 173. Pencoyt, 21. Pension from the priory, 170; retired prior, 171 ; retired vicar, 172. Pepper, price of, 100. Peter, master, 202. Petyt, John, 28,96, 113. „ Wm., 45, no, T71. 228 Index. Philip, Sir, 42 : see Walsh. Philipston Nugent, Co. Louth, 145. Pies, price of, 7. Pigs, price of, 122. Pilatehal, Pylattenhale, John de, 9, 16, 154. Piment, 112, 183. Plates, &c., of pewter, 89-90, Plough, making and repair, 28-9, 30, 57, 165; customary service with, 174, 190, 193. Ploughmen, wages, xxiii., 34-5, 167; allowances, xxiii,, xxiv., 84. Ploughshare, price of, 30, 58. Plovers, price of, 6. Poem, 126-42; description, xxiv-xxvii. 185-6; notes on, 186-7. Poer, Robert, 26, 97, 164, 180. Pollaughs, 174. Pope's Nuncio, 173. Pork, price of, 97. Pottery, 55, 174, Poynteston, 16, 157. Prayers used in church, 149, 204. Preachers, friars, 10, 18. Presentation, right contested, 178. Preston, Roger de, 94, 116, 184. Prices, See different articles. • Pride of Life,' moral play, xxv., xxvi., 126. Prior, dress, xi., xii., 88-90, 121 ; guests, xii,,xiii.; at Clonken, 73-6, 79, 86 ; goes to assizes at Kildare, 92; attends Parliament, in, 118; money left with, in absence of seneschal, 20; sued for debt, 21 ; suit by, .110; illness and burial, XV., xvi., 113; prior elect, 1 13-14; installation, 53, 115 ; oath in chap- ter, 150, 205 ; possessions seized on vacancy, xvi., 156; deprivation, 161 ; presents from, 79, 91, 95, 98-9, 100, 109, III. Prior's chamber described, x, xi, ; pro- visions for, 1-16, 99-101, 104-5, 1 13- 1 18 ; expenses of, 48-9 ; furni- ture, xi,, 97, 99 ; key, 97 ; washing of linen, 99, Prior's household, xi., xii. ; chamber- lain, 92 ; cook, 99 ; esquires, 4, 88, 91-2, 145 ; clerks, 91, 99 ; kinsmen, 88-9, 92. Prior, sub, 95-6, 107. Priory bell tower, xvii. ; close, 24 ; gate, 98; private chambers, 172; valua- tion of possessions, 200-1 ; income, XX., XXI. Processions in Dublin, order of, 177. Prohibition, writ of, 178. Psalter of Christ Church, xxv. Pulesdon, John de, 49. ,, Roger de, 78, 92. Pulle, Walter de la, 156. Punchard, John, 69, 70, 78-9, 80-1, i75» 197- Punchestown, 157. Purveyors, bribe to, 92. Pynsons, 113, 183. Pypard, Tho., 117. QuERCY in France, 173. Quinquagesima Sunday, 150. Rabbits from Holmpatrick, in. Raggeley, Alice, 85, 87, 102. Raggley, Laurence, 45. Ram, Stephen, 206. Randon, Co. Roscommon, 146. Rath, Co. Dublin, 198. Rath, Ralph del, 198. Rathmines, Co. Dublin, 153. Rathtooll, Rathozell, Rathothul, Co. Wicklow, 106, 18 1, 209-10, Ratoath, Rathouze, Rathtouthe, Co, Meath, 108, 182. Reapers, food and wages of, 64-8. Reaping, customary', by tenants, 190-1. Rede, Rich, le, 124. ,, Wm. le, 199. Redenesse, John de, 109, 182. Rees, Master John, 146, 157. Refectory, xviii., xix.; bread for, xix., 1 18-19; ^'e for, xix., 3, 8, 119; wine, xix., 6, 15, 101-2, 119. Regesta Pontificum, 173. Relics, 180. Rent, per acre, 198-9; of larger farmers, 172; gale days, 189, 198; allow- ances for certain causes, 47-8. Rental of lands, xxviii., 189-200. Reryth, Nich,, 199. Richard the palfreykeeper, 122. Index. 229 Richard, Robert, 190. Ring, jewelled, presented to the cross, 150, 205. Rochestown, Co. Dublin, 69. Rodypakke, Hugh, 197. Rolegh, 18. ,, Maurice, 159. Roman Court, arrival from, 19. Roscommon, 146. Rosel, Rob., 199. Rous, John, 42, 99, 108, 117, 121-2, 171. „ Wm. le, 35. Rowe, John, 190. Russel, John, 206. Sacrist, or Sacristan, 147. Sacristy, 5, 14, Ii3-I4> H?- Saddles, cost of, 34. Saham, Ralph de, 180. Saint Denis, 177. S. Dunstan, 177. S. John's Church, Dublin, 200. S. Mary's abbey, Dublin, 145. S. Maur, 123. S. Michael's Church, Dublin, 200. S. Michan's Church, Dublin, 200 ; chapel of the Holy Trinity in, 151 ; cemetery, 192. S. Neot, Robert de, 73, 109, m ; kitchener, 21 ; cellarer, 78, 86-7, 98, 122. S. Patrick's, Dublin, dean, 114; dean and chapter, 145 ; precentor, 184 ; canons, 147, 158 ; processions of, S. Patrick's Island, 144. S. Sepulchre, seneschal of manor, 152. S. Wolstan's, Co. Kildare, prior of, 11, ii7» 154- S. Wulstans, John de, 9. Salman, Alice, 192. ,, Mariota, 191. Salt, price of, 62, 74. Saltu, Hugh de, 3, 12, 91, 146, I57- Same, Ralph, 102, 180. Sandford, Fulk de, 184. Sanitary; latrine opening into river, 148. Saryn, Simon, 199. Saucers, 178. Savage, John, 98. Scala Coeli, priory de, 154. Schipman, Juliana, 89. Scotland, expedition against, 17, I44> 158, 162. Seneschal, expenses, 18, 23, 120, 180; goes to Munster, 20; travelling expenses, 93, 95 ; necessaries, lOi, 121 ; duties of, 143, i59 ; ^^^ servingman, 122. See Beuley; Comyn. Serjant, John, 192. Serv^ants' wages, 35. Services in church, weekly ordering of, 150, 204. Shaftesbury, Sampson de, 154. Sheman, Clement, 96-7. Sheriff at Clonken, 76, 83. See Comyn. ,, his clerk, 8, 109. Sherman, Kenewrik, 103, 161, 181. Shoes, complimentary present, 12 1-2. Shrine, 98. Silver and jewels of W. de Istelep, 1 70. Simmonscourt, Co. Dublin, 189. Skreen, Co. Meath, 108. „ baron of, 152. Skerries, Co. Dubhn, 144. Slieveardagh, Co. Tipperary, 160. Slymage, Tho., I97- Smith, wages of, xxiii,, 30-1, 58. Smith, Hugh the, 190. ,, Mariota, sister of the, 197. „ Patrick the, 197. „ Tho. the, 196. ,, Miss Toulmin, 186. Smoth, Tho., 189. Smothscourt, 189. Spades, 169; price of, 41. Spennyngs, 34-5, 47- Spurs, price of, 34. Stabannan, Co. Louth, 95, 109. Stacking the harvest, 39. Stafford, Robert, I97- Stanton, Adam de, 160. Stapenhull, Wm., 103. Stephen, brother, cellarer, 50. Stephen, little, 70, I75; son of the bailiff, 122. Stephen, Robert, son of, 194- Sterre, Wm., kitchener, 21, 46, 102, 109, 117, 124, 162, 172. Stillorgan, Stalorgan, Co. DubHn, 152, 194. 230 Index. \^ I Stirrup iron, price of, 97. Stobyldekne, 199. Stockton, Tho. de, 10-12. Stone (precious), believed to be effica- cious for cure of the sick, 150- 1, 206. Straw chairs, 97, 180. Subsidy, 17; granted by parliament, '57-8 ; granted by clergy to Archbp. Armagh, 104. Super modo et causa, writ, 179. Supersedeas, no, 171, 179, Sutton, Hugh de, 45, 115, 171 ; prior, xvi. Suyterby, Nich. de, 116, 184. Swinfield, bishop, household expenses, xni., XXI. Swords, Swerde, Co. Dublin, xx., 3, 109, 146 ; constable of castle, 152; prebend, 169; deanery, 201. Table, price of, 90; articles for, xi., 41, 62-3, 89, Tailor, remuneration of, S8. Tailor, Wm. the, 91. Tallaght, 112, 152, 183. Tallon, Henry, 164, 207. Taloun, Henry, 42. ,, Rich., 61. Taney, deanery, 201. Tanner, Robert, 12. Taunton, Gregory, 13, 14, 15, 70, 74, 106, 155, 175, 194. ,, Nich., 78, 80, 82. „ Philip, 69, 71. ,, Robert de, 69. Taylor, Stephen the, 21. Taylour, Andrew, 123. „ John, 123, 184. ,f Richard, 109. Temporahties claimed by escheator, 94-5> 156. Tenure of land ; fine for entry, 24. Thatcher, wages of, xxiii., 37-9, 60 ; thatching, 168. Thegg, Peter, 197. Thenewell, Rob. de, 99. Tholsel court, 90, 178; Serjeants of, 92. Thresher, Joseph the, 194. Tipperstown, Co. Dublin, 47, 172, 194. Tithes, 174; collection of, 68. Tobersool, Typyrsoule, Co. Dublin, 200. Tobertown, Co. Dublin, 198. Topp, Wm. 202. Town of the church, and town of the grange, Clonken, 195-6. Tranche, 201. TraveUing expenses, 93, 95, 109; manner of, xix., xx. Treasurer of Ireland, 17, ro8, 157, 164, 169. Treasurer of priory, office joined with seneschal, 106. Trim, 16, 156, 170. Trumpeters, 159. TuUy, Tyllagh, Co. Dublin, 59, 68, 195, 201. Turf, 55. Tynemouth, 165. TyreU, Hugh, 183. Uestham, or Vestham,Wm.,47, 190. UfTord, Ralph de, 179. Ulster, 95, 179. ,, Earl, 148; countess, 179. Uriel, 42, 171. Verjuice, 180. Vertator, Ivor, 191, Vestham, Wm. : see Uestham. Visitors of the church, 205. Waffrer, 19; waferer, 159-60. Wages, xxiii. : see carpenter, &c. V/alsh, Welsshe, Philip, 106, 169, 181, 209. Walter, brother of the prior, 14. Walter the goldsmith, 90. Walter the skinner, 89. Washerwoman, 99. Watch, Serjeants of, 92. Water, Salamon by the, 190. Watte, John and Richard, 34. Wattle- work, 38, 211, Watur, Tho., 47. ,, Sir Wm., 107, 109, in. Wax, price of, 164, 207. Weaver, Johanna the, 196. Well, cost of requisites for, 40. Wellus, Alexander, 107. Welsh soldiers, 157. Welsshe, John, 5. Index. 231 Wheat, price of, 56, 118, 202; seed and produce, 78; exported, 176. Wheels, price of, 58-9. Wheler, John, 19, White, Henry, 19, 159. Hugh le, 196. John the, 196. Matilda la, 199. Whyte, Whyt, le Wyte, John, 47, 172. Whyte, Robert, 196. Tho., 45. Wm. le, 189. Wicklow boards, 36, 167. Wicliff, John de, 162. Windows, iron bars for, 98. Wine bought, 45, 171 ; price, 56, 109, 112, 114, 144; cost for a day in prior's chamber, 3 ; allowed in refectory, xix., 6, 15, 101-2, 119. >> »> >> >> )> Winetavem- street, xv. Winnowing, cost of, 64. Wite, Wm. le, 206. Wode, John le, 33. Wogan, Sir John, 151, ,, Tho., escheator, 5, 15 1-2, 156. Woman work, xxiii., 37-9, 68. Wood of Clonken, 64. Wool, price of, 56, 163 ; woolfells, 57 ; woollen wheels, 32, 59. Worcestershire, 184. Writs sued, 93-4 ; difficulty of pro- curing, 108; execution, in. Wyhtbon, Henry, 121. Wyhte, John the, 194. Wyte, Walter and Letitia le, 172. Ymna the washerwoman, 39. THE END. Printed by Ponsonby & Weldrick, Dublin. \ .S' { m COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ^^. -^ 3 % /^ fo^lin. Cathedral ohurcl^ th Holy Trinity Qoount roll CX.^-^ >-, -. > t .■^ c.\\.'\i\'-s: ?=^^ il scX^S«^^^;.>vt :..;««■ ^^