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JACOBI   GRACE,   KILKENNIENSIS, 


ANNALES  HIBERNI^E. 


EDITED,  WITH  A  TRANSLATION  AND  NOTES, 

BY    THE 

REV.    RICHARD    BUTLER,   M.R.I.A. 


DUBLIN: 
FOR  THE  IRISH  ARCHAEOLOGICAL  SOCIETY. 

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His  GRACE  THE  DUKE  OF  LEINSTER. 

Council : 
Elected  May,  1841. 

THE  EARL  OF  LEITRIM. 

THE  VISCOUNT  ADARE,  M.  P. 

LORD  FITZGERALD  AND  VESCI. 

LORD  GEORGE  HILL. 

REV.  JAMES  H.  TODD,  D.  D.,   Secretary. 

REV.  RICHARD  BUTLER,  A.  B. 

JOHN  SMITH  FURLONG,  ESQ.,  Q.  C.,    Treasurer. 

JAMES  MAC  CULLAGH,  ESQ.,  LL.  D. 

AQUILLA  SMITH,  ESQ.,  M.  D. 

JOSEPH  HUBAND  SMITH,  ESQ.,  A.  M. 

GEORGE  PETRIE,  ESQ.,  R.  H.  A. 

EDWARD  CANE,  ESQ. 

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INTRODUCTION. 


following  Annals  are  printed  from  a  MS.  formerly 
belongmg  to  Archbishop  Ussher,  and  now  in  the 
Library  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin  (E.  3,  20).  From 
the  year  1 162  to  the  year  1370  inclusive,  they  agree 
in  substance  with  the  "  Annales  Hibernige"  published 
by  Camden  in  the  Britannia  (Lond.  fol.  1607),  which 
are  generally  ascribed  to  Christopher  Pembridge,  who  lived  in  the 
fourteenth  century ;  but  the  occasional  discrepancy  in  their  contents, 
and  the  constant  difference  in  their  language,  suggest  the  probability, 
that  they  were  both  compiled  from  some  common  original. 

Of  James  Grace,  the  supposed  author  of  these  Annals,  Sir  James 
Ware  has  not  given  any  account  in  his  "  Writers  of  Ireland,"  nor  has 
Archbishop  Nicolson  in  his  "Irish  Historical  Library"  made  mention 
of  him,  although  Dr.  Hanmer,  who  compiled  his  Chronicle  in  1571,  has 
occasionally  quoted  "Grace"  from  the  year  1205  to  the  year  1252. 
The  best  evidence  which  can  now  be  given  for  attributing  these  Annals 
to  Grace  is  derived  from  the  title  prefixed  to  them,  which,  although 
in  a  hand  more  modern  than  the  MS.  itself,  appears  to  have  had  the 
sanction  of  Archbishop  Ussher,  in  whose  autograph  the  name  of 
"  James  Grace"  is  written  over  the  title. 

Of  Grace  himself  we  know  only  that  he  was  a  native  of  Kilkenny, 
and  it  is  probable  that  he  compiled  these  Annals  between  the  years 

'537 


VL 


1537  and  1539. — (See  note  q,  p.  162).  In  the  Memoirs  of  the  Grace 
Family,  he  is  said  to  have  belonged  to  the  Priory  of  St.  John,  in  Kil- 
kenny, and  to  have  been  Prior  elect  when  he  fell  a  victim  to  the 
plague. — Note,  p.  4.  From  a  rude  pen  and  ink  sketch  of  a  coat  of 
arms  on  the  last  page  of  the  MS.  it  may  be  presumed  that  he  belonged 
to  the  family  of  Grace  of  Gracefield,  in  the  County  Kilkenny,  a  branch 
of  the  ancient  family  of  the  Graces,  Barons  of  Courtstown,  the  de- 
scendants of  Raymond  le  Gros,  who  came  to  this  country  in  the  reign 
of  Henry  the  Second. 

These  Annals,  which  are  now  first  printed,  were  selected  for  pub- 
lication, for  the  purpose  of  carrying  into  effect  one  of  the  chief  objects 
of  the  Irish  Archaeological  Society,  by  placing  before  its  members 
authentic  copies  of  the  records  of  Irish  history,  and  by  thus  enabling 
future  inquirers  into  the  history  and  antiquities  of  Ireland  to  consult 
with  perfect  freedom  some  sources  of  information  which  have  hitherto 
been  accessible  only  under  the  restraints  necessarily  imposed  on  the 
readers  of  MSS.  in  public  libraries. 

The  text  corresponds  in  every  respect  with  the  MS.  except  that 
the  contractions  have  generally  been  supplied  by  words  at  length. 
Every  sheet  as  it  went  through  the  press  was  carefully  collated  with 
the  original  by  Dr.  Aquilla  Smith  ;  whatever  emendations  have  been 
admitted  into  the  text  are  included  between  brackets,  but  these  are 
few  in  number,  as  it  was  deemed  useless  to  encumber  the  pages  with 
alterations,  most  of  which  are  sufficiently  obvious,  more  especially  as 
the  reading  preferred  by  the  Editor  can  always  be  discovered  from 
the  accompanying  literal  translation  ;  the  deficiencies  of  the  text  are 
indicated  in  the  translation  by  being  printed  in  Italics. 

The  more  important  errors  are  explained  in  the  notes,  in  prepar- 
ing which  the  Editor  has  not  had  the  advantage  of  consulting  any 
unpublished  authorities,  but  it  is  hoped  that  the  references  to  the  do- 
cuments printed  by  Rymer,  and  in  the  Calendar  of  the  Chancery  Rolls 

of 


Vll 


of  Ireland,  as  confirming,  explaining,  or  contradicting  the  statements  of 
the  annalist,  and  occasionally  as  supplying  some  of  his  omissions,  will 
not  be  considered  altogether  useless. 

The  MS.,  which  is  on  paper,  consists  of  thirty-eight  small  folio  pages, 
all,  except  one,  written  in  the  same  hand.  The  regular  Annals  termi- 
nate at  1370,  from  which  date  the  entries  consist  chiefly  of  the  Obits 
of  the  Lacys  and  Burkes  from  13  26  to  1515,  and  although  in  the  same 
hand,  and  written  with  ink  of  the  same  colour  with  the  Annals,  and 
carried  on  on  the  same  page,  they  are  entered  in  a  very  confused  man- 
ner ;  these  are  followed  by  the  Obits  of  the  Butlers  in  chronological 
order,  which  are  succeeded  by  the  Obits  of  the  Geraldines,  in  a  dif- 
ferent hand,  and  paler  ink.  The  last  leaf  of  the  MS.,  which  has  been 
misplaced  in  the  binding,  gives  some  account  of  the  Lord  Leonard 
Gray,  Lord  Deputy  in  1535,  and  has  been  restored  to  its  proper  chro- 
nological place  in  the  printed  text. 

The  reader  is  requested  to  correct  note  q,  p  29,  in  which  the  com- 
piler of  these  Annals  is  accused  of  having  been  mistaken  in  asserting 
that  Hubert  de  Burgh  was  Justiciary  of  Ireland  in  1230.  In  this 
case  the  mistake  was  made  by  the  Editor,  as  it  appears  from  Rot.  Pat. 
1 6  Hen.  III.  in  Tur.  Lond. ;  and  also  from  the  Book  of  Howth,  as 
quoted  by  Hanmer,  that  Hubert  de  Burgh  was  Lord  Justice  of  Ire- 
land in  1230. 

From  many  friends  the  Editor  has  received  much  assistance,  but 
as  this  assistance  cannot  be  specified  in  every  instance,  their  names 
are  omitted,  lest  they  should  be  thought  responsible  for  the  mistakes 
of  the  Editor  ;  he  cannot,  however,  forbear  acknowledging,  that  for 
the  most  important  notices  of  Irish  topography  he  is  indebted  to  the 
kindness  of  Mr.  John  O'Donovan. 

R.  B. 

May  24th,  1842. 


ANNALS 


ANNALS  OF  IRELAND. 


IRISH  ARCH.  SOC.  3.  B  JACOBI 


JACOBI  GRACE  KILKENNIENSIS 

ANNALES   HIBERNI^E. 


f/,  N  fabulis  esta  Ca3sarea-  [  ] 

animadvertentem,  in  Hibemiam  pri-[  ] 

applicuisse,  tribus  solummodo  vir-[  ] 

solam  regionem  (cum  inhabitata  et  [  ] 

divini  illo  ob  hominum  scelera  [  ]. 

Secundo.  In  Hyberniam  appulit  Partholcndusb  quidam, 
ex  Japheti  posteris  unus,  post  diluvium  300  annis,  cum  30  navibus.  Quo  cum 
3.  ejus  filii  una  venere,  quorum  propago  300  [annos]  duravit,  increveratque  in 
10,000  virorum  ad  arma  portanda  aptorum  numerum.  Hie  bellum  cum  Gigan- 
tibus  fuit,  quos  cum  deleverant,  ex  infectione  aeris  (  .  .  .  cadaveribus  corrupto) 
et  ipsi  perierunt,  uno  solummodo  superstite  Ruano  nomine,  quern  mille  post 
annos  vixisse  ferunt,  usque  ad  tempora  Sancti  Patricii,  eidemque  temporum 
suorum  historiam  enarravisse. 

Tertio.    Munethusc,  filius  Sithia3,  e  Grsecia  cum  quatuor  filiis  et  ingenti  classe 

hue 


a  In  fabulis  est. — This  introduction  agrees 
.substantially  with  the  account  of  the  various 
colonies  of  Ireland  which  is  given  by  Giraldus 
Cambrensis,  Topographia  Hiberniae,  Tertia 
Distinctio,  Cap.  i.,  and  is  evidently  taken,  with 
some  variation  in  the  names,  from  the  same 
authority.  The  defective  passages  have  been 
supplied  in  the  translation  from  the  parallel 
places  of  Giraldus. 

h  Partholendus — The  names  of  the  leaders 


of  these  several  colonies  are  given  with  va- 
rious differences  by  Giraldus,  by  the  Four 
Masters,  and  by  Keating.  The  Partholendus 
of  Grace  is  the  Bartholanus  of  Giraldus,  the 
Partholanus  of  the  Four  Masters,  and  of 
Keating,  and  in  many  of  the  other  names 
there  is  a  still  greater  variation. 

c  Munethus Generally  called  Nemethus 

by  the  Latin  writers,  and  Nemedh  by  those 
who  wrote  in  the  vernacular  Irish.  The 


THE  ANNALS  OF  IRELAND. 


BY  JAMES  GRACE,  OF  KILKENNY. 


is  said  in  fabulous  histories,  that  Csesarea,  a  Niece  of 
Noah,  aware  of  the  coming  of  the  Flood,  sailed  for  Ireland 
and  was  the  first  person  who  landed  there ;  she  was  accom- 
panied by  three  men  only,  and  she  hoped  that  this  land 
alone,  seeing  it  was  uninhabited  and  waste,  would  be  saved 
from  the  divine  judgment  which  the  sins  of  men  were  bring- 
ing on  the  rest  of  the  world. 
Secondly.  Three  hundred  years  after  the  flood,  a  certain  Partholendus,  one 
of  the  posterity  of  Japhet,  landed  in  Ireland  with  thirty  ships.  With  him 
came  his  three  sons,  whose  descendants  lasted  for  three  hundred  years,  and  had 
grown  to  the  number  of  ten  thousand  men  fit  for  bearing  arms.  Here  there 
was  war  with  the  Giants,  whom  they  destroyed ;  but  from  the  infection  of  the 
air  (corrupted  by  the  unburied  bodies  of  the  Giants),  they  also  died,  one  alone 
surviving  of  the  name  of  Ruan,  who,  they  say,  lived  to  the  time  of  St.  Patrick, 
a  thousand  years  after,  and  narrated  to  him  the  history  of  his  times. 

Thirdly.    Munethus,  son  of  Sithia,  came  hither  from  Greece  with  his  four 


learned  and  candid  Dr.  C.  O'Conor  gives  the 
colonists  of  Ireland,  and  his  opinion  of  them, 
in  the  following  words  : 

"  Commentitia  quaedam  traduntur  . .  .  de 
Partholano,  nescio  quo,  primam  coloniam  du- 
cente  in  Hiberniam,  et  postea  de  Nemetho 
qui  aliam  deduxit,  circa  tempora,  ut  aiunt 


sons 

Patriarchee  Jacobi.  His  coloniis  tertia  subse- 
quta  est  Firbolgorum,  i.  e.  Belgarum,  qui  ex 
australi  Britannia  Hiberniam pervenere ...  Fir- 
bolgos  excepere  Tuatha-Dee-Danann  populus 
Dedanorum  . . .  qui,  Belgis  in  praelio  Moytura 
devictis,  quartam  in  Hibernia  coloniam,  duce 
quodam  Nuadho,  induxerunt.  Denique  post 


hue  venit,  cujus  poster!  cum  200  annos  regionem  incoluerant,  postremo  maxima 
peste  infestati,  relicta  vacua  Hibernia  in  patriam  remcarunt. 

4°.  5.  duces  Germanid  e  familia  Munethi  (ut  fertur)  filiique  Diolas  hanc 
regionem  occuparunt.  Horum  nomina  fuere  Gandias,  Gennadius,  Sangandius, 
Ruthargus,  et  Slamabus,  qui  universam  regionem  in  quinque  partes6  distri- 
buerunt,  quarum  unaquaque  certas  habitaciones  centenarias  (quas  Canthredas 
vocant)  continet.  Momomia,  videlicet  Mownister,  70  habet:  Ultonia,  id  est, 
Ulster,  35  :  Laginia,  id  est,  Lenister,  3 1 :  Connacia,  id  est,  Connaghth,  30 :  Metha, 
1 8.  Harum  Canthedrarum  unaquaque,  30  oppida  in  se  habet,  quarum  singula 
bourn  300  pascua  habent,  qui  in  4  armenta  divisa  satis  ad  pascendum  loci  habere 
possunt,  unumquodque  etiam  oppidum  octo  aratrorum  solum  habent. 

Numerantur  igitur  Canthredrasf.  183.  [184]  oppida  5520.  Arationes  aulem 
24180  [44160]  Boves,  1656,000. 

His  temporibus  Hibernia  Scotiaeg  nomen  habuit,  et  incolae  Scoti  dicti  sunt, 
lingua  eorum  Gelica,  a  Geledo  quodam. 

Milonis  regis  cujusdam  4  filii,  cum  60  navibus  in  Hyberniam  appulerunt, 
horum  duo  majores  Hiberus  et  Heremon  regionem  universam  in  duas  diviserunt 
partes,  quarum  septentrionem  occupavit  Hiberus,  Hermon  australem.  Ab  hoc 
Hibero  regio,  Scotia  major  antedicta,  Hiberniae  nomen  suscepit.  [  ] 

[  ]  dissidio,  Hiberus  in  [  ] 

[  ]  Heremoni  j union  cessit,  qui  primus 

[  ]-us  est. 

[  ]-ricanush,  post  mortem  divi  Patricii 

60 

tempora  Salomonis,  .  . .  Scoti  ex  Hispania  in  pp.  xxv,  xxvi.     See  also  Proleg.,  pp.  xliii,  xliv. 

Hiberniam    (quinta   Colonia)    pervenisse    in  *   Germani — Perhaps  Germani  should  be 

omnibus    nostris     annalibus     et    fragmentis  translated  Germans.     This  was  the  Belgic  or 

metricis     constant!    traditione    celebrantur.  Firbolg  colony. 

De  quatuor   primis   coloniis    omnia    incerta  e  In  quinque  partes. — The  five  more  ancient 

sunt.      Quantum  per  spissas  tot  sseculorum  divisions  were  Leinster,  Desmond,  Thomond, 

tenebras  discurrere  licet,  Britannicas  fuisse  Connaught,  and  Ulster.     For  these  divisions 

et  prfEsertim  ex  Cornubia  deductas,  et  quid-  see  O' Conor,   Prol.  pp.  Iviii,  lix,  and   Bib. 

quid  certi  de  Damnoniorum,  Belgarum,  Ms-  Stowens;  Vol.  I.  p.  146. 

napiorum,   et  Brigantum  Magnae  Britannise,  f  CanthredrcB. — Dicitur    Cantaredus    com- 

origine  statuatur,  id  Danannis,  Firbolgis,  Me-  posito  ex  vulgari  vocabulo   tarn   Brytannica 

napiis    et    Brigantibus    Hiberniae    commune  quam  Hibernica  lingua,  tanta  terrse  portio, 

fuisse    existimo." — O' Conor,     Prolegomena,  quanta  100  villas  continere  solet.    Top.  Hib. 


sons  and  a  large  fleet.  His  posterity,  after  they  had  dwelt  in  the  country  for 
two  hundred  years,  being  attacked  by  a  great  plague,  left  Ireland  empty,  and 
returned  to  their  own  country. 

Fourthly.  Five  brother  chiefs,  of  the  family  of  Munethus  (as  is  reported),  and 
sons  of  Diola,  occupied  the  country.  Their  names  were  Gandias,  Gennadius, 
Sangandius,  Ruthargus,  and  Slamabus,  and  they  divided  the  whole  country  into 
five  parts,  of  which  each  contains  certain  centenary  habitations,  which  they 
call  cantreds.  Momomia,  to  wit  Munster,  has  70:  Ultonia,  to  wit  Ulster,  35: 
Laginia,  to  wit  Leinster,  3 1 :  Connacia,  to  wit  Connaught,  30 :  Meath  18.  Each 
of  these  cantreds  contains  thirty  towns,  and  every  town  has  pasture  for  three 
hundred  oxen,  which,  if  divided  into  four  herds,  each  of  them  will  have  space 
enough  for  pasture ;  every  town  has  also  ground  for  eight  ploughs. 

There  are  reckoned,  therefore,  cantreds,  184;  towns,  5520;  ploughlands, 
44,160;  cattle,  1,656,000. 

In  those  times  Ireland  had  the  name  of  Scotia,  and  the  inhabitants  were 
called  Scots ;  their  language  was  called  Gelic,  from  a  certain  Geledus. 

Fifthly.  The  four  sons  of  a  certain  King  Milesius,  with  sixty  ships,  came  to 
Ireland ;  of  whom  the  two  eldest,  Hiber  and  Heremon,  divided  the  whole  country 
into  two  parts ;  Hiber  occupied  the  north  and  Heremon  the  south.  From  this 
Hiber,  the  country,  which  was  before  called  Scotia  Major,  received  the  name  of 
Hibernia.  There  ivas  afterwards  discord  between  Hiber  and  Heremon,  and 
Hiber  was  killed  in  battle,  and  the  victory  fell  to  Heremon,  the  younger  bro- 
ther, who  icas  called  the  first  monarch  of  Ireland. 

Sixthly.  An  African  came  to  Ireland  sixty  years  after  the  death  of  St.  Patrick, 

in 

Tertia  Distinct! o,  Cap.  v.  In  the  time  of  Gurmundus  or  Turgesius  was  an  African,  which 
Giraldus,  Ireland  was  computed  to  contain  Giraldus  (Top.  Hib.Tert.Dist.  c.  39)  thought 
176  cantreds,  32  in  each  of  the  five  divisions,  unlikely,  is  easily  traced.  The  Northern  tribes 
and  16  in  Meath.  Grace's  enumeration  of  the  who  infested  Ireland  from  the  eighth  century 
cantreds  of  Ireland  agrees  with  that  given  were  called,  either  from  their  dress  or  from  their 
by  Ware  (Antiq.,  p.  30)  from  the  Book  of  complexion,  Fingals  and  Dubhgals,  that  is  the 
Multifernan.  See  also  Harris's  Ware,  Antiq,,  whiteandthe  black  strangers.  Turgesius  was 
p.  225,  and  O'Conor's  note  to  the  Annals  of  probably  a  Dubhgal,  which  was  translated  into 
Ulster,  p.  370,  and  Bib.  Stowens.  Vol.  I.  p.  92.  Latin  Niger,  and  as  he  was  thus  stated  to  be 

6  Scotia: — Usserii  Primordia,  p.  734  et  se-  a  black,  he  must  have  been,  in  the  opinion  of 
quent.  the  Chronicler,  an  African,  and  thus  to  bad 

hAfricanus — The  origin  of  the  report  that     logic,  the  source  of  many  such  mistakes,  we 


60  annos  [  ]-retici  regis  Anglise,  post  Arthurum 

41.  Hyberniam  su[  ]avit,  exercitus  prefecto  Gergesii1,  et  auxiliaribus  Nor- 
vegis,  diuque  earn  tenuit. 

7°.  "  3  Brytherne3  of  Isterige,  of  the  partes  Almayne,  the  emipe  of  Tetonius 
and  Lumbardy,  that  is  to  say,"  Anlavusk,  Citaragus,  and  Ivorus.  quia  vi  non 
potuerunt,  sub  specie  mercatorum  donis  reges  Hybernise  captantes,  regionum 
[regionem]  invaserunt,  obtentaque  ab  iis  licentia,  urbes  condiderunt.  Anlavus 
Dublinum,  quod  Osmaton  ab  Osmanis,  gente  quadam  Norvegica,  quae  cum 
Anlavo  erat ;  Citeracus  Waterfordiam  condidit ;  Ivorus  Limericum ;  multaque 
alia  castella  et  urbes,  atque  ita  ejectis  Hibernis  regionem  occupaverunt. 

8°.  Henricus  2US  Angliae  rex,  concedente  Papa  Hadriano  4°,  confirmanteque 
Alexandro  3°,  Hyberniam  subegit,  quam  in  hunc  usque  diem  ejus  posteri  tenent. 

Condi tur1  monasterium  benedictae  Marias  juxta  Dublinum. 

1074.  Dunanusm  episcopusDublinensismoritur,humatusin  ecclesia  Trinitatis" 
ad  dextram  altaris.  Lanfrancus0  archiepiscopus  Cantuariensis,  petente  Goderico 
rege,  consentiente  Dubliniensi  clero,  Patricium  sacravitp  antistitem,  accepto  prius 
obedientiae  juramento,  modo  antecessorum  suorum  sibi  successoribusque  suis 
adhibende,  eumque  in  patriam  remisit  cum  literis  ad  Godericumq  regulum,  et 

Terdiluacumr  maximum  Hyberniaa  regem. 

1084. 

are  indebted  for  the  introduction  of  an  Afri-  Powell,  in  the  Hist,  of  Wales,  p.  1,  agrees 

can  into  this  period  of  our  Irish  History.  with  Grace   in   calling   him   Careticus,   and 

'  Gergesii, — Gergesius,Turgesius,Thorgils,  makes  him  fifth  in  succession  to  Arthur. 
Turkil,  and  Torquil,  are  all  forms  of  the  same         J  3  Brytherne — The  introduction  of  these 

name.    Top.  Hib.  Tert.  Dist.  Cap.  38.  John-  English  words  is  not  easily  accounted  for. 
stone's  Antiq.  Celt.  Norm.  Was  Gergesius  the          k  Anlavus — Mr.  J.  Lindsay  has  kindly  in- 

Girg  Mac  Dungal,  who  in  the  ninth  century  formed  me,  that  the  names  of  these  Danish 

subdued  all  Ireland  and  nearly  all  England,  princes  are  thus  spelt  on  their  coins  :  Sihtric — 

who  is  mentioned  in  the  list  of  Kings  given  so  spelt  on  the  best  minted  coins  of  Sihtric  III. 

in  the  Regist.  Prioratus  S.  Andreae,  printed  in  Ivor  is  spelt  variously  on  the  Hib.  Danish 

Antiq.  Celt.  Norm., p.  147  ?    Giraldus,  to  re-  coins;  Ifars  and  Imrs  occur  on  the  well  mint- 

concile  the  British  and  Irish  Histories,  thinks  ed  coins.     Anlaf  is  spelt  Olaf,    Onlaf,  and 

that  Turgesius  was  Gurmund's  seneschal  in  Onlof,  on  Hiberno-Danish,  and  Anglo-Saxon 

Ireland,  and  thus,  as  Campion  observes  (Ho-  coins,  andsometimes  Oluf  on  Norwegian  coins, 

linshed,  p.  88),  involves  himself  in  considera-  Anlaf  still  survives  in  Ollave  and  M'Auley, 

ble  chronological  difficulties.     The  name  of  Ivors  in  Eivers  and  M'lvor,  and  Sihtric  may 

the  British  king  whom  Gurmund  subdued  is  perhaps  be  concealed  in  M'ltterick. 
Kereditius  in  Top.  Hib.  Tert.  Dist.  c.  39,  but         '  Conditur — Founded,  according  to  Arch- 


in  the  time  of  Careticus,  the  fourth  (?)  king  of  England  after  Arthur,  and  the 
army  of  Gergesius  conquered  Ireland  with  the  help  of  the  Norwegians,  and  kept 
it_for  a  long  time. 

Seventhly.  "  Three  brytherne  of  Isterige,  of  the  parts  Almayne,  the  empire 
of  Tetonius  and  Lumbardy,  that  is  to  say,"  Anlaf,  Sihtric,  and  Ifars,  when  they 
could  not  succeed  by  force,  gaining  the  good  will  of  the  kings  of  Ireland  with 
gifts,  under  the  appearance  of  merchants,  assailed  the  country,  and  having  ob- 
tained permission  from  the  kings,  built  cities  therein.  Anlaf  built  Dublin, 
which  is  called  Ostmanton,  from  the  Ostmans,  a  certain  Norwegian  people,  which 
came  with  Anlaf;  Sihtric  founded  Waterford ;  Ifars  Limerick,  and  many  other 
castles  and  cities,  and  having  thus  expelled  the  Irish,  they  occupied  the  country. 
Eighthly,  Henry  II.,  King  of  England,  by  a  grant  from  Pope  Adrian  IV., 
which  was  confirmed  by  Alexander  III.,  subdued  Ireland,  and  to  this  day  it  is 
held  by  his  descendants. 

The  Monastery  of  the  Blessed  Mary,  near  Dublin,  is  founded. 
1074. — Dunan,  Bishop  of  Dublin,  dies,  he  was  buried  in  the  Church  of  the 
Trinity,  at  the  right  hand  of  the  altar.  Lanfranc,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury, 
at  the  request  of  King  Goderic,  with  the  consent  of  "the  clergy  of  Dublin, 
consecrated  Patrick,  Bishop,  having  first,  like  his  predecessors,  received  the 
oath  of  obedience  to  be  paid  to  him  and  his  successors ;  and  sent-  him  to  his 
country  with  letters  to  Prince  Goderic  and  to  Turlogh,  the  chief  king  of  Ireland. 

1040. 

dall,  about  the  year  948.  Mon.  Hib.  p.  132.  et  sequent.  The  professions  of  canonical 
In  the  street  called  "  Mary's  Abbey"  are  the  obedience  to  the  See  of  Canterbury  made  by 
remains  of  this  ancient  monastery.  Bishops  Patrick,  Donat,  and  Samuel,  are 

ra  Dunanus — Called  Donat  by  Ware —  printed  Sylloge,  pp.  118,  119.  The  conse- 
Harris's  Ware,  p.  306.  Mr.  Petrie  informs  cration  of  Patrick  in  1074,  by  Lanfranc,  is 
me  that  his  body  was  found  in  the  situation  mentioned  in  the  Saxon  Chronicle,  under  the 
described,  on  the  repairing  of  the  choir  a  few  year  1070. 

years  since,  with  his  mitre,  which  was  an  ex-  P  Sacravit.  —  In  Ecclesia  S.  Pauli  Lon- 
quisite  work  of  art.  doniae. — Annales  Dubliniens  :  quoted  by  Us- 

n  Ecclesia  Trinitatis — Now  the  Cathedral     sher,  Sylloge,  p.  136. 
of  Christ  Church,  Dublin.  q  Godericum. — Godfrey  or  Godred  Cronan, 

0  Lanfrancus — The  letters  of  the  clergy     in  1068,  "  Godred  subdued  Dublin,  with  a 
and  people  of  Dublin  to  Lanfranc,  and  Lan-     considerable  portion  of  Leinster." — Chroni- 
franc's  letters  to  Gothric  and  Turlogh,  are     con  Mannise  in  Antiq.  Celt.  Norman.,  p.  8. 
given  in  Ussher's  Sylloge  vet.  Ep.  Hib.,  p.  68,          r  Terdiluacum. — Turlogh  O'Brien. 


1084-  Patricius  Dubliniensis  episcopus,  cum  sociis  suis  in  Britanico  Oceano 
6°  idus  Octobris  fuit  submersus. 

1085.  Lanfrancus  Donatum8  monacum  monasterii  sui,  petente  Terdiluaco 
pari,  ut  antedictum  est,  modo,  in  episcopum  Dublinensem  sacravit. 

1095.  Moritur  Donatus.  Norwegii  sive  Ostmanni,  qui  et  Normani  vocati 
sunt,  civitates  Hiberniae  et  loca  maritima  occuparunt. 

1 122.  Samuel*  4tus  episcopus  moritur. 

1131.  Walterus  filius  Ricardi  Normanus,  qui  cum  Gulielmo  conquestore  venit 
in  Angliam,  Tinternam,  Walliae  monasterium,  condidit. 

1138.  Obiit  idem  Gualterus  sine  prole.  Gilbertus  autem  Strangbo we  filius 
sororis  ejus  successit  ei,  ut  heres,  apud  Stranguliam,  id  est,  Chepstowe  in  Wallia, 
qui  factus  fuit  primus  comes  Penbrochiae. 

1 148.  Obiit  Gilbertus  Strangbowe,  14  anno  regni  Stephani,  sepultus  est 
apud  Tinternam,  ei  successit  filius  Ricardus,  factusque  est  comes  Penbrochiae, 
dominus  Strangulensis,  et  socius  North wenciaeu,  quae  honorifice  tenuit  22  annos. 
Johannes  Papiron  Cardinalis  ab  Eugenio  papa  missus,  cum  Christianov  episcopo 
Lesmoriensi  totius  Hiberniae  legato,  in  Hyberniam  venit. 

1152.  Christianus  idem  in  Mellw  consilium  celebravit,  cui  interfuerunt  epis- 
copi,  Abbates,  reges,  duces,  etmajoresnatu  veteres  Hybernias,  quorum  consensu, 
4.  Archiepiscopatus  constituti  sunt,  Armachanus,  Dublinensis,  Cassellensis,  et 
Tuanensis  quibus  praefuerunt  eo  tempore,  Gelasius,  Gregorius,  Donatus,  et 
Eolanusx,  Johannes  Cardinalis  benedicens  clero  Romam  re  versus  est. 

1162. 

'Donatum. — In  his  16th year Lanfranc  con-.  Annales  Dubliniens.,  quoted  by  Ussher,  Syl- 

secrated  Donatus,  his  monk  at  Canterbury,  to  loge,  p.  145. 

the  Bishopric  of  Dublin  by  the  desire  of  the  l  Samuel. — He  was  an  Irishman,  nephew  to 

King,  clergy,  and  people  of  Dublin. — Saxon  his  predecessor,  Bishop  Donat,  and  had  been 

Chron.,  1070.  a  monk  of  St.  Alban's  ;  he  was  consecrated  at 

He  is  called  Donat  or  Dongus  O'Haingly  Winchester  by  Archbishop  Anselm — Eadmer 

by  Ware Bishops,  p.  309.  Hist.  Nov.  lib.  2,  quoted  in  Sylloge,  p.  145. 

Turlogh's    letter  to    Lanfranc,  given  by  u  Northwencice — Perhaps  North Venedociae, 

Harris  (loc.  cit.),  and  taken,  as  he  says,  from  North  Wales.     Strongbow  was  probably  the 

the  Annals  of  Ulster,  is  not  to  be  found  in  the  greatest  lord  in  South  Wales. 

Marquis   of  Buckingham's  edition  of  those  v  Christiana — Christian  O'Conarchy  was 

Annals,  edited  by  Dr.  O' Conor.     Donat  was  sent  by  Malachy  to  Clairvaux  that  he  might  be 

consecrated  in  the  Cathedral  of  Canterbury,  instructed  in  the  Cistercian  rule  by  St.  Ber- 


1084- — Patrick,  Bishop  of  Dublin,  and  his  companions  were  drowned  in  the 
British  ocean,  Oct.  10. 

1085. — Lanfranc,  at  the  request  of  Turlogh,  consecrated  Donat,  a  monk  of 
his  monastery,  Bishop  of  Dublin,  in  the  same  manner  as  is  before  mentioned. 

1095. — Donat  dies.  The  Norwegians  or  Ostmen,  who  are  also  called  Nor- 
mans, occupied  the  cities  and  sea  coasts  of  Ireland. 

1 1 22. — Samuel,  the  fourth  Bishop,  dies. 

1131 . — Walter  the  Norman,  son  of  Richard,  who  came  with  William  the 
Conqueror  into  England,  founded  the  Abbey  of  Tintern  in  Wales. 

1138. — The  aforesaid  Walter  died  without  issue;  but  Gilbert  Strangbowe, 
his  sister's  son,  succeeded  as  his  heir  at  Strangul,  that  is,  Chepstowe  in  Wales, 
and  was  made  the  first  Earl  of  Pembroke. 

1148. — Gilbert  Strangbowe  died  in  the  I4th  year  of  the  reign  of  Stephen. 
He  was  buried  at  Tintern,  his  son  Richard  succeeded  him,  and  was  made  Earl 
of  Pembroke,  Lord  of  Strangul,  and  of  all  North  Wales,  (?)  which  he  held 
honourably  for  twenty-two  years.  Cardinal  John  Papiron,  sent  by  Pope 
Eugene,  with  Christian  Bishop  of  Lismore,  Legate  of  all  Ireland,  came  into 
Ireland. 

1 152. — The  same  Christian  held  a  council  in  Mell,  at  which  were  present 
bishops,  abbots,  kings,  chiefs,  and  the  older  rectors  of  Ireland :  with  their  con- 
sent four  archbishoprics  were  established,  Armagh,  Dublin,  Cashel,  and  Tuam, 
which  were  at  that  time  governed  by  Gelasius,  Gregory,  Donat,  and  Aedan. 
Cardinal  John  giving  his  benediction  to  the  clergy  returned  to  Rome. 

1162. 

nard  and  might  propagate  the  order  in  Ire-  place  this  Synod  at  Kells.     Ussher  places  it  at 

land,  amongst  a  nation,  "  quse  ab  diebus  anti-  Mell,  i.  e.  Mellifont  (Sylloge,  p.  150).    Ware  is 

quis  monachi  nomen  quidem  audiverunt,  mo-  doubtful  (Ware's  Bishops,  p.  58).     The  Four 

nachum  non  viderunt,"  (Bern.  vit.  Malachise).  Masters  say  that  it  was  held  at  Drogheda.  The 

He  was  the  first  abbot  of  Mellifont,  the  oldest  names  of  the  bishops  who  attended  this  Synod 

Cistercian  house  in  Ireland.  Pope  Eugene  1 1 1.  are  printed  by  Dr.  O'Conor  from  a  MS.  of 

was  also  a  pupil  of  St.  Bernard  at  Clairvaux,  Flannan  M'Eogan  in  the  British  Museum — 

(Usserii  Sylloge,  p.   149).      The  Four  Mas-  Prolegomena,  p.  clix. 

ters,  Ussher  and  O'Conor,  place  Papiron 's  ar-  x  Eolanus — For  Edanus.     The  names  of 

rival  in  1151.  the  four  bishops  who  received  the  palls  were 

w  Mell —  The    Annals   of    Cluainednach  Gelasius,  Gregorius,  Donatus,  and  Aedanus. 

quoted  by  Keating,  p.  276,  and  by  O'Conor,  In  the  list  of  Flannan   M'Eogan   they  are 

IRISH  ARCH.  SOC.  3.  C 


IO 

1162.  Grcgorius,  primus  archiepiscopus  Dublinensis,  moritur,  cui  successe- 
runt  Laurentius,  Johannes  Comin,  Henricus,  Lucasy. 

1163.  Rothcricus    O  Conchur,    princeps    Connaciae,    monarclia  Hiberniae 
creatur. 

1165.  Comes  Ri.  Strangbow31  a  suis  per  insidias  vulneratus  interiit,  5° 
anno  post  Laginiam  acquisierat,  et  2 1  regni  Henrici  2*.  sepultus  apud  Kilkeniam. 
Hie  ex  Eva  uxore  unicam  filiam  Isabellam  genuerat,  qua?  in  matrimonium  a 
rege  data  est  cuidam  Gulielmo  Marshall,  Anglian  mariscallo,  qui  inde  fuit  dictus 
Strangulia?  et  Laginiae  comesque  Penbrochiaj. 

1162.  Grcgorius3,  primus  archiepiscopus  Dublinensis,  vir  plus,  moritur,  huic 
successit  Laurentius  Othothell,  qui  fuit  Abbas  S.  Kevini  de  Glindelaah.     Quo 
tempore  S.  Thomas  fuit  archiepiscopus  Cantuariensis. 

1163.  Rothericus    O  Conehur,    princeps    Connaciae,    monarcha  Hyberniae 
factus. 

1167.  Obiit  Matildab  imperatrix.  Amaricius  rex  Hiero-solimitanus  cepit 
Babiloniam.  Dermitiusc  filius  Murchardi,  princeps  Laginiorum,  Oririco  rege 
Midiae  e  patria  longe  profecto,  uxorem  ejus  volentem,  et  ad  id  eum  provocantem 
rapuit. 

1168. 


called  Giolla  Mac  Liach  Primas  Hiberniae, 
Domnaldus  O'Lonargain  Archieps  Momo- 
niensium,  Aed  O'Ossin  Archieps  Connagh- 
tensium,  i.  e.  Tuaim,  Greri  (Gregorius)  Eps. 
Athacliath  [Dublin]  et  Lageniensiura. 

y  Lucas As  the  list  of  Gregory's  succes- 
sors in  the  See  of  Dublin  ends  with  Lucas,  it  is 
probable  that  the  original  was  composed  in  his 
time.  Luke  succeeded  Henry  de  Loundres 
as  Archbishop  of  Dublin  in  1228,  and  died 
1255 — Ware's  Bishops,  p.  320. 

1  Comes  Ri.  Strangbow These  Annals 

from  the  building  of  the  Monastery  of  B.  M.  V. 
to  this  date,  inclusive,  are  inserted  in  the  MS. 
between  those  of  the  years  1210  and  1211, 
and  the  present  entry  shews  the  ignorance  and 
perhaps  the  partialities  of  the  insertor.  It 


confuses  the  death  of  Richard  Earl  Strong- 
bow,  who  died  in  Dublin  and  was  buried  in 
Christ  Church,  with  the  death  of  his  grand- 
son, Richard  Earl  Marshall,  who  was  killed 
in  1234,  and  was  buried  in  Kilkenny.  The 
entry  was  probably  made  by  Grace,  who  was 
a  Kilkenny  man,  and  who  wished  to  give  Kil- 
kenny the  honour  of  having  the  tomb  of  Earl 
Strongbow.  It  will  be  observed  that  there 
are  two  entries  for  1162  and  1163. 

3  Gregorius — The  succeeding  Annals  from 
1162  to  the  year  1370  inclusive,  agree  in  sub- 
stance with  the  Annales  Hibernian  published 
by  Camden  in  the  Britannia,  Ed.  1607,  and 
ascribed  to  Pembridge,  and  appear,  as  re- 
gards their  contents,  to  be  chiefly  abridged 
from  them,  but  the  occasional  difference  of 


II 

1 1 62. — Gregory,  first  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  dies;  after  him  came  Laurence, 
John  Comin,  Henry,  Luke. 

1 1 63 . — Roderick  O'Conor,  Prince  of  Connaught,  is  created  Monarch  of 
Ireland. 

1165. — Earl  Ri.  Strongbow  died  of  wounds,  which  he  received  trea- 
cherously from  his  own  men,  five  years  after  he  had  acquired  Leinster,  and 
in  the  2ist  [i2th?]  year  of  the  reign  of  Henry  the  II.;  he  was  buried  at  Kil- 
kenny. By  his  wife  Eva  he  had  an  only  daughter,  Isabella,  who  was  given 
in  marriage  by  the  King  to  a  certain  William  Marshall,  Marshal  of  Eng- 
land, who  from  that  time  was  styled  Earl  of  Strangul  and  Leinster  and 
Pembroke. 

1162. — Gregory,  first  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  a  pious  man,  dies.  He  was 
succeeded  by  Laurence  O'Toole,  who  was  Abbot  of  St.  Kevin  of  Glendalagh. 
At  this  time  St.  Thomas  was  Archbishop  of  Canterbury. 

1163. — Roderick  O'Conor,  Prince  of  Connaught,  is  made  Monarch  of 
Ireland. 

1 167. — The  Empress  Maud  died.  Almaric,  King  of  Jerusalem,  took  Babylon. 
Dermot  M'Morough,  Prince  of  Leinster,  when  O'Rourke,  King  of  Meath,  was 
far  from  his  country,  ravished  his  wife  with  her  own  consent,  and  at  her  own 
solicitation. 

1168. 

their  contents,  and  the  constant  difference  in  agree  also  frequently  with  the  accounts  given 

their  language,  render  this  supposition  un-  in  the  Anglo-Norman  poem  on  the  Conquest 

likely,  and  suggest  the  probability  that  they  of  Ireland,  erroneously  ascribed  to  Maurice 

were  both  translated  from  some  common  Regan.  From  Giraldus  de  Reb.  de  se  gestis, 

original,  composed  in  some  other  language,  pars  11,  cap.  xx,  printed  in  Anglia  Sacra,  it 

In  the  following  notes  the  Annals  printed  by  appears  that  it  was  common  at  that  time  to 

Camden  are  referred  to  under  the  name  of  translate  a  prose  work  into  verse,  and  from 

Pembridge.  the  Proem  2»  Editionis  Hib.  Expug.  it  also 

b  Matilda — Empress  of  Germany,  daughter  appears  that  he  desired  and  expected  that 

of  Henry  I.  and  mother  of  Henry  II.,  King  that  work  should  be  turned  into  French, 

of  England.  For  a  beautiful  edition  of  the  Conquest  of 

0  Dermitius. — Many  of  these  notices  are  in  Ireland  we  are  indebted  to  Francisque  Michel, 

the  words  of  Giraldus  Cambrensis  in  his  Hi-  Dr.  O'Conor  (Prolegomena,  p.  cxlvi)  says, 

bernia  Expugnata — "  prout  habetur  in  Cam-  "  Totum  Regani  opus  supposititium  esse,  alibi 

brensi,"  says  Pembridge  at  this  year.  They  indicabo."  Seealso  Bib.  Stowens,vol.  i.p.  209. 


12 


1 1 68.  Donatus  rex  Urigaliae,  [  ]-lifontensed  condiderat, 
obiit.     Robertas  S-[                                ]  mili[ti]buse  in  Hyberniam  venit. 

1169.  Ricardusf  Strangulensis  comes  [         ]-mundum  juvenem  quendam  e 
familia  sua  cum  10.  militibus  circa  calendas  Maii  in  Hyberniam  prsemisit,  ipse 
autem  cum   1200.  militibus  in  vigilia  Sancti  Bartholomei  subsequebatur.    Hie 
Ricardus  filius  fuit  Gilbert!   Comitis  Strongulensis,   id    est,    Chepstowe,  olim 
Strogull,  et  Isabelle  matertere  Malcolmi  regis,  et  Gulielmi  regis  Scotiag,  et  Speig 
David  comitis,  postridie  autem  festi  urbem  caepit,  ibique  Dermitii  filiarn  in  uxo- 

rem 


''  Mellifontense. — Mellifont,  in  the  county  of 
Louth.  Almost  all  the  abbeys  whose  founda- 
tion is  mentioned  in  these  Annals  belonged  to 
the  Cistercians,  which  seems  to  indicate  that 
the  Annals  were  originally  compiled  in  a  Cis- 
tercian house,  probably  St.  Mary's,  Dublin. 
Thirteen  Cistercian  Abbots  were  Lords  of 
Parliament.  Mellifont  was  the  first  and  chief 
abbey  in  Ireland,  and  the  Abbot  had  prece- 
dence in  Parliament  before  all  Abbots  of  all 
orders.  In  the  Statutes  of  the  Cisfercians, 
printed  by  Martene,  in  the  fourth  volume  of 
the  Thesaurus  Anecdotorum  there  are  seve- 
ral notices  of  this  and  the  other  Irish  houses 
of  the  order,  which  have  not  been  quoted  by 
Archdall.  Although  it  may  make  a  long 
note  we  may  mention  some  of  them.  At  a 
general  Chapter  held  in  1190,  the  Abbots  of 
Ireland  had  license  to  absent  themselves  from 
the  Chapter  for  three  years,  and  to  attend  the 
fourth,  and  the  Abbot  of  Mellifont  was  com- 
missioned so  to  arrange  their  turns  that  some 
of  them  might  attend  every  year.  Notwith- 
standing the  influence  of  this  constant  inter- 
course with  foreign  churchmen  and  foreign 
countries,  the  monks  here  speedily  degene- 
rated, for  in  1221  the  correction  of  Mellifont 
was  committed  by  the  Chapter  to  the  Abbot 
of  Clairvaux,  who  was  empowered  to  substi- 
tute in  that  house  religious  persons  by  whom 


the  order  in  those  parts  might  be  reformed. 
In  1275  the  Abbot  of  Mellifont  petitioned  the 
Chapter  that  there  might  be  a  commemora- 
tion of  St.  Malachy,  St.  Patrick,  and  St. 
Brigid,  in  Horis  S.  Marise,  in  all  houses  de- 
scended from  Mellifont.  With  regard  to  the 
national  distinctions  so  unhappily  introduced 
into  Irish  religious  houses,  and  noticed  by 
Cox,  who  states,  from  a  record  in  the  Tower 
of  London,  of  1321,  that  no  person  was  ad- 
mitted into  the  Abbey  of  Mellifont  unless  he 
made  oath  that  he  was  not  of  English  descent, 
(Hib.  Anglicana,  p.  100) ;  the  Chapter  in  1323 
expresses  its  detestation  of  such  damnable  di- 
vision, introduced  by  the  enemy  of  the  human 
race,  and  warns  all  Abbots,  and  especially 
those  of  Ireland,  of  whom  grievous  complaints 
had  been  made,  that  they  should  remove  such 
walls  of  separation,  and  indifferently  admit  all 
fit  persons  of  all  nations.  In  1324  Edward  II. 
complained  to  the  Pope  that  the  Irish  refused 
to  admit  Englishmen  into  their  monasteries. 
(Rymer,vol.ii.p.554).  And  in  1337  Edw.  1 1 1. 
says  that  his  father  (probably  finding  that 
neither  the  Chapter  nor  the  Pope  had  suc- 
ceeded in  removing  the  prejudice  against  the 
English  from  the  Irish  monks)  had  ordered 
that  no  Irishman  should  be  admitted  into  any 
English  monastery,  but  had  afterwards  re- 
voked the  order,  and  he  now  orders  that  all 


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1 168. — Donat,  King  of  Uriel,  who  had  founded  the  Abbey  of  Me/lifont,  died. 
Robert  Fitzstephen  with  thirty  knights  came  into  Ireland. 

1 169. — Richard  Earl  of  Strangul,  about  the  first  of  May  sent  Reymond,  one 
of  his  followers  into  Ireland  with  ten  knights ;  he  followed  him  in  person  the  eve 
of  St.  Bartholomew  (Aug.  23),  with  twelve  hundred  soldiers.  This  Richard  was 
son  of  Gilbert  Earl  of  Strangul,  that  is,  Chepstowe  formerly  Strogul,  and  Isa- 
bella, aunt  of  Malcolm  and  William,  kings  of  Scotland,  and  of  Earl  David  of  good 
hope ;  the  day  after  the  feast  of  St.  Bartholomew  (Aug.  25)  he  took  the  city, 

and 


loyal  Irish  be  admitted  in  the  same  way  as  Eng- 
lishmen.— (Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  964).  To  com- 
plete this  subject  we  may  add,  that  in  the 
famous  Parliament  held  at  Kilkenny  in  1366, 
the  exclusion  of  Irishmen  from  English  mo- 
nasteries in  Ireland  was  again  enacted,  and 
that  in  1380  the  following  writ  was  sent 
to  the  Abbot  of  St.  Mary's,  Dublin,  of  St. 
Thomas  the  Martyr  near  Dublin,  of  Melli- 
font,  of  Balkynglasse  [Baltinglass],  Dun- 
brothy,  Dyuelek  [Duleek],  Bekedy  [Bec- 
tive],  Dowysk,  de  Albo  Tractu  [Tracton], 
Magio  [Nenay],  Tinterne,  de  Saballo  [Saul], 
de  Ynes  [Iniscourcey],  Bangore,  Inde  (?)  and 
Jeriponte,  and  to  the  Priors  of  the  Holy  Tri- 
nity, Dublin,  of  St.  Patrick  of  Down,  of  Conall, 
of  All  Saints,  Dublin,  and  of  Louth,  "  That, 
whereas  in  a  Parliament  of  Edward  III.,  held 
at  Kilkenny  on  the  Thursday  after  Ash-  Wed- 
nesday, in  the  40th  year  of  his  reign,  a  Statute 
was  made  which  was  confirmed  in  the  last  Par- 
liament held  in  Dublin,  that  no  Irishman  nor 
any  enemy  of  the  King  should  be  admitted 
into  any  religious  house  amongst  the  English 
within  the  land  of  Ireland,  but  that  those  of 
the  English  nation  should  be  admitted."  The 
King  orders  the  aforesaid  Statute  to  be  ob- 
served in  all  particulars.  Nov.  24. — Rot. 
Glaus.  4,  R.  II.  116. 

£  Militibus — The  printed   Giraldus  (Ed. 
Francofurti,  1603,  Hib.  Exp.  c.  3)  reads  "130 


militibus,"  an  incredible  number,  if  we  trans- 
late milites  by  the  word  knights ;  the  miles  was 
probably  only  the  heavy  armed  soldier.  Eques 
is  the  word  used  for  knight  in  the  entry  for 
1172.  The  Conquest  of  Ireland  says,  9  or 
10  knights,  the  whole  number  being  about  300. 

Le  fiz  Estevene  Robert  premer  ; 

Desque  en  Yrlande  volt  passer 

Pur  Dermot  li  reis  eider. 

Chevalers  vaillans  de  grant  pris 

Od  sei  menad  ix.  u  dis. 

Le  un  iert  Meiler,  le  fiz  Henriz, 

Que  tant  esteit  poetifs ; 

E  Milis  i  vint  autresi 

Le  fiz  1'evesque  de  Sein-Davi. 

Chevalers  vindrent  e  baruns 

Duntjonesaidesacezlurnuns — 1.442,&c. 
Having  named  Morice  de  Prendregast  and 
Hervi  de  Mumoreci,  it  goes  on: 

Bien  i  passerent.  iii.  cens 

Chevalers  e  autre  menu  gens. 
f  Ricardus — Reymond's    arrival    is   again 
mentioned,  1171.     Pembridge  gives  it  under 
this  year. 

B  Spei — Why  David  Earl  of  Huntingdon 
should  be  called  "  Spei,"  or  as  in  Pembridge, 
"bonae  spei  comes,"  is  not  very  plain:  was 
this  notice  written  in  his  life-time  ?  He  died 
1219.  For  some  years  he  was  heir  presump- 
tive to  the  crown  of  Scotland.  See  a  notice 
of  his  romantic  adventures,  from  which  per- 


remduxit.  Murcardus  [Murcardi?]  filiusLaginia3principis  [princeps?]abHenrico 
auxilium  petiit,  cui  fidei  sacramentumh  et  vinculum  servitutis  prasstitit  Dermitius. 

1170.  Mauricius  Geraldinus,  uterinus  frater  Stepbanidis,  cum  decem  equi- 
tibus, sagittariis  triginta,  circaque  100.  peditibus,  in  Hyberniam  applicuit  cum 
duabus  navibus  ad  Weisfordiam. 

1171.  Ricardus  comes  praamisit  in  Hyberniam  Remundum  circa  calendas 
Maias,  cum  equitibus  10.  Sagittariis  70.  is  ipse  in  vigilia  Bartholomei  subsequeba- 
tur,  ut  predictum  cst ;  Weisfordiam  vi  capit ;  Evam  Dermicii  filiam  in  uxorem 
ducit ;  recta  Dublinum*  contendit,  urbemque  expugnat.     Dermitius  Murcardi 
Fernesia?  senex  moritur.  Monasterium  Castri  Deij  conditur.  Thomas  Cantuarien- 
sis  morte  mulctatur. 

Annus  millenus,  centenus,  septuagenus, 
Primus,  erat  primas  quo  ruit  ense  Thomask. 

1172.  Henricus1  rex  cum  500.  equitibus  ad  Waterfordiam  applicuit,  totam 
Midiam  Hugoni  de  Laci  donavit ;  alii  aiunt  hoc  tempore  mortuum  Murchardum. 

1 1 74.  Gaslacius,  Archiepiscopus  Armachanus  primus,  Hybernias  primas,  mori- 
tur senex.  Hie  primus  pallio  usus  est,  alii  enim  ante  eum  solo  nomine  episcopi 
et  primatis  vocabantur,  in  honorem  S[  ],  tanquam  ejus  apostoli ;  quibus 

obediverunt™  non  modo  [  ]  homines,  verumetiam  ipsi  principes. 

Huic  success-[  n]. 

1176. 

day  of  St.  Remigius,  October  1. — Conquest 
of  Ireland,  1.  1500,  &c. 

j  Castri  Dei.  —  Fermoy,  in  the  county  of 
Cork.  In  1230  the  following  order  was  given 
by  the  General  Chapter  of  the  Cistercians. 
Prsecipitur  universis  abbatibus  Anglise,  Scotise 
Wallise  et  Hiberniea  ut  in  reditu  Capituli,  sin- 
guli  in  domibus  suis  accensis  candelis,  diebus, 
quibus  fit  sermo  in  Capitulo,  Excommunica- 
tos  denuncient  illos,  qui  Abbatem  de  Castro 
Dei  et  monachum  de  Surio  occiderunt,  et 
omnes  qui  morti  illorum  prsestando  consilium 
vel  auxilium  consenserunt,  Occisores  etiam  si 
qui  de  Or  dine  fuerint,  si  capi  potuerint,  capien- 
tur;  et  in  ordine  perpetuo  carceri  mancipen- 

tur Cap.  Gen.  Ord.  Cisterc.  Martene  Thes. 

vol.  iv.  c.  1352. 


haps  this   appellation  originated,  in  Hailes' 
Annals,  1190. 

h  Sacramentum. — Dermod  says  to  Henry: 

A  vus  me  venc  clamer,  bel  sire, 
Veans  les  baruns  de  tun  empire. 
Ti  liges  home  devendrai 
Tut  jors  me  que  viverai, 
Par  si  que  mai  seez  aidant, 
Que  ne  sei  de  tut  perdant : 
Tei  clamerai  sire  e  seignur, 
Veant  baruns  e  cuntur. — 1.  284,  &c. 

'  Dablinum — Strongbow  landed  near  Wa- 
terford  in  1170,  on  the  Eve  of  St.  Bartholo- 
mew, August  23rd.  On  the  25th  he  took 
Waterford.  On  St.  Matthew's  day,  Septem- 
ber 21,  he  took  Dublin,  which  he  left  on  the 


and  there  married  Dermot's  daughter.  Dermot  M'Morough,  Prince  of  Leinster, 
sought  aid  from  Henry,  and  yielded  him  the  oath  of  fidelity  and  the  bond  of 
servitude. 

1 1 70. — Maurice  the  Geraldine,  uterine  brother  of  Fitz  Stephen,  with  ten 
knights,  thirty  archers,  and  about  one  hundred  foot  soldiers,  came  with  two 
ships  to  Ireland  and  landed  at  Wexford. 

1171 . — Earl  Richard  sent  Reymond  before  him  into  Ireland  about  the  first  of 
May  with  ten  knights  and  seventy  archers ;  he  himself  followed  on  the  eve  of 
St.  Bartholomew  (Aug.  23),  as  is  before  mentioned;  he  takes  Wexford  by  storm, 
marries  Eva,  Dermot's  daughter,  goes  straight  to  Dublin,  and  takes  the  city. 
Dermod  M'Morough  dies  an  old  man  at  Ferns.  The  Abbey  Castri  Dei  is 
founded.  Thomas  of  Canterbury  is  put  to  death. 

"  The  year  a  thousand,  seven  hundred,  and  seventy-one,  was  the  year  in 
which  Primate  Thomas  fell  by  the  sword." 

1172. — King  Henry  with  five  hundred  knights  landed  at  Waterford,  he 
gave  all  Meath  to  Hugh  de  Laci ;  some  say  that  Morough  died  at  this  time. 

1 1 74. — Gelasius,  first  Archbishop  of  Armagh,  Primate  of  Ireland,  dies  in  old 
age.  He  first  used  the  Pall,  for  those  before  him  were  called  by  name  of  Bishop 
only,  and  Primate,  in  honour  of  St.  Patrick,  as  it  were  his  apostles,  and  they 
were  obeyed  not  only  by  churchmen,  but  also  by  princes  themselves.  He  was 
succeeded  by  Cornelius. 

1176. 
k  Thomas — Thomas-a-Becket.  Meath   by  the  service  of  50  knights  :   Sicut 

1    Henricus According     to      Giraldus,      Murcardus    Hu-Melachlin   earn   tenuit,    vel 

Henry  II.  landed  at  Waterford  on  the  Feast     aliquis  alius  ante  ilium  vel  postea. 

of  St.  Luke  (18th  October),  1171,  Hib.  Ex-          m  Quibus  obediverunt — These   words  are 

pug.  I.  p.  30.     The  Conquest  of  Ireland  says      from  St.  Bernard's  Life  of  Malachy,  c.  10. 

that  he  brought  with  him  "  Quatre  cent  che-          n   Cornelius Gelasius  was  succeeded  by 

valers  armez,"  and  that  Cornelius,  or  Concobar,  Mac  Conchailleadh, 

A  Waterford  li  gentil  reis.  Abbot  of  the  Convent  of  St"  Peter  and  St" 

Ariva  od  quatre  mil  Engleis  Pau1'  at  A™agh.     But  the  Annals  of  St. 

A  la  Tusseinz  (all  saints)  veraiment,  Mary'S  Abbe?' Dublm' and  those  at  the  end  of 

Si  la  geste  ne  nus  ment ;  Camden,  take  no  notice  of  him,  and  make  Gil- 

Devant  la  feste  sein  Martyn._l.  2595.         bert  °'Caran  *he  next  successor>  whi<*  was 

probably  occasioned  by  the  shortness  of  the 

The  charter  of  Hugh  de  Lacy  is  printed  in  time  Cornelius  sat,  and  his  absence  at  Rome, 
the  Calendar  Rotulorum  Cancellaria?  Hiber-  where  he  died  in  1175. — Harris'  Ware's 
niae  Rot.  Pat.  2  Hen.  V.  137.  He  was  to  hold  Bishops,  p.  61  ;  Lanigan,  vol.  iv.  p.  220. 


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1176.  Bertram  de  Verdon  condidit  monasterium  de  [  °]. 

1177.  Obiit  R-[  ]-isep>  sepultus  que  est  in  ecclesia 
Trinitatis.     Venit  inJHyb-[  ]   apostolicus,  Vivianus% 
Cardinalis  S  Stephani  [                              ]  ab  Alexandro  missus. 

1178.  Conditur  Monasterium  Samarise1  et  Roseoe-vallis,  id  est,  Ros-glass. 

1179.  Trucidantur  Milo   Coganus',   et   Ricardus  filius    Stephanidis,    inter 
Waterfordiam  et  Lismeran.     Herveus  de  Monte  Marisco  condidit  monasterium 
S  Mariae  de  portuu,  id  est,  Dunbrethy. 

1 1 80.  Conditur  monasterium  Chorobenedictiv  et  de  Seripontw. 
Laurentius  episcopus  Dublinensis   moritur   in   Normaniax,  huic   successit 

Johannes  Comin  Anglus,  apud  Evesham  electus  a  clero  Dublinensi  et  confirmatur 
papa.     Hie  condidit  templum  S  Patricii  Dubl. 

1183.  Ordo  templariorum  confirmatur.     Conditur  monasterium  legis  Dei, 
id  est,  Lesiaey. 

1185. 


0  De  [Crohisderi] — Croxden,  a  Cistercian 
monastery  in  Staffordshire. 

p  Ricardus  comes  Strangulice. — Matt.  Paris 
inserts  the  death  of  Richard  Earl  of  Strigoil 
at  1176.  Pembridge  places  it  about  the  1st 
May,  1177-  Girald.  Cambren.  about  the  1st 
June. 

q  Vivianus — Cardinalis  Tituli  S.  Stephani 
de  Coelio  Monte.  On  Christmas  Day  he  was 
in  the  Isle  of  Man  with  the  King  Guthred, 
after  Epiphany  he  landed  at  Downpatrick, 
and  on  his  way  to  Dublin  was  taken  prisoner 
by  the  soldiers  of  John  de  Courcy,  by  whom 
he  was  set  at  liberty — R.  de  Hoveden  and 
Chron.  Mannise  in  Anno. 

T  Samariee — i.  e.  of  the  River  Samair, 
now  the  Erne,  called  de  Samerio.  Cap.  Gen. 
Ord.  Cist.  A.  D.  1239 — (Mart,  et  Durand. 
Thes.  Nov.  t.  iv.  col.  1371).  Ware  calls  it  de 
Samario,  and  says  that  it  was  founded  by 
Roderick  O'Cananan,  Prince  of  Tirconnell. 
The  Annals  of  Boyle  place  its  foundation  at 
1183.  It  was  afterwards  called  Ashro  or 


Easrua,  and  is  situated  near  Ballyshannon 

Ware's  Antiq.,  Harris's  Ed.,  p.  275. 

6  Rosglas — Or  Monaster-Evin  in  Kildare, 
founded  by  Dermit  O'Dimesey,  King  of  Offa- 

ley,  with  the  consent  of  Muredach  O  Conor 

(  Archdall,  p.  333.)  In  1 199  the  Abbot  de  Ros- 
eavalle  was,  at  his  own  request,  allowed  by 
the  General  Chapter  to  celebrate  in  his  house 

the  Feast  of  St.  ^Emilius (Cap.  Gen.  Ord. 

Cister.  Mart,  et  Durand.  Thes.  Nov.  torn.  iv. 
col.  1293).  Is  not  ^Emilius  a  misprint  in 
Martene  for  Eminius,  the  Irish  saint  to 
whom  the  abbey  was  dedicated,  and  from 
whom  it  derived  its  present  name  ? 

'  Milo  Coganus — Milid  Gogan  (Milo  Co- 
gan)  agus  Remund  agus  Cendculind  (?)  agus 
da  Me  Stemni  (duo  filii  Stephani)  occisi  sunt 
(Annales  Buelliani,  A.D.  1182).  Pembridge 
says,  "  inter  Waterfordiam  et  Lismore,  &c. 
ut  in  Cambrensi. " 

u  De  Portu — Dunbrody,  in  the  Co.  of  Wex- 
ford.  In  the  Rot.  Pat.  4  Hen.  IV.  3a  pars.  142, 
is  a  confirmation  of  a  charter  of  Edward  III. 


1 176.  Bertram  de  Verdon  founded  the  Abbey  of  Crokisden. 

1177.  Death  of  Richard  Earl  of  Strigul,  he  was  buried  in  the  Church  of 
the  Trinity.     Vivian,  Cardinal  S.  Stephani  [  ]  came  into 
Ireland,  being  sent  as  Apostolic  Legate  by  Alexander. 

1 178.  The  Monastery  of  Samaria  is  founded,  and  that  of  Rosea  Vallis,  that 
is  Rosglas. 

1 179.  Milo  Cogan  and  Ralph  son  of  Fitz- Stephen  are  slain  between  Water- 
ford  and  Lismore ;   Hervey  de  Monte  Marisco  founded  the  Abbey  of  St.  Mary 
de  Portu,  that  is  Dunbrothy. 

1 1 80.  The  Abbey  de  Choro  Benedicti  is  founded,  and  that  of  Jerpoint. 
1182?  Laurence,  Bishop  of  Dublin,  dies  in  Normandy,  he  was  succeeded 

by  John  Comin,  an  Englishman,  elected  by  the  clergy  of  Dublin  at  Evesham, 
and  confirmed  by  the  Pope.     He  built  the  Church  of  St.  Patrick,  Dublin. 

1183.  The  Order  of  the  Templars  is  confirmed.     The  Abbey  Legis  Dei, 
that  is  of  Leix,  is  founded. 

1185. 


confirming  the  charter  of  Walter  Marshall, 
Earl  of  Pembroke,  granting  to  this  abbey 
certain  lands  therein  described,  which  had  pre- 
viously been  granted  by  Earl  Richard  and 
Hervey  de  Monte  Morency.  In  1234  the 
Abbot  de  Surio  (Inislounagh,  Tipperary)  was 
sentenced  by  the  General  Chapter  to  be  ex- 
communicated and  deposed,  if  he  was  proved, 
as  alleged,  to  have  commenced  a  legal  action 
against  the  abbot  of  this  house — Cap.  Gen. 
Ord.  Cister.  apud  Martene  Thes.  torn.  iv. 
col.  1359. 

v  Chorobenedlcti.  —  Middleton,  Co.  Cork. 
In  11 95  the  Abbot  de  Choro  Benedicti  was  or- 
dered by  the  General  Chapter  to  denounce  to 
the  Abbot  de  Dulenine  (Dublin?)  the  punish- 
ment imposed  upon  him  by  the  Chapter  for  ab- 
senting himself  from  the  Chapter  on  pretence 
of  illness,  when  he  was  well  able  to  ride — 
(Martene,  torn.  iv.  col.  1284).  In  1278  the 
Abbot  de  Choro  Benedicti  was  deposed  for 

IRISH  ARCH.  SOC.  3.  D 


absenting  himself  for  eight  years — Ibid.  col. 
1463. 

w  Seripont.  —  Jerpoint,  Co.  Kilkenny,  a 
daughter  of  the  Abbey  de  Valle  Salutis  (Bal- 
tinglass)  subjected  in  1227  to  the  Abbey  cle 
Fontanis  in  Anglia,  (Fountain's  Abbey)  "  ob 
ordinis  reformationem. "  In  1274,  the  Arch- 
bishop of  Cashel  (David  Mac  Carwill)  peti- 
tioned the  General  Chapter  that  the  anniver- 
sary of  his  father  and  mother  should  be  kept 
in  domibus  Jeripontis  et  de  Rupe  Casellensi, 
which  were  founded  by  himself  and  his  pro- 
genitors.— Martene,  torn.  iv.  col.  1446. 

x  In  Normannia.  —  In  Ecclesia  S.  Marise 
Augensis  xviii.  Calend.  Decembris  (Nov. 
14 "') — Pembridge,  from  Hib.  Exp.  lib.  2, 
cap.  23. 

y  Lesia.  —  Abbeyleix,  Queen's  County, 
founded  by  Corcheger  O'More,  and  filled  with 

Cistercian  monks  from  Baltinglass Archd. 

Mon.  Hib.  p.  586. 


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1185.  Johannes7,  Henrici  filius,  Hybernia  a  patre  donatus,  Glocestriae  ad 
equitis  aurati  honorem  provectus,  magno  cum  exercitu  Hyberniam  navigavit, 
natus  22  [12?]  annos,  anno  post  adventum  patris,  13°;  Ricardi  comitis,  14°; 
patrisa  Henrici  15°;  8°  menses  in  Hybernia  comoratus,  in  Angliam  revertitur. 

1 1 86.  Hugo  Lacius  Derwatheb  per  insidias  ab  Hiberno  qiiodam  occisus  est, 
cum,  in  condcndo  quodam  castro,  eum  doceret  quo  pacto  operare  oporteret,  cum 
enim  arrepto  instrumento  terram  percutiente  inclinaret,  Hibernus  securi  caput 
ei  amputavit.  Rcliquit  duos  filios  Gualterum  et  Hugonem,  nee  ulteriusc  processit 
Hybernise  subjugatio.     Moritur   Christianusd   episcopus    Lismorensis,    legatus 
quondam  Hibernise. 

1 187.  Conditur  monasterium  de  Inese  in  Ultonia. 

1 1 89.  Moritur  Henricus  rex.  Conditur  monasterium  de  Colle  Victoria/,  id 
est  Cnocmoy. 

[       ]  Dublinia  arsit. 

[  ]  Conditur  monasterium  de  Jugo  Dei,g  Whit  Abbey,  Hibernice  Mo- 
nesterlech. 

1195.  Archi episcopus  Cassellensis11  Hybernise  legatus,  et  Johannes  archie- 
piscopus  Dublinia;,  corpus  Hugonis  Lacii  (qui  Midiam  domucrat)  ex  Hybernica 

plaga 

of  Hugh  de  Lacy,  "  quod  ibi  cessavit  conques- 
tus."  Did  this,  and  the  many  like  changes  of 
phrase,  arise  from  the  affectation  of  our  An- 
nalist, or  did  both  the  Annalists  translate  from 
the  same  original  ? 

d  Christianus. — Pembridge  says  more  fully, 
"  Christianus  Lismoriensis  Episcopus,  quon- 
dam Legatus  Hiberniae,  aemulator  virtutum, 
quas  viderat  et  audierat  a  sancto  patre  suo, 
Bernardo,  summoque  Pontifice,  viro  venera- 
bili,  Eugenio,  cum  quo  fuit  in  probatorio  apud 


z  Johannes. — He  landed  at  Waterford  on 
Wednesday  in  Easter  week,  April  24th — 
(Gir.  Camb.  Hib.  Exp.)  Ware  says  that 
he  was  then  nineteen  years  old,  and  that  he 
was  knighted  by  his  father  at  Windsor — 
Ware's  Annals,  1185. 

a  Patris — For  Fratris.  Pembridge  says, 
that  John  landed  fifteen  years  after  the  coming 
of  Fitz-Stephen.  Grace  names  the  same  era 
from  Meiler  Fitz- Henry,  Fitz- Stephen's  com- 
rade, whom  he  calls  John's  brother,  but  who 
was  in  reality  the  grandson  of  Henry  I.  by 
his  illegitimate  son,  Henry  Fitz-Henry,  who 
was  John's  grand  uncle. 

b  Derwathe — Burrow,  in  King's  County 
then  included  in  Meath,  still  in  the  diocese  of 
Meath. 

0  Ulterius. — Pembridge  says  at  the  death 


Clarevallem,  qui  eum  legatum  in  Hiber- 
niae  constituit,  post  peractam  obedientiam 
(pcenitentiam  ?)  in  Monasterio  de  Kyrieleyson" 
(Odorney,  County  Kerry)  "  feliciter  migravit 
ad  Christum." 

e  Ines.  —  Founded,  July  1,   (Pembridge). 
Jocelin,  who  wrote  the  Life  of  St.  Patrick, 


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1185.  John,   son  of  Henry,  having  received  the  gift  of  Ireland  from  his 
father,  and  being  raised  to  the  honour  of  knighthood  at  Gloucester,  sailed  with 
a  great  army  into  Ireland,  in  the  1 2th  [?]  year  of  his  age,  the  I3th  after  the  coming 
of  his  father,  the  i4th  after  the  coming  of  Earl  Richard,  the  i5th  after  the  coming 
of  his  brother,  Henry ;  having  staid  eight  months  in  Ireland  he  returns  to  England. 

1 1 86.  Hugh  Lacy  is  slain  treacherously  by  a  certain  Irishman  at  Durrow, 
while  in  building  the  castle  he  was  showing  him  how  he  should  work,  he  took 
the  instrument  for  striking  the  ground,  and,  as  he  stooped,  the  Irishman  cut  off 
his  head  with  an  axe.     He  left  two  sons,  Walter  and  Hugh,  and  the  subjugation 
of  Ireland  went  no  further.     Christian,  Bishop  of  Lismore,  formerly  Legate  of 
Ireland,  dies. 

1187.  Foundation  of  the  Abbey  of  Ines  in  Ulster. 

1 1 89.  King  Henry  dies.     Foundation  of  the  Abbey  do  Colle  Victorias,  that 
is,  Knockmoy. 

1 192  ?  Dublin  burned. 

1193?  Foundation  of  the  Abbey  dc  Jugo  Dei,    White  Abbey,  in  Irish 
Monesterlech. 

1195.  The  Archbishop  of  Cashel,  Legate  of  Ireland,  and  John,  Archbishop 
of  Dublin,  brought  from  the  Irish  country  the  body  of  Hugh  Lacy  (who  had  con- 
quered 

dedicated  to  John  de  Courcy,  the  founder  ordinis  de  cetero  nullatenus  praesurnatur." — 
of  this  house,  was  probably  a  monk  of  this  Martene,  torn.  iv.  col.  1374. 
abbey.  Mr.  O'Donovan  is  of  opinion  that  s  De  Jugo  Dei. — Grey  Abbey  in  Down, 
a  monastery  existed  here  before  the  time  of  founded  by  Africa,  daughter  of  Godred,  King 
John  de  Courcy,  and  that  its  original  name  of  Man,  and  wife  of  John  de  Courcy  ;  she  fur- 
was  Inniscumhscraigh,  pronounced  Inniscoos-  nished  it  with  Cistercian  monks  from  the  Ab- 
cray.  Perhaps  its  resemblance  to  his  own  bey  of  Holmcultram  in  Cumberland — (Arch- 
name  may  have  been  the  cause  of  its  selection  dall,  Mon.  Hib.,  p.  120).  "  1204.  Johannes 
by  De  Courcy.  quidemde  Curcihabuitfiliam  Godredi  nomine 

f  De  Colle  Victoria. — Abbey  of  Knockmoy,  Affrecam  in  matrimonium,  quse  fundavit 
in  Galway,  founded  by  Cathal  O' Conor,  King  abbatiam  Sanctte  Marise  de  Jugo  Dei,  quse 
of  Connaught,  in  1240.  "  Abbas  de  Colle  Vic-  ibidem  sepulta  est." — (Chronicon  Manniae). 
torise,  cui  ad  prsesens  de  depositione  parcitur,  Lodge,  vol.  iv.  p.  32,  says,  that  in  1754,  her 
qui  fecit  sibi  caput  lavari  a  muliere,  sex  die-  image  of  gray  freest  one,  though  much  defaced, 
bus  sit  in  levi  culpa,  duobus  eorum  in  pane  et  was  still  to  be  seen  in  a  niche  of  the  wall  on 
aqua,  et  40  diebus  extra  stallumabbatis  ;  tamen  the  gospel  side  of  the  altar, 
tale  quid  vel  ab  ipso,  vel  ab  aliis  personis  h  Cassellensis. — Matthew  O'Heney,  Arch- 

Da 


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plaga  reportarunt,  et  in  monasterio  [  ]-is  id  est  de  Bectii1  sepiliverunt, 

caput  vero  in  templo  S  ThomaeJ  Dublinias. 

1 1 99.  Moritur  Ricardus.k  Rex  Connacise,  qui  monasterium  de  Colle  Victorie 
condiderat,  ejicitur  de  Connacia.  Conditur  monasterium  de  Voto,  id  est  Tin- 
ternae1  a  Gulielmo  Marescallo  comite  Penbrokias,  domino  Lagine,  scilicet  4. 
comitatum,  Weixfordise,  Osserite,  Carlogiae  et  Kildaria3,  que  ei  obtigerunt  jure 
uxoris  filiaa  Ricardi  comitis  Strongulensis,  quam  in  uxorem  duxerat,  filia  [iiliam] 
Evae,  filial  Murchardi ;  hoc  monasterium  vero  vovit  cum  in  mari  periclitaretur. 

1 202.  Restituitur  in  regnum  Catholus  Cronecus  Cronbdor  rex  Connacias. 
Conditur  monasterium  de  Conall"1  per  dominum  Meilerum  filium  Henrici. 

1203.  Conditur  monasterium  S.  Salvatoris",  id  est  Dowesky. 

1 204.  Committitur  prselium  inter  Johannem   Courcium,  primum  comitem 
Ultonias0,  et  Hugonem  Lacium  apud  Dunum ;  ceciderunt  ex  utraque  parte  multi, 
vicit  Courcius :  postera  vero  die  parasceves  cum  inermis,  midisque  pedibus  et 
sola  subicula  tectus,  religionis  gratia  templi  sacra  visitaret,  a  suisp  quibusdam 
per  insidias  captus,  precio  Laicio  traditus  est.    Qui  eum  ad  regem  ducens,  quse 
ejus  fuerunt,  comitatus  videlicet  Ultonia3  et  Connacia^,  ipse  in  mercedem  susce- 

pit. 


bishop  from  1192  to  1206.— (Ware's Bishops, 
p.  469.)  John  Comyn,  Archbishop  of  Dublin 
from  1181  to  1212 — Ibid.  p.  314. 

'  Bectii Bective,  in  Meath,  founded  from 

Mellifont,  xiv  day  of  January,  1146,  and 
called  in  Irish  Lieltrede,  in  Latin  de  Beatitu- 
dine,  and  commonly  Bective — Ussher's  Syl- 
loge,  Vet.  Epist,  Hib.  p.  149. 

J  S.  Thomce Founded  in  that  part  of  Dub- 
lin called  Thomas-court,  for  Canons  of  the 
congregation  of  St.  Victor,  by  William  Fitz 
Andelm,  and  largely  endowed  by  Hugh  de 
Lacy Archdall.  Mon.  Hib.,  p.  178. 

k  Eicardm The  words  "Rex.  Catholus" 

were  omitted  in  the  MS.  after  "  Ricardus" 
by  the  carelessness  of  the  transcriber,  whose 
eye  passed  from  Rex  to  Rex ;  the  defect 
is  evident  from  the  next  entry,  and  from 
Pembridge. 


1  TinterncE. — In  the  County  of  Wexford. 
In  1277,  the  Abbot  de  Voto,  for  not  coming 
for  many  years  to  the  General  Chapter  ;  and 
the  Abbot  of  Boyle,  for  not  paying  the  tenth 
imposed  upon  him,  are  deposed. — Martene, 
torn.  iv.  col.  1460. 

m  Conall In  Kildare,  founded  under  the 

invocation  of  the  B.V.  M.  and  St.  David,  and 
filled  with  regular  Canons  from  the  mo- 
nastery of  Lanthony,  in  Monmouthshire 

Archdall  Mon.  Hib.,  p.  317. 

"  S.  Salvatoris. — Graignemanagh,  in  Kil- 
kenny, founded  for  Cistercian  monks,  by  Wil- 
liam Marshall.  Its  foundation  is  rightly 
placed  at  1204,  as  appears  from  the  following 
extract  from  the  Registry  of  the  Abbey  of 
Stanlegh  in  Wilts,  printed  by  the  Rev.  W. 
L.  Bowles,  in  his  account  of  the  Parish  of 
Bremhill : —  "  1204.  Eodem  anno  depositus 


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quered  Meath),  and  buried  it  in  the  Abbey  Beatitudinis,  that  is  of  Bective ;  his 
head  they  buried  in  the  church  of  St.  Thomas,  Dublin. 

1199.  Death  of  King  Richard.  Cathal,  King  of  Connaught,  who  had 
founded  the  Abbey  de  Colle  Victoriae,  is  expelled  from  Connaught.  The 
Monastery  de  Voto,  that  is  Tintern,  is  founded  by  William  Marshall,  Earl 
of  Pembroke,  Lord  of  Leinster,  to  wit,  of  the  four  counties,  Wexford,  Ossory, 
Carlow,  and  Kildare,  which  fell  to  him  in  right  of  his  wife,  the  daughter  of 
Richard  Earl  of  Strongul,  whom  he  had  married,  being  the  daughter  of  Eva, 
daughter  of  M'Morough ;  he  made  a  vow  of  this  monastery  when  he  was  in 
danger  at  sea. 

1202.  Cathal  O'Conor,  of  the  red  hand,  King  of  Connaught,  is  restored 
to  his  kingdom.     Foundation  of  the  Abbey  of  Conall  by  the  Lord  Meiler  Fitz- 
Henry. 

1203.  Foundation  of  the  Abbey  St.  Salvatoris,  that  is  Douske. 

1204.  A  battle  is  fought  at  Down  between  John  Courcy,    first  Earl   of 
Ulster,  and  Hugh  Lacy ;  many  fell  on  either  side,  Courcy  conquered :  but  on  the 
following  day  of  Good  Friday,  when,  through  devotion,  he  was  visiting  the  sacred 
places  of  the  church  unarmed,  with  bare  feet  and  covered  only  with  a  shirt,  he 
was  treacherously  seized  by  some  of  his  own  men,  and  delivered  to  Lacy  for  a  sum 
of  money.     He  brought  him  to  the  king,  and  received  as  his  reward  the  things 

which 

est   R.  Abbas    Stanlegh  a   Capitulo   Cister-  De  Curti  out  a  nun  Johan, 

tiensi  ;  eo  quod  duxerit  conventum  in  Hiber-  Ki  pus  suffri  meint  [a]han — 1.  2733. 

nia   absque  licentia   capituli.      Hoc    eodem          p  A  suis — The  persons  who  were  said  to 

anno  electus  est  conventus  novus  in  Stanlegh  have  betrayed  John  de  Courcy,  were,  proba- 

in  Wilts,  cum  Abbate  proprio,  scilicet  verie-  bly,  the  Ulster  barons,  who  had  given  hostages 

rabili  viro  Radulpho.  10  Calend.  Aug.  et  in  for  him  to  the  king,  and  were  called  upon  to 

Hiberniam  missus  in  provinciam  Ostercensem  deliver  him  up.     His  hostages  were,   Milo, 

(Ossoriensem)  ad  locum  qui  vocatur  S.  Sal-  son  of  John  de  Courcy  the  younger  ;  Robin, 

vatoris,    quern  eis  dedit  bonse  memoriae  vir  son  of  William   Salvage  ;  John  de   Courcy, 

Wilhelmus  Mareshallus  Comes  de  Pembroke  the  son  of  Roger  of  Chester ;  Walkelin,  son 

cum  aliis  terris  plurimis."— MS.    Bodleian,  of  Augustin  de  Ridall ;  Peter,  son  of  William 

quoted  in  Bowies'  Bremhill,  p.  119.  Racket ;  Alexander,  son  of  William  Sarazin  ; 

0  Ultonice — The  author  of  the  Conquest  John,  son  of  Adam  Camerarius;  and  John,  son 

says  that  Henry  gave  of  Richard  Fitz- Robert Rot.  Pat.  in  Tur. 

A  un  Johan  Uluestere,  Lond.  quoted  in  Lodge's  Peerage,  Kinsale. 
Si  a  force  la  peust  conquere.  q  Connacice — Connaught  was  not  an  earl- 


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pit.  Cursius  careen  perpetuo  adjudicatus  remansit ;  proditores  vice  promissi  auri 
ab  Hugone  suspensi  sunt,  eorumque  bona  direpta.  Hie  Johannes  Courcius  in 
regem  rebellaverat,  ej  usque  imperio  obedire  recusaverat,  quin  et  necem  Arthuri, 
legiiheredis,  ei  approbaverat.  Cum  diufoedissimamcarcerisvitam  perpessus  fuerat, 
tandem  a  Johanne  rege  liberatus  est,  electus  in  pugilemr  adversus  quendam 
Gigantia  magnitudine  a  Galliarum  rege  defensorem  juris  suae  castelli  cujus- 
dam  constitutum,  qui,  cum  Gallus  ejus  vires  extimescens  pugnam  recusaverat, 
coram  utrisque  regibus  egregia  suarum  virium  inditia  sedidit,  fissa  uno  ictu 
galea.  Quocirca  muneribus  ab  utrisque  donatus  est,  et  a  Johanne  comitatui 
Ultonii  restitutus  est,  cum  autem  in  Hyberniam  recederc  quindecies  suo  maxi- 
mo  semper  periculo,  et  ventis  contrariis  tentasset,  aliquantisper  apud  monacos 
Cestrenses8  comoratus,  in  Galliam  re  versus  est,  ubi  vitam  [  ]. 

1205.  Conditur  a  Theobaldo  Walteri  de  provincia*  domino  de  Carryetu 
monasterium  de  Wethenciav  in  Comitatu  Limerici. 

1208.  Gulielmus  Brutiusw,  Anglia  ejectus,  in  Hyberniam  venit.  Anglia 

interdicitur 


dom.    Hanmer  says  that  De  Courcy  was  Lord 
of  Connaught. 

r  In  pugilem. — Leland  (Hist,  of  Ireland, 
vol.  i.  p.  176)  and  Lodge  (Peerage,  Kin- 
sale)  discredit  this  story.  Hoveden  (Annal 
Pars  Post.)  says  that  John  de  Curcy  was 
treacherously  imprisoned  by  Hugh  de  Lacy, 
in  one  of  whose  castles  he  had  taken  refuge 
from  the  attacks  of  Walter  de  Lacy,  but  that 
he  was  delivered  by  his  followers.  From  re- 
cords given  by  Lodge  (ubi  supra),  and  from 
others  given  by  Lynch  (Feudal  Dignities,  p. 
290),  it  appears,  that  in  the  summer  of  1204 
De  Courcy  was  at  liberty,  having  given  hos- 
tages to  surrender  himself  when  called  upon ; 
that  he  was  so  called  upon  after  August  31 ; 
and  it  would  seem  that  he  did  surrender  him- 
self after  October  21,  on  which  day  he  had  a 
safe  conduct  till  the  following  Mid- Lent.  In 
May,  1205,  King  John  granted  to  Hugh  de 
Lacy  "  Terram  de  Ultonia,  de  qua  ipsum 


cinximus  in  comitem,  habendam  et  tenendam 
sicut  Johannes  de  Curcy  earn  tenuit  die  quo 
idem  Hugo  ipsum  vicit  et  cepit  in  campo." — 
Chart.  Roll,  in  Tur.  Lond.  7  John.  In  a 
writ  of  August,  1204,  only  nine  caritreds,  the 
nearest  to  Meath,  were  granted  to  Hugh  and 
his  brother  Walter  in  case  that  De  Courcy 
did  not  surrender. 

The  Chronicle  of  Man  thus  states  these 
events  : —  "  1204.  Hugh  de  Lacy  came  with 
an  army  to  Ulster,  and  encountering  John  de 
Courcy,  took  him,  put  him  in  irons,  and  made 
himself  master  of  Ulster ;  he  afterwards  let 
him  go  free  ;  when  John  went  to  King  Ronald 
of  Man,  who  received  him  honorably  as  a  re- 
lation, for  De  Courcy  had  married  Godred's 
daughter  Africa.  1205.  John  de  Courcy, 
recruiting  his  forces,  got  together  a  great 
army,  and  brought  Ronald  with  near  100 
ships  to  Ulster  ;  entering  the  bay  of  Strang- 
ford,  they  carelessly  sat  down  before  the 


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which  had  been  his,  to  wit,  the  earldoms  of  Ulster  and  Connaught.  Courcy 
remained  condemned  to  perpetual  imprisonment ;  the  traitors,  instead  of  the 
promised  gold,  were  hanged  by  Hugh,  and  their  goods  plundered.  This  John 
Courcy  had  rebelled  against  the  king,  and  had  refused  to  obey  his  orders,  and 
had  also  upbraided  him  with  the  murder  of  Arthur,  the  lawful  heir.  When  he 
had  endured  for  a  long  time  the  most  squalid  life  of  a  prison,  he  was  at  length 
set  at  liberty  by  King  John,  being  chosen  as  champion  against  a  certain  man  of 
gigantic  stature  whom  the  King  of  France  had  appointed  the  defender  of  his 
right  to  a  certain  castle ;  when  the  Frenchman,  afraid  of  his  great  strength, 
had  refused  the  combat,  in  the  presence  of  both  kings  he  gave  noble  proof  of  his 
vigour,  having  cut  through  a  helmet  at  one  stroke.  Wherefore  by  both  he  was 
gifted  with  large  presents,  and  was  restored  by  John  to  the  earldom  of  Ulster, 
but  having  endeavoured  fifteen  times,  always  with  great  danger  and  contrary 
winds,  to  return  to  Ireland,  and  having  sojourned  some  time  with  the  monks  at 
Chester,  he  returned  to  France,  and  there  ended  his  life. 

1205.  The  Abbey  of  Wotheney  in  the  County  of  Limerick,  is  founded 
by  Theobald  Fitz  Walter  Butler,  Lord  of  Carrick. 

1208.  William  de  Braosa,  expelled  from  England,  comes  into  Ireland. 

England 

Castle  of  Rath.     Here  they  were  surprised  created  Earl  of  Ormonde.     This  entry  was 

by  a  numerous  army  under  the  command  of  probably  made  between  these  years. 

Walter  de  Lacy,  who  put  them  totally  to  the  v  Wethencia. — Abingdon,   in   Limerick  ;  it 

rout.     From  this  time  John  de  Courcy  never  was  also  called  Owney,  Wotheney,Wethenoya, 

recovered  his  estates." — Chron.  Mannise.  Voghney,  and  Vaschena.  It  was  furnished  with 

s  Cestrenses. — John  de  Courcy  had  expelled  Cistercian  monks  from  Savigny,  in  France.  In 

the  secular  canons  from  the  Abbey  of  Down,  1245  the  Abbot  of  Vaschena  had  permission  to 

and    had  replaced  them    with    Benedictine  come  to  the  General  Chapter  only  once  in  seven 

monks,  whom  he  brought  from  the  Abbey  of  years  during  his  life. — Cap.  Gen.  Ord.  Cister. 

St.  Werburgh,  at  Chester,  at  the  same  time  Martene,  torn.  iv.  col.  1385. 

he  dedicated  it  to  St.  Patrick,  it  having  been  »  Brutius — William  de  Braosa  was   in- 

before   under  the    Invocation   of  the    Holy  debted  to  the  king  5000  marks  for  Munster, 

Trinity.  which  had  been  demised  to  him  by  the  king, 

1  De  provincia — Is  a  mistake  for  De  Pin-  and  for  which  he  had  not  paid  for  five  years, 

cerna.  nor  had  he  paid  for  five  years  his  rent  for  the 

u  Carryet — Edmund  Butler,  great  grand-  City  of  Limerick.     The  whole  of  the  state 

son  to  this   Theobald,  was  created  Earl  of  paper  in  which  John  justifies  his  conduct  to 

Carrick  in  1215.     In  1328  James  Butler  was  De  Braosa,  is  very  curious,  it  is   given  in 


interdicitur  ob  tyranidem  Joliannis.     Caeduntur  magna  militum  j  usticiarii  mul- 
titude apud  Thurles  in  Momonia  a  Galfrido  Mareis. 

1210.  Johannes  rex  cum  classe  in  Hyberniam*  venit,  et  ingenti  exercitu, 
filiosque  Hugonis  Lacii,  Gualterum  dominum  Midiae  et  Hugonem,  regione  ex- 
pulit,   hi  enim  in  plebem  tiranidem  exercuerant,  Johannemque  de  Coursey^ 
dominum  Rathenii  et  Kilbarrock,  quoniam  is  eos  regi  accusaverat,  interfecerant ; 
illi  autem  in  Galliam  fugientes  in  monasterio  S  Taurini2  illiberalium  laborum 
ministri,  in  horto  videlicet  fodiendo  et  luto  lateribusque  parandis,  diu  incogniti 
vixerunt,  tandem  vero  ab  Abbate  ejusdem  agniti,  ejus  precibus  regi  reconsiliati 
sunt,  soluta  tamen  in  restitutionem  magna  suma  pecunise,  revertuntur  ad  pris- 
tinam  in  Hibernia  auctoritatem.     Gualterus  in  Hyberniam  secum  adduxit  Jo- 
hannem  Aluredy,  id  est  Fitz  acori3,  filium  fratris  Abbatis,  eique  dedit  dominium 
de  Dengio,  et  alia  multa.     Monacos  etiam  nonnullos  utrique  quos  ditarunt ;  Jo- 
hannes acceptis  undique  obsidibus  turn  ab  Hybernisb  turn  ab  Anglis,  punitisque 
rnalefactoribus,  stabilitisque  rebus,  in  Angliam  rediit  eodem  quo  venerat  anno. 

1 2 1 1 .  Ricardus  Tuit,  ruina  turris  cujusdam  Alonas  occubuit,  hie  monasterium 
de  Grenardc  condiderat. 

1212.  Moritur  Johannes  Comin  Dublinensis,  qui  divi  Patriciid  condiderat, 
huic  successit  HenricusLandres,alio  nomine  Scorchevilain,  quoniam  chartas  rusti- 

corum 

Rymer,  vol.  i.  p.  107-  in  Irish  Records  where  Fitzacory  is  not  to 

T  In  Hyberniam — King  John  was  at  Crook  be  found.  Thomas  Fitzalfred  was  an  Irish 

near  Waterford,  June  20th,  and  was  on  his  Magnate  in  1302 — (Rymer,  vol.  i.  p.  938). 

return  at  Fishguard  in  Wales,  August  26,  The  Dengyn  (in  Pembridge  it  is  Dengle) 

1210 — Itinerary  of  K.  John,  by  T.  D.  Hardy,  granted  by  Walter  de  Lacy,  Lord  of  Meath, 

y  De  Coursey. — Probably  son  of  Vivian  de  may  have  been  Dengyn,  the  ancient  Lordship 

Cursun,  to  whom  Earl  Richard  gave  the  lands  of  the  Wellesleys,  in  which,  however,  they 

of  Ratheny  as  fully  as  Gilcolm  held  them  be-  succeeded,  not  Fitzavery,  but  Cusack  and 

fore. — (Harris  Ware's  Antiq.,  p.  190).  This  Geneville.  It  would  be  interesting  to  iden- 

shews  that  he  was  not  a  natural  son  of  John  tify  this  illustrious  family  with  the  descend- 

de  Courcy,  as  Ware  supposed.  ants  of  Fitzalured.  The  monks  brought  over 

7  S.  Taurini. — St.  Taurin  of  Evreux  in  from  St.  Taurin  were  placed  by  Walter  de 

Normandy.  Lacy  at  Foure  in  Westmeath,  which  was  an 

*  Fitzacory — So  in  MS.  and  in  Pern-  alien  priory  subject  to  the  Abbot  of  St.  Tau- 

bridge,  but  filius  Aluredi  is  more  truly  an-  rin  (Ware's  Antiq.,  p.  264)  until  1448,  when 

glicized  by  Fitzavery,  a  name  which  occurs  an  act  of  Parliament  was  passed  enabling  the 


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England  is  put  under  an  interdict  because  of  the  tyranny  of  John.  A  great  mul- 
titude of  the  soldiers  of  the  Justiciary  are  slain  at  Thurles,  in  Munster,  by 
Geoffrey  Mareis. 

1210.  King  John  came  with  a  fleet  and  a  great  army  into  Ireland,  and  drove 
from  the  country  the  sons  of  Hugh  Lacy,  Walter,  Lord  of  Meath,  and  Hugh,  for 
they  had  tyrannized  over  the  common  people,  and  had  killed  John  de  Courcy, 
Lord  of  Kilbarrock  and  Rathenny,  Co.  Dublin,  because  he  had  complained  of 
them  to  the  King ;  but  they  fled  into  France,  and  remained  for  a  long  time  un- 
known in  the  Abbey  of  St.  Taurin,  serving  in  menial  employments,  to  wit,  in 
the  garden  digging  and  preparing  mud  and  bricks ;  but  at  last  they  were  dis- 
covered by  the  Abbot,  and  at  his  entreaties  reconciled  to  the  King,  and  having 
paid  a  great  sum  of  money  were  restored  to  their  former  authority  in  Ireland. 
Walter  brought  with  him  into  Ireland  John,  son  of  Alured,  that  is,  Fitzavery, 
son  of  the  Abbot's  brother,  and  gave  him  the  lordship  of  Dengin,  and  many 
other  things.     Both  brought  over  and  enriched  some  monks ;  King  John  having 
taken  hostages  everywhere,  both  from  English  and  Irish,  and  having  punished 
malefactors  and  established  his  power,  returned  into  England  the  same  year  in 
which  he  came. 

1 2 1 1 .  Richard  Tuit  was  killed  by  the  fall  of  a  tower  at  Athlone ;  he  had 
built  the  Abbey  of  Granard. 

1 2i 2.  Death  of  John   Comin,  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  who  had  built  St. 
Patrick's   Church.     He   was  succeeded  by  Henry  Loundres,   otherwise  called 

Scorchvillain, 


monks  to  choose  their  own  Prior.     Before  the  A  Richard  tuit  ensement 

passing  of  that  Act,  Foure  was  always  seized  Donad  riche  feffement; — 1.  3148. 

into  the    King's    hands  in   every  war  with  The  Tuites  were  palatine  barons  of  Moyas- 

France.  shel.     The  family,  to  use  Sir  H.  Piers'  words 

b  Hybernis. — "  Catalo  rege  Conaciae  trium-  in  1682,   "remain  in  good   reputation   and 

phato." — Ypodigma  Neustrias  in  anno,  post,  although  the  title  be    [almost]   obso- 

0  Grenard. — The  Abbey  of  Lerha  or  Abbey  lete." — Piers'  Westmeath. 
Lara  in  Longford,  founded  for  Cistercian  d  Dim  Patricii. — If  the  omission  of  "  eccle- 
monks,  brought  from  the  Abbey  of  St.  Mary's,  siam"  is  intentional,  it  is  a  proof  of  the  early 
Dublin,  (Mon.  Hib.  p.  442).  Richard  Tuit  origin  of  the  vernacular  ellipsis  of  "St.  Pa- 
was  one  of  De  Lacy's  Barons.  The  Con-  trick's."  See  the  same  ellipsis,  A.  D.  1283, 
quest  of  Ireland  says,  "  campanile  Trinitatis." 

IRISH  ARCH.  SOC.  3.  E 


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corum  conbusserat,  testes  servitutis  sue6,  hie  Hibernise  justitiarius  fuit,  con- 
struxitque  arcem  Dublinensem. 

1213.  Obiit  Gulielmus  Petitf,  et  Petrus  Meset,  Baro  Deluinii,  obiit  sine 
lierede  masculo,  divisa  igitur  tribus  filiabus  est  heriditas,  quae  nupserunt,  ia  do- 
mino de  Vernail,  2a  Talbot,  3a  Landers. 

1219.  Obiit  Gulielmus  Mareshall  senior ;  hie  ex  filia  Ricardi  comitis  general, 
5.  filios,  et  5.  filias;  Gulielmum  maximum  natu,  dein  Gualterum,  Gilbertum, 
Ancelmum,  et  Ricardum,  qui  interiit  in  praelio  Kildarii.  Hi  quinque  patri  in 
imperio  ordine  successerunt,  omnesque  sine  prole  mortem  oppetivere.  Filiaefue- 
rint  ut  sequiturs ;  Matildah  de  Mareshall,  Isabella  de  Clare,  Eva  deBrus,  Johanna 
de  Montgenesey,  Sibilla  comitissa  de  Ferreis.  Matilda  nupsit  Hugoni  Bigot, 
comiti  Norfolciae,  qui  jure  uxoris  fuit  mariscalcius  Angliae,  hie  ex  ea  genera vit 
Radium  Bigot,  patrem  Johannis  Bigot,  qui  fuit  filius  dominae  Bertse  de  Furni- 
vall,  et  Isabelle  de  Lacy1  uxoris  domini  Johannis  fitz  GefTrcy ;  mortuo  autem 
Hugone  Bigot  comite  Norfolciag,  Johannes  Garrune  comes  Surricse  ex  filia  filium 
nomine  Ricardum  et  sororem  Isabellam  de  Albeney,  comitissam  de  Arundell. 
Gilbertus  de  Clare  comes  Gloverniae,  duxit  Isabellam  2am  sororem  ex  qua  susce- 
pit  Rioardum  Clare  comitem  Glovernias,  que  fuit  mater  domine  Avisse,  comi- 
tissaa  de  AverinaeJ,  que  fuit  mater  Isabelle  matris  domini  de  Brusk,  comitis  de 
Carrick,  et  postea  regis  Scotiae.  Eva  de  Brus  3a  soror  habuit  Matildam,  quas 
fuit  mater  Edwardi  Mortimerii,  et  domine  Eve  Cantelawe  matris  domine  Mil- 
sent  de  Mohyne,  quae  fuit  mater  domine  Elionore,  matris  comitis  Herfordiaa. 
Dominus  Gorenu*  de  Monugenesy  duxit  Johannem.  4.  de  qua  Johanna1  de 
Vallens;  de  Sibilla  comitissa  de  Fereis  5a  pervenerunt  7  filial  ia  Agnes  de 

Vesci, 

e  Testes  servitutis  sue — The  proofs  of  the  was  Baron  of  Dunboyne,  and  Missett  of  Lune. 

terms  of  their  villainage,  that  is,  their  leases.  8  Ut  sequitur. — The  MS.  is  here  corrupt. 

Cox  says,  "  This  silly  story  is  not  to  be  be-  In  the  following  notes  and  in  the  translation 

lieved  of  so  learned  a  man,  and  so  good  a  go-  it  has  been  corrected  in  some  places  from 

vernor,  as  every  body  allows  this  Archbishop  Pembridge  and  other  authorities.     The  text 

to  have  been  ;  especially  since  it  is  not  denied,  has  been  printed  exactly  from  the  MS. 

but  that  he  suffered  all  his  tenants  to  enjoy          h    Matilda Hanmer,    who    calls    Joan 

their  farms,  even  according  to  their  claims." —  Mountchensy  the  eldest  daughter,  says  that 

Hib.  Anglicana,  p.  57.  the  Lordship  of  Leinster  was  thus  divided : — 

f  Gulielmus  Petit — Petit  and  Misset  were  To  Joan,  the  County  of  Wexford  ;  to  Matilda, 

two  of  De  Lacy's  barons  in  Meath;     Petit  Carlow  ;   to  Isabella,  Kilkenny ;  to   Sibilla, 


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Scorchvillain,  because  lie  burned  the  charters  of  the  farmers,  the  witnesses  of 
their  servitude ;  he  was  Justiciary  of  Ireland,  and  built  the  Castle  of  Dublin. 

1213.  Death  of  William  Petit;  also  Peter  Meset,  Baron  of  Lune,  died  with- 
out male  heirs,  and  his  estate  was  divided  between  his  three  daughters  who 
married,  the  eldest  the  Lord  de  Vernail,  the  2nd  Talbot,  the  3rd  Loundres. 

1219.  Death  of  William  Marshall  the  elder;  by  the  daughter  of  Earl 
Richard  he  had  five  sons  and  five  daughters ;  William  the  eldest,  then  Walter, 
Gilbert,  Anselm,  and  Richard,  who  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Kildare.  These 
five  succeeded  to  their  father  in  order,  and  all  died  without  issue.  The  daughters 
were  as  follows ;  Matilda  de  Mareshall,  Isabella  de  Clare,  Eva  de  Braos,  Joan  de 
Mountchensy,  Sibilla,  Countess  of  Ferrers.  Matilda  married  Hugh  Bigot,  Earl 
of  Norfolk,  who  in  right  of  his  wife  was  Marshall  of  England,  by  her  he  had 
Ralph  Bigot,  father  of  John  Bigot,  who  was  son  of  the  Lady  Bertha  de  Furni- 
vall,  and  Isabella  de  Lacy,  wife  of  John  Fitz  Geffrey ;  after  the  death  of  Hugh 
Bigot,  Earl  of  Norfolk,  Matilda  married  John  Fitz  Warrenne,  Earl  of  Surrey, 
by  whom,  she  had  a  son  of  the  name  of  Richard  and  his  sister  Isabella  de  Albeney, 
Countess  of  Arundell.  Gilbert  de  Clare,  Earl  of  Gloucester,  married  Isabella, 
the  second  sister,  by  whom  he  had  Richard  Clare,  Earl  of  Gloucester,  who 
was  father  of  the  Lady  Avise,  Countess  of  Gloucester,  and  Christian, 
who  was  mother  of  Lord  de  Brus,  Earl  of  Carrick,  father  of  the  King  of 
Scotland.  Eva  de  Braos,  the  third  sister,  had  Matilda,  who  was  mother  of 
Edmund  Mortimer,  and  the  Lady  Eva  Cantelupe  mother  of  the  Lady  Milsent 
de  Mohun,  and  the  Lady  Eleanor,  mother  of  the  Earl  of  Hereford.  Lord  Warin 
de  Mountchensy  married  Joan,  the  fourth  sister,  of  whom  was  Joan  de  Valence ; 
Of  Sibilla,  Countess  of  Ferrers,  the  fifth  sister,  came  seven  daughters,  ist.  Agnes 

de 

Kildare  ;  to  Eva,  Dounmes  in  Leix  (Duna-  the  right  reading  is  probably  Gloverniae.  One 

mase) (Hanmer,  p.  356).     Cox  (p.  45)  says,  of  the  sisters  of  the  third   Gilbert  Earl  of 

that  "partition  was  made  between  these  noble  Gloucester,    on  his  death  at  Bannockburn, 

coparceners    at    Woodstock,    May  3rd,    31  was  called  Countess  of  Gloucester. 

Henry  III."  (1247).  k   Brus.  —  The  grandmother    of  Robert 

Isdbelle  de  Lacy. — The    widow  of  Gil-  Bruce,    King    of   Scotland,  was    Christian, 

bert  son  of  Walter  de  Lacy,  afterwards  mar-  daughter  of  Gilbert  Earl  of  Gloucester, 

ried  to  John  Fitz- Geffrey.  '  Johanna.  —  William    de    Valence,    half 

J  Averince Camden  conjectures  Devoniae ;  brother  to  Henry  III.,  married  Joan  de  Mon- 

E2 


Vesci,  mater  domini  Johannis  et  Gulielmi  de  Vesci;  2a  Isabella  Bassett;  3* 
Johanna  Mohun,  uxor  domini  Johannis  de  Mohun;  4*  Sibilla  uxor  domini 
Francissi  de  Bohun,  domini  de  Midhurst;  5*  Eleonora  de  Variism  uxor  comitis 
Wintoniag;  6a  Agas  uxor  domini  Hugonis  de  Mortymer;  7*  Matylda  de 
Kyme,  domina  de  Carberi.  Omnes  predicti  ex  genealogia"  sunt  domini  Gulielmi 
Mareshall. 

1 220.  Moritur  dominus  Meileirus  filius  Henrici,  qui  monasterium  de  Con- 
nail  condidit,  ibi  sepultus. 

1224.  Castrum  de  Trym  obsessum. 

1225.  Obiit  Rogerus  Pippard. 

1228.  Obiit  Gunelmus  Pippard0,  quondam  dominus  de  Saltis  SalmonumP. 
Item  Henricus  Landres,  archiepiscopus  Dublinia. 

1230.  Henricus  rex  dedit  Huberto  de  Burgo,  j  ustitiarum  Hiberniae0-  et  tertium 

denarium 


chensy,  and  was  created  Earl  of  Pembroke. 
He  had  two  sons,  successively  Lords  of  Pem- 
broke, both  of  whom  died  without  issue,  and 
two  daughters  eventually  co-heiresses,  Isabella 
and  Joan  ;  of  whom,  Isabella  married  John 
Hastings,  whose  heiress  was  the  wife  of  Lord 
Grey  de  Ruthyn.  Joan,  second  daughter  of 
William  de  Valence,  married  John  Comyn,  and 
had  only  two  daughters,  one  of  whom  mar- 
ried Richard  Talbot,  the  ancestor  of  the  Earl 
of  Shrewsbury.  The  second  daughter  of  Joan 
Comyn  married  David  Earl  of  Athol.  Wex- 
ford  was  divided  between  these  two  ladies, 

"'  Eleonora  de  Variis Widow  of  Wil- 
liam de  Vaulx,  and  third  wife  of  Roger  de 
Quincy,  Earl  of  Winchester — Mills'  Catalo- 
gue of  Honour,  p.  957. 

"  Genealogia.  —  This  genealogy  of  the 
daughters  of  William  the  Elder,  Earl  Mar- 
shall, is  thus  given  in  Pembridge  (edition  of 
1607),  and  is  here  cited  that  it  may  be  com- 
pared with  that  given  in  the  text. 

"  Nomen  prima  Matildis  le  Mareschall, 
secunda  Isabella  de  Clare,  tertia  Eva  de 


Breous,  Quarta  Joh.  de  Mountchensey,  quinta 
Sibilla  Comitissa  de  Ferrers.  Hugo  Bigod, 
Comes  Norfolcia?  desponsavit  Matil.  Mare- 
schall, qui  fuit  Comes  Mareschall  Angliae,jure 
uxorissuae,  qui  Hugo  generavit  Radul.  Bigod, 
patrem  Joan.  Bigod,  qui  fuit  filius  Dom. 
Berthae  de  Furnyvall,  et  Isabellam  de  Lacy 
uxorem  Domini  Johannis  Fitz  Geffery,  et 
quando  Hugo  Bigod,  Comes  de  Northfolk 
fuit  mortuus  peperit  ilia  Johannem  de  Gua- 
renna  Comitem  de  Surrey,  et  sororem  Isa- 
bellam de  Albeney  Comitissam  de  Arondell. 
Gilbertus  de  Clare  Comes  de  Glovernia  de- 
sponsavit Isabellam  secundam  sororem,  qui 
genuerunt  Richardum  de  Clare  Comitem  de 
Glovernia,  quae  fuit  mater  Domina?  Anisae 
Comitissse  de  Avernia,  quae  fuit  mater  Isa- 
bella? matris  Domini  Roberti  de  Brus  Comitis 
de  Carryk  in  Scotia  et  fuit  Rex  ejusdem 
Scotia?.  De  Eva  de  Breous  tertia  sorore 
generata  est  Matildis  quae  fuit  mater  Domini 
Edmundi  de  Mortuomari  et  mater  Dominae 
Evae  de  Cauntelow,  mater  Dominae  Milsoud 
de  Mohune  quae  mater  Dominie  Alienora 


de  Vesci,  mother  of  Lord  John  and  William  de  Vesci ;  2nd,  Isabella  Basset ; 
3rd,  Joan  Mohun,  wife  of  Lord  John  de  Mohun;  4th,  Sibilla,  wife  of  Lord 
Francis  de  Bohun,  Lord  of  Midhurst;  5th,  Eleanor  de  Vaux,  wife  of  the  Earl 
of  Winton;  6th,  Agas,  wife  of  Lord  Hugh  de  Mortimer;  yth,  Matilda  de 
Kyme,  Lady  of  Carbery.  All  the  aforesaid  are  from  the  genealogy  of  Lord 
William  Marshall. 

1220.  Death  of  Lord  Meiler  Fitz  Henry,  who  founded  the  Abbey  of  Great 
Conall,  Co.  Kildare,  he  is  buried  there. 

1224.  The  Castle  of  Trim  is  besieged. 

1225.  Death  of  Roger  Pippard. 

1228.  Death  of  William  Pippard,   formerly  Lord  of  Leixlip.     Also  Henry 
Loundres,  Archbishop  of  Dublin. 

1230.  King  Henry  gave  Hubert  de  Burgh  the  Justiciaryship  of  Ireland  and 

the 


matris  comitis  Hereford.  Dominus  Guarinus 
de  Mountchensey  desponsavit  Joannem  de 
Mareschall  quartam  sororem,  de  qua  venit 
Johanna  de  Valens.  De  Sibilla  Comitissa  de 
Ferrers,  scilicet  quinta  sorore,  fuerunt  septem 
filise,  prima  Agnes  de  Vescy  mater  Domini 
Joannis  et  Domini  Guilielmi  de  Vescy.  Se- 
cunda  Isabella  Basset.  Tertia  Johanna  Bohun 
uxor  Domini  Johannis  de  Mohun  filii  Domini 
Reginaldi.  Quarta  Sibilla  de  Mohun  uxor 
Domini  Francisci  de  Bohun  Domini  de  Mid- 
hurst.  Quinta  Elianora  de  Vaus,  quae  fuit 
uxor  Comitis  Wintoniae.  Sexta  Agas  de 
Mortuomari  uxor  Domini  Hugonis  de  Mor- 
tuomari.  Septima  Matildis  de  Kyme  Domina 
de  Carbry." 

Mills  in  the  Catalogue  of  Honour  states  that 
Eva,  who  married  William  de  Braos,  had  four 
daughters :  1st.  Isabella,  wife  of  David  Prince 
of  Wales,  died  s.  p.  2nd.  Maud,  wife  of  Roger 
Mortimer.  3rd.  Eva,  wife  of  William  Can- 
tilupe.  4th.  Eleanor,  wife  of  Humphry  Lord 
Bohun,  and  mother  of  Humphry,  who  was 
Earl  of  Essex  and  also  Earl  of  Hereford. 


0  Gunelmus    Pippard In    1301     (30th 

Ed.  I.)  Ralph  Pipard  surrendered  all  his  pos- 
sessions to  the  King,  amongst  them  were  the 
Castles  de  Saltu  Salmonum,  de  Atrio  Dei 
(Ardee),  and  of  Dovenaghmayn — Rot.  Pat. 
et  Cl.  Antiquissime,  21,  26. 

p  Saltis  Salmonum. — The  Barony  of  Salt, 
County  Kildare,  takes  its  name  from  Saltus 
Salmonum,  the  Salmon  Leap  at  Leixlip. 

1  Hibernice, — A  mistake  of  the  compiler. 
Pembridge  had  said  that  the  King  had  given 
the  Justiciaryship  to  Hubert  de  Burgh,  mean- 
ing that  he  had  made  him  Justice  of  Eng- 
land ;  our  transcriber  supplied  Hibernise.  At 
this  time  Maurice  Fitzgerald  was  Justiciary, 
and   Geoffiry  de   Marisco   Deputy.  —  Ware, 
Antiq.,    Harris's    Edit.,    p.    103.     Hanmer 
seems  to  have  depended  upon  Grace,  whom 
he  quotes  at  1208  and  1220.      Cox  (p.  60) 
states  that  Hubert  de  Burgh,  Earl  of  Kent, 
Chief  Justice  of  England,  was  made  Earl  of 
Connaught  and  Lord   Chief  Justice  of  Ire- 
land for  life ;   he  read   Comitem  Connacise 
for  Comitem   Canciae.     Connaught  was  the 


3° 


denarium  Cancise,  fecitque  eum  comitem  Canciss,  postea  autem  in  carcerem  con- 
jectus  est. 

1 23 1 .  Obiit  Gulielmus  Mareshallr  Junior,  comes  Marshall  et  Penbrochiae. 

1234.  Ricardus  comes  Mareshall,  Penbrochiaa  et  Strangulensis,  primo  idus 
Aprilis  in  planicie  Kilderie  in  prelio  vulneratus,  post  paucos  dies  interiit.  Kil- 
kenise5  cum  fratre  sepelitur. 

1241.  Gualterus  Laicius*,  dominus  Midias,  in  Anglia  moritur,  relictis  duabus 
filiis  heredibus,  quarum  altera  nupsit  domino  Theobaldo  de  Verdon ;  2a  Galfrido 
de  Genevyle ;  Hec  Margarita,  ilia  Mabilia  dicta  est. 

1242.  Arx  de  Sligagh  construitur  per  Mauritium  fitz  Geraldi  justitiarium 
Hibernise.     Rex  Edwardus  primusu  cum  ingenti  exercitu  Walliam  invasit,  vo- 
cavitque  in  subsidium  Mauritium,  qui  cum  Phelemeo  O'Connorv  rege  Conacise 

et 


Lordship  of  Richard  de  Burgh,  Hubert's 

nephew (Rymer,vol.  i.  p. 213,  A.D.  1234.) 

All  Connaught  was  then  granted  to  Richard 
de  Burgh  after  the  death  of  the  King  of  Con- 
naught  for  £1000 — Rot.  Cl.  3  H.  III.  in 
Tur.  Lond.,  quoted  in  Davis's  Discovery, 
p.  105. 

r  Gulielmus  Mareshall. — On  the  death  of 
William  Marshall,  Junior,  in  1231,  the  King 
ordered  that  his  castles  of  Kilkenny,  Odoch, 
Wexford,  Ross,  Dumas  [Dunamase],  Kather- 
loch  [Carlow],  Kildare,  Kerry,  and  De  Insula 
[Castle  Island],  should  be  delivered  into  the 
hands  of  Waleran  the  German — Rym.  v.  i. 
p.  199. 

»  Kilkenia. — Grace  does  not  state  in  what 
church  in  Kilkenny  Richard  Marshall  was 
buried.  Hanmer  says,  "  He  lieth  buried  by 
his  brother  William  in  the  Blacke  Fryers  at 
Kilkennye,  which  was  the  foundation  of  Wil- 
liam Earle  Marshall,  his  father.  His  tombe, 
with  the  tombes  of  eighteen  knights  that  came 
over  at  the  Conquest,  and  resting  in  that 
Abbey,  at  the  suppression  of  the  Monasterie 
was  defaced,  and  the  inhabitants  there  turned 


them  to  their  private  uses  ;  and  of  some  they 
made  swine-troughs,  so  as  there  remaineth 
no  monument  in  the  said  Abbey  save  one 
stone,  whereupon  the  picture  of  a  knight 
is  portraied  bearing  a  shield  about  his 
necke,  wherein  the  Cantwel's  arms  are  in- 
sculped;  and  yet  the  people  there  call  it 
Ryddir  in  Curry,  that  is,  the  knight  slaine  at 
the  Curraghe." — Chron.,  p.  346. 

M.  Paris  says,  "  Sepultus  est  in  oratorio 
fratrum  minorum  apud  Kilkenni ;  ubi  idem 
sepulturam  elegerat :  militise  flos  temporum 
modernorum." — Ad  an.  1234,  p.  340.  He 
died  April  1 6.  Pembridge  specifies  the  place 
of  his  burial  in  "  Choro  fratrum  Praedicato- 
rum,"  the  Dominican  or  Black  Friars. 

1  Gualterus  Laicius. — See  Matt.  Paris  in  an. 
1241,  p.  491.  He  left  two  grand-daughters, 
Margaret  and  Matilda ;  Margaret  married 
John  de  Verdon,  and  Matilda  married  Geofiry 
de  Geneville.  The  palatinate  of  Meath  was 
divided  between  these  two  ladies,  Lokseudy 
being  the  head  of  Verdon's  moiety,  and  Trim 
that  of  Geneville's ;  in  1330,  after  Verdon's  for- 
feiture, the  palatinate  was  reunited  in  favour 


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the  Third  Penny  of  Kent,  and  made  him  Earl  of  Kent,  but  afterwards  he  was 
thrown  into  prison. 

1231.  Death  of  William  Marshall,  Junior,  Earl  Marshall  and  Earl  of  Pem- 
broke. 

1234.  Richard  Earl  Marshall,  of  Pembroke  and  Strangul,  was  wounded  on 
the  1 2th  of  April  in  a  battle  on  the  Curragh  of  Kildare,  and  died  after  a  few 
days.  He  is  buried  at  Kilkenny  with  his  brother. 

1241.  Walter  de   Lacy,    Lord  of  Meath,  died  in  England,   leaving  two 
daughters  co-heiresses,  the  elder  married  Lord  Theobald  de  Verdon ;  the  second, 
Geoffry  de  Geneville ;  the  one  was  called  Margaret,  the  other  Mabel. 

1242.  The  Castle  of  Sligo  is  built  by  Maurice  Fitzgerald,  Justiciary  of 
Ireland.    King  Edward  the  First  [Henry  the  Third],  with  a  great  army  invaded 
Wales,  and  summoned  Maurice  to  his  assistance,  who  went  to  him  with  Felim 
O'Conor,  King  of  Connaught,  and  a  very  great  multitude  of  men,  and  having 

finished 


of  Roger  Mortimer,  who  had  married  Gene- 
ville's  grand-daughter  and  heiress.  —  Rot. 
Pat.  2  Hen.  V.  137. 

"Edwardus  Primus — Edward  the  First  was 
not  King  before  1272.  In  1245  Henry  III. 
invaded  Wales,  and  summoned  Maurice  Fitz- 
gerald, Justiciary  of  Ireland,  to  his  aid,  but 
he  was  so  long  coming,  although  the  wind  was 
fair,  that  the  King  was  displeased,  and  re- 
moved him  from  the  government,  appointing 
John  Fitz- Geffrey  Justiciary  in  his  room. 
But  Maurice  took  this  patiently,  as  the  death 
of  his  son  which  soon  followed  made  him  think 
lightly  of  earthly  dignity — (M.  Paris,  ad  an. 
1245).  Campion  (p.  112)  endeavours  to 
smooth  away  the  difficulty  by  calling  Edward, 
not  Kine,  but  Prince  ;  but  in  1245  Edward 
was  only  six  years  old.  The  original  proba- 
bly read  only  Rex,  and  Edward  Primus  was 
supplied  by  the  transcriber.  None  of  these 
events  are  mentioned  in  Pembridge. 

v  Phelemeo   O'Connor In    1240    Felim 


O' Conor,  King  of  Connaught,  went  to  London 
and  besought  Henry  III.  that  he  would  not 
allow  his  true  liege  man  (suum  fidelem)  who 
paid  5000  marks  annually  for  his  kingdom,  to 
be  dispossessed  by  that  ignoble  stranger,  John 
de  Burgh.  The  king  ordered  Maurice  Fitz- 
Gerald,  Justiciary,  who  was  in  his  presence, 
to  root  out  the  barren  fig  tree  (sycomorum  in- 
fructuosam)  planted  in  Connaught  by  Hubert 
de  Burgh  in  the  madness  of  his  power,  and 
not  to  suffer  it  to  shoot  forth. — (Matt.  Paris 
in  anno).  In  the  last  edition  of  Rymer,  vol.  i. 
p.  240,  there  is  a  letter  from  Felim  O'Cono- 
hur,  King  of  Connaught,  to  Henry  III.,  thank- 
ing him  for  the  many  favours  which  he  had 
conferred  upon  him,  and  especially  for  his 
having  written  in  his  behalf  against  Walter 
de  Burgh  to  his  Justiciary  William  Dene, 
and  requesting  that,  as  Dene  had  died  before 
he  received  the  king's  letter,  a  like  letter 
should  be  written  to  his  successor,  Richard 
de  Rupella.  This  letter  is  given  by  Rymer 


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et  maxima  hominum  multitudine  adfuit,  reque  peracta,  in  Hiberniam  remea- 
vit,  dein  Tirconell  depredavit,  mediamque  regionis  partem  Cormaco  mac  Der- 
mod,  mac  Rory  dedit,  proque  reliqua  secum  pignora  abstulit,  quibus  in  uree 
[arce]  Slegagh  relictis,  iterum  collecto  exercitu  Tirconel  petit ;  occurrit  O'Donell 
cum  suis  ex  tota  Kineoil  Conail  ad  vadum  Atlishaniw,  eos  cum  preterire  minime 
audirent  ibidem  7.  dies  definuit,  missus  igitur  Cormacus  cum  equitum  parte  clam 
ad  vadum  Cuiluamiae*,  Erne  fluminis,  terga  hostium  aggreditur,  qui  statim  in 
fagam  conversi  sunt,  ibi  interfectus  est  Moilslaghlyn  O'Donill,  rex  appellatus 
de  Kevayle  Covail,  cum  Gilley  Canvinelagh  O'Cugill2,  et  McSoerlia  rege  de 
Oirisgael,  et  primatibus  de  Kevaile  Covaile,  multi  ex  Anglis  sumersi  sunt  in 
transitu  fluminis  Fin,  et  interfectus  Atermanudaibogeb  Guileilanus  Butc  vice- 
comes  Cannacias  cum  fratre  ejus  juvene,  tota  regio  depredata  est,  dominium 
de  Kenailgonil  divisum  cum  Rodrico  O'Conor.  Iterum  etiam  [justitiarius]  eo 
duxerit  [duxit]  exercitum,  regionem  universam  fere  diripuit.  Invasit  etiam 
Tieoroganid  regionem  O'Nel6,  a  quo  obsides  suscepit,  Rebelles  etiam  e  Laginia 
expulit. 


at  the  year  1240,  but  Dene  was  not  Justiciary 
before  1260,  in  which  year  he  died,  and  was 
succeeded  by  Rupella,  or  Capella,  as  he  is 
sometimes  called.  The  letter  then  must  have 
been  written  in  1260-61,  and  must  refer  to 
further  persecution  on  the  part  of  the  De 
Burghs,  and  to  another  instance  of  good  na- 
tured,  but  probably  ineffectual,  interference 
on  the  part  of  the  king. 

w  Athshani. — Ath-Seanagh,  Ballyshannon. 
See  O'Donovan's  Notes  to  Circuit  of  Ireland 
in  the  first  vol.  of  the  Society's  Tracts,  p.  50. 
The  Annals  of  Ulster  have  this  entry  at  1247. 
"  M'Sumerlid  killed  by  M' Moris  (Maurice 
Fitz  Maurice  Fitz  Gerald)  at  Belasena." — 
Annals  of  Ulster  in  Johnstone's  Antiq.  Celt. 
Norm. 

x  Cuiluamice. — Mr.  J.  O'Donovan,  who  is 
unrivalled  in  his  knowledge  of  Irish  topo- 
graphy, informs  me  that  this  is  a  well  known 


ford  on  the  River  Erne,  near  the  village  of 
Belleek.  In  the  Ordnance  Map  it  is  named 
Bellacooloon. 

y  Gille — Should  be  Gille  Camvinelagh,  or 
the  wrynecked. — O'Donovan. 

z  O'Cugill — Hanmer,  who  correctly  places 
all  these  events  in  1245,  writes  this  name 

rightly  O'Bugill  (O'Boyle) (Chronicle, 

p.  394).  Coencomrach  O'Boighill.or  O'Boil, 
was  Suffragan  Archbishop  at  Armagh  in 
1099 — (Ware's  Bishops,  p.  51).  O'Boil's 
country  was  on  the  north  of  Lough  Eask. 

8  Mac  Soerli — Mac  Surley,  Chief  of  Er- 
rigallj  in  the  County  of  Derry.  In  the  Ulster 
Annals  above  quoted  he  is  called  Mac  Sumer- 
lid.  Was  he  connected  with  Somerled,  Lord 
of  the  Isles,  whom  Dr.  O'Conor  (O'Conor's 
Memoirs,  p.  44)  calls  Dubghal  Mac  Somerly, 
Lord  of  the  Hebrides  ?  In  the  Four  Masters, 
who  place  these  events  in  1247,  he  is  called 


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finished  the  business  he  returned  into  Ireland,  and  drove  preys  from  Tirconnel 
and  gave  half  of  the  country  to  Cormac  M'Dcrmod,  son  of  Roderick,  and  took 
away  with  him  pledges  for  the  remainder,  whom  he  left  in  the  Castle  of  Sligo ; 
having  collected  his  army  he  again  entered  Tirconnel ;  O'Donell  meets  him  with 
all  his  men  from  Kinel  Conell  at  the  Ford  of  Athshan ;  when  they  had  not 
courage  to  pass  them  he  stopped  there  seven  days,  and  Cormac  having  been 
sent  with  a  part  of  the  horse  privately  to  the  ford  at  Bellacooloon  on  the 
River  Erne,  attacks  the  enemy  in  the  rear,  and  immediately  puts  them  to  flight. 
There  was  killed  there  Moylslaghlin  O'Donel,  who  was  styled  King  of  Kinel 
Conell,  with  O'Bugill  [  O'Boyle~\  of  the  wry  neck,  and  Mac  Soerli,  King  of 
Errigal  \_Argyle],  and  the  chief  men  of  Kinel  Conell.  Many  of  the  English  are 
drowned  in  passing  the  River  Fin,  and  at  Tarmon-Daboge  William  Bret,  sheriff 
of  Connaught,  is  slain,  with  his  young  brother.  The  whole  country  is  plun- 
dered— the  lordship  of  Kinel  Conell  is  divided  with  Roderick  O'Conor.  The 
Justiciary  again  leads  an  army  thither,  and  almost  destroys  the  whole  country. 
He  also  invaded  Tyrone,  the  county  of  O'Neil,  and  took  hostages  from  him ;  he 
also  expelled  the  rebels  from  Leinster. 

1243- 

(l  Tieorogani.  —  Probably  Tireogani,  Ty- 
rone. 

e  O'Nel. — In  1244  Henry  III.  summon- 
ed Donnald,  King  of  Terchenull  (O'Donel, 
King  of  Tirconnell)  to  attend  him  in  person 
in  his  expedition  against  Scotland.  It  is 
probable  that  this  summons  was  neglected  by 
O'Donnell  and  by  the  other  Irish  kings,  who 
were  summoned  with  him,  and  that  this  ex- 
pedition against  him,  which  probably  took 
place  1245,  was  made  by  the  Justiciary  in 
punishment  of  this  contempt,  and  to  defend 
Ulster,  which  O'Donnell  had  attacked  on  the 


Mac  Sorley,  Lord  of  Argyle.  It  is  probable 
that  he  was  a  cadet  of  the  house  of  Somerled, 
who  had  established  himself  in  Ulster. 

b  Atermanudaiboge.  —  This  word  should 
be  thus  resolved:  Ad  Termonum  Dabeoci 
(Daboge).  Termon  or  Tarmon  prefixed  to 
a  saint's  name,  is  no  unusual  element  of  names 
of  places  in  Ireland ;  it  signifies  that  the  place 
belonged  to  the  church  of  the  saint  named,  and 
was  free  from  all  imposition  of  the  temporal 
lords — (See  Davis'  Letter  to  the  Earl  of  Sa- 
lisbury and  Ussher  of  Corbes).  Termon- 
Dabheoc  is  now  called  Termon-  Magrath,  and 
lies  in  the  County  Donegal. 

c  Gulielmus  But.  —  Hanmer  and  Cox  call 
this  man  But.  The  Annals  of  Boyle  mention 
the  death  of  William  Bret  in  battle  in  the  year 
1233.  In  the  Annals  of  Inisfallen  he  is  called 
But,  and  Brit  in  the  Annals  of  the  Four  Mas- 
ters. 

IRISH  ARCH.  SOC.  3.  F 


death  of  de  Lacy  in  1243 — Campion.  The 
other  kings  summoned  by  Henry  are  thus 
printed  in  Rymer,  vol.  i.  p.  256  :  to  the  name 
of  each  is  here  added  in  Italics  the  name  and 
style  of  his  representative,  as  given  in  the 
State  of  Ireland  in  1515,  printed  in  State  Pa- 
pers, Henry  VIII.,  vol.  ii.  part  iii.  p.  1. 


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1243-  Obiit  Hugo  Laci,  comes  Ultonise,  unicam  filiam  relinquens,  quam  in 
uxorem  duxit  Gualterus  de  Burgo,  et  cum  ea  suscepit  comitatum  Ultoniae ; 
sepultus  est  Hugo  apud  Cnocfergus  in  convcntu  fratrum.  Moriuntur  etiam 
Geraldus  Mauricii,  et  Ricardus  de  Burgo. 

1248.  Dominus  Johannes  filius  Galfridi  Justiciarius  Hybernias  interficitur. 

1250.  Mac  Canewei,  filius  BelialK,  in  Leis;  Gulielmus  Longaspantag  cum 
multis  aliis  capitur. 

1251.  NasciturHenricusLaci. 
1255.  Alanus  de  Souche  Justiciarius. 

1 257.  Obiit  Mauricius  Geraldi.  Praelium  Dunense  inter  Anglos  et  Hibernos 
Connaciae  et  Ultonise,  ubi  O  Neil,  Bernardus  Oahedon  [Cahedon  ?]  nuncupatus, 
occubuit;  Giraldini  in  Desmonia  cum  excercitu  Mac  Kartih  lacessunt,  qui  ab 
eo  in  fugam  vereuntur,  ubi  ceciderunt  Johannes  Thomas,  ejus  filius  Mauritius, 
15.  equites,  et  8.  barones.  Johannes  Cogan,  Justitiarius  Hibernian,  et  Tho- 
baldus  Butler  capti  a  filio  domini  Mauritii  Fitz  Gerot1. 

1259.  Stephanus  de  longa  Spata  Justitiarius.  Interfectus  [est]  O  Neil  ad 
Dunum. 

1260. 


Felmino  filio  quondam  Regis.  (O'Conor). 
Oraly.  Orayll  de  Brenye.  (O'Reilly  of  East 
Brenny,  or  Cavan).  Uhanlur.  Ohanlowande 
Orryre.  (O'Hanlon  of  Orior  in  Armagh). 
Bren  O'Nel  Regi  de  Kinehm'.  The  grente 
Oneylle,  Chief  Capytayne  of  Tyreeown  (i.  e. 
of  Tyrone).  O'Chatan.  Ochan  de  Irraght 
Ichan.  (O'Cahan  of  Kenoght  in  Derry). 
Ohynery,  (a  branch  of  the  O'Cahans).  Done- 
nald  Mackdaniel.  Markedonogh  de  Tyrorhill 
(M'Donough  of  Tiraghrill  in  Sligo  ?)  Mac 
Anegus.  M' Eneas  of  Hyweagh.  (Magennis 
of  Upper  Iveagh  in  Down).  Mac  Kartan. 
(M'Cartan  of  Kinelearty  and  Dufferin  in 
Down).  Mac  Gilemuri.  Oneylle  of  Treugh- 
onyll.  O'Neil  of  Claneboy  in  S.  W.  of  Antrim 
and  N.  of  Down).  Gfflen  Regi  de  Turteri. 
(O'Flinnof  Tuirtre  in  Antrim,  E.  of  Lough 


Neagh).  Mac  Machanen.  Markmahunde  of 
Iryshe  UryelL  (M'Mahon  of  Uriel  in  Mo- 
naghan).  Mac  O'Cahnery.  (Harris in  Leland, 
vol.  i.  p.  221,  suspects  that  this  is  the  chief  of 
the  Ostmen  of  Waterford.  See  Davis'  Disco- 
very, p.  80).  Conehor  O.  Brin  fil' Dunecan. 
Carbrach  de  Thodmend.  Obryen  de  Toybryen. 
(O'Brien  of  Toybrien  in  Clare).  Cormacle- 
than  Macardhy  de  Dessemon'.  M'Hurrye  of 
Desmond.  (M'Cartymore  of  Desmond).  Ros 
Ofalaner  de  Dessia.  (O'Phelan  of  Deciesin 
Waterford).  Ricardo  Machermekan  de  Des- 
sia. Corf  Othenuer  de  Fermuy.  (Harris 
says,  perhaps  not  correctly,  O' Condon  of 
Fermoy  in  Cork).  Shonnethor  O'Cafferlyde 
Corrac.  O'Flahyrtye  de  Bonn.  (O'Flaherty 
of  Borin  in  Sligo).  Macthulaner  O'Kellic  de 
Ochonyl.  Okealy  de  Imuyne.  (O'Kelly  of 


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1243-  Death  of  Hugh  de  Lacy,  Earl  of  Ulster,  he  left  only  one  daughter, 
who  was  married  to  Walter  de  Burgh,  and  brought  him  the  Earldom  of  Ulster ; 
Hugh  is  buried  at  Carrickfergus  in  the  Friary.  Death  of  Gerald  Fitz  Maurice 
and  of  Richard  de  Burgh. 

1248.  Lord  John  Fitz  Geffry,  Justiciary  of  Ireland. 

1250.  Mac  Canewei,  a  son  of  Belial,  is  slain  in  Leix,  William  LongEspee 
with  many  others  is  taken  prisoner. 

1251.  Birth  of  Henry  Lacy. 

1255.  Alan  de  la  Zouche  is  Justiciary. 

1257.  Death  of  Maurice  Fitz  Gerald.  A  battle  at  Down  between  the 
English  and  the  Irish  of  Connaught  and  Ulster,  where  fell  O'Neil,  called  Ber- 
nard Cahedon.  The  Geraldines  in  Desmond  attack  M'Carty,  and  are  routed  by 
him,  where  fell  John  Fitz  Thomas,  his  son  Maurice,  fifteen  knights,  and  eight 
barons.  John  Cogan,  the  Justiciary  of  Ireland,  and  Theobald  Butler  taken 
prisoners  by  the  son  of  Lord  Maurice  Fitz  Gerald. 

1 259.  Stephen  de  LongEspee,  Justiciary.     O'Neil  is  slain  at  Down. 

1260. 


Kilconnell  in  Gal  way).  Murchod  Macbrin  de 
Natherlak.  (Harris  says,  O' Brine  of  Rane- 
lagh  in  Wioklow). 

In  1275  the  Irish  kings  of  Ulster  are  thus 
given  in  Rymer ,  vol.  i.  p.  520 :  Od  O '  Neill,  King 
of  Kenelyon  (Tyrone).  Commoy  O'Kathran 
(  O'  Cahan),  King  of  Kenach.  O'  Nel,  King  of 
Yncheun  (Innishowen  ?).  Mac  Dumlene  (Dun- 
levy),  King  of  the  Irish  of  Ulster.  O'Flinn, 
King  of  Curcury  (Turtury).  O'Hanlon, 
King  of  Ergallia  (Uriel).  Mac  Gilmori,  Chief 
of  Anderkin.  Mac  Kartan,  King  of  Onelich. 
f  Beliall — Pembridge  says  that  this  son  of 
Belial  was  killed  in  Leix  "  sicut  bene  meruit," 
as  he  well  deserved.  The  word  "  interficitur," 
by  the  error  of  the  transcriber,  has  been  trans- 
ferred in  the  MS.  from  this  to  the  preceding 
entry. 

•  e  Gulielmus  Longaspanta — William  Long 
Espee  was  killed  in  the  battle  of  Massoura 

F 


in  Egypt,  when  St.  Louis  was  taken  prisoner 
in  his  fatal  attempt  upon  Cairo,  the  Babylon 
of  the  middle  ages.  It  appears  from  M. 
Paris  that  a  false  report  of  the  capture  of 
Cairo  at  this  time  had  reached  Europe,  as 
had  also  been  the  case  in  1167,  when  Grace 
erroneously  records  its  capture  by  Almaric, 
King  of  Jerusalem. 

h  Mac  Karti Hanmer,  p.  400,  quoting 

Clinne,  places  this  defeat  of  the  Geraldines 
at  1260.  It  is  noticed  by  Pembridge  very 
briefly  at  1261. 

*  Fitz  Gerot — There  is  great  confusion  in 
the  entries  for  this  and  the  following  years. 
The  events,  which  are  given  collectively  under 
this  date,  being  mentioned  separately  under 
the  years  1259,  1261,  and  1264.  These  An- 
nals were  carelessly  compiled  from  different 
authorities,  all  of  them,  unhappily,  sufficiently 
meagre. 


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1260.  Obiit  Stephanus.     Arx  viridis  in  Ultonia  dejicitur.     Gulielmus  Dene 
fit  Justitiarius. 

1261.  Johannes  filius  Thomas,  et  Mauricius  filius  ejus  interficiuntur  in  Des- 
monia  a  Mac  Karthy.    Obiit  Gulielmus  Dene  Justitiarius,  ei  successit  Capella". 

1262.  Obiit  Ricardus  Clare  comes  Gloverniae. 

1 264.  Mauritius  filius  Geraldi,  et  Mauritius11  filius  Mauritii,  ceperunt  Ricar- 
dum  de  Capella,  Justitiarium,  et  Theobaldum  Butler,  et  Johanncm  Cogan,  apud 
Castellum  Dermont. 

1267.  David  de  Barri  Justitiarius. 

1 268.  Mauritius  filius  Mauritii  subjungitur1.     Item  Dominus  Robertus  Uffor 
fit  Justitiarius. 

1269.  Arx  Roscomam  conditur.    Johannes  de  Troinis"1  Justitiarius. 

1270.  Jacobus  de  Audley  Justitiarius. 

1271.  Pestis",  fames,  et  gladius,  in  Hibernia  et  maxime  in  Media;  interfici- 
tur  Nicolaus  de  Verdon0,  et  Johannes  frater  ejus.     Obiit  Gualterus  de  Burgo 
comes  Ultonia3. 

1272.  Interficitur  Justitiarius  Jacobus  Audley,  lapsus  ab  equo  in  Thothomo- 
mia,  cui  successit  Mauritius  Mauritii. 

1273.  Galfridusde  Genevilep,  rediens  de  terra  sancta,  fit  Justitiarius. 

1274. 

j  Capella — He  is  called  Richard  deRupella  to  this  outrage  at  Castle  Dei-mot,   Maurice 

in  Felim's  letter — See  notes  to  1241.  Fitzmaurice  Fit/gerald,  Justiciary  in  1272, 

k  Mauritius — It  may  be  doubted  whether  and  John  Fitz  Thomas,  Earl  of  Kildare. 

these  two  names  do  not  signify  the  same  per-  '  Subjungitur. — Submergitur  :  Pembridge. 

son.     Pembridge  reads  Mauricius  filius  Ge-  At  1267  Hanmer,  quoting  from  the  English 

raldi  et  Mauricius  filius  Mauricii  cepit.     His  Anonymous  (Campion?)  who  seems  to  have 

grammar  is  not  always  good,  but  this  sole-  read  subjungitur,  and  to  have  considered  it  as 

cism  would  be  unusually  gross,  and  struck  equivalent  to  subjugat ur,  says  :  "  David  Barry 

Grace,  who  was  not  particular,  and  was  cor-  quelled  or  tamed  (saith  the  English  Anony- 

rected  by  him  into  ceperunt:  the  original  was  mos)  the  insolent  dealing  of  Maurice  Fitzmau- 

probably  Mauricius  filius  Geraldi,  i.  e.  Mauri-  rice,  cousin  german  to  Gerald."    At  1268,  he 

cius  Mauricii.   Lodge  does  not  give  two  Mau-  says,  "the  same  year,  saith  Felcon  (O'Fihely  ?) 

rice  Fitzgeralds  at  this  time.   Cox  (p.  70)  says,  and  Clinne,  Maurice  Fitzgerald  Earl  of  Des- 

that  the  quarrel  between  the  Fitzgeralds  and  mond,  was  drowned  crossing  the  seas  between 

the  Burkes  originated  in  a  dispute  about  some  England  and  Ireland/'  with  this  Cox  agree^s, 

lands  in  Connaught,  and  he  names  as  parties  except  that  he  says,  that  Maurice  Fitzgerald 


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1260.  Death  of  Stephen  LongEspee.    Green  Castle,  in  Ulster,  is  thrown 
down.     William  Dene  is  made  Justiciary. 

1261.  John  Fitz  Thomas  and  Maurice  his  son  are  slain  in  Desmond  by 
Mac  Carty.     Death  of  William  Dene,    Justiciary,  he  was  succeeded  by  De 
Capella. 

1262.  Death  of  Richard  Clare,  Earl  of  Gloucester. 

1264.  Maurice  Fitz  Gerald  and  Maurice  Fitz  Maurice  took  prisoners  at 
Castle  Dermot,  Richard  de  Capella,  Justiciary,  and  Theobald  Butler,  and  John 
Cogan. 

1267.  David  de  Barry,  Justiciary. 

1268.  Maurice  Fitz  Maurice  is  subdued.    Also  Lord  Robert  Ufford  is  made 
Justiciary. 

1 269.  The  Castle  of  Roscommon  is  built.    John  de  Troinis,  [de  Exoniis'], 
Justiciary. 

1270.  James  de  Audley,  Justiciary. 

1271.  Pestilence,  famine,  and  the  sword  in  Ireland,  and  chiefly  in  Meath; 
Nicholas  de  Verdon  is  slain  and  his  brother  John.     Death  of  Walter  de  Burgh, 
Earl  of  Ulster. 

1272.  James   Audley,    Justiciary,    is   killed    by  a  fall  from   his  horse  in 
Thomond,  Maurice  Fitz  Maurice  succeeded  him. 

1273.  Geoffry  de  Genevillc  returns   from  the   Holy  Land,   and   is   made 
Justiciary. 

1274. 

was  not  of  Desmond,  but  son  of  Maurice,  who  ing  :  and  slew  a  great  number  of  knights  and 

was  Lord  Justice  in  1272 — See  extracts  from  nobles  that  held  with  the  Burke,  especially  the 

M.  Paris  in  note  to  1242.  Lord  Richard  Verdon  and  the  Lord  John 

ni  Johannes  de  Troinis. — Ricardusde  Exoniis  Verdon. 
in  all  other  authorities.  p  Galfridus  de  Genevile — Geoffry  de  Join- 

n  Pestis. — In  England  this  year  was,  "  fru-  ville,  brother  to  Jean  de  Joinville,  the  com- 

gifer,  fructifer  et  quietus." — M.  Paris.  panion  and  historian  of  St.  Louis,  was  the 

0  Nicolaus  de  Verdon — Hanmer  (p.  403)  confidential  friend  of  Edward  the  First,  with 

says,  from   Clinne,  that  in  1270  the  King  of  whom  he  had  probably  now  made  the  crusade. 

Connaught,    in   a   pitched    battle,    defeated  He  was  the  husband  of  Matilda  de  Lacy,  and, 

Walter  Burke,   Earl  of  Ulster,  who  hardly  in  her  right,  Lord  of  the  Moiety  of  Meath 

escaped  with  his  life,  yet  died  the  year  follow-  See  notes  to  1241  and  to  1308. 


1 274.  Edwardus  primus9  rex  constituitur,  coronatus  in  festo  S.  Magni.  Obiit 
Johannes  de  Verdona.  Thomas  Clarer  in  Hyberniam  venit.  Gulielmus  Rogeri", 
Prior  Hospitaliorum,  [capitur]  cum  multis  aliis  apud  Glendelori1,  nonnullique 
interficiuntur  ibidem. 

i275u.  Moridaghv  capitur  apud  Noragh  a  Gualterode  Faunt. 

1276.  Robertus  DufFordw  fit  Justitiarius. 

1277.  O  Brenex  interficitur. 

1278.  Obiit  David  Barri,  et  Johannes  Cogan. 

1279.  Robertus  Dufford  profectus  in  Angliam  constituit  loco   ejus  fratrem 
Robertum  Fulburney.    Mutata  est  moneta2.    Tabula  rotunda3  a  Rogero  de  mor- 
tuo  mari  ad  Kenelworth  celebrata. 

1280.  Robertus  Dufford  Justiciarius  rediit. 

1281.  Adam  Cusacke  Junior  interfecit  Gulielmum  Baretb  et  alios  quamplu- 
rcs  in  Connacia.     Frater  Stephanus  Fulburn  fit  Justitiarius,  rediit  in  Angliam 
Robertus. 

1282.  Occiditur  Moritagh  et  Art  Mac  Murgh,  frater  ejus,  apud  Arclowe. 
Obiit  Rogerus  de  mortuo  mari. 

1283.  Arsitc  Dubliniae  pars,  et  Campanile  Trinitatis. 

1284. 

q  Edwardus  primus — Although  Henry  III.  King  of  Kenelyon,  and  Commoy  O'Kathran, 

died  16th  November,  1272,  Edward  was  not  King  of  Kenacht,  plundered  and  laid  waste 

crowned  until  1274.      Walsingham  says  that  the  lands  of  William  Fitzwarin,  Seneschal  of 

the    coronation  was   celebrated   "  Dominica  Ulster,  but  were  afterwards  defeated  by  the 

infra    Octavas    Assumptionis    B.    Virginis,"  Seneschal  and  Hugh  Byset,  with  the  assist- 

which  in  the  year  1274  was  August  19th  or  ance  of  N.  O'Nel,  King  of  Yncheun,  and  the 

the  Feast  of  St.  Magnus — Vide  JBrev.  Sarum.  other  Irish  chiefs  of  Ulster,  whose  names  are 

r  Thomas  Clare — Brother  of  Gilbert  Earl  given  at  the  end  of  note  e  to  1242,  from  Ry- 

of  Gloucester,  married  the  daughter  of  Mau-  mer,  vol.  i.  p.  520. 

rice  Fitz  Maurice  Fitz  Gerald.  v  Moridagh Cox  (p.  73)  calls  him  "  Mor- 

s  Gulielmus  Rogeri William  Fitz  Roger,  tagh,  a  strong  tory."     Walter  L'Enfant  is 

Prior  of  Kilmainham,  near  Dublin.  named  in  Rot.  Pat.  31  Ed.  I.  16. 

«  Glindelori.  —  Or     Glandilore,   [Glenda-  w    Robert    If  Ufford.  —  Pembridge    says, 

lough?]    a  fastness    in  Pheagh  Mac  Hugh's  "  iterate  cessit  Galfridus  de  Genevile." 

country,  in  the  County  Wicklow Harl.  MS.  x  O  Brene — O'Bryan  Roe,   King  of  Tho- 

1291,  British  Museum.  mond,  taken  and  beheaded   by  Thomas  de 

"1275 — In  this  year  the  Mandevilles  of  Clare  (Cox,  p.  73).  Cox  adds,  that  afterwards 

Ulster,   with  the    assistance   of  Od  O'Neil,  the  Irish  drove  Thomas  and  his  father-in-law 


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1274-  Edward  the  First  is  established  King,  he  was  crowned  on  the  festi- 
val of  St.  Magnus,  \_Aucfust  ip^A].  Death  of  John  de  Verdon.  Thomas  Clare 
comes  into  Ireland.  William  Fitz  Roger,  Prior  of  the  Hospitallers,  is  taken 
with  many  others  at  Glindelory,  and  some  are  slain  there. 

1275.  Murtagh  is  taken  at  Norragh  by  Walter  1'Enfant. 

1276.  Robert  d'Ufford  is  made  Justiciary. 

1277.  O'Brene  is  killed. 

1278.  Death  of  David  Barry  and  of  John  Cogan. 

1279.  Robert  d'Ufford  goes  into  England;  he  appointed  in  his  place  Friar 
Robert  Fulburn.     The  money  is  changed.     A  Round  Table  held  at  Kenilworth 
by  Roger  de  Mortimer. 

1280.  Robert  d'Ufford,  Justiciary,  returned. 

1281.  Adam  Cusacke,  Junior,  slew  William  Baret  and  many  others  in  Con- 
naught.     Friar  Stephen  Fulburn  is  made  Justiciary,  Robert  d'  Ufford  returned 
into  England. 

1282.  Murtagh  and  Arthur  M'Morough  his  brother  are  slain  at  Arklow. 
Death  of  Roger  de  Mortimer. 

1283.  Part  of  Dublin  burned,  and  the  Belfry  of  Trinity  Church. 

1284. 

into  the  mountains  of  Slieve  Bloom,  and  kept  halfpence  were  coined  round,  and  farthings 

them  there  until  they  were  forced  to  feed  upon  coined  for  the  first  time.   Round  halfpence  and 

horseflesh,   and  at  last,  to  surrender  them-  farthings  were  coined  in  Ireland  by  John  as 

selves  prisoners ;  and  that  to  obtain  their  li-  Lord  of  Ireland,  and  afterwards  by  that  prince 

berty,  they  were  forced  to  give  hostages  that  when  he  became  king — Lindsay's    View   of 

they  would  make  satisfaction  for  O'Brine's  the  Coinage  of  Ireland,  p.  24. 

death,  and  surrender  the  Castle  of  Roscom-  a  Tabula  rotunda — "  Illustris  Miles  Roge- 

mon.  rus  de  Mortuomari  apud  Kelingworthe  ludum 

y  Robertum  Fulburne. — Stephen  Fulburne  militarem,  quern  vocant  Rotundam  Tabularn 

was  Bishop  of  Waterford  from  1273  to  1286,  100  Militum  ac  tot  Dominorum  constituit." — 

and  was  afterwards  Archbishop  of  Tuam;  he  Walsing.  Hist.,  in  anno.  1280. 

is  called  Robert  both  by  Grace  and  by  Pern-  b  Baret. — Syr  Walter  Barrette's  sonnes  de 

bridge  at  this  date,  and  Stephen  by  both  at  Tyrre  Auly  were  amongst  the  great  English 

1281.  rebels  in  Connaught  in  1515. — State  Papers, 

1  Mutata  est  Moneta — The  first  coinage  of  H.  VIII.,  vol.  ii.  part  iii.  p.  7- 

Edward  I.  in  England  and  in  Ireland. — See  c  Arsit. — Nonas  Januarii,  (5th  January). — 

Ruding,  vol.  ii.  p.  92.     Walsingham  states  Pembridge. 

that  in  1280,  for  the  first  time  in  England,  In  1303,  Friar  Henry  of  Cork,  who  hadbeen 


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1284-  Capitur  arxde  Leyd  a  regulis  Ofaliae,  ct  incenditur.     Obiit  Alfontius 
filins  Eduardi.  12.  annorum. 

1285.  Obiit  Theobaldus  Butler  in  Castello  de  Arclo.     Captus  est  Geraldus 
Mauritii  a  suis  Hibernis  in  Ofalia,  et  Ricardus  Petit  et  S  Dogee  cum  aliis  non- 
nullis  [interficiuntur].     JEditur  strages  magna  apud  Rathodf. 

1286.  Arsit  le  Norragh,  et  Arsollg,  aliaque  opida  proxima  Phillippo  Stan- 
ton    1 6.  Cal.  Decembris.     Calwagh  capitur  Kildariae.     Obiit  Thomas  Clarus. 

1287.  Obiit  frater  Stephanus  Fulburn,  archiepiscopus  Tuanensis,  etsucces- 
sit  Justitiarius  Johannes  Stanford11,  archiepiscopus  Dubliniae. 

1290.  Justitiarius  Gulielmus  Vesci.     O  Melaghlin1  rex  Mediae  interficitur. 
Gilbertus  Clare  ducit  in  uxorem  dominam  Johannam  de  Aeon,  filiam  Edwardi 
regis. 

1291.  Gilbertus  Clare,  filius  Gilbert!  et  Johannas,    10  Maii  ineunte  natus. 
Ricardus,  comes  Ultonise,   et  Gulielmus  Vesci,    Justiciarius,  Ultonise    petunt 
cum  exercitu,  adversus  O  Hanlan  et  alios  regulos  pacem  impedientes.  Concessa 
Regi  Edwardo  decima  pars  omnium  proventuum  eccl[es]iasticorum  in  Hybernia 
per  septennium  a  papa  Martinc-i,  in  subsidium  terre  sancte. 

1 293 .   Gilbertus  Clare  cum  uxore  in  Hyberniam  appulit. 

1294. 

sent  by  the  Prior  of  the  church  of  the  H.  Trinity,  to  apply  to  its  repair  one  year's  income  of 
Dublin,  to  collect  alms  throughout  Ireland  to  every  benefice  in  the  diocese,  which  should 
build  that  church,  had  letters  of  protection. —  become  vacant  in  the  next  ten  years — Regis- 
(Rot.  Pat.  31,  Ed.  I.  19).  Holinshed  says,  trum  Moraviense,  p.  349.  Thus  voluntary 
that  the  citizens,  before  they  went  about  to  re-  contributions,  compulsory  labour,  and  the  se- 
pair  their  own  private  buildings,  agreed  to-  questration  of  ecclesiastical  benefices,  joined 
gether  to  make  a  collection  for  repairing  the  probably  to  heavy  mortgages  on  Church  pro- 
ruins  of  that  ancient  building  first  begun  by  perty,  were  occasionally  used  in  aid  of  the 
the  Danes.  When  St.  Patrick's  Church  was  usual  funds  for  the  building  and  the  repair 
burned  in  1370,  sixty  straggling  and  idle  fel-  of  the  churches  of  those  times, 
lows  were  taken  up  and  obliged  to  assist  in  (1  De  Ley. — Lea  Castle  on  the  Barrow  near 
repairing  the  church  and  building  the  steeple,  Portarlington.  It  was  taken  on  the  morrow 
who  when  the  work  was  over  returned  to  their  of  St.  Barnabas,  June  12. — Pembridge. 
old  trade  of  begging,  but  were  banished  out  e  Doge. — This  name  appears  in  the  Calen- 
of  the  diocese  in  1376  by  Archbishop  Wike-  dar.  Rot.  Cl.  v.  Pat.  Cancell.  as  Doget,  Do- 
ford — Ware's  Bishops,  p.  333.  ket,  and  Ducket,  it  is  probably  now  Duckett. 
When  the  Church  of  St.  Andrew's  in  Scot-  These  names  are  called  Richard  Petytand  S. 
land  was  burned  the  Pope  granted  permission  Doget  by  Pembridge ;  and  Gerald  Doget  and 


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1 284.  The  Castle  of  Ley  is  taken  by  the  Chiefs  of  Ofaly,  and  is  burned. 
Death  of  Alfonso,  son  of  Edward,  twelve  years  of  age. 

1285.  Death  of  Theobald  Butler  in  the  Castle  of  Arklow.     Gerald  Fitz 
Maurice  is  taken  by  his  own  Irishmen  in  Ofaly,    and  Ralph  Petit  and   G. 
Doget,  with  some  others,  are  killed.     There  is  a  great  slaughter  at  Rathod. 

1286.  Norragh  burned,  and  Ardscoll,  and  other  neighbouring  towns,  by 
Philip  Stanton,  on  the  1 6th  of  November.     Calwagh  is  taken  at  Kildare.     Death 
of  Thomas  Clare. 

1287.  Death  of  Friar  Stephen  Fulburn,  Archbishop  of  Tuam,  John  Saun- 
ford,  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  succeeded  him  as  Justiciary. 

1 290.  William  Vesci,  Justiciary.     O'Melaghlin,  King  of  Meath,  is  killed. 
Gilbert  Clare  marries  the  Lady  Joan  of  Acre,  daughter  of  King  Edward. 

1291.  Gilbert  Clare,  son  of  Gilbert  and  Joan,  born  on  the  morning  of  the 
lothofMay.     Richard,  Earl  of  Ulster,  and  William  Vesci,  Justiciary,   go  to 
Ulster  with  an  army,  against  O'Hanlan  and  the  other  chiefs  who  hindered  the 
peace.     A  tenth  part  of  all  ecclesiastical  revenues  in  Ireland  granted  to  King 
Edward  for  seven  years  by  Pope  Martin,  for  the  aid  of  the  Holy  Land. 

1293.  Gilbert  Clare  with  his  wife  landed  in  Ireland. 

1294. 

Ralph  Petit  by  Marleburgh,  Cox,  and  Holin-  burgh  says  that  this   O'Melaghlin  was  killed 

shed,  who  add  that  they  were  then  slain.  by   M'Coghlan  (of  Delvin  Ethra  in   King's 

f  Rathod. — Perhaps  Rathood,  near  Nob-  County),  who  at  the  same  time  slew  William 

ber,  in  the  County  Meath.  Burke.     The  O'Melaghlins  of  Meath  were 

s  Norragh  et  Arsoll.  —  Narraghmore  and  one  of  the  five  septs  or  bloods,  "  Qui  gaudeant 

Moate  Ardscoll  in  Kildare.  lege  Anglicana,  quoad  brevia  portanda,"  the 

11  Johannes  Stanford. — John  de  Saunford,  others  were  O'Neale  of  Ulster,   O'Conor  of 

Archbishop  from  1284  to  1294. — Ware.  Connaught,  O'Brien  of  Thomond,  and  Mac- 

'  O'Melaghlin — O'Melaghlin's  territories      Murrogh,   (Cavanagh),   of  Leinster Plea 

were  iu  the  west  of  Westmeath.    In  the  state  Roll.  3  Ed.  II.,  quoted  by  Davies,  Discovery, 

of  Ireland,   1515,  he  is  called  O'Mullaghlyn  p.  79. 

de  Clyncolman,  said  in  the  note  to  be  Clon-  J  Papa  Martino.  —  Martin  IV.    Pope  from 

lonan    in    Westmeath.     The    O'Melaghlins  1281  to  1285.     In  1291  Pope  Nicholas  IV., 

seem  to  have  been  attached  to  the  English :  after  the  capture  of  Acre  by  the  Saracens, 

O'Malan  Helyn,  chief  of  the  Irish  in  Meath,  granted  to  Edward  I.,  as  had  been  proposed 

and  O'Molaghlyn  of  Meath,  were  summoned  by  his  predecessors    Martin  IV.  and  Hono- 

respectively,  by  Edward  II.  in  1314,  and  by  rius  IV.,  the  tenth  of  all  ecclesiastical  bene- 

Edward  III.  in    1335 — (Rymer).      Marie-  fices  for  the  last  six  years  and  for  the  next 

IRISH  ARCH.  SOC.  3.  G 


i294k-  Gulielmus  Vesci1  accusavit  Johannem  Thomas  feloniae;  in  Angliam 
navigarunt,  relicto  Gulielmo  de  Lahay  loco  Justitiarii.  Provocavit  Gulielmum 
Johannes  ad  duellum,  is  pugnam  detractans  in  Franciam  aufugit;  quse  illius 
fuerunt  omnia  Rex  Joliaiini  donavit,  id  est  Kildare  et  Rathengam,  et  alia  multa. 
Ricardus™,  comes  Ultonise,  captus  est  a  Johanne  filio  Thomas  in  castro  de  Lega, 
id  est  Lei,  et  detinuit  aliquandiu,  liberatus  autem  est  regis  parliamento  apud  Kil- 
kenni :  in  mulctam  Johannes  possessiones  suas  perdidit,  Sligo  et  quaecumque 
habuit  in  Connacia,  item  castrum  Kyldarias.  Kildaria  et  circumjacens  regio 
spoliatur  ab  Anglis  et  Hibcrnis.  Calwagh  combussit  rotulos  et  taleas.  Cum 
magna  penuria  in  Hibernia  per  3.  annos  continues  et  pestis.  Gulielmus 
1  )odingzele"  Justitiarius. 

1295. 


six  years  at  the  full  value,  for  the  relief  of  the 
Holy  Land — Rymer,  vol.  i.  pp.  731,  752.  In 
1292  the  barons,  nobles,  and  commons  of  Ire- 
land, with  the  English  having  lands  in  Ireland 
and  the  clergy  of  Ireland,  granted  to  the  king 
a  fifteenth  of  the  moveables  of  themselves  and 
their  tenants,  saving  thereout  their  arms, 
equipages,  treasure,  and  wardrobe. — Records 
in  Tur.  London,  quoted  in  Betham's  Digni- 
ties, p.  259,  and  in  Lynch's  Feudal  Dignities, 
p.  307.  Pembridge  says,  that  this  fifteenth 
was  granted  only  by  the  laity,  and  that  it  was  to 
be  levied  at  Michaelmas.  In  1270  Henry  III. 
commanded  the  Irish  Churchmen  to  pay  the 
tenths  of  all  their  benefices  which  the  Pcpe 
had  granted  to  him  for  three  years,  and  which 
he  had  given  to  his  Queen  Eleanor,  who  had 
as  yet  received  little  profit  at  great  expense, 
and  had  appointed  Stephen  de  Fulburn,  Hos- 
pitaler, and  John  de  Bosco,  her  proctors  for 
the  receipt  thereof. — Rymer,  vol.  i.  p.  485. 

k  1294. — In  this  year  the  following  Irish 
nobles  were  summoned  to  attend  the  King  in 
Gascony.  Peter  Fitz  James  de  Bermyngham, 
Richard  de  Burgh,  Earl  of  Ulster,  Theobald 
le  Butiller,  Thomas  Fitzmaurice,  John  de 


Cogan,   John  de  Barry. — Rymer,  vol.  i.  p. 
805. 

1  Gulielmus  Vesci. — William  Vesci,  in  right 
of  his  mother  Agnes,  one  of  the  daughters  of 
Sibilla,  Countess  of  Ferrers,  to  whom  as  one 
of  the  sisters  of  the  Earls  Marshall,  the  county 
of  Kildare  was  assigned,  was  entitled  to  a 
seventh  part  of  Kildare,  and  a  dispute  about 
their  estates  was  probably  the  cause  of  the 
feud  between  him  and  the  Lord  of  Offaley. 
On  the  21st  of  April,  1294,  the  king  issued  a 
writ  to  William  de  Estdene,  Treasurer  of  Ire- 
land, Robert  Bagot  and  Walter  de  la  Haye, 
Escheator  of  Ireland,  commanding  them  that 
with  regard  to  the  duel  between  William  de 
Vescy  and  John  Fitz  Thomas,  for  which  se- 
curity had  been  given  before  them,  they  should 
make  speedy  inquiry  concerning  the  complaints 
preferred  before  the  king  in  his  last  parlia- 
ment at  Westminster,  by  John  Fitz  Thomas 
and  others,  against  the  said  William,  and  that 
they,  and  both  the  parties,  should  be  before 
the  king  on  Trinity  Monday  at  Westminster, 
until  which  time  nothing  further  should  be 
done. — Rymer,  vol.  i.  p.  799.  Archdall  (Peer- 
age de  Yescy)  says,  that  three  years  after,  (24 


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1 294.  William  Vesci  accused  John  Fitz  Thomas  of  felony ;  they  sailed  to 
England,  William  de  La-Hay  being  left  in  the  place  of  Justiciary.  John  chal- 
lenged William  to  single  combat,  but  he,  to  avoid  fighting,  fled  to  France ;  the 
King  gave  to  John  all  that  was  his ;  that  is,  Kildare  and  Rathangan,  and  many 
other  things.  Richard,  Earl  of  Ulster,  is  taken  by  John  Fitz  Thomas  in  the 
castle  of  Lega,  that  is  Ley,  and  detained  for  some  time,  but  he  was  set  at  liberty 
by  the  King's  parliament  at  Kilkenny :  as  a  penalty  John  lost  his  possessions,  Sligo 
and  whatever  else  he  had  in  Connaught,  also  the  castle  of  Kildare.  Kildare  and 
the  surrounding  country  is  wasted  by  the  English  and  by  the  Irish.  Calwagh 
burned  the  rolls  and  tallies  of  the  county.  A  great  scarcity  in  Ireland  for  three 
years  continually,  and  pestilence.  William  D'Odingzell  Justiciary. 

1295. 

Ed.  I.)  W.  de  Vescy  had  summons  to  parlia- 
ment among  the  barons  of  England,  having 
that  year  and  often  served  in  the  wars  of  Gas- 
cony,  and  that  the  year  following  the  king 
seized  his  lands  in  England  and  Scotland,  on 
account  of  the  rebellion  of  his  tenants ;  but 
upon  the  formal  surrender  of  all  his  manors 
and  castles  in  Ireland  forgave  him  all  his 


debts  due  to  the  Exchequer.  In  1297  William 
de  Vescy  surrendered  to  King  Edward  the 
castle,  manor,  and  county  of  Kildare,  to  wit, 
every  thing  he  had,  or  could  have,  in  Ireland, 
and  the  king  directed  his  Justiciary,  John 
Wogan,  to  take  possession  of  them. — Rot. 
Can.  Antiq.  45,  46.  In  1298  John  de  Mohun, 
who  was  also  one  of  Sibilla's  heirs,  exchanged 
with  the  king  his  lands,  knight's  fees,  and  ad- 
vowsons,  as  well  within  as  without  the  county 
of  Kildare,  for  the  manor  of  Long  Cumpton 
in  Warwickshire — Rot.  Can.  Antiq.,  p.  48. 
Kildare  remained  in  the  king's  hands  until  the 
14th  of  May,  1316,  (Rot.  Cl.  2  Ed.  II.  10), 
when  Edward  II.,  by  letters  patent,  declared 
that  he  had  granted  to  John  Fitz  Thomas 
"  castrum  et  villam  de  Kildare  cum  terris, 
redditibus,  et  aliis  pertinentiis  suis,  sub  honore 
et  nomine  Comitis  de  Kildare,  ipsumque  pre- 


fecisse  in  comitem  ejusdem  loci." — Lodge's 
Peerage,  Kildare.  From  this  patent  the 
sheriffship  was  specially  excepted ;  but  10th 
September,  1318,  the  king  issued  a  writ  to 
the  sheriff  informing  him  that  he  had  granted 
to  the  earl  the  sheriffship  and  the  liberty  of 
Kildare,  "  adeo  plene  sicut  Domini  Libertatis 
earn  habuere  antequam  ad  manus  Edwardi  I. 
devenit."— Rot.  Pat.  II.  Ed.  II.  2*  pars.  17- 

m  Ricardus — Pembridge  says,  that  he  was 
taken  cito  post  festum  S.  Nicolai  (Dec.  6), 
and  detained  in  Lea  Castle,  ad  festum  S.  Gre- 
gorii  PapcE  (March  12).  This  feud  must 
have  caused  general  commotion  as  in  1320 
there  is  the  following  entry :  Rex,  recitat 
monstrasse  sibi  Johannem  de  Tuyt  *  *  *  quod 
cum  ipse  et  Ricardus  Boscher  exstitissent  col- 
lectores  quintedecime  Edwardo  I.  in  Midia 
concesse  £47  8s.  remansere  in  arreragio  super 
cornpotum  suum  ad  scaccarium  que  propter 
capcionem  Ricardi  de  Burgo  comitis  Ultonie 
per  Johannem  filium  Thome  et  alias  turba- 
ciones  ubique  in  Hibernia  levari  non  potue- 
runt,  pardonavit  ei  medietatem  ipsum  contin- 
gentem  de  arreragio  prsedicto. — Rot.  Pat. 
13  Ed.  II.  80. 

n  Dodingzele — William  de  Odyngseles  on 


G2 


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I2p5-  Obiit  Gulielmus  Dodingzele,  huic  successit  Thomas  Mauritii.  La- 
ginenses  Hiberni  Lageniam  vastarunt,  Novum  castrum0  cum  aliis  cremarunt. 
Johannes  Voganp,  Justitiarius,  Thoma  cedente  ei ;  . .  . .  inducias  fecit  inter  comi- 
tem  Ultoniac;  et  Johannem  Thomas  et  Geraldinos  per  biennium.  Gilbertus  Clare, 
comes  GloArernise  moritur. 

1296.  Navigarunt  ad  regem  in  Scotiam  proficisentem  magnates  Hibernias, 
Johannes  Vogan  Justitiarius,  Ricardus  de  Burgo  comes  Ultoniae,  Theobaldvis 
Buteler,  et  Johannes  filius  Thomse,  cum  multis  aliis. 

i297(|.  Arsit  Leghlinia  per  Hibernos  Slemergir.  Galweith  O'Hanlan  et 
Inegus  Mac  Maghon  interficiuntur  in  Vagalia,  [Urgalia]. 

1298.  Pax  inter  comitem  Ultonias  [et]  Johannem  Thomas. 

1 299.  Obiit  Theobaldus  Butler  junior  in  manario  de  Turvi. 

1300.  Prohibetur  numisma  pollardorum8. 

1301.  Edwardus  rex  in  Scotiam  proficiscitur;  navigant  ad  eum  Johannes 
Vogan  Justitiarius,  et  Johannes  Thomas,  et  Petrus  Brimingham.     Arsit1  magna 
pars  comitatus  [civitatis?]  Dublinias.    Dominus  de  Genevile"  duxitfiliam  Johan- 
nis  de  Montfort.     Johannes  de  mortuo  mari  filiam  heredi[s]  domini  de  Gene- 

[vile], 


the  25th  November  of  this  year  had  a  grant 
of  lands  and  of  the  castle  of  Donymegan  in 
Connaught,  on  the  death  of  Archbishop  John 
de  Saunford — Rot.  Can.  Antiq.,  p.  30. 

0  Novum  castrum.  —  Newcastle  M'Kyne- 
gan,  in  Wicklow. 

v  Johannes  Vogan. — On  the  18th  October, 
1 295,  John  Wogan  was  ordered  to  have  ready 
10,000  foot,  and  as  many  horsemen  as  he 
thought  fit,  to  cross  the  sea  in  the  King's  ser- 
vice :  of  the  same  date  he  had  letters  of  cre- 
dence directed  to  the  Irish  nobles,  whose 
names  are  printed  in  the  appendix  from  Ry- 
mer,  vol.  i.  p.  829.  Pembridge  says,  that  the 
king  feasted  these  Irish  nobles  in  Roxburgh 
Castle  on  the  day  of  Pentecost,  which  was 
the  111  Ides  of  May— May  13. 

<»  1297-  — From  Rot.  Pat.  31  Ed.  I.  15,  it 


appears  that  John  Fitz  Thomas  and  other  Irish 
nobles  were  with  the  king  this  year  in  Flanders, 
when  the  English  lords  refused  to  attend  him. 

r  Slemergi — The  barony  of  Slewmargy  in 
the  Queen's  County. 

*  Pollardorum — Walsingham  says,  that  the 
surreptitious  and  unlawful  money  of  foreign- 
ers, which  they  called  Pollards,  and  Cocodons, 
and  Rosaries,  and  which  had  crept  in  gra- 
dually and  secretly  in  the  place  of  Sterlings, 
is  cried  down.  King  Edward  first  ordered 
that  this  money  should  pass  for  a  halfpenny, 
and  then  altogether  drove  it  out  of  the  country, 
for  the  Frenchmen  made  this  money,  which 
was  not  of  silver,  but  merely  plated  over,  and  it 
passed  in  many  places  for  sterlings,  and  many 
were  deceived  by  it — Hist.  Angl.  A.  D.  1301. 

Were  these  coins,  which  are  called  Pollards 


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William  D'Odingzell  died,  he  was  succeeded  by  Thomas  Fitz  Maurice. 
The  Irish  of  Leinster  wasted  Leinster,  they  burned  Newcastle  and  other  places. 
John  Wogan  Justiciary  on  the  resignation  of  Thomas;  he  made  a  truce  for  two 
years  between  the  Earl  of  Ulster  and  John  Fitz  Thomas  and  the  Geraldines. 
Gilbert  Clare,  Earl  of  Gloucester,  dies. 

1296.  The  Magnates  of  Ireland  sailed  to  the  king,  who  was  going  into 
Scotland,  namely,  John  Wogan,  Justiciary,  Richard  de  Burgh,  Earl  of  Ulster, 
Theobald  Butler,  and  John  Fitz  Thomas,  with  many  others. 

1297.  Leighlin  burned  by  the  Irish  of  Slewmargy.     Galweith  O'Hanlon 
and  Angus  M'Mahon  are  killed  in  Uriel. 

1298.  Peace  between  the  Earl  of  Ulster  and  John  Fitz  Thomas. 
1  299.  Theobald  Butler,  Junior,  died  at  the  Manor  of  Turvey. 

1300.  The  money  of  the  Pollards  is  cried  down. 

1301.  King  Edward  goes  into  Scotland;  there  go  to  him  John  Wogan, 
Justiciary,  and  John  Fitz  Thomas  and  Peter  Birmingham.     Great  part  of  the 
city  of  Dublin  is  burned.     The  Lord  Geneville  married  the  daughter  of  John 
de  Montfort.     John  de  Mortimer  married  the  daughter  of  the  heir  of  the  Lord 

Geneville, 


or  Ballards,  (Rot.  Pat.  31  Ed.  I.  66),  the 
money  of  the  Ballardi,  money  dealers  of 
Lucca,  who  had  transactions  with  these  coun- 
tries at  that  time  ? — (Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  37).  In 
the  character  of  the  foreign  money  dealers 
there  was  nothing  inconsistent  with  the  issuing 
of  light  or  bad  money  ;  they  seem  to  have  been 
guilty  of  great  extortion.  Matt.  Paris  (page 
353)  gives  a  copy  of  one  of  their  bonds,  by  w  hich 
it  appears  that  they  charged  at  the  rate  of  60 
per  cent,  for  their  loans. — See  also  Du  Cange 
voce  Caorsini.  Their  chief  debtors  seem  to 
have  been  the  religious  houses,  who  were  pro- 
bably better  security  than  laymen :  the  monks 
may  have  borrowed  money  to  defray  the  ex- 
actions of  the  king  or  of  the  Pope,  or  to  enable 
them  to  erect  those  buildings  with  which  they 
adorned  the  country  ;  some  of  which  still  give 


evidence  of  their  taste  and  splendour,  and 
which  were  the  abodes  of  all  the  civilization 
and  literature  then  in  Ireland. 

'  Arsit. — This  fire  is  said  by  Pembridge  to 
have  occurred  on  St.  Colme's  Eve  (October 
22nd),  and  to  have  destroyed  St.  Werburgh's 
church.  It  seems  to  have  been  confined  to 
the  south  side  of  the  river,  and  is  not  to  be 
confounded  with  the  fire  on  the  north  side  in 
1304. 

"  Dominus  de  Genevile. — Who  this  was  it 
is  not  easy  to  discover.  Johannes  de  Mortuo- 
mari  was  Roger  Mortimer,  Lord  of  Wigmore, 
and  in  right  of  his  grandmother,  Matilda  de 
Braos,  Lord  of  Dunamase  or  Leix.  He  mar- 
ried Matilda,  daughter  of  Peter  de  Geneville 
and  granddaughter  of  Geoffry  de  Geneville 
and  Matilda  de  Lacy. 


[vile],  et  Theobaldus  de  Verdon  filiam  Rogeri  de  Mortuo  Man.  Rebellarunt 
Laginiensesv  et  regionem  vastarunt,  verum  suis  despoliati  penas  dederunt ;  occisi 
sunt  300  latronum  fere.  Gualterus  Poner  magnara  partem  Momoniae  devastat. 

1302.  Obiit  Matilda  de  Laciw,  uxor  Galfridi  de  Genevile.    Decimae*  omnium 
beneficiorum  Hibernise  exactas  a  papa  in  subsidium  ecclesias,  contra  regem  Aro- 
gonum.     Hugo  de  Laci  depredavit  Hugonem  Vernaily,  in  die  circuinsitionis. 
Johannes  [Robertus]  le  Brusz  comes  de  Carrick  ducit  in  uxorem  Elizabeth  filiam 
Ricardi  de  Burgo  comitis  Ultoniae,   et  dominus  Butler  filiam  Johannis  Fitz 
Thomas. 

1303.  Ricardus  de  Burgoa  et  Eustatius  le  Pover  cum  ingenti  exercitu  inva- 
serunt  Scotiam  in  auxilium  regis.     Obiit  Geraldus  heres  filius  Johannis  Thomas 
Obiit  Comitissa  Ultoniae.     Robertus  Percevaltb  et  Walvamis  Welsley  interfecti 
sunt. 


v  Laginiemes — They  burned  Wicklow  and 
Rathdown  in  the  winter. — Pembridge.  Wal- 
ter le  Poer  laid  waste  Munster  against  the 
king's  peace — Rot.  Pat.  31  Ed.  I.  48. 

"Matilda  de  Lad — There  were  at  this  time 
two  Matilda  de  Lacys — one  of  them  the  wife 
of  Geoffry  de  Geneville,  the  other  the  wife  of 
David  (Loundres)  Baron  of  Naas,  who  in  1301 
made  a  grant  of  lands  in  Coly  and  of  the  ad- 
vowson  of  the  church  of  Carlingford  to  the 
priory  of  Kilmainham.  —  Archdall's  Mon. 
Hib.,  p.  226.  The  compiler  of  these  Annals 
has  called  them  both  the  wife  of  Geoffry  de 
Geneville,  and  has  entered  her  death  under 
this  year,  and  also  in  1304.  The  church 
of  Carlingford,  the  church  of  Ruskach,  and 
the  churches  and  chapels  of  all  Coly,  had 
previously  been  granted  by  Hugh  de  Lascy, 
Earl  of  Ulster,  to  the  Priory  of  St.  Andrew's 
in  Scotland. — Regist.  Prior.  St.  Andree  in 
Scotia,  p.  118.  Geneville's  wife  had  first 
married  Peter  de  Geneva,  or  Genevre,  called 
by  Matt.  Paris,  who  mentions  his  death  in 


1304. 

1256,  a  low  born  Provencal.  On  Walter  de 
Lacy's  death  in  1243,  he  and  his  wife  Matilda 
de  Lacy  had  an  order  for  the  castle  of  Lud- 
low  as  part  of  her  possessions — Rot.  Tur. 
Lond.  28  Hen.  III. 

x  Decimce — December  15th,  1300,  Boni- 
face VIII.  directed  a  bull  to  Edward  I.  com- 
plaining that  the  tenth  of  ecclesiastical  bene- 
fices granted  to  the  king  by  Nicholas  IV.  on 
condition  of  his  making  a  crusade,  and  which 
had  been  paid  in  Ireland  to  the  Pope's  collec- 
tors of  the  society  of  the  Spini  of  Florence, 
had  been  arrested  by  the  justiciary,  and  ex- 
horting him  to  order  that  the  said  merchants 
should  be  allowed  to  bring  away  the  said 
tenth  from  Ireland,  "tarn  in  pecunia,  quam  in 
aliis  rebus." — Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  926.  He  after- 
wards, February  24th,  1301,  gave  to  the  king 
whatever  had  been  paid  to  him  for  the  three 
first  years. — Ibid.,  p.  928.  The  remaining 
three  years  he  seems  to  have  reserved  to  his 
own  use.  There  was  peace  at  this  time  be- 
tween Boniface  VIII.  and  James  II.,  King  of 


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Geneville,  and  Theobald  de  Verdon  the  daughter  of  Roger  de  Mortimer.  The 
Leinster  men  rebelled  and  plundered  the  country,  but  were  punished  by  the 
loss  of  their  goods ;  nearly  three  hundred  of  the  robbers  are  slain.  Walter  Power 
devastates  great  part  of  Munster. 

1302.  Matilda  de  Lacy,  wife  of  Geoffry  de  Geneville,  died.     The  tenths  of 
all  benefices  exacted  by  the  Pope  in  aid  of  the  Church  against  the   King  of 
Arragon.     Hugh  de  Lacy  plundered  Hugh  Vernail,  on  the  day  of  the  circum- 
cision  (January    ist.)     Robert  le  Brus,   Earl  of  Carrick,   married  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Richard  de  Burgh,  Earl  of  Ulster,  and  the  Lord  Butler  the  daughter 
of  John  Fitz  Thomas. 

1303.  Richard  de  Burgh  and  Eustace  le  Power  with  a  great  army  invaded 
Scotland  in  aid  of  the  king.     Gerald,  son  and  heir  of  John  Fitz  Thomas,  died. 
The  Countess  of  Ulster  died.    Robert  Perceval  and  Waleran  Wellesley  are  slain. 

1304. 


Arragon — Mariana,  Hist.  D'Espagne,  vol.  iii. 
p.  276. 

•v  Vernail. — Vernail  had  married  one  of  the 
co-heiresses  of  Misset,  Baron  of  Lune,  and  in 
her  right  possessed  large  estates  in  Meath,  to 
which  perhaps  Hugh  de  Lacy  made  some 
claim.  In  the  50th  of  Ed.  III.  Thomas  Ver- 
noile  "  Chevaler"  was  summoned  to  parlia- 
ment and  fined  for  his  absence,  he  pleaded 
that  none  of  his  ancestors  had  been  summoned 
except  as  commoners,  and  that  he  could  not 
attend  that  parliament  but  to  the  ruin  of  his 
country,  from  the  wars  carried  on  by  the 
O' Conors  and  the  Birminghams.  The  King 
commanded  that  the  latter  point  only  should 
be  inquired  into.  He  continued  to  be  sum- 
moned afterwards  as  a  feudal  baron. — Lynch's 
Feudal  Dignities,  p.  127. 

z  Le  Brus — King  Robert  the  Bruce. 

a  Rlcardus  de  Bur  go. — Richard  de  Burgh 
and  Eustache  le  Poer,  with  many  other  Irish 
nobles,  had  letters  of  protection  as  intending 
to  go  to  Scotland  this  year.  Richard  de  Burgh 


was  in  command. — Rot.  Pat.  31  Ed.  I.  21.  Gil- 
bert de  Sutton  and  Henry  Estmund,  who  had 
been  appointed  to  provide  ships  in  Wexford 
and  elsewhere,  for  the  passage  of  the  Earl  of 
Ulster  and  the  other  nobles,  was  ordered  to  be 
at  Dalkey  [near  Dublin]  before  the  Feast  of 

Trinity Rot.  Pat.  31  Ed.  1.54,55.  John  Fitz 

Thomas,  who  was  also  going  to  Scotland,  had 
permission  to  transfer  the  custody  of  the  County 
of  Kerry  to  Maurice  Fitz  Thomas — Same 
Roll.  20.  From  a  writ  to  the  Treasurer  and 
Chamberlain  of  the  Exchequer,  dated  12th 
September,  1309,  it  appears  that  Edward  I. 
owed  Richard  de  Burgh  £4000  for  his  wages 
in  the  Scotch  war,  of  which  sum  £2150  15s. 
was  still  due ;  at  the  instance  of  Piers  Gavas- 
ton,  Earl  of  Cornwall,  Lieutenant  of  Ireland, 
the  king  ordered  payment  to  be  made  "  tarn  de 
decima  biennali  quam  de  aliis  quibuscumque 
denariis  in  Thesauro." — Rot.  Cl.  2  Ed.  11. 16. 
''  Robertus  Percevalt. — Robert  Persevall  and 
Walran  de  Wylesleye  were  amongst  the  Irish 
nobles  to  whom  Geoffry  de  Geynvell  and  John 


48 


1304.  Arsit  vicus  pontis  Dubliniae  cum  magna  parte  kei,  et  ecclcsia  pre- 
dicatorum0, et  ecclesia  raonacorumd  cum  magna  parte  monasterii,  in  festo  Me- 
darde.     Primus  lapis  [ecclesise]  fratrum  predicatorum  ponitur  ab  Eustatio  Pover. 
Obiit  Matildis  Laci  uxor  Galfridi  Genevile. 

1305.  Jordanus  Comin  cum  sociis  suis  interfecit  Moritagli  O  Conhur,  regem 
Ofaliae  cum  fratre  Calwagh6  in  curia  Petri  Brimighehan  apud  Carricke  in  Car- 
beria.     Gilbertus   Sutton,   senescallusf  Wesfordiac,  interfectus  est  ab  Hibernis 
prope  villam  Halnudi  Grace.     Hamundus  strenue  pugnando  evasit. 

1306.  Occiditur  Odimicig,   dux  Reganorum,  ab  O  Congliur  in  Castro  de 
Geshill  cum  multis  suorum.     Obiit  O  Brene  rex  Thothomoniae.     Donaldus  Oge 

Mac  Karthv 


Wogan  had  letters  of  credence  respecting  the 
war  in  Scotland,  February  23,  1302 — Rymer, 
vol.  i.  p.  938.  The  list  there  given  is  the  most 
complete  list  extant  of  the  Irish  gentry  at  the 
commencement  of  the  fourteenth  century.  It 
is  printed  in  the  Appendix.  Waleran  or  Vale- 
rian is  still  a  name  in  the  Wellesley  family. 
In  Lynch's  Feudal  Dignities,  p.  100,  two  in- 
quisitions are  referred  to,  of  the  years  1538 
and  1550,  in  which  it  is  stated  that  the  Wel- 
lesleys  held  the  manor  of  Dengin  of  the  king 
as  of  his  manor  of  Trim  by  grand  sergeancy, 
viz.,  by  bearing  the  standard  of  the  lord  the 
king  in  his  wars  in  Ireland.  There  are  some 
difficulties  about  this  interesting  fact,  which  it 
is  to  be  lamented  that  Mr.  Lynch  did  not  notice : 
I.  The  Wellesleys  are  descended  from  the 
Standard  Bearer  of  Henry  II.  (see  inscription 
on  monument  at  Laracor,  County  Meath),  but 
the  Cusakes  were  in  possession  of  Dengin  in  the 
time  of  Richard  II.  (Rot.  Pat.  4  R.  II.),  and 
it  would  be  an  extraordinary  coincidence  that 
the  descendants  of  Hem-y  II.'s  standard  bearer 
should  inherit  in  the  fourteenth  century  amanor 
to  which  that  office  was  attached.  2.  As  Dengin 
was  in  the  Palatinate  of  Meath,  it  requires 
some  explanation  to  account  how  it  happened 


that  it  was  held  not  of  the  Lord  of  Meath, 
but  of  the  king,  and  held  of  the  manor  of 
Trim,  which  then  belonged  to  the  Archbishop 
of  Armagh.  The  glories  of  the  present  Wel- 
lesleys make  every  thing  interesting  which  is 
connected  with  their  adopted  name  which  is 
now  memorable  for  ever. 

0 Predicatorum — The  Friary  of  St.  Saviour 
or  the  Dominican  Abbey,  on  the  site  of  the 
present  Four  Courts. 

d  Monacorum — St.  Mary's  Abbey  of  Cis- 
tercians. In  this  abbey  were  burned  all  the 
Chancery  rolls  from  the  time  that  Thomas 
Cantok  was  appointed  Chancellor  in  1292  to 
1300,  except  two  rolls  for  that  year.  It  is  not 
stated  that  any  other  rolls  were  destroyed  ex- 
cept Thomas  Cantok's  rolls.  See  the  inven- 
tory of  rolls  given  to  Walter  de  Thornbury, 
Chancellor,  by  Bishop  Cantok's  executors. — 
Rot.  Claus.  2  Ed.  II.  416. 

e  Calwagh Probably  the  same  person  who 

burned  Kildare  in  1294.  The  death  of  Cal- 
wagh and  his  brother  is  cited  as  an  instance 
of  the  treachery  of  the  English  to  their  Irish 
neighbours,  in  the  remonstrance  sent  to  Pope 
John  XXII.  in  1315,  and  translated  in  O'Con- 
or 's  Memoirs,  p.  74.  "  Just  as  Peter  Br  umiche- 


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1304.  Bridge-street,  Dublin,  burned,  with  great  part  of  the  quay,  and  the 
church  of  the  Friars  Preachers,  and  the  church  of  the  Monks,  with  great  part  of 
the  monastery,  on  the  feast  of  Medard  (June  8).     The  first  stone  of  the  church 
of  the  Friars  Preachers  is  laid  by  Eustace  Power.     Matilda  Lacy,  wife  of  Geoffry 
Geneville,  died. 

1305.  Jordan  Comin,  with  his  comrades,  slew  Murtagh  O'Conor,   King  of 
Ofaly,  and  his  brother  Calwagh,  at  the  court  of  Peter  Birmingham  at  Carrick  in 
Carbery.     Gilbert  Button,  Seneschal  of  Wexford,  is  slain  by  the  Irish  near  the 
town  of  Hamond  Grace.     Hamond  escaped  by  boldly  fighting. 

1306.  O'Dempsy,  chief  of  the  Regans,  is  killed  by  O'Conor  in  the  castle  of 
Geashill,  King's  County,  with  many  of  his  men.     O'Brien,  King  of  Thomond, 

died. 


hame,  who  is  since  called  "  the  treacherous 
baron,"  did,  with  Mauritius  de  S  ***** 
(O'Conor  ?)  his  fellow  sponsor,  arid  said  Mau- 
ritius' brother,  Calvacus,  men  much  esteemed 
for  their  talents  and  their  honour  among  us, 
invite  them  to  an  entertainment  on  the  feast 
day  of  the  Holy  Trinity  ;  and  on  that  day, 
the  instant  they  stood  up  from'  the  table,  he 
cruelly  massacred  them  with  twenty-four  of 
their  followers,  and  sold  their  heads  at  a  dear 
price  to  their  enemies ;  and  when  he  was  ar- 
raigned before  the  King  of  England,  the  pre- 
sent king's  father,  no  justice  could  be  obtained 
against  such  a  nefarious  and  treacherous  of- 
fender." Jordan  Comyn,  to  whom  this  act 
is  ascribed  by  Pembridge  and  Grace,  was 
employed  by  John  Wogan  in  Wicklow,  in 
1309 — Rot.  Cl.  2  Ed.  II.  77.  Pembridge 
says,  "Jordanus  Comyn  cum  complicibus," 
with  his  accomplices,  evidently  condemning 
the  act. 

f Senescallus — Wexford  was  then  a  palati- 
nate, and  was  governed,  not  by  a  sheriff,  but 
by  a  seneschal  appointed  by  Aymer  de  Valence, 
Earl  of  Pembroke  and  Lord  of  Wexford,  in 
right  of  his  mother  Joan  de  Montchensey, 


daughter  and  heiress  of  Joan  Marshall. 

8  OdimicL  —  In  this  engagement  O'Conor 
was  defeated. — Pembridge.  O'Dynsye  de 
Clynvalyre (O'Dempsy of  Glinmaliry,  Queen's 
County), — State  of  Ireland,  1515, — at  that 
time  O'Doyn  (O'Dunn)  was  chief  of  Oregan. 
Terence  O'Dempsy  was  created  Viscount 
Clanmalier  in  1631.  Fyn  O'Dymsy  is  one  of 
the  Irish  chiefs,  to  whom  Edward  II.  wrote  to 
request  that  they  would  attend  him  in  his 
expedition  to  Scotland,  at  the  requisition  of 
Theobald  de  Verdon,  Justiciary,  and  under 
the  command  of  Richard  Earl  of  Ulster. 
The  other  Irish  chiefs  to  whom  like  letters 
were  written  are  thus  given  in  Rymer,  vol.  ii. 
p.  245.  Eth'  O'Konhor,  chief  of  the  Irish 
of  Connaught,  Eth'  O'Donnuld  of  Tyrconil, 
Dermod  O'Kahan  of  Fernetrewe,  Doneval 
O'Neel  of  Tyrowyn,  Neel  Macbren  of  Ky- 
nallewan,  Eth'  Offlyn  of  Turtery,  Admely 
Mac  Anegus  of  Onehagh,  Neel  O'Hanlan  of 
Erthere  (Orior),  Bien  Mac  Mahun  of  Uriel, 
Lauercagh  Mac  Wyr  (M'Guire)  of  Lough- 
erin,  Gillys  O'Railly  of  Bresfeny,  Gef- 
frei  O'Fergy  of  Montiragwil,  Felyn  O'Ho- 
noghui  (O'Connor)  of  Connach,  Donethuth 


IRISH  AKCH.  SOC.  3. 


H 


5° 


Mac  Karthy  interfecit  Donaldum  Russum,  regem  Desmoniae.  Petrus  Bremigham 
affectus  magna  clade  in  confinibus  Midiae.  In  Maio,  Ballimoreh,  oppidum  Lage- 
nise  incenditur  ab  Hibernis,  interfecto  ibi  Henrico  Calf.  Colligitur  exercitus  ab 
Anglis  adversus  Lagenos ;  in  prelio1  egregie  se  gessit  Thomas  Mandule  eques. 
Thomas  Cantokj  fit  cancellarius.  Ricardus  Feinigesk  archiepiscopus  Dublin 
obiit,  huic  successit  Ricardus  Havrings,  qui  per  quinquennium  sedens,  in  somnio1 
admonitus,  de  onere  offitii  cessit  Johanni  Leche.  In  die  S.  Patricii  capitur  Ricar- 
dus Mac  Ciochi  cum  2bus.  filiis  in  castro  novo  a  Thoma  Swethym,  et  Lorcanus 
O  Boni  latro  nobilissimus  ibidem  capite  plectitur. 

1307.  Kl.  Aprilis  capite  plectitur  Murcardus  Ballagh,   a  David  Caunton 
equite  stremio.     Interficitur  etiam  Adamn  Darii.    Fit  clades  Anglorum  in  Con- 
nacia  die  Phillippi  et  Jacobi  per  O  Scheles0.     Predones  etiam  Offalii  diruerunt 
arcem  Gcisellensem,   et  oppidum  legensem  Jgne  vastamntP,  arcem  obsiderunt, 
verum  brevi  repulsi  sunt,  a  Johanne  Thomas  et  Edmundo  Butler.     Moritur 
Kdwardus    Rex.     Templariiq   in    Hibernia   capiuntur  postridie   purificationis 
Marias. 

1308.  Idibus  April,  obiit  Petrus  Breminghamr  nobilis  Hibernorum  domator. 

Idibus 


O'Bien  of  Tothmund,  Dermod  Mac  Arthy 
of  Dessemound,  Denenol  Carbragh,  Maur, 
Kenenagh  (Kavanagh)  Mac  Murgh,  Mur- 
thugh  O'Bryn,  David  O'Tothvill  (O'Toole), 
Dermod  O'Tonoghur  of  Offaly  (O' Conor 
Ophaly),  Sonethuth  Mac  Gillephatrick,  Leys- 
sagh  O'Morth,  Gilbertus  Ekelly  chief  of 
O'Many,  Mac  Ethelan,  O'Malan  Helan 
(O'Melaghlin),  chief  of  the  Irish  of  Meath. 

h  Baltimore Ballymore  Eustace  in  Co. 

Dublin.  Henry  Haket,  late  sheriff  of  Tipper- 
ary,  had  an  order  for  ten  marks  which  he  had 
paid  to  Peter  Racket  for  three  horses  lost  in 
the  burning  of  Balymore,  dated  November 
10 Rot.  Pat.  3  Ed.  II.  15. 

'  In  prelio — At  Glenfell — Pembridge. 

j  Thomas  Cantok — He  was  Chancellor  in 
1292,  and  again  in  1295 — (Harris'  Table  in 
Ware).  He  was  now  consecrated  Bishop  of 


Emly — (Pembridge).  Harris  makes  Thorn- 
bury  succeed  Cantok  as  Chancellor  in  1293, 
appoints  Cantok  again  in  1295,  and  makes 
Richard  de  Bereford  succeed  him  in  1314; 
but  it  appears  from  Close  Roll.  2  Ed.  II. 
already  quoted,  that  Cantok  was  dead  and 
had  been  succeeded  by  Thornbury  as  Chan- 
cellor in  1309. 

k  Ricardus  Feiniges — Richard  de  Ferings, 
Archbishop  from  1299  to  1306.  On  his 
death  Richard  Havering  was  elected  by  the 
Dean  and  Chapter  of  St.  Patrick's,  he  re- 
signed in  1313,  and  does  not  appear  to  have 
been  consecrated.  In  1311  John  Lech  was 
promoted  to  the  See  of  Dublin.  He  had  pre- 
viously been  bishopelect  of  Dunkeld. — Harris' 
Ware's  Bishops,  p.  327,  328. 

1  In  somnio. — His  nephew  the  Archdeacon 
of  Dublin  told  how,  in  his  sleep,  he  saw  a 


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died.  Donald  Oge  M'Carty  killed  Donald  tlie  Red,  King  of  Desmond.  Peter 
Birmingham  lost  many  men  in  the  borders  of  Meath.  In  May,  Ballimore,  a 
town  of  Leinster,  is  burned  by  the  Irish,  and  Henry  Calf  is  slain  there.  The 
English  collect  an  army  against  the  Leinster  men ;  Sir  Thomas  Mandeville  be- 
haved nobly  in  battle.  Thomas  Cantok  is  made  Chancellor.  Richard  Feringes, 
Archbishop  of  Dublin,  died,  he  was  succeeded  by  Richard  Havering,  who,  after 
sitting  for  five  years,  being  admonished  in  a  dream,  resigned  the  burden  of  office 
to  John  Leche.  On  St.  Patrick's  day  Richard  M'Ciochi  is  taken  with  his  two 
sons  at  Newcastle  by  Thomas  Sneterby,  and  Lorcan  O'Bone,  a  very  famous  rob- 
ber, is  there  beheaded. 

1307.  On  the  first  of  April  Murcard  Ballagh  is  beheaded  by  that  brave 
knight  David  Canteton.    Adam  Dan  is  also  killed.     The  English  in  Connaught, 
on  the  day  of  St.  Philip  and  James  (May  ist),  are  slaughtered  by  the  O'Scheles. 
The  robbers  also,  of  OfFaly,  destroyed  the  castle  of  Geashill  and  burned  the 
town  of  Leix,  and  laid  siege  to  the  castle,  but  they  were  shortly  driven  back 
by  John  Fitz  Thomas  and  Edmund  Butler.     King  Edward  dies.    The  Templars 
in  Ireland  are  taken  prisoners  the  day  of  the  Purification  of  the  Virgin  (Fe- 
bruary 3rd). 

1308.  On  the  1 3th  of  April  died  Peter  Birmingham,  the  noble  tamer  of  the 

Irish 

monster  heavier  than  all  the  world  standing  on  No  similar  entry  is  in  Pembridge,  but  in  the 

his  breast,  from  which  he  would  give  the  wealth  preceding  year  mention  is  made  of  the  cap- 

of  all  the  world  to  be  relieved  ;  and  that  when  ture  by  the  English  in  Scotland  of  the  Earl  of 

he  awoke,  he  thought  it  was  nothing  else  than  Asceles  ( Athole)  :  is  it  possible  that  the  MS. 

the   church   of  Dublin  whose   fruits   he  re-  may  have  confused  these  names  ? 

ceived,  although  he   did   nothing  for  them.  P  Vastarunt — The  eve  of  the  translation 

He,  therefore,  resigned  it  immediately  to  the  of  St.  Thomas  ("July  6) — Pembridge,  who 

Pope,  for  he  had,  as  the  Archdeacon  asserted,  calls  oppidum  legense  villam  de  Lega,  i.  e. 

richer  benefices  than  his  archbishopric.  Ly. 

m  Swethy.  —  Perhaps  Sneterby,  a  name  of  q  Templarii — The  Templars  fell  victims 

frequent  occurrence  in  Irish  records  of  this  to  their  ambition  and  love  of  power,  and  to 

date.    Mac  Ciochi  is  Mac  Nochi  in  Pembridge.  their   reputed    infidelity  and   profligacy,    of 

n  Adam Adam  Dan Pembridge.  which,  when  removed  to  the  monasteries,  they 

0  OScheles Cox  says,  "  And  on  the  1st  of  gave  no  sign. — Walsingham  in  anno.     They 

May  the  Oscheles  (perhaps  O'Kellys)  in  Con-  had  been  arrested  in  England  on  the  morrow 

naught  routed  and  slew  many  Englishmen."  of  the  Epiphany. 

He  seems  to  have  taken  this  entry  from  Grace.  r  Petrus  Bremingham — It  was  probably 

H2 


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Idibus8  Mail  conburitur  arx  Kilkennii1,  custodibus  interfcctis  a  Gulielmo  Mac 
Waltero  O  Cnigonu,  O  Thotliiles  cum  sociis.  Idem  Courconlyv  oppidum  [com- 
burunt?].  Cladis  accepta  a  Jolianne  Vogan  Justitiaro.  6.  iduum  Junii  prope 
Glindelory,  ubi  occiditur  Johannes  Hogelin™,  Johannes  Norton,  Johannes 
Breton  cum  multis  aliis.  16  Kalend.  Julii  ab  eisdem  comburitur  Donlovan, 
Tobirx  et  alia  oppida  multa.  Petrus  Gaveston  proscriptus  a  primatibus  Anglise  in 
Hiberniam  venit  cum  uxore  scilicet  sorore  comitissay  Gloverniaa,  Dubliniam  cum 
magna  pompa  ingressus  est,  ubi  concedit.  Gulielmus  Mac  Walter  latro  nobilis- 
simus,  12.  Septembris  coram  Justitiario  Johanne  Vogan  condemnatus  est  in 
curia  Dublinensi,  ad  calefurcumque2  tractatus  ad  caudas  equorum,  suspensus  est. 
Abiit  Joannes  Vogan  in  Angliam  ad  Parliamentum,  relicto  in  loco  suo  Gulielmo 
de  Burgoa  custodc.  Die  Simonis  et  Juda?  venit  in  Hyberniam  Rogerus  de  Mortuo 
Mari  cum  uxore,  herede  Midise,  filia  videlicet  domini  Petri,  filii  Galfridi  Geni- 
vile'1,  qiiam  acceperunt  cedente  eis  Galfrido  Gen  vile,  qui  so  f  [ra?]trem  professus 

est 

calls  him  Johanne  dicto  (de  Sancto  ?)  Ho- 
gelyn.  The  name  Ogalwan  occurs  in  Rot. 
Pat.  1  H.  IV.  Perhaps  like  •«  Sir  Paschallthe 
Florentyne"  mentioned  at  1315  (note)  this  Ho- 
geline  may  have  been  an  Italian,  and  it  is  pos- 
sible of  the  family  of  the  Ugolini,  one  of  whom, 
belonging  to  the  company  of  the  Frescobaldi, 
was  a  receiver  of  the  king's  customs  in  Eng- 
land and  elsewhere  in  131 1. — Rymer,  vol.  ii. 
p.  146. 

x  Tobir. — Tubber  near  Dunlavan  in  the 
county  of  Wicklow. 

y  C'omitissa. — For  Comitis.  It  is  probable 
that  the  transcriber  mistook  the  contraction 
for  scilicet  for  the  word  et,  and  then  found  it 
expedient  to  change  Comitis  into  Comitissa, 
and  thus  to  make  two  ladies  out  of  one.  The 
same  mistake  occurs  in  Pembridge.  Wal- 
singham  (Hist.  Angl.  p.  98)  says,  that  Gavas- 
ton  was  not  married  to  Margaret  of  Clare 
until  he  returned  from  Ireland,  but  from 
Ryrner,  vol.  ii.  p.  48,  it  is  plain  that  he  was 
married  before  he  left  England,  and  that  our 


from  this  Peter  that  the  Birminghams  as- 
sumed the  Irish  name  of  Mac  Pheoris  or 
Mac  Yoris,  from  which  their  country  about 
Carberry  was  called  Claniores,  and  from 
which  the  monastery  founded  by  them  near 
Edenderry  had  the  name  of  Monasteroras. 

*  fdibus — Pembridge  says,  "  Quarto  idus 
Maii,"  the  12th  of  May. 

'  Arx  Kilkennii — Castrum  Keriini  in  Pern- 
bridge,  doubtless  for  Castrum  Kevini,  Castle 
Kevin  in  the  county  of  Wicklow.  The  mis- 
take is  of  old  date,  as  Holinshed  calls  it  the 
Castle  of  Kennun,  and  Cox  the  Castle  of 
Kenun.  It  is  amusing  to  observe  the  anxiety 
of"  Jacobi  Grace  Kilkenniensis"  to  introduce 
the  name  of  his  native  city. 

u  O'Onigon.  —  Perhaps  O'Kinaghan  or 
O'Keegan.  In  Pembridge  it  is  thus  print- 
ed Cnygnismio ;  M'Baltor  was  a  Wicklow 
name — Rot.  Cl.  20  Ed.  II.  31. 

v  Courcouly — Cloncurry? 

"Johannes  Hogelin. — This  name  is  print- 
ed in  Cox,  John  de  S.  Hogeline.  Pembridge 


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Irish.  On  the  15th  of  May  Castle  Kevyn  is  burned  and  the  garrison  put  to 
death  by  William  Mac  Walter  O'Kinaghan,  the  O'Tooles,  and  their  comrades. 
The  same  party  burned  the  town  of  Courconly.  On  the  8th  of  June  John 
Wogan,  Justiciary,  was  defeated  at  Glindelory,  where  John  St.  Hogelin,  John 
Norton,  and  John  Breton,  with  many  others,  were  killed.  On  the  1 6th  of  June 
Dunlavan,  Tobir,  and  many  other  towns,  are  burned  by  the  same  party.  Piers 
Gavaston,  proscribed  by  the  nobles  of  England,  comes  into  Ireland  with  his 
wife,  sister  to  the  Earl  of  Gloucester ;  he  enters  Dublin  with  great  pomp,  and 
seated  himself  there.  William  Mac  Walter,  that  famous  robber,  on  the  1 2th 
of  September  is  condemned  before  the  Justiciary,  John  Wogan,  in  the  court  of 
Dublin,  and  was  dragged  to  the  gallows  at  the  tails  of  horses  and  hanged. 
John  Wogan  went  into  England  to  attend  parliament,  having  left  in  his  place 
William  de  Burgh  as  custos.  On  the  day  of  SS.  Simon  and  Jude  [October  28], 
Roger  Mortimer  came  into  Ireland  with  his  wife,  the  heiress  of  Meath,  that  is 
to  say,  the  daughter  of  Lord  Peter,  son  of  Geoffry  Geneville ;  they  took  posses- 
sion 

annalist  is  right.  Gavaston's  patent  as  lieu- 
tenant bears  date  16th  June,  1308. — Rymer, 
vol.  ii.  p.  51.  Pernbridge  says,  that  he  came 
into  Ireland  about  the  Feast  of  SS.  Quiritae 
et  Julitae  (Quiritii  June  16,  or  rather  July 
15).  There  is  some  difficulty  in  reconciling 
the  date  of  Gavaston's  appointment  with  the 
subsequent  notices  of  Wogan  and  William  de 
Burgh. 

*"  Calefurcumque. — Colofurcium  in  Pern- 
bridge,  perhaps  "  carrefurcum,"  carrefours, 
the  cross  streets,  carfax,  or  it  may  be  derived 


from  furca,  a  gallows.  The  word  is  not  in 
Du  Cange.  Here  Pembridge  mentions  the 
good  works  of  John  le  Decer,  mayor  of  the 
city  of  Dublin,  which  Grace  omits  as  of  no 
interest  in  Kilkenny.  These  works  were  a 
marble  cistern  for  the  water  brought  by  an 
aqueduct — ad  recipiendam  aquam  de  aqua 
ductili — a  bridge  over  the  Liffey  at  the  Priory 
of  St.  Wulstan's,  a  chapel  of  St.  Mary  at  the 
Friars'  Minor,  where  he  is  buried,  a  chapel 


of  St.  Mary  at  the  Hospital  of  St.  John,  &c., 
and  many  good  things  in  the  convent  of  the 
Friars  Preachers,  to  wit  a  stone  pillar  in  the 
church,  and  a  broad  stone  on  the  altar  with 
its  ornaments.  Likewise  every  Friday  he  re- 
ceived the  friars  at  his  table  through  charity — 
"so,  adds  Pembridge,  do  the  old  men  tell  their 
juniors." 

a  Gulielmo  de  Burgo — William  de  Burgh, 
Locum  Tenens  of  the  Justiciary,  had  an  order 
for  his  fee  of  £250  for  one  half  year,  dated 
October  18.  On  the  same  day  he  had  an 
order  for  the  payment  of  the  wages  of  200 
hobelars  and  500  foot,  with  whom  he  was 
proceeding  against  the  Irish  in  the  mountains 
of  Leinster  at  Newcastle  M'Kynegan,  beside 
the  20  horses  covered  with  trappings,  equos 
coopertos,  which  he  was  bound  to  keep  in 
virtue  of  his  office — Rot.  Cl.  2  Ed.  II.  40, 
41,  43,  47. 

b  Galfridi  Genivile — Geoffry  de  Genevilla 
after  the  death  of  his  wife,  Matilda  de  Lacy, 


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est  in  monasterio  Trim.  Dermot  O  Dimos  occisus  apud  Tullic  a  famulis  Petri 
Gaviston.  Ricardus  comes  Ultoniae  celebravit  solemne  festum  pentecostcsd  apud 
Trim,  ubi  Gualterum  et  Hugonem  Lacios  equitum  honore  decoravit.  Maltidis 
filia  comitis  Ultonias  in  Angliam  profecta  nupsit  comiti  Gloverniae.  Mauritius 
Canton6  interfecit  Ricardum  Talon,  Mauritium  autem  Rupenses  interficiunt, 
David  Cantonf  suspenditur  Dubliniae.  Odo  Mac  Catholi  O  Conghur  interfecit 
O  Donen  O  Congher,  regom  Connaciae.  Athy  comburitur  ab  Hibernis. 

1309.  Petrus  Gaveston  subjugavit  Hibernicos  Obriniosg  reedificavit  novum 
castrum  Mac  Knigan,  et  castrum  Keimun,  exciditque,  et  mundavit  passum  inter 
castrum  Keiminih  in  Glindelagh,  etiam  Hibernis  repulsis,  deinde  in  Angliam  na- 
vigavit  in  vigilia  Sancti  Johannis  Baptiste.  Uxor  filii  comitis  Ultoniae,  filia  co- 
mitis Glovernise  in  Hiberniam  venit  15°  Octobris.  Comes  Ultonias  appulit  portui 
Droglida'  in  vigilia  nativitatis  clomini.  Die  purificacionis  Mariae  interficitur 

Johannes 


continued  in  possession  of  her  moiety  of 

Meath  by  the  courtesy  of  England Rot. 

Pat.  2  Hen.  V.  1 37.  Mortimer  and  his  wife, 
Joan  Geneville,  landed  in  Ireland  October 
28,  and  on  the  morrow  of  St.  Edmund  the 
Archbishop,  November  16,  Geoffry  de  Gene- 
ville entered  the  monastery  of  the  Fryars 
Preachers  at  Trim. —  Pembridge.  He  and 
his  wife  had  founded  the  Black  Friary  in  this 
town  in  1260,  Mon.  Hib.  p.  580,  and  the 
foundations  of  that  splendid  building,  the  re- 
treat of  this  old  statesman  and  crusader,  may 
still  be  traced  in  a  field  near  Athboy  Gate  by 
the  hillocks  on  which  the  grass  withers  soon- 
est in  dry  weather. 

c  Tulli — Tullow  in  the  county  of  Carlow  ? 

4  Pentecoftes — Cox  says  that  the  earl  kept 
this  great  feast  as  it  were  to  nose  Gavaston. 
Pembridge  adds  "in  vigilia  assumptions 
(Aug.  14)  comes  Ultoniee  venit  contra  Petrum 
Gaveston,  comitem  Cornubiae,  apud  Droghe- 
da."  The  king  had  sent  a  special  writ  to 
the  Earl  of  Ulster  requiring  him  to  give 


Gavaston  his  assistance  and  advice  in  his  office 
of  lieutenant — Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  51.  If  he 
held  this  feast  at  Pentecost  "  to  nose  Gavas- 
ton" it  must  have  been  in  the  following  year. 
In  1308  Whit  Sunday  fell  on  June  2,  Gavas- 
ton was  not  appointed  lieutenant  until  June 
16. 

e   Mauritius    Canton Descended    from 

Reymond  Canteton,  one  of  Strongbow's  com- 
panions. In  an  ordinance,  dated  Dublin,  Nov. 
1,  1310,  it  was  stated  that  Maurice  de  Caun- 
teton  and  his  accomplices,  who  had  made  in- 
surrection against  the  king  in  Leinster,  had 
been  slain  per  pos.se  regium,  which  seems  to 
mean  that  the  Justiciary  with  the  king's  stand- 
ard was  personally  engaged  against  them. — 
Rot.  Pat.  3  Ed.  II.  222  ;  3  and  4  Ed.  II. 
137.  Maurice  de  Cauntytoun's  lands  were 
granted  to  Edmund  Butler — Rot.  Pat.  3 
&  4  Ed.  II.  81.  At  a  gaol  delivery  at 
Limerick  in  1310,  William  Fitz  Roger  was 
indicted  for  the  murder  of  Roger  de  Cante- 
ton, but  was  acquitted  on  proof  being  given 


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sion  of  Meatli  on  the  resignation  of  Geoffry  Geneville,  who  professed  himself  in 
the  monastery  of  Trim.  Dermod  O'Dempsy  is  slain  at  Tullow  by  the  follow- 
ers of  Piers  Gavaston.  Richard  Earl  of  Ulster  kept  a  solemn  feast  at  Pentecost 
at  Trim,  where  he  knighted  Walter  and  Hugh  Lacy.  Matilda,  daughter  of  the 
Earl  of  Ulster,  went  to  England,  and  married  the  Earl  of  Gloucester.  Maurice 
Canteton  killed  Richard  Talon,  but  the  Roches  killed  Maurice.  David  Cante- 
ton  is  hanged  at  Dublin.  Odo  Mac  Cathal  O'Conor  killed  Odo  O'Conor,  King 
of  Connaught.  Athy  is  burned  by  the  Irish. 

1309.  Piers  Gavaston  subdued  the  Irish  O'Brines,  he  rebuilt  Newcastle 
M'Kynegan  and  Castle  Kevyn,  and  cut  and  cleared  a  pass  between  Castle  Kevyn 
and  Glendalogh,  having  also  beaten  the  Irish,  then  he  sailed  for  England  on  St. 
John  the  Baptist's  Eve  (June  23).  The  wife  of  the  son  of  the  Earl  of  Ulster, 
daughter  to  the  Earl  of  Gloucester,  came  into  Ireland,  October  15.  The  Earl 
of  Ulster  landed  at  Drogheda  on  Christmas  Eve.  On  the  day  of  the  Purifica- 
tion 


that  said  Roger  was  an  Irishman,  that  he 
was  an  Ohederiscal  (O'Driscoll),  and  not  of 
any  of  the  five  families  entitled  to  English 
law  ;  but  because  said  Roger  was  the  king's 
Irishman,  William  Fitz  Roger  was  recom- 
mitted to  gaol  until  he  should  find  bail 
for  the  payment  of  five  marks,  "pro  soluti- 
one  praedicti  Hibernici." — Davies'  Historical 
Tracts,  p.  84.  It  would  seem  from  this  that 
as  at  a  time  shortly  subsequent  to  that  now 
before  us,  the  English  families  in  the  Irish 
districts  assumed  Irish  names,  and  became 
"  Hibernis  ipsis  Hiberniores,"  so  in  the  Eng- 
lish countries  the  natives  assumed  the  names 
of  the  neighbouring  powerful  English  fami- 
lies, and  that  even  thus  early  English  names 
do  not  always  prove  English  blood.  The 
Cantetons  assumed  the  name  of  M'Maioge. 

f  David  Canton. — He  was  hanged  for  the 
murder  of  Murchad  Ballagh  in  1307. 

e  Obrinios. — The  O'Birnes  of  Wicklow. 
Cox  mistook  them  for  the  O'Briens,  and  was 


thus  led  to  say  that  Gavaston  marched  into 
Munster  and  subdued  O'Brien  of  Thomond. 

h  Castrurn  Keimini — Castle  Kevyn.  John 
de  Hothum  had  an  order  for  £500  to  pay  the 
troops  going  with  Piers  Gavaston,  lieutenant 
of  Ireland,  to  attack  the  Irish  of  Leinster, 
and  to  repair  "  Castrum  de  Castelkeyvyn," 
which  had  been  thrown  down  by  them,  and 
the  Sheriff'  of  Dublin  had  orders  to  summon 
all  his  bailiwick  to  be  with  the  Justiciary  or 
his  lieutenant  at  Castelkevyn,  in  the  county  of 
Dublin,  on  a  specified  day,  with  horses  and 
arms  and  fit  equipment — Rot.  Cl.  2  Ed.  II., 
103,  106.  Pembridge  adds,  that  Gavaston 
made  an  offering  in  the  church  of  St.  Kimmy 
(St.  Kevin).  Perhaps  the  text  of  Grace  was 
intended  to  correspond  with  Pembridge,  and 
might  be  thus  supplied,  "inter  castrum  Kevin 
et  Glindelagh,  in  Glindelagh  etiam  obtulit, 
Hibernis  repulsis." 

'  Droghda — Pembridge  says  that  he  then 
returned  from  England.  He  had  said  in  the 


Johannes  Boneveilej  prope  Arscoll,  ab  Arnoldo  Power  et  suis  sociis.  Parliamen- 
tumk  apud  Kilkeniam  per  comitem  Ultoniae1  et  Johannem  Vogan  Justic.  et  cetera. 
Rediit  Edmundus  Butler™  de  Anglia.  Rediit  in  Angliam  comes  Ultonise  cum 
Rogero  Mortimerio  [et]  Joane  filio  Thomas.  Obiit  Theobaldus  Verdon. 

1310.  Penuria  in  Hibernia,  frumenti  modhis™  20  solidorum,  pistores  ob  pon- 
der a 


last  year  that  when  the  earl  went  against 
Gavaston  to  Drogheda  "  remeavit  passagium 
in  Scotiam." 

J  Johannes  Boneveile. — Arnold  le  Poer  had 
been  seneschal  of  the  liberties  or  counties  of 
Kildare  and  Carlow,  at  the  fee  of  5s.  a  day; 
he  had  an  order  for  the  payment  of  £14  5s.  6d. 
on  the  18th  of  October,  1309 — Rot.  Cl.  2 
Ed.  II.  25.  January  26,  1310,  he  was  or- 
dered to  desist  from  besieging  John  de  Bone- 
ville,  (his  successor  in  office,  at  the  fee  of 
£100  a  year — Same  Roll,  70),  in  his  castle 
in  Carlow,  which  county  was,  with  Poer's 
consent,  plundered  and  robbed  by  the  Irish 
of  Leinster,  who  were  also  now  aiding  him 
in  his  siege.  This  admonition  was  too  late, 
or  it  was  disregarded,  Boneville  was  killed 
February  3 Rot.  Pat.  3  Ed.  II.  49.  Bone- 
ville was  afterwards  declared  a  felon,  and 
his  lands  at  Cradockston  in  Kildare  were 
granted  to  Walter  de  Istelepe.  Rot.  Pat.  2 
Ed.  II.,  14. 

k  Parliamentum — This  parliament  was  held 
on  the  Monday  in  the  Octaves  of  the  Purifi- 
cation, February  3.  The  names  of  the  nobles 
summoned  to  it  are  given  in  Rot.  Pat.  3 
Ed.  II.  45.  They  are  printed  in  the  ap- 
pendix to  these  Annals.  From  another  entry 
we  learn  the  course  of  proceedings  in  this  par- 
liament, which  Prynne  erroneously  thinks 
was  the  first  held  in  Ireland  after  the  time  of 
Hen.  II.  and  the  Statutes  then  enacted.  The 
sheriff  of  every  county  was  to  send  two  knights 


for  every  county  and  two  citizens  or  burgesses 
for  every  city  and  borough,  with  full  power 
ad  parliamentandum  tractandum  et  ordinan- 
dum  about  the  king's  affairs  with  the  Justi- 
ciary and  the  council  of  the  king,  and  with 
the  lords  of  the  land,  and  to  make  and  sanc- 
tion orders  then  ordained.  When  met,  at  the 
suggestion  of  the  Justiciary,  lest  the  whole 
body  in  times  of  such  scarcity  should  be  bur- 
dened with  the  consideration  of  such  weighty 
matters,  the  parliament  elected  two  bishops 
and  two  other  prudent  men,  John  de  Barry 
and  Eustace  le  Poer,  and  these  four  from  the 
whole  body,  including  themselves,  chose  six- 
teen, who  with  the  assent  of  all  were  best  able 
to  find  a  remedy  in  the  premises.  1  hese  six- 
teen, whose  names  are  given  in  the  roll,  with 
the  consent  of  the  Justiciary,  of  the  council  of 
the  king,  and  of  the  parliament,  made  the  fol- 
lowing Statutes:  1.  That,  whereas  the  chief 
cause  of  the  high  price  of  provisions  arises 
from  the  robberies  committed  by  persons  of 
noble  birth,  every  noble  should  take  upon 
himself  the  punishment  of  his  own  followers. 
2.  That  there  be  appointed  in  every  county 
six  good  men  or  more,  who,  with  the  sheriff 
and  the  coroner,  should  inquire  after  malefac- 
tors, and  punish  and  imprison  them.  3.  That 
the  Statutes  of  money,  of  forestalling,  and  of 
having  arms  for  keeping  the  peace,  be  pro- 
claimed, and  firmly  observed.  4.  Of  not 
taking  prizes,  &c — Rot.  Pat.  3  Ed.  II.  44, 
45,  63.  The  ordinances  here  given  do  not 


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tion  of  Mary  (February  2)  John  Boneville  is  slain  at  Arscoll  near  Athy,  by 
Arnold  Power  and  his  accomplices.  A  parliament  held  at  Kilkenny  by  the 
Earl  of  Ulster  and  John  Wogan,  Justiciary,  &c.  Edmund  Butler  returned  from 
England.  The  Earl  of  Ulster  returned  to  England  with  Roger  Mortimer  and 
John  Fitz  Thomas.  Death  of  Theobald  Verdon. 

1310.  Scarcity  in  Ireland,  a  bushel  of  wheat  for  2os.,  the  bakers  for  their 

false 


agree  with  the  Acts  printed  in  the  Irish  Sta- 
tutes. Pembridge  says  that  the  provisions 
then  made,  which  he  says  were  tanquam  Sta- 
tuta,  would  have  been  good  and  profitable  for 
Ireland,  si  fuissent  observatce.  The  editor 
of  the  Calendar  observes  that  in  some  places 
the  roll  is  so  much  obliterated  that  it  is  diffi- 
cult to  make  out  its  meaning.  From  the  cir- 
cumstance., that  on  the  12th  of  February,  1310, 
in  the  Cathedral  of  St.  Canice,  Kilkenny, 
Maurice  Mac  Carwill,  Archbishop  of  Cashel, 
who  was  an  Irishman,  denounced  the  sen- 
tence of  anathema  against  the  infringers  of 
the  above  Statutes  (Harris'  Ware's  Bishops, 
p.  476),  it  is  probable,  that  the  "absurd  and 
informal  Statute"  against  the  admission  of 
Irishmen  into  religious  houses  within  the 
English  pale,  which  in  the  remonstrance  of 
the  Irish  to  Pope  John  XXII.  is  said  to  have 
been  made  "  in  the  city  of  St.  Kennieurs," 
(St.  Canice,  Kilkenny),  by  the  advice  of 
"  some  English  bishops,  among  whom  the 
ignorant  and  ill-conducted  Archbishop  of  Ar- 
magh was  president,"  (O' Conor's  Memoirs, 
p.  73),  and  to  which  and  to  its  revocation 
Edward  III.  alluded  in  1337  (see  note  d, 
p.  12),  was  repealed  either  at  this  parliament 
or  some  time  before  it.  From  a  writ  authoriz- 
ing the  Archbishop  of  Armagh  to  answer  by 
attorneys  to  all  summons  for  the  province  of 
Dublin  and  Cashel,  it  is  not  likely  that  the 
Archbishop  was  at  Kilkenny. — (Ry.  II.  p.  47). 
IRISH  ARCH.  SOC.  3. 


It  is  to  be  observed,  that  in  the  records  of 
these  early  parliaments  there  is  no  mention  of 
any  grant  of  money  to  the  king.  In  1 300, 
instead  of  granting  money  in  full  parliament, 
the  various  "  communitates"  of  Ireland  re- 
quested that  John  Wogan,  Justiciary,  should 
proceed  in  the  course  he  had  commenced,  and 
should  solicit,  by  personal  application,  sepa- 
rate grants  from  the  different  counties,  &c. 
The  sums  granted  by  these  several  bodies 

are  given  in  the  Roll Placit.  Parl.  28  Ed.  I. 

in  Ch.  Rem.  Office,  printed  in  Betham's  Dig- 
nities, p.  274.  In  adopting  this  mode,  Wogan 
followed  the  example  set  him  by  his  master  in 
England  previous  to  1295,  which  was  not  con- 
tinued in  either  country.  It  is  probable  that 
thedecima  biennalis  of  Rot.  Cl.  2  Ed.  II.  Itf 
(see  note  a,  p.  47)j  was  a  tenth  for  two  years  of 
all  benefices  granted  by  the  Pope.  From  a 
like  charge  in  1327,  all  holders  of  single  be- 
nefices under  the  value  of  six  marks  were 
exempt. — Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  692. 

'  Comitem  Ultonice — It  is  worthy  of  obser- 
vation, that  this  great  Earl  is  mentioned 
before  the  Justiciary. 

mEdmundus  Butler, — He  had  been  knighted 
in  London — Pembridge.  Richard  de  Burgh, 
Edmund  le  Boteller,  John  Fitz  Thomas,  and 
Eustace  le  Poer,  with  the  Justiciary,  were 
ordered  to  be  at  Newcastle  in  Are  on  John 
Baptist's  day,  1310 — Rot.  Pat.  3  Ed.  II.  43. 

n  Modius — This  measure  is  called  eranca 


dcra  falsi0  tract!  in  cratibus  per  vicos.  Parlaracntum  apud  Kildare  ubi  liberatur 
Avnoldus  Power  qui  se  defendendo  occiderat  Johannera  Bonevile.  Alexandre 
BigenorP  electus  episcopus  Dubliniae.  Rogerus  Mortimerius  rediit  Hiberniam. 
1311.  In  Thoraonde  apud  Bonnarathe(l  Ricardus  Clare  cepit  Gulielmum  de 
Burgo  et  Joliannem  filium  Gualteri  Lacii  et  alios,  in  quo  conflictu  perierunt 
multi  turn  Angli  turn  Hiberni.  13°  Kal  Junii.  Tassagardr  et  Rathcoule  in 
autumno3  cum  exercitu  invaserunt  Latrones  Othothiles,  et  in  Glindelori  et  aliis 
sylvosis  locis  latitantes.  Pridie  idus  Novembris  Ricardus  Clare  interfecit  600 
Galoglaghes.  Die  omnium  sanctorum,  proscriptus  iterum  Petrus  Gaveston,  re- 
divitque  furtive.  Obierunt  Johannes  Cogan,  Gualterus  le  Faunt,  Johannes 
films  Reri.  Johannes  Macgoghegan  interficitur  per  O  Molmoi1.  Obiit  Guliel- 
mus  Rupensis,  ictus  sagitta  Hibernica.  Obiit  Eustatius  Power".  In  vigilia 

Sancti 


by  Pembridge,  and  erane  by  Cox,  the  original 
was  probably  cran'  for  crannoc,  a  measure 
which  our  annalist  must  have  considered 
equal  to  a  Modius,  and  which,  according  to  Sir 
W.  Betham,  Antiquarian  Researches,  vol.  i. 
p.  5,  contains  two  quarters.  Harris'  Ware's 
Antiq.,  p.  223,  states  that  a  crannock  is  about 
equal  to  a  Bristol  barrel.  In  a  Plea  Roll,  53 
Hen.  III.,  when  Edward  I.  was  Lord  of  Ire- 
land, in  Birm.  Tower,  is  this  Statute.  "  Pro- 
visum  et  statutum  est  quod  una  et  eadem 
mensura  cuj  uslibet  generis  bladi,  una  et  eadem 
lagena,  una  et  eadem  ulna,  una  et  eadem  pon- 
dera  sint  de  cetero  per  totam  Hiberniam  qua? 
sunt  in  civitate  Londinii  usitata  et  appro- 
bata." — Betham's  Irish  Antiq.  Researches, 
vol.  i.  p.  9.  The  price  of  provisions  must 
have  risen  suddenly  in  this  year,  for  on  the 
5th  of  February,  John  Bowet  and  William 
Keppok  had  an  order  for  £500  to  buy  in 
Dublin  for  the  war  in  Scotland  1500  quarters 
of  wheat,  2000  quarters  of  oats,  and  500  pipes 
(doleis)  of  wine,  and  also  500  quarters  of 
wheat,  500  of  oats,  and  100  pipes  of  wine, 


which  were  to  be  sent  to  Skynburnesse. — 
Rot.  Pat.  3  Ed.  II.  52.  The  prisage  of  the 
wine  imported  from  1266  to  1282,  at  the 
five  ports  of  Dublin,  Waterford,  Dungarvan, 
Limerick,  and  Drogheda,  in  which  ports  only 
"  the  Butler"  had  right  of  prisage,  amounted 
to  899  tuns,  and  as  the  prisage  was  one  pipe 
before  the  mast  and  one  behind,  the  number 
of  cargoes  must  have  been  450.  Two  pounds 
on  each  pipe  was  paid  in  lieu  of  prisage. — Ir. 
Antiq.  Researches,  part  i.  p.  6. 

0  Falsi. — The  assize  of  bread  was  estab- 
lished by  King  John,  as  appears  from  the  fol- 
lowing record :  "  De  assisa  Panis  facta  per 
Regem  communi  consilio  Baronum,  Ita  quod 
quilibet  Pistor  sigillum  suumsuopani  apponat, 
et  habeat  de  lucro  de  unoquoque  quarterio 
4d,  vel  3d  et  brennum." — Rot.  Pat.  5  Job.  in 
Tur.  Lond.  In  1222,  Henry  III.  complained 
to  the  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  then  Justiciary, 
that  amongst  other  infringements  of  the  royal 
authority,  he  had  assumed  to  himself,  as  arch- 
bishop, the  jurisdiction  ever  the  bakers.  "Item 
si  quis  Pistor  in  terra  nostra  manens  pro  falso 


59 

false  weights  are  dragged  on  hurdles  through  the  streets.  A  parliament  at  Kil- 
dare,  in  which  Arnold  Power  is  set  at  liberty,  he  had  killed  John  Boneville  in 
self-defence.  Alexander  Bicknor  elected  Bishop  of  Dublin.  Roger  Mortimer 
returned  to  Ireland. 

1311.  At  Bunratty  in  Thomond  Richard  Clare  took  prisoners  William  de 
Burgh  and  John  Fitz  Walter  Lacy,  and  others,  on  the  2oth  of  May,  in  the  fight 
there  fell  many,  both  Irish  and  English.  Saggard  and  Rathcoole  are  attacked  in 
autumn  by  the  robbers,  the  O'Tooles  with  an  army  lurking  both  in  Glindelory 
[Glenmalur]  and  other  woodland  places.  On  November  1 2th  Richard  Clare  slew 
six  hundred  Galloglasses.  On  All  Saints'  Day  (November  i )  Piers  Gavaston 
was  again  proscribed,  and  returned  privily.  John  Cogan,  Walter  1'Enfant,  John 
Fitz  Rery  die.  John  Mac  Geoghegan  is  killed  by  O'Mulloy.  William  Roche 
dies  of  the  wound  of  an  Irish  arrow.  Eustace  Power  dies.  On  St.  Peter's  Eve, 

(June 


pane,  vel  alius  pro  consimili  transgressions 
attachiatus  et  etiam  convictus  fuerit  coram 
ballivis,  curiam  nostram  inde  prseteritis,  et 
ipsum  transgressorem  exigitis  a  manibus 
Ballivorum  nostrorum  solutum  et  quietum 
et  pro  voluntate  vestra  deducendum." — Rot. 
Glaus.  7  Hen.  III.  Lib.  Hiberniae,  part  iv. 
p.  24. 

p  Alexandra  Bigenor — Alexander  de  Bick- 
nor, although  now  elected  Archbishop  by  the 
Chapter  of  St.  Patrick's,  was  obliged  to  give 
way  to  John  Lech,  the  king's  almoner,  who 

sat  as  Archbishop  from  131 1  to  1313 Ware's 

Bishops. 

^Bonnarathe — Bunratty,  in  County  Clare. 
The  following  imperfect  entry  relates  to  this 
quarrel :  "  Rex  *  *  et  Willielmo  le  Devenys, 
recitat  se  accepisse  quod  discordia  quedam 
orta  sit  inter  Willielmum  de  Burgo  et  alios 
confederates  suos  ex  una  parte  et  *  *  Ricar- 
dum  de  Clare  et  suos  parentes  et  confederates 
ex  altera  *  *  per  quod  pax  et  tranquillitas 
totius  turbari  possint  [c<et era  detrita  et  lacerd\. 


—Rot.  Pat.  3  &  4  Ed.  II.  92. 

r  Tassagard. — Saggard,  near  Rathcoole, 
in  county  Dublin.  On  the  10th  of  August, 
1312,  Nicholas  Balscote  had  an  order  for  £600 
to  pay  the  men  at  arms,  &c.,  going  with  the 
Justiciary  against  the  Irish  of  the  mountains 
of  Leinster,  who  were  in  insurrection  and  had 
burned  and  plundered  the  king's  lands  at  Tas- 
sagard  Rot.  Cl.  5  Ed.  II.  14. 

8  In  autumno. — Pembridge  gives  this  whole 
paragraph  more  intelligibly,  "  Item  Tassagard 
et  Rathcante( Rathcoole)  invaserunt  latrones, 
scilicet  O'Brinnes  et  Otothiles,  in  crastino 
Nativitatis  S.  Johan.  Baptistse.  Unde  cito  in 
autumno  eollectus  est  magnus  exercitus  in 
Lagenia  ad  impugnandum  dictos  latrones  in 
Glendelory  et  aliis  locis  nemorosis  latentes." 

1  O'Molmoi.  —  O'Mulloy  of  the  King's 
County.  Macgoghegan  is  called  John  Mac 
OHedan  by  Cox. 

u  Eustatius  Power — On  the  30th  of  May, 
1312,  Ela,  widow  of  Eustace  le  Poer,  having 
made  oath  that  she  would  not  marry  without 


12 


6o 

Sancti  Petri  incepit  riota  Urgaliae  per  Robertum  Verdonum.  Interficitur  Donatus 
O  Brenev  per  insidias  a  suis  in  Tothomonia. 

1312.  Petrus  Gaveston  captus  apud  Dodington  a  comite  Warwiciw  decolla- 
tus  consilio  comitum  et  baronum  13.  Kal.  Julii.  Exercitus  ductus  a  Johanne 
Vogan  Justic.  adversus  Robertura  Verdon,  misere  confectus  6°  idus  Julii,  inter- 
fectis  Nicolao  Aveneill,  Patricio  de  Rupe,  cum  multis  aliis.  Robertus  Verdonx 
cum  multis  suorum  se  dederunt  in  misericordiam  regis  Dublinii.  Edmundus 
Buteler  locum  tenens  Johannis  Vogan  obsedit  O  Brinios  in  Glindelori  compul- 
sitque  ad  deditiones.  Moricius  Fitz  Thomas  duxit  Catherinam  filiam  comitis 
Ultoniae  ad  castrum  viride,  aliam  ejusque  filiam  Thomas  Fitz  Joannis.  Johannes 
Fitz  Thomas  equestri  ordine  decoravit  Nectum  fitz  Mauritii  et  Robertum  Glen- 
\\u\y  apud  Adare2  in  Momonia.  Invaserunt  piraticae  quaedam  naves  Roberti  Brus 
Ultoniam  quae  ab  incolis  repulse  sunt.  Moritur  Johannes  Leekes3,  Archiepis- 
copus  Dubliniae,  Alexander  Bigenor  ei  successit.  Milo  Verdon  duxit  filiam 
Ricardi  de  Oxoniisb.  Robertus  Brus  diruit  castrum  de  Mannec,  capite  punivit 
Donegan  O  Towill.  Johannes  de  Burgo,  heres  comitis  Ultoniae,  obiit  apud 
Gal  way.  Edmundus  Buteler  30  viros  equestri  ordine  decoravit  Dublinii  in 
festo  Michaelis. 

1314.  Hospitalarii  receperunt  terras  Templariorum  in  Hibernia.  Johannesd 

Paris 

the  king's  license,  was  ordered  a  reasonable  "  The  Black  Dog  of  Ardennes;  "he  now  found, 

dower  from  her  husband's  lands. — Rot.  Cl.  says  Walsingham,  that  the  dog  could  bite. 

5  Ed.  II.  49.  "Robertus  Verdon — His  surrendering  him- 

'  Donatus  OBrene. — In  1310  the  following  self  a  prisoner,  carceri  Regis  Dublinicp,  Pemb. 

writ  was  issued.    "  Rex  Edmundo  le  Botiller,  seems  an  odd  result  of  his  great  victory  over 

Johanni  filio  Thomae,  Mauricio  de  Rupeforti  the  Justiciary.     Perhaps  the  text  is  corrupt. 

et   Roberto   Bagot,  recitat  guerram  motam  Pembridge  does  not  explain  the  difficulty, 

esse  in  partibus  Totemoniae  inter  Ricardum  de  y  Glenhul. — de  Clonhull. — Pemb.    He  was 

Clare  et  Donatum  Obren  qui  se  dicit  princi-  probably  Robert  de  Clahulle,  mentioned  Rot. 

pern  Hibernicorum  Totemoniae,  assignat  ipsos  Cl.  5  Ed.  II.  38,  the  descendant  of  one  of 

ad  inhibendum  dictis  Ricardo  et  Donate  et  Strongbow's  barons,  John  deClahull,  to  whom 

suis   ne   guerram   illam   continuare    praesu-  he  gave, 

mant Rot.  Pat.  3  &  4  Ed.  II.  84.  —  lamarchausie 

"Comite  Wurwici Gavaston,  who  had  an  De  Leynestere  la  garnie 

unhappy  talent  for  giving  nicknames,  by  which  Od  tut  la  tere,  sachez  de  fin, 

he  amused  the  king  and  offended  the  English  Entre  Eboy  e  Lethelyn  ; 

nobles,  had  called  this  dark  and  stern  earl,  Conq.  of  Ireland,  1.3100. 


6i 

(June  28),  a  riot  is  commenced  in  Uriel  by  Robert  Verdon.  Donat  O'Brene  is 
treacherously  killed  by  his  own  people  in  Thomond. 

1312.  Piers  Gavaston  is  taken  at  Dodington,  and  beheaded  by  the  Earl  of 
Warwick  by  the  advice  of  the  Earls  and  Barons,  on  the  ipth  of  June.  An  army 
led  by  John  Wogan,  Justiciary,  against  Robert  Verdon,  is  miserably  defeated 
on  the  i  oth  of  July.  Nicholas  Avenel,  Patrick  Roche,  with  many  others  were 
killed.  Robert  Verdon,  with  many  of  his  men,  gave  himself  up  to  the  king's 
mercy  at  Dublin.  Edmund  Butler,  locum  tenens  of  John  Wogan,  besieges  the 
O'Brins  [O'Byrnes]  in  Glindelory  [Glenmalur],  and  compelled  them  to  surrender. 
Maurice  Fitz  Thomas  married  Catherine,  daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Ulster,  at  Green- 
castle,  and  Thomas  Fitz  John  married  another  of  his  daughters.  John  Fitz 
Thomas,  knighted  Nicholas  Fitz  Maurice,  and  Robert  Clahull,  at  Adare,  in  Mun- 
ster.  Some  piratical  ships  of  Robert  Bruce  invaded  Ulster,  and  were  repulsed  by  the 
inhabitants.  Death  of  John  Leeke,  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  Alexander  Bicknor 
succeeded  him.  Milo  Verdon  married  the  daughter  of  Richard  de  Exoniis 
(Dexter).  Robert  Bruce  destroyed  the  castle  of  Man,  and  capitally  punished 
Duncan  O'Dowell.  John  de  Burgh,  heir  of  the  Earl  of  Ulster,  died  at  Gal  way. 
Edmund  Butler  conferred  knighthood  on  thirty  persons  in  Dublin  at  Michaelmas. 

1314.  The  Hospitalers  received  the  lands  of  the  Templars  in  Ireland.  John 

Paris 

In  Harris'  Ware's  Antiq.,p.  192,  Eboy  issaid,  ^Oxoniis — Probably  de  Exoniis,  as  in  Pem- 

perhaps  incorrectly,  to  be  Aghavoe.      Han-  bridge  ;    of  the  great    Connaught  family  of 

mer,  p.  322,  calls  John  de  Clahull,  John  de  d'Exeteror  Dexter,  which  afterwards  took  the 

Clawsa  (de  Cluzeau),  alias  Clavill,  and  says  name  of  M'Jordan.      At  this  time  Richard  de 

that  his  castle,  which  Giraldus  places  not  far  Exon'  was  Chief  Justice  in  Banco  at  a  fee  of  £40 

from  Leighlin,  was  in  his  time  supposed  to  be  per  ann. — Cl.  2  Ed.  II.  1 17-     Oxon  is  printed 

Carlow.   Balyrothery  was  the  lordship  of  Rob.  probably  for  Exon  in  Rot.  Pat.  3  Ed.  II.  63. 

de  Clahull — Rot.  Pat.  1 1  Ed.  2,  15.  c   Manne.  —  The    Chronicle   of  Man,   as 

z  Adare. — In  1310  the  bailiffs  and  men  of  printed  in   Antiq.  Celt.  Norman,  says,  that 

Adare  had  license  to  take  certain  customs  in  Robert  Bruce  anchored  at  Romso,   May  18, 

their  town  for  three  years  to  enable  them  to  1313,  and  on  the  Monday  following  laid  siege 

surround  it  with  a  stone   wall — Rot.  Pat.  to  the  Castle  of  Russin,  which  Lord  Dun- 

3  &  4  Ed.  II.  9.  gawi  Mac  Dowal  held  out  against  him  until 

a  Johannes  Leekes — Died,   August  10th,  the  Tuesday  after  St.  Barnabas,  when  King 

1313.     His  successor,   Alexander  de   Bick-  Robert  took  the  fortress, 

nor,  was  consecrated  at  Avignon  in  1317. —  d  Johannes  Paris. — Parice. — Pemb.    John 

Ware's  Bishops,  p.  330.  de  Parys  was  one  of  the  Irish  nobles  who 


62 

Paris  interficitur  ad  Pontem,  Tlicobaldus  Verdon6  Justitiarius,  Edmundus  Butler 
Justitiarius  factus. 

1315.  Apud  Glondonnef  appulit  classis  Scotias  die  Augustig  quam  duxit 
PMouardus  Brus,  frater  Robert!  regis,  et  cum  eo  comes  de  Morreyh,  Johannes 
Mentieth,  Johannes  Steward,  Johannes  Cambel,  Tliomas  Candiff,  Fergus 
Andressam,  Johannes  de  Bosco,  Johannes  Bisset ;  intra  Banum  fluvium  pug- 
nant,  comitem  Ultonise1  cum  exercitu  in  fugam  vertant,  ubi  interficitur  Guliel- 
mus  de  BurgoJ,  Johannes  Stauntonk  cum  aliis  permultis ;  vastatur  Ultonia.  2° 
pugnatur  apud  Kenles  in  Midia,  ubi  fugatur  Rogerus  de  Mortumari  cum  suis. 
3°  apud  Sketheris  intra  Arsoll  ubi  iterum  in  fugam  vertuntur  Angli.  Paul  post 

festum 


went  with  Edward  I.  into  Scotland  in  1302 — 
Rot.  Pat.  31  Ed.  I.  21.  He  was  probably  the 
ancestor  of  Christopher  Parese,  of  Agher 
Parese  (now  called  Agher  Palace),  in  Meath, 
who  forfeited  in  Thomas  Fitzgerald's  rebel- 
lion in  1535 — Ir.  Stat.  28  Hen.  VIII.  chap. 
1 .  Ad  Pontem,  perhaps,  may  mean  Drogheda. 

e  Theobaldus  Verdon — Came  into  Ireland, 
according  to  Pembridge,  as  Justiciary,  on 
the  day  of  St.  Silvester  (December  31st), 
and  on  the  Friday  after  the  day  of  St.  Mat- 
thias (February  24th,  1315)  Edmund  Butler 
received  his  commission.  (The  year  of  these 
annals  begins  March  25).  Theobald  de  Ver- 
don was  Justiciary  March  22nd,  1314.  On 
the  10th  of  October  of  the  same  year  Edmund 
Butler  was  Gustos,  and  was  appointed  Jus- 
ticiary, January  4th,  1315. —  Rymer  II.  pp. 
245,  256,  260.  Theobald  de  Verdon  was  the 
son  of  John  de  Verdon  by  Margery  de  Lacy, 
one  of  the  co-heiresses  of  Meath,  he  was  Con- 
stable of  Ireland,  and  besides  the  moiety  of 
Meath  inherited  from  his  mother,  he  was 
possessed  of  great  paternal  estates  in  Louth. 

f  Glondonne — Glendun  River  in  County 
Antrim.  Pembridge  calls  this  place  Clon- 
donne.  Barbour,  in  "  The  Bruce,"  book  xiv. 


1.  33,  says  that  Bruce's  fleet  arrived  safely  in 
Wokyng's  Fyrth ;  which  Dr.  Drummund 
("Bruce's  Invasion,"  note)  conjectures  to 
have  been  Larne  Harbour.  Lodge  calls  the 
place  Olderfleet. — Peerage,  Athenry. 

sAugusti. — Die  Sancti  Augustini  Anglorum 
mense  Mali. — Pemb.  Lodge  says,  April  24. 

h  Comes  de  Morrey — Thomas  Randolph, 
Earl  of  Moray.  The  Thomas  Candiffe,  after- 
wards mentioned,  rightly  called  by  Pembridge 
Thomas  Randolfe,  was  his  son  and  successor. 
Johannes  de  Bosco  is  translated  in  Holinshed, 
John  Wood,  perhaps  his  name  was  Boyd. 
Edward  Bruce's  companions  are  thus  named 
by  Barbour : 

He  had  thar  in  hys  cumpany 

The  Erie  Thomas,  that  wes  worthy, 

And  gud  Schyr  Philip  the  Mowbray, 

That  sekyr  wes  in  hard  assay  ; 

Schyr  Jhone  the  Soulls,  ane  gud  knycht, 

And  Schyr  Jhone  Stewart,  that  wes  wycht, 

The  Ramsay  als  off  Ouchtre  houss, 

That  wes  wycht  and  chewalrouss, 

And  Schyr  Fergus  off  Adrossane, 

And  othyr  knychts  mony  ane. 

The  Bruce.  B.  xiv.  1.  23. 
Barbour  also,  in  other  places,  mentions  the 


Paris  is  killed  at  Drogheda,   Theobald  Verdon  is  Justiciary,   Edmund  Butler 
made  Justiciary. 

1315.  The  fleet  of  the  King  of  Scotland  arrived  at  Glondonne  on  St.  Augus- 
tine's day  (May  26th),  it  was  commanded  by  Edward  Bruce,  brother  of  King 
Robert,  and  with  him  were  the  Earl  of  Moray,  John  Mentieth,  John  Steward, 
John  Campbell,  Thomas  Randolph,  Fergus  of  Ardvossan,  John  de  Bosco,  John 
Bisset ;  they  fight  on  this  side  of  the  Bann,  and  put  the  Earl  of  Ulster  and  his 
army  to  flight,  William  de  Burgh  is  slain  there,  and  John  Stanton,  and  many 
others ;  Ulster  is  plundered.  Secondly,  a  battle  is  fought  at  Kells  in  Meath, 
where  Roger  Mortimer  and  his  men  are  put  to  flight.  Thirdly,  at  Skerries, 
near  Arscoll,  where  the  English  are  again  defeated.  Soon  after  the  day  of 

Philip 


following  Scots  as  engaged  in  this  expedition: 
Schyr  Alane  Stewart,  Schyr  Robert  Bold, 
Nele  Flemyng,  Gib  Harpar,  and  Schyr  Co- 
lyne  Cambell.  He  mentions  no  Bissetts  on 
the  side  of  the  Scots.  Barbour  and  Pern- 
bridge  say  that  Bruce  brought  with  him  6000 
hardy  and  experienced  soldiers,  and  Pern- 
bridge  adds  that  he  took  possession  of  Ulster 
and  expelled  Thomas  de  Maundevile  and  the 
other  faithful  subjects  from  their  country. 

'  Comitem  Ultonice,  —  The  names  of  the 
English  chiefs  who  opposed  Edward  Bruce 
are  thus  given  in  Barbour :  Mandweill  (Man- 
deville),  Besat  (Bissett),  Logane,  the  Sawa- 
ges  (Savages),  the  above  are  called  "  All  hale 
the  flur  off  Ullyster"  the  warden,  Richard  of 
Clar,  whom  Barbour  confounds  with  Richard 
de  Burgh,  Earl  of  Ulster,  The  Butler  and 
Erls  twa  off  Desmownd  and  Kildar,  Brynrane 
(Birmingham),  Wedoun  (Wogan),  and  Fyze 
Waryne,  and  "  Schyr  Paschall  of  Florentyne, 
that  was  a  knycht  of  Lowmbardy,  and  wes  full 
of  chevalry,"  Schyr  Moryss  le  Fyss  Thomas, 
Schyr  Nycholleof  Kylkenane.  With  regard  to 
this  last  name  we  may  observe  that  a  Michael 
de  Kylkenan,  who  had  a  writ  of  summons 


to  the  parliament  held  at  Kilkenny,  3  Ed.  II. 
(Rot.  Pat.  3  Ed.  II.  45),  afterwards  joined 
the  Scots,  and  forfeited  three  carucates  of 
land  at  Portmok  and  tw.o  carucates  at  Kyl- 
kenan— Rot.  Pat.  13  Ed.  II.  86. 

J  Gulielmus  de  Burgo Lord  Hailes,  in 

the  Annals  of  Scotland  at  this  year,  observes 
that  "  the  circumstances  concerning  this  inva- 
sion, which  are  related  in  the  Annals  of  Ire- 
land subjoined  to  Camden's  Britannia"  (here 
quoted  under  the  name  of  Pembridge),  "  are 
related  in  a  perplexed  manner,  as  might  well 
be  expected  in  a  work  which  is  an  inj  udicious 
compilation  of  different  chronicles."  To  the 
confusion  and  inconsistency  of  Pembridge, 
Grace  has  added  carelessness  of  transcription ; 
thus,  in  this  summary  of  Bruce's  victories  he 
says  that  William  de  Burgh  was  killed  in  the 
battle  on  the  Bann  ;  in  a  few  lines  after,  when 
he  describes  that  battle  more  fully,  he  says 
that  he  was  taken  prisoner  ;  and  he  afterwards 
mentions  that  he  left  his  son  in  Scotland  as  a 
hostage  for  his  return. 

k  Johannes  Staunton. — John  de  Staunton 
was  one  of  the  lords  summoned  to  the  parlia- 
ment at  Kilkenny,  3  Ed.  II. 


festum  Phillippi  et  Jacob!1  coronatus  est  Edwardus  Brus  a  suis  rex  Hybernise. 
Castrum  viride  cepit,  praesidiaque  reliquit,  quse  brevi  post  a  Dublinensibus  ex- 
pulsa  sunt,  captusque  dux,  Robertus  Culratlim,  qui  in  carcere  periit.  Die  Petri 
et  Pauli  Scoti  ceperunt  Dundalckn,  diripueruntque  et  incenderunt,  vastarunt 
magnam  partem  Urgaliae.  Ecclesia  mariae  de  Atordet0  plena  viris  et  fseminis 
coraburitur  a  Scotis  et  Hibernis.  Edmundus  Butler  Justitiarius  exercitum  e 
Mamonia  et  Laginia,  comes  Ultoniae  et  Connacias  exercitum  legit,  junctisque 
viribus  Dundalcum  occurrunt,  ibi  in  se  suscepit  comes  se  vivum  aut  mortuum 
Brusium  Justitiario  traditurum  Dublinii,  sequutus  igitur  Scotos  ad  Banum  flu- 
vium,  Coinersp  cum  exercitu  repetiitq,  quod  cum  animadvertisset  Brusius,  occulte 
fluvium  cum  suis  transiens,  eum  sequebatur,  subi  toque  adortus  in  fugam  vertit 
i  o  Septembris,  capto  Gulielmo  de  Burgo,  vulneratoque  Georgio  de  Rupe,  occisis 

Johanne 
the  Carmelite  friary. 

P  Coiners. — Now,  evidently,  Connor,  which 
is  spelt  Coyners  in  Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  567. 
Barbour  spells  it  Coigners,  and  says  that  the 
Scots  found  in  it  profusion  "of  corneand  flour 
and  wax  and  wyne." — B.  xv.  1.  94.  This 
victory  at  Coigners,  which  Grace  reckons  as 
the  first  of  those  won  by  Edward  Bruce,  is 
made  his  third  victory  by  Barbour.  We  may 
here  give  the  marches  by  Bruce,  according  to 
Barbour,  from  his  landing  to  this  place. 
Barbour  says  that  he  landed  at  Wokings 
fyrth,  and  marched  directly  towards  Car- 
rickfergus,  but  on  his  road  was  met  by  Man- 
deville,  Bissett,  and  the  other  Ulster  chiefs, 
whose  forces  amounted  to  nearly  20,000,  whom 
he  defeated,  and  having  taken  the  town,  laid 
siege  to  the  castle  of  Carrickfergus.  Here 
all  the  folk  off  Ulster  came  into  his  peace, 
and  ten  or  twelve  kings  made  fealty  to  him, 
two  of  whom,  Makgullane  (M'Quillan),  and 
Makartane  ( Mac  Cartan),  shortly  after  with 
stood  him  with  all  their  forces  and  with  great 
courage  at  a  pass  called  Endnellan  or  Innuer- 
mallane,  (Emerdullan  is  mentioned  after- 
wards by  Grace  in  1343),  perhaps  Invernayle 


I  Phillippi  et  Jacobi — May  1.     This  must 
have  been  in  the  following  year.     The  date 
of  Bruce's  landing,  as  given  above,  was  May 
26.     Archdall  says  -that  he  was  crowned  at 
Knocknemelan,  within  half  a  mile  of  Dun- 
dalk. — Archdall  Lodge's  Peerage.     Earl  of 
Louth.     In  the  Earl  of  Louth's  patent  it  is 
stated  that  Edmund  Bruce  had  caused  him- 
self to  be  crowned  King  of  Ireland. — Rot. 
Pat.  49  Ed.  III.  142. 

m  Culrath. — Coulragh. — Pembridge.    Per- 
haps the  Scotchman's  name  was  Culross. 

II  Dundalck — Barbour  (b.  xiv.  1.  138)  says 
that  Dundalk  was  defended  by 

Schyr  Richard  of  Clar, 
That  in  all  Irland  Lufftenande 
Was  off  the  King  of  Ingland, 
and  by  several  other  nobles,  who  were  put  to 
the  rout  in  a  battle  in  which   Earl  Thomas 
greatly  distinguished  himself.     In  the  town 
the  Scots  found  profusion  of  "  wictaill"  and 
"gret  haboundance  off  wyne  ;"  after  staying 
there  three  days  they  took  their  way  "  suth- 
warts." 

0  Atordet — De  Atrio  Dei,  Athirdee,  Ar- 
dee.     Archdall  says  the  church  belonged  to 


Philip  and  James  (May  i)  Edward  Bruce  was  crowned  by  his  men  King  of  Ire- 
land. He  took  Green  Castle,  and  left  a  garrison  there,  which  was  soon  after  driven 
out  by  the  men  of  Dublin,  and  their  captain,  Robert  of  Culrath,  (Colerane?)  was 
taken,  he  afterwards  died  in  prison.  On  Peter  and  Paul's  day  (June  29)  the 
Scots  took  Dundalk,  and  plundered  and  burned  it,  they  wasted  great  part  of 
Uriel.  The  church  of  Ardee,  full  of  men  and  women,  is  burned  by  the  Scotch 
and  the  Irish.  Edmund  Butler,  Justiciary,  collects  an  army  from  Munster  and 
Leinster,  and  the  Earl  of  Ulster  from  Connaught ;  they  meet,  and  unite  their 
forces  at  Dundalk,  when  the  Earl  took  upon  himself  to  deliver  Bruce  alive  or  dead 
to  the  Justiciary  in  Dublin ;  having  therefore  followed  the  Scots  to  the  River 
Bann,  he  retreated  to  Connor;  when  this  was  perceived  by  Bruce  he  secretly 
crossed  the  river  with  his  troops,  and  having  suddenly  attacked  him,  put  him  to 
flight  on  the  i  oth  of  September,  having  taken  William  de  Burgh  and  wounded 

George 


near  Malin  Head  in  Donegal,  although  it  is 
scarcely  likely  that  Bruce  had  crossed  the 
Foyle.  Having  forced  the  pass,  "  In  all  Irland 
straytor  is  nane."  Bruce  lay  at  Kilsagart  until 
he  heard  of  the  assembly  of  the  English  forces 
at  Dundalk ;  after  taking  Dundalk  he  marched 
southwards  till  he  came  to  the  great  forest 
of  Kylrose  (perhaps  Kilrois  in  Mourne,  in 
Down  or  Cremourne  in  Monaghan — Mon. 
Hib.,  p.  1 23  ;  Lanigan  EC.  Hist.,  vol.  i.  p.  270. 
Ballyrush  ?)  where  he  again  defeated  Richard 
off  Clar,  who  had  "  fyve  bataills  (battalions) 
gret  and  braid," — "  Toward  Ydymsy  or  En- 
drossy  then  they  rode,  ane  Irsche  king,  that 
ayth  haid  maid  to  Schyr  Eduuard  off  fewte," 
but  who  now  inveigled  Bruce  into  a  position 
in  which  he  hoped  to  destroy  his  army  by 
breaking  down  a  dam  made  for  the  purpose, 
and  letting  the  waters  of  a  lake  suddenly  rush 
upon  them.  The  Scots  were  now  in  great 
distress  between  two  rivers  (the  Foyle  and  the 
Bann),  which  they  could  not  pass,  one  of  them 
the  "  Bane  that  is  ane  arm  off  the  se, 

That  with  Horss  may  not  passyt  be 
Wes  betwix  them  and  Hullyser." 
IRISH  ARCH.  SOC.  3. 


From  this  perilous  state  they  were  delivered 
by  "  Thomas  off  Downe,  ascowmar  of  the  se," 
who  brought  them  over  the  Bann  in  four  ships, 
they  were  now  in  "  biggit,"  cultivated  land, 
and  had  victuals  and  meat  enough,  and  were 
between  the  English  army  and  Coigners.  Pin- 
ker ton,  in  his  notes  to  Barbour,  conjectures 
that  for  the  Bane  we  should  read  the  Boyne. 
This  conjecture  can  scarcely  be  admitted.  It 
is  difficult  to  trace  Bruce's  movements  or  to 
identify  the  places  mentioned  by  Barbour,  but 
it  would  seem  that  after  the  taking  of  Dundalk 
and  his  coronation,  he  retreated  before  the 
assembled  English  forces  towards  Connaught, 
and  being  led  astray  by  his  guides,  and  op- 
posed by  the  Irish  chieftains,  he  was  now 
making  his  way  into  the  cultivated  parts  of 
Ulster,  when  he  was  ferried  over  the  Bann  by 
Thomas  of  Down. 

q  Repetiit — Pembridge  says  that  about  the 
Feast  of  St.  Mary  Magdalen  (July  22),  the 
Justiciary,  Edmund  Butler  and  the  Earl  of 
Ulster  united  their  armies  at  Dundalk  "  et 
mutuo  consulebant  ut  Scotos  interficerent,  at, 
quomodo  ignoratur,  fugerunt,  aliter,  ut  spera- 

K 


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Johanne  Staunton,  Rogcro  de  Santoboscor  cum  aliis  permultis,  e  Scotis  ceciderunt 
etiam  aliquot.  Hoc  casu  animati  Hiberni  Connaci  et  Midii  insurrexerunt  in 
Anglos,  incenderuntque  arcem  de  Athlor  et  Randon5  et  alia  nonnulla.  In  hoc  con- 
ilictu  de  Coiners,  Baro  de  Donul  strenue  se  gessit,  verum  bona  sua  omnia  fere 
amisit,  Angli  superati  ad  Gregfergus  confugerunt,  et  eorum  aliquot  ingressi  sunt 
arcem  et  earn  tenuerunt.  Post  aliquot  dies  nautae  quidam  Angli  e  Cnocfergus 
Scotos  noctu  ex  insperato  aggressi,  40  eorum  occiderunt,  exuruntque  castris,  ten- 
toria  et  multa  alia  retulerunt.  Postridie  exaltacionis  crucis  navigavit  in  Scotiain 
comes  de  Morteth,  cum  Gulielmo  de  Burgo  captivo  et  navibiis  4.  Hiberniae 
spoliis  onustis,  ut  plures  milites  accerseret.  Interim  dum  Brus  Cregfergus  obsidet, 
Cathil  Roth  O  Conor  tria  castra  comitis  Ultonia  in  Conriacia  diruit,  oppidaque 
permulta  direpta  incendit.  Nautas  iterum  Scotos  aliquot  interfecerunt.  Ricar- 
dus Delan*  de  Oterioit  a  quodam  Hiberno  Medio  occiditur  die  S  Nicolaui,  Brus 
reliquit  Gregferg,  ad  quern  apud  Dundalck  venit  comes  de  Marith  cum  novo 
militum  presidio  500,  transfugerunt  ad  eum  nonnulli.  Inde  ad  Nobri  se  contulit, 
iibi  multos  e  suis  reliquit.  Dein  incendio  vastans  Kenles  in  Midia  et  Grenard 
et  Finnagh,  et  novum  castrum,  fcstum  natalitii  apud  Logsuedeu  celebravit.  Dein 
petivit  Totmoy  ct  Rathymeganv  et  Kildare  et  regionem  circa  Tristill  Dermott 
ct  Athy  et  Ribane  non  sine  damno  tameii  suorum,  postea  accessit  ad  Skethirw 
intra  Arscoll  in  Lagenia,  ubi  sese  offerunt  cum  exercitu  Edmundus  Butler 
Justiciarius,  Johannes  fitz  ThoniD3  et  Arnaldus  Power,  aliique  magnates  Laginiae 
et  Mamoniae  qui  cum  facili  vel  singuli  eum  repellcre  potuissent,  orto  inter  eos 
dissidio  omnes  recesserunt,  interfecto  in  conflictu  Hamundo  Grace  et  Gulielmo 
Pendregastx.  E  Scotis  ceciderunt  Fergus  Andressian,  Walterus  de  Mourey  cum 

aliis 

batur,  capti  essent,"  when  the  Earl  declared  Richer,  constable  of  the  castle  of  Randown, 

that  he  would  bring  Bruce  dead  or  alive  to  had  an  order  for  £10  for  the  repair  of  the 

Dublin,  "qui  comes  eos  sequebatur  usque  ad  castle,  dated  7th  September,  1315 — Rot.  Cl. 

aquam  de  Branne,  et  postea  dictus  Comes  re-  10  Ed.  II.  14. 

traxit  se  versus  Coyners,  quod  percipiens  die-  l  Ricardus  Delan. — Probably  de  la  Lande, 
tus  Brus  caute  dictam  aquam  transivit, et  of  Ofervil,  or  O' Far  el's  country,  now  Long- 
comes  confectus  est  juxta  Coyners."  ford.  He  is  called  Ricardus  de  Lan  de  Oferi- 

r  De  Santobosco. — Probably  Holywood,  of  vill  by  Pembridge. 

the  County  Dublin.  u  Logsuede — Loghseudy  or  Loghsendy,  in 

*  Randon Randown  or  Rinnduin,   now  the  barony  of  Rathconrath,  Westmeath.    On 

St.   John's   in    Roscommon.     Richard   Fitz  this  expedition  Bruce  seems  to  have  skirted 


6; 

George  Roche,  and  slain  John  Staunton,  Roger  Holywood,  and  many  others : 
some  of  the  Scots  also  fell.  The  Irish  of  Connaught  and  Meath  were  encouraged 
by  this  event,  and  rose  against  the  English,  and  burned  the  castles  of  Athlone, 
and  Randon,  and  some  others.  In  this  battle  at  Connor  the  Baron  of  Dunoyl 
bore  himself  bravely,  but  lost  nearly  all  his  baggage,  the  defeated  English  fled 
to  Carrickfergus,  and  some  of  them  entered  the  castle,  and  held  it.  Some  days 
afterwards  some  English  sailors  from  Carrickfergus  suddenly  attacked  the  Scots 
by  night,  and  drove  them  from  their  camp,  and  brought  away  their  tents  and 
many  other  things.  The  day  after  the  Exaltation  of  the  Cross  (September  i5th) 
the  Earl  of  Moray  sailed  from  Scotland  with  William  de  Burgh  his  prisoner, 
and  with  four  ships  laden  with  the  spoils  of  Ireland,  for  the  purpose  of  bringing 
back  more  troops.  Meanwhile,  during  the  siege  of  Carrickfergus,  Cathal  Roe 
O'Conor  destroyed  three  castles  of  the  Earl  of  Ulster  in  Connaught,  and  plun- 
dered and  burned  many  towns.  The  sailors  again  slew  some  Scots.  Richard  de 
Lande  of  O'Farel's  land  ?  is  slain  by  an  Irishman  of  Meath.  On  St.  Nicholas 
day  (May  9)  Bruce  left  Carrickfergus  and  was  met  at  Dundalk  by  the  Earl  of 
Moray,  with  a  reinforcement  of  five  hundred  soldiers,  some  deserted  to  him. 
Hence  he  went  to  Nobber  where  he  left  several  of  his  men.  From  thence 
having  burned  Kells  in  Meath,  and  Granard,  and  Finnagh,  and  Newcastle,  he 
kept  his  Christmas  at  Loghseudy.  Then  he  went  to  Totemoy,  and  Rathan- 
gan,  and  Kildare,  and  the  neighbourhood  of  Castle  Dermot,  and  Athy,  and 
Rheban,  yet  not  without  loss ;  afterwards  he  came  to  Skerries  at  Arscoll  in  Lein- 
ster,  where  Edmund  Butler,  Justiciary,  John  Fitz  Thomas,  Arnold  Power,  and 
the  other  nobles  of  Ireland  opposed  him,  any  of  them  alone  could  easily  have 
driven  him  back,  but  they  quarrelled  among  themselves,  and  all  of  them  re- 
treated. Hamond  Grace  was  killed  in  action  and  William  Prendergast.  Of  the 

Scots 

along  the  north  of  Meath,  through  Nobber,  Ley,  and  passing  through  Geashill  in  King's 

Kells,    Newcastle  to  Finnagh  in  Westmeath,  County,  and  Fowre  in  Westmeath,  to  Kells 

Granard,  in  Longford,  and  Loghseudy,  from  in  Meath. 

which    place  he  went   through    Westmeath  v  Rathymegan. — Rathangan. 

and  part  of  the  King's  County  into  Kildare,          w  Skethir Skerries,  near  Athy.     Marle- 

to  Rathangan,  Kildare,   Castledermot,  Athy,  burgh  dates  this  battle  January  26. 

Rheban,  and  Arscoll,  where  he  was  opposed  by          x  Pendregast A  powerful  family  in  the 

Edmund  Butler,  Justiciary  ;  he  then  returned  south  of  Ireland  descended  from  Philip   de 

to  Ulster,  burning  in  his  way  the  Castle  of  Prendergast  who  was  married  to  the  heiress 


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aliis  multis,  quorum  corpora  sepeliuntur  in  convcntu  fratrum  apud  Adhi.  Brus 
in  reddituy  castrum  de  Lei  incendit,  dein  Kenles2  venit,  ubi  occurrit  Rogerus 
Mortimer3  cum  15000  hominum,  non  satis  fidis  tamen  nee  amico  in  eum  animo, 
quippe  relicto  duce  cum  paucis,  aufugerunt,  precipue  Laciei.  Rogerus  fugam 
versus  Dubliniam  capessit,  Gualterus  Cusack  versus  Trim,  eodem  tempore 
Hiberni  australes,  et  Othothiles  et  Obrines  incenderunt  totam  regionem  austra- 
lem,  Arclo  scilicet,  novum  castrum,  Bree  et  cetera.  O  Morghes  autem  partem 
de  Leis  in  Lagenia  devastabant.  Hos  autem  castigavit  Edmundus  Butler  Jus- 
tic,  victis  enim  et  quam  pluribus  occisis,  800  capita  Dublinium  retulit.  Ad 
festum  purific.  Marias,  Thomas1',  Ricardus  Clare,  Johannes  et  Arnaldus  Power 
venerunt  ad  dominum  Joliannem  de  Hethom,  per  regem  assignatum,  ibi  jurave- 
runt  se  regi  fore  fidos,  et  Scotos  omnibus  viribus  repulsuros,  datis  obsidibus, 
ceterosque  regis  hostes,  ceterique  magnates  qui  hoc  idem  facere  recusarunt  regis 
liostes  publice  habiti  sunt.  Obiit  Johannes  Bisset,  P>.clesia  novas  villas  de  Leisc, 
a  scotis  incenditur,  Capitur  arx  Northburgcnsisd  in  Ultonia  ab  iisdem.  Fidel- 
meus  O  Conghur  interfecit  Roriricum,  filium  Catholi  O  Conghur.  Obiit  Guliel- 
mus  Mandevile,  et  episcopus  Conernensis0  fugit  ad  arcem  de  Gregfargus.  Inter- 
dicitur  episcopatus  ejus.  Hugo  de  Antonia  interncitur  in  Connacia.  Die  S 
Valentini,  Scotorum  exercitus  ad  Geshill  in  Offali  ingentem  famem  passus,  adeo 
ut  plures  perierint,  se  contulerunt  versus  Fowre  in  Midia,  fame  quotidie  defici- 

entes 

of  De  Quenci,  constable  of  Leinster.  the  palatinate  in  right  of  his  wife  Maud  de 

y  In  redditu — Harbour  seems  to  confine  Geneville,  Mortimer  had  a  personal  interest 

the  marches  of  Edward  Bruce  within  Ulster  in  the   defence  of  Meath.      Walter   Cusake 

until  the   coming   of  King   Robert,   unless  was  probably  Walter  Cusake  of  Beaurepayr, 

Ydymsy  is  to  be  taken  for  O'Dempsy.  (Belper  near  Taragh?)  whose  son  John  mar- 

z  Kenles. — In  the  summary  of  Bruce's  ex-  ried  the  granddaughter  and  heiress  of  Simon 

pedition,  given  by  Grace  and  Pembridge  at  de  Geneville  of  Culmullen.     The  Lacies  who 

the  year  1315,  this  battle  at  Kells  is  put  before  deserted  Mortimer  may  have  been  descended 

that  at  Skerries  near  Arscoll.    There  may  be  from  a  younger  son  of  Walter  de  Lacy  whose 

some  confusion  between  Kells  in  Meath  and  name  is  not  recorded,  or  they  may  have  been 

Kells  in  Ossory,  yet  both  are  mentioned  dis-  the   representatives  of  Robert  de    Lacy,  to 

tinctly.   In  Marleburgh's  Chronicle  and  inCox,  whom  Hugh  gave  the  barony  of  Rathwire  ; 

who  says  that  it  was  fought  in  November,  the  they  seem  to  have  considered  themselves  as 

engagement  at  Kells  takes  place  in  Bruce's  the  right  heirs  of  Hugh  de    Lacy,   and   to 

march  to  the  south,  not  on  his  retreat.  have  looked  upon   Geneville  and   Mortimer 

*  Rogerus  Mortimer.  —  As   lord   of  half  as  intruders  ;  in    this  view  their   opposition 


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Scots  fell  Fergus  Ardrossan,  Walter  de  Moray,  with  many  others  whose  bodies 
are  buried  in  the  Convent  of  the  Friars  at  A  thy.  Bruce  on  his  return  sets  fire 
to  the  Castle  of  Ley,  he  then  comes  to  Kells,  where  Roger  Mortimer  met  him 
with  15,000  men,  but  they  were  not  trustworthy  or  well  disposed  towards  him, 
for  they  left  their  commander  with  a  few  troops,  and  ran  away,  especially  the 
Lacies.  Roger  takes  flight  towards  Dublin,  and  Walter  Cusake  towards  Trim. 
At  the  same  time  the  southern  Irish,  both  the  O'Tooles  and  the  O'Byrnes, 
burned  the  whole  south  country,  that  is  to  say,  Arklow,  Newcastle,  Bray,  &c. 
But  the  O'Mores  laid  waste  part  of  Leix  in  Leinster,  but  they  were  punished  by 
Edmund  Butler,  the  Justiciary,  for  having  defeated  them  and  killed  a  great  num- 
ber of  them,  he  brought  back  800  heads  to  Dublin.  At  the  Feast  of  the  Puri- 
fication (February  2)  John  Fitz  Thomas,  Richard  Clare,  John  and  Arnold  Power 
came  to  the  Lord  John  Hotham,  who  was  appointed  by  the  king,  and  there  made 
oath  that  they  would  be  faithful  to  the  king,  and  that  they  would  repel  the  Scots 
and  all  other  enemies  of  the  king  with  all  their  power,  and  for  this  they  o-ave 
hostages,  and  the  other  lords  who  refused  to  do  so,  were  publicly  proclaimed  the 
king's  enemies.  John  Bissett  died.  The  church  of  the  new  town  of  Leix  is 
burned  by  the  Scots.  The  castle  of  Northburgh,  in  Ulster,  is  taken  by  them. 
Felim  O'Conor  slew  Roderick,  son  of  Cathol  O'Conor.  William  Mandeville 
died,  and  the  Bishop  of  Conor  fled  to  the  castle  of  Carrickfergus.  His  bishop- 
rick  is  put  under  an  interdict.  Hugh  de  Antonia  is  slain  in  Connaught.  On 
St.  Valentine's  day  (February  14)  the  army  of  the  Scots  was  at  Geashill  in  Offaly, 
suffering  greatly  from  hunger,  so  that  many  perished ;  they  betook  themselves  to 

Fowre 

to  Mortimer  was,  in  fact,  a  dispute  between  la  Roche ;  and  to  confirm  our  annalist's  accu- 

the  heirs  male  and  the  heirs  general,  a  dispute  racy  it  bears  date  le  Meskerdy  [Wednesday] 

which  has  been  lately  agitated  with  regard  to  procheiri   apres   Purificacion   Nostre    Dame, 

Irish  honours,  and  one  in  which  Irish  preju-  1315 — Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  283. 

dice  was  in  favour  of  the  Lacies.  e  De  Leis. — Abbeyleix  in  Queen's  County. 

b   Thuma> — Johannes  Thomae.     This   de-  If  this  happened  after  the  return  of  Bruce 

claration  of  loyalty  bore  the  names  and  seals  into  Ulster  this  place  was  probably  burned, 

of  Johan  le  fuiz   Thomas,  Seigneur  Doflfaly,  not  by  the  Scots,  but  by  the  O'Mores,  whom 

Richard  de  Clare,   Maurice  le  fuiz  Thomas,  Edmund  Butler  defeated  in  Leix. 

Thomas  le  fuiz  Johan,  Johan  le  Poer,  Ba-  d  Northburgensis — This  place  has  not  been 

ron  de  Donnoile,  Arnold  le  Poer,  Moricy  de  ascertained. 

Rocheford,  David  de  la  Roche,  and  Miles  de  eEpiscopus  Conernensis, — The  name  of  this 


entes  in  labore.  Gualterus  Lacius  Dublinium  venit,  ad  se  purgandum  de  infamia 
illata,  et  obsides  rcgi  dandos,  ut  ceteri  fecerunt.  Interim  Brus  in  Ultonia  quietef 
deoit.  Conjurarunt  Othothilesg,  Obrines,  Archibaldes,  et  Haraldes,  Wicle  cum 
tota  regione  adjuncta  devastarunt.  Comes  de  Morrey  navigavit  in  Scotiam  a 
septimana  quadragessimse.  Edoardus  Brus  parliamentumh  tenuit  in  Ultonia,  in 
quibus  complures  suspendit.  Item  in  aliis  circa  medium  quadragessimaa  occidit 
les  Logans  capitque  Alanum  filium  Warini  duxitque  secum  in  Scotiam'.  Feiiin 
O  Conors  occidit  Calcroth,  et  GaloglaghesJ  et  alios  cum  eo  circa  300.  Frumentum 
venditur  pro  1 8s.k 

1316.  Thomas'  Mandevile  cum  pluribus  de  Droglida  cum  Scotis  ad  Greg- 
fero-us  congressus.  eos  in  fugam  vertit,  occisis  circa  30  die  Jo  vis  in  cena  domini. 
In  vigilia  pasche  adortus  60  interfecit,  sed  ipse  in  conflictu  cecidit  in  patria  et 
pro  jure  suo.  Ricardus  Clare  et  Ricardus  Brimingham  complures  Hibernos  in 

Connacia 


loyal  bishop  is  not  known.  Adam  de  North- 
ampton, Bishop  of  Ferns,  was  accused  of 
having  sent  his  brother  to  the  Scots,  and  with 
having  supplied  them  with  provisions,  arms, 
and  soldiers — Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  339. 

f  Quiete  degit. — It  was  probably  at  this  time 
of  peaceful  occupation  of  Ulster  by  the  Scots, 
that  Sir  Gruffydh  Llwyd,  who  was  in  rebel- 
lion again  Edward  II.,  wrote  to  Edward 
Bruce  to  invite  him  into  Wales,  that  by  the 
union  of  the  Albanian  Scots  with  the  Britons, 
the  Saxons  might  be  driven  out,  the  times 
of  Brutus  restored,  and  the  whole  of  Britain 
divided  between  the  Britons  and  the  Scots. 
Edward  Bruce,  notwithstanding  his  Norman 
blood,  agreed  to  the  proposal  on  condition 
that  he  was  to  have  such  command  and  such 
lordship  over  the  Welch,  "  prout  alius  hacte- 
nus  princeps  vester  liberius  habere  consuevit." 
These  were  bright  visions  for  the  Earl  of  Car- 
rick's  younger  son,  the  proud  and  overbearing 
Edward  Bruce ;  he  had  been  crowned  King  of 
Ireland,  he  had  a  near  prospect  of  the  crown 
of  Scotland,  and  he  now  dreamed  of  the  crown 


of  Britain Llwyd's  Letter  and  Bruce's  reply 

are  printed  in  Powell's  History  of  Wales, 
pp.  811,  312. 

g  Othothiles — There  are  various  orders  in 
the  Close  Roll  for  this  year  (10  Ed.  II.)  for  the 
payment  of  troops  going  against  the  Otothils, 
(O'Tooles),  and  O'Brynnes  (O'Birnes),  and 
Mac  Murghuthas  (M'Moroughs  or  Cava- 
naghs),  the  O'Briens  of  Munster,  O'Conor 
of  Offaley,  O'Dempsy,  the  O' Mores,  and  the 
0' Nolans  ;  and  for  repairing  the  castles  of 
Balyteny,  of  Randoun,  and  of  Newcastle 
M'Kynegan.  John  d'Arcy,  who  was  then 
Justiciary,  was  sent,  May  1st,  1317>  to  Con- 
naught  to  treat  with  O'Conor  of  Connaught, 
and  with  Mageoghegan.  All  the  other  Irish 
septs  seem  to  have  been  at  open  war  with  the 
English.  According  to  the  lists  published  by 
Harris  and  by  Whitelaw,  John  d'Arcy  was 
not  in  the  government  of  Ireland  before  1322. 

h  Parliamentum. — Seems  here  to  be  used 
in  the  sense  of  the  High  Court  of  Justice. 
Pembridge  uses  the  more  suitable  word,  Pla- 
cita. 


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Fowre  in  Meath,  daily  fainting  with  hunger  in  their  journey.  Walter  Lacy 
came  to  Dublin  to  clear  himself  of  the  charge  brought  against  him,  and  to  give 
hostages  to  the  king  as  the  others  had  done.  In  the  meantime  Bruce  remained 
quiet  in  Ulster.  The  O'Tooles,  O'Byrnes,  Archbolds  and  Harolds,  combined 
together,  they  plundered  Wicklow  with  all  the  adjacent  country.  The  Earl  of 
Moray  sailed  into  Scotland  in  the  first  week  of  Lent.  Edward  Bruce  held  a 
parliament  in  Ulster,  in  which  he  hanged  many  persons,  also  in  another  parlia- 
ment about  mid-lent  he  put  the  Logans  to  death,  and  takes  Alan  Fitz  Warm 
and  brought  him  with  him  into  Scotland.  Felim  O'Conor  slew  Calroth  and 
Galloglasses,  and  others  with  him  to  the  number  of  300.  Wheat  is  sold  for  iSs. 
1316.  Thomas  Mandeville  with  more  men  from  Drogheda  attacked  the  Scots 
at  Carrickfergus  and  put  them  to  flight,  having  killed  about  thirty  on  Maundy 
Thursday  (April  8),  attacking  them  on  Easter  Eve  (April  10)  he  slew  sixty  of 
them,  but  fell  himself  in  the  conflict,  fighting  in  his  own  country  and  for  his 
own  rights.  Richard  Clare  and  Richard  Birmingham  slaughtered  many  Irish 


1  In  Scotiam. — It  would  not  appear  from 
Pembridge  or  Barbour  that  Edward  Bruce 
ever  returned  to  Scotland.  Marleburgh,  who 
omits  Robert  Bruce's  expedition  to  Ireland, 
says  that  Edward  Bruce  returned  to  Scotland 
from  Carrickfergus  after  his  first  march  to 
the  south,  and  that  he  was  again  in  Ireland 
before  Easter,  1316. 

j  Galoglaghes — The  galloglasses  were  the 
heavy  armed  foot  soldiers  of  the  Irish,  they 
wore  an  iron  head-piece  and  a  coat  of  defence 
stuck  with  iron  nails,  having  a  long  sword  by 
their  sides,  and  bearing  in  one  hand  a  broad 

axe  with  an  extremely  keen  edge Harris 

Ware's  Antiq.,  p.  161. 

k  18*. — Pembridge  says  that  in  midlent 
wheat  was  sold  for  18*.,  and  at  the  Easter 
following  for  11*.  Neither  Pembridge  nor 
Grace  specifies  the  measure,  it  was  probably 
the  crannock. 

1  Thomas — Barbour  records  these  events 
immediately  after  the  battle  of  Coigners,  he 


in 

says  that  Bruce  held  the  siege 

Quhill  Palme  Sonday  wes  passit  by, 
Than  quhill  the  Twysday  in  Payss  wouk, 
On  ayther  half  thai  trewys  touk, 
Swa  that  thai  mycht  that  haly  tid, 
In  Pennance  and  in  Pryer  bid. 

B.  xv.  1.  100. 

But  upon  Pasche  Even,  fifteen  ships  came 
from  Dewillyne  with  4000  armed  men,  who 
entered  the  castle  under  the  command  of 
"  Auld  Schyr  Thomas  the  Mawndeveill,"  that 
the  Scots  were  attacked  notwithstanding  the 
truce,  but,  as  falshood  "  evir  mair  sail  haif 
unfayr  and  ewill  ending,"  the  attack  ended  iu 
the  defeat  of  the  English.  Mandeville  was 
known  by  his  "  arming,"  and  being  felled  to  the 
ground  by  Gib  Harper  was  "  reversit"  by  Sir 
Edward,  who  "  with  a  knife  right  in  that  place 
reft  him  of  life."  Pembridge  having  mentioned 
that  this  engagement  took  place  on  Easter- 
eve,  says  that  it  was  circa  calendar  (the 
first  of  the  month);  in  1316  Easter-day  fell 


Connacia  trucidant.  Gulielmus  Comin  cum  suis  occidit  dominum  O  Brinnem 
(cum  12  sociis)  insignes  latrones  in  Sabbato  post  ascentionem  capitibus  Dub- 
linium  dilatis.  Dundalcenses  O  Hanlan  petentes,  200  Hibernos  interficiunt, 
periit  in  conflictu  Robertus  Verdon  armiger.  Ad  pentecosten,  Ricardus  Bri- 
mingham  Hibernos  plures  300  in  Connacia  occidit.  Ad  natale  Johannis  venit 
Brus  ad  Gregfergus,  petit  deditionem,  prout  convenerat  inter  eos,  illi  vitam  et 
membrum  petiverunt,  et  ut  immitteret  30.  qui  reciperent,  quos  ingressos  in 
vincula  conjecerunt.  Hiberni  di  Omail"  Tullagh  invadentes  400  perdiderunt, 
quorum  capita  Dublinium  missa,  mirabilia  acciderunt  mortui  resurrexerunt, 
pugnabant  inter  se  pro  more  fennocabo0  signum  suum  pronuntiantes.  Ad  festum 
translacionis  S.  Thomse  8.  naves  onuste  apud  Droghda  cum  necessariis  ad  ob- 
sessos  in  Gregfergo  mittendas,  qusc  perturbatae  sunt  a  comite  Ultonise  propter 
deliberacionem  Gulielmi  de  Burgo,  qui  apud  Scotos  erat  captiviis.  Die  Sabbati 
sequente  convenerunt  Dublinii  Comes  Ultoniee,  Johannes  Fitz  Thomas,  et  alii 
quam  plures  magnates,  qui,  dextera  data,  se  in  defensionem  regis  et  regionis 
mortis  discrimen  subituros  pollicebantur.  O  Conghur  in  Connacia  occidit 
Stephanum  de  ExoniisP,  Milonem  Logan*1,  nonnullos  de  Barries  et  de  Louelles 
cum  pluribus  aliis  Anglis  cir.  80.  Ad  festum  Laurentii  insurrexerunt  in  Anglos 
4  reges  Hiberni  quos  castigarunt  Gulielmus  de  Burgo,  Ricardus  Brimingham 
dominus  de  Anrir  cum  suis  trucidatis  circa  12000  in  Anri  oppido,  quod  postea 
muris  cingcbatur  e  spoliis  Hibernorum,  nam  qui  duplicia*  arma  acquisierunt 
militum  medium  in  hoc  erogavit.  Ceciderunt  hie  Fideluncus1  O  Conghur,  rex 

Connaciae 

on  April  11,  in  1317  it  fell  on  Aprils.    Lord  of  the  O'Tooles. 

Hailes  understands  Pembridge  as  speaking  of         °  Fennocabo Fennokabo.  —  Pembridge. 

three  engagements  on  the  8tb  and  10lh  days  of  This  musthave  been  the  war  cry  of  some  of  the 

April  and  on  the  Calends,  which  were  either  Wicklow septs.   Fynnok(Fin  Oge?)  O'Conng- 

the  16th  of  April  or  the  1st  of  May ;  the  words  hor  was  a  hostage  in  the  Castle  of  Dublin  in 

of  Pembridge  are,  "Postea  in  vig.  Paschse  die-  1326,  with  O'Toole,  Harold,  and  other  per- 

tus  dominus  Thomas  cum  suis  insultum  fecit      sons  of  Wicklow  names Rot.  Cl.  20  Ed.  II. 

contra  Scotos  et  plures  eorum  occidit  circa  31.     For  the  war  cries  of  the  Irish  see  Harris' 

Calendas  et  ibi  occisus  erat."     Hailes  places  Ware's  Antiq.,  p.  163. 

the  coronation  of  Edward  Bruce  on  the  2nd          p  De  Exoniis This  great  family  of  d'Exe- 

of  May  of  this  year.  ter  or  Dexter  became  mere  Irish,  and  assumed 

m Dominum O'Brinne — Donnyger  O'Bryn-  the  name  of  M'Jordan.     Davis'  Discovery, 

ne  fortis  latro — Pembridge.  p.  138.     Sir  Jordan  Dexter's  sons  were  great 

"Oimaill — Imayle  in  Wicklow,  the  country  rebels  in  Connaught  in  1515 — State  of  Ire- 


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in  Connaught.  William  Comin  with  his  men,  slew  the  Lord  O'Birne  (with  his 
twelve  comrades)  famous  robbers,  on  the  Saturday  after  Ascension  day  (May  22), 
and  brought  their  heads  to  Dublin.  The  men  of  Dimdalk  in  seeking  O'Hanlon 
slay  two  hundred  Irish,  Robert  Verdon  Esq.  fell  in  the  conflict.  At  Pentecost 
(May  30)  Richard  Birmingham  slew  more  than  three  hundred  Irish  in  Connaught. 
On  St.  John's  day  (June  24)  Bruce  came  to  Carrickfergus,  he  demands  their  sur- 
render, as  had  been  agreed  upon  between  them,  they  asked  for  life  and  limb,  and 
that  he  should  send  in  only  thirty,  whom  they  would  receive,  but  when  these 
had  entered  they  put  them  in  chains.  The  Irish  of  Imayle  attacked  Tullow,  and 
lost  four  hundred  men,  whose  heads  were  brought  to  Dublin ;  marvellous  things 
occurred,  the  dead  rose  again,  and  fought  with  one  another,  shouting  their  cry 
after  their  fashion,  "  Fennok  abo."  On  the  Feast  of  the  Translation  of  St.  Thomas 
(July  7)  eight  ships  laden  at  Drogheda  with  necessaries  to  be  sent  to  those  who 
were  besieged  in  Carrickfergus,  were  stopped  by  the  Earl  of  Ulster,  for  the 
deliverance  of  William  de  Burgh,  who  was  a  prisoner  with  the  Scots.  On  the 
Saturday  following  there  met  in  Dublin  the  Earl  of  Ulster,  John  Fitz  Thomas,  and 
many  other  lords,  who  gave  their  hands  to  one  another,  and  promised  that  they 
would  die  in  defence  of  king  and  country.  In  Connaught  O'Conor  slew  Stephen 
Dexter,  Milo  Logan,  some  of  the  Barries  and  Lawlesses,  with  more  English, 
about  eighty.  On  the  Feast  of  St.  Laurence  (August  10)  four  Irish  kings  rose 
against  the  English,  who  were  punished  by  William  de  Burgh  and  Richard 
Birmingham,  Lord  of  Athenry,  with  his  men,  who  slew  12,000  of  them  at  the 
town  of  Athenry,  which  was  afterwards  surrounded  with  walls  from  the  spoils 
of  the  Irish,  for  whoever  took  double  arms  of  knights  laid  out  half  the  price  on 
this  work.  Here  fell  Felim  O'Conor,  King  of  Connaught,  and  O'Kelly,  with 

many 

land,  State  Papers.  Galloglasses,  or  heavy  armed,  as  distinguished 

^Logan — Milonem  de  Cogan,  and  de  Law-     from  those  of  the  Kerns Harris  Ware's 

les — Pembridge.  Antiq.,  p.  161.     It  would  appear  from  the 

r  Anri — Athenry.     In  1310  the  bailiffs  and  following  words  of  Pembridge  that  both  these 

men  of  Athenry  had  license  to  levy  customs  kinds  of  armour  belonged  to  horsemen,  and 

for  three  years  for  the  purpose  of  building  a  that   they  were   not  peculiar   to   Irishmen  : 

stone  wall  round  their  town. — Rot.  Pat.  3  &  "  Magna  occisio  Scotorum,  circa  C.  cum  du- 

4  Ed.  II.  33.  plicibus  armis,  et  CC.  cum  solis  armis,  summa 

8  Duplicia. — This  expression  occurs  also  in  occisorum  CC.  prater  pedites." 

Pembridge ;  it  probably  means  the  arms  of  the  '  Fidelmeus  O'Conghur — This  Irish  chief 

IRISH  ARCH.  SOC.  3.  L 


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Connacise  et  O  Kelly  cum  pluribus  aliis  regulis.  Johannes  Husseeu  carnifex  de 
Anri,  cum  jussi  domini  sui  de  Anri  noctu  O  Kelley  conquireret  inter  mortuos  ut 
ejus  caput  ei  referret ;  O  Kelly  autem  cum  armigero  salvus  eum  adhortatur  ne 
subeat  pugne  periculum,  quin  potius  cum  eo  abeat,  et  mercedem  ingentem  reddi- 
tus  accipiat ;  quod  cum  approbasset  suus  servus,  primum  suum  servum  occidit, 
deinde  O  Kelley  ipsum  cum  famulo,  retulit  ad  dominum  3"  illorum  capita,  ob  quod 
facinus  equestri  ordine  decoratus,  magnis  redditibus  a  domino  donatus  est.  Ad 
S.Laurentii  invasit  O  Hanlanv  agrum  Dundalke,  a  Dundacensibus  autem  repulsus, 
multis  suorum  interfectis.  Ad  natale  Marias  David  O  Thotil  cum  8ow  sociis  in 
Silva  de  Colonix  noctu  se  abscondit,  detectus  autem  a  Dubliniensibus  et  Joanne 
Cominy  in  fugam  versus,  16  e  suis  perdidit,  alii  capitalia  vulnera  ceperunt. 
Robertas  Brus  in  Hiberniam  appulit  in  subsidium  fratris,  Gregfordus  obseditz. 

Monasteria 


is  said  to  have  joined  the  Earl  of  Ulster  on 
Bruce's  invasion,  and  to  have  been  present  at 
the  battle  of  Connor.  He  subsequently,  with 
the  aid  of  the  English,  defeated  and  killed  his 
rival  Roderick  O' Conor,  and  having  thus  es- 
tablished his  power  over  the  Irish  in  Con- 
naught,  he  seems  to  have  hoped  to  have  driven 
the  English  out  of  that  province  when  they 
were  attacked  by  Bruce.  —  Leland,  vol.  i. 
•267,  from  Book  of  Clonmacnoise.  It  was  the 
seal  of  this  Felim  which  was  presented  to 
Charles  I.,  and  which  is  engraved  in  Harris 
Ware's  Antiq.,  plate  1.  It  bears  the  legend 

S.    FEDHL1M  REGIS  CONACTIE. 

u  Johannes  Hussee Holinshed  and  Cox 

say,  that  the  family  of  this  brave  carnifex  of 
Athenry  became  afterwards  barons  of  Gal- 
trim  ;  but  the  Husseys  have  been  barons  of 
Galtrim  from  the  time  of  Huge  de  Hose,  to 
whom  Hugh  de  Lacy  gave  the  fair  land  of 
Dies,  which  Shaphlin  held  ;  and  are  so  to  this 
day,  although  the  title  is  almost  obsolete. 

E  al  barun  Huge  de  Hose 

Terre  bele  ad  pus  done. 

Conq.  of  Ireland,  1.  3163. 


About  1201  John  de  Hereford  granted  to  the 
Abbey  of  St.  Thomas,  Dublin,  all  the  Church 
tithes  and  other  dues  in  his  portion  of  the 
lands  of  Desa,  as  they  were  divided  between 
him  and  the  Lord  Hugh  de  Heose — Mon. 
Hib.,  p.  183.  See  also  Har.  Ware's  Antiq., 
p.  193. 

i  O'Hanlan In  1315  (8  Ed.  II.)  O'Han- 

lan  attended  parliament.  He  is  styled  by  Cox 
(p.  120)  Duke  (i.  e.  Dux,  Captain  or  Chief)  of 
Orry— Orior.  In  1337,  Edward  III.  issued 
the  following  writ,  which  shows  the  power  of 
O'Hanlon:  "  Rex  Rogero  Gernoun  Juniori, 
Petro  de  Haddesore,  Willielmo  le  Blound  de 
Dundalk,  et  Willielmo  Dovedale  [Dowdall] 
(recitat  quod  pax  sub  certa  forma  jam  inter 
Regem  et  fidelem  populum  suum  Comitatus 
Loueth  ex  parte  Midiae,  ex  una  parte,  et 
Donenald  O'Hanelan  et  illos  de  cognomine  et 
progenie  sua,  ex  altera,  sit  formata,  ut  per 
quoddam  instrumentum  sub  manu  publici 
notarii  confectum  potest  apparere),  assignat 
dictos  Rogerum  &c.  ad  inquirendum  per  sa- 
cramentum  &c.,  quis  dictam  pacem  infrinx- 
erit,  seu  de  cetero  infringere  contigerit,  et  ad 


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many  other  captains.  John  Hussee,  butcher  of  Athenry,  by  the  orders  of  his 
lord  went  from  Athenry  by  night  to  look  for  O' Kelly  among  the  dead,  and 
to  bring  him  back  his  head ;  but  O'Kelly,  who  was  safe,  and  with  his  esquire, 
advised  him  not  to  run  the  chance  of  a  combat,  but  to  go  off  with  him  and 
to  receive  a  great  estate  as  a  reward ;  his  servant  approved  of  this ;  first  then  he 
slew  his  own  servant,  then  O'Kelly  and  his  servant ;  he  brought  back  their  three 
heads  to  his  lord;  for  this  deed  he  was  knighted,  and  gifted  with  great  estates 
by  his  lord.  On  the  Feast  of  St.  Laurence  (August  10)  O'Hanlon  invaded  the 
lands  of  Dundalk,  but  was  driven  away  by  the  men  of  Dundalk,  with  the 
loss  of  many  of  his  men.  On  the  Nativity  of  Mary  (September  8)  David 
O'Toole  with  eighty  of  his  men  hid  himself  by  night  in  Cullenswood,  but 
was  discovered  by  the  men  of  Dublin,  and  put  to  flight  by  John  Comin; 
he  lost  sixteen  of  his  men,  and  others  were  mortally  wounded.  Robert 
Bruce  landed  in  Ireland  to  aid  his  brother,  he  besieges  Carrickfergus.  The 

monasteries 


cranes  illos  arrestandum,  &c.  Kilsaran,  11 
Sep."— Rot.  Pat.  1 1  Ed.  III.  la  pars.  6.  Pern- 
bridge  says  that  O'Hanlon  now  came  to  Dun- 
dalk, "ad  distringendum ;"  does  this  mean  that 
he  came  to  distrain  for  some  arrears  of  protec- 
tion money  or  black  mail  ? 

w  Cum  80. — Pemb.  "cum  quatuor." 
x  Silva  de  Coloni. — In  the  Annals  printed 
in  Whitelaw's  Hist,  of  Dublin,  it  is  said  that 
the  citizens,  mindful  of  the  loss  which  they  had 
suffered  in  1209,  went  out,  commanded  by  Sir 
William  Comin  (he  is  so  called  by  Pemb.) 
to  attack  the  O'Tooles,  with  the  black  stan- 
dard before  them,  of  which  Stanyhurst  says, 
"  the  citizens  of  Dublin  have  from  time  to 
time  so  galled  the  Irish,  that  even  to  this  dale 
the  Irish  feare  a  ragged  and  jagged  blacke 
standard  that  the  citizens  have,  almost  through 
tract  of  time  worne  to  the  hard  stumpes ;  this 
standard  they  carrie  with  them  in  Hostings, 
being  never  displaied  but  when  they  are  readie 
to  enter  into  battell  and  to  come  to  the  shocke, 
the  sight  of  which  danteth  the  Irish  above 

L 


measure." — Descrip.  of  Ireland  in  Holinshed, 
p.  23.  In  the  famous  ordinance  of  1331  Ed- 
ward III.  deprives  the  Justiciary  of  the  power 
of  granting  "  tuitionem  pacis  felonibus  in  silva 
existentibus." — Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  812. 

y  Joanne  Comin — March  26,  1324,  Wil- 
liam Comyn  had  an  order  for  £70  for  his 
expenses  in  exploring  the  passes  of  the  Irish 
of  the  mountains  in  the  marches  of  Leinster, 
and  in  staying  there  till  the  killing  of  Mo- 
riertagh,  brother  of  Hugh  Og  O'Toole,  and 
the  taking  of  Moriertagh  M'Folan  O'Toole, 
John  M'Yoghy  O'Toole,  Stephen  Petyt,  Gil- 
lekeyvin  O'Gossan,  Comdin  M'Tothowill, 
John,  son  of  Gillekeyvin  O'Toole,  William 
O'Donnelan,  John  Fitz  Clerk  of  Tavelagh, 
Gillekeyvin  O'Toole  and  John  O'Molan,  who 
were  committed  to  the  Castle  of  Dublin. — 
Rot.  Cl.  18  Ed.  II.  79. 

z  Obsedit — Barbour  places  the  surrender 
of  Carrickfergus  before  the  arrival  of  Robert 
Bruce,  and  makes  no  mention  of  the  admission 
of  the  thirty  Scots,  eight  of  whom,  according 


Monasteria  S  Patricii  de  Dunea  et  de  Saballob  cum  multis  aliis  spoliantur.  Guliel- 
mus  de  Burgo  relicto  filio  obside  in  Scotia  liberatur.  Templum  de  Bright0  in 
Ultonia  plenum  hominum  xitriusque  sexus  incenditur.  Milites  in  Gregfergus 
fame  pressi,  coria  comedebant,  8  e  Scotis  detentis  moriebanturd.  Thomas  filius 
comitis  Ultonise  moritur.  Moritur  etiam  Johannes  filius  Thomse  apud  Laragh- 
brine  intra  Mainoth ;  dicitur  cum  paulo  ante  mortem,  factum  esse  comitem  Kil- 
darie6;  cui  successit  filius  ejus  Thomas  fitz  Johannis  vir  prudens.  Gregfergus 
deditur  Scotis  concessis  hiis  qui  inerant  vita  et  membro.  Die  exaltacionis  crucis 
occiditur  O  Conghurf  Mac  Kele  cum  500  Hibernis,  a  Gulielmo  de  Burgo  et 
Ricardo  Brimingham  in  Connacia,  id  ests.  Ad  omnes  Scotos  in  Ultonia  Johannes 
Logan  et  Hugo  Busseth,  Scotos  superant,  300  interficiunt,  duplicis  armature  100. 
et  simplicis  200.  In  vigilia  S  Edmundi  tempestas  magna  corruit  campanile 
trinitatis  Dublyn.  Vigilia  Sancti  Nicholaui  Alanus  Stuard1  captus  in  Ultonia 
a  Johanne  Logan  et  Johanne  Sandalej,  custodiae  traditur,  in  arce  Dubliniae.  Ad 
purificacionem  Maria;  venerunt  Dublmium  les  Lacics  qui  inquisitiones  procura- 

runt 


to  Pembridge,  were  eaten  by  the  starving  gar- 
rison.— Book  xv.  1.  262,  xvi.  1.  45. 

a  S.  Patricii  de  Dune. — Tbis  abbey,  which 
had  been  under  the  invocation  of  the  Holy 
Trinity,  was  dedicated  to  St.  Patrick  by  its 
second  founder  John  de  Courcy,  who  expelled 
the  secular  canons,  and  put  in  their  room 
Benedictine  monks  from  Chester.  That  these 
changes  were  not  universally  approved,  may 
be  collected  from  the  words  of  Pembridge, 
who,  when  relating  de  Courcy's  imprisonment 
in  1204,  says  that  in  his  misery  he  often  ex- 
claimed, "  O  Tu  Deus  quare  sic  facis  mecum 
qui  tot  monasteria  aedificavi  et  reaedificavi  tibi 
et  sanctis  tuis  ?  qui  cum  multis  vicibus  sic  eju- 
laret,  et  obdormiret,  affuit  si  Sancta  Trinitas 
dicens.  Quare  me  ejecisti  de  sede  mea,  et  de 
^  cclesia  Dunensi,  et  posuisti  ibi  sanctum  meum 
Patricium  patronum  Hiberniae?  Quia  Johan- 
nes Courcy  expulit  seculares  canonicos  de  ec- 
desia  Cathedral!  Dunensi  etadduxitmonachos 
nigros  de  Cestria  et  posuit  in  eadem  ecclesia  ; 


et  Sancta  Trinitas  fuit  ibidem  in  sede  magnitu- 
dinis,  et  ipse  Johannes  deposuit  earn  de  ec- 
clesia et  ordinavit  capellam  pro  ea  imagine,  et 
in  magna  ecclesia  posuit  iniaginem  Sancti 
Patricii,  quod  non  placuit  Deo  Altissimo." 

bDe  Saballo. — Saul  in  the  barony  of  Lecale, 
County  Down.  It  was  called  Sabhall  Pa- 
druic,  or  Patrick's  Barn,  and  was  built  from 
north  to  south  according  to  the  form  and  posi- 
tion of  Dicho's  Barn,  the  first  Ulster  convert ; 
it  was  probably  a  real  barn  in  which  St.  Pa- 
trick celebrated  divine  worship Lanigan, 

Ecc.  Hist.,  vol.  i.  p.  212.  Mon.  Hib.,  p.  128. 

0  Bright — In  the  barony  of  Lecale,  County 
of  Down.  Pembridge  calls  it  Brught.  and 
says  that  it  was  burned  by  the  Scots  and  Irish. 

d  Muriebantur — Pembridge,  who  seems  to 
have  written  from  a  journal  kept  at  the  time, 
says  that  news  had  come  from  Carrickfergus 
that  for  want  of  provisions  the  garrison  eat  the 
hides  of  cattle,  and  about  eight  Scots  who  had 
been  taken  prisoners,  "  unde  dolendum  fuit 


77 

monasteries  of  St.  Patrick  of  Down  and  of  Saul,  with  many  others,  are  plun- 
dered. William  de  Burgh  having  left  his  son  in  Scotland  as  a  hostage,  is  set  at 
liberty.  The  church  of  Bright  in  Ulster,  full  of  persons  of  both  sexes,  is  burned. 
The  soldiers  in  Carrickfergus,  being  pressed  with  hunger,  eat  hides.  Eight  of 
the  Scots  who  were  detained  there  died.  Thomas,  son  of  the  Earl  of  Ulster, 
dies.  John  Fitz  Thomas  also  dies  at  Laraghbrine  near  Maynooth ;  it  is  said  that 
a  little  before  his  death  he  was  made  P^arl  of  Kildare ;  his  son  Thomas  Fitz  John, 
a  prudent  man,  succeeded  him.  Carrickfergus  is  surrendered  to  the  Scots,  life 
and  limb  being  granted  to  those  who  were  in  it.  On  the  day  of  the  Exaltation 
of  the  Cross  (September  14)  O'Conor  is  killed  and  Mac  Kelly  with  five  hundred 
Irish,  by  William  de  Burgh  and  Richard  Birmingham,  in  Connaught.  At  All 
Saints  (November  i )  in  Ulster  John  Logan  and  Hugh  Bissett  defeat  the  Scots, 
they  kill  three  hundred,  one  hundred  of  double  armour,  and  two  hundred  of 
single.  On  St.  Edmund's  Eve  (November  15)  there  was  a  great  storm,  the 
belfry  of  Trinity  Church,  Dublin,  was  blown  down.  On  the  Eve  of  St.  Nicholas 
(December  5)  Alan  Stuard,  taken  prisoner  in  Ulster  by  John  Logan  and  John 
Sandale,  is  delivered  to  custody  in  the  Castle  of  Dublin.  On  the  Purification  of 
Mary  (February  2)  the  Lacies  came  to  Dublin,  and  obtained  an  inquisition 

whether 

quod  nemo  talibus  succurreret."                                h   Hugo  Busset.  —  Pembridge's   words   as 
e  Comitem  Kildarie. — His  patent,  which  is  printed,  are  "facta  fuit  vnagna  occi.sio  Scoto- 
given  in  Archdall's  Peerage,   Leinster,  bears  rum  in  Ultonia  per  Johannem  Logganum,  Do- 
date   May  14,   1316.     He  was  buried  in  the  minum  Hugonern  Bisset  circa  C "    Grace 

Franciscan  Friary,  Kildare.  supplied  et,  and  thus  made  Sir  Hugh  Bisset  a 

1  O' Conghur. — Conghor  et  Mac-Keley. —  loyal  Englishman;  but  if  so  then,   he  after  - 

Pembriclge.     Connor  and  Mac  Keley — Cox  wards  became  a  traitor,  and  his  hereditaments 

who  followed  Pembridge.     Holinshed  follows  in  the  island  of  Raghery  and  the  manor  of 

Grace,  and  writes  Conhor  Mackele,  perhaps  Glenarm  were  granted  to  John  de  Athy 

the  name  was  M'Hale.  Rot.  Pat.  12  Ed.  II.  in  Tur.  Lond.    Perhaps 

°  Id  est Die  Luna   ante   festum  omni-  cepit  should  be  supplied  in  Peinb. 

urn  Sanctorum. — Pemb.    Grace  wrote  Scotos          '  Alanus  Stuard Lord   Hailes   supposes 

for   Sanctos.      Some  have  imagined  that  In-  that  he  was  the  eldest  son  of  Robert  Stewart 

sula  Sanctorum  was  originally  Insula  Scoto-  of  Crookstown  and  Darnly. 

rum.     In  the  Francfort  edition  of  Giraldus,          j  Johanne  Sandale Cox  (p.  96)  says  that 

Top.    Hib.   Distinct,    i.  cap.  23.     Scotorum  Sir  John  Sandale  was  a  Scotchman,  and  that 

merita  is  printed   for  Sanctorum  merita —  he  was  taken  prisoner  with  Sir  Alan  Steward. 

Vide  Ussher  de  Britt.  Eccl.  Prim.,  p.  735.  The  Sandales  were  a  powerful  English  family 


runt  num  Scot!  per  eos  venerint  inHiberniam,  innocentes  inventi  acceperunt  regis 
chertam,  j usj  urandumque  dederunt,  se  regi  fideles  fore.  Post  carnispriviumk  vene- 
runt  furtim  Scoti  usque  Slane1,  cum  2ooom  arraatorum,  totamque  regionem  vasta- 
runt.  Die  lunae  ante  Mathias  capitur  comes  Ultonise  a  Roberto  Notingham11  majori 
Dublin,  in  monasterio  Sancte  Marias,  custodiaa  in  arce  Dublinii  traditus,  diu  ibi 
detentus,  camera  ubi  fait  incensa  septemque  famuli  ejus  occisi.  Brus  Dublinium 
versus  iter  facit,  ubi  vero  comitem  captum  esse  audivit,  ad  arcem-Knock  se  con- 
vertit,  eaque  capta  Hugonem  Tirell  Baronem,  dominum  cjusdem,  cum  uxore 
captos  pecunia  dimisit.  Ea  nocte  omnium  assensu  inccnditur  Dubliniae.  S 
Thomae  [vicus],  pro  timore  Scotorum,  et  eodem  igne  arsit  etiam  templum  S 
Johannis0  cum  capella  Magdalene,  cremata  per  infortunium  et  omnia  suburbana 
Dubliniae  et  monasterium  Sancte  Marias,  et  templum  S  Patricii ;  per  dictos  vil- 
lanosp  spoliatur.  Templum  etiam  Salvatoris"-,  id  est,  predicatorum,  major  cum 
civibus  diruit,  saxaque  ejus  asportavit  ad  murum  condendum  quern  tune  amplio- 
rem  fecit  ad  boream1  supra  Keiam,  quod  ante  transibant  intra  templum  S  An- 

dree, 


settled  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Carrickfergus. 
k  Post  Carnisprivium — Barbour  says  that 

Robert  Bruce  commenced  his  march  to  the 

south  in  the  month  of  May. 

Quhen  hyrds  syngs  on  ilka  spray  ; 
Melland  thair  nots  with  seymly  soune, 
For  softnes  off  the  suet  sesoun. 
And  levys  off  the  branches  spreds, 
And  blomys  brycht  besid  thaim  breds, 
And  felds  ar  strowyt  with  flours 
Weill  sawerand,  off  ser  colours, 
And  all  thing  wor  this  blyth  and  gay, 
Quhen  that  this  gud  King  tuk  his  way 

To  rid  Southwart 

xvi.  64. 
1  Slane John  Fitz  Nicholas  of  Slanejoined 

Bruce,  by  which  he  forfeited  two  carucates  of 

land  at  Ardmacaisse,  which  were  granted  to 

the   Prior  of  St.   John  of  Jerusalem — Rot. 

Pat.  13  Ed.  II.  86. 

'"  2000 Pemb.  says  "  cum  viginti  millibus 


armatis." 

"  Roberto  Notingham. — He  was  seventeen 
times  Mayor  of  Dublin.  On  the  20th  of 
July,  1318,  the  citizens  of  Dublin  had  a  par- 
don for  having  taken  corn  and  other  provi- 
sions from  the  neighbouring  county  when  they 
were  in  fear  of  being  besieged  by  the  Scots, 
and  for  having  taken  arms.  The  king  also 
pardoned  them  for  having  set  fire  to  the 
suburbs,  and  upon  their  petition  in  considera- 
tion of  their  sufferings,  he  remitted  to  them 
half  their  fee  farm  rent,  the  whole  amounting 

to  200  marks Whitelaw,  Hist,  of  Dublin, 

vol.  i.  pp.  170,  388.  Rymer,  vol.  i.  p.  350. 
Lord  Hailes  observes,  that  on  the  fate  of 
Dublin  the  existence  of  the  English  Govern- 
ment in  Ireland  depended,  and  that  the  public 
spirit  and  intrepidity  of  the  citizens  at  this 
critical  season  ought  to  be  held  in  perpetual 
remembiance. — An.  of  Scotland,  vol.  ii.  p.  87. 
Pembridge  says  that  Bruce  came  "  versus 


79 

whether  the  Scots  had  come  by  their  means,  they  were  found  not  guilty,  and  re- 
ceived the  king's  charter,  and  gave  their  oath  that  they  would  be  faithful  to  the 
king.  After  Shrovetide  (February  16)  the  Scots  came  secretly  to  Slane  with 
two  thousand  armed  men,  and  laid  waste  the  whole  country.  On  the  Monday 
before  St.  Matthew's  day  (February  24)  the  Earl  of  Ulster  is  taken  pri  soner  by 
Robert  Notingham,  Mayor  of  Dublin,  in  the  monastery  of  St.  Mary,  he  is  de- 
livered into  custody  in  the  Castle  of  Dublin,  and  detained  there  for  a  long  time, 
the  chamber  where  he  was  is  burned,  and  seven  of  his  servants  killed.  Bruce 
marches  towards  Dublin,  but  when  he  heard  that  the  earl  was  taken,  he  turned 
to  Castleknock,  and  having  taken  it,  he  ransomed  its  lord,  the  Baron  Hugh 
Tirell,  and  his  wife,  whom  he  had  taken.  That  night,  with  the  consent  of  the 
citizens,  Thomas-street  is  burned  through  fear  of  the  Scots,  and  by  the  same  fire 
the  Church  of  St.  John  is  burned,  with  the  chapel  of  Magdalen  burned  by  acci- 
dent, and  all  the  suburbs  of  Dublin,  and  the  monastery  of  St.  Mary,  and  the 
Church  of  St.  Patrick  is  plundered  by  the  aforesaid  townsmen.  The  Mayor  also 
and  the  citizens  threw  down  the  Church  of  St.  Saviour,  that  is,  of  the  Preachers, 
and  carried  off  the  stones  to  build  the  town  wall,  which  they  then  made  longer 
to  the  north  on  the  quay ;  for  before  this  the  walls  crossed  within  the  Church  of 
St.  Audeon's,  where  a  tower  is  to  be  seen  over  the  gate,  and  in  Wine  Tavern- 
street 

Dubliniam  in  vigilia  S.  Matthiae."  breadth  and  120  in  length. near  the  river  Liffey 

"  S.  Johannis. — The  Priory  of  St.  John  the  at  the  north  end  of  the  bridge,  to  build  a  church 

Baptist  in  Thomas-street.     In  order  to  assist     thereon  to  the  honour  of  St.  Saviour Mon. 

in  repairing  this  house  and  church,  Edward  II.  Hib.,  p.  155.  This  house  first  belonged  to  the 
granted  in  1319  all  deodands  happening  in  Ire-  Cistercians,  but  was  afterwards  given  to  the 
land  for  four  years — Mon.  Hib.,  p.  202.  This  Dominicans Ibid.  205.  Archdal  land  White- 
grant  was  continued  by  Ed.  Ill — Rot.  Cl.  51  law  say  that  it  is  now  called  the  King's  Inns, 
Ed.  III.  51.  rather  the  Four  Courts. 

vVillanos — If  this  word  means  "villains"  TAdboream — Before  this  time  the  walls  were 

and  is  to  be  applied  to  the  Scots,  it  would  fol-  carried  by  St.  Owen's  (Audoeri's)  Church  near 

low,  that  they  had  crossed  the  river  to  the  400  feet  from  the  river,  and  the  Merchant's- 

south  ;  it   probably   means   townsmen.      St.  quay  was  then  reputed  as  part  of  the  suburbs, 

Patrick's  was  without  the  walls.  but  in  the  time  of  this  invasion  the  citizens  built 

q  Salvatoris In  1218  Andrew  Brun  and  a  new  wall  along  the  river  to  the  old  bridge, 

Richard  de  Bedeford  granted  to  the  Priory      and  so  to  Newgate Whitelaw's  Hist,  of  Dub. 

of  the  H.  Trinity  a  piece  of  land  114  feet  in  p.  169.      From  the  description  given  by  Pern- 


8o 

drees,  ubi  apparet  turris  supra  portam  et  in  vico  tabernariorum  via  [visa?]  alia 
porta1,  verum  postea  rex  Angliae  (coegit)  eundem  majorem  et  cives  restaurare 
eundem  conventum  ut  prius.  Post  festum  Mathiae  cum  intelligeret  Brus  urbem 
permunitam  esse,  iter  suum  convertit  versus  saltus  salmonurau  ubi  castra 
posuit.  Robertus  Brus  rex  Scotiae,  Edouardus  frater,  comes  de  Murrey,  Johan- 
nes de  Menteth,  Johannes  SteAvard,  Phillippus  Moubray,  ibi.  4.  dies  morati 
sunt,  oppidum  incenderunt  et  templum  spoliaverunt.  Tandem  Naas  petebant 
quo  contra  juramentum  les  Lacies  duces  illis  erant  et  consultores,  Hugo  vero 
Canonv  fratrem  uxoris  sue  Wadinum  Wight*  constituit,  qui  eos  per  regionem 
conduceret.  Incenderunt  Naas,  templaque  diripuerunt  et  sepulchra  aperue- 
runtx,  duos  integros  dies  ibi  morati.  Inde  Tristledermoty  perrexerunt  in  2a 
Septimana  40  fratres  minores  diripuerunt,  libros  et  vestimenta  pessum  dede- 
runt.  Inde  Baliganam2  recesserunt,  et  inde,  dimissa  Kilkenni,  ad  Callan  circa 
festum  Gregorii.  Interim  venerunt  litterae  per  Edmundum  Butler  Justitia- 
rium,  Thomam  fitz  Johannis  comitem  Kildaria?,  Rioardum  Clare,  Arnaldum 
Power,  Mauritium  fitz  Thomas,  ut  liberaretur  comes  Ultonise  voluntate  regia ; 
venerunt  Ultoniao  cum  exercitu  2000,  petentes  auxilium  adversus  Scotos,  vexil- 
him  regis  eis  concessum  est,  a  quibus  plus  mali  effectum  est  quam  ab  universis 
Scotis ;  nam  et  carnibus  vescebantur  per  tota  4Oam,  et  regionem  totam  vastarunt 

fere. 

bridge  some  judgment  may  be  formed  how  the  l  Alia  porta. — In  the  plan  of  Dublin  as  it 

ancient  walls  of  the  city  were  carried,  namely  stood  in  1610,  engraved  in  Whitelaw's  History 

from  Winetavern-street  along  the  south  side  of  Dublin,  there  is  to  be  seen  a  tower  and  gate 

of  Cook-htreet  till  they  joined  Owen's  Arch,  at  the  end  of  Winetavern-street  in  the  wall 

which  yet  remains,  and  was  a  portal  to  the  along  Merchant's-quay. 

city,  and  from  thence  were  continued  north  of  u  Sahus  Salmonum. — This  Salmon  Leap  is 

Owen's  churchyard  to  a  castle  called  Pagan's      noticed  by  Giraldus (Top.   Hib.   Secund. 

Castle   in    Page's-court,    where  was  another  Dist.   xlii.)     He  calls  the    Liffey,    Auenpli- 

portal,  and  from  thence  they  extended  to  New-  phensi,  Avon  Liffey,  that  is,  the  River  Liffey 

gate.   Some  remains  of  these  ancient  walls  may  which  has  been  corrupted  into  Anna  Liffey. 

be  seen  in  a  void  plot  of  ground  lying  between  Moore  says  of  the  Salmon  Leap,  "nor  is  it  a 

Schoolhouse-lane  and  Owen's  Arch. — White-  slight  addition  to  the  interest  of  that  romantic 

law's  Hist,  of  Dublin,  p.  67,  published  in  1818.  spot  to  be  able  to  fancy  that  the  heroic  Bruce, 

Stanyhufst  thought  that  the  new  wall  erected  surrounded  by  his  companions  in  arms,  had 

at  this  time  was  the  inner  wall. — Descript.  of  once  stood  beside  its  beautiful  waterfall,  and 

Ireland  in  Holinshed,  p.  25.  wandered  perhaps  through  its  green  glen." — 

*  S.  Andree. — Sancti  Audoeni. — Pemb.  Hist,  of  Ireland,  vol.  iii.  p.  63. 


street  there  is  another  gate  to  be  seen,  but  afterwards  the  King  of  England 
compelled  the  said  Mayor  and  citizens  to  restore  the  same  convent  as  it  was 
before.  After  the  Feast  of  St.  Matthias  (February  24),  when  Bruce  understood 
that  the  city  was  thoroughly  fortified,  he  turned  towards  the  Salmon  Leap,  and 
encamped  there.  Robert  Bruce,  King  of  Scotland,  his  brother  Edward,  the  Earl 
of  Moray,  John  of  Menteith,  John  Steward,  Philip  Moubray,  stayed  there  four 
days,  they  fired  the  town  and  plundered  the  church.  At  last  they  went  towards 
Naas,  where,  contrary  to  their  oath,  the  Lacies  were  their  leaders  and  advisers,  but 
Hugh  Canon,  appointed  Wadin  White,  his  wife's  brother,  to  guide  them  through 
the  country.  They  burned  Naas,  and  plundered  the  churches,  and  opened  the 
tombs,  staying  there  two  whole  days.  Thence  they  reached  Tristle  Dermot  in 
the  second  week  of  Lent,  they  plundered  the  Friars  Minor,  and  destroyed  the 
books  and  the  vestments.  From  thence  they  retired  to  Gowran,  and  from 
thence,  without  going  to  Kilkenny,  to  Callan,  where  they  were,  about  the  Feast 
of  St.  Gregory  (March  12).  In  the  meantime  letters  came  by  Edmund  Butler, 
Justiciary,  Thomas  Fitz  John,  Earl  of  Kildare,  Richard  Clare,  Arnold  Power, 
Maurice  Fitz  Thomas,  that  the  Earl  of  Ulster  should  be  liberated  by  the  king's 
desire.  The  men  of  Ulster  came  with  an  army  of  two  thousand  seeking  aid 
against  the  Scots,  the  king's  banner  was  given  to  them,  and  more  evil  was  done 
by  them  than  by  all  the  Scots,  for  they  eat  flesh  during  the  whole  of  Lent,  and 

laid 

v  Hugo  vero  Canon. — In  1308,  Hugh  Canon  and  John  Fitz  Hugh  Fitz  Owen,  were  indebted 
was   sheriff  of  Kildare,    and   was    allowed  £40  to  the  Prior  of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem — 
£19.  7s.  4%d.  in  his  accompt,  because  of  the  Rot.  Cl.  5  Ed.  II.  28.     This  last  entry  con- 
falling  off  of  the  receipts  of  the  lordship  of  nects  him  with  the  Lacies. 
Kildare  by  reason  of  the  third  part  thereof  w  Wadinum  Wight. — White. — Pemb. 
being  assigned  in  dower  to  Isabella,  widow  x  Aperuerunt — Pembridge  says  that  they 
of  William  de  Vescy,  and  he  was  also  allowed  opened  the  graves  in  the  churchyard   "  ad 
2s.  because  of  the  falling  off  of  the  sergeancy  quaerendum  thesaurum." 
of  Wicklow,  as  in  his  time  no  sergeant  dared  y  Tristledermot.  —  Castle   Dermot  in  Kil- 
to  exercise  his  office  in  that  bailiwick. — Rot.  dare,  a  monastery  of  Franciscans,  was  founded 

Cl.  2  Ed.  II.  78.     In  1309,  he  was  Escheator     here  in  1302  by  Thomas  Lord  of  Offaly 

of  Ireland,  and  one  of  the  itinerating  Justices  Mon.  Hib.,  p.   312.     It  is  evident  from  its 

in  the  County  of  Dublin — Rot.  Pat.  3  &  4  ruins  that  it   was   a  large  and  magnificent 

Ed.  II.  31,41.     In  1311,   Walter  de  Lacy,  building. 

Hugh  Canon,  Stephen  deOxonia(deExonia?)  'L  Baliganam. — Gowran  in  Kilkenny. 

IRISH  ARCH.  SOC.  3.  M 


82 

fere.  Strages  magna  Hibernorum  edita  est  juxta  desertum  Dcrmitii3,  id  est,  Tris- 
tildermot,  ab  Edmundo  Butler,  itidem  alia,  ab  eodem,  militum  O  Morghe,  apud 
Baclethanb.  Brus  cum  suis  Limericumc  usque  pervenit;  cum  autem  Angli  sese 
conjunxerant  ad  Ledind,  noctu  clam  de  Castro  Comung6  reversi  sunt.  In  domi- 
nica  palmarum  venerunt  ad  Kenles  in  Osseria,  colligebatur  vero  exercitus 
Anglorum  ad  Kilkenni.  Jubentur  Ultonienses  die  lunae  versus  hostes  proficisci, 
quibus  preficitur  comes  Kildariae.  Brus  inde  CasshelF  se  contulit,  dein  Nanath* 
regionemque  totam  igne  vastavit. 

1317.  Die  Jovis,  cena  domini,  congregati  sunt  Edmundus  Butler  Justic. 
Thomas  fitz  Joannis  comes  Kildarise,  Ricardus  Clare,  Arnaldus  Power,  Baro 
de  Donnoilh,  Mauritius  de  rupe  forti,  Thomas  fitz  Mauritii,  les  Cauntons  cum 
suis,  tmm  exercitu  Ultoniorum  circa  30,000.  bene  armatorum,  circa  Scotos,  ubi 
versabantur  totam  Septimanam,  nee  quicquam  tentaverunt.  Die  Jovis  paschali 
applicuit  le  Mortimer'  apud  Yoghill,  Justic  factus  a  rege,  festinavitque  versus 
exercitum  die  lunse  sequente,  premisitque  litteras  Edmundo  Butler,  ne  quid  ten- 

taret 


a  Desertum  DermitiL — Do  not  these  various 
names  of  the  same  place  indicate  that  these  an- 
nals were  compiled  from  different  authorities  ? 

b  Baclethan.  —  Balilethan Pembridge. 

Balitcham Marleburgh.  Balithan — Stany- 

hurst.  Ballylinan  in  Queen's  County  ?  This 
victory  and  the  preceding  victory  at  Castle 
Dermot  are  placed  by  Marleburgh  and  Cox 
in  1316. 

c  Limericum — Barbour  says  that  King 
Robert  and  Edward  Bruce, 

Throw  all  the  land  planly  thai  raid, 
Thai  fand  nane  that  thaim  obstakill  maid, 
Thai  raid  ewyn  forouth  Drochindra, 
And  forouth  Dewillyne  syne  alsua : 
Ann  to  giff  bataill  nane  thai  fand. 
Syne  went  thai  southwart  in  the  land, 
And  rycht  to  Kynerike  held  their  way 
That  is  the  southmaist  town  perfay 
That  in  Irland  may  fundyn  be. 

B.  xvi.  1.  259. 


Pinkerton  in  a  note  says  that  some  editions 
read  Limeric  for  Kynerike. 

d  Ledin. — Ledyn. — Pemb.  Neither  Mar- 
leburgh, nor  Stanyhurst,  nor  Cox,  mention 
this  place.  In  the  Cal.  Rot.  it  is  called 
Lodene  and  Lodyn.  The  following  entries 
are  interesting :  "  Rex  concessit  Ricardo  de 
Waleys  pro  servicio  eundo  cum  magna  comi- 
tiva  armatorum  et  peditum  contra  Scotos  apud 
Loueth,  Sketheres  et  Lodene,  et  Hibernicos 
in  diversis  partibus  Hiberniae,  £255,  in  quibus 
abbas  et  conventus  de  Inchelauenagh  [Inis- 
lounagh  or  de  Surio  in  Tipperary]  tenebantur 
mercatoribus  de  Societate  Ricardorum  de 
Luca,  et  quse  ad  manus  Regis  devenerunt 
ratione  debitorum  in  quibus  iidem  mercatores 
Regi  tenebantur."  — Rot.  Pat.  11  Ed.  II.  77. 
Edmund  Butler  was  at  Lodyn  on  the  10th  of 
April,  1317>  on  which  day,  for  services  against 
the  Scots,  he  granted  a  pardon  to  Peter  Hughe- 
lot  and  others Rot.  Pat.  11  Ed.  II.  28,  29. 


laid  waste  almost  the  whole  country.  There  was  a  great  defeat  of  the  Irish  at 
Desart  Dermot,  that  is,  Tristle  Dermot,  by  Edmund  Butler,  also  another  of  the 
soldiers  of  O'More  by  the  same  at  Baclethan.  Bruce  with  his  forces  went  as 
far  as  Limerick ;  but  when  the  English  had  united  their  forces  at  Ledin  they 
secretly  retreated  by  night  from  Castle  Connell.  On  Palm  Sunday  (March  27) 
they  came  to  Kells  in  Ossory,  but  the  army  of  the  English  was  assembled  at 
Kilkenny.  The  men  of  Ulster  were  ordered  to  march  against  the  enemy  on 
Monday,  under  the  command  of  the  Earl  of  Kildare.  Bruce  thence  went  to 
Cashel,  and  thence  to  Nenagh,  and  laid  waste  the  whole  country  with  fire. 

1317.  On  Thursday  in  Passion  Week  (March  30),  Edmund  Butler,  Justi- 
ciary, Thomas  Fitz  John,  Earl  of  Kildare,  Richard  Clare,  Arnold  Power,  the 
Baron  of  Donoyl,  Maurice  Rochfort,  Thomas  Fitz  Maurice,  the  Cantetons  with 
their  followers,  assembled  with  the  army  of  the  Ulster  men,  about  thirty  thousand 
well  armed,  about  the  Scots,  and  staid  there  the  whole  week,  and  did  not  attempt 
any  thing.  On  Thursday  in  Easter  week  (April  7),  Mortimer  landed  at  Yoghill, 
having  been  made  Justiciary  by  the  King,  and  hastened  towards  the  army  on 
the  Monday  following,  and  sent  letters  before  him  to  Edmund  Butler  that  he 

should 


e  Castro  Comung. — Castro  de  Conninger. — 
Pemb.  Castle  Connell  near  Limerick.  It 
appears  from  the  Annals  of  Inisfallen  (MS.) 
that  Bruce  was  invited  to  the  banks  of  the 
Shannon  by  one  of  the  chiefs  of  the  O'Briens 
of  Thomond,  and  that  the  rival  chief  joined 
the  English  in  opposing  him. 

fCasshell. — Campion  says,  after  Pembridge, 
that  le  Bruise  proceeded  and  spoyled  Cashell, 
and  wheresoever  he  lighted  upon  the  Butler's 
lands,  those  he  burned  and  destroyed  unmer- 
cifully  Hist.,  p.  122. 

e  Nanath — Nenagh  in  Tipperary. 

h  Baro  de  Donnoil. — John  le  Poer,  Baron 
of  Donnoyl,  or  Dunhill,  in  Waterford.  The 
great  Irish  lords  at  this  time  were  not  called 
by  their  titles,  unless  they  were  created  or 
belted  earls,  and  even  in  that  case  they  some- 
times retained  their  personal  appellation,  thus 

M 


Edmund  Butler,  the  Justiciary,  is  not  called 
by  his  earldom  of  Carrick,  but  the  subinfeu- 
datory  barons  who  were  lords  of  parliament, 
as  Hussey  Baron  of  Galtrim,  and  Nangle 
Baron  of  Navan,  were  commonly  so  distin- 
guished. And  this  Baron  of  Donnoyll  may 
have  been  so  called,  either  as  a  subinfeudatory 
baron,  or  to  distinguish  him  from  others  of 
his  wide  spread  family.  The  de  la  Poers  of 
Curraghmore,  afterwards  Earls  of  Tyrone, 
and  now  represented  by  the  Marquis  of 
Waterford,  were  descended  from  the  Lord 
Arnold  Power — Archdall's  Peer,  of  Ireland, 
vol.  vi.  p.  304. 

'  Mortimer — Hispatentas  Gustos  and  Lieu- 
tenant bears  date  November  23,  1316,  and 
the  English  lords  who  held  lands  in  Ireland, 
were  ordered  to  be  at  Haver  ford-  West,  to  join 
him  on  his  way  to  Ireland,  at  the  Feast  of  the 


taret  ante  suura  advcntum.     Interim  autem  de  suo  adventu  monitus  est  Brus, 
ut  inde  discederet,  qui  nocte  sequent!  versus  Kildare  movit,  Angli*  autem  repa- 

triaverunt 


Purification  (Feb.  2)  1317 — Rymer,  vol.  ii. 
pp.  301,  5,  9.  In  Mortimer's  commission 
power  was  given  to  him  "  concedendi  Hiber- 
nicis  quod  ipsi  legibus  Anglicanis  utantur  et 
gaudeant,  prout  pro  ....  expeditione  negotio- 
rum  nostrorum  in  partibus  illis  contra  Scotos 
inimicos  et  rebelles  nostros,  qui  eandem  terram 
hostiliter  ingressi  sunt ;  melius  videbitur  faci- 
enda."  Perhaps  the  coldness  with  which  he 
was  received  by  the  Irish  lords,  and  their  want 
of  cooperation  with  him,  may  have  been  caused 
by  his  attempt  to  exercise  this  power,  and  to 
extend  the  laws  of  England  to  the  natives  of 
Ireland ;  a  privilege  long  coveted  by  the  Irish, 
and  which  the  kings  of  England  were  always 
willing  to  grant — Rymer,  vol.  i.  pp.  498,  540, 
582  ;  vol.  ii.  p.  812.  From  such  startling  en- 
tries as  the  following  it  would  appear  that  the 
king  could  not  give  this  privilege  to  an  indi- 
vidual without  the  consent  of  his  master.  Rex 
de  assensu  et  voluntate  Henrici  de  Cogan  con- 
cessit  Johanni  O  Kaskyn,  Hibernico  ejusdem 
Henrici,  quod  ipse  et  ejus  exitus  lege  Angli- 
cana  utantur — Rot.  Pat.  11  Ed.  II.  170.  It 
may  be  observed,  that  the  great  Anglo-Irish 
lords  had  a  direct  interest  in  excluding  their 
Irish  tenants  from  the  protection  of  the  Eng- 
lish law  ;  over  their  English  tenants  they  could 
legally  exercise  no  powers  but  such  as  were 
exercised  in  England,  but  over  their  Irish 
tenants  J;hey  claimed,  and  were  legally  entitled 
to,  all  the  privileges  which  had  been  exercised 
by  the  Irish  princes.  Of  these  Irish  princes 
they  considered  themselves  as  the  rightful  re- 
presentatives, either  by  blood,  as  in  the  whole 
of  Leinster  ;  or  by  the  terms  of  their  charters, 
as  in  the  province  of  Meath  ;  and  so  careful 


were  they  of  obtaining  a  legal  right  to  the 
exercise  of  the  Irish  law,  that  when  Kildare 
was  granted  to  Thomas  Fitz  John,  he  had 
granted  to  him  a  retrospective  power  of  pun- 
ishing all  former  offences  according  to  the 
laws  and  customs  of  Ireland. — Rot.  Pat.  11 
Ed.  II.  57-  The  ericks,  and  money  com- 
mutations for  felonies,  the  bonaghts  and 
cosherings,  and  cuddies,  and  the  other  dues 
of  the  Irish  chief  (enumerated  by  Ware, 
Antiq.,  c.  xii.),  however  injurious  to  the 
people,  were  all  profitable  to  the  lord,  who 
was  therefore  not  only  willing  to  continue 
them  over  his  Irish  tenant,  but  was  also  desi- 
rous of  introducing  them  over  his  English 
freeholders.  The  question  in  fact  was,  not 
between  the  Crown  and  the  subject,  but  be- 
tween the  lord  and  the  vassal,  whether  the 
latter  should  be  governed  according  to  the 
law  of  the  English  settlers,  or  by  the  old  es- 
tablished laws  and  customs  of  Ireland.  But 
although  it  would  be  difficult  to  prove  that  the 
English  lords  exacted  any  dues,  or  exercised 
any  powers,  over  their  Irish  tenants,  which 
were  not  levied  and  exercised  at  the  same 
times  by  the  Irish  chiefs  in  the  Irish  countries 
(see  Sir  J.  Davis'  letter  to  Lord  Salisbury), 
still  it  must  be  concluded  that  these  exactions 
were  levied  with  greater  harshness  and  paid 
with  greater  reluctance  in  the  English  dis- 
tricts, than  in  those  in  which  landlord  and 
tenant  were  of  the  same  blood,  and  where 
there  were  no  invidious  distinctions  to  make 
subjection  to  them  a  proof  of  inferiority.  Nor 
was  the  Irish  law  injurious  only  to  the  Irish, 
the  English  also  suffered  from  the  introduc- 
tion of  some  of  its  principles.  In  a  petition 


should  make  no  attack  before  his  coming.  But  in  the  mean  time  Bruce  was 
warned  of  his  coming  and  to  depart  thence,  and  the  following  night  he  moved 
towards  Kildare,  but  the  English  went  back  to  their  own  country,  and  the  army 

of 


to  the  King  in  1316,  it  was  represented  to  him 
by  the  people  of  Ireland,  that  the  law  was, 
that  an  Englishman  convicted  of  the  murder 
of  an  Englishman,  of  robbery,  of  arson,  or  of 
stealing  to  the  value  of  12£e?.,  should  suffer 
capitally,  and  that  the  same  punishment  should 
be  inflicted  upon  an  Irishman  convicted  of  the 
murder  of  an  Englishman,  or  of  arson  ;  but 
that  an  Irishman  convicted  of  robbery  or 
theft  was  at  the  discretion  of  the  judge,  either 
to  be  put  to  death,  or  to  commute  his  punish- 
ment by  the  payment  of  money.  The  peti- 
tioners, not  complaining  of  the  advantage  thus 
given  to  the  Irish  criminal,  stated  that  as  long 
as  this  law  was  observed,  the  English  people 
increased,  and  the  Church  enlarged  its  bounds, 
but  that  the  justices  had  assumed  the  power  of 
commuting  felonies  for  little  or  nothing,  charg- 
ing for  the  murder  of  an  Englishman,  for  rob- 
bery or  theft,  1 00  pounds,  or  1 40  or  20  shillings, 
and  that  these  slight  punishments  had  given 
such  courage  to  felons,  both  English  and  Irish, 
that  they  were  not  afraid  to  commit  the  most 
dreadful  crimes,  especially  as  the  king's  true 
subjects  were  afraid  toindict  or  to  convict  such 
felons,  fearing  that  when  discharged  on  the 
payment  of  these  penalties,  they  would  mur- 
der or  ruin  them  for  their  verdicts.  The 
remedy  proposed  for  these  evils  was,  that  the 
murder  of  an  Englishman,  or  arson,  should  not 
for  the  future  be  pardoned  or  commuted  for 
except  in  parliament,  which  should  be  held 
every  year  ;  that  these  crimes  should  not  be 
commuted  for  less  than  <£100,  nor  robbery 
and  theft  for  less  than  four  times  the  value  to 
be  paid  into  the  Exchequer  before  the  prisoner 


should  be  discharged  from  gaol.  The  king 
referred  the  matter  to  a  meeting  of  all  the 
prelates,  barons,  and  commons,  for  their 
opinion,  reserving  the  decision  to  himself. — 
Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  293.  The  whole  of  this 
very  curious  paper  is  given  in  the  Appendix. 
The  specific  grievances  arising  from  the  ob- 
servance of  the  Irish  rather  than  of  the  Eng- 
lish law,  when  it  pressed  upon  the  Irish,  are 
given  in  the  Memoirs  of  Charles  O' Conor, 
p.  72,  and  in  Moore's  Hist,  of  Ireland,  vol. 
iii.  p.  75,  from  the  Remonstrance  of  the  Irish 
to  Pope  John  XXII.,  a  document  which  I  have 
not  seen  in  the  original. 

The  following  entry  shows  that  there  was 
a  peculiarity  either  in  the  law  or  the  mode 
of  administering  it  in  Ireland,  to  which  the 
Anglo-Irish  were  attached,  and  which  they 
were  unwilling  should  be  changed :  "  Rex. 
Waltero  de  Cusak  et  sociis  quos  constituerat 
Justiciaries  ad  itinerandum  in  Comitatu  Dub- 
linensi  (recitat  quod  populus  illius  comitatus 
conqueritur  hoc  esse  ci  prejudicial  quod  pla- 
cita  teneantur  secundum  legem  et  consuetudi- 
nem  Angliae,  aliter  quam  teneri  consuevere 
secundum  legem  et  consuetudmem  Hibernise, 
et  supplicat  quod  debitum  remedium  adhibea- 
tur)  mandat  quod  dicti  justiciarii  omnia  pla- 
cita  terrse  coram  ipsis  pendencia,  in  itinere 
predicto,  quse  coram  Justiciario  de  Banco 
secundum  legem  et  consuetudinem  Hibernise 
atterminari  et  placitari  possunt,  supersede- 

ant  omnino.  Dublin,  8.  Mali Rot.  Pat. 

3  &  4  Ed.  II.  85,  see  Lynch's  Dignities, 
p.  22. 

j  Angli. — Some  of  the  English  who  had 


86 

triaverunt  et  Ultonii  Naas  venit.  Nuntii  mittuntur  ad  regem  de  statu  Hiberniac>. 
Rogerus  Mortirair  et  magnates  consultant  ad  Kilkeny,  quid  agerent  erga  Brus, 
nihil  vero  conclusum.  Mense  post  paschse  venit  Brus  ad  4  lencas  prope  Trimk, 
ibique  in  silva  quadam  castra  metatus  est,  ibique  7.  dies  moratus  est  ad  suos 
reficiendos,  qui  fame  et  labore  fere  perierunt,  multique  ibi  mortui  relicti.  Die 
Phillippi  et  Pauli  versus  Ultoniam1  contendit.  Paulo  post  venit  Mortimerus  cum 
Johanne  Vogan  Dublinum,  cum  Fulcone  fitz  Warinim  et  30  equitibus  auratis, 
tenuitque  parliamentum  apud  Kilmaniam  cum  omnibus  magnatibus,  ubi  actum 
de  liberacione  comitis  Ultonise,  nihil  conclusum  est.  Iterum  Dublinise  commitiis 
habitis,  ubi  liberatur  subter  fidejussione,  datis  obsidibus  et  sacramento,  se  civi- 
bus  Dublin  nihil  mali  illaturum,  constituitur  dies11,  ille  autem  ad  diem  minime 
rediit.  Frumenti  magna  caritas,  cranocus  valebat  24*.°  avense  165.  vinum  8d. 
universa  enim  regio  devastata  a  Scotis  et  Ultoniis ;  multi  ex  divitibus  mendici 
fiebant,  multi  fame  perierunt,  ingruit  etiam  pestis  terribilis,  quse  multos  sustulit. 
Mortimerus  Just,  ad  pentecosten  Droghoda  se  contulit,  inde  Trim,  vocat  ad  se 
per  litteras  Lacios  qui  venire  recusabant,  ad  quos  deinde  missus  est  dominus 
Hugo  de  Custesq  eques,  ut  de  pace  cum  iis  ageret,  qui  ab  eisdem  occisus  est. 
Colligit  igitur  Mortimerius  exercitum,  eosque  bonis  et  pecore  spoliavit,  eorum 
subditos  quam  plures  occidit,  eosque  in  Connaciam  fugavit ;  dicitur  autem  Gual- 
terum  Lacium  in  Ultoniam  perrexisse,  ut  peteret  auxilium  a  Brus.  Ad  nati vi- 
ta tern 

come  over  with  Mortimer.  Pinkerton  may  well  say  that  the  poet's  geogra- 

k  Trim.  —  Pennies   of   Alexander   III.  of  phy  of  Ireland  is  very  imperfect.     For  lereby 

Scotland  have,  not  unfrequently,  been  picked  some   editions  have  Tyrel,   (Tyrrellspass  in 

up  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Trim,  which  may  Westmeath  ?)     Barbour  considers  this  expe- 

have  been  brought  there  by  Bruce's  soldiers,  dition  as  a  triumphant  march  through  all  Ire- 

1  Versus  Ultoniam. — Bruce's  retreat  from  land,  and  says  that  Irish  kings  came  to  him 

Limerick  is  thus  given  by  Barbour :  and  did  him  homage,  and  that  he  was  now 

Agayne  northwart  thai  tuk  thair  way,  "in  gud  way  to  conquer  the  land  halily,"  but 

Throw  all  Irland  than  perfay,  that  his  "  utrageouss  sucquedry  and  will,  that 

Throw  all  Conach,  rycht  to  Dewillyne,  wes  mar  than  hardy,"  letted  him  of  his  pur- 

And  throw  all  Methy,  and  lereby  syne,  pose. 

And  syne  haly  throw  Ulsister  mFitzWarini — Domino  Fulcone  Warini — 

And  Monester  and  Lenester,  Pemb.     The  Fitz  Wariris  were  a   powerful 

To  Cragfergus  forowtyn  bataill,  family  in  Ulster,  they  seem  to  have  been  heri- 

For  thar  was  nane  durst  hym  assail.  ditary  seneschals  of  Ulster,  at  least  a  William 

B.  xvi.  1.  293.  Fitz  Warin  was  in  that  office  in  1375,  (Rymer 


of  Ulster  came  to  Naas.  Messengers  are  sent  to  the  King  about  the  state  of 
Ireland.  Roger  Mortimer  and  the  lords  deliberate  at  Kilkenny  how  they  should 
act  towards  Bruce,  but  nothing  was  determined.  In  the  month  after  Easter, 
Bruce  came  to  within  four  miles  of  Trim,  and  there  encamped  in  a  certain  wood, 
and  staid  seven  days  to  refresh  his  men,  who  had  nearly  perished  of  hunger  and 
fatigue,  and  many  were  left  there  dead.  On  the  day  of  St.  Philip  and  St.  James 
(May  i)  he  went  towards  Ulster.  A  short  time  after  Mortimer  with  John  Wogan 
came  to  Dublin  with  Fitz  Warm  and  thirty  knights,  and  held  a  parliament  at 
Kilmainham  with  all  the  nobles,  in  which  they  treated  of  the  liberation  of  the 
Earl  of  Ulster ;  nothing  was  concluded.  At  a  second  meeting  in  Dublin  he  is 
liberated  under  bail,  having  given  hostages  and  an  oath  that  he  would  not  injure 
the  citizens  of  Dublin,  a  day  is  fixed  for  the  trial,  but  at  that  day  he  did  not 
return.  A  great  scarcity  of  wheat ;  the  crannock  was  worth  24*.,  oats  i6s.,  wine 
8^.,  for  the  whole  country  was  wasted  by  the  Ulster  men  and  the  Scots ;  many 
of  the  rich  men  became  beggars,  and  many  died  of  hunger,  there  also  raged  a 
horrible  plague  which  carried  off  numbers.  At  Whitsuntide,  Mortimer,  the 
Justiciary,  betook  himself  to  Drogheda,  and  from  that  place  to  Trim,  he  calls 
before  him  the  Lacies  by  letters,  they  refused  to  come,  and  then  the  Lord  Hugh 
de  Custes,  Knight,  is  sent  to  them  to  treat  with  them  of  peace,  and  is  put  to  death 
by  them.  Therefore  Mortimer  assembled  an  army  and  spoiled  them  of  goods 
and  cattle,  and  slew  many  of  their  followers,  and  drove  them  into  Connaught ; 
but  Walter  Lacy  is  said  to  have  gone  to  Ulster  to  seek  aid  from  Bruce.  At  a 

parliament, 

vol.  i.  p.   520),  and  again  in  1332 — Davis'  suited  Flattsbury  or  Grace.      In  1316inEng- 

Discovery,  p.  30.  land,  before  St.  John's  day  (June  24),  wheat 

"  Constituitur  dies — It  appears  more  plainly  was  30s.  the  quarter,  and  from  St.  John's  day 

from  Pembridge  that  the  earl  swore  that  he  to  Lady  Day  in  harvest  (August  15)  was  40*. 

would  not  injure  the  citizens,  but  would  proceed  Walsingham  Hist.  Angl.  p.  108. 

against  them  by  law  ;  and  it  would  seem  that          "  Hugo  de  Custes Hugo  de  Croftes — 

for  that  purpose  time  was  given  him  to  St.  Pemb.     Pembridge  does  not  say  that  he  was 

John's  day  (June  24),  on  which  day  he  did  murdered  by  the  Lacies,  his  words  are,  "  et 

not  appear.  postea  Dominus  Hugo  de  Croftes  Miles  missus 

o  24s Viginti  tribus  solidis.— Pemb.  Cox  fuit  ad  les  Lacyes,   et  bona  sua  et  animalia  et 

says  23s.,  Holinshed  24s.;  from  many  such  thesaurum  cepit,  et  ipsos   omnino  destruxit 

coincidences  it  is  likely  that  Cox  consulted  et  plures  de  eoruin  hominibus  occidit  et  eos 

Pembridge,  and  Holinshed  (Campion)  con-  fugavitin  partibus  Connacia;. 


tatemi  Johannis  comitiis  habitis  liberatur  comes  Ultoniae,  datis  fidejussoribus, 
obsidibus,  et  juramento  se  regi  per  omnia  fidum  futurum,  Scotos  persecuturum. 
Die  S  Process!  et  Martiniani  Dominus  Johannes  de  Ather  obviam  in  mari  habuit. 
Thomam  Dons,  latronem  insignem,  quern  cepit,  occisi  eorum  qui  cum  illo 
fuerunt,  circa  40,  capita  autem  ejus  et  reliquomm  Dublinium  attulit.  Die 
translacionis  Thomas,  Nicus  Balscott1  de  Anglia  venit,  qui  retulit  duos  in 
Angliam  venisse  cardinalesu  ex  curia  Romana,  ut  interconciliarent  Anglos  et 
Scotos,  Bullamque  tulerunt  excomunicat  omnium  qui  pacem  conturbarent.  Ad 
festum  Margaritas  Hugo  et  Gualterus  Lacyv  proditores  pronuntiati.  Rogerus 
Mortimer  dominica  sequente  cum  manu  militum  [iter  arripuitw  versus  Drogheda. 
Ultonii]  de  Droghda  agrum  depraedarunt,  cives  autem  spolia  ab  illis  auferunt,  in 
conflictu  occiditur  Milo  Logan  cum  fratre,  et  sex  alii  nobiles  Ultonii  capti  sunt, 
et  ad  castrum  Dubliniae  delati.  Mortimer  Justic.  congregat  milites  in  Ofervilx, 

transitum 


q  Ad  nativitatem. — The  earl  hadbeen  libera- 
ted on  bail  on  the  Sunday  before  Ascension 
Thursday,  May  8,  and  was  bound  to  appear 
on  St.  John's  day.  On  the  Monday  after 
St.  John's  day  he  was  liberated  finally,  on 
taking  the  oaths  stated,  and  giving  securi- 
ties. This  may  be  reconciled  with  the  pre- 
ceding entry,  in  which  the  earl  is  said  not  to 
have  come  at  the  day  appointed,  by  supposing 
that  he  was  bound  before  St.  John's  day,  either 
to  take  legal  proceedings  against  the  citizens 
or  to  surrender  himself,  and  that  he  chose 
the  latter.  On  the  27th  of  April,  the  king, 
by  writ  to  Mortimer,  reserved  to  himself  the 
consideration  of  all  things  touching  the  arrest 
of  the  Earl  of  Ulster,  Gilbert,  and  Hugh  de 
Burgh  and  Henry  le  Clerk — Rymer,  vol.  ii. 
p.  327.  On  the  23rd  July,  the  earl  had  letters 
of  safe  conduct  on  his  way  to  England,  and 
on  the  following  day  he  had  letters  of  protec- 
tion— Rot.  Pat.  1 1  Ed.  II.  4,  7. 

r  Johannes  de  At  he.  —  Rex  commisit  Jo- 
hanni  de  Athy  custodiam  terrse  de  Man  du- 
rante  beneplacito.  6  Julii.  an.  10. — Rot.  Pat. 


11  Ed.  II.  10.  In  1324-26  he  was  constable 
of  the  castle  of  Carrickfergus,  at  a  salary  of 
100  marks  per  an.  ;  and  in  1335  he  was  admi- 
ral "flote  Regis  omnium  navium  in  singulis 
portubus  et  aliis  locisin  Hibernia." — Rot.  Cl. 
9  &  10  Ed.  III.  33.  Perhaps  the  Mandevilles, 
who  had  defended  Carrickfergus,  thought 
that  the  castle  should  be  confided  to  them, 
for,  in  1319,  Richard  de  Mandeville  be- 
sieged it  when  in  the  keeping  of  John  de 
Athy — Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  388. 

8  Thomam  Don — Dr.  Drummond,  in  his 
notes  to  Bruce's  Invasion,  conjectures,  that 
this  Thomas  Don  was  the  "  Thomas  off 
Downe,"  "  a  scowmar  off  the  se,"  who  freed 
Edward  Bruce  and  his  army  from  their  jeo- 
pardy on  the  banks  of  the  Bann,  by  ferrying 
them  across  in  four  vessels,  as  told  by  Bar- 
hour — B.  xiv.  1.  375. 

*  Nicus  Balscott — Chancellor  of  the  Ex- 
chequer in  1312 Rot.  Cl.  5  Ed.  II.  27. 

u  Cardinales. — Cardinals  Gancelinus  Fitz 
John  and  Lucas  de  Flisco,  Nuncios  of  John 
XXII.,  brought  his  bull  proclaiming  a  truce 


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parliament,  on  the  Nativity  of  St.  John  (June  24),  the  Earl  of  Ulster  is  liberated, 
having  given  bail,  hostages,  and  his  oath,  that  he  would  be  faithful  in  all  things 
to  the  King,  and  that  he  would  persecute  the  Scots.  On  the  day  of  St.  Processus 
and  Martinian  (July  2),  Sir  John  de  Athy  met  at  sea  Thomas  Don,  a  famous 
pirate,  whom  he  took  prisoner ;  there  were  slain  of  those  who  were  with  him, 
about  forty,  but  he  brought  his  head  and  the  heads  of  the  rest  to  Dublin.  On 
the  day  of  the  Translation  of  St.  Thomas  (July  7)  Nicholas  Balscott  came  from 
England,  who  reported  that  two  Cardinals  had  come  to  England  from  the  Court 
of  Rome  to  reconcile  the  Scots  and  the  English,  and  they  brought  a  bull  of  ex- 
communication against  all  who  should  disturb  the  peace.  On  the  Feast  of  St. 
Margaret  (July  20)  Hugh  and  Walter  de  Lacy  were  proclaimed  traitors.  On 
the  following  Sunday,  Roger  Mortimer  with  a  party  of  soldiers  went  towards 
Drogheda.  The  Ulster  men  plundered  the  country  about  Drogheda,  but  the 
townsmen  took  their  prey  from  them ;  in  the  conflict  Milo  Logan  and  his  brother 
are  slain,  and  six  other  Ulster  nobles  are  taken  and  brought  to  the  Castle  of 
Dublin.  The  Justiciary,  Mortimer,  assembles  troops  against  O'Feral,  he  cuts 


for  two  years  between  the  Scots  and  the  Eng- 
lish, and  authorizing  them  to  excommunicate 
all  persons  who  should  break  it — Rymer, 
vol.  ii.  pp.  328,  329.  These  cardinals  had  a 
grant  from  the  English  clergy  of  4rf.  in  the 
mark,  and  they  were  entitled  by  Papal  au- 
thority to  certain  payments  from  the  clergy  of 
Ireland,  as  on  the  20th  of  March  the  Abbot 
of  St.  Thomas,  Dublin,  had  the  king's  license, 
without  which  he  alleged  that  he  could  not 
proceed,  to  collect  their  procurations.  It  is 
probable,  that  the  abbot,  when  the  license  was 
granted,  was  not  very  earnest  in  collecting 
this  money,  as,  on  the  18th  of  August,  James 
Basset  and  John  de  Auriliano  were  sent  by 
the  cardinals  into  Ireland  "pro  diversis  nego- 
tiis  ipsorum  cardinalium." — Rymer,  vol.  ii. 
pp.  358,  371.  For  the  mode  in  which  Robert 
Bruce  received  the  Papal  message,  see  Ry- 
mer, vol.  ii.  p.  351. 

v  Hugo  et  Gualterus  Lacy — On  the  28th  of 

IRISH  ARCH.  SOC.  3. 


N 


April,  1317,  these  Lacys  with  many  other 
Irish  lords  received  the  king's  thanks  for  their 
loyal  services  against  the  Scots.  —  Rymer, 
vol.  ii.  p.  327.  They  were  now  proclaimed 
"  seductores  et  felones  Domini  Regis,  quia 
vexillum  tulerunt  contra  pacem  Domini  Regis 
Anglise." — Pembridge.  Is  Anglise  mentioned 
here  to  distinguish  the  King  Edward  Plan- 
tagenet  from  Edward  Bruce,  King  of  Ire- 
land? 

w  Iter  arripuit — The  words  within  brackets 
are  omitted  in  the  MS.,  they  have  been  sup- 
plied from  Pembridge.  The  repetition  of  the 
word  Drogheda  probably  caused  the  error  of 
the  transcriber. 

1  Ofervil — O'Feral's  country  of  Annaly, 

now  Longford Harris  Ware's  Antiq.,  pp. 

46,  48.  In  this  territory,  if  not  in  Meath, 
was  perhaps  included  the  Conmacne  which  is 
called  Coneinake  in  Hugh  de  Lacy's  charter 
to  Geoffry  de  Constentyn,  and  is  there  said 


9o 


transitura  periculosum  excindit,  omnes  domos  ejus  incendit,  quibus  coactus  Ofervil 
pacis  obsides  dedit.  Inde  Justitiarius  se  contulit  Tom,  ubi  accusatus  Johannes 
Whitey  de  Rath-Regan  200  marcarum  mulctam  dedit.  Post  natale  Mariae  pro- 
fectus  est  cum  exercitu  versus  Onail,  Olinselique2  venit  ubi  ceciderunt  multi, 
turn  Angli  turn  Hiberni,  vicerunt  Angli  tamen.  Morgh  O  Brine  se  dedit  regi 
ad  castrum  Dublin ;  dein  les  Archebaldes  paci  se  obstrixerunt,  fidejussore  comite 
Kildariae.  Archiepiscopus  Dublin  et  comes  Ultonise  manent  in  Anglia  ad  par- 
liamentum  Lincolniae.  D.  Hugo  Canona  Justitiarius  regis  in  Banco,  occiditur 
ab  Andrea  Brimingam  inter  le  Naas  et  Castlemartin.  Alexander  Bignor  bul- 
lis  papalibus  confirmatur  episcopus  Dublinii.  Post  S.  Valentinianum  Rogerus 
Mortimer,  Johannem  Mortimer  cum  4  sociis  equestri  ordine  decoravit,  magnum- 
que  festum  celebravit  in  castro  Dublin.  Pugnarunt  inter  se  duo  reges  Connacii, 
occisi  sunt  iooob  Hiberni.  Maxima  penuria  et  fames  in  Ultoniac ;  e  i  ooo  reman- 

serunt 


to  be  beyond  the  river  of  Ethne,  the  Inny. 
— Ibid,  p.  193.  Perhaps  the  "  transitus  peri- 
culosus"  of  Grace,  which  Pembridge  calls 
"  Passus  malus"  may  have  been  the  place 
called  New  Pass,  near  Rathowen,  which  is 
near  the  Inny.  The  opening  a  pass  was  a 
good  service  to  the  English  government;  we 
have  seen  Gavaston  celebrated  for  clearing  a 
pass  into  Wicklow  ;  and  in  the  parliament  of 
1297,  it  was  stated,  that  even  on  the  king's 
highway  there  were  places  so  overgrown  with 
wood  that  scarcely  even  a  foot  passenger  was 
able  to  pass,  so  that  the  Irish  when  they 
had  plundered  the  country  were  enabled  to 
escape  pursuit,  and  it  was  therefore  enacted, 
that  the  lord  of  the  woods  and  his  tenants, 
through  which  the  king's  highway  was  an- 
ciently, should  sufficiently  clear  the  pass  where 
the  king's  highway  ought  to  be,  and  at  their 
own  expense  should  make  it  wide  enough  and 
clear  from  underwood  and  trees,  whether 
standing  or  fallen  ;  if  they  neglected  to  do  this 
they  were  to  be  distrained  by  the  sheriff,  or  if 
too  poor  to  do  it  at  their  own  expense,  then 


our  lord  the  king,  or  his  chief  justice,  should 
have  the  assistance  of  all  the  adjacent  country. 
— Betham's  Dignities,  pp.  269,  270. 

y Johannes  White. — Domino  Johanne  Blound 
scilicet  White  de  Rathregan. — Pemb.  He  is 
called  John  le  Blund  (Rot.  Pat.  31  Ed.  I.  21), 
and  had  at  that  time  letters  of  protection  as 
he  was  going  to  Scotland  with  Richard  de 
Burgh,  and  in  1317,  under  the  same  name  he 
was  thanked  for  his  loyalty. — Rymer,  vol.  ii. 
p.  327-  It  is  probable  that  White  and  Blunt 
are  the  same  name. 

z  Olinselique.  —  Apud  Glinsely Pemb. 

Probably  Hy  Kinselagh  in  Wicklow  and  Wex- 
ford.  Whilst  Mortimer  was  thus  subduing 
the  Leinster  Irish  by  force,  he  gained  over  the 
Connaught  Irish  by  concessions.  On  the  8th 
of  March,  1318,  according  to  an  agreement 
which  he  with  Richard  Lord  of  Athnery 
(Athenry)  and  others  of  the  council,  made 
for  the  advantage  of  the  king  and  the  peace 
of  Ireland,  the  king  granted  to  O'Conacher, 
prince  of  the  Irish  of  Connaught,  the  lands 
of  Shilmorthy  Fethys  (SiolMorey  in  Roscom- 


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a  dangerous  pass  and  burns  all  his  houses,  by  which  O'Feral  was  compelled  to 
give  hostages  for  peace.  Thence  the  Justiciary  went  to  Trim,  where  John  White 
of  Rathregan  was  accused  and  fined  two  hundred  marks.  After  the  Nativity  of 
Mary  (September  8)  he  went  with  an  army  towards  Imayle,  and  came  to  Hy- 
Kinselagh  where  many  fell,  both  English  and  Irish,  but  the  English  were  vic- 
torious. Murrogh  O'Birne  surrendered  himself  to  the  king  at  the  Castle  of 
Dublin ;  then  the  Archbolds  bound  themselves  to  the  peace,  the  Earl  of  Kildare 
giving  security  for  them.  The  Archbishop  of  Dublin  and  the  Earl  of  Ulster 
remain  in  England  for  the  parliament  at  Lincoln.  Sir  Hugh  Canon,  Justice  of 
the  King's  Bench,  is  murdered  by  Andrew  Birmingham  between  Naas  and  Castle 
Martin.  Alexander  Bykenor  is  confirmed  Bishop  of  Dublin  by  Papal  bulls. 
The  day  after  St.  Valentine's  Day  (February  14),  Roger  Mortimer  knighted 
John  Mortimer  and  his  four  companions,  and  held  a  great  feast  in  the  Castle  of 
Dublin.  Two  kings  of  Connaught  fight  with  one  another,  one  thousand  Irish 
are  slain.  A  great  scarcity  and  famine  in  Ulster ;  of  one  thousand  there  re- 
mained 


mon),  and  the  lands  of  the  King  of  Tyrmany 
(Hymaine  in  Galway  and Roscommori)  with  the 
exception  of  the  lands  of  Englishmen,  or  lands 
granted  in  burgage — Rot.  Pat.  1 1  Ed.  II.  103. 

a  Hugo  Canon. — Pembridge  says  that  news 
of  this  murder  reached  Dublin  "  circa  festum 
Epiphanise." 

''  1000 — Pembridge  says,  "  occisi  erant  ex 
utraque  parte  circa quatuor  mille  homines;" 
perhaps  this  internal  quarrel  in  Connaught 
was  the  result  of  Mortimer's  grant  mentioned 
in  former  note. 

c  Ultonia. — Pembridge  makes  this  Famine 
still  more  grievous  ;  he  says,  "  postea  venit 
mirabilis  vindicta  de  Ultoniensibus,  qui  tern- 
pore,  quo  Scoti  deprsedaverunt  in  Hibernia, 
magna  damna  fecerunt,  et  carne  in  Quadra- 
gesima sine  necessitate  comederunt,  idcirco 
venit  super  eos  tribulatio  magna,  quod  unus- 
quisque  eoruin  alium  comedit,  quod  de  decem 
millibus  eorum  non  remanserunt  nisi  circa 

N 


CCC.  qui  fere  pro  vindicta  evaserunt,  et  hie 
patet  vindicta  Dei."  On  the  statement  that  they 
cooked  flesh  in  dead  men's  skulls,  Lord  Hniles 
exclaims,  "  as  if  the  famine  had  consumed  the 
spits  and  the  kettles  !"  Dr.  Drummond,  in  his 
notes  to  "  The  Bruce,"  conjectures  that  this 
report  originated  in  the  Irish  having  used 
their  skulls  (clogadx)  or  helmets  for  pots.  We 
know  that  during  the  battle  of  Waterloo  the 
officers  of  the  Guards  broiled  pigeons  in  the 
cuirass  of  a  dead  Frenchman  at  Hougoumont. 
This  famine  was  not  confined  to  Ireland,  it 
extended  to  England,  and  lasted  for  three 
years.  At  first  an  attempt  was  made  to  keep 
down  prices  by  an  Act  of  Parliament,  but  this 
plan  was  found  to  aggravate  the  evil,  and  every 
one  was  allowed  to  sell  "  meliori  foro  quo  pos- 
set." In  1316  the  autumn  was  so  wet  that 
the  corn  could  not  ripen,  and  it  was  scarcely 
brought  home  by  the  Nativity  of  the  Virgin, 
September  8,  and  then  the  bakers  were  obliged 


92 

serunt  tantum  300,  dicuntur  aliqui  corpora  mortuorum  e  sepulchris  extraxisse, 
corpora  in  capitibus  coxisse  et  comedisse ;  mulieres  etiam  suos  infantes  devora- 
runt. 

1318.  Berwick  capta  a  Scotis.  Venit  in  Hiberniam  Gualterus  Islep  Thesau- 
rarius  regis  cum  literis  ad  Mortimerum  quibus  ad  regem  accersebatur,  is  reliquit 
custodem  Hiberniae  Gulielmumd  Caucellensem,  qui  fuit  etiam  Cancellarius  et 
Archiepiscopus.  Die  Gordiani  et  Epimachi  occiditur  ab  O  Brine  et  M'Carth 
[Ricardus  de  Clare  cume]  Thoma  de  Naas,  D.  Jacobo  de  Canton,  Johanne  Canton 
et  Adam  Apilgard  et  8  militibus.  Ricardus  in  minutas  partes  scinditur  ob 
odium,  reliqui  apud  Limiricum  sepulti.  Post  Pascham  ducitur  Johannes  Lacy  a 
Dublin  usque  ad  Trym  ad  juditium,  qui  carcerif  adjudicatus,  inibi  moritur. 
Ad  ascencionem  domini  reliquit  [Rogerus  Mortimers]  omne  quod  debuerat  pro 
victualibus  ad  mille  libras  insolutum.  Ad  festumh  Jacobi  panis  de  novo  grano 
quod  raro  videtur.  Alexander  Bigenor  Justic.  applicuit  ad  Yoghill ;  recipitur 
Dubliniae1  cum  processione.  PugnaturJ  ad  Dondalck  cum  Scotis,  qui  fuerunt 
Edoardus  Brus,  Philippus  Moutbray,  Gualterus  Sulis,  Alanus  Steward  cum 

Obus 


to  dry  the  wheat  in  ovens  before  they  sent  it 
to  the  mill,  and  when  made  into  bread  it  gave 
no  nourishment.  Before  St.  John's  day  wheat 
was  sold  at  30s.  the  quarter,  and  from  that 
time  to  the  Assumption  of  the  Virgin  (August 
15)  it  rose  to  40s.,  and  the  mortality  was  so 
great  that  the  living  were  scarcely  able  to  bury 
the  dead  ;  even  the  cattle  perished,  and  herbs 
that  were  used  in  medicine  lost  their  virtue ; 
four  pennyworth  de  grosso  pane  was  scarcely 
enough  in  the  day  for  one  man ;  fat  dogs  were 
commonly  stolen  and  eaten  ;  people  were  said 
to  have  eaten  their  own  children;  and  to  have 
stolen  those  of  others  ;  and  prisoners  in  gaols 
tore  new  comers  to  pieces,  and  devoured  them 
on  the  spot.  Such  is  the  description  given  by 
Walsingham — Hist.  Angl.  in  an.  1316.  In 
this  year  a  proclamation  prohibited  the  malt- 
ing of  wheat. 

d  Gulielmum — William  Fitz  John,  Arch- 


bishop from  1317  to  1326 — Ware's  Bishops, 
p.  476.  The  following  singular  grant  was 
made  to  this  archbishop,  "  Rex  ob  merita  con- 
cessit  Willielmo  Archiepiscopo  Cassellensi  I 
messuagium  una  cum  advocacione  ecclesie 
beate  Marie  de  Dungarvan  in  Comitatu  Wa- 
terfordensi  habenda.  ipsi  et  successoribus  s\iis 
Anglicis  Archiepiscopis  ejus  loci  in  perpe- 
tuum."— Rot.  Pat.  11  Ed.  II.  88.  Was  the 
grant  to  be  recalled  if  an  Irishman  had  suc- 
ceeded as  archbishop  ? 

e  [Ricardus  de  Clare  cum.'} — The  words  be- 
tween brackets  are  omitted  in  MS.,  they  have 
been  supplied  from  Pembridge  and  from  the 
context.  Pembridge  says,  that  there  were  slain 
with  him  four  knights  (quatuor  milites),  Sir 
Henry  de  Capella,  Sir  Thomas  de  Naas,  Sir 
James  de  Caunton,  Sir  John  de  Caunton,  et 
Adam  Apilgard,  "cumaliis  Ixxx.  hominibus, 
et  dicebatur  quod  dictus  Dominus  Richardus 


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mained  only  three  hundred,  some  are  said  to  have  taken  the  bodies  of  the  dead 
from  the  graves,  to  have  cooked  the  bodies  in  skulls,  and  to  have  eaten  them ; 
women  also  devoured  their  infants. 

1318.  Berwick  taken  by  the  Scots.  Walter  Islep,  the  King's  Treasurer, 
comes  into  Ireland  with  letters  to  Mortimer,  in  which  he  was  sent  for  to  the 
king,  he  left  as  Gustos  of  Ireland  William  Archbishop  of  Cashel,  who  was  both 
Chancellor  and  Archbishop.  On  the  day  of  Gordian  and  Epimachus  (May 
10)  O'Brien  and  M'Carty  slay  Richard  of  Clare  with  Thomas  of  Naas,  Sir 
James  de  Canteton,  John  Canteton,  and  Adam  Apilgard,  and  eight  soldiers. 
Richard's  body  is  cut  into  small  pieces  through  hatred,  the  rest  are  buried  at 
Limerick.  After  Easter  John  Lacy  is  brought  from  Dublin  to  Trim  to  receive 
sentence,  he  is  condemned  to  prison,  where  he  dies.  On  Ascension  day  Roger 
Mortimer  left  what  he  owed  for  provisions  to  the  amount  of  £1000  unpaid.  On 
the  Feast  of  St.  James  (July  25)  there  was  bread  of  new  corn,  which  is  seldom  to 
be  seen.  Alexander  Bykenor,  Justiciary,  landed  at  Youghall ;  he  is  received  at 
Dublin  with  a  procession.  A  battle  is  fought  at  Dundalk  with  the  Scots,  who 
were  Edward  Bruce,  Philip  Mowbray,  Walter  Soulis,  Alan  Steward,  with  his 

three 


in  minutas  partes  pro  odio  scindebatur,  sed  re- 
liquiae ejus  sepultse  in  Lymerico  inter  Fratres 
Minores." 

f  Carceri.  —  He  was  sentenced,  says  Pern  - 
bridge,  "ad  dietam  et  in  carcere  moriebatur." 
The  term  "ad  dietam"  expressed  the  sad  sus- 
tenance the  prisoner  was  allowed,  viz.,  on  the 
first  day  three  morsels  of  the  worst  bread,  on 
the  second  three  draughts  of  water  out  of  the 
next  puddle ;  and  this  was  to  be  alternately 
his  daily  diet  till  he  died — Pennant's  Wales, 
p.  162.  Dieta  is  not  given  in  this  sense  in 
Adelung's  Du  Cange. 

s  [Rogerus  Mortimer] — Omitted  in  MS. 
Campion  says  Mortymer  went  over  to  the  king 
indebted  to  the  citizens  of  Divelin  for  his  viands 
a  thousand  pounds,  whereof  he  payde  not  one 
smulkin  (farthing),  and  many  a  bitter  curse 
carried  with  him  to  the  sea. 


h  Adfestum — This  early  harvest  must  have 
been  foreseen  for  some  time,  as  on  St.  John's 
day,  June  24,  wheat  which  had  been  16*.  sold 
for  7*.  and  oats  for  5s.  ;  there  was  also  abun- 
dance of  wine  and  salt  and  fish.  This  year 
was  not  a  fine  year  in  England. — Walsing- 
ham.  Stow  says  of  1317  (1318?),  that  the 
harvest  was  housed  before  St.  Giles'  day, 
September  1,  and  that  wheat  which  was  be- 
fore at  £4  the  quarter,  was  now  at  6s.  Sd.  ; 
and  oats  that  was  before  at  £3  4s.,  was  now 
5s.  4d. — Stow,  quoted  in  Fleetwood's  Chro- 
nicon  Preciosum. 

'  DublinicE — He  arrived  at  Dublin  on  the 
day  of  St.  Dionysius  (Oct.  9). — Pemb. 

J  Pugnatur — This  battle  was  fought  on  the 
day  of  St.  Calixtus  (Oct.  14).— Pemb.  Mar- 
leburgh  states  the  forces  of  the  English  at 
1324  men,  and  says  that  of  the  Scots  were 


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gbus  fratribus,  Gualterus  et  Hugo  Lacy,  Joannes  Kersindinek,  Gualterus  Albus1, 
cum  3000  militum ;  Anglorum  dux  Johannes  Brimingham,  dein  Ricardus  Tuit, 
Milo  Veridon,  Hugo  Trepiton™,  Herebertus  Sutton,  Johannes  Cusack,  Guliel- 
mus  et  Gualterus  Brimingham,  primas  Armachanus"  qui  omnes  absolvit,  Gual- 
terus de  Larpulles0,  Johannes  Maupas,  cum  circa  20  Droghdaensibus  bene  armatis. 
Committitur  preliump  inter  Dundalck  et  Faghird ;  ubi  victis  Scotis,  occiditur 
Edwardus  Brus  a  Johanne  Maupas,  omnesque  reliqui  nobiles  preter  Phillippum 
Moutbray,  qui  tamen  lethale  vulnus  accepit,  Hugo  Lacy,  [Walter  Lacyq  et  pauci 
alii],  reliqui  occisi  ad  2000  Scotorum ;  corpus  Johannis  Maupas  super  corpus  Brusi 
inventum.  D.  Jo.  Brimingham  caput  Brusiir  ad  regem  detulit,  cui  in  mercedem 
datus  est  comitatus  de  Louth  et  Baronia  de  Atroide.  Manus  et  cor  Brusii  Dub- 
linum  deportantur,  reliqua  membra  ad  varia  alia  loca  divisa. 


slain  8274. 

k  Kersendine. — Kermerdyne — Pemb.  He 
forfeited  estates  in  Nottustoun,  Wisestoun, 
Balimadoun,  Carpenterustoun  and  Wiltones- 
toun  in  Fingal,  at  Tylaghowry  in  Limerick. 
Rot.  Pat.  11  Ed.  II.  33,  126.  The  lands  of 
Achbiller  (  Aghavillar)  in  the  barony  of  Overk 
and  county  of  Kilkenny,  now  forfeited  by  Ker- 
merdin,  who  held  under  Edmund  Butler,  lord 
of  that  barony,  were  conferred  by  Richard  II. 
on  James  Earl  of  Ormond  consanguineo  suo. 
Rot.  in  Tur.  Lond.  3  R.  II. 

i  Gualterus  Albus — Forfeited  under  the 
name  Walter  le  Blound — Rot.  Pat.  1 1  Ed.  II. 
119. 

111  Hugo  Trepiton — Hugo  de  Tripeton — 
Pemb.  Sir  Hugh  Trippetton — Holinshed. 
Probably  Sir  Hugh  de  Turpelton  to  whom 
were  granted  the  manor  of  Martry,  in  Meath, 
with  the  other  possessions  of  Walter  de  Saye, 
who  forfeited  by  joining  Robert  and  Edward 

Bruce Rot.  Pat.  1 1  Ed.  II.,  2d  part  5.  Sir 

Hugh  de  Turpleton  was  killed  in  defence  of 
Roger  Mortimer  at  the  Castle  of  Nottingham, 
when  he  was  seized  by  Edward  III — Rymer, 


vol.  ii.  p.  810.  Davis  has  turned  this  name 
into  Stapleton  (Discov.,  p.  65),  and  Marie- 
burgh  into  Tripton. 

n  Primas  Armachanus. — Roland  Jorse,  Pri- 
mate from  131 1  to  1321.  From  the  omission 
of  the  primate's  name,  some  writers  have 
thought  that  Walter  de  la  Pole,  whose  name 
immediately  follows,  was  then  primate.  Ware 
suspected  that  there  was  a  mistake,  but  did  not 
know  its  origin. — Harris  Ware's  Bps.,p.  81. 

0  Gualterus  de  Larpulles Walterus  de 

Larpulk Pemb.  Sir  Walter  de  la  Pulle. — 

Holinshed. — Walter  de  la  Pulle  was  Eschea- 
tor  of  Ireland  in  1325  (Rot.  Cl.  18  Ed.  II. 
27)  and  was  succeeded  by  Herbert  de  Sutton 
in  1334 — Rot.  Cl.  8  Ed.  III.  139.  So  few 
of  the  great  Irish  nobles  were  at  this  battle, 
that  it  was  said  to  have  been  gained  "  per 
manus  communis  populi." 

p  Prelium — The  numbers  who  fought  and 
fell  in  this  battle  are  variously  stated.  Mar- 
leburgh  says,  that  the  forces  of  the  English 
amounted  to  1324  men,  and  that  8274  Scots 
were  slain.  Walsingham,  who  says  that  Ed- 
ward Bruce  was  taken  and  beheaded  at  Dun- 


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three  brothers,  "Walter  and  Hugh  Lacy,  John  Kermerdyn  [?],  Walter  "White,  with 
three  thousand  soldiers ;  the  captain  of  the  English  was  John  Birmingham,  then 
Richard  Tuite,  Milo  Verdon,  Hugh  Turpilton,  Herbert  Sutton,  John  Cusack, 
William  and  Walter  Birmingham,  the  Primate  of  Armagh,  who  gave  them  all  ab- 
solution, Walter  de  la  Pole  [?],  John  Maupas,  with  about  twenty  men  of  Drogheda 
well  armed.  The  battle  was  fought  between  Dundalk  and  Faghird ;  the  Scots 
were  defeated,  and  Edward  Bruce  is  killed  by  John  Maupas,  and  all  his  nobles 
were  killed,  except  Philip  Mowbray,  who  however  received  a  mortal  wound,  Hugh 
de  Lacy,  Walter  de  Lacy,  and  a  few  others,  the  rest  of  the  Scots  to  the  number  of 
two  thousand  were  slain ;  the  body  of  John  Maupas  was  found  over  the  dead  body 
of  Bruce.  Sir  John  Birmingham  brought  Bruce's  head  to  the  king,  and  received 
as  a  reward  the  earldom  of  Louth  and  the  barony  of  Ardee.  The  hands  and 
heart  of  Bruce  are  carried  to  Dublin,  his  other  limbs  are  sent  to  different  places. 


dalk,  does  not  give  the  number  of  the  forces 
engaged,  but  says  that  there  fell  of  the  Scots 
29  barons  (baronetti)  and  5800  men.  Bar- 
bour  states  that  Bruce  had  not  then  in  that 
land, 

Off  all  men,  I  trow,  twa  Thousand, 

Owtane  the  Kings  of  Irchery, 

That  in  gret  routs  raid  hym  by. 

B.  xviii.  7. 

He  afterwards  reckons  the  number  of  the 
Irish  at  20,000,  but  alleges  that  they  took  no 
part  in  the  battle,  telling  Bruce, 

For  our  maner  is  off  this  land 

To  folow  and  fycht,  and  fycht  fleand, 

And  not  to  stand  in  plane  melle 

Quhill  the  ta  part  discomfyt  be. 

B.  xviii.  78. 

Barbour  names  Richard  off  Clar  as  the  Eng- 
lish captain,  and  says  that  he  had  with  him 

Off  traupit  horse  tuenty  thusand, 
and  that  he  had  40,000  and  more  to  oppose  to 
Edward  Bruce  with  2000. 

q  Walter  Lacy.— The  words  between  brack- 
ets have  been  supplied  from  Pembridge.     It 


is  certain  that  Hugh  and  Walter  Lacy  escaped. 
Hugh  was  afterwards  pardoned. 

*  Caput  Brusii.  —  Barbour  says  that  Gib 
Harper  wore  Edward  Bruce's  armour,  and 
that  his  body  was  consequently  mistaken  for 
that  of  Bruce,  and  his  head  salted  in  "  a  kest" 
and  sent  as  a  present  to  King  Edward  ;  Dr. 
Drummond  in  his  notes  to  the  Bruce  appears 
to  credit  this  account,  and  says  that  a  pillar 
in  Faughard  burying  ground  marks  Bruce's 
grave.  Every  peasant,  he  adds,  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood can  point  out  the  resting-place  of 
King  Bruce,  as  he  is  universally  styled.  It 
would  seem,  however,  strange  that  the  features 
of  Bruce,  who  had  been  so  long  in  Ireland, 
should  not  have  been  known ;  if  they  were 
known,  the  right  head  was  probably  sent  to 
England;  if  they  were  not  known,  we  cannot 
tell  whose  body  may  have  been  buried  in 
Faughard  burying  ground  ;  nor  is  it  likely 
that  the  victorious  English  would  pav  any 
funeral  honours  to  Bruce,  by  whose  death,  in 
the  words  of  the  old  record,  "  per  dextram  Dei 
et  manus  communis  populi  deliberatur  popu- 


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1319.  Rogerus  Mortimer  rediens  fit  Justiciarius.    Venerunt  bullae  ad  excomu- 
nicandum  Robertum  Brusium.    Oppidum  Archisell8  cum  agro  vastatur  a  Johanne 
Fitz  Thomse,  Germane  Mauritii  Fitz  Thomas.     Johannes  Brimingham  factus 
comes  Louth.     Pons  de  Kilkollin  conditur  a  Magistro  Mauritio  Jack,  canonico 
Kildariae. 

1320.  Universitas*    incipit    Dublinii.     Primus  magister   Gulielmus    Har- 

dius, 


lus  Dei  a  servitute  machinata  et  praecogitata." 
— Lib.  Rub.  in  Scacc.  quoted  by  Davis,  Dis- 
covery, p.  65,  and  by  Cox. 

"  Archisell — Athassel  on  the  Suir,  in  Co. 
Tipperary,  one  of  the  lordships  of  the  De 
Burghs. 

1  Universitas — This  was  the  great  era  of 
literary  foundations.  Five  colleges  were 
founded  at  Oxford  between  1250  and  1350. 
It  was  the  era  of  Dante  and  Petrarch  and 
Occam ;  and  Archbishop  Bykenor,  who,  as 
an  high  ecclesiastic  and  as  a  statesman,  was 
brought  into  connexion  with  the  first  men  of 
his  age,  was  naturally  anxious  to  give  to  his 
adopted  country  some  share  in  that  literature 
which  was  then  spreading  over  Europe. 

The  Church  of  St.  Patrick's  was  collegiate 
from  its  foundation,  and  its  founder,  Arch- 
bishop Comyn,  intended  that  it  should  be  a 
model  for  the  instruction  of  the  clergy  of  Ire- 
land. The  words  of  the  preamble  to  his 

foundation  charter  are,  "  Johannes cum 

studia  literarum  per  orbem  latum  floreant,  et 
earum  Professores  multiplices  tarn  in  Divino 
quam  Humano  jure,  preter  Hiberniam,  habean- 
tur  in  regnis  singulis,  minus  erudite  simplici- 
tati  gentis  Hibernie  providere  cupientes,  De- 
crevimus,  Auctore  Deo,  de  assensu  et  consen- 
su  Sancte  Romane  sedis,  et  principis  nostri 
Johannis  comitis  Moreton,  ecclesiam  Sancti 
Patricii  Dublin  instituere  prsebendariam  et 
in  ea  probate  vite  et  litterature  Collegium 


facere  Clericorum,  qui  pro  honeste  conversa- 
tionis  forma  ceteris  sint  in  exemplum  vivendi, 
et  pro  litteratura  sint  simplicioribus  erudi- 
tioni."  Charta  Johannis  Archiepiscopi  super 
fundatione,  in  Mason's  Hist,  of  St.  Patrick's, 
Appendix,  No.  1. 

In  1310,  Clement  the  Fifth,  on  the  petition 
of  Archbishop  John  de  Leeke,  stating  that 
although  there  were  in  Ireland  some  doctors, 
or  at  least  bachelors  of  theology,  who  gave  lec- 
tures, yet  in  that  CQuntry  and  in  the  parts  of 
Scotland,  Man,  and  Norway,  which  were  near 
it,  there  was  no  university  or  general  place  of 
study  (generale  studium),  on  which  account 
few  men  of  learning  were  to  be  found  there, 
ordained,  that  if  the  suffragans  of  the  Arch- 
bishop gave  their  consent,  there  should  be  in 
the  city  of  Dublin  a  university,  "  et  in  qualibet 
scientia  et  facultate  licita  de  cetero  Studium 
generale,"  with  power  of  reading  lectures  and 
of  conferring  doctors'  degrees. — Bulla  Uni- 
versitatis  Dublin,  ut  supra,  No.  vii. 

Leeke  died  in  1313,  and  left  the  honour  of 
opening  the  University  of  Dublin  to  his  suc- 
cessor Bykenor,  whose  "ordinatio  pro  Uni 
versitate  Dubliniensi"  is  given  in  the  same  num- 
ber of  the  appendix,  and  is  translated  in  Harris' 
Ware's  Antiq.,  pp.  243,  244.  In  this  ordi- 
nance the  archbishop  reserved  to  himself  and 
his  successors  the  right  of  appointing  as  lec- 
turer on  the  Scriptures  any  regent  in  theo- 
logy, whether  secular,  or  regular  of  any  order 


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1319-  Roger  Mortimer  returns  and  is  made  Justiciary.  Bulls  came  to  ex- 
communicate Robert  Bruce.  The  town  of  Athassel  with  the  adjoining  country 
is  plundered  by  John  Fitz  Thomas,  brother  of  Maurice  Fitz  Thomas.  John 
Birmingham  is  made  Earl  of  Louth.  The  bridge  of  Kilcullen  built  by  Master 
Maurice  Jack,  Canon  of  Kildare. 

1320.  A  University  begins  at  Dublin.  The  first  master  was  William  Hardy, 

who 


(de  quacunque  religione,  strangely  translated, 
of  whatsoever  religion),  although  the  schools 
of  the  Friars  Preachers  and  Friars  Minor  were 
considered  canonical. 

In  1358  the  clerks  and  scholars  of  Ireland 
petitioned  Edward  III.  for  protection,  de- 
claring that  they  could  no  longer  go  to  foreign 
parts  for  learning,  on  account  of  their  poverty 
and  of  the  dangers  of  the  sea,  and  thattheypro- 
posed,  "  legere  et  audire"  in  the  city  of  Dub- 
lin, theology,  civil  law,  the  sacred  canons  and 
the  other  clerical  sciences.  The  king  granted 
the  petition,  and  took  under  his  protection  all 
masters,  scholars,  and  clerks,  and  their  ser- 
vants, from  whatever  parts  coining  to  said 
city  for  such  purpose  and  staying  there,  "  quia 
ubi  hujusmodi  Studium  tenetur,  sacra  praedi- 
catur  scriptura,  et  auditores  inde  a  viciis  se 
retrahentes,  moribus  sanctis  atque  virtutibus 
facilius  inherent,  paxque  Regis  in  dicta  terra 
eomelius  confovetur." — Rot.  Pat.  82  Ed.  III. 
28. 

It  appears,  however,  from  various  licenses 
for  absence,  to  avoid  the  penalties  against  ab- 
sentees, granted  to  beneficed  clergymen  in  the 
reign  of  Richard  II.  and  the  subsequent  kings, 
and  printed  in  the  Calendar  (Rot.  Pat.  et  CL), 
that  the  English  universities,  and  more  parti- 
cularly Oxford,  were  much  resorted  to  by  Irish 
scholars.  (In  1375,  two  Franciscans  of  Ennis 
were  sent  by  the  Chapter  to  study  at  Stras- 
burgh Rot.  Pat.  49  Ed.  III.  273).  It  is  to 

IRISH  ARCH.  SOC.  3. 


o 


be  feared,  that  some  of  the  Irish  students  were 
not  wholly  engaged  in  literary  pursuits.  In 
the  English  parliament  of  the  1st  of  Henry  VI. 
the  Commons  petitioned  the  king,  that  in  con- 
sequence of  murders,  manslaughters,  rapes, 
robberies,  and  riots,  committed  by  Irishmen 
coming  to  Oxford  and  Cambridge,  all  Irish- 
men, except  graduates  and  men  beneficed  in 
England,  or  married  to  English  women,  should 
be  banished  from  the  universities  ;  and  if  they 
staid  there,  should  be  imprisaned  and  treated 
as  rebels. 

In  Mason's  St.  Patrick's,  p.  124,  it  is  stated 
that  in  1364  Lionel  D.  of  Clarence  granted 
to  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  St.  Patrick's  an 
acre  of  land  at  Stachallane  (Stackallen),  and 
the  advowson  of  the  church,  to  pay  10  marks 
per  annum  to  a  person  of  the  Order  of  St. 
Augustine,  to  preach  a  Divinity  lecture  in  the 
robing-room  of  this  cathedral  ;  the  grant  was 
soon  changed,  and  (at  last)  resumed. — Rot. 
Pat.  30  Ed.  III.  1.,  Rot.  Pat.  10  H.  IV.  91. 

Archbishop  Bykenore's  University  dwindled 
away  for  want  of  funds.  Some  vestiges  of  it 
remained  in  the  reign  of  Henry  VII.,  for  in 
a  Provincial  Synod  held  in  Christ  Church 
before  Archbishop  Walter  Fitz  Simons,  in 
1496,  certain  annual  pensions,  amounting  al- 
together to  £26  13s.  4d.,  were  granted  for 
seven  years  to  the  lecturers  of  the  university 
by  the  archbishops  and  his  suffragans  and 
clergy  of  the  province  of  Dublin. — Harris 


diusu,  qui  incepit  in  Theologia;  2dus  frater  Henricus  Cogriv;  3"*  Gulielmus 
Roddiardw,  decanus  S.  Patricii  Dublinise,  primus  cancellarius  universitatis ;  4US 
Edmundus  dc  Kermerdinx.  Rediit  in  Angliam  Mortimer  Justic.  relicto  vicario 
comite  Kildarie.  Edmundus  Butler  in  Angliam,  inde  ad  divum  Jacobum?. 
Pons  Leghlinias  construitur  a  magistro  Mauritio  Jack,  canonico  Kildarise. 

1321.  O  Conghurs2  receperunt  magnam  stragem  apud  Balibogan,  9°  Maii,  a 
Lageniis  et  Midiis.    Obitus  Edmundi  Butler1  Londini.     Jo.  Brimingham  comes 
Louth  fit  Justb.     Obiit  Johannes  Woganc. 

1322.  Andreas  Brimingham  et  Nicholaus  de  la  Lamidd  cum  multis  aliis  inter- 
ficiuntur  ab  O  Nolan  die  S.  Michaelis. 

1323.  Inducias6  inter  Scotum  et  Anglum  14  annorum.     Johannes   Darcy 
Justic.     Obiit  Jo.  primogenitus  comitis  Kildariae,  9.  annorum. 

1324- 


Ware's  Antiq.,  p.  245.  It  never  was  dis- 
franchised, "but  onely  through  variety  of 
time  discontinued,  and  now,  since  the  subver- 
sion of  monasteries,  utterly  extinct,  wherein 
the  divines  were  cherished  and  open  exercise 
maintained.  A  motion  was  made  in  this  last 
parliament  to  erect  it  againe,  contributions 
layde  together,  Sir  Henry  Sidney,  then  Lord 
Deputy,  proffered  £20,  lands,  and  £100  in 
money,  others  followed  after  their  abilities  and 
devotions.  The  name  devised  Master  Ac- 
worth,  Plantolium,  of  Plantagenet  and  Bul- 
lyne  (Boleyn),  but  while  they  disputed  of  a 
convenient  place  for  it,  and  of  other  circum- 
stances, they  let  fall  the  principall." — Cam- 
pion, p.  125. 

"Hardius Willielmus  de  Hardite,  ordinis 

Prsedicatorum — Pemb. 

v  Cogri Henricus  Cogry,  ordinis  Mino- 

rum Pemb.     In  1326  Friar  Henry  Cogery 

of  the  Friars  Minor,  had  an  order  for  40s.  for 
his  expenses  in  going  to  Scotland  on  the  king's 
business Rot.  Cl.  20  Ed.  II.  77. 

w  Gulielmus   Roddiard.  —  Willielmus    de 
Rodyard  .   .  .  qui  in  jure  canonico  solemniter 


incepit — Pemb. 

*  Edmundus  de  Kermerdin. — Was   also  a 
Dominican  or  Friar  Preacher. — Mason's  Hist, 
of  St.  Patrick's,  p.  101. 

y  Divum  Jacobum. — Sanctum  Jacobum. — 
Pemb.   St.  James  of  Compostella  or  Santiago, 
a  favourite  object  of  pilgrimage  at  this  time. 
The  wife  of  Bath  had  not  omitted  to  visit  it. 
— thries  hadde  she  ben  at  Jerusaleme, 
She  hadde  passed  many  a  strange  streme, 
At  Rome  she  hadde  ben,  and  at  Boloine, 
In  Galice  at  Seint  James,  and  at  Coloine. 
Prol.  Cant.  Tales,  1.  465. 

*  O  Conghurs—O' Conor  Offaly.    Ballybo- 
gan  in  Meath,  three  miles  from  Clonard. 

a  Edmundi  Butler. — He  was  buried  at  Gow- 
ran. — Pemb. 

b  Fit  Just — Cox  gives  his  patent  from  a 
Roll  in  Tur.  Lond.  in  these  words,  "  Rex 
concessit  Johanni  Comiti  Louth,  officium  Jus- 
ticiarii  Regis  Hibern.  cum  castris  et  aliis  per- 
tinentiis  durante  beneplacito  percipiendum 
per  annum  ad  Scaccarium  Regis  Dublin. 
500  marcas,  pro  quibus  officium  illud  et  ter- 
ram  custodiet  et  erit  ipse  unus  de  viginti 


99 


who  commenced  Doctor  of  Divinity ;  the  second,  Friar  Henry  Cogry ;  the  third, 
William  Rodiard,  Dean  of  St.  Patrick's,  Dublin,  who  was  the  first  Chancellor 
of  the  University ;  the  fourth,  Edmund  de  Kermerdin.  Mortimer,  the  Justiciary, 
returned  to  England,  leaving  in  his  place  the  Earl  of  Kildare.  Edmund  Butler 
goes  to  England,  and  from  thence  to  St.  James  of  Compostella.  The  bridge  of 
Leighlin  is  built  by  Master  Maurice  Jack,  Canon  of  Kildare. 

1321.  The  O'Conors  sustain  a  great  defeat  at  Balybogan  on  the  pthof  May, 
from  the  men  of  Leinster  and  Meath.     Death  of  Edmund  Butler  at  London. 
John  Birmingham,  Earl  of  Louth,  is  made  Justiciary.     John  Wogan  died. 

1322.  Andrew  Birmingham  and  Nicholas  de  la  Launde,  with  many  others, 
are  killed  by  O'Nolan  on  the  day  of  St.  Michael  (September  29). 

1323.  Truce  for  fourteen  years  between  the  Scots  and  the  English.     John 
D'Arcy,  Justiciary.     John,  the  eldest  son  of  the  Earl  of  Kildare,  died,  aged  9 
years. 


hominibus  ad  arma  cum  tot  equis  coopertis 
continue  durante  custodio  supra  dicto. 

c  Johannes  Wogan — In  1319  Thomas  Fitz 
John  Earl  of  Kildare,  John  de  Birmyngham 
Earl  of  Louethe,  Arnald  le  Poer,  and  John 
Wogan  were  appointed  commissioners  to  in- 
quire into  all  treason  committed  in  Ireland  du- 
ring Bruce's  invasion. — Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  396. 

*  De  la  Lamid. — De  la  Lond. — Pemb.  De 
London — Cox.  De  la  Launde  occurs  com- 
monly in  Calendar.  Rot.  Pat.  &  Cl.  At  this 
year  Marl  burgh  records  the  deaths  of  the  Lord 
Richard  Birmingham,  Lord  of  Athenry,  and 
of  the  Lord  Thomas  Persivall.  The  country 
of  O'Nolan  was  the  barony  of  Forth,  in  the 
county  of  Carlow. 

e  Tnducice. — In  December,  1322.  The  Irish 
nobles  had  been  summoned  to  meet  the  king 
at  Carlisle  on  the  1st  June,  1323.  The  lords 
summoned  were,  Richard  de  Burgh,  Earl  of 
Ulster,  Thomas  Fitz  John,  Earl  of  Kildare, 
William  de  Burgh,  John  de  Barry,  John  le 

o 


Power,  Baron  of  Dungoill,  Arnald  le  Power, 
John  de  Verdoun,  Walter  de  Cusak,  Maurice 
de  Rocheford,  Simon  de  Geneville,  Richard 
le  Waleys.  On  the  1st  of  June  of  this  year 
all  these  lords,  except  Arnald  Power,  had 
notice  that  their  services  would  not  be  re- 
quired in  consequence  of  the  truce.  It  is  to 
be  observed  that  the  king  only  required  the 
services  of  these  Irish  lords,  ad  vadia — Ry- 
mer, vol.  ii.  pp.  501,  523.  Cox,  from  a  re- 
cord in  the  Tower,  says,  that  the  Lord  Justice 
was  to  bring  to  the  king  three  hundred  men 
at  arms,  and  a  thousand  hoblers,  and  six 
thousand  footmen  armed  with  a  keton  (haque- 
ton,  a  quilted  jacket  without  sleeves),  a  sallet 
(a  head  piece),  and  gloves  of  mayl,  besides 
three  hundred  men  at  arms  whom  the  Earl  of 
Ulster  had  undertaken  to  conduct.  For  a  de- 
scription of  the  arms  of  the  Irish,  see  a  Memoir 
on  the  Armour  and  Weapons  of  the  Irish,  by 
Joseph  Cooper  Walker,  printed  with  his  Me- 
moirs of  the  Irish  Bards.  Dublin,  1786. 
2 


IOO 

1324.  Obiit  Nicholaus  Genevilef,  heres  Simonis  Gcn[evile].    Morinag  bourn 
et  vaccarum. 

1325.  Ricardus  Lederedh,  episcopus  Ossoriensis,  citavit  Aliciam  Ketil1,  ut 
se  purgaret  de  heretica  pravitate ;  quae  magias  convicta  est,  nam  certo  compro- 
batum  est,  quendam  demonem  incubum  (nomine  Robin  Artisson)  concubuisse 
cum  ea,  cui  ipsa  obtulerat  novem  gallos  rubeosJ,  apud  quendem  pontem  lapideum 
in  quadravia ;  item  inter  sacra  agenda  inter  completorium  et  ignitegium,  ipsa 
scopis  purgaret  Kilkeniae  plateos  sordes  detulitque  vertento  ad  domum  Gulielmi 
Utlawek  filii  sui,  ubi  conjurando  dixit,  "  tota  felicitas1  Kilkenias  veniat  in  domum 
hanc."     Hujus  impietatis  participes  invente  sunt  plures  alias,  ut  Betronillam  de 
Midia,  cum  filia  Basilia.     Episcopus  earn  mulctavit  pecunia,  coegitque  dejurare 
sortilegia;  postea  vero,  ejusdem  criminis  iterum  convicta,  cum  Basilia  fugit™, 
nee  usque  exinde  unquam  apparuit.    Petronilla  Kilkeniae  comburitur,  quae  cum 
jam  moritura  esset,  affirmavit  predictum  Gulielmum  eque  mereri  mortem  atque 
se,  quod  per  annum  integrum  et  diem,  gesset  nudo  corpore  zonam  diaboli.    Unde 
statim  episcopi  jussu  captus  est,  et  carceri  inclusus,  ubi  circa  duos  menses"  deten- 
tus  est ;  cui  assignati  sunt  2  ministri,  quibus  preceptum0  ut  ne  alloquerentur,  nisi 
semel  quotidie,  nee  comederent  aut  biberent  cum  eo ;  tandem  favorep  Arnoldi 
Poer  senescalli  Kilkeniae  liberatus  est.     Dedit  autem  eidem  Arnaldo  magnam 
sumam  pecuniaa,  ut  is  episcopum  in  carcerem  conjiceret,  quod  et  effectum  est, 
detentusque  episcopus  ad  3  menses.     Inter  res  Aliciae  inventa  est  liostia,  in  qua 
nomen  diaboli  inscriptum  erat,  preterea  pixis  quasdam  in  qua  unguentum,  quo 

ungere 

f  Genevile — He  was  buried  apud  praedica-  Kiteler  was  sheriff  of  the  liberty  of  Kilkenny 

tores   de   Trym Pemb.     Who   adds,  that  in  1302 — Rot.  Pat.  31  Ed.  I.  3. 

there  was  a  great  storm  on  the  night  of  the  J  Gallos  rubeos.  —  Campion  adds,  and  nine 

Epiphany  (Jan.  6).  peacockes  eyes. 

(  Marina. — Walsingham  does  not  notice  any  k  Gulielmi  Utlawe.  —  William  Utlawe,  or 

disease  amongst  the  cattle  in  England  in  this  Outlawe,  of  Kilkenny,  was  a  man  of  very  great 

year,  but  says  that  1325  and  1326  were  so  wealth.     In  1302  the  large  sum  of  £3000  was 

hot  that  rivers  were  dried  up,  and  that  many  found  buried  in  his  house,  which  he  alleged 

wild  and  tame  animals  died  of  thirst.  was  the  property  of  Adam  le  Blund  of  Callan, 

h  Ricardus  Lettered — A  Franciscan  friar  of  with  whom  he  seems  to  have  been  connected. 

London,  Bishop  of  Ossory  from  1 318  to  1 360.  He  seems  to  have  been  a  clothier  ;  at  least,  in 

— Harris'  Ware's  Bps.,  p.  408.  1311  Sir  William  de  Caunteton  gave  him  an 

'  Ketil — Ketyll. — Pembridge.    William  le  acknowledgment  for   £1.  4s.   \0d.  for  cloth 


101 

1324.  Died  Nicholas   Geneville,    heir  of   Simon   Geneville.     A   murrain 
amongst  oxen  and  the  cows. 

1325.  Richard  Ledred,  Bishop  of  Ossory,  cited  Alice  Ketil  to  clear  herself 
of  heresy ;  she  was  convicted  of  magic,  for  it  was  surely  proved  that  a  certain 
demon  incubus  (named  Robin  Artisson)  had  lain  with  her,  to  whom  she  had 
offered  nine  red  cocks,  at  a  certain  stone  bridge  at  the  cross  roads ;  and  also  at 
prayer  time  between  compline  and  curfew,  she  swept  the  streets  of  Kilkenny 
with  brooms,  and,  as  she  swept,  brought  the  dirt  to  the  house  of  William  Outlaw, 
her  son,  where  she  said,  in  conjurations,  "  may  all  the  luck  of  Kilkenny  come 
to  this  house."     Many  other  women  are  found  to  have  been  partakers  of  this 
impiety,  as  Petronilla  of  Meath,  with  her  daughter  Basilia.    The  bishop  imposed 
a  fine  upon  her,  and  compelled  her  to  forswear  witchcraft ;  but  afterwards,  being 
again  convicted  of  the  same  crime,  she  fled  with  Basilia,  nor  did  she  ever  appear 
again  after  that  time.     Petronilla  of  Meath  is  burned  at  Kilkenny,  and  as  she  was 
dying  she  declared  that  the  before-named  William  deserved  death  as  much  as 
she  did,  for  that  for  a  year  and  a  day  he  had  carried  round  his  naked  body  the 
devil's  girdle.     Upon  this,  he  was  immediately  taken  by  the  order  of  the  bishop, 
and  shut  up  in  prison,  where  he  was  detained  about  two  months ;  there  were 
assigned  to  him  two  servants,  who  had  orders  to  speak  to  him  only  once  a  day, 
and  not  to  eat  or  drink  with  him ;  at  last  he  was  set  at  liberty  by  the  interest  of 
Arnold  Power,  Seneschall  of  Kilkenny.     But  to  the  same  Arnold  he  gave  a  large 
sum  of  money  to  throw  the  bishop  into  prison,  which  was  done,  and  the  bishop 
was  kept  there  three  months.     Amongst  the  goods  of  Alice  was  found  a  Host,  on 
which  the  name  of  the  Devil  was  inscribed,  besides  a  pix  and  an  ointment  therein 

with 

bought  from  him  at  Kilkenny — Rot.  Pat.  31  the  first  person  that  ever  was  known  to  suffer 

Ed.  I.  3,  Rot.  Pat.  3  Ed.  II.  226,  3  &  4  Ed.  II.  for  that  crime  in  Ireland — Harris'  Ware's 

64,  65.  Bps.,  p.  408. 

Tola  felidtas — Campion  has  turned  these  "  Duos  menses.  —  Per  octo   septimanas  et 

words  into  verse,  (aut?)  novem  in  castro  Kilkenny — Pemb. 

To  the  house  of  William,  my  sonne,  °  Quibus  preceptum. — Decreto  Episcopi. — 

Hye  all  the  wealth  of  Kilkenny  towne.  Pemb. 

m  Fu%it — John  Clynn,  who  was  a  fryar  at  p  Faoore — On  the  25th  of  January,   1325, 

that  time  in  Kilkenny,  places  these  events  in  Roger  Outlawe,  Prior  of  St.  John  of  Jerusa- 

1324,  and  says  that  the  Lady  Alice  suffered  lem,   Sir  William  de  Druhull,   Sir  Roger  de 

death  for  heresy,  and  observes  that  she  was  Pembrok,    Fulco   de   Fraxineto,    John    Fitz 


102 


ungere  solebat  trabem  quandam,  id  est  coultree,  qua  peruncta  Alicia  cum  suis, 
illi  inequitans  fercbatur  quocumque  voluit  per  mundum,  sine  lesione  aut  Jmpedi- 
mento.  Quia  igitur  res  tarn  stupenda  fuit,  citata  est  Petronille  Alicise  Dublinium'' ; 
quas  cum  petisset  ut  dies  constitueretur  quo  se  purgaret,  dicto  crastino,  interim 
a  suis  absconditur,  ventoque  favente  in  Angliarn  defertur.  Gulielmus  Outlawe 
interum  carceri  inclusus,  et  tandem  magnatum  precibus  liberatus,  ea  tamen  lege 
ut  templumr  Kilkeniae  plumbo  cooperiret,  quedam  in  pauperes  erogaret. 

1326.  Ad  pentecosten  parliamentum8  apud  Kilkenniam  ad  quod  venitRicar- 
dus  Ultoniae  tametsi  infirmus,  ubi  magno  convivio  magnates  excepit,  et  paulo 
post  obiit*  apud  Athesill,  cui  successit  Gulielmus  de  Burgo. 

1327.  Oritur  contentiou  inter  Mauri tium  fitz  Thomse  et  Arnoldum  Poer, 

adlierebant 


Richard  Lercedekne,  Henry  deValle,  Richard 
de  Rupeforti,  Tankard  Lercedekne,  Wal- 
ter de  Rupeforti,  Henry  de  Druhull  and  John 
de  Pembrok,  passed  a  bond  for  £1000  ster- 
ling to  Richard  Bishop  of  Ossory.  This 

bond  was  paid Rot.  Cl.  18  Ed.  II.  50,  51. 

Was  this  bail  bond  for  William  Outlawe,  or 
for  Arnold  Power? 

q  Dublinium — Pembridge  says,  "  Coram 
Domino  Decano  Ecclesise  Sancti  Patricii  ad 
majorem  favorem  habendum."  William  Rod- 
yard,  Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Dublin, 
was  then  Dean  of  St.  Patrick's,  he  was  Doc- 
tor of  the  Canon  Law,  and  was  probably  Com- 
missary of  the  Archbishop,  to  whom  Alice 
Ketil  may  have  appealed. 

In  the  preceding  year  Archbishop  Bykenor 
had  been  sent  as  ambassador  into  France 
( Walsingham),  and  as  commissioner  with  full 
powers  into  Aquitaine.  He  was  now  in  dis- 
grace with  the  king,  who  wrote  to  the  Pope  to 
request  his  removal  from  the  archbishoprick, 
charging  him  with  treasonably  surrendering 
the  Castle  of  Reoulle  in  Aquitaine,  with  having 
celebrated  Mass  when  he  was  excommunicated, 
with  having  furnished  no  account  of  the  money 


which  came  into  his  hands  when  he  was  Jus- 
ticiary of  Ireland,  and  with  having  given  the 
lie  to  Hugh  le  Despenser,  and  said  that  he 
would  fight  him,  if  it  were  not  for  his  dignity 
and  his  order. — Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  600.  The 
Archbishop  was  with  Queen  Isabella  at  the 
taking  of  Bristol — Ibid.  p.  646. 

T  Templum. — Ecclesiam  Beata?  Marise  Kil- 
kenniae. — Pemb. 

s  Parliamentum. — The  only  record  of  this 
parliament  is  the  following  entry,  "  Rex,  re- 
citat  quod  communitas  tocius  comitatus  Tip- 
pararensis  nuper  in  Parliamento  apud  Kil- 
kenny concessit  pro  felcnibus  et  rebellibus  in 
partibus  illis  expugnandis  quoddam  auxilium, 
quod  certis  racionibus  Rex  concessit  Johanni 
de  Bermynghain  comiti  Louth,  assignat  vice- 
comitem  dicti  comitatus,  Galfridum  de  Pren- 
dregast,  et  Johannem  de  Loundres  ad  assiden- 
dum  homines  comitatus  praedicti,  &c.  Kilkenny, 
15  Julii Rot.  Pat.  20  Ed.  II.  22. 

1  Obiit — On  the  5th  of  August  writs  issued 
to  Matthew  de  Bathe,  Master  Walter  Wyot 
and  Hugh  de  Clynton,  ordering  them  on  their 
allegiance  to  detain  until  further  orders  all 
money,  jewels,  vessels  of  silver,  and  all  other 


io3 

with  which  she  used  to  besmear  a  beam,  that  is,  a  coulter,  and  when  it  was  so 
besmeared,  Alice,  with  her  comrades,  mounting  upon  it,  as  on  a  horse,  was 
carried  whithersoever  she  wished  through  the  world,  without  hurt  or  hindrance. 
And  because  the  thing  was  so  stupendous,  Alice,  on  the  evidence  of  Petronilla, 
was  again  cited  to  Dublin ;  and  when  she  had  petitioned  that  a  day  should  be 
appointed  for  clearing  herself,  and  the  next  day  was  fixed  on,  meanwhile  she  is 
concealed  by  her  friends,  and  the  wind  being  fair,  she  sails  to  England.  William 
Outlaw  is  again  shut  up  in  prison ;  at  length  he  was  set  at  liberty,  at  the  entrea- 
ties of  the  lords,  but  on  condition  that  he  should  cover  a  church  at  Kilkenny 
with  lead,  and  give  something  to  the  poor. 

1326.  At  Whitsuntide,  a  parliament  was  held  at  Kilkenny;  Richard  Earloi' 
Ulster  went  to  it,  although  he  was  ill,  and  entertained  the  lords  there  at  a  great 
feast ;  he  died  shortly  after  at  Athassell,  and  was  succeeded  by  William  de  Burgh. 

1327.  A  quarrel  arises  between  Maurice  Fitz  Thomas  and  Arnold  Power, 

Lord 


goods  and  chattels  in  their  hands,  belonging 
to  the  late  Richard  Earl  of  Ulster,  who  died 
in  the  king's  debt.  —  Rot.  Cl.  20  Ed.  II.  15. 
And  on  the  14th  of  August,  Henry  Thrapes- 
ton  had  an  order  for  100  marks  for  the  pay- 
ment of  men  at  arms  and  hobellars,  who  were 
to  go  with  JohnD'Arcy,  Justiciary,  and  Roger 
Outlawe,  Prior  of  St.  John's  of  Jerusalem, 
Chancellor  of  Ireland,  who  were  to  proceed 
to  Ulster  to  take  into  the  king's  hands  the 
castles  and  lands  of  Richard  Earl  of  Ulster 
deceased,  to  make  extents  thereof,  to  establish 
peace  "in  terris  guerrinis,"  to  take  hostages 
for  keeping  the  peace  both  from  English  and 
Irish,  and  to  appoint  sheriffs  and  other  offi- 
cers.— Ibid.  47. 

At  this  time  sheriffs  were  appointed  for 
the  counties  of  Down  and  Newtown,  of  the 
county  of  Koulrath  (Coleraine)  and  of  the 
county  of  Carrickferg  us  and  Antrim. — Rot. 
Pat.  20  Ed.  II.  7,  8,  9. 

The  earl  had  also  castles  in  Connaught, 


Limerick,  Tipperary,  and  Kildare  (Cl.  20 
Ed.  II.)  He  was  also  Lord  of  Ratoath. 

u  Contentio.—On  the  28th  of  June,  1325, 
writs  were  issued  to  Arnald  le  Poer  and  to 
Maurice  Fitz  John,  ordering  them  to  desist 
from  levying  men  at  arms  and  foot  soldiers 

for  the  purpose  of  attacking  each  other 

Rot.  Cl.  18  Ed.  II.  99,  100.  July  14,  1326, 
Maurice  Fitz  Thomas  and  John  Fitz  Peter  le 
Poer  had  permission  until  St.  Andrew's  Day 
(December  1)  to  treat  with  the  felons  of  their 
separate  families,  surnames  and  follovvings; 
and  the  sheriffs  of  Cork,  Waterford,  Lime- 
rick and  Tipperary,  were  ordered  not  to  arrest 
said  felons — Pat.  20  Ed.  11.20,  21.  Arnold 
Power  was  probably  in  England. 

On  the  12th  of  December  the  king  com- 
mands the  sheriffs  of  Cork,  Limerick,  Tip- 
perary, and  Waterford,  to  make  proclamation 
that  no  one  should  join  the  English  and  Irish 
nobles  who  had  sworn  and  confederated  to- 
gether for  the  purpose  of  attacking  the  king's 


104 

adherebant  Mauritio  dominus  Butler,  Gulielmus  Brimingliam,  Arnoldov  vero 
les  Burkeines,  quorum  plures  interfecit  Mauritius,  et  alios  fugavit  in  Connacia. 
Post  Michaelem  vero  quod  Arnoldus  venit  in  subsidium  Burkeines,  et  Mauri- 
tium  in  comitiis  vocaverat  Rimour3ew.  Mauritius  cum  Butler  et  Brimingliam 
(collecto  exercitu)  depopulatur  regionem  Arnold!  in  Ofathx;  itidem  ejusdem 
possessiones  in  Momonia,  Ossoriay,  et  Kenles  Brimingliam  combussit,  adeo  ut 
Arnoldus  cum  Barone  de  Domill  coactus  sit  Waterfordiam  confugere;  ubi 
mansit  donee  Justic.2  et  alii  diem  huic  rei  finiendse  dixerunt,  quern  minime 
servavit  Arnoldus,  qui  in  Dublinium  profectus,  in  Angliam  navigavit;  quo 
absente  hostesa  omnia  sua  depredati  sunt,  et  vastarunt,  eoque  venerent,  ut  cum 
exercitu  ut  civitates  ab  illis  timentes  se  muniebant ;  quibus  rebus  intellects  illi 
regiis  magistratibus  significabant,  se  Kilken.  ventures  ad  se  purgandum,  nihil 
se  contra  regem  aut  regias  possessiones  tantavisse.  Ad  parliamentum  venerunt 
Conel  Kildarise  Justic.  Rogerus  Outlawe,  Cancellarius  Hibernian,  Prior  de  Kil- 

mainam, 


subjects;  and  Maurice  Fitz  Thomas,  John  de 
Bermyngham,  Earl  of  Loueth,  John  Fitz 
David  de  Barry,  Arnald  le  Poer,  and  William 
de  Bermyngham  were  ordered  not  to  consent 
to  such  confederacy,  or  to  aid  them  in  any 
way.- Cl.  20  Ed.  II.  60,  61. 

v  Arnoldo.  —  Arnold  Poer,  Maurice  Fitz 
Thomas,  James  le  Butiller,  and  William  Ber- 
mingeham,  were  amongst  the  Irish  nobles  to 
whom,  on  the  13th  of  February,  Edward  III. 
sent  letters  announcing  his  accession  and  the 
appointment  of  Thomas  Fitz  John,  Earl  of 
Kildare,  as  his  Justiciary  of  Ireland — Rymer, 
vol.  ii.  p.  688.  It  appears  from  Walsingham 
that  Edward  II.  had  at  one  time  an  intention 
of  taking  refuge  in  this  country.  Although 
the  reign  of  Edward  III.  is  reckoned  in  Eng- 
land from  January  25th,  the  rolls  in  Ireland 
seem  to  have  been  carried  on  in  the  name  of 

Edward  II.  to  May,  1327 Calend.  Rot.  Pat. 

Cl.  20  Ed.  II.  Maurice  Fitz  Thomas,  the 
Earl  of  Louth,  James  le  Botiller,  Maurice 


de  Rocheford,  and  John  Power,  Baron  of 
Donoil,  refused  to  acknowledge  the  Earl  of 
Kildare,  as  Justiciary,  up  to  July  16,  on  which 
day  Edward  III.  sent  them  letters  depreca- 
tory.— Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  710.  They  proba- 
bly held  out  until  the  21st  of  September,  when 
the  murder  of  Edward  II.  made  Edward  III. 
their  rightful  king. 

w  Rimoura — Rymours  were  included  in  the 
list  of  the  Irish  Mimi,  whom  in  1435  William 
Lawles,  Marshall  of  the  Liege  English  Mimi 
of  Ireland,  was  authorized  to  arrest,  on  pre- 
tence that  they  acted  as  guides  to  the  Irish 
enemy.  Were  they  better  actors  and  more 
popular  than  the  English  ?  Lawles'  commis- 
sion is  thus  given  :  '•  Rex,  Wiilielmum  Lawles 
Marescallum  Ligeorum  mimorum  Hiberniae 
recitat  quod  Hibernici  mimi,  ut  Clarsaghours 
(harpers),  tympanours  (drummers),  crow- 
thores  (fiddlers?)  kerraghers  (gamblers),  ry- 
mours,  skelaghes  (story  tellers),  bardes  etalii 
veniunt  inter  Anglicos  Hibernian  exercentes 


I05 

Lord  Butler  and  William  Birmingham  take  the  part  of  Maurice,  but  the  Burks 
take  Arnold's,  Maurice  killed  many  of  them,  and  drove  the  rest  into  Con- 
naught.  After  Michaelmas,  Arnold  came  to  the  assistance  of  the  Burkes,  and 
he  had  at  an  assembly  called  Maurice  a  Rhymer.  Maurice  with  Butler  and  Bir- 
mingham (having  assembled  an  army),  plunders  the  country  of  Arnold  in  Offa; 
Birmingham  also  burned  his  possessions  in  Munster,  Ossory,  and  Kells,  so  that 
Arnold,  with  the  Baron  of  Donoil,  was  forced  to  fly  to  Waterford ;  he  staid  there 
until  the  Justiciary  and  others  fixed  a  day  for  settling  these  affairs,  which  day 
Arnold  did  not  keep,  but  went  to  Dublin  and  sailed  to  England ;  in  his  absence, 
his  enemies  plundered  and  laid  waste  every  thing  belonging  to  him,  and  it  came 
to  this,  that  the  towns,  through  dread  of  them,  strengthened  themselves  with  gar- 
risons; when  this  was  perceived  they  (Maurice's  party}  signified  to  the  royal 
officers  that  they  would  come  to  Kilkenny,  for  the  purpose  of  clearing  them- 
selves of  having  attempted  anything  against  the  king  or  his  possessions.  There 
came  to  this  parliament  the  Earl  of  Kildare,  Justiciary,  Roger  Outlawe,  Chan- 
cellor 


minstralcias  et  artes  suos,  postmodumque  va- 
dunt  ad  Hibernicos  inimicos  et  deveniunt  in- 
ductores  ipsorum  super  eosdem  ligeos  Regis, 
contra  formam  statutorum  Kilkenniae  (40 
Ed.  III.)  assignavit  ad  dictos  Clarsaghours 

&c.  capiendos."  Dub.  Ap.  1 Rot.  Pat.  13 

H.  VI.  86. 

In  the  account  of  John  Andowe,  Procurator 
of  the  Economy  of  St.  Patrick's  for  the  year 
1509  (Mason's  St.  Patrick's,  Append.  No. 
xvii.)  are  charged  iii.s.  id.  for  Thomas  Mayowe 
ludenti  cum  vii  luminibus  at  Christmas  and 
Candlemas,  and  iv#.  \\\d.  for  the  Players  cum 
Angelo  magno  et  parvo  ac  dracone  at  Whit- 
suntide. See  also  Walker's  Hist.  Essay  on 
the  Irish  Stage,  Transactions  R.  I.  A.,  vol.  ii. 

*  Ofath — Perhaps  the  baronies  of  Iffaand 
Offa  in  Tipperary.  The  Cantred  of  Offath 
was  in  Waterford — Rot.  Pat.  32  Ed.  III. 
15.  Geoffry  Fitz  Robert,  Seneschal  of  Lein- 
ster,  granted  to  the  Priory  of  Kells  in  Ossory, 

IRISH  ARCH.  SOC.  3.  P 


the  ecclesiastical  dues  of  his  lands  in  Offathi 
and  the  chapel  of  his  Castle  of  Kells — Mon. 
Hib.  p.  361. 

y  Ossoria — Et  Kenlys  in  Osseria — Pemb. 
The  Birminghams  seem  to  have  had  some  old 
claim  upon  Kells  in  Ossory.  The  wife  of 
Geoffry  Fitz  Robert,  the  founder  of  the  Priory 
of  St.  Reran  or  B.  M.  V.  of  Kells,  and  the  ori- 
ginal grantee  of  Earl  Richard,  was  Evade  Ber- 
mingham,  and  in  1252  William  de  Berming- 
ham  burned  the  town Mon.  Hib.  p.  362. 

z  Justic — Comes  Kildariae  tune  Justici- 
arius,  Pemb.,  who  says  that  Arnold  sailed  for 
England  about  Candlemas. 

a  Hastes. — There  is  something  wrong  in 
this  sentence,  the  facts  are  thus  given  in  Pern- 
bridge,  "  et  postquam  Arnaldus  transfreta- 
uerat,  dictus  Mauricius  et  le  Botiller  et  do- 
minus  Willielmus  Bermingham  cum  magno 
exercitu  venerunt,  depraedaverunt,  combus- 
serunt  terras  dicti  Arnaldi,  et  propter  mag- 


io6 


mainam,  Nicolaus  Fastoll,  Justic.  in  Banco,  et  alii :  illi  petiverunt  chartam  regis 
de  paceb,  consiliarii  diem  dixerunt  post  pascham,  se  acturos  cum  reliquis  ea  de 
re.  Lagenienses  sibi  regem  fecerunt  Donald  Mac  Muroghc,  qui  totam  Hiber- 
niam  pervagari  constituerat,  et  subjugare ;  hie  Dei  vindicta  captus  est  ab  Henrico 
Traharn,  qui  primum  eum  duxit  ad  Saltum  Salmonum,  ubi  accepit  in  ejus  re- 
demptionemd  i  oo  libras,  dein  ad  castrum  Dubliniai  eum  duxit,  ubi  positus  donee 
deliberari  possit  de  eo.  Interim  Johannes  Wellesley6  cepit  Davidem  Othotill, 
multosque  suorum  occidit.  Adam  Douff,  filius  Gualtcri  DufF,  Lagenius  cog- 
natus  Otothilis,  hereticse  pravitatisf  convictus  est,  quod  negaverat  incarnationem 
Christi,  affirmavitque  non  posse  tres  personas  et  unum  deum,  asseruit  Mariam 
matrem  domini  esse  meritricem,  negavit  mortuorum  resurrectionem ;  asseruitque 
sacras  scripturas  fabulas  esse,  et  sacro  sancta?  apostolicas  sedis  falsitatemg,  qua 

propter 


num  exercitum  quern  duxerant  et  plura  mala 
quae  fecerant>  ministri  Regis  de  ejus  consilio 
timuerunt  quod  obsiderent  civitates,  unde  ci- 
vitates  fecerunt  plures  providentias  et  vigilias 
medio  tempore." 

b  Chartam  regis  de  pace The  following 

curious  lines  of  this  date  quoted  by  Sir  J.  Davis 
(Discovery,  p.  139)  show  that,  in  the  opinion 
of  the  writer,  these  charters  of  peace  were 
given  too  profusely : 

"By  graunting  charters  of  peas, 

To  false  English  withouten  les, 
This  land  shall  be  mich  undoo — 

But  Gossipred  and  alterage, 

And  leesing  of  our  language, 

Have  mickely  hold  there  too." 
These  pardons  were  sometimes  sufficiently 
comprehensive.  In  1358  William  Fitz  John 
Fitz  Maurice  had  pardon  for  robbing  Wil- 
liam ....  of  a  heifer  worth  5s.  ;  Richard 
Englond  of  a  pig  worth  20e?.  ;  Scolastica  .... 
of  two  sheep  worth  20d.}  and  two  falings 
(cloaks)  worth  12rf.,  and  the  tenants  of  the 
Earl  of ....  forty  cows  worth  20  marks, 
and  other  goods  worth  20s.,  and  Raynyld 


More  O'Moldegan  of  forty  cows  worth  10 
marks,  &c — Rot.  Pat.  32  Ed.  III.  9. 

c  Donald  Mac  Murogh — Donaldum  filium 
Arte  Mac  Murgh — Pemb.  Fitzarke  Mac- 
morch  in  Holinshed,  who  agrees  with  Marl- 
burgh  in  saying  that  he  and  Sir  Henry 
Traherne  were  taken  prisoners.  On  July  20, 
1322,  Henry  Traharn  had  an  order  for  ,£40 
for  the  capture  of  Donenald  M'Murghuth 
M'Ueth,  and  for  his  expenses  in  defeating  the 
sept  of  the  M'Murghuthes  in  the  marches  of 
Leinster — Rot.  Cl.  18  Ed.  II.  5.  'Was  the 
same  Donald  taken  twice  by  the  same  Henry 
Traharn?  When  he  was  made  king  he  re- 
solved to  place  his  standard  within  two  miles 
of  Dublin,  and  then  to  go  through  the  whole 
lands  of  Ireland — Pemb.  Cox  says  that  Sir 
Henry  Traherne  and  Walter  de  Valle,  who 
took  him  prisoner,  had  £100  reward  for  their 
pains. 

d  Redemptionem De  raunsoma — Pemb. 

This  means  that  the  Crown  bought  the  pri- 
soner, instead  of  allowing  the  captor  to  make 
his  bargain  for  him  with  his  friends. 

e  Johannes  Wellesley. — In  1334,  Sir  John 


107 

cellor  of  Ireland,  the  Prior  of  Kilmainham,  Nicholas  Fastolf,  Justice  in  the  King's 
Bench,  and  others :  Maurice's  party  requested  the  king's  charter  of  peace,  the 
councillors  appointed  a  day  after  Easter  when  they  should  treat  about  this  matter 
with  the  rest  of  the  council.  The  men  of  Leinster  made  a  King  for  themselves, 
to  wit,  Donald  M'Morough,  who  had  resolved  to  go  through  all  Ireland  and 
subdue  it ;  he  by  the  vengeance  of  God  was  taken  prisoner  by  Henry  Traharn, 
who  first  brought  him  to  Leixlip,  where  he  received  a  hundred  pounds  for  his 
ransom,  and  then  brought  him  to  the  Castle  of  Dublin,  where  he  was  placed 
until  his  case  should  be  decided.  In  the  meanwhile  John  Wellesley  took  David 
O'Toole  and  slew  many  of  his  men.  Adam  Duff,  son  of  Walter  Duff  a  Leinster 
man,  of  the  sept  of  the  O'Tooles,  was  convicted  of  heresy,  for  he  had  denied  the 
incarnation  of  Christ,  and  the  Trinity,  and  the  chastity  of  the  Blessed  Virgin, 
and  the  Resurrection  of  the  dead ;  and  asserted,  that  the  Holy  Scriptures  were 
fables,  and  that  the  holy  apostolical  See  was  false ;  wherefore  by  a  decree  of  a 

civil 


de  Wellesleye  had  an  order  for  £24  for  his 
services,  labour,  and  expenses  in  keeping  Dun- 
lovan  (Dunlavan,  Co.  Wicklow)  against  the 

O'Tooles Rot.  Cl.  8  Ed.  III.  47. 

(  Heret icas pravitatis. — In  1226,  Henry  III. 
issued  a  writ  to  the  Justiciary,  ordering  that 
persons  continuing  excommunicated  for  forty 
days,  should  be  taken  in  Ireland  by  a  capias 
excommunicatum,  upon  the  certificate  of  the 
bishop  or  archbishop,  as  was  the  custom  in 
England. —  Rot.  Cl.  11  Hen.  III.  in  Tur. 
Lond.  The  goods  of  convicted  heretics  were 
forfeited  to  the  king.  By  appeal,  however, 
to  the  Pope  both  these  penalties  were  avoided. 
Thus  in  1344,  William  Lyn,  late  Vicar  of 
Any,  in  the  diocese  of  Emly,  and  David 
Browery,  who  had  been  convicted  super  he- 
retica  pravitate  by  William  Bishop  of  Emly, 
and  whose  goods,  to  the  value  of  £28. 0*.  1  \d., 
had  been  seized  by  the  sheriff  of  Limerick, 
had  an  order  for  their  restitution  on  giving 
security  to  prosecute  an  appeal  to  the  Apos- 


tolic See — Rot.  Cl.  18  Ed.  III.  95.  And  in 
1377>  Patrick  Cathassagh,  who  had  been 
charged  with  defamation  by  John,  Abbot  of 
Degty  (Bective),  in  the  Court  Christian,  be- 
fore the  Archdeacon  of  Meath,  and  had  been 
excommunicated,  complained  that  he  had  been 
arrested  and  imprisoned  by  the  seneschal  of 
Meath,  on  notice  of  his  excommunication 
having  been  served  by  the  bishop,  notwith- 
standing his  appeal  to  Rome,  "  cum  nullus  nisi 
per  breve  Regis  in  hujusmodi  casu  capi  debet," 
and  had  an  order  on  the  seneschal  for  his  re- 
lease on  his  giving  sureties. — Rot.  Cl.  51 
Ed.  III.  72. 

g  Apostolicce  sedis  falsitatem — For  an  ex- 
position of  some  opinions  on  this  subject,  which 
were  preached  at  this  period,  and  for  a  defence 
of  the  Roman  claims,  see  the  judgment  passed 
by  John  XXII.  on  Marsilius  of  Padua  and 
John  de  Janduno,  given  by  Martene.  The 
saur.  Anecdot.,  vol.  ii.  p.  641,  et  sequent.,  and 
Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  719. 


P2 


io8 


propter  per  decretum  civile11  die  Lunae  post  octa.  Pascliae  combustus  est  apud 
le  Hogges1  Dublinias. 

1 328.  Die  martis  paschas  Thomas  fitz  Johann.  comes  Kild.  et  Just,  obiit ;  suc- 
cessit  Justitiarius  frater  Rogerus  Outlaw,  prior  de  Kilmainam.  Condempnatur 
David  OtothilP,  Nicholao  Factonk  et  Elia  Ashborin1  Just,  in  Banco,  suspenditur. 
Mauritius  fitz  Thomas1"  colligit  exercitum  in  le  Burkens  et  les  Poer.  Gulielmus 
de  Burgo,  comes  Ultoniae,  recipit  dignitatem  equestrem  et  dominium  suum  ad 
Pentecosten.  Jacobus  Butler  duxit  uxorem  filiam  comitis  Herfordia3n,  et  creatur 
comes  Ormonias0,  qui  prius  vocabatur  Tiparp.  Comes  Ultoniaa  Bervicum  ad 
sponsaliai  it ;  post  quae  Robertus  Brus,  predictus  comes,  comes  de  Mcnteth  et  alii 
magnates  Scotiae  appulerunt  Gregfergus,  Justitiaroque  et  consiliariis  legabant,  se 
pace  acturos  venire  inter  Hiberniam  et  Scotiam,  atque  ad  viride  castrum  obviam 

ventures, 


11  Per  decretum  civile. — Per  decretum  Epis- 
copi. — Perab.  For  the  form  of  proceeding  in 
these  cases  of  heresy,  see  Blackstone,  b.  iv.  c.  4. 

'  Le  Hogges. — Now  College-green,  near  the 
nunnery  of  St.  Mary  de  Hogges.  Although 
Pembridge  gives  this  tragedy  under  the  date 
of  1327,  he  says  that  it  took  place  on  the  Mon- 
day after  the  Octaves  of  Easter  (April  11), 
A.  D.,  MCCCXXVIII. 

J  David  Otothill "  David  O'Tothill,  fortis 

latro,  inimicus  Regis,  succensor  ecclesiarum, 
et  destructor  populi,  ductus  fuit  de  castro 
Dublinise  ad  Tholoneum  civitatis  the  [Thol- 
sel]  coram  Nicholao  Fastoll  et  Elia  Ashe- 
bourne  Justitiariis  in  Banco,  qui  Justitiarii 
dederunt  ei  judicium  quod  primo  traheretur 
ad  caudas  equorum  per  medium  civitatis  us- 
que ad  furcas,  et  postea  suspenderetur  in  pa- 
tibulo,  quod  et  factum  est,"  says  Pembridge, 
who  seems  to  speak  with  gratified  animosity. 

*  Nicholao  Facton — Aug.  14,  1326,  Nicho- 
las Fastolf  had  an  order  for  £20  as  his  fee 
for  six  months,  for  holding  Pleas  Justitiarum 
Hibernia?  sequentia — Rot.  Cl.  20  Ed.  11.45. 

1  Elia   Ashborin Elias  Asshebourn  had 


an  order  for  £10,  being  his  fee  for  three 
months  as  Chief  Justice,  dated  Molynger, 
Feb.  29, 1343.— Rot.  Cl.  17  and  18,  Ed.  III.  1. 

m  Mauritius  Fitz  Thames — June  28,  1328, 
the  king  issued  writs  to  John  de  Bermyngham, 
Earl  of  Louth,  Arnold  Poer,  Walter  Fitz 
William  de  Burgh,  Jones  le  Botiller,  Maurice 
Fitz  Thomas  and  John  Fitz  Robert  Poer, 
strictly  enjoining  them  under  pain  of  forfei- 
ture not  to  assemble  men,  or  to  invade  any 
lands,  or  in  any  way  to  break  the  peace,  de- 
claring that  he  was  ready  to  do  them  full  and 
speedy  justice  through  his  justiciary  and  other 
officers. — Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  744. 

"  Comitis  Herfordice Elenor,  second 

daughter  of  Humphry  de  Bohun,  fourth  Earl 
of  Hereford  and  Essex,  by  Elizabeth  his  wife, 
seventh  daughter  of  Edward  1. — Archdall's 
Peerage,  Mountgarret. 

o  Comes  OrmonicE. — "Post  quindenam  S. 
Michaelis  tenuit  Rex  Parliamentum  apud 
Sarum,  in  quo  fecit  tres  Comites,  scilicet  D. 
Johannem  de  Eltham,  fratrem  suum,  Comi- 
tem  Cornubise,  et  dominum  Rogerum  de 
Mortuo  mari  Comitem  Marchiae  et  Wallia?,  et 


109 


civil  court  he  was  burned  on  the  Monday  after  the  Octaves  of  Easter  at  the 
Hogges  in  Dublin. 

1328.  On  the  Tuesday  of  Easter  week,  Thomas  Fitz  John,  Earl  of  Kildare 
and  Justiciary,  died;  Friar  Roger  Outlawe,  Prior  ofKilmainham,  succeeded  as 
Justiciary.  David  O'Toole  being  condemned  by  Nicholas  -^Wo/fandElias  Ash- 
bourn,  Justices  of  the  Bench,  is  hanged.  Maurice  Fitz  Thomas  collects  an  army 
against  the  Burkes  and  the  Powers.  William  de  Burgh,  Earl  of  Ulster,  is 
knighted  at  Whitsuntide,  and  has  livery  of  his  lordship.  James  Butler  married 
the  daughter  of  the  Earl  of  Hereford,  and  is  created  Earl  of  Ormonde ;  he  was 
previously  called  Earl  of  Tipperary.  The  Earl  of  Ulster  goes  to  Berwick  to 
the  espousals ;  after  which,  Robert  Bruce,  the  aforesaid  Earl,  the  Earl  of  Men- 
teith,  and  other  lords  of  Scotland,  landed  at  Carrickfergus,  and  sent  word  to  the 
Justiciary  and  the  Council  that  they  came  to  make  peace  between  Ireland  and 
Scotland,  and  that  they  would  meet  him  at  Green  Castle ;  but  when  the  Justiciary 

and 


Pincernam  Hiberniae  Comitem  de  Ormonde." 
Walsingham,  an.  1328.  On  1st  March,  1327, 
Edward  III.  had  directed  a  writ  to  the  Justi- 
ciary and  Chancellor  of  Ireland,  "qui  nunc 
sunt,  vel  qui  pro  tempore  erunt  vel  eorum  lo- 
cum tenentibus,"  stating  that  James  le  Botiller 
of  Ireland  had  claimed  the  prisage  of  wine  in 
Ireland,  "unde  cognomen  suum  gerit,  et  ipse 
et  antecessores  sui  de  tempore,  quo  non  extat 
memoria,  gerebant,  viz.  de  qualibet  navi  vinis 
venalibus  carcata  ad  civitates  Dublin,  Drothda 
Waterford,  Cork  et  Lymeryk  veniente,  unum 
dolium  vini  ante  malum,  et  unum  aliud  retro, 
pro  quadraginta  solidis  mercatoribus,  quorum 
vina  illafuerint,  solvendis."  The  king  orders 
this  prisage  to  be  restored,  if  it  was  taken  into 
his  father's  hands  on  the  death  of  Edmund  le 
Botiller,  and  if  not,  orders  inquiry — Rymer, 
vol.  ii.  p.  695. 

From  the  deprecatory  letter  directed  to 
James  le  Botiller,  and  dated  July,  1327  (see 
note  v.  p.  104),  it  may  be  conjectured  that 
James  Butler's  petition  had  been  addressed  to 


Edward  II.,  and  that  Mortimer  took  advantage 
of  it,  it  would  seem  without  success,  to  en- 
deavour to  conciliate  the  young  Irish  noble. 

p  Tipar — The  first  earldom  of  this  family 
was  that  of  Karrik.  September  1,  1315,  Ed- 
ward II.  conferred  the  castle  and  manor  of 
Karryk  Makgriffyn  and  the  castle  and  manor 
of  Roskre  [Roscrea],  with  all  the  knights  fees, 
advowsons  of  churches,  and  all  other  things  to 
the  same  belonging,  on  Edmund  le  Butiller  and 
his  heirs  for  ever,  "  sub  nomine  et  honore  Co- 
mitis  de  Karrik." — Lynch's  Dignities,  p.  178. 
In  1347,  the  palatinate  of  Tipperary  was 
granted  to  James  Butler,  second  Earl  of  Or- 
mond,  "pro  eo  (says  Edward  III.)  quod  ipse  de 
sanguine  nostro  existit;"  it  was  enjoyed  by  his 
family  until  the  year  1716. — Archdall's  Peer- 
age, Mountgarret. — Lynch's  Dignities,  p.  83. 

q  Sponsalia. — In  consequence  of  the  treaty 
of  Northampton,  David  Prince  of  Scotland 
married  Johanna,  daughter  of  Edward  II.,  at 
Berwick,  12th  of  July,  1328.  — Hailes' An- 
nals, vol.  ii.  p.  163. 


ventures,  qui  cum  venire  defeciscent,  redierunf  in  Scotiam.  Arnaldus  Poer 
accusatur  ab  episcopo  Ossoriensi8  hereticse  pravitatis ;  qui  accersitus*  a  consilio, 
negavit  se  posse  venire  ob  insidias  hostiuni ;  capitur  igitur  et  in  castro  Dubliniae 
custodies  traditur  usque  ad  parliamentum,  quod  fuit  in  niedio  40*.  Quo  tern- 
pore  episcopus  accusavit  etiam  Rogerum  Outlaweu  prio[rem]  de  Kilmainam,  ut 
participem  et  consiliarium  ejus  in  eadem  pravitate.  Rogerus  petiit  a  consilio 
purgacionem,  qua  concessa,  proclamatum  est  per  tres  dies  continues  si  quis  velit 
prosequi  accusationem  ut  adesset,  vero  nemo  apparuit,  Vocatis  igitur  omnibus 
Hiberniae  magnatibus  Dubliniam,  constituantur  6  examinatores,  magister  Guliel- 
mus  Rodiardus,  decanus  S.  Patricii,  Abbas  S.  Thomae,  magister  Elias  Lawles, 
magister  Petrus  Willeby,  coram  quibus  purgatus  est  Rogerus  Outlawe.  In  4* 
moritur  in  castro  Arnaldus  Poer,  diuque  sepultura  caruitv. 

1329.  Post  anuntiacionem  Mariae  parliamentumw  Dubliniae,  ubi  pax  confir- 

mata 


r  Redierunt — Robert  Bruce  came  to  Car- 
rickfergus  for  the  purpose  of  arranging  terms 
of  peace  between  Scotland  and  Ireland ;  the  Jus- 
ticiary omitted  to  meet  him  at  Green  Castle,  he 
therefore  took  leave  (accepit  licentiam)  of  the 
Earl  of  Ulster,  and  returned  to  Scotland  after 
the  Assumption  (August  15). — Pemb.  Lord 
Hailes  does  not  mention  this  visit  of  Robert 
Bruce  to  Ireland.  Pembridge  adds,  that  the 
Earl  of  Ulster  went  to  a  parliament  in  Dub- 
lin, stayed  there  six  days,  where  he  made  a 
great  feast,  and  then  went  into  Connaught. 

*  Episcopo  Ossoriensi — June  18,  1329,  the 
king  complained  to  the  Pope  that  Richard, 
Bishop  of  Ossory,  who  was  bound  by  his  office 
to  promote  peace  and  allay  angry  and  vindic- 
tive passions,  had  fomented  feuds  and  dissen- 
sions amongst  the  nobles  of  Ireland,  "ac  quse- 
dam  alia  in  nostri  prsejudicium  attemptare 
non  expavit,  quae  ad  praesens  ob  certas  causas 
subticemus,"and  when  inquiry  was  about  to  be 
made  into  his  conduct  by  the  king's  officers  in 
Ireland,  had  privately  fled  from  that  country, 
as  if  conscious  of  guilt,  and  had  come  to  the 


king  in  England,  and  when  summoned  to  ap- 
pear before  the  king  and  council  had  secretly 
sailed  away,  unmindful  of  his  oath  of  alle- 
giance. The  king-  therefore,  learning  that 
the  bishop  had  grievously  disturbed  the  peace 
of  Ireland,  and  that  he  proposed  to  go  to  the 
Pope,  and  under  the  veil  of  piety  to  make 
some  suggestions  to  his  Holiness  for  the  pur- 
pose of  exciting  the  Irish  people,  entreats  the 
Pope  not  to  believe  his  representations  against 
his  faithful  subjects,  or  the  statements  of  the 
condition  of  Ireland,  which  the  bishop  may 
make,  "  quasi  ex  zelo  religionis  seu  fidei  ortho- 
doxse  cum  profecto  ad  hoc  ejus  intentio  nulla- 
tenus  dirigatur. " — Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  767.  Did 
the  bishop  intend  to  charge  the  government  of 
Ireland  with  heresy  ?  In  1339,  he  was,  in  his 
turn,  accused  of  heresy  by  his  metropolitan, 
Archbishop  Bykenor,  and  was  driven  to  shelter 
himself  under  an  appeal  to  the  Apostolic  See. — 
Rymer,  vol.  ii.  pp.  810,  1082. 

1  Accersitus — The  account  of  these  trans- 
actions given  by  Pembridge  explains  them 
more  clearly.  He  says  that  the  bishop  having 


Ill 


and  Council  failed  to  come,  they  returned  into  Scotland.  Arnold  Power  is  accused 
by  the  Bishop  of  Ossory  of  heretical  pravity ;  when  he  was  sent  for  by  the  Council 
he  said  that  he  could  not  come  by  reason  of  the  lying  in  wait  of  his  enemies;  he 
is  therefore  arrested  and  placed  in  custody  in  the  Castle  of  Dublin  until  the  par- 
liament, which  was  held  at  Midlent.  At  that  time,  the  Bishop  also  accused 
Roger  Outlawe,  Prior  of  Kilrnainham,  as  Arnold's  counsellor,  and  as  a  partaker 
of  the  same  pravity.  Roger  asked  from  the  Council  an  opportunity  to  clear  him- 
self, which  was  granted ;  and  for  three  successive  days  proclamation  was  made, 
that  if  any  one  wished  to  prosecute  the  accusation  he  should  appear ;  but  no  one 
appeared.  All  the  magnates  of  Ireland  being  assembled  in  Dublin,  six  examiners 
are  appointed,  Master  William  Rodiard,  Dean  of  St.  Patrick's,  the  Abbot  of  St. 
Thomas's,  the  Abbot  of  St.  Mary's,  the  Prior  of  the  Church  of  the  Holy  Trinity, 
Master  Elias  Lawles,  Master  Peter  Willeby,  in  whose  presence  Roger  Outlawe 
was  cleared.  In  Lent,  Arnold  Power  dies  in  the  Castle,  and  was  long  unburied. 
1329.  After  the  Annunciation  B.  M.  V.  (March  25)  there  was  a  parliament 

at 


certified  to  the  council  his  conviction  of  Ar- 
nold Power  of  the  crime  of  heresy,  the  council 
at  his  suit  issued  a  writ  against  Arnold,  who 
was  thereupon  arrested  and  brought  to  Duh- 
lin,  and  a  day  was  appointed  for  the  bishop 
to  appear  and  prosecute,  and  that  the  bishop 
refused  to  come  "  quia  inimici  sui  fuerunt  in- 
sidiantes  ei  in  via."  Arnold  was  therefore  de- 
tained in  custody  to  the  following  parliament. 
u  Rogerum  Outlawe — Pembridge  gives  at 
great  length  this  attack  upon  Roger  Utlaw, 
Prior  of  the  Hospital  of  St.  John  of  Jerusa- 
lem in  Ireland,  Lord  Justice  and  Chancellor 
of  Ireland.  He  says  that  when  no  one  an- 
swered the  proclamation,  calling  upon  any  who 
wished  to  come  and  prosecute,  he  obtained 
a  royal  writ  summoning  majores  Hibernia?, 
viz.,  the  bishops,  abbots,  priors,  and  the  four 
mayors  of  the  the  four  cities,  Dublin,  Cork, 
Lymerick  and  Waterford  and  Drogheda,  and 
also  the  sheriffs  and  seneschals  and  knights  of 
the  counties,  cum  melioribus  liberis  hominibus 


comitatus;  that  six  examiners  were  chosen, 
Master  William  Rodyard,  D.S.P.D.,  the  Ab- 
bot of  St.  Thomas's,  the  Abbot  of  St.  Mary's, 
the  Prior  of  the  Holy  Trinity,  Master  Elias 
Lawles  and  Master  Peter  Willebey,  who  ha- 
ving made  all  persons  cited  come  forward,  and 
examined  every  one  by  himself  on  his  oath, 
pronounced  the  prior  to  be  "  probum  fidelem 
et  zelatorem  fidei  et  paratum  mori  pro  fide — et 
pro  magna  purgationis  suae  solemnitate  dictus 
frater  Rogerus  tenuit  magnum  convivium  om- 
nibus qui  voluerunt  venire. "  At  this  time  Wil- 
liam de  Cloncurry  was  Abbot  of  St.  Thomas, 
William  Payne,  Abbot  of  St.  Mary's,  and  Ro- 
bert de  Gloucester,  Prior  of  the  Holy  Trinity. 
— Mon.  Hib. 

v  Caruit -"  Jacuit  apud  Praedicatores  sine 

sepultura." — Pemb.  In  1304  Eustace  Power 
laid  the  first  stone  of  the  Dominicans.  —  See 
Grace  in  anno. 

"  Parliamentum. — Pembridge  says  that  this 
parliament  was  attended  by  the  Earl  of  Ulster, 


112 


mata  inter  comitcm  Ultonise  et  Mauritium  filium  Thomae.  Magnum  convivium 
celebratum  in  castro,  primum  a  comite  Ultonias,  dein  postridie  a  Mauritio,  in 
Templox  S.  Patricii,  et  dein  Rogerus  Out! awe  apud  Kilraainam.  In  vigilia  Bar- 
tholomaeiy  Johannes  Brimingham  comes  de  Louthz,  occiditur  apud  Balibragan3 
ab  Urgalis,  et  una  cum  eo  Petrus  Brimingliam,  frater  ejus,  et  Robertusb  frater,  et 
Johannes  Brimingham,  films  fratris  Ricardi  domini  de  Anri,  Gulielmus  Finne 
Brimingham,  filius  avunculi  Gulielmi  predicti  domini  de  Anri,  Simon  Bri- 
mingham, films  ejusdem  Willelmi,  Thomas  Berimingham,  filius  Roberti  de 
Connatia,  Petrus  Brimingham,  filius  Jacobi  de  Connortia,  Henricus  Briming- 
ham de  Connatia,  et  Ricardus  Talbott0  de  Malaghide  vir  strenuus  et  200  milites 
c\im  ipsis.  Qua  strage  edita,  Simon  de  Geniviled  cum  suis  invasit  regionem 
Carberi  in  vindictam  injuriarum  sepe  ab  illis  illatarum  Midie  et  antiqui  odii, 
Carberienses6  autem  se  opponentes  ad  76  eorum  trucidarunt.  Ad  festum  Trini- 
tatis  venerunt  Dubliniam  Johannes  et  Gulielmus  Gononf  fratres,  ab  Urgaliis 
petentes,  ut  res  acta  comuni  lege  judicaretur;  cum  vero  Gulielmum  Briming- 
ham venire  intelligerent,  recesseruut.  Die  S.  Laurentii  Thomas  Butler^  invallens 

Ardnorwith 

Maurice  Fitz  Thomas,  the  Earl  of  Louth, 
William  Bermingham,  and  other  lords,  and 
that  amongst  other  things  it  was  then  agreed 
upon,  (in  accordance  with  the  ordinances  of 
Kilkenny  of  the  2nd  of  Ed.  II.  and  the  resolu- 
tions of  Dublin  of  the  17  of  Ed.  II.)  "quod  qui- 
lihet  magnatum  castigaret  parentelam  suam 
et  homines  suos."  The  peace  which  was  then 
confirmed  between  the  Earls  of  Ulster  and 
Desmond  was  not  of  long  duration  ;  in  June, 
1 330,  the  king  warned  them  not  to  persist  in 
assembling  troops  against  each  other,  but  to 


refer  their  complaints  to  him — Rymer,  vol.  ii. 
p.  793. 

x  In  Templo In  those  times  it  was  not 

thought  improper  to  use  churches  for  purposes 
which  we  should  now  think  of  a  merely  civil 
nature.  They  were  the  scenes  of  solemn  ban- 
quets, and  of  parliaments,  knighthood  was 
conferred  in  them,  and  the  debtor  was  bound 
to  discharge  his  bond  by  payment  on  a  certain 


tomb. 

J  Bartholomcei.  —  "  In  vigiliis  S.  Barnabas 
apostoli." — Pemb.  From  the  subsequent  men- 
tion of  Trinity  Sunday,  it  is  plain,  that  this 
fray  occurred  not  on  the  24th  of  August,  but 
on  the  10th  of  June.  Holinshed  confirms 
Pembridge's  date  by  saying  that  this  battle 
was  fought  on  Whitsun  Even,  which  fell  in 
1329  on  June  10. 

z  Comes  de  Louth. — Sir  J.  Davis  from  Clynn 
says,  that  the  men  of  Louth  applied  to  their 
new  earl  the  words  of  Scripture,  "  nolumus 
hunc  regnare  super  nos." 

a  Bulibrugan. —  Now  Bragganstown,  Co. 
Louth. 

b  Robertus. — "  Frater  putativus." — Pemb. 

c  Eicardus  Talbott.  — In.  1335,  Sir  Rery 
Fitz  Rery  was  indebted  to  the  king  £26  2s.  Id. 
for  the  arrears  of  rent  for  the  lands  of  Mo- 
laghide,  which  were  in  the  king's  hands  during 
the  minority  of  the  heir  of  Richard  Talbot  of 


at  Dublin,  where  peace  was  confirmed  between  the  Earl  of  Ulster  and  Maurice 
Fitz  Thomas.  A  great  feast  was  held,  the  first  in  the  castle  by  the  Earl 
of  Ulster,  the  next  day  by  Maurice  in  the  Church  of  St.  Patrick,  and  then 
Roger  Outlawe  held  a  feast  at  Kilmainham.  On  the  Eve  of  St.  Bartholomew 
(Aug.  23),  [read,  the  feast  of  St.  Barnaby,  June  n],  John  Birmingham,  Earl 
of  Louth,  is  slain  at  Balebragan  by  the  men  of  Uriel,  and  with  him  Peter 
Birmingham,  his  brother;  and  Robert,  his  brother;  and  John  Birmingham, 
son  of  his  brother  Richard,  Lord  of  Athenry ;  William  Finne  Birmingham, 
son  of  William,  uncle  of  the  aforesaid  Lord  of  Athenry ;  Simon  Birmingham, 
son  of  the  same  William ;  Thomas  Birmingham,  son  of  Robert  of  Connaught ; 
Peter  Birmingham,  son  of  James  of  Connaught ;  Henry  Birmingham  of  Con- 
naught,  and  Richard  Talbot  of  Malaghide,  a  brave  man,  and  two  hundred 
soldiers  with  them.  Upon  this  slaughter  Simon  de  Geneville,  with  his  fol- 
lowers, invaded  the  country  of  Carberry,  in  revenge  of  the  injuries  often  done 
by  the  Birminghams  to  Meath,  and  for  ancient  enmity,  but  the  men  of  Car- 
berry  opposing  them  slew  up  to  seventy-six  of  them.  On  Trinity  Sunday 
(June  1 8),  the  brothers,  John  and  William  Gernon,  came  to  Dublin,  request- 
ing for  the  men  of  Uriel,  that  what  had  happened  should  be  tried  by  com- 
mon law ;  but  when  they  understood  that  William  Birmingham  was  coming, 
they  went  away.  On  the  day  of  St.  Lawrence  (August  10),  Thomas  Butler, 

invading 

Molaghide,  the  king  granted  him  £10  of  said  bability,  makes  this  slaughter  of  the  Meath 

arrears  for  the  price  of  a  horse  he  had  lost  at  men  prior  to  Simon  de  Geneville's  attack  on 

Arklow,  and  agreed  to  take  the  remainder  Carbery. 

by  instalments  of  100*.  a  year — Rot.  Cl.  8  fGonon — May  28th,  1318,  Roger  Gernon, 

Ed.  III.  131.  for  his  services  at  the  battle  of  Dundalk  against 

d  Simon  de  Genivile A  younger  son  of  Edward  Bruce,  had  a  grant  by  letters  patent 

Geoffry  de  Geneville  and  Matilda  de  Lacy,  under  the  Great  Seal  of  England,  to  himself 

who  settled  on  him  Molyneston  (Culmullen?)  and  his  heirs,  of  the  castle  and  manor  of  Tagho- 

and  other  great  estates  in  Meath — Rot.  Cl.  brecok,  which  Hugh  de  Lacy  had  forfeited  by 

2  Ed.  II.  413.     In  1326,  Simon  de  Geneville  joining  the  Scots.     His  brother  John  Gernon, 

had  an  order  for  £10  for  the  repairs  of  the  Thomas  de  Hereford,  and  Peter  le  Taner,  are 

castle  of  Carmacanestown  in  the  marches  of  said  to  have  distinguished  themselves  in  the 

Carbery  which  had  been  besieged,  taken,  and  same  battle — Rot.  Pat.  13  Ed.  II.  91,  92. 

burnt  by  the  Felons  of  said  marches. — Rot.          g  Thomas  Butler A  younger  brother  of 

Cl.  20  Ed.  II.  23.  Edmund  first  Earl  ofCarrick;  he  was  per- 

e  Carberienses — Pembridge,  with  less  pro-  sonally  interested  in  Meath,  having  married 

IRISH  ARCH.  SOC.  3.  Q 


Ardnorwitlih  cum  exercitu  a  Gulielmo  Mac  Goghegan1  ibidem  interficitur  cum 
Johanne  LedewicheJ,  Johanne  Nangle,  Meilero  Petit,  Simo,  Nico  Albo,  Gulielmo 
Freins,  Petro  Kent,  Jo  Albok  et  circa  140  militibus.  Joannes  Darcy1  Justic.  qui 
in  uxorem  duxit  Joliannam  de  Burgo,  comitissam  Kildarise,  apud  Maynoth  3° 
Julii.  Philippus  Stanton  interficitur.  Henricus  Traharn  per  insidias  capitur  in 
domo  propria  apud  Kilbcgm  a  Ricardo  filio  Phillippi  Onalane.  D.  Jacobus  Butler, 
comes  Ormonias,  inccndit  Foghird"  in  Onalani  regione  eadcm  de  caiisa.  Post 
Assumptionem  Maria?,  Darcy  Justitiarius  proficiscitur  no  vum  castrum  de  Mac 
Kingham  et  Wiclo  contra  Obrinios;  ubi  quidam  de  Lawles0  fuerunt  interfecti 
cum  aliis  vulneratis  Hibernis,  nonnulli  interfecti,  reliqui  in  fugam  versi ;  Murkud 
autem  Obrine  se  obsidem  dedit,  cum  avunculo  et  avunculi  filio,  qui  ducuntur 
ad  castrum  Dublin,  postea  obsidibus  iiberati.  Ad  circumsisionem  domini  Just. 

cum 


Sinolda,  daughter  and  heiress  of  William 
Petyt,  in  whose  right  he  possessed  the  manors 
of  Dunboyne,  Moymett,  and  Mullingar.  His 
widow  remarried  with  William  Fitz  Gerald. 
—Rot.  Cl.  17  &  18  Ed.  III.  5. 

h  Ardnorwith. — Ardnorcher,  or  Horseleap, 
near  Kilbeggan,  in  Westmeath, given  by  Hugh 
de  Lacy  to  Meiler  Fitz  Henry. 

Le  cantref  pus  de  Hadhnorkur 

A  Meiler  qui  ert  de  grant  valur, 

Donad  Huge  de  Laci 

Al  bon  Meiler  le  fitz  Hervi. 

Conquest  of  Ireland,  1.  3139. 
A  descriptive  account  and  apian  of  the  earthen 
works  of  the  Fort  of  Ardnorcher  is  given  in 
the  Transactions  of  the  R.  I.  A.,  vol.  ii.,  An- 
tiquities, p.  43. 

'  Mac  Goghegan The  country  of  Mac 

Geoghegan  (now  Gahagan)  was  on  the  west 
side  of  Lough  Ennel  in  the  barony  of  Moy- 
cashel  in  Westmeath.  In  the  State  of  Ire- 
land, 1515,  he  is  called  M' Goghegan  de  Ky- 

valiagh State  Pap.,  vol.  ii.  pt.  iii.  p.  5. 

j  Ledewiche — Dr.  Edward  Ledwich,  with 
pardonable  vanity,  gives  the  following  note  on 


this  name :  "  Luitwick,  Luitwich,  Lutwyche, 
Ledwith,  Lodewich,  and  Ledwich,  such  is  the 
various  orthography  of  this  name  in  ancient 
writings,  was  a  German  family,  originally  set- 
tled in  the  Hundred  of  Munslow  in  Shrop- 
shire. They  removed  to  Cheshire,  and  came 
over  with  De  Burgo  in  1200,  who  gave  them 
large  possessions  in  Longford  and  Westmeath, 
and  created  them  palatinate  barons,  as  in  the 
text.  They  intermarried  with  the  De  Bur- 
gos, Nugents,  Lacies,  &c.  From  this  family 
the  writer  of  these  pages  is  descended."  — 
Ledwich's  Antiq.,  p.  440.  Was  it  to  intro- 
duce this  note  in  his  History  of  Kilkenny  that 
Ledwich  makes  Thomas  Butler  march  from 
Kilkenny  to  Ardnurcher  ?  Pembridge,  to 
whom  he  refers,  does  not  mention  Kilkenny. 
John  Ledwich  is  called  Dominus  Johannes  de 
Ledewich,  and  thus,  perhaps,  arose  the  belief 
that  he  was  a  palatinate  baron ;  Dominus, 
both  in  Pembridge  and  Grace,  may  generally 
be  translated  "  Sir." 

k  Jo.  Albo — In  addition  to  the  names  given 
by  Grace,  Pembridge  mentions  Roger  and 
Thomas  Ledewiche,  David  Nangle,  Sir  John 


invading  Ardnorcher  with  an  army,  is  there  slain  by  William  Macgeoghegan, 
with  John  Ledwich.  John  Nangle,  Meiler  Petit,  Simon  Petit,  Nicholas  White, 
William  Freigne,  Peter  Kent,  John  White,  and  about  one  hundred  and  forty 
soldiers.  John  Darcy  is  appointed  Justiciary,  he  married  Joande  Burgh,  Countess 
of  Kildare,  at  Maynooth,  on  the  3rd  of  July.  Philip  Staunton  is  slain.  Henry 
Traharn  is  taken  by  stratagem  in  his  own  house  at  Kilbeg,  by  Richard,  son 
of  Philip  O'Nolan.  Sir  James  Butler,  Earl  of  Ormonde,  burned  Forth,  the 
country  of  O'Nolan,  for  the  same  cause.  After  the  Assumption  of  the  Virgin 
(August  15),  Darcy,  the  Justiciary,  advances  to  Newcastle  M'Kenegan,  and  Wick- 
low,  against  the  O'Byrnes ;  some  of  the  Lawlesses  were  killed  there,  and  other 
Irishmen  wounded,  some  were  slain,  the  rest  put  to  flight ;  but  Murchard  O'Byrne 
surrendered  himself  as  a  hostage,  with  his  uncle  and  his  uncle's  son ;  they  are  car- 
ried to  Dublin,  but  were  afterwards  released  for  other  hostages.  At  the  Circum- 
cision 


Waringer  (Waring?)  and  James  Terel,  all 
Meath  names  of  good  repute,  and  adds,  that, 
on  the  Wednesday  (Aug.  23),  before  St.  Bar- 
tholomew's Day,  the  body  of  Thomas  Butler, 
who  was  killed  "ad  damnum  magnum  terrse 
Hibernise,"  was  brought  to  Dublin,  and  lay 
unburied  in  the  Church  of  the  Friars  Preach- 
ers, until  the  Sunday  after  the  beheading  of 
St.  John  (Aug.  29),  when  it  was  carried  with 
great  honour  through  the  city,  and  buried  at 
the  Friars  Preachers,  and  on  that  day  the  wife 
of  the  said  Thomas  held  a  feast. 

1  Joannes  Darcy — John  Darcy  "le  Cosyn" 
was  appointed  Justiciary,  Feb.  19,  1329,  on 
which  day  Roger  Utlagh  had  orders  to  give 

the  government  up  to  him Rymer,  vol.  ii. 

p.  756.  A  writ  was  directed  to  John  Darcy, 
"  le  Neveu,"  as  Justiciary  of  Ireland,  on  Aug. 

22,  1328 Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  749.  Pembridge 

says,  that  John  Darcy  came  into  Ireland,  as 
Justiciary  for  the  second  time,  in  1329. 

m  Kilbeg A  pud  Kilbego — Pemb.  Per- 
haps Kilbegs,  in  barony  of  Clane,  Co.  Kil- 
dare, or  rather  Killegny,  in  Wexford,  or  Kel- 

Q 


legan,  in  Wicklow. 

"  Foghird. — Forth,  in  the  County  of  Car- 
low.  In  the  State  of  Ireland,  1515,  O'Nolan 
is  called  O'Nolan  de  Phoghyrde  Inolan  (Fo- 
thart  ui  Nualain) — State  Papers,  vol.  ii.  pt. 
iii.  p.  2.  Giraldus  says,  that  a  castle  was  built 
for  Reymond  (le  Gros)  at  Fortheret  O'Nolan 
in  Leinster — Hib.  Exp.,  lib.  ii.  c.  xxi.  Pern- 
bridge  calls  Henry  Traharn,  "  fratrem  Pin- 
cernse."  Lodge  says  that  Laurence  Butler, 
brother  of  the  Earl  of  Ormonde,  was  taken 
with  Sir  H.  Traharne — Peerage,  Mount- 
garret. 

0  Lawles.  —  In  this  year  Philip  le  Bret, 
Maurice  Ho  well,  Gilbert  de  Moenes,  Redmond 
and  James  Lawles  and  Richard  Derpatrick 
were  amerced  £  10,  because  they  did  not  bring 
forward  John  Laweles,  according  to  bail.  In 
1335,  60s.  of  this  penalty  remained  unpaid,  for 
which  John  Laweles  had  pardon,  Nov.  18. — 
Rot.  Cl.  8  Ed.  III.  120.  Pembridge  says,  that 
Robert  Locam  (Locumbe)  was  wounded  in 
the  expedition  against  the  O'Byrnes  and  Law- 
lesses. 


n6 


cum  consiliariis  vocat  in  subsidium  Mauritium  comitera  Dessemonia3p  cum  exer- 
citu,  adversus  hostes  regies,  pollicitiq  sumptus  itineris ;  qui  paulo  post  adfuit 
Brene  Obriner  et  1000  hominum,  qui  primum  invasit  O  Nolens3  et  debel- 
lavit,  predam  ingentem  abegit  omniaque  vastavit;  O  Nolenes  autem  primum 
fugerunt,  dein  obsides  dederunt.  Castrum  Ley  antea  occupation  ab  O  Demcy 
redditum  est  comiti.  Post  Epiphaniam  evasit  e  castro  Dublin  Donaldus*  Arte 
Mac  Murgh,  cordamque  dederat  ei  Adam  Nangle,  qui  ea  de  causa  suspensus 
postea  est. 

1330.  Vend"  impetuosissimi, quibus  dejectis  domibus,  occidit  uxorem  et  filiam 
Milonis  Verdon.  Inundatio  etiam  magna,  precipue  Boundi  fluviiv,  quaa  omnes 
pontesw  ejus  preter  Babe  dejecti,  et  alia  damria  apud  Trimx  et  Droghda.  Frumenti 

cranocus 

son.  In  the  collection  of  the  late  Dean  of  St. 
Patrick's  there  is  a  seal  bearing  a  griffin,  or  dra- 
gon, passant,  with  the  legend  "Sigillum  Bri<m 
i  Brian."  It  has  been  appropriated  to  the 
Brian  O'Brian  who,  according  to  the  Annals 
of  the  Four  Masters,  succeeded  to  the  lordship 
of  Thomond  in  1343,  and  was  killed  in  1350. 

8  O' Nolens.  —  Pembridge  adds  that  Des- 
mond went  against  the  O'Morches  (O'Mor- 
phews  or  Murphy s,  of  Tullow  O'Felimy,  in 
the  County  Carlow)  who  gave  hostages  that 
they  would  keep  the  peace. 

1  Donaldus. — This  chief  seems  to  have  been 
taken  into  the  pay  of  the  Crown.  November 
10, 1335,  Donenald  Fitz  Art  M'Morghyt  had 
an  order  for  £40  granted  him  by  the  Justi- 
ciary and  the  council,  by  the  king's  gift,  for 
his  great  expenses  in  putting  down  the  rebels, 
and  for  the  capture  of  Philip  Fitz  Morghil 
O'Bryn Rot.  Cl.  8  Ed.  III.  37- 

u  Venti. — These  storms  were  on  November 
25,  December  6,  and  Christmas  Day. — Pemb. 

v  Boundi  Fluvii. — "  The  pleasant  Boyne" 
of  the  Faerie  Queen.  Spenser  is  not  the  only 
poet  who  sung  of  the  Boyne ;  Camden  quotes 
from  Necham,  Abbot  of  Cirencester,  who  died 
1217?  the  following  verses  : 


p  Comitem  Dessemonia.  —  On  the  27th  of 
August,  1329,  Edward  III.,  reciting  that  he 
had  promoted  Maurice  Fitz  Thomas  to  the 
earldom  of  Dessemond,  granted  him  the  ad- 
vowson  of  the  church  of  Dungarvan,  and,  re- 
mitting all  arrears  of  rent,  gave  him  for  life 
the  rents  of  Dungarvan,  for  which  he  was 
bound  to  pay  200  marks  annually. — Rymer, 
vol.  ii.  p.  770. 

q  Polliciti. — The  breach  of  this  promise  by 
the  Justiciary  was  probably  the  pretext  for  the 
introduction,  by  the  Earl  of  Desmond,  of  the 
Irish  customs  of  coyne  and  livery,  (a  custom, 
says  Baron  Finglas,  in  his  Breviat  of  Ireland, 
which  would  destroy  hell,  if  that  were  used 
in  the  same),  that  is,  he  and  his  army  took 
meat  and  man's  meat  and  money  at  their  plea- 
sures without  any  ticket  or  other  satisfaction. 
He  is  said  to  have  been  the  first  of  the  English 
who  imposed  those  grievous  taxes  on  the  sub- 
jects.— See  Harris'  Ware's  Antiq.,  p.  76,  and 
Hib.  Anglic.,  p.  110,  Davis'  Discovery,  p.  21. 

r  Brene  Obrine. — When  Bruce  marched  to 
Limerick  an  O'  Brien  is  said  to  have  been  chosen 
by  the  English  to  command  the  English  and 
Irish  of  Munster Archdall,  Inchiquin.  Per- 
haps this  Brian  O'Brien  may  have  been  his 


"7 

cision  of  the  Lord  (January  i),  the  Justiciary,  with  the  counsellors,  called  in  the 
aid  of  Maurice,  Earl  of  Desmond,  with  an  army  against  the  king's  enemies,  pro- 
mising to  him  the  expenses  of  his  march ;  he  came  soon  afterwards,  bringing  with 
him  Bryan  O'Bryan  and  one  thousand  soldiers ;  he  first  attacked  and  subdued  the 
O'Nolans,  he  took  a  great  prey  and  laid  waste  every  thing ;  but  the  O'Nolans  first 
iled  away,  and  then  gave  hostages.  The  Castle  of  Ley,  which  had  been  occupied 
by  O'Dempsy,  is  given  up  to  the  earl.  After  the  Epiphany  (January  6),  Donald 
Art  M'Morough  escaped  from  the  Castle  of  Dublin,  Adam  Nangle  had  given  him 
a  rope,  for  which  cause  he  was  afterwards  hanged. 

1330.  Most  violent  storms,  by  which  a  house  was  blown  doAvn  which  killed  the 
wife  of  Milo  Verdon  and  his  daughter.  There  was  also  a  great  flood,  especially 
of  the  Boyne,  by  which  all  the  bridges  on  that  river,  except  Babe's,  were  carried 
away,  and  other  mischief  done  at  Trim  and  Drogheda.  A  crannock  of  wheat 


"  Ecce  Boan  qui  Trim  celer  influit,  istius  undas 

Subdere  se  salsis  Drogheda  cernit  aquis." 
The  epithet  is  not  happily  chosen.  It  is  pos- 
sible, however,  that  the  celerity  of  the  Boyne 
may  have  diminished.  It  is  likely  that  there 
was  formerly  a  greater  body  in  most  of  the 
rivers  than  there  is  at  present ;  lakes  have  dis- 
appeared, and  rivers  which  bore  fleets  of  north- 
men  in  the  tenth  and  eleventh  centuries,  have 
shrunk  into  brooks.  After  various  writs  about 
weirs  on  the  Boyne  at  Knowth,  Oldbridge, 
Staghling  (Stackalan?)  and  Slane,  given  in 
Rot.  Can.,  we  find  the  fallowing  account  of 
a  trial  held  in  1366:  "Reginald  Leynagh, 
Abbot  of  Mellifont,  was  indicted  at  Trim  for 
erecting  a  weir  on  the  river  Boyne,  at  Old- 
bridge;  the  jury  found,  that,  from  the  time  of 
the  arrival  of  the  English,  the  king  had  a  cer- 
tain free  passage  in  that  river  from  the  town 
of  Drogheda  to  the  bridge  of  Trim,  usually 
calleda  watersarde,  twenty-four  feet  in  breadth 
from  the  bank  on  each  side  of  the  river,  ac- 
cording to  the  discretion  of  twelve  honest  men, 
six  from  the  neighbourhood  of  one  side,  and 


is 

six  of  the  other  ;  and  that  through  that  aper- 
ture, boats,  called  corraghs,  with  timber  for 
building  and  notes,  had  liberty  to  pass  con- 
stantly free  from  Drogheda  to  the  bridge  of 
Trim;  they  also  found  that  no  weir  had  been 
erected  there  for  upwards  of  thirty  years.  The 
court  ordered  the  said  weir  to  be  totally  re- 
moved for  the  said  breadth  of  twenty-four 
feet,  and  the  abbot  to  be  committed  to  gaol ;  he 
was  afterwards  pardoned  the  imprisonment  on 
paying  the  fine  of  £10,  which  sum  was  paid 
in  court  to  Roland  de  Shalesford,  sheriff  of 
the  county  of  Meath." — Mon.  Hib.,  p.  483, 
from  King's  Collections.  There  is  an  un- 
printed  Act  of  1537  for  putting  down  of  werres 
upon  the  ryver  of  Boyn. — State  Papers,  vol. 
ii.pt.  iii.  p.  527. 

*'  Omnes ponies. — "  Tarn  lapidei  quam  lig- 
nei."  The  flood  also  carried  away  several  mills. 
Babe's  Bridge  was  at  Babestown,  now  Mabes- 
town,  near  Blackcastle,  Navan,  its  remains  are 
known  by  the  name  of"  The  Robber's  Bridge." 

x  Trim — Pembridge  says,  that  the  flood  did 
much  mischief  to  the  Friars  Minor  of  Trim  and 


n8 


cranocus  venditur  pro  2os.  Avense^  8s.  quae  penuria  contingit  ob  pluviosum 
tempus,  quo  maxima  pars  frumenti  meti  ncquivit  ante  festum  Michaelis.  Midii 
Angli  interfecerunt2  de  Hibernis.  Mac  Geghdanes  diruit  15  oppida  eorum, 
qui  collecta  manvi  interfecerunt  ejus  comitum  no.  in  quibus  fuerunt  tres  regu- 
lorum  filii.  Gulielmus  de  Burgo,  comes  Ultonise,  duxit  exercitum  de  Ultonia 
in  Momoniam  in  Brene  Obrene.  Natus  Gulielmus  Darci  a  comitissa  apud 
Mainotli.  Raimundus  Lawles  interficitur  apud  Wiclowe  per  insidias.  Par- 
liamentum  apud  Kilkeniam  celebratum  pro  rege  per  Rogerum  Outlawe  Justiti- 
arurna,  ubi  fuerunt  Alexander,  Archicpiscopus  Dublin,  comes  Ultonise,  Jacobus 
Ormonioe,  Giilielmus  Brimingham,  Gualterus  de  Burgo  de  Connacia,  quilibet 
eorum  cum  magno  exercitu  ad  expellendum  Brene  Obrene  de  Urliseb  in  Casshell. 
Gualterus  de  Burgo  cum  Connaciis  depredavit  agros  Mauritii  filii  Thomse0,  prjc- 
dam  ad  Urkisse  duxit. 

'331- 


Urogheda,  "qusefregit  domos  eorum."  The 
Franciscan,  or  Gray  Friary,  of  Trim  stood  on 
the  site  of  the  present  court  house.  The  par- 
liaments of  Trim  were  probably  held  in  the 
church  of  this  house  (Rot.  Pat.  15  R.  II.  42), 
which  was  afterwards  the  shire-house  of  the 
county.  Wadding,  who  ought  to  have  known 
better,  having  read  that  this  convent  was  in 
Diocesi  Mindensi,  for  Midensi, removes  itfrom 
the  banks  of  the  Boyne  "ad  Visurgem  fluvium 
in  Germania."  —  Annales  Minorum,  torn.  vi. 
p.  .324.  He  also  says,  that  the  constable  of 
the  castle  had  a  secret  passage  from  his  bed- 
chamber into  this  church,  where  he  attended 
divine  service.  The  Gray  Friary  of  Drogheda 

was  on  the  north  side  of  the  Boyne Mon. 

Hib.,  p.  458. 

yAoeii(e Peas,  beans,  and  barley  were  also 

8.«.  a  crannock. — Pemb.     In  1300  a  crannock 

was  equal  to  two  quarters Lib.   Quotid. 

Cont.  Garderobaj,  E.  I.  p.  125.  February  5, 
1331,  the  king  issued  a  writ  to  the  sheriffs  of 
Gloucestershire  and  Somersetshire,  informing 
them,  that,  notwithstanding  the  proclamation 


against  the  export  of  grain,  he  had,  in  compas- 
sion for  the  people  of  Ireland,  who  were  suffer- 
ing from  scarcity  of  provisions,  granted  permis- 
sion to  William  de  Clyvedon,  Jocius  de  Reyny 
and  Roger  Pluf  to  carry  into  Ireland  600  quar- 
ters of  any  kind — Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  807.  For 
the  free  trade  in  corn,  and  other  things  be- 
tween England  and  Ireland,  there  is  the  fol- 
lowing very  important  order  from  Henry  III. 
to  Maurice  Fitz  Gerald,  Justiciary  :  "  Vestra 
non  ignorare  debet  discretio  quod  dignum  est 
et  id  volumus.  quod  terra  nostra  Angliae  et 
terra  nostra  Hibernian  communes  sint  ad  invi- 
cem,  et  quod  homines  nostri  Angli  et  Hiberni 
hinc  inde  negociari  possunt  ad  commodum  et 
emendationem  terrarum  prsdictarum,  et  ideo 
vobis  mandamus,  quod  homines  de  terra  Hi- 
bernia  volentes  emere  blada  in  Hibernia  du- 
cenda  in  Angliam  in  rmllo  impedietis,  vel  im- 
pediri  permittatis,  quin  libere  et  sine  impedi- 
mento  id  facere  possint." — Liber  Hib.,  p.  iv. 
p.  24. 

*  Interfecerunt.  —  Circa    Quadragesimam 
juxtaLoghynerthy  (Lough  Ennell?; — Pemb. 


is  sold  for  205.,  of  oats  for  8s.,  this  scarcity  was  occasioned  by  the  rainy  season, 
on  which  account  the  greatest  part  of  the  wheat  could  not  be  reaped  before 
Michaelmas.  The  English  of  Meath  slew  some  of  the  Irish.  The  Mac 
Geoghegans  destroyed  fifteen  of  their  towns,  they  assembled  a  band  and  slew 
one  hundred  and  ten  of  his  men,  amongst  whom  were  three  sons  of  princes. 
William  de  Burgh,  Earl  of  Ulster,  leads  an  army  from  Ulster  into  Munster 
against  Bryan  O'Bryan.  William  Darcy  is  born  of  the  Countess  at  Maynooth. 
Raymond  Lawles  is  killed  at  Wicklow  by  treachery.  A  parliament  is  held  at 
Kilkenny  for  the  king  by  Roger  Outlawe,  Justiciary,  where  were  Alexander, 
Archbishop  of  Dublin,  the  Earl  of  Ulster,  James  of  Ormonde,  William  Birming- 
ham, Walter  de  Burgh  of  Connaught,  each  of  them  went  with  a  great  army 
to  expel  Brian  O'Bryan  from  Urlis  in  Cashel.  Walter  de  Burgh  with  his  Con- 
naught  men  plundered  the  country  of  Maurice  Fit/  Thomas,  and  drove  the  prey 
to  Urkiss. 


a  Justiciarium — Roger  Outlawe  was  lieu- 
tenant of  John  Darcy,  Justiciary,  who  was  in 
England. — Pemb.  This  parliament  was  held 
on  8th  of  July,  and  was  attended  by  the  nobles 
named  in  the  text,  and  by  "  Monsieur  John  le 
Fitz  Robert  le  Poer,  et  aultres  feals  nostre 
Seigneur  le  Roy." — Betham's  Dignities,  p. 
291 .  On  the  Plea  Roll  of  this  year  is  recorded 
a  suit  between  Walter  Ultagh  and  Thomas  de 
Parkiston  for  10s.  of  silver,  in  which  the  de- 
fendant pleaded  that  he  ought  not  to  be  com- 
pelled to  answer  the  plaintiff  "  qui  est  Hiber- 
nicus."  Ultagh  replied  that  "  Dominus  Rex 
statuit  in  Parliamento  suo,  quod  omnes  Hiber- 
nici,  ad  pacem  Domini  Regis  existentes,  re- 
spondeantur  ad  communem  legem,"  &c.  The 
court  decided  in  favour  of  the  Irishman — 
Ibid.  p.  292.  The  king  had  granted  the  sup- 
plication of  some  Irishmen,  that  he  should 
grant  by  Statute,  that  all  Irishmen  "  qui volu- 
erint,  legibus  utantur  Anglicanis,"  without 
being  obliged  to  apply  for  special  charters. 
In  1328,  he  had  ordered  John  Darcy  to  iri- 


'331- 

quire  and  report  at  the  next  parliament  the 
will  of  the  magnates  on  this  matter. — Rot.  Cl. 
2  Ed.  III.  in  T.  L. 

The  reply  of  the  magnates  is  not  given  ;  but 
March  3,  1331,  the  king  transmitted  to  the 
Justiciary  certain  ordinances  made  at  the  last 
parliament  held  at  Westminster,  the  third 
article  of  which  is  "  Quod  una  et  eadem  lex 
fiat  tarn  Hibernicis  quam  Anglicis,  exceptaser- 
vitute  Betagiorum  penes  dominos  suos,  eodem 
modo  quo  usitatum  est  in  Anglia  de  villanis — 
Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  812. 

b  Urlise.  —  Urkyff' juxta  Cashill. — Pemb. 
Perhaps  Thurles  ? 

c  Muuritii  filii  Thoma;. — He  was  probably 
suspected  ofaiding  his  late  ally  Brian  O'Bryan. 
Pembridge  says,  that  at  this  time  the  Earl  of 
Ulster  and  the  Earl  of  Desmond,  "scilicet  Do- 
minus  Mauricius  films  Thomse  (mine  primo 
euro  voco  comitem)"  were  delivered  by  Roger 
Utlagh,  Justiciary  to  the  custody  of  the  Mar- 
shal at  Limerick,  but  that  the  Earl  of  Des- 
mond cunningly  escaped.  If  these  earls  were 


I2O 


I331-  Hugo  Lacy  cum  pace  regis  ingressus  ad  Hiberniam.  Comes  Ultonise 
profectus  est  in  Angliam.  Occiduntur  etiam  Hiberni  in  O  Kenselyd  ab  Anglis, 
1 4  Aprilis.  Castrum  de  Arclo  capitur  per  insidias  ab  Hibernis,  2 1  Aprilis ;  eodem 
die6  Otothiles  abstulerunt  300  oves  archiepiscopi  Dublinensis  a  Tanelaghtf,  occi- 
deruntque  aliquot  viros ;  qua  re  ore  delata  Dubliniam,  occiduntur  etiam  per  insi- 
dias in  Culiaghg  ab  Otothilo,  Phillippus  Birth,  frater  Mauricii  fitz  Geraldi,  Hos- 
pitalaneus,  Ramundus  Archedeakin',  Jo.  Camerarius,  Robertus  Tirell,  duo  filii 
Reginaldi  Bern  wall  et  multi  alii  precipue  e  familia  episcopi ;  duxit  in  latrones 
exercitum  Gulielmus  Brimingham  aliquosque  eoruin  occidit,  verum  vanis  eorum 
promissis  reducitur.  D.  Antonius  Lacy*  Justic.  Occiduntur  multi  e  comitibus 
Breni  Obrene  apud  Thuiiesk  ab  Anglis  in  Maio ;  item  in  Midia  apud  Finnagh1 
interficiuntur  nonnulli  ab  Anglis  incolis  19°  Junii.  27  Junii  ingens  multitude 
marinarum  balenarumm  que  vulgo  Thurlpolles  vocantur,  ingressa  est  intra  le 
Conneg"  et  Dodir,  in  portu  Dubliniaj  vespere ;  quarum  captse  sunt  supra  200.  que 

insfruentem 


now  in  disgrace  they  must  soon  have  re- 
covered the  royal  favour;  for,  on  the  17th  of 
February,  1331,  the  king  wrote  to  them  by 
name,  amongst  the  other  Irish  nobles  of  Ire- 
land, to  declare  the  appointment  of  Anthony 
Lucy  as  Justiciary,  and,  on  the  3rd  of  March 
he  appointed  the  Earl  of  Ulster  his  lieutenant 
in  Ireland,  to  do  all  things  for  the  preserva- 
tion of  the  peace,  "ita  quod  eaper  consilium  et 
avisamentum  dilecti  et  fidelis  nostri  Antonii 
de  Lucy  Justiciarii  nostri  Hiberniae,  et  alinrum 
de  consilio,  faciat  etexerceat." — Rymer,  vol. 
ii.  p.  81 J. 

6  O'Kensely — Hy-Kinsellagh  comprehend- 
ed the  county  of  Wexford,  the  barony  of  Shi- 
lelagh  in  the  county  of  Wicklow,  and  Kava- 
nagh's  Country  in  Carlow. 

e  Eodem  die — Pembridge,  who  agrees  with 
Grace  in  dating  the  capture  of  Arklow  April 
21,  says,  "eodem  die  in  vigiliis  Sancti  Marcae 
Evangelistse,"  whose  feast  is  on  the  25th  of 
April. 

f  Tanelaght. — Tallaght,  anciently  Tamlact 


Maelruany,  is  mentioned  in  the  long  list  of  the 
ample  possessions  which  in  1179  Pope  Alex- 
ander III.  confirmed  to  Archbishop  Laurence 
and  his  successors  in  the  See  of  Dublin. — 
Usserii  Sylloge,  Ep.  xlviii. 

K  Culiagh The  Cowlagh.  —  Holinshed, 

Marleburgh. 

h  Philippus  Birt.  —  Dominus  Philippus 
Bryt  miles — Pemb.  Ph.  le  Bret  miles. — 
Rot.  Cl.  8  Ed.  III.  120.  Philip  le  Bret  was 
sheriff  of  Dublin  in  1329. 

'  Ramundus  Archdeakin. — Hamundus  Do- 
minus  Archedekyn — Pembridge.  Redmond 
L'Ercediackne  had  been  summoned  to  a  par- 
liament in  Dublin  (20  Ed.  II.)  and  was  fined 
£40  for  absence;  in  the  4th  of  Ed.  III.  this 
fine  was  remitted  on  his  proving  that  he  could 
not  attend  on  account  of  the  wars  of  the  Irish. 
— Betham's  Dignities,  p.  291  ;  Rymer,  vol.  ii. 
p.  811.  This  family  afterwards  became  Irish, 
and  assumed  the  name  of  McOdo  or  Cody. 

J  D.  Antonius  Lucy.  —  May  4,  the  sheriffs 
of  Lancashire  arid  Cumberland  had  orders 


121 


I331-  Hugh  Lacy  entered  Ireland  with  the  king's  pardon.  The  Earl  of 
Ulster  went  to  England.  The  Irish  are  slain  in  Hykinselagh  by  the  English  on 
the  1 4th  of  April.  The  castle  of  Arklow  is  taken  by  stratagem  by  the  Irish  on 
the  2  ist  of  April ;  on  the  same  day  the  O'Tooles  carried  off  three  hundred  sheep 
belonging  to  the  Archbishop  of  Dublin  from  Tallaght,  and  killed  some  men ; 
this  news  being  brought  by  word  of  mouth  to  Dublin ;  there  are  also  killed  by 
stratagem  by  the  O'Tooles,  at  Cullagh,  Philip  Bret,  the  brother  of  Maurice  Fitz 
Gerald  the  Hospitaller,  Raymond  Archdeacon,  John  Chambers,  Robert  Tirell,  two 
sons  of  Reginald  Barnewall,  and  many  others,  especially  of  the  family  of  the  Arch- 
bishop ;  William  Birmingham  led  an  army  against  the  robbers,  and  killed  some 
of  them,  but  is  brought  back  by  their  false  promises.  Sir  Anthony  Lucy,  Jus- 
ticiary. Many  of  the  party  of  Brian  O'Bryan  are  killed  at  Thurlesby  the  English 
in  May  ;  also  at  Finnagh,  in  Meath,  some  are  killed  by  the  English  inhabitants  on 
the  ipthof  June.  On  the  2yth  of  June,  a  great  multitude  of  sea  whales,  which 
are  commonly  called  Thurlpolles,  entered  into  the  bay  of  Dublin  between  the 
Conneg  and  the  River  Dodder,  in  the  evening;  more  than  two  hundred  of  them 

were 


to  prepare  ships  for  the  passage  of  Anthony 

de  Lucy  and  Thomas  de  Burgh Rymer, 

vol.  ii.  p.  818.  He  landed  June  3 — Pemb. 
He  must  have  brought  with  him  the  ordi- 
nances of  the  3rd  and  5th  of  March,  declaring 
that  there  should  be  one  and  the  same  law  to 
the  English  and  to  the  Irish  ;  and  revoking  all 
grants  made  by  the  king  during  the  ministry  of 
Mortimer — Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  812.  Perhaps 
both  these  declarations  were  almost  equally 
displeasing  to  the  great  Irish  lords,  who  had 
become  Irish  princes  with  English  names. 
The  non-existence  of  any  Chancery  Rolls  from 
the  20  Ed.  II.  to  the  8  Ed.  III.  involves  this 
period  in  great  obscurity. 

"  Thurles In  1357,  the  town  of  Thurlys 

had  a  grant  of  certain  customs  for  twenty 
years,  for  the  purpose  of  paving  and  enclosing 

it  with  a  stone  wall Rot.  Pat.  30  Ed.  III.  39. 

1  Finnagh — Finae,  in  the  barony  of  Demi- 
IBISH.  ARCH.  SOC.  3.  R 


fore,  County  of  Westmeath. 

m  Marinarum  balenarum. — Marinarum  bel- 
luarum.  —  Pemb.  He  calls  them  Thurlhe- 
dis,  and  says  that  there  were  thought  to  be 
five  hundred  of  them,  and  that  Sir  Anthony 
Lucy  with  his  men  and  some  of  the  citizens 
of  Dublin,  among  whom  was  Philip  Cradok, 
killed  two  hundred  of  them,  and  that  by  the 
order  of  the  Justiciary,  every  one  was  allowed 
to  do  so,  and  to  carry  them  away.  In  the  An- 
nals of  Dublin  in  Whitelaw's  Dublin,  vol.  i. 
p.  170,  these  whales  are  called  Turlehydes, 
and  are  said  to  have  been  from  thirty  to  forty 
feet  long,  and  so  bulky  that  two  tall  men 
placed  one  on  each  side  of  the  fish,  could  not 
see  one  another.  The  authority  for  this  de- 
scription is  not  given. 

"  Le  Conneg. — Perhaps  the  Cnocknogannoc 
of  John's  charter,  the  Enolnegannocke  of  the 
Inquisition  of  R.  II.,  and  the  water  of  Cam- 


I  22 


ingruentera  tune  temporis  famem  non  nihil  relevarunt.  Parliamentum  Dublinii0, 
ad  quod  non  venerunt  multi  magnates,  idem  translatum  Kilkenniam,  quo  venit 
Mauritius  Fitz  Thomae,  cum  multis  aliis,  qui  se  purgarunt  et  se  submiserunt 
regis  clementiae,  qui  transacta  eis  fere  condonavit.  Castrum  de  Femes  capitur 
per  insidias,  et  incenditur  in  Angliap.  Mauritius  fitz  Thomae,  comes  Dessimonias, 
capitur  ajustitiario  apud  Limericum  ad  assumpcionem  Mariae,  et  ducitur  ad  cas- 
trum  Dublinii ;  capiuntur  etiam  Henricus  Mandevileq,  et  in  Connacia  Gualterus 
de  Burgor  cum  duobus  fratribus  a  comite  Ultonias8,  ducunturque  ad  castrum  de 
Northburgh.  Item  Gulielmus  Brimingham  capitur  cum  filio  suo  Gualtero  apud 
Clomel1,  non  obstante  charta  regis  prius  eis  data,  ducuntur  ad  castrum  Dublin. 
Lageni  Hibemi  insurgunt  in  Anglos,  omnia,  etiam  templa,  incendunt,  templum- 
que  Freinstonu  cum  So  hominibus  in  eo  comburunt ;  sacerdos  autem  cum  sacris 
vestibus  indutus,  hostiam  ferens  exire  tentaret,  lanceis  repulerunt,  et  combusse- 
runt ;  qui  ea  de  causa  bulla  papali  ad  episcopum  Dublin  missaexcommunicati  sunt, 
et  regio  interdicta.  Quae  cum  illi  contemnentes,  iterum  comitatum  Weisfordiae 
depopularentur ;  apud  Carconnamv  a  Ricardo  Whiteyw,  Ricardo  fitz  Hcnrici,  civi- 

busque 


mock  of  the  Franchises  of  1602 — Whitelaw, 
vol.  i.  pp.  91,  93,  101.  Pembridge  calls  it 
le  Connyng. 

0  Dublinii.  —  The  parliament  was  held  in 
Dublin  in  Octavis  S.  Johannis  Baptists?  (July 
1),  and  adjourned  to  Kilkenny  ad  festum  S. 
Petri  quod  dicitur  ad  vincula  (Aug.  1) — 
Pemb.  Cox  says,  that  it  was  adjourned  only 
to  July  7-  Maurice  Fitz  Thomas,  who  attend- 
ed the  parliament  at  Kilkenny,  was  not  the 
Earl  of  Desmond  but  the  fourth  Earl  of  Kil- 
dare. 

i1  Incenditur  in  Anglia. — Comburitur  mense 
Augusti — Pemb.  The  date  of  the  arrest  of 
the  Earl  of  Desmond  is  mentioned  afterwards 
by  Grace  and  Pembridge,  the  latter  adds,  that 
he  was  brought  to  Dublin  on  the  7th  of  Octo- 
ber. 

q  Henricus  Mandecile.  —  He  was  taken  by 
the  warrant  of  Simon  Fitz  Richard,  Justice  of 


the  King's  Bench — Pemb. 

T  Gualterus  de  Burgo In  1327  Edmund 

de  Burgh  and  Walter  Fitz  William  de  Burgh 
were  appointed  Custodes  Pacis  in  the  counties 
of  Connaught,  Tipperary,  and  Limerick,  and 
had  the  custody  of  the  lands  of  Richard,  late 
Earl  of  Ulster. —  Rot.  Pat.  20  Ed.  II.  13. 
On  the  death  of  Earl  William,  in  1331,  the 
custody  of  his  lands  and  castles  in  Connaught 
was  conferred  on  Queen  Philippa — Rot.  Pat. 
29  Ed.  III.  9. 

*  Comite  Ultonice. — On  the  5th  of  Novem- 
ber the  Earl  of  Ulster,  whose  appointment,  as 
the  king's  lieutenant  in  Ireland,  is  mentioned, 
note  c,  p.  119,  was  summoned  to  England,  with 
James  Earl  of  Ormonde,  Sir  William  de  Ber- 
myngham,and  Walter  de  Burgh,  and  the  duties 
of  his  office  of  lieutenant  were  committed  to  Sir 
Anthony  Lucy,  Justiciary.  The  cause,  or  the 
pretext,  of  this  summons  was  the  king's  wish 


were  taken,  which  not  a  little  relieved  the  then  increasing  famine.  A  parlia- 
ment at  Dublin,  to  which  many  lords  did  not  come,  the  same  adjourned  to  Kil- 
kenny, where  came  Maurice  Fitz  Thomas  and  many  others,  who  cleared  them- 
selves and  submitted  to  the  clemency  of  the  king,  who  nearly  pardoned  all  that 
was  past.  The  Castle  of  Ferns  is  taken  by  stratagem  and  is  burned  in  August. 
Maurice  Fitz  Thomas,  Earl  of  Desmond,  is  taken  by  the  Justiciary  at  Limerick,  on 
the  Assumption  of  the  Virgin  (August  15),  and  is  brought  to  the  Castle  of  Dub- 
lin ;  Henry  Mandeville  is  also  taken,  and  in  Connaught  Walter  de  Burgh  with  his 
two  brothers  is  taken  by  the  Earl  of  Ulster,  and  brought  to  the  Castle  of  North- 
burgh.  Likewise  William  Birmingham  is  taken  with  his  son  Walter,  at  Clomnel, 
notwithstanding  the  king's  charter  before  granted  to  them,  and  they  are  carried  to 
the  Castle  of  Dublin.  The  Leinster  Irish  rise  against  the  English,  they  set  fire  to 
every  thing,  even  the  churches,  and  burn  the  Church  of  Freynstown  with  eighty 
persons  in  it ;  and,  even  when  the  priest  in  his  sacred  vestments,  and  carrying  the 
hostinhis  hands,  tried  to  get  out,  they  drove  him  back  with  their  spears,  andburned 
him ;  for  this  cause  they  were  excommunicated  by  a  Papal  Bull  sent  to  the  Arch- 
bishop  of  Dublin,  and  the  country  put  under  an  interdict.  They  despised  these 
things,  and  again  wasted  the  county  of  Wexford ;  but  at  Ballycarney  [?]  four 
hundred  of  them  were  killed  by  Richard  Whitty,  Richard  Fitz  Henry,  and  the 

townsmen 

to  consult  with  these  lords  about  his  intended  whilst  he  was  sick  in  his  bed.     They  were 

visit  to  Ireland,  "  pro  reformatione  status,  et  taken  in  February,  and  sent  to  Dublin  on  the 

stabilimento  pacis." — Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  828.  19th  of  April. — Pemb.    Archdall  states,  that 

The  king  had  already  signified  to  the  great  ab-  this  Sir  William  was  the  fifth  Lord  Athenry. 

sentee  lords,  his  purpose  of  going  in  person  to     Peerage,  Earl  of  Louth. 

Ireland,  and  had  warned  them  to  send  men  for          u  Freinston The  chapel  of  Freynstown  or 

the  defence  and  recovery  of  their  Irish  posses-  de  villa  Fraxini,  belonging  to  the  ceconomy 

sions,  declaring  that  if  on  his  arrival  he  should      of  the  cathedral  of  St.  Patrick's Mason's 

find  the  said  possessions  in  the  hands  of  the  History  of  St.  Patrick's  Cathedral,  notes,  p. 
enemy,   and  should  take  them  by  force,  he  Ixvi.      Now  Friendstown,   in  the  barony  of 
would  deal  with  them  as  his  rightful  con-  Upper  Talbotstown,  Co.  Wicklow. 
quest — Ibid.  p.  825.    The  list  of  these  absen-          v  Carconnam.  —  Carcarne Pemb.     Bally- 
tee  lords  is  in  the  Appendix.  carney,  in  the  barony  of  Scarawalsh,  county 

1  Clomel Clonmel  in  Tipperary.     Mar-  of  Wexford. 

leburgh  says,  that  Sir  William  Birmingham          w  Ricardo    Whitey Ricardus  White 

and  Walter,  his  son,  were  taken  by  a  wile,  Pemb.     Nov.  13,  1335,  Richard  Whittay  had 

Ra 


124 


basque  Wesfordias  400  eorum  interfecti  sunt,  aliiqui  pcrmulti  in  Slano  fluvio 
submersi  restiterunt. 

1332.  10.  Julii.  D.  Gulielmus  Brimingliamx  suspenditur  Dublin,  vir  strenuus 
et  nobilis  et  rare  virtutis  in  rebus  bellicis,  cujus  mors  a  multis  publice  sumo  dolori 
fuit.     Filius  ejus  Gualtems  liberator*.     Castrum  Banrat  diruitur  a  Tothomo- 
niis  Hibernis  in  Julio.    Recipitur  castrum  de  Arcloz  a  Justitic.  expulsis  Hibernis, 
et  reficitur.     Antonius  de  Lucytt  ab  officio  privatus,  in  Angliam  rediit.    Johan- 
nes Darceyb  fit  Justitiarius.     Brene  O  Breni,  Mac  Karthii  clade  afficiuntur  in 
Momonia  ab  Anglis.     Grassatiir  per  totam  Hiberniam  et  in  omnium  etatum 
hominibus,  morbus  "  mausesc"  vocatus.     Obsides  in  arce  Limirici  occiso  pre- 
fecto,  arce  potiuntur,  qui  statim  a  civibus,  recepto  vi  castro,  ad  unum  interfici- 
imtur.     Obsides  in  Nenagh  potiti  sunt  castro,  quod,  incensis  portis,  recipitur, 
obsidibus  salvis.    Castrum  de  Ciontd  incenditur  ab  Ototliile.     Peccus6  frumenti 
ad  Natale  valet  22.?. 

1333.  Johannes  Darcy  Justitiarius.     Briminganii  Carbcria  abstulerunt  ab 

Oconghurs 


an  order  for  five  marks,  being  his  fee  for  three 
months,  as  constable  of  the  Castle  of  Fern  vs. 
—Rot.  Cl.  8  Ed.  III.  38.  Richard  Fitz  John 
Fitz  Henry  had  property  in  Wexford  at  this 
time Ibid.  89. 

*  D.  Gulielmus  Brimingham — Prsedictus 
Dominus  Willielmus,  nobilis  Miles,  inter  mil- 
lia  militum  in  opere  militari  nobilissimus  et 
optimus,  heu,  heu,  pro  dolor,  quis  ejus  necem 
commemorans  lacrymas  continere  potest  ?  sed 
tandem  sepultus  est  Dubliniae  inter  Fratres 
Prgedicatores. — Pemb. 

J  Liberatur. — Marleburgh  says,  that  he  was 
delivered  because  he  was  within  orders,  which 
perhaps  means  that  he  acted  under  the  orders 
of  his  father.  He  was  not  liberated  until  Fe- 
bruary, 1 336 — Pemb.  He  was  Justiciary  in 
1347.  Birmingham  Tower  in  the  Castle  of 
Dublin  is  thought  to  have  taken  its  name  from 
being  the  scene  of  his  long  imprisonment — 
Whitelaw's  Dublin,  vol.  i.  p.  51. 


z  Arclo — October  20,  1335,  Ellas  Ashe- 
bourn  had  an  order  for  his  half-year's  fee  of 
forty  marks,  as  constable  of  the  Castle  of  Ar- 
clou,  lately  taken  from  the  Irish  enemy  by 
Anthony  de  Lucy,  late  Justiciary  of  Ireland. 
— Rot.  Cl.  8  Ed.  III.  27.  It  was  taken  Aug. 
8.— Pemb. 

a  Antonius  de  Lucy.  —  He  returned  into 
England  in  November  with  his  wife  and  chil- 
dren  Pemb.  The  execution  of  Sir  Wil- 
liam Bermingham  may  have  been  the  cause 
of  the  recall  of  this  great  Northumbrian 
baron,  whom  Edward  had  sent  into  Ireland  to 
prepare  for  his  coming  in  person.  In  March, 
1333,  Sir  Anthony  de  Lucy  made  an  inroad 
into  Scotland,  and  defeated  Sir  William  Doug- 
las, famous  as  "  the  Knight  of  Liddesdale," 
and  made  him  prisoner. — Hailes'  Annals,  vol. 
ii.  p.  197- 

b  Johannes  Darcey Intravit  Hiberniam 

xiii  die  mensis  Februarii. — Pemb.  On  the  4th 


townsmen  of  Wexford,  and  many  others  of  them  were  drowned  in  the  river 
Slaney. 

1332.  On  the  loth  of  July  Sir  William  Birmingham  is  hanged  at  Dublin, 
a  bold  and  noble  gentleman,  of  rare  excellence  in  war ;  his  death  was  openly 
bewailed  by  many.     His  son  Walter  is  set  at  liberty.     The  Castle  of  Bunratty 
is  destroyed  by  the  Irish  of  Thomond,  in  July.     The  Castle  of  Arklow  is  retaken 
by  the  Justiciary,  who  drove  out  the  Irish,  and  is  repaired.     Anthony  de  Lucy  is 
deprived  of  his  office,  and  returned  to  England.     John  Darcy  is  made  Justiciary. 
Brian  O'Bryan  and  M'Carthy  are  defeated  in  Munster  by  the  English.     The 
disease  called  the  "  mauses"  goes  through  all  Ireland,  attacking  persons  of  every 
age.    The  hostages  of  the  Castle  of  Limerick  kill  the  governor  and  take  posses- 
sion of  the  castle,  but  the  citizens  shortly  take  the  castle  by  storm,  and  put  them 
all  to  death.     The  hostages  in  Nenagh  take  possession  of  the  castle,  the  gates 
were  burned,  and  the  castle  recovered,  the  hostages  being  S9,ved.     The  Castle  of 
Lyons  is  bxirned  by  O'Toole.     A  peck  of  wheat  at  Christmas  is  worth  22s. 

1333.  John  Darcy,   Justiciary.     The  Birminghams  of  Carbery  carried  off 

from 


of  August,  Roger  Outlawe,  Prior  of  S.  John 
of  Jerusalem,  had  authority  to  treat  with  the 
English  and  Irish  captains  of  unlawful  con- 
federacies, and  to  grant  them  the  king's  peace 
either  on  fines  or  for  future  services. — Rymer, 
vol.  ii.  p.  842. 

c  Mauses.  —  Lesmaux?  perhaps  an  epidemic 
like  the  modern  influenza. 

d  Castrum  de  Clout.  — Villa  novi  castri  de 
Lions. — Pemb. 

K  Peccus. —  Unum  P  .  .  .  .  frumenti  circa 
Natale  Domini  pro  xxii  solidis  et  cito  post 
pascha  et  deinceps  pro  xii  denariis  communi- 

ter  vendebatur Pemb.  In  1336,  when 

money  was  scarce  and  corn  in  plenty,  wheat 
was  2s.  the  quarter  in  London,  and  a  fat  ox 
was  6s.  8d Chronicon  Preciosum,  Fleet- 
wood's  Works,  p.  406.  In  1463,  it  was  enacted 
by  the  English  parliament  that  no  corn  should 
be  imported  if  wheat  were  not  above  6*.  Sd., 


rye  4.9.,  and  barley  3s.  the  quarter. — Ibid, 
p.  412.  In  1470,  it  was  ordained  by  the  Irish 
parliament  that  the  highest  price,  by  the  peck, 
of  wheat  should  be  Is.  4d.,  of  oats  4rf.,  of 
barley  Sd.,  of  wheatmeal  Is.  8d.,  of  oatmeal 

6d Betham's  MS.  Collections.      In  1520, 

wheat  in  Ireland  was  16,?.  the  quarter,  and 
malta  mark.  These  were  considered  very  high 
prices. — State  Papers,  vol.  ii.  pt.  iii.  p.  43. 

Perhaps  the  scarcity  of  provisions  in  Ire- 
land may  have  been  one  of  the  causes  which 
prevented  Edward  III.  from  coming  over  with 
an  army.  On  the  6th  of  February  he  had 
signified  his  purpose  of  being  in  Ireland  ad 
festum  S.  Petri  ad  Vincula  (Aug.  1),  and  had 
desired  Anthony  de  Lucy  to  certify  him  the 
number  of  quarters  of  corn  of  all  kinds,  and  of 
pipes  of  wine,  which  he  could  procure  there. 
—Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  832.  July  12  he  notified 
that  he  had  put  off  his  voyage  to  Michaelmas, 


126 

Oconghurs  2000  vaccarumf  et  ultra.  Johannes  Darcy  Justic.  excidit  transitum 
apud  Ethergouilg  in  Ofalia.  Liberaturh  comes  Dessimoniis  fideiussoribus  permul- 
tis  qui  vitam  possessionesque  pro  eo  oppignorarunt.  Gulielmus  de  Burgo,  comes 
Ultoniae,  inter  castrum  de  Sancles1  et  Gregforgus  interficitur  a  suis,  anno  etatisJ 
26  in  Junio.  Hie  Ricardumk  de  Burgo,  avunculum  suum,  turn  quia  petulantem 
uxorem  suam  contractaverat,  (nam  interiora  radere  docuerat  pro  more  Hiber- 
niaB),  turn  ob  alias  causas  morti  mulctaverat.  Hujus  Ric.  soror1  nupserat  domino 
Johanni  Manndivile  de  Donnahir,  quae  eum  in  vindictam  fratris  incitare  non 
cessavit,  die  igitur  dominico  cum  ad  comitia  castro  de  Sandes  versus  Gregfergus 
equitaret  ad  sacra,  animadvertens  cum  eo  plures  esse  famulos  e  Foganis  quam  cum 
comite,  interim  dum  matutinas  prcces  cum  eo  diceret,  gladio  pone  caput  sibi  dis- 
secuit;  qua  re  audita  uxorm  cum  filia  ex  Ultonia  in  Angliam  recte  confugit. 
Johannes  Darcy,  Justitiarius,  eo  profectus  homicidas  pi-elio  superans,  quosdam 
capit,  alios  interfecit.  Justitiarius  cum  exercitu  inde  in  Scotiam"  transfretavit 

ad 


and  ordered  all  the  ships  in  the  ports  of  Ire- 
land to  meet  him  at  Holiheved  in  Wales 
(Holyhead)  on  the  morrow  of  the  Nativity  of 
the  Virgin.— Ibid.  840,  841. 

f  Vaccarum — At  this,  and  to  a  much  later 
period,  cows  seem  to  have  been  the  principal 
property  of  the  Irish,  and  to  have  been  their 
chief  article  of  barter  and  medium  of  ex- 
change. In  1258,  O'Neale  paid  four  hun- 
dred cows  for  his  arrears  of  rent. — Davis' 
Discovery,  p.  12.  In  the  ordinance  of  1331 
the  king  forbids  that  cows  should  any  longer 
be  taken  as  fines  for  ransom.  The  author 
of  the  French  Metrical  Account  of  the  Depo- 
sition of  Richard  II.  says,  that  M'Morough 
had  a  horse  without  housing  or  saddle,  which 
was  so  fine  and  good  that  it  cost  him,  they 
said,  four  hundred  cows,  for  there  is  little 
money  in  the  country,  wherefore  the  usual 
traffic  is  only  with  cattle. 

Un  cheval  ot  sans  sele  ne  arcon, 
Qui  lui  avoit  couste,  ce  disoit  on, 


Quatreces  vaches,  tant  estoit  bel  et  bon  ; 

Car  pou  dargent 

A  ou  pais,  pour  ce  communenit 

Marchandent  eulx  a  bestes  seuleiut. 

Archceologia,  vol.  xx.  p.  305. 
Campion,  in  Queen  Elizabeth's  time,  speaks 
of  a  horse  for  which  a  nobleman  in  vain  offered 
one  hundred  kine,  a  £5  land,  and  an  aery  of 
hawks  yearly  for  seven  years.  The  book  of 
Ballimote,  now  in  the  Library  of  the  R.  I. 
Academy,  was  bought  by  Hugh  Duff,  son  of 
Hugh  Roe,  son  of  Niall  Garbh  O'Donell, 
from  M'Donell  of  Coran,  in  the  year  1522, 
for  one  hundred  and  forty  milch  cows.  — 
O'Reilly's  Irish  Writers,  p.  105. 

?  Ethergouil Ethergouill  in  Offalia  super 

O'Conghir. — Pemb.  Perhaps  Tyrrellspass, 
or  the  Pass  of  Kilbride.  Tyrrellspass  is  situ- 
ated on  an  eskyr,  or  ridge  of  gravel. 

h  Liberatur — He  had  been  a  year  and  a 
half  in  confinement. — Pemb. 

'  Castrum  de  Sandes — This  place  is  called 


I27 

from  the  O'Conors  two  thousand  cows  and  more.  John  Darcy,  Justiciary,  cut 
a  pass  at  Etergouel  in  Ofaly.  The  Earl  of  Desmond  is  liberated ;  there  were 
several  bailsmen  who  pawned  life  and  property  for  him.  William  de  Burgh, 
Earl  of  Ulster,  is  killed  by  his  own  men,  between  the  Castle  of  the  Ardes[?j  and 
Carrickfergus,  in  the  twenty-sixth  year  of  his  age,  in  June.  He  had  put  to  death 
Richard  de  Burgh,  his  uncle,  both  for  having  insulted  his  wife,  (nam  interiora 
radere  docuerat  pro  more  Hibernise),  and  for  other  causes.  The  sister  of  this 
Richard  had  married  Sir  John  Mandeville  of  Donnahir,  and  she  ceased  not  to 
incite  him  to  the  revenge  of  her  brother ;  therefore,  on  the  Lord's  day,  when  he 
was  riding  to  a  meeting  from  the  Castle  of  Ardes  [?]  towards  Carrickfergus  to 
church,  perceiving  that  more  servants  of  the  Logans  [?]  were  with  him  than  were 
with  the  earl,  when  he  was  saying  the  morning  prayers  with  him,  he  cleft  his 
head  from  behind  with  a  sword ;  upon  hearing  which  the  earl's  wife  with  his 
daughter  fled  straightway  from  Ulster  into  England.  John  Darcy,  Justiciary, 
going  there,  and  defeating  the  murderers  in  battle,  takes  some  of  them,  and  slew 
others.  The  Justiciary  thence  passed  over  with  an  army  into  Scotland  to  the  king, 

having 


Nova  Villa  by  Pembridge.  It  was  probably 
the  Castle  of  Newtown-Ards. 

j  Anno  etatis — Anno  aetatis  suae  xx.,  vi.  die 
mensis  Junii. — Pemb.  "  This  Erie  of  Ulster 
might  dispend  a  yere  in  that  lond  above  30,000 
marks,  and  had  five  shires,  besides  lordships 
and  manners.  These  be  the  five  shires,  the 
countys  of  Tyrone,  Antrim,  Carrickfergus, 
Newtown  and  Lekahill." — Finglas'  Breviate 
in  Harris's  Hibernica,  p.  103. 

k  Hie  Ricardum.  —  These  particulars  are 
not  in  Pembridge,  who  says,  that  the  person 
who  gave  him  the  first  blow  was  Robert  Fitz 
Mauriton  Mandeville. 

1  Ric.  Soror Archdall  (Peerage,  Clan- 

ricarde)  does  not  mention  this  Richard.  He 
says  that  the  earl  was  murdered  by  Robert 
Fitz  Richard  Mandeville  near  to  the  Fords,  in 
going  towards  Carrickfergus,  at  the  instiga- 
tion (as  was  said)  of  Gyle  de  Burgo,  wife  of 


Sir  Richard  Mandeville,  in  revenge  for  his 
having  imprisoned  her  brother  Walter,  and 
others. 

m  Uxor. — Maude,  third  daughter  of  Henry 
Plantagenet,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  Leicester  and 
Derby,  second  son  of  Edmund,  Earl  of  Lan- 
caster, second  son  of  King  Henry  III. 

"  In  Scotiam. — Marleburgh  says,  that  Darcy 
went  into  Scotland  to  the  King  of  England, 
because  at  that  time  he  was  there  in  war,  and 
that  on  St.  Margaret's  Eve  (July  12),  great 
slaughter  was  made  in  Scotland  by  the  Irish, 
and  so  what  by  the  king  on  one  part,  and  the 
the  Lord  Justice  in  another,  Scotland  was  con- 
quered, and  Edward  Baliol  was  established  king 
of  Scotland  ;  and  Campion  adds,  that  Darcy 
might  have  possessed  the  islands  had  they  been 
worth  the  keeping,  into  which  islands,  besides 
him  and  Sussex  the  late  lieutenant  of  Ireland, 
no  governor  ever  yet  adventured.  In  1558 


128 


ad  regem,  relicto  vicario  magistro  Thorna  Bur.  In  conventu  nobilium  ad  Carmi- 
litas  Dublin,  intcrficitur  Murcardus0  fitz  Nicholai  Othotill,  cujus  aucthor  igno- 
rabatur.  Rediit  Justitiarius.  Comes  Dessimoniae  ab  eqiio  delapsus  tibiam  fregit. 
Estas  temperatissima  ,  frumenti  pecus  venditur  pro  6d.  Ramundus  Arcliedekin 
cum  nonnullis  suyc  families  interficitur  in  Laenia.  Desunt  multaq. 


Sussex  plundered  Cantyre,  Arran,  and  Com- 
ber (the  Cumrays). — Ware's  Annals. 

On  the  12th  of  June,  1335,  Friar  Andrew 
Leynagh,  guardian  of  the  house  of  the  Friars 
Minor  of  Kildare,  who  had  been  sent  as  am- 
bassador from  the  king  to  the  islands  of  Scot- 
land to  treat  with  John  de  Insula  "  super  re- 
tinencia  suaet  aliis  dicendiset  sciendis  ex  parte 
Regis,"  had  on  order  for  60s — Rot.  Cl.  9  et 
10  Ed.  III.  36. 

The  following  extracts  from  Rymer  relate 
to  expeditions  from  Ireland  into  Scotland, 
which  are  not  mentioned  by  Grace : 

On  the  8th  of  May,  1335,  the  king  wrote 
to  the  Archbishops,  Bishops,  Abbots,  Friars, 
Earls,  Barons,  Clergy,  and  his  people  of  Ire- 
land, stating  the  exhausted  state  of  his  trea- 
sury, and  the  expenses  of  his  war  in  Scotland, 
and  requesting,  that  "  pensantes  quod  in  ne- 
cessitatis  articulo  vera  dilectio  comprobatur, 
nobis  de  tali  subsidio,  quod  dantes  deceat  et 
nobis  gratum  esse  debeat  et  acceptum,  liberal! 
promptitudine  succurratis."  Of  the  same  date, 
and  to  the  same  purport,  were  letters  to  the 
mayor  and  citizens  of  Dublin,  and  to  the  other 
cities  and  towns  of  Ireland,  requiring  a  sub- 
sidy, declaring  that  by  their  liberality  on  this 
occasion  "in  agendis  vestris  merito  efficiamur 
promptiores."  In  these  letters  there  was  a 
clause,  that  what  was  now  done  should  not  be 
made  a  precedent.  The  nobles  and  gentry 
who  were  then  summoned  were  to  be  ready 
on  St.  John's  day  (June  24),  under  the  com- 


mand of  John  Darcy,  the  Justiciary — Rymer, 
vol.  ii.  pp.  905,  906,  907. 

On  the  8th  of  July,  1335,  Thomas  Crosse 
Clerk  had  an  order  for  £4000  in  money  and 
victuals,  for  the  payment  of  the  men  at  arms, 
hobellers,  and  footmen,  who  were  going  with 
John  Darcy  into  Scotland  ;  and  on  the  16th 
of  July  he  had  an  order  for  £100  for  the  re- 
pair "inginiarum,  balistarum,  vangarum,  vo- 

merum,  ligonum,  securium,"  &c Rot.  Cl.  9 

&  1 0  Ed.  1 1 1.  1 9,  20.  On  the  24th  of  August, 
Maurice  Fitz  Thomas,  Earl  of  Desmond,  had 
an  order  for  £100  for  himself  and  his  men  at 
arms,  who  came  from  Munster  to  Drogheda 
on  their  way  to  Scotland,  and  were  detained 
there  for  a  month  from  the  want  of  shipping. 
— Ibid.  40.  In  this  Roll  there  is  an  entry 
which  may  be  interesting  to  the  Irish  natu- 
ralist— Reginald,  the  king's  huntsman,  had 
been  sent  by  the  king  to  bring  dogs  from  Ire- 
land to  England,  and  he  had  an  order  for 
£7.  16*.  5$d.  for  his  own  wages  at  4rf.  a  day, 
and  two  boys  at  3^r/.,  and  for  feeding  nineteen 
dogs,  which  he  had  received  from  different 
Irish  lords,  charging  %d.  a  day  for  each  dog, 
and  105.  for  their  passage. — Ibid.  47.  These 
dogs  were  probably  Irish  wolf  dogs,  for,  says 
Stany hurst,  "they  are  not  without  woolves  and 
greihounds  to  hunt  them,  bigger  of  bone  and 
limb  than  a  colt." — Descrip.  of  Ireland,  p.  20. 

0  Murcurdus Murcardus  sive  Mauritius. 

Pemb.  He  seems  to  have  been  attending 

parliament,  and  his  murder  excited  great  alarm 


129 


having  left  Master  Thomas  Burgh  as  his  deputy.  In  the  meeting  of  the  nobles 
at  the  Carmelites  in  Dublin,  Murchard  Fitz  Nicholas  O'Toole  is  murdered,  the 
author  of  which  act  was  not  known.  The  Justiciary  returned.  The  Earl  of 
Desmond  fell  from  his  horse  and  broke  his  leg.  A  most  seasonable  summer,  a 
peck  of  wheat  is  sold  for  6d.  Raymond  Archdeacon,  with  some  of  his  family, 
is  killed  in  Leinster.  Many  things  are  omitted. 

J337- 


amongst  the  "  majores"  of  the  land.  The 
Friary  of  the  Carmelites,  or  White  Friars,  was 
situated  near  Whitefriar-street. 

P  Temperatissima.  —  Pembridge  says,  that 
the  summer  was  so  fine  and  dry  that  there  was 
bread  of  new  wheat  on  the  1st  of  August. 
There  is  now  the  difference  of  eight  days  from 
the  alteration  of  the  style. 

n  Desunt  multa. — Neither  in  Pembridge  nor 
in  Grace  is  there  any  notice  of  any  occurrence 
in  years  1334, 1335, 1336.  And  for  these  three 
years  the  only  entry  in  Marlburgh  is  "  Anno. 
1336.  On  St.  Laurence's  day  (August  10),  the 
Irish  of  Connaught  were  discomfited  and  put 
to  flight  by  the  English  of  the  country  there, 
and  there  were  slaine  (of  them)  tenne  thousand, 
fnd  one  Englishman." 

There  is  no  notice  of  this  victory  in  the 
Chancery  Rolls.  On  the  14th  of  June,  1335, 
Friar  Henry  Holywode  of  the  Order  of  the 
Friars  Preachers  of  Dublin,  who,  by  the 
orders  of  the  Justiciary  and  council,  had  twice 
gone  to  treat  with  O'Congher,  Prince  of  the 
Irish  of  Connaug'ht,  had  an  order  for  40s.  ; 
and,  on  the  16th  of  October,  Friar  William 
Jordan  of  the  same  order,  who  had  been  sent 
into  Connaught  to  treat  with  O'Congher  of 
Connaught,  and  with  Edmund,  son  of  Richard 
de  Burgh,  late  Earl  of  Ulster,  had  an  order 
for  13s.  4d — Rot.  Cl.  9  et  10  Ed.  III.  38,  39. 

On  the  2nd  of  June,  1336,  the  king  thanks 
the  archbishops,  nobles,  clergy,  and  commons 

IRISH  ARCH.  SOC.  3. 


s 


of  cities,  boroughs,  and  towns,  and  of  his 
other  faithful  people  of  Ireland,  for  their  ge- 
neral subsidy  which  they  had  granted  "  dered- 
ditibus,  terris  et  bonis;"  and,  as  it  would  seem 
that  the  grant  of  this  subsidy  had  been  ac- 
companied with  a  remonstrance  against  cer 
tain  grievances,  he  at  the  same  time  sent  a 
letter  to  the  Justiciary,  Chancellor,  and  Trea- 
surer, in  which  he  states,  that  it  had  been 
shown  to  him,  "  ex  parte  proborum  homi- 
num,"  and  that  it  was  infamously  notorious, 
that  they  and  his  other  ministers,  regarding 
the  persons  of  men,  and  yielding  to  men  and 
not  to  right,  had  made  one  law  for  the  rich 
and  another  for  the  poor,  and  had  allowed 
the  strong  to  oppress  the  weak,  to  usurp  the 
royal  authority,  to  detain  the  king's  debts,  and 
to  perpetrate  various  crimes  ;  and  that  instead 
of  protecting  the  poor,  who  were  willing  to  be 
obedient  subjects,  they  harassed  and  aggriev- 
ed them  against  all  justice,  to  their  great  loss, 
and  thereby  gave  a  pernicious  example  to 
others.  The  king,  therefore,  considering  that 
princes  are  appointed  by  God  for  the  punish- 
ment of  evil  doers  and  for  the  reward  of  them 
that  do  well,  expressly  commands  them  to 
treat  and  judge  with  the  same  law,  "  omnes  et 
singulos  qui  per  legem  nostram  Anglicam  regi 
debeant,"  both  small  and  great,  rich  and  poor, 
so  as  to  put  to  silence  those  who  blamed  them, 
and  to  deserve  the  king's  approbation. — Ry- 
mer,  vol.  ii.  p.  939.  The  persons  who  ought 


130 


!337-  Vigilia  Calixti,  7.  perdices  in  suma  aula  Canonicorum  S  Trinitatis,  ex 
agris  volantes,  consederunt,  quarum  duas  pueri  vivas  ceperunt,  3  perimerunt, 
reliquae  avolarunt ;  res  multam  omnibus  admirationem1"  dedit.  I).  Joannes  Charl- 
tons,  Just.  Hiberniae,  venit,  frater  ejus  etiam,  episcopus  Herfordiensis  Thomas, 
venit  cancellarius ;  qui  secum  adduxerunt  Cambros*  ad  200.  Vocatus  ad  paiiia- 
rnentum  David  O  Plirraghti"  ac  episcopus  Armachanus,  qui  prohibitus  est  ab 
Archi[episcopo]  Dublin  et  clero,  preferre  sibi  Crucemv.  Moritur  idem  David 
Arch,  cui  successit  Ricardus  fitz  Radulfi"',  decanus  Lichefildiensis,  natus  ad 
Dundalcke.  Moritur  Jacobus  Butler,  primus  comes  Ormoniae,  17°  Januarii, 
sepelitur  apud  Baligalan. 

1338.  Johannes  Charleton  officio  privaturx,  fit  Justitiarius  frater  ejus,  epis- 
copus Herfordiae.  3°  Februarii  D.  Eustatius  Poer  et  avunculus  ejus  dominus 
Joannes  Power  ducuntur  e  Mamonia  a  Just,  ad  castrum  Dublin.  Gelu  intinsi- 
cumy  altissima  nive  a  2°  Decembris  usque  ad  iom  Februarii. 

'339- 


not  to  be  governed  by  the  English  law,  were 
probably  the  Betaghs,  who  were  so  excepted 
in  the  ordinance  of  1331,  and  who  were  in  the 
same  condition  in  Ireland  as  the  villans  or  na- 
tives were  in  England.  In  1338,  Edward  III. 
manumitted  John  Simondson  and  other  na- 
tives of  the  manor  of  Brustwyk  in  England, 
from  all  servile  work,  and  made  them  free 
from  all  exactions  "ratione  villenagii." — Ry- 
mer,  vol.  ii.  p.  1038. 

The  laws  made  for,  and  in,  Ireland  were 
good  laws.  "  But,"  says  Baron  Finglas,  "it 
is  a  gret  abusion  and  reproach  that  the  laws 
and  statuts  made  in  this  lond  are  not  observed 
ne  kept,  after  the  making  of  theme,  eight  days  ; 
which  matter  is  oone  of  the  distructions  of 
Englishmen  of  this  lond  ;  and  divers  Irishmen 
doth  observe  and  kepe  souche  laws  and  statuts, 
which  they  make  upon  hills  in  ther  country,  firm 
and  stable,  without  breaking  them  for  any  fa- 
vour or  reward." — Breviateof  Ireland, p.  101. 

r  Admirationem. — The  mode  in  which  Pern- 


bridge  mentions  this  prodigy  is  characteristic ; 
after  saying,  "  quod  autem  portendit  casus 
retro  seculis  inauditus  peritorum  arbitrio  re- 
linquatur,"  he  immediately  proceeds  to  say, 
that  on  the  next  day  landed  Sir  John  Charle^ 
ton,  Justiciary,  with  his  wife  and  his  sons  and 
his  daughters,  and  that  some  of  his  sons  and 
his  family  died. 

8  Joannes  Charlton. — He  was  accompanied 
not  only  by  his  brother,  the  Bishop  of  Here- 
ford, but  by  Master  John  Rees,  Treasurer. — 
Pemb. 

1  Cambros — On  the  13th  of  August  the 
king  ordered  the  Treasurer  and  the  Chamber- 
lains of  the  Exchequer  of  Dublin  to  pay  the 
two  hundred  Welsh  footmen,  whom  he  was 
sending  into  Ireland  with  John  de  Cherleton 
the  elder,  the  Justiciary,  "  in  subsidium  defen- 
sionis  terrarum  nostrarum  contra  hostiles  Hi- 
bernicorum  invasiones,  et  ad  ipsorum  hostium 
nequiciam  conterendam."  —  Rymer,  vol.  ii. 
p.  988. 


1337.  On  the  Eve  of  St.  Calixtus  (October  14)  seven  partridges,  flying  from 
the  fields,  lighted  on  the  roof  of  the  hall  of  the  Canons  of  the  Holy  Trinity,  the 
boys  caught  two  of  them  alive  and  killed  three,  the  others  flew  away ;  the  thing 
caused  much  wonder  to  all  persons.     Sir  John  Charleton  came  Justiciary  of  Ire- 
land, his  brother  also,  Thomas,  Bishop  of  Hereford,  came  as  Chancellor;  they 
brought  with  them  Welchmen  to  the  number  of  200.     David  O'Hiraghty,  Arch- 
bishop  of  Armagh,  is  summoned  to  parliament,  he  is  prevented  from  carrying  his 
Cross  before  him  by  the  Archbishop  and  clergy  of  Dublin.     The  same  Arch- 
bishop David  dies,  and  is  succeeded  by  Richard  Fitz  Ralph,  Dean  of  Lichfield, 
who  was  born  at  Dundalk.     James  Butler,  first  Earl  of  Ormonde,  dies  on  the 
i  yth  of  January,  he  is  buried  at  Gowran. 

1338.  John  Charleton  is  deprived  of  office,  his  brother,  the  Bishop  of  Here- 
ford, is  made  Justiciary.     On  the  3rd  of  February,  Sir  Eustace  Power  and  his 
uncle,  Sir  John  Power,  are  brought  from  Munster  by  the  Justiciary  to  the  Castle 
of  Dublin.     Intense  frost  with  very  deep  snow  from  the  2nd  of  December  to  the 
roth  of  February. 

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"David  O'Hirraghti. — Called  by  some  Mac 
Oreghty,  succeeded  in  1334,  died  1346. — 
Harris  Ware's  Bishops,  p.  81. 

v  Preferre  sibi  crucem — On  the  2nd  of  Janu- 
ary, 1338,  the  king  wrote  to  the  Archbishop 
of  Dublin,  ordering  him  not  to  molest  or  im- 
pede the  Archbishop  of  Armagh  in  bearing 
his  cross  erect  in  the  diocese  of  Dublin  whilst 
he  was  attending  parliament. — Rymer,  vol.  ii. 
p.  1007-  In  1335  he  had  issued  a  like  order 
to  the  Archbishop  of  York  for  the  preserva- 
tion of  the  rights  of  the  Archbishop  of  Can- 
terbury in  the  diocese  of  York. — Ibid.  p.  904. 
For  a  history  of  the  controversy  on  this  sub- 
ject between  the  Sees  of  Armagh  and  Dub- 
lin, see  Harris  Ware's  Bps.  at  Walter  de  Jorse, 
p.  71. 

w  Ricurdusjitz  Radulfi Ware  says,  that 

Richard  Fitz  Ralph  did  not  succeed  David 
O'Hiraghty  until  1347.  For  the  acts  and 

s 


writings  of  this  archbishop,  see  Harris  Ware's 
Bps.,  p.  81,  and  Irish  Writers,  p.  84. 

x  Officio  privatur. — Ad  instigatiouem  ger- 
mani  sui. — Pemb. 

y  Gelu  intinsicam. — Pembridge  says,  that 
the  Liffey  was  frozen  over,  and  that  men 
danced  and  played  at  ball,  and  ran  races  and 
roasted  herrings  on  fires  made  of  wood  and 
turf  on  the  river.  "  De  nive  quoque  idem 
gelu  comitante  non  oportet  amplius  os  aperire, 
cum  fuisset  profunditate  mirabili  insignita." 
Of  this  year,  Walsingham  says,  that  in  Eng- 
land there  was  severe  frost  without  snow  from 
the  5  calends  of  December  (November  27)  to 
the  4th  ides  (the  10th  day)  of  February,  and 
that,  although  the  winter  was  such  as  had  not 
been  for  twenty  years,  the  willows,  in  Janu- 
ary, bore  flowers  like  roses  in  size  and  colour. 
The  following  notices  from  the  Ulster  Annals, 
and  many  others  which  could  be  given,  tend 


1339.  Bellura  universalem  per  totam  Hiberniam.     In  Kernigia  200  Hiberni 
occisi  a  comite  Dessimoniae,  ceterisque  Geraldinis,   capiturque  Mauritius  fitz 
Nicholai2  dominus  Kernigiaa  a  comite,  et  in  carcere  moritur,  is  enim  adversus 
regem  et  comitem   cum  Hibernis   insurrexerat.     Occiditur  itidem  circa  300 
Hiberni  in  Baro  fluvio  a  Kildariensibus,  qui  cum  Odimciisa  comitatum  Kildarias 
invaserant.     Abducitur  ingens  preda  circa  O  Drono  ab  episcopo  Justitiario. 

1340.  Rediit  in  Angliam  Justitiarius  relicto  vicario  Rogero  Outlaweb  prior 
de  Kilmainam  1 3  Februarii.     Johannes  Darcius  dum  vivat  factus  Justitiarius. 

I34o-[i34i?].  Venit  dominus  Joannes  Moris,  vicarius  Darcii.  In  comitatu 
Leicestriae  vir  quidem,  chirothecas  inventas  manibus  inducens,  latrare  incepit  ut 
canis,  quod  malum  serpsit  ab  eo  per  totum  comitatum.  Rex  omnia  a  se  et  patre 
collata  in  quemcumque,  modo  quocumque,  tam  libertates  et  possessiones,  quam 
alia  bona,  revocavit0,  qua  re  mota  tota  fere  Hibernia  extemplo  insurgit  in  regem. 
In  Octobri  parliamentum  Dublinii,  ad  quod  minime  venit  comes  Bessemoniae, 
quo  tempore  primum  divisio  manifesta  extitit  inter  Anglos  in  Angliad  natos,  et 

Anglos 


to  show  that  the  climate  of  Ireland  has  not 
been  much  changed  during  the  last  thousand 
years. 

In  817  there  was  wonderful  frost  and  snow 
from  Christmas  to  Quinquagesima ;  the  loughs 
and  several  rivers  were  crossed  dry-shod,  tame 
and  wild  animals  crossed  over  Lough  Neach, 
and  stags  were  taken  without  hunting,  and 
building  materials  were  carried  over  Lough 
Erne  from  Connaught.  In  855,  there  was 
snow  and  hard  frost  so  that  the  herds  of  cat- 
tle and  horsemen  crossed  over  the  loughs  and 
rivers  of  Ireland  from  ix.  Kalends  of  Decem- 
ber to  vii.  Ides  of  January.  In  894,  a  great 
snow.  In  916,  snow  and  great  cold  and  won- 
derful frost,  so  that  they  crossed  over  the 
loughs  and  rivers  of  Ireland,  and  hence  came 
a  mortality  amongst  the  cattle  and  horses  and 
sheep  and  birds.  The  sky  seemed  on  fire  with 
comets.  A  flame  of  fire,  gradually  increasing, 
seemed  to  proceed  slowly  from  the  western 
bounds  of  Ireland  until  it  passed  the  east  sea. 


*  Mauritius  Jitz  Nicholai. — Fourth  Lord  of 
Kerry.  Lodge  (Kerry)  says  that  this  lord 
having  had  a  dispute  with  Dermod  Oge  Mac 
Carthy,  son  and  heir  to  Mac  Carthy  More, 
killed  him  upon  the  bench  before  the  judge 
of  assize  at  Tralee,  in  1 325,  for  which  he  was 
tried  and  attainted  by  the  parliament  at  Dub- 
lin, but  was  not  put  to  death.  Pembridge 
says  that  he  died  in  prison,  "  positus  ad  die- 
tarn." — See  note  f,  p.  93. 

a  Odimciis. — In  November,  1336,  O'Dymsy 
had  an  order  for  £10  for  his  expenses  in  going 
with  John  Darcy,  Justiciary,  against  Lessagh 
O'Moyche  (O'More),  and  the  other  Irish  who 
had  made  insurrection  against  the  king.  — 
Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  951.  One  of  the  Mores 
had  been  retained  by  Mortimer,  the  heir  of 
Eva  de  Braos,  in  the  lordship  of  Dunamase, 
to  be  his  captain  of  war  against  the  Irish  on 
the  borders,  in  the  beginning  of  the  reign  of 
Edward  II.  (q.  III?)  Lisagh  Moore,  took 
the  title  of  O'Moore,  seized  upon  eight  castles 


1339.  Universal  war  through  the  whole  of  Ireland.     In  Kerry,  two  hundred 
Irish  are  killed  by  the  Earl  of  Desmond  and  the  other  Geraldines,  and  Maurice 
Fitz  Nicholas,  Lord  of  Kerry,  is  taken  by  the  earl,  and  dies  in  prison,  for  he  had 
made  insurrection  with  the  Irish  against  the  king  and  the  earl.     About  three 
hundred  Irish  are  also  slain  in  the  River  Barrow  by  the  men  of  Kildare,  they 
had  invaded  the  county  of  Kildare  with  the  O'Dempsys.    A  great  prey  is  driven 
about  Idrone  by  the  Bishop  Justiciary. 

1340.  The  Justiciary  returned  to  England,  having  left  as  his  deputy  Roger 
Outlaw,  Prior  of  Kilmainham,  who  died  February  13.     John  Darcy  is  made 
Justiciary  for  life. 

I34°~[I34r  ?]•  Sir  John  Moris  came,  deputy  of  Darcy.  In  the  county  of 
Leicester  a  certain  man  putting  on  his  hands  a  pair  of  gloves  which  he  had  found, 
began  to  bark  like  a  dog,  which  disease  crept  from  him  through  the  whole  county. 
The  king  revoked  all  grants  made  by  his  father  or  by  himself  to  any  person 
whomsoever  in  whatsoever  way,  whether  liberties  or  possessions,  or  other  goods, 
by  which  measure  almost  the  whole  of  Ireland  was  moved  to  immediate  insur- 
rection against  the  king.  In  October  a  parliament  at  Dublin,  to  which  the 
Earl  of  Desmond  came  not  at  all,  at  which  time  a  division  was  first  manifested 
between  the  English  born  in  England  and  the  Anglo-Irish,  wherefore  the  Irish 

lords 

in  one  evening,  destroyed  Dunamase,  the  prin-     mensis  Februarii Pemb. 

cipal  house  of  the  Lord  Mortimer  in  Leix,  c  Revocavit. — This  revocation  was  proba- 

and  recovered  that  whole  country,  "  de  servo  bly  caused  by  the  Bishop  of  Hereford's  reply 

Dominus,  de  subjecto  princeps  effectus,  saith  to  a  writ  dated  March  5,  1339,  directing  him 

Friar  Clynne  in  his  Annals." — Davis1  Disco-  to  certify  to  the  king,  the  lands,  tenements, 

very,  p.  146.     In  the  time  of  James  I.,  the  liberties,  granted  in  Ireland,  and  their  respec- 

O'Mores,  Lalors,  and  other  septs,  were  trans-  tive  value  in  peace. — Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  1075. 

planted  from  the  Queen's  County  into  Kerry.  (1  Anglos  in  Anglia.  —  July  27,  1341,  the 

— Strafforde's  Letters,  vol.  i.  p.  69.     Garrett  king  ordered  John  Darcy,  Justiciary,  to  re- 

O'More,  of  Clogh  Castle,  near  Banagher,  is  move  from  their  offices  in  Ireland  all  Irish- 

the  present  chief  of  the  O' Mores.     Many  of  men,  and  all  Englishmen  who  had  married  in 

the  descendants  of  the  seven  septs  of  Leix  still  Ireland,  and  had  lands  and  possessions  in  that 

remain  in  the  barony  of  Iraghticonnor,  County  country,  but  had  nothing  in  England,  and  to 

Kerry.  appoint  in  their  places  Englishmen  who  had 

6  Rogero   Outlawe.  —  Item  obiit  Dominus  lands  and  possessions  in  England ;  he  also  or- 

Rogerus  Outlawe  Prior  de  Kylmainan  ac  Jus-  dered  that  no  future  alienations  of  the  royal 

titiarius  et  Cancellarius  dicta?  terrse  xiii.  die  demesnes  or  other  possessions  in  the  king's 


'34 

Anglos  Hibernos,  Magnates  itaque  Hibernias  et  magistratus6  constituerunt  par- 
liamentum,  apud  Kilkenniam,  in  utilitatem  regis  et  regionis ;  ad  quod  Justic.  cum 
reliquis  ministris  regis  venire  minime  voluerunt,  neque  ausus  est,  neque  enim 
ejus  consilium  in  hac  re  usi  sunt  aut  reliquorum ;  concluditur  ibi  ut  per  nuntios 
regi  significareturf  iniqua  gubernatio  Hiberniae  a  ministris  suis,  cum  querela 
petitionis,  correctionis  et  melioris  regiminis. 

1342.  ius  [Idibus]  Octobris  vise  2*  Lunae"  Dublin. 

1343.  Vicus  S.  Thomse  Dublin  arsit.     D.  Radulfus  Upford  cum  uxore,  comi- 
tissa  Ultonias11,  venit  Just ;  ejus  adventum  incipit  coelum  pluviosum,  quod  non  ces- 

savit 


hands  should  be  made  without  a  proper  writ 
of  inquiry. — Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  1171.  The 
writ  of  revocation  of  all  grants  made  by  Ed- 
ward II.  and  Edward  III.  is  given  by  Cox. — 
Hib.  Angl.,p.  117.  . 

e  Magistrates. — Majores  (the  Mayors)  ci- 
vitatum  regalium. — Pemb. 

f  Regi  significaretur.  —  The  messengers 
then  sent  were  Friar  John  L' Archer,  Prior 
of  Kilmainham,  and  Thomas  de  Wogan.  The 
discontented  lords  asked  then  three  questions : 
How  a  land  full  of  wars  can  be  governed  by  a 
man  ignorant  of  war  ? — How  a  king's  officer 
can  in  a  short  time  acquire  great  wealth  ? — 
Why  the  king  is  not  made  richer  by  Ireland  ? 
— Pembridge.  They  also  sent  a  statement  of 
their  grievances,  and  of  the  ill  conduct  of  the 
king's  officers,  which  is  given  at  length  from 
Prynne's  Collections  in  Lib.  Hib.,  pt.  iv.  p. 
32.  In  this  very  interesting  State  Paper  they 
represent  to  the  king,  that  the  third  of  Ire- 
land, which  had  been  conquered  by  his  ances- 
tors, had  fallen  into  the  hands  of  his  Irish 
enemies ;  and  that  his  faithful  subjects,  the 
English,  were  so  impoverished  that  they  could 
scarcely  live,  "  par  grevance  des  ditz  enemys 
dune  part,  et  excesse  doffice  des  ministres 
dautre  part."  They  said,  that  the  castles  of 


Roscommon,  Randoun,  Athlone,  and  Bon- 
ratty,  had  been  taken  by  the  enemy  because 
the  treasurers  did  not  pay  their  fees  to  the 
constables  without  great  deductions,  although 
they  charged  them  in  full  in  their  accounts, 
and  because  great  men  got  these  appointments 
and  never  set  foot  in  the  castles,  but  discharged 
the  duties  by  insufficient  deputies ;  that  the 
treasurers  paid  constables,  or  at  least  charged 
their  fees  in  their  accounts,  where  there  were 
no  castles ;  that  provisions  furnished  in  the 
Scotch  war  had  been  charged  to  the  king,  but 
not  paid  for.  (These  charges  against  the 
treasurers  would  seem  not  to  have  been  un- 
founded, for,  in  1344,  Archbishop  Bykenor, 
as  late  treasurer,  had  pardon  for  sundry  false 
writs  and  acquittances,  which  he  had  put  into 
his  treasurer's  account).  The  lords  then  re- 
minded the  king  that  in  the  time  of  rebellion 
in  Scotland,  Wales,  and  Gascony,  the  Eng- 
lish of  Ireland  "  se  sontbien  etloialment  con- 
tenuz  devers  lours  lige  seigneur,  et  touz 
temps  ferront,  si  a  Dieu  plest"  in  defence  of 
their  country,  and  this  chiefly  at  their  own 
charge,  and  they  pray  that  they  be  not  ousted 
of  their  "franc  tenementz  sanz  estreappele  en 
jugement  come  la  grand  chartre  voet. "  They 
also  complain  that  writs  had  been  issued,  di- 


lords  and  magistrates  constituted  a  parliament  at  Kilkenny,  for  the  good  of  the 
king  and  the  country;  to  it  the  Justiciary,  with  the  other  ministers  of  the  king, 
had  no  inclination  to  go,  nor  had  he  courage  to  do  so,  for  they  did  not  use  his 
advice  nor  that  of  the  other  ministers  in  the  business;  it  is  there  concluded,  that 
the  unjust  government  of  Ireland  by  his  ministers  should  be  signified  to  the  king 
by  messengers  with  a  complaint  and  petition  for  their  correction  and  for  better 
government. 

1342.  On  the  1 1  th  of  October  two  moons  were  seen  in  Dublin. 

1343.  St.  Thomas-street,  Dublin,  burned.   Sir  Ralph  Ufford  came  asJusticiary, 
with  his  wife,  the  Countess  of  Ulster ;  at  his  coming  there  began  showery  weather 

which 


recting  persons  charged  with  offences  com- 
mitted in  Ireland  to  appear  in  England,  which 
practice  they  declare  to  be  against  common 
law  and  reason,  and  pray  that  the  law  may  be 
observed  as  heretofore.  The  king  returned 
favourable  answers  to  almost  all  their  requests 
in  these  and  other  matters,  and  in  particular 
he  confirmed  the  grants  of  his  predecessors, 
and  declared  that  the  lands  granted  by  him- 
self and  resumed,  should  be  delivered  to  the 
grantees,  on  security  being  given  that  they 
should  be  again  surrendered,  if  legally  found 
to  have  been  granted  without  just  cause. 

At  this  time  several  of  the  most  obnoxious 
of  the  judges  and  officers  were  removed,  par- 
ticularly Elias  de  Ashbourn,  who  was  impri- 
soned and  deprived  of  his  estate,  but  was  after- 
wards pardoned  (Rot.  Pat.  20  Ed.  III.  83), 
and  Thomas  de  Montepessulano  (Mompesson) 
and  Henry  Baggot,  judges  of  the  Common 
Pleas. — Cox's  Hib.  Anglic.,  p.  118. 

K  2s  Lunce — One  in  its  proper  place  in  the 
west,  the  other  of  the  size  of  a  round  cake  of 
bread  (unius  rotundi  panis)  in  the  east.  In 
this  year,  on  10th  of  March,  the  king  issued 
a  writ  to  the  Justiciary  or  his  locum  tenens, 
and  to  Friar  John  L' Archer,  to  have  ready  one 


hundred  men  at  arms  and  nine  hundred  hobe- 
lars  to  attend  him  in  his  expedition  to  France ; 
on  the  20th  of  March  the  number  ofhobelars 
was  reduced  to  six  hundred ;  and  on  the  14th  of 
April,  in  transmitting  his  reply  to  their  peti- 
tion by  John  L' Archer  and  Thomas  de  Wogan, 
he  calls  upon  the  archbishops,  bishops,  earls, 
barons,  and  commons  of  the  cities,  boroughs, 
towns  in  Ireland,  charging  them  to  show  their 
loyalty  in  assisting  his  officers  in  their  prepa- 
rations for  his  passage  into  France  with  some 
of  his  good  people  of  Ireland — Rymer,  vol.  ii. 
pp.  1188,  1190,  1193.  On  the  23rd  of  July, 
the  locum  tenens  of  the  Justiciary,  the  Chan- 
cellor, the  Treasurer,  and  Simon  Fitz  Ri- 
chard had  authority  ad  tractandum  with  the 
lords  of  Ireland  for  their  assistance,  either  in 
joining  the  king  or  in  going  to  Britanny  with 
the  Earl  of  Northampton,  and  the  Treasurer 
was  directed  to  hire  ships  for  their  passage 
and  to  pay  them  their  wages  until  they  joined 
either  the  king  or  the  earl. — Ibid.  p.  1207. 

h  Comitissa  Ultonice. — This  lady,  who  after 
her  first  husband's  murder,  was  afraid  to  re- 
turn to  Ulster  in  consequence  of  threats  against 
his  life,  exchanged  with  the  king  her  Irish 
dower  for  property  of  equal  value  in  England, 


i36 


savit  quoad  is  in  vita  remansit.  Vir  injustus  et  avarus,  omnia  vi  agere,  nulli 
Justiciam  ministrare,  dives  ac  pauperes  bonis  spoliare  et  opprimere,  multoque 
magis  hec  omnia  uxoris  instinctu.  Profectus  in  Ultoniam  in  Angustiis  Eraer- 
dullam1,  a  Mac  Catan  grave  damnum  suscepit,  vestibus,  pecunia,  utensilibus 
argenteis,  et  equis  nonnullis  privatus  de  suis  itidem  aliquot  perdidit,  ope  tamen 
Urguliorum  tandem  in  Ultoniam  evasit. 

1335~[I345  ^]-j  Parliamentum  Dublinise  ad  quod  non  venit  Mauritius 
comes  Dessemonise.  RadJfus  Upford  post  Joh.  Baptiste,  cum  vexillo  Regisk  sine 
assensu  magnatum  in  Mamoniam  proficissitur  in  comitem,  ubi  possessiones  ejus 
occupavit,  et  pro  anuali  censu  variis  hominibus  dimisit ;  duas  irrde-  epistolas  D. 
Gulielmo  Burton1  scripsit,  unam  Mauri tio  fitz  Thomae  comiti  Kildariae  tradendam, 
qua  eum  j  \ibebat  et  impetrabat  ut  sine  mora  cum  exercitu  sibi  in  auxilio  adesset ; 
alteram  eidem  Gulielmo  qua  precepit  ut  comitem  Kildariae  caperet  et  custodiae 
traderet.  Gulielmus  duin  comes  portat  exercitum,  suadet  ut  antea  consiliarios 
apud  Dubliniam  adeat,  ut  eorum  aucthoritate  suffultus,  et  tutius  iret,  et  posses- 
siones interim  in  tuto  manerent,  quo  cum  venisset,  in  ipso  senatum  a  Gulielmo 

apprelienditur 


and  until  that  value  was  ascertained,  was  al- 
lowed 200  marks  a  year  from  the  Exchequer. 
— Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  1019. 

i  Emerdullam. — Probably  in  the  Co.  Down. 

J1345. — In  1344,  for  which  year  there  is 
no  entry  either  in  Pembridge  or  Grace,  the 
king  issued  a  writ,  on  the  14th  of  June,  to 
Ralph  de  Ufford,  Justiciary,  directing  him  to 
inquire  "per  sacramentum  proborum  et  le- 
galium  hominum  tarn  infra  libertates  quam 
extra,"  what  lands  and  tenements  had  been 
granted  by  the  king's  ancestors  for  the  defence 
of  the  marches  between  the  English  and  the 
Irish,  and  in  what  way  the  tenants  had  con- 
ducted themselves,  and  what  lands  thus  granted 
had  been  destroyed  and  seized  upon  by  the 
Irish  through  the  neglect  of  the  grantees. 
On  the  10th  July,  in  consequence  probably 
of  an  agreement  made  after  July  23,  1333, 
(see  note  h,  p.  126)  the  king  summoned  the 


Earl  of  Desmond  to  be  at  Portsmouth  on  the 
Octaves  of  the  Nativity  of  B.  M.  V.,  with  at 
least  twenty  men  at  arms  and  fifty  hobelars, 
who  were  to  receive  the  king's  pay,  and  who 
were  to  serve  the  king  in  his  war  with  Philip  of 
Valois ;  at  the  same  time  Maurice  Fitz  Thomas, 
Earl  of  Kildare,  Fulco  de  la  Freigne  (now 
Freney),  Edmund  de  Burgh,  Walter  de  Bir- 
mingham, Richard  Tuyt,  and  David  Barry, 
were  likewise  summoned  to  bring  twenty  men 
at  arms  and  fifty  hobelars.  Gerald  de  Rochef ' 
(Rochefort),  Eustace  Power,  Milo  de  Coucy 
(de  Courcy),  the  Lord  of  Anri  (Athenry),  and 
the  Captain  de  Rocheyns  (Roches),  were  sum- 
moned with  ten  men  at  arms  and  thirty  ho- 
belars—  Rymer,  vol.  iii.  pp.  13,  17.  Their 
neglect  of  this  summons  must  have  irritated 
the  king  against  these  lords,  and  brought 
on  them  the  punishment  of  the  following 
year.  It  is,  however,  to  be  noticed  that  in 


'37 

which  did  not  stop  as  long  as  he  lived.  A  man  unjust  and  greedy  of  gain,  doing 
every  thing  by  force,  giving  justice  to  none,  robbing  rich  and  poor  of  their  goods, 
and  oppressing  them,  and  all  this  much  more  by  the  prompting  of  his  wife. 
Going  into  Ulster  he  suffered  great  loss  from  Mac  Cartan  in  the  pass  of  Emer- 
dullam,  having  lost  his  clothes,  his  money,  his  vessels  of  silver,  and  some  of  his 
horses,  he  also  lost  some  of  his  men,  yet  by  the  help  of  the  men  of  Uriel  he  at 
last  made  his  escape  into  Ulster. 

1345.  A  Parliament  at  Dublin,  to  which  Maurice  Earl  of  Desmond  did  not 
come.  After  St.  John  Baptist's  day  (June  24),  Ralph  Ufford,  with  the  king's 
standard,  without  the  consent  of  the  lords,  goes  into  Munster  against  the  earl, 
where  he  seized  his  lands  and  leased  them  for  a  yearly  rent  to  different  persons ; 
from  thence  he  wrote  two  letters  to  Sir  William  Burton,  one  to  be  given  to 
Maurice  Fitz  Thomas,  Earl  of  Kildare,  in  which  he  ordered  and  besought  him 
to  come  without  delay  with  an  army  to  his  help ;  the  other  to  the  aforesaid  Wil- 
liam, in  which  he  ordered  him  to  arrest  the  earl,  and  deliver  him  into  custody. 
William,  while  the  earl  is  preparing  his  army,  persuades  him  first  to  go  to  the 
council  in  Dublin,  that  supported  by  their  authority  he  might  go  with  greater 
safety,  and  his  possessions  in  the  meanwhile  remain  in  safety ;  but  when  he  came 
there,  he  is  apprehended  by  William,  in  the  very  senate,  and  is  shut  up  in  prison. 

Meanwhile 

Edward's   army  at  Crecy  there  were  6000  '  Gulielmo  Burton.  —  William  de  Burton 

Irish  footmen.  was  at  this  time  one  of  the  Remembrancers  of 

k  Cum  vexillo  Regis.  —  Besides  the  king's  the  Exchequer. — Rot.  Cl.  17  et  18  Ed.  III.  54. 
banner  the  several  counties  and  towns  and  m  In  ipso  senatu.  —  Ipso  in  Scaccario.  — 
great  lands  had  their  separate  banners  or  Pemb.  The  Earl  of  Desmond,  who  was  sub- 
guidons,  some  of  the  barons  had  hereditary  sequently  arrested,  probably  composed  the  fol- 
standard  bearers,  thus,  the  Halfpennys  were  lowing  quaint  and  plaintive  verses  mentioned 
hereditary  standard  bearers  to  the  Flemings,  in  a  MS.  as  the  "  Proverbia  Comitis  Desmo- 
Barons  of  Slane,  until  they  lost  that  office  by  nie"  : 

cowardice  at  the  battle  of  Bellahoe  (Stany-  Soule  su  simple  e  saunz  solas, 

hurst  in  Holinshed,  p.  311).      Amongst  the  Seignury  me  somount  sojorner, 

rules  proposed  by  Baron  Finglas  for  the  Hos-  Si  suppris  sei  de  moune  solas, 

tings  is,  "  Item — that  no  banner  ne  guidon  be  Sages  se  deit  soul  solacer. 

rered  ne  displaid  in  the  field,  but  souche  as  Soule  ne  solai  sojorner, 

shall  be  appointed  by  the  Deputy,  and  that  the  No  solein  estre  de  petit  solas 

seyd  Deputie  suffer  but  few  banners  ne  guidons  Sovereyn  se  est  de  se  solacer 

to  be  rered  with  him  in  the  field."  Que  se  sent  soule  e  saunz  solas. 

IRISH  ARCH.  SOC.  3.  T 


apprehend! tur  et  career!  includitur.  Justitiarius  interim  per  Kernigiam  in  Oconul11 
proficissitur,  duoque  castra  comitis  per  insidias  capit,  videlicet  Uniskisli0  et  cas- 
trum  de  Insulap,  in  hoc  autem  capti  Eustatius  Poeri,  Gulielmus  Graunf,  et  D. 
Joannes  Totel8  suspenduntur.  Comes  ipse  cum  suis  exulat*.  Justic.  Kilmainam 
ad  uxorem  pregnantem  rediit.  Multas  injurias  tarn  in  ecclesiasticos  quam  laicos 
fecit ;  omnes  autem  fidejussoresu  comitis  Dessemonie  possessionibus  privavit,  quo- 
rum nomina  sunt  Willelmus  de  Burgo  comes  Ultonia3,  Jacobus  Butler  comes 
Ormonia3,  D.  Ricardus  Cuit,  D.  Nicholaus  Verdon,  Dominus  Mauritius  de  Rupe 
Forti,  D.Eustatius  Poor,  D.Geraldus  de  Rupe  Forti,  D.  Joannes  fitz  Roberti  Poer, 
D.  Robertus  Barry,  D.  Mauritius  fitz  Geraldi,  D.  Joannes  Wolslei,  D.  Walterus 
Lefant,  D.  Rogerus  le  Poer,  D.  Matheus  fitz  Henrici,  Dominus  Ricardus  Wallesv 
D.  Edmundus  de  Burgo,  filius  comitis  Ultonioi,  David  de  Barri,  Gulielmus  fitz 
Geraldi,  Fulco  de  Fraxinis,  Robertus  fitz  Mauritii,  Henricus  Barkley,  Johannes 
fitz  Georgii  de  Rupe,  Thomas  Leis  de  Burgo ;  tametsi  in  hoc  ipso  bello  nonnulli 
eorum  suis  impensis  eum  adjuvarant ;  eorumque  corpora  regis  voluntati  submisit, 
exceptis  4.  solumodo,  id  est,  Gulielmo  de  Burgo,  comite  Ultonise,  Jacobo  de 

Butler,  comite  Ormonia? 

1346. 


Art.  43,  in  Croker's  Songs  of  Ireland,  p.  287. 
Quoted  from  the  Harleian  Catalogue,  No.  913. 
n  Oconul.  —  The  barony  of  Connelloe,  in 
County  Limerick.  On  the  8th  of  August, 
1346,  John  Morris  was  appointed  seneschall 
of  the  king's  lands  in  Clonmell,  le  Dees  (De- 
cies),  Dongarvan,  Kylmanwhyn,  and  Kylsy- 
lan,  formerly  belonging  to  the  Earl  of  Des- 
mond, and  also  keeper  of  the  castles  of  Don- 
garvan and  Kylmanwhyne,  with  power  to 
remove  the  constables,  bailiffs,  and  other  offi- 
cers, and  to  appoint  others,  receiving  as  his 
fee  £40  a  year.  — Rot.  Pat.  20  Ed.  III.  32. 
On  the  19th  of  August,  Sir  Maurice  Fitz 
David  and  Sir  William  Stakepoll  were  ap- 
pointed keepers  of  the  peace  in  the  county  of 
Kerry  and  the  town  of  Traly,  and  on  the  20th 
of  August,  Thomas  Fitz  John,  of  the  Glynn, 
and  John  Fitz  David,  were  appointed  to  the 


same  office  in  the  parts  of  O'Conyl,  in  the 
County  Limerick,  with  power  to  assess  and  to 
array  men  for  the  defence  of  the  marches, 
levying  for  every  man  at  arms  12rf.,  for  every 
hobellar  Gd.,  and  for  every  footman  '2d.  adav. 
—Ibid.  29. 

0  Uniskisli — Yniskisty — Pemb.  Iniskilly. 

— Cox.  Inskyfty,  Inskysty,  and  Inskefti 

Rot.  Can. 

p  De  Insula.  —  Castle  Island,  one  of  the 
castles  of  the  Earl  Marshall.  —  See  page  30, 
note  r. 

q  Eustatins  Poer. — The  three  knights  were 
hanged — Pemb.  Sir  Eustace  Power  was  son 
of  Arnold  Power  and  succeeded  John  Birming- 
ham, Earl  of  Louth,  in  the  manor  of  Ardee 
(Rot.  Cl.  32  Ed.  III.  76)  in  right  of  his  wife 
Matilda,  the  earl's  daughter  and  coheiress — 
Archdall's  Peerage,  Louth.  He  forfeited 


139 

Meanwhile  the  Justiciary  goes  through  Kerry  to  O'Conyl,  and  takes  two  of  the 
earl's  castles  by  treachery,  to  wit,  Iniskisty  and  Castle  Island,  in  which  last  Eus- 
tace Poer,  William  Graunt,  and  Sir  John  Cotrell,  were  taken  and  hanged.  The 
earl  with  his  men  leaves  the  country.  The  Justiciary  returned  to  Kilmainham 
to  his  wife,  who  was  pregnant.  Many  injuries  did  he  both  to  churchmen 
and  laymen ;  but  he  deprived  of  their  possessions  all  the  bailsmen  of  the  Earl  of 
Desmond,  whose  names  are  William  de  Burgh  Earl  of  Ulster,  James  Butler 
Earl  of  Ormonde,  Sir  Richard  Tuit,  Sir  Nicholas  Verdon,  Sir  Maurice  Roch- 
fort,  Sir  Eustace  Poer,  Sir  Gerald  Rochfort,  Sir  John  Fitz  Robert  Poer,  Sir 
Robert  Barry,  Sir  Maurice  Eitz  Gerald,  Sir  John  Wellesley,  Sir  Walter  1'Enfant, 
Sir  Roger  le  Poer,  Sir  Matthew  Fitz  Henry,  Sir  Richard  Wallis,  Sir  Edmund 
de  Burgh,  son  of  the  Earl  of  Ulster,  David  de  Barry,  William  Fitz  Gerald, 
Fulk  de  Freigne,  Robert  Fitz  Maurice,  Henry  Barkley,  John  Fitz  George  de 
Roche,  Thomas  Leis  de  Burgh ;  although  in  this  war  some  of  them  had  assisted 
him  at  their  own  expense ;  and  he  submitted  their  bodies  to  the  king's  will,  with 
the  exception  of  four  only,  that  is  of  William  de  Burgh,  Earl  of  Ulster,  and 

James  de  Butler,  Earl  of  Ormonde 

1346. 


Kilmoghode,  or  Kilmehide,  in  the  County 
Carlow,  near  Athy,  and  the  manors  of  Doun- 
bryn  and  Grenagh,  in  Kilkenny — Rot.  Pat. 
19  et  20  Ed.  III.  63  ;  32  Ed.  III.  96  ;  49 
Ed.  III.  50.  He  also  forfeited  the  great  pos- 
sessions about  Kells  in  Ossory,  afterwards 
granted  to  Sir  Walter  Birmingham. 

r  Gulielmus  Graunt — On  the  9th  of  Aug., 
1346,  Fulco  de  la  Fi-eigne  had  a  grant  of  all 
the  lands  and  tenements  forfeited  by  William 
le  Graunt  in  the  counties  of  Kilkenny  and 
Waterford,  and  valued  at  £20  a  year,  in  dis- 
charge of  the  £40  a  year  or  £20  in  lands  (20 
libratarum  terrae),  which  Ralph  de  Ufford, 
late  Justiciary,  had  covenanted  to  give  him 
for  his  assistance  in  peace  and  war. — Rot. 
Pat.  20  Ed.  III.  105. 

s  Joannes  Totel — Dominus  Johannes  Cot- 
terell — Pemb. 

T 


'  Exulat May  12,  1346,  Walter  de  Ber- 

myngham,  Justiciary,  had  license  to  pardon 
all  rebels,  whether  English  or  Irish,  except 
Maurice  Fitz  Thomas,  Earl  of  Desmond, 
Thomas  le  Filz,  Philip  le  Neveu,  and  Walter 
de  Maundeville,  knights.  This  power  was  to 
last  for  a  year,  if  in  the  meantime  the  king 
did  not  go  to  Ireland  in  person —  Rot.  Pat. 
20  Ed.  III.  7,  8. 

"  Fidejussores — These  were  the  nobles  who 
had  become  bailsmen  or  mairipernours  (see 
Blackston,  vol.  iii.  p.  128)  for  the  Earl  of  Des- 
mond, in  1333,  in  which  year  William  Earl 
of  Ulster  was  murdered. 

v  Ricardus  Walles, — Richardus  le  Wallis 
Miles — Pemb.  Le  Waleys  (Rot.  Can.)  now 
Walsh.  Pembridge  says,  that  there  were 
twenty-six  mainpernours,  but  names  only 
twenty-five,  omitting  Sir  Nicholas  Verdon, 


140 


1 346.  Dominica  ramorum,  id  est  9.  Aprilis,  moritur  Robertus  Ufford  Justicia- 
rius  cum  omnium  sumo  gaudio  publico  et  applausu.  Statim  mutatur  in  melius 
celi  conditio,  fitque  tempus  serenum ;  corpus  ejus  plumbo  inclusum  in  Angliam  ab 
uxore  humandum  defertur.  Quae  2°  die  Maii  (cum  eodem  die  ante  annum  trium- 
phans  ingressa  cum  viro  civitatem  esset)  cum  sumo  merore,  et  vulgi  clamore 
i'ugiens  cum  cadavere  exivit,  quod  prodigii  loco  notatum  est.  Dominus  Rogerus 
Darcy  in  tempus  Justit.  a  consiliariis  fit.  In  Aprili  castrum  de  Ley  et  Kunehedw 
incenduntur  ab  Hibernis.  15  Maii  venit  Justit.  D.  Johannes  Mauritii.  23  Maii 
comes  Kildariaa  inventis  fidejussoribus  24  e  carcere  dimittitur.  In  Junio  300  ad 
minus  Angli  Urgali  trucidati  sunt  ab  Ultoniis.  Johannes  Mauritius  privatur 
officio  in  Junio,  et  fit  Justiciarius  D.  Gwalterus  Birmingham.  Concessae  indu- 
ciasx  comiti  Dessemonie,  is  igitur  cum  uxore  a  Yoghell  in  Angliam  solvit,  ubijus 
suum  contra  Radulfum  Ufford  prosequitur,  a  rege  (ex  quo  ingressus  est  Angliay), 
in  expensas  20*.  singulis  diebus  concessi  sunt.  Darcius  Justiciariusz  cum  comite 
Kildarias  O'Morda  invadant,  qui  castra  de  Ley  et  Kilnehed  combusserat,  quern 
se  submittere  coegerunt,  tamen  resisterit  obnixe. 

I347- 

Justiciary,  and  the  Chancellor  and  Treasurer. 

y  Anglia. — The  Earl  of  Desmond  remained 
in  the  custody  of  William  Trussel,  of  Cubles- 
don,  until  February  18,  1348,  on  which  day 
he  was  liberated;  Ralph  Lord  Stafford,  Tho- 
mas de  Berkele,  Richard  Talbot,  and  Regi- 
nald de  Cobham,  being  his  bailsmen.  —  Ry- 
mer,  vol.  iii.  p.  154. 

z  Darcius  Justiciarius Dominus  Walte- 

rus  de  Bermingham,  Justitiarius  Hiberniae.- — 
Pemb.  Birmingham  was  appointed  Justiciary 
10th  May,  1346,  and  entered  into  office  June 


and  adding  Sir  Henry  Traharn,  Sir  Roger 
de  la  Rokell,  and  Sir  John  L'Enfant.  Only 
eighteen  names  are  given  in  Rymer,  vol.  iii. 
p.  306,  all  of  whom,  except  Sir  William  Wel- 
lesley,  are  mentioned  in  Pembridge. 

w  Kunched. — Kylmehede. — Pemb. 

K  ConcesscE  inducice. — Sir  Thomas  de  Ber- 
kele, Sir  Reginald  de  Cobham,  and  Sir  Mau- 
rice de  Berkele  were  mainpernours  for  the 
Earl  of  Desmond  and  the  Earl  of  Kildare, 
and  the  Justiciary  had  orders  on  the  20th  of 
July  to  send  the  earls  into  England  "  de  ester 
a  la  lei,  et  de  faire  et  de  receivre  ceo  que  droit 
et  lei  voet  en  celle  partie ;"  if  the  earls  were 
unwilling  to  go  to  England  they  were  to  be 
tried  in  Ireland  according  to  the  common  law 
of  the  land.  At  that  time  no  definite  settle- 
ment was  made  regarding  the  lands  of  the 
Earl  of  Desmond.  —  Rymer,  vol.  iii.  p.  86. 
These  more  lenient  measures  seem  to  have 
been  recommended  by  Sir  John  Morris,  then 


29 — Rot.  Pat.  20  Ed.  III.  5,  6.  Besides  his 
fee  of  £500,  which  was  to  be  paid  quarterly, 
he  was  to  have  ten  men  at  arms  and  fifty 
archers  at  the  king's  pay. — Ibid.  63. 

a  O'Mord.  —  O'Morda — Pemb.  On  the 
Plea  Roll  of  21  Ed.  III.  is  the  following  entry, 
"  Quia,  Prelati,  Cleri,  viri  religiosi,  et  commu- 
nitatea  cnritatis  (comitatuum?)  concesserunt 
Domino  Regi  quoddam  subsidiumadresisten- 


1346-  On  Palm  Sunday,  April  pth,  Robert  Ufford,  Justiciary,  dies,  to  the 
greatest  public  joy  and  applause  of  all  men.  The  weather  instantly  changes  and 
becomes  fine  ;  his  body,  enclosed  in  lead,  is  carried  by  his  wife  to  be  buried  in 
England.  On  the  2nd  day  of  May  (on  which  day  in  the  year  before  she  en- 
tered the  city  in  triumph  with  her  husband)  she  and  her  attendants  fled  out  of 
it  with  his  corpse,  with  sorrow,  and  amidst  the  clamour  of  the  people  ;  which 
thing  was  noted  as  a  prodigy.  Sir  Roger  Darcy  is  appointed  Justiciary  for  a 
time  by  the  council.  The  castles  of  Ley  and  of  Kilmehede  are  burned  in 
April  by  the  Irish.  On  the  15th  of  May  Sir  John  Moris  comes  Justiciary. 
On  the  23rd  of  May  the  Earl  of  Kildare  is  released  from  prison,  having  found 
twenty  -four  bailsmen.  In  June,  three  hundred  at  least  of  the  English  of  Uriel 
are  slaughtered  by  the  Ulster  men.  John  Moris  is  deprived  of  his  office  in 
June,  and  Sir  Walter  Birmingham  is  made  Justiciary.  A  truce  is  granted  to  the 
Earl  of  Desmond  ;  he  therefore  sails  from  Youghal  with  his  wife  to  England, 
where  he  prosecutes  his  complaint  against  Ralph  Ufford  ;  he  was  allowed  by  the 
king  (from  the  time  when  he  entered  England)  twenty  shillings  every  day  for 
his  expenses.  Darcy,  Justiciary,  and  the  Earl  of  Kildare,  invade  O'More,  who 
had  burned  the  castles  of  Ley  and  Kilmehede,  and  compelled  him  to  submit, 
although  he  resisted  obstinately. 


dum  maliciae  O'Morth  et  aliorum  Hibernico-  at  Kilkenny,  on  the  Quindisme  of  Michaelmas 

rum  felonum  Domini  Regis,  qui  contra  ipsum  (12th  October)  1346,  which  granted  to  the 

Dominum  Regem  hostiliter  de  guerra  insur-  king  a  subsidy  of  2s.  out  of  every  carucate  of 

rexerunt,  viz.  Cleri  Midenses  xl.  lib.  Commu-  land,  and  12rf.  out  of  every  half  carucate  ;  and 

nitas  Comitatus  Loueth  xx.  lib.  Prebendarii  ifaperson  who  had  not  half  a  carucate  of  land 

Ecclesise  S.  Patricii  Dublin  xl.  marc.     Prior  possessed  60s.,  he  was  to  pay  1  2o(.     Collectors 

Hosp.  S.  Johannis  Jerusalem  in  Hib.  xl.  marc.  were  appointed  for  this  subsidy  in  the  counties 

Cleri  Ossoriens.  Dioc.  xx.  lib.  Cleri  Dio.  Fern-  of  Dublin  and  Meath,  the  liberty  of  Trim, 

ens.  x.  lib.  Abbas  Dom.  B.  Mariaede  Baltin-  the  counties  of  Kildare,   Carlow,   Kilkenny, 

glas,  x.  marc.  &c."     On  the  Roll  of  the  Great  Wexford,  Waterford,  Tipperary,   Limerick, 

Pipe,  No.  58,  is  the  account  of  William  de  Cork,  and  Kerry.     This  subsidy  was  oppos- 

Epworth  and  William  de  Cogan,  collectors  ed  by  Ralph  (Kelly),  Archbishop  of  Cashel, 

of  this  subsidy  in   Munster,   by  which  it  ap-  who  summoned  an  assembly  of  his  suffragan 

pears  that  the  tot  for  Munster,  including  £9  bishops  at  Tipperary,  where  appeared  Mau- 

for  the  mills  of  the  Castle  of  Dublin,  was  rice  (Rochfort)  Bishop  of  Limerick,  Richard 

£200  —  Betham's  Dignities,  p.  294.  (le  Waleys)  Bishop  of  Emly,  and  John  (Ley- 

It  appears,  that  a  parliament  had  been  held  nagh)  Bishop  of  Lismore,  who  agreed  on  the 


142 


1347-  Comes  Kildarie  cum  baronibus  et  equitibus  ad  regem  Caletumb  obsi- 
dentem  proficissitur,  quse  ei  dedita  est 4°  Junii.  DonaldusMac  Murgh  fitzDonaldi 
Arte  de  Murgli  Rege  Laginiae,  5°  Julii  a  suis  perinsidias  occiditur.  Mauritius 
fitz  Thornse  comes  Kildariae  a  rege  equestri  honore  decoratur,  qui  filiam  D. 
Bartholomei  de  Burwasce  in  uxorem  duxit.  Nanaghc  fitz  [scilicet?]  Nenagh 
oppidum  cum  regione  adjacente  in  festum  Sancti  Stephani  ab  Hibernis  vastatur. 

[1348?].  Pestis  maxima*1  in  Hibernia,  quse  ante  alias  regiones  pervaserat. 
Dominus  Gwalterus  Brimingham  Just,  in  Angliam  se  contulit,  relicto  vicario 
fratre  Johanne  Archer  priore  de  Kilmainam ;  revertitur  eodem  anno ;  cui  rex 
dederat  Baroniam  de  Kenles6,  que  est  in  Ossoria,  quare  adjuvaverat  Radulfum 
Upford  adversus  comitem  Dessemoniaa,  magnis  expensis.  Hec  baronia  fuerat 
Kustatii  Power  qui  in  castro  de  Hand  suspensus  est. 

1349.  Gualterus  Brimingham  optimus  Justi.  cessit  magistratui,  cui  successit 
Dominus  de  Carew,  eques  et  Baro. 

1350.  D.  Thomas  Rokeby  fit  Just.    Obiit  Gualterus  Brimingham,  quondam 
optimus  Justitiarius,  in  Anglia. 


7th  of  January,  1347,  that  all  beneficed  clergy- 
men contributing  to  the  subsidy  should  be 
ipso  facto  deprived  of  their  benefices,  and  ren- 
dered incapable  of  obtaining  promotion  within 
the  province ;  that  their  lay  tenants  contribu- 
ting should  be  excommunicated,  and  their 
children,  to  the  third  generation,  rendered 
incapable  of  holding  any  Church  preferment 
within  the  province.  In  consequence  of  these 
decrees  the  archbishop  and  the  bishops  came 
to  Clonmel,  and  on  Thursday  after  the  Puri- 
fication, February  9,  in  their  pontifical  robes, 
in  the  middle  of  the  street,  openly  excommu- 
nicated all  those  who  granted  or  advised  said 
subsidy,  and  every  one  concerned  in  levying 
the  same,  and  particularly  William  Epworth 
Clerk,  the  king's  commissioner  in  the  county 
of  Tipperary.  For  this  offence  an  informa- 
tion was  exhibited  against  the  archbishop, 
w,ho  was  sued  for  damages  to  the  amount  of 
£1000.  The  archbishop  pleaded,  that  none 


of  the  bishops  of  his  province  had  granted 
any  subsidy,  and  that  by  Magna  Charta  the 
Church  was  to  be  free,  and  all  were  to  be  ex- 
communicated who  should  infringe  its  liberties. 
He  confessed  that  he  had  excommunicated  all 
who  were  enemies  to  the  king's  peace,  who 
should  infringe  the  said  statute,  or  levy  any  sub- 
sidy or  tallage  without  the  king's  consent,  but  he 
traversed  the  excommunicating  any  one  on  ac- 
count of  the  said  subsidy.  As  to  Epworth,  he 
said,  he  was  a  clerk  beneficed  in  his  province  as 
Archdeacon  of  Cork,  that  he  found  him  at 
Clonmel,  and  had  cited  him  to  appear  before 
him  at  a  certain  day  to  answer  articles  relating 
to  his  soul,  and  that  upon  his  refusal  to  appear 
he  excommunicated  him,  but  he  denied  that  he 
had  excommunicated  him  on  accoimt  of  levy- 
ing the  subsidy.  The  archbishop  and  the 
bishops  were  found  guilty  of  the  information, 
but  there  is  no  record  of  the  payment  of  the 
damages.  —  Ibid.  292 ;  and  Harris'  Ware's 


1347.  The  Earl  of  Kildare,  with  barons  and  knights,  goes  to  the  king  to  the 
siege  of  Calais,  which  was  surrendered  to  him  on  the  4th  of  June.  Donald 
M'Morough,  son  of  Donald  Art  M'Morough,  King  of  Leinster,  is  treacherously 
killed  by  his  own  people  on  the  5th  of  July.  Maurice  Fitz  Thomas,  Earl  of 
Kildare,  is  knighted  by  the  king,  and  marries  the  daughter  of  Sir  Bartholomew 
Burghersh.  Nanagh,  that  is  the  town  of  Nenagh  with  the  adjacent  country,  is 
plundered  by  the  Irish  on  St.  Stephen's  day. 

i348[?J.  Very  great  pestilence  in  Ireland,  which  had  before  gone  through 
other  countries.  Sir  Walter  Birmingham,  Justiciary,  went  to  England,  having 
left  as  his  deputy,  Friar  John  L' Archer,  Prior  of  Kilmainham ;  he  returns  the 
same  year ;  the  king  had  given  him  the  barony  of  Kells  in  Ossory,  because  he 
had  assisted,  at  great  expense,  Ralph  UfFord  against  the  Earl  of  Desmond.  This 
barony  had  belonged  to  Eustace  Power,  who  was  hanged  at  Castle  Island. 

1349.  Walter  Birmingham,  a  most  excellent  Justiciary,  gave  up  his  office, 
he  was  succeeded  by  Lord  de  Carew,  Knight  and  Baron. 

1350.  Sir  Thomas  Rokeby  is  made  Justiciary.     Walter  Birmingham,  some 
time  most  excellent  Justiciary,  died  in  England. 


Bps.,  p.  478.  The  opposition  in  Munster  to 
this  subsidy  must  have  shown  itself  before 
January,  1347;  as  on  December  12,  1346, 
William  de  Epworth  and  William  Cogan,  re- 
ceivers of  the  subsidy,  were  appointed  to  as- 
certain the  names  of  the  persons  who  were 
impeding,  in  the  counties  of  Cork,  Kerry, 
Limerick,  Tipperary,  and  Waterford,  the  col- 
lection of  the  subsidy  granted  by  the  com- 
munity of  Ireland  at  the  last  treaty  (ultimo 

tractatu)  at  Kilkenny Rot.  Pat.  20  Ed. III. 

81. 

b  Caletum — Pembridge  says,  that  Walter 
Bonevile,  William  Calfe,  and  William  Weles- 
ley,  died  of  sickness  at  the  siege  of  Calais. 
On  the  26th  of  January,  Lionel,  Earl  of  Ul- 
ster, then  custos  of  the  kingdom,  summoned 
the  Earl  of  Kildare  to  be  ready  at  London 
by  the  next  Easter  to  go  abroad  to  the  king 


with  thirty  men  at  arms  and  forty  hobelars, 
and  the  Treasurer  of  Ireland  was  directed  to 
pay  for  their  passage  and  their  reasonable 
expenses. — Rymer,  vol.iii.  p.  103. 

c  Nanagh Monaghan  quse  vocatur  Mo- 

naghan. — Pemb. 

d  Pest  is  maxima — This  pestilence  lasted  in 
England  from  the  31st  of  May  to  the  29th  of 
September,  1349. — Sir  H.  Nicolas's  Chrono- 
logy of  Hist.,  p.  345.  Walsingham  says,  that 
in  some  religious  houses  of  twenty  members 
only  two  survived ;  that  the  pestilence  was  fol- 
lowed by  a  mortality  of  animals,  and  a  fall  of 
rents ;  that  the  land  was  left  untilled  from  the 
want  of  labourers ;  and  that  such  misery  ensued, 
that  the  world  was  never  able  to  recover  its 
foirner  state.  Walsingham  died  about  1440. 

e  Baroniam  de  Kenles.  —  This  grant  was 
made  to  Walter  de  Bermyngham  October 


i44 


i352-f  1).  Robertus  Savage'  inceperat  condere  in  Ultonia  varia  castra,  filio- 
que  dixit  hoc  modo  se  sibi  et  posteris  adversus  Hibernorum  incursus  servaturum, 
cui  respondit  Henricus  filius,  "  ubicumque  sint  viri  fortes,  ibi  est  castrum,  et  in  eo 
filii  Israeli11  castra  metati  sunt,  ero  semper  inter  fortes  et  sic  in  castro.  I  had 
rather,  quoth  he,  have  a  castle  of  bones  then  of  stones."  Quibus  rebus  pater  deter- 
ritus  ab  opere  incepto  desistens,  in  familiam  convertit  sumptus,  posteros  suos 
hoc  ipsura  lucturos,  quod  et  accidit1,  quippe  nam  paulo  Hiberni  universam  re- 
gionem  vastarunt,  quia  castris  nuda  fuit.  Rockeby  cessat  ab  officio. 

1355.  Mauritius  fitz  Thome^  comes  Dessemonie  fit  Just.k  qui  paulo  post 

moritur, 


20th,  1346.  It  was  in  acquittance  of  a  grant  of 
£40  a  year  made  by  Ralph  Uftbrd,  for  his  ser- 
vices in  peace  and  war,  and  it  comprised  one 
messuage,  one  haggard,  a  water  mill,  twocaru- 
cates  and  ninety  acres  of  land,  seven  acres  of 
meadow,  a  turbary,  £3  11s.  8d.  burgage  rent, 
£7  16s.  5\d.  of  the  freeholders,  a  right  of 
all  toll  (tolnetum)  in  Kells,  with  the  pleas  and 
perquisites  of  the  court  there  ;  also  1 27  acres, 
43s.  burgage  rents,  a  toll,  a  turbary,  and  the 
harvest  labour  (opera  autumpnalia),  in  Dun- 
nymegan,  with  the  pleas  and  perquisites  of  the 
courts,  both  within  and  without  the  same  ;  and 
148  acres  in  Duyn,  which  were  all  valued  at 
£39  19s.  9%d.  a  year — Rot.  Pat.  20  Ed.  III. 
70.  At  this  time  Bermingham  was  Justiciary, 
and  made  this  grant  to  himself. 

f  1352 At  1351   Pembridge  inserts  the 

death  of  Kenwrick  Sherman,  sometime  mayor 
of  Dublin  ;  he  was  buried  under  the  belfry  of 
the  Friars  Preachers,  which  he  had  built ;  he 
had  also  glazed  the  window  at  the  end  of  the 
choir  and  roofed  the  church.  By  his  will,  he 
left  to  the  value  of  3000  marcs,  and  left  many 
legacies  to  the  regular  and  secular  clergy  with- 
in twenty  miles  of  Dublin.  In  noticing  the 
wealth  of  Sherman,  Campion  observes,  "  with 
such  plenty  were  our  fathers  blessed,  that 
cheerefully  gave  of  their  true  winnings  to  need- 


ful purposes,  whereas  our  time  that  gaineth 
excessively,  and  whineth  at  every  farthing 
to  be  spent  on  the  poore,  is  yet  oppressed  with 
scarcity  and  beggery." — Historic,  p.  132.  In 
1351  it  was  ordered  that  there  should  be  only 
two  justices  on  the  Bench  of  Common  Pleas. 
The  Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer  was  ordered 
not  to  seal  any  judicial  writs  when  the  Great 
Seal  was  within  twenty  miles  of  the  Exche- 
quer, and  the  Justiciary  was  restrained  from 
pardoning  felonies  without  the  consent  of  the 

Chancellor  and  the  Treasurer Rymer,  vol. 

iii.  pp.216,  217-  The  Barons  of  the  Exchequer 
seem  to  have  been  desirous  of  bringing  cases 
into  their  court;  in  1356  they  were  ordered 
not  to  entertain  in  the  Exchequer  any  com- 
mon pleas,  except  such  as  related  directly  to 
the  king,  or  to  some  officer  of  the  court. — 
Rymer,  vol.  iii.  p.  339. 

*  Robertus  Savage.  —  In  1335  and  1345 
Robert  le  Sauvage  was  seneschal  of  Ulster  at 
a  salary  of  £10  a  year.- Rot.  Cl.  8  Ed.  III. 
56;  17  et  18  Ed.  III.  56.  Robin,  son  of  Wil- 
liam Salvage,  was  one  of  the  hostages  for  John 
de  Courcy  in  1204,  and  we  have  seen  that  the 
Savages  were  one  of  the  great  Ulster  families 
during  the  invasion  of  Edward  Bruce. 

hTneo filii  Israeli — This  is  rather  obscure  : 
it  seems  that  Henry  Savage  considered  the 


1352.  Sir  Robert  Savage  had  began  to  build  various  castles  in  Ulster,  and 
said  to  his  son  that  in  this  way  he  should  save  it  for  himself  and  his  children 
from  the  attacks  of  the  Irish ;  his  son  Henry  answered  him,  "  wherever  there  are 
brave  men  there  is  a  castle,  according  to  the  saying,  and  there  the  children  of 
Israel  pitched  their  camp,  I  shall  ever  be  amongst  the  brave,  and  therefore  in 
a  castle.  I  had  rather,  quoth  he,  have  a  castle  of  bones  than  of  stones."  Being 
thus  deterred,  his  father,  stopping  the  work  he  had  began,  spent  his  substance 
in  housekeeping,  saying  that  his  children  would  be  sorry  for  it ;  which  came  to 
pass,  for  shortly  after  the  Irish  wasted  the  whole  country,  because  it  was  bare  of 
castles.  Rokeby  gave  up  his  office. 

1355.  Maurice  Fitz  Thomas,  Earl  of  Desmond,  is  made  Justiciary,  who  dies 

shortly 


biblical  expression  "  castrametari"  as  equiva- 
lent to  build  a  castle,  and,  as  it  was  applied  to 
the  temporary  encampments  of  the  Israelites, 
that  it  implied,  on  the  part  of  the  inspired  wri- 
ters, that  wherever  the  men  rested  there  they 
made  a  castle.  At  the  present  day  the  common 
place  reference  for  the  sentiment  would  be  to 
the  words  of  Alcseus. 

ov  \i6oi  ovSe  %v\a,  ovSs 

Tl%VT]  TlKTOVdlV  a'l  TToXtlQ  IKSIV 

a\V  OTTOV  TTOT'  av  ojffiv 
avrovg  (Twdfiv  fiooTtc 


1  Quod  et  occidit Spenser  says,  "of  the 

Lord  Savage  there  remaineth  yet  an  heire, 
that  is  now  a  poore  gentleman  of  very  meane 
condition  yet  dwelling  in  the  Ardes." 

J  Mauritius  fitz  Thomce On  the  13th  of 

May,  the  Earl  of  Desmond  had  letters  of  pro- 
tection and  de  non  gravando,  with  a  clause 
that  all  charges  against  him  should  be  tried 

in  England  before  the  king  and  his  council 

Rymer,  vol.  iii.  p.  300.  On  the  8th  of  July 
he  was  appointed  Justiciary,  and  two  days 
afterwards  the  lands  of  his  bailsmen,  which 
had  been  seized  in  the  time  of  Ralph  Ufford, 

IRISH  ARCH.  SOC.  3. 


were  restored,  because  that  the  earl  had  sur- 
rendered himself  in  England,  and  had  been 
long  detained  in  custody,  and  because  all  the 
processes  against  him  in  Ireland  had  been  an- 
nulled and  declared  erroneous  by  the  king  and 
his  court  in  England — Ibid.  p.  306.  On  the 
30th  of  August  the  king  ordered  that  full  jus- 
tice should  be  done  according  to  the  law  and 
custom  of  England  and  of  his  land  of  Ireland, 
to  all  persons  suing  for  lands  and  tenements 
seized  into  the  king's  hands  ;  and  that  at  the 
suit  of  any  person  complaining  of  error  in  any 
record  or  process,  the  rolls  of  the  said  record 
and  process  should  be  recited  and  examined  in 
parliament  before  the  Justiciary  or  officer  be- 
fore whom  the  record  was  taken,  and  the  errors, 
if  any,  corrected.  —  Ibid.  p.  312.  Desmond 
assumed  the  government  July  26. — Pemb.  In 
the  year  1335  the  council  in  England  having 
ordered  that  sheriffs  should  be  elected  every 
year  in  each  county,  who  were  to  be  eschea- 
tors  in  the  same,  the  names  of  the  sheriffs  so 
elected  in  Ireland,  and  of  their  securities,  who 
were  the  principal  gentry  in  several  counties, 
are  given  in  Rot.  Pat.  29  Ed.  III.  65,  80,  90. 
k  Just — On  the  30th  March,  1356,  Mau- 


u 


146 


moritur,  vir  bonus  est  Justus  qui  suos  etiam  consanguineos  ob  furta  suspendit  et 
Hibernos  bene  castigavit. 

1356.  Thomas  Rokby  2°  fit  Just,  vir  Justus  et  prudens,  qui  dicere  solebat1  se 

velle 


rice  Fitz  Thomas,  Earl  of  Kildare,  was  ap- 
pointed Justiciary —  Rymer,  vol.  iii.  p.  326. 
On  the  26th  of  July,  Thomas  de  Rokeby,  who 
had  been  appointed  Justiciary,  was  on  his  way 
to  Ireland,  as  it  would  seem,  with  a  considera- 
ble number  of  followers.  There  were  two 
Thomas  Rokebys,  distinguished  from  each 
other  as  1' Uncle  and  le  Neveu — Rymer,  vol. 
iii.  p.  332.  On  the  20th  of  April,  in  conse- 
quence of  the  invasion  threatened  by  the  Lein- 
ster  rebels  with  the  aid  of  a  great  multitude 
of  other  Irish,  a  royal  hosting  (regale  ser- 
vicium)  at  Newcastle  M'Kynegan  was  pro- 
claimed through  all  Ireland,  and  the  sheriffs 
of  Dublin,  Meath,  Wexford,  Connaught,  Ros- 
common,  Louth,  Waterford,  the  Cross  of 
Ulster,  Kildare,  Limerick,  the  Cross  of  Kil- 
kenny, Carlow,  Cork,  the  Cross  of  Tipperary, 
and  the  Cross  of  Kerry,  and  the  seneschals 
of  the  liberties  of  Kerry,  Ulster,  Tipperary, 
Meath,  and  Kilkenny,  were  ordered  to  pro- 
claim it  in  their  several  bailiwicks — Rot.  Cl. 

29  et  30  Ed.  III.  16,  17.     On  the  16th  of 
July,  Thomas  (Giffard),  Bishop  of  Kildare, 
was  ordered  no  longer  to  delay  to  denounce, 
as  publicly  excommunicated,  the  Conghors  and 
Dymsys,  who,  with  banners  displayed,  were 
violating  the  peace  of  the  Church  and  of  the 
king,  by  invading  the  county  of  Kildare  within 
the  bishop's  jurisdiction;  and  who  had  there- 
by according  to  the  canons  and  the  provincial 
constitutions  incurred,  ipso  facto,  the  sentence 
of  greater  excommunication — Rot.  Cl.  29  et 

30  Ed.  III.  134. 

1  Dicere  solebat.  —  It  was  not  always  easy 


for  Rokeby  to  keep  this  resolution  of  paying 
in  money  ;  when  he  was  Justiciary  he  was 
obliged  to  borrow  "  in  magna  necessitate 
pro  commodo  Regis  et  maintenencia  pacis," 
£73  6s.  Sd.  from  Nicholas,  Bishop  of  Meath. 
—Rot.  Cl.  32  Ed.  III.  31.  On  the  12th  of 
September,  the  king,  probably  at  the  sugges- 
tion of  Rokeby,  issued  a  writ  to  the  Justiciary 
and  Chancellor  on  the  subject  of  the  exac- 
tions, which  were  afterwards  called  coyn  and 
livery.  In  this  writ  he  states  that  he  had  pre- 
viously sent  statutes  and  ordinances  into  Ire- 
land forbidding  his  purveyors  and  those  of  the 
nobles,  to  take  provisions  from  the  subjects 
except  under  a  certain  form  and  at  a  certain 
price,  and  that  he  has  learned  "  ex  insinua- 
tione  populi  lacrimosa,"that  the  purveyors  of 
the  Justiciary,  and  other  officers,  are  in  the 
habit  of  taking  and  carrying  off  without  price 
or  tally,  as  well  in  churches  and  church  fees, 
as  elsewhere,  and  chiefly  from  the  poor,  oxen, 
cows,  sheep,  pigs,  capons,  hens,  chickens,  fish, 
wheat,  barley,  oats,  straw,  and  litter,  against 
the  will  of  the  people,  commonly  without 
giving  any  price  or  tally,  or  at  most  scarcely 
a  third  part  of  the  real  value  ;  and  that,  by  this 
extortion,  from  which  the  rich,  who  made  pre- 
sents to  the  officers,  were  saved,  and  the  poor 
were  oppressed,  the  people  of  the  whole  land 
were  reduced  to  such  poverty  that  they  could 
not  maintain  their  former  condition,  or  pay 
their  debts  to  the  king,  but  were  compelled  to 
go  about  begging,  to  the  ruin  of  the  country. 
The  king,  therefore,  ordered  that  the  before- 
mentioned  statutes  and  ordinances  should  be 


147 


shortly  afterwards ;  he  was  a  good  man  and  just,  who  hanged  even  his  own  rela- 
tions for  theft,  and  well  chastised  the  Irish. 

1356.  Thomas  Rokeby  is  made  Justiciary  the  second  time,  a  just  and  prudent 


publicly  proclaimed  in  every  county,  as  well 
within  the  liberties  as  without,  and  in  cities, 
boroughs,  and  market  towns,  and  that  com- 
missions should  be  issued  under  the  Great 
Seal  for  the  punishment  of  all  delinquents.  He 
also  ordered  that  all  commissions  to  purvey- 
ors should  be  sealed  with  the  Great  Seal  alone, 
and  that  nothing  whatever  should  be  taken 
under  the  Seal  of  the  Justiciary  or  any  other 
officer ;  and  he  declares  that  he  will  punish 
any  Justiciary  or  other  officer,  purveyor,  &c., 
who  will  act  contrary  to  this  writ — Rymer, 
vol.  iii.  p.  340.  The  nature  and  consequences 
of  these  exactions  are  noticed  in  the  preamble 
of  a  Statute  which  shows  that  the  king's  officers 
were  not  the  only  offenders  in  this  case,  (10 
Hen.  VII.  c.  4,  not  printed,)  which  states, 
"  that  of  long  time  there  hath  been  used  and 
exacted  by  the  lords  and  gentlemen  of  this 
land,  many  and  divers  damnable  customs  and 
usages,  which  being  called  coin  and  livery  and 
pay,  that  is  horse  meat  and  man's  meat  for  the 
finding  of  their  horsemen  and  footmen,  and 
over  that,  4d.  or  Qd.  daily  to  every  of  them,  to 
be  had  and  paid  of  the  poor  earth-tillers  and 
tenants  without  anything  doing  or  paying 
therefor.  Besides  many  murders,  robberies, 
rapes,  and  other  manifold  oppressions  by  the 
said  horsemen  and  footmen  daily  and  nightly 
committed  and  done,  which  have  been  the 
principal  causes  of  the  desolation  and  destruc- 
tion of  the  said  land,  so  as  the  most  part  of 
the  English  freeholders  and  tenants  be  de- 
parted out  of  the  land,  some  into  the  realm 
of  England,  and  other  some  to  other  strange 

u 


man, 

lands,  whereupon  the  foresaid  lords  and  gen- 
tlemen of  this  land  have  intruded  into  the 
said  freeholders  and  tenants'  inheritances, 
and  the  same  keepeth  as  their  own,  and  set- 
teth  under  them  in  the  same  land  the  king's 
Irish  enemies,  to  the  diminishing  of  Holy 
Church's  rites,  the  desertion  of  the  king  and 
his  obedient  subjects,  and  the  utter  ruin  and 
desolation  of  the  land."  —  Davis'  Discovery, 
pp.  143,  144;  see  also  cc.  xviii  and  xix,  10 
Hen.  VII.  in  printed  Statute. 

In  Baron  Finglas's  Breviate  it  is  proposed 
that  if  the  deputy  draw  any  Irishman  to  any 
hosting  they  have  livery  the  night  going  and 
another  coming,  and  that  at  such  coin  and 
livery  every  chief  horse  have  twelve  sheaves 
of  oats,  and  every  hackeney  or  other  bearing 
horse  eight  sheaves,  and  that  there  be  but  one 
boy  to  a  horse.  "  Item — that  all  souche  soo 
livered  shall  take  souche  meat  and  drink  as 
the  husbandman  haith,  so  that  that  be  compe- 
tent meat  and  drinke,  and  if  they  will  not  re- 
ceive such  meat  and  drinke  as  they  find,  then 
every  horseman  to  have  a  meal  but  Id.  every 
galloglass,  kearn,  and  boy  oone  penny,  and  if 
it  be  flesh  daye  to  have  but  oone  manner  of 
flesh  sodden,  without  anie  rost,  and  but  bread 
and  butter,  and  alsoo  boys  and  footemen, 
except  Sondayes."  He  also  proposed,  that 
there  should  be  no  herbenger  within  the  four 
shires,  except  the  king's,  and  that  he  seal  no 
bill  but  such  as  shall  be  sealed  with  the  sign  of 
the  horse-head. — Har.  Hibernica,  pp.  93,  94. 
Was  the  Herbenger 's  seal  of  the  horse's  head 
the  origin  of  the  sign  of  the  nag's  head  ? 


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velle  comedere  et  bibere  de  vasis  ligneis,  et  expendere  aurum  et  argentum  in 
victu  et  vestitu  et  stipendariis.     Obiit  eodem  anno  in  castro  de  Kilka. 

1357.  Almaricus  de  S.  Amando™  Justic.  Magna  controversia  inter  Ricardum 
fitz  Rowe  arcliiepiscopum  Armacanum,  et  fratres  mendicantes,  qui  tandem  vice- 
runt  per  papam. 

1358.  Almaricus  Just,  in  Angliam"  proficissitur. 

1359.  Jacobus  Butler0  comes  Ormonise  factus  Justitiarius. 

1360 


m  Almaricus  de  S.  Amanda — Was  appoint- 
ed Justiciary  July  14,  1357 — Ryraer,  vol.  iii. 
p.  361.  And  on  August  30,  Maurice  Fitz 
Thomas,  Earl  of  Kildare,  was  appointed  his 
locum  tenens  until  his  arrival — Ibid.  p.  368. 
On  the  9th  of  February,  1358  ;  the  Earl  of 
Kildare  had  an  order  for  £26  Os.  6±d.  for 
his  arrears  for  nineteen  days.  —  Rot.  Cl.  32 
Ed.  III.  9.  In  1358,  Sir  Almaric  de  St. 
Amand  certified  to  the  king  that  Malatesta 
Ungarus  de  Arminio,  miles,  and  Nicholaus  de 
Beccariis  de  Ferraria,  Domicellus,  had  visited 
St.  Patrick's  Purgatory  in  Ireland,  and  had 
remained  shut  up  in  it  for  a  day  and  night, 
and  had  rightly  and  even  courageously  per- 
formed their  pilgrimage,  in  testimony  whereof 
the  king  gave  them  letters  under  his  royal  seal, 
dated  October  24 — Rymer,  vol.  iii.  p.  408. 

n  In  Angliam In  this  year  there  was  or- 
dinance made  (communi  consilio  terrae  Hiber- 
niae)  that  no  lord  or  other  person  should  leave 
the  country  without  special  license  from  the 
king,  except  merchants  living  altogether  of 
their  merchandize;  in  consequence  of  this 
ordinance  the  Earl  of  Kildare  was  forbid- 
den to  leave  Ireland — Rot.  Cl.  32  Ed.  III. 
•2  pars.  20.  On  the  8th  of  May,  orders  were 
given  that  no  one  should  furnish  horses,  ar- 
mour, or  victuals  to  Art  Kevenagh  M'Murgh 
and  Donenald  Revagh,  who  with  others  of 


their  sept  (de  Iraghto  suo)  had  made  insur- 
rection in  Leinster. — Ibid.  34. 

At  this  time  M'Brene  de  Nathirlagh  [Mac 
Brien  of  Aherlagh]  was  in  rebellion  on  the  mar- 
ches of  Limerick Rot.  Pat.  32  Ed.  III.  10. 

The  counties  of  Cork  and  Waterford  granted  a 
subsidy  of  2.9.  on  every  carucate  of  tilled  land, 
— 1,  15.  Kildare  and  Dublin  also  were  assessed 
voluntarily  for  the  pay  of  soldiers, — 35,  55. 
The  subsidy  of  Kildare,  asordered  to  be  levied 
November  16  in  the  barony  of  Kilcullen,  was 
for  every  carucate  of  tilled  land  a  crannock  of 
wheat,  a  crannock  of  oats,  and  a  fat  cow, — 58. 
As  in  1373,  a  crannock  of  wheat  in  Meath  was 
worth  8s.,  and  a  crannock  of  oats  5s. — Ry- 
mer, vol.  iii.  p.  977-  This  assessment  seems 
to  have  far  exceeded  40d.  a  carucate.  The 
Earl  and  County  of  Kildare  also  supplied 
the  pay  for  twenty-four  men  at  arms  with 
armed  horses  at  8d.,  two  hundred  hobelarsat 
4d.,  and  four  hundred  foot  at  lirf.  per  diem 
for  a  fortnight,  or  as  long  as  the  war  should 
last,  this  pay  to  be  raised  by  a  cess  of  40d.  on 
every  carucate  of  tilled  land,  and  4Qd.  on 
chattels  to  the  value  of  £6,  to  be  paid  weekly 
in  money  or  provisions  reasonably  priced,  every 
person  to  pay  or  to  serve  in  person. — Rot.  Pat. 
32  Ed.  III.  92.  As  a  carucate  contained  120 
acres,  it  would  appear  from  this  entry  that 
land  in  Kildare  was  then  valued  at  Is.  the  acre. 


149 


man,  who  used  to  say  that  he  had  rather  eat  and  drink  out  of  wooden  vessels, 
and  spend  gold  and  silver  on  food  and  clothing  and  hired  soldiers.  He  died  the 
same  year  in  the  Castle  of  Kilka. 

1357.  Almaric  de  St.  Amand,  Justiciary.     A  great   controversy  between 
Richard  Fitz  Ralph,  Archbishop  of  Armagh,  and  the  mendicant  friars,  who  at 
last  prevailed  through  the  Pope. 

1358.  Almaric,  the  Justiciary,  goes  to  England. 

1359.  James  Butler,  Earl  of  Ormonde,  is  made  Justiciary. 

1360. 


This  assessment,  which  was  to  be  paid  by 
the  said  county  as  long  as  the  war  should  last, 
was  ordered  to  be  levied  August  3rd,  but  peace 
having  been  made  with  the  assent  of  the 
county  of  Kildare  and  the  county  of  Carlow, 
the  sheriff  of  Kildare  was  ordered,  on  August 
12th,  not  to  proceed  to  levy  said  pay — Rot. 
Cl.  32  Ed.  III.  2"  pars.  57-  The  Earl  of  Kil- 
dare, according  to  agreement,  was  paid  60.?. 
by  the  county  of  Carlow  for  preventing  the 
O' Mores  from  burning  the  town  of  Killaban. 
— Ibid.  64.  On  the  22nd  August,  William  Vale, 
sheriff  of  Carlow,  who  had  lost  all  his  goods 
and  chattels  and  friends  and  relations  in  re- 
pulsing the  O'Nolans,  when  the  confedera- 
ted Irish  were  burning  the  towns  and  the  corn 
fields,  and  carrying  off  every  thing  without  re- 
sistance, and  who  had  killed  Donald  Tagsone 
O' Nolan,  and  many  other  of  their  captains, 
and  had  brought  their  heads  to  the  Castle  of 
Dublin  by  the  king's  order,  when  he  could 
have  had  great  ransom  for  delivering  them 
elsewhere,  had  an  order  for  £30. — Ibid.  113; 
Rot.  Pat.  32  Ed.  III.  57. 

On  the  9th  of  November,  Thomas  de  Staf- 
ford, sergeant-at-arms,  had  an  order  for  8"'. 
for  a  horse  which  he  had  lost  in  attendance 
upon  the  Justiciary  in  a  raid  (equitantis)  upon 
the  M'Murghs  and  O'Morthes  of  Slemargy; 


and  on  the  9th  of  October  Thomas  de  Baa, 
Esquire  (valetto),  of  Almaric  de  St.  Amand, 
Justiciary,  had  an  order  for  £\0  for  a  horse 

lost  in  like  manner Rot.  Cl.  32  Ed.  III. 

1  pars.  9,  10. 

0  Jacobus  Butler — He  was  appointed  Jus- 
ticiary February  16,  1359 — Rymer,  vol.  iii. 
p.  419.  On  the  20th  of  July  the  king  issued 
a  writ  ordering  the  marriage  of  the  earl's 
daughter  with  Gerald,  brother  of  Maurice 
Fitz  Maurice,  Earl  of  Desmond,  to  whom,  by 
reason  of  the  death  of  his  elder  brother  Mau- 
rice, and  of  the  idiocy  of  his  eldest  brother 
Nicholas,  the  king  ordered  the  livery  of  all  his 
lands,  he  undertaking  to  supply  his  brother 
Nicholas  with  food,  clothing,  and  other  neces- 
saries.— Ibid.  433.  Of  the  same  date  there 
is  a  writ  thereupon  ordering  that  the  plea  rolls 
should  be  in  the  keeping  of  the  justices,  and 
that  no  judicial  writs  should  issue  unless  tested 
by  the  chief  justice. — Ibid.  At  the  same  time 
all  proprietors  on  the  marches  were  ordered 
to  reside  under  penalty  of  forfeiture  of  their 
lands,  and  all  commissioners  for  the  recovery 
of  the  king's  debts  who  had  not  accounted, 
were  ordered  to  be  seized  and  imprisoned. 
Officers  indicted  for  felony  were  to  be  re- 
moved, and  as  persons  who  had  been  indicted 
had  murdered  those  who  had  indicted  them, 


i5o 


1360.  Obiit  Magister  Ricardus  fitz  Radulpni  Archiepiscopus  Armachanus 
in  Ammochiap.     Item  obiit  dominus  Robertus  Savage :  qui  cum  paucis  Anglis 
occiderat  uno  die  3000  Hibernorum,  in  antro  quodamq,  dederat  autem  antea 
unicuique  militi  vini  bonum  haustum :  paraveratque  splendidissima  convivia  in 
reditum  suorum.     Hie  mensam  semper  splendidissimam  servavit,  sepultus  estin 
conventu  predicatorum  de  Culrath  intra  Banum  fluvium.    Comes  Ormonias  Just, 
in  Angliam  proficissitur ;  ejus  vicarius  reliquitur  Mauritius  fitz  Thomas  comes 
Kildariae. 

1361.  Leonellus  comes  Ultonias  jure  hereditario  uxoris  suae  et  frater  regis 
venit  Just:  in  oct:  Mariaa  nativit.  cum  uxore  Elizabetha.     Dominus  Gualterus 
Brimingham  Junior  obiit  in  die  S.  Laurentii,  qui  patrimonium  divisit  sororibus 
suis,   quarum  una   accepit  Preston.     Leonellus  priinum  bellum  habuit   cum 
Obrine,  in  quo  publico  indicto  prohibuit  Hibernicumr  aliquem  appropinquare 
exercitui  suo,  et  inde  statim  interfecti  sunt  100  de  suis  stipendariis8,  quo  motus 

Hibernos 


and  afterwards  obtained  charters  of  pardon, 
so  that  all  persons  were  afraid  to  indict  crimi- 
nals, all  pardons  so  granted  under  the  Great 
Seal  of  Ireland  were  cancelled,  and  all  granted 
under  the  Great  Seal  of  England,  if  there 
were  any  such,  were  immediately  to  be  certi- 
fied to  the  king.  These  were  unobjectiona- 
ble ordinances  ;  but,  notwithstanding  the  evil 
consequences  of  reposing  trust  in  M'Murgh 
and  O'More,  it  would  be  difficult  to  justify 
the  following  proclamation,  "  Quod  nullus 
mere  Hibernicus  de  natione  Hibernicana  ex- 
istens,  fiat  Major,  balivus,  janitor  aut  alius 
officiarius  seu  minister  in  aliquo  loco  nobis 
subjecto,"  and  that  no  Irishman,  as  aforesaid, 
should  be  admitted  to  any  ecclesiastic  benefice. 
— Ibid.  The  Earl  of  Ormonde  had  an  order 
for  £200.  The  Archbishop  of  Dublin  (John 
de  St.  Paul)  is  joined  with  the  Justiciary,  as 
his  counsellor  in  many  of  these  writs. 

On  the  18th  of  March  a  writ  issued,  sum- 
moning the  bishops,  lords,  knights,  and  citi- 


zens of  Leinster,  to  a  council  to  be  held  at 
Dublin  on  the  Monday  before  the  Feast  of  St. 
Ambrose  (April  3) ;  and  the  bishops,  lords, 
knights,  and  citizens,  on  the  same  day  at  Wa- 
terford ;  the  Sheriff  of  Kildare  and  the  Senes- 
chal of  the  liberty  of  Kilkenny  were  ordered 
to  send  to  Waterford  two  persons  who  were 
named,  vel  alios  proceres. — Rot.  Cl.  33  Ed. 
III.  21,  25.  The  cause  of  summoning  this 
council  seems  to  have  been  the  insurrection  of 
Art'  Kavanagh,  who  having  been  made  the 
M'Murgh  by  the  king,  had  turned  traitor. — 
Ibid.  29.  The  council  granted  a  subsidy  in 
Waterford,  Cork,  Limerick,  and  probably  in 
the  other  southern  counties,  who  were  also 
taxed  for  the  expenses  of  messengers  sent  to 
England  by  a  parliament  held  in  Kilkenny, 
40d.  on  every  carucate  of  tilled  land,  and  6d. 
on  every  pound  from  those  who  had  only  chat- 
tels ;  Meath  gave  only  2s.  on  the  carucate. — 
Ibid.  112  ;  the  county  of  Louth  granted  £20. 
— Ibid.  32,  41.  Adam  Gernoun  and  Henry 


1360.  Master  Richard  Fitz  Ralph,  Archbishop  of  Armagh,  died  in  Avignion, 
likewise  died  Sir  Robert  Savage,  who  with  a  few  English  had  killed  in  one  day 
three  thousand  Irish  near  Antrim  ;  but  he  had  before  given  every  soldier  a  good 
drink  of  wine,  and  had  prepared  a  splendid  feast  against  their  return ;  he  always 
kept  a  most  splendid  table ;  he  was  buried  in  the  convent  of  the  Friars  Preachers 
of  Coleraine,  on  the  River  Bann.     The  Earl  of  Ormonde,  the  Justiciary,  goes 
to  England ;  Maurice  Fitz  Thomas,  Earl  of  Kildare,  is  left  as  his  deputy. 

1361.  Lionel,  Earl  of  Ulster  by  the  hereditary  right  of  his  wife,  and  son  of 
the  king,  came  as  Justiciary  on  the  Octaves  of  the  Nativity  of  Mary,  with  his 
wife  Elizabeth.     Sir  Walter  Birmingham,  the  younger,  died  on  St.  Laurence's 
day.     He  divided  his  patrimony  amongst  his  sisters,  one  of  whom  took  Preston. 
Lionel  first  had  a  war  with  O'Byrne,  in  which  by  a  public  proclamation  he  for- 
bade any  of  Irish  birth  to  come  near  his  army ;  and  upon  this  there  are  slain  im- 
mediately one  hundred  of  his  hired  soldiers,  by  which  he  was  moved  to  oppose 

perpetually 


Heyward,  who  were  elected  burgesses  for 
Drogheda,  did  not  comply  with  the  king's  in- 
j  unctions,  and  were  therefore  ordered  to  ap- 
pear before  the  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  toge- 
ther with  the  mayor  and  seneschal  and  four 
other  "de  probioribus  burgensibus"  of  the 
town.  —  Ibid.  42.  Kilkenny  and  Wexford 
were  also  assessed  for  the  war  against  O'Byrn. 
— Ibid.  99.  The  expedition  of  the  Justiciary  by 
M'Gilfatrik  (Fitz  Patrick  of  Queen's  County), 
who  was  allowed  £10  on  the  8th  of  June. 
— Ibid.  67,  was  successful,  and  M'Murgh, 
O'Morth  [Murphy]  and  Maurice  Boy,  were 
compelled  to  give  hostages,  who  were  placed  in 
the  custody  of  Adam  de  Grantham,  constable 
of  the  Castle  of  Carlow.  But  notwithstand- 
ing this  success  the  Justiciary  was  compelled 
on  the  28th  of  July,  to  summon  another  coun- 
cil, to  be  held  at  Dublin  on  the  Monday  after 
the  Feast  of  St.  Peter  ad  vincula  (August  7) 
"  propter  qua?dam  urgentissima  negocia  pa- 
cem  Hiberniae  et  prsecipue  parcium  Lageniae 


concernentia." — Ibid.  72.  These  long  ex- 
tracts from  Rymer  and  the  Chancery  Rolls  in 
some  degree  supply  the  deficiencies  of  Pern- 
bridge  and  Grace. 

P  In  Ammochia. — In  Hannonia  xvi  Decem- 
bris,  as  printed  in  Pembridge,  but  Ware  says, 
that  the  MS.  then  in  his  possession  had  rightly, 
in  Avignion.  —  Bishops,  p.  83.  Pembridge 
says,  Archbishop  Fitz  Ralph's  bones  were 
brought  by  Stephen  Bishop  of  Meath,  to  be 
buried  in  the  church  of  St.  Nicholas  at  Dun- 
dalk,  where  he  was  born,  but  that  some  doubt- 
ed whether  they  were  or  were  not  his  bones. 

1 1n  antro  quodam. — Juxta  Antrim. — Pemb. 

r  Hibernicum,  —  Nullus  nativus  de  Hiber- 
nia. — Pemb. 

8  Stipendariis.  —  The  roll  of  this  army  re- 
mains of  record  in  the  King's  Remembrancer's 
Office  in  England,  and  does  not  contain  above 
1500  men  by  the  poll.  The  Lord  Lionel  was 
general,  and  under  him  Ralph  Earl  of  Stafford, 
James  Earl  of  Ormonde,  Sir  John  Carew 


15* 

Hibernos  et  Anglos*  perpetuo  conflixit  cum  Hibernis.  Equitesu  Robertum  Pres- 
ton, Robertum  Holiwod,  Thomam  Talbot,  Gualterum  Cusack,  Jacobum  de  Lasid, 
Johannem  de  Fraxinis,  Patricium  et  Robertum  de  Fraxinis  et  plures  alios,  tran- 
stulitv  de  Dublin  ad  Carlaghe,  deditque  500  libras  in  muros  eidem  oppido  edifi- 
candos.  In  festum  S.  Mauri  ventus  impetuosus. 

1362^  Templum  S.  Patricii  Dublinise  igne  Johannis  Sextani  arsit  8  idus 
Aprilis. 

1364.  Leonellusx  in  Angliam  proficiscitur  22  Aprilis,  relicto  vicario  comite 
Ormonise,  rediitque  18  Decembris. 

1365.  Leonellus  rediit  in  Angliam,  relicto  vicario,  D.  Thoma  Dale. 

1367.  Incepit  bellum  inter  les  Briminghams  de  Carbery,  et  Midios  ob  latro- 


Banneret,  Sir  William  Winsor,  and  other 
knights ;  the  pay  of  the  general  upon  his  first 
arrival  was  but  6s.  Sd.  per  diem  for  himself, 
for  two  knights  2s.,  for  sixty-four  squires 
12rf. ,  for  seventy  archers  6d. ;  but  being 
shortly  after  created  Duke  of  Clarence  his 
pay  was  raised  to  12s.  4d.  (1 3s.  4d.,  Rymer, 
vol.  iii.  p.  732)  a  day  for  himself,  for  eight 
knights  2s.,  for  260  archers  on  horseback  out 
of  Lancashire  6d.,  and  twenty-three  archers 
out  of  Wales  Id.  a  piece  per  diem. 

The  Earl  of  Stafford  was  allowed  6s.  8d. 
for  himself,  for  a  bannaret  4s.,  for  seventeen 
knights  2s.,  for  seventy-eight  esquires  I2d., 
for  100  archers  on  horseback  6d.  a  piece  per 
diem.  He  had  also  the  command  of  twenty- 
four  archers  out  of  Staffordshire,  forty  archers 
from  Worcestershire,  and  six  archers  from 
Shropshire,  at  4d.  per  diem.  James  Earl  of 
Ormonde  was  allowed  for  himself  4s.,  for  two 
knights  2s.,  for  twenty-seven  esquires  12^., 
for  twenty  hobelars  armed  6d.,  and  for  twenty 
hobelars  not  armed  4d.  —  Davis'  Discovery, 
pp.  23,  24.  Great  preparations  had  been  made 
for  this  expedition.  On  the  15th  of  March, 
1361 ,  the  king  issued  a  writ  to  all  the  proprie- 


cmia 

tors  of  lands  or  benefices  in  Ireland  resident 
in  England,  declaring  that  because  that  the 
land  of  Ireland  was  almost  totally  lost  to  the 
Irish  enemy  on  account  of  the  weakness  of  the 
loyal  subjects,  arising  from  the  absentee  lords 
and  others  taking  the  profits  of  their  lands, 
and  doing  nothing  for  their  defence,  and  that 
he  determined  to  send  his  son  there  with  a 
great  army,  and  summoning  them  to  appear 
before  him  at  Westminster  to  treat  on  the 
subject,  and  in  the  meantime  ordering  them 
to  make  ready  men  and  arms. — Rymer,  vol.  iii. 
p.  609.  (The  names  of  the  absentee  proprie- 
tors there  summoned  are  given  in  the  Appen- 
dix). An  aid  was  then  granted  by  the  absen- 
tees (Ibid.  p.  704),  both  clergy  and  laymen, 
amounting  to  two  years'  profits,  of  all  their 
lands  and  tithes — Davis'  Disc.,  p.  26. 

'  Hibernos  et  Anglos. — "  Suddenly,  but  no 
man  wist  how,  an  hundred  of  his  principall 
souldiours  in  garrison  were  missed,  whose  dis- 
patch that  seditious  decree  was  thought  to 
have  procured,  wherefore  hee  advised  him- 
selfe  and  united  the  people,  shewing  alike 
fatherly  care  towards  them  all,  and  ever  after 
prospered." — Campion,  p.  135.  The  quarrel 


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perpetually  the  Irish  born  and  the  English  to  the  Irish.  He  made  knights 
Robert  Preston,  Robert  Holywood,  Thomas  Talbot,  Walter  Cusack,  James  De 
la  Hide,  John  De  la  Freigne,  Patrick  and  Robert  De  la  Freigne,  and  many 
others ;  he  transferred  the  Exchequer  from  Dublin  to  Carlow,  and  gave  £500 
to  build  walls  for  that  town.  A  great  storm  on  the  feast  of  St.  Maur.  (January 
1 5th). 

1362.  The  Church  of  St.  Patrick  of  Dublin  was  burned  by  the  fire  of  John 
Sexton,  on  the  8th  Ides  of  April  (April  6th). 

1364.  Lionel  goes  into  England  on  the  22nd  of  April,  leaving  the  Earl  of 
Ormonde  as  his  deputy,  and  returned  the  i8th  of  December. 

1365.  Lionel  returned  into  England  leaving  Sir  Thomas  Dale  as  his  de- 
puty. 

1367    A  war  began  between  the  Birminghams  of  Carberry  and  the  men  of 

Meath, 


between  the  English  by  birth  and  the  English 
by  descent,  was  not  immediately  appeased. 
On  June  14,  1364,  the  king  ordered  procla- 
mation to  be  made  "ne  quis  Anglicus,  in 
Anglia  vel  in  Hibernia  natus"  should  make  any 
dissension,  reproach,  or  debate  amongst  them- 
selves under  pain  of  fine  and  two  years'  im- 
prisonment— Rymer,  vol.  iii.  p.  738. 

"Equites. — Campion  says,  that  these  gentle- 
men then  created  knights  were  the  worthiest 
then  in  chivalry,  and  that  at  his  day  they  con- 
tinued in  great  worship.  Robert  Preston, 
Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas,  was  the 
founder  in  this  country  of  the  noble  family  of 
Gormanstown ;  Holywood  of  Artane,  Talbot 
of  Malahide,  Cusack  of  Killeen,  De  la  Hyde 
of  Moyclare,  and  De  la  Freigne  of  Kilkenny, 
Wicklow,  and  Meath,  are  names  of  frequent 
occurrence. 

v  Transtulit.  —  Transtulit  Scaccarium  de 
Dublinia  ad  Carlagh. — Pemb. 

w  1362.— On  the  10th  of  February  the  king 
issued  a  writ  to  Thomas  de  Furnyvall  and  the 
other  absentee  lords  who  had  not  attended  to 

IRISH  ARCH.  SOC.  3.  X 


his  previous  summons,  stating  that  his  son 
Lionel  and  his  army  in  Ireland  were  in  the 
greatest  peril,  and  ordering  them  on  their  al- 
legiance to  make  ready  so  as  to  be  in  Ireland 
on  the  quindesme  of  Easter,  and  to  appear  at 
Westminster  "  ad  loquendum  et  tractandum" 
on  the  Wednesday  in  the  second  week  of  Lent. 
— Rymer,  vol.  iii.  p.  637. 

*  Leonellus. — Pembridge  says,  that  he  went 
into  England  Earl  of  Ulster  and  came  back 
Duke  of  Clarence'.  In  1363  all  the  issues 
and  profits  of  Ireland,  from  whatever  source, 
were  appropriated  to  the  maintenance  of  the 
war  in  the  country. — Rymer,  vol.  iii.  p.  714. 
February  13,  1364,  the  barons  and  other  offi- 
cers of  the  Exchequer  and  the  justices  of  the 
Common  Pleas  and  other  officers  were  re- 
moved, and  were  succeeded  by  persons  whose 
names  seem  to  be  English. — Ibid.  p.  7'21.  In 
1366,  for  which  year  there  is  no  entry  in  Pem- 
bridge or  in  Grace,  the  Duke  of  Clarence  held, 
to  use  the  words  of  Sir  Rich.  Cox,  "  that  re- 
nowned parliament  at  Kilkenny  ;  which  made 
that  famous  Act,  which  is  so  often  cited  by  the 


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cinia  Briminghams,  igitur  Robertus  Preston  posuit  presidium  in  Castro  de  Car- 
beryy.    Geraldus  Mauricii2  comes  Dessemonise  fit  Justitiarius. 

1368.  In  Carberia  post  parliamentum  quoddam  inter  Anglos  et  Hibernos, 
capiuntur  a  Briminghams  et  aliis,  Frater  Thomas  Burleya  prior  de  Kilmaynam, 
Cancellarius,  Jo.  fitz  Richard  vicecomes  Midiae,  D.  Robertus  Tirell,  Baro  de 
Castleknock,  cum  aliis  permultis ;  extemplo  igitur  Jacobus  Brimingham  qui  in 
castro  Trim  tenebatur  in  manicis  et  compedibus  liberatus  pro  Cancellario,  ceteri 
autem  precio  solvuntur.     Templum  S.  M.  de  Trimb  arsit. 

1369.  Gulielmus  de  Winsore,  vir  fortis  et  strenuus,  venit  locum  tenens  do- 
mini  regis  1 2  calendas  Julii,  cui  cessit  comes  Dessemonise. 

1370.  Incepit   3a  pestis  que  nobiles  permultos,    alios  innumeros   sustulit. 
Geraldus  fitz  Mauritii  comes  Dessemonise,  Jo.  f.  Nicholai,  et  D.  Thomas  fitz 
Joannis,  et  alii  multi  nobiles  in  monasterio  de  Magiusc  in  comitatu  Limerici,  ab 
Obrene  et  Mac  Marded  de  Thomonia  6°  idus  Julii  capti  sunt,  et  plures  interfecti, 

ea 


name  of  the  Statute  of  Kilkenny.  The  bishops 
of  Dublin,  Cashel,  Tuam,  Lismore,  Water- 
ford,  Killaloe,  Ossory,  Leighlin,  and  Cloyne, 
did  fulminate  an  excommunication  against 
the  transgressors  of  that  law.  The  lords  and 
commons  sat  together  at  the  making  of  it,  and 
the  Statute  itself  is  in  French,  and  to  be  seen 
at  large  in  the  library  at  Lambeth,  libro  D. 
but  the  effect  of  it  is  : 

"  That  the  brehon  law  is  an  evil  custom,  and 
that  it  be  treason  to  use  it.  That  marriage, 
nursing,  and  gossipping  with  the  Irish  be  trea- 
son. That  the  use  of  Irish  name,  apparel,  or 
language  be  punished  with  the  loss  of  lands  or 
imprisonment  until  the  party  give  security  to 
conform.  That  the  English  should  not  make 
war  upon  the  Irish  without  order  of  the  State. 
That  the  English  should  not  permit  the  Irish 
to  creaght  or  graze  upon  their  land,  nor  pre- 
sent an  Irishman  to  an  ecclesiastical  benefice, 
nor  receive  them  into  monasteries  or  religious 
houses,  nor  entertain  any  of  their  minstrels, 


rhimers  or  news-tellers,  nor  cess  horse  or  foot 
upon  the  English  subject  against  his  will,  on 
pain  of  felony;  and  that  sheriffs  might  enter 
any  liberty  or  franchise  to  apprehend  felons 
or  traytors ;  and  that  four  wardens  of  the  peace 
should  be  appointed  in  every  county,  equally 
to  assess  every  man's  proportion  of  the  pub- 
lic charge  for  men  and  armour." — Cox  Hib. 
Angl.,  p.  127. 

y  Castro  de  Carbery — Castle  Carbery,  in 
County  Kildare,  part  of  the  inheritance  of 
Margaret  Birmingham,  daughter  of  Sir  Wal- 
ter Birmingham,  and  wife  of  Sir  Robert 
Preston. 

z  Geraldus  Mauricii His  patent  bears 

date  February  20th,  1367,  on  which  day  also 
Thomas  le  Reve,  Bishop  of  Waterford  and 
Lismore,  was  appointed  Chancellor,  and  a  writ 
issued  pardoning  all  debts  to  the  king  in  Ire- 
land previous  to  October  13,  1362. — Rymer, 
vol.  Hi.  p.  822. 

1  Thomas  Burley.  —  Thomas   de    Bur  el  e, 


Meath,  because  of  the  robberies  of  the  Birminghams,  wherefore  Robert  Preston 
put  a  garrison  in  the  Castle  of  Carberry.  Gerald  Fitz  Maurice,  Earl  of  Des- 
mond, is  made  Justiciary. 

1368.  In  Carberry,  after  a  parley  between  the  English  and  the  Irish,  there 
are  taken  by  the  Birminghams  and  others,  Friar  Thomas  Burley,  Prior  of  Kil- 
mainham,  Chancellor ;  John  Fitz  Richard,  Sheriff  of  Meath ;  Sir  Robert  Tirrel, 
Baron  of  Castleknock ;  with  several  more.    Wherefore  James  Birmingham,  who 
was  held  in  Trim  Castle  in  handcuffs  and  fetters,  is  immediately  set  at  liberty  in 
exchange  for  the  Chancellor,  the  others  are  set  free  in  ransom.     The  Church  of 
S.  Mary's  of  Trim  was  burned. 

1369.  William  de  Windsor,  a  brave  and  active  man,  came  Lieutenant  of  our 
Lord  the  King  on  the  I2th  Calends  of  July  (July  2ist),  and  the  Earl  of  Des- 
mond resigned  office  to  him. 

1370.  The  third  pestilence  began,  which  carried  off  many  nobles  and  others 
without  number.     Gerald  Fitz  Maurice,  Earl  of  Desmond,  John  Fitz  Nicholas 
and  Sir  Thomas  Fitz  John,  and  many  other  nobles,   are  taken  by  O'Brien  and 
M'Namara[?]  of  Thomond,  on  the  6th  Ides  of  July  (July  roth),  in  the  Abbey 

of 


Friar  of  the  Hospital  of  St.  John  of  Jerusa- 
lem in  Ireland  was  appointed  Chancellor,  May 
25,  1368 — Rymer,  vol.  iii.  p.  847.  Richard 
Cruys  and  Nicholas  Waffre,  who  were  amongst 
the  prisoners  taken  by  the  Birminghams,  gave 
for  their  ransom  ten  marks,  a  hauberk,  and  a 
salet  worth  five  marks — they  were  allowed 

ten  marks  from  the  Treasury Rot.  Cl.  48 

Ed.  III.  16.  R  ibert  Tyrrell's  ransom  amount- 
ed in  money,  horses,  and  armour  to  £100,  he 
was  allowed  £53  6*.  Sd.  from  the  Treasury. 
Ibid.  76. 

b  Templum  S.  M.  de  Trim — The  Monas- 
tery of  the  Blessed  Virgin  of  Trim.  On  the 
6th  September,  1400,  Henry  IV.  granted  let- 
ters patent  to  this  house,  taking  into  his  protec- 
tion all  persons,  whether  Irish  rebels  or  liege 
subjects,  coming  to  it  on  pilgrimage  in  honour 
of  the  Virgin,  thereby  confirming  an  ancient 

X 


pri  vilege  of  immunity  of  such  pilgrims  from  all 
suits  of  the  king,  of  the  lords  of  Meath,  or  of 
any  other  person  whatsoever.  These  letters 
were  confirmed  on  an  inspeximus,  10th  March, 
1415 Rot.  Pat.  2  Hen.  V.  139. 

c  DeMagius — De  Magio,  scilicet  Maii — 
Pemb.  Monasternenagh. 

d  Mac  Murde — Mac  Comor — Pemb.  Mac 
Coinard. — Marleburgh.  Mac  Commard. — 
Holinshed.  On  the  20th  of  March,  1372, 
Stephen  Bishop  of  Meath  had  an  order  for 
£320  granted  to  him  for  having  risked  his  life 
in  various  parts  of  Munster  with  men  at  arms 
in  fighting  and  reducing  to  peace  O'Breen 
of  Tothemond,  M'Conmarre,  O'Maghirs, 
O'Dures,  O'Molryans,  Durleyns,  Cauntons, 
and  other  rebels.  — Rot.  Cl.  46  Ed.  III.  52. 
M'Comarre  and  his  sept  became  the  king's 
liege  subjects,  and  were  therefore  attacked  by 
2 


i56 

ea  de  causa  locus  tenens  omisso  bello  in  Otothiles  et  Lagenia,  eo  se  contulit. 
Obierunt  D.  Robertus  Tiril  Baro  de  Castleknock,  uxor  et  Lores,  quapropter 
Johanna  et  Maltidis  soror  diviserunt  inter  se  patrimonium.  Item  obiit  dominus 
Symon  Flemyng  baro  de  Slane  D.  Johannes  Cusack  baro  de  Colmolen  et  Jo. 
Tailor6  major  quondam  Dublin. 

I394/  Ricardus  2US  Hiberniam  ingressus  est  anno  regni  sui  18°  i°  Octobris. 

1 399.  Idem  Ricardus  20g  ingressus  est  Hiberniam  ultimo  Maii,  Regni  23°. 

1407.  In  festo  exaltacionis  crucis  apud  Callam  in  comitatu  Kildariae11,  occi- 
duntur  3000  Hibernorum  et  Anglorum  rebellium,  et  O'Carul  eorum  dux  a  D. 
Stephano  Scrope  deputato  Thomae  ducis  Lancastriae  locum  tenentis  Hiberniae. 

1427.  17  [Octobris]  obiit  Geraldus1  fitz  Mauritii,  G.  comes  Kildarias  sepultus 
in  monasterio  omnium  Sanctorum. 

1429.  Arsit  primum  oppidum  de  Naas  a  Donato  Kewanagh  26°  Septembris. 

1448.  Obitus  Roberti  Flatisby  armigeri  vicecomitis  Kildariae  apud  bellum 
de  Donerist  ij°  Septembris. 

1467.  15.  Februarii  decollates  est  Thomas  comes  Dessemonise  apud  Donta- 
nam,  a  Joanne  comite  Vigornias. 

1478.  Obiit  Thomas  comes  Kildariae,  Just.  Hibernise. 

I4i8.j  Geraldus  filius  predicti  comitis  Kildariae  obiit  3°  Septembris  qui  de- 
putatus  fuerat  33  annos;  hie  Hibernos  egregie  castigavit,  eorumque  loca  mu- 
nita  diruit;  castella  solo  equavit,  variis  in  locis  colonias  disposuit,  oppidaque 
diruta  refecit,  arcesque  in  locis  comodis  construxit.  Vir  liberalis,  strenuus, 
pius,  et  misericors. 

1504.  Prelium  de  Knoctowek  comittitur  a  Geraldo  predicto  adversus  Mac 
Willam  de  Burgo  et  Obrinios,  2a  feria  post  festum  Assumptions  Marias. 

Dominus 

O'Brien,  and  their  lands  in  Limerick  were  f  1394 King  Richard  landed  at  Water- 
plundered  by  him;  the  younger  M'Comarre  ford  on  the  2nd  day  of  October,  1394 — Cox, 
assembled  400  men  for  his  defence,  and  had  p.  137.  For  this  expedition  see  Froissart, 
an  order  for  fifty  marks  May  7,  1374. — Rot.  vol.  ii.  c.  ccii.,  Berner's  Transl. 
Cl.  48  Ed.  III.  21.  «  2° — See  French  Metrical  History  of  the 
e  Jo.  Tailor. — Vir  dives  et  potens  in  pecu-  Deposition  of  King  Richard,  printed  in  Ar- 
niis. — Pemb.  This  is  the  last  entry  in  Pern-  chaeologia,  vol.  xx.  of  which  a  translation  of  the 
bridge's  Annals.  The  remaining  notices  are  part  relative  to  the  expedition  into  Ireland  had 
entered  in  Grace's  MS.  without  regard  to  been  previously  printed  in  Harris'  Hibernica. 
chronological  order.  ''  Callam  in  comitatu  Kildarice — Callan  in 


of  Magio,  in  the  county  of  Limerick,  and  more  were  killed,  on  which  account,  the 
Lieutenant,  leaving  the  war  against  the  O'Tooles  and  in  Leinster,  betook  himself 
thither.  There  died  Sir  Robert  Tirrell,  Baron  of  Castleknock,  his  wife  and  his 
heir,  for  which  reason  Joan,  and  her  sister  Matilda,  divided  the  inheritance 
between  them.  Likewise  died  Sir  Simon  Fleming,  Baron  of  Slane,  Sir  John 
Cusack,  Baron  of  Culmullen,  and  John  Tailor,  sometime  Mayor  of  Dublin. 

1 394.  Richard  the  Second  entered  Ireland  in  the  eighteenth  year  of  his  reign, 
October  i. 

1 399.  The  same  Richard  entered  Ireland  a  second  time  on  the  last  day  of 
May,  in  the  twenty-third  of  his  reign. 

1407.  On  the  Feast  of  the  Exaltation  of  the  Cross  (September  I4th),  there 
were  slain  at  Callam,  in  the  county  of  Kildare,  3000  Irish  and  English  rebels, 
and  O'Carol,  their  captain,  by  Sir  Stephen  Scrope,  Deputy  of  Thomas  Duke  of 
Lancaster,  Lieutenant  of  Ireland. 

1427.  1 7th  of  October,  died,  Gerald  Fitz  Maurice  Fitz  Gerald,  Earl  of 
Kildare.  He  was  buried  in  the  Monastery  of  All  Saints. 

1429.  Town  of  Naas  first  burned  by  Donagh  Kavanagh,  September  26th. 

1448.  Death  of  Robert  Flatisbury,  Esquire,  Sheriff  of  Kildare,  at  the  battle 
of  Donerisk  on  the  second  of  September. 

1467.  i5th  of  February,  Thomas  Earl  of  Desmond  is  beheaded  at  Drogheda 
by  John  Earl  of  Worcester. 

1478.  Died,  Thomas  Earl  of  Kildare,  Justiciary  of  Ireland. 

I4i8-[i5i3?].  Gerald,  son  of  the  aforesaid  Earl  of  Kildare,  died  September 
3,  who  had  been  Deputy  thirty-three  years ;  he  greatly  chastised  the  Irish,  and 
destroyed  their  strongholds ;  he  levelled  their  castles  to  the  ground,  and  settled 
colonies  in  divers  places,  and  repaired  ruined  towns,  and  built  forts  in  convenient 
places.  A  man  liberal,  bold,  pious,  and  merciful. 

1504.  The  battle  of  Knocdoe  is  fought  by  the  aforesaid  Gerald  against 
M' William  de  Burgh  and  the  O'Briens,  on  the  Monday  after  the  Assumption. 

Lord 

com.  de  Kilkenny — Marleburgh.  J  1418.  —  Gerald,  eighth  Earl  of  Kildare, 

1  Geraldus — John,  the  sixth  Earl  of  Kil-  died  September  3,  1513. — Archdall's  Peerage, 

dare,  died  17th  October,  1427,  and  was  buried  Leinster.     The  next  entry  shows  that  Grace 

in  the   Monastery  of  All  Saints,  Dublin —  was  aware  that  he  was  alive  in  1504. 

Archdall's  Peerage,  Leinster.  k  Knoctowe. — Knockdoe  is  eight  miles  N. 


i58 

Dominus  Leonardus1  Gray,  filius  Marchionis  Gray,  venit  Justiciarius  Hiber- 
nias.  Hie  primum  in  OfFalia  adversus  O  Conor  proficissitur,  ubi  [di]-ruit  castrum 
Dingin  vocatum  cum  reliquis  omnibus  ejus  regionis. 

2°  expeditionemm  fecit  in  M°Goyghigan  et  O  Mulinoy,  vastavitque  regionem 
y  Doyn,  obsidesque  ab  omnibus  iis  suscepit  et  ab  O  Malaghlin. 

3°  Profectus  est  O  Karull  per  Ofaliam,  a  quibus  dirutis  castris  obsides  accepit ; 
unde  profectus  est  per  regionem  Ymabrean  versus  Limericum,  cepitque  obsides  a 
comite  Dessimonie  et  ejus  sequaribus ;  dein  in  O  Brein  proficissitur,  ubi  fregit 
magnum  pontem  vocatum  pontem  O  Brene  cum  duobus  castris  adjunctis.  Inde 
versus  Galway  iter  suscepit  in  quo  suscepit  obsides  a  Ricardinis  aliisque  burgen- 
sibus  et  ceteris  adjunctis.  Multocies  egrie  [egregie]  castigavit  Birnes  et  Toules 
Rananos  et  Moros.  Postea  vero  cum  magnates  Ultoniae,  scilicet  O  Ne[al] 
O  Donel  Clannyboy  cum  Scotis  de  Glynny  junctis  viribus  vaderent  colonias 
Anglorum  multaque  damna  inferrent,  hie  eos  sequutus  [est]  usque  vadum  voca- 
tum Biayllaho  prope  confines  Ferny  ubi  magnam  eorum  stragem  edidit  in  fugam 
actorum  2°  Decembris. 


[LES  LACYES  ET  LES  BURKEINS.] 

1242.  Obiit  Hugo  Laicius  comes  Ultoniae,  relicta  filia  que  nupsit  Waltero 
Bourck,  domino  Connaciaa. 

Hugo  Laicius  senior,  filios  habuit  Gualterum  et  Hugonem.  Gualterus  genuit 
Gilbertum,  qui  genuit  Margaretam  et  Matildam ;  Margareta  nupsit  Theobaldo  de 
Werdon11,  qui  genuerunt  Theobaldum,  qui  genuit  Joannam,  Margaretam  et  Isa- 
bellam ;  Johanna  nupsit  Thomae  Furneval0 ;  Elizabetha  Bartholomeio  Burwiche ; 

Margareta 

E.  of  the  town  of  Galway.     See  a  curious  ac-  "'  2°  expeditionem. — The  words  "  circa  an- 

count  of  this  battle  in  the  Annals  of  the  Four  num  1536"  are  written  in  the  margin  of  the 

Masters,  A.  D.  1504.  MS.  in  the  same  hand  as  the  text. 

'  Dominus  Leonardus. — For  the  conduct  of  "  Theobaldo  de  Werdon. — Margaret  de  Lacy 

Lord  Leonard  Gray,  son   of  the  Marquis  of  married  John  de  Verdon.     In  this  pedigree  a 

Dorset,  as  Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland,  see  Ware's  generation  is  omitted. 

Annals,  A.  D.  1536,  1539,  and  his  Original  °  Thonue  Furneval — The  eldest  of  the  two 

Letters  printed  in  the  State  Papers,  part  iii.  daughters  and  coheirs  of  Thomas  Nevil,  Lord 


'59 

Lord  Leonard  Gray,  son  of  the  Marquis  Gray,  came  Justiciary  of  Ireland. 
First,  he  goes  into  OfFaly  against  O'Conor,  where  he  destroyed  the  castle,  called 
the  Dengan,  with  all  the  others  of  his  country. 

Secondly,  he  made  an  expedition  against  M'Geoghegan  and  O'Mulloy,  and 
wasted  the  country  of  O'Dunn,  and  took  hostages  from  them  all,  and  from 
O'Melaghlin. 

Thirdly,  he  went  against  O'Carol  through  Ofaly,  from  whom,  after  he  had 
destroyed  their  castles,  he  received  hostages;  from  thence  he  went  through 
O'Brien's  [Arra's]  country  towards  Limerick,  and  took  hostages  from  the  Earl 
of  Desmond  and  his  followers ;  then  he  goes  against  O'Brien,  where  he  broke  the 
great  bridge  called  O'Brien's  Bridge,  with  two  castles  adjoining.  Thence  he 
took  his  journey  towards  Galway,  in  which  he  took  hostages  from  the  Rickards 
and  other  townsmen,  and  the  rest  of  the  confederates.  He  frequently  severely 
chastised  the  Byrnes  and  Tooles,  the  Ronans  [?]  and  Moores.  Afterwards  when 
the  lords  of  Ulster,  to  wit  O'Neal,  O'Donnel,  Claneboy,  with  the  Scots  of  the 
Glyns,  were  going  with  their  united  forces  against  the  English  colonies  and  were 
doing  much  mischief,  he  pursued  them  to  the  ford  called  Beallyhoe,  near  the 
borders  of  Ferny  in  Monaghan,  where  he  slaughtered  many  of  them,  and  put 
the  rest  to  flight  on  the  2nd  of  December. 


[THE  DE  LACYS  AND  THE  DE  BURGHS.] 

1242.  Died,  Hugh  de  Lacy,  Earl  of  Ulster,  leaving  an  only  daughter  who 
married  Walter  Burgh,  Lord  of  Connaught. 

Hugh  de  Lacy  the  elder  had  two  sons,  Walter  and  Hugh.  Walter  begat  Gil- 
bert, who  begat  Margaret  and  Matilda ;  Margaret  married  Theobald  de  Verdon, 
who  begat  Theobald,  who  begat  Joan,  Margaret,  and  Isabella;  Joan  married 
Thomas  Furnival ;  Elizabeth  married  Bartholomew  Burghersh ;  Margaret  mar- 
ried 

Furnival,  was  the  first  wife  of  the  famous  John  de  Valence,  was  Lord  of  Wexford;  wherein, 

Talbot,  first  Earl  of  Shrewsbury,  who,  as  one  says  Finglas,  "  dwell  many  good  English  gen- 

of  the  representatives  of  the  Earl  Marshall,  tlemen ;"  by  this  marriage  the  blood  of  the 

through  Elizabeth  Comyn,  daughter  of  Joan  Verdons  and  the  De  Lacyes  was  brought  into 


i6o 

MargaretaGulielmo  de  Blamid ;  Isabella  Henrico  Ferreis,  de  quibus  q  [quinque?] 
filiabus,  Bedlowe,  Fleming,  Cruce,  Holywod  et  GiiFard  perquisierunt  omnes  ter- 
ras suas  in  Hibernia.  Matilda  nupsit  Galfrido  Genivile,  qui  genuerunt  Galfri- 
dum,  Petrum,  et  Simonem.  Galfridus  obiit  sine  filio.  Petrus  genuit  Johannam, 
que  nupsit  Rogero  Mortimero.  Simon  duxit  Johannam  fitz  Lenes  domine  de 
Culmolin  qui  generavit  Nicholaum;  is  autem  genuit  Johannam,  que  nupsit 
Johanni  Cusack  de  Beawrepre.  Predicti  Simon  et  Johanna  habuerunt  quinque 
filias ;  prima  nupsit  Johanni  Husee,  Baroni  de  Galtrim ;  2a  nupsit  Gulielmo  de 
Landres  de  Athboi ;  3a  baroni  de  Slane ;  4  Gualt.  de  la  Hide ;  5**  Johanni  Cruce 
de  Nail.  Hugo  2US  filius  comitis  unam  filiam  habuit,  que  nupsit  Gualtero  Burgo 
Domino  Connacice. 

1244.  Gualterus  Burck  factus  est  comes  Ultoniag. 

1326.  Die  martis  ante  festum  S.  Petri  ad  vincula,  obiit  Ricardus  Burgo, 
comes  Ultoniae,  et  dominus  Connaciae,  apud  Athesell ;  vir  prudens,  facetus,  dives, 
sapiens,  senex  admodum.  Filias  suas  honorifice  locavit,  unam  Roberto  Brusio 
regi  Scotorum;  2am  comiti  Gloverniae;  tertiam  comiti  Kildarise;  4am  comiti 
Louth ;  5amMauritio fitz  Thomas  comiti  Dessemoniae ;  6am  domino  ThomseMulton. 

I333-  Gulielmus  comes  Ultoniae  interficitur,  et  fuit  eodem  tempore  captus 
Rogerus  Mortimer  comes  Marchias  apud  Nottingham,  Londini  suspenditur. 


BUTLERII. 

1285.  6°  Kalendas  Octobris  obiit  Theobaldus  Butler  in  castro  de  Arclo, 
sepultus  ibidem  in  conventu  fratrum. 

1299.  2°  Idus  Mai*  °kiit  filius  ejus  Theobaldi  Theobaldus,  in  manerio  suo 
de  Turvey  sepultus  apud  Oven. 

1321.  Edmundus  fitz  Theobaldi  moritur  Londini,  corpus  ejus  defer tur  ad 
Balegavan  [Balligawran?]  in  Ossoria. 

1327. 

the  noble  family  of  Talbot.  Finglas  says,  that  Lord  Furnival  and  others,   in  the  time  of 

the  Baron  of  Slane,  Sir  Robert  Hollywood,  Richard  II Harris's  Hibernica,  p.  85,  8vo. 

Sir  John  Cruse,  and  Sir  John  Bedlowe,  pur-  Ed.     In  the  MS.  collections  of  Christopher 

chased  certain  manors  in  Meath,  parts  of  the  Cusack,  of  Gerardstown,  who  was  contempo- 

manor  of  Loghseudy,  in  Westmeath,  from  the  rary  with  Grace,  is  the  following  : 


ried  William  de  Blamid  [Blound~\  ;  Isabella  married  Henry  de  Ferrers,  from 
whose  Jive  daughters,  Bedlowe,  Fleming,  Cruce,  Holy  wood,  and  Giffard,  ac- 
quired all  their  lands  in  Ireland.  Matilda  Lacy  married  Geoffry  Geneville, 
who  begat  Geoffry,  Peter  and  Simon.  Geoffry  died  without  a  son.  Peter 
begat  Joan,  who  married  Roger  Mortimer.  Simon  married  Joan  Fitz  Leons, 
Lady  of  Culmullin,  who  begat  Nicholas ;  but  he  begat  Joan  who  married  John 
Cusack,  of  Beaurepayr.  The  aforesaid  Simon  and  Joan  had  five  daughters ;  the 
eldest  married  John  Hussey,  Baron  of  Galtrim ;  the  second  married  William  de 
Loundres,  of  Athboy ;  the  third,  the  Baron  of  Slane ;  the  fourth,  Walter  De 
la  Hide ;  the  fifth,  John  Cruce  of  the  Nail.  Hugh,  the  second  son  of  the 
earl,  had  one  daughter,  who  married  Walter  de  Burgh,  Lord  of  Connaught. 

1244.  Walter  de  Burgh  is  made  Earl  of  Ulster. 

1326.  On  Tuesday  before  the  feast  of  St.  Peter  ad  vincula  [Aug.  i],  died 
Richard  de  Burgh,  Earl  of  Ulster  and  Lord  of  Connaught,  at  Athassel ;  a  man 
prudent,  witty,  rich,  wise,  exceedingly  old.  He  married  his  daughters  honoura- 
bly, one  to  Robert  Bruce,  King  of  Scots ;  the  second,  to  the  Earl  of  Gloucester ; 
the  third,  to  the  Earl  of  Kildare ;  the  fourth,  to  the  Earl  of  Louth ;  the  fifth,  to 
Maurice  Fitz  Thomas,  Earl  of  Desmond ;  the  sixth,  to  Sir  Thomas  Multon. 

1333.  William  Earl  of  Ulster  is  killed;  and  at  the  same  time  Roger  Morti- 
mer, Earl  of  March,  was  arrested  at  Nottingham ;  he  is  hanged  at  London. 


THE  BUTLERS. 

1285.  The  sixth  Kalends  of  October  (September  26),  died  Theobald  Butler 
in  the  Castle  of  Arklow,  he  was  there  buried  in  the  Friary. 

1299.  On  the  second  Ides  (the  i4th)  of  May,  died  Theobald,  son  of  this 
Theobald ;  he  was  buried  in  his  manor  of  Turvey,  at  Owney  (Abingdon). 

1321.  Edmund  Fitz  Theobald  dies  at  London,  his  body  is  buried  at  Gow- 
ran,  in  Ossory. 

1327. 

"  Memoranda;  that  this  ben  the  namis  of  wome  is  cu  Fleminge.  Ferris,  ofwome  is  co 
the  heirs  of  ye  prpart  [purparty]  of  Myhth.  Holliwod  [and]  Burnell.  Blunt,  of  wome  is 
Talbot,  ofwome  is  cu  Bedlew.  Burwis  of  cu  Cruc' et  Giffarte." — MS.  Trin.  Coll.  Dub. 

IRISH  ARCH.  SOC.  3.  Y 


T62 

1327-  7  Idus  Januarii  obiit  Jacobus  Butler  fitz  Edmundi,  primus  comes 
Ormoniae,  sepultus  in  templo  Balligawran. 

1383.  In  festo  S.  Lucse  Evangelistse,  obiit  Jacobus  Butler  fitz  Jacobi  2US 
comes  Ormonise,  in  castro  de  Knocktoffur,  sepultus  in  ecclesia  cathedrali  Kil- 
keniae. 

1405.  20  Augusti,  obiit  Jacobus  fitz  Jacobi  3US  comes,  apud  Balligawran, 
ibique  sepultus. 

1450.  Obiit  Jacobus  quartus  comes  et  deputatus  Ricardi  ducis  Eboracencis, 
apud  Ardell,  sepelitur  apud  monacos  Dublinii. 

1467  [?].  Obiit  Jacobus  comes Ormonie  22°  Augusti  anno  reg.  Henrici  6'  3 1°. 

1450  [?].  Obiit  Jacobus  fitz  Jacobi  5US  comes,  et  comes  Ultonise,  et  thesau- 
rarius  Anglie,  sepelitur  in  Anglia. 

T455  D1]-  Joannes  Butler  comes  6US,  iter  suscepit  in  terram  Sanctam,  ubi 
mortuus  est. 

1515.  3°  Augusti  obiit  Thomas  Butler  7US  comes,  sepelitur  in  S.  Thoma  de 
Acres  Londini ;  hi  autem  tres  postremi  fratres  fuerunt,  et  filii  Jacobi  41  comitis ; 
habuerunt  etiam  et  4m  fratremp  nomine  Ricardum  Butler,  cui  successit  Ed- 
mundus,  et  Edmundo  Jacobus,  et  Jacobo  Petrus  Butler,  qui  jam  estq  8US  comes 
Ormonias. 

Jacobus  Butler  fit  comes  Ormoniae  ab  Edwardo  3°  et  eodem  anno  ab  eodem, 
Mauritius  fitz  Thomas  fit  comes  Dessemonias. 


[GERALDINl].r 

Obiit  Geraldus  films  Maurici  Justiciarius  Hybernye,  Anno  Domini  M°.  cc.  v. 

]  Mauricius  films  ejusdem  Geraldi  frater  minor  ac  primus  conventus  mino- 
rum  de"Yocally,  Anno  Domini  M°.  cc.  vii. 

Obiit 

P  4111  Fratrem Richard,  through  whom  knowledged  as  eighth  Earl  of  Ormond.  On 

the  line  was  continued,  was  son  of  James  the  the  death  of  Thomas,  seventh  earl,  in  1515, 

third  earl,  and  uncle  of  the  three  last  earls,  the  earldom  fell  to  this  Peter  as  the  surviving 

Archdall's  Lodge,  Mountgarret,  from  which  male  representative  of  James,  the  third  earl, 

the  dates  in  Grace's  MS.  have  been  corrected  and  he  was  so  called  until  February,  1527, 

in  the  translation.  when  he  was  created  Earl  of  Ossory,  and  the 

q  Qui  jam  est. — This  MS.  must  have  been  earldom  of  Ormond  was  conferred  on  Sir 

written  when  Peter,  or  Piers,  Butler  was  ac-  Thomas  Boleyn,  father  of  Anne  Boleyn,  who 


I 63 

1327.  On  the  yth  Ides  [the  yth]  of  January,  died  James  Butler  Fitz  Ed- 
mund, first  Earl  of  Ormonde,  he  was  buried  in  the  Church  at  Gowran. 

1383.  On  the  feast  of  St.  Luke  the  Evangelist  [October  18],  died  James 
Butler  Fitz  James,  second  Earl  of  Ormonde,  in  the  Castle  of  Knocktopher,  he 
was  buried  in  the  Cathedral  Church  of  Kilkenny. 

1405.  On  the  20th  of  August  died  James  Fitz  James,  third  Earl,  at  Gowran, 
and  was  there  buried. 

1450.  Died,  James,  the  fourth  Earl,  and  Deputy  of  Richard  Duke  of  York,  at 
Ardee,  he  is  buried  in  the  Monastery  at  Dublin. 

i467-[i452?].  Died,  James  Earl  of  Ormonde,  on  the  22nd  day  of  August, 
in  the  thirty-first  year  of  the  reign  of  Henry  VI. 

J45o-[i46i  ?].  Died  James  Fitz  James,  fifth  Earl,  and  Earl  of  Wiltshire, 
and  Treasurer  of  England,  he  is  buried  in  England. 

I455~[i478  ?].  John  Butler,  sixth  Earl,  made  a  pilgrimage  to  the  Holy 
Land,  where  he  died. 

1515.  The  3rd  of  August,  died  Thomas  Butler,  seventh  Earl,  he  is  buried 
in  St.  Thomas  D' Acres  in  London ;  but  these  three  last  were  brothers,  and  the 
sons  of  James  the  fourth  Earl ;  they  had  also  a  fourth  brother,  by  name  Richard 
Butler,  who  was  succeeded  by  Edmund,  and  Edmund  by  James,  and  James  by 
Peter  Butler,  who  now  is  eighth  Earl  of  Ormonde. 

James  Butler  was  made  Earl  of  Ormonde  by  Edward  the  Third,  and  on  the  same 
year  and  by  the  same  King,  Maurice  Fitz  Thomas  was  made  Earl  of  Desmond. 


[THE  GERALDINES]. 

Died,  Gerald,  son  of  Maurice,  Justiciary  of  Ireland,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord 

M.  cc.  v. 
Died,  Maurice,  son  of  the  same  Gerald,  a  Friar  Minor,  and  first  founder  of  the 

Convent  of  the  Minors  at  Youghall,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  M.  cc.  [1]  vii. 

Died, 

was  descended  from  one  of  the  heirs  general     tionof  the  government  of  Lord  Leonard  Gray, 
of  John,  the  sixth  earl.     In  February,  1537,      p.  158,  who  was  not  Deputy  until  1535,  it  is 
on  Sir  Thomas  Boleyn's  death,  the  title  of     plain  that  the  MS.  must  have  been  written  be- 
Ormond  was  restored  to  him  and  he  enjoyed      tween  the  years  1537  and  1539. 
it  until  his  death  in  1539.     From  the  men-          r  [Geraldini] — This  page  of  the  Obits  of 

Y2 


164 

Obiit  dominus  Thomas  filius  ejusdem  Maurici,  Anno  Domini  M°.  cc.  Ix. 
Obiit  dominus  Ofelias,  dominus  Johanes  filius  Thome,  primus  fundator  conven- 

tus  ordinis  predicatorum  de  Traly,  et  dominus  Mauricius  filius  ejusdem,  qui 

interfecti  fuerunt  in  loco  qui  vocatur  Callan  in  Dessmonia,  Anno  Domini 

M°.  cc.  Ixx.  et  sepulti  sunt  in  monasterio  de  Traly  in  boreali  parte. 
Obiit  dominus  Thomas  Mauricii,  Anno  Domini  M°.  cc.  xc.  vi.  et  sepultus  in 

medio  Chori. 
Obiit  Mauricius  filius  Thome  primus  comes  Dessmonye,  Anno  Domini  M°.ccc.lx. 

aput  Dublinya  et  Justiciarius  Hybernye  erat. 
Obiit  dominus  Mauricius  filius  Maurici,  secundus  comes  Dessmonye,  Anno 

Domini  M°.  ccc.  1.  vii. 

Obiit  dominus  Johannes  filius  ejusdem  comitis,  Anno  Domini  M°.  ccc.  Ix.  ix. 
Obiit  dominus  Geraldus  filius  Mauricii,  Anno  Domini  M°.  cccc.  i. 
Obiit  dominus  Thomas  filius  Johannes  comes  Dessmonye  in  regno  Francie  civi- 

tate  Rothomag :  in  provincia  Normonise,  Anno  Domini  M°.  cccc.  xx. 
Obiit  dominus  Jacobus  filius  Geraldi  comes  Dessmonie,  Anno  Domini  M°.  cccc. 

Ix.  ii. 
[  ]  dominus  Thomas  filius  ejusdem  Jacobi  comes  Desmonie  et  Justiciarius 

Hibernie  qui  gladiis  impiorum  aput  Drohudhahy  occubuit,  et  pocius  dicarn 

martyr  Christi8  efFectus  est,  Anno  Domini  M°.  cccc.  Ix.  viij. 
[  ]  dominus  Jacobus  primogenitus  predicti  Thome  comes  Dessimonye  et 

gladiis  impiorum  in  curia  de  Ragely,  Anno  Domini  M.  cccc.  Ixxx.  vi. 
Obiit  dominus  Mauricius  filius  Thome  comes  Dessmonie  in  villa  de  Dageth, 

Anno  Domini  M°.  [  ]  xx.  ix. 

[         ]-ra  femina  domina  Morina  Mykcarull  comitissa,  pro  cujus  anima  recepit 

sta  advincula  [adminicula]  multa  et  varias  elimosinas,  M°. cccc. xl.  viij. 
[          ]  preclara  femina  domina  Katherina   Butler  comitissa  pro  cujus  anima 

recepit  conventus  ista  advincula  [adminicula]  multa  et  varias  elismosinas 

xvii  Marcii  M°.  ccccc.  liij. 

Obiit 

the  Geraldines  is  written  in  a  different  hand  s  Martyr  Christi — So  difficult  is  it  to  eradi- 

and  ink  from  the  Annals  and  Obits  of  the  cate  the  long  entertained  opinions  of  the  people, 

Butlers,   and  seems  to  have  been  transcribed  and  those  ideas  of  superior  greatness  which 

from  the  Mortiloge  of  Askeaton,  or  of  some  they  feel  towards  their  favourite  nobles,  that 

other  house  founded  by  the  Desmonds.  even  in  one  hundred  years  after  the  fall  of  this 


i65 

Died,  Sir  Thomas,  son  of  the  same  Maurice,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  M.  cc.  Ix. 
Died,  the  Lord  of  Ofaly,  Sir  John  son  of  Thomas,  first  founder  of  the  Convent  of 

the  Order  of  the  Preachers  of  Tralee,  and  Sir  Maurice  son  of  the  same,  who 

were  slain  in  a  place  which  is  called  Callan,  in  Desmond,  in  the  year  of  our 

Lord  M.  cc.  Ixx.,  and  are  buried  in  the  Monastery  of  Tralee  on  the  north 

side. 
Died,  Sir  Thomas,  son  of  Maurice,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  M.  cc.  xc.  vi.,  and  is 

buried  in  the  middle  of  the  Choir. 
Died,  Maurice,  son  of  Thomas,  first  Earl  of  Desmond,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord 

M.  ccc.  Ix.,  (1356?)  in  Dublin,  and  he  was  Justiciary  of  Ireland. 
Died,  Sir  Maurice,  son  of  Maurice,  second  Earl  of  Desmond,  in  the  year  of  our 

Lord  M.  ccc.  1.  vii. 

Died,  Sir  John,  son  of  the  same  Earl,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  M.  ccc.  Ixix. 
Died,  Sir  Gerald,  son  of  Maurice,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  M.  cccc.  i. 
Died,  Sir  Thomas,  son  of  John  Earl  of  Desmond,  in  the  realm  of  France,  in 

the  city  of  Rouen,  in  the  Province  of  Normandy,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord 

M.  cccc.  xx. 
Died,   Sir  James,  son  of  Gerald  Earl  of  Desmond,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord 

M.  ccc.  Ix.  ii. 

Died,  Sir  Thomas,  son  of  the  same  James  Earl  of  Desmond,  and  Justiciary  of  Ire- 
land, who  was  slain  by  the  swords  of  the  wicked  at  Drogheda,  or  shall  I  rather 

say,  was  made  a  martyr  of  Christ,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  M.  cccc.  Ixviii. 
Died,  Sir  James,  eldest  son  of  the  aforesaid  Thomas  Earl  of  Desmond;  he  was 

slain  by  the  swords  of  the  wicked,  in  the  house  of  Rathkeale,  in  the  year  of 

our  Lord  M.  cccc.  Ixxx.  vi. 
Died,  Sir  Maurice,  son  of  Thomas  Earl  of  Desmond,  in  the  town  of  Dageth,  in 

the  year  of  our  Lord  M.  [cccc.]  xx.  ix. 
Died,  the  noble  woman,  the  Lady  Mary  Mac  Carroll,  Countess,  for  whose  soul 

this  convent  received  many  gifts  and  various  alms,  M.  ccccc.  xlviii. 
Died,  the  noble  woman,  the  Lady  Katharine  Butler,  Countess,  for  whose  soul 

this  convent  received  many  gifts  and  various  alms,  xvii  of  March,  M.  ccccc . 

liii. 

Died, 

family,  we  find  the  Irish  army  within  the  walls      and  threatened  with  the  horrors  of  famine,  con- 
of  Limerick,  when  besieged  by  King  William      soling  themselves  with  assurances  of  succour 


1 66 

Obiit  dominus  Thomas,  filius  Thome  comes  Dessmonie,  in  villa  de  Ragely*, 

Anno  Domini  M°. .  xxxiiij. 

Obiit  dominus  Johanes  filius  Thome  comes  Dessmonie  in  villa  de  Traly,  Anno 

Domini  M°.  ccccc.  xxxvi. 
Obiit  Jacobus  filius  Johnes,  comes  Dessmonie  et  [  ]  tressourarius  Ibernie 

Anno  Domini  M°.  500.  58.  et  sepultus  apud  Trale,  cujus  animas  propiciatur 

Deus. 

from  "one  of  the  Earls  of  Desmonde  that  was  carryed  away  by  enchantment." — Lynch's 
dyed  above  two  hundred  years  agoe,"  and  was  Dignities,  p.  265,  from  Clarke's  State  Papers, 
secretly  buried,  but  "  who  the  Irish  fancyed  Trin.  Coll.  Dub. 


167 

Died,  Sir  Thomas,  son  of  Thomas  Earl  of  Desmond,  in  the  town  of  Rathkeale, 

in  the  year  of  our  Lord  M.  [ccccc.]  xxxiiii. 
Died,  Sir  John,  son  of  Thomas  Earl  of  Desmond,  in  the  town  of  Tralee,  in  the 

year  of  our  Lord  M.  ccccc.  xxxvi. 
Died,  James,  son  of  John  Earl  of  Desmond,  and  High  Treasurer  of  Ireland,  in 

the  year  of  our  Lord  M.  500.  58.  and  is  buried  at  Tralee,  on  whose  soul  the 

Lord  have  mercy. 

1  Ragely Rathkeale  is  called  Rath  Caela     name  is  now  pronounced  Rath  Gaela  by  the 

in  the  Annals  of  the  Four  Masters,  and  the      Irish  speaking  peasantry. 


APPENDIX. 


169 


APPENDIX. 


No.  I. 

rMHE  following  list  of  the  Cistercian  Abbeys  in  Ireland  is  copied  from  a  MS.  (E.  3,  8, 
p.  65)  in  the  Library  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin.  It  is  in  a  handwriting  of  the 
seventeenth  century,  and  has  been  apparently  copied  from  some  more  ancient  authority 
which  is  not  given.  The  modern  names,  given  in  the  last  column,  have  been  added 
by  the  Editor. 

Anni  fundationum  Monasteriorum  Cisterciensium  Hibernise  et  contributiones  eorum 
antique,  ex.  vet.  cod.  MS.  de  statutis  bullis  et  aliis  rebus  ordinis  Cisterc.  Hibernite : 


1148. 


S.  Mar.  Dublin 
De  Mellifont 

:De  Beatitudine 
De  Valle  Salutis 
De  Buellio 
De  Magio 


XXs 


xb 


Fingall 
UrieU 
Middia 
Lagenia 
Conacia 
Momonia 
DeBenedictioneDei  [Conacia]  vis 
De  Viridi  Ligno  Ultonia  vis 
Momonia  iiis 
Momonia  xs 
Momonia  iiis 
Momonia  vis 
Ultonia 
Lagenia 
Momonia 


XXs 

xiii8  iiiid 
xiiis  iiiid 
xiiis  iiiid 


Vlllu 

d 


De  Kyrielyson 

De  Surio 

De  Castro  Dei 

De  Fonte  vivo 

De  Samerio 

De  Jeripont 

De  Choro  Benedict! 


8 1.  De  S.  Cruce 

82.  De  Portu  S.  Marise 

83.  De  Lege  Dei 

IRISH  ARCH.  SOC.  3. 


1111" 
viiid 

iiis     iiiid 
xiii5  iiiid 
iiis     iiiid 
viiid 


Momonia   vis 
Lagenia     viiis  viii' 

z 


St.  Mary's,  Dublin. 
Mellifont,  Louth. 
Bective,  Meath. 
Baltinglas,  Wicklow. 
Boyle,  Roscommon. 
Monaster  Nenagh,  Limerick. 
Athlone,  Roscommon. 
Newry,  Down. 
Odorney,  Kerry. 
Inislounagh,  Tipperary. 
Fermoy,  Cork. 
Mawr.,  Cork. 
Inis  Samer,  Donegal. 
Jerpoint,  Kilkenny. 
Middleton,  Cork. 
Holycross,  Tipperary. 
Dunbrody,  Wexford. 
Abbeyleix,  Queen's  County. 


1188. 


170 


n88. 
1189. 
1 190. 

"93- 
1198. 

1 200. 


1205. 


1272. 


De  Inis 
De  Rosea  valle 
De  Colle  victorias 
De  Jugo  Dei 

De mora 

De  Tintern 

De  Petra  fertiii 

Deb 

De  Kilbegan 

De  S.  Salvatore 

De  Wethnia 

De  Granard 

De  Bello  Cant. 

De  Claro  fonte 

De  BaUiniornan  in 

Loghseudy 
De  Rupe  Cassel 


Ultonia 

Lagenia 

Conacia 

Ultonia 

Ultonia 

Lagenia 

Momonia 

Momonia 

Middia 

Lagenia 

Momonia 

[Lagenia] 

Momonia 

[Ultonia] 

I  Midia 
Momonia 


VIs 

xiiis 


xiiis  iiiid     Inis  Courcy,  Down. 

Monaster  Evan,  Kildare. 

Knockmoy,  Galway. 

Gray  Abbey,  Down. 

Cumber.,  Down. 

Tintern  alias  De  Voto  Wexford. 

Corcumroe,  Clare. 

Kilcooly  alias  De  Albo  Campo,  Tip. 

Kilbeggan  alias  De  Flumine  Dei. 

Douske,  Kilkenny. 

Abingdon,  Limerick. 

Abbeylerha,  Longford. 

DeAlboTractu?  Tracton,  Cork. 

Moycosquin,  Derry. 


Loghseudy,  Westmeath. 
vis     viiid    Cashell,  Tipperary. 


No.  II 

THE  following  are  the  names  of  the  persons,  who  had  writ  of  summons  to  be  at  Kil- 
kenny on  Monday  in  the  Octaves  of  the  Purification  B.  M.  V.,  1 309,  "  ad  tractandum  et 
parliamentandum  cum  Justiciario  nostro  Hiberniae  et  aliis  de  consilio  et  cum  ceteris 
proceribus  et  magnatibus  terrse  nostrae."— From  Rot.  Pat.  3  Ed.  II.  44,  45.  See  note  k, 

p.  56. 

Richard  de  Burgo,  Earl  of  Ulster;  John  de  Barry,  John  de  Cogan,  Maurice  de 
Carru,  Maur.  de  Rocheford,  John  le  Poer  de  Donyl,  John  le  Whyte  Poer,  David  de 
Sancto  Albino  [St.  Aubyn  or  Tobyn~],  Richard  Tuyt,  Ph.  de  Maundevill,  Walter  de  Sey, 
Wil.  de  Fytz  Waryn,  Tho.  le  Fytz  Water,  Pagan  de  Eledonne,  Rob.  Persone,  Nich.  le 
Blund,  Wil.  Strangbowe,  Mat.  de  Caunteton,  Wil.  de  Caunteton,  Reym.  Lercedekene, 
Nich.  de  Curcy,  Ph.  de.  Barry  de  Carrygdonegan,  Ph.  de  Barry  de  Kalbam  [Kalbarri, 
Lynch's  Dign],  Rob.  de  Barry,  Wil.  de  London  [Lounctres,~]  Baldewyn  le  Flernyng, 

Edm. 


a  Comber,  al.  Comerer.  ? 


Kilrowl.? 


Edm.  de  Penbrok,  Hugh  Byset,  Peter  de  Maundevill,  Rog.  de  Sancto  Bosco  [Holy- 
wood],  Nich.  de  Kylkenan  [Kyltenan,  Lynch],  Walt.  Sareryn  [Sarefyn,  Lynch],  Hug. 
de  Balydonenald  [Balydovonald,  Lynch],  Henr.  of  Clogher,  Ric.  le  Waleys,  Jac.  de 
Ketyng,  Rich,  de  Valle,  Walt,  de  Valle,  Wil.  de  Sancto  Leodegario  St.  Leger,  Walt,  le 
Bret,  Wil.  de  Burgo,  Jordan  de  Exonia  \JDexter],  Jordan  de  Exonia,  Junior;  Simon 
Feypo,  Rich.  Taaf,  Wil.  Taaf,  John  Fitz  Martin  de  Maundevill,  Adam  de  Legan  [Logan, 
Lynch],  Ph.  de  Borgnei  [Lorquei  Lynch],  Hen.  le  Flemyng,  John  Scargyll  [Sargyl], 
Tho.  le  Taillur,  Sim.  le  Genvill,  Rich,  de  Exonia,  Nigel  le  Brun,  John  de  Staunton, 
Walt,  de  Lacy,  Hugh  de  Lacy,  John  Tuyt,  Rich,  fitz  John,  Walt,  de  Cusak,  Tho.  de 
Maundevill,  Hugh  Byset,  Matt,  fitz  Hugh  de  Hanewode,  John  fitz  Alan  de  Logan, 
Milo  de  Eldoune,  John  Talbot,  Rich,  le  Savage,  Wil.  Calf,  Alan  de  Insula  [Lisle],  John 
de  Bonevyl,  Galf.  le  Bret,  Regin.  Russel,  Ph.  Cristofre,  Milo  de  Curcy,  Nich.  fitz 
Maurice,  George  de  Rupe  [Roche],  Wil.  de  Rupe,  John  fitz  Thomas  Lengleys,  John 
Byset,  Alan  fitz  Warin,  Wil.  Byset,  Rich.  Slemeryche,  Milo  de  Swerdes,  Hub.  Byset, 
Hub.  le  Waleys,  John  de  Langeton,  John  Pyngebek. 


No.  III. 

See  note  i,  p.  83. 

REX  dilectis  et  fidelibus  suis  Justic',  Cancellario  et  Thesaurario  suis  Hibern'  Salu- 
tem.  Ex  parte  populi  nostri  terre  predicte  per  peticionem  suam  coram  nobis  et  consilio 
nostro  exhibitam  nobis  est  cum  instancia  supplicatum  quod  cum  in  terra  ilia  lex  talis 
habeatur,  videlicet  quod  Anglicus  de  morte  Anglici,  latrocinio,  incendio  vel  depreda- 
cione  cujuscunque  rei,  valorem  xii  denariorum  et  unius  oboli  attingentis  vel  excedentis 
convictus,  ultimum  supplicium  subire  debeat;  Hibernicus  vero  de  morte  Anglici,  vel 
incendio  convictus  idem  paciatur  judicium,  set  Hibernicus  de  latrocinio  vel  depreda- 
cione  cuicunque  Anglico  vel  Hibernico  facto  convictus  ad  voluntatem  sui  judicis  relin- 
qui  solet  redimendus,  vel  ultimo  supplicio  condempnandus ;  per  quam  quidem  legem, 
dum  in  terra  predicta  legitime  fuit  observata,  crevit  populus  Anglicanus  ibidem  et  mul- 
tiplicabatur,  possessionesque  et  terminos  matris  Ecclesie  dilatavit  ibidem ;  postquam  vero 
Justic'  parcium  illarum  auctoritatem  sibi  sumentes,  rectatos  de  feloniis  pro  modico, 
aliquando  pro  nichilo,  redimi  fecerunt,  et  permittebant,  videlicet,  capiendo  pro  morte 
Anglici  felonice  interfecti,  depredacione  et  latrocinio,  centum  librarum  [libras?]  vel 
centum,  quadraginta,  vel  viginti,  solidorum  [solidos]  cujus  pretextu  maleficiis  [malefac- 

Z  2  toribus?] 


172 

toribus?]  sub  spe  hujusmodi  facilitatis  venie  delinquendi  audaciam  sumentibus,  homi- 
cidia,  depredaciones,  incendia  et  alias  felonias  perpetrantibus,  cessarunt  in  plerisque  locis 
agriculture,  et  mercandise  plus  solito  deciderunt,  sic  ipsa  terra  per  felones  Anglicos  et 
Hibernicos,  qui  sub  spe  hujusmodi  venie,  ac  eciam  pro  eo  quod  fideles  hujusmodi  felo- 
nes indie  tare,  nee  de  eis  in  judicio  verum  dicere  non  audent,  ne  pro  suo  veredicto  per 
eosdem  felones,  pro  hujusmodi  redempcione  dimissos,  occidantur  seu  destruantur,  homi- 
cidia,  incendia,  latrocinia  et  depredaciones  committere  non  verebantur,  nee  adhuc  ve- 
rentur,  in  immensum  est  destructa,  populusque,  sub  pace  et  lege  nostra  vivere  cupiens, 
loca,  in  quibus  morari  solebat,  evacuans,  ea  felonibus  hujusmodi  mala  perpetrantibus, 
ut  est  dictum,  reliquit,  per  quod  ecclesia  sancta,  que  observata  pace  et  lege  predicta, 
suos  limites  longe  lateque  diffuderat,  rogante  [vigente ?]  hujusmodi  malicia  quasi  penitus 
est  destructa;  ordinare  vellemus,  quod  in  terra  predicta  quolibet  anno  semel  teneatur 
parliamentum,  et  quod  si  pro  morte  Anglici  de  cetero  felonice  interfecti,  vel  incendio 
i'acto,  redempeio  seu  pardonacio  supplicetur  a  justic'  terre  illius,  tune  ipsa  non,  nisi  in 
Parliamento  et  de  consensu  consilii  et  fidelium  nostrorum  ibidem,  concedatur;  et  pro 
ilia  redempcione  adminus  centum  librarum  [libra??]  pro  latrocinio  vero  vel  depreda- 
cione  valoris  [valorem]  undecim  [duodecim  ?]  denariorum  et  oboli  attingens  vel  earn 
excedens  [attingente  vel  eum  excedente?]  de  cetero  perpetratis,  ad  opus  nostrum  qua- 
druplum  capiatur,  et  quod  hujusmodi  felones  a  gaola  non  deliberentur,  donee  pecunia 
predicta  in  scaccario  nostro  fuerit  persoluta. 

Nos  igitur  Sancte  Ecclesie  indempnitati  et  populi  nostri  terre  predicte  commodo  et 
quieti  in  hac  parte  juxta  consilium  Fidelium  nostrorum  parcium  illarum  prospicere 
volentes,  ut  tenemur,  vobis  mandamus  quod  convocatis  Archiepiscopis,  Episcopis  Abba- 
tibus,  Prioribus,  Comitibus,  Baronibus  et  Communitate  terre  predicte  quam  cito  com- 
mode poteritis,  habitisque  super  premissis,  et  eorum  omnium  consilio  et  avisamento,  si  ad 
unum  condescendere  voluerint ;  vel  requisite  per  breve  nostrum  sub  sigillo,  quo  utimur 
in  partibus  illis,  discreciorum  prelatorum  et  magnatum  nostrorum  parcium  illarum 
separatim  consilio,  si  ex  causa  legitima  convenire  non  possunt,  racionesque  singulorum 
nominatim  inserendo,  super  quo  vel  quibus  viderint  terram  predictam  uberius  populo 
nostro  tranquilla  pace  multiplicari,  ipsumque  populum  qua  lege  et  consuetudine  fore 
pertractand',  an  videlicet  lege  prenotata,  vel  remedio  supradicto  statuendo  de  pardona- 
cione  facienda  in  parliamento ;  Nos  de  eo  quod  in  hac  parte  per  vos  et  dictos  Fideles 
nostros  super  premissis,  ut  predictum  est,  contigerit  diffiniri  sine  dilacione  aliqua  cer- 
tificetis  sub  sigillo  nostro  predicto,  ut  inde  certiorati,  ulterius  inde  de  consilio  nostro 
taliter  ordinemus,  quod  ex  hoc  timor  incutiatur  delinquentibus,  ac  populus  noster  terre 

predicte  melius  valeat  prosperari ;  remittentes  nobis  hoc  breve T.  R.  apud  Lincol'  viii. 

die  Augusti,  an.  loEd.  II.  1316.     Per  petitionem  de  Consilio — Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  293. 

No.  IV. 


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No.  IV. 

Note  n,  p.  12  7. 

NAMES  of  Persons  summoned  to  attend  John  Darcy,  Justiciary,  with  arms  and 
horses  in  his  Expedition  to  Scotland  in  1335 — Rymer,  vol.  ii.  p.  906. 
Multa  renascentur,  quae  jam  cecidere,  cadentque 
Quae  nunc  sunt  in  honore  vocabula. 

HOR.  Art.  Poet.  70. 

James  le  Botiller,  Earl  of  Ormond. 
Maurice  Fitz  Thomas,  Earl  of  Dessemond. 


Simon  de  Genevill. 
Richard  Tute. 
Nicholas  de  Verdon. 
Francis  Feypo. 
Henry  de  Vernoill. 
Richard  Tyrel. 
John  de  Crany. 
Reiric  Fitz  Rery. 
Jordan  de  Ardis  [Dardys]. 
John  de  Brit. 
Richard  de  Ardis. 
Theobald  de  Vernoill. 
Milo  de  Verdon. 
Matthew  de  Bath. 
Simon  Fitz  Richard. 
Elias  de  Assheburn. 
Thomas  de  Wogan. 
William  de  Rocheford. 
Morty  Fitz  Geraud. 
Walter  Lenfaunt. 
John  de  Wellesle. 
Walter  de  Bermyngeham. 
John  Moriz. 
Gerard  de  St.  Michel. 
John  Lenfaunt. 
Laurence  Calf. 


Henry  de  la  Harve. 

Edmund  Ercedeken. 

William  Ercedeken. 

John  de  Blaunchevil. 

Eustace  Power. 

David  Beket. 

Roger  de  Pembrok. 

Philip  Purcel. 

John  Maunsill. 

Adam  de  Loundres. 

John  de  Drayton. 

Gilbert  de  Bermyngeham. 

John  Fitz  Robert  Power. 

John  de  St.  Obyn. 

Maurice  Fitz  Nicholas. 

Thomas  Fitz  Gilbert. 

Maurice  Fitz  Philip. 

Thomas  de  Lees. 

Robert  Fitz  Matthew  de  Kaunton. 

Gerald  de  Rocheford. 

George  Power. 

Matthew  Fitz  Henry. 

David  Fitz  David  de  Barry. 

Henry  de  Maundevill. 

Edmd.  deBourke  Abbynaght  [  Albanact]. 

Herbert  de  Sutton. 

John  de  Cogan. 

Robert  Sauwage — Knights. 

Irewere 


I74 


Irewere  O'Neel,  of  Ulvester. 
O'Conewhir,  of  Conaght. 
O'Breen,  of  Moulnester. 
O'Mak  Murghothe,  of  Leynester. 
O'Molaghelyn,  of  Meath. 
O'Morth,  of  Leice. 
O'Conwhor,  of  Offali. 


O'Raghele  [O'Reilly]. 

Magoghgane. 

Hen.  O'Neel. 

O'Hanlon. 

Mak  Artane. 

Mak  Dermot. 

O'Shynagh — Irish  Chiefs. 


Hugh  Tirel. 

Geoffry  Trivers. 

Robert  Cruce. 

Mahoun  Cruce. 

Geoffry  Britte. 

Robert  Laweles. 

John  Cruce,  of  theNal. 

John  Graunset. 

John  Haket. 

John  Fitz  Simon,  of  Clontulkan. 

Arnald  Clement. 

Richard  Fitz  William. 

Michael  Mongomery. 

William  de  Ferynglas. 

Peter  Harald. 

William  de  Loundros  [Loundres]. 

Herbert  de  la  Mare. 

John  Tute,  of  Somagh  [Sonnagh]. 

Luke  de  Nettrevill. 

Henry  Cruce,  of  Ottewel. 

Thomas  Fitz  Owyn. 

Henry  Dilboun  [Dillon]. 

Robert  Tute. 

John  Fitz  Richard  Tute. 

William  Telyng. 

Milo  de  Verdon. 

Walter  de  la  Hide. 

Richard  Fitz  Richer. 

Walter  de  Leyns. 


John  de  Clynton. 

Roger  Gernoun. 

Richard  Taff,  of  Liscarton. 

John  de  Haddesorce. 

John  Gernoun,  of  Killyngkole. 

Richard  Taff,  of  Castleomenaght. 

Geraudyn  de  Clynton. 

Peter  de  Cusak. 

Robert  Fitz  Morice. 

William  le  Fitz  Eustace. 

Henry  de  la  Nasch. 

Simon  de  Sutton. 

John  Fitz  Eustace. 

Simon  de  Flatersbury. 

Henry  Calf. 

Walter  de  Rocheford. 

John  de  Hothom. 

Hugh  del  Hide. 

John  de  Vale. 

David  Cristofre. 

Nicholas  de  la  Hide. 

Walter  de  Yale. 

Fulco  de  la  Freyne. 

Oliver  de  la  Freyne. 

Thomas  le  Fitz  Geroud. 

Thomas  de  Cantewell. 

John  de  Cantewell. 

John  Ercedeken. 

William  Ercedeken. 


William 


'75 


William  Graunte. 

David  Graunte. 

John  de  Recheford,  [Rochford]. 

Walter  de  Recheford. 

William  Outlawe. 

William  Grace. 

Gilbert  Shortall. 

Meiler  Scottot. 

Philip  Hendeberge. 

Richard  Baton  [Dalton]. 

David  Drule. 

Geoffry  Shortall. 

Edmund  de  Bourk. 

David  de  Bourke. 

David  de  la  Roche. 

David  de  Bourke. 

Henry  Berkeley. 

John  Fitz  Simon. 

William  Bagot. 

Nicholas  Ulfe  [Wolfe]. 

Richard  Wittey. 

Hamund  de  Stafford. 

John  de  Saint  John. 

John  de  la  Roche,  son  of  George  de  la  Roche. 

Reginald  Nevel. 

Ralph  Meilar. 

Stephen  Deirons  [Devrous  ?]. 


Milo  de  Courcy. 

William  de  Barry  de  Raweram. 

William  Fitz  David  de  Barry. 

Richard  de  Wynchedon. 

John  Sarsefield  de  la  Belagh. 

John  Fitz  David  de  Sarsefield. 

Thos.  Fitz  Richard  Barret,  of  Dessemond. 

William  Brisky. 

Richard  le  Bourke,  of  Foroweth. 

Richard  de  Bourke. 

John  Deicester,  Lord  of  Alehane. 

William  de  Prendregest. 

Robert  Gamard, 

Robert  Baret  le  Fitz  Batyn  Baret. 

Robert  Baret  le  Fitz  Richard  Baret. 

William  le  Botiller. 

Thomas  Dolfyne. 

John  de  Ridelefford. 

William  Fitz  Richard  de  Bourke. 

Theobald  de  Bourke. 

Raymunde  de  Bourke. 

William  de  Bourke  de  Armaght. 

John  de  Sauvage. 

John  de  Maundevill. 

Ralph  Logan. 

Nicholas  Taff. — Esquires. 


No.  V. 

NAMES  of  holders  of  lands  and  ecclesiastical  benefices  in  Ireland,  resident  in  England, 
summoned  to  Westminster,  Easter,  1361 Rymer,  vol.  iii.  p.  610. 


Humphry  Earl  of  Northhampton. 
Ralph  Earl  of  Stafford. 
Edward  le  Despenser. 
Walter  de  Manny. 


Edward  Mountagu. 
Almaric  de  St.  Amand. 
Bartholomew  de  Burghersh. 
John  de  Crophull. 


Nicholas 


1/6 


Nicholas  Gernoun. 

John  de  Bohun,  of  Midhurst. 

John  de  Carreu. 

William  le  Zouche,  of  Haryngworth. 

Walter  de  Bermyngeham. 

John  Comyn. 

John  Wogan. 

David  Barry. 

John  Cornewaill. 

Peter  Malure. 

John  Mautravers. 

The  Heirs  of  deCaumvyll. 

David  de  Strabolgi,  Earl  of  Athol. 

Thomas  de  Eoos. 

Roger  de  Clifford. 

Thomas  de  Furnyvall. 

Thomas  de  Lucy. 

Edmund  Laurence. 

John  de  Tibetot. 

John  de  Erlee. 

John  de  Bromwych. 

James  de  Stafford. 

Stephen  Mareys. 

William  de  Morle. 

Richard  de  Stafford. 

William  de  Ferrers. 

Maria  Countess  of  Norfolk. 

Eleanor  Countess  of  Ormond. 

Anne  la  Despenser. 


Philippa  Countess  de  la  March. 

Joan  de  Fitz  Wauter. 

Agnes  Countess  of  Pembroke. 

Maria  de  St.  Paul,  Countess  of  Pembroke. 

Margery  de  Roos. 

Matilda  Countess  of  Oxford. 

Katharine  Countess  of  Athol. 

The  Prior  of  Malvern. 

The  Abbot  of  St.  Augustine,  of  Bristol. 

The  Abbot  of  Oseneye. 

The  Abbot  of  Foure. 

The  Prior  of  Lanthony,  near  Gloucester. 

The  Prior  of  Lanthony,  in  Wales. 

The  Prior  of  Cartimel. 

The  Prior  of  Christ  Church,  Canterbury. 

Master  Reymond  Peleryn. 

Master  John  Briane. 

Master  William  Criour. 

William  deWynterton. 

William  Sond. 

William  de  Bromle. 

Henry  de  Sneyth. 

Master  Maurice  de  Bermyngeham. 

Master  Hugh,  Prebendary  of  Balymore. 

Master  Griffin  de  Cherleton. 

The  Prebendary  of  the  Prebend  of  Dun- 

lovan. 
The  ladies  and  ecclesiastics  had  liberty  to 

send  proxies. 


INDEX. 


INDEX, 


Page. 


A. 


A  BBEYLARA,  Co.  of  Longford,  25,  re. 
-L\-  Abbeyleix,  Queen's  County,  17,  69,  n. 
Abingdon,  Co.  of  Limerick,  .  .  .  23,  n. 

,  or  Owney, 161 

Adrian  IV.,  Pope, 7 

Africanus, 5,  n. 

Agher  Parese,  Co.  of  Meath,       ...     62 

Alexander  III.,  Pope,         7 

Anglo- Irish  and  English  dispute,       .     .133 

Anlavus, 6,  n. 

Appendix, 169 

Archdeacon  Raymond,  ....     121,  129 
Archdeakin  M'Odo  or  Cody,  .     .     .     .120 
Armagh,  Archbishop  of,  Fitz  Ralph,  con- 
test with  mendicant  Friars,       .     .     .   149 
Assize  on  bread  first  fixed  in  Ireland,    58,  n. 

Athenry,  battle  of, 73 

Atordet,  query  Ardee, 65 

Audley,  James,  Lord  Justiciary,  death  of,  37 
Avignon, 151 

B. 

Babe's  or  Robber's  Bridgeonthe  Boyne,  1 17,  n. 

Baclethan, 82,  re. 

Balibragan,  now  Bragganstown,        .     .113 

Ballards  or  Pollards, 44,  n. 

Ballylinan,  query  Baclethan,    .     .     .     82,  re. 
IRISH  ARCH.  SOC.  3.  2 


Page. 

Ballyshannon  or  Athseanagh,  .  .  32,  n. 
Beaurepayr  or  Belper,  near  Tara,  .  68,  n. 

Becket,  death  of, 15 

Bective  or  Degty,  Co.  of  Meath,  20,  n.,  107,  «. 
Belgic  or  Firbolg  Colony,  ....  4,  re. 
Birmingham  or  M'Pheoris,  ...  52,  re. 

,  Sir  William,  hanged,    .     .125 

,  Walter,  Justiciary,        .     .143 

Bisset, 63,  re.,  77 

Bonnarathe  or  Bunratty,  Co.  of  Clare,  59,  n. 

Boyne  River, 117 

Bragganstown   or   Balebragan,    Co.   of 

Louth, 112,  re. 

Braosa,  William  De, 23,  re. 

Bright  or  Brught,  Co.  of  Down,  .  76,  re. 
Bruce,  Robert,  excommunicated,  .  .  97 

,  Edward,  in  Ireland,    ....     63 

,  companions,  list  of,  in 

Barbour, 62,  re. 

,  query  ever  returned  to 


Scotland, 71,  re. 

,  killed, 95 

—  and  Gib  Harpur,    .     95,  n. 
Brus,  father  of  Robert  Bruce,      ...     27 

,  Robert,  in  Ireland,          .     .       75,  109 

in    1328,    not 

mentioned  by  Lord  Hailes,  .     .     .   110,  re. 

Burgo,  De,  1302, 47,  re. 

A  Butlers, 


i78 


Page. 

Butlers,  Obits  of, 161 

Butler,  Edmund,  Justiciary,  .  .  .  .  63 
Bykenor,  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  .  102,  n. 

C. 

Calixtus,  St.,  Eve  of, 131 

Calwagh  or  Calvacus,  murder  of,  .  .  49 
Canton,  or  Canteton,  or  O'Driscoll,  54,  ». 
Capella,  De,  or  Rupella,  ....  32,  w. 

,  Richard,  Justiciary,      .     .     37 

Carrick  or  Karrick,  first  title  of  But- 
lers,     •     .     .     .     .    109,  re. 

Carrickfergus  besieged  by  Bruce,  .  75,  n. 
Castledermot,  Co.  of  Kildare,  .  .  81,  w. 
Castlekevin,  Co.  of  Wicklow,  ...  55 

Cavanaghs, 70,  n. 

Charleton,  Sir  John,  Justiciary,  .  .  .131 
Charleton,  Bishop  of  Hereford,  Justiciary,  131 

Chepstow  or  Strangul, 9 

Chiefs,  list  of,  attending  Edward  II.,     49,  n. 

__,  summoned  by  Henry  III.,  33,  n. 

Churches  used  as  places  of  compact  in 

temporal  affairs, 112,  n. 

Cistercian  Houses, 12,  w. 

Abbeys,  list  of,  .     .     .     167,  Ap. 

Citaragus,  or  Sihtric, 6 

Cody  formerly  Archdeakin,    .     .     .   120,  n. 

Cogan,  Milo, 16,  re. 

Coinage,  first,  of  Edward  I.  in  Ireland,  39 
College-green,  Dublin, formerly  St.  Mary 

le  Hogges, 108,  re. 

Comin,  John, 75,  n. 

Composte'.la,  St.  James  of,  Pilgrimages 

to 98,  w. 

Connaught, 5 

Connel  Castle, 83 

Connor,  or  Coyners,  or  Coigners,     .     64,  n. 

Courcy,  John  De, 21,  22,  n. 

Coyne  and  Livery,  first  use  of,  .  .  116,  n. 
Croftes  or  Custes,  Hugo  De,  ...  87,  w. 


Page. 
Croxden,  Cistercian,  Monastery  of,  .     16,  n. 

Cusake,  Walter, 68,  n. 

of  Killeen, 153,  n. 

D. 

Dangan  or  Dengin,  Co.  of  Meath,  .  24,  n. 

Darcy,  John,  Justiciary, 125 

,  for  life,  .  .  .133 

marries  Countess  of  Kildare,  115 

expedition  to  Scotland,  and 

list  of  names  of  followers,  .  .  173,  Ap. 
De  Burghs  and  De  Lacys,  .  .  .  .159 
De  la  Freigne,  families  of,  ...  153,  re. 
De  la  Hyde  of  Moyclare,  family  of,  153,  n. 

De  Lacys,  159 

Dela  Lande,  of  O'Fervil  or  O'Ferral,  Co. 

of  Longford, 66,  re. 

Dene,  William,  Justiciary,  ....  37 
Desmond,  Earl  of,  introduces  the  use  of 

Coyne  and  Livery, 1 1 6,  re. 

Desmond,  Earl  of,  his  bailsmen,  .  .  .139 

,  Maurice,  his  verses,  .  137,  re. 

,  Fitz  Thomas,  Justiciary,  145 

,  first  Earl, 

Obits, 165 

Dexter,  Exeter  or  M' Jordan,  .  .  .  .  61 

Diola  and  Sons, 5 

Doget,  now  Duckett, 40,  re. 

Dominicans, Ill,  w. 

Don  or  Thomas  of  Down,  .  .  .  88,  re.,  89 

Donat,  death  of, 9 

Dublin,  University  of, 97 

,  ancient  walls  of,  ....  79,  n. 

Duckett,  formerly  Doge,  Doget,  or  Do- 

ket, 40,  n. 

Duff,  Adam,  a  heretic, 107 

Dunan,  Bishop  of  Dublin,  ....  7 
Dunboyne,  family  of  Butlers  of,  .  .114,  n. 
Dunbrody  or  De  Portu,  .  .  .  .  16,  re. 

Durrow,  King's  County, 19 

E. 


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E. 


Edward  I.  first  coinage  in  Ireland,     .  .     39 

Edward  II.,  Irish  Chiefs  attending,  .  49,  n. 

intention  of  taking  refuge  in 

Ireland, 104,  n. 

Eivers  or  Ivars,  .     .    . 6,  n. 

Epiphany,  storm  on,  1324,      .     .     .  100,  n. 

Exeter,  Dexter  or  M'Jordan,      .     .  61,  n. 

F. 

Fennok  Abo,  cry  of, 73 

Finae,  Co.  of  Westmeath,  ....  121,  n. 
Firbolgs  or  Belgic  Colony,  ...  4,  n. 
Fitzacory,  Fitzalfred,  or  Fitzalured,  24,  n. 
Fitzavery,  Lord  of  Dengin,  ....  25 
Fitz  Geffrey,  John,  Justiciary,  .  ib. 

Fitz  Gerald,  Justiciary,       .     .     .     .     31,  n. 

,  Maurice,  death  of,    .     .     .     35 

Fitz  Henry,  Meiler, 18,  n. 

Fitz  Maurice,  Maurice, 37 

Fitz  Ralph,  Archbishop  of  Armagh,  con- 
troversy with  Mendicant  Friars,  .  149 
Fitz  Roger,  Prior  of  Hospitallers,  .  .  39 
Fitz  Warren,  family  of,  ....  86,  n. 
Four  Courts  in  Dublin,  site  of,  .  .  79,  n. 
Foure,  Abbey  of,  Co.  of  Westmeath,  24,  n. 
Freynestown  Church  burned, .  .  .  .123 
Fulborn,  Friar  Stephen,  Justiciary,  .  .  41 

G. 

Galoglasses, 71,  w. 

Gandias, 5 

Gelasius,  first  use  of  Pall, 15 

Geneville,  Geoffry  De,  Justiciary,     .     .     37 

,  a  monk  at  Trim,  54,  n. 

Genevilles  and  De  Lacys,  connexion  of,  46,  n. 

Gennadius, 5 

Geraldines,  Obits  of, 163 

Gergesius, 6 

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Gernon,  John  and  William,     .     .     .     .113 
Gille,  Camvinelagh  or  Wryneckt,     .     32,  n. 

Glandilore, 38,  n. 

Gloucester  or  Glovernia,    ....     27,  n. 

Goderic, 7 

Gowran,  Baliganam, 8J 

Grain,  prices  of,    ....     57,87,  118,  n. 
Gray,  Lord  Leonard,  Justiciary,  .     .     .   159 

H. 

Halfpenny,  family  of,  standard  bearers,  137,  n. 

Hardy,  William,  first  Master  of  Dublin 
University,  97 

Harper,  Gib,  and  Edward  Bruce,    .     95,  n. 

Havering,  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  his 
dream,  50,  n. 

Henry  II.,        7 

,  lands  in  Ireland,      .     .     .     .     15 

Henry  III.,  Chiefs  summoned  by,     .     33,  n. 

Hereford,  Bishop  of  (Charlton),  Justi- 
ciary,   131 

Heremon  and  Hiberus, 5 

Hiberus, 5 

Hogeline,  query  Ugolino,    ....     52,  n. 

Holy  wood  or  Santobosco,  Co.  of  Dublin,  66,  n. 

Holy  wood,  family  of,  Artane,       .     .153,  n. 

Hose,  Hugo  De,  or  Hussey,    ...     74,  n. 

Hospitalers  receive  Templars'  lands,      .     61 

Huntingdon,  David  Earl  of,    ...     13,  n. 

Hussey,  families  of, 74,  n. 

I. 

Ifars, 6,  H. 

Imayle  or  Oimaill,  Co.  of  Wicklow,      72,  n. 

Ines,  Abbey  of,  in  Ulster, 19 

Innislounagh  or  De  Surio,  Co.  of  Tip- 

perary,          17 

Isterige, 7 

Ivor  or  Ivors, 6,  n. 

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Jack,  Maurice, 97 

Jerpoint  or  Seripoint,  Co.  of  Kilkenny,  17 
John,  Prince,  lands  first  in  Ireland,  .  .  19 
John,  King,  assize  of  bread,  ...  58,  n. 
Joinville,  Jean  De, 37,  n. 


Kavanagh's  County,  Co.  of  Carlow,  120,  n. 
Kells,  Co.  of  Kilkenny,  .  .  .  .105,71. 

,  Co.  Meath, 63 

Kenles  or  Kells, 68,  n. 

Ketil,  Alice, 101 

Kildare,  Earl  of,  Gerald,  Deputy,    .     .157 

,   Earl  of,  Thomas,  Justiciary,    .   157 

Kilkenny,  parliament  in  1310,       ...     57 

,  summons  to,        ...     170,  A  p. 

Kilcullen-bridge  built, 97 

L. 

Lacy,  Hugh  De,  killed, 19 

_ and  Walter  concealed  in 

Abbey  of  St.  Taurin, 25 

,  Walter  De,  death  of,  ....  31 

,  Matilda  De,  and  Genevilles,  .  46,  n. 

Lacys,  De,  and  De  Burghs,  ....  19 
Lahay,  William,  Justiciary,  ....  43 

Lanfranc,  Archbishop, 7,  9 

Ledin,  query, 82,  n. 

Ledwiche,  different  spellings  of,  .  .114,  n. 
Leeke,  De,  Archbishop,  .  .  .  .  96,  n. 

Leinster  or  Laginia, 5 

Leixlip, 29 

Le  Poer,  Baron  of  Donnoil,  ...  83,  n. 

Lerha  or  Abbeylara, 25 

Liffey  frozen  over  1338 131 

Limerick  founded  by  Ifars,  ....  7 
Longespee,  Stephen,  Justiciary,  ...  35 
Loughseudy  or  Loughsendy,  County  of 

Westmeath, 66,  n. 


Page. 

Louis,  St., 35,  n. 

Lucy,  Sir  Anthony,  Justiciary,     .     .     .121 

M. 

Mabestown, 117,  n. 

M'Auley, 6,  n. 

M'Brene  or  M'Brian, 148,  n. 

M'Carthy  More,  death  of  his  son,     .   132,  n. 
M'Hale,  query  M'Kele  or  M'Conghur,  77,  n. 

M'ltterick, 6,  n. 

M'lvor, ih. 

M'Murroughs  or  Cavanaghs,  .  .  70,  n. 
M'Pheoris  or  Birmingham,  .  .  .  52,  n. 
M'Somerlid  or  M'Soerli  killed,  .  .  32,  n. 
Mandevilles  of  Ulster,  .  .  .  .  38,  n.,  63 
Marshall,  William,  the  elder,  death  of,  27 
,  his  daughters'  por- 
tions,   26,  n. 

,  genealogy,     .     .     28,  n. 

,  burial  place,       .     30,  n. 

Maud,  Empress,  death  of, 1 1 

Mauses,  a  disease,  query, 125 

May  owe,  Thomas, 105,  n. 

Mell  or  Mellifont,  Synod, 9 

,  Cistercian  foundation,    12,  n. 

Milesius, 5 

Mimi,  Irish  list  of, 104,  n. 

Modius,  a  measure, 57,  n. 

Mortimer,  Justiciary, 83 

Munethus, 5 

Munster  or  Momomia, ib. 

N. 

Nanagh  or  Monaghan, 143 

Nangle,  Adam,  hanged, 117 

Newpass,  Co.  of  Westmeath,  ...     90,  n. 
Notingham,  Robert, 79 

O. 

O'Birnes  or  O' Brines,  Co.  of  Wicklow,     55 

O' Bryan, 


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O' Bryan,  Bryan 110,  n.,  117 

O'Bugill  or  O'Cugill  the  Wryneck,  32,  n.,  33 

O'Conachy,  Christian 8,  n. 

O'Conghur,  M'Kele, 77,  n. 

O'Conil,  Barony  of  Connelloe,  .  .138,  n. 
O' Conor  of  Geashill,  King's  County,  .  49 

O'Conyl  in  Limerick, 139 

O'Cugill,  or  O'Boyle,  or  O'Bugill,  .     32,  n. 
O'Dempsey  with  Edward   II.  in   Scot- 
land  49 

O'Driscoll,  or  Canteton,  or  Canton,      54,  n. 

,  Roger, 55 

O'Farel's  Country, 66,  n. 

O'Feral  or  O'Fervil, 89 

O'Kensily  or  Hy  Kinsellagh.  .  .  .  120,  n. 
O'Melaghlin,  territories  of,  .  .  .  41,  n. 

O' More  or  O'Morda, 140,  n. 

,  invasion  of,  by  Darcy,       .     .141 

O'Nel  or  O'Neill  summoned  by  Henry 

III.,  and  list  of  attendant  Chiefs,  .    33,  n. 
O' Nolan,  Country  of,  Co.  of  Carlow,    99,  n. 

O'Tooles, 70,  n. 

Olaf, 6,  n. 

Onlof, ib. 

Ormonde,  first  Ear!  of, 109 

,  Earl  of,  James,  Justiciary,    .   149 

Ossory,  Bishop  of,  accusation  of  Arnold 
Power  and  Roger  Cutlawe,      .     .     .Ill 

Ostmans, 7 

Owney  or  Abingdon, 161 

P. 

Papiron,  Cardinal,  in  Ireland,  ...  9 
Parliament,  first,  in  Ireland,  query,  .  56,  n. 
Patrick,  Bishop  of  Dublin,  .  .  .  .  7,  9 
Patrick,  St.,  Church,  in  Dublin,  ...  79 

Perceval, 47 

Pestilence  in  1348, 143 

Petit,  William, 27 

Petronilla  of  Meath,      ....          .101 


Page. 

Pippard,  Roger,  death  of, 29 

Pollards  or  Ballards, 44,  n. 

Prendergast, 67,  ». 

Preston,  family  of,  Gormanstown,     .   153,  H. 

Prices  of  grain,  &c.,       .     .     .      125,  128,  ;/. 

R. 

Ragely  or  Rathkeale, 107 

Randon   or  Randown,    Co.  of  Rosconi- 

mon,  now  St.  John's,       ....     66,  n. 
Ricardus,  Rex,  mistake  in  MS.,        .     20,  n. 

Richard  II.  in  Ireland, 157 

Rokeby,  Sir  Thomas,  Justiciary,       .     .    143 

,  money  difficulties,     146,  n. 

,  Justiciary  second  time,  147 

Rosglas  or  Monastereven,       .     .     .     16,  n. 
Rupella  or  De  Capella,       .     .     .     .     31,  n. 

Ruthargus, 5 

S. 

St.  Amand,  Almaric  De,  Justiciary,       .   149 
St.  John's,  Co.  of  Roscommon,     .     .     66,  n. 

St.  Mary  le  Hogges, 108,  n. 

St.  Taurin  of  Evreux,  Normandy,   .     24,  n. 

St.  Thomas's,  Dublin, 20,  n. 

Salmon-leap,  Leixlip,     .     .     .    29,  n.,  80,  n. 

Sandales,  family  of, 77,  n. 

Sangandius, 5 

Santobosco  or  Holywood,  Co.  Dublin,  66,  n. 
Saunford  or   Stanford,    Archbishop   of 

Dublin,  Justiciary, -  .     41 

Savage,  Robert,  ....  144,  n.,  145,  151 

Savages  of  Ulster, 63,  n. 

Scarcity  in  1310  and  1331,  &c.,     57,  87,  119 

Sherman,  Kenwrick, 144,  n. 

Shilelagh,  Co.  of  Wicklow,    .     .     .   120,  n. 

Sihtric, 6,  n. 

Slamabus, 5 

Sligo  Castle  built, 31 

Strangul  or  Chepstow, 9 

,  Earl  of, ,     .     13 

Strongbow, 


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Strongbow  or  Strangbowe,  lands  in  Ire- 


land, 


-,  Richard,  death  of, 
,  burial, 


14,  n. 
.  11 
10,  n. 

.  9 
77,  n. 


,  Gilbert,  death  of,    .     . 

Stuard,  Alan, 

Swethy,  query  Sneterby, 51 

T. 

Talbot  of  Malahide, 153,  n. 

Tallaght  or  Tamlact, 120,  n. 

Tassagard,  Co.  of  Dublin,       ....     59 

Templars,  imprisoned, 51 

,  lands  given  to  Hospitallers,         61 

Tenth  of  Ecclesiastical  Revenue  to  Holy 

Land,  41 

Termon,  a  common  prefix,       .     .     .     33,  n. 

Thorgils 6,  n. 

Thurles,  Urlase,  or  Urkyff,     .     .     .  119,  n. 
Thurlpolles  or  whales  in  River  Dodder,   121 

Torquil, 6,  n. 

Trim,  Bruce  comes  near,  .     .     .     .     86,  n. 

,  flood  in  Boyne  at, 117 

,  St.  Mary's,  burned, 155 

Troinis,  John  De,  Justiciary,        ...     37 

Tuit,  Richard, 25 

Tullow,  marvels  of, 73 

Turgesius 6,  n. 

Tyrrelspass,  Co.  of  Westmeath,  .     .     86,  n. 


U. 


Page. 


Ufford,  Robert  D',  Justiciary,      .     .  39,  141 

,  Sir  Ralph, 135 

Ugolino  or  Hogeline, 52,  n. 

Ulster  or  Ultonia, 5 

Ulster,  Countess  of, ]  35 

,  Earl  of,  Lionel,  Justiciary,  .     .   151 

University  of  St.  Patrick,    .     .     .     .     96,  n. 

Dublin, 97 

Urkiss  or  Thurles, 119 

V. 

Valence,  William  De,    half  brother  to 

Henry  III 27,  n. 

Verdon,  Theobald,  Justiciary,      ...     63 

,  Milo, 117 

Vesci,  family  of, 42,  n. 

Vesci,  Justiciary, 41 

W. 

Waleran  the  German, 30,  n. 

Walker  on  Irish  arms, 99,  n. 

Walter  the  Norman,      ......       9 

Warwick,    Earl    of,    black  dog  of  Ar- 
dennes,    60,  n. 

Wellesley, 47,  w.,  107 

Windsor,  William  De,  Lord  Deputy,       155 
Wogan,  Justiciary, 45 


FINIS. 


IRISH  ARCHAEOLOGICAL  SOCIETY. 


PUBLICATIONS  FOR  THE  YEAR  1841. 

I.  The  Circuit  of  Ireland ;  by  Muircheartach  Mac  Neill,  Prince  of  Aileach ;  a  Poem 
written  in  the  year  942  by  Cormacan  Eigeas,  Chief  Poet  of  the  North  of  Ireland. 
Edited,  with  a  Translation  and  Notes,  by  JOHN  O'DoNOVAN. 

II.  "  A  Brife  Description  of  Ireland:  Made  in  this  year  1589,  by  Robert  Payne  vnto 
xxv.  of  his  partners  for  whom  he  is  vndertaker  there."     Reprinted  from  the  second 
edition,  London,  1590,  with  a  Preface  and  Notes,  by  AQ.UILLA  SMITH,  M.D.,  M.R.I.  A. 

III.  The  Annals  of  Ireland;  by  James  Grace  of  Kilkenny.     Edited  from  the  MS. 
in  the  Library  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  in  the  original  Latin,  with  a  Translation  and 
Notes,  by  the  REV.  RICHARD  BUTLER,  A.  B.,  M.  R.  I.  A. 

IV.  The  Book  of  Obits  and  Martyrology  of  the  Cathedral  of  the  Holy  Trinity,  com- 
monly called  Christ  Church,  Dublin.     Edited  from  the  original  MS.  in  the  Library  of 
Trinity  College,  Dublin,  with  Notes,  by  the  REV.  JOHN  CLARKE  CROSTHWAITE,  A.M., 
Dean's  Vicar  of  Christ  Church  Cathedral.     In  the  Press. 


PUBLICATIONS  FOR  THE  YEAR  1842. 

I.  Cach  Hluighi  Racli.     The  Battle  of  Moira,  from  an  ancient  MS.  in  the  Library 
of  Trinity  College,  Dublin.     Edited  in  the  original  Irish,  with  a  Translation  and  Notes 
by  JOHN  O'DONOVAN.     Nearly  ready. 

II.  "  A  Treatice  of  Ireland;  by  John  Dymmok."     Edited  from  a  MS.  in  the  British 
Museum,  with  Notes,  by  the  REV.  RICHARD  BUTLER,  A.  B.,  M.  R.  I.  A.     In  the  Press. 

III.  The  Annals  of  Multifernam ;  from  the  original  MS.  in  the  Library  of  Trinity 
College,  Dublin.     Edited  by  AQUILLA  SMITH,  M.  D.,  M.  R.  I.  A.     In  the  Press. 


IV.  A  Statute  passed  at  a  Parliament  held  at  Kilkenny,  A.  D.  1367 ;  from  a  MS. 
in  the  British  Museum.     Edited,  with  a  Translation  and  Notes,  by  JAMES  HARDIMAN, 
Esq.,  M.  R.  I.  A.     In  the  Press. 

V.  An  Account  of  the  Tribes  and  Customs  of  the  District  of  Hy-Many,  commonly 
called  O'Kelly's  Country,  in  the  Counties  of  Galway  and  Eoscommon.     Edited  from 
the  Book  of  Leacan  in  the  Library  of  the  Royal  Irish  Academy ;  in  the  original  Irish, 
with  a  Translation  and  Notes,  by  JOHN  O'DONOVAN.     In  the  Press. 

PUBLICATIONS  SUGGESTED  OR  IN  PROGRESS. 

I.  The  Royal  Visitation  Book  of  the  Province  of  Armagh  in  1622,  from  the  original 
MS.  in  the  Library  of  Trinity  College,  Diiblin.     Edited  by  JAMES  HENTHORN  TODD, 
D.D.,  V.  P.  R.I.  A.,  Fellow  of  Trinity  College,  and  Treasurer  of  St.  Patrick's  Cathedral, 
Dublin. 

II.  The  Progresses  of  the  Lords  Lieutenants  in  Ireland;  from  MSS.  in  the  Library 
of  Trinity  College,  Dublin.     Edited  by  JOSEPH  HUBAND  SMITH,  Esq.,  M.  A.,  M.R.  I.  A. 

III.  &opama.     The  Origin  and  History  of  the  Boromean  Tribute.     Edited  from  a 
MS.  in  the  Library  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  with  a  Translation  and  Notes,  by  EUGENE 
CURRY. 

IV.  Cormac's  Glossary ;  in  the  original  Irish.    Edited,  with  a  Translation  and  Notes, 
by  JOHN  O'DONOVAN. 

V.  "Registrum  Coenobii  Omnium  Sanctorum  juxta  Dublin;"  from  the  original 
MS.  in  the  Library  of  Trinity  College.     Edited  by  JAMES  HENTHORN  TODD,  D.  D., 
V.  P.  R.  I.  A.,   Fellow  of  Trinity  College,   and  Treasurer  of  St.  Patrick's  Cathedral, 
Dublin. 


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