THE TALBOT PAPERS 
Grant By Kine Epwarp IV ro THomas TatBot,' 8 Marcu, 1475. 
(Indorsed). —TRANSLATION of a Grant of the Manor of Mul- 
laghide in the County of Dublin To Thomas Talbot Esquire dated the 
8th of March 1475 in the 15th year of the Reign of King Edward the 
fourth. 
EDWARD by the Grace of God King of England and France and 
Lord of Ireland to all Archbishops Bishops Abbotts Priors Dukes 
Earls Barrons Justices Sheriffs Portrives Ministers and to all Bailiffs 
and Faithfull Subjects through our whole Kingdom of Ireland Greet- 
ing Know ye that We of our special Grace and of our certain Know- 
ledge and mere motion and allso on mature deliberation and with the 
Assent of our Councel and with the Assent of our most dear Brother 
George Duke of Clarence our Lieutenant of our land of Ireland ? &e. 
and for certain considerations Us thereunto Otherwise moveing We 
have given and granted and for us our Heirs and Successors and accord- 
ing to the Tenor of these presents We do give and grant and by this 
our present Charter have confirmed To our dearly beloved and Faithfull 
Thomas Talbot Esquire Who holds the Mannor or Lordship of Malla- 
hide in Our land of Ireland of us in Chief by Knights Service that he 
and his Heirs may have hold and Receive All and Singular Customs 
as well as Great as Small which to us our Heirs and Successors lately 
were Due or Ought to come or belong to us of Woole Hides Sheepeskines 
Lead Tin and all and all Manner of Other Merchandize Coming to 
the Town or Creeke of Mullay hide in the County of Dublin in Our 
land of Ireland as well by Land as by Water or Coastwise or by an 
arm of the Sea or Otherwise from thenceforth to be Taken and applied 
And that the Afforesaid Thomas and His Heirs may have all the Cus- 
toms Aforesaid of all Goods and Merchandize comeing in anny Ships 
*Thomas Talbot represented the tenth generation of lords of Malahide 
in unbroken male line from Richard Talbot, chevalier, who had received 
the manor and lordship in 1174 directly from King Henry II. Thomas died 
23rd July, 1487. 
*Born in Dublin 1499, when his father, Richard, Duke of York, was 
Lord Lieutenant. Put to death by his brother, King Edward IV, in 1478. 
In 1462 the latter had appointed him Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for life. 
Clarence was a patron of Caxton, who dedicated his first book to him. 
