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Baggot, as fully as he or his grandfather held it, reserving, 
however, a yearly chief rent of 20 marks thereout to the citizens 
of Dublin. 
In the year 1320, the same Robert Baggot, being sued for 
the aforesaid Rath, pleaded his title under the Corporation, 
stating that he held same of the Mayor and citizens of Dublin, 
and that it was within the bounds of the city. 
In the year 1322, the lands of Donnybrook, which belonged 
to the Manor of Baggotrath, were conveyed, by the above 
named Robert Baggot, to Fromund le Bruyn, who reconveyed 
them to Thomas, the son of the same Robert Baggot. 
A.D. 1442. James Cornewalsh, the Chief Baron of the 
Exchequer, came from his residence, at Dunboyne, on the 28th 
of September, 1442, for the purpose of taking his seat in that 
Court, or, as the record informs us, ‘“‘ Causa sedendi in scac- 
cario domini Regis, ibidemque Deo favente justiciam facien- 
dum in crastino sancti Michaelis tune proximo sequente ;” and 
that he came to his Manor of Baggotrath, situate within the 
liberty of the city of Dublin, where, as the same record states, 
*‘more solito sub quiete et pacis domini Regis supradicti tran- 
quillitatem una cum suis tantum domesticis dicto vicesimo 
octavo die residebat.” While he was there, however, William 
Fitz William, of Dundrum, Esquire, “‘cum magna multitu- 
dine hominum armatorum modo guerrino,” entered the hall of 
the Manor in Baggotrath, ‘‘cum gladiis, arcubus, lanceis, et 
fustibus,” and there, ‘“ proditorie et felonicé,” and against the 
king’s peace, ‘ut vulgariter et notorie dicitur,” he most 
wickedly slew him. [Memoranda Roll of the Exchequer, 
anno 21 Hen. VI.] 
A.D. 1480. The Corporation of Dublin presented a peti- 
tion to a Parliament held before Gerald Earl of Kildare, the 
deputy of Richard Duke of York, stating that, by the death 
of Richard Fitz William, “franque home et demeurant deins 
la franchise del dit citie, le quele fuist seizie del seigneurie de 
