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the claim to the third part being surrendered by the former. 1 This arrangement 

 held good until the Reformation. 2 



Something must now be said about one or two of the witnesses to the 

 charter who have not hitherto been mentioned. 



Richard Hedesore bears a surname which is well known in the history 

 of the County Louth, usually in the form Haddesor. It may be noted, 

 however, that a certain Richard de Heddeshoure witnessed a grant of Ralph 

 de Vernon, lord of Balisconan, who was a feudatory of the Pipards. 3 This 

 instrument is not dated, but it is referred to in a mandate of Eugenius> 

 Archbishop of Armagh (1206-1216), in which Ralph de Vernon is described 

 as late lord of Balisconan. 4 Hence it is probable that Richard de Heddeshoure 

 is the Richard Hedesore of our Charter. The probability is increased 

 when we observe that the name which follows his is Geoffrey Sturmin. I 

 have no hesitation in identifying this person with Geoffrey Esturrh of our 

 Charter. It is impossible not to connect the name Sturmin with the townland 

 of Stormanstown, in the barony of Ardee. But Stormanstown is in the 

 parish of Clonkeen. And so we reach the further conclusion that Geoffrey 

 was a relative of the Richard de Stormi who gave St. Edan's Church, 

 Clonkeen, to the Abbey of St. Mary, Dublin. 



There is a third witness common to Ralph de Vernon's grant and our 

 Charter, for it cannot be doubted that Matthew de Fulsiage, whose name 

 appears in the former, and Matthew de Fulsaue are the same person. Another 

 member of the same family may be Robert de Fulsay, who witnessed an 

 instrument of Peter de Repentini. 5 There is a township named Fulshaw in 

 the parish of Winslow, Cheshire. 



Baudewin de Kerme seems also to be a person known independently of 

 our Charter. For one Baldewin de Caermarthen (Kaermurthin, Caermerthin, 

 Carmarthin, Carmertin) is several times named in documents of, the period 

 with which we are concerned ; 6 and Caermarthen is often written Kermerthin, 

 Kermerdin, or Kermerdyn. 1 It is highly probable that " Kerme " is an 

 abbreviation of one of the latter forms. 



Launtofi, of the canons of which Simon is described as chaplain, I take to 

 be Llanthony. 8 The Priory of Llanthony, near Gloucester, had many churches 



1 Chart, of St. Mary's Abbey, i, 336. 



2 For Clonkeen see Fiants of Elizabeth, no. 1312, and for Drumcar, Archdall, 

 op. cit., p. 145. 



3 Chart, of St. Mary's Abbey, i, 55. 

 *Ibid., 149 f. 5 Ibid., p. 43. 



6 Register of St. Thomas' s Abbey , pp. 8, 12, 80, 124, 269. 

 " Ibid., 9, 14, 30, 121 ; Chart, of St. Mary's Abbey, i, 347, 352 ; ii, 361. 

 8 One is tempted to identify it with Launton in Oxfordshire. But I am not aware 

 that there was a house of canons at that place. 



