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in Meath, at any rate in the fourteenth century. Among the rest was 

 St. Kenan's, Duleek. And at Duleek there was also, in 1409, a house 

 " commonly called a priory," at which, from time immemorial, one of the 

 canons had resided. 1 The same priory had also several churches in the deanery 

 of Drogheda, Co. Louth, including St. Peter's, Drogheda. 2 



Hestred, as Mr. M. J. McEnery suggests to me, should probably be 

 identified with Heytesbury, in Wiltshire. That place appears in mediaeval 

 documents as Hichtredeberia. 3 Other forms are Hehtredebiri, 4 Hectidesburi, 

 Heiteisburi. 



In conclusion, I must offer my best thanks to the Marquis of Ormonde 

 for permitting me to examine and to publish the Charter ; to the Lady 

 Constance Butler for sending me a tracing of it ; and to the Lord Bishop of 

 Ossory for much help in the preparation of this paper. 



1 Col. of Register of Archbuhop Fleming, no. 121 (Proc. B.I. A., vol. xxx, Sec. C, No. 5). 

 - Cal. of Register of Archbishop Sweteman, no. 62 (Proc. R.I.A., vol. xxix, Sec. C, 

 No. 8). 



3 C. T. Martin, The Record Interpreter, 1910, p. 380. 



4 Christ Church Deed, 472 ; Chart, of St. Mary's Abbey, i. 207 ; ii- 159. 



