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XIX. 



A CHARTER OF DONATUS, PRIOR OF LOUTH. 



By REV. H. J. LAWLOR, D.D., Litt.D. 



Plate XXVIII. 



Read April 26. Published August 16, 1915. 



It is nearly two years since I introduced to the notice of the Academy 

 a Charter of the Priory of St. Mary, Louth, preserved among the muniments 

 of the Marquis of Ormonde at Kilkenny Castle. I endeavoured to show that 

 it may be assigned to the year 1187-8, and that it is of considerable interest 

 from an historical point of view. Shortly after it appeared in the Proceedings 1 

 Lady Constance Butler was so kind as to send me a transcript of another 

 charter of the same Priory. It will be included in the Calendar of the 

 Ormonde Deeds which is being prepared for the Historical Manuscripts 

 Commission by Dr. H. F. Berry (no. 332) ; but its interest justifies the 

 printing of the text and a discussion of its contents. 



In the following copy the contractions of the original are expanded. 



Donatus Miseracicme diuina lugdoneresis ecclesie dictws prior 

 et tociws loci eiwsdew conuentus Vniu^rsis sancte Matris ecclme 

 filiis ad qwos presewtes litere pervenerint salwtm in christo. 

 Nouerit huniuersitas vestta nos assensu et cowtmuni eowsilio 

 tocius capituli nostvi co«cessisse et qwietas ciamauisse [Rogero 

 Pipai'd et heredibus suis] presentacioraes et donacio«es omnium, 

 eccles'mxum et decimaru??? tocius cantedri(!) de mucherne 2 excepta 

 tercia parte decimanim de blado. et de lana. et de agnis. de 

 feudo .v. milituw .scilicet, de feudo vniws militis apwt Ros. 

 et de feudo qwatuor niilitura de dominico de douenacrnaiw. qua??* 



i Vol. xxxii, Sect. C, p. 28. 



2 This word might be read ' matherue. 



R J. A, PBGC, VOL. XXX1J., SECT. C, [50] 



