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tercia?n partem prefatws Rogerus pipard caritatis intuitu ecclme 

 nostre in puraw et perpetuarn eleniosiuam cowcessit ei sigilli sui 

 muninrine corefirmauit. Et ut hoc xsAum et i«co?icussum in 

 posterum peraianeat testimonio impressionis sigilli capituli nostri 

 corroboraviirws. His testibus. Toma episcopo de docker. 

 Illario subpriore. Gille Furs soler Sivaone de cliratune, 

 R&dulfo derepenteni WilWmo geraun. Matheo de Fulesaga. 

 Roberto persona de adh<?; - det. et Multis aliis. 



Attached to the Charter is an excellent impression in green wax of the 

 capitular seal of the Priory. Surrounding a representation of the Mother 

 and Child is the legend, of which only a couple of letters are lost : 



* S s C[AP]tl CANON ICORVM SCE MARIE DE LVGVE. 



The Virgin holds a lily in her right hand. 



The Charter, it will be seen, is a grant of the advowsons and tithes 

 of the cantred of Mucheme, saving the third part of the tithes of a fee of 

 one knight at llos, and of a fee of four knights out of the lordship of Doue- 

 nacmain. These denominations can be identified without difficulty. Among 

 the Fiants of Queen Elizabeth, there is a lease to John Wakely of certain 

 " rectories and spiritualities " which had belonged to the suppressed monastery 

 of Louth. 1 The list of them includes " Megherosshe and Donagmayne." 

 There is also a lease to Edward Moore, 2 which mentions, among other 

 denominations, " the rectory of Maghyrcloo, in Inferny, half the rectory 

 of Rosse, called Maghyrrosse, in Inferny, lands of Capperaghe, with half 

 the parsonage of Donnaghenney, in Inferny." Here Donnaghenney appears 

 to be an alias of Donagmayne, 3 and Eosse is expressly stated to be an alias of 

 Maghyrrosse. Thus the ltos and Douenacmain of our Charter are undoubtedly 

 the parishes of Magheross (in which is the town of Carrickmacross) and 

 Donaghmoyne, both in the barony of Farney, Co. Monaghan. It is not without 

 interest to observe that Wakely's lease proves that before the sixteenth 

 century they had returned to the ownership of the Priory, from which they 

 were alienated by our Charter. Their history is so far parallel to that of the 



1 Xo. 1312 in the Calendar published in Reports xi-xxii of the Deputy Keeper of the 

 Public Records of Ireland. 

 - H,id., no. 1723. 

 3 It is so regarded in the index to the Fiants. 



