iSnuKY — The Ciixloni vullni VnlbuU, I.JOS and iJSo. 173 



ciiiiuiiilLud agahisl, him. The bieweis were ordered Lo answer ; and mi tliis 

 they said tliat the tenements they now hold were waste and uninhaljited 

 places in King Jolin's time, so that neither the King and his progenitors nor 

 the abliot and liis predecessors could have taken tlie custom where tlie present 

 defendants' tenements are now constructed, and they sought judgment. 

 Eobert de Trapston and Blissina LotrLx answer that they hold their tene- 

 ments of a church ; Walter de Nangle and Juliana Honicode, of an inn," 

 which arc exempt from such custom. The court held that as their tenements 

 did not join with tlie said church and inn, they were liable. 



John Sampson, William Botiller, William Callaue, and John de Casf.leknock 

 answered that the abbot was in seisin of the custom of ale without biniliance 

 on their part ; but as they never made mead for sale, lie could not have Ijcen 

 in seisin of it. In this instance, the abbot was adjudged to have made a false 

 claim, and so he took nothing by his writ. The defendant John Silleby had 

 died. 



Finally, the court ordered that the alsbot should recover against John 

 le Hore, William Donne (representing Elena de Donne), Joan Tyrell, Thomas 

 Coliz (Corlice), Eobert Milton, William Cc rnewalleis, Eoger Barboure, Walter 

 Shermane, William de Topishane, Eobert de Trapston, Blissina Lotrix, Walter 

 de Nangle, and Juliana Honicode, the said custom to be taken in their 

 taverns, made after the making of the said charter, with damages against 

 them. 



Later on, the jurors came before the Justiciar, and assessed the abbot's 

 damages against John le Hore at half a mark; William de Vylers, two marks ; 

 John Hay ward, two marks and four pence ; Hugh Silvcstre, two marks and a 

 half ; Mabilla Ainalde, two marks ; Elena de Donne, twelve pence ; Joan 

 Tyrell, twenty shillings ; Thomas Coliz, half a mark; Eobert Milton, lialf a 

 mark ; William Cornewalleis, half a mark ; Eoger Barbour, two marks and 

 a half ; Walter Shermane, half a mark ; William de Topishane, a mark ; and 

 Eichard Ethnarde, two marks and a half. 



It will ha\e been observed that several of the defendants were females ; 

 and in this connexion it is remarkable that an enactment specially dealing 

 with female brewers is found among the " Laws and Usages of the City of 

 Dublin," enrolled in the Chain Book of the Corporation.- 



' Possibly 11 flunk house [liber hospcs). 



• Gill)cit's Calendiir, vol. i., p. 221. See also " Notes on an uninilplishcd Inniiisilion, 12')S " 

 (.Muwylli, &( .}, II. F. Beny, IVuc. K.I.A., xxiv.. Suet. C, pp. 11. -l'). 



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