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Justiciary, to have his Hall in Dublin finished, and water conveyed' 

 thereto through a pipe from the city conduit, the work to be completed 

 by tha ensuing summer. 



In the course of the year 1254, water from the Dodder was flowing 

 into the conduit in High-street, which stood near the great gate of 

 the priory of the Holy Trinity, and the Liher Alius of the corporation 

 of Dublin contains copies of water grants made in that year to 

 certain private citizens, and to some of the great ecclesiastical 

 foundations, (among them) to the said priory, and to the church of the 

 Holy Saviour, near the bridge of Dublin. 



It is my privilege to bring before the Academy a hitherto un- 

 published,^ and (I ventui'e to think) unknown document, which makes 

 us acquaiated with some of the terms of an agi'eement, in connexion 

 with this water supply, made between the city authorities and the 

 Abbey of St. Thomas the Martyr, which stood in the western suburbs. 

 There are no contemporary documents known to be in existence 

 relating to these ti-ansaetions, other than what have been above 

 indicated, so that this additional evidence, only four years later in 

 date than the period when the Dodder water was directly suppKed to 

 the city, is of peculiar interest and importance. The next document 

 in point of date with which I am acquainted is some sixty years 

 later. 



Among the muniments preserved at Kilruddery is a parchment 

 roll, containing the earliest grants {circ. 1177) connected with the 

 foundation of St. Thomas' Abbey by King Heniy II. Attached to the 

 roll is an inquisition of 1258, taken in reference to the above agree- 

 ment, and this document Lord ATeath has most kindly pennitted me 

 to transcribe, with a view to submitting it to the Academy. These 

 archives of Thomas Court have been handed down in the Brabazon 

 family from the time of Sii' "VTilliam Brabazon, grantee in 1545 of its 

 possessions. 



The inquisition is as follows : — 



Inc^uisitio iacta a die Pasch^ in tres septimanas anno regni domini 

 'Regis Kenrici XLrn:°. coram domino galfrido de Forestel, tuwc Iocuwj 

 justiciarii 'Kihemiie tenente et aliis domim. Eegw et domim Edwardi 

 fidelibws per hreve domini Regis et do)7iim Edwardi de tr(msgr^ssionib«<s 

 iactis domino abb«ti et cowventm sancti Thome martiTis j^xs.fa Dublin 



1 It is not to be found in the Register of St. Thomas', edited frona the original in 

 the Bodleian, by Sir John GUbert. There is no copy ia the Eegister of the abbey, 

 preserved in the Library of this Academy, which I have examined. 



