16 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



L-eland. Odo I'Ercedekne seems to have died about 1217.' He also witnessed 

 William Marshal's Charter to Kilkenny. 



Herbert, one of William Marshal's clerks, appears as such iu his Protection to 

 Dunbrody Abbey.' 



2. 



Quit claim by Adam Fitz Sinnott in respect of liis land at Annamult to 

 his lord, William ilarshal, and to the monks of Stanley, for the abbey 

 to be founded in honour of the Saviour, it being provided that he and 

 his heirs may for ever appoint a monk to the said abbey, who can 

 speak the English tongue. 



Omnibus ad quos presens scriptum perueuerit Adam filius Sinath 

 salutem. 



Sciatis fjuod ego rclaxaui et ijuietam clamaui omnem demandani cum 

 onini iure et calumpniu tota ijuam habui in terra de Athermolt, domino meo 

 AVillehno Maiescallo Comiti Pembroke, et monachis suis Cisterciensis ordinis 

 de Stanleghe, de me et hercdibus meis sine omni rcclamatione in perpetuum 

 in auxilium abbatie sue fundande in honorem Sancti Saluatoris. 



Et ut lioc ratum i^eruaneat et stabile in testimonium predicte relaxationis 

 sigillum mcum presenti script" apjiosui. Hanc autem relaxationem et quietam 

 clamationem feci in Coniitatu Wcscfordie. 



Predicti uero monachi concesseruut michi, recepturos se monachum unuin 

 ad prcsentationem mcam et heredum meorum succe-ssiuc in perpetuum, qui 

 tamen de lingua Anglica sit, et iduneus ad scruitium Dei in codeni monasterio 

 faciendum ; et iude michi cartam suam fecerunt. 



Hiis testibus Tlmnui filio Antonii, Domino Johanne abbate de Voto, 

 Willclmo CJras,so, tJuidone de Cultura, Roberto Mansello, Nicliolao de 

 Inteberga, Rogero filio Euerardi, Eustachio de Bertolomonte, Willelmo de 

 Cromhale, Philippe clerico, Waltero clerico, et multis aliis. 



This instrument, like the la.<)t, is prior to the foundation of tlie abbey of Duiske, 

 and is about the .same date, viz., 1204. 



Adam Fitz Sinnott was probably of Flemish descent. His son, David, was 

 crranted lands in Shclmnlicr East, co. Wexford, about the year 1215 by Gerald 

 Roche.' In after times Sinnott was a well-known Wexford name. 



For Thomas Fitz Anthony see p. 16. 



John Terrell was the first abbot of Tintem, which was founded by William 

 Marshal, about the year 1200.' 



William Crassus or Ic Gras was a member of a considerable family at 

 Sodbury in Gloucestershire, who were kinsmen of the Marshals. There were four 

 brothers, one of whom was bishop of St. Davids from 1230 to 1247. The other 



' R.T.A. 1.^3. » C.M.A. ii, 160. ' See Anwmry (1868-9), R.S.A.I., p. 62 n. 



* See C.M.A. ii, 3<)7. Mr. Orpen points out that William Marshal's charter to 

 Tintern is probribly later {I.e. ii, 207). 



