Bkrnaki) — The Charters of lite Ahheij of Duiskc. 45 



aniinannu saluLu nobis couLulisse abbatiam Vallis Dei cum omiii iiu'c suo, ita 

 ut de ceteret nunc sit abbatia que per se commode subsistere non poterat, sed 

 ad uos pleno iuro pcrtineat cum omnibus ad se pertinenLibus, predictam colla- 

 tionem et unionem presentibus Uteris nostris confirmamus, monentcs ct 

 mandantes ([uatinus sic studeatis in caritate proficere et regularibus dis- 

 ciplinis, ut semper gaudeamns in domino uos talibns beneficiis anipliassc. 

 Datum anno gratie Jtccxxvil, tempore capituli generalis apud Cistercium. 



The seals have ilisappeavecl from this document. The abbot of Clairvaux in 

 1227 was Ralph ' de Pinis seu de Peyrinis.'' 



21. 



Confirmation by the abbots of Citeaux, La Ferte, Pontigny, Clairvaux, and 

 Morimund, of the reduction of Killenny to a grange, and its union 

 with Duiske, as directed by tlie abbot of Froidmont. 

 • Dated at Citeaux, at the General Chapter, 1227. 



Fratres Gr. Cistercii . . . de Firmitate ... do Pontiniaco . . . de Clareualle 

 et . . . Morimundo dicti abbates, uenerabilibus et in Christo dilectis T. co- 

 abbati suo Saucti Saluatoris in Hybernia et eiusdem loci conueutui salutem 

 in Christo. 



Cum vere religionis augmento intelligentes plane uenerabilem B. co. 

 abbatem nostrum Frigidi Montis, pro reparatione ordinis nostri in Hybernia 

 et animarum salute, auctoritate nostra et totius capituli generalis, abbatiam 

 Vallis Dei iam in grangiam redactam, eo quod per se commode subsistere non 

 poterat, nobis et domui uestre cum omul iure suo in perpetuum contulisse, 

 predictam collationem et unionem a predicto co-abbati nostro iam factam 

 auctoritate presentium confirmamus, monentes et mandantes quatinus sic 

 studeatis in caritate proficere et regularibus disciplinis studiosius inuigilare, 

 ut semper gaudeamns in domino uos talibus beneficiis ampliasse. In huius 

 siquidem rei testimonium presens scriptum sigillorum nostrorum munimine 

 roborauimus. 



Datum est autem hoc tempore capituli generalis anno gratie Jiccxxvii 

 apud Cistercium. 



Two seals are gone. The seal of the abbot of Citeaux remains (see Plate II). 

 It represents the abbot in vestments, in his right hand a crozier, and in his left 

 hand an open book, the legend being sigillv.m abbatis cisterciensis." His name 

 was Gautier or Galcher de Ochies. The names of the abbots of La Fertc, Pontigny, 

 and Morimund were Simon, Peter, and Guy respectively.^ 



' Gallia ChviMiana, iv, 805. 



- See also Brit. Mus. Cat. of Seals, vul. v, p. 2.50, no. 18o24. 



^ QalUa Christiana, iv, 992, 1023, 818 ; xii, 445. 



