BicKNAKD — The Charters of the Ahbci/ of Duiske. 56 



Tautona, Doiniuo Ranuliilio rectore ecclesie de Balygauran, Domino Eicardo 

 tunc ulliciali Lechliiiunsi, W. do Bcudeuillc mililc, ot niultis aliis. 

 Datum apud Fynowci viii Iihis Jiuiii anno gratio Mccxxvni. 



Two copies o£ this charter are extant, and also an early transcript (see p. 49, 

 above). Three seals were attached to each of the former, but of the whole six only 

 one remains. 



The manor of Fynuore (Killenora), where this was executed, was near Kellis- 

 town in co. Carlow and in the diocese of Leighlin. It is to be observed that the 

 abbey of Killenny was situate in that diocese, which accounts for the bishop of 

 Leighlin's position in the case. 



Of the various personages concerned in it, Robert Fleming was bishop of 

 Leighlin from 1217 to 1228 ; William was archdeacon from 1200 to 1228, when he 

 succeeded Eobert Fleming as bishop ; John of Taunton was a well-known canon of 

 St. Patrick's (see p. 50) ; William Crassus we have had already (see p. 10) ; for 

 Ralph, the rector of Goivran, see p. 11 ; B., treasurer of Leighlin, and Richard, 

 official of Leighlin, do not seem to appear elsewhere ; W. de Bendeville, knight, 

 may be a kinsman of the William de Wendeval who was dapifer of King John, 

 and was given a messuage in Dublin." For Ralph de Bendeville, who also may 

 have been a kinsman, see p. 21. 



The abbey of Buildwas, whose abbot S. appears in this charter, was a Cistercian 

 house in Shropshire. Stephen, the abbot of Stanley in Wiltshire, had been 

 appointed Visitor-General of the Cistercians in Ireland, as we know from 

 Charter 27. 



29. 



Inspeximus by Henry, archbishop of Dublin, of the preceding Charter 



(no. 28). 



Dated at Dublin, 1 July, I22S. 



Uniuer.sis Christi lidelibus ad quos presens scriptum peruenerit H. dei 

 gratia archiepiscopus Dublinensis salutem in Domino. 



Compositionem inter uenerabilem fratrem E. Lechelinenseui episcopnm 

 necuon et W. ai-chidiaeonum eiusdeniqne ecclesie capitulum ex una parte, 

 et abbatem et conueutum de Valle Saneti Salvatoris ex altera, super querelis 

 subscriptis amicabiliter initam inspeximus sub hac forma : Omnibus Sancte 

 Matris [as in no. 28 verhalim, down to] testibus et cetera. Nor igitur quorum 

 interest pro officii debito paci et tranquillitali ecclesiarum prouidere et litinm 

 occasioues preseiudere, que fraternam non numquam ofl'endunt et minuunt 

 caritatem, dictani compositionem ratani habeutes, approbamus et auctoritate 

 metropolitaua in perpetuuui confirmamus. 



In cuius rei robur inconcussum et testimonium presens scriptum sigilli 

 uostri appositione muuiuimus. 



Testibus domino S. abbate de Stanleg, W. decano Sancti Patricii Dubli- 

 nensis, G. archidiacono Dublinensi, T. cancellario, E. thesaurario, et aliis. 



■ R.T.A. 437. 



