Bkunard — The Charters of the Ahbejj of Diiishe. 63 



that name who was a clerk in the diocese of Cashel about 1219 :' he appears again 

 in nos. 42, 59. 



A BicJiord Bluet signed one of Strongbow's ehartci's (before 117G),- but tlie 

 witness to this instrument can liardly bo the same man. 



37. 



Petition from G., abbot of Citeaux, and the General Chapter of the 



Cistercian Order, to Pope Gregory IX, to confirm the union of the 



abbey of Killenny with the abbey of Duiske as directed by the abbot 



of Froidmontas Visitor (no. 19), on the general ground that a Cistercian 



house ought not to be maintained separately if it cannot support an 



abbot and twelve monks. -r^ . , ,..,.-,„ 



Dated 1230. 



Beatissimo patri et domino G. dei gratia Summo Pontifici suus Prater G. 

 dictus abbas Cistercii et totus conuentus abbatum capituli generalis se ipsos 

 ad pedes, et tara-deuotum quam debitum in omnibus famulatum. 



Sanctitati nestre necessarium duximus reclamare quod ante hos annos, 

 uisitatione facta per co-abbatem nostrum Frigidi Montis in abbatia Vallis 

 Dei in Hybernia illuc in potestate plenaria ordinis nostri, per nos missum 

 cum earn inueniret possessionibus et rebus ita extenuatam quod nee sibi 

 sufficere posset nee transenntibns hospitibirs et pauperibus iuxta morem 

 ordinis earitatis obsequia ministrare, idem uisitator ne diuina domus in se 

 ipsa omnino marcesseret et pro defectu necessariorum rigor ordinis in ea 

 penitus deperiret, ipsam in grangiam pronida discretione redegit et domui 

 Saneti Saluatoris in Hybernia cum omnibus pertineutiis suis perpetuo iure 

 concessit ; laudabili nostri ordinis consuetudini et antiquorum patrum eonsti- 

 tutioni inherendo qua utiliter dispensatur ne aliqua domus maneat abbatia 

 que duodecim monachis et abbati cum honestate non possit sufficere. 



Nos igitur factum tale sicut prouide factum est approbantes et assensu 

 capituli generalis sigillo nostro confirmantes beatitudini uestre supplicannis 

 attentius quatenus illud uestro dignemini confirmationis munere roborare et 

 latorem presentium propter hoc ad pedes s.anctitatis uestre directum in hiis 

 et in'aliis negotiis suis habere plenius commendatum, maxime cum metropoli- 

 tanus insimnl et diocesanus, una cum capitulo suo cathedrali, necnou et priu- 

 ceps terre ordinationi dicte assensum probuerint, et instrumentis puplieis et 

 autenticis sigillis suis inunitis duxerint confirmandum. 



Bene et diu conseruet dominus sanctitatem uestram ecclesie sue sancte. 



Datum anno gratie Mccxxx tempore capituli generalis. 



The seal remains attached to this document, but all that can be read of the 

 legend on it is >J< si is )$( 



An early transcript of the Petition is also extant in an Inspeximus of Charters 

 55, 37, 39, G4, G5, which ends thus: 



" Nos igitur predictorum patrum autenticis iuspectis, presentem Hybernio 

 1 R.T.A. 239. -CM. .A. ii. 154. 



