Bernaud — The Charters of the Ahhei/ of Diiiikr. 65 



The place h'ilalchtiij or Kilcltoinocli or KUdalcujan (as it is described in L) or 

 Killacy (as Ware calls it) is among various places resigned to tlio bishop of Ferns 

 and his chapter by an agreement with Gerald de Prondorgast in the year 12'iO.' 

 In that agreement it is called Killalethm, and it may safely be identified with ihe 

 modern Eilialligan in Monart parish, in the barony of Scarawalsh, co. Wexford. 

 Several of the persons named in this agreement are concerned witli the charter now 

 before us, and the two instruments must be of the same date, i.e. the latter part of 

 the year 1230. 



John St. John, who was the first Anglo-Norman bishop of Ferns (1223-1253), 

 became Treasurer of the Exchequer at Dublin in 122G. flcginald de Dene was 

 archdeacon of Fejins between 1228 and 1230, in which latter year he died.- 

 WHliam de Forcsta or Forest was first ' official ' of Ferns, and afterwards ' official ' 

 of Ossoi-y. (The duties of an ' official ' were akin to those discharged by a Chancellor 

 or Vicar-General.) In the former capacity lie appears in a charter of Dunbrody 

 Abbey about 1228,^ and in the Agreement between the bishop and Gerald de 

 Prendergast above mentioned. He attests without any designation of his office a 

 Kells charter of about the year 1228, and two other charters of Gerald de 

 Prendergast about 1230.' At the time when he attested our Charter 38, he was 

 official of Ossory (not of Ferns, the official of Ferns being Geoffrey St. John, who 

 afterwards became bishop of that see), and in this capacity he also attested a charter 

 later than 1232,= and a charter made in the time of Luke, archbishop of Dublin 

 (1228-1255).'^ 



Adam of Oxford is probably the ' magister Adam ' who attested another of 

 bishop John St. John's charters about 1280.' William de Prendergast we have 

 had before (p. 42) ; he was a witness to the agreement above mentioned between 

 bishop John St. John and Gerald de Prendergast, his kinsman, as was also Fialph 

 de Sumeri, for whom, as for his brother David de Sumcri, see p. 43. 



Walter de Wexford was a witness to the grant made to the Dominicans at 

 Kilkenny by bishop Geoffrey de Turville (1244-1250).* 



For the family of Vavid de Hinteherg see p. 17. 



39. 



Confirmation by Pope Gregory IX of the union of the abbey of Killenny 

 with tlie abbey of Duiske. 



Dated at the Lateran, 9 Jan., 1231. 



Gregorius episcopus seruns seruorum dei dilcctis filiis abbati et eonnentni 

 Sancti Saluatoris in llibernia Cisterciensis ordinis saluteni et apostolieam 

 benedictionem. 



Solet annuere sedes apostolica piis notis et honestis petentinni pvecibns 

 fauorem beniuolum impertiri. E.k parte siquidem uestra fuit nobis huniililcr 

 supplicatum ut, cum . . abbas Frigidi Montis Cisterciensis ordinis totiusque 



' See Hore's Ferns, \^. 340. 



- Addl. MSS. Brit. Mus. 4793, fo. 15, as quoted in Hore's Ferns, p. 347. 



3 C.M.A. ii, 172. > R.T..\. 18(1. 180. ■"• R.T.A. .".4(;. 



" Hore's Duncannon Fori, p. 312. " It.T.A. IHO. * Carrignn, i, 38. 



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