Beunaki) — The Charters of the Alley of Duiske. 79 



Datum a|iu(l inaiuniiini iiostriiiii dc Loeli : anno gratie MCCXLiill. 

 xvi Kaleiul : Feluuar: consecrationis uerq uostrc anno piiiiio. 

 Valete. 



The bishop was Geoffrcij dc Turville, who succeeded to the see of Ossory in 

 1244. He secured from the Crown valuable privileges for the episcopal manors of 

 his see ;' Logh is named as one of these manors in the ' Red Book of Ossory ' ; it 

 was afterwards called ' Bishopslough.' 



The fact that it was the bishop of Ossorij (not of Leighlin) who was asked by 

 the convent to certify the Papal Privilegium shows that Duiske was reckoned as in 

 the diocese of Ossory at the time (see p. 25). 



Innocent IF was elected Pope on 25 June, 1243, and the date of the Privilegium 

 which he gave to the Irish Cistercian houses was 14 February, 1244. By Eoyal 

 mandate of August, 1256, Cistercians, as well as other orders, were exempted from 

 payment of tithes out of parish churches which they held to their own use. 



54. 



Confirmation by Matilda, Marshal of England, Countess of Norfolk and 

 Warrenne, of the union of the abbey of Killenny with the abbey of 

 Duiske, as decreed by the General Chapter of the Cistercian Order 

 [in no. 22]. 



Omnibus presens scriptum uisuris uel audituris Matilda Marescallus 

 Anglie Comitissa Norfolk et Warenne salutem in domino. 



Nouerit uniuersitas uestra nos diuine pietatis intuitu confirmasse unionem 

 abbatie de Killenny cum omni inre suo et omnibus I'ebus ad ipsam pertinen- 

 tibus cum abbatia de Valle Sancti Saluatoris quam dominus Willelmus pater 

 noster fundauit, sicut continetur in statuto et sanctione domini abbatis et 

 eapituli generalis Cisterciensium celebrati anno uerbi incarnati millesimo 

 ducentissimo uieesimo septimo. 



Et ut ista confirmatio inpevpetuuni firnia perseueret earn presenti scripto 

 sigilli nostri appositioiie roborauinius. 



Hiis testibus Dominis Hugone le Bigot, Eadolpho le Bigot, Adam ile 

 Hereford, Bernardo de Maruille, Bogero de London, Eoberto Waspail, 

 Johanne de Killergi, Eogero le Boer, Thoma de Kantinton, et multis aliis. 



A small piece of the seal is still attached to this charter, which must have been 

 executed after Matilda Marshal became " Marescallus Angliae," i.e. after 

 December, 1245, when her last surviving brother died (see p. 82), and she 

 succeeded to her great estates. The two first witnesses, Hugh Bigod and Balph 

 Bigod, were her sons (see p. 32). 



The charter, of which an early transcript is also extant (see p. 49), may be 

 assigned to the year 1246. 



' Carris'.in, i. 37. 



