Bernard — The Charters of the Ablieij of Dulslcc. 81 



Maunsell preposito Beuerlacensi, Magistro Willclmo de Kilkenny archidia- 

 cono Couentry, lloberto de Mucegvos, Eoberto Walorand, Nicholao de Sancto 

 Mauvibio, Henrico le Petteuin, Rogcro do Luivinton, Eoberto le Norreys, 

 et aliis. 



Datum per manuni nosti'am apud Wodcstok undecimo die Augusti anno 

 regni nostri tricosinio sexto. 



The seal royal is still attached to this document, with part o£ the legend still 

 uninjured : 



HENRICVS DEI GRATIA BEX — • HENKIOVS DUX . . . AQVITANIB COMES ANDEGAVIN. 



The confirmation is also preserved in the Eecord Office, London,' and is printed by 

 Dugdale.- A note of its existence was kept in the Extracts from the Duiske 

 Eegisters, which we call E. It is on record that the fee paid by the Abbot of 

 Duiske to obtain this royal confirmation of the union of Killenny with his convent 

 was " three marks in bezants."^ 



An early transcript of this valuable document has also survived (see p. 63). 



All the witnesses were men of high station at the royal court. Most of them 

 appear elsewhere as attesting other Irish charters granted by Henry III : e.g. the 

 charters to Cork, Drogheda, and the Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, which 

 were executed respectively in the years 12-11, 1217, and 1253.* 



William do Bitton was bishop of Bath and Wells from 1218 to 1261. 



Geoffrey de Lusignan, who is described as " the King's brother,"^ was son of 

 Hugh de Lusignan, count of La Marche, who had married (in 1220) Isabella of 

 Angouleme, the widow of King John and the mother of Henry III.' The king and 

 Geoffrey de Lusignan were thus half-brothers. 



Balpli Fits Nicholas was one of the king's seneschals.'^ He married Alice 

 Peche,' a granddaughter of Stephen de Hereford (see p. 49). 



John Maunsell was keeper of the great seal, and one of the most trusted coun- 

 sellors of the king. He played a large part in public affairs, and represented his 

 royal master in various important missions on the Continent. The provostship of 

 Beverley was only one of his benefices, for he was a pluralist on the grand scale, 

 being reputed to hold as many as three hundred ecclesiastical offices of emolument. 



William of Kilkenny was another lawyer-ecclesiastic. He filled several legal 

 positions of importance, among them being that of keeper of the great seal. He 

 was Archdeacon of Coventry, and was appointed Bishop of Ely in 1255. He had 

 been Chancellor of Ossory, and indeed was elected bishop in 1230, but was not 

 consecrated for that see.- 



Bobert Walerand is said to have occupied a position among the knights of the 

 royal court similar to that which John Maunsell held among the clerks.^ He was 

 one of the king's seneschals, and subsequently Warden of the Cinque Ports.'" He 



' Charter Roll 30 Heu. Ill, iii 5. ^ Monast. Anglicmmm (ed. 1830), vi, 1135. 



3 Orig. Roll 36 Hen. Ill, m 14. < Cluirtae, &c., pp. 25-28. 



" See Vhartae, p. 28, aud Cal. of Papal Letters, 3 Non Sept., 1252. 

 ^ See Royal Letters Henry III, vol. ii, p. 95 ; and vol. i, passivi. 

 ' R.T.A. 103. s See p. 70. '■> See D.N.B. s. v. " Widcrand, Robert." 



'" Koyal Letters Hem-y III, vol. ii, passim. 



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