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beneficia Valle dei abbatie per predictos abbates auetoritate 



capituli generalis eidem domui de Valle Sancti Saluatoris factam ratam 



habemus et giatam ac firmiter omni calumpnia et 



ad unionem predictam tamen quod aliquo tempore suceedente 



nobis uel doniui nostre contingere present! scripto 



et sigilli nostri impressione roborauimus. 



Datum apud Mellifontem die Martis prox 



millesimo ducentesimo quinquagesimo tertio. 



The original deed is not extant, but we have an early transcript of it (see p. 49). 

 It alludes to some earlier instrument, not now extant, in which the abbots of 

 Trois-Fontaines, Froidmont, and Margam had issued directions for the amalgama- 

 tion of Cistercian houses in Ireland, including Killenny and Duiske. 



The abbey of Trois-Fontaines, in the ^iocese of Chalons, and province of 

 Blieims, was one of the oldest Cistercian houses, having been founded from 

 Clairvaus in 1118.' For Froidmont, see p. 44. 



59. 



Cirant by Richard, son and heir of Alan de St. Florence, to the convent of 

 Duiske, of his land of Makarne; viz., lialf a carucate between the 

 Spring of Atbboly Moclnietlie and Lynans on the east ; thence on 

 tlic north to IJrelhgortyn ; thence to the boundary of Grathsighan ; 

 tliciice to the place wliere the Templars formerly erected a Cross 

 between their land of Adkellhan and the convent land ; thence to 

 Baliitdowisky, as far as Rathgory, and so back to the aforesaid Spring ; 

 rent free. 



Sciant prescntos et futuri quod ego Ricardus filius et hercs Alani de 

 Sancto Florencio dedi conccs.si et liac present! carta mea confirmaui deo et 

 beate Marie et monachis de Valle Sancti Saluatoris ibidem deo seruientibus 

 totam torram nicam que uocatur Makame cum omnibus suis pcrtinentiis, 

 que iacet pro dimidia carucata terre cum suis pertinentiis per diui.sas sub- 

 scriptas: uidelicet, a foute qui uocatur Athboly-Moelmethe, et sic ex parte 

 orientali usqtie ad locum que uocatur Lynans, et de loco illo ex parte 

 aquilonali Uiique ad locum qui uocatur Brethgortyn, et sic de loco illo usque 

 ad finem illius loci qui uocatur Grathsighan, et de loco illo sic usque ad 

 quendam locum ubi Templarii quondam quamdam crucem erexerunt ad 

 diuisam faciendam inter teiram ipsorum de Adkelthan et teiram dictorum 

 monachoram de Valle Sancti Saluatoris, et sic usque ad diuisas terre dictoiiim 

 monachonim que terra uocatur Baliodowisky, et sic sicut diuise sint inter 

 predictam terram de Makame et Baliodowiskj* usque ad Rathgorj', et sic 

 usque ad primo nominalum fontcm de Athbolymoelmethe : habendam et 



' (ToUia Chrisliana, ix, 957. 



