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tenendam dictam Lerraiu cum omnibus suis pertinentiis dictis monacliis et 

 eoi'um successoribus de me eb heicdibus lueis in puram ct perpetuam elemo- 

 sinaia in perpetuum a deo liberc et quiete, sicut aliqua clemosina liberius 

 melius securius plenius daii potest et incaitari absque aliqua denianda et 

 exactione seculari. 



Ego autem et heredes niei predictam terram cum omnibus suis perti- 

 nentiis predictis monachis et eorum successoribus quocumque casu contingente 

 contra omnes warantizare tenebimur. 



Ut autem hec mea donatio concessio et presentis carte confirmatio robur 

 stabilitatis in posterum obtineant presentem cartam sigilli mei impressions 

 duxi confirmandam. 



Hiis testibus Domino Willclmo de Dene tunc seneseallo Ossorgye, Domino 

 Willelmo Malherbe tunc seneseallo de Katherlach, Domino Hugone I'urcell, 

 Domino Mauricio de London, Domino Johanne Cadel, Domino Ada de Sancto 

 Johanne, Domino Eogero le Poer militibus, Eogero de rembrochia, Tlioma 

 de Kantingtonia, Eeso Beket, Michaelao filio Ricardi, et aliis. 



Most of the places named in this charter were in the baronies of Shelburne and 

 Shelmalier, co. Wexford. Alakaiiic or Ballymacarne, in the barony of Forth, was 

 afterwards the seat of the Stafford family ; Ath-boly is probably to be identified 

 with the village of Boley in the parish of Owenduff ; Lynans is now Bally-lennan, 

 which is near the head of Bannow Bay ; Baliodozvishj is the equivalent of Owen- 

 duff (haile duibh iiisrjo = town of the black water) ; and Bathgory is the modern 

 Bathcjarogue in Ballyanne parish, Bantry. We have not succeeded in locating the 

 Templars' Cross, of which the charter makes mention, or their land at Adkeltlian. 

 In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries there were frequent disputes as to the 

 ownership of lands in the south of co. Wexford between the Knights Templars, 

 who had a Preceptory at Kilclogan (near Templetown Church) and the Cistercian 

 monks of Dunbrody. 



The family of St. Florence appears in several subsequent charters (nos. 70, 78, 

 82, 83, 87). It would seem that before 1255 (which we take as an approximate 

 date for the charter now under consideration, no. 59), Alan de St. Florence held 

 lands in the south-west of co. Wexford. Here we have Biehard de St. Florence, 

 his son and heir, who appears again in 1280, quitting his claim to Athboly (no. 78 ; 

 cf. also 76), and also in 1289 (no. 87). 



The first witness, William de Dene, appears elsewhere as seneschal of Kilkenny 

 (or of Ossory, as he is here described) about 1260,' and he died in 1261.' He is 

 described as holding land in co. Wexford in 1230 f and as sheriff of Wexford in 

 1241.^ About the latter date he witnessed some of Walter Marshal's charters to 

 Dunbrody Abbey.* In 1247 he held Marshal lands in Ogenti^ near Thomastown, 

 CO. Kilkenny." 



William Malherbe, seneschal of Carlotv, appears along with Jo/m Cadel, knight, 



' See 35fch Report of Deputy Keeper of the Irish Records, p. 38. 



2 C.M.A. ii, 316. 3 r.t.A. 188. ■• CM. A. ii, 1T7. 



^ C.M.A. ii, 1C4-16G. " C.M.A. ii, 406. 



