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aiitern hec donatio et concessio mea rata et stabilis inperpetuum permaneat 

 presentem cartam sigilli mei impressione roboraui. 



Hiis testibus : Domino Helya filio Eicardi de Prendelgast, Alano filio 

 Milonis, militibus, Philippo Boscho, Nicholao Boscho, Eoberto Hnschard, 

 liadulfo Kod, Thoma Kod, Johauue Olenon, Thoma Longo, Matheo de Cnoc, 

 K. de Ponte Cardonis, et miiltis aliis. 



We date this lease about the year 1258. It must be prior to 1259, because 

 Alan Fitz Milo was dead in that year (see Charter 62), and Charter 66 (of date 

 1262-1265) cannot be long subsequent to it. As has already been observed (p. 20), 

 this is the first lease granted on terms by an individual lessor, which we find among 

 the abbey muniments. 



The situation of the land in question, which is variously called Gilkhac, Bally- 

 gilkach (no. 70) and Aunrocbewellan (no. CG), cannot be precisely determined. 

 '' Guilcagh " means " a place producing broom " ; and the estate was, doubtless, a 

 tract of wild mountain land in Bantry. The overlords were the Hore family, from 

 whom Griffin le tiros held as a tenant. This person 1 have not identified ; but 

 the appellation " le Gros " appears in Wexford annals more than once towards the 

 end of the thirteenth century.' 



The Hore family is one of the oldest in co. Wexford. They trace their descent 

 to two brothers, Philip and William le Ilore, Anglo-Norman knights who served 

 under Maurice Fitz Gerald, and obtained lands in the county for military services in 

 the first conquest of Ireland. " Le hore " means " the hoary -headed one," as is plain 

 from the forms which the name assumes in Latin (CaniUus ; see no. 70) or in old 

 French (le chanu ; see no. 66). From the charter before us, we see that Thomas le 

 Hore (wlio was dead when it was executed) was the father of IJugh le Hore. The 

 name of Hugh's son was Robert le Horo (see no. 70). 



Elioi de Prendergasl, knight, was son of Bicliard de Frendergast (see p. 42). 

 He appears again in no. 62.' 



.Uan Fitz Milo may have been a son of Milo Fitz David, or Fitz Bishop, whom 

 we have had before (p. 8), but this is uncertain. 



The name Boschiis stands for Bosclicr,^ a common Wexford name, still surviv- 

 ing in the to\«'nland of Busberstown, in the electoral division of Shanbogh (see p. 

 42, above). 



Robert Huskard may be the person of that name whom we have had already in 

 1226 (p. 42). Another of the name appears in 1299.* 



For tlie name Cod, see p. 42. 



Of the remaining witnesses we know nothing. 



The name dc Pontc Cardonis is the Latin form of Pont Chardon or Punchar- 

 dou, which occurs 1288-1802 in co. Kildare and elsewhere." 



' See Here's Ptms, p. 192, and Wtx/ord, p. 94. 

 'SeealsoR.T.A. 191. 



' For the juxtAposition in co. Wexford of the names Nicholas Busher, William Hore, 

 and Robert Cod, in 1620, sec Hore's FfV/Vrrf, p. 2:i5. 



* Hore, Fern^, p. 8. * C.D.I, iii, J78, 407 ; v, 37. 



