100 Proceedings of the Roijal Irish Academy. 



Omnibus Christi fidelibiis has literas uisiu-is uel aiidituris Eobeitus Canutus 

 filius Hiigonis Camiti salutem eteniam in domino. 



Super seisina quam Hugo Canutus pater mens niihi fecit de Baligilkach 

 quain dominus abbas et conuentus de Dowisky modo tenant in feudo, noue- 

 ritis me iu bona fide promisisse et tactis sacrosanct is cuangeliis iuiasse, et 

 eciaui teuore preseuti me obligasse, quod si ego aliquando sinistro consilio 

 ductus uellem dictos abbatem et conuentum inplacitare de dicta terra aliquo 

 modo ratione predicte seisine soluam abbati et couuentui uingiutif libras 

 sterlingorum bone et legalis monete, antcquam ego uel aliquis per me uel pro 

 me opponendo uel respondendo iu aliqua curia exaudiamur : 



Ita quod senescallus de Wcseforde qui pro temi>orc fuerit distringat me 

 ad hoc faciendum et tenendum si necesse fuerit per omnia bona moa luobiha 

 et inimobilia ubicumque fueriut iuuenta, et insuper pro predictu dislrictione 

 facienda domino Wesoford unum doleum uini. 



In cuius rei testimonium presentibus Uteris sigilli nostri impressionem 

 upponi fecimus. 



Hiis tcstibus Hugone le Horc patrc moo, Thadeo Ode, Mattheo Cnok, 

 Wallero Ic Dlak, IJoberto Makurn, et aliis. 



The grant of n carucate of laud at Gilkach has already been set out in Charters 

 01 (about 12oti) aud GO (between 12G2 and 12G5) ; and it is probable that the date 

 of this instrument is not much later ihau the second of these. It may be about 

 1270. 



For the situation of Gilkach, and for the Here family, see p. 88. 



Matthew dc Cnok was also a witness to no. 61. 



Walter Ic lilak may be of the same family as Nicholas Ic Blake, who. was 

 Provost of New Hoss in 12«8.' Walter Niger, who is possibly the same man, 

 appears in an undated gi'ont to St. Thomas' Abbey.' 



In the year 127G the old quarrel about the union of the abbey of Killenny 

 with Duiske was revived, and the General Chapter of the Cistercian Order 

 was i»ereuadcd to dissolve the union, whicii had been arranged fifty years before 

 (see p. 43 IT.). Paragraph 28 of the Statutes of the General Chapter fur 1276 

 is as follows ^ 



"Aucloritate Capituli Generalis, de Buellio [Boyle], de Beatitudine 

 [Bective], de .Samaria [Ballyshannon], de Albo Tractu [Tracton], abbatibus 

 districte precipitur utad locum ubi quondam abbatia de Valle Dei in Hibernia, 

 filia Geripontis, fuerit situata, infra Purificationem B.V.M. proximo uentmam 

 absque dilatione aliqua per se uel per alium accedentes inquirant diligenter 

 et respiciant utrum Icrrae ixjrtincntes ad abbatiamVallis iJei pcssint secundum 

 illius tcrrao statum comiietenter sulhcere ad conuentum ibidem sustinendum. 



' Horo's Sew ;;„«, p. KJO. -' R T.A. 47. 



■• It is priutud III Mai tvnc'a ThcMturiu, vol. iv, aiid is reproduced by Carriguii, iv, 286. 



