102 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Acadenu/. 



In accoidauce with this, Da%'id has handed a "Bief de Ael" to the 

 convent of Diiiske, at the Assize of Kilkenny, as well as quit- 

 claiming to Raymond Eoche. 



Dated at Duiske, 18 Feb. 1278. 



Uniuersis Chnsti fidelibus presentes literas uisuris uel audituris Dauid 

 filius Stephani le Hai-pur salutem in domino sempiteraam. 



Nouerit uniuei-sitas uestra me pro animabus patris mee et matris mee 

 nee non et pro salnte anime mee et successoriim meoium omne iiis et clamiiim 

 que habui uel aliquo tempore aliquo iuie liabere potui in tota terra quam 

 quondam Robertus le Harpur auus mens in tenemento de Acopenach tcuuit 

 de consensu et uoluntate Reymundi de Rupe, cui ius et clamium quod in dicta 

 terra habui pro sex niarcis et dimidia ai-genti pro mauibus ueudidi receptis. 



Et de qua quidem terra ego Dauid preuominatus breue, quod dicitur 

 " Bref de Ael," super abbatem el conuentum de Dowisky in assisa Kilkeunye 

 portaui, dictis abbati et conuentui de Dowisky remisisse, et pro me et here- 

 dibus meis Reymundo de Rupe cui ius meum et clamium ut predictum est 

 concessi presente cxistente et hoc uolente et iubente quietum clamasse 

 inperpetuum. 



Ila quod ego Dauid prenominatus in dicta terra aliquod ius uel clamium 

 nee et hercdes mei amodo exigere poterimus uel ueudicare. 



In cuius rei testimonium has literas meas in monasterio de Dowisky die 

 Veneris proxima ante festum quoil dicitur Cathedra Sancti Petri dictis abbati 

 el conuentui anno domini MCCLXXVii feci patontes ; presentibus Domino 

 Geraldo de Rupe milite, et Reso Beket Jimiore, nee non et de llupe 

 Keymundo, et aliis quam plurimis. 



Of this instrument there is a record in the Extracts from the Duiske Registers 

 (E). 



The Ilarpurs were a Gloucestershire family, who came lo Ireland among the 

 first Anglo-Norman adventurers ; they built Harperstown Castle, near Tagbmon, 

 CO. Wexford. John, son of David le Harpur (probably the grantor of this charter), 

 is mentioned in a Wexford Inquisition of the year 12b3.' 



A " Bref de Ael " (aieol), or " writ of ancestor," is the form of writ necessary 

 in cases when, as in the one before us, lands descend from a grandfather to his 

 grandson. 



Copptnagh Gap- is a pass in the hills to the west of Graigue, and to the north 

 of the district between the Barrow and the Nore, known as •' The Rowe»." Of this 

 district the Bochcs were overlords.' 



We have had the Roche family before.' Among the witnesses to the present 

 in.strument were the two sons of David Roche, viz.. Sir Gerald lloche and Raymond 

 Roche. This Gerald Roche seems to be of a younger generation tlian the man of 

 that name wh' ' Helen, daughter of Thomas Fitz Anthony.' 



For Rii Bt ■ , see p. 73. 



' Hum's fTor/wrrf, p. 93 ; cf. p. 428. 



' See p. 8ti. ' See no. U8. ' p. 7«. '■■ See p. 15. 



