Beunahd — The Charters of the Ahhcij of Duiskc. 105 



74. 

 Lease granted by Nicholas Abeinion to the convent of Dniske, of half of 

 a burgage between his land on the north, and the abbey land on the 

 south, will) tlic adjacent croft in Newtown, near the abbey, for an 

 annual rent of sixpence sterling to be paid half-yearly, and sixpence 

 twice a year for all exactions and secular service ; the convent having 

 paid Nicholas half a mark in addition. 



Sciant presentes et futiiri tpiod ego Nicholaus Abeinion dedi et concessi et 

 hac present! carta mea confirmaui domino abbati de Dufusque et eiusdem 

 loci conuentui ununi diniidium bxirgagium cum crofto recto adiacenti in Nona 

 Villa iuxta abbatiam de Dufusque, quod scilicet diniidium burgagium iacet 

 inter terram dicti abbatis et conuentus ex parte anstrali et inter terram dicti 

 Nicholai Abeinion ex parte aquilonali, habendum et tenendum dicto abbati 

 et conuentui et successoribns suis de me et heredib\is meis uel meis 

 assignatis : 



Eeddeudo inde annuatim sex denarios esterlingorum ad duos 



anni terminos medietatem, uidelicet in terniino festi Pasche et aliam medie- 

 tatem in termino festi Sancti Miehaelis, preterea reddendo mihi et heredibus 

 meis uel meis assignatis sex denarios esterlingorum ad duos anni terminos, 

 uidelicet medietatem in termino festi Pasche et aliam medietatem in festo 

 beali Miehaelis, pro omni exactione et demanda secnlari et seruicio. 



Pro hac autem donatione et concessione mea dederunt mihi predictus 

 abbas et conuentus dimidiam marchauif esterlingorum in urgente necessitate 

 mea, unde ego et heredes mei uel assignati predictum diniidium burgagium 

 cum suis pertinentiis, prout .... ius predictum est, dictis abbati et conuentui 

 contra omnes uolumus et tenemur warantizare. 



Et nt presens concessio et confiniiatio mea futuris temporibus robur 

 firmitatis et stabilitatis optineant presens scriptiim sigilli mei impressione 

 roboraui. 



Hiis testibns Pdcardo le Marcheyl, Willelmo filio Danid, Symone filio 

 Dauid, Stephano Cementario, Henricho le Barlnir, AYaltero de Morgan, et 

 multis aliis. 



New Totcn near the Ahhey is the town of Graigue. 



Of Nicholas Abeinion we know nothing. 



The executors of the will of " Eichard le Mareschal of Thomastown " appear in 

 1305,' and he is probably to be identified with Hkhard le Marcheyl who is a witness 

 to the lease. The gteat Eichard Marshal, carl of Pembroke (p. 32 1, is not to be 

 thought of here, for he was killed in 123-4, having been but a short time in Ireland ; 

 and this instrument is probably -10 or 50 years later, as the names of the other 

 witnesses show. 



' Co?, of Irish Justiciaiy Rolls, ii, 157. 



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