120 Proceedings of the Roi/ul Irish Acadenifi. 



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A small piece of the seal is left. The deed must be of the year 1289. 



It is plain that Jerpoint had got into financial difficulties of a serious nature, 

 and it is also plain that Duislve was uneasy about its tenure of the lands of Killenny, 

 or it would not have paid so large a sum as 1300 marks for the benefit of a rival 

 house. 



Adam Blnnd of Callan, the first-named creditor, was the second of the four 

 husbands of Dame Ahce Kyteler, who was accused of witchcraft by Bishop de 

 Ledrede of Ossory in 1824, and narrowly escaped being burnt as a witch. ^ His son 

 was Prebendary of Kilmanagh in 1303.- In later times the family called them- 

 selves " White " =-- Le Blond. 



Walter da la Haye, the King's escheator, appears as an itinerant judge in 1291,' 

 and also m 1806.* 



Bobert Sennan appears as a trader at Boss in 1287.'^ 



The merclianis of Lucca, who appear as creditors, were some of the many 

 Italian financial agents or bankers who carried on business in Ireland during the 

 thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. That Jerpoint had dealings in wool is quite 

 natural, as the wool trade was largely in the hands of the Cistercian order, who 

 depended upon sheep farming rather than upon agriculture. See p. 124. 



For the Blanchevilles see p. 113 ; Richard de Blanchoville appears again in 

 1312." 



89. 



Confirmation by Theobald, abbot of Citeaux, and John, abbot of Clairvaux, 



on behalf of the General Chapter of the Cistercian Order, of the 



agreement reached by the convents of Jerpoint and Duiske in 1289 



[nos. 84, 85, 86]. 



Dated at Citeaux, 1289. 



Uniuersis Christ! fidelibus presentes literas uisuris uel audituris Fratres 

 Theobaldus et Johannes de Cystercio et de Claraualle abbates salutem in 

 domino sempiternam. 



Quoniam sit arnica contemplationi pacis securitas et odiosa j^erturbatio, 

 attendentes ex unanimi consensu et uoluntate abbatis et couuentus Jeripontis 

 et abbatis et conuentus de Saneto Saluatove, super lite iam inter eos mota in 

 forma pacis amicabilis sicut patet per eorum scripta quieuerunt : 



Nos igitur quorum interest in hae parte, ut omnis scrupulus tollatur in 

 posterum et precludatur occasio malignorum, unanimi consilio diffinitorum 

 capituli generalis predictam pacis formam inter eos factam anno domini 

 MCC octogesimo nono firniiter tenore presenti approbamus et autoritate nostra 

 et totius capituli generalis confirmamus. Insuper uniixersis tarn abbatibus 

 quam monachis et conuersis undecumque fuerint perpetuum imponimus 

 silencium, ne aliquo tempore contra prefatam pacis formam aliquatenus 



' See Proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler (Camden Society. 1843), p. 61. 



- Carrigan, i, 252. = CM. A. i, 2. 



* Here's New Ross, p. 167, and Tintern, p. 222. 



= Here's New Boss. p. 159. " Carrigan, iii, 414. 



