Bernakd — The Charters of the Abbey of Duiske. 123 



91. 



Lease of a messuage and six acres in the liolflin;:; of Coolmacsanuiy in 

 Oflhthc, for 40 years, granted by Matthew le I'.ruce and Margery liis 

 wife to the convent of Duiske; the convent to provide a monk to 

 celebrate divine offices in the chapel for their souls, and to pay a 

 certain sum to tlie lessees who are in need of money. 



2 Feb. 1297. 



Hec est conuentio facta inter abbatem et conuentura Saucti Saluatoris tie 

 Dowisky ex una parte et Matheum le Bruce ex altera et Margeriam uxorem 

 eiusdem : 



Videlicet <|Uod iidem Matheus et Margevia dimiserunt ad firmam predictis 

 abbati et conuentui unum mesnagium et sex acras terre cum pertinentiis snis 

 in tenemento suo de Couhiiacsauryf in Offathe ad terminum quadragiuta 

 annorum pro quadam summa pecunie predictis Matheo et Margerie in 



uvgenti necessitate sua ti'adita in festo Purifica- 



tionis beate A'^irginis anno domini MCC nonogesimo sexto et durante us([ue 



ad finem quadraginta annorum proximo sequentium plenarie com- 



pletorum ; habendum et tenendum de predictis Matheo 



assignatis predictis abbati et conuentui predictum niesuagium et sex acras 



terre iure suo libere bene 



et in pace sine alicuiiis contradictionis obstaculo : 



ita quod predicti abbas et conuentus et 



Margerie annuatim in duabus robis quoad uixerint suo termino durante 



predicte heredes et assignati tenentur warantizare 



defendere et acquitare pi'edictum terminum predictis abbati et conuentui 

 contra omnes homines et feminas. 



Et predicti abbas et conuentus iuueniant unum monachuni ydoneum in 

 dicta capella ad celebrandum diuina .... pro animabus nostris et omnium 

 fidelium defuuctorum. In cuius rei testimonium presenti scripto in modum 

 cyrographi confecto part sigilla sua apposuerunt. 



Hiis testibus Domino P. le Tyler decano cathedrali Watyrford, Domino 



J. le Syrl archidiacono eiusdem loci. Domino J. le Poer milite, Petro 



et liicardo filiis nostris, et multis aliis. 



Sir Robert le Poer, wlio was marshal of Henry II, was given a hirge part of co. 

 Waterford at the end of the twelfth century, and Coolmacsamny in Offathe was an 

 estate of the le Poers. Sir J. Ic Foer, who appears as a witness to this deed, may 

 be the knight of that name who was the fourth husband of Dame Alice K}telei-(sec 

 p. 120) in 1324. He was sheriii' of Waterford in 1304.' Or, perliaps, he is to be 

 identiticd with bir John de la Poer, a monk of Duiske, who was assassinated in 

 1816.2 



' See Proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler (Camden Society, 1843), p. 49. 

 2 See p. 133. 



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