124 Proceedings of the Boijal Irish Academy. 



Mattheic Ic Bruce, who granted this lease, appears at Waterford in 1266.' 

 Perhaps his son Bichanl, who is a witness, was the Bichard dc Brus who attested 

 a charter of Edward II to Maynooth, granted at Canterbury in 1321.^ 



P. Ic Tyler, the dean, and /. le Syrl, the archdeacon of Waterford (if that be 

 his name), do not seem to be otherwise known. They are not noted in Cotton's 

 Fasti. 



The abbey of Duiske appears iu 1297 in the Justiciary EoUs.' In that 

 year the abbey of Holy Cross and its tenements were delivered to the abbot 

 of Duiske to keep, by the Justiciar of Ireland, until otherwise ordered. 



92. 



Acknowledgment by the convent of Duiske of debts due to Gerard 



Chimbardi of Dublin and his firm, the Ricardi of Lucca, of 



£4G6 I'Ss. 4il. ; viz., £66 13s. -kf. at call, and the remainder in four 



years, £100 in wool annually; this to be in addition to 12 small 



sacks of wool which the convent is bound to pay within six years as 



set out in a fonner agi-eement. 



Dat«d at Dublin, 6 May, 1299. 



Uniuersis ad quos pressens .scriptum peruenerit abbas donius de Sancto 

 Saluatore (jue uocatur Dowisky ct eiu.sdcm l<x;i conuentus salutcm in doniino. 



Noueritis nos sexto die Mali anno domini MCC nonogesimo nono conpu- 

 • tasse cum (Jerardo Chimlianli aj)ud Dublin et sociis suis mercatoribus de 

 S4it:iotate Ilicardorum de Luky, tani de denariis per diuersas uices per ipsos 

 uiercatoros nobis mutualis, i|uam dc lanis nostris per eosdcm uel suos attomatos 

 di* nobis rcceptis, et item de arreragiis lanarum in <(uibus eisdcm tenebamur 

 de tenuinis prcteritis, necnon et de bladi.s* nostris tani domino regi ijuam ipsis 

 niercatoiibus liberatis et ((uibuscuniiue aliis debitis oniniscunque generis uel 

 eonuentionis, in i|uibus prefati.s mercatoribus tcTiebamur (|uo(|ue in annum 



et diem confcclionis presen jtredictum est ; o.vccpti.s de duodeciiii 



{Hiruis saecis lane nostrc proprie addubiate in ijuibus tenemur prefatis merca- 

 toribus per aliam litcram nostram obligatoriam ad soluendam infra sex annos 

 sicul in litera ilia ])lenius continetur : 



Ita iiufnl prcter pre«lict«s duo<lecim paruos saccos lane nostre addubiate 

 confilemur nos teneri prefatis mercatoribus in (juadrinfjentis sexaginta et Rex 

 libris tres decern solidis et quatuor denariis sterlingorum de puro et claro 

 debilo, de quibus tenemur solucre predictis mercatoribus sexaginta et sex 

 libras et tres decern solidos et quatuor dcnarias ad ipsorum uoluntatem, et 

 residuas quadringentas libras allocabimus eisdem mercatoribus in lanis 

 nostris eis liberaiidis ad quatuor tenninos suljscriptos, uidelicet centum libras 

 ad feslum beate Marie Magdalene anno supradicto et siquid residuum lane 



' Bore's JV'tw Ren, p. 137. » CluirUu, Ac, p. 52. 



' Cal. of Jiuliriarij liiJU (IttUtnd), i, p. )3«. ' I.e. 'crops,' from bladiim. 



