126 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



On April 1 of the same year (1300), " the King notifies the Treasurer and 

 Barons of the Excheijiier at Dublin that he grants to the abbot of Duiske 

 that of the debts in which the abbot is bound to that Exclieqiier on account 

 of the Rieardi of Lucca, he may pay during pleasure at that Excheciuer £100 

 a year, half at Michaelmas, the other half at Easter."' 



The sequel is set out and fully explained in the document next in date 

 among the Duiske papers. 



93. 

 Letters patent of King Edward 1, \iz. : Whereas by former letters patent 

 the King granted to his commissioners Geoffrey de Geneville, John 

 Wogan, justiciar, Richard de Bereford, treasurer of the exchequer at 

 Dublin, Roger de Ingej)eime, Walter Wogan, and Ma.ster John de Okie, 

 to remit to crown debtors two-thirds of their debts, provided that for 

 the remaining one-third they come with horees and arms to Scotland 

 for the war, and that the same be expendetl in wages, etc., according 

 to tlie niimlier of men luought and the time they stay in tlie King's 

 service ; and whereas the convent of Duiske owes the firm of the 

 Rieardi of Lucca £342 17*. 3rf., to l)e paid within 4 yeare, as of record 

 in the Exche<|uer Rolls, and the Rieardi are l»ound to the King in a 

 large amount, it is onlere<i : That in consideration of £114 5.«. M., 

 now paid by the convent to John Deneger for the wages of G men-at- 

 arms and liorsea, 12 hol>e1arii,' and G2 footmen for the war as above, 

 the whole of their debt u> the aforesaid merchants shall be 



extinguished. 



Dublin, 25 June, 1301. 



Etlwanliis dei gratia Rex Anglic Dominus Hibernie et Dux A<iuitanie 

 omnibus ad quos pre.sentes litore peruenerint salut^m. 



Cum nuper per litcra.« nostras jmlentes suli magno sigillo nostro com- 

 misi.<««!miis dilectis et fidelibus nostris fJalfrido de Geneuille, Johanni Wogan 

 Justiciario nostro Hibeniie, Ricardo de liereford The.saurario scaccarii nostri 

 Dublin: Rogero de Ingepeime, Waltero Wogan, et Magistro Johanni de Okie, 

 ct quinque uel ([uatuor uel tribus ex ei.*, siMJcialem potestatem ad remittendum 

 el perdonandum omnibus illis de Hil>ernia qui debita nobis debent et qui ad 

 nos cnm e«iuis et anuis atl partes Scotie in guerre nostre subsidium sunt 

 uenturi, duas partes omnium huiusmodi debitorum, ila uidelicet quod pro 

 tercia .p,arte huiiismwli debitorum cum ef|ui8 et annis ad nos ueniant ad 

 partem predictas in seruicium no.«trum sicut predietum est, et fjuod eadem 

 tercia pars ce<lat eis in sidutionem uadiorum et amissiouem etjuorum et 

 omnium aliorum sumpluum seu missaruni, secundum numerum hominum 



' C.D.I, iv, 734. ' I.e. light-armed horsemen. 



