128 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Acadeimj. 



John Ode held two carucates at Mount Garrett, co. Wexford, ui 1306.' He 

 appears in 1299 and 1302 in the Irish Justiciary KoUs.- 



There is also extant an Inspexiums made in the thirteenth year of 

 Edward II (1320) of these Letters Patent, exonerating the merchants named 

 therein from their debt to the royal exchequer. 



94. 

 Grant by William, bishop of Ossory, and his chapter, to the convent of 

 Duiske for tlieir own use, of the cliurch of Otlerlane wiili ilt< chapels, 

 &c. ", as expressed in the charter and quit claim of William le Gras of 

 pious memory, saving all dues to the bisliop and cliapter ; the bishop 

 to collate to the vicarage when vacant. 



I'niuersisChristi tidelibus presensscriptum uisuris uelaudituris Willclnuis 

 dei gratia Ossorieusis episcopus eternam in domino salutem. 



Quoniam ea que perijetua Hrmitatc debcnt gaudere ad perpctuam 

 niemoriauj i)ublice debent coniuieudari scripture, ad uniuersitatis uestre 

 uoticiam uoliimus perueuire, nos consilio et txssensu decani ct capituli 

 ecolesie catliedralis nostre de Kylkenny conccssisse et hac present! carUv 

 nostra confinnasse uiria religiosis abbati Sancti Saluatoris de Dolbisky 

 ct uionaehis ibidem dec seruientibus prescntibus et futuris diuinc pietatis 

 intuitu et sacrosancte religionis obt«ntu ecclesiam de OfVarkelan cum suis 

 caijcllis omnibus singulis et omnibus aliis suis pertincntiis, siciit melius et 

 plenius in carta et quicta clamancia bone mcnujrie Domini Willelmi le Gras 

 continetur, in proprios usus conuertendam et in perpetuum possidendam, 

 saluis omnibus oncriluis ordinariis et extraordinariis ad dictam ecclesiam et 

 suas cai)ollas s|)octantibus debitis et coiisuetis : I ta quod occasione exemptionis 

 priuilegioruni dictorum ablutis et monachorum nullum preiudicium ([uo ad 

 prenussa onera ordinaria et extraordinaria nobis et ecclesie nostre predicte et 

 succes-soribus nostris poterit generari, salua nobis et successoribus nostris 

 coUatione uicaric cum uacare contigerit. 



Et tpiia uolunnis quod hec nostra deuota et caritatiua concessio et contir- 

 matio rata et inconcussa in iwstenini jjcrnianeat, cam presentis scripti nostri 

 lestimonio et sigilli noslri apposilione una cum sigillo capituli nostri ecclesie 

 cathedralis de Kylkenny digimm duximus roborari. 



Hiis testibus, Magistro .Inhannc dicto Lupo decaiio cathedrali de Kylkenny, 

 Nicholao de Exonia arcliidiacono Ossoriensi, Domino Symone Dunnyng pre- 

 centfire, Magistris Mauricio de Hlaunclieuille, thesaurario, et Mauricio de 

 Deucneys, Nicholao filio Johannis, predicte ecclesie canonicis, et aliis. 



The chapter seal is gone ; but about three-quarters of the bishop's beautiful 

 seal remains (see Plate II). 



' Bore's New Bou, p. 17 J. * Cat. of Justiciary JSolU of Irelatul, i, 283, 394. 



