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William Fitz Jolin was bishop of Ossory from 1303 to 1817; and as this 

 instrument must bo earlior than no. !)G, which was executed 1 May, 1305, its date 

 can be fixed within naiTOW limits, viz., between 13 Jan., 1303 (when the bishop 

 was consecrated), and 1 May, 1305. 



Offerlane is still a parish of Ossory diocese in Queen's Co. In 1217 when the 

 Marshal estates were distributed among the five sisters (see p. 82), William le Gras 

 or William Cmssiis was returned as holding half a Knight's fee in Ofl'erlane' (see 

 p. 16). Probably this land bad been granted to the first William Crassus by the 

 great Earl Marshal. Of the grant to the convent by William le Gras we have no 

 other record. 



Jolm Lupus, or de Low, was dean of Ossory, and appears elsewhere, although 

 the dates of his appearance cannot be precisely fixed. 



Simon Dunning, precentor of Ossory, died in 1834 (not in 1434, as it is mis- 

 printed in Cotton's Fasti). He is buried in St. Cauice's Cathedral, Kilkenny. 



Maurice dc Blancheville appears as Treasurer of Ossory in 1295 ; he became 

 bishop of Leighlin iji 1309. 



Nicholas Fitz John, presumably a kinsman of the bishop, became Dean of 

 Ossory subsequently. 



95. 



Quit claim hy John, son of Stephen de Valle, of all rights in Tulacbany 

 as against the convent of Duiske. 



John had succeeded at the Kilkenny assizes in obtaining a writ against 

 Henry, the abbot, requiring him to restore 1 messuage, 5 earucates of 

 land, 60 acres of wood, 40 acres of moor, and 16 acres of meadow in 

 Tulaehany, which John claimed to hold in chief from the Earl of 

 Gloucester. 



But the abbot produced before the King's justices in eyre, Gilbert de 

 Sutton and William de Hawkesville, a deed of Alan de Valle, John's 

 grandfather, surrendering all rights in Tulaehany, whereupon John 

 yielded and bound himself in £1000 not to put forward his claim 

 again. 



Dated at Duiske, Sunday, 28 March, 1305. 



Uniuersis ad (^uos littere presentes peruenerint Johannes de Valle filius 

 et heres Stephani de Valle salutem in domino. 



Nouerit uniuersitas uestra (^uod cum ego in assisis Kylkenny breue de recto 

 coram senescallo eiusilem libertatis super fratrem Henrieum abbatem de Sancto 

 SaluatoredeDowisky detulissem, ut ipse michi redderet unum mesuagium ([uin- 

 que carucatas terre, sexaginla acras bosci, ([uadraginta acras more, et sexdecim 

 acras prati cum pertinentiis suis in Tulaclumy, que clamaui ut ins et heredi- 

 tatem meani et tenere de Domino Comite Glouuernie in capite ; et postea 

 libertas eiusdem comitatus pendente breui meo predicto casu inopinato ad 



1 C.M.A. ii, 405. 



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