Beknakd— 2'/<c Charters of the Abbey of Duiske. 131 



precisely defined (see pp. 31, IGi). The quit claim by Alan da Valle, which iy 

 referred to in the document before us, is not now extant. He is probably the person 

 of that name who attested a grant of Stc2)Iien dc Valle to St. Thomas' Abbey about 

 1258.' This Stephen dc Valle the second is not to be confused with the earlier 

 Stephen of Charter 3 (see p. 30). 



Gilbert de Sutton attested Roger Bigod's charter to New Ross in 1279.- He 

 was seneschal of Wexford in 1286-1289,^ and he was killed " by the Irish " in the 

 year in which this instrument was executedr'1805.* 



96. 



Eemission by the Dean and Chapter of St. Cauiee's, Kilkemiy (Ossory), to 

 the convent of Duiske, of an annual rent of 6 marks paid to the 

 cathedral by the said convent for the grange of Tulachany, in the 

 event of the convent being evicted from the church of Offerlane, which 

 they hold by grant of the Bishop and Chapter [no. 94]. 



Dated at Kilkenny, 1 May, 1305. 



Uniuersis ad quos litere presentes peruenerint decanus et capitulum 

 ecclesie Sancti Cannici Kylkenniensis salutem in domino. 



Cum religiosi uiri abbas et conuentus de Dowysky nobis, ob certas causas 

 utilitatem monasterii sui contingentes, coucesserint annuatim peusionem sex 

 marcarum in grangia sua de Tulachany annuatim reddendam ad festum beati 

 Michaelis et ad festum Paschalis per equales portiones de terris et tenementis 

 suis ibidem : 



Nos indempnitati eorumdem abbatis et conuentus prospieere uolentes et 

 diuersa dampna et pericula que eis per casuni eueuire poterunt in futurum 

 considerautes, coucedimus eisdem abbati et conuentui et eorum successoribus 

 quod si ecclesia de Otfarkelan quam tenent in proprios usus ex concessione 

 episcopi nostri et nostra ab eis quoque modo euiucatur per iudicium curie 

 domini regis uel alterius cuiuscumque curie, uel quod ui potestatis seu 

 cumulo malitie cuiuscumque alterius ingenii expellantur, ita quod ecclesiam 

 illam in proprios usus tenere non possint, sicut eis concessum est ut pre- 

 dicitur, tunc cesset predicta peusio sex marcarum nobis uel successoribus 

 nostris reddenda : et inde sint omnino quieti ipsi et successores sui. 



In cuius rei testimonium preseutibus sigillum commune capituli nostri 

 apponi fecimus. 



Datum Kylkeuuy in festo apostoloruiu I'hilippi et Jacobi anno domini 

 MCCC quinto. 



At the period which we have reached, we have a record showing that 

 Jerpoint and Duiske (although both were poorer than they had been; were the 

 two richest religious houses in the diocese of Ossory (to which Duiske was 



' it.T.A. 191. 2 Chartae, &c., p. 85. ^ C.D.I, iii, pp. 119, 21-i. ' C.M.A. ii. 291. 



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