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reckoned to belong).' The Bed Booh of Ossory (an ancient register compiled 

 for the most part in the fourteenth century) contains an account of the 

 ecclesiastical taxations of the diocese about the years 1306 and 131S, in which 

 the assessment of Jerpoint is set down at £4 16s. 8(L, and that of Duiske at 

 £4 7s. 6f/. 



97. 



Petiiion by the convent of Duiske, now reduced by hostile incursions, for 

 the alms of the faithful ; and an Ordinance by the General Chapter 

 that masses and other devotions be said in all the 5650 houses of 

 the Cistercian Order for the souls of benefactoi-s, especially of those 

 who have contributed moneys for the fabric of the abbey church. 



Dated at Citeau.x, 28 Jan., 1306. 



Uniuereis Christi tidelibus has literas uisuris uel audituris abbas et con- 

 uenlus monasterii beate Marie de Sancto Saluatore uidelicet de Dolbisky 

 Cisterciensis ordinis Ossoriencisf diocesis saluteni et gratiam Jesu Christi. 



Quam grata et acceptabilia domino sunt opera misericordie e.x ipsius 

 supemi remuncratoris senlentia scire i)otestis, cum ijise deus in extrenio 

 iudicio opera mi.sericordie exercentibus el precipue elemosinarum lai-gitoribus 

 ait dictarus "quo<l uni ex minimis nieis fecistis mihi fecistis." 



Cum igitur monasterium gloriose Virginis Marie superdictum, in quo 

 religioni.s cultus de<j acceptus hactenus uigebat, hiis diebus ad lauientabilem 

 dissolutionein |>er hostiles incursus inualescentes reducatur, conuen . . . uniuer- 

 iiorum tidelium largitinne elemosinarum predicto monasterio sub 



Xos uero nmniuni tidelium maximam salutem in ui.sceribus caritatis intime 

 alFettantos (i|ua)ndam ordinationem in capitulo gencrali apud Cistercium ad 

 Chri.sti laudem et animarum .salutem factam, uobi.s deo teste sine omni 

 ficlione duximu.s referendam, dum idem ordo durauerit jx^rmansuram, uide- 

 licet ijuod in qiiinque milibus sexceutis et quinquaginta domibus ordinis, 

 exceptis d<>mibus sub eisdem de nouo constitutis, quolibet die cantatur pro 

 omnibus illis qui predictum ordinem sustentant et protegunt, pro fratribus 

 sororibus et l>enefactoribu3 eiusdem ordinis durante ordine quinquies mille 

 sexceuties et quinquagenta misse. 



Item totidem misse in honorc Virginis gloriose pro uiuis et totidem pro 

 defunctis prelerea totidem misse celebranlur per annum die statuto per capi- 

 lulum generate pro omnibus fratribus sororibus faniiliaribus et bene fac tori bus 

 ordinia prcdictL 



Et preter hcc de quolibet capellano eiusdem ordinis quolibet anno tree 



misse de Saunctof Spiritu et trcs de Saunclot Cruce adminus celebrantur; 



nichilominus statuitur quoddam debitum certum annuale, scilicet : de quolibet 



i] "'llano ordinis piv<iicli quolibet anno uiginti misse celebrantur pro defunctis 



lu^iachis conucrsis fratribus familianbus sororibus et omnibus bcnefactoribus 



' See p. 25. 



