Bkknaku — The Charters of the Abbey of Duiskc. 13-3 



oi'dinis preilicti oo anno i|UO decosserint ; et ile quolibet clerico dicti ordinis 

 decern psalteria.' Et de quolibet conuei'so- totidem ))er "miserere iiiei deus," 

 uidelicet septies uigiuti et decern " miserere " pro quolibet psalterio. Et 

 sciendum est quod aiiime omnium fratrum familiariorum et benefactoruni 

 defunctorum ordinis eiusdem in omnibus capitulis dicti ordinis quolibet die 

 ordine durante erunt absolute. 



Item quolibet die stabilite sunt sexdecim mille nouies centum et trit^inta 

 portiones elemosinarie capiende in refectorio ad alteram tabulam ad partici- 

 piendum pauperibus pro aniniabus predictorum et omnium tidelium defunc- 

 torum omnia bona prenominata in perpetuum perseneranda conceduntur 

 omnibus benefactoribus ordinis predicti ; et illis precipue qui de bonis a deo 

 sibi collatis aliquid contulerint fabrice ecclesie monasterii beate et gloriose 

 Virginis Marie eidem Sancto Saluatore predicto uidelicet de Dolbisky. 



Ceteras uero niissas et orationes priuatas predictis benefactoribus concessas 

 nemo preter deum cui omnia nota sunt potest numei'are ipsi laus et gloria in 

 secula seculoruni Amen. 



No.s uero abbas et conuentus supradicti omnium missarum orationnm 

 ieiuniorum uigiliaruni et abstinenciarum ceterorumque bonorum, que in dicto 

 monasterio per nos et successores nostros usque in diem iiidicii domino con- 

 cedente fieri poterunt, omnibus benefactoribus supradictis et eoruni liberis et 

 posteris plenam participationem tenore presentium concedimns, in nita pariter 

 et in morte. 



Dat : Cistercio quinto Kaleudas Eebruarii anno domiui millesimo ccc 

 quiuto. 



This document is euricbed with a fine coloured initial and splendidly executed. 



The ordinance promising benefits to benefactors was necessarily an ordinance of 

 the General Chapter, and so was dated at Citeaux. Each abbey, needing alms, 

 would doubtless prefix its own petition. 



The assertion in this instrument that there were at the date of its execution 

 5650 houses of the Cistercian Order is remarkable. It may have been so, but no 

 record of so great a number has come down to us.^ 



We have no charters for the next half century, and all that we know of 

 the fortunes of the abbey for this period is contained in a few incidental 

 notices. The county of Garlow, like the rest of Ireland, was in a disturbed 

 condition, and there was much lawlessness, with bloodshed. 



In 1316 one Malachy M'CoUatain killed Sir John de la I'oer, a monk of 

 Duiske,* with Gilbert "Wengan, a lay brother {conversxis) of the same house. 



1 For the repetition of psalms for the benefit of the departed, see Wordsworth, Notes 

 on Mediaeval Sercices, p. 265. 



- A " conversus " was a lay brother of the house. 



^ The most complete list is that of Dom L. Janauschek, " Notitia abbatiarum ordinis 

 Cisterciensis per orbem universum " (1640). 



* Extracts from the Duiske Registers (EFL). 



