BiOKNAUi) — The Churteis of the Ahhcji oj Duiskc. 135 



Noueiit uniiieisitas iiestia (^uod cum Heiuicus filiiis Ilcnvici de Itiipe 

 quondam tlomiuus de llowyr, pro salute animu sue et Oliue uxoris sue neonon 

 pro animabiis patris et matris sue ac omnium parenturn predecessorum et 

 successorinn suorum, deo et beate Marie ac abbatie de Dowisky et monachis 

 ibidem deo seruientibus in liumine de Jjarevve quicquid ibidem habuit libertatis 

 ad piscanduni a loco qui uocatur Polniuntath usque ad loeum qui uocatiir 

 Portegrenau pro se et hevedibus siiis integraliter dedit et incantauit : 



Nos uero pro salute anime iiostre antecessorum et successornm nostrorum 

 pi'edictam donationem prefate piscarie in locis pi'ouominatis absque ulla con- 

 tradictione seu diminutione nostra uel lieredum nostrorum deo et beate Marie 

 et abbatie predicte ac monachis ibidem deo seruientibus tenore presentium 

 approbamus ratificamus et in perpetuum confirniamus. 



In cuius rei testimonium presentibus sigillum nostrun\ apponi fecimus. 



Datum apud Balygauran in festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli anno 

 domini MCCC quinquagesimo secundo. 



There is a note of this Eatification in the Extracts from tlie Duiske Charters 

 (EFL). 



James Butler, second earl of Ormonde, who was Viceroy of Ireland in 1859, died 

 in 1382. 



The position of the places mentioned in the charter is given under no. 80. 



We have next a record of the year \'6b&, which indicates clearly the 

 attitude of the monastery to English law. 



" This year, the abbot, David Cornwalshe, for the fine of £40, oltlained the 

 King's pardon for divers offences ; 



To wit, when many of the King's enemies (Melaghin son of Ph. M'Oweu' 

 O'Brj'an, &c.), who at sundry times did, with ensigns displayed, invade his 

 Majesty's territories in the respective counties of Dublin, Kildare, Carlow, 

 and Wexford, and at all such times did rob, prey, or burn the same, and did 

 also inhumanly murder Edmund Trahern, slieriff' of Carlow, and many others 

 of his Majesty's good and faithful subjects, he, the said abbot, did receive tlie 

 said felons at Duiske, where he entertained them with bread, drink, fish, 

 clothes, etc. ; 



And did also receive and harbour at Duiske aforesaid, Richard Browne, 

 David, son of Henry Duff, &c., whom lie knew had been guilty of divers 

 robberies and felonies ; 



Also that William Porter, monk, EobertHechyn, Henry Iloth, JohnEyhvard, 

 John Brown, and Eichard Godman, monks, did in the year 135G, at Duiske, 

 stop William Archer, abbot of Duiske, and did roli him of two horses, value 

 sixty shillings, one cloak, value ten shillings, one seal, value twenty shillings, 

 and sundry other goods and cliattels to the amount and value of a further 



