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sum of twenty shillings ; and knowing that the said monks had committed 

 the said robberies and felonies, he, the abbot aforesaid, had nevertheless 

 received and entertained them at Duiske."' 



David Cornwalshe, mentioned in this record, as abbot of Duiske, appears again 

 in 1363 and 1390 as abbot of the sister house of Dunbrody, in which capacity 

 similar charges were made against him. He was evidently a lawless person, and 

 impatient of all restraint.- William Archer was apparently his predecessor as 

 abbot of Duiske. 



The sequel of the all'air is recorded in the Calendar of Patent Eolls : 

 1357, Dec. 13. Westminster, " Whereas the abbey of Duysky in Ireland is 

 situated on the frontier of the King's Irish enemies, and his said enemies 

 pursuing his lieges in his peace there arc ofltimes received in the abbey and 

 are nourished therefrom, although against the will of the abbot, and whereas 

 the abbot was indicted before John de IJuulton,' late justice in that land, of 

 the receiving of the King's eiu^mies and of the bringing of victuals to them 

 for their refresliment, for pardon whereof he made line before the saiil John 

 Ijy £40 ; and by various advci-sities coming upon him and the abbey he is 

 now 80 depressed that he cjinnot pay the fine without the ruin of liis estate, 

 the King out of comjjassion has pardoned the line, and acquits him thereof, 

 ami by these presents makes restitution to him of all his goods fallen into the 

 King's hand on account of the promises." 



A pricis of this memorandum is in the Extracts from the Duiske Registers (E). 



It is a memorandum of incidents thoroughly characteristic of Ireland under 

 English rule. Duiske was founded by an Englishman. He planted English monks 

 there. They became " Hibemis Hiberniores." They harboured the king's enemies. 

 They were fined. They pleaded poverty. And they escaped scot free. The four- 

 teenth century was not unlike the twentieth. 



It was doubtless because of the growing disaffection to English rule which was 

 displaying it.self in the monasteries as elsewhere that a clause was inserted in the 

 Statute of Kilkcrny, enacted in 1367, to the efl'cct that no Irish monks should be 

 admitted into the religious houses in the English parts of Ireland. A similar 

 ordinance hod been enacted in 1.110, but it was repealed after a. few months, being 

 re-introduced in 13C7. It does not seem to have been acted on even then, for in 

 18U0 a writ was despatched to twenty-one rehgions houses, ordering compliance 

 with it. 



> The abo\e is the translation (with a few corrections) made by Archdall in his Mon- 

 (isiicou Uibtmicnm of a Latin record iu .Vrchbishop King's ColUctaneu (Harris MSS., 

 rul. xiii, in the National Library, Dul)lin), p. 'Ml. 



' Hore's Ihinhiiidii .I'./m-i/, pp. Ini-iri5, and CM. A. ii, xc and xciii. 



' John de Boulton was Treasurer of Ireland. 



