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rights of possession, with fatal eousequences for the monks wlio resisted his 

 agents. 



However this may be, James Butler was not content with tlie lease which 

 he got in 1561, and in 1566 he petitioned the Crown for a fee-farm grant of 

 the abbey lands.' The petition was granted, and letters patent were passed 

 accordingly." 15nt the petitioner died .shortly afterwards, and in 1567 the 

 grant was made to his son, also named Janu'S Butler, of the lands as mentioned 

 in the lease of 1561, " besides the lands of the grange of Hanumolt, the grange 

 of Tulaghanny and land, an eel-weir, and a water-mill in Old Abbaye, alias 

 Slianmauister, co. Kilkenny, . . to hold in fee farm for ever by tlie service of 

 one- twentieth part of a knight's fee, at a rent of £41," curates t" be maintained 

 in the chuichcs on the property.' 



This James Butler, the younger, of Duiske, died without issue, and tlic 

 abbey lands reverted to his uncle Thomas, tenth earl of Ormonde, who con- 

 veyed them in 1597 to his illegitimate son, Tiers Butler.' This Tiers Butler 

 died in 1601, and was succeeded by his sou. Sir Edward Butler," who became 

 Viscount Gahnoy in 1646.* 



A document copied fur this uwner out of the "Ancient Bixik of Graigue," 

 which gives the boundaries of Tulacliany.an estate forming an often-mentioned 

 and valuable part of the property of our abbey, will conclude our collection 

 of the niuuiments of Duiske. 



It is written in a scveuteeuih-ccntury hand, and is entitled : — 



107. 

 The true coppie of the niearing of tJrangtnlleghan, coj^iiied out of the 

 Auncient Book of Graigy, and translated into English, which book 

 remaynetli with Sir Edward Butler. 



15y beginning fiimi Luiskcuu Patrick (1) by the Dyke w*"" leadeth even to 

 the White thorue of the Court otherwise called Skeghne Cortc (2) and there 

 Iwginne to Ihj three Lords tliat is to say Gerald TitzGerald, Baron Conimerford, 

 and the Abbot. Thence passing by the wall or dyke which leadeth neere 

 GorKsneigh and Baneleskie (3) and from thence to the moore or bogg belonging 



' Oal. StnU Papen, 31 July, 1666. 



-■ Morrill's Oil. I'tiUiU liollt, 16 Jau., 1507. 



^ Fiaut4 Elizabeth, no. 1176, 8 (Jcl., loG7 ; cf. Cal. Slate Papem, 10 Aug., 1567. 



• In FianU Elizabeth, no. 6441, 22 Sept., 1600, we have a "Pardon " for this Piers 

 Butler. 



^ In an Inr|uisition held at Kilkenny, 10 Sept., 1607, Edward Butler de Uldabay (i.e. 

 Old Abbey or Killcnuy) claimed " villain et terram de Garaeirddcn ut parcellam abbutiae 

 de Dusk." 



' \ monument to Sir Etlward Butler, Viscount Galmoy, is .still exunt, inserted in the 

 wall of the Vestry of the Iloman Catholic Church of Graiguenamauagh. 



