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the suburb. Some time afterwards they treacherously attacked the burgesses 

 when playing in the fields, slaying many and carrying off their wives. Now, 

 a certain loyal " Oustman " named Gerald Mac Gillemory lived in a certain 

 tower, which is very old and ruined, opposite the church of the Friars 

 Preachers. He defended it against his relatives, and was rewarded by 

 being granted English law. This does not support the identity of the 

 Eing tower with Eeginald's tower. The foreigners' territory was called 

 Gaultiere.' In 1220 its citizens complained to Henry III that ships unloaded 

 wines, &c., at other ports, so the King forbade merchants to bring their 

 ships to (New) Eoss, its dangerous rival. He also in 1223 gave it a murage 

 grant, and in 1232 forbade (as at Limerick) any stranger to buy hides and 

 wool in it save from a citizen. He reserved the usual 2 hogsheads of wine 

 (from before and behind the mast), and forbade strangers to stay more than 

 forty days in the town. It got murage rates in 1234 on ships of 100 hogsheads 

 of wine or more, wine, honey, timber, hides, skins, furs (of hares, squirrels, 

 foxes and martens), wool, cloth, canvas, sendal, wax, pepper, cummin, alum, 

 wood, coals, corn, salt, iron, lead, lard, suet, butter, cheese, salmon, and congers. 

 Another grant, in 1243,^ added skins of wolves, tippets, dyed cloth, woad 

 from Vermandeis and Kaam, soap, hake, mullet, herrings, plates, caldrons, 

 and cattle. In short, King Henry's government favoured it excessively. 



King Edward reversed his father's policy ; he bade all ships to go on to 

 Eoss in 1277. In 1282 its customs were granted to the Donati of Florence. 

 Its Bishop was found guilty of monopolizing the sale of corn and wine 

 there, selling bad corn to the King's manors and castles. In 1293 a 

 document foreshadows Shakespeare, and shows us a John Fastolf concerned 

 with (but selling than rather buying) the King's wines at Waterford. In 

 1295 John Bokerel of Waterford was accused falsely of breaking into the 

 chest of a Fleming. It possessed so valued a merchant from Bruges that 

 his tombstone in the cathedral recorded that " Bruges crie et lamente 

 Apres sa cidadin, Waterford s'en augmente."' In 1301 the Owstmen there 

 accounted for 10 marks fine. As for the prices of provisions : 2 goats, 

 worth 11 pence, were stolen for hunger, not for evil-doing, by a John Martyn 

 in 1295 ; he was acquitted for the benefit of the king's soul. A cow worth 

 5s., and a "pork" worth 16 pence were stolen by others at the same place. 

 The prices were closely similar to those in Limerick, above given, and to 

 those in Tipperary, where (near the great mote and castle of Dounhochil) 



1 Plea Roll No. 108 Ed. II, anno iv, mem. 15. Gilbert gives a facsimile in " National MSS. 

 of Ireland," vol. iii, No. 17. 



* Just before this time Sir Hugh Purcell founded the Franciscans' house in 1240. 

 ' Dr. C. Smith's " History of Waterford," p. 176. 



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