396 Proceedinfjs of the Ron at Irish Academij. 



Simon Ercedekne in 1295 had 48 oxe;i worth half a mark each ; 1500 sheep 

 worth 10 i^euce each ; 400 lambs, 4 pence each ; 215 pigs at a shilling each : 

 150 goats at 8 pence, and 80 kids worth 2 pence that same year. These 

 were distrained with 186 "afers" (horses), each ^ a mark; 48 stud mares 

 worth 20s. each. In the same year we find another seizure by Sir Gefifry 

 Keating, giving 6 afers as worth 2s. each, and 60 acres of oats and wheat at 

 3 pence an acre.' Waterford exported corn to Gascony that same year.^ 



COKK. — Corcagh mor (the great marsh) arose from a monastery founded 

 by St. Finn-Barr, 606, 623. The Norse ravaged it in 820 ; and the foreign 

 hosts from the port of Corcagh are named in 866^ as Danes and Dubh-geiunte. 

 In 1089 it was attacked by the Danes of Dublin, Waterford, and Wicklow, 

 being then evidently held by the Irish, who beat off the Vikings. It sent a 

 fleet of thirty-five Danish ships to attack Eichard Earl of Strigul at Dungarvan. 

 Henry II, in 1177, confirmed to Eobert Fitz Stephen and Milo de Cogan the 

 government of Cork, save the Ostmen's cantred, with power over the 

 shipping " towards the Cape of St. Brandon and Limerick, and as far as the 

 water of Lismore." Prince John, ante 1199, granted Cork a charter. 



Foreign merchants had already settled there. We find records of 

 Eichard of Lucca in Cork, 1172-1178, and "chattels of Flanders returned 

 as in Corch," 1172-3. A prise of wines was taken 1284; but I found unusually 

 little about its trade till 1284. It had then a grant of murage on ships of 

 100 hogsheads of wine, honey, timber, hides, skins of rabbits, squirrels, 

 foxes, martens, wool, Irish cloth, linen, sendel, wax, pepper, almonds, rice, 

 cummin, alum, woad, plates, caldrons, English and French cloth, mercery, 

 kitchen utensils, and various provisions. In 1284 its new custom on wool 

 and hides was granted to the Donati; and in 1295 Giles de Coutrey, a 

 Flemish merchant, is mentioned. It exported corn to Gascony, 1297, and in 

 the next year a burgess sent 15 hogsheads of wine to the king for leave to 

 cut the city-wall, and bring his new ship to the water. The king remitted 

 the wine if he rebuilt the gap. Cork, like its sister cities, had close relations 

 with Bristol, and (like Dublin), its first charter granted it the laws, franchises, 

 and customs of that city. Its other charters date 1242, 1291, 1442, 1500, 

 and others from Charles I and George II. Its mint was established by 

 Edward I, and the coios bear the words " Civitas Corcagie."^ 



' Cal. Justiciary Kolls (129.5 mem. 6, 13, & 16 dorso). 



'" Besides the general authorities, see Histories by.Smith, Rvknd, &c., Annals Loch Ce ; Charter 

 Kolis, Hen. 11 TDere is a curious suit in 1318 (P.ea Rolls No. 117, mem. 4 d). Ade de Conwey, 

 n.ercator ana Ric. de Barry, ti.e mayor, as to certain homines ejiraneos Adam and PhiHp Col. 

 Three Fragments of Annals," J. O'Donoran, p. 160. 

 Besides general authorities, Histories by Smith and Cauiaeld, -'Council Book for l.ter 

 Items. 



