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XVII. 



THE FOUNDATION OF TINTEEN ABBEY, CO. WEXFOKD. 

 By THE MOST EEY. J. H. BEENAED, D.D., President. 



Eead Fjjbruary 12. Putlished March 30, 1917. 



In the search for charters bearing upon the history of the Cistercian Abbey 

 of . Graiguenamanagh, in co. Kilkenny, I happened lately apon a reference 

 " Graiguenamanagh ? " in the Index to the Charters and Eolls in the British 

 Museum. 1 The charter to which reference is made is classed Add. MS. 4783, 

 fo. 28. I have obtained a transcript of it by the good offices of Dr. F. 

 Elrington Ball, and I give it here, expanding the contractions. 



" Johannes dei gratia Eex Anglorum, Dominus Hybernie, Dux Normannie 

 (et) Aquitanie, et Comes Andegavie, omnibus fidelibus suis salutem. 



" Noveritis nos gratum et ratum habere testameutum dilecti et fidelis 

 uostri Willelmi Mariscalli comitis Pembroc sicut illud condidit per manus 

 executoris ipsius testamenti faciendum : 



" Volentes et firmiterprecipientes quod inviolabiliter observetur et precipue 

 de vote suo perficiendo, scilicet de quadam abbacia de ordine Cisterciensi in 

 Hybernia construenda, de triginta carrucatis terre in loco competenti, sicut 

 I(sabella) comitissa uxor sua et Gaufridus filius Eoberti senescallus eius 

 providebunt, quibus injunxit hoc faeere. 



" Testibus : dominis Exonie et Wigornie episcopis, G. filio Petri comite 

 Essex, et W. comite Sarisbir, apud Hamsted iij die Decembris." 



This instrument is an early copy (no seal is attached, and the names of 

 the bishops of Exeter and "Worcester are not given) of Letters Patent of King 

 John confirmatory oi a Will of William Marshall, the great Earl of Pembroke, 

 in which he left 30 carucates, that is, about 3600 acres of land, for a 

 Cistercian abbey to be founded in Ireland " in loco competenti." As King 

 John died before William Marshall, the Letters Patent must have been 

 issued in William Marshall's lifetime. But, as Mr. Goddard Orpen has 

 pointed out to me, in the early part of the thirteenth century alienation of 



1 Vol. ii, 1912. 



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