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disturbed by malicious persons. Exemplification is signed : " Prendregast, 

 Ex. per Jacobum Prendregast et Robertum Lynne, clericos." 

 Printed in Todd Obits, xxiii. 



38. [xxxii.] Pleas in regard to Mablieston. f. oh^. 

 19 March, 1403. At an assize held at Dublin before John Bermyngham, 

 Serjeant at law of the King, and William Tynbegh, King's Justice for all 

 assizes of new disseisin in the counties of Dublin, Meath, Loueth, and Kildare, 

 James (de Redenesse), prior of Holy Trinity, complained that he had been 

 wrongfully dispossessed of 5 marks of rent out of the free tenement in 

 Mablieston by Anastasia White, Ptobert Taillour, chaplain, Thomas Cruys, 

 chief Serjeant of the King in Co. Dublin, John Talbot of Mayne, and Robert 

 Bernewale, coroners of the King in the same county, Richard Tyrrell, Simon 

 Balybyn and John Prendregast, who appeared by their bailiff Reginald 

 Talbot. The jurors — John Mongomery, Simon Coulok, John Walsh of 

 Thurgotestoun, Richard Mills, Walter de la Felde, Simon Porter, Nicholas 

 Wodlok, John Wodlok, William Brossard(?), Thomas Wydon', William 

 Wylpyt and John Serjaunt — find that the prior was in peaceful possession 

 until he distrained for said rent, when Anastasia White resisted (rescussit), 

 but that the other defendants were not present on that occasion, and they 

 assess the prior's loss at 5 marks for rent and 25 marks for arrears. In 

 regard to his title they find that all the priors from Robert, the late prior, who 

 enfeoffed John Comyn of the free tenement of Kynsaly, to a time long before 

 the passing of the Act of Mortmain, and since the passing of that Act, were 

 in peaceful possession thereof, and that the present prior was seized thereof 

 apart from any collusion. The court accordingly granted that the prior should 

 recover possession of the rent, and the loss which he incurred, and that 

 because of his false claim against Robert Taillour and the other defendants 

 he should pay 2s. This sum was paid in court to John Derpatrick, the sheriff. 



39. [xxxiii.] Concerning the custody of the manor of Kynsaly, on the death 

 c. 1280. of the lord. f. 36. 



Part of a letter from the justiciary (?) to the king, which states that an 

 inquisition had been held at the suit of Amabilia wife of John Comyn, by 

 the writer and the escheator, which found that the custody belonged to the 

 prior of Holy Trinity. A fresh inquisition was held, the jurors being 

 Richard de Faypo, Henry le Rou, Wulfraun de Bernewall, John de 

 Wycumbe, William Abot, Simon Marescall, William Pitz Matthew, Henry 

 de Safeble, Adam deBeawef, Richard Brun, Riclrartl-le-Bltmd7-aGd-Siffl©-n-d:e- 

 Canda. They found that all chief lords of lands in Ireland, to whom belongs 

 homage out of the same, have custody on the death of the tenants. That the 



