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Nativity of St. John (24 June), and those who have castles are to put them in 

 repair and have them properly guarded. If for reasonable cause such persons 

 are absent from Ireland after the said festival, they are to leave men in their 

 place to defend the country against the Irish rebels, as need may be. Offenders 

 against this ordinance are to be deprived of two parts of the profits of their 

 lands, rents, offices, and possessions, to be used for the defence of the country 

 by the advice of the Justiciaries and Governors. But in the case of persons 

 in the service of the king, or studying in universities, or absent from reason- 

 able cause, by licence of the king, only the third part of the benefices will be 

 so applied. 



In French. 



Printed in HMC 261. See also Irish Statutes i. 476, 500, by which the 

 date (not here given) is fixed. 



35. Letters patent of Oliver (Cantwell), Bishop of Ossory. f. 57. 

 November, 1510. State that William Asbolde, provost of Irishtown (ville 

 nostre Hibernicane), appeared before him in the cathedral church of Ossory, 

 desiring to have certain old and feeble witnesses examined to prove that 

 time out of mind the bishop's subjects and tenants of his town of Irystoun 

 had sold and exchanged merchandise and cut meat in their markets publicly, 

 without contradiction by the sovereign of the town of Kilkenny, and without 

 payment of custom or murage. His petition having been granted, William 

 Herforth, aged 80, deposed, 20 October, to that effect, stating that he had 

 lived in Irishtown (villa Ibernicorum) under bishops Thomas Barre, David 

 Hacket, and John Hedyan, and the present bishop, and that he had seen 

 Maurice Staffarde, John Flemyng, and Thomas Asbold, merchants, and John 

 Monsell and Thomas Kely, fleshers, acting in the manner described. His 

 evidence was confirmed, on the same day, by Maurice Ofogirty — who saw 

 Thomas Kely, David Oclowan, Thady Ohwolaghan, fleshers, and Thomas 

 Asbold and Thomas Langtun, merchants, so acting — Eobert Broun and 

 Dermot Obrenane, clerk, aged 60 ; and on 2 November by Nicholas Whyt, 

 rector of Callame — who deposed to the practice from the time of Bishop 

 David Hackyt — Sir Dermot Oclery, vicar of Callan, Alsona Hunth — who had 

 been servant in the house and court of Bishop Barry with her mother, then 

 his domestic — and Joan Connowe. 



A fragment, breaking off at the end of the page. 

 Printed in HMC 264. 



36. Taxation of Ossory Diocese. ff. 57"^, 62, 65^. 

 Late in cent, xv (?). (a) The Deanh Portion: Athnyrle 30 mks., St. Patrick's 

 30 mks., half of St. Mary's 18 mks. The Precentor's : Tylahtyrim 60 mks. 



