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profits of their property when they were confined in Dublin Castle. 

 Robert Aylward, who had been put over the manors to manage them 

 on behalf of the Knights, had frequently to be called upon to answer 

 to them for the rents of their lands and tenants in Crook and Kilbarry.^ 

 The Crown was forced to call upon the tenants of the three manors to 

 be intendant and respondent to the Master. The difficulty of obtaining 

 the issues of their lands became so great that on the 4th December, 1311, 

 the Master, Henry de Anet, and brothers John de Faversham, and llalph 

 de Bradelee petitioned the King that either they might be allowed out 

 on bail and put back into the same position as they held at the time of 

 their arrest, or that Wogan, the Justiciar, might hold the aforesaid 

 manors for them, and provide them with sustenance. The King's 

 Council agreed that the Templars could not be liberated without a special 

 mandate from the King ; but, at their request, the Justiciar consented 

 to hold the manors for them, and give them the issues for their means 

 of support. This was approved of by the King.^ The Knights soon 

 experienced the benefit of this change, for on the 3rd February, 1312, 

 they acknowledged to have received £24 95. l^d. from the Justiciar.' 



We shall probably be justified in supposing that after the Papal 

 .Bull, handing over the persons of the Templars to the provincial synods, 

 those incarcerated in the Castle were liberated. In Michaelmas tenn, 

 1312, we find it on record that the Master, Henry de Anet, was let out 

 on bail, Master William de Hothum and others being his pledges;* and 

 it is likely that the rest were liberated at the same time. As, soon 

 after this date, viz., May, 1313, the lands of Kilclogan, which had 

 been assigned to them for sustenance, were granted to Nicholas de 

 Balscote,^ we may conclude that it was about this time that the regular 

 pay of 2d. per diem was commenced to be paid to the Knights. 



Since 1308, when the Templars were seized, their lands had been 

 mostly managed by the Crown, who had appointed commissioners to 

 supervise the estates, receive tithes and obventions of the churches, 

 appoint bailiffs and servientes, collect the rents, &c., paying a certain 

 rent to the Exchequer for such privileges. The manors and churches 

 of Kilclogan, Crook, and Kilbarry, however, were excepted, as these 

 were given temporarily to the Knights for their support. The only 



1 Memoranda Roll, Excheq., 4-5 Ed. II, m. 66. 



2 Ibid., 5-6 Ed. II, m. 12. 



3 Ibid., 5-6 Ed. II, m. 24. 

 ^ Ibid., 6 Ed. II, m. 2. 



5 Ibid., 6-7 Ed. II., m. 47d. 



