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instance we have of the Crown granting any of the Templars' lands in 

 fee-simple was in the case of the manors of Clontarf and Kilsaran, 

 which Edward granted (26th December, 1310) to Richard de Eurgh^ 

 Earl of Ulster, the father-in-law of the Earl of Cornwall,^ though they 

 apparently soon reverted to the Crown. All the lands which had 

 formerly been in possession of the Order the Pope desired should be 

 handed over to the Hospitallers. On the 2nd May, 1312, he had 

 written to the Archbishops of Armagh, Dublin, Tuam, and Cashel, 

 and others, to defend the Knights of St. John, who had been placed 

 in possession of the Templars' property in their respectiye dioceses.^ 

 But the former, however eager they were to enter into their new 

 inheritance, were forbidden by the King (1st August, 1312) to meddle 

 with the lands and goods of the Templars before the next parliament.^ 

 In the meantime he continued to let out their property in Ireland, for 

 on 12th May, 1313, a commission was issued to JN'icholas de Ealscote, 

 Baron of the Exchequer, to hold the lands of Kilclogan and the church 

 of Ballygavern at a yearly rent.^ But the Hospitallers were evidently 

 becoming anxious about the transfer, for on 25th IN'ovember of the same 

 year. Brother Albert de Nigro Castro, Grand Preceptor of the Hospital 

 of S. John of Jerusalem, and the locum tenens beyond the Mediterra- 

 nean Sea of the Grand Master of the Hospitallers, and Leonard de 

 Tybertis, Prior of the Venetians, Procurator-General of the said 

 Hospital, petitioned the King that he would see fit to hand over ta 

 them the Templars' goods. ^ This had the desired efect, for on the 28th 

 ^fovember the King ordered the guardians of the Templars' lands in 

 England, and in Ireland the Justiciar, Chancellor, and Treasurer of 

 Dublin, to put the above-named brethren or their deputies in posses- 

 sion of the lands and goods, with all the rights belonging thereto, of 

 the late Order. Edward alleged the necessity of conforming with the 

 Pope's bull as the reason for his Order, but took care to protest that 

 his and his subjects' rights were to be preserved.^ 



As a necessary consequence of this order, the Prior of the 

 Hospitallers was bidden (8th February, 1314) to continue to the 

 Templars the allowance of 2d. per diem hitherto allowed them.' 



1 Memoranda Roll, Excheq., 4-5 Ed. II, m. 21. 



2 Papal Registers, vol. ii. 

 ^Rymer's " Pedera," vol. ii., p. 174. 



4 Mem. Roll, Excheq., 6-7 Ed. II, m. 47- 

 ^Rymer's "Federa," vol. ii., p. 235. 

 ^Ibid., p. 236. 

 ''Ibid., p. 243. 



