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(C). — The Contents of the Elack Book of Limerick. 



The large number of documents dated only by the bishops named 

 compel us to arrange them under the various episcopates. We also 

 omit deeds without any chronological data. The numeration is that of 

 the original; but where there is no side number, we give the page 

 instead. 



Bkictius {c. 1180, c. 1195). — Charter of D., King of Limerick 

 (Luniceiis), granting Imungram and Imalin (Mungret, &c.) to 

 St. Mary's Cathedral, xxix.^ 



DoNAT O'Beien {c. 1195-1207).— Grant of King John (when Earl 

 of Morton) of fisheries and Godric's land, p. 95. W. de Bnrgo's and 

 Meyler f. Henry's Inquisitions, xxi, xxiii. Ordinance as to offices in 

 cathedral, p. 109. W. de Bui'go grants Estlona, p. 103 ; King John 

 prohibits building of castles on the bishop's lands, 1207, xxxv." 



Geoffrey of Dungarvan (1207-1216). — Henry III. grants to 

 the Castle Chapel, Limerick, 1216, p. 116 ;^ a badly copied charter to 

 G. or E., Bishop of Limerick ; confusion apparent in the copy, p. 101. 



Edmund (1216-1223).— Grant of Douenathmor, p. 78. King 

 John's charter of the cantred of Limerick, Mungareth, and Omayl, 



1216, pp. 46, 95. A letter as to the same, and Mungareth; confi.rmation 

 of Donat's ordinance, p. Ill ; Edmund establishes prebends, and con- 

 firms the ordinances of Bishop Donat, p. 114 ; and another 11 Sep., 



1217, assigning same lands, and the "natives" on Omayl in pure 

 alms (B.B.L., p. 119). 



Hubert de Burgh* (1223-1251).— 6^m2^ — Churches of Ofergus, 

 in Oconyl, xxxii ; E. de London, of Glyncorbry Churches, c. 1259, 

 xxxix ; H. Minetar, of Drundel Manor, xl ; Sen gel, xlviii ; Iniskefty 

 Church to Keynsham Abbey, li ; Kiletham (for souls of Bishop's 

 ancestors), 1223 ; Clonka Church, Ix ; Kilscoby, Kilgoban, and Kils- 

 celbeg ; witness, Master Tyrrell, vicar of Adare, Ixvii ; Mongret, 



^ For Donaldmore and his Charters to St. Mary's, Holy Cross, and Clare Abbey^ 

 see E.S.A.I., vol. xxiii., pp. 74-78, and xxviii., p. 35, and xxx., pp. 120, 121. 

 -AV alter Crop grants benefices as granted by King John to Athisseil, p. 89. 

 =^His Inquisition as to fishery and Drumyn, p. 101. 



4 The Cal. Papal Letters, i., p. 117, gives a hostile report of this Bishop in 1227 

 as illegitimate, simoniacal, ignorant, and disobedient to his metropolitan. The latter 

 charges are not supported elsewhere. He appears to have been an enlightened and 

 able prelate. 



