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10 HISTORY OF CORN MILLING VOL. IV.
I. order on the matter as by our council we may decide. If the said
'^^MU^?'^^ land, with all revenue arising from it, you have taken into our hand
^^^ DUBLIN. ^^^ above reason and no other, deliver it into the holding in
the meanwhile of the abbot under sufficient security, so that he may
2. Compensation
to St.
Mary's, 1254.
answer to us for its income if it should belong to us.
Witnessed by myself at York, October 12, in the thirteenth year
of our reign [13 19].
[The above writ] arrived here [Dublin Exchequer] October 13 in
the above year [sic].
Memo. Subsequently on the 3rd of March next following the
said Treasurer and councillors, with the barons of the Exchequer,
proceeded to make reply to the above writ and send the same to the
lord the king, as follows :—
In accordance with the writ Examine the rollSy indentures^ qt'c.^
the said Treasurer and councillors reply to the lord the king, according
to the tenor of his mandate, as fully appears in the schedule
stitched to such mandate.
Further, the Treasurer and barons of the Exchequer, in accordance
with the said mandate, have delivered to the holding of the
abbot of St. Mary's, Dublin, the land contained and named in such
writ, lately for the reason stated in the writ and no other seized into
the hand of the lord the king, with all receipts arising therefrom,
under sufficient security, in order that the abbot may answer to the
lord the king for such receipts if the land should belong to him, as
is fully contained in his writ. And be it known that for this purpose
the abbot, by brother Richard Manning, his fellow-monk, priest
of the chantry of the said house, in accordance with a precept of
the Treasurer and barons (through Richard of York, priest of this
Exchequer, attorney for the said abbot), accepted on this behalf, as
appears below in these rolls of Michaelmas term, &c., has found
as security Philip of Somerton, William of Ashbourne, John Rowe,
William the Carpenter, Richard the Carpenter, and William Ballard ;
who present in court here have separately and conjointly become
pledges and bondsmen for the abbot in form above said.
The tenor of the schedule, stitched to the mandate above
mentioned, appears in the following :—
[a] In the memorandum rolls of the thirty-eighth [thirty-second]
year of the reign of King Henry :— Henry, &c., to his well-beloved
and faithful John Fitz Galfred, his justice of Ireland, saluting.
Whereas we learn by inquisition held in accordance with our instructions
to you in Ireland that the abbot and monks of St. Mary's,
near Dublin, may be endamaged every year, by our mill newly
erected beside our Castle of Dublin, a sum reaching 10 marks,
we will and direct that, in some recompense for the damage to the
said church, and for the welfare of our soul, you assign to them
a piece of land or an annual rental of the value of 10 marks per
annum, as you may do so best, not lavishly, and with least loss to