Monasticon Anglicanum: a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries, and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales; also of all such Scotch, Irish and French monasteries, as were in manner connected with religious houses in England / Originally pub. in Latin by Sir William Dugdale...[Now ed., enriched with a large accession of materials taken from leiger books, chartularies, rolls, and other documents preserved in the national archives, public libraries, and other repositories; the history of each religious foundation in English being prefixed to its respective series of Latin charters. By John Caley...Henry Ellis...and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel.
- William Dugdale
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Monasticon Anglicanum: a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries, and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales; also of all such Scotch, Irish and French monasteries, as were in manner connected with religious houses in England / Originally pub. in Latin by Sir William Dugdale...[Now ed., enriched with a large accession of materials taken from leiger books, chartularies, rolls, and other documents preserved in the national archives, public libraries, and other repositories; the history of each religious foundation in English being prefixed to its respective series of Latin charters. By John Caley...Henry Ellis...and the Rev. Bulkeley Bandinel. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![mea carta confirmavi Deo et beatae Mari* Virginis, quam fundavi apud Ferniam,et canonicis ibidem Domino servienti- bus, terras illas; soil. Balisifin, Balilacussa, pro una villa, Borin et Roshena, et Kilbridi, pro duabus villis, Balifislan in Fotherth juxta Wexford; et villam quse vocatur Mune- methe in Ferneghenal; et cellam quandam apud Thamo- ling; scil. capellam S. Mariae, cum omnibus pertinentiis suis, cum terra Baligery, cum omnibus piscaturis ejus ; et capellaniam meam; et omnes decimas et primitias de domi- nico meo Perhukensilich, et quoddam debitum potus, quod dicitur Scaith; scil. de qualibet servicia vel medone, quae fit in villa Ferniae, quandam mensuram, quae vocatur lagena vel galo, de me et haeredibus meis dictis canonicis et suis successoribus, in puram, perpetuam, et liberam elemosinam, pro salute animae meae et antecessorum meorum et succes- sorum. Et cellam Finachia in Fernia, cum Baliculum, et Balinafusin; et tria acra juxta eandem cellam. Et ideo volo et firmiter praecipio, quod praedicta domus et antedicti canonici ibidem Deo servientes, habeant et teneant et pos- sideant dictas terras et praenominatam elemosinam, de me et haeredibus meis, sibi et successoribus suis, bene, in pace, plenarie et integr£, absque aliquo redditu debito, et servicio seculari; neque episcopi, neque regis, neque comitis, neque alicujus omnino hominis, in bosco, in piano, in pratis, in pascuis, in piscariis, ad me et ad nostros haeredes pertinenti- bus, in aquis, in molendinis, in viis et semitis, et in moris et mariscis, in omnibus libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus, quas ego et haeredes mei dictis canonicis et suis successori¬ bus dare possumus et warantizare. Ego verb et haeredes mei eandem domum in praedictis terris et possessionibus eisdem canoniciset suis successoribus,contra omnes homines et foeminas warantizare tenemur. Concessi etiam eis, quod in amovendis siveeligendis ejusdem domus abbatibus, nullus haeredum meorum se debent intromittere, sed juxta beati Augustini regulam, per consensum hujus conventus, vel sanioris partis, qui ordinandus est, libere constituatur; et post ejusdem electionem, antequam ab archiepiscopo vel episcopo crearetur in abbatem, michi vel haeredibus meis, vel eorum senescallis causa dominii praesentetur, ut per nos, ab episcopo benedicatur. Dat. xxi. kal. Februarii apud Ferniam. Hiis testibus, Cristiano Lismorensi epi¬ scopo, totius Hiberniae legato : Donato Leighlinensi epi¬ scopo; Josepho episcopo Fernensi; Domnaldo episcopo Osserensi; Malachia episcopo de Kildaria; Celestino epi¬ scopo de Glindalacha; Laurentio abbate de Glindalacha; Florencio regis cancellario; Marco capellano; Lorquan filio Dufgill*, Gillapatric 0 Murchuda, et multis aliis. JKtonastmes of lulls anti gmtsttofic, in tire Counts of Ittifteuug* ST. MARY KELLS was founded by Geoffrey Fitz Robert, lord of Kells, A. D. 1183, for canons regular of the order of St. Austin. The MONASTERY of INISTIOGE was founded in 1206, by Thomas, the son of Anthony, seneschal of Leinster, and dedicated to St. Mary and St. Colomb. Dugdale has combined the two Monasteries in one article, because he found them named together in the Re¬ gister of Kells. Archdale gives the substance of Geoffrey Fitz Robert’s first charter to KELLS. With the advice and consent of Eva, his wife, he granted to his Convent there all eccle¬ siastical dues arising from his land at Offathi, with the chapel of his castle of Kells; three carucates of land between the towns of Kells and Killry, and the ecclesiastical dues in Pengran, Ballinpistan, Ballincorcardira, Rathmelan, and Distermoholmoc, together with the churches, &c. In another charter he granted them three more carucates of land be¬ yond the water of Righi. The founder died in the year 1211. The subsequent charters of Hugh de Lacy, John Earl of Moreton, and Walter de Lacy, are recited by Dug¬ dale in an Inspeximusof the 14th Ric. II. See Num. II. The following names occur of the PRIORS of KELLS: Reginald, the first Prior; Hugh, afterwards bishop of Ossory, 1202; another Reginald, before 1331; Nicholas, 1468 ; Philip Howleghan, the last Prior. The possessions of which the Prior of this House, who was a lord of parliament, was seized at the time of the sur¬ render, 8th March, 31 Hen. VIII., are detailed by Arch¬ dale. The site was granted, 4th Jan., 32 Hen. VUIth, in capite, to James earl of Ormond. INISTIOGE had the following PRIORS : Alured, already mentioned; David, who died in 1324; John Modberry, 1355; Milo Baron, alias Fitzgerald, the last Prior, who surrendered his House to the King, 20th March, 31st Hen. VUIth. This House, its lands, and numerous other possessions, were granted in capite, 4th May, 10 Eliz., to Edmund Butler and his heirs. Ctenafcto & Mztw Ue Ivcnlts, et & Colttmte tre HfmSttock, in (Eonutatu Utlkeunteugu NUM. I. |_Ex Regist. Coenobii S. Marise de Kenlis.] Memorandum, quod dominus Galfridus filius Roberti, baro de Kenlis, venit primo in Hiberniam cum Willielmo mareschallo comite; et idem Galfridus acquisivit baroniam de Kenlis in Ossoria, et baroniam de Elgren et Gren in Momonia. Et postea idem Galfridus fundavit domum de Kenlis® in honore S. Mariae, per consilium dicti comitis; quam fundationem dominus Felix O Duflan B. M. episcopus tunc Ossoriensis confirmavit. Et quia tunc temporis non fuerunt canonici regulares Anglici in Hibernia, dominus Gal¬ fridus quatuor praesbyteros divina celebrantes in ecclesia S. Kerani de Kenlis, loco canonicorum instituit, usque fuerit provisus de aliquibus religiosis viris, et habuerunt habita- cula eorum circa ecclesiam S. Kerani. Et postea idem Gal¬ fridus transfretavit mare versus Botmoniam,b in Cornubia, et duxit secum iterum in Hiberniam, de domo Botmoniae, quatuor canonicos ; viz. Reginaldi de Aclond, Hugonem de Rous, Aluredum, et Algarum. Et tunc dominus Reginaldus creatus fuit in priorem per.cui successit Hugo de Rous, qui postea fuit primus Anglicus episcopus Ossoriensis, qui jacet apud Kenlis. Et praedictus Galfridus filius R. feoffavit dictum domum de Kenlis cum septem carucatis terrae, quarum tres carucatae terrae sunt inter villam de Kenlis et villam de Kilry ; et aliae tres carucatae terrae sunt ultra aquam de Righi circa villam quae dicitur Rathalwey, et ilia carucata terrae quam prior Hospitalis Sancti Johannis nunc petit versus priorem de Kenlis est una carucata terrae, et jacet infra metas dictarum trium carucatarum terrae, inter villam de Kenlis et de Kilry, quam carucatam terrae prae¬ dictus Galfridus filius Roberti fundator diet* domus de Kenlis, simul cum multis aliis bonis, prout in charta fun- dationis diet* domus continetur, dedit; quam chartam et c*tera omnia fidelium dona, qu* possident, Walterus Mare- scallus comes Pembrochi* per chartam suam confirmavit; et est nomen illius carucat* terr*, quam prior Hospitalis nunc implacitat, villa de Balluscallan, cum terris et nativis, prout continetur in charta fundationis. Et sunt a prima confectione diet* chart* fundationis sexies viginti et decern anni. Post multum verb temporis dominus Thomas filius An. 1183. Bodmin.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30455832_0007_0694.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)