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 I DO NOT APPLAUD Mr. MiLNE’s DESCRIPTION OF THE 
 Parish of Melrose, as very intelligent or very correct, 
 YET I wish that EVERY MINISTER WOULD DO AS MUCH FOR THE 
 
 History of his own Parish. — gTorb laiUs’ ginnals, vol. i, p. 
 373. 
 
 “ Mr. Grene, the apothecary, has found a book, 
 which tells who paid levies in our parish, and how 
 
 MUCH THEY PAID ABOVE A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. Do YOU NOT 
 THINK WE STUDY THIS BOOK HARD ? NOTHING IS LIKE GOING 
 TO THE BOTTOM OF THINGS. MaNY FAMILIES THAT PAID THE 
 PARISH RATES ARE NOW EXTINCT LIKE THE RACE OF HERCULES, 
 PULVIS ET UMBRA SUMUS. WhAT IS NEAREST TOUCHES US 
 
 MOST.- The passions rise higher at domestic than at 
 
 IMPERIAL TRAGEDIES — I AM NOT WHOLLY UNAFFECTED BY THE 
 REVOLUTIONS OF SaDLER-STREET, NOR CAN I FORBEAR TO MOURN 
 A LITTLE WHEN OLD NAMES VANISH AWAY AND NEW COME INTO 
 THEIR PLACE. — to glrs. vol. i., p. 28. 
 
 
 lO 1 ‘JS 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Notices 
 
 OF Castle, .... 
 
 9 
 
 ?> 
 
 St. Patrick’s Church, . 
 
 . 135 
 
 
 Newtown Clonbun, 
 
 . 173 
 
 >5 
 
 Trubly, . . . . 
 
 . 174 
 
 
 ScURLOGSTOWN, 
 
 . 175 
 
 
 Tullaghanogue, 
 
 . 176 
 
 >f 
 
 Kilcooly, 
 
 . 177 
 
 i 9 
 
 St. Mary’s Abbey, 
 
 . 181 
 
 99 
 
 Dominican Friary, 
 
 . 197 
 
 9 9 
 
 Grey Friary, 
 
 . 203 
 
 9 9 
 
 Chantry, . . * . 
 
 . .207 
 
 9 9 
 
 St. Peter and St. Paul’s, 
 
 Newtown, 207 
 
 99 
 
 St. John’s, Newtown, . 
 
 . 220 
 
 Appendix. 
 
CONTENTS OF THE APPENDIX. 
 
 No. I. — Hugh de Lacy’s Barons. 
 
 IT. — Hugh de Lacy’s Charter to Gilbert de Nugent. 
 
 III. — Building of Trim Castle, (from Began’s Conquest of 
 
 Ireland). 
 
 IV. — Extract from Kdng John’s Itinerary. 
 
 V. — Henry II.’s grant of Meath to Hugh de Lacy. 
 
 VI. — List of Meath Gentry in 1511. 
 
 VII. — Note of General Hostings in the English Pale. 
 
 VIII. — Grand Juries of County of Meath. 
 
 IX. — List of Members of Parliament for Meath. 
 
 X. — Members of Parliament for Trim. 
 
 XI. — Keturns of Compensation for Bepresentative Fran- 
 chise. 
 
 XII. — Portrieves of Trim. 
 
 XIII. — Commissioners for the County of Meath Polltax. 
 
 XIV. — Memorial of Bev. B. Draper, respecting University 
 
 in Trim. 
 
 XV. — ^Names of Streets and Places in Trim. 
 
 XVI. — List of James II.’s Burgesses. 
 
 XVII.— Extracts. Close Bolls. 
 
 XVHI- — Inscription on Wellesley Monument. 
 
 XIX. — Extracts from Mrs. Delany’s Letters. 
 
TEIM CASTLE. 
 
 '■«» 
 
 The Castle of Trim,"^ lying on the east side of the 
 town of Trim, and on the south or right bank of the river 
 Boyne, consists of a triangular walled enclosure, defended 
 by circular flanking towers, and of a large and lofty 
 donjon or keep in the centre. 
 
 One of the sides of the castle was formerly washed by 
 the river Boyne ; and when the river is very full, the low 
 meadow, about 50 yards broad, which is now between 
 the castle and the river, is still inundated. 
 
 This (the north-eastern) side of the castle is 171 
 yards long, and was defended by four flanking towers, 
 viz : — two at the angles, and two intermediate. 
 
 The west side (that which faces the town) is 116 yards 
 long, quite straight, and defended by flanking towers 
 at the angles, and the tower over the gate-way in the 
 centre. In this tower the groove for the portcullis is 
 very perfect ; and it seems from the projecting masonry, 
 that there had been a drawbridge and barbican to the 
 gate. The upper part of the tower is octagonal, though 
 the base is rectangular, which gives it a peculiar appear- 
 ance. 
 
 * For the following description of the present state of the 
 castle, we are indebted to Captain H. James, Royal Engineers, 
 
 B 
 
10 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 There was a wet ditch in front of this, as well as of 
 the south side, which was supplied with water by the 
 small stream which runs along the town-wall by the 
 Dublin gate. 
 
 In the north angle of the castle yard there are the 
 ruins of several buildings, one of which has a high gable, 
 and was three stories high. Four very large windows in 
 the wall towards the river, with niches in the piers 
 between them for an arched roof, mark the site of a chapel 
 or banquetting hall. There is also a large vault extending 
 partly under this room. Three large windows have been 
 rudely filled up at some period, and loops for musketry 
 have been made in them. 
 
 In the south-west angle of the castle, where the town- 
 wall joined it, a mound of earth has been thrown up to 
 the height of the castle wall, filling the first and second 
 towers from the town gate. This was probably done 
 for a battery for cannon to flank the town wall, and to 
 defend the approach to the Dublin gate. The wall against 
 which the mound of earth was thrown up, has fallen down, 
 but the towers remain, one of which has been lately 
 cleared. It is divided into three stories ; the upper one 
 of which was a pigeon-house, having holes in the wail 
 for sixty or eighty pair. The lower story led to the pos- 
 tern, at what was probably the level of the water in the 
 ditch. 
 
 The third side, which is towards the country facing the 
 south, sweeps round in an easy curve, to the Boyne ; it is 
 192 yards long, defended by six flanking towers, in- 
 cluding those at the angles and the gate. The tower of 
 
TEIM CASTLE. 
 
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 this gate is circular and in good preservation, as well as 
 the arches over the ditch, and the barbican beyond it. 
 
 This gate had also its portcullis, the groove for which, 
 and the recess for its windlass, are perfect. 
 
 The circumference of the castle wall, then, is 486 yards, 
 defended by ten flanking towers, at nearly equal distances, 
 including those at the gates. 
 
 The donjon is a rectangular building, the plan of 
 which may be thus described : — On the middle of each 
 side of sixty-four feet rectangles are constructed, the sides 
 perpendicular to the square being twenty feet, and those 
 being parallel to it twenty-four feet ; thus a figure of 
 twenty sides is'^constructed. The thickness of the walls of 
 the large tower is twelve feet, and of the smaller towers 
 from four feet six inches to six feet. 
 
 The walls were carried up sixty feet above the level 
 of the ground ; and on each angle of the large tower 
 square turrets, sixteen feet six inches in height, are built. 
 By this arrangement a large shower of missiles might 
 have been projected in any direction. 
 
TEIM CASTLE. 
 
 There is not satisfactory* * * § evidence of the existence of a 
 Castle in Trim before the coming of the English into 
 Ireland — previous to which time Trim does not seem to 
 have been a place of much civil importance. As one of 
 the oldest, if not the very oldest,! of the Irish Episcopal 
 sees, it had -an abbey, or conventual church ; and it 
 is probable, from the custom of the country, (as men- 
 tioned by Giraldus Cambrensis,J) that this church was 
 used by the surrounding inhabitants in time of danger, 
 not only as a place of refuge, but as a storehouse for 
 their goods and provisions. Neither its strength nor 
 its sanctity was able to protect them at all times. 
 
 In 1128, Conor O’Lochlin, with the men of Ulster, 
 having marched into the lands of the Bregias,§ where 
 they committed many sins against God and the people ; 
 that is, they burned Ath Truim, with its churches, and 
 many persons suffered martyrdom therein. Having gained 
 the peace neither of God nor of man they returned home. 
 — Annals of Ulster, O^Conor'^s Edition, 
 
 * See Notices for 1425. 
 
 + Usserii Primordia, p. 854. 
 
 J Hib. Expug. ii. 17. Top. Hib. ii. 45 ; iii. 37. 
 
 § The plains of Meath. The name is preserved in the Hill 
 of Bregh — the Braymount of the Ordnance Survey. 
 
TEIM CASTLE. 
 
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 1155 — Trim, with its church, was burned; and 
 Dermagh* [Durrow] was burned twice in the one month. 
 ^Annals of the Four Masters, 
 
 1172 — Hugh de Lacy obtained at Wexford, from 
 Henry II., for the service of fifty knights, a grantf of 
 Meath, in as full and ample a manner as it was possessed 
 by Murcard Humelachlin.J This territory, extending 
 
 * There seems to have been some old ecclesiastical con- 
 nexion between Trim and Durrow. A monastical seal, of the 
 14th century, was lately found near Mullingar, bearing on the 
 obverse the inscription — “ Sigill. M. Abbatis S. Marie de 
 Truim and on the reverse — “ Si. M. Ab. S. Marie de Dur- 
 mag it is figured in the Dublin Penny Journal. 
 
 + See Appendix. 
 
 ^ Murchard O’Maoleachlann was the last prince who had 
 any permanent possession of the undivided principality of 
 Meath in the years of domestic strife and tumult, of changes 
 of dynasties and of boundaries, which preceded the English 
 conquest. 
 
 The O’Melachlins long preserved some remnant of their 
 power in Meath, as appears from the following entries : — 
 
 1290 — O’Melaghlin, King of Meath, was this yearslain.— ' 
 Pembridge. 
 
 - 1314 — Edward II. summons Omalan Heyln, chief of the 
 Irish of Meath, with others, to assist the Earl of Ulster against 
 the Scots. — Rym. Feed. 
 
 1335 — Edward HI. summons O’Molaghelyn, of Meath, with 
 many other Irish Chiefs, to assist the king in the invasion of 
 Scotland. — Rym. Feed. 
 
 In John Norden’s map of Ireland, (State Papers, vol. ii., part 
 3.,) the country on the Westmeath side of Athlone is called 
 O’Melaghlin’^ country. Sir H. Wallop writes to the Earl of 
 Leicester: — “The 20th hereof, [January, 1580,] Mr. Thomas 
 Le Strange, in a town of M‘Gaul’s, seven miles from his own 
 
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 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 from the Shannon to the sea, appears to have had nearly 
 the same bounds as the present diocese of Meath, and to 
 have comprehended the counties of Meath and West- 
 meath, with part of the King’s County, and of Longford. 
 Having given large districts to several of his friends and 
 followers, (some of whose descendants are still in posses- 
 sion of portion of the original grants.) De Lacy reserved 
 the greater portion of this vast principality to himself, and 
 seems to have fixed upon Trim, which became the head 
 of the lordship,"^ as his residence. — Here, 
 
 In 1173 — He had already built a strong castle, en- 
 vironed with a deep and large ditch, and having fur- 
 nished it with all necessary supplies, he departed for 
 England, leaving it in the custody of Hugh Tyrrell. 
 
 house towards Athlone, in the night, killed in the church of 
 the said town, 19 of the O’Meloughleyns, and took the 20th, 
 all notorious thieves, and of the consorts of the Occoners ; in 
 which place they were taking meat, as they term it.” — Wright's 
 Elizdbeth/ii. 127. — The “taking meat” here mentioned is the 
 right claimed by the Irish lords of living upon the ecclesiastics 
 within their bounds for certain times every year, a vile custom, 
 reprobated by the council of Cashel in 1172, but continued in 
 the Irish territories. 
 
 In the 17th century three Melaghlins issued tokens in the 
 town of Mullingar. 
 
 The name of the kings of Meath is written indifferently in 
 the Irish annalists, Maelsechlan, and Maeleachlan, and MaeL 
 sechnal, and signifies the servant of Sechnal, the Meath saint, 
 the patron of Dun, or rather, Domnach, Dominica, Shaughlin or 
 Sechnal— an origin of Maelsechlan which can scarcely be seen 
 in its Latinized form of Malachias. 
 
 * See Appendix. 
 
TEIM CASTLE. 
 
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 To destroy this castle, Roderick O’Connor, king^ of 
 Connaught, assembled a large army ; and Tyrrell having 
 despatched messengers to Earl Strongbow, beseeching 
 him to come to his aid, and finding himself too y^ak to 
 resist the multitudes brought against him, abandoned the 
 castle and burned it. The Irish king, having thus 
 obtained his object, returned to his own country : and 
 Earl Strongbow, who was advancing to the relief of Trim, 
 meeting on his way with intelligence that the castle was 
 burned, marched on, and when he came there he found 
 neither castle nor house to lodge in ; wherefore he made 
 no stay, but pursued the enemy and fell upon their rear, 
 of whom 150 were slain ; which done, he returned to 
 Dublin, and Hugh Tyrrell to the ruined Castle of Trim, 
 to re-edify the same, before Hugh de Lacy’s return out 
 of England.- — Began— Carevfs TransL 
 
 Giraldus Cambrensis says, that on hearing of this 
 inroad of Roderick into Meath, Raymond le Gros, — 
 although the news reached him at Wexford the day of 
 his marriage with Basilia, sister of Earl Strongbow, — 
 marched the next day to oppose him — not being over- 
 come either by love or by wine ; that Roderick, who had 
 had previous experience of his valour, retreated at his 
 approach ; and that Raymond repaired the castles of 
 Meath f — that is to say, of Trym and of Duleek — which 
 
 * See Appendix. 
 
 t Giraldus says, that ‘ ‘ De Lacy built in Meath the castles 
 of Cluanart [Clonard] Kilain, [Killare in Westmeath, or Kil- 
 leen in Meath,] the Castle of Adam Ricepor, (Phepoe?) the 
 Castle of Gilbert Nugent, and many others.” — Hih. Expug, 
 ii. 22. 
 
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 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 had been wasted by Hugh Tyrrell.” — -Bib. Expug, 
 ii. 4. 
 
 1177~Henry II. re-granted Meath to Hugh de Lacy, 
 to be held of him, and of his son, John, for the service of 
 100 knights. — Hovedon, 
 
 1186^ — Hugh de Lacy f was treacherously murdered 
 by a labouring man, who almost cut his head off with an 
 axe, as he stooped to direct him in his work, at a castle 
 he was building at Durrow, in the King’s County. His 
 body was long detained by the Irish, but was, at last, 
 in the year 1195, recovered and buried with great 
 solemnity in the abbey of Bective, by Matthew O’Heney, 
 Archbishop of Cashel, the Pope’s legate, and John Cumin, 
 Archbishop of Dublin ; but his head was carried to 
 Dublin, and buried in the abbey of St. Thomas the 
 Martyr, in the tomb of Rosa de Munemnene,^ his first 
 
 * Mat. Paris says 1185. 
 
 f Hugh de Lacy is thus graphically described by Giraldus, 
 who must have known him well : — “He was of a dark com- 
 plexion, with black and deep-seated eyes, a flat nose, and his 
 right cheek, down to his chin, sadly scarred by an accidental 
 burn. He had a short neck, and a muscular and hairy chest. 
 He was low, and badly made. His character was firm and 
 resolute ; and he was as sober as a Frenchman. He was 
 always most attentive to his own business ; and most watch, 
 ful, not only over his own department, but, also, over every- 
 thing that was to be done in common. Although skilled in 
 military affairs, his frequent losses in expeditions shew that 
 he was not lucky as a general. After his wife’s death he 
 indulged in habits of general profligacy. He was desirous of 
 money, and avaricious, and, beyond all moderation, ambitious 
 of personal honour and distinction.” 
 
 X So called by Archdall ( Mon, Hih. — 8t, Thomas, Dublin^) 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
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 wife.^ A great controversy rose between the two 
 abbies respecting the rest of his body, which was at 
 last decided in the year 1205, when it was adjudged to 
 the abbey of St. Thomas by Simon Rochfort, Bishop of 
 Meath, the Archdeacon of Meath, and the Prior of 
 Duleek, who had been appointed judges in the case by 
 Pope Innocent III. — Harris'^ Wavers Bishops. 
 
 At the death of Hugh de Lacy, it is written in the 
 Irish Chronicles (says Baron Finglas in the Breviate) : — 
 “ Quod ibi cessavit conquestus.” 
 
 Hugh de Lacy left two sons : Walter, who succeeded 
 as Lord of Meath; and Hugh, who, in 1204, became 
 Earl of Ulster on the forfeiture of De Courcy. 
 
 1194 — Walter de Lacy took the lordship of Meath, 
 and apprehended Peter Pippard, Justiciar, with his com- 
 rades. — Marleburgh. 
 
 Ware,f or his translator, (who is not to be depended 
 on,) states, that this Peter Pippard was son of Jocelin de 
 Nangle. 
 
 1196 — ^M^are says, that about this time, Gilbert de 
 Nangle, a powerful man in Meath, making a party, much 
 
 Her name was iwobably Rosa de Monemuc or MonmoutE 
 [See Thierry's Hist, of Norman Conquest. 1 
 
 * Hugh de Lacy’s second wife was daughter of the king of 
 Connaught ; and he was suspected of aiming at the crown and 
 sceptre of Ireland. 
 
 t The annals published in Sir J. Ware’s works were col- 
 lected and composed by that learned knight to the year 1202 ; 
 from which time, to the deafh of Richard III., they are 
 continued out of the printed chronicles of Hanmer and 
 Marleburgh. — Archbishop Nicholson — Irish Hist. Library. 
 
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 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 disturbed the neighbouring parts ; but Hammo de Valo- 
 niisj Justiciar of Ireland, so terrified him, that he fled out 
 of Ireland, after which his castles were taken, and his 
 lands confiscated.” 
 
 1206 — King John wrote a letter, dated Lancaster, 
 23rd February, to the barons of Meath and Leinster, 
 whom he names in the following order : — Gilbert de 
 Lascy, Hugh de Lascy, Robert de Lascy, William Petit, 
 Richard de Tuit, Adam de Hereford, Philip de Prender- 
 gast, William, baron of Kaas, John de Clahul, Maurice 
 de London, Thomas de Hereford, and the other barons 
 of Leinster and Meath,"^ declaring to them that, in due 
 time and place, he would maintain his right in a quarrel 
 with their lord. And he writes from Rockingham, Feb. 
 21st, 1207,f — to thank his beloved and faithful barons of 
 Meath for their fidelity to him during a quarrel between 
 their lord, Walter de Lascy, and the King’s Justiciary, 
 respecting the city of Limerick, which the king had 
 delivered to the keeping of William de Braosa J during 
 
 * 1205. — May 2 (6 John) Rex concessit Hiigoni de Lascy 
 pro servitio suo terram de Ulton tenendam sicut John de 
 Curcy earn tenuit die quo idem Hugo eum in campo devicit, 
 salvis Regi brociis (crociis) in terra ilia. — T. A. 
 
 1206. — May 28, (8 John) Literae Regis comminatoriae miss® 
 Gualtero de Lascy ac aliis nobilibus Hiberni®. — T. L. 
 
 t 1297. — Feb. 21, (8 John) De Discordia inter Walterum de 
 Lascy Dnm. de Midia et Justicarium Regis pro civitate 
 Limerick. — T, L. 
 
 t John had granted to W. de Braosa the honor of Limerick, 
 except the city, and the service of W. de Burgo, in the second 
 year of his reign. 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
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 pleasure ; and for having, to the utmost of their power, 
 restrained their lord from mischief. 
 
 1210 — King John came into Ireland, when Walter de 
 Lacy, Lord of Meath, and Hugh de Lacy, Earl of Ulster 
 and Lord Justice of Ireland, fearing his presence, fled 
 into France. Their exaction, oppression, and tyranny, 
 was intolerable; likewise, they doubted how to answ^er 
 the death of Sir John de Courcy, Lord of Rathenny and 
 Kilbarrock, within five miles of Dublin, whom they had 
 murdered of especial malice and deadly hatred : — first, — 
 for that he was of the house of Sir John de Courcy,* 
 Earl of Ulster, whom the Lacies always maligned : 
 secondly — for that he made grievous complaints of them 
 in England to King John, the trial whereof they could 
 not abide. — Ware^s Annals, 
 
 In his way from Waterford to the North, King John 
 
 * He was his natural son. G-iraldiis (Hih, Expug, ii. 17) 
 observes, that these four chiefs of the conquest of Ireland — 
 Fitzstephen, Hervey de Monte Marisco, Raymond le Gros, and 
 John de Courcy, had died without legitimate issue ; and that 
 when he wrote Meyler Fitzhenry was also childless. He thus 
 describes John de Courcy : — “He was a fair and tall man, of 
 muscular and bony limbs ; large bodied, and of immense 
 strength, of singular courage, and a warrior from his youth. 
 Ever the first in the field, and taking to himself the chief 
 post of danger : so ardent and impetuous, that he forgot the 
 duties of a captain in those of a soldier ; and, by rushing for- 
 ward, lost the victory. But although thus impetuous in arms, 
 when unarmed he was modest and sober— paying due rever- 
 ence to the church, and giving God the glory for all his suc- 
 cess. Unhappily, by his too great parsimony, and by his 
 inconstancy, he blackened the purity of his character. ” 
 
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 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 came to Trim, and spent there the second and third days 
 of July.^ There was then no castle in Trim fit for the , 
 reception of the king — at least he did not lodge in the 
 castle : his writs are dated from the Pratum suhtust 
 Trim. Mat. Paris says that the king took many castles 
 from his enemies, who fled before his face, amongst whom 
 were Hugh and Walter de Lacy ; and that at last, 
 advancing into a province called Meath, (qum Mide nun- 
 cupatur,) he besieged and took a castle, in which were 
 the wife of William Braosa and his family, whom he 
 was said to have afterwards starved to death at Windsor. 
 
 In this, as in most of his notices of Irish affairs, 
 Matthew Paris is not correct. In the justification of his 
 conduct towards De Braosa, which King John published, 
 (which is given at length in Rymer^ and which is worthy 
 of observation for many reasons,) he says, — that when 
 he had taken the Castle of Carrickfergus he was informed 
 by his friend and cousin of Galloway, Duncan of Carrick, 
 that he had taken prisoners, Matildis de Hay, wife of 
 William de Braosa, J and her daughter, who was married 
 
 * See King John’s Irish Itinerary, in Appendix.^ 
 
 f Still called the King’s Meadow. 
 
 X For the character of this William de Braosa, who never 
 met any one without addressing them with the words, ‘ In 
 God’s name ;’ — who never looked at a church or a cross with- 
 out breaking off his conversation and saying a prayer ; — and 
 who paid his secretaries an additional guinea a-year (aureum 
 annuatim denarium) for ending all his letters with prayers for 
 God’s blessing; — but who made no scruple about detaining 
 chm’ch lands and church tithes, — for which, in the opinion of 
 Giraldus, he was judicially punished; — see Itiner. Camh.i, 
 The aui'eus denarius here mentioned was probably a bezant. 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
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 to Roger Mortimer ; but that Hugh de Lacy, who was 
 in her company, had escaped : that Matildis covenanted 
 to pay him 50,000 marks, and that her husband agreed 
 to this covenant ; but, that when the king sent to her for 
 the payment of the first instalment, she declared that 
 she would pay nothing, and that she had no money, 
 except 24 marks of silver, 24 bezants, and 15 ounces of 
 gold. 
 
 Of the Lacies it is further remembered in the Book of 
 Howth,"^ and other antiquities, — how that in France they 
 obscured themselves in the abbey of St. Taurin, and gave 
 themselves up to manual labour, as digging, delving, 
 gardening, planting, and greffing, for daily wages, for 
 the space of two or three years. The abbot was well 
 pleased with their service ; and upon a day, whether it 
 were by some inkling, or secret intelligence given him, 
 or otherwise, demanded of them of what birth and 
 parentage they were, and what country they came from. 
 When they had acquainted him with the whole, he 
 bemoaned their case and undertook to become a suitor 
 unto the king for them. In a word, he obtained the 
 
 The date of the first gold coinage in England on record is 
 1257. 
 
 * The Book of Howth is also the authority given for the 
 romantic and impossible adventures of De Courcy ; but we 
 must remember, that, however favourable to De Courcy, the 
 natural partialities of the Monk of Howth would not dispose 
 him to invent a story in favour of the De Lacies, the successful 
 rivals of the De Courcies, who were the kinsmen of his patron’s 
 family : nor does the story of De Lacy labour under the diffi.- 
 culties which Leland has pointed out in that of De Courcy. 
 
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 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 king’s favour for them thus far, — that they were put 
 to their fine, and restored to their former possessions ; so 
 that Walter de Lacy paid for the lordship of Meath 
 2,500 marks, and Hugh, his brother, for Ulster and 
 Connaught, a large sum. 
 
 Hugh De Lacy, in remembrance of this kindness 
 which the abbot showed him, took his nephew, 
 his brother’s son, with him into Ireland, one Alured,* 
 whom he knighted, and made him lord of the Dengle. 
 
 * Pembridge in Camden, says Walter de Lacy, brought with 
 them John, the son of Alured, Le. FitzAcory (perhaps Fitz- 
 Avery), son to the abbot’s whole brother ; and that he gave 
 the monks of said abbey many farms about Foure. In 1218, 
 the abbey of St. Fechin’s of Foure was made a cell of the 
 Benedictine abbey of St. Taurin, of Evreux, in Normandy. — 
 Ware’s Antiquities. 
 
 In the 27th Henry VI. the authority of the abbot of St. 
 Taurin was abrogated by Act of Parliament ; from thence the 
 monks of Foure had power to elect their own prior. Until 
 that period, in the case of a war with France, Foure was always 
 seized into the king’s hands as an alien priory. — Rot. Can> 
 At Llangenith, in Glamorganshire, the country from whence 
 the Lacies came into Ireland, and where they had large pos- 
 sessions, there is said to have been a priory annexed to the 
 same abbey of St. Taurin. — Nichols’ Alien Priories. 
 
 Giraldus (Top. ii. 52, 3), says that the mill which St. 
 Fechin miraculously cut out of a rock with his own hands was 
 considered a holy place ; and that when Hugh de Lacy, with 
 his army, passed a night there, he made his soldiers restore all 
 the corn which they had taken from the churches and the mill, 
 except a small quantity of oats taken from the mill, which two 
 soldiers had privately put before their chargers ; that one of 
 these chargers went mad in the night ; and dashed out his 
 brains ; and that in the morning, when the master of the other 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
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 The monks also, which out of that monastery he had 
 brought with him into Ireland, he honoured greatly, and 
 gaA^e them entertainment in Foure, the which Walter de 
 Lacy had formerly builded. — Ware’s Annals, 
 
 1215 — Walter de Lacy covenanted to pay the king 
 
 4.000 marks for his land, in three instalments — one of 
 
 1.000 marks, and two of £1,000 each . — Red Book^ 
 Chief Rememb, Office, 
 
 1215 — The king sent letters to Thomas Legh, order- 
 ing him to surrender to Walter de Lacy, whenever he 
 should give the justice satisfactory security for the 
 payment of this fine, the Castle of Laghelachon; to 
 Geofirey Costantin, ordering the like surrender of Lox- 
 hendy, and of Hincheleder [Inchleffer. — Rot, Can. Lit, 
 A^itiq,'] to Ealph Petit, for the surrender of Clonard ; to 
 John FitzLeons, for the surrender of Grenard, Kilmore, 
 and ^Foure ; and to Thomas FitzAdam for the sur- 
 render of Trim,* — Rot. Let. Pat. Tur, Lond, 
 horse was jeering his companions for restoring the corn, he 
 suddenly fell dead at the side of Hugh de Lacy, in the sight, 
 and to the wonder, of the greater part of the army. 
 
 * The castles Hugh de Lacy built for the good of the land 
 were these : — Laghlen, called also Black Castle, upon the 
 barrow, between Ossory and Idrone. In Leix, for Meiler, 
 Tachmaho, alias Cachmehe. In Meath, Clanaree [Clonard], 
 Dunach Killar, alias Killairie, the Castle of Adam Jeypon, 
 alias Sureport [Adam Feypo, Baron of Skyrne], and Gilbert de 
 Nugent’s of Delvin. In Fortheret of Onolon, alias Fethered 
 Onolan, (Phoghyrde Inolon, Fethard, Co. Wexford, State of 
 Ireland, 1515, State papers, 2, p. 3,) he builded a castle for 
 Reymond, and another for Griffin his brother, the sons of 
 William FitzGerald. For Walter of Ridensford he builded 
 in O’Morchu, alias Morogh’s country, Trisseldermot, otherwise 
 
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 TRBI CASTLE. 
 
 1216. — King John died,^ October 17th. Under the 
 guidance of the Earl Marshal, whose son had taken part 
 with the De Lacies, in the protection of De Braosa, one 
 of the first acts of Henry III. was to solicit the resto- 
 ration of the loyalty of the great Irish barons ; to 
 apologize for his father’s treatment of them, and 
 especially to assure Hugh de Lacy of his restoration to 
 the royal favour, on his return to his allegiance. — Rym. 
 F(Bd» 
 
 Hugh de Lacy was not willing to believe these assur- 
 ances, thinking, says Matthew Paris, that a bad tree 
 could not produce good fruit, and that King John could 
 not have a goodf son, 
 
 1216 — Walter de Lacy was one of the great barons 
 by whose council Henry the III. granted his great charter. 
 
 called Trisdeldermot [Castle Bermot], and likewise Kilka, in 
 the county of Kildare. For John de Hereford he builded a 
 castle in Collach, otherwise called Tulach felmeth (Tullow). 
 For John Declawsa, alias Clavill, he builded a castle upon the 
 Barrow, not far from Leighlin, now supposed to be Carlow. 
 He builded, also, near there, at Aboy (Obowy, — Gir. Gamh, 
 castrum Obewy Pat. 13, 2, 4,) a castle that he gave to Bobt, 
 Bigaret ; another, not far from thence, which he gave to Thomas 
 Fleming ; another at the Narach (Naraghmore), on the Barrow, 
 for Bobert FitzBichard ; lastely, he builded the Castle of 
 Derwath (Durrow), where he made a tragical QTidi,—Hmmer, 
 322. 
 
 * On his death, a versifier of the time said : — “ Feedatur 
 
 Johanne Gehenna.” — The expression is, as Lord Hailes ob- 
 serves, horridly emphatical. 
 
 t Walter had then a son Gilbert, and was betrothed to a 
 wife . — Record Rep, 1, 160. 
 
TRIM CASTLE 
 
 25 
 
 1220 — All Meath was wonderfully wasted by reason 
 of the private quarrels and civil wars between William, 
 Earl Marshal, and Sir Hugh de Lacy, Earl of Ulster 
 and Lord of Connaught. Trim was besieged and 
 brought to a lamentable plight ; and, when the rage 
 and fury of these broils — which had occasioned so 
 much blood — was somewhat mitigated and appeased, 
 to prevent further calamities, the same year the Castle of 
 Trim was built by William Peppard, Lord of Tabor.*'^ — 
 M, S. Lambeth^ quoted in Statistical Survey, 
 
 1224 — 30th March, — The Lord Justice had orders 
 from Henry HL, to allow Walter de Lacy to occupy a hall, 
 rooms (domos,) and chambers in the Castle of Trim, as 
 long as the said Walter remained there for the annoyance 
 of his and the king’s enemies. — Let, Pat, Tur, Lond, 
 
 1224 — The Castle of Trim was besieged. — Pembridge, 
 
 1230 — Geoffry de Marisco, Lord Justice, with the aid 
 of Walter de Lacy, Lord of Meath, and Richard deBurgo, 
 defeated the Connaught men. — Hanmer^ from Matthew 
 Paris, 
 
 1241 — Died, Walter de Lacy, (the most eminent of 
 
 1214. — (16 John) ProWaltero de Lascy de Terris Ulton — T, L, 
 1215. — (17 John) Pro Waltero de Lascy, de Castris suis in 
 mh.—T. L. 
 
 Rex. Thom de Legh salt sciatis quod Walterus de Lascy finem 
 fecit nobiscum pro habend’ ter sura et castris sua in Hib. que 
 fuerunt in manu sua die qua dicta ter’ cum castris capta fuit 
 in manum nostram. 
 
 1215. —William de Lascy dat 4,000 marcas pro ter’ sua in 
 Hib.— r. L, 
 
 * 1220 — About this time died Roger Peppard and William 
 Peppard, successively Lords de Saltii Salmonis. — Hanmer, 
 
 c 
 
26 
 
 TBIM CASTLE. 
 
 the nobles of Ireland,) after the loss of his sight, and 
 other bodily afflictions. — Mat, Paris, 
 
 Ware’s Annals insert the death of Gualter de Lacy in 
 1234, and say that he left behind him two daughters 
 [grand-daughters ?] to inherit his possessions/^ 
 
 Walter de Lacy’s great Palatinatej was divided be- 
 tween his co-heiresses, Margery, wife of John Verdon, and 
 Matilda, or Maud, who married for her first husband 
 Peter de Genevre. Between these two ladies the Pala- 
 tinate of Meath was divided in purparty, — Margery fixing 
 
 * The Dublin edition of Ware’s Annals is very incorrect. 
 Perhaps the original entry was G. de Lacy, and that the person 
 intended was Gilbert, son of Walter, who died in his father’s 
 lifetime. 
 
 f These absolute Palatines did make Barons and Knights ; 
 did. exercise high justice in all points within their territories ; 
 erected courts for criminal and civil causes, and for their own 
 revenues, in the same form as the king’s courts were established 
 at Dublin ; made their own judges, seneschals, coroners, and 
 escheators, so as the king’s writ did not run in those counties, 
 (which took up more than two parts of the English colonies, ) 
 but only in the church lands lying within the same, which 
 were called the aross, wherein the king made a sheriff : and 
 so in each of these counties palatine there were two sheriffs, 
 one of the liberty, and another of the cross ; as in Meath, we 
 find a sheriff of the liberty and a sheriff of the cross ; and so 
 in Ulster, and so in Wexford, and so at this day (1612) the 
 Earl of Ormond maketh a sheriff of the liberty, and the king 
 a sheriff of the cross, of Tipperary . — Sir J. Davies' Discovery . — 
 Blachstone, i. 117. 
 
 In Meath, the writs seem to have been directed to the 
 sheriff of the cross ; and the seneschal of the liberty. — Rot. 
 Claus, xlix. Edward III. 
 
TEIM CASTLE. 
 
 27 
 
 Upon the Castle of Lokseuedy as the head of her moiety 5 
 and the Castle of Trim becoming the head of the moiety 
 assigned to Maud. — Eot, Pat, ii. Henry V, 
 
 1250 — Died, Peter de Genevre,^ a native of Provence, 
 who, although of low birth, was most dear to the king 
 (Henry III.,) who gave him in marriage the noble maiden 
 Matilda, the elegant daughter of Walter de Lacy, in Ire- 
 land, with all her honours and inheritance, by whom he 
 had a son and a daughter. — Matthew Paris, 
 
 The son and daughter here mentioned must have died, 
 without issue, in the life-time of their mother. 
 
 Maud de Lacyf married for her second husband Geoffry 
 de Geneville or de Joinville, a native of Champagne, of 
 illustrious birth, brother to the famous Jean de Joinville, 
 the companion and historian of St. Louis. — IJHistoire 
 Geneal, de la Maison de France, 
 
 This great statesman, who was the confidential friend 
 of Edward I., and who was engaged by him in almost all 
 the great transactions of the time, both at home and 
 abroad, \Rym. Fo8d,~\ founded, 1203, \_Mon, Hihr\ an 
 abbey for Dominicans in Trim ; and in 1273, after his 
 
 * Maud de Lacy’s first husband is called Peter Carew in a 
 transcript of the Chartulary of St. Thomas the Martyr, 
 Dublin. 
 
 f She was Lady of Corvesdale, of Ludlow, and of Meath. 
 
 1253 — 37 H. 3, Pro Galfrido de Grenvill (Genevill) et 
 Matilda de Lacy, uxore ejus. — T. L. 
 
 1257 — 41 H. 3, Pro Galfrido de Grenville et Matilda de 
 Lasy, uxor’ ejus de castro de Crum (Trum) et de aliis heredita- 
 tibus et libertatibus in Hib. — T. L, 
 
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 .TBIM CASTLE. 
 
 return from the Holy Land, was appointed Lord Justice 
 of Ireland ; but he does not appear to have been allowed 
 to enjoy the quiet possession of his wife’s great Irish pos- 
 sessions. 
 
 From a Patent Roll of 3rd and 4th Edward IL, his 
 moiety of Meath seems to have been taken into the hands 
 of Henry III., nor do the ample privileges enjoyed by 
 Hugh and Walter de Lacy, as Lords of Meath, appear to 
 have been restored to him during the whole of that 
 king’s reign. 
 
 1273 — The Lord Walter [Geoffry] Genevill, who had 
 lately returned from the Holy Land, was sent into Ire- 
 land, and appointed Lord Justice. In his time, (so 
 write Dowling and Grace,) the Scots and Redshanks out 
 of the high land crossed the seas, burned towns and 
 villages, most cruelly killed man, woman, and child, 
 took a great prey, and returned home before the country 
 could make any preparation to pursue them. But, in a 
 while after, to be revenged of them, Ulster and Connaught 
 mustered a great army, under the leading of Richard de 
 Burgh and Sir Eustace le Poer, Knight, made after them, 
 entered the islands and highlands of Scotland, slew as 
 many as they could find, burned ther cabins and cot- 
 tages, and such as dwelt in caves and rocks (as the 
 manner is to denn out foxes) they fired and smothered to 
 death, covering their entrances into the ground with great 
 and huge stones — and so returned into Ireland. — Hanmer, 
 
 1285. — The Lord Theobald Butler fled from Dublin, 
 and died shortly after ; and the Lord Theobald Verdon 
 lost his men and horses going towards Ophaly, and the 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 29 
 
 next morning Gerald FitzMorice was taken prisoner ; and 
 John Samforde was created Archbishop of Dublin ; and 
 the Lord Geoffry Genevill fled ; and Sir Gerard Doget 
 [Duckett?] and Ralph Petit were slain. — Marlehurgh. 
 
 1288 — The Lord Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster (in 
 right of his mother, the heiress of Hugh de Lacy the 
 younger), besieged Theobald Verdon in the Castle of 
 Athlone ; and came to Trim with a great power, by the 
 working of Walter de Lacy.* — Hanmer. 
 
 1 289 — Edward 1. issued a writ to free the men of 
 Meath from being impleaded out of the liberty of Meath. 
 — Plea Boll. Birm. Tovj. 
 
 1290 — 18 Ed. 1. Muragium pro Trim in Hib. — T. L. 
 
 1291 — See Harris’ Ware’s Bishops, 70. 
 
 1292 — Died, Sir Peter de Geneville. — Irish Annals. 
 He was son of Geoffry and Maud Lacy, and father of 
 Joan, w'ho married Roger Mortimer. 
 
 1295 — In the great Parliament of Ireland, held 24th 
 Edward I., it was agreed and enacted that Meath should 
 be a county of itself, as well including the liberty of Trim 
 as the lands of Theobald de Verdon, and all the lands of 
 the crosses within the precincts of Meath ; and that there 
 should be a sheriff, who should hold his county court at 
 
 * The Lacies who are mentioned in this and subsequent 
 notices were, probably, the descendants of Robert de Lacy, to 
 whom Hugh de Lacy had granted Rathwire ; and, as the male 
 kinsmen of the great palatine, long settled in the country, they 
 may have been willing to disturb a foreigner in the possession 
 of an inheritance to which they had some claim. 
 
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 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 Kenljs, on the Thursday next after the county court of 
 the county of Dublin was held ; and that execution should 
 be in the lordship of Trim, done by him when default is 
 found in the seneschal thereof ; and Theobald de Verdon 
 for himself and his tenant, Almaric de Alamand, granted 
 that he, and the rest concerned, should do suit and service 
 in the said county court of Meath. — Ex. Lib. Nig, Ecc. 
 Trin. Dublin. 
 
 1295. — King Edward L, in compensation of his services 
 in the Welsh war, restored to Geoffry de Geneville the 
 liberty of Trim, which had been seized for Geoffry’s 
 contempt of the king’s order respecting Nicholas Bacun, 
 detained by him in his prison of Trim. — Rot. Can. Lit. 
 Antiq. 
 
 1301. — Sir Geoffry de Geneville married the daughter 
 of Sir John de Montfort ; Sir John"^ de Mortimer married 
 the daughter and heiress of Sir Peter de Geneville ; Lord 
 Theobald de Verdon married the daughter of Lord Eoger 
 Mortimer. — Irish Annals — Camden. 
 
 1302 — Died Maud Lacy, wife of Sir Geoffry de Gene- 
 ville. — Irish Annals, 
 
 After his wife’s death, Geoffry retained possession of 
 the lordship of Meath, by the courtesy of England. — Rot. 
 Can. 2nd Edward II. 
 
 1307 — 1 Ed. L Pavagium pro villa de Trim. — T. L. 
 
 * The name of the Mortimer who married Peter Geneville^s 
 daughter was Roger ; and there are, probably, mistakes in the 
 other names. 
 
 1301—29 Ed. 1 Pro Galfrido de Gennill et Matilda uxor ejus 
 de libertatibus suis de Trim in Hib, — T, L. 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 31 
 
 1308 — Eicliard, Earl of Ulster, as it were to nose 
 Gaveston,"^ did, at Whitsuntide, keep a great feast at 
 Trim, and dubbed two of the Lacies knights ; and marched 
 on as far as Tredagh to encounter the Lord Lieutenant, 
 but, ou better advertisement, he returned. — Cox. Pern- 
 bridge. 
 
 1308 — On the eve of St. Simon and St. Jude (October 
 28th), Eoger de Mortimerf and his lady, Joan, right 
 heir of Meath, daughter of Lord Peter, son of Sir Geolfry 
 Geneville, arrived in Ireland. As soon as they landed 
 they took possession of Meath — Sir Geoffry ceding it to 
 them, and entering himself into the order of Friars’ 
 Preachers, at Trym, the morrow after St. Edmund’s, the 
 Archbishop’s day (November Ll).—Peinbridge. 
 
 * Piers Gavesfbn, then Lord Lieutenant. Campion says that 
 Gaveston bought the hearts of the soldiers of Ireland with his 
 liberality ; that he subdued O’Brien ; and edified sundry castles, 
 causeways, and bridges. 
 
 t Boger Mortimer — de Mortuomari — had great possessions in 
 England and Wales (Froissart says to the sum of vii. C. li. of 
 rent yearly), and had inherited the Leix, with the Castle of 
 Donamase, in Ireland, from the De Braosas. The life of this 
 ambitious noble belongs rather to the history of England than 
 to the annals of Trim. 
 
 J The succession of Joan to the lordship of Meath seems to 
 have been by special settlement. Her father, Peter, does not 
 appear to have been Geoffry ’s eldest son; for, in 1294, Geoffry 
 de Joinville, then lord of Vaucouleur, with the consent of Maud, 
 his wife, and of his other children — Simon, Nicholas, Peter, Wil- 
 liam, and Jane, Countess of Solmes — gave part of his estate in 
 France to Walter, his eldest son. — P. D. Pierre de St. Catherine, 
 prefixed to Johnei Joinville, 
 
 Joan Joinville had two sisters, Beatrice and Maud, who 
 
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 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 1314 — Died, October 19, in the Abbey of the Friars’ 
 Preachers in Trym, which he had founded in 1263, Sir 
 Geoff ry de Geneville .^ — Irish Annals. 
 
 1316. — 9 Ed. 11. — Muragium pro villa de Trim. T. L. 
 
 became nuns at Aconbury, in Herefordshire. — Dugdale's 
 Monast. Joan brought with her not only the moiety of the 
 Palatinate of Meath, but half the great possessions of the 
 Lacies in England and Wales, Simon Geneville had the lands 
 of Culmullen in 1302 ; and was one of the great Lords of Ire- 
 land in the reigns of Edward I. and II. .His only son, Nicholas, 
 died in 1324 ; and his daughters and co-heiresses brought his estate 
 into the families of Cusack, [now represented by Lords Fingal 
 and Dunsany,] Hussey, Fleming, Loundres, Cruise, and De la 
 Hide. . 
 
 The arms of Geneville, (which many of our Meath gentry 
 are entitled to quarter, ) were — Azure three barnacles (not the 
 birds, but the instruments so called) on a chief argent, a 
 Lion naissant gules. 
 
 * It is to be lamented that our notices of the varied life of 
 this great man are so meagre, that we cannot fill up the outline 
 of the young noble of Champagne wooing his wealthy bride in 
 the court of England, retiring with her to her great Seignories 
 in Ireland, and joining with her in founding a religious house : 
 — taking the cross for the Holy Land ; administering for a short 
 time the government of his adopted country ; busy for years in 
 the councils and campaigns of the bold and politic Edward I., 
 and closing his career by the resignation of his Lordship of 
 Meath to his youthful grand- daughter, and her ambitious hus- 
 band, and ending his days in the habit of a Dominican, in the 
 Cloister which he and his wife had built 50 years before. The 
 following verses are from Thesaurus Martene Nov. Anecdot. 
 vol. iii. The person to whom they relate had, like GeojBfry, 
 been a Crusader ; and they give a beautiful picture of such 
 a life as Geoffry de Geneville may have led in our Black 
 Abbey : — 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 33 
 
 1316* — Mortimer being deserted by the Laciesf and 
 others, who went off from him at Kenlys, (Kells in Meath,) 
 was obliged to retreat towards Dublin before Edward 
 Bruce, with a small party; and Lord Walter Cusacke to 
 the Castle of Trym.. — Penibridge, 
 
 “ Ipse post militiaB cursum temporalis, 
 
 Illustratus gratia doni spiritualis, 
 
 Esse Christi cupiens miles specialis, 
 
 In hac domo monaclius factus est claustralis. 
 
 “ Ultra modum placidus, dulcis et benignus, 
 
 Ob 80tatis senium candidus ut cygnus, 
 
 Blandus et atfabilis, ac amari dignus, 
 
 In se’Sancti Spiritus possidebat pignus. 
 
 “Nam sanctam ecclesiam ssepe frequentabat, 
 
 Missarum mysteria Isetus auscultabat, 
 
 Et quas scire poterat laudes personabat, 
 
 Ac caelestem gloriam mente ruminabat. 
 
 “Ejus conversatio dulcis et jocosa 
 Valde commendabilis et religiosa 
 Ita cunctis fratribis fuit gratiosa, 
 
 Quod nec gravis extitit nec fastidiosa.” 
 
 We may easily suppose that the old Crusader, who had been 
 employed in the wars and embassies of the time, had tales of 
 travel and of danger which would make him a very acceptable 
 companion in a monastery ; and we may imagine, as he roamed 
 about it — 
 
 “ Hie per claustrum quotiens transiens meavit, 
 
 Hinc et bine ad monachos caput inclinavit, 
 
 Et sic nutu capitis eos salutavit, 
 
 Quos affectu intimo plurimum amavit." 
 
 * Lord Hailes, from whom it is not safe to dissent, places 
 this defeat of Mortimer in 1315 . — Annals oj Scotland. 
 
 f The desertion of the Lacies from the royal cause was not 
 known on April 28, 1317 ; — on which day the king wrote to 
 thank them, with the other nobles of Ireland, for their loyalty. 
 Rymer. He wrote, also, at the same time, and to the same 
 effect, to the portrieve and baliffs of Trim. Published and 
 translated by Bev. A. Eowan, Archdeacon of Ardfert. Dub- 
 lin : 1858. 
 
34 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 1 3 1 7 — About a month after Easter, Bruce^ came with 
 an army within about four leagues, or thereabouts, of 
 Trim, under covert of a wood, and there continued for a 
 week or more to refresh his men, who were almost dead 
 with fatigue and hunger. 
 
 1317 — The Lieutenant (Mortimer) delivered the Earl 
 of Ulster out of the Castle of Dublin, where he had been 
 confined by the citizens, who doubted his loyalty ; and 
 after Whitsuntide, he banished out of Meath Sir Walter 
 and Sir Hugh de Lacy, and gave their lands unto his 
 soldiers ; f and they, together with Edward Bruce, went 
 back into Scotland. — Marlhoro\ 
 
 1317 — Mortimer went over to the king indebted to 
 the citizens of Divelin [Dublin,] for his viands, a 
 thousand pounds, whereof he paid not one smulkin ; J 
 and many a bitter curse he carried with him to the sea. — 
 Campion, 
 
 1318 — The Lord Eoger Mortimer went again into 
 England j and Alexander Bignor,§ Archbishop of Dub- 
 
 * King Robert Bruce was now with his brother Edward. 
 Coins of Robert Bruce, and of Alexander III. , are frequently 
 picked up in this neighbourhooji. 
 
 t There are various entries in the Rolls of grants to various 
 loyalists of the lands forfeited by the Lacies. They forfeited 
 Martry, Rathfeigh, Rathwier, Isaackstown, Rathcour, Balis- 
 keagh, Marshallstown, Kilkenny near Loxcuedy, and many 
 other lands. 
 
 t Archbishop Nicholson (from Moryson) says, that Queen 
 Elizabeth’s brass farthings (haKpence) were called smulkins. — 
 Hist. Lib. 169. 
 
 § Alexander Bicknor was then Archbishop of Dublin. This 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 35 
 
 lin, was made Lord Justice. And Edward Bruce, and 
 Walter and Hugh de Lacy, with a great army, landed at 
 Dundalk, upon St. Calixtus the Pope’s day, [Oct. 14] ; 
 and there the Lord John Birmingham, Bichard Tuite, 
 and Miles Yerdon, with 1,324 men encountered them,^ 
 and slew the said Edward Bruce, with 8,274 of his men: 
 
 Archbishop renewed the University of Dublin, for which a 
 Papal Bull had been obtained by his predecessor, John Leech- 
 In 1325, in Aquitaine, he publicly, and from the pulpit, de- 
 clared HughleDespenser a traitor, declaring, if it were not for his 
 order, he would prove his treason against him in single combat. — 
 Rymer. Harris says, that there is extant, in the Begistary of St. 
 Mary’s Abbey, an account of a remarkable sermon preached by 
 him in Christ Church, against sloth and idleness ; wherein he 
 bitterly complained of the mischiefs arising from the stragglers 
 and beggars that infested the city and suburbs of Dublin ; and so 
 warm was he in his discourse, that he cursed everyone who would 
 not exercise some trade or calling every day, more or less. 
 His sermon had such influence, that the then Mayor of Dublin 
 exercised his authority upon the occasion, and would not 
 suffer any idle person within his liberties, but such who spun 
 or knit as they walked the streets ; even the begging friars 
 were not excused. — Harris' Ware’s Bishop, 332. 
 
 * Edward Bruce had been crowned King of Ireland, at 
 Dundalk, in 1316. In this conflict, says Campion, “the Pri- 
 mate of Armagh, Boland Jorse, personally accompanied our 
 soldiers, blessing their enterprise, and assoiling them all 
 before they began to encounter.” All the adherents of Bruce 
 had been excommunicated by Pope John XXII.; and the lands 
 of the see of Armagh had been so wasted by the Irish and the 
 Scots, that Archbishop Jorse was never able to pay for his 
 Bulls. Malpas — who was probably a Meath man, and ancestor 
 of the family of Malpas or Mapes, of Mapesrath — that pressed 
 into the throng to meet Bruce, was found, in the search after 
 
36 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 ■ / 
 
 and the said John Birmingham did carry the head of the 
 said Edward into England, and gave it to King Edward ; 
 and the king gave unto the said John, and his heir male, the 
 earldom of Louth and the Barony of Athirdee. — Marlhoro\ 
 
 • 1318 — On Sunday, in Easter month, John Lacy was 
 removed from Dublin Castle to Trim, for his trial. His 
 sentence was, to be starved to death ad dietam,'^' — Irish 
 Annals^ Camden, Cox says, that Mortimer caused him 
 to be pressed to death, because he would not plead to the 
 indictment against him. 
 
 1323 — Eoger Mortimer proclaimed a traitor, and his ‘ 
 lands seized into the king’s hands. — Rym. Feed, 
 
 1326 — Henry Kempe, late constable of the Castle of 
 Trym, had order, February 10, for the payment of 100 
 marks, being his salary for three years and four months. — 
 Rot. Cl 20 Ed. II. 
 
 John D’Arcy,"^' constable of the Castle at Trym, 
 ordered £30, for his wages for one year and fifteen days, 
 at the rate of twelve pence a-day ; for one door-keeper 
 and one gaoler at two pence a-day each ; for two host- 
 
 the battle, dead, covering the dead body of Bruce. The men- 
 dicant friars, and the secular clergy in general, took the part of 
 Edward Bruce, and were reproved by the Pope for encouraging 
 rebellion. — Rymer. 
 
 * The term ad dktam was ironical, expressive of the sad 
 sustenance the sufferer was allowed, viz. : on the first day, 
 three morsels of the worst bread ; on the second, three 
 draughts of water out of the next puddle ; and this was to be 
 alternately his daily diet till he died. — Pennant's Wales, 162, 
 Stat. Ed. I. 
 
 * John D’Arcy was at this time Justice of Ireland. 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 37 
 
 ages for Meiler M^Gogan, detained in the same castle, at 
 one penny a-day ; and one watchman at one penny 
 a-day. — Ibid, 
 
 Adam Payn and William Seneschall, of Trym, ordered 
 £20 for the repair of the great hall, the other houses, 
 and other works of the Castle of Trym. — Ibid. 
 
 At this time, probably, were erected the two arches 
 which crossed the northern division of the keep : when 
 they fell in 1820, it appeared that they had been put up 
 after the castle Avas finished, as the plaster was fresh on 
 the place from which one of them sprung. 
 
 1329 — The Lord Thomas Butler, and divers other 
 noblemen, Avere slain by MacGohegan,"^ and other Irish- 
 men, near Mullingar. — Marlbord. 
 
 1330 — 25th April, at Woodstock, Edward III. grants 
 to Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, and his wife Joan, the 
 moiety of Meath which had been the portion of Margery 
 Verdon, and which had been forfeited by Theobald Ver- 
 donf in the reign of Edward I. ; and directs, that they 
 
 * Thomas Butler, brother of the first Earl of Ormonde, had 
 married Sinolda, heiress of William Petit, Baron of Dunboyne 
 and Mullingar. [See Appendix. ] He was the ancestor of the 
 Butlers of Dunboyne. In 1335, Milo de Verdon had a grant 
 of 10 marks, as well for his good service in defeating M‘Oghy- 
 ghan and O’Ferwyl, who had made insurrection in Meath, as 
 for the loss of his horses in that service. MacGoghegan, the 
 Fox, O’Malaghlen, Mac Coghlan, O’Brien, O’Mulloy, and 
 O’ Madden, were the ancient Irish families — sometimes princes 
 and potentates — who dwelt in Meath in the time of Campion. 
 Magoghegan lived then but a mean captain, yielding his 
 winnings to the stronger. 
 
 * Sir Henry Piers says, that there was a tradition in his time 
 
38 
 
 TRIM CASTLR. 
 
 should exercise at their castle of Trym all the rights and 
 privileges which John Verdon, and Margery his wife, 
 were wont to exercise at their castle of Lokseudy — Eot, 
 Pat, 2 Men, V. 
 
 1330. — Roger Mortimer forfeited : he was condemned 
 as a traitor, and was hanged on the common gallows at 
 Tyburn, Nov. 29. In consequence of his not having 
 been heard In his defence, Roger his grandson, obtained,dn 
 1354, an act of parliament to reverse the forfeiture. 
 
 1330. — Sir Hugh de Lacy‘S' returned into Ireland, and 
 obtained peace of the king — Marlb. 
 
 (1682), that Sir Theobald Verdon had been killed by the Irish, 
 in the time of Henry VIII. !!! at Laghera Tibbott, near Balli- 
 more, in Westmeath ; and that the place was so called after his 
 name. 
 
 1327. — 1 Ed. 3 Rex concess’ Rogero de Mortuomari et 
 Johanae nxori ejus et hered eorundem in feodo libert’ de Trim 
 in Hib. quas E. 2 versus eos nnper recuperavit. — T. L. 
 
 t This was on the death of his enemy, Mortimer. It must 
 be remembered, that in Mortimer’s moiety, and latterly in the 
 whole Palatinate, the forfeitures were not to the king, but to 
 Mortimer himself, as Lord of Meath — a sad temptation to that 
 ambitious and unprincipled man to deal hard measure to the 
 rebels. Several of his grants were confirmed by the king after 
 he had himself forfeited ; but I have observed in the Records 
 no proof of the restoration of the Lacies. Hugh Turpilton, to 
 whom, in the king’s name, he had granted Martry, was killed 
 in defending Mortimer, when he was surprised in the Castle of 
 Nottingham. 
 
 1330 — 4 Ed. III. — Ampl’ Libert concess’ Rogero de Morfcuo 
 mari in Com. Middx (Miden) et Uriel in Hib. — T, L, 
 
 1330 — 4 Ed. ^ III. — De supervidend ‘Expens’ Johannae de 
 
TEIM CISTLE. 
 
 39 
 
 1337 — Edward III. restored the liberty of Trim to 
 Joan, widow of Roger Mortimer. It was also ordered, 
 that she should not be molested, or the same liberty again 
 seized, without first transmitting the cause thereof to 
 England. — Rot, Pat. Tur, Lon, 
 
 1343 — John Moriz, Lieutenant of Ireland, had an 
 order for the payment of 100 marks for his various 
 expenses. For the support of Richard Tuyt,* arrested 
 by him, and committed to the custody of Milo Verdon in 
 the Castle of Trym, and there detained at his cost for three 
 weeks and four days, £8 6s. 8d., for having paid John 
 Clyton his wages, and for ten men at arms and archers, 
 and ten hobellars, who came from Uriel to Trim, £4 10s. 
 
 Mortuomari uxoris Rogeri de Mortuomari comitis marchise et 
 Dominarum et puerorum suorum infra castriim de Lndlowe 
 commorrant/ — T .“L. 
 
 1336 — 10 Ed. III. — Rex restituit Johnse quoe fuit uxor Rogeri 
 de Mortuomari libertates suas de Trym in Hib. — T. L. 
 
 1337 — 11 Ed. III. — R. confirmavit Valentino de Mortuo 
 mari et Henrico fratri ejus in gen tallio omnes terras et tene- 
 ment’ in Wardeton inf lib’ de Trym, quoe fuere Walter de Lacy 
 attincti temp. Ed. II. ac eis concess’ per Roger de M. nup 
 Dnm de Wigmore et de Trym per servie’ unius rose per an. — 
 T. L. 
 
 * Was this the Richard Tuyt who was engaged with Nicholas 
 Verdon (20 Edv/ard II.) in an outbreak which was after- 
 wards known as “ Verdon’s Game” [Rot Pat. 4 Hen. /F.] ? 
 
 In 1314, 18th of Edward III., Richard Tuyt was summoned 
 to attend the king to France, with twenty men-at-arms and 
 fifty hobellars. — The Earls of Desmond and Kildare smnmoned 
 to come with the same number. — Rymer. In 1347, he was 
 again summoned, as was Francis Feypowe, to come with 
 fifteen men-at-arms and twenty-five hobellars. — Rymer. 
 
40 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 and to John Drake, who came from Margalyn to Trim 
 with sixty hobellars, 60s., and to Thomas Dalton coming 
 from Loxeudy with sixty hobellars, 60s., and also, that 
 Thomas Wogan, John Husce, John de Wellesleye, and 
 Belinus de Mouncelewe, with a multitude of men-at-arms 
 remained in his company at Newcastle-M^Kynaghan, in 
 the war with the O’Brynnes at his cost £4 ; and also, 
 because in the king’s service he lost a horse* worth 40 
 marks, and another worth 20 ; and also, because he 
 retained at his cost divers hostages, as well Irish as 
 English. — Eos, CL 17 and 18 Edward III, 
 
 • Good horses were at this time very valuable in Ireland. 
 The author of th.Q French Metrical Account of Richard II.'s 
 Deposition, describing the interview with M‘Morough, says, 
 that the Irish chief “had a horse without housing or saddle, 
 which was so fine and good that it cost him, they said, 400 
 cows ; for there is little money in the country ; wherefore, the 
 usual traffic is only with cattle. In coming down it galloped 
 so hard, that in my opinion, I never in all my life saw hare, 
 deer, sheep, or any other animal, I declare to you for a certainty, 
 run with such speed as it did. In his right hand he bore a great 
 long dart, which he cast with skill.” The value of horses was 
 very high in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Campion, says : — 
 “Horses the Irish have pace, easy, in running, wonderful 
 swift ; therefore, they make of them great store, as wherein, 
 at times of need, they repose a great piece of safety. ” “I 
 have heard it verified, ” says Campion, ‘ ‘ by honourable to 
 honourable, that a nobleman offered, and was refused, for one 
 such horse, an hundred kine, a five pounds’ land, and an airy 
 of hawks yearly during seven years.” 
 
 1355 — 29 Ed. III. Bex restituit Begero de Mortuomari. 
 Com. Marchise in feod omnes terras et tenement in Hib quoc 
 feur’ Johnae avidse suae et uxoris Bogeri Cum. March’ avi sui. , 
 
 T. L, 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 41 
 
 1368 — All the castles, lands, &c., belonging to Roger 
 late Earl of March, (except the royal liberty of Meath, 
 the king’s fees, and the advowsons of churches,) were 
 delivered to his son Edmond, Earl of March, by order of 
 the king. — Rot. Cl. 42, Edward III. 
 
 1 368 — Thomas Burley, Prior of Kilmainham, the King’s 
 Chancellor; JohnFitz Reicher, Sheriff of Meath ; and Sir 
 Robert Tyrrell, Baron of Castleknock, were taken priso- 
 ners at Carbry by the Birminghams,* and others of that 
 town. James Birmingham, who was then kept in irons 
 as a traitor in the Castle of Trim, was set at liberty, in 
 exchange for the chancellor ; the rest were forced to 
 ransom themselves.f — Pemhridge. 
 
 1358 — 32 Ed. III. — Libert, concess. Rogero Com. Marchise in- 
 ter suos de Trym in Hib et al ibm. — T. L. 
 
 * The Birminghams of Carbery were often at feud with the 
 lords of Meath. In 1355, William Birmingham took prisoners, 
 Edmund Hakebut, seneschal of the liberty of Meath, John de 
 Cusak, and the barons of Serine and Delvyn. They were one 
 of the Irish families who became Hibernis ipsis Hiherniores : — 
 of the three most pitiful examples of this sort given by Spencer 
 in the time of Elizabeth, one was the Lord Birmingham ; the 
 others were, the great Mortimer and the old Lord Courcie. 
 The Birminghams assumed the Irish name of Mac Yoris ; and 
 the country about Carbry was called from them Clan lores. 
 The old French rhymer, says Earl Strongbow, gave 
 “ A Robert de Burmegam 
 Offali al west de Osfelan.” 
 
 In 1346, Edward III. granted to Walter Birmingham, then 
 Lord Justice, all the lands about Kells, in the county of Kil- 
 kenny, which had been forfeited by Eustace le Poer. A town- 
 land in that neighbourhood is called Scaat Yoris, anglice Bir- 
 mingham’s Thorn. 
 
 t Richard Cruys, and Nicholas Waffre, who were amongst 
 
 D 
 
42 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 1373. — Edward III. this year, granted a commission 
 of inquiry into the conduct of Sir William de Windsorej 
 late Lord Lieutenant. The inquiry was made at Drogheda, 
 on the Thursday before Ascension Day ; and it was found, 
 that the said lord lieutenant had imposed a cess of 6s. 8d. 
 on every carucate* of land tilled in the county of Meath ; 
 and, that the number of carucates then tilled was 500. 
 That in 1370, at Tamelyn [Timolin] he had imposed a 
 cess on every carucate of tilled land in said county of one 
 crannockf of wheat, J and one crannock of oats, which 
 were to be delivered at Naas — except the crannocks from 
 
 the prisoners taken by the Birminghams, were obliged to give 
 for their ransom, 10 marks, 1 hauberk, and 1 palet [salet ? — 
 the name of a kind of headpiece,] worth 5 marks ; they were 
 allowed 20 marks from the Treasury. — Rot. Cl. 48, Edward II L 
 
 Robert Tyrrell’s ransom amounted, in money and armour, 
 to £100 ; he was allowed £53 6s. 8d. from the Treasury. 
 — Ibid. 
 
 * The quantity of a carucate, or ploughland, is greater or 
 less according to the quality of the soil : it is commonly re- 
 puted to be such a portion of land as can give employment to 
 one plough through the year. — Harris' Ware's Antiq. 31. 
 
 + The cronnog was a basket, or hamper, for holding corn, 
 made of twigs, and lined with the skin of a beast ; of no cer- 
 tain dimensions, but was generally understood to hold the 
 produce of seven score sheaves of corn ; which must be an uncer- 
 tain measure, since seven score sheaves, growing on a good soil, 
 amounts to a considerably larger quantity than as many grow- 
 ing on indifferent land. Perhaps it generally amounted to 
 about the quantity of a Bristol barrel, brought into use in 
 Ireland since the English got footing there ; from whence often 
 occurs in history the term crannock for a barrel, corrupted 
 from the Irish word aforesaid. — Harris' Ware's Antiq* 
 
 t Giraldus [Top, Hib. i. 4.) says, that the produce of wheat 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 43 
 
 the baronies of Margalyn and Slane, which were to be 
 delivered at Slane — on receiving for each crannock of 
 wheat, 5s. dd..^ and for each crannock of oats, 40d. 
 That the crannocks of wheat were then worth 8s., and 
 the crannocks of oats, 5s. ; and, that at Naas he had 
 measures so large, that a crannock of wheat of Meath 
 measure wanted a bushel, and the crannock of oats, two 
 bushels. 
 
 in Ireland is not equal to its promise. The crop looks well 
 when green, and nobly when in ear ; but, the grain is small 
 and shrivelled, and can scarcely be winnowed clean. He says, 
 also, that the finest harvest was frequently lost by the wet and 
 wind of the autumn. 
 
 * A crannock seems to have been about half a quarter. 
 About this time there were great fluctuations in the price 
 of com in England. In 1369, “there was such a dearth,” says 
 Walsingham, “that wheat was sold by the quarter at £1 
 4s. and oats at 8s.” In 1379, wheat was so cheap that the 
 quarter was at 4s. The rate of wages was influenced by the 
 price of corn. In 1351, reapers in the first week of August 
 were to receive by the day, 2d. ; in the second week, and 
 third, and so on to the end, 3d. — without meat or drink, or 
 other courtesy demanded. For threshing a quarter of wheat, 
 a man was paid 2^d, : for threshing a quarter of oats, l^d. A 
 master-carpenter, mason, or tyler, by the day, received 3d. ; 
 other carpenters and masons, 2d. ; their servants and boys, 
 IJd. — Fleetwood^ s Chron. Free. Much light would be thrown 
 on the price of labour, and the value of property in Ireland, at 
 this time, and on other subjects connected with the state of 
 society, and with questions of political economy — by the publi- 
 cation of the various Computums for the liberty of Meath, 
 when it was in the king’s hands by reason of the minority of 
 the lord ; which, as we learn from the reports of the Hecord 
 Commissioners, are preserved in Birmingham Tower. 
 
44 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 That, at a Parliament held in Dublin in 1370, James 
 de la Hyde, Knight, and John FitzJohn, of Delvyn, were 
 elected knights of the shire by the commons of Meath : — 
 that they were bound by the commons of the said county 
 not to grant any tallage, or subsidy, on account of the 
 losses of the said county through the invasion of the 
 Irish ; and yet, by coercion, and because they saw that 
 
 Eoger Gernon and Richard , knights for the 
 
 county of Louth, were imprisoned because they refused to 
 grant a tallage for said county — they did grant a subsidy 
 of one mark from every carucate of tilled land in said 
 county of Meath. 
 
 That in the same year, Simon Cusak, knight, and 
 
 John , were elected by the commons of said county 
 
 to attend a parliament at Kilkenny ; who had, in the face 
 of the country, bound themselves to refuse to grant any 
 subsidy for said county ; and yet granted 6d. in the pound 
 on all chattels in said county, as the portion falling on the 
 county of the £3,000, granted, as is said, by said parlia- 
 ment to the king. 
 
 That, George Telyng was indicted for various felonies; 
 and being convicted, and delivered, as a clerk, to the pri- 
 son of his ordinary, the Bishop of Meath, he sued for a 
 general charter of the peace before James Pykeryn, the 
 Chief Justice of Trim ; and by the interest of said 
 Pykeryn, he obtained a charter for 100 marks, and paid 
 Pykeryn oO marks beside for his help. 
 
 That the said Lord Lieutenant summoned a parliament 
 at Baldoyle, where there were no buildings, except one 
 small chapel ; and, that he chose that place for the pur- 
 
TEIM CASTLE. 
 
 45 
 
 pose of compelling the members of said parliament, 
 through want of lodgings, and other inconveniencies, to 
 comply with his demand ; and that, consequently, the said 
 parliament granted a subsidy of 2,000 marks, of which 
 500 were levied from the county Meath ; whereupon, the 
 commons of said county sent Stephen Bray into England 
 to the king. 
 
 That, at a parliament held in Kilkenny in 1371, he 
 forced John Prout, knight for the county of Meath, to sell 
 a certificate, declaring that all said subsidies had been 
 granted voluntarily. 
 
 That James Pykeryn, Chief Justice at Trim, received 
 10 marks to his private use, from John Drake, to obtain 
 a charter to prevent him from being made a knight 
 against his will. That the said James Pykeryn received 
 10 marks from John Justice — who was tried and con- 
 victed before him of sundry felonies, and sentenced to be 
 hanged — for respiting him from Friday to Wednesday, in 
 order that, in the meantime, he might obtain a charter of 
 peace. 
 
 And, that John Northampton, Deputy Marshal of 
 Ireland, at the said session of Trim, extorted 10 marks 
 from Sir John Hussey; and twenty cows from Adam de la 
 Mare ; and many other gifts from other persons. — 
 Eymer. 
 
 1373. — The seneschal of the liberty of Meath, and the 
 sheriff of the cross, were ordered to make proclamation 
 that no money should be levied against the will of the 
 people, without the special order of the king ; and, that 
 all offending should be arrested.— - CL 46, Ed. III. 
 
46 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 1373. — The Bishops of Meath"^ and Cloyne, William 
 Tany, Prior of Kilmainham, and Sir Robert Holywode 
 (who went over as commissioners from Ireland), repre- 
 sented to the king the great mischief which the kingdom 
 had sustained, and was likely to sustain, from the absence 
 of Edmund, Earl of March and Ulster, and the neglect of 
 his demesnes of Meath, Ulster, and Connaught. The 
 king ordered the earl to go to Ireland as soon as possible ; 
 and, at the same time, he re-appointed Sir William de 
 Wyndesore, at the petition of the same persons, as custos 
 and governor of the kingdom. The king also ordered 
 that the subsidies granted at Kilkenny and Baldoyle, the 
 collection of which had been suspended, should now be 
 levied. — Rym, 
 
 1374 — Sir Thomas de Verdon being sued before the 
 justices at Trym, by Geoffrey Travers, for taking forcible 
 possession of tenements in Rathtayne ; of Bellewstown, 
 next the same ; and of Fulpotstown, near Anderneri 
 [Dunderry] ; and process of outlawry being issued against 
 him for not appearing, — he was now pardoned , — Rolls in 
 Birmingham Tower. 
 
 * This Prelate, whose name was Stephen de la Valle, had a 
 grant of £320, for endangering his life in Munster, with men- 
 at-arms, in fighting against and reducing to peace, O’Brien of 
 Thomond, and other rebels. — Rot, Cl. 46, Edward III, When 
 he was in Munster at another time, his lands and the lands of 
 his church were ravaged by O’ Conor Ophaly and others ; who, 
 thereby incurred the greater excommunication : and in 1377 
 the Bishop of Kildare was ordered by the king to excommuni- 
 cate them accordingly. 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 47 
 
 1377 — Sir Simon Cusack* was allowed 10 marks, from 
 a debt of £525, which his father owed the king, on his 
 petition, stating he had sustained great losses in the ser- 
 vice of the king in Munster ; and, that lately he had taken 
 prisoner M^Ierlagh Gedy, a notorious felon who had com- 
 mitted various robberies and burnings in Meath, Leinster, 
 and Fingal, and had committed him to prison in Trim, 
 where he had been hanged ; on which account, divers 
 felons, friends of the said MTerlagh, had made various 
 depredations on his lands. — Rot, CL Ed. ITL 
 
 1381 — Edmund de Mortimer, Earl of March and Ulster, 
 granted the office of constable of the Castle of Trim to 
 his esquire, John Reigne, for life, October 1 . — RoU Pat, 
 This Edmund was great grandson of Roger Mortimer 
 and Joan Geneville, and married Phillippa,f only child 
 of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, J by the heiress of the De 
 Burghs, Earls of Ulster, who were the representatives of 
 Hugh de Lacy, the younger ; so that their son Roger 
 Mortimer, Fourth Earl of March, was the representative 
 of both the sons of Hugh de Lacy the elder, to whom 
 Meath originally had been granted. § 
 
 * In 1380, Simon Cusak, knight, gave his manor of Dengyn 
 to his son John Cusak ; in 1493, it was in the possession of Sir 
 W. Welly sley.— jRoL Pat. 
 
 f His mother Phillippa (de Montacute), Countess of March, 
 was one of the Irish female absentees whom Edward III. 
 ordered to send sufficient aid to Ireland to Lionel, Duke of 
 Clarence, under pain of forfeiture, in 1362. — Bym, 
 t Second son of Edward III. 
 
 § Sir Henry Piers mentions a tradition, that this Earl of 
 March lived at the Castle of Fahalty. Fahalty, now Faghals* 
 town, the place is still called Mortimer’s Castle or Old Court, 
 on the banks of Lough Derevaragh, in Westmeath, 
 
48 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 1381 — At Cork, on St. Stephen’s day, died Edmund 
 Mortimer, Earl of March and Ulster, then Lord Lieutenant. 
 — Irish Annals. 
 
 1382 — January 24 — Roger Mortimer, his son and 
 heir, although a minor, was appointed Lord Lieutenant. 
 Sir Thomas Mortimer was afterwards appointed his Deputy. 
 
 In consequence of the minority of his cousin, the young 
 Lord of Meath, Richard 11. appoints John Reigne to the 
 office of Marsha] of the Castle of Trim, and liberty of 
 Meath; Leonard Hakluyt to that of Seneschall of the 
 liberty of Meath ; William Tany, Prior of Kilmainham, 
 to that of Chancellor of the liberty. He also appoints 
 William Boltham, [Bokeham ?] Treasurer ; Thomas de 
 Everdun, Clerk, Chief Baron ; and John Birmingham, 
 second Baron of the Exchequer of said liberty. — Bot. 
 Pat. 5, Rd, II. 
 
 The king had a silver seal medal, bearing on one side a 
 “ Chivalrot,” of the Royal Arms, and on the other, a 
 figure of the king, sitting on the throne, with a sceptre 
 in the right hand, with the following inscription on the 
 circumference of both sides : — Sigillo Richardi Rs. Anglie 
 et Francie dni. Hihernie et Custodis Libtatis Midie. A 
 like seal^ was made for Ulster: — both seals cost 113^. 
 4:d. t — Rot. Cl. 9 Richard II. 
 
 1384 — 8 P. 2. — Pro Priore de Trim in Hib. — 
 T. L. 
 
 f The value of a silver seal may be estimated from the cir- 
 cumstance, that an old silver seal in the Treasury, was ordered 
 by the Lord Lieutenant and Council to be broken and sold for 
 the repair of the hall, and hall windows, of the Castle of Dub- 
 in, in 1427. — Rot. Pat. 10 Henry VI. 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 49 
 
 1385 — Eoger Mortimer, Earl of March, was declared, 
 by act of parliament, presumptive heir to the crown of 
 England, in case Richard II. died without issue. 
 
 1386 — Walter de Brugge, parson of Trim, at the 
 request of the Earl of March, and John Reigne, constable 
 of the Castle of Trim, were allowed to receive the full 
 profits of their places in their absence, notwithstanding 
 the statute against absentees."^ Their licences were under 
 the signet of Robert de Vere,t Marquis of Dublin, and 
 Duke of Ireland, to whom Richard II. had granted the 
 entire dominion of Ireland, and in whose name all writs 
 ran during this year. 
 
 * By the statute against absentees, 1379, it was ordained, 
 that the absentees should either repair to their Irish lands, or 
 send sufficient deputies to provide for their defence, or that 
 they should forfeit two-thirds of their Irish revenues, to be 
 applied to public service ; with exceptions in favour of those 
 immediately engaged in the king’s service, students of the 
 Universities, and those absent by license under the great seal, 
 who were to be taxed only one- third of their revenues. 
 
 t Are any impressions of this signet known to exist ? — They 
 would be of great interest to the Irish Numismatist. We lear 
 from Sandford, that this De Vere had a grant of arms from 
 Eichard II. , on his being appointed to the lordship of Ireland 
 which he was to use as long as that lordship vested in him — 
 of three crowns within a bordure. These three crowns were 
 the arms of Ireland, and were borne as such at the funeral of 
 Henry V. [Monstrelet, who states the fact, says that they 
 were borne as the arms of King Arthur : the other shields borne 
 were those of France and England.] and appear upon our coin- 
 age in the reigns of Henry IV., Edward VI., Richard III., 
 and Henry VII. Froissart says, that Richard II. was so blinded 
 by the Duke of Ireland, that, if he had declared black was 
 white, the king would not have said to the contrary. 
 
50 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 1388 — Richard 11. appoints Richard Shaldeford park- 
 keeper"^ of the park of Trim, and sergeant of the Be- 
 tageriet of Trim : the customary wages of this officer 
 were three-halfpence per day.— Pat. 12 Richard //. 
 
 1393 — Roger, Earl of March and Ulster, had license 
 to appoint collectors of certain tolls and customs on all 
 goods coming or going to be sold in the towns of Trim, 
 Athboy, Scryne, and I^avane, or for a league around 
 them, as well within the cross as in his liberty of 
 Meath, for twenty years ; which tolls and customs J were 
 
 * Walter de Lacy’s charter to the Corporation mentions his 
 forest of Trim. Sir John Davies laments that the English 
 settlers in Ireland did not maintaiji their love of hunting : in 
 his time there was but one park in Ireland, that of Dunmore, 
 belonging to the Earl of Ormond. 
 
 f The Irish Betaghs seem to have resembled the English 
 villains they were tenants bound to the performance of cer- 
 tain field labours : they seem not to have had the power of 
 making wills [Bull of Urban IV. in Rym. Feed.} ; nor do they 
 appear to have been capable of receiving freedom by royal 
 charter. Rot. Pat. 32, Edward III. Ware supposed, erroneously, 
 that they were merely church tenants. In 1331, it was or- 
 dained by Edward III. that there should be one and the same 
 law as well to the Irish as to the English ; except the servitude 
 of the betaghs under their lords, as is the case in England re- 
 garding villains. — Rymer. 
 
 J These tolls and customs are nearly the same as those 
 granted, in 49 Edward III. , for the murage of Kilkenny, and 
 which are given at length by Ledwich in the Appendix to his 
 account of Kilkenny, published in his Irish Antiquities. The 
 chief difference is, that in the Trim grant one penny is to be 
 paid on every hawk or falcon [asturco vel falcone,] and one 
 halfpenny on every tercel or terceUet ; — in the Kilkenny grant 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 51 
 
 to be expended in surrounding the town of Trim — which 
 was was the general place of assembly of all the leige 
 subjects of the county of Meath — with a stone wall, in 
 paving it anew,* in improving the town, and in re- 
 pressing the adjacent enemies and rebels. 
 
 Henry IV. transferred this license to the Portrieve 
 and Commons of Trim. — Rot, Pat, 3 Henry IV. 
 
 1394 — The king, Richard II., made an expedition 
 into Ireland,! in which he was attended, amongst other 
 
 there is no mention of these birds; Robert Barry was the first 
 person who tamed hawks in Ireland. \Eih. Expug. i. 4.] The 
 Bishops of Meath received hawks as part of the rent for some 
 of their manners in Westmeath in the time of James I. 
 
 * There is no mention of a bridge in this grant. 
 
 t Sir Henry Castyde (or Crystal), an honest man, and a wise, 
 who had been with Richard in this expedition, and who could 
 speak Irish, and was well acquainted with the customs of the 
 country (having lived with Brine Costeret for seven years) told 
 Froissart that Richard had with him 4,000 knights and 3,000 
 archers, well paid weekly. — “But,” he continued, “Ireland is 
 one of the evil countries in the world to make war upon, or to 
 bring under subjection; for it is closed strongly and widely 
 with high forests, and great waters, and marshes and plains, 
 [un] inhabitable. It is hard to enter to do them of the country 
 any damage ; for ye shall find no town, or person to speak 
 withal : for the men draw to the woods, and dwell in caves 
 and small cottages under trees and among bushes and hedges, 
 like wild savage beasts ; and when they know that any man 
 maketh war against them, and is entered into their countries, 
 when they draw together to the straits and passages, and de- 
 fend them, so that no man can enter into them : and when 
 they see their time, they will take their advantage on their 
 enemies ; for they know the country, and are light people : for 
 
52 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 nobles, by the Earl of March, who had in his retinue 
 one hundred men-at-arms — of whom two were bannerets, 
 and eight knights — two hundred archers on horseback, 
 and four hundred archers on foot. Four of the 
 principal kings, and most puissant after the man- 
 ner of the country — Anele, King of Mecte [O’Neil of 
 Meath ?] Brien of Thomond, King of Thomond ; Arthur 
 Macquemer [M^Murrough,] King of Leinster ; Conhue, 
 King of Cheveno and Darpe [O’Conor, King of Con- 
 naught ?] — came to the obeysance of the King of Eng- 
 land, by love and fairness, and not by battle and con- 
 straint — and were knighted by the king. Eichard held a 
 parliament in Dublin, and then returned to England the 
 following May, leaving to the Earl of March the manage- 
 ment of the Irish war. — Walsingham Froissart, 
 
 1397 — Roger, Earl of March, Lord Lieutenant of Ire- 
 land, with the aid of the Earl of Ormond, wasted O’Brien’s 
 country ; and, at the winning of this chief’s house, he 
 made seven knights, to wit — Sir Christopher Preston, 
 Sir John Bedlow, Sir Edmund Loundres, Sir John Loun- 
 dres. Sir William Nugent, W alter de la Hide, and Robert 
 Cadell. — Marlb, 
 
 1398 — Roger, Earl of March, the King’s Lieutenant 
 was slain by the O’Bryns, at Kenlis, in Leinster, on St, 
 
 man-of-arms being never so well horsed, and run as fast as he 
 can, the Irishman will run as fast as he, and overtake him, yea, 
 and leap up upon his horse behind him, and draw him from his 
 horse ; for they are strong men in the arms, and have sharp 
 weapons, with large blades with two edges, after the manner 
 of dart-heads, wherewith they will slay their enemy. — Frois- 
 sart — Berner^ s Translation^ ii. 619. 
 
TEIM CASTLE. 
 
 53 
 
 Margaret’s day, [Kellistown, in Onowlans county. — 
 Dowling .'] — His impetuosity hurried him foremost upon 
 the enemy : and, as he had advanced beyond the suc- 
 cour of his own soldiers, and was distinguished in the 
 habit and accoutrements of an Irish horseman, h^ was 
 slain and torn in pieces by the natives.* — Vita R. II. 
 
 1399 — Richard II., attended by Humphrey, son of 
 the late Duke of Gloucester, and by Henry, son of the 
 Duke of Lancaster — whom he brought with him as 
 hostages — sailed from Milford Haven, and in less than 
 two days (on June 1) came in sight of the tower of 
 Waterford, “ where,” says the French author of the 
 Deposition of Richard //., the wretched and filthy 
 people — some in rags, others girt with a rope — had the 
 one a hole, the other a hut for their dwelling.” The 
 object of Richard coming into Ireland, was to revenge 
 the death of his cousin, the Earl of March. 
 
 Early on a summer’s morning, the very vigil of St. 
 John, the king marched directly towards MacMore,t who 
 
 * An historian attached to his family [Priory of Wygemor in 
 Dugdale’s Monasticon\ gives the following character of this 
 nobleman : — 
 
 “ He was distinguished for the qualities held in estimation 
 at the time ; a stout tourneyer, a famous speaker, a costly 
 feaster, a bounteous giver ; in conversation, affable and jocose ; 
 in beauty and form, surpassing his fellows : but, warlike and 
 renowned as he was, and fortunate in his undertakings, and 
 fair, he was yet most dissolute, and remiss in matters of 
 rehgion.” 
 
 t MacMorrough’s country seems to have been in the neigh- 
 bourhood of Carlow, between Carlow and Kilkenny. In 1367, 
 
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 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 would not submit nor obey him in any way ; but affirmed 
 that he Avas the rightful king of Ireland, and that he 
 would never cease from war, and the defence of his 
 country, till his death ; and said, that the wish to deprive 
 him of it by conquest was unlawful. Then the king 
 prepared to go into the depths of the deserts in search of 
 him, for his abode is in the woods, where he is accus- 
 tomed to dwell at all times, and he had with him, accord- 
 ing to report, three thousand hardy men ; wilder people 
 I never saw. Orders were then given by the king that 
 everything around should be set fire to, and many a 
 village and house were then consumed. While this was 
 going on, the king, who bears leopards in his arms, 
 caused a space to be cleared on all sides, and pennons 
 and standards to be quickly hoisted; afterwards, out of 
 true and entire affection, he sent for the son of the Duke 
 of Lancaster, a fair, young, and handsome bachelor, and 
 knighted him, saying, My fair cousin, henceforth be 
 
 Dyermyd Makmorgyth had license to bear the name of Mak- 
 morgyth, with a pension of twenty-four marks, for the good 
 service which he and his ancestors had done, and which he 
 was to do. — Rymer, This Art M‘Morrough was one of the 
 Irish kings who submitted to Richard II. in 1394, and were 
 knighted by him in Dublin. For twenty years after this expe- 
 dition he continued to annoy the government of Ireland ; his 
 final reduction took place on the 4th of May, 1419 ; on that 
 day he was made prisoner, and is spoken of no more. Marie- 
 burgh attributes this feat to J ohn Talbot, Lord Furnival ; but 
 Campion, out of James Yonge, asserts that it occurred in the 
 next year under the great tamer of the septs, James Butler, 
 Earl of Ormond . — See Bonding, 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 55 
 
 preux and valiant, for you have some valiant blood to 
 conquer .”'^ — Deposition of Richard //.f 
 
 This young and handsome bachelor was afterwards 
 the victorious King Henry V. He was not at this time 
 thirteen years old. 
 
 On learning in Dublin (where he was, June 26) the 
 arrival of the Duke of Lancaster at Ravensburg, Richard 
 sailed for England, leaving in custody in the Castle of 
 Trim — quod est in Hibernia satis forte — the young sons 
 of the Dukes of Lancaster J and Gloucester. — Walsingham. 
 
 Richard resigned the crown on Michaelmas day. 
 
 On Henry’s accession, Edmund Mortimer, uncle of the 
 young Earl of March, retired to the Castle of Wigmore 
 on the borders of Wales. In defending the Welsh 
 
 * Mr. Tyler thus translates these difficult words: “For, 
 unless you conquer, you will have little name for valour.” 
 
 f Part of this interesting contemporary memoir was trans- 
 lated by George Carew, Earl of Totness, and was published in 
 Harris’s Hihernica ; it has lately been wholly translated, and 
 illustrated with most valuable notes, by the Rev. John Webb, 
 and printed in the 20th volume of the Archmologia, 
 
 Thomas of Elmham, in his life of Henry V. , says in his 
 bombastic language— “ Cum ecciam Rex idem Ricardus contra 
 rebelles Ybernise in ipsas partes manu pugnatorum fortissima 
 tranfretaret prsefatum Henricum secum in sua comitiva, ipsum 
 prout decuit tractando, deduxit, ei plerumque signa delecci- 
 onis internse pretendens — jam primo didicit nondum pubertate 
 insignita juventus inundationes liuminum et marines temptare 
 tumultus.” 
 
 J In 1836, in planting potatoes in the castle-yard, there was 
 found a very small steel spur, beautifully inlaid with silver. 
 Was it not the spur of Henry V. ? This spur was presented to 
 the R. I. Academy in the year 1853. 
 
56 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 / 
 
 marches he was taken prisoner by Owen Glendower, 
 from whom Henry lY. refused to ransom him. 
 
 j[400. — Henry IV, committed to Thomas de Everdun* 
 the custody of the records belonging to Roger de Morti- 
 mer, late Earl of March and Ulster, and Lord of the 
 liberty of Meath, which were within the Castle of Trim, 
 or elsewhere in the said liberty, and which were in the 
 king’s hands by the minority of Edmund, Earl of March 
 — Rot. Pat. 1 Henry IV. 
 
 These records were probably in some danger. -The 
 same year Henry lY. granted a commission to Sir John 
 Stanley, the deputy, to inquire for, arrest, and seize, the 
 throne, jewels, &c., of Richard II. in Ireland. 
 
 1402. — Richard Barynton petitioned the king, stating, 
 that he had been appointed by the late Earl of March 
 Constable of the Castle of Trim for life, and that, in 
 right of his office, he was entitled to large fees on the 
 acquittal or conviction of felons ; and that such fees, in 
 consequence of the castle being in the king’s hands, had 
 entirely ceased. The king granted him £10 a-year from 
 the manor of Portlester, during the minority of Edmund, 
 son-and-heir of said earl. — Rot. Pat. 3, Henry IV. 
 
 Janico Dartass (or iyArtoise)f petitioned the king, 
 stating, that the king had granted him on the 30th May, 
 1400, the custody of the manor and lordship of Trim, 
 
 * Thomas de Everdon was a Canon of St. Patrick’s, Dublin 
 — Eot. Pat 49 Edward III. He was rector of Killalon, 
 Master of the Rolls, and acting Lord Chancellor of Ireland. 
 
 t Janico D ‘Artois was a Gascon soldier of fortune. He was 
 in Ireland in 1394, and distinguished himself in Richard’s last 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
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 which had been valued at £105 15s. 9d. when they were 
 of greater value than at present, by reason of the injury 
 
 expedition. The author of the “Deposition of Richard 11. ” 
 says, that he was the last man who wore King Richard’s badge 
 of the White Hart. By this, and the following notices, ’ he 
 appears to have been willing to be paid for his services to 
 Henry IV. : — In 1403, the king granted permission to Janico 
 Dartas, at the request of his wife Joan, to take the underwood 
 in the wood of Barfoteston, in the County of Meath, for burn- 
 ing a limekill [unum lymkyll,] to make lime for building a 
 little fort (which still exists, called Lascarton Castle, and is 
 inhabited) [forcelletti] at Lescarton, in aid of the faithful lieges. 
 — Rot. Pat. 4 Henry IV* 
 
 His wife was Joan Taaf, heiress of Liscarton, and widow of 
 Peter Rowe : her son -and-heir, Nicholas Rowe, succeeded at 
 Liscarton after Janico’s death. — Rot. Cl. 5 Henry VI. 
 
 In addition to the grants about Trim, this adventurer had 
 the custody of the manors of Ardbraccan and of Ardmulcan, 
 (which last was worth £35 per annum, ) and of the Priory of 
 Foure ; and had for life the manors of Galrathestown, Eskyr, 
 Newcastle, and Tassagard ; and was co-tenant of the manor of 
 Cromartyn, on the borders of Louth : he also had great posses- 
 sions in Ulster, chiefly the grants of abbots and abbesses. He 
 was Constable of Dublin Castle ; he was SheriflP of Meath ; he was 
 Admiral of Ireland ; — yet, with these honors and profits he ac- 
 cepted, nomine rewardi, aU the corn in a certain haggard in 
 the Parish of Kylclogher, in Louth, which had been forfeited 
 by an unfortunate Richard Richardson ; and 120 oaks and 
 good ash trees, grovdng in the lordship of Maundeville’s town, 
 forfeited by Sir Bartholomew Verdon. Some of these grants 
 were made to him on the express condition that he should not 
 engage in the service of any other king. — Rot. Pat. 4 Henry IV. 
 
 1342—16. Ed. 3. — Rex Conflrmavit Nicho. de Verdon, in 
 feodo manerium de Maundletempston (Maundevilleston) in Com. 
 Louth, in Hib. unacum servic’, Johnis de Maundevile. — T. L. 
 
 E 
 
58 
 
 TEIM CASTLE. 
 
 since done by the enemy; and that no profits had arisen 
 from the castle, which needs great repair, and no small 
 sum for its support. In compliance with this petition, the 
 king pardons all waste in said castle ; and also granted, 
 that Janico Dartas should not be charged with the repairs 
 of said castle. — Rot, Pat, 4 Hen, IV. 
 
 1403. — April 20. — Janico Dartas sued out a pardon 
 for waste and destruction in the Castle of Trim. — Ibid. 
 
 The privy council in England stated that the castle was 
 on the point of falling to the ground — il est en point de 
 
 cheier a la terre — and called the king’s attention to it 
 
 Proceed, and Ord, of Privy Coun, in Png. 
 
 1403. — On the complaint of Janico Dartas, that divers 
 tenants of the manor and lordship of Trim had refused to 
 pay their rents, the king appointed Henry Wattenhull, 
 Philip Power, and John White, to receive the rents, with 
 power to distrain. — Rot, Pat, 4 Henry IV. 
 
 1404. — April 13. — Janico Dartasse surrendered a 
 patent for a £100 per annum, for life from the customs of 
 the port of St. Botolph [Boston, in Lincolnshire] : he also 
 surrendered the custody of the manor and lordship of Trim, 
 which he had received May 30, 1400, for the minority of 
 the Earl of March ; and received in lieu thereof, a patent 
 for £100 a-year for life on the receipts of the castle, 
 manor, and lordship of Trim. — Rot. Pat, 3 Henry IV. 
 
 1406. — A parliament was held in Trim, by Sir Stephen 
 Scrope,"^ deputy. — Marlh. No record of its proceedings 
 is extant. 
 
 * Sir Stephen Scrope, when Lord Deputy under Richard II. , 
 was sore cried upon by the voices of all poor people, insomuch 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
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 1415. — Henry V. recites and confirms all former grants 
 to the ancestors of Edmund, Earl of March ; he also gives 
 the earl leave of absence from Ireland for three years, and 
 forgives him all the rents, &c., due to the king by reason 
 of his absence. — Eot, Pat, 2 Henry V. 
 
 These grants bear date March 9, 1415. Henry V. 
 ascended the throne March 20, 1413: immediately on his 
 accession the Earl of March, whose father had been 
 declared by the English parliament presumptive heir to the 
 throne in the event of Richard II. ’s dying without issue, 
 and who was naturally an object of jealous suspicion to 
 Henry lY. — expressed his confidence in the young king by 
 voluntarily surrendering himself into his hands. In 
 August of the year 1415, the earl not only refused to join 
 the conspiracy of his brother-in-law, the Earl of Cambridge 
 — one of whose nominal objects was to put him on the throne, 
 as the right heir of Edw. HI. — but revealed it to the king. 
 
 that his wife would not return with him unless he made a 
 solemn oath on the Bible, that wittingly he should wrong no 
 Christian creature in that land ; but, duly and truly, he should 
 see payment made of all expenses. He took the oath, and 
 kept it ; so that his name^ was never recited among the Irish 
 without many blessings and prayers ; and so cheerfully they 
 were ready to serve him against the enemy. — Holinslied. 
 
 Surely — says J. Alen, in his Rex)ort to the Royal Commis- 
 sioners in 1537 — howsoever it be now, I have heard that in 
 times past, the deputies were mirrors of extorsion, I speak not 
 of the good deputies, howbeit, be he English, be he Irish, that 
 is, or shall be deputy, if he setteth his pleasure upon getting of 
 money, and making an hoard for his time, he shall never be 
 good in Ireland in that room. — St, Papers^ vol. 2, Pi, 3, p, 
 494. 
 
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 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 The famous Sir John Talbot,* of Hallomshire, afterwards 
 
 * “ Is this the scourge of France ? — 
 
 Is this the Talbot so much feared abroad, 
 
 That with his name the mothers still their babes ?” 
 
 Henry VI., part i. act ii. 
 
 “Talbot’s sword,” says Camden, “was found in the river 
 Dordon, and sold by a peasant to an armourer at Bordeaux. 
 It had this inscription — Sum Talboti^ MCCCCXLHL pro vincere 
 inimicos meos." “ But pardon the Latin,” says Fuller, “ for it 
 was not his but his camping chaplain’s. It was a sword with 
 bad Latin upon it but good steel within it.” The episcopal 
 Latin of Kichard Lang, Bishop of Kildare, from 1464 to 1474, 
 was not better than that of Talbot’s ‘ ‘ camping chaplain’s. ” 
 His episcopal seal bears this inscription — Sigillum Ricardi 
 Darense Episcopi Lang, 
 
 During his different lieutenancies, Talbot resided frequently 
 in Trim ; and then, probably, built the castle now occupied 
 by the Bev. Mr. Hamilton, and which is called Talbot’s 
 Castle in the town records. In the north wall of the west 
 tower of this building there is inserted a stone bearing the 
 Talbot arms, quartered with a bend between six martlets for 
 Furnival, and supported by two Talbots passant. This house 
 was formerly the Diocesan School of Meath ; and built as it was 
 by the “great scourge of France” of the fifteenth century, it 
 was the place of the early education of the Duke of Wellington. 
 
 The De Lacies, the Mortimers, the Talbots, — all throw a 
 splendour upon the ruins of Trim ; but the great claim of this 
 neighbourhood upon the interest of future generations will be our 
 connexion with the greatest of warriors, and the best of citizens. 
 
 The signature of A. Wesley is to every act of the corpora- 
 tion from June, 1789, to September, 1793. For some portion 
 of this time he lived in the small five- windowed house, with a 
 court before it in Dublin-gate-street, which is now terminated 
 by a column erected to his honor ; but he principally resided 
 in Fosterstown, properly called Wellington on the Ordnance 
 Survey. Upon its humble door (it now forms part of Mr. 
 J. Allen’s farm offices) may be written the words of Evander ; — 
 
TIUM CASTLU. 
 
 61 
 
 Lord Furnival, and Earl of Shrewsbury, w^s now Lord 
 
 “Haac limina victor 
 Alcides subiit, hsec ilium regia cepit, 
 
 Aude, Hospes, contemnere opes et te quoq dignum, 
 
 Fiiige Deo, rebusq veni non asper egenis.” 
 
 ^ne. viii. 362. 
 
 It is not, perhaps, strange, that the perfectly simple and 
 unaffected character of the great duke — always equal to the 
 business in hand, whether it were the drilling of a company, 
 or the marshalling of the armies of Europe, or the regulating 
 the destinies of empires ; but never, except to the sympathetic 
 eye of kindred genius, superior to his immediate work, what- 
 ever it might be — should have made but little impression upon 
 those who lived with him, before opportunity had developed 
 his greatness. The only fact worth recording, which I have 
 heard, is, that when he was thought to be merely an idle 
 Castle Aide-de-camp, a casual visitor, Mr. Buxton, of Black 
 Castle, on being shown into the room at Dangan which he had 
 left, took up the book he had been reading and found that it 
 was “Locke on the Human Understanding.” When he was a 
 boy, he was for some time at a military college at Angers ; and, 
 when dll the world was ringing from side to side with his 
 renown, the late Dr. Benning, of Bathmolyon, was fond of tel- 
 ling, that when he was travelling with the late Lord Bla5mey, 
 he asked the head of that establishment if he had any English 
 boys of promise under his care, and that he replied he had one 
 Irish lad of great promise, of the name of Wesley, the son of 
 Lord Mornington. When he was at school in Trim he must 
 have been a very little boy, for one of his schoolfellows told me 
 that when Crosbie — afterwards Sir Edward, of balloon notoriety 
 — had climbed to the top of the Yellow Steeple, and had thrown 
 down his will, disposing of his game cocks and other boyish 
 valuables in case he should be killed in coming down, the future 
 Iron Duke began to cry when he found that nothing had been 
 left to him. A gentleman in Trim has a letter from Lord 
 Wellesley, in which he states that the Lord Lieutenant had 
 been for two years under promise to procure a commission for 
 his brother Arthur, and had not been able to fulfil it. 
 
62 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 Lieutenant. Through the Verdons"^ he was descended 
 from the Lacies, and connected with the great lords of 
 Meath. His brother, Richard Talbot, Archbishop of 
 Dublin, was frequently Lord Justice. 
 
 1416. — The parliament — which the last year has been 
 called and holden in Dublin — was this year removed to 
 Trim,f and there began, 11th May, where it continued for 
 the space of eleven days; in the which was granted to the 
 Lord Lieutenant a subsidy of 400 marks. — Marlh, 
 
 1418. — The Earl of Kildare, Sir Christopher Preston, 
 and John Bedlow, were arrested and committed to ward 
 within the castle of Trim, because they sought to commu- 
 nicate with the Prior of KilmainhamJ. — Marlh. 
 
 On the 9th of January was exhibited in the town of 
 
 * In 1425 the lordship of Loxeiidy belonged to Talbot, and 
 was occupied by his tenant, Henry M ‘Adam — Bot. Pat.^ Henry 
 VL In 1315 Edward Bruce kept his Christmas at Loghseudy, 
 after he had burned Kells, Granard, Pinnagh, and Newcastle. 
 
 t The Parliaments were probably held in the Refectory of the 
 Friars Minors, which stood on the site of the present Court-house. 
 
 X This notice is scarcely to be reconciled with the fact that, 
 in 1418, the Prior of Kilmainham, Thomas Butler, was in the 
 service of the king in France : he had passed over to the aid 
 of the king in 1415, at the head of 1,600 men, and was killed 
 in Normandy on the 10th of August, 1419. — ArchdalVs Mon. 
 Hib. An order from Henry V. to his Chancellor, the bishop 
 of Durham, to expedite ships from Bristol for the transport of 
 the Prior of Kilmainham and his men (200 horsemen and 300 
 foot soldiers,) from Waterford to France, is preserved among 
 the miscellaneous records in the Tower. It is dated June 3, 
 1428, at Berney ; to which a postcript was added on the next 
 day, urging the utmost expedition, as the troops were tarrying 
 only for the means of sailing. — See Bently's Excerpta Histo- 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 63 
 
 Trim, to the deputy and council, a parchment found in the 
 possession of Sir Christopher Preston, when he was taken 
 at Clane by the Deputy, Sir John Talbot, of Hallomshire. 
 This was the famous, but questionable. Modus Tenendi 
 Parliamenti. — Harris^ Ware. 
 
 1422 — Twelve men-at-arms and sixty archers allowed 
 to the Archbishop of Dublin, Richard Talbot, at a parlia- 
 ment at Trym, to oppose the OToole’s and O'Reilly’s 
 
 rica, 388. Hall says “ A band of 1,600 native Irish, armed with 
 their own weapons of war — in mail, with darts and skaynes — 
 under the Lord of Kilmaine [Kilmainham], were with Henry V. 
 at the siege of Rouen, and kept the way from the forest of 
 Lyons, and so did their devoir that none were more praised, 
 nor did more damage to their enemies. ” Monstrelet (vol. i. , 
 c. 95) is neither as complimentary nor as intelligible. ‘ ‘ The 
 King of England,” says this author, “had with him in his 
 company a vast number of Irish, of whom far the greatest 
 part went on foot ; one of their feet was covered, the other 
 was naked, without having clouts, and poorly clad ; each 
 had a target and little javelins, with large knives of a 
 strange fashion ; and those who were mounted had no sad- 
 dles, but they rode very adroitly on their little mountain 
 horses ; and they rode upon clothes, very nearly of the same 
 fashion with those which the blatiers of the French country 
 carry. They were, however, a very poor and slight defence^ 
 compared with the English ; besides they were not so accoutred 
 as to do much damage to the French when they met. These 
 Irish would often, during the siege, together with the English, 
 scour the country of Normandy, and do infinite mischief 
 beyond calculation, carrying back to their post great booty. 
 Moreover the said Irish on foot would seize little children, and 
 leap on the backs of cows with them, carrying the children 
 before chem on the cows ; and very often they were found in that 
 condition by the French.” — Quoted in Tyler’’ s Henry V. ii. 242. 
 
64 
 
 TRIM OASTLE. 
 
 [Otothelles and Oreillys]: men-at-arms at 1 2d., the 
 archers at 6d. a-day each Rot. Cl. 1 Henry VI. 
 
 1422 — December 11— Richard Talbot, Archbishop of 
 Dublin, resided in the Castle of Trim. — Rot. Cl. 1 Henry IV, 
 
 1423, — July 21, — The sherifif of county of Dublin; the 
 mayor, bailiffs, and citizens of Dublin; the mayor and 
 sheriff of Drogheda the portrieves and commons of the 
 towns of Ratoath, Greenogue, Dunshaughlin,t Skryne, 
 Slane, Dunboyne, and Navan: with all the able men of 
 their several bailiwicks, ordered to meet the Lord Justice at 
 Trym on the following Sunday, to oppose Ocongher and 
 Oraly, who, with a multitude of the Irish enemy, and 
 English rebels, were daily robbing, burning, and slaying the 
 king’s liege’s. — Rot. Cl. 1, Henry VI. 
 
 August 24, — John Brown J appointed receiver of the 
 
 * Drogheda accounted the best town in Ireland, not far be- 
 hind some of their cities. There runneth a blind prophecy on 
 this town ; Ross was, Dublin is, Drogheda shall be, the best of 
 the three. — Stanyhurst. 
 
 f Archbishop Ussher says, that Duushaughhn is Dominica 
 Sechlani or Domnach Sechlan, i. e., the church of Sechlan, who 
 was a disciple of Saint Patrick. 
 
 X The Browns, of Brownstown, near Newtown, were a re- 
 spectable family. They intermarried with the BeUews, of 
 Rathtayne, as appears from a tombstone in the church of 
 Eathtayne, with the following inscription : 
 
 Hie jacent eorjyora Richardi Bedlow de Bedlowston qui ohiit 
 XX. die mensis, Jan. 1601, ac etiam corpora hini filli ej. vz. 
 Jacobi et Thome Bedlow^ Oeneta Brown ux. ejushoemonimentum 
 Struxit, R. B. G. B. 
 
 On a shield, a fret for Bedlow, impaling an eagle displayed 
 for Brown. There is also an old tombstone of the time of Queen 
 Elizabeth, belonging to them, in the church-yard of Newtown. 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
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 subsidy of 360 marks — 13s. 4d. from each ploughland — 
 granted to the Lord Justice by the commons of the liberty 
 of Meath, to enable him to resist the enemy, especially the 
 Oconhours* and Bermyngehams. The clergy of Meath 
 had granted for the same purpose 1 20 marks — 20d. from 
 every mark of their parishes, according to the papal taxa- 
 tion: and 10s. from every ploughland of their temporalities, 
 with the exception of the lands cultivated as mensal lands. 
 —Rot, Pat, 1 Hen, IV, 
 
 For the protection of Meath, James, Earl of Desmond^ 
 with 5,000 horse and foot, marched from Munster into the 
 territory of the Berminghams at Carbry, and laid it waste; 
 he staid there thirteen days at the charge of the 
 county, and his expenses were guaranteed to him by 
 Richard Nugent, Baron of Delvyn, seneschal of Meath, 
 who gave himself up to the earl as security for the money. 
 The commons of Meath assembled at Trym, granted the 
 Lord Delvyn 13s. 4d. from every ploughland,! and ordered 
 
 * O’ Conor claimed 3s. 4d. from every plough-land in Meath, 
 which claim was discharged in 1540 . — State Papers, 11. 328. 
 
 + Giraldus Cambrensis {Top. Hih. iii. 5.) says, that the 
 Province of Meath contained 16 cantred, and that every can- 
 tred contained 100 townlands (viUas). In the Connanght Book 
 of Indentures drawn up in the year 1584, a cantred is said to 
 be the same as a hundred or barony, and there are said to be 
 18 in Meath, which is the present number of baronies in this 
 county. Every cantred contained 160 plough-lands of arable, 
 besides the pasture of 300 kine in every town ; and every 
 ploughland contained 120 acres. In the collections of Christo- 
 pher Cusack, Gerrardstown, now in the College Library, writ- 
 ten in 1511, he says, that every town contains eight ploughlands 
 arable, beside the pasture of 300 kine in every town, and none 
 
66 
 
 TRIM CASTLE* 
 
 that in adjuvamine of the said subsidy, 20d. should be 
 raised from every 20s. worth de qualibet lihrata of goods 
 and chattels in the county; they also ordered that the 
 commons of the following towns^ should pay the sums 
 annexed to their names: — Duleek, 13s.4d. ; Ratoath, lOs. ; 
 Greenogue, 10s.; Dunboyne, 13s. 4d.; Dunshaughlin, 
 2 marks; Navan, 10s.; Slane 10s.; Sydden, 6s. 8d.; 
 Nobber, 3s. 4d.; Kells, 20s.; Drumconrath,t 3s. 4d. ; 
 Athboy, 23s.; Four, 3s. 4d.; Killallon, 2s. ; Rathwire, 3s. 
 4d ; Mullingar, 6s. 8d. ; Stamullen, 6s. 8d. ; Kilberry, 3s. 4d. 
 
 1423. — August 4 — Edmund, Earl of March, who had 
 of them shall anneer the other ; every ploughland contained 120 
 acres. — Harris^ Ware, 225. Spencer says, that Meath, in- 
 cluding Westmeath, contained 4, 320 ploughlands according to 
 the old records. — View of Ireland, 213. 
 
 In Cusack’s Collections there are some imperfect extracts 
 from Lughteburgh’s Extent of Meath, made in the time of 
 Richard II. 
 
 * In Stanyhurst’s Description of Ireland, printed in Holin- 
 shed's Chronicles, the towns in Meath which are mentioned are 
 Trimme, Doonshaghlenne, Rathtouth, Navanne, Abooie, Serine, 
 Taraugh, Kenles, Doonboine, Greenocke, Duleeke, Molingare, 
 Fowre, Loughseude, Kilkeniwest, Moilagagh, and Delvinne. 
 p. 30. In the Latin Stanyhurst, p. 24, the towns in Meath 
 are thus given : — ‘ ‘ Pontana quae vulgariter Droghedaia nomi- 
 natur, oppidum lautissimum, portum habet naveli stationi per- 
 appositum, Molingaria, Fouria, Delvinia, Trimmia, Kellesia, 
 Navania, Aboi, Dulekia, and Scrinia.” He had before men- 
 tioned that Meath comprehended the territories, Slania, Fouria, 
 and Delvinia. 
 
 t In 1412, Thomas Fleming, Baron of Slane, had license for 
 a weekly market and an annual fair at Drumconrath, which 
 was on the frontier of the Marches of the Irish enemies, and 
 had often been burned by them. — Rot. Pat. 13 Henry IV» 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
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 been appointed Lord Lieutenant, nominated at his Castle 
 of Ludlow, Edward Dantsey, Bishop of Meath, as his 
 deputy. The council, under the presidency of Richard 
 Talbot, Archbishop of Dublin, late Justice, refused to admit 
 the Bishop, under the pretext that his nomination was 
 ^ealed with the private seal of the earl. — Rot, CL 2 
 Henry VI, 
 
 1425. — January 2 — Edmund, Earl of March, at his 
 Castle of Trim, granted to March, his herald [haraldo suo'], 
 66s. 8d. a-year for life, from the profit of his water-mills 
 at Callan,^ in the county of Kilkenny. — Rot, Pat, 3 
 Henry VI, 
 
 Edmund, Earl of March, died in Trim, early in 1425. 
 Of him Fuller writes: — “ Edmund Mortimer, son to Roger 
 Mortimer, Earl of March, grandchild to Edmund Mortimer, 
 Earl of March, and of Philippa, sole daughter of Lionel, 
 Duke of Clarence, may pass with the charitable reader for 
 prince, since he paid so dear for same, as will appear — I 
 confess it impossible to fit his nativity with assurance, 
 (having not hitherto read any record which reached it,) 
 the rather because of the vastness of his patrimony and 
 several habitations — In England, Clare Castle, with many 
 other manors in Suffolk. In the Marches of Wales, whence 
 he had his honors, Wigmore in Herefordshire, Ludlow in 
 Shropshire. 
 
 * In the reign of Henry VHI. , Callan was part of the royal 
 demesnes, as parcel of the estate of the Earls of March, and 
 was held by the Earl of Ormonde, as tenant to the crown ; at 
 that time the inhabitants were after an English fashion — many 
 of them. — State Papers^ iii. 281. 
 
68 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 “ In Ireland, Trim ; Connaught; with large lands in Ulster. 
 
 But most probable it is that he was born where he was 
 buried, at Clare. After the death of King Richard II. 
 he was next heir to the crown — -happy had he been if 
 either more near to it, so as to enjoy the honor thereof, or 
 further off, so as not to be envied and suspected for his 
 title thereunto. Now all the harm this earl had done King 
 Henry was this: that King Henry held from him his law- 
 ful inheritance ; yea this meek Mortimer was content to 
 waive the crown, so be it he might but enjoy his private 
 patrimony, which he could not, without many molestations 
 from the king. For this is the nature of some men, to 
 heap injuries on those they have wronged, as if the latter 
 injuries would give a countenance to the former. He 
 employed this Edmund in a war against Owen Glendower, 
 the Welsh rebel, on the same design that Saul sent David 
 to fight against the Philistines; if he proved the conqueror, 
 then was King Henry freed from a professed foe ; if con- 
 quered, then was he rid of a suspected subject : but Morti- 
 mer went by the worst, and being taken prisoner, the king, 
 though often solicited, never endeavoured his enlargement, 
 till at last he dearly ransomed himself. Yet did he but 
 exchange a Welsh for an Irish prison, being kept twenty 
 years in restraint in his own Castle of Trim, in the end of 
 the reign of the cunning King Henry IV., all the reign of 
 courageous King Henry V.,* and the beginning of the reign 
 
 * Fuller was mistaken in thinking that this unfortunate earl 
 was detained in Trim ; Henry Y. treated him with generous 
 kindness, and he was not a prisoner, but Lord Lieutenant at 
 the time of his death. 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 69 
 
 of innocent King Henry VL, their different tempers meet- 
 ing in cruelty to this poor prisoner. He died a. d. 1425, 
 in January, without issue, leaving Anne, his sister, his 
 heir, and lieth buried at Clare, as aforesaid.” — Fuller's 
 Worthies, Sufolk, 
 
 Johti Staunton had been appointed by Edmund, Earl 
 of March, Constable of the Castle of Trim, with a fee of 
 twenty marks a-year, charged on the two mi)ls in the said 
 town of Trim; the king, 20th March, grants the said fee 
 to him during the minority of Edward,’^ Duke of York. 
 
 The king, on the security of Hugh Clooke and Philip 
 Colyer of Trim, grants to Thomas Broun, the custody of 
 one dove-cot, I and a piece of pasture called the Castell 
 orchard, near the Castle of Trim, to be held by him as 
 long as they are in the king’s hand, he paying the rent, 
 January, 2^,% 
 
 April 23. — The king grants to Anne, sister of Edmund, 
 Earl of March and Ulster, the lands to which she was 
 entitled as her dowry. 
 
 1425 — June 20. — The king orders payment to be 
 made to John Swayn, Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of 
 
 * June 16. — In a grant of the lands of the Ards in Ulster, 
 the heir of Edmund, Earl • of Marcn, s said to be Pichard, 
 Duke of York. Edward was probably a mistake for 
 Richard. 
 
 t On clearing out one of the towers in the castle wall, in 
 1836, it was found to be a pigeon-house. 
 
 X The Duke of York, Nephew to the Earl, being thfe son of 
 his sister Anne, was heir to his great lordships ; as he was a 
 minor, they fell into the king’s hands. The date of Broun’s 
 grant, fixes the time of the Earl’s death early in January. 
 
70 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 Ireland, of £4 8s. being one half-year’s rent due to 
 
 him for the site of the castle, town, and bridge of Trim, 
 belonging to the archbishop, in right of his church at 
 Armagh ; the said sum to be paid half-yearly as long as 
 said site is in the king’s hands . — RoL Pat 3 Henry 
 VI. 
 
 March 27, at Trim, John, Lord Talbot, Justice of Ire- 
 land, entered into an indenture with Calvary Oconchur,f 
 
 * The origin of this claim of the See of Armagh to the Castle 
 and Town of Trim, is of very great antiquity. Tirechan, as 
 quoted by Ussher, [Pnmorc^ea, p. 854,] says, that Feidelmid 
 dedicated to Liiman and Saint Patrick the whole region about 
 Trim, with all his possessions, and with all his substance, and 
 with all his progeny ; and that Saint Patrick built a church in 
 Trim, twenty-two years before the foundation of the church of 
 Armagh. With these assertions Dr. Lanigan [vol. i. 223] is so 
 much displeased, that he is willing to bring down Luman to a 
 much later age, and to ascribe the whole story of Fiedelmid’s 
 donation to Luman and Saint Patrick, to a dispute about this 
 property between the Archbishop of Armagh and the Bishop of 
 Meath. The Bishops of Meath are still paid by the treasury 
 £3 15s. a-year, out of the manor of Trim. 
 
 Tirechan wrote the life of Saint Patrick from the mouth or 
 book of his master. Bishop Ultan, of Ardbraccan, who died 
 A.i). 656 — Ware's Writers. Even if the claim is not more 
 ancient than his time, it is still of respectable antiquity. In 
 the reign of Edward III. Richard Sidegrave had custody of 
 the site of the Castle of Trim, as part of the temporals of the 
 Bishop of Meath . — Pipe Roll. 
 
 f After this date the O’Conors O’Faly were long thorns in the 
 side of the Pale. In 1540, the Irish lordlings, namely, O’Con- 
 hur and his adherent, that are content to live as subjects, as 
 long as they are not able to hold out as rebels, conspired together 
 and determined to assemble their power at the hill of Foure, 
 
TEIM CASTLE, 
 
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 captain of his nation of Oflfaly, who had general powers 
 from his sept for such purposes by which Calvary declares 
 himself and his sept faithful liegemen of the king, gives 
 up all lands belonging to Englishmen, and the tribute 
 called black rent, and an annuity of £40, which he claimed 
 as due to him by the lieges of Meath ; he also promises 
 to pay the Lord Justice 1,000 marks for his pardon : in 
 return he is to have a safe conduct whenever he wishes to 
 vi^it the Justice, pro causa rationabili, and may buy among 
 the lieges all unprohibited articles, and may sue for his 
 debts. — Rot, Pat, 3, Henry VI, 
 
 1427 — In a council, held November 6th, in a chamber 
 in the monastery of Saint Mary, at Trim, the Lord Lieu- 
 tenant"^* had an order for forty marks, for his expenses to 
 enable him to oppose Gerald O’Kevenagh, who had 
 assembled a multitude of kernes for the destruction of the 
 king’s lieges. — Rot, Cl, 6, Henry VI, 
 
 1428 — April 6 — Henry VI., a Parliament held in the 
 
 in Westmeath, and so on a sudden to ransack the Pale. The 
 Lord Justice (Sir William Brereton) forthwith, accompanied with 
 the army, and with 2,000 of the Pale, of which no small num- 
 ber were ecclesiastical persons, made towards the rebels, who, 
 upon the appearance of so great an army, gave ground and 
 dispersed themselves in the woods and marshes. The Lord 
 Justice, this notwithstanding, invaded O’Conhur’s country, 
 burned his tenements, and made all his trenches, with the 
 multitude of pioneers, so passable as 400 carts, beside light 
 carriage, were led without let through the country. — Holm- 
 shed, 313. 
 
 * Sir John de Gray. His deputy, Edward, Bishop of Meath.. 
 had a like order, Dec. 22nd. 
 
72 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 friary of the Friar Minors of Trim, before William, Bishop 
 of Meath, deputy to the Lord de Grey . — Statute of KiU 
 kenny, 42. 
 
 1431 — September 18, — Thomas Clement, chaplain, was 
 appointed by the king guardian of the hospital of lepers, 
 of Saint Mary Magdalen, near Trym, with the chantry of 
 the chapel within the Castle of Trym. — Eot, Pat. 10. 
 Henry VI. 
 
 1431 — June 27 — Master John Cauntewall, Archdeacon 
 of Ossory, sub-collector for the Apostolical See, is sworn 
 into office in the chancery of Trym. The oath consisted of 
 twelve clauses : — 1st, of fidelity ; 2nd, of not allowing or 
 permitting anything to the prejudice of the king, crown, or 
 realm; 3rd, of giving faithful counsel to the king ; 4th, 
 of concealing the king’s counsel ; 5th, of not executing any 
 mandate of the Pope, to the prejudice of the king, or 
 realm ; 6th, of delivering all papal letters to the king’s 
 council before they are published; 7th, of not sending 
 money to the Pope from Ireland, without license from the 
 king or council ; 8th, of not sending letters to the pre- 
 judice of the king or realm; 9th of maintaining the honor 
 and state of the king; 10th, of not levying first fruits from 
 benefices given by the king, or granted, by the Pope, 
 in the way of expectation ; 1 1 th, of not introducing novel- 
 ties without the special license of the king, and the cause 
 of mandate being shewn to the king or council ; 12th, of 
 not going out of Ireland without special license under the 
 seal . — Rot Pat. 10. Henry VI. 
 
 1435 — August 8 — The king pardons Eichard, Duke of 
 York, Earl of March and Ulster, Lord of Wygemore, Clare, 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
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 Trym, and Connaught, who had taken possession of the 
 lands and castles of Edmund, late Earl of March, and also 
 of those which were the dowry of Anne, late Countess of 
 March. — Bot. Pat. 13 Henry VI. 
 
 1435 — All the lands of John Dartass, son-and-heir of 
 Janico Dartass, were seized into the king’s hands, on his 
 not appearing, when summoned, to answer the complaint 
 of certain lieges of Louth, who charged him with various 
 depredations and ill-doings. 
 
 1435 — Meath paid £50 for 25 services to the expedi- 
 tion to Mullingar, under Richard, Archbishop of Dublin, 
 deputy to Sir Thomas Stanley, and Trim paid £50 for 25 
 services also . — Pipe Roll. 
 
 1443 — A confederacy of war made by the Birminghams, 
 and by Calvagh O’Connor against the English, so that 
 they preyed and burned a great part of Meath ; that 
 war was called the war of caimen, that is, an abuse, 
 that was given to the son of the chief of the Birming- 
 hams, in the great court in the town of Trim, by the 
 Treasurer of Meath, the Barnwall’s son, so that he did 
 beat a Caimen (a stroke of his finger), upon the nose of 
 Mac Mec Feorais, or Bermingham’s son, which deed he was 
 not worthy of, and he entering on the Earl of Ormond’s 
 safeguard, so that he stole afterwards out of the town, 
 and went towards O’Connor Offaly and joined together, 
 and it is hard to know, that ever was such abuse better 
 revenged than the said caimen, and thence came the not- 
 able word (cogadh an caimen^). — Archeol. Misc. i. 
 
 p. 202. 
 
 Cogadh an caimen — war to caimen. 
 
 F 
 
74 
 
 TEIM CASTLE. 
 
 1447 — The following statutes* and ordinances, amongst 
 others, were made and established in a Parliament holden at 
 Trymme, the Friday next after the feast of Epiphany, in the 
 25th year of the reign of King Henry VI. before John Talbot, 
 Earl of Shrewsbury, the king’s Lieutenant of Ireland: 
 
 An act, that he that will be taken for an Englishman, 
 shall not use a beardf upon his upper lip alone — for that 
 now there is no difference in array betwixt the English 
 Marchours and the Irish enemy. 
 
 An act, that if any Irish enemy received to the king’s 
 allegiance, shall be found after to rob, spoil, and destroy 
 the liege people, it shall be lawful to every liegeman to do 
 with him and his goods, as to a man that never was 
 become a liegeman. 
 
 An act against clipped money, money called O’Beyle’s 
 
 * A roll of the proceedings of this Parliament is in the Rolls 
 Office, containing thirty-four statutes, ten of which only are 
 printed. — Betliam's Feudal Dignities* 
 
 t In the time of King John the Irish wore long beards — the 
 young Korman nobles who accompanied that prince to Water- 
 ford, when he came as Lord of Ireland, pulled the Irish princes, 
 who came to pay homage to him, by the beards, quas more 
 patrise grandes habebant & prolixas— Expug* ii. 35. The 
 fashion seems to have changed between the times of Henry II. 
 and Henry VI. In 1515, in the state of Ireland, it was pro- 
 posed that every Irish landlord, and chief captain of his nation, 
 should be barbed and rounded after the English fashion, on 
 pain of a penalty of £20. And in his directions in the town of 
 Galway, in 1536, Henry VIII. ordered every inhabitant to 
 shave his upper lip, called Grompeaulis^^'* and to suffer the 
 hair of his head to grow ’till it covered his ears, and to wear 
 an English cap . — Btate Papers^ iii. 309. 
 
T£IM CASTLE. 
 
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 money, ^ and other unlawful money, and against gilt bridles, 
 peytrells,t and other gilt barneys: and also, that no man 
 be so hardy henceforward, as to use any gilt bridles, pey- 
 trells, or any other gilt barneys, in no place of the said lands ; 
 excepted knights and prelates of holy church: and if any 
 man be found with any such bridle, peytrell, or other gilt 
 barneys, from the first of May, that it be lawful to every 
 man that will, to take the said man, his horse and barneys, 
 and to possess the same as his own goods. 
 
 An act, that the sons of labourers, travailers of the 
 ground, as ploughmen and such other, shall use the same 
 labours and travails that their fathers and parents have 
 done, under penalty of fine and imprisonment. 
 
 In 1449, Richard, Duke of York, was sent into Ireland, 
 as Lord Lieutenant, with almost royal authority, for ten 
 years, by letters patent.^ Queen Margaret and the Earl 
 of Somerset, hoped that he would either perish in the 
 attempt to suppress the rebellion, or, that he would, at 
 least, lose his reputation; but, by his mild and gentle 
 behaviour, he won both the great feudal lords, and the 
 
 * This money is not known to numismatists. Several small 
 unstamped pieces of billon, or rather of iron, have been found 
 in Trim ; they are of the size of a sixpence, but very thin, 
 they may have been O’Reyle’s money. 
 
 + Peytrells were the small gilded chains drawn across the 
 chest of a war-horse, as part of his cai)arison — 
 
 “ The black mare stood ready at the door, 
 
 “ They laid the links out o’er her neck, 
 
 “ And that was her gold twist to be.” 
 
 Archie of Ca' field. 
 
 t He was heir to the mighty seignories of Ulster, Meath, 
 and Connaught, forming about a third of the kingdom. 
 
76 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 native Irish, and reduced them to obedience without being 
 obliged to use force ; and he so endeared himself to them, 
 that, with the exception of the family of Ormonde, they 
 were always devoted to the service of himself and his 
 family, even in their greatest misfortunes. In 1449-50, 
 this prince held his court in his hereditary castle at Trim, 
 when he probably restored the castle to its former splendour. 
 He was a benefactor to St. Mary’s abbey, to which house 
 he gave amongst other benefactions afield called Porch-field ; 
 and the tower of the abbey, now called the Yellow Steeple, 
 m ay probably be assigned to this time ; the ch urch of the abbey, 
 according to Pern bridge, had been burned down in 1361. 
 
 Statutes^ ordinances^ ^c., made in the parliament at 
 Drogheda^ on Friday before the feast of St. Mark the 
 Evangelist . — 28 Henry VI. 
 
 The Duke of York, by patent, under the great seal 
 of his liberty of Meath, constituted Sir Edmond Mulso 
 seneschal of the said liberty for life. And all pleas arising 
 in the said liberty, being determined before the said senes- 
 chal, as appears, time beyond memory, at four sessions at 
 Trim, annually, each sessions being for fifteen days; and if 
 the said seneschal was absent, the sessions being discon- 
 tinued. And considering that the said Edmond is engaged 
 in the wars of our lord the king, in his land of Ireland, 
 and therefore absent from the liberty of Meath during the 
 said sessions, which are thereby discontinued, as well as by 
 his absence in England — It is ordained, that it be lawful 
 for the said Edmond to appoint a deputy to act for him in 
 his absence, — the deputy to be appointed under the great 
 seal of the Duke of York, of the said liberty — the said 
 
TBIM CASTLE. 
 
 77 
 
 Edmond to enjoy his estates in his absence, notwithstand- 
 ing the statute — the said Edmond having sufficient lands and 
 goods to answer our lord the king and the Duke of York, 
 in all things appertaining to the office of seneschal. This 
 ordinance to be in force for six years — BethamUs Collections. 
 
 1450 — August 26 — Richard, Duke of York, the Lord 
 Lieutenant, appointed at Trim Sir William Welles senes- 
 chal of the liberty of Meath — Rot. Pat, 28 Henry VI. 
 
 1452 — Fergul Roe Oge MacGeogan, a chieftain of great 
 fame and renown in his time, was killed by the Baron of 
 Delvin, and by the sons of Pierce Dalton, at Cruach-abhall,^ 
 his head was cut off and carried to Trim and to Dublin, 
 and exultingly exhibited at those places ; it was carried 
 back again and interred with his body, at Durrow of 
 Columbkill — An. Hour Masters^ in Duh. Pen. Jour. 
 
 February, 1460 — ^At a Parliament held at Drogheda, the 
 Friday after the feast of Saint Blaize (February 3), before 
 Richard, Duke of York, Lord Lieutenant :t it is enacted 
 
 * Cruach Ahhall, the round hill of the apple trees ; now 
 Croughool, near Mullingar. 
 
 t At this very time the Parliament of England had declared 
 the Duke of York and his adherents guilty of high treason ; 
 their estates were confiscated, and they and their posterity, 
 to the fourth generation, pronounced incapable of inheriting ; 
 the Irish acts now passed must be considered with reference 
 to these circumstances. The duke returned to England, ac- 
 companied by the flower of the Irish, and especially of the 
 Meath nobles ; and having at last openly avowed his claim to 
 the crown, was defeated and slain at the battle of Wakefield, 
 December 31, 1460. By the subsequent success of his son, 
 Edward IV., the lord of Meath became the king of England. At 
 
78 
 
 TRIM CASTLE, 
 
 that as great sums were formerly sent to Ireland to pay 
 the lieutenant and officers, and brought by merchants, 
 but, by decay of trade, were now ceased to be imported, 
 which caused great distress for want of coinage for circu- 
 lation, which compelled the passing of the coin of Castile"^ 
 and Navarre, of which four pieces passed for a penny Eng- 
 lish, of which sixteen are but of the value of a penny Eng- 
 lish. It was enacted, than an English noble, lawful 
 weight, should pass for 8s. 4d. — the half-noble 4s. 2d. — 
 the quadrant of gold, 2s. Id. — the groat of London, York, 
 and Calais, not clipped within the extreme circle, 5d. — 
 the half-groat undipped, 2^d. — the denier at Ijd. — A clip- 
 ped groat, 4d. — A clipped half-groat, 2d. — A clipped de- 
 nier, Id. And as not only the duchy of Normandy, but 
 also the duchy of Guienne, when they were under the obe- 
 dience of the realm of England, yet were no less separate 
 from the laws and statutes of England, and had also coynes 
 for themselves different from the coyne of England ; so Ire- 
 land, though it be under the obedience of the same realm, 
 is nevertheless separate from it, and from all the laws and 
 statutes of it, only such as are there by the lords spiritual 
 and temporal and commons freely admitted and accepted of 
 in parliament, or great counsel. 
 
 It is therefore enacted, that a coin should be specially 
 made for that land, distinct from the English coin, under 
 
 this time the Irish Parliament declared it high treason to bring 
 any writs from England to attack any rebels or traitors who had 
 come into Ireland — See Acts of Parliament^ 10 Henry VII., cap. 3. 
 
 t Some Castile and several Anglo-Gallic coins of billon have 
 been found in Trim. 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 79 
 
 two* forms — one of the weight of half-a- quarter of an ounce 
 troy, having on one side a lion, and on the other a crown, 
 to be called an Ireland of silver, seven whereof to be taken 
 for a penny sterling — the other of the weight of seven 
 halfpence [9 grains] of troy weight, having on one side a 
 crown and the other a cross, to be called a Patrick^ eight 
 whereof to be taken for a penny sterling. The coin called 
 Ireland shall have that nam^ struck round the side with 
 the lion ; and that called Patrick that name on the side of the 
 crown. And it was moreover ordained, that groats be made 
 of the weight of 3d. sterling, and shall pass for 4d. sterling, 
 and shall have a crown and a cross on either side, similar 
 to the Calais groats, bearing the name of the place where 
 it was coined,! without any other legend. Every person 
 bringing one ounce of bullion to the mint, to have nine 
 groats of the value of three shillings. — Beth, Col. 
 
 Goods and merchandize not to be rated at higher prices 
 than before passing the act, under penalty of a fine, at the 
 discretion of the Chief Justice, one moiety to the king, the 
 other to him who sues. 
 
 * The first of these base coins was probably never struck. 
 This part of the act having been repealed at the adjourned 
 Parliament, held on the Monday after Trinity Sunday (June 9). 
 Of the second, (of which neither Simon nor Ending had seen 
 any specimen,) many have been found in Trim ; they are very 
 rude, bearing on one side a crown, of which the pattern differs 
 in different specimens, between two branches, apparently of 
 palm or broom, and on the other a cross ; they weigh from 
 seven to ten grains ; this was the first copper or mixed money 
 coined in this kingdom with a parliamentary sanction. 
 
 f By this device, the Duke of York evaded either taking the 
 royal title himself, or giving it to his rival, Henry VI. 
 
80 
 
 TRIM CxiSTLE. 
 
 No one to refuse the coin under a fine. 
 
 That certain coins called Jacks be void and no value. 
 
 That the mint be in the Castles of Dublin and Trim, and 
 the Duke of York to appoint the ofiicers thereof. — Beth. Coll. 
 
 1461 — May 2 — The king, Edward IV., appointed 
 Christopher Fox^’ comptroller of the mints of the Castles 
 of Dublin and Trim. He was sworn into office the same 
 day. — Rot. Pat. I Edward IV. 
 
 1462 — February 24 — The king appointed William 
 Colynburn, Esq., and James Actoun, clerk, to the office of 
 clerk of the works of the Castle of Trim, and of seneschal 
 of the court of the Betagerie of Trim. — Ibid. 
 
 1463 — At a parliament held at Wexford, before Thomas, 
 Earl of Desmond, f deputy to George, Duke of Clarence, 
 letters patent granted August 6th, 1461, by Edward IV., 
 to Germyn Lynch, goldsmith, of London, were confirmed. 
 
 In 1830, there was dug up in a garden behind a house in 
 Scarlet-street, a gold seal ring, engraved with the arms of the 
 Foxes, of Fox-hall, in the county of Longford — a sceptre in 
 bend between two crowns, with a winged sceptre for the crest 
 — it is now in the possession of Captain Barry Fox, of Anagh- 
 more. It is possible that this money-maker, Christopher Fox, 
 might have had a gold ring. At this time there was a goldsmith 
 in Trim, for, in 1461, Sir Christopher Plunkett, of Dunsany, 
 left by will to the church of Dunsany, a cope of gold, a chesipill 
 (chasuble) of cloth of gold, a chesipill of rede satin, the cross 
 and the tw'o censers, which was with the goldsmith of Trim. 
 
 t Great was the credit of the Geraldines ever when the house 
 of York prospered, and likewise the Butlers thrived under the 
 blood of Lancaster, for which cause the Earl of Desmond 
 remained many year, deputy to George, Duke of Clarence, his 
 god-brother. — Campion. 
 
TEIM CASTLE. 
 
 81 
 
 By this patent, Lynch was appointed warden and master- 
 worker of the moneys and coynes,^ within the Castle of 
 Dublin, within the Castle of Trymme, and the town of 
 Galway; and by the act of Parliament, his power was 
 extended to Waterford and Limerick : he had authority to 
 coyne various silver coynes, of specified values and forms; 
 and also, to make, or strike, four pieces of brass or copper 
 money, running at one penny of the said silver; to be im- 
 printed with the figure of a bishop^ s head, and a scripture 
 of this word — Patrick, about the same head ; and with a 
 cross, with this word — Salvator, thereabout on the other 
 side;t and to make as much or as little of the said coynes 
 of brass or copper, as he shall think to be profitable and 
 good ; and we grant to the said Germyn, all the monies 
 and coynes of brass and copper, to his proper use, in susten- 
 tation and finding of our laborers about the said moneys, 
 at his charges, free and quit, without anything therefore 
 paying to us, during his said life. We give him power, 
 also, to take as many laborers yearly, as shall be necessary ; 
 
 * The whole Irish coinage of Edward IV. , (a very perjdexed 
 and difficult subject), has been examined and illustrated [since 
 the first edition], by the diligence and skill of our best numis- 
 matist. 
 
 t Germyn Lynch must have used this power with great 
 moderation, as Simon and Ending never saw one of these Pa- 
 tricks : one, however, was found in Trim, two years ago, in 
 good preservation ; it bears on one side, a bishop’s head in three 
 quarter face, with a mitre, and the word Patricius round it, 
 written from right to left ; on the other side, a cross, between 
 two stars and two spur rowels, with the word Salvator. Several 
 varieties of this coin are now known. 
 
82 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 and, if any laborer refuses to work at said mints, that the 
 master or deputy shall arrest such, and put them in prison, 
 till he labors as desired.’’ 
 
 1465 — Statutes,* established in a parliament, holden 
 at Trym, [August 10], the Wednesday next after the 
 feast of Saint Laurence the martyr, the 5th Edward lY., 
 before Thomas, Earl of Desmond, deputy to George, Duke 
 of Clarence, the king’s lieutenant of Ireland, a.d. 1465. 
 
 At the request of the commons, for that divers great 
 robberies, thefts, and murders, be done from night to night, 
 by thieves, upon the faithful liege people of the king, 
 within this land of Ireland, especially and most commonly 
 in the county of Meath ; the which has caused and made 
 great desolation and waste in said county : it is ordained 
 and established, by authority of the said parliament, that it 
 shall be lawful to all manner of men, that find any thieves 
 robbing by day or by night ; or going, or coming to rob, or 
 steal, in or out, going or coming, having no faithful man, 
 of good fame or name, in their company, in English apparel, 
 upon any of the liege people of the king, that, it shall be 
 lawful, to take and kill those, and to cut off their heads, 
 without any impeachment of our sovereign lord the king, 
 his heirs, officers, or ministers, or of any others ; and of 
 any head so cut in the county of Meath, that the cutter of 
 the said head, and his ayders thereto, cause the said head, 
 so cut, to be brought to the Portreflfe of the Town of Trim, 
 and the said Portrefie put it on a stake or spear, upon 
 
 * The roll of the enactments is in the Polls Office, and contains 
 seventy-seven statutes, enacted in three sessions, of which only 
 six are printed . — Beth Fued. Dig, 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 83 
 
 the Castle of Trim;* and that the said Portreflfe shall give 
 his writing, under the common seal of said town, testifying 
 the bringing of the said head to him : and, that it shall be 
 lawful, by authority of the said parliament, to the said 
 bringer of the said head, and his ayders to the same, for to 
 distrain, and levy by their own hands, of every man having 
 one ploughland, in the barony where the said thief was so 
 taken, two pence; and of every man having half a plough- 
 land, one penny; and of every other man having one house, 
 and goods to the value of 40s., one penny; and every 
 other cottier having house and smoak, one halfpenny. 
 And if the said Portreffe refuse to give the said certificate 
 by writing, freely under his said common seal, then the 
 said Portreffe to forfeit to the said bringer of the said 
 head, £10. And that he may have his action by bill, or 
 by writ, in whatsoever court shall please the bringer of the 
 said head, for the said £10, against the said Portreffe. 
 
 An act, that the Irishmen dwelling in the counties of 
 Dublin, Meath, Uriel, and Kildare, shall go apparelled like 
 Englishmen, and wear their beards after the English man- 
 ner, swear allegiance, and take English surnames. At the 
 request of the commons it is ordained and established by 
 authority of the said parliament, that every Irishman that 
 dwells betwixt or amongst Englishmen, in the counties 
 
 * Two skulls were found in the year 1830, in the field under 
 the castle, which was formerly the castle ditch. There were 
 similar acts for Louth, the heads to be brought to the Portrieve 
 of Athirdee (Ardee) ; for Dublin, the heads to be brought to 
 the mayor of Dublin ; for Kildare, the heads to be brought to 
 the sovereign of Kaas. 
 
84 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 [aforesaid] shall go like to one Englishman in apparel; 
 and shaving the beard above the mouth; and shall be, 
 within one year, sworn the liegeman of the king, in the 
 hands of the lieutenant or Deputy, or such as he will as- 
 sign to receive this oath, for the multitude that is to be 
 sworn; and shall take to him an English surname of one 
 town, as Sutten, Chester, Trym, Skryne, Corke, Kinsale; 
 or color, as white, blacke, browne ; or arte, or science, as 
 smith, or carpenter; or office, as cooke, butler; and, that 
 he and his issue shall use this name, under pain of forfeit- 
 ing of his goods yearly, till the premisses be done ; to be 
 levied two times by the year, to the king’s warrs, accord- 
 ing to the discretion of lieutenant of the king or his 
 deputy. 
 
 1465 — Thomas, Earl of Desmond,* held a Parliament in 
 Trym . — Act of Parliament^ 1470. 
 
 1466 — An army was led by the English of Meath and 
 Leinster into Offaly; O’Conor Faly, L e.. Con, the Son 
 of Calvagh, assembled his forces to oppose them, and first 
 of all he slew John ma«^ Thomas, the best and most illus- 
 trious Captain of the English, whose death was an omen 
 
 * It was this Earl of Desmond who was taken prisoner by 
 the Omelaghelyns of Meath, when he was Lord Deputy, and 
 was released by O’Connor of Ophaly. Having spoken certain 
 disdainful words against the late marriage of King Edward 
 with the lady Elizabeth G-ray, the said lady, being now queen, 
 caused his trade of life, after the Irish manner, contrary to sun- 
 dry old statutes, enacted in that behalf, to be sifted and exa- 
 mined by John, Earl of Worcester, his successor, of which 
 treasons he was convicted, and for the san^ reason was be- 
 headed as a traitor at Drogheda. — Campion, 
 
TEIM CASTLE. 
 
 85 
 
 of ill-success to the English, for the earl and his English 
 were defeated the next day, ' and the earl himself was 
 taken prisoner, and stripped of his arms and armour; Tiege 
 O’Conor conveyed the earl, his brother-in-law, and a great 
 part of the army along with him to Castle Carbuiy, 
 Christopher Plunkett, and the Prior of the House of (the 
 Blessed Virgin) Mary at Trim, William Oge Nugent, 
 Barnwall, and many others along with them : but the Eng- 
 lish of Dublin came and carried off all that had after this 
 defeat been sent unto the Castle of Carbury — Annals oj 
 Four Masters. 
 
 1468 — Statutes made in the parliament held at Dro- 
 gheda, on Wednesday, after the feast of Saint James the 
 apostle, before the Earl of Worcester: 
 
 At the prayer of Nicholas Brown, gentleman, whereas 
 John Haddesore, of Keppock, son and heir of Sir John Had- 
 desore, of Keppock, knight, of his high presumption and 
 malice, inducing him rather to use the manners of the Irish 
 enemies, than the honourable conduct and orderly govern- 
 ment of English subjects, having associated with the Irish 
 enemies and English rebels, came with banner displayed, in 
 form of war several times, into the counties of Meath and 
 Louth, and robbed the king’s faithful subjects, and burned 
 their lands traitorously, and hanged some of the king’s 
 faithful subjects on trees close to the king’s highway. He 
 married the daughter of M‘Mahon, the king’s enemy, and 
 adhering to the said McMahon, with a party came into the 
 county of Louth, and took prisoner Sir Thomas Plunkett, 
 knight, George Taaffe, brother to Sir Laurence Taaffe, 
 knight, Robert Clinton, of Clintonstown, Esq., Robert 
 
86 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 Clinton, the younger, his son, William Walton, of Eothes- 
 town, gentleman, John Dromgole, gentleman, John White, 
 of Richardstown, esquire, and Hugh Cardon, of Caskele, 
 and carried them off to the king’s enemies, the M‘Mahon 3 
 and the O’Reillys, and compelled them by imprisonment and 
 coercion, to pay large sums for their ransom, save only the 
 said George, whom the said John murdered in prison, not 
 even suffering him to receive Christian burial, but cast him 
 to be devoured by dogs. 
 
 Also, the said John being in custody in the Castle of 
 Trim, murdered the jailer and his wife, being great with 
 child, and afterwards trusted to his influence among his 
 cousins and relations, that no man in the county of Louth 
 durst be so bold as to utter or declare anything' against 
 him ; but, that the said Nicholas Browne, by the king’s 
 authority, arrested him and brought him to the king’s jail, 
 and detains him till justice and execution be done upon 
 him, whereby the said Nicholas must surrender his house 
 and depart out of the service of John, Archbishop of Armagh, 
 to his utter ruin, unless he be redressed by authority of the 
 parliament; whereupon £40 is directed to be given to said 
 Nicholas, as reward, to be levied on the commons of Louth, 
 without any exception or exemption. — Beth. Coll. 
 
 1470 — Statutes made in the parliament at Dublin, on 
 Monday, after the feast of Saint Katherine the Virgin 
 [Nov. 25] 10 Edward lY. 
 
 Roger Rochford being about to build a tower at Redes- 
 town near Moylagh, in Meath, to have 12d. of every 
 ploughland in the county, to assist him in the building. 
 
 Robert Misset, gentleman, intended, by the grace of God 
 
TEIM CASTLE. 
 
 87 
 
 to inhabit at Bellewston, near Trim, and have made a for- 
 tress there, but was so assaulted by the O’Connors and 
 Berminghams, that he lost £300, and was forced to pay 
 Birmingham for his son, who was killed at Bellewston, 
 100 marks; he is so reduced as to be unable to build the 
 said fortress, he is to have 8d. of every ploughland in 
 Meath. 
 
 All groats coined in the reigns of Edward III., Richard IL, 
 Henry IV., V., and VI., and at Calais, not clipped, shall be 
 taken and received by the liege people, at the value of 5d.; 
 the denier of 2d. at 2ld.; the denier also of Id. at l|^d.; 
 the gold noble of weight and value at 10s.; the scute and 
 quarter of legal weight, at the rate of the noble; and the 
 piece of gold called the royal, at 12s.; and if the said 
 coins be deficient in weight, then the debtor shall pay the 
 creditor the deficiency in ready money. 
 
 It having been ordained that the double, half-double, 
 denier, and half-denier, should be diminished one-half, 
 which was a great injury to the liege people, unless grain 
 and other merchandize were rated accordingly ; whereupon 
 it was ordained that all things be sold at the following 
 rates : — 
 
 A peck of wheat,* . 
 
 s. d. 
 
 . 1 4 
 
 A peck of oatmeal. 
 
 s. 
 
 . 0 
 
 d. 
 
 6 
 
 A peck of oats, 
 
 or less. 
 
 . 0 4 
 
 A peck of meal of here, . 
 
 or less. 
 
 . 0 10 
 
 or less. 
 
 A peck of beans. 
 
 . 0 
 
 7 
 
 A peck of barley, . 
 
 . 0 8 
 
 A peck of peas. 
 
 . 0 
 
 7 
 
 
 or less. 
 
 A peck of rye, 
 
 . 0 
 
 8 
 
 A peck of wheatmeal, . 
 
 . 1 8 
 
 A barrel of herrings. 
 
 . 6 
 
 3 
 
 
 or less. 
 
 A main of red herrings, . 
 
 . 4 
 
 0 
 
 * In 1520 wheat was very dear at 16s. a quarter, and oats a 
 mark. — St. Pa'pers, i. p. 43. 
 
88 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 
 8. 
 
 d. 
 
 A beef, 
 
 10 
 
 0 
 
 A tanned hide. 
 
 1 
 
 8 
 
 A cow of the best kind* 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 A stone of tallow, . 
 
 0 
 
 6 
 
 A sheep, .... 
 
 0 
 
 8 
 
 A pair of shoes of the best 
 
 
 A pig of the best kind, . 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 kind, 
 
 0 
 
 4 
 
 A goose (kelhan), . 
 
 0 
 
 3 
 
 Ditto of womens’. 
 
 0 
 
 
 A little pig, .... 
 
 0 
 
 3 
 
 A gallon of the best ale, 
 
 0 
 
 
 A couple of capons. 
 
 0 
 
 5 
 
 Do. Rochelle wine, 
 
 0 
 
 6 
 
 A peck of salt. 
 
 0 
 
 8 
 
 Do. Gascony wine, 
 
 0 
 
 8 
 
 A peck of coals. 
 
 0 
 
 6 
 
 Do. Spanish wine. 
 
 0 10 
 
 A cwt. of iron. 
 
 0 10 
 
 A cwt. of white yam, . 
 
 30 
 
 0 
 
 A yard of coarse cloth, . 
 
 0 
 
 2 
 
 A cwt. of grey yarn, 
 
 23 
 
 4 
 
 A pack (st. ?) of wool, 
 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 A dozen (?) of broad linen 
 
 
 
 A yard of the best frieze, yard 
 
 
 cloth, .... 
 
 16 
 
 0 
 
 wide, 
 
 1 
 
 6 
 
 Do. not broad, 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 A fresh hide, . . . . 
 
 0 10 
 
 
 
 
 . Penalty— Twenty Shillings. 
 
 All mayors, bailiffs, &c., to see the act carried into effect 
 under penalty — for a sheriff, 20s., for a mayor of a city, 
 20s., for a mayor of a town, 13s. 4d., portreive or sove- 
 reign, lOs.f (Repealed 11 Edward lY,) — Beth. Coll. 
 
 1471 — At a parliament held in Dublin, on Friday, after 
 the feast of St. Katherine, 11 Edward IV., before Thomas 
 Fitzmaurice, Justice of Ireland, prorogued to the 10th De- 
 cember, and frequently after the Thursday, after the feast 
 of Saint Luke the Evangelist: 
 
 At the prayer of Robert Misset, of Bellewston, gent., 
 who had been robbed by the O’Conkuhars and Birming- 
 hams, who had burned and laid waste his estate; he there- 
 fore built himself a castle and other fortresses at great cost 
 and labour, and he has there but 80 acres, and is charged 
 
 * In 1538, forty marks were equal to forty kine. — St. Papers^ 
 ii. 53. 
 
 t In 1463, it was enacted by the English parliament, that 
 no corn should be imported if wheat were not above 6s. 8d. , 
 rye 4s., and barley 3s. a quarter — Chron. Fret So old were 
 the corn laws. 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 89 
 
 with every subsidy for half a ploughland, and bears all the 
 burthen of the whole parish of Droynydaly and Bellews- 
 ton,* so that he cannot remain there without remedy, 
 and Bellewston is the key of that part of the country. — 
 Ordained that Bellewston be discharged from all subsi- 
 dies : and it shall be lawful for all persons dwelling in the 
 castle of Bellewston, to repel collectors of subsidies, 
 gatherers of taxes and tallages from off the said 80 acres 
 without impeachment, for six years. — Ibid, 
 
 Statutes published on Monday, after the feast of Saint 
 David the Bishop, before Thomas, Earl of Kildare, now 
 deputy to George, Duke of Clarence, Lord Lieutenant : 
 
 Whereas Richard, Duke of York, was seized as lord of 
 the manor of Trim,f in his demesne, as of fee, had a 
 
 * In 1399, Walter FitzRoger Belle w had a license for the 
 fine of one mark, to enfeoft John Bordevyll and John Hamond, 
 chaplains, in a messuage, a plowland, two weirs, eight acres 
 of meadow, twenty acres of pasture, twenty acres of wood, 
 and four of bog, in Bellewston, near Trym, which were held 
 on Edmund, son of Roger, Earl of March, deceased, who held 
 of the crown, in cajpite, and was then a minoi’, in order that 
 they should re- enfeoft him therein, to hold to the use of his 
 heirs male ; remainder to his brother John, and his heirs 
 male ; remainder to Sir Edmond Loundres, knight, and his 
 heirs male ; remainder to his own right heirs . — Rot in Birm. 
 Tow. 
 
 t In the parliament of 1465, an act was passed which recite 
 a patent dated at Woodstock, 25th August, 4 Edward IV., 
 whereby and in consideration of his services done and to be 
 done, by Thomas, Earl of Desmond, the king grants him £100 
 annually for his life ; and, for greater security of the payment 
 of the said £100, the king grants him his manors of Trim, 
 Rathwere, Kildalky, Ratoath, Belgard, and Foure, in full 
 
 G 
 
90 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 liberty called the liberty of Meath, which descended to our 
 lord the king, as son and heir to the said duke ; and the 
 said liberty is not occupied by the seneschals and officers 
 as it used to be, to the great prejudice of our lord the king 
 and the people of the said liberty. And whereas our lord 
 the king has directed his sign manual to the said earl, as 
 Lord Deputy, that the said liberty should be held as here- 
 tofore, in the time of his father — It is ordained, that the 
 liberty of Trim be held as formerly, and as largely as 
 heretofore. — Ibid. 
 
 1471 — Statutes made and published by the Parliament 
 held in Dublin, on Monday after the feast of the Holy 
 Trinity, in the 12th of Edward IV., prorogued to Monday 
 of the feast of the translation of Saint Thomas the martyr. 
 
 Eobert Rochford, Esq., Constable of the Castle of Trim, 
 has a patent confirming the office to him during good 
 behaviour, with a salary of £8 of silver per annum, and for 
 the greater security of payment, he had a grant of 160 
 acres of land in Stapelstown, Berney, Syllogues, during 
 the time he holds the office. — Dated 27th October, 1470. 
 10 Edward lY. 
 
 Roger Rochford, gent., had a patent granting him the 
 chief rents of the town of Trim — ale, wight,^ sense, petty 
 customs, and all our cottages in the town, and a weir 
 called Carraffin, parcel of the manor without rent. — 
 Dated 28th December, 1471, 11 Edward IV. 
 
 payment and satisfaction of the said £100, which patent this 
 act confirms. This act not to be prejudicial to the Bishop of 
 Meath, or the Archbishop of Armagh, or the Abbot of Trim. — 
 Beth, Coll, 
 
 * Wight, weight; sense, cess. 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 91 
 
 At a parliament held in Dublin, it was enacted, that the 
 king’s coyne, i, e., the gross, the demy gross, the denier, 
 the demy denier, and the quadrant, be struck for the time 
 to come within the Castle of Dublin only, and within no 
 other place within the four counties of Dublin, Meath, 
 Kildare, and Uriel, and in no other place in Ireland ; and 
 that Christopher Fox be one of the principal deputy comp- 
 trollers of the said mint, if he may be had at reasonable 
 wages, by the assent of the chief comptroller, Germyn Lynch. 
 
 1473 — Edmond Tankard, Esq., cook of the king’s 
 kitchen, appointed keeper for life of the king’s park of 
 Trim, and sergeant of the betaghry (villeins) of the same, 
 in the county of Meath. — Beth, Coll. 
 
 1474 . — Richard Heron was appointed for life master 
 and worker of the mint within the cities and castles of 
 Dublin, Drodrath, Trim, Waterford, and Limerick, and 
 elsewhere in Ireland.— Pat, in Tur, London. 
 
 1475 — Gilbert Debenham had a grant of the office of 
 seneschall of the liberty of Meath for life. — Ibid. 
 
 1478 — At a parliament held in Trym, before Henry, 
 Lord Grey, deputy to George, Duke of Clarence, from 
 thence adjourned to Drogheda, and thence to Dublin : 
 
 It was enacted that for the time to come, the liberty of 
 Meath be commenced, restored, used, exercised, held, and 
 continued, with all manner of liberties, franchises, usages, 
 free customs, court leets, offices, and officers, and all man- 
 ner of every other thing, belonging to the same in ancient 
 times, in as ample a manner as was exercised and occupied 
 in the time of Richard, late Duke of York, or his noble pro- 
 genitors, Lords of Meath ; and that Henry, Lord Grey, Lord 
 
92 
 
 TRBI CASTLE. 
 
 Deputy, shall enjoy, use, hold, exercise, and carry into use 
 and execution, by himself or his deputy, the said liberty, 
 by the name of seneschal and treasurer of the said liberty of 
 Meath, in as ample a manner and forms, with all manner 
 of rights, commodities, and profits, as ever any seneschal or 
 treasurer heretofore occupied and enjoyed the same; and that 
 all manner of acts, statutes, ordinances, or grants heretofore 
 made to avoid, or destroy the said liberty, be of no eflPect in 
 law: And further, this act confirms a grant made by the king, 
 of the ofiice of seneschal and treasurer of Meath, to the 
 said Henry, dated Westminster, the 3rd day of March, in 
 the 17th year of his reign, during the life of the said 
 Henry ; and by this act the said Henry, by himself or his 
 officers, may for the future strike and coin all manner of 
 coins of silver, within the Castle of Trim, according tosugh 
 fyness and alloy as in the statute for that purpose is pro- 
 vided . — Act in Simonas Appendix. 
 
 1478 — Statutes of the parliament held at Trim, on 
 Triday, after the feast of All Saints, 18 Edward lY., 
 before Henry, Lord Grey, deputy to George, the king’s 
 son, adjourned to Drogheda, and after to Dublin : 
 
 At the prayer of the commons, whereas, the king by 
 letters patent and privy seal, directed to Gerald, Earl of 
 Kildare, supposing him to be the Justice of Ireland, 
 charged and commanded him to desist from exercising the 
 authority belonging to said oflSce, and not to commence, 
 summon, hold, or prorogue any parliament in that land, or 
 to lay any tallage or tax on the people thereof; command- 
 ing also, by letters under the privy seal, the mayor and 
 jurats of Dublin to make proclamation that none of his 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 93 
 
 subjects should pay any subsidy or tax to the said earl; 
 yet, contrary to the said high command, the said earl 
 summoned a pretended parliament, to be held before him at 
 Naas, the Friday next after the feast of Saint Petronilla, 
 last past [31st May,] and then commenced and continued 
 the said pretended parliament, proceeded in and often times 
 adjourned and prorogued ; in which pretended parliament, 
 divers acts were made, and a subsidy granted contrary to 
 the king’s commands, and to the destruction of the king’s 
 faithful subjects: whereupon it is enacted, that the said 
 pretended parliament and all its acts be void and of no 
 eflfect in law ; and all letters patent and other acts done 
 under the king’s seal, and all other acts arising out of the 
 proceedings of same be void, and of none effect ; and the 
 judges and officers of the king’s courts shall cause all 
 statutes, ordinances, provisions, &c., &c., made in the said 
 pretended parliament, to be cancelled and destroyed within 
 fifteen days of the proclamation, under penalty of £60. 
 And if any person possess any parchment roll of the said pre- 
 tended parliament, they shall carry same to Thomas Dow- 
 dall, clerk of the rolls, within thirteen days after proclama- 
 tion, under penalty of being declared felons attainted; the 
 judges of the king’s bench authorised to inquire into the 
 matter. — Beth. Coll. 
 
 Ten shillings granted out of every ploughland in Meath, 
 Dublin, Louth, and Kildare, as well from the hospitallers, 
 and those exempt as not exempt. The members of the 
 Commons House to have the nomination of the collectors. 
 The subsidy to be employed in paying soldiers and lancers 
 for the defence of the said laud. The knights of counties 
 
94 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 to have their dues of the subsidies according to ancient 
 custom. Not to extend but as a common subsidy to the 
 county of Kildare. No ploughland in a county to be 
 charged with more than a double, according to the com- 
 mon subsidy of 700 marks. 
 
 Considering the great poverty of the commons from the 
 continual wars and oppressions, they cannot part with their 
 property as is necessary for the relief of the land, therefore 
 there shall be resumed all grants of castles, manors, lord- 
 ships, towns, &c., as well granted by our Lord the King or 
 his father, Ei chard, Duke of York, as by Henry VL, as 
 well by patent as by the authority of Parliament. Not to 
 be prejudical to Henry, Lord Grey, Lord Deputy. — 
 lUd, 
 
 1478 — At a Parliament held in Dublin, before Gerald, 
 Earl of Kildare,* deputy to Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke 
 of York, son of Edward IV. : 
 
 That the pretended liberty of Meath exercised by Oliver 
 Plunkett, late seneschal, be void ; and all original and 
 judicial writs, and other processes directed to the said 
 seneschal, be good, but to be executed by the sheriff, 
 as if they had been directed to him at first ; and that 
 the election! of Alexander Plunkett to be sheriff, be 
 good. 
 
 * This Earl of Kildare was empowered to add what clauses 
 he pleased to an act of resumption ! ! In fact he was a tyrant 
 who acted contrary to law and justice — Beth. Fued. Dig. 
 
 t The popular election of the sheriffs growing tumultuous 
 were put an end to in England by the statute 9 Edward II. , 
 st. 2 [1316]. — Blackstone, i. 340. 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 95 
 
 1485 — Gerald, Earl of Kildare, Lord Deputy, held a 
 Parliament in Trim. — Ware^s Annals^ Henry VII. 
 
 1488 — July 25, Sir Richard Edgecombe rode from 
 Drogheda to Trim,"^ to dinner, and there at afternoon, took 
 fealty of the portrefFe, burgesses, and commonality of said 
 town . — Sir E. E^s Journal^ in Harris^ Hihernica, 
 
 Nicholas Herbert, abbot of St. Peter’s, Newton; Richard 
 Nangle, abbot of Navan ; and James Castlemartin, abbot 
 of Bective,f took the oath of allegiance the same day, and 
 were received into favour. — Ware's Annals, 
 
 * The townsmen of Trim had united with the great abbots 
 and lords of Meath in supporting Lambert Simnel. Their 
 zeal for the house of York may have been the principal motive 
 for their revolt from Henry VII. ; but was, no doubt, fomented 
 by the intrigues and the money of the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 A gross of Charles the Bold was lately dug up in the south 
 commons of Trim ; from the same cause this coin is some- 
 times found in the north of England. After Simnel’s solemn 
 coronation at Christ Church, where he was crowned with a 
 crown taken from an image of the virgin, and the coronation 
 sermon was preached by the Bishop of Meath; the “ladd,” 
 as he is called in the act of Poyning’s Parliament, was carried 
 on the shoulders of D’Arcy, of Platten,” to the Castle of Dub- 
 lin ; “ that, ” says Campion, ‘ ‘ he might be seen and noted ; 
 he was surely an honorable boy to look upon.’’ 
 
 t Bective, called in the records Bectiff and Begty, is pro- 
 bably derived from Begteach, and signifies the Little Palace, 
 in contradistinction from the neighbouring Teamor, Tara, or 
 Great Palace. In the hill at Clady (Cletty) there is a bee-hive 
 house, with other Irish remains. 
 
 Perhaps Bective was the place to which the royal palace 
 was transferred from Tara in 564. Regnante porro Diarmitio, 
 A.T). 565. Temerise arx a S. Ruadano maledicta desinit esse 
 sedes Regia, et Regni sedes adalium collem hand procul aTemo- 
 
96 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 1489 — The sheep of that part of Meath verging on the 
 sea, from Dublin to Drogheda, ran into the sea in spite of 
 their shepherds and never returned back. The son of the 
 Earl of Ormond arrived in Ireland, after having spent a 
 long time in England; and he, with O’Brien and his 
 
 ria situm, translatum fuit, unde Hymnum vetus Hibernicum, 
 Fiecho Sliebhtiensi tributum, regnante Diarmitio scriptum 
 f uisse opinor, cum auctor de Temoria deserta, vel turn deserenda, 
 tanquam de recenti eventusibi parum grate coiiqueratur, “non 
 mihi gratum quod Temoria deseratur.” — O’ (7. ’5 Ep. Nunc. 76. 
 
 De Bege Diarmitio notanda sunt quse narrantur in vita anti- 
 qua S. Buani, quod quum quendam reum violenter ex Buani 
 monasterio extraxerit et ipso Euano abbate aliisq monachis 
 leeclamantibus, qui eum Temoriam usq sequuti sunt, spretis 
 eorum precibus jusserit occidi, et Buanus et monachi Temoriam 
 maledixerunt, unde a Diarmitii morte nullus Begnum sedit Te- 
 moriae, sed regni sedes ad aliiim locum baud procul distantem 
 translata est, et inde postea ad diversa loca, quorum unus anti- 
 quissimus videtur fuisse New Grange, omnes vero in Media 
 orientali, Provincia Sacra Begum Hibernorum. — O’ Conor's 
 m)te to VI. An. 
 
 For the remains at Tara, see Dr. Petrie’s most interesting 
 essay on the history and antiquities of Tara-hill. 
 
 Stanyhurst, in his Description of Ireland in Holinslied^ 
 p. 39, says of Tara : — 
 
 “There is in Meath a hill called the Hill of Tara, wherein 
 is a plain twelve score long, which was named the Kemp-his- 
 hall ; there the country had their meetings and folk-moates, as 
 a place that was accounted the high place of the monarch. 
 The Irish historians hammer many fables in this forge of Fin 
 mac Code and his champions, as the French history doth of 
 King Arthur and the Knights of the Bound Table. But 
 doubtless the place seemeth to bear the show of an ancient 
 and famous monument.” 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 97 
 
 brother, and MacWilliam, of Clanrickard, marched at the 
 head of the army in the county of the Butlers, and com- 
 pelled the Butlers to give them submission and hostages ; 
 took many of the Irish of Leinster prisoners, and destroyed 
 Meath. The street of the sheep in Dublin was burned by 
 the Lord Justice. A peace was afterwards concluded 
 between them and the Lord Justice, each of them was to 
 have the office of his own father ; and the deputyship, the 
 sword of the king of England, and all belonging it, was to 
 be given up to the Archbishop of Dublin, until the king 
 should settle their disputes. The reason the Earl of Kil- 
 dare resigned his office and refused to assist the English of 
 Meath was, because they had not assisted him against the 
 son of the Earl of Ormonde. The English of Meath 
 endured many evils from the Earl of Kildare abandoning 
 them, for they were universally plundered and burnt by 
 the adjacent chieftains. — An, Four. M. 
 
 1491 — About the latter end of this year, being in the 
 month of November, the Earl of Kildare summoned a 
 parliament at Trim, to be held on the Friday next after 
 the feast of the Epiphany of our Lord ; but of the laws 
 and acts there passed, there be none extant, that I know 
 of. — Ware^s Annals Henry VII. 
 
 1491 — Con O’Neilllived in Trim. — O' Neill Pedigree. 
 
 1494 — Robert Preston, Lord Gormanstown, Lord 
 Deputy, held a parliament in Trym. — Rot. Cl. 9 Hen. VII. 
 
 1495 — In the memorable parliament held by Sir Edward 
 Poynings, at Drogheda, amongst other important enact- 
 ments, it was enacted, that, forasmuch as the castles of 
 Dublin, Trim, Leixlippe, Alone, Wycklow, Greencastle, 
 
98 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 Carlingford, Grafergus, bin the chief castles of the land of 
 Ireland ; and of right, appertaineth to our sovereign lord 
 the king ; the constable of each of these castles, be one 
 born in the realm of England. 
 
 In the same parliament, an act was passed touching the 
 records of the earldoms of Marche, Connaught, Trym, and 
 Ulster : 
 
 Forasmuch as the earldoms of Marche and Ulster, and 
 the lordships of Trym and Connaught, been annexed to our 
 sovereign lord the king’s most noble crown ; and that all 
 such rolls, records, and inquisitions, as sometime were 
 remaining of record in the treasory of Trim, as should 
 entitle our said sovereign lord, of late was taken and me- 
 bezzled, by diverse persons of malice and prepense ; 
 therefore — 
 
 1495 — It was enacted that the liberty and lordship of 
 Trim should be annexed to the crown for ever. 
 
 1502 — From the accompts of William Darcy, ofPlattyn, 
 knight, receiver-general of Ireland, it appears that the 
 profits of the manor of Trim were for the year £58, of 
 Moyfenrath, £10, and of Castlerickard, £5 6s. 8d.— 
 Pipe Roll, 
 
 The following entries are worthy of observation, and are 
 taken from The State of Ireland and Plan of its 
 Reformation,” submitted to Henry VIlI.<i in 1515 ; and 
 'printed in the State Papers : 
 
 And first of all that the said deputy and captain begin 
 the said order among the king’s subjects of the county of 
 Meath, in manner as it followeth : 
 
 First, that the said deputy, by the advice of the lords 
 
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 of the king’s counsel, ordain certain persons of the noble 
 folk of the said county, that is to say, the Lord Viscount 
 of Gormanstown, the Baron of Slane, the Baron of Delvin, 
 and the Lord of Trimlestown, to be justices of the peace 
 always within the said county. 
 
 Also, that by the said deputy and counsel, there be two 
 wardens of the peace assigned in every barony within the 
 said county. 
 
 Also, that the wardens of every barony do assemble all 
 the common folk of their room (district) charging that the 
 folk of every parish do choose two constables for their 
 captains. 
 
 Also, that the said deputy, with the said captain, inas- 
 much as Orally is the strongest Irish rebel that marcheth 
 with the county of Meath, put the said order into execu- 
 tion in all the baronies that marcheth with the said Orally, 
 beginning with the barony of Kells, in manner as folio weth : 
 
 First, that the wardens of the said barony of Kells do 
 make open proclamation, in open assembly, the muster day, 
 that every valiant person, able to bear weapon, do provide 
 for himself a doublet, or a coat of fence, called a jakke, no 
 longer to the knee, within such time as the wardens’ dis- 
 cretion shall assign, long or short, after the substance of 
 the person, rich or poor. 
 
 Also, that every valiant person within the said barony 
 do provide himself a salet, (head-piece) and a sword, 
 within 15 days after. 
 
 Also, that every man, that shoots with an English bow, 
 or with an Irish bow, have his bow and arrows according 
 with the said time. 
 
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 Also, that every mao, that cannot shoot with an arrow, 
 or spear, be charged with byll or glaye, (halbert) and 
 broad sword, so that every man of the said barony, be 
 charged to bear such weapon in hand as he may best 
 wield. 
 
 Moreover, inasmuch as archery is failed amongst all the 
 king’s subjects of this land, except among such as dwell 
 in the city of Dublin, and town of Drogheda, and such as 
 dwelleth betwixt both towards the sea coast ; and in de- 
 fault of archery and bow-men, the king’s subjects were 
 never so feeble, and, without some remedy be found shortly, 
 that will supply the great slackness of archery and bows, 
 the king’s subjects shall never prevail against the wild 
 Irish and English rebels, nor obtain the over hand and 
 palm of their enemies. And inasmuch as all the wild 
 Irish and English rebels of this land do dread and fear 
 much more the sudden shot of guns than the shot of arrows 
 or the shot of any other kind of weapon in this world ; in 
 consideration whereof, be it enacted by the said wardens 
 and constables, that of every 100 persons 20 gunners be 
 assigned and charged to provide them guns, swords, powder 
 and pellets according, within the said time of 15 days. 
 
 Also, that proclamation be made by the said wardens, 
 in the said muster, straitly charging that every person 
 have his weapon and his harness, wherewith he is charged, 
 as aforesaid, within the said time and space, on pain of 
 death and losing his goods and chatties. 
 
 Also, that the said wardens and constables be charged, 
 on the said pain, by the king’s deputy, and the said cap- 
 tain, that they put all the valiant folk within their room in 
 
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 the said order, and do execution on him that shall make 
 default without any pardon. 
 
 Also, that the said wardens, by the strait command of 
 the king’s deputy, and the said captain, ordain and pro- 
 cure, on the said pain, that every village and town of the 
 said barony, within six miles to the wild Irish, be ditched 
 and hedged strongly about the gates, with timber, after the 
 manner of the county Kildare, for dread of fire of their 
 enemies, and that the folk of every town shall help others, 
 with their own labour and victuals, to make and perform 
 the said ditches and hedges in all haste possible. 
 
 Also, that the proclamation be made, that every man do 
 answer the cry without delay, and that no town do raise 
 the cry without an urgent cause. 
 
 Also, that said wardens and constables see that every 
 poor valiant person that have not wherewith to buy a coat 
 of fence as aforesaid, be charged with a breast, till God 
 sends him wherewith, so that he have a coat of fence of his 
 own within two years, on the said pain ; and that it be 
 ordained by the duputy, and the said captain, that no 
 merchant shall buy, or take yarn within two years, nor 
 stamyn (cloth) over the seas, out of the counties of Meath, 
 Uryell, Kyldare, during the space of two years, on pain 
 of forfeiture of the same, and £10 to the king, tociens 
 quotiens. 
 
 Also, it is more easy for a man to bear a coat of fence, 
 called a jakke, than a breast, and (it) shall defend a man's 
 body better from the Irish arrows and darts. The breast 
 leaveth the legs naked, and the back is more uneasy and 
 painful to bear, for footmen, than a jakke ; and also it is 
 
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 more easy for every man to lie in the field in a jakke, than 
 with a breast. 
 
 Also, there shall no man shoot with a spear, or dart, at 
 his pleasure, with a breast, nor wield any manner of wea- 
 pon that he shall bear in hand, bearing a breast, as he 
 shall with a jakke; in consideration whereof, it be ordained 
 at length that every man shall have his jakke, and because 
 a man cannot shoot easy with a breast, archers of Eng- 
 land will have no breast. 
 
 Also, the said wardens and constables do muster the 
 folk of their room once every quarter on the hill of Lyde 
 ( Loyd), to see diligently that every man have such har- 
 ness wherewith he is charged, and he that make default, 
 to be punished as is aforesaid, without pardon, to the ter- 
 rible example of all others. 
 
 Then the said (barony) of Kells thus put in order, that 
 the deputy, and the said captain of the king’s army, do 
 charge the wardens and constables of every barony within 
 the county Meath, to put all the common folk within their 
 room in harness and weapon, in every point and manner, 
 after the order of the aforesaid barony of Kells, in all haste 
 possible. 
 
 Also, all the common folk shall find swords and saletes, 
 bows and arrows, bylles and glaves, hand-guns, powder 
 and pellets, breasts, quareles (arrows with square heads) 
 and cross-bows, to be sold for their money at the city of 
 Dublin and town of Drogheda. 
 
 Then the deputy, and the said captain do ordain that all 
 the common folk of Eastmeath, from the barony of Delvin, 
 exclusive, to the sea, shall muster in their best array before 
 
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 them, every Saint George’s day, on the hill of Tara; and 
 that all the common folk of the west part of Meath shall 
 appear before them the first day of May, in likewise, at 
 such place as they shall assign. 
 
 Also, that the wardens of every of the said baronies 
 shall have a standard of the arms of St. George, and the 
 constables to have gytton (Guidon flag) of the arms of 
 Saint David, in token that the King of England and of 
 France is Lord of Ireland. 
 
 Then that the deputy and the said captains see, with 
 their greatest diligence, and best care and charge, that all 
 the king’s subjects of the counties of Uryell, Dublin, Kyl- 
 dare, Carlaghe, and Wexford, be put in order of weapon 
 and harness, in every point and manner as the common 
 folk of the county of Meath, and that it be done in all haste 
 possible. 
 
 Then that the said deputy and captain of the king’s 
 said army see, in likewise, that all the king’s subjects and 
 common folk of the county of Waterford, of the counties of 
 Kylkenny, Phydred (Fethard), Cork, Lymbryk, and Kyery, 
 be put in harness and weapon in every manner, degree, or 
 order, in every point, after the king’s subjects, and common 
 folk of the county of Meath. 
 
 Also, that every city and port town, and every market 
 town walled, be charged with such harness and weapon as 
 shall please them, so that the common folk be of no worse 
 condition then the common folk rural. 
 
 Also, that every horseman, whatsoever condition he be 
 of, dwelling within the English pale, be charged to ride 
 always in a saddle; that every gentleman of lands be 
 
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 charged to have his horse and his harness, and spears, 
 after the manner of the Welsh spears, ready to answer at 
 all times the king^s deputy, when need shall require, and 
 that it be at his election to ride in white harness, after the 
 manner of England, or else to ride in his jakke, with his 
 halbryk (hawberk) and his gorgete, so that he shall bear 
 his spear in the rest, at his pleasure, when need shall 
 require. 
 
 Also, that the deputy and the said captain, first of all, 
 do straitly charge and command the wardens of every 
 barony of the county of Meath, as well as of every other 
 county under the king’s obedience, to make open procla- 
 mation in their musters, that every man, having of his own 
 such weapon and harness as he is appointed and charged 
 with, shall never be oppressed there after with coyne and 
 lyverye, or with any other manner or kind of oppression, 
 by the king’s deputy, or their landlord, or by any other 
 person, high or low, English or Irish, while the world 
 endure, except that they pay rent, or English custom to 
 their landlord. 
 
 Also, that, notwithstanding the said great liberty and 
 freedom granted for ever, &c., the manner of the common 
 folk is, and ever have been, to grudge to do any great act 
 for their own wealth and profit, notwithstanding any 
 charge of the king, or layser, (?) without it were only for 
 dread and fear to lose their lives. 
 
 Also, it be ordained, that no Irish captain, subject to 
 the king, use any manner of extortion, or raise any man- 
 ner of custom or coyne, or of any other custom of meat 
 or drink, on his own tenants, or on any other tenants; 
 
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 and he that shall presume to practice the contrary shall 
 lose £20 to the king. 
 
 1524 — The Right Honorable Earl Gerralde of Kildare, 
 Deputy [in Kildare’s indenture], granted, that he shall 
 expend and lay out in, upon, and about, the reperacyons 
 of the king’s castles and manors of Dublin and Trim, and 
 other of the king’s castles within this his land of Ireland, 
 of the rents and revenues of the king’s possession of the 
 same land, the first year forty pounds, and yearly forty 
 marks, during the time of his deputation. — St. Papers^ 
 vol. ii. chap, xxxix. page 115. 
 
 1534 — ^November 15 — Sir William Skefiington,^ Lord 
 Deputy, attended by Brereton, went from Dublin to Dun- 
 shaughlin, where the traitor. Lord Thom as, f shewed him- 
 self near Trim, where seven or eight score of his company 
 
 * Having been master of the ordinance in England, he was 
 called by the Irish master gunner. 
 
 + The FitzGeralds were assisted in this rebellion by many 
 Meath men — Talbot of Dardistown, Feld of Paynstown, Dela- 
 hide of Moyclare, Boys of the Calcagh, Leyns of the Knock, 
 Parese of Agher, Walsh of Ticroghan, Reynolds, Archdeacon 
 of Kells, and Walsh, Parson of Loughseudie, were attainted 
 for having joined him (Statutes and St. Papers, i. p. 323). 
 Poor Silken Thomas writes from the Tower : — “I never had 
 any money since I came into prison but a noble, nor have I 
 had either hose, doublet, or shoes, or shirt, but one, nor any 
 other garment, but a single frieze gown, for a velvet furred 
 with buodge (lamb’s fur) ; and so I have gone wolward 
 (clothed in wool) and barefoot and barelegged divers times 
 when it hath not been very warm, and so I should have done 
 still, and now, but the poor prisoners, of their gentleness, have 
 sometimes given me old hose, and shoes, and old shirts.” — 
 St. Papers, i., 403. 
 
 H 
 
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 were slain, and one hundred horses taken. Skeffiugton says, 
 
 that lyke a cowardly boy and traitor, he was driven to flye 
 at spurres, and lost divers of his men and horseis, with their 
 harnes, to his shameful rebuke and reproaches.” Trim was 
 then committed to Richard Fitzgerald, with forty horsemen ; 
 and all the gentlemen of the county were commanded to him. 
 From thence the deputy and Brereton returned to Dublin. 
 On the 1st of December they took the Castle of Kildare, and 
 left twenty men to keep it ; but within six days it was re- 
 taken by the traitor, who went from thence to Trim, and re- 
 took^ it in two hours: he was accompanied with the num- 
 ber of sixty or eighty horsemen at the most, and about 300 
 kerne and galloglas ; and he ther robbed not only the same 
 (towne of Trim), but also brente a great part thereof, and 
 took all the cataill of the countrie theraboughtes.f 
 
 On January 5, 1535, 700 men were sent by the deputy 
 to keep Trim . — State Papers^ 2 pt. iii., p. 220. 
 
 * It is to be hoped that the castle was not taken. Stany- 
 hurst says: — “Another time Thomas Fitzgerald iired a vil- 
 lage hard by Trim, and devised such of his horsemen as could 
 speak English, being clad and horsed like northern men, to 
 ride to Trim, where a garrison lay, with hue-and-cry, saying 
 that they were Captain Salisburie’s soldiers; and that the 
 traitor, Thomas Fitzgerald, was burning a village hard by. 
 The soldiers, suspecting no cousenage, issued out of the town, 
 who were by his men charged, and a great number of them 
 slain ; some chased to the town and forced to take sanctuary 
 in the churchyard, which in those days was highly reve- 
 renced. — Stanyhurst^ p. 302. 
 
 F Behind a house in Wellington -street was lately found a 
 pot containing coins from the commencement of Edward IV. ’s 
 reign to the last years of Henry VIII. ’s. 
 
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 In February, 1535, Sir Rice Maunxell, Leonard Skef- 
 fington, and Mr. Eglionby, lay in Trim, accompanied 
 with 500 men or theraboutes, p. 225, “ where, ” says 
 Skeffington, “ they have done right good explootes and 
 acceptable service, in noyeing the traitour and his fol- 
 lowers.” — p. 224. 
 
 December 23 — Thomas Stewnes,^ constable of the Cas- 
 tle of Trim, had general pardon — Rot. Pat. 24, 5 Henry 
 VIII. 
 
 1 536 — Lord Leonard Gray was in Trim, February 23. 
 It was in this town that he received his patent as Lord 
 Deputy . — State Papers, pt. iii., p. 306. 
 
 1537 — J. Alen, Master of the Rolls, in a certain infor- 
 mation for our Sovereign Lord’s most honorable commis- 
 sioners in Ireland, amongst other recommendations says : 
 
 Item, because that the English pale is environed about 
 with Irish rebels, which by sudden roads may do much 
 hurt to the king’s subjects, before that the deputy, being 
 far off, may make resistance ; it is, therefore, necessary 
 that his chief abiding be at Trim, as a place most indif- 
 ferent to answer all parties ; where it shall be requisite 
 that the castle there be sufficiently repaired, and the tim- 
 ber and stones of the monasteries of Saint Peter, f the 
 Betty, and if need be of the Black Friars there, be drawn 
 
 * Thomas Stephens, alderman of Dublin. 
 
 t The editor’s note explains these names as the names of the 
 priories of St. Peter and St. Paul, and of St. John the Bap- 
 tist, at Newtown, near Trim. They more probably signified 
 the priory of St. Peter at Newtown, the abbey at Bective, and 
 the Dominican Friary at Trim. 
 
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 thither for the same purpose ; and also, that 400 or 500 
 great oaks^' be felled in Offaly whilst we have it in our 
 commandment, and carried the next summer towards the 
 building of the said castle . — Ihidy p. 481. 
 
 1537. — Item, whereas nothing doth more cause men to 
 forbear evil doings and do well, as the right knowledge of 
 the laws, and obedience to the same ; it were therefore 
 convenient, that the terms should be kept, and the law 
 ministered in such place, as with least cost and charge the 
 king’s subjects from all places might resort thereunto ; we 
 think no place so convenient for that purpose as the town 
 of Trim, where might the Dillons, Tyrrells, and Daltons, 
 
 * Walter de Lacy had in his charter given permission to his 
 freemen and burgesses of Trim to gather wood in his forest in 
 sight of the foresters. In the time of Giraldus Cambrensis 
 ( Top. Hib. 3, 2) the country was covered with woods. In 
 1515, it was proposed to Henry VIII., that it be ordained by 
 the deputy and the said captain that the tenants of every of 
 the king’s towns be strictly enjoined to ditch and hedge their 
 corn, their croftes, their closes, and their gardens, and there- 
 about, to set and plant trees most meet and apt for building 
 houses, for ploughing, and carting, and tilling of the land, 
 and especially with oaken trees, so that the husbands of every 
 of the said towns and villages, within a few years, shall have 
 timber sufficient of their own to satisfy their distress always 
 in every point, where that now one of the most dearth, that 
 hurteth the commonwealth subject to the king, is the dearth 
 and lack of timber . — State of Ireland y ti’c., in State Papers, 
 vol. ii., p. iii., page 28-9. 
 
 King James, 1609, granted permission to the Irish society to 
 cut down 50,000 oaks, at 10s. a piece ; 100,000 ashes, at 5s. ; 
 10,000 elms, at 6s. 8d., to build Londonderry from the woods 
 of Killetra, where there are few trees now . — Stat Sur. Finvoy* 
 
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 with all Westmeath, answer the king’s rights, and so grow 
 to due obedience, from which now they be far astray, for 
 lack of due knowledge of the same. — J. Alen, State Papers^ 
 vol. ii. pt. iii. page 483. 
 
 1537. — And in doing of this, or parleying with Irishmen 
 upon the border, the deputy shall not need to charge the 
 whole country ; for if he have causes with the borders of 
 Uriell, he may be in Dundalk, and make his parliament or 
 war out of the same, and his own person to be sure there. 
 If he have such cause with Orally, he may lie in Kynlies 
 (Kells), in Navan, or Athboy. If with Ochonour, he may 
 be in Trim, in Bremyngham’s country, (the barony of 
 Carbury, in Kildare,) Kathangan or Kyldare. If with 
 Omore, in Aythe, and so upon every border where he hath 
 such cause. — J. Alen, State Papers^ vol. ii. pt. iii. p. 490. 
 In another paper to the commissioners, Alen says: — And 
 in any wise some order to be taken immediately for the 
 building of the castle hall, (in Dublin,) where the law is 
 kept ; for if the same be not built, the majestie and esti- 
 mation of the law shall perish, the justices being then en* 
 forced to minister the laws upon the hills as it were brehons* 
 
 * Campion thus describes the brehons — “Other lawyers 
 they have liable to certain families, which, after the custom of 
 the country, determine and judge causes. These consider of 
 wrongs offered and received amongst their neighbours ; be it 
 murder, or felony, or trespass, all is redeemed by composition. 
 The breighoon, as they call this sort of lawyer, sitteth him 
 down on a bank, the lords and gentlemen at variance about 
 him, and then proceed.” Spencer says — “The brehon (that 
 is their judge) will compound between the murderer and the 
 friends of the party murdered, which prosecute the action ; 
 
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 or wild Irishmen in their eriottes. O’Reilly’s fine of 
 
 that the malefactor shall give unto them, or to the child, or 
 wife of him that is slain, a recompense, which they call an 
 eriach. ” Stanyhurst de reb. Hib. 37, says — That the Irish had 
 certain judges, “ quos illi brehonios appellant. Isti sunt ex 
 una familia proseminati, intelligentiam juris Britanicci non 
 habent, civilis etiam ac pontificalis imperitissimi, retinent 
 solummodo domestica qusedam psephesmata, usu ac diuturni- 
 tate corroborata, quorum animadversione artem aliquam ex 
 rebus fictis commentitiisque conflatam pepererunt, quam nullo 
 modo divulgari patiuntur, sed sibimet ipsis, veluti astrusa 
 atque abdita mysteria, a communi hominum sensu remotis- 
 sima, earn reservant.” Sir John Davies, in his letter to Lord 
 Salisbury, gives the following interesting account of an inter- 
 view with an old brehon — “Touching the certainty of the 
 duties or provisions yielded unto M ‘Guyre out of these men- 
 sall lands, the jury referred themselves to an old parchment 
 roll, which they called an indenture, remaining in the hands 
 of one O’Brislan, a chronicler and principal brehon of that 
 country : whereupon O’Brislan was sent for, who lived not far 
 from the camp, but was so aged and decrepid as he was scarce 
 able to repair unto us : when he was come we demanded of 
 him the sight of that ancient roll. The old man, seeming to be 
 much troubled with this demand, made answer that he had 
 such a roll in his keeping before the war, but that in the late 
 rebellion it was burned, among other of his papers and books, 
 by certain English soldiers. We were told by some that were 
 present that this was not true, for they affirmed that they had 
 seen the roll in his hands since the war ; thereupon my Lord 
 Chancellor did minister an oath unto him, and gave him a 
 very serious charge to inform us truly what was become of the 
 roll. The poor old man, fetching a deep sigh, confessed that 
 it was dearer to him than his life, and therefore he would 
 never deliver it out of his hands unless my Lord Chancellor 
 would take the like oath that the roll should be restored unto 
 
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 the hundred kine"^' would build it and amend the gaol at 
 Trim. 
 
 1537 — There be in the marches of Meath, three lords 
 of one nation, called the Plunketts, that is to say, the 
 Lord of Dunsany, the Lord of Killeen, and the Lord of 
 Rathmore. They be neither men of wisdom to give 
 counsel, nor yet men of activity ; and having the same 
 possessions that their fathers had, they keep in manner no 
 men for the defence of the marches, but suffer the same to 
 be oppressed, overrun, and wasted by Irishmen, whereby 
 the king’s profits and strength daily diminished there. 
 
 The Lord of the Dengin, within the same shire, is after 
 the same sort. 
 
 The Baron of Slane passeth them not much in wit, but 
 he keepeth men of war for the defence of his border. 
 
 The Viscount of Gormanstown, in the same shire, is a 
 man of fair possessions, and but of a mean wit, and less 
 
 him again ; my Lord Chancellor, smiling, gave him his word 
 and his hand that he should have the roll delivered unto him, 
 if he would suffer us to take a view and a copy thereof. And 
 thereupon the old brehon drew the roll out of his bosom, 
 where he did continually bear it about him : it was not very 
 large, but it was written on both sides in a fair Irish charac- 
 ter ; howbeit some part of the writing was worn and defaced 
 with time and ill-keeping : we caused it forthwith to be trans- 
 lated into English, and we perceived how many vessels of 
 butter, and how many measures of meal, and how many porks, 
 and other such gross duties, did arise unto M ‘Guire out of his 
 mensall lands. 
 
 * Money seems to have been very scarce in these times — 
 O’Connor’s fine, in 1537, was 800 kine. There is no mention 
 of O’ReiUy’s money in the State Papers. 
 
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 active, keeping in manner no men, neither making defence 
 for the country. 
 
 The Lord of Trymlettistown (Trimlestown), is a wise 
 man to give counsel, but he keepeth no company. — Gray^ 
 to Cromwell^ St, Papers^ i. 435. 
 
 1538 — Oct. 8 — The Deputy, Lord Leonard Gray and 
 the council, wrote to the king from his grace's town of 
 Trim. — State Papers^ vol. i. p. 101. 
 
 1538 — Thomas Agard writes to Cromwell — “ Of late I 
 have procured a benefice (the rectory of Trim ?)* for a son 
 of mine here, who is but 15 years of age, and for lack of 
 knowledge I entered and have it in possession ; and now 
 Mr. Pawlett and Berners have got a tytling thereof, and do 
 intend to put me to trouble, because I have no license. . . . 
 I think it is by reason of the Lord Deputy, who is my 
 heavy lord ; — I never gave him cause, but, because of my 
 taking a farm of the king’s, which is to me one of the 
 dearest farms in Ireland ; I do sustain loss enough by the 
 Lord Deputy, though he invent not this. Mr. Berners is 
 the putter forward of it, as Mr. Sentleger can further shew 
 your lordship. God knoweth, it is in a manner all my 
 living. My lord, I have set up broad looms, f and a dye- 
 house there, trusting in God, within this year, to set 100 
 or more at work, if I may be suffered. But unless it be 
 
 * In the Chief Bemembrancer’s Office there is an Inquisition 
 of the 33rd of Henry VIII. , respecting Francis Agere, Hector 
 of Trim. 
 
 t There is no trace of any woollen manufactory in Trim, 
 although Bobert Briddock left £500 for its encouragement in 
 1702. 
 
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 113 
 
 by your good lordship’s help, that I may have the king’s 
 letters, that the poor town of Trim may be excused from 
 hostings and journeys for seven years, with the lordship of 
 Bectyffe, (Bective) else the Lord Deputy will in a manner 
 undo them, and me both. They be the king’s towns and 
 the sorriest in decay of any place in the English pale 
 in Ireland, and more (men) like to flee out of the 
 town, than to abide, unless they have aid the sooner.” 
 This was past by Act of Parliament, both the com- 
 mons and lords, but the Lord Deputy w^ould not pass 
 the royal assent thereto. — St. Papers, vol. ii. pt. hi., 
 page 569. 
 
 1541 — March 26 — Touching the repayreng of our 
 Castle of Trirae, which you thinke to be moche necessary, 
 declaring that the coontrey is also soo desirous of the same 
 as they offre to beare a large portion of theire oune towards 
 it, you shall understande that for the good of our subgicttes 
 of that lande, we be content that by warraunt herof of 
 such money as shall come to our treasory there, you, our 
 Deputy, with the advice of our Chancellour, Chief Justice, 
 and Vice-Treasourer, shall employ about the fortifications 
 of the dongeon, the gates and the walls only, the sum of 
 two hundred pounds sterling, — being first at such a point 
 with the countrey for the performance of theyr part towardes 
 the same, as those may concurre and be employed in such 
 sorte together, as the worke maye not only be doon in 
 convenyent and seasonable tyme, but also with such forsight, 
 provision and oversight in the doing, as that which shall 
 be doon may be substancially doon, and yet the money be 
 extended as farre by husbondrye, as your wisdomes can 
 
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 advaunce the same .* — Henry VIIL to Lord Deputy and 
 Council; St. Papers^ vol. ii., p. 296. 
 
 1542 — The Parliament, under Sir Anthony Sentleger, 
 sat in Trim from the 12th to the 21st of June . — State 
 Papers^ vol. iii. pt. iii., p. 398, /mA Stat. 
 
 1542 — The bill for dividing the shire of Meath, and 
 erecting the Annaly into a shire, which, albeit, undoubt- 
 edly they appear to most men indifferent beneficial, and 
 
 * How necessary fortifications in the neighbourhood of Trim 
 were considered at this time, is evident from the following 
 grant from Henry VIII., in the year 1533 — To John Barne- 
 wall, knight. Lord of Trymletistown, in fee farm, 120 acres of 
 arable land, eight messuages, and all manner of meadows, 
 feeding grounds, pastures, weirs, fisheries, and all other here- 
 ditaments whatsoever, in Dunlevyrs, and both Dunlwyrs, 
 otherwise called both Houlevras ; Balenebouricke, otherwise 
 called Ballynbwurish, otherwise called Brownristhestown, and 
 Cabraght ; together with all customs, commodities, and pro- 
 fits to the same premises appendant, pertaining, or belonging, 
 to hold of the crown to him, and the heirs male of his body, in 
 fee farm, as of the manor of Tryme, by the fee farm of £6 6s. 
 Irish; to the intent that the said John should, within four 
 years from the date of the grant, build certain houses near the 
 Castle of Killnycrosse, for the better defence and support 
 thereof, said castle being conveniently situated for the defence 
 of the king’s English subjects against the O’Connors and other 
 rebels, provided that the value of the premises at the time of 
 the grant does not exceed £6 6s. Irish. — Rot. Pat. 24, 6 Henry 
 VIIL 
 
 In 1528, Lord Delvin, then Vice Deputy, was taken pri- 
 soner by O’Connor at a castle of Sir W. Darcey’s, called 
 Bathyn. Christopher Cusake, the compiler of Cusake’s col- 
 lections, was taken prisoner with State Papers, vol. iii., 
 
 pt. iii., page 127-9. 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 115 
 
 for a common weal, and no good reason to the contrary, 
 yet they of Meath stick so sore that the shire should be 
 divided, as it cannot pass. Howbeit, the next session we 
 trust it will pass . — State Papers^ vol. iii., pt. iii., p. 406. 
 
 1546 — New coin"^ was introduced this year into Ire- 
 land, 2 .e., copper, and the Irish were compelled to use it 
 instead of silver. — An. Four Masters^ Duh. Pen. Jour. 
 
 1559 — June 24 — King Philip and Queen Mary having 
 by patent, 1st of December, 4th and 5th of Philip and 
 Mary (by advice of the commissioners for demising their 
 land, for twenty-one years or under), demised to Laurence 
 Hammond, of Trim, gentleman : 
 
 The manors or lordships of Tryme and Moygeare : 
 
 In the field called Rathfield, 
 
 ... 31 (3?) Acres. 
 
 In Maudelen’s field, 
 
 ... 30 
 
 5 > 
 
 In the field called Mothe Mareshoke, alias 
 
 
 Moh Marishoke, 
 
 ... 30 
 
 
 In the field called Mareshoke, ... 
 
 ... 7 
 
 
 In the church field, 
 
 ... 60 
 
 >> 
 
 In the field called Dyer’s land, ... 
 
 ... 15 
 
 ? J 
 
 In Stonefield, 
 
 ... 144 
 
 J> 
 
 In Mychefield, 
 
 ... 454 
 
 J J 
 
 In the field Phillemen’s land, + ... 
 
 ... 15 
 
 J> 
 
 InPackfield, 
 
 ... 39 
 
 J J 
 
 In Horse Crossetield, 
 
 ... 10 
 
 J> 
 
 Broadmede meadow, 14 acres. 
 
 Being the 
 
 demen 
 
 lands of said manor. 
 
 The towns of Parktown, Leyeton, and Steepleton, 
 In Trim, 22 cottages and one garden. 
 
 , * King Henry VIII. ’s base money. — See Simon, p. 33. 
 t Now PhiUistown. 
 
116 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 The yearly rent of £8 8s. out of the towns of Dolyvers, 
 Molybondrishe, (Balenebouricke?) Bally goraghe, and Car- 
 bragh. 
 
 Out of Bedlowyston water-mill, 2s. 
 
 Out of a weare on the Boyne, at Bedlowyston, 2s. 
 
 Out of twelve acres (late Walter Lynches), in the fields 
 of Trim, Is. 
 
 Out of certain lands of Thomas Dillon, within the manor 
 of Trim, £10 15s. 6d. (15s.?) 
 
 Out of Robert Martynelfs shop in Trim, 2s. 3d. 
 
 The towns of Clony, Ballyowyn, Galleston, Ballymul- 
 murry, Batreston, Dowleston, Balylybrennocke, Ballycon- 
 nan, Ballycorry, alias Roriestown, Horsenewtown, and 
 Doggestown. 
 
 I The castle of the manor of Trym, and the site 
 thereof. 
 
 f In Kilmorry, 180 acres arable, twelve pasture, eight 
 wood. 
 
 t Custom days for repairing said castle and the petty 
 customs of the town of Trym. 
 
 (All woods, underwoods, manses, advowsons, of 
 churches, knights’ fees, wardships, marriages, reliefs and 
 escheats excepted), to hold for 21 years, at the rent of 
 £65, Irish, with all other rents and charges going out of 
 the premises, (the rent due to the Bishop of Meath, out of 
 the manor of Trim excepted), which lease Laurence 
 Hammond surrendered to Queen Elizabeth, and had a new 
 lease by this patent, for 2 1 years, from Easter last, at the 
 aforesaid rent of £65, excepting and reserving to the 
 crown the premises thus marked.f — Beth, Coll, 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 117 
 
 1560-1 — February 28 — Sir George Stanley, marshall 
 of Ireland, writes to the Earl of Sussex, from Trim : 
 
 As for news there is none, but all the sea quarters be 
 in rest and peace, save only that I received this present 
 day a letter from O’Reeli, wherein he writes unto us that 
 Shane O’Neele was ready to enter into his county, with 
 14 days victuals ; and desiring also in his letter aid from 
 me.” — Wrighfs Elizabeth^ vol. i., p. 60. 
 
 1574-5 — Great heat and extreme drought prevailed in 
 the summer of this year ; it did not rain one hour from 
 Bealtaine to Lammas. In consequence of the heat, the 
 plague* raged amongst the Irish and English in Dublin, 
 Naas, Ardee, Mullingar, and Athboy. Many a castle was 
 left without a guard — many a flock without a shepherd — 
 and many a noble corpse without burial. — An, Four M, 
 1599 — Sir John Harrington writes — Myself, after I 
 had conducted him (Sir Griffin Markham) in a horse litter, 
 safe beyond danger of the rebels, within eight miles of 
 
 * The plague raged in Ireland also in 1 520. On the 3rd of August 
 in that year, Surrey writes from Dublin to Wolsey — “ I have 
 not a little to do to get sufficient company with me, because of 
 the marvellous death which is in all O’Neil’s country, which is 
 so sore that all the people be fled out of their houses into the 
 fields and woods, where they in likewise die wonderfully, so 
 that the bodies lie dead, like swine unburied. Also in the four 
 shires here of the English, I think are not four towns or villages, 
 but that they die therein. Three of my household folks have 
 sickened in my house, and died in the town, within seven days 
 last past ; notwithstanding, I am fain to keep my wife and 
 children here still, for I know no place in this country where 
 to send them in clean — State Papers, vol. iii., part iii., 
 p. 28-9. 
 
118 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 Dublin, went to Trim, the place appointed for our garrison ;* 
 and from thence have visited Navan and Ardbraccan, 
 where my Lord Lieutenant (Essex) lay yesterday and the 
 day before, and meant to go thence to Brennys.f I lie 
 here at Mr. Eobert Hammon’sJ house, who is this year 
 Portreffe of Trim, as much in effect as Mayor. He shews 
 the greatest gratitude to me and to all my friends for my 
 sake ; that, to my remembrance, no man hath done 
 more : yet was he not beholden to my father for one foot 
 of his living, but only for his breeding.’’ — Letter to T, 
 Comhe — Nugce Antiquce, 
 
 * 1599 — Horse at Trim, Sir Griffin Markham, ... 50 
 
 Foot ... Sir Charles Percy, ... 200 
 
 Captain Eoger Orme, ... 100 
 
 Captain Alford, 100 
 
 — Moryson's Itinerary, 
 
 + Part of Cavan and Leitrim. 
 
 X In 1559, Laurence Hammond was the lessee of the crown ; 
 in 1589, Moses Hamon of Trim was member of Parliament for 
 the borough — In 1660, Eobert Hamond, and Catherine his wife, 
 were allowed five pounds a-year from the charity of the corpora- 
 tion — within this period seems to have been the rise and fall of 
 this family. Very rapid, indeed, have been the changes of fami- 
 lies amongst us. In the names of the freemen before 1700, not 
 more than three or four are to be found, which are now known in 
 the neighbourhood. The families of our Portrieves have been 
 more permanent, — Ashes, Lightburnes, Percivals, Blighs, and 
 (nam licuit nobis parvum te, Nile, videre) Wesleys — but these 
 were mostly not townspeople, but country families, who for 
 political purpose connected themselves with the corporation. 
 
 Moryson, vol. 2, p. 362, says — “Trim is a little town on 
 the confines of Ulster, ^having a stately castle now much 
 ruinated ; and it is more notable for being, as it were, the 
 ancient barony of the Lacies.” 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 119 
 
 1599 — The 31st January, we came to Trim, eight miles 
 (on the way from Philipstown,) champion ground. This 
 is a pleasent town for a seat, (if the inhabitants were suit- 
 able,) through which the Boyne runs, and it hath the 
 ruins of a sumptuous castle ; this place, his lordship (Lord 
 Mountjoy, the deputy,) thought fittest for his present resi- 
 dence. From Trim, in East Meath, his lordship, on the 
 11th of February, (passing by the Baron of Trimbles- 
 towne^s house,) rode to the Lord of Delvin’s house in 
 Westmeath, 1 1 miles distant. — Moryson, 
 
 4th March, his lordship rode five miles to Sir Edward 
 Fitzgerald’s house, (Ticroghan) situate in Meath, in a plea- 
 sant and fruitful country. The 5th of March, we rode 10 
 miles to Moymeere, (Moymett,) a very pleasant house, be- 
 longing to Sir James Dillon; and thence the same day, two 
 miles farther to Trim. — Moryson^ 2 v. 209. 
 
 1610 — A grant for the fine of £40 Irish, and in virtue 
 of the commission, dated at Westminster, June 26th, 
 1610, to Sir James Carroll,’^ Lord Mayor of the City of 
 Dublin, in 1612), knight of the manors of Trim and 
 
 * In the reign of James I. the following free rents out of 
 the manor of Trim, were demised to James Hamilton, Esq., 
 viz. : — 
 
 Out of Bedlowston, 2s. ; out of Bedlowston weare on the 
 Boyne, 2s. ; out of twelve acres arable in the fields of Trim, 
 from Walter Lynche, Is. ; out of certain lands within that 
 manor, from Thomas Dillon, 15s. ; out of a shop in Trim, from 
 Walter Peppard, 7s. 2d. ; out of another shop, from itobert 
 Martinell, 2s. 3d. ; the like from Patrick Martinell, out of 
 another shop. 
 
 The scite, &c., of the said manor, upon which is a ruinous 
 castle, surrounded with stone walls, containing therein 3 acres. 
 
120 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 Moygare, and the customs'^' and duties of the tenants; at 
 the rent of £26 10s. Irish, for the manor of Trim, and 
 £30 15s. 5d. for Moygare; and to find and maintain upon 
 the manner of Trim, three able horsemen of English 
 birth, well armed, to attend the Chief Governor for the 
 defence of the kingdom. Sir James to build, before the 
 
 The demesne lands of said manor, lying in the fields of 
 Trim, viz. : — 
 
 In PI,athfield, 
 
 3 
 
 acres. 
 
 arable. 
 
 In Maudelin’s field, . 
 
 30 
 
 jj 
 
 
 In Little Marishock, 
 
 7 
 
 >> 
 
 
 In Much Marishock, . 
 
 30 
 
 >> 
 
 >> 
 
 In Sherifield, 
 
 80 
 
 
 >> 
 
 In Derisland, 
 
 15 
 
 
 > j 
 
 In Stonefield, 
 
 15i 
 
 J5 
 
 > j 
 
 In Muchfield, 
 
 484 
 
 5> 
 
 >> 
 
 In Phelim’s Land, 
 
 15 
 
 
 >> 
 
 In Parkfield, 
 
 39 
 
 
 
 In Horsecross, 
 
 10 
 
 J5 
 
 J5 
 
 In the whole, being 320 acres, valued per annum, at £15 11s. 5d. 
 
 The rent of a meadow, called Bridemade, containing 24 
 acres of demesne of said manor. 
 
 In Parketon, parcel of said manor, fifteen arable, two 
 meadow, 15s. 
 
 In Leyton, 15s., thirty arable, £1 10s. 
 
 The rent and farm of eighty acres in Stepleton, £4. 
 
 The rent of eight acres in Carbragh, 8s. 
 
 The works and customs of said manor, by which every 
 ploughland in Leyton and Stepleton is to render two days work 
 and two hens, valued at 5s. 
 
 Twenty -two cottages and a garden in Trim, £1 11s. 2d. — 
 Beth. Coll. 
 
 * The customs of the town, as set out in a patent to Sir James 
 Carroll, dated February 12th, 1617. 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 121 
 
 3rd of March, 1611, upon the scite of the ruinous Castle 
 of Trim, a competent and convenient house, on which he 
 was to expend £500, on* the penalty of forfeiting 1,000 
 marcs ; and when the same was built, at the request of the 
 chief governor, to surrender it into the king’s hands for the 
 service of the crown, under the like penalty of 1,000 marcs, 
 the crown repaying him all the expenses he had been at in 
 re-building and repairing the same; also to build within 
 the scite of the said castle a good and safe county gaol, 
 under the penalty of £100, he to receive in recompense 
 thereof such fees as any constable or gaoler had received 
 heretofore. — Beth, Coll. 
 
 1624 — December 23rd — Sir James Craige having by 
 deed, dated 10th December, 1624, appointed Sir Adam 
 Loftus, of Rathfernam, knight, his assignee, to receive 
 lands of £26 10s. Irish, a-year, the king grants to him and 
 his heirs — the scite of the manor of Trym, surrounded 
 with a stone wall, and containing therein three acres ; divers 
 houses and gardens, haggards, places, &c., in Trym. 
 
 All the demesne lands of the said manor, in the town 
 and fields of Trim, containing 335 acres arable and 24 
 meadow. 
 
 The custom of twelve cottages, 12d. 
 
 Twenty-four reapers in autumn. 
 
 Twenty-four hens at Christmas, rated at 8s. 
 
 For every cow 4d. , rated at 4s. 
 
 Twelve entire ploughs, to render yearly four days ploughing, 
 four days carting, two reapers in autumn, and two hens at 
 Christmas, rated at 40s. 
 
 For seven swine and above, one called a thack-swine, and 
 for every swine under that number, IJd., rated at 6s. 8d. 
 
 I 
 
122 
 
 TKIM CASTLE. 
 
 Parktowne, alias Ballinparke, 17 acres. 
 
 Leyton, alias Balleneferagh, 30 „ 
 
 Steepleton, . . . 86 „ 
 
 Carbragh, ... 8 „ 
 
 The chief rent of 2s., out of Bedlowestown mills. 
 
 Out of Bedlowestown weare on the Boyne, 2s. 
 
 Out of 12 acres in Trim, Is. 
 
 Out of lands in Trim; occupied by T. Dillon, 15s. 
 
 Out of Fosterstown, 13s. 4d. 
 
 Out of Bathe’s and White’s land, the estate of Mary’s 
 Abbey, Dublin, 7s. 2d. 
 
 Out of a shop in Trim, 2s. 3d. 
 
 Out of another shop, 2s. 3d. 
 
 The crown rent of £26 10s. Ojd., out of said manor. 
 
 Sir Adam, to find and maintain three able horsemen 
 upon the manor of Trym, at his own expense, to attend 
 the chief governor for the defence of the kingdom ; and to 
 build, if necessary, and keep in repair, within scite of the 
 Castle of Trym, a safe county gaol, under the penalty of 
 £100, he to receive all the fees of the keeper of the said 
 prison, that is such as any other constable or gaoler may 
 receive. — Ibid, 
 
 1642 — Friday, April 29 — Having relieved Sir John 
 (Gifford, at Castle Jordun^) after the successful expedition 
 
 * Skeffington’s camp was at Castle Iredayne, on the 24th of 
 August, 1535.— Papers, V. ii. page 274. In 1540, O’Conor 
 “brake a castle of the kings which was called Castell Gordan, 
 slew one of the ward, and took the residue prisoners away with 
 him, and hath defaced the Castell.” In the same year the 
 council advised the king to rebuild the tower of Castle Jordan, 
 
TEIM CASTLE. 
 
 123 
 
 to Philipstown, we bent our course towards Trim, Sir 
 John, with his men, accompanying us five miles. After 
 we had parted with him, we met with a man which Sir 
 Charles (Coote) prest to know how Trim was in strength, 
 which, for fear of hanging, he confest to have no less than 
 400 in it, and four lords of the pale also (Fingall, Gor- 
 manstown, Slane, and Trimblestown) ; andNavan 700; 
 some were thinking this too many to encounter, but Sir 
 Charles’s words were, 30,000 should not keep him from 
 attempting to take the town, and so marched on ; and 
 when those in the town perceived Sir Charles’s resolution 
 by their scouts, when Sir Charles was within a mile of 
 Trim, all these aforesaid mentioned betooke themselves to 
 their heels, leaving only a few women and children and 
 the town to us . — AdmiraUe News from Ireland 1642. 
 
 The fortifications had been allowed to fall into decay, 
 for at this time the town was encompassed with a stone 
 wall so old and ruinous as afforded in some places of it 
 entrance to horse, over heaps of rubbish that lay instead of 
 the wall, through which the bold but savage Sir Charles 
 Coote forced a passage. In the night, the enemy to the 
 amount of 3,000, advanced silently; but the sentinel gave 
 
 which had been prostrated by O’Conor, but little progress had 
 been made in the work in 1546 . — State Papers^ vol. ii., p. 220-41, 
 570. 
 
 * One of the pamphlets of two or three pages, which preceded 
 and introduced newspapers. It is in the British Museum. This 
 account seems to have been drawn up by one of the parlia- - 
 mentary party, with whom Sir Charles Coote was a favourite. 
 Carte (vol. 1., p. 318), who disliked Sir Charles, gives the 
 praise of taking Trim to Sir Richard Grenville. 
 
124 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 the alarm, and Sir Charles — who in expeditions never went 
 to bed — was instantly on horseback; he could only call 
 seventeen troopers ; however, with these he advanced to 
 the gates, and charged the enemy, whom he threw into 
 disorder, and soon obliged to fly. Pursuing unguardedly 
 in the dark, he received a mortal shot in the body, whether 
 from his own men or the enemy was never known; and 
 expired May 7th, 1642. — Lodge, 
 
 1643^ — March 17th — Four of the king’s commis- 
 sioners, the Earls of Clanrickarde and Roscommon, the 
 Viscount Moore, and Sir Maurice Eustace, met at Trim, 
 with the Lord Gormanstown, Sir Robert Talbot, Sir Lucas 
 Dillon, and John Walsh, agents for the confederate Roman 
 Catholics; and received from them in writing a remon- 
 strance, containing the particulars of their grievances, and 
 desiring redress of the same Cartels Ormonde^ i., 804. 
 
 1643 — February — Sir Richard Grenville was governor 
 of Trim. He fought the battle of Rochonnell, (Rathcon- 
 nell, Westmeath,) in which he defeated General Preston. — 
 Fieri West Meath^ 1 00. 
 
 1647 — The castle was fortified and made very strong; 
 Colonel Fenwicke lay there with a regiment of foot, and 
 some troops of horse.f 
 
 * 1643 — Owen O’Neill with 5,000 foot and 700 good horse, 
 possessed himself of all the corn from the county of Cavan to 
 the barony of Slane ; and being joined by Sir James Dillon’s 
 forces, took the castles of Killelan, Balrath, Becktiflfe, 
 (Becliffe in Carte. Was the abbey fortified?) Balsonne, and 
 Ardsallagh, and besieged Athboy. — Cartds Ormonde, i., 448. 
 
 f The earthern mound between the town gate and the third 
 flanking tower, was probably thrown up at this time, for the 
 purpose of supporting cannon. 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 125 
 
 After the Marquess of Ormonde had resigned the sword, 
 General Preston,"^ had by the beginning of August got 
 together an army of the above 7,000 foot and 1,000 horse; 
 with these forces he took the Naas, and some small places 
 thereabouts, and invested Trim. Jones marched out of 
 Dublin with 3,800 foot and two regiments of horse, to 
 raise the siege; and being joined at the hill of Skreene by 
 Sir Harry Tichburne and Colonel Conway, with 1,200 
 foot and 700 horse, advanced towards the enemy ; who 
 quitting Trim, retired to Portlester.f Jones endeavoured to 
 draw them to a battle ; but not succeeding, he attacked 
 Trimbleston castle, in hopes that the enemy would make 
 some attempt, rather than suffer it to be taken in their sight. 
 Preston having intelligence that there were no forces left 
 in Dublin for its defence, besides the Earl of Kildare’s 
 regiment, composed of the old soldiers who had served 
 under the Marquess of Ormonde, and hated the parliament 
 government, resolved to make an attempt on the city 
 whilst Jones was engaged in the siege of Trimbleston. 
 
 * The fields to the north of Trim, towards Trimbleston, are 
 still called Preston’s fields. They were the site of his camp, 
 
 t Port Leicester mill, — a great and secure fastness, near five 
 miles westward of Trim . — Irish RehelL Portlester was one 
 of the strongholds of Thomas Fitzgerald, in 1535. The lord- 
 ship of Portlester became the property of Gerald, Earl of Kil- 
 dare, by his marriage with Alison, daughter and co-heiress of 
 Sir Poland Eustace, who died 1495. This lordship extended to 
 Bellewstown, near Bective, and it was probably owing to his 
 interest in this neighbourhood, that the abbey of Bective was 
 indebted for the flooring of embossed Tiles, of which the Fitz- 
 Gerald arms formed a conspicuous ornament ; some of these 
 tiles may now be seen in the vestry room in Trim church. 
 
126 
 
 TRIM CASTLE, 
 
 Jones had advice of his motion, and guessing at his de- 
 sign, resolved to follow him ; he had actually given orders 
 for the drums to beat and march, when the garrison of 
 Trimbleston desired a parley, and surrendered. He marched 
 with so much expedition that he overtook Preston the 
 next day^ at Dungan-hill,t two miles from Linche’s 
 Knock (Summerhill). Preston drew up his men in good 
 order upon the hill, having the advantage of ground, 
 wind, and sun on his side, and planted his ordnance so as 
 it might be most servicable to him, in an engagement that 
 was to decide the fate of Dublin. The English forces 
 were very unruly, but eager for action, and those in the 
 van began to fight whilst the rest of the army were on the 
 march ; and in that manner every division did as they 
 pleased, without minding orders. It happened favorably 
 for them, that Preston was weaker in horse ; and his 
 cavalry giving way at the first charge, broke in upon the 
 foot, and disordered the whole array. A neighbouring 
 bog tempted the Irish foot to retire thither for refuge, 
 whilst their horse marched off with very little loss and 
 unmolested. The bog was too small to afford them pro- 
 
 * 8th of August, 1647 . — Irish Rebell. 
 
 f Dunganstown-hill in Drumlargan. The estate of Summer- 
 hill, or Lynche’s Knock, was afterwards in the possession of 
 Henry Jones, Bishop of Meath, and brother of Colonel Jones. 
 An avenue of ash, which was standing a few years ago, was 
 called the Bishop’s Walk. Leyns of the Knock was engaged 
 in Fitzgerald’s rebellion, in 1535, with Burnell, of Balgriffin, 
 Talbot, of Dardistown, Fele, of Paynstown, Delahide, of Moy- 
 clare. Boys of the Calcagh, Garland, of Uriel, Thomas Dillon, 
 and others . — State Pa'pers, vol. i., page 32,3, 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 127 
 
 tection ; Jones surrounded it with his horse, whilst his 
 foot entered it and attacked the Irish, who threw down 
 their arms, and begged for quarter ; above 3,000 of them 
 were put to the sword, and all their arms, cannon, and 
 baggage taken. Among the prisoners were the Earl of 
 Westmeath, Lieutenant General Hugh Byrne, the Colonels 
 Warren, Browne, and Fitzgerald, with above eighty other 
 officers . — Garters Orm, ii. 5. 
 
 1649 — The royalist forces under Lord Inchquin, while 
 Lord Ormond was encamped at Finglas, took Drogheda and 
 Dundalk. The lesser garrisons of Newry, Narrow water, 
 Greencastle, and Carlingford, submitted at the first sum- 
 mons; and Trim, which was then the only garrison left to 
 the rebels, except Dublin, did not hold out above two 
 days. — Ibid.^ 74. 
 
 1649 — July 28th — From the unlucky field of battle at 
 Rathmines, Lord Ormond sent notice of the disaster to the 
 forces under Lord Dillon, amounting to 2,500 men, at the 
 other side of the Lifiey, (who knew nothing of what was 
 done till the action was over), with orders for Col. War- 
 ren to march with his regiment to Trim, and Colonel Wall 
 with his to Drogheda; for the security of those places, which 
 he imagined would soon be attacked by Jones. Seven days 
 after the defeat, the indefatigable marquis set out from Kil- 
 kenny (to which place he had retreated), and marched with 
 300 horse to Trim ; whither he summoned from every quar- 
 ter all the forces that could be got together, resolving to 
 make a second attempt upon Dublin ; which enterprise now 
 appeared to him more feasible than ever. — Ibid, 81-2. 
 
 I then went to Drogheda, where I had been but a 
 
128 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 few days when I was assured of Cromweirs being landed 
 with a formidable army, whereupon it was taken into 
 consideration whether the town should be kept or deserted. 
 It was resolved that it should be kept, and to that end 
 held necessary to place in it a much greater force of men 
 and an experienced governor. Sir Arthur Aston^' was 
 pitched on to command, and above 2,000 of our best foot 
 and 250 horse were put in, 55 barrells of powder, and 
 victuals for a much longer time than it held out. This 
 done I retired to Trym,f thence to Tecroghan, and thence 
 again came forward to Portlester to rally our forces, and 
 to be within distance to relieve those places. At length 
 Cromwell came before it (Drogheda) with all his power, 
 sending his cannon and victuals by sea ; and after a 
 week’s lying still, fell to batter on Sunday (as I take it), 
 September 9th. He continued his battery all Monday 
 and Tuesday, till about four of the clock in the afternoon. 
 Having made a breach which he judged assaultable,J he 
 assaulted it, and being twice beaten off, the third time be 
 carried it, all his officers and soldiers promising quarter to 
 such as would lay down their arms ; and performing it as 
 long as any place held out, which encouraged others 
 to yield ; but when they had once all in their power, 
 and feared no hurt that could be done them, then 
 
 * Sir Arthur Aston, a Eoman Catholic, a soldier of great 
 experience and reputation, one at Reading and Oxford, for- 
 merly confided in by his Majesty ; a gentleman of an ancient 
 and flourishing family in Cheshire . — Irish Rebell. 
 
 t Colonel Daniel O’Neal was then Governor of Trim. Dr. 
 C. O’Conor calls him the most popular man in Ireland. 
 
 t Near Saint Mary’s church. 
 
THIM CASTLE. 
 
 129 
 
 the word no quarter went round, and the soldiers were, 
 many of them, forced against their wills to kill their pri- 
 soners. Sir Edmund Veruey, Col. Warren, Col. Wall, 
 and Col. Byrne, were all killed in cold blood, as was also 
 the governor, and, indeed, all the officers, except some few 
 of least consideration, that escaped by miracle. The 
 cruelty exercised there for five days after the town was 
 taken would make as many several pictures of inhumanity 
 as are to be found in the ‘ Book of Martyrs,’ or in the 
 ‘Relation of Amboyna.’ 
 
 “ Immediately upon this I ordered the burning and 
 quitting of Trim and Dundalk ; but fear so possessed them 
 in both places, that neither was done, but that the rebels* 
 
 * I have not been able to ascertain that Cromwell was in 
 person at Trim. In his letter to the speaker, dated Dublin, 
 Sept. 17, 1649, he says : — 
 
 “Since this great mercy (the storming of Drogheda) vouch- 
 safed to ns, I sent a party of horse and dragoons to Dundalk, 
 which the enemy quitted, and we are possessed of, as also 
 ^another castle they deserted between Trim and Drogheda, 
 upon the Boyne. I sent a party of horse and dragoons to a 
 house within five miles of Trim (Trubly) ; there being then in 
 Trim some Scots companies, which the Lord of Ardes brought 
 to assist the Lord of Ormond ; but, upon the news of Drogheda 
 having fallen into our hands, they ran away, leaving their 
 great guns behind them, which we also have possessed.” 
 
 There is a tradition that Scurlock, of Scurlockstown, with 
 his brother of the Rock, had a skirmish with Cromwell at a 
 hill near Grange, since called Cromwell’s hill. 
 
 It is said that Cromwell slept one night in the Castle of 
 Trubly ; that he battered down part of the yellow’ steeple, 
 and that he blew up the west tower of the castle, in the 
 ruins of which, about ten years ago, was found a quantity of 
 
130 
 
 TRIM CASTLE, 
 
 have possessed them with garrisons, and are now marching 
 with all their power towards Wexford.” — Ormondes Let- 
 ter to Lord Byron, dated Kilkenny, 2^th September, 
 1643. 
 
 1666 — April 21st — Ordered at an assembly of the cor- 
 poration, — That the constables do lock the gates of the 
 town every night, at the ringing of the nine o’clock bell, 
 and deliver them to the Deputy Portrieve; and unlock the 
 same every morning at four o’clock. — Town Records. 
 
 An indenture made 26th June, 1667, between Adam 
 Loftus, of Rathfarnham, county of Dublin, Esq., of the 
 first part, and Sir James Shean, knight and baronet, of the 
 second part, and Murtogh Dowling, gentleman, of the 
 third part; whereby the said Loftus for the sum of £7,200, 
 sold to Sir James, his heirs, and assignees, for ever, the 
 castle and manor of Trim, and lordship of Moyare, alias 
 Moygare, with all the demesnes, rents, customs, services, 
 courts, royalties, fairs, markets, and all other heredita- 
 ments thereof, viz.: — 
 
 The scite of the said manor of Trim, which is a castle 
 environed with a wall, now ruinous, containing within the 
 walls three acres, and divers houses, messuages, gardens, 
 parks, and pieces of land in Trim. 
 
 lead and iron balls. For these deeds of Cromwell we have no 
 authority but tradition, an authority on which we should rely 
 with more confidence did it not assert, with equal positive- 
 ness, that he also destroyed the Castle of Tecroghan, which 
 Lady Fitzgerald did not surrender to Colonel Reynolds and 
 Sir Theophilus Jones till 26th June, 1650 . — Irish RehelL 
 
 Dr. C. O’ Conor says that Tecroghan was defended by the 
 brave Sir Robert Talbot, of Malahide. 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
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 Several parcels of land in the fields of Trim, parcel of 
 the demesne lands of said manor, viz. : — 
 
 Rathfield, containing by estimation, 31 arable, more or less. 
 
 Maudelin’s field, 
 
 30 
 
 Much Marishoke, 
 
 30 
 
 Little Marishoke, 
 
 7 
 
 Sherryfield, alias Horsepark, 
 
 80 
 
 Derysland, Diersland, ... 
 
 15 
 
 Stonefield, 
 
 144 
 
 Muchfield, 
 
 484 
 
 Phelimyns land. 
 
 15 
 
 Paurkfield, ... 
 
 39 
 
 Horsecrosse, alias Hornscrosse. 
 
 10 
 
 Containing in all, by estimation, 
 
 320 
 
 Next, or near Park-gate, 15 arable. 
 
 A meadow called Broadmede, in the fields of Trim, 
 parcel of said manor, 24 acres. 
 
 The town and lands of Parktown, alias Ballynepark, 
 alias Trim Park, 30 acres. 
 
 Leyton, alias Ballyneferagh, 30 acres. 
 
 Stapletown, alias Steepletown, alias Steeplestown, 86 
 acres. 
 
 Every town within these three towns, to render every 
 year — two days ploughing, two days carting, and two 
 hens, 5s. 
 
 In Carbragh, alias Carrberstown, 8 acres. 
 
 Vinerintida, ( ?) Castle Park, Kingsland in Newtown, 
 Grifiin’s land, Clonin, and Cullofyan, all parcels of said 
 demesne, with all other demesne lands, work and custom of 
 the manor, and the rent of assize of the free tenants of 
 Trim, viz. : — 
 
132 
 
 TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 For free rent issuing out of Bedlestown mill, 2s. 
 
 Out of a fishing weyer at Bedlestown on the Boyne, 2s. 
 
 Out of 12 acres in Trim. 
 
 Out of certain other lands within said manor, 15s. 
 
 Out of Forrestown, alias Fosterstown, 13s. 4d. 
 
 Out of certain lands belonging to the monastery of Mary 
 the Virgin, near Dublin, called Bathe’s and White’s 
 lands, 7s. 2d. 
 
 Out of a shop in Trim, 2s. 3d. 
 
 Out of another shop, 2s. 3d. 
 
 Out of Dunlever, alias Dunlivers, near Trim, £6. 
 
 The manor and lordship of Moyer. 
 
 The town and lands of Clony and Ballyowen, alias 
 Cloney, containing 120 acres arable, 20 pasture, 5 moore, 
 and 2 underwood. 
 
 Gallestown, alias Dalestown, alias Dalistown, 80 arable, 
 20 pasture, 51 moore. 
 
 Ballymulmory, alias Ballymulmore, 40 arable, 6 pasture, 
 2 moore. 
 
 Baterstown, alias Batterstown, 4 arable, 3 pasture, 
 2 moore. 
 
 Dowliestown, alias Doelistown, 80 acres, 3 pasture, 
 2 moore. 
 
 Ballybrenock, alias Brenockstown, alias Branockstown, 
 200 arable, 6 pasture, 2 moore. 
 
 A castle called Clarecorran, alias Cuckold’s castle. 
 
 Ballycona, alias Conanstown, alias Ballycourt, alias 
 SenistowD, alias Canistown, 80 arable, 6 pasture, 2 
 moore. 
 
 Ballyrory, alias Roriestown, alias Roristown, 80 arable. 
 
TRIM CASTLE. 
 
 133 
 
 Horestown Newton, alias Hanesnewtown, alias New- 
 town Moynaghe, and Ballynecargie, 110 arable. 
 
 Doggestown, alias Doggstown, 80 arable. 
 
 Near the park of Trim, called the 15 acres. Being 
 parcels of the demesne lands of the manor of Moygare. 
 
 Next the park, 15 arable. 
 
 The same being in the actual possession of the said Sir 
 James, by virtue of a lease for 40 years, by way of bargain 
 and deed, dated 25th June, 1667, made to him by said 
 Loftus, under the yearly rent of £600, with a covenant to 
 suiSer a recovery to the use of Sir James and his heirs, to 
 hukl of the chief lord of the fee, by the services thereout 
 due and accustomed. — Enrolled 2nd June, 1671. — 
 Beth, Coll, 
 
 1667- 8 — January 14— The condition of Navan-gate"*^ 
 and Dublin-gate, and the walls about the mill, westward, 
 to be inspected; report to be made of their state, and the 
 expense of repairing them. Three pounds was afterwards 
 ordered for the repair of Navan-gate, alias Rogue’s Castle. 
 — Town Records, 
 
 1668 — September 1 — Ordered — That a cess of £6 
 sterling, towards supplying the guard and watch with fire 
 and candlelight, from Michaelmas next to Easter, be raised. 
 
 1682 — March 20 — Ordered — That the gates called 
 Navan and Athboy gates, be repaired at the charge of the 
 corporation. 
 
 1689 — January 21 — Ordered — That the inhabitants of 
 
 * The remains of these gates were to be seen within these 
 forty years ; they have now entirely disappeared, but their 
 sites have preserved the names. The town-waU can be traced, 
 
134 
 
 TEIM CASTLE. 
 
 the corporation of Trim doe put in their six days work, 
 for repairing the walls on the south side of the corporation 
 aforesaid, and that the said inhabitants be at the charge 
 of lyme, where it is wanting, to make up the bridge gate, 
 and the drawbridge gate at the castle; which charge is to 
 be equally applotted: to be begun on Wednesday next, 
 being the 23rd day of this instant, and done with all 
 expedition. And that the back-doors in the walls be 
 forthwith made up with all expedition . — Town Records, 
 
 This is the last notice which I have found, of the military 
 occupation of the castle."^' No attempt has yet been made 
 to preserve it from decay, and its majestic ruins, now stand- 
 ing in the midst of a peaceful country, are only calculated 
 to make our security dearer, by reminding us of the time 
 when Trim was a frontier town, and when the inhabitants 
 were obliged to trust their lives and properties, not to the 
 authorities of the law, and the gentle influences of united 
 interests and mutual benevolence, but to the rude defence 
 of walls and castles. 
 
 and in many parts some feet high — across the Porch Fields, 
 where is the Sheep gate — and forming part of the garden- wall 
 of the parsonage ; and by the river, where is the Water-gate 
 (a pretty arch still entire) ; and through town gardens, to near 
 Gallows Hill, on the road to Castle Eickard. 
 
 * The whole of this property was purchased by the Wel- 
 lesleys. The Marquis of Wellesley sold it to Colonel Leslie, 
 of Glaslough, whose son sold the greater part of what had been 
 the Wellesley property in the year 1859, in different lots. 
 The Castle of Trim is now, 1861, in the possession of Lord 
 Dunsany. 
 
 END OF NOTICES OF TRIM CASTLE. 
 
SAINT TATEICK’S CHEECE 
 
 The following account of the foundation of the Church 
 of Trim, by Luman, its first bishop, is given by* Tirechan, 
 who lived in the seventh century, and wrote his life of St. 
 Patrick, from the mouth of his master, Bishop Ultan. 
 
 A. D. 433t — When Patrick, in his holy navigation, 
 came to Ireland, he left St. Loman at the mouth of the 
 Boyne, to take care of his boat, 40 days and 40 nights; 
 
 * Ussher says, Licet minus eleganter explicata. 
 
 t The wise and learned Dr. Ryves, Judge of the Preroga- 
 tive Court and Master in Chancery, had some doubts about 
 the time in which St. Patrick lived. Ussher, whom he had 
 consulted, inclosing a letter from him to Camden, says — “I 
 gave him good leave to discredit as much as he list that pack 
 of ridiculous miracles, which later writers had fastened on St. 
 Patrick, but wished him in nowise to touch the credit of that 
 worthy man himself, nor to question his succession to Palla- 
 dius” (who, in 431, had been sent to the Irish Christians — ad 
 Scotos in Christum credentes), “nor to cast him upon lower 
 times, contrary to the consent of all writers that ever made 
 mention of him.” In Camden’s reply to Pyves, he says, “I 
 cannot but think that St. Patrick lived so near the time of St. 
 Augustine and St. Hierome as they (Prosper Aquitanus, and 
 others) have testified ; and, therefore, wish a reverend opinion 
 to be held of him. — Gamdeni Epist 237, 245. 
 
136 
 
 ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 and then he (Loman), waited another 40, out of obedience 
 to Patrick. Then, according to the order of his master, 
 (the Lord being his pilot), he came in his boat, against 
 the stream, as far as the ford of Trim,* near the fort of 
 Feidilmid, son of Loiguire. And when it was morning, 
 Foirtchern, son of Feidilmid, found him reciting the Gospel ; 
 and admiring the Gospel and his doctrine, immediately 
 believed: and a well being opened in that place, he was 
 baptized by Loman, in Christ : and remained with him, 
 until his mother came to look for him ; and she was 
 made glad at his sight, because she was a Britishf woman. 
 But she, likewise, believed, and again returned to her 
 house, and told to her husband all that had happened to 
 her and her son. And then Feidilmid was glad at the 
 coming of the priest, because he had his mother from the 
 Britons — the daughter of the king of the Britons — namely 
 Scothnoesa. And Feidilmid saluted Loman in the British 
 tongue, asking him, in order, of his faith and kindred, and 
 he answered, I am Loman, a Briton, a Christian, a dis- 
 ciple of Bishop Patrick, who is sent from the Lord to 
 baptize the people of the Irish, and to convert them to 
 the faith of Christ ; who sent me here according to the will 
 of God.” And immediately Feidilmid believed, with all 
 his family, and dedicated (immolavitj, to him and St. 
 Patrick his country, J with his possessions, and with all his 
 
 * Ad Vadum Tmim — a translation of the Irish Ath Truim. 
 
 t Christianity had been introduced into Britain in the first, 
 or early in the second, century. 
 
 t Part of the lands of Crowpark, adjoining the town, are 
 still the property of the See of Armagh. In 1614, an inqui- 
 
ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH, 
 
 137 
 
 family; all these he dedicated to Patrick and Loman, with 
 his son Fortchern, ’till the day of judgment. But Feidil- 
 mid crossed the Boyne, and Loman remained with Fort- 
 chern in Trim, until Patrick came to them, and built a 
 church with them, xxii. years before the foundation of the 
 Church of Armagh. — '\Usser. Prim, 853, 
 
 sition found that the Archbishop of Armagh was seized, in right 
 of his see, of one tenement and three acres of land within the 
 parish of Trim. The Bishop of Meath receives rent from the 
 crown for the manor of Trim. And in the time of Henry TV., 
 the Archbishop of Armagh had a charge upon the crown of 
 £8 16s. TJd , for the site of the castle, town, and bridge of 
 Trim. 
 
 * The church and glebe, and the land belonging to the see 
 of Armagh, are on the north side, and the castle is on the 
 south side of the Boyne. 
 
 t Dr. Lanigan says: “The Tripartite (L. 1, c. 55) intro- 
 duces on this occasion (the arrival of St. Patrick) Loman or 
 Luman (whom it makes a nephew of St. Patrick) as left to take 
 care of the boat ; and adds (L. 2, c. 1) that, in consequence of 
 an order from the saint, he sailed up against the current of the 
 river, as far as Trim. This w^as too good a story to be passed 
 over by Jocelin ; who, to make it still more marvellous, sub- 
 joins that, the sails being hoisted, the vessel went up without 
 the assistance of oars ; notwithstanding furious blasts of wind 
 in the direction straight opposite to its course. He might as 
 well have said that it had been carried in the air ; for, as 
 Ussher has remarked (Prim, 853), the channel of the Boyne is 
 so unfit for navigation, that it would be impossible for a boat 
 to proceed as far as Trim, even were both the current and the 
 wind favorable. Tirechan, as quoted by Ussher, has a part of 
 this story, as given in the Tripartite ; but instead of calling 
 Loman a nephew of St. Patrick, he makes him only a disciple 
 of his. Connected with this fable, is what we read in the 
 
 K 
 
138 
 
 ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH, 
 
 Saint Fochern, was the grandson of King Lao- 
 
 tracts now referred to (for in the other lives there is no men- 
 tion of Loman) concerning his having been placed at Trim 
 (Jocelin makes him a bishop), and the antiquity of this 
 church, which Tirechan says was founded the twenty-second 
 year before that of Armagh.” 
 
 “The donations of towns and lands, spoken of in the above 
 tracts, do not, by any means, agree with the times of St. 
 Patrick. Tirechan, or rather the person who assumed his 
 name, and who was a Meath man, represents these possessions 
 as annexed for ever to the see of Trim, but, it seems, they 
 were claimed by the Archbishops of Armagh ; and hence, 
 Jocelin, one of whose patrons was the primate, Thomas O’Con- 
 nor, mentions a disposal of those lands made not long after, in 
 virtue of which the right to them was transferred to St. 
 Patrick and the see of Armagh. The Tripartite also, a com- 
 pilation apparently patched up at Armagh, has something to 
 the same purpose. Thus we have a key to the whole business. 
 While it was pretended that those possessions belonged to St. 
 Patrick — that is, to Armagh, and not to Trim — the name of 
 St. Patrick was mistaken for the saint, considered personally ; 
 and thus he and Luman were made contemporaries, whence 
 flowed other allegations, &c. Had Ussher and the Bolandists 
 reflected on these circumstances, they would not have laid 
 down that Loman was the first bishop consecrated in Ireland, 
 and Trim the oldest Irish see.” — Lmiigan, 1, 222-3. 
 
 Dr. Lanigan was a Roman Catholic, and had been profes- 
 sor of Hebrew, the Sacred Scriptures, and Ecclesiastical His- 
 tory in the University of Pavia. His Ecclesiastical History of 
 Ireland is a work of great labor and learning ; but here we 
 cannot forgive this vain attempt to degrade the church and 
 bishops of Trim, against the evidence of Tirechan and the 
 Tripartite, and the authority of Colgan, Ussher, and the 
 Bollandists. 
 
 Jocelin was a monk of Fumes (Ussher is doubtful whether 
 
ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 139 
 
 guire,^ succeeded St. Loman,f at his dying request, but, in 
 three days after he surrendered the AbbeyJ of Trim, to 
 Cathald. — Archdall^ from Acta Sanct, 
 
 in Meath or Lancashire) in the 12th century, and wrote a life 
 of St. Patrick at the request of Thomas O’Connor, Archbishop 
 of Armagh ; Malachy, Bishop of Down ; and John de Courcy, 
 Prince of Ulster. He was, probably, one of the monks 
 brought by De Courcy from the Lancashire Furness, and 
 planted at Iniscourcy, in Down. 
 
 * Notwithstanding this royal descent, I find, in the Tripar- 
 tite, St. Fortcherne de Bathaidme, blacksmith of St. Patrick. 
 — Lanigan. 
 
 F Colgan, having patched up a sort of acts of St. Loman, 
 founded almost entirely in certain stories in the Tripartite life 
 of St. Patrick, and in Joceline, quotes from the Martyrol, 
 Tamlact., the following passage : “ Domain Athrumensis cum 
 sociis suis, id est Patricio hostiario, Lurecho filio Cuanach, 
 Fortcherno et Coelo Ochtra, Aido, Acdo, Aedo, Cormaco 
 Episcopo, Lacteno Sacerdote, Ossano, Sarano, Conallo, Col- 
 mano, Luctano Episcopo, et Finnsecha Virgine, Hi omnes 
 Athrumie requiescunt.” If by “sociis suis” we should under- 
 stand disciples of Loman, as Colgan seems to think, Loman 
 must be brought to much later times than those of Saint 
 Patrick. If, for instance, Ossanus was a disciple of his, 
 Loman certainly belonged to the seventh century ; for this 
 Ossanus was in all appearance the person of that name, whose 
 memory was revered at Bath Ossain, near the west gate of 
 Trim, and whose death is marked at A.D. 686. — (Acta Sanct. 
 p. 367.) Others of them are placed by Colgan himself at still 
 later times. — Lanigan^ 2. 345. 
 
 X Martene, in the preface to his “ Thesaurus,” gives many 
 instances of abbots being also bishops, especially in Benedic- 
 tine monasteries ; he mentions some monasteries in which simple 
 monks were bishops, their higher ecclesiastical rank not prevent- 
 ing their submission to the conventual authority of the abbot. 
 
140 
 
 ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 482 — After the death of larlath, Cormac^ was appoint- 
 ed Archbishop of Armagh, by St. Patrick, who was then 
 very old, and wholly intent on Divine contemplation. He 
 was baptized by him, and educated under four of his 
 disciples; by whose instructions he became an eminent 
 example for innocence, learning, piety, and knowledge of 
 the Holy Scriptures. He was, by St. Patrick, made Bishop 
 of Trim ; and was nephew to King Leogaire, by his brother 
 Elide. The Annals of Ulster call him St. Patrick’s 
 heir,’^ because he survived him. He governed the Church 
 of Armagh 15 years, and died on the 17th of February, 
 497, and was buried at Trim ; on which day is celebrated 
 his festival, both at Trim and Armagh. — Harris^ Ware’s 
 Bishops. 
 
 A. D. 742f — Died, St. Cormac, Bishop of Trim: he is 
 
 * This is, I suspect, a mistake ; for Enda’s son, Cormac, 
 whom his father had entrusted to the care of St. Patrick, is 
 not mentioned in the oldest accounts concerning him as ever 
 having been a bishop. Another mistake is, that Cormac had 
 been Bishop of Trim before he was promoted to Armagh. It 
 is true that some writers of our calendars represent him as 
 such, but it is easy to account for their having done so : there 
 was a Cormac, Bishop of Trim, in the eighth century, whose 
 memory, together with that of St. Luman, and several others, 
 was revered there on the 17th of February. Kow, it hap- 
 pened that this was the very day of the festival, or death of 
 Cormac, of Armagh, and hence it came to pass that the two 
 Cormacs were confounded together. Trim was not an episco- 
 pal see in the fifth century, and its first bishop, Loman, or 
 Luman, belonged to the seventh. — Lanigan, 1, 416. 
 
 * Cormac’s death is given at 741 by the Four Masters, and 
 at 745 in the Annals of Ulster. 
 
ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 141 
 
 said to have been of the royal house of the Nialls, and his 
 name appears in various calendars, at the 17th of February, 
 as the anniversary of his death. Three brothers of his are 
 spoken of : Rumond, a very wise man, and deeply skilled 
 in history and antiquities, who died in 743; Baitellach, 
 Abbot of Trim, whose death is marked at 752; and Ossan, 
 a priest, the year of whose death is not known, — Lanigan^ 
 III. 176. 
 
 750 — Ussher, in his notes to a letter, WTitten about this 
 time by Pope Zachery to Boniface, Archbishop of Mentz, 
 in which the Pope condemns Virgil, afterwards Bishop of 
 Saltzburgh, for asserting that there was another world, and 
 other men, under ground ; by which he probably meant 
 that the earth was a sphere, and consequently, that there 
 were antipodes; states that Virgil brought with him from 
 Ireland a bishop of the name of Dobdan, who was a Greek, 
 and was afterwards Bishop of Chiem, (Chiempsee, in Ba- 
 varia), where he opened a school, and had a multitude of 
 scholars. Ussher adds : “ I should have wondered that a 
 Greek had come from Ireland, did I not know, that in the 
 county of Meath, at Trim, there was a church, which 
 retains to this day (1632), the name of the Greek* 
 Church.” — Sylloge, 132. 
 
 * In the Visit. Book, Marsh’s Lib. , it is said that this church 
 was called the Greek School. It stood in a small field, near 
 Navan gate, the property of the Earl of Darnley, which is 
 still called the Greek Park, but all remains of the building 
 have disappeared. Lanigan, with his occasional bold and 
 ingenious incredulity, does not believe that Dobdan was a 
 Greek, and thus accounts for the origin of the story. “ Dobda,” 
 he says, “ would have been a very odd name for a native of 
 
142 
 
 ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 751 — Baethallach, son of Colman Ua Suibhne, Abbot 
 of Ath Truim (Trim), died . — Four Masters, 
 
 791 — Died, the Bishop Suibne of Trim . — Four Masters, 
 819 — Died, the Abbot of Ceanfoilly, the son of Rua- 
 main, bishop,^ scribe, abbot, and anachorite of Trim. — 
 Four Masters, 
 
 836 —Died, Cairbre, abbot of Ath Truim . ^ — Four Mas, 
 844 — Died, Cairbre, son of Colman, Abbot of Ath 
 Truim . — Four M, 
 
 929 — Died, Maoileoin, bishop and anachorite of Trim. 
 — Four M, 
 
 Greece, but it was common in Ireland, being the same as 
 Dubda, of which many instances occur in old times, particu- 
 larly as a part of compound appellations. A person not accus- 
 tomed to Irish appellations might have easily changed Dobda 
 greus into Dobda Grsecus ; and hence, most probably, was 
 derived the notion of that bishop having been a Greek.” — vol. 
 iii., 190. Dr. Lanigan forgets Douban, the Greek physician 
 of the Arabian Tales. 
 
 ^ In the succeeding century the Anglo-Saxon kings affected 
 Greek titles and modes of computation ; Edgar styles himself 
 “ Totius Albionis Basileus Ethelred dates a charter in ‘ ‘ Olim- 
 piade 4 regni mei and on some of the Saxon coins there are 
 Greek letters. It is difficult to find evidence of any great 
 knowledge of Greek literature amongst the Irish scholars in 
 those ages : the famous treatise about Easter by Cummian, so 
 extravagantly praised by Mr. Moore, does not afford it. John 
 Scotus Erigena was certainly a Greek scholar. Did he learn 
 Greek in Ireland ? From the epistle of Anastasius, it appears 
 that Erigena’s knowledge of Greek was a singular accomplish- 
 ment in his country. 
 
 * Giraldus Cambrensis (Top. Hib. 3, 29) says that almost 
 all the Irish bishops had been elected from monasteries. 
 
ST. pateick’s church. 
 
 143 
 
 1059 — Died, Eocbaidh Ua Cinaedh, Airchinnach^' of 
 Ath. Truim . — Four Masters, 
 
 1100. — Died, Flan O’Kionaedha, after a good life, 
 Airchinaeachjf and chief poet of Meath — Four Masters, 
 
 * Airchihneach, afterwards softened into Erenagh, and Here. 
 nach, is a corruption of the word Archidiaconus. It is probable 
 that some traces of this dignity were continued in Trim, in the 
 13th century. On a tombstone now inserted in the wall of 
 the old chancel, and formerly ornamented with brasses^ is the 
 following inscription, in characters of the 12th or 13th century : 
 ******* jjlC RECTOR ET ARCHILEVITES 
 HIC lACET, IRA DEI PACIFICETVR El. I can give no 
 other meaning than that of Archdeacon to the word Archile- 
 vites (see Du Cange Archilevita) . In the inscription, the name 
 is hopelessy obliterated. The name Cody is not a translation 
 of the name Archdeacon, but is the Irish patronymic of the 
 English family of Archdeacon, derived from Sir Odo Arch- 
 deacon, the founder of that house in this country. 
 
 f From these notices it would appear that the old, if not the 
 primatial, episcopal see of Trim, had at this time merged in 
 that of Clonard ; it was subsequently reduced to the rank of a 
 rural deanery. 
 
 The episcopal sees in Ireland have undergone many changes : 
 at first they were exceedingly numerous ; in Meath alone, were 
 the sees of Clonard, Duleek, Skrine, Kells, Trim, Ardbraccan, 
 Dunshaughlin, Slane and Foure ; Idunan, Bishop of Meath, by 
 signing, in 1096, the recommendation of Malchus, Bishop of 
 Waterford, to Anslem, Archbishop of Canterbury, appears to 
 have acknowledged the authority of the see of Canterbury. At 
 the Synod of Kells, in 1152, the sees of Meath were reduced to 
 the sees of Clonard, Kells, and Duleek. At this time there had 
 been eight married bishops of Armagh ; viri uxorati et absque 
 ordijiibus, literati tamen, Bernard. V. Malach. — In 1216, by 
 the constitutions made in the Cathedral Church of St. Peter 
 
144 
 
 ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 1108^ — In this year, Connor O’Melaghlin, assisted by 
 the forces of Ulster, burnt the town of Trim, and above 
 200 persons, then in the church, perished in the flames — 
 Archdall^ from M^Geoghegan. 
 
 1127 — Connor O’Loughlin, an Ulster prince, having 
 marched with a great army into Meath, amidst other 
 depredations, burned the steeple of the church of Trim, in 
 which a very considerable number of persons were shut up 
 at the time. — Lanigan, from An, of Innisf alien. 
 
 In the Black Bookf of Christ Church, Dublin, is a 
 
 and St. Paul, of Newtown, near Trim, (Ledwich, by a curious 
 mistake, translates Athrumise, Athunry), it was ordered that 
 the churches of Trim, Kells, Slane, Skrine, and Dunshaughlin, 
 being heretofore bishops’ sees, shall hereafter be the heads of 
 rural deaneries, with archpresbyters personally resident 
 therein. — Wilkin's Condi. 
 
 * This and the following notice seem to relate to the same 
 transaction. I have the original authorities, and therefore can- 
 not reconcile them. The present tower of the church is well 
 fitted, and seems to have been intended for a place of defence. 
 It is a solid, castle-like building, 75 feet in height, and has 
 been divided into six stories, two of which are vaulted. 
 In 1798, a sentinel was stationed on the top of this tower. In 
 the time of Edward III. , the convent and prior of the Holy 
 Trinity, Dublin, applied for a license to crenellate and bat- 
 tlement their belfry, and there was a general permission, tem- 
 pore necessitatis belli hospitari et incastellari in ecclesia. Geral- 
 dus Cambrensis (Top. Hib. 2, 45) says, that in his time the 
 Irish had no castles, and that they took refuge in their 
 churches from the robbers, with whom the country abounded. 
 
 t My learned and obliging friend, Mr. D’ Alton, informs me 
 that the charter of John is preserved and embodied in the 
 Liber Niger of Christ Church, but that the opinion that it 
 
ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 145 
 
 charter of King John, giving the church of Trim to the 
 Archbishop of Dublin and his successors . — Record 
 Report, 
 
 1 143 — Ceanannus (Kells), Ath. Truim, Domhnall Sech- 
 nall (Dunshaughlin), and Cilldarra, were burned. — 
 Four M, 
 
 1155 — Ath Truim with its church was burned, and 
 Dearmagh also was twice burned in the same month, this 
 year . — Four M. 
 
 1258. — An arrangement was made this year, respecting 
 the advowson of the church of Trim, between the Bishop of 
 Meath, Hugh de Tachmon, and Geoffrey de Geneville. — 
 J. F’ Alton, 
 
 1824 — John D’Arcy, Lord Justice, had letters of cre- 
 dence to William de Clebury, parsone ecclesie de Tyram, 
 {Query Trym ?) who is the last person to whom the 
 letters were directed, and is the only parson named. — 
 Rym, Foed. 
 
 1350 — The Bishop of Meath paid 100 shillings fine, for 
 having acquired the advowson on the church of Trim. — 
 Ahhrev, Rot, Orig, 
 
 confirmed the advowson of Trim in the Archbishop of Dublin, 
 although actually so asserted by the unfortunate Archbishop 
 Allen (tempore Hen. 8), is founded on an erroneous reading. 
 The charter is of 1193, from John, then Earl of Morton, and 
 dated at Wareham ; and the prince thereby granted the 
 church of Crumlin, in frank almoigne, as an additional pre- 
 bend in St. Patrick’s church, but reserved the advowson to 
 the Archbishop of Dublin. From Mr. D’ Alton’s extensive 
 information, and accuracy of research, we have received many 
 valuable additions to our national history. 
 
146 
 
 ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH. 
 
 / 
 
 12th August, 1381 — The king presents Walter de 
 Erugge,f clerk to the church of St. Patrick, of Trim . — RoU 
 Can, 5 jK. 2. 
 
 1386 — Walter Brugge, parson of the church of Trym, 
 had license from the Marquis of Ireland, at the request of 
 the Earl of March, to receive the income of that parish, 
 from the time that the lordship (dominum) of Ireland was 
 granted to the marquis, until the arrival of said marquis, 
 notwithstanding his absence, and the statute of Westmin- 
 ster against absentees. — Rot, Can, 10 i?. 2. Under the 
 signet of the marquis, 
 
 1388 — He had leave to go to England. — Rot, Can, 12 
 R, 2. 
 
 * In 1380, Robert Sutton, Keeper of the Rolls, had a pre- 
 sentation to the parish of Trim^ under the great seal, of which 
 he had an exemplification on the 15th of August, 1381, three 
 days after W. Brugge’s presentation. — Rot, Pat. 5 R. 2. 
 
 f This Walter Brugge seems to have been, for many years, 
 the confidential servant of the successive Earls of March. Pre- 
 vious to 1376, he was collector of their customs in the towns 
 of Carrickfergus, Coleraine, and Downpatrick. In the same 
 year he was one of the attorneys for Edmond, Earl of March. 
 In 1381, when he was presented to the rectory of Trim, he 
 had also the custody of the manor of Moylagh, and of the 
 castle and manor of Baliskeagh ; and was also appointed second 
 Baron of the Court of Exchequer : he had also the custody of 
 the lands of Philippa, late Countess of March, in Seneschals- 
 town, Balyraghyn, and Coulerturragh, without rent for three 
 years, and afterwards at a rent of £4 a-year. In 1386, on his 
 petition, declaring that he had received nothing for these 
 lands for the last years, he was excused £6 of the rent. He 
 was, at the time of his death, which occurred before 1397, 
 prebendary of Howth. 
 
ST. pateick’s church. 
 
 147 
 
 1403 — Richard Petyr, parson of the church of St. 
 Patrick’s, of Trim, had license to go to England,* and stay 
 there for one year, and in the mean time receive the 
 income of the parish. — Eot, Pat, 4 H, 4. 
 
 1406— Richard Petyr, clerk, who had been taken 
 prisoner by the Scots, had license to send out of the 
 kingdom, £100,f in payment of his ransom. — Rot, Pat. 
 7. Hen. 4. 
 
 1408 — He paid 100 shillings to the king for a pardon. 
 
 1409 — He had license of absence for two years. 
 
 * The cause of Petyr’s visit to England is not mentioned. 
 Frequent licenses were given to Irish clergymen to study at 
 Oxford, where, previous to this time, there was a hall, called 
 “Drowda (Drogheda) Hall.” (Ingram’s Memorials.) In 
 1375, Marianus Curydany, a Franciscan friar of Clonraven, 
 (Ennis, county Clare), had license to pass through England, 
 with friar Laurence O’Morth, his companion and servant, on 
 his way to the city of Argentine (Strasburgh), in Germany, 
 whither he was sent to study in the schools, by the chapter of 
 his order. — Rot. Pat. 49 Ed. 3. 
 
 There was lately dug up in the castle yard a large silver 
 gilt brooch, engraved with the names of the three kings of 
 Cologne — Jasper, Melcair, and Balticar ; it may have been 
 brought over by some of these German students. 
 
 By statute, 1458, 36 Hen. 6. — All grants of absency, made 
 by the king, to beneficed persons who do not keep residency 
 continually in their proper persons, are declared null and void 
 unless that it be by authority of parliament, except students, 
 pilgrims, and persons suing for reformation of their benefices. 
 
 t Petyr must have been wealthy w^hen he was able to pay 
 so large a sum. Hugh, Roger, and Elias Rathlawe, who were 
 taken at the same time, had license to export wheat and other 
 provisions, to satisfy their ransom. 
 
148 
 
 ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 1412 — The king confirms the title which John Prene,^ 
 clerk, parson of the church of Saint Patrick’s of Trim, has 
 in that church, May 4. 
 
 *In 1401, Jokn Preiie, Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, bad 
 pardon, for having obtained that deanery by virtue of a pro- 
 vision from the Apostolic See, contrary to the statutes (12 and 
 13 Rich. II. Eng. St.)? by which it was enacted, “That who- 
 ever disturbed any patron in the presentation to a living, by 
 virtue of any papal provision (or grant in reversion from the 
 Pope), such pro visor should pay fine and ransom to the king, 
 at his will, and be imprisoned till he renounced such provision.” 
 There were several Irish statutes against provisors : in the 
 earliest that has been printed (1452), mention is made of 
 diverse statutes and ordinances previously made against them, 
 as well within the realm of England as within the realm of 
 Ireland. From a bull of Pope Gregory XI., dated in 1375, it 
 appears that his predecessor. Pope Innocent IV. , had granted 
 by provision, to Hugh, Cardinal of St. Maria in Portion, the 
 archdeaconry of Meath ; and that this archdeaconry was with- 
 held from him by Nicholas Runehy, who had been presented 
 to it by Edward III., to the great prejudice and loss of the said 
 Cardinal — Rym. Foed, 
 
 Notwithstanding several statutes against it, this practice 
 continued to the time of the Reformation, for, in 1525, the Earl 
 of Kildare, in his articles against the Earl of Ormond, states : 
 ‘ ‘ All the churches, for the more parte, within the said coun- 
 ties of Kilkenny and Tipperary, are in such extreme decaye, 
 by provision, that in maner there is no devine service kept 
 there : and shal be well proved that few or none laboureth to 
 the apostill (the Pope) for any benefice there, without the 
 consent of the said erle (Ormonde), or my lady, his wif, by 
 whom he is only ruled, whiche are the veray maynteners of all 
 such provision ; so as and if the kinge’s grace do not see for the 
 hasty remedy of the same, there is like to bee no more Cris- 
 tentie there, than an the myddes of Turkey ; for the spiritual 
 
ST. pateick’s church. 
 
 149 
 
 June 8th, John Tanner, clerk, was presented by the king 
 to the church of St. Patrick’s, of Trim. — Rot. Pat, 13 
 Hen, IV, 
 
 1449. — Richard, Duke of York, whilst in Ireland, as 
 Lord Lieutenant, resided some time in Trim, where he is 
 supposed to have built the steeple"^ of the present parish 
 church, which was then, as some think, the Friary]- of 
 the Minorites* The Rev. Dr. Elliot, who has given me 
 this information, grounds his opinion upon the coat of 
 
 swerd is there clierly dispised .” — State Papers, vol. ii., pt. iii., 
 123. 
 
 “My lady, his wif,” was Kildare’s sister : — “A lady,” says 
 Campion, ‘ ‘ of such port, that all estates of the realm couched 
 unto her ; so politique, that nothing was thought substan- 
 tially debated without her advice ; manlike, and tall of sta- 
 ture ; very rich and bountiful, and a bitter enemy ; the only 
 mean in those dayes whereby her husband’s country was re- 
 claymed from the sluttish and unclean Irish custome to the 
 English habite, bedding, housekeeping, and civility ; but to 
 those virtues was yoked such a self -liking, and such a majesty 
 above the tenure of a subject, that, for insurance thereof, she 
 sticked not to abuse her husband’s honour against her brother’s 
 folly.” 
 
 Stanyhursfc, Lib. 1, de Reb. in Hib. gestis, gives a lively and 
 satirical description of the Irish priests, who went to Rome in 
 search of Irish bishopricks. 
 
 * The church-tower is of an inferior and, apparently, of a 
 more ancient style of building than the Yellow Steeple, which 
 was probably built at this time. From the outline of the great 
 west window, the body of the church would seem to be of the 
 14th century ; the remaining window in the chancel is of the 
 time of Edward II. 
 
 t The friary of the Franciscans stood on the site of the pre- 
 sent court-house. 
 
150 
 
 ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 arms,* cut in stone, and built into the steeple, which, 
 upon searching the herald’s office, he finds to be those of 
 York and Mortimer. Richard, Duke of York, quar- 
 tered the Mortimer arms in right of his mother Anne, who 
 
 * No such stone has been visible on the steeple since 1819. 
 It may perhaps be concealed by the ivy. In the church porch 
 there lay for many years half an octagon stone, on which there 
 are four shields : 1, blank ; 2, Ormonde ; 3, France and Eng- 
 land ; 4, France and England empaling Mortimer and De 
 Burgh. Together with the bases of two old pillars, and an 
 ancient Piscina, with which its angles correspond, and with 
 which it seems to have been originally connected ; this stone 
 has been formed into a font, so as not to conceal any part of 
 the sculpture. 
 
 In the old chancel is a raised tomb, which, from some marks 
 in the stone, seems to have been adorned with brasses. The 
 inscription is sufficiently legible : HicjacetWalterus 
 Thoumbe deTrum q. obii t xviiidie Junii 
 
 MCCCCLVIIT. 
 
 In 1424, Walter Thoumbe, clerk, had the custody of all the 
 messuages, lands, &c., in Wodton, near Rathcarran, which 
 were in the king’s hands, by reason of the death of Edmond, 
 Earl of March, and the minority of his heir, Richard, Duke of 
 York. Thoumbe was to pay 10s. a year rent . — Jiot Can. Pat. 
 3 Hen. VI. 
 
 In the same year with Richard Sidegreve, and Christopher 
 Barnewall, he had a commission to inquire concerning wards, 
 marriages, reliefs, escheats, and other royal profits, in the 
 counties of Dublin, Louth, and Drogheda, and concerning for- 
 feitures, and the goods of felons, and concerning intruders into 
 the possessions of the king or his predecessors, and concerning 
 those who broke the statutes of Kilkenny, or other statutes 
 whether made in England or in Ireland ; and concerning 
 mortmain, or alienations without license— -Soi. Can. Pat. 3, 
 Hen. VI. 
 
ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 151 
 
 was sister to the Earl of March. — Statistical Survey of 
 Meath, 
 
 1483 — John Payne, D.D., a friar preacher, was 
 ordained Bishop of Meath, by Sixtus 4th ; and on the feast 
 of St. Dominic, the patron of this order, (August 4th,) was 
 installed by the clergy of Meath, in St. ^Patrick’s church in 
 Trim. He was for some time Master of the Rolls, and was 
 a man famous for his charity and hospitality: he died 
 1506. — Ware^s An, Hen, VII. 
 
 1500 — Donnell O’Fallon, Bishop of Derry, friar minor 
 of the observance, who for the period of thirty years 
 diligently wrought and preached throughout Ireland, died 
 of an inward disease, and was interred at Trim — Four 
 Masters, 
 
 1506 — Ath Trium was burned by lightning . — Four M, 
 
 1538 — Thomas Agard writes to Cromwell, Lord Privy 
 Seal, respecting the town and rectory of Trim, and the 
 Lordship of Bective : — 
 
 “In that, my good lord, I have at your lordschipe’s 
 comaundment, as my bounde dewttye is, doune such poore 
 servyce as your good lordschipe dyd comaunde me, I trust 
 faythefullye and trewllye, and I never hade pennye wage 
 for me and my servaunt for the space of this 3 yeres 
 and this halfe, nor pennye in reward ; and of late I have 
 
 * The Bishops of Meath have always been enthroned in 
 this church. In 1716, John Evans, Lord Bishop of Meath, 
 was enthroned in the presence of Jonathan Swift and others. 
 In 1823, the Hon. and Ven. Henry Paken ham, as proxy for the 
 present Lord Bishop (N. Alexander) was enthroned in this 
 church, by the archdeacon and clergy of the diocese of Meath. 
 
152 ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 procuryd a benefice for a sune of myne here, whoo is but 
 15 yers of age, and for lakke of knowledge I entryd 
 therein, and have it in possechon. And now, as I ham 
 enformyd, Mr. Pawlekt and Berners have gottyn a tytlying 
 thereof, and do iritende to put me to troble therfor, be- 
 cawsse I have noo lycense. Mooste humblye beseeching 
 your honorable Lordschipe to be my good lorde, that I 
 may have a lycens therfor, or elles trewlye I ham in 
 dowbte they will put me to trouble. I thinke it be by 
 reason of the Lorde Deputtye, whiche is my hevye Lorde. 
 God judge me, I never gave him causse; but becausse of 
 tayking a ferme of the kynges, whiche is to me one 
 of the deryste fermys in Irlande, I doo susteyne losse 
 inowghe by the Lorde Deputye, thowghe he invent not 
 this. Mr. Bernes is the putter forwardes of hitt, as 
 Mr. Sentleger can further schew your Lordschipe. God 
 knowith, it is in a manner all my lyvyng. My Lorde, I 
 have sett uppe broode loomys, and a dye howsse ther, 
 trustyng in God, within this yere, to set 100 or mow on 
 worke, iff I maie be suffryd. But, unless it be by your 
 good Lordschipes helpe, that I maie have the king’s 
 leters, that that the poore towne of Tryme maie be excused 
 from ^ostynges and jurneys for 7 yers with the Lordschipe 
 of the Bektyffe,! elles the Lorde Deputtye will in a maner 
 
 * From this it would seem that the number of men required 
 for the hostings, was at the will of the deputy, and that he 
 sometimes abused this power. In 1534, ‘ ‘ the parson of Trim 
 was ordered to send two able archers, or gonners, aj)pointed 
 for the warre, to the hostyng.” The portryffe of Trim seems to 
 have been generally required to provide three men. 
 
 + In 1622, the abbey and parish of Bective were in the pos- 
 
ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 153 
 
 undow them, and me bowthe. The be the kynges towns, 
 and the sorriste^' in dekey of enye place in the Inglische pale 
 in Irlande, and more lyke to flee owtt of the towne, than to 
 abyde, onles they have ayde the soner. This was past by 
 act of parliament, both the commons and lords, but he 
 would not pass the royal assent thereto . — State Papers^ 
 vol. ii., pt. iii., p. 569. 
 
 session of Bartholomew Dillon, of Biverstown, who pretended 
 to have an exemption from the Bishop’s jurisdiction, and proved 
 wills and granted administrations. — (Visit. Book). At that time, 
 the church and chancel were repaired, and it is probable that 
 the remains of the cloisters of the abbey — which are still to be 
 seen in the romantic and sequestered church-yard at Clady — 
 were brought there at the time of these repairs. For many 
 years there was neither church nor glebe house in this parish. 
 The munificence of Mr. Bolton, the proprietor of this ])arisb, 
 and the representative of Lord Chancellor Bolton, is now (1852) 
 providing both. 
 
 It may be conjectured that there was correspondence 
 between Tara and Bective, at least their names seem to indi- 
 cate it : Teachmor, Tectum magnum Tara, Beg teach. Tectum 
 parvum, Bective or Begty. The rule in Irish grammar, that the 
 noun should precede the adjective, was not always observed, iu 
 the composition of names. Ath-cliath, in the life of St. Kevin, 
 is thus described : Ath-cliath Scotice dicitur Dubhlina quod 
 sonat Latine Nigra Therma — Conor Proleg. ^ p. liii. Such also 
 was the case in the compounds ‘ Fin gals, Dubhgals, &c.’ 
 
 In 1836, some tiles which had formed the flooring of the 
 chapel of Bective, and which are ornamented with an ara- 
 besque pattern, and the Fitzgerald arms and motto — ‘ ‘ Crom Abo 
 Si Dieu Piet,” — were put up in the vestry room of this church. 
 
 The impressed tiles now inserted in the same place, were 
 found at Newtown, in the priory of SS. Peter and Paul. They 
 are probably of the 13th century. 
 
 * The town of Trim was consumed by lightning in 1496. 
 
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154 
 
 ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 1540 — The rectory of Trim was taxed to the first 
 fruits, at £65 6s. 8d. 
 
 1543 — August — Henry VIII. writes to the Lord De- 
 puty and council : — Fynally, where, uppon sute and 
 suggestion here made unto us for the benefice of Trymme, 
 we have addressed thither our letters in favour of oon of 
 our chapell ; perceyving sithens that we have gyven unto 
 you, our Deputie, the gift of all benefices there of our 
 patronage, bishopriches and deaneries except, and that the 
 sayd benefice is already and hath been of a good nombre 
 of yeres possessed by oon Agard,"^ sonne to your comp- 
 troller ; likeas, if it were voyde, we mynde not in this 
 case to derrogate our graunte made unto you in the gift 
 of the same ; so you shall understande that we be well 
 pleased, at your special sute and contemplation, that the 
 sayd Agard shall enjoy the said benefi.ce, either by your 
 gift, or by his former possession, as justice woll permit and 
 bere accordingly .” — State Papers ^ vol. iii., pt. iii., p. 484. 
 
 Sept. 10, Sentleger replies: — “And for your majesties 
 grete goodnesse extended to my poore servant Thomas 
 Agard in the parsonage of Trym, both in ratefyenge of 
 
 * In the Chief Remembrancer’s office are the following inqui- 
 sitions : — “Hen. VIII., an. 22, Jacobus Sheffyl’, Rector de 
 Trim. An 26, Jacobus Shyfelde, Rector de Trim. An 33, 
 Franciscus Agere, Rector de Trim.” According to the taxation 
 in the king’s books, made in this reign, the rectory of Trim 
 was estimated at £65 6s. 8d. ; a larger sum than any other 
 rectory in the kingdom. In 1826, the great tithes were com- 
 pounded for £450 per annum; and the vicarial tithes for £185. 
 At the time of its great reputation, the parish of Trim compre- 
 hended the parish of Rathcore. 
 
ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 155 
 
 such auctheritie as your highness had to me before geviu 
 by my patent, as also in that I perceyve your highness 
 wolde not suffre me to have a faule in so weightie a mattier, 
 althoe som wente aboute the same, contrarie to all right and 
 good conscience, I also rendre immortall thankes.” — 486. 
 
 1546 — William Nugent was confirmed by the king 
 rector of the parochial Church of St. Patrick of Trim. — 
 Roll in Chancery. 
 
 1581 — John Draper (query, Robert Draper?) was pro- 
 moted to the rectory ofTrim, by the Bishop of Meath, on lapse. 
 
 1602 — ‘The king’s letter was directed to confer the Bishop- 
 ricks of Kilmore and Ardagh on Robert Draper, parson of 
 Trim, on account of his acquaintance with the condition and 
 disposition of the people there, and of his capability of in- 
 structing them in the Irish tongue ; also granting him the 
 parsonage of Trim in commendam . — Roll in Chancery, 
 
 1607— -Sir John Davies writes to the Earl of Salisbury : 
 
 This country (Cavan), doth lie within the diocese of Kil- 
 more, whose bishop, Robert Draper, was, and is, parson of 
 Trim, which is the best parsonage in all the kingdom, and 
 is a man of this country birth, worth well nigh £400 a 
 year. He doth live now in these parts, where he hath two 
 bishopricks, Kilmore and Ardagh; but there is no divine^ 
 
 * In 1576, Sir Henry Sidney gives the following account of 
 the diocese of Meath, to Queen Elizabeth: ‘‘I was advertized 
 of the particular estate of each church in the bishoprick of 
 Meath, (being the best inhabited country in all this realm) , by 
 the honest, zealous, and learned bishop of the same, Mr. Hugh 
 Bradye, a godly minister of the gospel and a good servant of 
 your highness, who went from church to church himself, and 
 found that there are within his diocese, 224 parish churches ; 
 of which number 105 are appropriated to sundry j)ossessions 
 
156 
 
 ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 service or sermon to be heard within either of his dioceses. 
 
 now of your highness, and all leased out for years, or in fee 
 farm, to several farmers, and great gain reaped out of them 
 above the rent which your majesty receives ; no parson or vicar 
 resident upon any of them, and a very simple or sorry curate 
 appointed to serve them ; among which number of curates only 
 18 were found able to speak English, the rest Irish priests, or 
 rather Irish rogues, having very little Latin, less learning, or 
 civility ; all these live upon the bare altarages, (as they call 
 them), which God kuoweth, are very small, and were wont to 
 live upon the gain of masses, dirges, shrivings, and such like 
 trumpery, goodly abolished by your majesty ; no one house 
 standing for any of them to dwell in ; in many places the very 
 walls of the churches down ; very few chancels covered : win- 
 dows or doors ruined or spoiled. There are 52 other parish 
 churches in the same diocese (who have vicars induced upon 
 them), better served and maintained than the other, yet but 
 badly. There are 52 parish churches more, residue of the first 
 numbre of 224, which pertain to divers particular lords, and 
 these, though in better estate than the rest, commonly are yet 
 far from well.” 
 
 Previous to the Reformatiou, there were in the parish of 
 Trim, (exclusive of St. Michael’s of Rathcore), chapels of ease 
 at Trimlestown, Drinidaly, Brannockstown, Clonee, Kiltoome, 
 and the chapel St. M. Magdalen, near Trim. The chapel of 
 Trimlestown was probably served by the lord’s chaplain ; and 
 that of Clonee was probably attended by the priest of Killo- 
 chonigan, as the glebe at Clonee belongs to the Earl of Darnley, 
 as rector of Killochonigan. The rector of Trim could find no 
 difficulty in obtaining for the other chapels the service of some 
 of the monks or friars of the five religious houses in the imme- 
 diate neighbourhood. Within the parish there are now only 
 three places of public worship ; the parish church and the Ro- 
 man Catholic chapel in the town ; and the Roman Catholic 
 chapel at Bord’s mill. Before the building of the Roman Catho- 
 lic chapel in the town, about 1750, divine service used to be 
 
ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 157 
 
 His lordship might have saved us this labour of inquiry 
 touching matters ecclesiastical, if he had been as careful to 
 see the churches repaired and supplied with proper incum- 
 bents, as he is diligent in visiting his barbarous clergy, to 
 make benefit out of their unsuficiency,^ according to the 
 
 celebrated in the old castle of Newhaggard. The present 
 chapel was rebuilt in the time of the late excellent parish 
 priest, the Rev. John Clarke, by voluntary contribution, the 
 late bishop (O’Beirne) of Meath, subscribing £10. At that time 
 |;he Roman Catholics were compelled by law to pay cess for 
 building and repairing parish churches. 
 
 * Sir J. Davies had already mentioned that the greatest 
 number of parsonages in Cavan were appropriate to the abbeys 
 of Foure, Kells, and Cavan, and were then severally in the 
 possession of the Baron of Delvin, Gerald Fleming, and Sir 
 James Dillon. “As for the vicarages,” he continues, “they 
 are so poorly endowed, as ten of them united will scarce suffice 
 to maintain an honest minister : for the churches, they are for 
 the most part in ruins ; such as were presented to be in repara- 
 tion, are covered only with thatch. But the incumbents, both 
 parsons and vicars, did appear to be such poor, ragged, igno- 
 rant creatures, (for we saw many of them in the camp), as we 
 could not esteem any of them worthy of the meanest of those 
 livings ; albeit, many of them are not worth 40s. per annum.” 
 
 Sir J. Davies forgot the adage, “ Ad tenuitatem beneficiorum 
 necessario sequitur ignorantia sacerdotum.” 
 
 The poverty of the secular clergy, with all its consequent 
 evils, originated in the appropriation of the rectories to monas- 
 teries. Within a few years after its foundation, the abbey of 
 St. Thomas, Dublin, had procured 59 church livings, including 
 the church of St. Peter’s of Lethercor (Laracor), to be appro- 
 priated in part, or in whole, to the uses of the monks. The 
 monks refused to present their vicars for institution, or to 
 suffer the bishop to tax the vicarages, but were obliged to sub- 
 mit with respect to their parishes in Meath Ryve^s Plea, 34. 
 
158 
 
 ST, Patrick’s church. 
 
 proverb, which is common in the mouth of one of our great 
 bishops here, ‘ That an Irish priest is better than a milch 
 cow.’ ” 
 
 Bishop Draper died in 1612, and in 1614, King James 1. 
 ordered the living of Trim to be annexed to the See of 
 Meath, on account of its poverty. At this time, George^ 
 Montgomery, of the house of Braidstone, in Scotland, was 
 Bishop of Meath and Clogher ; he had been, at the same 
 time, Bishop of Raphoe, Derry and Clogher, and Dean of 
 Norwich : the two former he resigned on being appointed 
 to that of Meath, in 1610; but he held his Deanery of 
 Norwich until he obtained the living of Trim. He died in 
 London, 1620, and pursuant to his will, was buried at 
 Ardbraccan, under a monumentf built by himself ; but 
 
 * ‘‘When we had. received this particular information 
 (respecting the state of the church in the county of Mo- 
 naghan) it was thought meet to reserve it, and to suspend and 
 stay ail proceedings thereupon, until the Bishop of Derry, 
 Raphoe, and Clogher (which three dioceses comprehend the 
 greatest part of Ulster, albeit, they be now united for one 
 man’s benefit) shall arrive out of England, whose absence, 
 being two years since, he was elected by his Majesty, hath 
 been the chief cause that no course hath been hitherto taken 
 to reduce this poor people to Christianity; and therefore 
 majus peccatum habet.” — 8ir J. Davies to Lord Salishury. 
 Lodge (Mount Alexander) says, ‘ ‘ That by his own residence 
 and unwearied industry in the north the Bishop Mountgo- 
 mery mightly advanced the plantation of Ulster and the 
 bishop’s revenues.” 
 
 f This monument was repaired in 1750, with the following 
 inscription : — “ Hoc monimentum olim memorise sacratumRe- 
 verendi admodum Georgii Mountgomeri, Episcopi Midensis, 
 ex illustri comitis Eglintonise stirpe oriundi, sub quo etiam 
 
ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 159 
 
 since much defaced, by the ensuing troubles. — Harris^ 
 Ware^ and Lodge. 
 
 1620 — The famous Ussher was presented to the rectory 
 of Trim^ (April 17th) ; but was never instituted or in- 
 ducted to it. His letters patent to the bishoprick of 
 Meath bear date the 16th of January following. — Harris^ 
 Wares^ Bishops. 
 
 1622 — The curate of this church received 100 marks 
 per annum ; and by the king’s direction, the bishop was 
 to erect a vicarage here with tithes to the same amount. 
 The church and chancel were then in good repair. 
 
 1629 — January 21st died John Gregg,! Dean of 
 
 uxor ejus et filia supremum diera exspectant, injuriis tempo- 
 rum collapsum, seu potius sacrilegis manibus dehonestatum, 
 jam nunc, ne justi memoria apud nos penitus deleatur, instau- 
 ratum est, a.d. 1750. 
 
 “ Dignissimus hie Prsesul ad hanc sedem, cui plurima ex 
 munificentia regia erogavit, evectus est, A. d. 1610. Obiitq 
 kalendis Februarii, a. d. 1620.” 
 
 In this tomb now repose the remains of the learned Bishop 
 Pococke, and of the zealous and active Bishop O’Beirne. 
 
 * Since the the time of Bishop Mountgomery, the rectory of 
 Trim has been held by the successive Bishops of Meath ; 
 although it was not finally appropriated by letters -patent until 
 1684, when it was so granted to Bishop Popping. 
 
 t On a tomb in the old chancel, which has been lately re- 
 stored by putting together the broken pieces which were in 
 different places in the church-yard, is the following inscription : 
 — Here lye y® bodies of John Greg, Dean of Lismore, and first 
 Vicar of Trim, who dyed January 21, 1629 ; and William 
 Griffith, next Vicar of Trim, who dyed .” The 
 
 blank left for the date has never been filled up ; he probably 
 died in the troubles that succeeded 1641. 
 
160 
 
 ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 Lismore, first Vicar of Trim. In 1622, Gregg was Vicar 
 of Rathmolyon, and Vicar of Trim. 
 
 1657* — Upon reading the report of Dr. Winter, Dr. 
 Harrison, Mr. Wootten, and Mr. Chambers, touching Mr. 
 James Carey, and of his fi.tness and abilities to preach the 
 word, both in English and Irish, and upon consideration 
 had thereof, and of the usefulness of gifts in order to the 
 conversion of the poore, ignorant natives, it is thought fitt 
 and ordered, “ That the said Mr. Carey doe preach to the 
 Irish at Bride’s parish, once every Lord’s day ; and that 
 he doe occasionally repair to Trim and Athye {query^ 
 Athboy), to preach as aforesaid ; and that for his care 
 and pains therein, he be allowed the sallary of sixty pounds 
 per annum, to be paid quarterly.” 
 
 Dated at Dublin Castle, 3rd of March, 1656, 
 
 R. P(epys). I R. G(oodwin). 
 
 M. C(orbet). | M. T(homlinson). 
 
 — Extract from Boohs of the Privy Council^ in AndersorCs 
 native Irish^ 148. 
 
 1659 — Sept. 14 — Ordered, “That whosoever shall 
 
 * On a flat stone in the chancel, apparently of about this 
 date, under a shield — a chief ermine, 3 pheons, impaling 2 
 chevronels for Ashe ; with 2 crests, a Griffin’s head on a 
 coronet, and a squirrel for Ashe — is the following inscription, 
 partly obliterated : — 
 
 “Love and age have joined in one 
 To lay these two under this stone, 
 
 Sir Thomas Ash, his Lady Elizabeth, 
 
 . , . . ashes in this house of death ; 
 
 both having run their glasses, 
 
 to be revived from ashes.” 
 
ST. PATEICK S CHURCH. 
 
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 request to be admitted free of this corporation, and shall 
 not speak the English tongue, and whose wife and children 
 do not frequent going to church, it shall not be granted 
 unto him ; and if any such person is now free, he shall 
 be disfranchised .” — Town Records. 
 
 1660 — Feb. 19th — Whereas, it has been found by 
 late and woeful experience that some kind of people, com- 
 monly called Anabaptists, have declared themselves ill- 
 affected, not only to magistracy and ministry, but also have 
 put a force upon the resident parliament, which, by God’s 
 great mercy and providence, is restored to sit again in its 
 former lustre ; and the expectation of those that endea- 
 voured to involve the three nations in blood is now become 
 frustrated, it is therefore unanimously agreed * That Colo- 
 nel Hierom Sankey,* Mr. Gideon Hayne, and Ralph Har- 
 rick, who are known to be Anabaptists, be disfranchised ; 
 and that none of that sort be hereafter admitted either 
 burgess or freeman of this corporation.’ ” — Town Records* 
 
 1660 — Dr. John Crookshanke, Vicar of Trim, had a 
 grant from the crown of part of the lands of Dunleivers, 
 containing 222| acres and 36 perches, plantation measure, 
 at the rent of £4 10s. a-year, with succession to the 
 
 * Colonel Hierom Sankey- had been proctor in the Univer- 
 sity of Oxford, where he was called Zanchy. He came with 
 Henry Cromwell into Ireland, where he obtained large grants 
 of lands. 
 
 t There are now in the possession of the vicar only 185 
 acres. Most of the glebe lands in this neighbourhood have 
 been lately acquired. That of Laracor was purchased by 
 Dean Swift ; and that of Moymett is rented from Lord Sher- 
 boume. 
 
162 
 
 ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 Vicars of Trim for ever. These lands had been given to the 
 church of Trim by a debenture!’ in the time of Cromwell.’^ 
 
 * By the book of Landed Estates and Distribution in the 
 Landed Estates Becord Office, it appears that the lands of 
 Dunleivers are part of the forfeiture, in 1641, of Lord Trimbles- 
 town ; they are situated in the parish of Trimblestown, barony 
 of ISTavan, county of Meath. 
 
 A. R. p. 
 
 The lands of Dunleivers contain . . . 244 2 0 
 
 The common of the same, 31 3 0 
 
 Total, 276 1 0 
 
 Which were allotted as follows : — 
 
 To John Crookshanke, 222 2 36 
 
 , , Lord Trimblestown, 53 3 4 
 
 276 2 0 
 
 By the quit rent rental of Trim district, in said office, it 
 appears that Thomas (a mistake of the auditor-general, the 
 name is John) Crookshanke, and his successors, vicars of Trim, 
 by patent, 31st July, 1667, (19 Cor. 2.) was tenant of Dun- 
 leivers, part of Dunleivers next to Trim, 222a. Or. 36p., subject 
 to quit rent <£4 10s. (£4 3s. Id. British), and that Lord Trim- 
 blestown, per Patent Court of Grace, dated 10th December 
 (1 fac. 2.) 1685, was tenant of Dunleivers and Clonfane, adjoin- 
 ing to Trimblestown, for 53a. 3r, 4p., subject to quit rent^ 
 £1 Is. lOJd. Irish. 
 
 This quit rent of £1 Is. lOd^., along with others, was sold 
 to Lord Trimblestown, and discharged from the crown rental 
 pursuant to deed of sale, 10th August, 1859. — Lib. 14, fol. 139, 
 and Lib. 40, fol. 292. 
 
 The Down survey (map hTo. 24) of the lands of Dunleivers 
 is extant in the same office. 
 
 The name of the generous debenturer has not been discovered^ 
 
ST. pateick’s church. 
 
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 1660 — Upon the petition of Alexander Sharp,* clerk, 
 of Balsoon, humbly shewing, that, according to the tenor 
 of the charter for the liberties of this corporation, he was 
 elected and appointed rood priest of the same, and so con- 
 tinued for many years, until, by commotion of war, there- 
 out excluded, without cause, and the office and practice 
 neglected ; therefore, praying to be restored. It was 
 granted that he should proceed as formerly, and receive 
 the former allowance (40s. a-year ). — Town Records. 
 
 1660 — February 7 — At the assembly of the corpora- 
 tion then convened, it was ordered and agreed, ‘‘ That 
 Mr. W. Malone, Mr. George Harris, Mr. John Hopkins, 
 Mr. Philip Conway, and the churchwardens, should forth- 
 with assess and tax the several villages with their distinct 
 number of acres, within the parish of Trim, according to 
 the old survey, equally, in a cess towards repairing the 
 church of Trim aforesaid ; and that the said church- 
 wardens do levy and collect the same, and be account- 
 able for their proceedings when thereunto required.” — 
 Town Records. 
 
 1665— August 15 — Ordered, ‘‘ That Eichard Heylan 
 have the lease of his dwelling-house renewed, only that 
 the said Richard allow part of his holding to the Hermitt,! 
 which hath formerly been allowed .” — Town Records. 
 
 * Alexander Sharp was curate of Scurlogstown in 1622 — 
 Visit. Booh. What changes he witnessed in his long life ! 
 
 f Was this “ Hermitt” the successor of the old Anchorites 
 of Trim ? He was, probably, the occupant of one of the 
 ruinous religious buildings. In the registry of Octavianus de 
 Palatio, Archbishop of Armagh, mention is made of Meiler 
 Bratnagh, an Observantine Friar, who, being blind, was 
 
164 
 
 ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 1680 — October 14th — Philip Conway was chosen 
 Master of the Roode Guild of Saint Catherine’s,^ of the 
 Church of St. Patrick, in Trim. — Town Records. 
 
 admitted by the said archbishop, July 10th, 1508, an ancho- 
 rite near the cathedral of Cashel, where he had built himself a 
 place in the wall. A townland near Foure, was called “le 
 Ankerster’s land.” — Inquisition, Mullingar, 1614. Of the 
 Foure hermitt, Harris gives the following account : — “ One of 
 these anchorites at present remain in Ireland, viz., at Foure, 
 county of Westmeath; but, instead of taking his station in 
 one of these (round) towers, he inhabits a small, low cell, so 
 narrow that a tall man can scarcely stretch himself at length 
 in the floor. He makes a vow at his entrance, never to quit 
 his cell ; the only recreation he takes is to walk on a terrace 
 built over it, if he may be said to walk who cannot, in a direct 
 line, stretch out his legs four times. He has servants to attend 
 at his call in an outhouse, but none of them are suffered to 
 abide within the cell. The neighbouring natives hold him in 
 great veneration for his holiness, as if purity and sanctity 
 w^ere entailed on his cell, and always descended to the succes- 
 sor. He is constantly visited by the more in ordinary devotees, 
 who always leave offerings. He has also servants called his 
 ‘proctors,’ who prowl about the country to beg for him, whom 
 they call ‘the holy man in the stone,’ and they bring in corn, 
 eggs, poultry, sheep, money, whatever they can get.” — Harris' 
 Ware, 135. 
 
 * The Guild of St. Catherine and the Rood Priest, were con- 
 tinued till the time of Queen Anne. Religious guilds, or fra- 
 ternities, were associations of layman, who subscribed to a 
 fund for supporting priests at a particular altar in some chapel 
 of a cathedral or parochial church. They were always incor- 
 porated, by royal license, as a kind of collegiate society, having 
 a common seal. Archdall (Mon. Hib. ) says, that there was in 
 this church a perpetual chantry of three priests, one in the 
 chapel of St. Laurence the Martyr, another in that of St. 
 
ST. PATRICK S CHURCH. 
 
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 1682 — January 25 — Ordered by the corporation, “ That 
 Mr. George Prowd, present minister of this corporation, 
 shall, during his incumbency, have and receive the yearly 
 rent of the tenn acres of commons in the south side of the 
 town of Trim, now in the possession and tenure of John 
 Bull .*’ — Town Records. 
 
 1682 — March 20 — Forasmuch as the present Bishop of 
 Meath hath been pleased to promise that the free school of 
 this diocese shall return again to Trim, it is therefore 
 ordered by the Portrieve, &c., “ That the thanks of this 
 corporation be returned his lordship, by Mr. Prowd, for 
 his justness therein.” And doe also order, That out of 
 the revenues of said corporation there shall yearly be paid 
 unto the master of said free school the sum of £10, 
 during the continuance of the said free school, within this 
 corporation .” — Town Records. 
 
 Patrick, and a third in the Eoode chapel. (In the Visit. Book, 
 in Marsh’s Library, that of St. Mary’s is added.) Contrary to 
 the statute, they had acquired a castle and ten messuages in 
 Trim ; with eight tenements and ten acres of land, in Don- 
 derry and Irestown, in this county. An Inquisition relative 
 to this chantry (14 Jacob 1) was in the Chief Kemembrancer’s 
 Office. The corporation for a long time after this date claimed 
 certain lands at Dunderry, which were, probably, the pro- 
 perty of this chantry. There was a chantry of St. Mary in the 
 church of St. James, at Athboy, endowed by the Portrieve and 
 common of Athboy, for the purpose of maintaining a chaplain, 
 pro animabus praepositi et comunitatum et fidelium defuncto- 
 rum devote celebrantem. — Rot, Cl. Henry V, 
 
 Meath : That the popes have granted to the king’s progeni- 
 tors, that they and their heirs should not be excommunicated 
 by ecclesiastical persons for any cause, nor their ministers in 
 
166 
 
 ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 1690 — Mr. Prowd, minister of Trim, his account of the 
 remarkable accident that happened upon plundering the 
 Church of Trim ; — 
 
 Sir, — This will give you an account of an eminent 
 instance of God’s vengeance, shown on one John Keating, 
 a church rapparee, who, in the very act of plundering and 
 breaking of our church, was struck with a sudden madness, 
 in which he continued for the space of three weeks, and 
 that day three weeks he was struck mad, died in a sad 
 and miserable condition. 
 
 the exercise of their offices ; and such has hitherto been the 
 approved custom. But in consequence of debt of Bichard de 
 Bereford, as Treasurer of Edward I., the king seized the funds 
 of his church of Athboy, Dioc. Meath, and gave the custody 
 thereof to Hugh de Lacy; but Friar Adam, Prior of Der- 
 vaugh, late Judge Delegate, and Mr. John le Fleming, Bector 
 of Slane, his commissary, at the prosecution of Mr. Adam, of 
 Castle Martin, who occupied the church under a definitive 
 sentence of the said prior for him against said Bichard, upon 
 vacancy of the presentation of William de London, the patron, 
 publicly and generally excommunicated through the diocese all 
 who should intermeddle with the funds — the sheriff directed, 
 with posse comitatas, to attack said prior, John and Adam. — 
 Rot Cl. 6 Ed. 11. 
 
 The Pope and Excommunication : The king of England 
 should not be excommunicated. Bichard de Bereford, the 
 treasurer, owes debts to the king, Edward I., and the funds 
 of his church of Athboy were seized, and Friar Adam, Prior 
 de Dervagh, late Judex Delegatum, and his commissary, ful- 
 minates excommunication against those who interfere in our 
 behalf. The Sheriff of Meath ordered to attach the prior. — 
 Rot Clos. M88. \ 
 
ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 167 
 
 The manner of it was thus : — This Keating was a sol- 
 dier in Lord Kenmare’s regiment; he, with other of his 
 associates, having often before plundered, broken, and 
 destroyed the seats of our church, without interruption or 
 disturbance, resolved on Christmas day, at night, to brake 
 and plunder our altar, on which we had that day cele- 
 brated the Holy Communion, and to that end, he with 
 two more, about midnight, entered the church ; this 
 Keating immediately attempted to break one of the folding 
 doors leading to the communion table, and endeavouring 
 with all his force to wrest the door from its hinges, imme- 
 diately, as he thought, saw several glorious and amazing 
 sights ; but one ‘‘ ugly black thing,” as he called it, gave 
 him a great souse on the poll, which drove him immediately 
 into so great disorder that he tore all the clothes off his 
 back and ran naked about the streets, and used all mad 
 bedlam pranks whatever. He was put into a dungeon, 
 where he remained fourteen days without either meat, 
 drink, clothes, or anything necessary for the support of 
 nature, would not take as much as a drop of cold water, &c. 
 Sir, I do assure you this is a great truth. 
 
 George Prowd. 
 
 Trim, 1st March, 1689-90. 
 
 — Appendix to King^s State of Ireland » 
 
 1693 — The Wurn of this date states that the tithes of 
 this rectory were annexed to the bishopric of Meath, and 
 were worth (communibus annis, the vicar’s allowance 
 being deducted) £200 sterling. The church was in good 
 repair, but the chancel in ruins, since 1641. There 
 
168 
 
 ST. pateick’s church. 
 
 belonged to the rector, a house-stead and three acres of 
 land ; the vicar had also a house and garden, but waste, 
 together with 200 acres of land. 
 
 ] 698 — The learned and munificent Dr. John Sterne,* 
 afterwards Bishop of Clogher, was Vicar of Trim : he was 
 succeeded by Dr. Anthony Raymond.f 
 
 1710 — Thomas Bligh, of Rathmore, father to the first 
 Earl of Darnley, was buried in this church, Sept. 
 
 — Lodge, 
 
 1752 — Dr. Adam Lyndon, then vicar, built the pre- 
 sent vicarage J in field of three acres, called the “ Rector’s 
 
 * John Sterne, D.D., was the son of John Sterne, an emi- 
 nent and learned physician, who was Senior Fellow of the 
 College of Dublin, and at the same time (which is uncommon), 
 by dispensation, a married man. He educated his son in the 
 same college, in which he took his degree of D.D. From 
 thence he was first made Vicar of Trim, afterwards Chancel- 
 lor, and at length elected by the Chapter Dean of St. Patrick’s, 
 Dublin, from whence he was promoted to the See of Dromore 
 in May, 1713, and then translated to Clogher, by the king’s 
 letter, dated 30th March, 1717 ; afterwards he was Vice- 
 Chancellor of the University of Dublin. — Harris' Bishops of 
 Clogher, 
 
 t Raymond, who is called by Archbishop Nicholson “ the 
 learned Dr. Raymond,” had been a fellow of the college. He 
 patronized Dermod O’Conner, “the wretched translator of 
 Keating,” and entered into a bond for a £1,000, that O’Conner 
 would restore to the college library the ‘ Book of Bally mote,” 
 which, in 1522, was sold by MacDonnach, of the Castle of 
 Ballimote, for 140 milch cows, to Aod O’DonnelL This book 
 is now in the library of the Royal Irish Academy. 
 
 Raymond had built a house in 1720 at ithe expense of 
 £445 9s. Id. — Dio. Registry. 
 
ST. pateick’s church. 
 
 169 
 
 Park of which, in 1747, pursuant to 8 George L, he 
 had obtained a lease, at the rent of 20s. per annum, from 
 Bishop Maule. This house was enlarged by Dr. Foster, 
 who was afterwards Bishop of Clogher. 
 
 1802 — The church was re-built. Bishop O’Beirne'^ being 
 rector, and the Rev. William Elliot vicar. In 1826 a 
 new gallery was erected. 
 
 * During the Episcopate of Bishop O’Beirne, seventy-two 
 churches and fifty-seveil glebe-houses were built or re-built in 
 the diocese of Meath. 
 
 The church has been lately repaired at the expense of the 
 Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and under the superintendence 
 of their architect. 
 
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170 
 
 ST. PATRICK S CHURCH. 
 
 LIST OF 
 
 In 1324, William de Clebury. 
 
 1381, Walter de Brugge. 
 
 1403, Bicliard Petyr. 
 
 1412, John Prene. 
 
 1412, John Tanner. 
 
 15..., John Rycardes, or 
 Rickhard, Dean of 
 St. Patrick’s, Dub- 
 lin, in 1522. 
 
 152 , James Sheffyld. 
 
 1541, Francis Agard. 
 
 1546, William Nugent. 
 
 John Petit. 
 
 Henry Fitsizmon. 
 
 1581, John Draper. 
 
 1601, Robert Draper. 
 
 1612, Thomas Jones, in 
 commendam with 
 archbishoprick of 
 Dublin. 
 
 1614, George Mountgomery. 
 
 1621, James Ussher. 
 
 RECTORS. 
 
 In 1661, Henry Lesley. 
 
 1661, Henry Jones. 
 
 *1681, Anthony Doj)ping. 
 1697, Richard Tennison. 
 1715, John Evans. 
 
 1724, Henry Downes. 
 
 1726, Ralph Lambert. 
 
 1731, Welbore Ellis. 
 
 1734, Arthur Price. 
 
 1744, Henry Maule. 
 
 1758, Hon Wm. Carmichael. 
 1765, Richard Pococke. 
 
 1765, Arthur Smyth. 
 
 1766, Hon. Henry Maxwell. 
 1798, Thos. Lewis O’Beirne. 
 1823, Nathaniel Alexander. 
 1840, Charles Dickenson. 
 1842, Edward Stopford. 
 1850, Thomas Stuart Town- 
 send. 
 
 1852, Joseph Henderson 
 Singer. 
 
 VICARS. 
 
 In 162 , John Gregg, Dean 
 of Lismore. 
 
 1629, William Griffith. 
 1660, John Cruikshank. 
 1671, Robert Erwin. 
 
 1681, George Prowd. 
 
 1698, John Sterne. 
 
 1702, Anthony Raymond. 
 1726, Caleb de Butts, Vicar 
 General of Meath. 
 1732, Adam Lyndon, Vicar 
 General of Meath. 
 
 In 1753, Guy Atkinson. 
 
 1767, William Evelyn, Dean 
 of Emly, connected 
 with the Sylva Evelyn. 
 
 1769, William Foster, from 
 1770 to 1780 Rector of 
 Ardbraccan ; died Bi- 
 shop of Clogher. 
 
 1780, William Elliot. 
 
 1818, Richard Butler, D.D. 
 
 1819, Richard Butler, A.B. 
 
UNITED PAEISHES. 
 
 The following contiguous Parishes have been united to 
 the Parish of Trim ; — 
 
 Newtown-Clonbun. 
 
 Teubbly, alias Tubbeeville. 
 
 SCUELOGSTOWN. 
 
 Tullaghanogue. 
 
 Kilcooley, 
 

 
 
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ST. pateick's church. 
 
 173 
 
 NEWTOWN-CLONBUN. 
 
 The Rectory of Newtown was appropriated to the Priory 
 of St. Peter and St. Paul, at Newtown. 
 
 It was purchased by the Board of First Fruits, as an 
 augmentation of the Vicarage of Trim, from the Ashe 
 family. The whole tithes were compounded for £50 
 Irish ; and if pays £5 1 5s. crown rent. 
 
 In the ruins of the very small parish church, near the 
 abbey of Newtown, are the remains of a tomb, erected to 
 the memory of Sir Lucas Dillon, Chief Baron of the Ex- 
 chequer, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and the trusted 
 friend of Sir Henry Sidney. It is an altar tomb, with 
 the recumbent figures of Sir Lucas and his lady, Jane 
 Bath ; and adorned with the arms of the Dillons, Baths, 
 and Barnewalls, and with a shield bearing two bends — 
 perhaps for Sherle. The inscription, which is now defaced, 
 is thus given by Lodge [Roscommon] : — 
 
 “ Militis Hie Lucse Dillonis ossa quiescunt, 
 
 Conciliis Regni siimmus, Baroq. supremiis 
 Mense Februarii decimus cum Septimus instat, 
 
 Tempora lustrali profusus flumiiie clausit, 
 
 Terrenos linquens ccelestes sumpsit honores.” 
 
 Sir Robert Dillon, father of Sir Lucas, was Attorney- 
 General to Henry VIII. ; and, at the dissolution of the 
 monasteries, received from that king a grant of the lands 
 of Newtown, where his brother, Thomas, was prior in 
 1511. Sir Lucas, in 1567, had a grant of the abbey of 
 the Virgin Mary of Trim, and of the towns of Ladyrath, 
 
174 
 
 ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 Grange of Trim, Canonstown, and Rathnally. He was 
 the builder of the house of Moymett, and was the father of 
 the first Earl of Roscommon. 
 
 By an inquisition taken at Havan, 5th Wm. and Mary, 
 it appears that Darcy Wentworth was then in possession 
 of Ardgreagh, and Newtown-Clunbunn ; Thomas Bellew, 
 of Bellewstowu; John Piercewall, of Carbristown and 
 Fosterstowne ; Stafford Lightburne, of Adamstown; all 
 which, with many other townlands, had been the estate of 
 Richard, Earl of Tyrconnell. 
 
 Richard Talbot, Earl of Tyrconnell, had married 
 
 Boynton, sister to the Countess of Roscommon,"^ who 
 re-married with Thomas Carter, Esq. In 1702, Sir John 
 Dillon, of Lismullen, bought, for £4,907 10s., the estate 
 of Richard, Earl of Tyrconnell, attainted ; which had been 
 granted by King William to Henry, Lord Sidney; and was 
 by him conveyed to Sir John Dillon. 
 
 TRUBBLY, alias TUBBERVILLE. 
 
 In 1206, Reginald de Tubberville granted to the abbey 
 of St. Thomas, Dublin, the church and all other eccle- 
 siastical emoluments in his town of Ellath, together with 
 all other church benefices which are contained in Lester- 
 corran, alias Lethercor — now called Laracor. — Mon. Mih. 
 
 * This Lady Roscommon lived for some time in a house in 
 Trim, called The Jessamy, the remains of which only dis- 
 appeared within these few years. This house fronted the 
 High-street, and here was lately found a marble color-plate, 
 belonging to her or to her companion, Anne Death. 
 
ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 175 
 
 From the time of Richard II., if not earlier, Trubly 
 was the estate of the Cusacks. By an inquisition in 1663, 
 it was found to have been the property of John Cusack, 
 who had been guilty of high treason. Nicholas Cusack, 
 of Trubly, Captain in Lord Tyrconnell’s regiment, was 
 nominated Portrieve of Trim, in the charter of James II. 
 
 The whole parish is now the estate of the Hon. Gen. 
 Taylor. It is an entire Rectory, and the tithes are com- 
 pounded at £50, Irish, a-year. 
 
 32 Edward III. — Henry de Rathfaygl, parson of Truby- 
 hull, exchanged his living with Thomas Malacken, for 
 the parish of Fynnore. 
 
 I Elizabeth. — Richard Scallon was rector of Trouble. 
 
 SCURLOGSTOWN. 
 
 In 1200, Walter de Lacy confirmed to the abbey St. 
 Thomas, Dublin, the church of William Scorlagge’s town, 
 and that of Lethercor. — Mon. Hih, 
 
 1622 — Alexander Sharpe, curate. There was an order 
 from the Lord-Deputy and Council, dated May 1, 1619, 
 for Mark Ussher to repair the chancel. — Visit. Boole. 
 
 The rectory of this parish w^as appropriated to the priory 
 of St. Peter and St. Paul of Newtown — it is now in the 
 Ashe Family. The small tithes, which belong to the eccle- 
 siastical incumbent, are compounded for £24 a-year. 
 
 Near the ruins of the church of this parish is an old 
 castle, of the fifteenth or sixteenth century : it is of the 
 common form, a solid square, with rounded towers for 
 the stairs, at two of the a:ngles ; and has, as usual, few 
 
176 
 
 ST. Patrick’s church. 
 
 windows. The Irish of Stanyhurst’s time merely passed the 
 night in these castles; the day was spent in mud halls, 
 covered with thatch, adjoining to the castle, and to the 
 bawn, which was surrounded with a hedge and ditch, and 
 into which the cattle were driven in time of alarm. At 
 night there was always a watchman on top of the castle. 
 The door, which remained within the last year, was de- 
 fended by a projection from the top, with machicola- 
 tions. The whole castle fell to the ground in the year 1858.^' 
 
 TULLAGHANOGUE. 
 
 This rectory was appropriated to the priory of St. John 
 the Baptist, Newtown. In 1641, it was the property of 
 Patrick Browne; it now belongs to James O’Reilly, of 
 Baltrasna. The small tithes were compounded for £27 
 Irish. 
 
 Near a well on these lands are these inscriptions : — 
 ‘‘ Pray for the soul of Robert, Lord Baron of Trimles- 
 towne, 1687/’ Pray for the soul of Mrs. Alice Griffin, 
 and her husband, Mr. John Griffin ; she erected this stone 
 for family, 1764.” 
 
 The lands of Tullaghanogue were held by Plunkett, 
 Lord Killeen, of the king, as of his manor of Trim, by the 
 service of one-fourth part of a knight’s fee — quando scu- 
 tagium currit. They were the property of Lord Sher- 
 borne, but have been some years the estate of Mr. Ro- 
 theram. 
 
 * A small ornament, with finely worked chains, was picked 
 up among these ruins in the year 1858. 
 
ST. Patrick's church. 
 
 177 
 
 KILCOOLEY. 
 
 This rectory was granted by Walter de Lacy to the 
 abbey of Llanthony, in Wales, by which house it was 
 transferred to the abbey of St. Kienan's, of Duleek, which 
 was a cell of the abbey of Llanthony. At the dissolution 
 it was granted, with the several other possessions of the 
 abbey of Duleek, to Sir Gerald Moore, ancestor of the 
 Marquis of Drogheda, in whose possession it still remains. 
 The small tithes are compounded for £27 Irish. 
 
 END OF NOTICES OF ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH. 
 
THE ABBEYS 
 
 OF 
 
 TEIM AND NEWTOWN, 
 
 CHIEFLY TAKEN FEOM 
 
 AECHDALL’S MONASTICON HIDERNICDM. 
 
ST. MAEY’S ABBEY. 
 
 ^ . 
 
 CoLGAN informs ns, that, so early as the year 432, St,. 
 Patrick founded this Abbey of Canons Regular; dedicated 
 to the Yirgiii Mary, and built on a piece of ground given 
 for that purpose by Fethlemid, the son of Laoghaire and 
 grandson of Niall. St. Patrick made his nephew, St. 
 Loraan, bishop here, whose festival is held on I7th Feb- 
 ruary. St. Forcherne, grandson of King Laogar, was 
 baptized by St. Patrick a.d. 432, and succeeded St. Roman 
 at his dying request, but in three days after, he surrendered 
 the abbey to Cathald. St. Forcherne’s festival is held on 
 i7th February and 11th October. 
 
 480 — St. Cormac, the son of Enda, and Bishop of Trim, 
 was in this year made Archbishop of Armagh ; he died 
 17th of February, 497, and was interred here. 
 
 554 — On the 8th of April died the holy Cathald, Cath- 
 lad, or Cathub. — Colgan. 
 
 741 — Cormac, Bishop of Trim, died. 
 
 751 — October the 5th, died the abbot St. Baithellach. 
 
 791 — Died the Bishop Suibne. 
 
 819 — Died the abbot Ceanfaeladh, the son of Ruaman, 
 bishop, scribe, anchorite, and abbot of Trim. 
 
 837 — Died the abbot Ceallacb, the son of Coirpre. 
 
182 
 
 ST. mart’s abbey. 
 
 844 — Died the abbot Coirpre Mac Colman. 
 
 929 — Maeleoin, bishop and anchorite of Ath Trum, died 
 after a good life. — Four Masters. 
 
 1059 — Died Eochy O’Cionaedh, archdeacon of this 
 abbey. 
 
 1100 — Died Flann O’Kionaedha, archdeacon of Trim, 
 and a poet high in esteem. 
 
 1108 — In this year Connor O’Maglaghlin, assisted by 
 the forces of Ulster, burnt the town of Trim, and above 
 200 persons, then in the church, perished in the flames. 
 
 1127 — Connor, the son of Feargal O’Lochluin, and the 
 northern forces, burned the church and steeple of this 
 abbey, both of which were filled with unfortunate people 
 who had fled thither for safety. 
 
 1143 — Trim was consumed by fire. 
 
 1155 — The town and abbey suffered from a conflagra- 
 tion. 
 
 1203 — Trim was again destroyed by fire. 
 
 1276 — Gilbert was elected abbot. 
 
 In this century this abbey was rebuilt by the family of 
 Lacie, who filled it with canons regular^ 
 
 1307 — John, abbot. 
 
 1348 — Died the abbot Thomas, and the temporalities 
 were seized into the king’s hands, from October 20th to 
 the month of December following, when they were re- 
 stored to Peter Morgan, who was then confirmed abbot. 
 
 1350 — April 12th — Thomas, successor of Philip, had 
 livery. — Pipe Boll, 
 
 1359 — Thomas, abbot. — Bot, Can, 
 
 1362 — Thomas Whittington, one of the canons, being 
 
ST. mart’s abbey. 
 
 183 
 
 elected abbot, the temporalities were restored to him on 
 the 10th of November. 
 
 1368 — The Church of St. Mary in Trim was burnt. 
 The steeple now called the Yellow Steeple, was probably 
 built after this fire. 
 
 1376 — This year the abbot sued John Newman, Thomas 
 Pendergast, and Richard Trowyn, for burning the mill at 
 Rathnally, the property of the said abbot. 
 
 1381 — The king issued a writ to William, Bishop of 
 Meath, ordering him to perform what was necessary in the 
 election of John de Leghtoun, who presented himself in 
 the king’s court as elected abbot of the monastery of St. 
 Mary’s, Trim, in the place of Thomas Whitington, de- 
 posed, according to a license granted by the king, at the 
 request of the bishop and canons. The same day, De- 
 cember 10th, Legtoun had a writ to the escheator, for the 
 delivery of the temporalities. — Bot, Pat.^ 6 Rich. //., 
 81-2. 
 
 1382 — December 10th — John Legtoun, abbot . — RoU 
 Can. 5 Richard II. 
 
 1400 — ^Alexander Petit, Balscote, Bishop of Meath, 
 
 was interred here. 
 
 1402 — The king, Henry IV., at the supplication of the 
 abbey and convent of St. Mary of Trim, took under his 
 protection all pilgrims, whether liege men Irish or rebels, 
 going on pilgrimage to said abbey, according to imme- 
 morial privilege. — Rot. Pat 3 Henry IV. 
 
 1512 — The image of Mary of Trim wrought many 
 miracles . — Four Masters. 
 
 1414 — A license was granted to the canons to elect an 
 
184 
 
 ST. Mary’s abbey. 
 
 abbot in the room of John Waryng, deceased; dated at 
 Lusk, November the 2nd. 
 
 1415 — Confirmation on an inspeximus of the letters 
 patent, dated at Ardbraccan — Sept, 6, 1 Hen, /F. — by 
 which that king, at the petition of the abbot and convent of 
 St. Mary’s of Trim, showing that they and their prede- 
 cessors had this privilege, that all Irish rebels and liege 
 men of whatsoever condition, wishing to come to said 
 place for the sake of pilgrimage in honor of the blessed 
 Mary, could go there, stay there, and return from thence 
 without impediment of the king, of the lords of Meath, or 
 of any other person whatsoever, by reason of debt, or other 
 action or cause whatsoever, until of late, when certain per- 
 sons, coming there for the sake of pilgrimage in honor of the 
 blessed Mary, were arrested and imprisoned, to the detri- 
 ment of the abbot and convent, and of divine worship ; 
 especially as the said abbot and convent scarcely have any 
 means of living, save from the oblations made there 
 by the devout, in honor of his blessed Mary — took under 
 the protection all such persons. — Eot, Pat. 2 Henry F. — 
 Dated at Trim. 
 
 1418. — This year Edmund, Earl of March and Ulster, 
 obtained a license to grant to the abbot of this house, the 
 advowson of the church of St. Mary’s in his manor of 
 Kildalk,* and diocese of Meath, in pure and perpetual 
 alms. 
 
 * An Irish charter of the beginning of the eleventh century 
 is preserved in the book of Kells, and is printed in Irish 
 Archseol. Misc. vol. 1, page 138. It is thus translated by Dr. 
 O’Donovan : — 
 
ST. MARY S ABBEY. 
 
 185 
 
 1422. — William was abbot and rector of Kildalk. — 
 Rot Pat 1 Henry VL 
 
 1435. — Edmond Porter, one of the canons, was elected 
 abbot, and presented for approbation to the Bishop of 
 Meath, who appealed to the Archbishop of Armagh ; and 
 Mr. John White, bachelor of laws, having made a thorough 
 examination into the merits of the cause, pronounced the 
 said election to be null and void, from the said Porter’s 
 gross ignorance, and other just causes ; but the canons 
 adhering to their election. White, by virtue of the Arch- 
 bishop’s commission, appointed John Acton a canon and 
 prior of the said house, abbot of the same, with all the 
 rights and privileges belong thereto ; and the king 
 [Henry VL] on the 27th of March, granted his royal 
 approbation thereof, and ordered the temporalities to be 
 restored to the said John. 
 
 One time that Conchobhar O’Maelsechlainn came to a peace- 
 ful conference with the grandson of Aedh {i. e. Gilla Oo- 
 
 lumb alumnus of Kells), so that the Comharba of 
 
 Columbkille {i. e, Maelmuire O’Uchtain), with his congrega- 
 tion and reliques came to give them protection. 
 
 But he [Conchobhar] took him [Gill Columb] on his back from 
 the altar of Columbkille, and carried him to Les-Luigduch, 
 and deprived him of sight in the valley which is to the south 
 of Dun-mic-Cennan. It was in atonement for his violation 
 that Conchobhar O’Maelsechlainn gave Cill-delga, with its 
 territory and lands, to God and to Columbkille for ever, no 
 king or chieftain having rent, tribute, hosting, coigny, or any 
 other claim on it as ... . before, for no chief durst touch 
 it while [staying] in the territory. Now these were the 
 sureties and guarantees given in it, viz., Amalgaidh, Com- 
 harbha of Patrick [the Archbishop of Armagh], with the staff 
 
186 
 
 ST, Mary’s abbey. 
 
 1437 — January 4th — Died the Abbot Alexander Roch, 
 a brother of the congregation of the Holy Trinity, Dublin. 
 
 1440 — William, Bishop of Meath, was fined 40s. for 
 that when the king had by his writ ordered him to bring 
 before him at a certain day, brother Edm. Porter, canon of 
 the monastery of St. Mary, at Trim, then arrested and de- 
 tained in the bishop’s prison, together with the cause of his 
 arrest, the bishop had refused to do so. — Bot. CL 1 9, Hen. 
 VL 
 
 1444 — Great miracles worked through St. Maryes image 
 in Ath Truim, to wit, gave his eyes to the blind, his tongue 
 to the dumbe, his legges to the creple or lame, and the reach- 
 ing of his hand to one that had it tied into his side, and 
 
 of Jesus ; the Comharbha of Finnen [the abbot of Clonard] ; 
 the Comharbha of Ciaran [the abbot of Clonmacnoisej, with 
 his reliques of the clergy ; also the king of Telach-ardd [now 
 Tullyard] ; Oengus O’Cainelbain ; the king of Telach-Cail, 
 Mael Isu Mac Cairthen ; the king of Magh-Lacha [Moy lough 
 in Rathmoylon, what would Mr. Winter, or Mr. Fowler 
 think of the kings of Tullyard and Moylough ?] ; Gilla-Griguir 
 O’Dummaig ; the king of Tuath Luighne [this name is still 
 preserved in the barony of Lune] ; Laignen Mac Moelan, of 
 the laity ; and also Queen Mor, the daughter of the son of 
 Conchobhar, without any revocation for ever. In the presence 
 of the men of Meath, both clergy and laity, these sureties and 
 guarantees were given ; and they all, both laity and clergy, 
 gave their blessing to every king who should not violate this 
 freedom for ever ; and they all gave their curse to any king 
 who should violate it ; and though it is dangerous for every 
 king to violate Columbkille, it is particularly dangerous to the 
 king of Tara, for he is a relative of Columbkille. — Misc. 
 Archoe., v. i. p. 137. 
 
ST. mart’s abbey. 
 
 187 
 
 cats brought forth by a big-bellied woman, that was 
 thought to be with child . — Annals in Misc. Archce.^ vol. 
 i. p. 205. 
 
 1447 — Great famine in the spring of this year throughout 
 all Ireland, so that men were then wont to eat all manner 
 of hearbes for the most part. Great plague in the summer, 
 harvest, and winter, by which died the Prior of Ballybog- 
 gan, and the Prior of Conala, and the Baron of Calatrim 
 [Hussey, Baron of Galtrim], and Gerrott, the son’s son o^ 
 Walront,* and the Listel[?], and many more in Meath, in 
 Munster, and in Leinster died of the plague, and it is diffi- 
 cult to get an account of the innumerable multitudes that 
 died in Dublin by that plague. The abbot of Teagh- 
 murry (St. Mary’s) in Athtrym died by the aforesaid 
 plague . — Annals Misc, Arclioe,^ vol. i. p. 218-19. 
 
 Felim, son of John, son of Philip O’Reilly, worthy heir 
 to the lordship of Breffny, died of this plague after the 
 victory of Unction, and was buried in the Monastery of 
 Trim.f — Four Masters. 
 
 * The Wellesleys were called by the Irish, MWalront, or 
 M‘Falrene, from their ancestor Waleran or Valerian Wellesley 
 in the time of Edward I. 
 
 t In the annals printed in Misc. ArchseoL vol. i., it is stated 
 that Phelim O’Reilly was wickedly taken prisoner by the Lord 
 Furnival, and that he afterwards died in prison. In the Dublin 
 copy of the Annals of Ulster, the passage is given somewhat 
 differently as follows : — 
 
 A. D. 1447 — Felim, the son of j John, son of Philip O’Reilly, 
 worthy materies of a king of Breffny, for his hospitality and 
 prowess, was treacherously taken prisoner at Ath Trium, by 
 Furnival, the deputy of the king of England, after be had gone 
 thither at his own invitation ; and at that time Ath Truim was 
 
188 
 
 ST. Mary’s abbey. 
 
 1452 — The abbot, Nicholas Turvey, having resigned, 
 James Bertram was chosen in his room, and obtained the 
 royal assent. 
 
 1454_Kobert Acton, senior, a canon of this house, was 
 elected abbot. 
 
 1461 — Christopher was abbot, for in this year we find 
 him indicted for feloniously taking, with an armed force, 
 from Sir Eobert Barnewall, knt. at Trimleston,^ four cows, 
 each valued at forty pence ; the jury acquitted him. 
 
 1461 — Abbot ^Christopher had licence to absent him- 
 self for one year, and in the meantime to receive the tithes, 
 &c., belonging to the house. — Bot. Pat. 1 Ed. IV. 
 
 1464 — Create miracles worked by the image of our 
 Blessed Mary of Ath Trym, in hoc anno . — Annals Misc. 
 Archceol. vol. i. 
 
 1466 — O’Connor Faly took prisoners — Christopher 
 Plunkett, and the prior of the house of Mary at Trim, 
 William Oge Nugent, Barnewall, and many others along 
 
 visited with a great plague, of which Felim died after the 
 victory of Unction and Penance, seven weeks before All- 
 liallowtide, and he was interred in the monastery of the friars 
 of Ath Truim. This Furnival was a son of curses for his venom, 
 and a devil for his evils, and the learned say of him, that there 
 came not from the time of Herod, by whom Christ was crucified, 
 any one so wicked in evil deeds . — From O' Donovan! s notes to 
 Four Masters. 
 
 * It is commonly said that eighteen lords of Trimleston^lie 
 under one stone in the chapel of Trimleston; the present is only 
 the fifteenth lord. Thirty years ago the 12th lord was known 
 as the Doctor Lord, who drove four black horses, given to 
 him by Marshal Saxe, and of whom many strange stories were 
 told. 
 
ST. mart’s abbey. 
 
 189 
 
 with them ; but the English of Dublin came and carried off 
 all the prisoners that had been sent to the castle of Car- 
 bury, in despite of their enemies . — Four M. 
 
 1467 — 7th King Edward IV. it was enacted by Parlia- 
 ment, that all grants made by the king, or by King Henry 
 VI. should be null and void, but not to be prejudicial to any 
 grant made in favour of Christopher, abbot of this monas- 
 tery; nor to the said Abbot Christopher, James Whyte, 
 Francis Whyte, James Acton, and John Whitchurch, of 
 the town of Trim, respecting any pardon heretofore 
 granted to them; and 1472, 12th of same king, an act 
 passed, in the parliament held at Naas, which confirmed 
 letters patent granting to this abbey two water mills, with 
 the entire manor of Mathreene [Moyare?J in the parish of 
 Trim, and all timber and underwood lying thereon, for 
 building the said mills ; also the custom and services of 
 the villains of the manor of Trim ; for the purpose of 
 erecting and supporting a perpetual wax light before the 
 image of the Virgin in the church of the said house, and 
 for supporting four other wax lights before the said image 
 on the mass of St. Mary; also for confirming other letters 
 patent granting the sum of £10 to find a perpetual mass 
 in the said house for the repose of the souls of his brother 
 and progenitors ; and further for confirming a grant made 
 to the said house by Richard Duke of York of fifty-one 
 acres and a-half, with half a stang and thirteen perches of 
 land in Trim, a field called Porchfield, and many other 
 particulars. 
 
 It was also enacted, that as the Abbot Christopher was 
 then going on an embassy to King Edward IV., respecting 
 
190 
 
 ST. mart’s abbey. 
 
 the affairs of the kingdom, no person whatsoever should, in 
 his absence, take, pledge, coyn or livery, upon the spiritual 
 or temporal possessions of said house, and if any person 
 should so do, or should attempt to rob, or assault any 
 pilgrim on his way to or from this abbey, the person or 
 persons so offending should be attained of felony, and 
 totally excluded from the royal protection, and no charter 
 of pardon whatsoever should be available, save by express 
 order of Parliament. 
 
 1478 — Christopher was abbot ; on his petition in this 
 year, the parliament passed an act empowering him to re- 
 assume all lands alienated from this abbey. 
 
 1484 — A parliament was held in Trim. 
 
 1487 — We find another parliament held there in this year. 
 
 1488 — The abbot received the royal pardon for being 
 concerned in the rebellion of Lambert Simnel. 
 
 1488 — The abbot of Ath Trim died . — Four Masters, 
 
 1491 — A parliament was summoned to be holden here 
 on the Friday next after the feast of the Epiphany, 
 
 1495 — A parliament confirmed grants made to this 
 abbey by Richard, Duke of York . — Irish Statutes, 
 
 1495 — In the act of annexation of the earldoms of 
 Marche, Ulster, and the lordship of Trim and Connaught, 
 it was enacted that such act should not be prejudicial to 
 such grants as were made by Richard, Duke of York, and 
 Lord of Trim, to the abbot and convent of the Blessed 
 Virgin of our Lady of Trim. — Ir, Stat, 
 
 1500 — Donnell O’Fallon, Bishop of Derry, Friar Minor 
 of the Observantines, who for thirty years preached through 
 Ireland, was buried in Trim , — Four Masters. 
 
ST. MARY S ABBEY. 
 
 191 
 
 1527 — This year Geoffrey was abbot, when a license 
 was granted him, dated September 2nd, to purchase lands 
 for the use of his convent, to the annual value of £20. 
 
 1538— June 20th — Archbishop Brown writes to Crom- 
 well about the image of Mary at Trim, saying: — 
 
 My bounden duty unto your honorable Lordship pre- 
 mised, these shall be to advertise you for that I endeavour 
 myself, and also cause others of my clergy, to preach the 
 Gospel of Christ, and set forth the king^s cause, there 
 goeth a common bruit among the Irish men, that I intend 
 to pluck down our Lady of Trim, with other places of pil- 
 grimages, as the Holy Cross, and such like, which, indeed, 
 I never attempted, although my conscience would right well 
 serve me to oppress such idols .” — State Papers, vol. hi. 
 pt. hi. p. 35. 
 
 1538 — Oct. 20th — Thomas Alen writes to Crom- 
 well : — 
 
 “ There was a bishop and a friar put in the castle of 
 Dublin for their high and notorious offences against the 
 king’s majesty, and at the last sessions were brought to 
 Trim, to have been indicted, arraigned, and suffered ac- 
 cording : yet our masters of the law and all other (in 
 good faith, except the Lord Treasurer, and very few beside) 
 being such papist hypocrites and worshippers of idols, that 
 they were not indicted ; at which my Lord of Dublin, Mr. 
 Treasurer, and the Master of the Rolls, were very angry. 
 Howbeit they could not remedy it. They three would not 
 come into the chapel, where the idol of Trim stood, to the 
 intent they would not occasion the people, notwithstanding 
 my Lord Deputy, very devoutly kneeling before her, heard 
 
192 
 
 ST. mart’s abbey. 
 
 three or four masses .” — State Papers^ vol. iii. pt. iii. 
 p. 103. 
 
 1538 — About the same time, among other famous 
 images, whereunto pilgrimages were designed, the statue 
 of the Blessed Virgin Mary* was burnt, then kept at Trim, 
 
 * It appears from the following act of parliament, held at 
 Drogheda, a.d. 1460, before Eichard, Duke of York, quoted' 
 in Hardiman’s note to the statute of Kilkenny — ArcliceoL 
 Tracts, vol. i. p. 25 — that there was another image at Navan 
 possessed of like power. Was not Bathe a Lancastrian ? — 
 
 Edmond [Ouldhal] Bishop of Meath, in execution of the 
 command of our most holy father the pope, at Kovan, on a 
 market day there kept, in solemn procession in the said 
 market, excommunicated Thomas Bathe, knt., pretending 
 himself to be lord of Louth, for contempt in not restoring the 
 goods of which he had robbed and despoiled Master John 
 Stackbolle (doctor of each degree), pronouncing openly against 
 the said Thomas the psalm of David, Deus laudem ; and, 
 moreover declaring, decreeing, and adjudging, that in any 
 town into which the said Thomas should hereafter come, in 
 which there was any church, no baptism or burial should be 
 had, or mass sung or said, within three days after his resi- 
 dence there ; in the which excommunication the said Thomas 
 still remains, continuing in his malicious, inhuman, and dia- 
 bolical obstinacy against the Church of God ; and not yet 
 content nor satisfied of the intent and gratification of his said 
 malice, caused certain of his servants to go to the abbey of 
 Novan, where the said Master John was, whom, out of the 
 Church of our Blessed Lady, there they took, violently carry- 
 ing him thence to Wilkinston, holding him in prison there, 
 where they cut out his tongue^ and in their estimation, inten- 
 tion, and purpose, put out Ms eyes ; the which so done he was 
 again carried to the said church and cast there before our 
 said Blessed Lady, by the grace, mediation, and miracidous 
 power of whom he was restored his sight and tongue. 
 
ST. MARY S ABBEY. 
 
 193 
 
 iu the abbey of the Cannons Regular, and the gifts of the 
 pilgrims were taken away from thence. — Ware's Annals, 
 
 In an account made by Sir W. Brabazon, of the price 
 of divers vases, jewels, and ornaments of gold and silver, 
 bells, and the utensils, and household furniture of super- 
 stitious buildings, and other goods and chattels: it is 
 stated that the price of property in the abbey of the Blessed 
 Virgin at Trim was £1,861 15s. 2d., besides £40 pre- 
 viously accounted for. — Manfs Hist, p. 162. 
 
 1539 — 15th May — Geoffrey, abbot of the house of the 
 Blessed Virgin Mary, of Trim, surrendered. — Pat, Rolls, 
 30, 2 Hen, VIII, 
 
 This abbey paid one marc annually, proxies to the 
 bishop. 
 
 1539 — July 20th — Yearly pension of £15 to Geoffrey 
 Dardyce, late abbot of the monastery of the Blessed Mary, 
 of Trim ; 26s. 8d. to William Harte ; 26s. 8d. to John 
 Ashe ; 20s. to Walter Caddell ; 26s. 8d. to Robert 
 Laurence ; 20s. to Patrick Smart 20s. to Patrick 
 Finglass ; 20s. to David Young ; and 26s. to Dominick 
 Longe, issuing as above. 
 
 1539 — Sept. 10th — Yearly pension of £15 to Geoffrey 
 Dardice, late abbot of the monastery of the Blessed Mary 
 of Trim, payable out of the tithes of the rectories of Kil- 
 
 * Patrick Smart, canon of the monastery of the Blessed 
 Virgin Mary of Trim, died the 13th of Sept., 1577. — Entry in 
 Sir. J. Eliot's Breviary^ B. 3, 12, Coll. Lib. 
 
 The broken pieces of the tombstone of Sir John Eliot, third 
 Baron of the Exchequer, with various coats of arms, are still 
 to be seen in the church-yard at Balsoon. 
 
194 
 
 ST. maey’s abbey. 
 
 dalke, Wodtown, Granges Greroge, Ladyrath, Rocheston, 
 Freffan, and Ringerston. — Pat. Boll. 81, 5 Henry 
 VIII. 
 
 1542 — 14th Nov. — 34th King Henry VIIL, this abbey, 
 with all the appurtenances thereto belonging in the town- 
 lands of Trim, Ladyrath, Grange of Trim, Rathnally, 
 ^‘'Crerock, Freflane, Richardston, Ardcoaghe, Chanon- 
 ton, Stonhall, Rowheton, Ruigheleston, Rathkenny, and 
 Wodtowne, and the several churches appertaining to St. 
 Mary, of Trim, with the lands of Kildalke, Cloynarde, 
 alias le Grange, alias the West Grange, and Ballonecloigh, 
 with the land called Porchfield,t near the abbey, contain- 
 ing eighty acres, in the said county, for the fine of one 
 hundred marcs and the yearly rent of 8s. 4d., all Irish 
 money, were granted to Sir Anthony St. Leger, knt., and 
 31st May, 8th Queen Elizabeth, two messuages, seventy- 
 two acres of land and eight of moor, in the town of Bal- 
 lenegranagh and its vicinity, in the county of Westmeath, 
 with twenty-one acres in Ballynecley and its vicinity in 
 the said county, parcel of the possessions of this abbey 
 were granted to Richard Slayne. 
 
 1544 — January 6th — A grant from the king to Sir 
 William St. Leger, knight., and his heirs for ever, in con- 
 sideration of his services, and for the sura of £50 sterling, 
 two w^ater-mills on the Boyne, near Trim, of the yearly 
 
 Greroge ? Freffans ? Ardgreagh ? Kennastown ? Be- 
 tween Knightsbrook and Shanloth. The Rock ? Ringles- 
 town. 
 
 t Hugo de Forces was Geoffrey de Geneville’s Sheriff of 
 Trim in 1259. — JSfidi. Irish Lib. 152. 
 
ST. MARYS ABBEY. 
 
 195 
 
 ralue of £3, with the water-courses, weirs, and all other 
 profits thereof, late belonging to the monastery of the 
 Blessed Virgin Mary of Trym ; also, all the water, water- 
 courses, and soil of the river Boyne from the mill of the New- 
 haggard to St. Peter’s bridge, near the Neweton of Trym, 
 with all the fishings, weirs, woods, and appurtenances 
 thereof. — Pat. Roll. 35 Hen. 8. 
 
 1617 — James the First granted to Sir Thomas Ashe of 
 Trim, the rectories, churches, and chapels of the Blessed 
 Virgin Mary of Trim, and Kildalkey ; and two parts of 
 all the tithes and alterages of the town, rectory, or chapel 
 of Clonard, parcel of the possessions of the late abbey or 
 monastery of the Blessed Virgin of Trim. — Pat. F. Trea- 
 surer’s Office. 
 
 1 626 — April 1 7 th — Edward Cusacke, late of Lismullen, 
 was seized with two abbies in the town of Trim ; one 
 commonly called “ The Blackfriars Preachers,” and the 
 other called Our Lady’s Abbey,” eighty acres of land, 
 and one castr’ tect’ lapid,’ lately inhabited by Sir Thomas 
 Ashe, and various houses in the town of Trim. In the 
 40 Elizabeth, he sold these premises to Roger Jones, without 
 the queen’s license. — Inquis. These lands are still in the 
 possession of the Earl of Essex, and Lord de Ros, the re- 
 presentatives of Archbishop Jones. 
 
 The only remaining part of this noble building is the 
 east side of the tower called the Yellow Steeple, with a 
 small portion of its exquisite stair-case, and its fine geo- 
 metrical window. This tower is 125 feet high, and is a 
 characteristic feature in the home landscape of many an 
 emigrant in Wisconsin and Australia. There is a rude 
 
196 
 
 ST. mart's abbey. 
 
 engraving of it in the Gentleman^ s Magazine^ for 1784 
 [1786], from which — and from the letter referring to it — 
 it would appear that at that time three sides of the tower 
 were standing. A beautiful lithograph of it in its present 
 state is given in Wilkinson’s Irish Architecture. 
 
 The seal of M. Abbot of this house, and also abbot of 
 St. Mary’s, Durmag [Durrow], was found some years ago 
 near Mullingar, and is engraved in the Penny Journal, 
 It is in the possession of Mr. R. Murray, of Mullingar. It 
 has been assigned by Dr. Petrie to the close of the thir- 
 teenth century. 
 
 * Mr. Urban, — I send you an' inelegant, yet tolerably just 
 representation of an old tower, called the yellow steeple, at 
 Trim, in Ireland. Above one-fourth of it is now ruined, hav- 
 ing been blown up by Cromwell. The principal curiosity in 
 the present state is the part marked almost at the top of the 
 building, which overhangs several feet, and has done so long 
 before any person now living remembers this edifice. Dan- 
 gerous as the attempt may be, the boys oftentimes mount 
 unto the top of this tower by ladders, to the place where the 
 stairs begin, and which is about the place marked. This 
 tower is now undermined just at one of the angles, and pro- 
 bably wiU soon fall. But as the inhabitants of the town, as 
 well as those of the adjacent country, give themselves no 
 trouble to repair or preserve this elegant piece of antiquity, I 
 was tempted to trouble you with this coarse view of it, should 
 you please to preserve any appearance of so venerable a monu- 
 ment of our ancestors’ piety. 
 
 A. M. T. 
 
DOMINICAN FEIARY. 
 
 This friary, situate near the gate leading to Athboy, 
 was founded in honor of the assumption of the Virgin 
 Mary, a.d. 1263, by Geoffrey de Geneviile, Lord of 
 Meath. 
 
 1285 — A general chapter of the order was held here. 
 
 1291 — On the Sunday next after the feast of St. Mat- 
 thew, the archbishops, bishops, deans, &c., of the king- 
 dom, held a meeting in this convent, under the presidency 
 of Nicholas MacMolissa, Archbishop of Armagh, when 
 they entered into a remarkable association for promoting 
 and strengthening the powers of the church. 
 
 1st. They swore that if they, or any of them, their 
 churches, rights, jurisdictions, liberties, or customs, should 
 by any lay- power or jurisdiction whatsoever be impeded, 
 resisted, or grieved, that they would, at the common ex- 
 pense, in proportion to their respective incomes, support, 
 maintain, and defend each other in all courts, and before 
 all judges, either ecclesiastical or secular. 
 
 2nd. If. any of their messengers, proctors, or the execu- 
 tors of their orders should suffer any loss or damage in 
 the execution of their business, by any lay-power or juris- 
 diction, that in such case they would amply, and without 
 delay, make up to them all such losses and damages out of 
 
198 DOMINICAN FRIARY. 
 
 their own fortunes, according to a rateable proportion of 
 their revenues. 
 
 3rd. If any ordinary should pronounce sentence of ex- 
 communication against a delinquent, that all the other 
 bishops should promulge and with effect prosecute such 
 sentence in their respective dioceses ; so that if a person 
 excommunicated in one place should fly to another, the 
 place he continued in should be put under an interdict, as 
 also wherever he had his habitation, or the greater part of 
 his fortune, provided notice thereof be given in writing by 
 the bishop, publishing such sentence. 
 
 4th. If any of the archbishops should prove cool or 
 negligent in the execution of the said agreement, then 
 they bound themselves, by virtue of the oath they had 
 taken, in 500 marks to the pope, and as many to their 
 brethren who should observe it; and each bishop, under 
 the like circumstances, in £200 to the pope, and as much 
 to their brethren, who should keep up to the terms pre- 
 scribed. 
 
 And, lastly, they agreed, that if any archbishop, bishop, 
 &c., absent at the time of the agreement, should, upon 
 request, refuse to comply with the terms stipulated ; then 
 they engaged and promised to complain of him to the 
 pope, and to prosecute such complaint with effect at their 
 common charges, and not only so, but that they would 
 not afford him any aid, counsel, or assistance in any other 
 affairs relating to him or his church. — Ware^s Bishops^ 
 hy Harris^ p. 70. 
 
 1300 — A general chapter of the order was held 
 here. 
 
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 1308 — Geoffrey de Geneville"^' resigning the possession 
 of the lordship of Meath to the Lord Roger de Mortimer, 
 and his wife, the rightful heir, daughter of Sir Peter, son 
 of Geoffrey de Geneville, he entered himself a friar in this 
 monastery on the morrow after the feast of St. Edward 
 the Archbishop. — Pemhridge, 
 
 1314 — The Lord Geoffrey de Geneville died on the 21st 
 of October, and was interred here in his order of Friars 
 Preachers. — Pern, 
 
 1315 — A general chapter of the order was held here. 
 
 * As, according to an “old Ryme” preserved Lambeth, 
 Carew, MSS. 626: 
 
 “ He is not worthy in court to dwell, 
 
 Who knows not the arms of Genevell.” 
 it may be well to mention, that the arms of Geneville are 
 azure ; three barnacles or, on a chief argent a lion naissant 
 gules. Many of the old Meath gentry, the Husseys, Prestons, 
 as representing Loundres, Flemings, De la Hides, Cruises, — 
 and others, are entitled to quarter these arms, yet I have 
 never seen them on seal or stone. The barnacles are not the 
 birds so called, but instruments of torture used by the Sara- 
 cens, and resembling the instruments used for bruising hemp. 
 — Menestrier de Vorigine des armoiries. 
 
 The Joinvilles or Genevilles were celebrated founders of 
 religious houses ; wherefore, says the inscription on their monu- 
 ment at Clairvaux, “ Tout oils qui sont issus di li doibvent avoir 
 esperance qui Diex la mis en sa comjpagnie, Quar les Sains tes 
 moignent^ qui faiemaison Diex en ter veil acquier propre maison 
 en cil. 
 
 Lance, shield, and sword, relinquish’d by his side, 
 
 A bead roll in his hand, a clasped book. 
 
 Or staff more harmless than a shepherd’s crook. 
 
 The war-worn Chieftain quits the world, to hide 
 His thin autumnal locks whnre monks abide 
 In cloister’d privacy. — Wokdworth’s Eccl. Sketches. 
 
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 1324 — Nicholas, the son and heir of Sir Simon de 
 Geneville, was interred in this friary. — Pemhridge. 
 
 1347 — Th,e Lady Joan FitzLeons,^ widow of Sir Simon 
 de Geneville, was interred here on the 12th of April. — 
 Pemhridge. 
 
 1368 — The church was consumed by fire.f 
 
 1418 — Matthew Hussey, J Baron of Galtrim, died on 
 the 4th of August, and was interred here. — Marlborough. 
 
 1540 — May 24th — A grant to Sir Thomas Cusacke, of 
 Cushinstown, knt., of the house, site precinct, &c., of the 
 late house of Friars Preachers of Trim, and the church of 
 the said house, all messuages, castles, &c., in or near to the 
 
 * Are not the FitzLeons the origin of the Leyns or Lynches 
 of the Knock (Summerhill), Donore on the Boyne, and 
 Crowboy ? 
 
 f The church burned in this year, was not the church of this 
 abbey, but that of St. Mary’s. Pembridge’s words are, “ Item 
 ecclesia sancte Marise de Trim igne comburitur ejusdem 
 monasterii.” 
 
 X John Hussey, Baron of Galtrim, married the oldest of the 
 five daughters of Sir Simon de Geneville, who, upon the death, 
 without issue, of Joan, daughter and heiress of their brother 
 Nicholas, became his representatives. — Grace. 
 
 O’Heyne, as quoted by Burke in the Hibernia Dominicana, 
 says, “That although the convent was founded by the De 
 Genevilles, yet its foundation was in his time ascribed to 
 Hussey, Baron of Galtrim ; as either from his residence in 
 that district [eo in territorio], or from his descent from that 
 family, he possessed the patronage of the convent ; for of the 
 name of Geneville, no living man is known there.” To this 
 Burke adds, ‘ ‘ that if this last assertion was not strictly true, 
 yet it was undeniable that no respectable family of the name of 
 Geneville^was in his time to be found in the whole of Ireland. 
 
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 precinct of said house, 3 messuages, 66 acres of land, 
 3 acres of meadow, and one park in Trim, aforesaid, and 
 all other messuages, lands, &c., in Trim or elsewhere in 
 Meath county, which were ever reputed parcel of said 
 manor. — Pat. Roll. 33, 7 Hen. VIII. 
 
 Sir Thomas Cusacke paid £168 13s. 4d., for these lands, 
 those of the Augustinian Friars of Scryne, and the land in 
 Londreston, late parcel of the monastery of the Friars 
 Preachers near the bridge of the city of Dublin. 
 
 1598 — 40 Elizabeth — Edward Cusacke, of Lismullen, 
 sold these premises to Roger Jones . — See Mary s Ahhey. 
 
 1649 — Oliver Darcy, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ardagh, 
 was an alumnus in this house. — Hib. Dom. 
 
 1664 — Cornelius O'Donnell, prior of the monastery of 
 Trim, printed his recantation in quarto. 
 
 1689 — November 8th — At a meeting of the corporation 
 of Trim, Father John Dillon, president of the Dominicans, 
 was sworn a freeman of the corporation. He signed the 
 Corporation Book, May 14th, 1690, as Prior Trimmensis 
 Ord. Pred . — Town Records. 
 
 1751 — About this time died Francis Leynagh, prior of 
 this house; he was nearly 100 years old. He had been for 
 many years a parish priest, and did not enter this house 
 until he was nearly 60. At this time the convent was 
 placed at Donore, where the friars held a farm from Mr. 
 Joseph Ashe, and also possessed the adjoining Roman 
 Catholic parish. — Hib. Dom. 
 
 Bishop Burke, who wrote in 1756, says that a few years 
 before that time the walls of the house and chapel gave 
 evidence of their original magnificence, but that shortly 
 
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 before he wrote, the stones were sold and carried away to 
 other buildings, so that on visiting the place he found 
 scarcely any ruins. 
 
 The site of the abbey and the abbey well, are marked 
 in the ordnance survey. 
 
GRAY FRIARY. 
 
 This house was dedicated to St. Bonaventure, and in 
 general was called the Observantine Friary of Trim ; it 
 was originally founded by King John, though others say 
 by the family of Plunkett. 
 
 The Observantines reformed this friary before the year 
 1325. 
 
 1330 — A flood in the river Boyne, such as never was 
 seen before, by which all the bridges on that river, 
 both of wood and of stone, were totally destroyed, except 
 Babe’s Bridge."^' The flood also carried away several 
 mills, and did much damage to the Friars Minor of Trim 
 and Drogheda, f and broke part of their monasteries. — 
 Pemhridge. 
 
 1518 — A grant was made to the warden of this friary 
 and his successors, of the park of Trim, not exceeding the 
 yearly value of 20s. sterling, dated 11th of August. 
 
 Maurice was the last prior who was found to be seized 
 
 * Babe’s Bridge was at Babestown, now Mabestown, near 
 Blackcastle, Navan ; its remains are called “the Thieves’ 
 Bridge.” 
 
 + This friary was situated in the barony of Ferrard, on the 
 north side of the Boyne. In this house were probably com- 
 posed the annals, commonly called, from the only existing MS. 
 “the Annals de Monte Fernandi,” or “ Multifarnham,” but 
 whose right title we may conjecture was “ De Ponte Ferrardi.” 
 
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 of the church and steeple, a dormitory, hall, three cham- 
 bers, and sundry other offices in the precincts, and of no 
 value; a mill and watercourse, with the appurtenances, 
 annual value 20s., besides reprises ; an orchard, a church 
 or chapel, called the Mawdelin’s chapel,^ in ruins; a close, 
 called the Mawdelin’s church -yard, annual value 6d. 
 besides reprises ; a weir on the Boyne, with its appur- 
 tenances, annual value 3s. 4d- besides reprises; twenty 
 acres of arable land, one of meadow, and eight of pasture, 
 with the appurtenances in Trim, annual value 5s., besides 
 reprises ; and a parcel of land called the King’s Park, alias 
 the Park of Trim, containing eighty acres of pasture, moor, 
 and underwood, with the appurtenances, annual value, 
 besides reprises, 5s. 
 
 July 10th, 34 King Henry VIII. ; this friary, with several 
 small parcels of land, and a church in Trim, was granted 
 for ever, in capite, to Lodwyche O’Tudyr, parson of 
 Koslaye, John Morye, parson of Walterstown, and John 
 Wakely, at the annual rent of 2s. lOd. Irish money. 
 
 Henry VIII., by letters patent, dated July 10th, 34th 
 year of his reign, granted for ever to Sir Anthony St. 
 Leger, the site, circuit, and precincts of the monastery of 
 St. Francis, called the “ Observant, or Grey Friars of 
 Trim,” containing six messuages with their gardens. 
 These were afterwards conveyed to Sir Thomas Ashe, of 
 Trim, who made them over, with the exception of the 
 
 * In 1431 Henry VI. gave Thomas Clement, chaplain, the 
 custody of the house of Lepers of St. Mary Magdalen, at Trim, 
 together with the chantry of the chapel within the castle. — 
 Hot. PaL \0 Henry VI, 
 
GKAY FRIARY. 
 
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 house called the Shore House, and the Town House in 
 Trim, to Francis [Aungier?] Baron Longford. — Inq^. 
 Navan^ Aug. 28th, 1633. 
 
 1685 — June 29 — That the present Portrieve (Stafford 
 Lightburne), and the master of the Guild, should treat 
 with Thomas Ashe, of St. John’s, Esq., for his interest in 
 the Thoulsell House, for purchasing the same to the Cor- 
 poration for ever; and whatsoever agreement the said 
 Portrieve and master of the Guild make, is hereby rectified, 
 confirmed, and approved of. 
 
 That immediately after the said purchase is made, there 
 shall be a lease made thereof to the county for 1,000 years, 
 at a pepper-corn a year, to erect and build a school-house 
 there for the use of the said county . — Toivn Records, 
 
 D. M^Loughlin, who was alive in 1820 — remembered 
 the assizes being held in the hall or church of this friary; 
 only one judge went circuit at that time. The Town 
 House was part of the same building, and stood on the site 
 of the present Record Court; the shambles were under the 
 Town House. In the market street opposite this building 
 was a pyramid of seven or eight flat steps, called the 
 Market Cross,” on which M‘Loughlin believed there had 
 originally stood a silver statue of St. John, six feet high ; 
 but in his remembrance it was surmounted only by a pole 
 and a weather-cock. From the circumstance that the assizes 
 were held in this priory, it appears to be probable that it 
 was the place in which the parliaments were held in Trim. 
 — See also Rot, Pat, 15 R. II. 42. 
 
 In 1318 there was a dispute between the friars of this 
 house and the Dominicans of Mullingar, respecting the 
 
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 burial of Eosine de Verdou. Wadding says that the con- 
 troversy was referred by the Pope to the Priori Destrinhuc 
 Minden, Diocesis ac Archidiacono ac Can tori Ecc. Minden. 
 — Annates Minor, vi. 324. 
 
 Wadding, who ought to have known better, and who 
 describes it correctly in vol. ix. — having read that this 
 convent was in Diocesi Mindensi, for Midensi, removes it, 
 in vol. vi., from the banks of the Boyne “ ad Visurgem 
 fluvium in Germania .’’ — Annates Minor um^ tom. vi. p. 324. 
 He also says that the constable of the castle had a secret 
 passage from his bed-chamber into this church, where he 
 attended divine service. 
 
 In 1662, the Rev. Richard Plunkett, a poor brother of 
 the Franciscan convent at Trim, wrote a Latin and Irish 
 Dictionary, now in Mark’s Library. There is also a copy 
 in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. — O'Reilly's 
 hnsh Writers, 
 
 This house was included in the Franciscan custodia of 
 Drogheda, together with the friaries or loca of Drogheda, 
 Dundalk, Mnltifernan, Down, and Carrickfergus. 
 
 Wadding says that in his time nothing remained of this 
 monastery except the nave of the church, where the justices 
 of Meath held their sessions. 
 
 This friary was held at Dunderry ; it was dissolved about 
 the year 1820, and its members removed to Mnltifernan, 
 in Westmeath. 
 
CHANTRY; 
 
 We also find in the parish church of St. Patrick, in this 
 town, a perpetual chantry of three priests — one in the 
 chapel of St. Laurence the martyr, another in that of St. 
 Patrick, and a third in the Poode chapel ; contrary to the 
 statute, they had acquired a castle and ten messuages in 
 Trim, with eight tenements, and ten acres of land in Don- 
 derry and Irestown, in this county. 
 
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 PEIOEY OF CANONS EEOULAP. 
 
 Simon de Eochfort, Bishop of Meath, founded a priory 
 here about the year 1206, for canons regular of the con- 
 gregation of St. Victor ; he also erected the church into a 
 cathedral, which he dedicated to the honour of St. Peter 
 and St. Paul. 
 
 A.D. 1206 — William was prior ; which office he ap- 
 pears to have filled in the year 1212. 
 
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 1216 — The episcopal founder held a synod here; the 
 acts of which are printed in Wilkins’ Concilia. 
 
 Richard Brayne was prior, but the year is not recorded. 
 
 1224 — Simon, the founder, was interred here. 
 
 Richard, prior of Little Malverne, in the county of 
 Worcester, granted to this priory, in perpetuity, all the 
 lands of Dunsenekill, or Dunsink, and the rents arising 
 from the several lands then held by Walter de Subley, 
 Adam le Peter, and Richard Rodipac ; also an annual rent 
 of 2s., arising from the lands of Keppock, and 12d. out 
 of Dubber; reserving to the priory of Little Malverne 
 all the rents and tithes of the ecclesiastical benefices, 
 and the tithes of Castleknock, with one pound of wax 
 annually. 
 
 1240 — Simon was prior, who made a grant to Richard 
 de la Corner [Is this de Angulo, Le. N^angle?], Bishop of 
 Meath, of the said lands of Dunsenekill, in perpetuity, 
 reserving only to the prior two pounds of wax yearly, or, 
 in lieu thereof, 12d. 
 
 1244 — Richard Nonnaud was prior. 
 
 1260 — Hugh de Ardiz granted the sum of 20s. to this 
 priory, and the abbey of St. Thomas in Dublin. 
 
 1289 — William was prior. 
 
 1302 — William de Galtrim was prior, who this year 
 sued friar John Dawe, prior of the hospital of St. John at 
 Kells, for the advowson of the church at Stonehalle. 
 
 1307 — This year Richard Sweetman, the prior, was 
 accused of inhumanly murdering friar Robert Mody, a 
 canon of this house, by stabbing him with a knife; he was 
 also accused of assisting his brother, William Sweetman, to 
 
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 kill friar Thunre [perhaps Thunder"^'] another canon; 
 
 the prior pleaded, that as a clerk he was not obliged to 
 answer; whereupon friar John, abbot of the monastery of 
 the Virgin Mary of Trim, appeared as attorney for the 
 Bishop of Meath, and claimed that the said prior should be 
 delivered to him. And the said jury found that, on the 
 feast of St. Peter and St. Paul last past, the friars Robert, 
 James, John, &c., were heard to murmur that that they 
 were too much restrained by the prior, whereupon they 
 secretly armed themselves with sw^ords and other weapons, 
 and having met after the evening collation, previous to 
 their going to rest, they complained to each other of being 
 
 too much confined by N and avowed they would have 
 
 drink as formerly; they then went towards the gate, and 
 
 meeting with abused and pursued him, who, 
 
 falling through fright, they fell upon him and used him with 
 such inhumanity, that he instantly died; friar John Bally- 
 more, on seeing these murderers prepare to escape, 
 endeavoured to prevent thorn, but they attacked him, and 
 with one blow of a sword, nearly severed his head from 
 
 * In the wall of a house, near the turn to Rathmolyon, are 
 the following arms : — 
 
 For De Bath, a cross between 4 lions, — for Thunder, a chevron 
 between 3 trumpets. On the broken shaft of a highly 
 ornamented cross, in the same place : 
 
 ORATE 
 
 PROA 
 
 NIMA 
 
 PETRI 
 
 LINCE 
 
 A.D. 1554. 
 
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 his body; this happened at the cellar door, which they had. 
 broke open. The prior gave Hugh de Lacie and John le 
 Blounde, of Rathregan, as bail for his appearance at the 
 next assizes. 
 
 1314 — Martin was prior. 
 
 1335 — Walter White was prior. 
 
 1350 — On the death of the prior the temporalities were 
 seized into the king’s hands from the 10th of January to 
 the 19th of March, when they were delivered to Henry, the 
 newly elected prior. 
 
 1359 — Thomas was prior. — Rot, Can, 
 
 1365. — The prior, Thomas Scurlock, was elected abbot 
 of St. Thomas’,' Dublin, 
 
 1386 — Dec. 24 — The bulls of the translation of Alex- 
 ander de Balscot, from the see of Ossory to that of Meath, 
 were published in this church. — Harris^ Ware^ p. 147. 
 
 1386 — John Franhome was prior. 
 
 Roger de Appleby went over to Ireland and there 
 became abbot of St. Peter’s, near Trim [formerly founded 
 by Simon de Rupeforti, Bishop of Meath] ; hence by the 
 pope he was preferred Bishop of Ossory — he died a.d. 
 1404. — Fuller s Worthies^ Westmoreland, 
 
 1400 — Henry, son of Gerald Dillon, of Diumrany, was 
 prior. — Lodge^ Dillon, 
 
 1402 — Leonard Golding was prior. 
 
 1405 — Leonard, the prior, having resigned, Thomas 
 Scurlock, was elected in his room. 
 
 On the 15th of October, in the year 1411, he appears 
 to have held that office. 
 
 1419 — King Henry V. granted to the prior and 
 
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 convent, for the better support of this abbey, a license to 
 acquire lands, &c., to the annual value of £40. Dated 
 Trim, 24th September. 
 
 1423 — William Scurlock was prior. 
 
 1427 — Thomas Scurlock was prior. 
 
 1429 — On the 8th of January the said prior Thomas 
 was treasurer of Ireland, and before the end of the same 
 month he was elected Bishop of Meath, but going to Rome 
 to receive the pall, he was there rejected. 
 
 Same year Thomas Strong was prior. 
 
 1464 — Nicholas Herberc was prior. 
 
 1482 — William Shirwood, Bishop of Meath, was in- 
 terred here before the high altar. 
 
 1488 — The prior, Richard Hussey, having been con- 
 cerned in the rebellion raised in behalf of Lambert Simnel, 
 he received the royal pardon for the same, and took the 
 oaths of fidelity to King Henry VII. on the 25th of July 
 in this year. 
 
 1516 — Henry Garnet was prior. 
 
 1518 — About this year Thomas Dillon was prior, who 
 continued in office a very short time; he was third brother 
 to Sir Bartholomew Dillon, then Chief Baron of the 
 Exchequer. 
 
 1528 — Thomas Browne was prior. 
 
 1530 — On the 10th of January Owen Coffy was elected 
 prior. 
 
 1535 — The Prior of St. Peter’s beside Trim was to 
 send one man to the hosting — Ordinances of 1534 . — State 
 Papers, 
 
 1533-4 — This year the parliament passed the following 
 
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 act to appropriate the parsonage of Galtrim to this 
 priory : 
 
 At the humble supplication of the prior and convent of 
 the monastery or house of the apostles Peter and Paul of 
 Newtown beside Trim : That where the advowson of the 
 parish church of the blessed Virgin Mary of Galtrim, within 
 the county and diocese of Meath, in the time of Prince 
 Edward IV., late king of England, unto the monastery or 
 house of the apostles Peter and Paul, of Newtown, beside 
 Trim aforesaid, and to the prior and convent of the same, 
 to hold, retain, and keep to them and their successors, in 
 proper use was appropriated, and so appropriated did con- 
 tinue unto the 24th year of the reign of our sovereign lord 
 that now is, Henry VIII., King of England and of France, 
 defender of the faith, and lord of this land of Ireland, that 
 one Nicholas Hussey, Baron of Galtrim, aforesaid, in a 
 quare impediU recovered the aforesaid advowson against 
 the prior that now is of the said monastery or house, 
 before the justices of the king’s common pleas in this land 
 of Ireland. The said Nicholas, in his said action of quare 
 impedit, alledging that the said advowson, long before the 
 said appropriation thereof, was appendant to the manor of 
 Galtrim aforesaid, which manor, the said advowson thereto 
 then being appendant, was given by force of a remainder 
 of a tail to one Peter Hussey, ancestor to the said Nicho- 
 las, whose heir the said Nicholas is, and to the heirs male 
 of his body begotten, as by the said recovery more plainly 
 doth appear. And forasmuch as the tithes of the parson- 
 age of Galtrim aforesaid was that thing that the said 
 house or monastery was most supported and kept up [hy'jy 
 
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 and divine service and hospitality maintained, and that 
 the same house or monastery, if it could not have the said 
 parsonage thereto again appropriated, was, and is very like, 
 to be clearly dissolved, forasmuch as a great deal of the 
 possessions that was given thereto at the foundation 
 thereof, lieth in the marches, and by reason of war and 
 oppression there is much wasted, sore decayed, and dimi- 
 nished, and the premisses of pity moving Sir William 
 Skeffington, then Lord Deputy of this land, and the coun- 
 cil of the same, at their desire, the said Nicholas Hussey, 
 upon the said advowson, did submit himself to such end, 
 award, and order, as the said Lord Deputy, the most Kev. 
 Father in God, John, Archbishop of Dublin, Primate oflre- 
 land, and then Chancellorof Ireland, Sir John Barnewall,knt. 
 Lord of Trimlettestown, and Thomas Luttrell, then the king’s 
 sergeant at his laws in Ireland, should take order and award 
 therein ; and the said arbitrers, by the assent of the said prior 
 and Nicholas, thereupon did award, order, and deem that 
 there should be a vicar perpetual and for ever in the same 
 church made, established, and ordained, having perpetual 
 succession, that shall have yearly to him and his succes- 
 sors, vicaries of the same church for the time being, the 
 whole manse or glebe of the parsonage or church of Gal- 
 trim aforesaid, with four acres of arable land, being within 
 the same town of Galtrim thereto pertaining, with all 
 other lands and tenements pertaining to the same, being 
 within the precinct, bounds, and mearings of the lands of the 
 town of Galtrim aforesaid, the whole altarages, oblations, 
 and offerings yearly of the church and parish of Galtrim 
 aforesaid, the third part of all the tithe torves of the said 
 
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 parish, the whole tithes of corn and hay of all the lands, 
 messuages, and tenements of Clonemeath, and such tithes 
 yearly of corn, half wheat and bear, and the other half 
 oats, as shall be to the yearly value of eight marks of 
 lawful money of Ireland, of such corn as shall grow or be 
 in the farthest part of the land of the town of Galtrim 
 aforesaid, from the house or monastery of SS. Peter and 
 Paul aforesaid, after the rate of fifteen shillings the couple 
 of corn of the same tithe yearly ; to have and to hold the 
 same manor, glebe lands, altarages, oblations, offerings, 
 tithes, and all other premisses, with their appurtenances, 
 to the said vicar, and to his successors for ever, that so 
 shall be there made, establised, and ordained. And 
 that the advowson of the parsonage of Galtrim aforesaid, 
 with all other manner of tithes, oblations, and altarages, 
 chapels, and free chapels that pertaineth to the same, ex- 
 cept the premisses for the said vicar limited, at the cost of 
 the said prior, or his successors, after he or his successors 
 had obtained or gotten of our sovereign lord the king, his 
 heirs or successors, a sufficient license to take, accept, and 
 approper the same advowson to them and their successors, 
 then shall be appropried, united, and annexed to the said 
 house or monastery of SS. Peter and Paul aforesaid, and 
 to the prior and convent of the same, and their successors 
 for ever. To have and to hold, keep, and retain the same 
 to the said prior and convent, and to their successors for 
 ever, in proper use, in pure and perpetual alms, to pray 
 for the souls of his antecessors of the said Nicholas, and 
 for the prosperity of the said Nicholas and his heirs and 
 sequel, for their souls after they pass this transitory life. 
 
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 1537 — 28th Henry VIIT. — This house was suppressed 
 and granted to the king by act of Parliament . — Irish 
 Statutes, 
 
 29th King Henry VIII. — This monastery, with the lands 
 of Killtombe, Cloynboynagh, Shirlokeston, and Rathnalle, 
 was granted, for the term of twenty-one years, to Robert 
 Dillon,^ at the annual rent of £16 5s. 9d., Irish money. 
 Also, 22nd July, 32nd same king, the town of Dunkennie, 
 with five messuages, six cottages, 160 acres of arable, and 
 20 acres called Huntsland, parcel of the possessions of St. 
 
 * According to Lodge, James Dillon, of Riverstown, had 
 five sons — Sir Bartholomew Dillon, who, in 1516, was deputy 
 treasurer, and in 1518, chief justice of the Common Pleas ; 
 Gerrald, of Balgeeth ; Sir Robert, of Newtown, attorney- 
 general in 1545, and chief justice of the Common Pleas in 
 1559 ; Thomas, prior of St. Peter’s, Trim ; and Edmond, prior 
 of Newtown. The lay brothers seem to have succeeded to the 
 property of their clerical brothers, and to that of their houses. 
 
 On a stone in the porch of Trim church, which evidently was 
 attached to the piscina now used as a font, are three shields — 
 1. De Bath — 2, Dillon, a lion rampai^fc within a tressure, over 
 all a fess — 3. A fess between three crescents for Wile or Wylde, 
 of Riverstown. In the time of Edward IV., James Dillon, son 
 of Sir Richard Dillon, of Proudstown, and heir of his mother 
 Jeane, daughter and heiress of Wylde, of Riverstown, married 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Bath, of Dollardstown, and bore these 
 coats. The fess over the lion rampant is said to have been 
 granted by John, Duke of Bedford, to Richard Dillon, as an 
 augmentation to his arms, for his conduct at the battle of 
 Verneuil, in 1424; and the Wylde crescents, instead of being 
 quartered with the paternal coat, were afterwards incorporated 
 into the Dillon arms, according to a mode not unusual in Irish 
 heraldry. 
 
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 John the Baptist, of Newtown, with one messuage in the 
 town of Navan, containing 60 acres, parcel of the posses- 
 sions of the abbey of St. Mary, in Navan, together with 
 Branganston, being part of the possessions of John Burnell, 
 and Daltonston, part of the possessions of Christppher 
 Eustace, both of whom were attainted of high treason, 
 were granted for ever to the said Dillon, to hold in capite, 
 at the rent of four marcs Irish money. And 22nd July, 
 33rd same king, all the several possessions of this abbey, 
 situate in Newtown, Kilthome, Cloynboyuagh,Skirlokeston, 
 and Rathnalle, the tithes of hay and corn in Newtown, 
 Kilthombe, Cloynboynagh, and Siiirlokestown excepted, 
 were granted to the said Dillon for ever, at the yearly 
 rent of four marcs, to commence at Michaelmas, 1558, at 
 the expiration of the first lease for 21 years. 
 
 4th and 5th of Philip and Mary, a mill on the river 
 Blackwater, and 100 acres of land in Moyvally, in this 
 county, part of the possessions of this priory, were granted 
 to Gerald, Earl of Kildare, together with the priory of 
 Lismullen. 
 
 This priory paid five marcs annually to the bishop. 
 
 On the 1st of May, 1536, this house was suppressed by 
 Parliament and granted to King Henry VIII. 
 
 In 1550, it was found that this priory had been seized 
 of the tithes of the chapel of Baskyn, with the appurte- 
 nances, being three couples of corn, each valued at 13s. 4d. 
 
 1560, February 3rd — The tithes of the rectories of 
 Kilfare and Gary, in the county of Westmeath, part of 
 this priory were granted to Henry Dray cot, in perpetuity, 
 at the annual rent of £4, besides the procurations, &c. 
 
NEWTOWN. 
 
 217 
 
 The prior of this priory was third in dignity, and sat as 
 a baron in the House of Lords. 
 
 The remains of the large old church are still in being, 
 where is also to be seen an ancient tomb, said to have been 
 placed there for a daughter of King John. 
 
 The ruins of this priory give proof of the architectural 
 taste and magnificence of the Anglo-Normans, and of the 
 order which they had established in this country, within 
 less than fifty years of their arrival. The church"*^ once 
 The cathedral of Meath f consisted of a simple nave, 
 without aisles or transept, 136 feet in length by 30 in 
 breadth; on the south side of the altar are two sedilia, 
 with round-headed arches, which, both from their form, 
 and from the sandstonef of which they are composed, 
 appear to be of an older date than the rest of the building. 
 At the west end are two passages, or triforia, in the thick- 
 ness of the walls; and here are also some beautiful remains 
 
 * On the 27th of May, 1518, in the cathedral church of Saint 
 Peter ^ of Newtown, beside Trim, in the synod held here before 
 Hugh [Inge], Bishop of Meath, a transumpt of the old roUs of 
 the proxies, synodals and taxations of Meath was read and 
 compared with the ancient rolls, and confirmed by the bishop, 
 the archdeacons, and the clergy. 
 
 This transumpt is still preserved in the diocesan registry, 
 together with some fragments of the original rolls. 
 
 t The other carved work of this church is in Caen stone ; 
 the sandstone came either from Moynalvey, or from LismuUen : 
 this is the cut stone of the castle, and of all our older buildings ; 
 the Ardbraccan stone did not come into use before the 14th 
 century ; it was then used in the windows inserted in the chancel 
 of Trim church, and stiU more evidently in the insertions of 
 the 15th or 16th century in the abbey of Bective. 
 
 P 
 
218 
 
 NEWTOWN. 
 
 of the springing of a groined roof. The square-headed 
 window in the west gable* gives token of subsequent alter- 
 ations. The decay of this house, previous to the Refor- 
 mation, as stated in the act of Parliament, seems to be 
 evidenced by the windows to the north having been partly 
 built up, a change which it is not reasonable to think was 
 made after the dissolution. 
 
 When the area of the church was cleared out some 
 years ago, there were found at the east end some indented 
 tiles, now in the vestry room of Trim church, and under the 
 east window a considerable quantity of small fragments of 
 painted and stained glass ; some broken pieces of an arched 
 tomb, and some other carved stones were then built into 
 the wallsf of the old church ; and, as they were not re- 
 spected by the sacrilegious hands of the passers by, the 
 remains of another tomb, and of a carved door-way, for 
 greater security, were inserted in the porch and at the east 
 end of Trim church. The figure of the bishop, now at the 
 west gable of Newtown church, long trodden under foot, 
 and called by tradition — ever forgetful, imaginative, and 
 
 * What was the purpose of the holes, like putlock holes, 
 which go through the walls in this gable, and iu other parts 
 of the building ? 
 
 t With the following inscription : 
 
 “has antique PIETATIS ET ARTIS RELIQUIAS 
 VICINI MONASTERII SS. PETRO ET PAULO DEDICATI 
 OLIM ORNAMENTA 
 
 PROSTRATAS DIU ET PENE DETRITAS 
 PARIETIBUS HU JUS ECCLESI^ 
 
 INFIGENDAS CURAVIT R. B. VICAR DE TRIM. 
 
 A.D. M.DCCCXLII.” 
 
NEWTOWN. 
 
 219 
 
 flexible — the daughter of King John, is probably the 
 figure of the founder, Bishop Simon Rochford. One of 
 the arched tombs may be assigned to Bishop William 
 Sherwood. 
 
 Many romantic stories of the treasure buried in these 
 ruins were current a few years ago, and it is not long 
 since hundreds of people, some of them from a considerable 
 distance, assembled here by night, and made great exca- 
 vations, in the hope of reaching the underground passage 
 leading to the high altar, with the golden candlesticks, 
 not to be touched under pain of death, by which lie two 
 sleeping bishops, who, when awakened, will give the keys 
 of two small chambers, one full of silver and the other full 
 of gold, which may be taken away by the bold and pious 
 finders. The police, however, who doubted the purpose 
 of the assembly, interrupted the excavations, and the trea- 
 sure was not disturbed. 
 
 Eniscofiy belonged to this house, and paid 11s. proxies. 
 —Case of Proxies, 
 
 The priory was supplied with water from St. Peter’s 
 well; many yards of the lead pipe, through which it was 
 conveyed, were dug up about tw^enty years ago. 
 
PEIOEY OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST 
 
 This priory, or hospital, was erected in the 13th century, 
 under the invocation of St. John the Baptist, for Cross- 
 bearers,^' or Crouched Friars, and the Bishops of Meath 
 were either the founders or great benefactors to this 
 house. 
 
 * Archdall has made a house of Cross-bearers at Trim, 
 which never existed, and has given the following entry as 
 relating to it, which truly belongs to the Black Friary of Trim, 
 and should have been printed under that head at page 223. 
 
 Husse, the last prior, in company with all the brethren, 
 
 did, on the 4th of February, 27th King Henry VIII. volun- 
 tarily quit this monastery ; the possessions of which were a 
 church and belfry, chapter house, dormitory, hall, three cham- 
 bers, a store, kitchen, stable, and cemetery ; three gardens and 
 an orchard, within the precincts ; four messuages, four gar- 
 dens, sixty acres of arable land, three of meadow, and four of 
 pasture, with the appurtenances in Trim, which said mes- 
 suages, gardens and land were found of the yearly value of 
 j£3, besides reprises. 
 
 23rd May, 34th King Henry VIII. — This friary, with thirty- 
 six acres of arable land, three of meadow, and a park of pas- 
 ture, together with the Augustinian friary of Skrine, and the 
 several lands of Londrestown, in this county, part of the pos- 
 sessions of the Dominican friary in Dublin, were granted for 
 ever to Sir Thomas Cusack, knt., at the annual rent of 8s. 5d., 
 Irish money. 
 
PRIORY OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST. 
 
 221 
 
 A.D. 1281 — Walter, the son of Alured the younger, 
 granted to this house an annual rent of 40s., out of the 
 manor of Magathtreth, in this county, in pure and perpe- 
 tual alms. 
 
 1395 — 18th Richard II. — The king permits the prior 
 and convent of the house or hospital of St. John of New- 
 town, near Trim, to acquire in perpetuity the advowson 
 of parishes not exceeding £10, according to their taxa- 
 tion, and six carucates of arable land not held in capite. 
 He also confirms them in all their possessions in Ireland, 
 Dublin, 24th of March. — Rot, Can. 
 
 1408 — 7th Henry IV. — John, prior of the monastery of 
 St. John, near Trim, had custody of one messuage, thirty 
 acres arable, two meadow in Dunkenny, and one weir 
 [gurgitis] on the Boyne, as long as they were in the king’s 
 hands. Dublin, 14th of July . — Rot Can. 
 
 1427 — John Pakkere was prior. 
 
 Edmund, fourth brother to Sir Bartholomew Dillon, who 
 was made Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1513, was 
 prior of Newtown and of Luske. 
 
 The prior of this house paid annually half a marc 
 proxies to the Bishop of Meath. 
 
 Laurence White was the last prior, who surrendered 
 this priory and its possessions July 16th, 31st King 
 Henry VIII., being then seized of the same, containing a 
 church, two towers, an hall, storehouse, kitchen, brew- 
 house, two granaries, a pidgeon-house, and haggard ; also 
 of four messuages, twenty acres of arable land, being part 
 of their demesne on the south side of the Boyne, seventy 
 acres of arable land, twelve of pasture, being part of the 
 
222 PRIORY OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST. 
 
 said demesne on the north side of the Boyne ; and a close 
 containing an acre of pasture, with three gardens in New- 
 town, annual value, besides reprises, 101s. 4d ; four mes- 
 suages, six cottages, 120 acres of arable land and twenty 
 of pasture, with a mill on the river Blackwater in the town 
 of CIongufFyn, of annual value, besides reprises, £4 16s. ; 
 a castle, six messuages, forty acres of arable land, and 
 forty of pasture, moor, and underwood, in Longwood and 
 Atomodarire, annual value, besides reprises, 52s. 4d. ; 
 seven acres of arable land and three of pasture, in Ball- 
 reyn, annual value, besides reprises, 4s. 8d. ; two acres of 
 arable land, with the three Warrenstowns, in the parish of 
 Kuockmarke, annual value, besides reprises, 2s. ; two 
 acres of arable land in the townland of Agher in the afore- 
 said parish, annual value, besides reprises, 2s. ; twenty 
 acres of arable land in the townland of Trim, annual 
 value, besides reprises, 20s. 8d. ; five messuages, three 
 cottages, 160 acres of arable land, three of meadow, and 
 six of pasture, with the appurtenances in Downekennye, 
 annual value, besides reprises, of £19 5s. 6d. ; one mes- 
 suage, forty- eight acres of arable land, two of meadow, 
 and two of pasture, in St. John’s-town, annual value, 
 besides reprises, 6s. 8d. ; sixteen acres of arable land in 
 Moyhangaye, annual value, besides reprises, 16s. 6d. ; 
 six acres of arable land ip Coraghetown, and an annual 
 rent of 7s. 4d., payable out of the lands of Thomas Plun- 
 kett, of Rathmore, Christopher Plunkett, jun., Richard 
 Proudefote, Nicholas Ford, &c., annual value, besides re- 
 prises, 13s. 4d. ; twenty acres of arable land in Richards- 
 town, annual value, besides reprises, 20s. ; also one 
 
PRIORY OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST. 
 
 223 
 
 messuage, with a garden in the town of Inche, annual value, 
 besides reprises, 4s. ; and thirty acres of arable land in 
 Moher, near Kells, annual value, besides reprises, 20s. ; 
 with the following rectories appropriated to the said prior 
 and his successors, Tillanoge and the appurtenances, 
 annual value, besides reprises, £10 iSs. 4d., and Fennor 
 with the appurtenances, annual value, besides reprises, 
 £6 13s. 4d. 
 
 July 18 — 31 Henry VIII. — Fiant for grant of the fol- 
 lowing yearly pensions: — £10 to Laurence Whyte, late 
 prior of St. John’s of Newtown, near Trim, and 26s. 8d. 
 to Patrick Dongau, issuing out of the profits of the 
 rectories of Fionowr and Tollanaghoge. — Rot, Pat 
 
 This priory stands on the south side of the river, a little 
 below the abbey, and contiguous to St. Peter’s bridge. 
 The ruins are extensive, though by no means remarkable 
 for regularity of style, nor have they much appearance of 
 a religious foundation. A square castle adjoins St. Peter’s 
 bridge, from whence a regular range of building, along the 
 water’s edge, extends to another castle at the east end, near 
 which is the triple east window of a chapel, which appears 
 to have been 117 feet in length by 24 in breadth. 
 
 This priory and its possessions w^ere granted to Robert 
 Dillon. (See the priory of Regular Canons, Newtown). It 
 afterwards became the property of the Ashe family, and 
 was inhabited by them for many years, at which time many 
 alterations were probably made for domestic purposes. 
 
 Tradition says that previous to the revolution it was 
 inhabited by Brown, a Roman Catholic bishop, who was 
 driven from it after the battle of the Boyne, when it was 
 
224 PRIORY OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST. 
 
 granted to one of William’s officers. The intruder was 
 not allowed to enjoy his acquisition; the very night in 
 which he took possession, he saw the most horrid vision, and 
 felt the whole weight of the priory on his breast ; at dawn 
 of day he ordered his horse, and rode away, never to 
 return. 
 
 END OF NOTICES OF THE ABBEYS OF TRIM AND 
 NEWTOWN. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 No. I. 
 
 A list of Hugh De Lacy’s Barons, and his grants to 
 them, is thus given in the Conquest of Ireland,” as 
 edited by Franc. Michel, p. 148-9-50 : — 
 
 De Huge de Laci vus conterai, 
 
 Cum il feffa ses baruns, 
 
 Chevalers, serjanz e garsunz. 
 
 Chastel-Knoc tut premer donat 
 A Huge Tyrel, k’il tant amat ; 
 
 E Chastel-Brec,* solum I’escrit, 
 
 A barun Willame le Petit, f 
 
 * Castlebrack in Queen’s County ; it was seized upon by the 
 0’Do5me’s, now Dunne’s and was called Toghesuer. — 1540, St. 
 Papers, ii. 237. 
 
 + Gulielmus Modicus Hib Expug. ii. 34. — In the reign of 
 Edward II. the heiress of the Petits, barons of Dunboyne and 
 Mullingar, married Thomas Butler, brother to the first Earl of 
 Ormonde, and ancestor of the Butlers of Dunboyne. 
 
 In 1215, it was covenanted between King John and Walter 
 de Lacy, that Walter should receive the following fines ; — 
 
 De Willo fil Bobr de Lacy, Bici de Tuyt, et uxoris et de filia 
 Hugonis. Tuyt, et Badi Parin (Parvi ?), et Ade de Capell 
 scilicet, fines de Baronia sua — Red, Booh Rememh. 
 
 Second Report, i. 161. 
 
226 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 March eruer an altresi 
 
 E la tere de Eathkenni (Eatlikenny, Kilkenny west ?), 
 Le Oantref pus de Hadhnorkur [Ardnorcher] 
 
 A Meiler, qui ert de grant valur, 
 
 Donad Huge de Laci 
 A1 bon Meiler le fiz Hervi ;* 
 
 A Gilibert de Nanglej* en fin. 
 
 Donat tut MakeragilinJ [Morgallion] ; 
 
 A Jocelin don at le Nouan 
 E la tere de Ardbrechan 
 (Li un ert fiz, li altre pere, 
 
 Solum le dit de la mere) ; 
 
 A Ei chard Tuit§ ensement 
 Donad riche feffement ; 
 
 Eathwor donat altresi 
 A1 barun Eobert de Lacy ; 
 
 * Meyler FitzHenry founded the abbey of Great Connell, in 
 Kildare, and placed there regular canons from Lanthony. 
 
 t Gilbert Kangle’s grandson, the son of Jocelin, was probably 
 called Gilbert ; and, from the name of his father, was called 
 by the Irish M‘Gostelb, or Costello, — (An. Buell. 1191, 1192,) 
 and was founder of the Connaught family of Costello. 
 
 t 1240-47 — -Albert of Cologn, Archbishop of Armagh, ex- 
 changed with Hugh de Lacy, Earl of Ulster, the lands of 
 Coulrath (Coleraine), in Toscard, which the Earl had by force 
 possessed himself of, for the lands of Machirgallion, and the 
 manor of Kobber. — Ware^s Bishops. 
 
 § 1344 — 18 Edward III. — Eichard Tuyt had summons to 
 attend the King to France, with 20 men at arms and 50 hobel- 
 lars ; the Earls of Desmond and Kildare were to come with the 
 same number. 1347 — Eichard Tuyte was again summoned, as 
 was also Feypowe, to come with 15 men at arms and 25 hobel- 
 lars. — Rymer. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 227 
 
 A Richard de la Chapele^' 
 
 Tere donad bone e bele ; 
 
 A Geffrei de Constentyn*j* Kilberi [Kilbixy ?] 
 
 A memes de Eathei Marthi ; 
 
 E Sci[r]n ad pus enchartre, 
 
 Adam de FeipoJ Tad pus done ; 
 
 A Gilibert de Nungent§ 
 
 * Brother to Gilbert Nugent. 
 
 + This grant to Constantin is more fully expressed in a char- 
 ter made to him by Walter de Lacy, namely : — five knights’ 
 fees in the Theof of Kilbixi ; with a castle and 15 knights’ 
 fees in the lands of Conemake (i. e. Comnae de Moierin, in 
 the county of Longford, which was part of the ancient Meath), 
 next adjoining to the said castle, beyond the river of Ethne, 
 (^. e. the Inny) ; by the service of four knights. — WaT(^s Antiq, 
 
 X An heiress of the Phepoes carried these estates into the 
 family of the Marwardes ; who were consequently stiled Barons 
 of Skryne ; from the Marwardes they passed by marriage to a 
 younger branch of the Westmeath Nugents, who forfeited in 
 1641. In 1332 Simon de Feypoe was seized of the manors of 
 Skryne, in county Meath ; Santrey, in Dublin ; Eathcoul and 
 Moyeshell, in the liberty of Trim. — Pipe. Poll. 
 
 For the origin of the name of this Simon Feypoe, see Mira- 
 cula Simonis de Montfort, page 73, printed by Camden Soc. 
 Chronicon. W. De Eishanger. 
 
 § Hugh de Lacy gave to Sir Gilbert Nugent, in recompence 
 of his services, his sister, Eosa, in marriage — (Lodge^ West- 
 meath); he also granted him the lands of Delvin, formerly the 
 estate of the sept of O’Finelan; with all the appurtenances 
 situate and lying within said lands, one town excepted, which 
 belonged to the abbot of Fore, called Terraghelach, as appears 
 from the grant; to which was affixed the seal of a knight in 
 complete armour on horseback.— ( IFare’s Antiq.) Delvin 
 passed by an heiress of the Nugents to the Tuites, and from 
 
228 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 A William de Muset* ensement 
 Donat teres e honurs, 
 
 Veant baruns e vassaurs ; 
 
 E al barun Pluge de Hosef 
 Terre bele ad pus done ; 
 
 Adam Dullard aitresi 
 
 La terre de Eathenuarti [Dulenevarthy — Ware7\\ 
 
 A un Thomas ad done 
 De Cravlle en herite 
 
 Eymelath Began [Emly Beg] tnte en pels 
 (Al nor est de Kenlis), 
 
 Lachrachalun ensement ; 
 
 them returned to the Nugents, The palatine barons of Delvin, 
 from the 3rd to the 8th, inclusive, were Tuites. — Beth. Coll. 
 
 * 1213 — Peter Messet died: he was Baron of Luyn, near 
 Trim ; but, dying without heirs male, the inheritance fell to 
 three daughters; of whom Lord Vernail married the eldest, 
 Talbot the second, and Loundres the third. — Pern, The family 
 of Loundres is now represented by Preston, Viscount Gormans- 
 town. 
 
 David Fitzwilliams, the last baron of Naas, had three 
 daughters married to de la Eoche, de London, de Bret. — 
 Masons’ ii. Patricks, 54. He was Lord of Wicklow. 
 
 f A deed of Walter de Lacy’s, grants Dervath, with three 
 knights’ fees and one carucate of land, near Kenet, to Hugh de 
 Hoese. — [Lodge., Westmeath.) John de Hereford granted to the 
 Abbey of St. Thomas, in Dublin, all the church tithes, and other 
 dues, in his portion of the lands of Desa; as they were set out and 
 divided between him and the lord Hugh de Hoese. — (Monast, 
 HiK 283.) Ware says that Hugh Hose had Dies (Deece), which 
 Shachlin held. Some part of Deece is still the estate of Hussey, 
 Baron of Galtrim. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 229 
 
 E Sendoiienath, solum la gent, 
 
 Donat Huge de Lacy 
 A cil Thomas, sachez de fi ; 
 
 Gradone"^' [Crandon — Ware] pus a unbarun 
 Eicard le Flemmeng out a nun, 
 
 XX feiz li donat veraiment. 
 
 Si la geste ne vus ment.” 
 
 Of these baronial families, the Tyrrells, Petits, Nangles, 
 Feypos, and Husseys, all bore bars in their arms. Feme 
 says, that Hugh De Lacy bore quarterly or and gules, a 
 bend sable, in chief a label of three points argent ; from 
 the bars borne by his Meath followers, it is probable that 
 the bend was changed into a bar by the Irish heralds. 
 All the Geraldines were men unius armaturce, — Hih, 
 Expug, ii. 15. 
 
 The Lacy arms, in Molyneux’s Heraldic MSS. in Trin. 
 Coll. Dub. are emblazoned argent a fess sable. 
 
 Is not the Fret in Bellew, and the Fretty cross in 
 Taafe, derived from the Verdon Fret, as the Meath Fesses 
 are from De Lacy ? 
 
 Dowdall bears a Fess between five Doves. The arms 
 of Archdeken and of Cantwell in Leinster are the chevrons 
 of Clare or Strongbow. 
 
 * Perhaps Crevoda or Creewood. Henry the Second con- 
 firmed to the abbey of Mellifont the gift made by Eobert of 
 Flanders (Fleming), of a carucate of land in Crevoda . — (Mon 
 Hih,) The territory of Ui Cremthainne is included in the 
 baronies of Slane — An, Four M, O’Donovan, a.d. 500. 
 
230 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 No. II. 
 
 ۥ 
 
 Hugh De Lacy's Charter to Gilbert de Nugent^ from Sir 
 William Betham's Collections. 
 
 Hugo de Lacy omnibus sanctse matris ecclesise filiis et 
 omnibus hominibus suis et amicis, Francis, Anglicis et 
 Hibernicis salutem, sciatis me dedisse, et presenti charta 
 mea confirmasse Gilberto de Nugent et heredibus suis 
 Delvin totam, quam in tempore Hibernicorum O’Finelani 
 tenuerant, cum omnibus pertinentiis in villis quaa infra 
 predictam Delvin continentur (excepto quadam villa 
 abbatis de Foure nomine Torrechelach) pro servitio suo 
 quinque militum infra terram meam de Midia faciendo sibi 
 et heredibus suis, a me et heredibus meis libere et hono- 
 rifice et plenarie tenendam, in bosco et in piano in pratis 
 pascuis in ecclesiis et capellis in viis et semitis in aquis et 
 piscariis in stagnis et molendinis et venationibus cum 
 omnibus libertatibus et liberis consuetudinibus quas ibi 
 habeo vel habere debeo. Hiis testibus Will. Parvo, Rob. 
 de Bigurr,^ Gilberto de Boscharr, Nich. Clerico, Phil. 
 Clerico, Bog. Camerario, Ada Clavigero, Rob. de Alta 
 Villari, Simon de Bigarr, et aliis. 
 
 * Giraldus Cambrensis, Ex. Hib. cap. xxii. , says that Hugh 
 de Lacy built a castle for Robert de Bigarz, at Obowey, which 
 seems to have been near the castle of Meiler, in Leix, which is 
 printed in Giraldus Cambrensis Tahmelio, but probably means 
 Timahoe ; both the castles seem to have been on the Barrow. 
 Is Bigarz now Vigors, or Vicars ? 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 231 
 
 No. Til. 
 
 «k 
 
 ‘‘ The Conquest of Ireland’^ gives the following account of 
 the Building of the Castle of Trim^ and of the attach upon 
 it^ and its destruction hy the Irish Princes^ and its resto- 
 ration hy Tyrrell : — 
 
 ‘‘ E cil de Laci pus Hugun 
 A Trjm ferma uue meisun, 
 
 E fosse jeta envirun, 
 
 E pus Tenclost he hireson; 
 
 Dedens la meysun ad pus mis 
 Chevalers baruns de grant pris, 
 
 Pus comandast le castel 
 En la gard Huge Tyrel, 
 
 A1 port ala pur posser 
 Yers Engletere la haute mer ; 
 
 Mes de Connoth Tentendeit 
 Li reis, qui a cel contemple esteit, 
 
 Que Huge un chastel aveit ferme: 
 
 De la novele esteit ire 
 Sun host feseit a sei venir, 
 
 Le chastel irra assaillir 
 O’Chonchor tut a estrus, 
 
 De Connoth li reis orgullus, 
 
 Od sei menad OTlaverti, 
 
 Mac Dermot e Mac Herathi, 
 
 Reis O’ Kelli de O’Mani, 
 
 O’Harthire e O’Hinnathi, 
 
 O’Cabre e O’Flannegan, 
 
232 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 E pus don O’Manethan, 
 
 O’Dude e O’Manethan, 
 O’Sathnessy de Poltilethban ; 
 
 Si alad le reis Molethlin 
 E reis O’rorig sun veysin. 
 
 De Kinel O’Neil O’Malori 
 E Mac Douleue altresi; 
 
 Si alad reis O’Karuel 
 E Mac Tawene, qui tant ert fel, 
 Mac Scilling e Mac Artan 
 E fel Mac Garragan : 
 
 Makelan tut ensement 
 
 I alad od la sue gent; 
 
 De Kinelogin O’Nel li reis 
 Od sei menad trei mil Yrreis. 
 Assemblez erent les Norries 
 E de Lethchoin trestut les reis, 
 Vers Trym pristrent a cheminer 
 Pur le chastel agravanter ; 
 
 E li barun Huge Tyrel 
 Desque al cunte un damisel 
 
 II envea trestut brochant 
 Sur un cheval asez curant, 
 
 Que al cunte descrit trestute 
 La novele tut de buche : 
 
 Que assembldz erent les Norreys 
 E de Leseoin trestut les reis 
 Pur abatre le dongun, 
 
 Le chastel e la hirefun. 
 
 ‘ Par mei vus mande li barun 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 233 
 
 Li veil Tyrel de Trym Hugun 
 Que tu le seez de tut aidant 
 0 tun force e succurant.’ 
 
 E li cunte lui pramis ad 
 Que il de buche lui eiderat. 
 
 Tuz fiz somundre sa gent 
 Par Leynestere hastivement. 
 Quant assemblez esteint tuz, 
 Vels, jovenes, bloys e ruz, 
 
 Vers Trym penserent de errer 
 Pur les Norreys encuntrer ; 
 
 Mbs einz ki li gentil quens 
 Venus esteit od les sens, 
 
 Aveit Huge veraiment 
 Del tut guerpi le mandement 
 Pur CO qu’il n’ aveit a fors 
 Dedens la meisun ne deors 
 De melle rendre ne estur 
 San Taide del cuntur. 
 
 Quant les Engleis erent partis 
 E lur meysun urent guerpiz, 
 
 A [T]rym vindrent les Yrreis. 
 La somme dirrai de meis 
 Cumben erent ne quant miller ; 
 Kar tenu sarrai mensonjer. 
 
 La mot firent tut degeter, 
 Desque a la tere tut verser, 
 
 E la meysun tut premer 
 De fu ardant estenceler. 
 
 Q 
 
234 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Quant accompli urent luv feiz, 
 
 Si s’en sunt trestut retreiz ; 
 
 De returner unt fet semblant 
 Vers lur pais li fel tyrant; 
 
 E li cunte, que tant iert fere, 
 
 Ver Trym pensout d’esperimere 
 Pur la meysun guarantir, 
 
 Si il la hore pust venir. 
 
 Vers Trym s’en veit li quens brochant 
 E od lui meint vassal vaillant ; 
 
 Mes quant li quens esteit venus, 
 
 Sur I’ewe esteit lores descenduz ; 
 
 Kar il n’i trova en [e] stant 
 Meysun, bordel, petit ne grant, 
 
 U il se peust dedens eiser 
 Ne cel nuit herberger. 
 
 Lores fist li quens hucher 
 Par tut Tost commander 
 Que tuz montasent errant 
 Atant se mist al ferrant. 
 
 Si s’en ala chemin dreiture 
 Pursuant a grant alure. 
 
 Tant s’en est li quens penez 
 Qu’il atenist la gent detrefs, 
 
 Si lur curat hastivement 
 Sanz nul arestement ; 
 
 E les Yrreis ki erent nuz 
 Se sunt lores responduz. 
 
 La set, la wit, la tries, la quatre. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 235 
 
 Si que nul ne tint altre ; 
 
 E li quens ad dune occis 
 Ee cele gent set vint e dis ; 
 
 Pus fet, sachez, retur, 
 
 Vers Dyveline od grant baudur ; 
 E Huge Tyrel ver Trim ala, 
 
 Sa fortelecce referma, 
 
 Pus I’ad garde par grant honur 
 Desque la venue sun seignur. 
 
 Names of the Chiefs and Places in Ireland mentioned in 
 the above extract, 
 
 Connoth (Connaught), O’Conchur (O’Connor), O’Fla- 
 verti (O’Flaherty), MacHerathi (M^Geraghty ?), O’Kelli 
 de O’Mani (O’Kelly of Hy Maine), O’Harthire (O’Hara), 
 O’Hinnathi (O’Hennessy ?), O’Cabre (O’Carberry), Oma- 
 nethan (Monaghan, McMahon), O’Dude (O’Dowd), O’Sath- 
 nessy (O’Shaughnessy), Molethlin (Malaughlin), O’Rorig 
 (O’Rourke), MacDouleve (Donlevy), O’Karul (O’Carol), 
 Makelan (M‘Hely, or MHIale ?) Leth Con (the northern 
 half of Ireland), Kenelogin (Kinel Owen, Tyrone). 
 
236 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 No. IV. 
 
 King John did spend two days in Trim^ as appears from the 
 following Itinerary of his Journey in Ireland^ taken from the 
 Itinerary of his Reign^ compiled ly Thomas Duffus Hardy ^ F.S.A.^ 
 from Original Records^ and published by the Record Commission- 
 ers : 
 
 A.D. 1210. 
 
 June 20, Crook, near Waterford. 
 
 21, Crook, Newbridge ; apud Pontem Novum viU 
 
 lam Willielmi MarescallL 
 
 22, Thomastown ;* apud Boscum^ terra Thomoe 
 fllii Antoniu 
 
 23, Kilkenny. 
 
 24, Kilkenny, Naas. 
 
 26, Naas. 
 
 29, Dublin; apud Pratum juxta Dublin. 
 
 30, Dublin, Grenoge ; apud Pratum Grenoc. 
 
 July 2, TRIM ; apud Pratum subtus Trim (the field 
 
 now called the King’s Park). 
 
 3, TRIM. 
 
 4, Kells ; apud Pratum subtus Kendles. 
 
 5, Kells. 
 
 7, Louth ; apud Pratum subtus Lovet vel apud 
 
 Pratum subtus aquam quandam que vocatur 
 Strathe. 
 
 8, Kadlelec; apud Pratum juxta Cadelec (Dun- 
 
 dalk ?). 
 
 9, Carlingford. 
 
 Thomas Town. — Stanyhurst. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 237 
 
 July 10, Carlingford. 
 
 11, Carlingford. 
 
 12, Apud castrum Jordani de Saukevile (Ard- 
 
 glass). 
 
 14, Rath ; (Maghera), — Beeves. 
 
 16, Downpatrick ; apud Dun vel Pratum suUus 
 Dun. 
 
 19 to 28, Carrickfergus. 
 
 29, Holy wood ; apud Sanctum Boscum. 
 
 81, Balimore ; apud Balimoran — (Ballymoran in 
 Killinchy). — Beeves. 
 
 Aug. 2, Downpatrick. 
 
 8, Downpatrick. 
 
 4, Bannbridge. 
 
 5, Carlingford. 
 
 8, Drogheda. 
 
 9, Drogheda, Duleek. 
 
 10, Duleek, Kells. 
 
 11, Kells, Fowre. 
 
 12, Granard ; apud Grenard castrum Bichar di de 
 
 Thuit. 
 
 14, Rath wire. 
 
 1 6, Castle Bret ; apud Gastell Bret* 
 
 18 to 23, Dublin. 
 
 24, Near Dublin. 
 
 26, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire. 
 
 * Castle Breck, Petit’s Barony ? Castellanbryck, eight 
 miles from Brackland. — State Papers, i. 524. 
 
238 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 No. V. 
 
 GRANT OF MEATH^ TO HUGH DE LACY, 
 
 BY HENRY IL 
 
 Henricns Dei gratia, Rex Anglige, et Dux Noimanniae 
 et Aquitanige, et comes Andegaviae, archiepiscopis, epis- 
 copis, abbatibus, comitibus, baronibus, justitiariis, et 
 omnibus ministris et fidelibus suis, Francis, Anglis, et 
 Hibeniiensibus, totius terrse suae, salutem. Sciatis me 
 dedisse et concessisse et praesenti charta mea confirmasse 
 Hugoni de Lacy pro servitio suo, terram de Midia, cum 
 omnibus pertinentiis suis, per servitium quinquaginta 
 militum, sibi et lieredibus suis, tenendam et habendam 
 de me et heredibus meis, sicut Murcardus Hu-Melachlin 
 earn tenuit, vel aliquis alius ante ilium, vel postea. Et 
 de incremento dono illi omnia feoda, quae prebuit vel 
 prebebit (habuit vel habebit ?) circa Duvelunam, dum 
 Balivus mens est, ad faciendum mihi servitium apud 
 civitatem meam Duvelune. Quare volo et firmiter precipio, 
 ut ipse Hugo et heredes sui post eum, predictam, terram 
 habeant, et teneant omnes libertates, et liberas consue- 
 tudines quas ibi habeo, vel habere possum, per prenomi- 
 natum servitium, a me et heredibus meis, bene et in pace, 
 
 * Walter de Lacy, in his confirmation of the grant of the 
 tithes of Kilcooly, and of the several other parishes in Meath, 
 made to the abbey of Lanthony, by Hugh de Lacy, claims the 
 land by right of conquest, without any mention of this royal 
 charter ; the words are — “ De terra sua quam conquisivit in 
 Hibernia .” — Monast Anglican. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 239 
 
 libere, et quiete, et honorifice, in bosco et piano, in pratis 
 et pascuis, in aquis et molendinis, in vivariis et stagnis, 
 et piscationibus et venationibns, in viis et semitis, et 
 portubns maris et in omnibus aliis locis et aliis rebus ad 
 earn pertinentibus, cum omnibus libertatibus, quas ibi 
 habeo, vel illi dare possum, et hac mea charta confirmare. 
 T. comite Eichardo filio Gilberti, Willielmo de Braosa, 
 Willo de Albin’, Reginaldo der Cortenai, Hug. de Gun- 
 de villa, Willo f \ Aldelmi Dapifero, Hug. de Cressi, Willo 
 de Stotevilla, Ead. de Haia, Eegin. de Pavilli, Ead. de 
 Verdun, Willo de Gerpu’ Villa, Eoberto de Eiulli. — A^ud 
 Weseford. 
 
 The names of the witnesses from Braosa are not in 
 Ware, and are taken from the printed calendar of the 
 Pat. Roll. 2 Henry V., in which the name of Earl Richard, 
 the first witness, is given Com. Rico f. Vislabi, a mistake 
 either of the original transcriber, or of the printer, for f. 
 Gilberti. 
 
240 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 No. VI. 
 
 A LIST OF THE GENTRY IN MEATH IN 1511. 
 
 ^ FROM CHRISTOPHER CUSACK’S BOOK.* 
 
 BARONY OF DULEEK. 
 
 The Lord of Gormanstown. 
 
 The Lord of Moymordree (Mornington ?) 
 
 Sir William Darcey, of Platen. 
 
 John Bello we, of Bellewstown. 
 
 Thomas Birte, of Tullok. 
 
 Edward Caddell, of Herbardston. 
 
 John Caddell, of the Nall. 
 
 Kobert Bath, of Dullardyston. 
 
 John Feel, of Paynystown. 
 
 John Talbote, of Dargiston, 
 
 Micael Sarswyll, of Sarswyllston. 
 
 Pic. Sarswyll, de le More Church. 
 
 Edward Bath, of Beschellston. 
 
 Edmund Goldinge, of Pierston, 
 
 John Neterwill, of Ballygarth. 
 
 William Sturky de Ninche. 
 
 Hamelyn of Smithston. 
 
 John Bath, of Cope. 
 
 BARONY OF SCRINE. 
 
 The Lord of Kyllen. 
 
 The Lord of Dunsany. 
 
 Matthew Bath, of Rathfegh. 
 
 John Cusak, of Cosineston. 
 
 * M.S., Trinity College, Dublin. — E. 3, 33. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 241 
 
 BARONY OF Continued. 
 
 Walter Chevers, of Maceston.^ 
 
 Christopher Cusake, of Grardstown. 
 
 Bartholomew Dillon, of Ki vers town, 
 liichard Pentony, of Cahbagh. 
 
 Thomas Tancard, of Castellton. 
 
 David More, of Morton. 
 
 Kichard Cusake, of Ballymulghan. 
 
 Wat. Goldinge, of Ferganeston. 
 
 Wat. Bath, of Donakerny. 
 
 Larance Aische, of Athronan. 
 
 BARONY OF RATOATH. 
 
 Edward Barnwall de Crikeston. 
 
 Patrick Barnwall, of Kilhru. 
 
 Patrick Sadgre, of Killeglan. 
 
 Richard Sadgre, of Ballybin. 
 
 Symon Birforde, of Kilrowe. 
 
 Christopher Plunket, of Lagowr. 
 
 Richard Kerdy, of Rathowth. 
 
 * The late Mr. John Pratt Winter, of Agher, used to say 
 that he remembered when Betagh, of Moynalty, Barnewall, of 
 Kilbrew, and Chevers, of Macetown, were said to be the three 
 Commoners of Meath. 
 
 On a stone in Beg’s house, taken from the Castle of Mace- 
 town, is this inscription : — 
 
 En Dieii ma fiaunce, 
 
 Cristofor Chever, knt. 
 
 Dame Aiie Plunket. 
 
 Chevers Arms. Plunkett Arms. 
 
 In Maclean’s Life of Sir Peter Carew are many curious 
 notices of the Chevers’ family. 
 
242 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 BARONY OF DUNBOYFTE. 
 
 The Baron of Dimboyne. 
 
 Phiepo of the Kowane. 
 
 BARONY OF MOYFINRAGH. 
 
 Gerrot Welsley de Dongin. 
 
 Lenx of the Knocke. 
 
 Wat. Lenx, of Laracor. 
 
 Eichard Lynane, of Adameston. 
 Meyler Hussey, of Balroudan. 
 
 Boyce of the Calgath. 
 
 Delahid, of Moyglar. 
 
 Hussey, of Moylossey. 
 
 BARONY OF DEES. 
 
 The Barony of Gal trim. 
 
 George Hussey, of the Ferrans. 
 Parice, of Aghir. 
 
 George Barnwall, of Arroteston. 
 Nicholas Hussey de Gallo. 
 
 Thomas Fremint, Grange. 
 
 BARONY OF LYNN. 
 
 The Lord of Portlester. 
 
 Eichard Plunket, of Eathmore. 
 Hatry Misset de Cion. 
 
 Chistopher Nugent de Moyrath. 
 Misset, of Drumnagh. 
 
 Lenx, of Glakmorn. 
 
 Eochford, of Kerranystown. 
 Christopher Crump, of Drunadall. 
 The Lord Trimletyston. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 243 
 
 BARONY OF NAYAN. 
 
 The Baron of the Nowane. 
 
 James Hill, of Alenston. 
 
 Luttrell, of Tancardston. 
 
 Alexander Ivers, of Rathtain. 
 
 Bellow, of Bellowyston, 
 
 Golding, of Churchston. 
 
 Dorram, of Doreameston. 
 
 Peter Dillon, of Herbarteston. 
 
 James Begg, of Moyagher. 
 Christopher Bath, of Lady rath. 
 Thomas Large, of Moyagher, 
 
 John Misset, of Laskarton. 
 
 John Eustace, of the same. 
 
 John Dexeter, of Rathalron. 
 
 John Hussey, Rathkenny. 
 
 Richard Teling, of Mullagha. 
 
 BARONY OF SLANK 
 
 The Baron of Slane. 
 
 Peter Barnewall, of Stacallan. 
 
 Harry Barnewall, of Calstineston. 
 John Neterville, of Dowth. 
 
 Richard Proutfote, of Protefotestown. 
 John Fleminge, of Killary. 
 
 John Telin, of Sidan. 
 
 John I vers, of Bingeryston. 
 
 Richard Bernewall, of New Grange. 
 Robert Barnewall, of Rowyston. 
 Hardeman, of Hardemanston. 
 
 William Fleminge, of Mandeston. 
 
244 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 BARONY OF MORGALLION. 
 
 Patrick Neterfele, of Castelston. 
 George Fleming, of Stewenston. 
 John FitzJohn de Paynyston. 
 James Weldon, of Baffin. 
 
 Stoke, of Michelston. 
 
 Richard White, of Clongell. 
 Larance Begg, of Freteceston. 
 Patrick Cruce, of le Birkas. 
 
 BARONY OF KENLIS. 
 
 Oliver Plunkett, of Gibbeston. 
 Patrick Everard, of Randileston. 
 Ric. Oruce, of Cruceston. 
 
 Thomas Plunket, of Robertston. 
 Edmond Balf, of Ardlonan. 
 
 George Drak, of Drakrath. 
 
 John Plunket, of Taffrath. 
 
 Thomas FitzJohn, of Fianston. 
 Will. Betagh, of Moynalty. 
 
 Map, of Maprath. 
 
 Robert Betagh, of Donore. 
 
 Patrick Betagh, of Newton. 
 Larance Betagh, of Laraston. 
 Edward Plunket, of Testilkeran. 
 Edward Plunket, of Belgry. 
 
 John Plunket, of Croskill. 
 
 James Plunket, of Correston. 
 Oliver Balf, of Moylerneeon. 
 Richard Moynagh, of Athgan. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 245 
 
 BARONY OF KELLIS— Continued. 
 
 John Ledwich, of Cookeston. 
 
 John Galbaly, of Ethelston. 
 
 Jacobus Begg, of Moyagy. 
 
 Ford, of Fordyston. 
 
 BARONY OF FOWRE. 
 
 Oliver Plunket, of Loghgrew. 
 
 Robert Bernewall, of Moylogh, 
 George, of Armingar. 
 
 Christopher Plunket, of Cion. 
 
 John Plunket, of Balmacade. 
 
 William Balf, of Gahvoleston. 
 
 Fitz Simon, of Tulconalle. 
 
 Philip Nangle, of Cowyll. 
 
 Pullard, of the Mayn. 
 
 Ricard Dees, of Turboteston. 
 Lawalleen Nugent, of Kiltomb. 
 
246 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 No. VIL 
 
 A NOTE OF THE RISINOS OUT OF THE 
 
 GENEEAL HOSTINGS, 
 
 BY LORDS, GENTLEMEN, ETC., WITHIN THE ENGLISH PALE, IN 
 THE LATTER END OE THE REIGN OF 
 QUEEN ELIZABETH. 
 
 Ex, God. MS., Lambeth, XX. 653, fol. 85. 
 
 From “Thompson’s Survey of Meath.” 
 
 BARONY OF DEECE AND MOYFENRAGH. 
 
 
 Armed 
 
 Horsemen. 
 
 The Baron of Galtrim, in person. 
 
 ... 4 
 
 Barnewall, of Antiston, in person, ... 
 
 2 
 
 De la Hide, of Mojglare, in person. 
 
 ... 2 
 
 Westley, of the Dengen, 
 
 ... 3 
 
 James Goodall, 
 
 ... 2 
 
 Bartholomew Ousacke, 
 
 ... 1 
 
 Fleming, of Dirpatrick, in person, ... 
 
 1 
 
 Hussey, 
 
 ... 2 
 
 De la Hide, of Assye, 
 
 1 
 
 BARONY OF LUNE. 
 
 
 Lynch, of Dunmore [Donore], 
 
 1 
 
 Rochford, of Keraston, in person, ... 
 
 1 
 
 The Portriffe of Athboy, ... 
 
 4 
 
 Bernaby Sherlocke, 
 
 The Soffreign of Kenlis, two archers. 
 
 ... 2 
 
APPENDIX. 247 
 
 BARONY OF NAVAN. 
 
 Armed 
 
 Horsemen 
 
 The Bishop of Methe, ... ... ... 8 
 
 The Lord of Trimberton, ... ... 6 
 
 The Baron of Navan, ... ... ... 3 
 
 The Baron of Dillon, ... ... ... 2 
 
 Rochforde, of Kilbride, ... ... ... 4 
 
 Michael Cusacke, in person, ... ... 2 
 
 Ivers, of Racaghe, ... ... ... 1 
 
 The Portriffe of Trim, ... ... 3 
 
 The Portriffe of Navan, ... ... 4 
 
 Teeling, of MuUagha, in person, ... ... 1 
 
 Hill, of Allenstown, in person, ... ... I 
 
 Misset, of Laskerton, ... ... 1 
 
 Eustace, of Laskerton, ... ... 1 
 
 BARONY OF RATOATHE. 
 
 Barnwall, of Kilbrye, in person, ... ... 1 
 
 Berforde, of Kilrowe, in person, ... ... 1 
 
 Talbot, of Robertston, in person, ... ... 2 
 
 Ichers, of Dunshaughlin, in person, ... ... 1 
 
 Weafey, of the Blackehil, in person, ... 2 
 
 BARONY OF KENLIS. 
 
 Alexander Barnewall with the horsemen, 3 
 
 Everard, of Randleston, in person, ... 2 
 
 Mape, of Maperath, in person, ... ... 1 
 
 Drake, of Rathode, in person, ... ... 2 
 
 Betaghe, of Moynaltie, for his county, ... 6 
 
 Ledwiche, of Cookstown, ... ... 6 
 
 FitzJohn, of Fyanstown, ... ... 1 
 
248 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 BARONY OF DULEEKE. 
 
 Lord Yiscolint Gormanstown, 
 
 Darcy, of Flatten, in person, 
 
 James Aylmer, in person, 
 
 Oliver Darcy, in person, 
 
 Talbot, of Dardistown, 
 
 Caddell, of the Nall, in person, 
 
 Birte, of Tnllocke, in person, 
 
 Holde, of Paynestown, in person, 
 Hatnbige, of Smithstown, in person, 
 Bath, of Colpe, 
 
 BARONY OF DUNBOYNE. 
 
 Phepo, of Rowen, if he have freedom, 
 Francis De la Hide, 
 
 Armed 
 
 Horsemen 
 
 . 8 
 
 . 3 
 
 . 2 
 . 1 
 . 3 
 
 2 
 
 , 2 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 BARONY OF SKREEN. 
 
 The Lord of Killeen, the Lord of Dunsany, and 
 the rest of the Plunketts, 
 
 Nicholas Nugent, in person, 
 
 M. Draycott, 
 
 Sir Thomas Cusacke, of Lismullen, in considera- 
 tion of his absence, but 
 Sir Christopher Cheevers, of Maston, 
 
 Bath, of Rapheeke, in person, 
 
 Kent, of Daneston, 
 
 Cusack, of Gerrardston, in person, 
 
 Thomas Dillon, of Riverston, 
 
 Peter Dillon, 
 
 Tancred, of Castleton, in person. 
 
 The Portriflf of Skryne, 
 
 24 
 
 3 
 
 1 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 3 
 2 
 2 
 3 
 1 
 1 
 1 
 
APPENDIX. 249 
 
 BAEONY OF SLANE. 
 
 Armed 
 
 Horsemen. 
 
 The Baron of Slane, ... ... ... 6 
 
 Barnewall, of Stackallen, 4 archer horsemen. 
 
 Barnewall, of Roweston, ... ... ... 2 
 
 Netterfield, of Dowth, in person, ... ... 2 
 
 HALF BARONY OF FOWRE. 
 
 The Plunkets, ... ... ... ... 24 
 
 Balfe, of Galmoweston, in person, ... ... 2 
 
 Barnewall, of Marlow, in person, ... ... 1 
 
 Tuite, of Beltratin, ... ... ... 1 
 
 BARONY OF MORGALLION. 
 
 Thomas Fleming, of Stephenston, in person, ... 3 
 
 White, of Clongell, in person, ... * ... 2 
 
 Yeldon, of Clongell, ... ... ... 2 
 
 R 
 
250 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 No. VITT. 
 
 GRAND JURY OF THE COUNTY OF MEATH, 
 
 AT TRIM, THE 11th OF APRIL, 1735. 
 
 No. 
 
 1 Charles Lamhart, Foreman, 
 
 2 William Fitzherbert. 
 
 3 Richard Wesley. 
 
 4 Charles Lambart. 
 
 5 Thomas Williams. 
 
 6 Her. LaDgford Rowley. 
 
 7 John Chaloner. 
 
 8 Peter Ludlow. 
 
 9 Thomas Loftus. 
 
 10 Thomas Taylor. 
 
 11 Charles Hamilton. 
 
 No. 
 
 12 Joseph Ashe. 
 
 13 Benjamin Copeland. 
 
 14 William Williams. 
 
 15 Hercides Rowley. 
 
 16 George Pepper. 
 
 17 Thomas Bligh. 
 
 18 Benjamin Chapman. 
 
 19 William Peters. 
 
 20 John Tuite. 
 
 21 Nicholas Netterville. 
 
 GRAND JURORS 
 
 AT TRIM, THE 15th OF MARCH, 1773. 
 
 No. 
 
 1 Gorges Lowther. 
 
 2 H. L. Rowley. 
 
 3 George Lowther. 
 
 4 D. Coddington. 
 
 5 Syd. Singleton. 
 
 6 Richard Jones. 
 
 7 John Preston. 
 
 8 John Fleming. 
 
 9 John Meredyth. 
 
 10 Robert Wade. 
 
 11 Gustavus Lambart. 
 
 12 William Waller. 
 
 No. 
 
 13 Michael Daniel. 
 
 14 Christopher Nicholson. 
 
 15 Joseph Ashe. 
 
 16 Thomas O’Reilly. 
 
 17 Gerald FitzGerald. 
 
 18 John Dillon. 
 
 19 J. Q. Somerville. 
 
 20 Ham. Gorges. 
 
 21 Richard Allen. 
 
 22 Thomas Pepper. 
 
 23 John Fostor. 
 
 Robert Forde, High Sheriff. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 251 
 
 NAMES OF GRAND JUFORS 
 
 AT TRIM, ON THE 26th OF AUGUST, 1800. 
 
 No. 
 
 1 Charles Drake Dillon. 
 
 2 Robert Waller. 
 
 3 Thomas Cherburgh Bligh. 
 
 4 John Hussey., Baron of Gal- 
 
 trim. 
 
 5 Thomas Cherburgh Bligh. 
 
 6 Gustavus Lambart. 
 
 7 Richard Chaloner. 
 
 8 Thomas Trotter. 
 
 9 Robert Waller. 
 
 10 Thomas Everard. 
 
 11 William Henry Finlay. 
 
 No. 
 
 12 James Nangle. 
 
 13 Samuel Winter. 
 
 14 Christopher Cusack. 
 
 15 Skeffington Thompson. 
 
 16 Joseph Preston. 
 
 17 Walter Nugent. 
 
 18 Nicholas Coddington. 
 
 19 Elias Corbally. 
 
 20 Brabazon Morris. 
 
 21 John Johnson. 
 
 22 Michael Johnson. 
 
 23 Henry Daniel, Esqrs. 
 
 Charles Drake Dillon, Esq. , High Sheriff. 
 
 No. 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 11 
 
 12 
 
 GRAND JURORS 
 
 AT SPRING ASSIZES, 1801. 
 
 Sir Marcus Somerville. 
 Hamilton Gorges, Esq. 
 
 The Hon. Baron Dillon. 
 Chris. Armitage Nicholson. 
 Robert Wade. 
 
 Samuel Winter. 
 
 George Lucas Nugent. 
 William Henry Finlay. 
 Thomas Trotter. 
 
 Sir Benjamin Chapman, Bt. 
 Richard Chaloner. 
 
 Richard Allen. 
 
 No. 
 
 13 John Hussey. 
 
 14 Hamilton Gorges. 
 
 15 Nicholas Coddington. 
 
 16 Skeffington Thompson. 
 
 17 John Pollock. 
 
 18 Nathaniel Preston. 
 
 19 Thomas Everard. 
 
 20 James Nangle. 
 
 21 Walter Dowdall. 
 
 22 Thos. Taylor Rowley. 
 13 John Tandy, Esqrs. 
 
 Walter Nugent, Esq., High Sheriff. 
 
252 
 
 APPENDIX, 
 
 GRAND JURORS 
 
 AT SUMMER ASSIZES, 1811. 
 
 No. 
 
 1 Sir Marcus Somerville, Bt. 
 
 2 Claud. Cole Hamilton, Esq. 
 
 3 The Hon. Edward Plunkett. 
 
 4 Chris. Armitage Nicholson. 
 
 5 John Pratt Winter. 
 
 6 Sir Charles Dillon, Bart. 
 
 7 Gustavus Lambart. 
 
 8 Thomas Bligh. 
 
 9 Sir Thomas Chapman, Bart. 
 
 10 George Lucas Nugent. 
 
 11 Arthur Pollock. 
 
 12 Nathaniel Preston. 
 
 No. 
 
 13 Hamilton Gorges. 
 
 14 Henry Coddington. 
 
 15 James O’Reilly. 
 
 16 Thomas Rothwell. 
 
 17 Francis Corbet. 
 
 18 John Metge 
 
 19 Thomas Gerrard. 
 
 20 Thomas Everard. 
 
 21 Anthony Blackburne. 
 
 22 Thomas Barnes. 
 
 23 John Young, Esqrs. 
 
 Charles Arthur Tisdall, Esq. , High Sheriff. 
 
 No. 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 11 
 
 GRAND JURORS 
 
 AT SPRING ASSIZES, 1812. 
 
 Sir Marcus Somerville, Bt. 
 Charles Arthur Tisdall, Esq. 
 The Right Hon. Thomas, 
 Lord Bective. 
 
 The Hon. Robert Taylor. 
 The Hon. Edward Plunkett 
 Sir Charles Dillon, Bart. 
 Chris. A. Nicholson, Esq. 
 Sir Thos. Chapman, Bart. 
 George Lucas Nugent. 
 Elias Corbally. 
 
 Hamilton Gorges. 
 
 No. 
 
 12 Claud. Cole Hamilton. 
 
 13 Henry Hamilton. 
 
 14 Arthur H. C. Pollock. 
 
 15 James O’Reilly. 
 
 16 Nicholas Coddington. 
 
 17 John Gerrard. 
 
 18 Thomas Taylor Rowley. 
 
 19 John Metge. 
 
 20 Gustavus Lambart. 
 
 21 John Ruxton. 
 
 22 Francis Corbet. 
 
 23 Thomas Everard, Esqrs. 
 
 William B. Wade, Esq., High Sheriff. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 253 
 
 GRAND JURORS 
 
 AT SUMMER ASSIZES. 1821, 
 
 No. 
 
 1 The Right Hon. Thomas, 
 
 Earl of Bective. 
 
 2 William Henry Waller, Esq. 
 
 3 The Right Hon. Arthur, 
 
 Lord Killeen. 
 
 4 James Lenox Wm. Naper. 
 
 5 Chris. Armitage Nicholson. 
 
 6 Luke White. 
 
 7 William B. Wade. 
 
 8 John Gerrard. 
 
 9 Charles Arthur Tisdall. 
 
 10 Nicholas Coddington. 
 
 11 Francis Singleton. 
 
 No. 
 
 12 Henry Smith. 
 
 13 Elias Corbally. 
 
 14 George Lucas Nugent. 
 
 15 John Metge. 
 
 16 Richard Ruxton. 
 
 17 Robert Burke. 
 
 18 General Arthur Dillon. 
 
 19 Richard Roth well. 
 
 20 John Thompson. 
 
 21 John Charles Preston. 
 
 22 Christopher Cusack. 
 
 23 Anth. S. Hussey, Esqrs. 
 
 John Pain Garnett, Esq., High Sheriff. 
 
 GRAND JURORS 
 
 AT SUMMER ASSIZES, 1822. 
 
 No. 
 
 1 John Paine Garnett, Esq. 
 
 2 The Right Hon. Arthur, 
 
 Lord Killeen. 
 
 3 The Hon. Gen. R. Taylor. 
 
 4 The Hon. Edward Preston. 
 
 5 Sir Charles Dillon, Bart. 
 
 6 Chris. Armitage Nicholson. 
 
 7 Gustav us Lambart. 
 
 8 William B. Wade. 
 
 9 William Henry Waller. 
 
 10 John Gerrard. 
 
 11 Charles Arthur Tisdall. 
 
 No. 
 
 12 Nicholas Coddington. 
 
 13 Francis Singleton. 
 
 14 Henry Smith. 
 
 15 Elias Corbally. 
 
 16 Robert Bourke. 
 
 17 George Lucas Nugent. 
 
 18 Richard Ruxton. 
 
 19 Caleb Barnes- 
 
 20 James Corballis. 
 
 21 George Pepper. 
 
 22 John Thompson. 
 
 23 John C. Preston, Esqrs. 
 
 Wm. Naper, Esq., High Sheriff. 
 
 James Lenox 
 
254 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 GRAND JURORS 
 
 No. 
 
 1 The Right Hon. Thomas, 
 
 Earl of Bective. 
 
 2 Anthony Jn. D opping, Esq. 
 
 3 The Right Hon. Arthur, 
 
 Lord Killeen. 
 
 4 The Right Hon. Edward, 
 
 Lord Clifton. 
 
 5 Sir Charles Dillon, Bart. 
 
 6 James Lennox Wm. Naper. 
 
 7 Christopher A Nicholson. 
 
 8 William Blaney Wade. 
 
 9 George Lucas Nugent. 
 
 10 John Pratt Winter. 
 
 Colonel Thomas Pepper. 
 
 12 William Henry Waller. 
 
 13 Nicholas Coddington. 
 
 14 John Netterville Gerrard. 
 
 15 Elias Corbally. 
 
 16 John Farrell. 
 
 17 Anthony Blackburne. 
 
 18 Robert Bourke. 
 
 19 Henry Smith. 
 
 20 Richard Roth well. 
 
 21 George Robert Bomford. 
 
 22 Anthony Strong Hussey. 
 
 23 Caleb Barnes, Esqrs. 
 
 AT SUMMER ASSIZES, 1827. 
 
 No. 
 
 11 
 
 John Nicholson, Esq., High Sheriff. 
 
 GRAND JURORS 
 
 AT SPRING ASSIZES, 1829. 
 
 No. 
 
 1 Sir Charles Dillon, Bart. 
 
 2 James Lennox Wm. Naper. 
 
 3 Christopher A. Nicholson. 
 
 4 William B Wade. 
 
 5 William H. Waller. ' 
 
 6 John Pratt Winter. 
 
 7 John Gerrard. 
 
 8 Charles Arthur Tisdall, 
 
 9 Nicholas Coddington. 
 
 10 Elias Corbally. 
 
 11 Henry Corbet Singleton. 
 
 12 Henry Smith. 
 
 No. 
 
 13 Rich. Ruxton Fitzherbert. 
 
 14 Ferd. Meath MWeagh. 
 
 15 Peter Ponsonby Metge. 
 
 16 Richard Rothwell. 
 
 17 John Charles Preston. 
 
 18 John Thompson. 
 
 19 Anthony S. Hussey. 
 
 20 Caleb Barnes. 
 
 21 John Paine Garnett. 
 
 22 James Corballis. 
 
 23 James M‘Evoy, Esqrs. 
 
 Anthony Blackburne, Esq., High Sheriff. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 255 
 
 No. IX. 
 
 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE 
 COUNTY OF MEATH. 
 
 1559, Sir Christopher Chever, Knt., Macetown. 
 
 Patrick Barnewall, Esq., Stacalane. 
 
 1585, Richard Barnewall, Esq., Crickstown. 
 
 John Netterville, Esq., Dowth. 
 
 1613, Patrick Hussey, Baron of Galtrim, Galtrim. 
 
 Robert Barnewall, Esq., Robertstown. 
 
 1634, Nicholas Plunket, Esq., Balrath. 
 
 Sir Richard Barnewall, Knt. and Bart., Crickstone. 
 1642, Sir John Temple, Knt., Ballycrath, Carlow. 
 
 Thomas Ashe, Esq., St. John’s, vice Plunket and 
 Barnewall, expelled, 22nd June, 1642, for the 
 rebellion. 
 
 1661, Sir Robert Forth, Knt., Dublin. 
 
 Sir Theophilus Jones, Knt., Osberstown. 
 
 1692, John Osborne, Esq., Stackallen. 
 
 Sir Charles Meredith, Knt. Newtown. 
 
 1695, Sir John Dillon, Knt., Lismullen. 
 
 Thomas Bligh, Esq., Rathmore. 
 
 1703, Sir John Dillon, Knt., Lismullen. 
 
 Thomas Bligh, Esq., Rathmore. 
 
 1709, John Preston, Esq., Balsoon, vice Dillon, deceased. 
 1711, Garrett Wesley, Esq., Dangan, vice Bligh, deceased. 
 1713, Garrett Wesley, Esq., Dangan. 
 
 John Preston, Esq., Lismullen. 
 
25a 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 1715, John Preston, Esq., Lismnllen. 
 
 James Napper, Esq., Loughrea. 
 
 1719 , Peter Ludlow, Esq., Ardsallagh, vice N'apper, de- 
 ceased. 
 
 1727, Peter Ludlow, Esq., Ardsallagh. 
 
 John Preston, sen.. Esq., Balsoon. 
 
 1733, James Lennox Napper, Esq., Loughcrew, vice 
 Preston, deceased. 
 
 1751, Arthur Francis Meredith, Esq., Dollardstown, vice 
 Ludlow, deceased. 
 
 1761, Hercules Langford Eowley, Esq., Summerhill. 
 
 Georges Lowther, Esq., Kilrue. 
 
 1768, Hercules Langford Eowley, Esq., Summerhill. 
 Georges Lowther, Esq., Kilrue. 
 
 MEMBEES FOE THE BOEOUGH OF TEIM. 
 
 1559j John Parker, Esq., Tecrogan. 
 
 Patrick Mart ell, Trim. 
 
 1585, Moses Hamon, Trim. 
 
 Thomas Gwyre, Trim. 
 
 1613, Sir Thomas Ashe, Knt., Trim. 
 
 Sir Eoger Jones, Knt., Durhamstown. 
 
 1634, Eobert Lord Dillon, Baron of Kilkenny West, 
 Moymet. 
 
 Valerian Weasley, Esq., The Dangan. 
 
 1639, Eobert Lord Dillon, Baron of Kilkenny West, 
 Moymet. 
 
 Patrick Barnewall, Esq., Kilbrew. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 257 
 
 1642, James Whyte, Esq., vice L. Dillon. 
 
 1642, George Peasley, Esq., vice Barnewall, expelled 
 22nd June, 1642, for the rebellion. 
 
 1642, Thomas Coote, Esq., Coote Hill, Cavan, vice 
 
 Peasley, deceased. 
 
 1643, Thomas Trafford, Esq., vice White, deceased. 
 
 1661, Sir Thomas Gifford, Knt. and Bart., Castle Jordan. 
 Alexander Jephson, Esq. 
 
 1662, Henry Whitfield, Esq., vice Gifford, deceased. 
 
 1663, Arthur Dillon, Esq., Lismullen, vice Jephson, exe- 
 
 cuted for high treason. 
 
 1692, Gerald Wesley, Dangan. 
 
 Stafford Lightburne, Esq., Staff ordstown. 
 
 William Naper, Esq., Loughcrew. 
 
 1697, Robert Johnson, Esq., vice Lightburne, deceased. 
 1703, William Naper, Esq., Loughcrew. 
 
 James Naper, Esq., Drustowne. 
 
 1709, John Bligh, Esq., Rathmore, vice W. Naper, de- 
 ceased. 
 
 1713, Richard Ashe, Esq., Ashfield. 
 
 Thomas Jones, Esq., Adamstown. 
 
 1715, John Percevall, Esq., Knightsbrook. 
 
 John Keatinge, Esq. 
 
 1717, Robert Percivall, Esq., Knightsbrook, vice Keating, 
 deceased. 
 
 1719, Thomas Carter, jun., Esq., Rathnally, vice J. Per- 
 civall, deceased. 
 
 1727, John Wade, Esq., Clonabrany, vice Ashe, deceased. 
 1729, Richard Wesley, Esq., Dangan, vice Wesley, 
 deceased. 
 
258 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 1735, Joseph Ashe, Esq., Ashfield, vice Wade, deceased. 
 1747, Christopher Fortescue, Esq., Dromisken, Louth, 
 vice Wesley, Lord Mornington. 
 
 1757, Hon. Garrett Wesley, Dangan, vice Fortescue, 
 
 deceased. 
 
 1758. William Francis Crosbie, Esq., Ballyheige, Kerry, 
 
 vice Wesley, Lord Mornington. 
 
 1761, Robert Percivall, Esq.. Knightsbrook. 
 
 John Pomeroy, Esq, Dublin. 
 
 1768, Thomas Fortescue, Esq., Dromisken, Louth. 
 
 John Pomeroy, Esq., Dublin. 
 
 1775, John Pomeroy, Esq. 
 
 Thomas Fortescue, Esq. 
 
 1780, Richard, Lord Wellesley, vice Fortescue, deceased. 
 
 1781, Willliam A. Crosbie, Esq., vice Lord Mornington. 
 1783, W. W. Pole, Esq. 
 
 John Pomeroy, Esq. 
 
 MEMBERS FOR THE BOROUGH OF ATHBOY. 
 
 1559, Michael Moore, Athboy, 
 
 James Blake, Athboy. 
 
 1585, William Browne, Athboy. 
 
 Patrick Ferrell, Athboy, 
 
 1613, Melchior Moore, Gent., Athboy. 
 
 Richard Browne, Gent., Athboy. 
 
 1634, Richard Browne, Gent., Athboy. 
 
 Peter Ferrell, Gent., Athboy. 
 
 1639, Richard Browne, Gent., Athboy. 
 
 Walter Dowdall, Gent., Athboy. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 259 
 
 1642, Ralph Wallis, Esq., Dublin, vice Dowdall, deceased. 
 1642, Francis Peisley, Gent., Bally o wen, Dublin, vice 
 Browne, deceased. 
 
 1661, John Bligh, Esq., Rathmore. 
 
 Richard Reynell, Esq., Dublin, 
 
 1692, Thomas Bligh, Esq., Rathmore. 
 
 Peter Westenra, Esq., Ballybreghwy. 
 
 1695, Garrett Wesley, Esq., Dangan. 
 
 James Napper, Esq., Loughcrew. 
 
 1703, Robert Johnston, Esq. 
 
 John Wade, Esq., Clonybreny. 
 
 1704, Robert Johnson, jun., Esq., vice Johnson, B. E. 
 1713, John Bligh, Esq., Rathmore. 
 
 John Wade, Esq., Clonybreny. 
 
 1715, John Bligh, Esq., Rathmore. 
 
 Thomas Bligh, Esq., Brittes. 
 
 1721, Richard Ashe, Esq., Ashfield, vice J. Bligh, Lord 
 Clifton. 
 
 1727, Thomas Blight, Esq., Brittes, Ballyhersy, Wicklow. 
 
 Richard Ashe, Esq., Ashfield. 
 
 1727, Robert Napper, Esq., Dublin, vice Ashe, for Trim. 
 1739, Honourable John Bligh, Rathmore, vice Napper, 
 deceased. 
 
 1747, William Napper, Esq., Dublin, vice J, Bligh, Earl 
 Darnley. 
 
 1761, Thomas Bligh, Esq., Brittas. 
 
 William Tighe the younger. Esq., Rossana, Wick- 
 low. 
 
 1768, Thomas Bligh, Esq., Brittas. 
 
 William Tighe, Esq., Rossana, 
 
260 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 MEMBERS FOR THE BOROUGH OF KELLS. 
 
 1559, Thomas Shiele, Kells. 
 
 Nicholas Ledvvicke, Kells. 
 
 1585, Thomas Fleming, Stevenston. 
 
 Nicholas Daxe, Kells. 
 
 Patrick Plunket, Kells. 
 
 1613^ Oliver Plunket, Gent., Kells. 
 
 Gerald Balfe, Gent., Kells. 
 
 1634, Walter Evers, Esq., Ballyardan. 
 
 Adam Cusacke, Gent., Trevett. 
 
 1639, Robert Cusacke, Gent., Kells. 
 
 Oliver Plunkett, Gent., Kells. 
 
 1641, Patrick Barnewall, Esq., vice Plunkett, deceased. 
 
 1642, William Ball, Esq., vice Cusake, expelled 22nd 
 
 June, 1642, for the rebellion. 
 
 1645, Patrick Tallant, Gent., vice Barnewall, deceased. 
 1661, John Forth, Esq., Cabrae. 
 
 Arthur Purefoy, Esq. 
 
 Richard Stephens, jun., Esq. 
 
 Robert Shapcott, Esq., Dublin — Returned by a 
 separate indenture, but did not sit. 
 
 1692, Thomas Taylor, Esq. (Bart.), Kells. 
 
 1692, Sir John Dillon, Knt., Lismullen. 
 
 1695, Thomas Taylor, Esq. (Bart.), Kells. 
 
 Charles Meredyth, Esq., Newtown. 
 
 1703, Charles Meredyth, Esq., Newtown. 
 
 Brinsley Butler, Esq., Dublin. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 261 
 
 1710, Thomas Taylor, Esq. (Bart.), Kells, vice Meredyth, 
 deceased. 
 
 Henry Meredyth, Esq., Newtown, vice Taylor, mis- 
 elected. 
 
 1713, Sir Thomas Taylor, Bart., Kells. 
 
 Thomas Taylor, Esq. (Bart.), Kells. 
 
 1715, Sir Thomas Taylor, Bart., Kells. 
 
 Thomas Taylor, Esq. (Bart.), Kells. 
 
 1727, Sir Thomas Taylor, Bart., Kells. 
 
 Thomas Taylor, Esq. (Bart.), Kells. 
 
 1737, James Taylor, Esq., Kells, vice Sir. T. Taylor, 
 deceased. 
 
 1747, Thomas Taylor, Esq. (Bart.), Kells, vice J. Taylor, 
 deceased. 
 
 1757, Richard Moore, Esq., Barn, Tipperary, vice Sir 
 T. Taylor, deceased. 
 
 1761, Richard Moore, Esq., Barn, Tipperary. 
 
 Thomas Pepper, Esq., Bally gart. 
 
 1768, Thomas Moore, Esq., Barn, Tipperary. 
 
 Thomas Pepper, Esq., Ballygart. 
 
 MEMBERS FOR THE BOROUGH OF DULEEK. 
 
 1661, Patrick Tallant, Esq. 
 
 Gabriel Briscoe, Esq.. Killaniny, Dublin. 
 
 1663, Michael Jones, Esq., vice Tallant, deceased. 
 1692, Sir Arthur Langford, Bart., Summerhill. 
 
 Andrew Ram, Esq., Dublin. 
 
262 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 1695, Sir Charles Fielding, Knt , Dublin. 
 
 Andrew Earn, Esq., Dublin. 
 
 1698, Charles Wallis, Esq., Earn, deceased. 
 
 1703, Charles Wallis, Esq. 
 
 Eobert Curtis, Esq., Eoscrea, Tipperary ; Island- 
 bridge, Dublin. 
 
 1713, Sir Thomas Smith, Knt. 
 
 William Berry, Esq., Dublin. 
 
 1715, Francis Harrison, Esq., Dublin. 
 
 Thomas Trotter, Esq., vice Harrison, Co. Carlow. 
 1727, Abel Earn, Esq., Kenogue. 
 
 Thomas Trotter, Esq., Duleek. 
 
 1727, Stephen Earn, Esq., Hackney, Middlesex, vice 
 A. Earn, for Gorey. 
 
 1727, Nathaniel Clements, Esq., Dublin, vice Trotter, for 
 Leighlin. 
 
 1747, Thomas Cooley, Esq., Dublin, vice S. Earn, deceased. 
 1755, Henry Monck, Esq., Dublin, vice Cooley, deceased. 
 1761, Andrew Earn, Esq., Clonatin, Wexford. 
 
 Hen. Monck, Esq., Charleville, Wicklow. 
 
 1768, Eichard Levinge, Esq., Calverstown, Kildare. 
 Stephen Earn, Esq., Middle Temple, London. 
 
 1769, Andrew Earn, Esq,, Clonatin, Wexford, vice 
 
 S. Earn for Gorey. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 263 
 
 MEMBERS FOR THE BOROUGH OF NAVAN. 
 
 1559, Patrick Waring, Navan. 
 
 John Wackley, Navan. 
 
 1585, Thomas Wakely, Ballyhurley, King’s County. 
 
 Thomas Waringe, Navan. 
 
 1613, Patrick Begg, Gent., Borranstown. 
 
 John Warren, Gent., Navan. 
 
 1634, Laurence Dowdall, Esq., Mountown. 
 
 Patrick Darcy, Esq. 
 
 1639, Thomas Nangle, Esq., Baron of Navan. 
 
 Patrick Manning, merchant, Navan. 
 
 1642, William Whyte, Navan. 
 
 Walter Hardinge, Navan, vice Nangle and Manning, 
 expelled 22nd June, 1642, for the rebellion. 
 
 1643, Symon Luttrell, Esq., Luttrellstown, Dublin, vice 
 
 Whyte, deceased. 
 
 1661, Henry Packenham, Esq., Tullenally, Westmeath. 
 
 John Preston, Alderman, Dublin. 
 
 1692, Arthur Meredyth, Esq., Dollardstown. 
 
 Francis Osborne, Gent., Dardistown. 
 
 1695, Arthur Meredyth, Esq., Dollardstown. 
 
 Francis Osborne, Gent., Dardistown. 
 
 1703, Arthur Meredyth, Esq., Dollardstown. 
 
 Thomas Meredyth, Esq., Mooretown, — Sat 20th 
 July, 1711. 
 
 1713, Henry Meredyth, Esq., Newtown. 
 
 Nathaniel Preston, Esq., Swainstown. 
 
264 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 1715, Henry Meredyth, Esq., Newtown. 
 
 Nathaniel Preston, Esq., Swainstown. 
 
 1727, Thomas Meredyth, Esq., Newtown. 
 
 Nathaniel Preston, Esq., Swainstown. 
 
 1731, John Preston, jun.. Esq., Bellinter, vice Meredyth, 
 deceased. 
 
 1755, John Preston, Esq., Bellinter, vice J. Preston, 
 deceased. 
 
 1755, Richard Hamilton, Esq., Stackallen, vice Preston, 
 miselected. 
 
 1761, John Preston Esq., Bellinter. 
 
 Joseph Preston, Esq., Dublin. 
 
 1768, John Foster, Esq., Collon, Louth. 
 
 Joseph Preston, Esq., Dublin. 
 
 1769, John Preston, Esq., Bellinter, vice J. Foster, for 
 
 County Louth. 
 
 MEMBERS FOR THE BOROUGH OF RATOATH. 
 
 1661, Dr. Ralph King, Dublin. 
 
 Richard Boughton, Esq. 
 
 1662, Robert Readinge, Esq., vice Boughton, absent 
 
 without leave. 
 
 1692, Robert Gorges, LL.D., Kilbrew. 
 
 Edward Corker, Esq., Muctown, Dublin. 
 
 1695, Edward Corker, Esq., Muctown, Dublin. 
 
 Thomas Molyneux, M.D. (Bart.), Dublin. 
 
 1703, Richard Gorges, Esq., Kilbrew. 
 
 Edward Ford, Esq., Woodpark. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 265 
 
 1708, Sir Standish Hartstonge, Bart., Bruffe, Limerick, 
 vice Gorges, for Bandon. 
 
 1705, George Lowther, Esq., Kilbrew, vice Ford, de- 
 ceased. 
 
 1713, Eichard Gorges, Esq., Kilbrew. 
 
 George Lowther, Esq., Kilbrew. 
 
 1713, Lowther, for Coleraine. 
 
 1715, Eichard Gorges, Esq., Kilbrew. 
 
 George Lowther, Esq., Kilbrew. 
 
 1716, Hon. William St. Laurence, Howth, Dublin, vice 
 
 Lowther, deceased. 
 
 1727, Charles Hamilton, Esq., Dunboyne. 
 
 Eowley Hill, Esq., Bally kelly or Walworth. 
 
 1727, Edward Lovat Pearce, Esq., (Knt.), Dublin, vice 
 Hill, miselected. 
 
 1733, Eowley Hill, Esq., Ballykelly, Derry, vice Pierce,' 
 deceased. 
 
 1739, George Lowther, Esq., Kilbrew, vzce Hill, deceased. 
 1753, Marcus Lowther Crofton, Esq. (Bart.), Mote, 
 Eoscommon, vice Hamilton, deceased. 
 
 1761, George Lowther, Esq., Kilbrue. 
 
 John Curtis, Esq., Mt. Hanover. 
 
 1768, John Cramer, Esq. 
 
 George Lowther, Esq., Kilbrue. 
 
 1769, Sir M. Lowther Crofton, Bart., Mote, Eoscommon, 
 
 vice G. Lowther for Atherdee. 
 
 William Irvine, Esq., Castle Irvine, Fermanagh, 
 vice J. Cramer, for Belturbet. 
 
 s 
 
266 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 No. X. 
 
 MEMBEES OF PAELIAMENT FOE TEIM 
 
 FROM 1783 TO 1800. 
 
 Rt. Hon. Lieut. Gen. John Pomeroy, 1783-90. 
 William Arthur Crosbie, 1783, again 1796-1800. 
 Hon. William Wesley Pole, 1784-90. 
 
 Hon. Lieut. Arthur Wesley, 1791-97. 
 
 Hon. Clotworthy Taylor, 1792-95. 
 
 Sir Chichester Fortescue, 1798-1800. 
 
 XL 
 
 A Return from the Commissioners under Act 40 Geo. III. 
 Cap. 34, of all Claims for Compensation^ on Account of Re- 
 presentative Franchise which they have admitted^ and to what 
 amount, in the County of Meath . — From Lib. Mun. 
 
 Trim, the Hon. William Wellesley Pole, on behalf of 
 Richard, Marquis of Wellesley, £15,000. 
 
 Navan, John Lord Tara, £7,500. Peter, Earl of Ludlow, 
 the Hon. Augustus Ludlow, commonly called Lord 
 Preston, and the portrieve, burgesses, and the free men 
 of the borough of Navan, £7,500. 
 
 Athboy, John, Earl of Darnley, £15,000. 
 
 Kells, Thomas, Marquis of Headfort, by the style of Earl 
 of Bective, £15,000. 
 
 Eatoath, Gorges Lowther, Esq., £15,000. 
 
 Duleek, the portrieve and burgesses of the borough of 
 Duleek, and the Eight Hon- Henry King and Robert 
 French, Esq., executors and trustees named in the will 
 of Henry Bruen, Esq., £15,000. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 2G7 
 
 No. XIL 
 
 POETRIEYES OF TRIM. 
 
 A.D- 
 
 lo99f Robert Hammond. 
 
 1659, Major Wm. Cadogan. 
 
 1660, George Harris. 
 
 -1661, Thomas Ashe, of St. 
 John’s. 
 
 1662, Alexander Jephson, of 
 
 Fosterstown. 
 
 1663, Stafford Lightburne, of 
 
 Freffans. 
 
 1664, Robert Lill. 
 
 1665, Wentworth, Earl of Ros- 
 
 common. 
 
 1666, Do. 
 
 1667, Do 
 
 1668, Darcy Wentworth. 
 
 1669, Do. 
 
 1670, John Earlsman, died. 
 Darcy Wentworth. 
 
 1671, Paul Neylan. 
 
 1672, Do. 
 
 1673, 
 
 1674, Gerald Wesley. 
 
 1675, 
 
 1676, Robert Percival 
 
 1677, Stafford Lightburne. 
 
 1678, Do. 
 
 1679, 
 
 1680, Philip Conway. 
 
 1681, Thomas Ashe, 
 
 1682, Stafford Lightburne. 
 
 1683, Do. 
 
 1684, Do. 
 
 1685, Thomas Ashe, of St. 
 
 J ohn’s. 
 
 1686, Stafford Lightburne. 
 
 1687, Robert Lord Trimleston, 
 
 died. 
 
 Capt. Nicholas Cusack. 
 
 1688, Do. 
 
 A.D. 
 
 1689, Mathias Lord Trimeles- 
 
 towne. 
 
 1690, 5th July, Darcy Went- 
 
 worth. 
 
 1691, Stafford Lightburne, of 
 
 Adamstown. 
 
 1692, Lightburne. 
 
 1693, Thomas Ashe. 
 
 1694, Garret Wesley. 
 
 1695, W. Beaumont. 
 
 1696, W. Beaumont. 
 
 1697, W. Beaumont. 
 
 1698, John Percival. 
 
 1699, Thomas Bligh. 
 
 1700, Thomas Ashe, of St. 
 
 John’s. 
 
 1701, Thomas Bligh. 
 
 1702, Thomas Ashe. 
 
 1703, Robert Johnson. 
 
 1704, Robert Johnson. 
 
 1705, Thomas Ashe. 
 
 1706, Thomas Ashe. 
 
 1707, Thomas Bligh. 
 
 1708, Thomas Bligh. 
 
 1709, Thomas Bligh. 
 
 1759, Charles Seaton. 
 
 1760, Bartholomew Evans. 
 
 1761, Walter Evans. 
 
 1762, John Cheevers. 
 
 1763, John Goodman. 
 
 1764, Edward Williams. 
 
 1765, Charles Seaton. 
 
 1766, Bartholomew Evans. 
 
 1767, John Mockler. 
 
 1768, Walter Evans. 
 
/ 
 
 268 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 A.D. 
 
 1769, Garret, Earl of Morning- 
 ton. 
 
 1770, Do. 
 
 1771, Do. 
 
 1772, Do. 
 
 1773, Do. 
 
 1774, Do. 
 
 1775, Do. 
 
 1776, Do. 
 
 1777, Walter Evans. 
 
 1778, John Mockler. 
 
 1779, John Boulger. 
 
 1780, Adam Carshore. 
 
 1781, Walter Evans. 
 
 1782, John Mockler. 
 
 1783, John Boulger. 
 
 A.D. 
 
 1784, Adam Carshore. 
 
 1785, Walter Evans. 
 
 1786, John Mockler. 
 
 1787, John Boulger. ^ 
 
 1788, Adam Carshore. 
 
 1789, William Elliot. 
 
 1790, John Mockler. 
 
 1791, William Carshore. 
 
 1792, Adam Carshore: 
 
 1793, William Elliott. 
 
 1794, John Mockler. 
 
 1795, William Carshore. 
 
 1796, Adam Carshore. 
 
 1797, William Elliott. 
 
 1799, William Carshore. 
 
 1800, Adam Carshore. 
 
 No. XIIL 
 
 COMMISSIONERS OF AND FOR THE COUNTY OF MEATH, 
 
 For putting in execution An Act for granting a supply to His 
 Majesty by raising money by way of a Poll . — IX Wm. III. , 
 ch. 33. 
 
 Lord Moore, 
 
 Oliver Lambart, 
 
 Sir Arthur Langford, 
 Sir Henry Ingoldsby, 
 Sir Henry Tichburne, 
 Sir John Dillon, 
 Thomas Bligh, 
 
 Sir Charles Fielding, 
 Andrew Bam, 
 William Napper, 
 Bobert Johnson, 
 
 Arthur Meredith, 
 Francis Osborne, 
 Thomas Taylor, 
 Charles Mere4yth, 
 Garrett Wesley, 
 James Napper, 
 Doctor Molyneux, 
 Edward Corker, 
 Edward Forth, 
 Michael Shields, 
 Samuel Bull, 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 269 
 
 Henry Langford, 
 
 Robert Hopford, 
 
 Lancelot Dowdall, 
 
 Joseph Deane, 
 
 Anthony Towers, 
 
 Charles Lambart, 
 
 Henry Osborne, of Dardistown, 
 Stephen Ludlow, 
 
 John Warburton, 
 
 Major George Pei)per, 
 
 Symon Pepper, 
 
 Hugh Mervyn, 
 
 John Leigh, 
 
 John Grimes, 
 
 Edward Singleton, 
 
 William El wood, 
 
 Nathaniel El wood, 
 
 Anthony Berry, 
 
 Charles Campbell, 
 
 Richard Shinton, 
 
 Henry Osborne, of Knowth, 
 Thomas Garret, 
 
 Joseph Woodwards, 
 
 William Williams, 
 
 Samuel Jackson, 
 
 Thomas Nicholson, 
 
 Henry Meredyth, 
 
 Major John Pepper, 
 
 Henry Codogan, 
 
 Alexander Kent, 
 
 Joseph Deane, 
 
 Darcy Wentworth, 
 
 George Wentworth, 
 
 Portrieve of Trim, 
 
 Sovereign of Kells, 
 
 Portrieve of Navan, 
 
 Charles Wade, of Clone- 
 bray, 
 
 John Wood, 
 
 John Wood, 
 
 Robert Alway, 
 
 John Percival, 
 
 Samuel D opping, 
 
 Thomas Loftus, 
 Marmaduke Coghill, 
 
 Oliver Moore, 
 
 Thomas Ashe, 
 
 Samuel Gwithers, 
 
 William Palmer, 
 
 Sir John Coghill, 
 
 Robert Smith, 
 
 Robert Molesworth, 
 
 Hugh Morgan, 
 
 Richard Willet, 
 
 Samuel Gibbons, 
 
 Francis Tripe, 
 
 James White, of Moy- 
 glare, 
 
 Joseph Pratt, 
 
 William Conelly, 
 
 Richard Jones, 
 
 John Jones, of Freffan, 
 Isaac Holdwright, 
 
 John Hawkshaw, 
 
 Nathaniel Bull, 
 
 John Wade, 
 
 Duke Jefford, 
 
 James Tisdall, 
 
 Edward Swan, 
 
 Alderman James Vanbob- 
 bart, 
 
 Capt. Wm. Ingoldsby. 
 
 ) for the 
 / time 
 ) being. 
 
270 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 No. XIV, 
 
 Memorial of Rev. R. Draper j respecting a University 
 in Trim. 
 
 Communicated by H. F. Hoke, Esq. 
 
 State Paper Office, Ireland, 
 \6th May, 1584. 
 
 TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORD BURGHLEY, LORD HIGH 
 TREASORER OF ENGLAND. 
 
 Most humblie besecheth your honour Robert Draper, 
 parson, of Trim, in Irelande, that -f. lordshipp wolde 
 vouchesafe to take vewe of the convenyences and como- 
 dyties being in and about the said towne of Trym, for 
 the foundation of an unyversitie, and that yf y'’. 1. shall 
 like of them, it wold please the same (both in considera- 
 tion of the fytnes of the place, and also in respecte that 
 y^ said suppliant hathe ben a long suter, to his greate 
 charge, thoughe not for an unyversytie, yet for a gram- 
 mar school e to be erected in the said place) to graunte 
 y'‘ honours letters to the Lord Deputie and Councell of 
 Ireland, that when that matter shall come in consultation, 
 there they will have (the rather at y^ honours request) 
 regard and respect to that pore towne, being a place 
 both for the fytnes of it for that purpose, and for th’ 
 extreme poverty that it is brought to, especially to be 
 regarded and relieved. 
 
 First, it is scituate in a most fresh and wholesome 
 ayre, XXti. myles from Dublin, and XV. from Droghe- 
 daghe, an haven towne. 
 
 The towne itselfe is full of very faire castles and 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 271 
 
 stone houses, buylded after the Englishe fashyon, and 
 devyded into five faire streetes, and hath in it the fairest 
 and most stately castle that her hath in all Ire- 
 
 laund, almost decayed. 
 
 It hath also one greate and large abbey, nothinge 
 thereof defaced ; but the church, and therein greate store 
 of goodly roomes, in meetelj good repair, the howse is 
 put to no use, and will (I think) be easily boughte of the 
 owner, Edward Cusack, of Lesmollen. The said Edward 
 hath also a fryary in the said towne, a very fit place for 
 a college, w®^ also may be easily gotten of him. 
 
 Further your suppliant hath a friery havinge stanche 
 and good walls, for an hall, for four or five lodginges, a 
 cellar, a kitchen, a place for lectures, with a pleasant 
 backside, conteyning three acres at leaste ; all w®^. yo®. 
 said suppliant will freelye give to the furtherance of this 
 good worke. 
 
 Throughe the myddest of the towne runneth the most 
 pure and clere ryver of the Boyne ; up this ryver might 
 all provision come from Droghedaghe to Trym, by boate, 
 yf the statute to that purpose made in Sir Henry Syd- 
 neis’ time were executed. 
 
 Harde by the towne is an excellent good quarry, if 
 they should need any stone, lyme-stone enough hard at 
 the gate, slates within VI myles, and timber enough 
 within three myles. 
 
 The country round aboute verie fruitfull of come and 
 cattell, yeldinge besides plentifull store of firewood and 
 turfe, a verie good and sweet fewell and yf the statute 
 aforesaid for the setting open of weares and fishing 
 
272 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 / 
 
 places in the Boyne were executed, the fewell in greate 
 quantitie for smale pryce, might be broughte downe by 
 boate. 
 
 Lastly (w®^. is a matter of greate ymportaunce), the 
 towne is in the myddest of the Englishe Pale, and is 
 well and strongely walled about, a thinge that will be a 
 meane to draw lerned men thither, and be greate safety 
 to the whole company of students there ; for yo^ honour 
 knoweth that wheresoever the universitie be founded, 
 the towne must of necessitie have a good wall, elles will 
 no lerned men goe from hence or any other place thither, 
 neither they of the country send their sonnes to any 
 place that is not defensible and safe from the invasion of 
 the Irishe, The buyldinge of a wall will coste as muche 
 as the colledges, w^^. charge (yf yo^ honour and they by 
 yo^. procurement shall like of this place) will be saved. 
 
 Endorsed 
 
 15^^ of May, 1584. 
 
 Robert Draper, parson of 
 Trim, in Ireland, 
 
 For a university or free 
 School, to be there erected. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 273 
 
 No. XV. 
 
 MMES OF STREETS AND PLACES IN TRIM. 
 
 “ From the Corporation BooK' and Inquisition.” 
 
 Haggard- street. Hoods Well. Navangate- street. Porte- 
 street. Water of Luppard. Blake-street. Fishamble-street. 
 Talbot’s Castle. Abbey of St. Mary’s. Pastime- place, where 
 the Mayor of Bullring was elected. Hogues’ Castle, otherwise 
 Navan-gate. Castle-lane. The Bridgefoot. Sack-street, 
 Drawbridge at Athboy-gate. Church-lane. Water-gate. 
 Bridge-gate. The scunse near the Church. Market-cross- 
 street. Scarlet-street. The Blackhall. The Tolsell. Patrick’s 
 Well. King’s Well. Abbey Well. George’s Well. The 
 Great Church. The Greek Church. Mill-lane. Bridge Mill. 
 The Horse Park. Corn Market- street. The Bridge -gate. 
 The Black Causeway, with the corner from thence leading to 
 Port Westown. The water course, called Swenan Ballogh, 
 leading from Dublin-gate to the bridge. Pastime Bush on 
 N e whaggard-lane. 
 
 No. XVI. 
 
 XING JAMES’ 11. BURGESSES. 
 
 Nicholas Cusack, Portrieve. 
 Matthew LordTrimblestowne. 
 Francis Bamwall, Esq. 
 
 Sir Edward Tyrell, Knt. 
 
 Sir John Fleming, Knt. 
 Francis Loftus, Esq. 
 
 Henry Might, Gent. 
 
 Nicholas Barnwall, Esq. 
 
 James Cusack, of Kingstowne. 
 Walter Nangle, Esq. 
 
 Hobert Longfield, Esq. 
 Christopher Ivers, Esq. 
 
 George Nangle, Esq. 
 
 Paul Nelan, Merchant. 
 
 Nicholas Netterville, Esq. 
 William Netterville, Gent. 
 Thomas Plunkett, Gent. 
 James Gilagh, Merchant. 
 Jos. Fitzsimmonds, Gent. 
 David Barry, Esq. 
 
 Edward Nangle, Esq. 
 Adam Cromp. 
 
 Halph Ivers. 
 
 Francis Cusack, Esq. 
 Christopher Cusack, Esq. 
 Thomas Proctor, Gent. 
 Francis Barry. 
 
274 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 No. XVII. 
 
 Clot. Roll, Edward II. 
 
 Trym seneschal to give Richard de Wodehouse £15 pro 
 negot. Reg. exped., and bring receipt. 
 
 Levari Goods, &c. — Trym seneschal £367 to Roger de Mor- 
 timer. 
 
 Trim seneschal venere Walter de Cusak to account for Mr. 
 Atherde and Mandevillestown. 
 
 Trim— Think not to put Wm. de Wasse in default to the 
 county. 
 
 Hos. Rol. 5 6 Edward III. 
 
 John de Balsede, clerk and chamberlain, to receive from 
 seneschal of Trim, treasurer or constable, all rolls, charters, 
 letters, obligatory, fines, and other murnats, of Roger de 
 Mortimer, late Earl of March, being in the castle forfeited, to 
 be brought to Dublin, and put in the king’s quaring. 
 
 Restoration of Johanna, widow of Roger de Mortimer. — 
 Dublin, 20th December, 5th Edw. III. 
 
 The restoration of Trim directed accordingly. 
 
 Johanna de M., Countess of March, and Lady of Trim, 
 appoints Simon de Geneville seneschal of Trim. — 20th Nov., 
 5 Edw. III. 
 
 3 cfc 4 Edw. III. 
 
 Senescal of Trim £95 of William de Vesey to the king for 
 his rehef. 
 
 Roger de Mortimer appoints Sir Nicholas de Verdon his 
 seneschal of Trim. — 12 June, 4 Edw. III. 
 
 Communicated by J ames Morrin, Esq. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 275 
 
 No. XVIIL 
 INSCEIPTION ON A 
 
 MAEBLE MONUMENT 
 
 ON 
 
 THE SOUTH WALL OF LAEACOK CHURCH. 
 
 J uxta requiescit spe resurrectionis beatse, 
 
 Garret Wesley, Armig^. ab antiqua stirpe, 
 
 In Agro Snssexiano orinndus cujus progenitorum 
 In Hibernia primus ad hoc regnum appulsus est 
 Anno millesimo centesimo septuagesimo secundo 
 Ducente Henrico secundo, cui signiferi munere 
 Fungebatur honorabili, ibique prsedia accipit ampla 
 Virtutis militaris, qua regi fseliciter operam navarat Praeinia, 
 Vir Justus et tenax propositi vixit 
 Erga Regem fidelis, erga patriam pater, 
 
 Pacem et libertatem pari colebat studio 
 Ecclesise Hibernicanse fautor assiduus, 
 
 Vera nemini secundus amicitia, utpote qui 
 Rebus in bonis non secus in arduis 
 ^quam amico servabat mentem. 
 
 Hum plurima occultissime donavit munera 
 Omni ostentation e major, 
 
 Multis ille merito flebilis occidit, 
 
 Nulli flebilior quam Richardo Wesley Armig®. nuper 
 Hicto Colley de Castle Carberry in Com. Harensi 
 Hevinctissimo patrueli, qui ingentis memor amoris 
 Et benevolentise turn viventis turn morientis amici monumen- 
 tum hoc 
 
 Extremum grati animi munusculum poni curavit 
 Obiit apud Hengan in Co. Midensi xxiii. die Septembris 
 MDCCXXVIII. 
 
276 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 / 
 
 No. XIX. 
 
 From Mrs, Delanifs Letters^ voL 1, j?. 405. 
 
 Dangan, 
 
 Aprils 1733. 
 
 The County Town is called Trim. We went 
 
 one morning and breakfasted with a reverend Clergyman,* 
 who gave us very good coffee, and then we walked round 
 the town, the chief part of which is a fine ruin of a 
 castle that belonged to King John : his Butler^ Gentleman 
 Usher ^ and Standard Bearer were the ancestors of the 
 Duke of Ormond, Mr. Usher and Mr. Wesley. The 
 situation of the castle is very fine, on a sloping green hill, 
 with the river Boyne gliding at the foot of it : I never 
 saw so pretty a ruin, nor so large a one. 
 
 From Mrs. Delany s Letters^ vol. l,p. 374. 
 
 August 2^^ 1732. 
 
 Left Dublin. 
 
 Dined at Lismullen. Mr. Dillon’s House made mighty 
 neat : a vast deal of wood and wild gardens about it. 
 Walked to see the ruins of the old abbey, near them — a 
 vast building enclosed with large trees,'great subteraneous 
 buildings with arches of cut stone, which make no other 
 
 Rev. Adam Lyndon. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 277 
 
 appearance above the earth than as little green hillocks 
 like molehills. The arches seem to have been openings to 
 little cells, rather than continued passages to any place : 
 they are very low — whether it be that they are sunk into 
 the ground, or always were so, I can’t judge, but they are 
 formed of very fine cut stone. The abbey is in the 
 prettiest spot about the house : Tis surrounded with tall 
 trees and a little clear rivulet winds about it. The road 
 from Lismullen to Naver (sic) very pleasant ; passed by 
 Arsalah, which lies upon the Boyne. The house* seems a 
 very antique edifice ; it has fine gardens, but the trees and 
 meadows that lie by the river are extremely beautiful : 
 their domains reach all along the river, and half the way 
 to Naver. Naver stands just where the Boyne and Black- 
 water meet, high over the river. I walked over the bridge 
 by moonlight, along a walk of tall elms, which leads to a 
 ruined house they call the Black Castle, from a vulgar 
 tradition of its being haunted : it lies over the Blackwater, 
 has a vast number of trees about it, and seems to have 
 been pretty. The spirit ” it was visited by was 
 extravagance : it belonged (to) two young men, who in a 
 few years ruined themselves, and let the seat go to 
 destruction, and ever since they give out it is haunted ; it 
 is now another person’s property and going to be repaired.f 
 
 * Pulled down by the late Duke of Bedford, to whom the 
 property was left by the last Earl of Ludlow, and a iiew house 
 in the Tudor style, built in the same situation : now occupied 
 by Dr. Collins. 
 
 t A cottage was built in the year 1777, near the site of 
 the old castle, by John Buxton, Esq., and replaced by a house 
 built in 1828, now in possession of Mrs. Buxton Eitzherbert. 
 
278 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 No. XX. 
 
 ADDITIONAL NAMES OF RECTORS OF TRIM.* 
 
 (See page 170). 
 
 1432, Patrick Prene. 
 
 1435, Robert Dyke. 
 
 1454, Philip Norreys, S.T.P. 
 
 1483, Richard Walsh. 
 
 Edward Wellysley. 
 
 1501, Thomas D’Arcy. 
 
 James Sheffelde was in possession in 1527. 
 
 In 1527 the king, at the request of Magister James 
 Sheffelde, rector of Tryme, appointed John Saunteford 
 Constable of the castle of Cragfergus. — Rot, Mem, 23, 
 Hen. VIII.^ 21 dor so, 
 
 1435 — Johannes Ardagh nominated by the Archdeacons 
 of Meath and Kenlys, custodees of the see of Meath : 
 but he was superseded by a royal brief, which presented 
 Robert Dyke to the rectory of the church of St. Patrick 
 of Trym, who accordingly received institution from 
 Archbishop Swayne.t Robert Dyke, or Dyche, was also 
 Archdeacon of Dublin and Master of the Rolls, &c., 1431. J 
 He attended at the Council chamber in St. Mary’s of 
 Trim, in 1441. 
 
 * Communicated by Rev. W. Reeves, D.D. 
 t Regist. Octaviani, fol. 27, h. 
 
 t Mason’s Hist. S. Patr. p. Ixxiv. a. Calend. Rot. Cancel- 
 larie, Hib. p. 260, a, No. 14, and 261, a, No. 40. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 279 
 
 John Prene , — a.d. 1428. June 10 — Bull of Pope 
 Martin V. to Thomas Rosoll, LL.B., Canon of Lincoln : 
 Whereas, John Prene, late rector of St. Patrick’s of Trim, 
 capellamis noster,” and “ camarum Palatiia Apostolic! 
 auditor,” being senio confractus et sin corporis viribus 
 destitutus,” applied for leave to resign, the Pope, as patron 
 of all benefices, with or without cure, held by chaplains 
 of his see, when vacant, has granted licence, per the Bishop 
 of Kildare, and authority to confer it upon Patrick Preen, 
 perpetual vicar of Tamlacht (Tallaght), in the diocese of 
 Dublin, reserving to said John a certain annuity. Accord- 
 ingly, said John tendered his resignation to John, Bishop 
 of Kildare. And whereas, in the said Bull no mention is 
 made of the Deanery of Dublin,^ whose income is over 
 150 marks, sterling, (the said John being seized of the 
 same), the Bishop of Meath (Edward) declared the said 
 collation and provision null and void, and accordingly col- 
 lated his clerk. Said Thomas Rosoll, by virtue of above 
 collation and provisions, kept and keeps the profits of 
 said rectory. The Pope grants to him, who is his Lit- 
 terarum apostolicarum abbre viator,” a release from all 
 stain or blot of disability and infamy.f 
 
 A.D. 1443, — July 18,-^William Whyte, literate, of 
 Trym, his examination concerning the will of John Prene, 
 Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, he having been an intimate 
 friend of said John, and afterwards ‘‘ servitor and com- 
 
 * John Prene was Dean of St. Patrick’s from 1339, to 
 when he was raised to the Primacy, 
 t Registrum. Joh. Prene. 
 
280 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 monsalis’^ of Patrick Prene^ Kector of St. Patrick’s of 
 Trjm.* * * § 
 
 A.D. 1454, — Oct. 1 , — Philippus Norreys^ Sac. Theol. 
 Profes. Rector S. Patricii de Trym, Canonicus Dublin- 
 ensis ;t i,e. he was prebendary of Yagoe.J 
 
 A.D. 1483, — April 9, — Ricardus Walsh, Rector S. 
 Patricii de Trym. Edward Wellysley (probably a relative 
 of William Wellysley, lord of Deiigjn, who attended at 
 the decision), set up an .adverse claim same day. Mat- 
 ter referred to arbritration, and, February 12, 1484, the 
 Primate Octavian, John, Bishop of Meath, and John De- 
 lahide, merchant of Drogheda, gave absolute decree in 
 favour of Richard Walsh, a pension of 40 marks per 
 annum, reserved to Edward Wellysley. § 
 
 While the decision was in abeyance, we find, July 18, 
 1483, Edward Wellisle, Rector S. Patricii de Trym.|| 
 
 A.D. 1501 — Thomas Darcy, Rector S. Patricii de 
 Trym, prescribed by crown. 
 
 A.D. 1527 — James Sheffelde, Rector of Tryme. — 19 
 Hen, VII. ; JerL 20 Rot. Mem. ; 2^ Hen. VIL indorso, 
 1531. 
 
 * Registrum. John Prene. 
 
 t Regist. John Mey, lib. iv. fol. 37, a. 
 
 f Mason’s Hist. S. Patr. pp. 133, 136, Ixxvii. 6 ; Harris’ 
 Ware’s Writers, Ware’s works, vol. ii. p. 89. 
 
 § Reg. Octavian* foil. 88, ah, 130, 6. 
 
 11 Reg. Octav. fol. 254, a. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 281 
 
 No. XXI. 
 
 SCTJELOGHSTOWN.* 
 
 (See page 175). 
 
 Inter dominiim Regem et WiUieimum Burgeis. 
 
 Memorandum quod cum Willielmus Burgeis capellanus 
 attachiatus fuisset ad respondendum domino Regi de eo 
 quod ubi Edmundus de la Mare clericus domini Regis 
 quern idem dominus Rex per literas suas patentes 
 assignavit ad diversa victualia in hac terra pro expeditione 
 guerre sue scocie providenda et emenda, assignassit 
 Galfridum Teljng servientem domini Regis in Crocea 
 Mediae ad attachandum quedam blada videlicet frumentum 
 et avenam inventa in quodam hagardo apud Scurlaggeston 
 pro expeditione providencie predicte, et dictus servieris 
 ibidem adduxisset Ricardum Broun et Henricum le Hay- 
 ward pro bladis illis triturandis et constituisset Davidem 
 de Scurlaggestone et Thomam le Despenser custodes ultra 
 predictos trituratores ; predictus Willielmus Burgeis qni 
 hagardum predictum emerat de magistro Willielmo de 
 Sydan Archidiacono Midensi adivit predictum Archidia- 
 conum apud Trim et nunciavit si qualiter predictus 
 serviens apposuit trituratores et custodes pro bladis suis 
 predictis triturandis ad opus domini Regis pro provid^n- 
 cia sua predicta, et tantum procuravit erga euudem 
 
 * Communicated by the Rev. W. Reeves, D. D. , from a copy 
 made by the late Mr. Ferguson from the Pat. Close Rolls. 
 
 T 
 
282 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Archidiaconum quod ipse excommunicare fecit in ecclesia 
 sancti Patricii de Trim vicecomitem Midiae et predictum 
 servientem et similiter trituratores et custodes predictos 
 nominatum, et etiam alios quoscumque qui dictis bladis 
 attachiandis et triturandis se intromiserunt, seu consilium ^ 
 ad hoc faciendum prestarunt, et nihilominus per suam 
 procuracionem venire fecit ad predictam villam de 
 Scurlaggeston, Galfridum de Trim, Johannem Corkan^' de 
 de Trim, Johannem de Kilcoly, capellanos, Adam Fynchyn 
 Henricum Markes et Johannem le Cauntour de Trim 
 clericos ad pronunciandum ibidem sententiam excommu- 
 nicationis in predictos vicecomitem servientem et alios in 
 forma predicta adgrave dampnum et contemptum domini^ 
 Kegis manifestum, necnon et retardacionem providencie 
 sue predicte ; predictus Willielmus Burgeis venit et dicit 
 quod ipse non fuit ad hospicium tempore quo predictus 
 serviens attachiavit blada sua predicta, set quando ipse 
 venit ad hospicium ipse venit ad hagardum suum 
 predictum et invenit ibidem predictos trituratores et 
 custodes blada sua triturantes, et quesivit ab eis quis eos 
 venire fecit ibidem et qua de causa blada sua trituravit. 
 Et cum ipsi custodes et trituratores retulissent ei quod 
 ipsi appositi fuerunt ad blada ilia trituranda per predictum 
 servientem domini Regis pro expedicione providencie 
 predicte ipse statim adivit predictum Archidiaconum de 
 quo ipse hagardum predictum emerat, demonstrans ei 
 qualiter blada sua in hagardo predicto triturata fuerint ad 
 opus domini Regis, et asserens se eidein Archidiacono 
 non posse respondere de summa pecunie in qua ei 
 * Corkan, i.e. Corkevan — W. R. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 283 
 
 tenebatiir pro bladis illis nisi eadem blada habere possit 
 in pace et de eisdem proficuum simm facere, et supplica- 
 vit predicto Archidiacono quod ipse aliquos de suis 
 ibidem miterre vellet ad loquendiim cum predictis tritura- 
 toribus et custodibus ita quod ipse blada sua habere 
 posset in pace, et de pecunia in qua eidem Archidiacono 
 tennebatur pro eisdem bladis competenter satisfacere 
 valeret. Qui quidem Archidiaconus ad ejus rogatum misit 
 predictis capellanos et clericos ad loquendum et trac- 
 tandum cum predictis custodibus et trituratoribus super 
 negocio predicto ita quod per eorum verba et consilium 
 dicti trituratores et custodes de _ propria voluntate sua 
 ulterius se non intromiserunt de bladis illis triturandis. Et 
 quod nullam sentenciam excommunicationis in predictum 
 vicecomitem at alios in predicta ecclesia sancti Patricii de 
 Trim nec etiara apud Scurlaggeston pronun ciari fecit sen 
 quoquo modo fieri procuravit, nec predictos servientem 
 custodes et trituratores in aliquo impedivit quominus 
 dicta blada triturasse potuerint si voluissent, nisi ut 
 predictum est, petit quod inquiratur per patriam. Ideo 
 preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire faceret hie die 
 sabbati proximo, &c. Et qui predictum Willielmum nulla 
 affinitate attingant ad inquirendum super premissis plenius 
 veritatem. Ad quern diem venit predictus Willielmus, et 
 similiter juratores, qui dicunt super sacramentum suum 
 quod quando predictus serviens venit ad predictum 
 hagardum pro bladis ad opus domini Regis attachiandis, 
 predictus Willielmus Burgeis non fuit ad hospicium et 
 predictus serviem venire fecit ibidem predictos trituratores 
 et custddes pro bladis illis triturandis sicut predictum est, 
 
284 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 precipiens eis quod ipsi tassos fungerent et sine dilacione 
 triturarent blada ilia, et ipse responder imt ei quod non 
 audebant hoc facere propter metum sententie excommuni- 
 cationis, per quod dictus serviens statim fregit unum d» 
 tassis et fecit dictos trituratores blada ilia triturare cum 
 Omni festinacione qua potuit. Et cum predictus 
 Willielmus Burgeys venit ad hospitium ipse venit ad 
 predictum hagardum suum quod emit de predicto 
 Archidiacono,petens a predictis trituratoribus et custodibus 
 quare ipsi blada sua taliter triturarunt sine sua licentia, et 
 cum ipsi retulissent ei quod ipsi assignati fuerunt et ap- 
 positi ad blada ilia trituranda ad opus domini Regis per 
 predictum Galfridum Telyng servientem, etc., pro expedi- 
 cione providencie predicte ipse Willielmus Burgeis 
 statim ivit ad predictum Archidiaconum apud Trim 
 demonstrans ei qualiter blada sua que ab eo emerat tri- 
 turata fuerunt ad opus domini Regis, et asserens se non 
 posse satisfacere eidem Archidiacono de pecunia in qua 
 ei tenebatur pro bladis predictis, nisi ea habere posset 
 in pace et proficuum suum inde facere, pro quod suppli- 
 cavit predicto Archidiacono quod ipse aliquos de suis ad 
 predictos custodes et trituratores mittere vellet ad loquen- 
 dum cum eis et ad terrendam eos per aliqua verba ut ipsi 
 custodes eb trituratores sic ob eorum verba et terrorem 
 inde cicius abirent, et ulterius de bladis suis triturandis 
 se non introniitterent. Et dictus Archidiaconus ad ejus 
 rogatum et procuracionem misit predictos capellanos et 
 clericos ad predict am villam de Scurlaggestone una cum 
 predicto Willielmo Burgeis ex causa predicta et quum 
 cito ipsi venerunt ibidem, dicti capellani per procuracio- 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 285 
 
 nem predict! Willielmi Biirgeis, vestibus sacerdotalibus 
 induti et similiter predict! clerici cum cruce erecta et can- 
 delis accensis veiierunt ad predictos custodes et tritura- 
 tores in liaggardo predicto, monenter eos quod inde abi- 
 rent, et pronunciaverunt ibi quedam verba in verbis 
 ‘Latinis que predictis custodibus et trituratoribus et aliis 
 laicis ibidem existentibus fore videbantur verba sentencie 
 excommunicationis, et candelas extinctas a se projecerunt 
 ad modum sentencie excommunicationis pronunciande 
 prout moris est dicentes eos excommunicatos esse unacum 
 predictis vicecomite et serviente et omnibus aliis qui de 
 dictis bladis attachiandis et triturandis se intromiserunt 
 seu consilium ad hoc faciendum prestarent. Ita quod 
 diet! custodes et trituratores ob terrorem dictorum capel- 
 lanorum et clericorum et maxime ob metum sentencie 
 taliter in eos late ut ipsi intelligebant blada aliqua ibidem 
 ex tunc triturare non audebant, set statim inde abierunt. 
 Et nihilominus die dominica proxime sequente predictus 
 Willielrnus Burgeis in ecclesia parochial! predicte ville 
 missam celebrare noluit dummodo aliquis dictorum custo- 
 dum et trituratorum in predicta ecclesia existibat pro eo 
 quod ipse asserebat eos excommunicatos esse ex causa 
 predicta ita quod oportuit eos ecclesiam predictam exire 
 dum ipse missam celebraret, affirm ando quod predict! 
 capellani ipsos custodes et trituratores excommunicarunt 
 ut premittitur. Ideo constata est quod predictus Williel- 
 raus Burgeis pro contemptu et transgressione predictis 
 exinde committatur prisone ad voluntatem domini Begis, 
 et redimatur, &c. 
 
 Postea de gratia, &c., predictus Willielrnus Burgeis 
 
286 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 dimittitur per manu captionem Robert! filii WilKelmi, 
 Radulphi clerici, Adede Banbury de Swerdes, Stephani 
 de Banbury de eadem, et Gregorii Burgeis de eadem de 
 essendo hie XVmo. Pasch: ad satisfaciendum domino Regi, 
 &c. Ad quern predict! man. produxerunt hie pre- 
 dictum Willielmum Burgeis et ipsum reddiderunt in 
 Scaccario hie in forma qua ipsum manuceperunt et ipse 
 commissus est custodie Marescalli custodiendus quousque, 
 &c. Postea per predictos Thesaurarium et Barones pre- 
 dict! contemptus et transgressio pardon antur predicto 
 Willielmo Burgeis pro viginte missis pro anima domini. 
 Edward! Regis patris, &c., celebrandis per ipsum 
 Willielmum vel per alium ex parte ipsius Willielmi, &c. 
 
 [Here follows the proceeding by the king against the 
 Archdeacon of Meath, but being torn, a transcript thereof 
 cannot be made; from it however it may be gathered 
 that the jury found him Not Guilty.] 
 
 Mid. inter dominum \ Memorandum quod Galfridus 
 Regem et Galfridum V de Trym et Johannes de Kilcoly 
 de Trym et alios. ) capellani, Adam Finchyne, Hen- 
 ricus Mark et Johannes le Chauntour de Trim clerici at- 
 tachiati fuissent ad respondendum domino Regi, de eo 
 quod ubi Edmundus de la Mare clericus domini Regis ad 
 diversa victualia in hac terra pro expedicione guerre 
 Scocie providenda et emenda assignatus assign asset Gal- 
 fridum Telyng servientem domini Regis in Crocea Midias 
 ad diversa blada attach! anda et trituranda in comitatu 
 predicto, et idem serviens attachiasset quedam blada in- 
 venta apud Scurlaggestone videlicet frumentum et avenam 
 ad opus domini Regis in hagardo cujusdam Willielmi 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 287 
 
 Burgeis capellani pro expedicione predicte providencie et 
 ibidem venire fecisset quosdam trituratores et certos 
 custodes pro bladis illis tritnrandis ; capellani predicti et 
 clerici ad procuracionem predicti Willielmi Burgeis vene- 
 runt ad predictam villam de Scurlaggestone vestibus sacer- 
 dotalibus induti cum cruce erecta et candelis et accensis, 
 et vicecomes Midie una cum predicto serviente trituratori- 
 bus et custodibus ibidem existentibus nominatim excom- 
 municarunt et similiter omnes illos qui ad blada predicta 
 ad opus domini Regis attachianda et trituranda intro- 
 miserunt seu consilium ad hoc exliibuerunt ita quod 
 dicti trituratores et custodes de bladis illis triturandis 
 ulterius se non intromiserunt nec se inde intromittere 
 non au deb ant. Ad grave dampnum domini Regis 
 et contemptum manifestum necnon et retardacionem pro- 
 videnire predicte ; predicti Galfridus et alii venerunt, et 
 dicunt quod ipsi non excommunicaverunt predictum vice- 
 comitem nec aliquos alios qui de eisdem bladis attachiandis 
 seu triturandis se intromiserunt, nec eciam predictos tritu- 
 ratores et custodes in aliquo impediverunt quorminus dicta 
 blada triturasse potuerunt sicut eis imponetur. Et hoc 
 petunt quod inquireretur per palam. 
 
 Ideo preceptum est vicecomiti quod venire faceret hie 
 a die Pasche in xv. dies, xii. &C.5 per quos, &c. Et qui 
 predictos Galfridum Johann em et alios nulla ajSinitate 
 attingant ad recognoscendum in forma predicta. 
 
 Ad quern diem venerunt predictus Galfridus et omnes 
 alii per attornatum suum et similiter juratores qui dicunt 
 super sacramentum suum quod predicti Galfridus et Jo- 
 hannes capellani vestibus albis induti una cum predictis 
 clericis veniebant ad quandam villam prope predictam 
 
288 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 villain de Scnrlaggestone pro corpore cujusdam defuncti 
 ibidem sepeliendo et predictus Willielraus Burgeis hoc 
 perpendens venit ad eos et supplicavit eis quod ipsi venire 
 vellent secum ad hazardum suum predictum in vestibus 
 suis quibus ad tunc erant induti una cum cruce et candelis 
 prout ipsi corpus dicti defuncti sepelierant, ad terrendum 
 trituratores et custodes predictos qui blada sua triturarunt 
 per aliqua verba que ipsi versus eos dicerent ut ipsi sic 
 abirent et de bladis suis triturandis ulterius se non intro- 
 mittent. Et dicti capellani et clerici hoc ei concedentes 
 venerunt secum ad haggardum predictum et pronun ciave- 
 runt ibidem quedam verba in verbis Latinis que dicti 
 trituratores putaverunt fore verba sentencie excommuni- 
 cationis, et ob metum hujusmodi sentencie dicti custodes 
 et trituratores statim abierunt. et ulterius ibidem blada 
 predicta triturare non audebant. Questioni si dicti capel- 
 lani eos excommunicaverunt per verba sentencie excom- 
 municationis dicitur quod non, set dicunt quod ipsi 
 repetebant ibi quandam demandam de Donata, videlicet, 
 Adverbia localia sunt, &c. Questioni si iidem capellani 
 et clerici veniebant ibi ad rogatum predicti Willielmi ad 
 impediendum cictos custodes et trituratores ne blada sua 
 triturarent ad opus domini Eegis expedicione providencie 
 predicte, an alia ex causae, dicitur quod ipsi non venerunt 
 ibidem ex aliqua alia causa nisi tantum ar impediendum 
 dictos trituratores et custodes ne blada sua predicta tritu- 
 rarent. Ideo consideratum est quod ipsi committantur 
 prisone pro contemptu et transgressione predictis, et 
 exinde redimantur, &c. Et quia placitarerunt per attor- 
 natum, ideo fiat breve senescallo libertatis de Trim ad 
 capiendum eos, &c. Postea per ipsum Thesaurarium, et 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 289 
 
 Barones predict! contemptus et transgressionis ad instan- 
 ciam predict! magistri Willielmi de Sydan, Archidiaconi 
 Midensis, pardonatur predictis Galfrido Johanni et aliis. 
 
 SUBSTANCE OF THE ABOVE. 
 
 Between our lord the King and William Burgess. 
 
 William Burgess, chaplain, was cited to answer to the 
 king for contempt and transgression of the law, when 
 having been committed to prison and afterwards bailed 
 on surety of Robert Fitzwilliam, clerk, Adam de Banbury 
 of Swords, Stephen of Banbury of the same place, and 
 Gregory Burgess of the same; and being tried, it was 
 sworn that: the king having empowered Edmund Dela- 
 mere, clerk, to provide certain victuals and provender for 
 the king’s army in the Scottish war, he directed Geoffrey 
 Telyng, sergeant of our lord the king in the church lands 
 of Meath, to seize upon certain hay and corn in a haggard 
 at Scurlaggeston, belonging to William Burgess, who 
 finding Richard Brown and Henry le Hayward thrashing 
 his corn, with David of Scurlaggeston and Thomas 
 Ledespencer as watchmen over them, William went to 
 William de Sydon, Archdeacon of Meath, at Trim, from 
 whom he had purchased this haggard, and having 
 informed him of how his corn was being thrashed out for 
 the king's service, requested the archdeacon to have the 
 sheriff of Meath, and the sergeant, and the threshers and 
 their guards all excommunicated in the church of Saint 
 Patrick, Trim, as the price of the haggard still owing by 
 William Burgess could not be paid if his corn was taken 
 from him : and it was further sworn that the archdeacon 
 sent to the town of Scurlaggeston, Geoffrey of Trim, John 
 
290 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Corkevan of Trim, and John of Kilcooly, chaplains, and 
 John Chauntor of Trim, with Adam Fynchin and Henry 
 Markes, and that they drest in white sacerdotal robes, 
 with cross borne on high, and lighted candles came to this 
 haggard, where, having declared wherefore they were 
 come, they pronounced some Latin words, which the 
 threshers and those who were with them supposed to be 
 a sentence of excommunication, extinguishing the candles 
 and throwing them from them after the manner of 
 excommunication, and saying that they hereby excom- 
 municated the sheriff,^ the sergeant, and all who had 
 threshed or meddled with the corn ; and that the 
 threshers and their guards fled away thereupon in terror : 
 and that on the ensuing Sunday this William Burgess 
 refused to celebrate mass in the parish church while 
 these threshers and their guards were in the church, 
 afiirming them to be under ban of excommunication. 
 
 In answer to which William Burgess pleaded that he 
 was from home when his corn was seized, and that on 
 his return he claimed it, and the sergeant only desired 
 the threshers to thresh it out in all haste : that all he 
 sought was to have it given up to him in peace and 
 quiet ; and that Geoffrey of Trim and the others, when 
 they came, did not pronounce sentence of excommunica- 
 tion, but merely endeavoured to frighten the threshers by 
 calling in these men who, in white canonicals and bearing 
 the cross, were returning from a funeral, and who only 
 uttered some Latin words, such as A dverhia localia sunt^ 
 &c. 
 
 William Burgess was pardoned on condition of reciting 
 twenty masses for the soul of Edward our lord the king. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 291 
 
 No. XXII. 
 
 MOYMOEDEEE.^* 
 
 Moymurthy, variously written in the Meath Inquisitions 
 Moymordry, Moymorthry, Memoredy, Memordey, is, in 
 the Irish, 2^1)45 ^)iillte'64. The name occurs once in 
 the Annals of the Four Masters as ‘ Magh Muiredha in 
 Bregia,’ and is connected in a very ancient poetic legend 
 preserved in the Dinnseanchus, with the history of the 
 Ailbene or Delvin river, which divides the counties of 
 Dublin and Meath, near Gormanstown.f 
 
 Moymordry appears in the Meath Inquisitions, temp. 
 Car. I, as the name of a townland which, together with 
 Irishtown, contained 600 acres, and formed a manor, that 
 was held, in 1640, by John Cusack, of Cussington, for 
 the use of the Baron of Trymleston, under Sir Chr. Bellew, 
 as of his manor of Duleek.J 
 
 In old visitations Moymurthy appears as a chapel of 
 the parish of Mora, or Moorchurch — “ Capella S. Petri 
 de Mymordry.” — (Bp. A. Dopping’s Visitation Book.) 
 The burial-ground, containing three roods of land and the 
 ruins of a chapel, now locally called Chapel Castle^ is in 
 the townland of Irishtown, north of Gormanstown, a little 
 way from the shore, marked on the Ordnance Map 
 “ Ancient Burying Ground,” Chapel.” 
 
 * Communicated by Bev. W. Beeves, D.D. 
 f See Beeves’ Vita S. Columba, note d, p. 108. 
 
 X Inqnis. Meath, No. 153, Car. I, 
 
292 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 No. XXIII. 
 
 ECCLESIA YILLE AEUNDEL.* 
 
 ^ee Tulloghenogue^ p. 176. 
 
 R. Arondell, Rectoria appropr. Integra Hospital! 
 S. Johannis de Trym. In Rotulis Synodalium vocatur 
 ecclesia Arondell — Dopping. 
 
 “ Arondel. — I can give no further account of it but that 
 it has no house nor glebe.” — Dopping^ Return of 
 The Bishop was not aware of its situation, or modern 
 name, for he introduces Kildalkey and Kilconnegan be- 
 tween it and Tulloghenogue. 
 
 In the old taxations and rolls of the see, the name 
 Tullaghenogue does not appear; but instead of it 
 is found that of Villa Arundel. This is presump- 
 tive as to their identity ; but the matter is made 
 certain by an entry in Primate Prene’s Register, which 
 states, that in 1451 John Bull was presented to the parish 
 church of Tullaghnoog, alias Arundel, by the prior of 
 St. John, by Trym. 
 
 No. XXIY. 
 
 STEEPLESTOWN.t 
 
 (See page 
 
 Steeplestown, townland in the Upper Navan portion of 
 Trim, is marked in Speed’s Theatre, 1607, Stepleton.” 
 
 A.D. 1428 ; “ Inter vias de Stepylton et Leyton.” — 
 RoU Cl, Henry VI. 
 
 * Communicated by Rev. W. Reeves, D.D. 
 t Ibid. 
 
INDEX 
 
 A 
 
 - 
 
 Page 
 
 Aboy, or Obowy, see Athboy, 
 
 . 24 
 
 Acdo 
 
 . 139 
 
 Aconbury Nunnery . 
 
 . 32 
 
 Acton, or Actoun, James . 
 
 80, 189 
 
 „ „ John 
 
 . 185 
 
 „ „ Robt., sen. 
 
 . 188 
 
 Adam, Friar 
 
 . 166 
 
 „ Mr 
 
 . 166 
 
 Adamstown 
 
 . 174 
 
 Aedo 
 
 139, 189 
 
 Agard, or Agere, Francis . 
 
 112, 154 
 
 „ „ Thos. 112, 
 
 151, 154 
 
 Agher . . . ... 
 
 105, 222 
 
 Aido 
 
 . 139 
 
 Airchihenach, 
 
 . 143 
 
 Alamand, Almaric de 
 
 . 30 
 
 Alen, or Allen, J. 
 
 60, 107 
 
 „ John, Archp. of Dublin 145 
 
 „ Thomas 
 
 . 191 
 
 Alexander, King, III. 
 
 . 34 
 
 Alexander, Bishop of Meath 
 
 . 151 
 
 Alford, Captain . 
 
 . 118 
 
 Allen, John, Esq. 
 
 . 60 
 
 Alone, see Athlone. 
 
 Alured, nephew to the Abbot of 
 
 St. Taurin 
 
 . 22 
 
 „ the younger . 
 
 . 221 
 
 Amalgaidh .... 
 
 . 185 
 
 Anderneri (Dunderry) 
 
 Anele (see O’Neill), King 
 
 . 46 
 
 of 
 
 Meath . . . . 
 
 . 52 
 
 Angers .... 
 
 . 61 
 
 Anglo-Normans . 
 
 . 217 
 
 Anglo- Saxon Kings . 
 
 . 142 
 
 Angulo, de (see Nangle) . 
 
 . 229 
 
 Ankerster’s land 
 
 . 164 
 
 Annally made a shire 
 
 . 114 
 
 Anne, sister of Mortimer . 
 
 . 69 
 
 „ widow of Mortimer, Earl 
 
 of March 
 
 . 73 
 
 Anne, Queen 
 
 . 164 
 
 Anselm, Arbp. of Canterbury . 143 
 
 Page 
 
 Appleby, Eoger de . . .210 
 
 Aquitaine 25 
 
 Archdeacon, or Cody (a name) . 143 
 Ardagh, Bishop of. Titular . 222 
 5 , Bishop of, R. Draper . 155 
 „ Diocese of . . .170 
 
 Ardbraccan . . 118, 184, 217 
 
 „ Bishop of (Ultan) . 70 
 
 „ Manor of , . ^57 
 
 „ See of . . . 143 
 
 Ardcoagh 194 
 
 Ardee, or Athirdee . 36, 83, 117 
 
 Ardgreagh . . . .174, 194 
 
 Ardiz, Hugh de (see Dardyce) . 208 
 Ardmulcan Manor ... 57 
 
 Ards, or Ardes, Lord of . . 129 
 
 „ The, in Ulster . 69 
 
 Ardsallagh Castle . . . 124 
 
 Argentine City (Strasburgh) . 147 
 Armagh, Archbp. of 70, 90, 137, 138, 
 183 
 
 ,, Cormac . 140, 181 
 ,, John . . 69, 86 
 
 „ John Swayne . 69 
 
 ,, Nich. M‘Mollissa 197 
 
 „ Otavianus de Palatio 163 
 ,, Patrick .185 
 
 ,, Roland Jorse . 35 
 
 Armagh 
 
 Ths. O’Connor 
 
 Church of . 70, 
 
 „ Luman’s 
 
 „ Primate of . 
 
 „ See of 35, 70, 136 
 
 Arthur, King 
 Arundel Ecclesias 
 Ashe, Family of . . 118, 
 
 „ Elizabeth, Lady 
 „ John .... 
 
 „ Joseph 
 
 „ Thomas, Sir 160, 195, 
 Assizes in Grey Friars 
 Aston, Arthur, Sir 
 
 138, 139 
 . 143 
 
 137, 138 
 . 70 
 
 . 35 
 
 137, 138 
 49, 96 
 . 292 
 175, 223 
 . 160 
 . 193 
 . 201 
 2C4, 205 
 . 205 
 . 128 
 
294 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 
 Athboy 50, 66, 109, 117, 124, 160, 165, 
 166 
 
 Athboy Gate, Trim . . 133, 189 
 
 ,, Members for . . 258 
 
 Athcliath, 153 
 
 Athenry 144 
 
 Athirdee (Ardee) ... 83 
 
 „ Baron of (Birmingham) 36 
 Athlone (Alone) . 13, 14, 29, 97 
 
 Ath Truim Athrumige 12, 136, 139, 
 142, 145, 151, 182, 186, 187, 18S, 190 
 Athy (Athboy ?) . . . 109, IGO 
 
 Atomodarire .... 222 
 Angustinian Friars Skryne 201, 220 
 Aungier, Baron of Longford . 205 
 Au-stralia ..... 195 
 
 B 
 
 Babe’s Bridge .... 203 
 „ Town . . . .203 
 
 Bacun, Nicolas .... 30 
 
 Baithellach, Abbot of Trim 141, 142 
 Baldoyle, Parliament at . 44, 46 
 
 Balenebouricke . . . 114, 116 
 
 Balgeeth 215 
 
 Balgriffin, Burnell of . . . 126 
 
 Baliskeagh . . . . 34, 146 
 
 Balleneferegh . , . .122 
 
 Ballenegranagh . . . .194 
 
 Ballimore, Co. Westmeath . 38 
 
 Ballimote Castle . . .168 
 
 Ballinparke . . 122, 130, 131 
 
 Ballonecloigh . . . .194 
 
 Ballyboggan, Prior of . . 187 
 
 Ballybrennocke . . . 116, 132 
 
 Ballycona 132 
 
 Bailyconnan .... 116 
 
 Ballycorry . . . . .116 
 
 Ballycourt ..... 132 
 Ballygoraghe .... 116 
 Ballymore, John . . . 209 
 
 Ballymote, Booke of . . . 168 
 
 Ballymulmore . . . .132 
 
 Ballymulmurry . . . .116 
 
 Ballynbwurish . . .114, 123 
 
 Ball 3 niecargie .... 133 
 
 Ballyneferagh . . . .131 
 
 Ballynecley . . . .194 
 
 Bally npark, see Ballinpark . 131 
 
 Ballyowen . . . .116, 132 
 
 Ballyraghyn .... 146 
 
 Ballyrory .... 132 
 
 Balrath Castle • . . . 124 
 
 Balreyn 222 
 
 Page 
 
 Balscote (alias Petit), Alexr. 183, 210 
 Ballsoon, or Ballseyn 124, 163, 193 
 Balticar (Balthazar), K. of Cologne 
 
 147 
 
 Baltrasna . 
 
 Barfoteston 
 Barnewall . 
 
 Barnewalls, the . 
 
 „ Christopher 
 „ John 
 „ Robert, Sir 
 Barrow, River 
 Barry, Robert 
 Barynton, Richard 
 
 Basillia, sister to Strongbow . 15 
 
 Baskyn Chapel . . . .216 
 
 Bath, Elizabeth .... 215 
 „ Jane, Lady . . . 173 
 
 „ Thomas . . . . 192 
 
 Bathes .... 173, 192 
 „ de, Arms of . 173, 209, 215 
 Bathe’s land . . . * 122, 132 
 
 Batterstown, or Batreston 116, 132 
 Bavaria . . . , . 141 
 
 Beal tain 117 
 
 Bedford, John Duke of . . 215 
 
 Bedlowe, Jacobus ... 64 
 
 „ John, Sir . . 52, 62 
 
 „ Richard ... 64 
 
 „ Thomas ... 64 
 
 Bedlowstown . 116, 119, 122, 132 
 
 Bective, Bectiff, Begty, the Betty 16, 
 95, 107, 113, 125, 151, 152, 153, 217 
 „ Castle .... 124 
 „ Tiles . , . . 125 
 
 I/O 
 
 57 
 
 73, 85, 188 
 . 173 
 
 150, 188 
 114, 213 
 188 
 24 
 51 
 56 
 
 Belgard 
 Belle w Arms 
 
 Thomas 
 Walter 
 Bellews of Rathtayne 
 Bellewstown 
 Beltrasna . 
 Benedictine Monastery 
 Benning, Rev. Doctor 
 Bereford, Richard 
 Berners, Mr , 
 
 Berney 
 
 Bertram, James 
 Betagh 
 
 Bigaret, Robert 
 
 89 
 229 
 174 
 89 
 64 
 
 46,' 87, 88, 89, 125, 174 
 . 176 
 . 139 
 . 61 
 . 166 
 112, 152 
 62, 93 
 . 188 
 . 50 
 
 24 
 
 Bignor (Bicknor), Archbishop of 
 
 Dublin 34 
 
 Birmingham, Bremyngham, Bur- 
 megan, Baron of Athirdee 
 and Louth - . 36, 73 
 

 
 INDEX. 
 
 295 
 
 
 Page 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Birmingham County . 
 
 . 65, 
 
 109 
 
 Broadmede meadow . . 115,131 
 
 James . 
 
 
 41 
 
 Browne, Archbishop . 
 
 . 191 
 
 „ John . . . 
 
 . 35, 36 
 
 , 48 
 
 ., Bishop (titular) . 
 
 . 223 
 
 „ Kobert 
 
 
 41 
 
 „ Colonel 
 
 . 127 
 
 „ Tower . 
 
 
 43 
 
 „ Geneta 
 
 . 64 
 
 „ Walter 
 
 
 41 
 
 „ John 
 
 . 64 
 
 „ William 
 
 
 41 
 
 „ Nicholas 
 
 85, 86 
 
 Birminghams, or Mac Yoris 41, 
 
 42, 
 
 „ Patrick 
 
 . 176 
 
 
 65, 73, 8' 
 
 ^ 88 
 
 „ or Brown, Thomas 
 
 69, 211 
 
 Birmingham’s Thorn . 
 
 
 41 
 
 „ a surname . 
 
 84 
 
 Bishops’ Walk, Summerhill 
 
 126 
 
 Brownrithstown 
 
 . 114 
 
 Black, a surname 
 
 
 84 
 
 Brownes of Brownstown . 
 
 . 64 
 
 Blackcastle on Barrow 
 
 
 23 
 
 Bruge, Walter de 
 
 49, 146 
 
 Blackcastle, Navan . 
 
 61, 203, 
 
 277 
 
 Bruce, Edward 33, 34, 35 
 
 , 36, 62 
 
 Black Friary, Trim 
 
 107, 195, 
 
 220 
 
 „ Robert 
 
 . 34 
 
 Blackwater Biver 
 
 . 216, 
 
 222 
 
 Bull, John .... 
 
 . 165 
 
 Blayney, Lord . 
 
 
 61 
 
 Burgh, de (or Burgo de) Arms 
 
 . 150 
 
 Blighs 
 
 
 118 
 
 „ Earls of Ulster 
 
 . 47 
 
 „ Thomas, of Rathmore 
 
 168 
 
 „ Richard de . .25 
 
 , 28, 29 
 
 Blounde, John . 
 
 
 210 
 
 „ W de : 
 
 . 18 
 
 Bokeham, or Boltham 
 
 . 
 
 48 
 
 Burgundy, Duchess of 
 
 . 95 
 
 Bollandists . 
 
 
 138 
 
 Burke, Bishop 
 
 . 201 
 
 Bolton, Mr. 
 
 
 153 
 
 Burley, Thomas, Prior of Kil- 
 
 Boniface, Archbp. of Mentz 
 
 141 
 
 mainham 
 
 . 41 
 
 Bordeaux . 
 
 
 60 
 
 Burnell, of Balgriffin . 
 
 . 126 
 
 Bordevylle, John 
 
 
 89 
 
 „ John 
 
 . 216 
 
 Bordsmills . 
 
 
 156 
 
 Butler, a surname 
 
 . 84 
 
 Boston, Lincolnshire . 
 
 
 58 
 
 „ comitry . 
 
 . 97 
 
 Boyne, River 9, 10, 116, 119, 122, 129, 
 
 „ of Dunboyne . 
 
 . 37 
 
 132, 135, 137, 194, 195, 200, 203, 204, 
 
 „ James, Earl of Ormond, 34 
 
 221, 222, 223 
 
 
 
 „ Theobald, Lord 
 
 . 28 
 
 Boynton 
 
 
 174 
 
 „ Thomas . 
 
 37, 62 
 
 Boys of the Calcagh . 
 
 ! 105, 
 
 126 
 
 Byrne, Colonel . 
 
 . 129 
 
 Brabazon, W., Sir 
 
 
 193 
 
 General Hugh 
 
 . 127 
 
 Brady, Hugh, Bishop of Meath . 
 
 155 
 
 
 
 Braidstone, House of 
 
 
 158 
 
 C 
 
 
 Branganstown 
 
 
 216 
 
 
 
 Braosa, de . 
 
 18, 20, 24, 31 
 
 Cabragh (alias Carrberstown) 
 
 . 114 
 
 Bratnagh, Meiler 
 
 
 163 
 
 Cachmehe 
 
 . 23 
 
 Bray, Stephen 
 
 
 45 
 
 Cadell, or Caddell, Robert 
 
 . 52 
 
 Braymount (Breemount) . 
 
 12 
 
 „ Walter . 
 
 . 193 
 
 Brayne, Richard, Prior 
 
 
 208 
 
 Caen 
 
 . 217 
 
 Breffney 
 
 
 187 
 
 Caimen, war to . 
 
 . 73 
 
 Bregias, The 
 
 
 12 
 
 Cairbre, Abbot of Trim 
 
 • 142 
 
 Brennockstown, or Brannocks- 
 
 
 Calatrim (Galtrim), Baron of 
 
 . 187 
 
 town 
 
 . 132, 
 
 156 
 
 Calcagh, The . , . 105, 126 
 
 Brennys, The 
 
 
 118 
 
 Calvagh .... 
 
 . 84 
 
 Brereton, Sir William 
 
 71, 105, 
 
 106 
 
 Callan, Co. of Kilkenny 
 
 . 67 
 
 Briddock, Bobert 
 
 
 112 
 
 Calais 
 
 . 78' 
 
 Bridemaid Meadow . 
 
 
 120 
 
 Cambridge, Earl of . 
 
 . 59 
 
 Bride’s Parish 
 
 
 160 
 
 Canistown .... 
 
 . 132 
 
 Bristol, Barrel! . 
 
 
 42 
 
 Canons Regular, Newtown 
 
 . 207 
 
 „ City 
 
 
 62 
 
 Canonstown 
 
 . 174 
 
 Britain, Christianity in 
 
 
 136 
 
 Canterbury, Archbishop of. An- 
 
 Britons 
 
 
 136 
 
 selm . , 
 
 . 143 
 
296 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 
 Page 
 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Cantwell (Cauntwell), John . 72 
 
 Clady or Clody . 
 
 , 
 
 95, 153 
 
 Carbragh . . 116 
 
 120, 122, 131 
 
 Ciahul, John de 
 
 
 . 18 
 
 Carbristown 
 
 . 174 
 
 Clairvaux . 
 
 
 . 199 
 
 Carbry 41, 65, 85, 109 
 
 189, 192, 208 
 
 Clanaree, see Clonard 
 
 
 . 23 
 
 Carc^on, Hugh 
 
 . 86 
 
 Clan loris, see Mac Yoris 
 
 
 . 41 
 
 Carew, George, Earl of 
 
 Totness 55 
 
 Clane .... 
 
 
 . 63 
 
 Peter 
 
 . . 27 
 
 Clanrickard, Earl of . 
 
 
 . 124 
 
 Carey, James 
 
 . 160 
 
 „ Mac William of 
 
 . 97 
 
 Carlingford 
 
 98, 127 
 
 Clare castle . 65, 67, 
 
 68, 69, 72 
 
 Carlow Castle 
 
 . 24 
 
 Clare-corran castle . 
 
 
 . 132 
 
 „ County . 
 
 . 53, 103 
 
 Clare county 
 
 . 
 
 . 147 
 
 „ Town 
 
 . 53 
 
 Clarence, Duke of, George, 
 
 80, 82, 89 
 
 Carpenter, a surname 
 
 . 84 
 
 
 
 91, 96 
 
 Carafin 
 
 . 90 
 
 „ Lionel 
 
 
 47, 65 
 
 Carberstown, see Carbragh. 
 
 Clarke, Rev. John 
 
 
 . 157 
 
 Carrick, Duncan of . 
 Carrickfergus 
 
 . 20 
 
 Claville, John, alias Declawsa . 24 
 
 20, 146, 206 
 
 Clebury, William de . 
 
 
 . 145 
 
 „ Grafergus 
 
 . 98 
 
 Clement, Thomas 
 
 
 72, 204 
 
 Carroll, Sir James 
 
 . 119, 120 
 
 Clinton, or Clynton, John 
 
 
 . 39 
 
 Carter, Thomas . 
 
 . 174 
 
 „ Robert . ; 
 
 
 85, 86 
 
 Cashel, Archbishop, Matthew 
 
 Clintonstown 
 
 
 . 85 
 
 O’Heny, . 
 
 . 16 
 
 Clogher, Bishop of, George Mont- 
 
 „ Cathedral 
 
 . 164 
 
 gomery . 
 
 
 . 158 
 
 „ Council . 
 
 . 14 
 
 „ John Sterne . 
 
 
 . 168 
 
 Caskele 
 
 . 86 
 
 „ William Foster 
 
 
 . 169 
 
 Castile coin 
 
 . 78 
 
 Clonard, Clonaree, or Cluanart 15, 23, 
 
 Castle Dermot . 
 
 . 24 
 
 
 
 143, 195 
 
 „ Jordan . 
 
 . 122 
 
 „ Abbot of 
 
 
 . 186 
 
 „ Knock 
 
 . 41, 208 
 
 „ The Grange . 
 
 
 . 194 
 
 „ Martin, Adam of 
 
 . 166 
 
 „ See of . 
 
 
 . 143 
 
 „ „ James 
 
 . 95 
 
 Clonee, Chapel of Ease 
 
 
 . 156 
 
 ,, Park, Trim 
 
 . 131 
 
 Clonemeath 
 
 
 . 214 
 
 „ Rickard . 
 
 . 98, 134 
 
 Clonfane 
 
 
 . 162 
 
 Castyde (Crystal), Sir Henry . 51 
 
 Clonguffin . 
 
 
 . 222 
 
 Cathald (Cathul) 
 
 139, 181, 188 
 
 Clonin 
 
 
 . 131 
 
 Cavan Abbey 
 
 . 157 
 
 Clonmacnoise 
 
 
 . 186 
 
 „ County . 118, 124, 155, 157 
 
 Clonraven or Ennis « 
 
 
 . 147 
 
 Ceallach Abbot . 
 
 . 181 
 
 Clony 
 
 
 116, 132 
 
 Ceanannus (Kells) 
 
 . 145 
 
 Clooke, Hugh 
 
 
 . 69 
 
 Ceanfoilly, Abbot 
 
 . 142, 181 
 
 Cloynard 
 
 
 . 194 
 
 Chambers, Mr. . 
 
 . 160 
 
 Cloyne, Bishop of 
 
 
 . 46 
 
 Champagne 
 
 27, 32 
 
 Cloyneboynagh . 
 
 
 215, 216 
 
 Chanonton 
 
 . 194 
 
 Clyton, see Clinton 
 
 
 . 39 
 
 Charles the Bold 
 
 . 95 
 
 Cody .... 
 
 
 . 143 
 
 Chantry . 
 
 . 207 
 
 Coele Ochtra 
 
 
 . 139 
 
 Cheshire 
 
 . 128 
 
 Coffey, Owen, Prior . 
 
 
 . 211 
 
 Chester, a surname . 
 
 . 84 
 
 Coirpe, 
 
 
 181, 182 
 
 Chevena, king of. 
 
 . 52 
 
 Coleraine 
 
 
 . 146 
 
 Chevers of Macetown 
 
 . 241 
 
 Colgan 
 
 
 . 138 
 
 Chiem (Cliiempsee), in Bavaria 141 
 
 Collagh Castle 
 
 
 . 24 
 
 Christ Church, Dublin 
 
 . 95, 144 
 
 Colman . . .139, 
 
 , 142, 182 
 
 Christopher, Abbot , 
 
 188, 189, 190 
 
 Cologne, King of 
 
 
 . 147 
 
 Ciaran, Abbot of Clonmacnoise 186 
 
 Colomb, or Colomb-Gilla 
 
 
 185, 186 
 
 Cildarra 
 
 . 145 
 
 Colombkille 
 
 77, 
 
 203, 204 
 
 Cildelga (Kildalky) . 
 
 . 185 
 
 Colyer, Philip 
 
 
 . 69 
 
INDEX. 
 
 297 
 
 Page 
 
 Colynborhe, William . . 80 
 
 Con ala or Conallo . . 139, 187 
 
 Con, son of Calvagh ... 84 
 
 Conanstown, alias Bally court . 132 
 Conchobar . . . 185, 186 
 
 Conhue, King of Cheveno . 52 
 
 Conquest of Ireland . . 225, 231 
 
 Connaught 15, 17, 19, 22, 25, 28, 52, 
 60, 73, 75, 98 
 „ Book ... 60 
 
 „ King of . 15, 17, 52 
 
 Connor 182 
 
 Conway, Colonel . . .125 
 
 Philip . . . 163, 164 
 
 Lady of 
 Costantin, Geoffrey . 
 Costeret, Brine 
 Coulerturragh . 
 
 Courcy, de, Earl of Ulster 
 „ John de 
 „ Lord 
 Craig, Sir James 
 Creroke, or Creroge . 
 Cromartyn Manor : 
 Cromwell, Henry 
 
 Cook, a surname 
 
 
 84 
 
 
 
 Coote, Charles, Sir 
 
 . 123, 124 
 
 D 
 
 
 Coraghstown 
 
 
 222 
 
 
 
 Corbet, M. . 
 
 
 160 
 
 Dalistown, or Gallestone . 
 
 . 132 
 
 Cork City . 
 
 
 48 
 
 D’ Alton, Mr. 
 
 144, 145 
 
 „ County 
 
 
 103 
 
 Dalton, Pierce . 
 
 . 77 
 
 „ a surname . 
 
 
 84 
 
 ,, Thomas . 
 
 . 40 
 
 Cormac, Archbishop of Armagh 
 
 140 
 
 Daltons . . . , 
 
 . 108 
 
 „ Bishop of Trim 
 
 
 181 
 
 Daltonston . . . . 
 
 . 216 
 
 „ Episcopus 
 
 
 139 
 
 Dangan . . . . 
 
 61, 276 
 
 Corner, de la Richard (de An- 
 
 
 Dantsey, Edw., Bishop of Meath 67 
 
 gulo) 
 
 
 208 
 
 D’Arcy, John 
 
 . 36, 145 
 
 Corvesdale, Matilda de 
 
 Lacy, 
 
 
 „ Oliver, Titular Bishop of 
 
 Oliver 128, 129, 130, 196 
 „ „ his hill . . 129 
 
 „ Thomas, Lord 112, 151, 191 
 Crookshanke, John . . 161, 162 
 
 Croshie, Edward, Sir . . .61 
 
 Cross Bearers .... 220 
 Crouched Friars .... 220 
 
 Crowboy 200 
 
 Crowpark 136 
 
 Cruachabhall (Craighool) . . 77 
 
 Crum (for Trim) ... 27 
 
 Crumlin 145 
 
 Cruise, or Cruys, family 32, 191, 199 
 „ Richard . . . . 41 
 
 Crystal or Castyde ... 51 
 
 Cuanach 149 
 
 Cuckold’s Castle . . . 132 
 
 27 
 23 
 51 
 146 
 17 
 
 19, 21, 139 
 41 
 121 
 194 
 57 
 161, 162 
 
 Page 
 
 Culmullen lands ... 32 
 
 Cullofyan 131 
 
 Cumin, Archbishop of Dublin • 16 
 
 Cummian 142 
 
 Curydany, Marianis, Friar . 147 
 
 Cusak, or Cusack family , 32, 1 75 
 
 Christopher . . 65, 114 
 
 Edward . . . 195, 201 
 
 John . . 41, 47, 175 
 
 Nicholas .... 175 
 Simon ... 44, 47 
 
 Thomas . . 200, 201, 220 
 
 Ciisak, or Cusack, Walter, Lord 33 
 Cushinstown .... 200 
 
 Ardagh 201 
 
 „ of Flatten . . 95, 98 
 
 „ William, Sir . . .114 
 
 Dardyce, or Ardiz, Geoffry, 
 
 Abbot 193 
 
 Dardyce, Dardis, or Dartistown 
 
 105, 126 
 
 Darnley, Earl of . 141, 156, 168 
 
 Darpe, see O’Connor ... 52 
 
 D’ Artois, or Dartass, Janico 56, 57, 
 58, 73 
 
 „ Joan ; ... 57 
 
 „ John . . .73 
 
 Davies, John, Sir . 155, 157 
 
 Dawe, John . . . 208 
 
 Dearmagh . . 145 
 
 Death, Anne . • .174 
 
 De Bath, see Bath . 209, 215 
 
 Debenham, Gilberr . .91 
 
 De Lacy, see Lacy. 
 
 Declawsa, or Clavill, John . 24 
 
 De la Hide 32, 44, 52, 105, 126, 199 
 Delany, Mrs., Letters . . .276 
 
 Delvin, Baron of 23, 41, 44, 65, 66j 77, 
 99, 102,114, 119, 157 
 „ Town . . . .66 
 
 Dengin, Lord of . . 47, 111 
 
 Dengle, Alured, Lord of . .22 
 
 U 
 
298 
 
 INDEX, 
 
 Page 
 
 Derevaragh Lake, Westmeath . 47 
 
 Derisland 120 
 
 De Ros, Lord .... 195 
 Dermagh, or Durrow , . 13 
 
 Dermot Castle .... 24 
 
 Derry, Bishop of, George Mont 
 
 gomery 158 
 
 „ „ O’Fallon . 151, 190 
 
 Derrysland, or Diersland . 131 
 Dervagh, Prior .... 166 
 Derwath (Durrow) Castle . , 24 
 
 Desmond, Earl of, James . . 65 
 
 „ Thomas 80, 82, 84, 89 
 
 Desmond Earls of . . 39, 80 
 
 Despencer, Hiighle ... 35 
 
 Diarmitius Rex ... 95, 96 
 
 Dillon Arms • . . 173, 215 
 
 „ Bartholomew 153, 211, 215, 221 
 „ Edmond, Prior . . 215 
 
 Gerald 
 Henry 
 James, Sir 
 John 
 
 Lucas, Sir 
 Lord . 
 
 210, 215 
 . 210 
 119, 124, 157, 215 
 . 174, 201 
 
 . 124, 173 
 
 . 127 
 
 „ Richard . 
 
 . 215 
 
 „ Robert 
 
 223, 215, 216 
 
 „ Thomas 116, 119, 122, 126, 176, 
 211, 215 
 
 Dillons 
 
 . 108, 173 
 
 Diocesan Register 
 Divelin, see Dublin 
 
 . . 218 
 
 Dobdan, Bishop . 
 
 . 141, 142 
 
 Doget, (Duckett) 
 
 . 29 
 
 Doggestown 
 
 . 116, 133 
 
 Dollardstown 
 
 . 215 
 
 Dolyvers, see Dunleivor 
 
 . 116 
 
 Domhanall Sechnall, 
 
 Dun- 
 
 shaughlin 
 
 . 145 
 
 Dominican Friary, Trim 
 
 27, 201, 207 
 
 Dominican Friary, Account of 197 
 
 Dominicans, Dublin . 
 
 . 220 
 
 Dominicans, Mullingar 
 
 . 205 
 
 Donamase Castle 
 
 . 31 
 
 Donderry 
 
 . 207 
 
 Dongan, Patrick 
 
 . 223 
 
 Donore on Boyne 
 
 . 200 
 
 Donore Convent 
 
 . 201 
 
 Dopping, Bishop 
 
 . 159 
 
 Dordon, River 
 
 . 60 
 
 Douban, Physician 
 
 . 142 
 
 Dowdall, Arms, 
 
 . 229 
 
 Dowling, Murtagh 
 
 . 130 
 
 Dowliston . 
 
 . 116, 132 
 
 Down 
 
 139, 162, 206 
 
 Page 
 
 Down Bishop of, Malachi . . 139 
 
 Downkennie, see Dunkennie 
 Downpatrick .... 146 
 Drake, John ... 40, 45 
 
 Draper, John or Robert . . 155 
 
 „ Letter .... 270 
 „ Robt. Bishop of Kilmore 155 
 Draycot, Henry .... 216 
 Drinidely, Chapel of Ease . . 156 
 
 Drodrath Mint . . . .91 
 
 Drogheda 42, 64, 84, 95, 96, 100, 102, 
 127, 128, 129, 150, 203, 206 
 „ Marquis of . . .177 
 
 „ Mayor of . . .64 
 
 „ Parliament at 77, 85, 87, 92, 
 97, 192, 211 
 
 Drogheda storming of . .129 
 
 Drohedaia 66 
 
 Dromgole, John . . . . 86 
 
 Dromore, Sterne, Bishop of . 168 
 Droynadaly, see Drinadaly . 89 
 
 Drumconrath .... 66 
 
 Drumlargan .... 126 
 
 Dubber 208 
 
 Dubda ..... 142 
 
 Dubhgals 153 
 
 Dubhlina 153 
 
 Dublin 15, 16, 26, 28, 30, 33, 34, 35, 
 64, 77, 96, 102, 105, 106, 117, 
 125, 127, 132, 153, 187, 189 
 „ Archbishops of 97, 145, 213 
 Alexander Bicknor 34 
 Browne . . 191 
 
 Cumin ... 16 
 
 John Alen , . 145 
 
 „ Leech . . 35 
 
 „ Sandford 29, 213 
 Richard Talbot 62, 63, 
 64, 67, 73 
 Roger Jones . 195 
 Castle 34, 36, 48, 57, 80, 81, 91, 
 95, 97, 105, 109 
 Christ Church 35, 95, 144 
 
 College ... 65, 206 
 
 County 64, 83, 91, 93, 103, 130, 
 150 
 
 Dominicans . . .220 
 
 Friar Preachers . . 201 
 
 Gate (Trim) . 10, 60, 133 
 
 Holy Trinity Church 144, 186 
 Marquis of ... 49 
 
 Mayor of 35, 64, 83, 92, 119 
 Mint .... 80 
 
 Parliament 44, 52, 62, 79, 88, 
 90, 91, 94 
 
INDEX. 
 
 299 
 
 Page 
 
 Dublin, St. Patrick’s, Dean of . 161 
 „ St. Thomas’s 17, 157, 174, 208, 
 210, 229 
 
 „ University ... 35 
 
 Duckett, or Doget ... 29 
 
 Duleek ... 15, 66, 143 
 
 „ Abbey of . . . .177 
 
 „ Borough, Members for . 261 
 „ Prior of . . . .17 
 
 „ See of .... 143 
 Drumconrath .... 66 
 
 Dunach (Durrow ?) . . .23 
 
 Dunboyne, Petit, Baron of . 37 
 
 Dunboyne Town . . 64, 66 
 
 Dundalk . 35, 109, 127, 129, 206 
 
 Dunderry (Anderneri) 46, 165, 206, 207 
 Dunganstown Hill . . .126 
 
 Dunkennie (Downkennie) 215, 221 
 Dunlevers — Doulevres— Dolyvers 114, 
 116, 132, 161, 162 
 Dun-mic-Cennan . . . 185 
 
 Dunmore Park .... 50 
 
 Dunnes, the .... 225 
 Dunsany, Barons of . 32,111,134 
 
 „ Church ... 80 
 
 Dunshaughlin, or Domnach 
 Sechnal . 64, 66, 105, 143, 145 
 
 „ See of . . 143, 144 
 
 Dunsink 208 
 
 Durham, Bishop of (Thomas- 
 
 Langley) 62 
 
 Durrow, or Dermagh 13, 16, 23, 196 
 
 „ of Colombkill . . 77 
 
 Dyer’s Land .... 115 
 
 E 
 
 Eastmeath . . . 102, 119 
 
 Edgar 142 
 
 Edgecombe, Richard, Sir . . 95 
 
 Edward I. 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 36, 37, 166, 
 187 
 
 „ 11. . . 13, 32, 36, 149 
 
 „ III. 13, 37, 39, 41, 42, 47, 50, 
 59, 70, 87, 144, 148 
 „ IV. 77, 80, 81, 189, 212 
 
 „ VI 49 
 
 Eglinton comes . . . .158 
 
 Eglionby, Mr 107 
 
 Elizabeth, Queen 34, 40, 60, 64, 116, 
 155,173, 194 
 
 Ellath Town . . . .174 
 
 Elliott, or Eliot, Dr. . . . 149 
 
 ,, John, Sir . . . . 193 
 
 „ William, Rev. . . 149^ 169 
 
 Enda .... 
 
 
 Page 
 141, 181 
 
 English surnames 
 
 
 . 84 
 
 Ennis, County Clare . 
 
 
 . 147 
 
 Eochaidh Ua Cinaodh 
 
 
 143, 182 
 
 Erigena, John Scotus 
 
 
 . 142 
 
 Eskyr Manor 
 
 
 . 52 
 
 Essex, Earl of . 
 
 
 . 118 
 
 Ethelred 
 
 
 . 142 
 
 Eustace, Alison 
 
 
 . 125 
 
 „ Christopher . 
 
 
 . 216 
 
 „ Maurice, Sir . 
 
 
 s 124 
 
 ,, Roland, Sir 
 
 
 . 125 
 
 Evans John, Bishop of Meath 165 
 
 Everdun, Thomas de 
 
 
 48, 56 
 
 Evreux, St. Taurin . 
 
 e 
 
 . 22 
 
 F 
 
 Fahalty Castle, Co. Westmeath 47 
 
 Feidilmid . . 70, 136, 137, 181 
 
 Fele, or Feld of Paynestown . 126 
 
 Fennor 223 
 
 Fenwicke, Colonel . . . 124 
 
 Ferrard, Barony of . . . 203 
 
 Fethered, Fothered, or Phy- 
 dred, Fethard . . 23, 103 
 
 Feypo, Adam, Baron of Skryme 15, 23 
 . 229 
 
 . 39 
 
 . 96 
 
 . 47 
 
 . 32 
 
 . . 123 
 
 . 153 
 
 . 127, 193 
 
 . 17 
 
 . 193 
 
 . 96 
 
 . . 62 
 
 . 186 
 
 . 139 
 
 . 22 
 
 ’ 125, 153 
 
 . 137 
 
 . 119 
 
 . 23 
 
 . 130 
 
 ! 105, 126 
 
 . 106 
 
 105, 106, 125 
 
 . 23 
 
 . 19 
 
 Arms, 
 
 „ Francis 
 Fiechus Sliebhtiensis 
 Fingal 
 
 Fingal, Earl of . 
 
 „ Lord . 
 
 Fingals 
 
 Finglas 
 
 „ Baron 
 „ Patrick . 
 
 Fin MacCoile 
 Finnagh 
 
 Finnen, Abbot . 
 Finnour, see Fennor. 
 Finnsecha Virgine 
 Fitzacory, or Fitzavery 
 Fitzadam, Thomas 
 Fitzgerald Arms 
 Colonel 
 Edward, Sir 
 Grifidn 
 Lady . 
 Raymond 
 Rebellion 
 Richard 
 Thomas 
 William 
 Fitzhenry, Meiler 
 
300 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 44 
 200 
 
 23 
 200 
 
 29 
 88 
 41 
 
 24 
 19 
 
 166 
 157 
 66 
 24, 66 
 32, 199 
 136, 137, 139 
 . 222 
 
 Forrestown, now Fosterstown . 132 
 Foster, William, Vicar of Trim 169 
 Fosterstown, now Wellington 60, 122 
 132, 174 
 
 Four, or Foure 22, 23, 57, 66, 89, 157, 
 164 
 
 „ Abbey of . . . .22 
 
 Fitzjohn, John . 
 Fitzleons, Joan . 
 
 „ John . 
 
 „ The . 
 
 FitzMaurice, Gerald 
 „ Thomas 
 FitzReicher, John 
 FitzRichard, Robert 
 Fitz Stephen 
 Fleming Le, John 
 Fleming, Gerald . 
 
 „ Mr. . 
 
 „ Thomas 
 
 Flemings 
 Foirtchern . 
 
 Ford, Nicholas 
 
 ,, Hermit of . 
 See of 
 Fowler, Mr. 
 
 Fox, Christopher 
 „ of Foxhall . 
 „ The 
 France 
 
 . 163 
 . 143 
 . 186 
 80, 91 
 80 
 37 
 
 19, 21, 22, 31, 39, 49, 62, 103, 
 212 
 
 „ Arms of . . . 49, 150 
 
 Franciscans, Drogheda . . 206 
 
 Franciscans, Trim . . . 149 
 
 Franhome, John, Prior . . 210 
 
 Freffans 194 
 
 Freflaiie 194 
 
 French, Metrical on Richard II., 
 see Michel. 
 
 Friars, Minor . 62, 72, 190, 203 
 
 Friars, Preachers 31, 32, 199, 200, 201 
 Fulpotstown, see Philpotstown. 
 Fumes .... 138, 139 
 
 Furnival, Lord . 54, 60, 61, 187, 188 
 Fynnore, Parish . . . .175 
 
 G 
 
 Gallestown . 
 Galloway 
 Gallows Hill 
 Galrathstown Manor 
 Galtrim 
 
 . 116, 132 
 
 . 20 
 . 134 
 . . 57 
 
 212, 213, 214 
 Hussey, Baron of 187, 200, 212 
 Nicholas . . .212 
 
 Page 
 
 Galtrim, WUliam, de . . . 209 
 
 Galway . . . . 74, 81 
 
 „ Mint .... 81 
 
 Garland of Uriel . . . 126 
 
 Garnet, Henry, Prior . . .211 
 
 Gary Rectory .... 216 
 
 Gaveston, Piers . . . .31 
 
 Geneville, or Joinvill arms 32, 199 
 „ Galfrido . . 27, 30 
 
 „ Geoffry, de 27, 28. 29, 30, 
 31, 32, 145, 194, 197, 199 
 „ Jane, Countess of Solmes 31 
 29, 31, 47, 200 
 31, 32, 200, 206 
 29, 30, 31 
 31, 32, 200 
 28, 31 
 31 
 
 „ Joan 
 ,, Nicholas 
 „ Peter de 
 „ Simon 
 „ Walter 
 „ William 
 Genevilles, The . 
 
 199, 200 
 
 Genevre, Peter de 
 
 26, 27 
 
 Geoffry (Dardyce) Abbot , 
 
 . 193 
 
 Geraldines .... 
 
 . 80 
 
 Gernon, Roger . 
 
 . 44 
 
 Gerrardstown 
 
 . 65 
 
 Gerrott .... 
 
 . 187 
 
 Gifford, John, Sir 
 
 . 122 
 
 Gilbert, Abbot . 
 
 . 182 
 
 Glamorganshire, Lacies of . 
 
 . 22 
 
 Glaslough, Leslie of . 
 
 . 134 
 
 Glendower, Owen 
 
 56, 68 
 
 Gloucester, Duke of . 
 
 . 55 
 
 „ Humphrey of 
 
 . 53 
 
 Golding, Leonard, Prior . 
 
 . 210 
 
 Goodwin, R. . . . 
 
 . 160 
 
 Gordan, see Castle Jordan 
 
 . 122 
 
 Gormanstown, Viscount, 97, 
 
 99, 111, 
 124 
 
 Grafergus, (Carrickfergus) 
 
 . 98 
 
 Granard, (Grenard) . 
 
 23, 62 
 
 Grange, The 
 
 . 129 
 
 „ The, of Trim . 
 
 174, 194 
 
 Granges, Grerogue 
 
 . 194 
 
 Gray Friary 
 
 . 203 
 
 Gray, or Grey, Elizabeth, Lady . 84 
 
 „ Henry, Lord . . 91, 92, 94 
 
 „ John, Lord 
 
 71, 72 
 
 „ Leonard . 
 
 107, 112 
 
 Greek Church, Trim . 
 
 . 141 
 
 „ Park .... 
 
 . 141 
 
 „ School 
 
 . 141 
 
 Green Castle 
 
 97, 127 
 
 Greenogue .... 
 
 64, 66 
 
 Gregg, John, Dean of Lismore 
 
 159, 160 
 
 Gregory XL . . . 
 
 . 148 
 
 Grenville, Galfrido . 
 
 . 27 
 
INDEX, 
 
 301 
 
 
 Page 
 
 
 Page 
 
 Grenville, Richard, Sir 
 
 . 123, 124 
 
 Heyln, Omalan , 
 
 
 13 
 
 Griffin, Alice 
 
 . 176 
 
 Heyliz, Oinaland 
 
 
 
 „ John 
 
 . 176 
 
 Hincheleder, (Inchleffer) . 
 
 
 23 
 
 Griffins’ Land 
 
 . 131 
 
 Holy Land .... 
 
 28. 32 
 
 Griffith, William 
 
 . 159 
 
 Holy Cross .... 
 
 
 191 
 
 Gros, Raymond le 
 
 15, 19 
 
 Holywode, Robert, Sir 
 
 
 46 
 
 Guidon Flag 
 
 . 103 
 
 Hopkins, John . 
 
 
 163 
 
 Guienne 
 
 . 78 
 
 Horestown, Newtown 
 
 
 116 
 
 Guild of St. Catherine 
 
 . 164 
 
 Horse cross field, or Hornescross 115, 
 
 
 
 
 120, 
 
 131 
 
 H 
 
 
 Horsenewtown . 
 
 
 116 
 
 
 
 Horsepark, or Sherryfield . 
 
 
 131 
 
 Haddesore, John 
 
 . 85 
 
 Hospitallers . . . 
 
 
 98 
 
 Hakebut, Edmond 
 
 . 41 
 
 Hostings, List of 
 
 
 246 
 
 Hakluyt, Leonard 
 
 ! . 48 
 
 Howth, Book of . 
 
 
 21 
 
 Hallomshire 
 
 61, 63 
 
 Monks of 
 
 
 21 
 
 Hamilton, James, Esq. 
 
 . 119 
 
 Howth, Prebendary of, W. Brugg 
 
 146 
 
 „ „ Rev. 
 
 . 60 
 
 Hugh, Cardinal . 
 
 
 148 
 
 Hamond, or Hammon, Catherine 118 
 
 Humelachlan, Murcard 
 
 
 13 
 
 „ John . 
 
 . 89 
 
 Humphrey of Gloucester . 
 
 
 53 
 
 „ Lawrence . 
 
 115, 116, 118 
 
 Huntsland .... 
 
 
 215 
 
 „ Robert 
 
 . 118 
 
 Husee, or Hussey, Baron 
 
 of 
 
 
 „ Moses . 
 
 . 118 
 
 Galtrim .... 
 
 187, 
 
 200 
 
 Hanesnewtown . 
 
 . 133 
 
 „ John . 40, 45, 187, 200 
 
 Harbert, see Herbert. 
 
 
 ,. Mathew 
 
 
 200 
 
 Harrington, John, Sir 
 
 . 117 
 
 „ Nicholas 
 
 212, 
 
 213 
 
 Harrick, Ralph . 
 
 . 161 
 
 „ Peter . 
 
 . 212 
 
 Harris, George . 
 
 . 163 
 
 „ Prior of St. John the 
 
 
 Harrison, Mr. 
 
 . 160 
 
 Baptist’s . 
 
 
 220 
 
 Harte, William , 
 
 . 193 
 
 ,, Richard 
 
 
 211 
 
 Hay, Matilda de . . 
 
 . 20 
 
 Husseys, The 
 
 32, 
 
 , 199 
 
 Hayne, Gideon . 
 
 . 161 
 
 „ „ Arms . 
 
 
 229 
 
 Henry II. . 
 
 . 13,16,74 
 
 
 
 
 „ „ Grant to H. De Lacy . 238 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 „ HI. . 
 
 24, 25, 27, 28 
 
 
 
 
 „ IV. 49, 51, 56, 57, 59, 68, 87, 
 
 larlath .... 
 
 
 140 
 
 
 137, 183 
 
 Idrone .... 
 
 
 23 
 
 „ V. [49, 55, 
 
 59, 62, 68, 63, 
 
 Idunan, Bishop of Meath . 
 
 
 143 
 
 
 70, 87, 210 
 
 Inche Town 
 
 
 223 
 
 „ VI. 22, 60, 71, 74, 79, 87, 92, 
 
 Inchleffer .... 
 
 
 23 
 
 94, 185, 189, 204 
 
 Inchequin, Lord 
 
 
 127 
 
 „ VII. . . . 
 
 49, 95, 211 
 
 Inge, Hugh, Bishop of Meath . 
 
 217 
 
 VIII. . 38, 67, 74, 106, 108, 112, 
 
 Inniscourcy in Down 
 
 
 139 
 
 114, 115, 154, 
 
 173, 204, 212, 
 
 Innocent, Pope, III. . 
 
 
 17 
 
 
 216 
 
 „ IV. . 
 
 
 148 
 
 „ of Lancaster . 
 
 . 53 
 
 Inolan, Phoghyrde 
 
 
 23 
 
 ,, Prior 
 
 . 210 
 
 Ireland, Admiral of Janico 
 
 
 Herbert, or Harbert, Nicholas 95, 211 
 
 Dartass . 
 
 
 57 
 
 Hereford, Adam de . 
 
 . 18 
 
 „ Duke of, Robt, de la Vere 
 
 49 
 
 „ John de 
 
 . 24 
 
 „ Lord Lieutenants, and 
 
 
 „ Thomas 
 
 . 18 
 
 Lord Justices, see 
 
 
 
 „ Shire 
 
 32, 67 
 
 Lord Lieutenant. 
 
 
 
 Hermit of Trim . 
 
 . 163 
 
 „ Marquis of . 
 
 
 146 
 
 Heron, Richard . 
 
 . 91 
 
 Irestown .... 
 
 165, 
 
 207 
 
 Heylan, Richard . 
 
 . 163 
 
 Isaakstown 
 
 . 
 
 34 
 
302 
 
 INDEX, 
 
 / 
 
 Page 
 
 Jack, a coin .... 80 
 
 James I. . 51, 108, 119, 158, 160 
 
 „ II 175 
 
 „ „ Burgesses . . .273 
 
 „ Friar . . . • 209 
 
 Jessamy The, Trim . . . 174 
 
 Jeypon, or Pheypo, Adam Baron 
 of Skryne . . . .23 
 
 Jocelin of Furness . . . 138 
 
 Johannes, Gehenna ... 24 
 
 John, Abbot . . . .182 
 
 Friar .... * 209 
 
 Itinerary .... 236 
 King 18, 19, 74, 145, 203, 219 
 King, at Trim . . 19,20 
 
 „ daughter . . 217, 219 
 
 , , his death ... 24 
 
 Prince, and Earl of Morton 145 
 Pope XXII. ... 35 
 
 Prior 221 
 
 John Son of Alured ... 22 
 
 Joinville, see Geneville. 
 
 Beatrice de . . 31 
 
 Geoffry de . . . 31 
 
 Jane .... 31 
 
 Jean de . . . 27 
 
 Joan , ... 31 
 
 Maud de . . .31 
 
 Simon ... 31 
 
 Jones, Colonel . . 125, 126, 127 
 
 „ Henry, Bishop of Meath . 126 
 „ Roger . . . 195, 201 
 
 „ Theophilus, Sir . . . 130 
 
 Jordan, Castle, see Castle and 
 
 Gordan 130 
 
 Jorse, Roland, Primate . 31, 35 
 
 Justice John .... 45 
 
 K 
 
 Keating, John . . . 166, 167 
 
 Kells Abbey .... 157 
 „ Archdeacon . . . 105 
 
 „ Barony . . .99, 102 
 
 „ Book 184 
 
 „ Borough, List of Members for 260 
 „ Co. of Kilkenny . . 41 
 
 „ Meath 33, 50, 53, 62, 66, 
 
 109, 144, 145, 185, 223 
 „ Saint John’s Hospital . 208 
 „ See of .... 143 
 „ Synod .... 143 
 Kempe, Henry .... 36 
 
 Page 
 . 96 
 
 30, 52, 66, 109 
 . 167 
 . 194 
 85, 208 
 . 103 
 . 19 
 
 , 66 
 . 57 
 
 . 177 
 185, 215 
 89, 184, 194, 195 
 Kildare, Bishop of (Rich. Lang) 46, 60 
 „ Castle . . . .106 
 
 „ County 24, 83, 91, 93, 94, 101, 
 103, 109 
 
 „ Earl of . 
 
 „ „ Gerald 
 
 Kempishall . 
 
 Kenlis (see Kells) 
 Kenmare, Lord . 
 Kennastown 
 Keppock 
 Kerry, Co. of 
 Kilbarrock, Lord of 
 Kilberry 
 
 Kilclogher parish 
 Kilcooley . 
 Kildalk, Cilldelga 
 Kildalkey 
 
 „ ., Thomas 
 
 Kilfare 
 Kilka . 
 
 Kilkenny City . 
 
 „ County of 
 
 „ Parliament at 
 
 „ Statute 
 
 West 
 
 62, 97, 148 
 92, 94, 95, 105, 
 125, 216 
 
 . 216 
 . 24 
 
 50, 53, 127 
 41, 67, 103, 148 
 44, 45, 46 
 150, 192 
 34, 66 
 
 Killain, or Killair, or Killar 15, 23 
 Killairie, or DunachKillar . . 23 
 
 Killallon ... 56, 66, 124 
 
 Killeen, Killain, or Killare 15, 23 
 „ Lord . . . Ill, 199 
 
 Killelan Castle .... 124 
 
 Killetra 108 
 
 Killnacrosse .... 114 
 Killochonegan .... 156 
 Killtombe . . . .215, 216 
 
 „ Chapel of Ease . . 156 
 
 Kilmaine, or Kilmainham . . 63 
 
 „ Lord of ... 63 
 
 „ Prior of, Thomas Burley 41 
 
 „ „ „ Butler 62 
 
 „ „ William Tany 46,48 
 
 Kilmore . . . . 23, 155 
 
 „ Bishop of, Robt. Draper 155 
 Killmorry . . . , .116 
 
 King’s County . . : 14, 16 
 
 „ Land, Newtown . . 131 
 
 „ Meadow .... 20 
 
 „ Park, Trim . . 131, 204 
 
 Kinsale, a surname ... 84 
 
 Knightsbrook .... 194 
 Knockmarke .... 222 
 Knock, The . . . 126, 200 
 
 Kylltombe see Kill and Kil. 
 
INDEX, 
 
 303 
 
 Page 
 
 Lactenio Sacerdote . . .1^9 
 
 Lacy, De . . . . 14, 21 
 
 „ Arms . . . . 229 
 
 „ Gilbert . . 18, 24, 26 
 
 „ Gualterns, see Walter 
 „ Hugh de 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 
 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 34, 
 35, 38, 47, 166, 210 
 „ Hugh, Charter of . . 230 
 
 „ John de - . . .36 
 
 „ Margery de, wife of John 
 
 Verdon .... 26 
 
 „ Matilda, or Maud 21, 26, 27, 29, 30 
 „ Robert . . . 18, 29 
 
 „ Walter 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25, 
 26, 27, 28, 29, 34, 108, 177 
 „ William De ... 25 
 
 Lacies 21, 22, 24, 32, 33, 34, 60, 62, 
 118, 182 
 
 Ladyrath .... 173, 194 
 Laghelachen, Castle of . .23 
 
 Laghera Tibbet .... 38 
 
 Laghlen, or Blackcastle . . 23 
 
 Lancaster, date .... 18 
 
 „ Duke of . 53, 54, 55 
 
 „ House of . . .80 
 
 Lancashire 139 
 
 Lang, Rich., Bishop of Kildare 46, 60 
 Lanigan, Dr., Account of . .138 
 
 Laoghaire ; .... 181 
 
 Laracor . . 157, 161, 174, 175 
 
 Laurence, Robert . . . 193 
 
 Leech, John, Archbp. of Dublin 35 
 Legh, Thomas ... 23, 25 
 
 Leicester, Earl of . . .13 
 
 Leighlin 24 
 
 Leinster 
 
 .47, 52, 84, 97, 187 
 
 „ Barons of . . .18 
 
 Leitrim 118 
 
 Leix 23, 31 
 
 Leixlip Castle .... 97 
 
 Leogaire, King .... 140 
 Lepers, House of . . . 204 
 
 Leslie, Colonel of Glaslough . 134 
 Les-Luigduch .... 185 
 Lester Corran, see Laracor 
 L’Estrange, Thomas ... 13 
 
 Lethercor, see Laracor. 
 
 Leynagh, Francis, Prior . . 201 
 
 Leyns of the Knock, see Lynch 105, 
 126, 200 
 
 Leyton, or Leghton 115, 120, 122, 131 
 „ John de, Abbot . . 183 
 
 Liffey, River . . . .127 
 
 Page 
 
 Lightburnes . . . .118 
 
 „ Stafford . . 174, 205 
 
 Limerick City . . 18, 81, 91 
 
 „ County .... 103 
 Lincolnshire .... 58 
 
 Lionel, Duke of Clarence . 47, 65 
 
 Liscarton, or Lescarton . . 57 
 
 Lismore, Dean of, John Gregg 160 
 Lismullen . . . 174, 216, 217 
 
 Listel, The 187 
 
 Llangeneth Priory . . .22 
 
 Llanthony, Abbey of . . .177 
 
 Lloyd (Lyde), Hill of . . .102 
 
 Loftus, Adam, Sir 121, 122, 130, 133 
 Loigure .... 136, 140 
 
 Lokseudy, or Loxeudy 23, 27, 34, 38; 
 
 40, 62, 66, 105 
 
 Loman, see Luman. 
 
 London .... 78, 158 
 
 „ Maurice de . . .18 
 
 „ William de . . .166 
 
 Londonderry .... 108 
 Londreston, see Loundreston. 
 
 Longe Dominic . . . .193 
 
 Longford, Aungier, Lord . . 205 
 
 „ County . j 14, 80 
 Longwood 222 
 
 Lord Lieutenants and Lords Justices : 
 
 
 Birmingham, James 
 
 
 
 „ Walter 
 
 ’. 41 
 
 
 Brereton, William, Sir 
 
 . 71 
 
 11 
 
 Clarence, George, Duke of 
 
 89, 91 
 
 11 
 
 D’Arcy, John . , 
 
 36, 145 
 
 
 Desmond, Earl of . 
 
 . 80 
 
 11 
 
 Dub., Arbp., Alex. Bignor 35 
 
 11 
 
 Essex, Earl of . 
 
 . 118 
 
 
 Fitzmaurice, Thomas 
 
 . 88 
 
 
 Gavestone, Piers 
 
 . 31 
 
 
 Genevile, Geoffrey de 
 
 . • 28 
 
 
 „ Walter de 
 
 . 28 
 
 91 
 
 Gormanstown, Lord 
 
 . 97 
 
 11 
 
 Grey, John, Sir 
 
 . 71 
 
 11 
 
 „ Lord Henry . 
 
 . 91 
 
 
 „ Lord Leonard . 
 
 . 107 
 
 99 
 
 Kildare, Earl of 
 
 Lacy, Hugh De 
 
 89, 105 
 
 
 . 19 
 
 11 
 
 Marisco, Geoffrey de 
 
 25 
 
 
 March, Edmd., Earl of 
 
 48, 66, 
 67, 68 
 
 99 
 
 „ Roger, Earl of 
 
 48, 52 
 
 
 Moriz, John 
 
 . 39 
 
 91 
 
 Mortimer, Thomas, Sir 
 
 . 48 
 
 
 Pippard, Peter . 
 
 . 17 
 
 11 
 
 Scrope, Stephen, Sir 
 
 . 58 
 
304 
 
 INDEX, 
 
 Page 
 
 Lord Lieutenants and Lords Justices : 
 „ Shrewsbury, Earl of 61, 74 
 „ Skeffington, Sir William 105, 213 
 „ Stanley, John, Sir . . 56 
 
 „ Talbot, Archbp. of Dub. 67 
 
 Valoniis, Hamo de 
 Windsore, William . 
 York, Richd. Duke of 
 
 18 
 42 
 75, 77, 
 149 
 32, 175 
 52, 89 
 . 52 
 
 220 
 
 Loundres, or Londres, the 
 „ Edmond, Sir 
 
 „ John, Sir . 
 
 Loundreston .... 
 Louth, Baron of (Birmingham) 36 
 „ County of 57, 73, 85, 86, 
 93, 150 
 
 Luctanus Episcopo . . . 139 
 
 Ludlow Castle ... 27, 67 
 
 „ Maud de Lacy, Lady of 27 
 Lughteburg’s Extent of Meath . 66 
 
 Luman, Bishop, 70, 135, 136, 137, 138 
 139, 140 
 
 Lune, barony of . 
 Lurecho 
 Luske, date 
 
 „ Prior of . 
 Luttrell, Thomas 
 Lynch, Germyn 
 „ ’s Knock . 
 Walter, 
 
 186 
 139 
 184 
 . 221 
 . 213 
 80, 81, 91 
 . 126 
 116, 119 
 
 Page 
 
 Macmore’s Country ... 53 
 
 M‘Morrogh, or Makmorgytt 40, 51 
 „ Art .... 54 
 
 „ Dyermed ... 54 
 
 „ King of Leinster . 52 
 
 M‘Quenier (MacMurrogh) . . 52 
 
 MacThomas, John ... 84 
 
 M‘Walront 187 
 
 M‘William 97 
 
 MacYoris, or Birmingham . 41 
 
 Maeleoin 182 
 
 Maelsechlan . . , .14 
 
 Magathtreth .... 221 
 Malachias or Maelsechan . . 14 
 
 Malachy, Bishop of Down . . 139 
 
 Malahide . . . . 130, 140 
 
 Malchos, Bishop of Waterford . 143 
 Malecken, Thomas . . . 175 
 
 Malone, W 163 
 
 Malpas, or Mapes, ... 35 
 
 Malverne . . . . . 208 
 
 Maoilean, Bishop of Trim . . 142 
 
 Mapesrath 35 
 
 March— a herald ... 67 
 
 „ Countess of, Anne 73, 150 
 „ „ Philippa 47, 146 
 
 „ Earls of 48, 49, 52, 53, 55, 56, 
 58, 59, 67, 98, 146, 151, 190 
 „ Earl of, Edmond 41, 46, 48, 56, 
 ■ 67, 69, 89, 146, 150, 184 
 
 Lyndon, Adam . 
 
 
 
 168 
 
 „ „ Richard 
 
 . 72 
 
 Lyons 
 
 
 
 63 
 
 March, Earl of, Roger 
 
 37, 40, 41, 47, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 60, 52, 67, 89 
 
 M 
 
 
 
 
 Mare, Adam de la 
 
 45 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mareshoke, see Moth-Mareshoke. 
 
 M. Abbot . 
 
 
 
 13 
 
 Margalyn 
 
 . 43 
 
 Mabestown . 
 
 
 
 203 
 
 Margaret, Queen 
 
 . 75 
 
 M‘Adam, Henry . 
 
 
 
 62 
 
 Marisco, Geoffry 
 
 . 25 
 
 M‘Cairthen . 
 
 
 
 186 
 
 Markham, Griffin, Sir 
 
 . 117, 118 
 
 MacCoghlan 
 
 
 
 37 
 
 Marshallstown . 
 
 . 34 
 
 MacColman, Coirpe . 
 
 
 
 182 
 
 Martin, Prior 
 
 . 2o8 
 
 MacDonnagh 
 
 
 
 168 
 
 Martry 
 
 34, 38 
 
 MacFalrene, or Wellesley 
 
 
 
 187 
 
 Martynell, Patrick 
 
 . 119 
 
 M‘Gaul 
 
 
 
 13 
 
 ,. Robert 
 
 . 116, 119 
 
 MacGeogan, Roe 
 
 
 
 77 
 
 Mary, see St. Mary. 
 
 
 ^rGeoghegan, The 
 
 
 
 37 
 
 „ Queen 
 
 . 115, 216 
 
 M‘Gogan, Meiler . 
 
 
 
 37 
 
 Mathreen (Moyare) . 
 
 . 189 
 
 M‘Guire 
 
 
 110, 111 
 
 Maudlin’s Field, Trim 
 
 115, 120, 131 
 
 M‘Jerlagh, Gedy 
 
 
 
 47 
 
 „ The, Trim . 
 
 . 204 
 
 MacLacha, 
 
 
 
 186 
 
 Maule, Henry, Bishop of Meath 169 
 
 Mac Loughlin, D., 
 
 
 
 205 
 
 Maundevile, Johannes de . .57 
 
 M ‘Mahon 
 
 
 85 
 
 86 
 
 Maundevilestown 
 
 . 57 
 
 Macmec, Feorais 
 
 
 
 73 
 
 Maunxell, Rice, Sir . 
 
 : . 107 
 
 MacMoelan 
 
 
 
 186 
 
 Maurice, Prior . 
 
 . 203 
 
 MacMolissa, Nicholas 
 
 
 
 197 
 
 Meath, see Midia. 
 
 
IKDEX, 
 
 305 
 
 Page 
 
 Meath, Archdeacon . , 17, 148 
 
 „ Barons of ... 18 
 
 „ Bishops of 44, 46, 51, 70, 90, 
 95, 116, 137, 145, 151, 155, 
 165, 185, 209, 220, 221 
 .. Bishop of, Alex. Balscot 210 
 
 „ „ Alex. Petit . 183 
 
 „ Edmond Ouldhall . . 192 
 
 „ Edward Dantsey . 67, 71 
 
 „ George Montgomery 158, 159 
 
 „ Henry Jones . , . 126 
 
 „ Henry Maule, . . .169 
 
 „ Hugh Brady . . . 155 
 
 „ Hugh Inge . . .217 
 
 „ Hugh de Tachman . . 145 
 
 „ Idunan .... 143 
 
 „ James Usher . . . 159 
 
 „ John Evans . . . 151 
 
 „ John Payne . . . 151 
 
 „ Nathaniel Alexander . 151 
 
 „ Eichard de la Cornere . 208 
 
 „ Eichard Pococke . . 159 
 
 „ Simon de Eochfort, or 
 
 Eupeforle 17, 207, 219 
 
 „ Stephen de Valle . . 46 
 
 „ Ths. L. O’Beirne 157, 159, 169 
 „ Thomas Scarlock . .211 
 
 „ William Andeed . . 183 
 
 „ William Hudson . . 72 
 
 „ Wm. Sherwood . 211, 219 
 
 „ William .... 186 
 
 „ Castles . . , .15 
 
 „ Cathedral . . .217 
 
 „ Commission . . 266, 268 
 
 „ County, or Province, 12, 13, 14, 
 
 15, 16, 17, 20, 23, 25, 
 26, 29, 30, 44, 45, 82, 
 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 91, 
 93, 97, 99, 103, 104, 
 139, 144, 199, 201 
 Diocese . 14, 151, 155, 169 
 
 Diocesan School . . 60 
 
 Divided . . . .114 
 
 Franchise Commission . 266 
 Gentry . . .199, 240 
 
 Grand Jury . . .250 
 
 Grant of . 
 Kings of . 
 Lady of . 
 Liberty 
 
 Lord of . 
 Lordship of 
 Measure . 
 Members for 
 
 230 
 13, 52 
 . 26 
 29, 43, 45, 48, 50, 
 56, 76, 90, 91, 94 
 28, 38 
 . 21, 30, 75, 199 
 43 
 255 
 
 Page 
 . 77 
 
 . 26, 32, 38 
 14 
 48 
 
 Meath, Nobles . 
 
 „ Palatinate 
 „ Saint of . 
 
 „ Seal for . 
 
 „ Towns in. List of 
 Media Oriental!, see Midia 
 Meiler Tachmaho 
 Mendicant Friars 
 Mentz, Boniface, Archbishop of 141 
 Michel, F. . . . . 225, 231 
 
 Midensis, see Meath. 
 
 Middx, for Miden Meath . 
 
 Milford Haven . 
 
 Mindens, for Midensis Dioc. 
 
 Minorites .... 
 
 Missett, Eobert . 
 
 Mody, Eobert . 
 
 Moher 
 
 Moilagagh, see Moylagagh . 
 
 Molinga, see Mullingar. 
 Molybondrishe . 
 
 Monaghan, County of 
 Monmouth, Eosa de . 
 
 Montacute, Philippa, Countess 
 March 
 
 Monte Fernando . 
 
 Monte Marisco, Hervey de 
 Montford, Sir John de 
 Montgomery, George, Bishop of 
 
 Meath 158 
 
 Moore, Gerald, Sir . . .177 
 
 Moore, Viscount . . . .124 
 
 Mor, Queen 186 
 
 Moriz, Jn 39 
 
 Morrin, Jas. .... 274 
 Morgan, Peter . . . .182 
 
 Mornington, Lord ... 61 
 
 Morrough’s country ... 23 
 
 Mortimer, or Mortuomari 33, 34, 36, 
 
 66 
 
 38 
 53 
 206 
 149 
 86, 88 
 208 
 223 
 66 
 
 116 
 
 158 
 
 17 
 
 47 
 
 203 
 
 19 
 
 30 
 
 Anne . 
 
 Arms . 
 
 Castle 
 Edmond 
 Great, the 
 Henricus 
 John, Sir . 
 Joan, Lady de 
 Peter, Sir 
 
 40, 60 
 . 69 
 
 . 150 
 . 47 
 
 47, 48, 55, 69 
 . 41 
 
 . 39 
 
 . 30 
 
 31, 38, 39 
 199 
 
 Eoger 21, 29, 30, 31, 34, J 
 37, 38, 39, 40, 47, 48, 49, 
 56, 65, 199 
 
 Mortimer, Valentine . . 39 
 
 „ Thomas, Sir . . 48 
 
 Morton, Earl of (King John) . 145 
 
306 
 
 INDEX, 
 
 / 
 
 Page 
 
 Mortuomari, see Mortimer. 
 
 Morye, John .... 204 
 Moth Marishoke, or Moh Marishoke 120 
 131 
 
 Mouncelewe, Belinus de . .40 
 
 Mount] oy, Lord . . . .119 
 
 Moyare, see Moygare . . 120 
 
 Moyclare . . . . 105, 126 
 
 Moyer 132 
 
 Moyfenrath 98 
 
 Moygare . . 115, 120, 130, 133 
 
 Moyhangaye .... 222 
 Moylagh .... 86, 146 
 
 Moylough 186 
 
 Moymordree .... 291 
 Moymett, or Moymeere 119, 161, 174 
 
 Moynalvey 217 
 
 Moynagh 133 
 
 Moyvally 216 
 
 Muchfield, see Mychefield . 120, 131 
 
 Mullingar 13, 14, 37, 66, 73, 77, 117, 
 164, 196 
 
 „ Petit, Baron of . .37 
 
 „ Tokens ... 14 
 
 Mulso, Edmond, Sir . . . 76 
 
 Multifarnham . . . 203, 206 
 
 Munemene, Rosa de . . .16 
 
 Munster . . . 46, 47, 65, 1 87 
 
 Murray, Mr. R 196 
 
 Mychefield 115 
 
 Page 
 
 Newman, John . . . .183 
 
 Newry 127 
 
 Newtown (near Trim) 174,195,221,222 
 New'town, Canons Regular op 207 
 Newtown Clonbun . . .173 
 
 Newtown Moynaghe . . . 133 
 
 Newtown, St. John Baptist’s 
 Priory . . . 194, 237, 242 
 
 Newtown, St.Peter and St. Paul’s 
 
 Priory, 100, 113, 168, 191, 193, 231, 
 
 Newtown, St. Peter’s Bridge 
 
 232 
 
 . 195 
 
 Niall 
 
 . 181 
 
 Nialls, Royal House of 
 
 . 141 
 
 Nicholson, Archbishop 
 
 34, 168 
 
 Nigra, Therma . 
 
 . 153 
 
 Nobber .... 
 
 . 66 
 
 Nonnaud, Rich. . 
 
 . 208 
 
 Norden, John 
 
 . 13 
 
 Normandy . . .22, 62 
 
 1, 63, 78 
 
 Northampton, John . 
 
 . 45 
 
 Norwich, Dean of, George Mont- 
 
 gomery .... 
 
 . 158 
 
 Nottingham Castle . 
 
 . 38 
 
 Novanne, see Navan 
 
 Nugent, Gilbert . 
 
 15, 23 
 
 „ Richard 
 
 . 65 
 
 „ William, Sir . 
 
 . 52 
 
 ,. William, Rector . 
 
 . 155 
 
 „ William Oge 
 
 85, 188 
 
 N 
 
 0 
 
 N 209 
 
 Naas . . 42, 83, 93, 117, 125, 189 
 
 „ Baron of, William . . 18 
 
 Nangle (De Angul.) . . . 208 
 
 „ Gilbert de . . . 17 
 
 „ Joceliiie de . . .17 
 
 „ Richard . • . . 95 
 
 Narach, or Naraghmore . . 24 
 
 Narrow Water . . . 127 
 
 Navan, or Novane 50, 64, 66, 109, 118, 
 123, 174, 216, 203 
 „ Abbot of . . . .95 
 
 „ Borough Members . . 263 
 
 „ Image at . . . . 192 
 
 „ Gate, or Rogues’ Castle 133, 141 
 „ St. Mary s Abbey at • 216 
 Navarre Coin .... 78 
 
 Newcastle 62 
 
 „ Manor ... 57 
 
 „ M‘Kynaghan . . 40 
 
 New-Grange .... 96 
 
 New-Haggard . . . 157, 195 
 
 O’Beirne, T. S. Bishop of Meath 157, 
 159, 169 
 
 O’Bowy, or Ahoy Castle . . 24 
 
 O’Brian, O’Brine, or O’Brynne 31, 37, 
 40, 46, 52, 96 
 O’Brislan ..... 110 
 Observantine Friars . . 163, 204 
 
 O'Ceanelbain, Oengus . . 186 
 
 O’Cionnaedh, Eochy . . . 182 
 
 O’Connor, or O’Conghur 14, 64, 65, 70, 
 71, 87, 109, 111, 114, 122, 123 
 „ Calvary . 70, 73, 88 
 
 „ Dermod . . . 168 
 
 „ King of Connaught 15, 52 
 „ Ofaley, or Ophaley 46, 70, 73, 
 84, 188 
 
 „ Roderick ... 15 
 
 „ Teigue . . 85, 117 
 
 „ Thomas . . . 150 
 
 O’Donovan, Dr 184 
 
 O’Donnell, Aod .... 168 
 „ Cornelius Prior, . 201 
 
INDEX. 
 
 307 
 
 Page 
 
 O’Dummaig, Gilla Griguir . 186 
 O’Fallon, Bishop of Deny . 151,190 
 
 O’Ferrwyl 37 
 
 Offaley, or Ophaley 41, 71, 73, 84, 108 
 O’Heney, Matthew, Archbishop 
 of Cashel .... 16 
 
 O’Kevenagh, Gerald . . .71 
 
 O’ IQonaedhe, Flan, Poet of Meath 182 
 Oldcourt, County of Westmeath 47 
 O’Lochlin, Conor . 12, 144, 182 
 
 „ Fearghal . . . 182 
 
 O’Maddan 37 
 
 O’Malaghlin . .14, 37, 84, 144 
 
 O’Maoleachlann, Conchobar 13,182,185 
 „ or Maelsechlainn 14 
 
 O’Murchu, or Murrogh .' . 23 
 
 Omore, in Athe .... 109 
 O’Morth, Laurence . . . 147 
 
 O’Mulloy 37 
 
 O’Neill (or Anele.) Con . . 97 
 
 „ ’s Country . . . 117 
 
 „ Daniel .... 97 
 
 O’Neill, King of Meath . . 52 
 
 „ Owen . . . .124 
 
 „ Shane .... 117 
 
 O’Nowlan’s County ... 53 
 
 Ophaly, see Offali. 
 
 Ordnance Survey . . . 222 
 
 O’Keilly, O’Keyle, O’Reeli, O’Raly 
 
 . 63, 64, 86, 99, 109, 117 
 
 „ of Beltrasna . . 176 
 
 „ Felim . . . 187, 188 
 
 „ John .... 187 
 
 „ Philip . . . .187 
 
 O’Reilly’s Money . 74, 75, 111 
 
 Orme, Roger .... 118 
 Ormonde, Arms .... 150 
 „ Earl of 26, 37, 50, 52, 54, 67, 
 
 73, 96, 97, 148 
 
 „ Family 
 
 „ Lady , 
 
 Marquis of 
 
 Osfelan 
 Ossan . 
 Ossanus 
 Ossory 
 
 76 
 . 162 
 125, 127, 129 
 . 41 
 
 . 141 
 . 139 
 23 
 
 Archdeacon, John Cantwell 72 
 Bishops of . . . 210 
 
 O’Tooles, or Otothelles . 63, 64 
 
 O’Tudyr, Lodwyche 
 O’Uchtain, Maelmuire 
 Ouldhall, Edmond, Bishop of 
 
 Meath 
 
 Our Lady’s Abbey 
 
 Oxford 
 
 128, 161 
 
 Page 
 
 Oxford, Drogheda Hall . . 147 
 
 P 
 
 Packfield .... 
 
 . 115 
 
 Pain, see Payne, B. of Meath . 151 
 
 Pakenham, Honorable Henry . 151 
 
 Pakkere, John de 
 
 . 221 
 
 Palatio, Octavianus, Archbishop 
 
 of Armagh 
 
 . 163 
 
 Palladius . • , . 
 
 . 135 
 
 Parese of Agher 
 
 . 105 
 
 Parkfield .... 
 
 120, 131 
 
 Park gate. Trim . 
 
 131, 141 
 
 Parktown . . 115, 120 
 
 , 122, 131 
 
 Patrick, coins 
 
 79, 80 
 
 Paulett, or Pawlet, Mr. 
 
 112, 152 
 
 Pavia .... 
 
 . 138 
 
 Payne, Adam 
 
 . 37 
 
 Paynestown 
 
 . 105 
 
 Peppard, or Pippard, Peter 
 
 . 17 
 
 „ Roger . 
 
 . 25 
 
 „ Walter 
 
 . 119 
 
 „ William 
 
 . 25 
 
 Pepys, R 
 
 . 160 
 
 Percivals .... 
 
 . 118 
 
 Percy, Charles, Sir 
 
 . 118 
 
 Peter, Adam le . 
 
 . 208 
 
 „ Richard . 
 
 . 147 
 
 Petit, Alexander, Bishop 
 
 of 
 
 Meath .... 
 
 . 183 
 
 „ Ralph .... 
 
 23, 29 
 
 „ Sinolda 
 
 . 37 
 
 „ William 
 
 18, 37 
 
 Petrie, Dr 
 
 . 96 
 
 Phepoe, see Feypo 
 
 
 Philip, Abbot . . , . 
 
 .’ 182 
 
 „ and Mary 
 
 115, 216 
 
 Philippa, Countess of March 
 
 47, 67 
 
 Philipstown 
 
 119, 123 
 
 Phillemen’s, or Phelim’s Land, or 
 
 Phillistown . . 115, 
 
 120, 130 
 
 Phogyrde Inolan 
 
 . 23 
 
 Phydred (Fethard) 
 
 . 103 
 
 Piercewall, John 
 
 . 174 
 
 Pippard, see Peppard. 
 
 
 Platten, Darcy, of 
 
 95, 98 
 
 Plunkett . . ; . 
 
 111, 203 
 
 „ Alexander . 
 
 . 94 
 
 „ Christopher 80, 85, 
 
 188, 222 
 
 „ Lord Killeen 
 
 111, 176 
 
 „ Oliver . 
 
 . 94 
 
 „ Richard 
 
 . 206 
 
 „ Thomas 
 
 85, 222 
 
308 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 
 Pococke, Richard, Bishop of 
 
 Meath 159 
 
 Poer, Eustace le . . 28, 41 
 
 Ponte Ferrardi, .... 203 
 Porces, Hugo de . . 194, 214 
 
 Porchfield, Trim . 76, 134, 194 
 
 Porter, Edmond . . 185, 186 
 
 Portlester, or Portleicester 56, 125, 
 128 
 
 Power, Philip .... 58 
 
 Poyning’s Parliament . 95, 97 
 
 Prendergast, Philip de . . 18 
 
 „ Thomas . . 183 
 
 Prene, John, Dean of St. Patrick’s 148 
 Preston, Christopher, Sir . 52, 62, 63 
 „ General . 124, 125, 126 
 
 Prestons 199 
 
 Preston’s fields .... 125 
 Prosper Aquitanus . . . 135 
 
 Proudfote, Richard . . . 222 
 
 Prout, John .... 45 
 
 Provence . . : . . 17 
 
 Prowd, George . . . 165, 167 
 
 Pykeryn, Chief Justice . 44, 45 
 
 R 
 
 Raphoe, Bishop of, George Mont- 
 gomery 158 
 
 Rathaidme . 
 Rathangan 
 Rathcarran 
 Rathconnell 
 Rathcore 
 
 139 
 109 
 150 
 124 
 34, 154, 156 
 
 Rathenny, De Courcy, Lord of . 19 
 
 Rathfarnham, or Rathfernam 121, 130 
 Rathfaygl, Henry de . . .175 
 
 Rathfeige . 
 
 Rathfield 
 Rathkenny . 
 Rathlawe, Elias 
 „ Hugh 
 
 „ Roger 
 
 Rathmines . 
 Rathmolyon 
 Rathmore 
 Rathnally 
 Rathossain 
 Rathregan 
 Rathtayne 
 Rathwire 
 Rathyn 
 Ratoath 
 
 „ Borough 
 Ravensburg 
 
 34 
 
 115, 120, 131 
 . . 194 
 
 . 147 
 . . 147 
 
 . 147 
 . 127 
 61, 160, 186, 209 
 111 222 
 174, 183, 194, 215’, 216 
 . 139 
 . 210 
 46, 64 
 29, 34, 66, 89 
 . 114 
 61, 64, 66, 89 
 . 264 
 . 55 
 
 Raymond, Anthony, Dr. . 
 
 Page 
 . 168 
 
 Reading .... 
 
 . 128 
 
 Redestown .... 
 
 . 86 
 
 Redshanks and Scots . 
 
 . 28 
 
 Regular Canons . 
 
 . 223 
 
 Reigne, John . . .47,48,49 
 
 Reymond .... 
 
 - 23 
 
 Rejmoids .... 
 
 105, 130 
 
 Ricepor (Phepoe), Adam . 
 
 „ or Phepoe 
 
 .* 15 
 
 Richard, , M.P., for Louth 44 
 
 „ II., 48, 49, 51, 53, 54, 56, 57, 
 
 58. 59, 65, 69 
 
 , 87, 175 
 
 „ in Ireland 
 
 . 49 
 
 „ III. 
 
 17, 49 
 
 „ Duke of York 74, 89, 149 
 
 Prior 
 
 . 208 
 
 Richardson, Richard . 
 
 . 57 
 
 Richardstown . 86, 89, 
 
 194, 222 
 
 Ridensford, Walter of 
 Ringerstown, or Ringlestown 
 
 . 23 
 
 . 194 
 
 Riverston .... 
 
 . 215 
 
 Robert, Friar 
 
 . 209 
 
 Roch, Alexander, Abbot . 
 
 . 186 
 
 Rochconnel (Rathconnel) . 
 
 . 124 
 
 Rocheston .... 
 
 . 194 
 
 Rochford, Robert 
 
 . 90 
 
 „ Roger, 
 
 86, 90 
 
 „ Simon de. Bishop 
 
 of 
 
 Meath .... 
 
 . 210 
 
 Rock, the .... 
 
 . 129 
 
 Rodipac, Richard 
 
 . 208 
 
 Rogue’s Castle . 
 
 . 133 
 
 Rokingham — date 
 
 . 18' 
 
 Rome 
 
 149, 211 
 
 Roriestown .... 
 
 116, 132 
 
 Rood Guild of St. Catherine 
 
 164, 165 
 
 Roscommon, Countess of . 
 
 . 174 
 
 „ Earl of . 
 
 124, 174 
 
 Roslaye .... 
 
 . 204 
 
 Ross 
 
 . 64 
 
 Rotheram, Mr. . 
 
 . 176 
 
 Rothestown . . , 
 
 . 86 
 
 Rouen, siege of j 
 
 . 63 
 
 Rowan, Rev. A. . 
 
 . 33 
 
 Rowe, Nicholas . 
 
 . 57 
 
 ,, Peter, 
 
 . 57 
 
 Rowheton .... 
 
 . 194 
 
 Ruamain .... 
 
 142, 181 
 
 Ruighelstown (Ringlestown) 
 
 . 194 
 
 Rumond .... 
 
 . 141 
 
 Runehy, Nicholas 
 
 . 148 
 
 Rupeforti (Rochfort), Simon 
 
 . 210 
 
 Ruxton, Mr. 
 
 . 61 
 
 Ryves, Dr 
 
 . 135 
 
INDEX. 
 
 309 
 
 Page 
 
 St. Augustine . . . .135 
 
 St. Bonaventure . . . 203 
 
 St. Botolph’s Port, Boston . 58 
 
 St. Catherine’s Rood . . . 164 
 
 St. Cormac . . . 140, 181 
 
 St. David 103 
 
 St. Fechin’s, at Foure . . 22 
 
 St. Forchern . . 138, 139, 181 
 
 St. Francis’ Monastery, Grey 
 
 Friars, 204 
 
 St. George 103 
 
 St. Hierome . . • .135 
 
 St. James', Athboy . . . 165 
 
 St. John Baptist’s Hospital, Kells 208 
 „ Priory, Newtown . .176 
 
 St. John Baptist’s Pkioey, 
 Newtown, .... 220 
 St. John’s, statue of . . . 205 
 
 St. Kienan’s, Duleek . . .177 
 
 St. Laurence, Chantry . 164, 207 
 
 St. Leger, Anthony, Sir 114, 194, 204 
 „ Mr. . .112, 152, 154 
 
 „ William . . .194 
 
 St. Loman, or St. Luman 135, 139, 140 
 
 St, Louis 27 
 
 St. Maria in Porticu . . . 148 
 
 St. Maria Sigillus . . .13 
 
 „ Durrow . . . 196 
 
 St. Mary’s Abbey, Drogheda . 128 
 „ Dublin 35, 122, 132 
 
 „ Navan . . 216 
 
 „ Trim 71, 76, 173, 
 
 183, 191, 195 
 St. Mary’s, Chantry . . .165 
 
 Image 183, 186, 189, 191, 
 192, 210, 211 
 
 St. Mary’s Abbey . . . 181 
 
 St. Mary, Maudlin, Trim, . 156, 204 
 St. IVIichael’s, of Rathcore . . 156 
 
 St. Patrick 70, 71, 135, 136, 137, 138, 
 139, 140, 147, 207 
 „ Chantry, Trim . 207 
 
 St. Patrick’s Church, Trim, . 135 
 St. Patrick’s, Dublin 56, 161, 168 
 St. Peter & St. Paul’s Priory 191 
 St. Peter and St. Paul’s Priory, 
 Newtown 147, 173, 174, 208, 210, 212, 
 215 
 
 St. Peter’s Bridge, Newtown 195, 223 
 
 „ Laracor . . . 157 
 
 „ Well . . . .219 
 
 St. Ruadans .... 95 
 
 St. Ruanus Monasterio . .96 
 
 St. Taurin Abbey, at Evreux 21, 22 
 
 Page 
 
 St. Thomas’ Abbey, Dublin 17, 157, 
 174, 175, 208, 210, 228 
 
 St. Victor, Canons Regular . 207 
 Salisbury, Earl of . . .110 
 
 „ Captain . . . 106 
 
 Saltu Salmonis .... 25 
 
 Saltzburgh, Bishop of . . 141 
 
 Samforde (Sanford), Archbishop 
 of Dublin .... 29 
 
 Sankey, Colonel Hierom . . 161 
 
 Sarano 139 
 
 Saxe, Marshal .... 188 
 
 Scaat Yoris, or Birmingham’s 
 
 Thorn 41 
 
 Scallon, Richard . : . 175 
 
 Scothnoesa .... 136 
 
 Scotland . . . . 28, 34 
 
 Scotos, in Christum credentes . 135 
 Scots and Redshanks ... 28 
 
 Serine, see Skryne. 
 
 Scrope, Stephen, Sir . . . 58 
 
 Scurlock, Scurlogh, or Scorlagge. 
 
 „ of Scurloekstown 175, 216 
 
 „ Thomas . .i 210, 211 
 
 „ William . .175, 211 
 
 Scurlockstown . 129, 163, 215 
 
 „ Excommunication 281 
 SCURLOGSTOWN .... 175 
 
 Sechlan, Church of . . .64 
 
 Sechnal (a Meath Saint) . . 14 
 
 Seneschal, William ... 37 
 
 Seneschalstown .... 146 
 
 Senistown 132 
 
 Shaldeford, Richard ... 50 
 
 Shanloth 194 
 
 Shannon 14 
 
 Sharpe, or Sharpp, Alexander 163, 175 
 Shaughlin, or Sechlan . . 14 
 
 Shean, Sir James . . .130 
 
 Sheffyl, or Shefelde, Jacobus . 154 
 Sherbourne, Lord . . 161, 176 
 
 Sherifield, or Horsepark . 120, 131 
 Sherle Arms .... 173 
 Shirlokestown, see Scurlock 
 Shirwood, William, Bishop of 
 Meath . ... 219 
 
 Shore House .... 205 
 Shrewsbury, Earl of . . 61, 74 
 
 Shrewsbury, Richard of . .94 
 
 Shropshire 67 
 
 Sidegrave, Richard . . 70, 150 
 
 Sidney, Henry, Sir . 155, 173, 174 
 
 Simnel, Lambert . 95, 190, 211 
 
 Simon : Prior .... 208 
 Sixtus IV 151 
 
310 
 
 INDEX, 
 
 Page 
 
 Skeffington, Leonard ~ . . 107 
 
 „ William, Sir 105, 106, 213 
 Skryne, or Serine 41, 50, 64, 66, 125, 144 
 „ Augustinian Friary 201, 220 
 
 Slane 
 
 Barons of 
 See of . 
 a surname 
 
 Barons of 
 
 23 
 . 143 
 . 84 
 
 43, 64, 66, 166 
 
 „ Barony 
 
 
 . 124 
 
 Tamelyn, or Timolin . 
 
 
 42 
 
 „ See of 
 
 
 . 143, 144 
 
 Tankard, Edmond 
 
 
 91 
 
 Slayne, Richard . 
 
 
 . 194 
 
 Tanner, John 
 
 
 149 
 
 Smart, Patrick . 
 
 
 . 193 
 
 Tany, William : Prior 
 
 46, 48 
 
 Smith, a Surname 
 
 
 . 84 
 
 Tara . . 66, 95, 96, 
 
 103, 153, 
 
 186 
 
 Smulkin, a coin . 
 
 
 . 34 
 
 „ Derivation of 
 
 
 153 
 
 Solmes, Countess of 
 
 
 . 31 
 
 Tassagard Manor 
 
 
 57 
 
 Somerset, Earl of 
 
 
 . 75 
 
 Taylor, Honorable General 
 
 175 
 
 Stackbolle, Dr. . 
 
 
 . 192 
 
 Teachmor, or Teamor 
 
 95, 
 
 , 153 
 
 Stamullen . 
 
 
 . 66 
 
 Teaghmurray 
 
 
 187 
 
 Stanley, George, Sir 
 
 
 . 117 
 
 Tellachardh, King of . 
 
 
 186 
 
 „ John, Sir 
 
 
 . 56 
 
 Telach-cail . 
 
 
 186 
 
 „ Thomas, Sir 
 
 
 . 73 
 
 Telyng, George . 
 
 , 
 
 44 
 
 Staplestown, or Steepleston, 90, 115, 
 120, 122, 131, 292 
 
 Temoria 
 
 Thomas : Abbot . 
 
 
 96 
 
 182 
 
 Staunton, John . 
 
 , 
 
 . 69 
 
 „ Prior . 
 
 2io, 211, 
 
 215 
 
 Sterne, John 
 
 
 . 168 
 
 ,. Silken . 
 
 
 105 
 
 Page 
 
 Tachmaho, or Cachemhe . . 23 
 
 Tachman, Hugh de . . . 145 
 
 Talhot of Dardistown . .105 
 
 „ John, Lord Furnival 54,60, 63, 70 
 „ Eobert . . . 124, 130 
 
 „ Kichard . . .62, 63, 64 
 
 „ Earl of Tryconnel 174 
 Talbot Arms .... 60 
 
 Castle 
 
 60 
 
 Stewen, or Stephens, Thomas 
 
 . 107 
 
 Thomlinson, M. . 
 
 . 160 
 
 Stonefield . 
 
 115, 
 
 120, 131 
 
 Thomond, Brian, King of . 
 
 46, 52 
 
 Stonehall . 
 
 
 194, 208 
 
 Thoumbe, Walter 
 
 . 150 
 
 Strasburgh . 
 
 
 . 147 
 
 Thunder, or Thunre . 
 
 . 209 
 
 Strong, Thomas : Prior 
 
 
 . 211 
 
 Tichburne, Henry, Sir 
 
 . 125 
 
 Strongbow . 
 
 
 15, 41 
 
 Ticroghan . . .119, 
 
 128, 130 
 
 Subley, Walter de 
 
 
 . 208 
 
 Timolin .... 
 
 . 42 
 
 Suffolk 
 
 
 . 67 
 
 Tipperary . 
 
 26, 148 
 
 Suibne, Bishop of Trim 
 
 
 142, 181 
 
 Totness, Carew, Earl of 
 
 . 53 
 
 Smnmerhill (Lynch’s Knock) 
 
 . 126, 
 
 Travers, Geoffrey 
 
 . 46 
 
 
 
 200 
 
 Tredagh .... 
 
 . 31 
 
 Sureport, see Feypo . 
 
 
 . 23 
 
 Trim, 
 
 or Truim — 
 
 
 Surrey, Earl of . 
 
 
 . 117 
 
 
 Abbot of . 
 
 90, 141 
 
 Sussex, Earl of . 
 
 
 . 117 
 
 99 
 
 Anachorite 
 
 142, 163 
 
 Sutton, Robert . 
 
 
 . 146 
 
 99 
 
 Betagerie . . . 
 
 50, 80 
 
 „ a surname 
 
 
 . 84 
 
 99 
 
 Bishop of . . 140, 
 
 , 142, 181 
 
 Swayn, John, Archbishop 
 
 Of 
 
 99 
 
 Black Abbey . 
 
 . 107 
 
 Armagh . 
 
 
 . 69 
 
 99 
 
 Borough, Members for 256, 266 
 
 Sweetman, Richard . 
 
 
 . 208 
 
 99 
 
 Burgesses Jas. 11. 
 
 . 273 
 
 „ William . 
 
 
 . 208 
 
 99 
 
 Canons Regular 
 
 . 181 
 
 Swift, Dean 
 
 
 151, 161 
 
 
 Dominican Abbey . 
 
 . 27 
 
 Syddan 
 
 
 . 66 
 
 99 
 
 Franciscans 
 
 . 206 
 
 Syllogues . 
 
 
 . 90 
 
 99 
 
 Friars Minors . 
 
 . 62 
 
 HP 
 
 
 
 
 „ Preachers 
 
 32, 200 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 99 
 
 Forest 
 
 50, 113 
 
 Taaf, or Taffe, George 
 
 • , 
 
 . 85 
 
 
 Hermit 
 
 . 163 
 
 „ Joan . 
 
 
 . 57 
 
 
 Liberty . 29, 30, 39, 56, 90 
 
 „ Laurence, Sir . 
 
 
 . 85 
 
 
 Manor 56, 58, 70, 89, 105, 119, 
 
 Tabor, Lord of, Wm. Peppard . 25 
 
 
 
 120, 122 
 
INDEX, 
 
 811 
 
 Trim Market Cross 
 „ Mint 
 
 „ Otservantines 
 „ Park 
 
 Page 
 . 205 
 80, 91 
 190, 203 
 50, 91, 204 
 
 „ Parliaments at 58, 62, 63, 74, 
 82, 84, 91, 92, 95, 97, 190 
 „ Porchfields . 76, 134, 194 
 
 Portrieve 51, 82, 83, 152, 165, 
 175 
 
 „ „ List of . . 267 
 
 „ Rectors, List of , . 170 
 
 „ St. Cath. Guild . . 164 
 
 „ St. Mary’s Abbey . . 181 
 
 „ St. Patrick’s Church . 135 
 „ Streets, List of . .273 
 
 „ a surname ... 84 
 
 „ Tholsell, . . . .205 
 
 „ See of ... . 144 
 
 „ United Parishes . . 171 
 
 „ Vicars, List of . . .170 
 
 „ Yellow Steeple, . 61, 183 
 
 Trimblestone 125, 126, 162, 188, 
 „ Baron of 99, 112, 114, 
 119, 123, 125, 162,176, 
 178, 213 
 
 „ Chapel of Ease . 156 
 Trisseldermot .... 23 
 
 Trowyn, Richard . . . 183 
 
 Trubly, or Tubberville . 129, 175 
 
 Trubly 174 
 
 Truim, St. Marie de Sigillum . 13 
 
 Tuath, Luighne, King of . .186 
 
 Tubberville, Reginald de . .174 
 
 Tuit, Richard de . , 18, 35, 39 
 
 Tulach felmeth, or Tullow . 24 
 
 Tullaghenogue .... 223 
 
 Tullaghenogue . . .176 
 
 Tullyard 186 
 
 Tui’key 148 
 
 Turpilton, Hugh ... 38 
 
 Turvey, Nicholas: Abbot . . 188 
 
 Tyburn 38 
 
 Tyrconnell, Earl of . . 174, 175 
 
 Tyrrell, Hugh . . . 14, 15, 16 
 
 „ Robert, Baron of Castle- 
 knock . . . . 41, 42 
 
 Tyrrells 108 
 
 U 
 
 Ulster 12, 22, 26, 28, 46, 48, 57, 75, 118, 
 144, 158, 182, 190 
 „ Earl of 13, 17, 1 9, 25, 34, 46, 72, 98 
 „ „ De Burgh . 29, 47 
 
 „ „ De Courcy . . 139 
 
 Page 
 
 Ulster, Earl of, Edmond . . 48 
 
 „ „ Richard ... 31 
 
 „ „ Roger ... 48 
 
 „ Prince of . . . . 139 
 
 ,, Seal ..... 48 
 
 Ultan, Bishop of Ardbraccan 70, 135 
 Ulton (see Ulster), Terra de 18, 23 
 Unction, Victory of . . . 187 
 
 Uriel, County of 38, 39, 83, 91, 101, 109 
 126 
 
 Ussher, Bishop . . . 135, 159 
 
 „ Mark . , . .175 
 
 V. 
 
 Vadum, Truim . 
 
 . 
 
 136 
 
 Valoniis, Hamo de 
 
 
 18 
 
 Vaucouleur, Lord of . 
 
 
 31 
 
 Verdon, Bartholomew, Sir . 
 
 
 57 
 
 „ John 
 
 26 
 
 , 38 
 
 „ Margery, 
 
 37, 
 
 , 38 
 
 „ Miles, or Milo 35, 
 
 37, 
 
 , 39 
 
 „ Nicholas 
 
 39, 
 
 , 57 
 
 „ Rosine de 
 
 
 206 
 
 „ Theobald, Lord 28, 
 
 29, 
 
 30, 
 
 37, 
 
 , 38 
 
 „ Thomas 
 
 
 46 
 
 Verdon’s Game . 
 
 
 39 
 
 „ The ... 
 
 , 
 
 62 
 
 Vere, Robert de. Marquis ( 
 
 Df 
 
 
 Dublin .... 
 
 
 49 
 
 Verneuil, Battle of . 
 
 
 215 
 
 Verney, Sir Henry 
 
 
 129 
 
 Vinerintida 
 
 
 131 
 
 Virgil, Bishop of Saltzburgh 
 
 
 141 
 
 Visurgem Iluvium 
 
 
 206 
 
 W 
 
 
 
 Waffre, Nicholas 
 
 
 41 
 
 Wakefield, Battle of . 
 
 
 77 
 
 Wakely, John 
 
 
 204 
 
 Waleran, see Walront. 
 
 
 
 Wales . . 31, 34, 55, 
 
 67, 
 
 177 
 
 Wall, Colonel . . .127, 
 
 129 
 
 Wallop, H. Sir . 
 
 
 13 
 
 Walront (Wellesley), Gerrot 
 
 . 
 
 187 
 
 Walsh, John 
 
 
 124 
 
 Walsh, Parson of Loughseudy 
 
 
 105 
 
 ,, ,, of Ticroghan 
 
 
 105 
 
 Walter, son of Alured 
 
 
 221 
 
 Walterstown 
 
 
 204 
 
 Walton, William 
 
 
 86 
 
 Wardeton, Trim . 
 
 
 39 
 
 Wareham— date . 
 
 
 145 
 
312 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Waryng, John 
 Warren, Colonel 
 Warrenstowns, The three . 
 
 Page 
 . 184 
 127, 129 
 222 
 
 Waterford 19, 53, 74, 81, 91, 103 
 „ Bishop of, Malchus . 143 
 Wattenhull, Henry ... 58 
 
 Welles, William, Sir . . . 77 
 
 Wellesley, Arthur . . 60, 61 
 
 „ Johnde ... 40 
 
 „ Lord .... 61 
 
 „ Marquess . . .134 
 
 „ Monument . . 275 
 
 „ Valerian . . .187 
 
 „ W., Sir ... 47 
 
 Wellesleys 187 
 
 Wellington, Duke of . . .60 
 
 „ formerly Fosterstown 60 
 
 Wentworth, Darcy . . . 174 
 
 Wesley, A 60, 61 
 
 Wesleys 118 
 
 West Grange .... 194 
 Westmeath, County of 13, 14, 15, 38, 
 51, 66, 71, 109, 119, 124, 
 127, 164, 194, 206, 216 
 
 „ Earl of . . . 127 
 
 Wexford . . .13, 23, 26, 130 
 
 „ County .... 103 
 
 „ Parliament at . . 80 
 
 Whitechurch, John. . . .189 
 
 White, or Whyte, Francis . 189 
 ,, James .... 189 
 
 „ John . . 58, 86, 185 
 
 „ Laurence . . .221 
 
 „ a surname ... 84 
 
 „ Walter . . . 210, 223 
 
 White’s Land . . . 122, 132 
 
 Whitington, Thomas . . 182, 183 
 
 Wicklow Castle .... 97 
 
 Wigmore, or Wygmore Castle 55, 67 
 „ Dominus de . 39, 72 
 
 „ Priory ... 53 
 
 Wile, see Wylde 
 Wilkinston . 
 
 
 Page 
 
 . 192 
 
 Wilkinson’s Irish Architecture 196 
 
 William, Abbot . 
 
 
 . 185 
 
 „ Earl Marshall 
 
 
 . 25 
 
 „ Prior . 
 
 
 207, 208 
 
 „ King . 
 
 
 . 174 
 
 „ and Mary . 
 
 
 . 174 
 
 Windsor . 
 
 
 . 20 
 
 Windsor, William de. Sir 
 
 
 42, 46 
 
 Winter, Dr. 
 
 
 . 160 
 
 „ Mr. . 
 
 
 . 186 
 
 Wisconsin . . . 
 
 
 . 195 
 
 Wogan, Thomas . 
 
 
 . 40 
 
 Wolsey, Cardinal 
 
 
 . 117 
 
 Woodstock . 
 
 
 37, 89 
 
 Woodton 
 
 
 150, 194 
 
 Wootton, Mr. 
 
 
 . 160 
 
 Worcester, Earl of 
 
 
 84, 85 
 
 ,, Shire . 
 
 
 . 208 
 
 Wylde, or Wile Arms 
 
 
 . 215 
 
 „ Jeanne 
 
 
 . 215 
 
 Y 
 
 Yellow Steeple, Trim 61, 76, 149, 183, 
 195 
 
 York and Mortimer Arms . 150 
 
 „ City 78 
 
 „ Duke of, Edward . . 69 
 
 „ Richard 69, 72, 76, 77, 
 79, 80, 91, 94, 150, 189, 
 190, 192 
 
 „ House of . . . 80, 95 
 
 Young, David . . . .193 
 
 „ James .... 54 
 
 Zachary, Pope .... 141 
 Zanchy, (Sankey) Colonel . . 161 
 
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