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  The Muniment Room of the Marquess of Ormond at Kilkenny Castle contains what is, since the destruction of the Public Record Office, Dublin, in 1922, the largest single collection of mediaeval deeds and records now extant in Ireland. These are of a miscellaneous nature and both public and private character, and range from royal commissions, letters patent and grants, down to feudal charters of the Butlers and others, and to the leases and conveyances of insignificant tenants and burgesses. They include some proceedings of manor courts, notably of the Liberty of Tipperary, lists of royal service, numbers of Butler rent-rolls, a considerable mass of monastic charters, such as those of Kells in Ossory, Holy Cross, Jerpoint and other religious houses in counties Tipperary and Kilkenny, proceedings of Bishops' courts and other ecclesiastical matter. How all this mass of miscellaneous deeds, for the most part very carefully preserved, came into posession of the House of Ormonde it is unneccesary here to enquire. Suffice it to say that Ireland should be grateful that is has escaped the fate of many other collections and survived to this day.

47.Grant by William Capra (? Chevre) ¹ to Theobald Walter, Butler of Ireland, and his heirs and all men and free tenants and their heirs of the cantred of Ofelmeth, of all right and claim which he (William) had or claimed to have in the said cantred. In return for which Theobald and his men pay him twenty marks of silver.

church from the feast of St. John the Baptist, A.D. MCCLIII [ January 25, 1254 N.S.] unto the feat of the Conversion of St. Paul next following, and to the death of the said Matthew who gave them the above advowson. His brother Raymond succeeded to him and held the manor and then came Agatha, widow of Matthew, and sued for the advowson of the church against the Prior as her dowry, and presented it to Walter, son of William de Dene, and in the court of the Liberty of Carlow claimed the said advowson against the said Prior by a judgement on a writ of Darrein Presentment, so that he [Walter de Dene] behing presented to the living expelled the said Prior. But this judgement as erroneous was set aside at the command of the King and was revoked by William Malerbe, seneschal of Roger, Earl of Norfolk, [cf. Deeds 60,67] and the said Prior and convent were restored to posession of the said church and after it had been set to farm for a term of years to Master Geoffrey de Seynliger the Prior re-entered on the same and held it for a long time. Then Clarice, daugher of Gilbert, son of Griffin, who claimed hereditary right in the said manor with the advowson, in her liege viduity after the death of Henry Kernet her second husband [cf. Deeds 57 and 58] surrendered all her right in the said advowson to the same Prior. Then after the death of John Lauless, her third husband, she in her liege viduity gave her right in a third part of the said manor to William de Dene [cf. C.D.I. III. p294] and to Richard de la Rokele, Justiciar of Ireland, also a third part, and she kept the third part to herself. Then afterwards, by the counsel of the same William and Richard, by Writ of Right she claimed the advowson against the said Prior in the court of the Liberty of Carlow but when the case was pending the parties came to an agreement.

  The same Clarice remitted and quitclaimed for herself and her heirs to the said Prior and convent all her right in the advowson forever and there they made and end to the case [finem levarunt]. [Date between 1227 and 1252.]

72 [ This seems to be a continuation of 71. Probably the whole is a certificate of Nicholas de Chevers, bishop of Leighlin, made about 1280-09 in pursuance of the King's mandate, (see C.D.I. III., pp. 251-258 and 294)].

Then when the said Walter, who formerly was parson of the said church [? son of William de Dene ] at the presentation of the said Agatha, was removed by judges legally appointed and had declared himself lawfully appointed before other judges sent by the Apostolic see, it was agreed between him and the Prior and convent that he should hold the said church from the Prior and convent at farm paying yearly three marks of silver. And after he had paid this pension for some time he tacitly made his resignation to Fromund le Brun, ¹ then Chancellor of Ireland. He then suceeded his brother, William de Dene, junior, in a third part of the said manor and fraudulently presented to the church but Fromund expelled the said Prior and convent from the advowson of the church and held it all his life. Walter died, and his brother Thomas succeeded him, to whom succeeded Reginald his son and heir who now is and was then under age and in the wardship of Stephen de Fulburne, Justiciar of Ireland, who on the death of Fromund le Brun by right of the wardship presented Master Adam de Fulburne, his brother, who was not ordained within a year, and afterwards the said gaurdian presented a certain Andrew, but Reginald, when he came of age, presented William le Clere against the protest and claim of the said Prior and convent.

  94 Thomas de Vel grants to Nicholas Chever and his heirs five and a half carucates in Slekachely with appurtenances and all free liberties and customs; paying yearly 60s. silver.
  Witnesses : Sir W. Barentin, John son of Geoffrey, Master William Antony, Martin Choterel, William Choterel, Richard Thelachmayn.
[Circa1240.] Seal missing.
  In dorso: Carta de Stefcayly.

  Dr. Carrigan says that wherever this mountain or hill was it is identical with Sliabh an Caithligh mentioned by the Four Masters at the year 1127, and with Sliabh gCaithle mentioned by O'Heerin.

  330 Geoffrey fitz Robert, Baron of Kells, grants to William Kenefeg his burgess of Kells, his heirs and tenants in Kells, free ingress and egress in all grantor's lands in Kells, namely, from the land of William Kenfeg [sic] in Kells to his own land in Deveniston for all his beasts. Also to have a mill in his own lands and a stang for making said mill; to grind in said mill, malt, wheat and pilcorn; also to be quit of suit of grantor's mills in said barony. Said William and his tenants not to transact business in any of grantor's courts save in the hundred of Kells; fines not to exceed 6d.
  Witnesses: Sir Roger de Penbroc, Adam Awnel, knights, John son of Geoffrey, Alexander son of William, David Chevere, Richard de Leget, Ralph de Barettyn, David de la Haye.
[Circa 1297.] Seal missing.

  577 Estreats of Co. Kilkenny, 19-20 Edward II (1325-6).

  [The King is described only as Edward, but the dating of the feasts and years can only apply to the reign of Edward II]. [There are five 7 pages of estreats in this deed. We only list the 2 lines pertaining to Cheevers]

  Estreats of county Kilkenny on Thursday next after the feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist in the same year and before the same sheriff [Fulc de fraxineto].
  (etc)
  Thomas son of Nicholas Cheuyr by pledge of same ... vjd.
  (etc)

  Pleas and profits of Fulc de Fraxineto, sheriff of the same county [Kilkenny], from Monday next after the 15th of Easter in the 19th year of King Edward unto Saturday in the feast of St. Canice in the 20th year of King Edward.
  (etc)
  Richard Cheuyr [because being summoned he did not come] ... xijd.
  (etc)

  704 John, son of Patrick Chevre, releases and quit-claims forever to Richard fitz Oliver and his heirs all his right, claim and interest in one messuage, five carucates of land, ten of meadow and a hundred of pasture in Leynagheston near Clancoman.
  Given at Kilkenny on Monday next after the feast of the Purification of the B.V.M. anno Domini MCCCXXXVII in the 12th year of Edward III.
[February, 1338. N.S.] Seal almost gone.

  855 William Maillard of Kells quit-claims to Richard son of Patrick Chevre and his heirs all his right and claim in all lands and tenements, moors, marshes, pastures, lordships, demenses, rents, betaghs and all other liberties which formerly belonged to Robert Maillard in Tylathtromtyron which is called Mayllardeston.
  Given at Mayllardeston on Sunday next after the feast of St. Matthias in the 50th year of the reign of Edward son of King Edward (sic: ? Henry) III.
[February 28, 1266]