APPENDIX A.-PAGE 109. LITTERA FEDLIMIDI O'CONNOR REGIS CONACTIE AD REGEM ANGLIE.1 LLUSTRI Regi Angliæ Henrico, Dei gratiâ, Domino Hiberniæ, Comiti Andegaviæ, suus Fedl. O'Konchonur Rex Conact' salutem, cum debitâ reverentiâ et honore. Quoniam nobilissima merita et bona opera a suis subditis debent gratanter et humiliter callaudari, idcirco regiæ vestræ majestati, pro variis honoribus nobis collatis, grates referimus infinitas; et maxime pro eo, quod pro nobis Willielmo de Dene, Justiciario vestro Hiberniæ, bonæ memoriæ, pro restitutione habendâ de dampnis, nobis per Walterum de Burgo et suum sequelam, in terrâ nostrâ de Tyrmara, illatis, devote scripsistis. Unde, cum dictus Justiciarius, ante receptionem literarum vestrarum, diem clausit extremum, nos nullum effectum nec commodum, per dictum vestrum mandatum, licet ., recepimus adhuc : sed varia dampna & incommoda, per eundem Walterum & suos complices, adhuc in terra fiilii vestri recepimus et sustinemus. Dampnificavit enim cantredam ubi castra vestra sunt & domini Eduardi castra sita sunt, ad æstimationem sex millium marcarum; exceptis dampnis illatis ecclesiæ Elfinetim, tunc in manu nostrâ existenti; quæ quidem dampna æstimari possunt ad æstimationem trium millium marcarum, ecclesiarum combustione, et clericorum et monialium interfectione. Quare regiam vestram dignitatem humiliter exoramus, quatenus, sicuti terram filii vestri ab hostili incursu prædicti Walteri et aliorum adversariorum nostrorum, observare desideretis, Justiciario vestro, videlicet domino Ricardo de Rupella, nunc existenti, et consilio vestro salubri in Hibernia detis in mandatis ut, secundum prioris mandati formam, præfatum Walterum ad plenitudinem justitiæ nobis, super dictis dampnis, nobis et ecclesiæ Elfinen' illatis, exhibendam compellat & distringat. Pro certo enim sciatis, quod nunquam a fideli servitio vestro, nec filii vestri, pro aliquâ sollicitatione nobis ab Hiberniensibus factâ, recessimus nec recedemus. Nos enim, et nostros, et omnia nostra bona, sub protectione vestra et domini Eduardi premogeniti vestri supponimus; cui omni bona nostra et jura, si qua nobis super totâ terrâ Conact', competunt, usque ad adventum suum ad partes Hiberniæ observamus & observabimus. Valeat regia vestra majestas in Domino. 'See Rymer's Fadera, Vol. I., p. 240, under year 1240. Correct date, 1261. APPENDIX B.-PAGE 126. ORDER OF KING EDWARD I. ON PETITION OF RICHARD DE BURG, AND RESULT OF INQUIRY HELD AT CASTLEDERMOT, A.D. 1305. TRANSLATED FROM LATIN, AS GIVEN IN O'FLAHERTY'S "WEST CONNAUGHT," PP. 189-191. NGLAND SS. CONNAUGHT.] Pleas at Castledermot before John Our beloved and faithful Richard de Burg, Earl of Ulster, has made supplication to us, whereas the Irishman, O'Conoghur [O'Conor] who has hitherto perpetrated many homicides, robberies, thefts, and sundry other enormities, and ceases not to perpetrate them from day to day, in despite of our peace, holds certain of our land in Connaught that is called Scilmorthy [Siolmuiredhaigh], hard by the said land of the same Earl situated there, as a fee from us; that we would grant the said land of Scilmorthy to the same Earl, or to some other Englishman, to be held either in consideration of paying to us from thence annually as much as the said Irishman has hitherto been wont to pay to us from thence, or in exchange for lands of equal extent and value in the settled country ("in terra pacis "), to be given and conceded to us by the same Earl: We, therefore, wishing to condescend in this matter to the petition of the same Earl, in so far as we may without detriment to ourself, command you that you diligently enquire, by means of the oath of honest and lawful men of those parts, through whom the truth of the matter may the more easily be known, whether we can, without doing injury to ourselves or to any other, enfeof the said Earl, or other Englishman whom we may desire, of the said lands of Scilmorthy, to be held in the manner above mentioned, and how much a year the said land of Scilmorthy is worth in all its produce, according to the true value of the same and you shall send to us the enquiry truly and openly made under your seal and the seals of those by whom it has been made without delay and that shortly. Witness myself at Wymlyngwelde, on the 13th day of July, in the 33rd year of our reign. By the authority of which mandate the Justiciary has here proceeded to make enquiry thereupon, by means of the undermentioned, in the following manner. Inquiry taken at Castledermot before John Wogan, Justiciary of Ireland, for fifteen days from St. Michael's Day in the 33rd year of King Edward by the undermentioned, |