The venerable father Robert [Waldeby], abp Dublin, primate of Ire., and dean of the K.’s free [church] of Penchrich [Penkridge] in Eng., has pleaded to the K. that he and his predecessors, archbishops of Dublin, claimed to have the following liberties within all the lordships and manors of that archbishopric, viz.:
[1] Soke and sake, toll and theam, infangthef, outfangthef, pleas of manslaughter, murder, slaying of Englishmen, and of all kinds of robberies, larcenies, trials by combat of Englishmen, and of all others within their lordships and manors, and abjurations of fugitives and felons fleeing to holy church; and also liberty to take fines and ransoms in their courts for felonies committed within their lands. And similarly to grant peace to felons for felonies committed within their lordships and manors at their will. And also to waive and outlaw felons in their courts, and to have day, year [and] waste of their lands, tenements, and rents; and to appoint from time [to time] their coroners, and by their own coroner to view and bury Englishmen and all others drowned and slain by mischance, without the K.'s coroner. And also the justification, correction and punishment of all manner of artificers and labourers within their lordships and manors, and to take fines and ransoms of such as be convicted or found guilty in their courts, against any of the articles contained in statutes and ordinances relating to all kinds of artificers and labourers, made before this by the K. and his progenitors. And also all pleas of the crown except the four pleas, namely forestall, rape of women, treasure trove and arson.
[2] Similarly they claimed to have their courts of all kinds of franchises, liberties and privileges aforesaid, to be held by their seneschal or seneschals from time to time at their will to be made and assigned.
[3] And also they claimed to have full return and executions of all the K.'s Return of writs and precepts for making summonses, distresses and attachments, by the K.’s progenitors directed, of all persons and in all places within the lordships and manors and cross of the said archbishopric. And also view of frankpledge and assize of wine, bread and beer, of their standards and of ells, weights, bushels, gallons, yards and other measures, and weights; and that the K.’s clerk of the market and keeper of measures may not interfere by virtue of his office within the lordships and manors and cross of his archbishopric, except once a year, to view and examine the standards of the archbishop.
[4] And also they claimed to take fines and corrections of their tenants of all kinds, and further to do all that pertains to the office of clerk of the market and keeper of the measures within their aforesaid lordships, manors and crosslands. And also whereas they have had plea of withernam [vetito nameo]1 and of all kinds of pleas belonging to court baron in all their lordships and manors ; and also one boat of theirs upon the water of Annaliffey [river Liffey] with the K.'s boat, to take salmon and other fish; and that they and all their men and tenants should be quit of toll, pannage, murage, pontage, lastage, stallage, tolboll, tallage, scot, geld, common aid and common amercements.
[5] And also they claimed to have a market within the manor of Swords on the Monday of every week and a fair there every year commencing in the eve of Saint Columba, to last for the following eight days; and a market within their manor of Lusk on the Thursday of every week; and similarly one fair each year at Dublin in the eve of the Translation of Saint Benedict and on the feast day of the same. And also a market in the town of Balymore within their lordship on the Thursday of every week, and a fair there every year commencing in the eve of Saint Luke the Evangelist and for fifteen days following. And also a market at their manor of Staghgonyll2 on the Saturday of every week. And also free warren in all their mountains and demesne lands. And also wreck of the sea in all their lands and demesnes upon the sea coasts. And also pillory, tumbrel and thew in the following places and manors, viz. St Sepulchre's, Swords, Finglas, Clondalkin, Balymore, Seneghkill and Castellkevyne.
In honour of God and of Saint Patrick, patron of the said archbishop's metropolitan church, and on account of the sincere affection that the K. bears and has for the person of the said archbishop, his C. of Ire., and wishing to provide specially for the peace and quiet of the said archbishop and his aforesaid church, GIFT and GRANT and by this the K.’s charter CONFIRMATION, for the K. and his heirs, to the said archbishop, all the aforesaid franchises, liberties, privileges, usages and customs, and every of them, to have and to hold to him and his successors in all the said places in the aforesaid form, freely, quietly, forever, without interference or impediment of the K. or his heirs, or lieutenants, justices, escheators, sheriffs, seneschals, bailiffs or ministers or officers of the K. or of his heirs, notwithstanding that the said archbishop and his predecessors did not have or use those liberties or any of them before this time, as aforesaid.
Witnesses:
R[ichard Medford], bp Chichester, T. of Ire.;
T. [Robert Tideman], bp Llandaff;
R[ichard Northalis], bp Ossory;
Edward, e. Rutland and Cork, the K.’s cousin;
John Holland, e. Huntingdon, the K.’s dearly beloved brother;
Thomas Holland, the K.’s nephew;
Thomas le Despenser;
John Beaumont;
Thomas Percy, steward of the K.’s household;
William le Scrope, the K.’s chamberlain of Ire.; and others.
