Warrant: It is established, ordained and enacted by authority of parliament that letters patent be made to Thomas, e. Kildare and others, to found a fraternity in honour of BMV and St Katherine the Virgin, for 20s paid into the hanaper, in the form that follows:

"At the request of the commonality of Ire., for the honour and praise of God and of the glorious Virgin Mary and of St Katherine the Virgin and to fulfil the pious proposal and salutary intention of Thomas fitz Maurice, e. Kildare, Roland fitz Eustace kt, lord of Portlester, the venerable Father William [Sherwood], bp Meath, Walter, abbot of the house of BMV near Dublin, Walter, son and heir of William Marewood, the son and heir of Richard Marewood kt, baron of Skreen, Barnaby Bernewall, Walter Cusake, Nicholas Cusake, Patrick Dillon, James Dillon, Christopher Telyng, John Hoill, John Wafre, John Swayne, junior, and Thomas Swayne, the K. has granted and given licence to them for him and his heirs and successors that they (or any) or any one of them who shall survive of them successively and in perpetual succession may begin anew, commence, enter into, make, found, ordain and establish a certain fraternity or guild out of themselves or other persons both men and women in the fraternity or guild to be made and ordained in form following and may receive, admit and accept those and other persons whomsoever freely wishing to join them as brothers and sisters of the fraternity or guild; and that the brethren of the fraternity or guild so begun, commenced, entered into, made, ordained and established, shall have full power every year to choose, ordain and successively appoint a master and two wardens from amongst themselves who (shall have) the rule, government and supervision of such fraternity or guild and the custody of all lands, tenements, rents, services, possessions, goods and chattels which henceforth shall happen to be given, granted or assigned to the fraternity or to belong to the fraternity or guild, and to remove and exonerate the same master and wardens from the offices from year to year and from time to time, whenever it shall be needful and necessary, and to place, substitute and appoint others of the guild or fraternity in their place and name, as it shall best please them. And also they may make, commence and enter into a perpetual fraternity or guild amongst and of themselves, and in future may have and use a common seal to be employed for the business and acts relating to the same fraternity or guild. And also that the master and wardens and their successors who for the time shall be, for that fraternity or guild and for the lands, [etc.] of the same fraternity or guild in whatsoever actions, causes, complaints, demands and pleas, as well real and personal as mixed, of whatsoever kind or nature they be, by the name of the master and wardens of the fraternity or guild of the same BMV and St Katherine before secular and ecclesiastical judges whomsoever shall implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, and may and ought to implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered. And the same Thomas fitz Maurice, e. Kildare, [etc.] and every of the brethren of the fraternity or guild and their successors, masters and wardens and brethren of the same fraternity or guild, shall and may assemble at suitable or convenient places and times as often and when it shall best please them to treat, agree and communicate among themselves, together with others, for having counsel and advice for the state and good rule of the fraternity or guild of the brethren and sisters of the fraternity or guild and their successors, and to make lawful and honest ordinances to the praise of God, the aforesaid BMV and St Katherine, for the good government of the fraternity or guild from year to year and from time to time, and the same ordinances in like manner from time to time when it shall be requisite and necessary to augment or diminish, according to the good discretion of the same master and wardens and brethren of the fraternity or guild and their successors, masters, wardens and brethren of the fraternity or guild for ever. And further, the K. has granted to Thomas fitz Maurice, e. Kildare, [etc.], that they or any of them that survive, to the praise and honour of BMV and St Katherine, may make, ordain, and establish, according to the good discretion, ordinance of the same Thomas, [etc.] or any of them who shall survive, certain chantries of two or more chaplains to celebrate divine service daily in the chapels of BMV and St Katherine the Virgin in the parish church of St Columb the abbot, of Skreen, for ever for the wholesome state of the K., while he lives, and of Thomas, {etc.], and their founders and also of the brethren and sisters of the fraternity or guild, as long as they shall live, and for the souls of the K.’s noble progenitors and of all and singular the above named when they shall have departed this life, and of their successors and of all the faithful departed for ever. And that the masters and wardens and the brethren and sisters, and their successors, of the fraternity or guild, who for the time shall be, may from year to year and from time to time depose and remove the chaplains and may elect and place other suitable ones in their places, as it shall best please them. And that the masters or wardens and brethren and sisters and their successors, masters and wardens and brethren and sisters of the fraternity or guild, may assemble at fit places and times when it shall best please them, to treat and ordain for the chantry according to the ordinance in this behalf to be made. And moreover, the K. has granted and given licence to the master, wardens, brethren and sisters and their successors of the fraternity or guild for the time being, when the fraternity or guild shall be so made, ordained and established, that they may acquire lands, tenements, rents and services, as well in demesne and fee as in reversion, with the appurtenances up to the value of £10 p.a. above charges and reprises whether they be held of the K. or others in chief, to have and to hold to them and their successors, masters, wardens and brethren and sisters of the same fraternity or guild for ever, of the chief lords of those fees by the services thereout due and of right accustomed, to find, support and sustain the charges as well of the fraternity or guild as of the chantry of two or more chaplains to celebrate [divine service] in the chantry, and do other works of piety for the state and souls for ever. The statute concerning not putting lands and tenements in mortmain enacted or any other statutes or ordinances whatsoever heretofore enacted notwithstanding. Not willing that Thomas, [etc.] or their heirs or the masters or wardens of the fraternity or guild or their successors by reason of statutes, ordinances or other things or any one of the premises whatsoever shall be harassed, impeached, disturbed, troubled in any wise or grieved in future by the K., his heirs or successors, the judges, escheators, sheriffs, mayors, bailiffs or ministers of the K. or his heirs or successors or of others whomsoever therefor. In witness whereof, &c. Provided that it be not prejudicial to John Hoill and his wife or to their heirs or any of them."

For 20s in the hanaper.