It is ordained by authority of parliament that letters patent be made to Thomas, e. Desmond, and [Elis] his wife, Thomas, e. Kildare, and Joan his wife, William [Sherwood], bp Meath, Christopher Plunket kt, and Elizabeth his wife, Richard Plunket esq., Nicholas Plunket esq., Gerald Plunket esq., Oliver Plunket esq., and John s. of John Plunket esq., in the form following:

At the petition of Thomas, e. Desmond, and [Elis] his wife, Thomas, e. Kildare, and Joan his wife, William [Sherwood], bp Meath, Christopher Plunket kt, and Elizabeth his wife, Richard Plunket esq., Nicholas Plunket esq., Gerald Plunket esq., Oliver Plunket esq., and John s. of John Plunket esq. in parliament at Trim on Monday next after St Laurence the Martyr 5 Edw. IV before Thomas Desmond, e. Desmond, deputy of George, duke of Clarence, Lt, and from thence to the city of Dublin adjourned and continued by the K.’s special grace, and by the advice and assent of the deputy and of the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons of the land, being in parliament, by authority of the parliament. The K. has granted and given licence for himself, his heirs and successors, as far as in him lies, to Thomas, e. Desmond [etc.], incited by the zeal of pious devotion and fervour of charity, that they or their survivors may ordain a chapel to the glory of God and honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, [and] a fraternity or guild successively and in perpetual succession of themselves and other persons, as well men as women, in the parish church of St Nicholas of Dunsany may begin anew, commence, enter into, make, found, order and establish, and those persons and those whomsoever adhering voluntarily to them, may receive, admit and accept as brethren and sisters of the fraternity or guild. And that the brethren of the fraternity or guild so begun, commenced, entered into, made, founded, ordained and established, shall have every year full power to elect, ordain and successively constitute two masters from among themselves, who may have every year full power to elect, ordain and successively constitute two masters from among themselves, who may have the rule, government and supervision of such fraternity or guild, and the custody of all lands, tenements, rents, services, possessions, goods and chattels, that shall happen henceforth to be acquired, given, granted, or assigned, or appertain to the fraternity or guild; and those masters from year to year and from time to time, when there shall be occasion and necessity, from the offices to remove, discharge; and to place, institute and substitute any others in their place and name, as they shall please. And also to make, begin and institute among themselves and of themselves a perpetual fraternity or guild. And to have and use a common seal to serve for business and transactions relating to the fraternity or guild henceforth. And also that the masters and their successors, masters there, who for the time shall be, for that guild or fraternity and for the lands, tenements, rents, services, possessions, goods and chattels of the fraternity or guild, in whatsoever actions, causes, plaints, demands and pleas, as well real and personal as mixed, of whatsoever kind or nature they be, by the name of the masters of the fraternity or guild of St Nicholas the Bishop, of Dunsany, before secular and ecclesiastical judges whomsoever, may implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered and may and ought to implead and be impleaded and also to answer and be answered. And that Thomas, e. Desmond, [etc.] and the brethren of the fraternity or guild, and their successors, shall and may meet at fit or convenient times and places, as often and when they shall please best, to treat, agree and communicate among themselves, together with others, for having counsel and advice for the state and good government of the fraternity or guild, and of the brethren and sisters of the fraternity or guild, and their successors; and to make lawful and honest ordinances to the glory of God and the honour of St Nicholas, for the good government of the fraternity or guild from year to year and time to time; and the same ordinances in like manner from time to time, when there shall be occasion and necessity, to augment or diminish, according to the discretion of them the masters and brethren of the fraternity or guild, and their successors, masters and brethren of the fraternity or guild for ever. And further, by assent of parliament, the K. has granted to Thomas, e. Desmond, [etc.] that they or their survivors may make, ordain and establish, to the glory of God and the honour of St Nicholas, according to the discretion, ordinance and provision of the above named, or any of them who shall survive, a chantry of three chaplains and one clerk or more, to celebrate divine worship daily in that church for ever, for the salutary state of the K., Thomas, e. Desmond [etc.], and of the brethren and sisters of the fraternity or guild, as long as they shall live, and for the souls of the K.’s father Richard, late duke of York, and of his progenitors, [and] of all and singular the above mentioned, when they shall have passed away from this light, and also of the brethren and sisters of the fraternity or guild, and their successors and benefactors, and of all the faithful departed for ever. And that the said masters and brethren and sisters and their successors, masters and brethren and sisters of the fraternity or guild, who for the time shall be, may from year to year and time to time depose and remove the chaplains and clerk, and elect and place other proper persons in their places as they shall please. And that the masters and brethren and sisters, and their successors, may meet at fit times and places, when they shall best please, to treat and make ordinances to be made in this behalf. And moreover, the K. has granted and given licence to the masters, brethren, and sisters of the fraternity or guild and their successors for the time being, when the fraternity or guild shall be made, ordained and established as is aforesaid, that they may acquire lands, tenements, rents, services and advowsons of churches or of chantries, as well in demesne and fee as in reversion, with the appurtenances, up to the value of 80m p.a., above charges and reprises, whether they may be held of the K. in chief or of others, to have and to hold to them and to their successors, masters and brethren and sisters of the 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 of the chantry of three chaplains and of one clerk or of more in the said chantry, as is aforesaid, to celebrate and perform other works of piety for the state and for the said souls for ever. The statute made against putting lands and tenements in mortmain, or any other statutes or ordinances whatsoever in like manner heretofore enacted to the contrary, notwithstanding. Provided, however, that by inquisition to be taken in due form and duly returned to the Irish chancery, it to be found that it can be done without damage or injury to the K. or his heirs or to any other whomsoever. Being unwilling that Thomas, e. Desmond, [etc.], or their heirs, or the masters of the fraternity or guild, or the brethren and sisters of the fraternity or guild or their successors, by reason of the statutes, ordinances or other the premises, by reason of the statutes, ordinances or other the premises, by the K., his heirs or successors, justices, escheators, sheriffs, or others the bailiffs or officers of the K. or his heirs or successors, of the realm of Eng., or of others whomsoever, should therein be harassed, troubled or in any thing aggrieved.