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XXXI. Extract from a Record explanatory of Grants by Henry II. and Edward I. to certain Ostmen in Waterford of the privilege of “Lex Anglicorum in Hibernia.”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

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The original record, from which the Extract that follows was taken, has been preserved in the Bermingham Tower, Dublin. It contains the Pleas of the Crown and Gaol Delivery at Waterford, before John Wogan, Justiciary of Ireland, on Thursday the morrow of St. Matthias the Apostle (February 25), in the fourth year of the reign of Edward II. (1311), and will be seen to be somewhat illustrative of the social condition of the inhabitants of that part of Ireland at the time of the invasion by Henry II. and also at the commencement of the fourteenth century. The Ostmen mentioned in it were the descendants of the Norwegians, commonly spoken of as Danes, who had many years before formed permanent settlements on the coasts; as to whose history Worsaae's volume on the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland may be consulted with advantage. A few preliminary observations may serve to render the document more readily intelligible.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1858

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page 492 note a It is due to Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arms, to state that by his kindness an opportunity has been afforded of collating the Extract here published with another gratuitously furnished by him from the original roll, which is among the records under his care in Dublin.

page 493 note a There was an Ostmen's town also by Dublin, now Oxmantown, and, according to Sir John Davys' Reports, fol. 23 verso, there were the like at Cork and Limerick.

page 494 note a Vol. i. p. 82.

page 494 note b Appendix I.

page 494 note c The copy, furnished by Sir Bernard Burke of this portion of the original record in Dublin, shows that the words of the charter as there enrolled are literatim, the same as on the Patent Rolls.

page 494 note d Vol. i. p. 82.

page 494 note e Davys' Reports, fol. 38.

page 494 note f Ibid.

page 495 note a Vol. i. p. 101.