A contemporary narrative of the proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler, prosecuted for sorcery in 1324, by Richard de Ledrede, bishop of Ossory / edited by Thomas Wright.

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1843
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Credit: A contemporary narrative of the proceedings against Dame Alice Kyteler, prosecuted for sorcery in 1324, by Richard de Ledrede, bishop of Ossory / edited by Thomas Wright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    p. 17. There is a good deal of national jealousy exhibited in these trans- actions. I believe that hordys means dirt. P. 16. Willelmum de Notyngham.—The Nottingham family were lords of Thomcastle, now called the Black Rock, in the county of Dublin. Robert de Nottingham was bailiff of Dublin in 1300, and obtained the manor of Lucan, by marrying with the heir of John de Hawsted, or Hausted. These estates passed to John de Bathe, who married Eglantine, sister and heir of William de Nottingham, son and heir of Robert de Nottingham. This Robert was mayor of Dublin, 1321, and William was his son and heir, 1324. His widow, Eglantine, married Robert Bagod, and was living in 1330. The first de Nottingham mentioned was a chief justice in 1260. Iis name was Alexander de Nottingham. His son and heir, Alexander, obtained the manor of Nobber, in Meath, from Matilda de Lacy, and left three daughters his coheirs: Matilda, who married, first, William de Laundres; secondly, John de Boneville; and, thirdly, le Boteller ; she levied a fine of Nobber, 6 Edw. 1. 1277 ; the other daughters were Joan and Margaret. We find a John de Nottingham, of Dublin, 1327, who had a son, Robert. A. family of the name possessed Ballyowen, in the county of Dublin, temp. Elizabeth. P. 17. Znsula sanctorum.—lreland, so commonly called from the number of pious persons who sought retirement there in the earlier ages of western Christianity. Messingham's work on the chief Irish Saints is entitled Insula Sanetorum. According to the Irish antiquaries, Ireland was a holy island before Christianity, being dedicated to Astarte, the Phoenician goddess of long voyages. Ib. Quatuor episcopi, scilicet P'ernensis, IDarensis, Ymelacensis, et Lysmorensis.-—Adam de Northampton was the bishop of Ferns; Walter le Veele, alias Calf, was bishop of Kildare (Darensis Episc.); the bishop of Emly (afterwards joined to the bishoprie of Cashel) was William Rogheved or Roghead (7. e. rough-head) ; the see of Lismore was occu- pied by John Leynagh, who succeeded in 1323, and held the see till 1354. Adam de Northampton was the second Bishop of Ferns of the name; he succeeded 1312, and died 1346. Richard de Northampton was in- vested with the temporalities 13 Oct. 1282, and died 1303. Walter le Veele, or Calf, of Calfstown, was in 1299, chancellor of the cathedral of Kildare, was elected bishop of Kildare, the same year, and was consecrated in the church of St. Patrick's, Dublin, in 1300. He pur- chased the manor or barony of Norragh, in Kildare, from Geoffrey de Norragh, while bishop, and died in 1332. John Calf, or Le Veel, son of