The history of Dundalk and its environs Author:John D'Alton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV. FROM THE REIGN OF RICHARD I. TO THE SUCCESSION OF EDWARD I. When Cceur de Lion inspired the chivalry of the Crusade, Bertram de Verdon was o... more »ne of the knights who enthusiastically followed the royal standard to Palestine, where he died, in 1192, at Jaffa, whereupon his possessions here, and elsewhere, passed to Thomas de Verdon; who also dying in 1199, his brother, Nicholas de Verdon, succeeded thereto and, in 1204, obtained from King John a royal order and licence for entering thereupon; when, in conformity with a resolution and vow, very frequent in those days, he forthwith dedicated to the Abbey of Thomas a Becket, in Dublin, the tithes of two knights' fees within the precint of the first castle he should erect on the lands of his inheritance in the County of Louth. Having afterwards, however, taken part against his sovereign in the barons' war, those lands were seized by the royal order, nor was it until the accession of Henry the Third, in 1216, that they were restored to him—the patent including expressly by name the castles and estates of Dundalk and Clonmore. Consequent upon the temporary occupation of the Crown's escheator, disputes arose, on this restoration, as to the rightful boundaries of De Verdon's inheritance as distinguished from the lands of the Crown; when, in the nisi prius language, the decision was directed to be deferred to St. John's Day, unless a decision shall sooner be awarded by judgment of court. Rot. Lit. Claus., 5 Henry 3, in Tur. Lond. In the August of 1210, King John, in his second visit to Ireland, passed through this town. His progress is minutely described by the Four Masters; who, however, in their peculiar system, of chronology, refer the event to 1209. " John, King of England, sailed for Ireland with a fleet of 700 ...« less