Year: 1237 m. 7 pg 476
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-close-rolls/hen3/vol3/pp464-478
"For Thomas Boyt and his associates: The bailiffs of Bristol, of the chattels of Thomas Boyt, Alice Augustun, and William le Palmer, who are of Drogheda, to be released on bail, shall be the above commission of the chattels of Jordan Stopll. Witness the king at Plumsted July 22"


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The Boyt name has a connection to the town of Drogheda, Ireland, specifically dating back to the medieval period. The earliest recorded instance of the name is from 1237, with Thomas Boyt associated with Drogheda, according to Guild of One-Name Studies. Further records mention Thomas Boyt in Drogheda, Dundalk, and Dublin in 1312, according to pbase.com. These records suggest a presence of individuals with the Boyt name in and around Drogheda during the early medieval period.

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https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/252861
The English Pale in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was that part of Ireland in which the majority of the inhabitants were of English birth or descent and in which English law was current and English customs prevalent. The border line was a variable one, but in gener 1 we mean by the English Pale the four counties of Dublin, Kildare, Meath,' and Louth (often spoken of as Uriell). This part of the country, extending inland some twenty or thirty miles and north and south about fifty miles, was distinctively English.2 Its chief cities, Dublin and Drogheda, had been settled by men from Bristol3 and other English cities in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The former city became the headquarters of the English administrative system and very rapidly developed into a thriving trade center.

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Drogheda, Ireland was founded as two distinct towns, each on a different side of the River Boyne, by prominent Anglo-Normans:
Hugh De Lacy established the town on the Meath side of the river and granted a charter for its establishment in 1194.
Bertram de Verdun founded the town on the Louth side of the river.
These two towns were later united into one in 1412.