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Respect, My Lord, your Lordship’s most obedient and most 
humble servant, 
«¢ JonATH: SwIFT. 
‘“* Deanery-House October 7th, 1737.” 
Dr. Todd was permitted by the Rev. Edward §. Abbott, 
Prebendary of St. John’s, to exhibit to the Academy an origi- 
nal Bull of Pope Nicholas III., which is preserved in the ar- 
chives of Christ Church Cathedral, dated in the second year 
of his pontificate, a. p. 1279. It commissions the Archdeacon 
of Leighlin to inquire into the case of the Prior and Chapter 
of Christ Church, who complained that the prior and two 
other canons had been unjustly excommunicated by John, vi- 
car of Balrothery. The following is a copy of this docu- 
ment :— 
‘‘ Nicolaus episcopus, servus servorum Dei, dilecto filio. . . 
Archidiacono Lechlinensi salutem et apostolicam benedictio- 
nem. Conquesti sunt nobis... Prior et Capitulum Cathedra- 
lis ecclesie Sancte Trinitatis Dublinen. ordinis Sancti Augustini 
quod Johannes perpetuus vicarius ecclesie de Balitridir* Dub- 
linen. dioc. in Will tune priorem,t Reginaldum tune offici- 
alem ipsius capituli sede Dublinen. vacante$ ac Philiippum 
de Schitsebjr ejusdem ecclesie canonicos in quos nullam habe- 
bat jurisdictionem ordinariam seu etiam delegatam communiter 
excommunicationis sententiam temeritate propria promulgavit. 
Ideoque discretioni tue per apostolica scripta mandamus qua- 
* Bilitridir.| Now Balrothery. 
t+ Willm tunc priorem.| William de Gran, who was prior of Christ Church 
1263 to 1280, and also was Lord Chancellor of Ireland. 
t Sede Dublinen. vacante.] The See of Dublin was vacant from the death 
of Archbishop Fulk Sandford, in 1271 to 1279, in which year the Pope hay- 
ing declared null the elections of the Chapters of Christ Church and St. Pa- 
trick’s, who had chosen two different persons, nominated to the see John de 
Derlington, an Englishman, who had been collector of Peter pence for the 
Court of Rome in England. 
