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temporalties let and consigned to them by the Queen, upon 

 the consideration of 1000Z. a year; (computing the 100Z. in 

 Edward II. s time worth 1000Z. now.) And afterwards, 

 upon the admission of Richard Fletcher to be Bishop, the 

 Treasurer demanded an account of the Dean and Chapter 

 of their receipts of money and rent ; which they sent him 

 in ; that is, from June 5, 1594, to January 24 ensuing : in 

 their paper calling; themselves custodes episcopatus ac om- The Dean 



. , j- .j and Chapter 



mum temporalium ejusdem, quamdiu idem episcopatus va- cnsto des 

 cavit. And it was computed that they were to pay, accord- e 

 ing to their account, (after the rate of 1000/. per ann.) for 

 the temporalties, for the time they held them, 320. lls. 

 And the Queen wrote her letters to them to restore the al 

 location thereof to the reverend Father Richard Fletcher ; 

 whom she had nominated for Bishop. 



Numb. VII. Pag. 127. % 



MANY persons of note of the Aylmers in England had The Ayi- 

 been there spoke of: but as the name had flourished here Irelan d. 

 at home, so it spread itself considerably in the neighbouring 

 kingdom of Ireland ; where the Aylmers were settled time 

 out of mind. Their first coming thither is uncertain ; pro 

 bably two hundred years ago, and more. The first we 

 meet with of that stock there, was Richard, (a great name 

 in the family,) being the ancientest person taken notice of 

 in a visitation book (remaining in the library of the college 

 near Dublin) of Molineux, sometime Ulster King of Arms 

 of Ireland: which Richard perhaps was the son of that 

 Richard of Norwich, who had been Mayor of that city ; 

 and is said in his monumental inscription to be procerum devid. p. 126. 

 stipite natus. The abovesaid Richard married Katherine, 

 daughter of Petit, of Piersetown in the county of Meath. 

 Whose son and heir married Margaret, daughter of Bar 

 tholomew Bath, of Dullardstown in the county of Meath, 

 Esquire. By whom he had Bartholomew Aylmer, of Lyons 

 in Kildare. Who married to Margaret, daughter of Chevers 



