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another twelve to be excommunicated : in case the foresaid eccle- 

 siastics owing to their own daily business are unable to carry out his 

 mandate, he commissions the abbots, priors, parochial clergy, and 

 public notaries, etc., of the two dioceses to execute it; either of the 

 bisliops failing to acquiesce in the mandate to be forbidden entrance 

 to their church. 



Dated in the pi-ebendal clnirch of I'Uard, 14 October, 14C0. 



Testified by Malachias Ochogly, Canon of Leighlin, public notary. 



Eeverendis in Christo patribus ac dominis dominis permissione diuina' 

 eorunKiue in spirilualibus ct tomporalibus uicariis decanis et capitulis singu- 

 lis(|ue canonicis ccclosiaruni Ossoriensis et Loglinonsis, ac aliis uniuersis et 

 singulis personis dignitates personatus adniinistraliones ofticia et beneficia 

 obtinontibus in cisdoni, nccnon fminibus quorum interest uel intercrit, (juosque 

 infrascriptuin tangil negocium .sen langere potcrit, quoniodolibet in futurum 

 (luibuseumquo nominibus significantur, Dcrniieius Ocurryn archidiaconus 

 ecclesie Loglinonsis delegatus cum ilia clausula que in infrascripto rescripto 

 continetur aiictoritale sodis apostolice dopuUitus salutcm in domino senipi- 

 lernani. 



El inandatis nostri.s ynio ucrius aposUjlicis lirmiter obedire uolentes 

 litleras sanclissimi in Christo patris doniini nostri I'ii diuina prouidentia 

 pape II, cum cordula canopis eius uero bulla plunibca more llomane curie 

 inpcndentcs luillatju'< .sanas int«gras non uiciatas non cancellatas nee abrassas 

 uol abolitas nee in aliqua sui parte suspectas, scd omni prossu.sf uicio et 

 su.sjwctationc ut ex earum inspectione prima facie apparebat carentes, nobis 

 |)er disoretos uiros abbatoni el cnnuontum moiuvstcrii Bcate Marie do Dowygiyt 

 Cistercensis ordinis Ossoriensis diocesis coram notario publico et testibus 

 infrascriptis aliisquc iKjrsonis atte«tatis more debilo pensatis, cum ea que 

 decuit i-euorentia sub huiusraodi tounre nouerilis recepisse: 



" Pius episcopus seruus seruonim dei dileclis filiis decano et arciiidiacono 

 ac cancellario ecclesie Leglinensis salulem et apostolicam benedictionem. 

 (..'onquesti sunt nobis ablwis et conuontus nionasterii Route Marie de Dowyglyf 

 Cisterciensis ordinis Ossoriensis diocesis (juod Decanus et Capitulum ecclesie 

 Ossoriensis quandam sunimam pecuniarum ab eis exigere indebile nitunlur 

 annuatim. Ideo<iiie tliscrotioni uestre per ajiostolica scripta maiulamus, 

 quatinus, uocatis qui fuerint euocandi et auditis, hinc inde proposilLs (juod 

 iustum fuerit ap|x>8itione rcmota usuriis ccBsantibus, deceruatis, facientes 

 quod decreuerilis per censuram ecclesiasticam lirniiler obseruari. Testes 

 auteui, ({ui fuerint nominati, si sc gratia («lio uel timore subtraxerint, censura 

 similiter appositione ccssantc com})cllatis testimonium ucritati perhibere, 

 quod si non omnes hiis exequendis polorilis inlcresHC duo aut unus uesrmm 

 ea nichilominus exctjuentur. Datum Mantuc anno Incarnationis dominice 

 MCCCCl none septimo Id. Octobris, pontificatus uostri anuo secundo." 



' iSKe, but evidently the words " episcopis Ossoriensi et Leglincnsi " have been omitted. 



