224 l'iocee(fhi<fS of fke Roi/al Irish Actnie/n//. 



of the archiepiseopal mtnsa had been alienated by Talbot, and that his revenues 

 were therefore inadequate to his station.' Mr. "Wylie- points out that many 

 Talbots appear in Ireland as holding positions of profit after Sir John's ariival 

 as Viceroy ; and it is tolerably plain that Kiehard Talbot had something of the 

 acquisitiveness of his brother. 



Yet the Archbishop was not wholly unmindful of the financial needs of the 

 Church. "We have sevei-al illustrations of this. In 1424 he reduced the 

 pro-xies of the Augustinian monasteiy of All Hallows, Dublin, from 6 marks 

 to 4* In 1421 lie reduced, in like manner, tlie proxies paid to the Archbishop 

 by the prior and convent of Christ Church, which was alleged to be then im- 

 poverished by war and pestilence, from 10 marks to 5, and again in 1426 to 

 2A marks.* In the Book of Obits of Clirist Church Cathedral, the anniversary 

 of the Archbishop's death (Aug. 15) is commemorated, and spiecially solemn 

 observance of it prescrii>e«l (pro quojiani i\ leccioneji), no doubt because of this 

 relief to the convent. Ware notes that he established a chantiy in St. Michael's 

 Church, to which lie gave parochial status in 1447. 



Oilier chantries were established in Dublin at the same tinio. From the 

 fifteenth century several of the ancient gilds of tlie city count their beginning. 

 In 1418. for instance, the Gild of Merchant Tailora was founded, with a 

 ciiantry in St John's Church. And on 16th December, 1430, in like manner, 

 Koyal I^etters Patent were is-sued for the founding of a chantiy and tlie 

 endowment of a chaplain in the Church of St. Audi^en, in honour of St. Anne, 

 together with a f^Id or fraternity of St. Anne, with permission to hold lands 

 to the value of 100 marks annually, to support six chantry piiests, who 

 were to olVer prayers in perpetuity for the king and the founders, of whom 

 Archbishop Taliot is the first name<i. Thi.s Gild of St. Anne l>ecame a 

 wealthy corporation,* and their chapel in St. Audoen's Church is still 

 remembered. It is probable, indeed, that the introduction into the Letters 

 Patent of Tulliot's name is only a legal formality. His assent t<i the establish- 

 ment of a chantiy and a gild was necessary, l>oth as archbishop and as 

 judiciar; and that he contributed to the endowment from his personal estate 

 is not proved thereby. But, at any rate, he was an assenting party. 



The ecclesiastical foundation by which Archbishop Talbot is best re- 



' Col. of Papal RegitUrt, 16 Nov., J -151. 



■ Rfypi ../ Ht>,ry P. p. 6f.. 



• The instrument is printed in full in Butler's Reguter of the Monastery of All HalUncs, 

 p. 78. 



• Liher Atbtu of Chri»t Church, nos. 6, 61 ; nee also Ckrut Church Deed*, 276 

 (calendared bj the Deputy Keeper of the Irish Records). 



• ^>ee, for a full *L-c..unt i.f it. H. F. Bernr. Prof'fdingt of the Poycd IriJi Aradtmy, 

 XIV, c, pp. 21 S. 



