226 Proeeedmcfs of the Bot/nl Irish Academp. 



notice that it gives, as the reason for the introduction of these new ministers 

 of the Cathedral, the desirability of bringing the arrangements at St. Patrick's 

 into conformity with fhose of Salisbury, that being the model from which 

 the constitution of this Cathedral is derived.^ When an archbishop, whose 

 early traditions were bound up with Hereford (as we have seen) and not at all 

 with Salisbury, cites in a formal instrument the custom of the latter Church, 

 it is plain that the original connexion of St. Patrick's with Salisbury must 

 have been a matter of common knowledge and of common pride in the 

 fifteenth century. 



These minor canons were to be in priests' orders, and their duties are 

 exactly specified. They were to have no voice in the Chapter, nor any fixed 

 stall in the (!hoir — an arrangement which still continues after the lapse of 

 nearly five centuries, minor canons being only admitted and not installed. 



Another Cathedral ordinance of Archbishop Talbot should be mentioned. 

 It is dated 1st March, \ATi, and is an order to the canons of Christ Church 

 " to wear cloaks with grey fur outside, and nieny ver inside in solemn 

 processions " — in other words, to conform to the usual dress of canons in 

 cathedral churches. Inciilentally, the ordinance tells us the accustomed 

 order of procession when both chapters, that of Christ Churcli and that of 

 St. Patrick's, were present. This had been arranged seventy years before by 

 Archbishop de St. Paul.' and it is explicitly mentioned by Archbishop Talbot 

 that in solemn processions the Prior of Holy Trinity (Christ Church) and the 

 Dean of St. Patrick's together took the principal place after the Archl)ishop; 

 then came the aubprior of Holy Trinity and the Precentor of St. Patrick's 

 together, and after them the canons of the churches, two by two.' 'J'he 

 jealousy with which each cathedral guarded its own dignity explains the 

 emphasi.s which was laid upon such detail.«!. 



Richard Tallwt was not the man to ;^ve away what he believed to be his 

 rights, and it was inevitable that he should continue an old quarrel as to 

 jurisdiction between the Archbi.shops of Armagh and Dublin, which had 

 begun more than a century before his day. The main jjoint in dispute was 

 that the Archbishop of Armagh, as Primate of All Ireland, claimed the right 

 to carry his metropolitan cross anywhere in Ireland, while on the other hand 



' T'lere is nor, indeed, a CulUge rf Minor Cnnons at Salisbury, the only parallel or 

 tlii> hf-ini; fonnd in St. Panl'ii. LkiIicIoii. But the jirece<lent jiui forward by .Arclibisbnj) 

 r»!'>'>i III hi-< (.'barter is the fact that theao ofticera of the Church existed at Salieburj' ; 

 he di.l not give them any cur|K>rate existence, which they did not receive until 1519. 

 They were, and are, of course, distinct from the Vicars Choral, whose College wan founded 

 at a much earlier date. 



' See his ordinance. AtYi June, 1.352, printed in the Briliik Magazine, xxx. oil. 



' Christ Church Deeds, no. 277. 



