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She is to have divine offices (diviua) celehrated before her in a suitable 

 (hoiiesto atque deceiiti) place iu her dwelling house (mansum habitatiouis) by 

 a fitting chaplain, provided she hears the same, if she conveniently can, in her 

 parish church on Sundays and festivals, and saving the right of the mother 

 (matricis) church. 



Dated at Atrium Dei. 



12. Letter of excommunication. f. 3. 

 November, 1406. The secular clergy of the diocese of Armagh are informed 

 that certain persons unknown detain goods bequeathed to the archbishop and 

 the church of Armagh by his immediate predecessor, John (Colton), viz., the 

 sacerdotal vestments and other ornaments of the archbishop's chapel, cloths 

 (mappae), towels (manutergia), goblets (siphos) of murra' (de murino) and 

 silver, brazen and wooden vessels, skins (utres) or great bottles (bodellos) 

 " an" gubbis," and otlier household utensils ; they are commanded to warn 

 these persons, and all who know where these goods are, that they restore or 

 reveal them within six days ; and, if this is not done (alioquin), to excom- 

 municate them at mass on Sundays and festivals until further order be given. 



The date is inferred from the position of the letter in the llegister. Its contents imply iiu earlj' 

 period of the episcopate of Fleming. Cp. note on no. 7. 



13. Letter dimissory, granting licence to John Cardyff, clerk, though a 

 20 November, 1406. native of the diocese of Armagh, to be ordained to holy 

 orders, major or minor, by any catholic bishop, if found tit. f. 3. 



Dated at Athirde. 



1-4. Collation of the rectory or comarbia of St. Kynnicus, Drumgossa, 

 26 October, 1406. alias Eo, diocese of Derry, vacant by the death of 

 Master John M'^thaig, and in the archbishop's gift for this turn by devolved 

 right, to Master Odo MHhaig, canon of Derry. f. d''. 



He is invested, and by the giving of the ring instituted. Otherwise the 

 form is as in no. 8. 



Dated at Dundalk. 



Printed in Spelmau, 152 ; Eeeves, Colt. 39. Translated in Ware ii. i, 233 ; 

 King, 37. 



15. Citation of Nicholas, Prior of St. Mary's, Louth, to an ordinary 

 November (?), 1406. visitation. f. 3". 



Only a portion of the letter is copied. 



The preceding and following documents (nos. 11, 13, 14, 17,20) point to a date September 

 X November 1406, most probably November. November is supported by nos. 10, 42. This document 

 and no. 17 are in the same hand as nos. 20-22. 



16. Letter to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer, praying them to 



' See Oxf. Eng, Diet. s.v. Murra ; Du Cange s.v. Mazer. 



