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been collated by the archbishop to Master Odo M'^taig, canon of Derry, 

 Dermot Okaan disturbed him in his possession of it, and deprived him of 

 the fruits. The recipients of the letter are ordered, if after due warning 

 thrice repeated, Okaan does not desist fi'om this action and make restitution 

 within twenty days, to excommunicate him and his aiders and abettors in their 

 churches and other chief places of the diocese, and to continue doing so until 

 he receives absolution. 



The date is determined by no. 14, and the position of the letter in the Register. 



57. Letter of inhibition. f. 10\ 

 15 April, 1407. States that in a cause relating to the rectory of Kegles, the 

 parish church of Cluain, diocese of Ardagh, Sir Gelasius, rector thereof, had 

 appealed from a decision of Edmund, Prior of Insula Magna, in the diocese of 

 Ardagh (Ardakaden.), Sir Charles, Dean, and Sir Maurice, Archdeacon of 

 Ardagh, executors specially deputed by the Apostolic See, the appeal being 

 directed to the Apostolic See, and to the church of Armagh " tuitorie inter- 

 positam." The appeal alleged that Andrew M'^quican had obtained the 

 rectory from the Apostolic See by false suggestion, and that, the foregoing 

 having been deputed as executors, Maurice proceeding alone, without 

 citing Gelasius, deprived him and intruded M^quican. The executors and all 

 clerks and laymen of the diocese of Ardagh are therefore inhibited from 

 disturbing Gelasius in the possession of the rectory, and John M'^canybrewyll, 

 Sir Trenotus, chaplain of Cluain, and the other parishioners of Eegles, are 

 admonished under pain of excommunicatiou to be obedient to him, while the 

 appeal remains undecided. 



Dated at Adthyrde. 



58. Letter of excommunication. f. 11. 



8 August, 1407. John (OTlanuery), Bishop of Derry, having complained that 

 Bernard, son of Bernard, son of Henry Oneyll, and others, together with their 

 accomplices, had laid violent hands upon him, despoiled him of clothing, 

 horses, and other goods, bound his hands behind his back and taken his rings 

 oh' his fingers, and had ordered his clerks who were in his company to be ill- 

 treated and slain, the archbishop excommunicates Bernard, his followers, and 

 their accomplices, and commands Masters Thomas Oluheran, Dean of 

 Armagh, and William M'^kamayll, official of the deanery of Tyllaghog, and the 

 secular clei'gy of that deanery to denounce them as excommunicate on 

 Sundays and festivals in their churches and other solemn places, with cross 

 erect, bells and candles, until they receive absolution or other order is 

 issued by the archbishop. 

 Dated at Athyrde. 



