Lawlou — A Calendar of the Register of Archbishop Fleming. 131 



The place of this document in the Register suggests a date in April or May, 1409. In that year 

 the Mondaj- before St. George's day was 22 April. The letter must therefore have been written 

 earlier in the same month. Darcy was then vicar of Dunleer (no. 114), and his successor in that 

 living resigned 29 September, 1415 (no. 247). But if the parliament took place in 1409, there were 

 apparently two parliaments in that year (see no. 105). The year 1410 is excluded (see no. 108). 



120. Letter on behalf of the leper house (domu[s] seu casella) of St. Brigid, 

 April (?), 1409. Kylbyxy, in the diocese of Meath. f. 28. 



Exhorts the faithful in the deaneries of Fauoria, Molynger, Lox, and 

 Arnurehyi' to give to the proctor of the house when he comes to them, and 

 grants an indulgence of 40 days to contributors throughout the whole diocese. 



The date is inferred from the position of the letter in the Register. 



121. Dimission. f. 28". 

 18 April, 1409. States that the archbishop, in his metropolitical visitation 

 of Meath, supposing the house of Dyuelek to be a priory of which 

 Thomas Spenser, canon O.S.A., was prior, cited the latter to submit 

 to visitation or show cause why he and the house and also the chapel or 

 oratory set apart for the celebration of divine offices should not be visited. 

 Spenser appeared and alleged that he was not prior, but a canon of the 

 priory of Lanthonia near Glowcestria, diocese of Worcester (Wigornien.), 

 O.S.A., and merely proctor during pleasure of the prior and canons thereof, 

 to whom the parish church of St. Kenan, Dyuelek, belonged ; that the house 

 of Dyuelek, commonly called a priory, was neither a priory nor a cell of a 

 priory, but a storehouse (receptaculum), or house or grange ; and that the 

 canons residing there as proctors had been for over 40 years, indeed from 

 time immemorial, exempt from the metropolitical visitation of the archbishops. 

 Having examined instruments of his predecessors, and heard witnesses, the 

 archbishop pronounced sentence (quoted) in favour of Spenser. 



Dated in St. Mary's Church, Droghda, on the Meath side. 

 A note adds that the instruments mentioned above were copied in the 

 registers of the church of Armagh. 



122. Certificate that in his metropolitical visitation of the diocese of 

 April (?), 1409. Meath, the archbishop caused Sir John Nouan, priest, to be 

 cited to show his letters of orders, and that he appeared. f. 29 (28)\ 



The title seems to show that he gave proof of his orders and received a 

 certificate thereof. 



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Both the character of this document and its place in the Register suggest a date not far from that 

 of no. 121. It is written by the same hand. 



12.3. Letter of excommunication to the Bishop of Eaphoe (Eaboten.). 

 9 May, 1410. f. 30 (29). 



In continuation of a foi'mer letter the archbishop commands the bishop in 



