136 Proceedimis oj the llmial Irish Academij. 



days, on pain of oxconiniunicaLioii. If Uiia warning is iiielTeuUuil, he is lo 

 proclaim liini excommunicate on Sundays and feslivals ; and if ho is still 

 obdurate after a further period of twenty-four days, he is to lay the places in 

 which he may sojourn under ecclesiastical interdict, which is not to he relaxed 

 till he has made restitution, or reasonable composition with the bisliop, and 

 received absolution. 



The dale is infened from tlie place of tbedocnmenL in the Register. 



138. Letters patent, certifying {title says to the court of the iaug) the 

 August X November, 1410. excommunication of Stephen Goddferey {in title 

 Godfrey). f. 33 (32i'. 



States that, at the instance of John Awell, the above has received 

 sentence of greater excommunication from the late Master liichard More, 

 Archdeacon of Armagh, and has been obdurate under the same for over a year ; 

 and requires that he shall therefore be avoided Ijy all. 



This is obviously to be dated in oi- after January, 1409 (see no. HO). Its place in tlie Register 

 suggests the date given above. It is apparently in the same hand as no. 137. 



139. Letter of citation of Richard More, Archdeacon of Armagh, addressed 



9 January, 1408. to Henry Miltouu, Nicholas Haburgey, Laurence Ohage, and 

 William Hormy. f. 33*. 



The above are commanded, at the instance of John Awell, to cite Stephen 

 Godfrey to appear before the archdeacon in St. Peter's Church, Droghda, on 



10 January, in a case of defamation and perjury moved between Awell and 

 Godfrey, according to the form of previous citations in the same matter (juxta 

 formam retroactorum in eadenr). 



Sealed with the official seal of the archdeacon. 



Nos. 139-lil are on inserted slips of vellum, evidently plated here because of the connexion of 

 nos. 139, UO with no. 138. 



140. Notarial instrument. f . 33**. 



9 January, 1408. Certifies that in St. Peter's Church, Droghda, Master 

 Eichard More, Archdeacon of Armagh, pronounced Stephen Godfrey, who 

 had been cited to appear before him at the instance of John Awell, contu- 

 macious and ordered him to be denounced as excommunicate. 



Ends : " Presentibus tunc ibidem Thoma Chambyr et diversis aliis." 

 The certificate of William Mey, priest of the diocese of Meath and notary, 

 with his device (signum), follows. 



141. Letter of Archbishop John to the parochial chaplain of St. Nicholas, 

 Dundalk. f. 33**\ 



States that in his first ordinary visitation (in nostra visitatione ordinaria 

 nostri primi ingressus) he had ordered all priests of the deanery of Uundalk to 



