Lawlok — A Calendar of the Register of Archbiskoj? Fleming. 161 



240. Certificate of excommunication [according to the title addressed to the 

 4 November, 1413. king's court). f. 59 (64)\ 



Notifies that in the course of his metropolitical visitation of the diocese 

 of Meath in 1410 the archbishop had sentenced "William Balf, burgess of 

 Athboy, to greater excommunication for contumacy in a cause concerning 

 usiuy promoted by John Madok, burgess of Drogheda, and that he has 

 remained obdurate for more than four years. He desires the addressees to act 

 accordingly. 



The year of the visitation seems to have heen liOO, not 1410, as written in the Register. There 

 was no metropolitical visitation of Meath in the latter year ; and tlie latter part of the document 

 implies that the visitation was [iroceeding more than four years hefore Novetnl)er, 1413. 



241. Dispensation for marriage within the prohibited degrees, f. 60 (56). 

 1415 (?). States that the archbishop had received a letter (quoted) from Peter 

 (Gerardi), Bishop of Tusculum, presented to him by Barnabas G-ernon of 

 G-ernonestoun, sealed with an oblong pendant seal, " ad similituduiem 

 sculptui'e," representing a bishop sitting in a chair, of red wax on white 

 wax, in the manner of the Eoman court, in which Peter, who, together with 

 Antony (de Cajetanis), Bishop of Porto, had charge of the Pope's penitentiary, 

 by special viva •voce command of the Pope, gave him authority to grant 

 dispensation to four men and four women of his city and diocese to marry 

 within the fourth degree of kindred or affinity. The letter was dated at 

 Bononia 12 September, 1410. Accordingly the archbishop, as sole delegate 

 or executor of the Apostolic See, grants such dispensation to Geruon and 

 Alice de Werdon, related in the fourth and fourth degree. 



Incomplete. 



The date given above is suggested by those of nos. 242 ti'. 



242. Institution of Sir John Whyte, priest, rector of Drakestoun, diocese 

 22 June, 1415. of Meath, presented by Adam Elmeley, proctor in Ireland of 

 the Prior and Convent of Lantonia Prima, diocese of St. David's (Menneven.), 

 Wales, to the vicarage of St. Peter's, Drogheda, vacant by the resignation of 

 Sir Nicholas Tempset for the purpose of exchange with Whyte. f. 60 (56)t. 



Dated in the manor of Dromeskyn. 



A note states that a mandate for induction was issued to the Archdeacon 

 of Ai'magh. 



24.3. Certificate by Edward (Dauntesey), Bishop of Meath, of the citation 

 4 July, 1415. to a metropolitical visitation. f. 61 (55). 



States that he had received the archbishop's letter dated in the manor of 

 Dromeskyn, 23 March (quoted : form as no. 85) for the holding of his 

 visitation of the diocese of Meath, beginning at St. Patrick's Church, Trym, 

 on 4 July, and that he acted accordingly. 



