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passed by him (de sui sententia quam tulerat], according to report, as 

 executor, in favour of Sir Patrick Okelly or Okynuegan against Sir Henry 

 Ofierchan, rector of Myntereny or Tamlaghtlege, in \Trtue (vigore) of a 

 certain grant of possession (conquestus) obtained by the former, but in 

 such a way as to render it invalid (licet nulliter et sinistra), for the removal 

 of the latter from his rectory — denied on oath that he had ever in the cause 

 of such gi-ant (conquestus^ passed (protulisse) any sentence, or intended to 

 pass (preferre) any, since he did not think any (sentence) ought to be passed 

 in such matters (cum non vult esse in talibus proferend') except with the 

 express counsel and assent of the primate. He desii-ed a public instrument 

 to be made. 



Ends : " Presentibus reverendis et discretis viris magistro Jacobo Leche 

 ecclesie Armachane canonico ac Donato M'kelgen clerico Eathpotensi, Patricio 

 Omurran carpentario," &c. 



The date is given in three forms : (1) 19 [ . . .] 1453, (2) the 7th [so Reeves : the number is 

 now lost] year of Xieholas V, (3) the second indietion. The last holds good for the year 1454 (x.s.). 

 The second implies a date before 18 March, 1454. Hence from the first it is determined as 19 January, 

 or 19 February, 1454. 



263. Xotarial instrument. f. 67 (65)^ 

 March, 1454 x March, 1455. Sets out fi) that in the residence of the notary at 

 Drogheda, Sir Donaldus M^bard, chaplain, who had lately Uved with Henry 

 AValshe of Knokkengarre, in LacaUa, diocese of Down, swore (1) that he had 

 learned from Walshe and others that Isabella, "Walshe's daughter, had animals 

 of her own among those of her father, (2 , that after "Walshe's death, about six 

 years before 1 May last, his animals were taken to the ' place ' of the Prior of 

 Down, and when mention was made of Isabella's animals among her father's, 

 the prior said it pleased him that she should have them for her dowry (maritagio 

 et commodo), (3) that the prior often threatened to seU out her father for a 

 debt (sepius ex debito quod sibi debuit venditare), and that Walshe denied the 

 debt : (ii) that William Stokys swore (1) that the animals Isabella had among 

 her father's were " 'i liUaghts, 1 bolet kowe, and 1 ox," (2) that he knew this 

 fi-om ha\Tng had charge of them for a time, (3) that by permission of Isabella 

 her father had them for hLs use (refrig[e]riuni), (4) confirmed (2) of previous 

 witness. 



Ends : " Hiis presentibus discretis viris Patricio Zeman, Cristoforo appaii- 

 tore ac Eicardo Tankard," &c. 



The date is given as A.D. 14 [. .], the 8th year of Pope Xicholas [Y^. 



264. Letter of protection of Sigismund, King of the Eomans, [King 

 9 July, 1417. of Hungary], Daknatia, Croatia, &c., for the Council of 

 Constance. f. 68 (67), 



