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He therefore requires Keppock, lieutenant of the king in Ireland, in that 

 parliament to do justice between the parties. 



The year is not given ; but it lies between c. 1374, when John Keppock first appears as a justice 

 (C. P. R. I. i. 86, nos. 33, 87), and 1380 when Sweteraan died. Since 17 November is said to haYe 

 been Thursday its Sunday letter is B: it is therefore probably 1379, but possibly 1373. 



7. Letter to the son of Mallan Oneyl. f. 1**. 

 29 May, 1376. States that when the archbishop was last in his manor 



beside (infra) the lake near Armagh (Armachia) Niallan Oneyl and his wife 

 had informed him that the clerks of the chapter had risen against him with 

 all their men. Then Oneyl and his wife, of their own motion, took oath to 

 defend him against the chapter. Belying on this oath, the archbishop made 

 Oneyl his arch-seneschal, to which office belonged the collection of the rents 

 of Armagh and Telachoge and other places. He afterwards sent to him his 

 messenger Gylcomy Orylchan, who stayed with him fifteen days, but received 

 no rents. Afterwards, hearing that this was due to information given by 

 false clerks to Oneyl that the archbishop had been excommunicated at the 

 Eoman curia, he sent him by the same messenger a copy of his absolution, 

 with a letter. It is reported, however, that the messenger has been taken 

 prisoner by the pretended dean of Armagh, and deprived of his clothes and of 

 the absolution and letter (above the line it is added, and was three days in a 

 wood). Oneyl's son is asked to intimate all this to his father, in order tha 

 he may be induced to give satisfaction regarding the rent, and that the 

 archbishop may not be obliged to proceed against him for perjury. The 

 archbishop sends for Oneyl a copy of his absolution, which like the aforesaid 

 letter is not closed but open so that all whom it concerns may see it. 



8. Letter to Masters Odo (M'^dinim), dean, and Maurice (O'Corry) 

 6 August, 1374. chancellor, and other canons resident in the chapter of 

 Armagh. f. 1**. 



Certain charges have been brought against Niallan Oneyll, under the seal 

 of confession (in secreto quasi confessionis) by persons who would not 

 otherwise have dared to make them — viz. 1. that since the archbishop last 

 left the church of Armagh, he threatened to make his manor (facere 

 manerium sive lanfordum) at Hewynnae near Armagh, which is tiie 

 archbishop's land; 2. that he aims at making his own all the lands of 

 Clondouyll ; 3. that he claims all the archbishop's lands and tenements, and 

 will leave the archbishop and his clerks nothing at Armagh except the 

 cathedral church. If he says these things he has relapsed into heresy, from 

 which he had been restored by the archbishop. But the archbishop does not 

 believe these reports, and he has promised not to proceed against Oneyll 

 without consulting the chapter. And further Oneyll has wasted the deanery 



R.I.A. PKOC, VOL. XXIX., SECT. C. [31] 



