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and iiieanwlule that ou the part of ^I''gunissa there should be truce (tr'ige) if 

 the Ulstermen were willing. Sealed by the archbishop and William Pyrrouu, 

 notary public, who drew up the instrument. 



Ends : " Magistro Johanne de Strode, rectore ecclesie de Stabanann, 



magistro Mauricio [Odone M*^] di [nini can]on[ici]s ecclesie cathedralis 



Ardmachane et Thoma Ologheran decauo decanatus de Tulaghoge testibus ad 

 premissa vocatis et [speeiaKter] rogatis." 



Tlieie is an eriur in Ihe date, since 13 July, 1373, was Friday. The true date was probably 

 1 .3 July, 1372, wliich was Thursday. This would allow time for Taney's tenure of the office of 

 justiciary, wliich is said to have lasted eighteen months, and to have preceded the second period of 

 office of William de Windsor (C. P. R. I., i., p. 86, no. 41), which began in April, 1374 (ib. no. 19). 



11. Acknowledgement by Maurice Oeorry, Chancellor of Armagh, of money 

 10 September, 1373. due by him to the archbishop, made before the arch- 

 bishop sitting in his capitular place at Armagh cathedral. f. 2** 



Oeorry owed 10 silver marks, viz. 2^ marks " in prece vel pretio " then 

 payable, the like payable on 1 November and 25 December, and 3 marks on 

 2 February for corn and animals (?) sold to him. And thus a delay is granted 

 (respectuatur) of all his other debts " sub bono suo gestu futuro scripti^ 

 presentibus decano Ardmachano et ceteris residentibus de capitulo Ardma- 

 chano." A notarial certificate, for the most part illegible, follows. Two 

 names, perhaps of witnesses, have been read : Malachias M°K[. . .] and 

 William Ohmr (?). 



12. Verses of a religious character. f. 2**"^ col. 1. 

 A considerable part is illegible. 



13. Letter to Pope Gregory (XI). f. 2**'' col. 2. 



14 August, 1374. States that Nicholas Per [. . .] received from the archbishop 

 collation and institution to the rectory with cure (curata) of Dunbeynge, and 

 was instituted and inducted, and remained there some years without being 

 ordained priest. He then received the rectory with cure (curata) of Mourne, 

 to which he was instituted by the Bishop of Down and inducted, still retaining 

 Dunbeynge for some months. When called upon at the ordinary visitation 

 of Armagh in 1374 to produce his titles and dispensation he did not do so, 

 and appealed to the Pope. The archbishop, disallowing (non deferens) the 

 appeal as frivolous, now addresses these refutatory letters to the Pope. 



Dated at the manor of Dromeskyu. 



On f. 3** we find "Milo Swet[eman] 13 [. .]," partly cut away. 



14. Letter to Master Maurice (O'Corry), Dean of Armagh. f. 3 * * '. 

 24 [ . . . ] 1380. States that brother Simon, Bishop of Derry, had been 

 guilty of various crimes, e.g., simony, squandering the goods of his church, 

 neglecting to correct the sins of his subjects, false [obtaining (?) of a Indl] of 



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