224 p7'oceedin(fS of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Pope Gregory XI by the instrumentality of the abbot of Cella Nigra at Derry, 

 and in -^^irtue of it, by the counsel of the abbot and other prelates of his 

 diocese, oppressing many persons. He was guilty of divers other crimes 

 throughout the province, and especially in the dioceses of Armagh, Eaphoe 

 [and Derry], and is bound hy certain debts to the archbishop. The dean is 

 given power to proceed against the bishop in the archbishop's name. 



Dated at the manor of Drummeskyn. 



The beginnings of the lines of this document have been cut away, and in 

 consequence the purport of much of it cannot be ascertained. 



15. Appointment of proctors by the archbishop. f. 1. 



6 March, 1366. The proctors named were John Phil[ Iptoun and 



Sir [Gilbert] Cauntoun [ ]. They were to state to Leonellus Duke of 



Clarence, son and lieutenant in Ireland of the king, the cause why the 

 archbishop could not at mid-Lent give him a full reply concerning the 

 " mutual " carrying of the crosses of himself and the Archbishop of Dublin, 

 each in the province of the other, and the evidences and reasons for the 

 archbishop's right to the prmiacy of Ireland and to the carrying of his cross. 

 Dated at the city of Down. 



16. Letter of the archbishop, chaplain of Edward (III), to the 

 27 September (?), 1365. king. f. I. 



States that on 28 August he had received the king's brief, ordering that, if 

 any unpediment hindered him from doing the things contained therein, he 

 should appear before the king within fifteen days of Michaelmas. In obedience 

 thereto he repaired to certain places on the border of the provinces, on 17 and 

 Thursday, 24 September, to tre^t with the Archbishop of Dublin about the 

 matter contained in the brief. The Archbishop of Dublin did not appear ; but 

 on the latter day he sent proctors, desiring the archbishop to obey the brief in 

 all things, and especially in regard to the mutual carrying of the crosses in both 

 provinces. This the archbishop could not do, (1) because it was impossible for 

 him, in so short a time, to hold the necessary consultation with his chapter 

 and suffragans, who were 100 miles or more away ; (2) because, by grants of 

 the Apostolic See, and of the crown, some of which he sends for inspection, 

 the Archbishops of Armagh have the right of primacy in the province of 

 Dublin, and of carrying their cross throughout the whole of Ireland; (3) 

 because a suit brought by him many years ago at the Eoman curia against 

 the Archbishop of Dublin on that matter was still pending ; while concerning 

 the right of the Archbishop of Dublin to carry his cross in the province of 

 Armagh no question had ever been raised, notwithstanding suggestions to the 

 contrary, and so the case of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York was not 

 parallel to that of the Archbishops of Armagh and Dublin ; (4) because, of 



