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right and ancient custom, the Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of Ireland, 

 has three archbishops subject to him, and when one of them — the Archbishop 

 of Tuam — was recalcitrant, the primate got judgement in his favour at the 

 Koman curia, and a bull entitling him to hold quinquennial visitations. 

 Therefore, he begs to be excused on account of the shortness of the time from 

 appearing personally before the king as required by the brief ; and that the 

 king will command that no similar brief shall henceforth issue from his 

 chancery. 



Dated at the manor of Dromeskyn " die sabbati etcet." 

 Printed, with an omission, in Ussher's Works, i., p. cxxxviii. 



This document evidently belongs to the same year as no. 17, to which it is the arohbishnp's reply 

 (1365). It follows that the statement made in it that 24 September was the Thursday before 

 Michaelmas is erroneous. In 1365, 24 September was Wednesday. It was written on a Saturday, and 

 apparently on that, which followed 24 or 25 September, i.e., 27 September. 



17. Letter of King Edward (III) to the archbishop in regard to the 

 9 June, 1365. controversy about the carrying of the crosses. f. 1 ''. 



Enjoins that the archbishops shall meet and arrange a concordat, on 

 the understanding that each may have his cross carried before him in 

 the province of the other, following the example of the Archbishops of 

 Canterbury and York, who, at the intervention of the king, made peace on 

 this understanding after a similar controversy. If by any impediment the 

 Archbishop of Armagh is hindered from so doing, he is to appear before the 

 king in England within fifteen days of Michaelmas. 



Dated at Westminster. 



The month and year in the date cannot now be read. The date, however, is undoubtedly 

 9 June, 1365: see Cal. Close Eolls, 1364-136S, p. 181. XJssher (Worlcs i. p. cxxxviii) wrongly gives 

 the year as 40 Edward III (1366). 



18. Letter of the same to the same and the Dean and Chapter of 

 22 September, 1366. Armagh. f. 2. 



States that on account of the recent appointment of the archbishop 

 they are bound to give an annual pension to one of the king's clerks 

 nominated by him until he is provided by the archbishop with a sufficient 

 benefice in the archbishopric, and nominates accordingly Walter Brygge, who 

 had been previously nominated without effect. 



Ends : " Teste Leonello duee Clarencie Mlio nostro carissimo locum tenente 

 nostrum in terra nostra Hibernie apud Kylkenniam," &c. 



19. Acquittance for rent of the Castle of Trym. f. 2. 

 20 January, 1365. Acknowledges the receipt from Walter de Dalby, clerk, 

 treasurer of Ireland, and chamberlain of the exchequer of Ireland, of 

 £33 18s. 4d., from the 35th to the o8th year of Edward III, in part payment 



