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63. Letter to Master Henry Powle, Archdeacon of Kenlys in the church 

 September, 1369. of Meath, or his oflacial. f. 9'. 



Identical with no. 61 [mutatis mutandis), except that the archdeacon, 

 instead of sending the certificate ' from time to time,' is required to do so 

 in time to allow the archbishop to make his report at the chancery before 

 29 September. He warns him of the consequences of disobedience to this, 

 his second letter. 



64. Letter of Edward (III) to the archbishop. f. 10. 



6 April, 1370. The prelates having, at a great council at Dublin, on 

 22 April, 1369, granted in aid of the expedition of William de Wyndesore the 

 king's lieutenant, a mark out of every carucate of cultivated land belonging 

 to them, on condition that their free tenants, gavellers and betaghs should be 

 included in the grant in relief of the prelates, but should not be further 

 burdened on this occasion ; and the prelates, on behalf of their clergy, their 

 consent having been first obtained, having granted two tenths out of the 

 benefices of their subjects in Ireland according to the current and accustomed 

 papal taxation — both grants to be paid within a year, in equal parts on 

 1 August and 2 February following ; and the condition having been made 

 that the prelates through their servants, and the clergy through clerks 

 appointed for this purpose by the ordinary should collect the money, and pay 

 it to certain persons deputed for each diocese by the king's lieutenant, by 

 indenture between such collectors and the persons so deputed ; the archbishop 

 is commanded (1) to appoint collectors and have the grant of the mark 

 collected and paid, (2) to call a convocation or council of his clergy to give 

 their consent, and (3) to certify the names of the collectors at the Irish 

 chancery within 15 days of 24 June. 



Ends: "Teste Willielmo &c. (as no. 39) apud Dublin &c. Thelwall." 

 A note states that the archbishop appointed the collectors, and held 

 the convocation of his clergy among the English, at which the whole clergy 

 granted the two tenths, except the Abbots of Melifonte and St. Mary's, 

 Dublin, and the Prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in Ireland, 

 who though summoned did not appear. 



A schedule of the collectors is appended, as follows : 



Collectors of the mark. 



Baronies of [Atrium Dei and ...]:[ ] 



Baronies of Loueth, Dundalke and Coly : Eobert Pomerell, Eoger Perotes, 

 John [. . .], John Wolffe, John Whyt of Coly. 



Baronies of [. . .] and Margallyn in Midia : Stephen Cor, John Bernard, 

 [ThomasJ Duffe. 



