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with a view to Ms deposition. The said clerks are also desii'ed to ti'eat with 

 Philip Oraigill, King of Breffinia, and with other clerks of the diocese of 

 Kilmore elected and deputed as custodians of the sequestration, as to what 

 action should be taken about the sequestrated fruits of the bishopric, and 

 whether the goods of the church itself have been diverted (distracta et 

 dissipata) to aUen uses. They are to report to the archbishop together 

 with the return (retradicio) of this commission. Bishop Eichard appeared 

 before James Scotelare, learned in law, clerk and commissary of the primate, 

 acting under this commission at Eathdycke, a place in the diocese of Kilmore 

 near Monalthy, in the diocese of Meath. There, with the express consent of 

 the bishop and the consent of the major and principal of his clergy, Scotelare 

 gave sentence as follows : — He is to pay the penalty of £100 and 40 marks, 

 and if his offence is repeated his episcopal jurisdiction is to be resumed by the 

 primate, he is again to fall under the greater excommunication, and to have 

 the fruits of the bishopric sequestrated, and action is to be taken at the Eoman 

 curia with a view to his deposition. The bishop was then sworn to abide by the 

 commands (de stando mandatis) of the Church, and received absolution from 

 Master Thomas Ossiridean acting for the commissary, as well as relaxation of 

 the sequestration, restoration of jurisdiction, and dispensation on account of 

 his offences. He promised, in part payment of the above-named sum, 20 marks 

 within a month, 5 marks on 17 March, and 5 marks on 1 May, failure of these 

 payments to incur greater excommunication. The bishop and the major of 

 his clergy present, viz. Master Thomas Ossiridean, his official general, Luke 

 M'gauuergan, Dionysius Ossiridean, Luke M'=monchan, Patrick M'^braddy, 

 and others, swore that they would cause that letters about the foregoing, to 

 be drawn up by the primate in the name of the bishop and clergy, should be 

 sealed with the common seal of the bishop and clergy, and returned to the 

 primate. 



Ends : " Testibus ad premissa presentibus et vocatis magistro WilHelmo 

 Offergayll, Johanne Tia[ . . ]rloge, Edwardo cursore dicti primati et aliis." 



69. Memorandum. f. 12. 



14 November, 1366. At a metropolitical visitation personally held by the 

 primate in the parish church of Kylmaynan in the diocese of Kilmore 

 (Tirburnen.), Eichard (O'Eeilly), Bishop thereof, submitted and confessed 

 that he was involved in the sentence of excommunication for impeding 

 the commissaries of the primate in their visitation of the diocese, and that 

 he had not put away Edina ( ? Ediua) (Oraygill, see no. 68), and that he 

 had inciu-red the penalty of 40 marks for the repetition of his offence 

 with her, and he put himself on the grace of the primate, praying to be 

 absolved from the excommunication. The primate, when the bishop was 



