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The church of Tamlactathylistei", being not now under the care of 

 M'^Kaniayll, is made a prebend, and M^'Kamayll is instituted thereto, and 

 invested by the giving of the archbishop's biretta (bui-etti). He is to provide 

 a chaplain to exercise the cure, and he is to be responsible for the burdens 

 of the rectory. 



Dated at Armagh. 



The document is much mutilated, and the nature of the transaction which 

 it records is somewhat obscure. 



128. Letter to Master Arthur (M'^bruyn), the archbishop's official at 

 1 or 8 October or 19 November, 1366. Armagh. f. 24^ 



He is commanded to cite Mcholas, Abbot, and the Convent of SS. Peter 

 and Paul, Armagh, to appear before the archbishop in St. Eonan's Church, 

 Dromeskyn, the following Thursday, to answer for their usurpation of the 

 tithes of his dominical or mensal lands at Armagh and also for despoiling 

 his servants of the tithes of Caban {in title, Cabban) and Dounorrecaynd in 

 the present autumn, and to show receipts for the rents of a portion of the 

 lands of Drumandcryuaich, in which they were bound to him for over four 

 years. 



Dated at Tarmefeghyn. 



The date is given as the Thursday before the festival of St. Dionysius 1366 = the 5th year of the 

 archhisliop's consecration (which ended 16 x 20 November, 1366) ; and the reference to the autumn 

 implies that it was in the latter half of the year. Hence tlie festival referred to must be either 

 Dionysius, bishop and martyr, 3 October, Dionysius, Eusticus and Eleuthenis, 9 October, or 

 Dionysius, 20 November. The date is therefore one of the three days given above : most probably 

 1 October. 



129. Letter for the excommimication of Eichard Verdoun of Glaspistyll 

 1366 (?). to the vicars of St. Peter's, Droghda, and St. Pechin's, 

 Tarmefechyn. f. 24''. 



Informs them that Verdoun having confessed that he had committed 

 the mortal sin of perjury, the archbishop by letter dated [. . .] 1366 had 

 commanded Patrick Sampford, chaplain, to admonish him to keep his oath 

 and perform the penance imposed by the archbishop, and, in the event of 

 this admonition being ineffective, to excommunicate him in the church 

 of Tarmefechyn on Sundays and festivals till further order. 



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130. Letter [to the Pope] commending to him the archbishop's proctor at 

 20 January, 1367. the Eoman curia. Master Odo (M'dinim), prior of the 

 community of the chapter at Armagh. He desires restoration of the title of 

 primacy, which had always appeared in papal letters to his predecessors, but 

 which he through ignorance had omitted to ask for in the bulls relating to 

 his pro\'ision, notwithstanding the controversy long pending between the 



