l/AWLOR — .4 Cahnddr of the Register of Archbishop Sivefeman. 257 



For this usurpation of tithes to the vahie of 100 marks, the abbot and 

 convent have incurred sentence of greater excommunication. They have 

 incurred the same sentence for despoiliug the archbishop's servants of part of 

 the tithes of Dun and Caban Obreanynd in the same parish for 1 366, which 

 they were receiving in his name. The archbishop intends to proceed against 

 them. 



A note adds that in the chamber of his manor of Dromeskyn on 



15 October, 1366, the primate appointed Master Patrick Oreych, learned in 

 law, his commissary in regard to the foregoing: 'testibus magistris [Patri]cio 

 decano, Petro, cancellario, et Odone priore communitatis ecclesie Ardmachane 

 presentibus.' On the same day the commissary sat iu St. Eonan's Church, 

 Dromeskyn, and, the abbot and convent not appearing, adjourned the sitting 

 (expectavit) to the next day. 



138. Memorandum of instructions to E. Decorris and Master Dionysius 

 2 November, 1367. M'^nabid, messengers of the primate to the Eoman 

 curia. f. 26\ 



Supplication is to be made of the Pope, privately (cameraliter) if 

 possible, if not, in pubhc consistory (1) that — because from the coming of 

 the archbishop to Armagh the church and province had been destroyed, 

 first by pestilence and afterwards by war, especially for the last two years, 

 so that the archbishop has not been able to carry on his visitations completely 

 or to receive the dues connected therewith — he should be permitted to visit his 

 province by commissaries, and to receive procurations as if he had done so 

 in person ; (2) that [some concession may be made] although a case is 

 pending in the Eoman curia about vacancy in the see of Down. 



The latter portion is for the most part torn away. 



139. Letter to Masters [. . .] and [ ] of the deanery of 



16 Jvme, 1375. Tulachog. f. 27. 

 Masters Arthur [M'^bruyn], John [. . .], Magonius [. . .], Cornelius 



Olorcan, and Gilbert Omoduim, canons, having, with others, been condemned 

 by the archbishop as [indebted ?] to the colidei, and having remained 

 obdurate for a year or more, are to be excommunicated in the churches 

 of the persons addressed, viz. that of Armagh and those of the deanery 

 of Tulachog, at mass on Simdays and festivals, imtil further order, and to 

 be cited to appear before the archbishop in the cathedral chm-ch on the 

 next juridic day after 29 June to answer for their contempts and 

 disobedience in this matter, and for theu- refusal to reside at the cathedral in 

 accordance with many admonitions of the archbishop. 

 Dated at (infra) the archbishop's lake near Armagh. 



140. Letters patent stating that the .\rchbisbop has sold the tithes. 



