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A clause interpolated into the text states that the letters of proxy of 

 Kenan and the decree of postulation immediately followed this document, 

 obviously on the succeeding leaf, now lost. A note adds that the citation of 

 Simon was copied at the beginning of ' fol. ^^di.' 



The date, supposing that the lost portion did not record proceedings subsequent to tliose here 

 mentioned, is obviously the same as that of no. 187 — the letter of citation last referred to in the 

 document. 



201. Letter of Edward (III) to the sheriff of Loueth. f. 43. 

 18 March, 1370. He is to have proclamation made in the plain (piano) of 

 the county and wherever else in the territoiy he may deem it expedient, that 

 no ecclesiastical person, under heavy forfeit to the crown (foiisfactura nostra), 

 shall sell any tithe for next year to any idle man (otioso) or Irishman, but 

 that all such tithes shall be kept for the king's lieutenant William de 

 Wyndesore. 



Ends : " Teste WilUelmo &c. (as no. 39) apud Tamelyn " &e. 



202. Citation for the ordinary ^dsitation of the diocese of Armagh among 

 17 April, 1370 the Irish. f. 43. 



Master Patrick Ocorry, dean, is commanded to appear and to cite the 

 canons of the chapter to appear on 13 Slay, to cite the cohdei of the 

 cathedral, the chaplains serving in the city, and the clergy of the deanery of 

 Ardmach for 14 May, also laics from all parishes of the same for 15 May, 

 at the cathedral; and to have the clergy and people of the deanery of 

 Tvdaghog cited for 16 May at the church of Clonfekena. 



Dated in the manor of Drummeskyn. 



203. Commission to Masters [..-•] and Patrick Ocorry, Dean of Armagh, 

 7 May, 1370. to hold the visitation (no. 202). f. 43'. 



Dated in the manor of Dromeskyn. 



204. Citation for the ordinary visitation of the deanery of Drogchda. 

 15 May, 1370. f. 43'. 



The dean of the deanery, John Bagoke, vicar of Portluran, is to cite the 

 clergy, and laity from every parish, to appear at St. Peter's, Drogchda, on 

 22 May. 



Dated in the manor of Dromeskyn. 



205. Letter to [the Dean of Armagh]. f. 44. 



9 September, 1367. In reply to a letter, received the pre\dous night when he 

 was in bed, asking absolution for Ohandeloyn and Donald (O'Neill), he says 

 that after frequent absolutions, oaths taken, and pledges given by Ohandeloyn 

 they acted worse than before, and are now excommunicated for continual 

 rebeUions. He therefore cannot absolve them without counsel from magnates 

 (majores de terra), friends of himself and the Church, who are busy with the 



