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236. Letters patent. f. 49. 



2 January, 1368. Notify that Sir John Logan, Archdeacon of Down, against 

 whom charges had been brought by AV(illiani AVhite) Bishop of Down, first 

 appealed (proA-ocavit) to the metropolitical court last summer, and afterwards 

 in regard of (ex) different charges, and especially in regard of (a) a sentence of 

 excommunication passed upon him by the bishop, after and contrary to the 

 appeal, appeared on two occasions. His appeals were received and are still 

 undecided in the archbishop's court. 

 Dated in the manor of Drimuneskyu. 



237. Letter to the Bishop of Deny. f. 49'. 



14 February, 1368. The archbishop notifies that by adAdce of [. . . .], men 



learned in the law, and with the consent of the Dean of Derry [he had .... as 



regards some purpose] for which (ad quod) the bishop was to be (fueritis) cited 



to appear before him on this occasion up to (hac \dce . . . usque ad) the first 



juridic day after [....] with regard to complaints which the dean made 



against him. The archbishop desires him (1) to confer the rectory of Ardo 



— which has been conferred on a man under age, a defect with which only 



the Pope can dispense, and is by custom conferred on a canon of Derry — 



upon another with the advice of the dean and chapter; (2) to give the 



episcopal thii'd of his rectorj' of Derry to the fabric of the church, to which it 



is given by right (a parte juris conceditur) ; (3j to excommunicate Okaan and 



place his lordship under interdict until he give security to the dean for 



himself and his subjects — Okaan having been akeady excommunicated at the 



instance of the dean, but absolved by the bishop without summoning the 



dean ; (4) under the penalties contained in the above-mentioned citation, to 



pay what he owes to the archbishop, in any manner that may be possible 



(modo possibili), to the dean in the archbishop's name, following the dean's 



ad-\dee about the manner (modo) of pajTnent, y\z. : 17 marks 41 d. due in the 



time of Archbishop Eichard (FitzEalph), and 52 marks, also 2 marks for 



procurations at the last metropolitical visitation of the diocese, held by the 



Dean of Armagh and Master Odo (M'dinim) prior of the community of the 



chapter of Armagh (cf. no. 122). The archbishop wonders much that the 



bishop does not in his official acts follow the counsel of his dean, ' without 



whose counsel if we coidd have the advantage of his presence we would 



do nothing of difficulty, as we did not in the past when he was with us.' 



The archbishop desires this letter to be communicated to the archdeacon and 



other members of the bishop's chapter. 



Dated in the manor of Drummeskyn. 



238. Memorandum. f. 49', 



1368. States that by letter dated 14 February, and handed to Gibboinus (?) 



