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seventh of their penance, to those who contributed to the reparation of the 

 fabric of the Church of Holy Trinity and Holy Cross, Dublin, and were 

 contrite and confessed; and mentioning several other privileges granted by 

 these and other popes (e.g., that at the request of the proctors of the said 

 church convocations of the clergy and the laity of both sexes were to be called 

 on days and at places assigned, and that the proctors might celebrate divine 

 of&ces, even in interdicted churches), and a grant of forty days' indulgence 

 to benefactors by Eouland (Jorse) Archbishop of Armagh. Sealed by Bishop 

 Matthew and the prior and convent of Holy Trinity at Eathescop on 

 Thursday, the festival of SS. Philip and James (1 May), "anno Domino m^°. 

 vicesimo" (13200. 



(3) A statement that the prior and convent appeared before Adam de 

 Kyngeston, clerk of Lichfield diocese, notary public (who certifies the correct- 

 ness of the copies), " in the year, indiction, month, day, place, and pontificate 

 above named," and declared that they were afraid to incur the risk of sending 

 the originals of the foregoing letters to the Eoman curia, and had therefore 

 caused copies to be made in the presence of brother Adam Payn, canon of 

 Holy Trinity, and Sir Eichard Troye, chaplain. 



These three documents were comprised in an instrument drawn by Adam 

 de Kyngeston, Kyngeston having recently (nuper) died, the undersigned 

 notary, Thomas (Arilton), certifies that it has been correctly copied in the 

 present instrument. 



(4) A Bull of Eugenius (IV), granting an indulgence of four years and as 

 many quadragenae (i.e., 160 days) to penitents visiting the church on Laetare 

 Sunday (4th Sunday in Lent), and contributing to the preservation or 

 restoration of the fabric. Ferrara, 18 February, 1438. 



In Christ Church Deeds, 289. 



(5) An enumeration of other indulgences granted by archbishops and 

 bishops, e.g. (i) by many archbishops and bishops, 400 days for saying the 

 Lord's Prayer and Angelic Salutation in the church ; (ii) by twenty-one 

 archbishops and bishops, forty days for hearing Mass said by one of the 

 canons thereof. 



Compare Christ Church Deeds, 135, 144-149. 



(6) Certificate that at the request of brother William Kynton, prior 

 of Holy Trinity, made in the consistory of St. Patrick's, Eobert Waren, ofiicial 

 principal of the metropolitical court of Dublin, caused copies, which he 

 certifies, to be made of ten papal letters (some originals) exhibited by the 

 said prior ; and that these proceedings took place in the presence of 



^ This is evidently the correct year. It fell within the episcopate of O'lloey (1289-1322), and in 

 it May 1 was a Thursday. 



