Lawlor — Calendar of the Liber Ruber of the Diocese of Ossory. 165 



Accordingly, an inquisition having been taken before the Chancellor of 

 Ireland, brother William Tany, prior of the Hospital of St. John of 

 Jerusalem, from which it appears that the Bishop's statement is correct, 

 it is commanded that henceforth no such customs be taken on the ground 

 of said letters patent. Dated at Dublin, per 'petitionem de parliamento.' 

 Printed in H M C 262. 



The heading gives the year as 38 Edward III (1364). But Tany did not become Chancellor till 

 after August, 1372 (Cal. of Chancery Rolls, Ireland, p. 84, no. 126, p. 85, nos. 3, 6). 



13. Provincial constitutions made by the Archbishop of Dublin with 

 1518. his [suffragan] bishops and religious persons. f. 5\ 



The substance of the constitutions is as follows: — (1) That priests from 

 Conact and Ultonia be not admitted unless in the judgment of the 

 ordinary they be found fit. (2) That persons who do not pay pasture 

 and 'simili ordine' tithes are excommunicated. (3) That Irish clerks who 

 do not pay procurations to the Archbishop and other burdens laid upon the 

 churches be denounced as excommunicated by all curates, on pain of 

 suspension ' quo ad ulti™ vale ste" {cfii. ite = item) dispo°^ cle. dud^ et cet'is 

 provin^"^^ const' adit' \_sic] in hac pte.'^ (4) Tin chalices are to be disused 

 (suspense) after a year, and henceforth none are to be consecrated which are 

 not at least made of silver. (5) Two valuers are to be appointed by the 

 bishop to apprise the goods of the dead. [Offenders against this rule] are 

 ipso facto excommunicated, and are to be denounced by the curates, even 

 without letters from the ordinaries, (6) If temporal persons do not pay the 

 half part of the obventions of their houses in cemeteries, their goods and 

 persons, being in the said cemeteries or the churches, shall have no 

 ecclesiastical immunity. (7) Provincial statutes and synodals must be put 

 in force (exequi) by the ordinaries and curates under the penalties contained 

 in the same. (8) A grant or farm made to laymen, of any ecclesiastical 

 goods, without the assistance of a clerk, is void. (9) Clerks playing football 

 shall for every offence pay 40d to the ordinary and 40d for the repair of the 

 church in which the game has been played. (10) Those who impose lay 

 burdens and necessary exactions on any church are excommunicated, the 

 royal power excepted. (11) The council defines all procurations among 

 Irishmen due to the bishop on account of visitations, and orders that 

 payment thereof is to be compelled by ecclesiastical censure, so, however, 

 that the statute " Instud' " may extend to the payment of procurations to all 



^ These words are given as they stand in the ms. It seems impossible to extract any 

 coherent meaning from them ; and the surmise of Wilkins. that the text is corrupt, appears to be 

 justified. 



