Lawlor — Calendar of the Liber Ruber of the Diocese of Ossory. 169 



prayers for their souls. But it is said that certain men bestow the whole of 

 their goods on others, some while they are in good health, in order that they 

 may be able to slay others without thereby suffering the loss of their goods, 

 and others when in the article of death, defrauding both the Church, their 

 creditors, and their own souls. It is therefore ordered, with the assent of the 

 chapter and clergy, that priests and curates of churches shall not, on pain of 

 the greater excommunication, admit any who act in either of these ways to 

 ecclesiastical burial without special licence of the bishop, and that those who 

 receive such gifts shall be suspended from entrance to the church. These 

 two statutes are to be recited publicly in the vulgar tongue by the vicars and 

 parish priests in all parish churches on the first Sundays of Lent and Advent 

 every year. (17) A general sentence of excommunication upon various classes 

 of offenders follows, which is ordered to be recited in the mother tongue by 

 all rectors, vicars, and parish priests in the diocese of Ossory in their churches 

 during mass once a quarter, on pain of excommunication. 



Printed in Wilkins, ii., 501. 



For the date see no. 15. 



15. Memorandum relating to no. 14. f. 10^. 



c. 1360. The memorandum was erased at an early date ; and an 



attempt made about sixty years ago to restore the writing by means of 

 a reagent was only partially successful. What can now be read runs as 

 follows : — 



"Memorandum quod anno domini millesimo cccc° {sic) sexto decimo 

 translate Willelmo episcopo Ossoriensi quarto die post festum Annunciationis 

 beate virginis [Marie] ad archiepiscopatum Cassellensem frater Eicardus de 

 Ledred de ordine minorum de Anglia [oriundjus per sedem apostolicam 

 factus est episcopus Ossoriensis pro illo substitutus qui admissus a rege 

 [temjporalibus e[ . , , tr]aditis et Uteris apostolicis archiepiscopo [Dub]liniensi 

 et capitulo suo Kilkennie [pujblicatis celebrata inauguratione sua apud 

 Kilkenniam conuocato capitulo et clero t[oto] diocesis primam synodum 

 solempnem [in] octauis beati Michaelis sequentis solempniter (?) celebrauit et 

 statuta synodalia supradicta per eum facta publicauit et de consensu capituli 

 et cleri publice statuit observari. Qua synodo celebrata pro eo quod maneria 

 episcopalia fuerunt destructa per guerram scotorum et vt plurimum com- 

 busta(?) episcopus petiuit subsidium a toto clero qui omnes de consensu 

 omnium nulla bona traderent pro eo quod ipsi omnes (?) per dictam guerram 

 [f]ructus^ pauperati coll . . . . et ordin . , sunt (?) quod episcopus . . traret . . . 



^ Possibly, as a friend suggests, " fuerunt." 



[26-i=] 



