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shall be ijjso facto suspended for a year. Quaestors attempting anything 

 contrary thereto are ipso facto excommunicated, and if they persevere for 

 forty days, at the command (significationem) of the bishop they shall be 

 imprisoned until another arrangement has been made about such matters by 

 the diocesan. All letters hitherto granted to such quaestors are recalled, 

 relaxation of the foregoing sentences without absolution of the diocesan being 

 reserved. And chaplains receiving money on that account shall restore 

 threefold to the cathedral churches. (24) There shall be a commemoration 

 of St. Patrick throughout the province on some vacant day every week 

 except in Lent; with regimen of the choir, and the day of his death shall 

 be celebrated as a double festival, as shall also the death days of the patrons 

 of the other cathedrals, viz. : — St. Brigid in Kildare, St. Canice in Ossory, 

 St. Laserian in Leighlin, and St. Eden the Confessor in Ferns ; and on the 

 festival of the patron saint in each diocese, the people shall abstain from 

 work, and attend the offices in their parish churches. (25) The festivals of 

 Laurence the Archbishop (double), of the eleven thousand virgins, and of 

 the translation of St. Patrick, shall be observed with nine lessons in the 

 churches throughout the province. (26) "Wliere there is a proper service of 

 the said patrons a copy shall be sent to each cathedral church by the diocesan, 

 that distribution may be made among those churches. 



18. Provincial constitutions of Archbishop John (de St. Paul), f. lo^. 

 21 March, 1352. The following constitutions are promulgated by the 

 Archbishop at a council held in Holy Trinity Church with the consent and 

 assent of his suffragans and his and their chapters, and of all others whose 

 consent is required : — (1) The festival of the Conception of B.Y.jM. is to be 

 celebrated in the province as a double, the service being the same as that for 

 the Nativity of B.Y.M,, except that the word ' conceptio ' is used instead of 

 ' nativitas ' throughout ; and on the festival day the people are to abstain 

 from labour and attend their parish churches. (2) The festivals of St. Ann on 

 26 July, of the Translation of St. Thomas, mart., and of St. Katherine, virg. 

 and mart., are to be celebrated as doubles, the people abstaining, as before. 

 Curates, on pain of greater excommunication, if they have not the proper 

 services for these days, are to procure them within six months. Meanwhile, 

 on St. Ann's Day, the service for St. Mary IMagdalene is to be used imdatis 

 mutandis. (3) A-'iolaters of sequestrations made by authority of the arch- 

 bishop or suffragans, and duly proclaimed, ipso facto incur sentence of greater 

 excommunication. (4) Since clandestine marriages are contracted without 

 publication of Imnns, and often within the prohibited degrees, one or both of 

 the parties being on the bed of sickness, and are celebrated by foolish and 



