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uncommon practice. By this indenture Alexander, Archbishop of 

 Dublin, granted to the Prior and Brethren of Kilraainham, in the 

 year 1319, "the Parish Church of Pathmore (in the County Kildare), 

 with its chapels, tithes, and obventions, for the sustenance of 

 pilgrims and the necessities of the poor," and instituted the Prior in 

 the name of his house in the corporal possession thereof.^ The Hos- 

 pitallers, who, on their part, appear to have been bound to give ten 

 pounds of wax yearly for the use of the Church to the Chapter of 

 Christ Church, retained their rights in the Rectory of Pathmore 

 down to the dissolution of the religious houses.^ 



III. 



The Peioes of Kilmainham. 



The attempt to follow the fortunes of the Hospital of Kilmainham, 

 in its relations to the general history of Ireland during the Planta- 

 genet era, and to form a just conception of the part played by the 

 Hospitallers in the government of the country, is rendered extremely 

 difficult by the almost total absence of any Irish records directly 

 referring to the Order. It unfortunately happens that the archives of 

 the Knights of St. John (which, despite the many vicissitudes of their 



1 Calendar of Christ Church Deeds, Nos- 207, 208. 



2 Monck Mason, in his MS. additions to his account of Kilmainham Priory 

 in Archdall's Monasticon," has the following note: — 



" There was at this time a dispute with the Archbishop of Dublin -with regard 

 to his right of visiting those churches of his diocese which belonged to this Priory, 

 and appropriated in proprios usiis — viz., E.athmore, Ballyogary, Chapelizolde, 

 Crevaghe, Ballythermot, Rathenanys, Galveston, Davystowne, Stafytbnane, 

 Rathsilly, Fountstown, Leyston, and Ballycolian, with their appendant chapels ; 

 and the Archbishop cited them to exhibit their titles to exemption, if any they bad, 

 as likewise in respect of the churches of Kilmainham, Kilhale, and Clontarf, which 

 the Prior and Brethren asserted they ^possessed pleno fare. The Prior pleaded that 

 the three latter had been, time out of mind, subject to him in every way, both in 

 temporals and spirituals; that they were exempted specially by the Apostolic See 

 from all ordinary authority, and subjected immediately to tbe Holy See ; that the 

 other churches above-named were theirs in proprios usus, and subject immediately 

 to the Holy See, saving to the Archbishop and his successors their procurations on 

 visiting the same; and reserving to the Archbishops their jurisdiction in matters 

 concerning the cure of souls : all which was admitted and certified by the Court 

 in cnpella Sti, Sepulchre, 7mo. Sept., 1360. —Al. Reg.* T. CD., f. 301."— 

 Wm. Monck Mason's MS. Notes to Archdall's " Monasticou Hibernicum." Brit, 

 Mus., Eg., 1774, 



