ACTS OF ARCHBISHOP COLTON IN HIS METROPOLITAN VISITATION OF THE DIOCESE OF DERRY, A. D. MCCCXCVII.; WITH A RENTAL OF THE SEE ESTATES AT THAT TIME. EDITED, FROM THE ORIGINAL ROLL PRESERVED IN THE ARCHIEPISCOPAL RECORD CLOSET OF ARMAGH, BY THE REV. WILLIAM REEVES, D. D., M. R. I. A., BACHELOR IN MEDICINE OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN; PERPETUAL CURATE OF KILCONRIOLA, IN THE DIOCESE OF CONNOR. THIS COPY WAS PRINTED FOR AUGUSTUS STAFFORD, ESQ., M. P. MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY. DUBLIN: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, VRASELI SEP 4 45 es IRISH ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. FOUNDED MDCCCXL. Patron: HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE ALBERT. President : HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF Leinster. Vice-Presidents: THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUIS OF KILDARE, M.P., M.R.I.A. THE RIGHT HON. THE VISCOUNT ADARE, M. P., M. R.I.A. Council: Elected December 21, 1849. REV. SAMUEL BUTCHER, D.D., M. R.I.A. WILLIAM ELLIOT HUDSON, Esq., M.R. I. A. CAPTAIN T. A. LARCOM, R. E., V.P.R.I.A. CHARLES MAC DONNELL, ESQ., M.R.I.A. GEORGE PETRIE, ESQ., LL.D., R. H.A., V. P. R.I.A. REV. WILLIAM REEVES, D.D., M. B., M.R.I. A. VERY REV. DR. RENEHAN, President of St. Patrick's College, Maynooth. AQUILLA SMITH, Esq., M. D., M.R.I.A., Treasurer. J. HUBAND SMITH, ESQ., A.M., M.R.I.A. REV. J. H. TODD, D. D., M.R.I.A., Secretary. 1098605 THIS VOLUME WAS PRESENTED TO THE MEMBERS OF THE IRISH ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY BY THE REV. WILLIAM REEVES, D. D. AUGUST 10, 1850. JAMES H. TODD, SECRETARY. INTRODUCTION. OHN COLTON, or de Colton", the principal actor in the following Visitation, was born at Terrington, in Norfolk. From being chaplain to Bishop Bateman he was nominated, in 1348, to the Mastership of Gonville Hall in Cambridge, and the same year he proceeded Doctor in Canon Law. On the death of his patron, Edmund Gonville, in 1350, he was promoted by the bishop to the rectory of his native parish. Twenty-seven years afterwards his name is associated with the prebend of Bagthorpe in the cathedral of York; but in the mean while his chief promotion lay in Ireland, for in 1373 he was appointed Lord Treasurer, and the year following was advanced to the deanery of St. Patrick's in Dublin. The former of these offices he surrendered in 1379 for the Seals, which he held for three years. His honours and emoluments were moreover augmented in 1381, when he was elected to the station of Lord Justice, then vacant by the death of Edmund Mortimer, with an annual fee of five hundred pounds, afterwards increased by a further allowance of ten shillings a day in consideration of his great a Rot. Cancell. Hib. Calendar. i. pp. 90, n. 132; 108, n. 29. a services |