mosinam consuetudinem cervisie et medonis quam consuevi habere in tabernis Dublin. Quare volo et firmiter precipio quod predicta ecclesia et predicti canonici habeant et teneant predictam consuetudinem in predictis tabernis bene et in pace libere et quiete integre et plenarie et honorifice cum omnibus ejus pertinenciis sicut eam unquam melius habui. Testibus. Johanne Narescallo. Willelmo Marescallo . Berteram de Werdun. Gillelmi Pipar. G. de Costetin. Rogero de Пlanes. et Alexandro Arsic.

De decima Cervisiae e Tabernis Dublin habendae S. Thomae Martiris Monasterio concessa.

Johannes filius domini regis Anglie et dominus Hibernie ballivis suis de Hibernia salutem. Sciatis me dedisse Deo et canonicis beati Thome de Dublin decimam cervisie quam habeo ex consuetudine de tabernis de Dublin ad sustentacionem ipsorum canonicorum. Et ideo firmiter precipio quod ipsi eam habeant et teneant bene et in pace et integre. Teste. fratre Ricardo elemosinario meo apud Windesores.

NOTES.

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The words "prowy.. ne rerryt" probably mean "proved nor raised," for in the Glossary to the State Papers of Ireland, rere is said to signify "to raise." The word is now spelt rear, and is still in use.

Page 40, line 15.

Langable," or "landgable," was a tribute which was collected from farms and estates-one penny from each house.-Spelman's Gloss. sub voce.

ART. IV. The Pedigree of Doctor Domnick Lynch, Regent of the Colledge of St. Thomas of Aquin, in the City of Seville, A. D. 1674, from a coeval MS.

NOW all men [to] whom it may appertain that wee the Rector, Councellors and Religious of the Colledge of Saint Thomas of Aquin of this City of Seville, which is of the ordre of our holy father St. Domnick, viz. fa: Michel de Mendosa Doctor and Rector, fa: Gabriel Vaquerito, fa: Peter Barrero, fa: Jasper Ninno, fa: Francis Zimenes Councellor, fa: Bartholomew Bravo Councellour, fa: Peter de Queto, fa: Francis Torregrosa, fa: John Jaimes, fa: John Gonio, fa: Bernard Latano, fa: Francis Suniga, fa: John de Sancto Thomas; all religious professed, being assembled in our chapter hale, thereunto called by ringing of the bell as the custom with us is, and in the name of the other Religious that actually are or shall chance to be of the said colledge, in whose behalf wee give full and sufficient caution of their acquiescing to this present writing, and to what ever shall be don in vertu therof, and that they will not contradict it, but will tỏ the contrary ratifie and approve it; and in manner of asseurance of said caution and surety wee do oblidge and ingadge the goods and rents of this Colledge spiritual and temporall, as well what wee have at present, as what wee may have for the future: do authorise and acknowledge to give full power and authority, what in law is required and thought necessary, to the Reverend father Francis de Ayora of the said ordre and Collegial of said Colledge, for to go in our names into the kingdoms of England, Ireland, and Scotland, and to whatsomever other places it will be thought fitt, and that he makes the due informations of the pedigree, life, and behaveiour of Doctor Domnick Lynch, religious of said ordre and elected Regent of said Colledge, and to that end that he makes the ordinary interrogations

and

and demands, and that he calls before himself the wittnesses that will be presented, and will examen them according to said interrogations, questioning them upon their case of knowledge, their age, and their employments, and whence they be citizens and natives, and whether the general demands ordained by the law tuches them and that those that say to know what they are demanded, must tell how they came by to know it: and that those that say to have heard it only, will tell from whom, how, and when: and that those that say they believe so and dos not doubt of it, will tell by what reason they believe so making in the same manner what other demands he will think fitt, in such kind that each one of the witnesses shall give sufficient reason of his sayings and depositions, and will bring and committ to this colledge the said informations sealed and signed, for to be made use of, as will be thought fitting. For all the forementioned, and for to make the acts and inquirys that will be thought expedient in regard of the afforesaid, we give him this power with a free and general administration and faculty for to substitut, recall substituts, and name others in their place, in all which wee discharge him 'according to law, and for further surety wee do hereby ingadge the goods and rents of said Colledge both present and to come. This act was made in the said Colledges Chapter hale in Seville the thirteenth day of May, 1674.

Wherfore, I notarie publick, do acknowledge and confesse to know fullwell, that all said religious persons signed this present act, being present as witness Balthasar Lopez Albaran, and Joseph Yuste, clerk of Seville.

I delivered said copie written in a leaf of the office paper the day above mentioned. In wittness my hand.

We the undernamed do certifie that Sebastian Lopez Albarran who signed the afforesaid instrument is a publick clerk of Seville, and has given and gives full faith and credit in judgement to other

writings

writings and acts which were made before him. Seville, the thirteenth day of May, 1674.

In the town of Galway the second of September of this present year 1674, I was shewen a book in folio, four fingers thick, a manuscript in English which is said to belong to the chapter of said town, where they were wont to write the antiquities and most remarkable things that happened in said town of Galway. Likwis, I declare to have seen a written paper in Lattin which is said to be a true copie of the afforesaid book, out of which were drawn the following heads.

Anno Incarnationis Dominicæ 1280, quo extructum fuit monasterium Franciscanorum in Insula Sancti Stephani per D. Guilielmum de Burgo equitem auratum; filius natu minimus Domini Lyncæi de Knock prope Dublinum, venit in Conaciam, et in uxorem duxit unicam filiam et hæredem Domini Marischalli; unde traxerunt omnes Lyncæi Galvienses.

Primum opus in ea urbe fuit prope magnam portam erectam per Dominum Nicolaum Lyncæum Marischallum nigrum, anno Domini 1312.

Anno Domini 1442, magnus, ac sane magnificus pons supra Corbium fluvium extructus fuit per Dominum Edmundum Lyncæum, Thomæ filium, vulgo dictum en tùane, idque suis sumptibus et expensis.

Anno Domini 1485, Dominicus niger Lyncæus impetravit et ex Anglia secum detulit litteras patentes Henrici Septimi Regis nostri, quibus concedebatur civibus Galviensibus potestas eligendi e suo corpore quotannis majorem seu pretorem qui urbi præsit pro eo Et primus major nominatus in dictis litteris fuit D. [Petrus] Lyncæus, frater junior præfati Dominici, et sequentes trig[inta] majores (quatuor tantummodo exceptis) fuerunt ex [Lyncæis]. Imo bene inspecto magistratuum libro, invenimus ex solis Lyncæis fuisse

anno.

majores

majores tot, quot ex omnibus aliis tribubus seu familiis Galviensibus, Anglis simul et Hibernis computatis, (tredecim solum exceptis).

Hoc eodem anno 1485, ecclesia parrochialis Sancti Nicolai ejusdem urbis, facta fuit collegiata Bullâ Pontificiâ ad id impetratâ, per præfatum Dominicum nigrum Lyncæum, et ejus filium Stephanum Lyncæum: quæ ecclesia collegiata regitur per unum Wardianum seu custodem, qui quotannis a civibus eligitur. Ejusdem autem Dominici est donum ipsum collegium, cui etiam donavit tres domos marmoreas in ipsa urbe sitas, cujus etiam sumptibus ædificata fuit ala meridionalis dictæ ecclesiæ collegiata Sancti Nicolai a pinnaculo usque ad sacellum B. Mariæ Virginis, uti et porta orientalis dicta ecclesia, omnia ex solido marmore.

Dominus Jacobus Lyncæus filius Stephani suis sumptibus ædificari curavit chorum templi Beatissimæ Virginis in occidentali parte urbis Galviensis. Idem suis quoque sumptibus ornari fecit templum collegiatum Sancti Nicolai fenestris vitreis bene sumptuoseque pictis anno Domini 1493.

Qui etiam Jacobus filium suum homicidii et violatæ fidei eidem extraneo datæ reum, sine ulla alia juris forma e propriæ domus fenestra suspendit, memorabili exemplo sincera fidelitatis posteris relicto.

Anno Domini 1 500, dum in partibus ultramarinis ageret Dominus Stephanus Lyncæus filius Dominici, Margarita Athy ejus uxor ædificare cœpit monasterium Sancti Augustini in monte urbi vicino. Idemque Dominus Stephanus domum reversus inchoatum opus perfecit, multisque prædiis ditavit; præfata vero Margarita ad corpus Sancti Jacobi in [Gallicia] peregrinationem instituit, ivissetque ad terram Sanctam nisi [mortalitas] pium devotæ fœminæ desiderium inturbasset.

[Anno] Domini 1504, idem Stephanus hospitale, seu domum [religios]um in ipsa urbe fundavit, dotavitque.

Anno Domini 1510, Dominus Jacobus Lyncæus Stephani filius

suis