Registrum Prioratus Omnium Sanctorum juxta Dublin / Edited from a manuscript in the library of Trinity College, Dublin; with additions from other sources, and notes, by the Rev. Richard Butler.
- All Hallows' Priory (Dublin, Ireland)
- Date:
- 1845
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Registrum Prioratus Omnium Sanctorum juxta Dublin / Edited from a manuscript in the library of Trinity College, Dublin; with additions from other sources, and notes, by the Rev. Richard Butler. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![into poverty° from the incursions of the natives, that it received the writ'’ of Richard II. ordering the observance of the enactment in the Statute of Kilkenny, that no Irishman, or any enemy of the king, should be admitted into any religious house within the land of Ire- land. Recourse had often been had before, by both sides, to this unhappy proof of national discord. So early as 1250 Pope Innocent IV.‘' sent a Bull to the Irish bishops, ordering them to revoke a Statute which they had made, “ ex quodam livore,” that no English- man should be received into their religious houses as a canon: and while the Irish Abbot of Mellifonf’ refused to admit any monk unless he made oath that he was not of English descent, and the Irish Abbot of Magio® [Mayo] alienated the lands of his abbey with a view to prevent English monks from dwelling there, the English monks of Granard' and of Iniscourcy, of the same Order (they were all Cis- tercians), buckled on their armour and attacked and killed the Irish, and then returned to celebrate Mass. The writ of Richard II. was directed to twenty-one religious houses; although not repealed by authority, it was not long observed; like many other laws it was silently reversed when the passion in which it originated had given place to the common feelings of hu- manity. The names of some of the subsequent abbots in these houses are purely“ Irish. At Irish Archaeological Society, vol. i. p. 108. Writ.—Rot. Claus. 4 E. ii. 116. “ Innocent IV.—Rymer’s Feed., i. p. 274. ^ Mellifont.—Hibernia Anglicana, p. 100. * Magio.—Lynch’s Feudal Dignities, p. 48. ' Granard.—See the Letter of the Irish Chieftains to Pope John XXII. in 1318. Forduni Scotichronicon, lib. xii. cap. 30. “ Irish.—Mon. Hib. p. 468. ° Poverty.—Perhaps it may be alleged as a proof of the poverty of the house at this period, that in 1388 the prior owed his shoemaker twenty-two shillings for boots and shoes, and that Roger Brenne, a canon, seemingly, of the house, had not paid two shillings for one pair of boots; and that Brother Symeok, “ quondam prior,” owed for money, which it is to be feared he had borrowed, 6s. 8tf.—Miscellany of the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28741481_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
