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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![in which it was executed witnessed a very different scene. There, on the i6th November, 1538, in the presence of sundry persons, in a deed giving proof of the compulsion under which it was executed by the vehemence of the declarations of their free will, Walter Hancoke, Prior, Robert Dolyng, John Grogan, James Blake, and John Barret, the last Prior and the last Canons of All Hallows, assembled for the last time, and there signed, sealed, and delivered, to the Royal Commissioners, William Brabazon, Gerald Ailmer, John Allen, and Robert Fitzsimon, all hungry for monastic spoil, the surrender of their ancient priory. The form of surrender then executed omitted no property which could belong to the house. It specified the scite, ambit, and precinct, the whole church, belfry, and ceme- tery, all manors, messuages, lands, tenements, rents, reversions, and services, mills, meadows and pastures, woods and imderwoods, houses, buildings, granges, granaries, stables and dovecots, fisheries, warrens, annuities, waters, ponds, rectories, vicarages, knights’ fees, advowsons of churches, chapels, and chantries, pensions, porcions, tithes, oblations, courts leet, and of frank pledge, and their profits and perquisites, and all other rights, possessions, and hereditaments, as well spiritual as temporal, in the counties of Dublin, Meath, Kildare, Louth, Tipperary, Kilkenny, and elsewhere in Ireland, belonging in any way to the Prior and Canons of All Hallows. Nor were these all. There were added their charters, evidences, writings and ma- nuscripts, their goods, chattels, utensils, ornaments, jewels, and debts, all these were granted to the King, to be disposed of at his good ])leasure, without appeal or complaint, and the unhappy men were forced to declare, that they thus deprived themselves of house and home of their own free ’will, and that they put an end to a venera- ble institution, to which they were bound by the most solemn obli- gations, certain just and reasonable causes thereto moving their minds and their consciences.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28741481_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
