The book of obits and martyrology of the cathedral church of the Holy Trinity, commonly called Christ Church, Dublin / Edited from the original manuscript in the library of Trinity college, Dublin, by John Clarke Crosthwaite ... With an introduction, by James Henthorn Todd.

Date:
1844
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Credit: The book of obits and martyrology of the cathedral church of the Holy Trinity, commonly called Christ Church, Dublin / Edited from the original manuscript in the library of Trinity college, Dublin, by John Clarke Crosthwaite ... With an introduction, by James Henthorn Todd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the individual whose memory was thus celebrated. And other cases of the same kind may be pointed out. Thus the obit of Robert Sutton, Dean of St. Patrick’s, was kept on the 5th of April; see p. 19. But that he died on the 1 si of April, is evident from the following inscription on a brass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral: “ Orate pro anima Magistri Roberti Sutton hujus Ecclesie Catliedralis non immerito decani, qui hujus nostre mortalitatis diem clausit extremum ; An°. dominice incarnacionis Millessimo Quingentesimo, xxviij0. ac mensis Aprilis die primo, et sepultus est sub hoc magno marmoreo lapide, coram diui Patrick ymagine in secundo gradu a summo altari situato. Cuius anime propicietm' deus. Amen.” Sometimes the keeping of the obit by the abbot and convent was made matter of regular purchase and stipulation, and was granted by deed, like any other legal bargain. Thus, in a volume, formerly be- longing to the Abbey of St. Thomas the Martyr, Dublin (containing the Martyrology, the Rule of St. Augustine, and other ecclesiastical tracts), there is the following curious deed, on the lower margin of fol. 3, a, of the Calendar, on the page containing the month of May: “ Memorandum quod conventio facta vi°. die Julij Anno domini Millesimo cccc0. lxxviij0. inter Johannem abbatem et conventum monasterii Sancti Thome martyris iuxta Dubliniam ex vna parte, et Walterum abbatem beate Marie Vir- ginis iuxta Dublin, Philippum Bermengham, et Jacobum Aylmer, ex parte altera, testatur quod predicti Johannes et conventus mon. Sancti Thome predicti pro quadam pecunie sumina ad ecclesie mon. Sancti Thome predicti rcparacionem data, animas eorum qui secuntur ad eorum omnia sufffagia admittent. Videlicet Willhelmi Cheur., Elizabeth Holywode, AlicieTreuers, Walteri Cheur., Elizabeth Welles, Johannis Cheur., et Willhelmi Cheur. et omnium suarum progenierum presencium et futurarum. Insuper predicti Johannes abbas et conventus et omnes eorum successores mon. Sancti Thome predicti annuatim celebrabunt cum campanis pulsatis et certis [? cereis] luminibus illuminatis pro animabus predictis n This volume, in very beautiful pre- lege, Dublin, B. 3, 5, and is a part of the servation, is in the Library of Trinity Col- collection of Archbishop Ussher.