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
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    the King, the Irish princes, for the first time, tasted heron’s flesh, and where they were astonished at the elegant abundance of an English feast, and the order and obsequiousness of the attendants. The priory was not without benefit from this neighbourhood of royalty; it was at this time, that, in the presence of Archbishop Law- rence, of the original patron Bishop Edan, of Strongbow, Hugh de Lacy, Robert Poer, and others, that Henry II. confirmed the grants of Baldoyle and of several other lands, made by Dermod, of which the original charters are not recorded. This preservation of their property seems to have been a special favour to this house. It might have been expected that, to conciliate the Irish ecclesiastics. King Henry and his immediate successors would have preserved at least the landed property* of the Irish Church, united by the Council of Cashel, ' Landedp-operiy—The property of the ancient Irish Church consisted of other things besides lands and tithes. Jocelin tells us, in words shewing the trade and business of Dublin: “Statuerunt ergo [cives Dublinise] reditum S. Patricio suo Patrono; videlicet de singulis navibus mercimoniabilibus cappam competentem Ardmachano Primati, aut cadum mellis seu vini, aut ferri falcem, seu mensuram salis, de singulis vero tabernis, medonis seu cer- visie metretas singulas, de omnibus etiam officinis et virgultis( ?) excenia donumque conveniens in sotularibus, chyrothecis, cultellis, pectinibus et aliis hujusmodi re- bus.”— Vit. S. Patricii, cap. 71. Although the buildings were destroyed and the religious dispersed, the property of the Irish Church was preserved during all the troubles consequent on the Danish invasion. St.Bernard {VitaMalachioe, cap. V.) says that from the destruction of the Abbey of Benchor (Bangor) by the Danes, to the timeof Malachy, its property fell into the hands of persons who where appointed by election, and who were called abbots, “ servantes nomine, etsi non re, quod olim extiterat.” This passage must have been overlooked by Dr. Lanigan, when he al- lowed (vol. iv. p. 25) that Gille, Bishop of Limerick in mo, and Apostolic Legate, had been Abbot of Benchor. The names of some of the abbots thus described by St. Bernard, are given in Archdall, from good authorities, without any distinctive marks. It would appear from the following passage in the Tripartite Life of St. Pa- trick, that at the time it was written, which has not been thought to be later than the tenth century, the custom of