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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    Cashel, in ritual™ as well as doctrine and discipline, with the Church of England, but although that council freed all church lands from lay exactions, from which Dermod’s charter had exempted the lands of Baldoyle, yet the mystical dream of Giraldus when he saw King John marking out on the green sward, the plan of a church with a large aisle for the laymen, and a chancel “ enormiter arctum,” for the Irish clergy, his direct assertion of the English robbery of the lands of the Irish Church, by which the clergy were reduced to beggary, and of the mutilation of their old dignities and privileges, and com- plaints, like that of Albin°, Bishop of Ferns, against the Earl Mar- shall, and of Archbishop Comyn'’ against Hamo de Valoniis, shew that the love of church lands commonly ])revailed over policy and piety. Nay, to the lands of Baldoyle, granted by Dermod and con- firmed by Henry 11. to the priory, it would appear, from our Begis- try'', that for several generations the Lords of Ilowth maintained a claim, family succession to churclies prevailed in Ireland, and that it was then attributed to St. Patrick. Fiachus and Enda op- posed the building of a church at Usneach, “quos vir Dei primo benigne allocutus promittebat, si permitterent ecclesiam in Dei honorem in eo amoeno loco excitari, ejusdem Ecclesioe moderatores et rectores [Erenachs(?) and Rectors] cx ipsorum progenie fore desumendos,” lib. ii. c. 17. —Trias Thaum. p. 131. For the light in which such family suc- cession was looked on in the twelfth cen- tury see Jocelini Vita S. Patricii, cap. 52. Trias Thaum. p. 76. ^Ritual.—The purpose of Bishop Gille- bert in his Ej^istle De Usu Ecclesiastico {IJsserii Sylloge, xxx.) was, “ ut diversi et schismatici illi ordines, quibus Hiber- nia pene tota delusa est, uni Catholico et Romano cedant officio.” The last decree of the Synod of Cashel was, “ Itaque om- nia divina ad instar sacrosanctaj Ecclesi® juxta quod Anglicaua observat Ecclesia in omnibus partibus ecclesia.* (Hibernia;) a modo tractentur.”—Hih. Expug. I. xxxiv. Dowling, in his Annals, states that the Use of Sarum was then universally intro- duced into Ii’eland. It is probable that Malachy, after his visit to Bishop Malchus, had adopted the Liturgy then used at Winchester. “ Giraldus.—Hib. Expug. H. 35. ° Alhin.—Matt. Paris, p. 601, Ed. Wats. P Comyn.—Iloveden, Fol. 439. ^ Registry.—Nos. 5, 6, 7.