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didates, they were declared by the Irish parliament to be
duly elected, and the bishop’s nominees were unseated.
At the Union, the £15,000 granted as compensation
for abolishing the elective franchise was claimed by
the bishop, the dean and chapter, and prebendaries of
the cathedral, and the Rev. Hugh Nevan, seneschal of
the manor; but their claim was disallowed and the
money paid to the Board of First Fruits. By the char-
ter a grant was to be made to the corporation by the
bishop of 700 Irish acres near the town, for which a
rent of 8d. per acre was to be paid. Out of the profits
of 200 acres of this land the corporation was, within two
years, to erect a school-house and maintain a school-
master, with a servant, for a grammar school. English
was to be taught by the master, who was always to be
appointed by the bishop. The portreeve was to have
200 acres of the grant assigned for his support while
holding the office, and for the payment of a steward and
Serjeant or bailiff; and the profits of the remaining 300
acres were to be divided among the burgesses. This
grant appears not to have been made. The charter
granted a civil court of record to the corporation, with
a jurisdiction extending to a circle of three miles in
every direction round the cathedral, and to the amount
of £5 English, with a prison for debtors. Since the
death of the last seneschal, about 1823, this court has
not been held. Quarter sessions are held here twice a
year in the sessions-house, alternately with Dungannon,
for the baronies of Dungannon and Clogher; and there
is a bridewell.
The SEE of CLOGHER is
one of the most ancient in
Ireland, and had its origin
in the religious foundation
instituted by St. Patrick, or
his friend St. Macartin, a
descendant of Fiachus
Araidh, King of Ulster, who
was succeeded in the mingled
abbacy and prelacy by St.
Tigernach, St. Laserian, St.
Aidan (who converted the
Northumbrians to Chris-
tianity, and was the first bishop of Lindisfarne), and
other celebrated ecclesiastics of the early ages. So late
as the 12th century, Edan O’Killedy, bishop of this see,
subscribed his name as Bishop of Uriel to the great
charter of Newry. The equally ancient see of Clones
was at a remote period annexed to it, as also were
those of Ardsrath and Louth. About 1240, Hen. III.
sent a mandatory letter to Maurice Fitzgerald, Lord-
Justice of Ireland, commanding him to unite the bishop-
rick of Clogher to the archiepiscopal see of Armagh, on
account of the poverty of both. This union was not then
effected, but under the Church Temporalities act it will
take place on the death of the present bishop. About
1266, the bishoprick of Ardsrath was taken possession
of by the Bishop of Derry, and Louth by the Archbishop
of Armagh; and on the death of Bishop Arthur Mac
Camaeil, the archbishop claimed his best horse, ring,
and cup as an heriot. Clogher being situated in a part
of the island to which the English arms or laws had
scarcely ever extended, had not a bishop of English
extraction before the time of Edmund Courcey, who
was consecrated in 1485. The last bishop who held the
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see and its temporalities from the court of Rome was
Hugh or Odo O’Cervallan, promoted by Paul III., and
confirmed by Hen. VIII, in 1542. The first Protestant
bishop was Miler Magragh, who had been a Franciscan
friar and was made Bishop of Down by Pope Pius V.,
but afterwards becoming a Protestant, was placed in
this see by Queen Elizabeth in 1570, and soon afterwards
was made Archbishop of Cashel. From the time of his
translation, owing to the disturbances in this part of the
country, there was no bishop till 1605, when George
Montgomery, a native of Scotland, was made bishop by
Jas. I., and held the see with those of Derry and
Raphoe, and afterwards with that of Meath. On the
death of Bishop Boyle, in 1687, the episcopal revenues
were paid into the exchequer, and the see continued
vacant about three years, when King William translated
Dr. Tennison to it. This diocese is one of the ten
which constitute the ecclesiastical province of Armagh: it
comprises a small portion of the county of Louth and
parts of the counties of Donegal and Tyrone, the greater
part of Fermanagh, and the whole of Monaghan; and is 76
British miles long and 25 broad, comprehending a
superficies of about 528,700 plantation acres, of which
1850 are in Louth, 25,000 in Donegal, 68,100 in Tyrone,
254,150 in Fermanagh, and 179,600 in Monaghan. The
chapter consists of a dean, archdeacon, precentor, chan-
cellor, and the five prebendaries of Kilskerry, Findonagh,
Tullycorbet, Tyhallon, and Devenish. According to the
registry, the ancient chapter consisted of twelve canons,
of which the dean and archdeacon were two: this was
altered by Bishop Montgomery, and the offices of pre-
centor and chancellor were added; and hence it is that
the archdeacon of this diocese, as the more ancient
officer, ranks next the dean. The lands belonging to
the see amount to 22,591 statute acres, of which 18,851
are profitable land; and the gross average annual
income, as returned by the Commissioners of Eccle-
siastical Inquiry, is £10,371, and the net revenue,
£8686. 11. 6. There is no economy fund connected
with the cathedral; it was for many years kept in repair
out of a fund bequeathed for charitable purposes by
Bishop Sterne, but the trustees have lately withdrawn
the grant. The consistorial court of the diocese is held
at Monaghan: its officers are a vicar-general, a surrogate,
two registrars and a deputy, and two proctors; the
registrars are keepers of the records, which consist of
copies of wills from 1659 to the present time, documents
relating to inductions to benefices, &c. The diocesan
school is at Monaghan, and is described in the article
on that place; and there are free schools connected
with the diocese at Carrickmacross and Enniskillen.
The total number of parishes in the diocese is 45, which
are either rectories and vicarages, or vicarages, the
rectorial tithes of which are partly appropriate to the
see, and partly impropriate in lay persons. The benefices
are also 45, of which, one is in the gift of the Crown, 37
in that of the Bishop, four in that of Trinity College,
Dublin, one in that of the Marquess of Ely, and one in
that of Sir Thomas B. Lennard, Bart,; the remaining
one is a perpetual curacy, in the gift of the prebendary of
Devenish. The only union is that of Currin and
Drumkrin, which will be dissolved on the next avoidance.
The number of churches is 61, and of glebe-houses, 38.
In the R. C. divisions this diocese, as originally con-
stituted, forms a distinct bishoprick, and is one of th