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558 HISTORY OF LIMERICK.
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his posterity, for they all died in misery. In the time of Dr. Arthur,
Rinuccini restored the services in the Cathedral of St. hidry's, and
appointed the different preachers and the d~ys on which they were to
preach. The document which shows this, was found, as was the taxation
givcn in the preceding chapter, among thc papers of'the Revcrend Doctor
Jasper White, precentor and parish pricst of St. John the Baptist of
Limerick; and the MS., according to an entry in White's MSS. by Dr.
Young, was in his (Dr. Young's) possession in 1795. The following is a
translation of this important document, which a130 gives the names of the
religious orders who were in Limerick at this period:
Distribution of preachers in the cathedral church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
of Limerick, and who are obliged to preach :-
The Bishop sl~ould preach :
l. Sunday of P entecost.
2. On the feast of St. Sylvester.
3. On Palm Sunday.
2. On the Assumption of the Blessed Tlie Prebendary of St. hiunchin's
Virgin BIary.
3. On the festival of all Saints.
preaches
1. On Septuagcsima Sunday,
4. On the first Sunday of Advent.
5. On Chri~tmas hy.
6. On the first Sund:ly of Lent.
7. 011 the festival of St. Patricl;.
2. On Easter Tuesday.
The Prebendary of Donnghmore,
1. 011 the 5th Sunday after Yentecost,
8. 011
the Annuncinliou of the Blcssed 2. Ou the sixth Sunday after the
Virgin Xitry. I