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556 IIISTORY OP LIMERICK.
nomination of bishops, and sought to preserve the up er hand in ecclesiitical
I., when a great council
of the English prelates summoned by Otto, the Pope's le ate, was interfered
with by the king, who sent several of his barons to t f e council, having
commissioned them to prohibit the establishment of anything contraq to
the king's crown and &pity.
The attention bestowed by si~ccessive popes on the Church of Ireland, and
on the government and interests of the ~sountry, is, however, plainly apparent
from the evidences of concurrent history. Pope Nicholas, about this time,
mdc a taxation of several Irish sees, and amonn others of the See of
Limerick, which, with the taxations of G~hel, %aterford, Cloyne, and
Cork, was discovered some years ago among the records of Westminster
by Mr. Vanderzee, and which are pnnted in the aecand report of the Commissioners
of Public Records of Ireland. We abstract as much of this taxlation
as its useful to our purpose:-
affairs, as had been the case in the time of Henry I P
TAXATION OF THE SEE AND OF TEE CHAPIXR.
A.D. 1291. By authority of Pope Innocent IV.
Redditus et
Proventus
Episcopi
Lymericen-
sis in omnibus-viii iiiU iii' xi d ob Dec. xviu vi. iiika ob.
* Bona L3me-
ricensis
Episcopi
Spiritucdia et
tempor&, iii" siiii.: xvii.' vi.* ob.
Redditus et
Proventus
-.S iid
Decani, xdv." ii.' viii?
9,
Redclitus
Proecentoris
in omnibus, S.' XYL" viid , XSV.' viiad O.Q.
Red&tns
Cancellarii
in omnibus, xuvii." viiii* ,, h.' &P ob.
Redditus
Thesaurarii
in omnibus, siii.' ,, xlviii?
Redditus
Archidhconi
in omnibus, ~~~iii." xi* vlP , lvii.' l.d 0.q.
Ecclesia de
Tpllachbreck G.' X%.* Ga , xv.'
Ecclesh de
Croch . . . vLB $2 ob. ,, XL* 0.p.
HISTORY OF LIMEBICX,
(St. Munchin's?), vi." xiii.' V.& ,,
Prrebendade
Arctatny
(Ardcanny), v." ii' 99
Prmbenda de
Ballycathan
(Ballycahane), iiiU vi.@viiLd ,,
Ecclesia de
Dovenachmore
(Donoughmore), vu vl.' viii? ,,
Ecclesia de
Diserto lyii;. iiii.d 9,
Portio de
Kylbecan
(Kilpeacon ?) iiiU xvl.' vKa ,,
Taxatio Ec-
clesiarium ad
Communia
Spectantium
(i.e. the common
Estate of the Dean
xiii.' iiii.
vi' viii.
X. oiiid
v.' iiii
and Chapter), XXXV.' ii.' iLd ,, ii." X.' ob.
+ Communia Ecclesia: beatre Mariae de Lymerick ad stipendium Vicariorum
ibidem deservientium. Inde nichi1.l
I
Another ancient taxation which is reserved in Latin in White's MS81
gives an account of the parishes, bene ces, chapels, and other regulations of
the Diocese of Limerick, which the Rev. James White (the compiler of the
MSS.) states he copied from an old MS. which Dr. Jasper W bite: Pastor
of St. John's parish, wrote, and which was in the custody of the Rev.
John Lehy, a succeeding astor of that parish? We believe that this taxation
is generally attribute B to the time of Bishop O'Dea, of whom, in the
succeeding chapter, we shall have much to write. The following is S translation
of this most valuable and interesting document, which we give hcre,
though not in exact chronological order4 :-
This is the taxation and the procuration of the diocese of Limerick, as I,
Jasper White, have found in torn rolls among the books of my brother, Edmond
White, Canon of Ardcanty, written with his hand in the year 16658 ; and
also among the same writings of my most reverend and most illustrious Lord
Bishop, James Dowley ; and in order that these writings should not perish,
I have thought it worth my while to transcribe them here, and leave them to
posterity ; and I have added the patron saints of the parish which I have been
able to find.
So far the Rev. Dr. Jasper White.
1 This valuation, with the exception of the two items to which an asterisk is prefixed, is prin-
ted in vol. ii. of the Reports of the Irish Record Commissioners. These items are taken from
the roll in the Exchequer Ofice, London. Cotton's Fad.
P I find by an entry in a copy of the Douny Bible in my possession, printed by Constnrier,
1665, that the Rev. Jasper White lived in Limerick in the year 1668. The following is the
entry: "This Booke belongetli to Dr. Jasper White, priest, Limerick, the which he ban#
the 18th of April, 1668, for the sum of ten shillings and eight pence sterlg?
It is still in being. [Note by Dr. Young].
The li'iht Rev. Dr. Young and the Very Rev. DCM Cussen mde margind notes in the
MSS, which I give.