Open [36.0 MB]

BOOK II.
CHAP. VI.
Bounds of the
diocese of
Dublin and
Glendalougli
same as the
Dyfflinarskiri.
140 Illb; SCANDINAVIANS, AM)
by a charter, granted by Queen Elizabeth, to the
citizens in 1582, when they petitioned for " authority
to exercise the rights of Admyral within (their)
streams, as far as (they) recyve custom." 1 The
charter constituted the mayor, &c., " Admiral be-
tween Arklow and Nannie water," the boundary river
below Skerries ;
2
and Edward II, apparently referred
to some such district when commanding the mayor,
&c., in A.D. 1324, "to make ready all ships in the
port and liberties of Dublin," for the war in which
he was then engaged with France, and " to arrest all
the ships and goods of the men of the king of France
within the bailwick aforesaid." 3
We find that the boundaries of the united diocese
of Dublin and Glendalough, are the same as those
here assigned to the Dyflinarskiri. Originally eccle-
siastical jurisdiction was concurrent with that of the
civil ruler. We have seen that the Scandinavian
chief was both priest and king ; in this case, however,
we find two oishops in the one territory. This originated
in the decrees of the Irish Synod of Rath
Breasail, by which dioceses were defined,
in A.D.
1110. For the Ostrnan bishops, not being conse-
crated as Irish bishops were, but consecrated accord-
ing to the Koman ritual by the archbishops of
Canterbury or York, the Irish clergy refused to
recognize their authority, and part
of this Ostrnan
territory being inhabited by Irish Christians, the
synod decreed that the whole should be placed under
1
Brit. Mus. Cotton MSS., Vesp. nie water was lubber Ainge.
F. XII., fo. 107. 'Ret. Claus 18. Edw. II., m.
'Charter 24 Jan., 1582, the 24th 10, in Cane, Hib.
Eliz. The Irish name of the Nan-