[288] Theiner’s Vetera Monumenta, pp. 515, 516, 521; Brady, Arts, Kilmore, Clogher, and Raphoe.
[289] Kildare to Wolsey, Feb. 8, 1522; R. Cowley to Wolsey, S.P., vol. ii., No. 53; Ware.
[290] For the Ross case, see Theiner, p. 520; for the union of Ross and Dromore ‘propter tenuitatem utriusque ecclesiæ,’ see Brady, vol. ii. p. 109.
[291] See Brady, under Elphin and Kilmacduagh.
[292] S.P., vol. ii. pp. 11, 15, and 16.
[293] For Ardagh, see Theiner, p. 521; for Ross, p. 529; for Clonmacnoise, p. 518. For Enaghdune, see Ossory to Cromwell in 1532, Carew, vol. i. No. 37.
[294] Presentments of Grievances, ed. Graves; particularly pp. 192 and 203.
[295] Kildare’s Articles against Ormonde in 1525, S.P., vol. ii. p. 123; his statement is partially confirmed by the Presentments of Grievances, and see Ossory’s own statements in 1534, Carew, vol. i. p. 55; Ware’s Life and Death of Archbishop Browne.
[296] Indenture of Remembrance for the Earl of Ossory and Lord Butler, May 31, 1534, in Carew; Presentments of Grievances, pp. 48 and 204; Four Masters, 1525; Dowling’s Annals, 1522:—‘Mauritius Doran episcopus in jocando ejus adventu quibusdam persuadentibus duplicari subsidium cleri respondit: melius radere oves quam destruere.’
[297] Presentments of Grievances, especially pp. 100, 202, 204, and 248; for the sons of clergy, &c., see Kildare’s Articles in S.P., vol. ii. p. 122. In Brewer, Feb. 25, 1521, Leo X. authorises a priest’s son to govern the Cistercian Abbey of Rosglas; Browne to Cromwell, Nov. 6, 1538, in S.P.; for Kilclehin (wrongly calendared as Kilcullen), see Hamilton, Oct. 9, 1539.