Catalogue description MURDER OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN.

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Title: MURDER OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN.
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"The Excommunication of Thomas Fitzgerald and his uncles, for killing of the Archbishop of Dublin. Anno 1532." [This date is incorrect. The Archbishop was murdered 28 July 1534.]

 

Whereas Thomas FitzGerald, eldest son to Gerald late Earl of Kildare, not only procured John Telyng and Nicholas Wafer to put violent hands upon John Alen, late Archbishop of Dublin, Primate of Ireland, taking him prisoner at Hothe within the diocese of Dublin, and from thence conveying him to Tartayne, in the said diocese, but also in the same he, the said Thomas, accompanied with John FitzGerald and Oliver FitzGerald, brethren to the said late Earl, James Delahide, Edward Roockes, and divers other evil disposed persons, murdered the said Archbishop; we publish and declare all the said persons to be excommunicated. We also declare interdict the place where the Archbishop was killed, and likewise all cities, lands, towns, castles, villages, chapels, and other places wherein the said cursed persons are, or shall be; commanding all spiritual persons of this province of Dublin to cease from administration of divine service as long as any of the said persons shall be present, and to continue three days after their departure. We decree them to be deprived of all spiritual dignities and profits. To the terror and fear of the said dampnable persons we have rung these bells, erected this cross, and quenched these candles. And we cast these three stones towards their inhabitations.

 

Copy.

Date: 1534
Held by: Lambeth Palace Library, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: MS 611, p. 63
Language: English
Physical description: 5 Pages.
Unpublished finding aids:

Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, ed. J. S. Brewer & W. Bullen (6 vols., 1867-73), vol. I, document 44.

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