¹ For convenience I used the modern transcripts of the registers, and my references are mainly to them.

² The archbishops of Armagh, laaike other Irish prelates, often speak of their‘registers’: e.g. Mey’s Register, ii. 854; Octavian’s Register, ii. 633, and, particularly, 775. When Octavian let his house in Drogheda in 1483 on a repairing lease, he reserved the right of the registrar of Armagh’ quociens desiderauerit et necessitatem habuerit pro rimando registro Armachano, in cameram nostram maiorem predictam, vbi dictum registrum concistit [sic], liberum habeat ingressum (Octavian’s Register, ii. 868 (f. 317 b). Fr Gwynn has noted this entry (p. 75) but not remarked upon this point. What exactly an Irish bishop meant by his’register’ is a question that cannot be discussed here.

³ E.g. Prene’s Register, pp. 258-328 (fL 51-70) : i Acta habita coram Magistro Iacobo Leche, commissario generali et curatore etc.’ : they date from December 1446. See also ibid., p. 701 (f. 145) and p. 760 (f. 157). for the record of ‘causes’, heard apparently by Prene as Official before he became archbishop.

⁴ Fr Gwynn has not chosen to animadvert upon the long reasoned case for archiépiscopal jurisdiction, particularly over suffragan bishops, which sought its arguments among such law-books as Hostiensis (Henry de Segusia) : Octavian’s Register, ii. 563—73.

⁵ Mey’s Register, i. 127.

⁶ For the vividness of its details we wish that Fr Gwynn had not refrained from relating the story of the archbishop of Armagh who in 1484 climbed to the tower of his house at Termonfechin to watch the piratical attack by two Liverpool ships upon three Breton ships, which were lying at anchor in Drogheda harbour whilst their merchants and crews were away in town 1 causa recreandi’ : Octavian’s Register, iii. 914 (f. 332a).

⁷ R.I.A. Proc, xxix, sect. C, pp. 219–91; xxx, sect. C, pp. 101–68.

⁸ County Louth Archaeological Journal (1948).

⁹ Register of John Swayne (1935).

¹⁰ It is possible that the extracts printed on pp. 206-7 from B.M. Add. MS 4784 could be traced to Prene’s Register.

¹¹ County Louth Archaeological Journal, vols vi-x.

¹² Fleming’s Register, p. 31.

¹³ Mey’s Register, ii. 643, 648 f.

¹⁴ Octavian’s Register, i. pp. 99–132 : the title is on p. 128.