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 118 campion's iiistorie now to such intollerable deformities of life and other superstitious errors, nothing lesse regarding then the purpose of this their foundation, that the generall Councell assembled at Vienna, disannulled the same for ever. And thereupon as in other countries so in Ireland, they confessed the publicke fame of their enormities, and themselves culpable, their persons they yeelded to perpetuall pennance, their lands were given (though with some difficulty) to the Knights of S. Iohns hospitall at Ierusalem, who since then for recovering the Hand of Rhodes from the Saracens, became famous, and multiplied much more honouraby then did the Templers. Of this latter foundation was the priory of S. Iohns at Kilmaynam besides Divelin. r Iohn Decer Major of Divelin builded the high Pype there, and the Bridge over the LifFy, toward S. Wolstans, and a chapell of our Lady at the Fryar minors, where he lyeth buried, repaired the Church of the Fryars preachers, and every friday tabled the Fryars at his owne costs. In absence of Wogan, Sir William Burcke was Lord Warden of Ireland, to whom King JEdivard recommended jP/erce of Gavestone the disquieter of all the nobility in England, a companion to the King in vice, bolstered up by the King so peremptorily against the will of his Councell, that whereas the said Pierce r 1309.