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 OF IRELAND. 125 Alexander Bigmore, * Archbishop of Divelin, sued to Pope Iohn the 21. (so 1 reckon, omitting the scis- maticke and dame Ioane) for priviledge of an Vniver- sitie to bee ordained in Divelin, which tooke effect, and the first three Doctors of Divinity the said Bishop did create, William Hardit a Fryar preacher, Henry Coggy a Fryar minor, Fryar Edmund Kermerdin, & one Doctor of the Canon law, William Rodiard Deane of S. Patricks, Chancellour of the said Vni- versity, who kept their termes & commencements solemnely, neither was the same ever disfranchised, but onely through variety of time discontinued, and now since the subversion of monasteries utterly extinct, wherein the Divines were cherished, and open exer- cise maintained. A motion was made in this last Par- liament to erect it againe, contributions layde together, Sir Henry Sidney then Lord Deputy, proffered 20. pound lands, & one hundred pounds in money, others followed after their abilities & devotions, the name devised Master Acworth, Plantolium of Plantaganet and Pullyne. But while they disputed of a convenient place for it, and of other circumstances, they let fall the principall. Thomas Fitz Iohn, Earle of Kildare, Lord Iustice, to whom succeeded jBermingham Earle of Louth, and to him Sir John JDarcy. At this time a lived in the Diocesse of Ossorye, the Lady Alice Kettle, whom the Bishop ascited to purge the same of inchaunting 1 An. 1320. » 1321.