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96 campion's historie the Land. But J files Cogan, Philip de Bruise, Fitz Stephens, Power, and diverse other more preferred to severall countreyes under him. This JLacye builded a sort of castles and forts through- out all Leinster and Meth, and the next sixe yeares continually devout gentlemen erected sundry Abbeyes, as the Abbey of Roseglasse, d of Donbrothy by Hervy a Welch-man, fc one of the speciall conquerours of Ire- land, who himself after that, entred into religion in Trinity Priory at Canterbury, f The Abbeyes of Geri- pont, and Choro Benedicti, the Abbey de lege Dei, with repayring of many Chappels, Chauncells, Bell- houses, High-wayes, and Bridges. S Then dyed Saint Laurence Archbishop of Divelin, to whom succeeded Iohn Comyn an Englishman, brought up in the Abbey of Evesham, Founder of Saint Patrickes in Divelin, which was before that time a Parish Church, & now by the said Archbishop endowed with Prebends, Vic- cars, Clearkes, Chorists, and many notable possessions for their maintenance, whereout from time to time have proceeded Clergy-men of greatest learning & re- putation in the Diocese Divers contentions were raised betwixt Christs Church and it, for antiquity, wherein they of S. Patrickes, are (no doubt) inferiour, as shall M178. ' 1179. { 1180.