A "photostat" copy of Ms. 3 H 21C from the Archives de l' Aube, Troyes, containing a letter of commendation of Andrew Matthews, abbot of Mellifont, to the Abbot of Citeaux and the Cistercian Chapter general, in favour of Bernard Echingham, monk of Dunbrody, (c. 1685).

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