preserving of them from corruption, as the more easy getting them by heart." The great school in the plain of Sennaar! | Spenser "where he pursued the political design of his Decalogue, which was to prescribe the ways and means to reduce Ireland (a design well becoming him, as being Secretary to Arthur, Lord Grey of Wilton, and Deputy of Ireland under Queen Elizabeth) none could surpass him: no man could except against him, save only those that would not be reduced."

P. 12. Breoghuin, the son of Bratha, who founded Braganza in Portugal. 13. Eight sons of Milesius, after their father's death set sail from Breoghuin's Tower, a place in Galicia, long after called Notium, but of later years Compostella, and landed in Ire

land.

28. The Danish secularization of Irish convents.

55. The only reasonable account of the learning of Ireland, in its learned age. It was a place of shelter in the wreck of the Roman empire,—that irruption being by land.

56. Patrick consecrated a Bishop for every two churches.

Ireland. And the tale of St. Patrick is allegorical only!

428. Entertaining houses. Irish hospitality-this is upon a large scale of lying. 468-9. Our Lord's staff.

479. This is the story of Regner Lodbrog-misplaced. Walsh has not perceived

xvi. The penal code the exclusive work of the Whig aristocracy of Ireland. xxxii. xvii. Bounty of government, how misappropriated.

xxvi. Members who hold their seats by voting for them.

xxvii. Grattan. xxviii. Patriots of his day. Xxx. Irish Parliament.

xxxiv-v. Tithe of agistment. xxxvii. Protestant emigrants. Measures of relief proposed by men who were conscientiously opposed to emancipation.

xl. English adventurers preferred Irish to their own countrymen, and why.

xliii. Popish tenants preferred, and Protestants driven to emigrate. xliv.

xlv. Why the Established Church was disliked by the great proprietors. xlvii. Spenser's prediction.

3. Prelates who sold the country to England.

9. Their views.

10. Character of the Romish clergy in Ireland as a body.

14-15. Ireland the Pope's patrimonyhow-and when so acknowledged. 91. 191. 22. Giraldus advises to shed more blood -there being an easy atonement for all.

25. Lawrence O'Toole's successor making the crucifix mourn and perform miracles. 26. Law of the cudgel.

28. Usurpations of the clergy.

30. Case of Mac Carwell, Bishop of Cashel.

32. English laws allowed the Church vassals, how far, and why.

33. An Irishman might be slain with impunity.

34. Petition to Edward I,

37. Clergy prevent its success. 38. Moore. 47. Irish Ecclesiastics took no oaths to the Pope.

48. Their discipline how considered by the Romanists before the English conquest, 49. Supremacy of the Irish chiefs. 87. 50. Archbishop, by the same grace. 51. Synod of Cashel.

52. A third of all moveables for burial, &c. and if the deceased were unmarried, or had no legitimate children, then it was to be half.

53. 160 religious houses founded by English adventurers between the landing of Henry II. and Edward Bruce—monuments of their remorse. All the privileges and nearly all the wealth of the Church their grants.

65. An English and an Irish Church after the conquest.

63-6, Statute of Kilkenny. The clergy anathematized all who should transgress

it,

68. Lawless violence, the proverbial reproach of the country and the time, branded alike upon the prelates and lay lords. 1376.

68. The general power of pardon granted to the Lieutenant, Earl of Ormond (1376), was afterwards explained as not extending to the pardon of “ any prelate or earl, for

priest's vestment into a pair of breeches,behold he had scarcely put on these breeches, when they caught fire and he was burned to death.

283. Morality in which the Irish priests were trained.

285. Spiritual and carnal Ireland.

295. Liberal overtures or declarations from the Romanists usually preceding mischief.

296. All means to be used,

299. Richelieu.

302-3. Power of secret excommunication. 302. Interference at elections by excommunication.

Strafford.

315. Massacre foreseen.

311. It takes place two months after bills had been returned for the redress of all the grievances complained of, and the concession of all the graces petitioned for.

GREGORIUS TURONENSIS, Hist. Francorum.

Paris, 1561.

T is related in his life that Nicetius, Bishop of Lyons, " nescio quid excelsum in puero conspicatus, jussit puerum ad se acciri, et collobeo se lotum in exemplum pudicitiæ contegens, ut ne summis quidem digitis juvenculum contingeret, puero benedixit, atque prospera precatus est!"

Gregory carried reliques about him, and imputed to them the cures which he worked himself.

He chose to be interred where his grave might commonly be trodden on," et ipsa loci necessitas cogeret ne unquam in aliqua reverentiâ haberi posset. Sed grex beati Martini talia non ferens," removed him to the left of the Saint's sepulchre-there to be venerated with like honours.

P. 1. He begins with a confession of

faith.

4. Creation of Eve a type of the church!! 20. Pilate a Manichæan!

22. St. John alive in his sepulchre. 27. Construction of the Gallic temple called Vasso Galatæ, the walls of which were thirty feet thick.

34. Is not holy oil used as a remedy here?

37. A good story of the immaculate wife, if she had only held her tongue when she was dead, the rest is prettily conceived. 46. A war in Spain between the Vandals and Sueves decided by single combat between two youths.

47. Gibbon, I think, tells the unclean story of the Arian baptism.

52-3. This story of a man being bribed by an Arian Bishop to feign blindness that he might have the credit of restoring him to sight, and being struck blind, and then restored by the orthodox Bishop, looks very much like trick upon trick.

57. St. Stephen interceding with St. Peter and Paul that his own chapel at Metz might be saved, when that city was burnt by the Huns.

60. St. Peter cannot resist the supplications of Actius's wife for her husband's life. 69. First election of the Reges Criniti of the Franks in Thuringia.

70. Their idolatry.

73. A piece of money broken for a token by Chilperic, when he was compelled to fly from his kingdom.

74. Bassina's, Queen of Thuringia, reason for leaving her husband, and going to Chilperic. Clovis was the fruit of this pretty connection.

73. Plainly a concerted miracle to end disputes about the succession to a bishopric.

76. Promise of perpetual patronage from St. Martin to those who shall keep his day holy. This is the first step to Indulgences. 77. Odour in a church at Arvernum. 80. Humility of the wife of Bishop St. Namatius, who when a piece of bread was given to her in the church which she had built, by a poor man, who supposed her to be waiting there for alms, eat nothing else for several days, till that was gone.

81. (79.) A senator brought out from