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

9. Their views.

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

14-15. Ireland the Pope's patrimony— how-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 xxvi. Members who hold their seats by English adventurers between the landing voting for them. of Henry II. and Edward Bruce-monuAll the privileges and nearly all the wealth of the Church their grants.

xxvii. Grattan. xxviii. Patriots of his day. ments of their remorse. 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.

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

an offence punishable by loss of life, member, lands or goods."

77. Specimen of what oaths are worth, when they depend upon the intention of the priest who administers them.

80. Strength of the soil,-reclaiming foreigners in a few generations to the Catholic faith.

83. The nobles abolished the subordinate title of Lord for Henry VIII., and proclaimed him King of Ireland and Supreme Head of the Church. 84.

the past is urged as a reason for the insanity of the present and future."

176. Moore and O'Driscoll.

188. Clement VIII. sent O'Neil a hallowed plume of genuine Phoenix feathers. 193. Anathema against any who should give quarter!

Tender mercies. The Vicar Apostolic of Munster first reconciled and absolved his prisoners, then executed them.

197. Religion now once more directed politically. Elective franchise. 198. Bear

88. Jurisdiction over a Church in great ing in case of war. measure temporal.

22. Prophecy that when the Roman faith perished in Ireland, the see of Rome will fall.

93. Why the Reformation failed there, -partly because clanship was just then giving way, and the people left without protection, threw themselves upon the priests. 94. 201. 245.

95. Claims of the Irish Titular Bishops. 98. 100. Their acknowledgment of Buonaparte in 1804. 102.

137. Supremacy, - how explained by James.

109. Oath takeable by Papists, and would be taken were they protected from excommunication. 110.

112. Indeed "hereditary bondsmen." 120. Priests hypocritically conforming under Elizabeth in Ireland.

135. Pius's Bull always to bind the Queen and heretics, the Papists only at convenient times and seasons.

203. A Spanish officer avowed his belief that Christ did not die for the Irish.

204. The rebellion of 1798 became religious, and so will all disturbances in that country;—just as every scratch will bring on erysipelas when the disease is in the system.

206. A very fine passage.

208. The purpose (of the Romish Church) has retained that unshaken firmness which is ascribed to its faith.

211. Power of the Bishop at this time.213. They have a separate interest, an interest in the disquiet and dishonour of England, which cannot be purchased up by any consideration within the reach of a minister.

217. Amount of fines for non-attendance at worship.

218-9-20. Mr Butler's roguery. 233. 228-9. Of deposing doctrine. Paul's brief.-Urban's. 230.

233. The priests who suffered on that

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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.

French History.

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.

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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.

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4. Creation of Eve a type of the church!! pretty connection. 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.

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.

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139. Whether to kill his nephews or cut off their hair. A horrid story of this accursed race.

How very much less barbarous is the history of our Heptarchy? What can be the cause of this?

148. Childebert and Chlothaire raise the siege of Zaragoza, upon hearing that the citizens are about to carry St. Vicente's tunic in procession.

Custom of the Goths to kill their Kings when they became unpopular.

111. Speech of the youth whom Clovis had shorn-that his hair would grow there. The speech is fine, "In viridi ligno hæ 149. The Arian Kings communicated frondes succisæ sunt, nec omnino ares- from a different cup to that which the other cunt." He and his father were both put communicants used. Theodoric's daughter to death in consequence. poisons her mother in it. And Gregory Clovis cheats some traitors with false says an orthodox person may drink poison gold. 112.

112-13. Wickedness and policy of this King. 115. But his orthodoxy covers all sins!

116. A priest's wife obtained a bishopric for her husband by a trick.

118. Amalberga, female ambition. The table half spread for one who could consent to divide his kingdom with a brother.

Queens took a very active part in public affairs.

122. Monstrous cruelty of the Thuringians. 123. Their slaughter, and their pitfalls for the Frankish horsemen.

127. Property deposited in a church for safety from an enemy's army.

131. Deliberate perjury, to draw a man from sanctuary, that he might then be murdered.

132. Hostages made slaves.

133. "Dies solis, sic enim barbaries vocitare diem dominicum consueta est."

135. Swimming the Moselle upon shields.'

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with perfect safety in that manner!

155. Gourmandaya-la-Romaine of a taxgatherer who was killed, and pettiness a la-porc !

157. Chlothaire requires a third from the churches. One Bishop stands out alone, and deters him from exacting it.

158. He marries his wife's sister.

159. Machanus buried to save his life. He puts away his wife when he takes orders, to save himself.

160. St. Gal stops the plague by his prayers.

164. Grapes growing on an elder. 166. Trick of an energumen confessed by Gregory.

168. Priest put in a vault to perish there by famine, by the Bishop's orders!

176. Battle between the armies of Chramnus and his brethren prevented by a storm of thunder and lightning.

177. Biblica Sortes tried upon the altar to forelearn the fate of Chramnus. 237.

178. They who would not violate sanctuary by killing the supplicant there, or dragging him out, would famish him there. A miracle upon this account.

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