APPENDIX.

No. I.

The Bull of ADRIAN IV. by which he granted Ireland to HENRY II.

(HISTORICAL REVIEW, &c. P. 26.)

ADRIAN the bishop, the servant of the fervants of God, to his most dear fon in Christ, the noble king of England, fendeth greeting and apoftolick benediction. Your magnificence hath been very careful and studious how you might enlarge the church of God here in earth, and encrease the number of faints and elect in heaven, in that as a good Catholick king, you have and do by all means labour and travel to enlarge and increase God's church, by teaching the ignorant people the true and Christian religion, and in abolishing and rooting up the weeds of fin and wickednefs. And wherein you have, and do crave, for your better furtherance, the help of the apoftolic fee (wherein more speedily and difcreetly you proceed) the better fuccefs, we hope, God will fend; for all they, which of a fervent zeal and love in religion, do begin and enterprize any fuch thing, fhall no doubt in the end, have a good and profperous fuccefs. And as for Ireland, and all other islands, where Christ is known and the Christian religion received, it is out of all doubt, and your excellency well knoweth, they do all appertain and belong to the right of St. Peter, and of the church of Rome; and we are fo much the more ready, defirous, and willing, to fow the acceptable feed of God's word, because we know the fame in the latter day will be moft feverely required at your hands. You have (our well beloved fon in Chrift) advertised and fignifyed unto us, that you will enter into the land and realm of Ireland, to the end to bring them to obedience unto law, and under your fubjection, and to root out from among them their foul fins and wickedness;

as alfo to yield and pay yearly out of every house, a yearly penfion of one penny to St. Peter, and befides alfo will defend and keep the rites of those churches whole and inviolate. We therefore, well allowing and favouring this your godly disposition and commendable affection, do accept, ratifie, and affent, unto this your petition, and do grant that you (for the dilating of God's church, the punishment of fin, the reforming of manners, the planting of virtue, and the encreafing of Christian religion) do enter to poffefs that land, and there to execute according to your wisdom, whatfoever shall be for the honour of God, and the fafety of the realm. And further also we do ftrictly charge and require, that all the people of that land do with all humbleness, dutifulness, and honour, receive and accept you as their liege lord and fovereign, referving and excepting the right of Holy Church to be inviolably preferved, as alfo the yearly penfion of Peter pence out of every house, which we require to be truly answered to St. Peter and to the church of Rome. If therefore you do mind to bring your godly purpofe to effect, endeavour to travail to reform the people to fome better order and trade of life, and that also by yourself and by such others as you' fhall think meet, true and honeft in their life, manners, and conversation, to the end the church of God may be beautified, the true Chriftian religion fowed and planted, and all other things done, that by any means fhall or may be to God's honour and falvation of men's fouls, whereby you may in the end receive of God's hands the reward of everlasting life, and alfo in the mean time, and in this life carry a glorious fame and an honourable report among all nations.

The Confirmation of the former Grant by ALEXANDER III.

ALEXANDER the bishop, the fervant of the fervants of God, to his dearly beloved fon, the noble king of England, greeting, grace and apoftolic benediction. Forafmuch as things given and granted upon good reafon, by our predeceffors, are to be well allowed of, ratified and confirmed, we well confidering and pondering the grant and privilege for, and concerning the dominion of the land of Ireland to us appertaining, and lately given by Adrian our predeceffor, we following his steps, do in like manner confirm, ratifie, and allow the fame; referving and faving to St. Peter, and to the church of Rome, the yearly penfion of one penny out of every houfe,

houfe, as well in England as in Ireland. Provided alfo, that the barbarous people of Ireland, by your means, be reformed and recovered from their filthy life and abominable converfation; that as in name, fo in life and manners they may be Chriftians, and that as that rude and difordered church, being by you reformed, the whole nation may alfo with the poffeffion of the name be in acts and deeds followers of the fame.

No. II.

The Treaty or Articles of Windfor. Page 31.

HIC eft finis et concordia quæ facta fuit apud Windefore, in Octabis Sancti Michaelis anno Gratiæ 1177, inter Dominum Regem Angliæ Henricum Secundum, et Rodericum Regem Conacia per Catholicum Tuamenfem Archiepifcopum et Abbatem C. Sancti Brandani, et Magiftrum Laurentium cancellarium Regis Conacia.

Imo. Quod Rex Angliæ concedit prædicto Roderico, ligeo homini fuo Regnum Conaciæ, quamdiu ei fideliter ferviet, ut fit Rex fub eo, paratus ad fervitium fuum, ficut homo fuus; et ut teneat terram fuam, ita bene, et in pace ficut tenuit antequam Dominus Rex Angliæ intravit Hiberniam, reddendo ei tributum: et totam illam terram et habitatores terræ habeat fub fe; et juftitiæ ut tributum Regi Angliæ integre perfolvant, et per manum ejus fua jura fibi confervent, et illi qui modo tenent, teneant in pace, quamdiu manferint in fidelitate Regis Angliæ; et fideliter et integre perfolverint tributum et alia jura fua, quæ ei debent per manum Regis Conaciæ; falvo in omnibus jure et honore Domini Regis Angliæ et fuo.

2do. Et fiqui ex eis Regi Angliæ, et ei rebelles fuerint, et tributum et alia jura Regis Angliæ, per manum ejus folvere noluerint, et a fidelitate Regis Angliæ recefferint, ipfe eos juftitiet et amoveat, et fi eos per fe injuftiare non poterit, Conftabularius Regis Angliæ et familia fua de terrâ illâ juvabunt eum ad hoc faciendum, cum ab ipfo fuerint requifiti, et ipfi viderint quod neceffe fuerit, et propter hunc finem reddet prædictus Rex Conaciæ Domini Regi Angliæ tributum fingulis annis, fcilicet, de fingulis decem animalibus unum corium placabile mercatoribus, tam de totâ terrâ fuâ, quam de alienâ. 30. Exceptò, quod de terris illis, quas Dominus Rex Angliæ retinuit in dominio

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dominio fuo, et in dominio Baronum fuorum, nihil fe intromittet; fcilicet Durelina cum pertinentiis fuis, ficut unquam Murchait, Wamai, Lethlachlin eam melius et plenius tenuit, aut aliqui qui eam de eo tenuerint. Et exceptâ Wexfordiâ, cum omnibus pertinentiis fuis; fcilicet, cum totâ Lageniâ, et exceptâ Waterfordiâ ufque ad Dungarvan, ita ut Dungarvan fit, cum omnibus pertinentiis fuis infra terram illam.

4to. Et fi Hibernenfis illi qui aufugerint, redire voluerint ad terram Baronum Regis Angliæ, redeant in pace, reddendo tributum prædictum quod alii reddunt, vel faciendo antiqua fervitia, qua facere folebant pro terris fuis; et hoc fit in arbitrio Dominorum fuorum; et fi aliqui eorum redire noluerint Domini corum et Rex Conacia accipiat obfides, omnibus quos ei commifit Dominus rex Angliæ, ad voluntatem Domini Regis et fuam, et ipfe dabit obfides ad voluntatem Domini Regis Angliæ illos vel alios; et ipfi fervient Domino de canibus et avibus fuis fingulis annis de pertinentiis fuis, et nullum omnino de quâcumque terrâ Regis fit, retinebunt contra voluntatem Domini Regis. His teftibus Richardo Epifcopo Wintoniæ, Gaufrido Epifcopo Elienfi, Laurentio Duvelienfi Archiepifcopo, Gaufrido, Nicholao et Rogero Capellanis Regis, Gulielmo Comite Effexii, et aliis multis, etc.

No. III.

Extracts from the Irish Remonftrance to Pope JoHN XXII. P. 44. IT is extremely painful to us, that the viperous detractions of flanderous Englishmen, and their iniquitous fuggeftions against the defenders of our rights, fhould exafperate your holiness against the Irish nation. But alas, you know us only by the mifreprefentation of our enemies, and you are exposed to the danger of adopting the infamous falfehoods, which they propagate, without hearing any thing of the deteftable cruelties, they have committed against our ancestors, and continue to commit even to this day against ourselves. Heaven forbid, that your holinefs fhould be thus mifguided; and it is to protect our unfortunate people from fuch a calamity, that we have refolved here to give you a faithful account of the present state of our kingdom, if indeed a kingdom we can call the melancholy remains of a nation, that so long groans under the tyranny of the kings of England, and

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of their barons; fome of whom, though born among us, continue to practise the fame rapine and cruelties against us, which their ancestors did against ours heretofore. We fhall speak nothing but the truth, and we hope, that your holiness will not delay to inflict condign punishment on the authors and abettors of fuch inhuman calamities.

Know then, that our forefathers came from Spain, and our chief apostle St. Patrick, fent by your predeceffor, Pope Celestine, in the year of our Lord 435, did by the infpiration of the Holy Ghost, most effectually teach us the truth of the Holy Roman Catholic faith, and that ever fince that, our kings well inftructed in the faith, that was preached to them, have, in number fixty-one, without any mixture of foreign blood, reigned in Ireland to the year 1170. And thofe kings were not Englishmen, nor of any other nation but our own, who with pious liberality bestowed ample endowments in lands, and many immunities on the Irish church, though in modern times our churches are moft barbarously plundered by the English, by whom they are almoft defpoiled. And though those our kings, fo long and fo ftrenuously defended, against the tyrants and kings of different regions the inheritance given them by God, preferving their innate liberty at all times inviolate; yet, Adrian IV. your predeceffor, an Englishman, more even by affection and prejudice, than by birth, blinded by that affection and the falfe fuggestions of Henry II. King of England, under whom, and perhaps by whom, St. Thomas of Canterbury was murdered, gave the dominion of this our kingdom by a certain form of words to that fame Henry II. whom he ought rather to have stript of his own on account of the above crime.

Thus, omitting all legal and judicial order, and alas! his national prejudices and predilections blindfolding the difcernment of the pontiff, without our being guilty of any crime, without any rational caufe whatfoever, he gave us up to be mangled to pieces by the teeth of the most cruel and voracious of all monfters. And if fometimes nearly flayed alive, we escape from the deadly bite of thefe treacherous and greedy wolves, it is but to defcend into the miferable abyffes of flavery, and to drag on the doleful remains of a life more terrible than death itself. Ever fince thofe English appeared first upon our coafts in virtue of the above furreptitious donation, they entered our territories under a certain fpecious pretext of piety and external hypocritical fhew of religion; endeavouring in the mean time, by every artifice malice could fuggeft, to extirpate us root and branch, and with

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