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and laid waste and change (i e. change their owners.) Blood hounds will be let loofe on the people, who fhall mangle the corpfe of the flain, and torture the bodies of the poor, so that people will abandon their natu ral connexions and friends through terror of a malignant infuriate foldiery(kierns.)Manufacturers and mechanics generally injured, mercenary libels will be published against the people, men will fhudder to fee or meet each other, and those who fhare the fame bed shall plot treachery against each other; men will court the ftranger, and betray the fon of their own mother. The ftranger shall be preffed to fhare the feaft, while domeftic merit fhall pafs unnoticed. A licentious foldiery fhall harass the multitude (the many) lawless nobles, i, e. tyrannical. shall multiply and forely afflict the people, and lote all the the fenfe of fhame through ignorance of their real inte refts and duties. Knowledge will be perverted to falfe judgment, and literature shall be tortured to fupport errors Frequent adulteries will pollute the marriage bed; pride, vanity, and luft will confound the clergy with the laity. Churlishness, gluttony, and fellifhnefs will gain ground in the land of hofpitality; fo that their vifages fhall be forbidding (dark.) The vanity of drefs fhall

exceed all bounds of moderation or ability, Nobles will be mur. derers and perverters of judgment; women will flight the marriage tie, children will flight their parents, and difciples. fhall contemn their techers; eloquence fhall be perverted to fophiftry and the defence of falfehood; gluttony and avarice fhald pofffs mens fouls, fo that the fhall barter their freedom and their fuls for the value of a fcruple (an old coin.) Feftivity will be abolished, the people will be attacked (hoftilely;) fools will be expelled their patrimonies; the Lords day will be cegraded (put down from its rank;) literature fhall be renovated and perverted; truth fhall be ftifled, and perverted law will become an inftru ment of oppreflion in the hands of lawless nobles of the latter times. They will enact laws and pafs judgments in anger and vengence. Farmers will be oppreffed thro' the intrufion of unwelcome guests, and the fcourge will chiefly afflict Clannabaoifene (i, e, Leinster.) There will be a green Christmas and a forrowful fummer, a rainy March and droug ty May, a barren harvest and much duit powder.) The defolation occafioned by the Guthbhain i. e, fair haired Goths, i. e. the Goill, i. e. the Saxons) a proud and infidel race fhall not ceafe' until the ftandard of the great fon fhall be raised at Bealabradar.

ARRIVE it will the time, O'Breaunun, when you would grieve to dwell in Irelan. Chiefs will be penurious, men of literature will be neglected, falfehood and deceit will prevail. Tearmons will be plun dered, facred things will become the

prey

of thieves, learning will be op preffed, and hence they will be brought low. Difmal, dark, melancholy, mournful, woful days will come in the latter times; chieftains will forrow; there will be neither jaftice nor fidelity among the fons of men; but hard heatred avarice, penury and impiety will prevail. Men will murmur, and make a poor mouth; the trees will not bear fruit, nor will the earth pour forth its ex berance; the clergy will become adulterous, grievous to relate, and the church will become the property of the powerful; there will be cold and hunger, hatred, malice and bad weather, and the regular viciffitudes of things will be inverted; fish will forfake rivers; there will be decay and withering, and men for their bitterness will be fcourged by the rough tempefts of the hurricane. The powerful will opprefs the poor with falfe law and perverted judgments; lying will overflow the country. Alas! pitiful is the relation; the fages of knowledge will moan, depreffed will be their minds, and the aged will mourn the time they fhall have lived to fee. The ftars will become red, beaming vengeance against finners. Strife and war will rage in the bofom of every family; chiefs will be penurious, disrespectful

to the literati. Sweeter to them will found the voice of the parafite than the mufic of the harp from gentle bards. Their candles will not ceafe to be extinguished each Sabbah-day, but through the multitude of their crimes, it will prove unavailing towards fubmiffion and repentance. Benevolence and good neighbourhood will difappear, and age will be treated with difrefpect and injuries by youth.

rts will not be cherished; men will ceafe to be amirable; there will be neither abundance nor generofity, but want and penury. The clergy will fall into errors by the falfification or perverfion of letters. There will be no refpe&t to oaths, all will be guilty Inlands will be raised on the lakes of water, difeafes will abound, and remedies fail; maidens will be unblushing; the hoary will be ill-tem pered,a (irafcible) fmall will be the honour of fcicence and the noble's will be murderers; fprightiinefs will not dwell in youth The clergy. will be perfecuted, manners will be fickle, and marriage without witnefs. The gentry will accompany their penurious prefents with infolence, blood relations will be cold towards each other, and the chrches will be feized on! Such will be the latter days, according to the book. The clergy will be ignorant concerning the genuine feftivals; when their threatnings fhall be ftouteft, their merits fhall be leaft; they will defile themselves like dogs with fornication and adultery; they will tell the people's fecrets, be caufe they will be loft to all fenfe of virtue; that they may receive honour

(favour)

and of all Christendom, and for their benefactors, and for all those the universal Church usually prays."

Honorius the IVth, A. D. 1285, in a Bull directed to the House of Ancona, of the Order of the Blessed Trinity, writes thus of their hospitality; "Which tho' ochers laudibly discharge, they notwithstanding study to fulfil more laudibly its duties, who, making it their chief employ ment, not only receive, but bring the poor and sick to their houses. As therefore the beloved children, the Minister, and Brethren of this Order, labour with all their might to relieve the necessities of the poor flocking to them from all parts, &c." Innocent the VIIIth, in his Bull directed to the Order in 1415, and 1416, which begins Dum ad sacrum Ordinem. “While we take into consideration the holy Order of the sacred Trinity of the Redemption of Captives, while we revolve in our mind the plentiful harvest, which this Order incessantly brings forth in the field of the militant Church, and the wholesome works, which are without interruption practised continually by them, out of the pious offerings made them by the faithful, and which, according to their primitive institution, all their goods are divided into three parts, one of which is converted into hospitality, which in each house of said Order is charitably observed, &c." Let us hear to the same purpose, the antient festimony of James de Vitriaco, Cardinal Bishop of Frascati, and Bishop also of Ancona, A. D. 1232 in his Oriental History, page 329. “There is another order of Priests and Lay Brothers, holy, and acceptable to God, in every place of its habitation, serving God under

the title of the Blessed Trinity; hence they are called Brethren, or Friars of the Holy Trinity, &c. And, because corporal exercise is no small help towards advancing, in piety, they abound so much in works of mercy, that all their goods of what kind soever, they always divide into three parts one for the Redemption of Captives groaning in the Saracen bondage; the other for the relief of the poor, and sick, whom they mercifully receive into their houses, serving them humbly in their own persons; the third part they reserve for their own use, to support any how a sober, and poor life. In this fulness of Charity, in this abundance of piety, they are thereby become so many models to orher Religious to pattern by, &c." Such were the sentiments also of the venerable Humbertres Hedus de Romanis, fifth Master-General of the holy Order of Preachers, writing in 1268, in his book De modo cudendi Sermones, 27th Epistle, page 150. "The Religious, (says he,) of the Holy Trinity, to whom Innocent the Illd. gave their rule to live by, reserve the third part of all they possess for the Redemption of Captives, that are in slavery among Infidels; but the other two parts they make use of in their own support, and in works of mercy, in their own houses, in which they entertain the poor ; so that all their goods are divided into three parts, one for the ransom of Captives, the Infidels load with chains; the other they employ in works of mercy in their bouses; and the third in their own subsistance."

In fine, the Trinitarians have Hospitals, not only in Europe. but also In Africa at Algiers and Tunis, to comfort poor Captives