Holywell Friary, Oxford, 681. Holywood, Co. Down, seat of one of the first nonconforming congregations in Id., 869.
Homicides, excommund. by Abp. Fitz Ralph, are absolved by the friars, 1110. Homilies of the Church of England, their mode of quoting the apocryphal books of Scripture in some instances noticed, 366.
Honorius I. See Pope. Honorius of Autun, qd., 967. Honorius, abp. Canterbury, his respect for St. Aidan, 175.
Horseboys, benefices managed by, 815. Hospitallers, knights, establishments founded for, in Id. by the Anglo- Norman invaders, 569, 570; their im- munity from payment of the papal tenths, 1160 n., 1163.
Hothome, John de, bp. of Ely, employed by the Irish nobles to lay their com- plaints before the king of England, 1132; in vain, ib.
Hoveden, Roger de, notice of, 482 n. ; Annals, ib., 503 n., &c. Howel ap Grono, murdered by the Nor- mans, 1030.
Hugh na Gavelock. See O'Neill. Hy, monastery of. See Iona. Hymn, St. Patrick's Irish, 40-42. Hymns, use of, in the religious services of the old Irish, 94, 101.
Iar-Connaught, or West Connaught, 1172 n., 1185; its extent, 1173. Ibar, said to have preached in Id. before S. Patrick, 35.
Ibas, condemned in the Fifth General Council, 938.
Ibrach, (supposed to be Iveragh, Co. Kerry,) 464.
Idolatry, Abp. Browne's efforts to crush, 699, 716; encouraged by Abp. Cur- wen, 741; who at length however helps to suppress it, 750-2. Iltutus, Welsh saint, account of, 121. See also 124.
Images, their use in religion discounte- nanced by Sedulius, 393; favoured by Dungal, 396, 582; esteemed in Id. much, in the 12th cent., 585, miracu- lous image of Christ in Christ Church, Dublin, 587; Abp. Comyn's scanda- lous use of, 613; Abp. Browne preaches against the worship of them, 696, 699; removed from the Dublin churches, 716; their removal a pre- text for sacrilege, 719. See Idolatry,
Imar, (O'Haodhagain,) tutor to S. Ma- lachy at Armagh, 457.
Inch, (or Inniscourcy,) monastery of, founded, in the Co. Down. 568; sup plied with monks from England, 574. Incendiaries, excommd. by Abp. Fitz Ralph, are absolved by the friars, 1110.
Incest, charged on the ancient Irish, by P. Alexander, 1088. Incontinence, of the Irish of the 17th
cent. noticed by Sir F. Bacon, 870; and by Bp. Downham, 905, '6; 140 clergymen, charged with, are sent by L. O'Toole to Rome for absolution, 595; note on this proceeding of his, 1052 n. Vid. q. 814.
Independence of the early Irish Church (see Irish bishops, Irish people, Supre- macy, &c.) involved with that of the British Ch. in the Paschal question, 201; origin of the circumstances lead- ing to its overthrow, 418 seqq. Indulgences, plenary, and remission of sins, for all abettors of Rome's rebel- lions in Id., 791, 794, 827, 837, 1264, '74, 1392; a reward of forty days' in- dulgence offered by a primate of Id.
to all who had should commit out- rages on the Dean and Chapter of Raphoe, 663; do. by his successor to all contributors to the repairs of S. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, 1111. Infallibility of the Church of Rome, S. Patrick's views of, 53; St. Cummian's 158, 165, 169, &c.; S. Columbanus's, 308 seqq; not held by the Irish of the 8th cent., 366.
Infant baptism, performed without chrism, by the old Irish, 424. Infant communion, the question con- cerning, 426.
Iniscarra, St. Senan's school at, 73,
Inniscatthy, the see of, 995 seqq.; St.
Senan's monastic foundation there, 73; vid. q. 563.
́Inisdamle, monastery of, ravaged by the Danes or Nortmans, 381, 382. Innisboffin, (Co. Mayo,) 8. Colman's monastery there, 186.
Innocent's (Pope) valor, 1146. Pope. Inquisition, the, extends its influence to Id., 650, 652, 656.
Institution of a Christian Man, its au- thorship, &c., 1195; its views con- cerning the power of nomination to episcopal appointments, 1196. Instructions, the, of S. Columbanus, 288 seqq., 968-981.
Interdict, nature and effects of an, 593; laid on Dublin by John Cumin, 613; by H. de Loundres, 621; by Fulk de Saundford, 624, '5; denounced against Henry VIII., 1202.
International hatred, an instrument of Rome for keeping England and Id. in order, 877.
Invercolpa, or Colp, monastery of, 569; a cell to Llanthony, 575. Inverdega, (Wicklow,) ravaged by the Danes, 382.
Invocation of saints, not practised by S.
Patrick, 44; abuse of in Id. in the 8th cent.. 356 seqq., 368; supported by Dungal, 396; Abp. Browne's opposi- tion to, 681, 696. See 368, 1421. Iona, or Hy, St. Columbkille's settle- ment in, 78, 83; how he became pos- sessed of it, 84, ravaged by the Danes, 106, 379, 390; state of its ecclesiastical ruins, 106; sends out missionaries to Northumberland, 173 seqq., 987; their attachment to the Irish Easter, 174 seqq.; their final abandonment of it, 185; curious transaction connected with the place in the 12th cent., 614. Iorwerth, son of Blethyn ap Convyn, his intercourse with the Anglo-Normans, 1029, '30.
Ireland, anciently regarded as a school of learning for Europe, 318 seqq., pas- sim, 351, 356 n.; its ecclesiastical re- cords not in every point of view satis- factory, 358 seqq.; its ancient division into five kingdoms, 378; granted by P. Adrian to K. Henry II., 489; over- spread with barbarism from the Da- nish invasions, previously to the An- glo-Norman do., 523 n., 539 n.; the kingdom bestowed on Henry II. and his son John, 604, 703; pauperism of, in the 11th cent., described by Wm. of Malmesbury, 1018; given to the Eng- lish, partly under the influence of spite against its people, 1048; taxed by the Roman pontiffs, 1146 seqq.; destroyed by P. Adrian's interference, 1121-3; its poverty under papal taxation, 1150; the "Catholic" faith in, essen- tial to Rome's eccl. existence, 1204; the royalties of, supposed to be the pope's, 703, 1285, &c.
"Ireland, the Church of," and "Church of England," use of the names, 920, 1415 seqq.
Ireland, a Brief Relation of, &c., attri- buted to P. O'Sullevan, qd., 910 n., 1253 n.
Ireland's Resurrection, by D. Rothe qd., 1391, '2.
Ireland, View of the State of, by Spen- cer, 803; extracts from it, on the con- dition of the Church, &c., in Id., 813- 815; his remedial suggestion, 816. Irish beggars to be found in Rome, (A.D. 1620,) 913.
Irish bishops, (see Titular,) their great number in very ancient times, 38, 60, 446, 982 seqq.; all schismatics in A.D. 566, according to Card. Baronius, 136, 931-3; their separation from Rome, and opposition to her practices, 138, 139, &c.; their communion "rejected by the apostolic see" of Rome, 149; she regarding them as Quartadeci- mans and schismatics, ib., 150; and as cut off from "the Catholic Church," and destitute, in consequence, of valid orders, 153; their ordinations rejected in France by the Council of Chalons, 387; their consecration performed by a single bishop, 424, 1006; their elec- tion by the princes, clergy, and people, 421, 426, 429, 430, 433, 465; their ele- vation, for personal merit, to new and temporary sees, 407, 990; and appoint- ment without fixed sees, 432, 990; their jealousy of English interference in their ecclesiastical concerns, 433, 434; anciently the heads of monaste- ries rather than of dioceses, 446; asked no pope's license for their ap- pointment, 447, 470 n.; their simila- rity to the heads of monastic houses, 448; their multiplicity and irregular discipline censured by S. Bernard, 466; first rise of their appointment by papal authority, 477; their number reduced by papal influence in the Sy- nod of Kells, 485; their submission to K. Henry II., 505, 508; enumera- tions of them by by Hoveden and others, noticed, 507 n.; Diceto's account of their motives in submitting to Hen-
ry, 512; P. Alexander's letter to them on the subject, 533 seqq., 1085-'7; placed above their secular lords, by the English princes, 560; accused of indolence by Giraldus C., 575, '6; elected out of the monasteries, ib. ; an- ciently independent of Rome, 580: scandalous conduct of some of them in the Anglo-Romish times, 615, 621, '2, '3. '5, 651-3, 662, '3, '4; the Kells Act for the reducing of their number carried out at Newtown Trim, 616, 617; possible motives in their reduction, 618; mode of their appointment under Anglo-Ro- mish influence, 619, 620, 711 n.; their effort to exclude Anglo-Norman in- truders from their native benefices nulled by a pope, 624; their sanction given to the statute of Kilkenny, 660; commanded under penalty, to excom- municate "disobedient subjects" of the English state, 665; involved with few exceptions in L. Simnel's, impos- ture, 666; their feeling towards papal supremacy, (A.D. 1500) 668, '9; their independence of Rome asserted in par- liament, 684; their opposition to the assertion of the regal supremacy under Henry VIII., 688, 9; they reject a Tridentine prelate, 714, 715 n.; some of the Reformed faith appointed under Ed. VI., 719; ejection of such by Q. Mary, 739, 740; they accept, as a body, the English liturgy, &c., 755 seqq., 886; their motives in so doing, 758, 1223; only two deposed under Queen Elizabeth, ib., 761, 1209-'22; those of the mere Irish race not summoned to parliament, 759 n.; Articles of (the Reformed) Religion promulgated by their authority, 770; bad characters of some of them, 815, 872, 3, 1214, '23, '24; all of them regarded as heretics by the recusants, A.D. 1621, 901; had in early times no definite dioceses, 985; not allowed to be Irishmen, under
English influence, in some remarkable cases, 606, 1065; (see 647, 1094 ;) state- ment of their incomes, 1074; ordered by P. Alexander III. to support Henry II., 1085; their letter to the said pope, 1088; enumeration of them in A.D. 1291, 1114, '15; do. in 1367, 1140 seqq.; do. of those in the parliament of A.D. 1560, 1208, '9; do. of the others of the same age, 1209 seqq.; do. of those pre- sent in the parliament of A.D. 1585, 1271, 2.
Irish chiefs, (princes, and nobles,) their turbulence noticed, 764; their loyalty in many cases to Q. Elizabeth, 799, 828 seqq.; deprived of their sovereignty under James I., 876; their Church op- pression in ancient times, 1061; paral- leled by the inheriting of confiscated eeclesiastical property by their modern successors, 1064; letter of P. Alexan- der to the, on the conquest of Id., 1090, '91; their appeal to P John XXII., 634-646, 1119-35; their sup- port of Henry VIII., 702-710, 1206 -'8, 1429-'33.
Irish Church, its early calamities appar- antly connected with preceding un- faithfulness, 376; the circumstances which led to its subjugation to Rome, 439 seqq.; its peculiar discipline, &c., in ancient times, 446 seqq.; encum. bered with English prelates, 606, 1065; its destruction a childish cure for Id.'s ills, 645, 1427; damaged by English in- fluences, 677; freed of Romish supre- macy, 683-713; reunited to Rome, 739-744; its miserable condition in 1576, 782 seqq.; pious concern of O'Neill, &c., for, 836, '7; Anglo-Ro- mish measures for the reform of, 557 seqq. (see 616-8, and 1179,) its early independence of Rome illustra- ted, 1249, 50, et passim. See Irish Bishops.
Irish clergy, their increase of dignity, VOL. III.
&c., at the Conquest, 558 seqq.; charged with nepotism (A.D. 1201) 1051, 2; permitted to enjoy certain Irish bene- fices, 1104, 5; their first exemption from attendance on the ch'eftains going to war, 559, 1106; their beggarly condi- tion, ignorance, &c., at the period of the Reformation, 696, 721, 783, 814, 815, 864, 5; their strange confederation under N. Mac Molissa, 627, 1114-'18; their ready submission to the regal supermacy under Henry VIII., no- ticed by Mr. Moore, 1429.
Irish Ecclesiastical Journal, qd. 674 n., 683 n., 693 n, &c. See Journal "Irish enemies," who, 554; Anglican precautions against them, 664, '5; (see 1104;) Bp. Young's activity against them, A.D., 1368, 1142. See also 1179. Irish habit, the, customs, &c., denounced by parliament, 657. See also 686. Irish kings, their number and succession referred to, 1120.
Irish language, the, St. Aidan's sermons in, to the Saxons, 177; Fitz Ralph's supposed labours in, 655; discouraged by the Statute of Kilkenny, 657, '8; by Henry VIII.'s parliament, A.D. 1536, 686; a difficulty in Turner's accepting the see of Armagh, 729; discouraged by the Act of Uniformity, 755-7; efforts made for communicating in- struction through its instrumentality, 779 seqq.; catechism and primer issued in, 780; the Book of Common Prayer printed in, 781; and the H. Scriptures, 782; the want of preachers in, noticed by Sir H. Sidney, 785; Sir F. Bacon's remark of similar tendency, 817; spoken by Bp. Draper of Kilmore, A.D. 1603, 865; and by several of the re- formed clergy in Leighlin and Ferns, A.D. 1612, 873; found a difficulty in the intrusion of English clerks into Irish benefices, A. D. 1484, 1104; preached in by Bishop Nangle, coadju-
tor to Abp. Browne, 1219; written on, by Rd. Creagh, 1236; the Mirror of Penitence, &c., published in, by Ro- mish teachers, 1238, 1246.
Irish, the mere," 1181; their exclusion from Galway, 1185; the innocence of killing them inculcated by Anglo-Ro- mish teachers, 1129.
Irish, the, (people) acquainted with let- ters in the 4th century, 6; known to the Romans in the time of Tacitus as a mercantile people, 7; famous for learning after their conversion to Christianity, see books 1-3, passim ; as instanced in S. Cummian's Paschal Epistle, 153 seqq.; their judgment of the Romans as heretics in the 7th cen- tury, 163; by whom they felt them- selves to be excommunicated, 155, 161, see also 183; their contempt for the tonsure, &c., of Rome, 184; their high esteem as teachers among the Saxons, 178; their services in the conversion of England, 178-180; their national character in the 7th century, noticed, 206; their eminence as missionaries, &c., in England and on the continent exemplified, 240, 241, 276, 277, 395; their character throughout Europe in those early ages further illustrated, 318 seqq., passim; their liberality in giving free education, books, board, &c., to the children of the English no- bility and gentry, A.D. 664, 326; sup- posed by Camden to have communi- cated to the Saxons the knowledge of the use of letters, 351; their zeal for learning noticed by Eric of Auxerre, 398; their high reputation maintained in part to the 11th century, 437; their demoralization by the Danish wars, 424, 454; Bede's testimony to the ex- cellence of their character in the 7th cent., 486; similar do. of Wm. of Malmesbury, 487;-their description by Roman writers of the 12th cent. as
"barbarous," 456, 7, 8, 464; as "pro- fligate, ungodly, stiffnecked, filthy, pa- gans," 462; "wolves," 463; "beastly," 492; guilty of "enormities and filthy lewdness, 514; as of "unclean life and horrible sins, clean out of right rule of Christendom, and worse than wild beasts," 526, 527; as "great here- tics," 557; whose "character was stained by disorder and crime, ignor- ance of God's law, and filthy abomina- tions," 535, 1086; as "of unbridled licentiousness," wholesale shedders of blood, incestuous, flesh-eaters in Lent, and altogether disrespectful to churches and clergy, 537, 8, 1087, '8;-their exclusion by the Anglo-Normans from Irish Church benefices, 552, 606, 7, 647, 8, 658, 9, (see 686,) 1108; en- couraged by their native clergy, they join Bruce's rebellion, and are excom- municated by Rome for it, 635; they trace all their calamities connected with the Invasion to Romish interfer- ence, 637, 1121-3; their hatred of the English originated not in, nor was much increased by, the Refn., 644; their views about Papal Supremacy in the Anglo-Romish period, 670; their notion of the value of pope's bulls and other such trumpery, 672, 3; little regarded by the popes before their breach with the English, 675; they join in rejecting papal sovereignty, 704 seqq.; their degraded state in 1565, 769; described as "all papists," in 1593, by Spenser, 815; their gladness at being brought under the English laws, 832;-their early conversion to Christianity referred to, 984;-their interference in various wars in Eng- land, 1017 seqq.; they render aid to Howel and Meredyth, Welsh chiefs, 1023; to Conan ap lago, 1024; and Gruffyth ap Conan, ib.; to Rees ap Tewdor, 1025; they shelter Gruffyth
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