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.

his

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,

sup.

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.

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-

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