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Malachy, bp. of Down, taken prisoner by
J. de Courcy, 600.
Malachy, king of Id.
lin.
Malchus, a monk of Winchester, ap-
pointed bp. of Waterford, 430.
Malchus, bp. of Lismore, 459, 460, 477;
receives Malachy O'Morgair and King
Cormac Mac Carthy into his monas-
tic establishment there, 460; urges
Malachy to accept the primacy, 468.
Malmesbury derives its name from an
Irish saint, 319, 337.
Malmesbury, Wm. of, his description of
Ireland's beggarly condition, (A. D.
1100,) 1018, '19.

Manger of Bethlehem, a relic of the,
preserved in Dublin! 587.

Mant, Bp., his Church Hist. of Id. qd.,
683 n., 743, 759, 785, 1309; apparent
errors occurring in this history cor-
rected, 692 n., 1436 n.

Mantuanus, Baptista, his statement as

to the views of the Britons, &c., in the
Paschal controversy with Rome, 201.
Manual labour, diligently followed by
the early monks, 233; instance in S.
Columba, 100, 104; Columbanus, 255;
Kentegern and his disciples, 1008.
MSS. in Trinity College Library, Dub-

lin, qd, 526 n. seqq., 532, '3, 634, 1213,
'14, 1306-9.

Maolmaodhog, original name of Mala-

chy O'Morgair, 457.

Mareschal, Wm., earl of Pembroke, a
founder of monasteries in Id., 570; his
affinity with Strongbow, 621; made
the subject of an awful denunciation
after his death, by a bp. of Ferns, 622.
Margaret, Queen of England, granted a
share of the Papal Tenths for five
years, 1151.

Marianus, tutor of P. Adrian IV., an
Irishman, 486.

Marianus Scotus, account of, 435; his
superstition, 436; his Chronicle, and

Scripture Commentaries, noticed, 437;
his estimation of the Apocrypha, 366.
Marriage, irregularities connected with,
charged on the old Irish by Primate
Lanfranc, 424, 5; the charge re-
peated by St. Anselm, 432; Malachy's
exertions to adjust according to the
Roman canon law, 459, 464; the hope
of improving matters in this particu-
lar, a motive with the Ir. bps. in sub-
mitting to Henry II, 512; Cashel en-
actment relative to. 516; the abuses
complained of are particularised by P.
Alexander III., 538, 1088; marriage
dues to the clergy in Dublin, a matter
of dispute, A.D. 1267, 624; marriage
with the mere Irish denounced by the
Statute of Kilkenny, 658; the ordi-
nance not regulated among them by
the papal canon law, (A.D. 1528,) 673;
disregarded by their chiefs and lead-
ers, 807; that of Henry VIII., and
other like cases, pronounced upon by
the Ir. parlt., 684; that of bishops,
made a ground for their deprivation
under Q. Mary, 740, 761; the Trent
laws connected with, introduced into
use in Id., 894, 899, 1363; abuses in,
widely prevalent among the lower
Irish in the time of Jas. I., 905, '6;
whether used by the ancient clergy of
Id., 1422, 4. See 1052 n., and Celi-
bacy, sup.

Martene's Thesaurus qd., 521; his trea-
tise de Ant. Ec. Ritibus, 967.
Martial law, H. O'Neill's desire to exer-
cise in his district, 821.

Martin, St, bp. of Tours, said to have
instructed St. Patrick, 28; propagates
monasticism in France, 229; his tomb
visited by S. Columbanus, 265; ho-
noured with an altar in Galway, 591.
Martyrology, the, of Tallaght, 354;
Notker's qd., 334; the Roman, 403.
Mary, the B. Virgin, assigned a share of
the honour given to God in the dedi-

cation of S. Patrick's, Dublin, 585;
see 1115; some of her milk, an item in
the list of pretended relics in Christ
Church, Dubn., 587; contumely to
her punished with death, A.d. 1353,
652; Abp. Browne condemns the prac-
tice of praying to her, 681; her title of
"blessed" no proof of her mediator-
ship, 724, 5; her image burned at
Trim, 1194.

Mary's, St., nunnery, Dubn., founded by
D. Mac Morogh, 566; her monastery
of canons regr. at Kells, Kilkenny,
571, &c., &c.

Mary's, St., Abbey, Dublin, controver-
sial conference in, A.D. 1551, 723-'6.
Mary, Q., (the bloody.) her accession
and tyranny, 735; makes provision for
burning, &c., of heretics in Id., 736,
742; the celebration of her accession
in Kilkenny, 738; deprives the re-
forming prelates, 739, 740; her perse-
cuting instructions to the Ld. Deputy
Fitz Walter, 742; effects the "recon-
ciling" of Id. to the see of Rome, 743,
744; story of her commission for the
persecuting of Protestants in Id., 745,'6.
Mason, Mr., his Religion of the ancient
Irish Saints qd., 46; his History of
St. Patrick's Cathedral, 630 n.
Mass, uniformity observed in the, by the
most ancient Ir. saints, 60; a repeti-
tion of, employed by S. Malachy, to
procure admission to heaven for a de-
parted sister, 480; ordered for the
dead by the Synod of Cashel, 518;
private masses, abuse of, 590-2; ad-
vantages of an unknown tongue in,
720, '1; antiquity of, and changes in,
the, 724; celebration of, to be sheltered
from wind and rain, in the early con-
venticles under Jas. I., 899, 1364; no
priest to celebrate ordinarily more
than once a day, ib.; what languages
may properly be used in, according to
P. John VIII., 965 seqq.

Matthew Paris qd., (on the nature of an
interdict,) 593.

Masters, the Four. See Four Masters.
Mathew, Emer, titr. bp. of Clogher,
"martyr," 1374, '9.

Matthews, E., second titr. abp. of Dub-
lin. See Mac Mahon, Owen.
Mattins, to be said in Latin or English,
by the Act of Uniformity, 755.
Maude, or Matilda, the Empress, objects
to the A. N. invasion of Id., 492.
Maximus, Roman commander in Britain,
116.

May, John, primate of Id., his patronage
of prayers for the dead, 590, '1.
Mayo, St. Colman's English monastery
in, 186; the scene of Danish outrage,
383; the ancient see of, noticed, 995
seqq.

M'Cragh, Berd., first "vicar genl." of
the new Romish estabt. in Derry, 905.
M'Crodden, Tirlaugh, his seditious and

schismatical preaching, 1343, 53, *60.
M'William, (Ouchter,) or Burke, Irish
chieftain, his disturbances in Con-
naught, A.D. 1565, 769.

Meath, anciently one of the five king-
doms of Id., 378; ravaged by Turge
sius, 382; the king of, submits to
Henry II. at Waterford, E04; a bp. of,
promotes L. Simnel's imposture, 666;
its chiefs renounce papal supremacy,
705; state of the diocese of, in 1576,
783, 784; formed of many smaller an-
cient do., 617, 990; its bishop's order
of precedence among the Ir. prelates,
994. See 1000; also Staples, and Walsh.
Meath, the archdeacon of. See Stopford.
Mediator, Christ the only, with orthodox
Christians, 724, 5.

Mellifont, the seat of the first Irish Cis-
tertian establishment, 477; its abbot
sent as an ambassador to Rome, 534 n..
1092; the synod of, (A.D. 1157,) 542
n.; (see 1044;) the establishment
strongly national in A.D. 1322, 1426.

INDEX.

Melrose Abbey, on the Tweed, an Irish
establishment, 242; its Annals qd.,
483 n., 1050.

Melruan, abbot and bishop of Tallaght,
353.

Mendicant orders, their rise and abuses,
589, 1110; their persecution of Primate
Fitz Ralph, 655.

Menevia, or St. David's in Wales, the
see of, 122, 123; Ferns thought by some
to have been subject to, 994; Giraldus's
work on, qd., 1094; the diocese made
subject to Canterbury, 1030; and to
the intrusion of Norman bps., 1035.
Mercia, the Saxon kingdom of, founded,
118; its conversion to Christianity,
129, 179.
"Mere Irish," 759 n.
mere."

See "

Irish, the

Meredyth ap Blethyn submits to King
Henry I., 1035.

Merits, Romish views of, whether held
by St. Patrick, 43; of the saints, false
notions entertained of, in the seventh
cent., 278; views of S. Columbanus
connected with, 302, '3; false doctrine
of, connected with abbey-building in
the 12th cent., 584; Bp. Bale's preach-
ing in regard to, 733; note of Archbi
shop Ussher on, 970.
Merks, Jenico, mayor of Dublin, his
petn. to Henry VII., 1101.
Methodius, St., apostle of the Sclavi, 968.
Metz, (see Austrasia,) Fingen's Ir. es-
tablishment in, patronized by King
Otho, 412; a bp. of, promotes rebn. in
Id. 697.

Michael ab Isselto, qd., 790.

Milan, the eccl. province of, subject to

the see of Rome, 306.

Milcho, St. Patrick's master during his
captivity, 19.

Milesius, alleged progenitor of the Irish
people, 1120.

Military ecclesiastics of Engd. and Id.,
386, 819, 835, 1294, &c.

Milk, said to have been used for baptiz-
ing, in Id., 521.

Ministers, a want of, in the Irish Church,
noticed, A.D. 1576, 784.

Minister's money, 1073; some account
of its origin, &c., 1079-81.
Miracles of St. Patrick, their origin, 14;
abundance of, connected with the
names of saints, their relics, &c., in
the Anglo-Romish times, 585; a speci-
men in support of the Latin mass, 749;
their use and limits according to Sedu-
lius, 393; that of raising the dead at-
tributed to St. Malachy, 481.

Mis, Sliav, or Sliemish, (Co. Antrim,)
St. Patrick a captive near, 19.

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Mission, the, in 1d.," a Romish title for
orders, 1254, 1392-'5.
Missionary zeal of the ancient Irish peo-
ple, 206; instanced in St. Patrick, 24
seqq.; in the followers of St. Columba,
239; in St. Cuthbert, 242; in St. Co-
lumbanus, 274; in certain missionaries
to Iceland, 404, '5.

Mochtra, St., said to have brought relics
to Id. from Rome, 586.
Modestus, Bp., commissioned by S. Vir-
gilius to preach and labour among the
people of Carinthia, 349.

Moedoc, (or Maidoc, i.e. St. Edan.) See

Edan. The independence of the
early Irish Church illustrated from his
legends, 1249.

Moling, abp. of Ferns, 447.
Mon, or Anglesey, 1028.

Monaghan, the monastery of, ravaged by
the Danes, 382; state of the county in
the reign of Jas. I., 862, '3.
Monarchy, the supreme, of Ireland, its
lawful succession interrupted by the
usurpation of Brian Boru, 413, 416,
417; held by Rodk. O'Conor at the
period of the Conquest, 504.
Monasterevan, a Cistertian abbey found-
ed in, during the 12th cent., 576.
Monaster Neva, battle of, 795.

Monasteries, the ancient, their use, as
schools of learning. &c. 245, '6; as mis-
sionary stations, ib., 247, 274, 5; as
houses of relief for the poor, 226, 248;
those of S. Columbanus independent
of episcopal control, 275; Irish, popu-
lar in France in early times, 277;
changes made in the condition of those
of Id. under Anglo-Norman influence,
562-577; motives of the Anglo-Nor-
man founders of such institutions,
565; bishops commonly chosen out of
them, 576; strife between the Anglo-
Norman and Irish inmates of them,
577; degeneracy of the orders con-
nected with them in the middle ages,
588; their devastation by the Danes,
380 seqq., 563, 1060; do. under Henry
VIII, 1193.

Monastic rules, of the ancient Irish in
genl., 238; of S. Columbanus, 279-
288.

Monks, anciently made no compulsory
renunciation of private property, as a
condition of admittance to the order,
125; Benedictines introduced into Eng-
land on the expulsion of the Ir., 187; ac-
count of their origin and history, 224
-248; their primitive character, 225;
their origin, from persecution, 228;
introduction into European countries,
229; differences between them and
the ascetics, ib.; at first mostly lay-
men, 230; placed under obligation to
take holy orders, 231; at first un-
bound by vows, ib.; and sometimes
married, 232; not compelled to po-
verty, ib.; their employments, 233, '4;
scriptural studies, ib., 235; fasts, ton-
sure, and habit, ib; early abuses
among them censured by S. Jerome,
236; general character of the primi-
tive Irish monks, 237; their peculiari-
ties in some particulars noticed, 238
seqq.; and exemplified in St. Aidan,
ib., 239; and in Colman, &c., 240;

their industry and popularity in Eng-
land, 241; illustrated in St. Cuthbert's
case, 242, '3; their monastic habit,
244, 5; the monks and the "Cove-
nanters" partly sympathetic, 963, '4.
Monophysites, the, 950 n., 955.
Montgomery, Geo., made bp. of Derry,
&c., by K. James I., 863; non-resi
dent, ib.; his wife's escape from Cahir
O'Dogherty's massacre in Derry, 867.
Montgomery, Arnulf, or Ernulf, invader
of Pembroke, 1017; his rebellion
against K. Henry I., ib., 1029; he re-
ceives a grant of land in Wales, 1026,
and builds the castle of Pembroke,
1027.
Montgomery, Hugh, earl of Salop, with

Hugh, earl of Chester, ravages Angle-
sey, 1028; his death, ib.
Montgomery, Roger, first earl of Salop,
1017, does homage for the lordships of
Powys and Cardigan, 1026; fortifies
Montgomery Castle, ib. ; which is over-
thrown by the Welsh, and earl Roger
slain, 1027; the castle retaken by Wm.
Rufus, ib.

Moore, Dr., Romish priest, made Provost
of Trin. Coll. Dub., under K. James
II., 1245.

Moore's (Mr. T.) History of Ireland,
sparing of martyrdom legends, 1368,
1430, &c.; some notice of the work, &c.
1420 seqq.; its claims to attention,
1420; its views concerning the doc-
trines of the ancient Irish, 1421; state-
ments about celibacy, 1422, '24; on
Romish supremacy, ib.; on the H. Sa-
crament of the Lord's Table, and J.
S. Erigena, 1425; on the duality of the
Church in Id., in A.D. 1315, 1425, '6; on
the Querimonia Magnatum, ib.; con.
cerning the forms of excommunication
used in the middle ages, 1427, '8; on
the religious creed of Henry VIII., ib. ;
and his persecution of Protestants, ib.,
1429; his explanation of the "martyr-

dom" of Dr. Travers, 1430; and ad-
mission of the ready acceptance of the
regal supremacy by the Irish chieftains
of that age, 1431, '2; his account of
the Reformation of the Irish Church
as the act of its own prelates, 1433; and
subsequent misstatement as to the
creation of a new Church in the same
proceeding, 1434; his description of
Desmond as a religious leader, ib.;
and notice of Jas. Fitzmaurice's pro-
ceedings and motives, 1435; his mis-
take about Jas. Mac Caghwell, ib.,
1436; his use of the word titular, ib.,
1437; his notice of the introduction of
"religion" as a pretext for rebellion,
ib.; his strange mistake about H.
O'Neill's attainder, 1438.
Morocco, King Sebastian's unfortunate
expedition against, 790.

Morogh, son of Brian Boru, falls at
Clontarf, 416.

Moryson, Fynes, qd., 1298-1300.
Moscow, the burning of, 1337.
Moses, the law of, supposed by the Irish
to have been reintroduced at the Re-
formation, (perhaps from the Ten
Commandments being set up in the
churches,) 1194.

Mosheim, (Ch. Historian,) his praise of
J. S. Erigena, 404.

"Mother Church," the name of, how
used anciently, 167.

Mountgarret, Ld., (A.D. 1613) a patron of
D. Rothe, and of Romish schism, 1357.
Mountjoy, Ld., sent over against H.
O'Neill, 837; his successful proceed-
ings in the war, 838; besieges Kinsale,
841; discomfits H. O'Neill, 842, '3;
keeps Id. in order at the accession of
K. James I,, 851; his advice concern-
ing the treatment of loyal Romanists,
856, 7; calamitous effects of his mili-
tary operations on the enemy, 1298, '9.
Mountmorres. See Herrey.
Moville, (Co. Down,) the monastery of,
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68; S. Columba studies at, 76; ravaged ·
by the Danes, 382, 563.
Moylinny, rural deanry in Connor dio.,
taxation of, A.D., 1306. 1160, '61.
Munna, St., (of Taghmon,) his contro-
versy with Lasrean about Easter, 170;
and defence of the Ir. customs, ib., 171.
Munster, anciently one of the five king-
doms of Id., 378; visitation of, by the
primates of Id. in the 12th cent., 476,
1107; the bps. of, accept the regal su-
premacy under Henry VIII., 701; its
lay chieftains do likewise, 705; wasted
by the wars of the Desmond and Or-
mond families, 769; Desmond's inabi-
lity to promote religion there, 775;
James Fitz Maurice creates disturb-
ance in, 777; the Earl of Desmond
helps to excite agitation in, 786; the
Desmond rebellion in, 787-803; do-
ings of a vicar apostolic of, 835, 1294-'6 ;
efforts of the Sugan Earl in, against
England, 836; quieted by Ld. Mount-
joy at the accession of James I.,
851, '2.
Murcart, (Murchardach, Muriardach,
i.e. Murtagh, or Moriarty O Brien,)
king of Id., 428; unites with the clergy
and people of Dublin in electing

Samuel,' fourth bp. of that city, 429;
joins with the citizens of Waterford,
&c., in electing a bp. for them, 430;
Anselm's letter to him on the state of
religion in Id.. 432; present in the
Synod of Fiadh-mac-Engusa, 451;
gives his daughter in marriage to Ar-
nulf Montgomery, 1017, 29; his kind
reception of Owen ap Cadogan, 1032;
his letter to Primate Anselm, of thanks
for his kindness to his son-in-law Ar-
nulf, 1016, '17; his death, 1036.
Muredoc, abbot of Kildare. A.D. 821, 391.
Murray, Danl., fifteenth titular abp. of
Dublin, 1257.

Murrough, viscount, title of, given to
Stukely by the pope of Rome, 791.

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