as a charge against the old Irish,

1443.

Rechen (Ratheny ?) granted to the
Church of the Holy Trinity, Dublin,

421.

Rechran, or Raghery, 379, 991.
Recusants, Irish, their seditious proceed-
ings, 874; their nobility separate from
the communion of the Church, 878;
their deputation to James I., 881; its
issue, 883; Act for discovering and re-
pressing them, 1310.

Rees ap Tewdor, brings an Irish army
into South Wales, 1025.

Rees, lord of Cardigan, 1038; his inter-
course with Henry II., in connection
with his Ir. invasion, 1039, '40.
Reeves, Rev. W., D.D., his Antiquities
of Down, &c., qd., 982 n., 989, 1012,
1062; 1145 n., 49 n.; his Visitation
of Derry, (A.D. 1397,) 1063 n. ; his aid
of the compiler of these pages in con-
nection with the "Confederation" of
the bishops and clergy of Id., A.D.
1291, 1114.

Reformation, the, in Id., its ecclesiasti-

cal sanction, 692 .; the reformation
of the Irish Church, so far as in the
rejection of papal supremacy, received
without scruple by the Ir. chieftains
and people, according to Mr. Moore,
1431, '2; the estabt. of the Reformation
not, according to the same authority,
the first or principal cause of the feuds
between different races in the country,
1427; the name of reformation made an
occasion of Church pillage, 719, 1064.
Reformed religion, the, not the prime
cause of the quarrel between the En-
glish and Irish, 644; advances towards
its introduction in Henry VIII's reign,
712, 716; its feeble progress under
Edward VI., 718, '19, 722, 9, 730;
Bale's preaching in its support, 733;
Q. Mary's opposition to, 735 seqq.;
Bale's endeavour to advance by means
VOL. III.

of stage-plays, 738; restoration of,
under Q. Elizabeth, 747 seqq.; parlia-
mentary enactment of, 754; its vali-
dity, 762; see 692 n.; denounced by
Rome as no better than Baal-worship,
839; or other idolatry, 1308.
Regeneration, baptismal, 134.
Reginald, king of Waterford, his sub-
mission to Henry II., 504.

Regular clergy, alterations made in their
circumstances by the English Con-
quest, 562; the regular orders deli-
gent in promoting schism in the 17th
cent., 891 5, 901, 1351 seqq., &c.
Relics, a supply of, brought from Rome
by Wilfrid "for the consolation of the
British Churches," 213; abuses con-
nected with in the Anglo-Romish ages,
586; curious specimens of, 587; their
destruction made a pretext for sacri-
lege, 719; the making of prayer near
to, 265, 960.

Religion of the ancient Irish, Abp. Us-

sher's tract on, qd., 604, et passim.
"Religion" not the first occasion of dis-
pute between the Ir. and English,
644, '5; its first adoption as a pretext
for rebellions against England, 1438;
admitted by Mr. Moore not to have
been the first or chief motive to the
rebellions against Q. Elizabeth, &c.,
1427, 37; religion not the object of
the penal laws, 843, 1399, 1430, 31.
Remission of sins, false and superstituous
views of, noticed, 565, 584, 794, 827;
Abp. Browne's doctrine concerning it,
699; promised by Pope Nicholas to
such as should pay their tenths well,
1164; to be earned by Henry II., by
his attack upon Id., 538, 1089. See
Indulgences.

Remonstrance, the Irish, meets with op-
position from titr. Primate O'Reilly,
&c., 1241, '2; O'Conor on its rejection,
1333; Father P. Walsh's account of its
origin, &c., 1397 segg.; Copy of the
2 U

document in its original form, 1404
seqq.; the altered form, 1411 seqq.; the
original one, discouraged by the priests.
is favoured by the laity, 1409; its re-
jection, 1410.

"Rent, Catholic," the occasion of its
first assessment, &c., 882.

Renwick, Mr. James, his "deposition

of James II., 1340, '1; his life, qd.,
963-'5.

Reve, Thos. le, bp. of Lismore, his ser
vices for England noticed, 1141.
Rheims, Hinemar, abp. of, 400.
Rhine, river, St. Columbanus's journey-
ing along the, 267.

Riar Patraice, what, 1043.

Richard I., king of Engd., his corona-
tion referred to, 1172.

See Fitz

Richard II., Act of, against heretics, re-
vived by Q. Mary, for Id., 743.
Richard, St., of Dundalk.
Ralph.
Riddlesford, W. de, A.-Norman monas-
tery founder in Id., 571.

Riding, in the Irish fashion made illegal,
658.

Ridley, bp., his burning referred to, 843.
Rinuncini, papal agent, his arrival in Id.,
and subsequent proceedings, 1240, '54.
Ripon, deserted by its Irish monks, to
avoid submission to Rome, 185; ac-
count of the erection of a Church there
by Wilfrid, &c., 212.

Rites, and practices, of the ancient Bri-
tish Church. contrary to those of
Rome, 134; those of Id. ordered to
conform to the Roman system in A.D.
1172, 581; (see 603, '5;) the use of the
Anglican forms hated by the Irish be-
fore the Refn., 672; that rites and
ceremonies should be the same in Id.
and England, not necessary, 922.
Robbers, Italian, a gang of, sent to Id. to
defend "the Catholic faith," 789, 808,
1369-'71; Irish, in Armagh diocese,
A.D. 1360, excommunicated by Pri-

mate Fitz Ralph, but absolved by the
friars, 1110.

Rochfort, Simon, bp. of Meath, founds a
Cathedral Church at Newtown, Trim,
571; holds a synod there, and pro-
motes in it the suppression of the small
sees of Id., 616, 7; a candidate for the
primacy, 619.

Rock, Danl., his tract against the inde-
pendence of the ancient Irish Church
of the see of Rome qd., 313.
Roderic, last king of Id. See O'Conor.
Rolls of parlt., qd., 743.

Roman wars in Britain, 116, 117.
Romanists, the Irish, left not communion
with the Church under Q. Elizabeth,
755; not punished for their creed by
her, 843, 1399; often loyal to her au-
thority, 828, 1437.

Roman supremacy. See Rome inf., Su-
premacy, &c.
Romanising Irishmen of the seventh
cent., their peculiar opinions, 164 seqq.;
advantages possessed by their party
in Engd., 206 seqq.

Rome, the Church of, not "the Catholic
and Apostolic Church" in the opinion
of the old Irish, 148; how regarded by
those of them who cherished commun-
ion with her, 165-'9; did not allow
the Irish at large to be Catholics in
the 7th cent., but regarded with con-
tempt their 'sect' and sentiments alto-
gether, 184 (see Catholic:) her obstin-
ate quarrels with the British Churches,
188; feelings of St. Columbanus to-
wards her, 306 Gillebert the first great
promoter of her influence in Id., 441
seqq.; her customs, &c., promoted also
by Malachy, 458, 464; who was the
first Irish primate to seek the sanction
of her authority, 471; the English in-
vasion employed as her means of reduc-
ing the Irish to subjection, 492; her
influence in Id. promoted by the Synod
of Cashel, 519; whether her authority

Ryvere, W. de, Canon of Sarum, papal
collector in Id., 1151.

Sabbath day, in the 7th century, still
meant Saturday, 90, 91.
Sacraments, abp. Comyn's preaching
concerning, and canons relative to,
enacted in the Dublin Synod of A.D.
1186, 609, 611; abuses connected with
that of the Lord's Supper, as noticed
by Bp. Bale, 732; titular legislation
relative to, 893, 1364; see 901.
Sacrifices for the dead, 50.
Saigir, St. Kieran of, 69; its monastery
ravaged by the Danes, 383.
Saints not invoked by the most ancient
Irish Christians, S. Patrick, &c., 44,
67; not by S. Columba, nor Columba-
nus, 250; (see Invocation;) supersti-
tious views connected with them in
later times, illustrated in the litanies
of Engus, 355, '6; and by a reference
to transactions of the Anglo-Romish
period, 585; John Bale imprisoned
in Henry VIII's time for preaching
against the invocation of their names,
&c., 731; notes on the expression
"merits and intervention of the saints,"
in a sermon of St. Columbanus, 969,
970; the ancient Irish saints divided
into 3 orders, 60-62, 982; their love
for seclusion, 1058; an Act of Abp.
Dowdall, relative to saints' days no-
ticed. 1113; (see 893, 1365;) burning
of their images at the time of the
Reformation exemplified in S. Mary of
Trim, 1194; and S. Dominick at Cork,
1216.

Saladin's taking of Jerusalem, noticed,
1145.

Salamanca, university, various titular

prelates for Id. educated in, 1238, 48,
54 n. combines with Valladolid in a
"judgment" approving strongly of H.
O'Neill's rebellion, with denunciation
of its opponents, 850, 1300-1306.
Salmeron, Alphonso, Jesuit, brings Con

O'Neill a seditious epistle from Pope
Paul, III., 1206.

Salop, the earl and earldom of, 1023, 6,
&c.

Saltuir-na-Rann, of Engus Ceile-De,
account of, 354.

Saltzburgh, St. Virgilius builds a cathe-
dral in, 348, his labours there, 348, 9.
Salvation by Christ only, Bp. Bale's dili-
gence in setting forth, 733, '4.
Samuel, fourth bp. of Dublin, conseed.
at Canterbury, 429; reproved by Pri-
mate Anselm for pride and cupidity,
ib., 430.

Sanders, Dr., 788; joins the Irish rebel-
lion of J. Fitzmaurice, 790, 1270; ar-
rives in Kerry, ib., 792; his miserable
end, 800; his letter to the Irish peo-
ple, &c., 1267 seqq. See 1270, 1369.
San Josepho, papal captain for the Irish
rebn., A.D., 1577, 790.

Santa Cruce, Maurice and Calvagh de,
murdered, 1127.

Sardica, Council of. See Council.
Sarum Use, in divine service, its popula-
rity, 520 n.

Saul, or Sabhal, (Co. Down,) the site of
St. Patrick's first Church in Id., 33.
Saundford, abp. de, interdicts the city of
Dublin, to enforce payment of clerical
dues, 624.

Saxons, their invasion of Britain, 116;
their establishment of the Heptarchy,
117, 18; their conversion to Christia-
nity, 127 seqq.; supposed by Camden
to have received the use of letters from
the Irish, 351; oppressed by the A.
Normans, 551, 1022; further note on
their obligations to the Irish, 1441, 2.
See 326.

Scaramp, Peter, his mission to Id. as
papal minister, 1239.

Scarlet Robe, why worn by the pope,
according to Gillebert, 444.
Schism, charged on the old Irish by the

Church of Rome, 136, 151, 442, 527-