1002, &c.; his opinion of P. O'Sulle-
van Bear, 902 n.; his quotation from
the Annals of Card. Baronius against
Roman supremacy, 933.

Usury, condemned at Kells, 485, 1424.
Valladolid, the university of, its judg-
ment of H. O'Neill's rebn., 1300 seqq.
Valois, Hamo de, his quarrel with Abp.
Comyn, 613, '4.

Vandal conquest of Africa, the occasion
of, according to Baronius, 935.
Vair, Loch, Turgesius drowned in, 385.
Vassor, in Belgium, the abode of certain
eminent Irishmen in the tenth century,
412.

Venantius Scotus, 1227, &c. See R.
Waucop.

Ventry, Co. Kerry, 799.

Verdon, B. de, Anglo-Norman abbey
founder in Id., 569.

Verulam, St. Alban's place of residence,
and martyrdom, 113.

Vestments, eccl., of purple and silk,
brought from Rome to Engd. by Wil-
frid, 213; destruction of, at Youghal,
by the Geraldines, 797.
Vicars-general, of Rome, the eggs set for
providing the first titr. bps. for Id.,
894, 902, 1349, '51 seqq., '64; employed
to select sham parish priests for Id.,
895, 9, 902, 1364, 5; whereby Clonmel
is supplied with "60 or 70 priests" in
one year, 1359, (i.e. by D. Kearney ;)
their financial circumstances and way
of support noticed, 901, '2, 1355.
Vice transmutable into virtue by the
pope's word, 1401.
Victor. See Pope.

Victor, St., canons of, 567.

Victorius, his astronomical tables, how

regarded by the old Irish, 290, '1, '5.
Victorian period, the, 196 n.

Victricius, supposed angelic letter bearer
to St. Patrick, 23.

Villaneuva, Sigr., his Works of St. Pa-
trick qd., 49, 521.

Virgil, or Virgilius, St., (answering to
the Irish Feargeal, or Farrel,) bp. of
Saltzburgh, his history, 343; his pro-
ceedings in France, Bavaria, &c., 344;
his belief in antipodes denounced by
Rome, 347; appointed bp. of Salts-
burgh, 348; regarded as the apostle of
Carinthia, 349; his last labours and
death, ib.

Vision of St. Patrick, relative to the state
of Id., 56.

Visitations of Id. by the primates of Ar-
magh, vid. Armagh; royal do., by
order of Jas. I., 870, 884, 5.

Vivian, Card., his proceedings with J.
de Courcy, &c., 600; his capture and
release by him, 601; a check received
by him in England on his way over,
ib.; promotes Henry 11.'s claims and
power in Id., 602; his coveting of
Irish gold not accommodated, 603;
pushing forward his Roman ideas too
fast on the natives, he gets himself ex-
pelled from the island, ib.; Hanmer's
account of him, 1049; his covetous-
ness noticed also in the Annals of
Melrose, and by Card. Baronius, 1050.
Vocacyon, the, of John Bale. See Bale,
John.

Vortigern invites the Saxons into Bri-
tain, 117.

Vosges, the, chosen by S. Columbanus
as the scene of his labours in France,
255; his expulsion thence, 264.
Vow of seditious obedience to Rome,
circulated by Primate Cromer, 694.
Vulgate version of the H. Scriptures,
made in the Church of Rome to usurp
the place of the original, 364; in
which particular the ancient Irish
people acted otherwise, 365.

Wafer, the sacramental, used for witch-
craft, 649; employed as the most so-
lemn obligation to ratify a covenant
of peace, 1128.

Wales, affords a shelter to the British

Christians from the Saxon persecu-
tions, 118; intimacy between its inha-
bitants and the Irish Christians of the
sixth cent., 71, 73, 126, &c.; invaded
by Ethelfrid, 134, (see Cornwall); in-
vaded by the Irish, 1023; by the Nor-
mans, 1025; parcelled out by W. Rufus
to his men, 1026, 7; independent
spirit of its people, 1094; and their op-
pression by the Normans, 1095.
Walsh, W., intruded by Q. Mary into
the see of Meath, 740; for opposing the
regal supremacy, &c., he is deposed,
758, 760; his banishment, and death,
761; blunder of the "C. C. Directory'
about him, 1380, '87; Mr. Moore's
mention of him, 1433.

Walsh, Peter, his History of the Remon-
strance, qd., 693 n., 1397 seqq.; his
appointment as Procurator of the Irish
Romanists, 1408.

Walsh, N., Chancellor of St. Patrick's
Dublin, promotes instruction by means
of the Irish tongue, 780; appointed bp.
of Ossory, 781; his cruel end, ib.
Walsh. Dr., his appointment as titular
bp. of Cloyne and Ross, 1251.
Walter, Theobald. See Fitz Walter.
Walton's Life of Herbert, qd., 285 n.
"Warden of the Marches of Wales," ac-

tivity of a bp. of London as, 1032.
Wardenship of Galway, the, confirmed

by the sanction of P. Innocent VIII.,
671, 2, 1169 seqq.; mode of appoint-
ment, &c., of the Warden, 1171, '84;
made the ground for setting up a new
titular bishopric, 1386.

Ware, Sir J., his Antiquities of Id., Bi-
shops, &c., qd. passim; his account of
the ancient episcopal Sees in Id., 993
seqq.; his MSS. qd., 1187 n.
Ware, Robt., his Life of Abp. Browne,
qd., 681, 1204.

Waterford, built by Sitric the Norwe-
gian, 389; fresh arrivals of the Danes
in, 408; continued under Danish in-

VOL. III.

fluence after the battle of Clontarf,
420; erected into a bpk., and made sub-
ject to Canterbury, 430; subject also
to the king of Id., 431; its subjection
to Canterbury ends, 452 n.; for other
notices connected with the see of, see
484 n., 661, 1159, 1216, 1384; origin of
its union with Lismore, 1140; arrival
of Henry II., in the city, 503 seqq.;
the Synod of, receives the Bulls of
Adrian and Alexander for subjecting
Id. to Engd., 525, 6, 7, 542; the first
see appointed to, by an English king,
547; John, Earl of Morton's visit to,
608; scandalous conduct of a bp. of,
A.D. 1210, 615; a bp. of, employed
to excommunicate for the pope and
King Henry III., the unruly citi
zens of Dublin, 625; a bp. of, burns
heretics, 652; Abp. Browne preaches
there against papal supremacy, 699,
700; the Desmond estates in the county,
confiscated, 802; the citizens, rebelli-
ously disposed at the accession of Jas.
I., 850; are quieted by Ld. Mountjoy,
851; notice of certain Romt. priests
resident there in A.D. 1610, 1357.
Waucop, Robt., (called also Venantius
Scotus,) a candidate, on the Trent inter-
est, for the titular primacy of Id.,
702 n, 714, 5 n.; rejected by the Ir.,
ib.; although the bp. of Rome would
never acknowledge his opponent, ib.,
887; account of his life, 1227; Dr.
Mac Mahon's erroneous statement re-
lative to his place in the titular succes-
sion of Armagh noticed, 1228; his
blindness, equestrian powers, and in-
troduction of the Jesuits into Id., no-
ticed, ib., and 714 n. See 1378, 1437.
Wearmouth abbey, 209.
Wednesday, fastings of the ancient monks
on, 235; do. of the Irish monks in par-
ticular, 240, 284.
Wellesley, the Marquess, Dr. Doyle's
letter to, on Tithes, &c., qd., 1066.
2 x

Werburgh's, St., (in Chester,) supplies
Anglican monks for Id., 574.
Westphalia, St. Willibrord's missionary
labours in, 329.

Wexford, mentioned in connection with
the labours of Palladius, 3; seized by
the Anglo-Norman invaders, 497;
Abp. Browne preaches in, against pa-
pal supremacy, 699, 700; rebelliously
disposed at the accession of K. James
I., 850.

Wharton's Anglia Sacra, qd., 411, 1093,
1195.

Whately, Rd.,D.D., abp. of Dublin, 1101,

1225.

Whipping, a penalty of the old monastic
system, 280.

Whiskers, Irish, made treasonable by
English statute law, 664, '5.
Whitby. See Council.

White, Dr., a seditious priest, made first
titr. bp. of Waterford, 1349, '57.
White Field, the Council of, in connec-

tion with the Paschal Controversy, 171.
Wicbert, Englishman, visits Id. for the
purpose of study, 330.

Wicklow, according to some, St. Patrick's
first landing place in Id, 32.
Wilfrid, (commonly called St. Wilfrid,)
chosen abp. of York, A.D. 664, refuses,
as a member of the Roman communion,
to receive consecration from the hands
of Irish bps., 149; and in order to
avoid them goes to France for his epis-
copal consecration, 150; which he re-
ceives from the bp. of Paris, ib.;
studies at Rome, ib.; defends the Ro-
man Easter at Whitby, 181, 183; re-
stores the episcopal see of his diocese
to the city of York, 187; his boast of

having banished the venemous Irish
out of that quarter, 187, 214; and in-
troduction of Benedictine monks in
their stead, ib.; and of antiphonal
church music, ib.; the "Catholic sys-
tem" never introduced into the An-
glican churches by any bp. before him,
208; his consecration of the first
Church at Ripon, 212, '3; his gather-
ing of relics at Rome "for the conso-
lation" of the Christians in England,
ib.; his obstinate quarrels with the
clergy and people of Britain, 220; his
banishment and persecutions, 222, 3;
his reconcilement, and death, ib.; his
missionary zeal, 224; educated partly
by Irish teachers, 219.

Wilkins, his Concilia, qd., 485 n., 616.
Willelmus Gemmeticensis, qd., 1016.
William the Conqueror, his persecution
of the Saxons, 1025; said to have me-
ditated the conquest of Id., 1440.
William Rufus, his wars, &c. in Wales,
noticed, 1026, "7,

William of Malmesbury. See Malmes-
bury.

William of Newbury, qd., 524, 603,
1441, '4.

Willibrord, St., abp. of Utrecht, a student
for 12 years in Id., 329, 330; extract
from his life by Alcuin, ib., 331.
Willimar, priest of Arbona, his kind-
ness to St. Columbanus, 267; St. Gal-
lus's intercourse with him, 332.
Willis, unprincipled sheriff of Ferma-
nagh, 818.
Winchester, foundation of the Church
of, 112; ravaged by the Saxons, 119;
a bp. of, signs the Anglo-Irish treaty,
A.D., 1175, 547; another bp. of do. sent
to check Card. Vivian, 601; a parlt.
of, under Henry II., deliberates on the
propriety of seizing upon Id., 492.
Windsor, Council of. See Council.
Wini, the only Catholic' bp. in Eng-
land in A.D. 664, 150.

Witchcraft, Lady A.Ketler tried and con-

demned for, 649.

Wives, desertion of their, charged on the
ancient Irish, 424.

Woden, idol of the Suevi, his worship
attacked by St. Columbanus, 268.
Wolsey, Card., finds Id. a bad market
for papal buils, 673.

Women, excluded from the society of the

Irish saints of the second class, 61.
Woney, Cistertian house of, founded,

571.

Wooden tables for the H. Communion,
used by the old Irish, 611.
Wool, included in the Dublin tithe law
of, 1186, 612; its use among the ancient
monks, 244.

Word of God, the, made known to the
Northumbrian Saxons by Irish teach-
ers, 178; read in the Irish monastic
churches in England, 240, 241; and
through the villages by the priests, ib. ;
preserved by the labours of the monks,
&c., 246; many of the English nobi-
lity and people come to Id. to study it,
in the 7th cent., 326; preached by S.
Furseus in Engd., 336; ordered by
the Council of Cloveshove to be read
in church to the people on Sundays,
371 n.; utterly neglected in the An-
glo-Romish period, 597; vainly ap-
pealed to in support of papal usurpa-
tions, 678; parliamentary order for its
preaching in English in Id., 687; so
preached by Abp. Browne, 699, 700;
assigned by Bp. Bale as the instru-
ment of his conversion, 731; Abp.
Curwen encourages the favourers of
it, 742; its increased circulation in Id.
in A.D. 1559, 752; St. Columbanus's
view of the importance of preaching it,

946; appealed to by the old Britons
in their controversy with Rome about
the consecrating of prelates, 1007,
1250; taught by St. Kentegern to his
disciples, 1008; a bishop of Kilfenora,
A.D. 1572, noticed as a teacher of it,
1218.
Worldly-minded clergymen, a cause of
hindrance to the Refn. in Id., 814,
896, 914, 1212, '14, '23, 1362, &c.
Wright, Mr., his unjust view of the bar-
barism of the ancient Irish examined
and refuted. 1439 seqq.; some notice
of the writer in question himself,

1445.

Wurtzburgh, St. Kilian's labours in, 337
seqq.

Years, of different kinds, ecclesiastical,
historical, and civil, their differences
noticed, 1191.

York, made an episcopal see by P. Gre-
gory I., 132; set aside by Bp. Aidan,
who substitutes Lindisfarne as his
episcopal residence, 176, '7; but again
restored to its dignity, by Wilfrid,
after his consecration to the see, 187;
an abp. of, A.D. 1560, presents Bibles
to the Dublin cathedrals, 753.
York and Lancaster, the wars of, no-
ticed, 666, 1102 seqq.

Youghal, the town of, taken by the earl
of Desmond, 796; the profane wicked-
ness of his followers on that occasion,
797.

Young, J., bp. of Leighlin, A.D. 1378,
his military resistance of the Irish re-
bels in his diocese, 1142.

Zechariah the prophet, studied with in-
terest by St. Columbanus, 292.
Zug and Zurich, Switzerland, St. Co-
lumbanus's visit to, 267.