(a) Ware's list from Cencius Camerarius agrees nearly with this, [and that from Camden already given appears to be abridged from it.]

(b) This list is given to shew the strange forms which names may assume, when often transcribed by persons not acquainted with them. The same sees are repeated in it under names made different by readers and transcribers.

(c) Aladensis, the proper Latin, occurs in no list here.

(d) Kilmacow, Irish name for Kilmacduagh, already given.
(e) In Ware Cinani, fors pro Ciarani, seu K. of Clon.
(f) N.B.-Two sees here made of Iniscatty.

(g) Kilmore, anciently Brefniensis, and Triburnensis.

Other lists

of the Irish sees from

MSS. in the

Our next catalogue of these old sees, forming the ninth in this collection, is one copied the Ussher from a manuscript of Archbishop Ussher's, E. Library of 3, 16, Trinity College Dublin, where it is distinguished by the following inscription, "Ad calcem practicæ Cancellariæ Apostolicæ, excus. Lugduni, A.D. 1549." It includes some of the

T.C.D. (No. 9.)

usual blunders.

"A PROVINCIAL OF ALL THE CATHEDRAL CHURCHES IN THE WHOLE

In the same MS. from which the preceding list is taken, there are given three other lists of the ancient sees of Ireland in the handwriting of Archbishop Ussher. The third which seemed to agree with Ware's, it was thought unnecessary to transcribe for the present article. The other two are those which here follow, and the prefatory note which accompanies them is from the same MS. and the same hand in which they are transcribed.

(List

"In a MS. belonging to the Community of the Friars No. 10.)

Minor of Kilkenny, written before the year 1350, I find
the two following catalogues of the bishops of Ireland.
"The second of them is as follows:-

"The former catalogue runs thus :

46 THE ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH.

(No. 11.)

In addition to the eleven lists now given to the reader, two others will be found at Articles XXXIX. and XXI. of this appendix; and some further illustrations of the subject in Artt. 17, 18, 20, 24, 25 and 48.

damage ac

ence to the

When Tarquin the Proud would take Gabii by Note on the subtlety and craft, he intimated the plan of reducing cruing from the place to his son's messenger by striking off the state influtallest poppyheads in his garden; a suggestion Irish episcowhich has been put in practice in regard to the pate. Church of Ireland also by her enemies. Rome and England in the first instance reduced her hundreds of bishoprics to the forty or so mentioned in the previous lists; and the precious Church legislation of these modern times has packed up the forty, like worthless remnants of old goods belonging to some cast stock, into some ten parcels, to be superintended (if not rather, in the necessity of the case, to be over

Consecration by the hand of a single prelate com

the early

Irish Christians.

looked) in the lump, by ten individuals, as though each one of those large episcopal districts, with its widely scattered flock, were too contemptible to occupy the entire care and attention of a whole person to itself.

No. X.

ON THE MODE OF ORDAINING BISHOPS IN USE AMONG THE ANCIENT
IRISH.

It would appear from the evidence of the most ancient and respectable authorities which we can bring to bear on the subject of episcopal mon among ordination among the old Irish Christians, that it was a general practice with them to have their prelates consecrated by a single bishop, instead of by three, as was usual in other parts of the Church. This circumstance, with others not unworthy of our attention, is set forth in an interesting light in the following extract from the Life of St. Kentegern, bishop of Glasgow, by John of Tinmuth, a writer who flourished in A.D. 1366. (See Ussher's Brit. Ec. Ant. cap. 15; Jocelin, in Pinkerton's Vita Antiquæ, p. 223, Lond. 1789; and MS. E. 3, 8, fol. 160, Lib. T.C.D.)

Instance of this prac tice in the case of St. Kentegern, first bishop

"Now when S. Kentegern, residing in the place aforesaid, was very eminently distinguished for his great abundance of spiritual gifts, the king and clergy of the Cambrian territory, with the other Christians there, of Glasgow; though they were but very few in number, came together