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-
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.
886, 1228, 1376, 7, 1432, 3; of the Irish Church, independent of that in England, 1419.
Succession, Acts of, passed in the Irish parlt. of 28th Henry VIII., 683, '7, 692 n., 1191, "2.
"Successors of the apostles," who, 942 n. Suevi, the, St. Columbanus labours
among, 268; also St. Gallus, 334. Suggawn, or Sugan, Earl. See Des- mond, James.
Sulgen, or Sulien, bp. of St. David's, his educational visit to Id., and fame for wisdom and learning, 437-439, 1029. Sulpicius Severus, his lunar cycle used by the early Irish Christians in de- termining the time for their Easter, 195.
Sunday. See Lord's day. Henry VIII. proclaimed king of Id. on, 704. Superstitions, early appearance of, in the Saxon Church, 214; in the monastic body, 236; among the ancient Ir. Christians, 352 seqq.; in prayer to the dead, 356; in penance, 362; in the conduct exhibited by Paternus and Marianus Scotus, 436; in SS. Mala- chy and Bernard, 480, '1; in connec- tion with the H. Communion, as no- ticed by Bp. Bale, A.D. 1553, 732. Supremacy of the pope of Rome, St. Pa- trick's view of, 52; not acknowledged by the ancient British bps., 132, '4, '9 seqq.; nor by the Irish, ib., et passim ; not even by the Romanising Irish of the 7th cent., 165 seqq.; nor by the Saxon disciples of the Irish in Eng- land, 221; views of St. Columbanus on, 291, 305 seqq.; the Irish for seven centuries independent of, 367; intro- duced into England by the wars of the Saxons and Normans, and into Id. by those of the Danes, 419; Gillebert's exertions to promote its reception in Id., 441, 3, 4; unknown theretofore by Primate Celsus, 445; advanced by
English primates, ib.; established in Id. by the influence of Henry II., 492, 538, 9; its non-reception by the old Irish gains them the contempt and ha- tred of the English, 527, 555-7; and formed a pretended or supposed cause for the Invasion, ib.; origin and gra- dual extension of the supremacy throughout Id, 579-'81; feelings of different classes in Id. in regard to it at the commencement of the 16th cent., 668-676; not the more popular for its patronage by English enemies, 671; their effective aid in promoting it, 677; suppressed under Henry VIII. in Engd., 678; as unfounded on the Word of God, ib., 679; Abp. Cromer's maintenance of, 680; a com- mission appointed for its suppression in Id., 682; the object carried out in parlt., 683 seqq.; and with some faci- lity, 687; Abp. Browne's zeal against the papal supremacy, 696; its condem- nation in the form of the beads, 698; missionary preaching of the said abp. against the doctrine, 700; its renun- ciation by divers Irish lords and no- bles, 702, 3-'9, '11; its extent as op- posed by James I., 858, 861; case of R. Lalor, tried for promoting it in Id., ib.; the Irish Church's title to her property not affected by its introduc- tion or abolition, 1069; whether re- cognised in Id. or not before A.D. 1172, unknown to P. Alexander III., 1090; first exercise of it in an appoint- ment to the Ir. primacy, 1108; its ef- fect in excluding the native Irish from ecclesiastical preferments. ib.; (see 647, '8;) advanced by Albert of Co- logne, 1109; universally prevalent in Id. in A.D. 1367, 1140 seqq.; renounced by various Ir. chiefs in their indenture with Henry VIII, 1207; its non-re- ception in Id. in primitive times illus- trated, 1249, '50; its extension to tem-
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 bulls, 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 segg.
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.
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 Angus 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 segg. 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-
529, 931 seqq.; no open schism yet in the Irish Church in Henry VIII.'s time, 717; schism, from the Reformed Catholic Church in Id. enjoined as a duty by Romish emissaries. 898, 1255; from Rome, denounced as the sin against the H. Ghost, 1308; in what sense the ancient Irish were always regarded as free from schism, 1424. Stable, a Church converted into, 1362. Schools, Free, (see Diocesan ;) those of the Church in Id. denounced by Rome, A.D. 1612, 872.
Sclavi, St. Columbanus's desire for their conversion, 269; successful exertions of S. Methodius among them noticed, 968; their mother tongue, the Scla- vonic, sanctioned by a pope for use in divine worship, 966.
"Scorch Villain" and "Burn Bill," Irish nicknames of J. Comyn, 623. Scotia, anciently the name of Id., 1135. See Scots.
Scotichronicon, the, of J. Jordan, qd., 633 n., seqq., 1119 seqq. Scotland, anciently named Albania, 5, 84; conversion of its northern parts undertaken by S. Columba, 78; the southern part colonised by the Scots from Id., A.D. 506, 84, 86; visit of Cardinal Vivian to the country, as pope's legate, 601.
Scots, anciently the name of the Irish
people, 2, 5, 60, 77, 138, 139, 141, '2 '8, 9, 156, '9, 184, 326, '8, '31, '40, '50, '80, '87, '88, 401, 437-'9, 487, 1007; their wars with the people of Britain, 116. Scots, or Scotch, their invasion of Id., under E. Bruce, 632 seqq. Scotus. See Johannes. Scriptures, the Holy, familiarly known by the ancient Britons in the 4th cent., 4; by St. Patrick, (forming the ground for his coming to Id.,) 25, 26, 38, 43; disseminated by S. Brigid, 67, 321, 322; lectured on by 8. Finnian of
Clonard, 68, 324; made the subject of S. Columbkille's preaching, 78; and also transcribed by him, 79; his ear- nest studying of them, 101; made by his followers their guide and rule of practice in regard to good works, 105; burned in the Dioclesian persecution in Britain, 113; used by Germanus and Lupus for uprooting the Pelagian heresy, 115; studied by Gildas in Bri- tain and Id., 124; and made the sub- ject of his own teaching, ib.; studied in Id. for many years by St. Petroc of Cornwall, 126; consulted by S. Cum- mian as his first guide, in the question about Easter, 155; largely quoted by him, ib., seqq.; diligently and con- stantly studied by St. Aidan and his Irish followers, 175; appealed to at Whitby by S. Colman against the tra- ditions of Rome, 183; used as the rule of their faith by the Irish generally in the Paschal controversy with the Ro- man party, 202, '3; employed by S. Aidan as his rule in matters of prac- tical religious duty, 205; carefully studied by the ancient monks, 225; used by them daily, and more largely on Sundays, 234, 5; their preserva- tion and transcription in the monas- teries, 246; largely and carefully studied by S. Columbanus, 251; com- mented on by him, 252; made the sub- ject of his preaching, 254; abbot Jonas's high sense of the value of, 255; ap- pealed to by S. Columbanus against the Arians, 271; and against the Ro- man Easter, 290; studied by him with the aid of commentatories, 292; alleged as his rule and foundation in matters of faith and practice, 295; appealed to by him as the best authority on the Easter question, against the French prelates, 296; largely quoted and re- ferred to by him, ib. seqq.; alleged as the sole foundation of his belief in the
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