OF THE

CITY OF ARMAGH,

FOR A PERIOD OF 1373 YEARS,

COMPRISING

A CONSIDERABLE PORTION

OF THE

GENERAL HISTORY OF IRELAND;

A

REFUTATION

OF

THE OPINIONS OF DR. LEDWICH,

RESPECTING THE

Non-Existence of St. Patrick;

AND

AN APPENDIX,

ON THE

LEARNING, antiquities, and religion of thE

IRISH NATION.

BY JAMES STUART, A. B.

"

NESCIO QUA NATALE SOLUM DULCEDINE CUNCTOS.

'DUCIT ET IMMEMORES NON SINIT ESSE SUL."—Ovid. de Ponto.

"FORSAN HÆC OLIM MEMINISSE JUVADIT.”—Virgil,

Newry:

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PREFACE.

THIS work will be found to comprise the following important objects:

1st, Historical Memoirs of Armagh, with a statistical account of that city.

2d, Biographical sketches of the various prelates who presided, in succession, over the see of Armagh, from the year 445 till the reforma. tion.

Sd, A biographical account of the Protestant archbishops of Armagh, primates of all Ireland, from the period of the reformation till the year

1818.

4th, A similar account of the lives of the Roman Catholic archbishops of Armagh, or titu lar primates of all Ireland.

5th, A narrative of various important events in the general history of Ireland, in which the