appointment of rural deans, and officiating clergy men; holy baptism; which in this country could not be enforced, (such as the decree regarding clandestinity) these are left to the discretion of the ordinary. Secondly, besides the Vicar general a vicar foreign [i.e. a rural dean] is to be chosen in each deanery, who shall be authorised to preside over the priests intrusted with the cure of souls. Thirdly, those parishes which remain destitute of a pastor [i.e. probably, where many of the flock rebel against a pastor for having conformed] may be recommended to the clergy of the neighbouring parishes, or the ordinary should if convenient, procure the temporary assistance of priests from another diocese. Fourthly, that the Sacrament of Baptism be no longer administered by immersion, and that from the Kalends of October in said year, this sacrament is to be celebration conferred by infusion. Fifthly that in future no priest of the mass; shall under any pretext or even in case of necessity, presume to celebrate the holy Sacrifice twice on the same day without a regular license obtained from the ordinary, &c. . . . . Sixthly, from henceforth, no chalices shall be consecrated that are not made of silver, or at least the cup thereof, together with the paten. Seventhly, ' and because the awful circumstances of the times oblige us frequently to celebrate the divine mysteries under the open air,' those places are, on all such occasions to be selected, which shall appear the most safe and becoming; the altar moreover must be covered almost on all sides, so that it may thereby be sheltered from the inclemency prisoners; of the weather. Eighthly, [prisoners not having the opportunity of a priest may, if penitent, have the B. marriage; Eucharist sent them privately by a layman, &c.] Ninthly, [clandestine marriages to be punished with excommunication, banns to be published, &c.] Tenthly, whereas a great scarcity of pastors universally prevails in these days of affliction, it is on that account advisable that the ordinaries confer with the superiors of the regular orders and thereby obtain a supply of priests necessary for chalices; places for worship; supply of pastors; ment of the due discharge of the pastoral duties in each diocess. Eleventhly, that the faithful may be well acquainted with Festivals; the festivals of obligation, it is decreed that the following enumeration of them be published: all Sundays throughout the year, &c., &c. . Twelfthly, the days on Fasting which the faithful are bound to fast are thus enumerated: days, all days in lent except Sundays, &c. &c. Finally and enforcethe respective ordinaries are strictly enjoined to put these these Statutes into immediate execution, and cause them Canons. to be diligently observed by all persons within the sphere of their jurisdiction. These constitutions were ratified in the several provincial Synods which were held at subsequent periods in this century, under Thomas Fleming, Peter Talbot, and Patrick Russell, [titr.] Archbps. of of Dublin." how far ac Some diversities may be observed between this The above account and that given in the text, neither, it is account probable, being very exact in regard to the words, curate. &c., of the original. Indeed from the inverted commas used under the seventh head here, it would seem that the passage enclosed between them was the only one given by Mr. Brennan from the document in question in its own words. Among the canons of one of the latter synods Canon of above noticed, held under Archbishop Russell sell, relative (and given by Mr. Brennan at p. 242,) about to the mode A.D. 1685, there occurs one worth noticing here, possession as illustrative of the manner in which the new by the race of priests then coming to occupy the titles Romish of Irish parishes were in the habit, it seems, of A.D. 1685. Abp. Rus of getting of parishes clergy. securing for themselves the possession of such titular benefices: the Synod enacts;— "That no priest having possession of a parish for three years, shall on that account presume to acquire a right to that parish without a regular collation obtained from the ordinary, and that all such as have not as yet rereceived a formal collation must procure one within six months or be deposed.". Some such rule, it seems, was needed for promoting the necessary unity of discipline and organization in the new ecclesiastical system just then arising into being through the country. No. LXVIII. The Fa thers of the titular in Ireland, why no ENUMERATION OF THE FOUNDERS AND ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF THE It might appear invidious, and at least liable to misconception on the part of the ignorant, if Episcopate we were to give the reader no notice whatsoever of at least the names, of the principal individuals who, after the acceptance of the reformed religion by the Catholic prelates of Ireland in 1560, were the first that received papal nominations to the titular episcopacy of our island; especially as by a certain class of writers in the Roman ticed here. Church a number of these individuals have been elevated to the martyr's pedestal. We shall therefore endeavour to set down in the present article as full an enumeration as appears attainable, of the names, dates, and places, of the titular prelates who flourished in connection with Ireland, from the period above mentioned to the time of the great Rebellion, of 1641; referring such readers as desire more particular information relative to these persons and their histories, to those authors who have treated more directly of the topic. count of them. The following are the bishops of the new Ro- Mr. Brenman line whose names are given by Mr. Brennan nan's ac(vol. 2, pp. 118-124,) as belonging to the latter some of part of the sixteenth century. In our abridged notice of those which are placed first in the list, we retain all the dates furnished by him in connection with them. treason. A. D. 1583. DERMOT O'HURLEY, titular archbishop of Cashel; stu- D. O'Hurdied and graduated at Louvain, and at length became ley titr. abp. professor of Canon law in the University there. During Cashel. the pontificate of Gregory XIII. he repaired to Rome, Hanged for and his talents and tastes attracting the notice of that pope, he "after some time was by him consecrated and promoted to the archchiepiscopal see of Cashel," which "for some years previously to his return from the continent " had been occupied by Miler Magrath. He was taken prisoner at Carrick-on-Suir, and brought up to Dublin, where he was examined for maintaining the embellish his history; pope's power in this realm, and if we were to believe a Falsehoods class of writers on Ireland already alluded to, his execuinvented to tion, which took place by strangling, in A.D. 1583, was preceded by several hours of barbarous torture. This most apocryphal narrative is retailed with all solemnity by Mr Brennan, but passed over with all its kindred, in expressive silence, by another historian of the Roman Church, and one of at least equal respectability to this our author; viz. Mr. T. Moore. which the Rev. Dr. But the reader will perhaps be glad to have the comment of a better authority than either on this painful subject. The Rev. Dr. Elrington, in his Life of Abp. Ussher, (Works, Vol. 1, p. 35,) has the following note sufficiently on the penal sufferings of this individual and his fellowlabourer CREAGH of Armagh. Elrington refutes in his case and Creagh's. P. O'Hely, titr. bp. of Mayo ex 66 The death of these two martyrs put forward by Stanihurst, and embellished by the author of the Analecta, has formed a fruitful source of declamation for Roman Catholic writers from that period to the time of Dr. Milner. That BP. HURLEY was guilty of treason, and was hanged for that crime, and not for his religion, can admit of no doubt. That he was tortured previous to his execution, in direct violation of the law, must require stronger evidence than the testimony of two witnesses who contradict each other as to the mode in which the torture was inflicted, in such a manner as would invalidate their testimony in any court of justice. The account of the poisoning bp. Creaghe, and of the mode of its discovery, was too ridiculous for Stanihurst to insert, and it seems extraordinary that any writer_could venture to publish such a monstrous absurdity. I must refer the curious reader to the Analecta, as it would be impossible to give the detail here.' PATRICK O'HELY, a Connaught man, titular bp. of Mayo, is said to have studied at the Convent of Complute in Spain, and to have become a Franciscan in that |