Henry, 1045-7; which seems to have
been elicited partly by the private
spitefulness of a covetous cardinal,
1048.

Agatho, sends John, precentor of St.
Peter's, Rome, into England, 209;
Agatho, Sergius, and Benedict, resisted
by the Anglo-Saxons, 222.
Alexander III. receives from Henry II.
intelligence of the submission of the
Irish, 508, 510 n.; the kingdom over
whose island he confirms to him, 525,
"7; his Brief omitted by Giraldus, but
preserved by J. Ross of Warwick, 530
n.; his curious letters on the state of
Ireland, 532 seqq.; his suggestion to
Henry II. to be careful to introduce
papal jurisdiction into Id., 538, '9; for
the further advancement of which he
commissions Cardinal Vivian to be his
legate there, 601; who takes pains to
explain to the Irish that it was by his
authority Henry acted, 602; licenses
and confirms the appointment of John,
earl of Morton, as king of Id., 604;
his letter confirming the bull of Adri-
an, 1053, 4; his extraordinary epistle
to the bps. of Id., 1085-'7; do. to
King Henry II., 1087-'90; do. to the
Irish chieftains, 1090-'91; do. to
Rodk. O'Conor, king of Id, 1091, '2.
Anicetus, his conference with S. Poly-
carp, 198, 258.

Boniface IV., St. Columbanus's letter

to, on the Three Chapters, 271, 300,
304 seqq.; the letter itself in full, 940.
Boniface VIII. makes a vain attempt to

secure possession of the ecclesiastical
Tenths of England, 1149.

Celestine, his mission of Palladius to Id.,
2; whether he sent St. Patrick also,
29.

Clement III. authorizes the canoniza-
tion of St. Malachy, 481; makes an
English bp. his legate for Id., 1050,

51.

Clement V. orders all monks to enter
holy orders, 231; grants to Abp. Lech
a bull for the foundation of a univer-
sity in Dublin, 629; makes over to the
king of Engd. the papal Tenths of
that island for seven years, 1151.
Clement VIII. sends H. O'Neill "a
phoenix plume," &c., in support of his
rebellion, 827; letter to him from
O'Neill, the Sugan Desmond, &c.,
836, 1282-5; his encouraging bull to
them, 837, 1286-8; his second do.,
encouraging them to "fight manfully
for the inheritance of their fathers,
839, 1289; titular primate Lombard's
connection with him, 908, 909 n., 1238.
See also 1296, 1317, 1373.
Clement IX. appoints Oliver Plunket
titr. primate of Id., 1242.
Damasus, letter of St. Jerome to, qd. by
8. Cummian, 158, 168.
Eleutherius, his intercourse with King
Lucius, 112.

Eugenius III.. his elevation to the pa-
pacy, A.D. 1145, and visit to France,
A.D. 1148, noticed, 478; Primate Mala-
chy's mission to apply to him for palls
for Id., ib., 479; he sends over the
palls by Card. Paparo, 482, 993, &c.
See also 616.

Gregory I. sends the monk Augustine
as a missionary to the Saxons, 128;
makes York an episcopal see, 132, 177;
his writings qd. by S. Cummian, 159;
letter of S. Columbanus to, on the
Paschal controversy, 257, 288; his
censure of the profligacy and simony
of the French clergy, 276; his work
on the Pastoral Office, praised by S.
Columbanus, 292; his correspondence
with certain bishops on the subject
of the Three Chapters, 932-937;
his intercourse with S. Kentegern,
1009.

Gregory VII., or Hildebrand, his ambi-

tious letter, containing the first claim

Pius V., his excommunication and de- |
position of Q. Elizabeth, 695, 777; the
document in full, 1258-'62; named
by D. Rothe as the advancer of R.
Creagh to the titular primacy, (by
error, it would seem,) 773 n., 1229.
Severinus, 147.

Stephen II. co-operates with King Pepin
in promoting S. Virgilius to the bpk.
of Saltzburgh, 348.

Urban III. confirms John, son of Henry
II., in the kingdom of Id., 604; con-
firms the Dublin canons of, A.D. 1186,
612.

Urban V. unites Waterford and Lis-
more dioceses, 1140.

Urban VIII. writes "to the Catholics of
England," against the Oath of King
James, 859, 1395-'7; starts the Mis-
sion in Id., 1392-'5.

Victor, his intolerance in the Paschal
controversy, 198, 290.

Vigilius, supposed to have died a heretic,
304, 309; notice of his conduct in con-
nection with the controversy of the
Three Chapters, 950, '1 n.

Vitalian appoints Theodore abp. of
Canterbury, 208.

Zachary, affirms the opinion of St. Vir-
gilius relative to irregular baptisms,
345; receives a complaint against Vir-
gilius from the missionary Boniface,
346; and condemns, conditionally, the
doctrine of the existence of Antipodes,
held by the former, 347.

Portmore fortress, on the Blackwater,
809. See Blackwater.
Portrahern, (Portrane?) Co. Dublin,
assigned to Christ Church there,

421.

Portugal, a king of, falls in battle with
the Moors, 790.

Potatoes, by whom, and where brought
first into Id., 803.

Potitus, a priest, grandfather of St. Pa-
trick, 18.

Poverty, a characteristic of the Irish
saints of the third class, 61; not com-
pulsory on the early monks, 125, 232;
not to be chosen and vowed for its own
sake, 654; followed by Kentegern's
disciples, 1008, 9.

Powel, Humfrey, prints the Articles of
Religion, A.D. 1565, in Dublin, 770.
Powel, D., account of his edition of Ca-
radoe's Chronicle of Wales, 1020, '21;
his motives to undertaking the work,
ib.; extracts therefrom, 1023-'40.
Powys, Wales, 1023, '6, &c.
Poyning's Act, 1191 n.
Pramunire, Statute of, 861, 1199.
Prayers for the dead, in early times, 50,
51; not used in connection with pur-
gatory by the old Irish, ib., 368; Bp.
Bale's discouragement of, 733; prayers
to the dead, abuse of, (A.D. 788,) 355;
private prayer, encouraged by S. Co-
lumbanus in his monks, 287; daily
prayers, use of by the old monks, 234;
chanting of, among the ancient Irish
noticed, 458 n.

Preaching, of God's Word, a dearth of,
in Id., A.D. 1475, 597; ordered to be
maintained in English by Henry VIII,
687; a continued deficiency in, after
all, 728, 733 n.; Sir F. Bacon's re-
marks on the necessity and value of,
817; diligence in preaching employed
as a means of extending the R. schism,
895, 901, &c.

Predestinarian controversy of the ninth
century, J. S. Erigena partly involved
in, 399, 400.

Prendergast, M. de, Anglo-Norman in-
vader of Id., 497.

Prene, John, abp. of Armagh, 1111; his
quarrel with the dean and chapter of
Raphoe, 663.

Presbyters, their commanding influence
among the old Irish, 986

"Presence, the real," in the H. Commu-
nion, Mr. T. Moore's view of, 1425.

Preston, Sir Christr., his mission to
England, A.D. 1421, 1111.
Priests, of Rome, why punished by Q.
Elizabeth, 843; arrangements for pro-
viding a new corporation of, in Id. un-
der Jas. 1., 895, 961; their way of sup-
port, &c., 899, 905, 1344, 55, '64; their
curious mode of obtaining a title to a
parish at first, 1255, 1366; the Eng-
lish charged with diligence in hunting
them, 1362.

Primates, their office described to the
Irish by Gillebert, 444; those of Id.
anciently independent of Rome, 580;
"primates of Ireland," and "primates
of all Id.," how distinguished, 726.
See 739.
Primate, the Ld., (Beresford,) his charge
of 1845 qd., 1072. See 1065.
Primatial rights of Armagh and Dublin,
Vid. q.
the controversy about, 631.
1244, '5.
Printing, when invented, 101; that of
the Book of Common Prayer, supposed
the first use of the art in Id., 747;
Irish, 780 seqq.

Prior and convent, an old form of cathe-
dral corporation in Id., instead of
dean and chapter, 1114 n.

Private masses, no employment of the
primitive monks, 231.

Probus, biographer of St. Patrick, 10.
Proclamation, used by government for
banishing the agents of Rome, A.D.
1605, from Id., 855; for prohibiting
Romish taxation of the Irish for poli-
tical purposes, 882.

Proctors of the clergy in Id., their office
and opposition to the enactment of the
regal supremacy, 688-691. See 1192.
Promises of God, in the Law, theatri-
cally represd., 738.

Propaganda College in Rome, its first in-
stitution, 1242.

Property of the Church of Ireland, a

material for political tinkers, 1055;

the commencement of its spoliation,
1059; antiquity of some of its consti-
tuent portions, 1063, '68.
Prosper's Chronicle qd., 2, 29.
Protestants, persecution of, by Henry
VIII., 1428, 9; story of the saving of
those of Id. from the tyranny of Q.
Mary, 744-'6.

Protestation of Allegiance, the, some
notices connected with, 1326 segg.
"Prove all things," apparently a favour-
ite maxim of the old Irish saints, 154,
157, 296.

Provisions, papal, prevalent in the Irish
Church after the invasion, 1108 seqq.,
1140-'4.

Psalmody of the ancient Irish noticed,
94, 101, 207, 458 n.; of the Anglo-
Saxons, 208-211.

Psalms of David, their transcribing an
occupation of S. Columbkille, 92; a
favourite study of St. Aidan and his
followers, 175; and of the early monks
in general, 234; commented on by S.
Columbanus, 252; recitation of them
used as a penalty by the old monks,
281; their use in divine service in the
monasteries of S. Columbanus, 285, '6;
and in N. Ferrar's family, note, ib.
Psalter, the, of Cashel, what, 408.
also 1108.

See

Pulse diet, antiquity of its use in Id., 5;
the monks' use of it noticed in the mo-
nastic rule of S. Columbanus, 283.
Purgatory, St. Patrick's views connected
with, 48; notions of the early Saxons
concerning, 214; not a doctrine of the
Ir. Church in the 7th cent., 216, 368;
nor of Sedulius, 393; attributed to
the old Irish by Mr. T. Moore, 1421;
St. Patrick's purgatory in Lough
Derg, (Co. Donegal,) 1227.
"Purifications after childbirth," offer-
ings to the clergy at, contested be-
tween F. de Saundford and the people
of Dublin, 624.

Putta, bp. of Rochester, gives lessons in |
music to the Saxons, 209.
Quarantine, of penance, imposed by the
ancient Britons on converts from the
Roman communion to their own, 152.
Quartadecimans, the Irish accused of
being, 148; the Britons involved in a
like charge, 149, 187; explanation of
the term, 193, '4.

Quarterly Review, its notice of Mr.
Wright qd., 1445, '6.
Querimonia Magnatum Hiberniæ, or
Irish Appeal to Pope John XXII. no-
ticed, 573 n., 634 seqq.; was a clerical
production, 645; illustrative of the
popular Irish feeling towards Rome
and England, 675, 6; the document
in full, 1119 segg.

Quin, Mr., his evidence on Ir. Church
property qd., 1081.

Rachnacarius, bp. of Augt and Basle,
educated at Luxeu, 277.

Radbert, (see Paschasius,) censure of
his novelties by Mr. T. Moore, 1425.
Raghery, Rechran, or Rathlin Island,

the first part of the Irish territories
invaded by the Danes, 379.
Raleigh, Sir W., engaged in quelling the
disturbances of Jas. Fitzmaurice's out-
break at Smerwick, 798; obtains a
grant of part of the confiscated Des-
mond property, 803; introduces pota-
toes and tobacco into Id., ib.

Ralph, abp. of Cant., consecrates Gre-
gory bp. of Dublin, 433; letter of the
burgesses of Dublin to him on that
occasion, 1041.

Ralph, archdeacon of Llandaff, one of the
first English meddlers with the Irish
Church, 508; present as a commis-
sioner on the part of K. Henry II., at
the Synod of Cashel, 516; hies away to
Rome with the letter to P. Alexander
III. from the Synod, 537; and reports
to the pontiff on the barbarity of the
Irish, ib., 1088.

Ralph, abbot of Buildewas, employed by

K. Henry II. to act as a cómmissioner
for him at the Cashel Synod, 516.
Raphoe, the Church of, not, probably
founded by St. Columba, 77; a bp. of,
helps to demolish Kellach's new mo-
nastery at Iona, 614; the dean and
chapter of, excommunicated, &c., by
Primate Prene, 663; omitted in the
Rathbressail catalogue of the sees of
Id., 452 n.; G. Montgomery, bp. of
863; the bpk. not subjected to the
regal authority in 1560, 758 n.; dis-
tribution of the Church property in
the diocese, how arranged anciently,
1062; a titular bp. of, present at the
Synod of Trent, 1217.

Rathbreasail, the Synod of, 449; the first
Irish one at which a pope's legate pre-
sided, 451, 580; enumeration of the
sees of Id. as settled there, 452 n.,
992, 999, 1001, 1172.

Rathcolpa, or Raholp, (Co. Down,) once
a bp's. sec, 991; Rathmurbuilg, Ma-
ghera, (same Co.,) do., ib.

Rathlin Island, (see Raghery,) the
Church of, probably not a foundation
of S. Columbkille's, 77.

Rathlure, or Rathlury, i.e. Maghera,
Co. Derry, once a bp's. see, 484 n.,
993 seqq.

Rathmaighe Deisgirt, ancient see of,
452 n., 999.

Raths, or "Danish forts," 390 n.
Ratisbon, the Irish monastery of, 486.
Ratramne. See Bertram.
Raymond le Gros, Anglo-Norman inva-
der, his arrival in Id., 498.
Rebellions in Id. promoted by "the holy
see," 837, 1203, 4, 39, '63, '86-'90,
1306-'9; those of Elizabeth's reign,
not from religious motives, 1437; the
Great Rebellion, notices, &c., of, 1239,
'40, '54, &c.

Rebels from England, their protection
in Id. vainly alleged by Mr. Wright