as a charge against the old Irish,
Rechen (Ratheny ?) granted to the Church of the Holy Trinity, Dublin,
Rechran, or Raghery, 379, 991. Recusants, Irish, their seditious proceed- ings, 874; their nobility separate from the communion of the Church, 878; their deputation to James I., 881; its issue, 883; Act for discovering and re- pressing them, 1310.
Rees ap Tewdor, brings an Irish army into South Wales, 1025.
Rees, lord of Cardigan, 1038; his inter- course with Henry II., in connection with his Ir. invasion, 1039, '40. Reeves, Rev. W., D.D., his Antiquities of Down, &c., qd., 982 n., 989, 1012, 1062; 1145 n., 49 n.; his Visitation of Derry, (A.D. 1397,) 1063 n. ; his aid of the compiler of these pages in con- nection with the "Confederation" of the bishops and clergy of Id., A.D. 1291, 1114.
Reformation, the, in Id., its ecclesiasti-
cal sanction, 692 .; the reformation of the Irish Church, so far as in the rejection of papal supremacy, received without scruple by the Ir. chieftains and people, according to Mr. Moore, 1431, '2; the estabt. of the Reformation not, according to the same authority, the first or principal cause of the feuds between different races in the country, 1427; the name of reformation made an occasion of Church pillage, 719, 1064. Reformed religion, the, not the prime cause of the quarrel between the En- glish and Irish, 644; advances towards its introduction in Henry VIII's reign, 712, 716; its feeble progress under Edward VI., 718, '19, 722, 9, 730; Bale's preaching in its support, 733; Q. Mary's opposition to, 735 seqq.; Bale's endeavour to advance by means VOL. III.
of stage-plays, 738; restoration of, under Q. Elizabeth, 747 seqq.; parlia- mentary enactment of, 754; its vali- dity, 762; see 692 n.; denounced by Rome as no better than Baal-worship, 839; or other idolatry, 1308. Regeneration, baptismal, 134. Reginald, king of Waterford, his sub- mission to Henry II., 504.
Regular clergy, alterations made in their circumstances by the English Con- quest, 562; the regular orders deli- gent in promoting schism in the 17th cent., 891 5, 901, 1351 seqq., &c. Relics, a supply of, brought from Rome by Wilfrid "for the consolation of the British Churches," 213; abuses con- nected with in the Anglo-Romish ages, 586; curious specimens of, 587; their destruction made a pretext for sacri- lege, 719; the making of prayer near to, 265, 960.
Religion of the ancient Irish, Abp. Us-
sher's tract on, qd., 604, et passim. "Religion" not the first occasion of dis- pute between the Ir. and English, 644, '5; its first adoption as a pretext for rebellions against England, 1438; admitted by Mr. Moore not to have been the first or chief motive to the rebellions against Q. Elizabeth, &c., 1427, 37; religion not the object of the penal laws, 843, 1399, 1430, 31. Remission of sins, false and superstituous views of, noticed, 565, 584, 794, 827; Abp. Browne's doctrine concerning it, 699; promised by Pope Nicholas to such as should pay their tenths well, 1164; to be earned by Henry II., by his attack upon Id., 538, 1089. See Indulgences.
Remonstrance, the Irish, meets with op- position from titr. Primate O'Reilly, &c., 1241, '2; O'Conor on its rejection, 1333; Father P. Walsh's account of its origin, &c., 1397 segg.; Copy of the 2 U
document in its original form, 1404 seqq.; the altered form, 1411 seqq.; the original one, discouraged by the priests. is favoured by the laity, 1409; its re- jection, 1410.
"Rent, Catholic," the occasion of its first assessment, &c., 882.
Renwick, Mr. James, his "deposition
of James II., 1340, '1; his life, qd., 963-'5.
Reve, Thos. le, bp. of Lismore, his ser vices for England noticed, 1141. Rheims, Hinemar, abp. of, 400. Rhine, river, St. Columbanus's journey- ing along the, 267.
Riar Patraice, what, 1043.
Richard I., king of Engd., his corona- tion referred to, 1172.
Richard II., Act of, against heretics, re- vived by Q. Mary, for Id., 743. Richard, St., of Dundalk. Ralph. Riddlesford, W. de, A.-Norman monas- tery founder in Id., 571.
Riding, in the Irish fashion made illegal, 658.
Ridley, bp., his burning referred to, 843. Rinuncini, papal agent, his arrival in Id., and subsequent proceedings, 1240, '54. Ripon, deserted by its Irish monks, to avoid submission to Rome, 185; ac- count of the erection of a Church there by Wilfrid, &c., 212.
Rites, and practices, of the ancient Bri- tish Church. contrary to those of Rome, 134; those of Id. ordered to conform to the Roman system in A.D. 1172, 581; (see 603, '5;) the use of the Anglican forms hated by the Irish be- fore the Refn., 672; that rites and ceremonies should be the same in Id. and England, not necessary, 922. Robbers, Italian, a gang of, sent to Id. to defend "the Catholic faith," 789, 808, 1369-'71; Irish, in Armagh diocese, A.D. 1360, excommunicated by Pri-
mate Fitz Ralph, but absolved by the friars, 1110.
Rochfort, Simon, bp. of Meath, founds a Cathedral Church at Newtown, Trim, 571; holds a synod there, and pro- motes in it the suppression of the small sees of Id., 616, 7; a candidate for the primacy, 619.
Rock, Danl., his tract against the inde- pendence of the ancient Irish Church of the see of Rome qd., 313. Roderic, last king of Id. See O'Conor. Rolls of parlt., qd., 743.
Roman wars in Britain, 116, 117. Romanists, the Irish, left not communion with the Church under Q. Elizabeth, 755; not punished for their creed by her, 843, 1399; often loyal to her au- thority, 828, 1437.
Roman supremacy. See Rome inf., Su- premacy, &c. Romanising Irishmen of the seventh cent., their peculiar opinions, 164 seqq.; advantages possessed by their party in Engd., 206 seqq.
Rome, the Church of, not "the Catholic and Apostolic Church" in the opinion of the old Irish, 148; how regarded by those of them who cherished commun- ion with her, 165-'9; did not allow the Irish at large to be Catholics in the 7th cent., but regarded with con- tempt their 'sect' and sentiments alto- gether, 184 (see Catholic:) her obstin- ate quarrels with the British Churches, 188; feelings of St. Columbanus to- wards her, 306 Gillebert the first great promoter of her influence in Id., 441 seqq.; her customs, &c., promoted also by Malachy, 458, 464; who was the first Irish primate to seek the sanction of her authority, 471; the English in- vasion employed as her means of reduc- ing the Irish to subjection, 492; her influence in Id. promoted by the Synod of Cashel, 519; whether her authority
was at all acknowledged in Id. before A.D. 1172, or not, utterly unknown to P. Alexander III., 538, 9; manner of the introduction of such authority, 540, '1; its rise and early progress, 579-581; state of Id. under her au- spices, 578-599, 808; her power not unchecked in Id. before the Refn., 598, '9; all the calamities inflicted by the Anglo-Normans, traced by the Irish (A.D. 1318) to her influence, 637; which continues to crush them further, 661; appeals to her at length forbid- den, 684; her instigation of the Irish to rebellion against Engd., €94, '7; her authority rejected by the Ir. chiefs, 704-710; her power to depose princes asserted by P. Paul III., 708; her making of changes in the mass refd. to, 724; her power restored in Id. by Q. Mary, 739-744; the Acts against her authority reintroduced by Elizabeth, 754; confederate with Spain in designs on Id., 765, 8, 777, 8, 786, '8 seqq., to 792, 7, 801, 824, '6, '7; her natural indifference to the national feelings of Id., 840; her priests, why punished by Q. Elizabeth, 843-5, 857, 1398- 1404; and under K. James I., 1330 seqq.; her attempts to regain ascen- dency on the accession of the latter, 853 seqq.; order for her clergy to leave Id., 855; real, or supposed, willing- ness of her priests to conform, A.D. 1607, 863; Bp. Ram's efforts to with- draw the people of his charge from her seducements, 871; her view of rebel- lion in the Synod of Drogheda, A.D. 1614, 897; the Church lands of Id. not originally hers, 1059; Henry II. re- quested to establish her power in Id., 1090; her taxations of Id, 1145 segg. ; her apprehension of a fall when for- saken by the Irish, 1204; her abetting of English agressions, noticed by Mr. T. Moore, 1426; her novelty in Id.,
903; how far" the Head of Churches," according to the views of S. Cummian, &c., 165, 6; see 940, 953. Roscommon ravaged by the Danes, 379; by some of the Irish, 394; anciently an episcopal see, 484 n., 995. Roscrea, formerly an episcopal see, 995. Ross, the see of, 995, &c.; a titr. bp. of, at Trent, 1217; see, 700, 791, 1375. Ross, or Rous, of Warwick, English his- torian, qd., 530 n.
Roth, or Routh, David, his Analecta, qd., 763 n., 766 n., 1252, &c., the au- thor a pretended vice-primate of Id., 905; his account of Rd. Creagh's life, &c., 772, 1228-36; (see 1368;) Mr. Phelan's translation of a passage from the Analecta, corrected, 1232 n.; P. Lombard's commission to him to be his vicar-general, 1321-3; his affec- tion for sedition, 1360; see notices of him also at pp. 1349, '53, 54, '57, '91, n.; his life, 1373, '4. Royalty and its rights, a "Covenanters " view of, 1339-'41.
Ruadan, St., of Lorrah, some account of, 70.
Rupert, St., first bp. of Saltzburgh, 348. Rural deanries, instances of their origin
in ancient episcopal sees, 617. Rural deans, Romish, appointed in the 17th cent. to nurse their schism, 895, 1364.
Russell, Sir W., Ld. deputy. of Id., 822. Russell, Patrick, fifth titr. abp. of Dub-
lin, notice of his life, synods, and con- stitutions, 1255; allows Primate Ma- guire to have precedency in his dio- cese, 1245.
Russia, why few bpks. in, 984. Ryan, Cornelius. See O'Melrian. Rydcors Castle, a Norman stronghold in Wales, 1027, '30.
Rymers Fadera, qd., 533 n., 643 n., 1085.
Rythmarch, abp. of St. David's 1029.
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 Engus 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 seqq. 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 S. 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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