OF THE

CHURCH OF IRELAND

FROM THE

REFORMATION TO THE REVOLUTION;

WITH

A PRELIMINARY SURVEY,

FROM

THE PAPAL USURPATION, IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY,

TO ITS

LEGAL ABOLITION IN THE SIXTEENTH.

BY

THE RIGHT REV RICHARD MANT, D.D.,

LORD BISHop of doWN AND CONNOR.

THE SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

JOHN W. PARKER, WEST STRAND.

M.DCCC.XLI.

18

TO THE

CHURCH OF CHRIST,

CATHOLICK AND APOSTOLICK,

UNDER HIS PROVIDENCE

IN IRELAND BY LAW ESTABLISHED:

SPECIALLY TO THE

BISHOPS AND CURATES,

AND THE

CONGREGATIONS COMMITTED TO THEIR CHARGE:

THIS HISTORICAL SKETCH,

INTERESTING PROBABLY FROM ITS SUBJECT, HOWEVER DEFECTIVE IN EXECUTION, IS, AFTER ALMOST TWENTY YEARS OF

PROFESSIONAL CONNEXION, PRESENTED AS

THE AUTHOR'S RESPECTFUL OFFERING OF CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP AND BROTHERLY LOVE.

DOWN AND CONNOR HOUSE,

October, 1839.

has been for the most part acknowledged on the occasion. But for the friendly zeal and intelligence, by which my attention has been directed to many valuable channels of information in the University Library, as well as for the free use of a copy of WARE's History of the Bishops, enriched with a large collection of curious manuscript annotations, derived from various sources, my special thanks are due to its learned possessor, the Reverend James Henthorn Todd, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin.

R. D. AND C.