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 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." Canons. 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. Abp. Rus of getting 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. 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. The Fa thers of the titular in Ireland, why no ticed here. No. LXVIII. 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 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 men's acr (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 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 ticed here. 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 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 |