to all who had should commit out-
rages on the Dean and Chapter of
Raphoe, 663; do. by his successor to
all contributors to the repairs of S.
Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, 1111.
Infallibility of the Church of Rome, S.
Patrick's views of, 53; St. Cummian's
158, 165, 169, &c.; S. Columbanus's,
308 seqq; not held by the Irish of the
8th cent., 366.
Infant baptism, performed without
chrism, by the old Irish, 424.
Infant communion, the question con-
cerning, 426.
Iniscarra, St. Senan's school at, 73,
Inniscatthy, the see of, 995 seqq.; St.
Senan's monastic foundation there, 73;
vid. q. 563.
Inisdamle, monastery of, ravaged by the
Danes or Nortmans, 381, 382.
Innisboffin, (Co. Mayo,) S. Colman's
monastery there, 186.
Innocent's (Pope) valor, 1146. See
Pope.
Inquisition, the, extends its influence to
Id., 650, 652, 656.
Institution of a Christian Man, its au-
thorship, &c., 1195; its views con-
cerning the power of nomination to
episcopal appointments, 1196.
Instructions, the, of S. Columbanus, 288
seqq., 968-981.
Interdict, nature and effects of an, 593;
laid on Dublin by John Cumin, 613;
by H. de Loundres, 621; by Fulk de
Saundford, 624, '5; denounced against
Henry VIII, 1202.
International hatred, an instrument of
Rome for keeping England and Id. in
order, 877.
Invercolpa, or Colp, monastery of, 569;
a cell to Llanthony, 575.
Inverdega, (Wicklow,) ravaged by the
Danes, 382.
Invocation of saints, not practised by S.
Patrick, 44; abuse of in Id. in the 8th
cent.. 356 seqq., 368; supported by
Dungal, 396; Abp. Browne's opposi-
tion to, 681, 696. See 368, 1421.
Iona, or Hy, St. Columbkille's settle-
ment in, 78, 83; how he became pos-
sessed of it, 84, ravaged by the Danes,
106, 379, 390; state of its ecclesiastical
ruins, 106; sends out missionaries to
Northumberland, 173 seqq., 987; their
attachment to the Irish Easter, 174
seyq.; their final abandonment of it,
185; curious transaction connected
with the place in the 12th cent., 614.
Iorwerth, son of Blethyn ap Convyn, his
intercourse with the Anglo-Normans,
1029, '30.
Ireland, anciently regarded as a school
of learning for Europe, 318 seqq., pas-
sim, 351, 356 n.; its ecclesiastical re-
cords not in every point of view satis-
factory, 358 seqq.; its ancient division
into five kingdoms, 378; granted by
P. Adrian to K. Henry II., 489; over-
spread with barbarism from the Da-
nish invasions, previously to the An-
glo-Norman do., 523 n., 539 n.; the
kingdom bestowed on Henry II. and
his son John, 604, 703; pauperism of,
in the 11th cent., described by Wm. of
Malmesbury, 1018; given to the Eng-
lish, partly under the influence of spite
against its people, 1048; taxed by the
Roman pontiffs, 1146 seqq.; destroyed
by P. Adrian's interference, 1121-3;
its poverty under papal taxation,
1150; the Catholic" faith in, essen-
tial to Rome's eccl. existence, 1204;
the royalties of, supposed to be the
pope's, 703, 1285, &c.
"Ireland, the Church of," and "Church
of England," use of the names, 920,
1415 seqq.
Ireland, a Brief Relation of, &c., attri-
buted to P. O'Sullevan, qd., 910 n.,
1253 n.
Ireland's Resurrection, by D. Rothe qd.,
1391, '2.
Ireland, View of the State of, by Spen-
cer, 803; extracts from it, on the con-
dition of the Church, &c., in Id., 813-
815; his remedial suggestion, 816.
Irish beggars to be found in Rome, (A.D.
1620,) 913.
Irish bishops, (see Titular,) their great
number in very ancient times, 38, 60,
446, 982 seqq.; all schismatics in A.D.
566, according to Card. Baronius, 136,
931-3; their separation from Rome,
and opposition to her practices, 138,
139, &c.; their communion " rejected
by the apostolic see" of Rome, 149;
she regarding them as Quartadeci-
mans and schismatics, ib., 150; and as
cut off from "the Catholic Church,"
and destitute, in consequence, of valid
orders, 153; their ordinations rejected
in France by the Council of Chalons,
387; their consecration performed by
a single bishop, 424, 1006; their elec-
tion by the princes, clergy, and people,
421, 426, 429, 430, 433, 465; their ele-
vation, for personal merit, to new and
temporary sees, 407, 990; and appoint-
ment without fixed sees, 432, 990;
their jealousy of English interference
in their ecclesiastical concerns, 433,
434; anciently the heads of monaste-
ries rather than of dioceses, 446;
asked no pope's license for their ap-
pointment, 447, 470 m.; their simila-
rity to the heads of monastic houses,
448; their multiplicity and irregular
discipline censured by S. Bernard,
466; first rise of their appointment by
papal authority, 477; their number
reduced by papal influence in the Sy-
nod of Kells, 485; their submission
to K. Henry II., 505, 508; enumera-
tions of them by by Hoveden and
others, noticed, 507 n.; Diceto's account
of their motives in submitting to Hen-
ry, 512; P. Alexander's letter to them
on the subject, 533 seqq., 1085—7;
placed above their secular lords, by
the English princes, 560; accused of
indolence by Giraldus C., 575, 6;
elected out of the monasteries, ib. ; an-
ciently independent of Rome, 580;
scandalous conduct of some of them in
the Anglo-Romish times, 615, 621, '2, '3.
'5, 651-3,662, 3, '4; the Kells Act for
the reducing of their number carried
out at Newtown Trim, 616, 617; possible
motives in their reduction, 618; mode
of their appointment under Anglo-Ro-
mish influence, 619, 620, 711 #. ; their
effort to exclude Anglo-Norman in-
truders from their native benefices
nulled by a pope, 624; their sanction
given to the statute of Kilkenny, 660;
commanded under penalty, to excom-
municate "disobedient subjects" of
the English state, 665; involved with
few exceptions in L. Simnel's, impos
ture, 666; their feeling towards papal
supremacy, (A.D. 1500) 668, '9; their
independence of Rome asserted in par-
liament, 684; their opposition to the
assertion of the regal supremacy under
Henry VIII, 688, 9; they reject a
Tridentine prelate, 714, 715 n.; some
of the Reformed faith appointed under
Ed. VI., 719; ejection of such by Q.
Mary, 739, 740; they accept, as a body,
the English liturgy, &c., 755 $99.,
886; their motives in so doing. 758.
1223; only two deposed under Queen
Elizabeth, ib., 761, 1209-22; those
of the mere Irish race not summoned
to parliament, 759 n.; Articles of (the
Reformed) Religion promulgated by
their authority, 770; bad characters of
some of them, 815, 872, 3, 1214, 23,
'24; all of them regarded as heretics
by the recusants, A.D. 1621, 901; had
in early times no definite dioceses, 985;
not allowed to be Irishmen, under
English influence, in some remarkable
cases, 606, 1065; (see 647, 1094 ;) state-
ment of their incomes, 1074; ordered
by P. Alexander III. to support Henry
II., 1085; their letter to the said pope,
1088; enumeration of them in A.D.
1291, 1114, '15; do. in 1367, 1140 seqq.;
do. of those in the parliament of A.D.
1560, 1208, '9; do. of the others of the
same age, 1209 seqq.; do. of those pre-
sent in the parliament of A.D. 1585,
1271, '2.
Irish chiefs, (princes, and nobles,) their
turbulence noticed, 764; their loyalty
in many cases to Q. Elizabeth, 799,
828 seqq. ; deprived of their sovereignty
under James I., 876; their Church op-
pression in ancient times, 1061; paral-
leled by the inheriting of confiscated
eeclesiastical property by their modern
successors, 1064; letter of P. Alexan-
der to the, on the conquest of Id.,
1090, '91; their appeal to P John
XXII., 634-646, 1119-35; their sup-
port of Henry VIII., 702-710, 1206
-'8, 1429-33.
Irish Church, its early calamities appar-
antly connected with preceding un-
faithfulness, 376; the circumstances
which led to its subjugation to Rome,
439 seqq.; its peculiar discipline, &c.,
in ancient times, 446 seqq.; encum-
bered with English prelates, 606, 1065;
its destruction a childish cure for Id.'s
ills, 645, 1427; damaged by English in-
fluences, 677; freed of Romish supre-
macy, 683-713; reunited to Rome,
739-744; its miserable condition in
1576, 782 seqq.; pious concern of
O'Neill, &c., for, 836, '7; Anglo-Ro-
mish measures for the reform of, 557
seqq. (see 616-'8, and 1179.) its
early independence of Rome illustra-
ted, 1249, 50, et passim. See Irish
Bishops.
Irish clergy, their increase of dignity,
VOL. III.
&c., at the Conquest, 558 seqq.; charged
with nepotism (A.D. 1201) 1051, 2;
permitted to enjoy certain Irish bene-
fices, 1104, 5; their first exemption
from attendance on the chieftains going
to war, 559, 1106; their beggarly condi-
tion, ignorance, &c., at the period of the
Reformation, 696, 721, 783, 814, 815,
864, 5; their strange confederation
under N. Mac Molissa, 627, 1114-'18;
their ready submission to the regal
supermacy under Henry VIII., no-
ticed by Mr. Moore, 1429.
Irish Ecclesiastical Journal, qd. 674 n.,
683 n., 693 n, &c. See Journal
"Irish enemies," who, 554; Anglican
precautions against them, 664, '5; (see
1104;) Bp. Young's activity against
them, A.D., 1368, 1142. See also 1179.
Irish habit, the, customs, &c., denounced
by parliament, 657. See also 686.
Irish kings, their number and succession
referred to, 1120.
Irish language, the, St. Aidan's sermons
in, to the Saxons, 177; Fitz Ralph's
supposed labours in, 655; discouraged
by the Statute of Kilkenny, 657, '8; by
Henry VIII.'s parliament, A.D. 1536,
686; a difficulty in Turner's accepting
the see of Armagh, 729; discouraged
by the Act of Uniformity, 755-7:
efforts made for communicating in-
struction through its instrumentality,
779 seqq.; catechism and primer issued
in, 780; the Book of Common Prayer
printed in, 781; and the H. Scriptures,
782; the want of preachers in, noticed
by Sir H. Sidney, 785; Sir F. Bacon's
remark of similar tendency, 817;
spoken by Bp. Draper of Kilmore, A.D.
1603, 865; and by several of the re-
formed clergy in Leighlin and Ferns,
A.D. 1612, 873; found a difficulty in
the intrusion of English clerks into
Irish benefices, A. D. 1484,
1104;
preached in by Bishop Nangle, coadju-
2 s
tor to Abp. Browne, 1219; written on,
by Rd. Creagh, 1236; the Mirror of
Penitence, &c., published in, by Ro-
mish teachers, 1238, 1246.
"Irish, the mere," 1181; their exclusion
from Galway, 1185; the innocence of
killing them inculcated by Anglo-Ro-
mish teachers, 1129.
Irish, the, (people) acquainted with let-
ters in the 4th century, 6; known to
the Romans in the time of Tacitus as
a mercantile people, 7; famous for
learning after their conversion to
Christianity, see books 1-3, passim ;
as instanced in 8. Cummian's Paschal
Epistle, 153 seqq.; their judgment of
the Romans as heretics in the 7th cen-
tury, 163; by whom they felt them-
selves to be excommunicated, 155, 161,
see also 183; their contempt for the
tonsure, &c., of Rome, 184; their high
esteem as teachers among the Saxons,
178; their services in the conversion
of England, 178-180; their national
character in the 7th century, noticed,
206; their eminence as missionaries,
&c., in England and on the continent
exemplified, 240, 241, 276, 277, 395;
their character throughout Europe in
those early ages further illustrated,
318 seqq., passim; their liberality in
giving free education, books, board,
&c., to the children of the English no-
bility and gentry, A.D. 664, 326; sup-
posed by Camden to have communi-
cated to the Saxons the knowledge of
the use of letters, 351; their zeal for
learning noticed by Eric of Auxerre,
398; their high reputation maintained
in part to the 11th century, 437; their
demoralization by the Danish wars,
424, 454; Bede's testimony to the ex-
cellence of their character in the 7th
cent., 486; similar do. of Wm. of
Malmesbury, 487;-their description
by Roman writers of the 12th cent. as
"barbarous," 456, 7, 8, 464; as "pro-
fligate, ungodly, stiffnecked, filthy, pa-
gans," 462; "wolves," 463; "beastly,"
492; guilty of "enormities and filthy
lewdness,' 514; as of "unclean life
and horrible sins, clean out of right
rule of Christendom, and worse than
wild beasts," 526, 527; as "great here-
tics," 557; whose "character was
stained by disorder and crime, ignor-
ance of God's law, and filthy abomina-
tions," 535, 1086; as "of unbridled
licentiousness," wholesale shedders of
blood, incestuous, flesh-eaters in Lent,
and altogether disrespectful to churches
and clergy, 537, 8, 1087, '8;-their
exclusion by the Anglo-Normans from
Irish Church benefices, 552, 606, 7,
647, '8, 658, 9, (see 686,) 1108; en-
couraged by their native clergy, they
join Bruce's rebellion, and are excom-
municated by Rome for it, 635; they
trace all their calamities connected
with the Invasion to Romish interfer-
ence, 637, 1121-3; their hatred of the
English originated not in, nor was
much increased by, the Refn., 644;
their views about Papal Supremacy in
the Anglo-Romish period, 670; their
notion of the value of pope's bulls and
other such trumpery, 672, '3; little
regarded by the popes before their
breach with the English, 675; they
join in rejecting papal sovereignty,
704 seqq.; their degraded state in 1565,
769; described as "all papists," in
1593, by Spenser, 815; their gladness
at being brought under the English
laws, 832;-their early conversion to
Christianity referred to, 984;—their
interference in various wars in Eng-
land, 1017 seqq.; they render aid to
Howel and Meredyth, Welsh chiefs,
1023; to Conan ap lago, 1024; and
Gruffyth ap Conan, ib.; to Rees ap
Tewdor, 1025; they shelter Gruffyth
and Cadogan ap Blethyn, 1028; and
countenance Arnulf Montgomery's re-
bellion, 1017, 29; and Owen ap Cado-
gan, 1032; their first communications
with Henry II., &c., noticed by Cara-
doc's continuator, 1038 ;eqq.; in what
sense obliged "to support the estab-
lished Church" in modern times, 1071;
P. Alexander's devout horror at their
barbarity, profaneness, &c., 1085-'91;
put under bail in the pope's court, to
keep the peace with Engd., 1111 n. ;
injured by the bad example of the
English, 1124, '26 seqq., vid. 609; Mr.
Wright's notions of their ancient bar-
barity rectified, 1440 seqq. See Irish,
mere, sup.
"Irish priests better than milch cows,"
according to an old Ir. bp., 866.
Irish Primer, the, of St. Columba's
College, qd., 1154 n.
Irish saints, their most ancient lives not
framed according to the modern Ro-
mish model, 46, 67, 95, 250; three
orders of them distinguished, 59-62;
not beholden for their saintly rank to
any decrees of Rome, 176; whether the
views of those of the 7th cent. agreed
exactly with the Anglo-Saxons, 216
seqq.; not identical in sentiment and
practices with modern Romanists, or
Protestants, 314-316; partiality ob-
servable in their biographies, 360, 361.
See Patron Saints.
Irish State Papers, qd., 689, 691, 700, &c.
Irish Statutes, qd., 683 n., 704, 743,'4, &c.
Irishwomen, marrying Englishmen, lia-
ble, by the English law, A.D. 1315, to
a loss of property, 1125.
Isidore Mercator's Decretals, qd., 1041.
Islands, claimed as the popes' special
property, 488, 1046, 1090; the see of,
994.
Isserninus, companion of S. Patrick, 40.
Istria, the bps. of, and the Three Chap-
ters, 937.
Italian banditti, sent on " the mission in
Ireland," 789, 790, 808, 1369-'71.
Ivar, the Norwegian, occupies and en-
larges Limerick, 389.
James, St., supposed by some to have
preached in Britain, 109.
James L., King of England. his view of
H. O'Neill's religious professions, 834;
his accession, 847; occasions Romish
tumults in Id., 850; his claim of de-
scent from the ancient Irish kings,
848 n.; his religious opinions made
the subject of Romish intrigues, 853;
his Test Oath, 858; his Plantation of
Ulster, 868; his inquiry into the state
of the Irish Church, (A.D. 1612,) 870
seqq.; his Oath rejected and condemned
in the papal Conference at Drogheda,
A.D. 1614, 897; copy of the Oath in
question, 1311, '12; P. Paul V.'s con-
demnation of do. 1313-'20.
James II. abolishes ministers money,
1080; is denounced excommunicate
and deposed by certain " Covenanters,
1340.
James, the deacon, Roman missionary
to the Saxons in York, 181; his musi-
cal taste, and singing lessons, 208.
Jarlath, of Tuam, St., 61, 69. See also
1105.
Jebb, Bp, his remarks on the phrases
"Church of Id." and "Church of
England," &c,, 1416, '17.
Jerome, St., quoted in connection with
Cœlestius, 5; by S. Cummian, 154, 155,
158; his observations on the ancient
monks, 234, 236; his high estimation
as a commentator, with the old Irish,
257,291; his notes on Ezekiel studied
by S. Columbanus, 292.
Jerusalem taken by Saladin. 1145; re-
spect of the ancient Irish for the
Church of, 166, 310; its worship in
Chaldee, 967.
Jesters, Romish priests forbidden to be,
896.
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