Christians from the Saxon persecu-
tions, 118; intimacy between its inha.
bitants and the Irish Christians of the
sixth cent., 71, 73, 126, &c.; invaded
by Ethelfrid, 134, (see Cornwall); in-
vaded by the Irish, 1023; by the Nor-
mans, 1025; parcelled out by W. Rufus
to his men, 1026, 7; independent
spirit of its people, 1094; and their op-
pression by the Normans, 1095.
Walsh, W., intruded by Q. Mary into
the see of Meath, 740; for opposing the
regal supremacy, &c., he is deposed,
758, 760; his banishment, and death,
761; blunder of the "C. C. Directory'
about him, 1380, '87; Mr. Moore's
mention of him, 1433.
Walsh, Peter, his History of the Remon-
strance, qd., 693 n., 1397 seqq.; his
appointment as Procurator of the Irish
Romanists, 1408.
Walsh, N., Chancellor of St. Patrick's
Dublin, promotes instruction by means
of the Irish tongue, 780; appointed bp.
of Ossory, 781; his cruel end, ib.
Walsh. Dr., his appointment as titular
bp. of Cloyne and Ross, 1251.
Walter, Theobald. See Fitz Walter.
Walton's Life of Herbert, qd., 285 n.
"Warden of the Marches of Wales," ac-
tivity of a bp. of London as, 1032.
Wardenship of Galway, the, confirmed
by the sanction of P. Innocent VIII.,
671, 2, 1169 seqq.; mode of appoint-
ment, &c., of the Warden, 1171, '84;
made the ground for setting up a new
titular bishopric, 1386.
Ware, Sir J., his Antiquities of Id., Bi-
shops, &c., qd. passim; his account of
the ancient episcopal Sees in Id., 993
seqq.; his MSS. qd., 1187 n.
Ware, Robt., his Life of Abp. Browne,
qd., 681, 1204.
Waterford, built by Sitric the Norwe-
gian, 389; fresh arrivals of the Danes
in, 408; continued under Danish in-
fluence after the battle of Clontarf,
420; erected into a bpk., and made sub-
ject to Canterbury, 430; subject also
to the king of Id., 431; its subjection
to Canterbury ends, 452 n.; for other
notices connected with the see of, see
484 n., 661, 1159, 1216, 1384; origin of
its union with Lismore, 1140; arrival
of Henry II., in the city, 503 seqq.;
the Synod of, receives the Bulls of
Adrian and Alexander for subjecting
Id. to Engd., 525, 6, 7, 542; the first
see appointed to, by an English king,
547; John, Earl of Morton's visit to,
608; scandalous conduct of a bp. of,
A.D. 1210, 615; a bp. of, employed
to excommunicate for the pope and
King Henry III., the unruly citi
zens of Dublin, 625; a bp. of, burns
heretics, 652; Abp. Browne preaches
there against papal supremacy, 699,
700; the Desmond estates in the county,
confiscated, 802; the citizens, rebelli-
ously disposed at the accession of Jas.
I., 850; are quieted by Ld. Mountjoy,
851; notice of certain Romt. priests
resident there in A.D. 1610, 1357.
Waucop, Robt., (called also Venantius
Scotus,) a candidate, on the Trent inter-
est, for the titular primacy of Id.,
702 n, 714, 5 n.; rejected by the Ir.,
ib.; although the bp. of Rome would
never acknowledge his opponent, ib.,
887; account of his life, 1227; Dr.
Mac Mahon's erroneous statement re-
lative to his place in the titular succes-
sion of Armagh noticed, 1228; his
blindness, equestrian powers, and in-
troduction of the Jesuits into Id., no-
ticed, ib., and 714 n. See 1378, 1437.
Wearmouth abbey, 209.
Wednesday, fastings of the ancient monks
on, 235; do. of the Irish monks in par-
ticular, 240, 284.
Wellesley, the Marquess, Dr. Doyle's
letter to, on Tithes, &c., qd., 1066.
886, 1228, 1376, 7, 1432, 3; of the
Irish Church, independent of that in
England, 1419.
Succession, Acts of, passed in the Irish
parlt. of 28th Henry VIII., 683, '7,
692 n., 1191, "2.
"Successors of the apostles," who, 942 n.
Suevi, the, St. Columbanus labours
among, 268; also St. Gallus, 334.
Suggawn, or Sugan, Earl. See Des-
mond, James.
Sulgen, or Sulien, bp. of St. David's, his
educational visit to Id., and fame for
wisdom and learning, 437-439, 1029.
Sulpicius Severus, his lunar cycle used
by the early Irish Christians in de-
termining the time for their Easter,
195.
Sunday. See Lord's day. Henry VIII.
proclaimed king of Id. on, 704.
Superstitions, early appearance of, in the
Saxon Church, 214; in the monastic
body, 236; among the ancient Ir.
Christians, 352 seqq.; in prayer to the
dead, 356; in penance, 362; in the
conduct exhibited by Paternus and
Marianus Scotus, 436; in SS. Mala-
chy and Bernard, 480, '1; in connec-
tion with the H. Communion, as no-
ticed by Bp. Bale, A.D. 1553, 732.
Supremacy of the pope of Rome, St. Pa-
trick's view of, 52; not acknowledged
by the ancient British bps., 132, '4, '9
seqq.; nor by the Irish, ib., et passim ;
not even by the Romanising Irish of
the 7th cent., 165 seqq.; nor by the
Saxon disciples of the Irish in Eng-
land, 221; views of St. Columbanus
on, 291, 305 seqq.; the Irish for seven
centuries independent of, 367; intro-
duced into England by the wars of the
Saxons and Normans, and into Id. by
those of the Danes, 419; Gillebert's
exertions to promote its reception in
Id., 441, 3, 4; unknown theretofore
by Primate Celsus, 445; advanced by
English primates, ib.; established in
Id. by the influence of Henry II., 492,
538, 9; its non-reception by the old
Irish gains them the contempt and ha-
tred of the English, 527, 555-7; and
formed a pretended or supposed cause
for the Invasion, ib.; origin and gra-
dual extension of the supremacy
throughout Id, 579-'81; feelings of
different classes in Id. in regard to it
at the commencement of the 16th
cent., 668-676; not the more popular
for its patronage by English enemies,
671; their effective aid in promoting
it, 677; suppressed under Henry
VIII. in Engd., 678; as unfounded
on the Word of God, ib., 679; Abp.
Cromer's maintenance of, 680; a com-
mission appointed for its suppression
in Id., 682; the object carried out in
parlt., 683 seqq.; and with some faci-
lity, 687; Abp. Browne's zeal against
the papal supremacy, 696; its condem-
nation in the form of the beads, 698;
missionary preaching of the said abp.
against the doctrine, 700; its renun-
ciation by divers Irish lords and no-
bles, 702, 3-'9, '11; its extent as op-
posed by James I., 858, 861; case of
R. Lalor, tried for promoting it in Id.,
ib.; the Irish Church's title to her
property not affected by its introduc-
tion or abolition, 1069; whether re-
cognised in Id. or not before A.D.
1172, unknown to P. Alexander III.,
1090; first exercise of it in an appoint-
ment to the Ir. primacy, 1108; its ef-
fect in excluding the native Irish from
ecclesiastical preferments. ib.; (see
647, '8;) advanced by Albert of Co-
logne, 1109; universally prevalent in
Id. in A.D. 1367, 1140 seqq.; renounced
by various Ir. chiefs in their indenture
with Henry VIII, 1207; its non-re-
ception in Id. in primitive times illus-
trated, 1249, '50; its extension to tem-
Witchcraft, Lady A. Ketler tried and con-
demned for, 649.
Wives, desertion of their, charged on the
ancient Irish, 424.
Woden, idol of the Suevi, his worship
attacked by St. Columbanus, 268.
Wolsey, Card., finds Id. a bad market
for papal bulls, 673.
Women, excluded from the society of the
Irish saints of the second class, 61.
Woney, Cistertian house of, founded,
571:
Wooden tables for the H. Communion,
used by the old Irish, 611.
Wool, included in the Dublin tithe law
of, 1186, 612; its use among the ancient
monks, 244.
Word of God, the, made known to the
Northumbrian Saxons by Irish teach-
ers, 178; read in the Irish monastic
churches in England, 240, 241; and
through the villages by the priests, ib. ;
preserved by the labours of the monks,
&c., 246; many of the English nobi-
lity and people come to Id. to study it,
in the 7th cent., 326; preached by S.
Furseus in Engd., 336; ordered by
the Council of Cloveshove to be read
in church to the people on Sundays,
371 n.; utterly neglected in the An-
glo-Romish period, 597; vainly ap-
pealed to in support of papal usurpa-
tions, 678; parliamentary order for its
preaching in English in Id., 687; so
preached by Abp. Browne, 699, 700;
assigned by Bp. Bale as the instru-
ment of his conversion, 731; Abp.
Curwen encourages the favourers of
it, 742; its increased circulation in Id.
in A.D. 1559, 752; St. Columbanus's
view of the importance of preaching it,
946; appealed to by the old Britons
in their controversy with Rome about
the consecrating of prelates, 1007,
1250; taught by St. Kentegern to his
disciples, 1008; a bishop of Kilfenora,
A.D. 1572, noticed as a teacher of it,
1218.
Worldly-minded clergymen, a cause of
hindrance to the Refn. in Id., 814,
896, 914, 1212, '14, 23, 1362, &c.
Wright, Mr., his unjust view of the bar-
barism of the ancient Irish examined
and refuted, 1439 seqq.; some notice
of the writer in question himself,
1445.
Wurtzburgh, St. Kilian's labours in, 337
seqq.
Years, of different kinds, ecclesiastical,
historical, and civil, their differences
noticed, 1191.
York, made an episcopal see by P. Gre-
gory I., 132; set aside by Bp. Aidan,
who substitutes Lindisfarne as his
episcopal residence, 176, 7; but again
restored to its dignity, by Wilfrid,
after his consecration to the see, 187;
an abp. of, A.D. 1560, presents Bibles
to the Dublin cathedrals, 753.
York and Lancaster, the wars of, no-
ticed, 666, 1102 segg.
Youghal, the town of, taken by the earl
of Desmond, 796; the profane wicked-
ness of his followers on that occasion,
797.
Young, J., bp. of Leighlin, A.D. 1378,
his military resistance of the Irish re-
bels in his diocese, 1142.
Zechariah the prophet, studied with in-
terest by St. Columbanus, 292.
Zug and Zurich, Switzerland, St. Co-
lumbanus's visit to, 267.
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 Angus 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 segg. 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 8. 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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