The History of Ireland, Vol. 3: Containing the Second Book of the History (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The History of Ireland, Vol. 3: Containing the Second Book of the History

Sanderus says in the first book on the English Schism that the Gaels. Immediately on their accepting the Faith. Put themselves and all they had under the power and government of the Bishop of Rome and that they had no other chief prince over them but the Bishop of Rome until the Normans gained the supremacy of Ireland. These are the author's words: The Irish. Says he, immediately on their accepting the Faith, put themselves and all they had under the obedience and government of the Bishop of Rome, and they did not acknowledge any other chief prince over Ireland but the Bishop of Rome until that time, that is, until the Norman Invasion. But this state ment of Sanderus Is not true, as is plain from the Psalter of Cashel, where it speaks of Irial F aidh, son of Eireamhon, and where it gives the number of the kings of the race of Eireamhon who ruled Ireland before Patrick planted the Faith in Ireland and afterwards. Irial Faidh ruled the kingdom of Ireland ten years. And before the rule of Christ was planted by Patrick in Ireland fifty-seven kings of the stock of that king held the sovereignty of Ireland: and b. Inal propheta per decem annos rcgnavit, et antequam regula christiperpatricium seminata essctin Hibernia, de semine eiusdem Regis quinquaginta septem reges regnaverunt super Hibernian.

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