[310] _Midnight_.--"Itaque cum sextæ feriæ terminus advenisset, in confinio sabbati subsequentis Spiritum Sancti viri requies æterna suscepit."--_Vita S. Laurentii_, cap. xxxiii. The saint's memory is still honoured at Eu. The church has been lately restored, and there is a little oratory on the hill near it to mark the spot where he exclaimed, _Hoec est requies mea_, as he approached the town where he knew he should die. Dr. Kelly (_Cambrensis Eversus_, vol. ii. p. 648) mentions in a note that the names of several Irishmen were inscribed there. [311] _Fatal_.--Dr. O'Donovan gives a long and most interesting note on the genealogy of St. Laurence O'Toole, in which he shows that his father was a chieftain of an important territory in the county Kildare, and that he was not a Wicklow prince, as has been incorrectly asserted. The family removed there after the death of St. Laurence, when they were driven from their property by an English adventurer. [312] _Conduct_.--This is mentioned even by Cox, who, Dr. O'Donovan observes, was always anxious to hide the faults of the English, and vilify the Irish. He calls Hugh Tyrrell "a man of ill report," and says he returned to Dublin "loaden both with curses and extortions."--_Hib. Angl._ p. 38, ad an. 1184. [313] _Accusation_.--There can be no doubt that De Lacy had ambitious designs. See Cambrensis, _Hib. Expug._ lib. ii. cap. 20. Henry II. heard of his death with considerable satisfaction. [314] _Colum-cille_.--Dr. O'Donovan remarks that a similar disaster befell Lord Norbury. He was also assassinated by a hand still unknown, after having erected a castle on the same _site_ as that of De Lacy, and preventing the burial of the dead in the ancient cemetery of Durrow. [315] _King of Ireland_.--During the reign of Richard all the public affairs of the Anglo-Norman colony were transacted in the name of "John, Lord of Ireland, Earl of Montague." Palgrave observes that John never claimed to be King of the Irish; like Edward, who wrote himself Lord of Scotland, and acknowledged Baliol to be King of the Scots. [316] _Accounts_.--Gilbert's _Viceroys_, p. 58. [317] _FitzHenri_.--His father was an illegitimate son of Henry I. When a mere youth, FitzHenri came to Ireland with the Geraldines, and obtained large possessions.