The title of the letter is—‘In nomine Divino Dei summi confido. Dominis sanctis et in Christo venerandis Segieno abbati, Columbæ Sancti et cæterorum sanctorum successori, Beccanoque solitario, charo carne et spiritu fratri, cum suis sapientibus, Cummianus supplex peccator, magnis minimus, apologeticam in Christo salutem.’ Footnote 314: The letter is printed at length in Usher’s _Veterum Epistolarum Hibernicarum Sylloge_, p. 24, and in Migne’s _Patrologia_, vol. xxxviii. Footnote 315: According to the Irish method Easter in 631 fell on 21st April, according to the Roman on the 24th of March. Footnote 316: Bede, _Hist. Ec._, B. ii. c. 19. Footnote 317: _Ib._, B. iii. c. 3. Footnote 318: Keating’s _History of Ireland_, cap. ii. § 7. Footnote 319: 635 Seigine abbas Ie ecclesiam Recharnn fundavit. Eocha abbas Lismoir quievit.—_Tigh._ Footnote 320: Bede, _Hist. Ec._, B. ii. c. 19. Footnote 321: Bede, _Hist. Ec._, B. iii. c. 17. 651 Quies Aidain episcopi Saxan.—_Tigh._ Footnote 322: 652 Obitus Seghine abbas Iea .i. filii Fiachna.—_Tigh._ 657 Quies Suibne mic Cuirthre abbatis Iea.—_Tigh._ Footnote 323: Bede, _Hist. Ec._, B. iii. c. 25. Footnote 324: 660 Obitus Finain mac Rimeda episcopi et Daniel episcopi Cindgaradh. 661 Cuimine abbas ad Hiberniam venit.—_Tigh._ Footnote 325: Bede, _H. E._, B. iii. c. 25. Footnote 326: Bede, _Hist. Ec._, B. iii. c. 25. Footnote 327: _Ib._, c. 26. Footnote 328: Bede, _Hist. Ec._, B. iii. c. 26. Footnote 329: _Ib._, B. iv. c. 4. A.D. 668 Navigatio Colmani episcop cum reliquiis sanctorum ad insulam vacce albe in qua fundavit ecclesiam.—_Tigh._ Footnote 330: Adamnan, B. iii. c. 6. Footnote 331: A.D. 669 Obitus Cumaine Ailbe abbatis Iea. Itharnan et Corindu apud Pictores defuncti sunt.—_Tigh._ Footnote 332: Bede, _Hist. Ec._, B. iv. c. 3. Footnote 333: Eddii _Vit. S. Wilf._, c. xxi. Footnote 334: A.D. 671 Maelruba in Britanniam navigat. A.D. 673 Maelruba fundavit ecclesiam Aporcrosan.—_Tigh._ Footnote 335: A.D. 673 Navigatio Failbe abbatis Iea in Hiberniam. A.D. 676 Failbe de Hibernia revertitur.—_Tigh._ Footnote 336: Bishop Forbes, _Scottish Calendars_, pp. 310-341. Footnote 337: Dr. Reeves’s _Adamnan_, ed. 1874, p. 296. Footnote 338: A.D. 674 Quies Failbe abbatis Iea. Dormitatio Nechtain.—_Tigh._ He appears in the Felire of Angus on 8th January as _Nechtain Nair de albae_, which is glossed _Anair de Albain_—from the east, from Alban. Footnote 339: A.D. 687 Adamnanus captivos reduxit ad Hiberniam lx.—_Tigh._ Reeves’s _Adamnan_, ed. 1874, p. cli. Adamnan alludes to this mission, B. ii. c. 1. Footnote 340: