Tempore illo fuit quidam Dregmo in territorio Hagustaldensis ecclesiæ, Deum valde timens et elymosinarum operibus, prout facultas sibi suppeditabat, haud segniter deditus ac per omnia a comprovincialium moribus vita discordans. Erat enim miræ simplicitatis et innocentiæ homo ac erga sanctos Dei devotionis et venerationis immensæ. Quapropter eum omnes vicini sui in magno honore habebant, illumque verum Dei cultorem appellabant.—Sim. Dun., _Hist. Regum_ (Surtees Ed.), p. 26. Footnote 452: Hefele, _Concilien Geschichte_, vol. iii. p. 88. Footnote 453: _Ib._, vol. iii. p. 306. Footnote 454: Hefele, _Concilien Geschichte_, vol. iv. p. 18. Footnote 455: Dilectissimis sacerdotibus ecclesiarum Christi præsulibus et cunctis cleris in eisdem ubique et famulantibus et _Deicolis_ omnibus per totum mundum degentibus. Footnote 456: D’Achery, _Spicilegium_, vol. i. p. 565. Footnote 457: Hefele, _Concilien Geschichte_, vol. iv. p. 10. Footnote 458: Thorpe, _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_, vol. ii. p. 27. Footnote 459: Haddan and Stubbs’ _Councils_, vol. iii. p. 450. Footnote 460: Reeves, _The Culdees of the British Isles_, pp. 59, 144. Footnote 461: Dei servitium passim nostra in gente a Cultoribus Clericis defleo extinctum et tepefactum.—_Statuta Ecclesiæ_, vol. i. p. ccxiii. See other notices there mentioned. Footnote 462: _Mart. Don._, p. 83. Footnote 463: _Mart. Don._, p. 235. Footnote 464: _Ib._, p. 245. Footnote 465: Adamnan, _Vit. S. Col._, B. iii. c. 42. Footnote 466: See for a description and ground-plan the Appendix No. I., p. 322, to the edition of Reeves’s _Adamnan_ in series of Scottish Historians. Footnote 467: Adamnan, _Vit. S. Col._, B. i. c. 6. Footnote 468: _Ib._, B. ii. c. 43. Footnote 469: A.D. 1007 Muredach mac Cricain _do deirgiu Comarbus Columcille ar Dia_ (resigns the corbeship of Columcille, or abbacy, for God).—_Chron. Picts and Scots_, p. 366. Footnote 470: In the Irish Glosses, edited by Mr. Whitley Stokes, the Latin word _advona_ is glossed by _Deorad_. Among the Charters of Kells is one founding, in 1084, a _Diseart_, which is given to God and devout pilgrims; ‘no wanderer (_Erraid_) to have any possession till he surrenders his life to God (_do Dia_) and is devout;’ and in 1000 Tempull Gerailt is rebuilt for pilgrims of God (_Deoradaibh De_). Footnote 471: _Ancient Laws of Ireland_, vol. i. p. 59. Footnote 472: A.D. 677 Beccan Ruimean quievit in insula Britanniæ.—_Tigh._ 17th March, Beccan Ruim.—_Mart. Don._ Footnote 473: Abridged from Petrie’s description in his _Round Towers_, p. 421. See also _Proceedings of R. S. A._, vol. x. p. 551. Footnote 474: