‘Florentio et Dionysio Coss. (A.D. 429) ... Agricola Pelagianus, Severiani Pelagiani Episcopi filius, Ecclesias Britanniæ dogmatis sui insinuatione corrupit.’—Prosper, _Chron. Opp._ i. 400, 401. Footnote 5: ‘Florentio et Dionysio Coss. (A.D. 429) ... ad actionem Paladii diaconi Papa Cœlestinus Germanum Antisiodorensem Episcopum vice sua mittit, et deturbatis hæreticis Britannos ad Catholicam fidem dirigit.’—Prosper, _Chron._ 401. Prosper wrote two chronicles about the year 455. The share taken in the mission by the Gallican bishops is reported by Constantius in his Life of Germanus written some thirty years after. The two accounts are not inconsistent. See Haddan and Stubbs’ _Councils_, vol. i. p. 17, note. Footnote 6: ‘Basso et Antiocho Coss. (A.D. 431) ad Scotos in Christum credentes ordinatus a papa Cœlestino Palladius primus episcopus mittitur.’—Prosper, _Chron._ ‘Et ordinato Scotis Episcopo, dum Romanam insulam studet servare Catholicam, fecit etiam barbaram Christianam.’—Prosper, _Cont. Collat._ xxi. (A.D. 432). There can be now no question that the Scots to whom he was sent were those of Ireland. Footnote 7: See Dr. Todd’s _Life of Saint Patrick_, p. 189, for a critical examination of the facts which seem to imply an earlier Christianity in Ireland. Footnote 8: Protestant church historians are unreasonably jealous of admitting any connection between the early British or Irish Church and Rome; but the Rome of the fourth and fifth centuries was not the Rome of the middle ages. It was the church of St. Jerome and St. Augustine. There was no question then about supremacy, and the bishop of Rome was simply regarded with deference and respect as the acknowledged head of the Christian Church within the western provinces of the empire of which Rome was the capital. Questions of ecclesiastical supremacy did not emerge till the empire was broken up. Footnote 9: See ‘The Irish Monasteries in Germany,’ _Ulster Journal of Arch._, vol. vii. p. 233, and authorities there quoted. Footnote 10: Columbanus in Epist. to Pope Boniface IV., says—‘Nos enim SS. Petri et Pauli et omnium discipulorum, divinum canonem Spiritu Sancto scribentium, discipuli sumus, toti Heberi, ultimi habitatores mundi, nihil extra evangelicam et apostolicam doctrinam recipientes.’ He calls himself ‘perigrinus Scotus,’ and adds,—‘Sed talia suadenti, utpote torpenti actu ac dicenti potius, quam facienti mihi, _Jonæ_ Hebraice, _Peristeræ_, Græce, _Columbæ_ Latine.’—Migne, _Patrologia_, vol. 37, coll. 275, 282. Footnote 11: Hefele, _Concilien Geschichte_, vol. i. p. 317; vol. ii. p. 758. Footnote 12: