_Ibid._ App. xxxv. xxxvi. In this passage xiii. is probably written for viii. either in Sir W. Betham’s manuscript or in the original MS. Theodosius became sole emperor in 423. His eighth year was therefore 431, and his ninth 432. Footnote 28: Pertz, _Mon. Germ. Hist. Script._, vol. v. p. 533. Footnote 29: Usher, _Sylloge_, Ep. xi. Footnote 30: Adamnan, _Vit. S. Col._, ed. 1874, p. 107. Footnote 31: A careful edition of the Confession and Epistle, with a translation, is annexed to Miss Cusack’s _Life of Saint Patrick_, to which the references are made. Footnote 32: Qui fuit vico Bannavem Taberniæ.—_Conf._ The natural inference certainly is that Tabernia was the name of the district in which Bannavem was situated. Footnote 33: Ingenuus fui secundum carnem; Decurione patre nascor.—_Ep. Cor._ Footnote 34: Et iterum post paucos annos in Britanniis eram cum parentibus meis.—_Conf._ The expression Britanniis or Britannicis in the plural, clearly designates the Roman province in Britain. He calls it here his ‘patria.’ ‘Parentes’ may be either parents or relations. Footnote 35: He alludes to words spoken when he was fifteen years old. ‘Quod confessus fueram ante quod essem diaconus.’—_Conf._ Footnote 36: ‘Vos scitis et Deus qualiter apud vos conversatus sum a juventute mea et fide veritatis et sinceritate cordis; etiam ad gentes illas inter quas habito, ego fidem illis præstiti et præstabo.’—_Conf._ The same thing is implied in his epistle to Coroticus, where he says that he had sent a letter by a holy priest, ‘quem ego ex infantia docui.’ If he had taught this priest from his infancy, he must himself have been long in Ireland. Footnote 37: In his Confession he says that, when about to be given the rank of a bishop (‘gradus episcopatus’) a fault was brought up against him which he had committed thirty years before, when he was fifteen; and his epistle to Coroticus commences ‘Patricius peccator indoctus, scilicet Hiberione constitutis episcopum me esse futeor certissime reor, a Deo accepi id quod sum.’ Footnote 38: In his Confession he says he had been desirous to go ‘in Britanniis ... quasi ad patriam et parentes; non id solum, sed etiam usque Gallias.’ This excludes the idea that he could have been a native of any part of Gaul. Britanniæ is the well-known expression for Roman Britain. In his epistle to Coroticus he says, ‘Non dico civibus meis, neque civibus sanctorum Romanorum.’ Footnote 39: Et hæc est confessio mea antequam moriar.—_Conf._ Footnote 40: Et ut clerici ubique illis ordinarentur ad plebem nuper venientem ad credulitatem.... Unde autem Hiberione, qui numquam notitiam habuerunt, nisi idula et himunda usque nunc semper coluerunt, quomodo nuper effecta est plebs Domini et filii Dei nuncupabantur. Filii Scotorum et filiæ Regulorum monachi et virgines Christi esse videntur.—_Conf._ Footnote 41: