O speciossissime, atque amantissimi fratres et filii, quos in Christo genui, enumerare nequeo.—_Ep. Cor._ Footnote 42: The word is _Sruith episcop_. Sruth is the Irish equivalent of cleric. Footnote 43: The word is _Crumthir_. In the Sanas Cormaic we have _Cruimther_, i.e. _Gaedelg indi as presbyter_, ‘that is the Gaelic of presbyter.’—Stokes, _Three Irish Glossaries_, p. 9. In Nennius the number of presbyters is increased from 300 to 3000, and in the Tripartite Life to 5000. Footnote 44: By the council of Sardica in 347 a canon was passed prohibiting bishops being placed in small cities or villages where a single presbyter was sufficient. Footnote 45: Bingham’s _Ant._, Book ii. c. 12. Footnote 46: _Copt. Coll._, Book i. Can. i. 11. Bunsen’s _Hippolytus_, ii. p. 27. Footnote 47: Bingham’s _Ant._, Book ii. c. 11; Book ix. c. 3. Footnote 48: Colgan, _A.SS._, p. 312. St. Mochonoc’s church was called Gailinne nam Breatan, or Gallen of the Britons, in King’s County. Footnote 49: St. Paulinus of Nola says (Ep. 7) of some of the monks of his time in Gaul, that they were ‘casta informitate capillum ad cutem cæsi, et inæqualiter semitonsi et destituta fronte prærasi.’ Footnote 50: Betham, _Ant. Res._, App., pp. xxxiii. xxxix. Footnote 51: O’Hanlan, _Lives of the Irish Saints_, vol. ii. p. 84. Footnote 52: Dr. Todd’s _Life of St. Patrick_, p. 34. The notices from the Irish Calendars are taken from those of Tamlacht and Donegal. Footnote 53: Fordun, _Chron._, B. iii. cc. 8, 9. Footnote 54: Qui martyrium passus est apud Scotos, ut tradunt sancti antiqui.—Betham, _Ant. Res._, App. xxxvi. Footnote 55: Sed reversus ad eum qui missit illum revertere vero eo hinc, et in primo mari transito cœpto qui erat parum itinere in Britonum finibus vita factus.—_Ib._, App. i. Footnote 56: Sed per quasdam tempestates et signa illum Deus prohibuit, quia nemo potest quicquam accipere in terra nisi fuerit datum desuper, et illa Palladius rediens de Hibernia ad Britanniam ibi defunctus est in terra Pictorum.—Nenn., _Hist. Brit._ Ed. Gunn. Footnote 57: Ad fines Pictorum pervenisset ibidem vita decessit.—Colg. _Tr. Th._ p. 48. Footnote 58: Tertia Vita, _ib._ p. 23. Footnote 59: Quarta Vita, _ib._ p. 38. Footnote 60: Hennessy’s translation in Miss Cusack’s _Life of S. Patrick_, p. 378. Footnote 61: Colgan, _Tr. Th._, p. 5. Footnote 62: Secunda Vita, _ib._ p. 13. Footnote 63: These and the other notices of St. Ternan will be found conveniently collected together in the Preface by the late Bishop of Brechin to the Missal of Arbuthnot. Footnote 64: It is printed in the _Chartulary of Glasgow_, and also in the volume of _Lives of Saint Ninian and Saint Kentigern_, edited by the late Bishop of Brechin for the series of _Scottish Historians_, vol. v. p. 123. Footnote 65: