‘The Church of the Tribe of the Saint. That is, the tribe of the Saint shall succeed in the Church as long as there shall be a person fit to be an abbot (_Damna Apaidh_, or _materies_ of an abbot), of the tribe of the saint, even though there should be but a psalm-singer of these, it is he that will obtain the abbacy. Where this is not the case, it is to be given to the tribe of the land until a person fit to be an abbot, of the tribe of the saint, shall be found; and when he is, it is to be given to him if he be better than the abbot of the tribe of the land who has taken it. If he be not better, he shall take it only in his turn. If a person fit to be an abbot has not come of the tribe of the saint or of the tribe of the land, the abbacy is to be given to the tribe of the monks (_Fine Manach_), until a person fit to be an abbot, of the tribe of the saint or of the tribe of the land, shall be found; and where there is such, he is preferable. If a person fit to be abbot has not come of the tribe of the saint, or of the tribe of the land, or of the tribe of the monks, the _Annoit_ shall take it in the fourth place; the _Dalta_ shall take it in the fifth place; the _Compairche_ shall take it in the sixth place; the nearest _Cill_ shall take it in the seventh place. If a person fit to be an abbot has not come in any of these seven places, the _Deoruid De_ shall take it in the eighth place. If a person fit to be an abbot has not arisen of the tribe of the saint, or of the land, or of the monks together, and the _Annoit_, or the _Dalta_, or the _Compairche_, or the nearest _Cill_, or the _Deoruid De_, has the wealth, it must be given to the tribe of the saint, for one of them fit to be an abbot goes for nothing. The abbacy goes from them.’[138] The untranslated terms in these passages are used to designate the different churches which belonged to the same monastic group. The _Annoit_ is the parent church or monastery which is presided over by the patron saint, or which contains his relics.[139] The _Dalta_ was a church affiliated to it.[140] The _Compairche_ was a church in the same ‘parochia.’[141] The _Cill_ was the ‘Cella,’ as distinguished from the ‘Monasterium.’[142] The _Deoruid De_, literally ‘God’s stranger or pilgrim,’ was, as we shall afterwards see, the anchorite or solitary who lived secluded from his brethren in a stone cell.[143] The _Cell Manach_, or ‘Cella Monachorum,’ is thus explained. ‘That is, a cell of monks is held by the tribe of monks; and the abbacy shall always belong to the monks as long as shall be a person of them fit to be an abbot; and whenever this is not the case, it is similar to that before mentioned of the tribe of the land, binding the tribe of the saint by a guarantee to the tribe of the land, upon the _Annoit_.’[144] [Sidenote: The right of the church from the tribe.]