O'Carroll, then, was an ardent supporter of Malachy. Is it likely that after his long struggle to secure the Chair of Patrick, and when he was in actual possession of it, Malachy should voluntarily surrender his claim to Niall at the very moment when the new king of Oriel had come to his aid? Yet, unless we are prepared to place his resignation before June 1136, that is the assumption we must make if we adhere to the statements of _A.F.M._ 5. There are other documents of high authority which must be taken into account: the contemporary record of the succession of coarbs of Patrick in the Book of Leinster, and the copy of a similar record in the Yellow Book of Lecan. The former of these seems to have been written by a partizan of Malachy, since it ignores Murtough. The latter assigns to that abbot a rule of three years, in agreement with St. Bernard (§§ 20, 21). But neither of them so much as mentions Niall; and both make Gelasius the successor of Malachy. Thus they contradict _A.F.M._ and corroborate the narrative of St. Bernard. See _R.I.A._ xxxv. 355 f. FOOTNOTES: [1201] See Kuno Meyer's Facsimile edition, p. 146, e. The genealogy there begins with Amalgaid, not with Cellach. APPENDIX. The Portion of § 41 of the Life omitted in Translation. Alia quaedam ibidem _pernoctabat in oratione_,[1202] quam forte reperiens solam homo barbarus, accensus libidine et sui minime compos, irruit rabiosus in eam. Conuersa illa et tremefacta, suspiciens aduertit hominem plenum diabolico spiritu. "Heu," inquit, "miser, quid agis? Considera ubi es, reuerere haec sancta, defer Deo, defer seruo eius Malachiæ, parce et tibi ipsi." Non destitit ille, furiis agitatus iniquis.[1203] Et ecce (quod horribile dictu est) uenenatum et tumidum animal quod bufonem uocant uisum est reptans exire de inter femora mulieris. Quid plura? Terrefactus resiliit homo, et datis saltibus festinus oratorio exsilit. Ille confusus abscessit, et illa intacta remansit, magno quidem et Dei miraculo et merito Malachiae. Et pulchre operi foedo et abominando foedum interuenit et abominabile monstrum. Non prorsus aliter decuit bestialem extingui libidinem quam per frigidissimum uermem, nec aliter temerarium frenari ausum frustrari conatum quam per uilem inutilemque bestiolam. FOOTNOTES: [1202] Luke vi. 12. [1203] In hexameter rhythm. Cp. Virg., _Aen._ iii. 331; Ov., _Art. Am._ ii. 27. INDEX Abélard, 101 Acoemetae, 30 Adeline, 69 Age for ordination, 15 f. Agnew, Sir Andrew, 78 Aidan, St., liv Ailech, 40 Aleth, mother of St. Bernard, 7, 71 Alexander I., King of Scots, 76 Alps, 72 passes of, when closed, 142 Alternative sees, xlvii, 19 Amalgaid, coarb of Patrick, 164, 165 Anacletus II., anti-pope, 72 Anastasius, St., monastery of, at Rome, 118 _Anmchara_, 161 Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, xv, xxii, xxiv, xxvi, xxxvi, 47, 162 letters of, xxiv, xxix, xlvi, 47 Antiphonary of Armagh, 170 ---- of Bangor, 28 Antrim, 88 Applecross, 29 Arch-priests, xxvii