Let us then enquire what credence we should give to those documents he professes to quote _verbatim_. The two which naturally occur to one for comparison with “Laudabiliter,” are the letter of Dermot to “Strongbow” summoning him to Ireland,[378] and the “privilegium” of Alexander III. confirming that of Adrian.[379] The former begins with a normal address, and then--breaks at once into a quotation from Ovid![380] This gives us a clear issue. Does Miss Norgate believe, or does she not, that a warrior (and a savage) summoning a warrior, in the days of Henry II., would parade his classical erudition by dragging in tags from Ovid? And if she does not, how can she ask us to accept as genuine a document because it is given by Giraldus. As to the other test document, the “privilegium” of Alexander III., Miss Norgate is curiously shy of touching it; I can only find an incidental allusion to “the letter whereby Alexander III. is said to have confirmed the favour granted by his predecessor to Henry,” and even this mention of it is merely introduced to protest against arguments “which are only appropriate to” that letter being used as fatal to the authenticity of “Laudabiliter” also.[381] Indeed, by writing as she does of “the silence of Alexander III.” as to Adrian’s letter,[382] she implies that the document given by Giraldus as his is an absolute imposture; and she uses, we shall find, in another place, an argument directly fatal to the authenticity of its contents.[383] And yet Giraldus sets forth these two “privilegia” together as jointly constituting the title to Ireland derived by Henry from Rome. The two must stand or fall together; if Gerald was capable of composing the one, he was certainly capable of composing the other. * * * * * Having now shown that the fact of a document being found in the pages of Giraldus Cambrensis is no proof of its authenticity, I turn to the first of the two points that I hope to establish. The publication, in Ireland, of “the Bull Laudabiliter” is thus dealt with by Miss Norgate: It is acknowledged on all hands that there is no sign of any attempt on Henry’s part to publish the letter in Ireland ... before 1175. In that year Gerald states that the letter was read before a synod of bishops at Waterford (Opp. v. 315–6). This statement, however, rests upon Gerald’s authority alone; beyond this there is no direct evidence that the letter was ever formally published in Ireland at all.[384]