“confirmantes ei et heredibus “summus pontifex auctoritate suis regnum Hiberniæ, et apostolica confirmavit ei et testimonium perhibentes ipsos heredibus suis regnum illud, eum et heredes suos sibi in et eos imperpetuum reges reges et dominos constituisse constituit” (p. 28). imperpetuum” (p. 26). [404] “Et quia Romana ecclesia ... aliud jus habet in Insula quam in terra magna et continua, nos ... magnificentiam tuam rogamus et solicite commonemus ut in præscripta terra jura beati Petri nobis studeas sollicite conservare,” etc., etc. [405] E. H. R., viii. 45. [406] Ibid. p. 50. [407] In the text of ‘De principis instructione,’ as is pretty generally known, the words “sicut a quibusdam asseritur aut confingitur, ab aliis autem unquam impetratum fuisse negatur,” precede this letter. They look, Mr. Dimock thought, like a marginal note which has found its way into the text. I confess that to me also that is what they suggest. [408] According to Giraldus, the sole authority for its existence. [409] The two letters hang together absolutely, it will be seen, in every way. [410] Dublin Review, _ut supra_, p. 90. [411] E. H. R., viii. 48. [412] E. H. R., viii. 23. [413] Dublin Review, _ut supra_, pp. 97–103. [414] Ibid., 3rd Series, vol. xi., pp. 328–339. [415] E. H. R., viii. 34. [416] _Vide supra_, p. 184. [417] Gesta, i. 28. [418] Irish Ecclesiastical Record, p. 61. [419] Monumenta, p. 151. [420] Rinuccini’s Embassy in Ireland (Hutton), pp. xxviii.-xxix. For the essential passage the Italian runs: “stimando molto a proposito il soggettare a se l’Isola d’Irlanda, ricorse ad Adriano, e da quel pontefice, che Inglese era, ottene con mano liberale quanto bramava. Le zelo che Arrigo dimostrò di voler convertire alla Fede tutta l’Irlanda, piegò l’animo di Adriano a concedergli il dominio di essa” (Aiazzi’s Nunziatura, p. xxxvi.). [421] Const. Hist., i. 496. [422] Norgate’s ‘England under the Angevin Kings,’ ii. 276. [423] Gesta [Ed. Stubbs], ii. 80–83. [424] Ed. Stubbs, iii. 9–12. [425] Hoveden, iii. xiv. (1870). [426] Ibid. iii. 9 note. [427] Chron. Maj., ii. 348 note. [428] Hist. Ang., iii. 209 note. [429] Historia Anglorum, iii. 209. [430] Chronica Majora, iii. 338 marginal note. [431] Liber Rubeus, p. 759. [432] See my paper, below, on “the Marshalship of England.” [433] Red Book of the Exchequer, p. xviii. Compare my ‘Studies on the Red Book of the Exchequer,’ p. 49. [434] Rolls Series, ii. 339 note. [435] Ibid. ‘Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen,’ etc., iii. 408 note. [436] Dictionary of National Biography. [437] Ibid. [438] Register of St. Osmund, i. 262; and Epistolæ Cantuarienses, p. 327. [439] The date given by Dr. Stubbs. [440] This from Hoveden.