The question now arises as to how far we can, _prima facie_, trust the compiler of the Hibernensis as to the Patrician origin of the canons which he labels Patrician, and which are also found in the circular letter. In estimating the value of his evidence, one consideration, it seems to me, is very important. There is another set of canons (extant in more than one MS.) ascribed to Patrick, and generally referred to as _Synodus II. Patricii_.[253] Of these thirty-one canons, nine are quoted in the Hibernensis, but in no case attributed to Patrick; three others are quoted in one MS. of the later recension (B-text) of the Hibernensis, namely, in the Valicellanus (tenth century), and one of them is there ascribed to Patrick. The correspondence is shown in the following table:—[254] _Syn. II._ _Patricii._ _Hibernensis._ 2 2. 23: Sinodus Romana 3 47. 8. d: Romani 4 40. 1. c: Sinodus Romana 8 28. 14. d: Sinodus Romanorum [10 11. 1. b: Sinodus] [11 47. 20: Sinodus Romana] 14 12. 15. c: Sinodus [17 47. 20: Paterius (Patricius)] 23 35. 3: Dominus in evangelio 24 16. 4: Sinodus Romana 25 46. 35. b: Romani 30 36. 8: Sinodus The circumstance that the Hibernensis ascribes to Patricius the canons (with one exception) which it quotes from “Synodus I.,” and does not ascribe to him the canons which it quotes from “Synodus II.,” is a fact which places the two “Synods” on a different footing, and furnishes a certain _prima facie_ evidence in favour of the circular letter known as Synodus I. For the claim of Synodus II. to authenticity is invalidated by the fact that one canon (27) is in direct contradiction with a passage in Patrick’s _Confession_.[255] It will be observed that most of the quotations in the Hibernensis which correspond to canons of Synodus II. are ascribed to _Romani_ or _Sinodus Romana_. These headings are frequent in the Hibernensis, and it is important to determine what they mean. There are, I think, twelve quotations of this kind[256] which have been identified in non-Irish sources, mostly in the _Statuta ecclesiae antiqua_. There are, as shown in the above table, six quotations corresponding to canons of Irish origin included in Synodus II. There is one quotation under _Sinodus Romana_, 33. 1. e, which is found in the circular letter of the three bishops. There are twenty-two (25) quotations which cannot be controlled.[257] There seems to be no case in which a canon referred to as _Sinodus Romana_ can be discovered in the Acts of a synod held at Rome.