_Ib._—Succession of Armagh bishops. See the four lists in Todd, _St. Patrick_, p. 174 _sqq._ All these lists interpolate Sechnall, and three of them the fictitious Sen Patraic, between Patrick and Benignus. But the breviarium in the Book of Leinster (f. 12, vᵒ A; see my paper in _E.H.R._, October 1902) recognises that Iarlathus (the successor of Benignus) was the third bishop. I cannot, however, consider it certain that Benignus succeeded Patrick before his death in 461, because the ten years which the lists assign to Benignus may have been based on the Sen Patraic interpolation, “Sen Patraic” being supposed to have died in 457, and ten years (467-457) being thus obtained for Benignus. P. 207.—Day of St. Patrick’s death. It is recorded in the Calendar of Luxeuil (Martene et Durand, _Thesaurus Novus Anecdotorum_, iii. c. 1592 (1717); Stokes, _Tripartite Life_, ii. 493). _Ib._—Two distinct sets of _petitiones_ granted to Patrick are recorded, one in Muirchu, the other in the _Lib. Arm._ at the end of Tírechán’s Memoir. (1) Of the four petitions mentioned by Muirchu as granted by the angel before Patrick’s death, two have obvious motives: one (_a_) is of Ulidian origin, and the other (_b_) is in the interest of Armagh (see above, p. 207). The other two are: (_c_) that whoever sings the hymn concerning St. Patrick (Sechnall’s hymn) on the day of his death shall be saved; and (_d_) that Patrick shall himself judge all the Irish on the day of judgment. One wonders what Patrick would have thought of such petitions, especially of the latter. It seems clear that (_c_) and (_d_) were first invented, and had become current before (_a_) and (_b_) were added.[355] (2) The other set consists of three (_tres petitiones ut nobis traditae sunt Hibernensibus_, p. 331, Rolls ed.), and the _Vita Tertia_ (c. 85) connects them with the sojourn for prayer on Mount Crochan. They are (_a_) that none of the Irish who repents, even on his death-bed, shall be shut up in hell; (_b_) that barbarous peoples shall not rule the Irish for ever; (_c_) that seven years before the last day Ireland shall be overwhelmed by the sea, and none of the Irish survive. These petitions are given in the _Historia Brittonum_, and must have been current in the eighth century.[356] The point of the second petition is not clear. Possibly it refers to invasions from Britain. We may conjecture that the stories of the petitions grew out of an early legend that, through their saint’s intercession, the men of Ireland were to have a privileged position at the Last Judgment.