[243] It may be well to translate this sentence. “Church of the Scots, nay of the Romans, in order that ye may be Christians as well as Romans, it behoves that there should be chanted in your churches (_uobiscum_) at every hour of prayer the _Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison_.” Compare Mr. Jenkinson in the _Academy_, Aug. 11, 1888. [244] aeclessia A. [245] See Tírechán, p. 302. [246] The assumption that all these details are taken from the book is confirmed by the one explicit exception. The sojourn in the _insula Aralanensis_ is given on the oral authority of Bishop Ultan (302₂₄). This was evidently Ultan’s explanatory comment on the text _in insolis_, etc. [247] In a paper on Muirchu in the _Guardian_, Nov. 27, 1901. [248] It may be pointed out that the small number of the _dicta_—three, or more probably two—is in favour of their genuineness. [249] Since writing this, I observe that the same thing struck Loofs (_De ant. Brit. Scot.que eccl._ p. 50). He held the _Dicta_ to be genuine, admitting the possibility of later additions. So too B. Robert, _Étude crit. sur la vie et l’œuvre de St-Patrick_ (1883), p. 74. [250] This is also shown by the addition of _Christe eleison_, as Mr. Brightman has pointed out to me. Cp. Gregory the Great, _Ep._ ix. 12. Milan is also excluded; the Milanese only use _Kyrie_. I have had the advantage of communicating with Mr. Brightman on the subject; otherwise I should hardly have ventured to deal with it, as I have no liturgical knowledge. [251] So the missionary Boniface insists on the necessity of synods and _canonica iura_ in a letter to Pope Zacharias (Ep. 50, p. 299, ed. Duemmler in M.G.H. _Epp._ iii.). [252] Bradshaw has clearly distinguished two recensions of the collection, which he designates as the A-text and the B-text. Theodore’s _Penitential_ is the latest work quoted in the A-text, Adamnan’s _Canons_ the latest in the B-text. See Bradshaw’s letter to Wasserschleben in Wasserschleben’s edition of the Canons, p. lxx. [253] Spelman i. 59 _sq._, Haddan and Stubbs, ii. 333 _sqq._ [254] The canons which are cited in the Valicellane only are marked by square brackets. The list of correspondences in Haddan and Stubbs, ii. 333, _a_, is incomplete. [255] See Haddan and Stubbs, ii. 333, _a_. [256] 1. 8. b; 5. 2; 6. 2. b (two MSS. give _Sin. Rom._, one _Sin. Rom. siue Kartagin._, the rest _Sin. Kartagin._); 7. 3. a; 20. 3. b; 40. 13. a; 46. 35. c; 46. 38. a, b; 47. 12. b; 47. 12. c; 47. 20; 66. 19. a. There is another case of _Syn. Rom. uel Kart._ in one MS.; 9. 1. a. The quotation from Pope Symmachus, _Ep. ad Caes. ep. Arel._ c. 1, under the title _Regula canonica Romana_ in 17. 8 may stand on a different footing.