Every race in turn that entered Ireland drank in the spirit of the soil: all became citizens of the one land. Even that gift of “English invention” and “British extraction,” the Pale Parliament, was by mere human nature and necessity stirred to loyalty for “the land of Ireland.” “More conveniently,” so they urged in a statute of 1460, “a proper coin distinct from the coin of the realm of England was to be had therein.” And the Anglo-Norman colonists decreed that of the coins they ordered one should be called an “_Irelands_,” with that name engraven on it, and the other a “_Patrick_,” with the name and cross of the national Irish saint. This persistence of the name of Ireland with its national pride, and its perpetual recalling of a distinct people, was displeasing to Englishmen in the height of their “godly conquest.” If the name was extinguished the fact might be more easily denied. They pleaded, as we learn in the Carew Papers (I. 251-2), for its disappearance, in the true spirit of modern Unionism. When Paul IV. gave to Philip and Mary the title of King and Queen of Ireland: “Men of judgment, ... thought it a vanity, not seeing what profit, either of authority or honour, it might bring to a King to have many titles in the country which he possesseth, considering that the Most Christian King is more honoured by the only title of King of France, than if his state were divided into as many kingly titles as he hath provinces.... But it seemed hard to induce England to quit that which two kings had used, and the Queen, not thinking much of it, had continued.” There was indeed a power in nature far older than the habit of two English kings; and in spite of the Unionist grumblings the ancient name survived, and the ancient fact. Cardinal Pole was appointed legate to “the realms of England and Ireland.” Our ambassadors and consuls still carry with them abroad the significant title “of Great Britain and Ireland”; and we may read in a Russian newspaper concerned with the East, of the “policy of Great Britain and Ireland in Afghanistan.”