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both denominated by the Romans, British isles,) and so Baronius* 

 construes the passage. And though Porphyry will have it, that neither 

 Britain nor the Scottish nations were acquainted with Moses or the 

 Prophets, -f- yet, without relying on the account|. that Conal Carney, 

 an Irishman, witnessed the crucifixion of our Saviour at Jerusalem, 

 and announced not only the event, but the Gospel itself, with such 

 fidelity, that the King of Ulster believed in Christ, and many of the 

 Irish went off to Rome to be baptized ; without availing ourselves of 

 this tradition, which Sullivan§ and Richardson detail, but which we be- 

 lieve none of the ancient native annalists record, we find Eusebius more 

 than confirming Tertullian; for he asserts that some of the Apostles 

 had proceeded beyond the ocean to the islands called British, (" vKsp 

 Tov QiKEavov TrapeXOeiv etti, rag KaXovfiEPag^psrrapiKas vri(TOV£'"\\) in 

 which he is followed by Nicephorus, who in his account** of the dis- 

 persion of the Apostles says, that one chose Egypt and Libya, while 

 another w as appointed for the remote islands of the ocean, and for the 

 British isles. Vincentius of Beaumais particularises Saint James the 

 son of Zebedee, as having preached in Ireland, and selected seven 

 disciples there, with whom he went to Jerusalem, where he suf- 

 fered martyrdom,-f -f- to which Julian of Toledo, in his Chronicle 



• Tom. 6. p. 537. 



f " Neque Britannia fertilis provincia Tyrannorum, nee Scoticae gentes omnesque acl 

 oceanum per circuitum barbarae nationes Moysen Proplietasque cognoverant." — St. Hieron. 

 Epist. ad Ctesiphon. contra Pelag. 



+ Richardson, Praelect. Eccl. v. 2. c. 27. § Histor. Hib. 



II Dem. Evang. lib. 3. 



** " AiyvjrTty icxi A<«t/i;» «AA<i; iXay^tcti, rtii Je c<r^«Toi{ rev Clmayiu kx.i t«(5 Bjerrayi- 

 xccif tr.roii iipia-TXTO exEjo?." — Hist. Eccl. b. 2. C. 34. 



•ff " Nutu Dei Jacobus Hibernia2 oris appulsus verbum Dei pra;dicavit intrepidus, ubi 

 septem discipulos elegisse fertur. Cumque dies immineret supremus, Hierosolymam cum iis 

 perrexit, ibique martyrium subiit." — Spec. Hist. lib. 8. c. 57. 



