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derived from such a nomination, and as they always disdained to 

 attribute their conversion to the Irish, but rather, as the truth was, to 

 the Anglo-Saxons, they naturally looked in this crisis to the English 

 Primate for the consecration of their bishops. The earliest instance of 

 this foreign appeal occurred in 1074, when the inhabitants of Dublin, 

 encouraged by the influence of Godred, their Danish king, led the way 

 to external nomination; and in their letter to Lanfranc, Archbishop of 

 Canterbury,* acquainted him that they had chosen a bishop of the 

 name of Patrick, long known to them, and by birth, morals, disci- 

 pline, doctrine, scriptural knowledge, and theological learning, well 

 qualified for the duty, and entreated him (Lanfranc) to ordain him a 

 bishop for them with all reasonable despatch. -f Accordingly this 

 bishop elect, was consecrated by Lanfranc in Saint Paul's Church, 

 as was Donatus, who succeeded him about A. D. 1075.+ In 1095 

 Samuel, the nephew of Donatus, was by like authority appointed to 

 succeed his uncle in the see of Dublin. Eadmer, the friend and his- 

 torian of Archbishop Anselm, records the circumstance as below,§ and 

 the reader will perceive with a\ hat policy he assumes the words "juxta 

 morem antiquum^ 



In 1097 the same circumstance threw the nomination of a bishop 



* Sylloge, p. 48. 



t " Propterea elegimus Presbyterum nomine Patricium, nobis sufficientissime cognilum, 

 natalibus et moribus nobilem, Apostolica et ecclesiastica disciplina imbutum, fide Catholicum, 

 in scripturarum sensibus cautum, in dogmatibus ecclesiasticis exercitum, quem nobis quanto- 

 cius petimus ordinari Episcopum, &c." 



X Holinshed's Chronicles, p. 31. 



§ " Venit ad Anselmum Cantuariensem Archiepiscopum quidam monachus cacnobii S. 

 Albani, natione Hibernensis nomine Samuel. Hie, defuncto bonas memoriae Donato, Dubliniae 

 civitatis Episcopo, a rege Hiberniae Muriertach O'Brien nomine, necnon a clero et populo in 

 Episcopatum illius civitatis electus est, atque ad Anselmum juxta morem antiquum sacrandus 

 cum communi decreto directus, &c."— Hist. Nov. p. 34. 



