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of Waterford (Malchus) into Anselm's jurisdiction.* The decree fol- 

 lows the passage, as cited also from Eadmer. Usher has preserved 

 the letter which the people of Waterford wrote on this occasion to 

 Anselm, wherein they say that the king of Ireland, the bishops, and 

 the people, had elected a bishop of eminent, moral, and religious qua- 

 lifications, + and entreat his ordination. And in letters from Anselm, 

 as well to the before-mentioned Samuel, J as to this Malchus,§ further 

 claims to metropolitan jurisdiction are insinuated and assumed. The 

 reader will find more upon this subject in Selden's Notes on Eadmer, 

 (p. 202.) 



That we have illustrated the true spirit which dictated these elec- 

 tions, and the submission to external nomination, is further evidenced 

 by the letter from the people of Dublin to Ralph, Archbishop of Can- 

 terbury, about the year 1121, wherein they avow the jealousy they 

 had incurred from the Irish bishops by not submitting to their ordi- 

 nation. II ...•■> 



• " Rex Hiberniae Murcertachus nomine et Dofnaldus episcopus, cum cseteris episcopis et 

 quique nobiles cum clero et populo ipsius insulae miserunt nuncios ac literas ad Anselmum, 

 innotescentes ei civitatem quandam Waterfordam nomine in una suarum provinciarum esse, 

 cut ob numerosam civium multitudinem expediret episcopum institui, simulque petentes ipse 

 qiiatenus primatus quem super eos gerebat postestate, et quS. fungebatur vicis apostolica; autho- 

 ritate, sanctae Christianitati ac necessaria; plebium utilitati instituendo eis Pontificem subveniret ; 

 *«•••• elegerant autem idem ipsi in hoc officium quendam sueb gentis vinmi 

 vocabulo Malchum, eumque sacrandum cum communi decreto ad Anselmum transierunt." — 

 Hist. Nov. p. 36. 



^,, »• •••• Nobis sufficientissime cognitum, natalibus et moribus nobilem, 

 apostolici et ecclesiastic^ disciplina imbutum, fide Catholicum, prudentem, docibilem, patien- 

 tem, moribus temperatum, vita castum, sobrium, humilem, affabilem, misericordem, literatum 

 in lege Dei, instructum in scripturarum sensibus, cautum, hospitalem, modestum, 8ua3 domui 

 bene praepositum, non neophytum, habentem testimonium bonum in gradibus singulis. Hunc 

 nobis petimus a vestri patemitate ordinari pontificem."' — Sylloge, p. 64. 



X Sylloge, p. 69. § Sylloge, p. 68. 



II " Ut Gregorium nostrum electum Dei gratid ad vos mittamus, antecessorum enim magis- 



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