44 Mr. Peteie on the History and Antiquities of Tara Hill. 



" The 8th is, ' Ria bcao piacha p^PS — Let the extent of prosecution be proportioned to the 

 degree of anger.' This treats of murder and manslaughter ; the different legal names annexed to 

 each degree of guilt, in respect to both ; and the eric» to be paid for them. 



" The 9th is intitled, ' Qmeic ae pepep ceno pij,' &c. It treats of seven degrees of eric*, 

 and seven degrees of punishment for crimes, &c. 



"The 10th begins, ' Qmeic apa pep ep pollup,' &c The 11th, ' Qmic apa peip ep 



peineachc,' &c.— The 12th, ' Qmeic ap Cinpluaj pop aen pep,' &c. — The 13th, 'Qjup cinaenpip 

 pop j'luaj,' &c. — The 14th begins, ' Qmeic apniup p. cip neopoo t oeop .p.' &c. — The 15th, 

 ' Qmeic apncinpij popchuaich,' &c. — The 16th, ' Qmic apapeip ep peppechca,' &c. — The 17th, 

 < Qmic apapeichc aenpep imam,' &c. The 18th, < Qmic apapepip piachu.' — The 19th, ' Qmic 

 apapeipep pep ippen,' &c. — The 20th, ' Qmic op blai oilpi,' &c. — The 21st, ' 6lai moja muj- 



paine,' &c 2i2d, ' 6lai echaenach,' &c. — 23d, ' 6lai echaenach.' — 24th, ' 6lai opomDeoin,' 



&c. — 25th, ' 6lai conconjal,' &c. — 26th, ' 6lai Opuich Dibpucun, i. e. Laws concerning the expul- 

 sion of Druids.' — 27th, ' 6lai rriep cuipmcecb.' — 28th, ' 6lai mein mioclaip.' — 29th, ' 6lai con 

 conj,' Sec, — 30th, '6lai echuipimupchup apopc a pope,' &c. — 31st, '6Lai Ciaglilinao,' &c. — 32d, 

 ' 6lai pep cacha,' &c. — 33d, ' 6lai Supruaich.' — 34th, ' 6lai cpann cucaim,' &c. — 35th, ' 6lai 

 nuchlechnup achqiop ooliap,' &c. — 36th, ' 6lai Supen Snippe,' &c. — 37th, ' 6lai capb n 



peche Dapmna,' &c 38th, < 6lai paebup comlenj.' — 39th, ' 6lai ounaoal.' — 40th, ' 6Lai mucc 



opcel,' &c. — 41st, ' 6lai Ciachpoic lopj poll -i locc,' &c ' 42d, ' 6lai noi impom.' — 43d, 



' 6lai Ciachpoice uppcup paichce,' &c. — 44th, ' 6lai cecepij culcompuc,' &c. — 4.5th, ' 6lai 

 pobcubao,' &c. — 46th, '6lai cene celluch,' &c. — 47th, ' 6lni Cappac Oenucb, &c. — 48th, ' 6lai 



Caipe combpuch,' &c. — 49th, ' 6lai-Damh oamhjal,' &c 50th, ' 6lai cuicbech pliab,' &c. 



51st, '6lai TTloja biail,' &c. — 52d, ' 6lai Cumul lecc' — 53d, ' 6lai lapacbr oipoichio caip- 



ipiD ojplan,' &c 54tb, ' 6lai ap mupgal,' &c — 55th, ' 6lai muilenn bleich,' &c. — 56th, < 6lai 



clepamnuij cleip.' — 57th, ' 6lai echa ichlaino,' &c — 58th, ' 6lai lapunn aiplecb,' &c. — 59th, 

 ' 6lai ecap gaipe imjuin.' — 60th, ' 6lai boncacha ban,' &c. — 61st, '6lai cuaille aipbe.' — 62d, 

 ' 6lai oeilge oae,' &c. — 63d, ' 6lai Cuach qiejlia.' 



" That these Brehon Laws bear indisputable marks of original rudeness and simphcity, it is 

 needless to say. Bede seems to advert to them where he says that the Irish permitted the Picts to 

 intermarry with Irish women, provided the inheritance should pass to the descendants of these 

 marriages in the female line,* which was contrary to the Laws of the Irish themselves, who never 

 permitted inheritance except to the male hue, and when that was extinct, to the senior male of the 

 same name and next a-kin to the deceased. But whether Bede adverts in this passage to written 

 or unwritten Laws, certain it is that the written Laws of Ireland are referred to by the ^nte-Danish 

 Poets of that Country, and by Cenfaelad in the 7th century ; as well as by Probus, in the 10th ; 

 by Tigernach, in the 11th; and by the Magnates Hiberniee, in the 14th. — Placed in the extremity 

 of Europe, secluded from the rest of the world, unconquered, unmixed, and never affected by the 

 concussions of the fall of the Roman Empire, the Irish must have possessed primeval institutions, 

 which this MS. is the best calculated to unfold." 



• "Bede, 1.1, e. 1." 



