Mr. Petrie on the History and Antiquities of Tara Hill. ill 



under consideration ; but, though they seem to shew that the writer believed 

 that Patrick never yvent to Rome, they concur with the other lives in referring 

 the date of his consecration to a period subsequent to the death of Palladius. 

 The titles of the lost chapters, as well as those relating to his mission, are here 

 given : (Fol. 20, a, i.) 



" De ortu Patricii et ejus prima captivitate. 

 De navigio ejus cum gentibus et vexatione diserti cibo sibi gentilibus divinitus delate. 

 De secunda captura quam senis decies diebus ab inimicis prsetulerat. 

 De susceptione sua a parentibus ubi agnoverunt eum. 



De eetate ejus quando iens videre sedem apostolicam voluit discere sapientiam. 

 De inventione Sancti German! in Galliis et ideo non exivit ultra. 

 De aetate ejus quando vissitavit eum anguelus ut veniret adhuc. 

 De reversione ejus de Gallis et ordinatione Palladii et mox morte ejus. 

 De ordinatione ejus ab Amathorege Episcopo, defuncto Palladio. 

 De rege gentili habeto in Temoria quando venerat Sanctus Patricius babtismum portans." 



The remaining tract is called the Book of the Angel. It relates chiefly to 

 the rights due to the See of Armagh ; and contains nothing which throws any 

 light on the subject under consideration. It is, in fact, a mere fabrication to 

 support the authority of the church of Armagh ; and indeed it is not easy to avoid 

 a suspicion that all the lives in this Book of Armagh have been written with a 

 view to serve the same purpose. 



On the whole, then, it will be seen that these are the most ancient lives of 

 the saint now extant, and the originals from which all the more amplified lives 

 published by Colgan have been derived ; and the conclusion therefore follows, 

 that the mission of a Patrick in 432 rests on authorities as early as the seventh 

 century. Still it must be confessed that these authorities are so uncertain and 

 contradictory, and, as Maccuthenius acknowledges, derived from such doubtful, 

 and even then suspected sources, that it is difficult to refrain from a suspicion 

 that this Patrick may be no other than the Palladius of the Roman authorities, 

 and that the particulars of his life may have been drawn up from materials as 

 properly belonging to the biography of the Sen- Patrick of the Irish authorities as 

 to his own. The probability of the truth of this conjecture will be increased 

 by an investigation of the authorities which treat of the time of his death and 

 place of his burial, to be next noticed. 



4. The year of his death. On this point the authorities are all at variance. 



