Mr. Peteie on the History and Antiquities of Tar a Hill. 117 



3. That Prosper ascribes the same success to the mission of Falladius that 

 the Irish do to that of Patrick. 



4. That in the various copies of the Annals of Tighearnach, known by the 

 name of the Chronicon Scotorum, and which supply the chasms in the Bodleian 

 copy of those annals, no mention is made of the mission of Palladius, but of that 

 of Patrick only. 



5. That in the different versions or copies of the Saxon Chronicle, as remarked 

 by Ussher, where the mission of Palladius is recorded, no mention is made of 

 that of Patrick, and that where that of Patrick is given that of Palladius is 

 omitted, and that the dates are the same in all, and the words the same, excepting 

 in the names, whether referring to the one or the other. 



An. ccccxxx. Hejx pay Pallatoiuj" a j-enb pjiam CelefCine \>am Papan to bobianbe 

 Scoccum fullpihc. — Cod. Cot. 



An. ccccxxx. Hej\ paj- Patjiictuj" a j*enb fpam Celej*cme chas Papan Co bobmanne 

 ScocCum fulluhc. — Cod. Petroburg. et Laud. 



6. That in the extract given in the preceding sheet from the Leahhar Breac 

 Palladius is stated to have brought with him from Rome a copy of the Gospel 

 for St. Patrick, a circumstance which would hardly be explicable if the Irish 

 Apostle succeeded him. 



7. That Sen- Patrick is stated, in the oldest authorities, to have been the 

 master or instructor of the patron of Ireland, and in the life by Probus it is 

 stated that the latter was ordained priest by a St. Senior. 



8. That Palladius, according to an ancient authority quoted by Ussher, was, 

 like Patrick, a Briton. 



9. That Patrick and Palladius, according to the lives, landed at the same 

 harbour in Wicklow, and were opposed by the same chief. 



10. That Palladius and Patrick are stated to have brought the same relics of 

 the Apostles from Rome, though, according to Maccuthenius, St. Patrick never 

 proceeded farther than Gaul. 



11. That Palladius, according to Prosper, was the instigator of the mission of 

 Germanus to Britain to root out the Pelagian heresy, while, according to the lives, 

 Patrick accompanied Germanus to Britain for the same purpose. 



12. That Palladius is said to have been unsuccessful in his mission, and that 

 he left Ireland to return to Rome; and the oldest of the lives published by 



