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Monpay, January 261TH, 1857. 
JAMES HENTHORN TODD, D.D., Presipenv, 
in the Chair. 
In the absence of the author, the President read a paper, by 
the Rey. Dr. Reeves, ‘on the Irish Abbey of Honau on the 
Rhine.” 
“It is very well known that numerous xenodochia, or 
hospitals, were founded, in the seventh and following centu- 
ries, by the Scots, in various parts of Europe for the benefit 
of their countrymen; and, although, an adverse claim was 
put in by the Scotch, about 250 years ago, it is now almost 
universally acknowledged that Ireland was the fatherland of 
the Scots. 
‘*In the year 845, the Council of Meaux™ passed a decree 
concerning the restitution of the hospitals of the Scots, which 
holy men of that race had built in the same kingdom for the 
reception of pilgrims belonging to their nation. 
‘* Such an hospital was the monastery of Honau in Lower 
Alsace, a short way north-east of Strasbourg, situate on a 
level tract at the east side of the Rhine, in a bend of that 
river, and insulated by a minor channel, which leaves and re- 
enters the main river on the southand north. The history of 
this institution is gathered from a collection of fourteen char- 
ters, which were communicated to Mabillont by John le La- 
boureur, a canon of St. Peter’s, the old, of Strasbourg,t who 
had transcribed them diligently from a vellum MS. of the 
year 1079, into which they had been carefully copied by Leo, 
a canon of Honau.§ 
* Concil. Meldens., Can. 40. (Hardouin, Concilia, tom. iv. col. 1490.) 
+ Printed in his Annales Ord. S. Benedicti, tom. ii. Append. pp. 695 b— 
700 a. 
{ The college of Honau had been transferred to this church. 
§ Annal. Ord. S. Bened., tom, ii. p. 59. 
