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tate Sylvestri Geraldi Cambrensis,” and commencing, ‘* Preter 
Hereticos tres.” Cap. xix. is headed: ‘ Fictitium aut surrep- 
titium fuisse Diploma Adriani,” &c. The last, or chapter 
xxvi., commences, ** Audisti Lector Cambrensem,” &c.* | 
At the end of the volume will be found a detached folio 
tract, entitled, upon the cover, 
*« Apologia pro Sanctis Scotiz, sed Infirma videtur saltem si 
conferatur 
cum Vindiciis P. Step. Viti pro Scotia an 
tiqua Seu Hibernia.” 
The text of this is preceded by the following heading : 
** Apologia pro gente Scotica hodierna contra Hibernos ;” and 
commences, ‘* Dedimus in Lucem aliquando,” &c. This also 
formed a part of the Jesuit Collection, and contains twenty 
folios written upon both sides ; and it is accompanied by a few 
leaves of detached Irish MS. upon quarto paper, and very 
badly written, and of no importance. 
The contents of this volume, that is to say, the part fas- 
tened within the binding, amount in all to about 1000 closely 
written pages, and it was evidently a copy, made perhaps for 
the author, by four, or, at all events, three different scribes. As 
for its contents as a valuable historical document, the writer 
has merely to mention that he has never seen a work upon 
Ireland, from which information appears to have been drawn 
from so many or such high authorities: one need only look at 
a single page of it, when he will at once perceive the immense 
amount of learning with which the author was gifted, and the 
facility of arrangement with which he has used it.f 
- * Dr. Todd has just called my attention to a manuscript fragment in the 
Latin language, forming part of the Ussher Collection, in the Library of 
Trinity College, Dublin (E. 3. 19). Upon inspection, we have discovered 
that it is a part of this work of-Stephen White, which is above described. 
+ Since the above was written, Mr. Charles P. Mac Donnell, M. R. 1. A., 
has been kind enough to place in my hands the Rev. Dr. Oliver's “ Collec- 
