Lage 
a Cornifh king, married La Bel Ifod, the monarch of Ireland's 
* daughter. Conftantine, another king, became a monk in the 
abbey of Ratheny in Weftmeath. Edwal ap Meiric, Iago ap 
Edwal, and Conal ap Iago, Welch princes, were efpoufed in 
Treland. ‘ The people of Cornwall,” fays Camden, “ have always 
“ borne fuch veneration for Irifh faints, who retired there, that 
* almoft all their towns have been confecrated to their me- 
© mory.” 
St. Parricx is born in + Taburnia in Cornwall, his mother — 
is Conchefla, a French woman of Tours. Others make him a 
native of Airmuirc, or Armorica. From this region he and his 
fifter Lupita are carried away by Irifh pirates. On his return 
from Rome he preaches in Cornwall; and { Fingar and other 
Jrifh faints travel to Armorica and Cornwall. In ag council held 
by St. Patrick, all the unconverted Irifh are baptifed, and fo 
violent a religious paroxifm feizes them, that thirty thoufand, 
divided into three bodies, begin a pilgrimage with the {aint’s 
benediction to Rome and Jerufalem, and other parts of Europe, 
Afia and Africa. Here is a palpable forgery, fimilar to one men- 
tioned by Mr. Warton, calculated to countenance the crufades, 
and determines the date of this ition to the twelfth century. 
The learned Jefuit, Bollandus, from a judicious and critical exa- 
mination of our legends, (well worth perufal) pronounces their 
fabrication to be { about the twelfth century. 
(D2) Our 
* Hanmer’s Chronicle, p. 9. ¢ Uffer. Primord. 'p. 819. 
£ Uffer. fupra. § Uffer. p. 952. 
-q Vix ullas enim Sanctorum Hibernicorum vitas habemus in manibus, quas poffumus credere 
fexcentis annis vetultiores efle. At. Sane. ad 16 Mart. p. 581, 
