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Crimes, &c. a copy of which is to be found in the Library of 
Trinity College. * At this time also lived Cairbre, the son of 
Cormac, Fionn+ Mac Cubhail (Finn mac Coo-al) and Fithil, 
chief Judge of Ireland. All these are said to have delivered laws ; 
but they are at present, perhaps, not extant, with the exception of 
those of Fithil, some fragments of which are now in the Library 
of our University. 
Contemporary with Cormac Mac Art lived also Fiatach (Fee- 
a-tagh) a lawgiver, who wrote a law-tract, called Fiondsuith, a 
copy of which was in the possession of Duald Mac Firbis of 
Leacan. { 
We have seen above, p. p. 153 and 173, that in the reign of 
Laoghaire (Lay-a-rey) Monarch of Ireland A. D. 429, the ancient 
laws, records, &c. of the nation, underwent a thorough revisal by 
a committee of nine persons, appointed for that purpose. One 
of these was St. Beinin or Benignus, who for ten years filled the 
Archiepiscopal chair of Armagh, and died the 9th of November, 468. 
This eminent man, beside the share he had in the revisal of the 
Seanchas mor, is said to have been the author of the Leabhar na 
ceeart (Leavar na garth) or “ Book of Rights, § setting forth the 
rights, privileges, and revenues of the monarchs of Ireland, and 
those of the provincial kings. Copies of this book are in the Li- 
brary of Trinity College, in that of the Royal Irish Academy, and 
in private collections; but the language is apparently more modern 
than that used in the days of St. Beinin. But, be that as it may, 
the revenues of the Monarchs, provincial Kings, and petty Princes, 
* Class H. No. 54. + The Fingal of M‘Pherson’s Ossian. 
} Cambrensis Eversus, cap, 20. p. 157 et. seq. 
§ For an account of this work, see Transactions of the Iberno-Celtic Society, page 28. 
