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were paid according to the mode and quantities prescribed by that 
document. 
In the time that Guaire (Gwoo-ary) the generous, ruled the 
Province of Conaght (A. D. 647) lived Seanchan Torpest, who is 
said to have composed some laws; but, though some copies of 
poems written by him are to be found in the book of Glendalough, 
in the Library of Trinity College, * and in the book of Leacan, 
in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, copies of his laws are 
yet to be discovered. 
In the year 678, died Cinnfaeladh (Kinfayaladh) the learned. 
Besides the Uraicepht and several poems, of which he was the 
author, he revised the Treatise on Crimes, &c. written by the 
Monarch, Cormac, and subjoined some additional matter of his 
own. This appears from the MSS. in the Library of Trinity Col- 
lege, where it is stated, that the parts written by Cormac are those 
beginning “A meic ara feser’ and the “ Blai,” and that the sub- 
sequent parts were written by Cinnfaeladh, The article in which 
this tract is contained has been misplaced by the binder in making 
up the book. The beginning of the tract is at page 409, of class 
H. 54, and continues to the end of page 412, where it breaks off 
apparently imperfect; but the continuation is to be found at page 
399, and so forward to page 408, where it ends imperfectly, not 
having Cinnfaeladh’s additions. Another copy of this tract is in 
the MS. collection of the writer of this Essay ; but he has to regret 
that his copy, though fuller than the College copy, is also imperfect. 
General Vallancey, in the latter end of the first volume of the Col- 
lectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, has given some account of this tract; 
but he has fallen into some gross blunders, which Doctor ~ Camp- 
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* Class H. No. 32. + H. 54. 
$ Strictures on the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Ireland, p. 46. 
