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VIII. The book of Cain (Cauin) or Mulcts, divided into four 
parts. The first relates to mulcts of all kinds; the second to mur- 
ders and several other crimes, with the punishments annexed ; the 
third to securities, pawns and forfeits; the fourth, witnesses and 
testimonies. ‘This work was perfected at Cashel, under the patron- 
age of Felim, son of Crimhthan (Criv-an) King of Munster. To 
this work is added, by way of Appendix, Eidgheadh, a book treat- 
ing of crimes against the laws, written by Cormac, son of Art, and 
his son Cairbre Liffeachar, both Monarchs of Ireland. 
IX. A work intituled Dula, consisting of three parts, of which 
Mr. O’°Conor. gives the following account :—“ The first treats of 
* political subjection, and the measures of obedience to our kings ; 
* of wardships, patronages and privileged places ; of the punish- 
‘ ments of offenders in the case of blood ; and of the forms wherein 
* pacts, contracts, and treaties should be reduced to writing. The 
* Monareh Cormac assisted in digesting this work.”—“ The second 
“part isa miscellaneous treatise relating partly to ecclesiastical mat- 
“ ters. lt was compiled by Comin foda, but'the time uncertain.* Ano- 
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* St. Comin foda, or Cumin fada, and the period in which he lived, are facts.as well known 
as any in Irish history. He was the son of Fiachna, King of West Munster, was born in 
592, and died, according to the annals of Tighernach, in 662. In the Felire Aenguis, or 
Festivals of the Church, written by Aengus Ceile De, in the latter end of the 8th century, 
a copy of which isin the Leabhar breac in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, we are 
told, that, while other holy men received one gift or another from the Almighty, Cumin- 
fada received that of science and wisdom. He took a very active part in the controversy re- 
specting the time for observing the Paschal Festival, in which he was one of the chief sup- 
porters of the Roman mode of computation, and greatly promoted its adoption in the southern 
parts of Ireland. It is worthy of remark, that, in his Paschal Epistle to Segienus, Abbot of 
Hy, he refers to the Cycle, which he says “ St. Patrick our Pope brought with him,” ‘ Pri- 
mum illum, quem Sanctus Particius Papa noster tulit.” And, although Doctor Ledwich must 
have been well acquainted with this fact, yet in page 62, of the 2d edition of his Antiquities, 
he mentions the silence of Cummian respecting St. Patrick, as a proof that Patrick was an 
