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death was inflicted on perpetrators of that horrid offence. That the 
murderer was deprived of all his rights and privileges is evident 
from the laws still existing. In a tract, entitled “ Pleadings in 
favour of senior succession to the sovereignty, according to law,” 
published by the late General Vallancey, * we find the following :— 
«ec 
Cuis ele chuireas B. 6 thighearnas, .i. B. do bheth fionghalach, 
i. fuil a fhine fén do dortadh dé. Mar ader dergfhine i. an fine 
finghalach. An finghalach umurro berid fine a diobhadhsidhe 
& ni bherid a chion, & ni bhereannsomh diobhadh na fine & 
beridh a chion. Aseadh a chiallsin. .i. ge be neach dheargus a 
lamh ar a fhine fein ag dortadh a fola gurob fear fionghaile mur 
sine, & nach coir a cor i ttighearnus. Agus fos ata do reir 
dlighidh nach ttéd a chion ara fhine (mur adertha cion comho- 
guis &c.) & go tted a edhracht a laimh a fhine ara shon sin. 
Gidheadh ma do ghéana an fionghalach peannait do Dhia & eric 
do dhuine ar son a mhighniomha do gebh a chuid ronna do 
edhreacht a athair & a sheanathair fén, & ni fhaghann cuid don 
fhearann edhreachta coitchinne, bhios ag an fhine uile. Agas 
ader dligheadh, gw rataigheas & gui edireas & gu tuarasdal & 
goid & etheach & feall & fionghal & diinetaidhe go tteasdan a 
lainenechlan 6 dhuine fa gach énni diobhsin, & fechtar ma taid 
sin no eanchor diobh ar B. go tteasda a laineneachlan uadha, & 
ar na hadhbharaibh reamraite uili, gur ‘eagcur flaitheas ris & 
gurob do A. dleagar a thabhairt.”—“ Another cause excludes B. 
from the sovereignty, 7, e. B. being a murderer, 7. e. the blood of 
his own tribe has been shed by him. As it is said of a Deirgfine, 
1. e.a tribe of murder, For the murderer, moreover, the tribe 
Collect. de. Reb. vol. I. page 407. The translation, for reasons obvious to the Irish Scholar, 
differs in some things from that given by the General. 
