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Hy and other Irish monasteries,* where bishops were often 
subject to presbyters, and abbatial rank was the grand crite- 
rion of jurisdiction. In the present case, the existence of one 
or two bishops among the early abbots of Honau led some 
writers to suppose that this church was formerly diocesan ; 
but Mabillon, who instances the parallel case of Laubes, in the 
diocese of Cambray, justly observes :—‘ Somniantur proinde 
qui episcopalem Honaugie sedem eo tempore institutam pu- 
tant.’T 
‘¢ Jodoc Coccius enumerates the abbots of Honau in this 
order :{—1. Benedict, or Tubanus; 2. Dubanus; 3. Thomas; 
4. Stephanus; 5. Beatus. In the ninth century the monas- 
tery adopted the order of Secular Canons, when Charles the 
Gross confirmed its possessions. In a subsequent age the 
College of Canons was transferred to Strasbourg, to the older 
Church of St. Peter.’’§ 
* See the case of Hy examined in detail in the Life of St. Columba, 
lately published by the Irish Archeological and Celtic Society, p. 340. 
+ Annales Ord. S. Bened., tom. ii. p. 59. 
t Dagobert, p. 133. § Mabillon, ibid., p. 60. 
