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manship, and the inscriptions on it shew that it was made at 

 the expense of Donald Mac Loughlin, King of Ireland, for 

 Donald [Mac Arnalgaid,] Primate of Armagh, at the close of 

 the eleventh century. The name of the hereditary keeper of the 

 bell is also inscribed on the cover, and it is remarkable that 

 it was in the possession of one family from the period in 

 which the case was made until it passed into Mr. M'Clean's 

 hands. The names of the artists who made the case are 

 also given, from which it is proved to have been of Irish 

 manufacture. 



All these bells are of a quadrangular form, and vary in 

 height from four to fifteen inches ; and that they are of the 

 antiquity assigned them by popular tradition the author 

 proves by a chain of historical notices, collected from the 

 Irish annals and other records. 



DONATIONS. 



Registrum Vulgariter nuncupatum, " The Record of 

 Caernarvon ;" e codice MS. Harleiano 696. descriptum. 



Printed by command of Her Majesty, under the direction of 



the Commissioners on the Public Records. Presented by 



the Commissioners. 



Rotuli Chartarum in Turri Londinensi. Accurante 



Thoma Duffus Hardy, S. S. A. e Soc. Int. Tempi. Lond. 



Vol. 1, pars 1. Ab anno MC. XCIX. ad annum MC. CXVI. 



Printed by command of his Majesty, King William IV., under 



the direction of the Commissioners on the Public Records. 



Presented by the Commissioners. 



General Report of the King in Council, from the 



Honorable Board of Commissioners on the Public Records, 



appointed by His Majesty King William IV., by a Commission 

 dated the VZth of March, in the first year of his reign ; with 



an Appendix and Index. Printed by command of His Majesty 



