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tate SylvestriGerakli Cambrensis," and commencing, " Prjeter 

 Hereticos tres." Cap. xix. is headed : " Fictitium aut surrep- 

 titium fuisse Diploma Adriani," &c. The last, or chapter 

 xxvi., commences, " Audisti Lector Cambrensem," &c.* 



At the end of the volume will be found a detached folio 

 tract, entitled, upon the cover, 



" Apologia pro Sanctis Scotia, sed Infirma videtur saltern si 



conferatur 



cum Vindiciis P. Step. Viti pro Scotia an 



tiqua Seu Hibernia." 



The text of this is preceded by the following heading : 

 " Apologia pro ^ente Scoticahodierna contra Hibernos ;" and 

 commences, " Dedimus in Lucem aliquando," &c. This also 

 formed a part of the Jesuit Collection, and contains twenty 

 folios written upon both sides ; and it is accompanied by a few 

 leaves of detached Irish MS. upon quarto paper, and very 

 badly written, and of no importance. 



The contents of this volume, that is to say, the part fas- 

 tened within the binding, amount in all to about 1000 closely 

 written pages, and it was evidently a copy, made perhaps for 

 the author, by four, or, at all events, three diiferent scribes. As 

 for its contents as a valuable historical document, the writer 

 has merely to mention that he has never seen a work upon 

 Ireland, from which information appears to have been drawn 

 from so many or such high authorities: one need only look at 

 a single page of it, when he will at once perceive the immense 

 amount of learning with which the author was gifted, and the 

 facility of arrangement with which he has used it.f 



* Dr. Todd has just called my attention to a manuscript fragment in the 

 Latin language, forming part of the Ussher Collection, in the Library of 

 Trinity College, Dublin (E. 3. 19). Upon inspection, we have discovered 

 that it is a part of this work of Stephen White, which is above described. 



■f Since the above was written, Mr. Charles P. Mac Donnell, M. R. I. A., 

 has been kind enough to place in ray hands the Rev. Dr. Oliver's " Collec- 



