424 Proceedingii of the Royal Irish Academy. 



to seek another solution. This was not Cardinal Campeggio's first 

 visit to England.^ He came here and spent a year, in 1518 and 

 1519, striving to induce Henn* Till, to join the Pope and the 

 other Christian princes of Europe in a crusade against the Turks, 

 in defence of Hungary, giving him a conditional promise, if he did 

 so, of the title, subsequently bestowed for quite a different reason, 

 of " Defender of the Faith." He also utilized his spare time, in con- 

 junction with "Wolsey, in striving to introduce extensive disciplinary 

 reforms amongst the English clergy ; and a reference to this Trdpepyov 

 on Campeggio's part we find in the words of the Indulgence, which 

 speaks "of the great confluence of Cristen people unto the most 

 reverent fathers in God, Cardinals "Wolsey and Campeggio." But 

 then you may say, what about the date of the Prayer Book, 1524? 

 Does not that prove that the Indulgence mast have been later ? My 

 solution, simply, is : the Indulgence was printed and dispersed in 

 Hereford Cathedral in 1518. It lay there for some years, and then, 

 after the Psalters or Prayer Books were printed in 1524, by Pynson, 

 some clergyman, perhaps, took up a copy, and, wishing to preserve it 

 for future reference, stuck it into the front of his book, where I found 

 it. Our Indulgence has, then, this great historic interest. It is a 

 sample of the Indulgences issued by Tetzel for the rebuilding of St. 

 Peter's, which caused, just at that time, such a storm against papal 

 authority ; and, therefore, is a specimen of a document issued at least 

 fifteen years before there was any rumour of religious differences in 

 England, and, as such, occupies a unique position, so far as I know, 

 amongst the remains of the past, in Irish libraries at least. I did 

 intend to call your attention to some other documents of interest as 

 regards Dean Swift and some other topics ; but, as I think it is far 

 better to send the Academy away longing rather than loathing, I 

 propose to defer the consideration of them to some future occasion. 



The following is a complete list of the Sarum books in Marsh's 

 Library, so far as we have been enabled to identify them up to the 

 present : — 



I. Missale ad Usum Sar. Paris, F. Pvegnault, a.d. 1531. 

 Iterum, Eothomagi (Rouen), 1554. 



ir. Psalterium cum Hymnis Sar. et Ebor. Lond., R. Pynson, 1524. 

 Itenxm, Psalterium ms. Saec. xiv. 



' See Ligorius, in his "Life of Cardinal Campeggio," pp. 160-164 : Paris, 1678. 

 Ligorius was a great friend of the Campeggio family, which had produced many 

 distinguished lawyers at Bologna in the fifteenth century. 



