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6.&)i<i reim iond aosa coimsi bess ismd 

 eclais imbe 7 maescai each deit eena 

 cose. Focheird deit elnibus ammai?* 

 la slenmi 7 roitbini ma dagaet ni airi 

 is fo IS deeb. alleeud awmai?* ma«ini 

 aithriged' 



§ 3. A iorbi tra Aano for lortaid na 

 mmndtire bis id choimide^jA^. ised is 

 eboir laissom di tbaba/rt donda boc-^^aib 

 ar nista leo letb doeoiset do chnincid 

 neich. acbt is dual duitsiu cena- narra- 

 bae let sentaisc de dia de . na Tohocht- 

 de ebrocbaib saildi 7 di riMceaib imme 

 7 leliqwi 



loeha ere tin daglais 



§ 4. lAEfaeht maolditbruib do belair 

 manipad lev reim iond aosa i senchellaib 

 di« ind gebad ni do tborad ionda cUdi 

 huadaib. [SS""] ISsed asbert belair a 

 airidin. amit corpsin manibe cuid deid 

 inda gabail no inda fostud isna bord«f^. 

 arced coirpti sium olsessira ni corpat 

 torud ind erlamai. Ar is disliu he 

 diiini olsessem inddas doibsim. IS se 

 aran dobeirti dosom fadesin cid ijia insi 

 fadessijj amain aran mis cree. aran 

 mochne olsesim (.i. elair) ba he dobertar 

 duin 



§ 5. Sailm anmaiehti 7 biait fogniad 

 madin la sochnidi acbt ni madin gabta 

 som ar antan dognisom (.i. elair) 

 figild mati^i is iri ni dona salmaib 

 dognid a figild daig cudnuda na salni 



and disturb the mind of him to whom 

 it was told. If the persons in authority 

 that are in the Church where thou art 

 have not fuUvperformed their duties, and 



5 if each . . . from thee, without correct- 

 ing himself, merely send him away from 

 thy confession gently and kindly ; if 

 they do anything [that they have been 

 told] thereupon, — it is well. If they 

 do not repent, it is best to dismiss them 

 merely. 



§ 3. "^Vhaterer remains over after the 

 monis that live with thee are satisfied, 

 this he thinks it right to give to the 



10 poor, for they have nowhere that they 

 can go to beg anything. But it is meet 

 for thee, even if thou have no old leav- 

 ings, [to feed] the poor with flitches of 

 bacon and firkins of butter and so forth. 



§ 4. Maeldithruib (of Tii- Da Glas) 



15 asked Helair (of Loch Ore) whether, 

 if the folk in the old churches had 

 not properly performed their duties, he 

 ought to accept from them any of the 

 produce of the chuich? Helair replied 



20 that he should accept it, "for it does 

 not defile thee, if thou have no share in 

 receiving them or in confirming them 

 in orders : for though they be defiled " 

 (said he), " yet they defile not the 



25 patron's fruits. For that belongs to 

 us" (said he), '• rather than to them." 

 The only bread that used to be brought 

 to himself, and into his own island, 

 was the " bread of Eos Cre." " Let it 

 be 3Iochua's bread," said he (that is, 

 Helair) "that is brought to us." 



§ 5. Psalms of prayer and the Beati 

 are used by some in the morning, but 

 he does not recite them in the morning : 



80 for when he (that is, Helair) performs 

 a morning vigil, it is with some part of 



' Eead mani aithriget 



' £ead ceni rabe let sentascide biatbad na mbocbt 



