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* multae uisiones ' in Britain, and the voice from the wood of Fochlut. 

 See note on p. 248, 1. 25. 



P. 242, 1. 17. Uictoriciis. — Prof. Bury remarks (I.e.) : — "It is cer- 

 tain that long before he [Muirchu] wrote, the human Yictoricns of the 

 Confession had been glorified by popular imagination into the guardian 

 angel Yictoricus or Victor, who watched over Patrick, and took a 

 special interest in Ireland." In Muirchu (B), cap. 1, we read : " Post 

 frequentias angelici Uictorici a Deo ad ilium missi." Again, cap. 6 — 

 " Ille antiquus ualde fidelis Uictoricus nomine, qui omnia (B) sibi in 

 Hibernica seruitute possito antequam essent dixerat, eum crebris 

 uissionibus uissitauit." (A). Again, Lib. ii. (A), cap. 3 : Uictor erat 

 anguelus qui Pat. saepe uissitare solebat. 



P. 242, 1. 20. Uocem. — Muirchu (A), cap. 6, gives the words as 

 "Uocant te filii et filiae siluae Poclitae." AVe read in Ti'rechan, 

 fol. 11, r°, a, Filiorum clamantium clamore magno uoces audiuit 

 in utero matrum suarum dicentium, Ueni sancte Patrici, saluos nos 

 facere." Similarly the thii^d autiphon appended to the Hymn of 

 St. Sechnall :— 



" Hibemenses omnes clamant ad te pueri 

 Ueni sancte Patrici saluos nos facere." 



According to Vita iii. 20 (Colgan's ed.), the words were, hoch, aillilo, 

 fortaich, explained by Colgan thus — " Heu, accede hue, fer auxilium." 

 They really are a corruption of ochaillih Fochla (Bury, Trans. R.l.A, 

 xxxii., sec. c, p. 209) : cf. Yit. iv. 70, vi. 21. Muirchu (A), cap. 6, 

 places this incident in Gaul — a plain contradiction to the Confession. 

 Prof. Bury {Guardiayi, i^ov. 27, 1901) suggests that both Muirchu and 

 the Hymn of St. Piacc (1. 16) followed in this and other matters early 

 Acta of St. Patrick. 



P. 242, 1. 21. Focluti. — Xot to mention the corruptions of the other 

 Mss. of the Confession, this name is given in Yita ii. 21, as Foclduc ; in 

 Yita iv. 25, as FochJuig ; and in Yit. Trip., p. 32, as o chaillid FocJdad. 

 TJssher's note {Brit, Fccles. Ant,, p. 832) is as follows : — " Est autem 

 nominatus ille locus apud Maionenses in Connacia ; Tirecliano Sylva 

 Fochloth vel Fochlitki, Piecho Slebthiensi Ciaille FocJdad dictus." 

 This wood included the townlands of Crosspatrick and Donaghmore in 

 the parish of Killala, in the barony of Tirawley, County Mayo. 

 (O'Donovan, Genealogies, &,-c., of Hy-Fiachrach, Dublin, 1844, p. 463, 

 note.) 



P. 243, 1. 2. Fxpertus. — This word occurs three times within a few 

 lines. It has been altered to expergefactus in the later mss. in §§ 23, 



