(Glanville) De Proprietatibus Eerum quod toto mundo in tres partes 

 diviso, viz., Asiam, Africam et Europam. 



Europa in quatuor dividatur regna : primum, viz., Eomanum ; se- 

 cundum Constantinopolitanum ; tertium ipsius regnum Hibernise, quod 

 jam translatum est in Anglicos; et quartum regnum Hispaniae ; ex quo 

 patet quod Rex Angliae et regnum suum sunt de eminentioribus et an- 

 tiquioribus regibus regnos totius Europse ; quam prserogativum regnum 

 Francise infertur (non fertur) obtineri." (See tom. v., p. 99.) 



The Council decided that England, in accordance with this view, 

 De mitiqua divisione Europm in quatuor regna, — merito debeat repre- 

 sentare et habere in concilio generali tant^e auctoritatis vocem sicut 

 qusevis alia natio." (See Von Hardt. Collect., tom. v., p. 101.) 



Another document, to the like effect, is likewise given by Yon Hardt, 

 entitled Advisamente ex codice MS. recensione Rohert Wing field de 

 commoda divisione orhis Christiani in concilhmi 2dum Const atitiniensis 

 quatuor terr(B plaga.^^ (Vide Yon Hardt. Collect., tom. v., p. 102.) Of 

 this singular controversy I have elsewhere treated extensively. 



The importance attached to the claim set up in the Council of Con- 

 stance, by the Spaniards, in 1417, for the apostleship of St. James, we 

 see plainly upwards of a century later exhibited in the forgery of 

 Father Higuera, for the establishment ''of that great corner stone of 

 Spanish ecclesiastical history, the coming of St. James the Apostle into 

 Spain." 



But we need not travel out of our own dominions for ''fabulous 

 histories;" we will find a very remarkable one of this class of fictions 

 that has a curious- reference to the alleged Spanish migration of the sons 

 of Milesius into Ireland-" in our statute book. The one I refer to I think 

 it right to give in extenso, and in the exact words of the original, from 

 an official work, in black letter (in my possession), the authenticity of 

 which cannot be called in question, entitled — " A Collection of all the 

 Statutes now in use, to the Reign of King William and Queen Mary of 

 ever Uessed memory,'''' &c. 



* Dr. Lynch, in his " Cambrensis Eversus" (vol. i., p 421, edited and translated by 

 the Eev. M. Kelly), informs his readers that the above-mentioned event occurred before 

 the Christian era 1015 years: — ''In the year of the world 3500, and 1250 years after 

 the Deluge," he observes, " the sons of Mileadli obtained possession of the kingdom of 

 Ireland after the destruction of the power of the Tuatha de Danaans. Eiber, as being 

 the eldest son, was appointed king, with his brother Evreamon as colleague in the 

 throne." 



la a note to the above passage, the editor observes — " Dr. Lyncli, on the authority 

 of the Four Masters and a few other writers, adopts tlie chronology of the Septuagint, 

 allowing 5199 from the creation to the birth of Christ." 



Lynch's chronological list of Irish kings is mainly constructed on the chronological 

 series of Tighernach, one of the best reputed of the ancient Irish annalists ; and it is well 

 to bear in mind that, with all the materials of Irish history before him, this eminent an- 

 nalist had said, upwards of 800 years ago, as the editor of " Cambrensis Eversus" observes, 

 "that all the monuments of the Scots (the Irish) previous to the reign of Cimboath (be- 

 fore the Christian era 305 years) were uncertain." 



