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a commemoration of the supposed author. It includes also S. Sinchell, who died in 982. It has a gloss by the O'Clerys, and has been published by the Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 1871, edited by Dr. Whitley Stokes.

2. The Martyrology of Tallagh, attributed to S. Maelruan, who died in 788. He may have made the original calendar, but it has received additions, for it contains the name of Coirpre, abbot of Clonmacnoise, who died about 899. It is imperfect, lacking November, and the first sixteen days of December. It has been published, not very correctly, and uncritically, by Dr. Kelly, the editor; Dublin, 1857.

3. The Martyrology of Donegal, so called because drawn up by the celebrated Irish scholar and antiquary, Michael O'Clery, one of the Four Masters, 1620. He laid under contribution the Cashel Calendar, which was compiled in 1030, but which is now lost. It has been edited by Dr. James Todd; Dublin, 1864.

4. The Drummond Calendar of the twelfth century. This is an Irish Calendar rather than Scottish. It has been published by Bishop Forbes, of Brechin, in his Kalendars of Scottish Saints, Edinburgh, 1872. This calendar is of the twelfth century.

5. The Book of Obits, of Dublin Cathedral, edited by Crosthwaite and Todd; Dublin, 1843.

6. The Martyrology of Gorman, abbot of Cnocnan-Apostol; drawn up between 1166 and 1174. It has been edited by Dr. Whitley Stokes, for the Henry Bradshaw Society; London, 1895.

7. Sanctorum quorumdam Vitæ et Passiones, una cum eorum Diebus Festis, a MS. of the thirteenth or fourteenth century (vi, B. 1, 16), in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. Some folios are missing.

8. Officia Dominicalia totius anni, cum Kalendario; Psalterium Latinum, cum Lectionibus e vitis Sanctorum quorundam precipue Hiberniorum. MS. written in 1489 (xii, B. 3, 10), in the same library.

9. Calendar of Down, of the fifteenth century. Oxford (MSS. Canonici, Liturg., 215).

Bodleian Library,

10. Catalogus præcipuorum Sanctorum Iberniæ, by Henry FitzSimon, S.J., in the sixteenth century, Library of Trinity College, Dublin (MSS. xii, B. 3, 10).

II. John Colgan, Acta Sanctorum Veteris et Majoris Scotia seu Hibernia Sanctorum Insulæ, Louvain, 1645. This is carried to the end of March only.

In 1647 he issued his Triadis Thaumaturgæ, sive Divorum Patricii, Columbæ et Brigidæ . . . Acta. Unhappily he never completed his great Acta Sanctorum of Ireland, as he died at Louvain in 1648.

Most of his MSS., materials laboriously collected, were dispersed when the French revolutionary soldiers swept over the Netherlands.

12. Lives of the Irish Saints, by John Canon O'Hanlon, n.d., volume for September was issued 1900. The failure of the health of the aged author has caused the work to remain incomplete and to break off at October 21. A laborious compilation, and the author is careful to give references, but it is woefully uncritical.

Scottish Calendars may be consulted, but they render assistance only to a limited degree.

Bishop Forbes, of Brechin, has published the most important Kalendars of Scottish Saints; Edinburgh, 1872. This contains eleven, among these the Drummond Calendar, which is Irish.

Since then the Foulis Breviary of the fifteenth century has been published; Longmans, London, 1902.

Brittany Calendars are of far greater importance. We refer for these to the monograph on the subject: Bréviaires et Missels des Églises et Abbayes Bretonnes de France antérieurs au xvii siècle, par l'Abbé F. Duine. Rennes : Plihon et Hommay, 1906.

IV. THE GENEALOGIES OF THE

WELSH SAINTS

THE principal sources and authorities, in MS. and in print, for the genealogies of the Welsh saints are the following:

I. The Bonedd in Peniarth MS. 16, of the early thirteenth century; imperfect at the end.

2. The Bonedd in Peniarth MS. 45, of the late thirteenth century. These two early Bonedds have never been published.

3. The Bonedd in Peniarth MS. 12, in the fragment of Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch, of the first half of the fourteenth century; printed in Y Cymmrodor, vii, pp. 133-4.

4. The Bonedd in Hafod MS. 16, circa 1400, now in the Cardiff Free Library; a little imperfect towards the end. It is printed, with but few inaccuracies, in the Myvyrian Archaiology, pp. 415-6, and the missing entries supplied from a Mawddwy MS. It is also printed, but very inaccurately, in the Cambro-British Saints, pp. 265–8, from the copy in Harleian MS. 4181, of the early eighteenth century.

5. The Bonedd in Cardiff Free Library MS. 25, a transcript made by John Jones of Gelli Lyfdy in 1640 from a MS. (now lost) supposed by him to have been of about the eleventh century. A copy, with few variations, of No. 1; also imperfect at the end.

6. The Bonedd in Plâs Llanstephan MS. 28, written in 1455-6. 7. The Bonedd in Peniarth MS. 27, part ii, of the late fifteenth century.

8. The Achau printed in the Iolo MSS., pp. 100-146, from three Glamorgan MSS. :

(a) pp. 100-14, from a Coychurch MS. transcribed or compiled about 1670.

(b) pp. 115-34, from a Llansannor MS. (previously Coychurch), of about the same date apparently.

(c) pp. 135-46, from a Cardiff MS., of which the date is not given, but probably the seventeenth century.

A good deal of interesting information, of later date it would appear than the originals, has been worked into these Achau. Mistakes of fact and spelling are frequent.

There is a transcript of pp. 100-134 by Sir S. R. Meyrick, made in 1808, in the Aberystwyth University College Library.

9. The so-called Bonedd y Saint in Myv. Arch., pp. 417-31, in reality an alphabetical compilation made by Lewis Morris in 1760 from a number of MS. Bonedds. A copy of it, with additions in Gwallter Mechain's hand, at Aberystwyth.

10. The Achau, atrociously printed, in Cambro-British SS., pp. 269-71, from Harleian MS. 4181 (early eighteenth century).

Sixteenth century MS. copies of Saintly Pedigrees are very numerous. As supplementing the foregoing must be mentioned the following:1. The Old-Welsh Pedigrees in Harleian MS. 3859, circa 1100, printed in Y Cymmrodor, ix, pp. 169–83.

These, as well as some of the other genealogies enumerated here, have been very carefully indexed by Mr. Anscombe in the Archiv für Celtische Lexikographie for 1898, 1900 and 1903.

2. The Cognatio de Brychan in

(a) Cott. Vesp. A. xiv, of the early thirteenth century; and (b) Cott. Dom. i, circa 1650.

3. Progenies Keredic Regis de Keredigan in Cott. Vesp. A. xiv. 2 (a), (b) and 3 have been very carefully reproduced by the Rev. A. W. Wade-Evans in Y Cymmrodor, xix (1906).

4. The Brychan catalogue and pedigrees in Jesus College (Oxford) MS. xx=3, of the early fifteenth century; printed in Y Cymmrodor, viii, pp. 83-90.

5. Bonedd Gwyr y Gogledd (the Descent of the Men of the North) in Peniarth MS. 45; printed in Skene's Four Ancient Books of Wales, ii, p. 454.

6. The Pedigrees in Mostyn MS. 117, of the end of the thirteenth century, appended to the copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia; printed in Dr. J. Gwenogfryn Evans' Report on Welsh MSS., i, p. 63.

To these authorities may be added Nicolas Roscarrock, fifth son of Richard Roscarrock in S. Endellion in Cornwall, who compiled a Lives of English Saints (including Welsh) between 1610 and 1625, and in the Welsh Saints his authority was a Welsh priest, Edward Powell, who placed his MS. collection at his disposal, and in these MSS. were pedigrees of Welsh Saints. Roscarrock's MS. is unhappily mutilated at the end, many pages having been torn out to cover jam-pots. The volume was in the Brent Eley Library, but on the dispersion of that collection, it was acquired for the University Library, Cambridge. Roscarrock studied at Exeter College, Oxford, and took his B.A. degree in 1568. Carew, in his Survey of Cornwall, p. 229, tells us of "his industrious delight in matters of History and Antiquity." He died in 1633 or 1634, at an advanced age.

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