"AN ample difcourfe upon the original of the Irifh, and the antiquity of that people, whom in truth I think to be more ancient than most I know in this end of the world, fo as it were in the handling of fome man of found judgement and plentiful reading, would be most pleasant and profitable."

SPENCER.

"THERE is at this day no monument or real argument that, when the Irish were firft invaded, they had any ftone houfing at all, any money, any foreign trade, nor any learning but the legend of the faints, pfalter, miffals, rituals, &c. viz. nor geometry, astronomy, anatomy, architecture, enginery, painting, carving, nor any kind of manufacture, nor the leaft ufe of navigation, or the art military."

SIR WILLIAM PETTY.

Introduction of the ROMAN RITUAL, and the Establishment
of PAPAL SUPREMACY, by HENRY II. King of England.

FROM THE MOST EARLY AUTHENTICATED PERIOD DOWN TO
THE YEAR 1783.

By THOMAS CAMPBELL, L.L. D.

CHANCELLOR OF ST. MACARTIN'S, CLOGHER,

LOND O N:

PRINTED FOR C. G. J. AND J. ROBINSON, PATER-NOSTER-ROW,

LONDON.

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