carried in his hands, after receiving many blows was slain with a sword by order of a military officer, in 1648 truly an Israelite in whom there was no guile.

Others belonging to this community were put to cruel deaths in various ways, whose names I have not by me and whom I leave to the Book of Life.

Belonging to the same house there are still living :

Father Phelim Mac Dowell,80 who having almost finished his studies in the great and observant convent of Valladolid, went to Italy, and there amongst the English fathers of our Order, taught in the convent of SS. John and Paul. Being then made prior of Saint Sixtus's, and after his term of office, bachelor of theology, he went to Ireland, where, on the opening of the war between our truly Catholic king, James II. and the English and Scotch rebels, led by the Prince of Orange, a most unjust usurper, this father was chaplain of a regiment of cavalry, until the subjugation of the kingdom by the enemy. At that time he crossed the sea, and after various adventures returned into England where he is now residing, as I am informed. He is a religious and pious man.

Father Patrick Plunkett, of the same house, doctor of the Sorbonne, completed his studies in the celebrated convent of Saint Jacques, Paris, and taught there in some abbeys with success. Being afterwards called to Rome, on getting an appointment in the Cassanatte library, he is now living there and has been made Definitor for the present general chapter.

Father Pierce O'Flynn was prior for many years in Rathbran convent and came to France in the common exile, where he is living in some place or other.

R. P. Fr. Dominicus Dillon, ex eodem conventu, vivit alicubi in Italia.

R. P. Fr. Thomas O'Quilty vivit Anconæ, ut mihi fertur.

R. P. Fr. Joannes O'Breiken cum aliquo alio sacerdote remansit in patria.

R. P. Fr. O'Tighe vivit in provincia Franciæ, ibi docens alicubi.

DE FRATRIBUS CLONSHANVILLENSIBUS.

In eodem comitatu est conventus apud Cluinmhic Seanbhuil, fundatus sæculo decimo quarto a Domino Mac Dermott de Artagh, quem dotavit bonis sufficienter. Moenia adhuc extant, habitat autem hæreticus dans annue quoddam quasi-homagium illustrissimo D. Vicecomiti Dillon, qui obtinuit illum locum a regina Elizabetha aut a Jacobo I. Vidi ipse aliquorum annorum cadentia debita, soluta coram me a dicto Anglo hæretico qui vocatur Davis. Hujus domus filius fuit R. P. Fr. Thaddeus O'Beirne, vir sincerus et simplex ac bonæ vitæ, qui mortuus est in suo anno septuagesimo, et in sua simplicitate multum servivit tempore Cromwelli.

Ex eodem Conventu vivunt adhuc :

Rev. adm. P. M. Fr. Ambrosius Mac Dermott, qui studiis finitis laudabiliter in Hispania, Romam petiit, ubi triennio docuit theologiam et biennio philosophiam ad Sanctum Xistum, et fuit prior. Modo est Romæ, pœnitentiarius apostolicus, et dignus satis, ut audio a multis.

R. P. Fr. Bernardus Mac Dermott, ex eadem domo, vivit in conventu Baionensi in provincia Aquitaniæ.

Father Dominic Dillon, of the same community, is living somewhere in Italy.

Father Thomas O'Quilty is living at Ancona, as I am informed.

Father John O'Breiken with another priest remained at home.

Father O'Tighe is living in the province of France and is teaching there in some place or other.

THE FRIARS OF CLONSHANVILLE.

In the same county there is an abbey at Clonshanville, founded in the fourteenth century by The Mac Dermott of Artagh, and liberally endowed by him. The walls are still in existence, and there is a Protestant living in the place, paying a kind of annual head-rent to Viscount Lord Dillon, who obtained that place from Queen Elizabeth or from James I. I myself saw the arrears of some years paid in my presence by that English Protestant who is called Davis. Father Teige O'Beirne was a son of this house, a simple, sincere and good-living man, who died in his seventieth year and did great good in his simplicity in the time of Cromwell.

Belonging to the same community there are still

living:

Father Ambrose Mac Dermott, who, after finishing his studies commendably in Spain, went to Rome, where he taught theology for three and philosophy for two years at Saint Sixtus's, of which he became prior. He is now apostolic penitentiary in Rome, and is worthy of his position, as I hear from many.

Father Bryan Mac Dermott, of the same house, is living in the convent of Bayonne in the province of

Studuit fructuose in provincia Aragoniæ, et redux in patriam prædicavit satis gratiose continuo usque ad exilium. Fuit prior sui conventus et est religiosus candidissimus, natus recta linea e fundatore sui con

ventus.

R. P. Fr. Carolus Mac Dermott, ex eodem conventu, habitat Cadurci in eadem pergrata provincia Aquitaniæ, susceptrice liberalissima nostrorum religiosorum ad domicilium, studia, et ad omnes gratias almæ provinciæ. Iste carus pater, filius legitimus illustrissimi Domini Mac Dermott na Carriga, quondam baronis Boyle, etsi non sit accinctus armatura scientiarum (quarum occasione inflantur multi exuti charitate, ut loquitur noster Angelicus Magister), vere imbutus est scientia sanctorum, quæ est profunda humilitas in Christo Jesu Domino

nostro.

R. adm. P. Fr. Petrus Mac Dermott, ex eodem conventu, theologiæ præsentatus, studuit Roma; philosophiam docuit Lovanii, et theologiam Romæ, ubi jam est.

In eodem comitatu est alius conventus noster, qui vocatur Knockanvicar, id est Collis Vicarii, super ripam magni fluminis de Boyle, distans duobus milliaribus a mansione Domini Mac Dermott na Carriga. In isto loco non habitaverunt religiosi nostri a longo tempore, unde ejus filii non inveniuntur numerandi. Auctor Gallicus, male informatus, refert conventum hunc fundatum a quodam Anglo nomine, Bingham, at hoc est valde dissonum veritati, quia illa familia nunquam possedit pedem terræ in illo comitatu, nec se stabilivit in Hibernia cum aliqua potestate aut fama, nisi ad finem regni janetricis inferni, Elizabethæ, et illius stabilimentum

Aquitaine. He studied with success in the province of Aragon, and returning home preached fairly well all along till the exile. He was prior of his convent, is a most open-minded religious, and was born in the direct line from the founder of his convent.

Father Cathal Mac Dermott, of the same community, is dwelling at Cahors, in the same dear province of Aquitaine, the most liberal supporter of our religious, whom it most generously receives to its convents, schools, and all the other benefits of the province. This venerable father, a legitimate son of the Mac Dermott of the Rock, formerly baron of Boyle, although he is not much famed for scholarship (which is often the occasion of many destitute of charity being puffed up, as our Angelic Master says), is filled with the true science of the saints, which is profound humility in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Father Peter Mac Dermott, of the same community, bachelor of theology, studied at Rome; he taught philosophy at Louvain and afterwards theology at Rome, where he is at present.

In the same county there is another abbey of ours which is called Cnoc-an-Beair, that is, the Vicar's Hill, on the bank of the great river of Boyle, about two miles distant from the house of the Mac Dermott of the Rock. In that place our religious have not dwelt for a long time, so that we cannot enumerate its sons. The French author, badly informed, assigns the foundation of this abbey to a certain Englishman of the name of Bingham, but this is very far from the truth, for that family never possessed a foot of land in the county, nor established itself in Ireland with any power or renown, till the end of the reign of that gatekeeper of Hell, Elizabeth, and