equent lamentable Breaches in the antient, wise
Constitution of the Kingdom; had, by the fatal Example of their profligate
dissolute Lives, so vitiated the national Morality; and finally, had left
behind them so many noxious Seeds of Faction and Anarchy, as, in less than
two Centuries, gave up a Kingdom, of above 2000 Years Establishment, the
unaccountable Prey of a few adventurous _Normans_!

_Patrick_ governed the See of _Dublin_ about ten Years, and, in a Voyage
to _England_, perished by Shipwreck, in the _British_ Sea, on the 16th of
_October_, 1084; having been sent to _Lanfranc_, Archbishop of
_Canterbury_, by King _Tirdelvac_.

_Donat_, or _Dongus O'Haingly_, having spent some Time in the Study of
useful Learning in _Ireland_, went over into _England_, and became a
Benedictine Monk at _Canterbury_. He was afterwards, (by the Consent of
King _Tirdelvac_, and the Clergy of _Dublin_) consecrated, _A. D._ 1085,
in the Cathedral of _Canterbury_, by the before-mentioned _Lanfranc_, to
whom he made the following Profession of Obedience:

"I, _Donat_, Bishop of the See of _Dublin_ in _Ireland_, do promise
Canonical Obedience to you, _O' Lanfranc_, Archbishop of the holy Church
of _Canterbury_, and to your Successors."

It is evident that the Title of the Kings of _England_ to this Kingdom, by
Papal Donation, or Appointment, was very insufficient, if not absolutely
trifling: Nor could a Right of Conquest be urged in any Period of the
Reign of _Henry_ the Second, or his Descendants. But the Great and Royal
Families of _Ireland_, long the Prey of Faction, deliberately preferred a
limitted and stipulated Submission to foreign Authority, to the various
Evils arising from intestine Feuds and Animosities; and this, had the wise
Conditions thereof been constantly attended to, with mutual Observance,
had been a sound Title, well and judiciously founded.

True it is, that after the Surrender of the Crown by King _John_ to the
See of _Rome_, the Pope exerted some temporal Authority in this Kingdom,
instanced in his having created _Mc. Con More Mc. Namaras_(2) Duke of
_Klan Cullane_, a Man of great Valour and Piety, supported by ample
Possessions in the Baronies of _Tulla_ and _Bunratty_, in the County of
_Clare_; which extensive Districts entirely belonged to that ancient,
hospitable, martial, and religious Race, of which _Mc. Con More_ was
Chief: The _Mc. Namaras_, more or less, have in all Ages made, and still
continue to mak