Footnotes
[1] See Ex., iii. 22:—“But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and raiment; and you shall put them upon your sons and upon your daughters, and you shall spoil Egypt”.
[2] It is unnecessary to make any distinction between wives and concubines, because this distinction cannot in any way affect the present argument.
[3] The Hebrew text in v. 18 seems not quite clear. The interpretation we have given is supported by the Septuagint and the English Protestant version. According to the Vulgate, Caleb had but two wives, Azuba and Ephrath.
[4] Aristotle, for example, says that “twins are common in Egypt; even three or four at a birth, not rare” (Hist. Anim., vii. 4). And Pliny tells us, that “for a woman to have more than three children at a birth is accounted a portent except in Egypt” (Hist. Nat., vii. 4).
[5] This is the true reading according to the Hebrew, the Septuagint, and the authorized version. The Vulgate has, “Filius Phallu Eliab”. A similar example however, occurs, I. Paral., ii. 8. “And the sons of Ethan, Azariah”. Here the Vulgate agrees with the other versions.
[6] An Essay on the Principle of Population. London, 1826. Vol. i., p. 517.
[7] Id. Ib. “Throughout all the northern provinces the population was found to double itself in twenty-five years. The original number of persons which had settled in the four provinces of New England in 1643, was 21,200. Afterwards it was calculated that more left them than went to them. In the year 1760 they were increased to half a million. They had, therefore, all along doubled their number in twenty-five years. In New Jersey the period of doubling appeared to be twenty-two years, and in Rhode Island still less. In the back settlements, where the inhabitants applied themselves solely to agriculture, and luxury was not known, they were supposed to double their number in fifteen years”. He adds in a note: “Speaking of Rhode Island, Dr. Styles says that though the period of doubling for the whole colony is twenty-five years, yet that it is different in different parts, and within land is twenty and fifteen years”. p. 518.
[8] See “Tracts” of I. A. S., vol. ii, an. 1843, pag. 119.
[9] Or Pierevill, from the place of his birth in Suffolk.
[10] The Bull appointing him to Ossory is dated “Sexto Kalend. Octobris, 1400”, and the See is described as vacant per obitum Johannis Epi. extra curiam defuncti.
[11] Bremond, in Bullario Ord. Praed. iii. 64, mentions a “Richardus Wichelei, Winchelsey, vel Wicherlsi”, who was appointed to our see anno circiter 1480. The Belgium Dominicanum fixes the precise date of his appointment as 1479, and we see no reason for excluding him from the list of the successors of St. Canice. He must, however, have resigned the same year, though, perhaps, the title may have been continued through courtesy, even in 1481, as mentioned by De Burgo, pag. 476. Some, however, have supposed that this bishop’s see was Ossonensis, to which we find Dominican bishops more than once appointed in the Bullarium above referred to.
[12] “Vocacyon” in Harl. Miscell., vi. p. 412, seqq.
[13] Mant, Hist., i. 219.
[14] We learn these facts from Bale himself, in the preface to his Centur. Script. Britt. Also from Harris’s Ware, pag. 416.
[15] Cox, i. 300.
[16] See Prendergast’s Cromwell’s Settlement of Ireland, pag. 156 (London, 1865).
[17] The Constitution of 1815 above mentioned.
[18] Mgr. de Ram died in Louvain on the evening of Sunday, May 14th. The funeral obsequies were celebrated on Thursday the 18th, and he was interred on Friday the 19th, at Nylen, near Lieure, where he had his country residence. On the 28th of June there was a second solemn funeral service, at which the Cardinal Archbishop of Malines presided, and the Bishop of Ghent, and the whole professorial body of the University attended. On the 7th of July the Catholic University of Ireland assisted at a solemn Requiem in the University Church, Stephen’s Green, Dublin. The Archbishop of Dublin presided at the Mass, which was celebrated by the Bishop of Limerick; and a funeral discourse in honour of the deceased prelate was read by the Rector, Very Rev. Mgr. Woodlock, at a meeting of the University, on Sunday, July 9th.
Among the tokens of sympathy which it received on this sad occasion, the University of Louvain mentions the address of “condolence with her elder sister from the Catholic University of Dublin”, as well as the condescension of our Holy Father, in graciously sending by telegraph his apostolic benediction to the bereaved University.
[19] Hic est titulus quo indicari solent causao seu dubia quae S. Congregationi Concilii solvenda, ab Episcopis proponuntur quando exhibent relationem status suae Dioecesis S. Sedi.
[20] Excipe festum Nativitatis diem, vel ubi privilegium concessum est, Missam iterandi, die commem. omnium defunct.
[21] Vid. append. I.
[22] Errant itaque auctores illi etiam recentiores, qui docent extra Italiam posse recipi eleemosynam pro secunda Missa, quando reditus tenues sunt qui assignantur pro implemento proprii officii; vel ex vi consuetudinis. Errant pariter cum docent extra Italiam, Parochos non teneri missas applicare pro Populo, vigentibus illis rationibus, ac cum dissimulant Const. Benedicti XIV. Cum semper oblatas, utpote ad Italiae Episcopos directam; non distinguentes Constitutiones quae ad aliquam determinatam provinciam ideo diriguntur, ut in ea peculiare ius statuant; ab iis quae, quamvis ad unam provinciam oeconomice dirigantur, tamen commune ius declarant. Et reapse S. C. Concilii, in dirimendis dubiis, circa missam pro Populo, extra Italiam exortis, secundum hanc Constitutionem, constanter iudicavit: nec non S. C. de Propaganda Fide, in varias orbis partes, pro opportunitate, veluti legem servandam hanc constitutionem transmisit. Caeterum quilibet in hac repraetextus sublatus est per Constit. regnantis Pontificis quem Deus incolumem diu servet, quae incipit Amantissimi Redemptoris.
Aliter est iudicandum, cum agitur de locis Missionum, in quibus paroeciae, canonice erectae non sunt. De qua re exponemus suo loco, doctrinam a S. Congregatione de Propaganda Fide, accurate definitam.
[23] See I. E. Record, p. 344.
END OF VOL. I.