[225] Except in regard to Britain, and the British Church was similarly isolated.
[226] De Cons. Stil. Lib. iii. l. 151.
[227] Zimmer put forward the theory that the original Confession contained more biographical details than our texts (Celtic Church, p. 50). See my criticism showing that his argument has no basis (Eng. Hist. Review, xviii., July 1903, pp. 544-6).
[228] St. Patrick, p. 347.
[229] Councils, ii. p. 296, note a.
[230] Celtic Church, ib.
[231] Bury, ib.
[232] Huc usque uolumen quod Patricius manu conscripsit sua: septima decima Martii die translatus est Patricius ad caelos.
[233] Sixth century or not much later, because the writings of Muirchu and Tírechán attest its existence in the second half of the seventh century.
[234] The attempt of Pflugk-Harttung (Die Schriften S. Patricks, in Neue Heidelberger Jahrbücher, p. 71 sqq., 1893) to prove the Confession and Letter spurious is a piece of extraordinarily bad criticism. He designates the Liber Armachanus as “Irlands pseudoisidorische Fälschung.”