[71] This blunder has even crept into the ninth edition of the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.'
[72] The bishops of Bamberg had a right to wear the archiepiscopal pontificalia. See p. 102, ante.
[73] The ordinary form of crozier was not unknown in Ireland; the well-known crozier of Cashel is a beautiful specimen. The crook form was, however, earlier.
[74] This form of crozier is no doubt contemplated in the prophecy attributed to the druids of Laoghairé, King of Ireland, as cited in the law-tract known as the Senchus Mór—
- 'Tiucfaid Tailginn tar muir meirginn
- A croinn cromcinn, a cinn tollcinn
- A miasa in airthiur atighe,' etc.—
that is, 'the Tonsured ones shall come through the stormy sea, their staves crook-headed, their heads tonsured, their tables in the east of their houses,' etc. It is worth noting, apropos of what was said on p. 115 respecting the bishop's corona, that the words 'a cinn tollcinn'—'their heads tonsured,' are thus glossed in the MS.—'.i. a coirne ina cennaib'—'i.e., their crowns on their heads.'
[75] Sentent. IV, dist. 24, quaest. 3, art. 3, ad fin. ed. Parmae (1873), vol. vii, p. 913.
