[45] In King's County.
[46] For a further account of this assembly and the ensuing persecution, see the life of S. Nicetas, April 3rd.
[47] Eph. iv. 11.
[48] The seat was afterwards transferred to Mende.
[49] Witikind, lib. i., p. 641.
[50] A Sorbian tribe on the Havel.
[51] A Welsh tradition claims S. Patrick as the son of Mawon of Gower, in Glamorganshire.
[52] The Morini occupied this part of Gaul; the name signifies their maritime position, as does Amorica, the district "by the sea." The ancient Amorica stretched along the whole of the north coast of Gaul; but the Norman invasion and settlement cut the two Celtic peoples of the Bretons and Morini apart.
[53] This name, about the time of Constantine, supplanted the older Latin name of Gessoriacum.
[54] An instance of the way in which later writers have amplified the incidents may here be given. Probus adds that he diligently perused the psalter and hymns, and Jocelin that he read the whole psalter through every day. "As if," says Dr. Lanigan, "he could have found books containing them in the North of Ireland at that period, or, when suddenly made a prisoner, had time to provide himself with religious tracts, or, while still a careless boy, was anxious about them."