[631] Ulaid was a district which included the greater part of the present county of Down, and the southern part of Antrim.
[632] For a similar avowal by Jocelin, who wrote in the same century as St. Bernard, and other illustrative passages, see Adamnan, p. 4.
[633] See § 8, and above in this section.
[634] The first of three healings of dumb persons.
[635] Mark vii. 33.
[636] The word "city" implies that there was a religious community at Antrim. That this was the case is proved by the round tower which still remains, and other evidence (Reeves, p. 63). But apparently the Annals do not refer to any monastery or church at that place. See, however, U.A. and A.F.M. at 1096 for a possible exception.
[637] 1 Tim. vi. 13.
[638] Ps. lii. 8 (vg.).
[639] Ps. xlv. 7.
[640] Cp. Serm. ii. § 8.