47 “Rothe apud Messingham states, that only nine persons were usually
admitted into the cave.”
48 “It is matter of dispute amongst our hagiologists, whether the St.
Patrick, from whose deeds of penance this island acquired its fame,
was our apostle, or another subsequent saint of the same name.”
49 “_The Reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England, with the
Governors_, etc., London, 1675, p. 207.”
50 “Had he taken the trouble to open the writings of Peter Lombard or
Messingham, he would have seen that the limits of the cell were well
known, and that _the confines of Purgatory or Hell_ existed only in
the distempered imaginations of the persecutors themselves.”
51 “This valuable work has been republished, accompanied with an
elegant translation and notes, by Rev. C. P. Meehan (Dublin, 1848).”