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CAMPION'S HISTORE

Edanus; for hitherto, though they yeelded a primacy to the Bishop of Ardmagh, in reverence of Saint Patricke, yet was it partly voluntary, and ratified rather by custome, then by sufficient decree: neither did that Arch-Bishop take upon him to invest other Bishops, but sent them to Canterbury (as I said before) which henceforth they did not. Namely the next Bishop of S. Laurence, sometimes Abbot of S. Kevynes in Glandilagh, [1] was ordered and installed at home by Gelasius Primate of Ardmagh.

  1. 1162.