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Ixxii PEEFACE. Annals of Senait Mac Manus, com- monly called the Annals of Ulster. Legend of St. Andi-ew. Bosche, Archbishop of York, is found in one of the Cottonian mss. (Cleopatra, c. iv.) It contains a chapter " De aduentu Scotorum in Britannia ;" and as William Bosche was archbishop from 1452 to 1462, it appears to fall within the limits of this collection. It has not previously been printed. 48. Ankals of Senait Mac Manus, commonly CALLED THE Annals OF Ulstee. — The text of the " Annals of Ulster " was first printed by Doctor O'Connor in his " Rerum Hibernicarum Scrip tores " veteres," from the Bodleian MS. (Rawlinson, b. 489). It is by no means accurate, and there is an equally fine MS. in Trinity College, Dublin, which O'Connor appears not to have consulted. He priated the text down to the year 1131 only, though the Annals were compiled in the year 1498. The extracts here printed have been collated with both MSS., and those subsequent to the year 1131 have not been hitherto printed. In both mss. a date is pre- fixed to the events of each year, and likewise the kalends and ferice. The date of the Christian era given is, generally speaking, one year behind the true date, but the ferice invariably represent one year in advance, and that date has been selected as the marginal date for all the extracts from the " Irish Annals " given in this collection. 49. Legend of St. Andrew. — This legend has been taken from the " Breviary of Aberdeen," and has been added in order to complete the " Legends " of St. Andrew " in this collection. As the " Pro-