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OF IRELAND. 89 their foure notable Saints, Patricke, Brachon, Colme, and Moling.* The King not unmindfull of his charge, enjoyned by the Popes Adrian and Alexander ', entred into a re- formation of the Church : and mooved the famous Bishop of Lismore, Saint Christian, their Legate, to call a Synode at Cashell, wherein they defined Eight Articles, y 1. First, that their people should abandon unlawfull contracts of their cousins and allyes, and observe the Canons of Matrimonie. 2. That their Infants should be primestened of the Priests hand at the Church dore, and then baptized in the font of their mother Church. 3. That all faithfull duely pay their Tithes. 4. That holy Church be for ever quit of those cursed exactions of diet and harborow whereunto they had beene accustomably strayned foure seasons in the yeare, and else against right. 5. That the fine levyed for manslaughter, be not borne by the Clearkes, and kinsmen to the malefac- x Fah. pars. 7- c. 137. » Pol. Virg. lib. 13. Angl. Hist, N