as  it  is  told  by  Lord  Macaulay^  HijU


f mrmoo.]         shice  the  Eleventh  Century.  ^3  f

duced  by  the  measures  adopted  in  reference  to  Twoho«tiie
the  Church.    The  Danish  bishops  of  Waterford  Sh^*****"
and  Dublin  in  the  eleventh  century  had  received  "k^lh
consecration  from  the  see  of  Canterbury,  entirely  ^^^•
ignoring  the  Irish  Church  and  the  successors  of
St.  Patrick.     From  that  time  there   have  been
two  Churches  in  Ireland.     The  Anglo-Norman
settlers  ignored  also  the  native  bishops ;  and  they
did  so  under  the  authority  of  the  Court  of  Rome,
in  virtue  of  the  donation  of  Ireland  to  Henry
II.   by  the  celebrated  Bull  of  the  only  English
Pope,  Nicholas  Breakspeare,  better  known  by  his
papal  title  of  Adrian  IV.
That  document  described   the   Irish   as  bar-  BuUofPope
barians,  and  exhorted  the  King  to  make  known  ^^^^  ^'

*  the  true  Christian  faith  to  those  ignorant  and  ^
uncivilised  tribes,'  as  if  there  had  never  been  '
any  Christianity  in  the  land  from  whose  mis-  j
sionaries  half  of  Europe  had  received  its  Chris-  1
tianity.  The  King  was  authorised  *  to  enter  /A^^
the  island  for  the  purpose  of  bringing  the  people

into  subjection  to  law  ;  to  exterminate  the  nurse-
ries of  vices  from  the   country,'  and  especially

*  to  pay  to  St.  Peter  an  annual  tribute  of  one
penny  for  every  house  in  the  country ;'  pre-
ser\ing,  however,  the  Pope   takes  care   to  add,

*  the  ecclesiastical  rights  of  that  land  ' —  that  is  to
say,  his  own  assumed  rights  in  that  land  —  un-
injured and  inviolate.^


»  Jm/wlaU,  S«  Mr.  O'CalUp-  the  Reman  BuWznum.^Dejtructimt
hMi'%  mnark^  on  thw  bull,  and  the  of  Cjpruj,  p.  142  sq.  (published  fbr
original  Latin  gircn  by  him  from      the  Irish  Archaeological  Society).
