De Burgo, however, renounced his schismatical administration
of this see on the accession of queen Mary. Its succession of
bishops was as follows : Dr. Bernard O'Donnell, O.S.F. held the
see only for a few months. On the 5th May, 1542, 1 find the
following entry in the Oonsistorial Acts: " SS. providit Ecclesiae
Elfinensi in Hibernia vacanti per obitum quondam Bernardi, de
persona fr. Bernardi, presbyteri eremit. S. Augustini." This was
probably Bernard O'Higgins, who, according to Ware, was ap-
pointed by the pope bishop of Elphin before 1552. From the
letter of David Wolf, published in the preceding chapter, it
appears, that Dr. O'Higgins continued in his see till the accession
of Elizabeth. He resigned it in 1562, when Dr. O'Crean was
appointed. On the 28th January, 1562, the Oonsistorial Acts
record: "S.S. providit Ecclesiae Elphinensi in Hibernia, vacanti
per reslgnationem Rev. D. Honoyghum (sic) ord. S Augustini Pro-
fessoris, de persona Dni. Andreas O'Crean, Hibernia ord. Praed.
professoris, quem R. P. David presbyter, S. J. in Hibernia commo-
rans per suas litteras commendavit." Dr O'Crean assisted at the
council of Trent. His successor seems to have been Dermetius
O'Heily, who is described, in a Relatio of the archbishop of Dub-

* £x Act Consist.
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lin, made in 1623, as being a bishop of Elphin, "qui obiit mar^
tyr tempore Elizabethae."* The last bishop of whom I find a
trace in Elizabeth's reign is Raymund Galvirius, as he is styled
in the Consistorial Acts. No Protestant bishop was appointed
till about 1582.
