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46 9736 IV;-zter: of I RE LAN D. Book I“.
and to many Ijlaudr in the Sea : Thence returning to his native Country on
Shipboard, he was drove by a violent Tempeft on the Weftern Coafis of
Britain, and at length came to the before-mentioned Servant of Chrift, Adam.
minus -, who finding him well verfed in the Scriptures, and of great Know-
ledge in the Holy Land, joyfully entertained- him, and with great Pleafure‘
hearkened to what he faid: Infomuch that’ every thing he had aiiirmed to
have feen.in thofe holy Places, worthy‘ to be preferved in Memory, .4dzmma.
mt: committed to Writing, and c'om‘pofed'a Book (as I faidyprohtable for many,
and efpecially for fuch, who, being at a great Diftancefrom the Places where
the Patriarchs and Apoftles relided, have only a“ Knowledge of them from
Books. Adammmur alfo prefented-this Book to KingAlfred,- by whole Boun-
ty it fell into the Hands of more inferior People to‘ be read. ifbe Writer
tzlfa laimfelf being rewarWed with many Prefents by the King, was fent back
into his own Country -, from whofe Writings to borrow fome Things, and‘ to
infert them in this my I-liitory, I am of Opinion, will be of great Profit
to the Reader.” [zldamnmius liimfelf in his iirft Chapter takes Notice, “ That
“ he gives us a few Things of the Situation of j7erufalem, which Aireztlpb dice
“ rated to him; ” and in many other Places obferves, thatilie had his Rela-
tions from the mouth of Amllplz. Berle gives a fhort Abitraft of the Book in
two Chapters; one of which de- fcribes the Places‘ of the Nativity, Pafiion, and‘
Refurrection of Clzrifl, and the other the Place of his Afcenlion, and the Sc-
pulchres of the Patriatchs.]
Further, there are extant in an old Book of Canons in the Cotton Library, Tlae
Czmom of Adammznus, the Iirit of which begins thus. “ Sea Animals drove to
“ the Shore, though we know not how they came by their Deaths, may be eaten
“ with :1 found Faith, unlefs they Itink.” [A Copy of thefe Canons are alfo
extant in Mzzrflfs Library at St. Sepulcbres, Dublin, in’ a Book, Intitled, Pre-
fdem‘: of the See of Armagh, M.S. p. 395. They chiefly concern Meats proper
to be eaten, and Meats to be avoided, and expreily prohibit the eating of Blood,
or any thing that hath Blood in it.] He is faid alfo to have written (befides,
fame Epijtles.
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or, (as the Title ftands in a Manufcript Chronicle of the Monafcery of St. Ed;
mtmdslzury, formerly in the Cuftody of Sir Simon D’Ew:) Contra ea: qui Paftlm
temper: illegitirtto ebjervabant, i. e. againft fuch who kept the Feait of Eafter at’
an unlawful Time : And alfo, J Rttlefor Monks‘. He‘ died‘ on the 23d of Sep-
teiitler, or, (as fome fay) Oiloeer 704;, in the 74th, or, as others fay. the 80th
Year of his Age. His Remains (0) were tranflated to Ireland Anno 727;.
plug lZli‘1;E:I$::;S(:lfft;;),,. (viz.) in Oflober 7 30, they were conveyed back again to
I [Maeeutlvemtr is mentioned b
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St. addrcffed t. .%,.tt,’ B?%i.:i.?.‘%“s,:Z.,? w?..‘Zi‘.L7.i“2.”2‘;s’?”Et”[
gm; (9) thinks that Ufber hath miitaken th‘e'Narn'e, and that it ought to be Cu-
evutlzrieunor Illoebuczgtzneus (Mo being :1‘ familiar Addition of the Irijlt to Names)
which Cuchunmeu: flourilhed in the T inie of the faid Aid, and is faid to have
compofqd afIyn1nitzPraife of we Blejled Virgin, which Colgdn had in his Cuftoc
dy, beginning thus,
Czmtemu: in mm’ die, ceit2z'mia1ite:' vzzrie,
Camlmmmte: Dee dz‘g'2zum Hymtzum St. Mai-i$‘
Celgan adds, that it ma
Hymn, that the Audi
of Longfeeb King of
ybe colleeteti from the Argument preaxed to the Bid‘
or tlourifhed irigthe’ ‘Time of the Abbbt ziziaiitrzztrtus, and
Irelaml, who began his Reign in 694. or 695. If Madu-
( "1 A“’‘‘1-U‘‘- (2) P‘iin50’rd-P- 839-‘ (1) Tr. Tiiaun. ’p'.'2r8.
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