A discourse of the religion anciently professed

These beginnings were presently seconded by Malachi: in whose life, written by Bernard, we read as followeth. ^hThe Apostolical constitutions, and the decrees of the holy Fathers, but especially the customs of the holy Church of Rome, did he establish in all Churches. And hence it is, that at this day the Canonical ⟨p. 33⟩Hours are chanted and sung therein, according to the manner of the whole earth: whereas before that, this was not done, no not in the City it self. (the poor city of Armagh he meaneth.) But Malachi had learned song in his youth, and shortly after caused singing to be used in his own Monastery; when as yet, aswell in the city as in the whole Bishopric, they either knew not, or would not sing. Lastly, the work was brought to perfection, when Christianus Bishop of Lismore, as Legate to the Pope, was President in the Council of Casshell: wherein a special order was taken for ⁱthe right singing of the Ecclesiastical Office; and a general act established, that ^kall divine offices of holy Church should from thenceforth be handled in all parts of Ireland, according as the Church of England d•d observe them. The statutes of which Council were ^lconfirmed by the Regal authority of King Henry the second;^m by whose mandate, the Bishops that met therein were assembled, in the year of our Lord 1171. as Giraldus Cambrensis▪ witnesseth, in his history of the Conquest of Ireland. And thus late was it, before the Roman use was fully settled in this Kingdom.

These beginnings were presently seconded by Malachias: in whose life, written by Bernard, wee reade as followeth. ^hThe Apostolicall constitutions, and the decrees of the holy Fathers, but especially the customes of the holy Church of Rome, did he establish in all Churches. And hence it is, that at this day the Canonicall