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relative to them ; and the writer, who is evi-
dently an official person^ designates himself in
the singular. Et ego habui pro Arcliiepiscopo
speeialem^ (signatnxam)^ sub Julio (II.) cum
anticipata solutione. viii. annorum. et pensio
erat xxv. fl. ami de camera. In fine*
The last part, D, is by far the most impor-
tant^ and entitled Taxe sacre penitentiarie apos*
tolice, from fol. xxxvi* to the end, fol. xlii.
In Banck it is found entire in p. 125, and the
following ; and for the first section, (it being
divided into two), it has a perfectly correspond-
ing portion in the edition of Leo X. and that
in the present pages. This first section is di-
vided into eleven titnli^ numbered only in
But why,*^ (sajrs this consummate oraAor,) do I disgust you
with the thou^t of it?*'^the wanton and heartless ridicule of
the Irish suffering clergy ? ^ Because the Government, which
will not give the fami^ing clergy of Ireland bread, unless they
purchase it by selling their sonls» have pensioned the authof of
this unmanly sarcasm over thdr griefb, and over the seane-
closed graves of martyrs whose names shaU endure for ever.
Was this a time when a govenunent whioh desired good for the
Church of Ireland, should have chosen to pension its calunmia-
tor ? They knew Mr. Moore's deservings, for five years they had
power to give him his reward, and during the five years of
power he was unremembered or neglected i but he insulted a vir-
taons and afflicted body of Christian men ; he defamed tiieni»
he refiled them, he made their sufierings the theme of unmanly
Bierriment ; and as soon as he had disgraced his genins by this
pusillanimous atrodfy, he is lifted Up Into the f»ii^f^^R^ of ni-
nlsttiiallh?oiur» nd livgely pensiooed.'*
