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 Ireland, beside the body of S. Patricke: If beyond the seas, at Clarivall, where S. Barnard was then famous and in the feast of All Soules. He cast in his minde, within a few dayes to sue to Eugenius the third, for the increase of the number of Metropolitanes, which request, Was shortly after sped, and in this voyage he rested at Clarivall, and there diverse times, openly foretold that his yeare of departing was come; accordingly when he had taken leave of S. Bernard and the brethren 5 descended from his chamber to Church, and received the rites of a christian man, he returned to his lodging, and dyed on All Soules day, in the yeare of his age fifty foure, so mildely and peaceably, that it seemed rather a sleepe, then a death. There his obsequies was solemnized and miracles wrought at his tombe, and from thence his body was translated to Ardmagh in the yeare 1192.

Malchus, though borne Irish, yet he spent most part of his time in the monastery of Winchester, in England, from thence assumpted Bishop of Lismore, him also remembreth S. Bernard upon occasion. A lunaticke childe he cured in Bishopping him. This miracle was through the world seene and confessed of many hundreds. There happened the same time, a discord betweene the King of Mounster, and his Brother, wherein the King was overmatched and fled into England, visited Malchus in his Abbey, and would at no hand be said nay, but so long as it should please