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 Edanus; for hitherto, though they yeelded a primacy to the Bishop of Ardmagh, in reverence of Saint Patricke, yet was it partly voluntary, and ratified rather by custome, then by sufficient decree: neither did that Arch-Bishop take upon him to invest other Bishops, but sent them to Canterbury (as I said before) which henceforth they did not. Namely the next Bishop of S. Laurence, sometimes Abbot of S. Kevynes in Glandilagh, was ordered and installed at home by Gelasius Primate of Ardmagh.