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 90 campion's historie tour, but if he were accessary or faulty to the deed doing. 6. That the sicke doe his Testament to be made or read in the presence of credible persons. 7- That the funerals of the dead be devoutly and solemnly kept. 8. That forasmuch as GOD hath universally deli- vered them into the government of the English, they should in all points, rights, and ceremonies, accord with the Church of England. To these things Gelasias Primate of Ardmagh, be- cause he was old and impotent, gave his consent at Divelin in the presence of the King, he died two yeares after, so aged, that his sustenance was the milke of a white Cow, which he carried with him wheresoever he travelled. Thisyeere the Abbey defonte vivo wasfounded. While all went well in Ireland, newes came that Henry the sonne (whom his father had for good purpose crowned King of England) was misledde to in- trude upon the actuall possession of the Crowne in his fathers life-time, which stirre to appease, the King left the custody of Ireland with Hugh de Lacy, to whom he gave Meth in fee, with Fits Stephens, Fitz Ge- rald, and Philip de Bruise, and diverse others, and sayled into England.