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54 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.'*