Note 426 — Chapter III · THE CONQUEST OF IRELAND. 795–1172.
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“Significâsti siquidem nobis, fili in Christo carissime, te Hiberniæ insulam, ad subdendum illum populum legibus et vitiorum plantaria inde exstirpanda, velle intrare; et de singulis domibus annuam unius denarii beato Petro velle solvere pensionem; et jura ecclesiarum illius terræ illibata et integra conservare.” Bull of Adrian IV. to Henry (“Laudabiliter”), in Gir. Cambr. Expugn. Hibern., l. ii. c. 5 (Dimock, vol. v. p. 317), etc.