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4JU- A<br />

Ireland and the Making<br />

of Britain<br />

set aside, and the deliberations of the council went on in<br />

undisturbed serenity. 1<br />

i Archbishop Ussher has the following in regard to it: "In the year 1417,<br />

when the legates of the king of England and the French king's ambassadors<br />

fell at variance in the Council of Constance for precedency, the English<br />

orators, among other arguments, alleged this also for themselves it is well<br />

known that the whole world is divided into three parts to wit, Asia, Africa<br />

and Europe. Europe is divided into four kingdoms, namely the Roman, for<br />

the first; the Constantinopolitan, for the second; the third, the Kingdom of<br />

Ireland, which is now translated with the English; and the fourth, the Kingdom<br />

of Spain. Whereby it appeareth that the king of England and his<br />

kingdom are the more eminent ancient kings and kingdoms of all Europe,<br />

which prerogative the kingdom of France is not said to obtain. And this<br />

I have inserted the more willingly because it maketh something for the<br />

honor of my country to which, I confess, I am very much devoted, and in<br />

the printed acts of the Council it is not commonly to be had." (Relig. Ant.<br />

Irish, cap. xi, Works, iv, p. 370.) See Ulster J. of Arch.. O. S.. vii, p. 306.<br />

,<br />

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