a right or estate inherited by a person from his ancestors.

The term patrimony has been also given to church-estates or revenues; in which sense authors still lay the patrimony of the church of Rimini, Milan, &c. The church of Rome hath patrimonies in France, Africa, Sicily, and many other countries. To create the greater respect to the estates belonging to the church, it was usual to give their patrimonies the names of the saints they held in the highest veneration: thus the estate of the church of Ravenna was called the patrimony of St Apollinaris; that of Milan, the patrimony of

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(a) At Armagh St Patrick founded, A.D. 445 or 447, a priory of Augustine canons, dedicated to St Peter and St Paul, much enriched by the archbishops; restored by Imar O Hedegan in the 12th century. It was granted, A.D. 1611, to Sir Toby Caulfield, knight. St Patrick also founded there a house of canonesses of the same order, under his sister Lupita, called Templum firta, or the "house of miracles."

We are told, that Armagh was made a metropolitical see in honour of St Patrick; in consequence of which it was held in the highest veneration not only by bishops and priests, but also by kings and bishops, as the venerable Bede informs us.

(b) There is a cave in the county of Donegal or Tirconnel, near the source of the Liffey, which, it is pretended, was dug by Ulysses, in order to hold conversations with infernals. The present inhabitants call it Ellan n' Fradotory, or the "Island of Purgatory, and Patrick's Purgatory." They affirm, with a pious credulity, that St Patrick the apostle of Ireland, or some abbot of that name, obtained of God by his earnest prayers, that the pains and torments which await the wicked after this life might be here set forth to view, in order the more easily to recover the Irish from their sinful state and heathenish errors.