whom we have just spoken, was the very opposite of his
father, in his veneration for the privileges of holy
persons and places. His first military achievement was
undertaken in vindication of the rights of those who were
unable by arms to vindicate their own. Hugh Roin, Prince
of the troublesome little principality of Ulidia (Down),
though well stricken in years and old enough to know
better, in one of his excursions had forcibly compelled
the clergy of the country through which he passed to give
him free quarters, contrary to the law everywhere existing.
Congus, the Primate, jealous of the exemptions of his
order, complained of this sacrilege in a poetic message
addressed to Hugh Allan, who, as a Christian and a Prince,
was bound to espouse his quarrels. He marched into the
territory of the offender, defeated him in battle, cut
off his head on the threshold of the Church of Faughard,
and marched back again, his host chanting a war song
composed by their leader.

In this reign died Saint Gerald of Mayo, an Anglo-Saxon
Bishop, and apparently the head of a colony of his
countrymen, from whom that district is ever since called
"Mayo of the Saxons." The name, however, being a general
one for strangers from Britain about that period, just
as Dane became for foreigners from the Baltic in the next
century, is supposed to be incorrectly applied: the colony
being, it is said, really from Wales, of old British
stock, who had migrated rather than live under the yoke
of their victorious Anglo-Saxon Kings. The descendants
of these Welshmen are still to be traced, though intimately