requisite number of teachers and attendants, we will have
an addition of at least one-third to the total. The
buildings seem to have been separately of no great size,
but were formed into streets, and even into something
like wards. Armagh was divided into three parts--
_trian-more_ (or the town proper), _trian-Patrick_, the
Cathedral close, and _trian-Sassenagh_, the Latin quarter,
the home of the foreign students. A tall sculptured
Cross, dedicated to some favourite saint, stood at the
bounds of these several wards, reminding the anxious
student to invoke their spiritual intercession as he
passed by. Early hours and vigilant night watches had
to be exercised to prevent conflagrations in such
village-seminaries, built almost wholly of wood, and
roofed with reeds or shingles. A Cathedral, or an Abbey
Church, a round tower, or a cell of some of the ascetic
masters, would probably be the only stone structure within
the limits. To the students, the evening star gave the
signal for retirement, and the morning sun for awaking.
When, at the sound of the early bell, two or three thousand
of them poured into the silent streets and made their
way towards the lighted Church, to join in the service
of matins, mingling, as they went or returned, the tongues
of the Gael, the Cimbri, the Pict, the Saxon, and the
Frank, or hailing and answering each other in the universal
language of the Roman Church, the angels in Heaven must
have loved to contemplate the union of so much perseverance
with so much piety.

The lives of the masters, not less than their lessons,