uagint, which
was in general use throughout the Church in the very earliest ages.
Among Protestants, on the other hand, an attempt is made to approach
more closely to the orthography of the Hebrew text. Dr. Colenso has
naturally taken the proper names as he found them in the English
authorized version, and to avoid confusion in answering his arguments,
we shall follow the spelling which he has adopted.

[13] In fact it is quite clear from several passages that Abraham had
servants of both classes. See, for example, _Gen._, xvii. 12, 13, 23,
27.

[14] The death of Isaac must have taken place just ten years before the
Descent into Egypt. Isaac was 60 when Jacob was born (_Gen._, xxv. 26);
and Jacob was 130 when he went down to Egypt (_Gen._, xlvii. 9):
therefore Isaac, if then living, would have been 190. But we know that
he died at the age of 180 (_Gen._, xxxv. 28); that is to say, ten years
before.

RICHARD FITZ-RALPH, ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH.

Sec. VI. HIS NOMINATION TO THE SEE OF ARMAGH.

The see of Armagh became vacant by the death of David O'Hiraghty, which
took place, according to the _Annales Nenaghtenses_, on the 16th May,
1346. Dr. O'Hiraghty had been Dean of Armagh, and was elected by the
chapter of Armagh, _quasi per inspirationem divinam_, as John XXII.
mentions in the bull by which, on July 4th, 1334, he ratified the
election.[15] He was consecrated at Avignon, and having ruled his
diocese for nearly twelve years, died in 1346. On the 31st July, 1346,
Clement VI., _jure provisionis_, appointed to the vacant see Richard
Fitz-Ralph, then Dean of Lichfield. The bull of nomination contains that
the chapter of Armagh had already unanimously elected the same Richard,
and that he had given his consent to the election.[16] The Four Masters
place in the year 1356 the death of Farrell (son of Jeffrey) MacRannall,
Primate of Armagh and representative of St. Patrick. This, as Dr.
O'Donovan remarks, is evidently a mistake of the Four Masters, as
Richard Fitz-Ralph was certainly not one of the Mac Rannalls. We may say
that, besides the mistake in the names, there is also a mistake in the
dates. It was precisely in 1356 that Archbishop Fitz-Ralph set out upon
that visit to London which was the occasion of his controversy with the
Franciscans. The mistake made by the Four Masters is all the more
incomprehensible for this reason, that of all the primates who sat at
Armagh since the days of St. Francis of Assisi, n