ould be great of such as fulfilled the will of God in it.

The way in which Patrick measured the _ferta_ was thus, viz., one hundred
and forty feet in the _lis_, and twenty feet in the great house, and
seventeen feet in the kitchen, and seven feet in the chamber; and it was
thus he always constructed the establishment.

The angel went to Patrick in Ard-Macha. "This day," said he, "the relics
of the apostles are distributed in Rome throughout the four parts of the
globe; and it would be becoming in you that you should go there." And
the angel bore Patrick in the air. At the southern cross, in
Aenach-Macha, it was that four chariots were brought to Patrick; at the
northern cross, moreover, it was that God manifested to him the form he
will have in the Day of Judgment. And he went in one day to
Comur-tri-nuisce. He left Sechnall in the episcopacy with the men of
Eriu until the ship would come which would bear him from the shore of
Letha.

Patrick went subsequently, and arrived at Rome; and sleep came over the
inhabitants of Rome, so that Patrick brought away a sufficiency of the
relics. These relics were afterwards taken to Ard-Macha with the consent
of God and with the consent of the men of Eriu.

What was brought were the relics of three hundred and sixty-five martyrs,
and the relics of Peter and Paul, and Lawrence, and Stephen, and of many
more; and a cloth in which was the blood of Christ and the hair of the
Virgin Mary. Patrick left this collection in Armagh, according to the
will of God, of the angel, and of the men of Eriu.

His relics--the relics of Letha--were stolen from Patrick. Messengers
went from him to the Abbot of Rome. They brought an epistle from him,
directing that they should watch the relics with lamps and torches by
night for ever, and with Mass and psalmody by day, and prayers by night,
and that they should elevate them every year (for multitudes desired to
see them).

Two brothers of the Ulstermen, Dubhan and Dubhaedh, stole Patrick's two
garrons from the land (_tir_) to the east of the Nemhed
(Tir-suidhe-Patrick is its name). They carried them off into the moor to
the south. Dubhan said; "I will not take what belongs to the
_tailcenn_." "I will take what comes to me," said Dubhaedh. Dubhan went
and did penance. "Your comrade's journey is not a good one," said
Patrick. He got a fall, so that his head was broken, and he died.
Dubhan became a disciple, and was ordained; and Patric