...whereon hee standing, receives an oath to preserve all the auncient former customes of the countrey inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably...thrice backwards. " Eudox. But how is the Tanist chosen ? " Iren. They say he setteth but one foot upon the stone, and receiveth the like oath that the captaine...

...whereon hee standing, receives an oath to preserve all the ancient former customes of the countrey inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered iiuto him by some whose proper office that is ; after which, descending from the stone, he turneth...

...foot, whereon he standing receives an oath to preserve all the ancient former " customes of the country inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably...delivered unto him by some whose proper office that is," &c. (1) In the MS. now before us, at folio 9, is a copy of the form of Inauguration of the Connacht...

...inviolable, and to deliver np the snccession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered nnto him by some whose proper office that is; after which, descending from the atone, he tnrneth himself ronnd, tbrice forwards and tbrice backwards. " Endox. Bnt how is the Tanist...

...the auncient former customes of the countrey inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceable to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto...thrice backwards. " Eudox. But how is the Tanist chosen ? " Iren. They say he setteth but one foot upon the stone, and receiveth the like oath that the captaine...

...the auncient former customes of the countrey inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceable to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto...thrice backwards" Eudox. But how is the Tanist chosen ? " Iren. They say he setteth but one foot upon the stone, and received) the like oath that the captaine...

...whereon bee standmg, receives an oath to preserve all the auncient former customes of the countrey inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably...after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himselfa round, thrice forward, and thrice backward." View, &c. p. 1 1 . VOL. I. 8 fined to the outward...

...Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto faum by some whose proper office that U ; after whicb, descending from the stone, he turneth himself round, thrice forwards and thrice backwards. M Eudox. But how is the Tanist chosen? « Iren. They say lie scttcth but one fool аров the stone,...

...whereon hee standing, receives an oath to preserve all the auncient former customs of the countrey inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably...wand delivered unto him by some whose proper office thai is; after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himself round, thrice forwards and thrice...

...whereon hee standing, receives an oath to preserve all the auncient former customes of the countrey inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably...after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himselfe round, thrice forward, and thrice backward." It is not, perhaps, improbable, that this stone...