MORAN, Right Rev. Patrick Francis. Bishop of Ossory. Spicilegium Ossoriense: Being a collection of Original Letters and Papers illustrative of History of the Irish Church from the Reformation to the year 1800. First, second and third series.

Three volumes. Dublin: Kelly, Gill & Browne and Nolan, 1874/1884. Crown octavo. pp. (1) xix, 512, (2) xv, 488 (3) x, 646. Title printed in red and black. Modern red buckram, titled in gilt. Ex lib with neat circular stamps. With some annotations to margins and pencil underlining. A very good set. Very rare in three volumes.
JISC locates 2 complete sets only.
A major reference work with over 542 letters, extracts from state papers, declarations, etc. There are interesting accounts of: Patron Saints of Churches of Ossory; Bull of Pope St. Pius the Fifth for the Erection of Universities in Ireland, 1564; Documents relating to Dr. Maurice Mac Gibbon, Archbishop of Cashel; Statement of Dr. Leslie, Bishop of Ross, in Scotland, regarding the imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots; Letter of the Earl of Desmond to the Pope, 1583; Letter of Pope Clement to James the First in favour of his Catholic subjects; Petition to His Holiness on the part of the Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell, and of the Archbishop of Tuam, December 1624; List of the Dominican Houses in Ireland, and of the Religious residing in them, 1627; Notes on the United Diocese of Ardfert and Aghadoe, in 1633; Statement of the Archbishop of Armagh regarding the conflicting Claims of the Carmelites and Franciscans in Dundalk, 1634; Short Account of the Dioceses of Kilmore and Derry in 1636; State of the Diocese of Elphin in 1637; Decrees of the Irish Bishops and Clergy assembled in Kilkenny, in 1642. Standards of the Irish Confederate Army, 1643; Letter of F. Rancati, Abbot of the Cistercian Order, to Owen Roe O’Neill, 1647; State of Ireland in 1651; Account of the Martyrdom of the Dominican Fathers Bernard and Lawrence O’Ferall in 1652; State of Ireland in 1654; Extracts from the Ormonde Correspondence; Letter of the Bishop of Killala, 1658; Sufferings of Ireland under the Puritans, from 1652 to 1660, by Rev. John Lynch, Archdeacon of Tuam; Two Letters of Lord Mountjoy in 1683; Petition of the Inhabitants of Fethard, enclosing the Articles of Surrender to Oliver Cromwell; Life of William Walsh, Bishop of Meath; Letter of Cardinal Secretary of State under Pope Gregory XIII to James Geraldine, 1579; Statutes of the Diocese of Ossory; Contemporary account of the Martyrdom of Primate Oliver Plunkett; Statutes enacted by Most Rev. Dr. Patrick Cusack for the Diocese of Meath; Three Letters of Hugh M’Mahon; Letter of Thomas Fleming, O.S.F. from Dundalk 1612; Irish Martyrs and Confessors under Elizabeth and James, etc.

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