[From Fictious History of Peel, 1882]

PEEL'S "PRIDE" AND "FORMER PROUD DISTINCTION."

AMONG the numerous assertions which have been made and published with the effect of glorifying Peel and the adjacent islet are the following :-

l. The alleged imprisonment in the Peel islet in the 15th century of Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester, and that too for fourteen years, and in the dungeon withal under the chancel of St. German's Church;
2. The alleged imprisonment in the same islet towards the close of the 14th century of Thomas, Earl of Warwick, but whether in the dungeon or in a tower on the walls inventors are not agreed;
3. The alleged existence in the same islet of a Cathedral church prior to the church of St. German's which, in the 13th century, Bishop Simon began to build;
4. The alleged residence on the same islet in the 5th century, and for three years withal, of one St. Patrick-the St. Patrick of Irish legend;
5. The alleged building of a church on the same islet by the said Patrick, in the precise year too, " A.D. 447," and withal "on record"!
6. The alleged building of a church on the same islet by one St. Germanus,-a saint who never had an existence except in fiction;
7. The alleged existence of a church in Peel in the 5th century;
8. The alleged raising of the said church by the said Patrick to Missionary fame;
9. The alleged sending of the Gospel to Erin's Isle by the said church;
10. The alleged existence of a " city of Peel," which, in Peel's " pride," is reckoned its " former proud distinction."

Most of the above ten assertions are of purely recent origin each one of the whole can be traced home to its inventor, being a Manx-history-maker or a modern-cathedral-builder ; no one of them, except the last, has been sustained or attempted . to be sustained by even a show of proof; while all of them, equally, are of the same unveracious character, and deserve no better title than that which the learned Rev. Dr. Lanigan (Eccl. Hist. of Ireland, 1821, I. 183) applied to certain parts of the monk Jocelin's fable about St. Patrick's visit to Mann and his conversion of the people ; and that title is "falsehoods not to say lies." Yea, "falsehoods, not to say lies"-pure and unadulterated.

All of the ten assertions have been aforetime publicly branded as false, and several of them have not only been tracked home to their inventors, but fully exposed; as the alleged imprisonment of the Duchess of Gloucester and the Earl of Warwick on the Peel islet, and the existence of a cathedral there prior to the erection of St. German's church now in ruins. The same was done also nearly three years ago as regards the invention of a " city of Peel" in the garb in which it was then dressed, and recently in the altered garb in which it has been arrayed for the Peel " scheme." Both exposures are here reprinted for a perpetual memory of the thing.

From the Manx Sun, November 18, 1882.

SIR,-In the " Scheme for providing a Cathedral for the Isle of Man " by some " inhabitants of Peel and its vicinity," there are two passages which bear a historic aspect, and have been regarded as an appeal to what in Manx. land, and in respect to things ecclesiastical is oddly called sentiment, and which reminds me of the swain who having seen his flame in the gloaming only, and having a sentiment for black hair, was determined to have her. She had reddish hair. Surely if sentiment is to have weight in deciding on a site for a Cathedral it should be rooted in truth. With your permission I will remark on both passages,-on one very briefly.

The first passage is this :-" Inasmuch as," for thus nicely it begins, "Inasmuch as every association connected with the Church in Man, dating back to almost Apostolic ages, centre in Peel and its venerable Cathedral, it is considered that this locality has infinitely more peculiar and higher claims to be adopted as the site of a new Cathedral church for the diocese than any other place in the Island."

These wild assertions about the date of the Church in Mann, the associations connected with it, and the claims of Peel to be the site of a Cathedral, with their " almost," " every," and " infinitely," will not detain me. They show, indeed, the hand of a master in the art of English composition, but they are sadly wanting in regard for historic truth and its proofs. They might have been written with the notion that the greater the inaccuracy the better the effect. They are not even fitted to delude any one who is only moderately acquainted with what passes under the odd name of " early Manx history."

The inhabitants of Peel and its vicinity have yet more to say as historians. One of their alleged advantages of converting their unfinished church into a Cathedral is this : "The proximity of the proposed Cathedral Church to the ancient and time-honoured one of St. Germans, and which would, to some extent, restore to Peel its former proud distinction, so repeatedly referred to in the ecclesiastical archives of the Vatican at Rome, under dates varying from five to six hundred years ago, as 'The Sodor Cathedral City' in the 'Sodor diocese of Man.' "

Here again we see the hand of a master in the art of composition, for-not to dwell on some of the adjectives so nicely pitched in, or on the exquisite use of the little word " so "-who, possessed of fellow feeling, I may ask, on hearing of evidence at the Vatican-the Vatican "at Rome," too-of Peel's " former proud distinction," can well restrain his bowels of compassion at being told that the said " proximity," &c., would only " to some extent " restore it; or forbear from exclaiming, " Oh, yes ; oh, yes, let the Peel church be made into a Cathedral, if that will make Peel a city, and thus let us do all we can towards soothing the pang poor Peel must feel as oft as in its dreams-to say nothing of the hours when duty calls, it to its piscatorial, historical, and other mundane pursuits-busy memory, which must trouble fishermen and historians in an infinitely more peculiar and higher way than other people, recals a greatness (Alas ! poor Peel) which `hike the baseless fabric of a vision' "-.

Before, however, our sympathy goes further than affecting our memory for poetry, let us try to brace ourselves up : let us look the alleged evidence of Peel's "former proud distinction" full in the face; let us see whether or not a mean attempt is here made to impose upon us.

First: Were we in entire ignorance of the inhabitants of Peel and its vicinity we might suppose from their words that they are acquainted at first hand with the said " ecclesiastical archives of the Vatican at Rome." But choice Latinists as they may be, and able as they may be to descant on the meaning of the word " civitas" and its uses, they verily must not be sup-posed competent to read ancient manuscripts. There is surely not one of them who could make out a Papal document " under dates varying from five to six hundred years ago" were it to be saved from having the measles. The utmost any one of them can know about such " archives" is from transcriptions by the learned Professor Munch of some letters in the Vatican library, and which are printed among other documents relating to the Isle of Man and connected places, as an Appendix to his edition of the " Chronicon Mannia " published at Christiania in 1860, or from the 23rd vol. of the Manx Society 1874, in which they are reprinted, with additions from Munch's notes and elsewhere, under the editorship of the Rev Dr Goss.

Second : They assert that in the said " ecclesiastical archives of the Vatican at Rome" Peel is repeatedly referred to as " ` The Sodor Cathedral city' in the `Sodor Diocese of Man' :" the italics being mine, but not the inverted commas. I observe (1.) The phrase the ` Sodor Diocese of Man,' alleged to be in the said archives is a pure literary fraud, the object of which is to lead readers to believe that the alleged "Sodor Cathedral city" was not and could not be elsewhere than in Mann. Here is blot one. The phrase does not exist in the said archives, nor any other phrase which carries the same meaning. But not only so. Instead of the Sodor Diocese being represented in the said archives as limited to and consisting of Mann, and having a " Sodor Cathedral city" in it, Mann is again and again plainly stated to be" of the diocese of Sodor :" and not only Mann but other Islands also. For instance in notifying the election and appointment of William Russel as Bishop in the year 1349, Pope Clement VI addressed letters to the Lords of three islands-Mann, Buts and Islay, all of which are plainly stated to be " of the diocese of Sodor." Thus (Manx Society xxiii, pp. 342-3) " Dilecto filio Nobili viro Willelmo de Monteacuto domino terrm Manniae Sodorensis dioecesis": " Dilecto filio Nobili viro Roberto Stuward dicto Senescallo Scotiae: domino Insulae de Bote Sodorensis dioecesis" : "Dilecto filio Nobili viro Mac Dofnald domino Ile Sodorensis dioecesis." These three forms of address are exactly repeated in connection with another letter on pp. 347-8. And not only are Mann, Bute, and Islay plainly stated to be " of the Sodor diocese" but so also are the Isle of St Columba and Kerepol in the Isle of Tiree, pp. 312, 392, 401. It is a shame that the inhabitants of Peel and its vicinity manufacture evidence for Peel's "former proud distinction," and father it upon " the ecclesiastical archives of the Vatican at Rome." Archives "of the Vatican at Rome" indeed ! Of the Vatican at Peel, if you please. I scratch the pen through the words " in the Sodor diocese of Man" as a literary fraud.

2. The assertion which now remains for consideration is this only, that Peel is repeatedly referred to in the said " ecclesiastical archives of the Vatican," i.e. the one " at Rome," as " The Sodor Cathedral City," the italics being mine. Here is blot two. False translation is employed in introducing the word "Cathedral;" the object of which is clear, as it was thought necessary to have the word " Cathedral " to give colour to the assertion that Peel was a "city." The one word in the said archives which is here made to be "Cathedral City," is " civitas," and " cathedral City" is no more correct as a translation of the Latin word civitas than is "peeled onions " as a translation of the Latin word "caepae." It is a shame to give false translations, even to gain for Peel a " proud distinction." I scratch the pen now through the word "Cathedral," and dismiss it to the same limbo as the words " in the Sodor Diocese of Man."

3. The only portion of the original assertion now left to be dealt with is this, that Peel is repeatedly referred to in the said archives as "The Sodor City." Here is blot three. It consists of a mangling of evidence. From the beginning to the end of the said archives the bald phrase which answers to " the Sodor City " never occurs. I will give the full phrase. It is in the headings of letters addressed to clergy and people by three Popes in announcing the election or appointment of certain Bishops to this Diocese, viz., Richard, in 1253, William Russel, in 1349, and John Donegan, in 1374. Thus on p. 316 in reference to Richard's appointment we read-" Clero civitatis et dioecesis Sodorensis;" and "Populo civitatis et dioecesis Sodorensis ;" as also in respect to Russel on pp. 340, 347, and Donegan on p. 397. Was it shrewdly suspected by the inhabitants of Peel and its vicinity, in their leaving out a translation of, or even allusion to "et dioecesis," that the "civitas" was as big a place as the "dioecesis," and that both terms denote one and the same extent of territory? Was there a shrewd suspicion that if they bad said with a nearer approach to the truth of their archives that Peel is referred to in them as "the Sodor City and Diocese" their assertion would lie open to the gravest suspicion? That indeed would be rather too great a tax to levy on credulity.

4. But blot four is worse than this. There is in the said archives more than one bit of evidence of the use and origin of the word civilas in the phrase " Clero civitatis et dioecesis Sodorensis," and " Populo civitatis et dioecesis Sodorensis?" One bit happens to be in a Bull of Pope Anastasius IV. in 1154, relating to the creation of the ecclesiastical province of Drontheim, the appointing it as the Metropolis, and fixing to it eight other "cities ;" and this bull be it observed, which was issued about twenty years after the diocese of the Sudereys began to be formed, is fundamental to all relations between the Apostolic See and this diocese for centuries. In their diligent search for evidence for their " city," the inhabitants of Peel and its vicinity must have looked over that bull ; but they [funnily] have over-looked the striking evidence it affords of something. I will quote from it two passages to quicken them, printing a few words in italics as catch-words. Pope Anastasius says to John of Drontheim in his prefatory remarks :-" Et sicut in humano corpore pro varietate officiorum diversa ordinata sunt membra, its in structura Ecclesia ad diversa ministeria exhibenda diversm personee in diversis sunt ordinibus coustituta. Aliis enim ad singularum ecclesiarum, aliis autem ad singularum erbium dispositionem ac regimen ordinatis, constituti sunt in singulis provinciis alii, quorum prima inter fratres sententia habeatur, et ad quorum examen subjectarum personarum questiones et negotia referantur. Super omnes autem Romanus Pontifex, tanquam Noe in area, primum locum noscitur obtinere ; qui" &c. And again, after reminding John that Nicolas, Bishop of Albano, had by Apostolic authority conferred the pallium upon him, the Pope proceeds :-"Et ne de catero provinciae Norvegiae Metropolitani possit curs deesse, commissam gubernationi tuae urbein Thrudensem, ejusdem provinciae perpetuam Metropim ordinavit; et ei Afloensem, Hammacopiensem, Bergenensem, Stawangriensem, Insulas Orcades, Insulas Guthraie,"-an evident mis-reading for "Suthraie," as in footnote,-" Insulas Isladensium et Grenelandie episcopates, tanquam suae Metropoli perpetuis temporibus constituit sub-jacere, et earum episcopatus,"-" episcopos" in footnote,-" sicut Metropoli-tanis suis tibi tuisque successoribus obedire. Ne igitur ad violationem constitutionis istins ulli unquam liceat aspirare, nos earn auctoritate Apos. tolica confirmamus et praesenti privilegio communimus, statuentes ut Trudensis civitas perpetuis temporibus supradietarum erbium Metropolis habeatur, et earum Episcopi, tam tibi quam tuis successoribus sicut Metro-politanis obediant, et de mane vestra consecrationis gratiam sortiaintur," (Manx Society xxiii, 276-279,)

Having quoted the above passages of the Bull, I have, Mr Editor, a request to make. It is that you will allow the inhabitants of Peel and its vicinity to give a translation of them in the next number of your paper. Of course the translation must be original and correct; indeed, they can't borrow a correct translation for one does not exist. There are a few words which may occasion them a little difficulty, but they will be able to surmount it, and especially if they call to their aid, which on other grounds it is desirable they should do, their chiefs in church and town. I might offer a translation myself, but it will be more edifying to them to furnish one. Awaiting their translation, your readers doubtless will be amused, if nothing more, at seeing that in order to make for Peel a "former proud distinction," the historians of Peel and its vicinity, by what Scotchmen call " Joogery Pawkrie," have transformed the " city" named the " Insulae Suthraie " in the Bull and the Civitas Sodorensis in the other documents above quoted, into Peel !! and then tell us that Peel is " so repeatedly referred to" as a city in " the ecclesiastical archives of the Vatican," and of that " at Rome" too !!

T. TALBOT.

P.S.-My postscript is not the least important part of my letter. I wish to add two suggestions. (1) It would be well, and it is hereby requested, that the "scheme" writers, together with their translation next week, send some quotations from our insular " archives " which bear on the question of their alleged city. Curiously, but perhaps from modesty, they have omitted to allude to them. They begin in the year 1417, i.e, 43 years after the Papal appointment of Donegan to this See. Under the years 1422 and 1429 they will find mention of a certain "towne ;" See Mill's Statutes, 8 vo. pp. 8, 13, a book with which, it may be safely assumed, some of the advocates in Peel are familiar. Let them screw up their courage to send the quotations. It is for their good to do so. (2) It would be well for the "scheme"-writers to inform us also of the year in which their sleep was first disturbed by the dream of Peel's "former proud distinction," and of the person who first, in Brown's Popular Guide, divulged it for them, they being there described by the higher and more distinguished tithe of "the good people of Peel," Both date and name might be given with some advantage, certainly without any injury to the truth. T. T.

As intimated in the above letter, it is not now for the first time that what has been well styled " the atrocious nonsense about the city of Peel" comes to the front. The " city" was first proclaimed to the world in ].876, and it is one of the many products issued by the West-side History manufactory during the past few years, and which have been issued withal with false trade-marks upon them. For among other labels they have borne are the labels, "Mine of antiquity," and " History states," and " Tradition says," and " On record," and "Professor P. A. Munch," and "Rev. J. F. Shearman," and most exquisitely of all, " Rowland's Monaslic Antiquities," and" Archbishop Usher's Annals," both being works which never had an existence! I noted and exposed several of those products, and the trade-marks used to commend them to ignorant and confiding readers, in two series of weekly letters in the columns of Mona's Herald from October 15 to December 17, 1879, and from January 14 to April 14, 1880. Among those letters was one relating to the alleged "city of Peel." It first appeared on January 21, 1880. I here reprint it as a proper companion to the above letter :-

Sir,-Before dealing directly with "The Manufacture of an Early History for the Isle of Man," I ask the attention of your readers to two matters of more immediate concern. The first of these is the modern assertion of a city-an ancient city of Peel. In several paragraphs of my last letter I took note of two gross and recent inventions which tend to glorify the Peel islet, viz., that St. Patrick founded a church therein, and that one Germanus did likewise, both following upon Chaloner's invention, in 1653, that Patrick took up his abode there; all three inventions being put forth in the last volume of the Manx Society as history, and even as vouched for by Shearman, Ussher, and Jocelyn ! I also referred in two paragraphs to an attempt to construct a city of Peel. Mr Harrison's effort, however, was not the first which tends thus to glorify the west-side town. It was preceded by that of a writer in Brown's Popular Guide, 1876. I intend now to remark on that writer's words in tais matter, affording a good example, as they do, of appearing by a mere show of evidence to establish an alleged claim for the existence and presentment of which we have only the writer's assertion. He commences on p. 130 by saying:-

" It may be observed that the good people of Peel have ever been noted for indulging in a considerable degree of pride with respect to the antiquity of the place, and have long claimed for it the higher and more distinguished title of a city."

It would have been instructive to be told how long " the good people of Peel" had made the said claim, and on what grounds they had done so, as this asser-tion about them may be presumed to have come on more than one Insular reader of the Popular Guide who is somewhat acquainted with Peel and its people a s a surprise, and especially as no mention is made of this alleged "city" in our published Insular records from the earliest in 1417 to the present date. We read indeed in those records of a place called Peel- towne (now shortened into Peel), this name of the town being derived from the fort on the neigh-bouring islet, and which in several ancient charters is named the Peel, and thereby distinguished from the Castle in the south of the Isle of Man. We read also of the same place earlier in the records as Halland-towne (corrupted from Holme-town), this name of the town being derived from the name of the islet adjacent; the Chronicon Manniae-Manx Society, xxii., 119-informing us that Bishop Mark about 1303 " was buried in the church of St. German in the Island of Holm." Mention is made of this Halland Town in Mill's Ancient Ordinances, p. I3, at the date 1429, where we are told of a visitation by the Bishop's Commissary "holden at Halland-towne;" and again on p. 8, under date I422, where we are told that the penalty on certain persons convicted of treason was to be quartered, and one of the quarters to be set "at Halland-towne ;" the two passages being the oldest evidence of the existence of the place under any name. And here it is worth noting as very curious, that if, as the Popular Guide gives out, Peel was a city in 1349 (and if then. in 1374 also), the said city should so soon have host "the higher and more distin-guished title" claimed for it as to be called Halland-towne in official documents of 1422 and 1429, and that no allusion to the circumstance that it was ever a city should have turned up to the searchers of our records down to the present hour! But let us hear what the Popular Guide has further to say on this matter:-

" A volume published by the Manx Society, namely, " The Chronicle of Man and the Sudreys," by that eminently distinguished Scandinavian scholar, Professor P. A. Munch, of Christiana, edited by the late learned and much esteemed Dr Goss, Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool, affords strong confirmatory evidence in favour of the claim of the Peel people."

The writer does not forthwith give us his "strong confirmatory evidence." In fact he had not a fragment of seeming evidence except he could use as such a couple of phrases in the tithes of letters by certain Popes about the appointment of Sudreyan bishops in I253, 1349, and 1374, i.e., letters addressed respectively to " the chapter" of the ecclesia Sodorensis, to " the clergy" and to " the people" of a civitas et diocesis Sodorensis. He evidently felt it necessary as a preliminary to his converting an iota of these phrases into evidence for "a city of Peel," to make out in some way or other a place called Sodor. He makes such a place. It is " the small Isle on which the Cathedral of St. German stands." How does he make Sodor out of that? Simply thus:-

" Professor Munch assumes that the term Sodor, being one of the distinguishing titles of the Insular Bishopric, is applicable to the small Isle on which the Cathedral of St. German stands, and which he suggests was the former name of it."

In addition to, or rather instead of, thus asserting what Professor Munch assumes and suggests, the writer might have quoted that " eminently distin-guished Scandinavian scholar's" own words to the effect alleged. W by has he not done so? It could not be for want of space, for he gives us quotations amounting to nearly six pages about Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester! ! The simple fact is that he could not quote a hine from Professor Munch in which he assumes or suggests anything of the kind ascribed to him. On the contrary, what is ascribed to him is in opposition to his express words on the very page that is seemingly referred to, and with which his statements in his notes are in entire harmony. I will quote his words, and the readers of the Popular Guide can judge whether its writer in haying the foundation of "a city of Peel," has not practised an unworthy literary fraud upon them. In Manx Society xxii., 39-40, Munch is explaining many names of persons and places which occur in the Chronicon Mannia. After writing about Man he says:-The The other ishands, comprised under one denomination, are called in the Chronicle, Soderenses or Sodorenses. This is a Latinization of the Norwegian word Sudreyjar, composed of Su dr (i.e. south), and eyjar (i.e. islands) and meaning therefore properly Southern Islands, in opposition to the Northern Islands of Orkney, Shetland, and Farey. In Latin, therefore, Insultae Australes bad been a more adequate and reason-able translation, Sodorenses being almost nonsense, and having no doubt originated from people who did not understand the meaning of Sudr south), but believed it to be the name of a place, from which they could form a local adjective in the common way by adding the termination-ensis.

" To such a belief, at least afterwards, the word Sodorensis has given birth in English, as the Bishop of Man is always styled Bishop of Sodor and Man, the first name being no doubt thought by most people to design a place, while few or none dream of its meaning only South, and that the Bishop consequently styled Bishop of the South and Man. As the Islands, the Insulae Sodorenses, from which the name is derived, do not now any more belong to the diocese of Man, the Bishop ought indeed entirely to drop this ridiculous addition, or at least change it into a more reasonable form."

The language of Professor Munch in his Notes is in entire harmony with the letter and spirit of these words. He knows of no place called Sodor ; no See of Seder; no Bishop of Seder. He writes of "the Sudreys," pp. 238, 241, &c. ; " the Sudreyan bishops," pp. 238, 256; " the Sudreyan see," pp. 239, 253, 258 ; "the Sudreyan church," p. 256. `

It is quite needless to pursue further what the writer in the Popular Guide says about " the city of Peel." A writer who has no foundation for his city, and so uses the name of that "eminently distinguished Scandinavian scholar" in making a foundation, does not act honourably towards the con-fiding reader of the Popular Guide, and merely builds a city in the air.

I might heave this matter here, but I will not pass from it without noting and illustrating the mournful fact that this fictitious city of Peel, as also other modern inventions, has found a promoter in the Bishop. We heard from him at first, if the press speaks truly, of an " ancient city of Peel," and then in frequent repetition, as if on the "lice upon line" principle of teaching, of "a city of Peel." The foundation stone of a chapel at Kirk Patrick was laid April 30, 1879, on which occasion the Bishop gave an address. As reported, after sundry remarks about the parish of Patrick, he adverted to Peel and said, " There are hopes that we may see in a little time a nice church at Peel, whether for use as a parish church or not I cannot say, but at all events to have a church worthy of the ancient city of Peel." On August 20, 1879, the Archdeacon laid the foundation-stone of a church at Peel, prior to whose doing so the Bishop gave an address, when the "line upon hine" principle of inculcating new things was markedly put into action. " I believe," said he, "there is no one acquainted with this city of Peel and who knows anything of the old church in this city," &c. Again, "I believe, &c., that we shall have no difficulty in raising the money in order to build a realhy good church in this city of Peel." Again, "It is the fact which has been communicated to me that some people do not hike the idea of the erection of this new church in the city of Peel." Again, " I think, &c., that they should enter heartily into our desire to have a suitable place of worship in this city of Peel." Yet again. " I trust that in it and by it a grand work may be accomplished in this city of Peel." It was an appropriate following when Mr R. J. Moore, in addressing the Archdeacon, and handing him the trowel, said, as reported, " We all know that you hold a deep feeling towards the church at large, and particularly towards the church in this town, or rather city of Peel, as his LORDSHIP has so frequently called it to-day ! !"

No comment on these utterances is required.

I am yours truly, T. TALBOT. NOTE.-See for the reports of the speeches, local press for May 3 and August 23,1879.

To conclude. It is high time there should be an end to the numerous and shamefully false assertions imposed on the ignorant and confiding about Peel and its adjacent islet, and especially when, as we have witnessed during the last four years-and thus since a Cathedral scheme began-such gentlemen as Canon Farrar and Mr Gladstone are made their dupes, and the latter in his innocence writes to the Guardian newspaper commending the scheme, and uses a gross invention which forms an appeal to readers of antiquarian tastes to induce them to part with their money. The national credit is involved in this matter. There is nothing honorable in it ; indeed it is marked by a meanness, to say the very least, from which every man of upright and generous mind, whether Churchman or Nonconformist, must shrink in disgust: yea, and in much more than disgust when that meanness in descending to glorify a fictitious " Church in Peel" as sending the Gospel to Erin's Isle, makes use of " Jesus' saving name."

There is a fine apophthegm of that distinguished philosopher and moralist, Professor Huxley, in his " Science and Culture," p. 15. It is this : "The assertion which outstrips evidence is not only a blunder but a crime."

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