While she was
stepped into the servant's hall to call somebody, according to the
simplicity of those times, the archbishop's pains encreased, when
perceiving something on the mantle-piece, which he took for a peach
in brandy, he gulped it all down at once without saying grace, God
forgive him, and found great comfort from it. He had not done
licking his lips before the queen-mother returned, when queen Grata
cried out, "Mama, mama, the gentleman has eat my little brother!"
This fortunate event put an end to the contest, the male line
entirely failing in the person of the devoured prince. The
archbishop, however, who became pope by the name of Innocent the
3d. having afterwards a son by his sister, named the child
Fitzpatrick, as having some of the royal blood in its veins; and
from him are descended all the younger branches of the Fitzpatricks
of our time. Now the rest of the acts of Grata and all that she
did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Kilkenny?
NOTES ON TALE IV.
_This tale was written for Anne Liddel countess of Offory, wife of John
Fitzpatrick earl of Offory. They had a daughter Anne, the subject of
this story._
[Footnote 1: _Vide Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, in the family of
Fitzpatrick.
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