Mauritius de Portu

, otherwise called O-Fihely, who, in his time, was, for his great Learning and Virtue, called and written by many The Flower of the World, was born (c)(c) Idem Wareus in lib. 1. De Scriptoribus Hibern. cap. 12. & in Com. de praesulib. Heb. ut sup. p. 250. in the County of Cork near to a celebrated Port called Baltimore in Ireland, where the antient Seat of the O-Fihely’s was placed, instructed for some time in Grammaticals and Trivials in this Universi [••] , and not unlikely in other Learning (after he had taken upon him the Habit of S. Francis) in the Convent of the Brethren of that Order situated in the South Suburb of Oxon, wherein the person that he admired beyond all the World (John Duns Scotus) had spent some years in Religion and Learning, and in the Library of which place many of his Books had been Religiously preserved. From Oxon he Travelled into Italy, and setling in the University of Padöua or Padua, then flourishing in Learning, made very great proficiency in Philosophy in the Monastery of the Franciscans called S. Antony, and at riper years applied himself severely to the study of Metaphysicks, School-Divinity, and above all to the Doctrin of John Duns, whom he had in so great veneration, that he was in a manner besotted with his Subtilities. After he had taken the Degree of Doctor of Divinity (in which Faculty he for some time Read with great applause among the Brethren) he became known to, and much respected by, Pope Julius 2. who, for a reward of his Learning and Vertues, conferred on him the Archbishoprick of Tuam in Ireland in the year 1506. In 1512. he was present at the two first Sessions of the Council of Lateran, and in the year following, minding to return to his Native Country, he obtained a Faculty from the Pope, of granting Indulgences to all such that should retire to Tuam to hear the first Mass that he should Celebrate there: but at his arrival at Galloway, being overtaken with a deadly Disease, died before he could Celebrate it. His Works, which have been much admired, and taken into the Hands of all Catholicks, are mostly these.

Expositio (sive lectura) accuratiss, in questiones dialecticas Divi Johan. Scoti in Isagogen Porphyrii. Ferrar. 1499. Ven. 1512. &c. fol.

Commentaria Doctoris Subtilis Johan. Scoti in xii. lib. Metaphysicae Aristotelis Emendata, & Quotationibus, Concordantiis, atque Annotationibus decorata. Venet. 1507. fol. These Comments were made to the new Translation of, and the many Additions made to, the said twelve Books, by that most famous Disciple of Duns Scotus, named Antonius Andreas, a Franciscan of the Province of Aragon.

Epithomata in insigne formalitatum opus de mente Doctoris Subtilis, &c. Ven. 1514. fol.

Dictionarium Sacrae Scripturae universis conoionatoribus apprimè utile & necessarium. Venet. 1603. fol. This Dictionary reaches but to the latter end of the Letter E. to the Word Exnitguere.

Enchiridion fidei. Printed in 1509.

Epistolae diversae ad Jo. Camersium, with several other things, besides his postillizing the whole Doctrine of Duns Scotus, and his subtile Comments on his Vniversals, as Ant. Possevinus in his Apparatus Sacer, will farther tell you. He gave way to fate at Galloway, before he could reach to Tuam (as it is already told you) to the great reluctancy of all learned Men, especially those of his own Country, and of Padöua, on the eighth of the Cal. of June, in Fifteen hundred and thirteen; 1513 whereupon his body was buried in the Church of the Franciscans, commonly called the Grey Friers, at Galloway. In the See of Tuam succeeded one Thomas O-Mullaly, commonly called Laly; which Sirname occurring often in our Registers and Records, there is no doubt but that he had received some knowledge of good Letters among us.