Before the end of the fourth century Christianity had also been intro duced among the Scots in Ireland - whether by Ninian or at an earlier period does not appear; but Ninian is said to have left his settle ment at Candida Casa at the request of his mother and relations in the last years of his life, and to have gone to Ireland, where, at a beautiful place called Cluain Coner, granted him by the king, he built a large monastery, in which he died.1 Soon afterwards the dominion of the Romans in Britain, after an occupation of nearly four hundred years, came to an end (a.d. And they abandoned the island for ever.

There now followed a long period of darkness. Britain had practi cally ceased to be a part of the Roman Empire. Her intercourse with the Continent had been almost entirely cut off; and, with the exception of a notice of the temporary prevalence of the Pelagian heresy in the British Church, all is silence for a century and a half.

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