We  know  little  or  nothing  of  the  writings  of  the  subse-
quent teachers  in  the  School  of  Armagh,  but  •  we  have  a
record  of  the  names  of  several,  with  eulogies  of  their  wisdom
and  scholarship.  The  number  of  English  students  attracted
to  these  schools  by  the  fame  of  their  professors  was  so  great
that  in  later  times  we  find  that  the  city  was  divided  into
•  three  wards,  or  thirds,  as  they  were  called — the  Trian  Mor,
the  Trian-Masain,  and  the  Trian-Saxon — the  last  be  ng  the
English  quarter,  in  which  the  crowds  of  students  from
Saxon-land  took  up  their  abode,  and  where,  as  we  know  on

'  The  full  title  of  the  work  is  De  Exeidio  Britanice  Liler  Querulus.
120  SCHOOLS  01'"  THE  FIFTH  CENTURY.
the  expre,-is  testimony  of  a  contemporarv  writer,  the  Vener-
able Bede,  they  were  received  with  true  Irish  hospitality,
and  were  all,  rich  and  poor,  supplied  gratuitously  with  food,
books,  and  education.  No  more  honourable  testimony  has
been  ever  borne  to  any  nation's  hospitality  and  love  of
learning  than  this.  Alas,  that  England,  in  the  centuries
that  followed,  could  make  no  better  return  to  the  Irish
people,  who,  says  Bede,  had  T)een  always  most  friendly  to  the
English,  than  to  make  it  penal  for  an  Irish  Catholic  to  teach
a  school  in  his  native  land.
In  the  opinion  of  the  learned  Bishop  Reeves,  the  Trian-
Saxon  was  fhe  district  now  occupied  by  Upper  English  Street
and  Abbey  Street,  and  gave  its  name  to  the  former.
