Hugh Maccaghwell (Lat. Cavellus)

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MacCaghwell (Lat. Cavellus), Hugh

an Irish Franciscan of the 17th century, studied at Salamanca, and lectured at Louvain. Urban VIII appointed him archbishop of Armagh and primate of Ireland. He died September 22, 1626, in the fifty-fifth year of his age. He wrote, Scoti Commentaria in Quatuor Libros Sentt. ( Antwerp, 1620, 3 volumes): — Apologia Apologien Scoti contra Nic. Jansenium (Paris, 1623): — Duo Tractatus pro Tuenda Observantia (ibid. 1622). See Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Jeiler, in Wetzer u. Welte, Kirchen-Lexikon, s.v. (B.P.)