INTRODUCTION. Ivii or Trinity Hall), until after Temple's death, in Jan. 162^. This difficulty is easily explained. The portion of these Statutes, which are in Temple's hand, ends with chap. 11 ; chapters 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16, are in another hand, and chap. 17, in a third hand, with the exception of the last paragraph, which is in Bedell's hand, and is intended to give the Vice-Provost, in the absence of the Provost, the same veto in the Caput which the Provost would have had, were he present.* It is in these additional Statutes, not written in Temple's hand, and evidently added after his death, that the allusion to additional Colleges in the University occurs, and I shall now give a brief account of the origin of those Colleges, or rather Halls, and the causes of their extinction, after a brief existence. It was in January i6of, that a petition was presented to the Mayor and Corporation of Dublin, asking for a piece of ground on Hoggin Green,*^ sufficient for building thereon a Bridewell ; the petitioners thus state their object: — " Divers well disposed persons considering the multitude of sundry sorts of poor, many of them able bodied, and most resorting out of the country, who to the great disgrace of this worthy city, and now the endanger-
- This statute is signed by" Guiliel. of Dublin, o. m.^ y>. i). A Monas-
Bedell, Pragpositus," [sworn Provost, tery for Canonesses of the Order of Aug. 15, 1627,] "Joh. Floyd," Joh. St. Augustine was erected here, in Johnson, Edw. Parry, Thos. Temple, 1 146, byDerniaidMac Murrough, i. e. Natha. Linch, Joseph [Travers]. MacMurchadha(orsonof Murchadh) ■^ The petitioners were Dr. Challo- O'Cavanagh, Kingof Leinster, which, ner, Sir John King, Mr. James Ware De Burgo says, occupied the site (father of Sir James, the historian), where the widows' alms house stood in Sir James Carroll (afterwards Mayor, 1762, in Hogges Hill, or Hog Hill, 161 2, for his father). now St. Andrew's- street {Hibern. Du- " A considerable village, called minic. p. 735). This abbey was dedi- Hoggis, or Le Hogges, occupied the cated to the B. V. Mary, under the ground now known as "College name of St, Mary de Hogges, and Green." Its exact boundary is not the religious of this house are called ascertained, but it seems to have ex- in some mediaeval Latin documents tended beyond St. Andrew's Church " Moniales S. Marise juxta Hogas," into Exchequer-street (Gilbert, Hist. or " Hoggas" (Butler, Hegist. Prio-
