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INTRODUCTION. Ixi alleging and proving that to make a lease of the premises would be more directly contrary to the intent of the conveyance of the premises upon the said College than any former, either inability or neglect, and consequently give greater colour and advantage to the City to prosecute their design." In this strait the College were more ready to listen to a propo- sal, made atfirstto the pretended Provost and Fellows, by Dr. John Stearne, to the effect that he should be President of Trinity Hall, for his natural life, on the following conditions: — "that he should have certain lodgings there ; that he should 'keep out the City,' and repair the Hall without charge to Trinity College," which the College was not at that time able to defray, and to convert the remainder of the building after retaining lodgings for himself, to the purposes of Medical Students. The Puritan Provost and Fellows had agreed to this proposal, and it was faithfully carried out by Dr. Stearne, who expended in repairing the Hall more than £ioo of his own money. On the Restoration, the legal Provost and Fellows renewed this convenant with Dr. Stearne, adding only these conditions, that he should endeavour to procure incorporation for a College of Physicians, and that Trinity College should for ever have the nomination of the President of the said College of Physicians.* It appears that in or about 1680 Trinity Hall was restored to Trinity College. Articles were agreed to, whereby each Col- lege was bound to the other in £300, for the performance of the said articles. In 1687, a difference began between Trinity ' See a summary of this deed, dated in the MS., caMed D0li7i's book, in Feb. 18, i66a^ in the valuable memoir the possession of the College of Phy- of Dr. Stearne, by T.W. Belcher, M.D., sicians, the following entry, among p. 21, Dublin, 1865. The Charter the accounts 1680-1683 :—"De Col- for the College of Physicians is dated legio Trinitatis juxta Dublin, pro re- 8th Aug., 1667. Before this Patent signatione A ulae Trinitatis £070. 005. the Society, not yet a Corporation, oorf." This proves that about that was called the " President and Con- time (1680) Trinity Hall was given fraternity of Physicians." — Belcher^ s up; and that the surrender realized Register of the K. ^- Q. Coll. ofPhys.^ for the College of Physicians the sum Introd-, p. 7. Dr. Belcher has found of £70.