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II^TRODUCTION. Ixiii Andrew's burying ground, extending into Exchequer-street, the site being now held under the College, by Mr. Austin, Dressing- case maker. The present Trinity-street^ is said to have taken its name from Trinity Hall. We must now go back a few years, to the period of the death of Sir William Temple, and the election to the Provost- ship of his successor, Dr. Robert Ussher, in i6|§. It was about that time that the College was enabled to add to the number of Halls in the University. The Capuchin Friars (a very rigid sect of the Franciscans) did not exist as a religious order, with full Papal sanction, until the first half of the seventeenth century, and consequently had no religious houses here until after the Reformation. They arrived in Ireland in 1623, ^^^ established themselves in Dub- lin, where they set up some convents, about 1629, under the presidency of Father Edmund Ling, an Irishman, and a zealous advocate of the order. In 1644, a general chapter of the Men- dicant orders was held at Rome, in which it was resolved to erect five Universities in Ireland, one for each of the five pro- vinces, in the following towns: — Dublin, Limerick, Cashel, Athenry, and Coleraine.*^ The Capuchins were received by the Irish with every de- monstration of popular favour, and entered the city in an im- prudent procession, in which they seem to have ostentatiously displayed the novel habits of their order, and their peculiar reli- gious ceremonies. The Archbishop, Dr. Lancelot Bulkeney, " Or Trinity-lane. The hill on tumes of the Capuchins and Fran- which St, Andrew's Church now ciscans. The Dublin writer was Paul stands, was formerly called " Trinity Harris, Priest. See his tract called Mount."— Gilbert's ITw^ of Dublin^ " Fratres sobrii estote," 1634, p. 29. vol. iii., p. 17. "^ The five provinces being Leinster, DeBurgo, M&ern. Dwmmc, cap. Thomond [or South Munster], Or- ix., XV., p. 195, and p. 749. Mj. Gil- mond [or East Munster], Connaught, bert(Z?iAf.o/Z>u6ZiM, iii., 327), quotes and Ulster — De Burgo, uhi supra, a passage from "a Dublin writer in p. 5". 1634," giving an account of the cos-