Ixvi INTRODUCTION. Mr. Gilbert, quoting " a traveller in 1635,"* gives the follow- ing account of the Jesuit establishment in Back- lane, which had now been granted to the University : — " I saw the Church, which was erected by the Jesuits, and made use of by them two years. There was a College also belonging unto them; both these erected in the Back-lane. The pulpit in this Church was richly adorned with pictures, and so was the high altar, which was advanced with steps and railed out like cathedrals ; upon either side thereof were there erected places for confession : no fastened seats were in the middle, or body thereof, nor was there any chancel ; but that it might be more capacious, there was a gallery erected on both sides, and at the lower end of this Church, which was built in my.Lord Faulkland's time, and whereof they were disinvested, when my Lord Chancellor (Loftus) and my Lord of Corke excuted by commission the Deputy's place. This College is now joined and annexed to the College of Dublin, called Trinity College, and in this Church there is a lecture every Tuesday.'"" Mr. Gilbert adds : — " An annuity of forty pounds was paid for a few years by the Earl of Cork, to maintain these lectures ;" and a writer in 1643, arraigning the Earl of Strafford's govern- ment of Ireland, states that : — " When the late Lord Chancellor Loftus, and the Earl of Cork were Lords- Justices, they endeavoured to suppress the Masse-houses in Dublin, and to convert them to pious uses, one of which was in the street called Back- lane they disposed of to the University of Dublin, who placed a Rector and Scholars in it, and maintained a weekly lecture there, to which lecture the Hist.ofDuhlin^i.^-^^.^AZ- Dr. Belcher have the following account'of these says (Memoir of Dr. Stearnp, p. 16, Halls: — "The whole species of the note) :—" This house was afterwards University of Dublin was for many a military hospital, and Tailor s Hall years preserved in the iudividuum of now stands on its site. — Census of this one College. But, since, this Ireland for 1S51 ; Report and Status instrument hath made better music, of Disease, p. 91." when what was but a monochord be- See Travels of Sir W. Brereton fore hath got two other smaller strings {CJietham Societij), pp. 141, 142. unto it— the addition of Xew College ^
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tain (34Eliz. Book ix., cent. 16), we Lond. 1837, vol. iii., p. 121.
