Ixviii INTRODUCTION. pists in both kingdoms of England and Ireland, and to that end, and during the time of his Governrnent in Ireland, he restored divers Fryeries and Masse-Houses (which had been formerly suppressed by the precedent Deputies of that Kingdom ; two of which Houses are in the City of Dublin, and had been assigned to the use of the University there) to the pretended Owners thereof, who have since imployedthe same to the Exercise of the Popish religion."* To this the Earl answered : — " When the Earl of Cork was one of the Lords Justices, he seized some Houses in Dublin, pre- tending they belonged to Jesuits and Fryers, without Legal Pro- ceedings, which, upon suits prosecuted at Council-Board, were, according to Justice, restored to the Owners ; but how since im- ployed, the Earl of Strafford knoweth not," but endeavoured the utmost he could to maintain that seizure." This short and necessarily imperfect account of the Halls, or Colleges, once received into the body of the University, will sufficiently explain the allusions which occur in Temple's Sta- tutes, to the existence of more than one College.*'
- The Tryal of Thomas Earl of from the College in which he lives,
Strafford, by John Rushworth. Lon- a Collegio inquo elegit (quoted above, don, 1680, p. 69. p. xxix., note a). The same chap- ^ Ibid., p. 27. ter adds: — " Hanc approbationem ita " For example, in cap. 14, which is necessariara censemus ut qui earn ad headed De iis qui contra Leges Aca- Pro-Cancellarium et reliquum Aca- demice Gradum Academicum petunt, demise Caput non attulerit, idque et qui sic petentihus suffragantur, subscriptam manu vel Praesidis Col- we have the following words: "Ac legii, vel Decanorum, &c." Another porro si quis sic petenti sufFragatus allusion to other Colleges occurs in deprehendatur, su-ejuriraim zn a%Mo chap. vi. (quoted above, p. xxxv., CoZ%io, sive publice in Senatu Aca- note b), which creates a difficulty, demico, nisi ex inscientia deliquerit, because this chapter is in Temple's volumus et statuimus, ut ferendi suf- handwriting. But a close inspection fragii potestate in quavis causa Aca- will show that the words Collegii in demica per integrum biennium ipso quo Candidati degunt are an inter- facto privetur." Again, cap. 15, "The polation, not in Temple's hand, but private grace is defined to be the in that of the same scribe who wrote approval of his being proposed to the cap. 17. Senate, which the Candidate receives
