Trinity College, Dublin / by W. Macneile Dixon.

  • William Macneile Dixon
Date:
1902
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Credit: Trinity College, Dublin / by W. Macneile Dixon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Stearne’s death in 1669, and his project of a medical college or hall produced no permanent result. Other attempts to add a College to the University were made in 1630. On the suppression of the Car- melite Seminary of Jesuits by Lord Ely in that year, their hall and property were handed over to the Fellows of Trinity College, by whom they were remodelled, and named the New College.^' A Rector was appointed, and lectures were given, which, we are told, ‘ the Lords Justices often countenanced with their presence.’ This Hall had also but a brief tenure of existence, and was eventually reconverted by Strafford to its original pur- pose as a Mass-house. Sir William Brereton, who visited Dublin in 1635, mentions this Hall, and also speaks of St. Stephen’s Hall or Kildare Hall, in Bridge Street, which was acquired in the same year by the College, and seems for a time to have been occupied by scholars and other students.t During the Commonwealth period the proposal to establish another College within the University of Dublin was again seriously considered, and the papers of Henry Cromwell include a complete and generous scheme, dated 1658,]: for the expansion of the Uni- * When in possession of the Jesuits this College had assumed the right of conferring degrees. t The College accounts contain such entries as these (see Stubbs’ History, p. 63, note): * 1630. The Rector of Kildare Hall and g or 10 Scholars are charged for Kitchen Buttery Sizings, and an extra dinner on Christmas Day. ' 1633. Christmas Day. For College, Kildare Hall, and Bridge St., 10 Fellows, 22 Scholars, wine, £1 2s.’ I For the details of this scheme, see Urwick’s Early History of Trinity College, Dublin, pp. 63-68.
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