Chapter I: Front Matter

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TERCENTENARY CELEBRATION

JULY, 1892

PRESENTED

BY THE

PROVOST AND SENIOR FELLOWS

OF

TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN

_Mortua anno
MIserICorDIæ._

HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE

SEMPER EADEM

_Nata Gronewiciæ
anno Christi
MDXXXIII.
6.Jd.Sept._

ELISABET D.G. ANGLIAE, FRANCIAE, HIBERNIAE, ET VERGINIAE REGINA,
FIDEI CHRISTIANAE PROPVGNATRIX ACERRIMA. NVNC IN [=DNO] REQVIESCENS.

_Virginis os habitumque geris, diuina virago,
Sed supra sexum dotes animumque virilem;
Quod sæpe altarum docuit rerum exitus ingens:
Vnde tibi et Regni populi debere fatentur,
Christiadumque cohors, odijs rumpantur vt hostes,
Quorum Diua tua rabies nil morte lucrata est._

_Vasta Semiramiden Babylon super æthera tollat,
Efferat et Didona suam Sidonia tellus,
Gens Esthren Iudæa, Camillam Volsca propago,
Aut Constantini matrem Byzantion ingens,
Atqúe alias aliæ gentes: tete Anglia fortis
Vt quondam fructa est, sic nunc clarescat alumna._

_Isaac Oliuier
effigiabat._

_Crispin van de Passe
incidebat._

_procurante Joanne
Waldnelio._

_P.B.M.Q. ludeb._
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THE BOOK

OF

TRINITY COLLEGE

DUBLIN

1591 1891

BELFAST
MARCUS WARD & CO., LIMITED, ROYAL ULSTER WORKS
LONDON AND NEW YORK

DUBLIN: HODGES, FIGGIS & CO., LIMITED

1892

The Committee appointed by the Provost and Senior Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, to make arrangements for the celebration of the Tercentenary of the Foundation of the University of Dublin and of Trinity College, to be held in July, 1892, requested the following to act as a Sub-Committee to superintend the bringing out of a volume in which there should be a record of the chief events of the College for the last three centuries, a description of its buildings, &c.:--

Rev. JOHN W. STUBBS, D.D.
Rev. THOMAS K. ABBOTT, B.D., Litt.D., Librarian.
Rev. JOHN P. MAHAFFY, D.D., Mus. Doc.
EDWARD DOWDEN, LL.D., Litt.D.
ULICK RALPH BURKE, M.A.
WILLIAM MACNEILE DIXON, LL.B., and
E. PERCEVAL WRIGHT, M.A., M.D.;

the last named to be the Convener.

Through illness, Professor E. Dowden was unable to take any active part in the preparation of this volume, the publication of which was undertaken by the firm of Messrs. Marcus Ward & Co., Limited, of Belfast. The time at the disposal of the writers of the following chapters was extremely short, and they tender an apology for the want of completeness, which, on an exact scrutiny of their work, will, they fear, be only too conspicuous; but it is hoped that the volume may be acceptable as a sketch towards a History of the College.

The name of the writer of each chapter is given in the Table of Contents, and each author is to be regarded as accountable only for his own share of the work. The Committee’s grateful thanks are due to Mr. Louis Fagan, of the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, for the help he has given them in having reproductions made from rare engravings of some of the distinguished Graduates of the University.

CONTENTS.

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