proposicion to further consideration; and to ascertaine what rules and orders you expect the Universities agreed to be erected, should be governed by, to the end we may understand how far the same shall tend to the accomplishing of our request in that proposicion. (h) [Endorsed] A paper relating to the Treaty of Peace. By his Majestie's answer to the 7th Proposition, his Majestie, as a mark of favor and honor to the nation, is gratiously pleased that one or more Inn or Innes of Court be erected, which....is in the former answer denyed in that latitude that it is now granted. (i) [Ormonde's Memoranda.] 7. Universities, as is already assented, shall be agreed to.... Free Schooles I shall endeavour to gain the Councel to consent to; but, if they do not, I undertake his Majestie shall command it to be allowed. (j) [Demands and Answers] To the 7th Proposition: His Majestie is pleased to allow of Free Schooles and Universities ;....and will in due time set down such orders as shall be fit and convenient for the regulating of them. (k) Articles of Peace made... between his Excellencie James Lord Marques of Ormonde... by vertue of his Majestie's Commission under the Great Seale of England...of the one party; and Richard Lord Viscount Mountgarrett, Donogh Lord Viscount Muskery, Sir Robert Talbot, Dermot O'Bryen, Patrick Darcy, Gefferey Browne, and John Dillon, Esquires, appointed and authorised by his Majestie's said Roman Catholique subjects...on the other party.... 7. Item: It is further concluded...and his Majestie is further graciously pleased, that...the natives of this kingdom...may be enabled to erect one or more Inns of Court, in or neer the city of Dublin, and that....such students, natives of this kingdom, as shall be therein, may take and receive the usual degrees...they taking the ensuing oath [an oath of strictly civil allegiance upon the true faith of a Christian']. And that they may erect one or more Universities, to be governed by such rules and directions as his Majestie shall appoint: And it is further concluded... and his Majestie is graciously pleased, that the said Roman Catholique subjects may erect and keep free schooles for education of youth in this kingdom, any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding; all the matters of this article to be passed as acts of Parliament in the said next Parliament. 28 March, 1646. 37. The Commonwealth and Religion in Trinity College. [P.R.O., Ireland; Commonwealth Records: (a) A. 89, folio 10; (b) A. 5, folio 105.] (a) [The Commissioners of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England for the ordering and settling of the Affairs of Ireland: To Mr. Owen, Minister (Chaplain to Cromwell in Ireland.)] The Parliament, being desirous to advance Religion and Learning in Ireland, have Commanded our endeavours to improve their interrest for the promoting of that worke....Wee have inquired into the present State and Condicion of the Colledge of Dublin, and doo find the said Colledge furnished with very few officers or other members fit to bee continued there... Wee desire that you...will seriously consider what Lawes, Rules, Orders, and Constitucions are fitt to be established in the said Colledge. Wherein we desire that the educatinge of youth in the knowledge of God and the principles of piety may bee in the first place promoted.....What God shall direct you in this Matter wee desire you to Communicate to us with all convenient expedicion, and likewise what qualificacions are requisite in the admission of persons according to the course now used in the University. 2 July, 1651. (b). The Lord Deputy and Councel being desirous to give all due incouragement for the Advancement of Learning and to promote Godliness; and, on the contrary, to discountenance Vice and what hath a tendency to looseness, and prophaneness; It is therefore thought fitt and Ordered, that Dr. Wynter, Master of Trinity College, Dublin, doo call the respective Fellowes, Students, and other members of the Colledge together, exhort them to a Carefull walking, becoming the Gospell, and to build up one another in the knowledge and feare of the Lord, dilligently to attend publique prayer...and also by encouraging private Christian meetings together in the Colledge or elsewhere...that they may increase in the saving knowledge of Christ.... 23 March, 1655. [1656.] A.D. 1652-56. 38.-School in an Irish bog district, under Cromwell. [Hogan Transcripts, folios 656-7, Status ac Conditio Hiberniae, 1652-6,' a P. Quyn, Superior Miss. S.J., text in Arundel Library, Stonyhurst.] P. Jacobus Fordus,....in medio vastissimi paludis, ubi terra nonnihil firmior erat, aediculam construxit, ad quam vicinorum adolescentes et parvuli convenerant, et modo conveniunt, ut literis imbuantur, et fidei ac virtutum rudimentis exerceantur,.... parvuli isti, exemplo magistri, continuis vacant mortificationibus et jejuniis.... A.D. 1655. 39.-Popish Schoolmasters detected in Meath and Louth. [P.R.O., Ireland; Commonwealth Records, A. 5, folio 99.] Popish Schoole Masrs to be supprest. Lord Deputy and Councel of Ireland. Whereas it is informed that severall Popish schoolemasters doe reside in severall parts of the Counties of Meath and Lowth, and teach the Irish youth, trayning them up in Supersticion, Idolatry, and the evill Customs of this Nacion, these are to require the Commander-in-Chief of those Counties, and all Officers of the Army and Justices of the Peace, and every of them, uppon complaint thereof made, to take order for the speedy suppression of such Schoolemasters, and thereof to make return to this Board in case of Obstruccion, that further Order may be given for their due punishment as shall be thought fitt. Dublin, 19 March, 1654. [1655.] A.D 1656. 40.-A Board to control Protestant Grammar Schools in Ireland. [P.R.O., Ireland; Commonwealth Records, A. 5, folios 109-10.] Committee appointed for regulacion of Schooles in Dublin, &c. Upon consideracion had of how greate consequence it is thatt all Schooles appointed for trayning Up the youth of this Nacion in Learning should also bee the Nurseries of piety and good manners, especially in this Cittie of Dublin where there is a great number of Orphants and other the Children of Protestant parents; ffor the better regulating and management of the free-schoole there, and other Schooles within this Nacion, It is thought fitt, and Ordered that Coll: John Hewson, Governor of Dublin, Thomas Hooke Esquire Mayor of Dublin, Coll: Hierom Sankey, Coll: Richard Lawrence, Doctor Samuel Winter, Doctor Henry Jones, William Basil Esquire, Major Anthony Morgan, Doctor John Harding, Doctor Wm. Petty, Benjamin Woolsey Esquire, Mr. Wotton, and Mr. Claudius Gilbert...bee...hereby appointed a Committee to superintend and from time to time (as there may be occasion) to visit the said freeschoole and other Grammar-Schooles in Dublin or else where, and soe to inform themselves (by the best wayes and meanes they can) concerning the abilities, piety, and good conversacion of the Respective Masters and Ushers of those Schooles; where they have been taught, and by what Authority Establisht; and also to consider of the Government exercised in those Schooles, Whether the Method and Order therein used for the Advancement of Learning bee agreeable to the Rules and Discipline used in the ffree-schooles of Literature in England or Holland, known to any of the said Committee; who are also to Enquire whether the said Schoolemasters and Ushers doe make it their Study and Care to promote Godlines...among their... Schollers...by praying among them, Instructing and Catechizing them....and from time to time requiring an Accompt... of what they have heard Preacht...And return an Accompt in writing unto this Board...for the future better disciplinating and Well' ordering of the same. Dated at Dublin the 30th of March, 1655. [1656]. A.D. 1657. 41.-Regulation of Endowments for Grammar Schools. [P.R.O., Ireland; Commonwealth Records, A. 27, folio 53.] That by Commission under the Greate Seale of Ireland, directed unto such persons within every county there, as the Lord Deputy and Councel shall make choice of, It be carefully inquired into, what ffree-schoole or schooles were formerly erected in each citty, town-corporate, and county within Ireland; what yearely maintenance was formerly belonging unto the said ffree-schoole or schooles within each county....as alsoe what it will now fall short of £100 per annum in each County; And that upon return thereof there bee allowed and paid yearely out of Rents formerly belonging to Bishopps Deanes and Chapters within each respective County in Ireland, soe much as will make up the said present Revenue.... £100 yearely; and where noe such meanes was formerly allowed, that in such County there bee allowed...for...such ffree-Schoole as shall be found fitting to be ordered there,...soe much yearely maintenance as the said Lord Deputy and Councel shall conceive meete, Provided they exceed not the allowance of £100 yearely....in each of the Countys. 27 March, 1656. [1657.] A.D. 1657. 42.-Puritan plans for the children of the poorer Irish. [P.R.O., Ireland; Commonwealth Records, A. 27, folios 53-4.] Oliver P. Whereas the poorer sorte of Irish in Ireland doe, as well as the rich, abound in children, and have for the most part noe other meanes to support them and their said children, but either by begging or stealeing or both, by which meanes they not onely prove very burthensome but alsoo unnecessary members of the Comonwealth; and whereas the said children would (noe doubt) in time prove of excellent use, if there were some course layd downe whereby they might att the age of tenn yeares and upwards bee taken from their Parents and bound Apprentices to religious and honest people in England or Ireland, that would not onely make it their business to breede them as well principally in the fear of God, as in such honest callings whereby they might bee enabled, when they come out of their apprenticeships, to gett their liveings by their owne Industry; And whereas it is likewise found by dailey experience that there is a greate want in England of labourers and servants of all sorts, occasioned partly by the late warr and partly by carrying of both men and women to forraigne Plantacions; as also for that (noe doubt) it would be a worke most acceptable to the Lord to have the said children bred and brought up as aforesaid; That for the effecting and carrying on of a work of soe greate piety a publique Collecion be appointed to be made upon a certaine day, once every yeare, in all the respective Parishes within Ireland...in such manner as you shall thinke meete: that the Collecions soe made be committed to such handes and putt into such a way of distribucion in Ireland as shall be found most conduceing to effect and bring to passe soe pius, charitable, and advantagious a worke as the educateing of the said poore Irish children may hereafter proove to the Comonwealth. 27 March, 1656. 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