meant to license him, I should never do that for him, nor any other papist: he then desired my connivance, etc. Capt. Purdon told me within these four days....that he had committed two Popish schoolmasters and the Lord Clare had released and dismissed them.... 51.-Rival Schools in Kilkenny. A.D. 1686. [Hist. MSS. Comm. Ormonde MSS., Vol. 7, PP. 444, 445, 448.j (a) [Thomas Otway, Bishop of Ossory, to James Clarke.] 1686. August 18, Kilkenny. ...On the last Thursday in July, the visitors were at his Grace's School, where they found all things well, considering the great discouragement all things are under here, in which the very schoolboys have their share, who would be more humorous if the times were more serene. The master is certainly a very industrious man. There are in the school fifty-one. We are to have a University here, six of the natives who have studied at Paris intend to teach the arts and languages, and have hired a house for this purpose. They show no authority as yet for it. I send you one of the papers which they dispersed on Monday last, by which you will see their design. I desire you would, with my humblest duty, present it to his Grace... [Enclosure.] Deo Optimo Maximo. Impiger huc propera: piger hinc procul esto profane ! A good method of teaching Humanity, Greek, French, Philosophy, etc., being much wanted in Ireland, some well-wishers of the nation thought fit to choose out of the Irish students at Paris six to teach the several classes methodically. Kilkenny is chosen by the approbation of all, as the fittest place for such a design. The teachers being desirous that nothing should hinder the progress of their discipline, engage themselves to furnish their boarders the books that shall be necessary-parents having very often been found negligent in that point. Their pension will be £10 sterling per annum, for which they will allow lodging, diet, schooling, books, and washing. Each boarder is to bring his bed, napkins, knife, spoon, fork, and the first quarter's pension. Those that come from far will find little college-beds at a cheap rate by the teachers' means, who will have a particular care of such. As for those that diet abroad, they will give what reasonable gratuity their parents shall think fit according to their means. The poorer sort shall be taught gratis, provided they have their diet and lodging fixed. The school will be opened on 1st September 1686. Those that intend to come in the beginning, or soon after, are desired to give notice thereof to Mr. Edmond Galvan, or Mr. Francis Barnewell, at Mr. Nicholas Lee's, merchant, in High Street, in Kilkenny. Gentlemen desirous of learning Hebrew, writing, etc., shall find the conveniency. Nec praemia, nec exercitationis publicae, tragodiaeve, aut ejusmodi quicquam deerit, quo torpentes discipulorum animi ad summum litterarum amorem excitentur, accendanturque. Habebitur in Aula majori oratiuncula in laudem litterarum Humaniorum a F. B. Humanitatis Professore die Septembris 8a; altera vero in ignorantiam ab E. G. praefecto studiorum 2ma Octob. (b) [Francis Marsh, Archbishop of Dublin, to the Duke of Ormonde.] 1686. August 23, Dublin. Postscript. Just now I delivered to my Lord Lieutenant a printed paper published and dispersed at Kilkenny by six natives of this country, who have studied at Paris, and have chosen your town to set up an academy in, and, as I hear, have from a certain abbot in France the allowance of 400l. per annum. A.D. 1694-1717. 52.-Jesuit Schools during the elaboration of the Penal Laws. [Hogan Transcripts, folios 843, 847, 881-4.] (a) [Nov. 25, 1694: Antony Knowles, Superior, S.J., to Rome.] Nimia diligentia adversariorum, et nunc maxima, ne Nostri puerorum educationi dent operam....Sed pro zelo laborem et periculum audacter subeunt in latibulis. (b) [Feb. 17, 1695 Antony Knowles, to Rome.] (Kilkeniae) quos habui socios,...magistratus mitti in carcerem jussit, quia paucos docebant. (c) [Feb. 12, 1717: Information forwarded to Rome.] P. Michael Murphy nunc in capitali regionis urbe periculis se pro juventutis instructione exponit....Docuit graecam et latinam linguas per quinque annos, et nunc docet. A.D. 1695. 53.-Education abroad prohibited. An act to restrain foreign education. Whereas many of the subjects of this kingdom have accustomed themselves to send their children..into France Spain, and other foreign parts...to be educated, instructed, and brought up; by means and occasion whereof the said children have....been prevailed upon to forget...the affection which they owe to the established religion and laws of this their native country...for remedy thereof be it therefore enacted...that in case any of His Majesty's subjects of this realm of Ireland at any time... shall pass, or go, or shall convey or send or cause to be conveyed or sent any child..into any parts beyond the seas... to the intent or purpose to... be resident in or trained up in any priory, abby, nunnery, popish university college or school, or house of jesuits or priests...or in case any of his Majesty's subjects shall...pass or go, or be conveyed or sent out of this kingdom...to be resident or trained up in any private popish family, and shall be in such parts beyond the seas by any... popish person instructed persuaded or strengthened in the popish religion, in any sort to profess the same, or shall convey or send...any sums of money or other thing for or towards the maintenance or support of any child already gone or sent, or that shall hereafter go or be sent, and be trained and instructed as aforesaid, every person so going sending..or conveyed or sent, and every person passing or being sent across the seas,... being lawfully convicted in the form and manner hereafter mentioned..shall be for ever disabled....to prosecute any action.. or suit, or be capable of any legacy, or deed of gift, or to bear any office..and shall lose and forfeit all his her and their goods and chattles.. 2. If any information be given to any justice of the peace, that any such child..sum of money, or other thing, is or are gone, contrary to the tenor of this act, then every such justice of the peace is..authorised and required forthwith to cause to be brought before him all such persons suspected or charged to have offended therein, and shall examine the person or persons so suspected or accused...and if...it shall appear probable that such child...sum of money, or other thing is or are gone, or sent away, then the said justice of the peace shall bind the said suspected person or persons... to give evidence...in the sum of two hundred pounds, or...greater sum...to appear at the next quarter sessions....The clerk of the peace...shall cause an information to be framed against such..suspected person or persons, who shall instantly answer thereto,...and in case... it shall appear probable to the said court that such sending or conveying was contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, then he she or they shall take upon... themselves the proof where such child...so by them sent, then is, and also to what intent and purpose such sums of money or other thing, was or were sent by him or them beyond the seas;... such going or sending shall be adjudged...contrary to this act, unless the party or parties denying the same, shall prove the contrary...or if by failure of such proof..it shall appear to the said court of quarter sessions of the peace, that such offence or offences hath or have been committed contrary to this act, the same...shall be a conviction, as well of the person ...sent as of the parties so sending; and they and every of them shall forfeit and incur all the pains and penalties and disabilities before recited...and the one moiety of all such forfeitures to be...to him or them that shall sue for the same...by any..information. 10. And to the intent that no pretence may be made or used, that there are not sufficient numbers of schools in this realm to instruct the youth thereof in the English language, and other literature, be it further enacted..that one Act of Parliament, made in the 28th year of the late King Henry the eighth, called An Act for the English order, habite and language....and also one other act made in the 12th year of the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth, intituled An Act for the erection of free schools...which have generally been maintained and kept, but have not had the desired effect, by reason of such Irish popish schools being too much connived at, and all other acts and statutes now in force in this realm concerning schools, shall from henceforth be strictly... put in execution, according to the good intent and design of the same; and... the judges of assize...are required... to be very circumspect in seeing the same put in due execution. 54. The Children of Solicitors and Justices of the Peace. [Irish Statutes, (a) 10 William III., c. 13 ; (b) 7 George II., c. 5; (c) 7 George II., c. 6.] (a) An Act to prevent Papists being solicitors. Whereas....by experience in this kingdom it hath been always found that papists solicitors have been and still are the common disturbers of the peace...and whereas at this time there are great number of papist solicitors and agents practising within the several courts of law and equity in this kingdom, by whose numbers and the daily increase of them, great mischiefs and inconveniences are likely to ensue, [none shall act as solicitors without first taking the oaths of allegiance and abjuration, and the declaration against transubstantiation, invocation of the saints, the mass). And be it further enacted...That no person shall..act as solicitor... in any...courts and offices in this kingdom, but such..persons only who shall first take the said oaths, and subscribe the said declaration, and shall also educate all his children in the protestant religion. (b) An Act for the amendment of the law in relation to popish solicitors, and for remedying other mischiefs. 1. Whereas the laws now in force against popish solicitors have been found ineffectual by reason of the difficulty of convicting such solicitors, and the mischiefs thereby intended to be remedied still remain, to the great prejudice of the protestant interest of this kingdom.... 12....If any person or persons, now or hereafter to be admitted a barrister..or solicitor (such solicitors as were comprehended within the articles of Limerick excepted)....do or shall educate, or permit to be educated, any of his children who are now under the age of fourteen years, or shall hereafter be born, in the popish religion, such person shall hencforth be deemed a papist and disabled from being a barrister...or solicitor. (c) An Act to prevent persons converted from the popish religion... educating their children in the popish religion, from acting as justices of the peace. Whereas it is necessary for the preservation of the protestant interest, and of the peace of this kingdom, that no persons whatever should be justices of the peace in any part thereof, but such only as are of known affection to the protestant interest, and our present happy establishment; be it therefore enacted...that no person who is or shall be converted from the popish to the protestant religion, shall be capable of being or acting |