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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY : PROVOSTSHIP OF TEMPLE CHANCELLORSHIP OF LAUD THE COMMONWEALTH Without doubt, the intention of Queen Elizabeth and her advisers was to establish in the University of Dublin a thoroughly national institution. Provision was made for the education of the ' natives,' aspirants after culture from beyond ' the Pale' of English civilization, and lectures in the Irish language were instituted in order that students who were ignorant of English might not thereby be excluded from the benefits of University teaching. It is not impossible that the true object of these benevolent provisions was the conversion of such Roman Catholic students as might stray into the educational net, but it ought to be remembered that Roman Catholics contributed liberally to the funds of the original endowment, that no religious tests were instituted, that it was not incumbent upon the Fellows to take Orders, and that a number of the early students were Papists. In face of these facts it cannot bePURITANISM OF EARLY RULERS 27 That Fellows must be members of the Established Church was first enacted by the charter of Charles I. asserted that the Trinity College of the sixteenth century was under ecclesiastical dictation, or its policy governed by any exclusive system. Not until the accession of James I., who, while favouring the Universities in his realm, set his face against Dissent, was the campaign opened against Roman Catholicism in Ireland, which not only rendered nugatory all attempts to preserve a wide and unsectarian basis for higher education in the country, but so inflamed the religious animosities of the day as to postpone for centuries that fusion of the better-educated classes without which no settlement of the political problem in Ireland is, or can ...