TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of each chapter. Four digit items such as [1466] are not footnote anchors but refer to a year. A superscript is denoted by ^x or ^{xx}, for example L^d or Hon^{ble}. Gothic font is indicated by double plus signs, ++in gothic font++. Macrons over e and u are displayed correctly as ē and ū. Some latin abbreviations are shown in the original text with an overline, for example Hiberniæ when abbreviated is shown as Hibniæ with ibni overlined. This overline is indicated in the etext using [= ] giving H[=ibni]æ. Basic fractions are displayed as ½ ¼ ¾; there are no other fractions in this book. Date ranges are displayed using - for example 1621-8, the same as the original text. Split-year dates are displayed with a / divider, for example 1600/1; the original text shows 160 with a fraction-like ‘0 over 1’ in a smaller font. The dual dates indicate the Julian (1600) and the Gregorian (1601) year designation for dates between January 1st and March 25th. Prior to 1752 dates in documents in British dominions used the Julian calendar, in which the new year did not begin until March 25th. Some other minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. [Illustration: (Seal of the College)] TERCENTENARY CELEBRATION JULY, 1892 PRESENTED BY THE PROVOST AND SENIOR FELLOWS OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN [Illustration: POSVI DEVM ADIVTOREM MEVM _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._ ] THE BOOK OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN 1591 [Illustration: (original Seal of the College)] 1891 BELFAST MARCUS WARD & CO., LIMITED, ROYAL ULSTER WORKS LONDON AND NEW YORK DUBLIN: HODGES, FIGGIS & CO., LIMITED 1892 [Illustration: (Publisher colophon)]