[134] Bibl. Egerton, Brit. Mus., MS. No. 75, p. 371. [135] Conall MacGeoghegan, in his _Annals of Ireland_ (1627, MS.), under 1063, makes the same statement as to the crown, but says that Pope Adrian gave it to Henry II. [136] On this and other Irish harps see O’Curry: _Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish_, vol. iii., p. 266. Petrie’s remarks are in Bunting’s _Ancient Irish Music_. [137] See _Classical Review_, May, 1888. [138] Gudius: _Inscriptiones Antiquæ_, ed. Hessel; Boeckh: _Corpus_, ii., p. 778, n. 3346. See a paper by Dr. Todd--_Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy_, vol. ii., p. 49. [Illustration: FRONT OF TRINITY COLLEGE, from Brooking’s Map of Dublin, 1728. ] CHAPTER VIII. THE EARLY BUILDINGS. When Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Dublin, had induced Queen Elizabeth to grant a Charter of Incorporation to a University to be established in Dublin, he addressed himself to the Mayor and Corporation of the City with a view to obtaining a suitable site. And, happily for the success of the scheme which he and the more academic Luke Challoner so successfully carried out, and for the future welfare of the new Institution, a site the most suitable and the most admirable that could have been found in Ireland was at that moment at the disposal of the Corporation of Dublin--the old Augustinian Monastery of All Hallows, lying to the eastward, and just outside the City. As far as we can gather from the recitals in the lease of the monastic buildings and site made by the Mayor and Sheriffs in the year 1591 to John Spensfield, the precincts, besides a church, consisted of “a steeple, a building with a vault under it, the spytor, otherwise called the hall, with appurtenances all along to the north cheek of the Bawn Gate.” We find that there were also within the precincts of the Monastery the sub-prior’s orchard and the common orchard, and a field called the Ashe Park, wherein the prior and the monks had their haggard and cistern, with the western storehouse by the Great Bawn, together with a vestry cloister, a little garden within the precincts, and a tower over the gate adjoining Hoggen Green. The buildings, without the lands, appear to have been let to John Pepard, merchant, for sixty-one years, at ten shillings a-year, with a clause restraining him from taking stones, or slates, or timber out of the precincts; the materials thereon were to be used only for building on the site. Another lease was made to Edward Pepard, in 1584, of a small orchard in All Hallows for thirty-one years, at twenty-four shillings a-year; and in 1583 Edward Pepard had sub-let, for twenty-one years, to Peter van Hey and Thomas Seele, a garden with a vault at the north side of All Hallows, at a yearly rent of forty shillings, with a covenant that they should keep up the garden wall and the vaults. It would thus appear that at this time the Pepards had acquired the site of the buildings and a small orchard,