“Conditur hoc tumulo Chaloneri triste cadaver Cujus ope et precibus conditur ista domus.” James Ussher, in recommending a subsequent Provost (Robert Ussher), says--“He is the son of that father at whose instance, charge, and trust the Charter of the first foundation was obtained from Queen Elizabeth” (_Works_, i., 103). On the epitaph of Provost Seele we read-- “Tecta Chalonerus pia condidit; obruta Seelus Instauravit.” In the MS. at Armagh, written in praise of Loftus, and reporting his speeches, we have the following (p. 228):--“Among many prudent inducements suitable to polity and reason which moved the Queen to establish this University and College at All Hallowes, the humble peticion of Henry Ussher, Archdeacon of Dublin, in the name of the Citty of Dublin, faithfully and most zealously solicited by Dr. Luke Challoner, and as powerfully recommended and promoted by Adam Loftus, etc., was not held the least of efficacye as to extrinsicall impressions with the Queen in that behalf.” Here, then, _in a panegyric of Loftus_, Archbishop and Chancellor, his name is postponed to those of the two local men and the City of Dublin. This fact speaks for itself. I quote these various documents to correct the current impression that Loftus was the real founder. [12] Gilbert: _Ancient Records of Dublin_, ii., p. 240 [13] The _Book of Benefactions_ (first printed in the College Calendar of 1858) gives the date of the actual grant as July 21, in the 34th year of Elizabeth. [14] Stubbs, _op. cit._ pp. 10, 11. [15] From a _Book of Common Prayer_ printed in Dublin, 1721, where it appears among the “Prayers for the use of Trinity College, near Dublin.” “What authority there was for these prayers has not been ascertained. They certainly were not an integral portion of the book as adopted by the Irish Convocation, and in the Dublin-printed edition of 1700 they first appear interpolated, in the T.C.D. Library copy, between two of the Acts of Parliament which were then printed in some issues of the Church of Ireland Prayer-book.”--_J.R.G._ The prayer printed at the beginning of Provost Ashe’s _secular sermon_, of which an illustration is given on p. 10, was possibly the model: it was printed in 1693/4. [16] The old Dublin seal has men-at-arms shooting with cross-bows from the tops of the towers, which are five stories high. The cause of the change is, I believe, known, though I have not learned it.