The Book of Trinity College Dublin 1591-1891Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)
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The Book of Trinity College Dublin 1591-1891
Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)
Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)
Two Undergraduates of the College, one of them a Scholar,
had company at their chambers till about an hour after the
keys of the College were carried, according to custom, to the
Provost. When their company was willing to go, upon finding the
College gates shut, and being told the keys were carried to
the Provost, the Scholars went to the Provost’s lodgings, and
knocked there in an outrageous manner. Upon the Provost’s man
coming to the door to see what was the matter, they told him
they came for the keys to let out their friends, and would have
them, or they would break open the gates. He assured them the
keys were carried to his master, and that he durst not awake
him to get them, and then the man withdrew. Upon their coming
again to knock with great violence at the Provost’s door, he
was forced to rise, and came down and told them they should
not have the keys, and bid his man and the porter take notice
who they were. The next day he called the two Deans to his
assistance, as their Statutes require, and sent for the lads to
his lodgings. The Scholar of the house came, but not the other.
To him they proposed his making a submission for his fault in
the Hall, and being publicly admonished there. This he made a
difficulty in doing; and upon their proceeding to the Hall,
when he came out of the lodgings he put on his hat before the
Provost and walked off. The Provost and Deans went on to the
Hall, and after waiting there some time to see whether he would
come and submit, they expelled them both.
The Scholar’s name was Annesley, a relation of Lord Anglesea, and
through his influence with the Lord Lieutenant (Lord Carteret)
and the Visitors [and upon his apologising] he was restored....
We find that he took the B.A. degree in 1726, and that of M.A. in
1729.
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