Note 71 — PART I The Graces

The Catholic University seems to have given particular offence to the Protestant clergy. Thus Bedell, writing to Wentworth, complains that “his Holiness hath erected a new university at Dublin to confront his Majesty’s college there.” (Strafford Letters, I., 147.) The documents relating to the seizure of its property will be found in Mahaffy’s Epoch of Irish History, ch. V.

For an account of St. Patrick’s Purgatory see Richardson’s Folly of Pilgrimages, p. 44, and for its destruction Lord Cork’s Diary, September 8, 1632. In October, 1638, the Queen wrote to Wentworth begging him to allow it to be restored. He declined on the ground that it was “in the midst of the great Scottish plantation.” (Strafford Letters, II., 221, 222.)