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Title: The foundation of the Hospital and Free school of King Charles II., Oxmantown Dublin : commonly called the Blue coat school : with notices of some of its governors, and of contemporary events in Dublin from the foundation, 1668 to 1840, when its government by the city ceased
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Falkiner, Frederick Richard, Sir, 1831-1908
Subjects: Hospital and Free School of King Charles II (Dublin, Dublin) Poor -- education Ireland Dublin Dublin (Ireland) -- History
Publisher: Dublin : Sealy, Bryers and Walker
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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at the west end of the Church, and began the restorationof the ruined Cathedral of St. Patrick at Ardagh. Hedied in 1713, full of honours, and lies inWestminster Abbey.Brave old City Free School, three of your memories amongstthe ashes of the great.3 The collapse of the Free School was, in truth, becausethe City had in mind the combination of an Hospital withthe School, to maintain wnich separately was utterly beyondtheir means, nor could they have attempted either, but forthe allotment of Stephens and Oxmantown Greens, afurther breach of Straffords ordinance, yet, one of vital andlasting moment to our Hospital, for it gave us a home and a ^ This account of the Free School and Dr. Wettenhall is drawn fromGilberts Calendar, \ols. IV. and V. ; his History of Dublin, Vol. I. SirJames Wares Irish Bishops ; the Minute Books of Kings Hospital.Lord Wolseleys Life of Marlborough, and Elringtons Life of Usher havebeen consulted. 6/;n/^i/. J/i/,/V.,^AV6:v/A.s/y/;;AAA7:i//;. , .s-^n-riiEXsCRKKX.
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St. Stephens Green, as allotted in 1664 (The adjoining Streets were inserted in the Map many years afterwardsV (To face page Vi THE FREE SCHOOL OF DUBLIN. 43 permanent endowment. In 1663 the Assembly, recitingthat by the late rebellion and long continued troubles ofthis Kingdom, the treasury of this Cittie is cleerly exhausted,4resolved that by letting the outskirts of S. Stephens Greenand other waste lands, a considerable rent may be reserved.In the next year they had these skirts laid out in parcels,for which lots were drawn by the City IVIagnates themselvesand other Notables, whose names appear in the AssemblyRolls. It may seem a mighty job, but the Corporation infact had no money to build on, or even to enclose the wastes.Each allottee was to pay one penny per foot on three sidesof the green, and one halfpenny on the south, or countryside, and fines of ten shillings for each shilling of the groundrents. All were given grants in perpetuity, but each wasbound to erect his portion of

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