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    The mortgage papers of St. Patrick’s College Maynooth, 1871-1923


    Dooley, Terence (2005) The mortgage papers of St. Patrick’s College Maynooth, 1871-1923. Archivium Hibernicum, 59. pp. 106-236. ISSN 0044-8745

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    Abstract

    On 1 January 1871, under the terms of the Irish Church act of 1869, St Patrick's College, Maynooth, received a capital sum of £369,040 in compensation for the withdrawal of the annual parliamentary grant of £26,360 that had been set under the Maynooth act of 1845. Much to the delight of the then president, Rev C. W. Russell, the trustees would 'no longer [be] subject to official control, nor liable to be made the occasion of unseemly exhibitions in Parliament' but would have the power to independently administer the entire property, 'subject to one sole condition, the equitable one of applying the proceeds [of endowment] to the proper purposes of the trust'. In other words, the capital sum invested would have to provide an annual return comparable (at least) to the previous annual grant in order to safeguard the financial running of the college, of which the trustees, the only legally constituted religious corporation in Ireland, were now the legal proprietors.

    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: mortgage papers; St. Patrick’s College Maynooth; 1871-1923;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > History
    Item ID: 4684
    Depositing User: Terence Dooley
    Date Deposited: 08 Jan 2014 11:51
    Journal or Publication Title: Archivium Hibernicum
    Publisher: National University of Ireland Maynooth
    Refereed: Yes
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      Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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