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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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insert may be ofinterest to some of the present residents, as they certainlyare to the Kings Hospital, part of whose title deeds theyare, though, as with many Irish landlords, our rents are small.The skirts of Stephens Green thus allotted, amounted * Gilb. Cal,, 4-256, 271, 299. ^ Gilb. Cal., 4, 358. 44 FOUNDATION OF THE KINGS HOSPITAL. to seventeen Irish acres, from which the aspect of theoriginal expanse may be partially realized. The outsider allottees in Oxmantown were more numerousin Oxmantown than in Stephens Green, because Oxman-town was then becoming the fashionable West-end. Lotsthere were drawTi by Lords Dungannon and ^lassareene,Chief Baron Bysse, who, as an old recorder, had asked leaveto draw. Sir Hercules Langford, ancestor of the Rowleys,Lords Langford, and Warner Westenra, ancestor of theLords Rossmore. He was then a member of the Corporation. >>/:.\/:/,:ii. (/rri,i.\i-:Mai- ,.■///.„■. t ■■J //.,////(// /,t/..Y nj (JXM.l.X J <j/i:\.
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/■■ Oxmantown Green, as allotted in 1665 (To face page 44 ( 4S ) CHAPTER III. TEMP. CHARLES II., 1668-1675, TO THE OPENING OFTHE SCHOOL IN QUEEN STREET. Our Hospital bears the name of Charles II., but we mayclaim a purer eponymus than he, for its originating impulsecame from one of the very noblest soldiers and statesmen ofthat not very noble age ; one of the choice spirits who rescueit from the shame of ignobility, Thomas, Lord Ossory, theDuke of Ormondes eldest son, the darling, not only of courtsbut of nations, of navies, as well as armies. Paladin sanspcur at sans reprochc, Laudatus a laudato, his epitaph iswritten by John Evelyn—himself perhaps the worthiest ofEnglish worthies of his time, in a page which even now canhardly be read without emotion :— No one more bravemore modest ; none more humble, sober, and every wayvirtuous. Unhappy England in this illustrious personsloss; universal was the mourning for him, and the eulogieson him. I stood night and day by his bedside

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