The Archbishop’s sounding words have had their weight in benefiting his own memory, as has been shown, beyond his merits in this matter.

The modest gift of the Corporation of Dublin, consisting of 28 acres of derelict land partly invaded by the sea, has become a splendid property, in money value not less than £10,000 a-year, in convenience and in dignity to the College perfectly inestimable.

THE OLDEST MAP OF THE COLLEGE (1610).

The necessary sum for repairing the decayed Abbey of All Hallowes, and for what new buildings the College required, was raised by an appeal of the Lord Deputy Fitzwilliam (dated March 11, 1591) to the owners of landed property all over Ireland. The list of these contributions is very curious, and also very liberal, if we consider that the following sums represent perhaps eight times as much in modern days:—

£s.d.£s.d.
“The Lord Deputy,20000Advanced by his means in the Province of Munster,10000
Archbishop Adam Loftus,10000Sir Francis Shane,10000
Sir Thomas Norreys, Vice-President of Munster,10000” ” a-year for his life,2000
Sir Warham St. Leger,5000Sir Henry Harrington,5000
Sir Richard Dyer,10000Thomas Jones, Bishop of Meath,5000
Sir Henry Bagnall,10000The gentlemen of the Barony of Lecale,5900
Sir Richard Bingham,2000Sir Hugh M‘Ginnis, with other gentlemen
of his county [Down],		14000
The Province of Connaught by same,10000The clergy of Meath,3000
The County of Galway by same,10000Thomas Molyneux, Chancellor of the Exchequer,4000
The town of Drogheda,4000Luke Chaloner, D.D.,1000
The city of Dublin,2700Edward Brabazon,1500
A Concordatum from the Privy Council,20000Sir George Bourchier,3000
Alderman John Foster (for the Iron-work),3000Christopher Chartell,4000
Lord Chief Justice Gardiner,2000Sir Turlough O’Neill,10000
Lord Primate of Ireland [Garvey],7600

“These sums amount to over £2,000, and they must have been considerably supplemented, for we have a return made by Piers Nugent with respect to one of the baronies in the County of Westmeath, in which he gives the names of eleven gentlemen in that barony who are prepared to contribute according to their freeholds, proportionally to other freeholders of Westmeath.

“Money, however, came in very slowly, specially from the South of Ireland; Sir Thomas Norreys informed Dr. Chaloner that the County of Limerick agreed to give 3s. 4d. out of every Plough-land, and he promised to do his best to draw other counties to some contribution, but he adds, ‘I do find devotion so cold as that I shall hereafter think it a very hard thing to compass so great a work upon so bare a foundation.’

“Dr. Luke Chaloner seems to have been the active agent in corresponding with the several contributors, and to have been most diligent in collecting subscriptions.”[14]

The coldness of Limerick—perhaps disappointed at the failure of Perrott’s scheme—contrasted with the zeal of Dublin. Dr. Stubbs quotes from Fuller, the Church historian, a statement which the latter had heard from credible persons then resident in Dublin, that during the building of the College—that is to say, for over a year—it never rained, except at night. This historically incredible statement is of real value in showing the feelings of the people who were persuaded of it. The great interest and keen hopes of the city in the founding of the College are expressed in this legendary way.