IRELAND – TRINITY COLLEGE, ROBERT EMMET AND THE RISING OF 1798

IRELAND – TRINITY COLLEGE, ROBERT EMMET AND THE RISING OF 1798
Letter signed by the Lord Chancellor of Ireland and Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College, John FitzGibbon, first Earl of Clare ("Clare"), to the Secretary of State for War, Henry Dundas, transmitting "a list of nineteen persons Whom I have been Obliged to Expel from our University at a late Visitation of Trinity College, for having been leading and active Members of treasonable Societies formed in that house"; adding: "It will be for your Consideration whether Precautions should be taken to guard against their admission into The University of St Andrews, and If you should agree With me in Opinion that they Ought to be Excluded from Any of The British Universities, I shall be Obliged to you If you will have the goodness to transmit a duplicate of the list to The University of Edinburgh, Which I do not find to be governed As the Other British Universities Are"; with both enclosed lists present, each headed "Expelled by the Visitors April 21st 1798", the letter 2 pages, the lists 2 pages, both with integral blanks, some dust-staining, 4to, Dublin, 28 April 1798