Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (continUfd): THE RESTORATION TO THE REVOLUTION Ormonde, wisest and most generous of Chancellors, returned with the Restoration to the duties of his office. A reconstruction of the governing body was inevitable. ' The pretended Provost' Winter, as the zealous royalist, Carte, styles him, and his Genevan associates, were removed, the Puritan regime abruptly terminated, and Anglican doctrine was re-established in one of its most eloquent and least bigoted representatives, Jeremy Taylor, Bishop of Down, who was chosen by Ormonde to be Vice-Chancel lor. A new Provost, Thomas Seele, the first ' home' graduate who attained to the dignity, and five Senior Fellows, were appointed by a King's letter. By degrees the vacant Junior Fellowships were also filled up, and by 1663f theJEREMY TAYLOR, VICE-CHANCELLOR 53 Two of the existing Senior Fellows were retained in office- Nathaniel Hoyle, who had been Vice-Provost during Washington's absence, and Caesar Williamson. John Stearne, M.D., a, former Junior Fellow, was also appointed. t In this year a Fellow named William Leckey was executed in Dublin for his part in a plot against Charles II. number of scholars was once more brought up to the full number of seventy. Bishop Taylor, who during his visits to Dublin occupied ' the great middle chamber in Sir Richard's Scot's buildings adjoining unto the steeple,' seems to have given up much of his time to academic affairs. His affectionate interest in ' the little but excellent University of Dublin ' was of the utmost value at a period in its history only less menacing than 1688. It is not surprising that Taylor found 'all things in perfect disorder—indeed, as great as can be imagined to be consequent on a sad war, and an evil incompetent Government s...