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Rh defects and losses in its earlier records. It is only wonderful that such deficiencies and mutilations are not greater than we find them.

After the Restoration, for something more than twenty years, the discipline of the College gradually recovered itself under the government of Provosts regularly appointed by the Crown. They were orthodox men, attached to the doctrine and discipline of the Church, educated in Dublin, or in one of the English Universities, and well acquainted with all that was necessary for a real academic education. The Puritanical party in the College was then gradually discountenanced, and the dissensions between the Provost and the Fellows, or between the Fellows themselves, which had been the pest of the College since its foundation, were at an end. The Revolutionary, or Puritanical faction, no longer had