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Rh contrary, Dublin, with the Scotch Universities, as well as those of Germany, and of the continent of Europe generally, except such as have suffered from the experiments of modern revolutionary legislation, has much more nearly preserved the ancient constitution of a studium generale, than the Universities of England, notwithstanding the superiority of these last in many respects. In the case of Dublin it was necessary that the College should be founded before the University, because in Ireland there were at that time no Doctors or Masters to conduct the schools, except the few who had come to Ireland from the English Universities; there were no students except such as could be supported by Bursaries, or eleemosynary foundations; therefore. Queen Elizabeth, in her Charter of foundation, declares it to be her will, "Ut eo melius ad bonas Artes percipiendas, colendamque virtutem et religionem adjuventur [studiosi], quod de caetero sit, et erit,, .... pro Educatione, Institutione, et Instructione Juvenum et Studentium in Artibus et Facultatibus, perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturum." In other words, the College was to be the parent of the