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 INTEODUCTION. xv as part of a plan for increasing the Borough representation in his new Irish Parliament. They speak of the College as ' mater Universitatis,' and afterwards deal with the University and the College as one institution, proper to be represented in Parliament as one of the new Boroughs. They also speak of other Colleges and Halls to he erected in the said University ; thus treating the College and the University as distinct. Few of the native studiosi of the College had at that time obtained any of the higher Degrees ; and as the College (but not the University) had property with which it had been endowed, and as its influential members were Englishmen, it may have been considered important, as a matter of State policy, to keep the two bodies so bound together as to afford a sufficient pretest for making a new Borough, in which the members of the corpo- ration of the College would be the electors. Whatever view may be taken of it, it could not vitiate the construction of the Charter of Uueen Elizabeth, much less that of King Charles I. I am not aware that there is any other reason put forward by Dr. Todd in support of his statement that the University is not a Corporation. Dr. Miller, indeed, contended that, as a name had not been expressly given to the University by either Charter, this was a decisive objection to its claim to be a body corporate. This is akin to the objection that there was no express grant of a common seal. It has been settled (at least from the time of Lord Chief Justice Holt) that it is sufiicient if the name may be implied from the nature of the thing. The maternal name, i. e. the University of Trinity College, is that which is used in the treaty and the Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland ; and the local name — the University of Dublin — is found in the title and heading of the Regulse that were drawn up by Provosts Temple and Bedell ; in the Uueen's Charter (21 Vict.), by which the rights and privileges of the University have been confirmed ; in the 24 & 25 Vict, c. 53, which speaks of " the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge,