INTRODUCTION. xlvii The vindication of the University, which we have just quoted, was drawn up and subscribed within the month after the commission of the offence, but notwithstanding that and the se- vere punishment of the offender, the matter was not dead. Two years afterwards the University presented an address to the Queen on the subject.* We have no evidence to tell whether Forbes did, or did not take part in the agitation that followed. But there is no doubt that an active party grew up in the University, with a great sympathy for Forbes ; and made continual efforts to obtain the reversal of his sentence. We learn from Dr. Edward Synge, then Chancellor of St. Patrick's Cathedral (afterwards Bishop of Eaphoe, and Archbishop of Tuam), that these efforts continued to be made for several years. His words are these : — " I remember particularly the constant efforts made in the University of Dublin {hy persons without doorSi against the judgement of the Provost and Fellows, who did all they could to oppose them, and God be thanked, prevail'd), at every Com- mencement for several years, to procure a repeal of the sentence against Forbes, and a rasure of those wicked words eodem nititur fundamento, which placed the title of the late Queen on the same foot with that of her glorious predecessor, out of the publick Register of the University." There is on record another example of these disturbances in "■ This Address will be found on a Masters of the said University, in printed Broadside in the same volume Congregation assembled, April 19, of curious Papers (collected by Lord 17 11. Mornington), which we have already "^ See p. 75 of his pamphlet, en- referred to (Irish Pamphlets, A^ol. titled: — "Vindication of a Sermon I., No. 42). The title of this rare preached before the House of Com- piece is as follows : — "To the Queen's mons of Ireland, on Saturday, 23rd' Most Excellent Majesty The humble October, 1725, in which the question Address of the Vice-Chancellor of concerning toleration is further con- the University of Dublin, Provost sidered, in answer to the Rev. Mr. and Fellows of Trinity College, Dub- Eadcliffe's Letter. By Edward Synge, lin, together with the Doctors and A. M. Dublin^ 1726. [The date
