1691. Spring commencement. He graduated LL.D. in the University of Dublin.
He published a pamphlet with the following title:— “A Speech made to his Grace the Duke of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and to the Lords of his Majesties most Honorable Privy Council. To return the humble thanks of the French Protestants lately arriv’d in this kingdom and graciously reliev’d by them. By P. Drelincourt, Domestic Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Ormond, and Chantor of Christ-Church. Published by Special Command. 4to. Dublin 1682, pp. 8.”
Inscription on the mural tablet over his monument in Armagh Cathedral against North Wall of the Nave:—
En tibi, Lector,
effigies Petri Drelincourtii, LL.D.
e Drelincurtionmi gente Parisiense
liberali et eruditâ,
in quâ pater claruit Carolus
cui, quod Fides Reformata latius effulgeat
debent populares
quod mortem non extimescant.
Christiani universi
hunc habent studiorum pariter et morum exemplar.
Patriam reliquit adolescens
Ecclesise Anglicanae desiderio,
non suse infortunio;
habuitque Angliam
non Asylum sed Patriam,
ubi visus est Jacobo Ormondia; Ducis, dignus
qui sibi esset a sacris domesticis,
nepoti Oxoniae literis operam danti,
tam studiorum quam consiliorum moderatori;
quibus muneribus fideliter functus
ad hujus ecclesiffi decanatum
ultra votum et ambitum evectus est.
Hoc marmor mortuo dicavit Uxor
pietate superflâ,
cui nempe hcec ecclesia quam decenter ornata
et tantum non extructa!
cui ecclesia Sancti Dulaci[1] non tantum extructa
sed et sacra supellectili pretiosâ instructa,
etiam Pastore redornata!
cui Hospitium puerorum inopum apud Dublinienses
amplâ munificentiil ditatum —
Monumenta exstant Perennia.
Tu, lector,
adstrue tibi vivo monumentum.
Cippum apponant aut etiam non apponant
posteri.
On the east panel of the sarcophagus is engraved:—
“Doctor Peter Drelincourt was born in Paris, July 22d 1644.
Died March 7th 1720. Aged 76 years.”
- ↑ The small parish of St Dulough’s in the County of Dublin is an appendant on and in the gift of the precentor of Christ Church Cathedral, to which, I presume, Dr Drelincourt presented himself in virtue of his Precentorship.— W. R.
