ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 10, 8 March 1900, Page 17

ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT.

TiANtUKLV — Maynooth College was established in 1705 by an Act of the Irish Parliament during Pitt's ministry. The original endowment was an annual parliamentary grant of £8928. It was continued, though with much opposition from Orangemen ana other ultra-Protestants, till IStG. In that year it was increased, under the Petl ministry, to £2ii,'iijo a year. -In 1869, by the Irish Church Act. the endowment was withdrawn, a capital sum of fourteen tunes the amount being granted to the trustees for the disihaige of existing interests. The College has got no grant since 1 860. In IM'>S, the year before Disestablishment, the annual revenue of the Established Church in Ireland was £616,810 {Irish Church Directory for I*7o, P- 1 1 5).