QUARTUM HEMEROLOGIUM ab an : 1641 ad an: 1647 Pages 1-14 blank ; on page 15 the Title and the first two paragraphs of the Preface , as printed below, are written . To the title Canon Tierney has added a pencilled note part of the Diary is : This called by Bish . Challoner, Mr. Ireland's Diary (Missionary Priests, ii, 187 , etc.) No doubt, therefore, it is in Ireland's handwriting . He was Procurator from this time to 1647 , when the hand changes. On page 20 the Diary begins , repeating the title and first two paragraphs already written on page 15, with the variants that the name Barberini which was abbreviated on page 15 is here written in full, and the date in the title there written as a numeral is here given in words.]
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[P. 21 ] Hemerologium Collegii Anglorum Duaceni
incipiens a Præsidentia Rd admodum Domini D. Georgii Muscotti, quæ incidit in annum Domini Millesimum sexcentesimum quadragesimum primum.
PRÆFATIO . jam agitur annus ex quo laudatissimus mos ille indies summatim res nostras colligendi penitus intercisus est, utpote a morte Rdi Dni D. ffrancisci Barber , Presbyteri et hujus Collegii Procuratoris fidelissimi, qui huic operi gnaviter incumbebat. Quo tamen tam laudata, et a primordiis Collegii religiose fere servata consuetudo postliminio quasi restituta tandem reviviscat , nos illam ex quo R. D. Georgius Muscottus Collegii gubernacula suscepit , pro tenuitate nostra ex speciali ipsius mandato in integrum restituere non gravabimur. Cum eximius Dominus ac Magister noster D. Matthæus Kellisonus S. T. Doctor et Collegii Anglorum Duaceni Præses meritissimus anno ætatis suæ 80, sacerdotii 52, Præsidentia vero 27 (quo munere summa vigilantia , sollicitudine et charitate perfunctus est) maximarum virtutum posteris exempla relinquens , anno Domini 1641 die 21 Januarii Duaci in dicto Collegio , diem clausisset extremum, SSmus Dominus noster Urbanus Papa Octavus de ejus obitu certior factus, ex omni clero Anglicano D. Georgium Muscottum virum doctrina, prudentia et pietate insignem post plurimos pro fide Catholica in vinea Anglicana exantlatos labores , post diuturnas diversorum carcerum per 20 et amplius annos molestias strenue superatas , mortisque pro fide sententiam alacriter sustentatam, summa omnium gratulatione selegit et in Præsidem dicti Collegii feliciter ordinavit ; datis primum [22 NONUS
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