Some Worthies of the Irish Church

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE II. DUDLEY LOFTUS: A DUBLIN ANTIQUARY OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.1 I PROPOSE to bring under your notice the life, labours, and learning of Dr. Dudley Loftus, a celebrated Irish antiquary and scholar, who lived all through the stormy events of the seventeenth century. He was celebrated in many fields, in Oriental studies, in Irish antiquities, by his knowledge of law, secular and ecclesiastical. Dudley Loftus belonged to a family famous in Irish history. He was a great-grandson of Primate Loftus, the founder of Trinity College in Queen Elizabeth's day, and the original source whence have sprung the title and family of the Marquis of Ely. Primate Loftus himself was not a learned man, but he had at least one learned son. Sir Edward Loftus, Serjeant-at-Law, was a distinguished Dublin lawyer about the year 1597, and I can still show you in Marsh's Library the proof of his scholarship. Some time ago I stumbled across an ancient manuscript law dictionary. I investigated it at my leisure, and found that it was a most elaborate work, containing in alphabetical order all the law terms used at that time, with explanations and references to Acts of Parliament in which each term occurred, framed by Serjeant Loftus 1 Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 5th ser., vol. i. p. 17 sqq. for his own use. It has often struck me that very few legal students of the present day go to the same exhaustive trouble in their studies as Serjeant Loftus of three hundred years ago underwent.1 Dudley Loftus was born in 1618, and must have had exceptional educational advantages, as we are informed that when he was twenty years of age he spoke or was acquainted with twenty different languages, especially those of the Oriental type. He must, indeed, have b...

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