Incorporated Society for Promoting Protestant Schools in Ireland: Rules and Orders, 1733-1778. IE TCD MS 5301

IE TCD MS 5301 is a letter book of the rules and orders of the Incorporated Society for Promoting Protestant Schools in Ireland (Dublin branch). The Society was founded by Charter in 1733 with power to receive endowments and to purchase lands, etc. to found schools for poor children. The number of Charter schools grew rapidly from 1734 on, with substantial Parliamentary grants and private endowment. (Bishop Pococke is reported as having visited twenty-six Charter Schools before he founded the Pococke School near Kilkenny in 1763). During the 19th century however the Kildare Place Society (1812-) and the National Board reduced the importance of the Society. It moved away from the field of elementary to that of post-primary education. In 1894 the Society was reconstituted under the Educational Endowments (Ireland) Act of 1885. See also IE TCD MS 11413/1 for the Incorporated Society's deeds, also digitised and available in this repository at https://doi.org/10.48495/vx021j47c