| Admin_History | According to the documents in the present box, it appears that the pension was granted by Philip IV to Colonel Semple and later to the College as payment of money owed to the Founder. Owing to the fact that for 50 years the College was without Scottish religious or students, part of the pension of 1000 ducados was kept by the Archdeacon of Granada and used to pay the viatica of Irishmen going to the Mission. To this the Madrid Jesuits objected. In a letter of 1627, Philip IV says that Gregory XV gave permission for the 1000 ducats of the Cadiz Bishopric to be devoted through Diego de Guzman to the upkeep of Archbishop Carni [?] of Cashel and other bishops and priests in Ireland. In 1627, Carney being dead, the King asked permission to devote 500 of the 1000 ducats to the Scots, who now had a College in Madrid, the other 500 being for the Irish. Later it was made clear that the whole 1000 were to be for the Scots, the first 500 being paid direct to the College, the other 500 through the Archdeacon of Granada, for the viatica of the Scots. The pension appears to have been renewed while the College was at Valladolid. There is no indication in this box when or why it was eventually lost. |