Correspondence relating to Fr Luke Wadding OFM and the Irish Friars Minor at St. Isidore’s College, Rome, on ecclesiastical and political matters; and concerning his interests as historian of the Franciscan Order.

[Letter of Fr Ludovico McNamara OFM to Fr James Cody OFM, Prague, 4th March 1693.]

[A report of the trial and condemnation of Oliver Plunkett, Catholic archbishop of Armagh and primate of Ireland.]

[Portion of letter of Fr John de Burgo OFM, with seal, 16th February 1710.]

[Endorsed copy of the attestation of priests and brothers of the Irish Franciscan province on behalf of Fr James Darcy OFM, 23rd August 1684.]

[Copy of letter of Fr James McDavitt OFM, former minister provincial to the guardian of St Anthony's College, Leuven, 1781.]

[Petition for the division of the Franciscan province of Ireland, Buttevant, 24th January 1672, signed by Franciscan superiors.]

[Authenticated copies of letters of Philip III to the Archdukes Albert and Isabel, and to the Marqués Spínola, El Escorial, 21st September 1606.]

[Authenticated copy of letter from the chapter of the Irish Franciscan province to the minister general, 23rd August 1684.]

[Printed declaration on the dispute over the right of all ex-ministers provincials to vote at the meetings of the definitory or governing body of the Franciscan province of Ireland, issued at Rome, 1711.]

[Endorsed copy of the Bull of Foundation for St Anthony’s College, Leuven.]

[Authenticated copy of 1613 declaration by Archbishop Flaithrí Ó Maoil Chonaire OFM and the Commissary General’s approbation of 1617.]

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