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‘Obituary Letters’ of individual Jesuits [who died in Spain], transcribed by Fr John MacErlean SJ from various sources. Arranged chronologically from 1705 to 1790. In Spanish.

Letters from Fr John MacErlean SJ to Irish Fr Provincial Thomas V Nolan SJ.

Letters to the Irish Fr Provincial from Fr John MacErlean SJ on various matters including:
– Fr MacErlean’s censure on a Society Appeal for Funds;
– the progress of his historical research, news from Rome and news about the Society in Australia;
– the establishment of the Society in Ireland including a ‘list of whatever documents exist to my knowledge regarding the establishment of the Society in Ireland…What exactly the establishment of the Society in Ireland means I do not know. It may be a question for a canonist to solve. The canonical succession of the New Society to the Old is disputed, and Rome has never decided the point’;
– the proposed purchase of a volume consisting of ‘the indexes of the first eleven volumes of the Bollandist Acta Sanctorum down to the 3rd volume of April’ and the binding which is ‘much older than the contents…the binding of a Missal that was presented to Father (Nicholas) Leynach in 1613 - 14 by Francis Bray, at a time when Fr Leynach was trying to establish a chapel or oratory of the Society in Clonmel’;
– the Irish College in Rome;
– lists of books the Province could present to ‘the library to be established for the use of the Coll(egium) Scriptorum and a ‘list of those members of our Province who might now or hereafter be fit to cooperate with the Collegium Scriptorum in the production of works’ and a
– ‘Brief Sketch of the Work of the Irish Jesuits from the foundation to the Suppression of the Society 1540 – 1773’ (11pp).

Material concerning the Jesuits in New Ross, County Wexford in the seventeenth century. Includes:

• notes by Fr John MacErlean SJ (4pp);
• letters from a Patrick Donovan, Upper Rosbercon, New Ross to Frs Matthew Meade and John MacErlean seeking information on the history of the Jesuits in New Ross, in particular the book of carols ‘A Pious Garland’ compiled by Fr Luke Wadding SJ, and information on Fr Hosschius Sidronius (31 January - 3 March 1948, 3 items, 18pp);
• notes by Diarmaid Walsh, Coolcull House, Taghmon, County Wexford to Fr Stephenson (10 November 1971);
• extract of an O.S. map indicating the site of the seventeenth century Jesuit church in New Ross (no scale given) and
• note by Fr Fergus O'Donoghue SJ on the Jesuit presence in the town of Wexford (14 June 2000, 1p).

Material relating to the Jesuit presence in Cork in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Includes:

• notes by Fr John MacErlean SJ (n.d., 73pp);
• letters from T.J. Walsh, C.C., South Presbytery, George’s Quay, Cork to Fr MacErlean on the Jesuits in Cork in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (the second with annotations by Fr MacErlean) (3, 11 February 1948, 2pp);
• transcripts of extracts from various sources concerning the seventeenth century Cork Jesuits, made by Fr MacErlean (n.d., 4pp);
• typescript by unknown Jesuit entitled The Jesuits in Cork, (n.d., 2pp);
• historical notes and lists of Jesuits in Cork made by [Fr P. O’Kelly SJ?] (n.d., 7pp) and
• ‘Sermon on the Sacred Heart, attributed to Fr Nicholas Barron (1719-1784) preached to the Presentation Sisters, Cork. Original with the Sisters in Cork’. Typescript transcript (11pp) and photocopy of the handwritten text, with signature of Fr Barron (14pp).

Documents concerning Fr John Meagh SJ. Includes biographical notes compiled by Fr John MacErlean SJ (n.d., 16pp), ‘De P. Joanne Meagh authore P.F. Antonio Bruodino in Propugnaculo. 1669’ (4pp) and letter from Fr Leopold Škarka SJ, with notes from Prague, Czechoslovakia (21 September 1930).

Obituaries of Jesuits contained in correspondence, transcribed by Fr John MacErlean SJ from various sources. Arranged chronologically, from 1660 to 1702. In Latin and Spanish.

A file relating to revisions of the Custom Book of the Irish Jesuit Province. Includes a letter informing of the decision taken by Fr General to revise the Custom Book of the Irish Jesuit Province (15 December 1934, 1p). Includes two minutes books of the Custom Book Commission. Details suggested changes. The minute books are in the handwriting of Fr John MacErlean SJ who was the secretary of the Commission (15 December 1934 - 7 June 1935, 51pp; 18 January - 7 June 1935, 43pp). Includes a letter from Fr John MacErlean SJ, Milltown Park, Dublin to the Irish Fr Provincial concerning protests against altering the Custom Book. Remarks 'I put in (a notebook) everything that came into my head that might be made use of in building up our protest.' (10 April 1940, 1p). Includes a notebook containing details of protests against changes to the Custom Book (handwriting of Fr John MacErlean SJ).

Transcript by Fr John MacErlean SJ, of a letter from the Royal Council of Spain concerning the studies, government and aims of the Irish College in Santiago de Compostela, 9 March 1613