Reference code: GB-0298-LC/A3
Title: Constitutions and Rules
Dates of creation: 1600-1890
Extent: 3 files
Held by: Ushaw College Library
Origination: Lisbon College
Language: Mostly Latin and Portuguese
The English College of SS. Peter and Paul at Lisbon (or, as it is more commonly known, Lisbon College) was founded by Pedro Coutinho in 1624 as a college for English students training for the priesthood and mission work in England. As a
pontifical college it was awarded the same privileges and rights as other colleges centrally controlled by Rome, such as the English College in Rome, whose aim was the maintenance of the Catholic faith in England, Scotland and Ireland. The driving
force behind the college in its early years was William Newman. Although he was never to become president, Newman founded the college from property entrusted by the estate of the late Nicholas Ashton, a Catholic chaplain in Lisbon. Initial progress
was slow until the arrival of a group of English students and teachers from the English College at Douai in 1628. The first president, albeit briefly, was Archdeacon Joseph Haynes who died the following year. The reputation of the college as a
centre of academic excellence and its relevance as an English institution in Lisbon attracted patronage from varied sources during the seventeenth century, including Pedro da Costa and Maria de Oliveira Leitoa who transferred important funds to the
College in exchange for daily masses for their special intention. In 1679, Pope Innocent XI granted the College the privilege of being considered as a High Altar of Christ on the Cross. In spite of its wealthy benefactors and papal patronage, the
college faced a number of challenges in the following centuries. In 1755, Lisbon was shaken by a terrible earthquake in which 20,000 people died and 60,000 houses and 60 palaces and convents were destroyed. The college suffered badly both in terms
of the physical devastation of its buildings and the mental well-being of many of its students and superiors who, like most of the population of Lisbon, chose to live under tents in the gardens of the college rather than risk being inside in fear of
another quake. The college suffered another setback when it was occupied by French forces during Napoleon's invasion of Portugal in 1807 and, just days before the second French invasion, the president decided to close the college down, with all
students being sent to an Anglo-Portuguese school in England until the war ended in 1814. The college was finally closed in 1973. Since the passing of the Roman Catholic Relief Act in Britain in 1829, the college's raison d'etre had ceased to exist
although it's high reputation as a teaching and training establishment enabled it to survive for another 144 years.
Constitutions and rules of the college. The earlier items are mainly constitutions of other seminaries but the bulk of the collection concerns the college's own constitutions, their interpretation and their revision.
Lisbon College closed in 1973 and this collection, along with the rest of the Lisbon Archive and Library, was transferred to Ushaw College by Mgr James Sullivan the following year.
Open for consultation.
Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Lisbonian Society and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. The Library will assist where possible with identifying copyright owners,
but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material
The papers follow the original arrangement of the collection which is broadly chronological.
Calendared card catalogue
LC/A3/1 28 September 1599
Language:
Latin
Copy of the constitution of the English College in Douai entitled
“Constituiones atque ordinationes quaedam observanda in Collegio Anglorum Duaceno”
Copy formerly owned by Thomas Haberley
12f
Old Catalogue Number 298
LC/A3/2 [?1600]
Language:
Latin
Copy of the constitution of the Venerable English College in Rome entitled
“Constitutiones et regulae collegii Anglorum de Urbe quae alumnis hujus collegii singulis mensibus praelegi solent in mensa”
4f
LC/A3/3 1600
Language:
Latin
Copy of the rules for the masters of Poetry, Syntax and Grammar
2f
LC/A3/4 1600
Language:
Latin
Copy of the constitution of the English College in Valladolid
5f
Old Catalogue Number 106
LC/A3/5 2 June 1630
Guide by P. Coutinho for those responsible for drawing up the Lisbon College rules
2f
LC/A3/6 May 1634
Language:
Portuguese
Copy of the superior's comments on the inquisitor's questions etc. about the draft constitution
With a further inquisitor's copy followed by amendments in Portuguese
5f//6f
Old Catalogue Number 297
LC/A3/7 July 1634
Language:
Portuguese
Copy of the superior's comments on the first two paragraphs added by the inquisitor to the draft constitutions
2f
Old Catalogue Number 322
LC/A3/8 2 October 1635 - 1638
Language:
Portuguese
Copy of the first, second and fourth visitations made by the protector, Don Francisco de Castro, inquisitor general
4f
Old Catalogue Number 292
LC/A3/9 2 October 1637 - 9 July 1638
Language:
Latin
Abstract of rulings of the first three visitations
1f
LC/A3/10 [1780]
Language:
Latin
Copy of
“Regimina studiorum” (1639)
This copy was made in c.1780
10f
LC/A3/11 [1780]
Language:
Latin
Transcript by Thomas Caton [1780] of
“Regimina circa omnen gubernationem domesticam...” (1639)
28f
LC/A3/12 [?1630 x 1639]
Language:
Portuguese
Lisbon College constitutions in draft/translation
24f
LC/A3/13 [?1640]
Language:
Latin
“Regimina circa victum”
2f
LC/A3/14 1635 - 1646
Language:
Latin
Barnard's abstract of the protector's rulings in the course of visitations between 1635 and 1646
6f
LC/A3/15 1690
Language:
Latin
Howard, Philip Thomas,
Constitutiones Collegii Pontificii Anglorum Duacensis, de mandato Clementis VIII. Pont. Max. per S. R. E. Cardinales Camillum Burghesium & Odoardum Farnesium ordinatae ac confirmatae; et auctoritate apostolicâ per Emum. ac
Revum. Dom. Philippum Thomam Howard ... Cardinalem de Norfolcia, ejusdem Collegii Protectorem, recognitae, & in multis auctae (Douai, 1690)
53p
LC/A3/16 [?1700]
Rules to be observed for the prefect of the Sacristy
2f
LC/A3/17 [1760]
Language:
Portuguese
Petition by the superiors to the inquisitor to suspend the rule on the different rising times in the winter and summer months and to dispense from the examination in Latin on scripture reading in the refectory
Signed: G. Bernard, J. Preston, C. Hodgson, J. Allen, C. Croucher and J. Blevin
Includes an additional copy
3f
Old Catalogue Number 326
LC/A3/18 [1818]
Language:
English
Drafts for revision of the constitution
10f
LC/A3/19 1819
Language:
Latin
Constitutiones et Regulæ Collegii Anglorum Ulyssiponensis, tituli Sanctorum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli, fundati a Perillustri D. D. Petro Coutinho (Lisbon, 1819)
66p
LC/A3/20 1870
Language:
Latin
Printed galley proofs for
Constitutiones et regulae Collegii Anglorum Ulyssiponensis tituli Sanctorum Apostolorum Petri et Pauli (Lisbon, 1870)
7f
LC/A3/21 1890 - 1921
Language:
English
Rules for the game of “Quat”, with later additions up to 1921
40f
LC/A3/22 [early 19th century]
Language:
English
English translation of the Lisbon College rules
17f
LC/A3/23 [19th century]
Language:
English
Draft copy entitled
“Regulations for the country”
2f
LC/A3/24 [19th century]
Language:
English
Rules for precedence in the use of the bowling ground
1f
LC/A3/25 [19th century]
Language:
English
Rules for the dormitory
With an additional copy
2f
LC/A3/26 [19th century]
Language:
English
Rules for the billiard room
1f
