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.As we haveseen, the Bolton Library in Cashel has a much larger number of authors than Armagh,even if we make allowance for the difference in size of the two collections.TheCashel collection contains many of the great names of the sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies, from the scholar Pierre de la Ramée (Ramus), the theologian Françoisdu Jon (Junius) and the poet Guillaume de Salluste, sieur du Bartas, to the famouspreachers Alexandre Morus and Jacques Saurin.Earlier periods are much betterrepresented in Cashel than in Armagh where, however, we continue to find a smallnumber of authors from the sixteenth and earlier seventeenth centuries, among themRobert and Henri Estienne and Henri IV s great minister, Maximilien de Béthune,duc de Sully.For the later period, authors born after 1645, the balance shifts onceagain, and it is in the Armagh collection that titles by writers of the refuge such asIsaac de Beausobre, Pierre Des Maizeaux and Elie Benoît are to be found.Some ofthese authors appear in the collections of Kilkenny, Derry and the Antrim PresbyteryLibrary in Belfast.Table 7.3 below examines the distribution of authors who appearin Cashel or Armagh and in one or more other libraries.Table 7.3 Huguenot authors in Cashel or Armagh who appear in otherlibrariesAuthor Kilkenny Derry Cashel Belfast Armagh1693/ c.1729 1744 c.1765 17711756du Moulin, - XX- -C.Ramus - X X - -Du Bartas - - X X -Du Jon - X X - -Chamier - XXX-Cameron, J.XXX- -Mestrezat - - X X -132 Religious Culture of the HuguenotsAmyraut X X X - -du Moulin, --X X -L.Ablancourt, X- - - XP.deLe Blanc XXX- -de BeaulieuMorus X - X - -Drelincourt, X- X- -C.filsMartin, D.X - X - -Benoît - - - X XMadame X- - - XDacierBeausobre - - - X XSaurin X- XX-Cameron, Amyraut and Le Blanc de Beaulieu appear in three libraries andall were associated with doctrinal controversy.Cameron s teaching on grace andfreewill gave rise to controversy after his death.31 His student Amyraut, together withCappel and La Place who both appear in the Cashel collection, followed his teachingand was at the centre of the great dispute over universal grace which split the churchin the 1630s and 1640s.Amyraut s most controversial work, De la Prédestination, isnot found in any of the libraries, but the Theses Salmurienses, written by Amyraut,Cappel and La Place, appear in both Cashel and Derry.Le Blanc de Beaulieu, onthe other hand, was controversial because he supported the idea of reuniting theEglise Réformée with the Catholic Church, and it is the book in which this opinionwas expressed, his Theses theologicae, which we find in Kilkenny, in Derry andin Cashel.The other authors who appear in three libraries are the minister DanielChamier, famously a victim in 1621 of the siege of Montauban, and the celebratedpreacher, Jacques Saurin.With Cameron, Amyraut and Le Blanc de Beaulieu, then, there is clear evidencethat there was some interest, in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Ireland,in the major theological debates within the French Church in the seventeenth century,and it is perhaps worth mentioning here that a title by the Arminian clergymanTilenus is also present in Cashel.Significantly, these figures of controversy do notappear either in the Presbyterian library in Belfast which did not rest on a pre-existingcollection of books and was built up by regular small purchases, or in Armagh.Interest in these debates seems therefore to have waned by the end of the century,although it clearly informs the collections of which the Cashel library is composed.31 Brian Armstrong, Calvinism and the Amyraut Heresy: Protestant Scholasticismand Humanism in Seventeenth-Century France (Madison, 1969), pp.42 70.The Influence of the Huguenots on Educated Ireland 133Those who appear twice are a very varied group.Representing the sixteenthcentury are the legal expert Charles du Moulin and Pierre de la Ramée, who wasa victim of the St Bartholomew s Day massacre, as well as du Bartas and thescholar and theologian François du Jon [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]