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Throughout the 1690s, O'Molony remained in France and was in receipt of a clerical pension from the French king. In the early 1690s, the
English government identified him as a likely Jacobite conspirator. In 1691 he subscribed to a letter written by the Irish episcopate to the pope, seeking support
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for a new Irish college in Paris, 300 livres for the support of students in the Collège des
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