A history of the city of Dublin

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1. Gunpowder Explosion Destroys Winetavern-street

   Winetavern Street · street · Dublin · 1597

   In March 1597, gunpowder sent by the Queen to Dublin was stored along both sides of Winetavern-street when a spark ignited it, causing a massive explosion. The blast hurled stone mansions, wooden houses, beams, and people into the air, killing a great number of tradesmen, women, maidens, and others.

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   " One hundred and forty-four baiTels of powder were sent by the Queen to the town of the ford of hurdles (Dublin) to her people, in the month of March. When the powder Avas landed, it was drawn to Wine-street (co ppdio an piona), and placed on both sides of the street, and a spark of fire got into the powder ; but from whence that spark proceeded, Avhether from the heavens, or from the earth beneath, is not known ; howbeit, the barrels bm'st into one blazing flame and rapid conflagration (on the 13th of March), which raised into the air, from then' solid foundations and supporting posts, the stone mansions and wooden houses of the street, so that the long beam, the enormous stone, and the man in his corporal shape, were sent whirling into the air over the town by the explosion of this powerful powder ; and it is impossible to enumerate, reckon, or describe, the number of honourable persons, of tradesmen of evcrv class, of women and maidens, and of the

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   Along here, on Winetavern Street, on the 13th of March 1597, a gunpowder explosion tore through Dublin. The Queen had sent 144 barrels of powder to the town of the ford of hurdles, as Dublin was called. When it was landed, it was drawn to this street and placed on both sides. A spark of fire got into the powder, but from whence that spark proceeded, whether from the heavens or from the earth beneath, is not known. The barrels burst into one blazing flame and rapid conflagration, which raised into the air, from their solid foundations and supporting posts, the stone mansions and wooden houses of the street. The long beam, the enormous stone, and the man in his corporal shape were sent whirling into the air over the town by the explosion of this powerful powder. It is impossible to enumerate, reckon, or describe the number of honourable persons, of tradesmen of every class, of women and maidens, and of others who were killed.

2. Execution of Darkey Kelly for a capital offence

   Copper Alley · street · Dublin · 1764

   A woman known as 'Darkey Kelly', who kept an infamous establishment in Copper-alley, was tried for a capital offence about 1764, sentenced to death, and publicly burned in Stephen's Green.

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   The " Copper-alley Gazette," occasionally published in 1766 in the "Freeman's Journal," contained a satirical account of the proceedings of the politicians of the day under feigned names. A woman, known as " Darkey Kelly," who kept an infamous establishment in this alley, was tried for a capital offence about 1764, sentenced to death, and publicly burned in Stephen's Green. Her sister, Maria Llewellin, was condemned to be hanged in 1788, for her complicity in the affair of the Neals with Lord Carhampton. Till about ten years ago there stood, on the north-western side of Copperalley, a very large brick mansion, popularly styled the "Maiden Tower," which contained such a labyrinth of rooms, galleries, and doors, that it was almost impossible for any person to discover the mode of descent from the ujoper stories, unless accompanied by a guide acquainted with the intricacies of the building.

   " Saul's-court," on the eastern side of Fishamble-street, takes its name from Laurence Saul, a wealthy Roman Catholic distiller, who resided there at the sign of the " Golden Key," in the early part of the last century. The family of Saul or Sail was located near Cashell early in the seventeenth century.

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   Along here on this street is Copper Alley, where a woman known as Darkey Kelly kept an infamous establishment. About 1764 she was tried for a capital offence, sentenced to death, and publicly burned in Stephen's Green. Her sister, Maria Llewellin, was condemned to be hanged in 1788 for her complicity in the affair of the Neals with Lord Carhampton. On the north-western side of Copper Alley there stood, until about ten years ago, a very large brick mansion popularly styled the Maiden Tower. It contained such a labyrinth of rooms, galleries, and doors that it was almost impossible for any person to discover the mode of descent from the upper stories, unless accompanied by a guide acquainted with the intricacies of the building. The Copper-alley Gazette was occasionally published in 1766 in the Freeman's Journal, and contained a satirical account of the proceedings of the politicians of the day under feigned names.

3. Riot and killings at the new wooden bridge, giving rise to 'Bloody Bridge' name

   Rory O'Moore Bridge · bridge · Dublin · 1670

   In 1670 a new wooden bridge was built across the Liffey west of the Old Bridge, interfering with a local ferry interest, prompting apprentices to riot and attempt its destruction. Twenty were arrested, but when soldiers were escorting them to Bridewell they were rescued in a fray in which four men were killed, giving the bridge its lasting name of Bloody Bridge.

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   Sir John Totty, Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1671, and other merchants, resided at the Bridge-foot towards the middle of the seventeenth century. In 1670 a Avooden bridge, at some distance to the westward of the old one, was built across the Liffey, but being found to interfere Avith the interest in a ferry Avhich had previously plied in the same locality, a number of apprentices assembled riotously for the purpose of destroying the new ei'cction ; tAventy of them AV'cre, however, seized and committed to the Castle; " but afterAvards, as a guard of soldiers Avere conveying them to BridcAvell, they Avere rescued, and four of them killed in the fray, from Avhich accident it took the name of Bloody Bridge. " After the erection of the Biu*racks an unsuccessful attempt Avas made to change tliis name to " Barrack Bridge," but the structure, over Avhich vehicles are not noAv permitted to pass, still retains the appellation of the " Bloody Bridge."

   BetAveen the Old Bridge and the " Bloody Bridge" a ncAv structm'e, styled Arran Bridge, AA^as erected in 1 68 1 . 'J'he river seems to have formerly encroached considerably upon the ground noAv knoAvn as " Ussher's Island," a large portion of which Avas leased in 1685 by Christopher Ussher to Sir W 11-

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   Right here is where the Bloody Bridge got its name. Sir John Totty, Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1671, and other merchants resided at the Bridge-foot towards the middle of the seventeenth century. In 1670 a wooden bridge was built across the Liffey, at some distance west of the old one. It was found to interfere with the interest in a ferry which had previously plied in the same locality. A number of apprentices assembled riotously for the purpose of destroying the new erection. Twenty of them were seized and committed to the Castle. "But afterwards, as a guard of soldiers were conveying them to Bridewell, they were rescued, and four of them killed in the fray, from which accident it took the name of Bloody Bridge." After the erection of the Barracks an unsuccessful attempt was made to change this name to Barrack Bridge, but the structure, over which vehicles are not now permitted to pass, still retains that appellation.

4. Waking and Burial of Theobald Wolfe Tone

   High Street · street · Dublin · 1798

   After his death, Wolfe Tone's body was released to relatives and waked for two nights at William Dunbavin's house, No. 65 High-street, before being interred privately by government order under close guard.

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   The ceremony of waking Theobald Wolfe Tone was performed, in November, 1798, at No. 65, High-street, the residence of his kinsman, William Dunbavin, who was totally opposed to Tone's political opinions. " He was a member of a corps of yeomanry, and possessed some influence with the terrorists of the day. By means of that influence, probably assisted in high quarters by the interference of the Hon. George Knox, the body of Tone, and his effects — clothes, uniform, and sword — were given up to his Mends. The two Dunbavins, provided with a written order, went with four men to the Provost for the body, and it was given up to them by Major Sandys. It was taken to William Dunbavin's house in High-street (where his father and mother were then living), and laid out in a room on the second floor. The surviving relatives state, that the mother bore up astonishingly against the trials which befell her in such quick succession ; but the poor father seemed to have been overwhelmed by this last calamity.

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5. 1641 Rebellion Plot Hatched in Castle-street Lodging

   Castle Street · street · Dublin · 1641

   Sir Felim O'Neil deposed that the plot for the 1641 rebellion was discussed at meetings in Dublin, including at his chamber in Nelson's house on Castle-street, where an oath of secrecy was administered by Lord Macguire and Roger Moore. Plans were made to seize forts including Charlemont, Enniskillen, the Castle of Dublin, Galway, and Duncannon.

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   Castle-street is also connected with the history of the rising of the Irish in 1641; Sh* Felim O'Neil, one of the principal actors in which, deposed, on his examination in 1652, " that about a quarter or half-a-year before the beginning of the rebellion, the plot thereof was discovered to him by the Lord Macguire and Roger Moore ; and they two, Avith Philip O'Reily and himself, had several times in Dublin met and discom'sed of the plot. That at some of the meetings Colonel John Barry, Su* James Dillon, Anthony Preston, and Hugh Mac Felim, were present. That there Avas an oath of secrecy administered to such persons as were made privy to the plot, and that the oath was given to him at his chamber in Nelson's house. Castle-street, by the Lord Macguire and Roger Moore. That at their meetings it was agreed, the several forts shoidd be taken ; and to that purpose he was appointed to take Charlemount ; the Lord Maguii-e, Enniskillen ; Barry, Preston, Moore, and Plunket, the Castle of Dublin ; Sir James Dillon, the fort of Gal way ; and Sir Morgan Cavenagh and Hugh JNIac Felim, the fort of Duncannon."

   The usual lodging in Dublin of Conor ]\Iaguire, Baron of Enniskillen, attainted and executed in 1644 for having engaged in the same movement, was at " one Nevil's, a cliirurgeon, in Castle-street, near the Pillory." The Lords Justices, in their despatch dated Dublin, 25 th October, 1641, state that, " Calling to mind a letter we received the week before from Sir William Cole, we gathered that the Lord Macguire was to be an actor in surprising the Castle of Dublin, wherefore Ave held it necessary to secure him immediately, thereby also to startle and deter the rest, when they found him laid fast. His Lordship, observing Avhat avc had done, and the city in arms,

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   On this street, Castle Street, in a lodging called Nelson's house, the plot for the 1641 rebellion took shape. Sir Felim O'Neil, examined in 1652, deposed that about a quarter or half a year before the rebellion began, the plot was disclosed to him by Lord Macguire and Roger Moore. He, Philip O'Reily, and others met several times in Dublin to discuss it. An oath of secrecy was administered to him in his chamber here, by Lord Macguire and Roger Moore. At their meetings they agreed that several forts should be taken: O'Neil was to seize Charlemont, Lord Macguire to take Enniskillen, Barry, Preston, Moore, and Plunket the Castle of Dublin, Sir James Dillon the fort of Galway, and Sir Morgan Cavenagh and Hugh Mac Felim the fort of Duncannon. Lord Macguire's usual lodging in Dublin was also along here, at one Nevil's, a surgeon, near the Pillory. He was attainted and executed in 1644 for his part in the rising. The Lords Justices, writing from Dublin on 25 October 1641, recalled a letter from Sir William Cole that led them to believe Macguire was to surprise the Castle of Dublin, and so they had him seized to deter the rest.

6. Oliver Bond sentenced to a traitor's death for high treason

   Bridge Street · street · Dublin · 1798

   Oliver Bond, tried for high treason in July 1798 at Bridge-street's associated proceedings, was found guilty after a seven-minute jury deliberation and sentenced by Justice Day to be hanged, disembowelled and beheaded, though he died in Newgate before execution.

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   jury, after a deliberation of seven minutes, returned a verdict of guilty. When asked what he had to say Avhy sentence should not be passed upon him, Bond made no reply, and Justice Day, addressing him, remarked : " It is a melancholy subject of reflection that a gentleman of your condition and figure in life,. — who, under the existing laws and constitution, which you would have subverted, have flourished and accumulated great property — in the prime of life and vigour of health — endued by nature with rare accomplishments of mind and person, should have unfoi'tunately, not oidy for yourself and aflflictcd family, but for that country to which you might have been an ornament, perverted those precious gifts of Providence, and have made so unhappy and calamitous a use of them." At the conclusion of his address. Judge Day pronounced the following sentence upon the prisoner : " You, Oliver Bond, are to be taken from the place in which you stand to the gaol from whence you came, and thence to the common place of execution, there to be hanged by the neck, but not until you are dead, for while you are yet living, your bowels are to be taken out and thrown in your face, and your head is to be cut off, and your head and limbs to be at the King's disposal." Bond subsequently received a conditional pardon, but died of an apoplectic attack in Newgate ; his house is now known as No. 9, Lower Bridge-street.

   Various meetings of the United Irishmen were held in the " Brazen Head," an inn located, from the year 1G68, in a recess at the rere of the western side of Bridge-street, where it still exists. At one of those assemblies, in February, 1797, Oliver Bond laid before the Society a plan for obtaining possession of the metropolis ; and some days after the arrest of the Delegates, another meeting held here was attended by " one Michael Reynolds of Naas, who Avas said to be a distant relative of Mr. Thomas Reynolds, and who had been particularly active in the Society, and useful to it. This young man addressed the meeting at some length ; he said that circumstances had lately

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   Along this street, Oliver Bond was tried for high treason in July 1798. The jury took just seven minutes to find him guilty, and when asked why sentence should not be passed, he made no reply. Justice Day told him it was a melancholy reflection that a gentleman of his condition and figure in life, who had flourished and accumulated great property under the laws he sought to subvert, should have perverted those gifts of Providence. The judge then pronounced the full sentence. Bond was to be taken back to the gaol, then to the common place of execution, there to be hanged by the neck but not until dead, his bowels taken out and thrown in his face, his head cut off, and his head and limbs at the King's disposal. He received a conditional pardon afterward, but died of an apoplectic attack in Newgate before any execution could take place. His house stood at No. 9, Lower Bridge Street. The Brazen Head inn, in a recess at the rear of the western side of this street, was where the United Irishmen held meetings. In February 1797, Bond laid before the Society a plan for taking possession of the metropolis. After the arrest of the Delegates, another meeting here was attended by one Michael Reynolds of Naas, said to be a distant relative of Thomas Reynolds, who addressed the gathering at some length.

7. Bardic curse calls down disease and death upon the astrologer Whalley

   Nicholas Street · street · Dublin

   The poet Ferdoragh O'Daly composed a bitter satire against Whalley in revenge for his brother's prosecution and hanging, declaring the astrologer in league with the Devil and praying that violent diseases and divine curses fall upon him.

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   trees, and the grass, had ceased to groAV ; the birds had forgotten their songs, except the ominous birds of night ; and tlie young of animals were destroyed in the womb. He then commences to wither the astrologer Avith imprecations, prays that various violent diseases may attack him, and calls down upon Whalley the curses of God, the angels, the saints, and of all good men." During his sojourn in England, Dr. Whalley became a coffee-house keeper. After the conclusion of the wars in Ireland, however, he returned to Dublin, and located liimself at the " Blew posts, next door to the Wheel of Fortune, on the west side of St. Stephen's Green," where he resumed his practice in " physick and mathematicks," and regularly published his astrological almanacks, styled " Advice from the stars." About 1698 Whalley removed to Nicholas'-street, next door to the " Fleece Tavern," where he continued his former avocations, and published, in 1701, "Ptolemy's Quadripartite, or four books, concerning the influences of the stars, faithfully rendered into English from Leo Allatius, with notes, explaining the most difficult and obscure passages," Avhich was reprinted in 1786. He also issued here the following work, containing 78 pages 12mo, the preface of which is dated, "from my house in Nicholas'-street, Dublin, January, 1701 :" — "A Treatise of Eclipses; in which is shewed : 1. What an eclipse is, and how to know when an eclipse shall happen. 2. The eri'ors of several authors conceiving the longitude, and the astrological handling of eclipses and mundane revolutions in general ; and hoAV the same may be rectified and amended. 3. The undoubted certainty of the Ptolomeian astrology ; and how thereby to judge of eclipses, and the revolutions of the years of the world in general. 4. An astrological judgment of the great eclipse of the sun, the 13th of September, 1699 : and another as great, which will happen the first of May, 1706. And on the conjunction of Saturn and Mars, December, 1 700 : and how far they are like to affect England, Ireland, Scotland, Holland, France, Spain, Germany, and several other parts of

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   On this street in Dublin, around 1698, the astrologer Doctor Whalley set up shop next door to the Fleece Tavern, but the story behind his arrival reaches back to a bardic curse that pursued him. The poet Ferdoragh O'Daly composed a bitter satire against Whalley in revenge for his brother's prosecution and hanging. O'Daly declared the astrologer in league with the Devil, and called down a devastating litany of curses upon him. He invoked a world turned against Whalley, where trees and grass had ceased to grow, where birds had forgotten their songs except the ominous birds of night, and where the young of animals were destroyed in the womb. He then commenced to wither the astrologer with imprecations, praying that various violent diseases might attack him, and called down upon Whalley the curses of God, the angels, the saints, and of all good men. Despite this, Whalley survived. During his sojourn in England he became a coffee-house keeper. After the conclusion of the wars in Ireland, he returned to Dublin and located himself at the Blew Posts, next door to the Wheel of Fortune, on the west side of St. Stephen's Green, where he resumed his practice in physick and mathematicks and regularly published his astrological almanacks, styled Advice from the Stars. About 1698 Whalley removed here, to Nicholas Street, next door to the Fleece Tavern, where he continued his former avocations. He published in 1701 Ptolemy's Quadripartite, or four books concerning the influences of the stars, faithfully rendered into English from Leo Allatius, with notes explaining the most difficult and obscure passages, which was reprinted in 1786. He also issued from this street a Treatise of Eclipses, the preface dated from my house in Nicholas Street, Dublin, January 1701.

8. Bond's house raided; United Irishmen delegates arrested

   Bridge Street · street · Dublin · 1798

   Justice William Swan raided Oliver Bond's house in Bridge-street on 12 March 1798, arresting Delegates of the United Irishmen; seized items included a shamrock and treasonous documents. Several of those arrested, including John Mac Cann and William Michael Byrne, were later executed.

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   sitting at the table, Avitli pen, ink, and paper, and a prayerbook. I snapped at the paper directly ; my anxiety to seize the paper was so gi-eat that the man sitting at the table took advantage of it, and Avent among the groups, so that I could not identify him. The paper was fresh written — the ink hardly dry. I then, after seizing the paper, directed the several persons to hold up their hands, to prevent their destroying their papers, as I had previously directed the Serjeants to be particularly attentive to watch the hands of the people, and if they saw any papers to bring them immediately to me." Under the table was found a shamrock made of green ribbons, inscribed in gold letters, " Erin go bragh," underneath Avhich Avas a harp Avithout a croAvn ; and Sergeant Mac Dougall of the Dumbarton Fencibles raked with his bayonet from under the grate a small account or memorandum-book, Avith some other papers. The prayer-book found on the table had been used by the Delegates in sAvearing that they had been duly elected to attend the Council; and among the documents seized, Avhich consisted of various letters, provincial returns, and accounts, Avas a list of printed toasts and sentiments, including the folloAving : " The green flag of Ireland — INIay her sons unite and support it." " Ireland a republic and the Avorld free." " A speedy and radical reform." " May revolution never cease till liberty is established." " The United Irishmen — success to their efforts." "Mother Erin dressed in green ribbons by a French milliner, if she can't be dressed Avithout her." The Delegates arrested at Bond's Avere — Peter Ivers, Laurence Kelly, George Cummins, John Lynch, Laurence Griffin, Thomas Reynolds, John Mac Cann, executed on 28th July, Patrick Devinc, Thomas Traynor, William Michael Byrne, hanged on 1 9th July, Christopher Martin, Peter Bannan, James Rose, and Moore's friend, young EdAvard Hudson, Avho Avas said t< > have fainted Avhen SAvan entered the room . Bond Avas brought to trial for hioh treason on the 23rd and 24th of July, 1 798, and although defended by Curran and Ponsonby, the

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   Along here on Bridge Street, on the 12th of March 1798, Justice William Swan burst into Oliver Bond's house and caught the United Irishmen delegates sitting at a table with pen, ink, paper, and a prayer book. Swan snapped up the freshly written papers before the ink had dried, ordered everyone to hold up their hands, and had the serjeants watch for anyone trying to destroy documents. Under the table they found a shamrock of green ribbons inscribed in gold letters, "Erin go bragh," with a harp without a crown beneath it. Sergeant Mac Dougall of the Dumbarton Fencibles raked a small memorandum book and other papers from under the grate with his bayonet. The prayer book on the table had been used by the delegates to swear they were duly elected to attend the Council. The seized documents included letters, provincial returns, accounts, and a list of printed toasts. One read, "Ireland a republic and the world free." Another wished that revolution might never cease till liberty was established. Among those arrested were Peter Ivers, Laurence Kelly, George Cummins, John Lynch, Laurence Griffin, Thomas Reynolds, Patrick Devine, Thomas Traynor, Christopher Martin, Peter Bannan, James Rose, and young Edward Hudson, who was said to have fainted when Swan entered the room. John Mac Cann was executed on the 28th of July. William Michael Byrne was hanged on the 19th of July. Bond himself was brought to trial for high treason on the 23rd and 24th of July 1798, defended by Curran and Ponsonby.

9. Capture of Lord Macguire, Executed Conspirator of 1641

   Castle Street · street · Dublin · 1641–1644

   Conor Maguire, Baron of Enniskillen, lodged at a chirurgeon's house in Castle-street near the Pillory, was suspected of plotting to seize Dublin Castle. The Lords Justices had him secured, and though he fled his lodging in disguise, he could not escape the guarded city gates; hatchets and skeans were found hidden at his lodging. He was later attainted and executed in 1644 for his part in the rebellion.

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   fled from his lodging early before day, it eeems disguised ; for we had laid a watch about his lodging, so as we think he could not pass without disguising himself, yet he could not get forth of the city, so surely guarded were all the gates. There were found at his lodging hidden some hatchets, -^vith the helves newly ciit oif close to the hatchets, and many skeans, and some hammers."

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   Along here, at a chirurgeon's house near the Pillory, Conor Maguire, Baron of Enniskillen, was lodged in 1641. Suspected of plotting to seize Dublin Castle, he fled before day disguised, but the city gates were too well guarded. At his lodging they found hidden hatchets with the handles cut off, skeans, and hammers. He was attainted and executed in 1644 for his part in the rebellion.

10. Little John's legendary shot at Ostmantown Green

    near Oxmantown Green · street · Dublin · 1189

    According to sixteenth-century tradition, Little John, fleeing England after Robin Hood's betrayal, sojourned in Dublin and, standing on the Bridge of Dublin, shot an arrow to a mole hill at Ostmantown Green, leaving a monument called 'Little John his shot'.

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    foure score and nine, there ranged three robbers and outlaws in England, among which Robert Hood and Little John were cheefeteins, of all theeves doubtlesse the most courteous. Robert Hood being betraied at a nunrie in Scotland called Bricklies, the remnant of the crue was scattered, and everie man forced to shift for himselfe. Whereupon Little John was faine to flee the realme by sailing into Ireland, where he sojourned for a few dales at Dublin. The citizens being done to understand the wandering outcast to be an excellent archer, requested him hartilie to trie how far he could shoot at random: who yeelding to their behest, stood on the Bridge of Dublin, and shot to that mole hill, leaving behind him a monument, rather by his posteritie to be wondered, than possiblie by anie man living to be counter-scored. But as the repaire of so notorious a champion to anie countrie Avould soone be published, so his abode could not be long concealed: and therefore to eschew the danger of lawes, he fled into Scotland, where he died at a towne or vUlage called Moravie."

    A deed of 1307 mentions shops with certain other buildings upon the Bridge; and Edward II., in 1310, licensed Geoffroi de Mortagne, citizen of Dublin, to erect a well fortified and embattled tower on the southern end of the bridge, and a second tower at the corner of the Avail from the aforesaid bridge towards the west, permission being granted to De Mortagne to build his OAvn houses between those erections.

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    Somewhere about Oxmantown Green, tradition places a shot from the year 1189. At that time, three robbers and outlaws ranged in England, and among them Robert Hood and Little John were the chief, described as the most courteous of all thieves. Robert Hood was betrayed at a nunnery in Scotland called Bricklies. The remnant of the crew was scattered, and every man was forced to shift for himself. Little John was fain to flee the realm by sailing into Ireland, where he sojourned for a few days at Dublin. The citizens, being given to understand that the wandering outcast was an excellent archer, requested him heartily to try how far he could shoot at random. Yielding to their behest, he stood on the Bridge of Dublin and shot to that mole hill here, leaving behind him a monument, rather by his posterity to be wondered at than possibly by any man living to be counter-scored. It was called Little John his shot. As the repair of so notorious a champion to any country would soon be published, his abode could not be long concealed. To eschew the danger of laws, he fled into Scotland, where he died at a town called Moravie. A deed of 1307 mentions shops with certain other buildings upon the Bridge. Edward the Second, in 1310, licensed Geoffroi de Mortagne, citizen of Dublin, to erect a well fortified and embattled tower on the southern end of the bridge, and a second tower at the corner of the wall from the bridge towards the west.

11. Miraculous bleeding crucifix during Archbishop Comyn's interdict

    Christ Church Cathedral · ecclesiastical site · Dublin · 1181

    After Comyn placed the diocese under interdict and ordered crosses laid on the ground surrounded by thorns, a crucifix in the cathedral was seen to writhe in agony, sweat, weep, and bleed from its side, witnessed by many.

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    to tenify the evil doers, who, however, persevered iu their course despite the occurrence of the miracle, noticed as follows by Roger de Hoveden : — " In the cathedral church of Dublin there Avas a certain cross, bearing engraved upon it a life-like image of Christ, which the Irish and all others held in the greatest veneration ; this crucifix, which, with the other crosses, w^as laid upon the ground and surrounded by thorns, appeared on the sixth day to writhe in agony, its face glowing and perspiring as though it had been placed in a fiery furnace, and tears fell from its eyes as if it Avere weeping; and on the sixth hour on the same day there flowed from its right side and its right breast blood and water, which were carefully preserved by the ministers of the church, who sent an embassy after their Archbishop to acquaint him with these occm'rences, which were confirmed by the testimony of many venerable men, that they might belaid before the Pope."

    Hamo de Valois, to expiate his offences, bestowed twenty ploughlands, in the territory of Ucunil, upon Archbishop Comyn, who enlarged the choir of the cathedral, on the south side of which he was interred in 1212, under a marble monument. A stone coffin, without date or inscription, supposed to contain the remains of Archbishop Comyn, was discovered on opening an arch in the walls of Christ Church in 1759. Henri de Loundres, Archbishop of Dublin from 1213 to 1228, gave to the priory a piece of ground to erect a gate-house to the church, and Avas buried beneath a wooden tomb opposite to that of Comyn. A fire in the town having, in 1283, injured the steeple, dormitory, and chapter-house of the Priory, the citizens, before repairing their OAvn houses, subscribed to restore the cathedral, to collect alms for wliich Friar Henri de Cork obtained a license to travel through the kingdom in 1303.

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    Christ Church Cathedral is right here. In 1181, Archbishop Comyn placed the diocese under interdict and ordered the crosses laid on the ground and surrounded with thorns, to terrify the evil doers. But the evil doers persevered in their course despite what followed. In this cathedral there was a cross bearing an engraved image of Christ, which the Irish and all others held in the greatest veneration. This crucifix, laid on the ground with the others and ringed with thorns, appeared on the sixth day to writhe in agony. Its face glowed and perspired as though it had been placed in a fiery furnace. Tears fell from its eyes as if it were weeping. And at the sixth hour on the same day there flowed from its right side and its right breast blood and water. The ministers of the church carefully preserved the blood and water. They sent an embassy after their Archbishop to acquaint him with these occurrences. The events were confirmed by the testimony of many venerable men, that they might be laid before the Pope. The source is Roger de Hoveden, who noted the miracle. After this, Hamo de Valois, to expiate his offences, bestowed twenty ploughlands upon Archbishop Comyn. Comyn enlarged the choir of the cathedral, and was buried on its south side in 1212 under a marble monument. A stone coffin, without date or inscription, supposed to contain his remains, was discovered when an arch was opened in the walls of Christ Church in 1759.

12. Public penance of Bishop Dixon for adultery

    Christ Church Cathedral · ecclesiastical site · Dublin · 1570

    In 1570 Richard Dixon, Bishop of Cork, deprived of his See for manifest and confessed adultery, was ordered to do public penance in Christ Church cathedral, standing bareheaded with a white rod during the sermon and openly confessing his fault.

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    " That upon Sondaie next immediatlie following into the cathedrall churche of the blessed Try ni tie in Dublin the said Bishop shall come even at such tyme as the preacher shall goe up into the pulpitte to preache, with a white rodde in his hand and so bareheaded shall goe up into another lower pulpitte sett there for the same purpose and there stand during the whole time of the sermon and after that the preacher shall make an end the said Bishop shall there openlie confesse his faulte and desire forgevenes of God and the people to pray for him and immediatlie after that, in the same place he himself shall utter somewhat touching the grevousness of his owne faulte and shewe his repentence therefor and desire forgevenes openlie of God and all ye people to pray for him and to forgy ve him whom he hath by comitting of the same offended, and all the premisses in the most penitent maner he can doe."

    The Dean and Chapter being unable from their own resources to complete the restoration of the portions of the Cathedral taken down by the advice of Sir Henry Sidney, commissioned James Walsh, the Precentor, to collect subscriptions for that purpose, but he being occupied in superintending the artificers and masons, Peter Calf was appointed as his substitute in 1583, all donors being requested to write in his book their names and the amount of their contributions.

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    Christ Church Cathedral is right here. In 1570, Richard Dixon, Bishop of Cork, had been deprived of his See for manifest and confessed adultery. He was ordered to do public penance in this cathedral. The order was precise. On the Sunday following, when the preacher went up into the pulpit to preach, Dixon was to come into the cathedral with a white rod in his hand, bareheaded. He was to go up into another, lower pulpit set there for the purpose, and stand there during the whole sermon. When the preacher finished, the Bishop was to openly confess his fault and ask forgiveness of God, and ask the people to pray for him. Then, in the same place, he himself was to say something touching the grievousness of his own fault, show his repentance, and openly desire forgiveness of God and all the people, and ask forgiveness of those whom he had offended by committing it. All this he was to do, in the words of the order, "in the most penitent maner he can."

13. Suicide by Poison of Prisoner Jackson in the Old Law Courts

    Christ Church Cathedral · ecclesiastical site · Dublin

    During his trial at the Old Law Courts at Christ Church, the prisoner Jackson was found dying, having secretly taken metallic poison to avoid the shame of execution. An inquest was held on his body, which remained in the dock until the following day, and a large quantity of poison was found in his stomach.

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    " The Com't then adjourned, and the body of the deceased remained in the dock, unmoved from the position in which he had expired, until the following day, when an inquest was held. A large quantity of metallic poison Avas found in his stomach. The preceding day, a little before he was brought up to court, the gaoler, having visited his room, found him with his wife, much agitated, and vomiting violently; he had just taken, he said, some tea, which disagreed with him : so that there remained no doubt that the unfortunate prisoner, to save himself and his family the shame of an ignominious execution, had anticipated the punishment of the laws by taking poison. The following sentences, in his own handwriting, were found in his pocket: — 'Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me, for I am desolate and afflicted.' ' The troubles of my heart are enlarged: oh! bring thou me out of my distresses.' 'Look upon my affliction and my pain, and forgive me all my sins.' ' Oh ! keep my soul and deliver me. Let me not be ashamed, for I put my trust in thee.' "

    When Lord Clonmel was about to withdraw from the court to his chamber^ the Sheriff inquired how Jackson's body

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    Right here at Christ Church stood the Old Law Courts, where a prisoner called Jackson was on trial. A little before he was brought up to court, the gaoler visited his room and found him with his wife, vomiting violently. Jackson said some tea had disagreed with him, but he had taken metallic poison, to save himself and his family the shame of an ignominious execution. He died there in the dock, and his body remained unmoved until the following day, when an inquest found a large quantity of poison in his stomach. In his pocket were sentences in his own handwriting: "Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me, for I am desolate and afflicted." "The troubles of my heart are enlarged: oh, bring thou me out of my distresses." "Look upon my affliction and my pain, and forgive me all my sins." "Keep my soul and deliver me. Let me not be ashamed, for I put my trust in thee."

14. Arrest of Lord Maguire in Cook-street

    Cook Street · street · Dublin · 1641

    Conor Maguire, Baron of Enniskillen, leader of the planned 1641 revolutionary movement, was tracked down and arrested in a tailor's house in Cook-street on 22 October 1641. He was found hiding in a cockloft wrapped in an old caddow, and was subsequently taken prisoner to Dublin Castle.

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    turday morning was sennight lie heard a knocking at his door in Winetavern-street, where he dwelleth, whei'eupon he arose out of his bed, and shortly after the door was opened by this Examinant's Boy, and there came in Tirlagh O'Connor, a servant to the Lord Maguire, who demanded of this Examinant Avhether he had any good ale in his house, whereunto he answered him there was not any but small beer, Avhereupon he sent this Examinant's Boy for four penny worth of ale, and when the Boy came back he told this Examinant there were ten thousand Scots draAving near to the town, and thereupon the said Tirlagh O'Connor said that the gates were shut, and that he could not come to my Lord his horses, then this Examinant asked the said Tirlagh if he thought the Lord Maguire was up, Avhereunto he answered he thought he was, by reason he left him at his lodgings at Nevill's house in Castle-street, about to rise. And this Examinant having understood the day before, being Friday, from one Edmund Mac Mahon, a servant to the Lord Maguire, that his Lordship desired to speak with this Examinant, the said Edmund ]Mac Mahon then coming into this Examinant's house, he left the said Edmund and Tirlagh drinking of the ale, and Avent to his Lordship's lodgings at Nevill's house to speak Avith his Lordshij), and there inquiring for him, the people of the house told this Examinant that he was gone abroad long before; whereupon this Examinant returned back again to his own house, and there Avas told by his Avife that the neighbours told her that it Avas the Lord Maguire that AA^as knocking at the door before, and that he went down towards the Quay, and returned back again toAvards Cook-street, and this Examinant supposing that he Avas gone to one Kearnan, a tailor, his house in Cook-street, Avho worked for him, this Examinant Avent thither to seek his Lordship, and coming into the house found not any one there but young children, and that then this E.xaminant Avent up a pair of stairs leading to a cockloft, Avhere looking OA'cr a door he espied his Lordship lying upon a bed Avith an old caddoAve

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    Along here, on Cook-street in Dublin, Conor Maguire, Baron of Enniskillen and leader of the 1641 rising, was arrested on 22 October. He was found hiding in a cockloft above a tailor's house, lying on a bed wrapped in an old caddow, and was taken prisoner to Dublin Castle. A man who dwelled in Winetavern-street gave an account of how it happened. That Saturday morning he heard knocking at his door. His boy opened it, and in came Tirlagh O'Connor, a servant to Lord Maguire, asking whether he had any good ale. He had none but small beer, so he sent his boy for 4 penny worth of ale. When the boy came back he said there were 10,000 Scots drawing near the town. Tirlagh said the gates were shut and he could not get to his Lord's horses. The examinant asked Tirlagh whether he thought Lord Maguire was up. Tirlagh answered that he thought he was, because he had left him at his lodgings at Nevill's house in Castle-street, about to rise. The day before, Friday, Edmund Mac Mahon, another of Lord Maguire's servants, had told the examinant that his Lordship desired to speak with him. So he left Edmund and Tirlagh drinking and went to Nevill's house, but the people of the house told him Lord Maguire had gone abroad long before. He returned to his own house, and his wife told him the neighbours said it was Lord Maguire who had been knocking at the door earlier, and that he had gone down towards the Quay, then turned back towards this street. The examinant supposed his Lordship had gone to one Kearnan, a tailor, whose house on this street worked for him. He went there and found no one but young children. He went up a pair of stairs to a cockloft, and looking over a door, he saw his Lordship lying upon a bed with an old caddow.

15. Burning of the Staff of Jesus by Archbishop Browne

    Christ Church Cathedral · ecclesiastical site · Dublin · 1538

    Archbishop George Browne procured the removal of relics from Christ Church and publicly burned the venerated 'Staff of Jesus', said to have performed miracles in Dublin since the time of St Patrick.

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    The changes of religion during the reign of Henry VIII. necessarily interfered with the privileges granted to pilgrims to the convent; and Dr. George Brown, Archbishop of Dublin, writing to Thomas Cromwell in 1538, observes: — "The Romish reliques and images of both my cathedrals, in Dublin, took oif the common people from the true worship ; but the Prior and the Dean find them so sweet for their gain, that they heed not my words ; therefore send in your lordship's next to me, an order more full, and a chide to them and their Canons, that they might be removed : let the order be, that the chief governor may assist me in it." In piu'suance of this policy. Archbishop Brown procured the removal of the various relics of the cathedral, and publicly burned the " Staff of Jesus," which, according to the native annalist, "was inDublin performing miracles, from the time of Patrick down to that time, and had been in the hands of Cln-ist while he was among men." In the place of the images and relics, thus removed from the cathedrals and churches in his diocese, Dr. Browne substituted the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments, in gilded frames.

    Notwithstanding the destruction of St. Patrick's staff at Dublin, another crozier of the same saint appears to have been

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    Right here at Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, one of the most dramatic acts of the Reformation in Ireland took place. In 1538, Archbishop George Browne wrote to Thomas Cromwell complaining that the Romish relics and images of both his cathedrals drew the common people from true worship, but the Prior and the Dean found them too profitable to give up. He asked Cromwell for a firmer order and a reprimand for the Canons, backed by the chief governor. Acting on this policy, Browne had the cathedral's relics removed and publicly burned the Staff of Jesus. The native annalist wrote that this staff "was in Dublin performing miracles, from the time of Patrick down to that time, and had been in the hands of Christ while he was among men." In place of the removed images and relics, Browne put up the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten Commandments in gilded frames. Yet despite the burning of the staff here, another crozier of the same saint Patrick appears to have survived elsewhere.

16. Dr Whalley placed in the pillory amid a hail of rotten eggs

    Nicholas Street · street · Dublin · 1688

    The astrologer Dr John Whalley, who practised necromancy and fortune-telling in Dublin, was placed in the pillory in 1688 for a political offence and pelted by the mob with rotten eggs and other missiles.

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    In 1688 he was placed in the pillory for some political offence, and while there received from the mob a plentiful imction of antique eggs and other unsavoury missiles. Having rendered himself eminently obnoxious to the native Irish, by lois perpetual fanatical railinijs against them and the Roman Catholic religion, he deemed it prudent to withdraw to England during the Jacobite regime in Dublin, about which period Ferdoragh O'Daiy composed a satire of twenty-one stanzas upon him, in retaliation for his having caused the bard's brother to be prosecuted and hanged. In this, which is one of the bitterest satu'cs in the Irish language, the poet first describes the wicked practices of the astrologer, whom he declares to be in league with the Devil, and who, since he began to view the moon and planets, had, with his basilisk eye, so destroyed their benign influence that the corn fields, the fruit

    190 HISTORY OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN.

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    Along here in 1688, the astrologer Dr John Whalley was placed in the pillory for a political offence, and while standing there received what the record calls a plentiful anointing of antique eggs and other unsavoury missiles from the mob. He had made himself obnoxious to the native Irish through his fanatical railings against them and the Roman Catholic religion, so the reception was perhaps no surprise. He withdrew to England during the Jacobite regime in Dublin. Around that time the poet Ferdoragh O'Daly composed a satire of 21 stanzas upon him, in retaliation for Whalley having caused the bard's brother to be prosecuted and hanged. The satire, one of the bitterest in the Irish language, declares the astrologer to be in league with the Devil, and says that since he began to view the moon and planets, his basilisk eye had so destroyed their benign influence that the corn fields and the fruit were blighted.

17. Sir John Davies, judge, poet and Attorney-General, resident on Wood Quay

    Wood Quay · street · Dublin · 1598–1616

    Sir John Davies, expelled from the Middle Temple for beating a fellow student, later became Solicitor-General and Attorney-General of Ireland, administering English law in Ulster and writing on why Ireland was never subdued. He resided on the Wood Quay in Dublin.

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    Deputy, took boat at the Wood Quay, about eight o'clock at night, and there delivei'ed the sword to William Gerrard, the Lord Chancellor. On this quay I'esided Sir John Davies, who having been expelled from the Middle Temple in 1598 for beating a fellow-student in the public hall, retrieved his reputation by a poem entitled "Nosce Teipsum," published in 1599. He also wrote "Orchestra, a Poem on the Art of Dancing," and was said to have acquired Elizabeth's favour by praising her, in twenty-six acrostics on the words, "Elizabetha Regina." Davies was an active member of the English Parliament of 1601; and James I., in testimony of his admiration of " Xosce Teipsum, " appointed him Solicitor-General of Ireland in 1603, and Attorney-General in 1606, in which capacity he was one of the first judges Avho administered the English law in Ulster. The knowledge which he acquired of the ancient legal records of Ireland is displayed in his treatise, published in 1612, under the title of " A Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued, nor brought under Obedience of the Crown of England, xmtill the Beginning of His Majesties happie Raigne." Davies returned to England in 1616, having, in the preceding year, published his "Reports of Cases adjudged in the King's Courts in Ireland," the earliest work of that nature extant in connexion wath this country. On the Wood Quay Avas the residence of MathcAV De Renzi, a native of Germany, avIio, in 1622, obtained a royal grant of upwards of one thousand acres of the forfeited lands of the Irish, in the barony of Garry castle, King's County, " to hold in soccage to him and his heii's for ever, provided he should not take the name, stile, or title of Roirke, O'Molloy, the Fox, Mac Coghlan, or O'Doyne ; nor rccei^•e or pay any Irish rent, taxes, or services, or divide his land according to the Irish custom of gavelkind." De Renzi's monument, in the church of Athlonc, states that he " was born at CuUen, in Germany, and descended from the fimily and renowned warrior, George Castriot, alias Scanderbeg, Avho, in the Chris-

    THE WOOD QUAY. 3< (

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    Along this street on the Wood Quay lived Sir John Davies. In 1598 he was expelled from the Middle Temple for beating a fellow-student in the public hall. He retrieved his reputation with a poem entitled "Nosce Teipsum," published the next year, 1599. He also wrote "Orchestra, a Poem on the Art of Dancing." He was said to have acquired Queen Elizabeth's favour by praising her in twenty-six acrostics on the words "Elizabetha Regina." He was an active member of the English Parliament of 1601. James the First, in testimony of his admiration of "Nosce Teipsum," appointed him Solicitor-General of Ireland in 1603, and Attorney-General in 1606. In that capacity he was one of the first judges who administered the English law in Ulster. The knowledge he acquired of the ancient legal records of Ireland is displayed in a treatise he published in 1612, under the title "A Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued, nor brought under Obedience of the Crown of England, until the Beginning of His Majesties happie Raigne." Davies returned to England in 1616. The preceding year he had published his "Reports of Cases adjudged in the King's Courts in Ireland," the earliest work of that nature extant in connexion with this country.

18. The penny that leaped back from the cross

    Christ Church Cathedral · ecclesiastical site · Dublin

    An archer's offering of a penny to the cross at Christ Church flew back to him twice until he confessed to plundering the Archbishop's house, after which the penny stayed and the theft was made right.

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    " After the city had been taken, a certain archer, amongst others, made an offering of a penny to the cross, but on turning his back, the money immediately flew after liim, Avhereupon he took it up and carried it back to the cross, when the same thing again happened, to the surprise of many who witnessed it. The archer thereupon publicly confessed that on the same day he had plundered the Archbishop's house, which is located in this church, and restoring all the stolen goods, he, with great fear and reverence, carried back the penny to the cross for the thii'd time, and it then remained there without further movement. It also happened that Raymond, Constable to Earl Richard, having been robbed of his iron greaves by a certain young man of his train, obliged all his followers to clear themselves of the theft by an oath taken upon the aforesaid cross in the church of the Holy Trinity ; shortly afterwards the young man returned from England, whither he had gone imsuspected, and threw himself, pale and haggard, at Raymond's feet, offering satisfaction, and craving pardon for his fault. He, moreover, confessed in public and in private that after swearing falselyupon the cross,he experienced the greatest persecution from it; for he felt it, as it were, oppressing his neck with an immense ^veight, which prevented him from sleeping or enjoying any repose. These and many other prodigies and miracles were performed at the first arrival of the English by this most venerable cross."

    Bishop Donogh, founder of the Cathedral, died in 1074,

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    Christ Church Cathedral is right here, and this is where a most venerable cross once stood, famous for its miracles at the first arrival of the English in the city. After the city had been taken, an archer came among others to make an offering of a penny to the cross. But when he turned his back, the money flew after him. He carried it back, and the same thing happened again, to the surprise of many who witnessed it. The archer then publicly confessed that on that same day he had plundered the Archbishop's house, which is located in this church. He restored all the stolen goods, and with great fear and reverence carried the penny back a third time, and it remained there without further movement. There was another strange event connected to the same cross. Raymond, constable to Earl Richard, had been robbed of his iron greaves by a young man of his train. Raymond obliged all his followers to clear themselves by an oath taken upon the cross in the church of the Holy Trinity. The young man returned from England, where he had gone unsuspected, and threw himself at Raymond's feet, pale and haggard, craving pardon. He confessed that after swearing falsely upon the cross he felt it oppressing his neck with an immense weight, preventing him from sleeping or enjoying any repose. Bishop Donogh, founder of the cathedral, died in 1074.

19. Conspirators drink healths before 1641 rebellion

    Copper Alley · street · Dublin · 1641

    On 22 October 1641, prior to the planned seizure of Dublin, conspirators met at the Lion Tavern near Copper-alley and drank healths on their knees to the success of the next morning's rebellion.

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    Sir John Temple states, that on the 22nd of October, 1641, previous to the intended seizvu'c of Dublin by the Irish, " the conspirators, being many of them, arrived within the city, and having that day met at the Lion Tavern, near Copper-alley, and there turning the drawer out of the room, ordered their affau'S together, drank healths upon their knees to the happy success of the next morning's work."

    Redmond JNIaguire, of Enniskillen, in his examination on the 1st of November, 1641, preserv^ed among the manuscripts of Trinity College, Dublin, deposed " That this examinant did ride along to Dublin with the Lord Maguire on Friday evening, and having putt up his horse, waited on him to the Kedd Lyon Tavern in Copper-allie that evening, there being in his lordship's company Captain MacMahon and divers others in scarlett and scarfes, whose names he knoweth not, and there remained drinking for the si)ace of an hour, and after that Avent into the town Avitli the young men who attended on my lord, and did drink with them, and after that came to his lordship's lodging at Xevill's house, in Castle- T^treet, where he did drink with some of his lordship's servants

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    Along here on the 22nd of October 1641, conspirators gathered at the Lion Tavern near Copper-alley on the eve of a planned seizure of Dublin. Sir John Temple records that many of them had arrived within the city that day and, after turning the drawer out of the room, ordered their affairs together and drank healths upon their knees to the happy success of the next morning's work. Redmond Maguire of Enniskillen, examined on the 1st of November 1641, deposed that he had ridden to Dublin with Lord Maguire that Friday evening and waited on him at the Red Lion Tavern in Copper-alley. Captain MacMahon was in Lord Maguire's company, along with divers others in scarlet and scarves whose names Maguire knew not. They remained drinking for the space of an hour, after which Maguire went into the town with the young men who attended on Lord Maguire, drank with them, and then came to his lordship's lodging at Nevill's house in Castle-street.

20. Deadly Gunpowder Explosion in Winetavern Street

    Winetavern Street · street · Dublin

    An explosion in Winetavern-street destroyed a large quantity of property and killed many young gentlemen who had come from all parts of Ireland to be educated in the city. The blast also devastated the neighbouring quarter of the town.

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    SOUS of gentlemen, who had come from all parts of Erin to be educated in the city, that Avere destroyed. The quantity of gold, silver, or worldly property, that was destroyed, was no cause of lamentation, compared to the number of people who were injured and killed by that explosion. It was not Winestreet alone that was destroyed on this occasion, but the next quarter of the to^vn to it."

    In Winetavern-street stood, originally, the hall of the Guild of Tailors, who were incorporated by two charters, dated respectively 20th May, 1417, and 16th July, 1418, addressed to John Talbot, Lord Furnival, Thomas Talbot his brother, Lam'ence de Merebmul, Knight, Hugh Burgh, Roger Hawkinshaw, John Wych, John Gland, Thomas Wallys, Reginald Sueterby, John Coryngham, John Passavant, Thomas Case, John Cruce, John Hynton, John Kyrkham, David Rendyll, Wilhani Barrett, William Redyard, John Lytyll, and James Yono;. The charter authorized the foundation of a eruild or fraternity of tailors ("artis scissorum") within the city of Dublin, in honour of God, the blessed Virgin Mary, and St. John the Baptist ; the Corporation, comprising both male and female members, was to be governed by a master and two wardens, and to have a chantiy of one or more chaplams, to celebrate divine service daily in the chapel of the blessed Virgin Mary, in the church of St. John, Duljlin, for the benefit of the souls of the founders and members of the guild. This grant contains the clause, usual in the charters granted in the Middle Ages to the Dublin guilds, that no member of the fraternity should take any but English youths (" Anglica? nacionis") as apprentices.

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    Along this street, a gunpowder explosion once destroyed a large quantity of property and killed many people. The dead included sons of gentlemen who had come from all parts of Ireland to be educated in Dublin. The loss of gold, silver, and worldly goods was nothing compared to the number of people injured and killed. The blast did not lay waste to Winetavern Street alone, but the neighbouring quarter of the town as well. This street also once held the hall of the Guild of Tailors, incorporated by two charters dated 20 May 1417 and 16 July 1418, addressed to John Talbot, Lord Furnival, and others. The charter authorised a guild or fraternity of tailors in honour of God, the blessed Virgin Mary, and Saint John the Baptist. The corporation included both male and female members, governed by a master and two wardens, with a chantry of chaplains to celebrate divine service daily in the chapel of the blessed Virgin Mary, in the church of Saint John. The grant carried the usual clause for Dublin guilds of the Middle Ages, that no member should take any but English youths as apprentices.

21. Public Penance at the High Cross for Adultery

    High Street · street · Dublin · 1571–1572

    Ecclesiastical High Commission Court records describe penances imposed at the High Cross in High-street, Dublin, for adultery and bigamy. Offenders were made to wear white sheets and papers proclaiming their sins, and stand publicly at the Cross during market hours.

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    Avise to be committed to prison, there to be kept in such sorte that neyther he to her nor she to him shall have accesse in any wise. Secondlie, That upon Saturdaie next enseweng at ix of the clocke in the mornjmg he the said Eyland alias Hinchecliffe shall come unto the Crosse in the Highe streete of Dublin having on a white shete from his sholders downe to the ground rounde about him and a paper about his heade wherupon shall be written ' For adulteri : leaving his wyfe in England alyve and maryengwith another here,' and a white wande in his hand and then and there goe up unto the highest staire of the Crosse and there sitt duryng all the time of the markette untill yt be ended, and fm'der decreed that Constance Kyng shall not hereafter in any wise resort or have accesse unto him or kepe him company and to performe the same they toke hir othe which she gave upon the holie Evangelists, and furder after that Hinchcliffe hath done his penance as aforesaid, they decreed he shold goe to prison againe, there to remayne and abide untill yt shall please the Commissioners to take furder order in this cause."

    " 26 Junii, 1572 — Officium dominorum versus Constanciam Kyng, civitatis Dublin, viduam.

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22. Raymond's greaves and the oath upon the cross

    Christ Church Cathedral · ecclesiastical site · Dublin

    A young man who stole Raymond the Constable's iron greaves swore falsely upon the Christ Church cross to clear himself, then later returned haggard, confessing he had felt the cross oppressing his neck like an immense weight preventing sleep.

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    " After the city had been taken, a certain archer, amongst others, made an offering of a penny to the cross, but on turning his back, the money immediately flew after liim, Avhereupon he took it up and carried it back to the cross, when the same thing again happened, to the surprise of many who witnessed it. The archer thereupon publicly confessed that on the same day he had plundered the Archbishop's house, which is located in this church, and restoring all the stolen goods, he, with great fear and reverence, carried back the penny to the cross for the thii'd time, and it then remained there without further movement. It also happened that Raymond, Constable to Earl Richard, having been robbed of his iron greaves by a certain young man of his train, obliged all his followers to clear themselves of the theft by an oath taken upon the aforesaid cross in the church of the Holy Trinity ; shortly afterwards the young man returned from England, whither he had gone imsuspected, and threw himself, pale and haggard, at Raymond's feet, offering satisfaction, and craving pardon for his fault. He, moreover, confessed in public and in private that after swearing falselyupon the cross,he experienced the greatest persecution from it; for he felt it, as it were, oppressing his neck with an immense ^veight, which prevented him from sleeping or enjoying any repose. These and many other prodigies and miracles were performed at the first arrival of the English by this most venerable cross."

    Bishop Donogh, founder of the Cathedral, died in 1074,

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    Right here at Christ Church Cathedral, a cross once stood that the first English arrivals in Dublin held in deep reverence. After the city was taken, an archer offered a penny to the cross, but the coin flew back after him. It happened again before witnesses, and the archer publicly confessed he had plundered the Archbishop's house, located in this church. He restored all the stolen goods, and only on the third attempt did the penny remain on the cross. Then there is the story this place is named for. Raymond, Constable to Earl Richard, was robbed of his iron greaves by a young man of his train. Raymond made all his followers swear upon the cross in the church of the Holy Trinity to clear themselves of the theft. The young man swore falsely and left for England unsuspected. But he came back pale and haggard, threw himself at Raymond's feet, and begged pardon. He said that after the false oath he felt the cross oppressing his neck with an immense weight, which prevented him from sleeping or enjoying any repose. The records say these and many other miracles were performed at this most venerable cross.

23. Weapons cache found at the tailor's house in Cook-street

    Cook Street · street · Dublin · 1641

    When searching the tailor Kerne's house in Cook-street where Lord Maguire had been hiding, Sheriff John Woodcock discovered hatchets, petronels, swords, pistols, skeins and pole-axes concealed about the premises, evidence of the planned rebellion.

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    the said NeA ill did bring this Examinate word, that the Lord Mac Giiire and his company ■sverc then going to bed. The said Examinate departed, setting a watch near his house ; by which watch he was informed, that the said Lord ]\Iac Guire and the rest were gone from the house, and were at the house of one Kerne, a taylor : Whereupon he searched the said house, and there found some hatchets with the helves newly cut off close to the hatchets, five petronels, five or six swords, three or four small pistols, five or six skeins, with other arms of the Lord Mac Guire's in an house of office in the said house ; in another place divers pole-axes, and also behind a hen-roost some great weapons Avith sharp pikes of iron in one end of them, the said Kerne affirming that he knew nothing of any of the particulars before mentioned, nor how they came in his house. The said Examinate showed all the said instruments unto the said Lord Justices and Council of Ireland ; and thereupon the said Lords Justices and Council commanded search to be made for the said Lord Mac Guire. Upon which the said Examinate, searching narrowly for him, at last found him in a cockloft, with a cloak wrapped about him, standing by a bed, the door lockt upon him, there being no key to be found ; as also the master of the house flying away, and making an escape to the enemy."

    Tradition stated that Lord ]Maguire was an-ested at midnight, in a small house on the northern side of Cook-street, nearly opposite St. Audoen's Arch ; and to commemorate his capture in this parish, it Avas an annual custom, down to the year 1829, to toll the bells of St. Audoen's Church at 12 o'clock on the night of the 22nd of October.

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    Along this street in Dublin, in 1641, a sheriff named John Woodcock tracked Lord Maguire to the house of a tailor called Kerne. Woodcock had set a watch near a house where Maguire and his company were said to be going to bed. The watch told him Maguire and the rest had left that house and gone to the tailor Kerne's home. Woodcock searched the premises. He found hatchets with the handles freshly cut off close to the heads, five petronels, five or six swords, three or four small pistols, five or six skeins, and other arms belonging to Lord Maguire, all hidden in an outbuilding. In another place he found divers pole-axes, and behind a hen-roost, great weapons with sharp iron pikes on one end. The tailor Kerne said he knew nothing of any of these items or how they came to be in his house. Woodcock brought all the instruments he had found to the Lord Justices and Council of Ireland. They commanded that a search be made for Maguire. Woodcock searched narrowly and at last found him in a cockloft, with a cloak wrapped about him, standing by a bed, the door locked upon him and no key to be found. The master of the house fled and made his escape to the enemy. Tradition held that Maguire was arrested at midnight in a small house nearly opposite St. Audoen's Arch. To commemorate the capture, the bells of St. Audoen's Church were tolled at 12 o'clock on the night of the 22nd of October, every year, down to 1829.

24. Death of Tom Echlin, city wit

    Fishamble Street · street · Dublin · 1754

    Thomas Echlin, son of a wicker basket maker of Fishamble-street, was a noted eccentric known for eating live cats and leaping into the river in frosty weather. He died in 1754 after a violent bout of 'funking' and vomiting blood.

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    and unnatural tricks to please, or excite wonder : his death was as violent as all the actions of his life, having funked to that degree, that the sweat poured from his face in drops as large as Eouncival peas, and vomitted blood of which he died ; the picture of this wonder in his sphere at his best state, was published in an etched print, with the just emblems of his ambition, a decanter and glass at his elbow, and a pipe in liis right hand."

    J. Kinnier, printer and paper-maker "at the Green Man" in Fishamble-street, was an extensive publisher of street ballads about 1785 ; and the late James Clarence Mangan, author of the " Anthologia Germanica," was born in this street in 1803.

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    Along this street lived Thomas Echlin, son of a wicker basket maker, a noted eccentric known for eating live cats and leaping into the river in frosty weather. His death in 1754 was as violent as his life. He funked to such a degree that the sweat poured from his face in drops as large as Eouncival peas, and vomited blood, of which he died. A print of him was published, showing a decanter and glass at his elbow and a pipe in his hand, described as the just emblems of his ambition.

25. Murder of John Laffan at School-house Lane

    School House Lane · street · Dublin · 1613

    In 1613 John Laffan, a young gentleman from Tipperary, was slain at the end of School-house lane near Cook-street by a quarrelling soldier of the guard, Edward Musgrave. Musgrave was tried in the King's Bench and condemned of wilful murder, being sentenced to be drawn, hanged, and quartered.

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    A narroAV passage leading from the High-street to Cookstreet was known at the commencement of the fifteenth century as " le Ram Lane," apparently so styled from a building in High-street called " Le Ramme." The free school of the city of Dublin was subsequently erected in this locality, which thence acquired the name of the " School-house lane," while the appellation of Ram-lane was given to the passage since known as " Skipper's alley," running from Cook-street to the Merchants'-quay. In 1613 John Laffan, "a young gentleman, born in the county of Tipperary, was slain at the end of School-house lane near Cook-street, Dublin, by one Edward Musgrave, a quarrelling soldier of the guard, who was therefore apprehended and arraigned in the King's Bench, and there condemned of wilful murder, and adjudged to be drawn, hanged, and quartered." In the early years of the eighteenth century, John Brocas (1701), and Elizabeth Sadleir (1719), publishers, resided in this locality ; and of the King's Bench office, wliich was held here till 1745, the Lords' Committee in 1 739 reported as follows : —

    " The King's Bench office is in School-house lane, one of the narrowest in the city of Dublin. The Clerk informed the Lords' Committee that about two years ago a fire broke out very near the office, which gave them a great alarm, and there is now (1739) an old cage-work house, within so small a distance, as to make its situation very dangerous. In this office are kept several outlawries and attainders, those particularly of Papists, on account of the Rebellions in 1641 and 1688. If these should be burned, the Lords' Committees fear, that the Protestant possessors would, at best, be exposed to vexatious law-suits, to defend and establish then- titles to many forfeited estates."

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26. Quaker persecution and imprisonment at Wormwood Gate meeting house

    Wormwood Gate · street · Dublin · 1683

    In 1683 the Government ordered Dissenters including Quakers to stop meeting publicly; when Quakers continued meeting at their house near Wormwood Gate, the Marshal arrested John Burnyeat, who was committed to the Marshalsea Prison along with Anthony Sharp and others for refusing to cease worship.

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    '* About the middle of the summer of 1683," says the Quaker chronicler, " the Government gave orders to the t-everal sorts of Dissenters in Dublin, that they shoidd forbear meeting publicly together in then- worship-houses as formerly; the Archbishop of Dublin (Francis Marsh) also sent for Anthony Sharp, and told him it was the mind and desire of the Government that Friends should also forbear meeting in their public meeting-houses; but Friends returned answer, that they believed it was their indispensable duty to meet together to worship the great God of heaven and earth, fi-om whom we receive all our mercies, and not to forbear assembling ourselves together for fear of punishment from men, for that we met purely to worship the Lord, and not upon any other account. So, according to the desire of the Government, other professors generally left their meeting-houses, but Friends met together to worship the Lord as formerly, as they were persuaded it was their duty to do. So upon a first day in the sixth month this year came the Marshal and several of the Mayor's officers to the meeting at Wormwood Gate, where John Bm-nyeat being speaking, the Marshal commanded him to go with him, which after some discourse he did. He commanded the meeting to disperse, but Friends kept quiet in their places. John Avas carried before the Mayor, with whom he had some discourse to this effect : he asked him, ' Why they did act contrary to the Government, having been commanded not to meet ?' John answered, ' We do nothing in contempt of the Government.' But, said he, ' Why do you not obey them ?' John replied, ' Because it is matter of conscience to us, and that which we believe to be our indispensable duty, to meet together to worship God.' To which he ansAvered, 'You may be misled.' John told him, 'If we are misled, we are willing to be informed, if any can do it.' Then it was urged, ' other Dissenters had submitted, and why would not we?' John said, ' What they do will be no plea for us before the Judgment-seat of the great God.' So after some other discourse, the Mayor committed John to the Mar-

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    Along this street at Wormwood Gate stood the Quaker meeting house where, in the summer of 1683, the Government tried to silence Dublin's Dissenters. The Archbishop of Dublin, Francis Marsh, sent for Anthony Sharp and told him that Friends should stop meeting publicly. The Quakers replied that it was their indispensable duty to worship God and that they would not forbear assembling for fear of punishment from men. Other Dissenters gave up their meeting-houses, but the Quakers carried on. On a Sunday in the sixth month of that year, the Marshal and several of the Mayor's officers came to the meeting here at Wormwood Gate. John Burnyeat was speaking when the Marshal commanded him to leave with him. After some discourse he went. The Marshal ordered the meeting to disperse, but Friends stayed quiet in their places. Burnyeat was taken before the Mayor, who asked why they acted contrary to the Government's command. He said, 'We do nothing in contempt of the Government.' The Mayor pressed him on why they would not obey, and John answered that it was a matter of conscience and their indispensable duty to meet together to worship God. When the Mayor said they might be misled, John replied that if they were, they were willing to be informed. Asked why other Dissenters had submitted and Quakers would not, he said that what others did would be no plea for them before the Judgment-seat of the great God. The Mayor committed him to the Marshalsea Prison, along with Anthony Sharp and others.

27. Sir Felim O'Neill's head displayed at Bridge gate

    Father Mathew Bridge · bridge · Dublin · 1652

    After the execution of Sir Felim O'Neil in 1652, his head was set upon the gate at the foot of the Old Bridge, while his body was cut into quarters and sent to different parts of the kingdom.

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    After the execution of Sir Felim O'Neil, in 1G52, his head was "set upon the gate that stood at the foot of the Bridge," his body having been cut into quarters, which were sent to different parts of the kingdom.

    The " Old Bridge," popularly so called, continued to be the only edifice of that nature connecting the northern and southern sides of the city of Dublin, imtil the erection of the " Bloody

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    Right here at Father Mathew Bridge, this was the Old Bridge in 1652. After Sir Felim O'Neill was executed that year, his head was "set upon the gate that stood at the foot of the Bridge." His body was cut into quarters and sent to different parts of the kingdom. This was the only bridge connecting the north and south sides of Dublin until the Bloody Bridge was built.

28. Vaults of Christ Church turned into tippling houses and tobacco shops

    Christ Church Cathedral · ecclesiastical site · Dublin · 1625–1633

    The vaults beneath Christ Church Cathedral, from one end of the minster to the other, were converted into tippling rooms for beer, wine, and tobacco, frequented by Popish recusants during divine service. The communion table itself was used as an ordinary seat for maids and apprentices.

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    to a nobleman's dwelling house, the choir of a third to a tennis court, and the vicar acts the keeper. In Christ church, the principal church in Ireland, whither the lord deputy and council repair every Sunday, the vaults from one end of the minster to the other, are made into tippling rooms for beer, wine, and tobacco, demised all to Popish recusants and by them and others so much frequented in time of divine service, that, though there is no danger of blowing up the assembly above their heads, yet there is of poisoning them with the fumes. The table used for the administration of the blessed Sacrament in the midst of the choir, made an ordinary seat for maids and apprentices."

    In a letter from Dublin Castle in 1633, the Lord Deputy Wentworth writes as follows to the Archbishop of Canterbiuy, relative to the cellars and taverns under the cathedral, some of which have been noticed in our account of St. John's-lane :

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    Right here at Christ Church Cathedral, the vaults beneath the minster were turned into tippling houses and tobacco shops. This was the principal church in Ireland, where the lord deputy and council attended every Sunday. Yet from one end of the building to the other, the vaults had been made into rooms for beer, wine, and tobacco, demised all to Popish recusants. They and others frequented these cellars so much during divine service that there was, as the record puts it, danger of poisoning the congregation above with the fumes. The communion table in the midst of the choir had been made an ordinary seat for maids and apprentices. By 1633 the Lord Deputy Wentworth was writing from Dublin Castle to the Archbishop of Canterbury about the taverns under the cathedral. What you pass now was, in those years, a church with drink and tobacco being sold in the vaults underneath the congregation.

29. Alderman Mark Quin's Suicide in Christ Church

    Christ Church Cathedral · ecclesiastical site · Dublin · 1674

    Alderman Mark Quin of High-street, a wealthy resident of St Michael's parish, cut his own throat in 1674 in a fit of jealousy over his wife's conduct, using a newly bought razor near the Chapel of St Mary in Christ Church.

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    the clan of O'Cuinn or O'Quin appears to have settled in this city in the sixteenth century ; AV alter Quin of Dublin published in Edinburgh in 1600, a collection of epigrams, anagrams, and poems, in Latin and English, entitled " Serum poeticum in honorem Jacobi sexti, serenissimi ac potentissimi Scotorum regis." Thomas Quin, a member of the Society of Jesus, stationed at Dublin in 1642, Avas untmng in his religious exertions, and used occasionally to attire himself as a soldier, a gentleman, or a peasant, to elude the vigilance of the Puritans in order to gain access to the houses of the Catholics. Father Quin, who wrote a report on the state and condition of the Koman Catholics of Ireland from 1652 to 1656, was subsequently removed to Nantes, thence to St. Malo, and died in 1663. Alderman Mark Quin, of High-street, was one of the most wealthy residents in St. Michael's parish, the plate, money and documents of which appear from the Church records to have been kept at his house, until in a fit of jealousy at the conduct of his wife, he cut his own throat, in 1674, "with a new bought razor between the hours of nine and ten in the morning, in or near the Chapel of St. Mary, in Christ Church." Alderman Quin left an estate of about one thousand per annmn to his son James, who studied at Trinity College, Dublin, w^as called to the Bar in England, and married a lady whose husband was reputed to be dead, having not been heard of for many years. By this lady, Quin had a son called James, bom in 1693, some time after whose birth Mrs. Qiiin's former husband returned and reclaimed his wife. Quin's illegitimacy having been established, his father's estate passed to the Whitsheds, the heirs at law, and the young man, being left on his own resources, appeared in the character of " Abel" in the "Committee" at Smock-alley theatre in 1714, and afterwards became one of the most eminent actors of his day. Smollett declared that Quin was "one of the best bred men in the Kingdom," and the satirist Churchill speaking of him

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    Right here at Christ Church Cathedral, in 1674, Alderman Mark Quin of High Street cut his own throat with a new bought razor, between the hours of nine and ten in the morning, in or near the Chapel of St Mary. He was one of the most wealthy residents in St Michael's parish, and the church records show the parish plate, money, and documents were kept at his house. The source says he did it in a fit of jealousy at the conduct of his wife. His estate of about one thousand per annum passed to his son James, who studied at Trinity College Dublin and was called to the Bar in England. James married a lady whose husband was reputed dead, having not been heard of for many years. By her he had a son, also called James, born in 1693. Some time after the child's birth, the lady's first husband returned and reclaimed his wife. The younger James Quin's illegitimacy was established, and his father's estate passed to the Whitsheds, the heirs at law. Left on his own resources, he appeared as Abel in the Committee at Smock-alley theatre in 1714 and became one of the most eminent actors of his day. Smollett declared him one of the best bred men in the Kingdom.

30. Death of Dr Whalley and his mocking epitaph

    Nicholas Street · street · Dublin · 1724

    The astrologer Dr John Whalley, who lived and published his astrological almanacks next door to the Fleece Tavern in Nicholas Street, died in Dublin on 17 January 1724, after which a scoffing epitaph on the 'cobbler, starmonger, and quack' circulated through the city.

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    " Here five foot deep, lies on his back A cobbler, starmonger, and quack, Who to the stars in pure good will Does to his best look upward still. Weep all ye customers that use His liills, his almanacks, or shoes. And you that did your fortunes seek. Step to his grave bvit once a week.

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    Along here lived Dr John Whalley, an astrologer who published his almanacks next door to the Fleece Tavern. He died in Dublin on 17 January 1724, and a scoffing epitaph went round the city calling him 'a cobbler, starmonger, and quack.' It invited customers of his pills, his almanacks, or his shoes to weep, and to visit his grave once a week.

31. Franciscan chapel assaulted on St Stephen's and New Year's days

    Cook Street · street · Dublin · 1662–1663

    The Franciscan chapel in Cook-street, where Father Peter Walsh officiated, was violently assaulted by armed soldiers on St Stephen's and New Year's days in 1662-3. Altars were rifled, priests carried prisoners to Newgate, and men and women were grievously hurt and wounded.

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    After the Restoration, the Franciscans settled again in Dublin, under the guardianship of Father James Fitz Simons ; and although the members of this Order were pre-eminently distmguished as advocates of the Remonstrance of loyalty to Charles II., their chapel, in which the Procurator, Father Peter Walsh, " himself did officiate, and whereunto he laboured to obtain all the favour, connivance, and countenance he could possibly, without any peradventure, was, by guards of soldiers, and whole companies with naked swords, assaulted on St. Stephen's and New Year's days, 1662-3, the altars rifled, the priests carried prisoners to Newgate, and many hm*t both men and women gi'Ievously, and some slashed and wounded sorely, even to the great endangering of their lives."

    In this convent died, in May, 1666, the erudite Redmond Caron, or ISIac Carron, who had been delegated, in 1649, by the Commissary General of the Franciscans, to Investigate the dissensions then existing among the religious of that Order in Ireland. At the Restoration, Caron, adhering to the opinions of all the most eminent divines and writers of his own Church, strenuously opposed the Ultramontane doctrines then sought to be introduced by a section of the Irish Roman Catholic clergy, in opposition to the advocates of the " Remonstrance," or declaration of loyalty to Charles II. In reply to the arguments of the Ultramontane party, Caron published, In 1662, a treatise entitled " Loyalty Asserted," in which he adduced extracts from the writings of two hundred and fifty Roman Catholic divines, condemnatory of doctrines of his opponents. This publication was followed, In 1665, by his

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    Along here on Cook Street stood the Franciscan chapel, where Father Peter Walsh himself officiated after the Restoration. Though the Franciscans had been distinguished advocates of the Remonstrance, a declaration of loyalty to Charles the Second, their chapel was assaulted by guards of soldiers with naked swords on Saint Stephen's Day and New Year's Day, 1662 and 1663. The altars were rifled, the priests carried prisoners to Newgate, and many men and women were hurt grievously, some slashed and wounded so sorely that their lives were endangered. In this same convent died in May 1666 the erudite Redmond Caron, who had been delegated in 1649 by the Commissary General of the Franciscans to investigate dissensions among the religious of that Order in Ireland. At the Restoration, Caron strenuously opposed the Ultramontane doctrines then sought to be introduced by a section of the Irish Roman Catholic clergy. In reply to his opponents he published in 1662 a treatise entitled Loyalty Asserted, adducing extracts from the writings of 250 Roman Catholic divines condemnatory of their doctrines. This was followed in 1665 by another publication.

32. Lord Maguire's evening at the Red Lion before the 1641 rising

    Copper Alley · street · Dublin · 1641

    Redmond Maguire's 1641 examination describes Lord Maguire drinking at the Red Lion Tavern in Copper-alley with Captain MacMahon and others in scarlet and scarfes, on the eve of the planned rebellion.

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    Redmond JNIaguire, of Enniskillen, in his examination on the 1st of November, 1641, preserv^ed among the manuscripts of Trinity College, Dublin, deposed " That this examinant did ride along to Dublin with the Lord Maguire on Friday evening, and having putt up his horse, waited on him to the Kedd Lyon Tavern in Copper-allie that evening, there being in his lordship's company Captain MacMahon and divers others in scarlett and scarfes, whose names he knoweth not, and there remained drinking for the si)ace of an hour, and after that Avent into the town Avitli the young men who attended on my lord, and did drink with them, and after that came to his lordship's lodging at Xevill's house, in Castle- T^treet, where he did drink with some of his lordship's servants

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    Along this street in Copper Alley, on a Friday evening in 1641, Lord Maguire drank at the Red Lion Tavern on the eve of the planned rising. Redmond Maguire of Enniskillen, in his examination on the 1st of November 1641, deposed that he rode to Dublin with Lord Maguire and waited on him at the tavern. Captain MacMahon was there, and several others dressed in scarlet and scarves, whose names Maguire did not know. They drank for about an hour, then the young men who attended Lord Maguire went out into the town and drank further. After that they came to Lord Maguire's lodging at Neville's house in Castle Street, where Maguire drank with some of his lordship's servants. The examination is preserved among the manuscripts of Trinity College Dublin.

33. Fabricated Elegy on the Shooting of Colonel Henry Lutrell

    Aughrim · parish · Galway · 1717

    A printer in Fishamble-street commissioned a fabricated elegy on Colonel Henry Lutrell, who had betrayed a pass near Aughrim, was tried at Limerick and called a coward by Tyrconnell and Sarsfield, and was ultimately shot in 1717.

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    last, being the 24th instant, Cornelius Carter, a printer who lives in Fishamble-street, sent one Sweeny, a servant of his, to this Examt, to desire hun to write an Elegy on Col. Henry Lutrell, deceased, that the Examnt. made answer hee could not, being an intire stranger to the life and actions of the said Col. Henry Luttrell, but that if the said Carter would send this Examt. a liistory of the life and actions of the said Lutrell, he, this Examt, would make an Elegy ; that in some short time after the said Sweeny brought a written paper to this Examt, as from the said Carter, to the effect and purport following, vizt., that Henry Lutrell and Symon were brothers, that SjTUon alwaies stood firm to King James's cause, went to France with him and died there ; that Henry forsook his master, and betrayed a pass near Aglmm, that he was afterwards tried at Limbrick, that Tyrconnell and Sarsfield were of the Court Marshall ; that he abused them on his tryal and called them cow-boys ; that he had 500 per annum from King William for his good services, and his brother's estate ; that he kept several misses, and disinherited a sonne by a former miss, but left him £3,000; that he declared on his death-bed he was married to his last miss, and left her £300 per annum ; that he made Lord Cadogan his executor with others ; that he was to be hanged or shott, but was reprcived by the suddaine sun^ender, from that time till Tuesday, the 22d of October, 1717. This Exmt. further sayth, that upon the receipt of the said paper, and at the desire of the said Carter, he, this Examt, did compose an Elegy on ye said Col. Henry Lutrell, and sent the same to the said Carter ; that the said Carter, as soon as he heard that Col. Lutrell Avas shott, desired this Examt. in case the said Lutrell died, to make an Elegy on hun ; and after the said Lutrell died, deshed this Examt alsoe to make the said Elegy. Sayth that upon the receipt of said paper from the said Carter, this Examt. delivered the same to two of his scholars, and ordered them to make a coppy of verses on the said Lutrell, which they accordinly did ; but the said verses

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    You are coming through the parish of Aughrim. In 1717 a Dublin printer named Cornelius Carter, who lived in Fishamble-street, sent his servant Sweeny to a writer with a request: compose an elegy on Colonel Henry Luttrell. The writer said he could not, being a stranger to Luttrell's life and actions, but would do it if Carter sent him an account of the man. Sweeny brought back a written paper. It said Henry Luttrell and his brother Symon took opposite sides. Symon stood firm to King James, went to France with him, and died there. Henry forsook his master and betrayed a pass near Aughrim. He was tried at Limerick, where Tyrconnell and Sarsfield sat on the court martial. At his trial he abused them and called them, in the paper's word, "cow-boys." He received 500 pounds a year from King William for his services, along with his brother's estate. He kept several mistresses, disinherited a son by one of them, but left him 3,000 pounds. On his deathbed he declared he had married his last mistress, and left her 300 pounds a year. He named Lord Cadogan his executor. He was to be hanged or shot, but was reprieved by a sudden surrender, and lived until Tuesday the 22nd of October 1717, when he was shot. Upon receiving the paper, the writer composed the elegy and sent it to Carter. Carter had pressed him to make one in case Luttrell died, and asked again after Luttrell was shot. The writer also gave the paper to two of his scholars and ordered them to make verses, which they did.

34. Discovery of a bishop's incorrupt body at Christ Church

    Christ Church Cathedral · ecclesiastical site · Dublin · 1545

    In 1545 part of Christ Church was broken down and a stone coffin was discovered containing the body of a bishop in full episcopal dress with ten gold rings and a gold mass-chalice, his vestments seemingly unfaded, taken as a sign of sanctity.

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    fit the shape of the bod}^ ; and it was taken up, all the parts adhering together, and placed in a standing position, supported against the altar, and left there for some time. No part of the dress had faded or rotted, and this," say the annalists, "was a great sign of sanctity."

    Edward VI., in 1547, added to the establishment six more Presbyters, and two additional Choristers, styled Personistae, which arrangement was confirmed by Philip and Mary, and continued dmnng the reign of Elizabeth. Thomas Lockwood, Archdeacon of Kells, succeeded, in 1543, as second Dean of Christ Church, which office he held during the various changes of religion in the reigns of Henry VIIL, Edward VI., Philip and Mary, and Elizabeth.

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    Christ Church Cathedral is right here. In 1545, part of the church was broken down and a stone coffin was found, holding the body of a bishop in full episcopal dress, with ten gold rings and a gold mass-chalice. The body was taken up, all the parts adhering together, and placed standing against the altar, where it was left for some time. No part of the dress had faded or rotted, and the annalists called this, in their words,

35. Harvey the ferret-eyed conjurer of Dublin

    Dublin · city · Dublin · 1728

    A famous conjurer named Harvey was said to have practised the art of conjuring in Dublin longer and with greater credit than any other conjurer on earth, described as pale-visaged, ferret-eyed, and never laughing, in his distinctive antique dress.

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    Necromancy and astrology, we may observe, were practised by some natives of Ireland before the era of Dr. Whalley. Sir John Harrington, in the reign of Elizabeth, states that the English soldiers were much daunted by the belief that the Irish possessed various magical powers ; and he adds, that it Avas a great practice in Ireland to " cliarme girdles and the like, persuading men, that while they wear them, they cannot be hurt with any Aveapon." Edward Kelly, seer to the famous Dr. Dee, was admitted to be the second Rosicrucian in the sixteenth century, in recognition of which he Avas knighted at Prague by the Emperor Rodolph, who, Aviththe King of Poland, Avas frequently present at his incantations. The physician of Charles 11. tells us that Avhen that prince was at Cologne in 1654, the Bishop of Avignon "sent him out of Erance a scheme calculated by one O'Neal, a mathematician, wherein he predicted, that in the year 1660, the King should certainly enter England in a triumphant manner ; Avhicli, since to our wonder, adds this AA'riter, "Avehave seen fulfilled, all the people triumphantly rejoycing." Harvey, " the ftimous conjurer of Dubhn," is stated to have possessed " the art of conjuring in Dublin, longer, and Avith greater credit than any other conjurer in any part of the earth. He Avas tall in stature, round shoulder'd, pale visaged, ferret-eyed, and never laughed." His costume is described as folloAvs by a Avriter in 1728 : — "= He Avas unalterable in regard of dress, and Avould ha^e died, rather than

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    As you pass through Dublin, this is a city with a long reputation for those who practised magic and conjuring. In the reign of Elizabeth, Sir John Harrington wrote that English soldiers were much daunted by the belief that the Irish possessed various magical powers, and that it was a great practice in Ireland to charm girdles and the like, persuading men that while they wore them, they could not be hurt with any weapon. Edward Kelly, seer to the famous Dr. Dee, was reckoned the second Rosicrucian in the sixteenth century and was knighted at Prague by the Emperor Rodolph, who was frequently present at his incantations. O'Neal, a mathematician, predicted in a scheme sent to Charles the Second that the King would enter England in a triumphant manner in the year 1660, which came to pass. But the figure most tied to Dublin itself was Harvey, called the famous conjurer of Dublin. He was said to have possessed the art of conjuring in Dublin longer and with greater credit than any other conjurer in any part of the earth. A writer in 1728 described him as tall in stature, round shouldered, pale visaged, ferret eyed, and never laughing. The same writer noted he was unalterable in regard of dress, and would have died rather than change it.

36. Mayor Jenico Marks slain in Keyzar's Lane

    Cook Street · street · Dublin · 1496

    Jenico Marks, Mayor of Dublin in 1486, was slain in Keyzar's-lane in 1496 while endeavouring to quell a riot of the citizens.

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    Keyzar's, or De Keyzar's-lane, extending from Corn-market to Cook-street, is described, in 1587, as " steepe andslipperie, in Avhich otherwhiles, they that make more haste than good speed clinke their backs to the stones." Jenico Marks, Mayor of Dublin in 1486, Avas slain in this lane in 1496, Avhile endeavouring to quell a riot of the citizens. At the AvesteiTi end of Keyzar's-lane, in Corn-mai'ket, Avas located the Hall of the Guild of Carpenters, Millers, Heylers, and Tilers, incorporated, in 1507, by Henry VII. at the solicitation of ^y alter Fitz Simon, Archbishop of Dublin. From this building, subsequently knoAvn as the " New Hall," a meat market, extending from Corn-market to Cook-street, received the name of the " NcAv Hall Market." In the reign of James I., a poorhouse Avas located in Keyzar's-lane, the buildings in Avhich

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    Along this street, Keyzar's Lane once ran from Corn-market to Cook-street, and in 1496 it was the scene of a deadly turn in the city's politics. Jenico Marks, who had served as Mayor of Dublin in 1486, was slain in that lane while trying to quell a riot among the citizens. The lane itself had a reputation. In 1587 it was described as "steepe and slipperie, in which otherwhiles, they that make more haste than good speed clinke their backs to the stones." At its western end in Corn-market stood the Hall of the Guild of Carpenters, Millers, Heylers, and Tilers, incorporated in 1507 by Henry the Seventh at the request of Walter Fitz Simon, Archbishop of Dublin. From that building, later known as the New Hall, a meat market stretching from Corn-market to Cook-street took the name New Hall Market.

37. The cross that could not be moved

    Christ Church Cathedral · ecclesiastical site · Dublin

    When Earl Richard (Strongbow) arrived with his army, the citizens of Dublin tried to flee by sea with the miraculous cross from Christ Church but could not move it despite their best efforts.

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    trusting their own strength, prepai-ed to fly by sea, and desired to carry this cross with them to the islands. But, notwithstanding all their most persevering efforts, neither by force nor ingenuity could the entire people of the city stir it from its place.

    " How a penny offered to the cross leaped back twice, but remained the third time, after confession had been made ; and how the iron greaves were miraculously restored.

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    Right here at Christ Church Cathedral is a cross with a story from the time Earl Richard, called Strongbow, arrived with his army. The citizens of Dublin prepared to flee by sea and wanted to carry this miraculous cross with them to the islands. But despite all their most persevering efforts, by force or ingenuity, the entire people of the city could not stir it from its place.

38. Wentworth orders removal of taverns from Christ Church vaults

    Christ Church Cathedral · ecclesiastical site · Dublin · 1633

    Lord Deputy Wentworth wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1633 describing how buildings and vaults beneath Christ Church had been turned into ale houses and tobacco shops, pouring drink offerings while divine service was conducted above. He issued orders for their removal.

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    " There being divers buildings erected upon the fabrick of Christ church, and the vaults underneath the church itself turned all to ale houses and tobacco shops, where they are pouring either in or out their drink offerings and incense, whilst wc above are serving the high God, I have taken order for the removing of them, granted a commission to the Archbishop of Dublin and others to view and certify, settled and published these orders for the service there, which I send your grace here inclosed, whereof not one was observed before."

    In addition to an ordinance, here alluded to, regulating the conduct of the dignitaries of the cathedral, the following public order was issued :

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    Christ Church Cathedral is right here beside the road. In 1633, Lord Deputy Wentworth wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury describing what he found beneath this church. Buildings had been erected on the fabric of the church, and the vaults underneath had been turned into ale houses and tobacco shops. People were, in Wentworth's words, "pouring either in or out their drink offerings and incense" below while above they were "serving the high God." He took order for their removal, granted a commission to the Archbishop of Dublin and others to view and certify, and published orders, noting that not one had been observed before.

39. Complaint of Unqualified Medical Practitioners Endangering Lives in Dublin

    Dublin · city · Dublin · 1619

    In 1619, Dr. Dermod O'Meara complained to the Lord Deputy that Dublin was overrun with unqualified medical pretenders—including barbers, apothecaries, and others without proper training—who were permitted to torture and kill patients with impunity. He contrasted this with other cities where only university-certified physicians could practice medicine.

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    ' Hie sunt Quels, etsi tenebras palpant est faeta jiotestas Excruciandi aigi'os, liominesque impiuie iiecandi.'

    Abusus q\iidem in cunctis terrarum plagis perpetratur, sed non in onmibus impune, in omni recta administrata et urbe, et rep, publico est c'autum edicto, ut nemo nisi publico AcademiiB alicnjns et testimonio et auctoritate sufficiens medicam aggrederetur praxin. In illis urbibus rebusque publicis, neque barbitonsor venam aperire neque pharmacoptcus medicamenta vendere multo minus ministrare, absque medici doctoris [irrescripto audent. Ter felix regia h;ec urbs (Dublin), et uuiversa respublica si tali fruerentur edicto."]

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    As you pass through Dublin, this city was the subject of a complaint in 1619 by Dr. Dermod O'Meara. He told the Lord Deputy that Dublin was overrun with unqualified medical pretenders, including barbers and apothecaries without proper training, who were permitted to torture and kill patients with impunity. He contrasted this with other cities, where no one could practice medicine without a university certificate, and where barbers could not open a vein nor apothecaries sell medicines without a doctor's prescription.

40. Finachty censured after driving weak-minded people mad at Portumna

    Portumna · town · Galway

    After his flight from Dublin, Finachty fell into obscurity, having been forbidden to practise his exorcisms by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, whose censure he incurred for nearly driving mad some weak-minded people at Portumna and declaring that all the women in Ireland were possessed of the Devil.

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    After his retreat from Dublin, Finachty fell into obscurity, having been forbidden to practise his exorcisms by the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam, whose censure he had incurred for having nearly driven mad some Aveak-minded people at Portumna, and for publicly declaring that " all the women in Ireland were specially possessed of the Devil."

    Finachty had not long retired, when another wonderworker appeared in the person of Valentine Greatracks or Greati'ix, a respectable Protestant gentleman of Affane, Clerk of the Peace, and a magistrate of the county of Cork. His mode of operating appears to have been similar to that of Finachty, whence he acquired the name of " the Stroaker." Of the termination of his career nothing appears to be known except that be was satirized by St. Evremond ; and a writer of the day says that, " not long after his practices on folks in London, he went out like the snuff of a candle, just as Finachty did."

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41. Judge Whitshed and the Suicide's Legacy

    High Street · street · Dublin

    Judge Whitshed, who persecuted Swift's printers, inherited Mark Quin's estate through the disinheritance of Quin's illegitimate grandson; satirical lampoons recalling the ancestor's suicide were circulated against Whitshed and were believed to have hastened his death.

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    " In church your grandsire cut his throat ; To do the job too long he tarried: He should have had my hearty vote To cut his throat, before he married."

    The motto on Whitshed's coach formed the subject of a satire by Swift, commencing: —

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42. Sentencing of Maria Llewellin to hang

    Copper Alley · street · Dublin · 1788

    Maria Llewellin, sister of Darkey Kelly, was condemned to be hanged in 1788 for her complicity in the affair of the Neals with Lord Carhampton.

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    The " Copper-alley Gazette," occasionally published in 1766 in the "Freeman's Journal," contained a satirical account of the proceedings of the politicians of the day under feigned names. A woman, known as " Darkey Kelly," who kept an infamous establishment in this alley, was tried for a capital offence about 1764, sentenced to death, and publicly burned in Stephen's Green. Her sister, Maria Llewellin, was condemned to be hanged in 1788, for her complicity in the affair of the Neals with Lord Carhampton. Till about ten years ago there stood, on the north-western side of Copperalley, a very large brick mansion, popularly styled the "Maiden Tower," which contained such a labyrinth of rooms, galleries, and doors, that it was almost impossible for any person to discover the mode of descent from the ujoper stories, unless accompanied by a guide acquainted with the intricacies of the building.

    " Saul's-court," on the eastern side of Fishamble-street, takes its name from Laurence Saul, a wealthy Roman Catholic distiller, who resided there at the sign of the " Golden Key," in the early part of the last century. The family of Saul or Sail was located near Cashell early in the seventeenth century.

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    Along here in Copper Alley, Maria Llewellin was condemned to hang in 1788. She was the sister of Darkey Kelly, who kept an infamous establishment in this alley. Darkey Kelly was tried for a capital offence about 1764, sentenced to death, and publicly burned in Stephen's Green. Maria Llewellin was condemned to be hanged in 1788 for her complicity in the affair of the Neals with Lord Carhampton. The Copper-alley Gazette, occasionally published in 1766 in the Freeman's Journal, contained a satirical account of the proceedings of the politicians of the day under feigned names. Till about ten years ago there stood on the north-western side of Copper Alley a very large brick mansion, popularly styled the Maiden Tower. It contained such a labyrinth of rooms, galleries, and doors that it was almost impossible for any person to discover the mode of descent from the upper stories, unless accompanied by a guide acquainted with the intricacies of the building.

43. Sir Francis Annesley Condemned to Death for an Unguarded Word

    Fishamble Street · street · Dublin · 1636–1637

    During Strafford's administration, Sir Francis Annesley, resident of Fishamble Street, was tried by a council of war and condemned to death for an unguarded expression made in the presence chamber of Dublin Castle, though he was later pardoned.

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    Strafford's administration Annesley was tried by a council of war, and condemned to death, for an unguarded expression uttered in the presence chamber of the Castle. The King's letter, in 1636, infonns us that "it had been held fit to cause his study door to be sealed up by the Committee, who have the cognizance of that business ; and it is likewise conceived that the view and perusal of his papers may be of use." He remained a close prisoner in the Castle until a royal pardon was granted to him in 1637. His son Arthm', born in Fishamble-street in 1614, and baptized in St. John's Church, became a member of the Oxford Parliament in 1643, was deputed as Commissioner into Ulster in 1645, under the great seal of England, and was the chief of the party to whom the Marquis of Ormond surrendered Dublin in 1647. In 1670 he was chosen President of the new Coimcil of State, having had a considerable share in bringing about the Restoration, for which, in 1661, he was rewarded with the title of Earl of Anglesey. So great was liis influence at that time that he was said to have declined the post of Prime Minister of England. He sat in judgment on the regicides, and was one of the three Commissioners appointed to report concerning the settlement of Ireland : after which, in 1673, he was advanced to the great office of Lord Privy Seal, and died in 1686. Several of his writings are extant ; but his history of the affairs of Ireland diu-ing his own times is supposed to have been destroyed, as it revealed unpleasant facts, Anglesey, through life, having been noted for boldly expressing his manly and liberal sentiments. He was the first nobleman in Great Britain who formed a large library, which, although intended to remain in his family, was sold by auction soon after his death. This sale was rendered remarkable by the discovery in the Earl's collection of his autograph note in a copy of the " Eikon Basilike," asserting that book to be the composition of Dr. Gauden, a statement which has caused much literary disputation. Sir James Ware, Auditor-General, and father of the

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    Along this street lived Sir Francis Annesley, who during Strafford's administration was tried by a council of war and condemned to death for an unguarded expression uttered in the presence chamber of Dublin Castle. The King's letter in 1636 records that it had been held fit to cause his study door to be sealed up by the committee who had cognizance of that business, and that the view and perusal of his papers might be of use. He remained a close prisoner in the Castle until a royal pardon was granted to him in 1637. His son Arthur, born on this street in 1614 and baptized in St. John's Church, went on to a remarkable career. He became a member of the Oxford Parliament in 1643, was deputed as Commissioner into Ulster in 1645 under the great seal of England, and was chief of the party to whom the Marquis of Ormond surrendered Dublin in 1647. In 1670 he was chosen President of the new Council of State, having had a considerable share in bringing about the Restoration, for which in 1661 he was rewarded with the title of Earl of Anglesey. His influence was said to be so great that he declined the post of Prime Minister of England. He sat in judgment on the regicides and was one of three Commissioners appointed to report concerning the settlement of Ireland. In 1673 he was advanced to Lord Privy Seal, and he died in 1686. He was the first nobleman in Great Britain to form a large library, which was sold by auction soon after his death. That sale was rendered remarkable by the discovery of his autograph note in a copy of the Eikon Basilike, asserting that book to be the composition of Dr. Gauden, a statement that has caused much literary disputation.

44. Charmed girdles believed to ward off weapons among the Irish

    Dublin · city · Dublin

    Sir John Harrington, writing in the reign of Elizabeth, recorded that English soldiers in Ireland were daunted by a belief that the Irish possessed magical powers, including the practice of charming girdles so that wearers could not be hurt by any weapon.

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    Necromancy and astrology, we may observe, were practised by some natives of Ireland before the era of Dr. Whalley. Sir John Harrington, in the reign of Elizabeth, states that the English soldiers were much daunted by the belief that the Irish possessed various magical powers ; and he adds, that it Avas a great practice in Ireland to " cliarme girdles and the like, persuading men, that while they wear them, they cannot be hurt with any Aveapon." Edward Kelly, seer to the famous Dr. Dee, was admitted to be the second Rosicrucian in the sixteenth century, in recognition of which he Avas knighted at Prague by the Emperor Rodolph, who, Aviththe King of Poland, Avas frequently present at his incantations. The physician of Charles 11. tells us that Avhen that prince was at Cologne in 1654, the Bishop of Avignon "sent him out of Erance a scheme calculated by one O'Neal, a mathematician, wherein he predicted, that in the year 1660, the King should certainly enter England in a triumphant manner ; Avhicli, since to our wonder, adds this AA'riter, "Avehave seen fulfilled, all the people triumphantly rejoycing." Harvey, " the ftimous conjurer of Dubhn," is stated to have possessed " the art of conjuring in Dublin, longer, and Avith greater credit than any other conjurer in any part of the earth. He Avas tall in stature, round shoulder'd, pale visaged, ferret-eyed, and never laughed." His costume is described as folloAvs by a Avriter in 1728 : — "= He Avas unalterable in regard of dress, and Avould ha^e died, rather than

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    Dublin has long kept company with darker arts. Necromancy and astrology were practised by some natives of Ireland before the era of Dr. Whalley, and the city's own Harvey was said to have practised conjuring longer and with greater credit than any other conjurer in any part of the earth. Sir John Harrington, writing in the reign of Elizabeth, recorded that English soldiers were much daunted by the belief that the Irish possessed various magical powers. He noted that it was a great practice in Ireland to "charme girdles and the like," persuading men that while they wore them, they could not be hurt with any weapon. Edward Kelly, seer to the famous Dr. Dee, was reckoned the second Rosicrucian in the sixteenth century and was knighted at Prague by the Emperor Rodolph, who with the King of Poland often attended his incantations. The physician of Charles the Second reports that when the prince was at Cologne in 1654, the Bishop of Avignon sent him from France a scheme calculated by one O'Neal, a mathematician, predicting that in 1660 the King should enter England in a triumphant manner. The writer adds that this was seen fulfilled, all the people triumphantly rejoicing. Harvey himself was tall, round-shouldered, pale-visaged, ferret-eyed, and never laughed.

45. Death of the usurer Joseph Damer

    Fishamble Street · street · Dublin · 1630–1720

    Joseph Damer, a noted usurer with an office at the London Tavern in Fishamble Street, died on 6th July 1720 at the age of ninety-one after a lifetime of remarkable health. He was born in 1630 and had served Cromwell before settling in Ireland.

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    Little has hitherto been generally known of the history ot" this remarkable individual, although his wealth and the extent of " Darner's estate" have long been proverbial in Ireland. Born in 1630, he early entered the service of the Parliament, and was advanced to the command of a troop of horse by the Protector, who selected him on two occasions to transact secret negotiations with Cardinal Mazarin. On Cromwell's death Darner, retii-ed to his friend Lockhart, then the English Ambassador at the Court of France, and was present at the marriage of Louis XIV. Deeming it unsafe to reside in England after the Restoration, owing to his former connexion with Cromwell, he sold some of his property in the counties of Somerset and Doi'set, and, taking advantage of the cheapness of land in Ireland, purchased large estates in this coimtry. " His whole conduct," says a writer of the last century, " shows his great abilities and resolution ; and so extremely happy was he in constitution that he never felt any sickness till three days before his death, 6th July, 1720, at the great age of ninety-one years."

    Dying unmarried, he bequeathed his property in Ireland to John, the eldest son of his brother George. It has since passed into the Portarlington family, and would probably never have come into the Incumbered Estates Court if Darner's heirs had observed the injunctions of their wise relative, Avho

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    Along here on Fishamble Street stood the London Tavern, where Joseph Damer kept his office. He was born in 1630, served Cromwell, and was given command of a troop of horse by the Protector, who chose him twice for secret negotiations with Cardinal Mazarin. After Cromwell's death he joined his friend Lockhart, the English Ambassador at the French court, and was present at the marriage of Louis the Fourteenth. Feeling unsafe in England after the Restoration because of his Cromwell connection, he sold lands in Somerset and Dorset and bought large estates in Ireland, where land was cheap. His wealth became proverbial throughout the country. A writer of the last century said his whole conduct showed great abilities and resolution, and that he never felt any sickness until three days before he died, on the 6th of July 1720, at the age of 91. He died unmarried and left his Irish property to John, the eldest son of his brother George. The estate later passed into the Portarlington family.

46. Patrick Darcy's burial at the old Abbey of Kilconnell

    Kilconnell · parish · Galway · 1668

    Patrick Darcy, eminent Confederate Irish lawyer who resided in Bridge-street, died in 1668 and was buried in the old Abbey of Kilconnell, County Galway.

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    Patrick Darcy, born in 1598, was one of the most eminent Irish Roman Catholic lawyers of his time, and took an active part in the Parliamentary proceedings in 1640-41, having been selected in June of the latter year to deliver an argument at a conference of the House of Commons with a Committee of the Lords, on certain questions propounded by the Judges. His oration on this occasion was printed at TTaterford in 1643, and republished at Dublin in 1 764. Darcy became a member of the Supreme Council of the Confederate Irish, by whom he and his nephew Geofirey BroAvne were appointed to draAv up the articles of peace with the Marquis ofOrmondin 1646 ; and he was subsequently nominated one of their commissioners to raise an army often thousand men, and to tax the kingdom for their pay to aid Charles I. against the Parliament. In 1660 Darcy acted as second to Su" Jerome Alexander, second Justice of the Common Pleas in his quarrel relative to precedency with his brother Judge, Sir "William Aston. Darcy died in 1668, and was buried in the old Abbey of Kilconnel, county of Galway, leaving an only son, James. His house In Bridge-street, after 1641, became occupied by Deri'ick Westenra, a Dutch merchant, who, with his brother Warner, was naturalized in 1 66 1 . Warner Westenra purchased considerable tracts of land In the King's County from Colonel Grace, and by marriage with Elizabeth Wybrants, l^ecame ancestor of the present Lord Rossmore. Copper tokens are still extant, issued in 1665 by Warner Westenra, whose name was for some time preserved in a lane off Bridge-street, called " Westenra'salley." On the eastern side of Bridge-street was the resi-

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47. Sir Antony King's capture of a fugitive through the Poddle watercourse

    Poddle River · river · Dublin · 1778

    Sir Antony King, an eccentric brazier and Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1778, was knighted while Sheriff for his courage in pursuing and capturing a fugitive felon through the subterranean and noisome recesses of the Poddle water-course.

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    Among the many respectable and wealthy traders who resided in Cook-street before the termination of the eighteenth century, when it became the Lihitina of Dublin, was Sir Antony King, an eccentric brazier, Lord Mayor of the city in 1778, having been previously knighted while Sheriff", for the courage which he displayed in capturing a fugitive felon, whom he pursued through the subterranean and noisome recesses of the Poddle water-course.

    A passage extending from the north-eastern side of Cookstreet to the Merchants' Quay, is styled in a lease of 1403 " Lovestokes-lane," a name subsequently changed into " Longstick-lane," and "Woodstock-lane;" but from the early part

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48. Sir John Head racked by the Lords Justices

    Bridge Street · street · Dublin · 1641

    Sir John Head, a resident of Bridge-street, was racked in 1641 by the Lords Justices who sought to extract information from him regarding the relations of Charles I. with the Confederate Irish.

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    Among the residents in Bridge-street were Sir Paul Davis, Principal Secretary of State, 1 66 1-1 G65; John Cheevers, whose son Edward was created Viscount of Mount Leinster and Baron of Bannow by James II. ; Simon Luttrell of Luttrellstown, ancestor of the Carhampton family ; Sir Erasmus Borrowes of Grange-Mellon, county ofKildare; and Sir John Head, racked in 1641 by the Lords Justices, who endeavoured

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    Along here on Bridge Street lived Sir John Head. In 1641 the Lords Justices had him racked, seeking information from him about the relations between Charles I and the Confederate Irish.

49. Bakers dragged on hurdles amid scarcity

    Dublin · city · Dublin · 1310

    During a severe scarcity in 1310, when a bushel of wheat sold for twenty shillings, the bakers of Dublin were dragged on hurdles through the streets for using false weights.

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    and his Barons, who enacted that every baker should mark his bread with his own stamp, and have a profit of four pence or three pence for every quarter, together with the bran. In 1222, one of the articles of complaint against Henri de Loundres, Archbishop of Dublin, then Justiciary, was that he assumed a jmisdiction over the bakers, whom on some occasions he had delivered from the custody in which they had been placed for vending dishonest bread ("pro falso pane") ; and the annals record that the bakers of Dublin were dragged on hurdles through the streets for their false weights, during the scarcity in the year 1310, when a bushel of wheat sold in the winter for tAventy-shillings ; but this price, we are told, increased but little in the spring, in consequence of the corn imported from abroad. In the same year John Bowet and William Keppok received an order for £500, to buy in Dublin, for the war in Scotland, 1500 quarters of wheat, 2000 quarters of oats, 500 pipes of wine, and also 500 quarters of wheat, 500 of oats, and 1 00 pipes of wine, which were to be sent to Skynburnesse. The cranog of wheat is recorded to have sold for twenty shillings, and that of oats for eight shillings, during the dearth of 1330. In 1332 a peck of wheat at Christmas was worth twenty-two shillings, but in consequence of the temperate weather in the following year, the price fell in the Dublin corn market to six pence per peck.

    Edward I. granted to the Mayor and citizens of Dublin the assize of bread and beer, and the custody and assays of weights and measures, and of all other matters appertaining to the management of the city markets, authorizing them to punish transgressors, and to correct and amend defects in weights and measures, under the supervision of the Clerk of the jVIarket.

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    As you pass through Dublin, you're moving through streets where, in 1310, the city's bakers were dragged on hurdles as punishment for using false weights. It was a time of severe scarcity. A bushel of wheat sold for twenty shillings in the winter, and the price barely eased by spring, though corn was brought in from abroad to help. The rules around bread were serious business. Bakers were required to stamp every loaf with their own mark, and they were allowed a small profit per quarter, plus the bran. The Mayor and citizens of Dublin held the assize of bread and beer, and the custody of weights and measures, with authority to punish transgressors. So when bakers sold dishonest bread or tampered with their scales, the response was public and brutal. That same year, John Bowet and William Keppok were ordered to spend 500 pounds buying wheat, oats, and wine in Dublin for the war in Scotland, a reminder of how much the city's supplies were drawn upon even amid famine at home. The struggle with food prices continued in the decades after. In 1330 a cranog of wheat still sold for twenty shillings. By Christmas of 1332 a peck of wheat reached twenty-two shillings, but a year of temperate weather brought the price in the Dublin corn market down to six pence per peck.

50. Burial of Archbishops John Comyng and Lucas in Christ Church

    Christ Church Cathedral · ecclesiastical site · Dublin · 1200–1300

    The Black Book of Christ Church records that Archbishops John Comyng and Lucas were buried together in a stone tomb on the south side of the church, while Archbishop Henry was buried under a wooden tomb on the opposite side of the chancel. This marks the burial places of successive medieval Dublin archbishops within the cathedral.

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    post eum veuit alius Arpas, qui uoraiuabatur Ilciiricus. Et post Henricum venit alius qui vocabatur Lucas; et hii tres Archiepiscopi successive prsecedentes ajdificaverunt cancellam a choro cum duabus collateralibus structuris, usque ad locum ubi nunc extat sedes Archiepiscopalis, pro cujus notitia Johannes Corny ng, et Lucas Archiepiscopi sepeliuntur in quadam tumba lapidea in austral! latere ecclesiEe. Henricus vero Archiepiscopus sepelitur ex altera parte canselli, ex opposite sub tumba lignea. Deindeque postmultos annos siiccessit Johannes de S'°. Paulo Archiepiscopus; et ubi prasdicti tres Archiepiscopi omiserunt ajdificare cancellam, cum sede archiepiscopali, et magnam fenistramin cjrientali parte summialtaris, et alias tres fenistras inter magnam fenistram et sedem archiepiscopalem, ex parte australi construxit. In cujus rei memoriam corpus suum, sub lapide marmoreo, cum ymagine tenea in secundo gradu ante praedictum altare, in suo ultimo eulogio sepeliri disposuit. Ac subsequenter cives Dublin, moti ex quodam magno miraculo S. Laurentii Archiepiscopi prsedicti (ut in ejusdem vita planius continetur) capellam magnam beatse Marise Virginis, ex boriali parte canselli, hynorifice fundarunt et construxeruut." — Folio 231.

    " Donatus Archiepiscopus primus Dublin fecit capellam S. Michaelis in Palatio suo. Et postea venerunt Laurentius Arpus secundus & Comes Mariscallus & Rob'' filius Stephani & Reymundus, qui etiam desponsavit sororem Comites Mariscalli, et fecerunt corum Ecclesise metropohtanaj cum duabus capellis, viz.: S. Eadmundi Regis & martiris & Sanctge Maris, quse dicitur Alba, & S. Laudi. Et de residue petrarum & raerterii, facta fuit Ecclesia S. Mich' ad mensam Convent: per S. Laurentium Arpum. Et antequam Arpi fuerunt in Ybernia placea pallatii fuit Dominio Prioris & Conv' S. Trin. Dub' & ibi fuit ortum illorum." — FoUo 160, a.

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    Right here at Christ Church Cathedral, the Black Book records the burials of several medieval archbishops of Dublin. Three archbishops in succession built the chancel from the choir, with two collateral structures, up to the place where the archiepiscopal seat now stands. For a memorial of this work, Archbishops John Comyng and Lucas were buried together in a stone tomb on the south side of the church. Archbishop Henry was buried on the other side of the chancel, opposite, under a wooden tomb. Then after many years John de St. Paulo succeeded as archbishop. Where the three earlier archbishops had left the chancel unfinished, he built the archiepiscopal seat, a great window in the eastern part of the high altar, and three other windows between the great window and the seat on the south side. In memory of his work he arranged for his body to be buried under a marble stone with a bronze image, on the second step before the altar. Later still, the citizens of Dublin, moved by a great miracle of Saint Laurence the archbishop, founded and built a great chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the north side of the chancel. The book also records that Donatus, the first archbishop of Dublin, made the chapel of Saint Michael in his palace, and that Laurence the second archbishop, the Earl Marshal, Robert son of Stephen, and Reymundus built the metropolitan church with chapels of Saint Edmund, Saint Mary called Alba, and Saint Laud.

51. Two thousand corrupt constables reviewed at Oxmantown Green, 1729

    near Oxmantown Green · street · Dublin · 1729

    The number of constables and sheriffs' bailiffs in Dublin was found to total two thousand in 1729, prompting a review upon Oxmantown Green and a reduction of numbers allocated to justices, the Lord Mayor, City Marshal, gaoler of Newgate and House of Correction.

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    " Black Dog," where tliey were incarcerated until they had discharged the fees demanded from them. The constables, who were generally men of the lowest grade, committed the grossest enormities in the discharge of their office, obtaining large rewards for apprehending persons whom they pretended it would be extremely difficult to arrest, while at the same time they were privately bribed to forbear by the parties whom they had been paid for pursuing ; and, after having captured an unfortunate debtor, every artifice was used to extort money from him while awaiting the arrival of his bail. The number of constables and sheriifs' bailiffs in Dublin in 1729 being found to amount to two thousand, the Lords Justices and Privy Council ordered the several churchwardens to return the names of the constables in their respective parishes ; and, after a review upon Oxmant own-green, reduced them considerably, allowing four to every justice of the peace, twenty to the Lord Mayor, six to the City Marshal for the service of his Marshalsea, tAvelve to the Gaoler of Newgate, and three to the Master of the House of Con-ection, all to be persons of good behavioiu" and Protestants, and to have their names and places of abode constantly posted at the Tholsel.

    Ashenhurst Isaack, gaoler of Newgate, was discharged from his situation in 1721, on a charge of having permitted a number of prisoners to escape ; notwithstanding which, he received £245 for his goodwill of the office from John Hawkins, who also paid the Mayor and Sheriffs £100, as a gratuity for having secured him the appointment. Hawkins had originally been an attorney's clerk, subsequently practised as a bailiff, and was appointed Keeper of the House of Correction, whence he was transferred to the Gaolership of Newgate, which, under the management of him and his wife, became the scene of most flagrant abuses.

    Internet Archive historyofcityofd01gilb, Chapter 114

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    Somewhere about Oxmantown Green, in 1729, Dublin's constables were reviewed and their numbers cut. The constables in the city were generally men of the lowest grade. They committed the grossest enormities in the discharge of their office. They obtained large rewards for apprehending persons they pretended would be extremely difficult to arrest, while at the same time they were privately bribed to forbear by the very parties they had been paid to pursue. After capturing an unfortunate debtor, every artifice was used to extort money from him while he awaited the arrival of his bail. Those arrested were incarcerated at the Black Dog until they discharged the fees demanded from them. The number of constables and sheriffs' bailiffs in Dublin was found to amount to two thousand. The Lords Justices and Privy Council ordered the several churchwardens to return the names of the constables in their respective parishes. After a review upon Oxmantown Green, they were reduced considerably. Four were allowed to every justice of the peace, twenty to the Lord Mayor, six to the City Marshal for the service of his Marshalsea, twelve to the Gaoler of Newgate, and three to the Master of the House of Correction. All were to be persons of good behaviour and Protestants, and to have their names and places of abode constantly posted at the Tholsel. Before this reform, the gaoler of Newgate, Ashenhurst Isaack, had been discharged in 1721 on a charge of permitting prisoners to escape. He received 245 pounds for his goodwill of the office from John Hawkins, who also paid the Mayor and Sheriffs 100 pounds as a gratuity for securing the appointment. Hawkins had been an attorney's clerk, then a bailiff, then Keeper of the House of Correction, before taking over Newgate, which under him and his wife became the scene of most flagrant abuses.

52. Whipping from the Main Guard to the Gallows

    Werburgh Street · street · Dublin · 1652

    Two men convicted of violently taking money and goods from an informant were sentenced to be whipped from the Main Guard to the Gallows and back, receiving forty lashes each, after being reduced to foot soldiers.

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    mas Kardell Defdts. 2 Julii, 1652. The Defendants being accused for tlie violent taking of 5s. in money and 8s. worth of goods from tlie Informant and others in protection, and thereof founde guilty, it was ordered, that they should be whipt from the Main-guard to ye GalloAVS and backward againe to ye sd guard, each of them to receive 40 lashes, being first dismounted and reduced as foote souldiers into Captn Woodcock's Company."

    The station of the Main Guard appears to have been afterwards used as a watch-house, but the vestiges of its original use Avere preserved in the name of " Gun-alley," situated next the watch-house, and in which, at the commencement of the present century, the parish engines were kept. On the site of the present passage into the female school stood " Blue Coat Alley," or " Blue Boar Alley," which, together with "Gun-alley," has been entirely erased by the erection of the modern parish schools on their site.

    Internet Archive historyofcityofd01gilb, Chapter 23

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    Along here in 1652, two men were whipped from the Main Guard to the Gallows and back again. They had been found guilty of violently taking 5 shillings in money and 8 shillings worth of goods from an informant and others under protection. Each of them received 40 lashes. Before the whipping, they were dismounted and reduced to foot soldiers in Captain Woodcock's Company. The Main Guard later served as a watch-house, and the name Gun-alley, next to it, preserved a memory of its original use.

53. Carter's imprisonment for printing false Gibraltar news

    Fishamble Street · street · Dublin · 1721–1727

    Carter, a Dublin printer prosecuted for attacking the press, was imprisoned with his wife in 1727 for publishing false intelligence relating to Gibraltar. He had earlier been attached in 1721 for printing the Lord Lieutenant's speech.

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    Carter, who appears to have been a victim to prosecutions against the press, was attached in 1721 for printing the Lord Lieutenant's speech to Parliament; and in 1727 he and his wife were imprisoned for publishing some false intelligence relative to Gibraltar.

    In Fishamble-street were the " Swan Tavern" (1639), the "Ormond's Arms"(lG62), the "Ossory" (1664), and the "Fleece" tavern (1666). The locality of the latter, on the western side of the street, is still indicated by 'Fleece-alley,'! which, in the last century, was chiefly occupied by velvet weavers, many of whom were distinguished for the beauty and richness of the fabrics which they manufactured.

    Internet Archive historyofcityofd01gilb, Chapter 32

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    Along here on Fishamble Street, a printer named Carter lived and worked. He seems to have been a target of prosecutions against the press. In 1721 he was attached for printing the Lord Lieutenant's speech to Parliament. Then in 1727 he and his wife were imprisoned for publishing false intelligence relating to Gibraltar. This street also had its share of taverns in the 1600s, including the Swan, the Ormond's Arms, the Ossory, and the Fleece.

54. Rebellion disrupts Dublin book trade, 1641

    Dublin · city · Dublin · 1641

    Stationers John Crooke and Richard Sergier testified that the 1641 rebellion ruined their trade in Dublin, as Papist and Protestant customers alike were disabled from paying debts, some being 'in action of rebellion.'

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    " That having for this five years lastpast and upwards, within this city, kept a stationer's shop, well furnished with merchandise and English books, for and at such rates as formerly this kingdom was not supplied withall, and having by that means ministers and customers of all professions through the kingdom of good Avorth and ability before these late troubles. They have to severall persons (whereof some few were Papists noAv in action of rebellion) and other Protestants who by their loss of all tlu'ough this insurrection are utterly disabled to make satisfaction for severall parcells of books which they were indebted unto John Crooke and Richard Sergier aforesayd, in all amounting to the sum of six himdred pounds and upwards. The loss whereof they have sustained by this present rebellion, besides the utter decay of their trade to their undoing, and the further loss they must needs suffer in the stock of books now lying dead on their hands. Jm'at Martii 10"° coram nobis John Watson, William Aldrich. — John Crooke, Richard Sergier. And the said John Crooke, being deposed, further saith, that the summer before

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    Internet Archive historyofcityofd01gilb, Chapter 87

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    As you pass through Dublin, this city carries a memory from 1641. John Crooke and Richard Sergier had kept a stationer's shop in the city for five years or more, well stocked with merchandise and English books such as this kingdom had not been supplied with before. They had built up customers across the kingdom, ministers and others of good worth and ability, before the troubles came. Then the rebellion ruined them. Some who owed them money were Papists, now in action of rebellion. Others were Protestants who had lost everything through the insurrection and were utterly disabled from paying. The debts for parcels of books came to six hundred pounds and upwards. Beyond that, their trade had utterly decayed, and the stock of books lay dead on their hands. Crooke and Sergier swore to all this on March 10, before John Watson and William Aldrich.

55. Riot and Stabbing in High-street, 1531

    High Street · street · Dublin · 1531

    A brawl broke out in High-street in 1531 when a servant pitching hay struck a soldier's bonnet, leading to a dagger thrown and a soldier stabbed with a pike; a general uproar between soldiers and apprentices ensued, with several wounded though none killed.

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    " In the second year of Skeffington his government, it happened that one Henrie White, servant to Benet a merchant of Dublin, was pitching of a cart of haie in the High-street ; and having offered boies plaie to passengers that walked to and fro, he let a bottle (truss) of his haie fall on a souldiors bonet, as he passed by his cart. The souldior taking this knavish knacke in dudgeon, hurled his dagger at him, and having narrowlie mist the princocks, he sticked it in a post not far off. White leapt down from the cart, and thrust the soiddior through the shoulder with his pike. Whereupon there was a great uprore in the citie between the souldiors and the apprentises, in as muche as Thomas Barbie being the Maior, having the King his sword di'awne, was hardhe able to appease the fraie, in wliich diverse were wounded, and none slaine. The Lord Deputie issued out of the Castell, and came as far as the pillorie, to Avhome the Maior posted thorough the prease with the sword naked under his arme, and presented Wliite that was the brewer of all this garboile to his Lordship, whome theGovernour pardoned, as well for his courage in bickering as for his retch- Icsse siniplicitic and ])leasantnesse in telling the wliole discourse. Wherebey a man may see how manic bloudie qiuirels a brail-

    Internet Archive historyofcityofd01gilb, Chapter 96

56. The legendary tomb of Gurmund at Leighlin cathedral

    Oldleighlin · parish · Carlow · 1589

    Thady Dowling, Chancellor of Leighlin, recorded a tradition that Gurmund founded the cathedral at Leighlin and was interred there; in 1589 witnesses reportedly saw the tomb and its epitaph inscribed in simple verse.

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    Thady Dowling, Chancellor of Leighlin, mentions a tradition that Gurmund, or O'Gormagheyn, founded the cathedral of that town, in Avhich he was said to have been inteiTcd, and tells us that in 1589, " Karolus Rowac, alias Makeyigan, clerk, Donagh M'Gilpatrick, and Gilleranoy, carpenters, saw the tumbe with their eyes, and Thady Dowling cancellar ecclesiae found his epitaph in simple verse as followeth :

    " '^Hic jacct humatus dux fuadator Lenioe, id est Leghlenue. En Gormondi Burchardus vir gratus ecclesiaj.' "

    Internet Archive historyofcityofd01gilb, Chapter 141

57. Valentine Greatracks, 'the Stroaker,' the healer of Affane

    Affane · townland · Waterford

    Valentine Greatracks of Affane, a Protestant magistrate of County Cork, became known as 'the Stroaker' for his mode of healing similar to Finachty's, though his career reportedly ended in failure just as Finachty's had.

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    Finachty had not long retired, when another wonderworker appeared in the person of Valentine Greatracks or Greati'ix, a respectable Protestant gentleman of Affane, Clerk of the Peace, and a magistrate of the county of Cork. His mode of operating appears to have been similar to that of Finachty, whence he acquired the name of " the Stroaker." Of the termination of his career nothing appears to be known except that be was satirized by St. Evremond ; and a writer of the day says that, " not long after his practices on folks in London, he went out like the snuff of a candle, just as Finachty did."

    On the attainder of Su* William Kennedy, in 1703, twelve houses, which he held in fee in Kennedy's-court, were confiscated to the Crown. One of those is described as " a large brick house, in good repair, has sellars under the whole house,

    Internet Archive historyofcityofd01gilb, Chapter 91

58. Discovery of Archbishop Comyn's stone coffin

    Christ Church Cathedral · ecclesiastical site · Dublin · 1759

    A stone coffin without date or inscription, supposed to contain the remains of Archbishop Comyn, buried in 1212, was discovered on opening an arch in the walls of Christ Church in 1759.

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    Hamo de Valois, to expiate his offences, bestowed twenty ploughlands, in the territory of Ucunil, upon Archbishop Comyn, who enlarged the choir of the cathedral, on the south side of which he was interred in 1212, under a marble monument. A stone coffin, without date or inscription, supposed to contain the remains of Archbishop Comyn, was discovered on opening an arch in the walls of Christ Church in 1759. Henri de Loundres, Archbishop of Dublin from 1213 to 1228, gave to the priory a piece of ground to erect a gate-house to the church, and Avas buried beneath a wooden tomb opposite to that of Comyn. A fire in the town having, in 1283, injured the steeple, dormitory, and chapter-house of the Priory, the citizens, before repairing their OAvn houses, subscribed to restore the cathedral, to collect alms for wliich Friar Henri de Cork obtained a license to travel through the kingdom in 1303.

    An illustration of the existence of serfdom in Ireland at the commencement of the fourteenth century is furnished by a proceeding recorded on a Memorandum Roll of the 31st year of Edwai'd I., from which it appears that the Prior of the Con-

    Internet Archive historyofcityofd01gilb, Chapter 46

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    Right here at Christ Church Cathedral, in 1759, workmen opening an arch in the walls found a stone coffin with no date and no inscription on it. It is supposed to hold the remains of Archbishop Comyn, who enlarged the choir of the cathedral and was buried on the south side of it in 1212, under a marble monument. Hamo de Valois had given Comyn twenty ploughlands in the territory of Ucunil, and with that endowment Comyn carried out the work on the choir. After him came Henri de Loundres, Archbishop of Dublin from 1213 to 1228, who gave the priory ground to build a gate-house for the church. He was buried under a wooden tomb opposite Comyn's. A fire in the town in 1283 damaged the steeple, dormitory, and chapter-house of the priory, and the citizens subscribed to restore the cathedral before repairing their own houses.

59. Formal orders issued to regulate conduct at Christ Church, 1633

    Christ Church Cathedral · ecclesiastical site · Dublin · 1633

    Following complaints from the Dean and Chapter, the Lord Deputy and Council issued detailed orders in November 1633 prohibiting taverns and tippling houses beneath Christ Church, regulating dress and behaviour during services, and empowering pursuivants to arrest offenders.

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    " Upon the humble petition of the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity in Dublin, for the redresse of sundry abuses nearly concerning their church, and the divine office there celebrated, it is this day ordered by the Lord Deputy and Councill : — First, that noe cellar or vaidt under the said church, nor any house adjoining or contiguous to the said church or any ]>art thereof, shall be iniploid as a

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    Right beside the road here is Christ Church Cathedral. In November 1633 the Lord Deputy and Council issued orders after the Dean and Chapter complained of abuses affecting their church. No cellar or vault beneath the church, nor any house adjoining it, was to be used as a tavern or tippling house. The orders also regulated dress and behaviour during services, and empowered pursuivants to arrest offenders.

60. Franciscan general Chapters held in secrecy during penal times

    Dublin · city · Dublin · 1703–1714

    General Chapters of the Franciscans were held in Dublin in 1703, 1706, 1709 and 1714 during a period of persecution, described as 'a year particularly awful in the annals of terror'. The chapters were dated 'In loco Refugii nostri', signifying they met in a place of refuge and security from their enemies.

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    " A general Chapter of the Franciscans was held in Dublin in 1703, a year particularly awful in the annals of terror; in this Chapter sixty-four Vocals, or persons entitled to vote at capitular elections, attended ; in 1705 a middle Chapter was convened in the same city. Another general Chapter, at which sixty-two Vocals assisted, Avas solemnized in .the metropolis during the November of 1706 : and an intermediate one in 1708. A third general Chapter was held in Dublin, October 12th, 1709, the number of Vocals being sixty-two; the intermediate Chapter is dated the 7th of June, 1711. The fourth general Chapter, at which sixty-three Vocals attended, was held in the same city on the 13 th of October, 1714 ; these Chapters are all dated ' In loco Eefugii nostri ;' signifying that they assembled in a place of refuge and security from their enemies."

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    As you travel through Dublin, you are passing through a city where the Franciscans held their general chapters in secret during penal times. The first was in 1703, a year described as "particularly awful in the annals of terror," with 64 Vocals entitled to vote at capitular elections. Further general chapters followed in 1706, 1709, and 1714, with 62, 62, and 63 Vocals attending. Intermediate chapters were also convened in 1705, 1708, and 1711. All these chapters are dated "In loco Refugii nostri," signifying that the Franciscans assembled in a place of refuge and security from their enemies.