A History of the City of Dublin. E-book. Formato PDF John Thomas Gilbert   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

In 1683 Robert Ware issued the following "advertisement, with the approbation of several persons of learning and quality:""That whereas the antiquities of the most antient, famous and loyal city of Dublin, importing a full history of the same, as well ecclesiastical as civil, from the first foundation thereof, is intended to be printed in large folio, with a good character, containing above an hundred sheets and near forty copper plates: a fuller account will be had in a specimen which shall be printed for that purpose: It being a work of more than ordinary charge, to furnish the same with sculptures fit to represent the beauty, state and scituation, and many noble persons in several ages relating thereto; it is humbly offered, that, who shall please to subscribe three and twenty shillings shall have one book in quires, which otherwise will not be sold under thirty shillings: and those that subscribe for six shall have seven. William Norman, bookbinder to his Grace the Duke of Ormond, being undertaker thereof, will give receipts for such money as he shall receive."Robert Ware, being mainly occupied with religious polemics, made but little progress in the projected history, the manuscript of which subsequently came into the possession of Walter Harris, who married his granddaughter.

A History of the City of Dublin. E-book. Formato PDF John Thomas Gilbert   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

College-green anciently formed portion of a considerable village outside the city of Dublin, styled Hogges, or Le Hogges, a name apparently derived from the Teutonic word Hoge or Hoga used to designate small hills or sepulchral mounds, the existence of which in this locality was evidenced by the vestiges found here in the reign of Charles I."In November, 1646," writes Sir James Ware, as people were employed in removing a little hill in the east suburbs of the city of Dublin, in order to form a line of fortification, there was discovered an ancient sepulchre, placed S.W. and N.E., composed of eight black marble stones, of which two made the covering, and were supported by the others. The length of this monument was six feet two inches, the breadth three feet one inch, and the thickness of the stone three inches. At each corner of it was erected a stone four feet high, and near it, at theS. W.end, another stone was placed in the form of a pyramid six feet high, of a rustic work, and of that kind of stone which is called a millstone. Vast quantities of burnt coals, ashes, and human bones, some of VOL.in.

Report on the Manuscripts of the Marquis of Ormonde, K. P., Preserved at the Castle, Kilkenny. E-book. Formato PDF John Thomas Gilbert   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The second volume of the Ormonde archives includes docu ments, papers, and letters extending from 1640 to 1714, which are of great historical interest.