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plundered by the same people. The year 1047 is commemorated in 

 the Annals of the Four Masters for an awful fall of snow, with which 

 Florence of Worcester agrees, (ad ann.)* In 1049, according to the 

 latter author, a band of Irish pn-ates ran up the Severn, and plundered 

 the adjacent country.-f In 1051 Harold fled to Ireland.^ In 1052 

 the same chieftain came over from Ireland, and made several success- 

 ful incursions on Somersetshire and Devonshire,§ which Florence of 

 Worcester confirms. In 1056, or perhaps some years subsequently, 

 according to the Chronicon Mannia?, (p. 8,) Godred subdued Dublin 

 and a great part of Leinster, and so oppressed the Scots of Ireland, 

 that they dared not build a ship or even the smallest boat.il This 

 must be the Godred, to whom Lanfranc Archbishop of Canterbury 

 wrote the letter given in Usher's Sylloge,** and which is more particu- 

 larly mentioned hereafter. 



In 1 064, according to some accounts, Donough, the son of Brien 

 Boroimhe, on being banished from his kingdom by his cousin Tur- 

 lough, made that before-mentioned'f'f notable pilgrimage to Rome, in 

 which he affected, by the delivery of his father's crown and harp, to 

 make a constitutional transfer of the dominion of Ireland to the Pope. 

 It is alleged to have been done with the expectation of present aid in 



* " Nix in occidente tanta cecidit, ut silvas quoque frangeret. Quo etiam anno hiems 

 extitit durissima." 



f " Hibemienses piratae, xxxvi navibus ostium intrantes Sabrinae fluminis, in loco qui dici- 

 tur Wilesceaxan appulerunt, et cum adjutorio Griffini regis Australium Britonum circa loca 

 ilia prffidam agentes nunnulla mala fecerunt, Ike." 



i Saxon Chronicle, ad ann. 



§ " Reversus est Haroldus de Hibernia cum novem navibus, &c."— Saxon Chron. 

 ad ann. 



II " Godred subjugavit sibi Dubliniam et magnam partem de Laynester. Scotos vero ita 

 perdomuit ut nullus, qui fabricaret navem vel scapham, ausus esset plusquam tres clavos 

 inserere." 



** Page 48. H Ante, p. 280. 



