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CATALOGUE OF THE MAYORS, PIIO YOSTS,. xVNU BAILIFFS 

 OF DUBLIN CITY, A.D. 1229 TO 1447. 



By HENEY F. BEEEY, Litt.D., I.S.O. 



[Read January 21. Onlcrpcl for Publication Januauv 20. riililisljed Fehuuauy 2S, 1910.] 



The dates of office of the mayors and bailiff's of Dublin in ancient times are 

 of considerable importance, as old deeds and documents were undated, and 

 these constantly acted as witnesses in their official capacity. In the Preface 

 to his " Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin " (vol. i., p. xxxiii), publislied 

 in 1884, Sir John Gilbert makes the following statement : — " Many of the 

 Dublin grants are attested by the mayors and bailiff's of that city. Materials, 

 however, are not at present accessible for fixing precise years of some of these 

 civic officials at the early period to which the instruments belong." 



The publication of a Calendar of the Christ Church Deeds in the 20th, 

 2.3rd, and 24th Eeports of the Deputy Keeper of the Eecords, Ireland (1888- 

 1892), made a considerable addition to the materials necessary for the 

 construction of a chronological catalogue of the mayors, provosts, and bailiffs 

 of Dublin ; and without it this work could not have been undertaken. As a 

 matter of fact, a list of mayors, bailiffs, &c., extending from the year 1.308 to 

 1765, is printed as an appendix to Walter Harris's " History and Antiquities 

 of the City of Dublin" (1766), wliich the author describes as a " Catalogue of 

 the names of the Chief Magistrates of the city of Dublin under their- different 

 appellations of Provosts, Bailiffs, Mayors, Lord Mayors, and Sheriffs from the 

 second year of King Edward the Second to this time, taken from the Table 

 in the great room of the Tholsel." This catalogue — at least down to the 

 period included in the present list — has been found unreliable as to sequence 

 of mayors, &c., erroneous in dates, and many of the names of officials 

 enumerated are wrong or corrupt. 



On considering that much more information might be obtained from 

 original Deeds not hitherto consulted; that Sir John Gilbert's published 

 Calendars and Eegisters gave much assistance ; and that each year further 

 sources of information were being supplied, the time appeared to have arri\ed 

 at which an attempt might be made to compile a list of the mayors, bailill's, 



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