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whicli had been stopped to convey tlie Prior of St. John of Jerusalem, 

 then also Chancellor of Ireland, inasmuch as he was not prepared to 

 travel at the time." 



Furthermore, he states : — "In 1396, King Eichard granted to Arch- 

 bishop Northalis and his successors in the See of Dublin, that his and 

 their Bailiffs for the time being should exercise the office of admiral or 

 water-bailiff within the manor, lordship, and port of Dalkey, and 

 receive all fees thereunto belonging, and that no admiral or water- 

 bailiff of the Kiiig should iatermeddle with theu' authority." The 

 importance of this grant appears from a contemporaneous instrument, 

 whereiu it is stated that " there is no safe anchorage or good lying for 

 great ships coming into the port of Dublin, with wines, salt, com, 

 and other merchandise freighted for Dublin from foreign parts, only at 

 the port of the Archbishop of Dublin, in the town of Dalkey, which is 

 six level miles fi'om Dublin, and out of the port and liberties of the 

 city, at which place they are bound to unload, and there is no other 

 port in the neighbourhood where they can ride so safe from storm, and 

 the merchants were wont to buy their goods at said port of Dalkey, 

 as well as in the port of Dublin and other ports, to land same, and to 

 briag it up on cars or in boats to the city, and there land and pay 

 customs," &c. 



