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Maurice Segyne grauted to AVilliaiu Fowler, a chaplain, what tlie three 

 cliaplaius had given liim, and William Fowler gave said Maurice, and 

 Moliiie Hyde, his wife, the premises for life, with remainder in tail to their 

 sons David and Walter. No. 14 is an inventory of the goods and probate 

 of tlie will of this Walter Segyae or Soggyn, merchant, 1495, who had been 

 admitted to the franchise of the city in 14S4.^ He was to be buried in 

 St. James's church, and, among other legacies, the testator bequeathed one 

 to his foster-father, who had nurtureil him. Fifteenth-century Dublin wills 

 are few, so that tiie discovery of one more in this collection is of interest. 

 Tlie family of Soggyn, also called Segyn, appear in the deeds from 1434 in 

 coiine.xion with hou.ses in St. Tliomas' Street. ]ii 1508 Moline Segyn, alias 

 Hyde, granted the lands above mentioned to Thomas Foster and Tlobert 

 Cornyng, and the lalter's brother, John C'urning, chaplain, in 1533 conveyed 

 to Geoffrey Morton the properly that his brother Robert had from Moline 

 Segyn. In l<i7'J a liouse named the "Kood Stang," wliich stood near 

 St. James's church, is mentioned. The " Ciierry tree," on the north side of 

 the street, appears in 1703, and in 1G97 "the Cherry tree" garden belonged 

 to Jolin Allen. Tlie "Talbot" inn in 1743 stood on the south side of the 

 street 



Tlie"(ilib"is nientioneil as a northern bouniiary in No. 27, so called, 

 says Dr. C. T. M'C'ready, in his Dublin iStml Names, "from the Glib river, a 

 wateitjoursc constructed in 1G70, to convey water through St. Thomas' Street 

 from Coleman's Krook at the head of Dirty Lane to a small cistern at the 

 south end of New Itow." "Glib" is supposed to be a corruption of the word 

 " Glebe." 'I'his stream ran beside St. Cathei ine's Ciiurch. 



Coleman's Brook, or the Black Ditch (No. 31), is mentioned as early as 

 l-lOti in a MS. in Trinity College, and in 1470 in a Clhrist Church Deed, in 

 each (if wiiich it formed a southern boundary of certain premises. The 

 stivam was an overlli»w or continuation of the old city watercourse, passing 

 througii Dirty I.ane down to Mullinaiiack, and liowing undei' Bridge Street 

 until it reached tiie 1 ,ifl"ey. (See The f ruler Supply of Aiident Dublin, 

 H. K. Berry, Jourmtl US. A. I., vol. ,\xi, p. 560.) In this deed are mentioned 

 a plot of ground held liy William Molyncux, and Christopher Usher's parks. 

 The former, in 16M4, waa ajtpointed Surveyor of Works in Ireland, and in 

 1692 lie became M.P. for the University of Dublin. Molyneu.x was a distin- 

 guished philosopher and astronomer, and in 1G84 he founded the Dublin 

 I'll ilosopl deal Sixiiety (a forerunner of the Koyal Dublin Society), of which 

 he acted as Secretary. 



' Gilbert's AncinU Records of Dublin, i, p. 3C5. 



