Twi.ss — Deech (>/ Ihc Pdrlxlu-H of SI. ('(tllu'riiic. (Did SI. .I'avins. 200 



Clii'isfcopliei' Usslier, of Ijiitlgcloot, l)iilplin, l)oni circa 1G.'!4, hoii of Sir 

 William Usshcr, of liricb^efont, inari'ied MaiLlia, daughter of Tlionms Piggot, 

 Master of the Wards iu Ireland, and had issue, William TIsslier, of Ussher's 

 Quay, and Martha, who married (Jhief .lustice Nehemiah Doimellan. 

 Christopher Ussher died in ]70G, and was buried iu St. Audoen's. 



Some raemljero of tlie Sprauger family, aucestors of Sjiranger Barry, the 

 tragedian, are named as holding premises in St. Thomas' Street — Ilenry 

 Sprauger having a dwelling, nuilt-house, &e., on the uortli side of the street 

 iu l()o9, and John S^jrangcr in 1690 taking a lease of a teuemeut, with 

 stable, &c. 



In No. 29 it is mentioned that Sir James Barry, I'aron of Santry,^ held 

 property near St. James's Church. His family had been foremost citizens of 

 Dublin for generatious, and iu 1610 iiis father was mayor of the city. Sir 

 James Harry was one of the judges for a sliort time prior to the Commou- 

 wealth, when he was removed, but on the liestoration, he was appointed 

 Chief Justice of the Chief Place. Barry was in Lord Strafford's coufideuce, and 

 he was one of the commissioners for the settlement of Ireland under Charles II. 

 Lord Santry died in 1673, and was interred in Christ Church Cathedral. 



Evidence is afforded that certain waste ground and ruinous walls whereon 

 had stood an old house, at the we.st end of St. Mary's Chapel iu St. Catherine's 

 Church, liouuded on the south by the highway leading through the cliurchyard 

 towards Sir Beverley Newcombe's house, were anciently deemed to belong to 

 the ministers or vicars of St. Catherine's. 



Among the documents is recited a lease of 1595, wliich forms portion of 

 the title to one of the houses iu question iu the Chancery suit of 1880. 

 Under it the premises, foiinerly belonging to Luke Lowthcr, were demised to 

 Kobert Bysse, subsequently coming to Christopher Bysse, John Bysse, and 

 John, Yiscotuit Molesworth. John Bysse^ (.eldest sou of said Christopher), 

 who had been llecorder of Dublin, was appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer 

 at the Kestoratiou. While Eecorder of the city, in 1639, Bysse was Warden 

 of the Religious Gild of St. Anne in St. Audoen's Church.' Tlie Chief 

 Baron died in 1680, and was buried in St. Audoen's. He married Margaret, 

 daugliter of Chief Justice Lowther ; and their daughter, Judith, uuirried 

 liobert, Viscount Molesworth. 



In the Registers of S. Catherine, DiMin, 1636-1715 (Parish Register Society 

 of Dublin), Eev. John Hodson is given as Rector from 1636. Deed No. 22 



'See "Some Notes on the Irish Judiciary." F. E. Ball, Journal, Cork H. & A. 

 Soc, 1901, p. 94. 



" Ball's " Irish Judiciary," Cork Journal, 1901, p. 146. 



^ "GUd of St. Anne." Proceedinijs-ix.l.A.., x-w, Sec. C, p. 21. 



