Twiss— ,S'(/?«^ AncicnI. Deeds of I he Parinh nl HI. Werhuffjh. 283 



dealt wiili ; it was bequeathed tu tlio cliuicli tVn- the purpose of providing a 

 priest for our Lady's Altar, to pray for the souls of meuihers of the Boxse- 

 worth' and Pluukett fuinilies. A couple of chambers over the churchyard- 

 door were also leased by tlie churL-iiwanlcus. 



The watch-hoilse in v/hich during tlie seventeenth century the city main 

 guard was stationed was parish property, and portion of the building was 

 subsequently incorporated in St. Werburgh's scboolliouse. The parish owned 

 a chamber over the passage leading from the street to the churchyard on the 

 niirtli, and anotlier was leased in 15-47 to Nicholas Stanyhurst.' Certain 

 orchaids near Sir James Ware's house were also let. Among the proprietors 

 and tenants mentioned in this street were William de Bristoll,' 1273 ; William 

 le Scheremau, William de Kildare, Hugli de Calce' (Ohancellor of St. Patrick's), 

 J^icholas Ardoun,^ Thomas Sutton, Thomas Fannyn/ Geoffrey Calfe,' Sir 

 .Tliomas Laundey' and Sir Ellis Feld, chaplains ; Eobert Bee,' goldsmith ; 

 Walter Locke, Ealph Leventhorpe.' 



In Castle Street, the proctors owned Foyle's^" grove or orchard, which lay 

 on the south side of the street. The family were lisherfolk, whose booths 

 were in Fishamble Street, close by, and their house stood close to St, 

 Werburgh's churchyard; they are frequently mentioned in connexion with a 

 family of Jonet^^ or Jennet, also fisliermen. Li addition, the proctors owned 

 St. Martin's Lane, with houses in ii. Tlie principal property on the north 

 side of the street was Corryngham's Inns, the town mansion of the family of 

 that name from the end of the fourteenth century up to 1479, when it seems 

 to have passed to the church. In course of time the name became corrupted 

 into Corrigan's inns, and as such there ai'e title-deeds to it extending from 

 1479 to 1675, when it was known by the sign of the "Castle," being then 



' In 1370 William Boseworth owned a tenement in Castle Streec (Chart. St. Mary's, 

 i, 1(1) : in 1459 .John Boseworte was Serjeant of the Bailiffs, Dublin city. 



= Mayor of Dublin, 1542. 



^ Mayor of Dublin, 1271, and subsequently. 



■* He was for .seventeen years deputy in this country of Raymond Pelegrini, Nuncio 

 of the Pope. De Calce was murdered in 1.347. 



■'■ As Nicholas Hardon he had a giant of a place in St, Werburgh's parish in luOO, 

 which in 1411 he conveyed to Thomas Fanying and Margaret his wife. 



" Frequently mentioned in Clu'ist Church Deeds. 



" Trustee and agent for Holy Trinity ; frequently mentioned in Chri.st Church Deeds. 



* Freeman of the city in 1578. 



^ M.P. for Bnnis, 103!). Leventhorpe's Alley was later named Gun Alley. 

 '" Among Christ Church Deeds are wills of William Foyle, 1348, and .John Foyle, 13S0, 

 in which mention is made of St. Werburgh's Church. In 1474 Thomas Foile was admitted 

 to the franchise of Dublin as a free fisher. 



" Robert Foyll in 1454 lea.scd to John Jonet "fysshcr"1l messuage in Castle Street, 

 and another with the orcliard belonging thereto. (Ch. Ch. Deed, No. '.>57.) 



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