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Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Bridge gate, 



Agents to 

 England. 



Powder 

 explosun. 



Mnster at 

 CuUenswood 

 not to take 

 place. 



Agents for 

 England. 



Expenses of 

 agents to 

 England. 



prohibited by said statutes: and, on petition to the Deputy, we are authorized 

 to seize them, so as to try our title tb said custom. Ordered that Michael 

 Chamberlavn and John Usher, aldennen, collect the custom on such prohibited 

 wares as shall be transported from this city. If the parties refuse to pay, 

 the wares to be seized. 



fol 33^. 11th March, 1596. 



An order was made last assembly for building the bridge gate and repair- 

 ing the new gate, but no authority was given to compound with the workmen. 

 Ordered that the mayor, Nicholas Ball, John Foster, Nicholas Weston, 

 John Ussher, and Matthew Handcock, with the master of the works, 

 compound with the workmen. 



fol. 33\ 26th March, 1597. 



As to choosing agents for divei-s suits, agreed that Walter Sedgrave, 

 Nicholas Ball, John Foster, and William Gough, aldermen, determine ^hat 

 suits are fittest to be preferred to Her Majesty for the good of the city. 



fol. 34.\ 26th March, 1597. 



On account of the late fire, by the burning of Her Majesty's powder, the 

 houses and buildings of the city are so ruined, and the cess such that the time 

 is rather for sorrow than mirth, and it is hard matter to draw the people to 

 their wonted muster on Black Monday ; it is ordered that on said day, said 

 muster and going to the wood of Cullen be forborne. The mayor, alder- 

 men, lie, to meet in the New Hall on said Monday for choosing the mayor 

 and sherife of the Bullring,' iSrc. 



fol. 3o\ 1st April, 1597. 



Francis Taylor and William Gough, aldermen, to be the city agents for 

 exhibiting suits to the Queen, they to be ready to take shipping for England 

 by 10th April 



fol. 3o°. 22nd April, 1597. 



Michael Chamberlayii, mayor, is bound to Nicholas Borran, alderman, in 

 100 marks, on condition that whereas the masters of the eight corporations of 

 theeity are committed to the marshalsea for refusing to pay their portion of 

 a cess of £100, which proportion amounts to the sum of £'d'6 &s. 8d., to be 

 employed by the city agents who axe to be sent as suitors to Her Majesty in 

 England, said Borran is to be repaid the sum he lent as soon as the mayor has 

 set the eight masters at liberty, or £4 3s. id. as soon as any of them is set 

 at liberty. 



» Mayor of the Buliring elected by the citizens to be captain of the BacheloiB. 

 an irou one in the Commarket, to which bnUs were fastened for baiting. 



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