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Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



City 

 Liberties. 



fol. 107". 20th December, 1608. 



A complaint exhibited before the Lord Deputy and Council by Captain 

 Edney and others, inhabitants of Patrick Street, against the mayor, aldermen 

 and sheriffs, as to goods seized within the liberties by the masters and 

 wardens of the gild. The Lord Deputy wished the mayor, &c., to consult 

 with the masters and wardens, &c., to see what course they woirld take. He 

 called them together, and it was resolved that the right of the charters 

 should be maintained, and to bring the matter to trial peremptorily. 



Fine. 



John Heade 

 committed. 



Sheriffs. 



fol. 108^. 



4th January, 1609. 



John Brice, alderman, one of the masters of the gild, being called before 

 the mayor, &c., was charged with irreverent speeches to the mayor, proved 

 by several witnesses. He to be committed to the TolseU, until he pay forty 

 shillings, or put in a pawn to the value. On his submission, further order to 

 be made at the mayor's discretion. 



fol. 108^. 



24th January, 1609. 



John Heade, shoemaker, on the 21st January, sitting in the place of 

 judgment in the TolseU court, uttered to the mayor most intemperate 

 speeches, and opposed his authority in open court. He to be committed to 

 the marshalsea until he pay £10 fine. 



26th January, 1609. The fine remitted on his submission. 



fol. 109\ 



24th January, 1609. 



Peter Dermot, merchant, called before the mayor, and informed that it 

 was reported to a citizen of Dublin that it was an ordinary practice by the 

 mayor and sheriffs to bring in two kinds of sheriffs — one to be a shadow to 

 cover others' faults ; and he who does not go to church should have whatsoever 

 he would demand of the mayor and his brethren; he that went to church 

 should have nothing that he could demand ; which was an argument that they 

 did favour Papistry, notwithstanding some of their going to chm-ch. Dermot 

 answered that he did not say so ; but he said thus : — for five years past it was 

 a common and ordinary practice between the mayor and aldermen that they 

 always made one of the sheriffs for a cipher, and the other a sheriff, \\z., he 

 that went not to church to be sheiiff, and he that went to church was but the 

 cipher. For this he stands committed to the marshalsea till he pay £10 fine, 

 English, to be employed in re-edifying the decayed walls and buildings about 

 the city. 



