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however, was just prior to the institution of the gild, and the priest 

 for whom it served as a residence was connected with the church. Sir 

 William Gafnee, to whose chaplaincy at S. Katherine's altar, and 

 residence, Sir Thomas More succeeded, occupied the chamber described 

 as that on the right hand next the entry to Cromlyng." On the 

 acquisition of Elakeney's Inns by the gild, More moved into the 

 tower of that building. Old Crumlin " was the name of a messuage 

 close to the steeple of S. Audoen's church. In a deed of 1705 

 (No. 124), its site is represented as then waste, bounding on the south to 

 the gild house, on the north to the church, and west to S. Audoen's 

 lane. The Haliday deeds show that a narrow lane had run between 

 the south wall of the church and Old Crumlin, and the gild-house lay 

 between this last and the Corn Market. This lane gave access to a door 

 in the south wall of S. Anne's aisle, and the passage must have been 

 a short one, probably terminating at the opening leading to the under- 

 ground passage beneath the church, beyond which it was blocked by 

 the west end of a house in High-street. In 1572, Alderman Goghe, 

 to whom the house then belonged, obtained possession of the lane. 



In 1534, James Blakeney conveyed to S. Anne's gild the tenement 

 known as Elakeney's Inns, with a turret and garden. No particulars 

 appear hitherto to have been available with regard to this mansion, 

 though our public and civic records afford information as to several other 

 town residences of leading civic families, denominated Inns, such as 

 Burnell's, Coryngham's, Jeneval's, and Preston's Inns. So full a 

 description of Blakeney's Inns is given in S. Anne's deeds, that the 

 task of reconstructing, to a certain extent, the plan of the buildings 

 and grounds attached, is not a difficult one. The Eoman Catholic 

 church in High-street occupies the site of the Inns and portion of 

 their grounds, which were bounded on the north by the line of the old 

 city wall, on the south by tenements in High-street, on the west by 

 S. Audoen's-lane, and on the east by Eam-lane. 



The family of Elakeney, or Elackney, had been resident in Dublin 

 from (at latest) the days of King Edward III., and it is probable 

 that it had been settled here long before. William Elakeney was 

 sheriff of Dublin in 1379, and John Elakeney was appointed Chief 

 Justice of the Common Eench in 1421. In the conveyance of his 

 old family residence to the gild in 1534, James Elakeney is described 

 as of Eykynhore, and he exchanged the Inns for Saucerstown, near 

 Swords, then the property of the fraternity. Its governing body 

 appear to have speedily set about making the necessary alterations in 

 what must have been very old premises, with a view to setting them 



