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made immediately before Christmas, and it is possible that some 

 Spanish vessel laden with wine may have been wrecked in Dublin 

 bay, and various citizens may have contributed to the relief of the 

 crew, or such members of it as were rescued. Another explanation 

 suggests itself . IS'ewbery, who was several times mayor of Dublin, 

 was an extensive merchant, with a house on the quay by the Crane. 

 Some Spaniards may have come up to the quay with goods for him, 

 in one of the light vessels that brought wine, &c., from the large 

 ships that were obliged to anchor near Dalkey; and the purchase 

 of bread would have been for their use during their stay. One of 

 the charitable bequests made in Codde's will is money for providing 

 a meal for the poor and infiim in the Hospital of S. John without 

 the 'New Gate. That some educational institution was connected 

 with this parish of S. Audoen in old times is evident from this 

 will, and that of Joan Douce made in 1381. The latter left 2s. to the 

 four scholars in S. Audoen' s church ; and Codde bequeathed 4 marks 

 for a two years' exhibition in the schools: these may have been for the 

 choristers attached to the church. 



After the Reformation and throughout the reign of Queen Eliza- 

 beth, the gild of S. Anne remained unchallenged and unquestioned. In 

 the year 1611 commenced the earliest of those proceedings which in the 

 seventeenth century, on the part of the Crown, the Irish Council, 

 some public bodies and private individuals, began to be directed against 

 it. In Michaelmas term of that year sir John Davis, attorney-general, 

 filed an information in the King's Bench^ against Mathew Hancocke, 

 master, and Mcholas Stephens and Edmond Malone, wardens, requiring 

 them to answer by what warrant they exercised certain liberties in the 

 chapel of S. Anne, in S. Audoen's church. The fraternity pleaded 

 their charter, reciting all the privileges conferred by its clauses, which 

 had been exercised uninterruptedly by them and their predecessors. 

 The attorney-general replied that this plea was not sufficient in law 

 to preserve their lands, &c., from being seized into the King's hands ; 

 and here the proceedings seem to have terminated. 



In Eebruary, 1634, Rev. Thomas Lowe, a vicar of both the Dublin 

 cathedrals, brought John Edmonds, an attorney, before Launcelot 

 Bulkeley, archbishop of Dublin, with a view to his delivering to that 

 prelate a number of rent rolls and papers, the property of the gild, 



1 Plea Roll (K. B.) 4-19 Jac. I., ro. iv. 



