The Scandinavian Kingdom of Dublin ... Edited, with some notice of the author's life, by J. P. Prendergast

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THE SCANDINAVIAN KINGDOM OF DUBLIN. BY CHARLES HALIDAY:, LATE OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN, MERCHANT. EDITED, WITH SOME NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR'S LIFE, BY JOHN P. PRENDERGAST, BARRISTER-AT-LAW. DUBLIN: ALEX. THOM & CO., PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS, 87, 88, & 89, ABBEY-STREET. LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND CO WDCCCLXXXII. CONTENTS. Page Some notke of the Life of Charles Haliday, . ... iii Book I. The Scandinavians of Dublin, •••....! Book II. The Scandinavians of Dublin, and their relations with neighbouring Kingdoms, ......... 82 Book HI. The Scandinavian Antiquities of Dublin, . . . . .143 Appendix. I. On the Ancient Name of Dublin, 202 II. Observations explanatory of Sir Bernard de Gomme's Map of the City and Harbour of Dublin, made A. d. 1673, . . 228 Table or Chapters, 253 Index, List of Plates with Instructions to Binder. 1.

Rocque's Map, a.d. 1756, showing the Piles, to face p. cxiii. 2. Map of the Down Survey, a.d. 1654, with the Long Stone of the Steyne, to face p. 151. 3. Woodcut of the Thingmount of Dublin, to face p. 163. 4. Sir Bernard de Gomme's Map of City and Harbour, a.d. 1673, to face p. 229. 5. Captain Greenvill Collins's Map of 1685, to face p. 235. 6. Ground Plan of Chichester House, 1723, to face p. 239. 7. Captain Pen-y's Map of the Harbour, <frc, &c, a.d. 1728, to face p. 249. Errata. Page 149, line 2. — Omit 'part of the Steyne,' Page 229, in footnote.— For '23rd December, 1655,' read 23rd December, 1665. Few merchants authors. SOME NOTICE OF THE LIFE OF CHARLES HALIDAY. Merchants are not much given to the making of books. They seldom leave behind them any of their own composing, save their cash books and their lodgers.

There can scarcely be named a merchant in the ranks of literary writers, except Rogers, author of the " Pleasures of Memory " and other poems, rather satirically described by Byron as " the bard, the beau, the banker." But a banker is not a merchant, and often gives no more to the bank than his money and his name, and employs his time and his leisure as he likes. Whence comes this disinclination to literary labour ? lt is not so much perhaps that the merchant's mind is too absorbed in business to leave him leisure as that it would detract from his character to be suspected of literary pur suits. Poetry was at one time held to be as derogatory to a lawyer. Sir Richard Cox had a strong bent to poetry (says Walter Harris). He wrote some lines on the death, in 1696, of Lord Chancellor Porter, Sir Richard being at that time a Judge of the Common Pleas.