. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . rr > ro X o H. IN THE TIME OF SWIFT AND GKATTAN. 143 in 1773, Dudley Cosby, Lord Sydney of Leix; Elizabeth, whomarried, in 1786, Lieutenant-Greueral Pauliis Emilius ]rving;and Frances, who married, in 1808, the Venerable James Phillott,Archdeacon of Bath. With Howth Castle the names of BishopSt. Lawrence and Lady Sydney are much associated, the Bishopsname by a ghost-story, and Lady Sydneys name, which hasbeen given to a room and a garden, by a long residen
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . rr > ro X o H. IN THE TIME OF SWIFT AND GKATTAN. 143 in 1773, Dudley Cosby, Lord Sydney of Leix; Elizabeth, whomarried, in 1786, Lieutenant-Greueral Pauliis Emilius ]rving;and Frances, who married, in 1808, the Venerable James Phillott,Archdeacon of Bath. With Howth Castle the names of BishopSt. Lawrence and Lady Sydney are much associated, the Bishopsname by a ghost-story, and Lady Sydneys name, which hasbeen given to a room and a garden, by a long residence during herwidowheod, which commenced within a month of her marriage. The ghost-story with which Bishop St. Lawrences name isconnected, and which is said to have been told by himself, arosefrom a tradition that a daughter of the house of OByrne bad causefor dissatisfaction with one of the Bishops ancestors, and wasaccustomed to visit the Castle in the form of a mermaid. Accordingto the story, the Bishop arrived one day unexpectedly at theCastle, and, finding everyone away, amused himself reading an oldbook, entitled Stories of the Ancient Famili
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