. Romantic Ireland . pired with the crew to murder and 140 Romantic Ireland throw him overboard, and convert the prop-erty to their own use. One of the party, asprovidentially happens in most such cases,revealed the horrid transaction to the tried and condemned his son to death,and appointed a day for his execution. Itwas imagined by his relatives that, throughtheir intercession, and the consideration ofhis being an only son, he would not proceedto put the sentence into execution. He toldthem to come to him on a certain day, andthey should have his determination. Earlyon the day appoi
. Romantic Ireland . pired with the crew to murder and 140 Romantic Ireland throw him overboard, and convert the prop-erty to their own use. One of the party, asprovidentially happens in most such cases,revealed the horrid transaction to the tried and condemned his son to death,and appointed a day for his execution. Itwas imagined by his relatives that, throughtheir intercession, and the consideration ofhis being an only son, he would not proceedto put the sentence into execution. He toldthem to come to him on a certain day, andthey should have his determination. Earlyon the day appointed, they found the son hang-ing out of one of the windows of his fathershouse. It was commemorated by the cross-bones in Lombard Street. Further records have it that the stone bear-ing the cross-bones was not put up for manyyears after the transaction, when it waserected on the wall of St. Nicholass church-yard, and bore the inscription: 1524 Remember is vanity of vanities. / juJoe Lynch* s House, Gal way. Gal way and Its Bay 143 From this incident — a recorded fact of his-tory be it remembered — the familiar Amer-icanism (sic) of lyneh-law probablyreceived its derivation. At any rate, the cir-cumstance is one of significance and plausi-bility, or it shows once again how the seedof coincidence takes root and thrives manythousands of miles from the land of its firstgrowth. Galway has ever been an important com-mercial centre, and rightly enough points outthe fact that to be as proud and honest as aGalway merchant is to be reckoned as oneof the upright of this world. It is a curiousfact that, notwithstanding the maritime re-sources of Galway, salt was one of the com-modities imported to it from Spain, and sohighly was the import prized that JohnFrench, who was mayor in 1538, bore thedistinguishing appellation of Shane ne Sallin. The county of Galway must have been aquarrelsome and belligerent community intimes past, judging from the fact that localhistory gives el
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