. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . old under Lord Howth, paying some duties. It was said to bedivided into four separate parts, each of them enclosed by LordHowths land, and to contain some small cottages valued by ajury at two pounds. Shortly before the Eestoration, in the early montlis of the year1660, the General Convention of Ireland decided that a subsidyshould be raised, and that it should be levied on every personover fifteen years of age, the amount rising in proportion to therank of th
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . old under Lord Howth, paying some duties. It was said to bedivided into four separate parts, each of them enclosed by LordHowths land, and to contain some small cottages valued by ajury at two pounds. Shortly before the Eestoration, in the early montlis of the year1660, the General Convention of Ireland decided that a subsidyshould be raised, and that it should be levied on every personover fifteen years of age, the amount rising in proportion to therank of the individual. For that purpose a census^ was compiled,and persons of rank were mentioned by name under the descrip-tion of tituladoes. In the case of Howth this census shows thatthe inhabitants over fifteen numbered one hundred and seventy-four persons, of whom forty-five were of English, and one hundredand twenty-nine of Irish origin. In the house of Howth there 1 She married subsequently Christopher St. Lawrence, and died before Intestacy Grant. In the Royal Irish Academy. Cf. Notes and Queries, ser 10, vol. ii, p. r. X o THE COMMONWEALTH AND THE DEVOLUTION. 115 were twenty-seven residents, fourteen English and thirteen Irish,the tituladoes, besides Lord Howth, being Peter Wynne andWilliam Fitzwilliani,^ who were described as gentlemen. In thetown of Howth there were one hundred and eleven inhabitants,twenty-five of English and eighty-six of Irish origin, theti^Alladoes being Thomas Lea- and Richard St. Lawrence,^ whowere also described as gentlemen. In the Walls* there weretwo English, and two Irish, residents, the titulado being ThomasDongan, gentleman ; and of the remaining inhabitants there werefound in Saucer nine Irish; in Corstown, one English and threeIrish; and in Sutton, three English and sixteen Irish. After theRestoration, in connexion with the levying of the Hearth-MoneyTax, lists of the householders, with the number of hearths forwhich they were li
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