. History of ancient and modern Dublin; or, Visitor's guide to the metropolis of Ireland ... BRIDGE, WHLDBBDBV mslRKET. Vide p. 225. S^RAH BRIDGE. 193 within SO intricate a maze. But pt^rseveringf inhis unlawful practices, he was tiiken by cer-taine gaping- grooraes that lay in wait for him,and on his apprehension, no more wrong donehim, than that he was not sooner hanged outhat gallows through which, in his youth andjolitie, he was wont to run. The same writer informs us, that there wasa hillock in this green, called Little Johnsshot. His account of it being so called isth
. History of ancient and modern Dublin; or, Visitor's guide to the metropolis of Ireland ... BRIDGE, WHLDBBDBV mslRKET. Vide p. 225. S^RAH BRIDGE. 193 within SO intricate a maze. But pt^rseveringf inhis unlawful practices, he was tiiken by cer-taine gaping- grooraes that lay in wait for him,and on his apprehension, no more wrong donehim, than that he was not sooner hanged outhat gallows through which, in his youth andjolitie, he was wont to run. The same writer informs us, that there wasa hillock in this green, called Little Johnsshot. His account of it being so called isthis:—when Robert Hood was betrayed at a nun-nery in Scotland, in 1189, Little John, one ofhis adherents, fled into Ireland, and remainedin Dublin a few days, during which, the citizenshaving learned that he had acquired great skillin archery, requested him to show them how farhe could shoot at random, when yielding totheir wishes, he stood on the bridge of Dublin,and shot to that mole-hill, leaving behind amonument, rather by his posteritie to be won-dered, than possible J)y anie man li\ Ing to l>ecouuterscored
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