. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . ards made against him. He con-sidered himself maligned, and on November 5 wrote to Cecil,begging leave to go to England for the repairing of his reputa-tion, and saying that he would return next day if Cecil wished. Cal. S. r., Irel., 1600-01, pp. 227, 228. 2 Ibid., p. 203. ^ Ibid; 1601-03, pp. 13, 148, 165. * Ibid., pp. 487, .520, 52:!. * Itinerary, pt. ii, pp. 225, 245. e Cal. S. 1., Irel., 1606-08, pp. 94, 535. Mr. BagweUs Ireland under the Tudors, iii, 433
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . ards made against him. He con-sidered himself maligned, and on November 5 wrote to Cecil,begging leave to go to England for the repairing of his reputa-tion, and saying that he would return next day if Cecil wished. Cal. S. r., Irel., 1600-01, pp. 227, 228. 2 Ibid., p. 203. ^ Ibid; 1601-03, pp. 13, 148, 165. * Ibid., pp. 487, .520, 52:!. * Itinerary, pt. ii, pp. 225, 245. e Cal. S. 1., Irel., 1606-08, pp. 94, 535. Mr. BagweUs Ireland under the Tudors, iii, 433 ; Cal. S. P., Irel., 1606-08,226; 1608-10, p. 190. UNDER ELIZABETH. 87 as he had no suit to make, but only wanted to speak with hisHonour ; and in the following January Mountjoy wrote to Cecilthat Sir Christopher desired military employment in some othercountry, and recommended that he should be allowed to seek it,as many Irish swordsmen would be certain to follow him, and ifas many as two thousand could be induced to do so, the estab-lishment would be saved a hundred thousand pounds.^ 1 Cal. S. P., Irel., 1601-03, pp. 511, Arms on Tomb. ( 88 ) CHAPTER VI. IN JACOBEAN TIMES. The Jacobean age has left little mark on the county of Dublin,either in regard to its buildings or the history of its families, andin the case of Howth an exception to the rule is not is not any trace of Jacobean work in the Castle, but it isprobable that an alteration in the structure was made during thereign of Charles the First, as Swift alludes in one of his referencesto Traulus to the fact that Trauluss great-grandfather, thedesigner of the Earl of Straffords mansion near ISTaas, left hisname inscribed on one of the chimneys : And at Howth to boast his fame,On a chimney cut his name.^ Of the other buildings on the peninsula in Jacobean times theonly one mentioned, besides Corr Castle, which had been enlargedby an annex with a thatched roof, is a house on the lands ofSutton. It is des
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