. A pictorial and descriptive guide to Dublin and the Wicklow tours ... R. Welch,] [Belfast. ST. PATRICKS THE LIBERTIES 65 The Liberties. Part of the district around St. Patricks Cathedral is stillknown as The Liberties, a name dating from many cen-turies back. The Abbey of St. Thomas—or the church thatformed its nucleus—was founded in 1177 and named afterThomas-a-Becket, then recently canonized. This Abbey wasunder the direct rule, patronage, and special favour of suc-cessive English kings, but was very anti-Irish, so much sothat at different periods laws were passed excluding t
. A pictorial and descriptive guide to Dublin and the Wicklow tours ... R. Welch,] [Belfast. ST. PATRICKS THE LIBERTIES 65 The Liberties. Part of the district around St. Patricks Cathedral is stillknown as The Liberties, a name dating from many cen-turies back. The Abbey of St. Thomas—or the church thatformed its nucleus—was founded in 1177 and named afterThomas-a-Becket, then recently canonized. This Abbey wasunder the direct rule, patronage, and special favour of suc-cessive English kings, but was very anti-Irish, so much sothat at different periods laws were passed excluding the Irishfrom admission to this or to any religious house, cathedral,or church used by the English, The property of St. Thomass Abbey rapidly increased,and as early as 1180 it appears to have included estates inthe south of Ireland and also that of Kilruddery, near Bray,bounded (as it still is) by the Kings highway Le Windgates {see p. 134). Many parish churches in Dublin were alsoannexed, and by a special charter of 1305 the abbot wasgranted judicial powers, and held his own court (hence thename, still used, T
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