Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . ng Harry—with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly armd—Rise from the ground like featherd Mercury, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus f over the plains of royal Meath. From the beginning of the fifteenth to the middleof the following century several parliaments were held in Trim : among the enact-ments of 1446 is that the English marchours should not w
Picturesque Ireland : a literary and artistic delineation of the natural scenery, remarkable places, historical antiquities, public buildings, ancient abbeys, towers, castles, and other romantic and attractive features of Ireland . ng Harry—with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly armd—Rise from the ground like featherd Mercury, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus f over the plains of royal Meath. From the beginning of the fifteenth to the middleof the following century several parliaments were held in Trim : among the enact-ments of 1446 is that the English marchours should not wear their beardsafter the Irish fashion, nor the Irish use shirts colored with saffron. Richard, * Shakspere, Henry IV., Fart Second. \ Hcniy IV., Part First. ME A TH. 255 Duke of York (father of Edward IV. and Richard III.), while lord lieutenant,dwelt here in 1449. In 1460 by the kings command a mint was set up in thecastle, where silver and brass money was coined bearing the words Villa deTrymme on the reverse; and in 1495 the lordship of Trim with all its libertieswas annexed to the crown. In 1642, it was held by the confederate Catholics,and taken by Sir Charles Coote, who being surprised at _break of the following. Bective Abbey. day by the Irish, drove off the assailants, but lost his life. Seven years later itsurrendered to Cromwell, since which time town and castle disappear from thepages of active history. The visitor is still enabled by winding stairways to reachthe topmost turrets of the castle, from which an extensive and noble view is ob-tained. Standing on this historic pile the eye ranges over many miles of the vastand fertile plains of Meath, with the Boyne sweeping through them ; and variousgroups of ruins immediately beneath and around, with the Hill of Tara to theeast. The Nangles and Talbots had castles also at Trim—they stand behind themodern town on the north side of the river. That of the latter was for yearsused as the diocesan school of Meath, an
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