. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . o X ??^ J UX. m^.^. UNDEll ELIZABETH. 75 pressed heavily upon them, and a sample of those paid bythe blind lord has been thought worthy of preservation in theBook of Howth : his confinement 40^.; his diet for twenty-eightdays £14 13s., by composition at 22d. sterling per diem £12 Throughout these proceedings the blind lord is representedby the Book of Howth as the spokesman for his fellows.^ Butthey are admitted not to have been in every instance
. A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century . o X ??^ J UX. m^.^. UNDEll ELIZABETH. 75 pressed heavily upon them, and a sample of those paid bythe blind lord has been thought worthy of preservation in theBook of Howth : his confinement 40^.; his diet for twenty-eightdays £14 13s., by composition at 22d. sterling per diem £12 Throughout these proceedings the blind lord is representedby the Book of Howth as the spokesman for his fellows.^ Butthey are admitted not to have been in every instance as amenableto his leading as could have been desired; and in the contentionabout enforcing taxation in lieu of a hosting, one of the greatestas he thought himself, Sir Christopher Barnewall, of Turvey, issaid on the first day to have recanted, and to have complainedthat the Lord of Howth spoke more than was desired him tospeak. At that gentlemans word the others are said to havebeen grieved, and the moral is drawn that every man shouldbeware to speak for the commons, for some one will halt andflatter, as there it did appear by this gentlema
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