The history and antiquities of the City of Dublin, from the earliest accounts / compiled ... by the late Walter Harris; With an appendix containing an history of the cathedrals of Christ Church and St. Patrick, the university, the hospitals and other public buildings. Also two plans, one of the city as it was in the year 1610, being the earliest extant; the other as it is at present, from the accurate survey of the late Mr. Rocque.

Walter Harris

Date:: 1766

Credit: The history and antiquities of the City of Dublin, from the earliest accounts / compiled ... by the late Walter Harris; With an appendix containing an history of the cathedrals of Christ Church and St. Patrick, the university, the hospitals and other public buildings. Also two plans, one of the city as it was in the year 1610, being the earliest extant; the other as it is at present, from the accurate survey of the late Mr. Rocque. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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/ THE CITY OF DUBLIN. 9 the legend on the reverfe of which ex-CHAP preffeth the mint-mafter’s name, and the^^h^ place where it was ftruck to be at Dyfelin, Now Ethelred could not affume this mark of fovereignty, of minting money within the dominions of a prince, who did not acknowledge him as his fuperior lord ; and this calls fome light over the before- recited charter of king Edgar. 7Tis cer¬ tain that the Danes, under princes of their own, held the a&ual government of Dub¬ lin during the reigns of both thefe princes; yet it is no way improbable, that they held that city by homage and tribute, though no mention is made of it by hif- torians. This circumliance elucidates all the difficulties in Edgar's charter, the Saxon annals, and the coin of Ethelred before mentioned, which is at prefent in the pofleffion of a gentleman of the phyfico- - hiftorical fociety. Thus far of the anti¬ quity of the city of Dublin. SECT.

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