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LIFR OF CHARLES HATJDAY. CV11
wishes gratified in his lifetime. But since his death I dis-
covered Petty 's map, made in the year 1654, in the
celebrated Down Survey at the Public Record Office ;
it was my good fortune to meet with Captain John Perry's CaptJ. Perry*
map of 1728 by accident in the hands of m
my friend Richard
and
Bergoin Bennett, of Eblana Castle, Kingstown. It is a very
finely engraved map, printed by Bowles, of Cheapside,
London, the great map and print seller of that day. It
would have been particularly interesting to Mr. Haliday, as
exhibiting the canal (and pier) projected by Captain John
Perry as a new entrance to the harbour of Dublin to avoid
the bar. The canal was to be carried through the sands of
the North Bull, parrallel with the north shore of
Dublin Bay. He proposed that the seaward entrance
should be in the Button Creek, near Kilbarrack Old
Church, and the other to come out nearly opposite Rings-
end. The third is the ground-plan of Chichester House, pian of
made in 1723, which I met with, in the year 1852, when
rooting among the Exchequer Records with my friend
James Frederic Ferguson, their then keeper, and copied it. 1
1 Chichester House. In 1602 Deputy
St. John held councils
the city granted a plot of ground there, and dated his despatches
to Sir George Gary, knt., Trea- from " Chichester House " surcr-at War for Ireland, to build
(ibid.,
1615-1625, p. 204), as did Lord
an hospital
for
maimed soldiers,
poor, sick, and
or other poor
Falkland, Lord Deputy, on 23rd
July, 1623 (ibid., p. 414). On
folk, or for a free school. (City Sir Arthur's death, in 1625, with-
Assembly Rolls). Sir George out issue, Chichester House
Gary sold his interest to Sir
passt-d to his brother, Sir Edward
Thomas Ridgway. In 1611 Sir Chichester, who sold it to Sir
Arthur Chichester purchased Samuel Smyth. The following
Gary's hospital (ibid."), and in is a verbatim copy of Sir
1613 are found despatches and Edward's letter to Sir Samuel,
State papers, dated by him from who had contracted for the pur-
" Chichester House." Calendar chase :
of State Papers of James 1. (Jreland),
1611-1614, p. 336. Sir "I understand, by Sir Thomas
Arthur did not die till 1625, and, Hybbotts, that he hath acquainted
during his lifetime, in 1618, Lord you scone after my comeing from
* SIB SAMUEL SMTTH,