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CXV111 SOME NOTICE OF THE
street. In 1656, as appears by the Assembly Rolls, Sir James
Carroll's daughter had a remission of arrears of rent at
five pounds per annum, on a lease for 200 years of 1,000
acres of the strand, 1 and at this time the strand reached to
the ground where the Theatre Royal stands, which is
built on the College property, formerly the land of the
Priory of All Hallows, and the shore of the LifFey was the
limit of the land of the monks in this direction.
In 1661 and 1662 Mr. Hawkins built the great wall to
gain the ground from the Liffey near the Long Stout-.
This may have included part of Aston's-quay, Burgh-quay,
and the ground gained extended inwards
and George's-quay ;
to Townsend-street. The name is continued in Hawkins'-
street. 2
The Long Stone stood about where the Crampton monu-
ment now stands.
It would seem that Sir James Carroll's lease was sur-
rendered or forfeited, for nething more is heard of it or of
his representatives, and the lands subsequently dealt with
must have been included in his lease.
The next extension of the wall in continuation of
Hawkins 1
was in 1683, when a lease was ordered to be
made to Philip Crofts, of part of the strand on the north
side of Lazy-hill (now Towusend-street), from Hawkins'
wall eastward 284 yards behind the houses on Lazy-hill, he
walling-in the ground demised from the sea. 3 And in 1713
a lease was made to Sir John Rogerson of the strand between
Lazy-hill and Ringsend, he informing the City Assembly
that he intended speedily to take in the strand, and desiring
to be furnished by them with gravel by their gabbards, he
paying three pence per ton.4
Between Sir John Rogerson's wall and the place called
Mercer's Dock, near George's-quay, there was a gap in the
1
Haliday'B abstracts.
P. 147, n. 3. stracts.
8
Assemblj Rolls Haliday'i Ab-
'Ibid.