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150 HIE SCANDINAVIANS, AM)
the king's forest of Glencree to repair his mill and
bridge of Stein," 1
and a grant which I have found,
and to which I must refer for another purpose, also
very clearly fixes the position of the mill.
The Mm of the This grant made in 1461 when the mill was re-
built recites that, " Whereas the Prior and Convent
of All Saints besydes Dy velin of old times had a
mill near the gate between the Green bank and the
Long Stone on the Stayne, it is granted that they
have it lyke as they had it of old time, provided
that the said mill be made within a year next
following the Act made, and that all men go over
into the Stayne dry on the said war (weir) of the
mill without any let or other impediment." 2 The
mill stream which is marked on Speed's map as of
considerable extent in 1610, but is now greatly
diminished, runs in a covered sewer in front of
Trinity College, and until flood-gates were affixed
at its entrance into the Liffey the tide flowed as far
as Graffcon-street, where, not many years since, a
female servant was drowned in the basement story
of a house, the water having burst up during a flood
in the river, and more recently, in preparing to
build at this part of College-green, a high tide
flooded the foundations which were with difficulty
cleared. But the original importance of the rivulet
is shown in the statement of Lodge that,
in A.D.
1394, William Fitzwilliams, the sheriff of the county,
had custody of the Staine near Dublin, in order to
1 Placita Purliamentaria, 27th tion, and Early Parliaments of
oi Edward I. Records of Birming- Ireland, p. 272, 8vo, Dublin, 1834.
ham Tower. Sir Willian Betham's 2 Acts of Assembly. City Re -
Origin and Hist, of the Constitu- cords.