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164 THE SCANDINAVIANS, AND
j n fa^ y ear j) r fjenr y Jones (theii Bishop of
on lease
Cove^a to Meath) obtained a portion of this ground,
preserve the from the Corporation of Dublin, for a small rent and
mount for the
use of the city. ^ne somewhat curious consideration that he should
give for the use of the city the " Book of Ancient Sta-
tutes of the Kingdom," but the lessors, anxious for the
recreation of the citizens to which the Thingmount
was ancillary, inserted a proviso that " a passage six
feet wide and thirty feet square from the top to the
bottom of the hill should be reserved to the city for
their common prospect, and that no building or other
thing should be erected on the premises for obstruct-
this lease was made,
ing of the said 1
prospect.'' When
St. Stephen's-green also being uninclosed and few
buildings erected in the neighbourhood of the Stein,
the prospect from this mount, like that from the
mount at Steinness, must have been extensive, par-
andgave this Thingmount
the advantages which the watch mounts or
ticularly over the Bay of Dublin, 2
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Michaelmas Assembly, A.D. them nor us, but stand aside with
1661. City Records. your people and look on at the
battle. And if God grants us to
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[It is on this mount that the defeat these people (the Danes) do
Norman Geste of the Conquest you help us to follow them; if we
represents Gylmeholmoc, a chief be recreant do you join them in
of the O'Byrnes, who had given cutting us up and killing us."
hostages to Milo de Cogan to be " Vos ostages averez par si
at peace with the English, as seated Que tu faces 90 que tu di ;
by Milo's appointment thence to Par si que
ne seez aidant
watch the impending battle be- Ne nus, ne euz, tant ne quant :
iween him and the Danes, newly Mes que encoste de nus seez,
landed on the Staine, in order to E la bataille agarderez :
recover Dublin from the English. E si Deus le nus consent.
" You shall have back your host- Que seient deconfiz iccle gent ;
ages (says Milo) if you do what I Que nus seez od tun poer,
say : that is, be neither aiding Eidant pur euz debarater :