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SCANDINAVIAN ANTIQUITIES OF DUBLIN. 165
ward hills of the islands possessed, rendered it a fit
station from whence the city could be warned of the
approach of an hostile fleet. But in 1 6 7 1 , the founda-
tion of the new church of St. Andrew having been
laid, and the Bishop of Meath having surrendered his
lease, a new lease was made to William Brewer, with-
out any reservations of " prospect " from the mount
which shortly after was encompassed with buildings. 1
In 1682 the mount itselfwas demised to Sir William
E si nus seimiz recreant,
Vus lur seez del tut eidant,
De nuz trencher e occire
Le noz livrer a martire."
Gylmeholmoc having granted this
and pledged his faith and oath,
quits the city to take up his post
on the mount :
" Gylmeholmoth iiitant
Dehors la cite meintenaat,
Se est cil reis pur veir asis
Od eel gent de sun pais,
De sur le Hogges, desus Steyne
Dehors la cite en un plein
Pur agarder la melle
Se sunt iloque asemble."
That is, Gylemeholmoc gaily
(went) out of the city, and now is
this king for a truth seated with
the people of his country upon the
Hogges, over Steyne, on a plain outside
of the city, to view the melee,
pp. 109, 110, Anglo-Norman
Poem on the Conquest of Ireland
by Henry the Second. Edited by
Francisque Michel, 12mo, London,
1837. This Gylmehomoc ruled
over the territory between Bray
and Dublin. It was he that granted
Kilruddery to the Abbot of
St. Thomas's for his country seat,
and from this abbey it passed at the
Dissolution of Religious Houses in
the reign of King Henry VIII. to
the ancestor of the Earls of Meath.
See the grant in the Register of
S. Thomas's Abbey, R. I. A.]
1
[This was the "fortified hill near
the College," referred to in the fol-
lowing: On the 6th of July, 1647,
the Commissioners of Parliament, to
whom the Marquis of Ormonde had
just then surrendered Dublin,
give an account to the Parliament
of a
"
mutiny. On Friday last (they
write) many of the soldiers fell into
a high mutiny, and, cashiering their
officers, marched directly to Damass
Gate, adjacent to the place
where we have our usual meetings
for despatch of public affairs."
They then describe Colonel Jones,
the new made Governor of Dublin,
as marching with several troops of
his own regiment of horse against
the mutineers, " the greatest part of
them being of Colonel Kinaston's
regiment, accustomed to like prac-
ticvs in North Wales, and after
some skirmishing and coming to the
push of pike, wherein some of them
were killed, several hurl on both
sides, the Governor endangered,
and Colonel Castles's horse shot
BOOK IIL
CHAP. II.