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The mount
levelled.
Hoggen butt.
1G6 THE SCANDINAVIANS, AND
Davis ; he bad been Recorder of the city, and was then
Chief Justice of the King's Bench. He had a subur-
ban residence adjoining the mount and a fee-farm
grant was made to him with the avowed object of
clearing the ground. His petition for this grant
states that " the ground on which the mount stands,
being very small and the mount itself being very high
the cost of levelling it and it carrying away would be
a vast charge." A mass of earth, 40 feet high and
240 feet in circumference, could not be removed with-
out great expense, 1
but the site was valuable and the
earth was useful in raising Nassau-street, then called
Saint Patrick's Well-lane, the street being elevated
8 to 10 feet above it. Although
these documents
indisputably fix the position of the mount within the
district of Thingmotha, a doubt whether the word
Thingmote in 1241 designated a mount, or merely a
place of meeting, the want of early records to identify
the mount I have described with the ancient Thingmote
and the ambiguity of modern descriptions of
the vicinity leave room for controversy, which we
must endeavour to anticipate.
Harris in describing Hoggen Green says that " a
place on this Green was anciently called Hoggen butt,
where the citizens had butts for the exercise of arch-
ery," 2 and Daines Barrington,in his " Observations on
under him, the mutineers betook
themselves to a place of advantage,
a fortified hill near the College, and
with them many of those called out
to subdue them. After they had
defended the said hill till midnight
they were received to mercy upon
their humble submission and pro*
raises of amends." (Signed) Arthur
Annesley, Robert King, Michael
Jones. Carte Papers, Bodleian
Library, vol. Ixvii., p. 133.]
1
Michaelmas Assembly, A.D.
1 683. City Records.
'History of Dublin, p. 108.