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1240 THE SCANDINAVIANS, AND
j n the year 1657, we find a frigate built and launched.
Among the Treasury warrants issued by the Commissioners
of England for the affairs of Ireland, is an order dated tin:
24th March, 1657 :
" That James Standish, Receiver-
General, do issue forth and pay unto Mr. Timothy Avery
the sum of 100, on account, the same being to be by him
issued out towards the finishing and speedy fitting to sea
the new ffrigatt, called the Larnbay Catch, now rebuilt and
lately launched, att Lazey Hill, Dublin, according to such
orders as he shall receive in writing under the hand of
Captain Edward Tomlins, and Joseph Glover, who is to
command the said shipp, for payment whereof this is a
dimentions are described in the [In 1784, when makingthe present
said Map and Table of Reference portico in Westmoreland -street for
thereto belonging. All which is a separate entrance to the House
most humbly submitted to your
honours, this Eleventh day of
September, 1734, by
Your Honours Mostdutyfull and
Most Obedient Servants.
THOMAS CAVE.
GABRIEL STOKES.
From the Original, Public Record
Office, Four Courts.
Lord Mountmorres says,
"
I remember
to have heard from a clerk
of the House of Lords, Mr.
Hawker, that Chichester House
was very inconvenient ; and so it
was reported by a Committee in
Queen Anne's reign.
I cannot
continues i, that
help lamenting (he
a Map of the disposition
of the
apartments and grounds of
Chicheater House which about
twenty years ago was hung up in
the House of Commons Coffee-
house was unaccountably lost."
History of the Irish Parliament
from A.D. 1634 to 1666, by Lord
Mountmorres, Vol. 2, p. 100, 2
vols. 8vo., London, 1792.]
of Peers it was found that the
buildings on this east side of the
Parliament House stood on ground
with declivities so sudden and so
great as to make it difficult to bring
the line of cornices, windows and
rustic basement of the new portico
into harmony with the lines of the
for here on the
Old
original building ;
east the foundation was the '
Shore '
line marked on the plan of
Chichester House. It was only
overcome by James Gandon the
architect employing Corinthian
Columns which are taller than the
Ionic Order used in the main
building, and even then the portico
was ascended by steps. Life of
James Gandon, architect by his
son. Edited by Mul vany, pp. 83-85.
Hodges and Smith, Dublin, 8vo.,
1846. In Speed's map of 1610,
there is a pill or narrow inlet from
the Liffey running up to this eastern
front. The regular course of the
shore line seems to have been Fleet-
street by the same map.]