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SCANDINAVIAN ANTIQUITIES OP DUBLIN. 243
attention, in consequence of a French privateer having
entered the bay, and captured and carried off a Spanish
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ship from near the bar of the river.
Yarranton's plan appeared in a treatise entitled " England's
Improvement by Sea and Land, to outdo the Dutch
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without Fighting," published in 1677.
The plan of a citadel, as projected by Sir Bernard de FortatMerrioa
Goinme, though not executed, seems not to have been mlended in
wholly laid aside, for in a fine collection, in folio, of plans 1685 '
of all the forts existing in Ireland, in the year 1684, with
their elevations beautifully executed in water colours,
together with projects for additional defences, preserved at
Kilkenny Castle, the same design reappears.
This volume
of plans is entitled " A Report drawn up by direction of
His Majesty King Charles the Second, and General Right
Hon. George [Legge] Lord Dartmouth, Master-General of
His Majesty's Ordnance in England, and performed by
Thomas Phillips, anno 1685 ;" a and it contains several plans
and details "for a citadel to be built over Dublin," the
site being apparently the same as that chosen by Sir
Bernard de Gomme, and the form similar.
The plans of Yarranton and De Gomme directed attention
to the improvement of the port of Dublin, the trade of
which was then carried on by vessels of from fifty to one
hundred tons burden.
As there was no corporate or other body
i May 29th, 1675. "One matter 2 See the print of a very fine
of some moment I have to acquaint jnap by this artist, entitled " The
you with ... A Spanish ship Ground Plan of Belfast, per
was taken by a French privateer Tho. Phillips, Anno. 1685,"
close to the bar of this harbour, giving elevations of the Castle,
and carried away on Thursday, Churches and principal Houses,
in the evening . . . This accident in the " History of Belfast," by
has much disturbed the merchants
George Benn, Hvo, Marcus Ward
of this town." Earl of Essex's and Co., London and Belfast,
State Letters, Lord Lieutenant of 1877.
Ireland. STO. Dublin, 1773,2nd
edition, p. 242.
in Dublin History of th
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