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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. THE MERCHANTS' QUAY THE WOOD QUAY--THE BRIDGEFOOT USSHER's QUAY THE BLOODY BRIDGE USSHER's ISLAND. The name of the Merchants' Quay was formerly applied to the line of buildings extending along the southern bank of the Liffey, from the eastern corner of the Old Bridge to an edifice known as the " Crane," at the northern extremity of Winetavern-street. The quays of Dublin appear to have been constructed at an early period, as King John in 1209 confirmed the citizens in possession of their buildings upon the river ("edificia supra aquam"), and licensed them to erect edifices upon the side of the Liffey. Frequent references to buildings on the bank (" super ripam") of the river, in the parishes of St. Michael and St. Audoen, occur in local documents of the thirteenth century, at which period, ships, bound to Dublin, generally unloaded portion of their cargoes at Dalkey, and discharged the remainder at the Crane in the city. Various buildings existed on the quays in the fourteenth century, and among the city archives is preserved the following entry, made in the year 1489: -- " Memorandum that thes ben the wygtes of lede in the Crane made in Richard Stanyhurst ys dayes beyng mayre, Eobert Forster and Thomas West Baylyes, Anno regni regis H. vijth quinto. Item a cotte of lede off xx stone. Item a cotte of lede xiiij p*. Item a cotte of viij p*. It. a cotte offiiij p*. It. a cote iij p*. Item a cotte ij p*. di. It. a cotte ij p*. It a cotte j stone. Item a cotte j stone. It di stone. It. ij quarters of lede leffet with Thomas Neyle this yere Cranere and yerly to be delyuered to euery Mayre and Baylyes by wrytyng." The Crane was for a considerable period used as the Dublin Custom House; relative to the frauds practised in which, ...
