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Title: A history of the County Dublin; the people, parishes and antiquities from the earliest times to the close of the eighteenth century
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Ball, F. Erlington (Francis Elrington), d. 1928
Subjects: Dublin (Ireland : County) -- History
Publisher: Dublin : Alex. Thom
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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old, pined for noless than five years. During Adams time Howth saw a remarkable exhibition ofecclesiastical rivalry, A great question of that day was as to theright of the Archbishop of Armagh to bear his cross erect in theprovince of Dublin, and watch appears to have been kept toprevent such a manifestation of supremacy. In the year 1313, onthe day after the Annunciation, a new Archbishop of Armaghlanded at Howth, and seeing, as he thought, an opportunity ofstealing a march on his episcopal brother, he rose during thenight, and set out towards Armagh, with his cross raised on high.His triumphal progress suffered, however, a rude interruption atthe Priory of Grace Dieu, where he encountered some of theArchbishop of Dublins retainers, and the chronologers tell us > Millss Justiciary Rolls 1295-1303, 1305-07, passim; 39 Kept. D.K.R.I.,69.5 Sweetmans Calendar, 1293-1301, nos. 259, 442 ; 1302-07, p. 85. ^ p. 125. r^iguifliifrt;«.,->
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i/\-fi-Goy^ P^<5J^ICleti;Ll^^v//A/A.,, ME FbClT^-\l TOMB - EFFIGIES AND INSCRIPTION THE MIDDLE AGES. 37 that his exit from Leinster was made in confusion, with theemblem of his authority laid very low/ Adam the second succeeded Adam the first in the possessionof Howth as his eldest son. In the year 1325, on March 25, thelands owned by Adam de Howth, deceased, were taken into thekings hands, and on April 3 following they were granted to hisson Adam, who was stated to have been at least twenty-eightyears of age on the previous feast of All Saints.* Shortly after-wards Adam the second admitted the right of his mother Isabellato a third of the manor of Howth as her dowry,^ and granted thevicar of Howth portion of his demesne, estimated at thirty acres,which was probably the same land as his predecessor Almeric hadgranted to the vicar of his day.* The culmination of the historic feud between the Berminghamsand the men of Uriel, the assassination of John Bermingham, Earlof Louth, and his

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