Hardiman's History of Galway
Chapter 4: From 1484 to the commencement of the Irish Rebellion in 1641
Prisage of wines in the town established by the earl of Ormond
Chapter 4
From 1484 to the commencement of the Irish Rebellion in 1641
- Wardenship of Galway instituted by the archbishop of Tuam
- Charter of Richard III
- Remarkable instance of inflexible justice
- Passage from Corrib to Lough Atalia; Fortifications built; Great
fire in 1500
- Battle of Knoc-tuadh, 1504
- Improvements to the city: 1505 - 1519
- Disputes between Galway and Limerick
- Prisage of wine claimed; Orders of Henry VIII
- Lord Deputy of Ireland, Leonard Grey
- Charter of Henry VIII and Mercantile bye-laws
- Charters of Edward VI
- The earl of Sussex arrives in Galway
- Sir Henry Sidney
- Mac-an-Earlas, 1572 - 1577
- Charter of Elizabeth, 1579
- Sir William Pelham arrives in Galway, 1579
- Prisage of wines in the town established by the earl of Ormond
- Spanish armada vessel wrecked in the bay, 1588
-
Sir William Russell, lord deputy,
arrives and investigates the state of the town and province, 1595
- The town beseiged by Hugh Ruadh O'Donnell, 1596
- Licentiousness of the inhabitants of the country
- The chief governor, lord Mountjoy, visits the town, 1600
- Saint Augustine's fort built, 1603
- Charter of James I
- Improvements along quays...
- Viscount Falkland arrives in Galway, 1625
- Meyrick Square
- Sir Thomas Wentworth (afterwards earl of Strafford)
- Concluding observations
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Notwithstanding the turbulence of the times, trade, buildings and
improvements were carried out in the town with persevering vigilance and
industry. Wine, the principal article of traffic, was imported in vast
quarltities, on an average, as the annals testify, of from a thousand to
fourteen hundred tuns annually. Exemption from prisage contributed not a
little to the encouragement of this branch of commerce; but the Ormond
family, although worsted in their former endeavours to establish this claim,
determined once more to revive it. Accordingly the earl of Ormond, in 1584,
instituted proceedings in the chancery of Ireland against the corporation,
which they, relying on the decree of the star chamber of England pronounced
in their favor, in 1526, and on the exemption from prisage contained in the
charter of Henry VIII. most strenuously defended. They were, however,
ultimately defeated; and the earl's right to this valuable impost was
established. As this is a subject somewhat curious and interesting, an
abstract of the proceedings is subjoined.pp It was a
question of considerable moment at the time, being, perhaps, the most
important until then decided in the kingdom, and one in which there appears
to have been displayed a considerable portion of legal knowledge and
historical learning.
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