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ments , which was of service to the city , because it brought a great concourse of people from all parts , who expended large sums of money . The ladies , bless their hearts ! were as patriotic in those days as they are at present , for they appeared in Irish manufactures at the fancy ball , which served the trade both of the city and kingdom
. The good citizens of Limerick seem to have been sorely tried by monopolising patents ; that described in Davis ' MS ., was even worse than the inconvenience complained of by Ferrar , in consequence of the grant of Baal's Bridge to the Shannon famil y ; we quote from the MS ., A . D . 1634 : —
" A man from Dublin came , 'twas said a Scot , A patent for a ferry he had got 'Twixt Limerick and Parteen ; he did demand So much money to be paid in hand That the city with him refuses to deal , Resolved a causeway to make for public weal , Through Monabraher bog : ' twas this year done , And so the man away with his patent run , The disappointment appeared so , He died by the way ; no more of him I know . "
The causeway above alluded to was finished in the following year , recorded , according to Ferrar , in an inscription on the bridge near Whitehall , formerly called Mile End , which was as follows : — "Hunc Pontem ac viam stratam , fieri fecit Petrus h filius Andrese
Creag Major , civitatis Limeriencis sumptibus ejusdem civitatis , A . D . 1635 . " Thus was Limerick freed from the extortions of the scot , and her citizens gained the advantage of a dry road to Parteen , instead of running the chance of a ducking in the Shannon .
We would suggest the propriety of placing such Masonic antiquities as the one which has led to these observations under the care of the Grand Lodge of the country in whicli they may be found ; the collection of them would not only be highly interesting in itself , but might lead to the elucidation of various historical facts connected with the Craft . shall be obli
We ged to any of our Limerick Brethren who can give us any further information relative to the date of the building of Baal ' s Bridge .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Lloor Gave Way, And He Dropped Into The ...
ments , which was of service to the city , because it brought a great concourse of people from all parts , who expended large sums of money . The ladies , bless their hearts ! were as patriotic in those days as they are at present , for they appeared in Irish manufactures at the fancy ball , which served the trade both of the city and kingdom
. The good citizens of Limerick seem to have been sorely tried by monopolising patents ; that described in Davis ' MS ., was even worse than the inconvenience complained of by Ferrar , in consequence of the grant of Baal's Bridge to the Shannon famil y ; we quote from the MS ., A . D . 1634 : —
" A man from Dublin came , 'twas said a Scot , A patent for a ferry he had got 'Twixt Limerick and Parteen ; he did demand So much money to be paid in hand That the city with him refuses to deal , Resolved a causeway to make for public weal , Through Monabraher bog : ' twas this year done , And so the man away with his patent run , The disappointment appeared so , He died by the way ; no more of him I know . "
The causeway above alluded to was finished in the following year , recorded , according to Ferrar , in an inscription on the bridge near Whitehall , formerly called Mile End , which was as follows : — "Hunc Pontem ac viam stratam , fieri fecit Petrus h filius Andrese
Creag Major , civitatis Limeriencis sumptibus ejusdem civitatis , A . D . 1635 . " Thus was Limerick freed from the extortions of the scot , and her citizens gained the advantage of a dry road to Parteen , instead of running the chance of a ducking in the Shannon .
We would suggest the propriety of placing such Masonic antiquities as the one which has led to these observations under the care of the Grand Lodge of the country in whicli they may be found ; the collection of them would not only be highly interesting in itself , but might lead to the elucidation of various historical facts connected with the Craft . shall be obli
We ged to any of our Limerick Brethren who can give us any further information relative to the date of the building of Baal ' s Bridge .