Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin, Vol. 4

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Excerpt from Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin, Vol. 4: In the Possession of the Municipal Corporation of That City The rolls calendared in this volume are the chief records now extant of the civic administration of Dublin in the period from 1651 to 1671. The affairs of the municipality from 1651 to 1659 continued under the control of the adherents of the Commonwealth of England, and steps were taken by them to exclude Roman Catholics as well as Protestant royalists. Proscriptive measures, war and plague had largely diminished the population of Dublin, and produced for a time a general depreciation of civic property. Many of the houses had been demolished, others verged on ruin, and but few manufacturers, traders or artizans remained in Dublin. The subsisting citizens, depleted by heavy taxation, had mortgaged municipal properties to raise funds required on loan by Government authorities, and their pressing applications for repayment received little attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.