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| Date | | | | | 1431 | | McDorogh, dynast of Leinster, makes an incursion into the English pale, and defeats the forces sent against him, but is finally defeated with great loss. | | | 1434 | | The mayor and citizens do penance for violating the privileges and abusing the abbot of St. Mary's. | | | 1439 | | A plague in Dublin, which carried off 3,000 persons. | | | 1446 | | Thomas Fitzgerald, prior of Kilmainham, having accused James Earl of Ormond of high treason, a trial by combat was appointed at Smithfield; but the quarrel being taken up by the king, was decided without fighting. Also John David, an armourer, having charged his master, William Catur, with treason, a combat took place, in which the latter, being intoxicated, was slain. David was hanged for felony shortly after. | | | 1447 | | Great numbers died of a plague and famine. | | | 1452 | | The Liffey was entirely dry at Dublin for the space of two minutes. | | | 1453 | | The archbishop of Dublin carried off by pirates; but rescued by the citizens, who pursued the enemy to Ardglass. | | | 1459 | | Brass money coined at a mint opened in the Castle of Dublin. | | | 1461 | | A violent tempest threw down the east window of Christ Church, and destroyed many of the reliques, and much of the other furniture of the Church. | | | 1462 | | Groats, twopennies, pennies, halfpennies, and farthings, coined at the mint of Dublin. English money advanced one-fourth in Ireland. | |
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