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1536 | | St. Patrick's staff, which had been brought from Armagh, and deposited in Christ's Church, burnt. | |
1538 | | The sweating sickness carries off great numbers of the citizens. Plays acted at Hoggin's green now College green before the Earl of Ossory, lord justice. | |
1539 | | The Lord Deputy Grey, with the assistance of the citizens of Dublin, defeats O'Neill at Bellabroa. | |
1540 | | Silver testoons, two-pennies, and pennies, coined in Dublin. | |
1541 | | HenryVIII proclaimed king of Ireland instead of lord as before. General pardon on the proclamation of his new title. The Priory of Christ Church converted into a deanery and Chapter, and the Priory of Kilmainham extinguished. | |
1543 | | O'Donnel and his two brothers taken prisoners and confined when attending a council in Dublin, but after some time liberated. | |
1544 | | Archbishop Browne erects the prebends of St. John's, St.Michan's, and St. Michael's, in Christ Church. | |
1545 | | The abbey of St. Thomas the martyr, near Kilmainham, granted to Wm. Brabazon, ancestor to the Earl of Meath. | |
1546 | | Bernard Fitzpatrick sent his son Teague a prisoner to Dublin, where he was executed. | |
1547 | | The Byrnes and O'Tooles defeated by Sir Anthony St. Leger. | |