Date | | | |
1283 | | The greatest part of the city, together with most of the buildings of Christ Church and St, Werburgh's Church, destroyed by an accidental fire. | |
1286 | | The citizens of Dublin excommunicated for encroaching on the ecclesiastical rights. | |
1287 | | Charter granted to Dublin by Edward I. | |
1289 | | Renewal of grants of customs to repair the exchequer. | |
1300 | | Base coin, called Pollards and Crocards, cried down by proclamation. | |
1304 | | A great fire in which most of the public records were burnt in St. Mary's-abbey. | |
1308 | | John le Decer chosen provost of Dublin, and Richard de St. Oliver and John Stakebold, sheriffs. John le Decer erects a marble cistern to receive the water from the conduit; he also built a bridge over the Liffey. | |
1310 | | A great scarcity, when a cranock of wheat sold for 20s. The bakers were drawn through the city on hurdles fastened to horses' tails for using false weights, and other frauds. | |
1311 | | The office of provost held for three successive years by Richard Lawless, ancestor to Lord Cloncurry. John Leek, archbishop, attempts to found an university in Dublin | |
1313 | | A bridge erected at Ballybough by John Deeer, which was destroyed by an inundation. The citizens of Dublin recover Greencastle, which had been taken by Edward Bruce, brother of the King of Scotland, and threw the governor into prison, where he was starved to death. | |