Date | | | |
1605 | | Several of the aldermen and principal citizens brought before the court of Castle Chamber, and fined for nonconformity. The customs of tanistry and gavelkins abolished by a decision of the court of King's Bench. | |
1606 | | A letter found in the council-chamber Dublin Castle, imputing a treasonable conspiracy to the Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel, who thereupon quitted the kingdom, and their estates confiscated. | |
1607 | | The charter of Dublin confirmed, and several new privileges granted to the city. | |
1610 | | Chequer-lane, now Exchequer-street, opened. The population of the city and suburbs estimated at 20,000 souls. The map of the city published. | |
1611 | | Lord Carew arrived in Dublin as commissioner to inspect the affairs of Ireland. | |
1613 | | A parliament in Dublin, after twenty-seven years' suspension of such assemblies, from which the Catholic members seceded, in consequence of being left in a minority by the Protestants on the choice of a speaker | |
1614 | | A convocation held in Dublin, which established articles of religion. | |
1617 | | A proclamation to banish friars and seminary priests | |
1622 | | A university opened in Back-lane for the education of Roman Catholics. Several citizens censured by the Castle Chamber for refusing to take the oath of Supremacy. | |
1623 | | Proclamation to expel all the Roman Catholic clergy, secular and regular, from the kingdom within forty days, and prohibiting all communication with them after that time. The Rolls office built by Sir Christopher Wandesford, master of the Rolls, at his own expense. | |