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Title: Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Year: 1849 (1840s) Authors: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and transactions Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Proceedings and papers Subjects: Publisher: Dublin, Ireland : The Society Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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Text Appearing Before Image: ions. On thetop of the page he first of all writes, Judicium de authore, opinionabout the authoi*. Then he bursts out into the following diatribe againstthe Scotch : The cursed hellish villany, treachery, treasons of the Scots,were the chief grounds and causes of that execrable rebellion; and thencomes another favourite idea : — The word of a king ; this phrase is repeated some liundred times,,but is ever foolish and too often false. ( 1I> ) MOIRA HOUSE. BY THE LATE REV. G. T. STOKES, D.D., M.R.I.A. [Read September 28, ■•] OoME of the old Dublin streets, as Weavers-square, Wards Hill,Chambers-street, Francis-street, French-street, contain most pic-turesque old houses, constructed in times when men built for beauty aswell as for utility. People in the squares and fasliionable streetshave no idea of these beautiful old houses. The picture I exhibit isthe once famous Moira House, on Usshers Island, which is nowreduced to the humble state of being the Mendicity Institution, after

Text Appearing After Image: Moira House. being frequented by preachers, like the Wesleys and AVliitefield (ofwhom the first Countess of Moira and her mother Lady Huntingdonwere great followers), celebrated ladies, distinguished statesmen, andnotorieties like Lord Edward Fitzgerald and Wolfe Tone. Tlie MoiraHouse you to-day look upon is only a miserable relic of the MoiraHouse which once existed, a full and complete picture of which I nowpresent to your eyes. Let me give you a sketch of its history :— Moira House wa* for sixty years the residence of the llawdonfamily. The Kawdon family were a famous Yorkshire family about 114 ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND. 300 years ago, say the time of Elizabeth and James I. When largeproperties were being carved out here in Ireland by clerer adventurers,,George Rawdon was then an adventurous young fellow in the Courtof Charles I., and he took an active part in Ulster in the troubledtime between 1641 and 1662. He ultimately found himself at theRestoration on the winn

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