Dublin : An Historical Sketch of Ireland's Metropolis
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The partisans of the lord deputy Kildare, and those of the Earl of Orniond, met in St. Patrick's cathedral professedly for an ami- cable conference with a view to adjust differences which had led to much asperity between them. It was a stratagem, however, on the part of Or- niond and his people to get Kildare and his fol- lowers into their power. Words soon gave place to blows. Some of the arrows of Kildare' s men stuck in the images of the sacred edifice. The daring profanation was reported to... the pope, who in his clemency absolved the citizens, but, "in detestation of the deed, and to keep up the me- mory of it for ever," ordained that " the mayor of Dublin should walk barefoot through the city in open procession before the sacrament on Corpus Christi day yearly" — a penance duly submitted to till the Reformation, and the performance of which must have given much interest to the fes- tival. The year 1535 saw Dublin in one of the great- £>8 ' DUBLIN SUBJECT TO est of its many perils.
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