"Salt fish, hides, cattle, and Irish hobby-horses"

"Salt fish, hides, cattle, and Irish hobby-horses"

Lough Derg--Travelogue--Dublin--Journey

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An sixteenth-century letter describing a trip to Lough Derg

Francesco Chiericati, c.1480-1539

Francesco Chiericati's letter to Isabella d'Este Gonzaga, p. 10

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1516

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork. J. P. Mahaffy. Electronic edition compiled and proof-read by Beatrix Färber, Janet Crawford. Article written by J. P. Mahaffy; the tour by Francesco Chiericati (c.1480-1539), written 1516, has been translated by J. G. Smyly (1516 (original); 1914 (translation).

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"So I must inform your Excellency that by the gracious permission of the King (Henry VIII), and carrying letters from him, I left London and in five days traversed England till we came to the sea to a city called Chester. There we embarked in a ship and in one day and one night crossed the sea to a city in Ireland called Dublin. This is one of the three metropolitan cities, and is the capital of all Ireland; here is collected the Grand Council of the Kingdom, and, as it is a maritime place, it is sufficiently populous. Here there are countless vessels which carry away salt fish, hides, cattle, and Irish hobby-horses, and import wine and merchandise of many kinds. There we were honourably entertained by the Very Rev. Archbishop and by the Illustrious Earl of Kildare, vice-roy of the island. We were given letters and attendance as far as Drogheda, a distance of twenty miles."

J. P. Mahaffy, Two Early Tours in Ireland in Hermathena, Ed. Members of Trinity College, Dublin. , Dublin; London, Hodges, Figgis & Co. Ltd.; Longmans, Green & Co. (1914) volume 40page 1–3; 10–16