[294] It should be Friday, May 18, as appears from Sirr's original memorandum.
[295] Statement of Mr. William Macready, the grandson of Moore, furnished exclusively to the present writer.
[296] Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, by Thomas Moore. Paris ed. p. [160].
[297] May 18, 1798.
[298] Lest he should arrive at the hall door.
[299] Dirty Lane, now Bridgefoot Street, was another route by which Lord Edward could come from Moore's. The Queen's Bridge is at the foot of Dirty Lane. Island Street runs parallel with Usher's Island, a suburban quay; and Magan's is the second stable from Watling Street.
[300] Major Swan was the assistant town major. Atkinson will be remembered as the chief constable of Belfast. See ante, p. [8].
[301] The premises were on Wood Quay (then known as 'Pudding Row'), Wine Tavern Street, and Fisher's Alley; they also included the 'Dog and Duck' inn, north side of Thomas Street, with a rear extending to Marshalsea Lane.—Registry of Deeds Office. Traces of other property held by Thomas Magan crop up in unlooked-for places. By the settlement of Philip Whitfield Harvey with Miss Frances Tracy, dated September 16, 1802, it is recited that Thomas Magan, having become a bankrupt, his properties at Blackstaheny and in Britain Street were sold by auction to Samuel Dick and a Mr. Halpin for the sum of 4,830l. Higgins had property of his own at Blackstaheny, for I find a conveyance of lands there in 1806 from the Harveys and Tracys to Andrew Rorke of Clonsilla; consideration, 1,084l. 12s. 6d.
[302] Magan's seal displays a boar's head, with the motto 'Virtute et probitate!'
[303] A nickname by which the popular journalist, John Magee, satirised Higgins.