Greenock.
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_Darcy, of Platten, co. Meath._--It is on record that, in the year 1486,
the citizens of Dublin, encouraged by the Earl of Kildare and the
Archbishop, received Lambert Simnel, and actually crowned him King of
England and Ireland in Christ's Church; and that to make the solemnity more
imposing, they not only borrowed a crown for the occasion from the head of
the image of the Virgin that stood in the church dedicated to her service
at Dame's Gate, but carried the young impostor on the shoulders of "a
monstrous man, one Darcy, of Platten, in the county of Meath."
Did this "monstrous man" leave any descendants? And if so, is there any
representative, and where, at the present day? Platten has long since
passed into other hands.