The proctor's accounts of Peter Lewis, 1564–1565

During the first phase of the Reformation in Ireland, the majority of the medieval religious houses were dissolved. One exception was the Augustinian house of Holy Trinity (or Christ Church) of Dublin, which was reconstituted as a secular cathedral.

In 1562, the vault of Christ Church collapsed, demolishing a large part of the cathedral itself, including the south wall. This book offers a wealth of information about the rebuilding of the cathedral, as well as much matter of a more everyday sort regarding the daily life and commerce of mid 16th-century Dublin. The evidence provided in this book ranges over the social, economic and religious life of a cathedral and city in the midst of an uneasy transformation from Catholicism to Protestantism, from a medieval to a modern world.