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CALEOT)AK

ANCIENT RECORDS* OF DUBLIN.

VOL. XI.

Painted by G. Romney.

Engraved by J. Jones.

THE RIGHT HONBI:E EDMUND BURKE.

CALENDAB

ANCIENT RECORDS OF DUBLIN

In the Possession of the Municipal Corporation op that City.

EDITED BY

LADY GILBERT

VOL. XI

ILLUSTRATED WITH FACSIMILES.

Published by Authority of the Municipal Council

DUBLIN:

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LONDON: BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY, W.

1904.
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PREFACE

p. 1.

Records.
City of

calendar. The Calendar of Records of the Assembly Eolls w*i.

Vol. XI. %/ Reco-

of the Corporation of the City of Dublin, is con- ^
tinued in this, the eleventh volume, from
January, 1761, to October, 1768.

A satisfactory report on the state of the citv City^e

J water

pipe water revenue was made by a sub-corn- revenue"
mittee appointed to enquire into the accounts of
Richard Cave, supervisor, and Samuel Callbeck
and Francis Gladwell, collectors, from Novem-
ber, 1759, to November, 1760.
P. 2. An application was made to the city by the Parish of

Saint

minister, churchwardens, and parishioners of Brid?et
the parish of. Saint Bridget for a piece of ground
in Little Ship street, for the building of an
almshouse. The ground was measured as Almshouse.
lying between Pole's Mill and Nathaniel
Foulke's holding, and had been many years
waste, and a receptacle for refuse, was enclosed
by a stone wall at the expense of the parish. A
lease was perfected to the petitioners for seven-
teen feet of the ground, they engaging to expend

VI PREFACE.

AhLhouse. £200, on the building of the almshouse, as well ^"Ji'
as a party wall on which the city might lodge i>-2-
its timber.

New

The executors of Thomas Jackson were paid r-3-
bouse*. £37 5s., for building the new houses on Essex

Essex

Bridge ten feet back, for the purpose of widen-
ing the passage to the bridge.

caste'n, Abel Onge and Alexander Castell, freemen of

attorneys.

the city of Dublin and attorneys of the superior
court1 courts, were admitted attorneys of the Tholsel
Court.

House'of James Dinny, a freeman of the city of Dublin, p- s-

Correction.

was appointed Master of the House of Correc-
tion.

Baiiie, Matthew Bailie and William Darquier were P o.

Darquier,

sheriffs. eiected Sheriffs of the city of Dublin by the Lord
Mayor and Board of Aldermen, out of the eight
persons nominated by the Sheriffs and Com-
mons, as fit persons to serve in the office.

Little A parcel of ground known as the Little Green,

Green. x CJ

and another piece of ground on the north side
puwiceant. of Little Ship street, were set by public cant,
r>extei. and leases were granted to James Dexter and
shepheai-a. Arthur Shepheard, as the best bidders.

inspectoral John Farange, freeman and merchant, was p. n.

gabbards.

appointed inspector of the gabbards by the

PREFACE. Vll

ciie^r doctors of the Ballast Office, in the room -of 17dl

Vol. XI. Ballast

Office

p "■ Hamilton Ribton.

The right honourable Brinsly Butler, com- Butier.'

monly called Lord Newtown, was presented with

the freedom of the city in a silver box. Franchise.

p. 12. ^he reVerend Jacob Bryan, clerk, was paid Bryan,

£10, a year's salary, for officiating in the Black salary.

Dog prison,
p- >& Compensation amounting to £81 18s. 9d. was <>ll,enia

awarded to Samuel Yeates for damages caused Yeates.

by the works of the inland navigation of Ireland

to the lands of Colganstown. towiMls'

Daniel Bourne, attorney of the court of king's gg^-

bench, was admitted an attorney of the Tholsel -"wisei

Court,
p 14. Five watchmen of the parishes of Saint watchmen.

Catherine and Saint Michan received rewards Bewards.

offered for the apprehension and conviction of

persons concerned in street robberies.
p n. William Darquier was excused from serving in Darquier.

the office of Sheriff on the plea of advanced years

and bad health, and upon his paying a fine of Fine.

ten guineas, for the use of the Blue Coat Hos- gSjiS?

pital.
p. is. Thomas Blackhall, of Francis street, mer-gg^

chant, was elected Sheriff in the room of

William Darquier, excused.

Vlll PREFACE.

1761- Doctor Charles Lucas, disfranchised in 1749, c^

Doctor Vol. i

LucLes for his political opinions, was restored to the p18-

restored to *■ *■

e i er es j-^^ -es an(j franchises 0f the city of Dublin,

franchises "

on the representation of certain petitioners that

the disfranchisement had been erroneously

conducted.

The commissioners appointed for making a p-w.
Bridge. wide and convenient passage from Essex Bridge
Award. t0 the Castle of Dublin, awarded to the city the
Estate sum °^ £559 10s., for the purchase of the city

estate and interest in the several grounds on

which several houses stood.
Ge^Trii ^n address was presented to George III., p. 21.

congratulating him upon the success of his arms
Beiieisie. in the reduction of Belleisle.
Tons and The committee for tolls and customs was p. a*.

customs.

directed to make enquiry into the cause of the
Eevenue. decrease in the revenue from toll corn, which
had fallen during two years to the amount of
£300, while it ought to have increased, the
markets being almost entirely supplied with
Irish corn.
Loan. A sum of £2,000, with interest, was paid

incorpo- over to the Incorporated Society for promoting
English Protestant Schools in Ireland, from
which society the amount had been borrowed by
the Corporation of the city of Dublin.

rated

Society

Schools

p. 26.

PREFACE. ix

Application was made by Henry Hardy, in g£^
the name of the Workhouse governors, for a
lease of part of the Workhouse field, acquired Lease.

-1 Workhouse

by them in 1757, for the enlarging of the yard of hc'd'
the foundling building and the making of a new
burial place. Burial

i place.

The sum of £100, was granted for some repairs Mayoralty

r House.

and new furniture required in the Mayoralty

House,
p- a John Winstanley, deputy Ulster King of winstaniey.

Arms, was granted £5, for proclaiming the Fees.

accession of his most gracious majesty, George George ni

the Third, through the city of Dublin, King of

Great Britain, France, and Ireland.
p-29- George Moulds was paid £5, for the cleansing Moulds.

x ° Cleansing

of Sackville street and Dorset street for one s
year, during the Mayoralty of alderman Philip
Crampton.
P. 30. Penalties were laid upon the various corpora- Penalties.

Corpora-
tions of the city who should neglect to attend tl<ms'

the Chief Magistrate in riding the City Fran- Riding.

Franchises.

chises; as in consequence of neglecting the
careful tracing and perambulating of the City
Franchises, it was feared that the Liberties of Liberties.
the city had been already encroached upon and
lost.
p-32 A committee was appointed to consider the coais.

X PREFACE.

Forestalled complaints made of combinations to forestall the Caleudar-

of coals.

selling of coals in the market, by means of which p- 32-
the prices of coals had been raised exorbitantly
on the poor and other inhabitants of the city.
GeSessin. An address was presented to George III., p. 34
Royai congratulating him on his Royal Nuptials with

Nuptials.

princess princess Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-

Charlotte L x

SopMa- Strelitz.

Kali's ice ^e en(luiry mto the cause of the high price of p- a«-

coals resulted in the discovery of a set of factors
Factors, who were accustomed to buy the entire cargoes
cargoes, of ships in port, and then retailed them out of
the said ships at an advanced price, which pro-
ceedings were decreed to be offences at common
law and punishable by the way of indictment.
Biair. Thomas Blair was granted a renewal of the i>-38-

Lease. lease of a piece of ground on Aston's quay, and

Aston's

quay. undertook in rebuilding certain houses to leave
Buiidmg. the quay forty feet wide, to build every house of
at least three storys high, besides cellars, the
first story to be nine feet, the second or middle
story to be ten feet, and the third or garret story
to be eight feet high. Rules were laid down for
the thickness of the walls, the window stools and
copings to be of mountain stone, and the tops
of the houses to be of equal height and range.
scriveu Edward Scriven was paid his fees on passing P. «.

PREFACE. Xi

calendar, t^e j^ for tlie better regulation of the corpora- ,761

Vol. XI. <=> r Corporation

i'40 tion of the city. bm"

P. u. A petition was preferred to the House of SSKi*0

. Commons.

tommons representing the many inconveniences
and disadvantages that would result from the
building of a new bridge eastward of Essex g»
Bridge, especially the injury to the ferry across Ferry.
the river Liffey, granted to the city by Charles ^[;slI
the Second, and the interruption to the approach
of ships, also would be detrimental to the trade
and revenue of the city.

1762.

p. 45. Several lots of ground on the South Strand |°u*d
were reconveyed to the city by Sir Quayle
Somervell, baronet. bumftcil

P. 47. A lease for their natural lives was granted Lease.
to Rebecca and Sarah Carty of the house on cany,
the east side of Trinity lane, at an annual rent gj1*
of five shillings, exclusive of ground at the rere
of the Archbishop of Tuam's1 holding on Hogg ^bishop
Hill, and the houses in College Green.

P. w. Edward Ribton was appointed checque of the gj^ of

tolls and

tolls and customs in James's street, during the ««>*>«»«•
city's pleasure.
p-51- Robert Hargrave was displaced from the tuunmm,
office of high constable, and Henry Robinson was co
appointed in his stead.

] John Ryder. D.D., archbishop of Tuani, 17524775.

Xll PREFACE.

pltftionof The petition of eight merchants stated, that a Calend

merchants. '

new regulation was made for accounts due by the p. 52.

Trades-

McoiLts. °ity to tradesmen, whereby they were refused
payment by the treasurer for any order exceed-
ing the sum of £20. It was ordered that the peti-

payment. tioners be paid, and that in future the bills be
laid before the committee every three months
to be adjusted.

ovtrseer of Sedborough Mayne was nominated one of the P. 53.

pipe water

overseers of the city pipe water works, in the

room of Richard French, deceased.
3gy The honourable Thomas Bligh was admitted

Franchise, into the liberties and franchises of the city of

Dublin.
cftydmusic. John Clarke and the rest of the band of the P. 54

city music were continued at a salary of £60, a

year.
Auditors of The auditors of the city treasurer's accounts p. a.

city J

recommended the insolvent or doubtful arrears
renrtearsof °f rent to be struck out of the rent roll. The
statements of the treasurer's accounts and of
the ferry boats were submitted for inspection.

The committee having enquired into the cause P. ee.
reveals ™ of the decrease in the revenues of the city as

of city.

proportioned to the expenses, reported neglect
or fraud by persons entrusted with the receipt of
the tolls and customs; also recommended

PREFACE. Xlll

calendar, retrenchments in some articles of the city 1762-

Vol. XI. Retrench -

pee. expenditure, as in the matter of the number of ments"
proclamations inserted yearly in the public gSaina-
papers.
P. 69. The Town Clerk was empowered to subscribe sub3crip.

*- tion of Cor-

£500, on behalf of the Corporation of the city of P°r'
Dublin, towards the working of the Drumglass Drum?ia8s

collieries

collieries and for the completing of the canal andcanaL
from Drumglass to Fathom Point in the river of Newry

river.

Newry.
p-7o. James Dexter, Marshal of the Four Courts, Dexter.
surrendered a piece of ground called the Little L^tT361"'

Green.

Green, whereon he proposed to build a Marshal-
sea, being unable to carry out his intention.

A sum of £5,000, was granted to the city by *•*}£**

wall.

parliament for carrying on the Ballast Office

wall.
p-73. John Winstanley, deputy Ulster King of winstaniey.

Arms, was paid £5, for proclaiming in Dublin Fees-

war against the King of Spain.
P. 75. Part of the city estate on Aston's quay and Aston**

•/ x * quay.

in Fleet street had fallen into the city, and Fleet street.
required to be rebuilt, it was ordered to divide
the ground and premises into lots and set by
public cant,
r. 78. Sir Thomas Blackall, one of the High Sheriffs, IS!1'
was insulted and assaulted, in the execution of Assault.

XIV PREFACE.

1762- his office, by a riotous and tumultuous mob. A cv0eiuiair"
rrociama- proclamation was issued for the apprehension

of the offenders, and rewards to the informers.
eusto^ The tolls, customs, and petty customs were set P. 79.

by public cant to several persons for one year,

and an account of the gross produce of each gate

was sriven.
Bridge The weirs at Island Bridge which had been p. jo.

weirs*.

partly carried away by rapid floods, were

repaired by Richard Anderson, assisted by the

city.
Sent. The right honourable Robert Nugent, one of P.sa

the vice-treasurers of Ireland, was presented
Franchise, with the freedom of the city.
Address. An address was presented by the city to P. s&

George III.

fojai1^ a George III., on the birth of a royal prince.

pi'ince.

Address. The city presented an address to George III., r 90.

George III.

upon the success of his arms in the important
of°the,est conquest of the Havannah and its dependen-

Havannah.

cies.

New rental. The committee appointed to make a new P. 92.

city estate, rental of the city estate made their report on the
state of the various properties, having found the

Tenants, estate greatly increased in the number of tenants
and value of rents, and recommended that the

Eents. rental should be annually attended to, to pre-
vent its falling into confusion.

PREFACE. XV

The sum of £20, was paid to Roger Kendrick1762-

r ° Kendrick.

for discovering and tracing out some ground in
and about Hoggen Green, and other ground Hogpen

00 ° Green.

called Tib and Tom, part of the city estate, ™ana
the situation whereof could not without a great
deal of difficulty be found out.

J 1763.

p. 112. The lease of the Grange of Baldoyle fell to the £™£leof
city by the death of Mrs. Mary Acheson, and
the lands were ordered to be sold by public
cant.

P. 113. New rules were made as to the admission of Freedom of

city cor-
. 1 . porations.

persons to the ireedom 01 the city corporations.

In future no certificate should be received, certificate.

unless same was signed by the master, wardens,

and clerk of each corporation at their quarterly

meetings.
P. 114. John Winstanley, deputy Ulster King at winstaniey.

Arms, was paid £5, for publishing his majesty's Fees-

proclamation for a cessation of arms with

France, Spain, and Portugal.
p. 121. The mansion house and grange of Baldoyle Baiaoyie.

were leased to Thomas Adderly. Adderiy.

p. 125. A renewal of a lease of a parcel of ground on Lease.

Hoggen Green was granted to the Earl of g^en

Mornington, on which to build a grand and JjJjJ^

ton.

ornamental house for his dwelling, on which Dwelling

house.

was to be expended £3,000, at least; the front

XVI PREFACE.

1763- to Grafton street, from Mr. Grogan's wall, con- Caleudar-

Grafton ° Vol. XI.

street tained 151 feet. ?-125-

^ierkn' The reverend Jacob Bryan was paid £10, for p.m.

salary. officiating in the Black Dog prison.

George m. An address was presented to George III., con- P. is*.

peace with gratulating him on the conclusion of a peace with

Portugal France, Spain, and Portugal.

Revenue. New regulations were made to secure the P. 135.

Jo«sand revenue of the city in the matter of tolls and
customs. Particular attention was called to the

^Js- fact that all raw hides and bark going out of

Liberties the city to the Liberties adjoining, as well as
to distant parts, were chargeable with custom,

Leather, and that leather when dressed and tanned was
also liable to the same when returning into the
city, which was considered to be a hardship,
seeing that thus a staple commodity was sub-

custom. jected to double custom, and if sent from the
city to the country afterwards, to treble custom.

The report of Edward Scriven, city agent, p. no.
was laid before the committee, giving a parti-
cular abstract of every thing relating to tolls
and customs, to be found in the city charters,
assembly rolls, and other records, distinguishing
the dates and connections they might have with
each other.
The reverend Coote Mitchell, vicar of Rath- p isa

PREFACE. Xvii

voTsT drum' was allowed annually £32 10s., until the1763-
p- 152- rectorial tithes came into his posession. Tithes.

11 m- Some additions and improvements were

directed to be made to the front of the Mayoralty Mayoralty

" " house.

house and to the long room, as it would be more
commodious and ornamental.

P. i6i. Rewards of £50, and £20, were offered for the Rewards.
discovery and apprehension of the persons, who
beat the drum in the Liberty for gathering Liberty.
together riotous and tumultuous persons to Kots.
assemble in Dame street, where outrages were Jg£«
committed and insults offered to the house of
Mr. Henry Cottingham. £amiug"

p. 163. His excellency Hugh. Earl of Northumber- Eariof
land, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was presented
with the freedom of the city in a gold box. Franchise

r. l&t. Owing to the falling of Bridewell Bridge, the Briaeweii

& & ° ' Bridge.

inhabitants of the north side of the river, were
greatly distressed for want of water, and a main water

° J main.

was laid down from Bloody Bridge to Queen

street.
p. 165. Francis Parvisol was paid fifty guineas for Parvisoi.

damage to his house in Skinner row, by the r^;mer

rebuilding of a house in Ram alley.
p. lea The freedom of the city was presented in a Franchise.

silver box to Charles Coote, esquire, to express charies

the sense of the city of his abilities as a magis-
vol. xi. b

Northum-
berland.

XV111 PREFACE.

im- trate and of his zeal to enforce obedience to the c^n^'

Laws. laws of this kingdom. p'

A sum not exceeding £100, was allowed to

topersins. reward occasionally such persons who should be
instrumental and active in discovering and
effecting things useful and necessary to the cor-
poration.

The sum of £100, was granted for repairs and i>17°

hoaus°ealty f°r providing furniture for the Mayoralty
house.

canai. It was proposed to form a canal through the

interior part of the kingdom to the city of
Dublin, for the purpose of obtaining a sufficient

Fuei!r' supply of water, also for the carriage of fuel,
and other commodities to the city.

It was ordered to appoint eight able-bodied i>171-

Essex men' men as a regular watch on Essex Bridge, to do

Bridge. °

duty by turns during the winter season, and pre-
venting murders and robberies. A parliamen-
tary augmentation of watch-money and an
increase in the number of inhabitants in Parlia-
ment street were improvements hoped for.
Mace. It was ordered that the mace carried before p -172-

sword. the chief magistrate and also the city sword

should be repaired, ornamented, and gilt.
simian, Jeremiah Sullivan, gentleman, was admitted

attorney.

^istel an attorney of the Tholsel Court.

PREFACE. XIX

deudar. ^n application was made to parliament for 1763-
p176- a pilot bill for Dublin, and that the powers inpuotbm.
said bill should be vested in the city upon the
plan of the Ballast Office act.
P. 182. The committee appointed to take into con- ww.
sideration the memorial of Doctor Charles Lucas £°cc*or
reported that he ought to be exonerated and dis-
charged from all rent and arrears of rent due by
him to the city for the threepenny customs, on Threepenny

■ At/ customs.

his surrendering the lease of said customs, and surrender

° of lease.

furnishing the city with all materials he may
have collected concerning them.

The reverend Thomas McDonnell, D.D., was Doctor

M'Donnell.

granted the lease of a messuage or tenement Lease.
in Cooke street. cooke

street.

p. 188. The freedom of the city in a silver box was Franchise,
presented to Sir James Caldwell, baronet, for SSiSE1
his signal services done to this kingdom, in
raising in the year 1759, a regiment of light horse
at his own proper expense, for the defence of
this kingdom, when an invasion was threatened,
and afterwards employing his regiment to the Regiment
advantage of the fair trader and to the increase horse

of his majesty's revenue.

The salary of the reverend Jacob Bryan was Sn'

Salary.

augmented to £15, a year.
An address was presented to George III. on ae?r5sni.

XX PREFACE.

176t- . the occasion of the marriage of her royal high- c^n*"-

Marriage ° " " vol. XI

Augusta, ness the Princess Augusta with his serene p-m
Frederick, highness Prince Frederick of Brunswick Lune-

burgh.
city tons The committee for regulating the city tolls i1-197-

and

and customs reported that some explanation
should be added to the docket regulating the
customs customs, to remove all pretences of doubt or am-
biguity between collectors and payers of these
customs ; also that as some of the petty customs
were paid with great reluctance, as falling on the
poorest of the people, they should not be insisted
on, but that in future no inside or petty customs
Fowl. be taken for fowl, dead or alive, or for rabbits,
Eggs. eggs, green peas, or beans; the customs to be
cattle. collected as usual, however, on all cattle, hay

Hay. J

FruitMeld an^ straw sold in Smithfield market, and all fruit

Market1 s°ld on Ormond quay, together with the butter

standings and root standings in Ormond market,

all to be collected as formerly at the respective

markets, and not at the gates as lately practised.

It was proposed to enlarge the passage at the P. 201.

Germans north end of the ground by Gorman's gate, from

cooke the south side of Cooke street to New row,

street.

which would be of the utmost convenience to the
public, particularly on market days ; it was also
recommended that the entire ground meared by

PREFACE. XXI

calendar. ^e c^y wajj on fae east, New row on the west, 17&t-

Vol. XI. J ' New row.

p-201 Cutpurse row on the south, and Gorman's gate rolwpurse
on the north, with the city's estate at Newhall ggg
market be surveyed and delineated on a map to
prevent contests and confusion. Sir William SJJ^.
Mayne made a proposal to get a lease of the said
premises, which was to be amended.

p. 202. Some lots of ground in George's lane, South iGaue,ges
Strand, and Nicholas street, were ordered to be Strand

Nicholas

sold by public cant.

p. 20*. An additional yearly sum of £16, was awarded

to John Shea, undertaker for cleansing; a new f*e°- .

O Cleansing

t> i • • Parliament

street called Parliament street, which had been »treet-
opened, and in regard to this street being a very
principal one, and a great thoroughfare, and
will require to be kept constantly cleansed.

p. 205. An order was made to raise the ground floor

and first story of the dwelling house of Sed- House.

borough Mayne, to prevent its being flooded Mayne.

whenever there was a high tide in the river

Liffey.
P. 206. The freedom of the city was presented to John Franehise

John

Dennis, esquire, for his distinguished abilities Deuuis-
and attention to the property of this kingdom,
and the true interest of the city of Dublin.

•■' I I , . I Li . i ' • • I •

P. 207. At two meetings of the commissioners

XX11 PREFACE.

1764 appointed by parliament for making a wide and y^T

Etsexge' convenient passage from Essex Bridge to the p207-

Bridge

Sie11 Castle of Dublin, a verdict was found by a jury
that the grounds on which several houses then
stood were the property of the city, including

FauifrUr. the house of George Faulkner, and the house

&es formerly called the King's Crane or Weigh
House. The sum of £421 12s., was awarded to
be paid to the city for the purchase of their
inheritance in the said grounds.

Mathews, Thomas Mathews, land surveyor, was ap- p-aos.
pointed city surveyor, in the room of Roger
Kendrick, who resigned.

The enquiry into the matter of the decrease p 215.
in the city income in proportion to its expendi-
ture resulted in a satisfactory report on the state

Rental. of the rental and other sources of revenue of the
city, pointing out where certain difficulties arose,
and concluding with a wish that the same atten-

Disburse- tion was paid to the disbursements of the city as

ments.

to the income, the finances would be then in a
more flourishing situation and the treasurer
might soon be enabled to reduce the city debt.

surveyor. An order was made to employ a skilful sur- P. 220.

city estate, veyor to survey all parts of the city estate of
which no maps were in existence, and to have

Maps. maps made thereof, to be regularly entered in a

City
surveyor

Decrease of

City

income.

p. 225.

PREFACE. XX111

book kept for the purpose, together with the 17M
maps already in the Tholsel Office. Thotaa,

An order was entered into to oblige, under corpora-

& ' tions.

severe penalties, the attendance of the different &££».

Riding

corporations of the* city to attend the Lord Mayor fr»ncliises
in riding and perambulating the franchises of the
city, which was the indispensable duty of every
citizen, and to be observed three times in each
year.
P. 222. Sir Patrick Hamilton was paid £88 4s. lid., Hamilton,
expenses incurred on account of an attachment t^ut'
out of the king's bench against him at the suit
of Charles Segriffe, for granting an order to the segriffe.
then master of the corporation of carpenters for
40s., against the said Segriffe for intrusion
money.

The salary of Randal Cooke, Sword Bearer, gjjjg

Bearer.

was augmented to £150, a year.

A suit was depending in the common pleas suit.
between Lord Trimleston and the city respect- TrimieBton
ing tolls taken for flour. Tolls

The governors of the workhouse received JS;
£100, from the lord lieutenant and also the same o™*.
amount from the city, towards building a chapel ci»aPei.
for divine service.

p. 234. The Lord Mayor issued a proclamation offer- £

Proclama-
tion.

XXIV PREFACE.

1764. jnCT rewards for the apprehension and conviction 0alendar-

° rl Vol. XI.

city riots of persons concerned in city riots. p 23i-

JJg, The committee for supplying pipe water to the p- 236-

city reported several difficulties in the matter of
pure supply. A bleach yard on the city side of

Khumage. Kimmage threatened to foul the water, and the

Taught, floods on the city side of Tallaght necessitated
the formation of a sluice to prevent the torrent
at that time from falling into the water course.

Temple rpj^ we-r akove Temple Oge also required atten-
tion to prevent inundations in time of floods.

The committee of auditors reported on the p. 215.

city dew. state of the city debt, and furnished a list of
the names and amounts due to creditors, and

interest, recommended the reduction of interest payable
by the city, if thought expedient.

Loau. The sum of £4,000, was borrowed from p 217.

Latouche. Latouche and Company, bankers, by a letter of
credit under the city seal, for the rebuilding of

oueeus a bridge to be called the Queen's Bridge, the sum

Bridge. ° ^ o '

to be repaid when collected and received by the
overseers from the inhabitants of the city.

1765. The sum of £21 5s. 4d., was paid for four p.255.
Lamps on lamps each on the Old Bridge, Bridewell Bridge,

bridges.

and Bloody Bridge, for fixing them in their places
and keeping them lighted for one year.
Em. A bill was filed in the court of exchequer by P. 25c

PREFACE. XXV

calendar. Gorges Edmond Howard, to prohibit alderman 17li5-

Howard

P. 25c. William Forbes, Lord Mayor, from pulling down Forbes.
or removing any of the steps or flagging of the House?-
houses in Crane lane, Parliament street, and SSTflBt

Dame

Dame street. sUeet-

P. 257. A new lease was granted to John, Archbishop Lease.
of T'uam,1 of a piece of ground fronting Hog SS^f
Hill, and situate on the south side of Suffolk iiog- ma.
street, to which should be added a small piece of Kb*
ground at the rere, called the Terrace walk, the Te"ace

° ' ~ ' walk.

archbishop engaging to rebuild the premises at
the expenditure of £1,000, within seven years.

p. 258. An order was made to repair the statue of statue.
William III. in College Green, which was in a ™am
ruinous condition, and the iron rails also much
decayed.

p o^7. The committee for supplying water to the city JJg^
reported that the canal to convey the water to Cau:i]
the bason was sunk and banked as far as Bally- H^
farmott, and that the remaining part might be
completed in a year, at the cost of £7,000, to Cost.
cover expenses of estimates of lands to be pur-
chased, and of digging, banking, building aque-
ducts, bridges, and finishing the canal.

p- 270. Several persons were paid sums in compensa- £°™pensa-

i John Ryder, D.D.

XXVI PREFACE.

tion for losses sustained in removing from their

1765.
Houses,
Crane lane.

E^Iei houses in Crane lane and Essex street

street.

A fee-farm lease was made to the minister and P. 28i.

parish of churchwardens of the parish of new Saint

new Saint J-

Michan of an increase of the ground formerly
biiiidTnV01 granted to them for the building of a church,

church.

the increase to be 60 feet in depth at the south-
east corner of the Little Green, and 10 feet at
the south-west corner, in consideration of their
widening the street in another place by the
giving up of 25 feet in that part, and the build-
ing of a straight wall from the south-west corner
to the north-west corner,
ware? The reverend Henry Ware, D.D., was granted P. 282.

2sSf a lease of a house on the south side of Castle

street-
street.

Mooiey. James Mooley informed the pipe water com- p.ass.

survey for mittee that the best supply of water to the city

water

supply. wag j.Q ke ka(j from £jie rjver of Shankill, near
the mountains of Wicklow, or from the river
Comork, called the river of Clondalkin, an
estimate was made of the expense of the work,
and petitioner was paid £20, for his survey.

Williams. William Williams received £15, compensation p 2§9.

crane lane, for the pulling down of his house in Crane lane,
occasioned by the making of the new street from
Essex Bridge to Cork Hill.

PREFACE. XXvii

A new chart of the coast from Wicklow Head l765-

Chart of

to the Harbour of Balbriggan, was surveyed and wickiow.

Balbriggan

published by Bernard Scale and William scale.
Richards, who were paid fifty guineas by the ffichMdB-
city, to enable them to complete and carry into
execution the said work.

A further sum of £2,000, was borrowed by Loan.
the city from Latouche and Company, bankers, Latere,
to enable the overseers to carry on the building
of the Queen's Bridge. Queen-*

° Bridge.

P. 296. Rewards were offered for the discovery and Reward*.
apprehension of persons concerned in a riot mot.
caused by the forcible breaking open of Newgate Newgate.
gaol by a number of soldiers, who set at liberty soia***
many prisoners under sentence for various
crimes.

p-298. His Excellency Francis Seymour, Earl of |S^rd.
Hertford, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was pre-
sented with frhe freedom of the city in a gold Franchise.
box.

The right honorable Francis Seymour, Vis- JJ^™*
count Beauchamp, secretary to the Lord
Lieutenant, was presented with the freedom of Franchise.
the city in a silver box.
p. 301. Timothy Mahon was allowed fifty guineas Mahon-

J ° Allowance.

compensation for the reduction of custom on
tanned hides, he having engaged to collect the Hides.

XXV111 PREFACE.

1765- customs at a certain price, before certain changes c^ntT

Customs. r Vol. XI.

were effected, and also for his attendance on a p- tttL

committee of the House of Commons.
Daniel. The sum of £15, was paid to Benjamin Daniel p- 302.

£sasexring as a full gratuity for watering Essex Bridge for

Bridge.

two years during dry weather; but it was
ordered that for the future the bridge was not
to be watered at the expense of the city.

Daniel. Benjamin Daniel was granted ten guineas as p- 303.

Furniture, compensation for damage done to the furniture
in his dwelling house in the city yard by the

Floods. great floods in the year 1764.

me. By a new act of parliament further powers p-311-

Shipping

act- were vested in the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Com-

mons and citizens of the city of Dublin, for
securing of ships trading to the port and harbour
of Dublin, for regulating pilots, haven masters,

committee, and lightermen ; and in consequence, five alder-
men, ten of the commons, and fifteen persons of

Merchants, the guild of merchants were elected, together
with the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, to form a
committee for the purposes mentioned in the act.

Booker. Francis Booker, alderman, was paid sixty p-313-

class guineas for a pair of glass lustres left by him
at the Mayoralty House in the year 1755.

petition. Certain of the commons prayed, that a peti- p-318-
tion should be presented to the House of Com-

PREFACE. XXIX

iiendar. mon under the city seal, reciting that aliens and 1766-

3l. XI. J ° Aliens.

' 318 foreigners were on a better footing in the ancient
city of Dublin, with regard to the carrying on
of their several trades, than were the freemen, Freemen.
who were bound to serve city, corporation, and
parish offices, and on juries, and whose freedom
gave them a freehold in the corporation of the
city.

P. 321. A grant of £7,800, was made by parliament Grant.
towards carrying on the work of making the
Grand Canal to the city bason, for conducting ^,d
water to the city for the use of the inhabitants
of Dublin.

A report was made on the strength and pro-
bable durability of the great arch or aqueduct Aqueduct.
in the glinn near the high road ; and the work
which had been done by John Satterthwaite, satter-

•> th\v:ute.

was pronounced satisfactory, and built in the
common or rough mason way.

It was proposed, under the direction of Mr.
Omer, principal engineer of the navigation omer.
board, to build bridges over the canal, particu- Bridges.
larly one to lead from Kilmainham to the road kj1™*-
to Dolphin's Barn; and a question arose as to g^'8
whether a temporary bridge or one which should
be permanent and ornamental ought to be
erected.

XXX PREFACE.

,'766- It was also suggested that trees might be Caleudar-

frees on <~>o D y0i_ jq.

planted on the banks of the canal, making of the p "*
place an agreeable walk for the inhabitants of

Ed^r. Dublin, and Patrick Edgar contracted to supply
and plant four hundred trees, thirty feet high,
for that purpose.
The committee appointed to examine into the r. 323

Justed c^y revenue in the matter of the tolls and
customs when reporting on the lawsuit which

Trimieston. was in progress between Lord Trimleston and
the city, made a statement to the effect that
within a few years past much encouragement

com. had been given to the manufacture of corn in
the city, and that in consequence the con-
sumption of flour had greatly increased.

Fiour. The sum of £160 was granted to carry on the p. 32 j.

Lawsuit, lawsuit with Lord Trimleston, who disputed the
taking of the toll on flour.

A committee was appointed to consider of a r 327.

m™iSlojr" proper scheme for the employment of sturdy

va|?ant's beggars and strolling vagrants who infested the
city of Dublin.

A lawsuit was commenced against alderman P. 32s.

Fort™1™ William Forbes for having, during his year of
office as Chief Magistrate of the city, pulled
down and suppressed a notorious disorderly

Ball yard.

ttoxf ball yard at the corner of Aungier street and

PREFACE. XXXi

■ York street; and the city agent was instructed ?&lta-
to defend alderman Forbes in the suit, at the
expense of the city.

Henry Mountain, musician, and his band SfmlL.
were appointed the band of city music.

Samuel Bradstreet, esquire, was admitted KS?*1

Admit-

Recorder of the city of Dublin in the room of tunce-
James Grattan, esquire, deceased, at the yearly
salary of £50, with the usual fees and perqui- saiaiy.
sites.

The reverend dean Charles Doyne was granted £ean
a lease of a parcel of ground situate in Saint
Stephen's street. SKf"

The sum of one hundred guineas was allowed Repair of

^ Berlin.

to repair a Berlin, which was presented to the

city by the Marquis of Kildare. Marquis of

-1 Kildare.

The freedom of the city was presented to Franchise.
Colonel Hunt Walsh. cowi

Walsh.

Owing to deficiencies and failure in the crops
of corn all over Europe, the exportation of all Asportation
wheat and wheat hour, as well as the distilling
of wines or spirits from wheat, meal, flour, or
bran were prohibited by royal proclamation, prociama-

An address was prepared to the lords justices, wdf6S to

justices.

pointing out the general insufficiency in the
growth of corn in Ireland to answer for its con- wah com.

XXxii PREFACE.

. , . Calendar.

1766 sumption, and praying for further measures to Vol SI

. ' « P- 345.

restrain the exportation ot corn.
GeorgTm. An address was presented to George III. on p- a*.
Birth- the occasion of the birth of a princess royal and
Marriage, upon the marriage of the princess Caroline

Matilda with the King of Denmark.
water Th.e committee for better supplying the city p-317

supply.

with pipe water reported that the work of the
canal1 Grand Canal was nearly completed, and the

money granted by parliament almost expended.

It was resolved to apply to parliament for further
Aid- aid in carrying out the enterprise.

SSSb** The salary of Samuel Bradstreet, Recorder of p.353.

Dublin, was augmented from £50, to £300, a

year, during the city's pleasure.
Storney, John Daniel, gentleman, was admitted an P.s5s.
courf attorney of the Tholsel Court.

Siomof The freedom of the city of Dublin was pre- »«J
Edmund sented to Edmund Burke, esquire, in considera-

Burke.

tion of his distinguished abilities, so frequently
exerted for the advantage of this kingdom in the
British parliament.

attornfy John Geeling, gentleman, was admitted an

55* attorney of the Tholsel Court.

scarcity of On account of the scarcity of corn the sum of P.»*

corn.

£500, was granted for the purpose of paying a
premium, premium of two shillings per barrel upon the first

PREFACE. XXX111

tTxi' nve thousand barrels of merchantable foreign J.70^ign

wheat.

P. 366. wneat imported into the harbour of Dublin from Dublin

harbour.

and after the 15th of April, 1767, and sold in

the corn market of Thomas street. Thomas

street.

p. 367. Application was "made to the lords justices, l^ffi*-

it • i • corn.

calling on government to give their aid m further
encouraging the importation of corn.
p. 373. The sum of sixty guineas was given to alderman Aidermau

Hunt.

Edward Hunt as compensation for the trouble compensa-
and expense sustained by him in the receipt and
disbursement of £38,000, granted by parliament Bauaat

° J r Office Wall

for carrying on the Ballast Office Wall and Cl^gllt'
Lighthouse.

As it was proposed to rebuild the palatine Palatine

x x square.

square, enlarging it, so that together with the
royal square it should be capable of containing
the whole garrison of Dublin without quartering Garrison

D x of Dublin.

any of the troops on the inhabitants, an applica- SSoSf11*
tion was made, to enclose within the precincts
of the barracks a strip of ground belonging to Barracks.
the city situated in Oxmantown green. pxman.

J ° town green.

An order was made to take down the
inscription on Essex Bridge and put up a proper ggg^
one in its place.

Samuel Bradstreet, Recorder, was granted ££$£*■
£200, in testimony of his services and the faith- Grant.
ful discharge of his duty during the last year.

VOL. XI. C

XXXIV PREFACE.

Appiica- ^ was recommended that application should c^^'

tion to IP 384

parliament. ^e made for an act of parliament to regulate
Quarterage, quarterage, in order to prevent contests and

animosities too long existing between freemen

and foreigners in the city.

Attention was called to the necessity for p-385-
PoHceof regulating the police, seeing the great increase

during late years of the city, both in its buildings

and in the number of its inhabitants.
Mitchell, The reverend Coote Mitchell petitioned the p-386-

vicar. -1

city for a new dwelling house and offices at
Rathdrum. Rathdrum.
Gad of The committee of city leases reported that the p. 389-

Newgate. " A

Little Green was a fit place for the rebuilding

of the new gaol of Newgate.
Eifi?n David Ribton was presented with the thanks p- 39°-

Thanks of 0f ^g c^y jn a siiyer \y0X f or ^ig public spirit in

presenting £91, to the Blue Coat Hospital on
being permitted to resign the office of High
Sheriff,
mental" Advertisements were inserted in the London, p-3S1-

Gazettes.

Dublin, and Amsterdam Gazettes, that there
Lighthouse, would be a light on the new Lighthouse, on and

after the 29th of September, 1767.
Fauifner George Faulkner, printer and publisher, was p- see-

excused, on account of bad health, from serving
sheriff. as Sheriff of the city of Dublin, on his paying a

Calendar
Vol. XI.

p. 399.

PREFACE. XXXV

fine of one hundred guineas to the Blue Coat I767
p.39c. Hospital.

His Excellency Viscount Townshend, Lord toXLl
Lieutenant of Ireland, was presented with the
freedom of the city in a gold box. Franchise.

Lord Frederick Campbell, secretary to Vis- ^fpki]l
count Townshend, Lord Lieutenant, was pre-
sented with the freedom of the city in a silver Franchise.
box.

It was resolved to make application to parlia- Duration of

parlia-

ment for the obtaining a law for limiting the wenta-
duration of parliaments, under proper qualifica-
tions.

George Doyle, surgeon, was employed to Doyie.dty

surgeon.

attend the coroners of the city, when holding
inquests, and also the city magistrates when
called upon. A yearly salary of twenty guineas salary.
was granted to him.

The governors of the Marine School were paid S
fifty guineas as aid to support the same.

An abstract of the money expended upon the Account.
South Wall and Light House from July, 1766, ggS™

House,

to October, 1767, was furnished, comprising the
rates of materials, with the salaries and wages
paid for workmanship, etc., from the Ballast
Master down to the labourers within that
period.

XXX VI PREFACE.

1768. The sum of £50, was reimbursed to alderman calendar.

Vol. XI.

sankey, Sankey, late Lord Mayor, for having provided i>-415-
state1' horses and servants on public days for the State

Coach, or Berlin, presented to the city by the

most noble James, Duke of Leinster.
Bishop The right reverend doctor Denison Cumber-

Cumber- °

land, lord bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh,
Franchise, was presented with the freedom of the city in a
gold box, for his attention to the natives of this
kingdom in his diocese, and for encouraging its
manufactures, and for providing a considerable
Biimdeii, benefice for the reverend doctor Dixie Blundell,

city chap-
lain. . ...

city chaplain.
Pariiamen- A sum of £5,000, granted by parliament for r-417-

tary grant.

Grand the carrying on of the works of the Grand Canal,

Canal.

was paid over to the committee of directors for
that purpose.
Admission It was ordered, that for the future, the Lord p. «s.

of attorneys

court? Mayor, and Sheriffs for the time being with Mr.
Recorder be empowered to admit such persons
as they should think proper, who were attorneys
of the city superior courts, attorneys of the city
court, although they were not freemen.

Fagan, A fine of £20, was remitted to James Fagan, p.420.

Newgate.

remitted, prisoner in Newgate for riot and assault, on his
representing that he had been imprisoned for six
months, whipt twice, and unable to pay.

PREFACE. XXXVii

Parliament granted a sum of money for open- 85m«.

.... ., tary graut.

mg and widening the avenues of the city, and for
building an Exchange on Cork Hill, and a com- Exchange.

Cork Hill.

mittee of merchants was appointed to carry out
the work.
P. 4M An address was presented by the city to Address,

J J George III.

George III., for his gracious condescension
in transmitting the bill for the limita-
tion of the duration of parliaments in Ireland, 5S£tonrf

meats.

and to express the city's gratitude to the lord
lieutenant for promoting the passing of that
great and desirable law.

p. 426. As his excellency Viscount Townshend, Lord viscount

Townshend.

Lieutenant of Ireland, was one great means in
obtaining the bill for limiting the duration of 5^°° of
parliaments in this kingdom, a committee was
appointed to wait upon his excellency, and to
request in the name of the city of Dublin, that
he would be pleased to sit for his picture, to be SS^St.
painted by an Irish artist.
p «o. The committee for conducting the works of works of

° Grand

the Grand Canal complained of the great
difficulties attending their progress, which dim- Difficulties.
culties they attributed solely to the neglect and
misconduct of their contractor, John Satter- ISe.
thwaite.
p. m. The salary of George Doyle, city surgeon, was i£gZz£tf

XXXV111 PREFACE.

augmented to forty guineas a year, for his °^^'
examining prisoners in the gaol of Newgate, p434'
attending the coroners when holding of inquests,
and the magistrates at the justices' office.

A reward of £100 was offered by the city for
the discovery and prosecution of the writer of
an incendiary letter, signed P. D. from Dublin,
to her grace the Duchess of Northumberland.-^

Plans for a new market house in Oxmantown P. m.
Green were drawn and prepared by Thomas
Ivory, architect, and measures were taken for
the erection of the building.

Timothy Mahon was granted a lease of the p-*w.
tolls and customs of the city of Dublin, except
the gate on Donnybrook road, at the annual
clear rent of £4,000, payable monthly.

Letabiere. j^g reverend Daniel Letablere was reim- p-445.

wfndgate. bursed the sum of £7 10s., for enclosing the glebe
of Windgate.

Herbage of it was ordered that the herbage of Saint p-«o.

Stephen's

Qreen- Stephen's Green, so contiguous to the Mayoralty
house should be appropriated to the use of the
present Lord Mayor, during his Mayoralty.

Jones. John Jones was granted a lease of the city

Lease of

cityfenys. ferrys at the yearly rent of £400, and for the
term of 31 years.

1 See page 513.

PREFACE. XXxix

CvTxi. Several lawsuits were instituted against the £6«suits
p>452- salesmasters selling cattle in Sraithfield market SalPS-

' masters.

and for their withholding the duties arising Se?eld
thereout to the Corporation.

chitect.

The Lord Mayor was requested to present to Lora
John Smith, architect, for his planning and «»*!..

1 ° architc

carrying into execution the masterly work of the
Lighthouse, so justly and universally admired, &fe*t.

" house.

the thanks of the city, together with a piece of Thanks of

city.

plate of the value of twenty guineas. Jfeof

Several holdings or stalls in Newhall market ^ef
were ordered to be set by public cant.

The proceedings in relation to the election of Election.
Lord Mayors, Aldermen, and Sheriffs of the city Lord

Mayors.

of Dublin, previously entered in the Monday SXm
Book, were henceforth recorded in the Assembly Assembly
Rolls, beginning February, 1761.

The Directors and Master of the Ballast Bniiast
Office, in their quarterly reports to the Municipal
Council, furnished particulars of the various
works in the port and harbour of Dublin, viz. :
in the building and repairing gabbards and
floats, raising ballast, repairing the piles,
cleansing the channel, building the new walls,
planking and piling on the South Bull, building
the new lighthouse and wharfs.

Office
works.

Xl PREFACE.

Append" In the Appendix to this volume are given the A^1ei^'Ix"
Election, proceedings relative to the election of Lord p 46L

Lord

Mayors. Mayors, Aldermen, Sheriffs, Treasurers, and
Coroners of the city of Dublin.

Particulars of the petitions of the Commons p.«ra-
stipend, proposing. That an annual stipend of £365,
charies should be granted to Doctor Charles Lucas, to

Lucas. <->

reward his merit and services as one of the
representatives of this city in Parliament.
Franchise. That the freedom of the Corporation of the p. 474
city of Dublin, should be granted to Henry

Henry

Flood. .blood, esquire.

Duration of That instructions should be given by the p.«&.

Parlia-

ments. Assembly to their representatives in Parliament
to use their utmost endeavours to have the heads
of a bill brought into the honourable House of
Commons, to limit the duration of Parliaments,
passed into a law.

Quarterly That the quarterly Assembly be adjourned, in p 476.

Assembly,

consequence of unfinished business, to a further
day.
Municipal Lists of the Municipal Council, consisting of p.478.

Council.

Lord Mayors, Aldermen, Sheriffs, Sheriffs'
Guilds. Peers, and representatives of the Guilds on the

Common Council of the city of Dublin.
survey of The whole order and procession of the twenty- p «5.

five Corporations, with a Survey of the Liberties

Liberties

PREFACE. Xli

AvT:£X' and Franchises of the City of Dublin; as they "fiy
p ■««. were t0 De ridden and perambulated on Tuesday ^iXL

,i 1,1 « i _ ^ of the City

the 4th of August, 1767, by the Lord Mayor, ^blia-
Aldermen, Sheriffs, Commons, and Guilds, with
the Masters' and Wardens' names and places of
abode; also, the various Colours in each worn
Cockade ; and the Poem.

p 496. The order and procession of the Journeymen wool-

" Combers

Wool-Combers and Weavers, with the regular, weavers.

° 1761.

registered, free and accepted Masons belonging
thereto, Dublin, 1761.

p- sec. An address to the free electors of the city of Address.
Dublin, by Charles Lucas, M.D., 1761. 82"

J 1761.

p. 508. The Lease of the Shoemakers Hall in Cook shoemakers

Hall,

street, Dublin, 1698. SSb.

P. 5i3. Letter of P. D. from Dublin, to the Duchess fetter of

of Northumberland.
P. sis. Proclamations prohibiting the Exportation of J*?*

/"i T"< • * T~k corn.

Corn to Foreign Parts, consequent upon the
total failure of the crops of corn in many
portions of Europe,
p. 52i. Premiums offered for bringing corn and flour Premiums.

° ° Corn.

to Dublin by inland carriage.
p. 523 Proclamations of the Lord Mayor of Dublin vagrants

" and

for the apprehending and employment of idle

vagrants and sturdy beggars in Bridewell.
vol. xi. d

xlii PREFACE.

Orders for regulating the constables and ^ff^f-

° c-> vol. XT.

watch-men of the new parish of St. Michan's, p527,
Dublin, 1730.

List of the Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of the p. 534.
city of Dublin from 1760 to 1769.

The portraits and illustrations include reduced
facsimiles of rare mezzotinto, etching, and line
engravings, videlicet : Edmund Burke, Bryan
Robinson, Henry Flood, Viscount Townshend,
The Eight Honble. John Ponsonby, The Tholsel,
Dublin, and Rocque's Plan of the City and
Suburbs of Dublin, 1765.

In the compilation of this the eleventh volume
of the Calendar of Ancient Records of the
Corporation of Dublin, Mr. John F. Weldrick
has acted as assistant editor.

[ xliii ]

CONTENTS

IV.— Rolls of the City of Dublin.1

XXII.— Assembly Roll, 1761—1769 - - - 1

APPENDIX.

I. — Proceedings in relation to the election of Lord Mayors, Aldermen,
Sheriffs, Treasurers, and Coroners of the City of Dublin,
1761-1769 461

II. — Charles Lucas. — Henry Flood. — Duration of Parliaments. —

Quarterly Assembly, 1766 ..... 472

III. — Lord Mayors, Aldermen, Sheriffs. Sheriffs' Peers, Representatives
of the Guilds on the Common Council of the City of Dublin,
1760-1768 -------- 478

IV. — Survey of the Liberties and Franchises of the City of Dublin,

1767 ........ 485

V. — The Order and Procession of the Journeymen Wool-Combers and

Weavers, 1761 - - - - - - - 496

VI. — Charles Lucas, M.D., An Address to the Free Electors of the City

of Dublin, 1761 500

VII. — Lease of the Shoemakers' Hall in Cook Street, Dublin, 1698 - 508

VIIL— Letter of P* D. from Dublin, 1768 - • - - 513

IX. — Exportation of Corn to Foreign Parts, 1766 - - 518

X. — Premiums for bringing Corn and Flour to Dublin by Inland

Carriage, 1768 - - - - - - - 521

XL— Idle Vagrant3 and Sturdy Beggars, 1766-1767 - - 523

XII.— The Watch of the new parish of St. Michan's, Dublin, 1730 - 527

XIII. — Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of the City of Dublin, 1760-1769 - 534

1 In continuation from vol. x., p. 44i».

[ xliv ]

PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
I. — The Right Honble. Edmund Burke. Frontispiece

From mezzotinto engraving.
Painted by G. Romney. Engraved by J. Jones.

II. — Bryan Robinson, M.D. to face -page 1

B, Wilson pinxit et aq : forti excudit 1750.

III.— The Right Honble. Henry Flood. ,, ,, 112

Engraved by J. Heath from a drawing by John Comerford.

IV.— The Right Honourable George, Lord Viscount Townshend,

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. „ „ 208

From mezzotinto engraving.

Tbos. Hudson Pinxit. Js McArdell fecit.

V. — The Right Honble. John Ponsonby, Speaker of the

House of Commons in Ireland. „ ,, 336

From mezzotinto engraving.

Geo. Gaven delint. Engraved by J. Gainer.

VI. — The Tholsel, Dublin. end oj volume

James Malton del et fecit.

VII.- A Plan of the City and Suburbs of DUBLIN. 1765.

By J. Rocque. Reduced from his large Plan. ,, ,,

P. Halpin, Sculpsit.

[xlv]

LORD MAYORS AND SHERIFFS OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN.
1760—1769.

1760-61.— Lord Mayor, Patrick Hamilton ; Sheriffs, Francis Fetherston,

George Wrightson.

1761-62.— Lord Mayor, Sir Timothy Allen ; Sheriffs, Matthew Bailie,

Sir Thomas Blackall.

1762-63. — Lord Mayor, Charles Rossel ; Sheriffs, John Read,

Joseph Hall.

1763-64.— Lord Mayor, William Forbes ; Sheriffs, William Bryan,

Francis Booker.

1764-65. — Lord Mayor, Benjamin Geale ; Sheriffs, Robert Montgomery,

Henry Hart.

1765-66. — Lord Mayor, Sir James Taylor ; Sheriffs, William Ruttledge,

Richard French.

1766-67.— Lord Mayor, Edward Sankey ; Sheriffs, Willoughby Lighfc-

burne,
Thomas Emerson.

1767-68.— Lord Mayor, Francis Fetherston ; Sheriffs, Patrick Boyd,

Henry Bevan.

1768-69.— Lord Mayor, Benjamin Barton ; Sheriffs, William Dunn,

Henry Williams.

CALENDAR OF ROLLS

OF THE

CITY OF DUBLIN

II.

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IV.-CALENDAR OF ROLLS1

OF THE

CITY OF DUBLIN.

XXII.— Assembly Roll, 1761—1769.

1761. January 19. — Fourth Friday after the 25th of i7ci.
December, 1760.

[1.] Certain of the commons, setting forth that the <%&£**
committee appointed for better supplying the city with
pipe water, had appointed a subcommittee to examine
the account of Mr. Bichard Cave, supervisor, messieurs ^mt'
Samuel Callbeck and Francis Gladwell, collectors of J*1"***;

Gladwell.

the pipe water revenue for the year ending the 1st
November, 1759, and collected from thence to the 1st of
November, 1760.

' Who reported that the said account was laid before Report
them in a very regular and exact manner, which gave
them entire satisfaction in the examining thereof.
That the supervisor furnished them with a charge charg-e
against the collectors, which they had examined, and collectors
the said collectors admitted the same to be right.

' The said committee found that the rent and arrears, ^^
received on account of pipe water, amount to
£2,876 13s. 3d., the receipts for concealed branches for Receipts,
the said time to £20 3s. 4d., for branches formerly cut
off and put on to £73 2s. 9d. That the sum received
by Samuel Callbeck amounts to £1,535 17s. 9d., and
that by Francis Gladwell to £1,434 Is. 7d., it appears

» In continuation from vol. x., p. -H9.
VOL. XI. B

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761.

1761.

Order.

City leases.

Little Ship

street.

Report.

Saint

Bridget's

parish.

Alms

house.

Pole's
Mill.

Foulke's
holding.

City wall.

Concern.

Wall.

Ground.

Rent.

that a balance is due by said Samuel Callbeck of r0h xxh.
£1 16s. 3d.' m85'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said
report and make the same an act of assembly: it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly.

[2.] Certain of the commons, setting forth that the
committee for inspecting city leases, to whom the setting
of a piece of ground in Little Ship street was referred.

1 Had reported that an application had been made to
them, on behalf of the minister, churchwardens, and
parishioners of the parish of Saint Bridget, for a part
of the said ground for the building of an alms house
upon, for the reception of reduced parishioners. That
the said ground contains in breadth from Pole's Mill
to Nathaniel Foulke's holding 45 feet 11 inches, on the
back part along the city wall by the tower 31 feet
5 inches, from the street to the east end of the city wall
40 feet 5 inches, and in depth from the street [to] the
west end of the city wall 55 feet 6 inches.

1 We, your committee, observe that the said concern
has been waste for many years past and having been a
receptacle for dirt and filth was inclosed with a stone
wall at the expense of the said parish and the pavement
before it kept in repair by them, and having considered
this application and in regard the ground desired is for
a charitable use, are of opinion, and do recommend that
the parishioners be accommodated with seventeen feet
of ground at the west end thereof being next the mill,
and that a lease be made of the same to the minister
and churchwardens for the time being of the said
parish, pursuant to the late regulation, at a yearly rent
of five shillings. They engaging to lay out, in building
an alms house thereon, the sum of £200, sterling, and
obliging themselves to build a party wall, with liberty
for the city to lodge timber on.'

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761. 3

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said un.
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was 0rdei'-
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and that a lease be perfected to the Lease,
minister and churchwardens for the time being of the
parish of Saint Bridget of seventeen feet, part of the
within mentioned premises lying at the west end thereof
next the mill, according to the late regulation, at the
yearly rent of five shillings. They obliging themselves. nent.
to lay out the sum of £200, in building an alms house
thereon.

[3.] Auditors of the city accounts for the last year. A*lditors

Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, alderman Thomas Cooke, accou,lts-
alderman King, alderman Mead, alderman Crampton,
alderman Tew, alderman Allen, alderman Barre,
alderman Forbes, alderman Geale, Mr. Barton, Mr.
Sankey, Mr. Cave, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Jones, Mr. Hunt,
Mr. Read, Mr. Weld, Mr. Verschoyle, Mr. Thwaites,
Mr. Forster, Mr. Williams, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Grey, Mr.
Nelson, Mr. Hall, Mr. Medlicott, Mr. Ellison.

Benjamin Barton and Edward Sankey, esquires, late Masters of

city works.

Sheriffs, are appointed masters of the city works for the
ensuing year.

[4.] Luke Stock, William Bibby, William Nixon, stock,
and James Bibby, executors of Thomas Jackson, Jackson,
deceased, praying consideration for building the new
houses on Essex Bridge ten feet back, in order to widen ]^es'
the passage to the said bridge. Bndge.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, 0rder.
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioners, the payment.
sum of £37 5s., the same to be allowed on his accounts.

[5.] Abell Onge, a freeman of the city of Dublin and 0nge,

P .i i attorney.

an attorney of his majesty's court ot king s bench :
admitted an attorney of the Tholsel court, during the Thoisoi
city's pleasure.

[6.] Alexander Castell. a freeman of the city of SSS^.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1761.

Order.

Appoint-
ment.

Salary.

Mnyne,
overseer
pipe water
works.

Salary.

Order.
Pavment-

Dublin and an attorney of his majesty's court of Mmi
exchequer : admitted an attorney of the Tholsel court,
during the city's pleasure.

[7.] Samuel Lee and the rest of the band of city
music, praying to be continued in their said station and
to be paid their year's salary due Christmas last.

It was ordered, that the petitioners be continued as
the band of city music, for one year ending Christmas
assembly, 1762, that their salary of £60, now due, be
paid over by the city treasurer to the right honourable
the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, the same to be allowed
the treasurer on his accounts, and they to deduct so
much thereout, as they shall think proper, on account
of any neglect or non-attendance committed by them
in their employment, the residue thereof to be paid
the petitioners.

[8.] William Whelling, a freeman of the city of
Dublin, setting forth, that the place of inspector of the
toll corn is become vacant by the death of Robert
Burrowes, and therefore to be appointed inspector
thereof in his stead.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the said William
Whelling be appointed overseer of the toll corn, in the
room of Robert Burrowes, deceased, during the city's
pleasure, at the usual salary of £30, by the year.

[9.] Sedborough Mayne, setting forth that he was
appointed overseer of the pipe water works, in the room
of Robert French, deceased, at a yearly salary of £40,
that said Robert French, during his continuance in the
said employ, was allowed a salary of £60, and therefore
prayed to be put on the same establishment with the
said Robert French. m. 84.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £20,
as a gratuity for his last year's service, the same to be
allowed on his accounts.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761. 5

[10.] John O'Neil continued Serjeant at mace during i76i.
the city's pleasure. ?«3Stat

[11.] John Sleane continued Serjeant at mace, for sieane,
one year ending Christmas assembly, 1762, upon giving mSse!"
such security for the faithful discharge of his office
and redelivery of the silver mace, as the Lord Mayor
and Sheriffs shall approve.

[12.] Thomas Snape, a freeman of the city of Dublin, snape,

. . -. , , , i „ T Serjeant at

appointed a serjeant at mace, m the room of James mace.
Walker, deceased, upon his giving such security for the
faithful discharge of his office and redelivery of the
silver mace, as the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs shall
approve.

[13.] James Dinny, a freeman of the city of Dublin, Dinny.
appointed Master of the House of Correction, for one Master.

House of

year ending Christmas assembly, 1762. correction

[14.] State of the city of Dublin accounts, for the city

J ° accounts.

quarter ending at Christmas, 1760.

Dr.

To balance clue the treasurer at Michaelmas
To cash paid since

Cr.

By cash received syice

By balance in advance, due to the treasurer

. 1084

. 2283 11

£3,368

0
s.

. 2401

0 11

. 960 19

£3,368

[15.] Ballast Office report. Baiiast

u _ J i Ofhce.

' Since our last report to your honours, we have made ]^f^rt-
but small progress in repairing the piles, by reason of
the badness of the weather, but as soon as the season
permits, shall give directions to proceed with all
imaginable diligence.

1 We have continued in repairing the gabbards and Gabbards.

m. 81.

6 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761.

floats as they required, and shall continue doing all Rouxxsjj

other necessary works as the season permits.

16th January, 1761.

Ordered to proceed as the committee shall think
proper.

1 An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, by
which we find there is a balance of £220, in the hands
of alderman Edward Hunt, Ballast Master.

' All which is submitted to your honours.'

State of the Ballast Office accounts, from the 15th
day of October last, inclusive, to this 14th day of
January, 1761, exclusive.

Ballast Office, Dr.

To balance of abstract given in to last assembly

To cash received since from ships, etc.

To cash received at his majesty's treasury ...

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid for raising ballast ...

By cash paid for repairs on piles

By cash expended on the new walls

By cash paid salaries ...

By cash paid house rent and other contingent disbursements

By cash paid repairs on gabbards

By cash paid charges on the floating light ...

By cash paid interest

By balance in hands of alderman Edward Hunt, Ballast Master

' Patrick Hamilton. — Francis Fetherston. — Thomas
Cooke. — Thomas Taylor. — Thomas Mead. — Peter Barre.
— Henry Hart. — Percivall Hunt. — John Tew. — Charles
Burton.'

Franchise. 1761. January 19. — Admissions to franchise. ™-g-6

tion.81* 1761. January 22. — Declaration and signatures. m. 86.

57 11

466 13 10

970

£1,494

4 11

84 16

. 501

. 276

. 159

. 108

. 60

. 220

£1,494

4 11

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1761. 7

1761. February 17. — Post Assembly. noi.

" We, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Election of

. alderman.

Dublin, have this day nominated from among the Nomina-
Sheriffs' Peers, George Reynolds of Earl street,
merchant, Alexander Ryves of Big Butter lane,
merchant, Michael Sweny of Upper Ormond quay,
merchant, and Edward Sankey of Dame street,
merchant, as fit persons to serve in the place of alderman
of the said city, and do hereby return the names with
the additions of the said four persons to you the Sheriffs
and Commons of the said city, in order to your electing
one of the said persons to be an alderman of the said
city, in the room of alderman Percivall Hunt, deceased."
' Patrick Hamilton, Henry Hart, Robert King,
George Ribton, Edward Hunt, Thomas Cooke, Hans
Bailie, Thomas Taylor, John Hornby, John Cooke,
Charles Burton, Andrew Murray, Thomas Mead,
Timothy Allen, Charles Rossel, James Taylor, William
Forbes, Benjamin Geale.'

17th February, 1761*

" We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the city of Dublin,
have this day elected by ballot from among the four EIection-
Sheriffs' Peers returned to this house from the Lord
Mayor and Board of Aldermen, Edward Sankey of sankey,

. alderman.

Dame street, -merchant, to the place of an alderman ot
the said city, in the room of alderman Percivall Hunt,
deceased."

" Francis Fetherston."
" George Wrightson."

" Sheriffs."

' Patrick Hamilton.— Francis Fetherston.— Thomas
Cooke.— Peter Barre— Thomas Taylor.— Thomas Mead.
— James Taylor. — Henry Hart. — Edward Hunt —
Charles Rossel.'

8 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1761.

1761. 1761. April 3. — Second Friday after Easter.1 Roiixxii

Election of ^-j « We, ^ Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city m'91'

of Dublin have this day elected alderman Timothy
Allen, to serve in the office or place of Lord Mayor of
the said city for the ensuing year, commencing from
Michaelmas next, and do hereby return the said
Timothy Allen, to you the Sheriffs and Commons of the
said city, for your approbation."

' Patrick Hamilton, Henry Hart, Robert King,
Edward Hunt, Thomas Cooke, Thomas Taylor, Philip
Crampton, John Cooke, Thomas Mead, Percivall Hunt,
Peter Barre, Benjamin Geale, Edward Sankey, Charles
Burton, Charles Rossel, James Taylor, George Ribton,
John Tew.'

The 3rd clay of April, 1761.

[2.] " We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the city of

Dublin in common council assembled, have this day

Lord' approved by ballot of alderman Timothy Allen to serve

Mayor. jjj ^g 0ffice 0f Lord Mayor of the said city for the

ensuing year, to be computed from Michaelmas next."

" James Goddard, Clerk of the Commons."

3rd April, 1761.

Election of [3-] " We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the common

Sheriffs.

Nomina-
tion.

council of the city of Dublin, have this day by ballot
nominated the following eight freemen of the said city,
resident within the said city or the liberties thereto
adjoining, each of them worth in real and personal
estate, in possession, the sum of two thousand pounds,
over and above all his just debts, that is to say ; Thomas
BJackhall of Francis street, merchant, William Darquier
of the Blind quay, merchant, John Hunt of Chancery
lane, merchant, William Hurst of Hawkins street,

1 Easter day, 22 March, 1761.

DT7BLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761. 9

Eoiixxh. merchant, Mathew Bailie of Abbey street, merchant, ^si-
George Carleton of Eustace street, merchant, Robert sheriffs! "
Carderwood of Cork hill, goldsmith, and Thomas
Green of James' street, brewer, as fit persons to serve
in the office of Sheriffs of the said city, and do hereby
return the names with the additions of the said eight
persons, to you the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the
said city, in order to your electing two of the said
persons to be Sheriffs of the said city for the ensuing
year, commencing from Michaelmas next."

" Signed by order of the Sheriffs and Commons."

" James Goddard, Clerk of the Commons."

Lan. 3rd April, 1761.

[4.] " We, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city
of Dublin, have this day elected Mr. Mathew Bailie of ^Suier
Abbey street, merchant, and Mr. William Darquier of sheritfs-
the Blind quay, merchant, out of the within named
eight persons returned to us by the Sheriffs and
Commons, as fit persons to serve in the office of Sheriffs,
to be Sheriffs of the said city for the ensuing year,
commencing from Michaelmas next."

[5.] Certain of the commons, setting forth that the city leases,
committee for inspecting city leases near expiring, who
were empowered to set by public cant, the Little Green, Public cant.
and a piece *of ground in Little Ship street, had made
the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for inspecting city fieP°rt-
leases near expiring, being empowered by act of
assembly to set by public cant, a parcel of ground Ground-
called the Little Green, and also a small piece of ground Green,
on the north side of Little Ship street, directed B^S.Sbip
advertisements to be inserted in the public papers giving
notice that the committee would meet at the Tholsel, ihoisei.
on Monday, the 16th of March last, in order to set the
said ground for the term of 70 years and three lives,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761.

1761.

Carre\
Dexter.

Shepheard.
Order.

Leases.

Rents.

Dana.

Bill.
Corpora-
tion of
Dublin.

Expenses.

Puget,

Sharp.

Order.

Payment.

Thwaites.

Water
bailiff.

pursuant to the late regulation, and we having met r0u x*h.
accordingly set that part of the Little Green, as now m- 91 b-
inclosed with a stone wall, to Columbine Lee Carre,
esquire, in trust for James Dexter, esquire, at £60,
a year, to commence the 25th of March, 1762, and the
ground in Little Ship street, to Mr. Arthur Shepheard
at £7 5s., a year, to commence as aforesaid, they
having been declared the best bidders.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said
report and make the same an act of assembly: it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and that leases be perfected to the
within named James Dexter and Arthur Shepheard of
the within mentioned premises, pursuant to the late
regulation, at the respective rents therein set forth, to
commence the 25th day of March, 1762.

[6.] James Dunn, esquire, setting forth that as soon
as the bill for better regulating the corporation of
the city of Dublin was passed the right honourable the
privy council of this kingdom, and a vote of the common
council of this city was passed for defraying all
expenses attending the same. Mr. John Puget of
London, merchant, paid by his order to William Sharp,
esquire, £110, English, on account of the said bill,
which with the exchange amounted to the sum of
£120 7s. 7d., Irish, and therefore prayed to be
reimbursed the same.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the memorialist the
sum of £120 7s. 7d., Irish, the same to be allowed the
treasurer on his accounts.

[7.] Augustine Thwaites, gentleman, setting forth
that some years since, he was appointed to the
place of water bailiff of this honourable city, which
place he has ever since filled with integrity, that being
now grown old and having a large family unprovided

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761. 11

for, he humbly hoped this honourable assembly would 17a.
permit him to resign his said office or employment in ^snig"a"
favour of his son, Ephraim Thwaites, and the rather
because that when it was granted to him, it cost him
a very considerable sum of money agreeable to the then
custom.

Whereupon it was ordered, that on the within named order.
Augustine Thwaites resigning to the Lord Mayor, Thwaites.
Sheriffs, commons and citizens, the place of water
bailiff, that his son, Ephraim Thwaites, be admitted Admit-
water bailiff in his room, during the city's pleasure,
he paying to the city treasurer, for the use of the Payment,
corporation, the annual sum of £50, during his
continuance therein, the same to commence upon the
death of his said father.

[8.] John Farange, setting forth that he has been Farange.
for many years a freeman of this city, and of the guild
of merchants, and for a considerable time followed the
trade of a merchant, but by many heavy losses was
obliged to quit that business. That the directors of the
Ballast Office, being determined (as your petitioner is Bniiast

Office.

informed) to make some alteration for the public
advantage in said office, have been pleased, without any
application or even the knowledge of your petitioner,
to think him a proper person to be inspector of the inspector of

1 r r r gabbards.

Ballast Office gabbards, and as such recommend him
to your Lordship and honours, and therefore prayed
to be admitted into the said employment.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the petitioner be order,
appointed inspector of the Ballast Office gabbards, ^t1"*"
during the city's pleasure, at an annual salary of £40, salary,
he to be subject to such other duty, as the Ballast
Office committee shall think proper to appoint him to.

[9.] Certain of the commons, praying that the right !$££
honourable Brinsly Butler, commonly called lord Newtown.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761.

1761.
Franchise.

Expense.

Murray.
Gratuity.

Ford.
Blind quay.

Rent.

Distress.

Order.

Uosemary

lane.

Hutchhi-

Hent.

Order.

Public cant.

Bryan,
clerk.

Newtown, might be presented with the freedom of this Roiixxii.
city m a silver box.

Whereupon it was granted, the expense thereof not to
exceed five pounds.

[10.] Andrew Murray, alderman, collector of the toll
corn, allowed .£15, as a gratuity for his last year's
service.

[11.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
city heretofore set in fee farm unto Edward Ford, a
piece of ground on the Blind quay, out of which an
arrear is due of £45 10s., for five years' rent ending
Michaelmas last. That as the said lease was granted in
fee farm, no ejectment can be brought for the recovery
of the said arrears, and therefore prayed that an entry
or distress under the corporation seal might be made,
or such legal measures taken for the recovery of the
same, as should be thought fitting.

Whereupon it was granted, in such manner as Mr.
Recorder should advise.

[12.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
city is possessed of a holding in Rosemary lane, formerly
demised to Daniel Hutchinson, at the annual rent of
twenty shillings, upon which there is an arrear of £20,
sterling. That the said premises being waste and in a
ruinous condition, and the persons to whom the benefit
of the said interest belonged is dead, possession thereof
was taken on the behalf of the city, and therefore prayed
that the premises be set by public cant.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the committee
appointed for inspecting city leases near expiring, be
impowered to set the above mentioned premises by public
cant to the fairest and best bidder, and that they publish
advertisements accordingly.

[13.] Jacob Bryan, clerk, setting forth that the year's
salary of £10, became due to him the 25th March last,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY EOLL, 1761. 13

for officiating in the Black Dog prison, and therefore mi.
prayed to be paid the same. JSSa?08

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, order,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £10, Payment.
the same to be allowed on his accounts.

[14.] Samuel Yeates, setting forth, that the corpora- Yeates.
tion appointed by act of parliament for promoting and ^"^^tion
carrying on an inland navigation in Ireland, thought
proper to carry the said work through part of the
lands of Colganstown, to which your petitioner is tenant j^"8"
to your honours. That it is usual upon such occasion
for the said corporation to give a compensation to the £onponsa'
proprietors for such part of their lands, as shall be used
by them for that work, and accordingly the damages Damages,
sustained by taking up and cutting four acres and three
roods of the said lands of Colganstown, is estimated
at £81 18s. 9d., sterling.

That as the inheritance of the said lands are in your Lauds
honours, the said corporation refuse paying over the said
sum, unless the said deed herewith is executed by your Deed,
honours. That your petitioner is desirous that such
part of the said £81 18s. 9d., to which your honours
may upon computation appear to be entitled, be paid Payment,
over to your honours, so as that your petitioner be paid
the remainder.upon executing the said conveyance, and
therefore prayed, that the city seal may be affixed to
the said deed.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city seal be affixed g**8^
to the deed in the above petition mentioned, and that
the committee appointed to inspect city leases, to whom
the said petition was formerly referred, should make
the petitioner such allowance out of the above sum of Allowance
£81 18s. 9d., as upon a calculation, the said petitioner
should be intitled to.

[15.] Daniel Bourne, gentleman, setting forth that he b™™^
is an attorney of his majesty's court of king's bench,

Tholsel
court.

Watchmen
of Saint

14 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761.

1761. and praying to be admitted an attorney of the Tholsel Eoiiixii.

it- . m. 90 b.

court : whereupon it was granted, during the city s

pleasure.

[16.] Michael Doolan and Thomas Plunkett, watch-
parish?ne s men of the parish of Saint Catherine, setting forth, that

the Lord Mayor, by his proclamation offered a reward

of £10, to any person or persons who should apprehend
street and convict any person concerned in street robberies.

robberies. J r

That the said Doolan and Plunkett apprehended and

prosecuted to conviction at commission of oyer and

terminer, George Bracken and James Mathews,

wherefore the said Doolan and Plunkett prayed to be

paid the said reward.

order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,

payment, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioners £20,

sterling, upon their producing to him, the Lord Mayor's

certificate of their being the persons, who apprehended

and prosecuted to conviction the within named George

Bracken and James Mathews.

watchmen [17.] Patrick Connolly, David Carmichael, and

^Lrishn'B Patrick Foy, watchmen of the parish of Saint Michan's,

setting forth, that the Lord Mayor, by his proclamation

offered a reward of £10, to any person or persons who

should apprehend and convict any person concerned in

street street robberies. That the said Connolly, Carmichael,

robberies. "

and Foy apprehended and prosecuted to conviction at
the commission of oyer and terminer, Patrick Quin
and Thomas Murray, wherefore the [said] Connolly,
Carmichael, and Foy prayed to be paid the said
reward,
order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,

Payment on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the said Connolly,
Carmichael, and Foy £20, upon their producing to him,
the Lord Mayor's certificate of their being the persons,
who apprehended and prosecuted to conviction the
within named Patrick Quin and Thomas Murray.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761. 15

[18.] State of the city of Dublin accounts for the mi.
quarter ending at Lady Day, 1761. accounts.

£ 6.

966 19

1663 17

10$

£2,630 17

-'4

£ s.

1862 0

768 16 11

£2,630 17

Dr.

To balance due the treasurer at Christmas
To cash paid since

Cr.

By cash received since

By balance in advance due the treasurer

[19.] Elizabeth Smith, otherwise Forrest, allowed ten Forrest.
pounds.

[20.] Ballast Office report. g^t

1 Since our last report to your honours, we have made Report.
all the progress in the repairs of the piles, that the Piles-
season would permit, as also with the repairing of the

gabbards. Gabbards.

' The Ballast Office being obliged by act of parliament Parliament,
to lay before • the government and council, once in
every three years, the annual receipts and payments Receipts,
of the said office, we herewith lay before your honours
an abstract of the same for your approbation, in order
to have the city seal affixed to the same. city seal.

1 We are under a necessity of acquainting your
honours, that the complaints against Hamilton Ribton, rawon.
inspector of the gabbards, etc., are grown to such a
height, as makes it impossible to continue him in that Dismissal.
office, and as we are of opinion that the public service
requires an active, honest, sober man for that employ-
ment.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761.

1761.
Farange.

Salary.

Cash

Balance".

Hunt.

Order.

City seal.

Sankey.
Wrightson,

Ballast

Office

account.

' We recommend to your honours John Farange, a Bon xxii.
freeman of this city and formerly a merchant of
character therein, at the salary of £40, per annum, as
it will require his whole time and attendance, the duty
of his office to be ascertained by your committee.

' An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed.

' By which we find there is a balance of £130 19s. 7d.,
in the hands of alderman Edward Hunt, Ballast
Master.

' All which is humbly submitted to your honours.'

Ordered to proceed as the committee shall think
proper, that the city seal be affixed to the annexed
abstract of the Ballast Office accounts, and that the
commons do name a commoner, instead of alderman
Sankey.

[One of the commons : ] George Wrightson.

State of the Ballast Office accounts from the 14th
day of January last inclusive, to the 1st day of April,
1761, exclusive.

Ballast Office, Dr.

To balance given in to last assembly
To cash received since

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid for raising ballast

By cash paid for repairs on the piles

By cash paid account of the new walls

By cash paid salaries

By cash paid house rent and other contingent disbursements

By cash paid for repairs on gabbards

By cash paid charges on the floating light

By balance in hands of alderman Edward Hunt, Ballast Master

220

718

3 11

£938

107 15

26117

140

114

150

9 13

130 19

£938 5 li

1 Patrick Hamilton. — George Wrightson. — Philip
Crampton. — Timothy Allen. — Peter Barre. — Thomas

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761. 17

Mead. — John Hornby. — Robert King. — Edward Sankey. 1761
— Charles Rossel.'

1761. April 3. — Admissions to franchise. Franchise.

1761. April 9. — Declaration and signatures. Deciar.v

r ° tion.

1761. April 17.— Post Assembly.

[1.] William Darquier, esquire, setting forth, that she?'seT'
he was lately returned by the Sheriffs and Commons to
the Lord Mayor and board of aldermen, with seven
other persons, in order to their electing thereout two
to serve in the office of Sheriffs of this city for the
ensuing year commencing from Michaelmas next.

That his Lordship and board were pleased to make
choice of him to serve as one of the Sheriffs of the
said city.

That he is highly sensible of the honour thus Honour,
conferred upon him, but the duty of the office being of Duty-
such importance and too great for his capacity to
discharge for the honour and dignity of the city, and
in regard he is advanced in years and in a bad state
of health, he prays to be excused from serving in the Health,
office of one of the Sheriffs of the said city, for the
said year, upon such terms as should be thought
proper.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the above named order.
William Darcfuier be excused from serving in the office Excused.
of one of the Sheriffs of the city of Dublin, upon paying
ten guineas as a fine, for the use of the Blue Coat Fine.
Hospital. This small fine is on account of his age
and infirmities, he being unable from his constitution
and time of life to undergo the great fatigue of that
office.

T2.1 " We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the.common Election of

L -I Sheriff.

council of the city of Dublin, have this day by ballot
nominated the following four freemen of the said city,
resident within the said city or the Liberties thereto

VOL. XI. C

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761.

1761. adjoining, each of them worth in real and personal Eon xxii.

Election of estate in possession, the sum of two thousand pounds,

Sheriff.

Nomina- over and above all his just debts, that is to say, Thomas
tlon' Blackhall of Francis street, merchant, John Hunt, of

Chancery lane, merchant, Robert Shimmin, of
Bridgefoot street, merchant, and Thomas Blood of
Meath street, merchant, as fit persons to serve in the
office of Sheriff of the said city, in the room of AVilliam
Darquier, esquire, excused. And hereby return the
names with the additions of the said four persons to
you the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the said city, in
order to your electing one of the said persons to be
Sheriff of the said city for the ensuing year, commencing
Michaelmas next."

" Signed by order of the Sheriffs and Commons."

" James Goddard, Clerk of the Commons.''

17th April, 1761.

[3.] " We, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city
Biackhaii, of Dublin, have this day elected Thomas Blackhall of

Sheriff. _ ' J

Francis street, merchant, out of the four persons
returned to us by the Sheriffs and Commons, as fit
persons to serve in the office of one of the Sheriffs of
the said city for the ensuing year, commencing from
Michaelmas next, to be one of the Sheriffs of the said
city for the said year, in the room of William Darquier,
esquire, who has been excused from serving in that
office."

1749.

Charles
Lucas
disfran-
chised.

1761. May 21.— Post Assembly.

[1.] Certain of the commons, setting forth that at
Christmas assembly 1749, Charles Lucas, then of the
city of Dublin, apothecary, was disfranchised from all
the franchises and liberties of this city of Dublin, and
was from thenceforth to be reputed and taken as a
foreigner to the said city.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761. 19

That a mandamus hath issued from his majesty's vm.
court of king's bench, to restore the said Charles Lucas Mandamus-
into the liberties and franchises of the said city, tested Liberties-

J ' Franchises.

the fourth day of May instant, and returnable into
said court on Friday next, after the morrow of the
Holy Trinity.

That upon an examination into the said disfran- uxamina-

. . tion.

chisement, your petitioners find the same hath been
erroneously conducted, and therefore a troublesome and Error,
expensive litigation.

Your petitioners recommend that your Lordship and
honours obey the said writ of mandamus, by restoring writ.
the said Charles Lucas to his franchises.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the act of Christmas Order,
assembly 1749, relative to the disfranchising the within ^
named Charles Lucas, be and is hereby repealed, and ^jj^
that the said Charles Lucas, into the liberties and
franchises of this city, be and is hereby admitted and Franchises.

* *' Admitted,

restored. Restored.

' Patrick Hamilton.— George Wrightson. — Thomas
Mead.— Philip Crampton.— Timothy Allen.— Peter
Barre. — John Hornby. — Robert King. — Edward
Sankey. — Charles Rossel.'

1761. May 26.— Post Assembly.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that at a wide
meeting of the commissioners appointed by two several from
acts of parliament, for making a wide and convenient **}£& to

x ° Dublin

passage from Essex Bridge to the Castle of Dublin, an Castle-
inquisition was found by a jury, that your honours
are seized of the reversion and inheritance in the
several grounds on which several houses now stand, Houses,
wherein Francis Booker, Jane Campbell, John Cox, Booker
Edmond Hogan, and John Field dwell, on the west ^hers.
side of the street leading from Essex Bridge to Essex
street.

20 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761.

1761. And also in several grounds on which several houses Eon xxii.

111 88

cr°ohan stand, wherein James Crohan, Phanuell Bradish,

others. George Warner, messieurs Boursigot and Paget, Thomas

Blundell, William Dixon, Hugh Bolter, Primrose

Lease, Grierson, and John Weldon dwell, subject to a lease

16/5.

made in the year 1675, of the said ground with other
Crowe. grounds to John Crowe, at the yearly rent of £20,

and capons, of which lease, 62 years were to come.
That by said inquisition, the sum of £559 10s., was
Award. awarded, to be paid to your honours for the purchase

of your estate and interest in the said grounds, upon
aucneVsey' your making and executing good and legal conveyances

to the said commissioners, which was by the said

commissioners confirmed, pursuant to the powers vested

in them by the said acts of parliament.
Recorder. That in consequence thereof, Mr. Recorder has

prepared the deeds of conveyance herewith, for the
city seal, city seal to be affixed thereto, and prayed the city seal

may be affixed to said deeds.
Whereupon it was granted.
' Patrick Hamilton. — George Wrightson. — Philip

Crampton. — Thomas Mead.— Timothy Allen. — John

Hornby. — Robert King. — Edward Sankey. — Charles

Rossel.'

1761. July 2. — Post Assembly. 87

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that they
Address, apprehended it would be proper for this city to address

George III. ... J

his majesty, to congratulate him upon the success of his
BeiieiBie. arms in the reduction of Belleisle, and therefore prayed,
that a committee might be appointed with the assistance
of Mr. Recorder to prepare an address accordingly.
order. Whereupon it was ordered, that alderman Hart,

alderman John Cooke, alderman Hornby, alderman
Crampton, alderman Geale, alderman Forbes, and six
of the commons, to be named by the commons, be

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761. 21

appointed a committee, with the assistance of Mr. 1761.
Recorder to prepare an address to his majesty, to Kecoraer-
congratulate him upon the success of his arms upon the
reduction of Belleisle.

[The six of the commons : ] Mr. Meares, Mr. Darquier, commons.
Mr. Blood, Mr. Horne, Mr. Gibball, and Mr. Trevor.

[2.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed with the assistance of Mr. Recorder,
to prepare an address to his majesty, to congratulate Address.
him upon the success of his arms in the reduction of
Belleisle, had prepared the annexed, and therefore
prayed that the same do stand the address of this city,
be put under the city seal and presented to their
excellencies the lords justices, in order to be transmitted
to his majesty : whereupon it was granted.

Address.
To the king's most excellent majesty.

' The humble address of the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs. Address.
commons, and citizens of the city of Dublin, in common
council assembled.

' Most gracious sovereign.

' Permit your majesty's most dutiful and loyal
subjects, the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, commons, and
citizens of the "city of Dublin, to be partakers of that
joy, which fills your royal breast, at this early
manifestation of the bravery and ardour of your troops, f™**y 0{
so conspicuous in the reduction of Belleisle, and with Baiieisie.
all humility to congratulate your majesty upon so
happy and glorious an occasion.

' That piety towards Almighty God, that tenderness
for your people and care for their just rights, which Bight*,
formed those truly noble, and wise purposes of governing,
so graciously declared by your majesty to be yours,
when you took upon you the mighty charge, were so

22 HUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1761.

i76i. many sure pledges to your subjects, that your majesty's Ron xxii.

reign would be propitious, and that the Divine
Providence would be ever present in your councils and
go forth with your fleets and armies, to give efficacy
and success to all measures and attempts by which
such purposes were to be executed.

success of ' From the continued success of your majesty's arms,

arms. . .

labouring for peace and supported in the glorious cause
by the united efforts of a free, brave and glorious people,
do the nations now look for their redress, who with sad-
ness view their territories laid waste by a destructive
war. A war made necessary on the part of Great Britain.
by the unjust ambition of an enemy, equally foes to
your majesty's government and to the repose of Europe,
whose unrelenting obstinacy gives continuance to those
calamities, which their injustice had occasioned, and
who vainly persevere to oppose your arms and the
general good; when nothing but their obstinacy is left
to them unconquered.

' May your majesty long live the terror of your

Protector, enemies and the kind father and protector of your
people, by you may other princes be thought to reign
in the hearts of their subjects, and to look for their
own honour, strength, and glory in the freedom and
prosperity of those they are to set to rule over, so that m. 87 b.
the happiness, we hope for and enjoy under your most
auspicious government, may by your example be
imparted to many, and extended wide, and that the
nations of the earth may bless you.

'In testimony whereof, we have caused the common

city seal, seal of the said city to be hereunto affixed, this 2nd
day of July, 1761.'

' Patrick Hamilton. — George Wrightson. — Thomas
Mead. — Philip Crampton. — Timothy Allen. — Peter
Barre. — John Hornby. — Robert King. — Edward Sankey.
— Charles Rossel.'

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761. 23

1761. July 17.— Fourth Friday after the 24th of 1701.
June.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the Hornby,
committee appointed to audit the accounts of alderman
John Hornby, city treasurer, had made the following
report.

' We, the committee appointed to audit the accounts Report.
of alderman John Hornby, treasurer of the city of Audlt"

^ Accounts.

Dublin, for the receipts, issues, and profits accruing to
the said city, for one year commencing Michaelmas
1759, and ending Michaelmas 1760, and for the
casualties for the said year commencing and ending as
aforesaid, had the said accounts laid before us for our
perusal, and having first made a proper charge on the charge,
treasurer, we carefully examined the said accounts, and
the several vouchers relative thereto, all which were
exhibited by the accountant in a regular and exact
method.

' It appears to us, that the payments made within Payments.
the time aforesaid are charged under their proper
heads, and that after stating and passing the said
accounts, a balance of £1,287 14s. 8d., is due by the Balance,
city to the accountant.

' We find that the arrear of rent is lessened since the Axrear of

rent.

former year, and though it still appears to be
£4,302 10s. 4d., when it is considered, that £2,828, the
year's rent due September, 1760, (very little of which
was paid before September) makes part of the said
arrears, and that about £800, of said £4,302 10s. 4d., is
insolvent and doubtful, it will be found that the arrear
is less considerable than has generally been imagined.

' The solvent arrears, we believe, will soon be paid, Arrears,
ejectments being served on some, and proper measures
using with others, to enforce the payment. We think
it would be proper to leave the insolvent arrears out
of the list for the future, and recommend that the

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761.

Revenue of
toll corn.

Irish corn.

Customs.

Accounts
printed.

Common
council.

Order.

Tolls.
Customs.

Treasurer.

Dues.

committee appointed to make a new rent roll may be m°ii^xii.
instructed so to do. We have been obliged to settle
this account in the usual manner, the committee
appointed to fix on a new method of accounting not
having yet reported their opinion thereon.

'We observe with surprise, that the revenue of toll
corn, which we expected would rise considerably, (our
markets being almost entirely supplied with Irish corn)
is fallen within these two last years near £300, and
that the customs of gates and avenues and petty
customs of the markets, which we think should increase,
are considerably less than they were some years ago,
and therefore are of opinion that the committee for
tolls and customs should be directed to make strict
enquiry into the causes thereof, and to make such
orders and regulations for the conduct of the toll men, m. 94 0.
as may most conduce to the due collecting and paying
in those dues.

' We have in pursuance of a resolution of both houses
directed the said accounts to be printed, and every
member of the common council to be served with the
same.

' All which is submitted to your honours, this 15th
day of July, 1761.'

And the said commons praying to confirm the Raid
report and make the same an act of assembly : where-
upon it was granted, the committee's report confirmed
and made an act of assembly, and that the committee
for tolls and customs be directed to make strict enquiry
into the causes of the decrease of that branch of the
city revenue and of the petty customs, and that they
make such orders and regulations for the future conduct
of the toll and custom men, as may best conduce to
the proper collecting and paying into the city treasurer
those dues.

[2.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761. 25

city of Dublin is indebted to the Incorporated Society mi.
for promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland J"t7ap',
by obligation under their common seal, in the sum of f>ebt.ty'
£2,000, for which they have an immediate occasion,
and therefore prayed, that the same may be discharged Discharge,
with all interest due thereon.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the sum of £2,000, order
be borrowed on the city seal, at the rate of five pounds Loan.

J r City seal.

per cent., and paid over to the Incorporated Society, in
discharge of the sum of £2,000, due to them by the
city's obligation, and that all interest due thereon be interest
paid off.

[3.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that your
petitioners apprehend some new laws are necessary for New laws.
the better regulation of the Ballast Office, and the trade q^1
of this city, and praying that a committee may be
appointed to consider what laws are wanting for the
purpose aforesaid, in order to make a proper application
to parliament for the same. Parliament.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the committee of order,
directors for the Ballast Office do consider what new
laws are requisite for the better regulation of the said Laws,
office, and the trade of this city, and report the same Trade,
to the next assembly.

[4.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
income of the justices' office not being sufficient to Jo^cos'
defray the expenses attending the same, and praying
to grant them such allowance for supporting the same,
as should be thought fit.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, 0rder
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay to the treasurer of Puyment.
the said office, £50, sterling, the same to be allowed
on his accounts.

[5.] Henry Hardy, setting forth, that the governors Hardy.
of the workhouse, on the 15th August, 1757, ordered workhouse

. field.

that immediate application be made to the city for a

Burial
place.

26 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761.

part of the workhouse field, in order to enlarge the yard b<»d ™.
for the foundling building, and make a new burial
place.

committee. That in consequence thereof, a committee of the city
(as per their order on the 5th September, 1758, may

Ground. appear) consented to give up said piece of ground, and
at same time desired petitioner to inform the governors
of the workhouse, that if they were minded to occupy
the remainder of the field, they would give up the whole,

Farrau. when Mr. Farran (the then present tenant) his term
would expire.

Governors. That the honourable the governors of the workhouse

Possession, have assented thereto, and have possessed themselves of
the whole field since 25th March, 1760, and have by
order of a general board held on February 9th, 1760,
empowered petitioner to receive from the right honour- ,„. 93.
able the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, commons, and citizens

Lease. (in trust for them) a reconveyance of the lease of said
field, and prayed that a reconveyance be made.

order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the said premises be

reconveyed to the honourable the governors of the
workhouse, in such manner as Mr. Recorder should
advise, the said governors to be at the expense of the
said reconveyance.

city pipe [6.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the

water.

committee appointed for better supplying the city with

pipe water had made some progress therein, but had

not brought the same to a conclusion, and prayed to

continue committee.

order. Whereupon it was granted, the committee continued,

Tenauts. and that they do direct a list of the tenants' names to

Arrears. De printed with the arrears due by them for pipe water,

for the year ending the first of November next, the

expense thereof to be paid by the city treasurer and to

be allowed on his accounts.

[7.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that some

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761. 27

new furniture should be provided for the Mayoralty i76i.
House, and that some repairs were requisite to be made ^
in and about the same.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the right honourable Order
the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the
works, alderman Timothy Allen, alderman Charles
Rossel. alderman James Taylor, and six of the commons
to be named by the commons, or any five of them,
whereof the Lord Mayor and one of the Sheriffs to be
always two, be and are appointed a committee to
consider what furniture is necessary to be provided for Fnrnitnre.
the Mayoralty House, and also what repairs are proper Repairs.
to be there made.

That they direct the same to be done and provided in
the cheapest and best manner, the expense thereof not Expense,
to exceed the sum of £100, sterling, to be paid by the payment,
city treasurer, on an order from the committee, and to
be allowed on his accounts, and that the committee now
named do compare the furniture in said house, with the
schedule or inventory thereof returned last Michaelmas, inventory.

The commons are.

[The six of the commons:] Mr. Darquier. Mr. Hunt, commons.
Mr. King, Mr. Lamprey, Mr. Henry, and Mr. Darragh.

[8.] Certain of the commons praying, that a
committee might be appointed to set by public cant, for Pubiiecant.
one year to cdmmence from the first of November next,
the beams and scales erected by the corporation of the f*£}"*-
city of Dublin for the weighing of all grain, meal, and
potatoes.

It was ordered, that the right honourable the Lord order.
Mayor, Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the works,
alderman John Cooke, alderman Crampton, alderman
Geale, alderman Sankey, and eight of the commons to
be named by the commons or any five of them, whereof
the Lord Mayor and one of the Sheriffs to be always
two, be and are appointed a committee to set by public

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1761.

Public
Gazette.

Scriveu.

Bill.

Report.

Parliament.

Corpora-
tion
business.

Attend-
ance.

Order.

Winstauley,
deputy
Ulster Kin£
of Arms.

George III.
proclaimed.

cant, the beams and scales above mentioned, for one Ron xxii.

m. 93.

year commencing the first day of November next, and
that notice thereof be inserted in the Public Gazette,
the person farming the same is to pay down to the city
treasurer such sum of money as they shall be canted
to. The commons.

[The six of the commons : ] Mr. Hastings, Mr. Thomas
Read, Mr. Lamprey, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Henry, Mr.
Wood, Mr. Eager, Mr. Strong.

[9.] Edward Scriven, setting forth, that the
committee to whom it was referred, what recompense
should be given to him, for his trouble in soliciting the
bill for the better regulating the corporation of this
city and other business transacted last session of
parliament, have made the following report.

' We, the committee to whom the petition of Edward m. 9s h.
Scriven was referred, to consider what would be
sufficient for his trouble in soliciting the last sessions of
parliament, the act for the better regulating the
corporation of the city of Dublin and other business
relative to the said city, met on the 2nd day of June
last, when the said Edward Scriven gave us an account,
that he constantly attended the house of commons, privy
council, and house of lords during the said sessions of
parliament, which was about seven months. That in
regard of his said attendance and loss of time in
conducting that salutary law, we are of opinion he well
deserves the sum of £100, sterling, which we submit
to your honours this 16th day of July, 1761.'

Whereupon it was granted, the committee's report
confirmed and made an act of assembly.

[10.] John Winstanley, deputy Ulster King of Arms,
setting forth, that on the 1st of November last, he
proclaimed his most gracious majesty George the Third,
through the city of Dublin, King of Great Britain,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761. 29

France, and Ireland, etc., and praying a fee of £5, nsi.

sterling, as usual on such occasion.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, 0rder-
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the memorialist £5, Payment-
for proclaiming his most gracious majesty King George
the Third, the same, to be allowed the treasurer on his
accounts.

[11.] George Moulds, setting forth, that in the year ^°^er.
1758, he was applied to by alderman Crampton, then
Lord Mayor, to cleanse Sackville street and Dorset
street, part of Lot No. 1, which he had done for said
year and never was paid for the same.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, order,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay him £5, the same to Payment,
be allowed him on his accounts.

[12.] Roger Kendrick, city surveyor, setting forth, *^™k-
that the city is indebted to him in the sum of veyor'
£33 16s. 6Jd., for making surveys and taking levels,
as by his account may appear, and therefore prayed
to be paid the same.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the said account be order,
referred to the committee appointed for examining
tradesmen's bills, who are to examine the same and
order such sum to be paid him for making the surveys payment,
and taking levels in the said account mentioned, as to
them shall seem reasonable, the same to be allowed the
treasurer on his accounts.

[13.] Patrick Dease and Thomas Weyburn, allowed £^ance
£10, for apprehending and prosecuting to conviction,
Andrew Drumgold, transported for felony.

[14.] George Cawthorn, William Roe, and Elias gjSte'
Holmes, Serjeants at mace, continued in their employ- at mace-
ment until next Midsummer assembly, 1762, on giving
security.

[15.] Robert Curtis allowed five pounds. {£££

[16.] Michael Connor appointed collector of the tolls Connor.

30 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761.

1761 at Young's Castle, in the room of Francis Elliott, Koiixxii.

Connor, j m' 93 6"

collector of deceased.

Eym, [17.1 William Evan, topman, setting forth, that he

topman. L J

had attended that office for three years and had not

received one penny,
order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,

payment. on ^ Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £8,

the same to be allowed on his accounts.
accounts. [18.] State of the city of Dublin accounts for the m. 92.

quarter ended at Midsummer, 1761.

City of Dublin, Dr.

£ s. d.

To balance due the treasurer at Lady Day

768 16 11

To cash paid since

... 3007 18 2*

£ 3,776 15 U

Per contra, Cr.

£ s. d.

By cash received since

... 2903 1 41

By balance in advance due the treasurer ...

873 13 9

£3,776 15 1£

[19.] Certain of the commons, setting forth, that they

Liberties of apprehend that the Liberties of this city have been

encroached upon and lost to this city, which mischief

can only be remedied by carefully tracing and

city , . perambulating the city franchises. That they, with

trancluses. *■ ° " d

the greatest concern, have heard that several of the

corpora- corporations of this city, whose members are of the

corporate body, do not mean to attend the Lord Mayor

franchises °^ ^is city, on the 18th day of August next, in riding

the franchises of this city, contrary to their duty as

citizens, and therefore prayed that such order might be

made thereon, as should be thought proper.

order. Whereupon it was ordered, that such of the corpora-

chfet301' tions °f this city, as should neglect to attend the chief

magistrate, magistrate in riding the franchises thereof through the

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761. 31

whole circuit of the same, shall for the future have the 1761.
numbers of their corporations reduced to one person Numbers

ro<lu<'L'<l.

each, and that such numbers of the common council,
as they shall lose by their neglect aforesaid, shall be
distributed amongst the other corporations, pursuant to Distriim-
a power for that purpose vested in the common council
of the said city, and that the masters and wardens of
the several corporations be served with a copy of this °e^j
order.

[20.] Ballast Office report, g^t

' Since our last report to your honours, we have made Report,
a considerable progress in making good the damage done
at the east end of the piles, and are making the necessary Piles-
preparations for beginning a foundation for an abut-
ment to the east wall.

' We also acquaint your honours, that we have had

the floating light ship up and got her graved and Floats
& to r r & & lightship.

repaired, as she was very leaky. We are likewise going

on repairing the floats and gabbards, and shall continue Floats.

Gabbards.

doing all other necessary works, as the season permits,
and your honours shall direct.

' We further must inform your honours, that notwith-
standing the balance being so large, there are large Balance,
demands on the office, which must be paid very speedily, Demands,
(as they are long due) which will reduce the said
balance. We a*re therefore of opinion that it will be
necessary to borrow at least £1,000, to enable your Loan,
committee to carry on with spirit the works now in
hands.

' An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, by Cash-
which we find that there is a balance of £1,099 14s. 8|d., Balance.
in the hands of alderman Edward Hunt, Ballast Master. Hunt.

' All which is humbly submitted to your honours.'

Ordered, that the committee do proceed as they think order,
proper, and that the sum of £1,000, be borrowed on Loan
the Ballast Office seal. Seal-

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761.

17C1.
Ballast

Office
account.

State of the Ballast Office account from the 1st day Ron x*a.

' m. 92 b,

of April last inclusive, to the 15th day of July, 1761,
exclusive.

BaUast Office, Dr.

To balance given in to last assembly
To cash received since from ships, etc.
To cash received at his majesty's treasury

To cash received at his majesty's treasury, the balance of the
£5,000, granted last sessions of parliament

£ s. d.
130 19 7
1235 15 11
485 0 0

1455 0 0

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid for raising ballast

By cash paid for repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries ...

By cash paid house rent and petty disbursements

By cash paid repairs on the gabbards

By cash paid expenses of the floating light

By cash paid interest of money borrowed ...

By cash paid account of the city walls

By cash paid account of the abutments for the intended light

house
By balance in hands of alderman Edward Hunt, Ballast Master

£3,306 15

£ s.

258 2

354 5

142 5

37 9

567 19

77 8

79 5

51 11

638 14

1099 14

£3,306 15 6

' Patrick Hamilton. — Francis Fetherstone. — Henry
Hart. — Charles Burton. — Peter Barre. — Edward
Sankey. — John Cooke. — Philip Crampton. — Benjamin
Geale. — Thomas Cooke.'

Franchise. 1761. July 17. — Admissions to franchise.
Deciara- 1761. July 22. — Declaration and signatures.

tion.

1761. August 27.— Post Assembly.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the

inhabitants poor and other inhabitants of the city have for some time

Prices for past been greatly imposed upon by the exorbitant prices

exacted and taken for coals at this market, in conse-

tioS. quence of private and illegal combinations carried on

m. 95 h.
m. 142.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761. 33

by the vendors of that necessary commodity. That such mi.
combinations are carried on, in so secret a manner, that
it is very difficult to obtain evidence to detect them,
notwithstanding the laws now in force to prevent said Laws,
mischiefs.

That your petitioners apprehend that if an encourage-
ment was given, above the forfeitures expressed in said Forfeitures,
acts of parliament, to persons discovering said Actf.oi

1 i ~ parliament.

impositions, it might be a means of bringing such
delinquents to condign punishment, and therefore Deim.
prayed, that the same may be taken into consideration
and such order made thereupon, as should be thought
fit.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the right honourable order,
the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the
works, alderman Tew, alderman Mead, alderman Geale,
alderman Sankey, and eight of the commons, to be
named by the commons, or any five of them, whereof
the Lord Mayor and one of the Sheriffs to be always
two, be and are appointed a committee to consider committee,
what methods will be most effectual for preventing
the forestalling of coals and the other frauds committed. FWtaii-

° ing of coals.

whereby the price of that commodity has been raised Frauds.
upon the inhabitants.

That they be empowered to send for any master porter Master

. . . r • porter.

or other person capable of giving them information m
this matter and report their opinion, when properly
informed therein. (Commons.)

[The eight of the commons : ] Mr. Weld, Mr. Darquier, commons.
Mr. Hunt, Mr. Jones, Mr. Forster, Mr. Dunn, Mr. Henry,
Mr. Cave.

' Patrick Hamilton. — Francis Fetherston.— Henry
Hart. — Charles Burton. — Peter Barre. — John Cooke. -
Philip Crampton. — Benjamin Geale. — Edward Sankey.
— Thomas Cooke.'

VOL. XI. D

34 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1761.

1761. 1761. September 24. — Post Assembly.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that they

conceive it will be highly proper for this city to
Georgeni congratulate his majesty upon his Royal Nuptials,
Nuptials. praying to appoint a committee, with the assistance of

Mr. Eecorder, to prepare an address accordingly,
order. Whereupon it was ordered, that alderman Hornby,

alderman John Cooke, sir Charles Burton, alderman

Crampton, alderman Tew, alderman Allen, and six of

the commons to be named by the commons, be appointed
committee. a committee, with the assistance of Mr. Recorder, to

prepare an address to congratulate his majesty upon

his Royal Nuptials. (Commons.)
commons. rrpj^ gix of ^ commons : -] Mr. Barton, Mr. Meares,

Mr. Darquier, Mr. Jones, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Blackhall.

[2.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the

committee appointed, with the assistance of Mr. Recorder,

Ge^geni t° prepare an address to congratulate his majesty upon

Nuptials, his Royal Nuptials, have prepared the annexed, praying

that the same do stand the address of this city, that it

be put under the city seal and presented to their

excellencies the lords justices, in order to be transmitted

to his majesty : whereupon it was granted.

Address.
' To the king's most excellent majesty.

Address. ' The humble address of the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs,

commons and citizens of the city of Dublin, in common
council assembled.

' Most gracious sovereign.

1 Your majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the

Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, commons, and citizens of the

city of Dublin, in common council assembled, beg

congratu- leave, with all humility to congratulate your majesty

Nuptials, upon your Royal Nuptials, and in the expressing of our

Boll xxii.
m. 95.

1244060

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761. 35

duty and affection for your person and government ; i76i.
to give way to our joy at this establishment of your
royal house, to which our city hath at all times been R,,yal

i • , • • i i <• • house.

distinguished for their attachments, and with which the
liberties of your subjects stand inseparably united.

1 Secure of all happiness to ourselves under your most
auspicious government, we could have no care but for Govern,
the continuance of it to our prosperity. Your majesty m
graciously condescending to our wishes, hath rendered
that happiness complete, in that which could alone be
wanting in choosing for your royal consort, a princess, consort,,
who, to have engaged that choice, cannot but be adorned
with every shining qualification and endowment that
can dignify her sex. Who receiving the greatest reward
that can crown the most transcendent merit, sees herself
possessed of the affections of a prince, the darling of Pri"ce.
his subjects, the terror of his foes, and the pride of
Europe, whose virtues, as a man, give lustre to his
crown and afford her the surest hold for her hope, that crown.
in his generous breast, she shall find no rival but his
people.

1 When with admiration, we reflect upon the eminent
virtues of your majesty's illustrious race, and view virtues,
them, the source of every blessing a free people can
wish for or enjoy. We gratefully commemorate our wiiiia*
glorious deliverer King William, who a friend to our UL
religious and civil rights, and under heaven, the great
instrument for the rescuing of both from danger they
were in; did for their everlasting preservation, fix the
succession to the throne of these realms in your majesty's succession,
most august line, and it is with a delight unspeakable
we behold that royal stem, which he with an auspicious
hand had planted, strike deepest root in our constitution,
and stretching forth branches on every side to shelter
and adorn it.

' In testimony whereof, we have caused the common

36 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761.

i76i. seal of the said city to be hereunto affixed, this 24th Roiuxii.

City seal m- ^5 b.

day of September, 1761.'

* Patrick Hamilton. — Francis Fetherston. — Henry
Hart. — Charles Burton. — Peter Barre. — John Cooke. —
Philip Crampton. — Benjamin Geale. — Edward Saukey.
— Thomas Cooke.'

1761. October 16.— Third Friday after the 29th of "..98.
September.

Lord Mayor : Timothy Allen.
Sheriffs : Mathew Bailie and Thomas Blackall.
Hamilton, ni Patrick Hamilton, alderman, setting forth, that

alderman. L J °

at a post assembly held on the 1st August, 1760, an
Allowance, allowance was fixed for succeeding Lord Mayors at

£2,000, a year, £1,500, whereof are payable by gales

at certain times and the remaining £500, to be petitioned
Jj°*? for by the late Lord Mayor on the Michaelmas assembly

after the expiration of his Mayoralty, in which office
sum. he had served the last year, and prayed that said sum

£500, be paid him.
order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer

payment, should, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner

£500, the same to be allowed him on his accounts, said
Oath. petitioner having taken the oath directed by act of

Easter assembly, 1740, in the presence of Mathew Weld

and William Darquier, esquires, being appointed by the

commons for that purpose.

[2.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the

committee appointed for considering what methods
Forestall, would be most effectual for preventing the forestalling

tag of coals. 1 & 6

of coals and other frauds, whereby the price of that

commodity has been raised, had made the following

report.
Report. ' We, the committee appointed to consider what

methods will be most effectual for preventing the
c..ais. forestalling of coals and the other frauds committed,

1' rands. ° '

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761. 37

whereby the price of that commodity has been raised vm.
upon the inhabitants, are of opinion that the present
high price of coals is occasioned by forestalled buying Price.
ships of coals in the river and retailing them out of the
said ships at an advance price, which we apprehend
can be only remedied by publishing an advertisement, Advertise-

0 nient.

offering a reward for the discovering and prosecuting Reward.
to conviction such offenders.

' A case has been laid before Mr. Recorder for his Recorder.
opinion thereon, which is hereunto annexed.

' All which is submitted to your honours, this 25th
day of September, 1761.'

" Case as follows, to wit."

" That by the statute of the 4th Queen Ann, chap. 8, statutes,
and 1st George II., chap 21, Punishments are inflicted
upon all persons, who shall enter into combination for
inhancing the prices of coals.

" That by the 31 George II. all contracts or agree- contracts,
ments between any coal owners, masters or owners of
ships, coal factors, or persons concerned in the coal coai trade.
trade, for raising the price of coals, or restraining any
persons from freely selling, buying, or unloading, or
disposing of coals, are declared illegal and void, and inegai.
forfeiture of £100, is inflicted for every offence, with a Forfeiture.
power to the informer to exhibit personal interrogatories.

" That by the late high prices of coals, it is conceived, mgh
secret compact hath been entered into, between the pnc
masters of coal ships and the factors here.

" That the present practice is, for a set of factors to Factors.
buy the entire cargo within port and retail it out of
the same ship at an advance price upon the consumer.

" Query. Are such proceedings punishable upon the
said statutes, and how?

" Any agreement between the masters of coal ships Agreement.
and the factors here, for raising the price of coals is an

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1761.

1761.
Offence.

Punishable.

Buying
ships of
coals in
port.

Buying
cargoes of
coals in
port.

Offence at

common

law.

offence expressly within the above acts of parliament, eoUxmi.

r J m. 98 b.

and is also, as I conceive, punishable at common law,
the difficulty in such cases is, the proving the agreement.

" Query. Is the buying ships of coals in port, and
retailing the same out of said ships at an advance price
punishable at common law, and will an indictment lie
against such factors, for ingrossing, forestalling, or
regrating?

" Though the buying whole cargoes of coals in port
and retailing them out of the same ships at an advance
price, does not seem to me to come within the above acts
of parliament, yet it is clearly an offence at common
law and punishable by the way of indictment."

" James Grattan."

Order.
Reward

And the said commons praying to confirm the said
report and make the same an act of assembly.

"Whereupon it was ordered, that a proclamation be
published, offering a reward of £50, to be paid to
such person as shall discover and prosecute to conviction
the first offender in forestalling and regrating of coals,
and the sum of £20, for each of the next four persons,
conviction. w]10 shall be discovered and prosecuted to conviction for
che said offence, the same to be paid by the city treasurer
and allowed on his accounts.

[3.] Thomas Blair, merchant, setting forth, that the
committee appointed to inspect city leases, to whom his
petition was referred, had made the following report.

' We, the committee appointed to inspect city leases
near expiring to whom the above petition of Mr. Thomas
Blair was referred, praying to have a new lease of some
ground on Aston's quay and Fleet street, have taken
the same into our consideration and appointed a sub-
committee to view the premises.

' We rind that the piece of ground, on the north side
of Fleet street and extending to Aston's quay, was

Blair,
merchant.

Beport.

Lease.

Aston's
quay.
Fleet
street.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761. 39

taken by James Lisely, great grandfather to the 1701.
petitioner, from Arthur, earl of Anglesey, and that the Anglesey.
same by a late survey made thereof by the city surveyor
contains to the said quay 41 feet, and the like number
of feet to Fleet street, and in depth 221 feet, that the
lease thereof to the said earl of Anglesey will expire
in January, 1762.

' We apprehend that the said concern was originally concern,
improved by the said John Lisely, he having laid out
and expended considerable sums of money in building
houses thereon, which through length of time are in a
ruinous condition and require to be rebuilt, and are
therefore of opinion, that the said Thomas Blair have
a lease of the said premises for 70 years and three lives, Lease.
pursuant to the late regulation, he paying for the same,
at the rate of sixteen shillings per foot.

' That he be obliged by covenant in the lease, to leave covenant.
the quay 40 feet wide, and to rebuild the premises in Rebuilding
the following regular and uniform manner, that is to regXrlnd
say, that every house shall be at least three storys manner.
high, besides cellars, the first or shop story to be nine
feet high, the second or middle story to be ten feet
high, and the third or garret story to be eight feet high.
The front and rere walls to be fourteen inches thick and
built with br^ck cemented with lime and sand. The
window stools and copings to be of mountain stone, and
the top of every house to be of an equal height and
range with each other.

' All which is submitted to your honours, this 21st
September, 1761.'

And the said Thomas Blair praying to confirm the 0nler
said report and make the same an act of assembly :
whereupon it was granted, the committee's report con-
firmed and made an act of assembly, and that leases Leases.
be executed accordingly, the rent of the above mentioned
premises to commence the 25th of March next. The

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761.

1761.
Time.

houses on Astorrs quay to be built within two years sou audi.

■ Vn m- 97-
from the said 25th day of March, and those in Fleet

street within four years from said 25th March, otherwise
the leases to be void.

[4.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that
several parts of this city's estate will very soon expire
and fall into the hands of the city.

That they conceive it would tend to the advantage of

the city if the committee appointed for inspecting city

Possession leases were empowered to take possession of such

premises as have expired and to set the same by public

cant to the highest bidder, and therefore prayed to

make such order accordingly.

or.ier. Whereupon it was ordered, that the committee for

Possession, inspecting city leases be empowered to take possession of

such city land, the leases whereof are now expired or

shall expire within three months, and that they do give

proper directions to the city agent for preserving the

premises and materials thereon from being wasted or

taken away.

[5.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that there
is due for fees on passing the bill for the better regula-
tion of the corporation of this city.

City's

estate.

Advantage.

Public
caut.

Corpora-
tion bill.

' To the Clerk of the Council
' To the Clerk of the Hanaper
' To the Clerk of the Rolls
1 To the Committee Clerks
' To the Door Keepers
' To the Office Keeper
' Messenger and Clerks

£ s.

. 25 14

.. 18 17

6 0

.. 4 11

.. 1 18

.. 1 14

..18

£60 2

Expense. That said sum of £60 2s. lLJd., is the only expense

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761. 41

attending that salutary law remaining unpaid, therefore i761

prayed the said sum may be discharged.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do Order.

on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay Mr. Edward Scriven, Payment

the above sum of £60 2s. ll^d., in full of the above

bill, the same to be allowed on his accounts.

[6.] Sarah Burrowes, setting forth, that it hath been Bunowes,

house-
customary to allow her as housekeeper, £10, yearly, for deeper.

finding pens, ink, candles, and other necessaries for the

use of the city, therefore prayed that the same should

be allowed her.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, order,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £10, Payment
the same to be allowed on his accounts.

[7.] Barbara Bourne, widow, praying city's favour : Bonme,

widow.

whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,

on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £10, Grant.

the same to be allowed on his accounts.

[8.] George Roe, praying to be continued gaoler of n0e, gaoler
Newgate : whereupon it was ordered, that the petitioner °
be continued gaoler of Newgate, until next Michaelmas
assembly 1762, upon his giving such security for
indemnifying the city from all escapes and for the
faithful discharge of his office, as the Lord Mayor and
Sheriffs shall approve.

[9.] James Thompson, praying to be continued one Thompson
of the Serjeants at mace : whereupon it was ordered, mace,
that the petitioner James Thompson, be continued one
of the Serjeants at mace of the city of Dublin, for one
year ending Michaelmas assembly 1762, upon giving
such security for the faithful discharge of his office
and redelivery of the silver mace, as the Lord Mayor
and Sheriffs shall approve.

[10.] Arthur O'Neill, praying to be continued one of o'Neui,
the Serjeants at mace : granted, during the city's mace,
pleasure.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761.

i76i. [11.] State of the city of Dublin accounts, for theRoiixxii.

amounts, quarter ending Michaelmas, 1761.

Dr.

To balance due the treasurer, at Midsummer
To cash paid since ... ...

* s. d.

... 873 13 9

... 3276 16 1

£4,150 9 10

Or.

By cash received since

By balance due the treasurer in advance

£ s. d.
... 2968 12 11
... 1181 16 11

£4,150 9 10

Ballast
Office.

■Report.

Piles.

Abutment.

Gabbards.

Orders

Laws.

Trade
of port.

Port of
Dublin.

Harbour.
Quays.

[12.] Ballast Office report.

' Since our last report to your honours, we have made
all the progress the weather would permit in the repairs
of the piles, which are not altogether made good, as the
weather has proved so uncommonly bad for this good
while past, for the same reason, we have made no
progress in the intended east abutment, further than
preparing stones and timber necessary for it to begin
early in the spring.

' We further acquaint your honours, [that we are]
going on graving and repairing the gabbards, and shall
continue doing all other necessary works, as the season
permits and your honours shall direct.

' We also acquaint your honours, that we have taken
into our consideration, your honours' orders of last
assembly, relative to framing new laws for the
advantage of the trade of this port, and we are of
opinion, that if a law was made for the better securing
ships coming into and going out of the port of Dublin,
and for the more convenient ordering their anchorage
within the harbour, or at the quays of the said city,
by vesting in your honours sufficient powers for that

111. 96.

DFBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1761. 43

purpose, it would tend to the advantage of the trade rm.
of this city, and for that purpose have ordered a petition 'j'.™^^'
to parliament to be laid before the Recorder.

' We also acquaint your honours, that we think it Loau-
will be necessary to apply to parliament for further aid
to carry on the S^uth Wall and recommend a petition south waii.
to be prepared for thai purpose.

' An abstract of the cash [is] hereunto annexed, bv Om*.

i • i -> " Balance.

winch we hud there is a balance of i-Sl Is. Okl.
' All which is submitted to your honours.'
Ordered to proceed, as the committee shall think order.

proper, that the petitions above mentioned be prepared Pemious.

by Mr. Recorder and put under the city seal and **«■•*

' k.v seal.

presented to the honourable house of commons Bxmmti

commons.

State of the Ballast Office accounts, from the 15th Mm*

] £ t i i • Office

day ol July last inclusive, to the 14th day of October. ■"""■—
1761. exclusive.

Ballast Office. Dr.

£ s. d.
To balance given uno last assembly ... ... ... io^ 14 ja

-':•. received *iuce ... _ ... — $7$ j^i \\

£1.370 11 7^

Per contra. Or.

By cash paid tor rajwn^ I

By cash paid for repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries

By cash paid house rent and conticirent disbursements

By cash paid for repairs on jr.ibbards

By cash paid account of the Boating li^'ht ...

By cash paid accouut of the :u w walls

MUrt of :he nbotmeal tat the HgftfhaQSI
laucc iu hu - . ruian Edward Hunt. Ba" -

160 1

3M IS

M9 U

'..- i

16 0

7 li>

>~4 a

n 1

m.!?76 14 74

'Timothy Allen.— James Taylor. — Charles Rossel. —
Peter Barro.- -Thomas Cooke. Hans Bailie. — Charles

44 DT7BLTN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761.

i76i. Burton. — Benjamin Geale. — James Taylor. — John Tew. BoiiMii.

— Mathew Bailie. — Thomas Blackall.'
Franch.se. 1761. October 16. — Admissions to franchise. m.96.

Declara-
tion. 1761. October 22. — Declaration and signatures. ni.142.

1761. December 10. — Post Assembly. m.96b.

chories 11. [1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that king
patent Charles the second, by letters patent bearing date the

22nd day of May, in the 17th year of his reign, granted
Ferry. to this city for ever, the ferry or passage over the river
Liffey. Liffey, with liberty of carrying and recarrying
Passengers, passengers at one half penny each, with a clause, that
Boats. no person shall keep boats for ferrying persons across

the said river for hire, but such as shall derive under
Lease. the said city. That the city by lease dated the 18th

of October, 1745, in consideration of £500, then paid
Jones. as a fine by Mr. John Jones, demised the said ferry to

the said Jones for 31 years, from the 1st of November

then next ensuing, at the annual rent of <£223.
Petition That a petition was preferred to the honourable the

against

buiidinga house of commons, on the 17th of November instant,

new bridge

E?seTrdof f°r building a new bridge on the river eastward of
Essex Bridge, that if such bridge should be built, the

Trade. same will greatly prejudice the trade of this city, by

ships interrupting of ships when coming between the walls,
that part of the river being full narrow and scanty for
the lying of trading ships and will also be a detriment to
the revenue of this city, and prayed that a petition in
the name of the city be presented to the honourable the
house of commons, laying before them the prejudices
and inconveniences that will arise, should the said
bridge be built.

order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the right honourable

the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the
works, alderman Thomas Cooke, alderman John Cooke,
alderman Bailie, alderman James Taylor, alderman

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1761-62. 45

Forbes, alderman Barre, and twelve of the commons 1761.
to be named by the commons or any five of them,
whereof the Lord Mayor and one of the Sheriffs to be
always two, be and are appointed a committee to committee.
consider the within petition and such other matters as
they shall think fij;, relative to the building of a new
bridge eastward of Essex Bridge.

That they, with the assistance of Mr. Recorder, do Recorder,
prepare a petition to be put under the city seal and cu^seai
presented to the honourable house of commons, setting House of

1 commons.

forth the many inconveniences and disadvantages that
will attend trade and accrue to the public, if a new
bridge should be built eastward of Essex Bridge, that
they employ such council and agents as they shall think
proper to prosecute the said petition, the expense
attending the same to be paid by the city treasurer, on
orders from the said committee, and allowed on his
accounts.

[The twelve of the commons : ] Mr. Thomas Reed, commons.
Mr. Weld, Mr. Darquier, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Barton,
Mr. Ryves, Mr. Hunt, Mr. Thwaites, Mr. Blood, Mr.
Verschoyle, Mr. Jones, and Mr. Forster.

'Timothy Allen. — James Taylor. — Charles Rossel. —
Peter Barre. — Thomas Cooke. — Hans Bailie. — Charles
Burton. — Benjamin Geale. — John Tew.'

1762. January 22. — Fourth Friday after the 25th of 1702.
December, 1761.

Lord Mayor: Sir Timothy Allen, knight.

Sheriffs: Mathew Bailie and Thomas Blackall,
esquires.

[1.] Sir Quayle Somervell, baronet, setting forth somerveii.
that the committee appointed to inspect city leases, to
whom his memorial was referred, had made the
following report, videlicet :

' We, the committee appointed to inspect city leases Report.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1762.

1762.
Memorial.

Lots.
South

Strand.

Sir John

Rogerson's

quay.

Mercer.
Lozor's
hill.

Rent.

Treaty.

Manning.

Release.

Reconvey-
ance.

Release.
Manning,

near expiring, to whom the within memorial of sir r0ii xxii.

r ° m. 102.

Quayle Somervell, baronet, was referred, having met on
that occasion and taken the same into our consideration,
find that in the year 1723, the corporation of the city
of Dublin did advertise several lots on the South
Strand to be set by public cant, and that sir James
Somervell, the memorialist's father, was at the said
cant declared the highest bidder for the lots No. 35, 36,
and 37, lying between sir John Rogerson's quay and
the late Mr. Mercer's ground, on the back of Lazor's
Hill, and that in pursuance thereof and in consideration
of the sum of £101 13s. 4d., paid as a fine, the said
corporation did grant, release, and confirm unto the
said sir James Somervell, his heirs and assigns for
ever, the aforesaid three lots, at the yearly rent of
£10 3s. 4d.

' Your committee, at their first meeting, which was
on the 14th of May last, were of opinion, they could
not then enter into a treaty with the memorialist about
his reconveying the said lots to the city, as he had
entered into some agreement with Mr. Thomas Manning
for the same, and therefore had it not in his power
to reconvey, but told the memorialist, that when he
should get a release from the said Manning, to any
agreement that had been made between them, relative
to said lots and on his leaving the quay and wall
opposite thereto in good order and repair, that we would
recommend it to your honours to accept of a recon-
veyance of the same and to remit him the arrears of
rent due thereon, which at Michaelmas, 1761, amounted
to £234.

' Upon our last meeting, which was on the 20th day
of October, 1761, the memorialist laid before us, a
release or discharge from the said Manning to the
agreement aforesaid, so that we apprehend the same

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762. 47

may now be properly reconveyed to the city by the 1762.
memorialist.'

And the said sir Quayle Somervell, praying to order,
confirm the said report and make the same an act of
assembly: it was granted, the committee's report
confirmed and made an act of assembly, that the lots
in said report mentioned be reconveyed by the Reconvey.
memorialist to the city, in such manner as Mr. Recorder Recorder,
shall advise.

The said memorialist to be at the expense of such Expense,
reconveyance, and that the arrear of rent, amounting An-ear of

0 rent

to £234, due to the city out of the premises, be remitted remitted.
to the memorialist, the reconveyance thereof to be within
six months from this time or this order to be void, and
that after the same shall be executed, that the committee
for city leases do set the said lots by public cant.

[2.] Rebecca and Sarah Carty, setting forth that the Carty.
committee for inspecting city leases, to whom their
petition was referred, had made the following report :

' We, the committee appointed to inspect city leases Report,
near expiring, to whom the petition of Rebecca and
Sarah Carty was referred, have taken the same into
our consideration, and are of opinion that the petitioners
should have a lease of the house situate on the east Lease,
side of Trinity lane, wherein they now live, for and
during their natural lives or 21 years, whichever shall
last the longest, at the yearly rent of five shillings per Rent,
annum, exclusive of a piece of ground at the rere of
the archbishop of Tuam's l holding on Hogg Hill and Hogg mil.
the houses in College Green, which piece of ground, we college

Green

apprehend will be of advantage to the city to keep for
the present in their hands, and contains in length from Measure-
east to west on the north side 53 feet 4 inches, on the
south from east to west 46 feet 3 inches, and on the
east end 16 feet 8 inches, and on the west end 20 feet.

1 John Ryder, D.D., archbishop of Tuam, 1752—1775,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1762.

1762.

Premises.

Trinity

lane.
Fentou.

Map.

Order.

Lease.

Kent.

Towson.

Report.

Towson.

Falsy.

Allowance.

Order.

' The premises so to be demised to the petitioners Eon xx&

m. 102 6.

contain in front to Trinity lane 37 feet 2 inches, from
west to east on the south side adjoining Mr. Fenton's
holding 39 feet 4 inches, from west to east on the north
side adjoining holding 43 feet 5 inches, and from
north to south on the east side 51 feet 11 inches or
thereabouts, as by a map thereto annexed.

'Which is submitted to your honours.'

And the said Rebecca and Sarah Carty praying to
confirm the said report and make the same an act of
assembly : it was granted, the committee's report con-
firmed and made an act of assembly, and that a lease
of the house wherein the petitioners now live be perfected
to them for their natural lives, or for the term of 21
years, whichever shall last longest, at the yearly rent
of five shillings, leases to be executed within six months
from this time or this order to be void.

[3.] Jacob Towson, setting forth, that the committee
to whom his petition was referred, have made the
following report.

' We, the committee appointed to inspect the manage-
ment of the tolls and customs, to whom the petition of
Jacob Towson, checque of the tolls and customs in
James's street, was referred, have taken the same into
our consideration, and in regard the said Jacob Towson
is of a great age, afflicted with a palsy, and unable
to attend the duty of that place, we recommend that
he be paid by the city treasurer, for his support during m. 101.
his life, a weekly allowance of four shillings and four-
pence.

' Which is submitted to your honours.'
And the said Jacob Towson, praying to confirm the
said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762. 49

[4.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the 1762.
committee appointed for better supplying the city with water.
pipe water, have made the following report.

' We, the committee appointed for better supplying Report,
the city with pipe water, inform your honours, that we
appointed a sub-committee to examine the account of Account*.
Mr. Richard Cave, supervisor, messieurs Samuel cave.
Callbeck and Francis Gladwell, collectors of the pipe caiibeck.

1 l Gladwell.

water revenue, for the year ending the 1st of November,
1760, and collected from thence to the 1st of November,
1761; who reported, that the said account was laid
before them in a very regular and exact manner, which
gave them entire satisfaction in the examining thereof.

' That the supervisor furnished them with a charge supervisor,
against the collectors, which they had examined, and
the said collectors admitted the same to be right, the
said committee found, that the rent and arrears received Rent.

Arrears.

on account of pipe water amount to £2,842 13s. 3d.
The receipts for concealed branches for the said time Receipts,
to £8, for branches formerly cut off and put on to
£68 5s.

' That the sum received bv Samuel Callbeck amounts Amounts

" received.

to £1,526 13s. 4d., and that by Francis Gladwell to
£1,392 4s. lid. That a balance is due by said Samuel
Callbeck of £8 17s. 5d.'

[5.] Edward Ribton, setting forth, that the committee siuton.
to whom his petition was referred, have made the
following report.

' We, the committee appointed to inspect the manage- Report.

ment of the tolls and customs, to whom the petition of

Edward Ribton was referred, have taken the same into

our consideration and are of opinion that he is a fit and

VOL. xi. E

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1762.

Checque of
tolls and
customs,
James's
street.

Order.

Api>oi fit-
ment.

proper person to succeed Jacob Towson, as checque of Koiixxii.
the tolls and customs in James's street, and do recom-
mend that he be appointed thereto, at the same salary,
that the said Jacob Towson had.

' Which we submit to your honours.'
And the said Edward Ribton, praying to confirm the
said report and make the same an act of assembly : it
was granted, the committee's report confirmed and made
an act of assembly, and that the petitioner be appointed
checque of the tolls and customs in James's street,
during the city's pleasure, in the room of Jacob Towson,
at the same salary, that the said Towson had.

Auditors
of city
accounts.

Commons.

City
expenses.

22nd January, 1762.

[6.] Auditors of the city accounts for the last year.

Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, alderman Thomas Cooke,
alderman John Cooke, alderman Bailie, sir Charles
Burton, alderman Crampton, alderman Rossell, alder-
man Barre, alderman James Taylor, senior, alderman
Sankey, and eighteen of the commons to be named by
the commons, or any nine of them, whereof the Lord
Mayor and one of the Sheriffs to be always two, be
and are appointed auditors of the city accounts, for one
year, that is to say, from Michaelmas, 1760, to
Michaelmas, 1761.

[The eighteen of the commons : ] Mr. Weld, Mr.
Barton, Mr. Cave, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Jones, Mr. Hunt,
Mr. Forster, Mr. Thwaites, Mr. Darragh, Mr.
Verschoyle, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Medlicott, Mr. Wrightson,
Mr. Ellison, Mr. Meares, Mr. Blood, Mr. Cartland, Mr.
Henry.

That they be empowered to enquire into the causes
of the expenses of this city exceeding the income thereof
and report their opinion thereon to the next assembly.

Francis Fetherston and George Wrightson, esquires,

m. 101 h.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762. 51

late Sheriffs, are appointed masters of the city works 1762.
for the ensuing year. BjSKi

[7.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed for regulating the duty of the £&?
inferior officers to whom the petitions of Robert °fficers'
Hargrave and Henry Robinson, were referred, have Hargrave.
come to the following resolutions.

' We, the committee appointed for regulating the duty Report,
of the several inferior officers of this city, to whom the £*K
petitions of Robert Hargrave and Henry Robinson were °
referred, have taken the same into our consideration
and are come to the following resolutions. Resolu.

tious.

' Resolutions.

1. ' Resolved, on the examination into the particular
affair for which Robert Hargrave, high constable, was Hargrave

° suspended.

suspended by sir Patrick Hamilton, late Lord Mayor, Hamilton,
that it appears to this committee that the said M°ay°r.
Hargrave's misconduct therein deserved such
suspension.

2. ' Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee,

that the said Robert Hargrave, for the said offence Har^1-ave
ought to be removed from his employment.

3. ' Resolved, that in regard to the unhappy situation

of his affairs and the distressed circumstances of his Affair..
family, that tke said Robert Hargrave be recommended Hargrave.
to the city's favour upon this occasion, he having city's

l i 1 1 1 • favour.

represented to the committee, that he had expended the
whole of his fortune in purchasing the said employ-
ment.

4. ' Resolved, that it is the opinion of the committee,

that Henry Robinson, from his known spirit, activity, J^n90u'
and integrity, is a fit and proper person to succeed the c_on3t*ble-

j. x i buccessiou.

said Robert Hargrave in the office of high constable,
and that he be recommended to succeed him therein.
' Which is submitted to your honours.'

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL,

1762.

1762.
Order.

Appoint-
ment.

Allen,
Lord
Mayor.

Order.

Payment.

Butterton.

Craine.

Eeed.

Willson.

Nelson.

Gray.

Pue.

Bills.

New regu-
lation.
Treasurer.

And the said commons praying to confirm the said boUxxu.

p t , . m. 101b.

resolutions and make the same an act of assembly : it m. ioo.
was granted, the resolutions in the said report confirmed
and made an act of assembly, that the said Robert
Hargrave be displaced from the office of high constable
and that Henry Robinson be appointed to succeed him
therein, during the city's pleasure, at the usual salary
of £20, a year.

[8.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that at a
post assembly held on the 1st day of October, 1760,
it was ordered, that the sum of £500, should be paid
by the city treasurer to the Lord Mayor of the city
of Dublin, on being sworn into office, that the right
honourable sir Timothy Allen, knight, present Lord
Mayor, hath not as yet received that sum, the said
treasurer not being in cash to pay the same.

And the said commons, praying that the said sum
of £500, be borrowed on the city seal, at an interest
of £5, per cent., and paid to the said sir Timothy Allen :
whereupon it was granted, according to the prayer of
the above petition.

[9.] Peter Butterton, Hugh Wilson, Nicholas Craine,
John Reed, John Willson, Oliver Nelson, Sewell Gray,
and James Pue, setting forth, that they executed the
several branches of their respective professions from
time to time, as they are called upon by your
honours, or your officers under you, which annually
amount to a considerable sum. That the ancient method
of discharging your petitioners' bills was by a committee
annually appointed to examine the same, and to draw
upon the treasurer for the amount thereof, after they
had undergone the said committee's examination and
performed the usual requisites.

That your petitioners have been lately informed some
new regulation has been made, whereby your petitioners
are refused payment by the treasurer for any order

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762. 53

made by said committee, exceeding the sum of £20, 1762.
which has put your petitioners under many difficulties
and cannot (as your petitioners conceive) be carried
further into execution, and praying to order payment Payment,
for your petitioners' present demands, and suggest some
more eligible msthod for the discharge of said
petitioners' bills for the future. Bins.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the bills of the several Order,
subscribing petitioners be referred to the committee
appointed to examine tradesmen's bills, who are hereby Trades-

x x J men's bills.

empowered to draw upon the city treasurer, for such Treasurer,
sums of money as shall appear to them to be respectively
due thereon, they verifying their several accounts by Accounts,
affidavit, the same to be allowed the treasurer on his
accounts, and that for the future the bills of the several
persons, who shall execute any work for the city, shall
be laid before the committee every three months in
order to be adjusted.

[10.] Sedborough Mayne, setting forth, that at^ayne^
Christmas assembly, 1759, your petitioner was ^rekr.ater
appointed one of the overseers of the pipe water works
of this city, in the room of Mr. Robert French, deceased,
that said Mr. French, during his continuance in said
employment, was allowed a salary of £60, a year, that salary,
your petitioner receives no more than £40, a year, since
his appointment, and praying to be put on the same
establishment of the said late Mr. French.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, order,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £20, Payment,
the same to be allowed on his accounts.

[11.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that in
regard of the great merit of the honourable Thomas Biigh.
Bligh, late a lieutenant general of his majesty's forces
and of his eminent services to his country, and praying
that he be admitted into the liberties and franchises Franchise.
of the city of Dublin : it was granted gratis.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1762.

Clarke.
City music.

Salary.

Order.

Payment.

Deduction.

Toole.
Kane.

Debt.

Tholsel.

Arrest.
Delamain.

Proceed-
ings.

Costs.

ri2.1 John Clarke and the rest of the band of city Eoiixxii.

L J . m. 100 b.

music, setting forth, that by act of last Christmas
assembly, your petitioners were continued as the band
of city music for one year, ending this Christmas
assembly, at a salary of £60, a year, and praying to
be continued in the said station and to order payment
of the salary due to them for their last year's
attendance.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the petitioners be
continued as the band of city music for one year ending
Christmas assembly, 1763, that their salary of £60, now
due be paid over by the city treasurer to the right
honourable the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, the same to be
allowed on his accounts, and that the said Lord Mayor
and Sheriffs do deduct so much thereout, as they shall
think proper on account of any neglect or non-
attendance committed by them in their employment, the
residue of the said sum of £60, to be paid the petitioners.

[13.] William Toole, setting forth, that Daniel Kane
being indebted to him in the sum of £3 5s., due by
promissory note, caused an action to issue out of the
Tholsel court of this city against the said Daniel Kane,
upon which said Kane was arrested and put into the city
Marshalsea, under the care of William Delamain, City
Marshal, that said Delamain soon after said Kane was
put into the said Marshalsea suffered him to go at
large, without making petitioner any sort of satis-
faction or giving bail to said action.

That petitioner was under a necessity of proceeding
at law against said Kane to execution, which being
litigated by said Kane or some person on his behalf put
petitioner to upwards of £14, costs, to obtain said
execution, that petitioner had caused said execution
which was marked £16, to be lodged in the hands of said
Delamain against said Kane, and hath caused several
fines to be put on said Delamain in said Tholsel court,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762. 55

Boiixxii. in order to oblige him to bring the said Kane to the 1702.

ui. 99.

said court to be committed, which said Delamain hath
not yet done, but admits and suffers said Kane to go at
large.

And the said William Toole, praying to be relieved order,
against the said William Delamain : whereupon it was
ordered, that unless William Delamain, City Marshal, city
do produce the defendant Daniel Kane, in order to his
being committed upon the execution issued in this cause,
that the said Delamain do pay to William Toole the Payment,
petitioner, the sum marked at the foot of the said
execution, within fourteen days from this time and also
the expense of imposing the fines for not bringing up Fines,
the defendant to be committed thereon.

[14.] Richard Betagh, praying to be continued one Betagb,
of the Serjeants at mace : whereupon it was ordered, macea
that the petitioner be continued one of the Serjeants at
mace of this city, for one year ending next Christmas
assembly, 1763, on his giving such security for
indemnifying the city and redelivery of the silver mace,
as the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs shall approve.

[15.] John O'Neil the like, continued as aforesaid. o-Neii.

[16.] John Sleane the like, continued as aforesaid, sieaue.

[17.] George Sheils, gentleman, setting forth, that Sheiis.
memorialist at the desire of alderman James Taylor,
the younger, made out an account in October, 1760, Account.
of the number of stones of bere and barley, for which Bere.

* . Barley.

the premium was paid for bringing thereof to this city
by land carriage, for one year from the 1st of May,
1759, to the 1st of May, 1760, that memorialist had
many thousand vouchers to look over in order to make
out an accurate account, which he hopes was done
to the satisfaction of this city.

And the said George Sheil, praying to order him order,
such sum for his trouble as should be thought fit:
whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1762.

1762.
Payment.

Madden,
supervisor
of water
course.

City
accounts.

the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay
£10, the same to be allowed on

should, on
memorialist
accounts.

[18.] Edmond Madden, praying to be continued
supervisor of the water course : whereupon it was
ordered, that the within petitioner be contiuued super-
visor of the water course for one year ending next
Christmas assembly, 1763, at a salary of £10, to be
paid by the city treasurer upon his producing to him
a certificate from the Lord Mayor of his having done
his duty.

[19.] State of the city of Dublin accounts, for the
quarter ending Christmas, 1761.

the Roll xxii.
. m. 99.

his

Dr,

To cash paid

je s.

2795 L

£2,795 1

£ s. d.

, 2309 10 7
485 10 10

£2,795 1

Cr.

By cash received

By balance due the treasurer in advance

Baiiast [20.] Ballast Office report to 22nd January, 1762. m.99b.

Report. ' Since our last report to your honours, our works on

south Buii. the South Bull have received some damage, but not

so much as might be expected from the severe season

we have had, there being but one small frame of the
Piles. piles carried away, but is recovered again entire and

shall be laid down again, as soon as the weather
New walls, permits, the new walls have received no damage. We

shall order the damage sustained at the piles to be

made good with all convenient speed.

' We further acquaint your honours, that one of the
Gabbards. gabbards, No. 15, is sunk in the river between the

walls, but shall give directions to have her raised next

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762. 57

spring tides and also to have all other necessary works 1-62.
proceeded on, as the season permits and your honours
shall direct.

1 An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, by Cash-
which we find, there is a balance of £129 18s. 4Jd., in Balance
the hands of alderman Edward Hunt, Ballast Master. Hunt.

' All which is humbly submitted to your honours.'

Whereupon it was ordered, to proceed as the com-
mittee shall think proper.

State of the Ballast Office accounts, from the 14th Baiiwt
of October last inclusive, to this 20th day of January, account.
1762, exclusive.

Ballast Office, Dr.

To balance of the last quarter's abstract
To cash received since

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid since for raising ballast

By cash paid for repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries

By cash paid house rent and petty disbursements

By cash paid for repairs on the gabbards

By cash paid account of the iloating light

By cash paid account of the new walls

By cash paid account of the abutment for a light house

By balance

' Timothy Allen. — Thomas Blackall. — Thomas Cooke.
— Benjamin Geale. — Hans Bailie. — Charles Rossel. — ■
Edward Sankey. — James Taylor. — 'Peter Barre. —
Philip Crampton.'

1762. January 22. — Admissions to franchise. Franchise.

1762. January 28. — Declaration and signatures. Son!*"1"

780 12

£861 13

163

244 19

142

1 lOi

129 18

£861 13

58 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1762 1762. March 22. — Post Assembly. Boiimi.

„ , ., m. 103 6.

uV"fov [1-] " We, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city

alderman. of x)ublin, have this day nominated from among the
Sheriffs* Peers, Francis Fetherston of Abbey street,
merchant, Benjamin Barton of the Blind quay,
merchant, Michael Sweny of Ormond quay, merchant,
and William Darquier of the Blind quay, merchant, as
fit persons to serve in the place of alderman of the
said city, and do hereby return the names, with the
additions of the said four persons, to you the Sheriffs
and Commons of the said city, in order to your electing
one of the said four persons to be an alderman of the
deceased, said city, in the room of alderman James Taylor,
deceased."

22nd March, 1762.

[2.] " We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the city of

Election. Dublin, have this day elected by ballot from among the

four Sheriffs' Peers returned to this house, by the Lord

Fetherston, Mayor and Board of Aldermen, Francis Fetherston of

alderman.

Abbey street, merchant, to the place of alderman of
the said city, in the room of alderman James Taylor,
deceased."

' Timothy Allen. — Thomas Blackall. — Thomas Cooke.
— Hans Bailie. — Benjamin Geale. — Charles Rossel. —
Edward Sankey. — James Taylor. — Peter Barre. — Philip
Crampton.'

1762. March 29.— Post Assembly.

[1.] " We, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city
uon'ror' of Dublin, have this day nominated from among the
Sheriffs' Peers, George Wrightson of Stafford street,
merchant, Benjamin Barton of the Upper Blind quay,
merchant, William Darquier of the Blind quay, mer-
chant, and Michael Sweny of Ormond quay, merchant,
as fit persons to serve in the place of alderman

alderman.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762. 59

of the said city, and do hereby return the names, 1762.
with the additions of the said four persons, to you the
Sheriffs and Commons of the said city, in order to your
electing one of the said four persons, an alderman of
the said city in the room of sir George Ribton, baronet, Kn>l„n>
deceased." deceas,'"L

29th March, 1762.

[2.] " We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the city of
Dublin, have this day elected by ballot from among Election,
the four Sheriffs' Peers returned to this house, by the
Lord Mayor and Board of Aldermen, Benjamin Barton Barton,

,. . TT t->t • i alderman.

ot the Upper Blind quay, merchant, to the place of an
alderman of the said city, in the room of sir George
Ribton, baronet, deceased."

' Timothy Allen. — Thomas Blackall. — Thomas Cooke.
— Hans Bailie. — Benjamin Geale. — Charles Rossel-
Edward Sankey. — James Taylor. — Peter Barre. — Philip
Crampton."

1762. April 23.— Second Friday after Easter.1

Lord Mayor : Sir Timothy Allen, knight.

Sheriffs: Mathew Bailie, esquire, and Sir Thomas
Blackall, knight.

[1.] " We, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city Election o(
of Dublin, have this day unanimously elected alderman Mayor.
Charles Rossel to serve in the office or place of Lord
Mayor of the said city for the ensuing year commencing
from Michaelmas next, and do hereby return the said
Charles Rossel to you the Sheriffs and Commons of the
said city for your approbation."

" Timothy Allen, Lord Mayor."

" We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the common

1 Easter day, 11 April, 1762.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1762.

Eossel,

Lord

Mayor.

Nomina-
tion of
Sheriffs.

Election.
Reed,
Hall,
Sheriffs.

council of the city of Dublin, have this day approved Eon

" m. 1

by ballot of alderman Charles Rossel, to serve in the
office of Lord Mayor of the said city, for the ensuing
year commencing from Michaelmas next."

XXll.

m. 109.

' Mathew Bailie,"
Thomas Blackall,"

Sheriffs."

[2.] " We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the Common
Council of the city of Dublin, have this day by ballot
nominated the following eight freemen of the said city,
resident within the said city or the Liberties thereto
adjoining, each of them worth in real and personal
estate in possession, the sum of £2,000, over and above
all his just debts, that is to say, John Hunt of Chancery
lane, merchant, John Reed of Abbey street, merchant,
George Carleton of Eustace street, merchant, Joseph
Hall of Big Ship street, merchant, William Hurst if
Hawkins street, merchant, Thomas Green of Saint
James's street, brewer, Francis Minchin of Castle street,
merchant, and Robert Montgomery of Linen Hall street,
merchant, as fit persons to serve in the office of Sheriffs
of the said city, and do hereby return the names with
the additions of the said eight persons to you the Lord
Mayor and Aldermen of the said city, in order to your
electing two of the said persons to be Sheriffs of the said
city for the ensuing year commencing Michaelmas
next."

" Signed by order of the Sheriffs and Commons,"

" James Goddard, Clerk of the Commons."

"We, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of m. 109b.
Dublin, have this day elected Mr. John Reed of Abbey
street, merchant, and Mr. Joseph Hall, of Big Ship
street, merchant, out of the said eight persons returned
to us by the Sheriffs and Commons, as fit persons to

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762. 61

1011 xxii. serve in the office of Sheriffs of the said city, for the 1762.
ensuing year commencing Michaelmas next."

" Timothy Allen, Lord Mayor."

[3.] Certain of the commons, setting forth, that the
committee appointed to audit the accounts of alderman founts
John Hornby, city treasurer, for the year ending at Hornby,
Michaelmas last, 1761, having made the following treasurer,
report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed to audit the accounts Report,
of alderman John Hornby, treasurer of the city of Accounts-
Dublin, for the receipts, issues, and profits accruing to
the said city, for one year commencing Michaelmas
1760, and ending Michaelmas 1761, and for the
casualties for the said year, commencing and ending as
aforesaid, had the said accounts laid before us for our
perusal. And having first made a proper charge on
the treasurer, we carefully examined the said accounts
and the several vouchers relative thereto, all which were
exhibited by the accountant in a regular and exact
method.

' It appeared to us, that the payments made within Payments,
the time aforesaid are charged within their proper
heads, and where such payments are for salaries, interest
of money, or rents, he inserted the period of each article.

' With some pleasure, we inform you, that the balance Balance,
of £1,287 14s. 8d., due to the treasurer upon the
examining and stating of his last account, is now
reduced to £775 15s. 9£d., owing to his great care in
collecting the city rents.

' We find that the arrears of rent are less than they Arrears of
were the last year, and though they appear to be
£4,144 Is. 8d., yet after expunging or striking out of
the rent roll, such as are insolvent or doubtful, which
we recommend may be done under the direction of the
former committee appointed to make out a new one,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1762.

Eject-
ments.

City ferrys.
Cooke.

Payments.

Balance.
Hornby.

Order.

Arrears.
Payment.

Hornby.

Accounts.

Hornby,

city

treasurer.

and from the great care now taken for getting in all
such as are solvent, several ejectments having been
brought to enforce the payment thereof, we apprehend
the said sum will be considerably lessened.

' We had likewise laid before us an account of money
received arising by the city ferrys, from the last settle-
ment of alderman Daniel Cooke's account on that
head, amounting to the sum of £252 8s. 3d., we find
that payments have been made thereout making
£239 15s. 7£d., including £60, paid to Mr. Timothy
Turner, pursuant to act of assembly, the poundage
whereof at two and a half per cent., amounts to
£5 19s. 10Jd., making in the whole, the sum of
£245 15s. 6d., so that a balance remains in the hands
of alderman John Hornby of £6 12s. 9d., which we
have directed should be paid over to the present city
treasurer.

' All which is submitted to your honours.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and that the former committee of
auditors be empowered to expunge out of the list of
arrears of rent, such as shall appear to them to be
insolvent, and that the present city treasurer do pay
over to alderman John Hornby, the late treasurer, when
he shall be in cash, the sum of £775 15s. 9d., being the
balance due to him by the city on passing his last
account, the same to be allowed the present treasurer
upon his accounts.

State of the treasurer's accounts.

Alderman John Hornby, treasurer of the city of
Dublin, for the receipts, issues, and profits, accruing to
the said city, commencing Michaelmas, 1760, and
ending Michaelmas, 1761, and for the casualties ending
same time.

Roll xxii.
m. 109 b.

£ s. d.

1762.
Account

4302 10 4

2210 14 11

37 10 0

311 5 0

155 0

2 17

112 19

dublin assembly roll, 1762. 63

Dr.

To arrears of rent due Michaelmas, 1761

To ancient revenue amounting to

To Saint George's rent

To All Hallows* or All Saints' rent ...

To Saint Mary's Abbey and Thomas

Court rents ... ... 287 17 0

To rent of houses and stalls in Newhall

Market
To fines at the quarter sessions
To admittance of freemen ...
To one year's rent of old houses in Thomas

street, due Lady day and Michaelmas,

1761 ... ... ... 40 0 0

To the full produce of toll corn, from

Midsummer, 1760, to Midsummer,

1761 ... ... ... 1504 6 3

To the custom of gates and avenues,

ending 14th October, 1761, including

petty customs ... ... ... 981 19 8

To the rents and fines of pipe water,

ending Michaelmas, 1761 ... 2956 16 7

To cash from Thompson, Betagh, Sleane,

Cawthorn, • Roe, Thompson, and

Holmes, seven officers at mace ... 70 0 0
To cash from Mr. Edward Scriven,

account public money for Essex

Bridge ... ... ... 100 0 0

To cash for the herbage of Saint

Stephen's Green, for the year 1761 71 0 0

To completing the city's bond to executors

of Ann Haughton ... ... 98 1 0

To cash from John Usher, on account of

last year's rent of Smithfield ... 25 0 0

64 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1762,

£ S. d. Roll xxii.

Account. To cash from the trustees appointed for

widening the avenue to Essex Bridge 559 10 0
To cash on account of scales at James's

street and Stony Batter ... ... 39 2 11

To cash from sundry tenants, College

Green and Trinity lane, from

Michaelmas, 1760, to Michaelmas,

1761 213 0 0

To cash from tenants in Temple Bar, to

ditto ... ... ... 316 5 0

To cash from sundry tenants at Baldoyle,

to ditto ... ... ... 409 12 101

£14,805 8 2*

Or.

£ s. d.
By annual expenses ... ... 1936 19 9

By debts of the city ... ... 4211 18 3|

By gifts and alms ... ... 441 0 0

By casual expenses ... ... 4363 18 2

By arrears of rent due to the city at

Michaelmas, 1761 ... ... 4144 l 8

By poundage of £9,666 Is. 6|d., money

paid at 12d., per pound, exclusive

of £1,287 14s. 8d., balance of last

year's account due treasurer ... 483 6 1

Discharge, £15,581 3 llf

Balance due to the accountant from the

city ... ... ... £775 15 9J

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1756.

July

Sept.

The Ferry Boats, Dr.

24. To cash paid Evan Loyd's bill
16. To do. G. Burgess ...

25. To do. Js. Carson

1757.

April 7. To do.

August 10. To do.

1758.
July

1760.
July

1761.

March 19. To

1760.
Feb.

Nov.

S. Gautier
N. Crane

27. To do. J. Smith

1759.

March 9. To do.

Jan. 6. To do.

March 29. To do.

Nov. 29. To do.

19. To do.

do.
N. Crane
E. Loyd
N. Crane

Executors
S. Gautier

do. R. Poole

1762.
Account,
terry boats.

£ s. d.

11 13 10

14 17 5^
0 15 81

10 0 0

4 8 5i

15 17 0

18 11 4

23 2 0

2 17 8

1 10 1

19. To do. G. Burgess

26. To do. J. Barden ...
16. To do. Timothy Turner
30. To do. do.

To poundage on £239 15s. 7£d.,

at 2£ per cent. ... 5 19 ]0£

To balance ... 6 12 9

£252 8 3

VOL. XI,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1762.

Per contra, Cr.

Eoll xiii.
m. 108 b.

Account.
Ferryboats. 1756.

Feb.

27.

Per Wm. '

Tuke his balance

March

16.

Per Ann Breadin do.

June

15.

Per

do.

do. 3 months

Sept.

17.

Per

do.

4£

Dec.

11.

Per

do.

1757.

Dec.

14.

Per

do.

1759.

Dec.

Per John Jones, £ year's rent

to 1st Nov. last

1760.

June

14.

Per

do.

J do. to 1st May

Dec.

18.

Per

do.

£ do. to 1st Nov.

1761.

July

Per

do.

^ do. to 1st May

Dec.

Per

do.

\ do. to 1st Nov.

£252

City
expenses.

Income.

Report.

City

revenue.
ToIIb and
customs.
Decrense.

[4.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed to enquire into the causes of the
expenses of this city exceeding the income thereof, had
made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed to enquire into the
causes of the expenses of this city exceeding the income
thereof, met upon that occasion, and having particularly
taken into our consideration, that branch of the city
revenue arising from the tolls and customs, find for
some years past a great decrease therein, which we Ho

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762. 67

apprehend is owing either to great neglects or frauds 1762.
committed by the persons intrusted with the receipt ^tf '
thereof.

' We find that upon looking into the book where the Treasurer's
treasurer's accounts are entered for ten years, from 1718 ac
to 1728, that the tolls produced annually upon an Toils,
average £1,475, the customs of the gates £1,187, and customs,
the petty customs of the markets £201. We have like-
wise taken the average of ten years, from 1748 to 1758, Average,
at which time the act for allowing a premium on land
carriage of corn took place, and find that the tolls com.
amounted only to £1,320, the customs to £944, and the
petty customs to £140, all which are considerably less Toiisiess.
than in 1718, although it must be demonstrable to
every person, that the city and its inhabitants are Creased,
greatly increased and consequently ought to produce a
much larger sum for tolls and customs.

' Your committee have also examined into the four
several years' receipts of tolls and customs, since the Receipts of

. tolls and

commencement of the act for allowing a premium on customs.
the land carriage of corn, which they find to be as Land

° J carnage or

follows, videlicet. corn-

Tolls.

Customs of gates.

rexiy customs ui
markets.

1758.

£1829.

£813.

£117.

1759.

£1718.

£871.

£117.

1760.

£1541.

£819.

£128.

1761.

£1504.

£981,

Including petty customs
of markets.

' All which duties they see with concern are daily Duties
decreasing, therefore your committee cannot but express decieasic^-
the greater surprise, and in order to prevent any abuses Abuses.
of this kind for the future, Ave are of opinion that it
will be for the advantage of the corporation to sell the Sa)eof tolls
said tolls, customs, and petty customs by public cant, ^lUic
for one year commencing the 24th day of June, 1762,
that each gate may be set separately, that no person to

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1762.

Gates.

Twelve
parts.

Demands.

Trades-
men's bills.

Proclama-
tions.

News-
papers.

Lord
Mayor.

City
printer.
City
accounts.

Order.

Advertise-
ments.

Tolls.
Customs.

Public cant.

Bonds.

farm more than one gate, that whatever sum such gate Eon Xxii.
shall be canted to, shall be divided into twelve parts, m
videlicet, a part for each month to be paid by the person
farming the same, one part to be paid down as a deposit,
and one part upon the commencement of every month.

' We have taken into our consideration the several
demands annually brought on the city, on account of
tradesmen's bills, but had not time fully to observe
upon the same and therefore recommend that this
committee may be continued further to examine them
and to consider whether some articles charged therein
and other expenses of the city may not be retrenched.

' Your committee, finding that the charge upon the
city for inserting proclamations in the public papers
yearly amounts to a considerable sum, recommend
that no proclamation shall be inserted in any newspaper
for the future, except upon some extraordinary occasion,
and the Lord Mayor, for the time being, shall by
writing under his hand direct how often the same shall
be inserted and also what number shall be struck off
by the city printer; we are of opinion that the city
accounts be printed only once in three years.

' All which is submitted to your honours.'

That they do direct advertisements to be inserted in
the public papers for setting the city tolls, customs,
and petty customs by public cant, for one year
commencing the 24th day of June next, pursuant to
the conditions in the said report mentioned, the persons
farming the same to enter into bonds with security to
be approved hy the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs for paying
on the commencement of every month the several pro-
portions of the sum that said gates shall be canted to.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762. 69

That the said committee do take into their considera- 1762.
tion, whether several other expenses attending the city Expenses

0 J of city

may not be retrenched and report their opinion thereon retrenched,
to the next assembly.

[5.] Edward Scriven, setting forth, that the com- scriven.
mittee to whom his petition was referred, had made the
following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed on the petition of Mr. Report.
Edward Scriven, have examined the same and also the
bill of cost thereunto annexed, and find hereby that Bil1 of

J costs.

he has conducted and transacted business at law for Business

at law.

the city, from Michaelmas term, 1758, to Trinity term,
1761, both inclusive, and that there is due to him on
account of transacting the said business, the sum of
£119 15s. 6d., which sum we are of opinion he be paid sum due.
in full for the same.

' All which we submit to your honours.'

And the said Edward Scriven, praying to confirm the order,
said report and make the same an act of assembly :
whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner payment.
£119 15s. 6d., the same to be allowed on his accounts.

[6.] Certain of the commons, setting forth, that
whereas a large sum of money hath been granted by parliament,
parliament for completing the canal from Drumglass canal.

•r jt o Drumglass.

to Fathom Point in the river of Newry, which navigation Newry.
when completed will lead to the several collieries in the collieries,
county of Tyrone, which are apprehended to contain a Tyrone.
fund of coals for the general consumption of this
kingdom and this city in particular.

And whereas a subscription has been set on foot by subscrip-
several considerable personages, by way of forming a
company for working said collieries, provided said canal company,
be so completed, said company to be put in possession
of said Drumglass pits and of other pits belonging to the Pits,
present colliery company or any other of the Tyrone

70 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1762. colliery, which may by a majority of the subscribers Eouzxii.

ber^cri* be thought most expedient.

order. And the said commons, praying to countenance and

encourage so useful an undertaking, particularly to this
Grant. city, by granting such sum of money for the above

purposes, as to your Lordship and honours shall seem

meet.
Town Whereupon it was ordered, that the Town Clerk be

!oniTp" empowered to subscribe five hundred pounds on the part
o)k°bnn0n of the corporation of the city of' Dublin, pursuant to

the above petition.
Marshal of U -~\ James Dexter, Marshal of the Four Courts,
courts. setting forth, that some time ago, he took from the city
Little on public cant, a piece of ground called the Little
Marshaisea. Green, whereon he proposed to build a Marshalsea.

That petitioner was advised to publish a scheme for a m. 105.
Lottery, lottery last year, in order to enable him to carry on

the building, as it was impossible for him to carry it on

upon his own account, which scheme was published but

without effect, he then made an application to

parliament, which also proved ineffectual, so that the

ground now lies on his hands, which he is not able to

pay the rent of.
order. And the said James Dexter, praying to take the

ground off his hands : whereupon it was ordered, that
Ground the ground in the above petition mentioned, be taken off

the petitioner's hands, and that the committee for

inspecting city leases be empowered to set the same by
Public cant, public cant to the highest bidder, pursuant to the late

regulation for making city leases and that they do

publish advertisements accordingly.

[8.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that by
parliament. an act passed this session of parliament, the sum of

£5,000, was granted to the city for carrying on the
off waii. wal1' commonly called the Ballast Office wall. That

as the season is now advancing, which will be proper to

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762. 71

Roii xxii. expedite the said work, the said money will be wanting, 1762.
but in order to receive the same from his majesty's
treasury, it will be necessary to give a receipt under B.eceiPt.
the city seal for the same. city seal.

And the said commons, praying to order, that such order,
a receipt be given and the money applied for the
purposes in said act mentioned: whereupon it was
ordered, that a receipt be prepared in such manner as Receipt.
Mr. Kecorder shall advise and put under the city seal, city seal,
and that the said sum of £5,000, be paid over to the Payment,
committee of directors of the Ballast Office or any eleven
of them, to be applied as the act directs.

And it is further ordered, that the said committee
of directors of the Ballast Office or any eleven of them, Directors,
shall give the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, a receipt for Receipt,
the said sum of £5,000, ana to be accountable for the Parliament,
same to parliament, to be lodged in the Town Clerk's Town ^
office. office-

[9.] George Tucker, esquire, setting forth, that in the Tucker,
year 1752, he expended in repairing the south pier of Repairs.
Ormond Bridge, the sum of £10, which sum he had not o™ond
yet received, and therefore prayed, that he might be
paid the same.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, order.
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £10, Payment,
the same to be allowed on his accounts.

riO.1 Samuel Morgan, setting forth, that he had Morgan,

_ec r mace

served as mace bearer 35 years, and as officer 01 bearer and
commons 30 years, and being now grown old and infirm commons.
and unable to do the duty of the said respective offices,
prayed in consideration of his having purchased the
said employments, to be at liberty to resign the same g^fw'
and to be allowed the salary annexed to each during salaries.
his life,
m. 106 b. Whereupon it was ordered, that the petitioner be at order,

liberty to resign his employments of mace bearer and til^.s

Besigna-

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

Morgan
resigns.

1762. officer of commons, and that he be allowed the salaries r0u sxii.

of each, during his natural life, the same to be paid
by the city treasurer, and allowed on his accounts.

Knox, [11.] Thomas Knox, setting forth, that he is a

mace

bearer. freeman of the city of Dublin and of the corporation
of bricklayers, and being informed that Samuel
Morgan, mace bearer and officer of commons, intends
to resign the said employments, prayed to be admitted
thereto, he being willing to allow the said Samuel
Morgan, the salaries annexed to each during his life,
order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the said Thomas

Appoint- Knox be appointed mace bearer and officer of commons

ment. x x

during the city's pleasure, on the resignation of Samuel
salary. Morgan, but he not to receive the salary of £25, as

mace bearer, and of £15, as officer of commons, until

the death of the said Samuel Morgan.
Forbes, [12.] William Forbes, merchant, setting forth, that

weigh °

master. by the death of Samuel Ellwood, the place of weigh

c"aner master of the butter crane on Usher's quay, is become

Juayrs vacant. That he being a dealer in butter for many

years past, humbly presumes himself well qualified to

discharge the duty of the said place, and therefore

prayed to be appointed thereto.

order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the said William

we11" Forbes be admitted weigh master on Usher's quay, for

one year ending Easter assembly, 1763, that he have

an appointment under the city seal and enter into a

bond before the Lord Mayor, with sufficient security

conditioned for the true and faithful execution of his

office and also take the oath directed by act of

parliament.

That the petitioner do at his own expense provide a
K convenient weigh house, and also beams, scales, weights,
flT!' branding irons, and other necessaries, and shall attend
by himself, or by a sufficient deputy to be approved of

Scales.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762. 73

by the Lord Mayor, and that the place intended for 1702.
such weigh house be likewise approved of by him.

[13.] Elizabeth Barber, widow of John Barber, Barber,
deceased, and Robert Barber, his son, setting forth, master.
that by the death of the said John Barber, the place
of weigh master oi green and salt hides, and of calf q^^,
skins in the hide market place in Mary's lane, is become
vacant, that during the latter part of the life of the
said John Barber and since his death, they had taken
care of the said business and apprehended themselves
well qualified to take care of the same, and therefore
pray to be appointed thereto.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the above named order
Elizabeth Barber and Eobert Barber be appointed to Appoint-

1 x merit.

the care and management of the crane for weighing of
green and salt hides in Mary's lane, for one year
ending Easter assembly, 1763.

That the said appointment be under the city seal, city seal,
and that they do enter into a bond before the Lord
Mayor with sufficient security conditioned for the true
and faithful execution of their office and also take the
oath directed by act of parliament. That the
petitioners do at their own expense provide a convenient
weigh house, and also beams and scales, weights, weigh

o > ° house.

branding irons and other necessaries, and shall attend Beams.

° Scales.

by themselves or by a sufficient deputy to be approved
of by the Lord Mayor, and that the place intended
for such weigh house be likewise approved of by him.

[14.] John Winstanley, deputy Ulster King of Arms, ^taniey,
setting forth, that on the 16th day of January, he £££*,
proclaimed war against the King of Spain, wherefore p^aina-
there is a fee of £5, due to him for the same, and war.

Spaiii.

therefore prayed to be paid the said five pounds.

Whereupon it was ordered : that the city treasurer order,
do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner Payment.
£5, the same to be allowed on his accounts

74 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1762. [15.] Jacob Bryan, clerk, setting forth, that a year's Eoiinii.

Bryan, m. 105.

cierk. salary of £10, is due to him for officiating m the Black

Dog prison, therefore prayed to be paid the same,
order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,

Payment. on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £10,

for a year's salary, ending the 25th day of March last,
prison Dog ^0r officiating in the Black Dog prison, the same to be

allowed upon his accounts.
of°sheer"-tion D-^-1 The masters wardens and brethren of the
dTersand corporation of sheermen and dyers, setting forth, that

the said corporation, in the month of June, 1754,
Dodd. admitted Stephen Dodd of the city of Dublin, presser,

at his own request, a quarter brother of said corporation,

in consideration of his paying the sum of two shillings
Quarterage, and two pence per quarter and double that quarterage

the year the city franchises was rode.
Payment. That the said Dodd paid his quarterage regularly
Eefusai. till the year 1760, when he refused paying the said

quarterage. That an order having been made by
Tew. alderman John Tew, when Lord Mayor, against the

Arrears. said Dodd for the payment of the arrears of quarterage,

chancery. ^© ^e(^ a ^1 *n ^e cnancery side °f the exchequer
against the then masters and wardens of said corpora-
tion, the defending of which suit has been attended
with a great expense, and therefore they prayed relief
from the city.

order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the committee

appointed to enquire into the causes of the expenses of
the city exceeding the income thereof, be empowered to
draw upon the city treasurer for any sum not exceeding

Payment, twenty guineas to be paid to such person as they shall
think proper, in order to assist the petitioners in

Suit- defending the suit commenced against them, if upon

enquiry the said committee shall find the same
necessary, the same to be allowed on the treasurer's
accounts.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762 75

[17.] Robert Hargrave, late high constable, praying i7G2.
to be admitted one of the Serjeants at mace in the room Berjeantat

macei

of Edward Nowlan : it was ordered, that the above
petitioner be appointed one of the Serjeants at mace fwf**"
of the city in the room of Edward Nowlan, for one
year ending next* Easter assembly 1763, without
paying the usual sum of ten pounds for the same, he
giving such security for the faithful discharge of his
office and redelivery of the silver mace, as the Lord
Mayor and Sheriffs shall approve.

[18.] Thomas Snape, praying to be continued one Snape.
of the Serjeants at mace : it was ordered, that the mace,
petitioner be continued one of the Serjeants at mace of
the city of Dublin, for one year ending Easter assembly
1763, on his giving such security for indemnifying the
city and redelivery of the silver mace, as the Lord Mayor
and Sheriffs shall approve.

[19.] Elizabeth Smith, otherwise Forrest, for city's smith.
favour: it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, on
the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £10, the Grant,
same to be allowed on his accounts.

[20.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that part
of the city estate on Aston's quay and Fleet street fell city estate.

J ~L •/ Aston's

into their hands on the 27th day of January last, that ^-gtreet
the greater p#rt thereof is in a ruinous condition and
requires to be rebuilt, and apprehend it will be proper
to appoint a committee to divide the same into lots and Lots,
set it by public cant to the highest bidder for the city's puwic cant.
advantage. That petitioners have good reason to
believe that some part of the ground originally demised
by the city is wanting, and whether the same should
not be enquired into with the closest attention, so as
to establish the city's right thereto. right!

And the said commons, praying to appoint a com- order,
mittee for the purpose aforesaid: whereupon it was
ordered, that the said petition be referred to the Petition.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1762.

1762. committee appointed for inspecting city leases near boh «m.

expiring, and that they be and are hereby empowered
Lots. {0 divide into proper lots the ground and premises above

Public caut. mentioned, and set the same by public cant to the

highest bidder for the term of 70 years and three lives,

pursuant to the late regulation, to commence from the

29th day of September next, and publish advertisements

accordingly,
order. And it is further ordered, that the said committee take

Ground, ft int0 their consideration, what ground was originally
Anuesiey. demised by the city to Arthur Annesley, earl of
Angiesea. Anglesea, and to enquire if any and what part thereof

is wanting and is now withheld from the city. That
city agent, they direct the city agent to examine into the same,

and to employ such counsel with the assistance of
cftfl title. Mr. Recorder, to establish the city's title thereto, as

the committee shall think proper, the expense thereof

to be defrayed by orders from the committee and to be

allowed the treasurer on his accounts,
accounts. [2L] state of the c% of Dublin accounts for the m. io*.

quarter ending Lady Day, 1762.

City of Dublin, Dr.

To balance due the treasurer
To cash paid since

£ a. d.
.. 485 10 10
.. 2518 19 8£

£3,004 10 6±

Per contra, Cr.

By cash received since

By balance due the treasurer in advance

£ s. d.
.. 2849 1 6
.. 155 9 0£

£3,004 10 6i

[22.] Ballast Office report.

4 Since our last report to your honours, we are sorry
to acquaint you, that the piles have received very
considerable damage from the badness of the weather
and several ships that have fallen foul of them, which
we shall order to be made good with the utmost expedi-
tion.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762. 77

' We also acquaint your honours, that we are going 170.2.
on with the repairs of our floats and gabbards and are Floats-

Gabbards.

making the necessary preparations for carrying on the
intended new wall from the east end of the piles, and New waii.
shall continue doing all other necessary works, as the
season permits and your honours shall direct.

1 An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, by cash,
which we find there is a balance of £92 6s. lOJd., in Balance,
the hands cf alderman Edward Hunt, Ballast Master. Huut-

' All which is humbly submitted to your honours.'

Ordered to proceed, as the committee shall direct, that order,
alderman Barre and alderman Fetherston be added to ^erston
the said committee in the room of sir George Ribton
and alderman James Taylor, deceased, and that the
commons name two commoners in the room of
alderman Fetherston and alderman Barton.

[The two of the commons : ] Sir Thomas Blackall, commons
George Carleton.

State of the Ballast Office accounts, from the 20th Baiiast

Office

day of January last inclusive, to this 21st day of April, account
1762. exclusive.

Ballast Office, Dr.

jE s. d.

To balance of last year's abstract

129 18 5i

To cash received since

. . 640 18 2

£770 16 7i

Per contra, Cr.

£ s. d.

By cash paid since for raising ballast

130 3 0

By cash paid for repairs on the piles

351 4 7

By cash paid salaries

By cash paid house rent and petty disbursements

43 1 10

By cash paid repairs on gabbards

77 18 8

By cash paid account of the floating light

49 10 0

By cash paid account of the new walls

2 8 8

By cash paid account of the new intended pier

24 3 0

By balance on hands

92 6 10$

£770 16 7i

'Timothy Allen.— Mathew Bailie. — Hans Bailie.—
Peter Barre.— Edward Sankey.— Philip Crampton.—

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

Franchise.

Declara-
tion

Thomas Mead. — Francis Fetherston.
Hamilton. — Henry Hart.'

1762. April 23. — Admissions to franchise.
1762. April 30. — Declaration and signatures

Patrick Eon xxii.

in. 104.

m. 104 b.
m. 142.

Blaelcall,

Hiffh

Sheriff,

insulted

and

assaulted

by mob.

Order.

Proclama-
tion.

Apprehen-
sion.

Eiot.

Assault.
Conviction.

Eewards.

Expense.
City agent.

1762. July 6. — Post assembly.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that on
Thursday, the 24th day of June last, sir Thomas
Blackall, knight, one of the High Sheriffs of this
honourable city, was insulted and assaulted in the
execution of his office by a riotous and tumultuous mob,
that petitioners apprehend, it is incumbent on the city
to shew the utmost detestation of such unwarrantable
and audacious proceedings.

And the said commons, praying to take this matter
into consideration and to make such order thereon as
should seem meet.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the right honourable
the Lord Mayor do issue a proclamation declaring that
if any person or persons shall, within the space of
three kalendar months from the date hereof, apprehend,
John Farrell, Samuel Wilkinson, commonly called
sir Samuel Wilkinson, George Frainey, Walsh, John
Bryan, and Daniel Collins, who were concerned in
committing the said riot and assault, so as they or any
of them be convicted of said offence, such person or
persons, so apprehending and prosecuting to conviction
said several offenders or any of them, shall receive as a
reward for said John Farrell, the sum of £100, for the
said Samuel Wilkinson, the sum of £50, and for the
said George Frainey, Walsh, John Bryan, and Daniel
Collins, the sum of £20, each, said several persons to
be prosecuted at the city expense, by the city agent.

1 Timothy Allen. — Mathew Bailie. — Hans Bailie. —
Peter Barre. — Edward Sankey. — Philip Crampton. —
Thomas Mead. — Francis Fetherston. — Patrick Hamil-
ton.— Henry Hart.'

m. 104 b.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1762. 79

1762. July 16.— Fourth Friday after the 24th of 17©.
June.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed to enquire into the causes of the city
city expenses exceeding the income thereof, who were income,
empowered to set by^ public cant, the tolls, customs, £""sic cant-
and petty customs, belonging to the corporation, for customs,
one year commencing the 24th of June last, had made
the following report, videlicet.

1 We, the committee appointed to set by public cant, Report
the tolls, customs, and petty customs belonging to the
corporation of the city of Dublin, for one year
commencing the 24th of June, 1762, directed advertise- Advertise-

& ' meats.

ments to be inserted in the public papers giving notice
that we would proceed to set the same accordingly on
the 14th of said month, at which time we set the
following gates or avenues, videlicet : the Park Gate Glltes.
to Mr. Thomas Walsh for £245, Stony Batter to Mr.
Edward Jollie for £495, Stephen's Green and Ball's
Bridge to Mr. Kilnar Swettenham for £130, and no
person appearing to bid for the other gates or
avenues, we adjourned the cant to the 18th Cant.
June aforesaid, when we set the remainder
of them, videlicet : Dolphin's Barn to Mr. Mathew
Lynham for £405, James's street to Mr. Timothy Mahon
for £1,470, Dramcondra to Mr. Patrick McNamee for
£530, Young's Castle, otherwise Glassmanoge to Mr.
Thomas Lowth for £550, Ballybough Bridge to Mr.
Thomas Snead for £56, and Kavan's Port to Mr.
Thomas Healy for £42.

' And having adjourned the cant of the petty customs petty
to the 22nd of said month of June, we then set those
received on hay and straw to Mr. John Magrath for
£115, and those on the north side exclusive of the hay
and straw to the said Timothy Mahon for £100.

' We observe that the several persons above mentioned

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1762.

Deposits.

Bonds

Account.

Tolls.
Customs.

Gates.

Increase.

have paid to the city treasurer their deposits and lioii xxa.
entered into bonds with security for the payment of m- U3'
their respective proportions of the sums remaining on
the commencement of every month during the said
year.

' In our last report, we gave you an account of the
produce of the tolls and customs for ten years, we have
since taken an account of the gross produce of each
gate, videlicet : of the tolls for the year 1760 and 1761,
and of the customs for eight years past, and struck a
medium thereon, in order to guard against setting any
gates for less than they produced heretofore, which
medium, together with what each gate is now set for,
and the increase thereon, is hereunto annexed.'

James's Street
Park Gate
Dolphin's Barn
Stony Batter
Dromcondra
Stephen's Green and

Ball's Bridge
Glassmahonoge
Kavan's Port
Ballybough Bridge

Medium.
£ 8. d.

1020 4 9

136 5 4|

305 0 11

346 6 10^

271 5 91

119 3 10J

372 0 5
21 18 11

26 3 7

Set for.

£
1470
245
405
495
530

130
550

42
56

Increase.

£ s. d
449 15
108 14
99 19
148 13
258 14

10 16 1{

177 19 7

20 1 1

29 16 5

£2,618 10 6 *£3,923 £1,304 9 6
Gross produce of petty

customs ... 190 0 0 215 25 0 0

To the increase may be

added the expense of

collecting the tolls and

customs hitherto, and

paid by the city _ 504 Q Q

The expense of collecting

the petty customs ... ... 70 0 0

Totals, £2,808 10 6 £4,138 £1,903 9 6

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762. 81

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said wea.
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was 0rfler-
granted, the committee's report confirmed, made an act
of assembly and the committee continued.

[2.] Richard Anderson, setting forth, that the Anderson,
committee to whom his petition was referred, had made
the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for inspecting city Repi>rt
leases, to whom the petition of Richard Anderson was
referred, relative to damage sustained by him in Damage,
repairing the weirs at Island Bridge, find that by the Weirs
rapid floods, which came down the last winter, a great brid*e-

1 ' ' & Floods.

part of the said weirs was carried away, which would
have endangered the water engine had not the breaches
occasioned by the violence of the current been
immediately repaired, towards the doing whereof, the
said Richard Anderson expended the sum of £163.

' In regard this was an unexpected accident, and as
Mr. Anderson is tenant to the city for the mills at mils.
Island Bridge, we apprehend, that he ought to be
considered upon this occasion, and therefore are of
opinion and do recommend, that he be allowed out of Allowance.
the rent he pays for the said mills, the sum of £60,
in part of the expense that he has been at in repairing
the said weirs.'

And the said Richard Anderson, praying to confirm order,
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly.

[3.] William Delamain, City Marshal, setting forth, g*"lI,L
that the committee to whom his petition was referred, Mttrshal-
had made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed to enquire into causes Eeport.
of the city expenses exceeding the income thereof, to
whom the petition of William Delamain, City Marshal, Petition.
was referred, praying that he be considered on account

VOL. XI. G

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

17fi2,
Losses.
Sum-
monses.
Court of
Couscieuce.

Fees.
Rent.

Rent.

Order.

Beams and
scales.

Thomns
street.

of losses sustained by him in the reflation of issuing Roiixxii.

J & _ ° m. 113 b.

summonses from the Court of Conscience, instead of
warrants, by the city bill act. Whereby it is enacted,
that all persons committed to the said Marshalsea for
any sum under twenty shillings shall not remain
longer than three months and those under forty shillings
six months, whereby he is deprived of his fees and
lodging money, and by the act of insolvency passed the
last session, by which he is excluded from fees and
chamber rent and also from receiving any fugitives,
who shall surrender in order to take the benefit of the
said act, being the allegations of the said petition, are
of opinion, that he has fully proved the same.

We find by an abstract of an account laid before
us by the petitioner of the whole receipts of the said
Marshalsea for the last }rear, that they amounted only
to £250, that the rent thereof with taxes, repairs, and
wages amount to £160, and that a balance of £40,
remains only to the said Marshal after deducting the
above sum, to the truth whereof, the said William
Delamain hath made an affidavit, which is hereunto
annexed.'

And the said William Delamain, praying to confirm
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and in consideration of the
losses sustained by the petitioner, as mentioned in the
said report, it is ordered, that he be allowed out of the
rent that he now pays for the said Marshalsea, the
annual sum of £20, to commence from the 1st of
February last, 1762.

[4.] Certain of the commons [setting forth] that a
committee may be appointed for setting by public cant,
the beams and scales in the corn market house in
Thomas street, for one year commencing the 1st of
November next.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1762. 83

Whereupon it was ordered, that the right honourable 1762.
the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the
works, alderman John Cooke, alderman Bailie, alder-
man James Taylor, alderman Sankey, and eight of
the commons to be named by the commons or any five
of them, whereof the Lord Mayor and one of the
Sheriffs to be always two, be and are appointed a
committee to set by public cant the beams and scales muc cant.
above mentioned, for one year commencing the 1st of
November next, and that notice thereof be inserted in Notice.
the Public Gazette, the person farming the same is to Public

1 ° Giixette.

pay down to the city treasurer such sum, as the same
shall be canted to.

And it is further ordered, that the said committee
be empowered to settle the account of Mr. Gladwell and £j£g™|j
Mr. Ash, for money received by him for the weighing Ash.
of bere and barley, since their appointment.

[5.] Certain of the commons being desirous of having
the right honourable Robert Nugent, esquire, one of the Nu&ant,
vice treasurers of Ireland, presented with the freedom treasurer.

Franchise.

of this city : it was granted.

[6.] John Todd, woollen draper, setting forth, that Todd,
by deed indented, dated the 20th August, 1678, made
by John Preston of the city of Dublin, alderman, of Pl.eston.
the ground whereon the Tholsel now stands to the Lord Thoisei.
Mayor, Sheriffs, commons, and citizens of the city of
Dublin for ever at the yearly rent of £40, for the term Rent
of thirty years and an half and from the determination
thereof, one other annuity or yearly rent charge of
£60, payable out of all their estate for ever. That he
had purchased from James Donnellan, esquire, the said Donueiian.
rent charge of £60, that by time or accident, the city CityBeai.
seal affixed to the said deed hath been torn or fallen Deed.
off, and that counsel are of opinion, in order to complete
his title to the said annuity, a counter part of the said <££*«
deed should be passed under the city seal. Citv seal-

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1762.
Order,
Title.
Kent

charge.

Town
Clerk.

Whelling\

Payment.

Holmes.
Serjeant at
mace.

Jackman.
Grant.

Robinson.
Payment.

Be van.
Payment.

City
accounts.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the memorialist do Eon x*h.

m. 112.

lay before Mr. Recorder his title to the rent charge of
£60, above mentioned, and that if he thinks it proper,
that the Town Clerk do give an ingrossed copy of the
said deed with the city seal thereto affixed, that the same
be done accordingly, the memorialist paying the expense
attending the same.

[7.] William Whelling, late supervisor of the toll
corn, praying to be considered for his past services :
it was ordered, in consideration of the petitioner's
fidelity in the execution of his office and on account of
occasional expenses in order to have a proper situation
to attend his duty and as he has received no gratuity
for inspecting the city customs, that he be paid by the
city treasurer, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, thirty
guineas, as a compensation for the same, the same to
be allowed the treasurer on his accounts.

[8.] Elias Holmes, continued one of the Serjeants at
mace for one year ending Midsummer assembly, 1763,
upon giving security.

[9.] Elizabeth Jackman [widow] of St. George Jack-
man, allowed ten guineas.

[10.] Henry Robinson, high constable, allowed £b,
for a quarter's salary ending Christmas last.

[11.] Adam Bevan, late custom man at Ballybough
Bridge, allowed twenty shillings in hand and twenty
five shillings for the quarter ending Michaelmas next.

[12.] State of the city of Dublin accounts, for the
quarter ending 24th June, 1762.

City of Dublin, Dr.

To balance due the treasurer at Lady Day last
To cash paid since

£• s. <\.

155 9 1

2539 8 6

£2,694 17 7

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLI , 1762. 85

~~ 1762.

Per contra, Cr. City

accounts.

£ s. d.

By cash received since ... ... _. ... ... 2572 19 9

By balance due the treasurer ... ... ... ... 121 17 10

£2,694 17 7

[13.] Ballast Office report. gg^t

' Since our last report to your honours, we have Report,
proceeded in repairing the piles and shall continue to piiea.
make them good whilst the season permits.

' We have the pleasure to acquaint your honours, that
we have began the foundation of the east abutment, at Abutment.
the end of the piles, for the intended new wall with New wails.
success, (which may also serve for a foundation for a
light house, if hereafter it should be thought proper
to build one), having taken all imaginable care and
precaution in fixing the same, and shall continue
carrying on this and all other necessary works with
the utmost frugality and diligence.

' We likewise acquaint your honours, that we are
going on with the repairs of the gabbards and floats, Gabburds.
and shall proceed in all other things, as your honours
shall direct.

1 An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed by cash.
which we find there is a balance of £89 5s. 9£d., of Balance.
the Ballast Office revenue and also a balance of
£464 0s. 3£d., out of £1,000, received from the treasury,
in the hands of alderman Edward Hunt. Hunt.

'All which is submitted to your honours.'

Ordered to proceed, as the committee shall direct.

State of the Ballast Office accounts, from the 21st Bau»st
day of April last, inclusive, to this 14th day of July, M0Ount
exclusive.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1762.

Ballast

Office

account.

Ballast Office, Dr.

To balance of last quarter's abstract
To cash received since

Roll xxii.
m. 112 6.

£ s. d.
92 6 10£

. 1065 18 3

£1,158 5 1±

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid since for raising ballast

By cash paid for repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries

By cash paid house rent and petty disbursements

By cash paid repairs on gabbards

By cash paid account of the floating light ...

By cash paid account of the new walls

By cash paid interest money borrowed

By balance on hands ...

£ s.

204 14

251 5

282 10

29 10

198 3

53 5

22 0

27 10

89 5

£1,158 5 1^

Ballast Office for the public money is Dr.

To cash received at his majesty's treasury

. 1000

£1,000

Per contra, Cr.

By cash expended this quarter on the south east pier
By balance on hands ...

£ s.

535 19

464 0

£1,000 0

Franchise.

Declara-
tion.

' Timothy Allen. ■ — Thomas Blackall. — Thomas
Cooke. — Thomas Mead. — Hans Bailie. — John Tew. —
Peter Barre. — Edward Sankey.— Robert King. —
Benjamin Barton.'

1762. July 16.- — Admissions to franchise.
1762. July 23. — Declaration and signatures.

m. no.

m. 142.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762. 87

1762. August 26. — Post Assembly. 1762.

[1.] " We, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city f°fZ'
of Dublin, have this day nominated from among the
Sheriffs' Peers, Alexander Ryves of Big Butter lane,
merchant, Michael Sweny of Ormond quay, merchant,
George Wrightsonpf Stafford street, merchant, and
William Darquier of the Blind quay, merchant, as fit
persons to serve in the place of alderman of the said
city and do hereby return the names with the additions
of the said four persons to you the Sheriffs and
Commons of the said city, in order to your electing one
of the said four persons to be an alderman of the said
city, in the room of alderman John Hornby deceased." deceased.

" Timothy Allen, Lord Mayor."

" We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the city of Election.
Dublin, have this day elected by ballot, from among
the four Sheriffs' Peers returned to us by the Lord
Mayor and Board of Aldermen, Michael Sweny ofjjjgg^
Ormond quay, merchant, to the place of an alderman
of the said city, in the room of alderman John Hornby
deceased."

"Mathew Bailie." )

"Thomas Blackall." } "Sheriffs."

' Timothy Allen. — Thomas Blackall. — Thomas
Cooke. — Thomas Mead. — Hans Bailie. — John Tew. —
Peter Barre. — Edward Sankey. — Robert. King. —
Benjamin Barton.'

1762. August 31.— Post Assembly.

["1.1 Certain of the commons setting forth, that this Address.

L J . . George HL

city hath on all occasions testified its zeal for his
majesty and his royal house, and as her majesty, his
royal consort, hath been lately delivered of a prince, ^a? a

88 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1-62. your petitioners conceive, that an humble address Eoii xxii.

Address. g^Q^j^ ^q prepared and transmitted to his majesty, to

congratulate him upon this happy event.

And the said commons, praying to appoint a com-
mittee with the assistance of Mr. Eecorder to prepare

an address accordingly,
order. Whereupon it was ordered, that alderman John

Cooke, alderman Bailie, alderman Crampton, alderman

Geale, alderman Barre, alderman James Taylor, and

six of the commons, to be named by the commons, be
committee, appointed a committee, with the assistance of Mr.
Recorder. Recorder, to prepare an address to his majesty, to

congratulate him upon the safe delivery of the queen

and happy birth of a prince,
common. [The six of the commons:] Mr. Reynolds, Mr.

Verschoyle, Mr. Darquier, Mr. Ryves, Mr. Blood, Mr.

Thwaites.

[2.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the

committee appointed with the assistance of Mr.
Georgfin Recorder, to prepare an address to his majesty, to

congratulate him upon the safe delivery of the queen

and happy birth of a prince, have prepared the annexed,
order. And the said commons praying that the same do

stand the address of this city, that it be put under the
Sticks c*ty sea,l an(* presented to their excellencies the lords

justices in order to be transmitted to his majesty : it

was granted.

Address.

'To the King's most excellent majesty.

' The humble address of the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs,
commons, and citizens of the city of Dublin, in common
council assembled.

' Most gracious sovereign. m- ni 6.

1 We, your majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects,
the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, commons, and citizens of the

Address.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1762. 89

city of Dublin, in common council assembled, humbly ma,
beseech your majesty to receive our very sincere
congratulations upon her majesty's safe and happy c<mg»iu.
delivery and the birth of a prince, an event the more *»Wra?6i

... a prince.

transporting to your generous and royal breast, from
its importance to the welfare of your people.

' Ardent in our affections to your majesty's person, Affections.
we rejoice in the prosperity of your royal house and Prosperity
the accumulation of your domestic felicity. Zealous h™*e-
for your government, we glory in its strength ; as, under
heaven the great support of our liberties, and feel the Liberties
sense of the present blessings, we enjoy under that
government, heightened and augmented by the happy
prospect now afforded us, that it shall be so with our
children after us.

'May that benign providence, which directed and
rendered successful the noble efforts of our forefathers Efforts.
in bringing about that happy establishment, by which
the rights of British subjects were asserted and secured ; Rlguts.
bless your majesty with a numerous progeny, and Progeuy.
thereby graciously manifest to your people, that it is
the divine will, that your royal line shall continue and Royai ine,
[be] closely connected with it, their liberties remain
until time shall be no more.

' In testimony whereof, we have caused the common
seal of the said<% to be hereunto affixed, this 31st day city seal.
of August, 1762.'

' Timothy Allen. — Thomas Blackall. — Thomas
Cooke.— Thomas Mead.— Hans Bailie.— John Tew.—
Peter Barre.— Edward Sankey.— Robert King.—
Benjamin Barton.'

1762. October 15.— Third Friday after the 29th of
September.

Lord Mayor : Charles Rossel.
Sheriffs : John Read and Joseph Hall.

90 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1762. [1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that Ron xXa.

Georgeni. petitioners conceived it would be proper to address his
majesty upon the late signal success of his arms in

HYivqi^Rh0f *ne imPortant conquest of the Havannah and its
dependencies, and the said commons prayed to appoint
a committee with the assistance of Mr. Recorder, to
prepare an address accordingly.

order. Whereupon it was ordered, that alderman Hart,

alderman King, alderman Edward Hunt, alderman
Barre, alderman Geale, alderman Taylor, and six of
the commons to be named by the commons, be appointed

committee, a committee, with the assistance of Mr. Recorder, to
prepare an address to his majesty, to congratulate him
upon the late signal success of his arms in the important
conquest of the Havannah and its dependencies.

cnmmous. ["The six of the commons : ] Mr. Weld, Mr. Thomas
Read, Mr. Boyd, Mr. Darquier, sir Thomas Blackall,
Mr. Bailie.

[2.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed with the assistance of Mr. Recorder

Address, to prepare an address to his majesty, to congratulate
' him upon the late signal success of his arms in the
important conquest of the Havannah and its depen-
dencies, have prepared the annexed.

0rder And the said commons prayed, that the same do

stand the address of this city, that it be put under the

Lords city seal and presented to their excellencies the lords

justices.

justices, in order to be transmitted to his majesty: it
was granted.

Address.

1 To the king's most excellent majesty.

Address. ' The humble address of the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs,

commons, and citizens of the city of Dublin, in common
council assembled.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762. 91

Most gracious sovereign. 1762.

it- 1 • c t Address

Your most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord
Mayor, Sheriffs, commons and citizens of the city of
Dublin, in common council assembled, beg leave with
all humility to congratulate your majesty, upon the SSiS**""
signal and unspeakable advantage gained by your arms Arms,
over the king of Spain, in the reduction of the Spain.
Havannah with its dependencies, a conquest attended 5*™"^
with every glorious circumstance, that could give it
lustre or add to its importance against an enemy, whom
every motive of equity and due regard for the rights of
others had conspired to make a friend.

' The manifold successes, with which in the course of Successes-
this war, it hath pleased the Almighty to bless your
majesty's arms and to reward and forward those Arms-
righteous purposes, which made that war necessary on war.
the part of Britain, whilst they strike us with surprise Brit&™-
and warm us with gratitude, do at the same [time]
inspire us with the highest confidence in your measures.
We see enterprises projected, embarrassed with difficul- p?isll'.
ties seeming unsurmountable and big with danger as
with importance, yet wisely suited by your majesty to the
ardour and abilities of those gallant men, to whom their jwjwt
execution was committed, and who, by executing those
enterprises witli the spirit with which they were greatly
conceived, have proved your majesty's just discernment
in the choice of them for such important purposes, and
have for ever endeared themselves to your majesty and
to their country.

, . Harmony of

' By this harmony of wise councils with corresponding wiae^
effects, have we seen an enemy, whose ambitious views Enemy,
had long threatened the independency of Europe, Europe,
humbled and brought low, and driven to seek assistance
from an ally, whose efforts have afforded none and Ally.
have but served to make it manifest, that the resources,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1762.

Strength.

Reflections

Security.
Arms.

War.

Blessings.

Loyalty,

Royal
house.

Person.
Goreru-
ment.

City seal.

New rental
of the city
estate.
Account-
ing.

Report.

Appoint-
ment of sub
committee.

Rentals.
Accounts.

which your majesty finds in the affections of your roiiku.
people, are not to be exhausted, and minister a strength
to your arm, thus raised in the great cause of justice
and of liberty, which we trust, no earthly power can
confound.

1 From reflections such as these and the confidence
we derive from them, do we taste the sweets of repose
and comforts of security amidst the din of arms and
the alarms of war. And we beseech your majesty to be
assured, that we feel the deepest sense of these blessings,
and that the true loyalty which hath ever distinguished
our city to their best kings, and which naturally led
them to an early and zealous attachment to your royal
house, shall ever remain with us unalterably confirmed
towards your majesty's person and government.
Trusting that we shall merit that grace, favour, and
protection, which your majesty's royal dispositions
incline you to impart to a dutiful, a loyal, and an
affectionate people.

' In testimony whereof, we have caused the common
seal of the said city to be hereunto affixed this 15th day
of October, 1762.'

[3.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed to make a new rental of the city
estate and settling a new method of accounting, had
made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for making a new
rental of the city estate and settling a new method of
accounting, met upon that occasion, and as we appre-
hended this to be a work of great consequence and
which would take up a good deal of time, thought it
could be better considered and effected by a sub-
committee, than by the general one, and therefore
appointed a sub-committee for that purpose, who having
met once every week for twelve months last past,
examined the most ancient rentals, treasurers' accounts, m. us.

'62.
Leases.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762. 93

and counterparts of the tenants' leases that could be it
found, and taken a great deal of pains upon the tl
occasion, made the annexed report, which we hope will Report,
be satisfactory and meet with your honours' approba-
tion.'

Sub-Committee's Report.

' We, the sub-committee appointed for making a new s,!bc<,,m-
rental and for settling a new method of accounting, SKSbm.
took the said matters under our consideration, as it
was an undertaking, which required several of the
city papers to be inspected, We regulated our pSS
proceedings by appropriating one day in the week for "'S6'
this year past to adjust the same. We can with great
satisfaction inform your honours, this salutary part of
the city business is now effected, which we hope will be
of singular advantage to the city. In order to acquire a
thorough knowledge of the city revenue, we examined
the most ancient rentals, treasurers' accounts, and ■««■■

Accounts.

counterparts of tenants' leases, that could be found, Leases.
and have taken abstracts therefrom, by which the term,
commencement, rent, and determination of each
particular demise will appear.

' We directed the same to be entered into books Books,
prepared for that purpose, one whereof, we are of opinion
should be kept in the Tholsel Office, and another given Thoisei

,, ., . , ° Office.

to the city treasurer, to regulate his receipts. We have Treasurer,
placed the subsisting leases methodically in an alphabet Leases in
by themselves in the city treasury, so that they may su/y. rc'
be easily resorted to upon any occasion. We observe Premises.
that the premises demised by the most ancient leases, Ancient

, , . leases.

are very imperfectly described, so that upon their
expiration, the city may be in danger of losing some
part of their estate ; to prevent such losses, we recom- Losses.
mend, that the treasurer and city agent should
immediately get the same surveyed, and the mears and S|6nn<1

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1762.

1762.
Lessees.

Grants to
city.

bounds thereof ascertained, but if any of the city lessees
should oppose or interrupt them therein, that they may
be compelled thereto, at law or in equity in such manner
as Mr. Recorder shall advise.

' We further inform your honours, that we have
inspected the several grants made to the city (by which
rents are reserved) and have taken abstracts therefrom,
which we are of opinion should be entered in the before
Payments, mentioned books, to regulate the treasurer's payments to
persons, who have any demands upon the city for
chief rys, rents, etc.

' We recommend to your honours, that the ancient
method of entering leases, to and for the city, be
strictly adhered to; and that futurely they be entered
periodically as they are made. We have taken into
our consideration the arrears of rent returned by the
late treasurer in his account, for the year ending
Michaelmas, 1761, and are of opinion, that the following
are insolvent and therefore should be struck out,
videlicet.'

Roll xxii
m. 118.

Leases.

Arrears of
rent.

Insolvent.

John Shelton, 70 years. ...

Richard Tryan, 28 years. ...

Watt Tyrrell, 22 years. ... 1

Daniel Hutchinson, 22 years. ... 22

Sir Standish Hartstonge, 4J years. ... 27

William Redmond, 2 years. ... 4

Ep. Cuthbert, 0 years. ... 10

Simon Martin, arrears ... 5

John Chaigneau, arrears ... 338

N.B. Daniel Cooke returned, £356.

James Sommervill, arrears. ... 234

Archbishop Dublin, 33 years. ... 4

Edward Surdevill, arrears. ... 76 10

Rebecca Seaman, ... ... 45 0

£ s.
3 12
0 14
13
0
0
0
0
0
0

0
2

d.
3
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0

0
6
0
0

£771 11 9

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762. 95

' Particularly as some of them have been compromised wea.
by the city, some of the premises in the city's hands, and S""0'
others lost by various accidents; but notwithstanding,
they are struck out of the arrears, we recommend they, Arrears,
together with the insolvent arrears formerly struck out,
be annually laid before the committee of auditors for
their consideration. We must observe, that several of
the city tenants, who have leases for lives with Cit5-

tenants.

covenants of renewal for ever, have been very deficient

in renewing their leases, by which the city have lost Lea**.

many sums by fines, and therefore we apprehend the

city treasurer, upon receiving such rents, should press

the lessees to renew their leases, otherwise that your lessees.

honours will compel them. We have directed the city

agent to make an exact rental of Newhall market, to Newhaii

i -i r -, market.

lay before your honours as soon as possible, by which
it will appear what annual income is received
thereout for the large sums expended by the city
thereon.

' We beg leave [to] inform your honours, that there is
a considerable arrear of rent due by the representatives Arrears,
of Giles Mee, which has been many years incurring, Mee.
attributed as we have been informed to the like annual
rent the city are subject to; we think it highly proper,
that matter should immediately be adjusted, either by
the recovery of £he rent and premises, or by exchanging
vouchers and receipts, if there is any demand upon the
city, and futurely that it may be the duty of the city
agent to bring ejectments for the recovery of all rents, fj^
that shall be in arrear two years and upwards.

' We have the pleasure to inform your honours, that the
city's estate is greatly increased, not only in the number city's
of the tenants, but in the value" of the rents ; which we increased.

'I enants.

apprehend to be principally owing to that salutary Kents-
method lately pursued of setting your estate by public Public cant,
cant, which we most earnestly recommend should be

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1762.
Renta

continued, and we are of opinion, that as your honours' Ron xxii.

m. 118 6

estate is fluctuating and increasing, your rental should
be annually attended to, to prevent its falling into the
citj agent, confusion that the former was in, and as the city agent
must or ought to be well acquainted with the city affairs,
we recommend that it should be part of his duty,
annually to attend the auditors in settling the treasurer's
accounts.

' We find, that the following parts of your honours'
estate remain unsold.

Auditors.

Account.

Parts of
city
estate
unsold.

The Little Green.

A piece of ground in Rosemary lane.
: Court of Guard, near Young's Castle.

Sir James Somervill's lot on South Strand.

Scavengers' lot on Merchants' quay.

Ground in George's lane, late Hughes.

A house in Cooke street, now in the possession of
John Wilson.

No. 14 Fleet street.
;No. 15 Aston's quay.

PuWic cant. 'Which we are of opinion should be set by public
cant with all convenient speed, and that such others, as
may hereafter fall into the city's hands, shall within
six months be set by public cant, and the highest bidder
to deposit a year's rent, as a security, to be repaid upon
their executing counterparts of their leases to the
city ; and as to that part of your honours' order, whereby
we are directed to settle a new method of accounting, we

accounting. are of opinion that the present should be varied and the
following method substituted in its place, by charging
the city treasurer with every particular article of the
rental, instead of the gross amount of each revenue, and
by inserting the arrears of rent returned the preceding
year, the annual rental together with the arrears

Bidder.

Kent.

Securit)
Leases.

New
method of

Arrears.

Annual
rental.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1762.

returned upon passing the treasurer's accounts, to be 1702.
annexed to each particular article in column thus.

Rental.
Arrears

No. Ten*

ants

Situation
of their
holding

Years or

preceding

year

Arrearsdue A j
preceding R t
year

Years due
upon

passing
treasurer's

account

Arrears due

upon

passing

treasurer's

account.

1. Corp-
Ten-
ants

Audeon's
Arch

£8 0 0

£10 0

£9 0 0

' This we apprehend will be more intelligible and
satisfactory than the former, particularly to those who
are not very conversant with settling the treasurer's Treasurer's

account.

account ; we are likewise of opinion, that the method of

the treasurer's discharge be varied, and that his Discharge.

disbursement

5 be put under the

ir proper heads of

Dishurse
uieuts.

Salaries.

Pipe Water.

Casual Expenses.

Rents.

Labourers at Rason.

Labourers at Oxmantown.

Interest.

Scavengers.

Toll Corn.

Annuities.

Tradesmen's Bills
Distinguished.

Pavements.

Gifts and Alms.

Mayoralty House.

' That the quarterly payments of rents, salaries, etc.,
be abridged.

'These methods at one view will shew how your
receipts and payments increase or decrease and be of
great use to those who will attend the management of
the city's revenue. We think it incumbent upon us
to acquaint your honours, that the Town Clerk and city
agent constantly attended your committee at their
several meetings and gave them great assistance and
information in this undertaking. We have introduced
the following articles in the rental and settled the arrear
of each particular to charge the treasurer upon his
next account.

Quarterly
payments.

Receipts.
Payments.
Increase.
Decrease.

Town Clerk.
City agent.

Articles.

Rental.

Arrear.

VOL. XI.

Mr. Jackson

dublin assembly roll, 1762
Annual Rental.

a house in Thomas street

Eoll xxii.
Annual Arrears due m. 117.
Bent. Michaelmas
176J.

£ s. d. £ s. d.

40 0 0 20 0 0

John Usher

Stephen's Green.

Water bailiff

50 0 0 62 10 0

Walter Donnigan
John Meacum
John Stoyte
Francis Smith
John Murtagh
Arthur Thompson
Joseph Druit
Thomas Dams
Samuel Fenton
Honble. Mary Hall
Mrs. Jane Carthy
Alice Cunningham
Alice Dobson
Revd. Thomas Milliard
William Wilks
John Gerrard
Anthony Green
Alderman Crampton
Henry Archdall
Francis Perry
Thomas Wilson
Henry Aston

Do. do.
Thomas Blair

No. feet.

1. 94.

2. 75 : 4.

3. 56 : 6.

4. 100 : 6.

5. 66.

6. 66.

7. 54.

8. 61.

9. 65.

10. 60.

11. 72.

12. 72.
18. 72.

Ancient Revenue.

College Green

do.

part of South Strand

do.

north side, Temple Bar

do.

south side, Temple Bar

do.

Fleet street aud Aston's quay

do. do.

at 13s. 3d.
at 10s.
at lis.

do. do. do.

do. Fleet street, south side

Thomas Blair,
Jeffery Foot,
Thomas Manning
Edwin Thomas,

William Adair,

William Darquier, at lis.

John Magrath, ai 8s. 6d.

Peter Butterton, at 7s. 3d.

Eobert Norris, at 7s. 3d.

John Baptist Cavillie, at 13s. 6d. per foot, do.

Edwin Thomas, at 10s. 6d. do. do.

Do. do. at Us. do. do.

William Delamaiu, Merchant's quay, advance rent,

Alderman James Taylor, Anchorage

26 0 0

28 0 0

16 0 0

26 0 0

25 0 0

18 0 0

12 0 0

13 10 0
30 0 0

0 5 0

8 0 0

7 0 0

5 0 0

10 0 0
22 1 0

11 4 0
66 0 0

40 0 0
83 0 0
30 0 0

41 5 0
90 0 0
32 16 0

26 0 0

28 0 0

16 0 °

26 0 0
12 10 0
12 10 0
36 0 0

6 0 0

27 0 0
30 0 0

0 0 0

16 0 0

14 0 0
25 0 0
20 0 0

0 0 0

39 4 0

33 0 0

140 0 0

124 10 0

15 0 0
20 12 6

at 9s. per foot Aston's quay 42 6

at 10s. do. do. . . 37 10

do. do. .. 37 8

do. Fleet street, north side 50 5

do.

do.
do.

do.
do.
do.
do.
do.
do.

36 6

22 19

23 2
23 11
40 10

37 16
39 12
39 12

120 0
100 0

m. 117 6.

226 15 0

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

Annual Rental.
Little Green.

Annual
Rent.

John Jones,
Charles Lucas,
St. Bridget's parish,
Arthur Shepheard,
John Wilson,

£
70

200
0

Thomas Cooke,

Dirty lane ferry
Three penny customs
ground in Little Ship street

do. do.

a house in Cooke street
Scales at Market house
Scales at James street and Stony Batter
Scavenger's lot, Merchant's quay

Mary's Abbey.

ground in Thomas street, formerly set
to Rebecca Seaman 6

All Hallows.

s. d.

0 0

o o

5 0

1762.
Arrears due . .

Michaelmas An°u,al
1761. rental.

£ s. d.

ildoyle,

No. 1.

172 10 0

36 5 0

do.

„ 2.

17 11 0

54 13 0

do.

„ 3.

26 0 li

78 0 4!

do.

,, 4.

12 15 6|

57 9 10

do.
do.

„ 6.

22 11 6n
19 6 10| j

20 19 2

do.

.. 7.

22 14 6i

do.

., 8.

29 5 4f

87 16 2i

do.

„ 9.

22 14 9

56 16 10i

do.

for life gratis

John Furnace
John Adamson

Do. do.
Revd. John Wynne
William Montgomery

Do. do.
Charles Boyd
John Adamson
John Templeton
Mary Acheson

1 We recommend, that all rents payable to the Sheriffs, ^^°
for the future be received by the city treasurer and by
him paid over to the Sheriffs for the time being, and that
an enquiry be made into those particular leases, so as
to secure the city's right. city's right.

' We must observe, that upon comparing the former
rental with the present, we rind several particulars gggj^
omitted, which we are of opinion should be enquired omitted-
into.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said order,
report and make the same an act of assembly: it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly.

[4.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the city leases.
committee appointed for inspecting city leases near
expiring, who were empowered to set some ground on Ground.

100 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL. 1762.

1762. Aston's quay and Fleet street part of your honours' r0u xxii.

quay. estate, have made the following report of the 10th of

Fleet ° r

street. September, 1762, videlicet.

Reports. ' We, the committee appointed for inspecting city

leases near expiring, who were empowered by act of
Lots- assembly to divide into proper lots, the ground and

premises belonging to your honours, situate on Aston's

quay and the north and south sides of Fleet street and
Public cant, to set the same by public cant for the term of 70 years

and three lives, to commence the 29th September, 1762,
meutstise* directed advertisements to be inserted in the public
Maps. papers for that purpose, and ordered five hundred maps

or surveys of the said ground to be struck off by the
pi-mter. °ity Prmter and given to such persons as should be

inclinable to bid for the same, and having met on

Tuesday the 20th July last, 1762, pursuant to our
Disposal of advertisement for setting the said premises, we disposed

premises. r

of them in the following manner, videlicet.

' No. 1, containing 94 feet in front to

Aston's quay, to Mr. Thomas Blair, at

9s., per foot, the annual rent whereof

is ... ... ... 42 6 6

' No. 2, containing in front to said quay

75 feet, to Mr. Jeffrey Foot, at 10s. per

foot, rent, ... ... ... 37 10 0

1 No. 3, containing 56 feet 6 inches to said

quay, to Mr. Thomas Maning at

13s. 3d., per foot, rent, ... ... 37 8 9

' No. 4, situate on the north side of Fleet

street, containing in front 100 feet 6

inches, to Mr. Thomas Blair, at 10s.

per foot, rent ... ... ... 50 5 0 m. ne.

' No. 5, containing in front 66 feet, to Mr.

William Adair, at lis., per foot, rent. 36 6 0

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1 762. 101

£ 8. d. 1762.

' No. 6, containing in front 66 feet, to JSSS."1

William Darquier, esquire, at lis., per
foot [rent] ... ... ... 36 6 0

' No. 7, situate on the south side of Fleet
street, containing in front 54 feet, to
Mr. John Magrath, at 8s. 6d., per foot,
rent, ... ... ... 22 19 0

1 No. 8, containing in front 61 feet, to Mr.

Peter Butterton, 7s. 3d., per foot, rent, 22 2 3

'No. 9, containing in front 65 feet, to
Mr. Robert Norris, at 7s. 3d., per foot,
rent, ... ... ... 23 11 3

' No. 10, containing in front 60 feet, to
John Baptist Cuvillie, at 13s. 6d., per
foot, rent, ... ... ... 40 10 0

'No. 11, containing in front 72 feet, to
Mr. Edwin Thomas, at 10s. 6d., per
foot, rent, ... ... ... 37 16 0

'No. 12, containing in front 72 feet, to

said Mr. Thomas, at lis., per foot, rent, 39 12 0
and

' No. 13, containing in front 72 feet, to
said Mr. Thomas, at lis., per foot,
rent, ... ... ... 39 12 0

'Which in the whole amounts to £466 4 3

' We observe that the premises are to be rebuilt, Premises to

. be rebuilt.

within three years, to be computed from Michaelmas,
1762, that part of it on Aston's quay, in an uniform
and regular manner, and that leases of the premises Leases.
being engrossed, they will be executed with all con-
venient speed.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said order,
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was

102 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1702. ordered, the committee's report confirmed and made an Eoiisxii..

act of assembly.

Gerrard. rj^-j j0hn Gerrard, setting forth, that the committee

appointed for inspecting city leases to whom his
memorial was referred, have made the following report,
videlicet.

Report. ' We, the committee appointed for inspecting city

leases, to whom the memorial of the said John Gerrard
was referred, praying to be exonerated from his agree-

Lots. ment for some lots on the South Strand, find that on

South .

strand. the 7th of May, 1757, the memorialist attended a public

Public cant. J * ' '-

xhoisei. cant held at the Tholsel for the disposing of the said
lots, and having bid for those numbered 6 and 7,
containing 42 feet in front to the quay, 7s. 9d., per foot
and for those numbered 8 and 9, containing the like
number of feet, 8s., per foot, he was declared the best
bidder and deposited in the hands of the late alderman
John Hornby, the sum of £20, until a lease of the
premises be perfected to him, the annual rent whereof
came to £33 Is. 6d., to commence the 25th of March,
1758.
Buiidin ' ^e nn<^ ^ia^ ^e kas expended, in building a wall

a wail. from near low water mark level with the quay
Qluiy. and filling the quay up to the top of the wall,
the sum of £30. Your committee, having con-
Memoriai. sidered the several allegations of the said memorial,
are of opinion and do recommend, on account of some
very particular circumstances laid before us, that the
Agreement, said John Gerrard be exonerated from his said agree-
ment and that the arrear of rent due by him for the
said premises be remitted, he not having made use of
the same.'
order. And the said John Gerrard praying to confirm the

said report and make the same an act of assembly : it
was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762. 103

[6.] Edward Scriven, setting forth, that the com- 1762.
mittee, to whom his petition was referred, have made Scnveu-
the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee to whom the petition of Edward Report.
Scriven was referred, met on the 8th of this instant
October, when the said Edward Scriven attended and
gave us an account that he disbursed for the city's Account
use last session of parliament the sum of £26 19s. lid.,
and that he constantly attended the house of commons n°n** of

commons.

during the said session in endeavouring to procure a
pilot bill, in obtaining a parliamentary bounty for the j^t'!11
Ballast Office, and in opposing the building the new Ballast
bridge to the eastward of Essex Bridge, for which he Newbridge.
had not received any consideration.

' We are therefore of opinion that he be paid the said Payment.
sum of £26 19s. lid., sterling, and in regard of his
attendance and loss of time in conducting these several
parts of the city's business, we are of opinion, he well
deserves the sum of £113 15s.'

And the said Edward Scriven, praying to confirm order,
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly.

[7.] Roger Kendrick, setting forth, that the com- Kendrick,
mittee appointed to inspect city leases to whom his surveyor.
petition was referred, have made the following report,
videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed to inspect city leases, Report,
to whom the petition of Roger Kendrick, city surveyor petition,
was referred, have taken the same into our consideration
and find that the petitioner spent a good deal of time Kme.
in tracing out some ground in and about Hoggen Green Hog&en

& & && Green.

and other ground called Tib and Tom, part of your Tib and
honours' estate, the situation whereof could not without
a great deal of difficulty be found out. We apprehend
that the discovery of these grounds will sometime ur Grounds.

m. 116 6.

J 04 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1762. other turn out to the advantage of this city, andEoiixxii.

therefore recommend said Roger Kendrick to your
honours' consideration, for the trouble he has been at
in discovering and tracing out the same.'
order. And the said Eoger Kendrick, praying to confirm the

said report and make the same an act of assembly:
whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,
Payment, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £20,
the same to be allowed on his accounts.

[8.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
wafer"1'0 committee appointed for better supplying the city with

pipe water, have made the following report, videlicet.

Report. ' We, the committee appointed for better supplying

water the city with pipe water [and for rebuilding the] course

Bason wan. under the bason wall, from the sluice at the south end

of the bason to the course at the north end thereof,

the same to be eighteen inches deep and twelve inches

wide, the walls to be of brick and fourteen inches thick,

and the bottom of the course to be nagged, and have

received the following, videlicet:

£ s. d.
Estimate. ' To 156 perch of brick work, finding all

materials, at 7s., per perch, ... 54 12 0

' To 97 perch of stone work, finding all

materials, at 6s., per perch, ... 29 2 0

' To flagging the bottom of the course and

running ditto with putty, ... 16 12 4

' To the covering the water course with

flags> 22 13 6

' To digging and clearing the course and

foundations and removing the surplus

mould, backing the walls and levelling

over the course for passage. ... 8 5 6

£131 5 4

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1 702. 1 05

1 Your committee apprehend, that by making this i7G2.
alteration, the inhabitants of this city will receive great Alteration.
benefit, as it will be a means of preserving a great
quantity of water for their use, and therefore recom- water.
mend that the same may be done with all convenient
speed.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said order,
report and make the same an act of assembly, and that
the said course be altered in the most frugal and
effectual manner, under the inspection of Mr. Reynolds, inspection.
Mr. Verschoyle, and Mr. Elliott, the expense attending Expense,
the same to be paid by the city treasurer and allowed
on his accounts.

[9.] Edward Scriven, setting forth, that he was some fjj.™1^
years ago appointed clerk to the city coroners, for which coroners.
and many other obligations conferred on him begs
leave in this public manner to return your Lordship
and honours his most grateful acknowledgments.

And the said Edward Scriven, praying to be at liberty order.
to resign the said employment, the resignation thereof Besigna-
was accepted of.

riO.l Jacob Scriven, setting forth, that the employ- Jacob

L J o i <j Scnven,

ment of clerk of the coroners of this city is become ^err0kn^s
vacant by the resignation of Mr. Edward Scriven, that
petitioner apprehends himself qualified for the same.

And the said Jacob Scriven, praying to be elected order,
clerk to the said coroners : whereupon it was ordered,
that the petitioner be appointed clerk to the coroners Appoint-
during the city's pleasure, at the usual salary of £20, salary.
provided he attends in person to discharge the duties
of the said office.

ril.l Certain of the commons setting forth, that part

Estate in

of your honours' estate in George's lane formerly gorge's
demised to Robert Hughes fell into the city's hands the Hughes.
29th September last, old style, that the said premises
are in a ruinous condition and require immediately to be

106 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1762. rebuilt, and therefore petitioners apprehend it will be Ron xxu.

survey. proper to appoint a committee to survey and set the m

same by public cant to the best bidder for the city's

advantage.
somervm. That by a late agreement with sir Quaile Somervill,
ifnecCe0nvey baronet> y°ur honours agreed to accept of a recon-
sonth veyance of the lots No. 35, 36, and 37 on the South

Strand. _. .

btrand, which has been accordingly executed, and
therefore it will be proper to set same to the best
advantage for the city.

order. And the said commons, praying to appoint a com-

mittee accordingly : whereupon it was ordered, that the
committee appointed for inspecting city leases be

Public cant, empowered to survey and set by public cant the above
mentioned premises for the term of 70 years and three
lives, from the 25th day of March next, and that they
do publish advertisements for that purpose.

[12.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that there

Arrearof is a considerable arrear of rent due to the city, out of

rent. J '

white a holding, in and near White Fryer street, formerly

street demised to Patrick Tallant, that petitioners apprehend

before a suit is institute for the recovery of the said

Letter of arrears, it will be proper to have a letter of attorney

attorney. , ,,

city seal, under the city seal and a lease executed to assigned
lessee, in order to bring an ejectment for that purpose.

And the said commons, praying to direct such letter
of attorney and lease be executed under the city seal
for the purposes aforesaid.

order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the city seal be

affixed to a letter of attorney and lease, in order to bring

Ejectment, an ejectment for the arrears of rent due out of a
holding, in and near White Fryer street, formerly
demised to Patrick Tallant, in such manner as Mr.

Recorder. Recorder shall advise.

[13.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that a

Balance. . , .

Murray. balance remains due from alderman Andrew Murray,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762. 107

of £360 9s. lid., received by him for toll corn for the i762.
quarter ending the 25th day of March last, that said To11 coru-
alderman Murray, being in expectation of soon
receiving a considerable legacy, will be thereby enabled Legacy
to discharge the same, and in the meantime is willing
to execute a bond to the city treasurer for the said
sum, for the use of the said city.

And the said commons, praying that the said order,
treasurer may be empowered to receive a bond from the Bond,
said alderman Murray, for the said sum so due by him : Murray,
whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do call
upon alderman Murray and receive from him a security security.
for the above sum of £360 9s. lid.

[14.] Sarah Burrowes, setting forth, that she nun-owes,
expended the sum of £10, in providing pens, ink, and
other necessaries for the Tholsel, and the said Sarah Thoisei.
Burrowes praying to be paid the same; whereupon it
was ordered, that the city treasurer do on the Lord
Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £10, the same to Payment.
be allowed on his accounts.

[15.] Jeffrey Foot and Michael Eagle, setting forth, Koot-
that at a cant held at the Tholsel for setting ground
upon Aston's quay and Fleet street, 20th July last, ^u s
petitioner Foot bid for lot No. 2 ten shillings per foot, neetstreet
amounting annually to the rent of £37 10s., that
said Foot finding the same inconvenient assigned his Assign-

° & went.

interest therein to petitioner Eagle. That said Eagle
is desirous to have a lease in his own name, rather
than be the assignee of said Foot.

And the said Michael Eagle, praying to grant a lease order.
to him of the said premises : whereupon it was ordered,
that a lease of the above mentioned premises be executed Lease,
to the petitioner Michael Eagle, in his own name for e^ic.
the term of 70 years and three lives, at an annual
rent of £37 10s., to commence 29th September last, Eent
1762.

108 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

1762. [16.] George Roe, praying to be continued gaoler of Eoiixxu.

of Newgate. Newgate : ordered that the petitioner be continued gaoler
of Newgate until next Michaelmas assembly, 1763, upon
his giving such security for indemnifying the city from
all escapes and for the faithful discharge of his office,
as the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs shall approve.

waller. [17.] Jane Waller, setting forth, that petitioner is

white, the only child of the late alderman Richard White, who

alderman.

was Lord Mayor of this city in the year 1746 and died

in that office in March following, that petitioner had

Mayoralty the honour to be mistress of the Mayoralty House during

house. J J ~

the administration of her father, that your petitioner
Distresses, has for many years past laboured under great distresses
. in body, mind, and fortune, and is now reduced to the
deepest necessity, and hopes your honours will take her
case into your consideration,
order. Whereupon it is ordered, that in consideration of the

particular circumstances attending this case, the rule
heretofore adhered to of allowing ten pounds a year
only, to the daughters of aldermen in distressed circum-
stances, be on this occasion departed from and that
the city treasurer, upon the Lord Mayor's warrant, do
payment. p&y the petitioner twenty guineas in hand and also the
Annuity, annual sum of twenty pounds during her life.
wood- QX8-] Mary Woodworth, setting forth, that her late

widow. husband, William Woodworth, deceased, was for several
years a freeman of the guild of merchants and served
the office of High Sheriff of this city, that by several
losses and misfortunes in trade, the said Woodworth
died in low circumstances and left petitioner in great
distress.
Order. And the said Mary Woodworth, praying to be allowed

the allowance usually given to the widow of Sheriffs :
whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner the
Annuity, annual sum of £10, during her natural life, the same

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762. 109

to commence from Michaelmas last, and to be allowed i-gl>.
on his accounts.

ri9.~| Arthur O'Neil, praying to be continued one of °'Neil-

L J ' r J ° Serjeant at,

the Serjeants at mace : it was granted, during the city's mace-
pleasure.

[20.] John O'Neil, the like. ONeii.

[21.1 Thomas Knox, setting forth, that at Easter Knox, mace

. bearer.

assembly, he was appointed mace bearer and officer of
commons to this city, that he has not received, since
he came into said employments, more than about thirty
shillings, which is far short of what he pays his
assistant.

And the said Thomas Knox, praying such gratuity order,
as should seem meet: whereupon it was ordered, that
the city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay Payment,
the petitioner £10, the same to be allowed on his
accounts.

[22.] State of the treasurer's accounts, for the quarter Jcrce^lX s
Michaelmas, 1762.

City of Dublin, Dr.

£ s. d.

To balance due the treasurer last quarter

121 17 10

To cash paid since

... 3635 9 I

£3,757 7 2

•

Per contra, Cr.

£ s. d.

By cash received since

... 3576 6 7

By balance due the treasurer

181 0 7

£3,757 7 2

[23.] Ballast Office report. g^t

' Since our last report to your honours, we have Keport.
proceeded in carrying on the east abutment with all Abutment.
the expedition the season would permit, and have made
a considerable progress therein, and have the pleasure

110

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762.

Piles.

Floats.
Gabbards.

Casb.

Hunt.

Ballast

Office

account.

to tell you, that it stands the tempestuous weather, we Bon xxh.
have had, without the least damage.

' We have also made all the progress in our power, m. n*.
in making good the damages of the piles and shall
continue so doing with all possible diligence.

1 We also acquaint your honours, that we are repairing
our floats and gabbards, and doing all other necessary
works in our power.

' An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, by
which we find there is a balance of £52 12s. 5d., on the
Ballast Office fund, and also a balance of £650 13s. lid.,
of the parliamentary grant in the hands of alderman
Edward Hunt, Ballast Master.'

State of the Ballast Office accounts, from the 14th
of July last inclusive, to the 13th day of October, 1762,
exclusive.

BaUast Office, Dr.

To balance of last quarter's abstract
To cash received since

£ s. d.
89 5 9£
997 11 1

?1,086 16 lOi

£ s.

191 9

501 11

140 5

69 18

14 10

107 10

9 1

52 12

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid since for raising ballast

By cash paid for repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries

By cash paid house rent and sundry disbursements

By cash paid for repairs on gabbards

By cash paid account of floating lights

By cash paid interest of money borrowed ...

By cash paid account new walls

By balance on hands

£1,086 16 10±

Ballast Office for the public money, Dr.

To balance of last quarter's abstract

To cash received since at his majesty's treasury

£ s. d-

464 0 3i
1000 0 0

£1,464 0 3|

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1762-63. Ill

ioll xxii. 1762

n- 1U- Per contra, Cr.

£ s. d. ballast
By cash paid for the south east pier for so much expended this account,

quarter ... ... ... ... 813 6 4£

By halance on hands ... ... ... . . 650 13 11

£1,4(34 0 3

1 Charles Rossel.— John Read. — William Forbes.—
Thomas Cooke. — James Taylor. — John Cooke. — Francis
Fetherston. — Robert King. — Benjamin Barton. —
Thomas Mead.'

1762. October 15. — Admissions to franchise. Franchise.

1762. October 21. — Declaration and signatures. Declaration.

1763. January 21. — Fourth Friday after the 25th of i7«s.
December, 1762.

[1.] Sir Timothy Allen, knight, late Lord Mayor, Alien,
setting forth, that at a post assembly held on the 1st
day of August, 1760, an allowance was fixed for Allowance,
succeeding Lord Mayors, at £2,000, a year, £1,500,
whereof are payable by gales at certain times and the
remaining £500, to be petitioned for by the late Lord
Mayor on Michaelmas assembly after the expiration of
the Mayoralty, that petitioner served the office of chief Mayoralty,
magistrate the last year and hoped with that honour,
dignity, splendour, and hospitality suitable thereto.

And the said sir Timothy Allen, praying to be paid order,
the said sum of £500 : it was thereupon ordered, that
the city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay Payment,
the petitioner £500, sterling, the same to be allowed
on his accounts, said petitioner having taken the oath oath,
directed by act of Easter assembly, 1740, in the presence
of Thomas Read, esquire, and Mr. John Hunt, they
being appointed by the commons for that purpose.

[2.] Auditors of the city accounts. cVt'yit01's

Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, alderman Thomas Cooke, alder »cc0"nt*-

112

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

Auditors,

city

accounts.

Masters of
city works.

Grange of
Baldoyle.

Acheson,
deceased.

Setting.

Order.

Survey.
Lands.

Public cant.

Kent.

Advertise-
ments.

man John Cooke, alderman Bailie, alderman Percivall Roiixxii.

m. 122.

Hunt, alderman Mead, sir Patrick Hamilton, alderman
Barre, alderman Forbes, alderman Sweny, and eighteen
of the commons to be named by the commons or any
nine of them, whereof the said Lord Mayor and one
of the Sheriffs to be always two, be and are appointed
auditors of the city accounts for one year, that is to
say, from Michaelmas, 1761, to Michaelmas, 1762.

[The eighteen of the commons : ] Sir Thomas
Blackall, Mr. Carleton, Mr. Dunn, Mr. Darragh, Mr.
Houghton, Mr. Green, Mr. Carson, Mr. Williams, Mr.
Emerson, Mr. Weld, Doctor Lucas, Mr. Hurst, Mr.
Vareilles, Mr. Kirkpatrick, Mr. John Hunt, Mr.
M'Donnell, Mr. Hartley, Mr. Calderwood.

Mathew Bailie, esquire, and sir Thomas Blackall,
knight, are appointed masters of the city works for the
ensuing year.

[3.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that a
lease of part of the city estate at the Grange of Baldoyle
lately fallen, expired by the death of Mrs. Mary
Acheson, the late tenant thereof, that petitioners
apprehend that the ensuing season will be a proper
time for the viewing and setting the same, the said
commons prayed to appoint a committee for the said
purposes, and that the lands may be set by public cant
to the highest bidder for the city's advantage.

It was thereupon ordered, that the above petition be
referred to the committee appointed for inspecting city
leases near expiring, and that they be and are hereby
empowered to view and survey the lands in the said
petition mentioned, and set the same by public cant to
the highest bidder for the term of 93 years, commencing m. 122 $.
from Michaelmas, 1762, that one fourth part of the
rent that the same shall be canted to be fined down by
the tenant at 16 years' purchase, and that advertise-
ments be published accordingly.

III.

Engraved by Heath from a drawing by Comerford.

RIGHT HONB,H HENRY FLOOD.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 113

[4.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that there i76{.
is a considerable arrear of rent due to the city out of ™!tearof
the ground and premises called Old Bridewell near om

Bridewell.

Oxmantown, formerly set to Sterne Tighe, that oxmim.

town.

petitioners apprehend before a suit is instituted for the Tighe.
recovery of the said, arrears, it will be proper to have
a letter of attorney under the city seal and a lease
executed to assigned lessee, in order to bring an eject-
ment for that purpose.

And the said commons praying such letter of attorney Order,
and lease to be executed under the city seal : it was
thereupon ordered, that the city seal be affixed to a city seal,
letter of attorney and lease, in order to bring an L<?tt,i,.f

" ° attorney.

ejectment for arrears of rent due out of ground and Ejectment,
premises called Old Bridewell, near Oxmantown,
formerly set to Sterne Tighe, in such manner as Mr.
Recorder shall advise.

[5.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that there
is a considerable arrear of rent due to the city out of rientearsof
a holding near the pipes, formerly set to Giles Mee, Mee.
that petitioners apprehend before a suit is instituted for
the recovery of the said arrears, it will be proper to
have a letter of attorney under the city seal, and a
lease executed to assigned lessee, in order to bring an
ejectment for that purpose.

And the said* commons praying such letter of attorney order,
and lease to be executed under the city seal for the
purpose aforesaid : it was thereupon ordered, that the
city seal be affixed to a letter of attorney and lease
in order to bring an ejectment for arrears of rent due Ejectment.
out of a holding near the pipes, formerly demised to
Giles Mee, in such manner as Mr. Recorder shall advise.

[6.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that they
are apprehensive that some irregularities have been toeguiari-
lately practised in some of the corporations of this city [£nPora"
by the masters having certified to the assembly, the Masters.

vol. xi. r

114

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1763.

1763.
Freedom.

Petition for
admittance.

Certificate.

Quarterly
meeting.

Order.

Franchise.
Certificate.

admission of some

to the freedom of

the Roll xxii.
m. 122 h.

Winstanly.
Deputy
Ulster
King at
Arms.

Payment.

Clarke.
City music.

Order.

persons
corporation, who were not admitted by the body at
large, that in order to prevent such practices for the
future. The said commons praying, that for the future
no petition, from any person to be admitted into the
liberties and franchises of this city, should be received or
read in the assembly, unless a certificate signed by the
master and wardens and clerk of the corporation shall
be annexed thereto, declaring that such petitioner was
admitted free in such corporation at their quarterly
meeting assembled in their hall or usual place of
meeting and by the majority of the said corporation or
the usual quorum thereof.

And the said commons prayed, that such order may
be made therein as should be thought fit : it was ordered,
that for the future no certificate shall be received
certifying the admission of any person in the freedom
of a corporation in order to his being admitted a freeman
of the city of Dublin, unless such certificate shall be
signed by the master, wards, and clerk of such
corporation, declaring that such person was admitted
free of said corporation at their quarterly meeting
assembled in their hall or usual place of meeting, and
by the majority of the said corporation or the usual
quorum thereof, and that the master of each corporation
be served with a copy of this order.

[7.] John Winstanly, deputy Ulster King at Arms, ~m, i2i
praying to be paid the usual fee of £5, for publishing
his majesty's proclamation for a cessation of arms :

It was thereupon ordered, that the city treasurer do,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £5, the
same to be allowed on his accounts.

[8.] John Clarke and the rest of the band of city
music, praying to be continued and paid £60, for one
year's salary, due and ending Christmas last.

It was thereupon ordered, that the petitioners be

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 115

continued, as the band of city music, for one year ending 1763.
Christmas assembly, 1764, that their salary of £60, now Salary,
due be paid over by the city treasurer to the right Payment
honourable the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, the same to be
allowed on his accounts, and that the said Lord Mayor
and Sheriffs do deduct so much thereout as they shall Deduction,
think proper on account of any neglect or non-
attendance by them in their employment, the residue of
the said sum of £60, to be paid the petitioners.

[9.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
income of the justices' office not being sufficient to office06*
defray the expenses attending the same.

And the said commons praying to grant them such Order.
allowance for supporting the same as should seem meet :
it was thereupon ordered, that the city treasurer do, on
the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay to the treasurer of the Grant.
said office £30, the same to be allowed on his accounts.

[10.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
lease of part of the city estate in George's lane. George's
formerly demised to Robert Hughes, expired the 29th Hughes,
day of September last, that a small holding in Rosemary Rosemary

, . • lane.

lane and some ground on the South Strand, formerly sontu
in the possession of sir James Somervill and John Stnmd"
Gerrard, are now in the city's possession ami
untenanted. That some time ago the city purchased your
tenants' [interest] in and to a parcel of ground called the
Little Green, which remains unset and is an annoyance Little
to the adjoining neighbourhood. That said premises <*™*
require to be rebuilt, and therefore your petitioners
conceive it will be proper to appoint a committee 1o
divide the same into lots and to set them by public
cant to the highest bidder for the city's advantage.

And the said commons praying to appoint a com- order,
mittee for that purpose : it was thereupon ordered, that
the above petition be referred to the committee appointed
for inspecting city leases near expiring, and that they

116 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

1763. be and are hereby empowered to divide into proper lots, Ron xxii.

Lots' the several parcels of ground above mentioned and set

Public cant, the same by public cant to the highest bidder for 70
years and three lives, pursuant to the late regulation,
to commence from the 25th March, or the 29th clay
of September next, as the committee shall think proper,
and that they do publish advertisements accordingly.

[11.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
city some years ago demised to different persons several

Newhaii small houses or stalls in Newhall market, some whereof

market

stalls. wjqi eXpire the 25th March, 1763, that same being small
tenements and set at small rents, petitioners believe it
will be for the advantage of the city to set them separate
or together, sometime before the expiration of the

Rental. present tenants' interests. That by a rental lately
made of that part of the city estate, considerable arrears
of rent appear to be due to the city thereout, therefore
do recommend that a committee may be appointed not
only to set the same by public cant to the highest
bidder, but to enforce the payment of the said arrears
with all convenient speed.

order. And the said commons, praying to appoint a com-

mittee accordingly : it was thereupon ordered, that the
right honourable the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, masters of
the works, alderman Thomas Cooke, alderman Mead,
alderman Crampton, alderman Sankey, alderman James
Taylor, alderman Barton, alderman Sweny, and
fourteen of the commons to be named by the commons
or any five of them, whereof the Lord Mayor and one
of the Sheriffs to be always two, be and are appointed

Public cant, a committee to set by public cant the several stalls in m. 121 j>.
Newhall market, which are either at this time out of

Leases. lease or will expire the 25th of March next, said leases
to be perfected by the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, and

Advertise- that the committee do publish advertisements

mentis. x

accordingly.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1763. 117

[The fourteen of the commons : ] Mr. Lamprey, Mr. 1763.
Dunn, Mr. Wooldrige, Mr. Rickey, Mr. Sinclare, Mr. commons.
Gibball, Mr. Waters, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Robert King,
Mr. Taylor, Mr. Poole, Mr. Truelock, Mr. Anthony
King, Mr. Collins.

[12.] Edwin Thomas, setting forth, that at a cant the Thomas.
20th July last, your petitioner took from the city,
several lots of ground in and near Fleet street, that Fleet street.
the possession of one of the said lots was withheld from
petitioner by Mr. Thomas Farragher, by which your Fanasher.
petitioner sustained great loss, not only by the time
the same was so withheld from him, but by several
fixtures and materials taken away, that petitioner laid
this matter before the committee then subsisting, who
were of opinion and recommended to petitioner to accept
of twenty guineas, as a recompense for his said losses, ^nse!1
but as the said committee had no power to draw on the
treasurer to pay the same, they referred petitioner to
the assembly for payment.

And the said Edwin Thomas praying to be paid the order,
said twenty guineas : it was thereupon ordered, that in
consideration of Thomas Farragher's withholding the
possession of the ground abovementioned from the
petitioner, that he be paid by the city treasurer twenty Payment
guineas, the same to be allowed on his accounts.

[13.] John Sleane, praying to be continued one of sieane,

Serjeant at

the Serjeants at mace: it was thereupon ordered, that mace,
the petitioner be continued one of the Serjeants at mace
of the city of Dublin, for one year ending next
Christmas assembly, 1764, on his giving such security
for the faithful discharge of his office and redelivery of
the silver mace, as the said Lord Mayor and Sheriffs
shall approve.

[14.] James Thompson, the like. Thompson.

TIB.] Edmond Madden, praying to be continued Madden,

L J r J ° inspector of

inspector of the city water course: it was thereupon ^^

118

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

i7«5. ordered, that the petitioner be continued inspector of Boil xxn.

r m. 121 b.

the water course for one year ending next Christmas
salary. assembly, 1764, at a salary of £10, to be paid by the

city treasurer, and allowed on his accounts.
Icpounter'3 [16.] Abstract of the treasurer's accounts, for the

quarter ending 25th December, 1762.

City of Dublin, Dr.

To balance due tbe treasurer, last quarter day

To cash paid since

To balance in the treasurer's hands

Per contra, Cr.

By cash received since

£ s. d.

181 0 7

2487 18 11

96 17 2h

£2,765 16 8i

£ s. d.
2,765 16 Sh

£2765 16 Sh

Ballast

Office.

Report.

Abutment.

Light

house.

Piles.

(iabbards.
Floats.

[17.] Ballast Office report.

Since our last report from the gentlemen of the late
committee of directors, the east abutment for the
intended light house hath been carried on with that
spirit and judgment most likely to accomplish a work
of such seeming invincible difficulty. It has been
completed to high water mark, on the 24th ultimo,
and I have pleasure to acquaint your honours, that it
promises the desired success, for notwithstanding a long
continuance of violent winds from the eastern points,
which alway produce the most heavy and turgid seas
in our bay, it has hitherto withstood its utmost fury. m. 120.

' The piles have suffered some damage from the late
tempestuous weather, and some few of them have been
carried away, but many of them have been again
recovered at a moderate salvage, and every proper care,
that the season will admit of, is applied to make good
those damages; the necessary care is also taken of the
gabbards and floats to keep them in proper order.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 119

' I further acquaint your honours, that on Sunday 1763.
the second instant, the floating light, by the violent J-jSJ!^
agitation of»the sea, broke loose from her chain and
would have been inevitably lost, was it not for the
timely assistance of the crew of one of the quarantine Quarantine

^ -1 wherry.

wherrys, who, at the manifest risk of their lives, saved
her, and brought her up between the walls; she was
replaced by the said wherry with such lights as she
could carry, until the floating light could be refitted,
which was done with the utmost dispatch and was
highly completed and moored on Saturday the 8th
instant.

' Abstracts of the Ballast Office accounts, with that Abstract-,
of the public money are hereunto annexed, by the
former, the balance on hands is £141 6s. lid., and Balance,
by the latter there is over paid flie sum of £36 15s. 7d.

' All which is humbly submitted to your honours.'

1 Edward Hunt.' Hunt.

State of the Ballast Office accounts, from the 13th Ballast
day of last October inclusive, to this 21st January, amount.
1763, exclusive.

Ballast Office, Dr.

£ s.

To balance of last quarter's abstract

52 13

To cash received since from ships, etc.

... 902 5

To cash borrowed.

... 1000 0

£1,954 17

Per contra, Cr.

£ s.

By cash paid for raising ballast ...

... 181 7

By cash paid for repairs on the piles

... 359 15

By cash paid salaries ...

... 142 5

By cash paid house rent and sundry disbursement*

88 8

By cash paid repairs on gabbards

... 401 8

By cash paid account of the floating light ...

70 15

By cash paid account of the new walls

... 569 0

By balance on hand--

... 141 6

£1,954 17

120 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1763.

1763. Roll xxii.

Ballast Ballast Office for the public money, Dr.

Office

account. £ a- <L

To balance of last quarter's abstract .. .. .. 650 13 11

To balance over paid on this account . . . . . . 36 15 7

£687 9 6

Per contra, Cr.

£ s. d.

By the east abutment for so much expended this quarter . . 687 9 6

£687 9 6

Franchise.

' Charles Rossel.— Joseph Hall. — Philip Crampton. —
Edward Sankey. — Robert King. — James Taylor. —
Francis Fetherston. — Thomas Mead. — John Cooke. —
Charles Burton. — Timothy Allen.'

1763. January 21. — Admissions to franchise. m. 120 1.

tion. 1763. January 27. — Declaration and signatures. m. U2b.

1763. April 15. — Second Friday after Easter,1 m.129.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed for setting several sheds and stalls
Newbaii jn Newhall market, had made the following report,

market. » -t '

videlicet.
Report, ' We, the committee appointed for setting several sheds

and stalls in Newhall market, had the same laid out
Lots. in five lots or divisions, and directed advertisements to

be inserted in the public papers, of our intention to
public cant, set the same by public cant, on Thursday the 7th of

April, instant, when' we disposed of them, exclusive of

the city wall in the following manner.
First lot. <The firgt lQt containing No. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and

Healy- 10, to Mr. Richard Healy for the term of 27 years,
commencing 25th March, 1763, being the term
unexpired of lady Allen's lease, at £27, a year.

1 Easter day, 3 April, 1763.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 121

' The second lot containing No. 24, 25, 30, 31, 32, 37, 1763
38, 39 and 43, to Mr. Robert Shimmin for the term of smSS*'
31 years, commencing 25th March, 1763, at £48, a
year.

' The third lot containing No. 62, 63, 66, 67, 70, 71, Third lot.
72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, and 78, to Mr. Anthony Ball Ban.
for the like term, and commencement at £50, a year.

'The fourth lot containing No. 79, 80, and 81, toFourthlot
Mr. Michael Roach, at £23, a year, for the like term Roach.
and commencement.

' And the fifth lot, being the butter stalls in the mth lot.
middle of the market, containing 60 feet 11 inches from
south to north, to Mr. William Willson, for the same wiiison,
term at £36, a year.

' Leases whereof are to be perfected by the Lord Leases,
Mayor and Sheriffs.

' We observe that the respective persons above named
have paid as a deposit, half a year's rent for each lot, De]1osit.
which is to be allowed them at the expiration of their
respective leases.'

And the said commons praying to confirm the said order,
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and that leases of the said several Leases,
lots or division* be perfected by the said Lord Mayor
and Sheriffs to the several persons therein mentioned,
pursuant to the said report.

[2.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the Mansion
committee appointed to inspect city leases and who are grange of

rr r J Baldoyle.

empowered by act of assembly to set the mansion house
and grange of Baldoyle, have made the following
report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed to inspect city leases, Report,
who were empowered by act of assembly to set the

123 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

1-63. mansion house and demesne of the grange of Baldoyle, Eon xxii.

Acbeson, lately in the possession of Mrs. Mary Acheson, deceased,

deceased. . m ...

directed advertisements to be inserted in the public
papers, giving notice that the said committee would

Public cant, proceed to set the same by public cant on Tuesday the
8th of March instant, to the fairest and best bidder, for
the term of 92J years, from the 25th March instant,
1763, on which day your committee met and put up

Survey. the said house and demesne, containing by a late survey
made thereof (exclusive of the cabins and gardens en
the north side of the road, including a small grove,
which contain one acre and one perch, and also
exclusive of 10 feet of ground), 38J acres, be the same
more or less, several gentlemen bid for the same, but

Adderiy. Thomas Adderly, esquire, having bid a yearly rent of
£113 15s., besides five shillings capon money, and no
person bidding more, he was declared the best bidder.
We observe that he is to fine down a fourth part of the

Kcut rent at 16 years' purchase, and hath lodged with the

treasurer 100 guineas as a deposit, and has taken
possession of the premises.

' We must further inform your honours that since the

Adderiy. said cant, Mr. Adderly attended your committee and
informed them, that at the time of the said cant, he

Entire hmd. did not know but that the entire land, as lately in
Mrs. Acheson's possession, was to be set together and

Land no part thereof reserved. That by taking the before

reserved. * JO

mentioned cabins, garden and grove on the north side
of the road, and the said 10 feet of ground adjoining
Eurnuce. Mr. Furnace, from the said demesne, will render the
whole very incommodious, insomuch that without them,
Mr. Adderly declared he would throw up the said land.
Your committees are of opinion that as Mr. Adderly
by far exceeded any other purchaser, he be accom-
modated with the said ground and cabins at the same

Eent. °

Leases. rent of £113 15s., and that leases be executed to

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 123

him of the entire ground as lately in the possession of 1768.
the said Mrs. Acheson, reserving liberty to Mr. Furnace Liberty,
to enter upon Mr. Adderly's land at all reasonable
times to repair his house.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the Order,
said report and make the same an act of assembly: it
was granted, the committee's report confirmed and made
an act of assembly, and that leases of the said premises Leases.
be perfected to the said Thomas Adderly, as lately set Adderiy.
to Mrs. Mary Acheson, deceased, for the term of 92£
years, commencing the 25th of March last. 1763. upon
the said Thomas Adderly's paying to the city treasurer Payment.
300 guineas on the perfection thereof, being the
remainder of the fine, at 16 years' purchase, and also
an annual rent of £85 6s. 3d., during the said term, Reut.
besides five shillings duties, a covenant to be inserted
in said lease, that Mr. George Furnace shall have Pnraace.
liberty at reasonable times to go upon the said land,
in order to repair his house, with such other clauses
as Mr. Recorder shall advise.

[3.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed for better supplying the city with
pipe water, had made the following report, videlicet. (Sty we

0 l water.

' We, the committee appointed for better supplying neport
the city with pipe water, inform your honours, that
we have examined the account of Mr. Richard Cave, Account,
supervisor, messieurs Samuel Callbeck and Francis ?T- ,

Callneck.

Gladwell, collectors of the pipe water revenue, for the oladweii.
year ending 1st November, 1761, and collected from
thence to the 1st November, 1762, the said account being
laid before us in a regular and exact manner, gave us
great satisfaction in the examining thereof. The
supervisor furnished us with a charge against the
collectors, which they admitted to be right and which
we also examine.

124

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1763.

,M_ £ S. d. Rollxxii.

1763- m. 129 6.

pipe water ' We find that the rent and arrears

account. , . , »

received on account of pipe water

amount to 2967 8 4-.»

' The receipts for concealed branches to 4 0 0

'For fines to ... ... ... 61 5 0

' The sum received by Samuel Callbeck

amounts to ... ... ... 1547 0 0

' And that by Francis Gladwell to ... 1484 16 8

'Making in the whole the sum of £3032 13 4

' And that a balance remains in the

hands of Samuel Callbeck of

£5 16 2i

Norway fir
and elm
timber.

' Your committee having been informed that the city
was in want of Norway fir and elm timber for carrying-
on the pipe water works, directed an advertisement to
be inserted in the public papers, that the committee were
proposals, ready to receive proposals from any person or persons
having such timber to dispose of, and that they on the
delivery thereof should be immediately paid, but your
committee have not as yet received any proposal about
the same.

' We find that at last Michaelmas assembly, it was
ordered that an alteration should be made under the
inspection of Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Verschoyle, and Mr.
Elliott, in the back course under the bason wall, from
the sluice at the south end of the bason to the course at
the north end thereof, which was thought would be of
great service, as it might be a means of preserving much
water for the use of the inhabitants of the city, and
accordingly the work was proceeded on, pursuant to
the said order of assembly, but some difficulties arising

Alteration
in back
course.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY HOLL, 1763. 125

and objections having been made by doctor Weld's 176.-?.

Weld's

tenants, who are supplied from that course, the further tenants,
progress of the work was stopped, which now cannot be
proceeded on, as the season is so far advanced.

' Your committee finding that the leaden mains are Leaden

mains.

a great and constant expense to the city, have directed
the same to be taken up and disposed of, and that
wooden mains be laid down in their room, as soon as wooden

' mams.

proper timber is provided for that purpose. Your
committee are apprehensive that proceedings at law Proceed-

x *• x o m^ at law.

may be had by some of the persons, who are supplied
from the back course, in order to prevent any alteration
being made therein by the city, and therefore do think
it necessary in case such proceedings should be had,
that the said committee be empowered to employ lawyers, Lawyers.
in order to defend the city's right thereto, and to draw city's right,
upon the city treasurer for such money as shall be
wanted upon the occasion.'

And the said commons praying to confirm the said
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted the committee's report confirmed and made en
act of assembly and the committee continued.

[4.] The right honourable earl of Mornington setting Eari of
forth, that the committee appointed upon his memorial, ton.
had made the following report, videlicet.

* We, the committee appointed upon the memorial of Report,
the right honourable the earl of Mornington, desiring
a renewal of a lease of a parcel of ground on Hoggen Hoegen
Green, find that the city at Easter assembly, 1682,
demised the said ground to Thomas Pooly for the term Pooiy.
of 99 years, at the annual rent of £20, that part of
the premises, containing about 151 feet, is by mesne
assignment vested in the memorialist. Your committee
viewed the premises, found the buildings thereon in a Buildings

ruinous.

ruinous condition, his lordship attended at our meetings,
and gave in two proposals, by the last of which he offers

126

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

1763.,
Proposals.

Lease.

Grafton
street.
Groean's
wall.

Building1.

Dwelling
bouse.

Order.

Lease.

Sum.

Edwards.

Fleet street.
Norris.

upon obtaining a renewal of the lease to give up at the ltoii xxu

1 & & r m. 128 i>.

expiration of his present term 40 feet in front and 18£
feet in rere of the said ground and to pay for the
remaining part thereof, containing in front 151 feet, the
annual rent of £75 10s.

1 Your committee having taken this proposal into
consideration, are of opinion that a lease, in reversion
to commence at the expiration of his present lease, be
made to his lordship of the said ground, containing in
front to Grafton street from Mr. Grogan's wall 151 feet,
and in rere from the said wall 118 feet, in consideration
of his lordship's building thereon a grand and
ornamental house for his own dwelling, with offices
suitable thereto, and laying out on the said house, the
sum of £3,000, at least, the said lease to be for 70 years
and three lives, pursuant to the late regulation.'

And the said lord Mornington, praying to confirm
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and that a lease in reversion,
to commence on the expiration of his present lease, be
made to his lordship of the said ground, containing in
front to Grafton street, from Mr. Grogan's wall 151 feet,
and in the rere from the said wall 118 feet, at an annual
rent of £75 10s., and five shillings capon money, his
lordship covenanting to build thereon a grand and
ornamental house for his dwelling, with offices suitable
thereto, within the space of five years from the 25th of
March, 1763, and to lay out on the said house the sum
of £3,000, at least, the said lease to be for 70 years and
three lives, with such other clauses, as Mr. Recorder
shall advise.

[5.] James Edwards setting forth, that on the 20th
day of July, at a cant held at the Tholsel, for setting
part of Fleet street, that Mr. Robert Norris bid for
lot No. 9 at the desire and for the use of said Edwards,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 127

and leases having been engrossed in the name of the 1763.
said Norris.

And the said James Edwards, praying to have a lease order,
of the said lot made to him in his own name : whereupon
it was ordered, that a lease of the above mentioned L^se.
premises be made to the above named James Edwards
for the term of 70 years and three lives, at an annual
rent of £23 lis. 3d., to commence 29th September, 1762, Rent,
with such clauses as Mr. Recorder shall advise.

[6.] William Darquier and Stephen Rudd, setting Kdf8r'
forth, that at a cant held 20th July last, for setting
part of Fleet street and Aston 's quay, said William ^eet^treet.
Darquier took thereat lot No. 6, at an annual rent ofqnay-
£36 6s., that since, said Darquier assigned his interest
therein to said Rudd.

And the said Stephen Rudd praying to have a lease order,
in his own name accordingly : whereupon it was
ordered, that a lease of the above mentioned premises Lease.
be made to Stephen Rudd for the term of 70 years and
three lives, at an annual rent of £36 6s., to commence Rent,
the 29th of September, 1762, with such clauses and
covenants as Mr. Recorder shall advise.

[7.] Sedborough Mayne, praying to have his salary Hayne.
augmented to £60, a year: whereupon it was ordered,
that the allowance of £20, a year, be paid the petitioner Payment,
by the city treasurer and allowed on his accounts, and
that his future salary be established at £60, a year, to
commence Christmas last.

[8.] John Winstanly, deputy Ulster King at Arms, wiustaniy,
praying to be paid the usual fees of £5, for publishing g?*«t
his majesty's proclamation of peace: whereupon it vvasArms-
ordered, that the city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's
warrant, pay the petitioner £5, the same to be allowed payme«t.
on his accounts.

[9.] Jacob Bryan, clerk, praying to be paid £10, for Jjg£j»
officiating in the Black Dog prison, due and ending prisCdnDo?

mace.

128 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

1763. 25th March last, and for an augmentation of his salary : uoii xxii

whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,

Payment, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £10,
the same to be allowed on his accounts.

Foudreii, ["10.1 Henry Fondrell, praying to be considered for

constable. L J J ' r J °

attending as deputy under the high constable : where-
upon it was ordered, that in regard the Lord Mayor has
Food. discontinued giving the petitioner either bread or meat,
payment, j-j^ ]ie ^e paj^ ^y the city treasurer £5, the same

to be allowed on his accounts.
""UnYat P-l-l R°Dert Hargrave,~ praying to be continued
Serjeant at mace for one year : whereupon it was
ordered, that the above named Robert Hargrave be
continued one of the Serjeants at mace for one year
ending next Easter assembly, 1764, upon his paying
£10, to the city treasurer and giving such security
for the faithful discharge of his office and redelivery
of the silver mace, as the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs
shall approve.

[12.] Abstract of the treasurer's accounts for the
quarter ending 25th March, 1763.

The city of Dublin, Debtor.

To cash paid since

To balance in the treasurer's hands

Per contra, Creditor.

By balance in the treasurer's hands, last quarter
By cash received since

Ballast [13.] Ballast Office report.

Report. ' The committee having taken the state of the office

into their consideration with an intention to lessen

Treasurer's
accounts.

£ s.

1651 2

ill

681 9

£2,332 12

£ s.

96 17

2£

2235 15

£2,232 12

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 129

the exjjenses thereof, do find a very great charge for 1763.
the repairs of gabbards, they appointed eight of the GabUirds!
members to make an exact scrutiny thereof, who have
made the annexed report, which we have agreed to and
lay before your honours for your approbation.

' We think the sum of money necessary to be borrowed Loan,
for the purposes mentioned in the annexed report, cannot
be less than £2,000, sterling, therefore pray, we may
be empowered to borrow the same, being convinced
that the savings, in the plan proposed, will more than
answer the payment of the interest.

1 We are sorry to acquaint your honours, that the
piles have received great damage both from the badness Piles.
of the weather and ships being forced against them,
the south east abutment has received no damage.

' We have agreed with Mr. John Smith, engineer, to smith,
carry on the new works for one year at £200, we have
also agreed with Benjamin Doyle to be employed Jggi
under the direction of Mr. Smith, as clerk, to keep an
account of the workmen at 18s., per week when
employed.

' We have examined the accounts referred to us, for Accounts,
the quarter ending 21st January, 1763, exclusive (an
abstract whereof is hereunto annexed), by which there
remained then in the Ballast Master's hands, a balance Balance.
of £141 6s. 7d.k sterling, besides the sum of £68 Bs.,
which was granted to the Ballast Master, by a late
committee, in consideration of his trouble in receiving
and paying the several grants from parliament to the g£,J££t
Ballast Master for carrying on the new works, with his
expenses and contingencies thereon, which sum of Sum.
£68 5s., we are of opinion the committee had not any
right to grant, and came to the following resolution on
the 16th February, 1763.

' Resolved, that the late Ballast Office committee Resolution
exceeded their power in granting the sum of £68 5s..

VOL. XI. K

130 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

1763. to alderman Edward Hunt, the Ballast Master, and KolJ *JT-

' in. 127 b.

that the said sum ought not to be allowed,
cash. < ^n ai3Stract of the cash is hereunto annexed, which

Balance. we have examined and find there is a balance.
Hunt. £113 14s. ljd., in the hands of alderman Edward Hunt.

Ballast Master, on the Ballast Office fund. We also

find, that alderman Hunt has over paid £34 0s. od.,

on the fund of the public money.

' All which is humbly submitted to your honours.'
Order. Whereupon it was ordered, to proceed as the committee

loan. shall direct, and that they do borrow on the Ballast
SeaL Office seal, the sum of £2,000, at an interest not

exceeding £5, per cent., to enable them to carry on the
Mead. Ballast Office works, and that alderman Mead be added
Hart- to the said committee in the place of alderman Hart,

deceased.

That said committee be empowered to appoint a
of Tmc^ suPervisor of the building and repairing of lighters of

the ballast and drudging the same in the channel for
salary. one year, at a sum not exceeding £70, pursuant to the

sub-committee's report.

That the Ballast Master be obliged to account for
giveny £68 5s., given him by a former committee, they not

having a power to allow the same, and that the present
Trouble. committee do reconsider the extraordinary trouble taken

by the said Ballast Master, for which the above sum

was given and report their opinion thereon to the next

assembly.
§££* State of the Ballast Office accounts, from the 21st

account. day of january inclusive, to the 13th" day of April,

1763, exclusive.

Ballast Office. Dr.

£ 8. d.

To balance of the last quarter's abstract . . . . . . 141 G 7

To cash received since from ships . . . . . . 048 11 6

£789 18 1

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

131

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid for raising ballast

By cash paid for repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries

By cash paid house rent and sundry petty disbursements

By cash paid for repairs on gabbards

By cash paid for account of j,he floating light

By cash paid interest of money borrowed

By cash paid account of the new walls

By balance on hands . .

1763.

£ "• d' Ballast
121 8 0 Office

account.
160 12 9

110 5 0

29 19 2J

74 9 0

29 10 0

120 0 0

113 14 1^

£789 18 1

Ballast Office for the public money is Dr.

To balance of the last quarter's abstract
To balance over paid this quarter

£ s. d.

9 2 10

C4 0 5

£43 3 3

Per contra, Cr.
By the south east abutment, for so much expended this quarter

£ s. d.
43 3 3

£43 3 3

1 Charles Rossel. — Joseph Hall. — Robert King. —
John Cooke. — Thomas Mead. — Edward Sankey. —
Francis Fetherston. — James Taylor. — Charles Burton.
—Timothy Allen.'

1763. April* 15. — Admissions to franchise.
1763. May 26. — Declaration and signatures.

1763. April 18.— Post Assembly.

[1.] " We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the city of
Dublin, have this clay elected by ballot from among the
four Sheriffs' Peers returned to this house by the Lord
Afayor and Board of Aldermen, sir Thomas Blackall
of Eustace street, knight, to the place of an alderman
of the said city, in the room of alderman Henry Hart,
deceased."

Franchise.

Declara-
tion.

132 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

1763. ' Charles Rossel. — Joseph Hall. — Robert King. — mi xxii.

r ° m. 126.

James Taylor. — Thomas Mead. — Francis Fetherston. —
Edward Sankey. — John Cooke. — Charles Burton. —
Timothy Allen.'

1763. June 3. — Post Assembly.
Election of n.l " We, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the citv

Lord L J J • J

Mayor. 0f Dublin, have this day unanimously elected alderman
William Forbes to serve in the office or place of Lord
Mayor of the said city, for the ensuing year commencing
from Michaelmas next, and do hereby return the said
William Forbes to you the Sheriffs and Commons of
the said city for your approbation."

" Charles Rossel, Lord Mayor."

[2.] " We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the Common

Council of the city of Dublin, have this day approved

Fortes, by ballot of alderman William Forbes to serve in the

Lord J

Mayor. office of Lord Mayor of the said city, for the ensuing
year commencing from Michaelmas next."

" John Read." \ .. „, .„ ,,
> Sheriffs.

" Joseph Hall." J

[3.] " We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the Common
Council of the city of Dublin, have this day by ballot
Nomina nominated the following eight freemen of the said city,
resident within the said city or the Liberties thereto
adjoining, each of them worth in real and personal
estate in possession the sum of £2,000, over and above
all his just debts, that is say, Robert Montgomery of
Dominick street, merchant, William Hurst of Hawkins'
street, merchant, William Bryan of the Old Bridge in
Church street, merchant, Richard French of the Blind
quay, druggist, Thomas Green of James' street, brewer,
Francis Booker of Essex Bridge, glass grinder, William

for Sheriffs.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 133

Dunn of Bride street, chandler, and Robert Burton of ires.
Liffey street, cooper, as fit persons to serve the office of Nomina-
Sheriffs of the said city, and do hereby return the for sheriffs.
names, with the additions of the said eight persons, to
you the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the said city,
in order to your electing two of the said persons to be
Sheriffs of the said city for the ensuing year,
commencing from Michaelmas next."

" John Read." )

-Joseph Hall." / " SheriffS-"

[4.] " We, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city
of Dublin, have this day elected Mr. William Bryan of Bryan,
the Old Bridge in Church street, merchant, and Mr. sheriffs.
Francis Booker of Essex Bridge, glass grinder, out of
the above named eight persons returned to us by the
Sheriffs and Commons, to serve in the office of Sheriffs
of the said city for the ensuing year, commencing from
Michaelmas next."

" Charles Rossel, Lord Mayor."

1763. June 7. — Post Assembly.

[1.] Certain of the commons, setting forth, that it
will be proper to address his majesty upon the Address.

1 i • . . George Iir.

conclusion of a peace, advantageous to his subjects and
satisfactory to his allies.

And the said commons, praying to appoint a com- order,
mittee, with the assistance of Mr. Recorder, to prepare
an address accordingly : it was ordered, that alderman
John Cooke, alderman Percivall Hunt, alderman Tew,
alderman Geale, alderman Sankey, sir Thomas
Blackall, and six of the commons to be named by the
commons, be appointed a committee, with the assistance committor.
of Mr. Recorder, to prepare an address to his majesty,
pursuant to the above petition.

134

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

Commons.

Address.
Geoixe III.

Order.

[The six of the commons : ] Mr. Darquier, Mr.
Lamprey, Mr. George Tucker, Doctor Lucas, Mr.
Kirkpatrick, Mr. Ricky.

[2.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed with the assistance of Mr. Eecorder
to prepare an address to his majesty upon the conclusion
of a peace, advantageous to his subjects and satisfactory
to his allies, have prepared the annexed.

And the said commons, praying that the same do
stand the address of this city, that it be put under the
city seal and presented to their excellencies the lords
justices, in order to be transmitted to his majesty: it
was granted.

Roll xxii.
in. 126 b.

Address.

' To the king's most excellent majesty.

Address. ' The humble address of the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs,

commons, and citizens of Dublin, in common council
assembled.

' Most gracious sovereign.

' We, your majesty's ever dutiful and loyal subjects,
the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, commons, and citizens of the
city of Dublin, in common council assembled, with the

security, utmost gratitude, remembering that security with which
through your majesty's protection, we were so peculiarly

war. blessed during the course of a long and perilous war,

conclusion, do now, at its conclusion, with all humility congratulate
your majesty upon that unspeakable pleasure which
you generously feel in seeing its horrors and calamities
every where cease, and in being the happy instrument
under heaven for the accomplishing so great a blessing. J
' Having the firmest reliance upon your majesty's

care. paternal care and gracious attention to the general

1 Conclusion of peace at Paris, of the war with France and Spain.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 135

good, we dutifully repose ourselves in an entire vies.
assurance, that the terms upon which your majesty hath Terms.
put an end to this war are honourable for your crown
and productive of lasting advantages to your people.

' We view those unparalleled successes, which have successes,
laid the foundations for peace, as the sure pledges of Peace,
its continuance, and considering the undisturbed enjoy-
ment of our religion, our laws, and our liberties under Religion.

Laws.

your majesty's auspicious government, as a state of Liberties,
the most consummate human felicity, deem conquest
only valuable as a mean to secure it.

' Permit us, most gracious sovereign, to take this and
every occasion of renewing to your majesty, the sincere
profession of our warmest affections and unalterable Affections,
loyalty, and when your royal endeavours, so glorious Loyalty.
and effectual in vindicating your dominions from Dominions,
sovereign injuries, shall by your majesty, as happily
be applied to the establishing domestic tranquility and
the improvement of the various blessings of peace, and Peace.
your kingdoms shall nourish under your majesty's
benign influence, may the demeanour of your faithful
subjects of this city be such in your sight, as to merit
their share in the general prosperity.

' In testimony whereof, we have caused the common
seal of the said city to be hereunto affixed this 7th day Citr seaI-
of June, 1763.'

' Charles Rossel. — Joseph Hall. — Robert King. —
James Taylor. — Francis Fetherston. — Edward Sankey.
-Thomas Mead. — Charles Burton. — Timothy Allen.'

1763. June 13. — Post Assembly.
[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth., that the
committee for regulating the tolls and customs of the Tons.

° ° and

city, have made the following report, videlicet. customs.

' We, the committee appointed for regulating the Report,
tolls and customs of this city, have taken the matter to

13f> DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

176:;. us referred into our consideration, as so important part Ron xxii

Revenue. 0f ^he c^y reverme depend thereon. We thought it

r?Xt. incumbent upon us to trace out the city's right thereto

from its origin, for that purpose, we directed Mr.

chaVYer's. Edward Scriven to inspect into the several charters

relative to the tolls and customs, and to get the same

Records, transcribed, likewise to search among the city records

for such information as might be there found, which

he has accordingly done, and hath laid his report before

us, which is hereunto annexed for your Lordship and

honours' consideration.

contests. ' ^re must inform your honours, that many contests

Farmers, have arose between the farmers of your tolls and

Freemen, customs and the freemen of this city, many of the latter

feoSnption claiming a right of being totally exempted from paying

paymg. custom, as this is a matter of difficulty, wherein the

right not only, of the aggregate corporation, but every

individual member thereof, is interested, your committee

could not take upon them to ascertain it, but submit it

to your Lordship and honours' determination; so as

collection, you may fix the collection of your tolls and customs

on a clear and indisputable foundation, however such

observations as occurred to us, we beg leave to lay before

you.

charters. ' By the charters mentioned in Mr. Scriven's report,

Grants. it appears that these grants were made to the city as

a body corporate, whether individuals, who constitute

part of that body, are thereby exempted, or whether

Body cor- the body corporate being invested with those grants

By.iaw. might not make a by-law obligatory upon every freeman

to contribute to the support of such corporation, your

committee conceive are matters should be maturely

considered, no by-law as yet can be found to determine

SjSt!" in these particulars, but from several recitals in the said m. 125 5.

report contained, your committee are inclined to think
cnstom. " it is implied, freemen are not to pay custom, yet we

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 137

find from the information of some of the oldest collectors nea.
and farmers of these dues, that many non-resident
freemen did and to this time continue to pay half Payment,
custom; from what time this regulation took place or
by what charter or by-law it can be supported, your
committee have not been able to discover.

' We think it absolutely necessary this matter should Mat,er

, . u adjusted.

be adjusted and all doubts removed, before your com-
mittee set the tolls and customs for the ensuing year, setting
or it may be productive of contests and litigations,
which may be attended with great expense.

' Your committee conceiving it to be a doubtful point,
whether freemen are liable to the payment of custom, Freemeu
submit it to the consideration of your Lordship and SSSSf
honours, if it would not be expedient to exempt them
from the payment thereof for all goods of their own „

° Payment.

property to be verified by affidavit upon any dispute,
(if required), and should any freeman endeavour to
colour any goods the property of a non-freeman, that the Good*.
laws of this city be rigorously put in fore© against them.

' Your committee have likewise examined the docket
regulating, the payment of custom, and find thereby, payment of
that all raw hides and bark going out of the city to ^JeT'
the Liberties adjoining, as well as to distant parts, are Bark'
chargeable with custom, and that leather, when dressed Leather.
or tanned, is also 'liable thereto returning into this city,
this we apprehend to be a hardship, particularly upon
a staple commodity, which subjects that article to
double custom, and if sent out of the city to the country
after, to treble custom.

' We also find, that some mills are erected near the muis.
city for slitting and manufacturing of iron, and when iron,
manufactured is mostly brought back into the city, that
the manufacturers dispute paying the custom, as they
are for the most part sent out of the city again, and
are thereby liable to pay custom three several times.

138

DFBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

1763.
Salt.
Works.

Hides.

Bark.

Free from
custom.

Goods
manufac-
tured.

Advertise-
ment

Proposal.
Mahon.

Ordor.

Goods of
freemen.

' We also find that for several years past, the city have
thought proper to exempt all salt made in this kingdom
from the payment of custom, to encourage these works;
we are of opinion, that it would tend to the honour of
this city and be an advantage to the public that those
manufactures should meet with all reasonable
encouragement, and therefore recommend that all raw
hides, going out of the city to any of the adjacent
liberties to be tanned, should be free from custom going
out, that bark going out to be made use of for tanning
should be likewise free, that all iron going out to the
several mills near the city to be manufactured and
returned into the city manufactured should be likewise
free from custom, and that all salt manufactured in
Ireland should be free from any custom, and we are
of opinion, that all goods going to be manufactured
and the materials made use of therein should be free
from custom, if they are to be returned to this city
manufactured.

' We have advertised the said tolls and customs to be
set the 17th of this instant June, for one year com-
mencing the 24th instant, and recommend the docket
to be varied in these particulars.

'We have received the annexed proposal from Mr.
Timothy Mahon, which we could not take into our
consideration, being only empowered to set the tolls and
customs by public cant, but we think it worthy your
honours' consideration, as coming from a person whose
good conduct has been experienced this last year.'

And it is ordered, that from and after the 24th day
of June instant, all goods and merchandizes, that are
really the property of any freeman of this city, do pass

Roll xxii.
m. 125 b.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 139

custom free into and out of the city, provided such m:;.
freeman do certify to the collectors of the customs the free.01"

... , ,. . Collectors.

quantity and quality of such goods, and that they are
his own property, that if any freeman of this city shall
presume after the said 24th of June, to certify that any
goods are his property, which are actually the goods
of any other person not free of this city, in order to
defraud this city or their farmers of the custom of such Fraud,
goods, such freeman to be proceeded against by the
city agent, as Mr. Recorder shall advise, in order to £ity afent-

, . Recorder.

his being disfranchised for such fraud and breach of Disfran-

, chi.sement

oath.

And it is further ordered, that from and after the
said 24th day of June, all raw hides going out of this Rawhides.
city to any of the adjacent liberties to be tanned shall
be free from custom going out, that bark going out to Bark.
any of the adjacent liberties to be made use of for
tanning shall be likewise free, that all iron going out iron.
to the several mills near the city to be manufactured
and returning into this city manufactured shall be
likewise free from custom, that all salt manufactured custom
in Ireland shall be free from any custom, that all goods
going to be manufactured and the materials made use Materials,
of therein shall be free from custom if they are to be
returned to this city manufactured, that the committee
be impowered to regulate the docket accordingly, and Docket,
that they do immediately order the same to be printed
with the copy of this order at the foot thereof, to the
intent that the farmers or collectors of the customs,
as well as all other persons concerned, may be fully
informed thereof.

And it is further ordered, that the said tolls and Tolls and
customs be set by public cant for one year, commencing ruuTcaut.
the said 24th of June, pursuant to the former order of
assembly.

140

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

1763.

Report of

Edward

Scriven.

City agent.

Charters.

Rolls.

Records.

Tolls.
Customs.

Particulars.

Freedom
of toll.

Customs.

Edward III,

Customs.

The Report of Edward Scriven, City Agent.

' The committee by their order conceived the 4th day
of August, 1762, having directed me. to look into the
city charters, assembly rolls, and other records, and
make a particular abstract of every thing, which might
be found therein relative to the city tolls and customs,
distinguishing the dates and connections they might
have with each other.

' In obedience to the said order, I have with assiduity
and attention, a matter of that importance required,
effected the same, from which the following particulars
appear.

That King Edward the Second, the 18th day of
June, in the 5th year of his reign, granted to the city
of Dublin a freedom of toll.

' That the said king, the 8th of September, in the
11th year of liis reign, granted to the city of Dublin,
an indemnity for taking of toll corn.

' That the said king, the 12th day of March, in the
16th year of his reign, granted to the city of Dublin,
divers customs therein particularly enumerated for four
years.

'That King Edward the Third, the 21st day of
October, in the 10th year of his reign, granted to the
city of Dublin, divers customs therein particularly
enumerated for five years.

' That the same king, the same day granted to the
city of Dublin, the same customs with some small
variations for five years.

' That the same king, the 25th of April, in the 17th
3^ear of his reign, granted to the city of Dublin, divers
customs therein particularly enumerated for ten years
in reversion.

' That the same king, the 12th day of February, in
the 20th year of his reign, granted to the city of Dublin,

Roll -sxii
m. 121.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 17i'>S. 141

divers customs therein particularly enumerated for five 176.3.

Customs.

years.

' That the same king, the 26th day of November, in Edward m.
the 32nd year of his reign, granted to the city of Dublin
divers customs therein particularly enumerated for 15 Customs,
years.

'That in a charter of King Richard the Second, the Richard n.
29th January, in the second year of his reign, is an
inspeximus of a grant to the city of Dublin by King Grant.
Edward the Third, the 20th day of December, in the
18th year of his reign, of customs for 21 years. customs.

1 That King Charles the Second, by his charter dated charts 11.
the 4th day of September, in the 28th year of his reign,
reciting that the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, commons and Lord

^ Mayor .

citizens of Dublin, by their petition informed him that Petition.
several of his predecessors, kings and queens of
England, had been graciously pleased for the portage,
mureage, and paveage of the said city, to grant unto
them several charters for the receiving and taking the charters,
inland customs, commonly called the customs of the iniaud
gates, for such things as were brought into the city and
suburbs thereof, there to be exposed to sale, and for
such things as were carried out of the said city, of the
validity of which charters some doubts had lately
arisen, and that the said Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, commons,
and citizens had humbly besought him, that he would
be graciously pleased by a new charter to grant and New
confirm to them and their successors for ever, the
having, receiving, and taking the said customs.

1 Reciting, the same being referred to the lord L°i-d ii<m-

tenant.

lieutenant, who had reported, that he considered said
petition and conceived it necessary that letters patent Le^3
be passed, containing a grant unto petitioners, for taking
said customs to them and their successors for ever, in customs,
as large and ample manner as they had been formerly
granted to them by any other charter, or had by them

142 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

1763. been enjoyed accordingly by virtue of same, with aRoiixxi:

ill. 124 b

Petitioners, proviso that the petitioners for seven years should be
disposed to such public uses for the benefit of said

Corpora, corporation, as the chief governor for the time being
should appoint, and reciting, that said petition and
report was referred to the high treasurer of England,
who fully agreed therewith, did thereby grant and

Mayor. conform to the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, commons, and
citizens of the said city of Dublin, all those customs,

thet0Ites0f commonly called the customs of the gates, for such
things as were or at any time hereafter should be

Dublin. brought into the said city of Dublin, or suburbs thereof,
there to be exposed to sale.

' And also for such things as were or should be

Liberty to carried out of said city, together with full liberty,

receive aud •> ' ° J

collect. license, power, or authority, to have, receive, collect,
and take the same, in as large and ample manner, as
the same had been granted to them or their predecessors,
by any other charter or letters patent from him or any
of his royal predecessors, and had been by them enjoyed

To hold the accordingly by virtue of the same. To hold the

customs.

aforesaid customs, together with their rights, members,

perquisites, and appurtenances thereunto belonging to

Lord the said Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, commons, and citizens.

Mayor. J '

and their successors for ever, the said customs to be
Receipt, received and collected by them, their agents, and

Collection. _ J B »

servants, without rendering any manner of account to

him or his heirs or successors of or for the same, provided

that the profits of said customs for seven years should be

disposed of to such public uses for the benefit of the

said corporation, as the said lord lieutenant should

appoint.

charters. ' That there are several charters from the kings of

citizens England to the city, granting to the Mayor and citizens

and to their heirs and successors for ever, that they be

customs!21 free from mureage, paveage, pontage, passage, key age,

scavenger.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 143

and from all other like customs of the merchandizes, 1763.
and of all their goods of what kind so ever, throughout
their kingdom, their land of Ireland, and their Ireland.
dominion.

' In consequence of the before mentioned several
charters, the corporation of the city of Dublin appointed corporation
toll men and custom men to receive and collect the Toil men. '
said tolls and customs at the respective avenues leading men.
to this city, and deliver to them a metal dish, upon Metal Dish,
which is inscribed :

"A Toll Dish belonging to the City of Dublin, con- Ton Dish.

0 ° J ' Dublin.

taining a Pottle and Chappen Stricken Measure, Measure,
according to the antient standard lodged in the Tholsel." Thoisei.

' By the rolls of assembly of Midsummer, 1576, it
was ordered that no freeman should pay custom for Freeman.

WOOd. Wood.

1 At Christmas assembly, 1660, it was ordered that oity

" scave

the city scavenger should receive the city tolls. Toils

' At Michaelmas assembly, 1661, the city agent was

directed to maintain a suit commenced against the suit.

scavenger for taking toll.

1 At a post assembly, 9th November, 1668, William

Harvey, was continued scavenger and authorized to Hnrvey,

* ° scavenger

collect the tolls.

' At a post assembly the 13th August, 1675, a lease Lease.
was granted to William George of the toll of the George,
market, theretofore usually received by William market.
Harvey, for 21 years at £50, a year, and the usual
quantity of corn to the Lord Mayor, to be bound to com to

Lord

pave and clean the streets, describes the particular Mayor,
streets to be cleansed.

' At Christmas assembly, 1682, a lease of the customs Lea3e of
was granted for seven years at £450, a year. customs.

' At Michaelmas assembly, 1686, a lease was granted Lease.
to Sir John Knox, of the toll corn, for one year at Tonu com.
£1,120; £100, whereof was ordered to the Lord Mayor. M°ajir.

144

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

1763.
James"
street
market.

Market
days.

Customs.
Grants.

Lease.
Mottley.

Corpora-
tion of

tanners.

Quakers
admitted
free.

Customs.

Quakers.

Corpora-
tion of
Tanners.

Liberties
Dublin.

Donore.

Davis.

Kilmain-

ham.

' At a post assembly, 13th September, 1687, James'
street was appointed a market for hay, straw, firs, and
Kilkenny coals, at the instance of the Earl of Limerick,
and Tuesdays and Fridays were fixed for market days,
to be regulated by the Lord Mayor for the time being,
reserving to the city the full* benefit of their antient
and usual customs and former grants, provided no new
impositions be laid on the subjects for standings.

' A lease was granted to Walter Mottley of the
customs, he being bound to pave and keep well paved
the broad streets of Saint Thomas street and James'
street, to Corn market, and other pavements particularly
mentioned.

' At Michaelmas assembly, 1691, a reference was
appointed between the corporation of tanners and the
city, the former claiming a right to be freed from the
duties and customs of the gates.

' At Christmas assembly, 1691, several Quakers were
admitted free and ordered that they should have the free
benefit of merchandiseing and using and exercising their
several trades, as any other freemen have, and that they
be exempted from paying all three penny customs and
petty duties, as any other freeman, are exempted.

' At Midsummer assembly, 1693, several Quakers
admitted in the same manner.

' At Christmas assembly, 1693j the same.

' At Christmas assembly, 1695, it was ordered on a
petition of the master, wardens, and corporation of
tanners, that the free brethren of the said corporation,
being free of this city and inhabiting within the
Liberties of Saint Thomas Court, in the city of Dublin,
or within the Liberties of Donore in the county of
Dublin, as also Thomas Davis of Kilmainham, shall
be free and exempted from paying the city custom,
commonly called the custom at the gates, as other
freemen of their corporation are.

Roll xxi<
m. 123.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 145

1 At Christmas assembly, 1706, it was ordered that 1753.
goods of the woollen manufactory, leather, and other goo'ds.6"
goods made out of the Liberties of this citv by foreigners Liberties.

' Foreigners.

which were brought into the city and sold by them
without paying custom, to the great discouragement of Custom,
freemen, should pay custom.

' At Easter assembly, 1736, a report was made by
the committee of tolls and customs, that the produce of Committee

1 of tolls and

this part of the citv revenue was lessened by freemen, cust°ms.

m Revenue.

who took upon them to colour foreigners' goods and to Freemen,
pass them custom free, where the property was not in
such freeman. That for the future, all leather and other
goods and merchandizes should be obliged to pay the goods.

13 o ± ./ Paymeutof

usual custom, where the actual property was not in custom.
some freeman of this city, which such freeman should
prove upon oath.

1 And therein is likewise a regulation respecting the
salt works at Ring's End. mngVEnd.

' That by the freeman's oath, it is expressly mentioned
that the franchises and customs, they shall maintain. Franchises.

° Customs.

' That they shall be contributory to all charges. charges.

' That they shall colour no foreigners' goods, whereby Foreigners'

goods.

the king or this city might lose their customs.

' That they shall not be free, baker, butcher, or fisher. Raker.

J Butcher.

without they pay custom.' Fisher.

' I have now laid before your Lordship and the
committee, everything I could meet with relative to this
tedious and troublesome enquiry, which is submitted
to you, by

' Your Lordship and honours'

' Most obedient, humble servant,
' Edward Scriven."

1 Charles Rossel. — Joseph Hall. — Robert King. —
Thomas Mead. — Francis Fetherston. — Edward
Sankey. — John Cooke. — Charles Burton. — Timothy
Allen.'

VOL. XI. L

1763.

Audit of
accounts.

Geale,

city

treasurer.

Report.

146 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

July 22. — Fourth Friday after the 24th of Ron xxii.

Accoun-
tant.

Rental.

Arrears.

Disbinse-

ments.

Payment.

Arrears.
Rentnl.

1763
June.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed to audit the accounts of alderman
Benjamin Geale, treasurer of the said city, for the year
ending Michaelmas last, 1762, have made the following
report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed to audit the accounts
of alderman Benjamin Geale, city treasurer, for the
rents, issues, and profits accruing to the said city,
commencing the 29th day of September, 1761, and
ending the 29th day of September, 1762, and for the
casualties ending at the same time, have examined the
said accounts and the vouchers relative thereto, with the
strictest attention.

' We must inform your honours, that the accountant,
pursuant to the late regulation appointed by act of
assembly, hath methodically laid before us a complete
rental of the city estate, the arrears of rent due
Michaelmas, 1761, and the arrears of rent due the 29th
of September, 1762, in such a manner as appears to
us both satisfactory and useful; we find his disburse-
ments distinguished under the proper heads, so as to
ascertain the amount of each particular, together with
the periods of every respective payment, and through
the whole of his accounts gave us entire satisfaction.

'We charged him with the arrears of rent due at
Michaelmas, 1762, as also with the entire rental of your
estate and other, the issues and profits, ending
Michaelmas, 1762, and with such casualties as fell due
to the city in that time, the arrears of rent, returned
by the accountant to be due at Michaelmas, 1762,
amount to £7,083 5s. lOJd. But we beg leave to observe
to your Lordship and honours, that the arrear being
swelled to so great a sum is owing to several articles
having been introduced into the charge against the

m. 136.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 147

present treasurer, which were not brought into the 1763.
former treasurer's account, and that part thereof
amounting to about £2,300, from particular circum-
stances appears to be precarious, and that most part of *f ^
the remaining arrear, the treasurer informed us, has 'irecanm,s
been discharged since September, 1762, from the state
of the city accounts laid before us, your committee are Accounts
of opinion uncommon attention hath been had to the Attention,
city revenue, otherwise the treasurer must have been Revenue,
incapable of discharging the heavy demands upon him, Demands,
for he disbursed the last year for the city's use,
£1,813 16s. 5Jd., more than was disbursed by the late
treasurer the preceding year, it appears on passing this
account, that there is a balance of £955 5s. 10|d., due Balance,
by the city to the accountant.

' There is in the hands of the treasurer, a bond of Bo^-
alderman Andrew Murray for the sum of £360 9s. lid., Murky.
for the use of the city, which is not brought into the
account, the rental charge and disbursements together,
with a general state of the whole account, is now
laid before your Lordship and honours.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said order,
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, that the accounts in said report A««°unts
mentioned be immediately printed, and for the future
the committee of auditors, upon examining and passing
the treasurer's accounts, shall give directions to the city city
printer to print them forthwith, and that a copy of the ciV*"
same be left with every member of either house, eight Member.
days before the usual assembly for passing of the same.

[2.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed to set by public cant, the tolls, T°iisand

° L ' customs.

customs, and petty customs belonging to the corporation
of the city of Dublin, for one year commencing the
24th of June, 1763, have made the following report,
videlicet,

148

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

1763.
Keport.
Public cant
Tolls.
Customs.

Advertise-
ments.

Lots.

1. Kelly.

2. White.

3. Mahon.

4. Taylor.

Customs.
Mahon.

Deposits.
Security.

Order.

Committee,

Bailie
Hart,

ll. C'UM'll.

Cleansing
streets.

' We, the committee appointed to set by public cant, r0ii

m. 136 b

the tolls, customs, and petty customs belonging to the
corporation of the city of Dublin, for one year
commencing the 24th day of June, 1763, directed
advertisements to be inserted in the public papers, giving
notice, that we would proceed to set the same, as now
divided into lots or divisions, on the 17th of said month
of June, at which time your committee met and disposed
of the said lots or divisions as follows, videlicet.

' The lot or division No. 1. containing the avenues
of James' street, the Park gate and Dolphin's barn, to
Mr. Mathew Kelly, for £2,120, a year.

' The lot or division No. 2. containing the avenues
of Stony Batter and Glassmahonoge, to Mr. Richard
White, for £970, a year.

' The lot or division No. 3. containing the avenues of
Dromcondra. lane and Ballybough bridge, to Mr. James
Mahon, for £350, a year.

'The lot or division No. 4. containing the avenues
of Stephen's Green, Ball's bridge, and Kavan's Port,
to Mr. William Taylor, for £100, a year.

' And the petty customs, to Mr. James Mahon, for
£200, a year.

' We observe, that the several persons above mentioned
have paid to the city treasurer their deposits and entered
security for the payment of their respective proportions
of the sums remaining, on the 24th day of every month,
during the said year, except for the petty customs.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said
report, and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and the committee continued, and that
alderman Bailie be added to the said committee, instead
of alderman Hart, deceased.

[3.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed for cleansing the nine divisions or

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 149

lots into which the city has been divided, for three 1763.
years from Michaelmas next, have made the following
report, videlicet.

1 We, the committee appointed for setting the Report,
cleansing of the nine divisions or lots into which the
city has been divided, for three years from Michaelmas
next, had advertisements inserted in the public papers Advertise-
for that purpose, and having met on the 27th of June
last, set the cleansing of the said lots, including all the Lots.
new streets and lanes, in the following manner,
videlicet.

'The lot No. 1. on the north side of the river, to 1. Robinson.
Mr. Henry Robinson, at £138, per annum.

' No. 2. on the same side, exclusive of the city stables 2. Robinson,
and yard in Barrack street, to Thomas Eobinson, at
£197, per annum.

' No. 3. on the same side, to Thomas Sloane, at £68, 3. sioune,
per annum.

1 No. 4. on the south side, to John Smyth, at £155, 4. smyth.
per annum.

' No. 5. to John Shea, at £104, per annum. 5. shea.

1 No. 6. to George Gold, at £58, per annum. 6. goia

' No. 7. to Thomas Chaytor, at £63, per annum. 7. chaytor.

' No. 8. to Thomas Dry, at £180, per annum. s. Dry.

' And No. 9. to. Thomas Styles, at £108, per annum. 9. styles.

1 The above named persons are to enter into security, security.
to be approved of by the right honourable the Lord
Mayor and Sheriffs, for the effectual cleansing of their
several divisions, pursuant to act of parliament.

' We also set the herbage of Saint Stephen's Green to Herbage.
William Brenan, until the 29th day of September next, Breuan.
for the sum of £70, the hay to be drawn off on or before
the said 29th day of September, and the Green to be
then given up.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said order,
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was

150

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

City pipe
water.

Report.

Weir.
Water-
course.
Temple Oge
Douivill.

Breaches.
Letter.

Eepair.

Expense.

Water
supply.

Advertise-
ment,

Scheme.

Tholsel.

Smith.
Litfey.
Island
Bridge.

Basou.
River.

Engiue.

granted, the committee's report confirmed and made aiiBoiixxii.

& r . m. 135.

act of assembly, and the committee continued.

[4.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed for better supplying the city with
pipe water, have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for better supplying the
city with pipe water, inform your honours, that on the
1st of July instant, we viewed the weir and water course
at Temple Oge, which sir Compton Domvill is by agree-
ment and in consideration of his being paid the sum
of £100, per annum, is to keep in thorough repair, and
having found many breaches and defects therein, we
directed a letter to be wrote to sir ComptOn, acquainting
him therewith, which was accordingly done, and no
answer yet received. We are therefore of opinion, that
unless the said several breaches be made up and the
defects repaired, that your committee be empowered
to give directions to have the same done immediately,
and that the expense thereof ought to be deducted out
of the said sum of £100.

1 The committee having under consideration the more
effectual supplying the city with water, directed an
advertisement to be inserted in the public papers,
requesting all persons who might have any scheme or
proposal to offer for that purpose to lodge the same
in the Tholsel Office, in order to their being laid before
the committee, three only have been lodged, and in
regard this is a matter of very great consequence and
importance to the city, we have deferred the considera-
tion of them for some time, when we hope others will
be lodged and laid before us.

1 We desired Mr. John Smith to view the river Anna
Liffey at or near Island Bridge, and to examine the
difference of the height from the bason to the river,
and the practicability of throwing the water by an
engine from thence into the bason, and what quantity

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 151

within a given time, and that he should likewise view 1763.
the situation of the Park, his scheme has been lodged Park,
and shall be likewise considered.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said order,
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committer's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and the committee continued.

[5.] Edward Scriven, setting forth, that the com- soriven.
tnittee of auditors, to whom his petition was referred,
have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee of auditors, to whom the petition Report,
of Mr. Edward Scriven was referred, met on the 11th of
July, instant, and examined into the allegations of the
same, find, that he, as law agent, has transacted business tawageui
for the city from Michaelmas. 1761, to this time, without
receiving any salary, your committee are well convinced
of his knowledge in city business, and of his capacity Business.
to discharge the same, and in consideration of the great
increase of the city revenue and various other business Revenue.
necessary for the city agent to attend, and also for the
particular attention given by him in settling the city
rent-roll, and making several extracts relative to the Rent roii.
tolls and customs, are of opinion and do recommend
that he be appointed city agent at a salary of £50, a g,1,13'i.lly''"''
year, to commence from Michaelmas, 1761.'

And the said Edward Scriven, praying to confirm order,
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and the said Edward Scriven scriven

^ appointed

be, and is hereby appointed city agent during the city's city agent,
pleasure, at an annual salary of £50, sterling, to salary,
commence from the 29th day of September, 1761, that
it be his duty to assist the city treasurer in collecting
the city's rent, and annually to assist the city auditors
in stating and settling the treasurer's accounts, that he
attend all the committees of this city when called upon,

152

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

1763.

City pipe

water.

Report.

Water-
course.

Dolphin's
Barn.

Stiles.

Passage.

Expense.
Order.

Mitchell,

city

chaplain,

curate to

Saint

Ann's.

Mayoralty

house.

Kathdrum.
Vicarage.

Tithes.

Order.

and give his assistance in everything relative to the r0h xxii.

... m- 135 b.

revenue of this city.

[6.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
pipe water committee, to whom their petition was
referred, have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for supplying the city
with pipe water, to whom the within petition was
referred, are of opinion that, that part of the water course
which has been arched over leading from the toll house
in Dolphin's Barn to Dillon's pavement, be covered, and
the ground about it levelled and repaired, that stiles
be put up at either end to prevent horsemen and
carriages going over the same, the intent only being to
secure a foot passage of six feet in breadth and to
preserve the arch, the said work to be done under the
inspection of Mr. Verschoyle, Mr. Cartland, and Mr.
Elliot, and not to exceed the sum of £16 16s.'

[7.] The reverend Coote Mitchell, setting forth, that
when chaplain to this city, he was curate to Saint
Ann's and had an appointment of £120, a year, that
he lived in the Mayoralty House free and without
expense. That upon the death of the reverend Thomas
Buckly, late vicar of Rathdrum, he was appointed to
the said vicarage and had a promise from the then
Lord Mayor, that the city would be applied to, to
purchase for him the rectorial tithes of the said parish,
which have only ten years to run and are set by
Nehemiah Donellan, esquire, for £32 10s., a year during
that time, and therefore prayed, that the said tithes
might be purchased for him accordingly.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the committee
appointed for inspecting city leases near expiring, to

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 153

whom the contents of the above petition was referred, 1763.
be hereby empowered to treat with Mr. Donnellan for the
purchase of the said rectorial tithes, and that the said
Mr. Mitchell be allowed annually £32 10s., during his Allowance,
incumbency, for the term of years unexpired of a lease
made by the city 01 the rectorial tithes of Rathdrum,
provided the said Mitchell lives so long, until the said
Mitchell shall come into the possession of the said
rectorial tithes, either by the expiration of the term Tithes,
now existing of the said lease or by the purchase thereof
by the city, then the said annual sum to cease, and
that the sum of £32 10s., be paid him in hand. Payment.

[8.] Gilbert Elliott, slater, setting forth, that the ■££■
committee appointed for examining tradesmen's bills,
to whom his petition was referred, have made the
following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for examining trades- Report.
men's bills, to whom the petition of Mr. Gilbert Elliot,
slater, was referred, have received from him a proposal Proposal,
for keeping staunch, dry, and in repair, and finding all Bepm*-
materials, the Mayoralty house and offices thereto Mayoralty

" J house.

belonging, the Tholsel and hearing room, the city Thoisei.
stables when rebuilt, the main guard, the corn market buildings.
house, the buildings at the pipe water office, three
houses at Stephen's Green, the toll house at Dolphin's
Barn, the necessary houses on Ormond quay, and at
Corn market, for the space of 21 years, and for the
doing whereof, we have agreed to pay him the sum of sum.
£23, a year, if agreeable to your honours, upon his
giving security to perform his engagement.'-

And the said Gilbert Elliott, praying to confirm the order,
said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and that he be paid annually payment.
£23, during the said term of 21 years, commencing
Michaelmas next, upon his producing yearly to the Lord

154

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY B.OLL, 1763.

1763.
Certificate.

Mayoralty
house.

Additions.

Furniture.
Order.

Committee.

Expense.

Furniture.
Inventor}-.

Commons.

Beams and
scales.

Mayor, a certificate signed by Mr. John Tracy, that the r0ii xxii.
several buildings, in the said report mentioned, are in
thorough order and repair.

[9.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
Mayoralty house is now much out of repair, and appre-
hend that if some additions and improvements were
made to the front thereof and to the long room, it would
be more commodious and ornamental, that some new
furniture is wanting for the said house.

And the said commons, praying that a committee may
be appointed for that purpose: whereupon it was
ordered, that the right honourable the Lord Mayor,
Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the works, alderman
Forbes, alderman James Taylor, alderman Sankey, and
six of the commons, to be named by the commons or
any five of them, whereof the Lord Mayor and one of
the Sheriffs to be always two, be and are appointed a
committee to consider what furniture ought to be pro-
vided for the said house, and what immediate repairs
are necessary to be made therein. That they direct the
same to be done and provided in the cheapest and best
manner, the expense of said furniture and repairs not
to exceed the sum of £100. And that the committee do
compare the furniture in said house with the schedule
or inventory thereof returned last Michaelmas, and that
the said committee be empowered to receive plans or
proposals for making the said house more convenient,
and report the same with their opinion thereon to the
next assembly.

[The six of the commons : ] Mr. Bryan, Mr. Hunt,
Mr. Cave, Mr. Houghton, Mr. Eeynolds, Mr.
Montgomery.

[10.] Certain of the commons to appoint a committee
for setting beams and scales for weighing all sorts of
grain, meal, and potatoes, for one year commencing the
1st of November.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 155

Whereupon it was ordered, that the right honourable i76.3.
the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the 0lde1""
works, alderman John Cooke, alderman Percivall Hunt,
alderman James Taylor, alderman Barton, and eight of
the commons, to be named by the commons or any five
of them, whereof the Lord Mayor and one of the Sheriffs
to be always two, be and are appointed a com- committee.
mittee to set by public cant, the beams and scales public cant.
above mentioned, for one year commencing the 1st of
November next, and that notice thereof be inserted in Notice.
the public papers, the person farming the same is to
pay down to the city treasurer such sum of money as
they shall be canted to.

[The eight of the commons : ] Mr. Darquier, Mr. common,.
Bentley, Mr. John Hunt, Mr. Verschoyle, Mr. Sinclare,
Mr. Hart, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Moore.

[11.] James Dover, setting forth, that the committee Dover,
appointed upon the petition of Mr. Henry Gonne, to Goime
whom his petition was referred, have made the following
report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed upon the said petition Keport.
of James Dover, praying to be appointed clerk to the Dover,
Tholsel grand jury, find that he has attended the said Thoisei

l • i> • grand jury.

grand jury for a considerable time past, without
receiving any gratuity for the same, and therefore are of
opinion, that he be paid the sum of twenty guineas as a Gratuity,
gratuity for his past services.'

And the said James Dover, praying to confirm the Order,
said report and make the same an act of assembly: it
was granted, the committee's report confirmed and made
an act of assembly, and that the city treasurer do, on
the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner the sum payment.
of twenty guineas, the same to be allowed on his
accounts.

[12.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that „/*£?eefur
supporting the grandeur of the chief magistrate of the ma^istrate-

156 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY EOLL, 1763.

176S. city must necessarily reflect honour upon this corpora- Roiixxii,

J J , . in. 134 b.

tion and respect, by the public, that there is nothing

state coach, more wanting than a state coach to add dignity to the

*t°r5r Lord Mayor's appearance on public days.

order. And the said commons, praying to grant the same

accordingly: whereupon it was ordered, that the right
honourable the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, treasurer, masters
of the works, alderman Forbes, alderman James Taylor,
alderman Sankey, alderman Fetherston, and eight of
the commons, to be named by the commons or any five
of them, whereof the Lord Mayor and one of the
Sheriffs to be always two, be and are appointed a

committee, committee to provide a state coach for succeeding Lord

State coach x "

Ma^r^ Mayors, the expense thereof with a suitable set of harness
Payment. n°t to exceed £400, to be paid by the city treasurer on

orders from the committee and allowed upon his

accounts,
commons [The eight of the commons : ] Mr. Bryan, Mr. Hartley,

Mr. Hart, Mr. Mathew Bailie, Mr. Burton, Mr. Anthony

King, Mr. Robert Montgomery, Mr. Cave.
S°-eanSt it 0-^-1 Elias Holmes, praying to be continued one of
mace. ^he serjeants at mace : whereupon it was ordered, that

the petitioner be continued one of the serjeants at mace

of the said city, for one year ending next Midsummer

assembly, 1764, on his giving such security for the

faithful discharge of his office and redelivery of the

silver mace, as the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs shall

approve.

[14.] Certain of the commons, praying an allowance
omceCes ^or ^ie ius^ces' °ffice : whereupon it was ordered, that
Payment, the city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay

the treasurer of the said office £50, the same to be

allowed on his accounts.
TLhZs' [15-] Edwin Thomas and Samuel Laban, setting m< 133.

forth, that at a cant held 20th July, 1762, said Edwin
Fleet street. Thomas took from the city four lots of ground in Fleet

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 157

street, videlicet, No. 4. 11. 12. and 13., that lot 13. he 1763.
also took in trust for said Samuel Laban, who deposited
the earnest for same.

And the said Edwin Thomas and Samuel Laban, order,
praying to have a lease granted to the said Samuel
Laban of the said lot No. 13. : whereupon it was
ordered, that a lease of the said premises be perfected Lease-
to the petitioner Samuel Laban, for the term of 70 years Laban.
and three lives, to commence the 29th of September,
1762, at the same rent that Mr. Edwin Thomas agreed Rent.
to pay for the same, without the charge of duties or
capon money.

[16.] Thomas Manning and Thomas Carmichael ^aar™"haei
setting forth, that on 20th July last, said Thomas
Manning took lot No. 3. on Aston's quay, at the annual baton's
rent of £37 8s. 9d., that said Manning assigned his
interest in said lot to said Carmichael.

And the said Carmichael praying to have a lease in order,
his own name of the said lot : whereupon it was
ordered, that a lease of the above premises be perfected Lease.
to the above petitioner Thomas Carmichael, for the term Caxmionaei,
of 70 years and three lives, to commence 29th September,
1762, at the yearly rent of £37 8s. 9d. Rent

[17.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the Quay wall.
quay wall before the houses of James Dignam and Dignam.
Hugh Donnelly on Aston's quay, is broke down and in a Donnelly.
ruinous way, that if it be not repaired before next winter, iuay-
the quay will be destroyed, so as not only to prevent the wharfage,
wharfage of said quay, but to endanger its being
washed away.

And the said commons praying to have the said Order,
quay repaired : whereupon it was ordered, that the
committee appointed to inspect city leases be empowered Leases.
to direct the quay wall before the houses of James Quay waii.
Dignam and Hugh Donnelly on Aston's quay to be

158 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

1-63. repaired, the expense thereof to be paid by the city Ron mi.

treasurer and allowed on his accounts.
wheibng. [18.] William Whelling, late supervisor of the toll

corn, praying a gratuity for past services : whereupon

it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, on the Lord
Payment Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner twenty guineas, the

same to be allowed on his accounts.
Kuox, [19.] Thomas Knox, mace bearer and officer of

mnce

bearer. commons, setting forth, that he was at Easter assembly,
1762, appointed mace bearer and officer of commons,
Salary that the salary annexed to the employment of officer
of commons is but £15, a year, which at its first appoint-
ment might be thought adequate to the trouble,
order. And the said Thomas Knox, praying some considera-

tion for his extraordinary trouble and an augmentation
of his salary : whereupon it was ordered, that the city
Payment, treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the

petitioner £20, the same to be allowed on his accounts.
Dickinsoii. [20.] Isaac Dickinson praying to be appointed over-
water seer 0f the water course : whereupon it was ordered,

course. -

Appoint- that the petitioner be appointed overseer and take care
of the water course beginning at the waste gate at the
weir at Temple Oge and ending at the city bason, for one

Salary. year commencing this present assembly, at the salary

of £15, whose business it shall be to have the care m- 1:!3 b-
and charge of the water gates, to prevent the inhabitants
being overflowed, by drawing them up at certain times,
and that the course shall be kept clear and free from
sand.

Treasurer's r21.1 An abstract of the treasurers accounts, for the

accounts. L -1

quarter ending 24th June, 1763.

Dr.

i; s. d.

To cash paid since .„ ... ._ ... . . 4878 8 8A

£4„878 8 Sh

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 159

Cr.

By balance in the treasurer's hands last quarter

By cash received since

By balance due the treasurer

1763.

£ e.

. 681 9
. 3916 10

7
1

Treasurer's
account.

. 280 9

£4,878 8

«i

isor
liters.

[22.] Ballast Office report, 22nd July, 1763. Ballast

' Since our last report to your honours, of the 13th 2K?rt.
of April last, we have made all the progress in our
power in repairing the piles, gabbards, etc., and in p.i.s.
carrying on the new walls, and shall continue doing all %Z Z^.
other necessary works as your honours shall direct,

'We further acquaint your honours, that we have
agreed with captain James Lamb, for one year from the Lamb,
first day of May last, to be supervisor of the building Super*
and repairing of lighters and the delivery of ballast Baiiast.
and drudging the same in the channel at £70, for the salary.
year, agreeable to the orders of last assembly.

'We also acquaint your honours, that we have Loan,
borrowed £2,000, at £5, per cent., agreeable to order of
last assembly, and have paid the several old debts of Debts
office, except £1,113 2s. 8d., due to the administrators
of John Smith, deceased, and the guardians of Hugh
Smith, a minor, who have not agreed to the receiving Smith
of it, and have desired the same to lie in the office until
they agree.

' We have been making enquiry for timber for Timber.
building lighters, but as yet have not contracted for
any.

' An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, which cash.
we have examined, and find there is a balance ofE;,ianre
£1,859 12s. 2£d., in the hands of alderman Edward
Hunt, Ballast Master, of the Ballast Office fund, H„nt.
exclusive of the sum of £68 5s., granted to him by the
former committee, for which he has not yet given credit,

160 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY KOLL, 1763.

1763 agreeable to the order of the assembly, we have not yet Eon «J

J""' o m. loo £.

ciaim. enquired into the merit of the Ballast Master's claim
to this gratuity, as his late indisposition has disabled
him from attending the committee, and we also find

iShlkat a balance of £596 7s. IJd., in the Ballast Master's

pier' hands on account of the south east pier.'

Ordered to proceed, as the committee shall direct.

gfif state of tne Ballast Office accounts, from the 14th »i»

day of April last inclusive, to this 20th day of July,
1763, exclusive.

account.

Ballast Office, Dr.

To balance of last quarter's abstract
To cash received since from ships
To cash borrowed

£3,469

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid for raising ballast ...

By cash paid for repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries

By cash paid house rent and sundry petty disbursements

By cash paid for repairs on gabbards

By cash paid for account of the floating light

By cash paid interest of money borrowed ...

By cash paid for account of new walls

Bv balance on hands

£ s.

243 4

332 19

142 5

151 9

375 19

14 10

135 0

214 2

1859 12

£3,4(59 3 54

Ballast Office for the public money is Dr.
To cash received since at his majesty's treasury

Per contra, Cr.

By balance overpaid as per last quarter's abstract
By cash paid since for account of the south east pier
By balance on hands ...

£ a

1000 0

£1,000 0

£ s.

34 0

369 12

596 7

£1,000 0

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 161

[23.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the 1763.
lease of part of your honours' estate in Nicholas street, ^j.eet.la3
formerly demised to sir Elias Best, expired at Easter Best,
last, that the lease for the Court of guard near Young's ^of
Castle, formerly demised to Ellis Humphries, is likewise Ja0^ 's
expired, that a small holding on the Merchants' quay, MereSwits? '
called the scavengers' lot, and a house in Cooke street cook'e

street.

demised to William Neal, are now in the city's Neai.
possession.

And the said commons praying to appoint a order,
committee to survey and divide the same and set them
by public cant to the highest bidder for the city's
advantage: whereupon it was ordered, that the within
petition be referred to the committee appointed for Petition,
inspecting city leases near expiring, and that they be
and are hereby empowered to survey and divide into
proper lots the several parcels of ground above Lots,
mentioned and set the same by public cant to the Public cant,
highest bidder, for the term of 70 years and three lives, Term,
pursuant to the late regulation, to commence the 25th
day of March next, and to publish advertisements Advertise-

" nieiits

accordingly, except the lot on the Merchants' quay,
which is to be set from year to year.

' Charles Rossel— John Read. — Thomas Mead. —
Benjamin Barton. — Robert King. — Charles Burton. —
Hans Bailie.— John Tew. — Edward Sankey. — William
Forbes. — Thomas Blackall.'

1763. July 22. — Admissions to franchise. Franchise.

1763. July 26. — Declaration and signatures. Deeiaia-

1763. August 12.— Post Assembly.

ri.l Certain of the commons setting forth, that on Riot in

L J o ' Dame

Monday the 8th of August instant, at a place known street-
by the name of the Liberty, in the remote parts of this Liberty
city, a drum was beat for the gathering together a Drumbeat.
riotous and tumultuous assembly, and for the inciting JsMnWy.

VOL. XI. M

162

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

1763.
Persons.

Danie

street.
Outrages

Cotting-
ham.
Corpora-
tion.

Notice.

Order.

Lord
Mayor.
Proclama-
tion.
Rewards.

Discover-
ing- and
apprehend-
ing persons.

Outrages.

Payment.
Conviction.

his majesty's subjects to tumult and disorder, that inRoiixmi.
consequence thereof, great numbers of persons so incited
did on the same day, and on Tuesday the 9th instant,
assemble themselves in Dame street, where outrages were
committed and insults offered to the house of Mr. Henry
Cottingham. That petitioners apprehend, that the
corporation of the city of Dublin ought to take a
particular notice of these riotous and tumultuous
proceedings and endeavour so far as in them lies to
preserve the peace and good order thereof.

And the said commons praying to take the same into
consideration and make such order therein as should
seem meet : whereupon it was ordered, that the right
honourable the Lord Mayor do issue a proclamation,
offering a reward of £50, to such person or persons as
shall within six kalendar months next ensuing, first
discover and cause to be apprehended the person, who
so beat the said drum, and the sum of £20, for the
discovering and apprehending of each and every of the
persons immediately concerned in the insults aforesaid,
or who wrere any way concerned in the contriving or
procuring of the said outrages, or for the discovering
and apprehending of each and every of the persons,
who shall from this day be concerned and acting in
any insult against the person, property, or effects of
the said Cottingham, the said several sums to be paid
by the city treasurer, upon the respective conviction of
the offender or offenders so apprehended, and to be
allowed on the said treasurer's accounts.

1 Charles Rossell. — John Eead. — Thomas Mead. —
William Forbes. — Benjamin Barton.— Robert King. —
Charles Burton. — Hans Bailie. — John Tew. — Edward
Sankey. — Thomas Blackall.'

Election of
alderman.

1763. September 16. — Post Assembly.

[1.] " We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the city of

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 163

Dublin, have this day elected by ballot from among the 1763.

ii*i t- Election of

four Sheriffs' Peers returned to this house by the Lord alderman.
Mayor and Board of Aldermen, Mathew Bailie of Jervis Bame,

alderman.

quay, merchant, to the place of an alderman of the said

city, in the room of alderman Andrew Murray,

deceased."

" John Read,"

.."^Sheriffs."
" Joseph Hall."

Return of Sheriffs' Peers made by Lord Mayor Return of

J Sheriffs'

and Board of Aldermen. iJeers.

Arthur Lamprey of Ship street, merchant.
George Wrightson of Stafford street, merchant.
William Darquier of the Blind quay, merchant, and
Mathew Bailie of Jervis quay, merchant.

1 Charles Rossel. — William Forbes. — John Read. —
Thomas Mead. — Benjamin Barton. — Robert King. —
Charles Burton. — Hans Bailie. — John Tew. — Edward
Sankey. — Thomas Blackall.'

1763. October 14.— Third Friday after the 29th of
September.
Lord Mayor : William Forbes.
Sheriffs : William Bryan and Francis Booker.
[1.1 Certain of the commons setting forth, that it Lord

lieutenant.

is usual to present the lord lieutenant of this kingdom,

upon his first coming over, with the freedom of this g™™j|Jf-

city in a gold box.

And the said commons, praying that his excellency Eariof

' r J ° Northum-

Hugh, earl of Northumberland, be presented with the beriand.
freedom thereof, in the usual manner : it was granted, Franchise,
according to the prayer of the above petition, the expense Expense,
of the said box not to exceed £30, to be paid by the
city treasurer, and allowed him on his accounts.

[2.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee for better supplying the city with pipe water, SS^ipe
have made the following report, videlicet.

164

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1763.

1763.
Report.

Back
course.

New
course.

xm.
m. HI.

Dr. Weld's
tenants.

Water.

Bridewell
bridge.

Main.

Bloody

bridge.

Queen

street.

Arran quay

Order.

Directors.

Course.
Expense

Cleansing
street*.

Report.

' We, the committee appointed for better supplying the roii
city with pipe water, inform your honours, that some
time ago, we ordered an alteration to be made in the
back course, but upon consideration do not think it will
answer the end proposed, and are therefore of opinion
that a new course be erected on the east end of
the bason, to be of the same dimensions as the old
course, videlicet, 2 feet 6 inches, by 2 feet 2 inches, and
that the fall, which is apprehended to be 2 feet 1J
inches, be distributed equally through the whole work,
and not to be covered unless in some certain places, and
that with the consent of doctor Weld's tenants. The
said course to be made as soon as possible, under the
direction of a person to be named by them, together
with one to be named by the city.

' The inhabitants on the north side of the river having
been greatly distressed by their being deprived of water,
owing to the falling of Bridewell bridge, we gave
directions that a main should be laid down from Bloody
bridge and joined to the primate's main in Queen street,
that one of the mains from the engine be joined to the
main on Arran quay, and the other to the main in
Queen street, for their immediate service and supply.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said
report and make the same an act of assembly: it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and the committee continued, and that
said committee be empowered to name a person, who
with one to be named by doctor Weld's tenants, are
to direct the making of the said course, the expense
thereof to be paid by the city treasurer on an order
from the committee, and allowed on his accounts.

[3.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed for setting the cleansing of the
streets, have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for setting the m. i« b

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768. 165

cleansing of the streets, have made the following report, im.
videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for setting the Rei)ort-
cleansing of the streets, in our former report informed
your honours, that we had set the nine several lots into Luts set.
which the city has been divided, for three years from
Michaelmas next, but Thomas Sloan and Thomas sioan.
Styles, who had undertaken to cleanse No. 3. and No. 9. st>les-
declining to propose and enter into security for their
effectual cleansing of the same, we thought it proper
to advertise the setting of the cleansing of the said two
lots on the 20th September instant, when we set the
lot No. 3. to William Howard, at an allowance of Howard.
£95, per annum, and No. 9. to Richard Wade, at £130, wade.
per annum; we observe that the said persons have
given security.'

[4.] Francis Parvisol setting forth, that the com- Parnsoi.
mittee appointed for rebuilding a house in Ram alley, Ram aiiey.
to whom his petition was referred, have made the
following report, videlicet.

' We, the 'committee appointed for taking into con- Report,
sideration the expense of rebuilding a house in Ram ^a0ms^j"y,
alley, and taking a piece of ground adjoining thereto, for
building offices thereon, one for the sitting justices and £fs°t^or
another for the Town Clerk, and to whom the petition ^1°™
of Francis Parvisol was referred, praying consideration
for damage which he had sustained, occasioned by the Damage,
pulling down of a back house lately taken by the city
from Mr. Henry Cotton, whereby the rere wall of said cotton
Parvisol's house, fronting Skinner row, was under- skinner

, . vow.

mined and the house endangered, have met upon that
occasion and viewed the entire premises, and do find,

16G

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL,

1763.

17(33.

xx 11.
m. Ill b.

Front
house.

Payment.

Cotton.
Lease.

Rent,

Order.

Parvisol.

Cotton.
Lease to
city.

Payment.

Recorder.

Ground in

George's

lane.

Report.

Public cant,

that by the pulling down of the said wall, the rere of rou
the said house was greatly damaged and in some sort
rendered useless to the said Parvisol.

' Your committee apprehend, that by the taking of the
said front house, your honours will be accommodated
with a commodious piece of ground for the building
of offices, and therefore are of opinion, and do recom-
mend, that the said Francis Parvisol be paid by the
city fifty guineas, as a compensation for all damages
sustained by him on account of pulling down said back
house, and on his procuring from the said Henry
Cotton a lease to the city of the said front house for
the term of 61 years, at the yearly rent of £25, he
leaving the premises free from all rent, arrears, and
taxes, and to give up the possession thereof on or before
the 25th day of March next.'

And the said Francis Parvisol, praying to confirm
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and upon the said Francis
Parvisol's resigning his lease of the premises, and on
the above named Henry Cotton's executing a lease
thereof to the city for 61 years and laying his title
thereto before Mr. Recorder, the said Francis Parvisol to
be paid by the city treasurer fifty guineas, the same to
be allowed on his accounts, and that such clauses and
covenants be inserted in the lease, as Mr. Recorder shall
advise.

[5.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed for setting ground in George's
Jane, have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for inspecting city m. ho.
leases near expiring, who were empowered by act of
assembly to set by public cant some ground in George's
lane, part of the city's estate, had the same surveyed

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 167

and divided into three lots, and directed advertisements ire-,
to be inserted in the public papers of our meeting on the
20th September instant, for setting the same, when they
were disposed of in the following manner, videlicet.

'The lot No. 1. containing 60 feet in front, to Mr. i. Barber.
Thomas Barber, at £1 6s. 6d., per foot, yearly rent
£79 10s. Od.

' No., 2., containing also 60 feet in front, to Mr. 2. Lemau-

tre.

William Lemaistre, at 15s. per foot, yearly rent
£45 0s. Od.

' And No. 3., containing 15 feet 6 inches, to Mr. 3. Bn,bj.
William Bibby, at £1 lis., per foot, yearly, £24 0s. 6d.

' With liberty of building over a gateway of 9 feet ; Gateway,
a deposit of one years rent has been lodged b}r the Kent,
above mentioned persons with the city treasurer, which
is to be returned to them, as soon as leases, pursuant Leases.
to the new regulation, for three lives and 70 years
are executed, which must be within six months from
the day of the cant, otherwise the said deposit to be Deposit.
forfeited.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said Order,
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and that leases of the above premises Leaseg-
be perfected to the above named persons, with such
clauses and covenants as Mr. Recorder shall advise, covenants.

Kecorder.

[6.] Timothy Mahon setting forth, that the com- Mahon.
mittee to whom his petition was referred, had made the
following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed upon the petition of Beport.
Timothy Mahon, met on the 13th day of September and
took the said petition under our consideration, wThen the
said Mahon attended and produced to us, two account Accounts,
books and several vouchers to support the same, of the
value of freemen's notes, etc., received at James* Gate, notes1"61"8'

168

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

1763.
Gates.

Park Gate, and Young's Castle, from the 2-itk of June, r0h «a.

m. UO.

1762, to the 24th of June, 1763.

We find, that the article of bark per-
mitted custom free in that time amount to
' Green hides ... : . .

'Salt

Flax seed

13 3 10

21 7 11

9 13 3

28 17 9

£73 2 9

Allowance ' Which we think should be allowed him.
' The remaining sum of £155 17s. 9d.,
we find he permitted to pass free belonging
to freemen at half custom, the half of
which, we are of opinion should be
allowed him, amounting to

' Making together the sum of

77 18 9

£151 1 6

Sum.
Order.

Payment.

Kossel,
alderman.

Allowance
for Lord
Mayors.

Mayoralty.

' We therefore are of opinion, that the said Timothy
Mahon be paid the said sum of £151 Is. 6d.'

And the said Timothy Mahon praying to confirm the
said report and make the same an act of assembly : it
was granted, the committee's report confirmed and made
an act of assembly, and that the said Timothy Mahon
be paid the said sum of £151 Is. 6d., the same to be
allowed the treasurer on his accounts.

[7.] Charles Rossel, alderman, late Lord Mayor,
setting forth, that at a post assembly held 1st August,
1760, an allowance was fixed for succeeding Lord
Mayors at £2,000, a year, £1,500, whereof are payable
by gales at certain times, and the remaining £500, to
be petitioned for by the late Lord Mayor on the m. uo b.
Michaelmas assembly after the expiration of his
Mayoralty.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 169

And the said Charles Rossel, praying that the said 1763.
sum of £500, be paid him : whereupon it was ordered,
that the city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayors' warrant,
pay the petitioner £500, sterling, the same to be allowed p*ymeut.
on his accounts, said petitioner having taken the oath Oath,
directed by act of Easter assembly, 17-40, in the presence
of George Tucker and Alexander Ryves, esquires, they
being appointed for that purpose.

[8.] Sir Thomas Blackall, knight, setting forth, that Biackaii.
one Richard Walsh was prosecuted and convicted for waish

x convicted

the murder of Eneas Moran, and the principal evidence *KJnader
against said Walsh was Catherine Casey. That in Casey.
order to procure the said Casey to prosecute said Walsh,
it was thought expedient to detain her and maintain her
whilst she was in confinement. That memorialist
maintained said Casey 26 weeks, at 5s. 5d., per week, Mainten-
amounting in the whole to £7 0s. lOd.

And the said sir Thomas Blackall, praying to be paid 0rder_
said sum of £7 0s. lOd. : whereupon it was ordered,
that the city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant,
pay the memorialist the above sum of £7 0s. 10d., the payment.
same to be allowed on his accounts.

[9.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that they
apprehend the freedom of this city should be presented Freedom of
to Charles Coote, esquire, to express the sense which this c'oote.
city hath of his abilities as a magistrate, and of his Magistrate,
steady and spirited zeal to enforce obedience to the laws
of this kingdom.

And the said commons, praying that he be presented order.

Franchise.

with the freedom thereof in a silver box : it was granted, stiver box.
according to the prayer of the above petition, the expense
thereof not to exceed five pounds.

[10.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that
several useful and necessary things of infinite JJgjJ of
service to this city have been neglected, for want of cit*cet0
a sufficient power to reward the persons effecting the Reward.

170

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1763.

1763.

Quarter
assembly.

Order.

Committee.

Sum.

1! awards.

Repairs.

Mayoralty
house.

Furniture.

Expense.

Order.

Sum.
Furniture.

Expense.

City water
supply.

same, that by the constitution of this city, no money
can be granted but at a quarter assembly, petitioners
therefore conceive it would be productive of great advan-
tage to the public in general, if a committee was
appointed vested with powers to reward occasionally
such persons, so as that the same should not in the whole
exceed the sum of £100.

And the said commons, praying to grant a committee
under proper restriction accordingly : whereupon it was
ordered, that the above petition be referred to the com-
mittee of economy, who are empowered to draw upon the
city treasurer for any sum not exceeding £50, for
rewarding occasionally such persons as shall be
instrumental and active in discovering and effecting
things useful and necessary to the corporation.

[11.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
sum of £100, formerly allowed for repairing the
Mayoralty house and providing furniture for the same,
has not been sufficient for those purposes, the house being
in great want of necessary furniture, as none was laid
in the last year, that by bills laid before the committee
appointed for providing furniture and repairing said
house, it appears the expense thereof will amount to
upwards of £170.

And the said commons, praying to empower said com-
mittee to inspect said accounts and to draw upon the city
treasurer for such further sum as will appear to them
to have necessarily laid out in providing furniture for
said house, provided said additional sum does not exceed
£100: it was granted, according to the prayer of the
above petition.

[12.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that
several methods have been suggested for the supplying
this metropolis with water, many of which will be
attended with great expense, besides the length of time
it will take to obtain that useful and necessary con-
veniency.

Roll xxii.
m. 140 b.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 171

That by the scheme now carrying into execution, of m3.
forming a canal through the interior part of the CwmL
kingdom to this city, a supply of water may be obtained water

supply.

in a short time, provided the legislature shall think
proper to direct the said works to be carried from the Works.
bason to the country.

That petitioners apprehend, if a petition was presented Petition to
from this city to the honourable house of commons for CommoIls-
the above purposes, it might be a means of effecting
that scheme and must be of the utmost advantage to
the public, not only in the said article of water, but in
the carriage of fuel and other commodities to this city.

And the said commons, praying to direct such a order,
petition to be prepared and put under the city seal for the Petition.
purposes aforesaid : whereupon it was ordered, that the
above petition be referred to the committee appointed for committee.
better supplying the city with pipe water, who are hereby
empowered, with the assistance of Mr. Recorder, to Recorder.
prepare a petition to be put under the city seal and city seal.
presented to the honourable house of commons for the
purposes above mentioned, at such time and in such
manner as they shall think convenient.

[13.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that
Essex Bridge is a passage of the greatest consequence g*«
and subject to many mischiefs at night, for want of
a regular watch being kept there, that petitioners watch,
conceive if eight able bodied men were appointed under
proper regulations a watch for said bridge, to do duty
by turns during the winter seasun, it would prevent winter.
many murders and robberies. Murder*.

« 1 11 • -. Kobberie*.

And the said commons, praying to appoint a nightly order,
watch for said bridge : whereupon it was ordered, that the
above petition be referred to the committee of economy,
who are empowered to treat with the several parishes p^he*.
next adjoining to Essex Bridge, for the appointing of a
certain number of persons to act as watchmen, to take watchmen.

172

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

1763.

Essex

Bridge.

Expense.

Watch
money.
Parliament
street.

City mace
and sword.

Repaired
and gilt.

Order.

Sum for
gilding and
repairing
sword and
mace.

Sullivan,
attorney.

Tholsel.

Burrowes,
city house
keeper.

Payment.

Roe, gaoler
of Newgate

their stand on Essex Bridge from the hours of eight Koii xx<

m. 139. '

until seven in the morning, for four months, from the
first of November next, who shall have power to draw
on the city treasurer for any expense attending such
contract, the same not to exceed £70, in which time it
is apprehended that the inconveniences above mentioned
will be removed by a parliamentary augmentation of
the watch money, and Parliament street be more con-
siderably inhabited than it now is.

[14.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
mace carried before the chief magistrate of this city
was in so disorderly a condition, it wants to have it
repaired and gilt, that the sword likewise wants to be
ornamented and gilt.

And the said commons, praying to direct the expense
attending the same to be discharged : whereupon it was
ordered, that the above petition be referred to the com-
mittee appointed for examining tradesmen's bills, who
are to examine the same and order such sum as they
shall judge necessary for gilding and repairing the
city sword and mace, the same to be allowed the
treasurer on his accounts.

[15.] Jeremiah Sullivan, gentleman, praying to be
appointed one of the Tholsel attorneys : it was granted,
during the city's pleasure.

[16.] Sarah Burrowes, city house keeper, praying the
usual allowance of £10, for finding pens, ink, and other
necessaries for the use of the Tholsel : whereupon, it was
ordered, that the city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's
warrant, pay the petitioner £10, the same to be allowed
on his accounts.

[17.] George Roe, praying to be continued gaoler of m. iss
Newgate : whereupon it was ordered, that the petitioner
be continued gaoler of Newgate until next Michaelmas
assembly, 1764, upon his giving such security for
indemnifying the city from all escapes and for the

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 173

faithful discharge of his office, as the Lord Mayor and 1763.
Sheriffs shall approve.

[18.] William Clements, praying to be appointed (^mentfs
porter of the Tholsel : whereupon it was ordered, that Tholsel-
the petitioner be appointed porter of the Tholsel during
the city's pleasure, at a yearly salary of £10, and satay.
twenty shillings for brooms. Brooms.

[19.] John O'Neill, praying to be continued serieant o'Neiii.

Serjeant at

at mace : whereupon it was ordered, that the petitioner mace-
be continued one of the Serjeants at mace, during the
city's pleasure.

[20.] Treasurer's abstract for the quarter ending Treasurer's
29th September, 1763. acc°"uts-

Dr.

To balance due the treasurer last quarter . .

To cash paid since

To balance in the treasurer's hands

£ s. d.

280 9 0^

. . 2155 18 114

.. 234 2 10J

£2,670 10 10£

Cr.

By cash received since

e b. d.

.. 2670 10 10 J

£2,670 10 10£

Ballast

[21.] Ballast Office report.

' Since our last report to your honours, we have made g^
all the progress in our power in carrying on the east
abutment of the new wall and the foundation of said New TOn.
wall, which have received no damage by the late bad
weather, but our pile work has received much damage, nie work.
which we shall order to be made good with all con-
venient speed.

' We further acquaint your honours, that the Ballast Account
Office, being obliged by act of parliament, to lay before ™^]?*
the government and council once in three years, the

174 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

17G3. account of the annual receipts and payments of said eou xxii

m. 139 b.

Abstract, office, we herewith lay before your honours, the abstract
thereof for your honours' approbation, in order to have
city seal, the city seal affixed to the same.

Loan. 'We also acquaint your honours, that we think it

Parliament, will be necessary to apply to parliament for further aid
south wail, to carry on the south wall, and recommend a petition

to parliament to be preferred for that purpose.
Hunt ' Alderman Edward Hunt being indisposed and

indisposed. . .

remaining in the country for his health since last

assembly, your committee have not been able to make

any further report to your honours relative to sixty

guineas referred to them,
cash. ' An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, which

Balance. we have examined, and find there is a balance of

£2,129 19s. 3Jd., in the hands of alderman Edward
H»nt- Hunt, on the Ballast Office fund, and a balance of

£390 lis. lid., overpaid by him on account of the

public money.'
order. Ordered to proceed, as the committee shall judge

city seal, proper, and that the city seal be affixed to the annexed
petTtion'to accoimts> and tliat a petition to parliament for the
parliament, purpose above mentioned be prepared by Mr. Recorder,
city seal, put under the city seal, and presented to the honourable

house of commons.

oflfcf State of the Ballast Office accounts, from the 20th m. m

account. day of july j^ fog^^, to ^ 12tn dfty Qf October,

17G3, exclusive.

Ballast Office, Dr.

To balance of last quarter's abstract
To cash received since

. . 1859

. . 1075

£2,935

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1763.

175

Per contra. Cr.

By cash paid since for raising ballast

By cash paid since for repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries

By cash paid house rent and sundry disbursements

By cash paid for repairs on gabbaTda

By ca-^h paid account of the floating light . .

By cash paid interest of money borrowed . .

By cash paid account of the new walls

By balance on hands

Ballast Office for the public money is. Dr.

To balance of last quarter's abstract
To balance overpaid this quarter

£ B.

1763.

Ballast
Office
,j account

.. 167 2

.. 207 7

.. 140 5

56 16

151 17

30 13

51 7

. . 2129 19

£2.935 9 2\

595

390 11

£980 18 7i

Per contra, Cr.
By cash expended since on the south east pier

£ s.
986 18

£986 18

' William Forbes. — Francis Booker. — Thomas Cooke.
—Robert King. — Charles Burton. — Francis Fetherston.
—Timothy Allen,— Thomas Blackall — Thomas Mead.
— Benjamin Geale.'

1763. October 14. — Admissions to franchise.
1763. October 21. — Declaration and signatures.

Franchise.
Declara-
tion.

1763. December 8.— Post Assembly.
[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that a
petition hath lately been presented to parliament for petition to

, . , . . . , , parliament.

vesting certain powers in a certain number ot
gentlemen, which if carried into law may, as your
petitioners conceive, effect the rights of the city to which Eights of

city.

they are intitled by charters, usage, and by act of charters.

176 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

1763. parliament, that your petitioners apprehend that a r0ii xxu

m. 138.

Act of committee should be appointed to attend to and preserve

parliament. -"■ x x

city's the city's rights, armed with proper powers to conduct
the same.

order. And the said commons, praying to appoint a com-

mittee acordingly: whereupon it was ordered, that the

referred to contents of the above petition be referred to the

Ballast committee of directors of the Ballast rOffice,! who are

Office. L J

hereby empowered to consider the same, and confer with
the gentlemen signing the above petition, and report
their opinion to a post assembly to be convened for
that purpose.

1 William Forbes. — Francis Booker. — Thomas Cooke.
—Francis Fetherston.— Robert King.— Timothy Allen.
— Thomas Blackall. — Thomas Mead. — Benjamin
Barton. — Benjamin Geale.'

1763. December 13. — Post Assembly. m. i.38b.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee, committee appointed at a post assembly held the 8th
citys right. December instant, to attend to and preserve the city's
petition, right, in respect to a petition lately presented to
tSffi" Parliament> establishing a corporation for regulating
rutins pii0ts> haven masters, and lightermen, made the

following report, videlicet,
neport. «We, the committee appointed to attend to and

Dubun preserve the city's right to the port, harbour, and river
uouse°ofto of Dublin, in relation to a petition lately presented to
paZ™' honourable house of commons, for regulating pilots,
haven masters, and lightermen in this port, met on the
12th instant, and as by your honours' orders, we were
directed to confer with the gentlemen signing the said
petition, so several of them met us upon that occasion,
scheme. ' The following scheme was proposed.

' Instead of creating a new corporation.
paotage. « That the powers desired with respect to the pilotage,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763. 177

lighterage, and haven masters, be vested in the corpora- wea.
tion of the city, upon the plan of the Ballast Office offiCaest
act, and the actual appointment and removal of pilots, a<
lightermen, and haven masters, under the desired act,
be also vested in the city, but at the nomination and vested in
recommendation or remonstrance of a committee of the £™ina-
guild of merchants to be appointed triennially, as are ^»dh^t9#
allowed the benefit of the six and ten per cent., in the Benefit,
custom house, and the immediate suspension of any custom
officer or servant upon any misdemeanour, be vested in
the committee of merchants, until a formal removal is
made by the city.

'The committee to be elected by the wholesale™^
merchants that are of the guild and enjoy the six and
ten per cent.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said order,
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, provided that there be added to the
committee in the said report mentioned, the Lord Mayor Committee.

Lord

and Sheriffs for the time being, provided ten aldermen Mayor.

Sheriffs.

appointed by the Lord Mayor and Board of Aldermen Aidermeu.
and twenty commons, to be named by the commons, commons.
constitute a part of the said committee, and that a
petition be preferred to parliament for that purpose.

1 William Forbes. — Francis Booker. — Thomas Cooke.
— Francis Fetherston. — Eobert King. — Thomas
Blackall. — George Reynolds. — Benjamin Barton. —
Charles Burton. — Thomas Mead.'

1763. December 23.— Post Assembly.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that at a
post assembly this 13th of this instant December, your
honours were pleased to confirm the committee's report 4JbSu£ot
for an application to be made to parliament, relative $fot bni.
VOL. xi. N

J 78 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763.

1763. to a pilot bill, under certain provisions therein Ron xxn.

mentioned. m> 1S7

scheme. That several of your petitioners, finding said scheme

not universally agreeable, have since conferred with
Merchants, the merchants applying for such a bill, when the
vesTeTm foll°wing scheme was suggested; that the powers be
city- vested in the city upon the plan of the Ballast Office

committee, act, to be delegated to a committee of thirty-three,

constitute as follows —

The Lord Mayor for the time being ... 1

The Sheriffs for the time being ... 2

Five Aldermen, who are allowed the benefit of
the six and ten per cent., in the custom house, to
be elected by the Lord Mayor and Board of
Aldermen ... ... g

Ten of the Common Council, who are allowed
the benefit of the six and ten per cent., to be elected
by the Sheriffs and Commons ... 10

Fifteen to be elected by and out of the freemen
of the Guild of Merchants, who have had the benefit
of the six and ten per cent., for three years pre-
ceding such election, and who are not of the Board
of Aldermen or of the Common Council ... 15

irst^om. The first committee to be elected to serve until
Christmas, 1765.

And afterwards to be elected triennially.

The necessary pilots and haven masters to be
appointed by the committee with suitable salaries and
rewards.

vacancy. Any vacancy, which may happen in the said com-
mittee, to be filled by the respective constituents of the
Ahierman. said three classes, to wit, an Alderman by the Lord

Recorder,
ipense.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1763-64. 179

Mayor and Aldermen, and a Common Councilman by ms.

j i l i Council-

the Sheriffs and Commons, and a Merchant by the man.

Merchant.

Guild of Merchants qualified as above.

The city to solicit the act and be at the expense £j[fcift0the
thereof, but to be repaid out of the profits which will act'
arise in the execution of the said act.

That your petitioners apprehend, that if any act of ^J*r-
parliament was framed upon the said plan, it would
preserve the city's right and be of the utmost advantage city's right,
to the trade and commerce of this city.

And the said commons, praying to direct an applica- 0nler-
tion to be made to parliament for the purposes aforesaid.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city agent do city agent.
solicit to obtain an act of parliament, upon the plan Act.
and for the purposes aforesaid, in such manner as Mr.
Eecorder shall advise, the expense thereof to be defrayed J«J
by orders from the committee of directors of the Ballast gaitast
Office upon the city treasurer and to be allowed him
on his accounts.

1 William Forbes.— Francis Booker.— Thomas Cooke.
—Francis Fetherston.— Robert King.— Charles Burton.
—Timothy Allen.— Thomas BlackalL— Thomas Mead.
— Benjamin Barton.— Benjamin Geale.'

1764. January 9.— Post Assembly. »e±-

[1.] We, the Sheriffs and 'Commons of the city of Jjg*£*
Dublin, have this day elected by ballot from among
the four Sheriffs' Peers returned to this house by the
Lord Mayor and Board of Aldermen, George Reynolds Reynolds,

J alderman.

of Earl street, merchant, to the place of an alderman

of the said city, in room of alderman Thomas Taylor, gg^Sd.

deceased.'

-William Bryan." \ u

., _ • -o i ;• f Snerins.
Francis Booker. J

180

DCBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1764.

1764.

Election of
alderman.

Koll xxji.
in. 137 b.

City pipe
water.

Report.

Account.

Cave.

Callbeck.

Gladwell.

Sheriffs' Peers returned.
George Reynolds.
Alexander Ryves.
John Read.
Joseph Hall.

' William Forbes.— Francis Booker.— Thomas Cooke.
— Francis Fetherston. — Robert King. — Thomas
BlackalL— George Reynolds.— Benjamin Barton.—
Charles Burton.— Thomas Mead.— Benjamin Geale.'

1764. January 20.— Fourth Friday after the 25th of ™.i46.
December, 1763.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed for better supplying the city with
pipe water, have made the following report, videlicet.

'We, the committee appointed for better supplying
the city with pipe water, inform your honours, that
we have examined the account of Mr. Richard Cave,
supervisor, messieurs Samuel Callbeck and Francis
Gladwell, collectors of the pipe water revenue, for the
year ending the 1st day of November, 1762, and
collected from thence to the 1st of November, 1763, the
said account being laid before us in a regular and exact
manner gave us great satisfaction in the examining
thereof, the supervisor furnished us with a charge
against the collectors, which they admitted to be right,
and which we also examined.

' We find that the rents and arrears
received on account of pipe water
amount to

' The receipts for concealed branches to

' For fines to

s. d.

2941 18
12 0
42 0

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 17(34. 181

£ S. d. 1764.

Account

The sum received by Samuel Callbeck
amounts to ... ... ••• 1535 0 0

'And that by Francis Gladwell to ... 1460 18 4

' Making in the whole the sum of £2,995 18 4

' And that a balance remains in the

hands of Samuel Callbeck of ... £3 7 11 \
1 And a balance in the hands of

Francis Gladwell of ••• £4 0 11

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said order
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
ordered, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and the committee continued, and that
the commons do name a commoner in the place of Commoner,
alderman Reynolds.

[2.] John Wilson, setting forth, that the committee wiison.
appointed for better supplying the city with pipe water,
to whom his petition was referred, have made the Petition.
following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for better supplying the Report.
city with pipe water, to whom the contents of the said
petition was referred, met on the 13th January instant,
and took the same into our consideration, we find that
the petitioner on the 8th November, 1762, was appointed
into the care of the waste ates at the weir of $SaJter"
Temple Oge, for which he was to have had a salary of og™ple
£15, and that he continued in that service until the
22nd day of July last, which is two thirds of the year.

1 That in regard the season occasioned great floods, Floods.
which required the great care and attendance of the Attendance.
petitioner in the care and management of the said gates, cawof
in order to prevent the inundations which must other-

182

DFBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL.

1764.

1764

Payment

Orler.

Doctor
CharlfS

Lucas.

Keport.

Memorial.

Discharge.

Tent.

Arrears.

Threepenny

customs.

Surrender

of lease.

Order.

Recorder.

Customs.

Thomas.

M'Donnell,

D.D.

Export

wise have happened to many of the inhabitants of this Boiixsii
city, your committee are of opinion that the said John
Wilson be paid the sum of £12, as a compensation for
his extraordinary care and attendance as aforesaid.'

And the said John Wilson, praying to confirm the
said report and make the same an act of assembly : it m. ua b.
was granted, the committee's report confirmed and made
an act of assembly.

[3.] Doctor Charles Lucas, setting forth that the
committee appointed to take into consideration the
memorial of the said Charles Lucas, have made the
following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed to take into considera-
tion the memorial of Doctor Charles Lucas, are of
opinion, that he ought to be exonerated and discharged
from all rent and arrears of rent due by him to the
city for the threepenny customs, on his surrendering the
lease of said customs, and that a committee should be
appointed to consider what measures are proper to be
taken on behalf of the city respecting said customs, and
that Doctor Lucas may be desired to furnish the city
with all materials he may have collected relating to
that affair.'

And the said Charles Lucas, praying to confirm the
said report and make the same an act of assembly, and
that the committee for inspecting city leases near
expiring be empowered, with the assistance of Mr.
Recorder and such other council as they shall think fit,
to consider what measures are proper to be taken on
behalf of the city respecting said customs.

[4.] Thomas M'Donnell, doctor in divinity, setting
forth [that] the committee appointed upon city leases
near expiring, have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed upon city leases near
expiring, to whom the said petition of Thomas
M'Donnell, doctor in divinity, administrator -with the

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1764. 183

will annexed of John Williams, deceased, was referred, n&t.

Williams,

have taken the same into our consideration, and that deceased.
the city at Midsummer assembly, 1750, granted unto
the said John Williams a messuage or tenement in
Cooke street, for the term of 99 years from Easter, ct°r^°
1 753, at the annual rent of £5, and capons, a lease Bent.
whereof was never executed to the said John Williams,
though he continued in the possession of said premises.

' We find that the said John Williams did not pay
any rent for the concern, and that an arrear of £52 10s., Amu.
besides capons, was due by him to and for Michaelmas,
1763. We observe that the said John Williams in his
lifetime gave several attendances in behalf of the city Attend-

D ■» auces,

for which he received no compensation.

Your committee have considered the allegations of
the said petition, are of opinion that a lease be executed Lease.
to the said Thomas M'Donnell of the said premises for M'Donneii.
the term of 99 years from Easter, 1753, at the annual
rent of £5, and capons, pursuant to the former grant, Rent.
and that he be allowed out of the said sum of £52 10s., Allowance,
being the arrears due as aforesaid, £40, as a compensa-
tion for said Williams' attendance on the city business,
on the said Mr. M'Donnell's giving up all the papers
relative to the said services.'

' And the said Thomas M'Donnell, praying to confirm order,
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly.

[5.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed to support the inferior corpora- inferior
tions, have made the following report, videlicet. ti°on°ia

' We, the committee appointed to support the inferior Report,
corporations, have taken the same into our consideration
and have had several meetings ; we directed the city city agent,
agent to lay a state of the corporations' right to
quarterage before several eminent counsel, whose 3ounseiase'

184 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764.

1764. opinion we expect very soon. We think that this com- r0h xxii.

m. 146 b.

mittee should be enlarged, and that some 01 the
gentlemen thereof be requested to attend this matter,

council and t° meet the city council upon their consultations, as

this is an object of the greatest importance. Your m. 145.
committee recommend that this committee be empowered

sum. to draw upon the city treasurer for any sum not

exceeding one hundred guineas, towards supporting the
expense attending this inquiry.'

Order. And the said commons, praying to confirm the said

report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made

committee, an act of assembly, and the committee continued, and
that alderman Thomas Cooke, alderman Mathew Bailie,
alderman Reynolds, and six of the commons, to be
named by the commons, be added to the said committee.

Pemierton. [6.] Benjamin Pemberton, setting forth, that the

Baiiast committee of directors for the Ballast f Office1,] to whom

Office. L - ,,

his petition was referred, have made the following

report, videlicet.
Report. ' We, the committee of directors for the Ballast Office,

to whom the said petition was referred, met this day

and took the same into consideration, and are of opinion
Payment, that the petitioner should be paid £20 17s., for 139
Attendance, days' attendance, at three shillings per day.'
order. And the said Benjamin Pemberton, praying to

confirm the said report and make the same an act

of assembly : it was granted, the committee's report

confirmed and made an act of assembly.

[7.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the

committee appointed to enquire into the expenses which
contests have been incurred in consequence of the late contests

between the

board and between the board and commons, have made the

commons, '

following report, videlicet.
Report. ' We, the committee appointed to enquire into the

Expenses, expenses, which have been incurred in consequence of

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764 185

the late contests between the board and commons, have i7M.
met accordingly and have examined the account of *fc^"uts.
Mr. Collis, agent for the board, and Mr. Woods, agent Collis-

' & ' ' & Woods.

for the commons, and are of opinion that Mr. Collis be
paid £207 15s. 6d., in full of his demand, and that Payment.
Mr. Woods be paid the sum of £216 5s. 4d., in full
of his demand, amounting in the whole to the sum of
£424 Is. 10d.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said order,
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly.

[8.] Mathias Lynham setting forth, that the com- Lyuham.
mittee appointed upon his petition, have made the
following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed upon the petition of Report.
the said Mathias Lynham, met on the 6th day of
January instant, and took the said petition under
our consideration, when the said Lynham attended and
produced several accounts of goods admitted free of Accounts

Customs.

customs at the gate of Dolphin's Barn, which accounts, Dolphin's

01 Barn.

we have examined and find that there passed said gate.

£ s. d.

' 2,222 Barrels of bark, at Jd., per barrel 2 6 3| Account
'8,886 Do., of non freemens, at ^d.,

per barrel ... ... ... 603

' 8,579 Tanned hides, at ^d. per barrel 8 18 8
' 12,983 Do. non freemens, at Jd.,

per barrel ... ... ... 27 0 11£

' Green hides in proportion to the tanned 35 19 8£

1 Amounting in the whole to £80 5 10|

1 Which we think should be allowed him.

'We also find, that he admitted goods
on freemens' notes to pass custom free
to the amount of £14 10s. OJd., which
at half custom is ... ... 7 5 0^

' Making together the sum of ... £87 10 10|

186

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1764.

1761.
Payment.

Order.

Pay.nent.

Semple.
Bill iu court
of exche-
quer.

Money due.

Essex
Bridge.

Answer.

Order.
City seal.

Barber.

George's
lane.

Order.

Surrender

of lot.

Brenan.

Losses.
Order.
Payment.

' We are therefore of opinion, that the said Mathias RoU xxii>
Lynam be paid the said sum of £87 10s. 10fd.'

And the said Mathias Lynham, praying to confirm
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and that the city treasurer
do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner
the said sum of £87 10s. 10|d., the same to be allowed
on his accounts, upon the petitioner's releasing the city
from all demands, which he may have on account of
the said tolls and customs.

[9.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that one
George Semple hath exhibited his bill in his majesty's
court of exchequer to be decreed to certain sums of
money suggested to be due to him by the city, for
services done at Essex Bridge, the Little Green, and
the committee of directors of the Ballast Office; that it
will be necessary for the city to file an answer to the
said bill, and therefore the annexed has been prepared
as proper for that purpose.

And the said commons, praying that the city seal be
thereunto affixed in such manner, as Mr. Recorder shall
advise.

[10.] Thomas Barber setting forth, that at a cant
held the 20th of September last, he bid for lot No. \ .
in George's lane, the sum of £79 10s.

And the said Thomas Barber, praying that a
surrender of the said lot be accepted from him : where-
upon it was ordered, that the petitioner's surrender of
the above premises be and is hereby accepted of, and
that the committee appointed upon city leases do forth-
with publish advertisements for setting of the same,

[11.] William Brenan, praying a compensation for
losses sustained by him in taking the herbage of Saint
Stephen's Green: whereupon it was ordered, that the
city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1764. 187

petitioner £10, as compensation for the losses he J7(U.
sustained in making up the hay of Saint Stephen's saint
Green the last season, the same to be allowed the Green6
treasurer on Ins accounts.

[12.] Peter Butterton and Maurice Humphrys, Butterton

Humphrvs.

setting forth, that at a cant held 20th July, 1762, for
setting part of Fleet street and Aston's quay, said Peter Meet street.
Butterton took lot No. 8. on the south side of Fleet by-
street, at the annual rent of £22 2s. 3d.

And the said Peter Butterton and Maurice Humphrys, order,
praying to grant unto the said Maurice Humphrys a
lease in his own name of the said lot, upon surrendering
the former lease : whereupon it was ordered, that a lease Lease,
of the above mentioned premises be perfected to the
petitioner, Maurice Humphrys, assignee of Peter Humplirys.
Butterton, for the term of 70 years and three lives, at
a yearly rent of £22 2s. 3d., to commence the 29th Rent.
September, 1762, upon his paying all rent and arrears
of rent to Michaelmas, 1763, and surrendering the lease
made to said Butterton.

[13.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that from
the long experience they have had of the proper conduct
and behaviour of the reverend Dixie Blundell, city BluildeI1-

' «/ city

chaplain, he highly merits favour and preferment, and JSS*?"
that in consideration of the present inability of the city Preferment-
to make a suitable provision for him, they therefore
think it proper to have him recommended to o;overn- Recom.

mended to

ment by the Lord Mayor, Recorder and Sheriffs for e°ve™-

^ meut.

that purpose.

And the said commons praying that he be recom- order,
mended accordingly, it was granted.

[14.] Edward Scriven, praying to be paid the sum seriven.
of £137 13s. 8d., due to and disbursed by him in
recovering an arrear of rent due to the city out of a Rent,
holding in Church street. church

Whereupon it was ordered, that the contents of his order.

188

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL,

1764.

1761.

Payment.

Caldwell.
Franchise.

Order.
Silver box.

Kegirnent
of light
horse.

Clarke.
City music.

Salary.
Payment.

Bryan,
clerk.
Salary
augmented

Fondrou,

high

constable.

petition be referred to the committee appointed upon *»&«&
city leases near expiring, who are to examine the same
and report their opinion thereon to the next assembly,
and that the city treasurer do pay the petitioner £100,
in the meantime, the same to be allowed on his accounts.

[15.] Certain of the commons, praying that the
freedom of this city be presented to sir James Caldwell,
baronet, for his signal services done to this kingdom.

It was granted gratis, in a silver box the expense
thereof not to exceed £5, sterling, upon account of the
services, which he performed to his country in raising
in the year 1759, a regiment of light horse at his own
proper expense, for the defence of this kingdom, when
an invasion was threatened, and after the emergency
for employing his well appointed regiment to trie
effectual advantage of the fair trader, and to the
essential increase of his majesty's revenue.

[16.] John Clarke and the rest of the band of city
music, praying to be continued and paid their last
year's salary: whereupon it was ordered, that the
petitioners be continued as the band of city music for
one year ending Christmas assembly, 1765, that their
salary of £60, now due, be paid over by the city
treasurer to the right honourable the Lord Mayor and
Sheriffs, the same to be allowed on his accounts, and
that the said Lord Mayor and Sheriffs do deduct so
much thereout as they shall think proper on account of
any neglect or non-attendance by said music in their
employment; the residue of the said sura of £60, to be
paid the petitioners.

[17.] Jacob Bryan, clerk, praying to have his salary
of £10, augmented : whereupon it was ordered, that the
petitioner's salary be augmented to £15, a year, to
commence from Christmas last.

[18.] Henry Fondron, deputy high constable,
praying a compensation for his activity and service

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764. 189

done in his said employment : whereupon it was ordered, i76i
that the city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant,
pay the petitioner £5, the same to be allowed on his Payme»t
accounts.

[19.] John Sleane. praying to be continued one of USSt*
the Serjeants at mace : whereupon it was ordered, that mace'
the petitioner be continued one of the Serjeants at mace,
for one year ending Christmas assembly, 1765, upon
his giving such security for the faithful discharge of
his office, and redelivery of the silver mace, as the
Lord Mayor and Sheriffs shall approve.

[20.] Upon the resolutions of Benjamin Houghton: t^°lu'
it was ordered that the right honourable the Lord Hou&htou-
Mayor, Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the works,
alderman Thomas Cooke, alderman John Cooke,
alderman Bailie, alderman Crampton, alderman Tew,
alderman Sankey, sir Thomas Blackall, and fourteen
of the commons, to be named by the commons or any five
of them, whereof the Lord Mayor and one of the Sheriffs
to be always two, be and are appointed a committee, committee,
with the assistance of Mr. Recorder, to consider the said
resolutions and report their opinion thereon to a post
assembly, to be convened for that purpose.

[The fourteen of the commons : ] Doctor Lucas, Mr. commons.
Thomas Green,* Mr. Thomas Read, Mr. John Hunt, Mr.
Weld, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Carleton, Mr. Anthony
King, Mr. Dobson, Mr. Strong, Mr. Mason, Mr Graham,
Mr. Kirkpatrick, Mr. Burton.

[21.] Abstract of the treasurer's accounts, for the Treasurer's

accounts.

quarter ending the 25th December, 1763.

City of Dublin, Dr.

To cash paid since

To balance in the treasurer's hands

£ s.

3339 2

439 12

£3,778 15

190

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764.

1764.

Treasurer's

accounts.

Per contra, Cr.

By balance in treasurer's hands last quarter
By cash received since

Roll xxii.
m. 144.

£ s. d.
. 234 2 10£
. 3544 12 5*

£3,778 15 3*

Auditors of
the city
accounts.

Commons.

Masters of
city works.

Ballast
Office.

Report.
Pier.

Walls.

Piles.

Order.

[22.] Auditors of the city accounts for the last year.

Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, alderman Thomas Cooke,
alderman John Cooke, alderman Bailie, alderman
Crampton, sir Timothy Allen, alderman Taylor,
alderman Sankey, sir Thomas Blackall.

And eighteen of the commons to be named by the
commons or any nine of them, whereof the Lord Mayor
and one of the Sheriffs to be always two, be and are
appointed auditors of the city accounts, for one year,
that is to say, from Michaelmas, 1762, to Michaelmas,
1763.

[The fourteen of the commons : ] Mr. Cave, Mr. John
Hunt, Mr. Hartley, Mr. Blood, Mr. Hurst, Mr.
Montgomery, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Vereilles, Mr.
Carleton, Mr. Jones, Doctor Lucas, Mr. Thomas Read,
Mr. M'Donnell, Mr. Rutledge, Mr. Dickinson, Mr.
Thomas Green, Mr. Strong, Mr. Dobson.

[23.] Mr. John Read and Mr. Joseph Hall are
appointed masters of the city works for the ensuing
year.

[24.] Ballast Office report.

' Since our last report to your honours, we have
proceeded in carrying on the south east pier and the
foundation of the new walls, which have received no
damage; we have also proceeded in the repairing the
piles, which we are sorry to acquaint you, have
received some damage, which we shall give orders to
have repaired as the weather permits.

' Your committee have in consequence of the order of
assembly in April, 1763, several times summoned

m. 144 b.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764. 191

alderman Hunt, Ballast Master, to attend with his mi.
claim for extraordinary services, which he has not done, services.
your committee are therefore still of opinion, that said
Ballast Master be obliged to allow the £68 5s., granted Grant-
him by a former committee, as your committee find that
the augmentation of £50, per 'annum to his salary, in Salary,
pursuance to his petition to the assembly in January,
1755, was partly granted in consequence of his
additional trouble in the great works, which were
carrying on by the aid of parliament.

'We have not had time to enquire fully into the
petition of Mr. Friel, but shall report our opinion PrfeL
thereof to your honours the next assembly.

' An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, which Cash,
we have examined and find a balance of £1,228 15s. 4d., Balance,
m the hands of alderman Edward Hunt, Ballast
Master, on the fund of the Ballast Office, besides the
above sum of £68 5s., granted him by former committee
not yet accounted for, we also find a balance of
£175 10s. 7d., overpaid by alderman Edward Hunt, Hunt.
Ballast Master, on account of the public money.'

State of the Ballast Office accounts, from 12th Ballast

' Office

October last inclusive, to 18th January, 1764, exclusive, account.

Ballast Office, Dr.

& s. a.

To balance of last quarter's abstract ... ... ... 2129 19 5£

To cash received since .. ... ... ... 895 3 6

£3,025 2 111

Per contra, Cr.

& s. <\.

By cash paid since for raising ballast ... ... . . 169 11 8

By cash paid since for repairs on the piles ... ... 131 3 6

By cash paid salaries ... ... ... ... 142 5 0

By cash paid house rent and sundry petty disbursements ... 73 13 lh

By cash paid for repairs on gabbards ... ... ... 1189 14 2

By cash paid account of the floating light ... ... ... 84 19 8

By cash paid interest of money borrowed ... ... ... 5 0 0

By balance on hands ... ... ... ... 1228 2 1H

£3.025 2 111

192 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL.

1764.

" Eoll xxii,

1764. ni.lWb.

Ballast Ballast Office for the public money, Dr.

Office £ a. d.

account.

To cash received since at his majesty's treasury ... ... iwu u v

To balance over paid this quarter

129 10 7

£1,129 10 7

Per contra, Cr.

£ s. d.

By cash overpaid as per last quarter's abstract .. •• 390 " 7

By cash expended this quarter on the south east pier • • 738 19 0

£1,129 10 7

' William Forbes.— Thomas Cooke.— Charles Burton.
—Timothy Allen.— Thomas Mead.— James Taylor.—
Charles Rossel.— Robert King.— Francis Fetherston —
John Tew.'
Franchise. 1764. January 20.— Admissions to franchise. m.i«i

ueciara- 1764. January 26.— Declaration and signatures. m- 16S-

tioc

1764. February 14.— Post Assembly. w.m

[1.] Certain of the commons, setting forth, that they

apprehend it will be proper to address his majesty upon
ISsilT' the nuptials of her royal highness the princess Augusta

with his serene highness prince Frederick of Brunswick

Address.

Princess
Augusta
Prince

Frederick. Lunenburgh

order. And the said commons praying to appoint a com-

mittee with the assistance of Mr. Recorder to prepare
an address accordingly.

Whereupon it was ordered, that alderman Bailie,
alderman Crampton, sir Timothy Allen, alderman
Geale, alderman Sankey, alderman Barton, and twelve
of the commons to be named by the commons, be

committee, appointed a committee with the assistance of Mr.
Recorder to prepare an address to his majesty, according
to the prayer of the above petition.

commons. rp^e twelve of the commons:] Mr. Lamprey, Mr.
Tucker, Mr. Darquier, Mr. Blood, Mr. John Hunt, Mr.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764. 193

Hartley, Mr. Houghton, Mr. Dickison, Mr. Anthony 176*.
King, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Dunn, Mr. Dobson.

[2.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed with the assistance of Mr. Recorder
to prepare an address to his majesty, upon the nuptials Qddyessjn
of her royal highness the princess Augusta with his Sjjjj^ of
serene highness prince Frederick of Brunswick wlthprince
Luneburg, have prepared the annexed. of Bruns-

And the said commons, praying that the same do Order.
stand the address of this city, be put under the city city seal
seal and presented to his excellency the lord lieutenant,
in order to its being transmitted to his majesty.

Address.

1 To the king's most excellent majesty.

1 The humble address of the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Address.
commons, and citizens of the city of Dublin in common
council assembled.

' May it please your majesty.

' We your majesty's ever dutiful and loyal subjects,
the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, commons and citizens of the
city of Dublin in common council assembled, most
humbly beseech your majesty to accept our sincere co^raLia-
congratulations upon the marriage of her royal Marriage.

. . . Princess

highness the princess Augusta with his most serene Augusta,
highness the hereditary prince of Brunswick p™ce of

° J r Brunswick.

Luneburgh.

' With the utmost joy and satisfaction, we view in
this auspicious union, an increase of splendour and of Umaa.
strength derived to an illustrious family ever dear to
these realms. We see a most amiable and accomplished
princess sought for and obtained, as the only adequate
prize that could [add to] the success and martial glory of Prize.
a most heroic prince, and that prince, whose important

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194

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764.

Royal
house.

Person.
Govern-
ment.

1761. services have so highly distinguished him in the great r0h xxii.

Services. ° J ° m. 143.

Keii&ion. cause of true religion, and liberty, honoured and
rewarded by so near an alliance to your majesty, the
great asserter and protector of both.

' Permit us, most gracious sovereign, truly sensible
as we are of your majesty's goodness thus to interest
ourselves in every event pleasing to your majesty and
prosperous to your royal house, and to assure your
majesty of our most zealous attachment and warmest
affection to your person and government, nor can we,
upon this earliest opportunity of approaching the
throne, omit those just acknowledgments, which we of
this metropolis are, in a peculiar manner, bound
humbly to offer to your majesty, for having adorned
our city with the presence of a noble personage ;l whose
generosity and dignity, tempered with every amiable
virtue and accomplishment, have rendered him the fair

Kepresenta- representative of your majesty; and the fit dispenser of
royal grace and favour to a dutiful, affectionate and
loyal people.

' In testimony whereof, we have caused the common
seal of the said city to be hereto affixed, this 14th day
of February, 1764.'

'William Forbes.— Thomas Cooke. — Charles Burton, m. 143*.
— Timothy Allen. — Thomas Mead. — James Taylor. —
John Tew. — Robert King. — Charles Rossel. — Francis
Fetherston.'

Noble per
sonage.

City seal.

Bill in
house of
commons.

Frauds in
collection
of tolls and
customs in
cities and
towns.

1764. March 5. — Post Assembly.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that they
are informed that heads of a bill are now depending
in the honourable house of commons, to prevent frauds
in the collection of tolls and customs in cities and towns,
in which heads of a bill, a clause is contained to restrain

1 Hugh Percy, Earl of Northumberland, lord lieutenant of Ireland.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1764. 195

the setting of tolls and customs. That petitioners 1764.

Setting

apprehend, that if the said clause should pass into a tolls and

* customs.

law, it will be very injurious to your honours.

And the said commons, praying to cause such Order,
opposition (by petition or otherwise) to be made to the opposition.
said heads of a bill : whereupon it was ordered, that
the above petition be referred to the committee of tolls
and customs, and they are hereby empowered to oppose
the said heads of a bill being passed into a law before BiU-
the honourable house of commons or elsewhere.

And it is further ordered, that such petition or
petitions be put under the city seal and presented City seal-
against said heads of a bill, in such manner as Mr.
Recorder shall advise, the expense attending such Reorder,
opposition to be defrayed by orders from the committee Expense.
and allowed the treasurer on his accounts.

' William Forbes. — Thomas Cooke. — Charles Burton.
— Timothy Allen. — Thomas Mead.— James Taylor. —
John Tew. — Robert King. — Charles Rossel. — Francis
Fetherston.'

1764. May 4.— Second Friday after Easter.1

[1.1 " We, the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the citv Election of

Lord

of Dublin, have this day elected alderman Benjamin Mayor-
Geale, to serve in the office of Lord Mayor for the
ensuing year, commencing from Michaelmas next, and
do hereby return the said Benjamin Geale to you the
Sheriffs and Commons of the said city for your appro-
bation."

" William Forbes, Lord Mayor."

" We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the Common Oeaie,

_. • Lord

Council of the city of Dublin, have this day approved Mayor-
by ballot of alderman Benjamin Geale, to serve in the

l Easter day, 22 April, 17<U.

196 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764.

1764. office of Lord Mayor of the said city, for the ensuing Ron xsii.

Lord' year, commencing from Michaelmas next."

Mayor.

" William Bryan," ^

Y " Sheriffs."
"Francis Booker," J

Nomina- f2.1 " We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the Common

tiou for L J '

sheriffs. Council of the city of Dublin, have this day by ballot
nominated the following eight freemen of the said city,
resident within the said city or the liberties thereto
adjoining, each of them worth in real and personal
estate in possession the sum of £2,000, over and above
all his just debts, that is to say, Robert Montgomery
of Dominick street, merchant, William Hurst of
Hawkins' street, merchant, Richard French of the Blind
quay, druggist, Thomas Green of James' street, brewer,
John Hunt of Chancery lane, merchant, Thomas
Emerson of Castle street, weaver, Antony King of
Cooke street, founder, and Nathaniel Trumbull of
Francis street, weaver, as fit persons to serve the office
of Sheriffs of the said city, and do hereby return the
names with the additions of the said eight persons, to
you the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the said city,
in order to your electing two of the said persons to be
Sheriffs of the said, city, for the ensuing year
commencing Michaelmas next."

" William Bryan,"

, >■ " Sheriffs."
Francis Booker,

" We, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of

Hunt. Dublin, have this day elected Mr. John Hunt of

somery. Chancery lane, merchant, and Mr. Robert Montgomery

of Dominick street, merchant, out of the above named

eight persons returned to us by the Sheriffs and

Commons, as fit persons to serve in the office of Sheriffs

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764. 197

Roiixxii. of the said city, for the ensuing year commencing i76i.
Michaelmas next."

" William Forbes, Lord Mayor."
in. 153 6. ran Certain of the commons setting forth, that the Toiisand

L J ° customs.

committee appointed for regulating the tolls and
customs, have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for regulating the city Report,
tolls and customs, inform your honours, that we have
had several meetings since our last report and have
taken under our consideration, the docket regulating the Docket,
customs, by which your servants and farmers have customs.
hitherto been governed. We are of opinion that to
prevent any misunderstanding or inconvenience, which
may possibly arise by your collectors or farmers putting collectors.
a construction upon any article of the said docket,
different from the original intention of the city, it will
be proper and we have added some explanation to the Expiana.
said docket, which we conceive will remove all pretences
for doubt or ambiguity between the collectors and
payers of those customs, the particulars whereof are
inserted in the docket hereunto annexed.

' We have also taken into our consideration the peity
docket of the inside or petty customs and find that pafdTith
several articles therein contained are paid with great
reluctance, though they are unquestionably the city's
right, yet we think it beneath the dignity of this Dignity of
corporation to insist upon them, particularly as they tioT>ia
fall upon the poorest of the people, upon whose accounts
great complaints have been made and disagreeable people,
reflections thrown upon the city.

' We therefore recommend, that for the future no
inside or petty customs be taken for fowl dead or alive, Petty

•i • customs.

rabbits, eggs, green peas, or beans, but that the inside rowi, etc.
or petty customs on all cattle, hay, and straw sold in ^"^j1?-
Smithfield market, and all fruit sold on Ormond quay, ^'™on(i

198 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764.

1764. together with the butter standings and root standings Eoii x«i.

ormond in Ormond market, be collected as formerly at the
respective markets, but not at the gates as lately-
practised.

' We must further acquaint your honours, that the

Enquiry, strictest enquiry your committee could make and from

Toils and the best information we could obtain, your tolls and

customs. ,

Pound*- customs stand upon a legal and indisputable founda-
tion, handed down to this city for ages, that the quantity
of your tolls, as well as the prices of your customs,
have been ascertained by usage and your records as
ancient as they are legible. Notwithstanding which,
suit. your committee finds, that a suit is now depending in

Bamweii. the courts of common pleas between Robert Barnwell,
Trimieston. esquire, commonly called lord Trimleston, and your
Touof honours, respecting the toll of flour, and the city agent,
Be^rder1*" with tne advice of Mr. Recorder, has retained some of
counsel, the most eminent counsel for the city, your committee
recommend that this suit, in which your honours are
so materially interested, be attended to, with becoming
Expense, spirit and every necessary expense, defrayed by your
honours, to support your honours' legal and just rights.
' Your committee are of opinion that as little
Docket. variation as possible should be made in your docket
(save by explanation) the antiquity whereof will be of
the greatest importance upon any disquisition that may
city's right, be futurely made into the city's right to their customs.
We further inform your honours, that the term, for
ofXterm.iou which your tolls and customs are now set, will expire
custom^ the 24th of June next, and that it will be necessary to
empower your committee to set them for another year,
to commence from the said day, in the manner they
were divided the last year.

1 Your committee find objections have been made to
Setting by ^g manner of setting your tolls and customs by cant, m- 152,
some of your committee are of opinion that receiving

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 176-1. 199

proposals may be of equal utility and less exceptionable, i76*.
but as yet we have not come to any resolution thereon.
We submit it to your honours, whether it will not be
very expedient to vest a power in the committee to set rower.
the tolls and customs by way of receiving proposals Proposals.
or by cant, as they shall think most eligible as well cant,
for the convenience of the public, as the city's advan-
tage.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said order,
report and make the same an act of assembly: it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and the committee continued, and that committee,
the said committee be vested with a discretionary power power.
to set the said tolls and customs agreeable to the said
report.

[4.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed upon the petition of sir William
Mayne, baronet, have made the following report, May™,
videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed upon the petition of Report,
sir William Mayne, baronet, took the said matter under
our consideration at the several meetings we have had
upon that occasion. We find that the corporation of ^^jgt
the city of Dublin, at Michaelmas assembly, 1608,
demised unto .Edmond Malone, merchant, one plot of Maione.
ground and the brick wall, then newly built, called the Ground,
town ditch, situated and bounding from the messuages Town dltch,
then in the possession of John Forster, alderman, near Forster.
adjoining unto the north side of the New gate of the New gate
said city, and extending northward unto Gorman's gate, Gorman's
and from the city wall on the east side, unto Walter
Hickey's family his house and the new brick wall Mickey,
aforesaid on the west side, for 81 years, from Easter
then ensuing, at the rent of £6 5s.

' We also find, that at Midsummer assembly, 1628,
the said corporation demised to alderman Edmond

200

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764.

1764.

iUalone.

Allen.
New row.

Gorman's
gate.

Allen's

lease.

Counter-
part.

Renewal.

Grant.

Lease.

Lenses.
1628

Recorder.

Malone, the said premises for 81 years, from Easter r0u x*w
preceding, at the same rent, and that at Easter assembly,
1662, the city for the consideration of £70, demised
the said premises to sir Joshua Allen, by the description
of all those, the houses or tenements situate in New row,
leading to Gorman's gate, lately in the possession of
alderman Edmond Malone, for 81 years, to commence
from the expiration of alderman Malone's lease at the
same rent.

' We must inform your honours, that hitherto it was
the received opinion, and so handed down to us that,
the said sir Joshua Allen's lease would expire in the
year 1770, that is, the said sir Joshua Allen's lease
was thought to have commenced from Edmond Malone's
lease made in 1608, thus it is entered in the ancient
rentals of this city, no counterpart of the lease made
to said Malone in 1628, is to be found among your
honours' archives, but your committee, inspecting into
the rentals lately made, find it there noted, that at
Midsummer assembly, 1628, a renewal was granted to
the said alderman Malone, and by the rolls of assembly m. 152 &
of Easter, 1662, the grant appears to be made to the
said Joshua Allen for 81 years after the expiration of
a lease made to alderman Malone in 1608, but takes
no notice of the renewal made in the year 1628, nor
does sir Joshua Allen's lease take notice of either, but
in general terms to commence from the expiration of
the lease of the premises granted by this city unto the
aforesaid alderman Edmond Malone, this makes a
difference of 20 years in the duration of sir William
Mayne's tenure.

' Sir William Mayne laid before us the leases of 1628,
under the city seal, of which we have taken an attested
copy, but however this your committee apprehend wants
further explanation and think it would be very prudent
to have the Recorder's opinion respecting the expiration

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764. 201

of the said lease. Your committee, from the inaccurate irei.
description of the premises, were under some appre- Premises,
hensions, that some part of the premises might be
withheld, from your honours, particularly as sir
William's estate of inheritance joins the same, upon Estate.
intimating this to " sir William, he candidly and
openly produced his title deeds to his estate there- Title deeds,
by which it appears, that by deeds of 19th and 20th
July, 1667, Glover and his wife, and Thomas Graves, gj.^;
for the consideration therein mentioned, conveyed to the
said sir Joshua Allen, 33J yards of ground to the street
and extending back to the city wall, bound on the north
to the city land, and on part of Thomas Dromgold's Dromgoid.
house, and on the other part of the south to the guild gjJJ °j^,s
of Saint Ann's, late in the possession of Thomas
Dromgold, this was very satisfactory to your committee
and enabled them to trace out the city ground with some
degree of exactness.

' We should do injustice to sir William, not to
acquaint your honours, that he informed us that what-
ever his title was, he would disclose it to your com- Title-
mittee, that he was then unacquainted with it, whether
it was under the city or was his estate of inheritance,
but should it be either one or the other, he would
equally produce his title thereto. We then appointed
some gentlemen of the committee, with the city surveyor ^_r_
and Mr. Mathews, to view and survey the said ground, Mathews-
which they did accordingly, a survey whereof is Surrey.
hereunto annexed.

' Your committee think it would be extremely advan-
tageous to the public, if the passage was enlarged at p*6*^8-
the north end of the ground by Gorman's gate, and ^0™au's
for that purpose directed the surveyor to draw a line
from the range wall of the houses on the south side of
Cooke street to New row, which will appear by the said ^-eet.
map and thereby the said passage may be enlarged 5J

202

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1764.

1761.
New row.

Market

days.

Proposals.

Mayne.

Allen.

Mixed
property.

Ground.

Survey.
Map.

Order.

Ground in

George's

lane,

South

strand,

Nicholas

street.

Report.

feet in the front to New row, and 3i feet in the rere, Roll xxii.

m. 152 b.

which will be of the utmost convenience to the public,
particularly upon market days.

1 We have received a proposal from sir William
Mayne, by which he proposes, on getting a lease of
the said premises for 70 years and three lives, either
to pay a rent of £25, to commence immediately, or to
continue at the rent of £6 5s., for 26 years, and for
the remainder of the term, the rent of £100, your
committee cannot recommend either of the said proposals
to your honours, but think it would be very proper to
continue this committee, to be further advised with m. 151.
respect to the commencement of the said lease made to
the said sir Joshua Allen, and in order to give sir
William an opportunity of amending his proposal.

' Your committee must inform your honours, that
there is a great deal of mixed property adjoining said
premises, as well belonging to your honours as to other
proprietors, and therefore recommend that the entire
piece of ground meared by the city wall on the east,
New row on the west, Cutpurse row on the south, and
Gorman's gate on the north, together with your honours'
estate at Newhall market, be surveyed and each distinct
property delineated on a map to be made, so as to avoid
any contests or confusion upon any future occasion.'

[5.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed to inspect city leases near expiring,
and who are empowered by act of assembly to set by
public cant some ground in George's lane, South Strand,
and in Nicholas street, have made the following report,
videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed to inspect city leases

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764. 203

near expiring and who are empowered by act of 1764.
assembly to set by public cant some ground in George's George's
lane, containing 60 feet in front, lately taken by
Thomas Barber, but relinquished and given up by him, Barber,
which we divided into three lots, and also to set in Lots,
like manner some lots on the South Strand, lately in south

J rtraud.

the possession of sir James Somervill and Mr. John somerviu.
Gerrard, and a concern in Nicholas street, formerly Gerard.
demised to sir Elias Best, directed advertisements to be Best,
inserted in the public papers, giving notice that your ments.
committee would proceed to set the same on the 1st and
15th days of March, for three lives and 70 years, to Leases,
commence the 25th day of March, 1764, when having
met, we set them as follows. Lots set-

' Lot No. 1. in George's lane, containing 20 feet in ^e!ges
front, to the said Thomas Barber at 15s. per foot. Barber'

' No. 2. containing 20 feet in front, to William
Lemaistre, at 14s. per foot. Lemaistre.

1 And No. 3. containing 20 feet in front, to the said
William Lemaistre, at 13s. per foot. Lemaistre.

' The lots No. 6. and 7. on the South Strand, con-
taining 42 feet in front, to Mr. Nicholas Kimpson, at Kimpson.
9s. 6d. per foot.

' And the lots No. 8. and 9. of the same dimensions,
to Mr. Benjamin -Pemberton, at lis., per foot. Pemberton.

' The ground in Nicholas street, lot No. 1. containing
21 feet, 9 inches in front, to Mr. Benjamin Ward, at ward.
19s. per foot.

' No. 2. containing 21 feet 3 inches in front, to Mr.
John Charles Rabiteau, at £1 0s. 6d., per foot. Rabitea*.

1 And No. 3. containing 22 feet in front, to Mr.
Richard Grady at 17s. per foot. Grady.

1 We observe that each of the foregoing persons hath
made a deposit of one year's rent with the city treasurer, Deposit of
which will be returned as soon as leases are executed Leases.
by them, which must be within six months from the

204

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1764.

176*.

No bidders.

Order.

Gonne.

Petitions.
Fees.

Order.

Payment.

Shea.

Cleansing
streets.

Report.

Allowance.

Parliament
street.

Charge.

Thorough-
fare.

dav of the cant or the deposit to be forfeited. As there Ron »

r in. 151

were not bidders for the lots on the South Strand lately
surrendered by sir Quayle Somerville, we adjourned the
cant to a future day.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly.

[6.] Henry Gonne, gentleman, setting forth, that he
received and presented last Christmas assembly 126
petitions for city's favour, for the receiving of each, he
was entitled to a fee of 2s. 6d., and every order made
thereon to 5s., which amounts to £47 5s.

And the said Henry Gonne, praying to be allowed
the said sum of £47 5s. : whereupon it was ordered,
that the city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant,
pay the petitioner, the said sum of £47 5s., the same
to be allowed on his accounts.

[7.] John Shea, setting forth, that the committee
appointed for setting the cleansing the streets, to whom
his petition was referred, have made the following
report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for setting the
cleansing of the streets, to whom the petition of the
said John Shea, undertaker for cleansing the lot No. 5.
for three years from Michaelmas last, 1763, was
referred, praying an allowance for cleansing a new
street, called Parliament street, which has been opened
since his taking the said lot, met on that occasion and
find that he began to sweep and carry away the dirt
and soil thereof, on the 4th November last, 1763, and
continued in that work to the 5th of January last, 1764,
for which he has made a charge of £4 16s. 6d., your
committee, having taken this matter into their con-
sideration, are of opinion in regard this street is a very
principal one and a great thoroughfare, and will require

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764. 205

to be constantly kept cleansed, that he be allowed i764f
during the said term of three years, an additional sum ^itionfU
of £16., per annum for cleansing the same, commencing
Michaelmas aforesaid.'

And the said John Shea, praying to confirm the said order,
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made the
same an act of assembly.

[8.] Sedborough Mayne, setting forth that the Mayne.
committee appointed for supplying the city with pipe cuy pipe
water, to whom his petition was referred, have made
the following report-, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for supplying the city Report,
with pipe water, to whom the petition of Sedborough
Mayne was referred, have taken the same into our
consideration and viewed the premises in the petition
mentioned and are of opinion, as the house, wherein the Dweiun?.
said Mayne now dwells, is subject to be overflown,
whenever there is a high flood in the river Liffey, that Flood iu

° . Litfey.

the ground floor and first story thereof be raised, so
as to prevent its being overflowed for the future.

1 We have received the annexed estimate of the Estimate,
expense of raising the walls and floor thereof andwansand
finding all materials for the effecting the same, which
amounts to £66- 3s. 2d.

' We find that there is a parcel of old pipes now lying oidPipes.
in the yard, which is valued at £25, and may very
properly be made use of in this work, so that the said
repairs may be made for £41 3s. 2d., therewith.'

And the said Sedborough Mayne, praying to confirm order,
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly.

[9.] Edward Scriven, setting forth, that the com- scriven.
mittee appointed upon city leases, to whom his petition
was referred, have made the following report, videlicet.

206 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1764.

17&4, ' We, the committee appointed to inspect city leases, Ron . «di

Report m* 150,

to whom the petition of Mr. Edward Scriven was
Bins of referred, have examined the same and also the bills of

costs.

costs thereunto annexed, amounting to £137 13s. 8d.,
which bills were taxed by the proper officer, and an
affidavit made by the said Edward Scriven, to ascertain
the laying out and expending the money paid to
Lawyers, lawyers and others. We find that in pursuance of an
act of last assembly, he was paid £100, out of the said
Balance. sum of £137 13s. 8d., and that a balance of £37 13s. 8d.,
still remains due, which we are of opinion he be like-
wise paid.'
order. Aj^ the said Edward Scriven, praying to confirm

the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,
Payment, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner
£37 13s. 8d., the same to be allowed on his accounts.

[10.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that at
last Michaelmas assembly, a certain number of persons
watchmen were appointed to act as watchmen on Essex Bridge,
Bridg-e. to take their stand at the hours of eight till seven in
the morning for four months, which time is now
elapsed.
Order. And the said commons, praying to continue the said

contiuued. watch until Michaelmas next, under the direction of
the former committee appointed for that purpose: it
was granted, according to the prayer of the petition.
[11.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that they
freedom apprehend the freedom of this city should be presented
Dennis. to James Dennis, esquire, to express the sense which
this city hath of the distinguished abilities of this
gentleman, and of his attention to the property of this
Dubi'hf* of kingdom> ancl tne true interest of the city of Dublin. m. x5o b
order. And the said commons, praying that he [be]

Franchise, presented with the freedom of this city : it was granted
gratis.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764. 207

[12.] Edmond Madden, setting forth, that he [has] 1764.
been employed as supervisor of the water course for supervisor

of water

several years past and hath done his duty to the best course,
of his power.

And the said Edmond Madden, praying to be con- Order,
tinued in the said employment : whereupon it was
ordered, that the petitioner be continued supervisor of continued,
the water course, for one year ending next Easter
assembly, 1765, at a salary of ten pounds. salary.

[13.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that at
two several meetings of the commissioners appointed bv commis-

" sioners.

two acts of parliament, for making a wide and con-
venient passage from Essex Bridge to the Castle of Passage

10 ° from Essex

Dublin, a verdict was found by a jury, that this city £ri£pto
were seized of the reversion and inheritance in the ytrdfet
several grounds on which the several houses then stood, Grounds,
wherein Benjamin Smith and James Keating, Catherine smith and

J & others.

MeCormick and George Faulkner respectively dwelt, Faulkner,
and also the house formerly called the King's Crane King's

Crane.

or Weigh house, the houses wherein Edward Fitzsimons,
Thomas Morris, Samuel Judd, and Robert Downs
respectively dwelt, situate on the South side of Essex Essex
street, subject to a lease made in the year 1675, of the Lease,
said ground, with other ground to John Crowe, at the Crowe,
yearly rent of £20, and capons, of which lease 58 years Rent,
are unexpired.

That by said verdict two several sums of £267 10s., IJjjJJ0*-
and £154 2s., making together the sum of £421 12s., Payment to

' & <=> city.

were awarded to be paid to this city for the purchase Purchase

1 " *■ of ground.

of their inheritance in said ground, upon their making

and executing good and legal conveyances to the said convey-

commissioners, which was duly confirmed, pursuant to

the said acts of parliament. That in consequence

thereof Mr. Eecorder has revised the deeds of conveyance £^rsder-

herewith, to which it will be proper to affix the city city seal.

seal.

208

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764.

1764.

Order

Deeds.

City seal.
Payment.

Bryan.

Black Dog
prison."

Order.

Payment.

Income of

justices'

office.

Order.

Payment.

Mathews,

city

surveyor.

Kendrick
resigned.

Order.

Appoint-
ment.
Eoe.

Serjeant at
mace.

Pees

reunited-

And the said commons, praying the city seal to be J^xxu.
affixed to the said deeds: whereupon it was ordered,
that the city seal be affixed to the said deeds of con-
veyance, upon the sum of £421 12s., being paid over
to the city treasurer for the use of the city.

[14.] Jacob Bryan, setting forth, that the year's
salary of £15., which the city appointed him for
officiating in the Black Dog prison, became due the
25th of March last.

And the said Jacob Bryan, praying to be paid the
same : whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer
do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner
£15., for one year's salary, due and ending the 25th
of March last, for officiating in the Black Dog prison.
the same to be allowed the treasurer on his accounts.

[15.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
income of the justices1 office is not sufficient to pay
the expense attending the same.

And the said commons, praying to grant them such
allowance for supporting the same as shall seem meet : m. no.
whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the treasurer of the
said office £50. the same to be allowed on his accounts.

[16.] Thomas Mathews, land surve}Tor, praying to be
appointed city surveyor, in the room of Mr. Roger
Kendrick, who resigned said employment.

Whereupon it was ordered, that petitioner be
appointed city surveyor, during the city's pleasure.

[17.] William Roe, praying to be continued one of
the Serjeants at mace, without paying the usual fees
of £10, a year : whereupon it was ordered, that the said
William Roe be continued one of the Serjeants at mace
of the said city, for one year ending next Easter
assembly, 1765, without paying the usual sum of £10.
upon his making due returns to the Town Clerk, of
all such actions executed by him during the said year

IV.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764. 209

and giving such security for indemnifying the city and 1754
redelivery of the silver mace, as the Lord Mayor and Serjeants
Sheriffs shall approve.

[18.] Thomas Snape, the like. snape.

[19.] George Cawthorn, the like. Cawthoni

[20.] Richard Betagh, the like. BetBgh.

[21.] James Thompson, the like. Thompson.

[22.] James Mathews, one of the city scavengers, Mathews,
setting forth that at a cant held at the Tholsel of the city scavenger,
of Dublin, on 27th day of June last, for setting the Thelseh
cleansing of the streets, Mr. Henry Robinson took the Robinson,
lot No. 1. in trust and for the use of petitioner, at the
yearly salary of £138, that at the time petitioner Salary.
applied to said Mr. Robinson to take one of the said
lots, there were two other persons promised to join
petitioner in cleansing the same, who afterwards refused
so doing, finding the salary too small, that petitioner
being not experienced in the cleansing of the same, and
petitioner being at great losses by means of his horses Losses,
dying and other accidents, is rendered incapable of
cleansing the said lot.

And the said James Mathews, praying that a surrender order,
of the said lot be accepted from him, from Michaelmas oMoTder
next : whereupon it was ordered, that the petitioner be
exonerated from his agreement for cleansing the Exonerated
division number one, from the 29th day of September *i"eement.
next, and that the committee for inspecting the
cleansing of the streets, do publish advertisements for Advertise-
setting the cleansing of the said lot, for two years from *
Michaelmas next.

[23.] Thomas Knox, mace bearer and officer of Kn°*.

mace

commons, praying a compensation for his extraordinary bearor-
trouble in his employment : whereupon it was ordered,
that the city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant,
pay the petitioner £20, the same to be allowed on his Payment,
accounts.

VOL. XI.

210

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764.

1764.
Smith.

Grant.

Treasurer's
account.

[24.] Elizabeth Smith, otherwise Forrest, praying Eoii xxil

m. 149 b

city's favour : whereupon it was ordered, that the city
treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the
petitioner £10, the same to be allowed on his accounts.

[25.] Abstract of the treasurer's accounts, for the
quarter ending the 25th March, 1764.

City of Dublin, Dr.

To cash paid since

To balance in treasurer's hand

£ B.

. 3967 1
620 10

d.
0

£4,587 11

£ s.

4S9 12

, 4147 19

£4,587 11

Per contra, Cr.

By balance in the treasurer's hands, last quarter
By cash received since

Ballast
Office.

Eeport.
Pier.

Walls.

Piles.
Timber.

Floats.
Gabbards.

Hunt.
Credit.

Lamb,
supervisor.

[26.] Ballast Office report.

' Since our last report to your honours, we have pro-
ceeded with carrying on the south east pier and the
foundation of the new walls, and also in repairing the
piles, but are in great want of timber, which we hope
soon to get.

' We are also going on with the graving and repairing
our floats and gabbards.

' We further acquaint your honours, that alderman
Edward Hunt, Ballast Master, has not complied with
a former order in giving credit for £68 5s., granted by
a former committee, which we are still of opinion he
should be obliged to do.

' We likewise acquaint your honours, that our agree-
ment with captain James Lamb, to be supervisor of the
building and repairing lighters and the delivery of
ballast and drudging the same in the channel, expired
the 1st instant. We are of opinion, he should be

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764. 211

continued for another year at the salary of £70, per mt.

annum. Salary.

1 We have made some progress in the petition of Mr.
George Friel, but have not finished the same, but expect Friei.
to do it against the next assembly.

1 An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, which cash,
we have examined and find a balance of £1,524 5s. 3£d. Balance
in the hands of alderman Edward Hunt, on the Ballast Hunt.
Office funds. We also find a balance of £514 4s. 9|d.,
overpaid by said alderman Edward Hunt, on account
of the public money.'

Whereupon it was ordered, to proceed as the com- order,
mittee shall think proper, and that alderman Hunt Hunt.
be called upon, as soon as his health will permit, to
account for the sixty guineas with the committee, Grant.
previous to the next assembly.

State of the Ballast Office accounts, from the 18th Eg1™*
day of January last inclusive, to this 2nd day of May,
1764, exclusive.

Office
account.

Ballast Office, Dr.

£ s. d.
To balance of last quarter's abstract ... ... J228 15 4

To cash received since ... ... ... 1107 0 .

£2,335 15 8

Per contra, Cr.

£ s. d.

By cash paid since for raising ballast ... ... jgy 4 ,

By cash paid since for repairs on the piles ...
By cash paid salaries

177 2 6

90 5 0

By cash paid house rent and sundry disbursements ... ... 31 17 ji

By cash paid repairs on gabbards ... ... 158 j g

By cash paid account of the light ship ... ... 14 ]Q Q

By cash paid interest of money borrowed ... ... i52 \q q

Bybalance I 1524 5 3i

£2,335 15 8

212 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764.

17(U Roll xxii.

m. 148.
Ballast Ballast Office for the public money, Dr.

Office' £ s- d-

aocount.

Per contra, Cr.

£ s, d.

By balance overpaid as per last quarter's abstract ... ... 129 10 7

By cash expended this quarter on the south east pier ... ... 384 14 2^

£514 4 9J

Murray. [27.1 Catherine Murray, widow of alderman Andrew

widow.

Murray, deceased, setting forth, that pursuant to orders,
Adminis- she administered to the said Andrew Murray, under

tration. ^

city agent, the directions of the city agent, since which she settled
with the administratrix of colonel John Murray, and
the balance due to petitioner thereon has been
discharged. That petitioner was under a necessity

Release. upon that occasion, not only to give a release to said
colonel Murray's administratrix, but to execute a bond
to indemnify her from all future claims. That petitioner

Baiauce. is ready to pay over the balance remaining due to your
honours from said Andrew Murray, upon indemnifying
petitioner in the same manner, petitioner was obliged
to indemnify said colonel Murray's administratrix.

order. And the said Catherine Murray, praying to order

indemnity, such indemnity to 'be given to her accordingly : it was

Recorder, granted, in such manner as Mr. Recorder shall advise.
' William Forbes. — Robert King. — Edward Sankey.- -
Thomas Mead.— Francis Fetherston. — Philip Crampton.
— Hans Bailie. — Timothy Allen. — Patrick Hamilton.'

Franchise. 1764. May 4. — Admissions to franchise. m.wi.

Deciara- 1764. May 10. — Declaration and signatures. m. ies

tion.

1764. May 17.— Post Assembly. m.usb.

pilot [!•] Certain of the commons setting forth, that by

an act passed the last session of parliament, intitled an

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY KOLL, 1764. 213

act for vesting further powers in the Lord Mayor, i764.
Sheriffs, commons, and citizens of the city of Dublin, corpora-1

tion.

for securing of ships trading to the port and harbour of ships.

° L o x Port of

Dublin, several extensive powers for regulating pilots, $£§£•
haven masters, and lighter men, are vested in your
honours, to be exercised by a committee constituted as
the said act directs.

That the said act requires, that the Lord Mayor shall Lord

1 _ J Mayor.

convene an assembly of the said city and at said
assembly five persons shall be elected by the board of Assembly.

- it Election

aldermen from among such of the aldermen as shall of persons,
have and be intitled to the allowance of the six and Allowance

at Custom

ten per cent, at the Custom House, and the commons, House-

of the said common council, shall also elect ten persons

from among such of their body, as shall at the time

of such election be in like manner qualified, and fifteen

persons to be elected by the guild of merchants, together

with the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs for the time being,

are constituted a committee for the purposes in the said Committee.

act mentioned. That your petitioners apprehend that

it will be highly proper and your honours are required

to appoint such persons to be of the said committee, in

the manner by the said act prescribed.

And the said commons, praying to appoint the said order,
persons accordingly : whereupon it was ordered, that
alderman Thomas Cooke, alderman John Cooke, alder- Aldermen,
man Crampton, alderman Geale, alderman Sankey,
having and being intitled unto the allowance of six and
ten per cent, at the Custom House, and ten of the
commons, to be elected by the commons in like manner Commons.
qualified, be and are hereby constituted to be of the
committee, pursuant to the act of parliament above committee,
mentioned, for the more convenient and constant act.
management and transacting o'f the several matters
necessary for the carrying into execution the good
purposes intended by the said act.

214

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764.

17&4.
Commons.

The undernamed commons were on the same day Ron Xxu.
elected by the Sheriffs and Commons : John Hunt, m
Travers Hartley, Thomas Read, William Hurst, James
Vareilles, Thomas Blood, Mathew Weld, George
Carleton, Robert Montgomery, William Alexander.

' William Forbes. — Robert King. — Edward Sankey. — -
Thomas Mead. — Philip Crampton. — Hans- Bailie. —
Timothy Allen. — Patrick Hamilton. — George Reynolds.'

Hunt,

Sheriff.

Resigna-
tion.

Order.
Excused.

Fine.

Nomina-
tion for
Sheriff.

1764. May 24.— Post Assembly.

[1.] John Hunt, merchant, setting forth, that at
Easter assembly last, petitioner was elected one of the
Sheriffs of this city.

And the said John Hunt praying to accept his
resignation of said office, as sickness in his family
obliged him to go for England.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the said John Hunt
be excused from serving in the office of one of the
Sheriffs of the city of Dublin, upon his paying twenty
guineas as a fine for the use of the Blue Coat Hospital.

[2.] " We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the Common
Council of the city of Dublin, have this day by ballot
nominated the following four freemen of the said city,
resident within the said city, or the liberties thereof
adjoining, each of them worth in real and personal
estate in possession the sum of £2,000, over and above
all his just debts, that is to say, Nathaniel Trumbull
of Francis street, weaver, Thomas Emerson of Castle
street, weaver, Thomas Green of James's street, brewer,
and Henry Hart of Eustace street, merchant, as fit
persons to serve in the office of Sheriff of the said city,
in the room of John Hunt excused, and do hereby
return the names with the additions of the four persons
to you, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the said city,
in order to your electing one of the said persons to be

in. 147.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764. 215

one of the Sheriffs of the said city, for the ensuing year i?w.

Nomination

commencmo- from Michaelmas next. for sheriff.

"William Bryan,"
" Francis Booker."

Sheriffs."

[3.] " We, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city Election.
of Dublin, have this day elected Mr. Henry Hart of Hart

J J Sheriff.

Eustace street, merchant, out of the above named four
persons returned to us by the Sheriffs and Commons, as
fit persons to serve in the office of Sheriff of the said
city, for the ensuing year commencing from Michaelmas
next, to be one of the Sheriffs of the said city for the
said vear, in the room of John Hunt, esquire, who has Huut .

J ' * j- ' excused.

been excused from serving that office."

" William Forbes : Lord Mayor."

1 William Forbes. — Robert King. — Edward Sankey. —
Thomas Mead. — Philip Crampton. — Hans Bailie. —
Timothy Allen. — George Reynolds. — Patrick Hamilton.'

m.i58. 1764. July 20.— Fourth Friday after the 24th of

June.

[1.1 Certain of the commons setting forth, that the Geaie,

city

committee appointed to audit the accounts of alderman treasurer.
Benjamin Geale, city treasurer, for the receipts, issues,
and profits accruing to the said city, commencing the
29th clay of September, 1762, and ending the 29th
September, 1763, and for the casualties ending at the
same time, have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed to audit the accounts import,
of alderman Benjamin Geale, city treasurer, for the
rents, issues, and profits accruing to the said city, Rents.
commencing the 29th day of September, 1762, and
ending the 29th day of September, 1763, and for the
casualties ending at the same time, have examined the casualties.

216

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764.

said accounts and the vouchers supporting the same, Roiixxh.
with that care and exactness so important a matter
required. The accountant, pursuant to the regulation
directed by the act of assembly of Michaelmas, 1762,
laid before us a rental of the city estate, as it stood
the 29th of September, 1763, together with the arrears
then due and the arrears due the preceding year.

' We must inform your honours, that we have
minutely adhered to the method lately prescribed to
charge the treasurer, and for that purpose settled the
rental antecedent to the accounts being laid before us,
by which we introduced many articles not compre-
hended in the rental of the former year. We think this
method should be constantly attended to, so as your
honours' estate by leases expiring and renewing must
necessarily undergo a variation every year. We find
the accountant's disbursements are put under the
proper classes of expenses, by which the amount- of each
particular is distinguished, together with the dates
thereof, and where the payments were for salaries, rents,
or for interest of money, they are abridged, which
enabled your committee to adjust the same with the
greatest facility.

' We charge the accountant with the arrears of rent
due Michaelmas, 1762, and also with the entry rental
of your honours' estate, ending Michaelmas, 1763,
together with such other incidental issues and profits
incurring in that period, amounting in the whole to
the sum of £18,192 19s. ll|d. We find the disburse-
ments including a balance of £955 5s. 10fd., due to
the treasurer upon his last account, and the arrear of
rent of £6,255 18s. 8d., amount to the sum of
£17,363 14s. OJd., to which the sum of £507 12s. 6d.,
poundage upon the sum of £10,152 9s. 5|d., neat money
paid, being added, a balance of £321 13s. 5Jd., is due
by the treasurer to your honours.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764. 217

* Your committee observing the arrear of rent now 1764.
returned by the treasurer to be more than the arrear due renT" of
last year, notwithstanding a large sum of money struck
[hereout by act of assembly, induced your committee to
enter into a disquisition of those articles, and your
committee find that the several articles introduced into Ar'ic'esi"

rental.

the present rental, which could not be inserted in the
former, has been the principal cause thereof, besides
some of the arrears so returned to us, have been since
received, by the treasurer, and others under accom-
modation with your honours.

' We must observe to your honours, that some dim- Difficulties,
culties arise in compelling some of your tenants, who Tenants,
hold by fee farm leases, to pay their rents, as they Fee farm

leases.

cannot be ejected. We therefore recommend, that |?nts.
wdiere such tenants incur two years' rent and upwards ments-
to be in arrear, they be distrained and for that purpose Distrained

» •/ i J- for rent.

a proper instrument be put under the city seal, to instrument

under city

empower the city treasurer and city agent, or such other seal,
person, as your honours shall think proper to distrain
for such arrears, but where no distress can be had,
that a writ of entry or such other legal proceedings be entry0*
instituted to recover the premises, as Mr. Recorder shall Recorder,
advise.

' We further inform your honours that we examined
into that principal article of your income, arising upon income,
tolls and customs, and find that the treasurer is only J^lonfs4
chargeable with such money as he really receives. Account.

1 The treasurer laid before us, a state of that account
from the time they have been set to farmers, as follows.

The treasurer for the tolls and customs. Dr.

To amount for which they were set in the year 1762 ...
To do. do. do. 1763 ...

4138

3740

£7.878

218

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1704.

1764.

Tolls and

customs

account.

Per contra, Cr.

By amount charged, to the treasurer in this account ...

By so much ahated Laurence Read

By so much due hy Thomas Snead, one of the farmers

By eight months due for gates, etc., from Septemher, 1763, to 24th

June, 1764
By eleven months due for petty customs

By cash received from Septemher, 1762, to September, 1763

Roll xxi
m. 158 i

£ s. d.

1303 5 2

34 17 11

43 13 4

2360 0 0

183 6 8

£3,925 3 1

3,952 16 11

£7,878 0 0

Tolls and
customs.

Fund.
Time.

City debts.

City's
obligations.

Descrip-
tion of
city estate
demised by
ancient
leases.

Revenue.

' This appeared very satisfactory to your committee.
We think the committee for tolls and customs should
annually settle these accounts, in the same manner the
pipe water accounts are settled, and if any expedient
could be thought of, to make the fund arising from this
branch of your revenue, to commence from September
instead of June, it would be extremely useful, and make
them correspond with the general accounts of the city.

' We had it not in our power to inspect into the
state of the city debts, but earnestly recommend this or
some other committee be appointed to take the same
into their consideration, and either effectually to carry
into execution the act of Christmas assembly, 1760,
whereby a method is laid down for entering into books
the particulars of the city's obligations, and other useful
observations, or to adopt any other which may be con-
ceived more proper for that purpose, and be empowered
also to project some scheme to reduce the said debt.

1 There is but one thing more, which occurs to your
committee to lay before your honours, and that is the
imperfect description of several parts of your estate
demised by ancient leases, your committee think this a
proper time to take the same into consideration, when
so much attention has been paid to your revenue, and

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 17G4. 219

your having an opportunity of the assistance of persons nw.
well acquainted therewith. We therefore recommend,
that every part of your estate be surveyed and entered Estate

J L ^ ° surveyed

into books to be resorted to upon any occasion. Your f^ books'1
committee have pursuant to your honours' orders
directed these accounts *to be printed and laid before A<5c?™?ts
your honours for your inspection, by which it will
appear that your income is daily increasing.

1 We could wish, that the same attention was paid to
your disbursements that there is extended [to] your Disburse-
income, your finances would be then in a more flourish-
ing situation and you might soon be enabled to reduce
your debt, your committee would do injustice to your
treasurer, not to express their satisfaction of his conduct, Conduct of

1 treasurer.

not only for the manner in which he laid these
accounts before us, but for his vigilance in the collection collection

a of revenue.

of the several branches of your revenue, as well as for
the exact precision in which every department of his
disbursements are disposed, and hope they will give as
much satisfaction to your honours as they did to your
committee.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said order,
report and make the same an act of assembly : where-
upon it was ordered, that the said report be confirmed
and made an act of assembly, and the committee
continued, and that the city seal be affixed to a proper city seal,
instrument to be approved of by Mr. Recorder, to ]£f*™-
empower the city treasurer and city agent, or either of
them, to distrain for all rent and arrears of rent due Distrain

for rent.

to the city, and likewise to empower them or either
of them, where no sufficient distress can be found, to
bring a writ of entry or such other legal proceeding *%£?yot
to recover the premises, as Mr. Recorder shall advise.

It is further ordered, that the committee be empowered order,
to call upon the Town Clerk for a regular account of ^oSS*
the city's obligations, and to carry into execution the jJS&J11"

220

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1764.

1764.

Method.

Scheme.

Order.

City

surveyor.
Survey of
city estate.

Maps.
Tholsel.

Order.

Tolls aud
customs.
Treasurer.

Proposals.

Attend-
ance on
Lord
Mayor in
riding the
franchises
of city.

Bights.
Liberties.

Order.

act of Christmas assembly, 1760, relative thereto, to
adopt any other method which they shall conceive more
proper for the purpose, and that they are likewise
empowered to project some scheme to reduce the city
debt.

It is further ordered, that the committee do employ
the city surveyor, or any other able or skilful surveyor,
to survey all parts of the city estate, of which they
are not possessed of maps, and to have the maps thereof,
together with the maps that are now in the Tholsel
Office, regularly entered in a book to be kept for that
purpose.

And it is further ordered, that the committee, for
setting the tolls and customs, do settle with the
treasurer for the years ending the 24th June, 1763, and
1764, and that they are hereby empowered to treat with
the present farmers for the rent of the three months
from the 24th June to the 29th September, 1765, and
report what they shall do therein to the next assembly,
and in case the assembly should not approve of the
proposals of the present farmers for the said three
months, it is ordered, that the tolls and customs shall
next year be set for fifteen months, that is to say, from
the 24th June, 1765, to the 29th September, 1766, and
afterwards from September to September annually.

[2.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that it is
the duty of the corporation to attend the right honour-
able the Lord Mayor, agreeable to ancient custom, in
riding the franchises of this city on the 7th of August
next, that it is the indispensable duty of the citizens
at this time to show themselves unanimous and resolute
to support all their legal rights and liberties which
both seem to be in great danger from the combination
against quarterage.

And the said commons, praying that such order or
resolutions may be made or entered into, to oblige the

Roll xx
in. 157.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764. 221

different corporations to attend the sword that day, as 176-1,

Corpora-
should be thought proper : whereupon it was resolved, tions.

that as the riding and perambulating of this city, in Riding.

order to ascertain and preserve the mears and bounds .Mear? aBd

L bounds.

of this city liberties, is a matter of the utmost, con- Estate.

sequence to the estate and franchises of this city, and Franchises.

that as the triennial riding or perambulating the said Jidi<n,"ial

mears and bounds is an indispensable part of the duty

of every citizen, it is therefore ordered, that the master,

wardens and brethren of every corporation of this city corpora-
tions.
be obliged to attend the Lord Mayor in such riding or Lord

° jo Mayor.

perambulating, under the severest penalties that are in penalties,
the power of the corporation to inflict, (except such
private brethren as are excused on paying the usual
fines imposed by their respective corporations,) and that
the masters and wardens of the several corporations be
served with a copy of this order.

[3.] Mary Kennedy, widow, setting forth, that the Kennedy,
committee appointed upon her petition have made the
following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed upon the petition of Report.
Mary Kennedy, find that the city in 1746, demised to
her the manse house and tithes of Taghdowe for 31 ?M

0 bouse.

years at £40, a year, £30, whereof is payable to the T^h<iowe.
Sheriffs and £10, -to the city. Mrs. Kennedy attended
your committee and laid before us her distressed
circumstances, whereby she had incurred a debt of Debt.
£100, for recovering the said premises, upon which
there was six years' interest due last February, and
one year's rent due to your honours. It appears to
your committee, that the said Mary Kennedy is a person
worthy of your honours' bounty, we therefore recom-
mend, that the said Mary Kennedy's surrender of the surrender

•J J of lease.

said lease be accepted of by your honours, and that
the debt due by her, and for which the said premises
are mortgaged, be paid by the city treasurer. Your

222

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764.

1764.

Annuity.

Order.

Surrender.

Annuity.

Recorder.

Hamilton.
Expenses.

Attach-
ment.

Segritte.

Corpora-
tion of
carpenters.

Intrusion
money.

Order.
Payment.

Cooke,
Sword
Bearer.

Report.

committee are of opinion, that when the said matters Roiini
are effected under Mr. Eecorder's direction, the said m
Mary Kennedy be paid one annuity of £10, sterling,
and that the said interest, when legally in your
honour's possession, be by the committee for city leases
set by public cant to the highest bidder.'

And the said Mary Kennedy, praying to confirm the
said report and make the same an act of assembly : it
was granted, the committee's report confirmed and m- 1SJ
made an act of assembly, and that on the petitioner's
surrendering the lease of the manse house and tithes of
Taghdowe, the debt of £100, and the interest thereof
be discharged by the city treasurer, and that she be
paid during her natural life the annual sum of £15,
instead of £10, mentioned in the said report, and that
the interest of the premises, when legally vested in the
city under the direction of Mr. Recorder, be by the
committee for city leases set by public cant, or other-
wise as shall appear to the committee to be most advan-
tageous for the city.

[4.] Sir Patrick Hamilton, knight, praying to be paid
the sum of £88 is. lid., expenses by him incurred on
account of an attachment out of the king's bench
granted against him at the suit of Charles Segriffe, for
granting an order to the then master of the corporation
of carpenters for 40s., against the said Segriffe for
intrusion money.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the above named
sir Patrick Hamilton the above sum of £88 4s. lid.,
the same to be allowed the treasurer on his accounts.

[5.] Randal Cooke, Sword Bearer, setting forth, that
the committee appointed to take his case into considera-
tion, have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for the tolls and
customs, to whom the petition of Randal Cooke, Sword

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1 764. 223

Bearer, was referred, met on the 29th of June last and 1764.
took the said petition into their consideration, when the petition,
said Cooke laid before us an account and affidavit,
verifying the allegations thereof, which are hereunto
annexed. We find that the salary of said Cooke as salary.
Sword Bearer is no more than £20, a year, which we
think is an insufficient allowance for an officer of so
great importance to the public, on whose integrity in
entering the prices of corn, the regulating the assize
of bread, in a great measure depends, and who must
upon all occasions attend the sword in a genteel
manner, we therefore recommend that his salary be ^JjJ
raised, and that for the future neither he nor any
other city officer or servant be suffered to receive any
benefit from the samples of any sorts of corn produced com.
to the Lord Mayor at the market house, for regulating
the assize.'

And the said Eandal Cooke, praying to confirm the order,
said report and make the same an act of assembly :
whereupon it was ordered, that the petitioner's salary salary

augmented.

be augmented to £150, a year, and that neither he nor

any future Sword Bearer or any city officer shall receive

or lay any claim to the samples of corn brought to the co™?'65 of

chief magistrate, as being their perquisite, but that the

same be appropriated for the use of the Blue Coat

Hospital.

[6.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed to set the tolls and customs and Toils and

customs.

petty customs belonging to the corporation of the city petty
of Dublin, for one year commencing the 24th day of
June, 1764, either by public cant or by way of receiving
proposals for the same, have made the following report,
videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed to set for one year Report.
commencing the 24th day of June, 1764, the tolls,
customs, and petty customs belonging to the corporation

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DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764.

1764.
Lots.
Public cant.

Proposals.
Tholsel.

Proposals.
Million.

Eoch

Proposals.

Avenues.

Weldon.

Burrowes.

Getliffe.

Taylor.

Power.

of the city of Dublin, as now divided into lots, either r0h kj

• • , , in. 157 <

by public cant or by way of receiving proposals for
the same, thought the latter the most eligible way, and
therefore directed advertisements to be inserted in the
public papers, giving notice for such persons as might
be inclinable to take said tolls and customs for the said
year, to lodge their proposals sealed up in the Tholsel
Office on or before the 14th day of the said month of
June, and also for our intention to meet on the same
day to open and consider the same, and having met
accordingly, the following were laid before us.

' Three from Mr. Timothy Mahon, videlicet : for the
division No. 1. containing the avenues of James's street,
the Park Gate, and Dolphin's Barn, he proposed to pay
the sum of £2,200, for the division No. 2. containing
the avenues of Stony Batter and Glassmahonoge, he
proposes to pay the sum of £1,000, and for the division
No. 3. containing the avenues of Drumcondra lane and m. 156.
Ballybough bridge the sum of £250, making in the
whole the sum of £3,450. We received no other
proposal for any of the said divisions, but one for
No. 3. from Michael Roch of High street, shoemaker,
who only offered for that division the sum of £160, and
therefore your committee agreed to the several proposals
of the said Timothy Mahon.

• We received five proposals for the division No. 4.
containing the avenues of Stephen's Green, Kavan's
Port, and Ball's Bridge, videlicet : Mr. William Weldon
proposing to pay £100, John Burrowes £80, Paul
Getliffe, £90, William Taylor £100, and Edmond
Power £120, and though there is a difference of £20,
in the two last proposals, yet your committee thought
it better to agree to the one from the said Taylor, rather
than to that from the said Power, in regard that the said
Taylor has been a collector of the said tolls and customs
for several years, and as we find always behaved well,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY EOLL,

1764. 225

and has undoubted security to give for the payment of 1764.
the said sum, and the said Power being an entire
stranger, and not appearing to us to be a proper person
for the purpose or having proper security to give for
the same ; the highest proposal we received for the petty Proposal.
customs was from Mr. Joshua Coates, he having agreed coates.
to give for them for the said year the sum of £100. Rent.
We observe that the several persons taking the said
avenues have paid to the city treasurer their deposits Deposite.
and given security for the payment of their respective
proportions of the sums remaining on the 24th day of
every month during the said year.
' We must inform your honours, that the suit depending suitmcom-

■' x mon pleas.

in the common pleas between lord Trimbleston and the j^™^*"
city respecting toll taken for flour, will receive a trial Ton for

J l ° . flour.

next term, we think this as well as all other disputes
relative to the said city tolls should be attended to, and city tons.
for that purpose we recommend that this or some other
committee be empowered to take the same under their
immediate care and attend the process thereof, that the
city council do meet previous to next term to settle the
city's defence, and we submit it to your honours that the city's

J J defence.

said committee be empowered to draw upon the treasurer
to support the said suit.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said order,
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and the committee continued, and that
they be empowered to draw upon the city treasurer for Treasurer,
any sum not exceeding £200, to carry on the said suit sum.
therein mentioned, the same to be allowed the treasurer
on his accounts.

[7.] Richard Darling, setting forth, that he was Darling,
allowed an annuity of £50, per annum for his support Annuity,
during the city's pleasure, that an unmerciful creditor Creditor,
of his having a custodium on all petitioner's effects, but custodium.

VOL. XI. Q

226

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764.

1764.

Treasurer.
Town Clerk

Injunction.
Payment.

Order.

Annuity
payable to
wife.
Annuity
ceased.

Kendrick,
city sur-
veyor.

Report.

Account.

Payment.

Annuity.

Order"

with an intent to deprive petitioner of said annuity, has n©n xx
also taken into said custodium that bounty by serving
the city treasurer and Town Clerk with notices of
injunction from the court of exchequer to stop the pay-
ment thereof to petitioner. That petitioner is now four
score years old, very lame, and almost blind, having no
way to support himself and family, is by the stoppage
of said annuity reduced to veiy great distress.

And the said Richard Darling, praying that the said
annuity may be made payable to his wife: whereupon
it was ordered, that the annuity of £50, heretofore
granted to the petitioner, do cease.

[8.] Roger Kendrick setting forth, that the committee
appointed upon his petition, have made the following
report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for inspecting city
leases near expiring, to whom the petition of Roger
Kendrick, lately city surveyor, was referred, have
examined the contents thereof and the account of
surveying work done for the city's use thereto annexed,
amounting to £13 5s. lljd., and also a former account
of surveyor's work laid before your honours last
Michaelmas assembly, amounting to £30 12s. 2d., the
charges in which accounts we apprehend to be reason-
able, and are of opinion that he be paid the sum ofm. issi
£15 18s. l<kl., being the amount of the same, and in
regard the said Roger Kendrick is grown old and unable
to procure for himself an independent subsistence for
the remainder of his life, do recommend that he be
allowed an annuity of £20, during his natural life.
We observe that he has given up such maps and papers
as he had relative to the city estate.'

And the said Roger Kendrick, praying to confirm
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report- confirmed and
made an act of assembly.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764. 227

[9.] George Williams setting forth, that the Ballast 1764.
Office committee, to whom his petition was referred, messenger
have made the following report, videlicet.

1 We, the committee of directors for the Ballast Office, Keiiort

t Ballast

to whom the above petition was referred, have taken office.
the same into consideration and are of opinion, that
he be paid £20, per annum as messenger from the 1st Allowance
day of last May.'

And the said George Williams, praying to confirm order,
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and the said salary of £20,
to be paid out of the Ballast Office fund. Payment.

[10.] George Friel setting forth, that the Ballast Friei.
Office committee, to whom his petition was referred,
have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee of the Ballast Office, to whom his f|fj^t-
petition was referred, have taken the same into con- 0ffice-
sideration, are of opinion that the said Friel, for his
extraordinary trouble as set forth in his petition, be
allowed £50, per annum, from the 1st of August, 1762, Allowance,
during the city's pleasure.'

And the said George Friel, praying to confirm the order.

said report and make the same an act of assembly : it

was granted, thccommittee's report confirmed and made

an act of assembly, the said salary of £50, to be paid Payment.

out of the Ballast Office fund.

ril."| Petition of the governors of the workhouse Governors
L J o of work-

setting forth, that last session of parliament, among house-

other resolutions came to the following, videlicet.

That his excellency the lord lieutenant hath been ^^^eu'

pleased to give £100, towards building a chapel at the Grant,

J- <-> ' <_> j. building

WOrkllOUSe. chapeL

And the said governors, praying a grant towards Order,
building the same, as may enable them to carry such
work into execution : whereupon it was ordered, that

228 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1764.

1764. the city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay Ron Xx».

the governors of the workhouse of the city of Dublin m'

childe"ing £100, towards building a chapel for the performance
of divine service, the said sum to be allowed the
treasurer on his accounts.

[12.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that
pursuant to an act of parliament made in this kingdom

Beams and for beams and scales with sufficient weights have been
erected in this city for weighing of all sorts of grain,
meal, and potatoes, that for the weighing of every draft
of grain and meal under one hundred weight, the city

Fees. is intitled under the said act to one halfpenny and every
draft" above it to one penny, the potatoes to be weighed
without any reward at the market house. That at last
Midsummer assembly a committee was appointed to

Public cant, set the said beams and scales by public cant for one
year commencing the 1st of November last, and also
the scales in James's street and Stony Batter.

order. And the said commons, praying to appoint a com-

mittee to set the same in like manner for one other year
commencing the 1st of November: whereupon it was
ordered, that the right honourable the Lord Mayor,
Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the works, alderman Tew,
alderman Crampton, alderman Taylor, alderman
Barton, and eight of the commons to be named by the
commons or any five of them, whereof the Lord! Mayor
and one of the Sheriffs to be always two, be and are

committee, appointed a committee to set by public cant the beams
and scales above mentioned, for one year commencing
the 1st of November next, except those in James's street
and Stony Batter, which are to be set from the 1st of m. 155.

Notice October next, and that notice thereof be inserted in the
public papers, the person farming the same to pay down
to the city treasurer such sum of money as they shall

Giadweii. be canted to, that the committee do call on messieurs

Accounts. Glad well and Asli to settle their accounts for the issues

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY E0LL, 1764. 229

and profits of the scales in James's street and Stony 1764.
Batter from their last settlement unto October last.

[The eight of the commons : ] Mr. Gibball, Mr. Elliot, commons.
Mr. Hern, Mr. Darly, Mr. Tucker, Mr. Hart, Mr. Green,
Mr. Eibton,

[13.] Certain of tne commons setting forth, that ™*J°™lty
several repairs are wanting in and about the Mayoralty
house, and some new furniture should be provided.

And the said commons, praying to appoint a com- order.

Committee.

mit-tee for these purposes: whereupon it was ordered,
that the right honourable the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs,
treasurer, masters of the works, alderman Taylor, alder-
man Sankey, alderman Fetherston, and six of the
commons to be named by the commons or any five
of them, whereof the Lord Mayor and one of the
Sheriffs to be always two, be and are appointed
a committee to consider what furniture ought to Furniture.
be provided for the said house and what immediate
repairs are necessary to be made therein, that they Repairs,
direct the same to be done and provided in the cheapest
and best manner, the expense of said furniture and Expense,
repairs not to exceed the sum of £100, to be paid by the
city treasurer and allowed on his accounts.

[The six of the commons : ] Mr. Dobson, Mr. Taylor, commons.
Mr. Poole, Mr.- Darby, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Hart,

[14.] James Dover, praying a compensation for his Dover,
trouble in attending the court of sessions and grand
jurys.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, order,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner thirty payment,
guineas, as a compensation for his trouble, in attending
the grand jurys at their several meetings, attending the jury".

Court of

court of sessions at their adjournments, and summoning sessions
prosecutors and witnesses to attend and give evidence
in cases of felony and other offences, the same to be
allowed the treasurer on his accounts.

280

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764.

Robinson,

city

scavenger.

Surrender

of lot.

Advertise-
ments.

Holmes.
Serjeant

at mace.

Wright,

city beadle.

Salary.

Sheppy.

Lord

Mayors.

Account.

Order.

Payment.

Custom

nouse

entries.

[15.1 Thomas Robinson, one of the city scavengers Koiixxii
for cleansing lot No. 2. praying that a surrender ot
the said lot No. 2. may be accepted from him from
Michaelmas next: whereupon it was ordered, that the
petitioner do continue to cleanse the lot No. 2. until
the 29th of September next, and that from thence he
be exonerated from his agreement from cleansing the
same, and that the committee for reo-ulatino- the
cleansing of the street do publi'sh advertisements for
setting the cleansing of the same by public cant for
two years from the 29th September, 1764.

[16.] Elias Holmes, praying to be continued one of
the Serjeants at mace without paying the usual sum
of £10., a year: whereupon it was ordered, that the
petitioner be continued one of the Serjeants at mace of
this city for one year ending Midsummer assembly,
.1 765, without paying the usual sum of £10., on his
giving such security for indemnifying the city from all
escapes, and redelivery of the silver mace, as the Lord
Mayor and Sheriffs shall approve.

[17.] Thomas Wright, praying to be confirmed one
of the city beadles, in the room of Thomas Moorhead :
whereupon it was ordered, that the petitioner be con-
firmed in the employment of one of the city beadles,
during the city's pleasure, at a yearly salary of £10.,
to commence from the 25th of March last.

[18.] William Sheppy, setting forth, that he has
supplied the Lord Mayors for five years with the custom
house entries at £1 2s. 9d., per annum, amounting to
£5 13s. 9d.

And the said William Sheppy, praying to be paid
the same: whereupon it was ordered, that the city
treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the
petitioner £5 13s. 9d., for serving Lord Mayors of this
city with custom house entries for five years past

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764. 231

ending 1st of June, 1764, the same to be allowed the 17&L
treasurer on his accounts.

[19.1 Isaac Dickinson, praying to be continued over- Dickinson,

L J J- «/ o overseer of

seer of the city water course : whereupon it was ordered, cou^^
that the petitioner be continued overseer of the water
course, for one year- ending next Midsummer, at the
salary of £15.

f20.1 An abstract of the treasurer's accounts for the Treasurer-*

L J account.

quarter ending the 24th June, 1764.

Dr.

To cash paid since

To balance in the treasurer's hands

Cr.

By balance in the treasurer's hands last quarter
By cash received since

£ s.

3281 2 lli

. 429 15

£3,700 18

£ s.

020 10

3080 7

£3,700 18

[21.] Ballast Office report. giiaBt

' Since our last report to your honours, we have Report,
proceeded in the repairs of the piles and carrying on Piles,
the south east .pier and wall, and shall continue so re-
doing as your honours shall direct.

1 We also acquaint your honours, that alderman
Edward Hunt, Ballast Master, has paid the £68 5s., ?unt „

•L ' Payment.

agreeable to the order of assembly.

' We further inform your honours, that we are going
on repairing our floats and gabbards, and have built qSJjJ^
a new float for the use of the new wall, and have
ordered a new gabbard to be put on the stocks in our
own yard, under the direction of captain Lamb. Lamb!11

' We likewise acquaint your honours, that the lease Lease.
of the Ballast Office is expired, we therefore request

232

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1704.

1761.

Renewal.

Purchase.

Cash.

Balance.

Hunt.

Order.

Lease.
Purchase.

Ballast

Office
account.

to have authority to treat 'with the landlady, about a Ron*™
renewal or purchasing her interest.

' An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, by
which we find a balance of £1,648 18s. 9d., in the
hands of alderman Edward Hunt, Ballast Master, on
the Ballast Office fund, and £1,240 19s. 9d., overpaid
by him on the fund of the public money.'

Whereupon it was ordered, to proceed as the com-
mittee should think fit, and that they be empowered to
treat with the proprietor, either for a renewal of the
lease of the Ballast Office house, or for purchasing the
interest thereof.

State of the Ballast Office accounts, from the 2nd
day of May last inclusive, to the 18th day of July, 1764,
exclusive.

Ballast Office, Dr.

To balance of last quarter's abstract
To cash received since

£ s. d.

. 1524 5 3£

. 1214 4 0

£2,738 9 3i

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid since for raising ballast

By cash paid since for repairs on the piles ...

By cash paid salaries ...

By caBh paid house rent and sundry petty disbursements

By cash paid for repairs on the gabbards

By cash paid charges on the floating light ...

By cash paid interest of money borrowed

By balance on hands ...

£ s. d.

. 210 2 8

. 258 10 8

. 254 15 0

74 5 111

. 219 5 3

17 11 0

55 0 0

. 1648 18 9

£2,738 9 3£

Ballast Office for the public money, is Dr.

To ca9h returned by alderman Edward Hunt

To cash overpaid by the office account of the public money

£ s. d.

(58 5 0

1240 19 9

£1,309 4 9

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1764. 233

Per contra, Cr.

1764.

514

s.
4

d.
9*

Ballast

Office

account

794 19 1H

£1,309

Ky balance overpaid as per last quarter's abstract
By cash expended on the south east pier this quarter

' William Forbes. — Francis Booker. — Robert King. —
Philip Crampton. — Patrick Hamilton. — Francis
Fetherston. — Edward Sankey. — John Tew. — Benjamin
Barton.— Hans Bailie.'

176-4. July 20. — Admissions to franchise. Franchise.

1764. July 26. — Declaration and signatures. «onlara"

1764. September 3. — Post Assembly.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that by
an act passed last sessions of parliament, the sum of parliament.
£4,000, was granted for carrying on the wall, Grant.
commonly called the Ballast Office wall, that this is the Baiiast

J ' Office wall.

proper season to expedite the said work, for which
purpose money will be wanting, but in order to receive
the same from his majesty's treasury, it will be
necessary to give a receipt under the city seal to his Receipt.

City seal.

majesty s vice treasurers.

And the said commons, praying to order such receipt order,
to be prepared and put under the city seal for the
purpose above mentioned : whereupon it was ordered,
that a receipt be prepared in such manner as Mr.
Recorder shall advise, and put under the city seal, and ^f^sea!'
that the sum of £4,000, above mentioned, be paid over sum.
to the committee of directors of the Ballast Office, or
any eleven of them, to be applied as the said act directs.

And it is further ordered, that the said committee of committee

of directors.

directors of the Ballast Office, or any eleven of them,
give the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs a receipt for the said ^ord
sum of £4,000, and to be accountable for the same to |^ffs-
parliament, to be lodged in the Town Clerk's office. JJf*8

234

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764.

176-1.

Mayoralty
house.
Plan.
Estimates.

Order.

Repairs.
Alterations.

Expense.

Commons

[2.1 Certain of the commons, setting forth, that Eoiixxii.

L -I m. 154.

several alterations and repairs are necessary to be made
in the Mayoralty house, as by the plan and estimates
thereof hereunto annexed may appear, that it will be
highly proper, that a committee be appointed to take
the said plan and estimates under their consideration.

And the said commons, praying to appoint a com-
mittee for the purposes aforesaid, with such powers as
shall be thought proper: whereupon it was ordered,
that the committee, heretofore appointed for providing
furniture for the Mayoralty house, be empowered to
make the several repairs and alterations in the said
house, pursuant to the annexed plan and estimates, the
expense thereof to be paid by the city treasurer and
allowed on his accounts, and that alderman Crampton,
alderman Barton, and alderman Reynolds, and six of
the commons, to be named by the commons, be added
to the said committee for the purpose aforesaid.

[The six of the commons:] Mr. Thomas Read, Mr.
Jones, Mr. Hawkshaw, Mr. Anthony King, Mr. Carleton,
and Mr. Trench.

' William Forbes. — Francis Booker: — Robert King. —
Philip Crampton. — Patrick Hamilton. — Edward
Sankey. — John Tew. — Benjamin Barton. — Hans Bailie.
— Francis Fetherston.'

17G4. September 13. — Post Assembly.

Riots in [1-] Certain of the commons setting forth, that there

have lately been in this city several riotous and
tumultuous risings, to the great danger of the lives and
properties of the several inhabitants thereof, that

corporation petitioners apprehend that the corporation of the city

of Dublin. .■*■.,.-,

Notice. oi Dublin ought to take particular notice of such

riotous and tumultuous proceedings, and endeavour

Peace and as far as in them lies to preserve the peace and good

good order. j. o

order thereof, to bring offenders to condign punishment.

m. 154 b.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764. 235

And the said commons, praying to take the same into 1764.
consideration and to make such order therein as should
seem meet : whereupon it was ordered, that the right
honourable the Lord Mayor do issue such a proclama- Lord
tion as Mr. Recorder shall advise, offering such reward Proclama-

& tion.

as his Lordship shall think proper to the person or Recorder,
persons, who shall within three calendar months next
ensuing discover and apprehend each and every of the
persons immediately concerned in the riotous and
tumultuous proceedings aforesaid, or who were anyway
concerned in the contriving or procuring of the said
outrages, so that the said offenders be convicted thereof, offender's
the rewards to be paid by the city treasurer on the Lord Payment.
Mayor's warrant upon their several convictions and
allowed the treasurer on his accounts.

And that the right honourable the Lord Mayor, jgf^
Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the works, alderman John
Cooke, alderman Tew, alderman Rossel, alderman
Sankey, sir Thomas Blackall, alderman Reynolds, and
twelve of the commons to be named by the commons
or any five of them, whereof the Lord Mayor and one
of the Sheriffs to be always two, be and are appointed
a committee to enquire into the causes of the said committee
disturbances, and to consider what further methods may
bo necessary t© be taken, to preserve the peace, good
order and tranquility of this city, and report their
proceedings from time to time to an assembly, if they
shall judge necessary.

[The twelve of the commons:] Doctor Lucas, James commons.
Jones, Mr. French, Mr. Blood, Mr. Dickinson, Mr.
Ribton, Mr. Patrick Boyd, Mr. Carleton, Mr. Truelock,
Mr. Cave, Mr. Varielles, Mr. Rickie.

' William Forbes. — Francis Booker. — Robert King. —
Philip Crampton. — Patrick Hamilton. — Francis
Fetherston. — Edward Sankey. — John Tew. — Benjamin
Barton. — Hans Bailie.'

236

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY EOLL, 1764.

Forbes,
alderman.

Mayoralty.
Order.

Payment.
Oath.

City pipe
water.

Report.

Water
course.

Stream.

Bleach
yard.

Kimmaa

1 764. October 19.— Third Friday after the 29th of Eon
September.

Lord Mayor: Benjamin Geale.

Sheriffs : Robert Montgomery and Henry Hart,

[1 .] William Forbes, esqnire, alderman, setting forth,
tli at at a post assembly held on the 1st day of August,
1760. an allowance was fixed for succeeding Lord
Mayors at £2,000, a year, £1,500, whereof are payable
by gales at certain times and the remaining £500, to
be petitioned for by the late Lord Mayor, on the
Michaelmas assembly after the expiration of his
Mayoralty.

And the said William Forbes, praying to be paid
the said sum of £500 : whereupon it was ordered, that
the city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant,
pay the petitioner £500, the same to be allowed on his
accounts, said petitioner having taken the oath directed
by act of Easter assembly, 1740, in the presence of
Thomas Read and John Hunt, esquires, they being
appointed by the commons for that purpose.

[2.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committeee appointed for better supplying the city with
pipe water, have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for better supplying
the city with pipe water, inform your honours, that
we lately viewed the water course, and in our progress
made some observations, we discovered a stream of
water at the little bridge above the tongue running to
waste, which we have directed since to be brought into
the course below the tongue, under the direction of Mr.
Verschoyle and Mr. Elliott, We found that a bleach
yard had been lately made this side of Kimmage, which
may be very pernicious to the water, and ought to be
attended to, as we apprehend the foul water from it
will run into the course, we have given directions to
Mr. Daniel to view the said bleach yard and to report

XX11.

m. 163.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1764. 237

to us in what manner it is supplied, and where the 1764.

foul water goes, which he has accordingly done, as

may appear by his report hereunto annexed, there [is]

a vast quantity of water running through the bridge

on this side of Tallaght in the time of floods, we directed Taiiaght.

a sluice to be put down there to prevent the torrent

at that time from falling into the course.

' Your committee are of opinion, that a proper person
is still wanting to attend and take care in drawing the caretaker.

° Sluices.

sluices near the weir above Temple Oge, to prevent weir.

■*■ ° *■ leropleOge.

inundations in time of floods, which is not in the power Fl00ds-
of a person resident in Dublin to perform, as there may
sometimes be occasion for his being there at midnight
to draw them. We, therefore, in order to" remedy this
inconvenience, have appointed Michael O'Rourke, who appointed,
lives at the weir, to take care of the gates and sluices
and also to be mindful of the water course, at a salary salary,
of £4 lis., to commence the 29th day of September,
1763, he to report from time to time to Mr. Daniel,
such observations as he shall make relative to the same.
We are of opinion that the wages of each turncock wages36118'
be augmented to six shillings per week, as it is thought
to be the only method that will put a stop to their
taking bribes and giving water only to such as will
satisfy them for it, and that if any of them be hereafter
detected of any corrupt practices in taking money for
forcing or otherwise, the person so offending shall be
immediately displaced.

' We have directed that every distiller do pay for the Distiller,
use of the city water £3, for the first £100, or less
than £100, he pays excise, and fifteen shillings for payment,
every hundred after, this reduction in consideration of
an additional excise laid upon them the last session of Excise,
parliament, and also in regard their consumption of
water is not near so great in summer as in winter, the
above regulation to take place for the year's rent due Rent.
1st November, 1763.

238

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764.

1764.
Guinness.

Tenant.

Refusal to
show title.

Preventing'
supply of
water.

Order.

Legal
methods to
discharge
arrears.
Guinness.

Lots of
ground.
Aston s
quay.

Fleet street,
South
Strand.
Sonierville.

Report.

Public cant,
Aston's
quay.
Fleet street,

' Your committee observe to your honours, that they
have used all reasonable methods to induce Mr. Guinness
to become tenant to the city for water, which he has
hitherto declined, insisting upon a right thereto, without
paying any compensation for the same, and though he
has several times promised to show his title, he has
now totally refused it. We therefore think it would
be proper, that the committee be empowered to take
such effectual methods as may be necessary to prevent
his having any future supply of water, until he agrees
to pay for the same and discharge the arrears, and
should any expense arise thereon, the same to be
defrayed by the corporation by orders from the
committee.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and the committee continued, and that
the said committee be empowered to take such effectual
and legal methods by reference or otherwise, as shall be
adjudged necessary to oblige Mr. Guinness to discharge
the arrears due by him for pipe water and to pay for
his future supply thereof, and that any expense arising
thereon be defrayed by the city on orders from the
committee and allowed the treasurer on his accounts.

[3.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed for inspecting city leases near
expiring, who were empowered to set by public cant
two lots of ground, one on Aston's quay and another
in Fleet street, and also three lots on the South Strand,
lately surrendered by sir Quaile Sonierville, have made
the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for inspecting city
leases near expiring, who were empowered to set by
public cant two lots of ground, one on Aston's quay and
another in Fleet street, and also three lots on the South

Roll xxi
m. 163 h. J

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764. 239

Strand, lately surrendered by sir Quaile Somerville, lre*^
inserted advertisements in the public papers of our strand,
meeting on the 17th September last for that purpose,
when they were set in the following manner.

' The lot No. 14. situate in Fleet street, containing
in front 57 feet, to* Mr. Thomas Bell, at 13s., per foot Beu.
yearly rent, £37 Is. Od.

' No. 15. on Aston's quay, containing 78 feet in front,
to Mr. Thomas Gorman, at 13s. 6d., per foot yearly Gorman,
rent, £52 14s. ljd.

1 And the lots on the South Strand, to Mr. Thomas
Emerson, at a yearly rent of £25 Os. Od. Umanm.

' The rents and terms of said premises to commence Rents.

r Terms.

the 29th day of September last, 1764, a deposit of one
year's rent has been made by each of the above
mentioned persons, which is to be returned as soon as
leases for three lives and 70 years are executed, which Leases.
must be within six months from the day of the cant
or the deposit to be forfeited.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said 0rder-
report and make the same an act of assembly: it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and the committee continued, and that
leases of the premises be perfected to the persons Leases,
therein mentioned for three lives and 70 years, at the
rents in the said report mentioned, with five shillings Bents,
duties, to commence the 29th day of September last,
with such clauses and covenants therein as Mr. Recorder Recorder,
shall advise.

[4.] Thomas Barber, setting forth, that the committee Barber,
appointed to inspect city leases near expiring, to whom
his petition was referred, have made the following
report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed to inspect city leases Report.
near expiring, to whom the said petition of Thomas
Barber was referred, find that on the 20th day of Barber.

240

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764.

1764.

Cant.

Ground.

George's

lane.

Rent.

Surrender.

Return of
sum.

Tenant.

Value.

Order.

Payment.

Beams and

scales.

James's

street.

Stony

Batter.

Report.
Public cant,

Mahon.

September, 1763, the petitioner at a public cant bid for Ron *«i.
a piece of ground or lot No. 6. in George's lane, con-
taining 60 feet in front, at £1 6s. 6d., per foot and
deposited with the city treasurer £79 10s., being one
year's rent, pursuant to the terms of the said cant, that
the said ground being taken too dear, the corporation
were pleased to accept of a surrender of the same.

' Your committee having considered the allegations
of the said petition, are of opinion that the sum of £75,
be returned to the said petitioner in consideration of
his having taken the said ground at too high a rent,
and as he is now become a tenant to part of the same,
which however we recommend may not be drawn into
precedent for the future, this remittance in considera-
tion of his being totally ignorant of the real value of
the ground and having a very numerous family, and
as we have since set the ground to what we conceive
is the real value thereof, we therefore recommend that
your honours will not insist upon the terms of the cant,
but that the petitioner be repaid the said sum of £75.'

And the said Thomas Barber, praying to confirm the
said report and make the same an act of assembly : it
was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and that he be paid by the
city treasurer the above mentioned sum of £75, the same
to be allowed on his accounts.

[5.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed to set by public cant the beams
and scales in the market house, James's street and
Stony Batter, have made the following report,
videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed to set by public cant
the beams and scales in the market house, James's street
and Stony Batter, met on the 13th day of September
last, for that purpose, when they were set as follows,
those in the market house to Mr. Timothy Mahon, for

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764. 241

one year commencing the 1st of November next, at £210, mi.
and those in James's street and Stony Batter, to the KeiJts'
said Timothy Mahon, for one year commencing the 1st Mahon.
day of October instant, at £30, the city to repair the
said beams and scales and the weights thereunto
belonging.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said order
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made
an act of assembly, and the committee continued.

[6.] Daniel Tighe, esquire, executor of Sterne Tighe, Tigke.
setting forth, that the committee appointed for city
leases to whom his petition was referred, have made the
following report, videlicet.

1 We, the committee appointed for city leases to Keport.
whom the petition of Daniel Tighe, esquire, executor of Tigke.
Sterne Tighe, was referred, have examined the same and
find that at Midsummer assembly, 1732, the said Sterne
Tighe took a lease from the city of some ground and Lease,
stalls in Newhall market for the term of 61 years at stalls ia

i l t> nnn ■ J i Newkall

an annual rent of £23, sterling, out of which concern jrrket-
there is an arrear of £724 10s., clue Michaelmas, 1763,
to your honours. Your committee find that the said
Sterne Tighe built two houses on the premises, which Houses.
still remain there, and that he laboured under great
difficulties and met with many obstructions in regard
to the building and improving the said premises, by Premises,
which he was a considerable sufferer, and therefore
retained the reserved rent. We having considered the
matters, are of opinion that the arrears of rent be Arrears,
remitted the petitioner, upon the city's being repossessed
of the premises with the houses thereon, either by a
surrender of the same or by ejectment, as Mr. Recorder
shall advise.'

And the said Daniel Tighe, praying to confirm the order
said report and make the same an act of assembly:

VOL. XI. R

242

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764.

1764.

Arrears
of rent
remitted.

Surrender.

Keating.

Report.

Under

tenant.

Brown.

George's

lane.

Renewal.

Lease.

Ground.

Order.

it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and Roii *nti

o m. 162 b.

made an act of assembly, and that the arrears of
£724 10s., due for ground and stalls in Newkall
market, be remitted to the petitioner, upon the city's
being repossessed of the premises with the houses
thereon, either by a surrender of the same or by eject-
ment, as Mr. Recorder shall advise.

[7.] Thomas Keating, setting forth, that the com-
mittee appointed upon his petition have made the
following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed upon the petition of
Thomas Keating, inform your honours, that we met on
the 23rd of August last, and took the said matter into
our consideration, when the said Keating attended us,
we find that the said Keating is under tenant to part
of your honours' estate formerly demised to Thomas
Brown, situate in George's lane, and that the said
Brown assigned to him his interest in that part of the
ground which the said Keating is possessed and wants
now to renew, and that the original lease granted to
the said Brown will expire at Easter, 1770. The said
Keating proposed to surrender his present interest in
28 feet front to George's lane, and 14 feet deep on the
north, and 12 feet deep on the south, and to accept
of a new lease thereof at the annual rent of £6, to
commence from Michaelmas next, your committee are
therefore of opinion in regard the said ground is
adjoining said Keating's premises, and that the setting
of it cannot be the least injurious to your honours in
setting the remainder of the ground to agree to, and
we recommend your honours to accept of the said m. i6i
proposal, upon his laying his title to the said premises
before Mr. Recorder and obtaining his opinion, that the
city can with safety accept of said surrender and make
a new lease to him.'

And the said Thomas Keating, praying to confirm

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764. 243

the said report and make the same an act of assembly : noi.
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and that when the petitioner
has laid his title to the said premises before Mr. Title.
Recorder, and obtained his opinion, that the city can
with safety accept of a surrender thereof, that a lease Lease,
for three lives and 70 years be executed to the petitioner
at the yearly rent of £6, to commence from the 29th Rent,
day of September last, with, such clauses and covenants
as Mr. Recorder shall advise.

[8.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed for setting the cleansing of the Sstorotf
streets, have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for setting the Report,
cleansing of the streets, pursuant to act of assembly, set
the division No. 1. on the north side of the river lately Lots,
given up by Henry Robinson to George Moulds of Moulds.
Dundrum, in the comity of Dublin, farmer, for two
years commencing Michaelmas last, at a, yearly
allowance of £197, and the division No. 2. on the same
side of the river, lately given up by Thomas Robinson,
to John Donogh of Butterfield, near Templeoge, farmer, Donogh.
for the said time at a yearly allowance of £200, the
latter has entered into security, but the former has not
done it as yet.'

[9.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed for setting the tolls and customs, Ju°^msd
have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for setting the tolls and Report,
customs, inform your honours, that pursuant to an order
of last Midsummer assembly, we have examined the
treasurer's accounts for the receipts of the tolls and Receipts.

244

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY EOLL,

1764.

Roll xsi:
ro.161

Gates.

Balance.
Snead

Mahon.

Abatement

Propssals.

Mahon.

Taylor.

Payment

Order.

Freedom of
city.

customs for tlie years ending the 24th of June, 1762,
and Midsummer, 1763, and find that they agree exactly
with his former accounts laid before the committees,
that is to say, £4,138, for the year 1762, and £3,740,
for the year 1763. We observe that he is to account
for £2,360., being rent of the said gates for eight
months, videlicet, from the 24th September, 1763, to
24th June, 1764, and also for £183 6s. 8d., the rent of
the petty customs for eleven months.

' The treasurer informed us that he had received
£14 10s., out of £43 13s. 4d., a balance due by Thomas
Snead for the avenue of Ballybough Bridge, and that
he had not received any part of the above sum of
£183 6s. 8d., from Mr. Timothy Mahon, who assigned
as a reason for not paying it, that he could not collect
the petty customs in the manner prescribed by the
docket which he had received, and therefore claimed an m
abatement, which we apprehend we had no power to
make.

'We have received the annexed proposals for farming
the several gates and avenues from the 24th of June,
1765, to the 29th of September following; we observe
that the proposal given in by Mr. Mahon is by £60 10s.,
less in proportion than what he now pays, nohvith-
standing which we think it a reasonable one for the
reasons therein mentioned, and recommend it may be
complied with, as also Mr. Taylor's ; we have not
received any proposal from Mr. Coates for the petty
customs for the said three months, but Mr. Mahon has
engaged to pay for the same £25., which is a fourth
of what they are now set to Mr. Coates.'

And the said commons praying to confirm the said
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and the committee continued.

[10.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that it

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764.

245

is usual to present the lord lieutenant's secretary, with
the freedom of this city in a silver box.

And the said commons, praying that the right
honourable Charles Moore, earl of Drogheda, secretary
to his excellency the earl of Northumberland, be
presented with his freedom thereof in the usual manner :
it was granted, the expense of the said box not to exceed
five pounds.

[11.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee of auditors appointed last Midsummer
assembly, to take into consideration the state of the city
debt, have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed to take into considera-
tion the state of the city debt, met accordingly and
find the same as follows : —

1764.

Lord lieu-
tenant's
secretary.

Earl of
Drogheda.

Franchise.

Auditors

State of
city debt.

Report.

State of
city debt

' To the governors of the Blue Coat

Hospital
' To alderman Hart's executors
' To the executors of Anne Houghton.
' To the executors of Richard Mathews
'To Isaac Vigneau

'To Trinity Guild ... ..'

'To Judith Bouden
'To Robert Cooke
' To Mrs. Pearson
' To Patrick Lawless
'To David Latouche
' To Ann IPearson
1 To James Peletrea
' To Sir Patrick Hamilton ...
' To Sir Timothy Allen
' To Edward Noy, esquire
' To Lady Blayney
' To the executors of John Adamson

£ s. d.

5100

1000

2500

2000

200

1500

200

500

2000

L1400

850

1000

800

500

1640

1600

500

246

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1764.

State of
city debt

£ 8.

' To John Hunt, esquire ... ... 600 0

' To Theobald Wolfe, esquire . . . 400 0

' To Mary Maxwell and Ann Robinson 250 0

' To the executors of Thomas Gonne. . . 600 0
' To alderman Taylor, assignee Patrick

Lawless ... ... ... 1000 0

' To Henry Dering ... ... 150 0

' To Thomas Hamilton ... ... 500 0

' upon themselves

' Powel' s legacy
' Timothy Turner

d. Roll xxii
m. 161 b.

0
0

£37,290

£800

£500 1,300

£38,590

Reduction
of interest
payable by
city.

Order.

1763.

Watchmen

Essex

Bridge.

Order
Watch.

' We recommend this committee be continued, to take m. ieo.
into consideration and carry into execution the act of
last Midsummer assembly and to reduce the interest
payable by the city, if they shall think expedient.'

[12.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that at
Michaelmas assembly, 1763, a certain number of
persons were appointed to act as watchmen on Essex
Bridge, to take their stand at the hours of eight until
seven o'clock in the morning for four months, that
finding the great benefit the public received from such
appointment, they were continued until Michaelmas
last.

And the said commons, praying to continue said
watch for such further time as shall seem meet : where-

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1764. 247

upon it was ordered, that the number of watchmen mi.

*■ . . Watchmen

heretofore appointed for Essex Bridge be continued until contumea.
the 29th day of September next, under the directions Bl'id&e-
of the committee of economy, that said committee be
enrpowered to draw upon the city treasurer for any
expense attending the same not exceeding one hundred Expense,
pounds.

ri3.1 Randal Cooke, Sword Bearer, setting forth that Cooke,

Sword

at Midsummer last his salary was augmented to £150, Bearer,
a year, but no time was appointed for the payment
thereof.

And the said Randal Cooke, praying that a period order,
of time may be fixed for the commencement and pay- Payment,
ment of the said £150 : whereupon it was ordered, that
the petitioner's salary of £150., do commence on the salary.
1st day of February last.

[14.] The overseers appointed for rebuilding the
bridge, intended to be called the Queen's Bridge, setting Queen's

° . Bridge.

forth, that by a late presentment of the grand jury of
the county of the city of Dublin, appointed overseers for
cleansing away the ruins of the late bridge, opposite
Queen street and Dirty lane, and for rebuilding said Rebuilding,
bridge, for which purpose two different sums of £2,000,
each, were presented by the grand jury to be levied ^steut-
and raised of the inhabitants of the said city; that
provided they can procure a credit for the whole £4,000., credit.
until it is collected, so as to enable them with ready
money to carry on said work, there will be a manifest
saving to the public of upwards of £2,000., while at
the same time the building will be thereby much better
executed and less danger of frauds.

And the said overseers, praying to grant them such order,
credit for this purpose, as will enable them to discharge
their trust with reputation : whereupon it was ordered,
that a letter of credit under the city seal for £4,000., credit.

City seal.

be perfected to messieurs Latouche and co., the better Latoucne.

248

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1764.

1754.

Rebuilding

ljueeu's

Bridge.

Payment.
Latouclie.

Cant at
Tliolsel.

George's

lane.

Bibby.

Deposit

Surrender.
Order.

Public cant

Murray,
widow.

Annuity.

Allen.

to enable the said overseers to carry into excution the
rebuilding of the said bridge, the sum of £4,000., having
been already presented for that work, and the same
when collected and received by the said overseers, to be
paid over to the said messieurs Latouche and co., in
discharge of the said credit. And it is further ordered,
that the said letter of credit is only to be perfected
as aforesaid, on the said overseers executing at the
same time to the city, a contract to pay unto the said
bankers, the said sum of £4,000., as the same shall from
time to time be paid over to them.

[15.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that at
a cant held at the Tholsel of the city of Dublin on the
28th September, 1763, for setting three lots of ground
in George's lane, No. 1. 2. and 3., William Bibby bid
for the said lot No. 3. £1 lis., per foot, and nobody
bidding more, he was declared the best bidder, and the
said William Bibby, pursuant to the terms of the cant,
made a deposit of £24 0s. 6d., being one year's rent,
with the city treasurer, but has since given up to your
honours his interest in the said premises, as may appear
by his surrender thereof hereunto annexed.

And the said commons, praying to appoint a com-
mittee to set the said lot by public cant for three lives
and 70 years : whereupon it was ordered, that the
committee for inspecting city leases be empowered to
set by public cant, the ground abovementioned for three
lives and 70 years, from the 25th day of March next,
and that they publish advertisements accordingly.

[16.] Catherine Murray, widow, praying to be paid
an annuity of £40., to commence from Michaelmas,
1763, in the usual manner: whereupon it was ordered,
that the city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayors warrant,
pay the petitioner £40., the same to be allowed on his
accounts.

[17.] Thomas Allen, esquire, praying to have leases

Roll xxii.
ui. 160.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764. 249

in his own name of lots No. 11. and 12. on George's i764.
quay, lately taken by Anthony Green, deceased, as at^ges
heir to the said Anthony Green : whereupon it sSeen.
was ordered, that a lease of the above mentioned Lease,
premises be perfected to the petitioner for three lives and
70 years, commencing the 29th September, 1757, at the
former reserved rent of £11 4s., he laying his right Rent
thereto before Mr. Recorder and obtaining his opinion Becorder.
that he is intitled thereto, with such clauses and
covenants as he shall advise.

[18.] Richard Darling, praying city's favour : where- Darling.
upon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do pay the
petitioner £37 10s., the same to be allowed on his Gfoant.
accounts.

[19.] Sisson Darling, praying to be considered for Darling,
engrossing several addresses : whereupon it was ordered, Engrossing

,■,,,,. addresses.

that the city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant,

pay the petitioner four guineas, the same to be allowed Payment.

on his accounts.

[20.] William Clements, porter of the Tholsel elements,

, , . _ ' porter of

praying to have his salary augmented : whereupon it Tholsel-
was ordered, that the petitioner be allowed £3., a year salary,
until he is provided with a room by the city.

[21.] Richard Ryan, praying city's favour: where- %an.
upon it was ordered, that the petitioner be allowed
during his life the yearly sum of £15., to commence
from this day, the same to be allowed the treasurer on
his accounts.

[22.] George Roe, praying to be continued gaoler of Hoe, gaoler
Newgate: whereupon it was ordered, that the petitioner °f NeWgate'
be continued gaoler of Newgate until next Michaelmas
assembly, 1765, upon his giving such security for
indemnifying the city from all escapes and for the
faithful discharge of his office, as the Lord Mayor and
Sheriffs shall approve.

Grant.

250

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764.

1764.
O'Neil.

Roe,

Serjeant at
mace.

Treasurer's
account.

[23.] John O'Neil, praying to be continued serjeant Koii^xu. j
at mace : it was granted, during the city's pleasure.

[24.] William Roe, praying to be continued Serjeant ™- l™>
at mace : whereupon it was ordered, that the petitioner
be continued one of the Serjeants at mace of this city,
for one year ending Michaelmas assembly, 1765, upon
his giving such security for the faithful discharge of
his office, as the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs shall approve.

[25.] An abstract of the treasurer's accounts for the
quarter ending the 24th of June, 1764.

Dr.

To cash paid since

To balance in the treasurer's hands

£ s.

3387 9
856 2

d.
Bg

tU-

£4,243 12

£ s.

429 15
3313 12

d.
2
1

£4,243 12

Cr.

By balance in the treasurer's hands last quarter day
By cash received since

Ballast

Office,

Report.

[26.] Ballast Office report.

' Since our last report to your honours, we have

made such progress as the season would permit in
Piles. repairing the piles, and carrying on the south east pier
south waii. and the south wall, as the winter is far advanced, and

shall only proceed in carrying on the foundation thereof

for the ensuing season.

' We also acquaint your honours, that we are going

on in repairing and graving our floats and gabbards,

under the direction of captain Lamb, and shall continue

doing all other necessary works as the weather permits

and your honours shall direct,
cash. ' An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, which

Balance. we have examined and find a balance of £1,789 18s.
Hunt. 6^d., in the hands of alderman Edward Hunt, Ballast

Floats.
Gabbards

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764. 251

Office fund, and that he has overpaid £1,876 9s. 5Jd., nei
on the fund of the public money.'

Whereupon it was ordered, to proceed as the order
committee shall think proper.

State of the Ballast Office accounts from the 18th day Balla8t
of July last inclusive, to tin- 17th day of October, 1764, SSlnt
exclusive.

Ballast Office, Dr.

£• s. d.

To balance of last quarter's abstract ... ... ... 1543 19 g

To cash received since ... ... ^954 12 0

£2,903 10 9

Per contra, Cr.

& s. d.

By cash paid since for raising ballast ... ... 296 19 4

By cash paid since for repairs on the piles ... ... 340 13 2L

By cash paid salaries ... ... 142 5 0

By cash paid house rent and sundry petty disbursements ... 174 4 91

By cash paid for repairs on the gabbards ... ... \iq 18 gj.

By cash paid charges of the floating light ... ... 16 n 4

By cash paid interest of money borrowed ... ... 30 0 0

By balance on hands ... ... ... ... jjgg jg g

£2,903 10 9

Ballast Office for the public money, Dr.

£ s. d.

To cash received at his majesty's treasury ... ... 850 0 0

To balance overpaid ... .. Igyg n 5.

£2,726 9 5A

Per contra, Cr.

£ 8. d.

By balance overpaid as per last quarter's abstract ... ... 1240 19 9

By cash expended since on the south east pier ... ... 1485 9 gx

£2,726 9 5i

1 Benjamin Geale.— Thomas Cooke, — James Taylor. —
George Reynolds.— Hans Bailie.— John Tew.— Robert
Montgomery.— Edward Sankey.— Matthew Bailie.—

252 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1764-1765.

1764 Benjamin Barton. — William Forbes. — Philip »•"«&

Crampton.'
Franchise. 1764. October 19.— Admissions to franchise. m. issu.

Decuration. 1764. November 2. — Declaration and signatures. m. lesb.

1765. 1765. January 18.— Fourth Friday after the 25th of m 167.

December, 1764.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
Sitatdebt committee appointed to take into consideration the state
5? interest, of the city debt and the reduction of the interest thereof
cit'/estafe. as likewise the surveying the city estate, have made the

following report, videlicet.
Report. ' We, the committee appointed to take into considera-

tion the state of the city debt and the reduction of the
survey. interest thereof, as likewise the surveying the city
estate, have met several times for those salutary
purposes, with respect to the former, we reported to
Amount, your honours last assembly, the full amount thereof
creditors, together with the names of your several creditors,
scheme. ' We must inform your honours, that no scheme has

yet been adopted for the reduction of the said debt, as
it is a matter of some delicacy, your committee recom-
mend it may be well and maturely considered
before any alteration of that sort be carried into
execution, your committee recommend to your honours,
tocllditors8. tnat obligations be given to the city creditors of .£100,
each, for their debt. This method your committee are
of opinion will tend to the city's advantage, by creating
a circulation of them, which in time will enhance their
value, when such regulation takes place.

' That the said obligations be entered numerically
Books. into two books prepared for that purpose, one to be
Town cierk. feepfc by the Town Clerk and the other by the City
Treasurer. Treasurer, in which shall be contained the number, the

Numbers.

Names. creditor's names, and the sums due to them respectively,

Sums. . * •> '

with observations to be made of transfers, variation of

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 253

interest, or such other incidental matters as may occur, 17C5.
and that such books shall correspond with the original interest. '
obligations given.

' Your committee conceiving this a proper time to
reduce the interest from five to four per cent., published ofefuutere°st
an advertisement accordingly, desiring the creditors to creditors,
deliver up their obligation to be cancelled, and in lieu obligation
of them to receive fresh securities in bonds of £100, Securities,
each, payable with interest at four per cent., to the
amount of their principal sums, to commence from the
25th day of March next, should any of the creditors
choose to receive their principal, they would be
discharged, an ample fund being provided for that
purpose.

'Your committee find that the present method of
obtaining warrants from the Town Clerk for interest warrants
is attended with delay and disagreeable to vour cierkf™11

... interest.

creditors, therefore recommend that method from the
25th March next, be discontinued and instead thereof
the interest paid, to be indorsed on the back of the T ,

Inter. „.

obligations, and a book be annually prepared and Z™An<
lodged with the treasurer, which the creditors should obli§ratlons
sign upon being paid their interest, in the same manner Book for

,-. , -. . , signatures

the public loans are conducted, and that the said book of credit™
for so much interest paid should be a sufficient voucher
to the treasurer upon passing his accounts.

' In regard to that part of your honours' order for
surveying the city estate, your committee, the better to surveying

. city estate.

enable them to effect the same, have directed the Town Town

mi l-i Clerk.

Clerk and city agent to examine your several leases Leases,
and make a return of such leases as appear to be with-
out maps annexed to them, and likewise of such deeds, Deeds,
papers, and maps, as any way relate to your honours' PaP«s.
estate, your committee must inform you, that this will
be attended with great trouble and expense, and think
it would be proper to empower this or some other

-est
l-

011

254

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL,

1765.

City debt.
Expense.

Rents pay-
able to
Sheriffs.

committee not only to employ proper persons to conduct Ron xxii
so arduous an undertaking, but to defray the expense
attending the same, in such manner as your honours
shall seem expedient.

' We have made enquiry into the rents payable to
the Sheriffs and find the same as follow: —

' Mr. Dawson's representatives
' Lord Merion
' For Newhall
■ For Taghdow

£ s. d.

15 0 0

10 0 0

30 0 0

£65 0 0

Taghdow.

Kent roll
Sheriffs.

Order.

Crafton
Warren

Report.

Warren.

Concern.
Big Ship
street.

' We must observe that Taghdow is now in the city's
hands, therefore we are [of] opinion, that the other rents
be received by the treasurer and introduced into the
rent roll, and the above sum of £65., be by him
annually paid over to the Sheriffs, pursuant to the
former act of assembly.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, the committee' continued.

[2.] Crafton Warren, gentleman, setting forth, that
the committee appointed to inspect city leases, to whom
his petition was referred, have made the following
report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for inspecting city
leases, who were directed by act of last Midsummer
assembly to reconsider our former report made upon
the petition of Crafton Warren, gentleman, relative to
a concern on the south side of Big Ship street, ordered
a survey to be made of the premises, which was

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 255

accordingly done. We find that the said concerns with 1766.
appurtenances, which was formerly demised to William
Young and John North for 99 years, from the 29th North.'
day of September, 1675, at the yearly rent of £5., and Rent,
capons, contains in front to the said street 22 feet 6
inches, on the rere to the armory 23 feet, on the north Armory,
to vicars chorals ground 446 feet 6 inches, and on the vicars

o choral .

south to councillor Vandelure's holding 145 feet vandeiure.
4 inches, which lease by mesne assignment is vested in
the petitioner, from whom we have received a late
proposal, by which he offers to pay a yearly rent of Rent.
<£16., upon his obtaining a new lease of the premises, Lease,
on the same terms that city leases are granted, to
commence from the 29th clay of September, 1764, and to
rebuild the premises within 7 years from the same time.
Your committee having taken this proposal into con- proposal,
sideration, think it a proper one and to be the real value
of the ground, and are of opinion it ought to be complied
with, and that the said Grafton Warren, upon his
surrendering the present lease, have a new one of the surrender.
premises for 70 years and three lives to commence as
aforesaid, he by covenant to rebuild within the said
limited time, under such penalties as Mr. Recorder shall
advise.'

And the said. Crafton Warren, praying to confirm 0rder.
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and leases of the said premises Lease3.
be perfected to the petitioner, pursuant to the late
regulation, with such clauses and covenants therein,
as Mr. Recorder shall advise.

[3.] James Evory, setting forth, that the committee uvory.
appointed upon his petition, made the following report, Brid&e-
videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed to consider how the Report.
revenue of the city may be increased and the expenses

256

DL'BLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765.

1765.
Evory.

Lamps ou
Old Bride-
well and
Bloody
Bridges.
Expense.

Order.

Payment.

Lighting
bridges.

Forbes,
alderman.

Buildings.
Crane lane.

Steps to be
taken down

Bill.
Howard.

Crane lane,

Parliament

street.

Dame

street.

thereof lessened, to whom the petition of Mr. James Eou xxjl

' f m. 166.

Evory was referred, have examined the same and the
account thereto annexed, and find that he fixed up four
lamps on the Old Bridge, four lamps on Bridewell
Bridge, and four lamps on Bloody Bridge, and that the
expense of providing the said lamps and lighting them
for one year commencing the 1st September, 1763,
amounts to £21 5s. 4d., which sum we are of opinion he
be paid.'

And the said James Evory, praying to confirm the
said report and make same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and that in regard the said James
Evory was directed by the then Lord Mayor and Sheriffs
to light the above bridges, that he be paid by the city
treasurer upon the Lord Mayor's warrant £21 5s. 4d.,
for lighting of the same, but this not to be drawn into
a precedent for the future against the city for the
lighting of the said bridges.

[4.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that
alderman William Forbes, late Lord Mayor,
andeavoured during his Mayoralty, to conduct himself
with propriety in every respect, conceived it a part of
his duty to remove nuisances and encroachments, that
from information given and due observation had, the
buildings on the west side of Crane lane encroached on
said lane, said Forbes by virtue of the power vested
in him as chief magistrate, directed certain steps
adjoining thereto to be taken down by Henry
Robinson, high constable, that in consequence thereof,
a bill has been filed in his majesty's court of exchequer
by Gorges Edmond Howard, esquire, to prohibit the
said Forbes and all succeeding Lord Mayors from
pulling down or removing any of the steps or flagging
of said houses in Crane lane, Parliament street, and
Dame street.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 257

And the said William Forbes, praying to order the 1705.
same to be defended : whereupon it was ordered, that
the city agent do take such steps for the defence of ^*^t"
Mr. Alderman Forbes, as Mr. Recorder shall advise, Forbes,
relative to the transactions in the said petition
mentioned, the expense attending the same to be paid by
the city treasurer and allowed on his accounts.

[5.1 His grace John, lord archbishop of Tuam,1 John

. Ryder, d.d.

setting forth, that the committee appointed upon city archbishop
leases, to whom his memorial was referred, have made
the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed to inspect city leases, Report,
to whom the said memorial of his grace John, lord JolP' ,.

0 archbishop

archbishop of Tuam, was referred, have examined the of Tuam-
same and find that his grace is in possession of a piece
of ground under the city, situate on the south side of
Suffolk street, containing in front to Hog hill 80 feet, ft"fetk
and in the rere 70 feet 3 inches, in depth on the west Hoghl11-
side 80 feet 11 inches, and in depth on the east side
70 feet, at an annual rent of £30., and that fifteen
years of the term are unexpired.

' We have received from his grace the annexed
proposal, by which he offers to surrender his present Proposal,
interest in the premises, and to accept of a new lease New lease,
thereof for 70 y#ears and three lives, at an annual rent Kent.
of £40., adding thereto a small piece of ground at the
rere thereof, called the Terrace walk, containing in Terrace

0 walk.

length from east to west on the north side 53 feet 4
inches, and on the south 46 feet 3 inches, on the east
end 16 feet 8 inches, and on the west end 20 feet, to
commence rent from Michaelmas last, to rebuild the Rebuilding,
same within seven years, and to lay out thereon £1,000,
within that time in lasting improvements.

' Your committee having considered this proposal, Proposal.

John Ryder, d.d., archbishop of Tuam and Ardagh, 1752-1775.
VOL. XI. 3

258

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765.

1765.

Covenant.

Rebuilding.

Sum
Term.

Order.

John,

archbishop
of Tuain.

Leases.

Clauses.
Covenants.

Statue of
"Williamlll.

College
Green.
Ruinous
condition.
Iron rails.

Order.

To repair

statue.

Expense,

Scully
rewarded.

Wilkinson.

Assault.
Bl.ack.all,
Hisrh
Sheriff.

Order.

Pn3'ment.

Darling.

apprehend it a reasonable one, and ought to be r0h xxii.

rr ii m- 166 h-

complied with, that a covenant be inserted in the lease
to oblige his grace to rebuild the premises and lay out
the said sum of £1,000., thereon, within the said term
of seven years, to be computed from Michaelmas, 1764,
or that he be subject to such penalties as Mr. [Recorder]
shall advise.'

And his grace the said John, lord archbishop of
Tuam, praying to confirm the said report and make the
same an act of assembly : it was granted, the
committee's report confirmed and made an act of
assembly, and that leases of the said premises be
perfected to his grace, pursuant to the late regulation,
with such clauses and covenants as Mr. Recorder shall
advise,

[6.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
statue of his late majesty king William the third in
College Green is in a very ruinous condition, and the
iron rails about the same are also very much decayed,
if not repaired in time the same will be in danger of
being intirely destroyed.

And the said commons, praying to give directions
to repair and beautify the same: whereupon it was
ordered, that the committee' for erecting the statue of
King George the first, be empowered to repair the statue
of his late majesty King William, the expense attending
the said repairs to be paid by the city treasurer on orders
from the committee and allowed on his accounts.

[7.] Nicholas Scully, praying to be rewarded for
prosecuting sir Samuel Wilkinson for insulting and
assaulting sir Thomas Blackall, knight, in the execution
of his office, when High Sheriff.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £10,
the same to be allowed on his accounts.

[8.] Richard Darling, praying city's favour : where-

DFBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1765. 259

upon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, on the 1765.
Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner .£12 10s., the Grant,
same to be allowed on his accounts.

[9.] The right honourable and honourable the
corporation for carrying on coal works in Ireland, fC00r'coaftion
praying to be paid £37 10s., the interest of £500., lately ESl
granted by the city to them.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, order,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay Annesly Stewart, Payment.

Stewart.

esquire, or order £3* 10s., for one year and six months
interest of £500., granted the said corporation, due and interest,
ending the 12th clay of November, 1764, the same to be
allowed on his accounts.

[10.1 John Clarke and the rest of the band of city ciarke.

L . J Band of

music, praying to be continued and paid £60., for one city music,
year's salary.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the petitioners [be] Order
continued as the band of city music for one year continued,
ending Christmas assembly, 1766, that their salary of salary.
£60., is now due, be paid over by the city treasurer to Payment
the right honourable the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, the
same to be allowed the treasurer on his accounts, and
that the said Lord Mayor and Sheriffs do deduct so Deduction,
much thereout, as they shall think proper, on account
of any neglect or non-attendance by the said music, in
their office, and that the residue of the said sum be
paid the petitioners.

[11.] John Sleane, praying to be continued one of the sieane,
Serjeants at mace: whereupon it was ordered, that theatmace-
petitioner be continued, one of the Serjeants at mace
of the city of Dublin, for one year ending Christmas
assembly, 1766, upon his giving such security for
indemnifying the city from all escapes and redelivery
of the silver mace, as the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs shall
approve.

[12.] Henry Fondron, praying city's favour : where- Fondrou.

260

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765.

1765.
Grant.

Auditors
of city
accounts

Commons.

Masters of
city works,

Treasurer's

account.

upon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, on the r0h xxn
Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £5., the same
to be allowed on his accounts.

[13.] Auditors of the city accounts for the last year.

Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, alderman John Cooke, alder-
man Percivall Hunt, alderman Crampton, sir Timothy
Allen, alderman Taylor, alderman Sankey, alderman
Barton, sir Thomas Blackall, alderman Reynolds, and
eighteen of the commons to be named by the commons
or any nine of them, whereof the Lord Mayor and
one of the Sheriffs [to] be always two, be and are
appointed auditors of the city accounts for one year,
that is to say, from Michaelmas, 1763, to Michaelmas,
1764.

[The eighteen of the commons : ] Mr. Thomas Read,
Mr. John Hunt, Mr. Blood, Mr. Cave, Mr. Jones, Mr.
Vareilles, Mr. Lamprey, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Thompson,
Mr. Athenleck, Mr. Thomas Green, Mr. Sinclare, Mr.
Rickey, Mr. Cartland, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Ribton, Mr.
French, Mr. Hartley.

William Bryant and Francis Booker, esquires, are
appointed masters of the city works for the ensuing
year.

[14.] Abstract of the treasurer's accounts for the
quarter ending the 25th of December, 1764.

Dr.

To cash paid since

To balance in the treasurer's hands

£ s.
. 3504 19

. 429 16

d.
5

£3,934 15

£ s.
. 856 2

. 3078 15

£3,934 15

Cr.

By balance in the treasurer's hands last quarter
By cash received since

Ballast
Office.

Report.

[15.] Ballast Office report.

' Since our last report to your honours, we have

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY EOLL, 1765. 261

proceeded to the repairs of the piles and carrying on ires,
the south east pier and the new wall, but have made PiS-!'
but little progress by reason of the weather, the piles
have received much damage, and the new wall likewise
has received some by the sea disturbing the inside
filling thereof, both which shall be made good when the
season permits.

' We also acquaint your honours, that we are going
on in the repairs of gabbards and floats, and shall Fil0ba^rds"
continue doing all other necessary works, as your
honours direct, and the weather permits.

1 An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, which Owh.
we have examined, by which we find a balance of Bala»ce-
£1,119 5s. 4d., in the hands of alderman Edward Hunt, Hunt.
Ballast Master, on the Ballast Office fund, and
£97 13s. llfd., overpaid by him on the fund of the
public money.'

Whereupon it was ordered to proceed, as the order,
committee shall think fit.

State of the Ballast Office accounts, from the 17th Baiiast
day of October last inclusive, to the 16th of January, acc°uut'
1765, exclusive.

Ballast Office, Dr.
To balance of last quarter's abstract
To cash received since

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid this quarter for raising ballast

By cash paid for repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries

By cash paid house rent and sundry disbursements

By cash paid repairs on gabbards

By cash paid account of the floating light ...

By cash paid interest of money borrowed...

By balance on hands

£ s.

1789 18

859 16 11

£•2,642 15

£ s.

157 1

269 18

252 5

51 16

6A-

057 ]6

78 7

56 5

1119 5

£2,642 15 5£

262

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765.

1705.

Ballast

Office

account. rp0 casll pai(1 at jljs majesty's treasury

Ballast Office for the public money, Dr.

To balance overpaid

Roll xxii.
m. 165 6.

£ s. d.

, 2375 9 0

97 13 111

£2,473 2 114

Per contra, Cr,

By balance overpaid as per last quarter's abstract
By cash expended since on the south pier ...

£ s. d.
. 1876 9 5*
. 596 13 6

£2,473 2 111

Franchise.

Declara-
tion

' Benjamin Geale. — Robert King. — Timothy Allen. —
Hans Bailie. — Matthew Bailie. — Patrick Hamilton. —
Philip Crampton. — Edward Sankey. — George
Reynolds.'

1765. January 18. — Admissions to franchise.
1765. January 24. Declaration and signatures.

m. 164 b.

in. 110.

Directors.

Ballast
Office

Tucker,
deceased.

Report.
Supervisor.

Ganger.
Clerk to
committee.

Two
persons.
Duty of
clerk of the
cheque.

1765. February 7. — Post Assembly.

[1.] The representation of the committee of directors
of the Ballast Office to the post assembly, 6th February,
1765.

' We beg leave to represent to your honours, that by
the death of George Tucker, esquire, there being a
vacancy for the following employments.

' We, your committee having taken into consideration
the duties of the several employments of supervisor,
gauger, and clerk to the committee, and clerk of the
cheque, beg leave to represent it to your honours, our
opinion that the duties of said several offices will be
much more advantageously discharged by appointing
two persons to fill said employments. The duty of
clerk of the cheque being to attend at the Ballast Office,
the hours regulated at the custom house, to provide a
book and in it to enter all demands for ballast, likewise

m. 16*.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 263

a cash book, and in it to enter all receipts and pay- 1765.
ments, to see that no money is charged but what is paid, Ballast

J ° l Master's

to examine the abstracts of the Ballast Master's accounts,
accounts, laid before the committee, and sign them
when found right, and to keep copies of them in a
book ; and the duty of supervisor and gauger necessarily
requiring his attendance upon the river, renders the Attendance

1 # upon river.

duty of said employments incompatible in one and the
same person.'

Whereupon it was ordered, that the Lord Mayor and order,
board of aldermen do agree to the representation of the Aldermen

agree.

Ballast Office committee hereunto annexed, in order to
making an election conformable. Election.

[2.] Thomas Broughton, praying to be appointed Broughton,
supervisor and gauger of the Ballast Office, clerk to gm^fl
the committee of directors, and clerk of the cheque book.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the above named order.
Thomas Broughton be appointed one of the supervisors mM£int-
and gaugers of the Ballast Office, in the room of George
Tucker, esquire, deceased, at the salary of £75, and Salary.
£10, contingencies, during the city's pleasure, provided
that the petitioner do attend the duties of his office in
person, the said salary to commence from this day.

[3.] Patrick Ewing, praying to be appointed super- Jj*J^BOr_
visor and gauger of the Ballast Office, clerk to the Ballast

& & Office.

committee of directors and clerk of the cheque book.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the said Patrick Order.
Ewing be appointed clerk to the committee of directors mP]™int-
of the Ballast Office, at a salary of £25, and clerk of salary.
the cheque at a salary of £12, during the city's pleasure,
in the room of George Tucker, esquire, deceased,
provided the petitioner do attend the duties of the said
office in person, the said salary to commence from this
day.

'Benjamin Geale. — Hemy Hart. — Robert King. —
Timothy Allen. — Hans Bailie. — Matthew Bailie.--

264 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765.

1765. Patrick Hamilton. — Philip Crampton. • — Edward Eon xxii.

m. 161,

Sankey. — George Reynolds.'

1765. April 19. Second Friday after Easter.3 m.172.

Election of j^-j « We> t]ie Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city
Mayor. q^ Dublin, have this day elected alderman James
Taylor to serve in the office of Lord Mayor for the
ensuing year, commencing from Michaelmas next, and
do hereby return the said James Taylor to you the
Sheriffs and Commons of the said city for your appro-
bation."

" Benjamin Geale, Lord Mayor."

" We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the common

council of the city of Dublin, have this day approved

Taylor, by ballot of alderman James Taylor to serve in the

Lord

Mayor. office of Lord Mayor of the said city, for the ensuing
year, commencing from Michaelmas next."

" Robert Montgomery."

Henry Hart."

£sK" [2.] " We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the common
council of the city of Dublin, have this day by ballot
nominated the following eight freemen of the said city,
resident within the said city or the liberties thereto
adjoining, each of them worth in real and personal
estate in possession the sum of £2,000., over and above
all his just debts, that is to say, Henry Williams of
Queen's street, brewer, Nathaniel Trumbull of
Parliament street, weaver, Richard French of the Blind
quay, druggist, Thomas Emerson of Castle street,
weaver, William Dunn of Bride street, chandler,
Anthony King of Cooke street, founder, Thomas Green
of James' street, brewer, and William Rutledge, of

1 Easter day, 7 April, 1765.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 265

Usher's quay, merchant, as fit persons to serve in the i765.
office of Sheriffs of the said city, and do hereby return ^"^"riff"
the names with the additions of the said eight persons
to you the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the said city,
in order to your electing two of the said persons to
be Sheriffs of the said city, for the ensuing year,
commencing from Michaelmas next."

' Robert Montgomery.
Henry Hart." -

14 Sheriffs.

" We, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of
Dublin, have this day elected Mr. William Rutledge Rutiedge,

J b French,

of Usher's quay, merchant, and Mr. Richard French sheriffs.
of the Blind quay, druggist, out of the above named
eight persons returned to us by the Sheriffs and
Commons, as fit persons to serve in the office of Sheriffs
of the said city, for the ensuing year commencing from
Michaelmas next."

" Benjamin Geale, Lord Mayor."

[3.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed for better supplying the city with citypipe
pipe water, had made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for better supplying Bepart.
the city with pipe water, have at our several meetings
taken under our consideration several schemes suggested schemes,
for procuring the most speedy and effectual supply of supply.
water for this metropolis, as this was an object in Metropolis
which not only the conveniency of its inhabitants, but inhahit-

i i • ants.

the public in general, were materially interested, your
committee discussed the same with the greatest precision
and deliberation.

4 We first were of opinion, that a supply might have
been obtained from Island bridge, by erecting engines £***£
of a new construction, so as to force the water into

266

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL,

1765.

1765.
Reservoirs

Supply
from
new canal

Proposal.

Lord

Mayor.

Application
to naviga-
tion board.

Resolu-
tions,

Advertise-
ments for
proposals.

Canal.
Bason.

Supply
of water.

reservoirs to be made on the north or south sides of the r0h xiJ

. ... i". 172 b.

river, this scheme upon a more mature disquisition, your
committee were of opinion must necessarily take up a
considerable time in the execution, and though attended
with a great expense, might in the end prove precarious,
therefore your committee turned their thoughts to the
practicability of obtaining a supply from the new canal,
now carrying on by commissioners appointed by act of
parliament for the inland navigation, and as your
honours applied by petition to the honourable house
of commons last sessions of parliament for the like
purposes, induced your committee to apply them-
selves totally to that scheme, a proposal being sent to
our present Lord Mayor for carrying the same into
execution.

' He convened your committee to take the same into
consideration, your committee not only approved thereof
but empowered his Lordship to apply to the several
members constituting the navigation board for their
countenance in said undertaking, his Lordship having
received assurance from the said members individually
of their aid and assistance, laid the same before your
honours at a post assembly convened for that purpose,
which being approved of by your honours, his Lordship
then attended the said board and they thought proper
to enter into the resolutions hereunto annexed.

' Encouraged by these favourable circumstances, your
committee published advertisements for proposals for
the executing the said work, in consequence whereof,
some have been delivered and are now under our
consideration, your committee being clear of opinion,
that when the said canal is finished to the bason, there
will be a perpetual and more than sufficient supply of
water at all times for the inhabitants of this city. We
thought it incumbent upon us to make some enquiry
into the situation and circumstances of those works,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 267

and how they might be executed with expedition, so as 1755.
to answer all the salutary purposes of the city, as also
the intention of the legislature.

' We have been informed that the canal is now sunk canal.
and banked as far as Ballyfarmott, and that the BaUy&r-

. . IllOtt.

remaining part may be completed in a year to convey
the water to the city bason. Estimates of the value of Estimates
the lands to be purchased, together with the expense
of digging, banking, aqueducts, bridges, and finishing
the canal, have been laid before us, by which it appears
that this work, so advantageous to the city, may be
finished for about the sum of £7,000., sterling; having Sam.
now laid before your honours all the steps which
hitherto have been taken in the progress of this
important work, we earnestly recommend it to your
honours to take this matter into your serious considera-
tion and enable your committee effectually to complete compie-
the same, with honour to the corporation and advantage tion'
to the public.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said order,
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and that the committee be empowered,
under the sanction and encouragement of the navigation
board, to immediately proceed in the purchase of such Purchase of
grounds as may be found necessary, agreeable to the g'
line pointed out and inquisitions already taken by
direction of the navigation board, and also to make
such contracts, as may be found necessary and agree- contracts.
able to act for the purpose of carrying the above
recommended, most useful scheme into execution, in the
most speedy and effectual manner, and that said com-
mittee be further empowered to raise upon the city's Loan
credit, such sum or sums of money, as may from time
to time be found necessary for this desirable purpose,
not exceeding the sum of £7,000., the corporation sum.

268

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765.

1765.
Confidence.

Navigation
board.

Maquay,
merchant.

Report.

Lease.

Thomas
street.
Croker's
lane.

Devin.
1671.

Proposal.

Maquay.
Rent.

Lease.

Surrender.

New lease.
Rebuilding.

having a well-founded confidence under the patronage RoiixxJ
and encouragement of such respectable patronages, as
compose the said navigation board, that the city will
be hereafter reimbursed by parliament, such sums as
they may necessarily expend in the anticipation and
accomplishment of so useful a public work.

[4.] George Maquay, merchant, setting forth, that
the committee for inspecting city leases, to whom his
petition was referred, had made the following report.

' We, the committee appointed to inspect city leases
near expiring, who were directed by act of last
Midsummer assembly, to reconsider our former report,
made upon the petition of Mr. George Maquay, relative
to his obtaining a new lease of a concern situate in
Thomas street, adjoining Croker's lane, having lately
viewed the premises, found them in a ruinous condition,
requiring to be rebuilt. We find that the said concern
with the appurtenances was formerly demised to
William Devin, baker, for 99 years, from Easter, 1671,
at the yearly rent of £5., and the same are by mesne
assignment vested in the petitioner.

' Your committee having taken this matter into their
further consideration, as also the proposal of the said
George Maquay, whereby he offers to pay a rent of
£12., a year for the premises upon Ins obtaining a
new lease thereof, to commence the 25th of March, 1764,
are still of opinion that his said proposal is a good one,
and the real value of the ground, and ought to be com-
plied with, and the rather as the said George Maquay
has five years from Easter last of his present term
unexpired, and therefore do recommend, that upon his
surrendering the old lease of the premises, he may have
a new one thereof, pursuant to the late regulation, he
obliging himself to rebuild the same within five years
from the 25th day of March last, the present under-

DFBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 269

tenant having a lease of part of the premises, of which 1765.
there are still three years unexpired.'

And the said George Maquay, praying to confirm order,
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and that on the petitioner's
surrendering his present lease of the within mentioned Lease,
premises, that a new one be made to him of the same
for 70 years and three lives, pursuant to the late
regulation, at an annual rent of £12., and capons, he Rent,
to rebuild the concern within five years from the 25th
day of March, last, 1765.

[5.1 Certain of the commons setting forth, that the cityPiPe

L J. & ' water

committee for better supplying the city with water, had
made the following report.

' We, the committee appointed for better supplying Report,
the city with pipe water, inform your honours, that
we have examined the account of Mr. Richard Cave, Account,
supervisor, messieurs Samuel Callbeck and Francis
Gladwell, collectors of the pipe water revenue for the
year ending the 1st of November, 1763, and collected
from thence to the 1st of November, 1761, the said
account having been laid before us in a regular and
exact manner, gave us great satisfaction in the
examining thereof, the supervisor furnished us with supervisor,
a charge against the collectors, which they admitted Collectors,
to be right, and which we also examined.

' We find that the rent and arrears received on ?eut-

Arrears.

account of pipe water amount to £3,062 13s. 4d., the
receipt for concealed branches to £15 15s., for fines
to £46 16s. 8d., the sum received by Samuel Callbeck,
amounts to £1,538 15s., and that by Francis Gladwell
to £1,525 5s., and that a balance remains in the hands Balance.
of Samuel Callbeck of £1 9s. 3d.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said order,
report and make the same an act of assembly: it was

270 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY EOLL, 1765.

1765. granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an r0ii xxii

act of assembly.

Mahon. [6.] Timothy Mahon, setting forth, that the com-

oi°stom"d mittee of tolls and customs, to whom his petition ^as

Report. referred, had made the following report.

' We, the committee appointed upon tolls and
customs, to whom the petition of Timothy Mahon was
referred, have examined the same, and the said Timothy
Mahon having attended us, gave us full satisfaction

Receipts that he did not receive more than £100., for the petty

from petty .

customs, customs for one year ending the 24th June, 1764.

Your committee are of opinion, that the said Timothy

contract. Mahon be exonerated from his contract for the said

Payment, year, upon his paying to the city treasurer £83 6s. 8d.,

he having formerly paid £16 13s. 4d., as a deposit for

the same, and we further observe to your honours, that

the said Timothy Mahon was at a great expense for

collecting the said petty customs, as also for his and »"■ 170.

his men's attendance at the parliament house, when

summoned there as city toll gatherer, and ought to be

considered for the same by the city.'

order. And the said Timothy Mahon, praying to have the

said report confirmed and made an act of assembly : it

was granted, the committee's report confirmed and made

an act of assembly.

MaSSm, [70 Tnomas Holmes, John Magauran, and others

and others. setting forth, that the committee of city leases to whom

their petition was referred, had made the following

report.

Report. ' We, the committee appointed for inspecting city

Soim^and leas6S to whom the memorial of Thomas Holmes, John

Magauran, Garret Murphy, Laurence Doran, Rebecca

Kilner, Mary Singleton, Mary Anderson, Richard

Babington, Bryan Maguire, Mary Archbold, John

Dardis, Peter Esperiat, Joseph Churchill, Bartholomew

Plancheon, Andrew Brown, and Zacheus Barling, was

others.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY KOLL, 1765. 271

referred, have examined the same, and the several 1765.
affidavits verifying the contents thereof, and are of Affidavits,
opinion, that the several sums following be paid to the sums,
above mentioned persons respectively in consideration
of their respective losses sustained by them, as in the Losses,
said memorial and affidavits are set forth, videlicet.

' To Mary Singleton

' To Garret Murphy

' To Rebecca Kilner

' To Richard Babington

' To John Magauran

' To Laurence Doran

' To Bryan Maguire

'To Bartholomew Plancheon ...

' To Mary Archbold

1 To John Dardis

'To Peter Esperiat

'To Joseph Churchill

' To Thomas Holmes

' To Andrew Brown

'To Zacheus Barling

and
' To Mary Anderson

Which said several sums amount
in the whole to

' Mr. Adams, register to the commissioners, attended Adams,
and joined us in opinion, that the above respective
sums were sufficient allowances and recompense to be snms.
made to the said several persons.'

And the said several persons, praying to confirm the Order,
said report and make the same an act of assembly : it
was granted, the committee's report confirmed and made
an act of assembly, and that the city treasurer do. on Pity

<> treasurer.

... 5

... 10

... 5

... 12

... 8

... 12

... 15

... 12

... 6

... 12

... 20

... 5

... 12

£170

272

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL,

1765.

1765.
Payment.

Losses in
removal.

Crane lane.

Essex
street.

Ewing',
clerk to
Ballast
Office.

Augmenta-
tion of
salary.

Mayoralty
house.

Enlarge-
ment.

Terrace.

Under
offices
damp.

Order.

the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the several persons in
the said report mentioned, the respective sums so
allowed them, amounting to £170., as a compensation
for the losses sustained by them in removing from
their houses in Crane lane and Essex street, the same
to be allowed the treasurer on his accounts.

[8.] Patrick Ewing, setting forth, that he was lately
appointed clerk to the committee of directors for the
Ballast Office and clerk of the cheque at a salary of
£37., and prayed as the business he is appointed to
requires a constant attendance, and he thereby debarred
from following any other business, that the said salary
be augmented. Whereupon it was ordered, that an
augmentation of £23., a year, be made to the petitioner's
salary of £37., in consideration of the extraordinary
labour in discharging the duty of said employments,
occasioned by the increase of business in the Ballast
Office.

[9.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that not-
withstanding a very effectual improvement lately made
in the Mayoralty house, it has been experienced that
a further enlargement for the reception and entertain-
ment of the nobility and citizens upon public occasions
is become necessary. That the terrace at present
surrounding part of the house is found extremely
inconvenient, by rendering the under offices damp and
almost useless, and therefore prayed that a committee
may be appointed for the purposes aforesaid, with such
powers as should be thought necessary.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the consideration of
the within petition be referred to the right honourable
the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the
works, alderman Crampton, alderman Taylor, alder-
man Sankey, alderman Fetherston, and eight of the
commons, to be named by the commons or any five
of them, whereof the Lord Mayor and one of the Sheriffs

Koll xxii
m. 170.

in. 170 b.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 273

to be always two. be and are appointed a committee, 176.5.
and hereby empowered to make the like alteration of
the rooms on the south side of the house, as has already Rooms,
been executed on the north, with the addition of a
bow window, and also to remove the terrace surrounding bow
part of the house, and in the place thereof to make an Ten-ace.
area, whereby the under offices will become dry and Area.
useful, the expense attending the same not to exceed Expense.
£300.. to be paid by the city treasurer on orders from
the committee and allowed the treasurer on his
accounts.

[The eight of the commons : ] Mr. French, Mr. Jones, Commons.
Mr. Kirkpatrick, Mr. Ginn, Mr. Anthony King, Mr.
Strong, Mr. Green, Mr. Emerson.

[10.] Henry Gonne, gentleman, setting forth that Gonne.
he received and presented to the assembly held on the
18th day of January, 1765, one hundred and thirty-
eight petitions for city's favour, for the receiving of Petitions

. & for city's

each of which and drawing an order thereon he is f»™ur-
intitled to 7s. 6d., which amounts to £51 15s. Fees.

And the said Henry Gonne, praying to be paid the order,
said sum : it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner said Payment,
sum of £51 15s., the same to be allowed on his
accounts.

[11.] George Robinson, fire master, allowed £20., for BoWaaon,

i • . fire master.

his past services.

[12.] Richard Darling allowed £12 10s. Darl1^-

[13.] Thomas Knox, mace bearer and officer of Knox'

mace
Commons, allowed £10. bearer.

[14.] Henrv Robinson, high constable, allowed £10., Bobinson,
in consideration of his late indisposition. constable.

[15.] Jacob Bryan, clerk, allowed £15., for Bryan,

zv2 • • . clerk.

officiating in the Black Dog prison, for one year ending JjjSEgJ8,
25th March, 1765. prisou

[16.] Edmond Madden continued supervisor of the
VOL. xi. T

Madden,
supervisor

274 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765.

1765. water course for one year ending Easter assembly, Ron

salary. 1766, at a salary of £10.

£K?' [170 John Grealy appointed keeper of the city bason

city bas,,n. during [city's] pleasure, at a weekly allowance of six
shillings.

%$___*• C18-] George Cawthorne continued in the employ-
ment of serjeant at mace, for one year ending next
Easter assembly, 1766, upon his giving such security
for indemnifying the city and redelivery of the silver
mace, as the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs shall approve.

^erfeantat [190 Richard Betagh continued in the employment
of serjeant at mace, for one year ending next Easter
assembly, 1766, upon his giving such security for
indemnifying the city and redelivery of the silver mace,
as the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs shall approve.

JerjeSt C20-] James Thompson continued in the employment
of serjeant at mace, for one year ending next Easter
assembly, 1766, upon his giving such security for
indemnifying the city and redelivery of the silver
mace, as the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs shall approve.
8erjeantat, [210 Thomas Snape continued in the employment of
serjeant at mace, for one year ending next Easter
assembly, 1766, upon his giving such security for
indemnifying the city and redelivery of the silver mace,
as the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs shall approve.

[22.] William Roe continued in the employment of
serjeant at mace, for one year ending next Easter
assembly, 1766, upon his giving such security for
indemnifying the city and redelivery of the silver mace,
as the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs shall approve.
Treasurer's [23.] An abstract of the treasurer's accounts for the

account. t ,

quarter ending the 25th day of March, 1765.

Dr.

To cash paid since .. .. * *■ *•

lo balance in 1 he treasurer's hands 1C), „ -

.. 104/ 6 5.1

______ £4,068 4 44

xxu

m. 169.

niice.

Roe,

serjeant at
mace.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 275

CT;

Treasurer

£ s.

<j_ account.

429 16

3638 8

£4,068 4

By balance in the treasurer's hands last quarter day
By cash received since

[24.] Ballast Office report.

' The report of the committee of directors for the Ballast

Office.

Ballast Office to the general assembly, the 19th clay Report,
of April, 1765.

' Since our last report, to your honours, we have
made as much progress in the repairing the piles, as pnes.
the badness of the weather during that time would
permit.

' We further inform your honours, that we have
proceeded much in the raising the south east pier and pier.
the new wall, as was practicable in the late tempestuous wan.
season, and that we intend to carry on those works
the ensuing season vigorously.

' We further inform your honours, that we have
ordered an additional number of labourers to bo Labourers,
employed immediately for the speedy repair of the piles, piles,
which have suffered greatly by the late storms, and
have ordered three additional ladders to be affixed to Ladders,
the wall for the preservation of the lives of such persons
as may be in hazard from the want thereof.

' We also acquaint your honours, that we are going
on in repairing of gabbards and floats, and shall p110babtglds'
continue doing all other necessary works, as your
honours direct and the season permits.

' An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, by cash,
which we find a balance of £1,202 17s. 10Jd., in the Balance,
hands of alderman Edward Hunt, Ballast Master, on Hunt.
the Ballast Office fund, and £651 7s. 5d., overpaid by
him on the fund of the public money.

' All which is humbly submitted to your honours.'

276

DtTBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765.

1765.
Ballast-
Office
account.

State of the Ballast Office accounts, from the 16th Koii
January last inclusive to the 17th day of April, 1765,
exclusive.

XXll

ra. 169 6.

Ballast Office, Dr.

To balance of last quarter's abstract
To cash received since

Per contra, Or.

By cash paid the quarter for raising ballast

By cash paid for repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries

By cash paid house rent and sundry petty disbursements

By cash paid repairs on gabbards

By cash paid on account of the floating light

By cash paid interest

By balance on hands

Ballast Office, for the public money, Dr.

Per contra, Cr.

By balance overpaid per last quarter's abstract
By cash expended since on the south east pier

£ s.

. 1119 5

799 15

£1,919 0

£ 8.

142 16

135 12

149 15

61 2

104

51 10 11

22 14

152 10

1202 11 104

£1,919 0

£ s. d.

£ s.

97 13 llf

553 13

£651 7 5

Franchise.

Declara-
tion.

City pipe

water.

' Benjamin Geale. — Robert Montgomery. — John
Cooke.- — Robert King. — Hans Bailie. — Timothy Allen.
--Thomas Cooke. — James Taylor. — Francis Fetherston.
-—Benjamin Barton.'

1765. April 19. — Admissions to franchise, m. 173.

1765. April 25. — Declaration and signatures. m. no.

1765. July 19. — Fourth Friday after the 24th of m. isi.
June.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed for better supplying the city with

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY EOLL, 1765. 277

pipe water, to whom it was referred, to proceed in the 1765.
purchase of grounds and making of contracts for water.
carrying into execution that useful scheme of the
Grand Canal, have made the following report, videlicet. g££{j

' We, the committee^ appointed for better supplying import.
the city with pipe water, to whom it was referred, to
proceed in the purchase of grounds and the making ^^f of
of contracts for the carrying into execution that most ^j.°^t°f
useful scheme of the Grand Canal, have met several
times for these purposes.

1 We first took into our consideration the proposals Proposals,
of several persons willing to engage in the said works,
but before we would finally determine the same, we
requested the Lord Mayor to attend the navigation Lord

Mayor.

board and lay these several proposals before them to Navigation
have their sense thereon, this his Lordship accordingly
did, and the navigation board thought proper to pass
the following resolution.'

" The Lord Mayor having laid before the board the Beeoiution.
resolution of the city of the 19th instant, relative to
advancing money for completing the navigation from Advance of
the city of Dublin to Ballyfarnam, the board came to
the following resolution.7'

"Resolved, that the Lord Mayor be requested to Lord Mayor

. . . to proceed

proceed with all convenient dispatch in the execution inexecution

A of work.

of the said work, and in making such contracts for

executing the same, as the city shall judge most

expedient for the public service."'

' Armed with these powers, your committee

attentively considered the said several proposals, and proposals.

after due consideration had of the abilities and solvency

of the contractors, your committee agreed with con-
tractors.

messieurs Edward Barnwell and Peter Tracev for Bamweu.

J Tiacey.

executing 332 h perches plantation measure of the said
work, commencing at the city bason and proceeding Bason,
south westward, from thence through the lands of

278

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765.

1765.
Kilmaiu-
ham.
Amount.

Interest.

Water.

Satter-
tuwaite.

Ballyfar-
nam.

Bason.

Amount.

Repair.

Murrell
river.

Value of
ground.

Purchase.

Loan.

Kilmainham, in the manner mentioned m said boiixxI

.. . . m. l&l. 1

proposals for £1,201 Is. lid., they finding all materials
for the due performance of the said work, they have
agreed that £200, be retained in your honours'
possession, until the whole shall be finished and to
continue so for seven years afterwards, as a security
for the works, serving the uses intended for that time,
the city allowing them the usual interest given by the
city for the said £200, for seven years after the work m. isi i
is executed, and also £30, for the expense they may
be at in employing persons to watch the said works
for the said time, and they have engaged to deliver
2-1 inches square of water, that will be delivered them
into the city bason.

' Your committee likewise agreed with Mr. John
Satterthwaite for executing two parts of the said works,
from the place it is now brought to in the lands of
Ballyfarnam, 2J miles from the city bason to within
322|- perches of the city bason, the one for the sum
of £1,803 6s., the other part of the said work for the
sum of £1,339 5s. 10d., both lots amounting to
£3,142 lis. 10d., in the manner mentioned in his
proposals, £400, whereof is likewise to be retained for
seven years in the manner before set forth, he to be
allowed £140, for his expenses in watching and keeping
the same in repair for seven years, and he engages
to supply the city, so far as his work will extend, with
376 square inches in the driest season of constant
running water from the Murrell rivers or others.

' Your committee then proceeded to enquire into the
value of the ground to be purchased from the
proprietors, through which the said canal is to pass,
after a survey had and computation made by the
officers of the navigation board, the purchase thereof
will amount to the sum of £3,600, or thereabouts,
which sum your committee hath raised upon the city

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 279

credit and directed advertisements to be published, 1705.
notifying to the several proprietors to lay before the Proprietors
city agent a state of their respective titles, and to Titfe^6"*'
execute proper deeds to convey their several interests Deeds.
in the said ground, in pursuance whereof some have
been adjusted and ' the remainder your committee
expect will be completed very soon.

' Some disputes having arisen among some of the Disputes,
proprietors, with regard to the said purchase money,
a case has been laid before counsel on behalf of the case for

counssel.

corporation for the inland navigation, who has given
his directions and opinion thereon.

1 Your committee beg leave to inform your honours,
that they have conducted this part of the work with
the advice and under the sanction of the principal Advice of
officers of the navigation board, in such a manner as
your committee hope to merit, not only the approbation
of that respectable board, but of the public in general.'

[2.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed to audit the account of alderman Audit of

A x account.

Benjamin Geale, city treasurer, for the rents, issues, Geale, city
and profits accruing to the city commencing 29th
September, 1763, and ending the 29th of September,
1764, and for the casualties ending the same time, have
made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed to audit the accounts Report.
of alderman Benjamin Geale, city treasurer, for the
rents, issues, and profits accruing to the said city, Rents.
commencing the 29th day of September, 1763, and
ending the 29th day of September, 1764, and for the
casualties ending the same time, have examined the casualties,
same with the greatest attention, the accountant laid

280 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765.

1765. before us a rental of the estate and the arrears due soiixJ

the 29th September, 1764, in which is introduced
several articles set by your honours since settling the
last account.

Disburse- 'We find the accountant's disbursements are put
under their proper classes, and the annual charges of
salaries, rents, etc., are abridged, we charged the

Balance. accountant with the balance due upon last account,
the arrears of rent due Michaelmas, 1763, as also with

Eentai. the entire rental of your honours' estate for the year
ending Michaelmas, 1764, and with such other
incidental issues and profits as accrued that year,

Amount, amounting in the whole to the sum of £20,342 4s. 5Jd.,
we find his disbursements amount to the sum of
£12,887 13s. ljd., which with the arrears of rent
returned by him and the sum of £644 7s. 8d., poundage,

credit makes the whole of his credit amount to the sum of

amount.

Balance. £19,801 6s. 9d., so that a balance of £540 17s. 8|d.,

is due by the treasurer to the city.
Avrear. ' We inquired into the state of the arrear returned by

the treasurer and find the principal part thereof

recoverable hath been since received, save only the
Town cierk. arrear returned to be due by the Town Clerk, and upon

enquiry into that matter, he produced to us several
Demands, demands he had against the city, which amount to

more than the said arrear, all which will be settled

as soon as the report of the committee on his petition

is confirmed by your honours.
Disburse- ' Your committee observe that your disbursements

ments

exceeded, the last year exceed the disbursements of the preceding

year [by] the sum of £2,735 3s. 7fd., and at the same

Balance time the balance is increased in favour of the citv, which

increased.

of itself conveys such a demonstration of the attention
paid to your revenues, that your committee think it
needless to enumerate the several particulars in which
that appeared to your committee.'

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 281

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said 1705.

Order.

report and make the same an act of assembly: it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made
an act of assembly.

[3.] The minister and church wardens of the parish l*™hot

L J t Saint

of new Saint Micharf setting forth, that the committee MicW
for inspecting city leases, to whom their petition was
referred, have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed upon the petition of Report,
the minister and church wardens of the parish of new
Saint Michan, have considered the same and lately
viewed that part of the little Green, petitioned for by J^
them, in order to have the same added to the ground
formerly granted for the purpose of building a church Buiidiiw

0 a church.

and are of opinion that the city do accommodate them
with 60 feet in depth at the south-east corner of the
said Green, and 10 feet in depth at the south
west corner, in consideration of their giving 25 feet £onsidera'
in breadth at the south west corner and building a
straight wall from that to the north west corner, which
will take up but a small part of the present street or
lane in one place and add greatly to the widening of it
in another.

' Your committee doubt not but your honours will give
due encouragement in promoting a work of such real SET1'1*6"
advantage to the public, which will be both ornamental
to the city and advantageous to the revenue of the
corporation, and therefore do recommend that a fee farm
lease be made of the above ground to the petitioners Lease,
for the purpose only of building a church, at a yearly church,
rent of 2s. 6d., with such clauses and covenants as
Mr. Eecorder shall advise.'

And the said minister and church wardens praying order,
to confirm the said report and make the same an act
of assembly: it was granted, the committee's report
confirmed and made an act of assembly, and that a

282

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765.

17R5.

Foe farm
lease.

Church.
Rent.

Henry
Ware, d.d.

Report.

Henry
Ware.

1669.

Robert
Ware.

House.
Castle
street.

Rent.

New lease.

Duties.

Order.

fee farm lease of the within mentioned premises be Roiixxii.

m. 180 b.

perfected to the petitioners for the purpose only of
building a church, at a yearly rent of 2s. 6d., with
such clauses and covenants therein as Mr. Recorder
shall advise, upon their giving up 25 feet in breadth
at the south west corner of the Green and building a
straight wall from that to the north west corner,
pursuant to the said report.

[4.] Henry Ware, doctor in divinity, setting forth,
that the committee for inspecting city leases, to whom
his petition was referred, have made the following
report.

' We, the committee appointed to inspect city leases
near expiring, to whom the petition of Henry Ware,
doctor in divinity, was referred, find that at Midsummer
assembly, 1669, the corporation of the city of Dublin
did, by indenture of lease under their common seal,
demise unto Robert Ware, of the said city, esquire, one
house or messuage on the south side of Castle street,
containing about 16 feet 6 inches in front, for the term
of 99 years from Easter then proceeding, at the annual
rent of £5, and capons, the interest whereof is now
vested in the said Doctor Ware, who proposed to your
committee to pay a rent of £18, a year, upon his getting
a new lease of this concern, which we apprehend to be
a good proposal and should be accepted of, it being the
real value of the ground, and are therefore of opinion
that upon his surrendering the present lease, a new
one be made to him of the premises for 70 years and
three lives, at the rent above mentioned, with five
shillings duties, to commence the 29th September next,
he obliging himself to rebuild the same within seven
years from the said 29th September.'

And the said Henry Ware praying to confirm the
said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 283

made an act of assembly, and that on the petitioner's 1705.
surrendering!; the present lease of the within mentioned surrender.

0 r ^ Lease.

premises, a new one be made to him of the same for
three lives and 70 years, at an annual rent of £18, Rent.
and five shillings duties, pursuant to the said report,
with such clauses and covenants as Mr. Recorder shall
advise.

[5.] John Hunt, esquire, setting forth, that the Jgn
committee for inspecting city leases, to whom his
petition was referred, have made the following report,
videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed to inspect city leases Report,
near expiring, to whom the petition of John Hunt, Hunt.
esquire, was referred, have examined the same and
find that the corporation of the city of Dublin at
Christmas assembly, 1667r granted a lease of a piece L6^e.
of ground in Stephen's street, containing in front to ^j^en's
the said street 44 feet 10 inches, to George Surdeville surdevme.
for the term of 99 years, to commence at Easter, 1688,
at the yearly rent of £3, which lease will expire at
Easter, 1767, we have viewed the premises, which by ?^5£?
mesne assignment are vested in the petitioner and found
them in a ruinous condition requiring to be rebuilt.

' Mr. Hunt proposes, upon his obtaining a new lease New lease
thereof, pursuant to the late regulation, to pay an
annual rent of £22, to commence the 25th of March, Kent
1765, which proposal we apprehend to be a good
[one], and the value of the ground, and ought to be
complied with, he obliging himself to rebuild the Rebuilding.
premises within five years from the said 25th day of
March.'

And the said John Hunt praying to confirm the order,
said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and that on the petitioner's
surrendering the present lease of the within mentioned Lease.

284 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765.

1760. premises, a new one be made to him thereof for three Ron x*n.

Rent. |-V(?S an(j 7Q vearSj at an annual rent of £22., and
five shillings duties, with such clauses and covenants
therein as Mr. Recorder shall advise.
Rejneii. [6.] John Reynell, esquire, setting forth, that the

committee for inspecting city leases, to whom his
petition was referred, have made the following report,
videlicet.
Report. ' We, the committee appointed for inspecting city

Reyneii. leases, to whom the petition of John Reynell, esquire,
1668. was referred, find that at Christmas assemly, 1668, the

wmiam corporation of the city of Dublin demised unto William
Ground. North, a plot or parcel of ground on the south side
castie 0f Castle street, containing in front 18 feet 4 inches,
for the term of 99 years, from Easter then next ensuing,
at an annual rent of £8, and capons, the lease whereof
by mesne assignment is vested in the petitioner, your
committee upon viewing the premises found them in a
Rebuilding, very ruinous condition, and require rebuilding.
Lease. ' Mr. Reynell proposes, upon his getting a new lease

Rent. for 70 years and three lives, to pay the present rent
of £8, for the first three years, and £18, a year during
the remainder of the said term, to commence from the
25th day of March, 1765, over and above all quit rent
and other charges, and to exonerate and release the city
from all former quit rent paid by him for the premises.
Proposal. ' We, having considered this proposal, apprehend
it to be a reasonable one for the corporation, and
recommend it may be complied with, and that a new
lease be perfected to him accordingly, he obliging
himself to rebuild within four years from the said 25th
March.'
order. And the said John Reynell praying to confirm the

said report and make the same an act of assembly:
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed andm.i-s*.
made an act of assembly, and that on the petitioner

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 285

obliging himself by covenant to leave the passage open 1755.
to the vestry room of Saint Werburgh's church in the £tatw«£
same manner that it is at present, and on his SSSl
surrendering the present lease of the within mentioned
premises, a new one to be made to him thereof for three New lease,
lives and 70 years, at "an annual rent of £18, after the Rent.
first three years and five shillings duties, with such
clauses and covenants therein, as Mr. Recorder shall
advise, he paying the quit rent as heretofore and
dropping all claim that he may have on the city on
account of former quit rent paid by him for the
premises.

[7.] Henry Gonne, gentleman, setting forth, that the Henry
committee appointed to audit the city accounts, to Towncierk.
whom his petition and account were referred, have
made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee of auditors, to whom the petition Report.
and annexed account of Henry Gonne was referred, Account,
have examined the same, by which it appears that the
corporation of the city of Dublin is indebted to him
in £141 0s. 8d., for business done and transacted by
him from Michaelmas, 1761, to Michaelmas, 1763,
which sum we are of opinion he be paid.

' We find that the Town Clerk by his list of fees Fees.
is intitled to £1 8s., upon every city seal, which upon City
the late exchange of the city securities would amount city ^
to a considerable sum, this we intimated to him, upon
which he readily agreed to take 7s. 6d., being one third,
for the filling up and sealing each bond, at which rate Bonde.
we are of opinion he be paid for the several new bonds
which have been lately filled up and sealed.'

And the said Henry Gonne, praying to confirm the order.
said report and make the same an act of assembly : it
was granted, the committee's report confirmed and made
an act of assembly, and that the city treasurer do, on
the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner the within Payir,eil

seal.

securities.

286

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765.

1765.

Arrear of

rent for
Tholsel
office.
Payment,

Edward

Seriveii.

Report.

Bill of cost.

Willi iuson.

Blackall,

High

Sheriff,

Order.

Payment.

Usher.

Report.

Tiv.es of
Smithfield.

mentioned sum of £141 Os. 8d., the same to be applied RoBxai

m. 1/9 o.

in discharge of the arrear of rent due by him for the
Tholsel office, and that he be paid, at the rate of 7s. 6d.,
for the several bonds which he has filled up and sealed
on account of the late exchange of the city securities,
the said sums to be allowed the treasurer on his accounts.

[8.] Edward Scriven, gentleman, setting forth, that
the committee of city leases to whom his petition
was referred, have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee for city leases to whom the peti-
tion of Mr. Edward Scriven was referred, have examined
the same and also the bill of cost thereto annexed, and
find that there is clue to him from the city, the sum of
£109 5s. 1 Id., for prosecuting, pursuant to an order of
assembly, Samuel Wilkinson, otherwise called sir
Samuel Wilkinson, and several other persons therein
named, for an audacious assault upon sir Thomas
Blackall in the execution of his office of High Sheriff
of the city of Dublin, and for several other outrages by
them committed, which sum we are of opinion he be
paid in (full for the same.'

And the said Edward Scriven, praying to confirm
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and m. 178.
made an act of assembly, and that the city treasurer do,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner the
within mentioned sum of £109 5s. lid., the same to be
allowed the treasurer on his accounts.

[9.] John Usher, setting forth, that the committee of
economy, to whom his petition was referred, have made
the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee of economy to whom the petition
of John Usher was referred, have carefully enquired
into the case of the petitioner and are sorry to inform
your honours, that it appears by an account verified by
affidavit, that the dues of Smithfield, which usually pro-

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 287

duced in former times £200, yearly, did in the year i765.
1761, produce but £TI6 5s. 6d., after payment of £50, sKfieia.
to the city, in the year 1762, did produce but £107, and
in the year 1763, did produce but £17 8s. ll|d., after
payment of £100, to the city, which has been owing to
insolvencies, that your committee, in consideration of inSOive»-
those deficiencies and the expenses that attend the col- cies'
lecting of the said dues, are of opinion that the petitioner
be abated three years' rent, amounting to £150, due to Abatement
the city for the same.' ofre"t-

And the said John Usher, praying to confirm the said order,
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly.

[10.] William Delamain, setting forth, that the com- Defemau,
mittee to whom his petition was referred, have made the Marshal.
following report, videlicet.

1 We, the committee appointed to inspect the behaviour Report,
of inferior city officers, to whom the petition of William
Delamain, City Marshal, was referred, have examined Deiamam.
the same. WTe find that the most part of the prisoners doners,
committed to the city Marshalsea are persons of the Marshal**.
lowest condition, unable to pay or satisfy the Marshal
for his fees, which obliges him frequently to discharge Fees,
them without any, and particularly when their debts Debts.
are paid by composition out of any charitable funds
collected for that purpose.

; We must inform your honours, that in act passed Act.
the last session, for better preventing the severities and
unjust, exactions practised by gaolers against their Gaoler*,
prisoners, is contained the following clause. Prisoners.

" And whereas gaolers frequently pay large sums or Gaolers,
engage to pay a rent to such person or persons, who Rent.
have the power of appointing them, and thereby appre- Ain>°int-
hend they have a right to continue therein independent
of the authority of the persons so appointing them, and

288 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765.

1765. use every unwarrantable means to reimburse themselves Boil ixii.

J . in. 178.

Eent- the sums by them paid or the rent agreed to be paid for

Enactment, the said offices : Be it enacted by the king's most

excellent majesty by and with the advice and consent of

the lords spiritual and temporal and commons in this

present parliament assembled and by the authority of

the same, that from and after the first day of August,

1764. 1764, no sheriff or other person or persons, bodies cor-

Appoint. porate or politic having powers to appoint a gaoler,

ment of . -

gaoler. shall by themselves or any other person m trust lor

Fee. them take any fee or gratuity or reserve any rent pay-

able out of any such gaol for such appointment, under

Penalty, the penalty of £500, one moiety thereof to be paid to
the king, the other to the informer, with "full costs of
suit, who shall by bill, plaint, or information in any of
his majesty's courts of record, first sue for the same, and

Gaolers in another part of said act, gaolers are restrained from

restrained

from selling selling beer, ale, or other liquors under a penalty of £5, m. 17s &.
for every such offence, whereby the City Marshal is
deprived of the greatest benefit that he had."

' Your committee are therefore of opinion, in con-
sideration of the above clause, that the said William

Deiamain. Delamain be remitted the rent and arrear due to the

Bent

Mmithe?' °ity ^or ^ne Marshalsea, and exonerated from paying
Fees. ren^ 'f°r t'ne future, he to remit all fees upon warrants

from the Court of Conscience and not upon any account

to farm the fees of the gaol.'
order. And the said William Delamain, praying to confirm

the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
Report. it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and

made an act of assembly, except that part relative to
Fees. the remitting of fees upon persons committed by war-
court of rants from the Court of Conscience.

Conscience.

Mooiey. [11.] James Mooley, setting forth, that the committee

appointed for better supplying the city with pipe water,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 289

to whom his petition was referred, have made the ires.
following report, videlicet. watyeripe

'We, the committee appointed for better supplying Report.
the city with pipe water, to whom the petition of James
Mooley was referred, inform your honours, that the Mooley
petitioner in consequence of an advertisement inserted
in the public papers for better supplying the city with
that article, the said James Mooley attended us upon
that occasion and informed your committee, that in his
opinion the best "supply was to be got from the river of suPPiy.
Shankill near the mountains of Wicklow, or the river shankiii

n i river.

Comork called the river of Clondalkin, and he accord- wickiow.

i ■. , Coniork

mgly made a survey, took a level, and made an estimate river-

£ ,-. „ . Clondalkin.

ol the expense of the said work, the completing whereof Estimate,
was attended with a great deal of trouble, expense and
loss of time. Your committee having taken this matter
into their consideration, are of opinion, that the said
James Mooley be paid £20, as a full compensation for qompensa-
the same.'

And the said James Mooley, praying to confirm the Order.
said report and make the same an act of assembly : it
was granted, the committee's report confirmed and made
an act of assembly, and that the city treasurer do, on
the Lord Mayors warrant, pay the petitioner £20, pur- Payment.
suant to the said report, the same to be allowed on his
accounts.

[12.] William Williams, setting forth, that the com- wmiams.
mittee for inspecting city leases to whom his petition
was referred, have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for inspecting city Report,
leases, to whom the petition of William Williams was
referred, have examined the same, and are of opinion
that he be paid £15, as a consideration for all loss Con?iaera-

tion.

sustained by him on account of leaving his house in House in
Crane lane, when the same was ordered to be thrown Cranelane-
vol. xi. n

290 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765.

1765. down by the commissioners for making the new street Ron «ii.

. ew s iee . fTom eSS6X bridge to Cork hill.'

order. And the said William Williams, praying to confirm

the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and that the city treasurer do,

Payment, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £15,
pursuant to the said report, the same to be allowed upon
his accounts.

Richards. U-^-l Bernard Scale and William Richards, setting
forth, that they had been at a great trouble and expense

chart of m surveying and publishing a chart of the coast from

coast from J o r o

Blibriggan*! Wicklow head to the harbour of Bellbriggen, and
prayed the city's aid to enable them to complete and
carry into execution the said work.

order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,

payment, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the memorialists fifty
guineas, the same to be allowed on his accounts.

[14.] Certain of the commons, setting forth, that

Mayoralty several repairs were wanting in and about the Mayoralty m. 177.
house, and that some new furniture should be provided
for the same.

order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the right honourable

the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the
works, alderman Taylor, alderman Sankey, alderman
Fetherston, and six of the commons to be named by the
commons or any five of them, whereof the Lord Mayor
and one of the Sheriffs to be always two, be and are

committee, appointed a committee to consider what furniture ought
to be provided for the said house, and what immediate
repairs are necessary to be made therein, that they
direct the same to be done and provided in the cheapest

Expense. anci faggf manner, the expense of said furniture and
repairs not to exceed the sum of £100.

Bnry. [15.] Sir Thomas Blackall, William Bury, and

Williams. — _.„. . ■"

credit. Henry Williams, praying a credit for the sum of £2.000,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 291

to be granted to them by the city, in order to enable 1765,

them to carry on the new bridge intended to be called

the Queen's bridge. Suf n'8

^ o bridge.

Whereupon it was ordered, that a letter of credit g[*£of
under the city seal for £2,000, be perfected to messieurs credit'
Latouche and company, the better to enable the said Latouche.
overseers to carry into execution the rebuilding of the ?^nildi,lgr

■* o bridge.

said bridge, the said sum of £2,000, having been already

presented for that work, and the same when collected

and received by the said overseers to be paid over to the overseers.

said messieurs Latouche and company in discharge of

the said credit, and it was further ordered, that the said

letter of credit was only to be perfected as aforesaid, on

the said overseers executing at the same time to the city

a contract to pay unto the said bankers, the said sum of Co"traut-

£2,000, as the same should from time to time be paid

over to them.

[16.] Certain of the commons, setting forth, that the
income belonging to the justices' office of this city is ^scteces'
not sufficient to defray the expenses attending the same.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, 0rder.
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay alderman John Tew, ^meut
treasurer of the said office, £50, the same to be allowed
the city treasurer on his accounts.

[17.] John Wilson, setting forth, that he, as heir and wiisou.
representative of Thomas Wilson, late of the city of
Dublin, tallow chandler, is tenant to your honours for
a piece of ground situate on the south side of Temple Ground.
Bar, by virtue of a lease made to the said Thomas TempleBar'
Wilson, dated the l"4th January, 1762, for three lives
and 70 years, wherein there is a clause to renew on the
fall of such lives as shall drop within the said 70 years,
but no renewal afterwards, that said Thomas Wilson, Renewal,
one of the lives, is lately dead, therefore prayed to have
the said lease renewed by adding petitioner's life thereto Lea8e.

292

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY EOLL, 1765.

Dover.

Urand

juries.

Order.
Payment.

Alsopp,
alderman.

Loudon.
Franchise.

Graut.

Knox.

ravin^nt.

Mullen.

Payment.

O'Neil.

Order.
Appointed
serjeant at
mace.

in the room of the said Thomas Wilson : whereupon it
was granted, according to the prayer of the petitioner.

[18.] James Dover, praying to be considered for
attending the grand juries and the court of sessions.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner thirty
guineas and also £1 10s. l^cl., the same to be allowed
on his accounts.

[19.] Certain of the commons, setting forth, that they
conceive it will be proper to admit Robert Alsopp,
esquire, of the city of London, alderman, into the
liberties and franchises of this city, in testimony of their
regard for him and respect for the said city of London.

Whereupon it was granted gratis.

[20.] Richard Darling, praying city's favour : where-
upon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, on the
Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £12 10s., the
same to be allowed on his accounts.

[21.] Thomas Knox, officer of commons, praying con-
sideration : whereupon it was ordered, that the city
treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the peti-
tioner £10, the same to be allowed on his accounts.

[22.] John Mullen, silk weaver, praying to be con-
sidered on account of an accident he met with in help-
ing to extinguish the late fire on Ushers quay : where-
upon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, on the
Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner ten guineas,
the same to be allowed on his accounts.

[23.] Arthur O'Neil, praying to resign his employ-
ment of serjeant at mace, in favour of John Vernon
O'Neil.

And John Vernon O'Neil praying to be appointed one
of the Serjeants at mace in the room of the said Arthur
O'Neil : whereupon it was ordered, that the said Arthur
O'Neil have leave to resign his place of one of the
serjeants at mace of this city, upon his delivering to the

Roll xxii.
m. 177.

m. 177 b.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 293

right honourable the Lord Mayor the silver mace, and i765.
that the within named John Vernon O'Neil be appointed oxen.
Serjeant at mace in his stead for one year ending Mid-
summer assembly, 1766, upon his giving such security
for indemnifying the city from all escapes and re-
delivery of the silVer mace, as the Lord Mayor and
Sheriffs shall approve.

T24.1 Elias Holmes, praying to be continued one of Holmes,

L -J •■■ J ° Serjeant a

the Serjeants at mace for the city of Dublin : whereupon ",ace-
it was ordered, that the said Elias Holmes be continued
one of the Serjeants at mace for the said city for one
year ending next Midsummer assembly, 1766, upon his
giving such security for indemnifying the city from all
escapes and for redelivery of the silver mace, as the
Lord Mayor and Sheriffs shall approve.

[25.] Elizabeth Smith, otherwise Forrest, praying smith,
city's favour: whereupon it was ordered, that the city
treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the peti- Grant.
tioner £10, the same to be allowed upon his accounts.

[26.] Ballast Office report. gj£«*

1 Since our last report to your honours, we have pro- Report.
ceeded in the repairing of the piles with as much vigour paes.
as possible, and continue doing everything necessary for
the keeping the same in the best order and condition.

' We have the pleasure further to inform your honours,
that we have made a considerable progress in the rais-
ing of the south east pier and new wall, and are still Her.
. . . . Wal1-

carrying on the same with the utmost diligence and

spirit possible.

' We also acquaint your honours, that we are now
building a new gabbard under the inspection of captain
James Lamb, and are going on in the repairs of our
gabbards and floats, and shall proceed in executing all Floats. 3
other works that may be found requisite and your
honours shall direct.

' An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, which cash.

294

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL,

1765.

we have examined and find there is a balance of £1,416 r0h kh*

_ , , -„. . m. 177 6.

lis. 2£d., in the hands of alderman Edward Hunt, m. 176.
Ballast Master, on the Ballast Office fund, and the
balance of £303 5s. OJd., overpaid by him on the fund
of public money.'

Whereupon it was ordered, to proceed as the com-
mittee should direct.

State of the Ballast Office accounts from the 17th day
of April last inclusive, to the 17th day of July, 1765,
exclusive.

Ballast Office, Dr.

To balance of last quarter's abstract
To casb received since

1202 17 104.
1228 4 4

£2,431 2 24

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid since for raising ballast

By cash paid repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries

By cash paid house rent and sundry petty disbursements

By cash paid repairs on gabbards

By cash paid charges of the floating light

By cash paid interest of money borrowed

By balance

£ s. d.

207 5 4

323 17 0

325 10 0

54 13 8

138 15 0

14 10 0

50 0 0

1416 11 24

£2,431 2 2£

Ballast Office for the public money is Dr.

To cash received since at his majesty's treasury
To balance overpaid

s. d.
1000 0 0
303 5 04

£1,303 5 0$

Per contra, Cr.

By balance overpaid per last quarter's abstract
By cash expended since on the south-east pier

£ a- d-

651 7 5
651 17 74

£1,303 5 04

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 295

[27.] An abstract of the treasurer's accounts, from 1765.
the 29th September, 1764, to the 24th June, 1765. account" '

To cash paid since

To balance in the treasurer's Bands

£ s.

.. 10056 8

15 10

£10,071 19

Cr.

£ s. d.

By balance in the treasurer's bands the 29th September, 1764 . . 548 17 84;

By cash received since . . . . . . . . 9531 1 4

£10,071 19 04,

'Benjamin Geale. — Robert Montgomery. — Thomas
Cooke. — Philip Crampton. — Timothy Allen. — Edward
Sankey. — Robert King. — Patrick Hamilton. — George
Reynolds. — Francis Booker. — Thomas Blackall.'

1765. July 19. — Admissions to franchise. Franchise.

1765. July 26. — Declaration and signatures. peciam-

1765. September 20. — Post Assembly.
[1.] " We, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city
of Dublin, have this day nominated from among the Nomination

• • & for

Sheriffs' Peers, William Darquier of the Blind quay, alderman-
esquire, merchant, John Read of Summer hill, esquire,
merchant, Francis Booker of Abbey street, esquire,
merchant, and John Hunt of Chancery lane, esquire,
merchant, as fit persons to serve in the place of alder-
man of the said city and do hereby return the names
with the additions of the said four persons to you the
Sheriffs and Commons of the said city, in order to your
electing one of the said four persons an alderman of the
said city, in the room of alderman Michael Sweny, sweny,

deceased.

"Benjamin Geale, Lord Mayor.'

296

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1 < 65.

1705,
Election.

Booker,
alderman.

"We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the Common Rou„ii.
Council of the city of Dublin, have this day elected by
ballot from among the four Sheriffs' Peers returned to
this house by the Lord Mayor and Board of Aldermen,
Francis Booker of Abbey street, esquire, merchant, to
the place of an alderman of the said city, in the room of
alderman Michael Sweny, deceased "

" Robert Montgomery
" Henry Hart "

" Sheriffs."

Robberies
in city.

Soldiers'
riot

Newgate
broke open.

Resolution.
Rewards.

Apprehen-
sion.

Rewards

[2.] The Lord Mayor and board of aldermen having
taken into consideration the many robberies of late com-
mitted in and about this city, and being strongly of
opinion that all or most of them are to be attributed to
the audacious proceeding of a great number of soldiers
on the 7th August last, who riotously assembled them-
selves and violently and forcibly broke open his
majesty's gaol of Newgate and thereby set at liberty
upon the public a great number of persons, who were
therein confined, charged with and under sentence for
a variety of crimes.

The Lord Mayor and board of aldermen have there-
fore unanimously resolved, that rewards equal to those
offered by the proclamation' of government be imme-
diately published on the part of this city for the dis-
covering and apprehending within three calendar
months from the date hereof, any of the persons con-
cerned in the said felonious breaking open of his
majesty's gaol as aforesaid, so as they be convicted
thereof, as also the like sums for the retaking and appre-
hending within the time aforesaid, each and every of
the persons named in the said proclamation, as being
confined in the said gaol at the time of the breaking
open thereof.

And also a further reward of £10, for each and every
other person who within six calendar months from the

DVBLIN ASSEMBLY UOLL, 1765. 297

toii xxii. date hereof shall be apprehended and prosecuted to con- 1765.

viction for any street or highway robbery or burglary

committed in this city or within the liberties thereof.

Such rewards to be paid by the city treasurer, upon Payment.

the presiding judges' certificate of such prosecution and

conviction, and the said sums so paid to be allowed the

treasurer in his accounts.

To which resolution the Lord Mayor and board of concur-
rence of
aldermen desire the concurrence of the Sheriffs and sheriffs and

Commons.

Friday, 20th day of September, 1765.

The above resolutions being read at a post assembly. Post ,,

01 ^ assembly.

were unanimously agreed to by the Sheriffs and
Commons.

Signed by order.

James Goddard, Clerk of the Commons.

' Benjamin Geale. — Philip Crampton. — Eobert King.
jsb. — George Eeynolds. — Thomas Blackall. — Henry Hart.
— Thomas Cooke. — Timothy Allen. — Edward Sankey. —
Patrick Hamilton.'

84. 1765. October 18.— Third Friday after the 29th of

September.

Michaelmas Assembly the 18th day of October, 1765.

On account of the arrival in the bay of his excellency Arrival of
Francis Seymour, earl of Hertford, lord lieutenant Hertford,

lord

general and general governor of Ireland, the said lieutenant,
assembly was adjourned to Monday the 21st day of
October, instant.

1765. October 21.

Be it remembered, that an adjournment of the said Miciiarfmas

d assembly.

assembly held at the Tholsel of the city of Dublin, on

298

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY K0LL, 1765.

1765.

Miohnelmas
a ssenibly.

Earl of
Hertford ,
lord lieu-
tenant.
Franchise.
Gold box.
Order.
Expense.

Viscount

Beaucharup,

secretary.

Order.
Expense.

Geale,
alderman.

Order
Payment.

Oath

Tolls and
customs.

the said 21st day of October, the right honourable Roiixxii.

J • m. 184.

sir James Taylor, knight, Lord Mayor of the said
city of Dublin, William Euttledge and Richard French,
esquires, Sheriffs of the county of the said city, these
laws and ordinances following were made and
established in full assembly then holden.

Lord Mayor: Sir James Taylor, knight.

Sheriffs : William Ruttledge and Richard French,
esquires.

[1.] Certain of the commons praying, that his
excellency Francis Seymour, earl of Hertford, lord
lieutenant, of Ireland, be presented with the freedom of
this city in a gold box.

Whereupon it was granted, the expense of the said
box not to exceed £30, to be paid by the city treasurer
and allowed on his accounts.

[2.] Certain of the commons praying that the right
honourable Francis Seymour, viscount Beauchamp,
secretary to the lord lieutenant, be presented with the
freedom of this city in a silver box.

Whereupon it was granted, the expense of the said
box not to exceed £5, to be paid by the city treasurer
and allowed on his accounts.

[3.] Benjamin Geale, alderman, praying that the
sum of £500, may be granted to him for serving in the
office of Lord Mayor of this city for the last year.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £500,
the same to be allowed in his accounts, the said
petitioner having taken the oath directed by act of
Easter assembly, 1740, in the presence of Mathew Weld
and John Hunt, esquires, they being appointed by the
commons for that purpose.

[4.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed to set the tolls and customs and
petty customs belonging to the corporation of the city

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 299

of Dublin, for one year commencing the 29th day of ms.
September, 1765, either by public cant or by way of
receiving proposals, have made the following report, proposals,
videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for receiving proposals Report,
for setting the tolls afid customs and petty customs of
this city for one year commencing the 29th September,
1765, directed advertisements to be inserted in the ^nts?86'
public papers, that all persons inclinable to propose for
the same should lodge their proposals sealed up in the
Tholsel office, on or before the 22nd August last, at
which time your committee was to meet to consider the
same, when the following proposals were laid before us. Proposals.

' One from messieurs Lewis Hodgson and John Hodgson.
M'Dermott, whereby they offered for the avenues of M'Dermott.
James's street, the Park Gate, and Dolphin's Barn, the
sum of £2,380, for the avenues of Stoneybatter and
Glassmohonogue £1,050, for the avenues of Drom-
condra and Ballybough bridge, £250, and offered for
the petty customs £100, making in the whole £3,780. Sum.

1 And one from Timothy Mahon, whereby he offered Mahon.
to give for the said avenues of James's street, the Park
Gate, and Dolphin's Barn £2,200, for those of Stoney-
batter and Glassmohonogue £990, for Dromcondra and
Ballybough bridge £250, and for the petty customs
£60, making the sum of £3,050. Sum.

1 Your committee, after considering these proposals, proposals,
sent for the above named persons, to know from them
if they would amend their proposals. Mr. Hodgson
and Mr. M'Dermott declined it, but Mr. Mahon said Mahon.
he would retire and consider of it, and afterwards laid
before your committee a second proposal, whereby he
offered to give for the avenues of James's street, etc., offer.
£2,400, for that of Stoneybatter and Glassmohonogue
£1,000, and for Dromcondra and Ballybough bridge
£300, and for the petty customs £100, making in the

300 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765.

1765. whole the sum of £3,800, and that all Irish salt should Ron *x

Sum • m- 184/

Irish salt, pass custom free, to which last proposal your committee
agreed.

swiubome. ' Mr. Thomas Swinbome proposed to give for the
avenues of Stephen's Green and Ball's Bridge £130,

Taylor. and William Taylor for the same £100, and they being
asked if they would amend their proposals, the said
Thomas Swinborne declined, and the said William

Sum. Taylor enlarged his to £115. Your committee having

considered these two last proposals, agreed with the

agreel latter, in regard the said William Taylor is an ancient
freeman of this city and has been long employed in
collecting the tolls and customs of the said avenues
under your honours and always behaved well in that
station. We observe that the said persons have paid

Deposits, their deposits to the city treasurer, and given security
for the payment of their proportions of the sums
remaining on the 29th day of every month during the
said year.'

order. And the said commons, praying to confirm the said

report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and the committee continued.

[5.] Certain of the commons, praying to appoint a

watchmen, certain number of persons to act as watchmen on Essex

Essex , . t

bridge. bridge.

order. Whereupon it was ordered, that eight persons being

persons. the number heretofore appointed to take their stand
on said bridge be continued until the 29th of September
next, under the directions of the present committee of
economy, and of that which shall be hereafter
appointed, that the said committees be empowered to m. m.

Expense, draw on the city treasurer for any expense attending
the said watch not exceeding the sum of £100, and
that they be likewise empowered to agree with a proper

siobe.*. * person by way of contract for the lighting the globes

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 301

on the said bridge, keeping them in repair, and for 1765.
preserving and securing the same from being broke, epair'
in regard there has been a very extraordinary breakage
of the said globes within the last twelve months, which Globes,
must be attended with great expense to the corporation,
the said sum so contracted for to be paid by the city
treasurer on orders from the committees and allowed in
his accounts.

[6.] James Evory setting forth, that the committtee Evory.
of city leases to whom his petition was referred, have
made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee for inspecting city leases to Report,
whom the petition of Mr. James Evory was referred,
find that at a cant held at the Tholsel on the 19th March
last, for setting a lot of ground in George's lane, lately forge's
surrendered by Mr. William Bibby, the said James ^
Evory bid for the same an annual rent of £18 15s., and
no one bidding more, he was declared the best bidder,
and pursuant to the terms of the cant made a deposit
with the city treasurer of the said sum of £18 15s.,
rent, that the said James Evory is willing to surrender gander
to your honours his interest in the premises upon being
repaid his said deposit.

' Your committee having taken this matter into their
consideration are of opinion, that upon his relinquishing
and surrendering to the city all his right, title and
interest in and to the said premises, that he be repaid J?eei^ifc
the said sum of £18 15s., and that the ground be
advertised and set by public cant to the highest bidder.'

And the said James Evory praying to confirm the order,
said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly.

[7.] Timothy Mahon setting forth, that the committee MaUou
of tolls and customs, who were appointed to consider customs1
his petition, have made the following report, videlicet.

302 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765.

1765. ' We. the committee of tolls and customs, to whom i$0n XXi i

Son! *ne petition of Timothy Mahon was referred, have
examined the same and find that in June, 1763, the

cuitom"d saicl Timothy Mahon took the tolls and customs
belonging to the city for one year, commencing the
24th June aforesaid, that by a docket which he then

custom received, he was intitled to a custom upon tanned hides

upon tanned x

hides. 0f one halfpenny each, which was afterwards reduced to
sixpence the car load, by means whereof the said
Timothy Mahon has been a considerable loser.

' We likewise find, that during the sitting of the
Parliament, last session of parliament, the said Timothy Mahon and
his servants, in obedience to an order from the honour-
Attendance able house of commons, attended a committee of that

at bouse of

commons, house the greatest part of the sessions, which besides
taking up a great part of his time put him to consider-

Expense. able expense, your committee having taken these
matters into their consideration, are of opinion that

Allowance, the petitioner be allowed fifty guineas, as a full
compensation for the loss he sustained by not receiving
custom on tanned hides as usual, and also for his
trouble and expense in attending a committee of the
honourable house of commons during the last session
of parliament.'

order. And the said Timothy Mahon, praying to confirm

the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and that the city treasurer

payment, do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner
fifty guineas, the same to be allowed in his accounts.

Daniel. [8.] Benjamin Daniel setting forth, that the com-m.183b.

mittee appointed upon his petition, have made the
following report, videlicet.

Report. ' We, the committee appointed for better supplying

the city with water, to whom the petition of Benjamin

Dan-ei. Daniel was referred, praying consideration for watering

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 303

Essex bridge, find that he was directed by alderman 1765.
Forbes when Lord Mayor and also by the late Lord Essex

J Bridge.

Mayor to water the said bridge during the dry weather,
when the dust was very troublesome and offensive to
passengers, and are of opinion that he be paid £15,
as a full gratuity for watering said bridge for two oratuity.
years last past, but that for the future it is not to be
watered at the expense of the city.'

And the said Benjamin Daniel, praying to confirm order,
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and that the city treasurer
do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner Payment.
£15, for watering Essex bridge for these two years past,
the same to be allowed in his accounts, the said bridge
for the future not to be watered at the expense of the
city.

[9.] Benjamin Daniel setting forth, that the com- Daniel.
mittee appointed upon his petition, have made the
following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for better supplying Report,
the city with pipe water, to whom the petition of
Benjamin Daniel was referred, have examined the
same. We find that by the great floods which happened Floods.
in the year 1TQ4, his dwelling house in the city yard K2ng
was under water, by which the furniture therein was
greatly damaged, and are therefore of opinion that he Damages.
be paid ten guineas as a full compensation for any £°mpensa"
damage he sustained upon that occasion.'

And the said Benjamin Daniel, praying to confirm Order,
the said report and make the same an act^of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and that the city treasurer
do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner Payment.
ten guineas, pursuant to the said report, the same to
be allowed in his accounts.

304 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY EOLL, 1765.

1765. [10.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that at roiieM

Thoisei. a post assembly held at the Tholsel of the said city
Resoiu- on the 20th September, 1765, several resolutions were

tions. L

entered into by the Lord Mayor and board of aldermen,

which were unanimously agreed to by the Sheriffs
Rewards, and Commons, relative to the offering of rewards for

the discovering and apprehending the several persons
Breaking concerned in the breaking open his majesty's gaol of
NewGate New Gate on the 7th of August last, and also for the

retaking and apprehending each and every of the
Prisoners, persons named in the government's proclamation, who

were then therein confined, and also for the appre-
conviction. hending and convicting any person guilty of any street

or highway robbery or burglary, within the time

mentioned in said resolutions,
order. And the said commons, praying to confirm the said

Resoiu- resolutions and make the same an act of assembly :

tions. "

it was granted, the said resolutions confirmed and made
an act of assembly.
Brought^, [11-] Thomas Broughton, esquire, praying to be

resignation

as sheriffs allowed £20, a year, in consideration of his resigning

his place of sheriff's peer,
order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer

Payment, do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner
Annuity, during his life an annual sum of £20, the same to be

allowed in his accounts.
Onge, [12-] Sarah Onge, widow, praying to be appointed

widow,

craner. craner of the butter crane in Francis street.

order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the said Sarah Onge

Butter be appointed to the care and management of the butter m. 182

crane. x x ~

ftreetis crane m Francis street, for one year ending next
Appoint- Michaelmas assembly, 1766. and that the said appoint-
cityseai. ment be under the city seal, and that she enter into
Bond bond with sufficient security conditioned for the true

and faithful execution of her office, and also take the
oath directed by act of parliament, that the petitioner

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 305

do at her own expense provide a convenient weigh house 1765.
and also beams, scales, weights, branding irons, and
other necessaries, that she attend by herself or by a
sufficient deputy.

[13.] Richard Darling praying city's favour : where- Darling,
upon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, on the
Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £12 10s., Grant,
sterling, the same to be allowed on his accounts.

[14.] Sarah Burrowes praying usual allowance: Burrowes.
whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £10, Payment,
the same to be allowed in his accounts.

[15.] George Roe praying to be continued gaoler of Koe> saoler
New Gate : whereupon it was ordered, that the petitioner Gate-
be continued gaoler of New Gate until next Michaelmas
assembly 1766, upon his giving such security for
indemnifying the city from all escapes and for the
faithful discharge of his office, as the Lord Mayor and
Sheriffs shall approve.

[16.] Patrick M'Daniel praying city's favour : where- M'Daniei
upon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do>, on the
Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £10, the Grant,
same to be allowed in his accounts.

[17.] William Fox praying to be appointed one of fox,
the turncocks, in the room of Thomas Killigrew:
whereupon it was ordered, that the said William Fox

be appointed one of the city turncocks during the city's Appoint-
ment,
pleasure, at the same weekly allowance the other turn-
cocks receive.

[18.] An abstract of the treasurer's accounts for the Treasurer's
quarter ending the 29th September, 1765.

Dr.

£ b. d.
To cash paid since the last quarter clay .. .. .. 3G71 19 85

£3,67119 8i
VOL. XI. X

306

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765.

1765.

Treasurer's

account.

Ballast
Office.

Report.
Piles.

South east
pier.

Public aid.

Floats.
Gabbards.

Gabbards

Cr.

By balance in the hands of the treasurer last quarter day
By cash received since

By balance due to the treasurer by the city

£ s. d.

15 10 3£

3483 2 4

£3,498 12 1\

173 7 li

£3,671 19 8£

Roll xxii.
m. 182.

[19.] Ballast Office report.

' Since our last report to your honours, we have
proceeded in the repairing of the piles with as much
expedition as possible, and continue doing everything
necessary for the keeping the same in the best order
and condition.

' We beg leave also to acquaint your honours, that
we have made all the progress in our power in the
raising the south east pier, and have been carrying on
the same with spirit, but for want of money will be
obliged to slacken in this work, until it receives further
public aid.

' We further inform your honours, that we have
already experienced a saving by the method of repairing
and building floats and gabbards, which was adopted
about a year and a half ago, and we see plainly there
will in a course of time be a very considerable annual m. is2 6.
saving to the office, as all the materials are now bought
to much greater advantage than formerly, and the
work done under the inspection of captain Lamb on
the lowest terms.

' We have the pleasure also to inform your honours,
that the gabbards are at present in very good repair,
all newly graved and in much better order than they
were in when the new regulation commenced ; there is
a new gabbard now on the stocks nearly ready to be
launched, which together with the materials for the
use of gabbards remaining now on hand and paid for
amount in the whole to about £600.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765. 307

'The beginning of this year, we published an 1765.
advertisement to receive proposals from stone cutters
for supplying the office with mountain stone, in con- j£0£nt8hl
sequence of which we have reduced the price of stones,
for which ten shillings a piece had formerly been paid,
to eight shillings and sixpence each, and have also
contracted for lime at eleven pence per hogshead, for Lime.
which thirteen pence used to be paid.

' An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, which cash,
we have examined and find there is a balance of Balance.
£1.439 9s. 6d., in the hands of alderman Edward Hunt, Hum.
Ballast Master, on the Ballast Office fund, and
£809 6s. 6d., over paid by him on the fund of public
money.'

Whereupon it was ordered, to proceed as the com- Order,
mittee should think proper, and that a petition be Petition,
prepared by Mr. Recorder, put under the city seal and Recorder,
presented to the honourable house of commons for
further aid towards carrying on the south east pier. Loan.

State of the Ballast Office accounts from the 17th gsp18*

Office

day of July last inclusive, to the 16th clay of October, account'-
1765, exclusive.

Ballast Office, Dr.

To balance of last quarter's abstract
To cash received since

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid since for raising ballast

By cash paid repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries

By cash paid house rent and sundry contingent disbursements

By cash paid repairs on gabbards

By cash paid charges of the floating light ...

By cash paid interest

By balance

£ s.

. 1416 11

. 1164 18

£2,581 9

£ s.

. 200 9

. 277 12

. 155 10

166 4

4-L

317 14

14 10

10 0

. 1439 9

£2,581 9

::a

308

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1765-1766.

1765.
Ballast
Office
account.

Franchise

Declara-
tion.

Petition to
house of
commons.

Reimburse-
ment.

Grand
Canal.

Ballast Office for the public money, Dr.

To cash received at the treasury, the balance of the last grant
To balance overpaid

Per contra, Cr.

By balance overpaid per last quarter's abstract

By cash expended this quarter on the south east pier

' James Taylor. — Richard French. — John Cooke. —
Hans Bailie. — Percivall Hunt. — Philip Crampton. —
John Tew. — Patrick Hamilton. — Timothy Allen. —
Francis Fetherston. — George Reynolds. — Francis
Booker.'

1765. October 21. — Admissions to franchise.
1765. October 24. — Declaration and signatures.

Roll xxi I
m. 182 I '

£ s.

.. 504 11

.. 809 6

£1,313 17

£ s.

303 5

1010 12

£1,313 17

m. m.

m. 174 b.
m. 110.

1 765. November 7. — Post Assembly. m. m.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that they
apprehend, it will be proper, that a petition be presented
by your honours to the honourable house of commons
to be reimbursed the sum of £7,890 Os. 9d., sterling,
for which they are engaged to finish the Grand Canal
leading from the city of Dublin to Ballyfarnham.

Whereupon it was granted, according to the prayer of
the said petition.

i7«6. 1766. January 17. — Fourth Friday after the 25th of m. m

December, 1765.
Heaiy j^i.j Richard Healy, setting forth, that the committee

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 309

appointed to consider his petition, have made the nee.
following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee of economy, to whom the within Report,
petition of Richard Healy was referred, find that a
proclamation was issued by alderman William Forbes, L°rdes'
when Lord Mayor? bearing date the 17th clay of Mayor-
September, 1764, reciting.

" Whereas many idle and ill-disposed persons have of £l0°clama"
late unlawfully assembled themselves, and in a riotous Persons.

Riots.

and tumultuous manner, armed with sword, cutlass, and
other weapons, have disturbed the peace of the city, l^eoi
wounded several sober and honest citizens, and com-
mitted many outrages to the great terror of his majesty's
subjects within this city, for the speedy and effectual
bringing to punishment all and every such offender and
offenders, a reward of £50, was promised to such person Reward.
or persons as should within three calendar months next
ensuing first discover and cause to be apprehended any
person or persons concerned in any of the said riots, Rioters,
to be paid on the conviction of the person so appre-
hended."

' That Arthur Sinnot and Bailey Smith, two of the sinuot,

J Smith,

persons concerned in said riotous and tumultuous prosecuted.
assemblies, wounded the petitioner with a pistol shot,
and that the petitioner apprehended and prosecuted the
said Sinnot and Smith at a commission of oyer and
terminer, who were found guilty of the said riot. guuty.

1 Your committee having taken this matter into con-
sideration, are of opinion in regard the said Richard
Healy lost part of his jawbone and otherwise suffered wf^J11f((ed
by the said wound, that he be paid the sum of £10, as
a full compensation for apprehending and prosecuting compensa-
to conviction the said Sinnot and Smith.'

And the said Richard Healy, praying to confirm the Order,
said report : it was granted, the committee's report
confirmed and made an act of assembly, the said sum

310

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

1766.

Payment.

Wolfe.

Parish of
Saint

Nicholas
within.

Report.
Memorial.

Wolfe.

Ronrke
i-ppre-
heniled .

Salt.

Elsworth.

Rewards.

Order.

Payment.

John

Smith,

architect.

of £10, to be paid the petitioner upon the Lord Mayor's Roiisxii.
warrant and allowed the treasurer in his accounts.

[2.] John Wolfe setting forth, that the committee
appointed to take into consideration his petition and also
the memorial of the church wardens and directors of
the parish of Saint Nicholas within, have made the
following report, videlicet.

' We, the commitee of economy, who were directed to
take into consideration the memorial of the church
wardens and directors of the parish of Saint Nicholas
within and also the petition of John Wolfe, had the
memorialists and petitioner to attend us at our meeting,
we find that the said John Wolfe was the person, who m. 188&
first apprehended James Rourke, who was one of the
persons that escaped out of New Gate on the 7th of
August last, for the taking of whom a reward of £10,
was offered by the city, that after the said Wolfe had
so taken the said Rourke, he making some resistance,
Wolfe called for the assistance of the watch, and that
Joseph Salt, one of the watchmen of the said parish,
with Richard Elsworth, deputy, constable, assisted said
Wolfe in bringing said Rourke to the watch house,
from whence he was brought to New Gate, where he
now remains.

' Your committee having considered this matter, are
of opinion that £8, part of the said £10, be paid to
the said John Wolfe, as he was the person that first
apprehended the said James Rourke, and the remaining
40s., to Joseph Salt and Richard Elsworth.'

And the said John Wolfe, praying to confirm the said
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and that the said sum of £10, be paid
upon the Lord Mayor's warrant, pursuant to the said
report and allowed the treasurer in his accounts.

[3.] John Smith, architect, setting forth, that the

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 311

committee to whom his petition was referred, have made 1766.
the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee of economy, to whom the petition Report,
of Mr. John Smith was referred, have examined the smith,
same and are of opinion that he be paid £30, sterling,
as a full compensation for the trouble he has had ^0™pei,sa'
pursuant to his petition.'

And the said John Smith, praying to confirm the Order-
said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, the said sum of £30, to be
paid the petitioner on the Lord Mayor's warrant and Payment,
allowed the treasurer on his accounts.

[4.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that by
an act passed the last session of parliament, intitled p^ment
an act for vesting further powers in the said Lord powered
Mayor, Sheriffs, commons and citizens of the city of tion.
Dublin, for securing of ships trading to the port and f^B{
harbour of Dublin, several extensive powers for Dubliu-
regulating pilots, haven masters and lightermen, are ^^
vested in your honours, to be exercised by a committee JJJJJJ;
constituted as the said act directs, that the said act meu-
requires, that the Lord Mayor shall convene an Mayor,
assembly and at said assembly five persons shall be Assembly,
elected by the* board of aldermen from among such
of the aldermen as shall have and be intitled to the Aidennen.
allowance of the six and ten per cent, at the custom Allowance,
house, and the commons of the common council shall ^SSl
also elect ten persons from among such of their body as
shall at the time of such election be in like manner
qualified, and fifteen persons to be elected by the guild ^^
of merchants, together with the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs
for the time being, are constituted a committee for
the purposes in the said act mentioned.

1 That petitioners apprehended, it would be highly
proper, and your honours were required to appoint

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1766.
Appoint-
ment of
committee.
Order.

Aldermen.

Allowance
at custom
house.

Commons.
Committee.

m. 187.

Commons.

Auditors of

city

accounts.

Commons.

Masters of
city works.

such persons to be of the said committee in the manner Ron xxii
by the said act prescribed.'

And the said commons, praying to appoint the said
persons accordingly : it was ordered, that alderman
Geale, alderman Sankey, alderman,. Matthew Baile,
alderman Fetherston, alderman Reynolds, having and
being intitled unto the allowance of six and ten per
cent, at the custom house, and ten of the commons to
be elected by the commons in like manner qualified,
be and are hereby constituted to be of the committee
pursuant to the act of parliament within mentioned,
for the more convenient and constant management
and transacting of the several matters necessary for
the carrying into execution, the good purposes intended
by the said act.

[The ten of the commons :] Mr. Thompson, Mr. Hunt,
Mr. Darragh, Mr. Lynham, Mr. Blood, Mr. John Hart,
Mr. Tucker, Mr. Thomas Read, Mr. Montgomery, Mr.
Alexander.

[5.] Auditors of the city accounts for the last year.

Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, alderman John Cooke, alder-
man Bailie, alderman Percivall Hunt, alderman
Crampton, alderman Forbes, alderman Barre, alderman
Sankey, sir Thomas Blackall, alderman Reynolds, and
eighteen of the commons to be named by the commons,
or any nine of them, whereof the Lord Mayor and one
of the Sheriffs to be always two, be and are appointed
auditors of the city accounts for one year, that is to
say, from Michaelmas 1764, to Michaelmas 1765.

[The eighteen of the commons : ] Mr. Darquier, Mr.
Elliot, Mr. Kindt, Mr. Lamprey, Mr. Wooldridge, Mr.
Robert Hutton, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Guinness, Mr. Green,
Mr. John Hunt, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Ginn, Mr. Dickinson,
Mr. Peter Wilson, Mr. Anthony King, Mr. William
Bryan, Mr. John Wilson, Mr. John Read.

Robert Montgomery and Henry Hart, esquires, are

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 313

appointed masters of the city works for the ensuing 1766.

Masters of
year. city works.

T6.1 Robert Montgomery, esquire, late one of the M°nt-

i_ j o mi • x ' gomery,

High Sheriffs, praying to be repaid the sum of J^ms
£10 6s. 2d., laid out by him in the prosecuting of ^^e°11""
James Dignam, who* insulted and assaulted him in the Digram.
execution of his office of Sheriff.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, order.
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner the Payment,
sum of £10 6s. 2d., the same to be allowed in his
accounts.

[7.] Francis Booker, alderman, praying to be paid aiae^man.
for one pair of glass lustres left at the Mayoralty House ^^^^
in the year 1755. house-'

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, order.
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the memorialist sixty Payment,
guineas, the same to be allowed in his accounts.

[8.] Patrick Ewing, praying to be appointed super- Ewing,
visor and gauger of the Ballast Office, in the room of <>f Baiiast

0 ° Office.

Thomas Broughton, deceased.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the said Patrick Ewing order,
be appointed supervisor and gauger of the Ballast Office, Appoint-
in the room of Thomas Broughton, deceased, during the
city's pleasure, at a salary of £75, and £10 contin- salary,
gencies, upon *his resigning his place of clerk to the
committee of directors of the said office, and also that as
clerk of the cheque, provided he the said Patrick Ewing
do attend the duties of his office in person, the said
salary to commence from this day.

[9.] Richard Darling, praying to have his former Darling,
allowance continued.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer Order,
do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner
£12 2s., the same to be allowed in his accounts. Grant.

.[10.] Richard Broughton, praying to be appointed Broughton.

314

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

1766.

Order.

Appoint-
ment.

Brouehton,
clerk to
directors of
Ballast
Office.
Salary.

Kelly,
band of
city music.

Order.
Payment.

Madden,
supervisor
of water
course.

Order.

Continued.

Fondron,
widow.

Order.
Payment.

Sleane,
Serjeant at
mace.

supervisor and ganger of the Ballast Office, in the room Roiixxi:
of Thomas Broughton.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the above named
Richard Broughton be appointed clerk to the committee
of directors of the Ballast Office during the city's
pleasure, at a salary of £12, in the room of Patrick
Ewing, esquire, preferred to the offices of supervisor and
ganger of the said office, provided the said Richard
Broughton do attend the duties of his office in person, the
said salaries to commence from this day, with the same
augmentation of £23, that the said Patrick Ewing had,
making in the whole the sum of £60, per annum.

[11.] Thomas Kelly for himself and the band of
music, praying to be paid £20, for four months'
attendance.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the said Thomas
Kelly for himself and the rest of the city music £20,
for four months' attendance, the same to be allowed in
his accounts.

[12.] Edmond Madden, praying to be continued
supervisor of the water course.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the said Edmond
Madden be continued supervisor of the water course for
one year ending Christmas assembly 1767, at a salary
of £10, the same to be allowed the treasurer in his
accounts.

[13.] Mary Fondron, praying to be paid a year's
salary, clue to her late husband Henry Fondron.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £5,
as a full compensation for the several demands set forth
in her petition, the same to be allowed in his accounts.

[14.] John Sleane, praying to be continued serjeant
at mace : whereupon it was ordered, that the said John
Sleane be continued serjeant at mace of this city for

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 315

one year ending next Christmas assembly 1767, upon 1706.
his giving such security for indemnifying the city from
all escapes and for the redelivery of the silver mace,
as the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs shall approve.

[15.] John O'Neill, praying to be continued Serjeant 2S2lat
at mace : whereupon it was ordered, that the said John mace-
O'Neill be continued serjeant at mace of this city for
one year ending next Christmas assembly 1767, upon
his giving such security for indemnifying the city from
all escapes and for the redelivery of the silver mace,
as the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs shall approve.

[16.] Certain of the commons praying, that a com- Trades-
mittee may be appointed to regulate such of the accounts accouuts-
as remain unsettled of the tradesmen employed in
making alteration in and about the Mayoralty house hS,JSe!alty
and to make order for the payment thereof.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the contents of their Order,
petition be referred to the committee for increasing the
revenue of the city, who are empowered to inspect
the several alterations made in the Mayoralty house, Alterations,
and also the furniture laid in on that account, and Furniture,
regulate and settle such of the tradesmen's bills as have
not been as yet adjusted by the former committee, and
order payment of the same by drafts on the city Payment,
treasurer, the several sums so paid by him pursuant
to the said drafts to be allowed in his accounts.

[17.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that there
are several sums of money due and owing by the sums due to

J o J tradesmen

corporation to different tradesmen for work done and t^'f^'01'11"
goods delivered for the city's use, and praying to goods™'
appoint a committee to examine their several
bills, and to empower them upon proper certificates
being produced and proper affidavits made by them
respectively, to draw on the city treasurer for payment
of the same.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the right honourable order.

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1760. the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the

works, alderman Crampton, alderman Tew, alderman
Sankey, alderman Fetherston, alderman Reynolds,
alderman Barton, and twelve of the commons to be
named by the commons or any five of them, whereof
the Lord Mayor and one of the Sheriffs to be always

committee, two, be and are appointed a committee to examine
tradesmen's bills, for work done or goods delivered for
the use of the city of Dublin, with a power on proper
certificates and affidavits being produced, to order pay-
ment of such sums as shall appear to them to be due
thereon, and that the same shall be allowed the treasurer
on his accounts.

[The twelve of the commons : ] Mr. John Hunt, Mr.
Green, Mr. Williams, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Emerson, Mr.
Worthington, Mr. George Moore, Mr. Ginn, Mr. George
Hutton, Mr. Walter Nugent, Mr. Lane, Mr. Ordd.

Treasurer's HIS.] Abstract of the treasurer's accounts for the

account. L J

quarter ending the 25th December, 1765.

Roll xxi
m. 186.

Trades-
men's bills.

Payment.

Commons.

Dr.

£ s.
To balance clue to the treasurer by the city, per abstract returned

the 29th September
To cash paid since

Cr.

By cash received since the 29th September, 1765
By balance due to the treasurer ...

173 7

3592 6

£3,765 13

£ s.

2647 12

1118 1

£3,765 13

Ballast
Office.

Report.

[19.] Ballast Office report.

' Since the last report from the gentlemen of the late
committee of directors, the works in general have been
carried on with all the diligence and spirit that a

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 317

scarcity of cash could admit of, for as all the works, 1766.
as well public as those immediately belonging to the ff cash7
office, are and have been for several months past carried Works-
on solely by the Ballast Office fund. I humbly conceive
there can be no alternative but stopping some part,
until the office can *be availed of the aid granted last Aid.
session.

1 An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, making Cash.
a balance in my hands of £1,706 Is. Id., on the Ballast Balance.
Office fund, and £1,594 19s. Hid., overpaid by me Amount

z . overpaid.

on the public works, so that the neat cash in my hands
is £111 Is. ljcl., on which with the growing revenue
of the office all the works must depend, unless otherwise
supplied.'

Whereupon it was ordered, that the right honourable order,
the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, alderman King, alderman
Thomas Cooke, alderman John Cooke, alderman
Crampton, alderman Geaie, sir James Taylor, alderman
Barre, alderman Sankey, alderman Fetherston, sir
Thomas Blackall, and twenty of the commons to be
named by the commons or any seven of them, be and
are appointed a committee of directors of the Ballast committee.
Office of the port of Dublin, that the committee be
empowered to examine the Ballast Master's accounts for *jj*J]*£g
the last quarter, and that a receipt be prepared and put *cecc°e"ntts-
under the city seal for the last aid granted by parliament City seai.
for carrying on the south east wall.

[The twenty of the commons :] Mr. Thomas Read, Mr. commons.
Guinness, Mr. Green, Mr. Weld, Mr. Emerson, Mr. Peter
Wilson, Mr. John Hunt, Mr. Hastings, Mr. Reynolds,
Mr. Darquier, Mr. Waters, Mr. Stakes, Mr. Blood,
Mr. Williams, Mr. Sinclare, Mr. Warre, Mr. Gee, Mr.
McDermott, Mr. Verschoyle, Mr. Rickey.

State of the Ballast Office accounts, from the 16th Miast

UJnce

day of October last inclusive, to the 15th day of account.
January, 1766, exclusive.

318

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

1766.
Ballast
Office
account.

Ballast Office, Dr.

To balance of last quarter's abstract
To cash received since

Ballast Office, for the public works, Dr.

Roll X3C
in. 186 i

£ s. d.

1439 9 6

938 5 0

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid since for raising ballast

By cash paid since for repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries

By cash paid house rent and sundry contingent disbursements

By cash paid for repairs on gabbards

By cash paid charges of the light ship

By cash paid interest of money borrowed

By balance

£2,377 14

£ s.

. 174 3

. 138 10

. 155 10

. . 42 11

. 109 18 11

14 10

36 8

. 1706 1

£2,377 14 6

Per contra, Cr.

By balance overpaid per last quarter's abstract
By cash paid since for account of the public works

£ B.

809 6
785 13

d.
6
5*

£1,594 19 11J

' James Taylor. — Richard French. — Charles Burton. —
Edward Sankey. — William Forbes. — George Reynolds.
— Francis Fetherston. — Patrick Hamilton. — John Tew.
—Hans Bailie.'

Franchise. 1766. January 17. — Admissions to franchise.

Declara-
tion.

1766. February 4.

-Declaration and signatures.

in. 185 6.

m. 219.

City of

Dublin.

Ro3al

charters.

Acts.

London.

1766. February 1. — Post Assembly. m 185-

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
city of Dublin is an ancient city, established by royal
charters and acts of parliament upon the plan of the
constitution of the city of London, that notwithstanding
this establishment and the steady and invariable loyalty

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 319

of the citizens of this city, their zealous attachment to 1766.
the late glorious revolution and its happy consequences, citizens.

the HanOVer SUCCeSSion. Accession.

Aliens and foreigners are upon better footing, in the Aliens on
& L . better foot-

carrying on the several trades in this city, than the jngtimn

J a ° freemen.

freemen, who are bound to serve city corporations and Trades-
parish offices, on juries, et-cetera, whose freedom gives
them a freehold in the corporation of the city, therefore
prayed that a petition be presented to the house of Petition to

1 J £ 1 house of

commons under the city seal, setting forth the present £°™™°£fs
unhappy state of the loyal citizens of this city, and
praying such relief as they in their wisdom should
think fit.

Whereupon it was ordered, that a petition now laid Petition,
before them be fairly engrossed, put under the city seal, 1 y Bea '
and presented to the honourable house of commons for
the purposes in the said petition mentioned.

' James Taylor. — Richard French. — Charles Burton. —
.Edward Sankey. — William Forbes, — George Reynolds.
— Francis Fetherston. — Patrick Hamilton. — John Tew.
— Benjamin Barton.'

1766. April 11. — Second Friday after Easter.1
[1.] " We, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city Election of
of Dublin, have this day unanimously elected alderman Mayor.
Edward Sankey to serve in the office or place of Lord If^e™1
Mayor of the said city for the ensuing year, commencing
from Michaelmas next, and do hereby return the said
Edward Sankey to you the Sheriffs and Commons of
the said city for your approbation."

" James Taylor, Lord Mayor."

" We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the common
council of the city of Dublin, have this day approved

1 Easter day, 'M March, 1766.

320 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

1766. of by ballot alderman Edward Sankey to serve in the r0uj

Sankev m- 193

Lord " office of Lord Mayor of the said city for the ensuing

Mayor J „

year commencing from Michaelmas next.
" William Rutt-ledge.'

Nomina-
tion for
Sheriffs

' Sheriffs."
Richard French.

[2.] " We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the common
council of the city of Dublin, have this day by ballot
nominated the following eight freemen of the said city,
resident within the said city or the liberties thereto
adjoining, each of them worth in real and personal
estate in possession the sum of £2,000, over and above
all his just debts, that is to say, David Ribton of Dame
street, merchant, Willoughby Lightburne of Dame
street, merchant, Kilner Swettenham of Abbey street,
cooper, Thomas Green of James's street, brewer, Thomas
Emerson of Castle street, weaver, William Dunn, of
Bride street, chandler, Anthony King of Cook street,
founder, and Robert Rickey of Chamber street, as fit
persons to serve in the office of Sheriffs of the said city,
and do hereby return the names with the additions of
the said eight persons to you the Lord Mayor and
Aldermen of the said city, in order to your electing two
of the said persons to be Sheriffs of the .said city for
the ensuing year commencing from Michaelmas next."

" William Ruttledge." ^_ „ Sheriffs."
" Richard French."

" We, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city
Eibton, of Dublin, have this day elected Mr. David Ribton

Lightburne,

sheriffs of Dame street, merchant, and Mr. Willoughby
Lightburne of Dame street, merchant, out of the eight
persons returned to us by the Sheriffs and Commons,
as fit persons to serve in the office of Sheriffs of the

. 193.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 321

tnxxii. said city for the ensuing year commencing from 1766.
Michaelmas next."

" James Taylor, Lord Mayor."

[3.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed for better supplying the city with w1attye£,pe
pipe water and conducting the works at the Grand g™nd
Canal, have made the following report, videlicet. city bason-

' We, the committee appointed to conduct the work
at the Grand Canal to the city bason, inform your Grand

Canal.

honours, that we have attended that important branch

committed to our care with the utmost diligence and

circumspection. "We have the pleasure to acquaint you,

that the city's conduct in this work hath undergone a conduct.

strict disquisition from parliament and hath received Parliament.

their approbation, in so much that they have granted

the city a bounty of £7,800, to enable your honours Bounty.

to fulfil the engagements you entered into for carrying

on the said works.

Proper

' Your committee gave directions to proper judges to judges io

0 L *■ • ° view mason

view the mason work of John Satterthwaite, one of the J°{* of
contractors, who reported to your committee that they thwafte.
had turned their attention most to the great arch or
aqueduct built in the glinn near the high road, and Aqueduct,
inspected as far as they possibly could from appearance
and found that the stones used in the said work were
sound and large, and therefore fitting for a durable piece Durable

" c-' x work.

of work, that the mortar was good, the sand clear and
sharp, and that notwithstanding the arch in some
places was not so accurate as it might be, if turned on
wood centers, they took the whole to be a strong and
durable building, done in the common or rough mason
way.

' Your committee, finding it necessary to build bridges Bridges,
over the canal, directed Mr. Omer, the principal engineer 0m?r-

J- 1 c> engineer.

of the navigation board, to prepare plans and estimates SSSates.

VOL. XI. T

322

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

1766.

Kilmain-
haui.
Dolphin's
Barn.

Advertise-
ments for
con-
tractors.

Canal walk.

Trees on
the banks.

Edgar.
Trees.
Expenses.

Weekly
view of
works.

Defects.

Treasurer.
Expenses.

Account.

of such as were necessary, particularly of one between Ron in
[the road] leading from Kilmainham to the road to
Dolphin's Barn, this has been accordingly [done] and
advertisements published for contractors to send in their
proposals, but as yet your committee have not been
able to determine what steps are most eligible to take,
whether to erect a temporary bridge or to build a
permanent and ornamental one upon that part of the
work, which is so contiguous to this metropolis.

1 Your committee conceiving the canal would be a
pleasing recreation, as well as a salutary walk to the
inhabitants of Dublin, if trees were planted on the
banks of the canal, for that purpose your committee
contracted with Mr. Patrick Edgar to supply four
hundred trees, thirty feet high, matched fair and
straight, at 3s. 3d., a tree, including all expenses of
planting, amounting to £65, the seventh part whereof
is left as a security for the trees growing, and to be
paid February, 1769.

1 Your committee, in order effectually to facilitate the
arduous undertaking appointed a select number of
gentlemen to view weekly the works, and from time to
time to report to your committee their opinion and
observations, how they were carried on, this your com-
mittee apprehend to be essentially necessary, that if any
inaccuracy or defects appeared in the execution of the
original plan approved of by parliament, the navigation
board and your honours, they should be immediately
remedied. The treasurer has made us a return of the
expenses hitherto incurred upon account of these works
to the 3rd of April, 1766, as follows.

£ s. d.
' To amount of money paid on account

of purchase of lands ... ... 2881 13 9

To amount of money paid to persons

for damages sustained .,. 36 18 2J

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 323

£ s. d.
' To amount of money paid, casualties 7 16 6

' To amount of money paid messieurs

Barnewell and Tracey on account

of their contract ... ... 896 9 9

' To amount of money paid John

Satterthwaite on account ditto ... 2120 0 0

1766.
Account.

' Amounting in the whole to the sum
of ... ... ... £5,942 18 2£

' Your committee finds that a sum of £6,000, has Sum raised
hitherto been raised upon the city's obligations towards yci >-
carrying on these works, and therefore your committee
submit to your honours' consideration, the expediency
of affixing the city seal to a proper receipt to his city seal,
majesty's vice treasurers for the sum of £7,800, granted
by parliament.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said order,
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
ordered, that such an instrument, as Mr. Recorder Recorder,
should advise, should be prepared and put under the
city seal, as a receipt from the corporation to the <^yseai.
vice treasurers for the sum of £7,800, granted by sums

Fftiscd

parliament to this city for the purposes mentioned in
the said report, and that the sum of £6,500, raised
upon the city's obligation in the last year be as soon city's

r . J ° J obligation.

as possible after the receipt of the said sum of £7,800,

paid off by the city treasurer, and that the committee payment.

be further empowered under proper encouragement,

either of parliament or the navigation board, to make

such further contracts and otherwise to conduct the contracts.

said useful work, as they may judge expedient.

[4.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee of tolls and customs, have made the following Toils and

° customs.

report, videlicet.

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DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

1766.
Report.

roils.

Manufac-
ture.

Corn.
Flour.

Lord
Trimleston,

City agent.
Expenses.

Suit.

Water
bailiffs.

Sales-
masters.
Smitkfield,
Duties.
Cattle.

Order.

' We, the committee appointed for tolls and customs, r0h xxu

m 192

have met several times and taken that essential branch
of the city revenue into our consideration, your com-
mittee have observed that within these few years past
great encouragement has been given for manufacturing
corn into flour, by which means the consumption of
flour in this metropolis has greatly increased, some
objections have been lately made to the city's taking
the accustomed toll thereof, insomuch that a suit in
replevin has been instituted by Robert Barnewell,
commonly called lord Trimlestown, against two of
your honours' late toll men, for taking the same,
which was by your honours' directions defended and
still is depending.

' The city agent attended your committee and informed
us that there was due to him for disbursements and
other necessary expenses upon account of the said suit
the sum of £160, and that a further sum of money
will be wanting the ensuing term to defend the said
suit. Your committee recommend that the said £160,
be forthwith paid under the inspection of the committee
and that your committee be empowered to support the
said suit and to defray the necessary expense attending
the same, with that spirit its importance requires.

' Complaint has been made to your committee by the
city water bailiffs, that the sales masters of Smithfield
have refused paying them the accustomed duties
arising upon cattle sold there, not only for the last
year, but for the future; your committee thought it
advisable to have Mr. Recorder's opinion thereon, and
accordingly a case has been laid before him ; this your
committee apprehends likewise merits the city's
attention.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 325

granted, the committee's report confirmed and made 1766.
an act of assembly, and the committee continued.

[5.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee for better supplying the city with pipe water, ^^ipe
have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for better supplying Report,
the city with pipe water, have examined the account of Account.
Mr. Richard Cave, supervisor, messieurs Samuel Cave.
Callbeck and -Francis Gladwell, collectors of the pipe caiibeck.

1 r Gladwell.

water revenue, for the year ending the 1st November,

1764, and collected from thence to the 1st November,

1765, the said account being laid before us in a regular
and exact manner gave us great satisfaction in the
examining thereof, the supervisor furnished us with a
charge against the collectors, which they admitted to
be right.

' We find that the rent and arrears received by Mr. Bent audi
Callbeck amount to £1,533 10s., for concealed branches Caiibeck.
£3, for fines on putting on 18 branches formerly cut
off £17, making in the whole the sum of £1,553 10s.

' The rent and arrears received by Mr. Gladwell to Rent an,i
£1,473 lis. 8d., for concealed branches £11, for fines Giadweii.
for putting on 12 concealed branches £15, making
£1,499 lis. 8d., the total received by them is
£3,053 Is. 8d.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said Order,
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made
an act of assembly.

[6.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee of city leases, have made the following Committee
report, videlicet. iLtel

' We, the committee appointed for inspecting city Eeport
leases near expiring, who were empowered to set a
lot of ground in George's lane, formerly set to Mr. Geo"ne%iu
James Evory, but by him surrendered, directed fey.

326 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

1706. advertisements to be inserted in the public papers for Eoii xxii]

setting the same by public cant, and accordingly have

Biacuaii. set the same to sir Thomas Blackall for 70 years and
three lives, at £16 10s., a year and 5s. duties, the rent
and term to commence the 29th September, 1766.'

order. And the said commons, praying to confirm the said

report and make the same an act of assembly : it
was granted, the committee's report confirmed and

Lease. made an act of assembly, and that a lease be perfected

Biackaii. to the said sir Thomas Blackall, pursuant to the said
report, with such clauses and covenants as Mr. Eecorder
shall advise.

Knox. [7.] Thomas Knox, setting forth, that the committee

to whom his petition was referred, have made the
following report, videlicet.

Report. ' We, the committee appointed for increasing the

revenue of the city and lessening the expenses thereof,
to whom the petition of Thomas Knox was referred,
have examined the same and find that he has supplied

sheriffs. the Sheriffs and commons with candles and other

Necessaries, necessaries for four years last past, for which he has
received no compensation, and are of opinion that he

Payment, be paid ,£20, in full for providing the same.'

order. And the said Thomas Knox, praying to confirm

the said report and make the same an act of assembly :

it was granted, the commitee's report confirmed and

made an act of assembly.

Mathews, [8.1 Thomas Mathews setting forth, that the corn-
surveyor. L J °

mittee to whom his petition was referred, have made

the following report, videlicet.

Report. ' We, the committee appointed for inspecting city

Account, leases near expiring, to whom the petition and account

of Thomas Mathews, surveyor, was referred, have

examined the said account, commencing the 24th

February, 1763, and ending the 18th September, 1765,

surveys. and find that during the said time he has surveyed city

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 327

lands and made levels of several streets and attended 1766
committees, for which he charges the sum of streets!1 "'
£55 2s. 3Jd., which sum we are of opinion he be paid
upon his making a proper affidavit that the surveys
and levels in said account mentioned were made
pursuant to the directions of the chief magistrates, the Directions

r ° m of chief

committee or the city agent during that time, and magis-

•/ es o trates.

that the several rates therein set are charged at the
usual prices given for doing .business of that kind,
and further, that he provide a book, wherein shall be Book for

maps.

entered by him all the maps, surveys, and levels which surveys,
he has hitherto made, or shall hereafter make, upon
such occasions, the same to be left in the Tholsel office Thoisei.
to be produced at any time hereafter.'

And the said Thomas Mathews, praying to confirm order,
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, upon the petitioner's com-
plying with the conditions therein mentioned, said sum
of £55 2s. 3Jd., to be allowed the city treasurer in his payment,
accounts.

[9.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
city of Dublin being much infested with strolling Dubim.
vagrants and sturdy beggars, many of whom have vagrants,
been committed to Bridewell by the Lord Mayor and Brideweii.
Sheriffs, but for want of proper employment, the purpose
of their confinement was not answered, therefore prayed
that a committee may be appointed to plan out some
employment for said vagrants and beggars, and to Employ-
empower them to draw on the city treasurer for a sum Sum.
not exceeding £20, to provide such materials as should
be necessary for that purpose.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the said petition be 0rden
referred to the right honourable the Lord Mayor,
Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the works, alderman
Crampton, alderman Sankey, alderman Fetherston,

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DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

Committee.
Scheme.

Commons.

Suit.
Forbes.

Ball yard

pulled

down.

Aungier

street.

York

street.

Nuisance.

Defence.

Order.

Defence of
suit;.

Expense.

alderman Barton, and eight of the commons, to be Eon xxii.

° m. 191

named by the commons or any five of them, whereof the
Lord Mayor and one of the Sheriffs to be always two,
who are appointed a committee to consider of a proper
scheme to employ such idle vagrants and sturdy
beggars, as shall be committed by the chief magistrate
to the workhouse, and that they be empowered to draw
on the city treasurer for a sum not exceeding £20,
for providing materials for that purpose.

[The eight of the commons : ] Mr. Hunt, Mr. Anthony
King, Mr. Rickey, Mr. Verschoyle, Mr. Darragh, Mr.
Mr. M'Donnell, Mr. M'Dermott, and Mr. Thompson.

[10.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that a
suit hath been commenced and is carrying on against
alderman William Forbes for pulling down and
suppressing, in the year of his being chief magistrate
of this city, a notorious disorderly ball yard at the
corner of Aungier street and York street, which was
represented to him by the principal inhabitants, as a
great nuisance to the neighbourhood, by breaking their
windows, cursing, swearing, and all manner of vice,
that a place frequented by profligate vagabonds was
capable of, that as it has always been customary for
the chief magistrate, where such places have been
found nuisances, to suppress them, as a presentment of
a grand jury had too often been rendered ineffectual,
and considering it an act much to the honour of a
vigilant magistrate, therefore prayed the city to give
orders to their agent to defend the said alderman Forbes
in the prosecution of said suit.

Whereupon it was ordered, that alderman William
Forbes be defended by the city agent in a suit com-
menced against him for pulling down and suppressing
the ball yard in the said petition mentioned, in such
manner as Mr. Recorder shall advise, the expense

DFBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 329

attending the same to be paid by the city treasurer i76(j.
and allowed in his accounts.

[11.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee for rebuilding an old house in Ram alley House and

° offices in

and building convenient offices, had made some progress, Kamaiiey.
therein, but had not Brought the same to a conclusion,
therefore prayed to continue the said committee.

"Whereupon it was granted, the committee continued, Order,
and that they be and are hereby empowered to make
the necessary contracts for the rebuilding of the said Pra^j^fd.
house and the building of convenient offices on the ing'
ground lately taken from Henry Cotton, agreeable to cotton.
a plan to said petition annexed, this being the proper
season for carrying on works of that sort.

[12.] Patrick Ewing, praying to be allowed a pension Ewing,
on resigning his gown and seat in the common council peer.
as Sheriff's peer.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the said Patrick order.
Ewing be allowed £20, a year during his life, to Annuity,
commence the 16th day of January, 1766, he having
resigned his gown and seat in the common council as Resigns.
Sheriff's peer.

[13.] Henry Gonne, gentleman, praying to be paid G<„me,
£61 17s» 6d., being his fees upon petitions for city's cieri".
favour last Christmas assembly.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer Order.
do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay petitioner the Payment,
said sum of £61 17s. 6d., the same to be allowed in his
accounts.

[14.1 Thomas Knox, officer of commons, praying to K"°x.

L J . ' r J & officer of

be considered for his extraordinary care and attendance comm°ns.
in his employment : whereupon it was ordered, that the
city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay payment,
petitioner £20, the same to be allowed in his accounts.

[15.] Charles Napper, Peter Butterton, Charles j;Era,
Lemaistre, and Peter Lemaistre, praying to have Lemais:,e-

330

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

1766.

George'i

Order.

Leases.

Bryan,
clerk.

Black Dog

gaol.

Order.

Payment.

Eoe.

Campbell in
custody.

Order.
Payment.

Cusheon.
Damages.

Order.
Payment.

musician

;\ud band

Order.

Appointed
baud of city
music.

Payment.

separate leases in their own names of ground in George's Roiixrii

1 . m. 1916

lane, formerly set to William Lemaistre, deceased.

Whereupon it was granted, according to the prayer
of the said petition, the said leases to be pursuant to
the former order of assembly for demising the ground
to the said William Lemaistre, with such clauses and
covenants therein as Mr. Recorder shall advise.

[16.] Jacob Bryan, clerk, praying to be paid a year's
salary ending the 25th March, 1766, for attending
prisoners in the Black Dog gaol.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer
do, on the Lord Mayor's order, pay the petitioner £15,
the same to be allowed the treasurer in his accounts.

[17.] George Roe, praying to be paid the sum of
£7 10s. Id., for keeping Patrick Campbell in custody
for 21 weeks, to prosecute the persons concerned in
breaking open the gaol of New Gate.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer
do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner the
sum of £7 10s. Id., the same to be allowed on his
accounts.

[13.] Richard Cusheon, praying to be considered for
the loss he was at and the damages which he sustained
by a wound which he received at the time the gaol of
New Gate was broken open.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer
do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner
£40, the same to be allowed in his accounts.

[19.] Henry Mountain, musician, praying for him
and his band to be paid for their former attendance
on the city and to be appointed the city music.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the said Henry
Mountain and his band be appointed the city music
for one year ending Christmas assembly, 1766, and
that the city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant,
pay petitioner for himself and said band £40, for eight

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 331

months' attendance to Christmas last, the same to be nm.
allowed on his accounts.

[20.] Elizabeth Smith, otherwise Forrest, praying smith.
city's fayour: whereupon it was ordered, that the city
treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the Grant.
petitioner £10, the same to be allowed in his accounts.

[21.] Anne Darling, praying to be paid a quarter's Darling,
allowance due to her late deceased husband : whereupon
it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, on the Lord
Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £12 10s., being Grant
a quarter allowance due to her late husband, the
same to be allowed the treasurer in his accounts.

continued Serjeants at Serjeants at
mace for one year, end-

[22.] James Thompson,

[23.] Thomas Snape,

[24.] George Cawthorn, )~ ing Easter assembly,

mace.

[25.] William Roe,
[26.] Richard Betagh,

1767, upon their sever-
ally giving such security

for indemnifying the city from all escapes and for the
redelivery of the silver mace, as the Lord Mayor and
Sheriffs shall approve.

[27.1 Certain of the commons setting forth, that the saint

L .J , & » Stephen's

committee for superintending the green keepers, had ^reen-
made some progress therein, but had not brought the
same to a conclusion, therefore prayed to continue the
said committee.

Whereupon it was granted, the committee continued, order.
and that they be empowered to receive proposals from proposals
and contract with proper persons for putting the said green in
green in complete order, and for gravelling the walks
thereof, and to draw upon the city treasurer for any
sum not exceeding £150, to defray the expense attending Expense.
the same, and to be allowed in his accounts.

[28.] Henry Robinson, high constable, praying on Robinson,
account of the multiplicity of business in his employ- constable,
ment and his close attendance on the chief magistrates
of this city, to have his salary augmented : whereupon

332

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

1766.
Salary.

it was ordered, that the petitioner's salary of £20, be
augmented to £30, a year, to commence the 25th of
March, 1766.
Treasurer's [99."] An abstract of the treasurer's accounts from

account. L J

the 25th of December, 1765, to the 25th March, 1766.

Boll xxi
in. 190.

Dr.

To balance due to the treasurer per last abstract

To cash paid since

To balance due to the city

Cr.

By cash received since 25th December, 1765

£■ s.

. 1118 1

. 2105 0

. 106 10

£3,329 11 11|

£ B.

3329 11 lli

£3,329 11 114

Ballast
Office.

Report.

Light,
house.

Accounts.
Parliament.

Govern-
ment and
council

Piles.

Gubbards.

Cash .

[30.] The report of the committee of directors for the
Ballast Office to the general assembly.

9th April, 1766.

' Since our appointment to the direction of this office,
we have made all the progress in our power in raising
the new light house, but are obliged to discontinue
carrying on the wall on account of the small sum
granted by parliament this session.

' We further acquaint your honours, that the Ballast
Office accounts being obliged by act of parliament to
be laid before the government and council once in
three years, we herewith lay before your honours, an
abstract of the annual receipts and payments for your
honours' approbation and to have the city seal affixed
thereto.

' We further acquaint your honours, that the piles
have sustained some damage by the late bad weather,
which we shall repair as speedily as possible, we are
also proceeding in the repairs of the gabbarcls.

' An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, which

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 333

we have examined, and find there is a balance of 1766.
£1,997 5s. 6d., in the hands of alderman Edward Hunt, Hunt,
on the Ballast Office fund, and a balance of
£1,856 17s. 8d., over paid on the account of the public
money.

' All which is submitted to your honours.'
Whereupon it was ordered, to proceed as the com- order.
mittee shall think proper, and that the city seal city seal,
be affixed to the annexed abstract of the Ballast Office
accounts, in their several branches of receipts and Abstract of
disbursements of cash from the 13th day of April, 1763, accoun s-
to the 15th day of October, 1765, both inclusive.

State of the Ballast Office ["accounts! from the 15th B&iiast

L J . Office

day of January last inclusive, to the 9th day of April, account,
1766, exclusive.

Ballast Office, Dr.

To balance of last quarter's abstract
To cash received since

Per contra. Cr.

By cash paid this quarter for raising ballast

By cash paid for repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries

By cash paid house rent and sundry petty disbursements

By cash paid repairs on gabbards

By cash paid charges of the floating light ...

By cash paid interest of money borrowed ...

By balance

. 1706

. 8t»3

.£2,599

1 10

158

126

155 10

48 16

14 10

1997

£2,599 1 10

Ballast Office, for the public works, Dr.
To

Per contra, Cr.

By balance overpaid per last quarter's abstract

By cash expended this quarter on the south east pier...

£ s.

1594 19 11£

. 1856 17

£3,451 17

334

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

1766.

Franchise.

Declara-
tion.

Samuel

Bradstreet,

Recorder of

Dublin.

James

Grattan,

deceased.

' James Taylor. — William Ruttledge. — Eobert King. Eon xxii.

J D m. 190 b.

-Edward Sankey. — Percivall Hunt. — Timothy Allen.
-John Cooke. — Philip Crampton. — George Reynolds.
-Thomas Cooke. — Francis Booker.'

Election.

Order.

Samuel

Bradstreet

admitted

Recorder

of Dublin.

Salary.

1766. April 11. — Admissions to franchise.
1766. April 18. — Declaration and signatures.

1766. June 23.

[1.] Samuel Bradstreet, esquire, setting forth, that
there being a vacancy for the office of Recorder of this
honourable city, by the death of James Grattan, esquire,
your petitioner, who is a native of the city, and hath
regularly attended the bar for several years, humbly
apprehends himself qualified to exercise that office, that
petitioner hath an independent fortune and is not
possessed of any place, but diligently attends to the
duties of his profession, that your petitioner begs leave
to assure your Lordship and honours, that if your
petitioner shall have the honour of being elected to that
important station, the diligent and faithful discharge
of the duty of it shall be his constant object, and he
will upon every occasion do the utmost in his power
for the service of the city and the preservation of its
rights and privileges, and therefore prayed to be elected
to the said office of Recorder.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the petitioner, Samuel
Bradstreet, be and is hereby admitted Recorder of this
city during his good behaviour at the yearly salary
of £50, with the usual fees and perquisites to the place
of Recorder belonging, the said salary to commence from
this day.

m. 189 6.
m. 219.

m. 189.

1766. July 14. — Post Assembly.
irXtreet, M Samuel Bradstreet, esquire, setting forth, that
iuwlner °f there being a vacancy for the office of Recorder of this
deceased, honourable city by the death of James Grattan, esquire,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 335

your petitioner who is a native of the city, and hath 1766-
regularly attended the bar for several years, humbly
apprehends himself qualified to exercise that office, that
petitioner hath an independent fortune and is not
possessed of any place, but diligently attends to the
duties of his profession, that your petitioner begs leave
to assure your Lordship and honours, that if your
petitioner shall have the honour of being elected to that Election,
important station, the diligent and faithful discharge
of the duty of it shall be his constant object, and he will
upon every occasion do the utmost in his power for the
service of the city and the preservation of its rights and
privileges, and therefore prayed to be elected to the
said office of Recorder.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the said Samuel order.
Bradstreet be and is hereby admitted Recorder of this Bystreet

admitted

city during his good behaviour, at the yearly salary of Sp^tr*
£50, with the usual fees and perquisites to the office Salary-
of Recorder belonging, the said salary to commence
from this day.

' James Taylor. — William Ruttledge. — Robert King.
— Edward Sankey. — Percivall Hunt. — Timothy Allen.
— John Cooke. — George Reynolds. — Thomas Cooke. —
Francis Booker.'

1766. July 1&— Fourth Friday after the 24th of
June.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed to audit the accounts of alderman Audit of
Benjamin Geale, city treasurer, have made the following GeTieTcity
report, videlicet. treas,irer-

1 We, the committee appointed to audit the accounts Report.
of alderman Benjamin Geale, city treasurer, for the
rents, issues, and profits accruing to the said city, Rents.
commencing the 29th day of September, 1764, and
ending the 29th day of September, 1765, and for the

336

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

176 .

Casualties.

Disburse-
ments.

Debt.
Turner.

Order.

Dwelling-
house,
mills, etc.

Report.

Public cant
Dwelling-
bouse,
mills, etc,,
at Island
Pridge.

casualties ending at the same time, inform your honours, soiixxii
that the accountant with his usual exactness laid the
said accounts before us in a clear, methodical and
regular manner both in the charges against him and
his disbursements.

' We, charged the accountant with the balance due
upon his last account of £540 17s. 8Jd., with the
arrears of rent due Michaelmas, 1764, with the entire
rental of your estate ending Michaelmas, 1765, and all
other incidental receipts in that time, amounting in
the whole to the sum of £19,542 6s. 10Jd. We find
the disbursements, including the arrears of rent, due
Michaelmas, 1765, to amount to £19,018 0s. 2fd., to
which the sum of £652 lis. 9d., poundage upon the
sum of £13,051 14s. 9Jd., neat money paid, being m. 197 6
added makes the treasurer's discharge amount to the
sum of £19,670 lis. llfd., and there is due to the
accountant by the city a balance of £146 5s. ljd.

' Your committee recommend to your honours, that
a debt of £500, clue by the city to Mr. Turner, be
discharged by the treasurer, as soon as a redundancy
of cash of the city's in his hands will enable him.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly.

[2.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed for setting by public cant the
dwelling-house and stables, together with the mills,
weirs, flood gates, sluices, fishery, and sand banks, have
made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for setting by public
cant the dwelling-house and stables, together with the
mills, weirs, flood gates, sluices, fishery, and sand banks
situate at Island Bridge in the county of Dublin, for
the term of 21 years, from the 24th June instant,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 337

directed advertisements to be inserted for that purpose, i7G6.
giving notice that your committee would meet on the meutstise'
15th of May last, to set the same in as ample manner
as Mr. Richard Anderson held the same, when we
accordingly set them to Mr. Timothy Mahon at the Mahou.
yearly rent of £400, he being declared the highest Kent,
bidder.

1 We observe that by the conditions of the cant, he
is to put the premises in repair and to keep them up, Premises,
and also to make good all breaches which may hereafter
be made in the weirs or elsewhere during the said term, weirs.

' We have reserved out of the water course leading to Jj£j£
the said mills, sufficient to supply the several engines Engines,
that now are or shall hereafter be erected for forcing
or conveying water out of the said course, for the
supplying the inhabitants of this city with water, like- Git? water

supply.

wise reserving water out of the said course for supplying
the engine of the Royal Hospital, and also the engine nS^St*
house, the ground whereon the same is erected and a 2S£e
plot of ground containing about 32 perches adjoining
thereto, the former tenant having been subject to the
said reservations.

'And further, that if [it] should be thought expedient,
to place one or more suction pipe or pipes in the said ^£.0D
engine house, the city at all times hereafter to have
liberty to put up the same and to lay in and through
the said premises, as many more main pipes as they
shall think fit, allowing the tenant out of his rent Allowance,
the sum of £25, yearly, for each suction pipe and
seven inches diameter, and so in proportion for a
greater or lesser bore.

1 We observe that the said Timothy Mahon has made Mahon.
a deposit of £400, being one year's rent, with the said Deposit,
city treasurer, which is to be returned him as soon
as leases are executed, which must be within six months
from the day of the cant or the deposit forfeited.'

VOL. XI. Z

338

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

1766.
Order.

Leases.
Mahon.

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said Ron J
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and the committee continued, and that
leases be perfected to the within named Timothy Mahon
of the dwelling-house, mills, etc., in said report
mentioned, for the term of 21 years, at an annual rent
of £400, to commence the 24th of June last, 1766, with
such clauses and covenants as Mr. Recorder shall
advise.

[3.] Gilbert Elliot setting forth, that the committee
appointed to examine tradesmen's bills, to whom his
petition and bill thereto annexed was referred, have
made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed to examine tradesmen's
bills, who were directed to consider the petition and
annexed bill of Gilbert Elliot, have examined the same,
and find that in December, 1764, he was employed to
slate a house in the city yard, wherein the late
Sedborough Mayne lived, which was then accordingly
done, the expense whereof finding all materials amounts
to £9 12s. 4fd., as per said bill, which sum we are of
opinion he be paid.'

And the said Gilbert Elliot, praying to confirm the
same report and make the same an act of assembly, it
was granted, the committee's report confirmed and made
an act of assembly.

[4.] Edward Scriven, gentleman, setting forth, that
at a post assembly held the 1st day of February last,
your honours were pleased to direct the corporation
seal to be affixed to a petition to the honourable house
Petition to 0f commons in support of quarterage, which was
o^rtew'e presented accordingly, that it was ordered by that
august assembly, that the merits of the said petition
should be heard at their bar by counsel, which was
accordingly attended to by your petitioner, that the

Rent;

Elliot,
slater.

Report.

Bill

House in

city yard.

Payment.

Order

Scriven.

Corpora
tion seal.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 339

toii nii. same hath been attended by an expense of £178 15s. 2£d., n&>.

as by the annexed bill of particulars may appear, Bm.ense'
besides a suitable compensation to petitioner for his
care and trouble upon that occasion, therefore prayed
your honours to grant him the said sum of
£178 15s. 2Jd., and such recompense for his said pee,™em"
services as they should think proper.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, order,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner Payment.
16 b- £178 15s. 2Jd., being the sum expended by him in the
support of quarterage before the honourable house of
commons, the same to be allowed the treasurer in his
accounts.

[5.] The reverend dean Charles Doyne, setting forth, £oyne,8
that the committee appointed for inspecting city leases dea"'
near expiring, to whom his petition was preferred, have
made the following report, videlicet.

1 We, the committee appointed for inspecting city Report,
leases near expiring, to whom the petition of the Petition,
reverend Charles Doyne was referred, find that at
Easter assembly, 1675, the city demised unto lady Ann ^4*""
Harman a parcel of ground situate in Saint Stephen's |™utnd'
street, containing in breadth to the front from east tOafawtf18
west 87 feet, and in depth 174^ feet, at a yearly rent
of £4, and capons, for the term of 99 years, which
lease will determine at Easter, 1774, and which by
mesne assignment is vested in the petitioner. We
directed a new survey to be made of the premises and survey,
find the same to agree with the above demise.

' Mr. Doyne attended at our several meetings, and has
given in the following proposal, which we apprehend Proposal.
to be an advantageous one, and the value of the ground,
videlicet, to give 10s., a foot for the said 87 feet in
front of the premises, which amounts to £43 10s., a
year, to surrender his present lease, of which eight years Lease,
are unexpired from Easter last, and to accept of a new

340

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

1766.

Order.

Leases.

Ileut.

Justices'
office.

Pnyment.

Callan.
Compensa-
tion.
Riotous
mob.
Flour

Piivnifnt.

Murray,

widow.

Aunuity.

Payment.

Rprlin.

one pursuant to a late regulation, the term and rent Koii
to commence 29th September, 1766.'

And the said dean Charles Doyne, praying to confirm
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and that leases be perfected
to the petitioner of the premises for the term of 70
years and three lives, at an annual rent of £43 10s.,
and capons, to commence the 29th September next, with
such clauses and covenants as Mr. Recorder shall advise,
upon surrendering his present lease, and oblige himself
to rebuild the concern within seven years from the 29th
September next.

[6.] Certain of the commons, praying the usual
allowance for the justices' office : whereupon it was
ordered, that the city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's
warrant, pay to the treasurer of the said office £50, the
same to be allowed the said city treasurer in his
accounts.

[7.] Patrick Callan, praying to be granted a com-
pensation for losses he sustained by a riotous mob,
who took a quantity of flour from him : whereupon it
was ordered, that the city treasurer do, on the Lord
Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £21, sterling, as a
compensation for the loss he sustained by a riotous mob
breaking into his house and taking fourteen casks of
flour, the same to be allowed in his accounts.

[8.] Catherine Murray, widow of alderman Andrew
Murray, praying to be paid half a year's annuity ending
the 25th of March last : whereupon it was ordered, that
the city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant,
pay the petitioner £20, the same to be allowed in his
accounts.

[9.] Certain of the commons, praying to be allowed
one hundred guineas to repair a Berlin,1 made a present

XXll.

m 196 b.

A fciud of carriage first made in Berlin,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY KOLL, 1766. 341

to the city of Dublin by the most noble marquis of me.
Kildare. 55V*

Whereupon it was ordered, that the said Berlin be Kildare. °
repaired under the direction of the committee appointed Eepaiis.
for providing furniture for the Mayoralty house, at an
expense not exceeding £100, to be paid by the city Expense,
treasurer on orders from the committee and allowed in
his accounts.

[10.] Robert Kathrens, gentleman, praying to be *l^.reils'
admitted an attorney of the Tholsel court : whereupon Thoisei

•j. i court.

it was granted, during the city s pleasure.

[11.] George Gee praying to be appointed one of the 2|°' °fver"
overseers of the pipe water works : whereupon it was worTs.
ordered, that the said George Gee be appointed one of
the overseers of the pipe water works, for one year
ending Midsummer Assembly, 1767, at a salary of £60, salary,
to commence from this day, to be paid by the city
treasurer and allowed in his accounts.

[12.] James Goddard, praying to be considered for Goddard.
supplying the commons with pens, ink, and paper for stationery.
several years : whereupon it was ordered, that the city
treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's order, pay the Payment,
petitioner £8 10s., as a compensation for supplying the
Sheriffs and commons with pens, ink, and paper for 8J
years, the same to be allowed in his accounts.

[13.] James Dover, praying to be allowed a com- Dover,
pensation for one year's attendance on the grand jury Grand jury.
of the quarter sessions of this city, ending Midsummer
assembly, 1766 : whereupon it was ordered that the
city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay Payment,
the within petitioner the sum of thirty guineas, as a full
compensation for his attendance on the grand jury and
quarter sessions for one year ending Midsummer last.

[14.] Ruth and Elizabeth Preston, praying city's Preston.
favour: whereupon it was ordered, that the city
treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay

342

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL.

1766.

1766.
Grant.

Colonel
Walsh.

Franchise.

Holmes,
Neill,

serjeants at
mace.

Beams and
scales in
Thomas
street.
Order.

Committee.

James's
street.
Stoney
Batter.

Commons.

Furniture,
Mayoralty
house.

OrdeT.

Eoll xxii
in. 195,

the petitioners £10, the same to be allowed on his
accounts.

[15.] Certain of the commons, praying that colonel
Hunt Walsh be presented with the freedom of this city.

Whereupon it was granted.

[16.] Elias Holmes : ^ continued Serjeants at m. 195 &

[17.] John Vernon Neill : J mace for one year ending
Midsummer assembly, 1767, upon their severally giving
such security for indemnifying the city from all
escapes and for the redelivery of the silver mace as the
Lord Mayor and Sheriffs shall approve,

[18.] Certain of the commons, praying to appoint a
committee for setting [the beams] and scales in Thomas
street, et-cetera.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the right honourable
the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the
works, alderman Hans Bailie, alderman Crampton,
alderman Sankey, alderman Keynolds, and eight of the
commons to be named by the commons, or any five of
them, whereof the Lord Mayor and one of the Sheriffs
to be always two, be and are appointed a committee
to set by public cant the beams and scales above
mentioned, for one year commencing the 1st of
November next, and that they do likewise set those in
James's street and Stoney Batter, for one year from
the 1st of November next, and that notice thereof be
inserted in the public papers, the person or persons
farming the same to pay down to the city treasurer
such sum of money as they should be canted to.

[The eight of the commons:] Mr. John Hunt, Mr.
Lamprey, Mr. Woldridge, Mr. Thomas Wilson, Mr.
Ball, Mr. Anthony King, Mr. Sheal, Mr. Hutton.

[19.] Certain of the commons, praying to appoint a
committee for repairing and providing furniture for the
Mayoralty house.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the right honourable

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 343

the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the 1-68.
works, alderman Sankey, alderman Fetherston, alder-
man Barton, sir Thomas Blackall, and eight of the
commons, to be named by the commons or any five of
them, whereof the Lord Mayor and one of the Sheriffs
to be always two, behind are hereby appointed a com- committee,
mittee to consider what furniture ought to be provided
for the said house, and what immediate repairs are
necessary to be made therein, and that they do direct
the same to be provided and done in the cheapest and
best manner, the expense of the said furniture and Expense.
repairs not to exceed the sum of £100, to be paid by the
city treasurer on orders from the committee, and to be
allowed in his accounts.

[The eight of the commons:] Mr. Hunt, Mr. Grove, Commons.
Mr. M'Dermott, Mr. Elliot, Mr. Dunn, Mr. Green, Mr.
Guinness, Mr. Thompson.

[20.] An abstract of the treasurer's accounts, from Treasurers

L J account.

the 25th March, 1766, to the 24th June, 1766.

Dr.

£ s. d.

To cash paid since the 25th March last . . . . . . 3756 13 (H

Cr.

By balance in the treasurer's hands, per last abstract
By cash received since the 25th March last

By balance due to the treasurer by the city

£3,756 13

£ s.

106 10

3623 7

£3,729 18

26 15

£3,756 13 0|

[21.] Ballast Office report. g£?*

The report of the committee of directors for the Report.

Ballast Office to the general assembly the 16th July,

1766.

344

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

1766.

Light
house.
Piles.

Gabbards.

Cash.

Balance.

Hunt.

Order.

Ballast

Office

account.

' Since our last report to your honours, we have made r0u x*a
all possible progress in carrying on the light house and m"
repairing the piles:

' We further acquaint your honours, that we have
launched a new gabbard and have begun building
another, and shall continue doing any works that are
necessary and your honours shall direct.

' An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, which
we have examined, and find there is a balance of
£1,437 13s. 2d., in the hands of alderman Edward
Hunt on the Ballast Office fund, and a balance of
£569 2s. lid., overpaid on the account of the public
money.'

Whereupon it was ordered, that the above report be
confirmed and made an act of assembly, and that the
committee of directors do proceed as they shall think
proper.

State of the Ballast Office accounts, from the 9th day
of April last inclusive, to 16th day of July, 1766,
exclusive.

Ballast Office, Dr.

To balance of last quarter's abstract
To cash received since

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid since for raising ballast

By cash paid for repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries ...

By cash paid house rent and petty disbursement?

By cash paid repairs on gabbards

By cash paid charges of the light ship

By cash paid interest of money borrowed

By balance

£ s.

1997 5

1361 16

£3,359 2

£ s.

. 236 8

. 239 19

225 10

123 7 11£

711 15

•>2

122 19

261 8

1437 13

£3,359 2

DTTBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 345

Ballast Office for the public money, Dr. 1766.

£ s. d. Ballast

To cash received since at his majesty's treasury ... ... 3000 0 0 account.

To balance overpaid on this account ... ... ... 569 2 11

£3,509 2 11

1856 17

1712

£3,569

2 11

Per contra, Cr.

By balance overpaid per last quarter's abstract
By cash expended since on the south east pier

' James Taylor. — Richard French. — Thomas Cooke.—
Charles Burton. — John Cooke. — John Tew. — Francis
Fetherston. — Thomas Mead. — Benjamin Barton. —
George Reynolds. — Francis Booker.'

1766. July 18. — Admissions to franchise. Franchise.

1766. July 23.— Declaration and signatures. Kara"

1766. October 6. — Post Assembly.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that they Failure of
have received undoubted information from many parts u?Euro°pPe!
of Europe, that great deficiencies have happened, and
in some places a total failure of the crops of corn of
the present year. That the like misfortune has also
been in some degree experienced with respect to the
wheat crop both of Great Britain and Ireland, and from wheat
a thorough conviction thereof, his majesty, in his great Great

• ill /. Britain.

wisdom and tender regard for the happiness of hisIreland-

subjects of Great Britain, hath been pleased to prohibit

by his royal proclamation for a limited time the Proclama-
tion,
exportation of all wheat and wheat flour, as also the Exporta-

x ' tion.

making, extracting, or distilling of any kinds of low
wines or spirits from any wheat, meal, flour, or bran
made of wheat, et cetera.

That the general insufficiency in the growth of corn com.
of this country to answer for its consumption is

340 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

i7t;tj. notorious and unquestionable, and that therefore under Ron xxii,

^ . m. 198.

these particular circumstances, there appears an evident
necessity for the interposition of government, not only
rnn°!fta' *° restram tne exportation of the small stock of grain
restrained, we are m possession of to any part of the world, except
orfat* Great Britain, but also to apply for the usual saving
or exception heretofore always enjoyed by this
kingdom in any regulations, which from time to time
have been thought necessary in Great Britain to restrain
the exportation of its corn. Therefore prayed a com-
mittee to be immediately appointed to prepare a proper
address to their excellencies the lords justices for that
purpose,
order. Whereupon it was ordered, that alderman Thomas

Cooke, alderman Crampton, alderman Geale, alderman
Barton, and eight of the commons to be named by the
Committee, commons, be appointed a committee, with the assistance
Address, of Mr. Recorder, to prepare an address to their
excellencies the lords justices for the purpose in their
said petition mentioned, that the same be put under the
city seal, city seal and presented to their excellencies accordingly,
commons. [The eight of the commons:] Mr. Weld, Mr.
Thompson, Mr. Green, Mr. Robert Hutton, Mr. Blood,
Mr. Lamprey, Mr. French, Mr. Verschoyle.

' Edward Sankey. — William Lightburne. — Robert
King. — John Tew. — Thomas Mead. — Charles Burton. —
Thomas Cooke. — John Cooke. — Francis Fetherston. —
Benjamin Barton. — George Reynolds. — Francis Booker.'

1766. October 17.— Third Friday after the 29th day m.202.
of September.

Lord Mayor : Edward Sankey, esquire.

Sheriffs : Willoughby Lightburne and Thomas
Emerson, esquires.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that they
George in. conceive it proper to address his majesty upon the

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 347

happy occasion of the increase of his illustrious family 1766.
by the birth of a princess royal, and also upon the ^cess
marriage of his majesty's royal sister the princess triage of
Caroline Matilda with the king of Denmark, therefore cI'roHne
prayed a committee to be appointed, with the assistance Denmark.0
of Mr. Recorder, to prepare an address accordingly.

Whereupon it was ordered, that alderman King, sir order.
Charles Burton, alderman Percivall Hunt, alderman
Geale, alderman Fetherston, alderman Barton, sir
Thomas Blackall, alderman Reynolds, and eight of the
commons, be appointed a committee, with the assistance committee.
of Mr. Recorder, to prepare an address to his majesty
to congratule him upon the happy increase of his
illustrious family by the birth of a princess royal, and
also upon the marriage of his royal sister the princess
Caroline Matilda with the king of Denmark.

[The eight of the commons:] Mr. Read, Mr. Weld, commons.
Mi. Green, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Hunt, Mr. Wrightson,
Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Boyd.

Certain of the commons, praying that the said address
be put under the city seal and presented to their city seal.
excellencies the lords justices, in order to be transmitted i^rds

0 justices.

to his majesty.

Whereupon it was granted, according to the prayer order.
of said petition.

[2.] Sir James Taylor, knight, late Lord Mayor, Taylor.
praying to be paid £500, for serving the office of chief Mayoralty
magistrate the last year.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, order.
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £500, Payment,
the same to be allowed in his accounts, the said
petitioner having taken the oath directed by act of oath.
Easter assembly, 1740, in the presence of Mathew Weld
and John Hunt, esquires, they being appointed by the
commons for that purpose.

[3.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the watw!'pe

348

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

1766.
City pipe

water.

Qrand

Canal.

Order.

Works of

Grand

Canal.

Geale.

Resolu-
tions.

Application
to parlia-
ment for

money.

City.
Boa rd.

Proceed-
ings.

Passage.

Bason.
Canal

Wall.

Chinese
pallisadiu^

Wilson.
Plans.

committee appointed for better supplying the city with Roiix«i.i
pipe water, to whom it was referred, to proceed in the
purchase of grounds and making of contracts for
carrying into execution the useful scheme of the Grand
Canal, have made the following report, videlicet.

' Since our last report to your honours, we have pro- m. 202 a
ceeded upon the works of the Grand Canal with the
greatest care and circumspection, the works being
nearly completed and the money granted by parliament
almost expended. Your committee requested alderman
Geale to lay the state thereof before the commissioners
of the navigation act, which he did accordingly', and
the said commissioners on the 27th of May last were
pleased to signify their approbation of your committee's
conduct by the following resolutions.

1. " Resolved, that the board approves of the works
already done by the city and will join them in an
application to parliament for reimbursing the city, such
sums as shall be advanced by them for carrying on the
said navigation between this and the next session of
parliament.

2. "Resolved, that the city do from time to time
inform the board of their proceedings in carrying on
the said navigation."

' A passage being found necessary from south west
side of the bason to enter upon the canal, and the fence
thereof being much injured by the works lately
executed there, your committee found it necessary to
build a wall with piers of stock brick, capped with
mountain stone, of ten or twelve feet distance from
each other, and a Chinese pallisading between each
pier, as also a gate in the same taste, the said wall and
pallisadoes to extend the whole breadth of the canal,
and have had the same accordingly executed by Mr.
Wilson.

' Several plans having been laid before your com-

Bridge,
main-

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 349

mittee for the building of a bridge over the canal near me.
Kilmainham, your committee spent a considerable time Jf,'
in considering of them, and diversity of opinions ham-
having prevailed, and your committee being unwilling
to undertake for the present any work which in its
progress must necessarily have obstructed or delayed the
passage of the water to the city bason, which has been \yaterto
all along your committee's principal attention ; your w y
committee therefore judged it expedient to postpone the
same for the present, and to erect a temporary bridge Bridge,
for the convenience of passengers, which has been
accordingly done, and the rather as your committee
have received proposals for the building of the locks, Locks,
etc., which at a convenient time your committee intend
to take into further consideration, when the whole work
may be at one and the same time carried into execution,
and the inconvenience of turning off the water may water,
thereby be rendered as small as possible.

'Your committee having proceeded thus far, and
having been informed by Mr. Satterthwaite and Batter-

-n m thwaite.

messieurs Barnewell and Tracey, that the works executed Bameweii.
by them respectively were in readiness to receive
the water, your committee accordingly directed the same
to be turned in from the great morrell (first having Mon-eii.
ordered a sluice to. be put down there for this purpose), sinice.
in full hopes and expectations of accomplishing the
grand object which they have had all along in view,
videlicet, the furnishing an ample supply of water to
this great city.

' But your committee are sorry to inform you, that
upon turning in the water and filling some parts of the Turning in
works, some time since executed by officers and under- *
takers for the navigation boarcl, particularly at Hazel Hazel
Hatch, the banks gave way in several places, which Bank.,
made it necessary to turn the water off again, in order *""
that the breaches might be repaired, which being Breaches.

350 DTTBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

1766. immediately done, the water was again repeatedly Ron xxii

Water J „ . m. 202 6.

turned in. turned in, attended by the same disagreeable fatality,

Futulity.

which having apparently demonstrated such an insuffi-
ciency in the said works to sustain the necessary weight m. 201
of water to be conveyed through them, that your
committee have at last found themselves under the

Expense, disagreeable necessity of entering into a further expense
to make good the said banks and other parts of the
works so executed by the officers and undertakers of the
navigation board.

oripnai « jjj Qj-fex effectually to accomplish their original

design, and after many expedients suggested for this
purpose, your committee thought proper in the end to

Proposal, agree to the annexed proposal of John Satterthwaite,

thwaite. the same having been first examined and approved of
by the officers of the navigation board, whereby your
committee have no doubt the expectations of the public
with respect to an ample supply of water will soon be
answered, and this valuable possession secured to them
for seven years, and have as little doubt but that the
extraordinary expense thereof will be reimbursed by

Aid,.of . parliament, through the aid and assistance of the

parliament. L °

respectable personages who compose the navigation

board.'
or.ier. And the said commons, praying to confirm the said

report and make the same an act of assembly : it was

granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an

act of assembly, and the committee continued, and that
Hunt alderman Percival Hunt be added to the said committee.

in the room of the right honourable Edward Sankey,

esquire, now Lord Mayor.

[4.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the

committee empowered by act of assembly to set by
Toils an.i public cant the tolls and customs of this city for one

customs. x J

year commencing the 29th September, 1766, have made
the following report, videlicet.

Tolls and

customs

let.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 351

' We, the committee empowered by act of assembly 1766.
to set by public cant the tolls and customs of this pubucoant.
city for one year, commencing the 29th September,
1766, met for that purpose on the 26th August last,
when the same wer£ let in the following manner,
videlicet.

£ s. d.
' The avenues of James street, theTark
gate and Dolphin's Barn, to Mr.
Timothy Mahon for ... ... 2900 0 0

' The avenues of Stoney Batter and
Glassmahanogue, to the said Timothy
Mahon for ... ... ... 1150 0 0

' The avenues of Dromcondra and

Ballybough to the same for ... 200 0 0

' He being declared the best bidder for
the said several avenues.

' And the avenue of Stephen's Green.

to Mr. William Taylor for ... 70 0 0

' He being the best bidder.

' The petty customs to the said Timothy

Mahon for ... ... 80 0 0

' And the beams and scales in the
market house, James street, and
Stoney Batter, to the said Mahon for 160 0 0

' No person bidding more.

' We. observe that the aforesaid persons have paid their
deposit to the city treasurer and given security for pay- Deposit,
ment of their proportions of the sums remaining on the
29th day of every month during the said year.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said order.
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made
an act of assembly, and the committee continued, and

352

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

1766.
Reynolds.

Commons.

Cleansing
streets,
lanes,
markets.

Report.

Divisions
set.

that alderman Reynolds be added to the said committee, r0h xxi I
in the room of the right honourable Edward Sankey,
esquire, now Lord Mayor, and that the commons do
name a commoner instead of Thomas Emerson, esquire,
one of the present Sheriffs.

[One of the commons:] Mr. Dunn.

[5.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee empowered by act of assembly to set by
public cant the cleansing of the several streets, lanes,
markets, et cetera, in this city, have made the following
report, videlicet.

'We, the committee empowered by act of assembly m. 201 b.
io set by public cant the cleansing of the several streets,
lanes, markets, et cetera, in this city, have set them for
one year commencing 29th September, 1766, in the
following manner, videlicet.

Divisions. ' The division No. 1 to Mr. Arthur
Guinness, at an allowance of
' No. 2. to John Donnagh, at
' No. 3. to Patrick Tighe, at . . .
' No. 4. to John Smith, at ...
' No. 5. to John Shea, at
' No. 6. to George Goold, at . . .
' No. 7. to Thomas Chaytor, at
' No. 8. to Thomas Dry, at ...

and
' No. 9. to Richard Wade, at

227

245

103

170

115

200

160 0 0

Security.

Ord^r.

' The above persons have entered into security for the
effectual cleansing of the said several divisions,
pursuant to act of parliament.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report, confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and the committee continued.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 353

[6.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that on 1766.
the 14th day of July last, Samuel Bradstreet, esquire, Brads****.
was appointed Recorder of this city at the yearly salary Recorder,
of £50. That the business of this city necessary to be Business of
attended to and dispatched by the Recorder has of late ™
years greatly increased, and particularly that of the
quarter sessions, whereby a considerable part of his
time must unavoidably be taken up. That the Recorder
of this city has not any fees arising to him from the Fees.
business transacted either in the criminal or pleas courts
of this city, and your petitioners conceive that the
honour and dignity of the city require, that the Recorder Honour,
should make an appearance suitable to that honourable
employment. That as they are thoroughly convinced
of the abilities of the present Recorder, and his good Abilities,
inclinations to attend the public service of the city, and
as a mark of the city's favour to him, they do request
that the said salary of £50, be augmented. Salary

■^y. . augmented.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the present salary Order.
of £50, allowed Mr. Recorder, be augmented to £300, ^^
a year, during the city's pleasure, the same to commence
the 14th July last, and to be paid by the city treasurer Payment.
and allowed in his accounts.

[7.] Edward Scriven, gentleman, setting forth, that scriven.
the committee of# city leases, to whom his petition was
referred, have made the following report.

1 We, the committee of city leases, to whom the Report,
petition of Mr. Edward Scriven was referred, find that
for a considerable time past he attended on the city's
behalf at the several meetings of the commissioners Meetings,
appointed by act of parliament for making a convenient
passage to the Castle of Dublin, and that a great part Passage to

* , . ,. , , , or the Castle

ot ins time was taken up, not only in his several of Dublin.
attendances, but also in forming many calculations to
ascertain such part of the city's estate as was wanted
by the said commissioners.

vol. xi. A A

354

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

1766. ' We also find that besides his said care and attend- RoUxxii.

m. 201 b.

Disburse. ances there is due to him for sundry disbursements

nients. J

on that occasion the sum of £14 3s. Id., and are of
Payment, opinion he be paid the sum of £60, as a full compensa-
tion for his said care, trouble, and attendance, together
with the said sum of £14 3s. Id., expended by him
as aforesaid.'

And the said Edward Scriven, praying to confirm
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly.

[8.] John Willson setting forth, that the committee
appointed on his petition made the following report, m- 20°-
videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for inspecting city
leases near expiring, to whom the petition of John
Willson was referred, find that the said Willson is
tenant to a small dwelling-house next adjoining the
market steps in Cooke street, part of your honours'
estate, which had been set by public cant on the 8th
of March, 1754, at the yearly rent of £19, sterling, and
that a lease thereof was to have been perfected to one
William Neale in trust (as we apprehend) for the said
John Wilson. We find that the said house is set at a
rent considerably more than the same is worth, and
are of opinion that an abatement should be made therein
of £4, a year. We therefore recommend to your Lord-
ship and honours, that leases be forthwith executed to
the said John Wilson at the rent of £15, a year, he
paying to the city treasurer all arrears of rent due by
him to and for the 29th of September last, at the
original rent of £19, a year, the said lease to be made
for the term of 31 years, to commence from Michaelmas
next, 1766.'

And the said John Wilson, praying to confirm the
said report and make the same an act of assembly:

Order.

Willson.

Report.

House.

Cooke

street,

Neale.

Leases.

Rent.

Order.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 355

it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and 1-66.
made an act of assembly, that leases be executed
accordingly, with such clauses and covenants as Mr.
Recorder shall advise.

[9.] John Gillmer, esquire, praying to have a lease GKiimer.
of a concern in Winetavern street renewed. winetavem

street.

Whereupon it was granted, with such clauses and 0rder
covenants as Mr. Recorder shall advise, upon petitioner's
laying before him his right to the above holding, paying
the fines reserved by the original lease, and the interest Fiues.
thereof.

[10.] Mr. Benjamin Wills and Thomas Litton, JJj[J^
esquire, praying to have a renewal of a lease of a
house on the south side of Thomas street, on payment Thomas
of £3, sterling, being the fine for renewal in said lease
recited reserved : whereupon it was granted, according
to the prayer of the above petition,

[11.] John Daniel, gentleman, praying to be admitted ^Toruey.
an attorney of the Tholsel court : whereupon it was Thoisei

° L court.

granted, during the city's pleasure.

[12.1 Samuel Burro wes and Henrv Clarke, executors Bmrowea

r. Clarke.

of Sarah Burrowes, praying to be paid £10, for

necessaries found by the said Sarah for the use of the

city : whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer

do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the said executors Payment.

the above sum of £10, the same to be allowed in his

accounts.

[13.] Hannah Ashe, wife of Thomas Ashe, praying Ashe,
to be appointed city housekeeper : whereupon it was deeper,
ordered, that the said Hannah Ashe be appointed city ^iDt-
housekeeper during the city's pleasure, at an annual
salary of £15, to be paid by the city treasurer and
allowed in his accounts.

[14.] Robert Hargrave, praying to be paid £5. for Har^rave,
a quarter's salary due to him when high constable of «M***ie.
this city: whereupon it was ordered, that the city

356

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

1766.
Payment.

Knox,
officer of
commons.

Salary.

Hoe,
gaoler of
New Gate

Parishes of
St. John and
St. Audoen.

Essex and

Ormond

bridges.

Order.

Payment.

Light.

Watch.

O'Neill,
Serjeant at
mace.

Murray,
widow.

Payment.
Annuity.

treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay-
petitioner the sum of £5, sterling, the same to be allowed
in his accounts.

[15.] Thomas Knox, officer of commons, praying
consideration on account of the great increase of
business in his office : whereupon it was ordered, that
the present salary of £15, a year, allowed to the
petitioner as officer of commons, be augmented to £25.
a year, to commence from Michaelmas last.

[16.] George Roe, praying to be continued gaoler
of New Gate : whereupon it was ordered, that the above
named George Roe be continued gaoler of New Gate,
for one year, ending Michaelmas assembly, 1767, upon
his giving such security for indemnifying the city from
all escapes, and for the faithful discharge of his office,
as the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs shall approve.

[17.] Memorial of the minister, church wardens,
directors, and parishioners of the parishes of Saint John
and Saint Audoen, praying that, that part of Essex
and Ormond bridges in said parishes may be lighted
and watched at the city's expense.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the church wardens
of the parishes of Saint Audoen and Saint John be
allowed the sum of £20, each, to aid them in paying
for the lighting and watching that part of the said
bridges which is in their parishes, the same to be paid
by the city treasurer and allowed in his accounts.

[18.] John O'Neill, praying to be continued one of
the Serjeants at mace of this city : whereupon it was
granted, during the city's pleasure.

[19.] Catherine Murray, widow, praying usual
allowance: whereupon it was ordered, that the city
treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the
petitioner £20, sterling, and that she be futurely paid
the sum of £40, a year, during the city's pleasure, the
same to be allowed in his accounts.

Roll xxii
m. 200.

m. 200 b.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766. 357

Boiixxii. [20.] An abstract of the treasurer's accounts from 1766.

m. 200 '». Treasurer's

the 24th of June, to the 29th of September, 1766. account

Dr.

£ s. d.
To balance due to the treasurer as per last abstract ... ... 26 15 O3

To cash paid since ... ... ... ... 4170 18 11

£4,497 13 1H-

Cr.

£ s. d.

By cash received since 24th June last ... ... ... 3251 9 1\

By balance due to the treasurer by the city ... ... 1246 4 4

£4,497 13 111

[21.] Ballast Office report. §£££*

1 Since our last report to your honours, we have Report-
proceeded in raising the new light house with as much £^*
expedition as possible, and have ordered two new
wharfs to be built at the end of the new wall near the wharfs,
block house, one at each side, for the more convenient
landing any goods that may be necessary.

' We have also made some progress in building a
new gabbard, and have continued the repairs of the old
gabbards, as also the repairs of the piles, and shall Plalesai
continue doing any works that are necessary and your
honours shall direct.

' Your committee have also taken into their con-
sideration the constant attendance and care of Mr. John
Farange, inspector or supervisor of the gabbard men, Grange.
and Mr. James Eccles, yard keeper, whose business is Eccies.
much increased, and are of opinion that they should
be empowered to consider of some small addition to
their salaries. salaries.

1 An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, which cash,
we have examined, and find there is a balance of Balance.
£1,510 5s. 10d., in the hands of alderman Edward

358

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1766.

Hunt.

Ballast

Office

account.

Hunt on the Ballast Office fund, and a balance of Roiixsii

ui. 199. !

£10,406 13s. 6Jd., over paid on the account of the public
money.

State of the Ballast Office accounts from, the 16th day
of July last inclusive, to the 15th day of October,
1766, exclusive.

Ballast Office, Dr.

To balance of last quarter's abstract
To cash received since

£ s.

1437 13

1293 5

£2,730 19

£ s.

222 4

340 11 10

155 10

140 10 11

298 14

22 12

40 8 11

1510 5

£2,730 19

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid this quarter for raising ballast

By cash paid for repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries

By cash paid house rent and petty disbursements

By cash paid repairs on gabbards

By cash paid charges of the light ship

By cash paid interest of money borrowed . .

By balance

Ballast Office, for the public money, Dr.

£ s. d.

Franchise.

Declara-
tion.

£ s.

569 2

.. 477 10

d.
11
74

£1,046 13

Per contra, Cr.

By balance overpaid per last quarter's abstract
By cash expended since on the south east pier

' Edward Sankey. — William Lightburne. — James
Taylor. — Thomas Mead. — Benjamin Geale. — William
Forbes. — Thomas Blackall. — George Reynolds. —
Percival Hunt. — Patrick Hamilton.'

1766. October 17. — Admissions to franchise.
1766. October 22. — Declaration and signatures.

m. 199 b.

m. 229.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767. 359

1767. January 16. — Fourth Friday after the 25th of 1767.
December, 1766.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee to whom the memorial of sir Thomas Biactaii.
Blackail and the petition of Peter Lemaistre were Lemaistre.
referred, have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee to whom the memorial of sir Report.
Thomas Biackall and the petition of Mr. Peter Lemaistre,
relative to the complaints herein after mentioned were
referred, having narrowly inspected into the merits and
circumstances of the same in the presence of both
parties, who attended us on that occasion, find that Peter
Lemaistre, petitioner Lemaistre's father, formerly took
from your honours a piece of ground on the south side
of sir Thomas Blackall's holding in George's lane, and Ground i,
by a map then made of the whole ground, it appeared laue"
to your committee, and so it was understood by the
tenants, that the gateway leading to the rere of the Gateway,
said tenant's holdings should be made at the north
end of the ground. Upon this plan, the petitioner
Lemaistre about two years ago built his house, and Huu>e.
formed the entrance into this house from the front in
George's ]ane.

' Your committee observe, that the committee who
had lately set » lot or piece of ground in George's lane Gromi.i.
aforesaid by public cant to the said sir Thomas
Biackall, consented and agreed at the time of the cant, Biactaii.
that the tenant taking the same should be at liberty
to have a passage or gateway either on the north or Passage.
south side, whichever should best suit the tenant's
convenience. We find that the said sir Thomas, who
soon after taking said ground had built thereon, made
the passage or gateway on the south side thereof, which Gateway.
the said Mr. Lemaistre taking advantage of shut up Lemaistre.
the door by him made in George's lane, and broke open Door.
a door and window into the said gateway, which sir

360

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY KOLL,

176;

Contests.
Litigations,

Abatement.
Black all.

Possession,
Premises.

Order.

Tolls and
customs.

Report.
City's title.
Smithfield.

Thomas complained were an annoyance to and greatly BoUxxJ
lessened the value of his said holdings; the said Mr.
Lemaistre also complained, that changing said passage
was likewise a great annoyance to his buildings, and
would greatly lessen the value thereof, in case he
should be obliged to shut up said door and windows, and
insisted to have the passage removed to the end
originally planned.

' We likewise observe to your honours, that upon the
present circumstances of the petitioners there may be
contests and litigations between them, in which your
honours may be involved, to avoid which we are of
opinion that an abatement of £6 10s. yearly be made
to the said sir Thomas Blackall out of his rent of the
said premises during the term of his demise, as a full
compensation for his allowing and suffering the said
Mr. Lemaistre to enjoy the quiet and peaceable posses-
sion of said door and windows lately made by him
during the term of said Lemaistre's demise, and that
said Mr. Lemaistre, in consideration of such abatement
so made to the said sir Thomas Blackall. do enjoy
the quiet and peaceable possession of the same
accordingly for and during the said term, provided m. a to,
he will not break out any more doors or windows, and
upon his relinquishing any right, he may or can claim
to have to remove the gateway or passage herein before
mentioned to the north side or any other part of the
premises, to which both parties have consented.'

Whereupon it was granted, the committee's report
confirmed and made an act of assembly.

[2.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed for tolls and customs, have made
the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for tolls and customs,
inform your honours, that the city's title to the tolls
of Smithfield has undergone the consideration of counsel,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767. 3GJ

who are clear of opinion of the city's right thereto, 1767.
that to establish the same for the future must be by
distress, and for the tolls and duties heretofore received i^tress.
by the sales masters, have directed separate bills to ^era.
be filed, which your committee have ordered
accordingly.

' YoJur committee find that the conteist with lord contest.

Lord

Trimleston, respecting the toll upon flour, is still going xonuleston
on ; that last term a new pleading was filed under the pleading,
direction of Mr. Recorder, upon the terms of paying
the plaintiff in replevin his costs, which will amount
to near the sum of £30, tins together with the expenses
attending the said suits should be provided for, your
committee therefore recommend that this committee
or some other be empowered to draw upon the city
treasurer for any sum not exceeding £200, to discharge
said cost of £30, and such necessary disbursements as cost
may be wanted in the conducting the said suits, under
the direction of the committee, with the advice and
direction and assistance of Mr. Recorder.'

Whereupon it was granted, the committee's report order,
confirmed and made an act of assembly, and the com-
mittee continued, and that the said committee be
empowered to draw upon the city treasurer for any
sum not exceeding £200, to discharge the within sum.
mentioned sum of £30, and such necessary disburse-
ments as shall be wanted in conducting the said suits
under the direction of the said committee, the same
to be allowed the treasurer in his accounts.

[3.] Certain of the commons, praying that the com-
mittee for superintending the green keepers, to whom Green
their petition for increasing their number was referred,
have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee for superintending the green Report,
ketpers, to whom the petition of certain of the commons
was referred, praying that their number might be m^^a.

362

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767.

Saint

Stephen's

e?reen.

Four
keepers

Hedges.
Walks.

Turnstile

Streets.

Salary.

Order.

Auditors of

city

accounts.

increased and a committee appointed to ascertain their Eon x*n.

A *■ . m. 204 6.

several duties, have taken that matter into our con-
sideration, and are of opinion that two persons, hereto-
fore employed to take care of Saint Stephen's Green,
are not sufficient for that purpose, your committee
apprehending it to be one of the greatest ornaments
in this city, and therefore requiring the greater care
in keeping it in exact good order, and therefore are
of opinion that four green keepers be employed, to wit,
one to each walk, who shall be able bodied men,
understanding the clipping of hedges and making
gravel walks, and who shall be obliged to perform and
execute the wTork of said green by themselves in manner
following, to wit, that they severally sweep and roll
the walks thereof, clip the hedges and keep them in
constant repair, that they also be obliged to sweep a
foot passage outside the walls from the public turnstiles
to the grand streets leading to said green, and that
they keep the same free from beggars and other
nuisances complained of by the city. That a salary
of £15, a year be allowed to each green keeper, and m. 203.
that they have the use of the two houses now built
on said green, to wit, two green keepers in each house,
and to be divided between them, in such manner as
the committee shall direct.'

Whereupon it was granted, the committee's report
confirmed and made an act of assembly, and the com-
mittee continued, and that the persons to be appointed
to take care of the said green shall be freemen.

[4.] Auditors of the city accounts for the last year.

Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, alderman John Cooke, alder-
man Bailie', sir Charles Burton, alderman Percivall
Hunt, alderman Mead, alderman Fetherston, alderman
Barton, sir Thomas Blackall, alderman Matthew Bailie,
and eighteen of the commons, to be named by the
commons or any nine of them, whereof the Lord Mayor

DI'BLIN ASSEMBLY KOLL. 1767. 363

and one of the Sheriffs to be always two, be and are ire-,
appointed auditors of the city accounts for one year,
that is to say, from Michaelmas. 1765, to Michaelmas,
1766.

[The eighteen of the commons:] Mr. Maquay, Mr. commons.
Green, Mr. Ginn, Mr. Dickinson, Mr. Peter Wilson,
Mr. John Read, Mr. Carleton, Mr. Ball, Mr. Lane, Mr.
Wrightson, Mr. Dunn, Mr. Darragh, Mr. Alexander,
Mr. M'Dermott, Mr. Sinclare

William Ruttledge and Richard French, esquires, are Masters of

° *■ city works.

appointed masters of the city works for the ensuing
year.

[5.] Thomas Myler, praying to be repaid £24. a Myier.
deposit made by the late William Bibby upon his
taking a lot of ground in George's lane.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the above mentioned Order.
sum of £24, being a deposit paid by the late William ^1^it
Bibby upon his taking the above concern, be repaid by
the city treasurer to the said Thomas Myler, as executor
of the said William [Bibby.] and to be allowed the
treasurer in his accounts, upon the said Thomas Myler's
paying the expense of preparing and engrossing leases
of the above concern for the said Bibby.

[6.] Henry Mountain, on behalf of himself and the Mountain,
rest of the band of city music, praying to be paid Jl£ m°usic.
their salary and continued.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the petitioners be order,
continued as the band of city music, for one year ending
Christmas assembly, 1768, that their salary of £60, Salair-
now due, be paid over by the city treasurer to the
right honourable the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, the same
to be allowed the treasurer in his accounts, and that
the said Lord Mayor and Sheriffs do deduct so much Deduction,
thereout as they shall think proper on account of any
neglect or non-attendance by the said band in their

364

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY EOLL, 1767.

i7t;r.

Payment*

Ed iu and

Burk. .
Freedom of
city.

Abilities.

British
parliament.

Order.

Watch.

Parish of
!S;iiut Mary

Essex
Bridge.

Payment.

White,
widow.
Allowance.

Repairs,
city Berlin

Payment.

Gelling-,
attorney.

Tholsel

court.

.Iu>ti<-i b'

office.

Payment.

Tew.

office, and that the residue of the said sum be paid KoUsxii.

. . in. 203.

to the said petitioners.

[7.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that they
apprehend it proper to present Edmund Burke, esquire,
with his freedom of this city, in consideration of his
distinguished abilities, so frequently exerted for the
advantage of this kingdom in the British parliament,
therefore prayed to present him with the same
accordingly.

Whereupon it was granted gratis.

[8.] The supervisors of the watch of the parish of
Saint Mary praying to be paid £10 5s. 2Jd., for coals
and candles provided for the watch of Essex bridge :
whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the memorialists
£10 5s. 2Jd., in full of the account annexed to their
petition, the same to be allowed the treasurer in his
accounts.

[9.] Ann White, widow, allowed ten guineas in full
compensation for attending the Court of Conscience
near six months, and being disappointed in obtaining
the place of city housekeeper.

[10.] Charles Strong, praying to be paid £14 2s. 7d., m. 20a A
sterling, a balance due to him for repairing the city
Berlin : whereupon it was ordered, that the city
treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the
petitioner the above sum of £14 2s. 7d., sterling, the
same to be allowed in his accounts.

[11.] John Gelling, gentleman, admitted an attorney
of the Tholsel court, during the city's pleasure.

[12.] Certain of the commons, praying allowance for
justices' office: whereupon it was ordered, that the
city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's order, pay to
alderman John Tew, treasurer of the said office, the
sum of £50, the same to be allowed in his accounts.

[13.] Thomas Wright, crier of the Tholsel court,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767. 365

praying to have his salary augmented : whereupon it 1767.
was ordered, that the present salary of £5, a year, JS? <i
allowed to Thomas Wright, as crier of the Tholsel court.6
court, be augmented to £10, a year, during the city's Salary.
pleasure, to commence from Christmas last, and to be
paid to the city treasurer and allowed in his accounts.

[14.] Edward Madden, praying to be continued ^a;^£>or
supervisor of the water course for one year ending JJjjJ^
Christmas assembly, 1768, at a salary of £10, and that
he do make a return once a fortnight to the Lord
Mayor of the state and condition of the said course,
the said salary to be paid by the city treasurer and sw-
allowed in his accounts.

|~15.1 An abstract of the treasurer's accounts from Treasurers

L J account.

the 29th September, 1766, to the 25th December, 1766.

Dr.

£ s. d.

To balance due the treasurer as per last abstract .. .. 1246 4 4

To cash paid since .. .. .. .. 3297 2 8)

£4,543 7 H

Cr.

£ s. d.

By cash received since .. . .. .. 26C0 19 8\

By balance due to the treasurer . .. .. .. 1882 7 5

£4,543 7 U

[16.] Ballast Office repurt. jffif

No report made by the committee of directors of the Report
Ballast Office.

1 Edward Sankey. — John Cooke. — James Taylor. —
Robert King. — Hans Bailie. — Percival Hunt. — Patrick
Hamilton. — Philip Crampton. — Timothy Allen.'

1767. January 16.— Admissions to franchise. Franchise.

1767. January 22. — Declaration and signatures. aon.

366

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1767.

Scarcity of
corn.

Sum.
Premium.

Foreign
wheat.

Corn
market.
Thomas
street.

Committee.

Distribu-
tion of
grrant.

Commons.

1767. March 12. — Post Assembly.

[1.] Certain of the commons, praying that upon
account of the present scarcity of corn, some expedient
may be devised to prevent the calamity which is appre-
hended may be the consequence, if the same should
continue fur any time.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the act of assembly,
prohibiting the granting of money on post assemblies
be upon this extraordinary emergency dispensed with,
and that the sum of £500, be granted for the purpose
of paying a premium of two shillings per barrel upon
the first five thousand barrels of merchantable foreign
wheat imported into the harbour of Dublin from and
after the 15th of April next, and sold in the corn
market of Thomas street.

And that the right honourable the Lord Mayor,
Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the works, alderman
John Cooke, alderman Percival Hunt, sir Timothy
Allen, alderman Barton, sir Thomas Blackall,
alderman Matthew Bailie, and twelve of the commons,
to be named by the commons or any seven of them,
whereof the Lord Mayor and one of the Sheriffs to be
always two, be and are appointed a committee to
distribute the said grant of £500, as directed by this
order, and draw upon the city treasurer for the same
as they shall find occasion, the said sum to be allowed
in his accounts.

[The twelve of the commons : ] Mr. Lynham, Mr.
Worthington, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Jones, Mr. Lane, Mr.
Dunn, Mr. Guinness, Mr. Dickinson, Mr. Ginn, Mr.
M'Dermott, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Eobert Hutton.

' Edward Sankey. — John Cooke. — Robert King. —
Patrick Hamilton. — Francis Fetherston. — Matthew
Bailie. — James Taylor. — Hans Bailie. — Timothy Allen.
—John Tew. — Thomas Mead. — Charles Rossel.'

Roll xxii. '
m. 205.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1767. 367

txxii 1767. March 24. — Post Assembly. 1707.

[1.] Certain of the commons, praying to appoint a pilot
member of the pilot committee, in the room of Thomas Member.
Blood, deceased, pursuant to act of parliament.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the commons do 0rder-
name a commoner of the pilot committee in the room
of Mr. Thomas Blood, deceased, pursuant to the said act.

[One of the commons : ] Mr. Blennerhasset Grove. Grove.

' Edward Sankey. — James Taylor. — John Cooke.—
Robert King. — Patrick Hamilton. — Matthew Bailie. —
Francis Fetherston. — George Reynolds. — John Tew. —
Thomas Mead. — Charles Rossel.'

P**- 1767. March 31.— Post Assembly.

[1.1 Certain of the commons setting forth, that they scarcity

and hierh

apprehend on account of the great scarcity and high p«ce of
price of corn, the late bounty granted by the city upon Bounty,
the importation of foreign wheat will not be a
sufficient encouragement for that desirable end, and
therefore are of opinion that an application be made
to government for their aid in further encouraging the Aid from
importation of corn. meut

Whereupon it was ordered, that sir James Taylor, 0rder-
alderman Bailie, alderman Crampton, sir Patrick
Hamilton, and efght of the commons, to be named by
the commons, be appointed a committee, with the
assistance of Mr. Recorder, to prepare an application Application

1 A ■*■•*■ to lords

to their excellencies the lords justices of Ireland, for iustices-
the purposes above mentioned.

[The eight of the commons : ] Mr. Thompson, Mr. commons.
Dickinson, Mr. James Montgomery, Mr. Guinness. Mr.
Worthington, Mr. Peter Wilson, Mr. French, Mr.
Maquay.

Memorial presented to government by the Lord Memorial
Mayor and Sheriffs accordingly.

368

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY EOLL, 1767.

Nomination ["1.1
for nlder-

Cooke,
deceased.

1767. April 23.— Post Assembly.

We, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the
city of Dublin, have this [day] nominated from among
the Sheriffs' Peers, John Read of Summer Hill, esquire,
merchant, John Hunt of Chancery lane, esquire,
merchant, Henry Hart of Eustace street, esquire,
merchant, and Richard French of the Blind quay,
esquire, merchant, as fit persons to serve in the place
of alderman of the said city, and do hereby return the
names, with the additions of the said four persons, to
you the Sheriffs and Commons of the said city, in order
to your electing out of the said four persons an alder-
man of the said city, in the room of alderman Thomas
Cooke, deceased."

" Edward Sankey, Lord Mayor."

Eoll xxii
m. 205 b.

Election.

French,
alderman.

23rd April, 1767.

[1.] " We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the city of
Dublin, have this day elected by ballot from among
the four Sheriffs' Peers returned to this house by the
Lord Mayor and Board [of] Aldermen, Richard French
of the Blind quay, esquire, merchant, to the place of an
alderman of the said city, in the room of Thomas
Cooke deceased."

Willoughby Light bunie."
Thomas Emerson."

Sheriffs."

' Edward Sankey. — John Cooke. — John Tew. —
Thomas Mead. — Charles Rossel. — Robert King. — James
Taylor. — Patrick Hamilton. — Timothy Allen.'

1767. May 1. — Second Friday after Easter.1 m.2io.

Election .>f [1.] " We, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city

Lord r .

Mayor. of Dublin, have this day unanimously elected alderman

1 Easter day, 19 April, 1767.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767. 369

Francis Fetherston to serve in the office or place of 1767.

. .. . Election

Lord Mayor of the said city for the ensuing year, of Lord
commencing from Michaelmas next, and do hereby
return the said Francis Fetherston to you the Sheriffs
and Commons of the said city for your approbation."

" Edward Sankey, Lord Mayor."

" We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the city of
Dublin in common council assembled, have this day
approved by ballot of alderman Francis Fetherston to Fetherston,
serve in the office of Lord Mayor of the said city for May°r-
the ensuing year, commencing from Michaelmas next."

" Willoughby Lightburne."
" Thomas Emerson."

" We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the common
council of the city of Dublin, have this day by ballot
nominated the following eight freemen of the said city, Nomina-

00 J ' tion for

resident within the said city or liberties thereto Sheriffs-
adjoining, each of them worth in real and personal
estate in possession the sum of £2,000, over and above
their just debts^ that is to say, Kilner Swettenham of
Abbey street, cooper, William Dunn of Bridge [street],
chandler, Henry Williams, of Queen street, brewer,
Patrick Boyd of Ormond quay, merchant, Anthony
King of Cooke street, founder, George Faulkner of
Parliament street, stationer, Peter Wilson of the Blind
quay, stationer, Robert Rickey of Chamber street,
weaver, as fit persons to serve in the office of Sheriffs
of the said city, and do hereby return the names with
the addition of said eight persons to you the Lord
Mayor and aldermen of the said city, in order to your
electing two of the said persons to be Sheriffs of the

VOL. XI. B B

370

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767.

1767.
Nomina-
tion for next.

Sheriffs.

said city for the ensuing year, commencing Michaelmas Eon km.

" Willoughby Lightburne."
" Thomas Emerson."

" Sheriffs."

Boyd,

Faulkner,

Sheriffs.

" We, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of
Dublin, have this day elected Patrick Boyd of Ormond
quay, merchant, and George Faulkner of Parliament
street, stationer, out of the eight persons returned to us
by the Sheriffs and Commons, as fit persons to serve
in the office of Sheriffs of the said city for the ensuing
year, commencing Michaelmas next.

" Edward Sankey, Lord Mayor."

M'Dermott.
Hodgson.

Report.

Cleansing
streets.

Plan.

Combina-
tions
amon?
contractors

City
increased.

Cleanliness.

Proposal.

[2.] John M'Dermott and Lewis Hodgson setting
forth, that the committee appointed for setting the
cleansing of the streets, to whom their petition was
referred, have made the following report, videlicet.

'We, the committee appointed for setting the m, 210 &.
cleansing of the streets, to whom the petition of John
M'Dermott and Lewis Hodgson was referred, have met
several times upon that occasion; your committee find
notwithstanding all imaginable care has been taken to
cleanse the streets upon the plan laid down these some
years past, yet the same has been ineffectual, principally
owing to several combinations among the contractors,
whose principal inducement was to get large sums from
your honours, rather than to cleanse the same. Your
committee must observe that this city is considerably
increased, as well in its inhabitants as the extent
of its buildings, therefore more than ordinary attention
should be paid to its cleanliness, as an object in which
the public in general, as well as every individual, is
so materially interested. Your committee received the
annexed proposal from the petitioners, but before they

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767. 371

Koii xxii. would come to any final determination thereon, they 1767.

directed the Town Clerk to make a return of the annual Towncierk.

Keturn of

expense attending that department for twenty years, ™venle
distinguished by two periods, the one during the time
the same was under the immediate inspection of the
city, and the other during the time the city adopted the
present scheme, which is likewise hereunto annexed,
enabled by those particulars, your committee entered
into the consideration of the petitioners' proposal, which Proposal

x L L complied

your committee are of opinion should be complied with, with-
and therefore recommend the same to your honours,
from an assurance that the petitioners will exert their
utmost abilities in executing the said work, they
entering into such securities as Mr. Recorder shall securities,
advise, for the due performance of the said proposal,
and indemnifying the city from all penalties that may Penalties,
be incurred under the several acts of parliament now
in force or otherwise howsoever '

And the said John M'Dermott and Lewis Hodgson, order,
praying at last Christmas assembly to confirm the said
report : it was then ordered, that the said report be Report,
recommitted and reported to the next assembly.

And the said John M'Dermott and Lewis Hodgson M'Dermott.
setting forth, that the committee to whom the foregoing
report was recommitted, have made the following
report, videlicet.

' We, the committee to whom the foregoing report, Report.
made upon the petition of messieurs M'Dermott and
Hodgson, was recommitted, are of opinion, that the said
M'Dermott's and Hodgson's proposal for cleansing the Proposal
streets be accepted, for the reasons contained in said
report, the said persons obliging themselves to cleanse
the same at £100, less than said proposal, to wit, at
the sum oc £1,700, a year, under the terms and Amount,
restrictions contained in their said proposal.'

Whereupon it was ordered, that proper articles be order.

Security.

Penalties.

Agreement.

Neglect.

Farming

or lett intr.

Mali on.

Report.

Allowance
for losses
at Island
Bridge.

372 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767.

prepared by Mr. Recorder at the expense of the r0ii xxii
petitioners, to be executed between the corporation and
the petitioners, agreeable to the recommendation in the
foregoing report, the petitioners giving security for the
due performance of their said proposal, and indemni-
fying the city from all penalties that may be incurred
under the several acts of parliament now in force or
otherwise howsoever respecting the same, the said agree-
ment to remain in force during the city's pleasure, and
in case the city shall hereafter judge it necessary tora.20£>
call upon or put an end to said contract on account
of any misbehaviour or neglect of duty in the
petitioners, an express power shall be reserved to the
city for this purpose free of any allowance or considera-
tion to them whatsoever, and that the said petitioners
be restrained from farming or letting to any other
persons the said duty, the city being induced to agree
with their said proposal from the particular good
opinion and confidence they repose in petitioners, and
a dependance upon their personal superintendence and
care of said business.

[3.] Timothy Mahon setting forth, that the pipe
water committee, who were to reconsider their former
report made upon his petition, have reconsidered the
same and made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee to whom the former report made
upon the petition of Timothy Mahon was recommitted,
have met on that occasion and reconsidered the same,
and the order of assembly made thereof, and are of
opinion that the said Timothy Mahon be allowed the
sum of £400, sterling in full consideration for the losses
he has hitherto sustained at Island Bridge and the
valuable and lasting improvements he has made there,
the said Mahon complying with the terms in our former
report mentioned, provided that no further abatement
be made to him on account thereof.'

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767. 373

And the said Timothy [Mahon], praying to confirm 1707.
the said report and make the same an act of assembly : 0lder'
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly.

[4.] Alderman Edward Hunt setting forth, that the Hunt,

■- -' ° Ballast

committee of directors of the Ballast Office [to] whom Master-
his petition was referred, have made [the] following
report, videlicet.

1 We, the committee of directors of the Ballast Office, Report,
to whom the petition of alderman Edward Hunt was
referred, are of opinion that the sum of sixty guineas sum.
be paid to the said alderman Edward Hunt, as a
gratuity or compensation for the extraordinary trouble Gratuity
and expense he has sustained in the receipt and
disbursement of several sums of money, amounting- in Disburse,
the whole to the sum of £38,000, granted by parliament
from time to time for carrying on the Ballast Office WaU-

J P Light-

Wall and light-house.' house-

And the said alderman Edward Hunt, praying to Order.

confirm the said report and make the same an act of

assembly : it was granted, the said report confirmed

and made an act of assembly.

[5.] The honourable the commissioners and overseers commis-
sioners and
of the barracks setting forth, that the committee to overseers

0 ' of barracks.

whom their memorial was referred, have made the
following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for inspecting city Report,
leases to whom the memorial of the honourable the
commissioners and overseers of the barracks was
referred, find thereby his majesty's intention of
rebuilding the palatine square and enlarging it in such Palatine
a manner, that together with the royal square, it shall
be capable 'of containing the whole garrison of Dublin, G£K*K?
without quartering any of the troops upon the Quartering
inhabitants, that the ground already in his majesty's
possession is sufficient for that purpose, but in order

374

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767.

1767.

Ground.

Oxman-

towu

green

Barracks.

Quartering.

Fee farm
grant.

Ground.

Oxmantown

green.

m. 209 b.

Gateway.

Order.

Lease.

House in
Bain alley.

to render the approach to it more convenient, it will J*^«h-
be necessary to enclose within the precincts of the
barracks a strip of ground belonging to the city in
Oxmantown green.

' Your committee having met to take this matter into
consideration, appointed some gentlemen of the com-
mittee to view the ground desired by the memorialists,
who reported to us that the enlarging the barracks in
the manner proposed will not only be vastly
ornament able, but also attended with the most advan-
tageous consequences to the inhabitants of this city,
as it will entirely prevent the quartering of troops upon
them, a matter heretofore much complained of.

' We therefore are of opinion that a fee farm grant, to
be made to the said commissioners and overseers of the
ground petitioned for by the memorialists in Oxman-
town green, next adjoining the said palatine square,
at the yearly rent of five shillings, the said commis-
sioners and overseers obliging themselves to stop up the
gate now open and leading from the barracks into said
green, and not to suffer any passage or gateway to be
made thereto or therefrom, nor to erect any building
whatsoever upon the wall which shall inclose and
separate the barracks from the green.'

And the said commissioners and overseers praying
to confirm the said report and make the same an act
of assembly : it was granted, the committee's report
confirmed and made an act of assembly, and that a
fee farm lease of the foregoing mentioned ground be
granted to the commissioners and overseers of the
barracks, at a yearly rent of five shillings, to commence
from 25th March last, with such clauses and covenants
as Mr. Recorder shall advise.

[6.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee to whom their petition was referred, have
made the following report, videlicet.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1767. 375

' We, the committee appointed for rebuilding an old 1767.
house in Ram alley and building convenient offices, have Holfse.'
had several meetings on that occasion and lately offices. ey"
directed the old building to be taken down and proper
offices to be forthwith erected, agreeable to a plan drawn Han.
by Mr. John Smith," architect, which your committee Smith,

J architect.

having approved of. We directed Mr. John Wilson to wiison.
proceed to carry the same into execution accordingly,
and as the said building could not be completed without
getting a closet eight feet wide in Mr. James Hoey's cioset
house, your committee have agreed to give the said
Hoey the sum of £60, in full consideration for his Hoey.
giving up to the city all his right, title, interest and
claim in and to the same.

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said onier.
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and the committee continued, and that
the city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant,
pay the abovenamed James Hoey £60, in full con- Payment,
sideration for his giving up to the city all his right,
title, and interest in and to the closet in said report
mentioned, the same to be allowed the treasurer in his
accounts, and that the said building be carried on
under the direction of the said committee.

[7.] Certain of the commons, praying to have the
act of a post assembly held on the 12th of March last, Actof j>ost

r J ' assembly.

granting the sum of £500, for the purpose of paying a
premium of two shillings per barrel upon the first Premium
five thousand barrels of wheat imported into the imported

£ into Dublin.

harbour of Dublin from and after the 15th of April
then next ensuing, and sold in the corn market of Thomas
Thomas street, confirmed and made an act of assembly, market.0111

Whereupon it was ordered, that the above recited act order.
of the post assembly of the 12th of March last, be and
is hereby confirmed and made an act of this assembly, confirmed,

376

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL,

1767.

17(57.

City pipe
water.

Report.

Account.

Cave.

Callbeck.

Gladwell.

Collectors'

account.

r8.1 Certain of the commons setting forth, that theEoiixxii.

L J . m. 208.

committee for better supplying the city with pipe water
have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed for better supplying
the city with pipe [water], have examined the account
of Mr. Richard Cave, supervisor, messieurs Samuel
Callbeck and Francis Gladwell, collectors of the pipe
water revenue, for the year ending the 1st of November,

1765, and collected from thence to the 1st of November,

1766, the said account being laid before us in a regular
and exact manner gave us great satisfaction in the
examining thereof, the supervisor furnished us with a
charge against the collectors, which they admitted to
be right.'

Account. ' "We find that the rent and arrears

received by Mr. Callbeck amount to 1,561 6 8
' For three concealed branches ... 300

' For sixteen branches formerly cut off

and now put on ... ... 16 0 0

' Making in the whole the sum of £1,580 6 8

£ s. d.
' The rent and arrears received by Mr.

Gladwell to ... ... 1,575 0 0

'For 10 concealed branches ... 10 0 0
' For fines for putting on 9 branches

that were formerly cut off ... 9 6 8

' Making ...

' The total received by them is

£1,594 6 8

£3,174 13 4

Order.

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767. 377

granted, the committee's report confirmed and made 1767.
an act of assembly, and the committee continued, and
that alderman Barton be added to the said committee, Barton,
in the room of alderman Thomas Cooke, deceased.

[9.] Certain of the commons, praying to appoint a
committee for taking down the inscription on Essex £R.sfx

*- Bridge.

Bridge and putting another in its place.

Whereupon it was ordered, that their said petition order.
be referred to the committee of city leases, who are
hereby empowered to take clown the inscription now inscription,
on Essex Bridge and consider of a proper one to be
put in its place, the expense attending the same to Expense,
be paid by the city treasurer and allowed in his
accounts.

[10.] Henry Gonne, gentleman, praying to be paid Gonue.
£56 5s., being his fees upon petitions for city's favour Fees,
granted last Christmas assembly.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, order,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner the Payment,
above sum of £56 5s., the same to be allowed in his
accounts.

[11.] Certain of the commons, praying to set seven Newhaii
stalls on the west side of Newhall market, late in the
possession of Sterne Tighe, deceased.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the committee of city order,
leases do set the above stalls by public cant to the fJJiic cnnt>
fairest and best bidders, for the term of 25 years, to
commence at Michaelmas next, and that they do publish
advertisements accordingly.

[12.1 Certain of the inhabitants of Essex Bridge, watering

Essex

Parliament street, Ormond quays, and Capel street, Bridge,
praying to have £10, allowed for watering Essex Bridge.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, Order.
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay alderman Booker g^™6"*-
the sum of £10, for the purpose of watering the said
bridge, the same to be allowed in his accounts.

378

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767.

1707.

Paumier,
Bridge
street.
Order.

Lease.

Bryan,

clerk.

Order.

Payment.

Sheriffs'
prison.

Grant.

Rohiuson,

high

constable.

Salary
augmented.

Sjrjeantsat
mace.

[13.] Peter Paumier, praying for a renewal of a RoiixJ
lease of a holding on the west side of Bridge street.

Whereupon it was granted, upon the petitioner's
paying the fines reserved by the original lease, and the
interest thereof, with such clauses and covenants as
Mr. Recorder shall advise.

[14.] Jacob Bryan, clerk, praying to be paid a year's m 208b
salary for attending Sheriffs' prison.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £15,
for attending prisoners for debt in the Sheriffs' prison
for one year ending the 25th March last, the same to
be allowed the treasurer in his accounts, and that the
further continuance of such an officer be referred to the
consideration of the committee of economy, who are to
report the expediency of having such a person, to the
next assembly.

[15.] Elizabeth Smith, otherwise Forrest, praying
city's favour : whereupon it was ordered, that the city
treasurer do. on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the
petitioner £10, the same to be allowed on his accounts.

[16.] Henry Robinson, high constable, praying to have
salary augmented : whereupon it was ordered, [that]
the petitioner's salary of £20, a year, be augmented to
£40, a year, the same to commence from the 25th of
March last, to be paid by the city treasurer and allowed
in his accounts.

[17.] George Cawthom.N continued Serjeants at mace

[18.] Richard Betagh. of this city for one year

[19.] Thomas Snape. > ending Easter assembly,

[20.] WiUiam Roe.

[21.] John Sleane. J

indemnifying the city from all escapes and for the
redelivery of the silver mace, as the Lord Mayor and
Sheriffs shall approve.

[22.] John Cannan, praying to be appointed one of

1768, upon their severally
giving such security for

DTJBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767. 379

the green keepers : whereupon it was ordered, that the ir«7.
petitioner be appointed one of the green keepers during green
the city's pleasure, a.t a salary of £15, a year, to
commence from the 1st day of May instant, and to be
paid by the city treasurer and allowed in his accounts.

[23.] James Broadhurst, praying to be appointed one Broadimrst,

green

of the green keepers : whereupon it was ordered, that keeper,
the petitioner be appointed one of the green keepers
during the city's pleasure, at a salary of £15, a year,
to commence from the 1st of May instant, and to be
paid by the city treasurer and allowed in his accounts.
[24.1 Thomas Clarke, praying to be appointed one of ciarke,

. green

the green keepers : whereupon it was ordered, that the keeper,
petitioner be appointed one of the green keepers during
the city's pleasure, at a salary of £15, a year, to
commence from the 1st of May instant, and to be paid
by the city treasurer and alllowed in his accounts.

[25.] Alice Rice-, praying to have a fine of £20, Rice,
imposed on her at session reduced : whereupon it was 'educed,
ordered, that the above fine of £20, be reduced to
sixpence.

r26.1 An abstract of the treasurer's accounts, from Treasurer's

L -I account.

the 25th December, 1766, to the 25th of March, 1767.

Dr.

To balance due to the treasurer, per last abstract
To cash paid since the 25th of December

Cr.

By cash received since 25th December
By balance due to the treasurer

£ s.

1882 7

2864 12

£4,746 19

£ s.

2742 4 101

2004 14

£4,740 10

380

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY EOLL, 1767.

1767.
Ballast
Office.
Report.

Light-
house.

Gabbards.

Piles.

Salary.

Eccles.
Salary.

Cash.

Balance.

Hunt.

Order.

Barton

Nugent.

1766.

Ballast

Office

account.

[27.] Ballast Office report.

' Since our last report to your honours, we have
proceeded with as much expedition, as the season would
permit, in raising the new light-house.

' We have also proceeded in repairing the gabbards
and piles, and shall continue doing any works that are
necessary, and your honours shall direct.

' Your honours having been pleased to empower us to
consider of some addition to the salaries of Mr. John
Farange, inspector or supervisor of the gabbard men
and of Mr. James Eccles, yard keeper, your committee
are of opinion that the salary of Mr. John Farange
should be augmented from £40, to £50, per annum,
and that the salary of Mr. James Eccles should be
augmented from £18, to £30, per annum.

' An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, which
we have examined and find there is a balance of
£1,468 10s. 3Jd., in the hands of alderman Hunt on
the Ballast Office fund, and £746 3s. 3d., overpaid
on the account of the public money.'

Whereupon it was ordered, that the foregoing report
be confirmed and made an act of assembly, and that
alderman Barton be added to the said committee, instead
of alderman Thomas Cooke, deceased, and that the
commons do name a commoner instead of Thomas
Blood, deceased.

[One of the commons : ] John Nugent.

1766. October 15.

State of the Ballast Office accounts, from the 15th
day of October last [1766,] inclusive, to the 14th day
of January [1767,] exclusive.

Roll xxi
m. 207.

Ballast Office, Dr.

To balance of last quarter's abstract
To cash received since

£ s. d.
... 1510 5 10
... 974 12 5

£2,457 18 3

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767.

381

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid this quarter for raising ballast

By cash paid repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries

By cash paid house rent and sundry petty disbursements

By cash paid repairs on gabbards

By cash paid for account of the light ship ...

By cash paid interest

By balance ,

£ s.
189 4
233 15

8
0

1767.

Ballast

Office

account

1766.

155 10

75 5

174 10

21 13

46 0

1562 0

£2,457 18

Ballast Office, for the public money, Dr.

s d.

Per contra, Cr.

£ s. d.

By balance overpaid per last quarter's abstract ... ... 1046 13 6i

By cash expended this quarter on the south east pier ... ... 259 1 7

£1,305 15 H

1767. January 14.

State of the Ballast Office accounts from the 14th day Bniiast
of January last inclusive, to the 29th day of April, J^™*-
1767, exclusive.

Ballast Office, Dr.

To balance of last quarter's abstract
To cash received since

£ s.

1562 0

898 18

£2,460 18

£ s.

151 13

238 14

155 10

47 0

292 16

94 17

11 15

1468 10

£2,460 18

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid this quarter for raising ballast

By cash paid for repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries

By cash paid house rent and petty disbursements

By cash paid for repairs on gabbards

By cash paid for account of the light ship ..

By cash paid interest

By balance

382

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY EOLL, 1767.

17tJ7.
Ballast
Office
account.

Ballast Office for the public money, Dr.

To cash received since at his majesty's treasury
To balance overpaid

Per contra, Cr.

By balance of last quarter's abstract

By cash expended since on the south east pier

£ B.

Roll xx
in. 207
d.

880 0

746 3

£1,626 3

£ s.

1305 15

320 8

£1,626 3

Franchise.

Declara-
tion.

Recorder
Rradstreet,

Order.

Grant.
Payment.

Testimony

Alderman
Geale,
city
treasurer.

Report.
Accounts.

1 Edward Sankey. — Robert King. — Charles Burton. -
James Taylor. — Thomas Mead. — Thomas Blackall-
George Reynolds. — Matthew Bailie. — Francis Fether
ston. — Timothy Allen.'

1767. May 1. — Admissions to franchise.

1767. May 7. — Declaration and signatures. ™-229.

m. 211.
m. 211 6

1767. July 17.— Fourth Friday after the 24th of™- J
June.

[1.] Certain of the commons, praying to have the
sum of £200, sterling, granted to Mr. Recorder in
addition to his salary.

Whereupon it was ordered, that tlie sum of £200, be
granted to Mr. Recorder, to be paid by the city
treasurer and allowed in his accounts, as a testimony
of the many services done by him in the last year to
the citizens by a faithful and vigilant discharge of his
duty as Recorder.

[2.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed to audit the accounts of alderman
Benjamin Geale, city treasurer, have made the
following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed to audit the accounts
of alderman Benjamin Geale, city treasurer, for the
rents, profits and issues accruing to the said city,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767. 383

commencing the 29th September, 1765, and ending the 1767.
29th September, 1766, and for the casualties ending at
the same time, do inform your honours, that the
accountant laid said accounts before us digested in a
manner so exact, clear, methodical, and regular as we
think does him singular honour.

' We charged the accountant with the arrears of rent rernt.ars °f
due Michaelmas, 1765, with the entire rental of your
estate ending Michaelmas, 1766, and all other incidental
receipts during that time, amounting in the whole
to the sum of £19,343 4s. Id. We find the disburse-
ments, including the arrears of rent and £146 5s. ljd.,
being a balance due to the accountant on last year to Balance,
amount to £19,925 Os. 9d., to which the sum of
£664 7s. 8d., poundage upon the sum of £13,287 13s.
4|d., neat money paid being added makes the treasurer's
discharge amount to the sum of £20,589 8s. 5d., so that
there appears to be due to the accountant by the city
a balance of £1,246 4s. 4d.

' We must observe, that the following premises are Premises in

arrear.

returned in arrear, which are insolvent and in the
city's possession, and therefore recommend that they
be struck out of the arrears, videlicet.'

£ s. d.

' Ellis Humphries for the Court of Guards 7 0 0

'Joseph West, the coal yard, Fleet street 2 15 0

'Sterne Tighe, Newhall Market ... 793 10 0

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said order,
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly.

[3.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the £°'nrsora'
committee to whom the petition of the masters and
wardens of the several corporations relative to quarter- Quarterage

384 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY EOLL, 1767.

1767. age, and. also the petition for considering the many Eoiixxi

Quarterage. anc^en^ \aws ancj customs of this city, and carrying
ms" them into execution, were referred, have made the
following report, videlicet.
Report. ' We, the committee appointed for considering and

Application preparing an application to parliament to enforce by
parliament. an act for that purpose several ancient laws and customs
inherent in this city, to whom the former report was
recommitted, have pursuant to your honours'
instructions, attentively deliberated upon and con-
Grants, sidered the same, your committee find that many grants
Foreigners, have been made to this corporation, excluding foreigners
Trades. from exercising their respective trades in this city,

several whereof have been confirmed by parliament.
By-iaws. ' Your committee have been informed several by-

laws have from time to time been made, enforcing these
rights by penalties which have of late been disputed,
these several particulars have been laid before Mr.

Recorder. Recorder, for his directions in conducting a suit
Suit. ' , to

Quarterage, instituted in the king's bench, contesting quarterage.

Mr. Recorder assisted your committee at all their m- 216.

meetings, and is of opinion with your committee, that
Eights. determining these rights in the courts of law will be

attended with great expense and tend to increase the
Freemen, animosities too long subsisting between freemen and
Foreigners, foreigners, therefore to avoid such contests, and to

conciliate the minds of all the inhabitants of this great

metropolis, your committee are of opinion and do recom-
Act0f mend that application be made next sessions of parlia-

parliameut. , r> , « i 1 • l -i

Quarterage, ment tor an act lor regulating quarterage under reason-
able restrictions, and the more effectually to succeed
therein as an object of public concern, your committee
think it will be incumbent on your honours, not only
to apply for such act of parliament in your corporate

Expense, capacity, but to defray the expense attending the same.
' Your committee then went into an enquiry, whether

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767. 385

any other rights inherent to this corporation were 1707.
proper to be revived and confirmed, and find that the
proceedings on foreign attachments, attachments meutV
against goods and the process by statute staple if
properly carried into execution would be of singular use
to the public, therefore we recommend they be confirmed
by a clause or clauses to be introduced in said act.
Your committee then turned their thoughts to the
power of magistracy in regulating the police of this Police,
city, it appears evident to every person as well as to
your committee that this city has of late years con-
siderably increased both in its buildings and number increase.

J ° Buildings.

of inhabitants, therefore the laws regulating the same l^^'
should be clear and explicit with ample penalties, but
your committee find from the best information that they
are defective and in some measure obsolete.

1 We think that the said several statutes should E+e™aI of

statutes.

undergo a careful revisal, so as to have complete heads

of a bill introduced early the next session of parliament, Bm.

and that the framers thereof may be attentive to obtain

a law for the more effectually punishing forestallers of ft^fe'rs

provisions, and of hides, calf skins, and other manu- Manufac-

1 ' tures.

factures, for the better regulation of pavements and pavements
removal of nuisances and encroachments in and upon
the public streets, and for the better regulating the streets,
baking trade, with a clause confirming the powers of Bakers,
the market jury.

' As this is the proper season to proceed upon so great
and useful an undertaking, your committee recommend
no time may be lost and to obtain every information
that may enable your committee to form a good plan, pian.
your committee have directed the city agent to furnish city agent,
himself with several acts of parliament passed in Acts.
England for regulating the city of London, as also London.
vol. xi. c c

380 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767.

1767. copies of heads of bills brought into parliament here Ron x*m

*■ m. 216.

for the said several purposes.'

order. And the said commons, praying to confirm the said m' 216 h-

report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made
an act of assembly, and the committee continued, that

parliament. a petition under the city seal be prepared by Mr.
Recorder for the obtaining an act of parliament for the
purposes in said report mentioned, and presented to the
honourable house of commons early in the next session,

Heads of that in the meantime complete heads of a bill be

bill.

prepared, that the expense of such application and
framing the said bill be paid by the city treasurer
on orders from the committee and allowed in his
accounts.

coote T4.1 The reverend Coote Mitchell, vicar of Rath-

Mitchell, L J

vicar <>f drum, setting forth that the committee to whom his

Rathdrum. O

petition was referred, have made the following report,
videlicet.

Report. ' We, the committee for inspecting city leases, to

whom the petition of the reverend Coote Mitchell was
Mathews, referred, directed Mr. Mathews, the city surveyor, and
wnson. Mr. Wilson, to go down to Rathdrum, in order to inspect
oiebe house and report to us the state and condition of the glebe

and offices.

house and offices, now inhabited by the said Mr.
Mitchell, and also to lay before us a plan and estimate
of a comfortable dwelling house and offices, if it should
be found necessary to build new ones, and that the
said old [ones] should not be capable of repair.

' We inform your honours, that the said messieurs
Mathews and Wilson viewed the premises, and
Estimate, accordingly laid before us the following estimate and
Report. report, videlicet.

DTJBLTN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767. 387

£ s. d. £ s. d.

' Dwelling house ... 67 1 5

' Deduct old windows ... 216 8

1767.

Estimate.

1 Cash exclusive of deductions £64 4 9

'Out offices ... ... 151 9 0

' Deduct materials ... 22 6 10

' Cash exclusive of deductions £129 2 2

Total neat exclusive of old materials £193 6 11

£ s. d. £ s. d.
1 New house as per plan . . . 436 0 0
' Deduct old materials ... 40 0 0

£396 0 0

' We, the undernamed persons appointed by the Report,
committee for inspecting city leases near expiring, to
go clown to Rathdrum to inspect the state and condition Rathdrum.

to r Glebe

of the glebe house and offices, now inhabited by the h0'?3e-.

° " and offices.

reverend Coote Mitchell, after having examined the Mitcheii.
premises according to said order, are of opinion that it
would be more* for the advantage of the city to repair
the present glebe house, and rebuild the offices than to
build a new house, and we are also of opinion, that it
will require the sum of £193 6s. lid., to complete the
same, agreeable to foregoing estimate, videlicet. Estimate.

1 To repair the dwelling house
' To rebuild the offices

. 64

. 129

£193

388

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767.

1767.

House.

Offices.

Expense.

Order.

Sum.

Mead.
Mitchell.

Coroner

Reynolds,

alderman.

Inquests.

Order.

Payment.

' Your committee having considered this matter are Boii xxii.
of opinion, that the house be repaired and offices built
pursuant to said estimate, and that a proper person be
appointed by your honours to inspect the carrying on
of the said work, and expending the said sum of
£193 6s. lid., to the best advantage, agreeable to the
said report.'

And the said Coote Mitchell, praying to confirm the
said report and make the same an act of assembly : it
was granted, the committee's report confirmed and made
an act of assembly, that the sum of £193 6s. lid., and
no more, be laid out in repairing the dwelling house
and rebuilding the offices, the same to be allowed the
city treasurer in his accounts, and that alderman Mead
and the reverend Coote Mitchell be appointed to super-
intend the effectual carrying on said work and
expending the said sum.

[5.] George Reynolds, alderman, setting forth, that
the committee to whom his memorial was referred, have
made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed on the petition of the
masters and wardens of the several corporations of the
city of Dublin, to whom the memorial and account of
George Reynolds, alderman, were referred, have
examined the said account, amounting to the sum of
£37 6s. 8d., claimed to be a balance due to him for
holding inquests in the said city of Dublin, as one of
the coroners of the said city, from the 18th September,
1764, to the 26th April, 1767, which sum we are of
opinion he be paid as a full compensation for the same.'

And the said George Reynolds, praying to confirm m. 215 &.
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, the said sum of £37 6s. 8d.,
to be paid by the city treasurer and allowed in his
accounts.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767. 389

[6.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the 1767.
committee of the city leases, to whom it was referred,
to consider of a proper and convenient place for the gaol Nae™ Gate
of New Gate, have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee of city leases, to whom it was Report,
referred, to consider of a proper and convenient place
for the gaol of New Gate, are of opinion that the Little Ne™ Gate

o 1 gaol.

Green is a fit place for the rebuilding a new gaol, that £ittle
piece of ground being your honours' estate and a long ^"SSl8
time waste; your committee think it would be highly
commendable in this body to grant such part thereof
as may be thought sufficient to the public, provided
such gaol be built within a reasonable time.

' And in order to forward so useful an undertaking,
your committee recommend that this or some other com-
mittee be empowered to adopt some plan and obtain pian.
proper estimates, so as to have every thing pre- Estimates.
pared to be laid before the grand jury the ensuing term Grand jury,
for the purpose of raising money by presentment to Present-
carry the same into execution; there is another object
which claims your honours' attention, that is a Sheriffs' i^1®8'
gaol and a Coroners' gaol, at present there is none of coroners'
consecnience, every person under the unhappy situation
of an arrest, if not enabled immediately to pay his
debt, is hurried into a Marshalsea.' Marshaisea.

[7.] John M'Dermott, praying to have messieurs M'Dermott.
James Horahan and Alexander Sinclare accepted of g^^e.'
as contractors for cleansing the streets, in the room of cleansing

0 streets.

Mr. Lewis Hodgson, who declined.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the said James order.
Horohan and Alexander Sinclare be accepted of as
joint contractors and undertakers with the petitioner tractors.

390

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY KOLL, 1767.

1767.

Cleansing

streets.

Gardiner.

Lease.

Lazers'
hill.

Order.

David
Ribton.
Thanks
of city.

Donation to
Blue Coat
Hospital.

Resigna-
tion.
High
Sheriff.
Order.
Expense.
Silver box.

Scriven.

Report.

Attend-
ance.
House of
commons.

for cleansing the streets, etc., in the room of Lewis r0ii xxii

to . . m. 215 6.

Hodgson, they to be subject to the same restrictions,
limitations and agreements that the said Hodgson was
to have entered into, and that the consideration of
granting the use of the city stables be referred to the
pipe water committee, who are to report their opinion
thereon to the next assembly.

[8.] The right honourable Charles Gardiner, praying m. 214.
to have a renewal of a lease of a plot or parcel of strand
at the back of Lazers' hill.

Whereupon it was granted, with such clauses and
covenants as Mr. Recorder shall advise.

[9.] Certain of the commons praying to have David
Ribton, esquire, jDresented with the thanks of this city
in a silver box, as a testimony of their approbation of
Lis public spirit in making a donation to the Blue
Coat Hospital of £91, sterling, on account of his being
permitted to resign the office of High Sheriff of this
city.

Whereupon it was granted, the expense of the said
box not to exceed <£5, to be paid by the city treasurer
and allowed in his accounts.

[10.] Edward Scriven, gentleman, setting forth, that
the committee to whom his petition was referred, have
made the following report, videlicet.

1 We, the committee of city leases, to whom the
petition of Mr. Edward Scriven was referred, have
taken the same into our consideration. We find that
Mr. Scriven constantly attended the house of commons
last session of parliament, attentive to everything in
which this city was interested, which we think upon
your honours' behalf was useful and necessary, and gave
iiim an opportunity to solicit the several particulars
in his petition mentioned, as a great part of his time
must necessarily be taken up in so constant and regular
attendance, your committee are of opinion and do

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL,

1767. 391

recommend that he be paid one hundred guineas in full gg^^
compensation for his said services.' *<»■

Whereupon it was granted, the committee's report order,
confirmed and made an act of assembly, the said sum
of one hundred guineas, to be paid by the city treasurer Payment.
and allowed in his accounts.

[11.] Thomas Mathews, city surveyor, setting forth, Mathews,
that the committee to whom his petition and account wwr.
were referred, have made the following report,

videlicet.

' We, the committee for inspecting city leases near order,
expiring, to whom the petition and account of Mr.
Thomas Mathews were referred, have examined the
*said account amounting to the sum of £32 13s. 3d., for Account,
surveying, making maps, and attendances on the Lord surveys.
Mayor and several committees for the use of the city of
Dublin, for one year commencing the 26th September,
1765, and ending the 23rd September, 1766, which sum
we are of opinion he be paid as a full compensation for

the same.'

Whereupon it was granted, the committee's report order,
confirmed and made an act of assembly, and that the
city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay Payment.
the petitioner the said sum of £32 13s. 3d., sterling, the
same to be allowed in his accounts.

[12.] Certain of the commons praying an allowance Jgatfces
for the justices' office.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, order,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay Mr. alderman Tew, Tew^
treasurer to the said office, £50, the same to be allowed
the city treasurer in his accounts.

[13.] Certain of the commons praying to assert the m^
city's right to the fishery of the river Liffey.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city's right to order,
the fishery of the river Liffey be supported at the risbt-
expense of the corporation, that if any suits should be suits.

392

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767.

1767.
Sheriffs.
Seizing
nets.

Defence.

Tolls and
customs.

Order.

Advertise-
ments.

Dover.

Grand
juries.

Order.
Payment

Gee,
overseer
pipe water
works.

Order.

Salai'3'.

Cannon,

green

keeper.

Holmes.
O'Neill, '
Serjeants at
mace.

commenced against the present Sheriffs on account of r0h XXii.

m 91-1 ft

their seizing several nets belonging to persons who had
no right or authority to fish in the said river, that the
same be defended by the city agent, the expense
attending the same to be paid by the city treasurer and
allowed in his accounts.

[14.] Certain of the commons praying to empower
committee to set the tolls and customs for one year.

Whereupon it was granted, according to the praj^er
of the said petition, and that the committee do publish
advertisements accordingly.

[15.] James Dover, praying to be considered for his
last year's attendance upon grand juries and the court
of sessions.

"Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner the
sum of thirty guineas, the same to be allowed in his
accounts.

[16.] George Gee, praying to be continued superin-
tendent and overseer of the pipe water works.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the petitioner be
continued one of the overseers of the pipe water works
for one year ending Midsummer assembly, 1768, at his
former salary, to be paid by the -city treasurer on the
Lord Mayor's warrant and allowed in his accounts.

[17.] John Cannon, praying to be considered for his
attendance as green-keeper before his appointment :
whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner fifty
shillings, the same to be allowed in his accounts.

[18.] Elias Holmes : i continued Serjeants at

[19.] John Vernon O'Neill : J mace of this city for
one year ending Midsummer assembly, 176S, upon their
severally giving such security for the redelivery of the
silver maces and faithful discharge of their office, as
the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs shall approve.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY POLL, 1767. 393

[20.] Certain of the commons praying to appoint i?67.
a committee for providing furniture for the Mayoralty bouse.'
house.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the right honourable order,
the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the
works, alderman Fettierston, alderman Barton, sir
Thomas Blackall, and six of the commons, to be named
by the commons or any five of them, whereof the Lord
Mayor and one of the Sheriffs to be always two, be and
are hereby appointed a committee to consider what
furniture ought to be provided for the said house, and furniture,
what immediate repairs are necessary to be made Repairs,
therein, and that they do direct the same to be provided
and done in the cheapest and best manner, the expense Expense.
of the said furniture and repairs not to exceed the
sum of £100, to be paid by the city treasurer on orders
from the committee, and to be allowed in his accounts.

[The six of the commons : ] Mr. Macpiay, Mr. Robert commons.
Hutton, Mr. Leech, Mr. Dunn, Mr. Guinness, and Mr.
Ginn.

[21.] Certain of the commons, praying to appoint a Beams and
committee for setting beams and scales.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the right honourable order,
the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the
works, alderman Rossel, alderman Barton, alderman
French, and six of the commons, to be named by the
commons, or any five of them, whereof the Lord Mayor
and one of the Sheriffs to be always two, be and are
appointed a committee to set by public cant the said pUbuccant.
beams and scales for one year commencing the 1st of
November next, and that they do likewise set those in
James's street and Stoney Batter for one year from the
said 1st of November, and that notice thereof be Notice

iu public

inserted in the public papers, the person or persons papers,
farming the same to pay down to the city treasurer
such sum of money as they shall be canted to.

394

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1767.

17R7.
Commons.

Treasurer'
account.

[The six of the commons : ] Mr. Verschoyle, Mr. Ron xxiij
Guinness, Mr. Eobert Hutton, Mr. Jones, Mr. Ginn, and '"
Mr. George Hutton.

[22.] Abstract of the treasurer's accounts from the
25th March, to the 24th June, 1767.

Dr.

To balance due to the treasurer
To cash paid since

£ s,

. 2004 14

. 3016 4

£5,020 19

£ s.

. 3497 1

1523 18

£5,020 19

Cr.

By cash received since

By balance due to the treasurer

Ballast
Office.

Report.

Light-
house.

Advertise-
ment in
London,
Dublin,
Amsterdam
Gazettes.

Floats.
Gabbards

Piles.

Cash,
balance.

[23.] Ballast Office report. m. 2136.

1 Since our last report to your honours, we have made
as much progress as possible in raising the new light-
house, and expect it will be soon finished, in consequence
of which we have advertised in the London, Dublin, and
Amsterdam Gazettes, that there will be a light thereon
on the 29th of September next, and that the old floating
light will be discontinued.

1 We further acquaint your honours, that we are
proceeding in the repairs of the floats and gabbards,
and hope they will be all in good order before winter.

' We are also making as much expedition in repairing
the piles as possible.

' An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, which
we have examined, and find there is a balance of
£1,447 15s. 8d., in the hands of alderman Edward
Hunt on the Ballast Office fund, and £1,310 19s. 2£d.,
overpaid by him on the account of the public money.'

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767. 395

Whereupon it was ordered, to proceed as the com- 1767
mittee shall judge proper, and that the said committee 0rder"
do set out at large in their report at the next quarter Account

of money

assembly, the sum of money expended on the south wall gspendedon
and light-house from the 1st day of July, 1766, till the £"^ight'
day of the report, as also the several projectors, over-
seers, clerks, masons, carpenters, labourers, and all
other persons emplo}'ed by the said committee,
mentioning the respective salaries or wages paid to
each, from the Ballast Master to the labourer, together
with the actual receipts of their revenue in that period, revenue? °f
as also the real balance of the public money remaining Balance
unexpended in order to lay a proper foundation for an money,
application to parliament the next session.

State of the Ballast Office accounts, from the 29th ggj^
day of April last, inclusive, to the 15th of July, 1767, acc™nt-
exclusive.

Ballast Office, Dr.

To balance of last quarter's abstract
To casb received, since

£ B.

1468 10

1045 7

£2,513 17

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid since for raising ballast

By casb paid for repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries

By cash paid house rent and petty disbursements

By cash paid for repairs of gabbards

By cash paid for account of the light ship

By cash paid interest of money borrowed . .

By balance on hands

£ e.

185 4

318 10

155 10

131 7

166 17

28 12

80 0

1447 15

£3,513 17

396

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767.

1767.
Ballast
Office
account.

Ballast Office, for the public money, Dr.

Roll xxi
in. 212.

£ s. d

Per contra, Cr.

By balance ovorpaid per last quarter's abstract

By cash expended this quarter on the south east pier ..

£ s. d.

. 740 3 3
. 564 15 11£

£1,310 19 2i

Franchise.

Declara-
tion.

' Edward Sankey. — Francis Fetherston. — John Tew.
— Timothy Allen. — Hans Bailie. — Benjamin Barton. —
Charles Burton. — Richard French. — George Reynolds.
— Francis Booker.'

1767. July 17. — Admissions to franchise.
1767. July 23. — Declaration and signatures.

m. 218.
in. 218 6

George

Faulkner,

Sheriff.

Petition.

Health

1767. July 28. — Post Assembly. m.212

[1.] George Faulkner, esquire, setting forth that
your Lordship and honours were pleased on Easter
assembly last to elect your petitioner one of the Sheriffs
of this city for the ensuing year, an honour which
your petitioner is thoroughly sensible of and most
gratefully acknowledges. It is with the greatest
reluctance, that he is obliged to petition your Lordship
and honours to excuse him serving the said office, as
want of health and limbs not only disable him from
walking and riding, for want of which exercise he is
often confined at home and not able to go abroad, which
not only disables Mm from discharging the great trust
High office, of that high and important office in the manner
requisite, and which he would endeavour to do, if he
undertook it, but even obliges him to go into the country
very frequently for the preservation of his health and
sometimes to England for recovery thereof.

Therefore prayed your Lordship and honours to M. 212 bm
accept his resignation of the said office for the reason

Resigna
tion.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767. 397

alleged, upon such small fine as to your Lordship and 1707.
honours shall seem meet.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the above named order.
George Faulkner be excused from serving the office of gSg„
one of the Sheriffs of the city of Dublin for the ensuing eitcuscd'
year, on his paying one hundred guineas as a fine for Fine,
the use of the Blue Coat Hospital and the rather as it g™ <***
is at the particular desire of Mr. Faulkner.

[2.] " We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the common
council of the city of Dublin, have this day by ballot
nominated the following four freemen of the said city, gjflgj-
resident within the said city . or liberties thereto SUentt-
adjoining, each of them worth in real and personal
estate in possession the sum of £2,000, over and above
their just debts, that is to say, Kilner Swettenham of
Abbey street, cooper, William Dunn of Bridget street,
chandler, Peter Wilson of the Blind quay, stationer,
and Henry Bevan of Linen Hall street, merchant, as
fit persons to serve in the office of Sheriff of the said
city, and do hereby return the names, with the addition
of said four persons, to you the Lord Mayor and
Aldermen of the said city, in order to your electing .
one of the said persons to be one of the Sheriffs of the
said city for the ensuing year, commencing Michaelmas
next, in the room of George Faulkner, esquire, gjg^

, ,, resigned.

resigned.

" Willoughby Lightburne." \ „ gheriffs »
" Thomas Emerson." )

" We, the Lord Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the
city of Dublin have this day elected Mr. Henry Bevan, g-J-.
of Linen Hall street, merchant, out of the within named She"«-
four persons returned to us by the Sheriffs and
Commons, as a fit person to serve in the office of Sheriff
of the said city for the ensuing year, commencing from

398 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767.

1767. Michaelmas next, in the room of George Faulkner, RoiirJI

Election. . , , , , „ ... m. 212 If

Bevau, esquire, who has been been excused from serving in
that office."

Sheriff.

" Edward Sankey, Lord Mayor."

' Edward Sankey. — Francis Fetherston. — John Tew.
— Timothy Allen. — Hans Bailie. — Benjamin Barton. —
Charles Burton. — Richard French. — George Reynolds.
— Francis Booker.'

1767. October 16.— Third Friday after the 29th of m. gas,
September.

Lord Mayor : Francis Fetherston, esquire.
Sheriffs : Patrick Boyd and Henry Bevan, esquires,
sankey, n.~| Edward Sankey, alderman, late Lord Mayor,

alderman. L J

setting forth that at a post assembly held on the 1st of

Allowance. August, 1760, an allowance was fixed for succeeding

Lord Mayors at £2,000, a year, £1,500, whereof are

payable by gales at certain times, and the remaining

£500, to be petitioned for by the late Lord Mayor on

the Michaelmas assembly after the expiration of his

Mayoralty. Mayoralty.

chief That your petitioner served the office of chief magis-

magistrate. ■/ j o

trate the last year, and hopes with that honour, dignity,

splendour, and hospitality suitable thereto, he having

expended more than the sum of £2,000, allowed for

serving the office, therefore prayed the said sum of

£500, to be paid him.

order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,

Payment, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £500,

the same to be allowed in his accounts, the said

oath. petitioner having taken the oath directed by act of

Easter assembly, 1740, in the presence of Thomas Read

and Matthew Weld, esquires, they being appointed by

the commons for that purpose.

[2.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that it

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767. 393

hath been usual to present the lord lieutenant of Ireland 1767.
upon his first coming over with the freedom of this lieutenant,
city in a gold box, therefore prayed that his excellency iauc lse'
George, lord viscount, Townshend, be presented with Townshend.
the freedom thereof in the usual manner.

Whereupon it was granted, according to the prayer order,
of the above petition, the expense of the said box not Expense

A x of gold box.

to exceed £30, to be paid by the city treasurer and
allowed in his accounts.

[3.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that it
hath been usual to present the lord lieutenant's J^|^u'
secretary upon his first coming over with the freedom j^*^'
of this city in a silver box, therefore prayed that the
right honourable lord Frederick Campbell, secretary to ^d])belL
his excellency George, lord viscount, Townshend, be
presented with the freedom thereof accordingly.

Whereupon it was granted, according to the prayer order,
of the above petition, the expense of the said box not Expense

of silver

to exceed £5, to be paid by the city treasurer and allowed box-
in his accounts.

[4.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that they Law for the
are of opinion that a law for the limitation of the oTtVe I0

c • duration of

duration of parliaments, would be oi the greatest pariia-
ad vantage to this kingdom in general and to the city
of Dublin in particular, therefore hope your Lordship DuWin.
and honours will take all constitutional means to obtain
so salutary a law.

Whereupon it was resolved, that it is the sense of this Resolution,
assembly, that the obtaining a law for limiting the Law.
duration of parliaments, under proper qualifications, P^riia-
would be of the highest advantage to the kingdom in
general, and to this city in particular, and that it will
be advisable for this city to take all constitutional
measures for the procuring such a law. Measures.

And that the right honourable the Lord Mayor, committee.
Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the works, alderman

400

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY EOLL, 1767.

1767.
Committee.

Recorder.

Application
to parlia-
ment.
City seal-

Commons.

Hulton

Bradley.

Mandamus.

Lord
Mayor.
Free of
city.

Order.

Petition.

Admission.

Freedom of
city.

Saint

Stephen's

green.

Herbage.

Lord
Mayors.

Order.

Lord
Mayor.
Friel, clerk
to Ballast
Master.

Percival Hunt, alderman Geale, alderman Barton, sir r0h xsu,
Thomas Blackall, and eight of the commons, or any
five of them, whereof the Lord Mayor and one of the
Sheriffs to be always two, be and are hereby appointed
a committee, with the assistance of Mr. Eecorder, to
consider of and prepare a proper application to parlia-
ment to be put under the city seal, agreeable to the
foregoing resolution.

[The eight of the commons:] Mr. Weld, Mr. Green,
Mr. Thompson, Mr. Maquay, Mr. John Hunt, Mr.
M'Donnell, Mr. Lynham, Mr. Thomas Read.

[5.] Certain of the commons, praying a committee
be appointed to enquire into the complaint of Hulton
Bradley, set forth in a mandamus issued out of his
majesty's court of king's bench and this day served
upon the right honourable the Lord Mayor, to swear the
said Hulton Bradley free of this city.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the said petition be
referred to the committee for increasing the revenues
of the city and lessening the expenses thereof, to be
assisted by Mr. Recorder, who are to enquire into the
nature of the admission of the said Hulton Bradley,
and if they should be of opinion that he is legally
intitled to his freedom, that the right honourable the
Lord Mayor do swear him in, otherwise that defence
be taken to the said mandamus on behalf of the city.

[6.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that Saint
Stephen's Green lies contiguous to the Mayoralty house,
and the profits arising to your honours from the herbage
thereof are but small and insignificant, therefore recom-
mend that the same be appropriated to the use of the
present and all future Lord Mayors.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the herbage of the
above green be appropriated to the use of the present
Lord Mayor during his Mayoralty.

[7.] George Friel, clerk to the Ballast Master, setting m. 225.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767. 401

forth, that the committee of directors for the Ballast 1767.
Office, to whom his petition was referred, have made
the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee of directors for the Ballast Office, EeP°rfc-

' Ballast

to whom the within petition was referred, are of opinion 0ffiee-
that the petitioner, George Friel, in consideration of ^S^iUed
his long and faithful services, be continued during the Baiiasrt
pleasure of the city, clerk to the Ballast Master, he
giving sufficient security to the present and every
future Ballast Master that may be appointed, and we
are further of opinion, that the consideration of said
Friel's demand for particular services be postponed Demand,
until the committee be possessed of some information
and vouchers which could not be had in time.'

Whereupon it was granted, the committee's report order,
confirmed and made an act of assembly, and the com-
mittee continued.

[8.] George Doyle, surgeon, setting forth that the George
committee of city leases, to whom his petition was JJJ* a
referred, have made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee of city leases, to whom the Report,
petition of George Doyle, surgeon, was referred, have
considered the same, and are of opinion that a surgeon surgeon to

•*• ° coroners.

ought to be employed to attend the coroners of this city

on holding inquests, and also the city magistrates when inquests.

called upon by them.

' We therefore are of opinion, that a yearly salary Salary,
of twenty guineas be paid the said George Doyle for
his attendances as aforesaid, exclusive of any present- mreeustesut~
ments that may be granted to him by the several grand
juries of this city for visiting the prisoners in the gaol Prisoners

•> J a i o ln Newgate.

of Newgate.'

And the said George Doyle, praying to confirm the order,
said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly.

VOL. XI. DP

402 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767.

1-67. [9.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the Ron xxii.

custom", committee to whom their petition was preferred, have

made the following report, videlicet.
Eeport. t ^y ^\e committee empowered by act of assembly

Public cant. ' I J J

Justoml4 t° set by public cant the tolls and customs of this city
for one year, commencing the 29th September, 1767,
met for that purpose on the 25th August instant, when
the same were let in the following manner, videlicet.

Avenues. ' The avenues of James's street, the Park Gate, and
Dolphin's Barn, the avenues of Stoney Batter and
Glassmahonogue, and the avenues of Dromcondra and

Mahon. Ballybough bridge to Mr. Timothy Mahon for £3,850,
he being declared the best bidder for the said several
avenues.

' The avenue of Stephen's Green to Mr. William

Taylor. Taylor for £70.

Mahon. ' And the petty customs to the said Timothy Mahon

for £80.

' We observe to your honours, that the aforesaid

Deposits, persons have paid their deposits to the city treasurer,

security, and given security for payment of their proportions of
the sums remaining on the 29th day of every month
during the said year.'

order. And the said commons, praying to confirm the said

report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made
an act of assembly, and the committee continued.

[10.] Certain of the commons praying to have proper m 225 K

saint communications between the gravel and grass walks of

Stephen's & °

Green. Saint Stephen's Green.

order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the contents of the

said petition be referred to the committee for superin-
tending the green-keepers, who are hereby empowered
to make such communications between the gravel and

walks. grass walks as they shall think proper, the expense

Expense, attending the same not to exceed £50, to be paid by

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767. 403

the city treasurer on orders from the committee, and 1767.
to be allowed in his accounts.

[11.] George Roe continued gaoler of Newgate until Roe, gaoler

L J f & o Newgate.

Michaelmas assembly, 1768, upon his giving such
security for indemnifying the city from all escapes and
for the faithful discharge of his office, as the Lord
Mayor and Sheriffs shall approve.

[12.] Memorial of the governors of the Marine f^™f
School, praying aid to support the same.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, order,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the governors of the
Marine School fifty guineas, the same to be allowed in Grant,
his accounts.

[13.] The widow and four orphans of the late waters,

L J J- widow.

Richard Waters, stone cutter, praying city's favour.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer order,
do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay alderman Tew
and sir Thomas Blackall £20, for the use of the widow Grant,
and her children above mentioned, the same to be
allowed in his accounts.

[14.] Margaret and Samuel Reed appointed city Beed,
plumbers during the city's pleasure. plumbers.

[15.] Hannah Ashe, praying the sum of £10, usually Ashe,
allowed to former housekeepers for finding pens, ink, keeper,
and other necessaries for the use of the city.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, order.
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the above named Payment.
Hannah Ashe the above sum of £10, the same to be
allowed in his accounts.

[16.] The parishioners of Saint Audoen, praying to saint

L J l ' i J & Audoen's

be allowed the sum of £20, for lighting the bridges in i)arisl1-
the said parish.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, order,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the church wardens
of the said parish £20, sterling, the same to be allowed KghtL*

-, . bridges.

m his accounts.

404

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767.

1767.

Saint

John's

parish.

Lighting

bridges.

Order.

Payment.

Treasurer':
account.

[17.] The minister, church wardens, and parishioners rouxxu.
of the parish of Saint John, praying to have the usual
allowance of £20, for lighting and guarding that part
of Essex and Ormond bridges in said parish.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the above petitioners
£20, sterling, to be allowed in his accounts, the same
being granted on account of the inability of the parish.

[18.] Abstract of the treasurer's accounts from the m. 224.
24th of June, to the 29th September, 1767.

Dr.

To balance due to the treasurer
To cash paid since

£ s.

. 1523 18

3506 0

£5,119 18

£ s.

. 3982 5

1137 13

£5,119 18

Or.

By cash paid since

By balance due to the treasurer

Ballast
Office.

Report.

Piles.
Uabbards

Light
on new
Light
house.

Wharf.

[19.] Ballast Office report.

' Since our last report to your honours, we have
proceeded in repairing the piles and gabbards with as
much expedition as possible, and shall contrive to do
every thing necessary for keeping them in the best order
and condition.

' We beg leave further to inform your honours, we
have had a light on the new light house every night
since the 29th of last month, and have the pleasure to
find it answers very well.

' We have also finished the wharf at the north side
of the new wall near the block house, and have begun
another at the south side, which we apprehend will be

South wall.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1767. 405

of great use in case of accidents happening to ships, ggr.
either in the harbour or on the South Bull; the gjg*"^
necessity of carrying on these works, obliged us to
borrow £600, at four per cent., and we beg leave to Loan.
report it as our opinion to your honours, that it will
be necessary to borrow as much more as will amount
with said sum to £2,000, for which we beg your
honours will empower us to pass debentures.

' We herewith lay before your honours, pursuant to Account.
your order last assembly, an account of the sums of
money expended upon the south wall and light house g^JJ
from the 1st of July, 1766, to this clay, mentioning the house'
respective salaries or wages paid to the several pro- *gj^
jectors, overseers, clerks, masons, carpenters, and
labourers.

' An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, which cash.
we have examined, and find there is a balance of Balance.
£1,926 4s. 6d., in the hands of alderman Edward Hunt, Hunt,
on the Ballast Office fund, and £1,892 8s. 6d., overpaid
on the account of the public money.

' We further beg leave to inform your honours, that
we have discharged for the winter season nineteen
labourers from the piles and eight from Ring's End Labourers.

point.'

Whereupon it was ordered, to proceed as the com- order,
mittee shall think proper, and that the borrowing the
sum of £2,000, upon the Ballast Office seal, be post- J00naendpost-
poned for some time.

State of Ballast Office accounts from the 15th day of *£*
July last inclusive to the 14th day of October, 1767, acc0Ullt-
exclusive.

Ballast Office, Dr.

£ s. d.

To balance of last quarter's abstract ... - - 144' lo 8i

niqq 19 5

To cash received since . . - — — _2_____

£2,647 8 1£

406

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY EOLL, 1767.

1767.

Ballast
Office

account.

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid this quarter for raising ballast

By cash paid for repairs on the piles

By cash paid house rent and petty disbursements

By cash paid repairs on gabbards

By cash paid for account of the light ship ...

By cash paid for interest of money borrowed

By balance

Koll xxii.
in. 224 b.

£ s.

203 14

168 16

152 19

83 3

14 10

. 98 0

1926 4

£2,647 8

Ballast Office, for the public money, Dr.

£ s. d.

Per contra, Cr.

By balance overpaid as per last quarter's abstract
By cash expended this quarter on the south east pier

£ s.

1310 19

581 9

£1,892 8

1 Francis Fetherston.'

Franchise.

Declara-
tion.

' Francis Fetherston. — Henry Bevan. — Thomas Mead. m. 224.
— James Taylor. — Percival Hunt. — Timothy Allen. —
Patrick Hamilton. — Philip Crampton. — Benj amin
Barton.'

1767. October 16. — Admissions to franchise.
1767. October 22. — Declaration and signatures.

m. 222.

m. 222 b.

South Wall and Light House.

Abstract of ^n abstract of the money expended upon the South m. 223.
expended Wall and Light House, from the 1st day of July, 1766,
souti^waii to the 14th day of October, 1767, comprising the rates
house. of materials, with the salaries and wages paid for work-
manship, et cetera, from the Ballast Master down to the
labourers, within that period.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY EOLL, 1767. 407

Bollxxii. '767.

m. 223.

Abstract. Abstract.

South wall.
~ , Light

Jt> S. Q. house.

To cash paid for mountain stone, 383

stones, containing 4452 feet, at 8Jd.

per foot ... ... ... 157 13 5

To cash paid for mountain stones. 2 stones

containing 40 feet, at lOd. per foot 1 13 4

To cash paid for walling and fillings,

stones from Bullock, 3382 tons, at

20d. per ton ... ... 281 16 8

To cash paid for hammered blocks from

Bullock, 24 in number, at 8s. 6d.

per block ... ... ... 10 4 0

To cash paid slabs from Bullock, 69 in

number, at 5s. per slab ... ... 17 5 0

To cash paid for large stones from

Bullock, 21 in number, at 10s. per

stone ... ... ... 10 10 0

* To cash paid, incidental charges at

Bullock ... ... ... 24 11 5

To cash paid carriage of stones from

Bullock in the above period ... 123 11 0

To cash paid for quarry stones from

Clontarffe, 488 tons, at 2s. per ton ... 48 16 0
To cash paid for carriage of ditto, at 4d.

per ton ..'. ... ... 820

To cash paid a mason, 278 days, at 2s. 3d.

per day ... ... ... 31 5 6

To cash paid boat hire and other petty

expenses returned in the masons'

account of the 11th April, 1767 ... 0 6 6
To cash paid stone cutters, videlicet:

George Darley, 2 days in this period,

at 3s. per day ... ... ... 060

£ s.

d.. Eoll xxii.
m. 223.

5 IB

19 15

44 2

2 15

138 3

264 16

408 DLBLIN ASSEMBLY EOLL, 1767.

1767.

Abstract, To cash paid stone cutters, videlicet:
south wan. George Barley's man, 46 days, at

house.

2s. 6d. per day ...

A. To cash paid carpenters, 158 days, at

2s. 6d. per day ...

B. To cash paid carpenters, 441 days, at

2s. per day

To cash paid sawyers attending carpenters,
£2 14s. 6d., and glue, Is.

U. To cash paid labourers, 1842 days, at
Is. 6d. per day

T). To cash paid labourers, 4540 days, at
Is. 2d. per day ...

E. To cash paid labourers, 331 days, at Is.

per day ... ... ... 16 11 0

P. To cash paid Benjamin Doyle, the over-
seer and clerk, 35 weeks, at 18s. per
week ... ... ... 31 10 0

G. To cash paid John Mullarkey (successor
to Doyle), 27 weeks, at 5s. 5d. per week

H. To cash paid labourers for extraordinary
work in the above period

To cash paid for lime in the above period,
236 J hogsheads, at lid. per hogshead

To cash paid for timber

To cash paid for iron work ...

To cash paid Mr. Smith, the architect, one

year's salary due 25th March last ... 200 0 0

To cash paid for coarse gravel for filling
between the walls, 5129 tons, at 4d.
per ton ... ... ... 85 9 8

7 6

3 16

38 6

27 0

.36 13

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY E0LL, 1767. 409

oil xxii. £ S. d. 1707.

To cash paid for tumbrils to spread the soutiTwaii.

coarse gravel ... ... ... 26 0 1 house-

I. To cash paid, contingent expenses in the

above period ... ... ... 429 4 11£

£2,193 7 0
To cash received in the treasury iji the
above period, the balance of the
grant of last session ... ... 880 0 0

Balance over expended in the above

period ... ... ... £1,313 7 0

" Francis Fetherston."

223 b. # Contra charge is for the three hands of the Bullock
smack, 17 weeks, at 28s. per week, £23 16s. 0d., and
repairs on the boat and truck, £0 15s. 5d.

A. Carpenters working at the light house are paid 2s. 6d.
per day.

B. Carpenters working at the yard are paid 2s. 0d. per
day.

0. There are 5 labourers at 18d. per day, being found
more expert and. useful in the work, and answering the
end of masons.

D. There are about 15 masons at 14d. per day.

E. There is but one labourer at 12d. ; he is one of the
hands of the light ship.

F. Benjamin Doyle, overseer and clerk under Mr.
Smith, he received and measured the stones and made
out the weekly account : — died February last.

q. John Mullarky succeeded Doyle, he is a tolerable

good clerk, at 5s. 5d. per week.
H# This extraordinary work is sitting up at night to

watch the floats and light house.

410 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1767-1768.

I. To explain the multiplicity of articles, which com- Eoii xXii.J

m. 223 b, J

Attract, pose this sum, would be very tedious and voluminous,
wan*.*1 it is therefore humbly hoped, it will suffice to observe
house. a few of the capital sums, videlicet — The Bullock
smack, new built, measuring 33f tons, at 75s. per
[week,] £1-45 10s. 3d., the three hands on board her
at 28s., [per week,] £36 8s. 0d., together with the
labourers employed in constructing the new wharfs,
which amount to above £7 or £8 per week.

1767. November 6. — Post Assembly.
[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that they
Petitions to apprehend it will be proper that a petition be presented

house of .

commons, by your honours to the honourable the house of
sum. commons, to be reimbursed the sum of £2,756 18s. 10d.,

expended by them in the execution of the works of the
canaf Grand Canal, and likewise a petition for their aid in
Baiiast carrying on the Ballast Office wall, that the annexed

Office wall. J °

petitions have been prepared by Mr. Recorder for that
city seal, purpose, therefore prayed to order the city seal to be
affixed thereto.

Whereupon it was granted.

' Francis Fetherston. — Thomas Mead. — James Taylor.
— Percivall Hunt. — Timothy Allen. — Patrick Hamilton.
— Philip Crampton. — Benjamin Barton.'

1768. 1768. January 22. — Fourth Friday after the 25th of m.235.

December, 1767.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the

committee appointed for inspecting city leases near

Memorial, expiring, to whom the memorial of the commissioners

sione^of and overseers of the barracks was referred, find that a

barracks. , .

report was made to your honours in Easter assembly,
1767, which was confirmed and made an act of assembly
in the following words, videlicet.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY EOLL. 1768. 411

: We, the committee appointed for inspecting city i768.
leases near expiring, to whom the memorial of the Keport
honourable the commissioners and overseers of the
barracks was referred, find thereby his majesty" s
intention of rebuilding the palatine square and gK^"8
enlarging it in such . manner that together with the square-
royal square, it will be capable of containing the
whole garrison of Dublin, without quartering any of Su'waT of
the troops on the inhabitants, that the ground already
in his majesty's possession is sufficient for that purpose,
but in order to render the approaches to it more con-
venient, it will be necessary to inclose within the
precincts of the barracks, a strip of ground belonging (jr0Uiidin

. . Oxman-

to the city m Oxmantown green. town green.

' Your committee having met to take this matter into
consideration, appointed some gentlemen of the com-
mittee to view the ground desired by the memorialists,
who reported to us that the enlarging the barracks in Barracks,
the manner proposed will not be only vastly ornamental,
but also attended with the most advantageous con-
sequences to the inhabitants of this city, as it will
entirely prevent the quartering of troops upon them, Jfu^J°g
heretofore much complained of.

' We therefore are of opinion, that a fee farm grant ^reaeuftarm
be made to the said commissioners and overseers of the
ground petitioned for by the memorialists in Oxman-
town green next adjoining the said palatine square,
at the yearly rent of five shillings, the said commis- Rent.
sioners and overseers obliging themselves to stop up
the gate now open and leading from the barracks into Gate,
the said green, and not to suffer any passage or gateway Passage,
to be made thereto or therefrom, nor to erect any
building whatsoever upon the wall, which shall inclose
and separate the barracks from the green.

' Your committee having maturely considered their
present application, are of opinion that the foregoing tum.

412

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768.

176S

Fee farm

grant.

Surrender
of ground.

Gate.

Order.

Lease.

Market
house.

Keport.

act of assembly be rescinded and that in lieu of the
ground granted thereby, a fee farm grant be made to
the said commissioners and overseers of the barracks
for the use of his majesty, of 42 feet of Oxmantown
next adjoining and ranging in front to the new palatine
square from end to end, at the yearly rent of five
shillings, in consideration of their disclaiming any
right or title they may or can have to the ground
already granted to them by the above recited act of
assembly.

' And also in consideration of surrendering or recon-
veying to your honours the ground formerly granted
by the city to the crown, for the purpose of building
a chapel for the use of the troops, the said commissioners
and overseers obliging themselves to stop up the gate
now open and leading from the barracks into said
green, and not to suffer any passage or gateway to be
made thereto or therefrom, nor to erect any building
whatsoever upon the wall, which shall enclose and
separate the barracks from the green.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and that a fee farm lease of the within
mentioned ground be perfected to the commissioners and
overseers of the barracks for the use of his majesty's
troops, at a yearly "rent of five shillings, upon their
complying with the terms mentioned in said report,
such clauses and covenants to be inserted therein as
Mr. Recorder shall advise.

[2.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee of city leases who were directed to consider
the present situation of their market house, had made
the following report.

' We, the committee for inspecting city leases, inform
your honours, that it appears to us, that the present

Roll ixii.
m. 235 6. I

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768. 413

situation of the market house is highly inconvenient, 170s.

, ,, • 1 . • Market

and for very weighty reasons appearing to your com- house,
mittee, are of opinion that Oxmantown green will be grxe°1nultown
the most convenient situation for erecting a new market
house upon.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said order,
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made
an act of assembly.

[3.] John Wilson setting forth, that the committee ^^
for rebuilding a house and offices in Ram alley, had
made the following report.

' We, the committee appointed for rebuilding an house ^^'
and offices in Earn alley, to whom the petition of John RanTaUey.
Wilson was referred, have considered the same and are
of opinion that the account by him laid before us for
bricklayer's work done, for rebuilding offices in Ram
alley aforesaid, is a just one, amounting to the sum of
£268 18s. lid., and therefore are of opinion, he be paid Account
the said sum in full satisfaction for the same, which
is submitted to your honours.'

And the said John Wilson, pra}ang to confirm the Order,
said report and make the same an act of assembly : Payment,
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly.

T4.1 Certain of the commons setting forth, that the mhoi-

L -> ° paving-,

heads of a bill for paving, cleansing and lighting the and ugiit-
streets of this city upon a new plan, are prepared to c"ity*he
be laid before parliament at their next meeting.

That should the same pass into law, the interest of interest,
every individual, as well as the dignity and property Property,
of this corporation will be essentially effected, and corpora-
therefore it should receive from your honours a
deliberate consideration.

That your petitioners recommend some method should Method,
be adopted, as to regulate this corporation's proceeding Proceeding.

414 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768.

1768. upon this occasion, as to determine what part your r0h *x

. . m. 234.,

honours ought to take m the opposition to or the pro-
moting the said heads of a bill.

order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the heads of a bill,

which have been granted and served upon the members

Particulars, of this corporation, appearing to be many particulars
exceptionable however well intended, therefore ordered
that the right honourable the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs,
treasurer, masters of the works, alderman John Cooke,
alderman Percival Hunt, alderman Crampton, alder-
man Tew, alderman Barton, sir Thomas Blackall,
alderman Matthew Bailie, alderman Reynolds.

commons. And sixteen of the commons, to be named by the
commons or any seven of them, whereof the Lord Mayor
and one of the Sheriffs to be always two, be and are

committee, appointed a committee, with the assistance of Mr. m,234b

Recorder. Recorder, to attend to the progress of the said bill,
and such measures of opposing the same if necessary,

Bin. and for substituting such other bill as shall appear to

them more agreeable to the constitution and circum-

city agent, stances of this city, and that for that purpose the city
agent do supply the said committee with copies of the

Acts- acts lately passed relative to the paving, lighting, and

London. cleansing the cities of London and Bristol, and that

Bristol. °

such sums, as shall be necessarily expended by the
agent under the direction of the committee, be
reimbursed and allowed said treasurer in his accounts.
Auditors [5.1 Auditors of the city accounts for the last vear.

of city ^ J

accounts. Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, alderman Cooke, alderman
Crampton, sir Timothy Allen, sir James Taylor,
alderman Barton, alderman Reynolds, alderman
French, alderman Booker, Mr. Weld, Mr. R. Hutton,
Mr. Darragh, Mr. Leech, Mr. Dunn, Mr. M'Dermott,
Mr. Dickinson, Mr. Elliott, Mr. Stakes, Mr. Maquay, Mr.
Richey, Mr. R. Webster, Mr. Jones, Mr. Green, Mr.
Guinness, Mr. Read, Mr. Harding, Mr. Strong.

DUUIJN ASSJ.UW.y ROLL, 1768. 4 1 -r>

Or any nine of them, whereof the Lord Mayor and am.
one of the Sheriffs to be always two, be and are
appointed auditor! of the city accounts for one year, kuuton
that is to say, from Michaelmas in the year of our aeemmtf.
Lord. L766, to Michaelmas in the year L767.

Willoughby Lightirarne and Thorns Erne
esquires, are appointed i of the city works for m

tuning year.

[6.] Certain of the commons setting forth, thai they £■**,
are highly sensible of the great expense the late Lord u

May' at, in providing horses and

public days for I ented to the city**

by the most noble James, duke of Leinster.

That us the naid Lord Mayor was the first put tojg*,
that expense, and who supported that office with thi
utmost propriety and maintained an hospitable inter- u-^ubty.
course with his fellow citizens never received ai
gratuity for that extraordinary d that

he might be allowed such sum as should be thought AJWimm*.
proper to recompense him foj

Whereupon it was ordered, thai treafurer do, oh.,,-.

on the Lord Ma; ay alderman ESd

Sankey the sum of £50, to reimburse him tl
at in providii

[7.] Certain If the commons forth, that it

proper to • un of tl

• in the most honourable manner to
-end do d, lord

Clonfert and Kilmacduagl

and ■'.'■

tot the regard he , . -;jg

kingdom, by taking under hi

patronage and enc/jura;/. manufad :1 **?"»•'«*

as to expre
lordship has been pleased lafc r on tl

416 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768.

1768. reverend doctor Blundell, their chaplain, by promoting r0h m

city chap- him to a considerable benefice in the diocese of Clonfert,

lain.

promotion, and therefore prayed that the freedom of this city be

presented to his lordship in a gold box.
order. Whereupon it was granted : in consideration of his

Franchise lordship's attention in providing for the natives of this

kingdom in his diocese and for his particular respect

for this city in providing for their chaplain, and that
Gold box. the same be presented in a gold box of twenty guineas

value, to be paid by the city treasurer and allowed in

his accounts.

[8.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that they
Miiitia. conceive that a proper and well regulated militia is the m. 233 b
Defence of most fit and constitutional internal defence and most

city.

suitable circumstances of this city.
Charles That they hold a grateful sense of the part, which

Lord the national representative and his excellency the lord

Townshend. , , . .. „

lord lieu- lieutenant have already taken to obtain a law tor

tenant.

Duration of limiting the duration of parliaments in this kingdom,
ments. hoping the same will be carried into law, and therefore
prayed that a committee may be appointed to prepare
instructions to our representatives in parliament,
Law. desiring their attention to obtain a law for establishing

Miiitia. an useful militia, and also the law for limiting the
Pariia- duration of parliaments in this kingdom.

ments. x °

order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the right honourable

the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, masters of the works, alder-
man Percival Hunt, alderman Crampton, alderman
Forbes, alderman Barton, sir Thomas Blackall, alder-
man Matthew Bailie, and twelve of the commons to be
named by the commons, or any five of them, of whom
the Lord Mayor and one of the Sheriffs to be always

committee, two, be and are appointed a committee to prepare
instructions agreeable to the prayer of the above

Doctor petition, and that the said committee do wait on doctor

Lucales Charles Lucas with their instructions, and that the

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY BOLL, 1768. 417

said committee do meet for those purposes on Tuesday 1768.
next.

[The twelve of the commons : ] Mr. McGonnery, Mr. commons.
Green, Mr. Guinness, Mr. J. Read, Mr. R. Hutton, Mr.
Darley, Mr. Hawkshaw, Mr. Worthington, Mr.
Darragh, Mr. P. Wilson, Mr. Dickinson, Mr. J. Wilson.

[9.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that by
an act passed this session of parliament, the sum of Sank"
£5,000, was granted to your honours for carrying on Grant,
the wall, called the Ballast Office wall, that the ensuing g»g^
season will be the proper time for expediting the said wal1,
work, for which purpose money will be wanting, but
in order to receive the same from his majesty's treasury,
it will be necessary to give a receipt under the city
seal to his majesty's vice treasurers, and therefore
prayed that such receipt be prepared and put under the
city seal for the purpose aforesaid.

Whereupon it was ordered, that a receipt be prepared 2^*
in such manner as Mr. Recorder shall advise, and put Recorder,
under the city seal, and that the sum of £5,000, above city seal,
mentioned, be paid over to the committee of directors BaUastorsof
of the Ballast Office or any eleven of them, to be applied 0ffice'
as the said act directs, and it is further ordered, that
the said committee of directors of the Ballast Office,
or any eleven of them, give the Lord Mayor and
Sheriffs a receipt for the said sum of £5,000, to be Receipt,
accountable r the same to parliament, to be lodged ^^,
in the Town Clerk's office. office-

[10.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that by s^todb
an act passed this session, the sum of £2,756 18s., Parliament-
sterling, was granted to the city to reimburse so much
expended and contracted for by the city towards
finishing the Grand Canal. That as the legislature was Grand
pleased to grant the city, the said sum of £2,756 18s.,
sterling, your petitioners conceive that it will be proper
to obtain the payment thereof as soon as possible, but

VOL. XI. E E

418

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY KOLL, 1768.

1768.
Receipt.

City seal.

Order.
Eecorder.

Admission
of attorneys
to practise
in the city
court.
Freedom of
city.

By-law.

Freemen.

Order.

Admit-
tance.

Attorneys.
City court.

Justices'
office.

Order.

Payment.

Tew.

before that can be effected, it will be necessary to give Ron xsii.

, , . . , . m. 232.

a receipt under the city seal to his majesty s vice
treasurers, and therefore prayed that such a receipt
may be prepared and put under the city seal for the
purpose aforesaid.

Whereupon it was ordered, that a receipt be prepared
in such a manner as Mr. Recorder shall advise for the
purpose in said petition mentioned.

[11.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that it
has hitherto been the custom in the admission of
attorneys to practise in the city court, to grant them
the freedom of this city, which if not prevented may
be attended with many inconveniences, that they appre-
hend it would tend to the honour of this corporation
if a by-law was made that such persons, who should
be hereafter desirous of becoming attorneys of the said m. 232 b.
court, might obtain the same upon their petition to the
assembly in the usual manner without being previously
admitted freemen of this honourable city, and therefore
prayed that such a by-law may be made or such other
to remedy said inconvenience as shall seem expedient.

Whereupon it was ordered, that for the future, the
Lord Mayor and Sheriffs for the time being with Mr.
Recorder be empowered to admit such persons as they
shall think proper, who are attorneys of the superior
courts, attorneys of the city court, although they are
not freemen.

[12.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
receipts of money at the justices' office have con-
siderably decreased, and are insufficient to defray the
necessary expenses thereof, and therefore prayed that
such allowance may be granted as shall be thought
meet.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay Mr. alderman Tew
the sum of £50, to defray the expense of the justices'

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768. 419

office, the same to be allowed in said treasurer's 1768.
accounts.

[13.] Mary Kennedy, widow, setting forth, that she ^dn0n^dy'
is the widow of Thomas Kennedy, who was tenant to
the city for Taghdowe in the county of Kildare, that Taghdowe.
upon a late settlement with the city, she surrendered
her interest in the said lands, which was her all, upon
getting an annuity of £15, for her life. Annuity.

That notwithstanding her utmost frugality, she can
scarcely support herself upon the said annuity, and support,
therefore prayed that such additional allowance might Allowance,
be granted her as should be thought proper, to enable
her at least [to] live comfortably in her declining state.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the petitioner's order,
annuity be increased to £20, a year, to be paid by the Jjgjg^
city treasurer and allowed in his accounts.

[14.] Robert Stephenson, merchant, allowed f0^hen-
£6 lis. 4Jd., being one half of the sum of £13 2s. 9d., Allowance,
laid out by him in levelling, paving and repairing Paving,
that part of Britain street, fronting the house and offices Britain
of George Rochfort, esquire. RocMwt.

[15.] Henry Mountain and the rest of the city music g£££k
setting forth, that they have attended for one year
ending Christmas last, with due care and close
attendance whenever called upon, and therefore prayed
fur such allowance as should be thought proper.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the present band of order,
city music be continued for one year ending next
Christmas assembly, in the year of our Lord, 1769, and
that their salary of £60, be paid thern, on the Lord s.^
Mayor's warrant, for their last year's attendance, the
same to be allowed the treasurer in his accounts, subject
however to such deduction as the Lord Mayor arid
Sheriffs shall think proper to make on account of any
neglect or failure in their attendances.

[16.] Edmond Madden setting forth, that he has for Madden.

420 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768.

1768. many years been employed as supervisor of the water Roiixxii.

ofUwit£r30r course, prayed to be continued in the said employment.

o°rden' Whereupon it was ordered, that the petitioner be con-

tinued supervisor of the water course for one year
ending next Christmas assembly in the year 1769, at

salary. a salary of £10, to be paid by the city treasurer and
allowed in his accounts, he the said Edmond to make

Return. a return once a fortnight to the Lord Mayor of the
state and condition of the course.

Brown, [17.] Henry Brown setting forth, that he has been

a freeman of this honourable city and of the corporation
of weavers for several years past, but by heavy losses
in trade and supporting a large helpless family of m. 231 b.
children, his circumstances are greatly reduced.

And there is a vacancy for porter of the Tholsel
of the said city, and he being healthy and every way
a fit person for said employment, humbly offered himself
as a proper [person] to fill said vacancy, and prayed
to be appointed to said place.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the petitioner be

weaver.

Porter of
Tholsel.

Order.

Appoint- appointed porter of the Tholsel during the city's

ment

salary. pleasure, at an annual salary of £10, and twenty
shillings a year for brooms, to commence Christmas
last, the same to be paid by the city treasurer and
allowed in his accounts.

cusack. [18.] Christopher Cusack, prisoner in Newgate,

setting forth, that he was tried and found guilty of
assaulting one Mary Dillon, and ordered to be confined
one month and fined in the sum of £5, that he is not

Pine. able to pay the said fine, and prayed to have the same
reduced.

order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the said fine of £5

be reduced to sixpence.

Bagan. [19.] James Fagan, prisoner in Newgate, setting

forth, that he was tried and found guilty of a riot and
assault, and ordered by the court to be six months

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768. 421

confined, to be whipt twice, which punishment he had 1768.
suffered and also fined in the sum of £20, which he is Fine,
unable to pay, and prayed that the said fine might
be reduced.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the above fine of order.
£20, be reduced to sixpence.

[20.] Christopher Fitzsimons, deputy high constable, Fitzsimons.
allowed £5, to be paid by the city treasurer and allowed Allowance.
in his accounts.

[21.] Margaret Maley, widow, and daughter of Malay,

widow.

William Clements, late porter of the Tholsel, allowed
£5, to be paid by the city treasurer and allowed in Grant,
his accounts.

[22.] An abstract of the treasurer's accounts from Treasurer's

L J account.

the 29th of September, to the 25th of December, in
the year of our Lord, 1767.

Dr.

£ s. d.

To balance due to the treasurer, per last abstract ... . . 1137 13 3£

To cash paid since ... ... ... ... ... 4862 17 6

£6,000 10 9£

Cr.

£ a. d.

By cash received since ... ... ... ... 2680 18 6

By balance to the treasurer ... ... ... ... 3319 12 3;

£6,000 10 9J

[23.] Ballast Office report. ggg«*

1 Since our last report to your honours, we have pro- Report.

ceeded in the repairs of the gabbards and floats, and oabbards.

shall continue doing everything necessary for keeping

them in the best order and condition.

' We have also proceeded in the repairs of the piles, Piles.

and are sorry to inform your honours, they have suffered

422 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768.

1768 some damage from the late tempestuous weather, which Eon xxh.

& .ii m- 23°-

shall be made good as soon as possible.

CaSh. ' An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, which

Balance, we have examined, and find there is a balance of
£2,112 16s. lid., in the hands of alderman Edward

Hunt. Hunt, Ballast Master, on the Ballast Office fund, and
that there is £3,309 9s. 9d., overpaid on the account of
the public money, all which is humbly submitted to
your honours.'

order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the foregoing be

confirmed and made an act of assembly, and that the
committee do proceed as they shall think proper.

Baiiast State ["of the! Ballast Office accounts, from the 14th

Office L

account, of October last inclusive, to the 20th day of January,
1768, exclusive.

Ballast Office, Dr.

£ s.

m. 230 b
d.

To balance of last quarter's abstract

... 1926 4

To cash raceived since

... 953 4

£2,879 9

Per contra, Cr.

£ B.

By casb paid tbis quarter for raising ballast

... 158 4

By casb paid tbis quarter for repairs on tbe piles

... 109 17

By casb paid six months' salaries

... 322 0

By cash paid house rent and petty disbursements

32 4

By cash paid repairs on gabbards

... 124 2

By cash paid interest

20 0

By balance

... 2112 16 11

£2,879 9

Ballast Office for the public money, Dr.
To

Per contra, Cr.

By balance overpaid per last quarter's abstract

By cash expended this quarter on the south east pier

£ s. d.

1892

417

£2,309 9 9^

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL,

1768. 423

T24 "1 Certain of the commons setting forth, that the ms.

L *J . , . • <• Grai

Grant of

L J . . « Grant ol

legislature were pleased to grant, this session c.i m0ney.

& * • i • j • Widening

parliament, for the purpose of opening and widening avenue* of
the avenues of this city and for the use of building Bunding
an Exchange on Cork hill, a considerable sum of on Cork
money, and whereas it will be necessary, that the said
ground and buildings when erected should be vested
in some particular persons for the uses intended.
Therefore vour petitioners hope, as this ancient and

* ■*■ . , i Corpora-

loyal corporation is much interested in the government tion.
of such buildings, and it is presumed a considerable
part of the revenue and estate of this city may be
taken into immediate consideration, and that a petition parliament,
under the city seal be presented to parliament, praying city seal.
that the property in the ground and buildings in the Property,
above petition mentioned may be vested in the ^
corporation of the city. tion-

Reserving to fifteen merchants to be chosen out of Merchants.
and by the committee of merchants, to whose public .
spirit and indefatigable industry, the progress already
made towards the obtaining so necessary a building,
is principally owing, together with a committee, con- committee,
sisting of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, and twelve
aldermen, to be appointed by the Lord Mayor and
Board of Aldermen, and twelve of the Commons, to
be appointed* by the Sheriffs and Commons, a power
of planning, conducting and finally carrying into
execution the intended building of an Exchange. E*chanfe.

1768. January 28.— Post Assembly.

[1.] Certain of the commons, setting forth, that an £—»_
order was conceived by the foregoing act of last general
assembly, that a petition should be prepared and pat J-*"
under the city seal, and presented to the honourable — —
house of commons for the purposes in said act of
assembly set forth, and therefore prayed that a com-

424 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768.

1768. mittee may be appointed for the purpose only of RoU xxu.

preparing said petition, agreeable to the said act [of]
assembly.

order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the right honourable

the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the
works, alderman Crampton, sir Timothy Allen, alder-
man Barton, sir Thomas Blackall, and eight of the

committee, commons, to be named by the commons or any five
of them, whererof the Lord Mayor and one of the
Sheriffs to be always two, be and are appointed a m. 229 a.
committee, with the assistance of Mr. Recorder, to
prepare a petition to be put under the city seal and
presented to the honourable house of commons for the
purpose aforesaid.

commons. [The eight of the commons : ] Mr. Ribton, Mr. Dunn,
Mr. King, Mr. Hart, Mr. J. Montgomery, Mr. Webster,
Mr. Jones, Mr. Green.

' Francis Fetherston. — Henry Bevan. — Edward
Sankey. — Thomas Mead. — John Tew. — James Taylor.
— Philip Crampton. — Charles Rossel. — Thomas
Blackall. — Richard French.'

Franchise. 1768. January 22. — Admissions to franchise. m. 227.

tit^ia' 1768. January 28. — Declaration and signatures. m. 255.

1768. February 12. — Post Assembly. m. 228.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that they

George3in. conceive it will be proper to address his majesty for

his gracious condescension in transmitting the bill for

Duration of the limitation of the duration of parliaments in this

parlia- L

ments. kingdom, and to express their sincere thanks to his
excellency the lord lieutenant for interesting himself
so much upon this occasion, and promoting the passing
of this great and desirable law.

committee. And therefore prayed, that a committee might be
appointed with the assistance of Mr. Recorder, to
prepare an address accordingly.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768. 425

Whereupon it was ordered, that alderman King, 1768.
alderman Percival Hunt, alderman Barton, alderman
Matthew Bailie, and four of the commons, be and are
appointed a committee, with the assistance of Mr.
Eecorder, to prepare an address to his majesty and his Address,
excellency the lord lieutenant, pursuant to the above
petition.

' Francis Fetherston. — Henry Bevan. — Edward
Sankey.— Thomas Mead.— John Tew.— James Taylor.
—Richard French. — Philip Crampton. — Charles Rossel.
— Thomas Blackall.'

1768. April 15. — Second Friday after Easter. 3-
[1.] " We, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city *£***» of
of Dublin, have this day elected alderman Benjamin Mayor-
Barton to serve in the place or office of Lord Mayor Barton,
of the said city for the ensuing year, commencing from
Michaelmas next, and do hereby return the said
Benjamin Barton to you the Sheriffs and Commons of
the said city for your approbation."

" Francis Fetherston,"

" Lord Mayor."

[2.] " We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the city of
Dublin in common council assembled, have this day
approved by ballot of alderman Benjamin Barton, to Barton,
serve in the office of Lord Mayor of the said city for the Mayor,
ensuing year, to be computed from Michaelmas next."

"PatrickB°^-"\ "Sheriffs."
"Henry Bevan." J

[3.] " We, the Sheriffs and Commons of the common Nomina-
council of the city of Dublin, have this [day] by ballot sheriff*,
nominated the following eight freemen of the said city,

1 Easter day, 3 April, 1768.

426

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1768.

1763. resident within the said city or liberties thereto Roii m

Nomination -, . . , » ,, ,-, •. , , m- 240.

for sheriffs, adjoining, each 01 them worth in real and personal
estate in possession the sum of £2,000, over and above
their just debts, that is to say, Kilner Swettenham of
Abbey street, cooper, William Dunn of Bridget street,
chandler, Robert Rickey of Chamber street, weaver,
Anth "ny King of Cook street, founder, John Daragh of
Ormc*td quay, dyer, Peter Wilson of Dame street,
stationer, Henry Williams of Ward's Hill, brewer,
Thomas Green of James's street, brewer, as fit persons
to serve in the office of Sheriffs, and do hereby return
the names with the addition of said eight persons, to
you the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the said city,
in order to your electing two of the said persons to be
Sheriffs of the said city for the ensuing year, com-
mencing Michaelmas next."

" William Dunn and Henry Williams elected
Sheriffs."

[4.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that it is
the indispensable duty of the citizens of Dublin to
manifest their approbation of those persons, who have
eminently distinguished themselves in the service of the
public.

That his excellency lord Townshend, our present
worthy chief governor, has been one great means of
obtaining the bill for limiting the duration of
parliaments, by which this city and kingdom must
receive great advantages, as that law secures to us a
renewal of our ancient constitution, that in order to m.2406.
perpetuate in the minds of the citizens, a just sense
of the important services of his excellency, and to excite
in the breasts of future governors an emulation of such

Memorial, laudable actions, some memorial should be exhibited
constantly to the view of the citizens, in order to keep

Liberty. alive that love for liberty, which first solicited and at
length effected this great national security.

Election.

Dunn,

Williams,
Sheriffs.

Duty of
citizens of
Dublin.

Approba-
tion of
persons.

Lord

Townshend,
lord lieu-
tenant.

Bill for
limiting
duration of
parlia-
ments

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768. 427

That your lordship and honours will therefore be 1768.
pleased to appoint a committee to wait upon the lord Committee-
lieutenant, to request in the name of the city of Dublin,
that he will be pleased to sit for his picture to be bfpalnted
painted by an Irish artist. Irish1 artist.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the right honourable order,
the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the
works, alderman Sankey, alderman King, alderman
Barton, alderman Matthew Bailie, and eight of the
commons to be named by the commons, be and are
appointed a committee to wait upon the lord lieutenant committee

rr r to wait

to request in the name of the city, that he will be upon lord

A ° lieutenant.

pleased to sit for his picture, to be painted by an Irish Picture,
artist, the expense thereof to be paid by the city Expense,
treasurer on orders from the committee and allowed in
his accounts.

[5.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee for taking into consideration the petition of

& r Elizabeth

Elizabeth Barber, widow, had made the following Barber,

' o widow.

report.

' We, the committee for examining tradesmen's bills, Keport.
to whom the petition of Elizabeth Barber was referred,
find that the petitioner in the year 1767, by the
direction of the then chief magistrate, altered and £***
opened a warehouse on her ground in Mary's lane, for ^j^ry-"8*
a poultry market, which was intended to be kept there p^jtr
for the benefit of the inhabitants of that part of the market-
city, and that she expended a sum of £20 18s. lid., Sum . .

J ' *• expended.

as by an account at the foot of her said petition
appears.

' We observe to your honours, that it was not in the
power of the chief magistrate to continue a market Market
there pursuant to his intention, whereby the petitioner tinued.
was of course a sufferer, the petitioner appeared before
us, and upon examining her relative to this matter,
found that the stuff which she had benefit of was worth

428

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768.

1768
Sum.

Order.

Payment.

Elizabeth
Stoyte.

Report.

House iu

College

Green.

Lease.

Kent.

Rebuilding.

Order.

Lease.

Rent.

a sum of £6, which she agreed to allow; we therefore
are of opinion, that she be paid the sum of £14 18s. lid.,
being the remainder of the said sum of £20 18s. lid.,
in full satisfaction for the trouble and expense she was
at in altering the said warehouse.'

And the said Elizabeth Barber, praying to confirm
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and that the city treasurer
do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner
£14 18s. lid., the same to be allowed in his accounts.

[6.] Elizabeth Stoyte setting forth, that the com-
mittee to whom her petition was referred, had made
the following report.

1 We, the committee for inspecting city leases, to
whom the petition of Elizabeth Stoyte, widow, was
referred, find that the said Elizabeth Stoyte is tenant
to a house or holding in College Green, part of your
honours' estate; your committee having viewed the
premises, find that the same are very much out of
repair and want rebuilding, and therefore recommend
to your honours, that a new lease be executed to the
said Elizabeth Stoyte of the premises for the term cf
70 years and three lives, at the annual rent she now
pays for the same, on condition of surrendering her
present lease, paying off all rent and arrears due to
the time of such surrender, and obliging herself to
rebuild the same within such a limited time as shall
be agreeable to your honours.'

And the said Elizabeth Stoyte, praying to confirm
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
whereupon it was granted, the committee's report con-
firmed and made an act of assembly, and that on the
petitioner's surrendering her present lease, a new one
be perfected to her of the house in said report mentioned
for three lives and 70 years, at the former rent, with

Rollxi
m. 240|i
m. 239J

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768. 429

such clauses and covenants as Mr. Recorder shall 1768.
advise, she to rebuild the premises within seven years Rebuilding,
from the 1st of June next, or the new lease to cease
and determine at the expiration of the said seven

years.

[7.] William Browne setting forth, that the com- Browne,
mittee to whom his petition was referred, had made the
following report.

' We, the committee appointed for inspecting city Report,
leases, to whom the petition of William Browne was
referred, find that the said William Browne is tenant
to one brick house on the north side of Castle street, House m
part of your honours' estate, by virtue of an assignment street-
made to him thereof by William Dunn, chandler, at Dum.
the yearly rent of £24, of which eighteen years are Rent,
unexpired ; your committee, having viewed the premises,
find that the same are very much out of repair and
want rebuilding, and are of opinion that the said rent Rebuilding
of £24, is a sufficient rent for the same.

'We therefore recommend to your honours, that a
new lease be executed to the said William Browne of Lease.
the premises for the term of 70 years and three lives,
at the annual rent of £24, upon condition of his Bent,
surrendering the present lease, paying off all rent and
arrears due to the time of such surrender, and obliging
himself to rebuild the same within a limited time.' Bounding.

And the said William Browne, praying to confirm order,
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and that a lease of the house Lease,
therein mentioned be perfected to the petitioner at the
rent of £24, a year, and five shillings duties, for three Bent.
lives and 70 years, with such clauses as Mr. Recorder
shall advise, the said William Browne to rebuild the Eebuiidin*.
premises within seven years from the 24th of June next,
or the said lease to cease and determine at the expira-

430

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL,

1768.

Grand
Canal
works.

Report.

Difficulties.

Satter-

thwaite.

Inability.

Insolence.

Works
insufficient.

Inspection.

Works
defective.

Contract.

Excuses.

Works.
Time.

Annual
sum.

tion of the said seven years, the present lease to be r0ii x;

„ . j", m. 239

surrendered on the perfection of the new one.

[8.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed for conducting the works of the
Grand Canal, have made the following report.

' We, the committee appointed for conducting the
works of the Grand Canal, are greatly concerned to
be under the necessity of informing your honours, that
we have met with many difficulties of late in the
execution of the said works, contrary to our expecta-
tions; those are to be attributed solely to John
Satterthwaite, from an inability or unwillingness to
fulfil his engagements, he apprehended, he had a
dominion over the said works and over your committee,
insomuch that he has conducted himself this considerable
time past with the most daring insolence, paying no
regard to his contracts or the orders of your committee.

' Your committee apprehending that part of the works m, 238
which the said Satterthwaite contracted to execute,
were insufficient for the purposes for which they were
intended, directed the officers of the navigation board
to inspect the same, who reported to your committee,
that they were defective in many places and insufficient
to withstand any force of water that might be conveyed
through the canal to the bason, the said Satterthwaite
was then called upon to fulfil his contract and finish
the said work, both which he has declined doing,
making several frivolous excuses, at one time desiring
to be released from part of his last contract, at other
times insisting upon being secured the expense of
making good the damages done at the old works.

' Your committee must inform your honours, that by
the said Satterthwaite' s contract, he was to finish the
works within a limited time (long since elapsed), and
to uphold and watch the same for seven years, for which
he was to be paid an annual sum of £100, from which

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL,

1768. 431

your committee could riot think themselves warranted vm.
to come into such unreasonable terms, and the rather, Terms.
as your committee had good reasons to believe that the
breaches originally made were increased by the said Breaches.
Satterthwaite's inattention thereto or his endeavouring
to get your committee to comply with his own terms.

4 After many meetings and much time spent with the
said Satterthwaite, he on the 12th of March last pro- proposal,
posed to your committee, that he would immediately
proceed in making up the breaches at the great Morell Breaches.
and Barrenrath on the Grand Canal, an account of the Account,
expense attending the same to be delivered to alderman
Geale, upon affirmation or oath weekly, until the same Geaie.
be completely finished, the whole expense thereof,
together with the several contracts heretofore entered
into with them by the city, to be then laid before three
very respectable gentlemen, who were mutually agreed
upon to be appointed referees, amicably to settle and Referees,
determine whether the expense of making the said Expense*,
repairs or any part thereof should be deducted out of
the said contracts, or whether the same should be paid
by the city independent of said contracts.

'This your committee agreed to, and was in hopes
there would be an end of any further disputes, and Disputes.
that the work would be proceeded upon, so as to admit
water into the bason immediately, but your committee water into
found at their subsequent meetings, that the said
Satterthwaite receded from his said proposal, and was Receded
so fickle and uncertain in his conduct, that he was p«>po.ai.
not to be depended upon, therefore your committee was
put under the disagreeable necessity to advertise in ^XtT
the public papers to receive proposals from others. m°*±
' Pursuant thereto, Mr. John Trail laid his proposal Jropo'ki.
of the seventh instant before your committee for
repairing the old works, he then was desired to review
the other parts of the work partly executed by the

432

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768.

1768.
Satter-
thwaite.

Eeports.
Trail.

Edgar.

Defects in
works.

Methods.

Satter-
thwaite
discharged,

Con-
tractors.

Engineer.
Workmen.

Satter-
thwaite.

Order.

Eeport
confirmed.

Mathews,

city

surveyor.

Report.

said Satterthwaite, that your committee might have eou :

. m. 233 1 ■

the whole before them, this he has accordingly done,
both reports are hereunto annexed for your honours'
consideration. Mr. Trail appears to us to be a judicious
and intelligent person, and has received the approbation
of Mr. Edgar, the officer of the navigation board, both
in regard to his observations of the defects in the works
and the methods proposed by him to remedy them,
finding the said John Satterthwaite behaving in such
a manner, and that he could not be prevailed to
proceed upon the works, we discharged him from
interfering any further therein.

' Your committee having experienced the futility of
contractors fulfilling their engagements, are of opinion
and do recommend that some person be appointed as
engineer to superintend and conduct the said works,
that workmen be employed and paid weekly for
executing the same, and that a regular account be
kept of the expense attending such new engagements,
so as that the same may be stopped out of the money
remaining unpaid to the said Satterthwaite, and we
recommend the whole transactions to be laid before
the navigation board for their encouragement and
approbation.'

And the said commons praying to confirm the said
report and make the same an act of assembly: it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made
an act of assembly, and the committee continued, and
that the said committee do proceed thereon as they shall
think proper.

[9.] Thomas Mathews, city surveyor, setting forth
that the committee of city leases, to whom his petition
and account were referred, have made the following
report, videlicet.

' We, the committee of city leases, to whom the
petition and account of Thomas Mathews, city

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1768. 433

surveyor, was referred, have examined the said account, 1768.
amounting to the sum of £54 lis. 7|d., for surveying, Account-
measuring, attendances, and other business done for the
use of the city of Dublin, as by said account appears,
which sum we are of opinion he be paid on making a
proper affidavit.'

And the said Thomas Mathews, praying to confirm Order,
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and that the city treasurer
do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner payment.
£54 lis. 7£d., the same to be allowed in his accounts.

[10.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that they
conceive it will be necessary to have a sum of £10, gj£*°r
lodged in the hands of the present Sheriffs, to defray
their expenses in supporting persons now in Bridewell, JESS,
who are very material witnesses on behalf of the crown witnesses,
to prosecute most notorious offenders now confined in

„ „ „ . ■ „ New Gate.

New Gate for various crimes.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, order.
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay to the High Sheriffs Payment.
£10, for the purposes in the above petition mentioned,
the same to be allowed in his accounts.

[11.] Grace Dover, widow, setting forth that the do™.
committee to whom her petition was referred, have made
the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee for examining tradesmen's bills, Report
to whom the petition of Grace Dover, widow, was
referred, find that the petitioner's husband, before his
death, attended the grand juries and court of sessions f™sd
for a considerable time, for which he received no recom- c^tot
pense, we observe to your honours, that he has left his
said widow in very low and indigent circumstances,
and therefore are of opinion that she be paid the sum Payment.
of £25, sterling, as well for city's favour, as in full gj£^
satisfaction for his said attendance.'

VOL. XI.

434

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768.

1768.
Order.

Payment.

Doyle,

city

surgeon.

Order.

Salary
augmented

Prisoners.
Coroners.

Inquests.

Kewavd.

Incendiary
letter to
Duchess of
Northum-
berland.

Order.

Proclama-
tion.

Knox, mace
bearer.

Salaries
augmented.

Healy.
lieward.

And the said Grace Dover, praying to confirm theRoiixxin
said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and that the city treasure
do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner
the said sum of £25, the same to be allowed in his
accounts.

[12.] George Doyle, city surgeon, praying to have
his salary augmented.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the petitioner's
salary be augmented to forty guineas a year, during
the city's pleasure, to commence this assembly, in full
compensation for his examining prisoners in the gaol
of New Gate, attending the coroners when holding of
inquests, and the several magistrates at the justices'
office, the same to be paid by the city treasurer and
allowed in his accounts.

[13.] Certain of the commons, praying that a reward
of £100, be offered and paid by the city treasurer to
the person or persons who shall discover and prosecute
to conviction the writer of an incendiary letter signed
P.D. from Dublin, to her grace the duchess of
Northumberland.

Whereupon it was granted, according to the prayer
of the said petition, and that the right honourable the
Lord Mayor do issue his proclamation accordingly.

[14.] Thomas Knox, mace bearer, praying to have
his salary augmented : whereupon it was ordered, that
the petitioner's salaries, as mace bearer and officer of
the commons, be augmented to £60, a year, to commence
from this day, to be paid by the city treasurer and
allowed in his accounts.

[15.] Richard Healy, praying to be paid £40, the
remainder of £50, promised by proclamation for
apprehending and prosecuting to conviction three noted
rioters and offenders.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768. 435

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer 1768.
do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner
£20, the same to be allowed in his accounts, that said
sum be paid him in full compensation for his Payment,
prosecuting to conviction the persons before mentioned,
and it is further ordered, that for the future no petition
be received in the name of the said Richard Healy, or
of any other person, for or on account of the said
prosecution.

[16.] John Sleane : N\ continued Serjeants at sieane,

T17.1 Thomas Snape : mace of this city for one Roe?6'

Li x 1 " Cawthoru,

[18.] William Eoe : ryear ending next Easter **■**£, at

[19.] George Cawthoru: assembly 1769, upon ™ce-
[20.] Richard Betagh. / their severally giving
such security for the faithful discharge of their office
and redelivery of the silver mace as the Lord Mayor
and Sheriffs shall approve, the said security to be
entered into within one month from this assembly or
this order for continuing the petitioners to be void.

[21.] Ballast Office report. ggjiast

' Since our last report to your honours, we have Report,
proceeded in the repairs of the piles and hope soon to Piies.
have them in good condition.

' We have also continued the repairs of the floats and Floats.
gabbards, the rlew gabbard on the stocks is almost Gabbards.
finished and will be soon launched; we shall continue
doing every other work that is necessary or that your
honours shall direct.

1 An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, which cash,
we have examined, and find there is a balance of Balance.
£2,405 10s. ljd., in the hands of alderman Edward
Hunt, Ballast Master, on the Ballast Office fund, and Hunt,
that there is £2,521 10s. 3d., overpaid on the account of
the public money.'

Whereupon it was ordered, that the said report be order

1768.

Ballast

Office

account.

436

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768.

confirmed and made an act of assembly, and that the r0ii xsu
committee do proceed as they shall think proper.

State of the Ballast Office accounts, from the 20th
clay of January last inclusive to the 13th day of April,
1768, exclusive.

Ballast Office, Dr.

To balance of last quarter's abstract
To cash received since

£ s. d.
. 2112 16 11
. 889 2 4

£3,001 19 3

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid this quarter tor raising ballast

By cash paid for repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries ...

By cash paid house rent and petty disbursements

By cash paid for repairs on gabbards

By cash paid for account of the light house

By balance

£ s.

. 163 13

. 115 13

. 161 0

45 13 11

101 16

10 12

2405 10

£3,001 19

Ballast Office for the public money, is Dr.

£ s. d.

Ter contra, Cr.

By balance of last quarter's abstract

By cash expended this quarter on the south east pier

£ s. d.

. 2309 9 10£

. 212 0 3g

£2,521 10 2

Franchise.
Declara-

' Francis Fetherston. — Henry Bevan. — Timothy Allen.
— Benjamin Geale. — Thomas Blackall. — Percival
Hunt. — George Reynolds. — Hans Bailie. — Philip
Crampton. — James Taylor.'

1768. April 15.— Admissions to franchise.
1768. April 21. — Declaration and signatures.

m. 2:56.
m 236 6.

to. 255.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1768. 437

1768. July 22.— Fourth Friday after the 24th of ma
June.

[1.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee appointed to audit the accounts of alderman
Benjamin Geale, city treasurer, have made the Ge£ie,mcity

tirGJisurGr.

following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee appointed to audit the accounts Report.

1 L Accounts.

of alderman Benjamin Geale, city treasurer, for the
rents, profits and issues accruing to the said city,
commencing the 29th September, 1766, and ending the
29th of September, 1767, and for the casualties ending
at the same time, do inform your honours, that the
accountant laid said accounts before us digested in a
manner so exact, clear, methodical and regular, as we
think does him singular honour.

'We charged the accountant with the arrears of Arrears of

& rent.

rent due Michaelmas, 1766, with the entire rental of Rental.
your estate ending Michaelmas, 1767, and all other
incidental receipts during that time, amounting in the Receipts,
whole to the sum of £1,952 2s. 7Jd.

1 We find that the disbursements, including the Disburse-
arrears of rent and £1,246 4s. 4d., being a balance due Balance.
to the accountant on last year, to amount to
£19,681 10s. 2Jd., to which the sum of £608 5s. 8d.,
poundage upon the sum of £12,165 14s. 4|cl., neat
money paid "being added, makes the treasurer's
discharge amount to the sum of £20,189 15s. 10^d., Discharge
so that there appears to be due to the accountant by
the city a balance of £1,137 13s. 3Jd.

' Your committee thinks this a proper time to lay
before your honours the state of some old houses in j**™^3 in
Thomas street, which are now and have been for a con- street-
siderable time past in the possession of Mrs. Jackson, Jacksou.
as tenant at will, at the annual rent of £40, they are
considered by many as an inconvenience, if not a
nuisance, to that neighbourhood; your committee aie Nuisance.

438

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768.

1768.

Public cant.

Taghdowe
tithes.

Order.

Thomas

street.

Taghdowe.

Corpora-
tion for
coal works.

Report.
Memorial.

Interest
due.

Order.

Payment.
Fetherston.

of opinion, and do recommend, that this or some other Boii xxii
committee do take the same under their consideration
and report to your honours, whether the same should
be totally removed or set in the usual manner by
public cant in order to be rebuilt.

' Your committee likewise recommend to your
honours' consideration, the setting of the tithes of
Taghdowe, surrendered to the city.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and that the consideration of the old
houses in Thomas street, the tithes of Taghdowe, and
also the sheds and standings in Thomas street, near
the glibe, be referred to the committee of city leases,
who are to report their opinion thereon to the next
assembly.

[2.] The corporation for coal works setting forth, that m- 245 b-
the committee of auditors of the city accounts, to whom
their memorial was referred, have made the following
report, videlicet.

' We, the committee of auditors of the city accounts,
to whom the memorial of the corporation for coal works
was referred, find that your honours are indebted to
the said corporation in the sum of £12 10s., for half
a year's interest of your honours' subscription, due and
ending the 12th day of May, 1765, which sum we are
of opinion ought to be paid to the secretary of the said
corporation in full for the same.'

And the said corporation, praying to confirm the said
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, and that the city treasurer do, on the
Lord Mayor's warrant, pay Mr. James Fetherston,
secretary to the said corporation, the within mentioned
sum of £12 10s., the same to be allowed in his accounts.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL,

1768. 439

T3 1 Arthur Shepheard setting forth, that the com- im.

L "J r , Shepheard.

mittee to whom his petition was referred, have made the
following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee of city leases, to whom the ^von.
petition of Arthur Shepheard was referred, find that
vour honours, demised a piece of ground to the Lit°tiensMP

J . , e street.

petitioner in Little Ship street, at the yearly rent oi
£7 5s., by which demise, he was to have liberty to rest
timbers in and build upon walls to be erected on other Timhers.
eround demised by your honours to the parish of Saint pariSh of

o J J . -1 Saint

Bridget. That the petitioner, for want of said walls Bridget
being built in a reasonable time, was obliged to build
a flank wall on that part of his ground adjoining the*iM*™n.
ground demised to the said parish as aforesaid, which
cost the petitioner a considerable sum of money and the sumof
apartments in his house were thereby lessened and
reduced in value.

' We therefore are of opinion, that he be remitted ..emitted,
all rent and arrears of rent due by him to your
honours to Michaelmas last, as well in full compensa-
tion for any losses he sustained as aforesaid, as in Losses,
consideration of his entering into an agreement to
relinquish all claims which he may for ever hereafter claims.
have to the city on account of said losses, in such
manner as Mr. Recorder shall advise.'

And the said Arthur Shepheard, praying to confirm o.der.
the said report and make the same an act of assembly :
it was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, upon the said Arthur
Shepheard's complying with the terms in said report w"thPt™e
mentioned.

[4.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee for better supplying the city with pipe water, city pipe
have made the following report, videlicet.

1 We, the committee appointed for better supplying Report,
the city with pipe water, have examined the account of Account.

440

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1768.

1768.
Cave.
Callbeck.
Gladwell.

.Report.

Extinguish-
ing fires.

Fire at

Netterville

and

Roache's

sugar house

in Church

street.

Mr. Richard Cave supervisor, messieurs Samuel
Callbeck and Francis Gladwell collectors of the pipe
water revenue, for the year ending the 1st of November,

1766, and collected from thence to the 1st of November,

1767, the said account being laid before us in a regular
and exact manner gave us great satisfaction in the
examining thereof, the supervisor furnished us with a
charge against the collectors, which they admitted to
be right.

' We find that the rent and arrears received by Mr.
Callbeck amount to £1,518 8s. 4d., for concealed
branches, £9., for fines for putting on branches that
were formerly cut off, £22., making in the whole the
sum of £1,549 8s. 4d. ; the rent and arrears received
by Mr. Gladwell to £1,597 14s. 5d., for concealed
branches, £3., for fines for putting on branches that
were formerly cut off, £18 16s. 8d., making
£1,619 lis. Id., the total received by them is
£3,168 19s. 5d., the supervisors' charge, together with
the abstracts of the collectors' accounts, are hereunto
annexed.'

And the said commons, praying to confirm the said
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made
an act of assembly.

[5.] John Smith, engine worker, setting forth that
the committee to whom his petition was referred, have
made the following report, videlicet.

1 We, the committee for rewarding persons service-
able in extinguishing accidental fires, to whom the
petition of John Smith, engine worker, was referred,
find that the said John Smith has been useful in many
parts of this city in extinguishing, accidental fires,
particularly a fire which broke out at messieurs
Netterville and Roache's sugar house in Church street,
where we are informed he was very active. We appre-

Roll xxii.
m. 245*.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1768. 441

hend that such people ought to be encouraged, and are 1768.
therefore of opinion that the said John Smith be paid Payment.
a sum of ,£5 13s. 9d., as a compensation for his said
services.'

And the said John Smith, praying to confirm the order,
said report and make . the same an act assembly: it
was granted, the committee's report confirmed and made
an act of assembly.

[6.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that the
committee for inspecting city leases near expiring, to
whom their petition relative to erecting: a new market market

L ° house.

house was referred, made the following report to
Easter assembly, 1768, videlicet.

' We, the committee for inspecting city leases near Keport.
expiring, inform your honours, that in consequence of
our report made and confirmed the last general
assembly, wherein Oxmantown green was mentioned to oxmantown

• green.

be the most convenient situation for erecting a new
market house upon. S^!*

' We caused advertisements to be inserted in the Advertise-

ments.

public papers for plans and estimates to be lodged at Hans.

Estimates.

the Tholsel office for the purpose of erecting a market Thoisei

office.

house at said green, and accordingly two plans were «ans.
laid before us, one marked No. 1 : 2 : 3 : and the other
marked No. 4 : B : 6 : 7 : the latter we think most
convenient and ornamental, which with the estimate Estimate.
thereof, amounting to the sum of £8,387 2s. 10d., are
hereunto annexed.

' These two plans were drawn and prepared by Mr. Rans.
Thomas Ivory, architect, who we think has great merit ^cStect
upon this occasion, he having executed the plans in a
manner very satisfactory to this committee.

1 We are of opinion and do recommend that the said
plan No. 4 : 5 : 6 : 7 : be carried into immediate pian.
execution, and for that purpose that your committee
be empowered to receive proposals and enter into proposals.

442

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL,

1768.

Contracts.
Building.

Oxniantown
green.

Lots.
Public cant.

Order.

Report.

Market
house.

Complied
with.

Order.

Recorder's
salary.

Integrity,

Rights.

Liberties.
Franchises.

Samuel

Bradstreet,

Recorder.

contracts with such person or persons as shall under- Ron xxii i

. , m. 244 h.

take carrying on and executing the said building, and
also to employ a proper person to superintend the
carrying on the same.

' Your committee approve of the manner Oxman-
town green has been laid out in, and therefore are of
opinion that when the said market house is laid out,
they may be empowered to set the remainder of the
said green in different lots by public cant ; which report
was at said Easter assembly recommitted to be recon-
sidered.'

And the said commons setting forth, that the com-
mittee to whom the said report was recommitted, have
made the following report, videlicet.

' We, the committee for inspecting city leases near
expiring, to whom our former report was recommitted
to be reconsidered, relative to erecting a new market
house, have met upon that occasion and have seriously
reconsidered the said report, and are still of opinion
that the said report be complied with in every
particular.'

Whereupon it was granted, the committee's report
confirmed and made an act of assembly.

[7.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that
whereas the salary, heretofore annexed to the office of
Recorder of this city, hath been considered as
inadequate to the dignity and importance of that
respectable office, and whereas the integrity, ability,
diligence, and attention of our present worthy Recorder
in the public business, and his zeal for the rights,
liberties, and franchises of the citizens have been
sufficiently manifest, and demand not only our thanks,
but such marks of favour as may be in the power of
the corporation of this city to bestow. Therefore
prayed to grant to Samuel Bradstreet, esquire,
Recorder, the sum of £200, sterling.

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768. 443

Whereupon it was ordered, that the sum of £200, be 1768.
granted to Mr. Recorder, to be paid by the city ^fner-
treasurer and allowed in his accounts, as a testimony Reorder,
of the many services done by him in the last year to
the citizens, by a faithful and vigilant discharge of
his duty as Recorder.

[8.] Certain of the commons, praying to appoint a Seralty
committee for repairing and providing furniture for Furniture,
the Mayoralty house.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the right honourable order.
the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the
works, alderman Barton, sir James Taylor, sir Thomas
Blackall, alderman Booker, and eight of the commons,
to be named by the commons or any five of them,
whereof the Lord Mayor and one of the Sheriffs to
be always two, be and are hereby appointed a com- committee,
mittee to consider what furniture ought to be provided mndw.
for the said house, and what immediate repairs are Repairs,
necessary to be made therein, and that they do direct
the same to be provided and clone in the cheapest and
best manner, the expense of the said furniture and Expense,
repairs not to exceed the sum of £100, to be paid by
the city treasurer on orders from the committee, and
to be allowed in his accounts.

[9.] Certain of the commons, praying to appoint a Beamed
committee for setting beams and scales in Thomas street, ^y
Whereupon it was ordered, that the right honourable order,
the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of the
works, alderman Crampton, alderman Hunt, alderman
Barton, alderman Reynolds, and eight of the commons,
to be named by the commons or any five of them,
whereof the Lord Mayor and one of the Sheriffs to
be always two, be and are hereby appointed a committee c— t*.
to set by public cant the beams and scales above Beams and
mentioned, for one year commencing the 1st of
November next, and that they do likewise set those

444 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL. 1768.

1768. in James's street and Stony Batter for one year Roii xs.ii

afr™et.s from the 1st day of November, and that notice thereof
Batter. be inserted in the public papers, the person or persons
farming the same to pay down to the city such sum of
money as they shall be canted to.
Le^of P-0*] Timothy Mahon, praying to have a lease of

customer the ^°^s anc* customs of the city of Dublin, except
yea^01 the gate on Donny brook road, for a term of years,
as he labours under the greatest inconvenience from
the manner of setting for a year, as it enables the
many irregular servants, he is under a necessity of
employing, to make what returns they please, and from
the length of time it takes to make them experienced in
the different articles of the docquet, et cetera, that great
impositions may happen to the public without that
knowledge, and occasion unnecessary trouble to your
honours, which intirely makes it impossible for him to
part with those servants so acting during the con-
tinuance of a year, and if not properly instructed many
mistakes may happen,
order. Whereupon it was ordered, for the several reasons

Petition, mentioned in the above petition, that the tolls and
customs now held by the petitioner be granted to him
Term for the term of five years, commencing from the 29th

Kent. day °f September next, at the clear rent of £4,000, per

annum, payable monthly as usual, provided he shall
live so long, upon his entering into sufficient security
Deposit. and making a deposit of one month's rent as usual.
The said tolls and customs to revert to the city upon
SXterrmtion ^ie ^P^tion of the said five years or the death of
the petitioner, it appearing that upon an average
calculation for six years past, the petitioner has paid
for said tolls and customs at the rate of £3,807 10s.,
yearly, proper writing for this purpose to be prepared
by Mr. Recorder.

[11.] Certain of the commons, praying to grant the

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768. 445

tolls and customs of the avenue of Donny brook, et cetera, 1768.
to William Taylor in the same manner the other customs.

Donny.

avenues are granted to Timothy Manon. brook^

Whereupon it was ordered, that the tolls and customs order,
of Donnybrook be set to Mr. William Taylor at the
same rent he paid the. last year, on the same conditions g^J.^
and under the same restrictions as the other avenues
are to be set to Timothy Mahon.

[12.] Certain of the commons, praying allowance for Jg*j«»'
the justices' office.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer order,
do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay alderman John Payment.
Tew £50, in aid of the said office, the same to be Tew.
allowed in his accounts.

[13.] George Friell, praying to be paid a sum of FrMi.
£149 8s. 9d., for past services, pursuant to agreement
of the committee of directors of the Ballast Office. SSaS*

Whereupon it was ordered, that the above sum of order.
£149 8s. 9d., be paid to the petitioner, George Friell, Payment.
out of the Ballast Office fund, and allowed to the
Ballast Master in his accounts.

[14.] The reverend Daniel Letablere, praying to be Reverend
reimbursed the sum of £7 10s. OR, expended by him ***■*
in enclosing the glebe of Windgate. g\ebeS

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, order,
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner the **"*»*■
sum of £7 10s., sterling, the same to be allowed in his
accounts.

[15.] John McAllen, esquire, praying to have a McAiien.
lease in his own name of a piece of ground on the g{™£-ay.
Blind quay.

Whereupon it was ordered, that a lease of said £££;
premises be perfected to the petitioner for the term
of 99 years, from the 25th March, 1753, at the former
reserved rent of £11., pursuant to an act of Christmas Rent.

446

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768.

xxi
m. 243 I

Recorder.

Application
to parlia-
ment.

Imprison-
ment of

persons

Order.

Petition to
jxarlianient
for repeal
of act.

Reilly,
widow.

Losses.

Order.
Payment.

Gee, super-
intendent.

Order.

Pipe water
works.

Salary.

Gee.

assembly, 1753, such clauses and covenants to be Roii
inserted therein, as Mr. Recorder shall advise.

[16.] Certain of the commons, praying that an
application may be made to parliament under the city
seal, praying a repeal of an act of the last sessions
of parliament relating to the imprisonment of
persons.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the right honourable
the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, treasurer, masters of rhe
works, alderman Cooke, alderman Percival Hunt, sir
Thomas Blackall, alderman French, and eight of the
commons, to be named by the commons or any five of
them, whereof the Lord Mayor and one of the Sheriffs
to be always two, be and are appointed a committee,
with the assistance of Mr. Recorder, to prepare a
petition to parliament for the purpose of repealing the
above mentioned act, that the same be put under the
city seal, and presented to the honourable house of
commons accordingly.

[17.] Catherine Reilly, widow, praying an allowance
for losses which she sustained by horses, cars, et cetera,
having liberty to pass, with stones, et cetera, through a
field of hers adjoining the Grand Canal.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer
do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner
ten guineas in full compensation of the allegations in m. 242.
the above petition mentioned, the same to be allowed
in his accounts.

[18.] George Gee, praying to be continued superin-
tendent of the pipe water works.

AVliereupon it was ordered, that the said George Gee
be continued superintendent of the pipe water works,
for another year ending Midsummer assembly, 1769,
at his former salary of £60, to be paid by the city
treasurer and allowed in his accounts.

[19.] George Gee, praying to be considered for his

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768. 44:7

extraordinary attendance at the works of the Grand nes.

J Grand

Canal. Canal.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer order,
do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner payment.
twenty guineas, in full compensation for his trouble
and attendance at the Grand Canal, the same to be
allowed the treasurer in his accounts.

[20.] Brent Dabbadie, praying to be admitted one ™^e>
of the Serjeants at mace: whereupon it was ordered, atmace-
that the above named Brent Dabbadie be appointed one
of the Serjeants at mace of this city, for one year
ending next Midsummer, 1769, upon his giving such
security for the faithful discharge of his office and
redelivery of the silver mace as the Lord Mayor [and
Sheriffs] shall approve, the said security to be entered
into within one month from this day or this order to
be void.

[21.] John Vernon O'Neill : \ continued Serjeants at g£S'avei

[22.] Robert Hargreave : I mace of the city for 2gJ&

[23.] Elias Holmes: j another year ending at maoe-

Midsummer assembly, 1760, upon their severally giving
such security for the faithful discharge of their offices
and redelivery of the silver mace as the Lord Mayor and
Sheriffs shall approve, the said security to be entered
into within one month from this day or this order to
be void.

[24.] Edward Griffin, turnkey, of New Gate, praying m^
city's favour : whereupon it was ordered, that the city New Gate,
treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the payment,
petitioner ten guineas, the same to be allowed in his
accounts.

[25.] Henry Brown, porter of the Tholsel, praying Brown,
to be allowed for the rent of his room : whereupon it Tholsei-
was ordered, that the city treasurer do, on the Lord
Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £1., for the rent Payment,
of a room, the same to be allowed in his accounts.

448

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768.

1768. [26.] Bartholomew Aungier, city beadle, praying to r0ii i

city betdie. have his salary augmented : whereupon it was ordered, "

that the city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant,
Payment, pay the petitioner £3, the same to be allowed in his

accounts.
Iccounters [27-] Abstract of the treasurer's accounts, from the

25th December, 1767, to the 22nd July, 1768.

Dr.

To balance due to the treasurer, per last abstract
To cash paid since

Cr.

By cash received since
By balance

£ s.

. . 3319 12

3i in

242

. . 6777 18

£10,097 11

£ s.

.. 7079 1

.. 3018 9 11

£10,097 11

Ballast
Office.

Report.

Floats.
Uabbards.

Piles.

Accounts.
Parliament.

Abstract.

Cash.
Balance.

[28.] Ballast Office report.

' Since our last report to your honours, we have
continued the repairs of the floats and gabbards, and
have launched a new gabbard and put another on the
stocks.

' We have also been employed in the repairs of the
piles, and shall continue doing every work that is
necessary or that your honours shall direct.

' We further acquaint your honours, that the Ballast
Office accounts, being obliged by act of parliament to
be laid before the government and council once in
three years, we herewith lay before your honours, an
abstract of the annual receipts and payments for your
honours' approbation, and to have the city seal affixed
thereto.

' An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, which
we have examined and find there is a balance of
£2,772 17s. Id., in the hands of alderman Edward

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768. 449

Hunt, Ballast Master, on the Ballast Office fund, and ms.

£2,901 Is. 7|d., overpaid by him on the account of the Hunt*

public money.

' All which is humbly submitted to your honours.'
Whereupon it was ordered, that the said report be order.

confirmed and made an act of assembly, and that the

committee do proceed* as they shall think proper, and

that the city seal be affixed to the abstract in said city seal.

report mentioned.
State of the Ballast Office accounts, from the 13th ggjf

day of April last inclusive, to the 20th day of July,

1768, exclusive.

account.

Ballast Office, Dr.

To balance of last quarter's abstract
To cash received since

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid tbis quarter for raising ballast

By cash paid for repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries

By cash paid rent and sundry petty disbursements

By cash paid for repairs on the gabbards ...

By cash paid for account of the light ship ...

By cash paid interest

By balance

Per contra, Cr.

By balance of last quarter's abstract
By cash expended since

VOL. XI.

£ a.

2405 10

1200 11

£3,612 1

£ 8.

200 7

265 6

104 0

213 13

9 10

. 46 0

. 2772 17

£3,612 1

Ballast Office, for the public money, Dr.
i. 241. £ s. d.

£ 3.

2521 10

379 11

£2,901 1

Q G

450 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768.

1768. ' Francis Fetherston. — Hans Bailie. — John Tew. — r0h xxii.

George Reynolds. — William Forbes. — Thomas Mead. —
Philip Crampton. — Patrick Hamilton. — Percivall
Hunt.'

Franchise. 1768. July 22. — Admissions to franchise. Slffia

Declaration. 1768. August 4. — Declaration and signatures. m*256-

1768. October 14.— Third Friday after the 29th of m. 219.

September.

Lord Mayor: Benjamin Barton.
Sheriffs : William Dunn and Henry Williams.
Fetherston, [1-] Francis Fetherston, alderman, late Lord Mayor,

praying to be paid £500, for serving the office of chief

magistrate the last year,
order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do,

Payment, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner ,£500,
Mayoralty, the same to be allowed in his accounts, the said

petitioner having taken the oath by act of Easter

assembly, 1740, in the presence of Thomas Read and

Thomas Emerson, esquires, they being appointed by

the commons for that purpose.
Herbage of [2.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that Saint
Stephen's Stephen's Green lies contiguous to the Mayoralty house,

Green. m

Mayoralty and the profits arising to your honours from the

house. r ° J

herbage thereof are but small and insignificant, that

your petitioners therefore recommend that the same be
use of Lord appropriated to the use of the present Lord Mayor.
Order. Whereupon it was ordered, that the herbage of Saint

Stephen's Green be appropriated to the use of the
Lord present Lord Mayor during his Mayoralty.

Jones. [3.] John Jones, gentleman, setting forth, that the

ferrys committee for inspecting city leases near expiring, to

whom his petition was referred, have made the

following report, videlicet.
Report. ' We, the committee for inspecting city leases near

Petition. expiring, to whom the petition of John Jones,

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768. 451

gentleman, was referred, inform your honours, that the 1768.
said Mr. Jones attended the committee and proposed surrender,
to surrender his present interest in the ferrys of fmrya.
Hawkins's wall and Dirty lane slip, which he noWwaiIkin3S
holds under your honours, to erect a ferry at Crampton siip.y ane

. Crampton

quay, opposite Bedford row, in a regular and proper quay
manner, and to continue, support and keep the said
ferrys at Hawkins's wall, Dirty lane slip, and^tylane
Crampton quay, opposite Bedford row, in a regular and q™y,ptou
proper manner, upon your honours granting him a fo^°rd
lease of the said ferrys for 31 years, to commence from Lease,
the 29th day of September instant, at the yearly rent Rent.
of £293., which is the present rent he pays for the said
ferrys of Hawkins's wall and Dirty lane slip, and a
fine of £1,400., or to pay a yearly rent of £400., for
the same, to commence from the said 29th day of
September, which is an increase rent of £107., a year,
to commence from that time.

1 Your committee are of opinion, that the latter pro- Proposal

x * agreed to.

posal will be more for the advantage of the city, and
as the said Mr. Jones has several years to run and
unexpired of his old lease, do recommend that the
said proposal be agreed to.

' Your committee being informed, that there is a very
exceptionable clause in the said Mr. Jones's present clause

expunged.

lease, relative to building a new bridge, are of opinion Newbridge,
(if the said proposal be agreed to) that the said clause
ought to be expunged, and not to be inserted in the new
lease, to which the said Mr. Jones is satisfied to
consent.'

And the said John Jones, praying to confirm the said order,
report and make the same an act of assembly : it was
granted, the committee's report confirmed and made an
act of assembly, that a lease of the ferry boats in said Lease of

J J ferry boats

report mentioned be executed to the petitioner for the
term of 31 years, at an annual rent of £400., to Rent.

452 DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768.

1768. commence the 29th day of September last, on his Ron xxii.

in. 249.

surrender, surrendering his present lease of the boats, such clauses

and covenants to be inserted in the new lease as Mr.

Recorder shall advise, the said Jones obliging himself
Men. to keep constantly two able and sufficient men for the m. 240 b.

Lights. manning of each boat and a sufficient number of lights

at each ferry, with an additional man to trim the
penalty. lights, under a penalty of twenty shillings for every

time he offends herein, to be recovered before the
conscience, president of the Court of Conscience for the use of the

informer.
Thwaites, [4-] John Usher and Ephraim Thwaites, water
baliSs. bailiffs, setting forth, that the committee to whom their

petition was referred, have made the following report,

videlicet.
Report. ' We, the committee for inspecting city leases near

Petition, expiring, to whom the petition of John Usher and

Ephraim Thwaites, water bailiffs, was referred, have

attentively considered the same, for our better informa-
Recorder tion we called the Recorder and city agent to our

Citj' agent. J °

assistance, who informed us, that by the direction of
the city several suits were instituted against the sales-
catue13' masters selling cattle in Smithfield for withholding the
Duties361*1' duties arising thereout to this corporation. That the
said sales-masters made every litigious defence that was
possible to evade the payment thereof. We must inform
your honours, that the duties now claimed are
not any new demand, but are the right of this corpora-
tion, and established for time immemorial.

1 The petitioners laid before us the annexed
profits. particulars respecting the profits of their several
employments; this we think merits further considera-
tion, for the present we are of opinion the petitioners
have been great sufferers, and therefore do recommend
sum. that each of them be paid the sum of £100., on account

Losses. of the losses hitherto sustained by them, and that it

Suits
Sales

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768. 453

be recommended to Mr. Recorder and the city agent to 1768.
be peculiarly attentive to the recovery of these rights, lights
in which the honour and property of this city, as well
as the public in general, are materially interested.'

And the said John Usher and Ephraim Thwaites, order,
praying to confirm the said report and make the same
an act of assembly : it was granted, the committee's
report confirmed and made an act of assembly, that
the sum of £100., be paid by the city treasurer to Payment,
each of the water bailiffs and allowed in his accounts,
on account of the distress they have lain under for Distress,
two years and a half past, by the sales-masters with-
holding their dues, which sum of .£200., shall be by
them refunded to the city, so soon as the said dues of sum to be
Smithfield shall be recovered.

[5.] Certain of the commons, praying that such
public compliment be presented to John Smith, esquire, John smith
as the city shall think proper, in testimony of their
approbation of his conducting and completing with
very great difficulty the building of the lighthouse, in j^aOTse.
a manner so judicious, permanent, and elegant.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the right honourable order,
the Lord Mayor be requested to present the thanks of Lord

J * r Mayor.

the corporation of the city of Dublin to John Smith, Thanks of

* J ' corporation.

esquire, for his great ingenuity in planning, and his Planning,
indefatigable zeal and assiduity in carrying into
execution, that masterly work of the lighthouse, so justly Light-
and universally admired, and that his Lordship be
requested to accompany the city's thanks with a piece p^tceeof
of plate of the value of twenty guineas, the same to value,
be paid by the city treasurer and allowed in his
accounts.

[6.] Henry Gonne, gentleman, praying to be paid Gonne.
£138 4s. 3d., due for disbursements and business ™**g™'
transacted by him for three years ending the 29th day
of September, 1766.

454

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL,

1768.

Order.

Payment.

Rent for

Tholsel

office.

Ravell,
widow.

Drafts.

Plans.

Canal.

Order.
Payment.

Elliott,

slater.

Report.
Petition.

Ram alley.

Order.

Payment.

Essex
Bridge.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, r0ii xxii.

. . m. 249 6.

on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner the
above mentioned sum of £138 4s. 3d., sterling, the same
to be allowed in his accounts, the said sum to be
applied towards discharging the sum of £150., being
one year and a half's rent due by the petitioner for the
Tholsel office.

[7.] Margaret Ravell, widow, praying compensation m. 248.
for her husband's past services, in furnishing drafts
and plans for the committees appointed to convey water
by the new canal to the city bason.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer
do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner
£10., out of the navigation fund, the same to be allowed
in his accounts.

[8.] Gilbert Elliott, setting forth, that the committee
to whom his petition was referred, have made the
following report, videlicet.

1 We, the committee appointed for examining trades-
men's bills, to whom the petition of Gilbert Elliott was
referred, have considered the same, and are of opinion,
that the account by him laid before us, for slater's
work done for your honours at Ram alley, is a just
one, amounting to the sum of £31 8s. 2d., and therefore
are of opinion, he be paid said sum in full satisfaction
for the same.'

And the said Gilbert Elliott, praying to confirm the
said report and make the same an act of assembly : it
was granted, the committee's report confirmed and
made an act of assembly, and that the city treasurer
do, on the Lord Mayor's order, pay the petitioner the
within mentioned sum of £31 8s. 2d., the same to be
allowed in his accounts.

[9.] The memorial of the several inhabitants of Essex
Bridge and the streets adjacent thereto, to grant unto

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768. 455

George Gee an allowance for watering Essex Bridge for ms.
one year ending the 29th day of September last. watering

Whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, B™Ure-
on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioner £10., Payment.
the same to be allowed in his accounts.

[11.] George Eoe, praying to be continued gaoler of Roe-
New Gate.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the petitioner be order,
continued gaoler of New Gate, until next Michaelmas g^g^
assembly, 1769, upon his giving such security for New^ate
indemnifying the city from all escapes and for the
faithful discharge of his office, as the Lord Mayor and
Sheriffs shall approve.

[12.] Ballast Office report. §££*

' Since our last report to your honours, we have Report.
proceeded with the building of the new gabbard and uabbard.
have bought a new float for carrying stones for the use Float.
of the new wall.

1 We have also been employed in the repairs of the
piles, but have not been able to do as much as we?^
could wish, on account of the scarcity of timber. Timber.

' We have also continued the repairs of the floats Floats.
and gabbards, and shall continue doing any other cmbbards.
works that are necessary or that your honours shall
direct.

' An abstract of the cash is hereunto annexed, which cash,
we have examined and find there is a balance of Balance.
£1,173 10s. 10Jd., in the hands of alderman Edward
Hunt, Ballast Master, on the Ballast Office fund, and Hunt.
£1,330 13s. 8Jd., overpaid by him on the account of
the public money.'

Whereupon it was ordered, that the foregoing report order,
be confirmed and made an act of assembly, and that the
committee do proceed as they shall judge proper. Ballast

State of the Ballast Office accounts from the 20thoc^unt.

456

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768.

Ballast

Office

account.

day of July last inclusive to the 12th day of October, Boiixxii
1768, exclusive. m'247-

Ballast Office, Dr.

To balance of last quarter's abstract
To cash received since

Per contra, Cr.

By cash paid this quarter for raising ballast

By cash paid for repairs on the piles

By cash paid salaries

By cash paid house rent and sundry petty disbursements

By cash paid repairs on gabbards

By cash paid on account of the light house

By cash paid interest

By balance

£ s. d.

.. 2772 17 1

.. 1138 15 7

£3,911 12 8

£ s. d.

190 1 4

327 19 6

366 0 0

442 11 7£

1097 6 8

164 2 8

150 0 0

1173 10 104

Ballast Office, for the public money, Dr.

To cash received at his majesty's treasury ...
To balance over expended

Per contra. Cr.

By balance of last quarter's abstract

By cash expended this quarter on the south east pier

£3,911 12 8

£ s. d.
. 4000 0 0
. 1330 13 8£

£5,330 13 8i

£ s. d.

. 2901 1 ft

2429 13 8*

£5,330 13 6i

[13.] Certain of the commons setting forth, that two
several holdings in Newhall market, formerly in the
possession of Richard Hely and Michael Roche, have
been recovered by ejectment, and are now in your
honours' possession, that a lease of a small holding
in Castle street formerly in the possession of Robert
Ware is expired, which several interests they conceive

DUBLIN ASSEMBLY ROLL, 1768-1769.

457

11 xxii.
247.

247 6.

246.
246 6.

256 6.

257.
256.

should be set by public cant for the use of the city, 1768.
therefore prayed to appoint a committee for that
purpose.

Whereupon it was ordered, that the committee for Order,
inspecting city leases be empowered to set by public Public cant,
cant the stalls and holdings above mentioned, and that stalls.

Holdings.

they do direct advertisements to be published for that
purpose. The stalls to be set for 31 years, from the
25th of March, and the holding in Castle street,
pursuant to the late regulations, from the same time.

' Benjamin Barton. — Thomas Mead. — John Tew. —
George Reynolds. — Richard French. — Francis Booker.
— William Forbes. — Timothy Allen. — Francis Fether-
ston.'

1768. October 14. — Admissions to franchise.

1768. October 21. — Declaration and signatures.

1769. January 20. — Admissions to franchise.
1769. January 27. — Declaration and signatures.

Franchise.

Declara-
tion.

1769.
Franchise.

Declara-
tion.

APPENDIX

Proceedings in Relation to the Election of Lord
Mayors, Aldermen, Sheriffs, Treasurers,
Coroners, of the City of Dublin, 1761-1769.

1761. April 10. 17G1-

" Alderman Edward Sankey is this day unanimously ratal

elected one of the Coroners of the county of the city of sankey.

Dublin, in the place and stead of alderman Patrick

ii •„_,.,] " Hamilton

Hamilton, who has resigned. resigned.

"Patrick Hamilton.— John Tew.— John Cooke.—
Charles Burton.— Thomas Mead.— Percivall Hunt.—
Philip Crampton.— Benjamin Geale.— Timothy Allen."

1761. April 17.

" Whereas Mr. William Darquier of the Blind quay, Darker,
merchant, was on the third day of April instant elected
one of the Sheriffs of the city of Dublin, for the next
ensuing year, commencing from Michaelmas next, was
accordingly presented to the government and approved.

» And he having this day petitioned us to be excused Petition,
from taking upon him the office of Sheriff, in regard
the duty thereof is of such importance and too great for Duty.
his capacity to discharge for the honour and dignity of
the city, besides his being advanced in years and in a
bad state of health. Health-

" The said William Darquier, for the reasons afore-
said is by us excused from serving in the said office." ra»a.

462

APPENDIX.

lrei. 1761. October 16.

TreLXr° " Alderman Benjamin Geale is this day elected and
chosen Treasurer of the revenues of the said city of
Dublin, for one year from the 29th day of September
last.

"He giving security for the due and faithful
discharge of the said office."

" Timothy Allen.— Patrick Hamilton.— Henry Hart.
—Robert King.— Hans Bailie.— John Cooke.— Percivall
Hunt.— George Ribton.— Charles Rossel.— Peter Barre.
—James Taylor.— John Tew.— Edward Sankey.—
William Forbes.— Thomas Mead."

1762. 1762. March 22.

c£one°rns.of " Ordered that whenever the place or places of the
Coroners of the county of the city of Dublin shall

vacancy, become vacant, and that any person of the Board, who
shall be thought a proper person to serve in said office,
shall decline or refuse the same, that then and in such

fidennan. case> ** shall be obligatory upon the junior alderman

Aldermen, or aldermen to serve therein."

"Timothy Allen.— Henry Hart.— Robert King —
Edward Hunt.— Thomas Cooke.— Thomas Taylor.—
Charles Burton.— Peter Barre.— William Forbes.-
Benjamin Geale."

1762. April 23.

Slot D " Alderman Francis Fetherston and alderman
Barton. ' Benjamin Barton are this day elected Coroners of the

Meaa Crn!l °f the City °f DllbKn' in the Place and s^ad
5$& °J Grman Th°maS Mead and alderman Edward
bankey, who have resigned."

''Timothy Allen.-Robert King.-Thomas Cooke.-
John Hornby.-James Taylor.-John Tew.-Benjamin
Geale. -Hans Bailie. - Edward Sankey. - Philip
Crampton -Thomas Mead.-Peter Barre.-Charles
R°ssel.— Charles Burton."

ELECTION OF LORD MAYORS, SHERIFFS, ETC., 1762-63. 463

1762. October 15. i7ea.

"Michael Sweny, alderman, was this day elected sie^on of
one of the Coroners of the county of the city of Dublin, Sweny-
in the place and stead of alderman Francis Fetherston, Fetherston

i resigned.

who has resigned."

"Charles Rossel.— Henry Hart. — Robert King. —
John Tew. — Thomas Mead. — Timothy Allen. — Benjamin
Barton. — Francis Fetherston. — Thomas Cooke."

1762. October 15.

" Alderman Benjamin Geale is this day elected and Election of

J */ Treasurer.

chosen Treasurer of the revenues of the said city of Geale-
Dublin, for one year, from the 29th day of September
last.

" He giving security for the due and faithful
discharge of the said office."

" Charles Rossel. — Henry Hart. — Robert King. —
John Tew. — Thomas Mead. — Timothy Allen. — -
Benjamin Barton. — Thomas Cooke. — Francis Fether-
ston."

1763. April 16. wes.

" Whereas on Friday, the 15th day of April instant, £0er^tionof
being assembly day and the usual time for electing a gh/riffs.
Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of the city of Dublin for the
ensuing year.

" The Lord Mayor and aldermen did, in pursuance
of an act of parliament for better regulating the
Corporation of the city of Dublin, return to the Sheriffs
and Commons alderman Peter Barre, whom the said Barr<5-
Lord Mayor and aldermen had unanimously elected
to serve in the office or place of Lord Mayor for the
ensuing year commencing from Michaelmas next, for
the approbation of the Sheriffs and Commons, but they
not having approved of him.

" The said Lord Mayor and aldermen immediately

464

APPENDIX.

Geale.

1763. returned to the said Sheriffs and Commons, alderman

Forbes. William Forbes, whom the said Lord Mayor and
aldermen had unanimously elected to serve in the said
office or place of Lord Mayor for the said year, com-
mencing as aforesaid, for the approbation of the said
Sheriffs and Commons, but they not having approved
of him;

"The said Lord Mayor and aldermen immediately
returned to the said Sheriffs and Commons alderman
Benjamin Geale, whom the said Lord Mayor and
aldermen had unanimously elected to serve in the said
office or place of Lord Mayor for the said year com-
mencing as aforesaid, for the approbation of the said
Sheriffs and Commons, but they not having approved
of him.

"The said Lord Mayor and aldermen returned
immediately to the said Sheriffs and Commons, alderman
James Taylor, whom the said Lord Mayor and aldermen
had unanimously elected to serve in the said office or
place of Lord Mayor for the said year commencing
as aforesaid, for the approbation of the said Sheriffs and
Commons, and they the said Sheriffs and Commons not
having approved of him.

" We, therefore, the said Lord Mayor and aldermen,
conceiving the proceedings of the said Sheriffs and
Commons to be irregular and not according to law,
Eteetumof have this day proceeded to the election of Lord Mayor
Ma*'or of the said city for the said year commencing as afore-
said.

Barre. " The Lord May or proposed alderman Peter Barre,

Forbes. alderman William Forbes, and alderman Benjamin
Geaie. Geale, to be put in nomination for Lord Mayor, to which
the aldermen agreed, and thereupon they were
Nomina- nominated and put in election.

" And there being eighteen votes for the said alder-

Taylor.

Votes.

ELECTION OF LORD MAYORS, SHERIFFS, ETC., 1763. 465

man Barre, no vote for the said alderman Forbes, and 1763.
no vote for the said alderman Geale,

" The said alderman Peter Barre is by us elected Lord gj£f<
Mayor of the said city for the next ensuing year com- May°r-
mencing as aforesaid.

" And whereas the, return made by the Sheriffs and f^ff°»of
Commons to the said Lord Mayor and aldermen of the
following eight persons, to wit, William Hurst of
Hawkins' street, merchant, Robert Montgomery of
Dominick street, merchant, Thomas Emerson of Castle
street, weaver, Thomas Green of James's street, brewer,
Anthony King of Cook street, founder, Richard French
of the Blind quay, druggist, Robert Burton of Liffey
street, cooper, and George Faulkner of James's street,
tanner, as fit persons to serve in the office of Sheriffs
of the said city.

" That the said Lord Mayor and aldermen might elect
thereout two of the said persons to be Sheriffs of the
said city, for the ensuing year commencing Michaelmas
next, was rejected by the said Lord Mayor and alder-
men, it appearing to them, that there was no such
person a freeman living or residing in James's street,
as the above-named George Faulkner, but that George Faulkner.
Faulkner, tanner, is the person meant in the said
return, who is a freeman, but is an inhabitant in
Dolphin's Barn town, which is in the county of Dublin, Dolphin's
and not resident within the city of Dublin or the
Liberties thereto adjoining.

"And as the said Lord Mayor and aldermen had
received credible information, that several private
meetings had been previous to the said assembly day, Meetings,
and particularly on the day before, where a part of the
Commons, in number about thirty or forty, had fixed
on made out a list of eight persons to be returned to i&*of
the Board on the said 15th day of April, to serve said sons,
office of Sheriffs, which eight persons so fixed on by

VOL. XI. S H

466 APPENDIX.

1763. them were the identical persons returned to the Board

without any variation, and had also entered into a

Resolution, resolution to preclude and reject a considerable number
of the Board of Aldermen, men of unquestionable
character, abilities, and property to serve in the office
of Lord Mayor, without assigning any reason for their

Election of SO doingf.
Sheriffs. °

" The said Lord Mayor and aldermen proceeded to
the election of two persons to serve in the office of
Sheriffs of the said city for the said year commencing
as aforesaid.

"And the said Lord Mayor and aldermen put in
election for Sheriffs the following eight persons, to wit,
John Hunt of Chancery lane, merchant, Christopher
Harrison of Mary's Abbey, merchant, Robert
Montgomery of Dominick street, merchant, George
Carleton of Eustace street, merchant, William
Alexander of Mary's Abbey, merchant, Travers Hartley
of Bride street, merchant, Thomas Blood of Meath p.sos
street, merchant, and John Warren of Strand street,
merchant,
votes. " And there being twenty one votes for the said John

Hunt, twenty one votes for the said Christopher
Harrison, no vote for the said Robert Montgomery, no
vote for the said George Carleton, no vote for the said
William Alexander, no vote for the said Travers
Hartley, no vote for the said Thomas Blood, and no
vote for the said John Warren.

larrison, " The said John Hunt and Christopher Harrison are
sheriffs.' elected by us, the said Lord Mayor and aldermen,
Sheriffs of the said city for the said year commencing
as aforesaid.''

" Charles Rossel.— Timothy Allen.— Edward Hunt.—
Thomas Cooke.— Thomas Taylor.— John Cooke.—
Charles Burton.— Hans Bailie.— Perci vail Hunt.—
Thomas Mead.— Philip Crampton.— John Tew.-

ELECTION OF LORD MAYORS, SHERIFFS, ETC., 1763-64. 467

Monday Patrick Hamilton.— William Forbes.— Benjamin Geale. i763.
££°k2; —James Taylor.— Edward Sankey — Francis Fether-
p305' ston.— Benjamin Barton.— Michael Sweny."

P.30G. 1763. October 14.

" Sir Thomas Blackall, knight, was this day elected Election of
one of the Coroners of the county of the city of Dublin, Blackalh
in the place and stead of alderman Benjamin Barton, Barto^
who has resigned."

"William Forbes.— Robert King.— John Cooke-
Thomas Mead.— Hans Bailie.— Timothy Allen.— John
Tew. — Peter Barre. — Matthew Bailie. — Benjamin
Barton."

p. 307. 1764. May 4. 1764-

"George Reynolds, alderman, was this day elected Election of
one of the Coroners of the county of the city of Dublin, Reynold.
in the place and stead of alderman Michael Sweny, who ^?e'd.
has resigned."

"William Forbes.— Robert King.— Charles Burton.
Timothy Allen.— Thomas Mead.— James Taylor.— John
Tew.— Charles Rossel.— Matthew Bailie.— Benjamin
Geale.— Philip Crampton— Patrick Hamilton."

p 30S.

1764. October 19.

" Alderman Benjamin Geale is this day elected and %£%£?'
chosen Treasurer of the revenues of the said city of Utal
Dublin for one year, from the 29th day of September

last.

"He giving security for the due and faithful
discharge of the said office."

"Benjamin Geale.— John Tew. — Philip Crampton.—
Robert King.— William Forbes. — Francis Fetherston. —
Edward Sankey. — Thomas Blackall. — Benjamin
Barton. — George Reynolds. — Patrick Hamilton."

468

APPENDIX.

1765. 1765. October 18. „ a

Monday

TrSsLTer^ " Alderman Benjamin Geale is this clay elected and \l\\
Geaie. ' chosen Treasurer of the revenues of the said city of P'3°9'

Dublin for one year, from the 29th day of September

last.

"He giving security for the due and faithful

discharge of the said office."

"James Taylor.— Robert King.— Thomas Cooke.—

Hans Bailie. — Philip Crampton. — John Tew. — Patrick

Hamilton.— Timothy Allen.— Edward Sankey.— George

Reynolds."

1766. 1766. April 11. pm
comi°f "Tne Lord Mayor and Board of Aldermen having
ofedSa?arynof reacl a scurrilous petition, intitled the ' Petition of
GratLT Certain of the Commons,' praying for the reasons

therein mentioned, a reduction of the salary of the
Recorder; do consider the same to have been preferred,
not with any expectation that it would be assented to,
but to have been intended to inflame the minds of the
people against the magistracy and as a personal insult
against the Recorder, from which in honour and justice,
they think themselves bound to defend him.

"Having for a series of ten years past, since his
admission into that high station been witnesses of his
upright conduct in a faithful, honourable and able
discharge of the several important duties of his office,
of late years so greatly increased to the interruption of
his time, valuable to himself and family, by which the
public have been most essentially benefited and the
honour of the city supported.

" And therefore they, the Lord Mayor and Board of
Aldermen sincerely lament their want of power properly

petition t0 reWard hiS eminent services and with a just contempt
rejected, for the compilers, have unanimously rejected the said
petition."

ELECTION OF LORD MAYORS, SHERIFFS, ETC., 1766-67. 469

1766. October 17. wee.
"Alderman Beniamin Geale is this day elected and Election of

d " Treasurer.

chosen Treasurer of the revenues of the said city for Geaie.
one year, from the 29th day of September last.

" He giving security for the due and faithful
discharge of the said "office."

" Edward Sankey. — Thomas Cooke. — Eobert King. —
Hans Bailie. — John Cooke. — Charles Burton. — Thomas
Mead. — John Tew. — Benjamin Barton. — George
Reynolds — Francis Booker. — Peter Barre. — Percivall
Hunt. — Francis Fetherston. — Timothy Allen."

1767. May 1. vm.
" By the right honourable the Lord Mayor and Board

of Aldermen of the city of Dublin on the 1st May,
1767."

"Resolved, that the method of electing the Lord Method of

Electing

Mayor, Aldermen, Recorder, Treasurer, Sheriffs, Town Lord^
Clerk, Coroners, and other city officers and servants, *jf^^_
be for the future by each gentleman subscribing his
name under that of the person he shall vote for."

" Edward Sankey. — James Taylor. — Robert King. —
Edward Hunt. — John Cooke. — Charles Burton. — Hans
Bailie. — Percivall Hunt. — Thomas Mead. — Philip
Crampton. — John" Tew. — Timothy Allen. — Charles
Rossel. — Peter Barre. — William Forbes. — Benjamin
Geale. — Francis Fetherston. — Benjamin Barton. —
Thomas Blackall.— George Reynolds. — Francis Booker.
— Richard French."

1767. October 16.

"Alderman Benjamin Geale is this day elected and gec««iof
chosen Treasurer of the revenues of the said city [of Geaie.
Dublin] for one year, from the 29th day of September
last.

470 . APPENDIX.

1767. "He giving security for the due and faithful

discharge of the said office."

" Francis Fetherston. — John Cooke. — Charles Burton.
— Hans Bailie. — Percivall Hunt. — Philip Crampton. —
John Tew. — Timothy Allen. — William Forbes. —
Edward Sankey. — Thomas Blackall. — George Reynolds.
— Richard French."

1708. 1768. October 14. p w

Election of "Alderman Benjamin Geale is this clay elected and

1 reasurer. J J

Geaie. chosen Treasurer of the revenues of the said city [of
Dublin] for one year, from the 29th day of September
last.

" He giving security for the due and faithful
discharge of the said office."

" Benjamin Barton. — Francis Fetherston. — Hans
Bailie. — Percivall Hunt. — Thomas Mead. — Philip
Crampton. — John Tew.- — Patrick Hamilton. — Timothy
Allen.— William Forbes.- — Edward Sankey. — Thomas
Blackall. — George Reynolds. — Francis Booker. — p. 3is.
Richard French."

1769. 1769. October 20.

Election of "Alderman Benjamin Geale is this clay elected and
Geaie. chosen Treasurer of the revenues of the said city [of

Dublin] for one year, from the 29th clay of September

last.

" He giving security for the due and faithful
discharge of the said office."

" Thomas Blackall. — Benjamin Barton. — Robert
King. — Francis Fetherston. — Richard French. — John
Tew. — Francis Booker. — George Reynolds. — Charles
Rossel. — Philip Crampton. — Edward Sankey. — Hans
Failie. — John Cooke. — Timothy Allen."

ELECTION OF LORD MAYORS, SHERIFFS, ETC, 1769. 471

1769. October 20. 1769-

" Francis Booker, alderman, was this day elected one Election of

of the Coroners of the county of the city of Dublin, in Booker.

the place and stead of sir Thomas Blackall, knight, ^,

who has resigned."

11 Thomas Blackall.— Hans Bailie.— Charles Rossel.

—Richard French.— Timothy Allen.— Percivall Hunt.

— Philip Crampton. — Benj amin Geale. — Francis

Fetherston.— John Tew.— George Reynolds."

Resignation.

;' I, Sir Thomas Blackall, knight, Lord Mayor of E^gna-
the City of Dublin, do hereby resign the office of one Biacfaii.
of the Coroners of the county of the said city, to the coroner.
Board of Aldermen of the said city, and desire that
they may elect another Coroner in my stead."

" Given under my hand, this 20th day of October,

1769."

" Thos. Blackall." (Seal.)

" 20th Oct., 1769."

" The above resignation read and accepted of by the
Board."

472 appe:s~t>ix.

1766.

Charles Lttcas. — Hexey Flood. — Deeatiox of
Paeliamexts. — Quaeteely Assembly.

1766. 1766. January 17. p-310-

Proceed- Proceedings of the Lord Mayor and Board of Alder-

men at a General Assembly held at the Tholsel of the
city of Dublin on Friday, the 17th day of January,
1766.

Present.

Lord Mayor : Right honourable Sir James Taylor.

Aldermen: Benjamin Geale, Robert King, Thomas
Cooke, John Cooke, Hans Bailie. Percivall Hunt, Philip
Crampton, John Tew, sir Patrick Hamilton, sir Timothy
Allen, Peter Barre, William Forbes. Francis Fetherston,
Benjamin Barton, sir Thomas Blackall, Matthew Bailie,
George Reynolds, Francis Booker.

Chaeles Lucas.

" A petition of certain of the Commons p raying for
the reasons therein mentioned, that an annual stipend
of three hundred and sixty-five pounds, should be

£^ses granted to Doctor Charles Lucas, having been presented
to the assembly and unanimously rejected by the said

Message of Lord Mayor and Board of Aldermen, a message in

Sheriffs and . .

commons, writing was sent by the Sheriffs and Commons in the
following words."

CIIAKLES LUCAS. 473

" Resolved that a message be sent to the Lord Mayor 1766.
" and Board of Aldermen, requesting them to concur
" with and pass a petition of certain of the Commons
" presented this assembly for rewarding the merit and
" services of Doctor Lucas, one of the representatives of
" this city in Parliament, with a public testimony of
" the city's approbation of his conduct, by granting
" him an annual stipend."

"To which message, the Lord Mayor and Board ofj%™erof
" Aldermen returned an answer in writing in the ^lider-
" following words."

" The Lord Mayor and Board of Aldermen having
" taken into consideration a petition from certain of the Petition.
" Commons praying an annual stipend of three hundred Annual

stipend.

and sixty five pounds, to be paid during the city's
" pleasure, to Doctor Charles Lucas, one of their £°£*°r
"representatives in Parliament; have judged it
" inexpedient to give any countenance to the said inex-
" petition, as the circumstances which form the present
" conjuncture, are of too much notoriety to leave room
" to doubt of the motive of such an application made Motive
" at this time, and therefore the Lord Mayor and Board
" of Aldermen however ready upon all proper occasions, occasions.
" as far as their weight and power may extend to give
" every constitutional opposition to any measure really
"injurious to this country; yet as the magistrates of
" this city, and desirous of preserving the peace. Peace.
" harmony and good order thereof, do think themselves
" bound to discountenance alarms, however groundless, Alarms.
" which may disturb the minds of well intending
" citizens, and therefore have unanimously rejected the fleeted
" said petition."

474 APPENDIX.

1766.

Henry Flood.

Petition of "And a petition of certain of the Commons having P-3ii.

Commons. r °

been likewise presented to the assembly, praying that
Freedom of the freedom of the Corporation of this City should be
fio'oY granted to Henry Flood, esquire, and several matters
having been therein set forth, as reasons for the granting
the same, the Lord Mayor and Board of Aldermen
unanimously agreed to the granting of the said freedom
by their order conceived in the following words.

Granted " Granted gratis on the particular and only con-

gratis. . .

" sideration of his excellent character and distinguished

" abilities."

Message << Which petition and order having been sent by them

commonasud to the Sheriffs and Commons, they the Sheriffs and
Commons sent to the Lord Mayor and Board of Alder-
men, a message in writing in the following words.

" The Sheriffs and Commons request, that the order
on Mr. Flood be varied, and the following substituted
in its place.

" Granted according to the prayer of the petition,
" gratis."

Answer of " To which the Lord Mayor and Board of Aldermen

Lord. J

Mayor and returned an answer in writing in the following words."

Aldermen. ° o

" The Lord Mayor and Board of Aldermen have

" unanimously agreed to make no alteration in the order

fuwZ "already made by them for the admission of Henry

Freedom of « Flood> esquirej to the freedom of this city, being

DURATION OF PARLIAMENTS. 475

" persuaded that the terms in which the said order was 1766.
" conceived, convey as was intended by them, the
" highest compliment that could be made to that respect-
" able personage."

Duration of Parliaments.

of
oris.

" A petition of certain of the Commons having also Petition
been presented to the assembly, praying that
instructions should be given by them to their repre-
sentatives in Parliament to use their utmost endeavours
to have the heads of a bill brought into the honourable bui to limit

a the dura-

llOUSe of commons, to limit the duration of Parliaments, tiou .of

' parlia-

passed into a law, and several matters having been ments-
therein set forth, as reasons for agreeing thereto;
before the said Lord Mayor and Board of Aldermen
had in the course of their business, either considered
or read the same, the following message in writing was
sent to them by the Sheriffs and Commons."

" Resolved that a message be sent to the Lord Mayor Message
;' and Board of Aldermen, that they will be pleased and

Commons.

" to send to the Sheriffs and Commons, the petition that
"appears (by»the abstract of business) to have been
" lodged in the name of certain of the Commons
" praying, that the assembly might instruct the repre-
" sentatives of this City in Parliament, to use their
" utmost endeavours to have the heads of a bill brought
" into the honourable house of commons, to limit the
" duration of Parliaments passed into a law."

" Upon the receipt of which message, the Lord Mayor Answer of
and Board of Aldermen, having read the said petition, Mayor

and

and taken the same into consideration, did unanimously Aldermen.

476

APPENDIX.

1766.

Petition
rejected.

Book.
Vol. 2.
p. 311.

agree to reject it, and did return to the message of the Monday
Sheriffs and Commons an answer in writing in the
following words.

" Although the Lord Mayor and Board of Aldermen
" are unanimously of opinion, that a law for limiting
" the duration of Parliaments, with proper and neces-
" sary provisions,1 would be useful; yet the terms in
" which the petition for that purpose in the name of
" certain of the Commons lodged in the Tholsel office
" are conceived, appear to them so exceptionable, and p- 312.
" the present time for their making such an application
" seeming to them, from many circumstances, so
" improper, they thought fit unanimously to reject the
" said petition."

Adjourn-
ment of
quarterly
assembly.

Resolution.

Blessage.

Adjournment of Quarterly Assembly.

" And it being past the hour of seven at night, before
the aforesaid matters could be settled, a message was
sent by the Sheriffs and Commons, to the Lord Mayor
and Board of Aldermen, in order to have their con-
currence in two several resolutions delivered in writing,
in the following words."

" Resolved, that it is the opinion of this house, that
" the quarterly business of this city cannot be finished
"in one day with the care and attention necessary to
" avoid irregularity and mistakes."

" Resolved, that a message be sent to the Lord Mayor
" and Board of Aldermen acquainting them with the

1 The Lord Mayor and Board of Aldermen, by the words proper and necessary
provisions, desire to be understood to mean such provisions as may be proper and
necessary for securing the constitutional independency of the House of Commons.

p. 312.

QUARTERLY ASSEMBLY. 477

mday " foregoing resolution and requesting that this assembly 1766.
ai. 2. "' be adjourned to a further day."

812

" To which the Lord Mayor and Board of Aldermen
sent in writing the following answer.

" The Lord Mayor and Board of Aldermen do not Answer.
" think proper to agree to a general resolution for the
" adjournment of the quarterly assembly, but on
" account of the several matters of consequence still
" remaining unfinished at this late hour of the night,
" think it expedient to concur with the Sheriffs and
" Commons in the adjournment of this assembly to a Adjoum-
" future day, to be named by the right honourable the agreed to.
" Lord Mayor, in order to finish and complete the
" business left undone of this day."

" All which said proceedings the Lord Mayor and Proceed-
Board of Aldermen did unanimously resolve should Dublin

papers.

be printed in the Dublin Gazette, Faulkner's and
Saunders' papers."

" Signed by order of the Lord Mayor and Board
of Aldermen."

" Henry Gonne : Town Clerk."

478

APPENDIX.

1760

III.

Lord Mayors, Aldermen, Siieeiffs, Sheriffs' Peers,
Common Council of the City of Dublin.

1760.

Lord
Mayor.

Aldermen.

Lord Mayor and Aldermen.

1760. November.

Lord Mayor : " Patrick Hamilton.

Aldermen : " John Tew, Percival Hunt, Henry Hart,
Robert King, Edward Hunt, Robert Ross, sir George
Ribton, baronet. Thomas Cooke, Thomas Taylor, John
Hornby, John Cooke, sir Charles Burton, baronet,
Hans Bailie, Andrew Murray, Percival Hunt, junior,
Thomas Meao^, Philip Crampton, Timothy Allen,
Charles Rossel, James Taylor, Peter Barre, William
Forbes, Benjamin Geale, James Taylor, junior."

Sheriffs.

Sheriffs'
Peers.

Sheriffs and Sheriffs' Peers.

Sheriffs : " Francis Fetherston, George Wrightson.

Sheriffs' Peers : " George Tucker, sir Quaile
Somervell, baronet, Thomas Read, Thomas Broughlon,
Patrick Ewing, William Cooke, Matthew Weld, George
Reynolds, Alexander Ryves, Arthur Lamprey, Michael
Sweny, Benjamin Barton, Edward Sankey."

1761.

Lord
Mayor.

Aldermen.

Lord Mayor and Aldermen.

1761. November.

Lord Mayor : " Sir Timothy Allen, knight.

Aldermen : "Sir Patrick Hamilton, knight, Henry
Hart, Robert King, Edward Hunt, Robert Ross, sir
George Ribton, baronet, Thomas Cooke, Thomas Taylor,
John Hornby, John Cooke, sir Charles Burton, baronet.

LORD MAYORS, ALDERMEN, SHERIFFS, ETC, 1761-62. 479

Hans Bailie, Andrew Murray, Percival Hunt, Thomas i76i.
Mead, Philip Crampton, John Tew, Charles Rossel,
James Taylor, Peter Barre, William Forbes, Benjamin
Geale, James Taylor, junior, Edward Sankey."

Sheriffs and Sheriffs' Peers.

Sheriffs : " Matthew Bailie, Thomas Blackall. Sheriifs-

Sheriffs" Peers: "George Tucker, sir Quaile K?8'
Somervell, baronet, Thomas Read, Thomas Broughton,
Patrick Ewing, William Cooke, Matthew Weld, George
Reynolds, Alexander Ryves, Arthur Lamprey, Michael
Sweny, Benjamin Barton, Francis Fetherston, George
Wrightson, William Darquier."'

Lord Mayor and Aldermen.

1762. November. iH"

Lord Mayor: "Right Honourable Charles Rossel, *£**
esquire, Lord Mayor of the City of Dublin.

Aldermen : " Sir Timothy Allen, knight, Henry Hart. Aldermen.
Robert King, Edward Hunt, Robert Ross, Thomas
Cooke, Thomas Taylor, John Cooke, sir Charles Burton,
baronet, Hans Bailie, Andrew Murray, Percival Hunt.
Thomas Mead, Philip Crampton, John Tew, sir Patrick
Hamilton, knight, Peter Barre, William Forbes
Benjamin Geale,«James Taylor, junior, Edward Sankey.
Francis Fetherston, Benjamin Barton, Michael Sweny.''

Sheriffs and Sheriffs' Peers.

Sheriffs : " John Read, Joseph Hall. sheriffs.

Sheriffs' Peers : " George Tucker, sir Quaile Somervell, fg|™ffs'
baronet, Thomas Read, Thomas Broughton, Patrick
Ewing, William Cooke, Matthew Weld, George
Reynolds, Alexander Ryves, Arthur Lamprey, George
Wrightson, William Darquier, Matthew Bailie, sir
Thomas Blackall, knight.

480 APPENDIX.

Representatives of the Guilds on the Common
Council of the City of Dublin, 1762-1765.

A List of the Numbers or Commons, Elected this
Day out of the Returns Made by the Several
Corporations of the City of Dublin, to Serve
in the Common Council of the said City, for
the Ensuing Three Years. Pursuant to the
New Rules. — 24th December, 1762.

1762. 1762. December 24.

Represen- [1.1 Trinity Guild. : "William Hurst, Alexander

tatives of L J J

Dublin M'Donnell, Walter Nugent, Richard Cave, Patrick

Guilds. ° ' '

Boyd, George Boyd, Thomas Blood, George Carleton,
William Ruttledge, Thomas Hawkshaw, Theobald
Medlicot, John Tucker, James Vareilles, William
Alexander, Francis Minchin, Joseph Verschoyle,
Townley Ahmuty, John Warre, George Moore, Edward
Meares, James Cartland, Travers Hartley, Robert
Bentley, Daniel Dickinson, James Hamilton, James
Jones, Robert Athenleck, David Ribton, Richard
French, Henry Bevan, William Thompson.

[2.] Tailors : " Robert Mason, John Tudor, William
Bell, John Graham.

[3.] Smiths : " Thomas Truelock, Anthony King.
Robert King, Mathew Collins.

[4.] Barber Surgeons : " Henry Kirk, Charles Lucas.

[5.] Bakers : " William Brookes, Caleb Smalley,
Richard Anderson, Francis Gladwell.

[6.] Butchers: Luke Franklin, John Harding,
William Taverner.

[7.] Carpenters : " Michael Poole, John Taylor,
Thomas Matthews.

[8.] Shoemakers : " George Roecastle, Francis Eager.
Francis Lapiere. William Forster.

LORD MAYOR, ALDERMEN, SHERIFFS, ETC., 1762-63. 481

[9.] Saddlers, etc. : " Charles Strong, Gerald 1762.
Kavanagh, Henry Dobson. tativesof

0 ' J Dublin

[10.] Cooks : " William Morgan, James Anderson. Guilds.

[11.] Tanners: "John Elliot, George Falkiner.

[12.] Tallow Chandlers, etc.: "William Dunn,
Hugh Wooldridge.

[13.] Glovers and Skinners : " John Gibball,
Alexander Sinclare.

[14.] Weavers : " Thomas Emerson, Robert Ricky,
Benjamin Houghton.

[15.] Shearmen and Dyers : " John Darragh, John
Beasley.

[16.] Goldsmiths: "Edward Mockler, Robert
Calderwood, Martin Kirkpatrick, Joseph Thompson.

[17.] Coopers : " Robert Burton, Joseph Cock.

[18.] Feltmakers : " John Haddock, Matthew Sleater.

[19.] Cutlers, etc. : " Peter Wilson, William Turney,
Oliver Nelson.

[20.] Bricklayers, etc. : " Gregory Sproule, James
Darby.

[21.] Hosiers: "Richard Waters, Thomas Dixon.

[22.] Curriers : " Richard Ginn, Nicholas Grumly.

[23.] Brewers, etc. : " Henry Williams, James
Carson, George Thwaites, Thomas Green.

[24.] Joiners, etc. : " Christopher Hearn, Jonathan
Ball.

[25.] Apothecaries: "Henry Hunt, Arthur Perrin.'*

Lord Mayor and Aldermen.

1763. November. 1703.

Lord Mayor : " William Forbes. J££r.

Aldermen : " Charles Rossel, Robert King, Edward Aidemen.
Hunt, Robert Ross, Thomas Cooke, Thomas Taylor,
John Cooke, sir Charles Burton, baronet, Hans Bailie,
Percival Hunt, Thomas Mead, Philip Crampton, John

VOL. XI. I I

•482 APPENDIX.

1763. Tew, sir Patrick Hamilton, knight, sir Timothy Allen,
knight, Peter Barre, Benjamin Geale, James Taylor,
Edward Sankey, Francis Fetherston, Benjamin Barton,
Michael Sweny, sir Thomas Blackall, knight, Matthew
Bailie."

Sheriffs and Sheriffs' Peers.

sheriffs. Sheriffs : " William Bryan, Francis Booker.

sheriffs' Sheriffs' Peers : " George Tucker, sir Quaile Somer-

Peers. °

veil, baronet, Thomas Read, Thomas Broughton,
Patrick Ewing, William Cooke, Matthew Weld, George
Reynolds, Alexander Ryves, Arthur Lamprey, George
Wrightson, William Darquier, John Read, Joseph
Hall."

Lord Mayor and Aldermen.

1764. 1764. November.

M°aydor. Lord Mayor : " Benjamin Geale.

Aidermeu. Aldermen : " Robert King, Edward Hunt, Robert
Ross, Thomas Cooke, John Cooke, sir Charles Burton,
baronet, Hans Bailie, Percival Hunt, Thomas Mead,
Philip Crampton, John Tew, sir Patrick Hamilton,
knight, sir Timothy Allen, knight, Charles Rossel,
Peter Barre, William Forbes, Benjamin Geale, James
Taylor, Edward Sankey, Francis Fetherston, Benjamin
Barton, Michael Sweny, sir Thomas Blackall, knight,
Matthew Bailie, George Reynolds."

Sheriffs and Sheriffs' Peers.

sheriffs. Sheriffs: "Robert Montgomery, Henry Hart.

ieerstfs' Sheriffs' Peers : " George Tucker, sir Quaile Somervell,
baronet, Thomas Read, Thomas Broughton, Patrick
Ewing, William Cooke, Matthew Weld, Alexander
Ryves, Arthur Lamprey, George Wrightson, William
Darquier, John Read, Joseph Hall, William Bryan,
Francis Booker, John Hunt."

LORD MAYORS. ALDERMEN, SHERIFFS. ETC.. 1765-66. 483

1765.

Lord Mayor and Aldermen.

1765. November. 1765.
Lord Mayor : " Sir James Taylor, knight. Lord

J J & Mayor

Aldermen : " Benjamin Geale, Robert King, Edward Aldermen.
Hunt, Robert Ross, Thomas Cooke, John Cooke, sir
Charles Burton, baronet, Hans Bailie, Percival Hunt,
Thomas Mead, Philip Crampton, John Tew, sir Patrick
Hamilton, knight, sir Timothy Allen, knight, Charles
Rossel, Peter Barre, William Forbes, Edward Sankey,
Francis Fetherston, Benjamin Barton, sir Thomas
Blackall, knight, Matthew Bailie, George Reynolds,
Francis Booker."

Sheriffs and Sheriffs' Peers.

Sheriffs : " William Ruttledge, Richard French. sheriffs.

Sheriffs' Peers : " Sir Quaile Somervell, baronet, |^ffs'
Thomas Read, William Cooke, Matthew Weld,
Alexander Ry ves, Arthur Lamprey, George Wrightson,
William Darquier, John Read, Joseph Hall, William
Bryan, John Hunt, Robert Montgomery, Henry Hart."

Lord Mayor and Aldermen.

1766. November. 1766
Lord Mayor : " Edward Sankey. Lord
Aldermen : "Sir James Taylor, knight, Robert King, Auienueu.

Edward Hunt, Robert Ross, Thomas Cooke, John
Cooke, sir Charles Burton, baronet, Hans Bailie,
Percival Hunt, Thomas Mead, Philip Crampton, John
Tew, sir Patrick Hamilton, knight, sir Timothy Allen,
knight, Charles Rossel, William Forbes, Benjamin
Geale, Francis Fetherston, Benjamin Barton, sir
Thomas Blackall, knight, Matthew Bailie, George
Reynolds, Francis Booker."

484

APPENDIX.

1766.

Sheriffs.

Sheriffs
Peers.

Sheriffs and Sheriffs' Peers.

Sheriffs : " Willoughby Lightburne, Thomas Emerson.

Sheriffs' Peers : " Sir Quaile Somervell, baronet,
Thomas Read, William Cooke, Matthew Weld,
Alexander Ryves, Arthur Lamprey, George Wrightson,
William Darquier, John Read, Joseph Hall, William
Bryan, John Hunt, Robert Montgomery, Henry Hart,
David Ribton, William Ruttledge, Richard French."

1767.

Lord
Mayor.

Aldermen.

Lord Mayor and Aldermen.

1767. November.

Lord Mayor : " Francis Fetherston.

Aldermen: "Edward Sankey, Robert King, Edward
Hunt, Robert Ross, John Cooke, sir Charles Burton,
baronet, Hans Bailie, Percival Hunt, Thomas Mead,
Philip Crampton, John Tew, sir Patrick Hamilton,
knight, sir Timothy Allen, knight, Charles Rossel,
Peter Barre, William Forbes, Benjamin Geale, sir
James, Taylor, knight, Benjamin Barton, sir Thomas
Blackall, knight, Matthew Bailie, George Reynolds,
Francis Booker, Richard French."

Sheriffs.

Sheriffs'
Peers.

Sheriffs and Sheriffs' Peers.

Sheriffs : " Patrick Boyd, Henry Bevan.

SURVEY OF THE LIBERTIES AND FRANCHISES. 485

1767.

IV.

Survey of the Liberties and Franchises of the

City of Dublin, 1767.

The whole order and procession of the twenty-five 1767.
Corporations, with a survey of the Liberties and survey
Franchises of the City of Dublin ; as they are to be anderties

Franchises

ridden and perambulated on Tuesday the 4th of August, °\ ©IS
1767, by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, Sheriffs, Commons,
and Guilds, with the Masters' and Wardens' names and
places of abode; also, the various Colours in each worn
Cockade.

I. Merchants, or Holy Trinity Guild, blue and Guilds,
yellow.

Richard French, Blind quay, Henry Hart, Eustace
street, masters. John Booker, Essex bridge, William
Coats, Bagnio slip, wardens.

II. Tailors, or Guild of Saint John Baptist, saxon
blue and white.

Abraham Lee, Merchants' quay, master. Abraham
Creighton, Big Ship street, David Bacon, Trinity lane,
wardens.

III. Smiths, or Guild of Saint Loy, black and white.
William Osbrey, Dame street, master. Richard Nix,

Dame street, J' hn Sheen, Dame street, wardens.

4l86 appendix.

i7G7. IV. Barber-Surgeons, or Guild of Saint Mary

ofUthey Magdalen, purple, cherry and white.

Liberties
and

of'Xhcity Alexander Ross, Blind quay, master. Edmund
GfJusbUn' Chapman, Smithfield, T. Mitchel, wardens.

V. Bakers, or Guild of Saint Anne, orange, cherry
and lemon.

William Beasley, Marrowbone lane, master. Caleb
Smalley, senior, George's lane, warden.

VI. Butchers, or Guild of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
red and white.

Gust. Wild, Channel row, master. Edward Rice,
Fleet street, John Braze! 1, George Hamilton, New
market, wardens.

VII. Carpenters, Millers, Masons, Healers, Turners,
and Plumbers, of the Fraternity of the Blessed Virgin
Mary and House of Saint Thomas, Dublin, red and
white.

Richard Cranfield, Hog Hill, master. William Stokes,
Clare street, John Morgan. Chequer lane, wardens.

VIII. Shoemakers, or Guild of Saint Michael,
Archangel, red, blue, and green.

Edward Clark, Capel street, John Sherwood, Cut-
purse row, masters. William Sleavin, Crane lane,
James McCleary, High street, wardens.

IX. Saddlers, Upholders, Coach and Coach harness
makers, or Guild of the Blessed Virgin Mary, crimson,
white, and green.

William McCready, Bride street, master. Humphrey
Curtin, Mary street, John Hale, George's lane, wardens.

X. Cooks, or Guild of Saint James, Apostle, orange
and black.

SURVEY OF THE LIBERTIES AND FRANCHISES. 487

Joseph Watson, Ormond market, master. Paul 1767.
Presley, Dame street, Terence Sherridan, Sussex street, ^Yhl
wardens. ^erties

Franchises

XI. Tanners, blue, white, and yellow. of Dubhny
Samuel Henderson, New row, on the Poddle, master. Guilds.

Samuel Nesfield, T. Miller, James's street, W. Vicars,
Crooked staff, wardens.

XII. Tallow Chandlers, or Guild of Saint George,
blue and sky colour.

John Shandly, Pimlico, master. Robert Ferran,
Coombe, William Kinsolows, Cole alley, wardens.

XIII. Glovers and Skinners, or Guild of Saint Mary,
green and brick colour.

T. Tudor, Blind quay, master. J. Brooks, Palmer's
row, T. Barrow, Patrick street, wardens.

XIV. Weavers, or Guild of Saints Philip and James,
orange and blue.

William Worthington, Vicar street, master, J.
Wiseheart, Corn market, J. Lynch, wardens.

XV. Sheermen and Dyers, or Guild of Saint
Nicholas, blue and white-
Benjamin Houghton, Ash street, master. T. Houston,

Francis street, Stephen Mara, Coombe, wardens.

XVI. Goldsmiths, or Guild of All Saints, red, yellow,
and white.

W. Wilme, Hoey's court, master. R. Williams,
Castle street, J. Frederick Sherwin, and Benjamin
Wilson, Skinner row, wardens.

XVII. Coopers, or Guild of Saint Patrick, white and
green.

J. Lane, Anglesea street, master. R. Servant, George" s
lane, David Hollister, Kennedy's lane, wardens.

488 APPENDIX.

1767, XVIII. Feltmakers or Hatters, white hats with sky

gjg?^ colour.

an/ J. Brady, Meath street, master. Alexander Tate,

Franchises

of the city Temple Bar, 1ST. Tomkins, Church street, wardens.

of Dublin. x '

Guilds. XIX. Cutlers, Painters, Paper Stainers, Printers, and

Stationers, or Guild of Saint Luke, Evangelist, crimson,
lemon, and sky blue.

John Exshaw, Dame street, master. Sampson
Silvester, Castle market, Patrick Wall, Arran quay,
wardens.

XX. Bricklayers and Plasterers, or Guild of Saint
Bartholomew, blue and orange.

Edward Gill, Dorset street, master. Thomas Walsh,
Moore lane, John Kennedy, Lazers hill, wardens.

XXI. Hosiers, or Guild of Saint George, white, blue,
and copper colour.

Charles Grollier, Castle street, master. J. Carmichael,
Castle street, Stephen Malone, Coombe, wardens.

XXII. Curriers, yellow, red, and black.

Richard Ginn, Back lane, master. James Hill,
Patrick street, Arthur Ord, Nicholas gate, wardens.

XXIII. Brewers and Maltsters, or Guild of Saint
Andrew, buff colour and blue.

Arthur Guinness, James's gate, master. Forbes
Jones, Ferry boat slip, Thomas Andrews, New row on
the Poddle, wardens.

XXIV. Joiners, Ceilers, and Wainscoters, green,
yellow, and white.

William Adair, Fleet street, master. William Jones,
Charles street, J. Wright, Mary's Abbey, wardens.

XXV. Apothecaries, or Guild of Saint Luke,
Evangelist, purple and orange.

Edward Caddy, Smock alley, master. J. Pentland,
Church street, J. Crampton, Dame street, wardens.

SURVEY OF THE LIBERTIES AND FRANCHISES- 489

1767.

A SURVEY OF THE CITY LIBERTIES.

Beginning at the Custom-house, you go down to sf"^y
Essex-street, Temple-bar, and to the East End of gg,^
Lazer's-hill. From thence across the Strand to
Ringsend. From thence to the Water-mark, where the
Dart is thrown. From thence to the * Black-rock.
From thence Westward to a Red-house on the East-side
of *Merrion. From thence thro' the Garden on the
back of the said House, and across the Fields to
Simon's-court. From thence across the Fields into the
Road to Bray. From thence Southward along the said
Roacl to two little Cabbins on the South-side thereof.
From thence across the Fields into the Road to
Clanskeagh opposite a Mill on the River of Donny-
brook. From thence along the said Road to the Bridge
of Clanskeagh, and under the Eastmost Arch thereof.
From thence to the Mill of Clanskeagh, and thro'
said Mill. From thence to a Lane called Clanskeagh-
lane, and along the said Lane to Milltown-road. From
thence Northward to Mr. Roberts's House in said Road.
From thence thro' Mr. Roberts's House and Garden
across the Fields . to Donnybrook Road near a little
Cabbin on the Right-hand thereof. From thence
Northward along Donnybrook Road to the House with
the Sign of the Curran-tree, on the West-side of said
Road. From thence by the South-end of the said House,
thro' the Garden and across the Fields by the back of
Mr. Leeson's, to the Corner-house of Khevan's-port, on
the East-side thereof, and thro' the said House. From
thence by the West-side of Khevan's-port to Big Butter-
lane. From thence thro' Big Butter-lane to Bride-
street. From thence along Bride-street to Bull-alley.
From thence down Bull-alley to Counsellor Swift's

490 APPENDIX.

1767. House, and thro' the said House and Garden into

ofUthey Patrick-street, From thence to the House with the
LnLties. Sign of King William and Queen Mary, on the West-
side of said Street. From thence along the Coomb,
by the Water-course to Crooked-staff. From thence
over the Wall the Left-hand of Crooked-staff, between
the Willow-trees, and along the Water-course into the
Road to Dolphin* s-barn. From thence by the Water-
course to the * Malt-house at the West-end of Dolphin's-
barn, including the said Malt-house and Garden West-
ward of it. From thence Northward across the Fields,
and thro' the Garden and Red-house at the North-end
of * Cut-throat-lane. From thence to Bow-bridge, and
under the middlemost Arch of said Bridge. From
thence into the Hospital-fields over the old Deer-park
Wall, near the old Slaughter-house. From thence thro'
the Hospital-fields and across the Liffey-strand to the
round Stone near the * Deer-park-wall. From thence
over the Deer-park-wall and thro' the Park to a Corner
of the Wall near the Dog-kennel on the North-side
thereof. From thence over the Wall Northward by the
said wall, to the first half-round or rising on the said
wall. From thence Eastward thro' Mr. Brownlow*s
Fields, and several Gardens to Stony-batter, by Mr.
Addison's House, on the South End thereof. From
thence thro' the House with the Sign of the Half-moon
on the East-side of Stony-batter and Gardens, to Colonel
Stanley's, and thro' said House to * Grange-gorman-
lane. From thence by the South-end of the House with
the Sign of the Half-moon on the East-side of Grange-
gorman-lane, and thro' the Gardens into Finglass
Road. From thence Northward to the * Broad-stone.
From thence thro' the Water-course under the stone
and thro' the Gardens into * Drumcondra Road.
From thence Southward to a little Cabbin at a Wall
in * the Garden, on the East-side of the Road. From

SURVEY OF THE LIBERTIES AND FRANCHISES. 491

thence thro' the Gardens to the Sign of the Coach 1767.
and Horses in Ballybough-lane. From thence North- ^117
ward along Ballybough-lane to Ballybough-bridge. Liberties
From thence across the River on the West-side of the
Bridge, and along the Strand-side to Clontarff. From
thence unto the Shades r>i Clontarff. From thence to
the Mill of Raheny. From thence farther Northward
130 Perches to a * little Brook, which is the End of
the Liberties of the City of DUBLIN.

Note. Where this * is, there a Court is called.

The POEM.

THOU mighty Sol, who in the East ascend, 1767.

Thy beams display, and all thy glories lend, of Guilds"

Now mount thy chariot, drive each cloud away,
And bright Aurora usher in this day.

Next Neptune, god and ruler of the main,
Let not the clouds exhale one drop of rain,
Then will each Hero, at the night's approach,
Come home with dry cockades without a coach.

And now the glorious Cavalcade's begun,
Ye Muses open all your Helicon,
Inspire my verse, and assist my song,
While I relate how each troop moves along.

The City Prsetor, mounted on a steed,
With ribbons drest, leads on the cavalcade,
Before his Lordship, with a solemn grace,
They bear the sword of justice and the mace,
His gown of richest scarlet in his hand,
Majestical he holds the powerful wand,

1767
Procession

492 APPENDIX. »

In awful pomp and state, on either side,
ofGSn The City sheriffs in like triumph, ride,

Attended by a band, whose gripping paw,
Poor debtors dread, and keep them still in awe.

Next march the Guild, who plow the frothy main,
In depth of winter for the hopes of gain,
To distant climates our beef and wool convey,
And barter wholesome food for silk and tea;
Fearless of rocks, they seek the unknown shore,
And bring from thence the glit'ring, tempting ore.

The cross-legg'd Taylors next in order go,
Who, by their arts, trim others for this show,
All other arts acknowledge and confess,
They're grac'd by them in ev'ry gaudy dress,
As well the peasant as the cringing beau,
Must from the Taylor to fair Silvia go;
No wonder then those Taylors march so gay,
Since from all others thus they bear the sway.

Next march the Smiths, men bravely us'd to fire,
Without whose aid all arts must soon expire,
Before them, clad in armour in his pride
A brawny Vulcan doth in triumph ride.

Next come the Barbers, who can soon repair
Nature's defects, and lend the bald with hair,
Suit all complections, and with little pains,
Supply the skull with wigs that lacketh brains.

Next comes the well-bred men, who know the way
To please the ladies in their bread at tea,
And with their white, their wheaten, and their brown,
Can please the palate of the lord or clown.

Next march the Butchers, men inur'd to toil,
Their brawny limbs, like champions, shine with oil,
Murder and slaughter, knocking in the head,
Are their delight, the trade to which they're bred.

Next march the Carpenters, whose arms can rend,
The lofty pines, and make proud elms to bend.

SURVEY OF THE LIBERTIES AND FRANCHISES. 493

Next do the Shoe-makers in order go, 1767.

Procession

And their dragoons do make a stately show, of Guilds.

Since the wide hoop exposes to the view,

The well-shaped leg, silk stockings, red-heel'd shoe.

Next march the Saddlers, glorious to behold,
On sprightly beasts, their saddles shine with gold ;
A warklike steed most proudly walks before,
Richly attir'd, led by a Black-a-moor.

Next march the Cooks, who study day and night,
With costly fare to please the appetite;
With these the Vintners ride, did they refine,
As much as they adulterate the wine,
Their every muse would gladly sound,
And with what pleasure would the glass go round.

Next march the Tanners, fam'd in days of yore,
For tanning hides for shields which heroes bore;
Who has not heard of A j ax's seven-fold shield,
Which neither to the sword nor shield would yield;
And wont you as much admire, as much adore,
The tanner's hand, as his the buckler bore.

Next march the Tallow-chandlers, who expel,
With cheerful lights, shades from the darkest cell,
Enthusiasts of inward light may boast,
But these are they, illuminate the most.

Next march the Glovers, who, with nicest care,
Provide white kid* for the new-married pair;
Or nicely stitch the lemon-colour'd glove,
For hand of beau to go and see his love.

The Weavers next, in order proudly ride,
Who with great skill the nimble shuttle guide;
Pity such art should meet such small reward,
But what art, now-a-days, does meet regard.

Sheermen and Dyers next in order come,
Men who depend entirely on the loom;
The weaver finds employment for them both,
One gives the colour, 'tother finds the cloath.

494 APPENDIX.

no;. Next march the Goldsmiths who can form and mould,

ffr°Guiidsn In sundry shapes and forms, the ductile gold;
Men call them traytors, rebels, and what not,
Nor king, nor queen they spare, all goes to pot;
No pity meets, in the devouring fire,
Monarchs, and chamber-pots, and rings expire.

Then come the jolly Coopers, who confine,
In casks well bound with hoops, the sparkling wine.

Next march the Hatters, once a gainful trade,
When men wore finest beavers on their heads,
But now, least weight of that the curl should harm,
Beaux strut along with beaver under arm.

Next Printers, Stationers, Cutlers, Painters appear,
Three men in shields their arms before them bear.
And printing-press to show that art so rare.

Next march the Bricklayers, by whose hands arise,
Hibernia"s towers, whose top salutes the skies.

The Stocking- Weavers next in order come,
Who form the scarlet stocking in the loom,
With clock of gold or silver nicely wrought,
Each step fair Chloe takes, a lover's caught.

Next march the Curriers, who both cut and pare,
The hides for saddlers or shoe-maker.

The Brewers next well mounted doth appear,
These are the men brew humming ale and beer.

The skilful Joyners next in order come,
Whose chairs and tables furnish out the room,
A man in white proceeds the gallant train,
Whose ample shoulders a huge pole sustain.

See, where the proud Apothecaries drive,
Who most by fraud and impositions thrive,
Whose monstrous bills immoderate wealth procure,
For drugs that kill as many as they cure,
Well are they plac'd the last of all the rout,
For they're the men we best can live without.

SURVEY OF THE LIBERTIES AND FRANCHISES. 495

In order thus they ride the city round, 1767.

View all the limits, and observe each bound, ofr°Guiidsn

Then homeward steer their course without delay,
And fall to drink, the business of the day,
Next morning send their horse and coutrements away.

DUBLIN. Printed by *B. CORCORAN, on the Inns-
key near the Cloister, where may be had all Sorts of
Ballads and Chapmens Books. 1767.

496

APPENDIX.

1761.

1761. The ORDER and PROCESSION of the Journeymen

1'rocession

coders WOOL-COMBERS and WEAVERS, with the

Weavers. REGULAR, REGISTERED, FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS

BELONGING THERETO. DUBLIN, 1761.

QUICK fly my Muse, once more I claim your Aid.
To sing the Order of the Combing Trade,
Kind Heaven permit the Day to prove serene :
Like spang'ling Gold, let Eastern Racks be seen.
First come the Men cloath'd all in Skins of Hair,
To show what Savage Nature first did wear.
Next moves along, a Captain of the Trade,
Whose beauteous Sash, of crimson Wool is made;
Then comes a Carriage with an azure Field
Where Lambs are fed ; the fame's with Wonder fill'd :
There you behold the Combers Work right well,
With a fair Damsel spinning at her Wheel.
Next comes a Grecian Officer so grave,
A Sash and Feather of the Wool we have
Triumphant. Next behold the Golden Fleece,
Which Jason brought from Colchis out of Greece.
Next, Jason you behold returning home,
His Guards attend him with the Prize he won.
Then come two Officers in rich Attire.
Also a Verger 'tending on the Choir.
Then follows on a grave and sober Priest,
And then the Choirs, who in White are drest.
Two Pages on a crimson Cushion bear
The Book and Golden Mitre, and four wear

Weavers.

PROCESSION OF WOOL-COMBERS AND WEAVERS. 497

The proper Dresses as all Pages do, 1761.

The Bishops Gentlemen come next in View. of wooi-

Combers

Two Pages more lead on old Bishop Blaze, ^

On Horseback mounted grave as e'er you please;
Four Pages more behind the Horse they place,
Then come two Onicera in Marshal dress;
Four Men with Combs, and each the Combs are full
With different Colours of the finest Wool :
The Journeymen are next in Order great
With Woollen Wigs, and Sashes most compleat;
Two Officers now end the whole Procession
Of Combers bright, Men fill'd with great Discretion,
Now crouded Audience! comes th' amazing Sight,
See! here's the Masons, all in Order bright
An Indian Chief before, leads on the whole,
Oh ! Heaven behold the greatness of his Soul.
Then follow him, six Men with Axes keen
Six more with Bows and Arrows arm'd, are seen;
Twelve Roman Guards come next, all Men of Fame
Whose Lives would spend for a Free-Mason's Name.
Two Tylers next, behold the Keys they wear
And next a Champion, void of Dread or Fear.
A Band of Musick our Attention challenge
With their Cockades compos'd of Blue and Orange:
A Secretary with cross Pens and him
Close follows Solomon the Mason King,
Wisdom and Justice seated on his Brow
He keeps the Secret, for he well knows how;
Tho' Ignorance, of this great Art complains
It nought but wliat is good and Great contains.
A Master after Solomon the Great,
Two Wardens with their Truncheons next in State;
Two Deacons with long Rods that's tip'd with Gold,
Two Dukes with Stars and Garters as of old;
Two Servants on the Dukes in Liveries wait,
Then come the private Members cloath'd most neat;

VOL. XI. K K

Weavers.

498 APPENDIX.

1761. These God-like Men, all free born Sons of Art,

of wool- With precious Jewels, hung before their Heart.

Combers .

and Yot what's more precious lodging in their Soul

Saint Peter shows them bliss without controul.
Thus God on Adam did the Art bestow,
Which SetKs two Pillars, to us plainly shew;
And Abraham s great Skill in mystic Lines,
Surprize our Senses, and our Wit refines.
Moses by this great Art, all Israel freed,
He squar'd the Stones, contain'd the LawT indeed;
And Solomon s great Art we need not doubt,
His Temple shew'd true Masonry in and out.
Euclid, Archimedes and Plato too
Did plainly prove, what Masons bright can do.
Wren and great Angelo we'll not forget,
Their curious Plans we have preserved yet.
The great Prussia fills the Earth with such Surprize.
By this fam'd Art, which in his Bosom lies;
Nor did our Royal George from it depart,
Till grim Death's Arrows pierc'd him to the Heart,
All Heroes, Poets, and each Son of Art
In this surprizing Science shar'd a Part.
Then let them in the Franchises appear,
Their antient Honours and their Badges wear,
To please the Croud, and crown this glorious Year.

The Weavers arch Loom, comes next we hear,
Never so beauteous as it is this Year;
For them my darling Muse now let me try
What can be sung: with all now we may vie.
When brutish Lands their Ignorance possess
Confin'd to Nature, without Art's Redress;
Whose Savage Natives know no Joy or Care,
But such as in their Fellow-Brutes appear;
And have no other outward Ornament,
But Skins that's from their hairy Fellows rent.

PROCESSION OF WOOL-COMBERS AND WEAVERS. 499

Then sing my Muse of fair JuvemcLs Plains i7Gi.

Procession

Where Joy and Science, Love and Union reigns ; of wooi-

J ' o J Combers

Where Pallas Art, and Jason s Sons of Fame, $5d

Weavers.

The Body Ornament, and vicious Mind reclaim.

Whose Daughters decorated by this Art

Such Fire from their bright Eyes alone impart

As pierce the Soul and quite destroy the Heart.

And shew the World, that their enchanting Charms

Prove as victorious as great George s Arms :

No Wonder, by each Nymph like Flora drest,

An Angel cloath'd in Landscape be confest;

Since bright Urania's Starry Train's expos'd

Within the Loom, and the whole Sphere disclos'd

With such Exactness, that was Newton there

He'd quite mistake it for the other Sphere.

The many Laurels which our Prince has won,

In this most happy Year of sixty-one;

Calls the bright Sons of this illustrious Trade

For to attend our glorious Cavalcade;

Then pass you darling Weaver in your Pride,

Whose Art surpass all in the World beside.

Dublin Broadside, 1761.

500 APPENDIX.

1761.

VI.

Chares Lucas, M.D.

An Address to the Free Electors of the
City of Dublin.

GENTLEMEN,
charies WERE I ii ot the inconsiderable object of your choice

Address. I should be able more fully to express my congratula-
tions upon the justly-deserved successes, which have
attended your late many struggles for reviving the
political constitution, struggles which were conducted
with prudence and virtue, hardly equalled, and never
outdone, by any age or nation recorded in antient or
modern history.

Long, too long indeed, had Dublin groaned under the
most unjust, illicit, senseless and shameless rulers.
Too long had the citizens been set at naught ; too long
had the most despicable faction usurped the authority
and power of the whole; too long had the few ruled
the many with a rod of iron, while wisdom and virtue
abashed, forsook and fled from the prostituted councils
of the abandoned city.

Yet the most infamous and profligate men that could,
by the most iniquitous measures, worm themselves into
any share of the most unjust and contemptible adminis-
tration in the city, have seldom, if ever, wonted
advocates among some men in office ; whether knowing
or ignorant of the abuses that overturned and disgraced
the city, let such men determine.

CHARLES LUCAS. ADDRESS. 501

The efforts lately made to establish the destructive 1761.

J Charles

yoke of tyranny, with which the necks of free-men m Lucas,
the city have long been galled, have too manifestly
been countenanced by persons of weight and authority
in the nation, assisted, how shall I mention it ? by so
many of that sacred function among us, who are ap-
pointed to teach men that which is good, all that the
great author of nature, requires of his creatures, to do
justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with their God.
These holy men, that should inculcate tlte doctrine of
liberty, derived from the BLESSED FOUNDER of
our religion, joined with such of those possessed of
temporal power among us, as wished not well to our
Israel, even with their rulers of our ill-governed city,
to obstruct the freedom of elections of members to serve
in parliament; a freedom, without which, our inimit-
able political constitution can not be said to exist.
Thus much power, temporal as well as spiritual, has
been exerted to subvert the constitutional freedom of
our election.

Under such sanctions, what might not our enemies
hope to perpetrate? What schemes might not be
formed, what have not been tried, to impose members
of parliament on the capital of the Kingdom?

What could have withstood such a combination of
forces? — Nothing less than the most consummate pru-
dence anc1 virtue. And these, thank Heaven! You
have exerted with fortitude and zeal, hardly paral-
lelled, never excelled, in any age or nation of the world.

Who, that loves the king and constitution of his
county, can hear this, without inexpressible exulta-
tion? The blessings of the exertion of this truly
constitutional spirit are not confined to this age or
kingdom solely; they will, they must be enjoyed by
our confederate kingdom, and felt by generations yet
unborn.

502 APPENDIX.

1761. Our great cause of exultation is no less than,

£SS that CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY, by it's blessed
parents, WISDOM and VIRTUE, is in part, restored
in the metropolis of this realm: while we contended
with no less than principalities and powers, I may say,
ivith the rulers of darkness, seconded by spiritual per-
verseness in high place. Nothing but the blessings of
Heaven, ever attendant on virtuous liberty, could give
us any hopes of a victory over such a formidable con-
spiracy. But blessed be God's gracious providence!
that suffered us not to fall a prey to the prowling
wolves, the devouring sharks, or the foxes disguised in
sheep-skin, who have long lain in wait to sap the
foundation of our government, to rob us of the invalu-
able comforts of the best of all. political constitutions !
happily our enemies are fallen into the pit of contempt
and infamy, which they prepared for our perdition.

I shall not repeat the many and various schemes of
iniquity wickedly calculated to poison the vital source
of the civil constitution. I should wish them buried
in perpetual oblivion, were it not necessary for your
future security, that the means attempted should ever
be held in remembrance, while the men, in christian
charity, may and ought to be forgiven and forgot.

I shall onely observe, that in spite to all the powers
that combined and opposed the freedom of your elec-
tion, had you not unfortunately suffered some of your
corporations to fall into intestine divisions, through
the craft and subtility of some false brothers, you must
have had it in your own power to send the two candi-
dates you fixed on, into parliament.

But, though you did not succeed equal to your first
intentions or wishes; I cannot help congratulating
you, upon the proof your virtues, your weight, and
your interest in the election of your members have
given, that in spite to the most powerful opposition

CHARLES LUCAS. ADDRESS. 503

ever known in the city, the FEEE ELECTORS have irei.

. Charles

been able to support their own election. Lucas.

_ x Address.

The happy inference from which is, that whenever
the FEEE ELECTORS unite, and exert their native
virtues and their strength, with such zeal as they have
shewn upon this occasion, no power or confederacy of
powers can disturb or interfere with the freedom of
their elections of members of parliament; and, of
course, the dictates of the board of aldermen, in these
instances, will rather disqualify, than recommend a
candidate to youv choice.

Had you proceded upon any other principles than
these, I should have looked on your election or appoint-
ment of me, rather as a reproach, than an honour.

But, as I am well persuaded that, if I were capable
of offering sinister influence to poison the VITAL
SPRING of our constitution in elections, those who
elected me must have been found proof against all the
allurements of fortune, and the menaces of power; I
can not avoid exulting with a most grateful heart, on
finding my self the chosen delegate of men, who had
the sense to distinguish the characters and qualifica-
tions of candidates, and the virtues to withstand alike
all kinds of threats and temptations, with manly forti-
tude ; equal, if .not superior ; to the purest ages of
antiquity; while every FREE ELECTOR was ani-
mated by the love of liberty alone, to procure the elec-
tion of the man he approved, with care and assiduity,
hardly inferior to those of some modern candidates.

To be chosen to represent men of these generous,
exalted sentiments, in the GRAND COUNCIL of the
nation, and for the capital of the kingdom, is, in my
estimation, the greatest honour that can be conferred,
as well as the most important trust that can be reposed,
in man.

With an heart overflowing with inexpressible grati-

504 APPENDIX.

1761. tucle, I acknowledge the weight of this honour and of

Lucas. this trust. You know my intentions to deserve the one,
and to discharge the other, with care, zeal and fidelity.
Yesterday, I called you Brothers ; how strangely cir-
cumstances are since altered? — — Now, I confess You
MY MASTERS, and own my self your delegated ser-
vant. With alacrity, I engage in the painful, but
pleasing service; and shall endeavour to shew You,
that my actions shall prove the sincerity of my repeted
professions to You.

Though chosen only by a part of my fellow citizens,
I look upon my self, as a representative, councillor and
guardian to the whole. In the discharge of my political
duty, I shall make no distinction between those who
promoted and those who opposed my election. But, as
the former, however inconsiderable their choice, could
only be actuated by the most disinterested, pure and
constitutional motives, they must ever challenge my
warmest affection and profound respect with invari-
able gratitude.

Nor do I look upon my self as confined in my duty
to Dublin alone; my care and regards must extend to
the utmost limits of the realm, giving preference to
those particular counties and cities, who have been
pleased to distinguish me with marks of their regards
and confidence. Ever foremost in this number, I must
consider the antient, loyal and free city of CORKE,
who seconded the generous intentions of one of her
most distinguished patriot members, with desiring him
to honour me with his suffrage at our election. This
raises the respect and gratitude I ever bore that great
and populous city, and induces me to consider my self
as one of her members.

In an address of this Nature, I think it my duty to
remember those who generously co-operated with vir-
tuous intentions of the FREE ELECTORS. As the

CHARLES LUCAS. — ADDRESS. 505

first who eminently concurred with You, I must ever 1761.

Charles

consider your late worthy member colonel DUNN. To Lucas.

J J Address.

men so sensible of his virtues, I need not further ex-
patiate upon them. It is enough to observe to You,
that he, a second time, sacrificed all private regards
to the service of the public, and that it is owing to the
just deference this worthy gentleman paid to the
desires of his fellow citizens, that a scheme, calculated
by our enemies to bring him into parliament, if they
should not find themselves able to get us both rejected,
was by him contemned and frustrated.

This is an Instant of such generosity and public
spirit, as can, I am sure, never be forgotten, while the
regard now paid to virtue and to liberty exists in
Dublin. Let me hope the jealousies and resentments,
already carried too far against some mistaken friends
of this gentleman, who opposed his resignation and the
cause which he before and after espoused, will be
totally laid aside; when the closeness of their con-
nections are considered, and it is remembered that all
men can not bear disappointments alike. I hope these
gentlemen will soon see and approve the rectitude as
well as expediency of the request made to colonel
DUNN by the FEEE ELECTORS, and join with the
public in giving immortal applause to his conduct.

Our most grateful acknowledgements are justly
challenged by our Sheriffs for the matchless justice,
prudence and regularity with which they conducted
and closed the election.

We are sensibly indebted to the many patriot and
truly honourable members of the house of commons,
who countenanced the free electors, and honoured us
with attending the election.

Nor should we forget the remarkable sobriety and
peaceable disposition of the populace during this whole

506 APPENDIX.

17Gi. election; where no degree of intemperance or riot was

Charles

Lucas.

Address.

Charles

Lucas. to be seen m any part of the town.

Now, MY WORTHY MASTERS, remember your
task is not over with the election. Consider of all
ways and means for encouraging and improving agri-
culture, with your several manufactures and every
useful branch of trade and commerce ; agree upon the
means among yourselves, and I shall endeavour to
carry all your prudent and just instructions into
execution.

As I think it incumbent on me to provide as well
for the bodily as the political health of my fellow sub-
jects; I therefore judge it proper to apply to the
corporation of apothecaries in particular to assist me.
These gentlemen know, that the law I procured for
preventing frauds and abuses, when I was my self in
that profession, is expired. It is incumbent on them to
shew where this statute is defective, to improve it, and
solicit the obtaining such a law.

I have further to add, that if these gentlemen have,
as I hope they have the honour of the different branches
of the healing art as well as the public good at heart,
they will raise a fund for establishing an elaboratory
and hall, where all medicines may be dispensed and
prepared under public inspection. This may be con-
ducted so as to bring no small emolument to the cor-
poration, and must prevent the importation of chemical
medicines, too frequently adulterate and corrupt ;
while the profession, of Physic must be rendered more
beneficent and useful to society, more likely to answer
the noble ends of the institution. For these desirable
purposes, I am ready and willing to give every assist-
ance in my power.

It shall be my particular care to attend to the pro-
moting every salutary law for the security of the

CHARLES LUCAS. — ADDRESS. 507

public liberties, or, as our PATRIOT KING expresses, mi.

Charles

it for the strengthening and improving the political Lucas.'

Address,

constitution.

/ am.
GENTBEMEN,

With the most unfeigned Affection,
Respect and Gratitude,

Your most truly faithful, and
intirely devoted Servant,

Dublin, May 7, C LUCAS.

1761.

Dublin Broadside. 1761.

508

APPENDIX.

1698.

VII.

Lease of the Shoemakers Hall in Cook Street,
Dublin, 1698.

ifaseof ^MS Snfceitture made the Thirteenth day of May

makers in the Yeare of our Lord God One thousand Six hundred

Hall,

Dublin. Ninety and Eight, and in the Tenth yeare of the Raigne
of William the Third by the grace of God of England
Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the
Faith &c iJBetWeette James Cottingham of the Citty
of Dublin, Goldsmith of the one part, and Thomas
Medcalfe and William Toulmin Masters of the
Corporation of Shoemakers of the Citty of Dublin of
the other part TKDUtttCSSetb that the said James
Cottingham for and in consideration of the Rents
Covenants and Conditions hereafter mentioned to be
reserved, and divers other good causes and considera-
tions him thereunto moveing 1batb demised sett and to
farme lett unto the said Thomas Medcalfe and William
Toulmin Masters of the said Corporation and their
Successors Masters of the said Corporation of Shoe-
makers of the Citty of Dublin aforesaid To the use of
the said Corporation One part peece or parcell of
Ground situate lyeing and being in Cook streete oposite
to S* Audions Arch, in the Parish of S' Audions, and
within the Walls of the Citty of Dublin, The premisses
on the East side thereof adjoyning to the House wherein
Lewis Desmynieres lately dwelt, and on the West
side adjoyning to the House wherein Mr. Charles Forster

LEASE OF SHOEMAKERS HALL. 509

lately dwelt, containing in the said Front betweene ms.

both Gates Thirty foote or thereabouts and over One shoe-
makers
of the said Gates Tenn foote more or thereabouts, Haii,

Dublin.

[blank] foote from the Pavement, and in Depth Fifty
Two foote or thereabouts, And in the Rear to be
Thirty foote or thereabouts in breadth, and the said
Tenn foote over the Gate aforesaid in depth as far as the
front Rooms shall be, that is, about Eighteene or
Twenty foote Uo have attfc to bOlfc all and singular
the premisses, together with their Rights Members and
Appurtences thereunto belonging or in anywise apper-
taining to them the said Thomas Medcalfe and William
Toulmin and their Successors Masters of the said
Corporation of Shoemakers for the time being from the
first day of November next ensueing the date hereof for
and dureing the full end and terme of Ninety and Nine
Yeares from thence next ensueing to be fully compleated
and ended : J^tClMltO and paying therefore and thereout
yearely and every yeare dureing the said Terme unto
ths said James Cottingham, his Ex^s Adml's and
Assignes the Sume of Six Pounds lawfull money
of England, half yearely at the Feasts of Phillip
and Jacob, comonly called May day, and All Saints
by even and equall portions, Clear rent over and
above all Taxes and Impositions, Church and Parish
Duties, Chimney Money and all other Taxes and
Impositions imposed or to be imposed on the premisses
or any part thereof. HtlD if it happen that the said
yearely Rent of Six Pounds be behind or unpaid in
part or in the whole by the space of Twenty One days
next after any of the said days whereon the same
ought to be paid, That then it shall and may be lawfull
to and for the said James Cottingham his Heirs
Ex™ Adm™ and Assignes into the said demised
premisses and every part thereof to enter and Distrain,
and the Distresses then and there found to take

510 APPENDIX.

1698. lead drive and carry away and the same to detain

shoe. and keep appraize sell order and dispose of according

makers . . .

Haii, to Law, And if no sufficient Distresse or Distresses can

Dublin. '

or may be found upon the premisses wherewith to
satisfy the said Yearely Rent reserved as aforesaid with
the arreareages thereof, if any such there should happen
to be. That then and from thenceforth it shall and
may be lawfull to and for the said James Cottingham,
his Heirs Exr? Admr? or Assignes into the
said demised premisses and every part thereof
with the Appurtences wholly to Reenter,, and the same
to have again retain repossesse and enjoy as in his
or their first and former Estate, any thing in these
presents contained to the contrary thereof notwith-
standing : Bll& the said Thomas Medcalfe and William
Toulmin for themselves and their Successors Masters
of the said Corporation for the time being, and every
of 'them doe Covenant promise and grant to and with
the said James Cottingham his Heirs Ex?3 Adm?3 and
Assignes and every of them by these presents That
the said Thomas Medcalfe and William Toulmin and
their Successors Masters of the said Corporation for
the time being shall and will well and truely pay or
cause to be paid unto the said James Cottingham
his Heirs Ex*s Adm*8 or Assignes the said
yearely Rent herein before reserved and every part
and parcell thereof at such days and times, and in
such manner and form as is herein before expressed
limitted and appointed, for and dureing the said Terme
hereby demised Httfc the said Thomas Medcalfe
and William Toulmin do for themselves and their
Successors Masters of the said Corporation of Shoe-
makers, Covenant promise grant and agree to and
with the said James Cottingham his Heirs Ex?8
AdinT8 and Assignes That the said Thomas
Medcalfe and William Toulmin and their Successors

LEASE OF SHOEMAKERS HALL.

511

Masters of the said Corporation for the time being, i69s.

* Lease of

shall and will surrender and yield up all the hereby ^ba°kee"rs
demised premisses with the Improvements that are or ^{^
shall be made thereupon to the said James Cottingham
his Heirs Exrs Adm1'? or Assignes at the end
expiration or other sooner determination of this
present Lease in good and sufficient repair : Hilt) the
said James Cottingham doth for himself his Heirs
Exr? Adinrs and Assignes Covenant promise and
grant to and with the said Thomas Medcalfe and
William Toulmin and their Successors Masters of
the said Corporation for the time being That the
said Thomas Medcalfe and William Toulmin and
their Successors Masters of the said Corporation
for the time being under the Rents and Covenants
Conditions and Agreements herein before reserved and
expressed shall and will peaceably and quietly have
hold use occupy possesse and enjoy the said demised
premisses or any part thereof dureing the said Terme
of Ninety and Nine Yeares without the Lett Suite
Trouble Eviction Disturbance or Deniall of him the
said James Cottingham his Heirs Ex1? Adm1'? or
Assignes or of any other person or persons
Claymeing by from or under him them or any of
them : Hn& Lastly it is Covenanted concluded and
agreed by and betweene the said parties to these
presents That in any House Edifice or Building that
shall hereafter be Erected on the demised premisses
there shall be no open Cagement on the East side
thereof, nor any other Light but what shall be necessary
for the Stairecase, but on all other sides thereof all
such Lights as shall be necessary : 3-n HGUttteSSe
whereof to one part of these presents with the said
Thomas Medcalfe and William Toulmin remaining
the said James Cottingham hath Subscribed his Name,
and Affixed his Seale, And to the other part thereof the

512 APPENDIX.

legs. said Thomas Medcalfe and William Toulmin have

shoee° Subscribed their names, and Affixed the Comon Seale
Han, " of the said Corporation the day and yeare first above
written.

John Stones Warden

Isaac Colcoek Thomas (seal) Medcafe

James Tasker William (seal) Toulmin

Anthony Peirson
Leonard Dobbs

The marke of
Richard X Roe

Indorsed.

Sealed and delivered
in the presence of

Eph. Maynard
Rob. Rigmaiden
Dan. Walker
Sam. Tyrrell
Note? Pube*

N° 26 13 May 1698

The Lease of the Shoemakers Hall in Cook street
expires in Novemr. 17971

i MSS. Collection of J. F. Weldrick.

LETTER OF P. D. 513

17G8.

VIIL
Letter of P. D.-l

Whitehall, July 30, 1768. 1768i
Whereas it has been humbly represented to the King, fetter of
That her Grace the" Dutchess of Northumberland
received, on Friday the 11th of March last, at her
Grace's House at Charing Cross, in a Cover, directed as
hereunder, and which had the Marks of the General
Post Offices both of Dublin and London upon it, a
threatening Letter, containing the Words, Letters, and
Figures following, viz.

Post-Marl. " To

DUBLIN " Her Grace the Duchs of

" Northumber
" land
1 JVm^ " Northumberland House

" London

" Dublin March 1st, 1768.
" May it please your Grace

" If you do not leave two Hundred Guineas in a
" Bank Note at the Bar of the Bedford Coffee House
" directed for Mr. P. D. you may expect to hear of it in
"a dreadful Manner I hope my Poverty will excuse
" this. Though I date this from Dublin. Yet will I
" be over along with it and give you warning not to
" trifle with me for I shall find means to come very
" near yr Person And shall know whether you deal
" Candidly with me or not. Please to leave the above
" as directed on the 1st of April next, otherwise abide
" the Consequences.

" Yours P. D."

And whereas it has also been represented to the King,
that her said Grace the Dutchess of Northumberland

i See page 434.
VOL. XI. L L

514 APPENDIX.

1768. has, since the Time of receiving the aforesaid

Letter of threatening Letter, received two other threatening
Letters, each having the said respective Marks of the
several Post-Offices of Dublin and London upon it, and
containing respectively the Words, Letters, and
Figures following, viz.

" To her Grace the Dutchess of Northumberland
" Northumberland House

" London.

LONDON

Post I I Mark

" You had better leave the Note at the Barr of the
" Bedford. P.D. is in London, he will receive the
" Money. Your Advertisement in the Public Paper
" will do you but little good, farewell Commend me
" to his Majesty. A Dagger may find the way to your
" bowells, and you may repent when tis too late your
" not sending the Cash for the Use of your sincere
" friend." ^-^

" Dublin Castle April 21st. 1768."
"To

" Her Grace the
" Dutches of Northumbrland
" At Northumbrland house

" I am going over and Will be over in

" a few days and tak Care of your

" Person if you dont lave what i have told

" You before and so tak Care if you

" do not lave a Noat so haveing No more

" Madam I Am your Most obedient

" humb "p. d."

LETTER OF P. D. 515

His Majesty, for the better discovering and bringing 1768.
to justice the Person or Persons principally concerned £eger0*
in the writing and sending any one or all of the
aforesaid three threatening Letters to the said Dutchess
of Northumberland, as, above-mentioned, is hereby
pleased to promise His most gracious Pardon to any
one, (except the Person principally concerned in
actually contriving, writing, or causing to be wrote,
any of the aforesaid Letters) who shall discover his or
her Accomplice or Accomplices in any of the said Facts,
so that he, she, or they, may be apprehended and
convicted thereof.

WEYMOUTH.

And as a further Encouragement, the Duke of
Northumberland does hereby promise a Reward of
FP7E HUNDRED Pounds to the first Person making
such Discovery as aforesaid, (except as, above excepted ;)
to be paid upon the Conviction of any one or more of
the Offenders.

NORTHUMBERLAND.

July 20, 1768.

N.B. Whoever pleases may see the last two original
Letters at Mr. Mitchell's Office on Ormond-quay. Any
Person who will make a Discovery relative to this
Affair, is desired to apply to Thomas Waite, Esq; at
the Castle, or to Mr. Mitchell aforesaid, who have
received Directions from the Duke of Northumberland,
to pay the Reward upon the Conviction of any one or
more of the Offenders.

516

APPENDIX.

1768.

Letter of
P. D.

A PROCLAMATION.

By the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of the
City of Dublin.

Whereas it appears that her Grace the Dutchess of
Northumberland received on Friday the 11th day of
March last, at her Grace's house in Charing Cross,
in a cover directed as hereunder, and which had the
marks of the General Post Office both of Dublin and
London upon it, a threatening letter containing the
words, letters, and figures following, viz.

Post Mark
DUBLIN

1 JV™i

"To

" Her Grace the Duchs of
" Northumber
" land
" Northumberland House
" London

" Dublin March 1st, 1768

May it please your Grace

" If you do not leave two Hundrd Guineas in a
Bank Note at the Bar of the Bedford Coffee House
directed for Mr. P. D. you may expect to hear of it in
a dreadful Manner I hope my Poverty will excuse
this. Though I date this from Dublin. Yet will I
be over along with it and give you warning not to
trifle with me for I shall find means to come very
near yr Person And shall know whether you deal
Candidly with me or not. Please to leave the above
as directed on the 1st of April next, otherwise abide
: the Consequences.

"Yours P. D."

LETTER OF P. D. 517

And whereas the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Commons 1768.
and Citizens of Dublin, have ordered that the sum of £et£erof
100/. should be paid to such' person or persons as should
discover and prosecute to conviction, the writer of the
said threatening letter, and that the right hon. the Lord
Mayor should issue his proclamation accordingly.

Now I do hereby, in pursuance of said order, promise
to pay unto such person or persons who shall discover,
and prosecute to conviction, the writer of said threaten-
ing letter, the sum of 100Z.

Given at the Tholsel Chamber, the 12th day of
August, 1768.

FRANCIS FETHERSTON.

God Save the King.

Corn.

518 APPENDIX.

1766.

IX.

Exportation of Corn to Foreign Parts.1

Dublin Castle.

By the Lords Justices and Council of Ireland.
Bowes, C. Droghecla. Jn. Ponsonby.

1766. Whereas the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, commons and

tjon°orfa" citizens of the city of Dublin, by their address pre-
sented to their excellencies the lords justices of this
kingdom, here represented, that they have received
undoubted information from all parts, of this kingdom,
that the present crop of wheat in this kingdom, has in
a great measure failed, by which the general insuffi-
ciency in the growth of corn in this country for its
consumption must be considerably increased, and that
on account of a total failure of the crops of corn, in
many parts of Europe, large and unlimited commis-
sions have been received for the buying up of grain,
in order to its being shipped to foreign parts.

And whereas, we have reason to apprehend, that if
the exportation be not immediately stopped, there will
not remain in this kingdom a quantity sufficient of
corn for the necessary support of his majesty's subjects.
We, the lords justices and privy council, for pre-
venting the mischief which is so justly apprehended
from the exportation of grain, do hereby strictly
prohibit and forbid the exportation of all manner of
corn, grain, and meal whatsoever, and also all corn,
grain, and meal whatsoever, baked, or made up into
bread, biscuit, starch, or in any other manner what-

1 See pa^e 345,

EXPORTATION OF CORN.

519

soever, out of all the ports in this kingdom, save such 1-66.
quantities only as shall be necessary for the shipping tion of
which shall go out of this kingdom for provisions for
the ship's crew, and other persons on board such ships,
during the respective voyages for which such ships
are bound, at the taking in such provisions, the said
prohibition to continue until our further order to the
contrary.

And we do further strictly charge and require all
customers, collectors, and other officers of or belonging
to his majesty's customs and revenues, that they use
their utmost care and diligence to hinder the exporta-
tion of all manner of corn in grain, meal, or made up
in bread, biscuit, starch or otherwise however.

And all Mayors, Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, and
other Magistrates, are hereby commanded to be aiding
and assisting to the said officers of his majesty's
customs, in all and every the said parts in this
kingdom, in the execution of this our proclamation.

Given at the Council Chamber in Dublin, the 7th
day of October, 1766.

Hillsborough. Newtown. Phil Tisdall.

Nath. Clements. C. Gardiner. Ben Burton.

God Save the King.

II.
Dublin Castle.
By the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland.
A Proclamation.

TOWNSHEND.

Whereas it appears to us by the address of both houses ^i7;jltv
of parliament, that great inconveniences are likely to £°^°f
happen to these kingdoms from the exportation of corn

520 APPENDIX.

1767. to foreign parts, and praying, that a proclamation

tiouof under the great seal may be issued to prohibit the
exportation of wheat, oats, bere, barley, malt, rye,
meslin, peas, potatoes, or meal; or flour of wheat, oats,
bere, barley, malt, rye, meslin, or any of them out of
this kingdom, to any parts beyond the seas (Great
Britain only excepted) for any time not exceeding two
calendar months, to be computed from the twenty-
fourth day of December, instant.

We do therefore hereby strictly prohibit and forbid
the exportation of wheat, oats, bere, barley, malt, rye,
meslin, peas, potatoes, or meal; or of all manner of
flour of wheat, oats, bere, barley, malt, rye, meslin,
or any of them, to any parts beyond the seas (Great
Britain only excepted) for the space of two calendar
months, to be computed from the twenty-fourth of this
instant December.

And we do further strictly charge and require all
customers, collectors, and other officers of or belonging
to his majesty's customs or revenues. That they use
their utmost care and diligence to hinder the exporta-
tion of the same, except as aforesaid.

And all Mayors, Sheriffs, Justices of the Peace, and
other Magistrates are hereby commanded to be aiding
and assisting to the said officers of his majesty's
customs in all and every of the said parts of this
kingdom, in the execution of this our proclamation.

Given at the Council Chamber in Dublin, the 24th
day of December, 1767.

R. Armagh, Arth. Dublin, C.S. Tyrone. Branden,
Annaly. Anth. Malone. W. H. Fortescue. Nath.
Clements. C. Gardiner. J. H. Hutchinson. Francis
Andrews. William Brownlow. Theo. Jones.

God Save the King.

PREMIUMS FOR CORN AND FLOUR. 521

1768.

Premiums for Corn and Flour.

Dublin.

Premiums for bringing Corn and Flour to Dublin
by Inland Carriage.

By an act of parliament passed last session, 1768.
commencing from and after the 24th of June, the for com

9 and Flour.

premium is to be paid for every five miles, the place
where the same grew or was made, is distant from his
majesty's Castle of Dublin, and so in proportion for
a lesser distance (provided the place is a greater
distance than five miles from the said castle) which
distance is to be set forth in the affidavit, made before
a justice of the peace, by the owner.

Any person bringing sound, clean, merchantable
wheat, rye, meslin, bere, barley, malt, oats, or pearl
barley, and shall* perform the requisites in the former
acts mentioned, is intitled to the bounties given by the
former acts, and an additional bounty of one half-
penny per mile for every forty stone weight so brought,
and so in proportion.

The affidavit before a justice of the peace, is required
to be made by the owner of the flour, or his clerk;
and the person making such affidavit is to swear, that
the wheat whereof such flour was made, was to the
best of his knowledge and belief of the growth of this
kingdom, and is as free from pollard or bran, as flour
of that quality ought to be.

522

APPENDIX.

1768.
Premiums

for Corn
and Flour.

Any person forging a certificate, craner's note, or
affidavit, or producing such certificate, craner's note,
or affidavit, knowing the same to be false, or shall
knowingly swear anything that is false, shall be trans-
ported as a felon for seven years.

Dublin : 9th June, 1768.

VAGRANTS AND BEGGARS. 523

1766.

XI.

Idle Vagrants and Sturdy Beggars.
I.

A Proclamation.

By the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of the City
of Dublin.

Whereas great numbers of idle vagabonds and 1766.
vagrant beggars of both sexes, with a number of anafran s
clamorous children, are observed to stroll about the
streets, and this city is become the common receptacle
of objects disfigured and frightful, as well as pre-
tending to be miserable, from all parts of the kingdom.
And whereas, upon application to the governors of the
Work-house of this city, they have granted out of their
fund a supply for maintaining and employing, in
Bridewell, such beggars as shall be apprehended and
sent thither by my orders, which is now fitted up for
their reception; dnd all children of such beggars will
be received in the Work-house, in order to be bred up
Protestants, and to industry. In order to carry the
said scheme effectually into execution. I do hereby
require and command all constables of this, city, from
and after the 27th day of October instant, to seize upon
and take up all beggars of both sexes, and of ail ages,
who shall be found begging and asking alms in any part
of the city without badges, and all shoeboys and idle
vagrant persons, who will not betake themselves to
labour, and have no visible way of getting a livelihood,
and bring them before me, so as they may be com-

524 APPENDIX.

1766. mitted to Bridewell, and be kept to hard labour. And

Vagrants

and

Beggars.

and I hereby command all such beggars, &c, to depart this

city before said day ; for if any be found begging after,
they shall be immediately punished with the utmost
rigour of law.

And as such beggars are injurious to the inhabitants
of this city, and as the law has directed and enabled
every housekeeper and inhabitant of this city to
command the beadle or constable of his parish, under
the penalty of twenty shillings, to seize and take up
such beggars, I require that every housekeeper and
inhabitant, but more particularly the church wardens,
sidesmen, and directors of the watch, in the several
parishes of this city, will give their assistance to the
execution of this good design, and return to me the
names of such beadle or constable as shall refuse to
obey their commands in execution of the same, that I
may them accordingly.

Given at the Tholsel Chamber, the 10th of
October, 1766.

EDWARD SANKEY.
GOD SAVE THE KING.

VAGEASTS AND BEGGARS. 525

1767.

H.
A Peoclamatio>".

By the Eight Honourable the Lord XCayor of the
City of Dublin.

Whereas notwithstanding my former proclamation, 1767.

Vagrants

the streets of this city still continue to be infested with and

^ Beggars.

idle vagrants and sturdy beggars, owing to the
negligence of the several constables, beadles, and other
parish officers, and the too great inattention of the
several inhabitants, who are by law invested with
insufficient powers to oblige said constables and officers
to do their duty, as set forth by my former proclama-
tion, and of whose refusal or neglect of duty (however
apparent it may be) I have not yet received a single
complaint from any parishioner of the several parishes
in Dublin. And whereas the punishment of whipping,
by law directed to be inflicted upon such idle vagrants
and sturdy beggars, hath been hitherto suspended, in
expectation of the^r rendering the same unnecessary,
by obedience to my former proclamation, and betaking
themselves to some sort of labour and industry; but
now finding the most strict execution of the law in this
respect is become necessary, by their audacious
perseverance in and disobedience to the law, I do there-
fore hereby charge and command all persons licenced to
beg within this city, to beg within the respective places
limited to them, and not elsewhere, and to wear their
badges on their right arms on the outside of their upper
garments ; and all persons not licenced, begging within
this city, immediately to depart the same. And all

526

APPENDIX.

1767.

Vagrants
and
Beggars.

constables, parish beadles, and others concerned, are
hereby required to apprehend all such beggars and
vagrants, as they shall answer the contrary at their
peril. And as an encouragement for their vigilance
herein, I do hereby promise a reward of 2s. 6d. for
every idle vagrant or sturdy beggar that shall from
this day be apprehended and brought before me, by
any parish constable, beadle, or other person, in order
to their being punished according to law.

Given at the Tholsel Chamber, the 10th day of July,

1767.

EDWARD SANKEY.
God Save the King.

THE WATCH OF ST. MICHASf's PARISH. 527

1730.

XII.

The Watch of St. Miciian's Parish, Dublin. T7b3e'watcb
We, the directors of the watch of the new parish of mchan'a

1 Parish.

St. Michan's, Dublin, do (in pursuance of an act of
parliament passed in this kingdom, in the tenth year
of the reign of his late majesty King George, intituled,
an act for continuing and amending an act, intituled
an act for the better regulating the parish watches in
this kingdom, etc.) publish the following resolutions,
and make the annexed orders, for regulating the
constables and watch-men of the said parish, for the
year 1730, viz.

I. That the watch-house at the north end of Ormond's-
Bridge, and that of Young's-Castle, are sufficient for
this parish.

II. That it is proper twelve constables should be con-
tinued for the service of the parish for the present year.

III. That twenty-eight watchmen are sufficient for
the said parish.

IV. That the following persons, being in our
judgment, (such as the said act recaiires) are appointed
the watch-men of the said parish for the present year.

V. That the present watch coats, staffs and lanthorns,
with some repairs, are sufficient for the year.

Constables' Names. Ormond's-Bridge Watch-men.

William Dickson. John Dawson. Robert Anderson.
Alexander McDonald. Robert Symms. John Miller.
William Fudge, Archibald Turner. James Lynam.
Nicholas Ayres. James Reed. John Dickson. Darby
Clark.

Daniel Mc.Marcus, Inspector.

Constable's Names. Young's-Castle Watch-men.

Robert Wilson. Thomas Harrison. Bryan 0 Pray.
John Newell. John Power. John Steele. Robert

528 APPENDIX.

1730. Standrick. William Elliot. John Littledale. William

Jfhsatettch Hudson. Alexander Clarke. Michael Morrice. John

Michan's

Parish. Reynor.

Charles Wall, Inspector.

Order. I. That each watch-man's coat, lanthorn, and
staff, be numbered progressively, from one to thirty,
in as visible and open a manner as possible, and said
coat, only to be worn when on duty.

Order II. That each watch-man shall be allowed for
his service, from the 25th. of March, to the 29th. of
September, two pounds ten shillings; and from the
29th. of September, to the 25th. of March, three pounds.

Order III. That the following places are appointed
the stands for the watch-men, viz.

From Ormond's-Bridge Watch-house, their Stands.

Corner of Arran-lane, facing the Inns and Church-
street.

Lyncoln-lane, at Pudding-lane, facing Phcenix-street.

The corner of Hammond-lane, and Pill-lane in
Church-street.

East of the Pill, north of Arran-street, and south of
Boot-lane.

West-end of Strand-street, by the stables of Hugh
Henry Esq. ;

Ormond-key facing Arran-street.

From Young's-Castle Watch-house, their Stands.
One stand in Henrietta-street, near the Primate's.
The east of King's street, near the Little Green.
On the Bradoge-bridge in Mary's-lane.
The corner of Church-street, facing May-lane.
North east end of Smith-field, facing King street.
At the Black-Lyon the south corner of Smith-field.
At the south-end of Phrapper-lane, in Mary's lane.

THE WATCH OF ST. MICHAx's PARISH. 529

Order IV. That two of the constables shall watch 1730.

The Watch

every night 111 their turns, one in Ormond's-bridge "f sain*
watch-house, attended with fourteen men, thirteen P:»->*ii.
whereof are to relieve the stands by turns, the other
to be inspector, and the other at Young' s-Castle,
attended with fourteen men, thirteen whereof, are to
relieve the stands by turns, the other to be inspector,
that each watch-man doth his duty pursuant to the
following orders, and shall set and continue their
watch, from ten a clock at night, till five the next
morning, in the summer half year, and in the winter
half year, from nine at night till six the next morning.

Order V. That the constable shall set, or order one
watch-man at each of their respective stands, who shall
walk to and fro about the same, so as to be within a
call of the next stand, in case of any disturbance,
and upon notice thereof, they shall go to the assistance
of the neighbouring stands, but not depart from their
stands otherwise till relieved by another watch-man.

Order VI. That the reliefs and rounds must be
performed once every hour during the whole nightly
watch, in the following manner, viz.

Order VII. That one watch-man shall always stand
at the outside of the door of each watch-house, and be
relieved hourly.

Order VIII. That all the watch-men in their rounds,
if they observe any appearance of fire breaking out
in any house, or any door open belonging to any house,
they are immediately to awaken those of the said
house; and at the request of any person, or if they
find any person overtaken in drink, they are to see
them safe to the next stand, and the other to the next,
till the person be conveyed home, in the parish, if not,
to the next stand of the next parish watch, and no
farther, taking an account of his name, and that no
watch-man upon any excuse whatsoever, shall go out

VOL. XI. M M

530 APPENDIX.

1730 of the bounds of this parish, except to the next stand

The Watch ... , , ,

of saint of the next watch.

Parish"' Order IX. And the watch-men and constables are

hereby required to keep a mannerly behaviour, and not
to molest any person, except those they find breaking
the peace, or have a just cause to suspect house-
breakers, robbers, or otherwise lewd and disorderly
persons, all such persons guilty of such crimes, the
constable shall keep in custody, or lodge them in gaol
till brought before the Lord Mayor, or some other
justice of the peace, the next morning.

Order X. That every constable do call over the names
of every watch-man at the time appointed both for
setting and discharging said watch, and if any of
them be absent or neglect their duty, he shall make
a return thereof the next day to the Lord Mayor and
the director appointed for that purpose, of the state
and condition of his watch, and all the material
accidents or occurrences which happened the foregoing
night, or be fined pursuant to the act.

Order XI. That Mr. Allan Julian shall receive the
returns of Ormond's-Bridge watch-house for the
ensuing year. And that Mr. Walter Emoz, shall
receive the returns of Young' s-Castle watch-house, for
said year.

Order XII. That the two inspecting watch-men shall
every hour by turns, walk round the said parish, and
see and oblige the said watch-men to do their respective
duties and make a return of the behaviour of the said
watch-men, to the directors appointed to receive the
same.

From Ormond's-Bridge Watch-house.

The stands to be set at the hour appointed by the
act of parliament, by the person appointed inspector:
As soon as the clock strikes, the said inspector to turn

THE WATCH OP ST. MICHAx's PARISH. 531

out with four men westward, and go along the Inns 1730.
turning into the Arch, and so to the Old-Bridge, and of Lint
relieve the stand there, the relieved to go up Church- Parish,
street, and through Pill-lane, and so to the watch-
house; the rest to proceed along Arran-key, turning
into Pudding-lane, and relieve the stand there, and all
proceed up Phoenix-street, and round by Smithfield
Coffee-house, and so through Hammond-lane, and
relieve the stand there, and so proceed through Pill-
lane, and relieve the stand in Pill-lane facing Fish-
market, the relieved to go up Bull-lane, through
Lattin's-court, down Cow-lane, so through Charles-
street, to the watch-house; the rest to go through
Mountrath-street and Mass-lane, and so to the watch-
house.

The said inspector as soon as arrived, turns out with
two fresh men and goes clown Ormond's-key, as far
as Mr. Sterne's, and so return westward, and go up
Ann-street, and relieve the stand in Strand-street, the
relieved to go round the Flesh and Fish-market, the
other to proceed to the east-end of the Pill, and relieve
the man there, who is to proceed through Pill-lane,
through Charles-street, and so to the watch-house.

From Young's-Castle Watch-house,

As soon as the clock strikes, the person appointed
inspector must turn out with three men and proceed
up Glascunioge, and so return going through Channel-
row, and so through Red Cow-lane, and relieve the
stand at Broomer's-Corner, the relieved to return down
King's-street to the watch-house, the rest to proceed
dowm Smithfield, and relieve the stand at Donovan's
Corner, the relieved to proceed up Lough-boy, and
so to the watch-house, the rest to proceed through May-
lane, and relieve the stand at the corner of said lane,

532 APPENDIX.

i73o. and the relieved to go down Church-street, as far as

of laiiSi the lower gate of the church, and to return to the

Michan's

Parish. watcll-llOUSe.

As soon as the inspector arrives at the watch-house,
he must turn out eastward along King's-street, and
relieve the stand at Ann-street, the relieved to go down
Ann-street and George' s-Hill, and so through Cuckoo-
lane, up Phrapper-lane, and so to the watch-house.
The other to proceed to Henrietta-street, thence return
and proceed round the Little-Green, and to Bradoge-
Bridge, and relieve the stand there, the relieved to go
down Boot-lane, and up Fisher' s-lane, through
George' s-Hill, and so to the watch-house, the others to
proceed through Mary's-lane, to Phrapper-lane, and
relieve the stand there, the relieved to go down Bull-
lane, through Lattin's-court, up Cow-lane, and
Phrapper-lane, and so to the watch-house, the inspector
to go through Mary's-lane, up Church-street, to the
watch-house.

The watch-men, are to give the hour of the night
going the rounds, the inspectors are in the summer half
year, to relieve the men at five o'clock in the morning,
and in the winter half year at sfx in the morning,
and no sooner.

*% Note, that by the said act of parliament, if any
watch-man shall quit his station, or otherwise absent
himself from his duty, or fail therein contrary to the
foregoing rules, or go into an ale-house or cellar to
drink, or be found drunk on the watch, he shall forfeit
five shillings out of his wages, or be publickly whipt
at the direction of the magistrate before whom he is
convicted. And if any constable shall fail in his
duty, contrary to the foregoing rules, he shall forfeit,
upon conviction, twenty shillings, the forfeitures of
the watch-men and constables to go to the informers.

THE WATCH OF ST. MICHAN's PARISH. 533

N.B. Constables, watch-men and others, are desired 1730.

The Watch

to take notice, that in the eighth year of Queen Anne, °J.s°^;8
there was an act made for the encouraging the Fa™h.
discovery and apprehending of house-breakers, in
which it is, among other things, enacted. 'That after
the twenty-ninth of September, 1709. All and every
person and persons, who shall apprehend, or take any
person guilty of burglary, or other felonious breaking
or entering any house in the night-time, and prosecute
him, or them, until he, or she, or they be convicted
thereof, shall have five pounds within 21 days after
such conviction, to be paid by the collector of the
district, where such felony or burglary shall be com-
mitted, without fee or reward, tendering a certificate
to the collector, under the hand or hands of the judges
or justices, before whom such felon shall be convicted.'
And in another act made in the eighth year of King
George the first, entituled, ' An act for amending an
act entituled, An act for the better and more effectual
apprehending and transporting felons; it is, among
other things enacted, ' That where any murder or
robbery shall be committed in the streets of the City
of Dublin, or in other counties of cities, or counties of
towns, or Liberties thereunto belonging or acljoyning,
or in the high-way of any county of this kingdom, a
reward not exceeding the sum of twenty pounds,
shall be given to such person or persons, aa shall
apprehend, or take such murderer or robber, so as he
or they shall be convicted thereof, the same to be
raised by the presentments of the grand juries.'

Thomas Constantine. Thomas Hewdet. Allan Julian.
John Finlay. Walter Emoz. Nathaniel Whinnery.
Adam Tate. Thomas McMuthy. George Law.

DIRECTORS.
[Dublin Broadside.]

534

APPENDIX.

J 760-69.

XIII.

Lord Mayors and Sheriffs of the City of Dublin.
1760—1769.

1760-61. Lord Mayor, Patrick Hamilton; Sheriffs,
Francis Fetherston, George Wrightson.

1761-62. Lord Mayor, Sir Timothy Allen; Sheriffs,
Matthew Bailie, Sir Thomas Blackall.

1762-63. Lord Mayor, Charles Rossel ; Sheriffs, John
Read, Joseph Hall.

1763-64. Lord Mayor, William Forbes; Sheriffs,
William Bryan, Francis Booker.

1764-65. Lord Mayor, Benjamin Geale; Sheriffs,
Robert Montgomery, Henry Hart.

1765-66. Lord Mayor, Sir James Taylor; Sheriffs,
William Rnttledge, Richard French.

1766-67. Lord Mayor, Edward Sankey; Sheriffs,
Willoughby Lightburne, Thomas Emerson.

1767-68. Lord Mayor, Francis Fetherston; Sheriffs.
Patrick Boyd, Henry Bevan.

1768-69. Lord Mayor, Benjamin Barton; Sheriffs,
William Dunn, Henry Williams.

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