Correspondence regarding a legal dispute arising out of a lease of 48 North King Street offered by the Capuchin friars to Patrick Macken. On 14 Dec. 1871, Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC wrote to Macken offering him a lease of the said premises at the yearly rent of £38. Correspondents include Terence O’Reilly, solicitor, Patrick Macken and Henry Oldham, solicitor, 42 Fleet Street, Dublin. A note from Fr. Seraphin Van Damme OSFC is also included in the file. It reads ‘Make Mr. T. O’Reilly hasten with the maps and valuation of N. King Street properties and N. Brunswick Street to get the faculty from Rome for selling them’.
Copy draft lease of Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC and Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC to Patrick Macken, grocer and wine merchant, of no. 48 North King Street, for 100 years at the yearly rent of £36. An annotation on title page reads: ‘approved of as altered on part of lessors, Terence O’Reilly, 9 Mar. 1874’.
Statement on the houses and premises on North King Street belonging to Capuchin friars of Church Street, Dublin. The statement lists the principal lessors of the properties and the yearly rent paid. The premises referred are nos. 47-50 North King Street. The tenants include William Smith (no. 47), Patrick Macken (no. 48) and Bridget Maher (no. 50). It affirms the Capuchins ‘have within the last 10 years erected a Presbytery on part of the said premises on which they expended upwards of £700’. The statement also notes that the Capuchins hold ‘all the above premises from the 1st day of July 1862 (for which they paid a fine of £300), for 9,000 years at the yearly rent in margin and a chief rent of 18s 5½d to the Corporation of Dublin if demanded’. A pencilled addition to the text indicates that a lease was given to the aforementioned Patrick Macken dated 24 Feb. 1874. (See CA CS/2/2/4/25).
This section includes deeds, leases and other documents relating to title to 133-134 Church Street and a yard at the rear of the said properties extending out onto 27 Bow Street. These plots are now partly occupied by the present-day Father Mathew Hall. Many of the documents relate to Fr. Nicholas Murphy’s efforts to secure these properties which enabled the extension of the Church Street Hall. A long-term lease of the properties was obtained in 1886 and the outright purchase of the plot was secured in 1963.
Lease of Eliza Mullen, widow, Lower Dorset Street, to Nicholas Reily, 53 North King Street, of the house and premises of no. 27 Bow Street, parish of St. Paul’s, Dublin, for 29 years at the yearly rent of £20.
Extract from the Register of the High Court of Justice (Ireland), Probate and Matrimonial Division, regarding the estate of John Cordner, late of 153 Whiton Street, Jersey City, State of New Jersey, United States, formerly a tramway official, who died on 22 Aug. 1880. The extract refers to the granting of letters of administration by the Court to his widow and to the payment of his debts and distribution of the residue. The extract was prepared by Thomas J. White, solicitor, 4 Usher’s Quay, Dublin.
Lease by Michael Clarke, 141 Church Street, to John Kelly, 55 Church Street, of a ‘small house numbered one and situated in Thunder’s Court at the rear of 141 Church Street’, for 86 years at the yearly rent of 2d and in consideration of £28.
This section includes deeds, leases and legal documents relating to title to properties on Bow Street now part of the present-day Capuchin Friary on Church Street. The deeds mainly refer to nos. 20-23 Bow Street and to properties held from Jameson & Sons, distillers. The section also includes correspondence from John Jameson regarding rights of passage from Church Street to Bow Street.
Memorandum of agreement between Mary Anne Magrane, widow, Church Street, and Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC and other Capuchin friars, North King Street, regarding the purchase of the houses and premises known as nos. 22-23 Bow Street held by the former under a lease (dated 1 Jan. 1849) from William Bagot for the life of the Duke of Leinster or for the residue of a term of 31 years at the yearly rent of £18. The purchase price is stated as £250. With draft (28 Nov. 1874) compiled by Terence O’Reilly, solicitor, 5 North Great George’s Street.
Letters of William Read & Son, 4 Dawson Street, Dublin, solicitors for John Jameson & Son, distillers, to Terence O’Reilly, solicitors for the Capuchin friars, concerning a dispute over rights of passage from Church Street to Bow Street. On 9 May 1883, William Read wrote ‘your clients are enjoying the use of those passages and have not for a considerable time paid any rent for same … and our applications and draft of leases have hitherto been treated with silence on your part …’. On 31 Oct. 1882, John Jameson instructed his solicitors to let it be known ‘that he will not press for the present payment of the arrears of rent due £103 10s 0d nor will he ask for interest thereon provided the principal be paid within a reasonable period (say twelve months) and the future rent paid punctually’. With a rental account of John Jameson & Sons with the Capuchin community, Church Street. 2 Oct. 1882.
