Renewal of a lease from Abraham, Richard and Rachel Colles, Millmount, County Kilkenny, grandsons and granddaughter of William Colles, late of Abbeyvale, deceased, to Richard Empson, merchant, of the premises known as the ‘Munster Arms’ on Walkin Street in Kilkenny, in consideration of the fines payable for the addition of two of the three lives referred to in the original lease of 8 Apr. 1769. (See CA KK/2/1/1/1/1).
Copy will and probate of Richard Empson, Kilkenny city. He leaves all his freehold and personal property situated in Kilkenny to his wife, Ruth Epsom, subject to several legacies charged upon the said properties for his sons and daughters. It is noted in the will that the house and concerns on Walkin Street are ‘now in the possession of Mr Mathew, Mr Max, Mr Hunt and their tenants’. Ruth Epsom and George Leech are appointed executrix and executor of the will. The probate was granted on 6 Nov. 1820.
Abstract of title of Joseph Empson Esq. to the house and premises on Walkin Street commonly called ‘The Munster Arms’, parish of Saint Mary, Kilkenny City. The abstract commences with a recital of a lease (dated 8 Apr. 1769) by William Colles to George Chapman of the said house for three lives at the yearly rent of £14 10s (see CA KK/2/1/1/1/1). The abstract concludes with a reference to an assignment of lease (dated 5 May 1893) by Frederick Reynell Pack to Joseph Empson Esq. of the said house and premises for ever at the yearly fee farm rent of £13 7s 8d. Endorsed on title page: ‘Abstract prepared on the sale by Joseph Empson Esq. to Reverend F.M Neary and Reverend Thomas O’Connor completed by conveyance dated 1 Aug. 1895. Joseph Empson Esq., 1st part, Mrs M.H. Doxey, 2nd part, Rev. F.M Neary OSFC and another, 3rd part’.
Conveyance from Joseph Empson Esq., Glenageary, Kingstown, County Dublin (with the approval of Memmette H. Doxey, personal representative of the late Arthur Joshua Boyd) to Fr. Thomas O’Connor OSFC and Fr. F.M. Neary OSFC, Roman Catholic clergymen, Walkin Street, Kilkenny of the house and concerns on Walkin Street formerly known by the name of ‘The Munster Arms’ in consideration of £300 and subject to the yearly fee farm rent of £13 7s 8d.
Flier for collection ‘to defray the expenses of the erection of the cross outside the Friary door’. The collection is to be made among the brothers of the Third Order in the Tertiary Chapel.
Replies to the Ceremony of Visitation by members of the Third Order of St. Francis, Kilkenny. It is noted that the replies to the set questions ‘have the one purpose of enabling the Visitator to judge how the Rule [of St. Francis] is being observed …’. The replies to the twelve questions are answered anonymously. The individual sheets have been bound together with a chord.
Letter from the Most Rev. Patrick Collier, Bishop of Ossory, to Fr. Ignatius Collins OFM Cap., guardian, regarding the renewal of diocesan faculties for the Capuchin fathers in Kilkenny. Reference is also made to public mass times at the Church of St. Francis.
Specification by John J. Robinson & R.C. Keeffe, architects, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin, of work to be done and materials to be used in the carrying out of the proposed new aisle, porches, and extension to the nave at the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny.
Date: 1743 Author: François Babin (1651-1734). Publisher: Sur l’Imprimé à Angers, A Bruxelles, Par la Société. M.DCC.XLIII Full Title: 'Conferences ecclesiastiques du Diocése d'Angers, sur les Sacrements en general, fur le Bapteme & la Confirmation … Redigées par M. Babin ...Nouvelle édition. Par l’ordre de Monseigneur l’illustrissime & reverendissime Jean de Vaugirauld, évêque d'Angers. Sur l’Imprimé à Angers, A Bruxelles, Par la Société. M.DCC.XLIII, 1744'.
Theologia Universa ad usum S. Theologiæ Date: 1759 Author: Thomas de Charmes (1703-1765) Publisher: Nanceii, Henrici & Petri Thomas, Patris & Filii, typographorum. Petri Antoine, Regiae fuae Majestais & Urbis, tyographi Ordinarii. MDCCLIX Full title: 'Theologia universality ad usum s. theologiae candidatorum. Auctore RP Thomas, ex Charmes, Provinciæ Lotharingiæ Capucinorum Definitore, Custode Generali, necnon antique Sacræ Theologiæ Professore. Tomus V. De Virtutibus'.
