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Lease of Anne Boyd, widow, Jane Hamilton, Ann Boyd, spinsters and Henry Lawes Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton, to others to Patrick McDaniel, North King Street, butcher, of a ‘house, yard, stables and shed in the rere of Richard Langan’s holding formerly in the possession of Lawrence White … bounded on the west by Mr Dardsis’s holding on the north, by George Bryan’s holding on the west, on the east by Mathew Butler’s holding, and on the south by North King Street …’., for 999 years at the yearly rent of £30. With counterpart.

Lease of Anne Boyd, city of London, to Richard Lynch, North King Street, of a ‘house, yard and shed late in the possession of John Byrne or his undertenants and formerly in the possession of Andrew Langan … and known formerly by No. 45 but now known as No. 46, North King Street, city of Dublin …’, for 99 years at the yearly rent of £16. With counterpart.

Lease of Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC, Fr. Patrick Joseph Columbus Maher OSFC and Fr. James Lonergan OSFC, Old Church Street, Dublin, to Patrick Fegan, 42 Mary’s Lane, Dublin, vegetable dealer, of three dwelling houses known as nos. 138-140, Old Church Street, parish of St. Michan, for 20 years at the yearly rent of one peppercorn. In consideration of £250. A covenant in the lease notes that ‘the said houses and premises are now owing to their age and condition in a bad and unsatisfactory state of repair and in the ordinary nature and course of circumstances they will on the expiration of the term hereby granted be in a much worse and more dilapidated condition … the said lessors hereby agree that they will accept and take over from the said lessee the said houses and premises and condition as they may at the expiration of the term hereby granted wilful waste excepted’. With counterpart.

Lease of Frances MacDonnell, Torquay, County Devon, widow, to James Ball, North King Street, corn factor and seed merchant, of a dwelling house, warehouse, gateway and stable known as no. 47 situated on the North side of King Street, Dublin, ‘in which Martin White, druggist, lately deceased, formerly resided’, for 31 years at the yearly rent of £46. A ‘schedule of fixtures in the premises’ is appended to the margin of the lease. With two copies.

Lease of James Bagot to Patrick Mullen, 78 Lower Dorset Street, of the ‘houses now known as numbers 133 and 134 Church Street with the yard at the rere thereof extending to Bow Street on which there is a house facing Bow Street known as number 27 …’ at the yearly rent of £28. The term of years is not specified in the lease. With a copy.

Lease of Patrick Joseph Nolan, Little Mary Street, to William Joseph Hynes, Constitution Hill, Dublin, of a house and premises formerly known as ‘the Swan Inn’, and later known as no. 142 Upper Church Street, for 61 years at the yearly rent of £32. With counterpart.

Ledger and account book for the Capuchin community at St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. The ledger contains details of routine income and expenditure including wages for lay staff, building repairs, and various foodstuffs and groceries. Entries for income relate primarily to collections, donations, and bequests. The pages are pre-paginated in the volume. The mass register for the community commences at p. 86 and is titled ‘Liber pro missis dicendis ad intentionem superious localis’. The register provides a list of the names of individuals to whom a special intention or prayer is offered. The register runs from 16 Aug. 1886-31 Oct. 1889. The entries are signed by the celebrating priest. The mass intentions’ register runs from pp 86-309. A typescript insert is also extant. It reads: ‘Dublin House Ledger, July 1882 to July 1883. … income and expenditure during my administration, commencing July 1st 1882, Convent and Church of Our Lady of Angels Church Street, Dublin, D.A. [Albert] Mitchell, OSFC, Ex. C. Prov.’.
The front cover has been annotated by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap.: ‘This ledger contains I. House expenses (Dublin) from 1st July 1882 to July 2nd 1883. II. Community Masses from August 16th 1886 to Oct. 31st 1889.
Guardians:
Fr. Albert Mitchell OSFC, 1882-1883
Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC, 1883-1886
Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC, 1886-1889’.

Copy lease of Frances MacDonnell, Bath, Somerset, widow, to Fr. Lawrence Gallerani OSFC, Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC and and Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC, North King Street, of ‘4 houses or tenements with the stables, warehouses and buildings, yards and lands thereunto belonging, and known as nos. 47, 48, 49 and 50 North King Street …’, for 9,000 years at the yearly rent of £77 and in consideration of the sum of £500. 19 Sept. 1862. With drafts and and copies of leases and related solicitors’ correspondence. The file also includes a declaration by Terence O’Reilly affirming that he has been solicitor for the Capuchins for more than 30 years and that the original of the aforementioned lease ‘has gone astray and cannot be found’. O’Reilly also avers that the sum of £200 mentioned in the said lease remains unpaid and that no claim or demand has ever been made by Frances MacDonnell or her representatives. O’Reilly also referred to his clients’ objections to a covenant for re-entry in the draft lease as ‘it would be very hard, if after paying £300 on execution of lease and after expending probably four times the amount in building (as they hope to have a large portion of the Church built before next July), if by any chance they were unable to pay the £200 by July which though not probable is possible, your client should be liberty to re-enter’. 15 Aug. 1862. With solicitor costs to Fr. Lawrence Gallerani OSFC and other Capuchin friars for preparing leases for the said premises on North King Street. 17 Dec. 1869.

Agreement (dated 9 Sept. 1963) of Gerald More O’Ferrall, Elmore, 77 Park Avenue, Dublin, with Fr. Leonard Coughlan OFM Cap., Guardian, Capuchin Friary, Church Street, for the sale of nos. 133-134 Church Street, the house formerly known as no. 27 Bow Street and other properties as demised in the lease of 16 Dec. 1889. (See CA CS/2/2/5/11). The Capuchins are to pay the sum of £180 as part of the purchase money as a deposit and the residue before 28 Feb. 1964. The file includes numerous certified copies of conveyances, mortgages, schedules and other deeds relating to the title and later the sale of the aforementioned properties:
• Copy deeds for the appointment of new trustees for the said properties dated 2 May 1882; 15 Feb. 1889; 7 May 1910; 9 Sept. 1914. Certified copies compiled by A. O’Hagan & Son, 9 Harcourt Street, Dublin. 19 Sept. 1923.
• Declaration by Richard Ryan of A. O’Hagan & Son, solicitors for the vendor, affirming that on 31 July 1915 the properties were held by John More O’Ferrall (the father of Gerald More), and verifying that the said John More O’Ferrall acquired sole possession of the rents and profits of the properties following the death of his father Edward More O’Ferrall on 14 July 1914.
• Copy probate of the will of the said Edward More O’Ferrall (16 Sept. 1911) of Lisard, Edgeworthstown. Certified by A. O’Hagan & Son, solicitors, on 22 Aug. 1963.
• Requisitions on title to the premises known as 133-134 Church Street and 27 Bow Street, Dublin 7. Compiled by Alphonsus Grogan, solicitor, 1 Apr. 1963.
• Copy assignment and release of mortgage by the Munster & Leinster Bank Ltd. to Gerald More O’Ferrall (4 Sept. 1923). Certified by Brendan T. Walsh, solicitor, 4-5 Trinity Street, Dublin. The deed notes that Fr. J.B. Jennings OSFC occupied the premises on Church Street at the yearly rent of £51 8s 0d for 300 years from a lease dating to 1889.