Copy articles (mostly taken from newspapers) referring to an appeal on behalf of persecuted French Capuchins, c.Nov. 1880. See CA HT/7/1; the blessing of the bell of Holy Trinity Church by the Most Rev. William Delany (d. 1886), Bishop of Cork, 24 July 1881; the dedication of St. Joseph’s Church attached to the novitiate at Rochestown Friary, Cork, 7 Nov. 1878; Address to the Rev. Columbus Patrick Maher OSFC from members of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Sodality of the Sacred Thirst. With his reply. 27 May 1883-30 May 1883. The copies may have been made by Fr. Benvenutus Guy OSFC (1860-1927).
Copy assignment by Charles Henry Jermyn and Aileen Dorothy Jermyn to the trustees of the Protestant Hall and Assembly Rooms Association of several leasehold premises located at no. 22 South Mall (known as the Assembly Rooms), vested in the late Charles Jermyn, father of the said Charles Henry Jermyn. Numerous annotations in pencil have been made to the copy by solicitors indicating that the trustees (also termed ‘vendors’) intend to sell their interest in the respective leases at public auction. See also CA HT/2/1/1/36.
Assignment by Pierce Power, Cork, to Thomas Hewat, William Street, Dublin, trustee for the Provincial Bank of Ireland, of the premises in the parish of Holy Trinity, Cork, demised by a lease of 1 Jan. 1846 (see CA HT/2/1/1/9) and for the residue of the term granted by the said lease. In trust with a power of sale for said premises under certain conditions.
Copy memorial of an assignment from Bryan Sheehy and others, assignees of the estate of Paul Benson, merchant, to Charles Ferguson, of the residue of a lease of 900 years held by Benson from Ebenezer Morrison (dated 6 May 1776) of premises on Morrison’s Island at the yearly rent of £54.
Copy assignment by John Henry Gamble, provisioning merchant, to Pierce Power, butter merchant, of the residue of a lease of premises on Queen Street dated 1 Jan. 1846 (see CA HT/2/1/1/9) in consideration of the intended marriage of Gamble’s second daughter, Ellen Louisa, to Pierce Power. Certified copy made by Henry Nobbett & Son, Cork, 19 Jan. 1867.
Copy conveyance from Fr. Matthew Thomas O’Connor OSFC, Walkin Street, Kilkenny, and Fr. Augustine John Hayden OSFC, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, to Fr. Martin John Hyland OSFC, Fr. Patrick Kelleher OSFC and Fr. Michael O’Shea OSFC, Holy Trinity Friary, Cork, of the residue of the several leases referred to in CA HT/2/1/2/30 of lands and properties in Cork city and at Rochestown, County Cork. With a photocopy of original manuscript deed and a typescript schedule of the leases referred to in the foregoing conveyance.
Copy judgement by the Rt. Hon. John Monroe, land judge, High Court of Justice (Chancery Division) granting a plot of ground with the premises thereon on Sober Lane and Blackamoor Lane to John Rahilly, Barracks Street, Cork. With a schedule referred to in the said deed listing tenants’ names, annual rent and length of tenure.
Copy lease by Atwell Hayes, Cork, to Christopher Allen, Burgess, Cork, of ‘one field or meadow with a garden thereon situate and being in Friars Walk in the South Liberty of the said City of Cork containing 3 acres 2 roods 6 perches … and also 3 fields part of the lands of Curraconway containing 5 acres and twenty seven perches statue measure’, for 850 years at the yearly rent of £26 2s 4d. An annotation in the margin indicates that the aforementioned lot on Friars Walk was assigned to the Capuchin friars ‘and indemnified by the other lot against a greater rent of £70 10s 0d’.
Copy lease from Charles Dunbar, London, to James Morrison, William Fritton and Ebenezer Morrison, Cork, merchants, of a plot of ground or marsh called Island Nagay adjoining the Corporation Marsh in the south suburbs of city of Cork for 999 years. In consideration of £1,000.
Letter of contract by John Delany to Fr. Simeon Gaudillot OSFC (1836-1910), Commissary General, undertaking ‘to build the front wing of the Capuchin Convent, the ambulatory and the boundary wall according to the plans and specification proposed by Mr. Robert Walker, architect’. With a similar copy contract on the reverse in respect of the library wing of the said building.
