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Letters of obedience, from c.1874-1910, compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. from originals pasted into the archival book of the Capuchin Friary, Kilkenny (CA KK/1/3/1). The obediences are listed under the headings of date, ‘from’ [usually the letter of obedience is from the Provincial Minister or Definitory], to [the name of the friar to which the obedience is addressed] and ‘import’ [place of transfer]’. The list would appear to have particular reference to transfers to and from the Friary in Kilkenny.

List of friars of the Capuchin community in Kilkenny. Includes a daily duty list for the priests. The list was compiled by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap.

Letter from an anonymous correspondent to the guardian, Capuchin Friary, Walkin Street, on the need to for the re-organisation of the temperance movement in Kilkenny. The correspondent refers to a newspaper article written by him in 1904 (clipping enclosed) in which he calls for the establishment by the Capuchins of a Boys Brigade club in the city.

Letters from Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, to Fr. Matthew O’Connor OFM Cap., guardian, regarding the sale of a yard adjacent to the Friary for £100.

Letter from Fr. Stanislaus Kavanagh OFM Cap., Church Street, to Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap., guardian, enclosing a copy of the mission list and querying an item in the accounts furnished from Capuchin General Curia in Rome.

Letters from Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, and Fr. Felix Guihen OFM Cap., Provincial Secretary, to Fr. Andrew Carew OFM Cap. and other guardians of the Kilkenny community, mainly re notices of the deaths of friars (or their relations), the professions of novices, the appointment of confessors in the Diocese of Ossory, and requests for contributions from the Kilkenny community to the Provincial Accounts.

Conveyance from George Chapman, Kilkenny City, smith, to Richard Empson, Kilkenny City, merchant, of a lease of a house on Walkin Street, Kilkenny, ‘commonly called and known by the name of the Munster Arms’, for three lives (renewable forever) at the yearly rent of £14 10s, and in consideration of £140. A recital of an earlier 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 is given. The reverse of the lease is endorsed with a rental of the said premises (Head rent: £35 3s 10½d; Profit rent: £20 13s 10½d). With a manuscript copy of the said conveyance.

Renewal of a lease from Abraham Colles, doctor of physic, Dublin, Richard Colles, Riverview, Kilkenny, Rev. Thomas Ottewell Moore, Leskinferne, County Wexford and his wife Rachel Moore (née Colles), to Joseph Empson, boot and shoemaker, Kilkenny city, of the premises known as the ‘Munster Arms’ on Walkin Street, Kilkenny, in consideration of one peppercorn in fines payable for the renewal of lives in the original lease. (See CA KK/2/1/1/1/1).

Copy assignment from Margaret Empson, Parliament Street, Kilkenny, widow of Joseph Empson, and her children named as Richard Empson, apothecary, Joseph Empson, shopkeeper, John Empson, civil engineer, Montreal, British America, Eliza Jones (née Empson), wife of Robert Patten Jones, Palmerston House, County Kilkenny, Anne Empson, Rathgar Road, Dublin, and Ruth Empson, spinster, Parliament Street, Kilkenny, to Arthur Joshua Boyd, solicitor, The Parade, Kilkenny city, of the freehold properties held by the late Joseph Empson in trust for the children of Margaret Empson aforesaid. With copy schedule of the properties to which the foregoing deed refers. Number eight in the schedule refers to the house and concerns on Walkin Street held under a lease of lives renewable forever dated 25 May 1835. (See CA KK/2/1/1/1/4).

Correspondence (mainly from solicitors), copy wills and other legal documents relating to bequests for masses to the Capuchin community in Kilkenny. The file includes bequests in respect of Ellen Gready (of Switzers’ Asylum, Kilkenny); James Fleming (late of Poulgour, County Kilkenny); Margaret Coogan (late of Parliament Street, Kilkenny); Edward Egan (late of 15 Alderly Street, Pimlico, London); Mrs N.T. Murphy (late of Columbkille, Thomastown); Maria Kinahan (formerly of Blenheim and latterly of Dungarvan, County Waterford); Patrick Tobin (late of Tullobrin, County Kilkenny); Bridget Shorthall (formerly of Clontubrid, County Kilkenny); John Brett (late of Donaghmore, Ballyraggett, County Kilkenny).