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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.

Deed of assignment from Fr. Richard Dominick Clarke OSFC to Fr. Paul Neary OSFC, Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC, Fr. Columbus Maher OSFC and Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC of his interest in premises on Bow Street (formerly nos. 22 and 23 and the premises at no. 25 on the said street) for the residue of the terms specified in the original leases. In consideration of 10s.

Assignment of a lease from Margaret Maughan, High Street, Dublin, to Thomas Murphy, 27 Cabra Road, Dublin, of premises on Bow Street now in the possession of Thomas Fallon for the residue of the term of two hundred years specified in the original lease of the said property dating to 11 May 1843. In consideration of £110.

Copy will and probate of Matthew Murphy, 43 Montpellier Hill, Dublin, veterinary surgeon (d. 15 Nov. 1897). He devises the rents and profits accruing from his various properties (including premises on Bow Street) to his nieces Elizabeth and Mary Anne Murphy. They are to be paid an annuity of £25 per annum. The probate was granted on 4 January 1898. The certified copy of the will and probate were made on 26 August 1904. With a statutory declaration by Matthew Murphy stating that he is the eldest son of Matthew Murphy (d. 15 Nov. 1897) and that his mother (Ellen Murphy) was a daughter of Thomas Fallon (d. 20 Sept. 1871). The declaration is signed 26 August 1904.

Lease by Thomas Murphy to Fr. Peter (Edward) Bowe OSFC, Fr. Fiacre (Bartholomew) Brophy and Fr. Nicholas (Maurice) Murphy OSFC, Church Street, Dublin, of a parcel of ground situated on the west side of Bow Street. In consideration of £540 and £110 and for the residue of the terms (two hundred years) specified in the original leases dating to 20 April 1842 and 11 May 1843.

Costs of Thomas J. Furlong, 11 Eustace Street, solicitor, to Fr. Edward (Peter) Bowe OSFC, Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC and Fr. Bartholomew Brophy OSFC for services rendered in respect of the purchase of premises on Bow Street and Brown Street. Totals: £21 0s 3d; £26 1s 0d.

Lease by Fr. Edward (Peter) Bowe OSFC, Fr. Bartholomew Brophy OSFC and Fr. Nicholas Murphy OSFC, ‘the sub-lessors’, to John Morgan, North King Street, ‘the sub-lessee’, of ‘the piece or parcel of ground in Bow Street … bounded on the North by number 44 Bow Street, on the south by waste ground on which a weigh house formerly stood in the possession of Messrs John Jameson and Sons …’, for 135 years at the yearly rent of £10 and in consideration of the sum of £212 10s 0d. The deed contains an annexed sketch map depicting the demised premises. Scale: 16 feet to 1 inch. With apportionment by Fr. Edward (Peter) Bowe OSFC and others to John Morgan of rent and rates on the said properties. 1 Apr. 1908.

Schedule of deeds relating to premises on Bow Street in Dublin compiled by T.J. Furlong, solicitor. The schedule lists deeds from 20 Apr. 1842 to 1887 and relate to premises formerly in the possession of Matthew Murphy. The schedule is signed by Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC, Provincial Minister.