Date: 1729 Author: Jean Cabassut (1604-1685) Publisher: Venetiis: Apud Laurentium Basilium Full title: 'Notitia ecclesiastica historiarum, conciliorum & canonum invicem collatorum, veterùmque juxtà, ac recentiorum eclessiae rituum, ab ipsis ecclesiae christianae incunabulis ad nostra usque tempora, secundùm cujusque saeculi seriem, accuratè digesta'. Edition: Ed. quinta ab ipso auctore correcta, plurimum aucta, & quinque indicibus locupletata.
Date: 1729 Author: Fr. Adrien de Nancy OSFC Publisher: Bambergæ apud Joannem Georgium Lochner, A. 1729 Full title: Liber argumentationum super præcipuas theologiæ difficultates per R.P. Adrianum a Nanceio Capucinum Series: Part of a two-volume publication. Vol. 1 includes dedication to Charles Alexander, Duke of Lorraine.
Date: 1731 Publisher: Bambergae: Sumptibus Ioannis Christophori Lochneri Bibliopolae Full title: 'Concordantiae Bibliorum: juxta exemplar vulgatae editionis Sixti V. Pontif. Max. jussu recogn., et Clementis VIII. authoritate editum, Olim Studio & Industria Theologorum Cosoniensium impressae. Nunc autem revisae, emendatae et à multis Erroribus expurgatae'. Format: Bible concordance
Date: 1732 Author: Honoré Tournély (1658-1729) Publisher: Parisiis, Apud viduam R. Mazieres, & J.B. Garnier Reginae Typographos & Bibliopolas, viâ Jacobaeâ, sub signo Previdentiae. M. DCC. XXXII Full title: 'Prælectiones theologicæ de opere sex dierum ad usum seminariorum, & examinis ad gradus theologicos prævii contractæ: accessit appendix instar supplementi ad loca theologica: opus Eminentissimo SRE Cardinali de Fleury, Regni administro dicatum ab Tournély Honorato, Sacrae Facultatis Parisiensis Doctore, Socio Sorbonico, Regio & Emerito Professore, Sacrosanctae Capellae Regii palatii Parisiensis. Tomus Tertius'. Series: Part of a three-volume publication; Vol. 2: Prælectiones theologicae of mysterio sanctissimæ and Trinitatis of angelis ... . Vol. 3: Prælectiones theologicae of opere sex dierum …
Date: 1733 Author: Robert Witham (d. 1738) Publisher: [Douai: s.n.], With permission and approbations. Full title: 'Annotations on the New Testament of Jesus Christ: in which I. The literal sense is explained according to the expositions of the ancient Fathers. II. The false interpretations, both of the ancient and modern writers, which are contrary to the received doctrine of the Catholick-Church, are briefly examined and disproved. III. With an account of the chief differences betwixt the text of the ancient Latin-version, and the Greek in the printed editions, and mss. The first volume'. Series: Part of a two-volume publication. A reprint of R. Witham’s annotated translation, first published in 1730.
This section includes various books and journals of account (for example, ledgers of accounts payable, accounts received and cash receipts). The records detail annual audits and routine household and community expenditure. The series also includes records relating to tax returns and bills (property and municipal rates), and insurance policies covering fire, engineering, and public liabilities. Accounts of monies derived from street collections and annual quests are also included in this section.
The reverse of the fly leaf is annotated: ‘The Very Reverend Murphy’s Book’. This leather-bound book is comprised of distinct entries in several hands. The listing below follows the sequence of entries as found in the volume. • Yearly accounts of collections made between 1781 and 1807. The accounts commence with a statement that in 1781 ‘we began to bring in the full sum made on the collections, allowing to each of the six gentlemen (for their trouble) who went on the collections five guineas …’. The entries for the yearly collections are listed under location (‘Liberty’, ‘City’, ‘North’), with the names of the collecting friars. These accounts cover pp 3-8. • An account of street collections made in 1827 is extant on p. 9. • Register of the names of subscribers towards the rebuilding of the Church Street Chapel. This portion of the volume covers pp 35-161. From internal evidence, it appears that the list of subscribers dates to the mid-eighteenth century. The list of subscribers is alphabetical. An appeal referring to the ‘ruinous condition of the Chapel of Church Street [and] the great poverty of ye … Capucines who attend it’ is extant on p. 35. The appeal seeks subscriptions and affirms that the holy sacrifice of the Mass will be offered once a week to all those persons who contribute to ‘so pious and so great a Charity … particularly those who subscribe halfe a guinea or any sum upwards …’. Large donations given towards the rebuilding of the Church are particularly noted including Messrs Thomas Dillon and Richard Farrel (£10) and a group titled the ‘Gentlemen of the Bachelors’ Club’ (£10). • Yearly accounts of street collections and rents received between 1760 and 1789. The accounts are extant from pp 182-196. Reference is made to subscribers and occasionally to the location of the collections such as ‘Liberty Walk’, ‘Ormonde Side’, and ‘City Walk’. Rent was received from holdings on Bow Street, on a passage-way running from Bow Street to Smithfield, and on a plot on Church Street. • A record of community meetings and notices is present between pp 197-202. The entries are from 2 Apr. 1781 to 24 Sept. 1783. The meetings include regulations governing the size of the Capuchin community. One article reads: ‘Whereas by a constant and uniform experience we know that the emoluments accruing from our collections … are not adequate to the maintenance of more than eight gentlemen, we are resolved not to receive or admit a ninth into the chapel’. Other regulations refer to collections to pay the rent of the chapel and other debts, the celebration of masses and the letting of various properties on Bow Street and on Church Street (including a plot ground adjacent to the Chapel for the building of a Charity School). The notices are periodically signed by members of the Capuchin community. • A note (dated 12 Nov. 1785) referring to the obligation to celebrate twelve masses for the spiritual and temporal welfare of Patrick Sherlock and eight masses for his wife Catherine (in consideration of £20) is made on p. 207. The obligation for this intention is signed by the ‘religious of the Order of St. Francis and of the Chapel of Church Street’: Br. Francis Mary Fitzsimons, Br. John O’Brien, Br. Thomas [Marianus?] Corcoran, Br. Celestine Corcoran, Br. James Leonard, Br. Angel Phelan, … Fr. Silvester Cap. Exdefs.’. • A note regarding regulations made at a meeting of the ‘religious clergymen of Church Street Chapel’ on 6 Jan. 1789 is made on p. 209. The regulations refer to the penalties imposed upon the clergy for neglecting to celebrate mass ‘at his rotation hour’. The note specifies that the ‘Rev. Messrs Fitzsimmons and O’Brien be exempt from the fine annexed to the omission of evening service on condition that they celebrate mass at any hour on week days’. The final page of the volume (p. 266) is annotated in a different hand with a list of postulants. It reads: ‘Nicholas now Justin Malone; Joseph now John Sheridan; John now Joseph Devereux James now Patrick Kenny 6th October 1808 – 10 April 1809 ... May 12th 1809 – We have received three young men this day as Novices – The first John McCormick under the name of Stephen 2nd – James O’Connor by and under the name of Thomas Michael [Roch?] by and under the name of Bernard The second left us after a few days – Wade took the habit on the 2nd of June by the name of [left blank]. Mr. J Murphy took the habit on the 19th May by the name of Andrew. Mr Wade made [his] profession on the 4th June 1816’.
