Letter from the Most Rev. Charles Joseph O’Reilly (1860-1923), Bishop of Baker City, Oregon, to Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC and the Holy Trinity community, referring to his recent visit to Cork, and to the impending arrival of the Irish Capuchins in his diocese. O’Reilly wrote: ‘I have heralded your coming, and all are eagerly expecting you. I will give you the choice of several places which promise well, and you will have missions throughout the state to enable you to get the means to purchase property and build’.
Community lists and Horariums (Latin for ‘the hours’). Horariums are the name given to the daily schedule for those living in a religious community or seminary.
This section contains mainly legal documents including various types of deeds of title including leases, mortgages, wills, property abstracts, searches and financial documents. The section also includes correspondence from solicitors engaged in legal work connected with the conveyance of property. The material is divided into three sub-series relating to the approximate location of the plots of ground to which the document refers: Queen Street (later Father Mathew Street); Charlotte Quay (later Father Mathew Quay); St. Joseph’s Cemetery; Other locations in Cork.
Lease by Mary Foott, widow, and executrix of James Boyce Foott, late of Cork, merchant, to Elizabeth Georgina Howard, spinster and administratrix of Thomas Howard, of a plot of ground on Morrison’s Island for 736 years at the yearly rent of £18 9s 2d. The lease notes that the plot is tenanted by John Foot and contains a dwelling house and stores and measures 65 feet to the front of South Mall, and is situated on Morrison’s Island being part of Dunscombe’s Marsh in the city of Cork. (See also CA HT/2/1/1/36 and CA HT/2/1/1/11).
Lease by Robert Warner to John Henry Gamble of a stable, coach house and other concerns on Queen Street, Cork, lately in the possession of William Cash and George Evans situated in the parish of Holy Trinity, Cork, for 599 years at the yearly rent of £25. A sketch of map of the demised property is endorsed on the verso. Scale: 40 feet to 1 inch. With counterpart and three typescript copies made by J.C. & A. Blake, solicitors, Cork, 22 Nov. 1906.
Assignment of a lease by Francis King and Elizabeth Georgina Howard to Thomas Ronayne Sarsfield, Valentine Tomkins and others of all the premises comprised in a lease (dated 17 Oct. 1840) of premises on South Mall, Cork, for all of the unexpired residue of the term of 736 years subject to the rent reserved by and covenants and conditions contained in the said lease. Thomas Ronayne Sarsfield and the other parties to the assignment agree to pay all the rent and arrears of rent during the continuance of the aforementioned lease of 17 Oct. 1840.
