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A copy of Monica Baldwin, ‘I leap over the wall / A return to the World after twenty-eight years in a Convent’ (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1950). A clipping of a review of the book taken from ‘The Tidings’ (27 January 1950) is pasted onto the inside front cover. Monica Baldwin (1893-1975) was a niece of former United Kingdom Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. She lived as a nun for twenty-eight years before deciding to leave religious life.

Abstract of title of Joseph Empson Esq. to the house and premises on Walkin Street commonly called ‘The Munster Arms’, parish of Saint Mary, Kilkenny City. The abstract commences with a recital of a 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 (see CA KK/2/1/1/1/1). The abstract concludes with a reference to an assignment of lease (dated 5 May 1893) by Frederick Reynell Pack to Joseph Empson Esq. of the said house and premises for ever at the yearly fee farm rent of £13 7s 8d. Endorsed on title page: ‘Abstract prepared on the sale by Joseph Empson Esq. to Reverend F.M Neary and Reverend Thomas O’Connor completed by conveyance dated 1 Aug. 1895. Joseph Empson Esq., 1st part, Mrs M.H. Doxey, 2nd part, Rev. F.M Neary OSFC and another, 3rd part’.

Conveyance from Joseph Empson Esq., Glenageary, Kingstown, County Dublin (with the approval of Memmette H. Doxey, personal representative of the late Arthur Joshua Boyd) to Fr. Thomas O’Connor OSFC and Fr. F.M. Neary OSFC, Roman Catholic clergymen, Walkin Street, Kilkenny of the house and concerns on Walkin Street formerly known by the name of ‘The Munster Arms’ in consideration of £300 and subject to the yearly fee farm rent of £13 7s 8d.

Conveyance from the Most Rev. Abraham Brownrigg, Roman Catholic Bishop of Ossory, to Fr. Thomas O’Connor OSFC (otherwise Fr. Matthew) and Fr. Michael Neary OSFC (otherwise Fr. Fidelis) of the two dwelling houses known as the Alms House ‘situated between the Friary Chapel and fronting [onto] Lower Walkin Street, parish of St. Mary’s, Kilkenny city’. The conveyance was signed as part of mutual exchange with the Capuchin friars for the two dwelling houses known as ‘The Munster Arms’. With the corresponding agreement of the same date for the lease for ever by Fr. O’Connor and Fr. Neary to Bishop Brownrigg of the two houses formerly called ‘The Munster Arms’. With preparatory draft copies.

Certified copies of the will and probate of James Montgomery Blair, late of Hereford, and latterly of 122 Rue de la Citidelle, Calais. He leaves his all his property to Jeremiah Easter, Belle Vue, Margate, and appoints him as his sole executor. The will was attested, and probate was granted to Jeremiah Easter in the Prerogative Court of Ireland on 14 May 1839. Copies made 24 Mar. 1916.

Copy mortgage from Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson, Ballymoney Rectory, County Cork, and Richard Samuel Owen Robinson, 4 Woodstock Terrace, St. Simon’s Road, South Sea, Hampshire, to Michael Buggy, Parliament Street, Kilkenny, solicitor, of premises on Walkin Street, for £100 at 7 per cent interest to be paid within 30 days. With similar copy mortgages between the aforementioned parties (dated 20 Aug. 1907 for a further £150 and 21 Nov. 1908 for a further £100). The file includes numerous copies of the said mortgages which have been endorsed by solicitors and draft reconveyances of the said mortgages from Buggy to Rev. Robinson dated 30 May 1916 and 21 Jan. 1919. The reconveyances note that the principal money and interest secured by the above-noted mortgages of 10 June 1907, 20 Aug. 1907 and 21 Nov. 1908 have been paid.

Conveyance (dated 21 Jan. 1919) from Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson, Ballymoney Rectory, Ballineen, County Cork, and Rev. Willoughby Richard Knox Robinson, Ballintemple Stanley Park Road, Surrey, to Rev. Edward (Peter) Bowe OSFC, Church Street, Rev. Thomas (Matthew) O’Connor OSFC, Holy Trinity Church, Cork, and other Capuchin friars of a portion of premises on Walkin Street, Parish of Saint Mary, Kilkenny, situated ‘on the same side of the Capuchin Friary (being on the south east side) … being the entire portion of the hereditaments and premises granted in two fee farm grants of 9 Sept. 1705 and 25 Sept. 1705 from Lord Ormonde [James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde] to Mary Pape now held by the vendors, and which are occupied by John Slater and Patrick Reilly, tenants to the purchasers. The deed notes that the Capuchin friars are to hold the said premises in fee simple free from any encumbrances save the head rent payable (£10 9s 9d) under the aforementioned fee farm grants for which a clause of indemnity is included in the conveyance. The deed includes schedules and a coloured map (scale: 1 inch to 50 feet) of the premises. The schedule attached to the map lists the tenants holding numbered plots on the property. With numerous drafts (many of which are endorsed by either counsel or solicitor), memoranda of agreement, memorials, additional endorsements, and typescript copies of the conveyance.

Requisitions on title and instructions for counsel relating to the sale of premises on Walkin Street, Kilkenny, by Rev. Andrew Craig Robinson to the Capuchin friars. The requisitions relate to questionable points of title to the properties raised by the purchasers. The file also includes instructions and opinions from counsel regarding the drafting of the deed of conveyance and suggested answers to queries from the vendors and purchasers. Many of the requisitions were passed by Nicholas Shortal, solicitor, to John R. Peart Esq., BL, the conveyancing counsel, and to W. Carrigan, 13 Herbert Street, Dublin, barrister at law.