Publisher: Dublin: Richard Coyne Full title: 'Missale Romanum ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum, Pii V maximii jussu editum, et Clementis VIII, primum, nunc denuo Urbani, papæ VIII, auctoritate recognitum; et novorum festorum missis hucusque concessis auctum: his accedunt festa, quæ ex indulto apostolico in regno Hiberniæ celebrantur: huic denique editioni nunc primum subjungitur index amplissimus missarum et orationum quæ in libro continentur'. Typed insert in the volume reads ‘Missal used by Father Mathew’.
An account of ‘expenditure at chapel from Saturday 9th to Friday 15th November 1833’. The account gives the names of masons, carpenters, labourers, quarrymen, stonecutters, plasters, watchmen and other workmen involved in the construction, in addition to the number of days worked and their wages. Total expenditure is noted as £107 19s 5d.
Lease from John Lecky, merchant, Cork, to Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, ‘Provincial of the Order or Society of Capuchin friars, Cork’, of a plot of ground, stores, linnies, tenements and premises situated on Morrison’s Island (otherwise Island Nagay), parish of Holy Trinity, Cork, for 840 years at the yearly rent of £80. With attached sketch map of the said plot which measured 105 feet at the frontage onto Charlotte Quay; 190 feet fronting onto Queen Street; and bordered to the west (140 feet) and north (93 feet) by His Majesty’s Ordnance Stores. With counterpart.
A wooden crucifix used by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC. The underside of the base has a manuscript annotation: ‘Father Mathew’s Cross, used in his sick calls &c and in cholera cases, 1831-2’.
Framed National Total Abstinence Society pledge card of Mathew Gorman dated 3 Oct. 1830. The pledge reads ‘I voluntarily agree to abstain from all intoxicating drinks (except by medical direction) and will not give or offer, and to discountenance the cause and practice of intemperance’. A small seal is attached to the card.
Lease of Anne Boyd, city of London, to Richard Lynch, North King Street, of a ‘house, yard and shed late in the possession of John Byrne or his undertenants and formerly in the possession of Andrew Langan … and known formerly by No. 45 but now known as No. 46, North King Street, city of Dublin …’, for 99 years at the yearly rent of £16. With counterpart.
Assignment by Fr. Bonaventure Delaney OSFC to Fr. Daniel Murray, Fr. Nicholas Malone OSFC and Richard Spring of moieties of the aforementioned plot of ground on the west side of Church Street whereupon a Roman Catholic Church is built, for the remainder of the 99 years specified in the above-noted lease of 4 Aug. 1826. (See CA CS/2/2/1/2). In consideration of 5s.
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’.
Lease by Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford to Fr. Bonaventure Delaney OSFC, ‘Roman Catholic Priest’, of one undivided moiety of a plot of ground on the west side of Church Street, parish of Saint Michan’s, Dublin, ‘formerly in the possession of James Topham and afterwards in the tenancy of Robert Clements, … and whereupon a Roman Catholic chapel is now built …’, for 99 years at the yearly rent of £23 1s 6d. With an identical lease by John Vesey, 2nd Viscount de Vesci to Fr. Delaney of the other moiety of the aforementioned plot of ground on Church Street, for the same term of years and annual rent and subject to the same covenants.
Copy administration of the goods and estate of James Butler, late of Beresford Place, to Frances McDonnell, widow and the natural and lawful sister of the said James Butler. Copy made by John Thunder, solicitor, Rutland Square on 5 July 1862.
