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Lease of James Bagot to Patrick Mullen, 78 Lower Dorset Street, of the ‘houses now known as numbers 133 and 134 Church Street with the yard at the rere thereof extending to Bow Street on which there is a house facing Bow Street known as number 27 …’ at the yearly rent of £28. The term of years is not specified in the lease. With a copy.

• 'The Catholic Register' (1857) containing a biographical sketch of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC at pp 248-54. Also contains biographical notes re the Right Rev. Dr. Egan, Bishop of Kerry, the Right Rev. Dr. Murphy, Bishop of Ferns, and the Right Rev. Dr. Murphy, Bishop of Cloyne. Printed, 11 pp.
• Copybooks containing ‘A sermon preached on Sunday, 14th of June 1840 at the Consecration of the new Catholic Church at Maynooth / Dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary by the Very Rev. Theobald Mathew’. Copied from 'The Catholic Luminary and Ecclesiastical Repository', Vol. 1, 20 June 1841. 2 copies. Manuscript, 114 pp.
• Copy letter from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to Mrs Carville regarding the ‘sacred cause’ of temperance. The letter is dated 11 Oct. 1844. Typescript, 1 p.
• Copy letter from Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC, Nashville, Tennessee, to Sr. Magdalen, South Presentation Convent, Cork, affirming that ‘the excessive labour attendant on my mission has enfeebled me’. 28 Apr. 1851. Typescript, 1 p.
• Copy letters of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC to Mr Dowden and to Miss [Kinaghan?] referring to the harsh sentence handed down to a sailor at a court martial in Cove Harbour and the disposition of Indian Meal for the relief of the destitute in Cork during the famine. 12 June 1847. Typescript, 5 pp.
• 'A Letter to Irish Temperance Societies concerning the present state of Ireland, and its connexion with England by S.C. Hall Esq.' (London, 1843). Published in the 'Dublin University Magazine', No. CXXVII, Vol. XXII (July, 1843), pp 748-52.
• ‘Rev. Theobald Mathew / Born 1790 – Died 1856’. Biographical sketch of the temperance campaigner. Printed, 4 pp.
• Notes from the South Presentation Convent Annals re the death of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on 8 Dec. 1856. It reads ‘He was Superior and Confessor to this Community for several years and always entertained for the Sisters a sincere respect and esteem’. It is noted that these Annals were written by Mother de Pazzi who knew Fr. Mathew personally. Reference is also made to Mother Aloysius Nagle ‘who was brought by Father Mathew to the South Presentation Convent, and was a relative of his. She celebrated her Golden Jubilee in 1911, and died in 1914’. The notes were compiled by Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap. in July 1928. Typescript, 2 pp.
• Notes from the Ursuline Annals, Cork, re the death of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on 8 Dec. 1856. Typescript, 1 p.
• Account from Sr. M. Ignatius Moore, Presentation Convent, Mountmellick, County Laois, re the blessing given to her sister by Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC in 1841. It is noted that Sr. Ignatius was ‘born in the same year and is still living’. Typescript, 1 p.

Lease by Michael Clarke, to John Kelly, 55 Church Street, broker, of two houses known as 2-3 Thunder’s Court at the rear of 141 Church Street for 93 years at the yearly rent of 2d and in consideration of £40. With counterpart and copy.

Expenditure and receipt ledger for the Capuchin friars in Cork. The volume is titled at p. 5: ‘The Book of the Community’. The book mainly consists of accounts of Sunday and feast-day collections at the chapel, accounts of household and building expenses, and entries relating to the governance of the Order in Ireland. The listing below follows the sequence of entries as found in the volume:
• An account of Sunday and feast day collections at the South Friary, Cork. 1821-25, pp 6-54.
• An entry concerning the appointment by the Minister General of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC as Provincial Minister, and Fr. Louis (James) O’Riordan OSFC (1800-1857) and Fr. Vincent (Denis) MacLeod OSFC (1808-1861) as his assistants. 29 Apr. 1836, p. 56
• ‘Wine Account’. 1 May 1836-18 Dec. 1836, p. 57.
• ‘Organ Account’. 29 Apr. 1836-10 July 1836, p. 58.
• An account of ‘collections of the South Friary commencing from the first day of May 1836’, pp 65-69.
• An entry concerning the chapter meeting at the Friary in Dublin on 5 June 139 at which Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC was elected Provincial Minister. Also, entries relating to the election of definitors and the composition of the community in Cork, p. 69.
• An account of Sunday and feast day collections at the chapel doors in Cork. 1839-43, pp 69-88.
• An entry relating to the inaugural meeting of an association of regular and secular clergy called the ‘Clerical Society’. 10 July 1843, p. 89.
• An account of Sunday and feast day collections at the chapel door, Cork. 1844-45, pp 90-108.
• An entry recording the names of priests who died in the diocese of Cork in 1845, p. 110.
• The remainder of the volume (pp 111-259) is mostly comprised of accounts of collections, mainly ‘chapel rent’, door collections and other incomes such as mass stipends. The accounts are interspersed with entries relating to the general governance of the Order such as:
• A meeting of the community in Holy Trinity Church regarding the appointment by the Minster General of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC as Provincial Minister for another three years, and to the appointment of four definitors. 17 Aug. 1848, p 148.
• A visitation at Kilkenny Friary (3 Feb. 1852); and at the Dublin Friary (4 Feb. 1852), p. 176.
• ‘Donations received for furnishing the interior of the church and [the] purchasing of an organ’, pp 214-17.
• The visit of Fr. Victor of Chamonix OSFC ‘to enquire into the state of the Capuchin Order in Ireland and to make arrangements for the appointment of a “Commissary General” deputed by the superiors in Rome to remedy whatever abuses may be found to exist’. 10 June 1856, pp 236-37.
• The appointment of Fr. Alphonsus Muldoon OSFC (1822-1895) as Commissary General. 6 June 1859, p. 238.
• The recording of the death at Queenstown of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on 8 Dec. 1856, p. 242.
Note: See also transcripts taken from this account book at CA HT/2/2/3 and CA HT/7/3.

Assignment from John Smith, Phibsborough, to William Rice Meredith, Summer Hill, Dublin, of the messuage, tenements and dwelling house referred to in the conveyance of 11 Feb. 1784 (CA CS/2/2/3/1) subject to a covenant for perpetual renewal and in trust for the use of his brother, Henry Smith, an ironmonger, Capel Street, Dublin. The copy was prepared by Frederick Kennedy, solicitor, 4 Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin. With a copy deed of assignment.

Mortgage of Patrick Regan, flour manufacturer, North King Street, to James Pim, Burgh Quay, merchant, of 46 and 50 North King Street, and a flour mill on the lands of Ballyclinch ‘worked by water now called and known by the name of Tinker’s Mill together with all and singular machinery therein …’ in consideration of the sum of £595 3s 6d. With a reconveyance of said premises from James Pim to Patrick Regan. 30 Apr. 1862. With copies.

Assignment of Patrick Regan, North King Street, baker and corn merchant, to Fr. Lawrence Gallerani OSFC, Provincial Minister of the Capuchin community, Fr. Daniel Patrick O’Reilly OSFC, Vicar of the said community, and Fr. James Edward Tommins OSFC, who jointly act as trustees for the Church Street community of friars. The deed notes that all the properties and interests of Patrick McDaniel and Richard Lynch as recited in the above-noted leases of 1 Jan. 1796 and 1 Sept. 1829 (See CA CS/2/2/4/2 and CA CS/2/2/4/5) are vested in Patrick Regan who agrees to assign the un-expired residue of the terms of these leases to the Capuchins. In consideration of £350. A portion of this purchase money (£300) is to be paid on the execution of the abstracting deed and the remaining £50 is to be paid within five years. The properties on North King Street are now known as nos. 49 and 50. The assignment also refers to a yard between Patrick Mathews’ holding on North Brunswick Street and the aforementioned Patrick Regan’s holding on North King Street ‘upon which he has erected a bakery and bakehouse ... being the entire premises comprised in an indenture of lease of the 13th day of June 1856’. With copy.

Negative searches in the Registry of Deeds and in the Office for Registration of Judgements for deeds, decrees, rules and orders of Frances MacDonnell (from 6 Sept. 1824-26 Sept. 1862), Patrick Regan (1836-1862) and James Pim (1859-1862) in relation to houses, premises and plots on North King Street, Dublin. Abstracts of the deeds found by clerks in the Registry are appended to the searches. The searches were carried out at the behest of John Thunder, attorney, 43 Rutland Square.

The deed refers to the foregoing lease dated 1 Sept. 1862 by Robert Warner to Thomas Ronayne Sarsfield and others of a piece of ground adjoining Queen Street. (See CA HT/2/1/1/13). The deed of covenant relates to an undertaking by John McNamara, Edward John Gould and Michael McNamara to maintain, ‘keep or cause to be permanently kept, built and closed up with stone and mortar two windows’ situated on the western side of the aforementioned store. The deed includes a coloured-sketch elevation of the store with the two windows marked in red ink. Scale: 15 feet to 1 inch. The elevation was drawn by Frederick A. Klein, solicitor, 21 South Mall, Cork. With a typescript copy by Guest Lane Williams & Co., solicitors, South Mall, Cork.

Draft agreement of John Maher with Jane Revell regarding his tenancy of houses, yards and plots of ground on the south side of North Brunswick Street for the term of 999 years at the yearly rent of £30. Maher refers to the ‘dilapidated state’ of the premises which are ‘likely to be condemned by the Corporation authorities … and also ‘the falling off of the value of property in this neighbourhood caused by the removal of Smithfield Market’. Two drafts.