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- 27 June 1898 (Produção)
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2 pp; manuscript
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Baptismal name: Edward Bowe
Religious name: Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap.
Date of birth: 19 Sept. 1856
Place of birth: Tullaroan, County Kilkenny
Name of father: Thomas Bowe (b. 3 Nov. 1816)
Name of mother: Ellen Bowe (née Maher) (b. 1815)
Date of reception into the Capuchin Order: 8 Apr. 1877
Date of first profession: 21 Apr. 1878
Date of final profession: 8 Sept. 1881
Date of ordination (as priest): 27 Aug. 1882
Leadership positions: Provincial Minister: 1901-4, 1907-10, 1916-9, 1922-5; Provincial Definitor (Councillor): 1887-90, 1890-3, 1893-6, 1895-8, 1898-1901, 1913-6; Custos: 1904, 1910, 1919, 1925
Date of death: 25 Nov. 1926
Place of death: Church Street Friary, Dublin
Place of burial: Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin
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A letter referring to a legal and financial disagreement regarding monetary compensation and rent claims over a plot of reclaimed land at Rochestown. Written by Father Peter Bowe OFM Cap., Superior of the Franciscan Capuchin Monastery at Rochestown, County Cork, and addressed to L. J. C. Cornwall, Esq., the text characterizes the dispute as a miserable question of compensation for a corner of doubtful dimensions and of no material value’. Father Peter states that because Cornwall refuses any mutually agreeable terms, the friars intend to appeal the case directly to the Papal Nuncio and warns that if the matter is forced into a secular court, the community will robustly defend its position. He argues against Cornwall’s demand for an ‘exorbitant rent’, explaining that the plot was a marshy corner reclaimed entirely at the monastery’s extensive expense to remove a public eyesore and danger. Highlighting that landowner Mr. Glasgow receives only a nominal rent for the broader estate, Father Peter explicitly refuses terms that require the monastery to pay back-rent for ten years and permanently bind future successors to a lifetime rental sum.