Stuk 26 - Statement on the houses and premises on North King Street belonging to the Capuchin Order

Statement on the houses and premises on North King Street belonging to Capuchin friars of Church Street, Dublin. The statement lists the principal lessors of the properties and the yearly rent paid. The premises referred are nos. 47-50 North King Street. The tenants include William Smith (no. 47), Patrick Macken (no. 48) and Bridget Maher (no. 50). It affirms the Capuchins ‘have within the last 10 years erected a Presbytery on part of the said premises on which they expended upwards of £700’. The statement also notes that the Capuchins hold ‘all the above premises from the 1st day of July 1862 (for which they paid a fine of £300), for 9,000 years at the yearly rent in margin and a chief rent of 18s 5½d to the Corporation of Dublin if demanded’. A pencilled addition to the text indicates that a lease was given to the aforementioned Patrick Macken dated 24 Feb. 1874. (See CA CS/2/2/4/25).