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1584. Presentment of a Jury in Corke showing how the Earl of Desmond’s rents were paid, what chroniclers, rimers or poets were abiding in the same county.

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1584.  Presentment of a Jury in Corke showing how the Earl of Desmond’s rents were paid, what chroniclers, rimers or poets were abiding in the same county.

 

Format: Manuscript
Subjects:
FitzGerald, Gerald > Desmond, 15th Earl of
1584 > 1584
Annalists
Annals
Bards
Poetry and Poets
Poets
Cork, County
Ireland > Munster > Cork

Location

London: Lambeth Palace Library, Ms. 627: (Extract)

Other

The National Library of Ireland holds a microfilm copy (n.2802, p.1704).

Names and Address Grand Juries, Co. Cork 1839 and 1840.

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Cork Grand Jury/Agents 1765.

Grand Jury (with some background) Sworn in for Cork Spring Assizes, 1863 by The High Sheriff, Thomas Somerville, Drishane Esq., Foreman The Right Honourable Henry Boyle Bernard Esq., Coolmaine Castle, Bandon, M.P., Sir George Conway, Colhurst, Ardum, Bart., Richard Oliver Aldworth, Newmarket House, Esq., Mountifort Longfield, Castlemartyr, Esq., Nicholas Dunscomb, Mountdesert, Esq., Thomas St. John Conat.,, Kilmurray House, Esq., Henry John Townsend, Castletownsend, Esq., Robert Heard, Kinsale, Esq, Thomas French Simpson, William S Meade, Ballymartle, Esq., Edward Daly., Kinsale, Esq., Thomas Parsons Belaird, Pembroke, Esq., Timothy O’Donovan, O’Donovan’s Cove, Durrus Esq., Horace Townsend, Derry, Esq., George B Treselian?, Bandon, Esq., Freeman Crofts, Cloughfadda House, Blarney, Esq., Thomas Leahy, South Terrace, Esq., William B Leslie, Lislee, Esq., Henry Hardy, Firmount?, Esq., John William Payne, Beach House, Bantry, Esq., Jonathan Bruce, Milltown Castle, Esq., Maxwell Gumbelton, Kilmaturin Esq.

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1824, Evidence of Sir Richard Griffith Esq., Road Engineer, to House of Commons Select Committee, on Harmony in West Cork between Protestant and Catholics, Distress of 1822, Only Part of Ireladn he Employed Poor Protestants on Road Building, Evidence of Alexander Nimmo, Scots Road Engineer on Building of 19 miles on the Northern Side of Bantry Bay under Joint Supervision of Captain O’Sullivan Most of His Workers are His Tenants Not Paid in Cash but in Rent Abatement. Elsewhere Nimmo’s evidence of Enormous Economic Benefits of Road Building

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1765 Resolution not to give servant tips on being entertained at their master’s house

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Those signing the resolution were either Grand Jurors or wealthy Cork Merchant like Humphrey Crowley.

 

This is from the Dr. Casey Collection, item 2389, John T. Collins newspaper extracts originally from Kearney family Garretstown House.

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1765 Resolution not to give servant tips on being entertained at their master’s house John Conway Colthurst John Hyde Robert Uniacke Fitzgerald Richard Townsend
Richard Longfield Robert Rogers William Conner Abraham Devonshire Samuel Hutchinson
Richard Fitzgerald Riggs Faulkiner John Rye Abraham Morris Roger Bernard
John Bernard Boyle Aldworth Francis Kearney Walker Izod George Pigot
Godfrey Baker Luke Grant Usher Philpot William Parks Henry Bullen
Thomas Poles Christopher Conran William Coles Stephen Denroche Hugh Lautin (Lawton?)
Humphrey Crowley John Parker on behalf of County Grand Jury William Crofts on behalf of County of City of Cork Grand Jury Walker Colthurst JOhn Colthurst
Emanuel Moore Thomas Wran (Owgan?) John Lapp Joseph Wetherall Andrew Franklin
Francis Rowlat Henry N. Nixon Walter Traverse Kevin Moore John Bullen

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A List of Sunday Schools, Co. Cork To Which Gratuitous Grants of Money and Books Have been Made from November 1809 to 1st January 1829.  Further Detailed Listings of Schools with Enrolments.

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A List of Sunday Schools, Co. Cork To Which Gratuitous Grants of Money and Books Have been Made from November 1809 to 1st January 1829.  Further Detailed Listings of Schools with Enrolments.

 

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1829. Sunday Auxiliary School Society Cork. Committee, Patrons, Subscribers.

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1829.   Sunday Auxiliary School Society Cork.   Committee, Patrons, Subscribers.

 

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