Dublin City Assembly Rolls - Extracts from the Calendar of the Ancient
Records of Dublin 1716
Roll
xix. M. 37.
1716. April 13.-Second Friday after Easter 1716. (Easter Day 1st April,
1716)
[1.] Daniel COOKE, servant to the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor, setting
forth that his Lordship has been at extraordinary expence on his coming
into the new house, as also by reason of a new government in his Lordships
time of Mayoralty, a parliament likewise sitting and the franchises
to be rid and therefore prays an augmentation for his Lordships use:
it is thereupon ordered that the treasurer of the city do pay to the
petitioner, on the Lord Mayors warrant for his Lordships use, four hundred
pounds, sterling, the same to be allowed the treasurer on his accounts.
[2.]
Jacob PEPPARD, esquire, setting forth that John PORTER and John TISDALL,
esquires, present Sheriffs, by reason of the change of the government
of this kingdom, and the sitting of a parliament this year, are considerable
losers, the profits of the office not bearing half their expence, and
praying an allowance: it is therefore ordered that the treasurer of
the city do pay to the petitioner, on the Lord Mayors warrant, for the
use of the present Sheriffs, two hundred pounds, sterling, the same
to be allowed him on his accounts.
Roll xix.37
[3. ] Benjamin BURTON, esquire, in behalf of himself and the rest of
the officers belonging to his regiment militia horse, setting forth
that the trophy money, which this honorable city has already granted
the said regiment, has fallen very short of the necessary trophies which
belong to such a regiment, as per the following account :
For six trumpets at six pounds each £36
For six trumpet banners and two standards £75
For kettle-drum and banners £25
For two standard staffs £3
For seven housings and six pair of bags for the trumpets and kettle
drummer £4 12s.
For seven livery coats for the trumpeters and kettle drummer £62
8s.
For repairing the arms got out of the stores £47
For hats laced for the trumpeters and kettle drummer £3 10s
For cutting swords for said regiment, 30 to each troop, at 7s. per sword.
£63
For two hundred and forty carbine belts at five shillings each £60
Total: £379 10s.
And
therefore prays a consideration: ordered that the treasurer, on the
Lord Mayors warrant, do pay to the petitioner for the use in the petition
motioned, the sum
of two hundred ninety nine pounds ten shillings, sterling, the same
to be allowed the treasurer on his accounts.
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