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Dublin City Assembly Rolls - Extracts from the Calendar of the Ancient Records of Dublin 1716

(Roll xix. M. 50)
1716-17. January 18.- Fourth Friday after Christmas. 1716:

[1.] George WALTON, city Marshal, having petitioned and set forth that the committee to whom the plan and estimate for building a marshalsea on the Merchants Keay were referred, had made the following report, and praying to have the same confirmed and made an act of assembly: ' Pursuant to your honours order of last assembly to us directed, we, the within committee, are of opinion that the plan hereunto annexed be the plan or ground plot for the building of a marshalsea on the Merchants Keay ; that the work and buildings be carried on with all convenient speed, and that the said building, with all the materials that will be used therein, to be provided at the citys charge, and that Mr. Richard MILLS do oversee the said work to be 'done accordingly :ordered that the said report be made an act of assembly, and that the work be carried on with all convenient speed. ,

[2.] Auditors of the city accounts for the last year: Lord Mayor and Sherriffs, Alderman STOYTE, Sir John ROGERSON, Aldermen QUIN, BURTON, BARKEY, Mathew PEARSON, QUAYLE, CURTIS, SURDEVILLE, and eighteen of the commons, to be named by the commons, or any nine of them, whereof the Lord Mayor and one of the Sherriffs to be always two, are appointed auditors of the city accounts for the last year :
[Eighteen of the commons :] Joseph KANE, William DOBSON, Humphry FRENCH, William ALDRICH, Thomas STANFORD, William MAPLE, Henry GLEGG, William ASTON, James SOMERVILLE, Richard WALSH, John REYSON, John WRIGHT, Robert JACKSON, Christopher INCH, Vincent KIDDER, Jeremiah PEPPYAT, Philip COOLEY, Edward DUDGEON.

[3] Alderman John PORTER and Mr. John TISDALL, late Sherriffs, are appointed masters of the city works for the ensuing year.

[4.] John THOMSON, gentleman, and attorney of his majesties court of kings bench, praying to be admitted a city attorney: granted during the citys pleasure.

[5.] Certain of the commons, setting forth that Captain COPE'S house in Dawson Street having been several times attempted in a most outragious manner by thieves with fire-arms, as, by examination given into the lords justices and council, who have been pleased to (Roll xix m. 50 b) declare they shall be ready ,to issue a proclamation with a pardon and such reward as this honorable board shall think fit to offer on that account, and praying that this assembly would take the same into consideration, that a violence so uncommon and impudent in this great city be not suffered to pass with but due regard, but that such reward may be offered as in all probability may discover the actors of this particular villainy, and prove a terror to all who shall be so audacious to attempt the like disturbances for the future: it is thereupon ordered that the Lord Mayor and Sherriffs do wait on the Government and acquaint them that the city will give twenty pounds reward to any person that shall discover the persons that attempted to rob captain Copes house [named] in the within petition, so that such persons be convict of the said fact, which twenty pounds is ordered to be paid by the treasurer, on the Lord Mayors warrant, to the discoverer, on conviction of the offenders, and the same to be allowed him on his accounts.

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