Take from "The Calendar of the Assembly Rolls of the Corporation of the City of Dublin"

1717

April 26.- Post assembly.( m.52b.)
Upon the petition of certain of the commons, setting forth that there is a vacant lot left for one of the numbers of the corporation of sheermen and dyers, on the death of John NICHOLSON, and that the said lot is to be disposed of: it is ordered that Mr. Robert BULL have a lot according to the condition of the former act of assembly.

May 3.- Second Friday after Easter.( Easter day, 21 April, 1717). (m.56.)
[1.] Daniel COOKE, clerk to the right honorable the Lord Mayor, setting forth that his Lordship, Thomas
BOLTON, esquire, came into the Mayoralty sooner than he expected, and thereby obliged to neglect his own private affairs; that the prices of provisions are advanced, and that a lord lieutenant is expected and a parliament tomeet, by which the expence of the Mayoralty must be greater than otherwise it would be, and therefore prays an augmentation for his Lordships use: 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, town clerk, setting forth that the present Sherriffs, William EMPSON and David KING, esquires, unexpectedly entered on the office of Sheriffs, and their time wholly taken up in discharge thereof, and that the income wont bear half the expence, and therefore pray consideration: ordered that the treasurer do pay the petitioner for the use of the Sherriffs, on the Lord Mayors warrant, two hundred pounds, sterling, the same to be allowed on his accounts.

[3.] William PARRY, setting forth by his petition at a former assembly that in the year 1700 he obtained a lease in reversion from the city of a tenement and two back houses in Cooke street for a term of years commencing 1717; that about two years ago one BUTLER, who was possessed of both the said back houses, knowig his time was to determine at the commencement of the petitioners said lease in reversion, pulled down the said two houses and carried away the materials, of which the petitioner gave early notice to the treasurer of this honorable city, who went and forbid the same, thepetitioner having no right to the said two houses till his aforesaid lease in reversion. commenced, and therefore could not in his own name or right any ways interrupt the waste so committed by the said BUTLER, he not deriving under the petitioner: ; that by reason of said waste the premises are much less in value than even the said original reserved rent of ten pounds, sterling; that (Roll xix m. 56) the petitioner has been much reduced in his fortune by losses at sea in the late war, besides several losses and discouragements which he sustained in the late times by
his known zeal for the Protestant succession, and his voting and appearing in the interest of the city, and he is not able to rebuild the said two back houses; in tender consideration of the premises and the citys own right only to sue for the said waste, and in regard the antient reserved rent was but ten pounds, that the petitioner being no way accessory or liable to the said waste, and paid ten pounds as a fine for his lease in reversion and advanced five pounds per annum rent in expectation of enjoying the whole three houses, whereas (m. 56b) he has now but the old house left to enter upon at the advance rent, besides the loss of his fine since 1700 ; therefore prays to take his case into consideration so far as to grant him such relief therein as this honourable city shall think fit: whereupon the same was referred to a committee, who have made the following report :
Pursuant to your honours order of last assembly to us directed, we, the above committee, have viewed the within premises, and find that there have been great wastes committed on the same to the prejudice of the petitioner; that Mr. BUTLER, who made the said, waste, is no ways ingaged by articles to repair the premises, nor able to make compensation: we are therefore of opinion, in regard to the petitioners loss, that five pounds per annum be remitted him out of the yearly rent of fifteen pounds, which he is obliged by lease to pay the city, which we submit to your honours this 22nd of February, 1716:'

Thereupon it was ordered that the said report be confirmed and made an act of assembly.

[ 4.] On the petition of Elizabeth JENNINS, alias NOYCE, setting forth that her husband was a freeman and served Sheriffe in this city, and that she is much reduced from a flourishing condition by sickness and old age, and therefore prays relief: ordered that the treasurer on the Lord Mayors warrant, do pay the petitioner six pounds, the same to be allowed on his accounts and that she petitioned no more.

[5.] George SERGANT, shoemaker, having petitioned and prayed to be admitted into the place and imployment of Conn MATHEWS, deceased, late regulator of the corn and meale markets of this city: ordered that the petitioner do serve in the room of Conn MATHEWS, deceased, to have the usual salary and perquisites dureing the citys pleasure.

[6.] Certain of the commons, praying to enlarge the assembly: ordered that the assembly be enlarged to nine o'clock.