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

1717

m. 54 con't

[11.] Alderman Anthony BARKEY is elected Lord Mayor for the ensuing year, commencing from Michaelmas next. .

[12.] Mr. John REYSON and Mr. Vincent KIDDER are elected Sherriffs for the ensuing year, commencing from Michaelmas next.

(m. 57) Admissions to franchise. "

1717. July 19.- Fourth Friday after 24 June.
[1.] Richard LOVE, officer at mace, having petitioned to surrender his imployment: ordered that he be discharged.

(Roll xix m. 59b)
[2.] William LEECH having petitioned for said imployment : ordered that William LEECH be admitted officer at. mace in the room of Richard LOVE during citys pleasure, and giving bonds to indempnifie the city.

[3.] Richard WEST, Rowland PARKER, Gilbert KELLY and Mathew BOWEN, city adjutants, praying consideration for their services and time spent in exercising the militia : ordered that the treasurer, on the Lord Mayors warrant, do pay them twenty pounds, sterling, five pounds each to be allowed on account.

[4. ] John COLCOTT, setting forth that by act of assembly in the Mayoralty of sir Michael MITCHELL, John MORRISON, then keeper of Newgate, was obliged to pay him ten pounds per annum daring the said COLCOTTs life, and paid the same till the said MORRISON died, and after his death, John SAUNDERSON, present keeper of Newgate, agreed to pay the petitioner the same before he was admitted into the said imploy, and paid the same, and prays that SAUNDERSON's successor may be obliged to pay the said
annuity as formerly: ordered that the petitioner be paid ten pounds per annum by half yearly payments by the gaoler of Newgate.

[5.] Peter DESMYNIERES, son to Peter DESMYNIERES, who served Lord Mayor, (John DESMYNIERES was Lord Mayor of Dublin 1666, 67. Lewis DESMYNIERES held that office in 1669-70.) praying relief, having wife and children: ordered that the treasurer, on the Lord Mayors warrant, do pay the petitioner six pounds, sterling, per annum, half yearly, to commence from Easter last, the same to continue during the citys
pleasure, or till he is otherwise provided for.

[6.] Samuel ORD, mace bearer, praying consideration for the loss of perquisites which his predecessors had ordered that the treasurer, on the Lord Mayors warrant, do pay the petitioner ten pounds, sterling, the same to be allowed on his accounts, and that the petitioner apply no more.

[7.] Jane BROOKS, widow of John BROOKS, late peruke maker, and one of the numbers of this city, praying relief for two children her late husband had by a former wife: ordered that the treasurer, on the Lord Mayors warrant, do pay six pounds, sterling, for putting out the said two children to trades as he shall think fit, to be allowed the same on his accounts.

(m. 59b)
[8.] Joseph FALKINER, praying the citys charity, being reduced: ordered that the treasurer, on the Lord Mayors warrant, do pay to the petitioner six: pounds, sterling, the same to be allowed him on his accounts.

[9.] Certain of the commons, praying to inlarge the assembly: ordered that the assembly be inlarged till nine a clock.

[10.] Robert KING, gentleman, praying to be admitted King city attorney: ordered that he be admitted during citys pleasure.

[11.] The committee of directors for the proprietors of the North Strand, praying further time to prepare a draught of the fee farm deed: ordered that the time be inlarged to the next assembly.