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61 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 528. Savings Records of a Guinness’s Employee Guinness Building Society: File of records of the contributions to the Guinness Permanent Building Society of John Patrick Walsh , Ellesmere Avenue, North Circular Road (described as “painter & grainer” in 1911 census), commencing with his purchase of a share in 1908, continuing with a series of lodgement dockets, and concluding with the payment of a lump sum to his sister Florence in 1938. Includes also the printed record of results of the examination in 1919 for the post of Temporary Boy Clerk in the Civil Service, in which Paul P. Walsh came 93rd out of 100 successful candidates (listing the marks of all candidates, including the many failures!) As a m/ss w.a.f. (1) €250 - €350 530. Rental of a Londonderry Estate in the 1860s Hezlet (Robert) A Bound Manuscript Rental of the Estate of Robert Hezlet at Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, 1861-1870 , listing tenants by year with details of rent and whether paid or not. As a m/ss w.a.f. (1) €300 - €400 531. Day-Book of a Cork Boat-Builder for 1939 Roberts (Capt.) R.E. Volume containing alphabetical listing of the clients of Captain R.E. Roberts of “Simla”, Glenbrook, Passage West, with letters written to him and drafts of his replies and notes. Orders range from yachts and their accoutrements to punts and dinghies. Clients include C.W. Read, solicitor (re insurance claim for gangway accident on The SS Amarglin), Miss Hill (“daughter of H. Hill, architect,” re Yacht Yoldash), A.J. Wolfe (Yacht Marion), and J.F. Quain of Ardmore. As a coll., w.a.f. (1) €300 - €400 532. Manuscript Journal of a Scottish Presbyterian Lady, 1857-1865 Manuscript Diary: A calf-bound Volume (disbound), prefaced as “ A Private diary of reflection & self examinations, feelings & thoughts on religious subjects … ” running from 8 April 1857 to 9 July 1865. The writer (unidentified), a married lady, lived at Kirkwood, Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire. The first third of the text consists of a detailed and moving account of the illness and death of her sister Jessie, aged 21, on 14 March 1857. The remainder comprises weekly entries recording the family’s attendance at the Lord’s Day services in various churches (Old Monkland, Sandiford, Greyfriars Kirk, Dunkeld Cathedral), with comments on the preachers and their sermons; detailing also her father’s death on 21 February 1865, aged 65. (1) €180 - €220 533. Vellum Deeds Relating to Properties in Celbridge, Co. Kildare Manuscripts · Indenture dated 15 July 1747 whereby Robert Baillie of Celbridge leases a house and yard to John Earsum for 3 lives at a rent of £5. Draft attachment dated 1755 whereby Letitia Godfrey, who has inherited the property, renews the lease to John Earsum. · Indenture dated 25 July 1795 whereby Thomas Price senior and junior of Dublin, pewterers, lease the above property, lately rented by Sarah Earsum, to John Bermingham of Celbridge, shopkeeper, for 3 lives. 2 copies. · Indenture dated 4 Nov. 1818 whereby Sarah Heir of Celbridge, widow of John Heir, renews to Thomas Sheehan a lease of three fields in Celbridge called Aghard for the remainder of a term of 22 years. Three documents, m/ss, w.a.f. (3) €250 - €350 529. Letters of a 17th-Century Ulster Gaelic Lord Manuscripts: Three Holograph Letters – two written from Dunluce Castle - from Randall MacSorley MacDonnell, Earl of Antrim (d 1636), to Archibald Edmonstone of Duntreath in Stirlingshire, with photocopies of transcripts published in HMC Report on MSS in Various Collections, vol. V (1909). In the first (12 Oct. 1636), MacDonnell warns Edmonstone not to attempt to dispossess of her lands his niece, the wife of “Ever Moquileene” (MacQuillan). In the second (10 April 1631) he writes on behalf of tenants summoned to appear before Edmonstone, and concludes by urging him to “looke well unto my plott of a gardeene at Glenarme, for I have paid the money and there is noe performance on the gardiner’s behalfe yet, for which yow are bound”. In the third (18 May 1631) he complains that tenants on land Edmonstone had made over to him have refused to pay their rents. As manuscripts, w.a.f. (3) €600 - €800 531