Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers RARE BOOK & COLLECTORS SALE 6th & 7th, December 2022

81 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 (2) Thomas and Christopher Asken of Blakestowne, farmers. Renewal of their lease of Blakestowne. 7. 24 March 1683/4. Indenture between (1) John Earl of Kildare and (2) Thomas Rosamond of Maynooth, baker, David Kelly of the same, glover, and Ralph Emerson of the same, smith. Renewal of leases of their tenements in Maynooth. 8. 11 May 1683. Indenture between (1) John Earl of Kildare and (2) William Bound of Tobberneabegg, Co. Limerick. Renewal of his lease of lands in the manor of Tobbernea containing 280 acres. 9. 6 April 1683. Indenture between (1) John Earl of Kildare and (2) Walter Corragh of Kealtowne Co. Kildare, farmer. Lease of the town and lands of Dirrinstowne Co. Kildare containing 82 acres. 10. 20 May 1684. Indenture between John Earl of Kildare and (2) Hierome Sankey of Dublin esq. Lease of the towns and lands of Griffensrath and Ballygorne in Co. Kildare. BOX III 7 deeds 1687-1721 1. 1 May 1687. Indenture between (1) John Earl of Kildare and (2) Richard Shire of Milltowne Co. Meath, farmer, and Nicholas Curraghan of Kealestowne Co. Kildare, farmer. Lease of Kealestowne in the manor of Maynooth. 2. 1 May 1687. Indenture between (1) John Earl of Kildare and (2) Daniell Groome of Maynooth, yeoman. Lease of property in Maynooth. 3. 12 March 5th of Anne 1705/6. Indenture between (1) Sam Samuell Boys of Hawkeherst in Kent esq., (2) Richard Newdigate of Harefield, Middlesex, eldest son and heir of Sir Richard Newdigate of Arbury in Warwickshire, Bart, andWilliam Stephens of Barton in the Isle of Wight esq., and (3) Jane, 5th daughter of Richard Newdigate esq. Marriage settlement of Samuell Boys and Jane Newdigate. Marriage portion of £5,000 and the manor of Cloathales Grensted in Sussex, and much else (all given in great detail). 5 membranes. 4. 7 January 1717/18. Indenture between (1) Robert Earl of Kildare and (2) William Manwaring senior of Maynooth, innkeeper. Lease of property in Maynooth and Knockevilly. 5. 27 January 1717/18. Indenture between (1) Robert Earl of Kildare and (2) William Manwaring senior of Maynooth, innkeeper. Lease of Henry Wilson’s holding in Knockevilly and other property. 6. 31 May 1721. Indenture between (1) Robert Earl of Kildare and (2) James McManus of Maynooth. Renewal of lease of his property in Maynooth. 7. 31 May 1721. Indenture between (1) Robert Earl of Kildare and (2) James McManus of Maynooth. Renewal of lease of his property in Maynooth. 2nd copy. BOX IV. 7 documents 1726-1744. 1. 13 October 1726. Indenture between (1) William Manwaring of Maynooth, innholder, and (2) Thomas Manwaring of Dublin, cooper. Lease for a year of property in Maynooth and Knockevilly. 2. 14 May 1728. Indenture between (1) Thomas Manwaring of Dublin, cooper, William Manwaring of same, weaver, and James Manwaring of Maynooth, gent, executors of William Manwaring [senior] of Maynooth, and (2) Henry Kelly of Maynooth, tanner. Lease of property in Maynooth. 3. 10 June 1728. Indenture (on paper) between (1) William Manwaring of Dublin, weaver, and Thomas Manwaring of Maynooth, gent, executors of Willaim Manwaring [senior] of Maynooth, and Thomas Manwaring of Dublin, cooper, and (2) John Smart of Maynooth, farrier. Renewal of lease of Smart’s dwelling house and other property in Maynooth. Seals. 4. 26 March 1730. Indenture between (1) Samuel Boys of Hawkhurst in Kent esq. and Samuel Boys gent his eldest son and heir, and (2) John Bicknell of the Inner Temple. Grant of properties in Hawkhurst and elsewhere, listed in great detail. Deed leading to a recovery. 5. 13 May 1736. Probate in the Prerogative Court of the will of Thomas Manwaring of Dublin, cooper, dated 14 February 1735/6. He bequeaths to his granddaughter Ann Manwaring the sum of £20 when she reached the age of 21; and to Thomas Tresham of Dublin, hosier, and John Hall of Dublin, shoemaker, £10 and they are to be his executors. Residuary legatee, his only daughter Mary Manwaring when she reaches the age of 21 or marries; if she dies before that, then the residue is to be divided equally between the sons of John Manwaring of Newmarket in Donore, Co. Dublin, weaver. 6. Orders given to the Earl of Kildare to raise a militia regiment. He is instructed to summon all Protestants in the county between the ages of 16 and 60 who are fit to bear arms (any who refuse are to be “prosecuted with the utmost severity in law”). They are to swear oaths of allegiance to George II and abjuration of James the Pretender. He is to find a suitable place to lodge ammunition, drums, colours and trumpets. 7. 28 April 1744. Note by James McManus, lawyer. On paper. States that he has perused the deeds laid before him by Mr James McManus, and gives his opinion as to McManus’s right to sell his leasehold interest in and near Maynooth. BOX V. 11 deeds 1821-1884. 1. 14 June 1821. Indenture between (1) Richard Herbert, Richard Powell and John Howe of Wigginton, Oxfordshire, farmers, (2) James Eldridge, George Gibberd, James Powell and Richard Hall, churchwardens and overseers of the poor of the parish of Wigginton, (3) Edward Cox of Wigginton, wheelwright, and (4) Benjamin Aplin of Banbury, gent. Sale for £38 of a close in Wigginton. 2. 8 April, 3rd of Victoria [1840]. Commission to Charles William FitzGerald, commonly called the Marquis of Kildare (among many others), to be a Justice of the Peace for Co. Kildare. 3. 2 August 1841. Appointment of new trustees of the marriage settlement of the Vicomte de Chabot and Lady Isabella FitzGerald, daughter of the Duke of Leinster, dated 1 June 1809. 4. 3 August 1841. Declaration of trusts and properties relating to the marriage settlement of the Vicomte de Chabot and Lady Isabella FitzGerald. 5. 2 & 3 January 1842. Two short letters by “Mr Lawson”, rue Royale 10, Paris, to the Vicomte de Chabot regarding the need to alter a phrase in the deed of appointment of trustees. 6. 19 March 1842. Indenture between (1) Louis William Viscount de Chabot, (2) Isabella Charlotte de Chabot, and (3) Charles William, Marquis of Kildare. Lady Elisha [sic] Mathew, spinster, was seized of Thomastown with its demesne and seven townlands (named) in the barony of Clanwilliam, and Thurles with its commons and four townlands (named) in the barony of Eliogarty, Co. Tipperary. As co-heiress of her brother Francis James [Mathew], Earl of Landaff, she assigned these lands to trustees, viz. Augustus Frederick, Duke of Leinster, James Daly of Dunsandle, and the Rev. Theobald Mathew, Roman Catholic clergyman. She made