THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY 14 1 



vice-presidents or chairman, treasurer, secretaries, 

 registrar ; laid down rules as to the drawing masters, 

 the order of proceedings of the Society, election of 

 members, and granting of premiums and rewards. 



A report on loans was subsequently made, when 

 it appeared that various persons were indebted to the 

 Society in the sum of £2060, Ss. gd. 9 and that bad 

 debts amounted to £344. The committee came to 

 the conclusion that loans of money should not in 

 future be granted. 



William Sleater, printer and publisher of the 

 Public Gazetteer, proposed to print all the Society's 

 publications, including lists of premiums, for ^10 a 

 year, provided the Society would not make use of 

 any other newspaper. The offer was accepted, and 

 Faulkner of the Journal and Dyton of the Gazette 

 were notified not to insert in future any of the Society's 

 publications without further directions. 



The labours and methods of the Society must have 

 made a deep impression on men of note in exalted 

 stations, for in December 1766, Baron Mountney, 1 

 when going as judge of assize in the ensuing cir- 

 cuits, offered to bring with him copies of the premium 

 list, for distribution through the country. In April 

 1768, Redmond Morres, k.c., 2 who had been 

 appointed to sit as judge in the last circuit, informed 

 the Society that he had, pursuant to their request, 

 viewed the manufacture of bone lace at Castlebar, 

 where he found it carried on with great spirit and 

 industry. 



1 Richard Mountney, baron of the Exchequer, a distinguished 

 scholar. He married in 1759 the Dowager Countess of Mount 

 Alexander. 



2 M.P. for Thomastown, and for Dublin (1773-1776); father of 

 the first Viscount Frankfort de Montmorency. He was a vice- 

 president of the Society. 



