6 4 A HISTORY OF 



cloth, hops, saffron, madder, fustian, brewing ale, cider, 

 worsted, salt, beaver hats, drawing. Dr. Madden's 

 premiums include awards for damask, velvet, lace, 

 silkwork, stallions, bulls, heifers, tapestry, fish, paint- 

 ings, and sculpture. 



Several children under fifteen years of age attended 

 in March 1746 to compete for premiums in drawing, 

 when Jane Tudor won ^5 for her work in black and 

 white, after Raphael and Titian. Soon after, first 

 prize for best buff was awarded to Mr. Fombally, 1 and 

 second to Mr. Gibal. It will be observed how fre- 

 quently names of Huguenot traders and artisans in 

 Dublin occur in the proceedings of the Society. 



A new and strange subject next attracted the 

 attention of the Society namely the collection of 

 rags in the city. It was computed that about 

 5000 Ibs. weight of rags were gathered weekly in the 

 city and county, to supply the paper mills near Dublin, 

 which employed a large number of hands. The 

 greatest quantity was sold to Thomas Slater, Temple- 

 ogue mills, to Robert Randal of Newbridge, and 

 to Michael McDaniel (or McDonnell) of Tallaght. 

 In 1747, on the adjudication of premiums for the 

 best writing and printing paper, the above named 

 firms took rank in the order mentioned. In 1751, 

 the competition for bounties for rag gathering was 

 adjudicated on by certain papermakers, when there 

 were 182 claimants, and rags to the amount of 2086 

 were purchased, on which the Society distributed a 

 sum of j34, 15^. &d. An announcement was made 

 that the paper manufacturers were now sufficiently 

 supplied with material, and that they purposed to im- 

 prove further in the quality of paper made by them. 



1 A corruption of the name Fonvielle, that of a Huguenot family, 

 from which Fumbally's lane, off New street, was named. 



