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Fishauible Street wherein the said minister lives & the house next adjoining 

 thereto wliich is in the possession of Henry Powell were long since given by 

 the parishioners of St. John's to one John Atherton, then minister thereof,' 

 & his successors, at a yearly rent of £3 6s. 8rf. The said house of Henry 

 Powell is ruinous & ready to fall. The parishioners appointed John Browne, 

 John Shei^herd, William Langham, Eichard I'alfrey, David ilurphy, Jolm 

 Ogden & the said proctors to dispose of it to a tenant for the benefit of 

 the minister, " the better to enable him for payment of his said rent to the 

 parish," & to preserve the house from falling down & from further ruin. 

 Therefore the said minister & churchwardens grant the said house in Henry 

 Powell's possession to Edward Dei-mott & Alice his wife. Term, 31 years. 

 Rent, £5. Grantees are to cause the house to be slated before the middle of 

 May ne.xt ensuing & to be put in proper repair within twelve months. 

 (Covenants for re-entry, distraint for two months' arrears of rent, &c. 



Signed with signature of Edward Dermott & tlie mark of Alice Dermott. 

 !lth Jan. 16-00/0 1 . (In English.) 



Endorsed with the signatures of Eichard Palfrey, Tho. Ihowne, & 

 Francis Keane, & the mark of Thomas Cooper, witnesses present. 



192 (iSg). Patrick Ker, minister of St. John's parish, with the consent of 

 the churchwardens and parishioners thereof, grants to John Alexander, 

 shoemaker, the liouse, shop, and backside in Fishamble Street, wherein 

 grantor lives vS- which was formerly in the possession of Dudley Boswell, 

 deceased, late minister of the said parish.^ Term, 15 years. Eent, £8 sterling. 

 Grantee to repair the front of the house within one year as well as the said 

 Mr. Boswell repaired the back. Co\enants for repair, re-entry, distraint for 

 I 4 days' arrears of rent, &c. 



Signed by grantee. 



20th July 1652. (In English.) 



Endorsed with signatures of witnesses present : — Willm. Smyth, 

 Rich Palfrey, Nath. Neville, Wm. Martyn. 



lyy (iQO). Certified copy of the petition of John Pryee & of Mary Pryce, 

 alias Joliuson, his wife, & of Ralph Hall & of Jane Hall, alias Browne, his 

 wife, to the honourable the Commissioners for the Administration of Justice. 

 Eecites thai James Johnson, foimer husband of the petitioner Mary, & 

 'J'homas Browne, former husband of the petitioner Jane, were churchwardens 

 of St. John's Parisli for the year 16ol, and during their year of oflice spent 



' John Atherton was Prebendai-y of St. John's in Christ Church Cathedral from 1630 

 to 1G3G, when he became Bishop of Waterford. 



- He was PreVjendary of St. John's from 18th July. 1038, to his death in July, 1650. 



