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of their own money on parish matters £60 7s. i)cl. Of this there was only 

 repaid to chem £3 4s-. Id. Petitioners are entitled to sue for the balance 

 due. The truth of these matters is shown in a report made by 

 John Hooker, Mayor of Dublin, & John Preston, alderman, dated 25th Oct. 

 1654, drawn up at the request of the Lord Deputy & Council. The present 

 churchwardens, John Sanderson, plumber, & George HuUett, vintner, & the 

 parishioners Alderman William Smith, Aldeiman Daniel Hutchinson, 

 John Shepard, maltster, William Langham, distiller, James Boy, shoemaker, 

 William Martin, brewer, Eice Williams, & George Hollyse refuse to pay the 

 debt when called upon in a friendly manner to do so. Asks that action may 

 be taken in the matter. 



Petition drawn by Patrick Tallon, attorney. Copy certiiied by J. Brant, 

 Eegistrar. 



14th June, 1655. (In English.) 



194 (191). John Quelch, upholsterer, & Christopher Lovett, merchant, 

 churchwardens of St. John's Church, for a sum of £6 paid in hand, grant to 

 John Braddock, clothier, a house, backside and garden in St. Francis Street, 

 measuring 52 yards from east to west, & 7 yards from north to south, bounded 

 on the north by Luke Lowther's house & on the south by Thomas Seabrook's 

 house, commonly called Talbott's Lands. Term, 61 years. Pient. £6 sterling. 

 Grantee undertakes to spend £100 in building up the house within ten 

 years. Covenants for repair, re-entry, distraint for three weeks' arrears of 

 rent, &c. Signed by grantee. 



29th May 1663, & 15 Charles II. (In English.) 



Endorsed with signatures of witnesses present : — Tlio. Bladen " rectour 



of St. John's," Dl. Huehinson, James Boy, John Bishopp, John van Persyn, 



Josh. Llewellin. 



195 (192). Order of the Lord Chancellor & Court in the case of Thomas 

 Cooke & Alice his wife, plaintiffs, vcrsiis Jerome Cooke & William Uobbinson, 

 defendants, that the churchwardens of St. John's parish should produce the 

 lease by which the plaintiffs claim a title to the premises. Mr. Boate is 

 attorney for the defendants. 



Signed by Ja. Grace, Deputy Eegistrar. 



18th April, 1668. (In English.) 



An endorsed note shows that the lease referred to was a lease to 

 Katherine Carroll [probably No. 189 (187) above]. 



196 (193). Rice' Lewis, merchant, agrees with William Middlebrook & 

 Samuel Wiggen, joiners, for £17 to pave " the church now a-building in the 



' So spelt in the body of the deed, but spelt " Reece "in his signature. 



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