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Library-keeper. In March, 1709, he was collated Precentor, or Chanter, as 

 it was then termed, of St. Patrick's Cathedral. His predecessor in that 

 dignity, Samuel Synge, Dean of Kildare, had died on 2nd December, 1708. 

 The delay in Bouhereau's collation was probably due to some pecuniary 

 dif6.culty, as it had been arranged that his pension of £200 should cease on 

 his succession to a Cathedral dignity. The following extract from the 

 Calendar of Treasury Pampers throws light on the situation : — 



Vol. csii. 22. 1708-9, Jan. 22. 

 The Earl of Gallway to the Lord High Treasurer. 



Testifies to the great merit and learning of, and to his particular esteem 

 for Doctor Bouhereau, who had been his secretary in Piedmont, whose case 

 he enclosed . Dated Lisbon, 2 Feb. 1709 !N".S., i.e. 22 Jan. DocqiLetted : — 

 2 Feb. 1708-9. 



Accompanied by the " Petition of Doctor Elias Bouhereau, Keeper of the 

 Public Library near St. Sepulchres, Dublin, erected by the Archbishop of 

 Armagh. He was allowed 200/. a year by the beneficence of Her Majesty 

 until the chantership of the Cathedral Church of St. Patrick fell vacant by 

 the death of Dean Synge. Was required to pay two third parts of 360 odd 

 pounds expended in buildings to the executors of the Dean. Was a stranger 

 and left France for his religion's sake, and brought over nothing with him 

 but a numerous family and his books, value 500/., which he gave to the 

 library. Prays the continuance of his pension for two years. Was 

 68 years old." 



Minuted : — " Ptef. to My Lord Lieutenant." 



APPENDIX B. 



Extracts feom the last Will and Testament of Elias Bouheeeau 

 Dated 19th March, 17 If. 



I . . . desire ..... that, if it can conveniently be done, my Body may 

 be deposited in the same place of the French Chappel, within the Cathedral 

 Church of St. Patrick, Dublin, where the Bodies of my Mother, my Wife, 

 my eldest daughter, and others of the Family, have formerly being [sic] 

 deposited 



The design I all ways had of dying within the communion of the 



