46 . A FORGOTTEN EPISODE. 



I then hoped that perhaps enquiries at the Dublin Record 

 Office might bring to light some of the grants and warrants of 

 Irish lands and rents on which the Bailleuls based their claim. 

 This is the answer I received to my letter : — 



Public Record Office of Ireland, 

 Four Courts, Dublin, 



6th June, 1904. 

 Madam, 



With reference to your letter asking for some information as 

 to certain claims of Peter Baliol about two hundred years ago, I beg 

 to say that I have had some searches made in the Records here about 

 the time referred, but that nothing whatever has been found among 

 them as to any of the matters mentioned. 



A letter in the published Calendar of Treasury Papers in London, 

 1697-1702, p. 262, appears to indicate that whatever steps were taken 

 in reference to Baliol's claim were in London. 



I remain, 



Your obedient Servant, 



Jambs Mills. 

 Miss Edith F. Carey, 



Le Yallon, Guernsey. 



On receipt of this letter I then wrote to the Keeper of 

 the Records at the Record Office, London, and received the 

 following reply : — 



Public Record Office, 



Chancery Lane, 



28th June, 1904. 

 Madam, 



In reply to your enquiry of the 17th instant addressed to Sir 

 H. C. Maxwell-Lyte, I am directed to inform you that most careful search 

 has been made in the Calendar of Patent Rolls, the Books of Treasury 

 Warrants, and other Records, but no mention whatever can be found 

 of the alleged grant of quit-rents in Ireland to FitzPatrick and others 

 as Trustees in 9. William III., although grants of quit-rents to other 

 persons are frequently met with in the Treasury Books. The existence 

 of a Petition by the daughters of Peter Ballial in 1698 for the payment 

 of arrears of a small pension (Treasury Papers, 1697-1702, Vol. 59) 

 and the absence of any reference therein to a grant of quit-rents in 

 the same year would appear to indicate the improbability of such a 

 grant having been made. 



I am, Madam, 

 Your obedient Servant, 



S. W. Cargill Bird, 



Secretary, 

 Miss Carey, 



