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Paginated manuscript, with an index, bound in tooled leather covers and embossed on the front cover Abstracts & Copys of Records, Relative to the Sexton, Casey, & Stackpole Familys. The manuscript comprises abstracts and copies of seventeen documents relating to the Sexten family; eight relating to the Casey family; and two to the Stackpole family. The documents relating to the Sexten family include a memorandum of a decree in favour of George Sexten in a dispute against James Roche concerning a title and possession of a store house (17 October 1531); grant to Edmond Sexten to be Chief Sewer of County Dublin (2 September 1532; in Latin); warrant to pass a grant of the monastery of St Mary’s House in Limerick to Edmund Sexten (24 September 1537); grant to Edmond Sexten of the fee farm of Limerick, with a release of all arrears then owing (1 August 1542; in Latin); free pardon to Edmond Sexten of all offences committed by him (14 December 1545); certificate by the Sheriff of County Limerick of Edmond Sexten having entered into security for his good behaviour (14 December 1545); grant of the office of Gauger and Searcher of Limerick to Humfry Sexten (10 June 1548); a protection to Humfry Sexten (23 April 1555; in Latin); grant to William Sidney of the custody and wardship of Stephen Sexten, brother and heir of Nicholas Sexten deceased (13 September 1558); grant to Edmond Sexten (son of Stephen Sexten) of the livery of his estate and lands (1 June 1559; in Latin); letter of King James I of England on behalf of Edmund Sexten’s favour (7 February 1608/9); grant to Edmond Sexten, his heirs and assigns for ever of several lands in the County and City of Limerick (10 July 1609/10; in Latin); abstract of an inquest held by Edmond Sexten in 1614 which proves that he was that year High Sheriff of County Limerick; abstract of letters patent showing that the wardship of John Gold, son and heir of Thomas Gold, deceased, was granted to Edmond Sexten (4 February 1623/4); inquisition taken at St Francis’s Abbey in County Limerick following the death of Edmond Sexten (22 January 1638; in Latin); inquisition (for which see P51/1/1/6) taken at the Tholsel of Limerick City in 1639 after the deaths of Edmond Sexten and his son Nicholas (9 October 1639; in Latin and English); and an inquisition taken at St Francis’s Abbey in County Limerick in 1639 after the deaths of Edmond Sexten and his son Nicholas (9 October 1639; in Latin and English). The documents relating to the Casey family include abstracts of letters patent creating William Casey Bishop of Limerick (23 October 1551); letters patent granting the wardship of Thomas Thornton, son and heir of Sir George Thornton Provost Marshal of Munster to James Casey and his assigns (5 June 1605); letters patent granting a pardon of alienation and mesne rates of lands in County Cork to James Casey and Ulick Roche (8 March 1629); letters patent granting special livery to Thomas Casey (18 November 1633); inquisition taken at Kilmallock after the death of Thomas Casey of Rathcannon, incorporating a family settlement made by Thomas Casey, his will, and a variety of other matters (12 March 1637; partly in Latin); inquisition taken at Newcastle, County Limerick after the death of Thomas Casey (10 July 1638; in Latin); bill filed in chancery by the Rev Stacpole Pery and other against Lord Vere Bertie and others relative to the Casey estate and family (25 January 1735); and Lord Bertie’s answer to the same bill (15 February 1737). The documents relating to the Stackpole family include a grant to Bartholomew Stacpole of Stacpole Court and several other lands in County Clare with liberty of keeping annual fairs (17 July 1676); and a deed of feoffment by way of family settlement made by Bartholomew Stacpole (3 November 1685).

Paginated manuscript, with an un-paginated table of contents, bound in tooled leather covers and embossed on the spine Historical Notices of the Sexten Family & City of Limerick. The contents constitute a copy in copperplate script of P51/1/1, lacking the pedigrees.

Paginated 17th-century manuscript in secretary hand, bound in 19th-century tooled leather covers and embossed on the spine Historical Notices of the Sexten Family & City of Limerick. Pages 1-15 contain an additional set of pagination, which runs from 47 to 61. The manuscript comprises primarily transcripts made by Edmond Sexten the younger (1595-1636) of letters and petitions (mostly in English, with some items in part or fully in Latin), which his grandfather Edmond Sexten the elder (1486-1555) had collected in order to defend himself against allegations that ‘my service to the kinge majestie is deemed... not to be such as did deserve the bountifull remuneration of his heighnes unto me’ and to prove that ‘my service was freely doone without receavinge wages or hire of the king majestie as others dothe’. In addition to letters and petitions, the transcribed items include a narrative of the costs and charges incurred by Sexton in the King’s service; a list of havens, rivers, creeks, places of importance, territories and lordships with their landlords ‘from Lupes head which is the further land a seaboord by north the river of Limerick as also within the said river’; a declaration of the proportions of Ireland; and King John’s, Queen Elizabeth’s and King James I’s charters to Limerick. To the abovementioned transcripts, Edmond Sexten the younger has added copies of letters and petitions relating to his own disputes with Limerick Corporation, primarily concerning the immunity of the lands of the dissolved abbeys of St. Mary’s and St Francis’s, which had come into his grandfather’s possession in 1537, and whether Sexten alone, or the parish generally, was responsible for the upkeep of the church of St John the Baptist, Limerick, whose tithes were appropriate to St Mary’s. In addition to transcripts of formal documents, the manuscript contains a list of books in the possession of Edmund Sexten the younger, grouped under the headings of 'Divinyty', 'History & other bookes of morallyty', 'Scoole bookes', and 'Lawe bookes'; a list of lord deputies and governors of Ireland, and of the mayors, bailiffs, and high sheriffs of Limerick from 1154 to 1636; and pedigrees of branches of the Sexten family descending from Denis Sexten and Simon Sexten, and of the Golde, Comyn, Mortagh, White, and Arthur families of Limerick. To the list of lord deputies mentioned above has been added a short account dated 22 May 1641 by Edmond Sexten’s son Christopher Sexten relating to the deaths and funerals of his father, daughter Jean (who died of smallpox), and eldest son Stephen, and the burning of his tenements in St Francis’s Abbey in Limerick, all of which events occurred in 1636.

Case for the advice and opinion of the Attorney General concerning the title to the Limerick Church.

Case of the Bishop of Limerick with the Provincial Bank of Ireland and copy opinion thereof of [Francis] Blackburne.

Cash accounts concerning the 4th Earl of Limerick’s settled and devised estates.

Christmas greeting to Patrick, 6th Earl of Limerick and his wife Lady Sylvia from her sister Muriel. The card originally accompanied the Countess of Limerick’s album (for which see P51/6/3/2/2), which was found in a second hand shop and given to the couple as a Christmas present by Muriel and her husband.

Common search in Registry for any act by Sir Henry Hartstonge from 1771 to 1804 inclusive and by the Bishop of Limerick from 1804 to 30 October 1833 respecting the church and ground in Limerick called George’s Church in the parish of St Michael and city of Limerick.

In 1769, Edmund Henry Pery decided to replace a chapel of ease on his estate close to Limerick with a new church in a better location. As the church was likely to cost a large sum of money, Pery induced his relatives to assist. Sir Henry Hartstonge agreed to pay for the new church on ground donated by Pery in exchange of £50 in cash, the materials of the old church, and the four lots of ground upon which it was built. In 1771, Pery granted Hartstonge a lease of the four lots of ground. Soon after, Sir Henry Hartstonge let the lots for building. In 1797, Pery granted and released to church wardens Anthony Lefroy and Alexander Torrens part of the land whereupon the new church had been built. The local clergyman attempted to let the lot for building but the church wardens objected as they had not been empowered to let the land for that purpose. In 1804, Pery demised the lease to the Bishop of Limerick along with the right to do with the plot of ground what he pleased except for a space of 20 feet immediately contiguous to the church which was to be applied solely to the use and convenience of the church. Later that year, the Bishop leased part of the ground to John Meade Thomas, who subsequently expended a large sum of money on building on this plot of ground. By now, the new church had become inconvenient for the parish and a decision was made to replace it. An agreement was entered into with the Provincial Bank of Ireland for the sale of the lot that remained in the Bishop’s possession. However, as a consequence of the lease made in 1804, the Bishop did not have the power to dispose of it and an Act of Parliament was passed to enable him to do so. The Act made no statement that the premises ever belonged to the Earl of Limerick but it did state that the lot was part of the estate of the Earl of Limerick who was a consenting party to the act and entitled to the rent of five shillings a year if demanded. In c. 1833 the Bishop of Limerick attempted to sell this plot of ground to the Provincial Bank of Ireland for the construction of a bank. A dispute arose as to the title of ownership and resulted in a court case, to which the papers in this sub-series relate.

This sub-series contains material relating to Dromore Castle, County Limerick and its construction in 1868-1874.