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Copies of a family settlement between Edmond Henry [1st] Earl of Limerick of the 1st part; Henry Hartstonge Perry [sic] Viscount Glentworth, eldest son and heir apparent of the Earl of Limerick and Annabella Percy [sic] Viscountess Glentworth of the 2nd part; John Wright of the city of Dublin gentleman of the 3rd part; James Peacock of the city of Dublin gentleman of the 3th part; Thomas Casey and Pryce Peacock of the city of Dublin esquires of the 5th part; and Thomas Philip Maunsell of the city of Limerick esquire and John Radcliffe of the city of Dublin esquire of the 6th part.

Copy affidavit of John Cusack, aged 76, stating that George’s Church has been as long as he can recollect in the state and situation it is now placed. Cusack also states that according to old inhabitants of the city a church which formerly stood at the end of Thomas Street was taken down and the church on George’s Street commenced building in about 1771.

Copy affidavit of Mary Anne Williams stating that her father James Williams, architect was the builder of George’s Church which formerly stood at the end of Thomas Street in the city of Limerick. She also states that her father had pointed to Viscount Pery the error of building a church in this location as it interrupted the view in George’s Street, and that upon hearing this Lord Pery ordered the church to be taken down and a new one to be built in the present location.

Copy case for the Attorney General concerning the Limerick Church prepared by P. Mahony & Co.

Copy correspondence between Messrs Rooper & Whately, 17 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London and Messrs. Barrington & Son, 10 Ely Place, Dublin concerning the proposed sale of Limerick City Distillery, property of the [5th] Earl of Limerick to the Limerick Corporation. Also financial calculations concerning the Limerick Corporation’s offer for part of the premises of Limerick City Distillery; and a map of the Limerick City Distillery premises.

Photocopy of a declaration by Annabella Tennison, Dowager Viscountess Glentworth of Clifton Place, Hyde Park, county Middlesex that she is the mother of Edmund Henry Pery, late Viscount Glentworth who was her eldest son and who died on 16 February 1844 without surviving male issue.

Court of the Irish Land Commission copy final schedule of encumbrances and all claims on foot of encumbrances affecting the 4th Earl’s estate in the counties of Limerick and Clare.

Typescript copy letter from Maximilian George Rooper, Rooper & Whately, 17 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London to Captain J. H. Kennedy, Attleborough, [Norfolk, England], providing a history and the current financial status of the 4th Earl of Limerick’s estates.

Colour photocopy of a letter from fifteen undersigned tenants to the [3rd] Earl of Limerick, thanking him for his liberal reduction of 30% of rent and the work he has provided ‘at a time of almost unprecedented distress in the Country’. Special mention is made of the building of Dromore Castle ‘which afforded employment to many artisans and Labourers for the last six or seven years’.

Copy observations by A. R. Sidebottom on behalf of the Provincial Bank in the case of Limerick Church.