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Copy of a pre-nuptial settlement dated 8 February 1681 between Edmond Pery of the city of Limerick esquire of the 1st part; Robert Rice of the city of Limerick of the 2nd part; and Bartholomew Stackpoole of Stackpoole Court, county Clare esquire and Stephen Comyne of the city of Limerick, gentleman of the 3rd part involving the hamlets and lands of Rathany in county Limerick containing by estimation 430 acres; the several messuages, land tenements and hereditaments with their appurtenances in the North Liberties of the city of Limerick commonly called North Priores [Priors] Land containing by estimation 40 acres; the Abbey called St Francis Abbey in the South Liberties of the city of Limerick commonly called South Priores [Priors] Land containing by estimation 120 acres; and Saint Mary’s House situate on the east side of the parish of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the city of Limerick.

Letter from Barrington & Son, 10 Ely Place, Dublin to John Vanderkiste, Limerick enclosing a schedule of charges on the trust estate paid out of the fund in the Landed Estates Court, and discussing the jointure due to the Dowager Countess of Limerick and annuities due to Lady Gray, Lady Repton, and Lady Georgiana Pery out of the trust estate.

This sub-series contains agreements and covenants relating to the separation of 4th Earl of Limerick and his wife, Mary Josephine née Irwin (1867-1943).

Account and commonplace book, bound in vellum, kept and compiled by Colonel Edmund Pery between 1671 and 1681. The first part of the book contains brief memoranda of financial transactions, mainly monies lent to and borrowed from various individuals, and more complete accounts under headings such as ‘An Acount of All receits of my Cousin Sextens Interest since his death’; ‘Disbursements likewise on the same Account’; ‘An account of what moneys I payed my uncle att my being in London 1679/80’; ‘Receits since my returne from Kinsaile December 1681’; ‘Receits for the use of my uncle Mr Nicholas Batteley since the death of my Cousin Sexten being 23 of November 1671’; ‘Disbursements on the same account Feb the 20th 1671’; and ‘Due to my uncle since accounted for when in England last then owing him £56’. Upside down from the back are further memoranda of sums on money borrowed or lent. In addition to accounts, the book contains ‘A Collection of Several things fit to be knowne’. These include notes on weights and measures; a list of foreign coins and their value in pounds, shillings, and pence; various conversion tables; and a list of the countries of the known world and their acreage. There are several pages of explanations of terms of scientific nature, particularly relating to geography, topography, astronomy, physics, and mathematics. These are followed by instructions on how to ‘Know the Age of the Moon’, ‘know when the Moon is at the South by which you may know what tyme of the night is is [sic] by the Moon on a Sun Dual [sic]’; ‘find when it will be new moon in any given Month’; and ‘find Shrove Sunday’. There are also notes relating to orthography and the pronunciation and usage of English, and a table of the symbolic significance of various colours. Fifteen pages of the manuscript have been dedicated to instructions about horses. These include tips on how to identify a good horse, how to tell its age, and how to keep one in good condition, with further notes on equine ailments, and recipes for salves and potions for their treatment. These are followed by recipes for ‘A Liquor for Bootes’; ‘How to make a Cement which lasteth like marble & resisteth aier or water without disjoyning or uncementing’; ‘To make Iron or Steel exceeding hard’; ‘To make a Candle burne & continue 3 tymes as long as otherways it would; ‘To keep Wine fresh in the heat of summer tho carryed on horse back & exposed to the sun; ‘How to melt mettall quickly yea in a shell upon a little fier; ‘To make quart of good Inck’; ‘To make shott’; ‘To make Iron strong & look like silver’; ‘To make steel cutt Iron as it were Lead’; ‘To make Red Inck’; ‘To make Letters that cannot be read without the paper be put in water’; ‘To make letters that cannot be read but at the fier’; ‘To make Mellons or Cowcumbers ripe before their season’; ‘To keep Grapes fresh all the winter’; ‘To make the hands white’; ‘To take a spot of Oyl out of Cloath’; ‘To keep young Children from having pain in breeding Teeth’; ‘To mak hair not to grow’; ‘To keep flyes from flesh’; ‘To kill fleas’; ‘To take away the Tooth ach’; ‘To renue old & woren letters’; ‘To cure the sting of waspes or Bees’; and ‘To make Hair Curle’. The book concludes with a gardener’s calendar with advice on farming and gardening activities for every month of the year, and ways to predict ‘Dearth or Scarcity, Plenty, Sickness, Heat, Cold, frosts, snow, winds, Rain, Hail, Thunder &c’ from nature. To Pery’s observations have been added sheep, cattle, and butter accounts for 1724, 1725-1726, and 1729 by a different hand, possibly by Pery’s son, the Reverend Stackpole Pery.

This series contains material pertaining to the Sexten family, maternal ancestors of the Earls of Limerick.

This sub-series contains leases of plots in Limerick City granted by Edmund Henry Pery, 1st Earl of Limerick.

Lease dated 4 August 1787 between [Edmund Henry] Viscount Pery of the 1st part; and Lancellott [Lancelot] Hill of the city of Limerick esquire of the 2nd part of a plot of ground part of South Priors Land in the South Liberties of the city of Limerick, together with all the profits and benefits which may arise and accrue from the dock and quay Hill has undertaken to build on the front of this ground. Term: three lives renewable forever. Conditions: yearly rent of one shilling by two equal instalments on 25 March and 29 September, together with one shilling sterling as a fine for the renewal of each life. The quay to remain open for passengers and carriages at all times, and the premises to be kept in good and tenantable order. A plan by Richard Wilson of the quay, dock and building ground between Hill’s deal yard and the River Shannon to a scale of 84 feet in an inch dated 2 August 1787 has been annexed to the lease. Also a renewal of the lease to Averell Hill dated 22 July 1829; and a second renewal to Walter Hussey Hill dated 16 September 1834. Also see P51/4/1.

This sub-series contains material pertaining to Caroline Maria née Gray (1837-1877), first wife of the 3rd Earl of Limerick.

This sub-series contains an abstract of title and a settlement concerning the 4th Earl of Limerick.

Abstract of the title of the [4th] Earl of Limerick to estates in Ireland, providing a condensed history of his rights to the settled and devised Irish estates, summaries of the original grants and subsequent conveyances, and encumbrances affecting the property.