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

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 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.

Declaration by John MacNamara of Court in the parish of Kildimo, county Limerick, former servant to the late Sir Henry Hartstonge, that Sir Henry Hartstonge died on 25 February 1797 without issue; that following his death the late [1st] Earl of Limerick came into possession of the Hartstonge estate in the parish of Kildimo; and that this estate is now and has for many years past been known as the Court Estate.

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.

List of investments of Frances Isabella Katharine Hettich, who died on 23 September 1905.

Marriage settlement of William Hale John Charles Pery Viscount Glentworth and Miss Caroline Maria Gray.

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 will of William Hale John Charles, 3rd Earl of Limerick dated 11 December 1888; a codicil dated 4 July 1890; and a second codicil dated 28 June 1892.

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.