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The History Sale 2015
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TIPPERARY INTEREST
A good collection of mid-19th century legal documents including
- Rental and Account of Richview, Richview Priory and Crompsgrove, the
property of R.J.H. Garner Esq. (a minor) to 12 May 1864, with manuscript
list of tenants and rentals, and with the receiver Richard Jordan’s account
of disbursements to named persons.
- Assignment of Judgement, 7 November 1848, John Prendergast to
Robert Hemphill, both of Clonmel, attorneys, concerning a judgement
for €369 obtained by Patrick Ryan of Caher, Victualler, against Lorenzo
Clutterbuck of Killemly, and assigned by Ryan to Prendergast, etc.,
manuscript, with seals and signatures, an interesting document.
- Assignment of Judgement, 22 January 1849, Joseph Kenny to Robert
Hemphill, both of Clonmel, solicitors, concerning a judgement for
€150 obtained by James Burke of Clonmel, Merchant, against Lorenzo
Clutterbuck of Killemly, and assigned by Burke to Kenny, etc., printed form
with manuscript entries, with seals and signatures.
- Articles of Agreement, William Despard of Killaghy Castle and Rev.
James William Despard of Johnstown, 14 July 1842, manuscript, with
signatures, concerning settlement of mortgages on the Wood of Finane,
Co. Tipperary.
- Landed Estates Court, Ireland. Conveyance, 7 May 1862, re John
Armstrong’s Estate, to Richard Hemphill Esq. Town and Lands of
Ballybeg, 129 acres in Barony of Iffa and Offa, for €1,900, printed, with
manuscript entries.
- Landed Estates Court, Ireland. Manuscript copy of an affadavit by
Richard Hemphill, Clonmel, Solicitor, 1871, estate of Richard Scott and
Thomas Bolton Pennefather, executors of William Pennefather, deceased,
concerning mortgages in the amount of €1,000, etc.
- and a few other documents. As a collection, w.a.f.
€150 - €200
429
HARRY MIDGELEY, BELFAST.
Thoughts from Flanders.
‘In Remembrance of all those who fell, And those who mourn their loss’.
Printed [for the author] by E.H. Thornton, 109 Donegall Street, Belfast.
[1924]. This copy signed and inscribed by the author, ‘To my friend, Mr.
John A. Brown / With all good wishes / Harry Midgeley’. 16mo, 47
pp, stapled in buckram gilt, a few page corners turned or torn but a very
good copy of a scarce book. COPAC records only two copies, at Queens
University and the Imperial War Museum. Harry Midgeley [1892-1957]
served in the British Army in Flanders, and was wounded and gassed.
After the war he became Secretary of the Northern Ireland Labour Party.
In 1933 he was elected to Parliament at Stormont, and spoke in favour
of Republican Spain. During the Second World War he held a Ministerial
post at Stormont, and later joined the Unionist Party and the Orange Order
- a far cry from his youthful ideals. His poetry, though unpolished, is
not without merit. The poem titled ‘Shot at Dawn’, in memory of a shell-
shocked boy executed for desertion, is worth attention. ‘He was only a
boy with golden hair / Scarce out of his teens, and yet / I know the men
who served out there / “His Murder” will not forget.’
€150 - €200
430
‘FOLLY AND RUIN’: GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS OF THE
ECHLIN FAMILY
Compiled from various authentic sources .. by Rev. John Echlin, M.A.
Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, n.d. (circa 1880). For Private
Distribution. Quarto, 72 pp, untrimmed, with coat of arms, large folding
plate, etc., sewn but unbound, in a plain folder. Rare. The compiler notes
at p. 53 that ‘owing to the reckless extravagance of some of the Family ..
their property .. was utterly squandered and lost. Since that period of folly
and ruin, the Echlin Baronets have been reduced to a state of comparative
poverty .. The present Baronet, Sir Thomas Echlin, is endeavouring, by a
life of honourable industry in the Royal Irish Constabulary Depot, Phoenix
Park, Dublin, to obtain a respectable livelihood.’
€100 - €150
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