Adam's The History Sale Tuesday 24th April 2018

61 The History Sale 99 TITHES. A CHAPTER OF IRISH CHRONICLES, EARLY 19TH CENTURY, broadside, 460 x 270mm Crudely printed on one side, contemporary annotation in ink “ Church:-Tithes Bur- lesque declaration of evils ofTithes”. TheTithe fox, a levy on agricultural produce by the established church regardless of religious persuasion, was bitterly resented equally by Catholics and dissenters, was repealed only in 1838 subsequent to a long campaign of civil disobedience that de- generated into riots, murders, arson and cruelty to animals.The present lot written in pseudo old testament script sets out its opposition in the opening sentence, “ Now the SHEPHERD’S which were not of IRELAND ate the fat and clothed with the wool of the sheep of another’s fold.And they were stran-gers among the People and the People were strangers unto them;nor did they worship…” € 100 - 200 100 LOUTH FARMING SOCIETY Certificate awarded to Joseph Booth forThe Shear Ram,Autumn Show 1856, on card with rustic figures and agricultural scenes, gilded and with shamrock picked out in green Inscribed, “ Designed,Engraved and illuminated byWalker,Suffolk Street,Dublin ”, 220x 175cm; together with, Acacia,10 months old by General Dam Ace by No Mistake property ofThos.Lee Norman Esq . (of Corballis,Ardee),Alkens lithography, 16Trinity Street, Dublin, 180 x 260mm € 100 - 150 102 MCCLEARY, (PUBLISHER), 32 NASSAU STREET, c.1800 The Pleasures of aTandem, the shop in the background with signage ‘McCleary,The Real and Original Caricature shop ’ Old, probably contemporary colour, 240 x 350mm € 300 - 500