Rich. Caulfield Council Book of Cork & early annals

ALL WASTE GROUNDS RECLAIMED FROM RIVER BELONG TO MAYOR, ETC. 797 1764, to be accounted for out of the £920 formerly borrowed; It., £1 18s. 5d. to 1\:lr. Mayor, charges paid a party of soldiers who attended last Cork fair to prevent a riot. Present-Mr. l\:layor, Sher. Rowland and Willcocks; Alden. Jackson, Parker, Westropp, Wrixon, Busteed, Philpott, Franklin, John Wrixon, and John Smith. 5 Nov., 1765. Whereas the members of this Board apprehend that an application is/ intended. to be made to Parliament by some persons for a grant of the slabs on the sides of the new channel in the river Lee, and wherelias all theb s 1 labs . and waste grounds reclaimed from the river in this City and 'berties e ong 1 to the Mayor, &c., under divers Charters, ordered, that instructions be sent to our representatives in Parliament to oppose any such application. • That £2 7 s. 6d. be paid Mr. Wm. Snowe for Bullingbroke's Abridgement .. and Appendices for the use of the Corporation. . Present-Mr. Mayor, Sher. Rowland and Willcocks; Alden. Newman, Owgan, Westropp, Millerd, Wrixon, Philpott, Bury, Franklin, and John Wrixon. 19 Nov., 1765. No business for want of sufficient numbers.-Wm. Snowe, Dep. Clk. of Council Present-Mr. Mayor, Sher. Rowland and Willcocks; Alden. Jackson, Newman, Parker, Westropp, Wrixon, Bury, John Wrixon, and John Smith. 20 Nov., 1765. Ordered, that Mr. Mayor, Alden. Newman, Millerd, W rixon, and Luke Grant be a committee to make an estimate of the expense of rebuilding S. Peter's Church, and of purchasing the houses on the South side of S. Peter's Church lane and the two front houses, also to agree with two or three persons to go to Dublin to prove said estimate. That 3 guineas be paid Mr. Edmond Roche Ki~h, one of the Coroners, -\ expenses in going to Cove with a guard of soldiers, by o"ider of Mr. Mayor, to hold an Inquest on a man that Mr. Mayor was informed was murdered on board a ship, and to apprehend the offender ; . It., 5 guineas to Mr. Mayor

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