Rich. Caulfield Council Book of Cork & early annals

· Tim BURGESSES TO PROVIDE THEMSELVES WITH GOWNS. !Orr . ~lhat.W alter Atkins, Esq.; Carre Williams, Esq., Inspector-Gen. of Excise ;· ~vd. Edmond Lombard; David Perrier, mercht., having served Thomas Burnett·; Nathaniel Mitchell, Esq., now Mayor of Clonmell ; John Mans- field, cooper, having served _Richd. Maybury, do.; John !ranklin, gent., having .served William Heard, gent., for two years, and William Colburn,. gent., for five ; William Langley, cooper, having served Roger Langley, do. ; Walter Hussey Fitton, cooper, having served Gibbs Ross, do.; Harris Jeffery, cooper, having served Gibbs Ross, do., be admitted freemen at large. It., £36 168. Old. to the Mayor, so much expended by him at the Man- sion House; It., £38 78. 5d. to Mr. Robt. Reeves, Corporation Agent, in Dublin, for the costs the Mayor, &c., were at ·in defending a motion made against them in the K. B. about the removal of one John Fitzgerald, on a H. 0.; It., £31148. 2ld., to Robt. Reeves, for business done, to Hilary term, 1787. Prdsent-Mr. Mayor, Sher. Allen; Ald 80 • Butler, Mr. Morrison, C. S., and Willcocks. 25 May, 1787. Ordered, that a pension of £20 per annum be paid Mrs. Mary Ann Harding, widow of Ald. John Harding ; It., that a new gown and cap of maintenance be provided for the Sword-bearer; It.,. that the Mayor do inform the Burgesses that it is the unanimous request of this Board that. 1- such of them as are ~ot provided with gowns do get them, in order to add. respectability to the appearance of the Corporation in all processions. That Philip White, mercht., having served Christ.. Waggett, do., be ad- mitte=d a freeman at large.. Present-The Mayor and Sheriffs ; Alden. Wetherall, Baker, Webb, Travers, Butler, Lawton, Owgan ; Mr. Willcocks, Rowland, and Morrison, c.s. 8 J'l.llne, 1787 .• Ordered, that James Chatterton, Esq., shall have liberty, at his own expense, to. add to his ground .near Parliament ~ridge, by taking in or enclosing that part of the South Channel of the river Lee from the South West point of his present quay, so far as his ground extends towards said 128

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