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Report of searches, respecting the Office of Clerk of Common Pleas of the Exchequer, Ireland; made by order of His Majesty's Commissioners on the Public Records. 1816. IE TCD MS 1747 Public Deposited

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Report of searches, respecting the Office of Clerk of Common Pleas of the Exchequer, Ireland; made by order of His Majesty's Commissioners on the Public Records. 1816. IE TCD MS 1747

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  • IE TCD MS 1747 ; former shelfmarks P.4.11, S.5.3
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  • Copyright The Board of Trinity College Dublin. Images are available for single-use academic application only. Publication, transmission or display is prohibited without formal written approval of the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.
Copyright status
  • Public domain
Publisher location
  • Dublin, Ireland
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Date Created
  • created 1816
Physical extent
  • 184 pages
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Abstract
  • IE TCD MS 1747, ‘Report of searches, respecting the Office of Clerk of Common Pleas of the Exchequer, Ireland; made by order of His Majesty's Commissioners on the Public Records’, 1816. Signed on page 3 by William Shaw Mason, and dated 27th April 1816, Record Tower, Dublin Castle. Mason (1774-1853) was an Irish statistician and Trinity College Dublin graduate who was appointed in September 1810 to the role of Secretary of the Irish Record Commission. The reports, in English and Latin, were submitted in March 1816 by James Hardiman (1752-1855), Edward Tresham, Richard F. Sleater, Rowley Lascelles (1771-1841), Henry Harding, J. Fowler, and the Reverend Edward Groves. The volume is presented in three main parts, opening with the Secretary's report (1-4), followed by chronological abstracts in the second part (5-38), and an appendix of the Sub-Commissioners' returns in the third part (39-184). The original Irish chancery rolls were lost in the destruction of the Public Record Office of Ireland in 1922. Contents: Page vii: Title page. Page ix: Table of contents. Pages 1-3: Report of William Shaw Mason, secretary to the Irish Record Commission, outlining the completed work of the record project. Page 4 left blank. Pages 5-21: Chronological abstract of the series of Clerks of Common Pleas, with summary findings dated 1332-1805 listed in table entries. Page 22 left blank. Pages 23-38: Chronological abstract of the series of Chancellors of Green Wax, with summary findings dated 1343-1812 listed in table entries. Page 38 left blank. Page 39: Table of contents to appendix. Page 40 left blank. Pages 41-66: Returns of James Hardiman, sub-commissioner to Irish Record Commission. Recorded entries contain extracts from the Memoranda Rolls of the Exchequer during the reigns of Kings Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III; the Patent Rolls of Chancery during the reign of King Edward III; and the Fiants of the 39th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Latin extracts accompanied by English translations. Pages 67-147: Returns of Edward Tresham, sub-commissioner to Irish Record Commission. Recorded entries contain extracts from the Memoranda Rolls of the reign of King Henry VI in the office of the Chief Remembrancer. Latin extracts accompanied by English translations. Page 148 left blank. Pages 149-168: Returns of Richard F. Sleater, sub-commissioner to Irish Record Commission. Recorded entries contain extracts from the Memoranda Rolls during the reigns of Kings Edward III, Henry IV, Henry VI, Edward IV, Henry VII, and Henry VIII. Latin extracts accompanied by English translations. Entries followed by list of successive Chancellors of the Exchequer from 1702 onwards (166-168), prepared from records in the office of the Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle. Pages 169-170: Extract of returns of Rowley Lascelles, sub-commissioner to Irish Record Commission containing the series of Clerks of the Common Pleas from the appointment of Francis Plumptre and Polydore Plumptre in 1719 onwards. Text of returns excluded from report that duplicated the chronological abstract above. Pages 171-176: Returns of Henry Harding and John Fowler, sub-commissioners to Irish Record Commission. Recorded entries contain extracts from patent rolls in the office of His Majesty's Auditor General from the reigns of King Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth I, Kings James I, Charles I, Charles II, William III, Queen Anne, Kings George I, George II, and George III. Pages 177-184: Returns of The Rvd Edward Kelly Groves, sub-commissioner to Irish Record Commission. Record entries contain extracts from manuscripts held in the Bodleian Library, Lambeth Palace Library, and the Harleian and Cottonian collections (now housed in London, British Library). Followed by extract from Chancery Roll during reign of Kind Edward IV in French (183-184). Dimensions: 341 mm x 210 mm. Layout: Pages ruled, with rows and columns for tables throughout. Watermarks of oval medallion with Britannia seated, surmounted by crown; and second watermark of text inscription 'W Pickering 1814'. Leather-bound, with blind-stamp of the Public Records Office of Ireland. Binding repaired with treatment to spine in May 2021. Paper: 184 pages (+ 3 unnumbered front flyleaves, followed by unnumbered title and content pages + 3 unnumbered end flyleaves).
Bibliography
  • For TCD MS 1747, see E.A.E. Matthew, 'The Governing of the Lancastrian Lordship of Ireland in the time of James Butler, Fourth Earl of Ormond, c. 1420-1452', unpublished doctoral thesis (Durham University, 1994), 74 n. 70, 75 n. 71, 76 n. 80, 501 n. 32, 520 n. 30 and n. 32, 521 n. 36, 522 n. 43, n. 45 and n. 50, 523 n. 51 and n. 54, 524 n. 59, n. 62 and n. 64, 525 n. 67, n. 70 and n. 73, 526 n. 74 and n. 76-79, 528 n. 80-82, 598; B. Smith, 'Crisis and Survival in Late Medieval Ireland: The English of Louth and their Neighbours, 1330-1450' (Oxford, 2013) 128 n. 148, 221. TCD MS 1747 used as source for the online database 'CIRCLE: A Calendar of Irish Chancery Letters c. 1244-1509', a Trinity College Dublin project launched in 2012: https://chancery.tcd.ie/content/bibliography#ms-sources [accessed 24 June 2021] Digital surrogate of TCD MS 1747 featured online 'Beyond 2022: Ireland's Virtual Record Treasury', a collaborative project between Trinity College Dublin, and archival partners The National Archives (UK), National Archives of Ireland, the Public Record Office of Ireland and the Irish Manuscripts Commission (2016-2022): https://beyond2022.ie/?page_id=1049#collections [accessed 24 June 2021]
Provenance
  • Placed in the Library of Trinity College Dublin in November 1920; date of receipt unknown; see note in pencil on (ii)
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  • ink
Support
  • paper (fiber product)
  • leather
Culture
  • Irish
Digital Object Id
  • MS1747_001
Source
  • 0150568

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