Succession of Clergy in the Parishes of S. Bride, S. Michael Le Pole, and S. Stephen, Dublin; An Appendix from the Preacher's Book, and a Note on Dean Swift's Birth-Place (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...Harfield, a most agreeable young lady, of fine accomplishments and handsome fortune. The ceremony was performed by his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin Dr. Cobbe, at the house of Dr. Smith, her uncle, in Henry-street. Fue's Occurrences, ijth January. 1790. Henry T. Lomax Walsh, Ll.d. Lyon deceased. Prebendary of Swords 1783. In 1796 he made the parish school a boarding school, and moved it from Little Ship-street to S. Michael's le Pole, in Great Ship-street, at a cost of 390 3s. 7d. to the School funds. He first had the Curates' part-stipend charged in the vestry assessments in the year 1791. The amount raised that year was 34. 2s. 6d. It was afterwards increased to 65 and. 113; and the impost was discontinued by the Act of 1833, which transferred the charge to the Church Temporalities Commissioners. In 1833 the Vestry raised the levy to 150, and petitioned the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to continue the allowance at that figure; but Archbishop Whately detecting the trick, drew his pen across the increase, and fixed the allowance to the parish for the two curates at 80 per annum--,50 to the Senior and 30 to the Junior. Dr. Walsh obtained out of the assessments over 350 for beautifying the church. He painted the "altar," as the Communion Table is frequently termed in the old parish books. Napper Tandy, who lived in Bride street, was his churchwarden, when in 1792 he was arrested at his son James Tandy's house in Chancery Lane, by the Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons, for challenging the Solicitor-General Toler, afterwards Lord Norbury. Napper Tandy escaped through the back parlour window. In the same year the Goldsmith's Corps of Volunteers was summoned to parade in S. Michael's le Pole graveyard, but the meeting was p...