Merchants and Traders Dublin, Watsons Almanack 1783

1783 Treble Almanack & Dublin Directory 1783 Transcription

Particulars of tenure at to Lot at 4 St Andrews Street

Simmonscourt, Dublin 4

Part of the lease Arthur signed guaranteed him his brewing water free of tax or pipe money, and in this regard he had a long standing feud with the city authorities which lasted over twenty years. Then on the 16th May, 1775 a Corporation committee and a team of labourers, having served notice on Mr. Guinness, arrived at the brewery and set out to cut off and fill in the water course from which the brewery drew its supplies. Arthur declared that if necessary he would defend his water by force of arms. The Sheriff, Mr. Truelock, was called and with two of the men set about the work of destruction. When at this point the outraged proprietor himself arrived on the scene, seized a pickaxe from a workman and defied the party to proceed,using very much improper language, the sheriff had second thoughts and counselled withdrawal.

Registry of Deeds 297-143 - 194319 Registered 15 Jan 1743, by Thos. Trulock, Thos. Meyler, and Edw. Beatty.

Memorial of Deed dated 9 January 1773, between Thomas Truelock of the city of Dublin, gunmaker, of the 1st part; Thomas Meyler of the city of the City of Dublin, looking glass maker of the 2nd part; and Edward Beatty of the City of Dublin, stationer, of the 3rd part. Reciting that the corporation of Dublin, by the following 12 respective leases all dated 20 Sept. 1770 and respectively demised to following persons, to hold said leases respectively for the lives of said Thomas Truelock, Edward Beatty and Thomas Meyler, with covenant of renewal every 70 years, viz;

To Thomas Truelock parcel of ground No. 1 situated on the Southeast side of Hog Hill, City of Dublin, containing 23 feet front to Hog Hill and in depth on the east side to St. Andrews Church Yard 91 feet, and in depth on the west side 91 feet, at £20 - 14/- rent.

To Thomas Truelock parcel of ground No. 2 situated on the Southeast side of Hog Hill, continuing front to Hog Hill 23 feet, at £12-1/6 rent,

To Thomas Truelock parcel of ground No. 3 situated the south side of Hog Hill, continuing in front to Hog Hill 25 feet.

To Thomas Truelock parcel of ground No. 11, situated on North side of Chequer Lane, City of Dublin, containing 20 feet fron to Chequer Lane.

To Thomas Truelock parcel of ground No. 12 situated on North side of Chequer Lane, continuing 20 feet front to Chequer Lane.

To Thomas Meyler parcel of ground No. 4 situated on Southeast side of Hog Hill, continuing in front to Hog Hill 21 feet.

To Thomas Meyler parcel of ground No. 5 situated on Southeast side of Hog Hill continuing in front to Hog Hill 21 feet.

To Thomas Meyler parcel of ground No. 6 situated on Southeast side of Hoghill continuing in front to Hig Hill 21 feet.

To Thomas Meyler parcel of ground No. 9 situated on North side of Chequer Lane continuing in front to Chequer Lane 20 feet.

To Thomas Meyler parcel of ground No. 10 situated on North side of Chequer Lane containing in front to Chequer Lane 20 feet.

To William Adair parcel of ground No. 13 situated on North side of Chequer Lane continuing in front to Chequer Lane 20 feet.

To Precious Clarke parcel of ground No 14 situated on North side of Chequer Lane continuing in front to Chequer Lane 20 feet.

That said last two leases Nos. 13 and 14 were by Mesne assignment then vested in said Truelock, Meyler and Beatty.

Witnesseth that Thomas Truelock, Thomas Meyler and Edward Beatty do hereby declare said leases so made as above are held in trust as to 1/3rd part to use of Truelock, 1/3rd part to Meyler and 1/3rd part to Beatty. Also, an endorsement on said deed whereby Edward Beatty did declare that a further grant was made by the Corporation of Dublin to Jeffrey Gibton of a Lot of ground No 15 on the North side of Chequer Lane aforesaid for said lives & which was by Gibton assigned to Beatty who hereby assigns same to the above partition trusts.

Said deed, and said endorsement and this Memorial witnessed by Felix Davitt and Bartholomew Delamare, clerks to Edward Scriver of the City of Dublin, Esq. Bartholomew Delamare swears as to the witnessing at Dublin. 15 January 1773.

Gentlemen, Permit me to return you my most sincere and hearty thanks, for every kind and obliging manner in which you are pleased to express your approbation of my conduct in the different offices I have been honoured with by this ancient and loyal Corporation. At the same time I beg leave to assure you, that I will, as a Magistrate, use every means in my power to promote peace and good order and shall always be happy in supporting the rights and privileges of our Corporation.

I am, Gentlemen, With great rRespect, Your very sincere, And much obliged brother, Dame-street, Oct. 8. THOMAS TRULOCK

Married Catherine Jones

Alderman John Darragh and Thomas Trulock, praying to have the old walls, rubbish, and dunghills adjoining their houses in Flint's Croft carted and taken away at the expense of the city: whereupon it was ordered, that the city treasurer do, on the Lord Mayor's warrant, pay the petitioners the sum of ten guineas to enable them to cart and take away the dirt, filth, and rubbish in the within petition set forth.

On the 25th April, we proceeded to sot by public cant, pursuant to notice given for that purpose, that plot of ground No. 31. part of Flint's Croft, late in the possession of Samuel Potter, containing in front 20 feet and Thomas Meyler having bid 3s. 3d. per foot for the same, in trust for Thomas Trulock, we thereupon declared him the highest bidder and taker thereof, the rent to commence on the 25th March next.

Thomas Trulock, esquire and Nugent Booker, to have leases in their own names of ground in Suffolk street lately taken by alderman Rose whereupon it was granted, pursuant to the prayer of the petition.

December: Auditors of the city accounts for the last year. Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, masters of the works, aldermen Horan, Lightbume, Emerson, Bevan, Warren, Alcock, Rose, Sutton, Exshaw, messieurs Jenkin, Fleming, Richard Manders, Trulock, Magee, Guinness, Tandy, Pemberton, James Clarke, Carleton, Wateon, Poole, Jones, Mulhem, Marin Clarke, Thompson, Poole Taylor, Lord.

Dodsley's Annual Register

This morning [Ist June] a body of about 500 or 600 persons, inhabitants of Ballsbridge, Donnybrook, and tlieir vicinities, repaired to Sandymount, there to take the oath of allegiance before Alderman Truelock,*' who, in the month of October following, being in a state of mental derangement, shot himself in his house at Simmonscourt.

Full particulars of the melancholy death of Alderman Truelock at his residence, Simmonscourt Castle, near Ballsbridge (see p. 85), may be found in the Gent, Mag, 1798, Part ii. p. 994. The house was for sale in 1799, and is described in TaxLlhuer's Dub, Joumal, 16th March.

Brief Sketches of the County of Dublin

Over the mantel-piece in the Boardroom now hangs an oil painting presented to the governors some fifty years after, in 1835, by Mr. Ball, the son of the Benjamin Ball just noticed, but the execution of which we can fix as in this year, 1779, for it evidently represents this conference with Ivory for the reduction of his plans. It is an excellent picture by Jonathan Trotter who attained some eminence as a portrait painter ; he had studied in Rome. There are nine figures, all having the character of good likenesses ; nearly all of them can be identitied. At the extreme right stands Trotter himself, palette in hand, talking to Benjamin Ball, a handsome gentleman clothed in black like a bishop ; at the farthest left stands Wilson, just appointed registrar, but not yet architect, for in the centre is an oval table ; at its head is seated, green- coated, well-looking, a gentleman who points to the open plans, and is anxiously questioning Vierpyl, who sits opposite in his working white jacket, and who seems nonplussed and not quite pleased with the examination. Between them, in the centre, is Ivory, in maroon coat, attentively listening to Vierpyl and the chairman ; beside the latter is seated a gentleman in scarlet doublet, half turning his face as if to speak to Wilson ; either he or the man in green we assume to be Blackball, but as both are at the head of the table we cannot decide. Two other figures standing between these and Wilson are said to represent Alderman Trulock and Alderman Tucker, who were both on the Building Committee.

Pic Order: Wilson, Trulock, Tucker, Blackball, Ivory, Vierpyl, Ball, Trotter

From: Foundation of the King's Hospital

From John Potter