CONCISE VIEW OF THE ORIGIN, CONSTITUTION, AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE HONORABLE SOCIETY OF THE GOVERNOR AND ASSISTANTS OF LONDON OF THE NEW PLANTATION IN ULSTER, WITHIN THE REALM OF IRELAND; COMMONLY CALLED THE IRISH SOCIETY. COMPILED PRINCIPALLY FROM THEIR RECORDS

Author: Irish Society, The
Title: CONCISE VIEW OF THE ORIGIN, CONSTITUTION, AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE HONORABLE SOCIETY OF THE GOVERNOR AND ASSISTANTS OF LONDON OF THE NEW PLANTATION IN ULSTER, WITHIN THE REALM OF IRELAND; COMMONLY CALLED THE IRISH SOCIETY. COMPILED PRINCIPALLY FROM THEIR RECORDS
Publication: London, England: By order of the court: Arthur Taylor, 1832
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hardcover. Octavo, 8.5 in. x 5.5 in., pp. xiii, [1], 235. Half calf rulled in blind over brown pebblecloth. Gilt title to spine. Owner's name ("A.M. Munn") in gilt to bottom of spine. Rubbing to extremities. Corners bumped. Front hinge showing, but holding. Previous owners embossed bookplate to front pastedown. Previous owner's notes and half-inch open tear to front free endpaper, and name, dated 1881, to title page. Previous owner's ink stamp and pencil and ink reading notes to many pages throughout text. Publishd Side notes. Laid in: Nine newspaper articles collected by previous owner. Good Plus.

Laid in newspaper articles are cut from The Irish Times and The Derry Standard, dated 1898-1906. One article entitled: "The Ulster Plantation Case : Judgement for the Defendant Companies" from The Irish Times, dated 3/12/1898.

Previous owner Alfred Moore Munn, Londonderry, is the author of "Notes on the Place Names of the Parishes and Townlands of the County of Londonderry" (1925). His oval ink stamp, "Alfred Moore Munn, Solicitor, Londonderry" is stamped repeated in the text.

The Honourable The Irish Society is a consortium of livery companies of the City of London established during the Plantation of Ulster to colonise County Londonderry. It was created in 1609 within the City of London Corporation, and incorporated in 1613 by royal charter of James I. In its first decades the society rebuilt the city of Derry and town of Coleraine, and for centuries it owned property and fishing rights near both towns. Some of the society's profits were used to develop the economy and infrastructure of the area, while some was returned to the London investors, and some used for charitable work. The society remains in existence as a "relatively small grant-giving charitable body". (from Wikipedia).

Seller ID: 86516

Subject: Irish & Ireland: History