A REPORT OF A DEPUTATION TO IRELAND IN THE YEAR 1825; PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE COURT

Author: Irish Society
Title: A REPORT OF A DEPUTATION TO IRELAND IN THE YEAR 1825; PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE COURT
Publication: London, England: Charles Skipper, St. Dunstan's Hill, 1826
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hardcover. Octavo. Later mock "half-leather" style - brown cloth over marble-printed, paper-covered boards.8 7/8 in. x 5 3/4 in. Four-section fold-out frontis consisting of: "Potatoe ground not leased but occupied by Henry Drane, and now proposed to be laid into the Fair Ground; Part of the Waste used as the Fair Ground proposed to be leased for Cottages; Part of the same Waste proposed to be attached to the Society's Premises; Waste ground used for the Fairs; [and] Hollow ground where the water lodges from which it is proposed to make the drain to lay the School House dry."

A group of Society appointees travels to Ireland to monitor expired leases, collect "Perpetuity Rents and Fines" where appropriate, and very specifically determine accounts in arrears and demand balances owed the society. 24 pp. + xi. Very Good Plus.

"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,[1] 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 Virginia Company of London had been created similarly in 1606 to colonize North America."

Plantations in 16th- and 17th-century Ireland involved the confiscation of Irish-owned land by the English Crown and the colonisation of this land with settlers from Great Britain. The Crown saw the plantations as a means of controlling, anglicising and 'civilising' Gaelic Ireland. (Wikipedia)

"To the Honorable Society of the Governor and Assistants, London, of the New Plantation of Ulster, Within the Realm of Ireland. We, of your Deputation, whose names are hereunto subscribed, to whom it is referred forthwith to proceed to visit your plantation in the north of Ireland, for the several objects following, to wit: First: To ascertain the value of the lands now to let, and also of such leases are are now expiring. Second: To view the school at Coleraine, and report thereon; Third: To use such means as should appear to be proper to ascertain your rights of patronage manorially, as also your rights of presentation to church livings, and to report thereon. Fourth: To call upon the general agent, his deputy and others, for any papers or documents belonging or appertaining to this court; Fifth: To consult the law agent as occasion might demand; Sixth: To call for and examine any leases granted by this court; Seventh: To draw on the treasurer and general agent for such sums as might be necessary; Eighth: To take the opinion of such professional gentlemen, or others, as to us might seem expedient; Ninth: And to report generally as to the state of the Society's property in Ireland."

Essentially a recordkeeping of British colonialism and its largely extractive practices.

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