OF FREEMEN OF LIMERICK, & c. ( 1761.) 17 toll gatherer immediately put it under his coat and ran away; that he is a quaker and was a shopkeeper, that he had eight soldiers quartered on him by alderman Andrew Shepherd at the time he was mayor, that he applied to the said mayor for redress, and the mayor told him, if he did not like it, he would send more to him; that there were at that time only a company and an half to be quartered, that the soldiers told him they were taken out of the barrack in order to be quartered on him, that he imagined the mayor quartered said soldiers upon him out of ill- will, for his not being satisfied with his the said mayor's determination in a case which he brought before him; that he believed there was room to spare at that time in the barracks, and that the same men are often quartered at the same time upon different persons, but said he did not believe it was the fault of the magistrate. Aldermen Shepherd having desired that the said witness might be asked whether he had determined the said case honestly, the witness answered he believed he had not. John Bourke having been examined, said, He was employed under Thomas Farquhar who farmed the scales, that he saw a sheebeen which held two ale quarts made use of in the markets, that he measured it himself and carried it to alderman Francis Sargent, who was then mayor, and showed it to him, that the mayor took it from him, and told him they must not take by measure but by weight, that the next morning a large pair of scales were sent to the gate, and seven pounds, in order to take that weight out of every two bags, which contained two Bristol barrels; that he saw the toll taken accordingly, that he told the mayor the name of the person who made use of the large sheebeen, that he never heard that the mayor punished him; that when Arthur Roche was last mayor, he saw a large sheebeen, which they called a pudding- pan made use of by the toll- gatherers, he believed the same contained three quarts, that he saw them take toll by it, that he complained to the mayor, and the mayor said nothing to him. James Foot being examined, said, He farmed the gates for five or six years, that he collected the tolls according to the two printed schedules, except for slaughtered pigs, for which one penny gateage and one penny for the markets were received; that he never took the toll of any goods as dry goods; that he lately demanded for the custom of two horse- loads of scythes and reaping- hooks belonging to Mr. O'Sullivan, at the rate of one penny per dozen, but cannot recollect how much the same amounted to; that there have been several complaints for several years past of the exorbitant tolls taken at the gates and in the markets, that when any person complained to the mayor, and particularly to Arthur Roche, he was always redressed ; that said Roche rather leaned upon the toll- gatherer than the farmer, that said Roche and he farmed the gate of the Irish Town for one year, that said Roche canted the gates in order to raise the tolls, that he gave him directions to be very exact, that there should be no complaints; that he gave up the customs last year as three parts of what used to be allowed were cut off by the said Roche, who was mayor; that the former customs were taken by him by directions of the magistrates, that in the year said Roche was concerned in the tolls, there was an abatement made him of between sixty and seventy pounds on account of the camp; that such abatement was not made him by any order of the council, but the mayor and several of the council ordered his bonds to be delivered up; that said Roche was a magistrate of the city during the year he was concerned in the tolls, that he took one penny a horse load for potatoes, but the mayor directed him to take only one half- penny, that he always before took one penny if he thought it contained a barrel. Paul O'Sullivan being examined, said, He was obliged to pay at the gates custom one penny a dozen for reaping hooks, that an ordinary horse carries from eighty to one hundred dozen, that he deals in groceries, that he paid formerly for each cask of sugar or molosses, let the size be what it might, four- pence, but has been obliged within these three or four years past to pay six- pence; that soldiers have been quartered on him in great abundance when the barracks were full, and more than upon his neighbours; that he had eight men quartered upon him for four months together, that a doctor's mate was quartered upon him by Arthur Roche for fourteen months, and during that time he had twenty men quartered on him off and on, but not at one time. Alderman John Wight being examined, said, That in the year one thousand seven hundred and forty- one, when he was mayor, several merchants complained to . 370. E him