OF FREEMEN OF LIMERICK, & c. ( 1761.) 7 discharged from all manner of suits, claims and accounts concerning the same, or the application thereof; and it was also ordered, that the sum of 10/. 4s. 4id. balance due to the said Arthur Roche, on said account, should be forthwith paid to him. The said Robert Hallam, being further examined, said, He never had in his custody the report mentioned in the above order, that Arthur Roche was town clerk at the time the order was made, that he has been town clerk ever since the said Arthur Roche quitted the said office, that all the papers and books of the corporation, which he now has, were delivered to him by said Arthur Roche, that it is not usual to keep or preserve the accounts, that he made diligent search in his office, and could not find said report or account; that he never saw any receipt for any part of said sum, or any re- conveyance of the mortgages mentioned in the said order, he also said he bought the office of town clerk for about 500/. from Arthur Roche. Alderman Richard Maunsell, being examined, said, He did not remember that the said 2,000/. had ever been accounted for in council, or that the chamberlain ever laid any account before the council; that on the first day of May one thousand seven hundred and fifty, .565/. 13s. 4d. part of said 2,000/. was paid to him by the reverend Richard Maunsell for the use of Judge Hassett, to whom he paid same, and believed some hundreds were paid by the said Reverend Richard Maunsell to the bishop of Limerick. The Reverend Richard Maunsell being examined, said, He took upon the back of said deed of mortgage, Arthur Roche's receipt for 2,000/. the mortgage money, but that he did not pay the whole money to him; that he took a memo- randum in writing of the payments he made, and produced the same to your Com- mittee, by which it appeared, that Arthur Roche had received no more of said sum than 697/. 155. 2d.; that Mr. Hassett received 565/. 13$. 4d.; the bishop of Limerick 512/.; the executors of Exham 175/. 6s. 6d. and Mr. Widenham for a gate bond 49/. 5 s. gd. Alderman Arthur Roche produced to your Committee, an account of the appli- cation of the said sum of 2,000/. which he said was the account laid before the council, and appeared to be signed, but not sealed, by several members of the council; and your Committee beg leave to observe that the said Roche takes credit in the said account for the sum of 350/. lent to John and Vincent Brown upon their bond, and for several sums spent at a tavern, though it is recited in said order of the twenty- second of September one thousand seven hundred and fifty, upon the council books, that the said sum of 2,000/. had been applied in discharge of the corporation debts. The said Arthur Roche being examined, said, That John and Vincent Brown ap- plied to him to lend them 350/. part of said 2,000/. to purchase a commission in the army for Vincent Brown ; that he accordingly lent it to them upon their bonds; that what he so did was not by the direction of the corporation or of the council; that he did not know in whose hands the bonds were, or what is become of them, or to whom he delivered them; that the same were made payable to himself, and that there never was any money paid to him, as he remembers, upon account of said bonds. Said Roche being examined on another day, said he did not remember when he last saw the said bonds ; that he believed he delivered them to Mr. John Brown, but at what time he could not tell; that he did not remember that said Brown paid him any money at the time, or that he laid any account before him; that he never saw any account relative to the application of said money ; that he cannot from his knowledge say that said Brown paid any part of said money, but Mr. Brown sent him word that he had paid, as he remembers, 160/. to Simon Kent for his salary as scavenger, and Mr. Kent told him he had received it; as to the remainder of the money, he said he could give no account of it; that Mr. Brown is a gentleman of honour, and if he paid any part of it to him, he is willing to account for it. He said, he never saw any of the title deeds of the estate of the corporation, except the charters; that he had heard that the lands of Monebrahar were a gift to the corporation from some Earl fe£ Thomohd, that he knew the lands called the Spittal lands, that he heard and believed there was an hospital on them formerly, and that said lands were granted to the corporation for the support of an hospital; 207. ' that