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Letters patent of G. z. granting certain premisses to J. Rigby,
now in possession of S. Synge,
but inconvenient and out of repair,
power to S. Synge to make leases of the premisses for 61 years,
and renew,
such leases to registered.
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XVII. And whereas his late Majesty King Charles the second, by letters patents under the great seal of Ireland, bearing date at Dublin, the eleventh day of September in the one and twentieth year of his reign, did give and grant unto John Rigby Clarke, batchelor of divinity, and minister of Saint Katherine’s parish aforesaid, and to his successors ministers of the said parish for ever, one timber house slated, with a back-side, stable, and garden, formerly the propriety or reputed propriety of William Plunkett of Beuly, situate and being in the street commonly called Saint Thomas-street, in the said city of Dublin, which said house, back-side, stable and garden, are now in the quiet and actual possession of Samuel Synge Clerke, doctor of divinity, and vicar of the said parish. And whereas the said house, back-side, stable and garden, and the improvements which were formerly thereupon, are now and have been ever since the late troubles, much out of repair, so that neither the said Samuel Synge, nor his successors, can or will be able to make any reasonable profit or advantage of the same in the condition they now are in, nor is the place by reason of its situation, found to be commodious or convenient for the habitation of the said Samuel Synge, or his successors ministers of the said parish, so as to encourage him or them to rebuild or repair the same, neither can or will any tenant without the security of a lease be had or procured, build or make any improvements upon the premises, so as to bring in any reasonable rent to the said Samuel Synge, or his said successors, so that the charitable design of his late Majesty, in so giving and granting the premisses as is abovesaid, is in danger of being frustrated or rendered of small effect. Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Samuel Synge and his successors, for the better encouragement of such tenant or tenants as are or shall be willing to build or make any other proper or profitable improvements upon the premisses, or any part of the same, to set or make one or more lease or leases of the premisses, either whole and entire, or in several parts and parcels, for the term of sixty and one years from the twenty fifth day of March, which shall be in the year one thousand seven hundred and eight, at such yearly rent or rents as the lord archbishop of Dublin for the time being, and the dean and chapter of the cathedral church of Saint Patrick’s Dublin, shall judge convenient and reasonable, which said rent and rents shall be reserved and made payable unto him the said Samuel Synge, and his successors vicars of the said parish, and also that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Samuel Synge, and his said successors for ever, at any time hereafter, to set, make, or renew all or any of the said lease or leases of the premisses for the space and term of forty years, from the day of the date of each respective lease so to be set, made, or renewed, so as that the first reserved yearly rent or rents so reserved and payable as abovesaid, shall not in whole, or in any part be any way impaired or lessened. Provided also, that all and every such lease and leases so to be set, made or renewed, shall be entered and registered within one year after the perfecting thereof, and the registrary of the consistorial court of the diocess of Dublin, is hereby required to register the said lease or leases for the benefit of posterity, in the registry of the lord archbishop of Dublin for the time being, for the so entering or registering of each which leases the sum of fix shillings and no more, shall be paid to the registrary or other officer, whose office or business it is or shall be so to enter or register the same: Provided also, That at the time of making, setting or renewing any such lease as is above mentioned, no other such lease of so much of the premisses, as by such lease is to be demised, or of any part thereof, shall then be in being, and not to determine within the space of one year.
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