Dossier 1 - House Account Book

Expenditure and receipt ledger for the Capuchin friars in Cork. The volume is titled at p. 5: ‘The Book of the Community’. The book mainly consists of accounts of Sunday and feast-day collections at the chapel, accounts of household and building expenses, and entries relating to the governance of the Order in Ireland. The listing below follows the sequence of entries as found in the volume:
• An account of Sunday and feast day collections at the South Friary, Cork. 1821-25, pp 6-54.
• An entry concerning the appointment by the Minister General of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC as Provincial Minister, and Fr. Louis (James) O’Riordan OSFC (1800-1857) and Fr. Vincent (Denis) MacLeod OSFC (1808-1861) as his assistants. 29 Apr. 1836, p. 56
• ‘Wine Account’. 1 May 1836-18 Dec. 1836, p. 57.
• ‘Organ Account’. 29 Apr. 1836-10 July 1836, p. 58.
• An account of ‘collections of the South Friary commencing from the first day of May 1836’, pp 65-69.
• An entry concerning the chapter meeting at the Friary in Dublin on 5 June 139 at which Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC was elected Provincial Minister. Also, entries relating to the election of definitors and the composition of the community in Cork, p. 69.
• An account of Sunday and feast day collections at the chapel doors in Cork. 1839-43, pp 69-88.
• An entry relating to the inaugural meeting of an association of regular and secular clergy called the ‘Clerical Society’. 10 July 1843, p. 89.
• An account of Sunday and feast day collections at the chapel door, Cork. 1844-45, pp 90-108.
• An entry recording the names of priests who died in the diocese of Cork in 1845, p. 110.
• The remainder of the volume (pp 111-259) is mostly comprised of accounts of collections, mainly ‘chapel rent’, door collections and other incomes such as mass stipends. The accounts are interspersed with entries relating to the general governance of the Order such as:
• A meeting of the community in Holy Trinity Church regarding the appointment by the Minster General of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC as Provincial Minister for another three years, and to the appointment of four definitors. 17 Aug. 1848, p 148.
• A visitation at Kilkenny Friary (3 Feb. 1852); and at the Dublin Friary (4 Feb. 1852), p. 176.
• ‘Donations received for furnishing the interior of the church and [the] purchasing of an organ’, pp 214-17.
• The visit of Fr. Victor of Chamonix OSFC ‘to enquire into the state of the Capuchin Order in Ireland and to make arrangements for the appointment of a “Commissary General” deputed by the superiors in Rome to remedy whatever abuses may be found to exist’. 10 June 1856, pp 236-37.
• The appointment of Fr. Alphonsus Muldoon OSFC (1822-1895) as Commissary General. 6 June 1859, p. 238.
• The recording of the death at Queenstown of Fr. Theobald Mathew OSFC on 8 Dec. 1856, p. 242.
Note: See also transcripts taken from this account book at CA HT/2/2/3 and CA HT/7/3.