CORK.
106 REPORTS FROM COMMISSIONERS ON YOUGHAL.
1 Richard III.
2 Richard III.
12 Henry VII.
1 Elizabeth.
27 Elizabeth.
29 Elizabeth.
7 James I.
A charter was also granted in 1 Richard III.,
merely of confirmation.
The next charter is dated on the 17th day of May, in the second year of Richard IIT enrolled as the charter of Edward IV.
This charter gives the principal officers the mayor and bailiffs, and directs that they should be chosen by all the inhabitants of tne town, then admitted into the franchises thereof, on Friday
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Matthew and incorporates the town by the name of " The Mayor, Bailiffs, Burgesses, and Cor"««-i*--''
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o -— -r—-o uuiu personal and of lands, rents, &c in a court to be held on every b riday, and all fines, issues, profit* amercements, and forfeitures therein, to belong to the mayor and bailiffs ofthe said town-and that any one of them should have jurisdiction in the absence of the others; and that all
England and Ireland, and that the corporation should collect and receive custom and cocquet in the ports, creeks, and pills ofthe town, that is to say, from the headland of Ardmore, and Capel island, unto the island of Tooreen, as well by land as by water, unto the sea,'to be collected by the mayor and bailiffs, and to be expended in repairing and re-edifying said town and an account thereof to be rendered before two discreet burgesses of the said town, to be chosen yearly by the commonalty for that purpose, and no account thereof to be given in the Exchequer.
The next charter bears date on the 25th day of August, in the twelfth year of Henry VII.
(enrolled as the charter of Edward IV.)
It directs the election of mayor and bailiffs to be made as before granted by the charter of 2 Richard III.,
and confirms all former privileges.
It grants custom and cocquet to be collected by the mayor, and expended and accounted for as before, together with power to the mayor to inquire of and punish regraters; the fines to be converted to the use ofthe said town.
It also granted similar power as granted by former charters to the mayor with respect to the offices of escheator, clerk of the market, and admiral of the said town.
The next charter bears date the 3d day of July, in the first year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, (enrolled as the last,) and grants to the corporation the power of purchasing lands to themselves in fee, provided same should not exceed the annual value of £6.
The next charter bears date on the 18th day of July, in the twenty-seventh year of Elizabeth, and is enrolled in the charter of Edward IV.
It confirms all former privileges, liberties, &c, by the charters of Edward IV.,
and subsequent charters granted, or otherwise, lawfully by them theretofore had, used, and enjoyed; further grants to the corporation the office of gauger within the said port and town, so long as they should properly execute the office, and that they should have one mease of herrings in the year out of any boat that should fish for herrings within the liberties, in like manner as Waterford and Dungarvan, or either of them, do or ought to receive and take, under condition that they should, as often as need be, repair and maintain the quay and walls of the town.
It further also grants to them the ferry, or passage boat of Youghal, and all tolls, commodities, perquisites, &c, for passage of the subjects of the Queen, to be taken as formerly, at a yearly rent of bs.
8d.,
and exempts the said mayor, bailiffs, burgesses, and commonalty, from the payment of all executions or impositions called " cesse."
A Queen's letter appears on record, bearing date the 16th March, 29 Elizabeth, (enrolled Rot.
Pat.
29 Elizabeth, a.
20,) whereby the Queen authorizes a grant to the town of Youghill of nine quarters of land, viz.:
B allyntra, five quarters; Ballynmonty, alias Ballynite, one quarter; Kilnecaregy, two quarters; and Ballynemodugg, one quarter; lying in the county of Waterford.
for ever in fee farm.
But we were not able to find any charter made pursuant to same.
The next charter, and that which the corporation consider the governing one, bears date on the 22d clay of December, in the seventh year of James I.
(enrolled Rot.
Pat.
7 Jac.
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It recites and confirms the charters of Edward IV.,
2 Richard III.,
12 Henry VIL, 1 aw 27 Elizabeth, and confirms also all other charters and privileges theretofore enjoyed by them, saving the custom of poundage, for the purpose (as stated in it) of preventing ambiguities in former grants.
It grants to the corporation the office of admiral of all things belonging to the admiralty, within the limits mentioned in the charter of Richard III.,
with all the profits thereof, without any account to be rendered to the Crown, and that they might receive and possess murage, cranage, quayage, anchorage, and lastage, of all merchandise imported or exported into or out ofthe port of Youghal, in like manner as in Waterford and Clonmel.
It authorizes the mayor, bailiffs, and burgesses to meet together as often as they might tbnuj proper, and consult for the good of the town, and make bye-laws, and empowers the mayor and bailiffs to inflict fines for the violation of such laws, and to imprison the offenders until the in» should be paid.
It confirms to the corporation all lands theretofore enjoyed by them ana grants them two markets weekly, one on Wednesday and the other on Saturday, together wi all tolls, &c.
to said markets belonging; and also two fairs to be held yearly in said town, o on the eve and feast of St.
Luke and day following; and the other on the eve and feast the Ascension and day following, with a Court of Pie Poudre.
It grants a corporation ot staple as fully as in Dublin.
The mayor and bailiffs of the town of each year to be mayor a^ constables ofthe staple of the succeeding year.
It empowers the mayor, with consent o aldermen, to appoint an alderman deputy mayor, to do all things that to the office oim^^ escheator, clerk of the market, admiral, and say-master of the said town belong.
It fan ^ the corporation the goods of all felons, outlaws, and condemned persons,
and all nne
^ amercements in the same town happening or arising, and also the forfeiture of all goons chattels not entered, and wrecks of the sea, within the port of the town and liberties tne It grants that the mayor, recorder, and bailiffs shall be justices of the peace and or ,
