Transcribed from a memorial in the Registry of Deeds, Henrietta Street, Dublin 1.
383555 [1805; Bk 566 Pg 354]
To the Register or his Deputy appointed by Act of Parliament for registering of deeds Conveyances and so forth —
A Memorial of An Indented Deed of Lease bearing date the fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five and Made Between John Kingston of Clodagh in the parish of Drimoleauge in in the Barony of West Carbery and County of Cork Farmer of the one part And Thomas Kingston of said place parish – Barony And County Aforesaid Farmer of the other part. Whereby the said John Kingston Demised unto said Thomas Kingston all that and those that part and parcel of the Lands of Clodagh then and still in the actual possession of the said John Kingston being the one third part of two Gneeves – the same more or less as Divided Between the said John Kingston Thomas Kingston and William Kingston To have And to hold said demised premises unto said Tho.s Kingston his heirs and assigns from the Twenty Ninth Day of Sept. then last past for and during the Natural Lives of three lives mentioned in the Grand Lease Granted to Said John Kingston and partners of a part of the Lands of Clodagh aforesaid by Sir John Freke of Castle Freke Baronet being Paul Kingston, Paul Kingston Senior and William Kingston or the survivor of them at the yearly rent of Six pounds Eight Shillings and a penny sterling by Equal payments and in which Lease are contained other Clauses and Covenants and said Lease was Duly Signed Sealed and Executed by Said John Kingston and said Thomas Kingston and same was Witnessed by Edward Skuse Richard Beamish and Nathaniel Skuse all of Butlers Gift in said Parish Barony and County Farmers And this Memorial was Duly Signed Sealed And Executed by said Thomas Kingston by Subscribing his name and Affixing his Seal to Said Memorial And Said Memorial Was Witnessed by said Nathaniel Skuse and James Mahony of Bridgetown in said Barony and County Gentleman –
566 = 354 Thomas X Kingston (Seal)
Signed Sealed and Delivered
In presence of —
Nathaniel Skuse
James Mahony
The above named Nathaniel Skuse Aged thirty years and Upwards Came this Day before me and made oath on the Holy Evangelists and Deposeth and Saith that he saw the Indented Deed of Lease of Which the above is a Memorial Duly Signed Sealed and Executed by the above named John Kingston and said Thomas Kingston by their subscribing their Names and Affixing their Seals thereto and he this Deponent Edw.d Skuse and said Rich.d Beamish are Witnesses thereto and that Deponent saw said Tho.s Kingston duly Sign Seal and Execute the above Mem.l and that Mem.l was Witnessed by Dep.t & Ja.s Mahony
Nat.l Skuse
Sworn before me at Skibbereen in the County of Cork this 30.th Day of March 1805 by Virtue of a Commission issued forth of Said Court and to me Directed to receive Affidavits and I know the Depon.t,
Richard Fair
Kyngeston 