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but Duffey refuses. Now so it is Michael Duffey and Claud Beatty who have said lease in their hands, combine together and with said Arthur Cecil Hamilton and with James Young in order to defraud Plt. will not give said lease and assignment to Plt. Prays that writs may be gtd agst Claud Beatty, Michael Duffey, Arthur Cecil Hamilton and James Young to answer in the premises. Bill entered 19 Nov. 1756. Signature of “George Beatty” swearing 19 Nov. 1756 that he is a Protestant of the Church of Ireland. [Bill does not state what interest Jas Young had in the matter. P.C.]
Exchequer Bill:
Francis Beatty and Frances his wife Plts.
Catherine, Anne and Mary Rowlett, Louisa Frances Rowlett, Robert Brown exor of Mathew Ormsby, Owen Croghan, and John Conmee, Defts.
Bill 29 June 1769 Answer Catherine, Anne & Mary Rowlett 9 Nov. 1769
Plaintiffs Francis Beatty of Boyle, co. Roscommon, gent. and Frances Beatty alias Rowlett his wife, shew. That Robert late Lord Baron Kingsborough, late of Boyle, co. Roscommon, deceased, being seized, inter alia, of the town and lands of Carkfree, co. Roscommon, by lease dated 25 March 1748 demised said lands to Thomas Rowlett late of Boyle, deced, to hold for the lives of sd Thomas Rowlett, Catherine Rowlett his wife and Ann Rowlett one of their daughters and survivor of them at £12-16/- rent, which lease is in possession of the Defts and was registered. That Thomas Rowlett entered on said lands of Carkfree & held same till he died in May 1751 leaving Catherine Rowlett his widow, John Rowlett his only son, Plt Frances and Anne and Mary Rowlett his daughters, and in 1751 made his will whereby he devised Carkfree to his son John and his heirs subject to the charges in said will declared; and devised to his widow Catherine a considerable part of his substance and appointed Mathew Ormsby of Fortland, co. Sligo, and Owen Croghan of the Plain, co. Roscommon, Esqs. to be exors, who having renounced probate was granted to John Rowlett late of College Green, city of Dublin, glazier, decd, brother to testator, who took out probate in the diocese of Elphin. That said John Rowlett sold by public court in the town of Boyle all testator’s farm stock and household furniture (except what his widow Catherine required) amounting to £400, and said John also entered into possession of Carkfree and received the profits thereof till he died in 17 [ ], and Plts expressly charge that John Rowlett possessed himself and converted to his own use assets of Thomas Rowlett (to a proportion of which Plts are intitled) to the amount of £600. That John Rowlett son of Thomas and brother to Plt. Frances died in 1752 or 1753 a minor of very tender years and thereby Plt. Frances as one of his heirs-at-law became intitled to a third of Carkfree. That Plt. Frances on the death of her father Thomas became intitled to a fortune of £400 by his said will, yet Plt. Frances was educated at a Boarding School in the town of Boyle at the sole expense of said Robert Lord Baron
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