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43:, it was not unknown for the post to be "sold" by one holder to the next. For example, Arthur Jones-Nevill succeeded Arthur Dobbs in 1743, having paid £3,300 to secure the position. And despite being dismissed for maladministration, Nevill was allowed to sell the post on to Thomas Eyre in 1752. Eyre was the last holder of the office, which was abolished in 1763. 502:
McParland notes "Such sums were not fees or bribes to officials for the appointments; instead they represented the value of the post when it was viewed as the personal property of the holder of the patent". Thus the statement of May 1743 in TCD Clements MS 1741 that 'Dobbs has disposed his employment
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Molyneux paid Robinson £250 in return for a half-share of the patent (half of £300 per annum). The revised patent was issued with help from
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A History of the County Dublin: The People, Parishes and Antiquities from the Earliest Times to the Close of the Eighteenth Century
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An account of the family and descendants of Sir T. Molyneux, Kt, Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland
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The Economics Writings of Sir William Petty Together with the Observations Upon the Bills of Mortality
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his brother, Michael Fitzwilliam, of Donore, in the County Meath, Surveyor–General of the Crown lands
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of Ireland in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Surveyor General was typically responsible for the
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and construction of civic works, and was often involved in overseeing the construction of
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and public buildings. Though Surveyors General were officially appointed by the
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Collins's Peerage of England; Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical
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Maladministration, poor quality of barracks, being dismissed from post.
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Molyneux, Capel; Molyneux, William (1820). Phillipps, Thomas (ed.).
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Finishing Houses of Parliament after Pearce's death, and becoming
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to one Mr Jones' (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc. 2008/44)
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Royal official in the 16th to 18th centuries in Ireland
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Dictionary of Irish Architects - Edward Lovett Pearce
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Sir William Parsons and his brother Laurence Parsons
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Index

Dublin Castle administration
surveying
design
military barracks
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Walter Cowley
During pleasure
Thomas FitzWilliam, 1st Viscount FitzWilliam
Geoffrey Fenton
William Parsons
escheated counties of Ulster
Francis Blundell
reversion
Richard Parsons
Adam Loftus of Rathfarnham
surrender
Benjamin Worsley
Adventurers' Act
Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652
Vincent Gookin
Allen Brodrick
William Petty
Down Survey
James Shaen
William Robinson
Charles Fort
Royal Hospital Kilmainham
St. Michan's
St. Mary's
Marsh's Library

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