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Notes in the History of Sir Jerome Alexander, Second Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and Founder of the Alexander Library, Trinity College, Dublin
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 February 2009
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The Will of Sir Jerome Alexander, a parchment transcript of which is preserved in the Chief Probate Office, Dublin, is a document of more than ordinary interest; even with its cumbrous repetitions we owe no apology for producing it in full:–
“In the name of God Amen. I, Sr Jerome Alexander of the City of Dublin, one of the unprofitable servants of Almighty God, being of a perfect sound disposing memory, praised bee God, this three and twentieth day of March in the yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the Second of that name by the grace of God of England, Scotland, Fraunce and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c. the two and twentieth, and hereby renounceing and admitting and declareing all former Wills and Testaments by mee at any time heretofore made to bee utterly void & of none effect, doe declare this to bee my last true Will and Testament in manner & form following and doe now soe declare it to bee.
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page 107 note † Warrant Books and Patent Rolls, passim.
page 107 note ‡ Conway Papers in the Public Record Office, vol. cclxxxviii., paper 66; also passim.
page 108 note * State Papers, Ireland, 1633.
page 109 note * State Papers, Ireland, vol. cclxxxii.
page 110 note * Patent Rolls, 9th Charles I., Part 5, No. 2.
page 112 note * “Adventurers for Lands in Ireland,” vol. cccii., Public Record Office, London.
page 112 note † Patent Rolls: Charles I. Public Record Office, Dublin.
page 112 note ‡ “Prendergast's Cromwellian Settlement in Ireland,” 1870; 410, p. 265. Patent Rolls, 19th April 1661.
page 112 note § Patent Roll, Dublin Record Office.
page 113 note * Funeral Entries in Office of Ulster King of Arms, Dublin Castle.
page 113 note † Funeral Entries, Dublin Castle.
page 113 note ‡ Memoranda Rolls in Court of Exchequer, Ireland, 31 Charles II.
page 114 note * Exchequer Rent Books, in the Public Record Office, Dublin.
page 114 note † SirWill, Jerome Alexander's, and “Pleadings in Exchequer Court,” Button v. Barker, 1678Google Scholar.
page 114 note ‡ In his Will, dated 1668, Thomas Gorges bequeaths to Sir Jerome Alexander, his father-in-law, £5, and £5 to Elizabeth Alexander, his sister-in-law.
page 115 note * For these particulars respecting the family of Gorges we are indebted to the Rev. Frederick Brown, of Beckenham.
page 115 note † For this account of the administration of Sir Jerome's public bequests we are indebted to the Rev. B. Dickson, D.D., Trinity College, Dublin, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
page 115 note ‡ A careful examination of Patent and Close Rolls, Wills, and other public instruments, warrants the belief that the English family of Alexander is of Jewish origin. During the reigns of James I. and Charles I. such names as Samuel, Michael, Augustine, Paul, Thomas, Matthew, Nathaniel, and Jerome are common to the different branches of the family. The Scottish House of Alexander is a branch of the Macdonalds, and most persons of the name in Ireland are of Scottish origin.