Letters, 1766.

1 v. (17 leaves) ; 25 cm.

English

Gift, estate of Edith P. Hazen, July 2008.

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Richard Chenevix (1696/7-1779) was Church of Ireland bishop of Waterford and Lismore. In 1719, he became domestic chaplain to the second earl of Scarbrough. In 1728 he entered the service of Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth earl of Chesterfield whose influence was instrumental in furthering his career through the appointments first to the vacant Irish bishopric and later to the see of Killaloe, despite the objections of Geoge II, and finally in 1746 to the see of Waterford and Lismore.

Manuscript, in multiple hands, of a collection of 11 letters from and to Richard Chenevix, Bishop of Waterford, regarding a contested sum of money and interest on the sum, marked as charitable donations, from the will of the late Jane Bonnell who had died in 1747. The letters trace the development of case against Conyngham, from Chevenix's petition against Conyngham's petition submitted to the House of Commons in Great Britain against Lord Conyngham's exercise of his "Priviledge as a Peer of Ireland" with regard to the sum of money to the conclusion of the case, in which Conyngham waives his privilege before the House of Commons. The collection includes a letter from Mark Whyte, Conyngham's attorney; a letter from Conyngham himself; an account of the amount owed by Conyngham to the Bonnell estate after the conclusion of the case; and an account of court expenses owed by the Jane Bonnell estate.

July 15, 2008

Richard Chenevix, Letters. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

Richard Chenevix, Letters. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.