Beschreibung:

Co. Wexford Manuscript: A tall Manuscript Ledger, headed New Ross. Tenant Right and Commercial Reading Room 1852 - 1863, It contains lists of subscribers, and expenses (of which candles seem to have been the main component) From 1856 the members addresses are also given, approx. 75pp foolscap, old calf backed boards, broken. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1)* The Tenant Right League, founded in 1850 by Chas. Gavan Duffy and Frederick Lucas, initially received widespread support and returned fifty M.P.s in the general election of 1852. Its success was short lived and it had more or less petered out by 1860. However the foundations had been laid for future movements, hence it is useful to know who were the members of this pioneering movement in any given locality. The ledger should prove to be an important source for genealogists and historians.