9th June, 1642. It was agreed to Lend £800 to the Releife of Ireland [at 8 per cent. Interest] upon the faith and order of the Parliament.
31st October, 1642. The Company having agreed to lend this £800 could not find the money, and so petitioned to lend but £400; even this they had a great difficulty about, having to sell their plate (except Henry VIII’s cup) to enable them to raise the money.
16th July, 1724. The Court having been informed that a lease had been agreed to be granted by the Ironmongers of the Manor of Lizard, of which they were seized in trust for this Company as to the sum of £350 (part of the sum of £5,000 being the whole purchase money originally given for that estate), and that a person had bid £12,800 for a lease of the estate for 41 years and had deposited one-third of that amount with the Ironmongers’ Company. It was ordered that the Clerk should wait upon the Clerk of the Ironmongers and get what particulars he could as to the respective shares of the associated Companies, with a list of the tenants’ names and rentals, and it was further ordered that this Company’s proportion of the fine agreed to be given for the lease should be invested in South Sea annuities.
3rd December, 1765. The Ironmongers’ Company having proposed that the associated Companies should purchase the tithes arising from the lands called Aghwey, in Ireland, the same was considered by the Court and agreed to, this Company’s proportion of the purchase money being about £80.
10th November, 1766. The Clerk reported that he had received from the Ironmongers £1,377 16s. 10d. for this Company’s share of the fine of the lease granted to Mr. Josias Dupre and for rents and dividends due in October last.
10th August, 1775. The Company agreed to contribute £100 towards rebuilding the Church of Desertoghill in Ireland.
