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XXX SOME NOTICE OF THE
latt-r he made abstracts by 1m own hand. And he kept
him continually at work in making copies of entries relating
to the port and harbour of Dublin, to be found on the rolls
of the Court of Exchequer.
LUtof Fergu- Anion^ his other talents, Mr. Ferguson was a consumate
on'i copies for
master of clerkship, writing in a fine legible hand, with great
rapidity and accuracy, as will be at once seen by the great
amount of his writing in the Haliday collection in the Royal
Irish Academy. The following works to be seen there are
of his penmanship
A.D. 1260-1261. Complete transcript of the Roll of the 45th
year of King Henry the 3rd. Folio.
A.D. 1200-1221. Extracts from the Charter, Close, and
Patent Rolls of England, relating to the trade of Ireland, to St.
Mary's Abbey, and to the port of Dublin. Folio.
A.D. 1303-1308. Abstracts, and some translations in full of
Entries on the Memoranda Rolls relating to the collection of the
customs at various ports in Ireland by the Friscobaldi and other
Florentine merchants to whom they had been mortgaged by the
King as security for loans made to him, 31st to 35th King
Edward 1st. Folio.
A.D. 1272-1325. Calendar of the Memoranda Rolls of
Edward 1st and Edward 2nd. Folio.
A.D. 1319. Extracts from the Memoranda Rolls of Edward
2nd of this year, concerning the King's Mills near Dublin, con-
cerning the Abbey of St. Mary's there, the Florentine merchants,
shipping, and trade. Folio.
A.D. 1326-1379. Translations of Miscellaneous Entries from
the Memoranda Rolls from 3rd to 50th year of Edward 3rd.
Folio.
A.D. 1383-1643. Extracts from the Memoranda Rolls, con-
cerning the customs, trade, and port of Dublin. Folio.
A.D. 1554-1555. Memoranda Roll of 1st and 2nd Philip and
Mary. Extracts mostly concerning the nunnery of St. Mary le
Hogges. Folio.
A.D. 1613-1633. Extracts from the Communia Rolls of the
Exchequer, of entries relating to the trade and Folio.
port of Dublin.
A.D. 1295-1613. Extracts from the Judgment Rolls. Folio.
Copy of the By-Laws of Dublin. Folio.
A.D. 1320-1685. Municipal Records of the city of Dublin.
Extracts relating to ships, the trade, and the port aud harbour of
Dublin.