Hello [#Q: Small extract here but a poignant reminder of the conditions our forebears were subjected to whilst awaiting dispersal in Dublin, dated from the same week as my last Transcript (#P). ***START HERE*** Entry Book of King's & Queen's Letters & of Reports &c Vol 15 1E-2-6 Pages 65 to 67 Indexed under Ryly Complaint of Tho Ryly the Barrackmaster of Dublin Barracks undated but order for Report dated at London 17 Feb 1710 with Report dated 3 May 1711 thereon That there are then lodged in the said Barracks about 280 families of Palatines in about 70 rooms which had been built to contain 8 soldiers each, or 20 souls of Palatines in some of the rooms, That they get the same allowance from the Palatine Commissioners, as some 25 or 30 Palatine families which pay for their own lodgings in the city. Mention is made of Mr Hance the Interpreter, and Mr Smales the Paymaster. That at their first coming some of them died of "spotted fever". That their fuel which is brushwood gathered out of hedges has several times set the chimnies on fire. That they keep stores of their provisions in their rooms which attract rats and mice to the barracks &c &c Complains of their dirty habits, and the expense of cleaning after them. ***END HERE*** [Mr 'Hance' is Mr Hintz, the Agent for the Palatines. This despatch will be followed by a few miscellaneous letters, all relevant to the settlement of our immigrants - including some of the rarer documents concerning the Palatines consigned to North America. Then I will move on to some of the more weightier metrial.] Bye bye Terry