Lot 543/0217 Barry Yelverton Peerage Grant, 1795 Letters patent of George III granting to Barry Yelverton the title Lord Yelverton Baron of Avonmore Co. Cork, 15 June 1795. In the manner of such Royal Grants, this is a large and impressive document written on vellum, with the great seal of the Irish Chancery attached, and with the edges lavishly decorated. The border is a pattern of blue flowers and leaves and the first line is written in large gold letters. At the head of the document are the King’s portrait, the crowned harp of Ireland, the royal arms and the rose and thistle of England and Scotland. At the left-hand side are the arms of Earl Camden (the Viceroy) and Lord Yelverton. Barry Yelverton, Irish judge and politician, was born in 1736 at Blackwater near Newmarket in north-west Co. Cork. He became one of the leading fiures in lae 18th Century Ireland, the golden age of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, and was a friend of Grattan, Flood, Charlemont, and Curran (also a native of Newmarket). Popular and charming, he was a founder member of the influential drinking club known as the Monks of the Screw (i.e. the corkscrew). As a member of the Patriot Party he played a leading part in the struggle for Irish legislative independence, but subsequently distanced himself from the more extreme side of the movement led by Flood. In 1783 he was appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer, a post he held until his death. In 1795 he was created Lord Yelverton of Avonmore in Co. Cork (Avonmore = Abhainn Mor, i.e. the great River or River Blackwater) In 1797 he was the presiding Judge in the trial of United Irishman William Orr. He voted in favour of the Act of Union in 1800, and as a reward he was further advanced in the peerage as Viscount Avonmore of DerryIsland in Co. Tipperary. He died in 1805. Heraldry: Arms of Camden: Sable, on a fess between three elephants heads erased argent as many mullets of the first. Crest: an earl’s coronet. Supporters: dexter a griffin sable, beack and claws gules; sinister a lion rampant or; each ored with a collar argent charged with three mullets sable. Motto: Judicium parium aut lex terrae [“The judgement of our peers or the law of the land” – a quotation from Magna Carta] Arms of Yelvert: Argent, threelions rampant gules, a chief of the last, bearing a crescent as cadeny mark (denoting a second son). Crest: a lion passant reguardant gules. Supporters: two lions rampant reguardant gules. Motto: Renascenture [“They will rise again.”] Condition: Unfortunately the document has suffered some damage. Portion of the great seal is broken off. The writing is faded and in places hard to read. The illumination, however, has survived well and is spectacular.
Lot 543/0217 Barry Yelverton Peerage Grant, 1795 Letters patent of George III granting to Barry Yelverton the title Lord Yelverton Baron of Avonmore Co. Cork, 15 June 1795. In the manner of such Royal Grants, this is a large and impressive document written on vellum, with the great seal of the Irish Chancery attached, and with the edges lavishly decorated. The border is a pattern of blue flowers and leaves and the first line is written in large gold letters. At the head of the document are the King’s portrait, the crowned harp of Ireland, the royal arms and the rose and thistle of England and Scotland. At the left-hand side are the arms of Earl Camden (the Viceroy) and Lord Yelverton. Barry Yelverton, Irish judge and politician, was born in 1736 at Blackwater near Newmarket in north-west Co. Cork. He became one of the leading fiures in lae 18th Century Ireland, the golden age of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, and was a friend of Grattan, Flood, Charlemont, and Curran (also a native of Newmarket). Popular and charming, he was a founder member of the influential drinking club known as the Monks of the Screw (i.e. the corkscrew). As a member of the Patriot Party he played a leading part in the struggle for Irish legislative independence, but subsequently distanced himself from the more extreme side of the movement led by Flood. In 1783 he was appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer, a post he held until his death. In 1795 he was created Lord Yelverton of Avonmore in Co. Cork (Avonmore = Abhainn Mor, i.e. the great River or River Blackwater) In 1797 he was the presiding Judge in the trial of United Irishman William Orr. He voted in favour of the Act of Union in 1800, and as a reward he was further advanced in the peerage as Viscount Avonmore of DerryIsland in Co. Tipperary. He died in 1805. Heraldry: Arms of Camden: Sable, on a fess between three elephants heads erased argent as many mullets of the first. Crest: an earl’s coronet. Supporters: dexter a griffin sable, beack and claws gules; sinister a lion rampant or; each ored with a collar argent charged with three mullets sable. Motto: Judicium parium aut lex terrae [“The judgement of our peers or the law of the land” – a quotation from Magna Carta] Arms of Yelvert: Argent, threelions rampant gules, a chief of the last, bearing a crescent as cadeny mark (denoting a second son). Crest: a lion passant reguardant gules. Supporters: two lions rampant reguardant gules. Motto: Renascenture [“They will rise again.”] Condition: Unfortunately the document has suffered some damage. Portion of the great seal is broken off. The writing is faded and in places hard to read. The illumination, however, has survived well and is spectacular.
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