ballot bag / Corporation of Skinner's Alley

Regalia of the Corporation of Skinner's Alley. Cloth or canvas bag, lined with leather. Found inside the ballot box. The Aldermen of Skinner's Alley. This society traces its origins to the removal of the Protestant Aldermen fromt eh Corporation of Dublin in 1688 by James II. These men continued to meet in a house in Skinner's Alley until they were restored to office by William III, and in order to perpetuate the memory of these events they resolved to form themselves into a society under the title of the Aldermen of Skinner's Alley, uniting with them such other Protestant Dublin men as they were elected from time to time. The Society continued to exist as an extremist Orange body until the end of the 19th century.;