rule book / Corporation of Skinner's Alley

Regalia of the Corporation of Skinner's Alley. Collection of 25 copies of the 'Rules and Regulations of the Ancient Royal Society of the Aldermen of Skinner's Alley, established 1689'. Published in Dublin by the Order of the Society, 1871. Found inside the ballot box. Twenty-one with red covers, three with white covers and one with a blue cover. 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.;