letter / Corporation of Skinner's Alley

Regalia of the Corporation of Skinner's Alley. Copy of the Aldermen of Skinner's Alley letter to members to attend a meeting at Wynn's Hotel on Lower Abbey Street, on 4th September, to conduct business; to install Alderman Guinness Beatty as most noble Governor, and to nominate officers for the ensuing year. Signed by Secretary Samuel Warren. Undated. The Aldermen of Skinner's Alley. This society traces its origins to the removal of the Protestant Aldermen from the 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.;