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CSO/RP/1822/11

Letter from Daniel Kinahan and Charles Haliday, Mendicity Office, 64 Fleet Street, Dublin, secretaries of the Mendicity Association, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, seeking a private interview to meet a deputation from the Mendicity Association.

14 Aug 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/12

Petition of William Frederick Bentley, 45 Bride Street, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting promotion to post of auctioneer for the sale of pawnbrokers goods for the workhouse division of Dublin, in place of John Burke, who is now deceased; claims that while he acts as assistant auctioneer, he is liable to litigation and imposition of penalties; includes memorial from Bentley to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, seeking appointment to post of auctioneer and to assert opposition to succession of Rodalphus Burke, son of the present holder of position.

[1822]

1822

CSO/RP/1822/13

Note from Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, to [Peter La Touche], Dublin, enclosing letter from William O’Brien, Brooklawn, Mohill, County Leitrim, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting further instructions respecting a communication from John Lawder, asking for transmission of warrant from treasurer of County Leitrim, concerning collection of Grand Jury cess for Barony of Mohill.

1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/14

Letter from Reverend Francis Berry, to Alexander Mangin, clerk, Civil Department, Dublin Castle, conveying local resistance to foundation of a fever hospital on cost grounds, and inclination for establishment of a board of health.

[1822]

1822

CSO/RP/1822/15

File of material relating to application for compensation and government employment by James Barry, Kilbarry, County Cork. Includes letter from Colonel Robert Hedges Eyre, Macroom Castle, County Cork, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, expressing desire that Barry should receive recognition for his ‘Exertions and Suffering’, 17 August 1821; also includes extensive ‘Inventory and valuation of the property of Mr James Barry destroyed by the Whiteboys in the attack on his dwelling house at Kilbarry in the County of Cork, on the 24th January 1822’; also includes letter from Eyre, stressing loyalty and service of Barry and advancing his claim for post of chief constable in barony of West Muskerry, 5 September 1822; also includes letter from Barry, City Gaol, [?Cork], to Chief Secretary’s Office, complaining of financial distress and of failure to receive maintenance payment for four crown witnesses who were detained in the county jail for reasons of protection, 30 January 1823; also includes letter from Simon Davies, Macroom, County Cork, to Eyre, Abbott’s Hotel, Dawson Street, Dublin, conveying details of ‘a most savage outrage’ with annexed copy affidavit by James Brown, who alleges he was attacked and assaulted on route to house of Reverend Kirkhoffer, 3 February 1823.

17 Aug 1821-12 Jul 1823

1823

CSO/RP/1822/16

Petition of Thomas Blundett, watch maker, 142 Abbey Street, Dublin, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting refund of legal expenses incumbent upon prosecution of court decree against the estate of John Lidwell; explains that his claim, while valid under law, was not correctly enrolled by the officer of the Court of the Exchequer.

22 Feb 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/17

Letter from Sir William Betham, Ulster King of Arms, Office of Arms, Dublin, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, wishing to have permission to make official declaration that grants of knighthood conferred by the Lord Lieutenant since the Union are valid and legal; refers to uncertainty over matter and to ruling in favour by Irish law officers.

4 Apr 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/18

Letter from Major General Richard Bourke, chairman of the board, Limerick Gaol, County Limerick, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting that a group of ten prisoners under sentence of transportation be removed to the holding depot; complains of overcrowding and immediate need for alleviation, ‘a matter of great importance not only to the discipline of the jail but to the health of the Prisoners’.

27 Apr 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/19

Letter from William H Busteed, The Mayo Constitution Office, Castlebar, County Mayo, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing account [not extant] and making application for payment for advertising and other printing work, forwarded upon instructions from Denis Browne MP.

4 May 1822

1822

CSO/RP/1822/20

3 letters from James Blackwell, late governor, Limerick County Gaol, County Limerick, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, advancing application for payment of expenses incurred in transmitting convicts and prisoners from the jail to other quarters, having failed to secure imbursement from the Grand Jury of County Limerick; includes schedule providing name of prisoner, crime committed and cost involved in transmission, with affidavit signed by Blackwell; also includes note on legal implications of issue with opinion of John Sealy Townsend, legal advisor.

23 Apr 1822-19 Jun 1822

1822