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CSO/RP/SC/1825/291

Copy letter from Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, to William Foster McClintock, chief sergeant at arms, Court of Exchequer, 50 Dominick Street, Dublin, asserting that prior to the Lord Lieutenant’s acceptance of the sole deputation of John McClintock, the views of a memorialist [likely John Browne who seeks to prevent his removal or replacement as deputy serjeant at arms] should be considered by legal counsel. [See also description CSO/RP/1825/761].

22 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/292

Letter from Neville P Newnan [or Noonan], chief constable of police, Ballymahon, County Longford, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting on a seizure of weapons in his locality. With authority from a warrant supplied from Lord Forbes and Major Bond, magistrates of County Longford, he proceeded to the townland of Glenmore, where he confiscated a gun and three pistols; two days later, he visited the townlands of Clinan, Tinilough [Tennalick] and [?Kericurihy], where he obtained 5 guns and one pistol; and, in addition, seized a single gun from a premises in the town of Ballymahon. The weapons, he confides, are now placed for safe keeping in a munitions store at Athlone, County Westmeath.

6 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/293

Letter from Major Joseph Nicolson [Nicholson], police magistrate, [Kilfera], Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting on a man named Michael Moore, who was apprehended on a charge of vagrancy in County Armagh. He states he has spoken to two parish priests, Reverend Laracy and Reverend John Mullens, about Moore; the former admits to issuing him with a certificate of character, the latter has scant recollection of Moore but thinks he has a strong recommendation from a respectable resident of Johnswell. Their view is Moore is ‘travelling for Education, as (what is call’d) a poor scholar’. Encloses note from Mullens to Nicolson, confirming Moore is the same man to whom he gave a reference early last year: ‘an honest man’.

4 Jan 1825-6 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/294

Letter from Richard W Nesbitt, magistrate, Woodhill House, Ardara, County Donegal, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing an affidavit from James Mulherin [Mulhern] of Ardara alleging he was witness to a display of disaffection in the speech of two Roman Catholic clergymen. He states on the 19th of January, while in the [public] house of Owen O’Donnell in Ardara, he found Reverend Henry McCullough, parish priest of Glenties, and Reverend Cornelius O’Boyle, parish priest of Ardara, drinking alcohol with a numbers of persons. McCullough, he complains, raised a toast saying ‘God bless all Roman Catholics and to hell with all Heretics’. The priest continued his address indicating a tax of one penny per month [Catholic Rent] was intended to be levied on all parishioners with a view to seeing the victory and resurgence of the Catholic cause, in the process making a reference to the past exploits of Napper Tandy.

24 Jan 1825-25 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/295

Letter from John Richard Nunn, magistrate, Bowhill, Enniscorthy, County Wexford, to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, expressing his apologies over lack of punctuality in sending his report on the case of John Whelan of Moneytucker, due to a delay caused by the absence of Mr Hugh [Farmer], a local magistrate. Also letter from Francis Wyse, Marengo Lodge, New Ross, to Goulburn, referring to his conveyance of a memorial and papers on behalf of Whelan. Fearing the documents are mislaid, he asks for confirmation they have been received and requests the determination of the Lord Lieutenant on Whelan’s application for redress.

2 Jan 1825-7 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/296

Letter from Major Joseph Nicolson [Nicholson], chief magistrate of police, [Kilfera], Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, reporting on the general state of affairs in the area under his jurisdiction. He comments with satisfaction on recent successes in bringing the ill disposed to justice, especially ‘that notorious John Ryan’, who is sentenced to transportation. For the sake of the greater good, he confirms he will attend petty sessions at Galmoy, also at Callan, and on occasion at Castlecomber. He refers to a recent meeting of magistrates, during which the subject of the impotency of the resident magistrate was discussed, and at which a decision was made to seek his withdrawal. As to his own position, he claims to have the backing of the main landed proprietors in his exertions for law and order, and the support of the Lord Chief Justice [Charles Kendal Bushe] for his continuation in the office of chief magistrate. Encloses a table showing the ‘increase or decrease of Crime’ in his area, comparing the month of January 1825 with that of December 1824. Lists various categories of crime or criminal activity and includes longhand notes on some of the more serious incidents, such as the killing of sheep belonging to Mr Hayden of Caherlesk.

2 Jan 1825-3 Jan 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/297

Letter from William Nolan, Wicklow, County Wicklow, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, reporting on the case of Henry Masterson of the parish of Clough, Gorey, who is presently confined in the gaol of Wicklow town. Confides he is ‘a man of very weak intellect’ and papers found in his possession of a supposed claim to property are indicative of a deluded or ‘diseased imagination’, 14 February 1825. Encloses a copy form of committal ordering Masterson's imprisonment in the jail of Wicklow. States he was apprehended by the police constabulary as ‘a suspicious person’. Signed and sealed by John Dick and James L [Audwin], 27 November 1824. Also memorial from Margaret Masterson, to Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting the liberation from prison of her husband, Henry Masterson. Remarks he has suffered for some time from mental disability and ‘latterly become so deranged as to be a wanderer in the Country’, 8 February 1825. Also certificate in favour of Masterson, whom it is claimed has been struggling with mental health for a period of 24 years; in that time, they observe he was not ‘guilty of any crime to injure the Community or disturb the public peace’. With further attestation below signed by two persons, 30 January; 5 February 1825.

27 Nov 1824-14 Feb 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/298

Letter from Major Joseph Nicolson [Nicholson], resident magistrate, [Kilfera], Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, acknowledging a new regulation that shifts responsibility for financial matters [in the police establishment] from the pay clerk to the resident magistrate of the county. Should he be given the sanction of government to act in that capacity, he undertakes, to offer ‘the necessary Securities, and to enter into the Discharge of that Duty’.

12 Mar 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/299

Letter from Major Joseph Nicolson [Nicholson], resident magistrate, Kilfera, Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, enclosing a tabular returns sheet showing the ‘increase or decrease of Crime’ in his jurisdiction during the month of February 1825 as compared with that of January 1825. Shows the various categories of crime or criminal activity and their frequency; he notes beneath ‘The shearing of sheep and stealing of the Wool seems to be a Crime much practiced in the different parts of the Country and to be of late adoption’.

10 Mar 1825

1825

CSO/RP/SC/1825/300

Letter from John Toler, Lord Norbury, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland, [Dublin], to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, commenting about some aspects of his work in the general administration of justice in Ireland. He encloses letter to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting that government raise the plight of a tenant named Francis Phelan with [Edward] Wilson, chief police magistrate of County Tipperary [with corrections in text made by Norbury]. Norbury points out that Phelan has been subject to the wrath of the mob in a contest over land in the vicinity of the town of Thurles, and has sought the protection of the law.

13 May 1825-Aug 1825

1825