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CSO/RP/1829/251

Letter from Donough O’Brien, secretary, Office of Public Accounts, Dublin, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, forwarding statement of account of John Killaly [civil engineer], ‘for Public Works in the Central District’, 1822-1823. Additional letter from Samuel Collins, prosecretary, Office of Public Accounts, to George Yeates, requesting copy of same.

26 Feb 1829-21 Mar 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/252

Memorial of farmer John O’Keeffe, Kilmurry, County Clare, to the Lords Justices, seeking their intervention in his unresolved case against John Butler for perjury, heard before [Richard] Pennefather, Baron [of the Court of Exchequer] in Summer 1828, who was then a judge at the Clare Assizes.

[c1] Mar 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/253

File of papers arising from correspondence between Maj William Miller, Inspector General of Police in Munster, Fermoy, [County Cork], and magistrate Rev Josiah Crampton, Castleconnell, [County Limerick], relating to the nomination of a person to the office of police constable. Includes letter from Miller to William Gregory, Under Secretary, with 5 enclosures, including a summary of the case for the legal opinion of the crown advisor, as well as 4 numbered documents, namely: no 1 nomination of Subconstable Denis Egan of Castleconnell for the position of constable; no 2 letter from Miller to Crampton and no 3 his reply; and no 4 printed copy of the Rules, Orders and Regulations, for the Conduct and Proceeding of the Chief Constable and other Constables of the County Tipperary, outlined by [Sir] Richard [Henry] Willcocks, then Inspector General of Police in Munster, 1824. Annotation on reverse giving legal opinion of Richard W Greene.

[c20 Jan] 1829-14 Mar 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/254

Letter from Capt John Burke, Arthurstown, [County Wexford], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, requesting a copy of the minutes of evidence relating to his dismissal [as Chief Constable] from the police force. Annotation on reverse giving legal opinion of Richard W Greene. [See also CSO/RP/1829/92, CSO/RP/1829/160 and CSO/RP/1829/271].

11 Mar 1829-17 Mar 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/255

File of papers arising from a riot at Grafton Street, Dame Street, Nassau Street and College Green, Dublin, on the night of 13 February 1829. Includes letter from Sir Anthony Hart, Lord Chancellor, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, dated ‘Friday night [13 February 1829], ½ past 12’, informing him that ‘the Surgeon General [Sir Philip Crampton] has this moment call’d here to inform me that his Carriage was attacked in the way home thro’ College Green by a large collection of persons shouting no popery and himself and family put in great Peril by stones thrown at it’, stating that the crowd was largely made up of collegians, and that there were no policemen nearby. Includes several reports relating to the incident, by: Joseph Gabbett, magistrate of the fourth division of police, Police Office, College Street; Peace Officers William Manley and Samuel Hartley; Peace Officers Manley, Lynch, Sew, Lynch Jr, Harley, Irwin, Cunningham, Church, Gilbert and Holland; Peace Officer Galogly; Chief Peace Officer HG Goodison, Police Office, College Street; Peace Officer Needham, Head Office of Police; and chief magistrates Alderman Frederick Darley, Henry Charles Sirr, Alderman John Smith Fleming, Head Office of Police.

13 Feb 1829-23 Feb 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/256

Memorial of crown witness Edward Carr, previously of Tarbert and currently of Duagh, County Kerry, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, seeking permission to carry firearms and ammunition for the protection of his family and property.

6 Mar 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/257

Precis of outrages in the provinces of Ulster, Leinster and Connaught, January-February 1829, with memorandum indicating the approval of the Lord Lieutenant [Hugh Percy] ‘of the conduct of the Protestant and Catholic Clergymen in endeavouring to keep the peace on the 16th Inst[ant] [February] on the borders of Cavan’. Outlines the names of chief constables, their corresponding baronies, as well as date and details of their individual reports. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

31 Jan 1829-Feb 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/258

Two letters from Henry Richard Dawson, Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Deanery House, [Dublin], to Col Gardiner and an unnamed recipient, relating to the conduct of a catholic priest, Rev Walsh, who married a protestant solider, Richard George of the 53rd Regiment, to Elizabeth Brambrick, a Roman Catholic, at Castlecomer [County Kilkenny], 1 May 1828. Encloses extract of private letter he received from Lt Col Sir William De Bathe of the 53rd Regiment, forwarding marriage certificate issued by Walsh, and stating that George ‘was Joined under peculiar circumstances. The Woman was with child by him and consequently more than usually anxious to be married in any way’. Also letter from Lt Col [John Paulet] Earl of Wiltshire, Military Secretary, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, highlighting that Walsh ‘acted not only improperly, but also contrary to Law’.

1 May 1828-11 Mar 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/259

Memorial of Michael Dominick Wycherly, Cork, to Hugh Percy, Lord Lieutenant, seeking position as chief constable of police, with 17 signatures. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

4 Mar 1829-9 Mar 1829

1829

CSO/RP/1829/260

Two memorials of widow Henrietta Maria Mayne, 9 Belvedere Place, [Dublin], Maj [Thomas] Powell [chief magistrate of police], Corkagh, Rathcoole, [County Dublin], Hugh Percy, Lord Lieutenant, seeking support following the death of her husband, Sedbrough Mayne, Assistant Barrister for County Cavan. Also statement signed by 34 magistrates, testifying to Sedborough Mayne’s character. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

[c20] Jan 1829-16 Apr 1829

1829