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CSO/RP/OR/1829/211

Private letter from Maj Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police [for Ulster], Clones, [County Monaghan], to Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, requesting to requisition submitted by a number of Protestants to hold Divine Service on 5 November 1829, and observing ‘I fear there is no doubt they intend to march in procession as Orangemen’.

28 Oct 1829

1829

CSO/RP/OR/1829/212

Private letter from Maj Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police [for Ulster], Holly Hill, Strabane, [County Tyrone], to Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, forwarding report relating to his district [not present].

12 Oct 1829

1829

CSO/RP/OR/1829/213

Letter from Capt George Mears John Drought, [chief magistrate of police], Limerick, to Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, forwarding report relating to his district, as well as account of police expenses, for September 1829 [not present].

7 Oct 1829

1829

CSO/RP/OR/1829/214

Letter from Capt George Mears John Drought, [chief magistrate of police], Limerick, to Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, reporting the arrest of 2 persons for attempting to burn a house in Limerick city. Annotation on reverse by Archdeacon Thomas Singleton [private secretary to Hugh Percy, Lord Lieutenant].

27 Oct 1829

1829

CSO/RP/OR/1829/215

Letter from [Alderman] Frederick Darley, Head Office of Police, [Dublin], to Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, forwarding letter he received from John Murphy, Subinspector for County Dublin, Balbriggan, relating to outrage at [?Ballyboughal]. [See also CSO/RP/OR/1829/207].

23 Oct 1829

1829

CSO/RP/OR/1829/216

File of papers relating to complaint made against the Derrylin police by Henry Gresson, Dresternan, Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh. Includes letter from Maj Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police for Ulster, writing from Enniskillen and Holly Hill, Strabane [County Tyrone], to Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, returning letter from Gresson to magistrate Bartholomew Warburton, Swanlinbar [County Cavan], informing him that the Derrylin police are ‘drunken and totally inefficient’, with enclosed affidavit of Alexander Pattinson. Also encloses a number of reports from chief constables in Ulster, namely: EA Douglas, Ballibay [County Monaghan]; [], Ballynahinch [County Down]; Lt William Henry, Clogher [County Tyrone]; David Duff, Dungannon [County Tyrone]; Daniel O’Neill, Kilkeel [County Down]; William Crossley, Maghera [County Derry]; George Wade, Subinspector for County Tyrone, Omagh; Fielding Giveen, Saintfield [County Down]; and John Joseph Decluzeau, Strabane [County Tyrone]. Annotations throughout by Archdeacon Thomas Singleton [private secretary to Hugh Percy, Lord Lieutenant].

6 Nov 1829-9 Nov 1829

1829

CSO/RP/OR/1829/217

File of reports relating to Orange processions in Ulster on 5 November 1829, forwarded by Maj Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police for Ulster, Holly Hill, Strabane, [County Tyrone], to Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary. Includes reports, as well as lists of names of those known to have been involved, from chief constables: David Duff, Dungannon [County Tyrone]; Robert Ormsby, Brookboro [Brookeborough, County Fermanagh]; Charles Atkinson, Newtownlimavady [County Derry]; Lt William Henry, Clogher [County Tyrone]; John Clarke, Ballymena [County Antrim]; George Wade, Subinspector of County Tyrone, Omagh; William Crossley, Maghera [County Derry]; John Joseph Decluzeau, Strabane [County Tyrone]; and John L Griffin, Hillsboro [Hillsborough, County Down].

10 Nov 1829-23 Nov 1829

1829

CSO/RP/OR/1829/218

Letter from Maj Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police [for Ulster], Holly Hill, Strabane, [County Tyrone], to Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, forwarding copies of 2 letters he received from chief constables, namely: John Irwin, Carrickmacross [County Monaghan], reporting the misconduct of Roman Catholic curate Rev Henry McPhillips who ‘threaten’d to curse any persons who would send their children’ to an Irish teacher in the area; and John Crawley, Carndonagh [County Donegal], reporting a recent procession in Buncrana. Additional letter from chief constable David Duff, Dungannon, to D’Arcy, relating to an Orange procession in the area on 5 November 1829. Annotation on reverse by Archdeacon Thomas Singleton [private secretary to Hugh Percy, Lord Lieutenant].

10 Nov 1829-19 Nov 1829

1829

CSO/RP/OR/1829/219

File of papers relating to attempted murder of Edward Day, Protestant curate of Elphin, County Roscommon. Includes letters from: Lt Gen Lord Lorton [Robert King, 1st Viscount Lorton], Rockingham [Castle], to Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, forwarding letter he received from [John Powell Leslie], Church of Ireland Bishop of Elphin, Elphin, with enclosed report from magistrate Arthur Browne, Roscommon; Lorton to Leveson Gower, forwarding copy of resolutions passed at a meeting of gentlemen drawing attention to the ‘alarming state of insubordination to the laws’ in the county; [Maj] George Warburton, Inspector General of Police [in Connaught], Castlegar, [County Galway], to Leveson Gower, forwarding copies of affidavit sworn by Day, as well as report from chief constable TS Ireland; and Warburton and chief constable A Crossley, Roscommon Court House, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, informing him that he man who attempted to shoot Day has been found guilty. Additional note annotated by Archdeacon Thomas Singleton [private secretary to Hugh Percy, Lord Lieutenant].

12 Nov 1829-[c10] Mar 1830

1830

CSO/RP/OR/1829/220

Letter from Capt George Mears John Drought, [chief magistrate of police], Limerick, to Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, informing him that a gun previously stolen from an orchard in the city has been returned [see also CSO/RP/OR/1829/206]. Encloses report relating to 2 additional outrages in the county during the previous month [not present].

12 Nov 1829

1829