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CSO/RP/1819/728

Statement of plans for the fitting out of Saint Patrick's cathedral, Dublin, for the installation ceremony of the Knights of the most illustrious order of Saint Patrick, 27 May 1819. Includes details of seating for guests and dignitaries, with accompanying seating plan in red ink. Also information on the distribution of blue tickets for ceremony. Signed by Sir William Betham, knight attendant and deputy Ulster King of Arms.

27 May 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/729

File of papers relating to petition of Dr John Peebles to be appointed physician to House of Industry, Dublin. Includes letter from George Hay, Londonderry, treasurer of Presbyterian Synod of Ulster, to Sir George Hill, MP for Londonderry city, recommending Peebles and requesting that Hill support any application Peebles makes for a professional situation, 6 October 1819.

6 Oct 1819-30 Nov 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/730

Letter from William Perceval, Mullinavat, County Kilkenny, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing statement of expenditure of the government grant for the relief of the poor in parish of Kilbeacon, County Kilkenny, and also numbers and names of individuals employed in the parish, and the numbers in each family, July 1817- September 1817. Also information on diet of poor of parish. Perceval emphasises importance of his efforts to find them employment, 'they were all well industrious and well inclined People & of such an independent spirit that if I had not adopted the mode of giving employment… many of them would have almost starved sooner than have taken it as a charity'.

Jul 1817-16 Aug 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/731

Letter from Richard Palmer, 7 French [Mercer] Street, Dublin, a proprietor of Dublin gas company, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, enclosing copy of a clause which the gas proprietors wish to be inserted into the gas bill. Clause would give gas company the right to open up public streets for conveyance of gas supplies. States such a clause is necessary to protect the rights of the gas company, otherwise their work is at the mercy of the commissioners of paving, 1 November 1819. Also letter from Palmer to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, stating that the gas company wishes to operate in similar way to other gas companies in towns and cities across England and Scotland, in providing light to private establishments, 25 November 1819.

1 Nov 1819-25 Nov 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/732

Letter from Reverend Dr Thomas Elrington, provost of Trinity College Dublin, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, Dublin Castle, concerning a letter of Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, to the commissioners of education.

9 Dec 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/733

Attested copy of writ of ad quod damnum on petition of Louisa, Dowager Baroness Ponsonby, to hold 4 yearly fairs in town of Philipstown [Daingean], King's County [County Offaly], with the return and findings from Garrett Moore, high sheriff of King's County.

8 Jul 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/734

File of papers relating to reports and copies of reports of investigations by prison committee, of conditions of Dublin jails. Includes detailed report on Four Courts Marshalsea, Dublin County jail at Kilmainham, and Richmond General Penitentiary. Also report on Kilmainham relating specifically to convicts, under sentence of transportation. Reports include information on location of prison; interior and layout; cells; day rooms; prison infirmary facilities; jail officers; admission of prisoners; details on prisoners held; their crimes committed; clothing and bedding provision; prison visiting; education; religious and moral instruction; classification of prisoners; employment; punishment and reward schemes for prisoners; exercise; diet; and cleanliness of prison and prisoners. Also printed pamphlet entitled 'Queries on the State of Prisons and on the Penal Code', Dublin 1810, printed for B. Dugdale, 6 Dame Street, Dublin, by Wilkinson & Courtney printers, Wood Street, Dublin. Also printed pamphlet entitled 'Inquiries relative to Prison Discipline, published by the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders', London, 1818, printed by Bensley & sons, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London. Contains 175 questions relating to all aspects of prison and prisoner life. Also letter from Henry Comerford, convict, recently a prisoner in a Dublin jail, now onboard the ship 'Bencoolen', at Cobh, Cork, to Robert White, high sheriff of city of Dublin, requesting that he forward the enclosed letter to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary. Enclosed letter of Comerford, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, refers to prison abuses, and presents a detailed picture of the situation he witnessed as a prisoner in one particular Dublin prison, warning that 'it is too much the Interest of every Person connected with its management to keep you from the real state of things least [sic] they might lose their valuable Employments', April 1819.

1810-19 Aug 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/735

Note from official in Chief Secretary's Office to John Sealy Townsend, KC and legal advisor to CSO, requesting to know if any law exists prohibiting party colours and Orange processions. Townsend has annotated his response, noting the relevant parliamentary act.

11 Feb 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/736

Report of Sir William Stamer, Thomas Casey, and Mark Magrath, divisional justices of the police district of Dublin, on the state of Dublin jails. Includes report on conditions at Newgate; the sheriff's prison; city marshalsea; Smithfield Penitentiary; Four Courts Marshalsea; Richmond bridewell; and Kilmainham jail. Signed by Stamer, Casey and Magrath.

3 May 1819

1819

CSO/RP/1819/737

File of papers relating to claims of Thomas Knox, 2nd viscount Northland, and Lord Robert Seymour, for compensation, should they be deprived of their fees as chief prothonotaries of the Court of King's Bench and Court of Common Pleas, following the reports of the Irish commissioners of inquiry, and the suggested reforms of fees of offices in the Irish law courts. They urge that the proposed parliamentary bill on the subject should include compensation for each of them. Includes letters from Northland and Seymour to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, in support of their claims, 13 March 1819-July 1820, and enclosing evidence compiled by them relating to their case. Evidence includes extracts from reports of the commissioners of inquiry; extracts from relevant parliamentary bills and reports; details of precedents for such compensation to be granted; and copies of returns of fees from the Prothonotary of King's Bench. Also includes printed pamphlet entitled 'Case of the Right Honourable Lord Henry Seymour, and the Right Honourable Lord Robert Seymour, Chief Prothonotaries of the Court of King's Bench; and of the Honourable Vesey Knox, Chief Prothonotaries of the Court of Common Pleas, in Ireland', London, 1818. Also list of fees recommended by the commissioners of inquiry for Court of King's Bench, and comparing those to fees currently received, [1819]. Also list of fees recommended by the commissioners of inquiry for court of Common Pleas, [1819].

1818-Jul 1820

1820