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CSO/RP/1827/481

Letter from William Hunt, Carmarthen, South Wales, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, stating that he was awarded a superannuated pension of £50 per annum following the loss of his right eye and reduced health as a result of his services as chief constable of police in County Galway, and informing him that since the recent change in currency, he was left short £4 [12s] every year.

10 Apr 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/482

Letter from [Lt Col] George Morris, Governor, House of Industry, Dublin, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, in complaint against Rev James Moncks, Roman Catholic Chaplain, for continued religious interference with children of the Established Church at the institution, enclosing copies of 2 documents sent to Moncks on 4 April 1827: firstly, a letter from William Abbott, Register of the House of Industry, warning him against further ‘religious warfare’; and secondly, an enclosed copy of 2 resolutions passed at a meeting of the Governors of the House of Industry, 21 January 1814, which indicated that ‘no child, of whatever religion, whether Protestant, Protestant Dissenter or Roman Catholic be permitted to change his or her religion, until they shall respectively attain the age of Sixteen years’, and that no chaplain was to attempt to initiate same.

[?6] Apr 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/483

Letter from Denis [Moore], [?Clonmore], Castlebar, [County Mayo], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, enclosing letter from Isidore Blake, Chief Constable of County Galway, requesting a leave of absence until 1 May 1827. States that he did not apply for it in the usual way as Maj [George] Warburton, [Inspector General of Police in Connaught], was out of the country, and that he has arranged for Chief Constable Wright from the adjoining Barony to oversee his duties in the meantime. [Moore] states that Blake’s son has fallen ill with a fever and must be taken to London immediately. Annotated ‘granted’ by Richard Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, and orders that the ‘special nature of the case’ be communicated to Warburton.

23 Mar 1827-29 Mar 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/484

Memorial of William Lucas, Thomas Maguire and John Fisher, to [Richard] Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, stating that they have served for many years as collectors of tax for the Foundling Hospital, and seeking pension: £25 per annum for Lucas, aged 56 with 28 years’ service; £20 for Maguire, aged 54 with 19 years’ service; and £20 for Fisher, aged 77 with 18 years’ service. Claim that due to the declining economy their duty has become increasingly difficult in the preceding years and that their income is 10d to every £1 collected, scarcely giving them £60 per annum. Signed by 5 governors of the Foundling Hospital. Also covering letter from Maguire, 3 St Patrick’s South Close, [Dublin], to William Gregory, Under Secretary. Annotation on reverse calculating the rate of superannuation pension payable.

2 Mar 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/485

Letter from WJ Heffernan, Clara, [County Offaly], to Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, seeking payment of expenses for giving evidence at a trial, which occupied him for 4 days during the present assizes in Philipstown [Daingean]. Annotation on reverse states this was not a case in which the [Richard Wellesley], Lord Lieutenant, could interfere.

28 Mar 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/486

Letter from [Richard] B Cotter, Cork, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, enclosing 2 memorials from the Grand Jury of County Cork [only 1 present] assembled at the Spring Assizes 1827, to Richard Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, enquiring into the progress of their previous memorial to him relating to the building of new courthouses on the site of the old Custom House in Cork city.

5 Apr 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/487

Letter from Thomas Flanagan, Wexford, to Alexander Mangin, [first clerk in civil department of Chief Secretary’s Office], relating to a summons ordered by a committee of the House of Commons to be served on Mr F, stating that he will remain at the house of Mr Ardill, attorney, at Aungier Street, until further notice.

26 Mar 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/488

File of papers relating to memorial of Grand Jury of County Tipperary to [Richard] Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant, seeking an increase in the police force in light of a state of ‘great disturbance’ in the county. Contains 42 signatures, and outline of additional policemen in 7 baronies, 26 January 1827. Also covering letter signed by Francis A Prittie, chairman, Conville, to unknown recipient, with annotation on reverse by Wellesley indicating that he had consulted Maj [Sir Richard Henry] Willcocks [Inspector General of Police in Munster] on the matter, who felt that an increase in police was necessary. Also: memorial of the magistrates of the 3 baronies of Upper and Lower Ormond, and Owney and Arra, also seeking an increase in police, with 19 signatures; memorial of the magistrates of the Barony of Ikerrin, repeating the request, with 7 signatures; damp press copy of letter of reply from William Gregory, Under Secretary, to Lord Dunalley [Henry Prittie, 2nd Baron Dunalley], Kilboy, Nenagh; memorial of the Grand Jury to Wellesley, repeating their request, with 22 signatures including [Capt] John Hely Hutchinson [2nd Earl Donoughmore], chairman, 31 March 1827; copy of letter from Henry Goulburn, Chief Secretary, to Francis A Prittie; copy of letter from Gregory to Hutchinson and both a copy and original letter of reply from Hutchinson, Grand Jury Room, Clonmel; copy of memorial of the magistrates of the county to Wellesley, thanking him for his intervention in the recent ‘horrid murder of Daniel Mara’, and calling for a revision of the arms act to restore order, with 56 signatures including the Earl of Llandaff [Francis James Mathew, 2nd Earl Llandaff], chairman; and draft letter of reply to Llandaff and the magistrates, annotated by Wellesley. [Contains list of names not given in this description]

26 Jan 1827-1 Nov 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/489

Letter from Lord Langford [Hercules Rowley, 2nd Baron Langford], Summerhill House, [County Meath], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, informing him that he is in the process of establishing a savings bank at Summerhill, and enquiring if he could send letters to the Bank of Ireland through the Chief Secretary’s Office free of expense, and if not, where he should apply, ‘as the charge of postage would be very heavy on the poor people who may place their money in it’.

5 Apr 1827

1827

CSO/RP/1827/490

Letter from Thomas Bernard to William Gregory, Under Secretary, recommending Mr Houghton for the position of chief constable of police. Annotation on reverse states that his name has been placed on a waiting list, but as there are many names on the list, it is not in the power of the Lord Lieutenant [Richard Wellesley] to comply with his request.

19 Feb 1827

1827