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CSO/RP/OR/1831/1531

Letter from Capt Bartholomew Warburton, police magistrate, Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting a plunder of arms and ammunition from the household of Mr Seymour at Somerset in County Galway; adding that identification has been made of two of those responsible by Seymour and his coachman.

5 Dec 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1532

Letter from Capt Bartholomew Warburton, police magistrate, Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, enclosing extracts from the chief constables reports on the state of the country in counties Clare, Galway, Leitrim and Roscommon: detailing various types of outrages such as assault, plunder of arms from yeomanry, intimidation of agricultural workers and theft.

5 Dec 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1533

Letter from [Maj] George Warburton, Inspector General of Police [in Connaught], Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, enclosing an extract of a report from Patrick Hobart, Chief Constable], Marble Hill, [County Galway], alluding to a number of outrages including plunder of arms and intimidation carried out by the Terry Alts in the district around Woodford; calling particular attention to the strong resistance put up my Miss Egan of Limehill to a party of insurgents who came in search of arms; noting that Miss Egan fired a shot at those who came to the door of her brother’s house and adding she was given spirited assistance by a servant named Peggy Barrett.

6 Dec 1831-7 Dec 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1534

Letter from Henry Alcock, Mayor, Waterford, [County Waterford], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, indicating that a number of individuals have been identified as having carried a printed handbill through the streets of the town denouncing the collection of church rates or taxes; enclosing original placard warning of the activities of the ‘Enemies of the People’ and demanding ‘let not your Houses be polluted by the reception of Goods dragged from your oppressed Neighbours!!!’; undersigned by the ‘Householders’ Club’.

5 Dec 1831-10 Dec 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1535

Letter from [Maj] George Warburton, Inspector General of Police [in Connaught], Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, enclosing extracts from the chief constables reports on the state of the country in counties Clare, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo and Sligo: detailing various types of outrages such as the armed intimidation of agricultural employers, killing of sheep, assault, illegal rescue of property, arson, destruction of forge equipment, injury to private property and the posting of threatening notices.

13 Jun 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1536

Letter from John Wright, Chief Constable, Ballinamore, [County Leitrim], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, drawing attention to a copy of a letter addressed to [Maj] George Warburton, Inspector General of Police [in Connaught], on the subject of the killing of an attacker by Edward Rosman; explaining that Rosman’s father’s house at [Edentenny] came under attack by a party of disaffected and observing that his father [Bennett Rosman] is a yeoman and the incident is likely to spark ‘the most serious consequences’; remarking that the police were detained at the fair of Drumsna so were unable to lend any assistance during the attack; adding that a full investigation will take place and observing that Edward Rosman has absconded.

14 Dec 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1537

Letter from John Wright, Chief Constable, Antrim, County Antrim, to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, reporting the wounding of a man of the name of Erlam during the delivery of a bench warrant to the house of Devlin on the townland of Grange; remarking that a police guide called Gilmour fired a shot and so did Sub-constable Cadden, both of whom are now committed to the gaol of Carrickfergus.

15 Dec 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1538

Letter from Capt Bartholomew Warburton, police magistrate, Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, asking for the guidance of the law officers of the crown on how to proceed with a number of suspects now incarcerated in gaol on the strength of information received from Hugh Gatley; enclosing affidavit of Gatley, ploughman and caretaker for Grenville Ffrench, Claremont, County Roscommon, stating that he was subjected to intimidation by a number of persons on the banks of the River Suck, some of whom were bearing arms; remarking also on a second meeting with certain disaffected persons on his employer’s property who had the object of having wages raised; also noting another meeting with the disaffected on the road and being obliged to subscribe 1s 6d for the purchase of ‘[gun] powder and shot’; also affidavit of Michael Ellis, steward and agent to Ffrench, stating he found a threatening Rockite notice attached to one of the gates at Claremont; adding the notice dealt with the subject of wage regulation and stipulated that farm labourers must be local men.

13 Dec 1831-16 Dec 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1539

Letter from [Maj] George Warburton, Inspector General of Police [in Connaught], Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, enclosing letter from [James O’Connor], Chief Constable, Tuam, County Galway, reporting that Mark Waldron and Anne Waldron of Cloonarkin, near Tuam, have ‘no right whatsoever’ to a property which they contest with John and Jeremiah Byrne and others; observing that Waldron imposed on the Widow [Mary] Mannion’s generosity and has engaged in various legal actions to take the land by force. Also petition of Mark and Anne Waldron, to Henry William Paget, Lord Lieutenant, seeking legal assistance from the crown solicitor to retrieve the property in question from John and Jeremiah Byrne and their wives; also affidavit from the Waldron affirming the truth of the petition; sworn before John Egan, magistrate.

[20] Oct 1831-16 Dec 1831

1831

CSO/RP/OR/1831/1540

Letter from Capt Bartholomew Warburton, police magistrate, Ballinasloe, [County Galway], to Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Gosset, Under Secretary, referring to an enclosed letter [not present] which he asks to have transmitted to Grenville Ffrench [of Claremont in County Roscommon]; noting the subject is the reported posting of threatening notices in that quarter, over which there is an air of ‘mystery’ attached.

1831

1831