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CSO/RP/1818/14

Letter from Reverend Burnside [Presbyterian minister], Corcreevy House, Fivemiletown, County Tyrone, to Robert Peel, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, with observations on appointment of agent to Synod of Ulster previously held by the late Dr Black. As no answer to a past memorial was received asking to be considered for the vacancy, Burnside asserts ‘at least it would have been satisfactory to me to have been made acquainted with the reasons or qualifications that decided the choice...but I am not inclined to think an Oppositionist or a Sycophant has a better Chance of attracting the Eye of our government – than the man that does his duty with integrity in that situation in life in which he happens to be placed’. Draft reply written on side of letter explains something of the rationale of the appointment process.

16 Jan 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/275

Letter from Reverend George Hay, Belfast, County Antrim, to Robert Peel, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, recording thanks for appointment as agent for government bounty, Regium Donum, to the Presbyterian Synod of Ulster.

16 Jan 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/512

Address of the ministers and elders of the General Synod of Ulster, Belfast, County Antrim, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, expressing loyalty and good wishes upon his accession to post of Lord Lieutenant. Observes also that they hope for ‘a continuance of that favour and confidence, which the Presbyterians have amply enjoyed, since their first settlement in Ireland’. Document is signed by Henry Montgomery, moderator of Synod. Encloses draft reply from Robert Peel, Chief Secretary, to Reverend Montgomery, indicating that the Lord Lieutenant ‘will be happy to receive the Deputation from the General Synod of Ulster at 12 o’clock tomorrow at the Lodge’.

4 Jul 1818-17 Jul 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/533

Address of the ministers and elders of the Seceding Presbyterians of Ireland, to Robert Peel, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, expressing attachment to government and offering thanks for maintenance of ‘our happy Protestant Constitution’. Signed by John Rogers, chairman, Loughbrickland, County Down.

1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/653

Petition of Reverend James Wright, Presbyterian minister of Seceding congregation of Ballyblack, Donaghadee, County Down, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting payment of portion of the royal bounty or Regium Donum. Indicates that he is due a payment and defends record of Synod of Seceders, within whom, ‘there never was one penny deducted from the sum granted or appropriated to any purpose or sunk into any fund’. Provides short résumé of historical payment of Regium Donum to Seceding Synod, and discusses grounds for his claim.

24 Mar 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/789

4 letters from Robert Jocelyn, 2nd Earl of Roden, Auditor General, Auditor General’s Office, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, indicating that sums of £2,055.10.0 and £1,047.11.8 are due to the Seceding [Presbyterian] ministers of the Synod of Ulster, and that sums of £4,648.0.10 and £2,324.0.5 are due to the non-conformist ministers of Ireland, in accordance with Parliamentary allowance.

15 May 1818-3 Jun 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/805

Unsigned letter from agent of Presbyterian Synod of Munster, 28 Summer Hill, Dublin, to Robert Peel, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting payment of support ‘Grant from Irish Treasury’; also short memorandum stating that Mr Hutton has expressed desire to have the whole sum remitted to the Synod of Munster, in a single payment.

11 Jun 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1818/831

File of papers concerning applications from Robert Jocelyn, Earl of Roden, Auditor General, Auditor General’s Office, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, for payment of various salaries and dues owing for period up to mid summer. Includes letter from Roden to Talbot applying for remuneration due to clerks of the Secretary’s Office in Civil Department, of £145.16.9, 15 May 1818; also includes petition from Roden to Talbot, requesting that Bernard Boland, who is transferred to post of messenger with the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Office, should be supplied with warrant for payment of salary of £80 with gratuities, from the Consolidated Fund, 4 April 1818; also includes reminders sent from Roden to Earl Talbot, for various remuneration payments due on 24 June 1818: for salaries, £48,861.4.10½, for annuities £13,004.13.7, for money due to Under Secretary in Civil Department for payment of secret annuities, £967.10.0, for permanent services in Ireland pursuant to an Act of the 41st George III, £1,046.5.1½, for quarter salary of Joseph Nernon, receiver of fees, Office of Lord Commissioners of the Treasury, £541.13.4, for quarter payment of Judges Augmentation Salary, £6,787.10.0, for quarter salary of Denis George, Second Baron of the Exchequer, £50.0.0, for quarter salaries to several assistant barristers, £3,100.0.0, for payment due to Commissioners of Civil and Military Accounts, £1,875.0.0, for payment due to secretary of Commissioners of Civil Accounts, £175.0.0, for arrears due to Bernard Boland, messenger, office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Dublin, £21.13.4, for money due to John Baron de Blaquiere, for quarter annuity, £135.8.4, for individual payments due to Reverend F Archer, Inspector General of Prisons, Reverend Thomas Gamble, Chaplain of the Female Adult Penitentiary in Smithfield, Charles H Todd, surgeon to Female Adult Penitentiary, Reverend John Ryan, Roman Catholic Chaplain to Female Adult Penitentiary, William Logan, Inspector of the Four Courts Marshalsea, Reverend James Stubbs, Chaplain to Four Courts Marshalsea, Reverend James Horner, Presbyterian Chaplain to Four Courts Marshalsea, Reverend Andrew Dunn, Roman Catholic Chaplain to Four Courts Marshalsea, Abraham Colles, surgeon to Four Courts Marshalsea, and Sir JE Morgan, physician to Four Courts Marshalsea, an aggregate total of £368.2.6; for individual payments due to George Cavendish, secretary, Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, William D Delap, chief clerk of the Irish Exchequer’s Office, London, William Houghton, Parliamentary clerk of the Irish Exchequer’s Office, London, William C Smith, housekeeper, Bernard Patten, messenger, James Crofton, chief clerk, William Turner, revenue clerk, and clerks, Richard Trench, Edward Mitchell, PC Mitchell, William McCankey, William N Scott, Robert Robinson, AB Crofton, Robert F Gregg and Gordon Bradley, an aggregate total of £2,703.1.8; for annuities due to James Crofton, chief clerk, Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, Austin Cooper, military clerk and computer of reckonings, James Murray, keeper of house of receipts, WA Campbell, messenger, and John Smyth, Irish Exchequer Office, London, an aggregate total of £253.1.4½

4 Apr 1818-16 Jun 1818

1818

CSO/RP/1819/206

Petition of Anne Coulter, 9 Upper Dorset Street, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, requesting consideration for appointment to post of house keeper of new Richmond General Penitentiary. States that she worked as matron in Richmond bridewell, during its use as a fever hospital, herself contracting the disease. Notes that she is a widow with children to support. Also contains a statement certifying Coulter's good character, signed by Reverend David Stuart, 1 Florinda Place, Dublin, moderator of Presbyterian seceding synod of Ireland, and 5 other individuals.

[1819]

1819

CSO/RP/1819/435

Letter from Reverend George Hay, Londonderry, County Londonderry, senior Presbyterian minister of Londonderry congregation, to Alexander Mangin, chief clerk in civil department, Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle, concerning procedures for approval of new appointments to ministries in Presbyterian church. Suggests that in future, the Lord Lieutenant might forward his approval of appointments directly to Hay [as government's regium donum agent], rather than via the moderator of the Synod of Ulster, as 'the Moderator of the Synod has no other responsibility than certifying that such appointments have actually taken place'.

7 Aug 1819

1819