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CSO/RP/1820/231

Letter from Mr Bethel, 133 Stephen’s Green, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, regarding address from corporation of shoemakers.

8 Feb 1821

1821

CSO/RP/1820/232

Letter from James Goddard, secretary, Chamber of Commerce, Belfast, County Antrim, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, referring to memorial on issue of violation of oaths, with reference to Custom House business transactions. Encloses copy memorial from Chamber of Commerce to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury, requesting revision of law with respect to the administration of oaths for performance of public office.

?7 Dec 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/233

Letter from Hugh Bowen, late captain, 41st Regiment of Foot, Emo, Ballybrittas, County Laois, to Reverend John C Talbot, Private Secretary to Earl Talbot, Phoenix Park, Dublin, enclosing memorial to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting position of employment; also mentions having to support a wife and nine children and refers to loyalty of family during the ‘Irish Rebellion’.

12 Jan 1821

1821

CSO/RP/1820/234

Letter from Peter Blake, Corbally, near Loughrea, County Galway, to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to a post of employment. Refers to prior application, difficult circumstances and loss of wife.

12 Jan 1821

1821

CSO/RP/1820/235

Petition of Thomas Burley, late sergeant, 3rd Garrison Battalion, Castleblakeney, County Galway, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting appointment to a post in the police establishment for County Galway. Mentions that he is a pensioner of Kilmainham Hospital with an allowance of nine pence a day, that he was ‘born and Educated in the Protestant Religion’ and his children attended the free school instituted by the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Tuam. Memorial is supported by signatures of clergy and magistrates of the county.

3 Mar 1821

1821

CSO/RP/1820/236

Letter from Sir William Betham, Ulster King of Arms, Office of Arms, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, requesting custody of the Irish Parliamentary Records and use of clerical assistant to attend the depository where the documents are stored; proposal is advanced on grounds that the office of keeper is now defunct, that no official is charged with attesting documents, and to facilitate access to the papers ‘for all official and judicial purposes’. Includes memorandum concerning storage and preservation of official records, deemed to be ‘of great National importance’, reference to discontinuation of the office of Keeper of Records of Parliament and responsibilities allotted to the Commissioners of Records; also attached printed copy of warrant from Viscount Whitworth, Lord Lieutenant. Also includes letter from William Shaw Mason, secretary, Records Commission, Tower, Dublin Castle, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, indicating that an explanatory paper on the question of custody of the Records of Parliament has been prepared, and hopes that an abstract might be presented to Gregory; also includes letter from John Sealy Townsend declaring that he has no legal objection to Betham’s proposals.

13 May 1820-12 Jun 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/237

Report of the magistrates of the Head Office of Police, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, supporting memorial of William Burroughs, Kilgraney, County Carlow, for claim to reward for capture of prison escapee, Thomas Wade, against FG Bourns, the head gaoler of Newgate. Includes certificate in support of character of Burroughs, who served as private in the 1st Carlow Corps of Cavalry during the 1798 Rebellion, from Captain William Knott, 17 Molesworth Street, Dublin; also includes petition from Burroughs to Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant, Dublin Castle, requesting assistance with claim against gaoler for reward for apprehension of Wade, ‘who had been under Sentence of Transportation, for many frauds and Forgeries practiced on the Bank of Ireland and on the public in General’.

2 May 1820-12 May 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/238

Letter from Dr George Renny, Army Medical Office, Dublin, to William H Gregory, Under Secretary of Ireland, Dublin Castle, reporting on treatment of fever patients resident in the locality of Castleknock, County Dublin; discusses use of other facilities such as the Cook street Hospital, Sir Patrick Dunn’s Hospital, Steeven’s [Steven's] Hospital and the Whitworth Fever Hospital, but concludes ‘it would be a wise measure to open a small fever Hospital, say for eight or ten Beds, in a situation convenient to Castleknock’. Includes letter from Alexander Mangin, Dublin Castle, to Chief Secretary’s Office, Dublin Castle, enclosing letter from James Henthorn and Reverend William O’Connor, House of Industry, Dublin, to Gregory, reporting on extent of fever outbreak in the neighbourhood of Castleknock, and observing that ‘the disease does not Appear to be generally extended, nor of a Very Malignant Type’; refers also to opinion of Reverend O’Connor, rector of parish of Castleknock, County Dublin.

2 May 1820-4 May 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/239

Letter from Dr George Renny, Army Medical Office, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, with observation on correct form of application for funding available to the Boards of Health for Finglas and Glasnevin, County Dublin; asserts that the Lord Lieutenant should entertain no claims upon the Treasury, especially for payment of salaries ‘as such a Precedent, once established, would lead to large and Indefinite Demands upon the Government, and ought only to be listened to when the general Health of the Country is in imminent Danger’.

14 Sep 1820

1820

CSO/RP/1820/240

Letter from Dr George Renny, Army Medical Office, Dublin, to Charles Grant, Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle, reporting on prospect of establishing a lunatic asylum, in Belfast, County Antrim, with capacity to accommodate 100 or 150 patients. Refers to selection of an eight acre site by Francis Johnston, architect, on the Shankill road, owned by Reverend Hannah, under head landlord, Lord Donegal, with terms of purchase that ‘appear to be rather high’; indicates that further inquiries on the matter by Thomas Vernon, sovereign of Belfast, will be facilitated.

23 Nov 1820

1820