Title:
City of Dublin Election Defence Committee
Extent: 2pp Scope and Content: Printed cirular letter and notice from City of Dublin Election Defence Committee, Corn Exchange, Dublin, re. election of Mr.John Reynolds MP, various resolutions regarding.
Ref.
U140/J/02/27
Date:
[1848 - 1850]
Level : item Title:
Petition to Parliament
Extent: 1p Scope and Content:
Printed head of 'Humble Petition of the Undersigned Inhabitants of Ireland', to members of parliament, refers to public health acts in England and Scotland, and requesting similar act for Ireland, to 'diminish destitution as well as sickness and mortality, by amending ...the defective sanatory arrangements...suffered in an infinitely greater degree in Ireland'. (Possibly refers to Public Health Act 1848).
Ref.
U140/J/02/28
Date:
11 Mar 1848, 17 Apr 1848
Level : file Title:
Petition of loyalty, and letter from Dowden
Extent: 2 items Scope and Content:
1. 11 Mar 1848 Printed notice/petition of loyalty to the Sovereign, 'under the state of alarm and the agitation which surround us...', and determination to support the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. List of Honorary Secretaries in Dublin. (May refer to 1848 Young Ireland rebellion in Ireland, and/or the 1848 revolutions in Europe) (1p)
2. 17 Apr 1848 Portion of MS. letter from Richard Dowden, Rathlee, Sundays Well, to 'Dr. Sir', stating that he '....could not sign the address [item 1 above] to the Queen nor advocate its being signed...we have furnished a continual supply of mercenaries to the army and navy, because we has for centuries no more lucrative occupation for our people...'. Refers to barbarous penal laws and absurd restrictions, misery and poverty in Ireland, etc. (4pp)
Ref.
U140/J/02/29
Date:
16 Feb 1850
Level : file Title:
Notice of resolution re. John Reynolds MP
Extent: 2pp Scope and Content:
Circular letter/notice of resolutions adopted at aggregate meeting of the citizens of Dublin, at the Mansion House, Dublin, concerning their efficient and much injured chief magistrate, the Right
U140 Richard Dowden Papers Descriptive List
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