People, Place and Power – The Grand Jury System in Ireland

51 Notes 1 Wood, Guide to records in Public Record Office , pp 126, 214. 2 Virginia Crossman, Local government in nineteenth century Ireland (Belfast, 1994), p. 25. 3 Roscommon and Leitrim Gazette , 15 March 1828, p. 3. 4 Roscommon and Leitrim Gazette , 9 August 1823, p. 2. 5 Neal Garnham, ‘Local elite creation in early Hanoverian Ireland: the case of the county grand jury’ in The Historical Journal , lxii, no. 3 (1999), p. 630. 6 An Act to explain and amend an Act, intitled, An Act to prevent Papists being sollicitors (6 Anne c. VI, sect. 5) 7 James Hardiman, History of the town and county of the town of Galway (Dublin, 1820), p. 226, note). 8 Roscommon and Leitrim Gazette , 15 March 1828, p. 3. 9 Tennison was appointed foreman at the summer 1831 assizes ( Roscommon and Leitrim Gazette , 23 July 1831, p. 3). 10 Isaac Weld, Statistical survey of the County of Roscommon (Dublin, 1832), pp 11 Thomas Davis, The Patriot Parliament on 1689 (3rd ed., London, 1893), p. 166. 12 An Act to provide for the more deliberate investigation of presentments to be made by grand juries for roads and public works in Ireland, and for accounting for money raised by such presentments (57 Geo. III, c. 107, sect. 7. 13 Hely Dutton, Statistical survey of the county of Clare (Dublin, 1808), p. 27. 14 Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1810 (50 George III, c. 103, sect. 47). 15 Deputy Keeper, Public Records of Ireland report, xxxii, p. 30 (hereafter D.K.P.R.I.). 16 D.K.P.R.I ., xxxii, pp 31-34. 17 23 & 24 George III, c. 42, sect. iv. 18 23 & 24 George III, c. 42, sect. 5; Dutton, Statistical survey, Clare , pp 354-5. 19 Crossman, Local government in nineteenth century Ireland , p. 27. 20 An Act concerning the repayring and amending of bridges, causeyes, and toghers in the high-wayes (10 Charles I, session 2, c. 26). 21 An Act to prevent the illegal raising of money by Grand Juries, and the misapplying of money legally raised: and for the better execution of an Act for the mending the high-ways by six days labour: and for the appointing overseers of the high-ways by the justices at their sessions, in default of naming them by the respective parishes (4 Anne c. 6). 22 33 George II, c. 8, sect. 11.