L29/700/21/15

Lucas, Castle to Grey (18) Presents the case of the Reverend Thomas Digges la Touche of Tipperary, who requests a position be found for Thomas Fitzgerald, who saved him from assault during the elections. Confirms that Mr Scully has been murdered, and has been informed "that at the time of potato setting and turf cutting there is always an increase of murders in Tipperary."

20 Apr 1842

From: 1842 To: 1842

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Lucas,
de Grey of Wrest, Thomas Philip Weddell, 2nd Earl,
Lucas, Charles,
la Touche, Thomas Digges,
Fitzgerald, Thomas,
Scully

political correspondence, Lord Lieutenants, Chief Secretary for Ireland, clergy names index, assault, employment, general elections, murder, gun crime, potatoes, turf cutting, Ireland, Tipperary