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Subscribers to a Reward Fund for the Murder of Michael Morris at Coolaness, near Irvinestown, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland 1802
Extracted from Saunders’ News Letter, Dublin, December 9, 1802 (Page 4)
Transcribed, Compiled and Submitted by
Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
len_swindley[at]hotmail.com
This file of SUBSCRIBERS TO A REWARD FUND FOR THE MURDER OF MICHAEL MORRIS AT COOLANESS, NEAR IRVINESTOWN, COUNTY FERMANAGH 1802 forms part of the vast archive of 4,000+ pages of genealogical records relating to COUNTIESTYRONE, DONEGAL, LONDONDERRY, ARMAGH & FERMANAGH provided without charge or subscription by CoTyroneIreland Welcome to the Premier Website & Research Tool for Cos. Tyrone, Donegal, Londonderry & Fermanagh Genealogy (cotyroneireland.com) A complete list of records pertaining to Law and Order inCounty Fermanagh on this website can be found at the foot of this file.
Whereas we have received information upon oath, that on the night of Saturday, the 18th or the morning of Sunday the nineteenth day of September last, Michael Morris, late of Drumschool, in the county of Fermanagh, was barbarously murdered by some person or persons unknown, on the lands of Coolaness in said county.
Now we, the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland, being full determined, as far as in us lies, to bring the perpetrators of said inhuman murder to speedy and condign punishment, do, by this our Proclamation, publish and declare, that if any person or persons shall within the space of six months next after the date of this our Proclamation, discover the person or persons concerned in said murder, so as that he, she, or they be apprehended and convicted thereof, such person or persons in discovering shall receive as a reward as a reward the sum of One Hundred Pounds for each and every on the first three persons who shall be discovered, apprehended, and convicted of the said murder
And we hereby publish and declare, that if any person or persons concerned in the said murder (the person or persons who actually committed the same only excepted) shall, within the time aforesaid, discover he, her, or their accomplice or accomplices, so as that he, she or they be apprehended and convicted thereof, such person or persons so discovering shall not only receive the said award, but shall also receive his Majesty’s most gracious and free pardon for the said offence.
And we do hereby strictly charge and command all Justices of the Peace, Mayors, Sheriffs, Bailiffs, and all other his Majesty’s loving subjects, to use their utmost endeavours to bring the said offenders, and every of them, to speedy and condign punishment.
Given by the Council Chamber in Dublin, the 16th November, 1082
Arran, Muskerry, Tyrawly; Frankfort; W. Wickham; John Stewart; J. Monck Mason; Wm. Meadows; M. Fitzgerald.
God Save the King.
WE the undersigned inhabitants of the Barony of Lurg, and manor of Archdall, in the county of Fermanagh, in addition to the Reward offered by Government, do hereby promise to pay the several sums opposite our respective names to any person or persons so discovering as aforesaid, within the space of six calendar months, from the 16th day of November, 1802.
SUBSCRIBERS
Subscriber
Amount
M. ARCHDALL, sen.
£100.0.0
G. D. IRVINE
£50.0.0
Edward ARCHDALL
£11.7.6
Robert FRAZIER
£11.7.6
Hugh NEVIN
£10.0.0
Hugh TUTHILL
£5.13.9
Henry IRVINE
£5.15.9
Mathew McDOWELL
£5.13.9
Pat. KENNEDY
£5.13.9
James FRAZIER
£5.13.9
John FRAZIER
5.13.9
Robert ARCHDALL
£5.13.9
Charles JOHNSTON
£5.0.0
R. GINN
£1.2.9
Andrew GRAHAM
£1.2.9
Thomas DUNDASS
£1.2.9
Irvine ARMSTRONG
£1.2.9
James MORRIS
£1.2.9
James COWAN
£1.2.9
Thomas McNAUGHT
£1.2.9
Terence McILROY
£1.2.9
Edward ROBINSON
£1.2.9
Hugh KEYS
£1.2.9
James DOUGHERTY
£1.2.9
William ROBINSON
£1.2.9
John WEIR
£1.2.9
Thomas BIRNEY
£1.2.9
John NOBLE
£1.2.9
James HUMPHRY
£1.2.9
Edward FLETCHER
£1.2.9
Arthur JOHNSTON
£1.2.9
William CAMPBELL
£1.2.9
John KEYS
£1.2.9
James IRWIN
£1.2.9
Michael McCONNEL
£1.2.9
Charles McCONNEL
£1.2.9
Wm. N. McNAUGHT
£1.2.9
Henry KEYS
£1.2.9
John McNAUGHT
£1.2.9
Francis JOHNSTON
£1.2.9
Christ. HUMPHRYS
£1.2.9
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