A great affray ~
1830
That James Herring, Patrick Curran , Labourers and
John Curran, a Mason, all of the town of
Carlow with many other unlawful disposed Persons and
Disturbers of the Peace of our Sovereign Lord the King whose
Names the Jurors are ignorant of on this the 20th Day of
April in the 10th Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord,
George the Fourth, by the Grace of God, of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the
Faith and so-forth, with Force and Arms, that is to say,
with Swords, Sticks, and so-forth at Carlow did then and
there riotously, routously and unlawfully assemble and
associate themselves together, and that James Herring,
Patrick Curran and John Curran being then and there so
riotously, routously and unlawfully assembled and associated
together as aforesaid, did then and there make a great
affray, contrary to the Peace of our Sovereign Lord, George
the Forth, by the Grace of God King, his Crown and Diginty.
And the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath, do further say and
present that the said James Herring, Patrick Curran
and John
Curran on the 20th Day of April in the said tenth Year of
the Reign of Sovereign Lord, George the Forth, by the Grace
of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ,
King, Defender of the Faith and so-forth, with force and
arms at Carlow Town aforesaid in the County of Carlow
aforesaid in and upon one James Butler a true and faithful
Subject of our said Sovereign Lord the King in the Peace of
God and of our said Sovereign Lord the King, then and there
did beat and ill treat and other wrongs to him then and
there did Contrary to the Peace of our Sovereign Lord,
George the Fourth, by the Grace of God, King, his Crown and Diginity.
(signed) H. Moore.