Four documents signed by prominent Magistrates.  [1798]: Re...

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Four documents signed by prominent Magistrates. 

[1798]: Recognisance for Philip Germaine of Lisnavagh, Carlow signed in June 1800 by Judge Tankerville Chamberlain of the King's Bench who shared responsibility for the miscarriage of justice at the trial of the executed United Irishman William Orr in 1797. Chamberlain died in May,1802.
Appeal by Thomas Byrne signed by Lord Kilwarden ( Arthur Wolfe of Naas) in August 1801. Kilwarden was Lord Chief Justice of Ireland in 1803 when he was piked to death on Thomas Street, Dublin in July 1803 after being dragged from his coach by supporters of Robert Emmet. It was rumoured at the time that he was the father of Wolfe Tone.
Deposition from Reverend Thomas Brooke. Signed in March 1815 by Lord Norbury ( infamously known as The Hanging Judge ). The deposition relates to the trial of John Hickey for the murder of Thomas Brennan. 
Norbury's most famous trial was when he acted as judge at the trial of Robert Emmet in 1803. He continually abused Emmet throughout the trial before sentencing him to be hanged, drawn and quartered.  
Document referring to alleged murder of Andrew Kelly signed in July 1807 by Judge William Lord Downes who was appointed Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench to replace Lord Kilwarden after his murder in 1803. Following his death in 1826 Downes was buried, at his own request, in the same tomb in St Anne's Church, Dublin as the aforementioned Judge Tankerville Chamberlain, his inseparable friend for many years.. As a File, w.a.f. (1)