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A charge delivered to the grand jury at the general quarter sessions for the county of Cork, held at Bandon-Bridge, on Jan. 14, 1755. By Sir Richard Cox, bart. Published at the request of the justices of the peace.
Ireland. Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (Cork : County)Date: M,DCC,LV. [1755]- Books
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The secret history of Betty Ireland. Who was trepanned into marriage at the age of fourteen, and debauched by Beau M-te, at fifteen, by whom she had one son; the vile injury she did to that gentleman, and her turning prostitute; he ramour with Lord M-d, when she came to London; and her ingratitude to that noble gentleman. Her incest with her own son, by whom she conceived and brought forth a daughter, on whom she settled a handsome annuity; her taking a house and selling punch, &c. her being carted for a bawd; her revenge on one of the Justices who was principally concerned in causing her to undergo that shame; her amours with a Jew, whom she caused to be arrested for 300l. and with three merchants, (who were brothers) to each of whom she was married in seven days, without the knowledge of either; and afterwards separated upon articles of agreement. Her behaviour in Yorkshire, particularly in relation to the aforesaid Justice of Peace; her liberality in that county: her being robbed on Epping-Forest, having first shot one of the highwaymen, and being afterwards shot in the shoulder by another; her taking a house and intriguing with Smutty Will, an Irishman, who lived by sharping; his tricks with several tradesmen; his confinement and death in Newgate. Her associating with shop-lifters; her being taken in the fact; and the stratagem she used to escape a prosecution; her inveigling a young man to sell his patrimony before he came of age; her turning a strolling player, with the manner how she made herself mistress of the company; her enticing her daughter to leave her father; their arrival at Cork, in Ireland, after they had escaped a violent storm; their success there for many years; with an account of her sudden death.
Date: [1790?]- Books
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A charge delivered to the Grand-Jury, at a General Quarter Sessions of the Peace held for the County of Cork at Bandon-Bridge, on the 13th of January, 1740. By Sir Richard Cox, Bart. Chairman at said Sessions. Published at the Request of several of the Justices of the Peace.
Cox, Richard, Sir, 1702-1766.Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]- Books
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A letter from Sir Richard Cox, Bart. to the High-Sheriff of the county of Cork. Relative to the present state of the linen-manufacture in that county; and further means of improving it.
Cox, Richard, Sir, 1702-1766.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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The last speech and dying words of Martin M'loughlin, who was taken prisoner after the defeat of the French and rebels, at the battle of Ballinamuck, in the County of Longford; and being tried by a Court-Martial, was found Guilty, and ordered for execution, at St. Johnstown, in said County, on Monday 10th Sept. 1798. Wherein is recounted, The Manner in which said M'loughlin and others were Inlisted to Serve in the French Army. How poor Billy Rourke was shot by a French Officer for Mutiny. How the Irish Recruits were harnessed like Horses, to draw the French Cannon from Ballina to Castlebar over the Barnagee Mountains. How poor old Judy Dunn, and her Sister-in-Law, were ravished by a Negro Officer in the French Army. With a True Account of the Battles of Castlebar, Coloony, and Ballinamuck; and the Merry Adventure of Captain Tom Packenham, or, the Sailor on Horseback.
McLoughlin, Martin, -1798.Date: [1798]- Books
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A letter from a layman in the county of Cork, to the Lord Bp of C-rk and R-ss.
Philagathos, active 1751.Date: Printed in the Year, MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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Hints for erecting county granaries in this Kingdom, as the sure means to lower the exorbitant price of corn at the latter end of the year; To preserve a Sufficiency for homeward Consumption, to the great Relief of the Poor, And the Preservation of all our Manufactures. Addressed to the Right Honourable John Ponsonby, Speaker to the Hon. House of Commons. By Walter Weldon, Esq;
Weldon, Walter, Esq.Date: MDCCLVII. [1757]- Books
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The life, history, and remarkable pedigree of the Right Honourable Simon Lord Irnham, of the Kingdom of Ireland, father of the renowned Colonel Luttrell, the new created, supposed, or imposed member for the county of Middlesex. Dedicated with great deference and respect to the two hundred ninety-six uninfluenced, and unbiassed freeholders of the county of Middlesex, who voted for the said colonel at the last election. By Charles Jenkinson, of Corke, Esq;
Jenkinson, Charles.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- Books
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A letter to a Member of the Irish Parliament relative to the present state of Ireland. Wherein Many Advantages, are laid down which would arise to the Province of Munster in particular, and to the Kingdom in general, from improving and farther extending the Navigation of the Blackwater River thro' the Counties of Waterford and Corke.
Philo-Ierne.Date: [1755]