Folios 102-103. Letter from Chas [Charles] Cutht [Cuthbert] Carleton, Deputy Clerk...

Folios 102-103. Letter from Chas [Charles] Cutht [Cuthbert] Carleton, Deputy Clerk of the Peace and Clerk to the magistrates acting at Litchfield Street, to [Lord Stormont] that although some magistrates have been 'very constant in their meetings and on their stations' he is 'sorry to say the number has been very small out of that who are named in the Commission of the Peace, the excuse which they make for non attendance is so trifling that of fear of their houses being destroyed'. He names the most active as Thomas Parker, George Reid, John Croft, Herbert Whitfield, Thomas Gilbert, Husband Messiter and Jacob Fletcher. He observes that 'as the troop seem determined not to act without a magistrate, the calling out [of] the Civil Power to act seems highly necessary which at present they seem very backward'.