[ Note added 2012 by Michael Purcell - recently at a sale of Banknotes in Spinks Auction House a nine shilling banknote from Newport's Waterford Bank was sold for over 3,000 Pounds sterling. The forged note could be worth even more !...unfortunately it was not attached to this charge sheet ........] Pat Purcell Papers. 1820. By the Reverend James Mcgrath One of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the Countys of Carlow and Kilkenny. The Informations of James Lawler of Bagenalstown, Carlow, Shop Keeper. being Sworn on the Holy Evangelist and Examined Deposeth and Saith that John Cunningham of Graige-nomana in the County of Kilkenny , Boatman, came in about Six Months back to the shop of James Lawler for the Change of a Twenty five shilling Note drawn on Newports Bank in Waterford which James Lawler to oblige John Cunningham gave him One Pound of Bank of Ireland and five shillings in change which now James Lawler Strongly and Verily believes John Cunningham knew the above Note to be forged and that he gave it to James Lawler knowing it to be a forgery (signed) James Lawler. Sworn before me this 6th day of June 1820. (signed) James Mcgrath. Magistrate. [ Note added 2012 - extract on the Newport family from The Keep Military Museum. The Newport family [image: The Newport Family - click for enlargement]<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/html/compose/static_files/gallery.php?&id=111573&sid=b118a153a51a08e36a3a8133478a9d19&frompage=%2Fnewport_family.php%3F%26dx%3D1%26ob%3D3%26rpn%3Dnewport_family%26sid%3Db118a153a51a08e36a3a8133478a9d19>In 1670 the Duke of Ormonde established a woollen factory at Carrick-on-Suir, bringing over from England a number of families who had previously been driven out of the Netherlands because of their Protestant beliefs. One of the Dutch émigrés was John Newport, whose family subsequently prospered in and around Waterford. In the mid-18th century his grandson Simon founded the principal bank of Waterford, Simon Newport and Sons. By 1803 the bank of 'William Newport, Samuel Newport and John Newport' had 36,600 notes in circulation under three guineas, 6,500 under ten pounds and 3,500 under fifty pounds. Five years later notes in public circulation at Newport's Bank totalled some £150,000. In those halcyon days there was an expression in Waterford, 'as good as Newport's notes'. Another measure of their influence is that ten members of the Newport family held the office of Mayor of Waterford between 1727 and 1840. Simon Newport, whose uncle Samuel was a partner in Newport's Bank, was born on 1 November 1788, the only son of Sir Simon Newport, Mayor of Waterford in 1792 and 1824, and his wife Jane, daughter of the Venerable Alexander Alcock, Archdeacon of Lismore. On 9 July 1803 he was appointed Ensign in the 58th Regiment, just two days before the passing of the Army of Reserve Act for Ireland. He was only 14 years-old. The 58th Foot (the Rutlandshire Regiment) were raising a second battalion, one of nineteen raised that summer 'for limited service in Great Britain and Ireland', of which four were specifically raised in Ireland.