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Newspaper cutting from the King’s County Chronicle, reporting on the banquet held in honour of the young Earl’s majority, for which he was astounded, “as all really good people are”. It was observed that down through the ages, the Bury family was praised for acting “paternally towards its tenantry and retainers with an undeviating eye to the solid advantage of the community”, and it was remarked that “Colonel and Mrs. Bury knew everybody”.
The cutting also concerns the marriage of Lady Katherine Beaujolois Arabella, eldest daughter of the late Earl of Charleville with Captain Edmund Bacon Hutton, the Royal Dragoons, Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, youngest son of William Hutton, Esquire, of Gate Burton, Lincolnshire. The marriage took place at St. Catherine’s Church, Tullamore and was performed by the Reverend Graham Craig, rector.
The bride who was “magnificently dressed and attended by six fair bridesmaids, dressed in white, with pink trimmings”, was given away by her uncle, Colonel Bury. Following the wedding ceremony, the wedding gifts were displayed. The “costly presents” included a gift from the tenants of a tea kettle, a claret jug and a bracelet, while “not the least interesting article on the table was a tea caddy presented to her ladyship by the servants [which was] beautifully wrought in heavy silver”.

Newspaper clipping from The King’s County Chronicle, featuring the coming of age of Charles William Francis Bury, the 4th Earl of Charleville, and the great lengths to which all the townspeople went, “the humble labourer as well as the great merchant”, in adorning their dwellings for the benefit of the Earl. At a celebratory banquet, reference was made to good management of the lineage in their estates, and through their patronage, Tullamore, which in the early part of the 18th century was an “insignificant village” now stands “second to none among the same class of provincial towns”.

Newspaper cutting concerning the presentation of a congratulatory address to the Earl and Countess of Charleville, on their coming to reside permanently in Charleville Forest, Tullamore. The address included a reference to “the great advantage our town has always derived from the residence of [his] family, or the interest taken by them in the welfare of its inhabitants”. In the Earl’s reply, he observed that “a landlord is not in his proper place unless he is a constant resident, expending what he receives amongst his tenantry, and promoting their interest to the best of his judgment”. Following the presentation, a “sumptuous dejeune” was served in the Castle where “every delicacy and rarity of the season was in abundance, and the various wines which graced the board were of the rarest and finest vintage”.

Newspaper cutting from The Leinster Reporter regarding the coming of age of the Earl of Charleville, “for whom there has ever existed a sympathy which doubtless was intensified in degree by the early loneliness of an interesting child without father of mother”. Reared by a “fond uncle”, the Honorable Colonel Bury, the young earl was brought up to be an Irishman, “loving his native isle and doing his duty in the sphere”. The town of Tullamore have made every preparation for the celebration of the Earl’s birthday, with “every conceivable kind of splendid illuminations and grand festooning” decorating the scene. An address was also presented to Lady Katherine, the Earl’s sister, on her forthcoming marriage, which was accompanied with “an elegant souvenir, consisting of a handsome silver tea kettle on stand with suitable inscription, and a gold bracelet”. A comment was made that the townspeople have made every preparation possible, well in time for a dinner for the Earl and some 200 of his friends in the Court House later in the week.

Newspaper clipping concerning the death of Emily Frances, Countess of Charleville, who died in Geneva following a brief illness, and who buried in the family vault at Tullamore Church. The Countess, who was 76 years old, was the widow of the late Lord Alfred Bury, fifth Earl of Charleville, whom she had married on 20 June 1854. Her father, the late General Sir William Wood, K.C.B., K.H., Commander of the Forces in the West Indies. Emily Frances was an aunt by marriage to Lady Emily Bury, and this lady’s principal employees “followed the hearse bearing wreaths, while “a pretty one in the form of a cross, the ground-work of which was primroses” was inscribed, “From Emily”.

Newspaper cutting concerning the death of the “amiable and beloved” Countess of Charleville, daughter of Henry Case, Esquire, Shienstone Cross, Staffordshire, who died from a short bout of scarletina at Erinagh, near Castleconnel, “a mansion which his lordship had taken and gone to reside in for the fishing season”. The Countess was only 35 years old and had resided “almost uninterruptedly” in Charleville Castle, Tullamore, and the tenants on the estate feel now that “they have been deprived of a considerate friend and the poor of the district have to deplore the loss of a generous benefactress”.
The Countess is survived by her five children, two sons and three daughters, and is buried in the family vault at Tullamore.

Newspaper cutting from the King’s County Chronicle, concerning a meeting of the inhabitants of Tullamore “for the purpose of expressing their gratification at the expected arrival of the Noble Earl at his mansion in this county”. It was proposed to invite the Earl and Countess to a public dinner, as a means of expressing “their cordial and grateful thanks for their patriotic intentions of residing amongst them, and also for his Lordship’s past kind conduct as their landlord”.

Newspaper cutting from Scéala Éireann re 'Ned Houlihan, the blind Fenian Fiddler.'

Newspaper cutting from Scéala Éireann entitled 'We will not wear the prison dress' concerning John Mandeville's demand to be recognised as a political prisoner in Tullamore Gaol in 1888.

Newspaper cuttings relating to the protests of the tenantry of Lady Emily Howard Bury, following her serving writs on them. The tenants on the estate at Croghan sought an abatement in their rents, “they having solicited [for same] in the humblest manner”. The Rhode and Croghan branch of the Land League now pledge to fight to the end “thereby showing Lady E. Bury, her agent and the country, what [they] think of an act which [they] have no hesitation in denouncing as unwarranted and unjust”.
Includes an observation that previous to the Land League agitation, the tenants were quite satisfied with their rents “and regarded the Bury family as model landlords”. Includes death of Margaret Tracey, a tenant on the Croghan estate, who had already been issued with a decree against her concerning shop provisions, and who dropped dead when rushing out to intercept a sheriff, whom she mistakenly thought was about to seize her cattle.