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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 3, 17 October 1890, Page 31

The Archbishop of Dublin has sent to the presa a long correspondence which, as things stand at present, seems to show that a bold attempt to impose upon his Grace by means of a forged document has been committed. A little time ago the Archbishop received an application purporting to be signed by twenty-four tenants on the property of a Mrs. Hannah Lewis, near Woodford, in the county ot Galway. These tenants sated that they had various advantageous offers from their landlady, but they had beeu so intimidated by their pariah priest that they had been constrained to refuse those offers. They now appeal to the Archbishop, begging his interposition and praying to secure for them reasonable terms of arrangement with Mrs. Lewis, or to secure them from molestation if they attempted to cry to arrange matter for themselves. The document added that the young members of the families concerned contemplated becoming Protestants in order to relieve themselves from the persecution of the parish priest. The document was signed by the 24 tenants, the addresses being appended. Hia Grace at once wrote to the first named on the list, a subitansial farmer in the district. He replied expressing hss amazement at receiving the Archbishop's letter and stating that he had not received any advantageous offers from Mrs. Lewis, had no differences with the parish priest" had suffered no intimidation from him, had neither written to the Archbishop nor authorised any one to write in his name. Tho facts have become known in the locality, and inquiries have been set on foot to trace the authorship of this forgery,