Newscuttings and manuscript extracts from printed sources relating to Francis Higgins (referred to as the "Sham Squire") the informer of 1798, and to Denis O'Kelly (the "Sham Count"), formerly belonging to J. P. Prendergast, Including some that had come to him from R. R. Madden, 1707 - 1865.

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