Claim: The Recorder of Dublin's (a judicial office holder in pre-Independence Ireland) responsibility was to keep the peace, and control the number of pubs in the city and by the 1810s the Recorder was hearing roughly 2,000 cases a year.
Evidence: The duties were so onerous – by the 1830s the Recorder was hearing roughly 2,000 cases a year – that some Recorders sought promotion to the High Court bench in the belief that the workload there would be lighter.