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HOME OFFICE, WHITEHALL. 20th April, 1916. Sir, With reference to your letter
(6057) of the 15 instant
I am directed by the Secretary of State to say, for the
information of His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
that the Petition of Right of John and Agnes Scott, John
McCulloch and Mary Shearer has been laid before the King and
has been returned, to-day, to the Petitioner's Solicitors,
Messrs Coode, Kingdon and Cotton of 34, Bedford Row, London,
W.C., endorsed with His Majesty's Fiat 'Let Right be done'. I am,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant, A. J. Eagleston The Under Secretary, Dublin Castle.
Letter from A. J. Eagleton (1870-1944) to the Undersecretary, Sir Matthew Nathan (1862-1939).
Eagleton confirms that His Majesty's Fiat 'Let Right be done' has been endorsed regarding
the Petition of Right of John and Agnes Scott, John McCullough and Mary Shearer.Sir
Matthew Nathan was the under secretary for Ireland from 1914 to 1916. In 1916 Nathan
offered his resignation following the outbreak of the Easter Rising. Arthur John Eagleston
was a civil servant who served as assistant secretary of the British Home Office from
1913-1932.