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  that some Recorders sought promotion to the High Court bench in the belief that the workload there would be lighter.
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. 
