PREFACE. 



two, none of whom enjoy any respect from the 

 inhabitants of the neighbourhood. 



These threatening notices, I am told, are all 

 written by a shoemaker. 



Monday, 6th, there was a Fair, and our tenants at 

 it were again threatened worse than ever, especially 

 those friendly to us. One very old man, who is very 

 rich though paying near three times Griffiths' valua- 

 tion, and who has long been an actual friend of me 

 and my children, was stopped in the dusk and had 

 some water thrown in his face to make believe it 

 was vitriol, and was urgently threatened. 



The *7th was my rent-day. Some men posted 

 themselves in the ruins of an old house, a mile off 

 (not on my land), and, as any tenant came near, ran 

 out and thrust before his eyes a threatening notice. 



The tenants assented at the gate. A few, from one 

 reason or other, paid about 100 : about 1300 should 

 have been paid. 



In time about six came into my room and offered 

 Griffiths' valuation. The rent of four of them was 

 100 a year each, or more. Two of them had 

 leases freely taken from me. The other two were 

 yearly tenants, who had held at the same rents for 

 thirty or forty years. The two leaseholders grumbled 

 about high rent. Their rent is 1 per acre for 



