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mentioned, that I oppressed my tenants with rent, 

 and he named two cases, besides some tenants of 

 land near the town of Clonakilty. 



One of the cases was a Mrs. Welsh, who died last 

 September. Her farm was hired from my grandfather, 

 her father-in-law, more than fifty years ago, and has 

 been held since at the same rent. Forty years ago I 

 arranged with her husband he should have it for his 

 life at the same rent. He died ten years after, when, 

 as the rent was very low, 14s. 3d. per acre, and prices 

 had risen much, I was at full liberty to increase the 

 rent. As Mrs. Welsh was a widow w^ith children, I 

 let her go on on the same terms till her death last 

 September, more than thirty years. She married her 

 eldest daughter to a wealthy match, and gave her 

 £140 fortune. To her second daughter she gave £130 

 on marriage. The same to her third daughter. The 

 fourth daughter is still unmarried, and she bought a 

 farm for her and stocked it last autumn, that must 

 have cost as much. She took a farm of 200 acres for 

 her eldest son, — getting it by a recommendation to the 

 landlord that I gave her, — which must have cost her 

 £200 to stock, and she left £90 in cash and my farm 

 fully stocked at her death. I asked her son £1 per 

 acre for the farm for thirty -one years, most of it 

 being good land. I clear nearly £2 per acre off 



