16 MEMOIR OF THE KILKENNY HUNT. 



more than the Master or huntsman, rode up to old 

 Byrne and remonstrated with him for something he 

 had or had not done, using the words " Won't you 

 listen to reason ?" when Byrne, very irate, replied, 

 " No, sir ! the Master bid me listen to Sir Wheeler 

 Cuffe." Sir Wheeler had a great knowledge of the 

 run of a fox, and knew the county so well that he 

 was enabled, even in old age, to see every run well. 

 He was the first man in the Hunt to ride a clipped 

 horse. 



Mr. William Evans Morres Bayly, of Norelancls 

 (generally called " Old Bayly "), was also one of the 

 earliest members of the Hunt, and one of its chief 

 supporters. Hospitable to a fault, his dinners at 

 Norelands and his hunting stables became great in- 

 stitutions. He was the father of two fine riders, 

 viz., Mr. Clayton Bayly (who afterwards took the 

 name of Savage) and his brother William, who lived 

 at Anamult. Mr. Bayly was a welter, and rode very 

 big horses. On one occasion he brought a new 

 weight-carrier to the meet. The horse had an 

 enormous head, and when he exhibited him to Mr. 

 Power, the latter remarked that " he must be a 

 weight-carrier to carry such a head." He had a 

 famous horse called Giant, which he rode for many 

 years, and which at one time was sold for ^500, and 

 actually shipped in Waterford, when Mr. Bayly's 

 heart smote him, and he got him home again. Mr. 

 Bayly died about 1847, and was succeeded by his 

 eldest son Clayton, who had married Miss Forde, but 

 died childless in 1858, when the late Mr. Henry 

 Meredyth, his nephew, succeeded to the family 

 property. 



