THE FIRST PACKS 



Johnstown, 

 Dear Sir, 4* July, 1780. 



This Day I gott from County Waterford, Four 

 and a Halfe Brace of very Good Cubb Foxes, please 

 to inform me where you will have them turned out. 



Apprehend some of them had better be putt into 

 my Shaws, but submitt the Disposall of them to 

 you. Be so Good as to send your Huntsman in the 

 morning to marke and turn them where you direct. 

 They have been coming since Sunday, the Sooner 

 they are Enlarged the better. 



Am your Most Obedient Humble Servant, 



Charles Kennedy. 



I am indebted to Sir Anthony Weldon for some 

 most interesting papers which enable me to set out 

 the origin of a subscription hunt in the year 1780. 

 This, as will be seen, had no connexion with the 

 present Kildare Hunt, but its doings have an in- 

 terest, as forming a contribution to the sport of Kil- 

 dare men in a bygone day; the lines upon which 

 the hunt was run also present some points of 

 interest. 



Sir Anthony Weldon's ancestor, Mr Steuart 

 Weldon, acted as honorary treasurer to the under- 

 taking, and by good fortune the original minute 

 book of proceedings has been preserved in the 

 family, so that we may be present in the spirit at 

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