HISTORY OF THE KILDARE HUNT 



Grace entered into on December 3, 1781, shows 

 how it was managed. 



" Said James Grace engages to keep twenty 

 couple of hounds at the least, sometimes more, 

 sometimes less, as it may happen, for sixty guineas 

 per annum. 



" Said James Grace engages to keep two horses for 

 Huntsman and Boy eight months at Hay and Oats 

 and four months at Grass, to be allowed one Barrell 

 to each horse per Fortnight at Twenty Five Pounds 

 pr. An." 



Grace also undertook to have ready within a week 

 a " Four horse stable with Bales and Racks that 

 shall be judg'd convenient by the three inspecting 

 members of the Hunt, the said Stable to be con- 

 fined to the horses of the Hunt only "; also to " have 

 the Kennel paved and the part where the Hounds 

 lye under cover flagg'd by the ist June next. 

 The inspecting members for one year and one 

 month from this day, 3rd Deer. 178 1 were unani- 

 mously chosen, viz. Henry Bamtuck, Tobias 

 Purcell, and Steuart Welldon, Esqrs," who had 

 full powers of discharging or otherwise punishing 

 the servants of the hunt. 



Here, then, is record of a pack of harriers of 

 twenty couples with two horses for huntsman and 

 whip run at a cost of £SS a year. I find that the 

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