THE FIRST PACKS 



from some of the members, and that an application 

 be made to them to discharge all demands now on 

 them, and thereby keep the Hunt in that respect- 

 able situation they set out upon and always wish to 

 continue in. 



Sign'd by Order 



Tobias Purcell 



Secy. 



These sportsmen appear to have succeeded in 

 that pious wish at least for a time. But in December 

 of the same year, 1785, 1 find a minute of a meeting 

 at " Thos. Doyle^s house Ballykilcavan, Thos. 

 Fitzgerald Esqr in the chair," when it was agreed 

 that " Whereas it has been found necessary to 

 remove the Hounds from Ballylinan and to estab- 

 lish the said Hounds at Ballykilcavan, resolved 

 that the said Hunt be and hereby is to be hence- 

 forth called the Ballykilcavan Hunt." 



As the Ballykilcavan Hunt accordingly I take 

 leave of these gentlemen, to whose names in order 

 to complete the muster I add those of Colonel 

 Bruin, Mr Garnet Butler, Mr Daniel Brown, 

 General Hunt Walsh, Capt. George Burdett, Major 

 Hughes, Capt. Percival and Mr Matthew Casan. 

 Their last contribution to the history of Kildare 

 sport was a resolution " that in consequence of the 

 high price of hay this year (1785) Thomas Doyle 



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