HISTORY OF THE KILDARE HUNT 



intervals between September, 1804, and June, 

 1806, there is no business of any kind entered in 

 the book. We have as yet no mention of subscrip- 

 tion or entrance fee, and can only guess that the 

 chief expense of maintaining the Hunt fell upon the 

 master. It is not till December, 1806, that I find an 

 account of the proceedings of a committee com- 

 prising Sir Fenton Aylmer, Lord Rossmore, Mr 

 John Narney, the Revd Kildare Borrowes and Mr 

 Robert Borrowes, who met to deliberate upon 

 several matters which have a present interest. 



These proceedings, I think, show that the Kil- 

 dare Hunt Club was already a well-organized 

 institution. Mr Kildare Borrowes was acting as 

 honorary treasurer and submitted his accounts of 

 " Receipts and Disbursements of the Hunt for 

 1805-6,'* which, however, are unfortunately not set 

 out. We are also without particulars of " the 

 Coverts rented and those presented to the Hunt 

 by their Owners rent free," which would have been 

 of great interest. There was a question before the 

 committee of taking ground for a covert at Bally- 

 hook from a man named Cardiff ; of another covert 

 taken over on behalf of the Hunt by Mr John La 

 Touche from a farmer named Hibbs, who, I note, 

 is allowed to cut three acres of gorse during the 

 coming year in satisfaction of a claim for arrears 

 of rent due to him by the club. I find that a covert 



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