SIR FENTON AYLMER AND MR A. HENRY 



rented at Lyons cost the Hunt £io a year. Other 

 business concerned the earthstoppers and their 

 operations. The chief of these was a man named 

 Cormick ; those at Kilmaroney were dismissed, and 

 for some reason not stated it was decided to dig 

 up the earths at SilHot Hill, and that the best terms 

 possible should be made with a tenant named Neill 

 for permission to do so. 



At the suggestion of Lord Rossmore it was de- 

 cided to collect a shilling from each person in the 

 field on hunting days, the proceeds to be devoted 

 to the earthstoppers' fund, and I gather that this 

 collection was additional to one already in operation 

 for general purposes. 



A month later, namely on January 5, 1807, 

 there is an interesting note of a resolution passed 

 by a committee who had before them " a list of 

 the articles of plate, the property of the Hunt for 

 their use " then in the hands of Mr M. Kelly of 

 Kildare. Sir Fenton Aylmer was asked " to be good 

 enough to take the trouble of taking the plate into 

 his keeping, which he agreed to do." This pos- 

 session of plate obviously used on convivial occa- 

 sions points to the probability that the hunt club 

 had been in existence as an organized body of 

 gentlemen long before 1807. 



The first general meeting of the Hunt of which 

 there is any record was that held at Timolin on 

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