HISTORY OF THE KH.DARE HUNT 



trusted to the care of John Kennedy Esqr; and that 

 the whole and unHmited application of this sum, 

 and the arrangements of the coverts and earth- 

 stopping in the Home, Meath and Ballitore coun- 

 tries be vested in him. 



There obviously followed a period of considera- 

 tion for Mr Kennedy did not reply until five 

 months later. But his official acceptance of the 

 Mastership was duly forthcoming in a letter dated 

 October lo, 1814, which I set out at length. 



I propose to take the Kildare Hounds and keep 

 them at my own expense provided I am guaranteed 

 the sum of five hundred pounds sterling per 

 annum for the purpose of paying the rents of 

 coverts, earthstoppers, damage to fowls etc. the 

 Hunt undertaking to give me up the country clear 

 of all debts; from the first November next, to the 

 firstday of May 1818. 



John Kennedy. 



I have referred in the previous chapter to build- 

 ing operations in connexion with a kennel by one 

 Abraham Tyrrell, and although I can find no par- 

 ticulars of the expenditure incurred, I think it 

 highly probable that they were the origin of some 

 little financial difficulty to the Hunt, a fact which 

 gives point to Mr Kennedy's proviso that the 

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