LORD CLONMELL, 1854-1857 



Lord St. Lawrence when about to take the Kil- 

 kenny Hounds got estimates of the expenses of 

 hunting 3 days per week from Sir John Power, 

 Lord Waterford and Mr Wason. The three esti- 

 mates were within £10 of each other and amounted 

 as nearly as possible to £950. 



Of course this will entail a heavy loss on me, and 

 I should not like to say I should or would incur 

 it for more than one year. At the end of that period 

 perhaps we may be able to make other arrange- 

 ments. 



I am Gentlemen, 



Your obedient servant, 



Clonmell. 



Bishopscourt. 



Near the end of the following season, viz. on 

 February 16, 1857, a meeting of the Hunt, presided 

 over by Mr H. Carroll, met at Naas to consider 

 the existing state of affairs. It was then resolved 

 to guarantee Lord Clonmell j£6oo a year for the 

 establishment, and that the Hunt should assume 

 the responsibility of all payments for coverts, rents, 

 earthstoppers, fowls, cubs, etc., the Hunt acting 

 through a committee consisting of Lord Naas, 

 Sir Edward Kennedy, Mr ConoUy, Mr Moore and 

 Baron de Robeck. There was a very cordial vote of 

 thanks to Lord Clonmell " for the very handsome 

 manner in which the hunting establishment had 



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