LORD NAAS, 1857-1862 



draw your attention to this case, that there might, 

 if possible, be no extension of it." 



Lord Shannon was altogether mistaken as to the 

 facts of this particular case, although the evil he 

 complained of undoubtedly existed. " You may be 

 sure," wrote Mr E. Kennedy to Lord Naas, " I was 

 very particular about the foxes. The first fox I took 

 myself, and I know where every one came from." 

 It was a Mr Briscoe, it seems, who set Lord Shan- 

 non in motion on totally unreliable evidence, and 

 this gentlemen requested that the foxes should be 

 sent back. " I can't imagine," is Mr Kennedy's 

 comment on his request, " why Briscoe should 

 call on you to send back foxes taken out of a non- 

 hunting part of the Co. Waterford. I do not think 

 he has by any rules a right to ask this." 



I find by a letter of request for payment that 

 some of these cubs came from as far as London- 

 derry. On the other hand, great efforts were made 

 to prevent cubs being taken out of the Kildare 

 country. Mrs Magan of Killyon Manor, Hill of 

 Down, who had estates in Kildare, proposed 

 shifting litters of cubs to that county, and was 

 implored by Mr S. A. Reynell of Archerstown to 

 leave them for the Kildare gentlemen, and to let 

 him send her an equal number, or indeed as many as 

 she wanted, from the Donegal mountains, "the best 

 foxes in Ireland." In a letter of reply the lady says: 



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