HISTORY OF THE KILDARE HUNT 



Baron de Robeck's acceptance of the Mastership 

 is thus noted in his diary under date of March 12, 

 1862: 



" Hunt meeting at Naas. Lord Naas resigns 

 mastership of the hounds and I am given it with 

 a guarantee of 1,650 a year." 



This, it will be remembered, was the figure at 

 which Lord Naas had hunted the country during 

 his term, and considering the nature and extent of 

 that country it was not an extravagant subscrip- 

 tion upon which to show sport for three days a 

 week. As a fact it was found inadequate. Among 

 Baron de Robeck's papers there is the report of a 

 general meeting of the Hunt which was held at 

 McEvoy's Hotel, Naas, on November 18, 1863, 

 to consider the question. Lord Drogheda was in 

 the chair, and there were present Baron de Robeck, 

 Lord Naas, Lord Clonmell, Capt. Tuthill, Capt. 

 Roberts, Mr C. C. Vesey, Capt. Rainsford, Mr 

 D. Mahony, Mr Jas Lynch, Mr W. F. Cogan, 

 M.P., Lord Earlsfort, Mr Rd Moore, Mr R. Ken- 

 nedy, Mr E. Cole and Mr E. A. Mansfield, the Hon. 

 Secretary. 



It was proposed by Lord Naas, seconded by 

 Mr C. C. Roberts, and adopted unanimously — 



" That Baron de Robeck having shown that the 

 present subscription of £iy()^o is quite inade- 

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