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quent to the period to which this communication has special 

 reference. The names of Edward Green and Frank Fosbery are 

 pre-eminently entitled to a place among the many other good men 

 whom I have enumerated, but as my intention was to connect 

 those with the period during which Mr. Green was master, I kept 

 them in reserve to mention them with that particular time. I will 

 also name some few that I fear I have passed over in this record, 

 but who I hope to do justice to in my next communication. 



" One who was often with Them. 



" P.S. — I see by a short paragragh in Saturday's /mA Sportsman 

 that you promise to give in your next issue the account I sent you 

 of the history of the Limerick Hunt, and finding now that I wrote 

 it in rather a hasty manner, from the causes stated, and as a con- 

 siderable lapse of time has occurred since the period with which it 

 was connected, and many names which should be added to those 

 that I have given escaped my memory, I hope you will, if not too 

 troublesome, kindly supplement my first list with the additional 

 names that I now give ; their support of the hunt, and their 

 qualities as sportsmen, entitle them to a place amongst the others. 

 The four brothers Parsons, George, Francis, John, and Godfrey, 

 all cousins to the Fosberys, and trained from their infancy to the 

 glorious pursuits of the hunting-field, their father having long since 

 kept a pack of harriers ; Gerald Fitzgerald of Ballinvira, true to his 

 position of sportsman and squire, proprietor of a nice property, 

 residence, and deer-park, until, like many others, victims to a 

 change of times, he fell from his high estate ; Hugh Massy, then 

 of Stagdale, father-in-law of our worthy master. Sir D. V. Roche; 

 Sam Harding, uncle to Lady Roche, a slight, hardy young man, 

 living at Cherrygrove, who on his horse. Cigar, would give a lead to 

 no man, except to those entitled to it by the etiquette of the 

 hunting-field. Francis Drew of Drewscourt ; Jeoff'rey Browning 

 of Carass Court, who was married to Sir David Roche's aunt ; his 

 son, Thomas Browning, who married Miss Gubbins, sister of the 

 Captain ; John M. Cantillon, then of Castleroberts, father of the 

 present hunting men; George Furnell, whose sons still keep up 

 the sporting character of the family ; Henry Lyons of Croom 

 House, uncle to the present owner of that establishment, who 

 lived a bachelor, and was a particular favourite. As well as I 

 remember the late Sir David Roche was for some time treasurer to 



